After playing with many Pro/Am video editing and DVD creation tools for Windows I have to say that most of them suck. They either just don't work or they do things so badly as to be unusable. It may be different in the actual professional level.
I have been giving getting a Mac for this kind of work a serious consideration.
And I was one of those guys who spouted off "Macs Suck!" for almost ten years. Then one day I grew up.
You are the sorriest excuse for a trol I've ever seen. Too damned lazy to bother with propper letter casing, punctuation, grammar or even coherant thought.
WalMart does not sell PCs for a liiving. It's jusy one of many products.
If this product tanks WalMart will not be hurt at all.
WalMart does not need Uncle Bill's blessing to make money (see first point).
These are bare-bones, bottom of the pile PCs that are selling because they are cheap.
This is not a revolution in PC sales. This is a huge desicount chain selling a second-rate computer at the lowest price they possibly can as a side project that isn't even worth putting in their stores.
They would make terrible PVRs. The processor is just too weak to handle the load. Even with a hardware MPeG solution. An 800Mhz C3 is on par with a 400Mhz Celeron. My P3/550 is about as weak as I would even consider for the job and that's with the hardware encoder that's in it.
Walmart sells 25% of the computer/console games sold in the US. They WILL NOT carry a game with an M rating. Period. Game publishers are faced with three choices if they choose to make a game more racy than Metroiid Prime: 1 - Make a WalMart version of the game. 2 - Alter the game to get a T reating. 3 - Tell Walmart to shove it.
id software has already tiold Walmart to shove it. They know that people will buy their games no matter what.
Most other game publishers are not in the financial position that id software is. They end up taking options 1 or 2. That XXX bike game removed all of the nudity in order to get a T rating and thus avoid the WalMart blacklist. 3DRealms sold a Walmart version of Duke Nukem 3D in order to avoid the WalMart blackout.
While I believe that retailors have the right to not carry products they do not want, I also see that WalMart has enough market pull to affect the purchasing choices that even non-WalMart shoppers have.
Your question is irrelavent. It doesn't answer the basic question: Where did life start. It only adds another layer. Even if life on Earth fell from the sky you still have to answer the question of where did that life start. Otherwise you are avoiding the fundimental question.
It's more than just that: You have an old, and VERY reliable system chugging away in the computer room, happily munching away on databases that go back 30 years using software developed 35 years ago and maintained ever since. But that's not even the important part.
The important part is that you will lose $100,000,000.00 (US) for every SECOND that machine is down, and you might also cause death and injury should your system face unexpected downtime.
Mainframes offer incredable reliabilty, the ability to move and process HUGE ammounts of data very quickly and a painless migration path, should you need more power.
Most new mainframes can run software wiritten 20-30-40 years ago for older models in the same line, without rewriting one line of code. Ever.
How many applications get killed by upgrades to the OS? Windows and Linux have both managed to suffer catastrophic software death do to upgrades. How many applications die do to hardware upgrades on microcomputers? You don't have those problems with Mainframes.
More than just the "we paid an assload of money" goes into these things.
Bicentennial Man was a pretty good movie, all things considered. And Robin Williams did a good job. Very understated performance. The man can act when given a good script and a director able to keep him under control.
Bicentennial Man is not a great movie, but it is by no means a bad movie.
Why should I be denied the fruits of my labors simply because they produce words on piece of paper, sound waves on a magnetic strip or images on a computer screen? Why is it that non-material property is valued less than material ones? Is it because ideas and expessions of those ideas are meaningless, or because they are so easily copied you feel that you should have access to them for free?
If I have no control or ownership of my writings, paintings, songs, etc.. then where the hell is my incentive to share them with you? For what possible reason would I ever release them? I wouldn't. I would hide them away and never let anyone see or hear them for fear that they would be given away to anyone without any sayso on my part and no chance of my reaping any reward for my labor.
Is that the world you want? A wiorld where no books are published? A world where no music is made available? A bleak, artless world brought into existance by people with your narrow-miinded and self-serving mindset?
You managed to get "Winshit" and "M$" in teh same post! You must be an uber-leet hax0r master! Dost thou strike at Bills dark heart from your parent's basement?
My email is already crippled. I get an average of 200 spams a day, a lot of it from me (supposedly) that often eat over five MEGABYTS of space every 24 hours! My ISP offers filtering but at a monthly cost I'm not willing to pay.
I've got two choices for dealing with it:
Pre-screen my email with my ISPs webmail: This stops me from having to download the megabytes of HTML and viruses, but it is slow and clunky.
Use filters on my email client and download everything:
Sorry, but downloading five MB of crap a day just to get the one or two emails that I actually want to read is not worth it. It adds to my monthly bandwidth consumption and it causes my anti-virus software to go insane.
