we're talking about booster stages and satellites here, not fragments, that's another problem... if the spent booster stages and defunct satellites can be moved up to a parking orbit using solar sails, then there'll be a much smaller debris problem in the main orbits as these defunct parts won't be colliding with each other in the prime orbits.
you can browse by genre in TPB, however, the tags are being abused by uploaders to ensure their torrents feature in more slots... one particularly abused tag is "Blues"
Now if you want to talk about untrustworthy sources - there are legitimate reasons for the US govt to avoid Kasperasky A/V as the company is owned by an ex-KGB type and has connections to russian hackers.
and avoid Microsoft as it is an American corporation with deep connections to the American Government... who would love to have a backdoor into computers used by other governments... and the means to remotely force "upgrades" onto those machines...
use the sails to move them into higher designated parking orbits so the materials can later be used up there when we need to start assembling craft in space... it costs an enormous amount to put mass up there, why waste the energy invested?
they'll find it hard when right on the tail of this guilty verdict, there'll be a motion to seize their assets freeze the bank accounts and close the domain down... and they'll have to fight it all from behind bars with very limited access to the external world...
The reason to buy Red Hat, then, is that you expect Red Hat to make lots of money. The reason to not buy Sun is that you expect Sun will not. This applies whether you're buying just one share, or buying the whole company.
there is another reason to buy a company... if it's eating into your own market then you buy it so you can shut it down and strip out anything worth keeping thus preserving your own market.
Regression in wine 1.1.16 (still in 1.1.17) causes the office 2007 and office xp installers to bomb.
this is the one big thing that p's me off with Wine... things that work on one version break on later ones... I've given up trying to get things to work with it... I keep a dedicated windows box for those few apps & games I need/play.
Good headphones will always produce better sound than good speakers. If you don't believe me, ask your local audiophile/audio professional. I guarantee you, if he takes himself seriously, he'll agree.
headphones do not come anywhere close to what I get out of my amp + speaker stack when I'm playing my bass guitar...
har, har... that's as pointless as the ubuntu link troll earlier... The laptop runs Vista because of the applications that have to run on it, it those apps ran in Linux, then I wouldn't have had the problem in the first place...
yesterday I was forced to dust off and nuke a Vista laptop from orbit... (afer using Knoppix to rescue the data first)
We need a removal tool that can be run from a safe Linux environment (ie boot using a live disk etc., then run the tool from a USB drive)... not running it from inside windows where the Conficker is already running
it's the recording engineers who drag notes around to fit against the rigid timeline, or else just cut and paste a good take of one verse and make it into all of the verses... The software they have now is just too powerful and they don't know when not to use a fancy feature like dragging individual notes around to "quantize" them
I've had it done to me... my bass notes were dragged around to make them exactly on the beat... and this sounded horrible... took all the feeling out of it... he might have well just used a disc of sampled bass notes and plonked them onto the track
I can't read either of your linked documents or even access further up the tree... I keep getting "403 Forbidden" even right up to the antitrust.slated.org host itself...
Bzzzt wrong... when the MP3 craze kicked off, the labels were ridiculously slow off the mark providing content in the new format... if you wanted it, then you had no choice but to rip it off a CD... then when they did start providing MP3s, they weren't proper MP3s, but proprietary DRM'd low quality crap and they were still charging the full price for what was effectively low quality crapola... so people who wanted to listen without offending their ears at the horrible encoding artifacts you get from low bitrate rips, were still forced to rip their own CDs to get quality...
MP3 sharing only really took off when dialup rates improved or people got network access on college campuses...
I'm seriously tempted to actually try out Songsmith... just to see how good it is at coming up with tracks to match the chord progression I put into it. As a Linux user... I'm horrified at the prospect of having yet another reason not to delete the only windows install I still have... and usually, it's a music app that's forcing me to keep it...
I laid down my lines with my Bass guitar and then the "engineer" spent 20 minutes dragging each and every bleeping note into exact position...WHY!!! when he'd finished, there was no feeling left at all... every fscking note was exactly on the beat on his timeline.. so robotic... it was as if I'd played a few notes and then he'd sampled them and put them on the track using the sampled notes... I was not impressed at all... especially as it all got lost when final "mastering" took place and the whole thing got compressed to within an inch of it's life...
If it worked to the letter of the standard and you find it unusable, what does it say about the standard?
it worked purely to the letter of passing the compliance test part of the test suite for POSIX.1 compliance only (and that was purely text based programs)...
That was all they needed in order to claim POSIX compliance to get it through the door for government contracts. A pure tick in the box compliance
the vast majority of real world POSIX programs required higher compliance but with windows, it wasn't there, all graphical output had to be completely rewritten to use the windows API so any existing program that produced graphical output would require extensive rework to work on the so-called POSIX compliant windows NT.
There are many levels of POSIX compliance ranging from POSIX.0 to POSIX.12. These levels represent an evolving set of proposals, not all of which have been ratified as standards.
The POSIX subsystem in Windows NT is POSIX.1 compliant. POSIX.1 compliance requires a bare minimum of services, which are provided by Windows NT. When a POSIX application runs on Windows NT, the POSIX subsystem is loaded and it translates the C language API calls-- for POSIX.1 support-- Win32 API calls, which are then serviced by the Win32 subsystem.
