Viruses have just lost their mystique. I remember my Dad telling me about Michelangelo back in the 80's. I remember being so impressed that something so devilish and evil could really exist.
But we DO have the technology! The entire series is availiabe on DVD here in the US. It's produced by Bandai and is availiabe of 6 DVD's with 4-5 episodes apiece.
It also (of course) includes both English and Japanese language tracks.
All of this depends on 2 things: your player and your hardware. Conventionally, CD-ROM drives have a CD-Audio decoder built in to the drive. In this case, any player you use will just control the CD-ROM via hardware commands (stop, skip, ff) and the computer never sees any digital data. A stereo sound cable carries the analog signal of the playing audio to your sound card, where it is amplified.
On the other hand, there are systems in place now (Windows Media Player for one) that will use OpSys syscalls and extract the digital data from the disc and decode it through software. When this happens, the data no longer transmits via analog stereo cable, but through that pretty ribbon on your CD-ROM.
Taking the data directly from the CD-ROM to the disc is exactly what ripping is. In effect, players that use digital playback are performing a temporary rip and then discarding the audio data when the buffer clears or the application exits.
Agreed. Furthermore, the author quotes the "demise" of modifying your car. While it's certainly not the #1 male adolescent passtime these days, it's far from gone. I have a college pal who put thousands of dollars into souping up his Taurus. Crazy.
Computers may get harder to hack, but I think that's something to look forward to:)
About 50% of posts on this thread have had something to do with a personal preference of whether to run Linux on Mac or PC hardware. Barring the argument of whether or not to use OS X (which could get ugly), can someone please give me their arguments on why someone should use Linux on Mac hardware? I'm not saying that it's a bad idea, I just want to know why (other than cool LOOKING hardware) someone would prefer Mac hardware over PC when running Linux.
IPO = Initial Public Offering, it's a popular first step for a company to move from private operations to public ownership through stock markets (usually)
...that the software sucks, they dumped on you from support, and they discontinued the product you were eagerly expecting to be the best thing since ext3?
Pardon me for saying so, but that's not our problem:) In this situation you do what everyone else does, bite the bullet. As a company they dont have to cater to you specifically.
And please, can we stop the ignorant Windows bashing? If you have something bad to say about software of any kind, back it up with some direct evidence instead of just whining about it.
So in closing, keep your problems to yourself, this doesn't concern the Slashdot community.
If everything works as planned, Microsoft software will shortly control nearly every point at which a consumer or business interacts with the Web.
So, how is the effort going to port Slashdot to ASP? Will we soon be directing our IE-only browsers through Windows routers? Will there be one Active Directory Domain controller that we'll all have to authenticate through?
I understand the issues at hand here, but from where I stand, they haven't changed at all over the past few years. Yes, Microsoft is launching some pretty fly new products for the business world, but that doesn't meant that other companies are sitting on their laurels contemplating their navel lint.
The Internet is still quite free. If it ceases to be, we'll build another one. It's all part of the Nerd Handbook.
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Viruses have just lost their mystique. I remember my Dad telling me about Michelangelo back in the 80's. I remember being so impressed that something so devilish and evil could really exist.
I suppose that's why I became a programmer.
No, wait. It was for the babes.
Freakin script kiddiez.
But we DO have the technology! The entire series is availiabe on DVD here in the US. It's produced by Bandai and is availiabe of 6 DVD's with 4-5 episodes apiece.
It also (of course) includes both English and Japanese language tracks.
As users explored Nautilus further, they discovered that it was a browser:
"It has a desktop file system feel and a web feel, from the icons and the throbber." (P4)
Anyone mind telling me what the hell P4 is speaking of? I wasn't aware Nautilis had a "throbber".
All of this depends on 2 things: your player and your hardware. Conventionally, CD-ROM drives have a CD-Audio decoder built in to the drive. In this case, any player you use will just control the CD-ROM via hardware commands (stop, skip, ff) and the computer never sees any digital data. A stereo sound cable carries the analog signal of the playing audio to your sound card, where it is amplified.
On the other hand, there are systems in place now (Windows Media Player for one) that will use OpSys syscalls and extract the digital data from the disc and decode it through software. When this happens, the data no longer transmits via analog stereo cable, but through that pretty ribbon on your CD-ROM.
Taking the data directly from the CD-ROM to the disc is exactly what ripping is. In effect, players that use digital playback are performing a temporary rip and then discarding the audio data when the buffer clears or the application exits.
-ttam
Agreed. Furthermore, the author quotes the "demise" of modifying your car. While it's certainly not the #1 male adolescent passtime these days, it's far from gone. I have a college pal who put thousands of dollars into souping up his Taurus. Crazy.
:)
Computers may get harder to hack, but I think that's something to look forward to
not flamebait
About 50% of posts on this thread have had something to do with a personal preference of whether to run Linux on Mac or PC hardware. Barring the argument of whether or not to use OS X (which could get ugly), can someone please give me their arguments on why someone should use Linux on Mac hardware? I'm not saying that it's a bad idea, I just want to know why (other than cool LOOKING hardware) someone would prefer Mac hardware over PC when running Linux.
IPO = Initial Public Offering, it's a popular first step for a company to move from private operations to public ownership through stock markets (usually)
:)
Should be able to find info online, try google
...I still think google's "I'm Feelin' Lucky" option should be a "Millionare" lifeline. My friends dont know $hit :)
Amen Brother Dan, amen.
...that the software sucks, they dumped on you from support, and they discontinued the product you were eagerly expecting to be the best thing since ext3?
:) In this situation you do what everyone else does, bite the bullet. As a company they dont have to cater to you specifically.
Pardon me for saying so, but that's not our problem
And please, can we stop the ignorant Windows bashing? If you have something bad to say about software of any kind, back it up with some direct evidence instead of just whining about it.
So in closing, keep your problems to yourself, this doesn't concern the Slashdot community.
If everything works as planned, Microsoft software will shortly control nearly every point at which a consumer or business interacts with the Web.
So, how is the effort going to port Slashdot to ASP? Will we soon be directing our IE-only browsers through Windows routers? Will there be one Active Directory Domain controller that we'll all have to authenticate through?
I understand the issues at hand here, but from where I stand, they haven't changed at all over the past few years. Yes, Microsoft is launching some pretty fly new products for the business world, but that doesn't meant that other companies are sitting on their laurels contemplating their navel lint.
The Internet is still quite free. If it ceases to be, we'll build another one. It's all part of the Nerd Handbook.
To all the people who incessantly complain about the lack of clear answers, witty charm, and boring nature of this interview, I have one thing to say.
/. , a website. That is all. This is not a perching place for Kings or Gods, just editors. Don't expect so much from them.
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2001-04-01 00:00:01
:)
i'm betting those crazy ruskys have another setback