What's the point of individual watermarking if it can't be traced to an individual? I guess they could just use it for statistics. Out of 1,000,000 who downloaded the song, 100,000 of them shared it on P2P networks. I see how they could use stuff like this for ammo to make the government extend copyright even longer then it already is.
Do you really need air conditioning? What do you think they did a hundred years ago? Air conditioning is a comfort thing. You don't need it. Just drink some more water.
Maybe it should be designed such that they can only increase the temperature from what you set it at. If they can only increase the temperature, then you shouldn't have any problems with them increasing the bill.
Yes, but it still applies to CDRs. When was the last time you burned Music in CD-Audio Format to a CD? I think I did it recently, but most of the CDs I burn are for computer data. The funny thing is that I've switched to buying only DVDs, and using those, even when I'm only storing 200 MB, simply because they are cheaper than the CDRs due to the fact that they don't have the levy.
Maybe not slashdot, but some tech site. Good programmers should be interested in the changing technology. We always ask potential employees how they keep up with the current tech trends.
Reminds me of a George Carlin act I was listening to. When the kids turn out good, they take all the credit. When the kids turn out bad, they put the blame on something else, like rock music, video games, fast food, or whatever the evil-du-jour is. I'm a parent, and I know how hard it is to raise kids, but I believe that how my kid turns out has a lot to do with how good I am at being a parent. I had video games, rock music, and fast food when I was a kid, but that doesn't mean I didn't turn out well.
But it didn't really give any indication on what was actually going wrong. You get this smiley face, or some messed up rendering of one, and you're supposed to guess at what's not working right. I would like it better if they had a lot of HTML+CSS in ways it would generally be used, with an image beside it of what it should look like. Don't give me any smiley face junk. That tells neither the developers or users what does and doesn't work.
I hope that they get Amarok working on Windows. That's one app that I think it miles ahead of the windows counter-part (iTunes or WMP). It has all the things that the other ones are afraid to offer. Like Automatic lyric downloads, and links to the band's Wikipedia page, that are viewable right in Amarok. Those two features make Amarok a lot better. I also like how they manage the playlists, and how they make it easier to have a temporary playlist of the current music you are listening to.
Yeah, Seriously. Do you really need paid support for a web browser? Corporations really need to get away from this attitude. Stop paying through the nose for every piece of software. How often do you really call up the company who made your software and ask for support. Sure sometimes, but I be that most of the time, your in house IT staff fixes the problem before calling up support. You want support with IE, here it is. $CAD 59 for each request during business hours. Over $500 for after hours support. This is why you have in-house IT support staff. To fix your problems. If you were going to call up Microsoft every time you had a problem, your company would go belly-up pretty fast. Also, it's not like you can make MS release bug fixes, or security patches, even when you know there are problems.
Yeah, it works better in the enterprise situation, because you are more likely to have your own server, or at least your own virtual server. However, I think that Java suffers a lot, because people can't use it for their little hobby projects. PHP is only so widespread because it's so easy for everyone to just tinker with. If PHP didn't have that, I don't think it would have gotten anywhere.
Yeah, we'd probably have TI's that broke after a couple years use, or crashed half the time, or displayed invalid results. Sorry, but I'd rather have a little more dependability out of my calculator. I bought a TI-86 in first year university (in 1999), as required for calculus (only used it for reimann sums). It was probably about the best purchase I ever made for a university course. Did me a lot better than most of my textbooks. IT was useful in a lot of courses. And I still use it quite often, even though I'm out of school. The nice big display works great when you're adding up a lot of numbers so you can do a spot check to make sure you haven't mistyped something.
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Has it really? I don't think that Java has survived the lack of mod_java. There are very few webhosts that offer Java. And when they do, it's usually quite more cumbersome to use than PHP, because in certain configurations it requires reboots of the server to get it to reload the code. I would love use Java over PHP for my web page, because the API is just so much more organized, and I prefer compiled languages. Also the Netbeans IDE (or even eclipse) is much better than anything I've found for PHP (yes I'm aware that PHP can be done in Eclipse, but the feature set sucks).
I remember that they had heuristics to give very close to the best path with a lot less computation for figuring out the actual correct solution. They used it for figuring out paths for things such as machines assembling circuit boards. Following the shortest path means they can produce them faster.
This is very true. If you just learn what is presented in the courses, you will know absolutely nothing when you get out, even if you get an A+ in all your classes. Some of the most important things I ever learned were just from messing around with computers in my spare time.
