I never touched the beta, but I have used it (helping out friends/clients) on some lesser machines, up to a 2.2Ghz core 2 duo with 2GB of RAM, and it runs like a pig even there. It's just a joke needing that many resources to manage your resources.
I do have a few foreign films - the Taxi series and lots of anime basically, but I'm sure I read on/. recently one of the films passed off as an indy film was actually just made by a subsidiary of Universal. I do tend to like quirky films, but as a sometimes avid cinema goer I also enjoy MPAA affiliated stuff. A lot of stuff out there is rubbish of course, but I enjoyed films like Ratatouille and the like. Bee Movie was pretty unique.. Stardust was excellent.. yada yada
Anyone who constantly modifies their religion to try to appeal to current society obviously thinks that they know better than their god. Roman Catholocism isn't really an example of religion, it's an example of crooks trying to take a religion and use it for their own profit (kind of like "health and wealth" or whatever style preachers in the US, who promise life will be all peachy if you become a Christian, despite the bible showing nothing of the sort).
What, are you kidding? Blu-ray has horrifying DRM Were you planning on storing all your blu-ray movies on a file server at up to 50GB a pop (I have a 500GB NAS box at home and I think that would struggle to contain all my DVDs - which include a few TV series' - even if they were compressed)? It's not like the DRM isn't easily cracked anyway, what are you complaining about? Plus, how exactly does upscaling a picture compare with actual extra resolution? I've yet to buy my PS3 and try out the upscaling of course, but between an anti-aliased&sharpened/whatever SD image with an original 'HD' res image, I know which I'd choose.. of course I have a full 1080p set so most 'standard' TV looks like garbage atm, but that could be down to the broadcast quality
They didn't cause global warming, but they also live in trees and get eaten by tigers. Now maybe the living in trees bit is fun, but when they fall and break their leg, they don't have a nice shiny hospital to go to to get better. I'm pretty sure human culture is more advanced and you could say that's because of our 'intelligence' and resourcefulness. Some species may be better adapted to specific environments, but using our intelligence we can adapt ourselves to those environments, that's the difference. Humans are kind of finding ways round natural selection.
I think that as long as it's adhering to the license it can do whatever it wants - I don't know much about licenses so I don't know if that's allowed or not. I think that one of the main points in open source software is that anyone who wants to modify the software can do so, and so using platform specific libraries where crossplatform ones are available should be avoided, but if code makes use of some standard part of Windows then there's nothing wrong with it. I don't really see the problem with using GPL code to work with Windows drivers either, since the program itself doesn't have any non-GPL code, just the drivers it loads in, but again I've not studied the license. What license is WINE distributed under?
It says multi headed applications 'are now allowed', not 'are not allowed'. I think that means that you can use a client that can operate over multiple networks, but only if it can only use one at a time.
Isn't it rather obvious? What happens if someone tries to GPL code that needs non-free libraries - or worse, contains code that has been copied or reverse engineered from another program without the author's consent, or that uses an incompatible license?
And google mail has been 'beta' for how long? I'm sure nobody will mind a few security holes there, since it's a beta and all. This article isn't a problem as long as they sort it out quickly, but if they do a Microsoft and leave it in for the next few versions, that's when there's a problem.
Exactly, but the thing is that we already know that bands like Radiohead and NIN are good, they have no problem getting publicity. But online distribution gets much more interesting when the smalltime bands can easily promote and distribute unheard of music. It's a fantastic opportunity for bands, the difficult part is going to be making your band stand out.
I bought the new Radiohead album in support of what they were doing (I like the band but had never bought one of their albums before), and have done the same with NIN just to show my support and appreciation of them releasing their albums online, it shows that they're really switched on with what the listeners actually are crying out for. I've hardly heard any NIN apart from the music from Quake I, which can hardly be called music, but I'm liking the new album, thumbs up from me:P Good music to code to.
Personally, I wouldn't pre-pay $10 for something I've never heard. I'd rather that a band recorded at a cheap-ish record studio and got a few songs recorded. If they then have something worth listening to then I would gladly pre-pay the $10, though I still think $30000 just to record an album is a bit much. I've preferred the recordings we made at £14 an hour to the time we spent £750 for a couple of days of recording and mixing - though the guy at that place obviously just sucked at mixing, it was far too bass heavy so that didn't help my opinion of fancy equipment and recording rates..
I think a simpler solution would be to make sure that the CCTV operator has narcolepsy, or is just too lazy to do anything nefarious with what he's seeing.
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I never touched the beta, but I have used it (helping out friends/clients) on some lesser machines, up to a 2.2Ghz core 2 duo with 2GB of RAM, and it runs like a pig even there. It's just a joke needing that many resources to manage your resources.
