No way were there 65 million Napster users, I know I generated 4 accounts and only used it for 2 months. It's the same as saying AIM has however many users they claim. No way do that many discrete people use it.
No, we just went back to the proper Germanic spellings that you guys lost when the French kicked your sorry asses. British English is a bastardisation of a fine language with the awfulness of French. Don't be proud of it.
Electric cars have mad acceleration, even when they're based on the bodies of Neons or such. They have for at least a few years, capable of slaughtering Mustang GTs from a stoplight, easily, and driving on the highway. Do some research.
Hey, my headphones happen to be Sennheiser HD570s, they'll damn well show more of the artifacts than a LOT of speaker systems. Don't assume all headphones are those little behind the neck models with "MEGA-BASS" all over the packaging.
You can't take data from one medium and transfer it to another at HIGHER quality, you can at best make them equal. You CANNOT add data to the second and have it be what the first one lost, reliably. And tell me what encoder will do 384/96.
My most humble apologies, I had been under the impression we were actually arguing. I don't hold anything against Linux, and only against some of its users.
Yes, people in poorer countries get seriously hurt by MS, but by their software prices more than RAM prices. For me, each of the several flavors of Linux I've tried has horribly misbehaved on my "supported" system, each in a different way, and these were modern distros, installed by people who knew how to do it. Yet whenever I install a Windows, even the allegedly bitchy 2k, it works perfectly from the start. I'm also not a stranger to the command line, I've been around computers literally since I was born, and using them longer than I can remember, right back to DOS 3.x. However, I do prefer a GUI and mouse to CLI and keyboard for running my computer, it just feels better to me, and I have the money for a computer that can run them acceptaby. If you prefer to use Linux, do please, by all means, MS must lose its stranglehold; I'd use Be if it had more software, and bought a copy anyway to support them.
Again, I apologize for the agressive tones of my previous posts, if you don't have a problem with me preferring MS software, despite its higher system requirements, I have no problem with you preferring Linux. Your earlier posts had given me the impression you were a zealot bashing Windows, this was wrong. Peace.
There is a limit to what can be done with insufficient hardware. Adding new features and moving forward naturally requires more resources. Get over it and learn that to run recent retail software you may need hardware less than a few years old.
Dear lord no, we can't go buy more RAM, we might have to spend as much as $50 for that 128 megs. It's obviously more useful in making a computer faster, so why complain that if you make an ass-retarded box with 64megs and a 1.3gig cpu that MS software won't be too happy? That would be a stupid desktop machine for Linux too. Be sane when you pick parts, get lots of RAM (it's crazy cheap, in case you didn't notice), and whatever software you get will be happy. Don't blame MS for making software that's slow on a stupidly built machine.
What do you mean, Linux has always been a hell of a lot easier to install than Windows? Not once has Windows of any variety given me any trouble on install, whereas every time either I install any flavor of Linux, or a Linux user installs their flavor of Linux on my box, it uniformly is far more complex than Windows and has NEVER worked properly. My machine has standard parts all through it, GeForce, 815mobo, SB Live, 3Com 3c905b, and yet Linux can't seem to work properly.
I dunno, I've managed to do very nice installs of 95, 98se, 2k, and BeOS, yet every time I try to install a *nix something goes wrong and I go back to my closed source oses that I can actually make work. Which is not to say I think closed source is inherently better, before I get flamed.
Like I said, I've installed Win2k on several different machines, I've installed BeOS, Win98, and all three of those had far superior installs to any *nix I've ever tried to install. I've never met in person anyone who has had trouble installing 2k.
I have no idea why everyone claims to have such trouble installing 2k, I've done it personally a half dozen times and know people who have done another dozen, the SINGLE issue was on an ancient machine with a hard drive fubared by EZ-BIOS. That's it.
No, newer cards need the newer drivers in order to make use of their new features, but you weren't worried about that, you wanted updated drivers for old cards. This provides this. Yes, the detonators at any version will work for any chipset from TnT to GeForce3, and performance gains and added OS compatibility ARE added to older cards. Yeah, nVidia drivers are sweet as Hell, just wish they would make a real driver for Be, if ATI has a card capable of nicely running Doom3 when that's available that's probably what I'll get...
But the example you gave of a company giving you an encrypted product will always fall under the DMCA, so it really IS relevant, since you AREN'T free to disassemble or reverse engineer the product.
Regretfully, I cannot speak for Maxwellian quantum physics, but I do know that macroevolution is speciation, the evolution of, say, dragonflies from butterflies, if that occurred, or something similar. Microevolution, on the other hand, is refinement of a specific species, such as different breeds of dogs having evolved to different environments.
We have seen microevolution in such cases as antibiotic-resistant bacteria, but we have never seen one species evolve into a sexually incompatible one. Microevolution is provably factual, macroevolution is not.
Generally, people mean agnostic as not belonging to any organized religion. Agnostics do not attend a specific church where they are preached at that they do not know if God exists. The same situation is true for atheists, atheism means not believing in/following a god, but, again, is not a religion in the sense that atheists don't go to a church on given days and listen to someone tell them God does not exist.
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Yes, people in poorer countries get seriously hurt by MS, but by their software prices more than RAM prices. For me, each of the several flavors of Linux I've tried has horribly misbehaved on my "supported" system, each in a different way, and these were modern distros, installed by people who knew how to do it. Yet whenever I install a Windows, even the allegedly bitchy 2k, it works perfectly from the start. I'm also not a stranger to the command line, I've been around computers literally since I was born, and using them longer than I can remember, right back to DOS 3.x. However, I do prefer a GUI and mouse to CLI and keyboard for running my computer, it just feels better to me, and I have the money for a computer that can run them acceptaby. If you prefer to use Linux, do please, by all means, MS must lose its stranglehold; I'd use Be if it had more software, and bought a copy anyway to support them.
Again, I apologize for the agressive tones of my previous posts, if you don't have a problem with me preferring MS software, despite its higher system requirements, I have no problem with you preferring Linux. Your earlier posts had given me the impression you were a zealot bashing Windows, this was wrong. Peace.
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We have seen microevolution in such cases as antibiotic-resistant bacteria, but we have never seen one species evolve into a sexually incompatible one. Microevolution is provably factual, macroevolution is not.
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