Read the darwin awards web site. This story (rocket car) has been circulating for decades...not true. However the guy who strapped himself into a lawn chair with multiple weather baloons and a gun for altitude control was for real (and reached >10000 ft). Too bad he committed suicide later. He was my hero until he did that. Actually he's still my hero, he was one of the "crazy ones". Apple should put him on a billboard somewhere.
Please read the posted story and then this entire thread (except Mr TRoLL) and ask yourself: does the parent deserve +4 insightful or -1 flaimbait?
If you have any sense you will pick the latter... Cheers to those who do.
If nobody mods this down I think the Slashdot moderation system has completely broken down and it may not be worth reading computer related threads anymore, I'll just stick to the Katz articles for stories with knowlegeable moderators.
10. Bring a few good books 9. Bring a good sock 8. Hassle the concierge relentlessly 7. Scratch your initials on one of the windows 6. Flip all the switches you can find 5. Commit suicide 4. Videotape your pranks on the sleeping astronauts and then sell them in an infomercial 3. Piss everyone off with your incessant comparisons to Holiday Inn. 2. Assume the personality of Boris Yeltsin and pretend to be drunk the entire time 1. Drop a few hits and enjoy the view
They could require you to pay for the movie with your credit card via a secure connection and then allow only your IP address to download the file. For those with dynamic IPs the movie could restrict playback to a range of IPs and the file could have a date/time out specified in it and could contact the web site to determine the real time. This approach would still be hackable but would require you to spoof the info the web site would send to the movie. Enough to stop the average hacker.
From the sightsound website when I tried to download a movie (note I am not running winblows)
MINIMUM SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS Browser: We only sell movies and music in a secure format. Currently, Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 is the only browser that we have had 100% accuracy in delivering a decryption key successfully. Unsuccessful delivery of this decryption key could result in a credit card charge with complete receipt of the decryption key, which has been experienced with other browsers. The decryption key is necessary to inhibithe purchase was made. We are browser agnostic and we are working to support Netscape Navigator and other browsers.
Operating System: Our system works on Windows Operating Systems. Apple Computer has not created a secure media solution (e.g. encrypted movies and music) for the Macintosh. Microsoft has released a beta-version of the Windows Media Player for the Macintosh, however, this version does not support the decryption of our movies and music. Until Apple Computer or Microsoft releases a secure media player for the Macintosh, the Macintosh is not capable of playing back our secure movies and music.
Evidently the encryption is negotiated between Media Player and the server (IIS)
Unfortunately they are a bit ahead of their time, to make this whole concept feasible they need to have millions of people with their TV's hooked up to their computers. Who is going to pay money to watch a movie on their computer. Not me.
The browser determines the content that is used on the net. It the browser supports PNG then webpage designers will start using PNG. When you start talking about video and third party plugins thats a different story. If MSFT has a monopoly in browser share and their browser only supports MSFT media player (whatever their video is called) natively, then they will slowly erase Real, Quicktime and any other competitors from the market. Same goes for anything currently supported by plugins that they can build into the browser. Lets have the user software separated from the platform (OS + browser) as much as possible to support competition and user choice.
I'll guess that CmdrTaco was bored this morning and looked for the most inflamatory story he could find to post. Perhaps he knew it would turn into a 400+ comment flamefest full of FUD, perhaps not. My take is that a lot of Windows and Linux faithful are threatened enough by MacOS X that they feel the need to insult everything Mac after one Mac zealot posted a fictional future that doesn't include Linux as a major player and has Mac fighting with Windows for the market. Come on. YHBT by TACO.
We already have this tech but its still being optimized. It is known as DNA chip technology. Pioneered by Affymax, they use the masking technology from silicon chip manufacturing to generate chips containing arrays of thousands of squares each containing a unique DNA sequence corresponding to a gene found only in particular viruses or other infectious organisms. Put some of your spit on this chip, heat to boiling, cool and if you have an infectious organism in your spit, you can measure the binding of the organisms DNA to the particular array spot on the chip thus identifying your infection. This will be the basis of a huge market in medical diagnostics in a few years.
Sorry for the long post but I'd like to try and explain what was actually done here.
