This localized clique you're talking about is called "Europe". Yes, AIM is widespread in USA (*AOL* Instant Messenger... not really surprising considering all those CDs and whatnot they pollute the world with, now is it?), but the rest of the world has to the best of my knowledge welcomed our messenging overlords.
EU (and to some extent you) is barking up the wrong tree. I don't see the issue as a question of people using WMP because it's the default, but more of business targeting WMP because they know it's there and it works.
AFAIK, Theora doesn't fit into the toolchain that Doom9 uses with AviSynth because it doesn't have a DirectShow filter of VfW implementation (Please feel free to correct me though).
I think you have to use a command line encoder that only accepts some weird raw picture format which by my (and most other persons', I presume) standards is just silly and in no way usable (*). Unless mencoder supports it, of course. But that still doesn't work with his usual toolchain.
(*): And don't come with that "oh, but it's alpha software. Things like that can wait!" because it won't get any use or testing at all if they keep it that way. So when 1.0 finally comes out they get bashed for its horrible quality and have to spend months tuning their encoder again, doing work they could have saved themselves had they had better testing from the start. That's how I guess it's going to be when 1.0 finally comes around.
PS: I still think it's a pretty cool project and with the java implementation for streaming, it would be very nice to see more wide-spread use of Theora, but I won't be holding my breath.
Why post the text instead of having the/. crowd flood their server to see what they've put up there? Potentially that could bring the server offline and cost them a bundle for a great two-sided effect (OK, the latter is not that cool if it's just some rooted box, but at least it would prevent anyone being affected if it was/.'ed to hell).
I've been watching a few matches and I don't find DM in UT2004 to be particularly good for spectating. To put it simply it has the most jerky, unbelievable, and annoying movement of all games I've seen. This whole double tapping concept looks great in concept, works out reasonably well in gameplay, but kills spectating.
And it lacks a weapon that kicks as much a** as the Quake 3 railgun;).
"What is wrong with shutting down at night is the ENORMOUS amount of time Linux takes to boot up!!!!
Leave the PC on but set power saving to something sensible, that way you can save money on electricity and be up and running in the morning without the obligatory 5 min wait!"
Windows isn't the only OS in the world to be slow at booting. Of course it doesn't really matter if you boot it less than one time per day.
And you think that the patent won't be granted?! You hold the USPTO in much too high regard.
Prior art may exist (I know absolutely nothing of that), but who wants to go to court with Microsoft?! Especially when they have admitted (q.v. Halloween memos) that patents are potentially useful to combat open source software.
It wouldn't work because you would only need to sign the first email, and then the next 10000 can be an exact copy of the first one.
What would work is if you required all incoming email to be encrypted (and possibly signed) except for things on a white-list, but I suspect you wouldn't get much email then.
Of course one could argue that that would solve the problem with spam, but I think I prefer the disease to the cure in that case.
But you can run that file though hymn, and then share it. But since it doesn't (AFAIR) remove the tag on the file that uniquely identies each buyer, it would probably be a pretty stupid idea (unless of course you remove that as well which should be easy when the file isn't encrypted...)
Those are going to be really funny (ha. ha.) here in Denmark where we have a tax on flash cards for digital cameras (because ya'know you could put music on that card in that camera, and those poor starving artists need the money that those evil photographers are taking from them!) which is ~8$ per GiB (*).
I recently bought a 200GiB hard drive and if it was made of flash memory and cost the same, I should have payed 1600$ worth of taxes. Or roughly 10 times as much as the hard drive itself.
Until this tax insanity blows over, I don't see the technology going anywhere regardsless of how cheap they can build it.
(*): probably a little less, but I didn't bother to look it up. 3.20 DKR per 64MiB - do the currency conversion yourselves.
I agree with you as far as version 2 goes, but version 4 is a horrible mess in my opinion. Not only has it a custom user interface with a horrible blue colour that fits in with neither Windows 2000 or Windows XP Luna, it is also a pain in the neck to get to the advanced configuration options that allows you to configure it in the same way that you did with v2 (which I much prefer to the way v4 apparently wants you do to things...)
I didn't use v4 for long before I went back to v2, but I've switched to Sygate Personal Firewall recently as it (Kerio) for some strange reason started to crash. Sygate's FW is nice and all, but its advanced rules configuration system is still somewhat annoying. For some reason it appers to be impossible to create a rule or set an option that blocks any traffic that isn't explicitly allowed *sigh*.
If you can tell me that Kerio v4 has dropped the horrid user interface, I'll probably have a look at it again.
Brainf**k is a relatively simple stack based language. The only thing about it that makes it hard to understand is its very terse syntax. Unlambda and Whitespace has this as well, and in addition to this they are completely unreadable. The reasons are quite different though: Unlambda because there is absolutely nothing like it (wrapping your mind around a myriad of s's, k's, i's and `'s == pain. I've tried) and Whitespace is just impossible to read (and program for that matter) without the aid of a program that can convert it to something where you can actually tell the instructions apart.)
