Also, for me, having a physical copy means that when the MAFIAA comes a-knockin', you can point to a shelf full of physical items and then tell them to pucker up and kiss your hiney. An iPod etc. full of music/movies means finding electronic/paper receipts to prove legal ownership including for that song you got from a free download at Starbucks that time. Plus if an MP3 of something gives me a headache as it sometimes does, I am screwed, but if I have the CD, I can rip it to FLAC or ogg. Also, I like collecting things. So call me a packrat.
I downloaded the Assassin's Creed sound track sample files from the developer's website (in.wav) and listened to them once through, finding them of interest. Then I compressed them with LAME on default and after listening to 1/4 of the first track I had to take my headphones off because it was giving me a horrible headache.
I'd listen to them if, on page 3 of their document, competing pipes didn't suddenly become demphasised by taking on spindly shapes and MSN/Yahoo pipes didn't grey out and hide behind big red boxes. If all those competing pipes were shown properly, everyone would see that competition still holds over 1/3 of the market in both areas mapped out instead of it appearing that a monster has taken over the advertising world. You don't get to be a real monopoly like Microsoft without twisting the "truth", spinning FUD and using deceptive practices like these warped diagrams.
Imagine you want to read the whole Pratchett's Discworld series on your daily way to work... Or you visit piratebay and download the whole series in ebook format Insensitive Clod !
Pratchett deserves and Needs his royalties.
What makes you think that MS has "Crypto programmers" ? I'm sure that part of development went something like this. Okay, module 14537r Random Number Generator. Teams, who wants do do this ? No, it's not boring. Come on. Okay, draw straws. Jones, you win. Yes, sure you can get the intern to write it. You carry on with the Clippy enhancements.
thomastown area. and i thought this kind of stuff only happened in america. hehe australia is getting americanized i tell you! Yes, I see our educational standards are going down to where people don't use any capitalisation.:)
Well, maybe they can't compete with savvy Firefox users who read slashdot, but for the other 99.99% of the world who don't read./ but do visit EBay and see the big shiny banner advertising the New, Improved, Official, Guaranteed, and Approved by Martha Stewart version of the Ebay Toolbar for Winners, this is likely to be the one they'll download.
Post story with title "OMG LOLZ... Check thiz out !"
Story points to web page with IE hijack code.
VXers use all the pre-pwned myspace PCs out there to vote it up to max and
own the rest of the the audience. Then Mr Black Hat can seriously say, "This is MY Space"
I'd believe it if similar gene pools showed the same breakdown - here in NZ it's more 50-50 - so maybe there are different 'evolutionary pressures'....
It wasn't too long ago in the U.S. when not believing convincingly led to burning at the stake.
I'm pretty sure that once you've been burned at the stake, you don't get to pass your genes on.
Whereas, if you could convince the inquisition you got to survive. Sounds like evolutionary pressure to me.
If the Kiwis didn't have a history of burning at the stake, then there's the difference. 50/50 - chance.
Uhh, the reason those apps are on Windows and that Windows does so well is that people need the functionality they provide in the workplace. How are we helping schoolkids by providing them with... tuxracer ?
If you have an essay due tomorrow, you can write it out, like Chuck Norris or use some kind of word processor.
Don't forget to email her too: Oda.B@parl.gc.ca
Maybe add a little note in your email pointing her to the article and ask her
how much you have to "donate" to get fair treatment.
It's an long established business plan.
Look at it as a specialised form of insurance.
"That's a nice software comany you have there. I'd hate to see anything happen to it."
We all know that when it comes to PCs, the majority of people like theirs to
"just work" and pretty much no matter what hardware they get, with windows,
it does.
The thing is, this isn't by chance. Companies make new hardware and what do
they do if they want to pitch it at the consumer market ? Make sure it works
with windows.
When it comes to the alternative O/S market, it's nearly always through lobbying
for documentation and then rolling their own drivers or even reverse-engineering
work of the O/S developers that finally makes a piece of hardware work.
If you buy/happen to have the supported hardware it does just work, on any platform.
The difference is, on windows that hardware is all of it.
Until some l33t hax0rs get into the e360 servers and send a few 100k "not-spams" to the judges offering them ch33p v14gr4. Or in fact, anyone starts sending them "Special Unsolicited Commercial Email (that-isn't-spam-since-the-judges-ruled-it-wasn't) " for the same ?
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Heh,
reminds me of a documentary I saw about a bunch of monks caring for abandoned tiger cubs.
http://www.tigertemple.org/Eng/ I think. One gets pounced on by a slightly over-zealous
600lb tiger and all he says is, "Naughty Tiger". It's got to be some kind of zen thing.
Bengal cats are regular cats which have been crossed with wild asiatic leopard cats (not leopards)
Due to the wild genes, these cats are also, basically hypoallergenic.
I can't believe nobody on/. has heard of these before.
I don't know why people aren't allergic to wild cats(Maybe they are, but who wants to test it !)
but it works for me. I'm not allergic to my Bengal, but I'm quite allergic to other cats.
2) Hezbollah IS a terrorist organization. Where have you been that you do not know this? Someone at BBC headquarters is probably getting very upset. Will you kindly refer to them as "suspected militants", not terrorists?
