phuck. good riddence. last time i tried to buy a music CD at walmart i got tricked into buying a censored album. Good thing i opened the album in my car and listened to it before driving home. After hearing a bunch of sentences with strange blank spots I walked right back into the store and had to argue with the idiots that i didnt want such rubbish and that no i didnt have a CD copier in my car.
i can imagine their crappy movies are just the same. With such a closed minded mentality ill be happy to see them fail. There are a dozen other places to download movies (legally). Walmart has always catered to the stereotypical soccer mom that drives around in a Mercury minivan and is thoroughly convinced that her kids are being more negatively influenced by seeing a boob on TV than by their own theories about a guy that translated metal tablets to english using special glasses that then magically disappeared.
what on earth is an N60? that phone model doesnt even exist
nor did it provide a none-blocking method of asking it if it had content
u must still be using cldc 0.5 and midp -1.0 or something....
java.io.DataInputStream public int available() throws IOException
Returns the number of bytes that can be read from this input stream without blocking.
This method simply performs in.available() and returns the result.
The article only describes about half of what symbian is all about...
Symbian, after all, provides APIs to natively interact with the OS and many of the phones hardware....this native interface requires applications to be written in C/C++. This type of development is what most people (more specifically, those in the article) complain about. I have never developed a "native" application for symbian. The main reason for this is that the IDE's and environments which nokia provides are not available for OS X.
I can attest though that Symbian (read Nokia series 60) provides an awesome JVM and set of support APIs for accessing messaging, bluetooth, networking and various other system resources. CLDC and MDIP (1.0 and 2.0) provide great libraries for developing apps well and very fast on Symbian. I have developed several Java apps for Symbian (including one which fetches the latest articles from the/. front page:-) ), and up until now have loved how easy it has been to deploy apps via bluetooth to the phone. Of course this may change with Series 60 v3 and the new "security" garbage...yet another reason to purchase an E61 now before they decide to upgrade all their decent phones to s60v3.
It does seem though that the article is a bit biased towards the iPhone. But until i see guaranteed proof that the iPhone will include a JVM and support libs for java development on it...i won't consider it "5 years ahead of everything else." And Apple's apparently lack of support for "hobby" development on the iPhone isnt much of a turn on either. So we'll have to wait and see. I wouldn't say Apple chose their own homebrew stuff over symbian because "symbian is crap" but rather because many of the things which Apple likes to do (Cocoa based guis) simply wouln't run on Symbian.
This makes IBM's product unattractive to many potential customers. IBM is therefore also investing in people to go around telling prospective buyers that sure, if the developers just build 'multicore aware' programs, then multicore will help them a whole lot, yes sirree. And sure, there's an element of truth in that in most scenarios.
to put it bluntly, you have no clue what ur talking about. Essentially every product in IBMs portfolio excels on multi-proc systems.
Any server side app running in a remotely decent jee Application server with Stateless beans for example will scale unbelievable well onto multi-proc systems. any application with a handler thread per incoming connection request will benefit from multi-proc systems.
the beauty of things like jee application servers is that developers design applications as if everything was single threaded, then u flick a couple switches and all of a sudden ur app is replicated and running on a cluster of 100 machines....now consolidate that into one machine with 100 procs and ull see even more performance enhancements. DB2 is another example of an app that scales amazingly on multi-proc machines.
designing multi-threaded applications really isnt as hard as most people make it out to be. everything in the real world is "multi-threaded". when u move ur left arm up, u can move ur right arm down. if u have a robot with 4 cores....spawn 4 threads, one for each limb....if u need to multiply 4 matrices....spawn 2 threads....each thread multiplies two matrices....join the threads.....then multiply the results. u just need to get creative in order to start takign advantage of multi-proc machines.
and when i think about it...i dont think theres a single app i could name that uses only one thread.
so why are people complaining? If you bought music from the iTunes music store...then u bought it KNOWING that it only works on an iPod. There are no tricks or schemes here. And if a person doesnt know this...then they shouldnt be making purchases online due to a general incompetence for doing research before giving away money.
