It clearly starts at 0. The dial is actully reading 9.
It would be really funny if it was an accident and it got all the way to be the winning image without anyone noticing--but there's probably a better explanation.
With napster, there was a central target. With BitTorrent, they would have to get each individual tracker. And many are hosted in countries with laws that allow the sites to exist legally. American laws don't have much weight in Sweden
Do you suppose there is a correlation between ripping of every f*cking piece of software you can and software companies creating intrusive systems to prevent piracy?
Only one of those theories has anything to do with science, and thus would be the only one that should be taught in a SCIENCE class. The other two belong in a theology class.
It doesn't matter if 99% of the people believed in id/creationism/scientology/FSMism, they're not science and have no place in a class room. In order for it to be scientific it must be able to be proven wrong, since all religions can simply say that '(the) god(s)' made it like that to trick us, you can't test for it, ergo religion (ANY religion) is not something that should be taught in a classroom.
I am more ashamed of the horrible and needless fire bombings of Dresden. Germany was defeated; it was a senseless waste of human life, and a loss of hundreds of years of culture. I can justify the a-bomb, military and industrial targets were hit including the factory that made the torpedoes that hit Pearl Harbor, but Dresden was a city of no military or strategic importance. You can make the case that the a-bomb saved lives by avoiding an invasion of mainland Japan, but there is no justification for what happened in Dresden.
Actually, I remember seeing this somewhere. I want to say it was on the old tech TV (back before G4 ran it into the ground). You hum the tune of the song or audio clip and it matches it to similar sounding audio files.
Interesting and fun, although not particularly useful, there are more efficient ways to search data (Metadata), although this way may be more natural to the way humans work. Not to mention the fact that it requires a rather time intensive process of creating profiles of each audio file to be matched against.
Well that wouldn't work for me. I max my upload speed out 24/7 and am using probably 2/3 of my download speed at any one time, I use a lot more than 5 GB per month.
Hardly. It's unfortunate that someone is labeled a troll just because they're pointing out an obvious discrepancy between what the average EA fan boy believes and reality.
The truth is that EA is notorious for their rabid release cycles at the cost of quality, short product lifetimes, and collusions with the hardware manufacturers. There are, sadly, some who will not, perhaps cannot, see this.
Bullshit. It works on the older (and slower) 8500 JUST because of the pixel shader. Don't buy into EA's lies, they could have EASILY added support for older shader models, this was nothing more than laziness made easy by the publics perception of how technology progresses.
There is no reason why this game shouldn't be able to run on a 1 GHz machine perfectly, consoles do it, partly because they only have one set of hardware to worry about, but there is still room for optimization on the PC. Developers have grown fat and lazy as hardware has increases in power. They no longer see any need to optimize because faster hardware will always pick up the slack.
Actually, it's a known problem with the Geforce4 and under series of graphics cards. EA knew this when they game was being developed. This means that at least 20% of PC gamers who can play Half-Life 2 perfectly cannot play the graphically inferior BF2 (According to Valve's hardware survey). BF2 uses pixel shader 1.4, Geforce4 cards only support up to pixel shader 1.3. EA has officially announced that they know about the problem and will not be doing anything about. They claim that the "obsolete" geforce4 will not render the game at an acceptable level of quality. This, in my opinion, is complete bullshit, since the game supports the SLOWER Radeon 8500, just because it supports ps1.4.
There is a community hack being developed to attempt to get the game to work, but it's very much just a kludge at this point.
All the same though, I don't buy EA anymore anyway. I even hear there is already an expansion pack that's nearly ready for release! I was laughing when I heard that, typical EA product life cycle. Launch, patch, patch, expansion, patch, expansion, launch new game, stop support of old game, patch, patch, expansion...
iTunes sales, however large when compared to other online music stores, are a drop in the bucket compared to all the mp3s that have been and still are being downloaded through all the free p2p networks.
AAC actually may be in second place, as I doubt WMA is more popular, but it is a very, very distant second.
I share his frustration. I recently tried SuSE 9.2 (I realize FC4 != SuSE) and was fairly impressed with it. Two things I could never get to work (After HOURS of reading FAQs and help documents and asking for help on linuxquestions.org) were playing video or getting the fonts to not look so damn fuzzy.
Being able to just PLAY a simple DVD or avi file is something that should just work, or be relatively painless to get working. Faced with this problem on Windows, I'm just a small download and a few install screens away from being able to play video/rip mp3s/burn CDs. On Linux, I can't figure it out for the life of me.
I'm going to check out FC4 tonight, so I'll see how it goes.
I don't use Clear Type in windows...so I don't know what point you're trying to make there. I know not what method is used in SuSE 9.2 to "smooth" the fonts but the result is nearly identical to using Clear Type in Windows. I would at least know how to fix it in Windows (If it WERE on by default, which it's not).
It's set by default to use aa fonts. To me, and many others by my observations, this results in blurry (some would say "smooth") fonts. Unlike the fonts in Windows that look crisp and are readable even at small sizes, the fonts (at least in that distro) must be set to a much larger size to be readable.
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Not quite. (PST)
That's one of the funniest things I've read today. And truthful.
/Really not kidding
//hates wine
///hates alcohol
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I wish I had saved a mod point for +1 informative.
It clearly starts at 0. The dial is actully reading 9.
It would be really funny if it was an accident and it got all the way to be the winning image without anyone noticing--but there's probably a better explanation.
I don't see any.
I think you're getting him mixed up with these guys. They're the real pirates here!
Argh!
With napster, there was a central target. With BitTorrent, they would have to get each individual tracker. And many are hosted in countries with laws that allow the sites to exist legally. American laws don't have much weight in Sweden
Hmm. I wonder what barrier to entry is keeping me from being able to use an invite only tracker?
