SourceForge said in a FAQ (IIRC of course) that they are waiting until a production version of SVN comes out. Now, when will they implement it? I'm waiting pretty anxiously.
Wrong. If you are optimizing without the guidance of a profiler you are wasting your time. Unless you knowingly put a bottleneck in you are merely shooting in the dark. And don't confuse choosing proper algorithms and data structures with optimization, either.
Don't be ridiculous.
Did MS make those themes for Mozilla? Of course not. You are completely missing the point. Then again they are infamous for not reading the articles at Neowin as well.
Oh please, this has nothing to do whatsoever with circumvention of any technology protecting copyrights. Take off your tinfoil hat.
Since this is slashdot, however, I can just see someone replying to this post: "Maybe it does violate the DMCA, but I'm gonna fight the MAN by cheating in a video game! It's the moral thing to do!"
Remember on Slashdot, everything MS does is to screw the whole world over. Thats all they're made to do, right? So feel free to continue to whine about how this will 'kill' XBox 2 and other similarly wild conjectures that the Internet is home to.
Rather amusing that people are so thin-skinned. "Our precious community is so hurt by these events!" Who actually gives out apologies these days? Geeks, of all people, should know that, that is especially true on this site. One minute everyone is flaming each other, then all the sudden they are sensitive when picked on by big bad Microsoft/SCO/(evil corporation). Nobody admits they're wrong, they just move on and ignore past mistakes.
It is rather presumptuous to expect big media to come out and say, "we are very sorry for insinuating that OSS had a connection with this event." Get over yourselves.
I'm talking about getting music for free from P2P apps. US citizens continually justify their copyright infringement by playing games with semantics and generally side-stepping the question. Even with legalized music sharing I'd still want to compensate an artist for their work if I actually didn't get tired of the music.
I do agree that WMA pretty much destroys music files and that any service that tries to sell me a DRM product just won't fly with me. I think in a year or so there will be a service that really understands the desire for legal, high quality (greater than 192kbps) MP3s/Oggs. I also think that someone could launch a service solely devoted to broadening musical horizons and do well while staying legal. But since we've grown accustomed to free, everything else looks expensive by comparison. Give it some time.
Because we don't like 12 year olds screwing with filenames, ripping at horrid bitrates and sorting through looped sequences. P2P is a wasteland nowadays. I'm sure someone will point to me to a new service that is currently 'cool' because it is undiscovered but for the most part P2P is all the same. If you're cheap you'll find a way to steal music, but the mainstream appeal really takes its toll on the overall quality.
I'd rather work an hour more a week (which I usually enjoy doing) and buy the CD with a clean conscience. Good CDs come with extras nowadays as well. And when music is good I have no problem paying for the CD.
Then again most users on Slashdot use P2P networks thinking they are fighting the man. How convienent that these "freedom fighters" can also indulge their need for free music at the same time.
I love the double standards here on Slashdot. Everyone cries that CDs are overpriced and that you'd prefer to compensate the artist directly. Yet the high quality episodes are only available to paying subscribers and the parent comment is a link to a torrent that gives you that materal for free. Whats more, this comment is marked informative. Never mind the fact it advocates not compensating the creators of this series.
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Usually the insults that people hurl at others apply more to the person dishing them out than the target. Amazing that people cannot simply let others enjoy what they are doing. Even geeks will happily tear each other apart over the Internet. It is sad that mutual respect is the exception, rather than the norm. This is especially apparent at discussion boards.
A bit elitist, but I used to hold that viewpoint. Anyway I don't think people are just sheep, I think that maybe they are just misguided. Meaning that they can sit down and sort through things and make their own mind up, but maybe they just haven't had the chance yet.
Don't forget VGMix, which I'd rank as superior to OC Remix in every way. Look up a song like "Destiny, zyko - Dragon's Prayer," and try and tell me that video game music remixes cannot be great.
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Ahh I see. So the solution is to develop and sell proprietary software for open and free systems, right? ;)
SourceForge said in a FAQ (IIRC of course) that they are waiting until a production version of SVN comes out. Now, when will they implement it? I'm waiting pretty anxiously.
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He calls VB a computer language.
This is a book review, not a discussion of C++ itself.
...you don't let engineers do your marketing.
Thank you for the contrived example all because I neglected to put "probably" in there.
