His original statement was right-- where he took it was wrong. He's right-- Americans are a bunch of pussies. Howso? Not 2 years after we decided we were going to do something to Iraq did we start whining about how long it's taking, and how we need to get out, blah blah. No commitment, nobody worried about finishing what we started...we're a nation with ADD.
How long did re-integrating Germany and turning them into a self-sustaining nation again after WW2 take? 10 years (talking about more than just building things back here)? And that was after all opposition had been whiped out and a wealth of old, trained engineers to help. In Japan? Also, a lot longer than two years. And in Japan they had the support of the Emporer; he saw our presence as a good thing. Long story short our presence lead to entities like Toyota and Honda, companies we're still benefitting from 50 years after our actions made their existence a possibility.
Now we're trying to do the same thing without support from our whole nation, without support from the people over there we're trying to help, and we want it done in two years. When it isn't, we get fussy about minor casualties (10/day max as opposed to 10,000 or 100,000/day in a real war) and want to pull out when we've fucked with everything but not stayed long enough to fix it, let alone improve it.
The people whining about how long it's taking aren't making it any better. If you supported going in at the beginning (yes, many of you Bush haters did) then you need to support the whole effort. As it stands we're never going to make it to 10 years if this dissent keeps up, and the world will hate us even more than if we stay and turn Iraq into a truly democratic nation. Who knows when the next Toyota could spring up over there? Nobody of course, but that's not an excuse to pull out when we're already there and have already "committed".
The damn thing picked/guessed a valid (NATted) IP address, netmask, and gateway without using DHCP (arp tricks?)
Did that IP resemble 169.254.x.x by any chance?
But really there's no point trying to find technical explanations when the obvious one is at hand - you can't read a sniffer trace for shit.
Having the ability to install Ethereal does not magically confer on you the ability to interpret the results correctly. Last I checked, none of those should be happening without a driver.
"this sort of thing indicates a much deeper understanding"
Or it indicates way too much free time. I can hardly think of a better addition to your resume when you're applying to any and all EE and CmpE jobs. "Too much free time" my ass, I think you're just jealous.
Does google's hosted service offer IMAP? Or are there plans to in the near future? No and I doubt they will. Imap means you don't need to use the webinterface to delete email permanently. Then they wouldn't be able to get _any_ advertising revenue.
Considering how many of these e-waste PC's are perfectly functional computers with 1+ Ghz speed processors, which can be upgraded to 512MB-1GB of RAM and remain functional for another 5 years for Grandma Internets...yet they are thrown out because they are full of spyware and adware and molassesware, it would be fair to tax the source of the problem: poorly programmed operating systems, like Windows.
Exactly. This is the EU desperately looking for some reason, any reason, to levy a hefty fine, not so much for the revenue, but to show how "tough" they are. This is a joke. Fining someone because you don't think their patents are innovative? The EU is really scraping the bottom of the barrel on this one. The EU is the single most democratic movement in the history of the earth (yes, even more so than the US). The requirements for the rights a country's citizens have to be allowed are remarkable stringent.
Microsoft's monopoly has nothing to do with democracy and everything to do with tyranny.
To me, they're following the spirit _and_ the letter of the law. How common is that?
I don't get what all the hoo-haw is and why we need courts or lobbying for any of this. I find it very difficult to write anything when my term paper or [insert your document here] isn't open. Sounds like a bunch of people just need to learn how to double-click.
So the stupid provisions get tacked onto bills like a giant military spending bill. This guy should do the same. That way when people vote against it, we can say "See? These guys are helping terrorists" and get rid of the media company whores et al.
I usually choose MP3, simply because I know it will work with anything/everything that I buy (including some cheap $20 cd player from walmart; I can just burn a data disc of the MP3's and boom there's 700MB worth of compressed audio right there on one disc). Until Vorbis becomes a de facto standard I won't be downloading/ripping in it. WMA is a NO, for the same reason AAC is IMO: doesn't play on everything. Vorbis and Flac are the only formats I can imagine becoming universal-- if there aren't licensing fees associated with their support then there's no reason not to include them.