Because of the limited nature of POSIX.1, the POSIX subsystem on Windows NT does not provide any support for networking or system security. Many people feel that the inclusion of the POSIX subsytem was really a marketing ploy to increase NT's market penetration.
If they removed the executable, how would you get to firefox.com to download a good browser?
the same way we used to get a browser in the old days... on a disk (usually as part of an internet package), or else pre-installed by the OEM as a matter of choice...
Slashdot Mirror
we're talking about booster stages and satellites here, not fragments, that's another problem... if the spent booster stages and defunct satellites can be moved up to a parking orbit using solar sails, then there'll be a much smaller debris problem in the main orbits as these defunct parts won't be colliding with each other in the prime orbits.
you can browse by genre in TPB, however, the tags are being abused by uploaders to ensure their torrents feature in more slots... one particularly abused tag is "Blues"
and avoid Microsoft as it is an American corporation with deep connections to the American Government... who would love to have a backdoor into computers used by other governments... and the means to remotely force "upgrades" onto those machines...
use the sails to move them into higher designated parking orbits so the materials can later be used up there when we need to start assembling craft in space... it costs an enormous amount to put mass up there, why waste the energy invested?
they'll find it hard when right on the tail of this guilty verdict, there'll be a motion to seize their assets freeze the bank accounts and close the domain down... and they'll have to fight it all from behind bars with very limited access to the external world...
there is another reason to buy a company... if it's eating into your own market then you buy it so you can shut it down and strip out anything worth keeping thus preserving your own market.
this is the one big thing that p's me off with Wine... things that work on one version break on later ones... I've given up trying to get things to work with it... I keep a dedicated windows box for those few apps & games I need/play.
put a DVD in the drive and see how many minutes you get before the playback stops...
is a camera that takes the picture when I press the shutter, not several hundred milliseconds afterwards when the moment has passed...
I hate having to anticipate the moment and hope it gets captured...
and being able to take another image right away would be nice instead of having to wait while the current image is written to memory...
headphones do not come anywhere close to what I get out of my amp + speaker stack when I'm playing my bass guitar...
har, har... that's as pointless as the ubuntu link troll earlier... The laptop runs Vista because of the applications that have to run on it, it those apps ran in Linux, then I wouldn't have had the problem in the first place...
We need a removal tool that can be run from a safe Linux environment (ie boot using a live disk etc., then run the tool from a USB drive)... not running it from inside windows where the Conficker is already running
strange as it's still there, but perhaps not linked to from any obvious place without doing a search.
it's the recording engineers who drag notes around to fit against the rigid timeline, or else just cut and paste a good take of one verse and make it into all of the verses... The software they have now is just too powerful and they don't know when not to use a fancy feature like dragging individual notes around to "quantize" them
I've had it done to me... my bass notes were dragged around to make them exactly on the beat... and this sounded horrible... took all the feeling out of it... he might have well just used a disc of sampled bass notes and plonked them onto the track
I can't read either of your linked documents or even access further up the tree... I keep getting "403 Forbidden" even right up to the antitrust.slated.org host itself...
and already marked for deletion!!!
which is faster, Firefox on Wine, or Firefox on Windows... both on identical hardware...
Bzzzt wrong... when the MP3 craze kicked off, the labels were ridiculously slow off the mark providing content in the new format... if you wanted it, then you had no choice but to rip it off a CD... then when they did start providing MP3s, they weren't proper MP3s, but proprietary DRM'd low quality crap and they were still charging the full price for what was effectively low quality crapola... so people who wanted to listen without offending their ears at the horrible encoding artifacts you get from low bitrate rips, were still forced to rip their own CDs to get quality...
MP3 sharing only really took off when dialup rates improved or people got network access on college campuses...
I'm seriously tempted to actually try out Songsmith... just to see how good it is at coming up with tracks to match the chord progression I put into it. As a Linux user... I'm horrified at the prospect of having yet another reason not to delete the only windows install I still have... and usually, it's a music app that's forcing me to keep it...
By which there is also Stockbreeding "the Origin of Species by Means of Unnatural Selection"
I laid down my lines with my Bass guitar and then the "engineer" spent 20 minutes dragging each and every bleeping note into exact position...WHY!!! when he'd finished, there was no feeling left at all... every fscking note was exactly on the beat on his timeline.. so robotic... it was as if I'd played a few notes and then he'd sampled them and put them on the track using the sampled notes... I was not impressed at all... especially as it all got lost when final "mastering" took place and the whole thing got compressed to within an inch of it's life...
did he drop out, or did he jump before he got kicked out?
in 3, 2, 1... actually I like them both...
it worked purely to the letter of passing the compliance test part of the test suite for POSIX.1 compliance only (and that was purely text based programs)...
That was all they needed in order to claim POSIX compliance to get it through the door for government contracts. A pure tick in the box compliance
the vast majority of real world POSIX programs required higher compliance but with windows, it wasn't there, all graphical output had to be completely rewritten to use the windows API so any existing program that produced graphical output would require extensive rework to work on the so-called POSIX compliant windows NT.
the same way we used to get a browser in the old days... on a disk (usually as part of an internet package), or else pre-installed by the OEM as a matter of choice...