Hacking means to make something do something it wasn't necessarily intended to do - "pushing the envelope" in wanker-management-speak. Are you confusing the term with "cracker", meaning one who illegally gains access to computers they aren't allowed on? The media certainly makes that mistake on a frighteningly regular basis.
I don't want to sound like a crazed liberal, but Herr Bush, the representative of the People in the Government, thinks torturing people is A-OK, so I guess I'm "ill-disposed" towards anything American, by that crazed ridiculous logic which is incapable of seperating aspects of a culture, in a knee-jerky sort of way. yippee!!
Very useful. Just install software, then run the wizard, and hey presto, you're up and running. All your settings are set automatically, and any files you wanted brought to the new PC are copied across. It makes it very easy to get a new box up and running.
Maglev is still young. Wait a while, and it'll get better. It certainly has more of a future than wheeled trains. I do love the ICE, though. I love the classy bars and decore. Plus the seats are really comfortable, and the fucker is as fast as all hell:)
Nope. Maglev is still a relatively young technology, compared to rail-riding trains. We're reaching all we with rail-based trains, whereas we're just discovering what's possible with maglev. The few maglev trains that are already in service run at a fraction of the speed maglev systems could theoretically achieve. The difference between the two are massive, as is the difference in potential.
As for the no-engines-on-each-axle thing, they take up too much space in the carriages. The motors would have to be under the floor, limiting them to, or making it difficult for more than, one deck (as opposed to the two offered on these trains). Also, the size required for them to travel at any great speed would make them more massive than other trains which *do* have engines on axles in the passenger cars, and therefor far less practical. It also makes maintenance more expensive as carriages with drive equipment in them will fail more frequently than unpowered rolling stock, and the space constraints would make these engines far more intricate in their fitting in their location.
A big loco at each end makes far more sense, as old carriages can be "upgraded" just by switching out the loco. We might get to the Arthur C. Clarke vision, but not yet. Our engines suck too much:)
The US ignores international pressure to stop being a dick. And people wonder why the world is turning against America. You can't be the loud-mouth, violent, drunk guy on your block, with engine parts all over your lawn, shooting guns at people who pass by, without expecting those people to not give you the time of day.
I'm not trying to be rude, but it's Google Earth, not Google Fragbait's Nostalgic Memories of his Childhood... it's marketed as the most accurate representation of Earth as Google can muster, so having them roll-back controversial, and indeed important, geographical changes without a word of explanation is clearly not ideal...
It all depends on what you have in your library, I guess. The structures in the data file are different to that of the XML, so filesizes are not proportional. It's all about how quickly the file is passed, and the binary file will be passed much more quickly than the XML, regardless of size.
iTunes doesn't use the XML to store its library - the XML is there purely to be used by *other* applications. iTunes keeps its library in its own proprietary format, similar to the format of the iTunesDB file on iPods, which is completely binary in nature, and muuuch smaller than the XML spat out:)
I like iTunes because of the COM object, mainly. I wrote a script that uses MusicBrainz to tag my music in iTunes automatically, getting Amazon artwork for that missed by the iTunes Music Store (and embedding downloaded artwork for those with only the downloaded variety, which iTunes doesn't like putting in MP3s on its own).
If I could find an application that allowed media management just as good as iTunes, with the playback features, artwork shits, etc. then I'd jump ship in a second. Especially if it had a SQL back-end. dirty.:)
You need to make sure all the apps have F/OSS equivalents that do everything the user wants... They're not going to switch if they have to make sacrifices.
You seem to have an issue with ridiculous laws, as opposed to laws themselves, which is sensible:) Clearly the old addage of law-abiding citizens not having anything to worry about is bullshit, as laws ARE needed to protect people. It's when laws are made that don't protect folks that there's a problem. Clearly we need to outlaw murder and rape, as those things are not nice for anyone involved. Straight-up deep-ballin' shouldn't be illegal, no matter how insanely pornorific one's moves are.
If you're not going to pick the right paper, of course you're going to have problems:) If you care about what you're printing, you'll use the right paper, and inkjets printing on the right paper is far superior to lasers printing on the right paper.
... wasn't *exactly* what you put on. You have the appearance of stability, that you can retrieve something off a damaged tape, but the truth is something different. That's the beauty of analogue. The same simplicity and fault-tolerance of the format also means the format will naturally degrade over time. The contents may be retrievable, but they've degraded, and as such are not the same contents as when first written. Digital fails, but when it doesn't fail, you have exactly the same content as you did when you started. Archivists will not run from digital - their techniques will improve instead. or something.
The difference in usability between Vista and Ubuntu are two different things. Vista needs people to be GUI-retrained, whereas Ubuntu requires people know how to configure their wireless card on the command-line. They're not the same problem. "Getting lost" is different to "not understanding fundamental ways of using the OS to do what was previously done in a graphical environment".
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Hacking means to make something do something it wasn't necessarily intended to do - "pushing the envelope" in wanker-management-speak. Are you confusing the term with "cracker", meaning one who illegally gains access to computers they aren't allowed on? The media certainly makes that mistake on a frighteningly regular basis.
Those are for 2.5" hard disks. The iPod uses a 1.8" HDD.
Well, they're not doing much, so they're kind of just fucking with each other. I guess that's why they said "mating".