Heh, been reading a bit too much BBC news huh ? It usually goes like this
e.g. Today a poor innocent Palestinian freedom fighter was injured by brutal Israeli soldiers. His poor, weeping mother was upset that he was not allowed to explode his suicide bomb in a crowded market. "The cruel guard punched him in the face" she was quoted as saying. Oh, and we nearly forgot to mention that he shot and killed 5 Israelis on his way to the market.
God save our Queen, and Heaven bless The Maple Leaf Forever! - dadragon's sig.
I'm deeply disturbed you bow to some old woman on another continent with a crown on her head and worship a maple leaf.
That's okay. We're horribly disturbed that the U.S. (lemme guess, you're a citizen) keep on voting in a man with the looks but not quite the brains of
a chimp to run your country.
Hmm, interesting that in this catholic's "impartial view" supported by catholic papers there's even a quote: Does this remind anyone else of the current problem in the U.S. with religious fanatics turning the intelligent design theory to their own purposes and trying to oust evolution from schools ?
"It is not an accident that such complicating factors as this are never discussed in popular scientific accounts. Clearly those who tell this story have strong ideological interests which make the maligning of the Christian Church attractive. A big part of this seems to be the belief shared by such storytellers that the scientific way of life would operate best in a world untroubled by religious belief. In fact one of the main themes of the Galileo legend seems to be the idea that Christianity is an anti-scientific monster, now safely caged, that sought to devour science at the moment of its birth."
Rogers in Canada already has all of this.
They have cable, home phone service, VOIP and
a wireless division that brings in a huge chunk of
their profits and includes a couple of different
wireless data networks.
http://www.rogers.com/
I wouldn't totally discount what he's saying so easily. I have asthma, and though it's something I just live with, I know in the back of my mind that it's there. If it comes on, it comes on, I use my meds and move along.
Having said that, I'd prefer my breath to stay free so I tend to avoid things that bother my lungs and I can tell you right now that the stink that comes off new plastic products certainly does that. So does the miasma floating around the perfume area in department stores.
That doesn't mean that I won't use a new computer or walk through the perfumery to get to men's clothing but the effect is there. What do you think that strong odour is that rises out of the box when you crack open a new plastic object whatever it is ? It's volatile compounds including lovely stuff such as cyanide and other toxins. Even if you aren't allergic, it's nasty stuff.
While we're on the topic of redundancy and at the risk of being redundant, I have used Raid 0 before. 4x40Gb drives (so you can tell how old the rig was).
The dreaded single drive failure just happened recently, but until then, that PC was the fastest (most responsive) I have ever used. Way faster feeling than my current setup with bus, CPU, RAM all rated at least twice as fast. Sure, once I tweak this box it might feel better, but I can definitely say that with a dozen or so processes accessing the drives, my interactive response was better with the RAID.
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Also, for me, having a physical copy means that when the MAFIAA comes a-knockin', you can point to a shelf full of physical items and then tell them to pucker up and kiss your hiney. An iPod etc. full of music/movies means finding electronic/paper receipts to prove legal ownership including for that song you got from a free download at Starbucks that time.
Plus if an MP3 of something gives me a headache as it sometimes does, I am screwed, but if I have the CD, I can rip it to FLAC or ogg.
Also, I like collecting things. So call me a packrat.
I downloaded the Assassin's Creed sound track sample files from the developer's website (in .wav) and listened to them once through, finding them of interest. Then I compressed them with LAME on default and after listening to 1/4 of the first track I had to take my headphones off because it was giving me a horrible headache.
I'd listen to them if, on page 3 of their document, competing pipes didn't suddenly become demphasised by taking on spindly shapes and MSN/Yahoo pipes didn't grey out and hide behind big red boxes.
If all those competing pipes were shown properly, everyone would see that competition still holds over 1/3 of the market in both areas mapped out instead of it appearing that a monster has taken over the advertising world.
You don't get to be a real monopoly like Microsoft without twisting the "truth", spinning FUD and using deceptive practices like these warped diagrams.
Pratchett deserves and Needs his royalties.
I'd definitely mod this Congressman down.
What makes you think that MS has "Crypto programmers" ? I'm sure that part of development went something like this.
Okay, module 14537r Random Number Generator. Teams, who wants do do this ? No, it's not boring. Come on. Okay, draw straws. Jones, you win. Yes, sure you can get the intern to write it. You carry on with the Clippy enhancements.
I think you mean : "The badabadabingabanger button on the raidorama cuttin' on the systematicalifornication and a license application is a fishybomination and a random allocation got a copywritten melanoma sasafrazzin' wireless device".
Well, maybe they can't compete with savvy Firefox users who read slashdot, but for the other 99.99% of the world who don't read ./ but do visit EBay and see the big shiny banner advertising the New, Improved, Official, Guaranteed, and Approved by Martha Stewart version of the Ebay Toolbar for Winners, this is likely to be the one they'll download.
Post story with title "OMG LOLZ ... Check thiz out !"
Story points to web page with IE hijack code.
