Which shows how screwed up the patent system is - I highly doubt KlaymenDK had read the patent or had any contact with the "inventor", yet if he wanted to make a phone as he'd described he'd be in violation of patent law.
Problem is, avi files are always video (or more specifically, audio and video (interleaved together... wait, audio video interleave? AVI! Amazing how some file extensions mean something, while others eg ogg are just words.)) See r00t's post above.
I had an experience with Java Server Faces a few weeks ago. As much as it seems like a cool idea, sometimes objects are *not* the answer. The problem I had to solve would have been much easier with a few lines of perl, instead of a bunch of java beans with a zillion properties and (IMHO) a huge dirty hack to get around the (completely artificial) limitation that you can't pass arguments to methods you call from a page.
Ah but if not for the EULA, you don't have any right to use the software in the first place (unless you can argue that this was implied by them selling you the box). Don't you just/love/ our IP model?
I used ephpod for a while but it's buggy, closed-source and no longer in active development. While I wouldn't mind one of the aforementioned problems, all three together make it pretty much a lost cause.
Even better, my *phone* does it just fine, and I can browse through the directory structure or by artist/album/track from the ID3 tags. And the MP3 player isn't even a main selling point of my phone (it's a k800i so the main feature is the 3.2MP camera).
The only reason I still use my iPod is that the phone's headphones suck and it doesn't have a standard 3.5mm jack. I still resent having to buy a license for anapod explorer to put music on my iPod because I won't use that god-awful pile of crap called iTunes.
Couldn't you man-in-the middle it with a virtualisation layer that passes the decryption requests from the official software to the TPM hardware and then grabs the "plaintext" (in this case video) on the way back?
If it hasn't been said enough yet, this is why DRM can't ever work.
It does function as a search! It searches the start menu, which makes perfect sense seeing as that's where it is! Do you expect the search box in Firefox's history sidebar to launch a google search?
And it's not like it's useless or detracts from the UI in any way... it's actually a useful feature and means I can choose between typing something I know the name of or looking through folders for something I don't.
Someone was sucked into intel's P4-era marketing. His Core 2 is not faster in terms of MHz, but faster in terms of actually doing calculations. For which the Core 2 chips kick ass. If it really was all about MHz then Intel would never have given up on netburst for the Core architecture.
And if you don't like nokia, sony ericsson make the k800i which is pretty much the same. The flash is a bit better than the one one the N73 but the thumbstick pisses me off. Can't force the flash on, it can't really cope with light behind the subject, and the battery is only good for two days when you're on a 3G network but other than that it's a good phone:)
Stop bitching when better graphics come out. Yes, gameplay makes the game - but good graphics can enable new gameplay and at the same time improve immersion. Even if someone produces a content-devoid shiny-graphics game to show off their new engine (Doom 3 anyone?), having a better engine is still a good thing and there's nothing stopping someone making a good game with it (Quake 4 anyone?).
In short: stop bitching. Vote with your wallet, and realize that game companies that don't want to develop their own engines will also vote with theirs.
Knowing a few people at university and TAFE... the stigma is fair. With a few notable exceptions (eg chefs), people at TAFE are either dumber or significantly less motivated than their university counterparts. TAFE is a cop-out for a lot of people who don't want to do anything with their lives and want to mooch off their parents/community for a while yet (though university is too, it's a little harder to stay in uni without doing some work and learning something).
I'm surprised there aren't DVD-sized h.264 releases of these HD-DVDs already (in case you can't tell it's DVD-compressed-to-700MB-xvid all over again:) )
Yeah, we have mandatory team-building exercises too. They usually either turn into pissing contests, or nothing gets done because we're too busy screwing around with whatever toys we've been given.
Now that I think about it, I don't remember *any* girls at the event. There are a few in my classes, but they're more concentrated in the softwarey classes (albeit severly underrepresented there too) than the hardwarey/engineering classes. Maths is the closest to even. I know two girls doing software engineering, and one doing chem...
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Thankfully, my current favourite keyboard uses a more standard layout:
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Which shows how screwed up the patent system is - I highly doubt KlaymenDK had read the patent or had any contact with the "inventor", yet if he wanted to make a phone as he'd described he'd be in violation of patent law.
Problem is, avi files are always video (or more specifically, audio and video (interleaved together... wait, audio video interleave? AVI! Amazing how some file extensions mean something, while others eg ogg are just words.)) See r00t's post above.
Standard though it may be, it's WRONG and pisses me the fuck off.