No one forced you to buy an iPod either. Im sure there are many people that buy music on iTunes but dont have an iPod. Does norway really find it just that these people now qualify as criminals for downloading music to their computers to listen to on home stereos?
Norway and the rest of the european countries need to stop being a bunch of babies and focus on the real baddies....the record industry. Its as useless as detectives going after miniscule drug peddlers on the streets when they should be targetting the big kahunas like Tony Montana that sit over in equador, cuba, etc. and this is coming from an american living in germany. Target the real problem....DRM backers!!! not the middleman that has been forced to leverage it
while my hatred for microsoft is not absolute (for example, i like the xbox/xbox360, windows XP is ok for gaming etc.,.NET is interesting)
i do hate microsoft though for many of their business practices, buggy software, and particularly...HOTMAIL.
At one point, Windows decided to go through my entire address book and upload all contact information to my hotmail contact database. without ANY permission or confirmation whatsoever.
support for hotmail is essentially nonexistent in any browser other than the latest IE 6 or 7 or whatever. even using IE on my Mac gives me warning messages and the pop-up windows to confirm emptying my trashcan never work.
about 3 weeks ago i logged back into hotmail (after supposedly some period of "inactivity"...this is arguable because i log into MSN messenger daily and it uses the same Passport credentials), and all my emails (sent, inbox, drafts, etc) had been deleted. THANK YOU MICROSOFT! i suppose that is some sort of "feature" eh? granted i didnt have anything of high importance in there but some more "sentimental" emails shall we say.
It is this sort of aggravating behaviour that drives me over the limit when it comes to microsoft.
but just to reiterate again...the xbox is actually quite a good product.....when the powercable isnt bursting into flames and burning down houses;-)
I have made several purchases on the Apple iTunes Music Store...mainly a single or two and the occasional freebie of the week. But recently, I have stopped doing so. I have a relatively nice stereo at home and therefore enjoy listening to CDs over MP3s. As such, I find the "lower" prices on iTunes do not adequately reflect the difference in quality between CDs and the tracks received from iTunes. Compared to the amazon marketplace, its not much cheaper to buy music on iTunes...sometimes its even more expensive. As soon as Apple starts selling lossless quality tracks, I'll start buying full albums. The music industry is more to blame for this but it makes no sense to pay $1 per track for degraded quality music. Granted most people dont notice the difference...but the difference is there.
Its like buying a porsche with a 4 cylinder honda engine.....non-aficionados may never notice the difference....but its still there...and ud still feel cheated if u found out later on.
I dont really know why Apple doesnt offer the Lossless option....im guessing to save harddrive space on their own server farm. But like i said before, start selling quality better than MP3/AC4 and u'll gain me as a customer. Until then...ill stick with my 7-10 $ lossless CDs from the amazon marketplace.
CDs are actually quite durable if you think about it. most can be put through horrible abuse and they still play. and even if they do start to skip, you can often copy the disc using error correction and you end up with a perfect new disc.
CDs hold quite a lot of storage for how cheap they are. they may "only" fit about 12-15 songs on an album but thats because each 5 minute WAV file sampled at 22khz in stereo is roughly 50 MB. i can't see the music distributors pushing music on memory sticks anytime soon. that would just boost the cost even more.
CDs function as a good media for storing the music over longer periods of time. if you were to rip all your music in full quality to your HDD, most with a decent music collection would require 1TB or more of storage space. its easier to let a friend borrow a couple CDs than it is to hand him a harddrive
for audiophiles, the "alternative" (i.e. compressed digital music) is total crap. anyone with a decent speaker system (and i dont mean Inifinity's that you bought at Circuit City in your doors and reardeck) knows that the melody/music itself is really only about 50% of the whole package. Imaging is equally important but is something people never acknowledge (much less know about). with a proper soundstage, you can easily A) pinpoint the location of the instruments/vocals within a 3dimensional space, B) decipher what sort of an environment the music was recorded in, and C) hear minute nuances such as lips rubbing the microphone, fingers sliding on strings, etc. with "alternative" forms of music distribution, the majority of the aforementioned is lost. get someone with a nice stereo to show you what music REALLY sounds like....and you'll never go back to an mp3 again. So for this, CDs are great. and that's why i don't buy music on iTunes. Until they get a lossless format, sure, ill download the free song of the week, but overall, no thank you.
as for the article, i think one thing the RIAA often forgets to mention is that while music sales are "slowing"....DVD sales are at an all time peak. people are opting to spend their money on a more "sensory" experience (with visuals and audio).