As for not publishing your email address - total bullshit. I resent like hell that I have to use a fubared email address here at/., that I have to use invalid email addresses on my Usenet client, that I can't put my email address on my webpage.
Hiding is not the answer. Stopping them from abusing the system is the only answer.
I got my first Internet account in November of 1993. There was NO spam. None. I got newsletters and product update information from companies that I had deliberatly signed up for. Now my email box gets 40 - 200 spams a day! Most of it HTML with cute little links back to servers trying to let momma know that the email address they are hitting is valid (which is why I use an email client that does not fetch ANYTHING in an HTML document). My inbox is useless.
I also remember when Usenet was spam free. I remember the firestorm that arose from the infamous Kantner and Seigle (sp?) "Green Card" usenet spam. Now Usenet is a festering sewer of spam. Most newsgroups are useless. Every on-topic post lost in a sea of feculent filth.
Do you have any idea how many aliens are employed by Galactic Anal Probing Inc.? If they didn't abduct us and anal probe us their economy would colapse!
They teach you how to write a hook in writing classes for a reason. You only have a few seconds to get people's attention. That is a well established fact.
Who needed more than 64K of RAM? Who needed MoDems faster than 1200 baud? Who needed processors faster than 1MHz? Who needed more than four colors? Who needed hard drives? Who needed mice?
I could stay with my old ColorComputer 2 but I don't want to.
IBM didn't think anyone needed 386 systems. Compaq decided that they'd sell them instead. IBM's control of the PC died that day.
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Evolution is not a force. It is a reaction. It has no goal. It simply reacts.
The problem is with the statement that evolution is the survival of the fittest. This places an emotional constraint in the eyes of people that makes them demand that there is a goal. There isn't. Evolution never set out to create humans, or any other species.
In its most simple terms evolution is life reacting to changes in the environment. Those speices that can adapt to those changes either survive or give rise to new species. Those that can not die.
Evolution doesn't get "new information" for free (this isn't information theory anyway). Life creates the needed inforamtion at great cost. Most mutations are lethal. Many that are not lethal are useless (who needs atwo-headed turtle?) Life is not a closed system by any means. Energy is constantly being pumped in from the sun and the mineral resources in the earth.
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Dealing with those endless requests for grandchildren from your parents!
Congrats, Sir. Well done. *golf clap*
You, sir, have made my day! Very funny.
After playing with many Pro/Am video editing and DVD creation tools for Windows I have to say that most of them suck. They either just don't work or they do things so badly as to be unusable. It may be different in the actual professional level.
I have been giving getting a Mac for this kind of work a serious consideration.
And I was one of those guys who spouted off "Macs Suck!" for almost ten years. Then one day I grew up.
Apple sells hardware, not software. OSX is there to let you use that nice G4 system you bought.
You are the sorriest excuse for a trol I've ever seen. Too damned lazy to bother with propper letter casing, punctuation, grammar or even coherant thought.
next time, put a little effort into it. Okay?
- WalMart does not sell PCs for a liiving. It's jusy one of many products.
- If this product tanks WalMart will not be hurt at all.
- WalMart does not need Uncle Bill's blessing to make money (see first point).
- These are bare-bones, bottom of the pile PCs that are selling because they are cheap.
This is not a revolution in PC sales. This is a huge desicount chain selling a second-rate computer at the lowest price they possibly can as a side project that isn't even worth putting in their stores.They would make terrible PVRs. The processor is just too weak to handle the load. Even with a hardware MPeG solution. An 800Mhz C3 is on par with a 400Mhz Celeron. My P3/550 is about as weak as I would even consider for the job and that's with the hardware encoder that's in it.
Walmart sells 25% of the computer/console games sold in the US. They WILL NOT carry a game with an M rating. Period. Game publishers are faced with three choices if they choose to make a game more racy than Metroiid Prime:
1 - Make a WalMart version of the game.
2 - Alter the game to get a T reating.
3 - Tell Walmart to shove it.
id software has already tiold Walmart to shove it. They know that people will buy their games no matter what.
Most other game publishers are not in the financial position that id software is. They end up taking options 1 or 2. That XXX bike game removed all of the nudity in order to get a T rating and thus avoid the WalMart blacklist. 3DRealms sold a Walmart version of Duke Nukem 3D in order to avoid the WalMart blackout.
While I believe that retailors have the right to not carry products they do not want, I also see that WalMart has enough market pull to affect the purchasing choices that even non-WalMart shoppers have.
Read the page. There's a link to Freevo.
Your question is irrelavent. It doesn't answer the basic question: Where did life start. It only adds another layer. Even if life on Earth fell from the sky you still have to answer the question of where did that life start. Otherwise you are avoiding the fundimental question.
I would sooner replace my heart with a baked potato than replace a mission critical mainframe with a cluster of PCs.
