Many people seem to like consuming ad-financed stuff. Why do you assume if you don't pay for access to something, it is free? It should be obvious that we all pay for "free-tv", "free" news sites and other ad-supported things when we buy the products that are advertised there.
When you pay directly for access, you have a choice. When you think it's free, they have already made you pay. And then you pay, even if you don't visit! It's effectively a private tax. The only way to not pay it is to watch for ads and then not buy what is advertised - seems unpractical.
If I remember correctly, Windows 7 only asks for one instance of your wireless passphrase. Don't know about Vista. Definitely remember this as a massive WTF from XP.
It's not complete bullshit from their perspective, i think. Your email account security is completly out of their control, so sending a password reset link is not the end-all solution. Depends a bit on the account, but I would not want my bank let anyone who has control over my email account reset my online banking password.
According to Blizzard (From the linked press release":
"World of Warcraft's Subscriber Definition
World of Warcraft subscribers include individuals who have paid a subscription fee or have an active prepaid card to play World of Warcraft, as well as those who have purchased the game and are within their free month of access. Internet Game Room players who have accessed the game over the last thirty days are also counted as subscribers. The above definition excludes all players under free promotional subscriptions, expired or cancelled subscriptions, and expired prepaid cards. Subscribers in licensees' territories are defined along the same rules."
So expired or free subscriptions are not included in those numbers...
The thing is, triangle waves don't exist naturally and are composed of an unlimited number of sine waves where each sine wave has a higher frequency than the former. If you filter the high, unhearable frequencies out, you get a signal that has no sharp edges but sounds the same, and it can be perfectly sampled if you assume unlimited sample resolution. The trick: Music does not have edges! And if it has, they are filtered out by the ear.
Sorry mwvdlee, you are wrong. Acording to Nyquist, EVERY signal that has a limited bandwidth (don't know if that's the correct english term), that means it contains no frequencies above a certain limit frequency, can be totally reconstructed out of a sampled signal with double that limit frequency as sampling rate. This is a perfect reconstruction if you leave noise floor out of the equation. With 24 bit or even 16 bit per sample the noise floor is practically unhearable and much better than on a vinyl record.
Please, read up a bit about digital signals and the Nyquist theorem, it is counter-intuitive, but it works. There are no "edges" in a reconstructed (played) digital signal!
So 1 Terabyte "base 1024" is almost exactly 1,1 Terabyte in "base 1000". It would be nice if operating systems would start to give disk and file sizes in base 1000 to avoid this confusion.
Actually, a system that is worse than chance is actually better than chance: You just do the opposite the system tells you. The worst systems are those equal to chance.
If you had told me at the end of the nineties that Wavelab, of all audio software, would some day appear in a list of bloat-free, lean software... I'd be envious because obviously you got the better e's that night.
Propably the King James version was incorrect in the first place. Translating the original Hebrew texts is clearly non-trivial and open to interpretation.
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My neck already hurts when I thik about reading slashdot comments in a maximized browser window on a 24'' widescreen monitor. ouch!
Almost correct. They buy it, then complain when power-saving features won't work in an unreleased OS with driver support in beta (if any).
Only the Sith deal in absolutes.
Many people seem to like consuming ad-financed stuff. Why do you assume if you don't pay for access to something, it is free? It should be obvious that we all pay for "free-tv", "free" news sites and other ad-supported things when we buy the products that are advertised there.
When you pay directly for access, you have a choice. When you think it's free, they have already made you pay. And then you pay, even if you don't visit! It's effectively a private tax. The only way to not pay it is to watch for ads and then not buy what is advertised - seems unpractical.
If I remember correctly, Windows 7 only asks for one instance of your wireless passphrase. Don't know about Vista. Definitely remember this as a massive WTF from XP.
I thought emacs was a gaming platform, at least that's what I use it for (mmmm... dunnet...)
Great gaming platform, lacking a good text editor, though.
It's not complete bullshit from their perspective, i think. Your email account security is completly out of their control, so sending a password reset link is not the end-all solution. Depends a bit on the account, but I would not want my bank let anyone who has control over my email account reset my online banking password.
They should send an email with a link in it to reset the password.
Anyway, what happens if I forget the answer to the secret question?
Seems like I didn't see all the other coments saying exacly the same as mine...
But then the property holder would be taxed based on his proposed value of ONE HUNDRED BILLION TRILLION ZOMG BBQ DOLLARS. That's the point.
I'd say these are the first steps for patenting a new space ship propulsion system...
I should refresh more often :)
According to Blizzard (From the linked press release":
"World of Warcraft's Subscriber Definition
World of Warcraft subscribers include individuals who have paid a subscription fee or have an active prepaid card to play World of Warcraft, as well as those who have purchased the game and are within their free month of access. Internet Game Room players who have accessed the game over the last thirty days are also counted as subscribers. The above definition excludes all players under free promotional subscriptions, expired or cancelled subscriptions, and expired prepaid cards. Subscribers in licensees' territories are defined along the same rules."
So expired or free subscriptions are not included in those numbers...
The thing is, triangle waves don't exist naturally and are composed of an unlimited number of sine waves where each sine wave has a higher frequency than the former. If you filter the high, unhearable frequencies out, you get a signal that has no sharp edges but sounds the same, and it can be perfectly sampled if you assume unlimited sample resolution. The trick: Music does not have edges! And if it has, they are filtered out by the ear.
My wording wasn't completely correct - If noise of the reproducted signal falls under the noise floor, it is not noticable.
Sorry mwvdlee, you are wrong. Acording to Nyquist, EVERY signal that has a limited bandwidth (don't know if that's the correct english term), that means it contains no frequencies above a certain limit frequency, can be totally reconstructed out of a sampled signal with double that limit frequency as sampling rate. This is a perfect reconstruction if you leave noise floor out of the equation. With 24 bit or even 16 bit per sample the noise floor is practically unhearable and much better than on a vinyl record.
Please, read up a bit about digital signals and the Nyquist theorem, it is counter-intuitive, but it works. There are no "edges" in a reconstructed (played) digital signal!
> This is all going to revert back to why the EU just doesn't have one World Cup Soccer team I think.
;)
Because that would be totaly unfair to all the other teams
Besides:
European Union
United States of America
are actually very similar names. American Union or United States of Europe would be just as plausible.
Even more...
First in 1024 "base":
1 TB = 1024 GB = 1048576 MB = 1073741824 kB = 1099511627776 B
So 1 Terabyte "base 1024" is almost exactly 1,1 Terabyte in "base 1000". It would be nice if operating systems would start to give disk and file sizes in base 1000 to avoid this confusion.
Actually, a system that is worse than chance is actually better than chance: You just do the opposite the system tells you. The worst systems are those equal to chance.
If you had told me at the end of the nineties that Wavelab, of all audio software, would some day appear in a list of bloat-free, lean software... I'd be envious because obviously you got the better e's that night.
Hubbard was a science-fiction author before he founded scientology, so he had some training :) Go read the Wikipedia.
Propably the King James version was incorrect in the first place. Translating the original Hebrew texts is clearly non-trivial and open to interpretation.
I think his reply was meant as a joke, too. You just don't get it. Give up!
And what happens when this "DRM company" goes out of business or decides it can no longer service that particular game?