Microsoft UI Design document recommended a File, Edit and Help menu for all Windows applications. If you don't have it, you risk users thinking your product is inferiour since it doesn't adapt to The Windows Standard(TM). If you still think this is crazy, just boot up your favorite linux distro sometime and look for a UI design standard across the apps.. there is none (or if there is, its loosly enforced giving the presentation of a mismash of second-rate products.
Since you obviously haven't used a Linux distro since 1994, I think I should enlighten you to the fact that both KDE and GNOME have their own user interface standards, and all their applications follow it. Although I feel KDE does it much better, both are a hell of a lot more consistent than Windows (especially Vista).
GCC is already architectured such that it's trivial to optimise the compiled code for any architecture, new or old. Parent's idea is pretty much wrong.
Easynews is superb, but they cost money. You will max out your connection while downloading from them; it's great! (I don't work for them or anyone for that matter right now)
Also, unlike e-mail which is standardized, IM is currently intentionally broken by the entrenched players who are trying to gain complete control. E-mail did not take off until AOL and other players agreed to a standard and you could send mail to anyone using your choice of client and server. When this happened, competition made them all better and now it is indispensable. If and when the same thing happens for IM, it will explode in popularity and usefulness.
Although, who would want to seed a 20+ GB torrent for a single movie? Maybe for an entire large anime or all the seasons of a TV show, but not a single movie. Unless we actually get the bandwidth we paid the telcos for (taxes), torrenting something like that just isn't worth it right now.
And yes, people will be buying it. Halo addicts who want to play the next version are forced to go with this OS because the next Direct X just won't work on any other OS. *cough*bullshit*cough*
And ironically, Halo 2 Vista will use DirectX 9, so it's obvious that Bungie is being forced by Microsoft Games (publisher) to release for Vista only. Of course, I wouldn't expect it to be very long for a crack that allows it to be run on XP or any other OS with DirectX 9.
If I were archiving an HD-DVD or Blu-ray disc with current video codecs, as long as the video weren't encoded in MPEG-2, I would just remux the files into Matroska and archive like that. With those discs, archival currently shouldn't transcode it.
However, if there is an MPEG-5 standard or Xiph can pull off a fast one and make a Theora:H.264::Vorbis:AAC (or MP3), we'll be able to save a bit more space with transcoding. If HD content is compressed nearly losslessly like it is on DVDs, there really won't be any chance for artifacts if you transcode using a high enough bitrate (e.g. a max of 2000 kb/s using Xvid or FFmpeg in a two-pass encoding tends to transcode nearly losslessly in most live-action videos).
Does the DMCA cover this? The ISPs would argue "Common Carrier", and I think they have a much larger influence in government and politics than the MAFIAA...
Why would ISPs care about people downloading tiny little keys for their HD content? As long as said ISP isn't also a producer/distributor of HD-DVD or Blu-ray content, I don't think they'd give even the slightest shit.
Just because you've never heard of Amarok (with Magnatune support, and it'll probably support more online music stores in the future), K3b (which can fix your DVD/CD drive for you if the permissions thing is screwed up for some strange reason), and Cinelerra (a professional, Free video editor), doesn't mean they don't exist. By the way, Windows Movie Maker isn't that great...
For example, Slashdot has slashdot.org/palm for small displays. Do the advertisers all have optimised sites for mobile phones, or do they all continue to spit out 70+ kB of worthless data?
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GCC is already architectured such that it's trivial to optimise the compiled code for any architecture, new or old. Parent's idea is pretty much wrong.
Easynews is superb, but they cost money. You will max out your connection while downloading from them; it's great! (I don't work for them or anyone for that matter right now)
Since I just started using ed2k again (MLdonkey), I noticed that practically all the servers nowadays are German anyhow...
Although, who would want to seed a 20+ GB torrent for a single movie? Maybe for an entire large anime or all the seasons of a TV show, but not a single movie. Unless we actually get the bandwidth we paid the telcos for (taxes), torrenting something like that just isn't worth it right now.
Will they always be like that? Because that's actually a pretty good thing going there improvement-wise.
And to solve the cache problem, they send the "Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate" header for that script.
Don't worry, they'll get the story straight in the dupe.
Sure; it's also full of driver incompatibilities, software incompatibilities, and overall is reminiscent of Windows ME in comparison to Windows 98.
What the fuck kind of name is "Excel" anyway? Powerpoint? Sharepoint? Seriously, what the crap.
Linus doesn't care so much about doing anything to Microsoft; he cares more about making a quality kernel.
I'd buy it!
If I were archiving an HD-DVD or Blu-ray disc with current video codecs, as long as the video weren't encoded in MPEG-2, I would just remux the files into Matroska and archive like that. With those discs, archival currently shouldn't transcode it.
However, if there is an MPEG-5 standard or Xiph can pull off a fast one and make a Theora:H.264::Vorbis:AAC (or MP3), we'll be able to save a bit more space with transcoding. If HD content is compressed nearly losslessly like it is on DVDs, there really won't be any chance for artifacts if you transcode using a high enough bitrate (e.g. a max of 2000 kb/s using Xvid or FFmpeg in a two-pass encoding tends to transcode nearly losslessly in most live-action videos).
Does the DMCA cover this? The ISPs would argue "Common Carrier", and I think they have a much larger influence in government and politics than the MAFIAA...
HD-DVD and Blu-ray both support MPEG-2 (which can be transcoded very well), MPEG-4 ASP (DivX/Xvid), MPEG-4 AVC (H.264), and VC-1 (WMV3).
what do you think profession dvd pirates are going to do?
The same thing they always do: make exact copies of the discs in the same factories that make the legitimate copies.
Why would ISPs care about people downloading tiny little keys for their HD content? As long as said ISP isn't also a producer/distributor of HD-DVD or Blu-ray content, I don't think they'd give even the slightest shit.
That's why we refer to them by the more accurate acronym MAFIAA (Music and Film Industry Association of America).
How do you "consumer content"? o_O
Well, they were planning a revolution, so if Britain had found out about it earlier, they might have lost horribly.
Just because you've never heard of Amarok (with Magnatune support, and it'll probably support more online music stores in the future), K3b (which can fix your DVD/CD drive for you if the permissions thing is screwed up for some strange reason), and Cinelerra (a professional, Free video editor), doesn't mean they don't exist. By the way, Windows Movie Maker isn't that great...
Nah, Zonk is just an Xbox fanboy pure and simple.
For example, Slashdot has slashdot.org/palm for small displays. Do the advertisers all have optimised sites for mobile phones, or do they all continue to spit out 70+ kB of worthless data?