Ironically, my bank allows a more complex username than password. Having basically two passwords to access the account is pretty secure, even if they're somewhat simple passwords.
The anime "Death Note" covers the psychology aspect. What starts out as experimentation with newly found powers quickly escalates into an egomaniacal bid to subjugate the world. There's even a period within the series where the main character temporarily surrenders the power, along with associated memories of using said power, to evade apprehension. While in this state, the character acts normally--even morally--demonstrating that without the superpower, corruption is unlikely to happen.
However, the show doesn't go so far as to suggest that anyone is corruptible. Supporting characters are given the same power with similar results, but it's revealed that they suffered through past traumas that would make their new actions predictable. The main character is unique--and more interesting--in that he's pretty much the "normal guy having a bad day" previously described, namely expressing mild disenchantment with his peers and immediate surroundings.
It's hard to fault the drivers using center lanes for merging when the city planners are the real culprits. There are areas where it is virtually impossible to make left turns without using the centers lane to merge, which was probably part of the intention, whether the planners admit it or not. There are also areas where it is wildly impractical to get where you need to by making a series of right turns.
The "long turn lanes" he refers to are on the side, not the ambiguous "third lane" in the middle of traffic. Long turn lanes are seen most often on highways while the ambiguous third lanes are seen most often in commerce centers that grew greatly after initial planning.
I need to correct myself. I incorrectly remembered the various 8-bit DOSes as licensed by Microsoft, but they were actually built in-house. Still, this doesn't diminish the fact that Microsoft was one of the few successful software operations of the late 70s/early 80s, even before DOS. In the unlikely event that Amiga or Macintosh started taking off, it's equally unlikely Microsoft would have stood by and watched their marketshare erode simply because they chose IBM before either existed.
If IBM had opted for a different OS than DOS you would have never heard of Microsoft.
I doubt that. Contrary to popular myth, which seems to think Paul Allen and Bill Gates were running business out of a garage and DOS was their first product, Microsoft was already a successful company with its BASIC and XENIX products. In addition to providing DOS to IBM, Microsoft hedged their bets and produced flavors for nearly everything. So, whichever hardware vendor won out, Microsoft fully intended to be the software provider for that platform. One could argue this wouldn't be the case, but Microsoft was one of the few strong software companies of the era. I'd even argue they were the only strong software company of the era, which is what enabled them to grow as large as they did as fast as they did.
If it is so trivally obvious please answer the following:
How much strain is due to "external" factors such as keyboard/arm height as opposed to hand positioning?
How much more comfortable is Dvorak to use (i.e. what percent fewer complain about fatigue)?
Assuming Dvorak is more ergonomic, what is the cost of retraining a typing and benefitting from the extra hours of work as opposed to retiring typists early and/or treating their injuries?
True or false, that's not a very convincing counter. The article is improperly referenced and still offers no authoritative insight into the value of Dvorak. Rather than packpeddling with "World War II was tough times!" and "Dvorak was doing work for good not evil!" I'd rather see some effort placed into freely available studies with reliable quantitative figures.
After half a century, no one cares about "would," "could," "should," and "may" anymore. If proponents want Dvorak to be taken seriously, they need to organize and produce usable data.
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He's also ignoring the rule that the cost of developing the first processor must be redistributed through the next million.
I guess if you're tired of people complaining about bad music, then I'm tired of rabble rousers demanding others explore unsaid places for ultimate enlightenment.
Morality and law, in practice, have little to do with one another. Copyright is not natural law, and, until the beginning of the industrial revolution, was not law at all. Somehow, society got by for millennia without such politics.
I pose a question to the authority on moral bankruptcy. Which has less societal value: pirating a handful of games to cheer up a young child (for whatever motivation) or coldly accusing people of using children in order to sleep with their "legalized prostitute" mothers? Don't worry. We all know the answer already.
The type of people who want GNOME 2.6 right now are the ones who will compile it or fetch bleeding-edge packages. The unwashed masses are probably content in waiting for Fedora and Mandrake to get their acts together. How long can it be? A week? Any package-based distribution that can't correctly release something like GNOME in a reasonable amount of time isn't worth using, especially since every one of them tracks the CVS.
GNOME does not provide binaries, and that is unlikely to change in the future. GNOME is a fundamental part of Linux distributions, so critical, long-standing, distribution-specific problems are rare. Furthermore, packages are generally more dependable than working with auto-tools, and just about every distribution worth its salt will carry GNOME 2.6 shortly. Debian's been providing 2.6 for a week.
