I think the other reason they don't let people buy tracks from other countries is because the pricing is different. In Canada a song costs $CDN 0.99. However in the US, the tracks cost $US 0.99. So you could buy a track for about $US 0.85 if the Americans were allowed to buy tracks in Canada. I'm not sure what the prices are in the UK. If they are GBP 0.99 then I don't think anybody would be shopping there if they had the ability to go to the Canadian store and buy tracks there.
I think it's common in a lot of businesses to assume the employees are either idiots, or thieves. When I was in University, I applied to quite a few retail jobs, and have the questions they ask you, either through an online questionaire or at the interview have to do with whether or not you will steal from them. They assume right from the get-go that you're going to steal from them. With a lot of office jobs (mostly for larger organizations) everyone is required to take sensitivity training to ensure they're aware of what harassment (sexual or otherwise) is. I don't think this is a case of assuming the employees are stupid, but rather a situation whereby the employer is covering their own ass in case an employee decides to sue the company when another employee harasses them.
Yeah, I remember playing Mario 64 on UltraHLE back in the day, and the results looked much better than what a Nintendo 64 would output. It was kind of funny to be running the same game, emulated, and getting better graphics than why the console could achieve.
Well, he didn't crack it in the same way. With DECSS, you can crack any disk by just putting it in a drive and running the program. With the AACS crack, you have to run some other player and extract the title key out of memory, probably by using a debugger or something. The CSS crack was harder because they actually cracked every disk, and reversed the encryption. The AACS crack doesn't accomplish the same thing. Although you can still decrypt disks, you can't just make program that does it automatically.
You can make things look better by using techniques such as anti-aliasing. If you have to scale textures, there's different algorithms that can be used and you get very different results depending on which ones you use.
I hope they do something to the graphics because it's really disappointing to see PS1 era games on a 50 inch television. I've hooked an N64 up to a 50 inch television, and the it hurts your eyes to play. You get a headache after about 10 minutes. I hope they do some nice tricks to get the graphics looking better, because most of these games weren't designed to be played on such a large screen.
It also gives the developers less of an idea what's really going on. And it gives them less control. If the only way the developers know how to use AJAX is with the MS toolkit, then they're going to have a hard time when it doesn't support something they want to do. Same thing with the way the forms designer works. Sure it makes it really easy that you can drag and drop controls and make a web application really fast, but when you want to do something that it doesn't support, then you're screwed, and if you ever want to switch platforms, then good luck. Tying your development too much to one solution tends to really limit the things you can do.
Still a no-go. People would be wondering why they couldn't install all the games they had just purchased, or why their digital camera software didn't run on Linux. Sure they could use Digikam (no on Ubuntu, but on other distros) but most people don't understand the concept of using something other than the provided utilities to operate hardware.
Too many people would call up saying their computer doesn't work when they select unformatted disk to save $50, or whatever it comes out to without windows. If there's $50 to be saved, then i'm sure there's tons of idiots who have no idea what an operating system is to choose the option of no operating system, just because it saves them money.
But most people don't buy the top end. There's still a lot of computers being sold with Intel graphics chipsets, right on the motherboard, because most people could care less about which graphics card they have. They'd rather be playing games on their big TV with their console. As long as they can play Tetris variation #349 and freecell, they don't really care which graphics card they have.
It's funny how CD/DVD burning software is the one that doesn't work. I remember when I upgraded to Windows 2000 (it might have been xp), and none of the CD Burning programs I had worked anymore. Do they have to change the way CD burning works with every new version? Is there a reasonable explanation why CD burning programs always end up broken?
I'm from Canada, so this probably doesn't apply to me, but I'd like to know more about how this works. Is it a deduction as in
A) I paid $39.99 for my tax software so I pay $39.99 less in taxes.
Or
B) I paid $39.99 for my tax software so I deduct $39.99 from my total income, so I don't pay income tax on it, but I still don't end up getting $39.99 back. I probably end up getting $20, or less depending on which tax bracket I'm in.
If its A, I kind of don't see the point of them charging in the first place, you should just be able to go to the store pick up a copy of the software, and the government send a check to the company after the software is used to file the tax return. Although, I still might opt to do it by hand, so I can still see what's going on, and so that I can still claim things that for some reason the software doesn't let me enter.