VXers use all the pre-pwned myspace PCs out there to vote it up to max and
own the rest of the the audience. Then Mr Black Hat can seriously say, "This is MY Space"
It wasn't too long ago in the U.S. when not believing convincingly led to burning at the stake.
I'm pretty sure that once you've been burned at the stake, you don't get to pass your genes on.
Whereas, if you could convince the inquisition you got to survive. Sounds like evolutionary pressure to me.
If the Kiwis didn't have a history of burning at the stake, then there's the difference. 50/50 - chance.
Uhh, the reason those apps are on Windows and that Windows does so well is that people need the functionality they provide in the workplace. How are we helping schoolkids by providing them with ... tuxracer ?
If you have an essay due tomorrow, you can write it out, like Chuck Norris or use some kind of word processor.
Don't forget to email her too: Oda.B@parl.gc.ca Maybe add a little note in your email pointing her to the article and ask her how much you have to "donate" to get fair treatment.
It's an long established business plan. Look at it as a specialised form of insurance. "That's a nice software comany you have there. I'd hate to see anything happen to it."
We all know that when it comes to PCs, the majority of people like theirs to "just work" and pretty much no matter what hardware they get, with windows, it does. The thing is, this isn't by chance. Companies make new hardware and what do they do if they want to pitch it at the consumer market ? Make sure it works with windows. When it comes to the alternative O/S market, it's nearly always through lobbying for documentation and then rolling their own drivers or even reverse-engineering work of the O/S developers that finally makes a piece of hardware work. If you buy/happen to have the supported hardware it does just work, on any platform. The difference is, on windows that hardware is all of it.
Until some l33t hax0rs get into the e360 servers and send a few 100k "not-spams" to the judges offering them ch33p v14gr4.) " for the same ?
Or in fact, anyone starts sending them "Special Unsolicited Commercial Email (that-isn't-spam-since-the-judges-ruled-it-wasn't
Heh, reminds me of a documentary I saw about a bunch of monks caring for abandoned tiger cubs. http://www.tigertemple.org/Eng/ I think. One gets pounced on by a slightly over-zealous 600lb tiger and all he says is, "Naughty Tiger". It's got to be some kind of zen thing.
Bengal cats are regular cats which have been crossed with wild asiatic leopard cats (not leopards) Due to the wild genes, these cats are also, basically hypoallergenic. I can't believe nobody on /. has heard of these before.
I don't know why people aren't allergic to wild cats(Maybe they are, but who wants to test it !)
but it works for me. I'm not allergic to my Bengal, but I'm quite allergic to other cats.
Heh, been reading a bit too much BBC news huh ? It usually goes like this
e.g. Today a poor innocent Palestinian freedom fighter was injured by brutal Israeli soldiers. His poor, weeping mother was upset that he was not allowed to explode his suicide bomb in a crowded market. "The cruel guard punched him in the face" she was quoted as saying. Oh, and we nearly forgot to mention that he shot and killed 5 Israelis on his way to the market.
I'm deeply disturbed you bow to some old woman on another continent with a crown on her head and worship a maple leaf.
That's okay. We're horribly disturbed that the U.S. (lemme guess, you're a citizen) keep on voting in a man with the looks but not quite the brains of a chimp to run your country.
Hmm, interesting that in this catholic's "impartial view" supported by catholic papers there's even a quote:
Does this remind anyone else of the current problem in the U.S. with religious fanatics turning the
intelligent design theory to their own purposes and trying to oust evolution from schools ?
"It is not an accident that such complicating factors as this are never discussed in popular scientific accounts. Clearly those who tell this story have strong ideological interests which make the maligning of the Christian Church attractive. A big part of this seems to be the belief shared by such storytellers that the scientific way of life would operate best in a world untroubled by religious belief. In fact one of the main themes of the Galileo legend seems to be the idea that Christianity is an anti-scientific monster, now safely caged, that sought to devour science at the moment of its birth."
Rogers in Canada already has all of this. They have cable, home phone service, VOIP and a wireless division that brings in a huge chunk of their profits and includes a couple of different wireless data networks. http://www.rogers.com/
I wouldn't totally discount what he's saying so easily. I have asthma, and though it's something I just live with, I know in the back of my mind that it's there. If it comes on, it comes on, I use my meds and move along. Having said that, I'd prefer my breath to stay free so I tend to avoid things that bother my lungs and I can tell you right now that the stink that comes off new plastic products certainly does that. So does the miasma floating around the perfume area in department stores. That doesn't mean that I won't use a new computer or walk through the perfumery to get to men's clothing but the effect is there. What do you think that strong odour is that rises out of the box when you crack open a new plastic object whatever it is ? It's volatile compounds including lovely stuff such as cyanide and other toxins. Even if you aren't allergic, it's nasty stuff.
While we're on the topic of redundancy and at the risk of being redundant, I have used Raid 0 before. 4x40Gb drives (so you can tell how old the rig was). The dreaded single drive failure just happened recently, but until then, that PC was the fastest (most responsive) I have ever used. Way faster feeling than my current setup with bus, CPU, RAM all rated at least twice as fast. Sure, once I tweak this box it might feel better, but I can definitely say that with a dozen or so processes accessing the drives, my interactive response was better with the RAID.