Bitrate-- I've found 256kbps CBR, or the "extreme" VBR setting (~240kbps IIRC) to be nearly indestinguishable to the CD. Only one time have I ever noticed a difference-- when a cymbol is a solo instrument for a few moments and slowly fades out. For this, even 320kbps MP3 won't cut it. Haven't ripped it to Vorbis so I can't comment on the sound quality there. While the difference between my CD and the MP3 is pretty large, that _is_ the only time I've noticed a difference between the CD/MP3 from CD I make. So it's really not a big deal; certainly a large enough one to make me consider FLAC or even want to be able to download it.
Surround sound? Meh...only have two ears and most of the time I'll be listening to the music I'll only be using two speakers/headphones. I have a surround sound system, and while I haven't heard many songs made specifically for 5.1, the ones I have heard were not special enough for me, if I were a writer/band tech guy, to bother putting in the extra effort (how much?) to split the audio into 6 channels. I don't know the specifics but I can imagine splitting the audio into specific channels would only detract from a "standard" listening experience (different recievers, different speaker to subwoofer frequency cutovers, etc.). I'm not an expert so I may be wrong, but I imagine the effect would be similar to what you get when you master tracks on speakers with a non linear amplitude frequency response-- your speakers might be lacking is bass, so you turn up the source bass, and then when somebody puts it into their system (that has good bass) the music sounds distorted.
Of course the most important thing would be to look at your audience and cater to their desires. Do you attract the techno-and-audiophile sort that will spend $1200 on his copper wires (and refuses to use optical) so that he can "feel" the music? If so, providing your audio in FLAC is a must; 96khz sample rate, too. Otherwise I imagine a 256kbps MP3 would be fine. But then again, 640K should have been enough for anyone.:)
Would there be anything keeping you from providing it in multiple formats? Then people could get the one they prefer. Put in a FLAC recording and perhaps charge a little extra for it and then the buyer can convert the lossless to any bitrate he desires.
What's the problem with any of those scenarios? I don't see one. Your reference to the low birthrate problem would go away as salaries increase. Used to be on the farm that children provided a cheap source of labor, so the more you had the better. Now with tuition for university going through the roof, they're a liability. When there aren't enough to fill the jobs, salaries would go up, and having a child would no longer be a liability.
The problem is advertising that you're interested in an instance to people other than those also immediately interested. How do you tell people that are questing that you could use them in a group? If they don't have the instance tool open you can't.
Also the game doesn't allow you to specify any classes. If you have several DPS classes there's no way to specify for it to only add a tank and healer.
Seriously, such a thing would be pointless. your new character would start with what? beginner equipment? Might work for a mage, but a warrior type is only as good as his weapon in most cases. Well it's not like your old character couldn't send some gold to the new character through the mail, and the new character could just buy some greens (cheap item but definitely will get you through a fight) off the auction house.
Well if you'd rather have vi than Eclipse for your Java coding have at it. There's nothing wrong with vi, except we have tools far more powerful available at no extra cost.
All you have to do is pick a unique enough username that nobody else has come up with it yet. Just make it related to something you like and it's very simple. Take mine for example electro: electronic music soccer: sport tux: mascot of Linux
I've never had a problem getting this username registered anywhere.
The same goes with your password. Just cook up a sufficently secure password that is at least 12 characters long and then use it everywhere. Since you're going to be typing it in a lot, make sure it's easy to type.
One can only hope they do as bang up of a job as they did with those Halo games... WHAT? The Halo PC port SUCKED. Absolutely no optimization. Multiplayer interface is the worst I've ever seen. Ever tried to figure out which weapons are used in a match? Or the Vehicles? You have to wait at least 20 seconds per server watching the scrollbar on the bottom that tells you the info about the server set up. That's not even considering the technical optimization. There's no options for AA. AF has to be forced through the graphics drivers and it looks ugly. Not to mention how the game plays in general...Doom, Quake 4, Farcry, and UT2k4 (especially) all run infinitely better than Halo PC does on my 6800Ultra.
Halo PC was probably the suckiest port I've seen to date.
This may sound troll, but nobody cares if you are sick and tired of it. If you don't like it you are welcome to move back to Windows and stay there for all we care.
Linux wouldn't be here today if the people who worked on it decided they were too impatient to wait for it to get better and too lazy to write the code themselves. Why should they, when there is a perfectly good proprietary alternative? How much could it really hurt Linux? Far more than you can imagine. Your view is very nearsighted.
