reminds me of a novel from Jack Vance (can't remember the title), where people wore 'torques' that let a despotic leader track their whereabouts. The only difference was that the necklace would explode when tampered with... I guess it's just a small technological hurdle to overcome:)
Right, why waste time on non important things like what's currently happening in Lebanon and Israel and let's talk about serious things like Majors bypassing... Do those pirates buy legal CDs anyway ?
It's a french software, and in french we have two different words for free :
'gratuit', and 'libre'. Gratuit means 'gratis' and libre means free as in unconstrained.
BoW is 'gratuit' and of course not 'free' as in the second acception.
Hi ! I'm bits on wheels' developer;-)
Have you tried the new 'vertical race' mode for the 3D view ?
You can use it to see how the torrent is going. Look closely at the bell shape.
If it's 'pointy' or steepe, then the torrent is seeding fast. The flatter it gets, the slower the seede.
I'm glad you people like it !
Ok, so billionaire Jobs who "doesn't want to be the richest guy of the cemetery" is gonna sell his company which will soon be finally free from disney's corporate idiots in order to get a seat at their board meetings and easier access to their content ?
yeah right....
"Note: That is nothing against the people of N.K., I'm speaking specifically of those currently in its top-level leadership."
waow, now that's politically correct !
are you afraid of being sued or something ? ^_^
"since if you have 99% of the blocks you can generate what's left".
Ok.
How did you get those 99% already ? How long did you wait for those ?
I mean you're moving the actual value at which you get problems, but it's not magic.
It's like having an amplifier that has Volume values between 1 and 9 because your ears are sensitive...
haha, nice try. We had bombings too. Only we didn't kill 100 000 civilians for it.
Anyway that wasn't my point. The world is not one against all the others, it's all together. The whole world will have to suffer bush's decisions, that's why we are all concerned.
And I don't see what unemployment has to do with any of that ??? Oh and I don't like frog legs. Most people here never eat any btw.
One last thing, I don't have the exact figures, but do a little research, and find out how much money US companies/funds have invested in europe, and vice-versa. We're in a GLOBAL economy, dude.
of hell, I'm tired of this.
Why am I even writing about the US elections since I'm french ? (of course I'm french, why do you think I have this outrageous accent ?;-)).
Just to tell you american guys that we're sad. Everyone around me is sad about this election. Of course you got the right to pick whatever looney you want (it's a free country (remember, hitler was ELECTED))...
Electing bush in the internet age is like saying what IBM's CEO said in the 50s, something like "the world will only need less than 10 computers".
We live in a world of exchange, of trade, diplomacy.
There ain't no more cowboys with em' big guns you know.
I'm not being aggressive in any way, just sad and scared for the future. The future of the rest of the world.
You know that the US is the only country in the world where people asked me where france was ? Or if we had apples, or electricity ? (I was an exchange student in the subburbs of Boston, so I had quite some time to meet *real* americans. Bush americans)...
anyway, let's not lose hope, for whatever it's worth...
I believe I can reply to this without getting into the # kbps discussion. Because as many have said, you can't directly compare kbps between mp3 aac and whatever.
On the other hand, I recently purchased an IPod. I then started converting some of my original CDs into 128k AAC. And to my dismay, I found out that... well... it sucks. It simply isn't enough. It if was JPEG I'd say it's way too blocky.
I made some comparisons with the same tracks converted to full AIFF encoding and 128k, and (sounds are very hard to describe) but I really could tell the difference.
I tried with things like Gould playing Bach, and some moments of the goldberg variation (for example), when there are "many notes" at the same time, sound like soup. And the piano sounds like a bad synthesizer.
Same with some opera pieces I compared.
So, after digitizing like 50 songs, I had to start over with a higher bandwidth.
I, personnaly won't buy anything from itms because of this, until they raise the quality.
I'm not a musician, but I have some good headphones (the kind that give you a (hum) "full" spectrum), and I just can't listen to that quality. (I mean having spent so much for the IPod, and having the original CDs in the first place...)
So now, I'm going for lossless compression.
"posting commercial advertising on this newsgroup implies automatically that the poster gives unlimited rights to all the usenet users to post any content from the originating company." (translate this to accurate legalese of course)
No one forces them to post the ad in the first place, why shouldn't they be bound by this rule ??
Here's an idea about spam on the news:
Why not make the following a rule for most groups:
If a company posts commercial advertising on a group, it thereby gives the right to anyone to post copyrighted material from the said company.
This should slow down unwanted ads, shouldn't it ?
Would this be legal ?
If I may say so, your list is simply wrong.
The governments might be for the war but the people are against it in the following countries:
britain, italy, spain, portugal...
(don't know about the others)
Have you seen what bush is doing to convince countries ? how many billion dollars the us is gonna give them to have their leaders be pro-bushwar ?
get some real facts, please.
is it me, or does the picture at http://amesnews.arc.nasa.gov/releases/2003/03image s/paraffin/medium/Rocketfire04.jpg look furiously like a photorealistic rendering ?
The way the shrubberies stick out in front, and the glimmering on the metal structures on the right all look so unreal...
And the flame really looks like a particle rendered image.
Am I the only one ?
PS please pardon my bad english...
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reminds me of a novel from Jack Vance (can't remember the title), where people wore 'torques' that let a despotic leader track their whereabouts. :)
The only difference was that the necklace would explode when tampered with...
I guess it's just a small technological hurdle to overcome
Right, why waste time on non important things like what's currently happening in Lebanon and Israel and let's talk about serious things like Majors bypassing...
