I am not offended by words. I express my sig the way I do because I get the impression that over 60% of people who comment on slashdot using TFA / RTFA don't actually understand what they are saying. The acronym has a specific meaning, and it generally does not fit the mood of the comment. When it does, hey, I don't mind. I mind inconsistency.
XP Professional is a good operating system, but it is not in its very nature "crash-proof". My wireless campus uses at least 3000 Dell laptops running XP Professional, and they DO crash. Mine crashes less often than most, because I take care of it. And to be honest, most of the crashes aren't the OS's fault. MacAfee, IE, and all the other 400 MB of memory-consuming programs they put on the laptops are at fault. Bad drivers are a biggy. Hardware, occasional. They are portable, after all.
But then, a good operating system *shouldn't* crash with bad drivers, or let a rogue program with improper memory needs clog stuff up. I can crash Linux (NLD 9) in a matter of minutes with a small program (just while(fork()); and see how happy YOUR computer gets:-)). Windows crashes every couple weeks, or at least gets to where it performs better with a reboot.
In other words, XP performs sufficiently for many people and environments. I don't mind the idiodic liscencing scheme with XP because I don't feel it - I use Enterprise Edition only. No registering. I would never recommend Home to anyone, though.
Linux is better in many ways for several types of development work, especially embedded systems where I work. But that's another story. Glad to hear XP works for you. But since the topic was Vista anyway, I should say that as long as it is up to me, I will never own it. Or more specifically, I will never, ever LEASE my OS. That's what it really comes down to. XP was close - you can't even transfer your rights to another person, legally. I can only assume Vista will continue the tradition. Cheers.
Well, lets test your hypothesis. Standard DivX codecs don't do hi-def well. But there are alternatives from Microsoft and divX in HD.
DivX-HD Codecs range from 14MB/sec to 28MB/sec at acceptable quality.
WMV-HD Codecs range from 38-50+ MB/sec at acceptable quality.
Those are at sub-super-HD sizes of 1280x720.
So, take a 1920x1088 signal down to 1280x720 encoded divX-HD and a 120 minute video acceptable at a BARE minumum of 1.6 GB. True Hi-Def? No. I don't have any data for native 1920x1088 encodings.
The reason that you won't see this... is that it simply isn't allegorically true.
The world IS not evil - we are. God is at the heart of the world and killing off God so man can live peacefully in a hightech civilization is a lie that we have already bought into. Been there, done that - take a look around.
The performance is 2.5 times greater per watt, or an increase of efficiency by 250%, or is 350% as efficient as it used to be, or it used to be only 40% as effiencient as it is now.
Close. Actually, Microsoft would never write the standard. There would be no standard. Let me think... that's exactly the way it is right now!
Microsoft is non-standard. Period. That is how they maintain a monopoly.
I would rather have a standard that stayed put long enough to actually become a standard. Sure, Microsoft is never going to implement it, but I wish it would stay put so everyone else could. Do you hear me WC3?
Absolutely. The Patriot Act pretty much allows them to do anything they well please. Though I question your "American English." Your parent post is probably either ignorant or optimistic, or just plain carefree. But to suggest that all Americans are the same is to be rude to both the parent and the rest of us.
Even IF they did encrypt all traffic between users, I wouldn't trust them. I want ONLY me and the person I'm talking to able to decrypt the message. This is why I use Trillian and encrypt the messages myself.
If we got lulled into thinking that everything is safe because its encrypted, then the government or any "Microsoft Business Partners", etc. etc, can spy on us. I vote for mandatory encryption at the user level with a technology that cannot be translated by the Servers.
I agree, The only thing that can destroy Open Source is if people stop writing Open Source Software
But I must say that this article is not FUD. Open Source will not be "sued to oblivion", but neither is this an empty threat. To quote Bugs Bunny, "this means war"
And I welcome the war. It is a true revolution. I welcome the war in the same way that IBM welcomed the SCO lawsuit - it proved beyond the shadow of a doubt that the GPL was a valid license, and it protected their financial interests from any future blackmail. You stand up to a bully, and he will run away when he figures out hes the weaker one.
Bruce Perens wrote: It's possible to invalidate some patent claims in court or at the patent office, but some of the potentially thousands that can be brought against significant Open Source programs will be found to be legitimate.
Yes, the CLAIMS will be found to be legitimate. But since they TRULY AREN'T then the system must force consistency on itself. The net result is that our Supreme Court already recognizes that the patent system is being abused, but fear to act to correct the laws that violate the Constitution because there isn't a pressing need, and the consequences are great. But if they are forced to act by a massive body of litigation... then who'll have the last laugh? We will.
