The fact that there are probably actually a few people following this guide, or the fact that someone typed up something that long and "pointless"........
I remember being put in charge (still not sure how it happened, but it did) of my HS senior class's slideshow thing for the end of the year banquet, and everyone brought in 2 or 3 pictues to be scanned for it..... It wasn't fun........ But then again, for $10/hr, it couldn't have been any worse then most other crappy jobs....
Iraqi renegade (translated for your enjoyment): Is that..... Chewing I hear????
American Troop spying on them: They are saying something. Too bad we left our translator at base camp.
Iraqi renegade: THERE THEY ARE!! SHOOT THE INFIDELS!!!
Although since they aren't part of the group pushing for it, it'll probably just allow them to half their Linux development staff by half..... Assuming there's more then one person as is......
Because this is an obvious effort to squash it without ditching the old-model's use of commercials and need to purchase a DVD for archiving an episode for watching later.
Power limitations are easily gotten past though with a molex connector on the card (not really the best way, but it works). And I was referring more to decoding of things such as high res H.264 video when I mentioned the benefits to an older system being higher (I can't decode H.264 in software at very good speed, while newer systems could probably).
I've got an older AGP-based system (Athlon XP Barton), and this sounds like the perfect thing to speed up transcoding and playing of H.264 video. Too bad the irony will be that most systems with PCIe (and support for all these new cards) can play H.264 at a decent speed w/o this card (and transcode quite a bit faster then mine), while most systems that really need it would have to be upgraded in the first place. I know AGP has reached it's limit for 3D performance due to it's bandwidth limitations, but the implementation of GPU-assisted transcoding/decoding of H.264 sounds like something that would still be doable over AGP.
At the risk of sounding like a salesman like the article, Unison on OS X is probably the greatest Newsgroup client by far. I've used clients on Windows, Linux, and OS X, and this is the only one I've found that takes the globs of files for a certain "file", and groups them. So you just see one item to download, and not a few hundred. Although you still have to wait for groups to download, this view is very similar to indexing services like Guba and newzbin in which you get a nzb file that gives a single thing to download a "file". I really don't get why others have not implemented a similar view in their clients.
I do agree MythTV has potential. But until they can get a company to make a cheap (like around $200-$300) hardware box that will work as an idiot-proof Set-top box, it isn't going to make it big. As much as I hate MS, if they give the XBox 360 terminal services for WinXP: MCE (terminal being able to watch and choose what to record) without some obscure and crippled add-on (As I recall is available for the current XBox), they might be able to win me over. Apple would be smart to approach Sony about incorporating iTunes (and video) services into the PS3. They could probably revolutionize people's ideas of PVR with the server-client relationship. As I recall, each video license Apple gives out makes it valid for 5 devices. That could work out well w/ a server with 5 clients....
Don't they have ISP fees much like we do, whom probably pay the phone company for using their "pipes"?
I don't mean to sound ignorant or anything, but...
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Is there really anything wrong with that? Most large companies already outsource many jobs overseas. Since these people are not citizens, they may plan on making some money here, and spending it at home to improve their life there. There's nothing wrong with that morally of course, but that would be bad for the US economy. I don't know many foreign people that have worked in the US, but the few I have have eventually gone back to their native country. I might go to Japan someday and work. I wouldn't expect to get full pay as a foreigner though since it might not go back into their economy. Now if I was registered as a citizen and wasn't getting equal pay, then it might be something to bitch about.... But in typical working situations, people that get payed are expected to just put the money back into the economy, and that doesn't always happen w/ non-citizens.
I am still in college for CS, so I'm not really in the loop enough to know about the real-world application of programming, but I am split on this subject. Is it the developers fault bugs are in code? Yeah. But could it be helped? Probably not. The nature of programming alone makes it seem that almost everyone probably misses a few bugs (that are probably caught during testing before the product goes gold), since people do not work like computers. And from what I've heard, the time constraints for many projects probably don't allow for debugging and testing as much as they should. Hard set deadlines in large projects seem like a rough thing to work with since you never know how programming is going to go, and in crunch time, proper debugging seems like it would be the easiest part to skimp on to meet the deadline.
In that article, he statede that the ICANN is not running things smoothly. How exactly are they not that someone else could do better? The only problem I see w/ the ICANN in US control is the fact that the US has like 60% (pulled out of my ass, a very bad guess) of the ip registrations, when we have nowhere near 60% of the internet population. And how's IPV6 fit into this? Has ICANN even worked with it at all, or no? That would seem like the perfect opportunity for the UN to seize control.
