You confounded Limeys, always preferring moderate excess in everything.;o)
In the interview with the Cute Chick...
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one of the questions is, "The show's filmed in front of a live studio audience. Did you find it difficult not to crack up in front of them?"
There's another question the actress's past performance in a stage show called "Deep Throat". (Channel 4, prepare for Slashdotting!)
Future episodes that I look forward to:
#11 "The CD/DVD Tray Is Not A Coffee Holder" #13 "The CEO Nails Roy In The Head With His Chair" #14 "Roy Utterly Bungles His Google Telephone Interview" #17 "Meet Your New Colleagues In Bangalore" #21 "Moss Disguises Himself As Steve Jobs To Hit On The Receptionist" #24 "Avoiding Another Dot-Com Bubble By Cooperating With Oppressive Regimes" #25 "The CD/DVD Tray Is Not A Coffee Holder, Part 2"
Other standards not ubiquitous yet. Not everybody listens exclusivly on their media PC.
So you mean "ubiquity": "market penetration and mindshare".
I do not believe that MP3 has "won". In fact, over time, MP3 has been "losing". In any case, the uninformed consumer doesn't care about audio formats.
For example I recently purchased an inexpensive DVD mp3 player for my truck.
In fact, consumers have voted overwhelmingly for AAC by purchasing iPods. This is true even if you yourself don't own an iPod. (Neither do I.)
MP3 is used in consumer electronics because it's recognizable to uninformed consumers.
But Vorbis and FLAC mostly don't exist in the same space. Audiophiles, computer-geek audiophiles, and open-source users are not uninformed consumers. MP3 has no way of "defeating" these formats. The advantages of these formats are 1) no patents, and 2) better quality.
Computers and audio encoding have changed the music industry from the studio all the way to the shelf of the music store -- and it will continue to change.
How is winning format a dumb notion? Did'nt VHS win in your world? It owned a market space untill the technology was over.
I was just waiting for the VHS/Betamax analogy to appear.;o)
The analogy is inappropriate. You can call it the first widely known audio format but it is dumb to call MP3 the "winning format". Commercially, it has lost to AAC. In quality, it loses to AAC, Vorbis, and automatically to any lossless format (WAV, FLAC, Apple). In portability, it loses to patentless formats.
A better analogy is file systems. MP3 is like FAT. You can still use FAT and be content -- it will be recognized. Most computer users haven't a clue about it. But other files systems are better and they have not "lost".
But for those of use with a brain it looks like MP3s are the winning music format.
Dear Those Of Us With A Brain (TOUWAB), there is no "winning" format. That's a dumb notion.
Whatever we like best is what we'll use. And free formats such as FLAC and OGG are widely used and will not disappear -- especially when they are ~better~ formats than MP3 and hard disks have so much storage space that even FLAC can become the audiophile's preference.
The fact that all the measurements were taken on a Sunday means that the figure isn't accurate for the whole market, though, since business PCs tend to have lower Firefox usage rates.
In the original French article, they do say that there is a little variation in Europe between the browser statistics on Sunday and those during the week, due to the tendency of businesses to be wary (of what they don't understand).
but the fact that this vulnerability existed throughout the Windows line kinda seems odd.
The function in question has existed for a long time. The exploit is in Windows 2000 and more recent. From the transcript:
But the only conclusion I can draw is that there has been code from at least Windows 2000 on, and in all current versions, and even, you know, future versions, until it was discovered, which was deliberately put in there by some group, we don't know at what level or how large in Microsoft, that gave them the ability that they who knew how to get their Windows systems to silently and secretly run code contained in an image, those people would be able to do that on remotely located Windows machines...
What really annoys me to tears is that NO ONE KNOWS WHAT DEUS EX MACHINA MEAN!!!!
Dear fellow literary person, I do know what the phrase means. But if literary lapses drive you mad, you must medicate yourself heavily before reading Slashdot.;o)
Here's hoping that they have a consultant on the show to make it technically accurate.
If technically accurate, the characters will be males reading Slashdot, downloading pr0n, virus-scanning Windows boxes, eating pizza, and quarrelling intensely about Perl and Python.
Digg was designed by some talented people, but Digg is inhabited by incorrigible dunderheads whose comments are digital bumfodder.
The strength of Slashdot is its discussions. If you think that TFA is crap, I entreat you to peruse the One-Eyed Cat With No Nose article on Digg.
The rumours of Slashdot's death are greatly exaggerated and largely promoted by members of the Digg crowd, with the occasional assistance from Slashdotters who insist on presenting us their own damnably clever variations on the themes of Beowulf, Soviet Russia, and the welcoming of Overlords.
This is not to say that a wave of Dubya-level imbecility on the part of certain Tacos and Cowboys could ~not~ destroy Slashdot. But we're hardly there yet.
Slashdot Mirror
Microsoft announces a new campaign targetting Linux called "Get The Quantum Facts".
Netcraft announces that BSD is both dead and not dead as it tops all the server uptime lists.
Google unveils beta Zen Search, which does not work.
is ~exactly~ what has kept me from jumping in to fix bugs.
That, and the fact that it takes several hours to compile the product.
As improbable as it may seem, there remain some people who exist outside of the modern economy.
I, for example, have never used a lawyer.
