Meta-modding unfair when it is based on bias of OS/religion/etc rather than fact doesn't seem to help either.
Speaking heresy against the Church of the Sacred Penguin? Feel the wrath of my mighty -1 Troll mod, infidel! Hail Tux! All hail Tux and his prophet Linus Torvalds!
There is a difference between music and video. Music has maybe three widely used encodings: wma, mp3, and ogg. These formats are pretty stable, and it's no real trouble to design a music player that will support all three.
Movies are a whole other ball of wax, though. There are literally dozens of different codecs, with no clear winner, and no way of telling which codec you'll need just from looking at the file name. If (for instance) you have an ogg player and an ogg file, you know that you'll be able to listen to your music. But, if you have an mpeg file, you can't know if it'll work with your mpeg player without trying it. If it work, you may or may not be able to find the proper codec.
These are serious issues that need to be addressed before we can have a universal portable movie file player. Of course, if you just want to lock people into one particular codec, then it's no problem.
Well, if CHARLES W. GRISWOLD says that Windows is only good for games, far be it from me to suggest that millions of other people who use Windows for other purposes might have their own ideas about what they value.
That's right! It's about time someone saw the intrinsic, priceless value of my opinions. If my opinions are good enough for me, they're good enough for everyone! The fact that other people may disagree with my opinions while I not only agree with them, but am actually the sole origin of my opinions only shows the vast superiority of my intellect. Plus, I have more Slack.
I doubt it; these displays are fairly stiff. Judging from Figure 1 in the article, they seem to be somewhat more flexible than credit card plastic. Folding them would at least leave a permanent kink, and they're too thick and heavy to make a good paper airplane.
You chose Windows 98 over NT and Linux at one time.
Now that, sir, is a slanderous lie. I was unhappy with Windows, became aware of Linux, switched, and never looked back. At no time did I "choose" Windows over Linux, because during the time when I was primarily a Windows user (yes, I still use Windows for games; that's all that it's good for) I was unaware of the existance of Linux.
Of all the bumper stickers I have ever seen, the one on my truck annoys the most people.
It simply says "If you didn't serve, don't vote"
I am tired of these namby pamby arm chair quarterbacks talking tough but scared to put on a uniform
You served in the military, I take it. If so, then you must have sworn an oath to protect the constitution. Yet, here you are telling people they don't have a right to vote when the constitution clearly says that they do. Nice, real nice. Ever heard of the word "hypocrit"?
Yeah, here you are talking tough, but you're too scared say who you are, you Anonymous Coward.
So SCO should try to prove that there *isn't* Unix code in Linux?
No. They should try to find out *whether* there is Unix code in Linux. But, instead of trying to find the truth, they levelled baseless allegations of copyright infringement and then tried to make their allegations seem true.
Personally, I think that Redhat, IBM, and anyone else doing Linux development should sue SCO for libel. Then they should force SCO to open its own code to scrutiny, so that we can find out if there is any Linux code in Unix. Hey, turnabout is fair play, right?
Consumers wanted backward compatiblity more than they wanted stability and I guess you're proof of that despite your complaints.
??? I'm not sure what you mean. I've been complaining about how much Windows sucks and commented that, stability-wise, XP doesn't suck like the pre-XP versions did. It still sucks in other ways, though. Right this very moment, I'm using Linux, and I haven't used Windows for several weeks now.
Oh, yeah. You were talking about backwards compatability. Linux is so backwards compatable that it still supports teletype codes. Booyah! Take that, Windows.
Windows, of course, started on a platform (8088 etc) that Linux could never run on without the same sort of problems.
Of course. Next time I get the deep, burning urge to run a modern graphical operating system on an 8088-based system . . . I'll beat my head against the wall until the madness passes.
I see. I was using Win98 (which had come out within the last year) when I really should have been using WinNT (which came out 4 years earlier) because I should have been using the latest version of Windows. No, wait. That doesn't work.
Ah, I know! It's because NT had already had 4 years to stabilize and have all of the bugs fixed because MS has a really bad habit of pushing operating systems out the door before they're really ready for it, and while they're still full of bugs. Yes, that must be it.
Or maybe it's that NT was intended for businesses and therefore had to be stable, but '98 was intended for the home user, so MS just sort of slapped it together with no real thought for stability.
[shrug] Whatever the reason, I prefer that my computer not crash every 20 minutes (not an exaggeration). Still, I have to hand it to Microsoft. XP is a pretty rock-solid OS. It's just too bad it took them this long to get a stable consumer version of Windows.
One could always make the arguement that since only British citizens paid the taxes that funded the recording, only British citizens should be allowed to have the music for free. Of course, actually trying to enforce something like that would be a DRM nightmare.
In this case, the computer software and/or robots used in the performance are essentially being used as musical instruments. The question of who actually owns the copyright of the performance would depend on the specifics of the situation.
So yes, Mozilla DOES sit on critical bugs for months.
