The problem is that it says that God created the world in 7 days in The Bible. Which is (supposedly) the inspired word of God. If you start saying that that part isn't literally true, then maybe the bit about that bloke coming back from the dead isn't literally true either.
I'll believe that when I see quicktime player for linux, or a legal copy of the dlls you download from the mplayer site. Hell, even real gave you a legal way to watch their videos in linux.
It's an *option*, just like the copy protection in AACs. Do you say that AAC is a crappy format because the ones apple sells have drm? Say what you like about wma, I have yet to see a listenable file that is smaller than a 26kbps wma.
I want windows media. It may not look as good as mpeg, but it's "good enough" for me and the filesizes are *really tiny*. I've seen wmv music videos that are smaller than mp3s of the song being performed.
Delphi is basically Object Pascal, and is still in reasonably common use - I've seen adverts for Delphi programmers, although not as many as for Java or C++. Pascal itself is, and always was, a teaching language, not one for real programs (the minix of programming languages, if you like), and as such is seldom seen outside of universities, where it does still have a following.
Syslog for a start. On the one hand this can be confusing, but on the other hand it's nice to have one log saying which IPs have been trying to attack my sshd and smb shares, makes it easier to see who is just running a big automated scan and who is actually looking at me.
Icons are generally dependent only on the theme, and you can already use one suite's icons in another. (In kde, go control centre, appearance and themes, icons, then select gnome.) The only standardisation that needs to be done is on a default, and I can't see any way to get agreement on which set is better.
That isn't what I said. A device which plays.wmv must play.wma. And technically, something which plays.wma must also play.wmv since they're identical formats. But since it may be unable to play WMV video, what you said is more or less true.
I've read that you will occasionally get it spewing pages and pages of random ASCII as you get someone trying to store some warez on it. There's a good story in Stealing the Network about someone who uses a JVM-enabled printer to proxy their attacks on the rest of the network - IIRC the printer is set up to make outbound connections to her box, bypassing the firewall and allowing her to attack the network from the inside.
But the only limit on analog bandwidth is the point at which the signal gets lost in the noise. Say for a moment that pits/flats are 1mm wide and 0-1mm deep. Now if you have a digital disc, you can put 1000 bits in 1m of track - each will be 0mm or 1mm deep. If you have an analog disc, you can put as much data as you want in 1m of track, provided your equipment is good enough. Want to put 8000 bits in 1m of track? Group them in 8s, to give you 1000 values from 0-255. Then if one of those values is 98, make the corresponding patch on the disc 98/256mm deep. Want to put 16000 bits in 1m of track? Group them in 16s, then make patches of disc 3482/65535mm deep etc. The only way this falls apart is when your equipment isn't good enough to tell the difference between 3482/65535mm deep and 3483/65535mm deep. So the analog recording is lossless as long as your equipment is good enough. Now I'm not saying that the star wars LDs are better than DVD quality, I haven't seen them either. I'm just saying LDs can be better quality than DVD, provided you have the right equipment, clean-room environment etc. Because they're analog, and that means with good enough equipment they're lossless.
The fact that you can still see the original movie if you want is what takes my sympathy away from the whiners. It's not as if Leonardo was painting a mustache on the Mona Lisa. At worst it's like Leonardo using new technology to make a Mona Lisa II with a mustache and then selling it. Who cares. The original is still the original.
But the problem is George is trying to make it impossible to see the originals. It's like Leonardo making said Mona Lisa II and then hanging the original one in a gallery right next to a river which is known to frequently flood. VHS degrades, it degrades quite quickly, and the VHS originals are not easily available. Can you tell me where is the nearest brick-and-mortar store to Ipswich, UK, where I can get a VHS (or better, LD) copy of the originals?
No, because laserdisc is, at least theoretically, lossless if your equipment is good enough. It's an analog format even though it's optical. So DVD quality is lower than laserdisc quality, the movies have been sampled to DVD quality.
Would you complain if this was a song and someone said "There are torrents of the original available, ripped from the vinyl editions - CD quality"? Because that's more or less an equivalent situation.
Probably because they want to get lots of young/innovative developers excited about it. And.NET is what a lot of the young/innovative developers are excited about.
I get 47 MB/s on/dev/hda which is where my swap is, and 36 MB/s on/dev/hdb where my root is. I'm running whatever gentoo thinks is the latest stable version of java. I think it's probably just the processor.
But java is slow and gobbles up resources to no appreciable benefit. Yaggui has less features than apollon or giFTgui but takes longer to load than both put together. Azureus may have a few more features than most bittorrent clients, but not enough to justify having the menus take 2 seconds to pop up on my PC (800mhz, it's not high-end but kde is perfectly useable on it). Emacs, probably the most bloated text editor ever, loads and runs much faster than jEdit. I could go on.
Install emerge. It supports having multiple versions of a library (I have 3 versions of freetype installed). And it works on most distributions (this is a slackware box)
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There's this minor OS from Redmond that has a small but devoted following...
The problem is that it says that God created the world in 7 days in The Bible. Which is (supposedly) the inspired word of God. If you start saying that that part isn't literally true, then maybe the bit about that bloke coming back from the dead isn't literally true either.
After however long it normally takes. It spends 15 seconds compiling the kernel and then boots in the ordinary fashion.