Throw in the fact that the average american teenager has become so superficial they are only interested in crap music anyways, its no wonder they arent willing to buy the latest britney or Juvenile CD. they may find the music amusing, but i think honestly they know that its something they will get sick of within a couple weeks.
Time is also a major factor. i remember sitting in front of my dad's CD player when i was young with a set of nice headphones and listening to a whole ladysmith black mambazo album or aerosmith classics live. This is not a typical way for a youngster to spend their time these days.
The RIAA has a relatively antiquated (and pessimistic) way of looking at things. and while there may be studies that show that there has been a decline in CD sales since the advent of P2P programs, one thing is for sure: the music industry is interested in one thing only -- making money...and if they were honestly losing money (as these studies insinuate they are), they wouldn't be in the business anymore.
"With the recent announcement that E3 has been downsized, a similar high-profile event, ${LACK_LUSTER_NAME} + ${NUMERICAL_POSTFIX} is being held in ${CITY}, ${COUNTRY} and promises to showcase products and services from vendors worldwide, especially those in the ${REGION} region.
This is gonna be thrown out fast.
The user manual for my Mini specificially has a section entitled Safety and Cleaning
Avoid Hearing Damage
Warning Permanent hearing loss may occur if earbuds or headphones are used at
high volume. You can adapt over time to a higher volume of sound, which may sound
normal but can be damaging to your hearing. Set your iPod mini volume to a safe
level before that happens. If you experience ringing in your ears, reduce the volume
or discontinue use of your iPod mini.
How is this even an issue?? i take it the guy comes from the same gene pool as the woman who sued mcdonalds over the coffee being "too hot."
what's he want? a big fat label on the back of his iPod saying "CAUTION...if ur a fucking idiot and turn the volume up too loud, you just might get Tinnitus"
apparently none of you guys have been able to see through the bull****
why do u think MS released essentially NO info about the thing? their way of describing the thing is sooo vague...its obvious they are going to make an external version for poeple that already have an xbox 360...and its going to be standard on the new xbox 360s made around the time of the release of the ps3. MS isnt stupid. do u think they would attempt to have a console with an ADD-ON hd-dvd player compete with a ps3 that has an internal blue-ray player? obviously not.
read through the BS and ull figure out the "add-on" isnt targetted at everyone, just the people who bought an xbox360 early.
I dont see much advantage in purchasing an external dedicated HD-DVD player over a simple add on peripheral. Other than possibly the unit's ability to remember where you were in a movie when you stopped it or better software or a nicer remote....the picture quality of a movie is not as reliant on the quality of the HD-DVD player as DVDs were on the quality of the DVD player. This is because the HD-DVD player no longer needs to possess a D/A converter like normal DVD players do. The HD-DVD player plays a very small role in the whole setup. it simply needs to be able to read and decrypt info on the HD-DVD, authenticate with a downstream device, encrypt the data for transmission according to the HDCP specification and send digital bits serially using TMDS to the television. this is all in the digital domain
previously, DVD players would send a voltage signal to the television which would sample at a certain frequency, the voltage level of a single sample would represent the value to be used for a single pixel on the display...the dvd player would thus send analog streams of pixel values...so neighboring pixel voltages could affect each other's values.
since HD-DVD players send striclty digital ones and zeros (of course at a much faster rate) which are then grouped and used to determine a pixel value, theres very little an HD-DVD player can do "poorly" in terms of quality.
the advantages of dumping $1000 on a "high quality" HD-DVD player over the xbox 360 add-on are not very apparent. of course if ur connecting ur HD-DVD player to a standard TV, then maybe....or if your HD-DVD player is also performing audio D/A conversion....perhaps its more worth while to spend money on a better unit....but then again, why would you be doing either of the aforementioned things??
