Ok, maybe what we need is to make the people "enforce" the age restrictions (I know nowadays is not a restriction but a suggestion IIRC) and prohibit the sell of those game to kids under the allowed age...
You know, like with ciggarrets, Imagine if someone goes to a store with his boy, then the boy asks his father to buy certain box of cigarretes... is that allowed? and of course we need more "media" saying "remember, buying Games which are innapropiate for your children IS bad" of course, game companies wont like that very much...
IIRC that was kind of what IBM was doing with the IBM/PC, but then the clones started to appear AND the hardware companies (logitech, helwett-packard, etc) created hardware taht was conected to the parallel or serial port AND provided the drivers to use them.
So if the OSX for Intel is sucessfull the companies will start providing drivers for it... and they are the ones that will give support for their hardware not Apple
again, what we need is multithreading/multicore aware compilers/interpreters that allow you to make your program in the old way and distribute the workload between the cores without much hazzle.
OSS is not bad, but being at least 403 linux distributions, at least 40 window managers and at least 40 desktop environments available for Linux and like xxxx different "stable" office application available developed by almost the same number of different people ON ITS FREE TIME it is impossible to make them interact in a COORDINATED way...
I think what OSS needs are standards, communication and structure standards its like KDE and GNOME try to do this, the sad thing is that for OSS people only do what they WANT TO DO, so if some constraints are needed in order to make their software interoperable with others then people will just not do it...
And that IS the difference with a closed propietary software, because over Redmond, all the developers MUST comply with certain development structure and standards.
For an example the simple COPY/PASTE copy paste? It took (although I am not sure if it is working now) like 5 years to make COPY/PASTE to work *kind of* correctly in Linux (X Window and KDE or GNOME) and of course NOT with all the applications.
What about Windows?? well, at least since WIN95 the basic copy/paste behabviour was tehre for all the apps using a simple edit box and the like.
Yeesh! if OSS developers can not play togheter in those little things what can any company expect when trying to create a "full blown software enterprise office solution" haha... sorry folks but we [OOS Enthusiasts (yep I am one =o)] are got a looong way to go.
Yep, I know what you are talking about.. I have moved to the UK (from Mexico) and I got really pissed off when I went to the movies here for the first time.
You see, a single movie ticket here will be like £6 (USD$10) the popcorn something like £3 and soda another £2 (Odeon Cinemas) so going with my girlfriend meant £18 cinema night ~ USD$32.5... now might be expensive for you but for me who was used to pay $15 to go to THE BEST cinema (with THX sound, etc etc) in Mexico, I really felt how they where screwing me so hard...
After I entered the cinema WTF really small cinema with really unconfortable sits and small screen AND the screen had a scar... $30 for that??
Of course the worst thing where the 15 minutes adds I had to stand... I swear when te movie started I thought... this movie must be REALLY worth of it... unfortunately you can ask me what the movie was... I do not remember... all that lasts is this terrible experience.
Now, sorry for this rant I just needed to let it go out, but my advice for you is to go to the cinema 10 minutes after the time when they say the movie has *started*... at least aI always do that (I like going to the cinema) and I always arrive when the trailers are starting.
p.s. Now i Only go to the FACT cinemas;) cheaper and better (1 screen even has THX!)
Yep, you have a point: BlueRay Disc -> Betamax HD-DVD -> VHS
Both (Blueray, Betamax) are technically better, both are from Sony and both are going to be forgotten because Sony wants to fsck consumer's arses...
Someone posted before that the war is over, yep Indeed it is, but the winner is (geekly saddly) the HD-DVD format, you see that is the format the Porn Industry will use (because it is cheaper and it has just enough capacity for them), then it *may be* the case that HD-DVD does not need any authentication method to play and does not make your hardware go *kabooom crash broooam*.
Do not worry... [My we country]/[We] also [has]/[have] the president [it]/[we] [deserves]/[deserve].
