O.K., I give up. Man breaks law, man gets arrested. Happens every day.
Is this somehow different because he's Japanese? Elderly? Using a harmonica? Someone clue me in here.
Oh, right, it's because of some vague, imagined connection to DRM or some other fantasy of/. editors. You believe that, since you're entitled to make a copy of your legally purchased CD, that means no musicians anywhere should ever get paid. Got it.
ASCAP is almost 100 years old, and BMI is nearly 50. They have *thousands* of court cases, based on hundreds of years of precedent in common law, that solidify their rights. The right, for example, to collect fees for performance of its members' works. You have a problem with that? Go live somewhere it ain't so. Somewhere like... well, nowhere, really.
I'm a (part-time) magazine feature writer. My two most recent articles were about interactive tabletop displays in museums, and the history of cannabinoids.
For the museum article, Google was more help: There was no way to parse "interactive tabletop displays" in a way that Wikipedia would return a useful, comprehensive page. On the other hand, WP has a great page on "cannabinoids" that led to a lot of useful references.
Ultimately I used both, though. For instance, I used WP to understand some electronics technicalities for the museum article. And for the cannabinoids article, Google ultimately led me to great places that WP overlooked, such as this collection of antique cannabinoid-containing medicines.
Can't get your mom's recipes (or your company's financials) off that 8" floppy from the TRS-80 II? Call Sam Ismail at Vintage Tech! He's a real pro, runs the Vintage Computer Festival, and is a nice guy besides.
BTW, I'm not arguing with your assessment of the article, which I didn't read, but with your ignorant slam on a knowledgeable, dedicated, insightful professional.
This "dumbarse" with a blog has been writing professionally, full-time, about the Mac for over ten years. I sat a few cubicles away from him at MacWEEK when he was a news reporter and I was a reviews editor, waaay back in 1996. He went on to his current job at Wired (where he's maintained the Apple beat) and has written two excellent books about Apple.
You must have missed the well-labeled drop-down menu that lets you jump directly to whatever page you want.:-P I checked out the intro, the SD roundup, and the conclusions with no intermediate pages. Done!
I sure hope they'll do a Mac beta. YIM's Mac client is WAY behind the Windows one, lacking both stability and features. And neither GAIM nor Trillian is available for the Mac. (Fire worked pretty well for me until my copy died in some unrecoverable way.)
Good overview. A very minor quibble: If the low note is G and the chord outlined is C, then the horn is actually pitched in C -- that is, its fundamental is C, not G.
The only thing that surprises me is the idea that there's any real demand -- outside of a tiny circle, I mean.
Move about five feet away from geekdom and you discover that he's no more important to the world than, say, past bridge champion Pierre Jais. O.K., maybe that's too extreme... certainly he's no more important than Esperanto-creator Ludwig Zamenhof.
Every subculture has its heroes, and every subculture overestimates the value of its heroes to the general public.
I wish caffeine-containing drinks were forced by U.S. law to put their caffeine content on the package, so we as consumers could make intelligent choices.
in lieu of that, does anyone know a definitive place where one can find that information? Ideally it'd be a web page with a simple "Name / Serving size / mg Caffeine per serving" table.
Oh, but it *does* mention porn! They just edited out a few words. Here's the original:
"...men are more likely to use the net to get all kinds of information about [water] sports results, weather [(such as golden showers)], news [about Layla Lashelle], [blow] job offers..."
The story implies that being the twelfth-biggest shopping day is some pathetic underachievement. But consider: That means it's in the 96th percentile! I'd say that's significant, especially if (as the article implies) shopping then falls off for the next week, i.e. until 5 December.
I've seen this pen in use for about nine months. (A friend works at LeapFrog, and I sometimes stopped by to pick her up after work.) And I have to say: It's pretty freaking cool. A few points:
* It doesn't compete (as some commenters have said) with Palm devices or general-purpose computers. Its real competitors are those "toy" computers, electronic learning tools... that is, LeapFrog's other products! It's more a grandchild of the Speak 'n' Spell than the Apple II.
* As a product, it's kind of hard to "get" until demo'd... and then you get it immediately. If I were running the company's PR department I'd launch an aggressive journalist demo program. I did something similar with Globalstar satellite phones as a client... yeah, the company tanked, but we scored some GREAT press in the targeted marine sector. It's a similar product at base: a new, untested solution in a well-established market.
* IMHO, the real application for Fly is outside children's education. For example: Real Estate appraisers and construction pros could draw a room's layout on ordinary-feeling paper and get back square footage, price per square foot, materials needed, etc.
* I can't wait for it to be hacked. Slashdotters, your kids don't need Fly: YOU do.
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Spamex has done this quite well for years.
O.K., I give up. Man breaks law, man gets arrested. Happens every day.
/. editors. You believe that, since you're entitled to make a copy of your legally purchased CD, that means no musicians anywhere should ever get paid. Got it.
Is this somehow different because he's Japanese? Elderly? Using a harmonica? Someone clue me in here.
Oh, right, it's because of some vague, imagined connection to DRM or some other fantasy of
ASCAP is almost 100 years old, and BMI is nearly 50. They have *thousands* of court cases, based on hundreds of years of precedent in common law, that solidify their rights. The right, for example, to collect fees for performance of its members' works. You have a problem with that? Go live somewhere it ain't so. Somewhere like... well, nowhere, really.
I'm a (part-time) magazine feature writer. My two most recent articles were about interactive tabletop displays in museums, and the history of cannabinoids.
