What about making backup copies? Sure, Jack Valenti may say that digital copies are priceless, but being able to make copies of an album is invaluable with little kids in the house who like to push buttons on the CD player.
You should install the Tabbrowser Extensions... the "multiple tab window closing confirmation" feature has been there for quite some time. Not to mention all the other great options and features. If you like tabs, you really should intall it.
Windows support for metadata has always sucked, recognised by every Mac user who moved to a PC and discovered that you had to tell the system what a file did by appending a clumsy tla to the end, and passing gently over the inconsistencies of the support for long and short filenames.
Interesting... in OS X, file extensions are now the rule of thumb. And I seem to recall that classic Mac OS's had a filename limit of 31 chars, while in Win95+/NT4+ it was 255 chars...
4. The FX 5900 allows far more complex vertex and pixel shaders. Pixel shaders can be 1024 instructions long and may include branches. I think the Radeon's limit is, like, 16 or 32 instructions, with no branches, but don't quote me on that.
I do not remember the exact limits, but that was true of the Radeon 9700. ATi fixed that in the 9800.
However, the most interesting part is that they used GCC to compile the SPEC suite, and not some special compiler to make hardware look good in benchmarks (in contrast to some vendor compilers). Given that all the software I run has been compiled by GCC (with the exception of a few Lisp programs), the numbers are a bit more relevant than the usual SPEC results for me.
IIRC, Apple has contributed a lot to the PPC compiler backend in GCC. Wouldn't that make it a "special compiler" wrt Apple's chips?
There are two computer labs in the library, one out in the middle, and one in the children's library wing. Only the PCs in the kids library have filtering installed. They are clearly marked as such.
Having filtering on *all* the comutpers in the library is, IMO, a horrid idea. If more libraries were like mine, I think people, parents in particular, would like the filtering.
I'm not on my Linux boxen right now, but there should be something like Networking Devices -> 10 / 100 Mbit -> Via Rhine. I KNOW it is under the 10/100Mbit section in something having to do with networking devices.
I have no problem with home-editting equipment that lets a person edit a movie that they have purchased in their own home (although I find the idea repulsive in general). But editting movies and reselling them is definitely a bad idea IMO. Yes, they can label the movie as being editted, but there isn't a way to know what was editted, so there they are basically selling a copy of the movie that is butchered, and no one knows what was butchered. If something in the movie doesn't make sense, is it because of the editting, or because of the movie? People then make assumptions about the movie and director/producer/actors/whoever based on a product they didn't create. It would be like taking LoTR and rewriting select parts of the book. I then sell that book (with a note saying parts were "editted") and people refuse to by any other Tolkien books because that one made no sense (because of my rewrites). I am changing the artists vision.
And how is this different from TV edits? All you get on TV is a short warning that "This film has been modified from it's original version. It has been edited for content and formatted to fit your screen." I have yet to see a TV station publish a list of what exactly they edit.
FreeMameRoms is a group of people who burn MAME ROMs for others. Basically, you send them blank CDs/DVDs, or money to buy them, and they will burn and send you a set.
In particular, if you live in the US, Ryland is a nice guy. He has both the actual ROM set/CHD collection AND the extras, such as icons and artwork.
So, here's what you do: take the digital stream and translate the binary data to tones (hi, low) and convert those tones to analog, make your copy using only analog, band pass out the gibbs artefacts, convert the tones back to digital, run through a decoder with a touch o' error correction. Done.
What the moral of this story? Ignorant professors == bad news. If kids are smart enough to want to learn hacking, or programming, then they should allow their creativity to be expressed. Or else you will fall into idiotic situations like what I have lived.
I would like to take this a bit farther, and say "Ignorant politicians == bad news." Actually, even worse news, because the average politician has the power to affect far more lives than the average professor.
Actually, the link is Kazaa Lite. It doesn't resolve with the www.
And just to make clear, kazaalite.com is NOT the official Kazaa Lite site; it is some squatter.
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So the plans to use Netscaoe as the core for AOL are now officially dead? Be afraid, be very afraid. Microsoft has just gotten one step closer to world domination.
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Frankly, I don't care about karma. It's at "Excellent", that's the max. Anything I post is purely for it's own merit.
If you don't like Excel, you can grab the files in HTML format (25.2 KB) or in OpenOffice.org Spreadsheet format (10.4 KB).
What about making backup copies? Sure, Jack Valenti may say that digital copies are priceless, but being able to make copies of an album is invaluable with little kids in the house who like to push buttons on the CD player.
Nah, I bet it was Political Science, by Randy Newman. ;-)
kazaaliteuser@Kazaa isn't on there! I was really worried for a second.
Yeah, but www.k_lite.tk_Kazaa_Lite@Kazaa is there.
You should install the Tabbrowser Extensions... the "multiple tab window closing confirmation" feature has been there for quite some time. Not to mention all the other great options and features. If you like tabs, you really should intall it.
What commitment? (Google cache link)
So... why not pay for BitKeeper so you can reverse-engineer it without violating the non-compete clause?
