Ogg has been around for a long time now. Why is it still not as widespread as MP3? Simply because OGG decoders make heavy use of floating point operations, and MP3 decs get by with fixed point operations. Most small embedded systems don't do floats very well, if at all. As a result, OGG players are going to be more expensive to make.
It could very well have been LG's fault. The 42" plasma TV my brother bought from LG had to be replaced three times before he got a working set. The first set had weird flickering problems since day-2. The second set died after 2 days of working properly and the third set would overheat like crazy, we were scared it would catch fire. Touch the back of the set and it was hotter than an oven! LG, in my experience, makes some of the least reliable electronics out there, barring some low end china companies.
I vote with my wallet. The last I bought was a region free DVD player only because DVD was cracked. I demand the ability to make backups of my media, and if that means doing something arbitrarily deemed illegal by some bigwigs with deep pockets, then so be it, and fucks fly out to BR/HD as long as they aren't well and truly broken.
If your machine heads, wood and workmanship are good your guitar rarely goes out of tune. My gibson les paul and strat almost never go out of tune unless I freak with multiple 1.5-2 step bends and go mad with the strat whammy. I sort of like the tuning ritual before a jam session, it brings me closer with the guitar and puts me in touch with it. However this would be a good solution to beginners.
The siemens build maglev turned out to be quite the white elephant in terms of upfront and operating cost. It's more of a tourist attraction than a means of commute. I was really impressed by it, though.
I always considered apple a seller of overpriced fluff and bling gadgets, and this is one more reason not to let them part you from your cash. I've always found alternates which play better than the ipods, in fact I have a cheap samsung 4-gig device which sounds far better than any ipod I've listened to, and these work like regular USB drives.
So we see yet another round of people getting riled up for google for breaking their "don't be evil" policy. Just what the hell is this so-called policy? How do you quantify "evil"? How much more should you go through before you realize this motto is just what it looks like - fluff?
While you may consider someone murdering your kith and kin, and running away with all your life savings to be pretty evil, this may be a great money making tool and perfectly acceptable for some companies.
Don't blame lord Jobs. If the fanboys want to waste $600 for it, with a 2-year lockin, Apple is ready to rake in your moolah. You could get other phones on the market with the same features for much less. Blindly following your leader lord Jobs does come with some drawbacks.
And how does Apple repay you? By getting you to buy *more* apple stuff with that $100. Nice.
Opera is already the best browser there is, been using it since the old 3.x days. It has consistently proved itself to be more elegant, faster, more stable, much much less buggy or crash prone and much smaller and slicker than its alternatives, and I even use it on my sony ericsson phone. Great going opera.
Who the heck cares what the old man with the pointy hat thinks? All these characters do is make this and that rule and denounce so-and-so or that country for not abiding by some arbitrary rules they think up. Screw them.
And you believe capitalism is utopia? Why not look in your own backyard at the Halliburtons, the Cheneys, the power wielding mega-corporations, at the people and companies who really run the show? Do you really think you have a say in the way your government does anything? You're living in a dream world.
We can all learn from countries like Germany who implement a balance between socialist type legislation and control and capitalist style free market.
This "design" makes absolutely no sense and I find this explanation hardly credible. Either this is deliberate obfuscation of some underlying DRM nonsense that vista is doing (sending your media streams straight to MS servers?) or this is a very very very bad engineering design decision without any sort of performance studies, or vista's kernel is so hugely bloated that it shits itself when trying to network and play music at the same time.
Whatever the case, my old Win2K machine with 256megs of RAM and a gig-E card runs rings around this big fat mother being able to play media, video and give me great network performance at the same time.
The mortality rate for flu is around 0.1%. For SARS it was close to 20%. Personally I'd think that was reason enough to panic. You must be really brave. How many times have you had the flu? Care to try out SARS for a change?
Seagate already does a ton of manufacturing in China but they are ultimately held accountable to their American overlords when it comes to quality and cost. Once it goes to China, I bet their quality will approach Maxtor's or even that of Excelstor. Throw a billion cheap low cost drives at the market and they will continue to have buyers.