i think he means "cheating" in a different form...
he thinks that a process will "get more CPU time", i.e. be allocated a longer time slice (or will be given time slices more often), if a process has two internal threads as opposed to one.
this is, of course, not true.
this is no dupe?!?!!?
what are u talking about. the last article stated that blair wanted 90 days.
this article states that he didnt get what he wanted.
quite different if u ask me...and somewhat interesting
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HAHHAHA. if i had mod points id give u +3! god... i couldn't have put it any better!
the best is when u start using a framework to help with some other framework that helps you work with yet another framework....
like AppFuse which helps you work with Spring which helps you work with J2EE....
If you actually took the time to read the article (instead of just posting random comments spewn out by that Retarded-Comment-Generator floating between ur ears)..
ud have noticed that
A bug hunting contest is also underway, and will reward the most prolific beta tester with 1000 (count one thousand) German beers and a trip to Romania, there to attend meetings with Count Dracula, the BitDefender development team and other local notabilities.
through extrapolation....one can assume that "most prolific" equates to "finds the most bugs"
there is also another contest going on, gleichzeitig, that rewards the person who discovers the most original way to crash the application.
throw some of that money my way. i bought a 1000 dollar Samsung LCD and just over a year later (coincidentally warranties are only 1 year in america) a blob of pixels about an inch in diameter started going bad and being brighter than what they normally should be.
how on earth can a >1000 $ tv be gauranteed to work for only 1 year???
apparecly according to this article, Samsung are scam artists in all sorts of ways. steer clear of their products at all costs!
actually id consider the internet right now like a swingers club.
Two couples have walked into the club looking for some action.
Google with its bride, AOL.
and
Microsoft with its 'acquired-just-in-time' escort, Yahoo!
Everyone is hoping for a little bit of action in the club...but doesn't wanna to totally lose their way.
Unfortunately, jealousy usually takes over in these sorts of situtions...which is when things really start to get hectic.
How do we know for sure he shot the cat in Australia?
Because dead bodies of large animals that look like those of endangered species don't exactly pass through Customs at Schiphol airport.
Firstly, the hunter reckons his bullet blew the feline's head apart, and from the photo it really looks like there is NOTHING left of it... would a RIFLE bullet really do that much damage? I mean, if it was a shot gun, fired into it's face, then yea, but a rifle fired from behind, passing in behind the ear and THEN blowing the head apart?
If the cat is sideways (with respect to the hunter) and slightly at an angle. The bullet enters behind the shoulder (which is blocking most of the head since they walk with them hanging down), punches through into the head, then punches out the front of its face. Thus: blown apart cat head.
Secondly, rather than pack out this surely important find, he cuts off the tail and just takes that with him, I mean, if it were me, I'd be carrying the whole carcass out
He did carry the whole carcass back. Did you read the whole article? Not to mention, look at the photo where the carcass is hanging from a tree.
I am just simply confused as to what the difference between a "large cat" and a puma/leapord/lion is. The articles all start by describing that it looks like a puma but then don't give much of a description from there. From what ive always thought...a puma does qualify as a "large cat".
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wow! possibly the funniest comment ever on slashdot...granted it may be tied with the recurring jokes about flying monkeys and anal sphincters.
phuck. good riddence. last time i tried to buy a music CD at walmart i got tricked into buying a censored album. Good thing i opened the album in my car and listened to it before driving home. After hearing a bunch of sentences with strange blank spots I walked right back into the store and had to argue with the idiots that i didnt want such rubbish and that no i didnt have a CD copier in my car.
i can imagine their crappy movies are just the same. With such a closed minded mentality ill be happy to see them fail. There are a dozen other places to download movies (legally). Walmart has always catered to the stereotypical soccer mom that drives around in a Mercury minivan and is thoroughly convinced that her kids are being more negatively influenced by seeing a boob on TV than by their own theories about a guy that translated metal tablets to english using special glasses that then magically disappeared.