*shudders*
I had an experience with Java Server Faces a few weeks ago. As much as it seems like a cool idea, sometimes objects are *not* the answer. The problem I had to solve would have been much easier with a few lines of perl, instead of a bunch of java beans with a zillion properties and (IMHO) a huge dirty hack to get around the (completely artificial) limitation that you can't pass arguments to methods you call from a page.
Ah but if not for the EULA, you don't have any right to use the software in the first place (unless you can argue that this was implied by them selling you the box). Don't you just /love/ our IP model?
Until you need to replace some hardware, which is usually my reason for reinstalling anyway...
CTRL-E will also take you to the search box. It has the advantage of being closer to T and you can hit the combo with just your left hand :)
Just like power and telecommunications, hey?
I used ephpod for a while but it's buggy, closed-source and no longer in active development. While I wouldn't mind one of the aforementioned problems, all three together make it pretty much a lost cause.
I've installed vista on one of my partitions, for the simple reason that there will be money to be made supporting it.
Even better, my *phone* does it just fine, and I can browse through the directory structure or by artist/album/track from the ID3 tags. And the MP3 player isn't even a main selling point of my phone (it's a k800i so the main feature is the 3.2MP camera).
The only reason I still use my iPod is that the phone's headphones suck and it doesn't have a standard 3.5mm jack. I still resent having to buy a license for anapod explorer to put music on my iPod because I won't use that god-awful pile of crap called iTunes.
Couldn't you man-in-the middle it with a virtualisation layer that passes the decryption requests from the official software to the TPM hardware and then grabs the "plaintext" (in this case video) on the way back?
If it hasn't been said enough yet, this is why DRM can't ever work.
There's also a search button (exactly where the old, now-expected one was) that takes you to the computer-wide search in explorer.
It does function as a search! It searches the start menu, which makes perfect sense seeing as that's where it is! Do you expect the search box in Firefox's history sidebar to launch a google search?
And it's not like it's useless or detracts from the UI in any way... it's actually a useful feature and means I can choose between typing something I know the name of or looking through folders for something I don't.
Someone was sucked into intel's P4-era marketing. His Core 2 is not faster in terms of MHz, but faster in terms of actually doing calculations. For which the Core 2 chips kick ass. If it really was all about MHz then Intel would never have given up on netburst for the Core architecture.
And if you don't like nokia, sony ericsson make the k800i which is pretty much the same. The flash is a bit better than the one one the N73 but the thumbstick pisses me off. Can't force the flash on, it can't really cope with light behind the subject, and the battery is only good for two days when you're on a 3G network but other than that it's a good phone :)
Yeah, if only that software didn't suck so much :(
Why on earth is the size of the window limited to 800x600, when almost every page requires scroll bars?!?
Stop bitching when better graphics come out. Yes, gameplay makes the game - but good graphics can enable new gameplay and at the same time improve immersion. Even if someone produces a content-devoid shiny-graphics game to show off their new engine (Doom 3 anyone?), having a better engine is still a good thing and there's nothing stopping someone making a good game with it (Quake 4 anyone?).
In short: stop bitching. Vote with your wallet, and realize that game companies that don't want to develop their own engines will also vote with theirs.
Knowing a few people at university and TAFE... the stigma is fair. With a few notable exceptions (eg chefs), people at TAFE are either dumber or significantly less motivated than their university counterparts. TAFE is a cop-out for a lot of people who don't want to do anything with their lives and want to mooch off their parents/community for a while yet (though university is too, it's a little harder to stay in uni without doing some work and learning something).
h.264
:) )
I'm surprised there aren't DVD-sized h.264 releases of these HD-DVDs already (in case you can't tell it's DVD-compressed-to-700MB-xvid all over again
It comes on a (4.5ish GB) DVD. If you can compress that 100MB, I think the people at win-zip would like to talk to you ;)
Many cameras will let you do both at once :)
Yeah, we have mandatory team-building exercises too. They usually either turn into pissing contests, or nothing gets done because we're too busy screwing around with whatever toys we've been given. Now that I think about it, I don't remember *any* girls at the event. There are a few in my classes, but they're more concentrated in the softwarey classes (albeit severly underrepresented there too) than the hardwarey/engineering classes. Maths is the closest to even. I know two girls doing software engineering, and one doing chem...
Because you can download some of the RARs from the torrent, some from the newsgroups, some from FTP etc.
Also because keeping stuff the way it was released is just a good idea.