[Real CDs] you can buy them and give them to your friends
So long as you don't rip them with iTunes. A violation of trust is a something that sticks with the violator. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
There is a lot of fuss about whether cell phones, wi-fi etc. can damage bodies and minds by their radio waves. Although there is a lot of fuss, it is not justified by much (any?) significant scientific data.
The full article has great references which show biological effects. At least one of these articles is available in full as a pdf. They report repeatable experiments and show relationships to frequency and intensity.
The disturbing part is that so much quack noise has been made about cell phone and wifi "radiation" that muddies the watter when so much useful information has been available since the 80's. It stinks that so much of society's resources were devoted to propagating noise when so much signal was available. This represents a complete failure of public education and broadcast media. At best, the failure is one of incompetence. At worst, it's intentional like the tobacco industry. Either way, the barriers must come down.
People who want to own ideas and publications are evil. Most research is publically supported and the public deserves the knowledge.
This new therapy won't provide too many benefits as far as the nastyness of treatment b/c it works just like chemo (in the case of metastases.) However, in the case of solid tumors ie GBM schwannomas, etc. perhaps it could be useful.
You can apply EM fields to small volumes and does not have to be a whole body treatment. Getting a uniform field through a person would be difficult.
If Rife's stuff worked, it's a pity there was no follow up. When there's an observable effect, it's the effect that's important not the explanation. It does not matter if the observer's reasoning is wrong, if the effect is consistent and repeatable it can be used. Following the links, we see that portions of his claims have been observed with better tools now available.
If the answer is not very deep then you couldn't treat stuff like cervical cancer or colon cancer, because you can't stick electrodes (comfortably?) onto those body parts.
It's not comfortable, but it's nicer than dying. It's called brachytherapy.
You quote NDP numbers that show M$ is "on track" to break a million, but the article summary has...
According to Robbie Bach, Microsoft's president of the Entertainment and Devices Division, Zune has already met the goal of 1.000.000 players sold,
So Mr. Bach is puffing up a number and then claims this is 10% of "the category," which is also misleading. Apple has sold over 100,000,000 iPods and are currently selling something goofey like 10,000,000 a quarter. When you consider that there are many other "hard disk" players that are just as good or better than Zune, there it's unlikely M$ has anything like 10% of any market but the one for Brown Zunes.
You seem very passionate in your feelings about Microsoft. I think there's room on Slashdot for disinterested debate using facts, rather than strictly conjecture. I hope you agree.
I hope you can agree that the numbers you dug up contradict Mr. Bach, that his conjectures are contradicted by facts history and that his company is evil.
I can safely say that Zune will go the way of the Dell Jukebox. It's got second rate construction, third rate battery life, and worst of class digital restrictions. The Dell Jukebox had more to offer in terms of construction and battery life and was less restricted. M$ will start giving them away as promotional items, but neither they nor the WMF rent-a-music deal will ever catch on.
In the mean time, M$ will do everything in their power to hobble the competition. Yes, monopoly abuse makes me angry. It limits all of our choices and makes the world a poorer place than it has to be.
The expected next step is to call me a Microsoft fanboy.
If holding opinions that contradict facts you quote for the benefit of an evil company you have little to do with makes you a fanboy, then you are a fanboy.
Where to? Putting them on store shelves is nothing more than supply chain squeezing. Sooner or later, they are going to end up in a landfill like thousands of Lisas did. You should be able to put them in a much smaller space than the Lisa, so M$ will have beaten Apple in one small way.
Apple has sold 100 million iPods. In your mind, what's Microsoft's rationale for lying about having sold 1/100th of that?
I'd like to just say it's because they are stupid, but they are trying to tell a believable lie. For every 100 iPods you see, you might see a single Zune if people were really walking around with them. M$ has a long history of channel stuffing and hyping those numbers as, "we've already won." In this case, the lie is "it's not a failure and our victory is inevitable." M$ has told so many lies for so long that nothing they say can be taken seriously. When a M$ spokesman says that they have "sold a million" there is no telling what they really mean but it's doubtful that 1 million people have and use a Zune. That one million Zune sales is pathetic anyway does not mean they are telling the truth.
