There could very well be a family wishing to share a large collection of digital family videos that they have taken at holidays and birthdays, for instance.
What the hell are you talking about? Do you even know what a private tracker is? If you want to upload to certain people you give the torrent to certain people.
I like Ubuntu too, been using it for a couple of days and didn't have to boot back into windows once. What got me though is the video acceleration. I isntalled snes9x and tried to play some snes games, they go way too slow and can't go fullscrenn.
Also, the highest resolution I can get is 1024*768 and things look way too clunky and *big* on my desktop. Any tips?
However, if something that was compressed to that level is expanded and recompressed, I can easily spot problems.
I have tried this. Ok then, if a file is decompressed and then recompressed you can tell the difference (of course that would be dependent on both bitrates used during the process, which you don't take into account which makes no sense whatsoever).
It's gonna be such that you'll (unless you have bionic ears or some kind of hi-fi setup costing ten grand) not understand any difference from simply playing back the CD.
I really can't understand why this audiophile crap has infected almost everyone. Just try it yourself people. Try it with *your* ears. I'm pretty sure you won't hear any difference.
Try iPod dancing with a flash or CD rom unit, The flash unit runs out of music quickly.
Huh? There are plenty of cheap (~$100) 512 MB flash players. Using 128 kbps bitrate (which is perfectly reasonable for using headphones) gives you approximately 8.5 hours of music. I don't think you can dance for that long.
I don't know a SINGLE person - not one solitary soul, who uses Yahoo! search, but I know scores who use google every day, for everything from engineering research to doing background checks on a date.
Is ANYONE out there using Yahoo search for anything?
Hey, I don't know anyone who uses linux either! Or heroine!
You do know that Yahoo search is used for millions of searches every day, right? Here
Huh? The web is growing. When I'm searching the web, I want to get results from as much of the web as possible. Finding the relevant results and ordering them is another matter.
Should we really be reading on/. a review of IE7 by someone who knows that much about browsers as not to have tried FF? Or any other non-MS browser for the past two years?
Yeah. Everytime I had a problem with my gnome system I would ask someone on some IRC channel about linux and I would get "Hmmmm, I don't know, try installing KDE and running ksomething..."
And not only that. The thing that drives me crazy is some sites that almost require pop-ups to work. It is so easy to disable pop-ups in FF that it appears to break those sites (although it really doesn't).
My uncle has already replaced one PC because of spyware. He's on a dial-up connection. He's not going to sit for hours upon hours so his old PC can reinstall security patches.
This is getting mentioned fairly frequently on/.. My experience is that I can run a pre-SP1 installation without problems. I don't believe I've ever installed patches on it. I just keep the windows firewall on at all times and run some antivirus plus ad-aware.
Also, I don't do stupid stuff like running IE. This is enough. I know that it would be better to install all the patches but I'm on 56k and I don't bother to find a CD with them because I'm ultra-lazy and if it works I don't fix it.
Which just goes to show that iPod is just an overpriced player who wouldn't sell half of what it has sold if it wasn't made by Apple so every geek in the world wouldn't want one.
Well yes, but it's only/. so you'd expect to see every action by a big company that makes money likened to 1984 or stories inspired by it.
Part of it is because people like the stuff said company puts out and they want to have them but they don't want to pay. They have to demonize every thing they do so they can justify stealing from them.
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I don't believe this.
"Karl's"??? What the hell?
There could very well be a family wishing to share a large collection of digital family videos that they have taken at holidays and birthdays, for instance.
What the hell are you talking about? Do you even know what a private tracker is? If you want to upload to certain people you give the torrent to certain people.
I like Ubuntu too, been using it for a couple of days and didn't have to boot back into windows once. What got me though is the video acceleration. I isntalled snes9x and tried to play some snes games, they go way too slow and can't go fullscrenn.
Also, the highest resolution I can get is 1024*768 and things look way too clunky and *big* on my desktop. Any tips?
6. Getting it on DVD requires me to pay some money! Now that is what I call unacceptable!
However, if something that was compressed to that level is expanded and recompressed, I can easily spot problems.
I have tried this. Ok then, if a file is decompressed and then recompressed you can tell the difference (of course that would be dependent on both bitrates used during the process, which you don't take into account which makes no sense whatsoever).
It's gonna be such that you'll (unless you have bionic ears or some kind of hi-fi setup costing ten grand) not understand any difference from simply playing back the CD.
I really can't understand why this audiophile crap has infected almost everyone. Just try it yourself people. Try it with *your* ears. I'm pretty sure you won't hear any difference.
Yes, they need to bitch.
Hey, I have a patent on that one!
I've bought a few Magnatune albums and downloaded them as WAV files
This has to be the worst waste of bandwidth ever.
Did anyone test its performance using a modem and specifically compared to Skype's?
Try iPod dancing with a flash or CD rom unit, The flash unit runs out of music quickly.
Huh? There are plenty of cheap (~$100) 512 MB flash players. Using 128 kbps bitrate (which is perfectly reasonable for using headphones) gives you approximately 8.5 hours of music. I don't think you can dance for that long.
I don't know a SINGLE person - not one solitary soul, who uses Yahoo! search, but I know scores who use google every day, for everything from engineering research to doing background checks on a date. Is ANYONE out there using Yahoo search for anything?
Hey, I don't know anyone who uses linux either! Or heroine!
You do know that Yahoo search is used for millions of searches every day, right? Here
Huh? The web is growing. When I'm searching the web, I want to get results from as much of the web as possible. Finding the relevant results and ordering them is another matter.
No, really. I know it's a Mac and this is /., but still.
And of course you know more about marketing than MS. Like everyone on /. of course.
Should we really be reading on /. a review of IE7 by someone who knows that much about browsers as not to have tried FF? Or any other non-MS browser for the past two years?
Is this a joke?
Yeah. Everytime I had a problem with my gnome system I would ask someone on some IRC channel about linux and I would get "Hmmmm, I don't know, try installing KDE and running ksomething..."
And not only that. The thing that drives me crazy is some sites that almost require pop-ups to work. It is so easy to disable pop-ups in FF that it appears to break those sites (although it really doesn't).
If you mod me down, I will come to your house and take away your children -- errr --- Linux boxen
/. people use Windows anyway.
Most
My uncle has already replaced one PC because of spyware. He's on a dial-up connection. He's not going to sit for hours upon hours so his old PC can reinstall security patches.
/.. My experience is that I can run a pre-SP1 installation without problems. I don't believe I've ever installed patches on it. I just keep the windows firewall on at all times and run some antivirus plus ad-aware.
This is getting mentioned fairly frequently on
Also, I don't do stupid stuff like running IE. This is enough. I know that it would be better to install all the patches but I'm on 56k and I don't bother to find a CD with them because I'm ultra-lazy and if it works I don't fix it.
Which just goes to show that iPod is just an overpriced player who wouldn't sell half of what it has sold if it wasn't made by Apple so every geek in the world wouldn't want one.
well I went on Amazon or to my local record store and sought out the CDs to re-rip as DRM-free Apple Lossless
People who rip CD's to lossless formats don't know much about sound. They think they do though.
Why did you want the songs that day? I thought people were past this after they become 12 years old.
Well yes, but it's only /. so you'd expect to see every action by a big company that makes money likened to 1984 or stories inspired by it.
Part of it is because people like the stuff said company puts out and they want to have them but they don't want to pay. They have to demonize every thing they do so they can justify stealing from them.