"thats very true - its called lazy/poor programming technique"
Why's everybody so fucking pessimistic?
Resolutions get higher. More memory's used. The picturer is clearer, more detail, and can do more. Yet, that's all chalked up to lazy/poor programming technique?
" I have to wonder if Intel is just shooting itself in the leg, spending needlessly large amounts on R&D to produce chips that no one actually needs. PS - FP?"
"Okay, so maybe the rolling exhaust box is CGI, but what about the sound? I bet most of that was put on in postproduction, samplers and synths. Fake, all of it:)"
It's pretty typical to re-engineer the sound track. The reason why is that you get a lot of background noise on a set.
" It makes much more of a difference if everyone knows about what's happening here because most people are completly unaware of the issue at hand"
Doesn't matter, it won't be stopped through protests. You're better off mimicking what the NRA does. Gather a bunch of money through fellow supporters, then use it to take out (politically, not through killing) a supporter of it. Give the politicians there a reason to be afraid of passing it.
Protests:
- Cause traffic problems, thus punishing your fellow citizen.
- Make proponents of what you're protesting come out of the woodwork.
- Do absolutely nothing to get your demands met because they target the wrong people. These stupid protestors here where I'm from protested local gov't even though they have absolutely NO voice in the war. Basically they just cost the money-starved city like 5 million dollars to maintain the peace.
- Have never ever had an effect on a policy like that.
I'm not saying don't work to get that overthrown, I'm saying protesting is a 100% waste of time that does more harm than good. Show me a fund that I can donate to in order to fight it in the gov't, and I can participate in that. Show me a place to march and a picket sign, and I'll immediately know that the cause will fail.
You're right, they did get me to notice. They got me to hope they don't get anything they want.
Meanwhile, it's GWB they want to notice, not the city and especially not the fellow Americans such as my self who had nothing to do with changing the plans in Iraq.
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"With a typewriter, I can neatly copy an tire book... or more depending on how much time I can devote to it. For that matter, I can use the same pencil I used to duplicate the copyrighted artwork found on "whatever" commercial product out there."
Let's make a list of everything they could demand compensation for;
- Xerox machines - VCRs - Tape Recorders - Cameras, still and video - CD and DVD Players with an analog out. - Sharpie Markers (for defeating copy restriction...) - The internet - Microphones - Computers with audio in - Pocket PCs with record capability
"They've added a few features since the 7.0x releases (for Windows), which is really nice, but I find that the biggest difference is the quality. They've really taken the time to polish their product a lot. Sure, some bug remain. Overall, though, I find that it's just very enjoyable to use."
I've been using Opera 7 since it came out, and it's a damn fine end-user experience. These guys really thought about how to make browsing a pleasure, and man it shows.
Here's a few examples:
- Tabbed browsing? It's got it, and you can even drag it out to a seperate window.
- Want the website you're on as a link top? Just drag it over!
- You can magnify web pages.
- The toolbar on the left is customizable, you can have CNN show up there or call up a web page etc.
- You can have Opera automatically reload a page every x minutes. That's neat for keeping an eye on Slashdot for updates.
- Skinning, etc...
- The transfer window is pretty cool. Your transfers come down and it retains the transfer information so you can have it re-xfer. Etc
There's lots of other stuff. It's the type of thing where you use it and it feels like it's trying to be helpful, vs. some browsers that like to fight with you along the way.
I'm sure a lot of these (if not all) are part of Mozilla. I'm not claiming it's better or worse than Mo. (I haven't really used it a lot so I wouldn't comment on it.) I'm just saying that it's a joy to use.
"...I'm not going to watch it again just to find the spot where we're told they're aliens."
You're not going to back up your claim? Oooooookay. There's plenty of evidence they're robots, like the DVD saying they are. It's in the making of bit on the second disc. The art designer talked about it. Honestly, if evidence is provided, then why aren't you backing up your claim?
"Or maybe because people don't want their proprietary DRM trojan horse outside of the ones that use Windows anyway?"