For the museum article, Google was more help: There was no way to parse "interactive tabletop displays" in a way that Wikipedia would return a useful, comprehensive page. On the other hand, WP has a great page on "cannabinoids" that led to a lot of useful references.
Ultimately I used both, though. For instance, I used WP to understand some electronics technicalities for the museum article. And for the cannabinoids article, Google ultimately led me to great places that WP overlooked, such as this collection of antique cannabinoid-containing medicines.
Can't get your mom's recipes (or your company's financials) off that 8" floppy from the TRS-80 II? Call Sam Ismail at Vintage Tech! He's a real pro, runs the Vintage Computer Festival, and is a nice guy besides.
Segway was inarguably a P.R. success. Public Relations doesn't control market acceptance, only market exposure. And they got that, in spades.
Hey, I wrote a cover story about that for "The Net" magazine (now defunct) way back in 1995ish! :)
BTW, I'm not arguing with your assessment of the article, which I didn't read, but with your ignorant slam on a knowledgeable, dedicated, insightful professional.
This "dumbarse" with a blog has been writing professionally, full-time, about the Mac for over ten years. I sat a few cubicles away from him at MacWEEK when he was a news reporter and I was a reviews editor, waaay back in 1996. He went on to his current job at Wired (where he's maintained the Apple beat) and has written two excellent books about Apple.
So, umm, no.
I just got that, too.
If it doesn't work on my device, for all practical purposes it doesn't exist. *shrug*
(Not to mention that the Treo 650 is UNBELIEVABLY COMMON these days....)
You must have missed the well-labeled drop-down menu that lets you jump directly to whatever page you want. :-P I checked out the intro, the SD roundup, and the conclusions with no intermediate pages. Done!
I sure hope they'll do a Mac beta. YIM's Mac client is WAY behind the Windows one, lacking both stability and features. And neither GAIM nor Trillian is available for the Mac. (Fire worked pretty well for me until my copy died in some unrecoverable way.)
I just scored an old (1880s?) "Farmers Allminax", written entirely in phonetic English, by Josh Billings at an antique store in Maine. WAY cool.
Here, here! Good on you, mate.
Good overview. A very minor quibble: If the low note is G and the chord outlined is C, then the horn is actually pitched in C -- that is, its fundamental is C, not G.
:)
But you knew that.
The only thing that surprises me is the idea that there's any real demand -- outside of a tiny circle, I mean.
Move about five feet away from geekdom and you discover that he's no more important to the world than, say, past bridge champion Pierre Jais. O.K., maybe that's too extreme... certainly he's no more important than Esperanto-creator Ludwig Zamenhof.
Every subculture has its heroes, and every subculture overestimates the value of its heroes to the general public.
Science's task is to test hypotheses.
The belief that prayer has beneficial medical effects is a widlely-held hypothesis that can be tested.
The results of such a test could improve treatment and life in general. Therefore, it's a worthwhile pursuit.
That *you* think it's silly doesn't change anything. Much sillier theories have been put to the test -- and gotten unexpected results.
...or does "hairy lobster" sound like some sort of pornographic slang?
I wish caffeine-containing drinks were forced by U.S. law to put their caffeine content on the package, so we as consumers could make intelligent choices.
in lieu of that, does anyone know a definitive place where one can find that information? Ideally it'd be a web page with a simple "Name / Serving size / mg Caffeine per serving" table.
Oh, but it *does* mention porn! They just edited out a few words. Here's the original:
"...men are more likely to use the net to get all kinds of information about [water] sports results, weather [(such as golden showers)], news [about Layla Lashelle], [blow] job offers..."
Honestly, the *first* thing I would have done if I had his agenda would have been to buy stock in Take Two.
Then again, I'm not crazy.
The story implies that being the twelfth-biggest shopping day is some pathetic underachievement. But consider: That means it's in the 96th percentile! I'd say that's significant, especially if (as the article implies) shopping then falls off for the next week, i.e. until 5 December.
Open souse = free beer!
- the efficiency of getting increasingly harder oil from the ground.
- The efficiency of refining the oil.
- The high cost of maintence of an internal combustion engine.
- PROFIT!
- The very low efficiency of getting the CO2 out of the air.
I couldn't resist.I've seen this pen in use for about nine months. (A friend works at LeapFrog, and I sometimes stopped by to pick her up after work.) And I have to say: It's pretty freaking cool. A few points:
* It doesn't compete (as some commenters have said) with Palm devices or general-purpose computers. Its real competitors are those "toy" computers, electronic learning tools... that is, LeapFrog's other products! It's more a grandchild of the Speak 'n' Spell than the Apple II.
* As a product, it's kind of hard to "get" until demo'd... and then you get it immediately. If I were running the company's PR department I'd launch an aggressive journalist demo program. I did something similar with Globalstar satellite phones as a client... yeah, the company tanked, but we scored some GREAT press in the targeted marine sector. It's a similar product at base: a new, untested solution in a well-established market.
* IMHO, the real application for Fly is outside children's education. For example: Real Estate appraisers and construction pros could draw a room's layout on ordinary-feeling paper and get back square footage, price per square foot, materials needed, etc.
* I can't wait for it to be hacked. Slashdotters, your kids don't need Fly: YOU do.
Darl "Master of Linear Thought" McBride sez:
8. SCO is Unifying its Code Base - Yogi Berra once said, "If you come to a fork in the road, take it." Forking is exactly what is happening to Linux.
Whoa, dude... heavy. *puff puff... give*