Ill say it again; Good riddence.
u must still be using cldc 0.5 and midp -1.0 or something....
java.io.DataInputStream
public int available() throws IOException
Returns the number of bytes that can be read from this input stream without blocking. This method simply performs in.available() and returns the result.
and heres the link incase you dont believe me: http://java.sun.com/javame/reference/apis/jsr118/
The article only describes about half of what symbian is all about...
/. front page :-) ), and up until now have loved how easy it has been to deploy apps via bluetooth to the phone. Of course this may change with Series 60 v3 and the new "security" garbage...yet another reason to purchase an E61 now before they decide to upgrade all their decent phones to s60v3.
Symbian, after all, provides APIs to natively interact with the OS and many of the phones hardware....this native interface requires applications to be written in C/C++. This type of development is what most people (more specifically, those in the article) complain about. I have never developed a "native" application for symbian. The main reason for this is that the IDE's and environments which nokia provides are not available for OS X.
I can attest though that Symbian (read Nokia series 60) provides an awesome JVM and set of support APIs for accessing messaging, bluetooth, networking and various other system resources. CLDC and MDIP (1.0 and 2.0) provide great libraries for developing apps well and very fast on Symbian. I have developed several Java apps for Symbian (including one which fetches the latest articles from the
It does seem though that the article is a bit biased towards the iPhone. But until i see guaranteed proof that the iPhone will include a JVM and support libs for java development on it...i won't consider it "5 years ahead of everything else." And Apple's apparently lack of support for "hobby" development on the iPhone isnt much of a turn on either. So we'll have to wait and see. I wouldn't say Apple chose their own homebrew stuff over symbian because "symbian is crap" but rather because many of the things which Apple likes to do (Cocoa based guis) simply wouln't run on Symbian.
Any server side app running in a remotely decent jee Application server with Stateless beans for example will scale unbelievable well onto multi-proc systems.
any application with a handler thread per incoming connection request will benefit from multi-proc systems.
the beauty of things like jee application servers is that developers design applications as if everything was single threaded, then u flick a couple switches and all of a sudden ur app is replicated and running on a cluster of 100 machines....now consolidate that into one machine with 100 procs and ull see even more performance enhancements.
DB2 is another example of an app that scales amazingly on multi-proc machines.
designing multi-threaded applications really isnt as hard as most people make it out to be. everything in the real world is "multi-threaded". when u move ur left arm up, u can move ur right arm down. if u have a robot with 4 cores....spawn 4 threads, one for each limb....if u need to multiply 4 matrices....spawn 2 threads....each thread multiplies two matrices....join the threads.....then multiply the results. u just need to get creative in order to start takign advantage of multi-proc machines.
and when i think about it...i dont think theres a single app i could name that uses only one thread.
so why are people complaining? If you bought music from the iTunes music store...then u bought it KNOWING that it only works on an iPod. There are no tricks or schemes here. And if a person doesnt know this...then they shouldnt be making purchases online due to a general incompetence for doing research before giving away money.
No one forced you to buy an iPod either. Im sure there are many people that buy music on iTunes but dont have an iPod. Does norway really find it just that these people now qualify as criminals for downloading music to their computers to listen to on home stereos?
Norway and the rest of the european countries need to stop being a bunch of babies and focus on the real baddies....the record industry. Its as useless as detectives going after miniscule drug peddlers on the streets when they should be targetting the big kahunas like Tony Montana that sit over in equador, cuba, etc. and this is coming from an american living in germany. Target the real problem....DRM backers!!! not the middleman that has been forced to leverage it
while my hatred for microsoft is not absolute (for example, i like the xbox/xbox360, windows XP is ok for gaming etc., .NET is interesting)
;-)
i do hate microsoft though for many of their business practices, buggy software, and particularly...HOTMAIL.
At one point, Windows decided to go through my entire address book and upload all contact information to my hotmail contact database. without ANY permission or confirmation whatsoever.
support for hotmail is essentially nonexistent in any browser other than the latest IE 6 or 7 or whatever. even using IE on my Mac gives me warning messages and the pop-up windows to confirm emptying my trashcan never work.
about 3 weeks ago i logged back into hotmail (after supposedly some period of "inactivity"...this is arguable because i log into MSN messenger daily and it uses the same Passport credentials), and all my emails (sent, inbox, drafts, etc) had been deleted. THANK YOU MICROSOFT! i suppose that is some sort of "feature" eh? granted i didnt have anything of high importance in there but some more "sentimental" emails shall we say.