Um right. Because Mac users keep up stuff like that? People around the world actually care about that? Pls, there's like a handful of people who *might* care about that to the point they wouldn't use it.
It's funny, you mention ad hominems here and you use a stupid argument like that. Heh.
"Yeah, I feel sorry for Microsoft. Those open source hackers seem to have a leg up on them wherever they go, even on such difficult things as writing portable and modular code."
Leg up? Portable and modular code is only interesting if the program itself is well made. It has to have a good UI and it has to be easy to install. There are open source programs like that, don't get me wrong. However, without guidance, most of them really aren't that useful to the uninitiated. Where would Mozilla be if Netscape and IE never competed? Man, after using Gimp, I hate to think about that.
"I don't accept ad hominems. If I see another one, this thread is over."
" In Star Wars, they needed something the size of a moon to pack the same firepower the Vorlons squeezed into a much smaller package. My point? Just that Vorlons kick ass."
It's all relative. Unfortunately, this article didn't accurately portray the size of any of the Star Wars ships. You see, the galaxy that the Star Wars universe is, in scale, much much smaller than ours. A 'human' in their galaxy would be microscopic compares to one of us.
The proof of this is in all the movies. For example, in Empire Strikes Back, the Millineum Falcon's 'light speed' drive doesn't work through most of the movie. Despite this, they're able to jog around solar systems at sublight. This could only happen if stars were very VERY close together. In Return of the Jedi, our fearless characters are caught in an Ewok trap hanging something like 30 relative feet off the ground. R2D2 cuts through the net and they all drop. Not a single injury among them. Weaker gravity? Same thing happens in Attack of the Clones. Senator Amidala falls out of a fast moving transport, hits the sand, rolls a couple of times, and dusts her self off afterwards. Sorry, that can't happen on Earth because it's much, MUCH bigger.
It's really the only way to explain the inconsistencies in Star Wars about space travel. Think about it.;)
"That's why I only watch indy movies. I like to steer clear of herd mentality. I don't put much stock in mainstream stuff anyway, since lately it's all bull."
"Give me a break! If I offer you a free beer or a 50 cent beer (same brand, same born on date) which one are you going to take? Even if the the the beer was discounted 49 cents, most people would take the free one."
Hardly apples to apples, but NG already covered that.
I used to really be into gaming. When the internet came along, I found myself in gaming news heaven. No longer did I have to wait a month to get a new mag, instead I could get daily updates on the net! COOL! For a while, I stopped buying game magazines as a result. Uh oh. Poor magazine creators. But wait, they got my attention again! They started including demo CDs with games I could try out! oOOoo Suddenly I was buying magazines again, plus I was paying a higher price!
They found a way to provide a service that the internet couldn't. (This is pre-broadband, but until bandwidth gets cheaper it's not like the service is worthless today...) The RIAA should sieze this opportunity instead of trying to sue it into the ground.
"Your claim is vacuous until you provide proof that this is actually the reason why they don't offer it on non-Windows systems or allow non-IE browsers to even download it."
You'll notice it's version 7, two versions behind. Now why would that be? Mm.. maybe because Mac interest just isn't that high on it? Linux would be far worse, not to mention that the effort to support Linux in a useful way is impractical. Too many distros, too many things that can break, too many processors it'd have to run on. That's why MS likes their stuff nice and proprietary. It's very difficult to ensure a good end user experience on such a broad variety of hardware.
"Otherwise, judging from their past behavior, this is nothing more than the latest in a long line of anti-competitive and user-unfriendly strategies. Why would they have a sudden change of heart?"
Past behaviour? You're basing your point on assumptions and stereotypes about Microsoft.
"Microsoft wants ppl to use IE to view their content, they're trying to enforce their monopoly!"/kneejerk.
"It does piss me off that there is no technical limitation besides Microsoft's proprietary software preventing me from viewing Microsoft-Proprietary-Media-1.0 on my Linux box."
