I hope XBox 2 doesn't have PVR functions. I don't want to have to worry about degraded game performance when it decides to record a TV show, or fubared recordings because I'm playing a game. There are times when discrete units are the best route to go.
The can have my IBM Model M PS2 keyboards when they pry them out of my cold dead hands. I've got four of them with an average age of 12 years old and they all work flawlessly, which is alot more than I can say for any other keyboard ever made. Period. My forst one I paid over $150.00 (US) for and my last three I've gotten from government surplus sales. I might replace my video card every year, but not these babies!
Legacy free, my eye!
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Okay, so they want to put the replacement for the BIOS on the hard drive? Have they not talked to the legions of pissed-off Compaq users who's systems have become dead and useless due to a hard drive failure? Don't EVER stick the most essential low-level systems on the drives! Use flash RAM or some other periphial independant medium!
We know that he gave money to a charaty that claims to be acting in a positive role. A charity that is contesting the government's accusation that it supports terrorsim. But so what if they were helping terrorists. Did Mike know that? Did he knowingly give money to a group aiding terrorists or was he acting in good faith and giving money to a charity he honestly belived was doing good things?
I don't see why not. It might take longer to translate all of the Assembler code back into C or some other higher level language, but it should be possible.
This wave of users coming in, demanding a clone of Windows, not really caring about functionality, choice, the ability to see source, and just saying "I want idiot-proof editor! I want idiot-proof file browser! I want idiot-proof web browser! I want GNOME and KDE combined because they sound the same to me and I don't understand their internal structure! All developers should drop everything else and work on that, because that's what I want! Me me me me me!" piss me off.
You'd better get used to it, because that wave is getting bigger and bigger. These people are not now, nor will they ever be, programmers. They are users. And you can't unseat MS as the King Of The Desktop without them. If Linux can not do what they want they will not use it. No amount of "M$ is teh devil!!!" rhetoric will change their minds. They don't care. All they care about is that the software they get works.
I have tried Linux seven or eight times in the last ten years and I have always eneded up abandoning it because it simply does not do what I need. Half the aplications in most of the distrobutions I've tried are either unfinished or broken. I don't have the skill or time to finish or fix these programs. I DO have the money to pay some closed-source company for a copy of their comercial software that does work, that is (more or less) finished. And I always end up using their functional tools over the non-working tools in Linux.
How about finding the artist's web page and listening to a few samples stored therein? If they are indie bands then you should be able to find legal copies of their work on their sites, right?
I'm afraid it might get significantly harder for humble college students such as myself to sample an artist's music before going out and buying a disc...
Please, dear God! Stop! My sides hurt from laughing so hard!
Unless you make music that is not easliy reproduced live. Unless you don't want to have to tour to make your money.
The problem is not the CD. The problem is that the record companies gouge the public while paying the artist little or nothing, compounded by a large portion of the population feeling justified in taking what they want because "piracy isn't theft".
Nor do I want to buy a toaster! I want to buy music that I like. Period. There are only 5 things in the way of music sales being obcenely profitable:
Rampant corporate greed on the parts of the record companies.
Absolute inflexability in the sales model (why can't I buy my music song by song at a reasonable price?).
Prices are too damned high. (Oops, see #1)
Most new music is garbage (but that's been said for the last 50 years, so it's a debatable point).
The economy is in the toilet!
Sell good music at a fair price in a consumer friendly format and music sales will rise. Putting out the same over-priced formulaic crap while treating your customers like criminals will only continue to hurt music sales. This isn't rocket science, people!
VCD is less than VHS quality. And broadcast NTSC is higher than SVCD. I've played with both, and DVD. DVD has the ability to reciord at higher quality than broadcast NTSC this can be mitigated by lowering the bitrate at which the video is recording.
It is also very untrue that "(almost) any DVD player" can play VCD/SVCD format discs. No one I know owns a DVD player that can play VCDs, yet everyone I know has a DVD player (or a PS2/XBox) that can play DVDs just fine.
I've gone down both roads and DVD is the way to go (until they come out with a new standard and make us buy all of our favorite movies again!).
Using "Standard" quiality recordings from my ReplayTV and recorded to DVD with ULeads's DVD Creator (it works, and that's better than most programs I tried) I get about two-hours and twenty minutes to a 4.77GB DVD-R.