I just read the paper and what the researchers have shown is that they can identify short peptides(<=12 amino acids) that can bind to inorganic surfaces selectively (ie bind to GaAs but not SiO2). They accomplished this feat using a technique that is widely used in the molecular biology research community...Phage Display.
Basically a bacteriophage is a virus that infects bacteria. Viruses are molecular machines that consist of an outer protein shell holding the nucleic acids which contain the instructions for making more copies of the nucleic acids and the protein shell. The Protein shell contains a few copies of the P3 coat protein (5 in the case of the virus used here). This protein recognizes the cell to be infected and triggers the process of cell entry, whereupon the virus enter the cell and hijacks the cellular macinery to produce many copies of the virus. In this way the virus replicates.
These biologists added a random sequence of 36 nucleotides (DNA bases) to the end of the DNA sequence that encodes the P3 coat protein. Now the virus will produce a P3 protein that has 12 additional random amino acids added to the end of P3 (3 DNA bases make a codon that encodes one amino acid), giving 20^12 possible unique P3 proteins (20 amino acids at each position, 12 positions).
Then they created a pool of ~10^9 phage (way fewer than the possible 20^12) and selected for phage with peptide sequences that bound to the desired material (GaAs) by affinity selection. Those viruses that bound were amplified in bacteria following elution from the material. The selection is repeated several times to identify the tightest binding peptide sequences.
Using this process, they found peptides that bound selectively to many different semiconductor surfaces and speculate that somehow this could be used to create new circuitry.
What they have done is use a standard molecular biology technique to find peptides (short polymers of amino acids) that bind selectively to inorganic surfaces of a given composition.
At the end of the article they speculate that by joining two peptides selected for binding to two different materials they can get peptides that would bind selectively at the interface between two material surfaces. I think this is the nano part of the technology as those interfaces must be created by conventional means. This method may allow finer features to be created.
Overall this is an interesting paper that opens up new possibilities but as usual in the nanotech field, it is a long way from being useful.
How often does a new landmass spring up before the eyes of a group of scientists??? This will be an observational testbed for the theories of Darwin and all evolutionary scientists. What will be the first species to inhabit the new island? ($50 says its spiders!)
How will this new ecosystem evolve and adapt?
This is a perfect system to observe natural selection in action (or not)!!
Let the experiment begin!
ps. I hope the volcano dosen't drag on with the fire and brimstone crap for too long. It would suck to have an enless series of news stories about how the latest fauna were wiped out in the most recent erruption...somehow I think its inevitable.
It seems they are striking a deal with the devil. They provide Monsanto et al with the genetic varieties that allow the companies to generate their new self replicating hybrids. Monsanto claims it will use these for rapid breeding and improvement, freely release these to third world farmers then remove their ability to self replicate and sell them in the third world.
What make you think that Monsanto would actually let them release a truly high-yield self-replicating hybrid to poor farmers and expect to stay in business in the 1st world. I'll bet monsanto will give them a defective breed and prevent them from distributing any derived breeds.
This center should do their own breeding, publish all their work to make it unpatentable and release breeds to farmers everywhere.
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Thanks for the heads up on that. I'm running MacOS9 (waiting very very patiently for OS X) and quicktime did the same on my system. I unchecked the PNG mimetypes, quit the browser (no reboot thank goodness) and all is well now. Quicktime is great for viewing Mov files (and a couple of others obscure image types) but for SHIT-SAKES, even I (an admitted Mac zealot) don't need Quicktime taking over the basics of my browser.
Nice idea, but it ignores human nature, the nature that drives us to try to control our environment. The wild west that is the internet today will not stay wild forever.
I think a much more realistic assessment is that countries will react toward the internet in much the same way they have toward international trading. They will form the WITO (World Information Trading Organization). Trade in, and access to information is just as important as access to goods and will become even more valuable. The info will increasingly be essential to countries to secure goods and maintain the IP (information property) allowing an economy to sustain itself.
We have yet to take more than the first baby steps toward countries forming internet trade alliances. We have international groups forming standards that are often ignored by the companies making the stuff of the internet but this will likely change once legislators here and abroad start passing laws requireing companies to adhere religously to set standards in order to sell goods in that country complete with policing rules. We will than have other countries wanting to join in these markets and if they don't like the rules tough luck.