My sole interest is in maintaining control of what I run. That's the whole reason behind running Linux. If you don't like it you're welcome to leave. People with _your_ attitude are the ones creating the problems.
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His original statement was right-- where he took it was wrong. He's right-- Americans are a bunch of pussies. Howso? Not 2 years after we decided we were going to do something to Iraq did we start whining about how long it's taking, and how we need to get out, blah blah. No commitment, nobody worried about finishing what we started...we're a nation with ADD.
How long did re-integrating Germany and turning them into a self-sustaining nation again after WW2 take? 10 years (talking about more than just building things back here)? And that was after all opposition had been whiped out and a wealth of old, trained engineers to help. In Japan? Also, a lot longer than two years. And in Japan they had the support of the Emporer; he saw our presence as a good thing. Long story short our presence lead to entities like Toyota and Honda, companies we're still benefitting from 50 years after our actions made their existence a possibility.
Now we're trying to do the same thing without support from our whole nation, without support from the people over there we're trying to help, and we want it done in two years. When it isn't, we get fussy about minor casualties (10/day max as opposed to 10,000 or 100,000/day in a real war) and want to pull out when we've fucked with everything but not stayed long enough to fix it, let alone improve it.
The people whining about how long it's taking aren't making it any better. If you supported going in at the beginning (yes, many of you Bush haters did) then you need to support the whole effort. As it stands we're never going to make it to 10 years if this dissent keeps up, and the world will hate us even more than if we stay and turn Iraq into a truly democratic nation. Who knows when the next Toyota could spring up over there? Nobody of course, but that's not an excuse to pull out when we're already there and have already "committed".
Umm, maybe. Why do I care if they add watermarks to it?
Because there's no water in space! Obviously then there shouldn't be any marks indicating as such on a picture the Hubble telescope took!Did that IP resemble 169.254.x.x by any chance?
But really there's no point trying to find technical explanations when the obvious one is at hand - you can't read a sniffer trace for shit.
Having the ability to install Ethereal does not magically confer on you the ability to interpret the results correctly. Last I checked, none of those should be happening without a driver.
Just program clocks to adjust the time so that the sun rises at the exact same time every morning.
Why should it be? People are still willing to pay the full price.
Fuck capitalism.
Or it indicates way too much free time. I can hardly think of a better addition to your resume when you're applying to any and all EE and CmpE jobs. "Too much free time" my ass, I think you're just jealous.
Considering how many of these e-waste PC's are perfectly functional computers with 1+ Ghz speed processors, which can be upgraded to 512MB-1GB of RAM and remain functional for another 5 years for Grandma Internets...yet they are thrown out because they are full of spyware and adware and molassesware, it would be fair to tax the source of the problem: poorly programmed operating systems, like Windows.
This is the EU desperately looking for some reason, any reason, to levy a hefty fine, not so much for the revenue, but to show how "tough" they are. This is a joke. Fining someone because you don't think their patents are innovative? The EU is really scraping the bottom of the barrel on this one. The EU is the single most democratic movement in the history of the earth (yes, even more so than the US). The requirements for the rights a country's citizens have to be allowed are remarkable stringent.
Microsoft's monopoly has nothing to do with democracy and everything to do with tyranny.
To me, they're following the spirit _and_ the letter of the law. How common is that?
My Apple Computer.
I don't get what all the hoo-haw is and why we need courts or lobbying for any of this. I find it very difficult to write anything when my term paper or [insert your document here] isn't open. Sounds like a bunch of people just need to learn how to double-click.
So the stupid provisions get tacked onto bills like a giant military spending bill. This guy should do the same. That way when people vote against it, we can say "See? These guys are helping terrorists" and get rid of the media company whores et al.
I usually choose MP3, simply because I know it will work with anything/everything that I buy (including some cheap $20 cd player from walmart; I can just burn a data disc of the MP3's and boom there's 700MB worth of compressed audio right there on one disc). Until Vorbis becomes a de facto standard I won't be downloading/ripping in it. WMA is a NO, for the same reason AAC is IMO: doesn't play on everything. Vorbis and Flac are the only formats I can imagine becoming universal-- if there aren't licensing fees associated with their support then there's no reason not to include them.