Do those pirates buy legal CDs anyway ?
"Doesn't the field become richer when the wider spectrum of legal thought is explored and encouraged?" Of course not ! Now, bend over and spread em'
It's a french software, and in french we have two different words for free : 'gratuit', and 'libre'. Gratuit means 'gratis' and libre means free as in unconstrained. BoW is 'gratuit' and of course not 'free' as in the second acception.
bits on wheels is not open source, but it's free !
Hi ! I'm bits on wheels' developer ;-)
Have you tried the new 'vertical race' mode for the 3D view ?
You can use it to see how the torrent is going. Look closely at the bell shape.
If it's 'pointy' or steepe, then the torrent is seeding fast. The flatter it gets, the slower the seede.
I'm glad you people like it !
Ok, so billionaire Jobs who "doesn't want to be the richest guy of the cemetery" is gonna sell his company which will soon be finally free from disney's corporate idiots in order to get a seat at their board meetings and easier access to their content ? yeah right....
"Note: That is nothing against the people of N.K., I'm speaking specifically of those currently in its top-level leadership." waow, now that's politically correct ! are you afraid of being sued or something ? ^_^
What OS are they running already ? Naaaahhh..... :D
can I have a toke too ?
"since if you have 99% of the blocks you can generate what's left".
Ok.
How did you get those 99% already ? How long did you wait for those ?
I mean you're moving the actual value at which you get problems, but it's not magic.
It's like having an amplifier that has Volume values between 1 and 9 because your ears are sensitive...
So that's how marketing buzz or web discussion spamming works ?
I almost got caught !
never forget that Bush Senior is the guy who trained osama ben laden... This is a FACT.
haha, nice try. We had bombings too. Only we didn't kill 100 000 civilians for it.
Anyway that wasn't my point. The world is not one against all the others, it's all together. The whole world will have to suffer bush's decisions, that's why we are all concerned.
And I don't see what unemployment has to do with any of that ??? Oh and I don't like frog legs. Most people here never eat any btw. One last thing, I don't have the exact figures, but do a little research, and find out how much money US companies/funds have invested in europe, and vice-versa. We're in a GLOBAL economy, dude. of hell, I'm tired of this.
Why am I even writing about the US elections since I'm french ? (of course I'm french, why do you think I have this outrageous accent ? ;-)).
Just to tell you american guys that we're sad. Everyone around me is sad about this election. Of course you got the right to pick whatever looney you want (it's a free country (remember, hitler was ELECTED))...
Electing bush in the internet age is like saying what IBM's CEO said in the 50s, something like "the world will only need less than 10 computers".
We live in a world of exchange, of trade, diplomacy. There ain't no more cowboys with em' big guns you know. I'm not being aggressive in any way, just sad and scared for the future. The future of the rest of the world.
You know that the US is the only country in the world where people asked me where france was ? Or if we had apples, or electricity ? (I was an exchange student in the subburbs of Boston, so I had quite some time to meet *real* americans. Bush americans)...
anyway, let's not lose hope, for whatever it's worth...
I believe I can reply to this without getting into the # kbps discussion. Because as many have said, you can't directly compare kbps between mp3 aac and whatever.
... well... it sucks. It simply isn't enough. It if was JPEG I'd say it's way too blocky.
On the other hand, I recently purchased an IPod. I then started converting some of my original CDs into 128k AAC. And to my dismay, I found out that
I made some comparisons with the same tracks converted to full AIFF encoding and 128k, and (sounds are very hard to describe) but I really could tell the difference.
I tried with things like Gould playing Bach, and some moments of the goldberg variation (for example), when there are "many notes" at the same time, sound like soup. And the piano sounds like a bad synthesizer.
Same with some opera pieces I compared.
So, after digitizing like 50 songs, I had to start over with a higher bandwidth.
I, personnaly won't buy anything from itms because of this, until they raise the quality.
I'm not a musician, but I have some good headphones (the kind that give you a (hum) "full" spectrum), and I just can't listen to that quality. (I mean having spent so much for the IPod, and having the original CDs in the first place...)
So now, I'm going for lossless compression.
Well, I'd say you were ALREADY in trouble if you needed to call 911 in the first place... ^_^
http://www.stonehengelaserscan.org/ doesn't work, returns : Bad Request (Invalid Hostname)
"posting commercial advertising on this newsgroup implies automatically that the poster gives unlimited rights to all the usenet users to post any content from the originating company." (translate this to accurate legalese of course) No one forces them to post the ad in the first place, why shouldn't they be bound by this rule ??
Here's an idea about spam on the news: Why not make the following a rule for most groups: If a company posts commercial advertising on a group, it thereby gives the right to anyone to post copyrighted material from the said company. This should slow down unwanted ads, shouldn't it ? Would this be legal ?
err, it's the inter-processor bus speed, not the "general" bus (ie other components) that goes 1Ghz...
or am I wrong ?
If I may say so, your list is simply wrong. The governments might be for the war but the people are against it in the following countries: britain, italy, spain, portugal... (don't know about the others) Have you seen what bush is doing to convince countries ? how many billion dollars the us is gonna give them to have their leaders be pro-bushwar ? get some real facts, please.
is it me, or does the picture at http://amesnews.arc.nasa.gov/releases/2003/03image s/paraffin/medium/Rocketfire04.jpg look furiously like a photorealistic rendering ?
The way the shrubberies stick out in front, and the glimmering on the metal structures on the right all look so unreal...
And the flame really looks like a particle rendered image.
Am I the only one ?
PS please pardon my bad english...