I don't want to sound like a crazed liberal, but Herr Bush, the representative of the People in the Government, thinks torturing people is A-OK, so I guess I'm "ill-disposed" towards anything American, by that crazed ridiculous logic which is incapable of seperating aspects of a culture, in a knee-jerky sort of way. yippee!!
Very useful. Just install software, then run the wizard, and hey presto, you're up and running. All your settings are set automatically, and any files you wanted brought to the new PC are copied across. It makes it very easy to get a new box up and running.
Maglev is still young. Wait a while, and it'll get better. It certainly has more of a future than wheeled trains. I do love the ICE, though. I love the classy bars and decore. Plus the seats are really comfortable, and the fucker is as fast as all hell :)
Nope. Maglev is still a relatively young technology, compared to rail-riding trains. We're reaching all we with rail-based trains, whereas we're just discovering what's possible with maglev. The few maglev trains that are already in service run at a fraction of the speed maglev systems could theoretically achieve. The difference between the two are massive, as is the difference in potential.
:)
As for the no-engines-on-each-axle thing, they take up too much space in the carriages. The motors would have to be under the floor, limiting them to, or making it difficult for more than, one deck (as opposed to the two offered on these trains). Also, the size required for them to travel at any great speed would make them more massive than other trains which *do* have engines on axles in the passenger cars, and therefor far less practical. It also makes maintenance more expensive as carriages with drive equipment in them will fail more frequently than unpowered rolling stock, and the space constraints would make these engines far more intricate in their fitting in their location.
A big loco at each end makes far more sense, as old carriages can be "upgraded" just by switching out the loco. We might get to the Arthur C. Clarke vision, but not yet. Our engines suck too much
I remember that show. Apparently the pyramid was supposed to be 12x as large, but the wrong unit was recorded by a scribe.
The US ignores international pressure to stop being a dick. And people wonder why the world is turning against America. You can't be the loud-mouth, violent, drunk guy on your block, with engine parts all over your lawn, shooting guns at people who pass by, without expecting those people to not give you the time of day.
I'm not trying to be rude, but it's Google Earth, not Google Fragbait's Nostalgic Memories of his Childhood... it's marketed as the most accurate representation of Earth as Google can muster, so having them roll-back controversial, and indeed important, geographical changes without a word of explanation is clearly not ideal...
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It all depends on what you have in your library, I guess. The structures in the data file are different to that of the XML, so filesizes are not proportional. It's all about how quickly the file is passed, and the binary file will be passed much more quickly than the XML, regardless of size.
Clearly sarcasm is something you're unfamiliar with ;)
iTunes doesn't use the XML to store its library - the XML is there purely to be used by *other* applications. iTunes keeps its library in its own proprietary format, similar to the format of the iTunesDB file on iPods, which is completely binary in nature, and muuuch smaller than the XML spat out :)
I like iTunes because of the COM object, mainly. I wrote a script that uses MusicBrainz to tag my music in iTunes automatically, getting Amazon artwork for that missed by the iTunes Music Store (and embedding downloaded artwork for those with only the downloaded variety, which iTunes doesn't like putting in MP3s on its own).
If I could find an application that allowed media management just as good as iTunes, with the playback features, artwork shits, etc. then I'd jump ship in a second. Especially if it had a SQL back-end. dirty. :)
Seriously! The 1977 cinematic release had no merchandising tie-ins at all, now he goes and does this. Sell-out!
You need to make sure all the apps have F/OSS equivalents that do everything the user wants... They're not going to switch if they have to make sacrifices.
But unless all the apps these users regularly use on Windows have a suitable replacement in the GNU/Linux realm, they're going to stay with windows...
You seem to have an issue with ridiculous laws, as opposed to laws themselves, which is sensible :) Clearly the old addage of law-abiding citizens not having anything to worry about is bullshit, as laws ARE needed to protect people. It's when laws are made that don't protect folks that there's a problem. Clearly we need to outlaw murder and rape, as those things are not nice for anyone involved. Straight-up deep-ballin' shouldn't be illegal, no matter how insanely pornorific one's moves are.
Now available in arctic-fresh XML!
If you read the article, you'd know this printer is cheaper than laser printers currently out there, and far cheaper than other inkjets.
If you'd read the article, you wouldn't have posted those concerns.
If you're not going to pick the right paper, of course you're going to have problems :) If you care about what you're printing, you'll use the right paper, and inkjets printing on the right paper is far superior to lasers printing on the right paper.
... wasn't *exactly* what you put on. You have the appearance of stability, that you can retrieve something off a damaged tape, but the truth is something different. That's the beauty of analogue. The same simplicity and fault-tolerance of the format also means the format will naturally degrade over time. The contents may be retrievable, but they've degraded, and as such are not the same contents as when first written. Digital fails, but when it doesn't fail, you have exactly the same content as you did when you started. Archivists will not run from digital - their techniques will improve instead. or something.
To be honest, that's your problem and not Creative's. Creative can't be expected to dance to the tune of a tiny minority of its users...
The difference in usability between Vista and Ubuntu are two different things. Vista needs people to be GUI-retrained, whereas Ubuntu requires people know how to configure their wireless card on the command-line. They're not the same problem. "Getting lost" is different to "not understanding fundamental ways of using the OS to do what was previously done in a graphical environment".