I am from Mexico and our fucking retard president Fox which is Bush's lame-huevos is not good at all. As you said, I voted with my feet, and now I am far faaar away from him, until next elections, lets see what we can do.
As resources become scarce, the price increases to balance their scarcity. At some level, substitutes become more economically attactive and use of the now-expensive, scare resource declines.
Yep, I have an Epson stylus 670, which was something like 30 dollars, and I buy ink cartdriges which cost like 4 dollars each, and replace them each 5 months printing quite often. Can any Lasser printer get that cheap?
I see a pattern here: ll I can name a few companies who think so.... Google, amazon, oracle, IBM.... but Tommy is much bigger than any of those companies.
See the pattern? well, all the companies you mentioned are IT related companies. But, what about looking at companies which buisness is totally IT unrelated (you could say that Amazon is not IT related but again, tell me how did amazon started?).
What about Levi's, Silvertab, Guess? and other clothes brands companies? what about Starbucks chain? I really would like to know what does companies which buisness is not IT use.
The chances are that a fast moving object is easier to identify that a stationary one,
I remember in IJCAI 2004 conference I attended to an invited where the person explained the difference in information between a still image and a moving image, IIRC, he showed first 1 still image, where as he said you have only pixels, and all you can attempt to do is a "edge detection" to recognize objects (playing with contrast/brightness/channels etc).
After that he showed the next image in the collection and it showed an object translating, so with the sequence of two images you really had a lot more information. So definitely movement objects yield more information.
But anyway I think this invention is quite cool, just as a thought what is the speed of a bullet? could it be possible for a machine like this to catch bullets... yea yeah too much matrix for me uh?
Now that you put the inmigration problem to afloat, I want to state a quote when talking with some rand() friend about the inmigration problem, he said something like this:
"the illegal Mexican to US inmigration problem is not a problem of Mexican government, for Mexico, after Petrolium, inmigrants is the second biggest source of income so it is a 'great buisness', the problem is in the USA and that it allows the inmigrants to go/work there. It is the USA government who needs to enforce its inmigration laws or make new ones IFF they REALLY want to get rid of all the Mexican workers that they have over there, or to legalize them all so they are not illegal anymore"
Well, it is too long for a quote and no I do not read it or remember it by heart, it is the general idea in my words. I kind of agree with him as I there is indeed a problem in Mexico when a lot of people is flying out of the country... (including me as I am studying abroad now...)
Yes, sure it is nice as a joke but how does a film about some animal species has something to do with an operating system? ya know... it is like having an article about a new Windex product just because it is used to clean the some things with the same nam as the Windows OS...
Do not missunderstand me, my rant is just against the editor that put this under the "Linux" section...
Well, I think other animations like StrangerHood are quite nice and more than just 3D models standing and voices like the ones in Red vs Blue... and as the animations and models advance in the games and the API's felxibility allows those films will be easier to do.
As for the copyrights lawsuits I do not know, can Red vs Blue count as a derivative work of Halo?? I think that is an interesting ground for laws uh? I do not doubt the big companies will try to suck the last dollar from those indies film makers...
What? and pay $150 dollars to play this shit... last time I used Realplayer (which now is called RealOne IIRC) it was a piece of animal waste. And it added software during installation...
And well... the poor computer is not guilty, who am I to make it suffer installing all that Windows etc etc ?
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Ok, maybe what we need is to make the people "enforce" the age restrictions (I know nowadays is not a restriction but a suggestion IIRC) and prohibit the sell of those game to kids under the allowed age...
You know, like with ciggarrets, Imagine if someone goes to a store with his boy, then the boy asks his father to buy certain box of cigarretes... is that allowed? and of course we need more "media" saying "remember, buying Games which are innapropiate for your children IS bad" of course, game companies wont like that very much...
IIRC that was kind of what IBM was doing with the IBM/PC, but then the clones started to appear AND the hardware companies (logitech, helwett-packard, etc) created hardware taht was conected to the parallel or serial port AND provided the drivers to use them.