The only user-friendly alternative, creating generic installers, would be an enormous burden. Such a device would need to deal with a plethora of GCC and C library versions, operating system types and versions, architecture types and versions, packaging systems, miscellaneous library versions, and a bunch of other headaches that arise when attempting to support everything at once. Such a project would ultimately be deflating since the work has already been done--by the distributions.
The MPEG group doesn't care which encoder you're using; you pay them merely for the privilege of using their patented technology.
In other words, the monetary onus is upon the distributor. Projects like Xvid and Lame would need to pay licensing if they distributed binaries, but as source they're classified as educational projects and, thus, except from licensing fees.
Getting six stars is trivial with Molotov Cocktails and flame resistance. "Messin' with the Man" can be completed in about thirty seconds this way.
Of all missions to complain about, I'm sure more people would identify with garbage like "The Driver," stadium racing (optional but no fun), and the myriad of other overly difficult "checkpoint" missions.
This girl is "messed up psychologically" because these over-paid counselors are doing what over-paid counselors do: treat problems through symptoms. This chick isn't broken up over the pictures. Her self-esteem is smashed because she allowed her judgement to falter to a ridiculous point, which this major event brought to light.
Telling her things such as "it's not your fault" won't help because she's a contributing factor and she knows it. She steals and abuses addictive substances. Something bad will eventually happen; that's why they call it self-destructive behavior.
Instead of reminding her of her consequences daily, perhaps these wannabe psychiatrists could delve into why this girl was so obviously crying for help in the first place.
QEMM provides the most upper memory but in the slowest and least compatible fashion. QEMM's optimizer is so aggressive and unknowledgeable of individual chipsets that the test itself can spontaneously reboot machines. In fact, QEMM can get itself into an infinite loop testing because it may not record the result of the method which rebooted the machine and reties it again (and again).
Additionally, QEMM places top priority on total mamory available, sacrificing efficiency and good sense. For example, QEMM includes a feature to merge upper memory into conventional memory. Great idea except no graphical modes are available, no DOS program is designed to use that much conventional memory, and it confuses the hell out of DOS and its applications (it is a nasty hack, after all). More practically, QEMM incurs various overhead via mode switching and deceptive hacks.
It's been a while since I compared the two, but, from what I recall, QEMM 97 (9.0) offered a mere 15K or so of extra upper memory and some 6K extra of conventional memory. UMBPCI can generate 620-some kilobyte conventional memory spaces, which is enough to run any DOS program, and enough upper memory space to load all sorts of multimedia and network drivers. If one needs that extra 15K, he is probably attempting to load a full modern PC's worth of drivers, which DOS was not designed for. Multibooting can fix this.
All that said, UMBPCI is designed for 586 and up. For 386 and 486 class machines, QEMM's extra overhead is probably outweighed by its aggressive optimizer. EMM386 is slow anyway.
The GCC 2.96 exclusion was not political. The compiler had/has serious errors when compiling inline assembler. There are megabytes of this in the mailing list archives.
I'm not sure what you mean about the win32 directory, other than the fact that it resides in/usr/lib. The Win32 codecs are basically useless these days anyway; mplayer has native codecs for almost everything now.
Remember that mplayer's developers are not Anglo-Saxon. Rules of "rude" in foreign countries are quite different than what we are used to in the United States. After all, the developers are under no obligation to support any of thier software or documentation.
However, I am inclined to agree with you on their gruffness overall. As you noted, the documentation is not as scathing as it used to be and I believe the coders are developing slightly more moderate attitudes these days.
mplayer is actually maintained by quite a few people. It just happens that the most vocal have the so-called searing attitudes. Other developers have given up on answering questions at all; you're lucky to get a response at all. The attitudes of the developers have nothing to do with the quality of the software in any case.
As for the rest of my arguments, elaboration can be found scanning the "Developer Cries" section of the documentation and in the mailing list archives, particularly from exactly one year ago on.
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Ironically, my bank allows a more complex username than password. Having basically two passwords to access the account is pretty secure, even if they're somewhat simple passwords.
The anime "Death Note" covers the psychology aspect. What starts out as experimentation with newly found powers quickly escalates into an egomaniacal bid to subjugate the world. There's even a period within the series where the main character temporarily surrenders the power, along with associated memories of using said power, to evade apprehension. While in this state, the character acts normally--even morally--demonstrating that without the superpower, corruption is unlikely to happen.