Wow! I got to see the "Nothing for you to see here" message when I first clicked the link on the front page. I must have been *really* lucky when I hit the front page...
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*Begins humming to himself* Deep in the Core, the galactic core, a black hole spins toniiiiight
This localized clique you're talking about is called "Europe". Yes, AIM is widespread in USA (*AOL* Instant Messenger... not really surprising considering all those CDs and whatnot they pollute the world with, now is it?), but the rest of the world has to the best of my knowledge welcomed our messenging overlords.
5.50$ per gallon here in Denmark (if my calculations are correct). Stop whining.
EU (and to some extent you) is barking up the wrong tree. I don't see the issue as a question of people using WMP because it's the default, but more of business targeting WMP because they know it's there and it works.
ZFC, of course. What other reply is possible when you study math? :)
I (thankfully) don't have the game, but I suspect it would make me barf after a few minutes.
I think you have to use a command line encoder that only accepts some weird raw picture format which by my (and most other persons', I presume) standards is just silly and in no way usable (*). Unless mencoder supports it, of course. But that still doesn't work with his usual toolchain.
(*): And don't come with that "oh, but it's alpha software. Things like that can wait!" because it won't get any use or testing at all if they keep it that way. So when 1.0 finally comes out they get bashed for its horrible quality and have to spend months tuning their encoder again, doing work they could have saved themselves had they had better testing from the start. That's how I guess it's going to be when 1.0 finally comes around.
PS: I still think it's a pretty cool project and with the java implementation for streaming, it would be very nice to see more wide-spread use of Theora, but I won't be holding my breath.
FAQ it's under the MIT license rather than in the public domain. Not that it makes much of a difference, of course.
Actually AdBlock does work on Google's ads because they are in IFRAME-tags, and guess what AdBlock can block?
Roses are #FF0000, violets are #8000FF, all my base are belong to... Louie's?!
Why post the text instead of having the /. crowd flood their server to see what they've put up there? Potentially that could bring the server offline and cost them a bundle for a great two-sided effect (OK, the latter is not that cool if it's just some rooted box, but at least it would prevent anyone being affected if it was /.'ed to hell).
And it lacks a weapon that kicks as much a** as the Quake 3 railgun ;).
By the Axiom of Foundation such a set does not exist in ZF so there is no such problem.
"What is wrong with shutting down at night is the ENORMOUS amount of time Linux takes to boot up!!!! Leave the PC on but set power saving to something sensible, that way you can save money on electricity and be up and running in the morning without the obligatory 5 min wait!" Windows isn't the only OS in the world to be slow at booting. Of course it doesn't really matter if you boot it less than one time per day.
And Microsoft's shop isn't going to be "first in the mind" when it's right there sitting on every single Windows desktop in the world?
Prior art may exist (I know absolutely nothing of that), but who wants to go to court with Microsoft?! Especially when they have admitted (q.v. Halloween memos) that patents are potentially useful to combat open source software.
What would work is if you required all incoming email to be encrypted (and possibly signed) except for things on a white-list, but I suspect you wouldn't get much email then.
Of course one could argue that that would solve the problem with spam, but I think I prefer the disease to the cure in that case.
But you can run that file though hymn, and then share it. But since it doesn't (AFAIR) remove the tag on the file that uniquely identies each buyer, it would probably be a pretty stupid idea (unless of course you remove that as well which should be easy when the file isn't encrypted...)
A handle leak occurs when you use "Run as" to run a program in Windows Server 2003?!
That information is not privy to you. You must immediately report to the nearest police station for interrogation, citizen.
I recently bought a 200GiB hard drive and if it was made of flash memory and cost the same, I should have payed 1600$ worth of taxes. Or roughly 10 times as much as the hard drive itself.
Until this tax insanity blows over, I don't see the technology going anywhere regardsless of how cheap they can build it.
(*): probably a little less, but I didn't bother to look it up. 3.20 DKR per 64MiB - do the currency conversion yourselves.
I didn't use v4 for long before I went back to v2, but I've switched to Sygate Personal Firewall recently as it (Kerio) for some strange reason started to crash. Sygate's FW is nice and all, but its advanced rules configuration system is still somewhat annoying. For some reason it appers to be impossible to create a rule or set an option that blocks any traffic that isn't explicitly allowed *sigh*.
If you can tell me that Kerio v4 has dropped the horrid user interface, I'll probably have a look at it again.
Brainf**k is a relatively simple stack based language. The only thing about it that makes it hard to understand is its very terse syntax. Unlambda and Whitespace has this as well, and in addition to this they are completely unreadable. The reasons are quite different though: Unlambda because there is absolutely nothing like it (wrapping your mind around a myriad of s's, k's, i's and `'s == pain. I've tried) and Whitespace is just impossible to read (and program for that matter) without the aid of a program that can convert it to something where you can actually tell the instructions apart.)
I guess it's time to... RTFA now or something.
Oh... and... fp! :)