So if the OSX for Intel is sucessfull the companies will start providing drivers for it... and they are the ones that will give support for their hardware not Apple
again, what we need is multithreading/multicore aware compilers/interpreters that allow you to make your program in the old way and distribute the workload between the cores without much hazzle.
Go ahead and dodge it quite useful for those spam hungry sites :) (and the owner is a /.er
Yep, I completely agree with you...
OSS is not bad, but being at least 403 linux distributions, at least 40 window managers and at least 40 desktop environments available for Linux and like xxxx different "stable" office application available developed by almost the same number of different people ON ITS FREE TIME it is impossible to make them interact in a COORDINATED way...
I think what OSS needs are standards, communication and structure standards its like KDE and GNOME try to do this, the sad thing is that for OSS people only do what they WANT TO DO, so if some constraints are needed in order to make their software interoperable with others then people will just not do it...
And that IS the difference with a closed propietary software, because over Redmond, all the developers MUST comply with certain development structure and standards.
For an example the simple COPY/PASTE copy paste? It took (although I am not sure if it is working now) like 5 years to make COPY/PASTE to work *kind of* correctly in Linux (X Window and KDE or GNOME) and of course NOT with all the applications.
What about Windows?? well, at least since WIN95 the basic copy/paste behabviour was tehre for all the apps using a simple edit box and the like.
Yeesh! if OSS developers can not play togheter in those little things what can any company expect when trying to create a "full blown software enterprise office solution" haha... sorry folks but we [OOS Enthusiasts (yep I am one =o)] are got a looong way to go.
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Mmmmm
/. passed the 900K barrier?
When did
Geez I am growing old...
Well, I think so -POIT- but where do you stick the feather and call it macaroni?
Yep, I know what you are talking about.. I have moved to the UK (from Mexico) and I got really pissed off when I went to the movies here for the first time.
... now might be expensive for you but for me who was used to pay $15 to go to THE BEST cinema (with THX sound, etc etc) in Mexico, I really felt how they where screwing me so hard...
... $30 for that??
... at least aI always do that (I like going to the cinema) and I always arrive when the trailers are starting.
;) cheaper and better (1 screen even has THX!)
You see, a single movie ticket here will be like £6 (USD$10) the popcorn something like £3 and soda another £2 (Odeon Cinemas) so going with my girlfriend meant £18 cinema night ~ USD$32.5
After I entered the cinema WTF really small cinema with really unconfortable sits and small screen AND the screen had a scar
Of course the worst thing where the 15 minutes adds I had to stand... I swear when te movie started I thought... this movie must be REALLY worth of it... unfortunately you can ask me what the movie was... I do not remember... all that lasts is this terrible experience.
Now, sorry for this rant I just needed to let it go out, but my advice for you is to go to the cinema 10 minutes after the time when they say the movie has *started*
p.s. Now i Only go to the FACT cinemas
Yep, you have a point:
BlueRay Disc -> Betamax
HD-DVD -> VHS
Both (Blueray, Betamax) are technically better, both are from Sony and both are going to be forgotten because Sony wants to fsck consumer's arses...
Someone posted before that the war is over, yep Indeed it is, but the winner is (geekly saddly) the HD-DVD format, you see that is the format the Porn Industry will use (because it is cheaper and it has just enough capacity for them), then it *may be* the case that HD-DVD does not need any authentication method to play and does not make your hardware go *kabooom crash broooam*.
Yeah, but it's not exactly 'news' or 'stuff that matters' is it?
/., this one seems nice
Well, it is a new product and it matters to me (and to GP... anyway I have seen worst posts in
Do not worry... [My we country]/[We] also [has]/[have] the president [it]/[we] [deserves]/[deserve].
I am from Mexico and our fucking retard president Fox which is Bush's lame-huevos is not good at all. As you said, I voted with my feet, and now I am far faaar away from him, until next elections, lets see what we can do.