Mabey we will have a few markets worldwide but we all know the power of the allmighty buck and if the US or the EU pass these laws first that will set the trend. Soon countries (and their citizens) will become familiar with the idea of global laws and global a truly global marketplace complete with global governance.
Soon countries will have to sign onto more and more global decision making bodies (GATT, WTO etc) to solve disputes among them ultimately leading to global governance. It is court actions like this one by the French and many other by the US and other that will lead to these governing councils. Be it this year or in the next century it will happen.
The internet may actually unite the world rather than declare independence from it.
Sure they may in theory help for web searching but generally I hate having to try foobar.com/net/org/gov. Next we will have hundreds of tlds. I say abolish them all. We have language, lets use it. how about http://coke or http://slashdot. Infact most browsers will drop the http:// for you so lets get rid of that too (or make it http by default). If I hear another radio person say "my web site is at: aech,tee,tee,pee,colon,slash,slash,doubleyou,doubl eyou,doubleyou,dot,shit,com I will.............................................. .......................................................................................... ...........................SHIT!
come on how about just plain old shit! that would be much better, no http, no com, gov, net etc.
Seems like the lawyers decided not to respond with knee jerk free speech argument and instead attack back with questions on the validity of M$ trade secret claims and attempt at censorship of posts that could be relevent to the DOJ litigation.
I suspect there will be no further response from M$ and they will pretend not to have stirred up the mud on this one as it will only have negative impact on M$ and they aren't losing any trade secrets anyway.
OTOH they may be willing to try and tarnish slashdot, sap money from Andover and set a precedent for others to get posts removed from this forum. Kinda scary when a corporation gets so large and rich, things like this have no impact on their bottom line and so they can use the legal system to abuse others.
Actually, the big difference between this case and the OJ saga is Judge vs Jury. I would hate to imagine what a M$FT vs DOJ jury case would look like. Imagine the jury selection process:
M$ Lawyer: Have you ever used a computer Potential Juror: yes M$ Lawyer: I move to reject this juror due to pre-bias...
And then you have a bunch of uneducated jurors easily swayer by layer charm and video footage of harmless paperclips being hunted by dinosaurs.
hmmmmmm, if anything is broken in the US justice system its jury selection...and mandatory sentencing...and politician selection as they write the laws.....oops got a little offtopic there.
If you have never used the MacOS enough to discover how functional and easy to use it is you will never understand. Sure there will probably always be a cheaper Wintel Box but I would gladly have well built, slightly behind the bleading edge systems that run a MacOS purely for the ease of getting what I need done on the system with minimal BS. The bottom line is that when you have a problem with a Wintel system, it takes an advanced user quite a while to sort it out without re-installing your system. Mac users can troubleshoot their systems with MUCH less hassle (of course this is partly due to the fact that fewer 3rd parties are breaking rules with their software on Macs as their are fewer third parties). Is its easier for the non-expert to get a highly configured system running on the Mac platform and frankly I hate wasting time trying to figure out how to get some peripheral working when I could be creating content. Thus I like MacOS. OTOH I am really looking forward to having a modern OS with the ability to configure anything the way I want it. I wonder just how easy OSX will be for the typical medium user to configure. OSX may be too much for the traditional Mac user to understand.
It was rumored that Apple made a quiet "deal" with M$FT not to port OSX to Intel in exchange for continued Office support on the Mac. Perhaps Apple is really getting ready to become a software company now in light of the DOJ vs M$FT rulings. I don't think they would loose that much in hardware sales if support and drivers for the Mac hardware were kept superior during full rollout of the x86 versions of the OS. If they start making serious money selling an x86 based OS (or GUI, Aqua + quicktime + finder etc.) they could bring the level of support up.
It would be a big gamble but one with potentially huge payoffs. I can dream can't I;-)
Check out the info below and you will see that these guys are are a lame version of iCrave. Sure they have the additional feature of recording shows but they can't handle their demand and they have little if any marketing skills. At least iCraveTV had a set up to handle their bandwidth. When the lawyers from network TV begin to attack do you think this site will be able to stand! Me thinks not.