Good grief, you're kidding? What a bunch of lazy bastards. When they get a bug report, they should verify it, find the code responsible, fix the code, verify the fix, keep tweaking the code until it passes all of the tests, rebuild the entire code base, and release the fixed version of Mozilla THE DAY AFTER THEY GET THE BUG REPORT!!!
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In case you hadn't guessed, these things take a bit of time.
Point taken. On the other hand, living in the colonies wasn't really that much different than living in England. You still had enough water to drink, air to breathe, and land to grow food. All of these things are is somewhat short supply in space. I think that it would be somewhat more difficult for a space colony to separate itself from the Earth. Planetary colonies would have an easier time of it, but it would still be no picnic. If your infrastructure breaks down, you can't just live off the land; you die. It would take a powerful incentive for space colonies to break away. I just hope that we don't give them that incentive.
I agree with everything you say about people, except for the inevitablity of war. Within the U.S, we certainly have conflicts, violence, and power-hungry people... but there hasn't been a war between the states for 150 years. Britain and France fought for hundreds of years, and I'm sure they still have conflicts; but what are the chances that they'll have another war, knowing that both sides would lose?
No, there hasn't been a civil war within the U.S. for the last 150 years. Nevertheless there has, for the last 150 years, and for most (if not all) of recorded history been war somewhere in the world. Quite often, these wars involved nations that think of themselves as being "civilised". The U.S. itself has been involved in armed conflict (war) for entirely too much of it's history.
Going by humanity's track record so far, I believe that war is inevitable unless something drastic happens to the entire human race. Nothing short of a total transformation of human nature will eliminate war.
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The engineer's answer: twice as large as it needs to be.
Seriously though, as far as I can tell über means "above" or "over", as in something being superior to something else.
There is a difference between music and video. Music has maybe three widely used encodings: wma, mp3, and ogg. These formats are pretty stable, and it's no real trouble to design a music player that will support all three.
Movies are a whole other ball of wax, though. There are literally dozens of different codecs, with no clear winner, and no way of telling which codec you'll need just from looking at the file name. If (for instance) you have an ogg player and an ogg file, you know that you'll be able to listen to your music. But, if you have an mpeg file, you can't know if it'll work with your mpeg player without trying it. If it work, you may or may not be able to find the proper codec.
These are serious issues that need to be addressed before we can have a universal portable movie file player. Of course, if you just want to lock people into one particular codec, then it's no problem.
Just kidding.
It's nice to get some recognition for once.
[checks the spelling] Err... Yes.
Pornographic first-person rocket-propelled grenades. I like it!
Yeah, here you are talking tough, but you're too scared say who you are, you Anonymous Coward.
Personally, I think that Redhat, IBM, and anyone else doing Linux development should sue SCO for libel. Then they should force SCO to open its own code to scrutiny, so that we can find out if there is any Linux code in Unix. Hey, turnabout is fair play, right?
Oh, yeah. You were talking about backwards compatability. Linux is so backwards compatable that it still supports teletype codes. Booyah! Take that, Windows. Of course. Next time I get the deep, burning urge to run a modern graphical operating system on an 8088-based system . . . I'll beat my head against the wall until the madness passes.
wakka chikka wakka chikka
Too bad there's not a "Too Much Information" rating. :-)
I see. I was using Win98 (which had come out within the last year) when I really should have been using WinNT (which came out 4 years earlier) because I should have been using the latest version of Windows. No, wait. That doesn't work.
Ah, I know! It's because NT had already had 4 years to stabilize and have all of the bugs fixed because MS has a really bad habit of pushing operating systems out the door before they're really ready for it, and while they're still full of bugs. Yes, that must be it.
Or maybe it's that NT was intended for businesses and therefore had to be stable, but '98 was intended for the home user, so MS just sort of slapped it together with no real thought for stability.
[shrug] Whatever the reason, I prefer that my computer not crash every 20 minutes (not an exaggeration). Still, I have to hand it to Microsoft. XP is a pretty rock-solid OS. It's just too bad it took them this long to get a stable consumer version of Windows.
One could always make the arguement that since only British citizens paid the taxes that funded the recording, only British citizens should be allowed to have the music for free. Of course, actually trying to enforce something like that would be a DRM nightmare.
In this case, the computer software and/or robots used in the performance are essentially being used as musical instruments. The question of who actually owns the copyright of the performance would depend on the specifics of the situation.
Wow. That brought an interesting mental image to mind. :-.
I was going to say "I don't know. Are the users good looking?" but (in the name of good taste) decided not to.
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In case you hadn't guessed, these things take a bit of time.
Point taken. On the other hand, living in the colonies wasn't really that much different than living in England. You still had enough water to drink, air to breathe, and land to grow food. All of these things are is somewhat short supply in space. I think that it would be somewhat more difficult for a space colony to separate itself from the Earth. Planetary colonies would have an easier time of it, but it would still be no picnic. If your infrastructure breaks down, you can't just live off the land; you die. It would take a powerful incentive for space colonies to break away. I just hope that we don't give them that incentive.
Going by humanity's track record so far, I believe that war is inevitable unless something drastic happens to the entire human race. Nothing short of a total transformation of human nature will eliminate war.