Sorry, got confused in my excitement! Although blue laser discs are available at retail it is expensive. I meant red laser will be cheap and in wide availability in 2 years.
Seems nero-online is offline right now so I cannot find the BSD copy a 17MB troll, but i dug up another quality troll:
when you go out to your car, i will be in the backseat. i will not let you know this until you are miles away from home. i will hold a Glock to your right temple, and tell you to keep your fucking hands on the wheel. i will direct you at gunpoint to a secluded parking lot behind a failed dot-com's warehouse.
i will take you out of the car and instruct you to tape your legs together at the ankles. halfway through, i will tire of your sniveling and blubbering and pistol-whip you. this will wake you up, and sharpen your mind to the fact that you are as good as fucked. i will force you to touch your toes and hog-tie you with cat-5.
then i will cut your clothes off. if my knife slips and cuts you, that's not my problem. i'll spit on my hand and rub it on my cock, to get it a little bit slick.
then you will take every millimeter i can give, all at once, and if you scream i will just laugh and stab you in the leg. i will fuck you as though you are the object of all my spite and assfucking is the worst punishment i can give you. i will fuck you until you bleed, and i will bash you on the head with a rock at the moment when my cum mixes with the oozings from your tattered colon.
then i will drive away, and drive your car into a river. your humiliation will be complete, public, and nagging. i will get away scot-free.
The way you phrased your original statement, you have a fixed (Oracle) back-end and need a front end.
As a local government councillor, why don't you team up with all other local governments as data requirements over the country are similar. Then why not make your front end with all these others, make it open, closed whatever source. In the end all local governments do the same job over and over again, they just tailor it slightly differently to meet local needs.
Of course I am in cloud-cookoo-land at the moment, because (with slight personal exceptions, but these are in the vast minority) of all institutions in the country local government is the most self-serving, self interested, inefficient and poorly run because it is so closed and can exist in a cul-de-sac seemingly forever.
Now the IT manager/whatever likes to be the specialist in their job - they like to be the expert, they enjoy being the one at the end of the line who enjoys appearing to others as lofty and know-it-all. SO as a local IT manager, you are the one that should oppose any kind of open-sourceness, as this means others can comment on your job and judge your opinions instead of the entire process being hidden and badly audited (local government auditors rarely have a clue).
I also noticed you have experience with MS products and little/none with open source ones. Now compare you view to someone with an open source background... someone who had never used MS products, and they would wonder what sort of planet somebody was on to use Access for an enterprise database, or why the hell someone would even give the time to C#.
Haha, if it wasn't OSS the documentation would be hidden, unless you got called/contracted in to fix it, in which case it is gonna be poorly documented as they could not fix it themselves.
So any OSS is likely to be better documented, simply because we are comparing a well lit cat in front of you with a black cat in a dark room.
More like the employees are pleased to work for a (comparitively in China) high wage employer rather than slave on a farm and die from poverty.
Industrialisation is the best thing that has happened to the people of China.
I remember I used to play Wing Commander on my 386DX 20MHz, but when I upgraded to a 486DX 50MHz the game sped up to the state it was unplayable as it didn't use the clock to set tempo.
A Beowolf cluster of snot-covered mortars made by 1st graders is a thought indeed. Let us hope the 1st grade militia do not travel to Washington DC to make their case to congress...
Why are scientists no more self interested than politicans...?
Politicians want money to further their grandeur, scientists want money to further theirs.
Remember if it wasn't for scientists trying to be great, there would be no nuclear weapons, little chemical weapons... if scientists had put their knowledge to true good they would have developed polution friendly methods of power, chemical weapons what made the enemy fall pass out instead of die...
Why didn't they develop these? Because they were on their own power trip of greatness.
Politicans only shuffle the cards, scientists are the ones that make them.
You are so wrong... did you do little more than to troll Sourceforge and Slashdot.
Your link is not to a Napster project, but to an OpenNap project which is a different beast.
Back in the day, the days when Napster was in its death, AudioBanana etc sprouted up as clients for the Napster network but for other client networks which worked like Napster (i.e., through a cantral server) but not through the original Napster. They also worked with files other than MP3s... it was in this time 'DivX ITA' was born on one then grew on a few OpenNap servers (DivX ITA is one of the largest pirated DVD groups and is the bain of the MPAAs life now their files have sprouted on Kazaa, Gnutella and WinMX).
So understand that OpenNap was the bridge between the kernal idea of Napster etc and the varied P2P clients and networks we have now, and was essential in the creation of todays P2P network.