You mean besides putting the extra development effort to make it work on another OS that very few people, in contrast to Windows, use? Technical reason? Na. Pratcial reason? Oh yes.
"Lately I have found that the majority of/. stories are delayed mirrors of Google News Sci/Tech section. I generally check Google News for the stories, then come here about 2 hours later to see the dialog about the story. I knew this story would be making its way here sooner or later."
Boy am I stunned that users are scouring reliable news sources to get their stories posted here.
In light of the recent HD DVD's article, I'd say this isn't such a big deal. On the other hand, I don't exactly get my panties in a twist over dupe stories to begin with. So who am I to judge?
Oh quit whining. If it appeals to you, then fire up Windows. If not, then you can't complain about it until somebody comes along (ahem, Open Source Community, are you listening?) fixes that.
Microsoft spreads out to improve things elsewhere and you act like your hands are tied because you refuse to at least dual boot into Windows. Boo hoo. MS does something cool, they want to benefit from it, so does every other business in the world. It's when Microsoft stops doing stuff like this that you should be concerned. What will happen then? Recession.
Actually I don't really care, I don't have any Apple products. I'm just trying to recover from a karma dip from my "MS really isn't that bad!" thread a couple of days ago.
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"thats very true - its called lazy/poor programming technique"
Why's everybody so fucking pessimistic?
Resolutions get higher. More memory's used. The picturer is clearer, more detail, and can do more. Yet, that's all chalked up to lazy/poor programming technique?
" I have to wonder if Intel is just shooting itself in the leg, spending needlessly large amounts on R&D to produce chips that no one actually needs. PS - FP?"
No one? Have you forgotten about the game market?
"Okay, so maybe the rolling exhaust box is CGI, but what about the sound? I bet most of that was put on in postproduction, samplers and synths. Fake, all of it :)"
It's pretty typical to re-engineer the sound track. The reason why is that you get a lot of background noise on a set.
" It makes much more of a difference if everyone knows about what's happening here because most people are completly unaware of the issue at hand"
Doesn't matter, it won't be stopped through protests. You're better off mimicking what the NRA does. Gather a bunch of money through fellow supporters, then use it to take out (politically, not through killing) a supporter of it. Give the politicians there a reason to be afraid of passing it.
Protests:
- Cause traffic problems, thus punishing your fellow citizen.
- Make proponents of what you're protesting come out of the woodwork.
- Do absolutely nothing to get your demands met because they target the wrong people. These stupid protestors here where I'm from protested local gov't even though they have absolutely NO voice in the war. Basically they just cost the money-starved city like 5 million dollars to maintain the peace.
- Have never ever had an effect on a policy like that.
I'm not saying don't work to get that overthrown, I'm saying protesting is a 100% waste of time that does more harm than good. Show me a fund that I can donate to in order to fight it in the gov't, and I can participate in that. Show me a place to march and a picket sign, and I'll immediately know that the cause will fail.
"At least this way, they got you to notice..."
You're right, they did get me to notice. They got me to hope they don't get anything they want.
Meanwhile, it's GWB they want to notice, not the city and especially not the fellow Americans such as my self who had nothing to do with changing the plans in Iraq.
"With a typewriter, I can neatly copy an tire book... or more depending on how much time I can devote to it. For that matter, I can use the same pencil I used to duplicate the copyrighted artwork found on "whatever" commercial product out there."
Let's make a list of everything they could demand compensation for;
- Xerox machines
- VCRs
- Tape Recorders
- Cameras, still and video
- CD and DVD Players with an analog out.
- Sharpie Markers (for defeating copy restriction...)
- The internet
- Microphones
- Computers with audio in
- Pocket PCs with record capability
etc
"Protest in the streets, call representatives, anything. "
Just don't block traffic. Those of you who were trapped at work for several hours because of anti-war protests know what I'm talking about.
"They've added a few features since the 7.0x releases (for Windows), which is really nice, but I find that the biggest difference is the quality. They've really taken the time to polish their product a lot. Sure, some bug remain. Overall, though, I find that it's just very enjoyable to use."