Ok, let me clarify.
Yes, he is talking about getting what is 100% fair for him to get. Yes he is talking about not getting conned out of his money. And yes, the term "hurting people" is ridiculous, misleading, and deriding. To the original poster, I'm sorry; I didn't mean to be derisive.
Now for what I meant.
Verizon is out to rob you. Hey, they're no different from any other Cell Phone company. Let's call them evil. So then, does evil justify evil? Does the Golden Rule work in reverse? No, it doesn't. The solution to evil is not being evil.
By throwing a fit, you seek to take control of the situation. This control is key, not the method of obtaining it. They will lie, cheat, and steal to keep you under control, I understand this. I have Cingular; it's just the same.
I am just saying that throwing a fit - being a problem - is not the right way to fight a control freak. It only makes the future situation worse (if not for you, then for the rest of us). The way you fight a control freak is to pull the rug out from under them. Refuse to play by their rules. Leave.
Our society has created the situation we are in. We litigate morality because no one wants to sacrifice and be polite. The result - we shot ourselves in the foot. You can't "walk away" from a cell phone company. You need a phone! Besides, you signed a contract. No, I don't have answers. But then, I'm young and idealogical, and I believe that they exist. I am peaceful by nature, and hate dealing with those people.
It can't run off a 600Watt, when it takes 90-110? Thats just nonsense. First, cars aren't going to give you 600 - that's peak anyhow. Try 13.5 volts at 15 Amps (fused) = 200 Watts. You can have a 3000 Watt Inverter, but you have to wire it yourself, and bypass some fuses.
No, what you need is a signal generator that produces a 2.401 GHz signal and a mixer to produce a beat frequency. Then, you process that much slower signal. You don't work with a 2.4 GHz signal.
Can't write a single line of code? How hard could it be?
#include
int main(){printf("Hello World");return 0}
Personally, the only people I know who have even heard of slashdot are 'programmers'. And every one has written at least one line of code in their lives. That doesn't make them any good, or knowledgable. I knew nothing myself until I got an internship (3rd year now). But I don't know anyone from school who is involved with 'this linux thing', including myself. College kids aren't interested. They only want benefits without paying for them.
Those people actually involved in 'this linux thing', like my dad, do so because they don't like others controlling them (i.e. Microsoft). There is no real unity because everyone does his own thing. It sounds to me that you are the flamebait, sir.
There are some correlations. Take for example the concept of a "Summer Blockbuster". You could analyze the sales in June with last years sales and get a feel for the market. Granted, it may be due to the fact there are just no good movies. Its not like the movie industry changes platform generations.
There is probably a fairly consistent monthly sales pattern in the video game industry. Also, based on the largeness of the market there are always people buying games, maybe to the point that every month could have an expected sales amount besed on the economy.
You call yourself a "cheapie"? When you've been buying 10-15 new games for the past several years?
I don't own a platform, though I would play one if I did. I generally play computer games. Frankly, cost is not my biggest issue - free time is far more valuable to me. Granted, I am a Computer Engineering major, so my time is kinda limited. Many of my non-engineer friends pretty much wasted their lives away last semester on WoW.
You do have a good point though. I have many friends more interested in lower-price point games. Generally, they take less planning to purchase. By the way, I applaud your planning. This means that you will actually be in control of your life. I lived long enough addicted to FFX to never want to go back to a game-addicted life. God bless.
There are two DVD formats, DVD-5, and DVD-9. DVD-9 is dual-layer. Thats 9 as in 8.5GB. And it IS real easy to rip them. I am fully capable of doing so (both encoding, and pure copy). It is, however, illegal to do so for commercial DVDs. Specifically, it is illegal to do so in America where the MPAA writes the laws. However, Samsung in Korea may not have the same restrictions. I am not in a position to know.
What do you mean "Sony Hypes shelf life"? In the article he claims that based on Sony's 10+ year market history, they can predict what will happen again. I don't see how this is "hype" at all. Hype gets me excited about whats coming by making big promises or revealing cool stuff. All this is is market forcast.
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I am not offended by words. I express my sig the way I do because I get the impression that over 60% of people who comment on slashdot using TFA / RTFA don't actually understand what they are saying. The acronym has a specific meaning, and it generally does not fit the mood of the comment. When it does, hey, I don't mind. I mind inconsistency.