Manufacturers supply boards like that with much lower than retail markup because they're intended to serve its existing user base.
As a (former) retail computer repair geek my experience is the exact opposite. Service parts are sold at a huge profit. The last time I priced a system of all replacement parts, from Apple, Compaq and IBM, the total cost for each system was much higher than buying a complete retail system. Ask anyone who works in a computer store: service is where the profit is. (at leats, where it was when computers were still worth fixing...)
This is a Good Thing, IMHO, as Mozilla itself was getting fat and bloated. Of the Mozilla step-children I like Pheonix the best and I'm glad to see that the Mozilla team has the self-honesty to realize the better way to go and ditch major portions of their established work.
the altered image depicts a coalition soldier motioning threateningly to a father holding his young son.
Are we looking at the same picture? The feeling I got was that the "drama" of the image was heightened because it looked like the soldier was activily motioning for the father and son to take cover. And it does not look like the soldier is making a threat, but is actually less of a threat because he is not pointing his weapon at them like it appears he might be doing in the second original image.
While the danger level of the situation may have been hightened by this image manipulation, the increased danger was not coming from the soldier, but from the increased urgency of the body postures and implied interactions.
Almost any chemeical rocket fuel will explode in a catastrophic failure. That's an unavoidable fact of chemeical rocketry. There is no "safe" rocket fuel, not even hydrogen peroxide, which is often used without an oxidizer. Even a steam powered rocket is deadly when scaled up large enough to be practical.
The only way to mitigate the danger is to design the system to be as foolproof as possible.
No pice of equipment (computer or otherwise) is an antiquated and obsolete piece of junk so long as it fulfils the needs of its user. Not everyone needs or even wants the latest cutting edge hardware out there, like the GeForce 4 Ti 4400 I have that isn't supported in the last few versions of Linux I tried. Hell, I know people who are still happily chugging along on of Riva 128 boards.
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I hope XBox 2 doesn't have PVR functions. I don't want to have to worry about degraded game performance when it decides to record a TV show, or fubared recordings because I'm playing a game. There are times when discrete units are the best route to go.
Of course, I've been married for 8.5 years...
How about those 360K single-sided single density floppies? Too bad you don't get to 360K until you get to double-sided, double-density 5.25" floppies.
It's not that hard to do a little basic research.
Oh, and it's called "BASIC", not "Basic". (I wonder if he even knows what the Hell "BASIC" stands for?)
The can have my IBM Model M PS2 keyboards when they pry them out of my cold dead hands. I've got four of them with an average age of 12 years old and they all work flawlessly, which is alot more than I can say for any other keyboard ever made. Period. My forst one I paid over $150.00 (US) for and my last three I've gotten from government surplus sales. I might replace my video card every year, but not these babies!
Legacy free, my eye!
Okay, so they want to put the replacement for the BIOS on the hard drive? Have they not talked to the legions of pissed-off Compaq users who's systems have become dead and useless due to a hard drive failure? Don't EVER stick the most essential low-level systems on the drives! Use flash RAM or some other periphial independant medium!
We know that he gave money to a charaty that claims to be acting in a positive role. A charity that is contesting the government's accusation that it supports terrorsim. But so what if they were helping terrorists. Did Mike know that? Did he knowingly give money to a group aiding terrorists or was he acting in good faith and giving money to a charity he honestly belived was doing good things?
I don't give a rat's festering, cancer-ridden gonads if this is less evil than what is going on in Iraq. It's still evil.
Witness to what? He gave money to a charity. What did he witness? The cashing of his check?
- Linux programmers feel they have something to prove and through all of their effort into doing just that.
- Linux users are deperate for any games and will put forth an amazing amount of work getting anything at all to run.
It's not a matter of raw skill, but of drive.I don't see why not. It might take longer to translate all of the Assembler code back into C or some other higher level language, but it should be possible.
You'd better get used to it, because that wave is getting bigger and bigger. These people are not now, nor will they ever be, programmers. They are users. And you can't unseat MS as the King Of The Desktop without them. If Linux can not do what they want they will not use it. No amount of "M$ is teh devil!!!" rhetoric will change their minds. They don't care. All they care about is that the software they get works.