10% of the market = 10% of the units sold in period (7 months from start of December to end of June). We're talking the hard-disk-based players here, BTW, as per the interview.... Suddenly, a 10% market share for the Zune selling about 1 million in the same period isn't unrealistic.
Hard drive based players in red cases with the letters E,N,U and Z in the name? Excellent. Some girl in the back makes up all the numbers anyway. How many fingers do you see, Winston?
How clumsy of me. I'm not sure the people that are put into those detention centers will know the difference either but it's nice of you to notice. I commend your astute reading.
Iran was was given parts for a nuclear reactor, not a bomb.
That's great news, all I ever hear about is bombs. If they were building a bomb, we'd have to steal their oil.
Exaggeration may help get people's attention, but not in a positive way.
Yeah, that whole Iraq is an immediate threat to the safety of the US kind of backfired. It's at times like this that I just wish broadcast media would cover important issues in an honest way. That's what we are talking about isn't it?
Last I heard, censorship is when The Man(tm) takes forcible action to squash a story that's damaging, incriminating, or otherwise detrimental to The Powers That Be(tm). You know, like North Korea killing stories of mass starvation...
Well, the man has a lot to do with broadcast media which is where the alledged censorship occurred. As broadcast still dominates the public perception, you should be very worried that broadcast is dominated by a very small number of companies that can easily be bullied/bribed by their federal masters. At that rate, there is no distinction between public and private censorship. One of the stories on the list is growing hunger in the US. Could it be that someone has kept you from learning of actual starvation?
Censorship is insidious, you never know what you are missing.
Palestine did not make the list. The enslavement of people there is not well reported considering the large proportion of foreign aid Israel receives and the impact on the US image and US relations with other states. The continued lack of resolution for the longstanding "Palestinian Refuge Problem" is a big deal.
They also failed to mention conditions in China and how free country trade has worsened conditions in free countries without improving them in non free.
This list would be more accurately described as 'Top 25 Things Liberals Want to Whine About This Year'.
Haliburton helping Iran to build a bomb is a "Liberal" issue?
A free and uncensored news media is a "Liberal Whine" issue?
Properly accounting for eight billion dollars worth of "Homeland Security" spending is a big spending "Liberal" issue?
Commrad, I think you would prefer the old USSR or China, where there is not government corruption because those who notice are put in jail. Oh dear, number 14 is about the former KGB is building detention centers in the US. Looks like you and your "conservative" buddies are doing a good job. Keep it up and there will only be one company and one party here in the US. When that happens, you will have to change the names you call people. May I suggest "reactionary whiners" ?
The concerns mentioned by Vexorian are everyone's problems. They matter and people do care. The kind of person that does not care is not reading or watching the news anyway, so the news might as well carry something more important that Paris Hilton and Britny Spears gossip. People who care about that can get what they want at the supermarket check out. Public broadcasters and other users of public servitude are supposed to serve the public interest. Newspapers swear they do the same. Yet all of these channels are filled with bullshit made by people who would like to do to the internet what they did to it in China. If they get away with it, you won't know the difference again.
You suggestion is really an insult that makes no sense:
What the parent wants is uniformity and proper user interface design....you could have some 50 different linux VOIP phones and it wouldn't help if every single one of them have horrible UIs, right? Same thing applies to computers.
So really, what you are saying is that KDE, Gnome and friends all suck. That's fine, go find something you like. What you claim you want is:
A singular target for support.
This is a foolish and impossible goal. Even if you chose some non free "singular" platform, you have chosen from one of many systems. As long as you have your freedom, you and your users will have to make choices. In the free world, the best methods migrate between interfaces so nothing is really lost and in the end you can find something just right for you. Without your freedom you won't be able to make any choices and everything will suck anyway because those making the choices for you are guided by their best interests not yours.
Freedom, not a lack of it is the answer to the problems you think you see.
If you don't believe me, feel free to respond to this post and tell me what the best development environment / language to write Linux desktop apps in is. Okay, now what's the best distribution? While we're at it, what's the best text editor? With that as a context, now tell me about UI guidelines and keychain standards.
I don't believe you because every useful program has been made to work with every distribution without a lot of effort. Gnome, KDE, X, etc all works together in a way non free junk never will. It's about freedom, not marketshare or "standards". When you define real standards for interoperability, the rest takes care of itself.