However, the show doesn't go so far as to suggest that anyone is corruptible. Supporting characters are given the same power with similar results, but it's revealed that they suffered through past traumas that would make their new actions predictable. The main character is unique--and more interesting--in that he's pretty much the "normal guy having a bad day" previously described, namely expressing mild disenchantment with his peers and immediate surroundings.
It's hard to fault the drivers using center lanes for merging when the city planners are the real culprits. There are areas where it is virtually impossible to make left turns without using the centers lane to merge, which was probably part of the intention, whether the planners admit it or not. There are also areas where it is wildly impractical to get where you need to by making a series of right turns.
The "long turn lanes" he refers to are on the side, not the ambiguous "third lane" in the middle of traffic. Long turn lanes are seen most often on highways while the ambiguous third lanes are seen most often in commerce centers that grew greatly after initial planning.
I need to correct myself. I incorrectly remembered the various 8-bit DOSes as licensed by Microsoft, but they were actually built in-house. Still, this doesn't diminish the fact that Microsoft was one of the few successful software operations of the late 70s/early 80s, even before DOS. In the unlikely event that Amiga or Macintosh started taking off, it's equally unlikely Microsoft would have stood by and watched their marketshare erode simply because they chose IBM before either existed.
If IBM had opted for a different OS than DOS you would have never heard of Microsoft.
I doubt that. Contrary to popular myth, which seems to think Paul Allen and Bill Gates were running business out of a garage and DOS was their first product, Microsoft was already a successful company with its BASIC and XENIX products. In addition to providing DOS to IBM, Microsoft hedged their bets and produced flavors for nearly everything. So, whichever hardware vendor won out, Microsoft fully intended to be the software provider for that platform. One could argue this wouldn't be the case, but Microsoft was one of the few strong software companies of the era. I'd even argue they were the only strong software company of the era, which is what enabled them to grow as large as they did as fast as they did.
True or false, that's not a very convincing counter. The article is improperly referenced and still offers no authoritative insight into the value of Dvorak. Rather than packpeddling with "World War II was tough times!" and "Dvorak was doing work for good not evil!" I'd rather see some effort placed into freely available studies with reliable quantitative figures.
After half a century, no one cares about "would," "could," "should," and "may" anymore. If proponents want Dvorak to be taken seriously, they need to organize and produce usable data.
DVD Price Search is the pricewatch equivalent for DVDs, but my personal favorite of the bunch is DeepDiscountDVD. It can take two weeks to receive your order, but the prices and selection are generally unbeatable. Free shipping.
He's also ignoring the rule that the cost of developing the first processor must be redistributed through the next million.
I guess if you're tired of people complaining about bad music, then I'm tired of rabble rousers demanding others explore unsaid places for ultimate enlightenment.
Copyright infringment is morally theft.
Morality and law, in practice, have little to do with one another. Copyright is not natural law, and, until the beginning of the industrial revolution, was not law at all. Somehow, society got by for millennia without such politics.
I pose a question to the authority on moral bankruptcy. Which has less societal value: pirating a handful of games to cheer up a young child (for whatever motivation) or coldly accusing people of using children in order to sleep with their "legalized prostitute" mothers? Don't worry. We all know the answer already.
The type of people who want GNOME 2.6 right now are the ones who will compile it or fetch bleeding-edge packages. The unwashed masses are probably content in waiting for Fedora and Mandrake to get their acts together. How long can it be? A week? Any package-based distribution that can't correctly release something like GNOME in a reasonable amount of time isn't worth using, especially since every one of them tracks the CVS.
GNOME does not provide binaries, and that is unlikely to change in the future. GNOME is a fundamental part of Linux distributions, so critical, long-standing, distribution-specific problems are rare. Furthermore, packages are generally more dependable than working with auto-tools, and just about every distribution worth its salt will carry GNOME 2.6 shortly. Debian's been providing 2.6 for a week.
The only user-friendly alternative, creating generic installers, would be an enormous burden. Such a device would need to deal with a plethora of GCC and C library versions, operating system types and versions, architecture types and versions, packaging systems, miscellaneous library versions, and a bunch of other headaches that arise when attempting to support everything at once. Such a project would ultimately be deflating since the work has already been done--by the distributions.
The MPEG group doesn't care which encoder you're using; you pay them merely for the privilege of using their patented technology.