Who cares? Until BR/HD are completely broken like DVD is today, I won't spend a penny on them. Crippling my ability to backup my own media is a sure way of pissing me off and looking elsewhere. I can't tell you how many times the kids have scratched or damaged a DVD, only to be replaced by a backup I'd made. Thanks but no thanks.
From TFA, the guy was busted for "posting code and instructions that allow shoppers to circumvent copy protection on downloadable, printable coupons". Not exactly busted for simply "deleting some files" eh?
The last thing you want to hear about a DBMS is this line from MySQL: "the company has introduced features into the Community edition of the software that "[weren't] as robust as we thought, and created some instabilities"
This, among other reasons, is why we switched to Postgresql some years ago. MySQL was (is?) not even ANSI SQL compliant, at least when we were struggling with it.
For many, it all comes down to cost. Ubuntu can be installed on almost any hardware you can throw at it, from a $200 low end pentium machine to a quad xeon server or a sparc.
I recently did a comparison between windows XP and MacOS on equivalent mid-high end hardware. Apple's 3-yr warranty service fee itself is ridiculously high, and the overall cost for the apple system came to 30% more than the Dell.
What a waste of money. Let them bring down the cost, let them get MacOS on generic x86/AMD hardware and then we'll see a whole new dimension to Apple's industry dominance.
What the fuck is web 2.0 anyway? Everyone seems to have their own definition. There are eerie similarities between this web 2.0 nonsense and the Liftport space elevator vaporware : http://www.liftport.com/
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Ogg has been around for a long time now. Why is it still not as widespread as MP3? Simply because OGG decoders make heavy use of floating point operations, and MP3 decs get by with fixed point operations. Most small embedded systems don't do floats very well, if at all. As a result, OGG players are going to be more expensive to make.
I picked a book at random, Dickens' tale of 2 cities. Here's the first few lines:
"TIT was the best of tunes, it was the worst of times,..."
"li was tie winter of despair, we had everything before us,..."
I guess they just OCR'd books en-masse without proof reading. Oh well, think of it as an exercise for your brain.
It could very well have been LG's fault. The 42" plasma TV my brother bought from LG had to be replaced three times before he got a working set. The first set had weird flickering problems since day-2. The second set died after 2 days of working properly and the third set would overheat like crazy, we were scared it would catch fire. Touch the back of the set and it was hotter than an oven! LG, in my experience, makes some of the least reliable electronics out there, barring some low end china companies.
The first thought that came to me was "what? doesn't any LZ fan already have all their music ripped to MP3's?" They've had decades....
Let me get this straight - there are people who actually use hotmail? As in non-spam mail? Buhwahahahahaha! Serves them right.
u wnt lng evl2n? wid e # of moronz uzng sms syntax online & evn in exam pprs v're doomed 2 idiocracy. v're all fkd.
I vote with my wallet. The last I bought was a region free DVD player only because DVD was cracked. I demand the ability to make backups of my media, and if that means doing something arbitrarily deemed illegal by some bigwigs with deep pockets, then so be it, and fucks fly out to BR/HD as long as they aren't well and truly broken.
If your machine heads, wood and workmanship are good your guitar rarely goes out of tune. My gibson les paul and strat almost never go out of tune unless I freak with multiple 1.5-2 step bends and go mad with the strat whammy. I sort of like the tuning ritual before a jam session, it brings me closer with the guitar and puts me in touch with it. However this would be a good solution to beginners.
The siemens build maglev turned out to be quite the white elephant in terms of upfront and operating cost. It's more of a tourist attraction than a means of commute. I was really impressed by it, though.
I always considered apple a seller of overpriced fluff and bling gadgets, and this is one more reason not to let them part you from your cash. I've always found alternates which play better than the ipods, in fact I have a cheap samsung 4-gig device which sounds far better than any ipod I've listened to, and these work like regular USB drives.
So we see yet another round of people getting riled up for google for breaking their "don't be evil" policy. Just what the hell is this so-called policy? How do you quantify "evil"? How much more should you go through before you realize this motto is just what it looks like - fluff?