You don't have to consider the people who can't, but also the people who just don't want to. I think that if most people were presented with the option of Windows for $200, plus the cost of MS Office $300?, they'd pick Linux and OO.o (or Koffice, or whatever, not trying to start a war here) in a heart beat. The problem is that people don't really pay that much for their software. They get windows really cheap, or maybe even a negative cost when you consider that Dell has cheaper prices than the small retailer down the road who actually offers a computer with no OS, because Dell sells more. Yes I know that dell has/had the n-Series, but those were actually at least in not more expensive than the comparable windows only model.
This is my opinion too. As long as I can't file taxes for free online, without pay some third party, I'm going to continue to use paper. I have nothing against most of the tax software companies, but I think the government should at least provide a web fillable tax paper for free. Let the other companies provide services that step you through the process, but at least provide a way for the rest of us who don't need our hand held (and don't want to miss out on important deductions) to file our taxes online. I tried one of these services a few years ago, when I was in University and it was free, because I made so little. It didn't even have a way for me to claim my rent (AKA property taxes). Plus with all the stories I've heard about them overwriting your boot sector when you install the software and other nicities, I'm not about to start paying money ever year for someone else to screw up my taxes.
What happens if someone hacks into the computer, downloads all the songs, and then posts them on the internet. The person who bought the music has no idea this is happening until the cops come to his door, and tell him they found his files on internet sites. Then he has to go through all the trouble to prove he didn't put those files on the internet. Just like the story last week where some kid's computer had kiddie porn without his knowledge, it would be just as easy for hackers to break into the computer, get the files, and put them on the internet, without the user having any clue that it happened.
Things aren't the same as they used to be. The video game landscape has changed. Nintendo has plenty of games with blood now, and probably wouldn't stop you from killing Nazis in a game, which I fail to see anything wrong with. If you're going to have a shooter where you kill people, you might as well be killing Nazis. And not all of Carmacks games were bloodfests either. There's plenty of games that he could have ported to Nintendo without making any changes. Think of Commander Keen. Anyway, Nintendo isn't the family friendly system it used to be. Well, it's probably still the most family friendly system, that contains the most games playable by the entire family, but that doesn't stop it from having it's share of violent games.
A can of soda every day is still a lot of sugar. Granted, it depends on the type but most of it is all sugar. Especially if you're eating other sugar containing foods during the day. I never quite understood people who drink 2 or 3 cans of soda a day. I usually drink 1 or 2 a week, and that's enough for me, most weeks I don't have it at all.
Exactly. Apache and IIS fulfill completely different roles. They are both web servers, but look at it like this. Windows, Linux, And QNX are all operating systems. However, I'd probably never recommend putting QNX on a home desktop machine. At least not for the average Joe. In the same light, if you're developers use.Net, you'll probably want to choose IIS. Even though you could use Mono, and run the.Net code on Apache, it makes much more sense to use IIS. However, if your developers use PHP or perl, it's still possible to use IIS, but I think you'd get a much better experience with Apache. Basically choosing your web server determines a lot of other things. If you choose IIS, you'll have to run windows, and most likely will need SQL Server, although many other databases work. If you choose apache, you'll probably be running linux, and MySQL or PostGres. Oracle will work on either of these choices. Anyway, my point is, is that you pick one that fits your needs. Unless you have 2 products that actually do perform the same role, like Hard Drive A VS. Hard Drive B, then you probably won't find a useful comparison.
I did the same, although my coop didn't start until after second year, so I only got 4 coop terms (16 months), but the experience was still extremely useful. And nobody was just fetching coffee. We got paid too much to fetch coffee. And the coop people at the university made sure that the students were doing actual work too. They'd send someone around to interview the students half way though to make sure they were doing the job the employer said they were hiring them for.
This could also be because x86-64 has a lot of applications that don't work, and hence, aren't included with the distro. I know with Mandriva, if I install the 64 bit version (they are on the same disk) then there's a lot less packages to choose from.
I think coop is a great thing. You can't learn everything you need to know at school, and you can't learn everything you need to know on the job either. A certain mix is definitely a good thing, in almost all professions, not just engineering. Had I just gone to university, and not had any co-op experience, or pursue related studies outside the classroom, I wouldn't know the first thing about how to do my job right.
The cheapest 1080p TV is probably still a pretty good TV, considering a lot of TVs out there don't even support 1080i. There's even a few TVs sold as EDTVs that only support 480p. Any TV that supports 1080p is still better than half the stuff out there.