And I'd like to plug mine. ;)
Everyone's Internet
All the email address I want with server-side spam filtering, and a webmail interface
300 MB web space with no transfer limits
Fairly good Usenet server
They have a proprietary dialer, but you don't have to use it. I use Windows dial-up networking and KPPP and it works fine.
Free tech support via phone, email, or IRC (yeah, IRC tech support!)
Unlimited dial-up access from just about anywhere in the US.
All for $10.83 a month, after the $29.50 sign up fee. I only get 28.8K speeds due to my phone lines, but it's better than nothing.
Windows support for metadata has always sucked, recognised by every Mac user who moved to a PC and discovered that you had to tell the system what a file did by appending a clumsy tla to the end, and passing gently over the inconsistencies of the support for long and short filenames.
Interesting... in OS X, file extensions are now the rule of thumb. And I seem to recall that classic Mac OS's had a filename limit of 31 chars, while in Win95+/NT4+ it was 255 chars...
Well, maybe if you use Linux.
All I can say is, I run an All-in-Wonder 9700 Pro under WinXP, and ATi has been really nice about support.
Mac OS 9 is no longer supported. :(
I think the Firebird team has been talking about continuing OS 9 support, but I'm not sure.
4. The FX 5900 allows far more complex vertex and pixel shaders. Pixel shaders can be 1024 instructions long and may include branches. I think the Radeon's limit is, like, 16 or 32 instructions, with no branches, but don't quote me on that.
I do not remember the exact limits, but that was true of the Radeon 9700. ATi fixed that in the 9800.
However, the most interesting part is that they used GCC to compile the SPEC suite, and not some special compiler to make hardware look good in benchmarks (in contrast to some vendor compilers). Given that all the software I run has been compiled by GCC (with the exception of a few Lisp programs), the numbers are a bit more relevant than the usual SPEC results for me.
IIRC, Apple has contributed a lot to the PPC compiler backend in GCC. Wouldn't that make it a "special compiler" wrt Apple's chips?
I like the way my local library does it.
There are two computer labs in the library, one out in the middle, and one in the children's library wing. Only the PCs in the kids library have filtering installed. They are clearly marked as such.
Having filtering on *all* the comutpers in the library is, IMO, a horrid idea. If more libraries were like mine, I think people, parents in particular, would like the filtering.
I'm not on my Linux boxen right now, but there should be something like Networking Devices -> 10 / 100 Mbit -> Via Rhine. I KNOW it is under the 10/100Mbit section in something having to do with networking devices.
I have no problem with home-editting equipment that lets a person edit a movie that they have purchased in their own home (although I find the idea repulsive in general). But editting movies and reselling them is definitely a bad idea IMO. Yes, they can label the movie as being editted, but there isn't a way to know what was editted, so there they are basically selling a copy of the movie that is butchered, and no one knows what was butchered. If something in the movie doesn't make sense, is it because of the editting, or because of the movie? People then make assumptions about the movie and director/producer/actors/whoever based on a product they didn't create. It would be like taking LoTR and rewriting select parts of the book. I then sell that book (with a note saying parts were "editted") and people refuse to by any other Tolkien books because that one made no sense (because of my rewrites). I am changing the artists vision.
And how is this different from TV edits? All you get on TV is a short warning that "This film has been modified from it's original version. It has been edited for content and formatted to fit your screen." I have yet to see a TV station publish a list of what exactly they edit.
Where can I get the ROMs of the best classical games from?
FreeMameRoms Project
FreeMameRoms is a group of people who burn MAME ROMs for others. Basically, you send them blank CDs/DVDs, or money to buy them, and they will burn and send you a set.
In particular, if you live in the US, Ryland is a nice guy. He has both the actual ROM set/CHD collection AND the extras, such as icons and artwork.
Thankfully, it will still be in 1.4, but it is removed for all future versions.
If you want it back, vote for this bug!
Dude, and why is he using BBEdit Lite to write a post on Slashdot?
So, here's what you do: take the digital stream and translate the binary data to tones (hi, low) and convert those tones to analog, make your copy using only analog, band pass out the gibbs artefacts, convert the tones back to digital, run through a decoder with a touch o' error correction. Done.
You mean, like my modem does?
What the moral of this story? Ignorant professors == bad news. If kids are smart enough to want to learn hacking, or programming, then they should allow their creativity to be expressed. Or else you will fall into idiotic situations like what I have lived.
I would like to take this a bit farther, and say "Ignorant politicians == bad news." Actually, even worse news, because the average politician has the power to affect far more lives than the average professor.
Actually, it just seems my DNS server is not working right...
Actually, the link is Kazaa Lite. It doesn't resolve with the www.
And just to make clear, kazaalite.com is NOT the official Kazaa Lite site; it is some squatter.
So the plans to use Netscaoe as the core for AOL are now officially dead? Be afraid, be very afraid. Microsoft has just gotten one step closer to world domination.