My RAID-0 drive opens huge files nearly twice as fast. That's useful to me.
E.g., a 488 MB wave file of Velvet Underground's first album opened in 28 seconds on my D drive, but in only 16 seconds on my RAID-0 partition. All the drives are the same, i.e., Maxtor 80gb 7200 drives.
Premiere works a lot faster too.
The only problem is that I have to be extra anal about backing it up. But any insentive to get me to back up my stuff is a good thing, as far as I'm concerned.
Get your facts right BEFORE posting. Time shifting IS the law if the US. The US Supreme Cout in Universal v Sony held that time shifting IS fair use!!!
Making backups of software IS covered under section 117 of the Copyright Act.
Making copies of our music for personal use and for sharing those copies with friends and family for non-comercial use IS covered under the Audio Home Recording Act.
The FCC also ruled that Bono could say "fuck" on TV. A few weeks after Ms. Jackson exposed her tit, the FCC changed its mind.
The FCC WILL change its mind once networks start throwing their weight around. Heck, even the movie and music industries will get involved with this one. No copyright holder likes sharing without explict and paid permission.
His comments about the GPL were interesting. First he said that Microsoft has no intention to sue, just to license. Then he says that companies using the GPL cannot license. Very interesting indeed.
The sports teams do not even need to do that. My sister lived in Sarasota Florida several years back. The town built a brand new baseball stadium in hopes that a major league team would come.
Yes, the city had no concrete plans for a team to come, it simply spent hundreds of millions of taxpayers money in HOPES that a team would come.
During the OJ trial I learned that he makes $25,000 a month from his retirement package from the NFL. That's obviously $300,000 a year.
I consider that an obscene amount of money considering he only worked 10 years for the NFL. And even then he only worked at most 6 months out of each year.
If the NFL can afford to give someone who worked less than five years a lifetime salary of $300,000, it has a LOT of money.
Thus the question is: Why can't its owners buy their own god-damn stadiums?!?!
I didn't have kids back then, so I never kept the cases on my computers. I bought a new soundcard so I took out the old one, stuck in the new card, and noticed a "new hardware found" message appearing on the screen.
Stupidly, I thought, "Gee shouldn't I get that message AFTER I turn it on? Oops!!!"
I ignored my first impluse to turn it off, then I installed the drivers, rebooted, and everything worked perfectly.
1. The device itself should be free or nearly free.
2. The device should NOT be proprietary as it should accept books from all publishers.
3. The device should display one page at a type, NO scrolling to finish a page.
4. Backlighting.
5. No proprietary sealed-in batteries. Allow me the option of tossing in a few AAs if I forget to charge it.
6. The books HAVE to cost less than print books. I know most of the money goes to the seller, the publisher, and to the author. But since real books essentially last forever they will be a better bargain unless ebooks are cheaper.
If Creative owns a patent on a portion of the Doom3 source code, then I seriously doubt that Creative will allow that source code to be freely made available. Maybe I'm wrong, and I hope I am.
And I have NO idea why you're so pissed at me. You gave a list of things id could do and one of them included europe, which does NOT have software patents as of yet. Let me remind you:
"using it after patent expires licensing patent patent becoming void living in europe"
Sure, Intel is in the graphics business, but it certainly never dominated. In the same way, I doubt if Intel will ever dominate the PC sound market either.
I certainly hope that Intel gives Creative some competition, but I doubt it.
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My RAID-0 drive opens huge files nearly twice as fast. That's useful to me.
E.g., a 488 MB wave file of Velvet Underground's first album opened in 28 seconds on my D drive, but in only 16 seconds on my RAID-0 partition. All the drives are the same, i.e., Maxtor 80gb 7200 drives.
Premiere works a lot faster too.
The only problem is that I have to be extra anal about backing it up. But any insentive to get me to back up my stuff is a good thing, as far as I'm concerned.
I thought they shifted to the higher performing Athlon 64 FX.
Get your facts right BEFORE posting. Time shifting IS the law if the US. The US Supreme Cout in Universal v Sony held that time shifting IS fair use!!!
Making backups of software IS covered under section 117 of the Copyright Act.