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I think the other reason they don't let people buy tracks from other countries is because the pricing is different. In Canada a song costs $CDN 0.99. However in the US, the tracks cost $US 0.99. So you could buy a track for about $US 0.85 if the Americans were allowed to buy tracks in Canada. I'm not sure what the prices are in the UK. If they are GBP 0.99 then I don't think anybody would be shopping there if they had the ability to go to the Canadian store and buy tracks there.
I think it's common in a lot of businesses to assume the employees are either idiots, or thieves. When I was in University, I applied to quite a few retail jobs, and have the questions they ask you, either through an online questionaire or at the interview have to do with whether or not you will steal from them. They assume right from the get-go that you're going to steal from them. With a lot of office jobs (mostly for larger organizations) everyone is required to take sensitivity training to ensure they're aware of what harassment (sexual or otherwise) is. I don't think this is a case of assuming the employees are stupid, but rather a situation whereby the employer is covering their own ass in case an employee decides to sue the company when another employee harasses them.
Yeah, I remember playing Mario 64 on UltraHLE back in the day, and the results looked much better than what a Nintendo 64 would output. It was kind of funny to be running the same game, emulated, and getting better graphics than why the console could achieve.
Well, he didn't crack it in the same way. With DECSS, you can crack any disk by just putting it in a drive and running the program. With the AACS crack, you have to run some other player and extract the title key out of memory, probably by using a debugger or something. The CSS crack was harder because they actually cracked every disk, and reversed the encryption. The AACS crack doesn't accomplish the same thing. Although you can still decrypt disks, you can't just make program that does it automatically.
You can make things look better by using techniques such as anti-aliasing. If you have to scale textures, there's different algorithms that can be used and you get very different results depending on which ones you use.
I hope they do something to the graphics because it's really disappointing to see PS1 era games on a 50 inch television. I've hooked an N64 up to a 50 inch television, and the it hurts your eyes to play. You get a headache after about 10 minutes. I hope they do some nice tricks to get the graphics looking better, because most of these games weren't designed to be played on such a large screen.
I've tried Zend Studio, and it's intellisense does not rival VS.Net. Although It's better than any other PHP IDE i've tried.
It also gives the developers less of an idea what's really going on. And it gives them less control. If the only way the developers know how to use AJAX is with the MS toolkit, then they're going to have a hard time when it doesn't support something they want to do. Same thing with the way the forms designer works. Sure it makes it really easy that you can drag and drop controls and make a web application really fast, but when you want to do something that it doesn't support, then you're screwed, and if you ever want to switch platforms, then good luck. Tying your development too much to one solution tends to really limit the things you can do.
Still a no-go. People would be wondering why they couldn't install all the games they had just purchased, or why their digital camera software didn't run on Linux. Sure they could use Digikam (no on Ubuntu, but on other distros) but most people don't understand the concept of using something other than the provided utilities to operate hardware.
Too many people would call up saying their computer doesn't work when they select unformatted disk to save $50, or whatever it comes out to without windows. If there's $50 to be saved, then i'm sure there's tons of idiots who have no idea what an operating system is to choose the option of no operating system, just because it saves them money.
Yes, could care less is correct, because it's short for the phrase:
I suppose I could care less, but I'm not sure how.
But most people don't buy the top end. There's still a lot of computers being sold with Intel graphics chipsets, right on the motherboard, because most people could care less about which graphics card they have. They'd rather be playing games on their big TV with their console. As long as they can play Tetris variation #349 and freecell, they don't really care which graphics card they have.
Since when is everything on Slashdot actually news?
It's funny how CD/DVD burning software is the one that doesn't work. I remember when I upgraded to Windows 2000 (it might have been xp), and none of the CD Burning programs I had worked anymore. Do they have to change the way CD burning works with every new version? Is there a reasonable explanation why CD burning programs always end up broken?
I'm from Canada, so this probably doesn't apply to me, but I'd like to know more about how this works. Is it a deduction as in
A) I paid $39.99 for my tax software so I pay $39.99 less in taxes.
Or
B) I paid $39.99 for my tax software so I deduct $39.99 from my total income, so I don't pay income tax on it, but I still don't end up getting $39.99 back. I probably end up getting $20, or less depending on which tax bracket I'm in.
If its A, I kind of don't see the point of them charging in the first place, you should just be able to go to the store pick up a copy of the software, and the government send a check to the company after the software is used to file the tax return. Although, I still might opt to do it by hand, so I can still see what's going on, and so that I can still claim things that for some reason the software doesn't let me enter.
