> and like most of its fan base...still a virgin....
Dude, Lucas started groping up Star Wars when he threw in the Ewoks. After the prequel trilogy, Star Wars is about as much used goods as Michael Jordan's shoes after a game.
> Unless people go back to Laserdisc and VHS, all home video formats have DRM issues.
Don't remember Macrovision, do ya? That leaves just LD with its lovely jet engine turbine motor and the flippy flippy fun halfway through the movie.
No one raises a hue and cry over DVDCSS any more, because it just doesn't work. Now the MPAA is busy locking down the design and implementation of every last a/v device, and doing so with the force of law. Yeah, that degree of control pisses me off.
LD did offer pretty good quality, but no one bought it. The players were expensive and tempremental, the discs were also expensive, heavy, cumbersome, prone to warping, and you had to flip the damn thing halfway through the movie.
DVD existed because the world had a rare attack of logic and demanded a more convenient and more flexible format. The fact that DVD's can be stamped on existing CD presses is a definite bonus.
As for HD, I'm holding out until AACS is as fully cracked as CSS. I don't even intend to pirate (arr!) movies, I just want to view the damn things from my player of choice without the industry jerking me around with mandatory no-skip tracks and buggy, expensive, and slow copy protection.
Still no appreciable terrain, just two non-deformable levels flat as a griddle. Units still pretty much just walk up and stand still while they grind each other down. Everything still explodes cleanly with no wreckage to block the way or mark the battle. Nothing in the demo resembling high level orders ("attack and move" doesn't constitute high level order).
I guess Blizzard is smart to not mess with a formula that works, but the operative word here is "formula". I guess I can wait til it's in the bargain bin.
He fell on his sword to take the blame for Plamegate, despite the fact that neither Miller nor Novak would confirm him as their original source. That's loyalty if nothing else.
He should have waited a little while -- Khalid Sheikh Mohammed would have confessed to it.
> Yes, when parents don't feed their children because they need drug money, its a victimless crime, no one other than the parent is hurt!
So you're saying that smoking a joint should mean having your children taken into foster care, your house siezed, and your life ruined? I'll drink to that!
Fascists of all stripes have had all too many eager throngs cheering them on, just so they could vicariously wear those shiny boots themselves.
Actually it was more like this (other side omitted, since their voice never really mattered):
"Bin Laden intends to blah blah blah where's Iraq in this? I want to go into Iraq, show them folks I'm better than my daddy. Osafa bin falafa-who? Is he an Iraqi? No? Why are ya wasting my time then? Tell me how I sell an Iraq invasion, okay?"
"They hit what? Did Iraq do it? I'm not hearing a yes.... I'm still not hearing yes. Lah-dee-dee-dee-dee-dah-dah- is the answer `Iraq did it?' yet? No? LAH-LAH-LAH-LAH-I-CAN'T-HEAR-Y-- oh, Iraq you say? Okay Iraq did it then! Time to invade, YEEEHAH."
Linux doesn't have a SIGDANGER signal, but instead uses a different mechanism: The Out-Of-Memory handler (OOM) that kicks in when memory has been exhausted, and kills processes.
Ah yes, the OOM handler. It's stuff like this that makes me remember to send some donations to the Linux kernel devs so they can afford to smoke a higher grade of crack.
I'm aware there's no graceful way to handle running completely out of memory. Random breakage is not what I would call an acceptable solution to the problem.
> Then they could have re-implemented it using a natively-compiled implementation of Standard ML.
No, I don't think they could, as I doubt any of them even know SML. You probably could though, so go to it. MLTon would probably be a good start; or despite its ugliness factor, you can't discount OCaml.
It still won't magically cure the high-level resource leaks that are Mozilla's real bane, though a goodly sprinkling of weakrefs might help there.
You still do need something like xpcom, since it is the basis of plugins and xul after all (and whatever you think of xul, thunderbird is a xul app). Whatever model you come up with has got to be robust enough to support javascript.