In other words, the monetary onus is upon the distributor. Projects like Xvid and Lame would need to pay licensing if they distributed binaries, but as source they're classified as educational projects and, thus, except from licensing fees.
Getting six stars is trivial with Molotov Cocktails and flame resistance. "Messin' with the Man" can be completed in about thirty seconds this way.
Of all missions to complain about, I'm sure more people would identify with garbage like "The Driver," stadium racing (optional but no fun), and the myriad of other overly difficult "checkpoint" missions.
This girl is "messed up psychologically" because these over-paid counselors are doing what over-paid counselors do: treat problems through symptoms. This chick isn't broken up over the pictures. Her self-esteem is smashed because she allowed her judgement to falter to a ridiculous point, which this major event brought to light.
Telling her things such as "it's not your fault" won't help because she's a contributing factor and she knows it. She steals and abuses addictive substances. Something bad will eventually happen; that's why they call it self-destructive behavior.
Instead of reminding her of her consequences daily, perhaps these wannabe psychiatrists could delve into why this girl was so obviously crying for help in the first place.
QEMM provides the most upper memory but in the slowest and least compatible fashion. QEMM's optimizer is so aggressive and unknowledgeable of individual chipsets that the test itself can spontaneously reboot machines. In fact, QEMM can get itself into an infinite loop testing because it may not record the result of the method which rebooted the machine and reties it again (and again).
Additionally, QEMM places top priority on total mamory available, sacrificing efficiency and good sense. For example, QEMM includes a feature to merge upper memory into conventional memory. Great idea except no graphical modes are available, no DOS program is designed to use that much conventional memory, and it confuses the hell out of DOS and its applications (it is a nasty hack, after all). More practically, QEMM incurs various overhead via mode switching and deceptive hacks.
It's been a while since I compared the two, but, from what I recall, QEMM 97 (9.0) offered a mere 15K or so of extra upper memory and some 6K extra of conventional memory. UMBPCI can generate 620-some kilobyte conventional memory spaces, which is enough to run any DOS program, and enough upper memory space to load all sorts of multimedia and network drivers. If one needs that extra 15K, he is probably attempting to load a full modern PC's worth of drivers, which DOS was not designed for. Multibooting can fix this.
All that said, UMBPCI is designed for 586 and up. For 386 and 486 class machines, QEMM's extra overhead is probably outweighed by its aggressive optimizer. EMM386 is slow anyway.
If you satisfy the following two conditions, UMBPCI will easily cream QEMM, EMM386, or any other DOS memory manager:
1. You do not need expanded memory (EMS)
2. Your hardware is supported (usually not a problem except with the newest hardware)
Although you're being funny, we both know the nerdly joy of bleeding that extra 800 bytes into conventional memory.
I wish I had only 256GB of SRAM.
In terms of playing various movie types, mplayer does twice as much as Windows Media Player.
You forget they're the group that vehemently disavows any binary distribution.
You forget this issue was settled a while ago.
Games like Sinistar have to be bought. Many arcade games have control schemes which simply cannot be emulated.
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gzip works over 4 GB but loses the ability to accurately report uncompressed file sizes (minor).
Yeah, this is a long known issue with DVDs, though I don't believe anyone knows either the cause or solution other than pressing '+' twice.
This appears confined to NTSC DVDs, so the European developers can't do much about the issue.
The GCC 2.96 exclusion was not political. The compiler had/has serious errors when compiling inline assembler. There are megabytes of this in the mailing list archives.
/usr/lib. The Win32 codecs are basically useless these days anyway; mplayer has native codecs for almost everything now.
I'm not sure what you mean about the win32 directory, other than the fact that it resides in
Remember that mplayer's developers are not Anglo-Saxon. Rules of "rude" in foreign countries are quite different than what we are used to in the United States. After all, the developers are under no obligation to support any of thier software or documentation.
However, I am inclined to agree with you on their gruffness overall. As you noted, the documentation is not as scathing as it used to be and I believe the coders are developing slightly more moderate attitudes these days.
mplayer is actually maintained by quite a few people. It just happens that the most vocal have the so-called searing attitudes. Other developers have given up on answering questions at all; you're lucky to get a response at all. The attitudes of the developers have nothing to do with the quality of the software in any case.
As for the rest of my arguments, elaboration can be found scanning the "Developer Cries" section of the documentation and in the mailing list archives, particularly from exactly one year ago on.