Others have pointed to dlink and packet8 phones. Because free software has swept up the embedded market, they both probably use some form of gnu/linux. If they don't now, they will later. All that's really needed for these devices to thrive is well regulated public networks. Without that, we will probably waste another decade while "broadband" and IM providers battle it out with incompatible crap.
They probably "baited" the jar with broken models they bought on ebay. You don't think anyone will trade a working music player for a Zune, do you? Garbage in, something a little better than nothing out. A few interns might take the bait, but I doubt than an M$ employee has the time or need to play games with music players.
Who needs good intrusion prevention when you can arrest anyone AFTER they broke in?
Well, it might be nice if you want to ACTUALLY CATCH THEM! How are you supposed to do that when they overwrite your files?
Oh, I see, you don't care if the arrested is actually guilty. I'll be quit now. Forget I said anything. You guys are doing great, keep up the good work and help yourself to some real Wow software or something. Bye.
If they are blocking your attempts to reach other people's port 25, they should be commended.
Your system may be immune, but hordes of "zombies" would be sending spam from your ISP's network.
This has already failed and failed miserably. There are hordes of zombies sending spam from my ISP's network. They all do as you recommend and use the ISP's SMTP server and this is why more than 80% of all spam comes from zombies. My upload is also capped by my cable modem at a pathetic 60 kB/s.
A better method would be to have the same modem disconnect people who's computers have obviously been turned into spambots. Giving people the freedom to run their own mail servers distributes the spam burden and the ability to fight the spammers. Concentrating that burden at the ISP level is a failure.
Either way, the spammers know the limits and keeping me from running a mail server of my own does nothing beyond those limits. Because the reasons given are so transparently false, we are left only with government surveillance reasons.
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Someone needs to write a program that inserts Bill Gates name and email address into the tags. Only he has enough money to pay of the MAFIAA.
[Real CDs] you can buy them and give them to your friends
So long as you don't rip them with iTunes. A violation of trust is a something that sticks with the violator. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
Squirts on your zune, steals info from your cell phone, generally sucks.
There is a lot of fuss about whether cell phones, wi-fi etc. can damage bodies and minds by their radio waves. Although there is a lot of fuss, it is not justified by much (any?) significant scientific data.
The full article has great references which show biological effects. At least one of these articles is available in full as a pdf. They report repeatable experiments and show relationships to frequency and intensity.
The disturbing part is that so much quack noise has been made about cell phone and wifi "radiation" that muddies the watter when so much useful information has been available since the 80's. It stinks that so much of society's resources were devoted to propagating noise when so much signal was available. This represents a complete failure of public education and broadcast media. At best, the failure is one of incompetence. At worst, it's intentional like the tobacco industry. Either way, the barriers must come down.
People who want to own ideas and publications are evil. Most research is publically supported and the public deserves the knowledge.
This new therapy won't provide too many benefits as far as the nastyness of treatment b/c it works just like chemo (in the case of metastases.) However, in the case of solid tumors ie GBM schwannomas, etc. perhaps it could be useful.
You can apply EM fields to small volumes and does not have to be a whole body treatment. Getting a uniform field through a person would be difficult.
If Rife's stuff worked, it's a pity there was no follow up. When there's an observable effect, it's the effect that's important not the explanation. It does not matter if the observer's reasoning is wrong, if the effect is consistent and repeatable it can be used. Following the links, we see that portions of his claims have been observed with better tools now available.
If the answer is not very deep then you couldn't treat stuff like cervical cancer or colon cancer, because you can't stick electrodes (comfortably?) onto those body parts.
It's not comfortable, but it's nicer than dying. It's called brachytherapy.
Apparently The Chronicle misquoted him.
Garbage in, garbage out. Nothing new there. Nothing connected to M$ is reliable.
You quote NDP numbers that show M$ is "on track" to break a million, but the article summary has...
According to Robbie Bach, Microsoft's president of the Entertainment and Devices Division, Zune has already met the goal of 1.000.000 players sold,
So Mr. Bach is puffing up a number and then claims this is 10% of "the category," which is also misleading. Apple has sold over 100,000,000 iPods and are currently selling something goofey like 10,000,000 a quarter. When you consider that there are many other "hard disk" players that are just as good or better than Zune, there it's unlikely M$ has anything like 10% of any market but the one for Brown Zunes.