But this is all just handwaving until someone goes and does it, and right now there just isn't the motivation out there to do so.
Grind n' Brew is terrific, got one of those myself. The thermal carafe keeps the coffee warm for a nice long time without continuously heating it (coffee's still pretty bad if you leave it for hours, but at least it goes bad slower in this).
In general tho, here's the thing about good coffee, and frankly quality in general: get or make the best stuff for which you actually *care* about the difference. Anything more than that is empty snobbery for an empty wallet. For me, getting peets beans of a varietal I like, and changing the filter in the drip machine every 60 days is all it takes. It's not like I'm langorously savoring the stuff.
What is the other point of view? That Linux infringes on some patents? It almost certainly does, as does any program bigger than "hello world" (heck, the C prelude probably infringes on patents too, so I'm not too sure about that). Or is it in defense of Microsoft making vague legal claims while deliberately withholding the substance of the accusation?
The world is round. And despite the twisted dialectic that modern journalism would lead you to subscribe to, there is no other side to that story.
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> We should however pass legislation against companies who ads or information appear in spam messages.
Do you honestly think Pfizer is in on viagra spam?
This doesn't make him better than anyone else. And everything else about him made him worse. He was one of the few people who could inspire genuine hate from me.
Too bad for his wife and kids, perhaps. May he rot in his own hell.
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> and like most of its fan base...still a virgin....
Dude, Lucas started groping up Star Wars when he threw in the Ewoks. After the prequel trilogy, Star Wars is about as much used goods as Michael Jordan's shoes after a game.
The "new discussion system" is hands-down the winner for "worst technical feature" on slashdot with regards to its interface.
Don't bother submitting bugs anymore -- they just do not care if it works or not.
1: die
2: adapt
Kind of tricky getting to step 2, isn't it?
BeOS was a perfectly good OS written in C++, to name one.
> Unless people go back to Laserdisc and VHS, all home video formats have DRM issues.
Don't remember Macrovision, do ya? That leaves just LD with its lovely jet engine turbine motor and the flippy flippy fun halfway through the movie.
No one raises a hue and cry over DVDCSS any more, because it just doesn't work. Now the MPAA is busy locking down the design and implementation of every last a/v device, and doing so with the force of law. Yeah, that degree of control pisses me off.
How about just Dog (Half Life 2). Dog kicked metric fucktons of ass.
LD did offer pretty good quality, but no one bought it. The players were expensive and tempremental, the discs were also expensive, heavy, cumbersome, prone to warping, and you had to flip the damn thing halfway through the movie.
DVD existed because the world had a rare attack of logic and demanded a more convenient and more flexible format. The fact that DVD's can be stamped on existing CD presses is a definite bonus.
As for HD, I'm holding out until AACS is as fully cracked as CSS. I don't even intend to pirate (arr!) movies, I just want to view the damn things from my player of choice without the industry jerking me around with mandatory no-skip tracks and buggy, expensive, and slow copy protection.
That sort of proves my point about waiting til it's bargain priced -- you don't see me rushing out to buy "Chess 2".
How do they deal with single names like Secretariat or Seabiscuit? Or is this a more recent convention?
Still no appreciable terrain, just two non-deformable levels flat as a griddle. Units still pretty much just walk up and stand still while they grind each other down. Everything still explodes cleanly with no wreckage to block the way or mark the battle. Nothing in the demo resembling high level orders ("attack and move" doesn't constitute high level order).
I guess Blizzard is smart to not mess with a formula that works, but the operative word here is "formula". I guess I can wait til it's in the bargain bin.
He fell on his sword to take the blame for Plamegate, despite the fact that neither Miller nor Novak would confirm him as their original source. That's loyalty if nothing else.
He should have waited a little while -- Khalid Sheikh Mohammed would have confessed to it.
> Yes, when parents don't feed their children because they need drug money, its a victimless crime, no one other than the parent is hurt!
So you're saying that smoking a joint should mean having your children taken into foster care, your house siezed, and your life ruined? I'll drink to that!