You don't have to consider the people who can't, but also the people who just don't want to. I think that if most people were presented with the option of Windows for $200, plus the cost of MS Office $300?, they'd pick Linux and OO.o (or Koffice, or whatever, not trying to start a war here) in a heart beat. The problem is that people don't really pay that much for their software. They get windows really cheap, or maybe even a negative cost when you consider that Dell has cheaper prices than the small retailer down the road who actually offers a computer with no OS, because Dell sells more. Yes I know that dell has/had the n-Series, but those were actually at least in not more expensive than the comparable windows only model.
This is my opinion too. As long as I can't file taxes for free online, without pay some third party, I'm going to continue to use paper. I have nothing against most of the tax software companies, but I think the government should at least provide a web fillable tax paper for free. Let the other companies provide services that step you through the process, but at least provide a way for the rest of us who don't need our hand held (and don't want to miss out on important deductions) to file our taxes online. I tried one of these services a few years ago, when I was in University and it was free, because I made so little. It didn't even have a way for me to claim my rent (AKA property taxes). Plus with all the stories I've heard about them overwriting your boot sector when you install the software and other nicities, I'm not about to start paying money ever year for someone else to screw up my taxes.
What happens if someone hacks into the computer, downloads all the songs, and then posts them on the internet. The person who bought the music has no idea this is happening until the cops come to his door, and tell him they found his files on internet sites. Then he has to go through all the trouble to prove he didn't put those files on the internet. Just like the story last week where some kid's computer had kiddie porn without his knowledge, it would be just as easy for hackers to break into the computer, get the files, and put them on the internet, without the user having any clue that it happened.
Things aren't the same as they used to be. The video game landscape has changed. Nintendo has plenty of games with blood now, and probably wouldn't stop you from killing Nazis in a game, which I fail to see anything wrong with. If you're going to have a shooter where you kill people, you might as well be killing Nazis. And not all of Carmacks games were bloodfests either. There's plenty of games that he could have ported to Nintendo without making any changes. Think of Commander Keen. Anyway, Nintendo isn't the family friendly system it used to be. Well, it's probably still the most family friendly system, that contains the most games playable by the entire family, but that doesn't stop it from having it's share of violent games.
A can of soda every day is still a lot of sugar. Granted, it depends on the type but most of it is all sugar. Especially if you're eating other sugar containing foods during the day. I never quite understood people who drink 2 or 3 cans of soda a day. I usually drink 1 or 2 a week, and that's enough for me, most weeks I don't have it at all.
Exactly. Apache and IIS fulfill completely different roles. They are both web servers, but look at it like this. Windows, Linux, And QNX are all operating systems. However, I'd probably never recommend putting QNX on a home desktop machine. At least not for the average Joe. In the same light, if you're developers use .Net, you'll probably want to choose IIS. Even though you could use Mono, and run the .Net code on Apache, it makes much more sense to use IIS. However, if your developers use PHP or perl, it's still possible to use IIS, but I think you'd get a much better experience with Apache. Basically choosing your web server determines a lot of other things. If you choose IIS, you'll have to run windows, and most likely will need SQL Server, although many other databases work. If you choose apache, you'll probably be running linux, and MySQL or PostGres. Oracle will work on either of these choices. Anyway, my point is, is that you pick one that fits your needs. Unless you have 2 products that actually do perform the same role, like Hard Drive A VS. Hard Drive B, then you probably won't find a useful comparison.
I did the same, although my coop didn't start until after second year, so I only got 4 coop terms (16 months), but the experience was still extremely useful. And nobody was just fetching coffee. We got paid too much to fetch coffee. And the coop people at the university made sure that the students were doing actual work too. They'd send someone around to interview the students half way though to make sure they were doing the job the employer said they were hiring them for.
This could also be because x86-64 has a lot of applications that don't work, and hence, aren't included with the distro. I know with Mandriva, if I install the 64 bit version (they are on the same disk) then there's a lot less packages to choose from.
I think coop is a great thing. You can't learn everything you need to know at school, and you can't learn everything you need to know on the job either. A certain mix is definitely a good thing, in almost all professions, not just engineering. Had I just gone to university, and not had any co-op experience, or pursue related studies outside the classroom, I wouldn't know the first thing about how to do my job right.
The cheapest 1080p TV is probably still a pretty good TV, considering a lot of TVs out there don't even support 1080i. There's even a few TVs sold as EDTVs that only support 480p. Any TV that supports 1080p is still better than half the stuff out there.