Too bad, I still miss iCraveTV and I would love to see more of this but, its illegal! The first web site to negotiate deals for rebroadcast with the major networks and cable will have a REAL audience, until then, all we will have are fly by night operations.
On the other side of the coin, these guys and iCrave both recognized that content on demand via IP has a REAL audience. iCrave just rebroadcasted whatever was playing but RecordTV.com provided selection and thus improved on the model. The big question is: WILL THE AUDIENCE PAY??
Would you pay for this? If yes, how much per month? My guess is that $5/month/suscriber would be a very profitable set up. Will the network and cable people go for this (~$2/suscriber/month split many ways)?
Who do you think will make the first deals with the network/cable? AOL? YAHOO!? M$? Inktomi?
From the site: update 5/14/00
Happy Mothers Day! We expected some publicity but we didn't know Slashdot would print a front page story about us (www.slashdot.org). At the moment the site is not able to keep up but, by signing up with a valid email address, we can notify you when things are calmer and we have more bandwidth to handle it. We expect our first additional T1 line on Wednesday and another yet in 4 weeks.
update5/13/00
We were HACKED. Lost some web files and shows. Sorry. Also, we will likely get very busy on Sunday since we will be discussed on the Jeff Levy computer show (KFI AM 640 Los Angeles).
update 4/27/00
We were written up in Yahoo Internet Life today which has once again made things overwhelmingly busy today (we did not know this one was being published). We also are doing an interview on CJAD 800 AM today. Things will probably be slow for the next 2-3 days, sorry. updated 4/22/00 I have added a time clock and improved recording priorities.
updated 4/19/00
Well, things are better. also, we are changing the recording so that the most popular shows will get recorded first. This should help satisfy more users. Also SORRY about the annoying banners but this is the only thing that keeps our site up and running! Please click on the Valueclick banners (thats when we get paid) or sign up for the "Joke of the Day" newsletter (again thats the only time we get paid).
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Read the darwin awards web site. This story (rocket car) has been circulating for decades...not true. However the guy who strapped himself into a lawn chair with multiple weather baloons and a gun for altitude control was for real (and reached >10000 ft). Too bad he committed suicide later. He was my hero until he did that. Actually he's still my hero, he was one of the "crazy ones". Apple should put him on a billboard somewhere.
Please read the posted story and then this entire thread (except Mr TRoLL) and ask yourself: does the parent deserve +4 insightful or -1 flaimbait?
If you have any sense you will pick the latter... Cheers to those who do.
If nobody mods this down I think the Slashdot moderation system has completely broken down and it may not be worth reading computer related threads anymore, I'll just stick to the Katz articles for stories with knowlegeable moderators.
=8<0> (aaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!)
I forgot the all time classic
Leave a "floater"
(yep a floating turd)
10. Bring a few good books
9. Bring a good sock
8. Hassle the concierge relentlessly
7. Scratch your initials on one of the windows
6. Flip all the switches you can find
5. Commit suicide
4. Videotape your pranks on the sleeping astronauts and then sell them in an infomercial
3. Piss everyone off with your incessant comparisons to Holiday Inn.
2. Assume the personality of Boris Yeltsin and pretend to be drunk the entire time
1. Drop a few hits and enjoy the view
Some other thoughts
They could require you to pay for the movie with your credit card via a secure connection and then allow only your IP address to download the file. For those with dynamic IPs the movie could restrict playback to a range of IPs and the file could have a date/time out specified in it and could contact the web site to determine the real time. This approach would still be hackable but would require you to spoof the info the web site would send to the movie. Enough to stop the average hacker.
MINIMUM SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS
Browser:
We only sell movies and music in a secure format. Currently, Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 is the only browser that we have had 100% accuracy in delivering a decryption key successfully. Unsuccessful delivery of this decryption key could result in a credit card charge with complete receipt of the decryption key, which has been experienced with other browsers. The decryption key is necessary to inhibithe purchase was made. We are browser agnostic and we are working to support Netscape Navigator and other browsers.
