That's a little different, since the PowerPC spec was designed to be 64-bit from the start. The MPC74xx, PowerPC 75x, and 60x series utilized a 32-bit subset of the 64-bit spec. So everything you do with the 32-bit subset is valid with the 64-bit spec.
Which would produce... not a lot of energy. Deuterium is not a very massive nucleus, so its annihilation will not yield that much energy, compared to the annihilation of a more massive nucleus and its anti-matter analogue. Compounded with inevitable thermodynamic efficiency problems, deuterium would be a poor choice for matter/anti-matter reactions. It is mainly used in nuclear fusion reactions, where it is the result of two hydrogen nuclei colliding and fusing into one nucleus, releasing energy and then setting off a chain reaction. Then again, a matter/anti-matter reaction is essentially material-independent. Lots of deuterium and anti-deuterium would generate lots of energy. The real problem is containment.
A court has not determined that the IP in question is, in fact, SCO's. They have no more right to claim the Linux kernel as their IP than I do. Thus, all they are doing is fear-mongering and spreading FUD. No one is obligated to pay them anything for licensing, because they have not demonstrated ownership of the IP in question. Until a court says differently, SCO does not own Linux, nor is anything in the Linux kernel the property of SCO.
I thought that I had ADD for a while, but then I realized that I only had trouble concentrating when I had to do something I wasn't really interested in. If I was interested in something, I threw my full concentration and conviction at it. Last semester, my computer programming instructor threw us a program that he said would be the "most challenging in the course."
The minute I got back from work that day, I started working on it. I got it half-done and went to sleep. Got back to my dorm the next day and started working on it again, and got it done, debugged and working. Then I submitted it, three weeks before it was due, 2 days after it had been assigned. No one with Attention Deficit Disorder could do that without the aid of medication. I've also spent many late nights at work in the past few weeks getting my university's Internet Tools CD installer done. I was doing marathon AppleScript debugging and beta testing sessions. My only medication was Dr. Pepper and cigarettes. Again, no one with an attention disorder could do this without prescription medication. I don't have attention span problems; I have motivational problems. I have trouble motivating myself to do something that doesn't involve me being in charge or was issued as a direct challenge to me, and I suspect the case with many people who claim to have ADD or ADHD is similar.
I also converted some purchased iTunes to another compressed format. I first burned a CD of the music and then ripped it into WMA 64kps format. Yes, I said 64kps. It sounds great and you can fit a ton of these on a RIO player.
Then you've got wax in your ears. It may be listenable, but applying the adjective "great" to Windows Media compression is asinine. Or perhaps you like listening to your music through tin cans.
I think people just form an opinion about "lossy" technology based on the fact that it *is* "lossy", and they never really evaluate it for themselves.
Yeah, "lossy" compression could never result in a perceptible quality loss! And recompressing lossily compressed audio could never sound like ass! And no one ever has actually done this and listened to the result. Well I have. The songs in question sound barely listenable on bargain basement speakers and headphones, but they sound like ass on any half-way decent speaker system.
BTW, the parent poster claims that "Episode II rocked" on his website. That should tell you a lot about him.
Yes, it should tell you that my opinion differs from yours, and that I have the balls to actually post my opinions without hiding behind "Anonymous Coward." So if you're going to insult me, at least grow the stones to do it directly instead of ducking behind your safe alias, you useless cunt.
What prevents you? Your ears, of course. Burning 128 kbps AAC to a CD and then ripping that lossy audio signal to another lossy format will sound like pure ass. If it was higher bitrate AAC, this might be more practical. If you were going to do this, though, I'd say burn it and then rip to 192 kbps AAC. MP3 will just butcher the signal.
He probably specified his region as Canada when he did the post-reinstall setup. Reinstalling again and specifying the US as his region should fix the problem.
What part of "Apple negotiated with the record companies to get the licenses for this service" is completely evading you? Or are you Apple-bashers so incredibly unable to see that localization DRM is probably a consequence of Apple's dealings with the RIAA? They limited the sale to Mac users probably because the RIAA wanted a small testbed to see if the service was successful. They limited it to Americans probably because the RIAA, like the MPAA, doesn't want people outside the US buying songs that haven't been released in their country yet.
When you deal with an asinine organization like the RIAA, you're bound to have a few burns.