XP Professional is a good operating system, but it is not in its very nature "crash-proof". My wireless campus uses at least 3000 Dell laptops running XP Professional, and they DO crash. Mine crashes less often than most, because I take care of it. And to be honest, most of the crashes aren't the OS's fault. MacAfee, IE, and all the other 400 MB of memory-consuming programs they put on the laptops are at fault. Bad drivers are a biggy. Hardware, occasional. They are portable, after all.
:-)). Windows crashes every couple weeks, or at least gets to where it performs better with a reboot.
But then, a good operating system *shouldn't* crash with bad drivers, or let a rogue program with improper memory needs clog stuff up. I can crash Linux (NLD 9) in a matter of minutes with a small program (just while(fork()); and see how happy YOUR computer gets
In other words, XP performs sufficiently for many people and environments. I don't mind the idiodic liscencing scheme with XP because I don't feel it - I use Enterprise Edition only. No registering. I would never recommend Home to anyone, though.
Linux is better in many ways for several types of development work, especially embedded systems where I work. But that's another story. Glad to hear XP works for you. But since the topic was Vista anyway, I should say that as long as it is up to me, I will never own it. Or more specifically, I will never, ever LEASE my OS. That's what it really comes down to. XP was close - you can't even transfer your rights to another person, legally. I can only assume Vista will continue the tradition. Cheers.
Does copyright permit you to copy verbatim his entire article?
2GB = ample...
Well, lets test your hypothesis. Standard DivX codecs don't do hi-def well. But there are alternatives from Microsoft and divX in HD.
DivX-HD Codecs range from 14MB/sec to 28MB/sec at acceptable quality. WMV-HD Codecs range from 38-50+ MB/sec at acceptable quality. Those are at sub-super-HD sizes of 1280x720.
So, take a 1920x1088 signal down to 1280x720 encoded divX-HD and a 120 minute video acceptable at a BARE minumum of 1.6 GB. True Hi-Def? No. I don't have any data for native 1920x1088 encodings.
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The reason that you won't see this... is that it simply isn't allegorically true.
The world IS not evil - we are. God is at the heart of the world and killing off God so man can live peacefully in a hightech civilization is a lie that we have already bought into. Been there, done that - take a look around.
Alienware.
Oh wait, um... they're now Dell. I guess Taco Bell did win the Franchise Wars.
The performance is 2.5 times greater per watt, or an increase of efficiency by 250%, or is 350% as efficient as it used to be, or it used to be only 40% as effiencient as it is now.
Does that answer your question?
Close. Actually, Microsoft would never write the standard. There would be no standard. Let me think... that's exactly the way it is right now!
Microsoft is non-standard. Period. That is how they maintain a monopoly.
I would rather have a standard that stayed put long enough to actually become a standard. Sure, Microsoft is never going to implement it, but I wish it would stay put so everyone else could. Do you hear me WC3?
oppressed and ignorant are two different things, my friend
Absolutely. The Patriot Act pretty much allows them to do anything they well please. Though I question your "American English." Your parent post is probably either ignorant or optimistic, or just plain carefree. But to suggest that all Americans are the same is to be rude to both the parent and the rest of us.
Even IF they did encrypt all traffic between users, I wouldn't trust them. I want ONLY me and the person I'm talking to able to decrypt the message. This is why I use Trillian and encrypt the messages myself.
If we got lulled into thinking that everything is safe because its encrypted, then the government or any "Microsoft Business Partners", etc. etc, can spy on us. I vote for mandatory encryption at the user level with a technology that cannot be translated by the Servers.
Hm... YY + YY = YY
(Woman + Woman = Woman)
This is intuitively obvious, but doesn't it also follow that:
XY + XY = YY | XY | XX
(Man + Man = Woman or Man or ???)
As far as I know, no human XX has ever lived. This would be inventing a third gender!
I agree, The only thing that can destroy Open Source is if people stop writing Open Source Software
But I must say that this article is not FUD. Open Source will not be "sued to oblivion", but neither is this an empty threat. To quote Bugs Bunny, "this means war"
And I welcome the war. It is a true revolution. I welcome the war in the same way that IBM welcomed the SCO lawsuit - it proved beyond the shadow of a doubt that the GPL was a valid license, and it protected their financial interests from any future blackmail. You stand up to a bully, and he will run away when he figures out hes the weaker one.
Bruce Perens wrote: It's possible to invalidate some patent claims in court or at the patent office, but some of the potentially thousands that can be brought against significant Open Source programs will be found to be legitimate.
Yes, the CLAIMS will be found to be legitimate. But since they TRULY AREN'T then the system must force consistency on itself. The net result is that our Supreme Court already recognizes that the patent system is being abused, but fear to act to correct the laws that violate the Constitution because there isn't a pressing need, and the consequences are great. But if they are forced to act by a massive body of litigation... then who'll have the last laugh? We will.