You confounded Limeys, always preferring moderate excess in everything.
one of the questions is, "The show's filmed in front of a live studio audience. Did you find it difficult not to crack up in front of them?"
There's another question the actress's past performance in a stage show called "Deep Throat". (Channel 4, prepare for Slashdotting!)
Future episodes that I look forward to:
#11 "The CD/DVD Tray Is Not A Coffee Holder"
#13 "The CEO Nails Roy In The Head With His Chair"
#14 "Roy Utterly Bungles His Google Telephone Interview"
#17 "Meet Your New Colleagues In Bangalore"
#21 "Moss Disguises Himself As Steve Jobs To Hit On The Receptionist"
#24 "Avoiding Another Dot-Com Bubble By Cooperating With Oppressive Regimes"
#25 "The CD/DVD Tray Is Not A Coffee Holder, Part 2"
You're right, of course. I was being casual, with the usual consequence of inaccuracy. The file extension is not the format.
So you mean "ubiquity": "market penetration and mindshare".
I do not believe that MP3 has "won". In fact, over time, MP3 has been "losing". In any case, the uninformed consumer doesn't care about audio formats.
In fact, consumers have voted overwhelmingly for AAC by purchasing iPods. This is true even if you yourself don't own an iPod. (Neither do I.)
MP3 is used in consumer electronics because it's recognizable to uninformed consumers.
But Vorbis and FLAC mostly don't exist in the same space. Audiophiles, computer-geek audiophiles, and open-source users are not uninformed consumers. MP3 has no way of "defeating" these formats. The advantages of these formats are 1) no patents, and 2) better quality.
Computers and audio encoding have changed the music industry from the studio all the way to the shelf of the music store -- and it will continue to change.
I was just waiting for the VHS/Betamax analogy to appear.
The analogy is inappropriate. You can call it the first widely known audio format but it is dumb to call MP3 the "winning format". Commercially, it has lost to AAC. In quality, it loses to AAC, Vorbis, and automatically to any lossless format (WAV, FLAC, Apple). In portability, it loses to patentless formats.
A better analogy is file systems. MP3 is like FAT. You can still use FAT and be content -- it will be recognized. Most computer users haven't a clue about it. But other files systems are better and they have not "lost".
Dear Those Of Us With A Brain (TOUWAB), there is no "winning" format. That's a dumb notion.
Whatever we like best is what we'll use. And free formats such as FLAC and OGG are widely used and will not disappear -- especially when they are ~better~ formats than MP3 and hard disks have so much storage space that even FLAC can become the audiophile's preference.
In the original French article, they do say that there is a little variation in Europe between the browser statistics on Sunday and those during the week, due to the tendency of businesses to be wary (of what they don't understand).
Look at the chart at the bottom of this page:
http://www.xitimonitor.com/etudes/equipement12.as
The variation is notable but not very much.
And certainly NEVER do it in front of a Web cam.
That way, the results may be completely unexpected and unpredictable and it will be OK.
Obviously, you don't know ~me~, Sir.
I use infrared for exchanging data between Palm Pilot (Vx), mobile telephone (Nokia), and notebook (ThinkPad). Have done so for the last seven years.
FYI -- Microsoft has announced that it is extending support for XP Home.
Link: http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CIaNID=21
Further testing confirms that the M-Windows 9x code base does not have the problem.
http://www.grc.com/groups/news.feedback:60315
The function in question has existed for a long time. The exploit is in Windows 2000 and more recent. From the transcript:
Dear fellow literary person, I do know what the phrase means. But if literary lapses drive you mad, you must medicate yourself heavily before reading Slashdot.
"There's no way we'll let Google own the Deus ex machina market space! I'll f***ing kill those guys!" {sound of chair striking Bateman print}
If technically accurate, the characters will be males reading Slashdot, downloading pr0n, virus-scanning Windows boxes, eating pizza, and quarrelling intensely about Perl and Python.
I predict low ratings.
Digg was designed by some talented people, but Digg is inhabited by incorrigible dunderheads whose comments are digital bumfodder.
The strength of Slashdot is its discussions. If you think that TFA is crap, I entreat you to peruse the One-Eyed Cat With No Nose article on Digg.
The rumours of Slashdot's death are greatly exaggerated and largely promoted by members of the Digg crowd, with the occasional assistance from Slashdotters who insist on presenting us their own damnably clever variations on the themes of Beowulf, Soviet Russia, and the welcoming of Overlords.
This is not to say that a wave of Dubya-level imbecility on the part of certain Tacos and Cowboys could ~not~ destroy Slashdot. But we're hardly there yet.
Or, in Digg-speak, "OMG U R 2 cluless LMAO!!!!"
Q. What are my chances of meeting a g-g-girl at the Symposium?
A. We'd all like to read your white paper about that.
I spent about two days of my holiday fixing my host's heavily infected computer. What had he been relying on? Norton Internet Security.
Painting your face and doing dances to appease the Gods will protect your computer as much.
And my myopia, plantar fascitis, and unibrow were cured!
Norris could trigger a cataclysmic earthquake all the way down the West coast with just one round-house kick to Redmond.
There's a great fit, especially in the Ethics Department.
Why not make this one of a subscriber's privileges?