It's a discipline analogous to history, or the wrong end of psychology, or English. It attempts to explain but cannot directly test, and thus does not qualify as a true science.
They're not, really. Sure, anyone doing serious photography will, but Joe's holiday snaps will probably just have been dumped straight on the web from the camera. And who do you think is more common?
Has anyone here used this product lately? How is it for stability? Because I have PowerDVD 8 sitting on a disc in my software box which came with the last burner I bought,but I've been afraid to stick it on due to how flaky the one that came with last year's burner made my system. So any users? Did it screw up your media player classic like the last one did mine?
I'm using the PowerDVD 7.3 that came with my drive and it's beautiful; good playback, didn't conflict with anything else, excellent DVD menuing support (the main reason I used it, for playing Phantom of Inferno), and a way to get the VIDs for playing my blurays (no point actually watching them in a genuine player because it won't display at full resolution on my analogue monitor, but it's needed to help me rip them). It does the "incompatible with aero graphical effects" thing, but that's as you'd expect from a hardware-accelerated video player.
That said, if you want to buy something to play h264 faster you're probably better off with CoreAVC unless your processor's really weedy. It's not hardware-accelerated, but that's because it doesn't need to be.
if someone wants to turn it into a movie, why do you feel like something has been stolen from you? why do you think something will be ruined? just don't watch. why is that so difficult for you?
Idiots will watch it, and try and talk to me about it, telling me how awesome it was. And I'll have to avoid strangling them, so I'll probably end up staying in the basement again. Which is okay for a few weeks, but I'd rather not be doing it all summer.
You are very, very wrong. The BBC can't afford effects, but what it does have are good actors and superb scriptwriters. The lack of budget forces them to actually put effort into things. Seriously, if you're someone who looks beyond the surface, they produce some of the best stuff you'll ever see.
Uh, the leaping-down-four-stories-tied-to-a-fire-hose scene in the original Die Hard was the most implausible scene in any of them, including the one where he drives a car into a helicopter. If you got *very* lucky doing that your spine *might* still be in one piece, but no other load-bearing bone would.
PDF and SWF have exactly the same status at this point. both format are free with the specifications released but still under control of adobe.
No; the SWF spec is available but only under a license agreement that says you're not allowed to use it to write your own player. That's the difference.
It would require a substantial amount of exceedingly tedious work on the part of the developer, and be prone to obscure bugs. It's not that there's any ideology actively against it - I'm sure if one of the dev team offered to sort it all out they'd gladly accept - it's just that no-one in their right mind would voluntarily accept such a job.
That said I'm surprised one of the big commercial distros (SUSE?) hasn't paid someone enough to do it.
We would all be better off if A) youtube and other Flash sites made their content available in MP4 and other ISO standardized formats,
They don't do that because they'd have to pay licensing fees.
I feel youtube is the single greatest example of the failure of OSS. The fact that they went with flash shows they were willing to avoid what were up until then the "standard" ways of doing streaming video - MS, Real and Apple's server setups - and indeed willing to put a fair bit of work into getting a royalty-free solution. There should have been an OSS solution already there - theora streaming (sure, it needs a plugin, but so does flash) integrated directly into one of those big CRMs, and it should have been there before youtube started - all the pieces were there, it just needed someone to care enough to integrate them. But noone did.
I've known some very good female programmers - and it's been correlated almost perfectly with those who didn't make a fuss about their sex. Could it be people are reacting not to the femininity but the confrontational attitude you seem to take about it?
I found some horrible prejudice when I submitted things under my real name, so I'll always use a pseudonym for my first few patches. But while I never actually *stop* using the pseudonym, I'll gradually start e.g. signing emails with my real name; that avoids trouble and lets me get some credit for my actual self.
If we are ALL to benefit as you say from having kids in the 'system', shouldn't we all pay for them or all get the break?
The short-term costs of raising the kids are borne by the parents. So the best way to have society as a whole (whom those children will eventually benefit) pay for them is - that's right - taxing other people more.
As for bacteria, maybe I'm not understanding what you're saying, but bacteria live and thrive in conditions hotter, colder, more acidic, more alkali, dryer, higher pressure, etc., than humans can. They're a mile down inside the earth's crust, the floors of the oceans, the peaks of mountains. I don't see how human adaptability be compared to bacterial adaptability. We have a pretty tight niche to fill... it's either in an oxygen-rich atmosphere with lots of plants or animals to eat, or its nothing.
The point is: I'll agree that humans are less adaptable than bacteria. But until bacteria go extinct, this gives us no grounds to worry about human extinction. If you have a genus which is more adaptable than homo and now extinct, then that gives us a reason to worry.
Opensolaris is substantially more stable than Linux, along with having some unique features of its own. But more than anything it provides a platform that is all Sun's, complete with backwards compatibility going back over ten years even in the drivers (compare with linux where I struggle to compile modules from six months ago against new releases). You're right that hardware support is currently lacking, but there's still time for that to come - and architecturally Opensolaris has the potential to be a much better OS than Linux. It is not at all redundant.
Or maybe you meant the southbridge? Yeah, that USB and SATA logic is really cramping my gaming rig.