Operating System:
Our system works on Windows Operating Systems. Apple Computer has not created a secure media solution (e.g. encrypted movies and music) for the Macintosh. Microsoft has released a beta-version of the Windows Media Player for the Macintosh, however, this version does not support the decryption of our movies and music. Until Apple Computer or Microsoft releases a secure media player for the Macintosh, the Macintosh is not capable of playing back our secure movies and music.
Evidently the encryption is negotiated between Media Player and the server (IIS)
Unfortunately they are a bit ahead of their time, to make this whole concept feasible they need to have millions of people with their TV's hooked up to their computers. Who is going to pay money to watch a movie on their computer. Not me.
The browser determines the content that is used on the net. It the browser supports PNG then webpage designers will start using PNG. When you start talking about video and third party plugins thats a different story. If MSFT has a monopoly in browser share and their browser only supports MSFT media player (whatever their video is called) natively, then they will slowly erase Real, Quicktime and any other competitors from the market. Same goes for anything currently supported by plugins that they can build into the browser. Lets have the user software separated from the platform (OS + browser) as much as possible to support competition and user choice.
I'll guess that CmdrTaco was bored this morning and looked for the most inflamatory story he could find to post. Perhaps he knew it would turn into a 400+ comment flamefest full of FUD, perhaps not. My take is that a lot of Windows and Linux faithful are threatened enough by MacOS X that they feel the need to insult everything Mac after one Mac zealot posted a fictional future that doesn't include Linux as a major player and has Mac fighting with Windows for the market. Come on. YHBT by TACO.
I'd give the parent +1 funny.
We already have this tech but its still being optimized. It is known as DNA chip technology. Pioneered by Affymax, they use the masking technology from silicon chip manufacturing to generate chips containing arrays of thousands of squares each containing a unique DNA sequence corresponding to a gene found only in particular viruses or other infectious organisms. Put some of your spit on this chip, heat to boiling, cool and if you have an infectious organism in your spit, you can measure the binding of the organisms DNA to the particular array spot on the chip thus identifying your infection. This will be the basis of a huge market in medical diagnostics in a few years.
Sorry for the long post but I'd like to try and explain what was actually done here.
I just read the paper and what the researchers have shown is that they can identify short peptides(<=12 amino acids) that can bind to inorganic surfaces selectively (ie bind to GaAs but not SiO2). They accomplished this feat using a technique that is widely used in the molecular biology research community...Phage Display.
Basically a bacteriophage is a virus that infects bacteria. Viruses are molecular machines that consist of an outer protein shell holding the nucleic acids which contain the instructions for making more copies of the nucleic acids and the protein shell. The Protein shell contains a few copies of the P3 coat protein (5 in the case of the virus used here). This protein recognizes the cell to be infected and triggers the process of cell entry, whereupon the virus enter the cell and hijacks the cellular macinery to produce many copies of the virus. In this way the virus replicates.
These biologists added a random sequence of 36 nucleotides (DNA bases) to the end of the DNA sequence that encodes the P3 coat protein. Now the virus will produce a P3 protein that has 12 additional random amino acids added to the end of P3 (3 DNA bases make a codon that encodes one amino acid), giving 20^12 possible unique P3 proteins (20 amino acids at each position, 12 positions).
Then they created a pool of ~10^9 phage (way fewer than the possible 20^12) and selected for phage with peptide sequences that bound to the desired material (GaAs) by affinity selection. Those viruses that bound were amplified in bacteria following elution from the material. The selection is repeated several times to identify the tightest binding peptide sequences.
Using this process, they found peptides that bound selectively to many different semiconductor surfaces and speculate that somehow this could be used to create new circuitry.
What they have done is use a standard molecular biology technique to find peptides (short polymers of amino acids) that bind selectively to inorganic surfaces of a given composition.
At the end of the article they speculate that by joining two peptides selected for binding to two different materials they can get peptides that would bind selectively at the interface between two material surfaces. I think this is the nano part of the technology as those interfaces must be created by conventional means. This method may allow finer features to be created.
Overall this is an interesting paper that opens up new possibilities but as usual in the nanotech field, it is a long way from being useful.
Hope that made sense
Cheers
SS! SS! SS!
aaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh run run shoot run run shoot run run shoot run shoot
My favorite Apple II game!
was it the first, first person shooter?
Sorry, I should clarify that, send you 50$, and ask what will be the first animal species to inhabit the new island.