I've been using Opera 7 since it came out, and it's a damn fine end-user experience. These guys really thought about how to make browsing a pleasure, and man it shows.
Here's a few examples:
- Tabbed browsing? It's got it, and you can even drag it out to a seperate window.
- Want the website you're on as a link top? Just drag it over!
- You can magnify web pages.
- The toolbar on the left is customizable, you can have CNN show up there or call up a web page etc.
- You can have Opera automatically reload a page every x minutes. That's neat for keeping an eye on Slashdot for updates.
- Skinning, etc...
- The transfer window is pretty cool. Your transfers come down and it retains the transfer information so you can have it re-xfer. Etc
There's lots of other stuff. It's the type of thing where you use it and it feels like it's trying to be helpful, vs. some browsers that like to fight with you along the way.
I'm sure a lot of these (if not all) are part of Mozilla. I'm not claiming it's better or worse than Mo. (I haven't really used it a lot so I wouldn't comment on it.) I'm just saying that it's a joy to use.
"...I'm not going to watch it again just to find the spot where we're told they're aliens."
You're not going to back up your claim? Oooooookay. There's plenty of evidence they're robots, like the DVD saying they are. It's in the making of bit on the second disc. The art designer talked about it. Honestly, if evidence is provided, then why aren't you backing up your claim?
BTW, NanoGator is actually the one wrote that.
"Or maybe because people don't want their proprietary DRM trojan horse outside of the ones that use Windows anyway?"
Um right. Because Mac users keep up stuff like that? People around the world actually care about that? Pls, there's like a handful of people who *might* care about that to the point they wouldn't use it.
It's funny, you mention ad hominems here and you use a stupid argument like that. Heh.
"Yeah, I feel sorry for Microsoft. Those open source hackers seem to have a leg up on them wherever they go, even on such difficult things as writing portable and modular code."
Leg up? Portable and modular code is only interesting if the program itself is well made. It has to have a good UI and it has to be easy to install. There are open source programs like that, don't get me wrong. However, without guidance, most of them really aren't that useful to the uninitiated. Where would Mozilla be if Netscape and IE never competed? Man, after using Gimp, I hate to think about that.
"I don't accept ad hominems. If I see another one, this thread is over."
Grow up.
" In Star Wars, they needed something the size of a moon to pack the same firepower the Vorlons squeezed into a much smaller package. My point? Just that Vorlons kick ass."
;)
It's all relative. Unfortunately, this article didn't accurately portray the size of any of the Star Wars ships. You see, the galaxy that the Star Wars universe is, in scale, much much smaller than ours. A 'human' in their galaxy would be microscopic compares to one of us.
The proof of this is in all the movies. For example, in Empire Strikes Back, the Millineum Falcon's 'light speed' drive doesn't work through most of the movie. Despite this, they're able to jog around solar systems at sublight. This could only happen if stars were very VERY close together. In Return of the Jedi, our fearless characters are caught in an Ewok trap hanging something like 30 relative feet off the ground. R2D2 cuts through the net and they all drop. Not a single injury among them. Weaker gravity? Same thing happens in Attack of the Clones. Senator Amidala falls out of a fast moving transport, hits the sand, rolls a couple of times, and dusts her self off afterwards. Sorry, that can't happen on Earth because it's much, MUCH bigger.
It's really the only way to explain the inconsistencies in Star Wars about space travel. Think about it.
"That's why I only watch indy movies. I like to steer clear of herd mentality. I don't put much stock in mainstream stuff anyway, since lately it's all bull."
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With special guest star: Lisa Simpson.
"One detractor? A single, semi-anonymous comment can sink a script?
Imagine what a goatse redirect would do!"
Remind George Lucas that he's got room to make 3 more movies?
"Give me a break! If I offer you a free beer or a 50 cent beer (same brand, same born on date) which one are you going to take? Even if the the the beer was discounted 49 cents, most people would take the free one."
