DVDs and Blu-Ray in this case, while random access, don't take advantage of that too often. Seek time isn't too important when most data is being read sequentially anyway. It's more important in situations where the data could be loaded from different areas of the media in endless different combinations.
I don't know about you, but I have always read it within the context of the user's rights, not anybody else's. With that in mind, it has always sounded stronger than "restrictions" to me since it's talking about limiting the general population's rights when it comes to digital media. In fact, I thought that was the original acronym which and had been transformed into "rights" over time.
First, they're going to install communication systems on all cars, then I'm going to lose all my points on my cab-driving license after the car phones home during an accident, then they're going to ask me to save the universe.
You must be new here. All Linux (and Unix) distributions are rated solely by how easy the installer is to use. This goes for pretty much all review sites as well.
Never mind what happens should you ever change any settings on the system, it gets five stars if it comes with OpenOffice preinstalled.
Trollish, I know, but it's true. It's mostly attributed to reviewers' unwillingness to run the OS for more than ten minutes.
Half-Life 2 is a bad example. Pretty much every torrent for HL2 on torrent sites was a joke. 90% had bad trackers, the remaining usually had no seeds, etc.
That being said, I'm enjoying my Silver Steam edition of the game. Deathmatch is awesome even is there are only two official maps. I am the toilet master!
Yes I agree We've quit using MSEI as the primary browser, shortly after Balmer testified that EI was too tightly integrated with windows to remove. I don't let the kids play with guns either.
So that means tou have guns integrated into you house? I gotta see this!
There's a javascript trick where the question just reappears if the user clicks no.
Those are never infinite. While I doubt there isn't a way to crate infinite loops in Java, it's probably that way because the site admins want to check the content every once in a while (and its functionality - with all plugins enabled) without getting creamed.
The workaround has always been to click "Cancel" several times until it stops. Of course, this is now much less than obvious in IE6 SP2, especially if you're not brave: you have to click "Install" on the information bar before you click "Cancel" on the ActiveX install dialog that comes up.
It now happens with Firefox too. One site I visited tried to force me to install an xpi extension complete with a "you must click yes" pop up box. Dismissing it still let me access the link however.
How was that possible? Did you add "*" your list of trusted XPI sites or something? Either way, those "you must click yes" dialogs only occur a finite number of times. Even when I used IE, I could get around that crap by just hitting "Cancel" four or five times.
The new information bar in IE makes it worse in my opinion. It is now easier for the site to visualize for the user how to unblock ActiveX installs through a Flash applet that points directly at the controls on the information bar and instructs on exactly what to click to get it to install their garbage.
Well, it makes sense after a while. It's better than what window managers are doing to make things "easier to use". I actually saw icons on my Gnome desktop that didn't have a regular name, but were called something like d786f9786sdf896sd897f6sd897f6s90d86f897as6f-398472 9034.lnk with the real name buried somewhere deep in metadata.
KDE isn't innocent to this either. The menu systems on both KDE and Gnome are so obtuse, I'll never begin to understand it. (Which seems to be pretty important, considering how often it breaks)
Back on topic, I don't think that/mnt/floppy (or/media/floppy in many distros - more intuitive) is anymore confusing than A:\ was before casual computers became familiar with DOS.
I mean, think about it, for 50 years cars were being made and the corporations that made them became big 800lb gorillas. But then look, here comes Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Geo, Saturn, Lexus, Kia and now Scion.
Besides the rebrands, most of the more recent car companies' success was based on the opportunity of American ones sucking too much at the time (80's) as well as economic issues (70's fuel crisis). (At least now the quality surpasses many European cars).
Unfortunately, people's tolerance for crappy tech products seems to be much lower.
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DVDs and Blu-Ray in this case, while random access, don't take advantage of that too often. Seek time isn't too important when most data is being read sequentially anyway. It's more important in situations where the data could be loaded from different areas of the media in endless different combinations.
Bytes (B) or bits (b)?
You must be new here.
503, 503, 503, 503, 503, damn...
I don't know about you, but I have always read it within the context of the user's rights, not anybody else's. With that in mind, it has always sounded stronger than "restrictions" to me since it's talking about limiting the general population's rights when it comes to digital media. In fact, I thought that was the original acronym which and had been transformed into "rights" over time.
I am the shotgunner! Nobody has ever gotten me off their cell phone!