And that is what matters. They charge for the equivilant of a 128kbps MP3 but offer it in DRM Windows Media format.
Sure, you can charge for a product if it is better quality than a free product (e.g., charge for a 320kbps MP3 when these are damn hard to get hold of on Kazaa etc) or offers better availability (the benefit of Kazaa and AudioGalaxy were that the had VERY rare tracks that were not available in the shops.
But the new Napster looks set to offer a mediocre crippled file format of a limited availability of songs that can be got for free, at a better quality level, for free on Kazaa, WinMX et all.
$9.95 for an album of 128kbps DRM WM files??? No way. The make a few pennsies, but only from competition to iTunes not from converting sustomers. The Napster brand counts for nothing.
It is illegal to place products in both terrestrial and satellite TV in the UK... although this story revolves around the US, this would have serious legal implications (based around subliminal advertising which the UK has very strong laws about) if these TV shows were ever exported.
...that dance artist (about 3 or 4 years ago IIRC) who made the graphic thing in Windows Audio Player show a (somewhat poor but still discernable) picture of himself.
It is only a picture, though, if it were being interpreted in this way.
My info was out of date, I stand corrected. Infact I found it interesting the MPEG4 organisation (http://www.mpegla.com/) has a feature on DRM on their front page - Hollywood DiVX telling indeed.
Yes I notice a lot in some movies... funny thing is there is often more pixelation on an MPEG2 DVD than on a good rip (of course of a good DVD encode) in XviD format. Scenes, complexity and lighting are similar across movies.
It is a shame some studios release DVDs with such poor quality.
As far as I understand, DivX (at least in it's most recent form) does heavily 'borrow' from MPEG4 which is not a royalty free standard (those behind DivX do not honour those royalties) which means possible future court cases.
Meanwhile, XVid provides DivX quality with a totally open source. (no 'borrowing').
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Sorry, got confused in my excitement! Although blue laser discs are available at retail it is expensive. I meant red laser will be cheap and in wide availability in 2 years.
Advances in Fire and Rescue Technology???
A FART?
Sony are developing it for retail use, it will be ready in 2 years, mark my words!
Sorry, I am a member of the old school "if it ain't broke, only improve it for an identified need rather than update for the sake of it".
Sneaker-net is a little more secure. Massive bandwidth too.
Nimrod??? You mean anti-submarine aircraft built on the frame of the 1950s Comet?
Seems nero-online is offline right now so I cannot find the BSD copy a 17MB troll, but i dug up another quality troll:
when you go out to your car, i will be in the backseat. i will not let you
know this until you are miles away from home. i will hold a Glock to your
right temple, and tell you to keep your fucking hands on the wheel. i will
direct you at gunpoint to a secluded parking lot behind a failed dot-com's
warehouse.
i will take you out of the car and instruct you to tape your legs together
at the ankles. halfway through, i will tire of your sniveling and blubbering
and pistol-whip you. this will wake you up, and sharpen your mind to the
fact that you are as good as fucked. i will force you to touch your toes and
hog-tie you with cat-5.
then i will cut your clothes off. if my knife slips and cuts you, that's not
my problem. i'll spit on my hand and rub it on my cock, to get it a little
bit slick.
then you will take every millimeter i can give, all at once, and if you
scream i will just laugh and stab you in the leg. i will fuck you as though
you are the object of all my spite and assfucking is the worst punishment i
can give you. i will fuck you until you bleed, and i will bash you on the
head with a rock at the moment when my cum mixes with the oozings from your
tattered colon.
then i will drive away, and drive your car into a river. your humiliation
will be complete, public, and nagging. i will get away scot-free.
The way you phrased your original statement, you have a fixed (Oracle) back-end and need a front end.
As a local government councillor, why don't you team up with all other local governments as data requirements over the country are similar. Then why not make your front end with all these others, make it open, closed whatever source. In the end all local governments do the same job over and over again, they just tailor it slightly differently to meet local needs.
Of course I am in cloud-cookoo-land at the moment, because (with slight personal exceptions, but these are in the vast minority) of all institutions in the country local government is the most self-serving, self interested, inefficient and poorly run because it is so closed and can exist in a cul-de-sac seemingly forever.
Now the IT manager/whatever likes to be the specialist in their job - they like to be the expert, they enjoy being the one at the end of the line who enjoys appearing to others as lofty and know-it-all. SO as a local IT manager, you are the one that should oppose any kind of open-sourceness, as this means others can comment on your job and judge your opinions instead of the entire process being hidden and badly audited (local government auditors rarely have a clue).