Bring it.
Ok, let me clarify. Yes, he is talking about getting what is 100% fair for him to get. Yes he is talking about not getting conned out of his money. And yes, the term "hurting people" is ridiculous, misleading, and deriding. To the original poster, I'm sorry; I didn't mean to be derisive. Now for what I meant. Verizon is out to rob you. Hey, they're no different from any other Cell Phone company. Let's call them evil. So then, does evil justify evil? Does the Golden Rule work in reverse? No, it doesn't. The solution to evil is not being evil. By throwing a fit, you seek to take control of the situation. This control is key, not the method of obtaining it. They will lie, cheat, and steal to keep you under control, I understand this. I have Cingular; it's just the same. I am just saying that throwing a fit - being a problem - is not the right way to fight a control freak. It only makes the future situation worse (if not for you, then for the rest of us). The way you fight a control freak is to pull the rug out from under them. Refuse to play by their rules. Leave. Our society has created the situation we are in. We litigate morality because no one wants to sacrifice and be polite. The result - we shot ourselves in the foot. You can't "walk away" from a cell phone company. You need a phone! Besides, you signed a contract. No, I don't have answers. But then, I'm young and idealogical, and I believe that they exist. I am peaceful by nature, and hate dealing with those people.
Sure, that will work. In fact you can get your way, but you are nothing better than a spoilt child. I prefer not to hurt people to get what I want.
It can't run off a 600Watt, when it takes 90-110? Thats just nonsense. First, cars aren't going to give you 600 - that's peak anyhow. Try 13.5 volts at 15 Amps (fused) = 200 Watts. You can have a 3000 Watt Inverter, but you have to wire it yourself, and bypass some fuses.
They would notice because the automated fire / smoke detection systems would notify them.
There's no diety that exists that can be appeased no matter what you do, if you don't believe in him.
Of course, satan would, even if you don't believe in him.
To answer the question, I have no earthly idea. I can't fathom it in the slightest.
No, what you need is a signal generator that produces a 2.401 GHz signal and a mixer to produce a beat frequency. Then, you process that much slower signal. You don't work with a 2.4 GHz signal.
/cough: (n) what slashdotters do when they see a load of ...
Can't write a single line of code? How hard could it be?
#include
int main(){printf("Hello World");return 0}
Personally, the only people I know who have even heard of slashdot are 'programmers'. And every one has written at least one line of code in their lives. That doesn't make them any good, or knowledgable. I knew nothing myself until I got an internship (3rd year now). But I don't know anyone from school who is involved with 'this linux thing', including myself. College kids aren't interested. They only want benefits without paying for them.
Those people actually involved in 'this linux thing', like my dad, do so because they don't like others controlling them (i.e. Microsoft). There is no real unity because everyone does his own thing. It sounds to me that you are the flamebait, sir.
There are some correlations. Take for example the concept of a "Summer Blockbuster". You could analyze the sales in June with last years sales and get a feel for the market. Granted, it may be due to the fact there are just no good movies. Its not like the movie industry changes platform generations.
There is probably a fairly consistent monthly sales pattern in the video game industry. Also, based on the largeness of the market there are always people buying games, maybe to the point that every month could have an expected sales amount besed on the economy.
You call yourself a "cheapie"? When you've been buying 10-15 new games for the past several years?
I don't own a platform, though I would play one if I did. I generally play computer games. Frankly, cost is not my biggest issue - free time is far more valuable to me. Granted, I am a Computer Engineering major, so my time is kinda limited. Many of my non-engineer friends pretty much wasted their lives away last semester on WoW.
You do have a good point though. I have many friends more interested in lower-price point games. Generally, they take less planning to purchase. By the way, I applaud your planning. This means that you will actually be in control of your life. I lived long enough addicted to FFX to never want to go back to a game-addicted life. God bless.
There are two DVD formats, DVD-5, and DVD-9. DVD-9 is dual-layer. Thats 9 as in 8.5GB. And it IS real easy to rip them. I am fully capable of doing so (both encoding, and pure copy). It is, however, illegal to do so for commercial DVDs. Specifically, it is illegal to do so in America where the MPAA writes the laws. However, Samsung in Korea may not have the same restrictions. I am not in a position to know.
What do you mean "Sony Hypes shelf life"? In the article he claims that based on Sony's 10+ year market history, they can predict what will happen again. I don't see how this is "hype" at all. Hype gets me excited about whats coming by making big promises or revealing cool stuff. All this is is market forcast.