I lived in Sandy up to last year (and still live nearby), and the best I could get without going to comcast was 3mbit DSL. Comcast offered up to 8mbit, iirc. Definitely nothing above 10 was even available on a residential plan.
Has to be a typo.
Applications can statically link the CRT with/MT or/MTd instead of the (default)/MD and/MDd. It's pretty common, and i've found that the actual increase to binary size is very small. It often cuts down on distribution size anyway, since that allows/OPT:REF (eliminate unreferenced code) to take effect.
It'd be nice if the CRT was available on all systems by default and we didn't have to worry about it, but failing that, static linking is a *necessity* for anything that doesn't use a full installer.
But pretty much anyone with decent equipment *can* hear the difference between 24bit and 16bit, or 48khz and 96khz. That is a pretty well established fact, and not nearly as controversial as mp3 encoding quality. Audio CDs are generally encoded as 48khz, 16bit, 1411kbps PCM audio - which the majority of modern soundcards (including onboard cards) can outdo in recordings (though obviously they lack in other areas). For comparison, get one of the few albums available in DVD Audio and compare them to the CD - especially at high volumes.
The downside is that 4 minutes of 2 channel music in 24/96 is 65.5MB in FLAC (bitrate of 2275kbps). Quite a bit heavier than CD quality audio.
But i'm also one of those people that is very convinced I can hear the difference between most MP3 and lossless, so you might want to take my opinion as slightly biased;)
SSL's general uptake is held back by two unfortunately major points. Firstly, it costs money to buy a SSL certificate, and you have to deal with all sorts of shit (or spend more money) if you use subdomains, alternate domains, etc. Something like CACert could fix this issue if it were widely accepted, but of course that would make the entire system less trustworthy..
Secondly, there is no normally implemented way to do name-based virtual hosting with SSL, and most people don't want to or can't give each domain it's own IP. There is a TLS extension to solve this, but afaik browser and httpd support is minimal or nonexistant currently.
These are issues the community really needs to be concentrating on, because all too often these days it does not make sense to communicate and let the rest of the world watch.
Plenty of people, myself among them, keep high-definition movies now. In MPEG-2, they usually end up being 11-14gb each, and that isn't unreasonable with today's harddrives. Once HDDVD gets adopted widely there will probably be drives big enough to make a 20gb movie not too much of an issue for people who want to keep it in its original quality. Plus, once we can burn hddvd/bluray discs, space won't matter.
According to securityfocus, this bug does affect the 2.0.x branch as well as 2.1.x. It says that the 2.1.x version has been released to fix, and that a fix is available in the subversion repository for 2.0.x. I'd suspect that there will be a new version of 2.0.x out soon.
Who is going to pay $1 to read about how your boyfriend dumped you last week and you're still crying in bed. Blog comment spam isn't all that hard to get rid of (filter links, filter content, or if you're just worried about search engines, use rel="nofollow").
Anyone who has a blog that you have to pay to comment on (or to see) isn't going to get much traffic.
How to tell if you are stereotyping:
1. You posted something like that.
For me, most of those points are untrue. I know linux can crash (I have caused kernel panics before), I burn dvds constantly, I admit plenty of facts, cdrecord and its many frontends are fine.
Many of the dupes link articles about something from different sources. I think the editors should just start looking for dupes before they accept a submission.
(You can have a kernel module which reads the program files and if not in the correct format will tell the user it is wrong and therefore it will not run the binary. This would get users to 1. hack a solution or hopefully 2. complain to the developers to fix the problem.)
I don't think making all software not run until the user upgrades it to the newest version that supports FancyNewConfigurationScheme v1.3 is the right solution. That isn't likely to make many people happy.
That said, I think config files are fine how they are. Sure, the formats are different, but few are actually hard to understand (and if they are, its the developers problem). Having most configuration files in/etc/ is enough. Its just a quick look through there for what I need. Perhaps a registry-like (but obviously much better/faster in the way of linux) thing would be good for some parts, but forcing developers to use something is not the right idea.
This is exactly how I feel. If I was a gamer, and I really liked a game, i'd go out and buy it (despite my lack of money). But, I rarely play games, and I don't have any that I like all that much, so I don't want to go paying $50 for each of them.
If the gaming industry were to make better games, i'm sure more people would want to buy them legally (for things like online play, and to support its development, etc).
More than ripping music is. Someone getting high/drunk, and driving, and crashing into someone else is more harmful than converting your cd so it can be stored on your computer.
It may stop a few people from ripping music, but most will do it anyway. It won't stop piracy. They should spend the time they would be enforcing pointless laws like that thinking up better ways to fix real problems (drugs, etc), not trying to stop people from putting music on their mp3 players or computers.