Just FYI, here is a nice comparison of your search query between the two engines.
Every country gets the president it deserves.
So.
STFU
Resource exhaustion is economically impossible.
As resources become scarce, the price increases to balance their scarcity. At some level, substitutes become more economically attactive and use of the now-expensive, scare resource declines.
Yep. Tell that to the Oregon Bison
And the other species.
You are 100% right...
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Me (+1)
Yep, I have an Epson stylus 670, which was something like 30 dollars, and I buy ink cartdriges which cost like 4 dollars each, and replace them each 5 months printing quite often. Can any Lasser printer get that cheap?
Ok ok ok ok...
I see a pattern here:
ll I can name a few companies who think so....
Google, amazon, oracle, IBM.... but Tommy is much bigger than any of those companies.
See the pattern? well, all the companies you mentioned are IT related companies. But, what about looking at companies which buisness is totally IT unrelated (you could say that Amazon is not IT related but again, tell me how did amazon started?).
What about Levi's, Silvertab, Guess? and other clothes brands companies? what about Starbucks chain? I really would like to know what does companies which buisness is not IT use.
http://www.google.co.za/search?q=amazon+linux
;)
or
this
we really dont mind to know that you use firefox in its US english language and just put the words "amazon" and "linux" in the search bar
Well Mr. Anonymous COWARD instead of ranting you could have had some cojones asked some "difficult question" out of your anonymous hiding place
The chances are that a fast moving object is easier to identify that a stationary one,
I remember in IJCAI 2004 conference I attended to an invited where the person explained the difference in information between a still image and a moving image, IIRC, he showed first 1 still image, where as he said you have only pixels, and all you can attempt to do is a "edge detection" to recognize objects (playing with contrast/brightness/channels etc).
After that he showed the next image in the collection and it showed an object translating, so with the sequence of two images you really had a lot more information. So definitely movement objects yield more information.
But anyway I think this invention is quite cool, just as a thought what is the speed of a bullet? could it be possible for a machine like this to catch bullets... yea yeah too much matrix for me uh?
Now that you put the inmigration problem to afloat, I want to state a quote when talking with some rand() friend about the inmigration problem, he said something like this:
"the illegal Mexican to US inmigration problem is not a problem of Mexican government, for Mexico, after Petrolium, inmigrants is the second biggest source of income so it is a 'great buisness', the problem is in the USA and that it allows the inmigrants to go/work there. It is the USA government who needs to enforce its inmigration laws or make new ones IFF they REALLY want to get rid of all the Mexican workers that they have over there, or to legalize them all so they are not illegal anymore"
Well, it is too long for a quote and no I do not read it or remember it by heart, it is the general idea in my words. I kind of agree with him as I there is indeed a problem in Mexico when a lot of people is flying out of the country... (including me as I am studying abroad now...)
Yes, sure it is nice as a joke but how does a film about some animal species has something to do with an operating system? ya know... it is like having an article about a new Windex product just because it is used to clean the some things with the same nam as the Windows OS...
Do not missunderstand me, my rant is just against the editor that put this under the "Linux" section...
Well, I think other animations like StrangerHood are quite nice and more than just 3D models standing and voices like the ones in Red vs Blue... and as the animations and models advance in the games and the API's felxibility allows those films will be easier to do.
As for the copyrights lawsuits I do not know, can Red vs Blue count as a derivative work of Halo?? I think that is an interesting ground for laws uh? I do not doubt the big companies will try to suck the last dollar from those indies film makers...
MOD PARENT UP.
Man, that codepack is great! thanks a lot
BTW here[ Download K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 1.34] is a direct download link for the codec pack
What? and pay $150 dollars to play this shit... last time I used Realplayer (which now is called RealOne IIRC) it was a piece of animal waste. And it added software during installation...
And well... the poor computer is not guilty, who am I to make it suffer installing all that Windows etc etc ?