How often does a new landmass spring up before the eyes of a group of scientists??? This will be an observational testbed for the theories of Darwin and all evolutionary scientists. What will be the first species to inhabit the new island? ($50 says its spiders!)
How will this new ecosystem evolve and adapt?
This is a perfect system to observe natural selection in action (or not)!!
Let the experiment begin!
ps. I hope the volcano dosen't drag on with the fire and brimstone crap for too long. It would suck to have an enless series of news stories about how the latest fauna were wiped out in the most recent erruption...somehow I think its inevitable.
It seems they are striking a deal with the devil. They provide Monsanto et al with the genetic varieties that allow the companies to generate their new self replicating hybrids. Monsanto claims it will use these for rapid breeding and improvement, freely release these to third world farmers then remove their ability to self replicate and sell them in the third world.
What make you think that Monsanto would actually let them release a truly high-yield self-replicating hybrid to poor farmers and expect to stay in business in the 1st world. I'll bet monsanto will give them a defective breed and prevent them from distributing any derived breeds.
This center should do their own breeding, publish all their work to make it unpatentable and release breeds to farmers everywhere.
Basic Questions....
Whats Browsers currently run on this?
How hard will it be to port existing code to this OS?
Thanks for the heads up on that. I'm running MacOS9 (waiting very very patiently for OS X) and quicktime did the same on my system. I unchecked the PNG mimetypes, quit the browser (no reboot thank goodness) and all is well now. Quicktime is great for viewing Mov files (and a couple of others obscure image types) but for SHIT-SAKES, even I (an admitted Mac zealot) don't need Quicktime taking over the basics of my browser.
;-)
Must go, need to write letter to steve
Cheers
Nice idea, but it ignores human nature, the nature that drives us to try to control our environment. The wild west that is the internet today will not stay wild forever.
I think a much more realistic assessment is that countries will react toward the internet in much the same way they have toward international trading. They will form the WITO (World Information Trading Organization). Trade in, and access to information is just as important as access to goods and will become even more valuable. The info will increasingly be essential to countries to secure goods and maintain the IP (information property) allowing an economy to sustain itself.
We have yet to take more than the first baby steps toward countries forming internet trade alliances. We have international groups forming standards that are often ignored by the companies making the stuff of the internet but this will likely change once legislators here and abroad start passing laws requireing companies to adhere religously to set standards in order to sell goods in that country complete with policing rules. We will than have other countries wanting to join in these markets and if they don't like the rules tough luck.
Mabey we will have a few markets worldwide but we all know the power of the allmighty buck and if the US or the EU pass these laws first that will set the trend. Soon countries (and their citizens) will become familiar with the idea of global laws and global a truly global marketplace complete with global governance.
Soon countries will have to sign onto more and more global decision making bodies (GATT, WTO etc) to solve disputes among them ultimately leading to global governance. It is court actions like this one by the French and many other by the US and other that will lead to these governing councils. Be it this year or in the next century it will happen.
The internet may actually unite the world rather than declare independence from it.
Sure they may in theory help for web searching but generally I hate having to try foobar.com/net/org/gov. Next we will have hundreds of tlds. I say abolish them all. We have language, lets use it. how about http://coke or http://slashdot. Infact most browsers will drop the http:// for you so lets get rid of that too (or make it http by default). If I hear another radio person say "my web site is at:l eyou,doubleyou,dot,shit,com I will.............................................. ........................................ .................................................. ...........................SHIT!
aech,tee,tee,pee,colon,slash,slash,doubleyou,doub
come on how about just plain old shit! that would be much better, no http, no com, gov, net etc.
Thanx,
Seems like the lawyers decided not to respond with knee jerk free speech argument and instead attack back with questions on the validity of M$ trade secret claims and attempt at censorship of posts that could be relevent to the DOJ litigation.
I suspect there will be no further response from M$ and they will pretend not to have stirred up the mud on this one as it will only have negative impact on M$ and they aren't losing any trade secrets anyway.
OTOH they may be willing to try and tarnish slashdot, sap money from Andover and set a precedent for others to get posts removed from this forum. Kinda scary when a corporation gets so large and rich, things like this have no impact on their bottom line and so they can use the legal system to abuse others.