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I lived in Sandy up to last year (and still live nearby), and the best I could get without going to comcast was 3mbit DSL. Comcast offered up to 8mbit, iirc. Definitely nothing above 10 was even available on a residential plan. Has to be a typo.
Applications can statically link the CRT with /MT or /MTd instead of the (default) /MD and /MDd. It's pretty common, and i've found that the actual increase to binary size is very small. It often cuts down on distribution size anyway, since that allows /OPT:REF (eliminate unreferenced code) to take effect.
It'd be nice if the CRT was available on all systems by default and we didn't have to worry about it, but failing that, static linking is a *necessity* for anything that doesn't use a full installer.
But pretty much anyone with decent equipment *can* hear the difference between 24bit and 16bit, or 48khz and 96khz. That is a pretty well established fact, and not nearly as controversial as mp3 encoding quality. Audio CDs are generally encoded as 48khz, 16bit, 1411kbps PCM audio - which the majority of modern soundcards (including onboard cards) can outdo in recordings (though obviously they lack in other areas). For comparison, get one of the few albums available in DVD Audio and compare them to the CD - especially at high volumes.
;)
The downside is that 4 minutes of 2 channel music in 24/96 is 65.5MB in FLAC (bitrate of 2275kbps). Quite a bit heavier than CD quality audio.
But i'm also one of those people that is very convinced I can hear the difference between most MP3 and lossless, so you might want to take my opinion as slightly biased
SSL's general uptake is held back by two unfortunately major points. Firstly, it costs money to buy a SSL certificate, and you have to deal with all sorts of shit (or spend more money) if you use subdomains, alternate domains, etc. Something like CACert could fix this issue if it were widely accepted, but of course that would make the entire system less trustworthy..
Secondly, there is no normally implemented way to do name-based virtual hosting with SSL, and most people don't want to or can't give each domain it's own IP. There is a TLS extension to solve this, but afaik browser and httpd support is minimal or nonexistant currently.
These are issues the community really needs to be concentrating on, because all too often these days it does not make sense to communicate and let the rest of the world watch.
Plenty of people, myself among them, keep high-definition movies now. In MPEG-2, they usually end up being 11-14gb each, and that isn't unreasonable with today's harddrives. Once HDDVD gets adopted widely there will probably be drives big enough to make a 20gb movie not too much of an issue for people who want to keep it in its original quality. Plus, once we can burn hddvd/bluray discs, space won't matter.
Semenary classes are, thankfully, completely optional, although a lot of utah parents force their children to take them.
"I'm really sorry it shot billy. I guess he was too stupid to remember the code anyway. Want to have another child?" Flawless.
According to securityfocus, this bug does affect the 2.0.x branch as well as 2.1.x. It says that the 2.1.x version has been released to fix, and that a fix is available in the subversion repository for 2.0.x. I'd suspect that there will be a new version of 2.0.x out soon.
Securityfocus article is here.
Who is going to pay $1 to read about how your boyfriend dumped you last week and you're still crying in bed. Blog comment spam isn't all that hard to get rid of (filter links, filter content, or if you're just worried about search engines, use rel="nofollow").
Anyone who has a blog that you have to pay to comment on (or to see) isn't going to get much traffic.
am I the only one who was reminded of the "Bug" in the Matrix?
How to tell if you are stereotyping:
1. You posted something like that.
For me, most of those points are untrue. I know linux can crash (I have caused kernel panics before), I burn dvds constantly, I admit plenty of facts, cdrecord and its many frontends are fine.
I see http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/pizzacall coming true soon. Goodbye privacy, nice knowing you.
Someone needs to make a stand against these growing attempts to watch over every part of our lives, before it goes too far.
Many of the dupes link articles about something from different sources. I think the editors should just start looking for dupes before they accept a submission.
That said, I think config files are fine how they are. Sure, the formats are different, but few are actually hard to understand (and if they are, its the developers problem). Having most configuration files in
This is exactly how I feel. If I was a gamer, and I really liked a game, i'd go out and buy it (despite my lack of money). But, I rarely play games, and I don't have any that I like all that much, so I don't want to go paying $50 for each of them. If the gaming industry were to make better games, i'm sure more people would want to buy them legally (for things like online play, and to support its development, etc).
More than ripping music is. Someone getting high/drunk, and driving, and crashing into someone else is more harmful than converting your cd so it can be stored on your computer.
It may stop a few people from ripping music, but most will do it anyway. It won't stop piracy. They should spend the time they would be enforcing pointless laws like that thinking up better ways to fix real problems (drugs, etc), not trying to stop people from putting music on their mp3 players or computers.