That's why you code to standards, genius. You would spend the same amount of time developing a site and product that was standards-compliant as you would locking non-Winblows users out, and it'd be open to everyone. If a browser doesn't do it correctly, then it's not standards-compliant, and the developers need to fucking fix the thing. Imagine a TV that didn't follow NTSC in North America. Web browsers are one of the only products whose main features include performing their basic tasks correctly. Do TV's advertise "Can display any NTSC video stream correctly!"? No, they talk about features.
I don't even know why I chose that word. That was dumb.
Anyway, "stealing" from cartels like the RIAA and MPAA is like cheating on your income taxes. You're taking money from people who have a questionable claim on it in the first place.
If the RIAA want to call it "stealing," then they should be prepared to take their cases to criminal court. Of course, they wouldn't want to do that; they'd actually have to satisfy a strict burden of proof and respect due process instead of the "preponderance of evidence" bullshit.
Please try and learn something about the American political system. Modern liberals believe that the government can and should have more of a hand in regulating the free market and can be an active force for social benefit, while believing that it lacks the competence to dictate personal morality to citizens. Conservatives are the opposite. They believe that the government should stay out of the free market and should not interfere in societal problems, but that it should police the personal morality of its citizens. This is why most anti-abortion, anti-gay, anti-drug people are conservatives, while the proponents for affirmative action, marijuana legalization and social welfare programs are liberals.
The only more or less consistent party is the Libertarian party. Libertarians believe in a small government for the free market, society and citizens' personal lives. Libertarians are generally pro-choice, pro-gays and don't care what you choose to shoot into your body, whether it be heroin, cocaine or Drano. They also tend to take conservatives' views on the free market regulation and social welfare programs.
In short, if conservatives had their way, we'd lose all our personal liberties (it's no big mystery why conservatives tend to be Christians). If liberals had their way, we'd lose any sense of personal responsibility because of unending societal support. Choose which liberties you want to sacrifice to which side, but don't pretend that one side is trying to rob you of all your rights and freedoms while the other is benevolent. You're only deluding yourself.
Even then, they have no right to break into your house and check your computer. If someone from the **AA hacked into my box, I'd sue their asses for breaking and entering. If the **AA catch you downloading files, they have the right to call the police and leave the investigation up to legal authorities. If they want to call it "stealing," then they'd better start abiding by standard legal procedure for trying a defendant in a criminal case. The problem for them is that this procedure leaves the defendant innocent until proven guilty, instead of the moronic notion of a preponderance of evidence that is used in a civil court. So, the **AA is trying to maliciously combine criminal punishments (jail time) with civil crimes (copyright infringement) by equating copyright infringement to stealing, which is patently absurd.
Think about it. The dumbshit judge in the Verizon case actually ruled that Verizon were obliged to turn over the names and addresses of their users the RIAA. In other words, the **AA now has the legal power to force companies to give them information if they want it, a power that until now, has been exclusively the power of law enforcement. This is basically legally-sanctioned vigilantism. If I think that someone has violated one of my copyrights, I can break into his computer now and destroy it? That's ludicrous.
Jesus, at the first sign of the competition taking their market away, they turn and run with their tales between their legs. I guess Adobe isn't comfortable unless they have a monopoly and can take years between new version releases of their software. Welcome to America, Adobe. It's called capitalism. This is a bad thing for both Final Cut Pro and Premiere. Less competition is almost never good for the market, and it certainly isn't a good thing in this case.
We distribute Mozilla as the browser on our Internet Tools CD. As for E-mail, this is the last year we'll be distributing our site-licensed version of Eudora. After this year, we'll be moving to support built-in E-mail clients (Outlook Express in Windows and Mail on Mac OS X). Quite frankly, that's fine by me. Supporting Eudora on Mac has been a nightmare because the thing is such an incredible piece of shit, but I feel badly for those Windows users who will suddenly become more virus-prone from using Outlook Express. But I digress.
Anyway, we distribute Internet Explorer as a Package Extra (not in the default install) for both Mac OS and Windows. Netscape is pretty much the default on all our lab machines. Of course, a lot of the guys who work here are into Linux, so I guess that's what you get.:)
I don't think I could take international politics seriously if that happens. Introducing smileys, "hehe" and "lol" into the international political environment would end the world far more quickly than any nuclear war.:)
Hm, way back in the day, that quote used "Apple" in the place of "Linux community." But in this new version, the doors would simply refuse to open because of a missing dependency in libdooropen.h.