I'll tell you who. Someone who would rather pay a little under 6 dollars for three TV episodes they want to buy instead of $15-$20 for a DVD of them in a post-broadcast flag world....
The threat of it becoming airborne is also a pretty big fear from what I've read, with good reason. If something such as AIDs became airborne, it would probably be a pretty safe assumption the human race would almost die, unless the drug companies to have vaccines and such for it hidden, which is another topic alltogether.
You have two people in front of you. One always tells the truth, and believes what he says is true, and will state so. The other one always lies, and believes in the opposite of the truth, and will state the opposite. Can you tell them apart by asking yes/no questions? I remember that confusing the hell outta me when I was younger in the movie Labyrinth I think..
There are pillows in my parents house that are 10 years old and still in use. I can't believe my mother refuses to throw them out and still uses them.... Pillows are not washed.... Thus, they would seem like something that should be replaced once every couple years at least....
Chopping of an audio track into seperate files, cutting decided on by x length of time passing w/ the amplitude of the soundwave being ~nil. One of them in the article looked like it has some scripting ability, so idk.
I'm in a foreign language course, and I'd like to find something that can split the vocab audio on the CD so I can match it with flashcards. Anyone know if any of these can do it w/o days worth of tinkering and research?
I glanced through the article, and I saw in one section that they complained about the small number of jacks on the back, and that 3 analog isn't enough for 8 channel (7.1) sound systems. With my S750 speakers, they use a special cord type. two that are 3-channel (like a stereo one, but with one more black seperator for 3 metal "layers" beneath the tip of the jack), and one that is 2-channel for 8 speaker sound. And my Creative decoder and speakers both came with a 3-to-4 jack cable so they can hook into 4-jack speaker systems. Intelligent idea to cram more onto each plug, don't think it's a standard, but it should be.
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The fact that there are probably actually a few people following this guide, or the fact that someone typed up something that long and "pointless"........
Very interesting. Was that in the article, or did you just know of that? It sounds like a good idea, but never dawned on me.
Knew I should have put in that disclaimer about the political incorrectness of that statement......
Ditto. With all the buzz around H.264 (possibly due to me having a Mac), I would have thought they would have used something different....
I remember being put in charge (still not sure how it happened, but it did) of my HS senior class's slideshow thing for the end of the year banquet, and everyone brought in 2 or 3 pictues to be scanned for it..... It wasn't fun........ But then again, for $10/hr, it couldn't have been any worse then most other crappy jobs....
Iraqi renegade (translated for your enjoyment): Is that..... Chewing I hear???? American Troop spying on them: They are saying something. Too bad we left our translator at base camp. Iraqi renegade: THERE THEY ARE!! SHOOT THE INFIDELS!!!
Although since they aren't part of the group pushing for it, it'll probably just allow them to half their Linux development staff by half..... Assuming there's more then one person as is......
Because this is an obvious effort to squash it without ditching the old-model's use of commercials and need to purchase a DVD for archiving an episode for watching later.
Let's see data transfer and storage catch up with this development to consider it an alternative to HDTV instead of it's eventual replacement....
Power limitations are easily gotten past though with a molex connector on the card (not really the best way, but it works). And I was referring more to decoding of things such as high res H.264 video when I mentioned the benefits to an older system being higher (I can't decode H.264 in software at very good speed, while newer systems could probably).
I've got an older AGP-based system (Athlon XP Barton), and this sounds like the perfect thing to speed up transcoding and playing of H.264 video. Too bad the irony will be that most systems with PCIe (and support for all these new cards) can play H.264 at a decent speed w/o this card (and transcode quite a bit faster then mine), while most systems that really need it would have to be upgraded in the first place. I know AGP has reached it's limit for 3D performance due to it's bandwidth limitations, but the implementation of GPU-assisted transcoding/decoding of H.264 sounds like something that would still be doable over AGP.
At the risk of sounding like a salesman like the article, Unison on OS X is probably the greatest Newsgroup client by far. I've used clients on Windows, Linux, and OS X, and this is the only one I've found that takes the globs of files for a certain "file", and groups them. So you just see one item to download, and not a few hundred. Although you still have to wait for groups to download, this view is very similar to indexing services like Guba and newzbin in which you get a nzb file that gives a single thing to download a "file". I really don't get why others have not implemented a similar view in their clients.