It's more than just that: You have an old, and VERY reliable system chugging away in the computer room, happily munching away on databases that go back 30 years using software developed 35 years ago and maintained ever since. But that's not even the important part.
The important part is that you will lose $100,000,000.00 (US) for every SECOND that machine is down, and you might also cause death and injury should your system face unexpected downtime.
Mainframes offer incredable reliabilty, the ability to move and process HUGE ammounts of data very quickly and a painless migration path, should you need more power.
Most new mainframes can run software wiritten 20-30-40 years ago for older models in the same line, without rewriting one line of code. Ever.
How many applications get killed by upgrades to the OS? Windows and Linux have both managed to suffer catastrophic software death do to upgrades. How many applications die do to hardware upgrades on microcomputers? You don't have those problems with Mainframes.
More than just the "we paid an assload of money" goes into these things.
Bicentennial Man was a pretty good movie, all things considered. And Robin Williams did a good job. Very understated performance. The man can act when given a good script and a director able to keep him under control.
Bicentennial Man is not a great movie, but it is by no means a bad movie.
Why should I be denied the fruits of my labors simply because they produce words on piece of paper, sound waves on a magnetic strip or images on a computer screen? Why is it that non-material property is valued less than material ones? Is it because ideas and expessions of those ideas are meaningless, or because they are so easily copied you feel that you should have access to them for free?
If I have no control or ownership of my writings, paintings, songs, etc.. then where the hell is my incentive to share them with you? For what possible reason would I ever release them? I wouldn't. I would hide them away and never let anyone see or hear them for fear that they would be given away to anyone without any sayso on my part and no chance of my reaping any reward for my labor.
Is that the world you want? A wiorld where no books are published? A world where no music is made available? A bleak, artless world brought into existance by people with your narrow-miinded and self-serving mindset?
That's not a world I want to live in.
So if my gift is writing I'm screwed? If my gift is making good studio music I'm screwed. If my gift is photography I'm screwed?
Go to Hell. Ease of duplication has nothing to do with the worth of a product.
You managed to get "Winshit" and "M$" in teh same post! You must be an uber-leet hax0r master! Dost thou strike at Bills dark heart from your parent's basement?
Dipshit.
I always wondered why my copies of The Hobbit and the trilogy say "This is the only authorized puiblication" on them.
I've got two choices for dealing with it:
- Pre-screen my email with my ISPs webmail:
- Use filters on my email client and download everything:
As for not publishing your email address - total bullshit. I resent like hell that I have to use a fubared email address here atThis stops me from having to download the megabytes of HTML and viruses, but it is slow and clunky.
Sorry, but downloading five MB of crap a day just to get the one or two emails that I actually want to read is not worth it. It adds to my monthly bandwidth consumption and it causes my anti-virus software to go insane.
Hiding is not the answer. Stopping them from abusing the system is the only answer.
I got my first Internet account in November of 1993. There was NO spam. None. I got newsletters and product update information from companies that I had deliberatly signed up for. Now my email box gets 40 - 200 spams a day! Most of it HTML with cute little links back to servers trying to let momma know that the email address they are hitting is valid (which is why I use an email client that does not fetch ANYTHING in an HTML document). My inbox is useless.
I also remember when Usenet was spam free. I remember the firestorm that arose from the infamous Kantner and Seigle (sp?) "Green Card" usenet spam. Now Usenet is a festering sewer of spam. Most newsgroups are useless. Every on-topic post lost in a sea of feculent filth.
Do you have any idea how many aliens are employed by Galactic Anal Probing Inc.? If they didn't abduct us and anal probe us their economy would colapse!
They teach you how to write a hook in writing classes for a reason. You only have a few seconds to get people's attention. That is a well established fact.
How about P2P Girlfriends?
Who needed more than 64K of RAM?
Who needed MoDems faster than 1200 baud?
Who needed processors faster than 1MHz?
Who needed more than four colors?
Who needed hard drives?
Who needed mice?
I could stay with my old ColorComputer 2 but I don't want to.
IBM didn't think anyone needed 386 systems. Compaq decided that they'd sell them instead. IBM's control of the PC died that day.
Evolution is not a force. It is a reaction. It has no goal. It simply reacts.
The problem is with the statement that evolution is the survival of the fittest. This places an emotional constraint in the eyes of people that makes them demand that there is a goal. There isn't. Evolution never set out to create humans, or any other species.
In its most simple terms evolution is life reacting to changes in the environment. Those speices that can adapt to those changes either survive or give rise to new species. Those that can not die.
Evolution doesn't get "new information" for free (this isn't information theory anyway). Life creates the needed inforamtion at great cost. Most mutations are lethal. Many that are not lethal are useless (who needs atwo-headed turtle?) Life is not a closed system by any means. Energy is constantly being pumped in from the sun and the mineral resources in the earth.