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That's a little different, since the PowerPC spec was designed to be 64-bit from the start. The MPC74xx, PowerPC 75x, and 60x series utilized a 32-bit subset of the 64-bit spec. So everything you do with the 32-bit subset is valid with the 64-bit spec.
Which would produce ... not a lot of energy. Deuterium is not a very massive nucleus, so its annihilation will not yield that much energy, compared to the annihilation of a more massive nucleus and its anti-matter analogue. Compounded with inevitable thermodynamic efficiency problems, deuterium would be a poor choice for matter/anti-matter reactions. It is mainly used in nuclear fusion reactions, where it is the result of two hydrogen nuclei colliding and fusing into one nucleus, releasing energy and then setting off a chain reaction. Then again, a matter/anti-matter reaction is essentially material-independent. Lots of deuterium and anti-deuterium would generate lots of energy. The real problem is containment.
A court has not determined that the IP in question is, in fact, SCO's. They have no more right to claim the Linux kernel as their IP than I do. Thus, all they are doing is fear-mongering and spreading FUD. No one is obligated to pay them anything for licensing, because they have not demonstrated ownership of the IP in question. Until a court says differently, SCO does not own Linux, nor is anything in the Linux kernel the property of SCO.
How the Hell did this get modded as "Interesting"? Any post containing a repeating "?!?" pattern simply can't be interesting.
Missing parts of a binary has nothing to do with the NNTP protocol. It has to do with poor post retention by your news server.
That's not the only problem. "High" in that sentence was an adjective, therefore it should have been "really high," not "real high."
I thought that I had ADD for a while, but then I realized that I only had trouble concentrating when I had to do something I wasn't really interested in. If I was interested in something, I threw my full concentration and conviction at it. Last semester, my computer programming instructor threw us a program that he said would be the "most challenging in the course."
The minute I got back from work that day, I started working on it. I got it half-done and went to sleep. Got back to my dorm the next day and started working on it again, and got it done, debugged and working. Then I submitted it, three weeks before it was due, 2 days after it had been assigned. No one with Attention Deficit Disorder could do that without the aid of medication. I've also spent many late nights at work in the past few weeks getting my university's Internet Tools CD installer done. I was doing marathon AppleScript debugging and beta testing sessions. My only medication was Dr. Pepper and cigarettes. Again, no one with an attention disorder could do this without prescription medication. I don't have attention span problems; I have motivational problems. I have trouble motivating myself to do something that doesn't involve me being in charge or was issued as a direct challenge to me, and I suspect the case with many people who claim to have ADD or ADHD is similar.
What prevents you? Your ears, of course. Burning 128 kbps AAC to a CD and then ripping that lossy audio signal to another lossy format will sound like pure ass. If it was higher bitrate AAC, this might be more practical. If you were going to do this, though, I'd say burn it and then rip to 192 kbps AAC. MP3 will just butcher the signal.
He probably specified his region as Canada when he did the post-reinstall setup. Reinstalling again and specifying the US as his region should fix the problem.
What part of "Apple negotiated with the record companies to get the licenses for this service" is completely evading you? Or are you Apple-bashers so incredibly unable to see that localization DRM is probably a consequence of Apple's dealings with the RIAA? They limited the sale to Mac users probably because the RIAA wanted a small testbed to see if the service was successful. They limited it to Americans probably because the RIAA, like the MPAA, doesn't want people outside the US buying songs that haven't been released in their country yet.
When you deal with an asinine organization like the RIAA, you're bound to have a few burns.
That's why you code to standards, genius. You would spend the same amount of time developing a site and product that was standards-compliant as you would locking non-Winblows users out, and it'd be open to everyone. If a browser doesn't do it correctly, then it's not standards-compliant, and the developers need to fucking fix the thing. Imagine a TV that didn't follow NTSC in North America. Web browsers are one of the only products whose main features include performing their basic tasks correctly. Do TV's advertise "Can display any NTSC video stream correctly!"? No, they talk about features.
Oh lighten up.