Hardly apples to apples, but NG already covered that.
I used to really be into gaming. When the internet came along, I found myself in gaming news heaven. No longer did I have to wait a month to get a new mag, instead I could get daily updates on the net! COOL! For a while, I stopped buying game magazines as a result. Uh oh. Poor magazine creators. But wait, they got my attention again! They started including demo CDs with games I could try out! oOOoo Suddenly I was buying magazines again, plus I was paying a higher price!
They found a way to provide a service that the internet couldn't. (This is pre-broadband, but until bandwidth gets cheaper it's not like the service is worthless today...) The RIAA should sieze this opportunity instead of trying to sue it into the ground.
"One question: I've heard of active matrix and dual-scan (back when you could still buy dual-scan). Is there a single-scan? What is a "scan", anyway?"
Well, I could try to put it in my own words, but I think this article here better answers your question.
Note: I used the Google Cache so you could see the highlighting. Not sure about you, but I find that really useful.
"I think that even M$ apologists would have to agree that there is a certain amount of truth to the icon."
Not when MS does something good, like supporting AMD's 64-bit chip or porting their media stuff to Linux. At that point it's just childish.
.. how many of you are going to hook yours up to your DVD player so you can pretend Natalie Portman is calling you?
"My dad invented the automatic lawn mower.... I got paid $10 every two weeks to keep the lawn trimmed."
My dad invented the self healing computer. Only I got paid in porn bookmarks.
"Your claim is vacuous until you provide proof that this is actually the reason why they don't offer it on non-Windows systems or allow non-IE browsers to even download it."
/kneejerk.
Actually, Media Player's available for the Mac.
You'll notice it's version 7, two versions behind. Now why would that be? Mm.. maybe because Mac interest just isn't that high on it? Linux would be far worse, not to mention that the effort to support Linux in a useful way is impractical. Too many distros, too many things that can break, too many processors it'd have to run on. That's why MS likes their stuff nice and proprietary. It's very difficult to ensure a good end user experience on such a broad variety of hardware.
"Otherwise, judging from their past behavior, this is nothing more than the latest in a long line of anti-competitive and user-unfriendly strategies. Why would they have a sudden change of heart?"
Past behaviour? You're basing your point on assumptions and stereotypes about Microsoft.
"Microsoft wants ppl to use IE to view their content, they're trying to enforce their monopoly!"
"It does piss me off that there is no technical limitation besides Microsoft's proprietary software preventing me from viewing Microsoft-Proprietary-Media-1.0 on my Linux box."
You mean besides putting the extra development effort to make it work on another OS that very few people, in contrast to Windows, use? Technical reason? Na. Pratcial reason? Oh yes.
"Lately I have found that the majority of /. stories are delayed mirrors of Google News Sci/Tech section. I generally check Google News for the stories, then come here about 2 hours later to see the dialog about the story. I knew this story would be making its way here sooner or later."
Boy am I stunned that users are scouring reliable news sources to get their stories posted here.
"This seems to be more for their XBox line of products and not for the john doe linux user IMHO."
They're releasing WMP9 for the people who hack their XBOXs to run Linux?
"Third repost of this topic?"
In light of the recent HD DVD's article, I'd say this isn't such a big deal. On the other hand, I don't exactly get my panties in a twist over dupe stories to begin with. So who am I to judge?
"AND Windows"
Oh quit whining. If it appeals to you, then fire up Windows. If not, then you can't complain about it until somebody comes along (ahem, Open Source Community, are you listening?) fixes that.
Microsoft spreads out to improve things elsewhere and you act like your hands are tied because you refuse to at least dual boot into Windows. Boo hoo. MS does something cool, they want to benefit from it, so does every other business in the world. It's when Microsoft stops doing stuff like this that you should be concerned. What will happen then? Recession.
So, will Apple support Ogg?
Actually I don't really care, I don't have any Apple products. I'm just trying to recover from a karma dip from my "MS really isn't that bad!" thread a couple of days ago.