Maybe they should just include a share of Disney stock in with each DVD. With the way Disney is going, not only will they be able to make money on it soon, but it will also dilute voting strength and serve to protect Michael Eisner's tenure at the top. Can it get any better than that?
I wonder if any of these DVD's have shown up on eBay yet?
Before you only mod me funny (or worse), consider the importance of this issue as regards the new DRM protected CD's that have you register your disc in order to play it a limited number of times. Since there is no indicator on the CD itself showing how many plays it has accumulated, it this becomes common it will do much to destroy the secondhand/used CD market.
Computer users visiting pages that rely on Active X code would be confronted with an additional dialog box that would ask the user whether they wished to run Active X controls.
And why isn't this a good idea already? Wouldn't it be nice to know what is about to run on a new page you've entered for the first time before it runs?
Add my voice to the others. I got my CS degree in 1977, and felt it would be good for life. It was good through the year 2000, and I'm lucky to have a local govermnent job (in CS) now after 2 years of looking again. The future is not here any more.
It doesn't matter if Itantium is better than AMD64, or Prescot64, or you name it -64. Alpha was better still, and it died. Itantium will die too because the other chips are good enough, and much cheaper. Intel will have to compete on price with AMD64, which makes Itantium a dead end.
Bottom line: Pushing 64-bit capability could help those chips approach the performance of Itanium. But that could leave the future of Itanium, which companies such as HP and Silicon Graphics are counting on, in limbo.
Now there's a really dumb statement. If Pentium64 provides Itantium performance at a lower price with Microsoft software support -- then switch! It ain't that hard a decision. You're not losing anything here.
And if P64 doesn't play well in multi-processing systems, then Itantium can continue to fight it out against AMD.
IBM...patented a method for paying open source volunteers.
In related news, SCO claims this is only a derivative work on their system of now getting paid by open source volunteers, and promises to add it to their lawsuit.
You don't really lose money on a sale you don't make -- unless you're using **AA style accounting methods, that is. Someone in a 3rd world country running a pirate version of MSWindows for example because they can't afford to buy a retail version doesn't take money out of Microsoft's pocket. They could be running Linux instead, and it still wouldn't be an actual loss for Microsoft. It would just be one less sale against profits.
Instead I see this as:
a) A big PR move for MS (MS gives $billion to the poor)
b) Tax write off
c) An attempt to displace non-MS OS's in regions where MS cannot otherwise compete.
All of the above benefits MS at a very cheap cost to them.
that shows the difference between JPEG and JPEG2000
It probably shows all the examples in ordinary JPEG, or else most people can't view it.
Rather like a television commercial showing you how good high-definition television is -- while showing you the results on your plain ordinary every-day television. Like how are you ever supposed to see the difference?
Photoshop CS (PS 8) supports JPEG2K natively. It is also available as a $99 plug-in, which also includes a digital camera raw plug-in, for Photoshop 7.
Five years later, the record company had re-released it, along with the shocking announcement that one of the original CD's songs had been mastered at the wrong speed
So return it as defective and demand a proper copy. You did pay to have all the songs properly presented.
Of course, how did it take them five years to figure this out? Doesn't the band even listen to their CD's?
most color laster printers and a lot of non-color ones hide a subtle watermark in the printing so a given document can be traced back to a particular printer
This holds chilling implications for anonymous political speech -- handouts and small posters tacked up on telephone poles. I used to think it was only the bad countries that registered copy machines.
in the event that an infringement issue is identified in Red Hat Enterprise Linux software code, Red Hat will replace the infringing code.
The fact that code tested and running for months or years will be suddenly patched with new, rushed, quickly tested code somehow doesn't make me feel as good as this as it really should.
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Maybe they should just include a share of Disney stock in with each DVD. With the way Disney is going, not only will they be able to make money on it soon, but it will also dilute voting strength and serve to protect Michael Eisner's tenure at the top. Can it get any better than that?
Before you only mod me funny (or worse), consider the importance of this issue as regards the new DRM protected CD's that have you register your disc in order to play it a limited number of times. Since there is no indicator on the CD itself showing how many plays it has accumulated, it this becomes common it will do much to destroy the secondhand/used CD market.
Not that the record companies will mind.
Uh, that's W indow,
And not unless you have a license from Microsoft for using their registered trademark.
And why isn't this a good idea already? Wouldn't it be nice to know what is about to run on a new page you've entered for the first time before it runs?
Extensible. Now there's a verb Microsoft loves. They'll extensible this to death now that everyone else thinks it's a standard.
Add my voice to the others. I got my CS degree in 1977, and felt it would be good for life. It was good through the year 2000, and I'm lucky to have a local govermnent job (in CS) now after 2 years of looking again. The future is not here any more.
It doesn't matter if Itantium is better than AMD64, or Prescot64, or you name it -64. Alpha was better still, and it died. Itantium will die too because the other chips are good enough, and much cheaper. Intel will have to compete on price with AMD64, which makes Itantium a dead end.
Now there's a really dumb statement. If Pentium64 provides Itantium performance at a lower price with Microsoft software support -- then switch! It ain't that hard a decision. You're not losing anything here.
And if P64 doesn't play well in multi-processing systems, then Itantium can continue to fight it out against AMD.
So why not post it as a .GIF file? Then only porn sites could decode it.
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Maybe changed soon.
Sounds like just enough to pay your RIAA extortion.
In related news, SCO claims this is only a derivative work on their system of now getting paid by open source volunteers, and promises to add it to their lawsuit.
The lawyers still all got their paychecks at the end of the day too.
The real reason Microsoft sued is because when you say "Microsoft" into their speech-to-text converter you get...
Anyone who types MikeRoweSoft when they mean Microsoft is too dumb to be using a computer and the Internet anyway.
You don't really lose money on a sale you don't make -- unless you're using **AA style accounting methods, that is. Someone in a 3rd world country running a pirate version of MSWindows for example because they can't afford to buy a retail version doesn't take money out of Microsoft's pocket. They could be running Linux instead, and it still wouldn't be an actual loss for Microsoft. It would just be one less sale against profits.
Instead I see this as:
a) A big PR move for MS (MS gives $billion to the poor)
b) Tax write off
c) An attempt to displace non-MS OS's in regions where MS cannot otherwise compete.
All of the above benefits MS at a very cheap cost to them.
Let this kid learn the Basic of this day: Visual Basic .Net 2003!
It probably shows all the examples in ordinary JPEG, or else most people can't view it.
Rather like a television commercial showing you how good high-definition television is -- while showing you the results on your plain ordinary every-day television. Like how are you ever supposed to see the difference?
Photoshop CS (PS 8) supports JPEG2K natively. It is also available as a $99 plug-in, which also includes a digital camera raw plug-in, for Photoshop 7.
So which P2P network(s) are they suing this time? Last couple rounds they mostly went after KaZaA and it was obvious. Now who do they want?
Well, if your Mac is running KaZaA, then you have been spoofed.
So return it as defective and demand a proper copy. You did pay to have all the songs properly presented.
Of course, how did it take them five years to figure this out? Doesn't the band even listen to their CD's?
Is this measure included in traveler's cheques?
My addition to the original quote.
This holds chilling implications for anonymous political speech -- handouts and small posters tacked up on telephone poles. I used to think it was only the bad countries that registered copy machines.
The fact that code tested and running for months or years will be suddenly patched with new, rushed, quickly tested code somehow doesn't make me feel as good as this as it really should.