Fascists of all stripes have had all too many eager throngs cheering them on, just so they could vicariously wear those shiny boots themselves.
Oh for fucks sake, can the grandiloquent narcissism. You're not important enough to repress.
That and we got stuck with the fucking south. Next time the South Rises Again, can we please cut 'em loose this time?
Actually it was more like this (other side omitted, since their voice never really mattered):
... I'm still not hearing yes. Lah-dee-dee-dee-dee-dah-dah- is the answer `Iraq did it?' yet? No? LAH-LAH-LAH-LAH-I-CAN'T-HEAR-Y-- oh, Iraq you say? Okay Iraq did it then! Time to invade, YEEEHAH."
"Bin Laden intends to blah blah blah where's Iraq in this? I want to go into Iraq, show them folks I'm better than my daddy. Osafa bin falafa-who? Is he an Iraqi? No? Why are ya wasting my time then? Tell me how I sell an Iraq invasion, okay?"
"They hit what? Did Iraq do it? I'm not hearing a yes.
Linux doesn't have a SIGDANGER signal, but instead uses a different mechanism: The Out-Of-Memory handler (OOM) that kicks in when memory has been exhausted, and kills processes.
Ah yes, the OOM handler. It's stuff like this that makes me remember to send some donations to the Linux kernel devs so they can afford to smoke a higher grade of crack.
I'm aware there's no graceful way to handle running completely out of memory. Random breakage is not what I would call an acceptable solution to the problem.
> And have the browser lock up for minutes at a time to do the garbage collection.
Oh jeez, go read a reference on GC from the later third of the 20th century. Do you think resource allocation is free now?
> Then they could have re-implemented it using a natively-compiled implementation of Standard ML.
No, I don't think they could, as I doubt any of them even know SML. You probably could though, so go to it. MLTon would probably be a good start; or despite its ugliness factor, you can't discount OCaml.
It still won't magically cure the high-level resource leaks that are Mozilla's real bane, though a goodly sprinkling of weakrefs might help there.
You still do need something like xpcom, since it is the basis of plugins and xul after all (and whatever you think of xul, thunderbird is a xul app). Whatever model you come up with has got to be robust enough to support javascript.
But this is all just handwaving until someone goes and does it, and right now there just isn't the motivation out there to do so.
Microsoft has now officially started banning Xbox 360s that have had their DVD drive firmware modified from Live
Gosh, then why are they letting people modify their firmware from Live?
Grind n' Brew is terrific, got one of those myself. The thermal carafe keeps the coffee warm for a nice long time without continuously heating it (coffee's still pretty bad if you leave it for hours, but at least it goes bad slower in this).
In general tho, here's the thing about good coffee, and frankly quality in general: get or make the best stuff for which you actually *care* about the difference. Anything more than that is empty snobbery for an empty wallet. For me, getting peets beans of a varietal I like, and changing the filter in the drip machine every 60 days is all it takes. It's not like I'm langorously savoring the stuff.
What is the other point of view? That Linux infringes on some patents? It almost certainly does, as does any program bigger than "hello world" (heck, the C prelude probably infringes on patents too, so I'm not too sure about that). Or is it in defense of Microsoft making vague legal claims while deliberately withholding the substance of the accusation?
The world is round. And despite the twisted dialectic that modern journalism would lead you to subscribe to, there is no other side to that story.
> We should however pass legislation against companies who ads or information appear in spam messages.
Do you honestly think Pfizer is in on viagra spam?
He's also a mouthpiece for every preachy aphorism Heinlein ever wanted to put in a character's mouth.
> He had a wife and kids
This doesn't make him better than anyone else. And everything else about him made him worse. He was one of the few people who could inspire genuine hate from me.
Too bad for his wife and kids, perhaps. May he rot in his own hell.
> I seriously doubt the income Unisys got from licensing the LZW patent did they much good as a company.
No, but perversely it did advance the useful arts by kickstarting the adoption of alternatives to the crummy old GIF format.