Comment Re:Nice but.. (Score 0) 556
QT is probably horrible
No, Qt is not horrible and there is no reason at all to say so.
How about you spend a few minutes researching before you make such idiotic and baseless comments
QT is probably horrible
No, Qt is not horrible and there is no reason at all to say so.
How about you spend a few minutes researching before you make such idiotic and baseless comments
The weasel word is that it depends on how you define complexity. It is true for all things.
A solar pumped electric grid would eliminate a number of nasty problems with current electricity production. One is pollution, of course. Another is a dependence on fuel that occurs in finite deposits that are becoming increasingly labor intensive to recover. (since we can only get so much energy from hydro, and nuclear power is currently MORE expensive than solar)
A bulldozer requires a society to build it and maintain it that is vastly more complex than a simple camp of fruit pickers.
Yes, a modern PC is radically different. There are MANY more layers of abstraction in the code you are running right now...from BIOS layers that are nearly as complex as DOS was in 1989, to the OS kernel, GUI, browser, and now virtual machines running in the browser that are as complex as whole applications were in 1989. The main block components may look the same, but there's a LOT more in that CPU than there was in 1989, and a lot more memory cells in the DRAM as well.
There is no such thing as "guaranteed" bandwidth on the internet. ALL bandwidth is shared, somewhere.
Your ISP does NOT have 40 megabits of bandwidth for every user. Do you know how much you would be paying if they did? Your connection would be hundres of dollars a month, not $60 or less.
If you want to bitch about the price of bandwidth, bitch to the big telcos that own most of the fiber in the US, and charge exorbitant fees to use it.
So we've had a defined standard that was, arguably, not the easiest to understand. THEN harddrive manufacturers started their fraud. And THEN people started complaining. So what, and please think about this, would be the right decision here?
The "right" solution is that things dependent on the number of address lines (cache size, RAM size) are in units measured in 2^10, and things not dependent on the number address lines (network bandwidth, HDD/SSD size) are in units measured in 10^3. Files are interesting in that the base unit is a 512 byte sector but they don't depend on address lines, so they should be measured like floppy disks where 1kB is 1024 bytes, 1MB is 1000kB
>>>It makes me angry that some feel they can use them for their own political purposes
We use the National Socialists of 1930s Germany because they are relevant. Adolf Hitler was actually a decent guy when he was elected, bringing restoration to his people and abundance in a once-failing economy, and even received praise from people like Churchill and FDR as an excellent leader. The German people loved him and were proud to call Hitler their leader (sound familiar?). The relevance is that a smiling happy politician can so quickly-and-easily turn into a tyrant.
If you don't like me using Hitler as example, I could use Napoleon instead. Or Henry the 8th. Or Nero. Or Julius Ceasar.
Pick your poison Socrates.
Auto-execute seems pretty silly now, but back at the time it wasn't totally stupid. This was back in '95
The principle of not executing something arriving off host had only been established about a decade before. Shar (shell archives and the typical distribution format) was invented shortly after Usenet source groups were invented. Unshar was invented in the mid 1980s because everyone with half a brain was terrified of executing something coming from even the venerated and moderated `comp.sources.unix'.
We made our own mistakes http://www.regatta.cs.msu.su/doc/usr/share/man/info/ru_RU/a_doc_lib/cmds/aixcmds5/uux.htm but competent administrators had learned long before 1995 to disable uux.
Now, get off my lawn!
As a cast member in a web series (Break A Leg) we have been struggling not to gain an audience, respect, or critical acclaim since we have all of that. We just need money.
Having just looked at your website, I can't see anywhere that I could pay to get access to your episodes. I can't see anywhere I could pay to get a DVD.
Assuming that you're giving away your product for free (seriously? then complaining about cashflow?) I also can't see anywhere that I can pay to have an enhanced experience of some kind.
Have you considered actually... y'know... *CHARGING* for access to watch the shows? Like giving away eps 1-3 from a series for free, then charging $1 an episode after that? Or letting viewers watch the first X minutes of each episode then 50 cents for the rest? Or selling a DVD with added-value material that SERIOUS fans would appreciate like commentary, actor/cast bios, extra bits to flesh out personalities, "deleted scenes", extra scenes, mini-episodes fleshing out a real one etc?
If the first thought that enters your head is "people won't pay money to watch our series" then perhaps your series isn't compelling enough? But assuming it *is* compelling and appealing it seems to me that you need someone with a commercial brain to work out how best to monetize it... I bet you have some "experts" or talented and/or experienced people in their field for certain roles like costume, scriptwriting, make-up, camerawork, soundwork, editing.. acting etc... so why not someone talented/experienced in commercial aspects?
So what? That's completely useless and irrelevant because the only current devices that support cable cards are TiVos and the cableco's set top boxes themselves!
There are many TVs on the market that have cable card slots built in. I have no problem with a Tivo because I can buy one, and own it outright, and take it with me whenever I move and not have to rent a box.
If the RIAA is successful here, it is safe to say that the overwhelming majority of American music consumers will soon be classified as criminals under the law for attempting to use media they've legally purchased in a manner they desire.Now, in an unusual case in which an Arizona recipient of an RIAA letter has fought back in court rather than write a check to avoid hefty legal fees, the industry is taking its argument against music sharing one step further: In legal documents in its federal case against Jeffrey Howell, a Scottsdale, Ariz., man who kept a collection of about 2,000 music recordings on his personal computer, the industry maintains that it is illegal for someone who has legally purchased a CD to transfer that music into his computer.
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.