While you may consider someone murdering your kith and kin, and running away with all your life savings to be pretty evil, this may be a great money making tool and perfectly acceptable for some companies.
Don't blame lord Jobs. If the fanboys want to waste $600 for it, with a 2-year lockin, Apple is ready to rake in your moolah. You could get other phones on the market with the same features for much less. Blindly following your leader lord Jobs does come with some drawbacks.
And how does Apple repay you? By getting you to buy *more* apple stuff with that $100. Nice.
Eudora is a mail client. TBird is a mail client. How the heck does this become complementary and not competition?
"According to the release page the new Eudora application is not intended to compete with Thunderbird, but instead to complement it."
WTF?
So does that mean a person can use Eudora and TBird at the same time? Oh I get it. Eudora for one mail account and TBird for another.
Opera is already the best browser there is, been using it since the old 3.x days. It has consistently proved itself to be more elegant, faster, more stable, much much less buggy or crash prone and much smaller and slicker than its alternatives, and I even use it on my sony ericsson phone. Great going opera.
Who the heck cares what the old man with the pointy hat thinks? All these characters do is make this and that rule and denounce so-and-so or that country for not abiding by some arbitrary rules they think up. Screw them.
And you believe capitalism is utopia? Why not look in your own backyard at the Halliburtons, the Cheneys, the power wielding mega-corporations, at the people and companies who really run the show? Do you really think you have a say in the way your government does anything? You're living in a dream world.
We can all learn from countries like Germany who implement a balance between socialist type legislation and control and capitalist style free market.
This "design" makes absolutely no sense and I find this explanation hardly credible. Either this is deliberate obfuscation of some underlying DRM nonsense that vista is doing (sending your media streams straight to MS servers?) or this is a very very very bad engineering design decision without any sort of performance studies, or vista's kernel is so hugely bloated that it shits itself when trying to network and play music at the same time.
Whatever the case, my old Win2K machine with 256megs of RAM and a gig-E card runs rings around this big fat mother being able to play media, video and give me great network performance at the same time.
The mortality rate for flu is around 0.1%. For SARS it was close to 20%. Personally I'd think that was reason enough to panic. You must be really brave. How many times have you had the flu? Care to try out SARS for a change?
Seagate already does a ton of manufacturing in China but they are ultimately held accountable to their American overlords when it comes to quality and cost. Once it goes to China, I bet their quality will approach Maxtor's or even that of Excelstor. Throw a billion cheap low cost drives at the market and they will continue to have buyers.
Who cares? Until BR/HD are completely broken like DVD is today, I won't spend a penny on them. Crippling my ability to backup my own media is a sure way of pissing me off and looking elsewhere. I can't tell you how many times the kids have scratched or damaged a DVD, only to be replaced by a backup I'd made. Thanks but no thanks.
From TFA, the guy was busted for "posting code and instructions that allow shoppers to circumvent copy protection on downloadable, printable coupons". Not exactly busted for simply "deleting some files" eh?
This "feature" was identified by Peter Gutmann, among others, months ago, in fact it was even reported on /. so how is this news only today?
The last thing you want to hear about a DBMS is this line from MySQL: "the company has introduced features into the Community edition of the software that "[weren't] as robust as we thought, and created some instabilities"
This, among other reasons, is why we switched to Postgresql some years ago. MySQL was (is?) not even ANSI SQL compliant, at least when we were struggling with it.
For many, it all comes down to cost. Ubuntu can be installed on almost any hardware you can throw at it, from a $200 low end pentium machine to a quad xeon server or a sparc.
I recently did a comparison between windows XP and MacOS on equivalent mid-high end hardware. Apple's 3-yr warranty service fee itself is ridiculously high, and the overall cost for the apple system came to 30% more than the Dell.
What a waste of money. Let them bring down the cost, let them get MacOS on generic x86/AMD hardware and then we'll see a whole new dimension to Apple's industry dominance.
What the fuck is web 2.0 anyway? Everyone seems to have their own definition. There are eerie similarities between this web 2.0 nonsense and the Liftport space elevator vaporware : http://www.liftport.com/