If it's not causing you any trouble, good. But I've never been able to get one with consistently working USB. Which yes, does rather cramp my gaming when my mouse stops working halfway through.
People (such as cops) can be trained to drive fast, as safely as possible. People can also be trained to perform open heart surgery. That doesn't mean we allow just any freak to do it.
So let me take the same test the police driver had to.
I'd bet just about anything that if, for example, Bob Barr (libertarian candidate) would have taken a fairly significant chunk of the votes had he been given equal airtime and if there wasn't the general perception that only two parties exist.
You've been spending too much time on the internet. His policies may be popular over here, but they would get nowhere out in the real world, whatever the name of the party that was pushing them
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It's a discipline analogous to history, or the wrong end of psychology, or English. It attempts to explain but cannot directly test, and thus does not qualify as a true science.
They're not, really. Sure, anyone doing serious photography will, but Joe's holiday snaps will probably just have been dumped straight on the web from the camera. And who do you think is more common?
I'm using the PowerDVD 7.3 that came with my drive and it's beautiful; good playback, didn't conflict with anything else, excellent DVD menuing support (the main reason I used it, for playing Phantom of Inferno), and a way to get the VIDs for playing my blurays (no point actually watching them in a genuine player because it won't display at full resolution on my analogue monitor, but it's needed to help me rip them). It does the "incompatible with aero graphical effects" thing, but that's as you'd expect from a hardware-accelerated video player.
That said, if you want to buy something to play h264 faster you're probably better off with CoreAVC unless your processor's really weedy. It's not hardware-accelerated, but that's because it doesn't need to be.
Not reliably - all that proves is I'm someone with commit access.
Idiots will watch it, and try and talk to me about it, telling me how awesome it was. And I'll have to avoid strangling them, so I'll probably end up staying in the basement again. Which is okay for a few weeks, but I'd rather not be doing it all summer.
You are very, very wrong. The BBC can't afford effects, but what it does have are good actors and superb scriptwriters. The lack of budget forces them to actually put effort into things. Seriously, if you're someone who looks beyond the surface, they produce some of the best stuff you'll ever see.
Uh, the leaping-down-four-stories-tied-to-a-fire-hose scene in the original Die Hard was the most implausible scene in any of them, including the one where he drives a car into a helicopter. If you got *very* lucky doing that your spine *might* still be in one piece, but no other load-bearing bone would.
No; the SWF spec is available but only under a license agreement that says you're not allowed to use it to write your own player. That's the difference.
That said I'm surprised one of the big commercial distros (SUSE?) hasn't paid someone enough to do it.
They don't do that because they'd have to pay licensing fees.
I feel youtube is the single greatest example of the failure of OSS. The fact that they went with flash shows they were willing to avoid what were up until then the "standard" ways of doing streaming video - MS, Real and Apple's server setups - and indeed willing to put a fair bit of work into getting a royalty-free solution. There should have been an OSS solution already there - theora streaming (sure, it needs a plugin, but so does flash) integrated directly into one of those big CRMs, and it should have been there before youtube started - all the pieces were there, it just needed someone to care enough to integrate them. But noone did.
Try the QPL. I'm surprised more companies who complain about the fear of incompatible forks don't use it; guess that was just an excuse after all.
I've known some very good female programmers - and it's been correlated almost perfectly with those who didn't make a fuss about their sex. Could it be people are reacting not to the femininity but the confrontational attitude you seem to take about it?
I found some horrible prejudice when I submitted things under my real name, so I'll always use a pseudonym for my first few patches. But while I never actually *stop* using the pseudonym, I'll gradually start e.g. signing emails with my real name; that avoids trouble and lets me get some credit for my actual self.
The short-term costs of raising the kids are borne by the parents. So the best way to have society as a whole (whom those children will eventually benefit) pay for them is - that's right - taxing other people more.
The point is: I'll agree that humans are less adaptable than bacteria. But until bacteria go extinct, this gives us no grounds to worry about human extinction. If you have a genus which is more adaptable than homo and now extinct, then that gives us a reason to worry.
Yeah, because the Earth is totally a closed system. Oh wait, no.
You'd think that, but actually the level of Crossfire support in both is the same.
HMMWV? Did they steal the name from Command & Conquer?
Opensolaris is substantially more stable than Linux, along with having some unique features of its own. But more than anything it provides a platform that is all Sun's, complete with backwards compatibility going back over ten years even in the drivers (compare with linux where I struggle to compile modules from six months ago against new releases). You're right that hardware support is currently lacking, but there's still time for that to come - and architecturally Opensolaris has the potential to be a much better OS than Linux. It is not at all redundant.
If it's not causing you any trouble, good. But I've never been able to get one with consistently working USB. Which yes, does rather cramp my gaming when my mouse stops working halfway through.
So let me take the same test the police driver had to.
Because it spoils the possibility for someone to genuinely do that, which is far more valuable than putting this guy behind bars.
No - reducing turbulence will reduce noise as well as allowing you to go faster. It really is a win on both fronts.
The internet is better; it's less amenable to censorship.
You've been spending too much time on the internet. His policies may be popular over here, but they would get nowhere out in the real world, whatever the name of the party that was pushing them