It is this sort of aggravating behaviour that drives me over the limit when it comes to microsoft. but just to reiterate again...the xbox is actually quite a good product.....when the powercable isnt bursting into flames and burning down houses
I have made several purchases on the Apple iTunes Music Store...mainly a single or two and the occasional freebie of the week. But recently, I have stopped doing so. I have a relatively nice stereo at home and therefore enjoy listening to CDs over MP3s. As such, I find the "lower" prices on iTunes do not adequately reflect the difference in quality between CDs and the tracks received from iTunes. Compared to the amazon marketplace, its not much cheaper to buy music on iTunes...sometimes its even more expensive. As soon as Apple starts selling lossless quality tracks, I'll start buying full albums. The music industry is more to blame for this but it makes no sense to pay $1 per track for degraded quality music. Granted most people dont notice the difference...but the difference is there.
Its like buying a porsche with a 4 cylinder honda engine.....non-aficionados may never notice the difference....but its still there...and ud still feel cheated if u found out later on.
I dont really know why Apple doesnt offer the Lossless option....im guessing to save harddrive space on their own server farm. But like i said before, start selling quality better than MP3/AC4 and u'll gain me as a customer. Until then...ill stick with my 7-10 $ lossless CDs from the amazon marketplace.
with a proper soundstage, you can easily A) pinpoint the location of the instruments/vocals within a 3dimensional space, B) decipher what sort of an environment the music was recorded in, and C) hear minute nuances such as lips rubbing the microphone, fingers sliding on strings, etc. with "alternative" forms of music distribution, the majority of the aforementioned is lost. get someone with a nice stereo to show you what music REALLY sounds like....and you'll never go back to an mp3 again. So for this, CDs are great. and that's why i don't buy music on iTunes. Until they get a lossless format, sure, ill download the free song of the week, but overall, no thank you.
as for the article, i think one thing the RIAA often forgets to mention is that while music sales are "slowing"....DVD sales are at an all time peak. people are opting to spend their money on a more "sensory" experience (with visuals and audio).
Throw in the fact that the average american teenager has become so superficial they are only interested in crap music anyways, its no wonder they arent willing to buy the latest britney or Juvenile CD. they may find the music amusing, but i think honestly they know that its something they will get sick of within a couple weeks.
Time is also a major factor. i remember sitting in front of my dad's CD player when i was young with a set of nice headphones and listening to a whole ladysmith black mambazo album or aerosmith classics live. This is not a typical way for a youngster to spend their time these days.
The RIAA has a relatively antiquated (and pessimistic) way of looking at things. and while there may be studies that show that there has been a decline in CD sales since the advent of P2P programs, one thing is for sure: the music industry is interested in one thing only -- making money...and if they were honestly losing money (as these studies insinuate they are), they wouldn't be in the business anymore.
"With the recent announcement that E3 has been downsized, a similar high-profile event, ${LACK_LUSTER_NAME} + ${NUMERICAL_POSTFIX} is being held in ${CITY}, ${COUNTRY} and promises to showcase products and services from vendors worldwide, especially those in the ${REGION} region.
How is this even an issue?? i take it the guy comes from the same gene pool as the woman who sued mcdonalds over the coffee being "too hot."
what's he want?
a big fat label on the back of his iPod saying "CAUTION...if ur a fucking idiot and turn the volume up too loud, you just might get Tinnitus"
apparently none of you guys have been able to see through the bull****
why do u think MS released essentially NO info about the thing? their way of describing the thing is sooo vague...its obvious they are going to make an external version for poeple that already have an xbox 360...and its going to be standard on the new xbox 360s made around the time of the release of the ps3. MS isnt stupid. do u think they would attempt to have a console with an ADD-ON hd-dvd player compete with a ps3 that has an internal blue-ray player? obviously not.
read through the BS and ull figure out the "add-on" isnt targetted at everyone, just the people who bought an xbox360 early.