I have a Nano and I watch movies and TV shows on it all the time. Mind you, they are encoded at 320x240 so as not to eat up too much space, but If I had 800 GB of space I probably wouldn't take the time to convert the file especially for my iPod.
Yes, but there are limits to working on any system. The PS3 has less usable RAM, the XBox 360 has less disc space, the Wii has less processing power, the computer has the highest limits, but the more you push the limits, the smaller your potential userbase becomes. Smart programmers/designers work within the limits of the system, to produce the best possible product. The dumb programmers/designers sit around and complain that the reason they can't do a good job is because of the limits of the system. If there isn't enough space on the disc, and multiple discs simply can't work due to the nature of your game. Then just compress the sound/video/images(textures) a little more. If the game doesn't look as nice on the XBox 360 as it does on the PS3, then just tell your users why. They should be able to accept that. In the end, the game will still be just as fun, regardless of the fact that the game doesn't look quite as good on one system as on the other. If visual effects are all your game relies on, your game is going to fail. The console that's currently selling the best, is the least powerful. This should go to show, that most people would rather have fun gameplay, and an affordable system, then uber-cool cutting edge graphics.
The number of pixels has nothing to do with it. My IPod Nano has the same resolution as a standard TV. That doesn't mean it's as well suited to watching movies on as my 30 inch TV. I still watch movies and TV shows on it, because it's a lot easier to carry on the bus, but I'm not going to kid myself and think that it's just as good as watching on the TV. When the zergs are only 2 mm wide, it would be quite hard to select the ones you want to.
Wow, and I remember games that fit on a single 5.25 inch floppy disk. Zelda, Ocarina of Time fit in 26 MB. Super Mario 64 fit in 9 MB. Do you know why they want BluRay disks? So they can put more videos in the game. Have you ever played a game and thought, I need more videos. I need to spend less time actually playing the game. Render the cutscenes with the game engine, and compress the audio, and you should have no problem fitting your entire game on a DVD. I realize that things like textures can take up a lot of space in HD games. But I have trouble thinking that still images would take up that much space.
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What's the point of individual watermarking if it can't be traced to an individual? I guess they could just use it for statistics. Out of 1,000,000 who downloaded the song, 100,000 of them shared it on P2P networks. I see how they could use stuff like this for ammo to make the government extend copyright even longer then it already is.
Do you really need air conditioning? What do you think they did a hundred years ago? Air conditioning is a comfort thing. You don't need it. Just drink some more water.
It's like NOFX says. Majority rule doesn't work in mental institutions.
Exactly. I think it would be very difficult to prove intent in any of these cases.
Maybe it should be designed such that they can only increase the temperature from what you set it at. If they can only increase the temperature, then you shouldn't have any problems with them increasing the bill.
Yes, but it still applies to CDRs. When was the last time you burned Music in CD-Audio Format to a CD? I think I did it recently, but most of the CDs I burn are for computer data. The funny thing is that I've switched to buying only DVDs, and using those, even when I'm only storing 200 MB, simply because they are cheaper than the CDRs due to the fact that they don't have the levy.
Maybe not slashdot, but some tech site. Good programmers should be interested in the changing technology. We always ask potential employees how they keep up with the current tech trends.
Reminds me of a George Carlin act I was listening to. When the kids turn out good, they take all the credit. When the kids turn out bad, they put the blame on something else, like rock music, video games, fast food, or whatever the evil-du-jour is. I'm a parent, and I know how hard it is to raise kids, but I believe that how my kid turns out has a lot to do with how good I am at being a parent. I had video games, rock music, and fast food when I was a kid, but that doesn't mean I didn't turn out well.
But it didn't really give any indication on what was actually going wrong. You get this smiley face, or some messed up rendering of one, and you're supposed to guess at what's not working right. I would like it better if they had a lot of HTML+CSS in ways it would generally be used, with an image beside it of what it should look like. Don't give me any smiley face junk. That tells neither the developers or users what does and doesn't work.
I hope that they get Amarok working on Windows. That's one app that I think it miles ahead of the windows counter-part (iTunes or WMP). It has all the things that the other ones are afraid to offer. Like Automatic lyric downloads, and links to the band's Wikipedia page, that are viewable right in Amarok. Those two features make Amarok a lot better. I also like how they manage the playlists, and how they make it easier to have a temporary playlist of the current music you are listening to.