I have tried Linux seven or eight times in the last ten years and I have always eneded up abandoning it because it simply does not do what I need. Half the aplications in most of the distrobutions I've tried are either unfinished or broken. I don't have the skill or time to finish or fix these programs. I DO have the money to pay some closed-source company for a copy of their comercial software that does work, that is (more or less) finished. And I always end up using their functional tools over the non-working tools in Linux.
Parent is the truth. Just because you don't like what he/she has to say does not mean they should be modded down as a troll.
How about finding the artist's web page and listening to a few samples stored therein? If they are indie bands then you should be able to find legal copies of their work on their sites, right?
Please, dear God! Stop! My sides hurt from laughing so hard!
Many people have forgotten that the BUILD engine was written by one person - Ken Silverman, and only a teen-aged kid at the time, too.
It's too bad that Ken got out of game programming, he might have been able to teach Epic how to write a workable engine by now.
Unless you make music that is not easliy reproduced live. Unless you don't want to have to tour to make your money.
The problem is not the CD. The problem is that the record companies gouge the public while paying the artist little or nothing, compounded by a large portion of the population feeling justified in taking what they want because "piracy isn't theft".
- Rampant corporate greed on the parts of the record companies.
- Absolute inflexability in the sales model (why can't I buy my music song by song at a reasonable price?).
- Prices are too damned high. (Oops, see #1)
- Most new music is garbage (but that's been said for the last 50 years, so it's a debatable point).
- The economy is in the toilet!
Sell good music at a fair price in a consumer friendly format and music sales will rise. Putting out the same over-priced formulaic crap while treating your customers like criminals will only continue to hurt music sales. This isn't rocket science, people!VCD is less than VHS quality. And broadcast NTSC is higher than SVCD. I've played with both, and DVD. DVD has the ability to reciord at higher quality than broadcast NTSC this can be mitigated by lowering the bitrate at which the video is recording.
It is also very untrue that "(almost) any DVD player" can play VCD/SVCD format discs. No one I know owns a DVD player that can play VCDs, yet everyone I know has a DVD player (or a PS2/XBox) that can play DVDs just fine.
I've gone down both roads and DVD is the way to go (until they come out with a new standard and make us buy all of our favorite movies again!).
Using "Standard" quiality recordings from my ReplayTV and recorded to DVD with ULeads's DVD Creator (it works, and that's better than most programs I tried) I get about two-hours and twenty minutes to a 4.77GB DVD-R.
As a (former) retail computer repair geek my experience is the exact opposite. Service parts are sold at a huge profit. The last time I priced a system of all replacement parts, from Apple, Compaq and IBM, the total cost for each system was much higher than buying a complete retail system. Ask anyone who works in a computer store: service is where the profit is. (at leats, where it was when computers were still worth fixing...)
This is a Good Thing, IMHO, as Mozilla itself was getting fat and bloated. Of the Mozilla step-children I like Pheonix the best and I'm glad to see that the Mozilla team has the self-honesty to realize the better way to go and ditch major portions of their established work.
Are we looking at the same picture? The feeling I got was that the "drama" of the image was heightened because it looked like the soldier was activily motioning for the father and son to take cover. And it does not look like the soldier is making a threat, but is actually less of a threat because he is not pointing his weapon at them like it appears he might be doing in the second original image.
While the danger level of the situation may have been hightened by this image manipulation, the increased danger was not coming from the soldier, but from the increased urgency of the body postures and implied interactions.
Almost any chemeical rocket fuel will explode in a catastrophic failure. That's an unavoidable fact of chemeical rocketry. There is no "safe" rocket fuel, not even hydrogen peroxide, which is often used without an oxidizer. Even a steam powered rocket is deadly when scaled up large enough to be practical.
The only way to mitigate the danger is to design the system to be as foolproof as possible.
No pice of equipment (computer or otherwise) is an antiquated and obsolete piece of junk so long as it fulfils the needs of its user. Not everyone needs or even wants the latest cutting edge hardware out there, like the GeForce 4 Ti 4400 I have that isn't supported in the last few versions of Linux I tried. Hell, I know people who are still happily chugging along on of Riva 128 boards.
Wasn't trying to funny, but I'll accept it. I'm juts kinda geely when it comes to powers of 2.