Only a miniscule number of people would find it "unacceptable." And most of them probably couldn't hear the difference anyway - it's all ego like those "Monster Cables" and other shit that appeals to "audiophiles."
You're talking crap. Several years ago, I tried encoding 320kbps MP3s of Dark Side of the Moon into 320kbps OGGs. One frequent cymbal sound was VERY noticeably changed. Go ahead, try it for yourself. Re-encoding with a different algorithm tends to yield terrible results.
Sugar apparently uses PyGTK, so all the heavy lifting is done in C. wxPython works the same way, and it's what I write most of my GUI tools with. Even with lots of callbacks into Python code, it still runs fast. It's amazing how much you can do with just a few lines of code and no need to compile.
You seem to assume that the exploit won't be discovered independently by someone else who isn't quite so altruistic. If they won't fix it, people who are using the software have a right to know that it is vulnerable.
No...we have advanced beyond seeing clock speed as the sole measure of performance. Obviously within the same processor type, a faster clock = better. I bumped my new E6600 up to 2.88GHz because it achieves significantly higher scores in synthetic and real benchmarks. Unless IBM's architecture totally sucks or is not useful for generic computing tasks, 5GHz is still pretty damn impressive.
Uh...where is that quote from? It's not the Bill of Rights. The appropriate amendment is the 4th, not the 13th (abolition of slavery), and I know "after jury authorization" is language that would never be in the Constitution. Perhaps you were looking for this:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Or a mouse wheel and click, if you don't feel like clicking the tabs. The "Office Button" as a replacement for the File menu is a bit silly, but otherwise the interface works beautifully. It's nothing at all like the clumsy, bloated, ugly mess that WMP has been for years. I find it very difficult to believe that someone could think the old Office/OpenOffice.org interface is better.
Ehhh...the average surface temperature of Titan is estimated to be 90 Kelvin, compared to Mars at 210 Kelvin. It seems extremely unlikely that the kinds of chemical reactions necessary for any kind of life could occur.
The discovery is a "big deal" because we know something about part of our solar system we didn't know before. If you read the articles, part of the discovery is a likely methane rainfall cycle, including "methanifers" (analogous to aquifers). It's fascinating stuff, IMO.
I take it you've never published in a peer-reviewed journal before. The raw images were probably available, but it takes some careful analysis of all the data to determine what they were seeing, and you want to have those conclusions verified by fellow scientists before announcing it to the world.
Only two hypotheses are consistent with the radiometric and morphological characteristics of the dark patches: either we are observing liquid-filled lakes on Titan today, or depressions and channels formed in the past have now been infilled by a very low-density deposit that is darker than any observed elsewhere on Titan. The absence of any aeolian features in this area makes low-density, porous, unconsolidated sediments unlikely. This, combined with the morphologic characteristics of the dark patches, leads us to conclude that the dark patches are lakes containing liquid hydrocarbons.
True enough, but if they screw it up, it will be because they ran out of good plot ideas/jokes, not because the format of short adventures was inappropriate.
Exactly! I hope they do a Season 2 with minimal changes to the engine. It's already near-perfect. The people they need to continue the series probably looks more like the Futurama team: writers, artists, voice actors, musicians...plus a couple programmers to put all the pieces together.
It seems to be working out pretty well with the new Sam & Max games. Aside from the terrible audio quality on the voice samples, the game is top-notch in every way, and does a great job of capturing the feel of the classic LucasArts adventure. Sure, not all games fit the episodic model, but it's just right for a hilarious adventure game.
Seriously: They should sell adult games the same way they sell adult magazines -- clearly labelled and with a wrapper around them, unless they're in an adults only area.
If by "adult games" you mean hentai games and the like, okay. But if you're talking about GTA, that's ridiculous. We have no problem selling R-rated movies in plain sight, with content just as "bad" as any M-rated game. I don't see the difference.
I don't buy that. You have way more than enough bandwidth to have a good ratio. Do you have your client set to stop seeding when it hits 1.0?
Do you think I'm particularly stupid, or are you just being an asshole? You're more than welcome to look at my ratio on Demonoid. This is a problem specific to relatively unpopular sites where everyone grabs a torrent when it appears, and there's only a small trickle of activity afterwards. The same thing happens on PianoSheets.org and other sites. I can seed for days and never see another downloader.
Not rare, it's extremely common on private sites with specialized material. I've had trouble raising my ratio above 0.85 on DIME, in spite of having 250KB/s upload. It's annoying, but there's not much you can do about it.
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So the news channel picked a date, time, and location, and Prophet Yaweh shows up, and immediately summons a UFO, throwing the story rather off track.
Or he's an average hoaxster who has a friend with fireworks? I have no evidence for this, but it's just a wee bit more plausible than the assertion that he "summoned a UFO".
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It would be nice to research this scientifically.
It's been done, several times, as far as it can be done. Stories and blurry videos are not conducive to any kind of science. Without physical evidence, and lacking an easy explanation, it would be dishonest to say anything but "I don't know." What can we possibly research?