Yeah, Seriously. Do you really need paid support for a web browser? Corporations really need to get away from this attitude. Stop paying through the nose for every piece of software. How often do you really call up the company who made your software and ask for support. Sure sometimes, but I be that most of the time, your in house IT staff fixes the problem before calling up support. You want support with IE, here it is. $CAD 59 for each request during business hours. Over $500 for after hours support. This is why you have in-house IT support staff. To fix your problems. If you were going to call up Microsoft every time you had a problem, your company would go belly-up pretty fast. Also, it's not like you can make MS release bug fixes, or security patches, even when you know there are problems.
Yeah, it works better in the enterprise situation, because you are more likely to have your own server, or at least your own virtual server. However, I think that Java suffers a lot, because people can't use it for their little hobby projects. PHP is only so widespread because it's so easy for everyone to just tinker with. If PHP didn't have that, I don't think it would have gotten anywhere.
Yeah, we'd probably have TI's that broke after a couple years use, or crashed half the time, or displayed invalid results. Sorry, but I'd rather have a little more dependability out of my calculator. I bought a TI-86 in first year university (in 1999), as required for calculus (only used it for reimann sums). It was probably about the best purchase I ever made for a university course. Did me a lot better than most of my textbooks. IT was useful in a lot of courses. And I still use it quite often, even though I'm out of school. The nice big display works great when you're adding up a lot of numbers so you can do a spot check to make sure you haven't mistyped something.
Has it really? I don't think that Java has survived the lack of mod_java. There are very few webhosts that offer Java. And when they do, it's usually quite more cumbersome to use than PHP, because in certain configurations it requires reboots of the server to get it to reload the code. I would love use Java over PHP for my web page, because the API is just so much more organized, and I prefer compiled languages. Also the Netbeans IDE (or even eclipse) is much better than anything I've found for PHP (yes I'm aware that PHP can be done in Eclipse, but the feature set sucks).
You don't want to be drunk when you're voting. I'm still convinced that's how bush got elected.
I remember that they had heuristics to give very close to the best path with a lot less computation for figuring out the actual correct solution. They used it for figuring out paths for things such as machines assembling circuit boards. Following the shortest path means they can produce them faster.
This is very true. If you just learn what is presented in the courses, you will know absolutely nothing when you get out, even if you get an A+ in all your classes. Some of the most important things I ever learned were just from messing around with computers in my spare time.
I have a Nano and I watch movies and TV shows on it all the time. Mind you, they are encoded at 320x240 so as not to eat up too much space, but If I had 800 GB of space I probably wouldn't take the time to convert the file especially for my iPod.
There's a difference between low resoltion, and small physical size. It's hard to select units when they are only 1 mm across.
I think it would be cool if it could rip CDs onto itself.
Yes, but there are limits to working on any system. The PS3 has less usable RAM, the XBox 360 has less disc space, the Wii has less processing power, the computer has the highest limits, but the more you push the limits, the smaller your potential userbase becomes. Smart programmers/designers work within the limits of the system, to produce the best possible product. The dumb programmers/designers sit around and complain that the reason they can't do a good job is because of the limits of the system. If there isn't enough space on the disc, and multiple discs simply can't work due to the nature of your game. Then just compress the sound/video/images(textures) a little more. If the game doesn't look as nice on the XBox 360 as it does on the PS3, then just tell your users why. They should be able to accept that. In the end, the game will still be just as fun, regardless of the fact that the game doesn't look quite as good on one system as on the other. If visual effects are all your game relies on, your game is going to fail. The console that's currently selling the best, is the least powerful. This should go to show, that most people would rather have fun gameplay, and an affordable system, then uber-cool cutting edge graphics.
You're right. It can't hold as much. It can hold more. According to Wikipedia HD-DVD can hold 51 GB in triple layer, while BluRay can only hold 50 GB.
The number of pixels has nothing to do with it. My IPod Nano has the same resolution as a standard TV. That doesn't mean it's as well suited to watching movies on as my 30 inch TV. I still watch movies and TV shows on it, because it's a lot easier to carry on the bus, but I'm not going to kid myself and think that it's just as good as watching on the TV. When the zergs are only 2 mm wide, it would be quite hard to select the ones you want to.
With the cost of portable DVD players, why wouldn't most people have a DVD player you can use in the car.
Wow, and I remember games that fit on a single 5.25 inch floppy disk. Zelda, Ocarina of Time fit in 26 MB. Super Mario 64 fit in 9 MB. Do you know why they want BluRay disks? So they can put more videos in the game. Have you ever played a game and thought, I need more videos. I need to spend less time actually playing the game. Render the cutscenes with the game engine, and compress the audio, and you should have no problem fitting your entire game on a DVD. I realize that things like textures can take up a lot of space in HD games. But I have trouble thinking that still images would take up that much space.