I hope the first route is the one they take.
Actually, the big difference between this case and the OJ saga is Judge vs Jury. I would hate to imagine what a M$FT vs DOJ jury case would look like. Imagine the jury selection process:
M$ Lawyer: Have you ever used a computer
Potential Juror: yes
M$ Lawyer: I move to reject this juror due to pre-bias...
And then you have a bunch of uneducated jurors easily swayer by layer charm and video footage of harmless paperclips being hunted by dinosaurs.
hmmmmmm, if anything is broken in the US justice system its jury selection...and mandatory sentencing...and politician selection as they write the laws.....oops got a little offtopic there.
If you have never used the MacOS enough to discover how functional and easy to use it is you will never understand. Sure there will probably always be a cheaper Wintel Box but I would gladly have well built, slightly behind the bleading edge systems that run a MacOS purely for the ease of getting what I need done on the system with minimal BS. The bottom line is that when you have a problem with a Wintel system, it takes an advanced user quite a while to sort it out without re-installing your system. Mac users can troubleshoot their systems with MUCH less hassle (of course this is partly due to the fact that fewer 3rd parties are breaking rules with their software on Macs as their are fewer third parties). Is its easier for the non-expert to get a highly configured system running on the Mac platform and frankly I hate wasting time trying to figure out how to get some peripheral working when I could be creating content. Thus I like MacOS. OTOH I am really looking forward to having a modern OS with the ability to configure anything the way I want it. I wonder just how easy OSX will be for the typical medium user to configure. OSX may be too much for the traditional Mac user to understand.
It was rumored that Apple made a quiet "deal" with M$FT not to port OSX to Intel in exchange for continued Office support on the Mac. Perhaps Apple is really getting ready to become a software company now in light of the DOJ vs M$FT rulings. I don't think they would loose that much in hardware sales if support and drivers for the Mac hardware were kept superior during full rollout of the x86 versions of the OS. If they start making serious money selling an x86 based OS (or GUI, Aqua + quicktime + finder etc.) they could bring the level of support up.
;-)
It would be a big gamble but one with potentially huge payoffs. I can dream can't I
Too bad, I still miss iCraveTV and I would love to see more of this but, its illegal! The first web site to negotiate deals for rebroadcast with the major networks and cable will have a REAL audience, until then, all we will have are fly by night operations.
On the other side of the coin, these guys and iCrave both recognized that content on demand via IP has a REAL audience. iCrave just rebroadcasted whatever was playing but RecordTV.com provided selection and thus improved on the model. The big question is: WILL THE AUDIENCE PAY??
Would you pay for this? If yes, how much per month? My guess is that $5/month/suscriber would be a very profitable set up. Will the network and cable people go for this (~$2/suscriber/month split many ways)?
Who do you think will make the first deals with the network/cable? AOL? YAHOO!? M$? Inktomi?
From the site: update 5/14/00
Happy Mothers Day! We expected some publicity but we didn't know Slashdot would print a front page story about us (www.slashdot.org). At the moment the site is not able to keep up but, by signing up with a valid email address, we can notify you when things are calmer and we have more bandwidth to handle it. We expect our first additional T1 line on Wednesday and another yet in 4 weeks.
update5/13/00
We were HACKED. Lost some web files and shows. Sorry. Also, we will likely get very busy on Sunday since we will be discussed on the Jeff Levy computer show (KFI AM 640 Los Angeles).
update 4/27/00
We were written up in Yahoo Internet Life today which has once again made things overwhelmingly busy today (we did not know this one was being published). We also are doing an interview on CJAD 800 AM today. Things will probably be slow for the next 2-3 days, sorry. updated 4/22/00 I have added a time clock and improved recording priorities.
updated 4/19/00
Well, things are better. also, we are changing the recording so that the most popular shows will get recorded first. This should help satisfy more users. Also SORRY about the annoying banners but this is the only thing that keeps our site up and running! Please click on the Valueclick banners (thats when we get paid) or sign up for the "Joke of the Day" newsletter (again thats the only time we get paid).
Show me someone who asked or pointed out the labs were underground before my post you AC shit head.