I also noticed you have experience with MS products and little/none with open source ones. Now compare you view to someone with an open source background... someone who had never used MS products, and they would wonder what sort of planet somebody was on to use Access for an enterprise database, or why the hell someone would even give the time to C#.
Michael Portillo rocks!
Haha, if it wasn't OSS the documentation would be hidden, unless you got called/contracted in to fix it, in which case it is gonna be poorly documented as they could not fix it themselves.
So any OSS is likely to be better documented, simply because we are comparing a well lit cat in front of you with a black cat in a dark room.
More like the employees are pleased to work for a (comparitively in China) high wage employer rather than slave on a farm and die from poverty. Industrialisation is the best thing that has happened to the people of China.
I remember I used to play Wing Commander on my 386DX 20MHz, but when I upgraded to a 486DX 50MHz the game sped up to the state it was unplayable as it didn't use the clock to set tempo.
Clocks are good.
A Beowolf cluster of snot-covered mortars made by 1st graders is a thought indeed. Let us hope the 1st grade militia do not travel to Washington DC to make their case to congress...
Why are scientists no more self interested than politicans...?
Politicians want money to further their grandeur, scientists want money to further theirs.
Remember if it wasn't for scientists trying to be great, there would be no nuclear weapons, little chemical weapons... if scientists had put their knowledge to true good they would have developed polution friendly methods of power, chemical weapons what made the enemy fall pass out instead of die...
Why didn't they develop these? Because they were on their own power trip of greatness.
Politicans only shuffle the cards, scientists are the ones that make them.
You are so wrong... did you do little more than to troll Sourceforge and Slashdot.
Your link is not to a Napster project, but to an OpenNap project which is a different beast.
Back in the day, the days when Napster was in its death, AudioBanana etc sprouted up as clients for the Napster network but for other client networks which worked like Napster (i.e., through a cantral server) but not through the original Napster. They also worked with files other than MP3s... it was in this time 'DivX ITA' was born on one then grew on a few OpenNap servers (DivX ITA is one of the largest pirated DVD groups and is the bain of the MPAAs life now their files have sprouted on Kazaa, Gnutella and WinMX).
So understand that OpenNap was the bridge between the kernal idea of Napster etc and the varied P2P clients and networks we have now, and was essential in the creation of todays P2P network.
Free > Cheap??? No way, surely Free Cheap.
And that is what matters. They charge for the equivilant of a 128kbps MP3 but offer it in DRM Windows Media format.
Sure, you can charge for a product if it is better quality than a free product (e.g., charge for a 320kbps MP3 when these are damn hard to get hold of on Kazaa etc) or offers better availability (the benefit of Kazaa and AudioGalaxy were that the had VERY rare tracks that were not available in the shops.
But the new Napster looks set to offer a mediocre crippled file format of a limited availability of songs that can be got for free, at a better quality level, for free on Kazaa, WinMX et all.
$9.95 for an album of 128kbps DRM WM files??? No way. The make a few pennsies, but only from competition to iTunes not from converting sustomers. The Napster brand counts for nothing.
I use a BIC Biro - no pressure problems, excellect reliabilty. Infact biros were invented for writing at altitude!
On gound I use a caligraphy brush if I want my writing to look good.
My 386DX @ 33MHz outperforms my 486SX @25MHz though...
You could take another couple of showers...
It is illegal to place products in both terrestrial and satellite TV in the UK... although this story revolves around the US, this would have serious legal implications (based around subliminal advertising which the UK has very strong laws about) if these TV shows were ever exported.
...that dance artist (about 3 or 4 years ago IIRC) who made the graphic thing in Windows Audio Player show a (somewhat poor but still discernable) picture of himself.
It is only a picture, though, if it were being interpreted in this way.
My info was out of date, I stand corrected. Infact I found it interesting the MPEG4 organisation (http://www.mpegla.com/) has a feature on DRM on their front page - Hollywood DiVX telling indeed.
Yes I notice a lot in some movies... funny thing is there is often more pixelation on an MPEG2 DVD than on a good rip (of course of a good DVD encode) in XviD format. Scenes, complexity and lighting are similar across movies.
It is a shame some studios release DVDs with such poor quality.
As far as I understand, DivX (at least in it's most recent form) does heavily 'borrow' from MPEG4 which is not a royalty free standard (those behind DivX do not honour those royalties) which means possible future court cases.
Meanwhile, XVid provides DivX quality with a totally open source. (no 'borrowing').
i have seen your other posts and like your style.