I dont see much advantage in purchasing an external dedicated HD-DVD player over a simple add on peripheral. Other than possibly the unit's ability to remember where you were in a movie when you stopped it or better software or a nicer remote....the picture quality of a movie is not as reliant on the quality of the HD-DVD player as DVDs were on the quality of the DVD player. This is because the HD-DVD player no longer needs to possess a D/A converter like normal DVD players do. The HD-DVD player plays a very small role in the whole setup. it simply needs to be able to read and decrypt info on the HD-DVD, authenticate with a downstream device, encrypt the data for transmission according to the HDCP specification and send digital bits serially using TMDS to the television. this is all in the digital domain
previously, DVD players would send a voltage signal to the television which would sample at a certain frequency, the voltage level of a single sample would represent the value to be used for a single pixel on the display...the dvd player would thus send analog streams of pixel values...so neighboring pixel voltages could affect each other's values.
since HD-DVD players send striclty digital ones and zeros (of course at a much faster rate) which are then grouped and used to determine a pixel value, theres very little an HD-DVD player can do "poorly" in terms of quality.
the advantages of dumping $1000 on a "high quality" HD-DVD player over the xbox 360 add-on are not very apparent. of course if ur connecting ur HD-DVD player to a standard TV, then maybe....or if your HD-DVD player is also performing audio D/A conversion....perhaps its more worth while to spend money on a better unit....but then again, why would you be doing either of the aforementioned things??
i think he means "cheating" in a different form... he thinks that a process will "get more CPU time", i.e. be allocated a longer time slice (or will be given time slices more often), if a process has two internal threads as opposed to one. this is, of course, not true.
HIV positive...HIV positive not....HIV positive....HIV positive not...
this is no dupe?!?!!? what are u talking about. the last article stated that blair wanted 90 days.
this article states that he didnt get what he wanted.
quite different if u ask me...and somewhat interesting
HAHHAHA. if i had mod points id give u +3! god... i couldn't have put it any better!
the best is when u start using a framework to help with some other framework that helps you work with yet another framework....
like AppFuse which helps you work with Spring which helps you work with J2EE....
**sarcasm**
someone pleeease mod-down the parent for "Laziness"
find the link yourself! slashdot is not ur personal work-horse.
ud have noticed that
through extrapolation....one can assume that "most prolific" equates to "finds the most bugs"
there is also another contest going on, gleichzeitig, that rewards the person who discovers the most original way to crash the application.
throw some of that money my way. i bought a 1000 dollar Samsung LCD and just over a year later (coincidentally warranties are only 1 year in america) a blob of pixels about an inch in diameter started going bad and being brighter than what they normally should be.
how on earth can a >1000 $ tv be gauranteed to work for only 1 year???
apparecly according to this article, Samsung are scam artists in all sorts of ways. steer clear of their products at all costs!
actually id consider the internet right now like a swingers club.
Two couples have walked into the club looking for some action.
Google with its bride, AOL.
and
Microsoft with its 'acquired-just-in-time' escort, Yahoo!
Everyone is hoping for a little bit of action in the club...but doesn't wanna to totally lose their way.
Unfortunately, jealousy usually takes over in these sorts of situtions...which is when things really start to get hectic.
already slashdotted. i cant see the article even. try the cache.
To clean all the blood off.
Because dead bodies of large animals that look like those of endangered species don't exactly pass through Customs at Schiphol airport.
If the cat is sideways (with respect to the hunter) and slightly at an angle. The bullet enters behind the shoulder (which is blocking most of the head since they walk with them hanging down), punches through into the head, then punches out the front of its face. Thus: blown apart cat head.
He did carry the whole carcass back. Did you read the whole article? Not to mention, look at the photo where the carcass is hanging from a tree.
I am just simply confused as to what the difference between a "large cat" and a puma/leapord/lion is. The articles all start by describing that it looks like a puma but then don't give much of a description from there. From what ive always thought...a puma does qualify as a "large cat".