Linux has tons of powerful applications that do amazing things, but you have to read a manual of highly technical gibberish in order to use the most basic of features; when I'm using linux as a multimedia PC I don't want to have to press ctrl-p to play and shift-alt-r to record, I want something that is simple and straight forward to use.
Have you actually...used Linux in the past five years? There are quite a few distros and applications that cater to your desires. I click on a video file in Konqueror, and it opens in VLC. I even get little preview screenshots of the video on the file icon, which was in KDE long before Vista was released.
I'm still waiting for Lucas to start working on episodes 7-9. He's broken just about every other promise, including his batshit-crazy insistence on never releasing the original unaltered trilogy on DVD. What else is he going to do after Indy 4?
For the number of people out there saying 'i wish i could support the artists directly', well, we're out there and there are ways to do it
Sometimes. For the small-time, amateur/independent artists there's CDBaby if you're willing to pay for CD duplication yourself. $1300 for 1,000 pressed and wrapped CDs with color printing is pretty damn good, and well within reach if you're at all convinced that your music is worth selling. There are also many good indie labels that will give you a fair contract. If they're selling through CDBaby or similar, the artist is getting a good cut.
But I know a number of professional artists, from bands that are fairly well-known and have done national and international tours, and they make middle-class salaries. So go to the shows, and buy some merchandise if it isn't overpriced. And unless you *know* the artist is getting totally screwed, buy the CD. It's simply not true that all artists are making next to nothing on CD sales, even when a major label is distributing it.
Good stuff. Alas, I see you inherit the necessity for FooWrap classes for polymorphism from Boost.Python. Is there any way of doing this automatically, or am I doomed to wrestling with SWIG?
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Sugar apparently uses PyGTK, so all the heavy lifting is done in C. wxPython works the same way, and it's what I write most of my GUI tools with. Even with lots of callbacks into Python code, it still runs fast. It's amazing how much you can do with just a few lines of code and no need to compile.
Oh look, it's DIVX all over again.
You seem to assume that the exploit won't be discovered independently by someone else who isn't quite so altruistic. If they won't fix it, people who are using the software have a right to know that it is vulnerable.
No...we have advanced beyond seeing clock speed as the sole measure of performance. Obviously within the same processor type, a faster clock = better. I bumped my new E6600 up to 2.88GHz because it achieves significantly higher scores in synthetic and real benchmarks. Unless IBM's architecture totally sucks or is not useful for generic computing tasks, 5GHz is still pretty damn impressive.
Oh, I agree. I was just wondering, since it's very close - but not quite right. A state constitution, maybe.
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Or a mouse wheel and click, if you don't feel like clicking the tabs. The "Office Button" as a replacement for the File menu is a bit silly, but otherwise the interface works beautifully. It's nothing at all like the clumsy, bloated, ugly mess that WMP has been for years. I find it very difficult to believe that someone could think the old Office/OpenOffice.org interface is better.
Ehhh...the average surface temperature of Titan is estimated to be 90 Kelvin, compared to Mars at 210 Kelvin. It seems extremely unlikely that the kinds of chemical reactions necessary for any kind of life could occur.
The discovery is a "big deal" because we know something about part of our solar system we didn't know before. If you read the articles, part of the discovery is a likely methane rainfall cycle, including "methanifers" (analogous to aquifers). It's fascinating stuff, IMO.
I take it you've never published in a peer-reviewed journal before. The raw images were probably available, but it takes some careful analysis of all the data to determine what they were seeing, and you want to have those conclusions verified by fellow scientists before announcing it to the world.
True enough, but if they screw it up, it will be because they ran out of good plot ideas/jokes, not because the format of short adventures was inappropriate.
Exactly! I hope they do a Season 2 with minimal changes to the engine. It's already near-perfect. The people they need to continue the series probably looks more like the Futurama team: writers, artists, voice actors, musicians...plus a couple programmers to put all the pieces together.
It seems to be working out pretty well with the new Sam & Max games. Aside from the terrible audio quality on the voice samples, the game is top-notch in every way, and does a great job of capturing the feel of the classic LucasArts adventure. Sure, not all games fit the episodic model, but it's just right for a hilarious adventure game.
Not rare, it's extremely common on private sites with specialized material. I've had trouble raising my ratio above 0.85 on DIME, in spite of having 250KB/s upload. It's annoying, but there's not much you can do about it.
I'm still waiting for Lucas to start working on episodes 7-9. He's broken just about every other promise, including his batshit-crazy insistence on never releasing the original unaltered trilogy on DVD. What else is he going to do after Indy 4?
But I know a number of professional artists, from bands that are fairly well-known and have done national and international tours, and they make middle-class salaries. So go to the shows, and buy some merchandise if it isn't overpriced. And unless you *know* the artist is getting totally screwed, buy the CD. It's simply not true that all artists are making next to nothing on CD sales, even when a major label is distributing it.
Good stuff. Alas, I see you inherit the necessity for FooWrap classes for polymorphism from Boost.Python. Is there any way of doing this automatically, or am I doomed to wrestling with SWIG?