...and now the phone have started to vibrate...
Skroob: ..and change the combination on my luggage!
(exits)
Dark Helmet: (following behind Skroob, door closes on head) OW!
What did you want me to do with it in that situation? Elliot was hurt pretty bad.
Now please excuse me while I levitate and fall back into a pit several hundred times over the next hour...
You mean like this guy?
First, they're going to install communication systems on all cars, then I'm going to lose all my points on my cab-driving license after the car phones home during an accident, then they're going to ask me to save the universe.
...Multipass!
..or not the boss.
Anyone who nuts on windows gets eaten!
You must be new here. All Linux (and Unix) distributions are rated solely by how easy the installer is to use. This goes for pretty much all review sites as well.
Never mind what happens should you ever change any settings on the system, it gets five stars if it comes with OpenOffice preinstalled.
Trollish, I know, but it's true. It's mostly attributed to reviewers' unwillingness to run the OS for more than ten minutes.
N.O. M.A.A.M.
If it was OEM with a computer, I have sympathy. If it was retail, then *point* HAAAAAAhAHAHAHaHAHAhahaha!
(Computer came with ME, downgraded to 98; now have Windows XP and Debian)
Half-Life 2 is a bad example. Pretty much every torrent for HL2 on torrent sites was a joke. 90% had bad trackers, the remaining usually had no seeds, etc.
That being said, I'm enjoying my Silver Steam edition of the game. Deathmatch is awesome even is there are only two official maps. I am the toilet master!
sware (swâr)
v. Archaic
A past tense of swear.
Unless, of course, you were reading it at http://www.silentdragz%20.net/suprfaq
All those in favor of defending organizations whose acronyms consist of four letters ending in "-AA", raise your right hands.
Nay! Down with college athletics!
Yeah, they are certainly robber barrons...
Book notes?
It's a good thing you preempted that. We wouldn't want people to undermine your grammar and spelling.
Yes I agree We've quit using MSEI as the primary browser, shortly after Balmer testified that EI was too tightly integrated with windows to remove. I don't let the kids play with guns either.
So that means tou have guns integrated into you house? I gotta see this!
There's a javascript trick where the question just reappears if the user clicks no.
Those are never infinite. While I doubt there isn't a way to crate infinite loops in Java, it's probably that way because the site admins want to check the content every once in a while (and its functionality - with all plugins enabled) without getting creamed.
The workaround has always been to click "Cancel" several times until it stops. Of course, this is now much less than obvious in IE6 SP2, especially if you're not brave: you have to click "Install" on the information bar before you click "Cancel" on the ActiveX install dialog that comes up.
It now happens with Firefox too. One site I visited tried to force me to install an xpi extension complete with a "you must click yes" pop up box. Dismissing it still let me access the link however.
How was that possible? Did you add "*" your list of trusted XPI sites or something? Either way, those "you must click yes" dialogs only occur a finite number of times. Even when I used IE, I could get around that crap by just hitting "Cancel" four or five times.
The new information bar in IE makes it worse in my opinion. It is now easier for the site to visualize for the user how to unblock ActiveX installs through a Flash applet that points directly at the controls on the information bar and instructs on exactly what to click to get it to install their garbage.
Well, it makes sense after a while. It's better than what window managers are doing to make things "easier to use". I actually saw icons on my Gnome desktop that didn't have a regular name, but were called something like d786f9786sdf896sd897f6sd897f6s90d86f897as6f-398472 9034.lnk with the real name buried somewhere deep in metadata.
/mnt/floppy (or /media/floppy in many distros - more intuitive) is anymore confusing than A:\ was before casual computers became familiar with DOS.
KDE isn't innocent to this either. The menu systems on both KDE and Gnome are so obtuse, I'll never begin to understand it. (Which seems to be pretty important, considering how often it breaks)
Back on topic, I don't think that
I mean, think about it, for 50 years cars were being made and the corporations that made them became big 800lb gorillas. But then look, here comes Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Geo, Saturn, Lexus, Kia and now Scion.
Besides the rebrands, most of the more recent car companies' success was based on the opportunity of American ones sucking too much at the time (80's) as well as economic issues (70's fuel crisis). (At least now the quality surpasses many European cars).
Unfortunately, people's tolerance for crappy tech products seems to be much lower.