Comment PHP Manual (Score 1) 92
The PHP Documentation Team is always looking for contributors. For an easy start, you could help by documenting undocumented functions, for example..
The State of Digital Music in 2006 127
wh0pper writes "Designtechnica has an excellent article on the state of digital music in 2006. Digital music accounted for only six percent of total music sales in 2005. Yet even that is a massive increase over the year before, a whopping 194 percent, which is fiscally valuable as the sales of CDs continue to decrease (although even with digital sales, the record labels experienced another downturn in 2005). While the young, usually the first to adopt and adapt to new technology, have been downloading and swapping music for quite some time, there's been a ripple effect into the older, warier area of the population, one that will only increase. Thank--or blame--Apple and its iPod, or any of the many other makes selling like hotcakes in the stores.
Comment Re:Upgrades, schmupgrades (Score 2, Interesting) 44
If you will recall, when windows 95 came out, it's requirements drove people to upgrade their hardware, which in turn sent the prices down a lot (especially RAM). Although this sucked when you HAD to upgrade to get it to run decently, in the long run, it benefited all of us. I don't know if you remember RAM prices before that, but it was huge. I remember paying $400 for 16 megs.
Nowadays though, I don't think it can knock prices down as much of course (if at all). I will fight this upgrade as long as I can, just like I did XP, until games finally won me over (they seem to run better under XP).
Then again, maybe it'll knock down the ridiculously high price required to purchase video cards capable of running 3D games at a decent resolution/framerate. The last nvidia card (I got burned on) I bought for around $200 (CND) was such a piece of shit and couldn't run anything (Geforce 5600 XT). Part of that was my fault though, as I assumed XT was a higher version then just plain 5600. Although I am still mad at nvidia for their fucked up naming conventions. The card I had before this was a ti4200 8x, which was a hell of a card for the time, at basically the same price. Incidently, the ti4200 outperforms the 5600xt by quite a margin.
I do have a radeon 9800 Pro as well, which cost me a small fortune ($400 CND), which is now showing it's age, and I have no idea which way I'd go to get better performance without costing an arm and a leg. I think both Nvidia and ATI are releasing too many products these days, with too many different naming conventions intentionally so they can confuse the buyers.
anyways, hopefully vista will make better video cards come out cheaper.
Nowadays though, I don't think it can knock prices down as much of course (if at all). I will fight this upgrade as long as I can, just like I did XP, until games finally won me over (they seem to run better under XP).
Then again, maybe it'll knock down the ridiculously high price required to purchase video cards capable of running 3D games at a decent resolution/framerate. The last nvidia card (I got burned on) I bought for around $200 (CND) was such a piece of shit and couldn't run anything (Geforce 5600 XT). Part of that was my fault though, as I assumed XT was a higher version then just plain 5600. Although I am still mad at nvidia for their fucked up naming conventions. The card I had before this was a ti4200 8x, which was a hell of a card for the time, at basically the same price. Incidently, the ti4200 outperforms the 5600xt by quite a margin.
I do have a radeon 9800 Pro as well, which cost me a small fortune ($400 CND), which is now showing it's age, and I have no idea which way I'd go to get better performance without costing an arm and a leg. I think both Nvidia and ATI are releasing too many products these days, with too many different naming conventions intentionally so they can confuse the buyers.
anyways, hopefully vista will make better video cards come out cheaper.
Journal Journal: Ancient Lost Code Projects
Ever lost track of an old code project?
Been searching for your debut into the computer programming world?
Wish you could look back at when coding was still just fun to you.
How does one go about finding his lost programs on old systems to which the media is long gone?
Comment Re:What? Excuse me!?! (Score 1) 804
Missile Command - shoot down the missiles before they hit your city. With a lot of artistic freedom, sure, why not?
Isn't this the plot of whatever the asteroid movie with Bruce Willis was, with the minor change from Asteroid to Missile?
Heck, "you must blow up X before it hits Y" is practically the only hollywood script in existence, give or take special effects, the odd explosion and the sexy female lead getting her kit off.
Comment WOW! (Score 1) 282
This looked uberc00l :)
The visuals sort of reminded me of avalon albeit a lot
more colorful (avalon is a japanese movie with fantastic
and unique visuals, from the director of ghost in the
shell).
The visuals sort of reminded me of avalon albeit a lot
more colorful (avalon is a japanese movie with fantastic
and unique visuals, from the director of ghost in the
shell).
Journal Journal: Iraqi War
A common misconception about the war in Iraq is that there was one overriding motive which led to it taking place; In fact there were several
The Iraqi regime had recently switched from Dollars to Euros for Oil trading, harming the US economy.
Certain charitable causes (especially within the UK) wanted to get rid of the oppressive regime - this also made good PR in the US, where wars are routinely used to ensure that the gullible majority vote for the incumbent president.
The Iraqi regime had recently switched from Dollars to Euros for Oil trading, harming the US economy.
Certain charitable causes (especially within the UK) wanted to get rid of the oppressive regime - this also made good PR in the US, where wars are routinely used to ensure that the gullible majority vote for the incumbent president.
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