Making copies of our music for personal use and for sharing those copies with friends and family for non-comercial use IS covered under the Audio Home Recording Act.
President of the MPAA Jack Valenti outright lied when he said the following:
n terview s/Valentis.Views-347207.shtml
"What is fair use? Fair use is not a law. There's nothing in law."
http://www.hpronline.org/news/2003/01/25/I
What is going to stop his organization from lying to children? Nothing.
Btw, for those in the US fair use DOES exist in common law and in statute, specifically, TITLE 17, CHAPTER 1, Sec. 107.
The FCC also ruled that Bono could say "fuck" on TV. A few weeks after Ms. Jackson exposed her tit, the FCC changed its mind.
The FCC WILL change its mind once networks start throwing their weight around. Heck, even the movie and music industries will get involved with this one. No copyright holder likes sharing without explict and paid permission.
No. Breathing and eating are necessary skills. However, typing is a very useful skill.
"im on trn
hm soon
btw im nt wrkin wknd."
When FUD works so well.
even though you bought something, it's not really yours. So don't even THINK about opening it up and seeing how it works.
His comments about the GPL were interesting. First he said that Microsoft has no intention to sue, just to license. Then he says that companies using the GPL cannot license. Very interesting indeed.
"Yeah, I admit it. We're going to bury Linux."
The sports teams do not even need to do that. My sister lived in Sarasota Florida several years back. The town built a brand new baseball stadium in hopes that a major league team would come.
Yes, the city had no concrete plans for a team to come, it simply spent hundreds of millions of taxpayers money in HOPES that a team would come.
During the OJ trial I learned that he makes $25,000 a month from his retirement package from the NFL. That's obviously $300,000 a year.
I consider that an obscene amount of money considering he only worked 10 years for the NFL. And even then he only worked at most 6 months out of each year.
If the NFL can afford to give someone who worked less than five years a lifetime salary of $300,000, it has a LOT of money.
Thus the question is: Why can't its owners buy their own god-damn stadiums?!?!
But an open PS3 console, for which anyone could write games, would be cooler!
...need to run "business applications"?!
Thanks, I was able to cancel my order at Amazon just in time!
I've already sold my soul to Milhouse, I'd guess living without a pulse shouldn't be too different.
I didn't have kids back then, so I never kept the cases on my computers. I bought a new soundcard so I took out the old one, stuck in the new card, and noticed a "new hardware found" message appearing on the screen.
Stupidly, I thought, "Gee shouldn't I get that message AFTER I turn it on? Oops!!!"
I ignored my first impluse to turn it off, then I installed the drivers, rebooted, and everything worked perfectly.
1. The device itself should be free or nearly free.
2. The device should NOT be proprietary as it should accept books from all publishers.
3. The device should display one page at a type, NO scrolling to finish a page.
4. Backlighting.
5. No proprietary sealed-in batteries. Allow me the option of tossing in a few AAs if I forget to charge it.
6. The books HAVE to cost less than print books. I know most of the money goes to the seller, the publisher, and to the author. But since real books essentially last forever they will be a better bargain unless ebooks are cheaper.
7. No DRM. None. Nada. Zip.
Yeah right!
If Creative owns a patent on a portion of the Doom3 source code, then I seriously doubt that Creative will allow that source code to be freely made available. Maybe I'm wrong, and I hope I am.
And I have NO idea why you're so pissed at me. You gave a list of things id could do and one of them included europe, which does NOT have software patents as of yet. Let me remind you:
"using it after patent expires
licensing patent
patent becoming void
living in europe"
In addition to piracy, porn, and secrets, it has also poisoned our water supply, burned our crops, and delivered a plague unto our houses!
Sure, Intel is in the graphics business, but it certainly never dominated. In the same way, I doubt if Intel will ever dominate the PC sound market either.
I certainly hope that Intel gives Creative some competition, but I doubt it.
My playlist is about 5 days long, so setting playback levels for each track would be a little time consuming.
I'll look into OctiMax, thanks for the tip!
I've tried plug-ins before, they didn't really work. But I'll give them a try again, they must have improved somewhat. Thanks!