I don't even know why I chose that word. That was dumb.
Anyway, "stealing" from cartels like the RIAA and MPAA is like cheating on your income taxes. You're taking money from people who have a questionable claim on it in the first place.
If the RIAA want to call it "stealing," then they should be prepared to take their cases to criminal court. Of course, they wouldn't want to do that; they'd actually have to satisfy a strict burden of proof and respect due process instead of the "preponderance of evidence" bullshit.
People found the time to parody Apple's "Switch" commercials, so I'm sure the **IAA's will be easy targets.
It's called an MD5 checksum.
Lucas is nefarious for not being associated with Hollywood. They hate him as much as we hate them because he produces his own movies.
Please try and learn something about the American political system. Modern liberals believe that the government can and should have more of a hand in regulating the free market and can be an active force for social benefit, while believing that it lacks the competence to dictate personal morality to citizens. Conservatives are the opposite. They believe that the government should stay out of the free market and should not interfere in societal problems, but that it should police the personal morality of its citizens. This is why most anti-abortion, anti-gay, anti-drug people are conservatives, while the proponents for affirmative action, marijuana legalization and social welfare programs are liberals.
The only more or less consistent party is the Libertarian party. Libertarians believe in a small government for the free market, society and citizens' personal lives. Libertarians are generally pro-choice, pro-gays and don't care what you choose to shoot into your body, whether it be heroin, cocaine or Drano. They also tend to take conservatives' views on the free market regulation and social welfare programs.
In short, if conservatives had their way, we'd lose all our personal liberties (it's no big mystery why conservatives tend to be Christians). If liberals had their way, we'd lose any sense of personal responsibility because of unending societal support. Choose which liberties you want to sacrifice to which side, but don't pretend that one side is trying to rob you of all your rights and freedoms while the other is benevolent. You're only deluding yourself.
Even then, they have no right to break into your house and check your computer. If someone from the **AA hacked into my box, I'd sue their asses for breaking and entering. If the **AA catch you downloading files, they have the right to call the police and leave the investigation up to legal authorities. If they want to call it "stealing," then they'd better start abiding by standard legal procedure for trying a defendant in a criminal case. The problem for them is that this procedure leaves the defendant innocent until proven guilty, instead of the moronic notion of a preponderance of evidence that is used in a civil court. So, the **AA is trying to maliciously combine criminal punishments (jail time) with civil crimes (copyright infringement) by equating copyright infringement to stealing, which is patently absurd.
Think about it. The dumbshit judge in the Verizon case actually ruled that Verizon were obliged to turn over the names and addresses of their users the RIAA. In other words, the **AA now has the legal power to force companies to give them information if they want it, a power that until now, has been exclusively the power of law enforcement. This is basically legally-sanctioned vigilantism. If I think that someone has violated one of my copyrights, I can break into his computer now and destroy it? That's ludicrous.
Jesus, at the first sign of the competition taking their market away, they turn and run with their tales between their legs. I guess Adobe isn't comfortable unless they have a monopoly and can take years between new version releases of their software. Welcome to America, Adobe. It's called capitalism. This is a bad thing for both Final Cut Pro and Premiere. Less competition is almost never good for the market, and it certainly isn't a good thing in this case.
We distribute Mozilla as the browser on our Internet Tools CD. As for E-mail, this is the last year we'll be distributing our site-licensed version of Eudora. After this year, we'll be moving to support built-in E-mail clients (Outlook Express in Windows and Mail on Mac OS X). Quite frankly, that's fine by me. Supporting Eudora on Mac has been a nightmare because the thing is such an incredible piece of shit, but I feel badly for those Windows users who will suddenly become more virus-prone from using Outlook Express. But I digress.
:)
Anyway, we distribute Internet Explorer as a Package Extra (not in the default install) for both Mac OS and Windows. Netscape is pretty much the default on all our lab machines. Of course, a lot of the guys who work here are into Linux, so I guess that's what you get.
I don't think I could take international politics seriously if that happens. Introducing smileys, "hehe" and "lol" into the international political environment would end the world far more quickly than any nuclear war. :)
Hm, way back in the day, that quote used "Apple" in the place of "Linux community." But in this new version, the doors would simply refuse to open because of a missing dependency in libdooropen.h.