You seem very passionate in your feelings about Microsoft. I think there's room on Slashdot for disinterested debate using facts, rather than strictly conjecture. I hope you agree.
I hope you can agree that the numbers you dug up contradict Mr. Bach, that his conjectures are contradicted by facts history and that his company is evil.
I can safely say that Zune will go the way of the Dell Jukebox. It's got second rate construction, third rate battery life, and worst of class digital restrictions. The Dell Jukebox had more to offer in terms of construction and battery life and was less restricted. M$ will start giving them away as promotional items, but neither they nor the WMF rent-a-music deal will ever catch on.
In the mean time, M$ will do everything in their power to hobble the competition. Yes, monopoly abuse makes me angry. It limits all of our choices and makes the world a poorer place than it has to be.
The expected next step is to call me a Microsoft fanboy.
If holding opinions that contradict facts you quote for the benefit of an evil company you have little to do with makes you a fanboy, then you are a fanboy.
They've moved close to a million units.
Where to? Putting them on store shelves is nothing more than supply chain squeezing. Sooner or later, they are going to end up in a landfill like thousands of Lisas did. You should be able to put them in a much smaller space than the Lisa, so M$ will have beaten Apple in one small way.
Apple has sold 100 million iPods. In your mind, what's Microsoft's rationale for lying about having sold 1/100th of that?
I'd like to just say it's because they are stupid, but they are trying to tell a believable lie. For every 100 iPods you see, you might see a single Zune if people were really walking around with them. M$ has a long history of channel stuffing and hyping those numbers as, "we've already won." In this case, the lie is "it's not a failure and our victory is inevitable." M$ has told so many lies for so long that nothing they say can be taken seriously. When a M$ spokesman says that they have "sold a million" there is no telling what they really mean but it's doubtful that 1 million people have and use a Zune. That one million Zune sales is pathetic anyway does not mean they are telling the truth.
10% of the market = 10% of the units sold in period (7 months from start of December to end of June). We're talking the hard-disk-based players here, BTW, as per the interview. ... Suddenly, a 10% market share for the Zune selling about 1 million in the same period isn't unrealistic.
Hard drive based players in red cases with the letters E,N,U and Z in the name? Excellent. Some girl in the back makes up all the numbers anyway. How many fingers do you see, Winston?
People in the industry like to break up the market into "hard drive" and "flash" segments.
And then the people at M$ like to just make up a number that sounds big and an excuse for it that sounds good but is wrong. It's called lying.
#14 was about KBR, a contractor, not the KGB.
How clumsy of me. I'm not sure the people that are put into those detention centers will know the difference either but it's nice of you to notice. I commend your astute reading.
Iran was was given parts for a nuclear reactor, not a bomb.
That's great news, all I ever hear about is bombs. If they were building a bomb, we'd have to steal their oil.
Exaggeration may help get people's attention, but not in a positive way.
Yeah, that whole Iraq is an immediate threat to the safety of the US kind of backfired. It's at times like this that I just wish broadcast media would cover important issues in an honest way. That's what we are talking about isn't it?
Last I heard, censorship is when The Man(tm) takes forcible action to squash a story that's damaging, incriminating, or otherwise detrimental to The Powers That Be(tm). You know, like North Korea killing stories of mass starvation ...
Well, the man has a lot to do with broadcast media which is where the alledged censorship occurred. As broadcast still dominates the public perception, you should be very worried that broadcast is dominated by a very small number of companies that can easily be bullied/bribed by their federal masters. At that rate, there is no distinction between public and private censorship. One of the stories on the list is growing hunger in the US. Could it be that someone has kept you from learning of actual starvation?
Censorship is insidious, you never know what you are missing.
Palestine did not make the list. The enslavement of people there is not well reported considering the large proportion of foreign aid Israel receives and the impact on the US image and US relations with other states. The continued lack of resolution for the longstanding "Palestinian Refuge Problem" is a big deal.
They also failed to mention conditions in China and how free country trade has worsened conditions in free countries without improving them in non free.
This list would be more accurately described as 'Top 25 Things Liberals Want to Whine About This Year'.
