That is, if DMCA and Software Patents comes here (Brazil) I will be very happy about it. Because then I'll be able to patent every single little stupid thing and charge everybody for it...
Apple claims that 128kbps AAC encoding provides quality almost indistiguishable from the original, much better than a 128kbps MP3. To my ears it all sounds great. The AAC files I downloaded at 128kbps sound great. I rarely encode MP3s at that low a bit rate, so I really can't do a comparison.
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Longhorn is also going to offer a new Driver Model, easier to program.
Creating WDM drivers (that's 98/2000/XP) has been a pain in the ass so far, and Longhorn will "fix" that.
Yes, it's really interesting.
Geeks are good at innovation, but lack in economic skills...
so that I could run Outlook (required by the company)
The sysadmins probably had to tell me three times before I'd believe it.
Well, did you tell him how much of an arse he is for requiring outlook?
One thing.. I CAN block this with a firewall...
Yes, it shares some other useful services, but IF I KNOW ABOUT THEN, I know how to disable the service.
Kudos for AOL... the did something honest this time...
Is that 49g+ will be running a Saturn Emulator (not Sega Saturn, but the old 4 bit processor form the old ones)
HP your calculators were great, but stop crippling your products... Write another system. Yes, it's expensive, but TI does it right...
I have this really crazy idea about how to kill spam: Prosecute people who buy from spam services...
I mean, it's the same thing with drugs: you prosecute those who sell, and those who consume.
If law enforcement starts sending bogus spam and getting those who respond, fewer people will respond, thus killing the profitability of it.
When walking under a power line with my glasses on.
Nothing spectacular, just a slight humming and vibration...
I meant affordable systems...
Kudos for Apple... This is a necessary move for Apple to reclaim some market share.
Of course G4 is a very nice processor, but since it was not available in mobile devices, people went for Intel solutions.
Again Kudos for Apple, and we are waiting the mobile G5...
I know, but when I realized it, I had already hit reply...
shit happens...
True!
US cell systems are not as good as GSM (which allows for lots of things), along with bureaucracy and software patents...
US has already lost its lead in this sector.
all of our appliances will have some sort of computer inside them, a computer that's capable of doing what the appliance needs.
All apliances have computers inside them today...
I mean... no PC nedded...
That means, store goes out of business... protocol changes... not to mention if you decide for a USB modem... SUCKER!!!
This will never work.
I mean, geez, like it's really difficult to buy music using a PC.
they hack the code and fix it in binary....
Try installing in Windows then running just the EXE
Dumb, but I think it works best...
Microsoft won't decrypt contect protected by the service unless a court order requires it.
But doing this would be a violation of the DMCA...
GOTCHA, MS!!!
That's how I got to fit my new AGP card in a PCI slot and my ISA card in the Slot 1...
Just wait until I patent Detention...
I've been worried about this for some time.
That is, if DMCA and Software Patents comes here (Brazil) I will be very happy about it. Because then I'll be able to patent every single little stupid thing and charge everybody for it...
Well, that's what you get when you go "to the bone" with MS stuff.
With MS, you don't wanna see where the burrow ends, because you WILL get trapped.
Yes, but you can't run Netscape on it...
Or KDE
Geez, not even Windows Media Player...
Agrred!
I like free software and stuff, but sometimes it's plain ridiculous...
GIMP is NOT a replacement for Photoshop.
Apple claims that 128kbps AAC encoding provides quality almost indistiguishable from the original, much better than a 128kbps MP3. To my ears it all sounds great. The AAC files I downloaded at 128kbps sound great. I rarely encode MP3s at that low a bit rate, so I really can't do a comparison.
Are you deaf or what???
128kbps MP3 sound crap.
128kbps AAC sound great!
It's like comparing cassetes with CDs
M$ dismisses iTunes
SCO dismisses the GPL
Sun dismisses Linux
Apple dismisses x86
I'm sorry, you're dismissed....
My machine is Half yours (Celeron 900 w 192Mb memory and Win XP - it blips but not a lot )
In fact, most of the time it works just fine. (Including w surfing the net and stuff)
Burning CDs works great too...