Blair does. A few months back he even had a load of tanks drive around our biggest airport, because the public didn't seem scared enough.
I'll believe that when I see quicktime player for linux, or a legal copy of the dlls you download from the mplayer site. Hell, even real gave you a legal way to watch their videos in linux.
It's an *option*, just like the copy protection in AACs. Do you say that AAC is a crappy format because the ones apple sells have drm? Say what you like about wma, I have yet to see a listenable file that is smaller than a 26kbps wma.
I want windows media. It may not look as good as mpeg, but it's "good enough" for me and the filesizes are *really tiny*. I've seen wmv music videos that are smaller than mp3s of the song being performed.
Delphi is basically Object Pascal, and is still in reasonably common use - I've seen adverts for Delphi programmers, although not as many as for Java or C++. Pascal itself is, and always was, a teaching language, not one for real programs (the minix of programming languages, if you like), and as such is seldom seen outside of universities, where it does still have a following.
It's often java. Sad but true. Some places do still have pascal.
Duke Nukem Forever nearly released Yawn. Wake me up when I can buy it.
Syslog for a start. On the one hand this can be confusing, but on the other hand it's nice to have one log saying which IPs have been trying to attack my sshd and smb shares, makes it easier to see who is just running a big automated scan and who is actually looking at me.
They became an Evil Company last april
Google ceased to be good in my book when they used the DMCA to take down an rss feed of google news.
Icons are generally dependent only on the theme, and you can already use one suite's icons in another. (In kde, go control centre, appearance and themes, icons, then select gnome.) The only standardisation that needs to be done is on a default, and I can't see any way to get agreement on which set is better.
That isn't what I said. A device which plays .wmv must play .wma. And technically, something which plays .wma must also play .wmv since they're identical formats. But since it may be unable to play WMV video, what you said is more or less true.
.wmv=.wma=.asf. So if it supports wmv, wma support is implied.
I've read that you will occasionally get it spewing pages and pages of random ASCII as you get someone trying to store some warez on it. There's a good story in Stealing the Network about someone who uses a JVM-enabled printer to proxy their attacks on the rest of the network - IIRC the printer is set up to make outbound connections to her box, bypassing the firewall and allowing her to attack the network from the inside.
But the only limit on analog bandwidth is the point at which the signal gets lost in the noise. Say for a moment that pits/flats are 1mm wide and 0-1mm deep. Now if you have a digital disc, you can put 1000 bits in 1m of track - each will be 0mm or 1mm deep. If you have an analog disc, you can put as much data as you want in 1m of track, provided your equipment is good enough. Want to put 8000 bits in 1m of track? Group them in 8s, to give you 1000 values from 0-255. Then if one of those values is 98, make the corresponding patch on the disc 98/256mm deep. Want to put 16000 bits in 1m of track? Group them in 16s, then make patches of disc 3482/65535mm deep etc. The only way this falls apart is when your equipment isn't good enough to tell the difference between 3482/65535mm deep and 3483/65535mm deep. So the analog recording is lossless as long as your equipment is good enough. Now I'm not saying that the star wars LDs are better than DVD quality, I haven't seen them either. I'm just saying LDs can be better quality than DVD, provided you have the right equipment, clean-room environment etc. Because they're analog, and that means with good enough equipment they're lossless.
Oh really? Then correct me. Come on, I'm willing to learn if I really have got it wrong.
The fact that you can still see the original movie if you want is what takes my sympathy away from the whiners. It's not as if Leonardo was painting a mustache on the Mona Lisa. At worst it's like Leonardo using new technology to make a Mona Lisa II with a mustache and then selling it. Who cares. The original is still the original. But the problem is George is trying to make it impossible to see the originals. It's like Leonardo making said Mona Lisa II and then hanging the original one in a gallery right next to a river which is known to frequently flood. VHS degrades, it degrades quite quickly, and the VHS originals are not easily available. Can you tell me where is the nearest brick-and-mortar store to Ipswich, UK, where I can get a VHS (or better, LD) copy of the originals?
No, because laserdisc is, at least theoretically, lossless if your equipment is good enough. It's an analog format even though it's optical. So DVD quality is lower than laserdisc quality, the movies have been sampled to DVD quality. Would you complain if this was a song and someone said "There are torrents of the original available, ripped from the vinyl editions - CD quality"? Because that's more or less an equivalent situation.
Probably because they want to get lots of young/innovative developers excited about it. And .NET is what a lot of the young/innovative developers are excited about.
I get 47 MB/s on /dev/hda which is where my swap is, and 36 MB/s on /dev/hdb where my root is. I'm running whatever gentoo thinks is the latest stable version of java. I think it's probably just the processor.
But java is slow and gobbles up resources to no appreciable benefit. Yaggui has less features than apollon or giFTgui but takes longer to load than both put together. Azureus may have a few more features than most bittorrent clients, but not enough to justify having the menus take 2 seconds to pop up on my PC (800mhz, it's not high-end but kde is perfectly useable on it). Emacs, probably the most bloated text editor ever, loads and runs much faster than jEdit. I could go on.
Install emerge. It supports having multiple versions of a library (I have 3 versions of freetype installed). And it works on most distributions (this is a slackware box)