Wrong. If you are optimizing without the guidance of a profiler you are wasting your time. Unless you knowingly put a bottleneck in you are merely shooting in the dark. And don't confuse choosing proper algorithms and data structures with optimization, either.
Don't be ridiculous. Did MS make those themes for Mozilla? Of course not. You are completely missing the point. Then again they are infamous for not reading the articles at Neowin as well.
Oh please, this has nothing to do whatsoever with circumvention of any technology protecting copyrights. Take off your tinfoil hat.
Since this is slashdot, however, I can just see someone replying to this post:
"Maybe it does violate the DMCA, but I'm gonna fight the MAN by cheating in a video game! It's the moral thing to do!"
It'd be modded a mixture of funny and insightful.
Methinks you have the wrong tool for the job.
Remember on Slashdot, everything MS does is to screw the whole world over. Thats all they're made to do, right? So feel free to continue to whine about how this will 'kill' XBox 2 and other similarly wild conjectures that the Internet is home to.
Lest I not have a job anymore. :)
Rather amusing that people are so thin-skinned. "Our precious community is so hurt by these events!" Who actually gives out apologies these days? Geeks, of all people, should know that, that is especially true on this site. One minute everyone is flaming each other, then all the sudden they are sensitive when picked on by big bad Microsoft/SCO/(evil corporation). Nobody admits they're wrong, they just move on and ignore past mistakes.
It is rather presumptuous to expect big media to come out and say, "we are very sorry for insinuating that OSS had a connection with this event." Get over yourselves.
WinRAR has the most horrid UI of most any program out there.
Wow that sounds almost as intelligible as some of the Ogg slashbots trying to make a point!
If you think CS has good gameplay then you have a lot of other games you need to try.
Yes, instead of replying to me, just mod me down from 5 to 1. Are you denying that P2P files are crappy? Or do you take offense at the last statement?
I suspect the latter. If you really cared about fighting the man you'd donate to the EFF. But you don't, you just want free music.
No.
I'm talking about getting music for free from P2P apps. US citizens continually justify their copyright infringement by playing games with semantics and generally side-stepping the question. Even with legalized music sharing I'd still want to compensate an artist for their work if I actually didn't get tired of the music.
I do agree that WMA pretty much destroys music files and that any service that tries to sell me a DRM product just won't fly with me. I think in a year or so there will be a service that really understands the desire for legal, high quality (greater than 192kbps) MP3s/Oggs. I also think that someone could launch a service solely devoted to broadening musical horizons and do well while staying legal. But since we've grown accustomed to free, everything else looks expensive by comparison. Give it some time.
Because we don't like 12 year olds screwing with filenames, ripping at horrid bitrates and sorting through looped sequences. P2P is a wasteland nowadays. I'm sure someone will point to me to a new service that is currently 'cool' because it is undiscovered but for the most part P2P is all the same. If you're cheap you'll find a way to steal music, but the mainstream appeal really takes its toll on the overall quality.
I'd rather work an hour more a week (which I usually enjoy doing) and buy the CD with a clean conscience. Good CDs come with extras nowadays as well. And when music is good I have no problem paying for the CD.
Then again most users on Slashdot use P2P networks thinking they are fighting the man. How convienent that these "freedom fighters" can also indulge their need for free music at the same time.
I love the double standards here on Slashdot. Everyone cries that CDs are overpriced and that you'd prefer to compensate the artist directly. Yet the high quality episodes are only available to paying subscribers and the parent comment is a link to a torrent that gives you that materal for free. Whats more, this comment is marked informative. Never mind the fact it advocates not compensating the creators of this series.
Usually the insults that people hurl at others apply more to the person dishing them out than the target. Amazing that people cannot simply let others enjoy what they are doing. Even geeks will happily tear each other apart over the Internet. It is sad that mutual respect is the exception, rather than the norm. This is especially apparent at discussion boards.
A bit elitist, but I used to hold that viewpoint. Anyway I don't think people are just sheep, I think that maybe they are just misguided. Meaning that they can sit down and sort through things and make their own mind up, but maybe they just haven't had the chance yet.
Says the optimist in me.
Don't forget VGMix, which I'd rank as superior to OC Remix in every way. Look up a song like "Destiny, zyko - Dragon's Prayer," and try and tell me that video game music remixes cannot be great.
Most online forums (Slashdot included) are anything but civil. Much less mature.