I do agree MythTV has potential. But until they can get a company to make a cheap (like around $200-$300) hardware box that will work as an idiot-proof Set-top box, it isn't going to make it big. As much as I hate MS, if they give the XBox 360 terminal services for WinXP: MCE (terminal being able to watch and choose what to record) without some obscure and crippled add-on (As I recall is available for the current XBox), they might be able to win me over. Apple would be smart to approach Sony about incorporating iTunes (and video) services into the PS3. They could probably revolutionize people's ideas of PVR with the server-client relationship. As I recall, each video license Apple gives out makes it valid for 5 devices. That could work out well w/ a server with 5 clients....
Don't they have ISP fees much like we do, whom probably pay the phone company for using their "pipes"?
Is there really anything wrong with that? Most large companies already outsource many jobs overseas. Since these people are not citizens, they may plan on making some money here, and spending it at home to improve their life there. There's nothing wrong with that morally of course, but that would be bad for the US economy. I don't know many foreign people that have worked in the US, but the few I have have eventually gone back to their native country. I might go to Japan someday and work. I wouldn't expect to get full pay as a foreigner though since it might not go back into their economy. Now if I was registered as a citizen and wasn't getting equal pay, then it might be something to bitch about.... But in typical working situations, people that get payed are expected to just put the money back into the economy, and that doesn't always happen w/ non-citizens.
I am still in college for CS, so I'm not really in the loop enough to know about the real-world application of programming, but I am split on this subject. Is it the developers fault bugs are in code? Yeah. But could it be helped? Probably not. The nature of programming alone makes it seem that almost everyone probably misses a few bugs (that are probably caught during testing before the product goes gold), since people do not work like computers. And from what I've heard, the time constraints for many projects probably don't allow for debugging and testing as much as they should. Hard set deadlines in large projects seem like a rough thing to work with since you never know how programming is going to go, and in crunch time, proper debugging seems like it would be the easiest part to skimp on to meet the deadline.
In that article, he statede that the ICANN is not running things smoothly. How exactly are they not that someone else could do better? The only problem I see w/ the ICANN in US control is the fact that the US has like 60% (pulled out of my ass, a very bad guess) of the ip registrations, when we have nowhere near 60% of the internet population. And how's IPV6 fit into this? Has ICANN even worked with it at all, or no? That would seem like the perfect opportunity for the UN to seize control.
I'll tell you who. Someone who would rather pay a little under 6 dollars for three TV episodes they want to buy instead of $15-$20 for a DVD of them in a post-broadcast flag world....
The threat of it becoming airborne is also a pretty big fear from what I've read, with good reason. If something such as AIDs became airborne, it would probably be a pretty safe assumption the human race would almost die, unless the drug companies to have vaccines and such for it hidden, which is another topic alltogether.
You have two people in front of you. One always tells the truth, and believes what he says is true, and will state so. The other one always lies, and believes in the opposite of the truth, and will state the opposite. Can you tell them apart by asking yes/no questions? I remember that confusing the hell outta me when I was younger in the movie Labyrinth I think..
Oh, and coffee with lotsa honey, suger, and oh yeah, don't forget the lard!!
There are pillows in my parents house that are 10 years old and still in use. I can't believe my mother refuses to throw them out and still uses them.... Pillows are not washed.... Thus, they would seem like something that should be replaced once every couple years at least....
Chopping of an audio track into seperate files, cutting decided on by x length of time passing w/ the amplitude of the soundwave being ~nil. One of them in the article looked like it has some scripting ability, so idk.
I'm in a foreign language course, and I'd like to find something that can split the vocab audio on the CD so I can match it with flashcards. Anyone know if any of these can do it w/o days worth of tinkering and research?
I glanced through the article, and I saw in one section that they complained about the small number of jacks on the back, and that 3 analog isn't enough for 8 channel (7.1) sound systems. With my S750 speakers, they use a special cord type. two that are 3-channel (like a stereo one, but with one more black seperator for 3 metal "layers" beneath the tip of the jack), and one that is 2-channel for 8 speaker sound. And my Creative decoder and speakers both came with a 3-to-4 jack cable so they can hook into 4-jack speaker systems. Intelligent idea to cram more onto each plug, don't think it's a standard, but it should be.