I do have a few foreign films - the Taxi series and lots of anime basically, but I'm sure I read on /. recently one of the films passed off as an indy film was actually just made by a subsidiary of Universal. I do tend to like quirky films, but as a sometimes avid cinema goer I also enjoy MPAA affiliated stuff. A lot of stuff out there is rubbish of course, but I enjoyed films like Ratatouille and the like. Bee Movie was pretty unique.. Stardust was excellent.. yada yada
I don't see why not as such a (presumably) early stage in the software's development where it's important not to have any leaks.
Plus, who the fsck actually wants to run Windows 7 anyway? I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole, just like I never tried any betas of Vista..
Anyone who constantly modifies their religion to try to appeal to current society obviously thinks that they know better than their god. Roman Catholocism isn't really an example of religion, it's an example of crooks trying to take a religion and use it for their own profit (kind of like "health and wealth" or whatever style preachers in the US, who promise life will be all peachy if you become a Christian, despite the bible showing nothing of the sort).
And yes, the list is stupid.
Better hope that it doesn't drop too quickly into hard drive prices or you'll crash the heads
Such as? Youtube family/idiot shorts? No thanks.
with the knowledge that I have first post (well probably not now, stupid post timer..)
They didn't cause global warming, but they also live in trees and get eaten by tigers. Now maybe the living in trees bit is fun, but when they fall and break their leg, they don't have a nice shiny hospital to go to to get better. I'm pretty sure human culture is more advanced and you could say that's because of our 'intelligence' and resourcefulness. Some species may be better adapted to specific environments, but using our intelligence we can adapt ourselves to those environments, that's the difference. Humans are kind of finding ways round natural selection.
No, but they do play Snake
Not just any AI though - an AI with really nice jugs
Meh, it's functionally similar to an infinite loop
You're now looking at a CCTV screen. Now you're watching yourself watch yourself watch yourself watch yourself watch yourself [error: infinite loop detected]
If you go to the site, sure, but from what the original poster said it didn't sound like that, sounded more like an advertising pitch for a bad idea..
I think that as long as it's adhering to the license it can do whatever it wants - I don't know much about licenses so I don't know if that's allowed or not. I think that one of the main points in open source software is that anyone who wants to modify the software can do so, and so using platform specific libraries where crossplatform ones are available should be avoided, but if code makes use of some standard part of Windows then there's nothing wrong with it. I don't really see the problem with using GPL code to work with Windows drivers either, since the program itself doesn't have any non-GPL code, just the drivers it loads in, but again I've not studied the license. What license is WINE distributed under?
It says multi headed applications 'are now allowed', not 'are not allowed'. I think that means that you can use a client that can operate over multiple networks, but only if it can only use one at a time.
Isn't it rather obvious? What happens if someone tries to GPL code that needs non-free libraries - or worse, contains code that has been copied or reverse engineered from another program without the author's consent, or that uses an incompatible license?
And google mail has been 'beta' for how long? I'm sure nobody will mind a few security holes there, since it's a beta and all. This article isn't a problem as long as they sort it out quickly, but if they do a Microsoft and leave it in for the next few versions, that's when there's a problem.
Exactly, but the thing is that we already know that bands like Radiohead and NIN are good, they have no problem getting publicity. But online distribution gets much more interesting when the smalltime bands can easily promote and distribute unheard of music. It's a fantastic opportunity for bands, the difficult part is going to be making your band stand out.
:P Good music to code to.
I bought the new Radiohead album in support of what they were doing (I like the band but had never bought one of their albums before), and have done the same with NIN just to show my support and appreciation of them releasing their albums online, it shows that they're really switched on with what the listeners actually are crying out for. I've hardly heard any NIN apart from the music from Quake I, which can hardly be called music, but I'm liking the new album, thumbs up from me
I'm hoping that was sarcasm? The fact that it's so ludicrous hints at it, but I'm worried you were serious..
Personally, I wouldn't pre-pay $10 for something I've never heard. I'd rather that a band recorded at a cheap-ish record studio and got a few songs recorded. If they then have something worth listening to then I would gladly pre-pay the $10, though I still think $30000 just to record an album is a bit much. I've preferred the recordings we made at £14 an hour to the time we spent £750 for a couple of days of recording and mixing - though the guy at that place obviously just sucked at mixing, it was far too bass heavy so that didn't help my opinion of fancy equipment and recording rates..
I think a simpler solution would be to make sure that the CCTV operator has narcolepsy, or is just too lazy to do anything nefarious with what he's seeing.
Someone call the Rampant Ill-informed Association of America!