Haliburton helping Iran to build a bomb is a "Liberal" issue?
A free and uncensored news media is a "Liberal Whine" issue?
Properly accounting for eight billion dollars worth of "Homeland Security" spending is a big spending "Liberal" issue?
Commrad, I think you would prefer the old USSR or China, where there is not government corruption because those who notice are put in jail. Oh dear, number 14 is about the former KGB is building detention centers in the US. Looks like you and your "conservative" buddies are doing a good job. Keep it up and there will only be one company and one party here in the US. When that happens, you will have to change the names you call people. May I suggest "reactionary whiners" ?
The concerns mentioned by Vexorian are everyone's problems. They matter and people do care. The kind of person that does not care is not reading or watching the news anyway, so the news might as well carry something more important that Paris Hilton and Britny Spears gossip. People who care about that can get what they want at the supermarket check out. Public broadcasters and other users of public servitude are supposed to serve the public interest. Newspapers swear they do the same. Yet all of these channels are filled with bullshit made by people who would like to do to the internet what they did to it in China. If they get away with it, you won't know the difference again.
Great, but did they get the FSM right? If not, they must be cast into the great pot.
You suggestion is really an insult that makes no sense:
What the parent wants is uniformity and proper user interface design. ...you could have some 50 different linux VOIP phones and it wouldn't help if every single one of them have horrible UIs, right? Same thing applies to computers.
So really, what you are saying is that KDE, Gnome and friends all suck. That's fine, go find something you like. What you claim you want is:
A singular target for support.
This is a foolish and impossible goal. Even if you chose some non free "singular" platform, you have chosen from one of many systems. As long as you have your freedom, you and your users will have to make choices. In the free world, the best methods migrate between interfaces so nothing is really lost and in the end you can find something just right for you. Without your freedom you won't be able to make any choices and everything will suck anyway because those making the choices for you are guided by their best interests not yours.
Freedom, not a lack of it is the answer to the problems you think you see.
If you don't believe me, feel free to respond to this post and tell me what the best development environment / language to write Linux desktop apps in is. Okay, now what's the best distribution? While we're at it, what's the best text editor? With that as a context, now tell me about UI guidelines and keychain standards.
I don't believe you because every useful program has been made to work with every distribution without a lot of effort. Gnome, KDE, X, etc all works together in a way non free junk never will. It's about freedom, not marketshare or "standards". When you define real standards for interoperability, the rest takes care of itself.
Others have pointed to dlink and packet8 phones. Because free software has swept up the embedded market, they both probably use some form of gnu/linux. If they don't now, they will later. All that's really needed for these devices to thrive is well regulated public networks. Without that, we will probably waste another decade while "broadband" and IM providers battle it out with incompatible crap.
They probably "baited" the jar with broken models they bought on ebay. You don't think anyone will trade a working music player for a Zune, do you? Garbage in, something a little better than nothing out. A few interns might take the bait, but I doubt than an M$ employee has the time or need to play games with music players.
Try:
In Soviet FBI, bad guy is YOU!
Who needs good intrusion prevention when you can arrest anyone AFTER they broke in?
Well, it might be nice if you want to ACTUALLY CATCH THEM! How are you supposed to do that when they overwrite your files?
Oh, I see, you don't care if the arrested is actually guilty. I'll be quit now. Forget I said anything. You guys are doing great, keep up the good work and help yourself to some real Wow software or something. Bye.
If they are blocking your attempts to reach other people's port 25, they should be commended. Your system may be immune, but hordes of "zombies" would be sending spam from your ISP's network.
This has already failed and failed miserably. There are hordes of zombies sending spam from my ISP's network. They all do as you recommend and use the ISP's SMTP server and this is why more than 80% of all spam comes from zombies. My upload is also capped by my cable modem at a pathetic 60 kB/s.
A better method would be to have the same modem disconnect people who's computers have obviously been turned into spambots. Giving people the freedom to run their own mail servers distributes the spam burden and the ability to fight the spammers. Concentrating that burden at the ISP level is a failure.
Either way, the spammers know the limits and keeping me from running a mail server of my own does nothing beyond those limits. Because the reasons given are so transparently false, we are left only with government surveillance reasons.