:)
Bitrate-- I've found 256kbps CBR, or the "extreme" VBR setting (~240kbps IIRC) to be nearly indestinguishable to the CD. Only one time have I ever noticed a difference-- when a cymbol is a solo instrument for a few moments and slowly fades out. For this, even 320kbps MP3 won't cut it. Haven't ripped it to Vorbis so I can't comment on the sound quality there. While the difference between my CD and the MP3 is pretty large, that _is_ the only time I've noticed a difference between the CD/MP3 from CD I make. So it's really not a big deal; certainly a large enough one to make me consider FLAC or even want to be able to download it.
Surround sound? Meh...only have two ears and most of the time I'll be listening to the music I'll only be using two speakers/headphones. I have a surround sound system, and while I haven't heard many songs made specifically for 5.1, the ones I have heard were not special enough for me, if I were a writer/band tech guy, to bother putting in the extra effort (how much?) to split the audio into 6 channels. I don't know the specifics but I can imagine splitting the audio into specific channels would only detract from a "standard" listening experience (different recievers, different speaker to subwoofer frequency cutovers, etc.). I'm not an expert so I may be wrong, but I imagine the effect would be similar to what you get when you master tracks on speakers with a non linear amplitude frequency response-- your speakers might be lacking is bass, so you turn up the source bass, and then when somebody puts it into their system (that has good bass) the music sounds distorted.
Of course the most important thing would be to look at your audience and cater to their desires. Do you attract the techno-and-audiophile sort that will spend $1200 on his copper wires (and refuses to use optical) so that he can "feel" the music? If so, providing your audio in FLAC is a must; 96khz sample rate, too. Otherwise I imagine a 256kbps MP3 would be fine. But then again, 640K should have been enough for anyone.
Would there be anything keeping you from providing it in multiple formats? Then people could get the one they prefer. Put in a FLAC recording and perhaps charge a little extra for it and then the buyer can convert the lossless to any bitrate he desires.
Hope this has been of help; good luck.
What's the problem with any of those scenarios? I don't see one. Your reference to the low birthrate problem would go away as salaries increase. Used to be on the farm that children provided a cheap source of labor, so the more you had the better. Now with tuition for university going through the roof, they're a liability. When there aren't enough to fill the jobs, salaries would go up, and having a child would no longer be a liability.
what are those
The problem is advertising that you're interested in an instance to people other than those also immediately interested. How do you tell people that are questing that you could use them in a group? If they don't have the instance tool open you can't.
Also the game doesn't allow you to specify any classes. If you have several DPS classes there's no way to specify for it to only add a tank and healer.
Seriously, such a thing would be pointless. your new character would start with what? beginner equipment? Might work for a mage, but a warrior type is only as good as his weapon in most cases. Well it's not like your old character couldn't send some gold to the new character through the mail, and the new character could just buy some greens (cheap item but definitely will get you through a fight) off the auction house.
Well if you'd rather have vi than Eclipse for your Java coding have at it. There's nothing wrong with vi, except we have tools far more powerful available at no extra cost.
How unfortunate we are that the Declaration of Independence is not a legal document that will stand in court. It's not part of the Constitution.
All you have to do is pick a unique enough username that nobody else has come up with it yet. Just make it related to something you like and it's very simple. Take mine for example
electro: electronic music
soccer: sport
tux: mascot of Linux
I've never had a problem getting this username registered anywhere.
The same goes with your password. Just cook up a sufficently secure password that is at least 12 characters long and then use it everywhere. Since you're going to be typing it in a lot, make sure it's easy to type.
Ironic, we're advocating choice and alternatives in the big picture by supporting an option (Gnome) that does neither.
Halo PC was probably the suckiest port I've seen to date.
The problem with second life is that for many people there is no reason to "play" it.
Was there a point to Animal Crossing?This may sound troll, but nobody cares if you are sick and tired of it. If you don't like it you are welcome to move back to Windows and stay there for all we care.
Linux wouldn't be here today if the people who worked on it decided they were too impatient to wait for it to get better and too lazy to write the code themselves. Why should they, when there is a perfectly good proprietary alternative? How much could it really hurt Linux? Far more than you can imagine. Your view is very nearsighted.
My sole interest is in maintaining control of what I run. That's the whole reason behind running Linux. If you don't like it you're welcome to leave. People with _your_ attitude are the ones creating the problems.