Then build them on the west coast, we rarely have hurricanes here :D
Do you suppose there is a correlation between ripping of every f*cking piece of software you can and software companies creating intrusive systems to prevent piracy?
No.
XP Pro - Bittorent - 0$
MS Office 2003 - Bittorent - 0$
Every game you can think of - Bittorent - 0$
Total - 0$
Oh, and there are open source alternatives to most of the programs you mentioned, and some of them function better than their Apple equivalent.
Only one of those theories has anything to do with science, and thus would be the only one that should be taught in a SCIENCE class. The other two belong in a theology class.
It doesn't matter if 99% of the people believed in id/creationism/scientology/FSMism, they're not science and have no place in a class room. In order for it to be scientific it must be able to be proven wrong, since all religions can simply say that '(the) god(s)' made it like that to trick us, you can't test for it, ergo religion (ANY religion) is not something that should be taught in a classroom.
I am more ashamed of the horrible and needless fire bombings of Dresden. Germany was defeated; it was a senseless waste of human life, and a loss of hundreds of years of culture. I can justify the a-bomb, military and industrial targets were hit including the factory that made the torpedoes that hit Pearl Harbor, but Dresden was a city of no military or strategic importance. You can make the case that the a-bomb saved lives by avoiding an invasion of mainland Japan, but there is no justification for what happened in Dresden.
Actually, I remember seeing this somewhere. I want to say it was on the old tech TV (back before G4 ran it into the ground). You hum the tune of the song or audio clip and it matches it to similar sounding audio files.
(As I was writing this I remembered the name)
Query by hum, here is the website. querybyhum.cs.nyu.edu
Interesting and fun, although not particularly useful, there are more efficient ways to search data (Metadata), although this way may be more natural to the way humans work. Not to mention the fact that it requires a rather time intensive process of creating profiles of each audio file to be matched against.
Well that wouldn't work for me. I max my upload speed out 24/7 and am using probably 2/3 of my download speed at any one time, I use a lot more than 5 GB per month.
Well a lot of good it does, I can get anything I want through BT maxing out my down speed ~360 kB/s.
Hardly. It's unfortunate that someone is labeled a troll just because they're pointing out an obvious discrepancy between what the average EA fan boy believes and reality.
The truth is that EA is notorious for their rabid release cycles at the cost of quality, short product lifetimes, and collusions with the hardware manufacturers. There are, sadly, some who will not, perhaps cannot, see this.
Exactly the problem with charter here in Southern California. 3 mbit/s down 256 kbit/s up :(
They claim it's to stop "home server" use.
Bullshit. It works on the older (and slower) 8500 JUST because of the pixel shader. Don't buy into EA's lies, they could have EASILY added support for older shader models, this was nothing more than laziness made easy by the publics perception of how technology progresses.
There is no reason why this game shouldn't be able to run on a 1 GHz machine perfectly, consoles do it, partly because they only have one set of hardware to worry about, but there is still room for optimization on the PC. Developers have grown fat and lazy as hardware has increases in power. They no longer see any need to optimize because faster hardware will always pick up the slack.
Actually, it's a known problem with the Geforce4 and under series of graphics cards. EA knew this when they game was being developed. This means that at least 20% of PC gamers who can play Half-Life 2 perfectly cannot play the graphically inferior BF2 (According to Valve's hardware survey). BF2 uses pixel shader 1.4, Geforce4 cards only support up to pixel shader 1.3. EA has officially announced that they know about the problem and will not be doing anything about. They claim that the "obsolete" geforce4 will not render the game at an acceptable level of quality. This, in my opinion, is complete bullshit, since the game supports the SLOWER Radeon 8500, just because it supports ps1.4.
There is a community hack being developed to attempt to get the game to work, but it's very much just a kludge at this point.
All the same though, I don't buy EA anymore anyway. I even hear there is already an expansion pack that's nearly ready for release! I was laughing when I heard that, typical EA product life cycle. Launch, patch, patch, expansion, patch, expansion, launch new game, stop support of old game, patch, patch, expansion...
iTunes sales, however large when compared to other online music stores, are a drop in the bucket compared to all the mp3s that have been and still are being downloaded through all the free p2p networks.
AAC actually may be in second place, as I doubt WMA is more popular, but it is a very, very distant second.
I share his frustration. I recently tried SuSE 9.2 (I realize FC4 != SuSE) and was fairly impressed with it. Two things I could never get to work (After HOURS of reading FAQs and help documents and asking for help on linuxquestions.org) were playing video or getting the fonts to not look so damn fuzzy.
Being able to just PLAY a simple DVD or avi file is something that should just work, or be relatively painless to get working. Faced with this problem on Windows, I'm just a small download and a few install screens away from being able to play video/rip mp3s/burn CDs. On Linux, I can't figure it out for the life of me.
I'm going to check out FC4 tonight, so I'll see how it goes.
I don't use Clear Type in windows...so I don't know what point you're trying to make there. I know not what method is used in SuSE 9.2 to "smooth" the fonts but the result is nearly identical to using Clear Type in Windows. I would at least know how to fix it in Windows (If it WERE on by default, which it's not).
SuSE 9.2 Pro.
It's set by default to use aa fonts. To me, and many others by my observations, this results in blurry (some would say "smooth") fonts. Unlike the fonts in Windows that look crisp and are readable even at small sizes, the fonts (at least in that distro) must be set to a much larger size to be readable.
No, that would be the blood pooling in your extremities causing a mild delirium.
So I guess you really weren't trying to be funny.