Ask David Koresh and his religious sect about freedom of spe-- oh, wait. You killed 'em.
Bzzzzzt! Wrong, but thank you for playing.
That loon burned down his house and everyone inside it. While I'm glad he's gone, its regretful he had to take a lot of other people with him. I guess thats the true price of meglomania.
Many DVD players don't support CD-Rs. A quick check of the CD-R FAQ regarding DVDs says:
CD-R was designed to be read by an infrared 780nm laser. DVD uses a visible red 635nm or 650nm laser, which aren't reflected sufficiently by the organic dye polymers used in CD-R media. Some DVD players come with two lasers so that they can read CD-R.
So its not at all a conspiracy by Sony to protect its music industry. Especially considering the fact that Sony makes several MP3 players.
The website of the SF Gate have this article on how rolling blackouts were avoided for San Francisco. Apparently they got a lot of power from the hydroelectric-rich Pacific Northwest.
As a personal note, I'm glad to hear this. I have to leave work at midnight. My building is on 17th and Mission. I'm sure anyone familiar with SF can understand why I'm not eager to walk thru this neighborhood in the dark.
Okay, lay off saying how evil it is that this company's product only works with MS Windows. Working technical support, I know how hard it can be to fix problems on MS platforms. I can't imagine what a nightmare it would be to have to do it for Linux as well.
Besides, anyone wise enough to use Linux will be wise enough to avoid using a satellite modem anyways. So really, its all kind of academic.:)
I have to say I'm very impressed by Macromedia's response to this. Peter Santangeli sounds very sincere when he says his company is going to find a way to prevent such long delays in fixing a bug.
I think that some companies spend more energy on trying to put a positive spin on glitches in their software than correcting the actual problem. To hear this kind of honesty from such a large company is very refreshing.
What the hell? I mean, I spent the past year living in my room with my only contact thru the rest of the world thru my internet connectin. All my friends are in chatrooms, I get my books and music thru Amazon, and God bless Kozmo for its food delivery.
Yet no one wants to give me a website or anything. Heh.
I think the effects of technology definately don't have as much of an impact on our lives today as they once did. Primarily because the biggest technological changes from 100 years ago were things like clean water, electric power, telephones and the like.
Things that have changed have been refinements of those, mostly for the sake of entertainment. No matter how glorious the Internet becomes, it won't impact my life as much as not having to to bring in water from a river.
One finds parallels in medicine as well. Things have slowed down since the discovery basic sanitation, anesthesia and understanding of human anatomy. While medical knowledge continues to expand, it won't have the broad, far-reaching implications for everyone that thoroughly cleaning surgical equipment did.
I've only recently started to read the from the... dept part of the postings. Is it just me or does this seem to be the consistantly best part of Slashdot?
I just installed Mandrake on a Dell laptop the other day. The installation was soooooo easy. I'm really impressed with what Mandrake has done with Linux. Ease-of-use is a feature often overlooked in the entire Linux vs MS debate.
If Linux is going to compete against MS on the desktop market, it needs to be easier to use. I don't want to have to hunt around and recompile the kernel just to get sound (this is my biggest complaint with Linux distros right now.) I don't want to poke around with mysterious.conf files just to get a periphial working.
It seems that Mandrake has come a long way towards making Linux much more user friendly. While Linux distros still have a long ways to go, its good to see that they're on the right track!!
I'm going to enjoy knowing that both of these free ISPs will use their last few dollars to squabble over a patent issue. In the meantime, both of them will go out of business (since their stock is now trading at less than a dollar a share, this end isn't too far away.)
God forbid that either of them use their money to improve their product or anything. Sheesh.
I'm sure Jon Katz is feverishly pounding away at his keyboard as we speak. The more I think about it, the more I'm convinced Jon Katz is nothing more than a poorly written perl script....
However, Robertson said such holes should have been patched.
"It really doesn't matter what Web server you are running... if you are not keeping up with patches, you're insecure."
I couldn't have said it better myself.
No, Damnit, This Is A Good Thing!
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You shortsighted simps! This is a great thing! If Napster bans all offensive music, I might be able to search for songs without having to get returns from Offspring, NSYNC, Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys and Kid Rock!
Say for example that Napster decides to do this for whatever reason. I'm wondering exactly how they would do this. If they just blocked out every song with the artist Skrewdriver in it, then people would just change it to 5krewdriver, or something like that.
I can't see any practical solution for this, and if the German gov't and its courts require Napster to find a way to cease the exchange of hate music, I think its just going to wind up that German users can't use Napster.
To me, in today's world where "instant communications" makes timezones a major PITA, it seems like we should all function on a 24 hour clock, where it's 00:00 at the exact sime time, everywhere in the world.
Ugh what a horrible idea about the timezones!
I would hate to watch the sunrise at 10pm. Or conversely have it set at 10am. But hey, thats just me.
I found this press release by CreditCards.com from earlier this year. To summarize, "CreditCards.com is pleased to partner with CueCat to provide security to our database. We have been deeply impressed with CueCat's unbreakable Base64 encoding scheme. Rest assured that your financial information is now secure."
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Bzzzzzt! Wrong, but thank you for playing.
That loon burned down his house and everyone inside it. While I'm glad he's gone, its regretful he had to take a lot of other people with him. I guess thats the true price of meglomania.
So its not at all a conspiracy by Sony to protect its music industry. Especially considering the fact that Sony makes several MP3 players.
As a personal note, I'm glad to hear this. I have to leave work at midnight. My building is on 17th and Mission. I'm sure anyone familiar with SF can understand why I'm not eager to walk thru this neighborhood in the dark.
I will now wait to see who figures this out. :)
Besides, anyone wise enough to use Linux will be wise enough to avoid using a satellite modem anyways. So really, its all kind of academic. :)
I think that some companies spend more energy on trying to put a positive spin on glitches in their software than correcting the actual problem. To hear this kind of honesty from such a large company is very refreshing.
I would like to ask the moderators to please mod this up. This is the first time I've seen a serious first post. We need to set examples! :)
I'm just kind of wondering why Macromedia seemed to blow this off. Specifically does anyone have any word from Macromedia on this?
Easy. America would give it to them. Anything to keep those engineers from working for Iran or North Korea.
Of course, this is all academic. This project will never get started. Its just not economically viable.
Yet no one wants to give me a website or anything. Heh.
"Hello meteor!"
"Hello meteor! I learned that most meteors burn up in Earth's atmosphere"
"Aaaaaah! The atmosphere!"
"Ahhhhhh!"
"Ahhhh! The atmosphere!"
After a horrific accident at this lab in New Mexico, Freeman Gordon had to fight his way out against aliens from another dimension.
Things that have changed have been refinements of those, mostly for the sake of entertainment. No matter how glorious the Internet becomes, it won't impact my life as much as not having to to bring in water from a river.
One finds parallels in medicine as well. Things have slowed down since the discovery basic sanitation, anesthesia and understanding of human anatomy. While medical knowledge continues to expand, it won't have the broad, far-reaching implications for everyone that thoroughly cleaning surgical equipment did.
from the no-dirty-pix-of-amy-shaftoe dept
I've only recently started to read the from the ... dept part of the postings. Is it just me or does this seem to be the consistantly best part of Slashdot?
If Linux is going to compete against MS on the desktop market, it needs to be easier to use. I don't want to have to hunt around and recompile the kernel just to get sound (this is my biggest complaint with Linux distros right now.) I don't want to poke around with mysterious .conf files just to get a periphial working.
It seems that Mandrake has come a long way towards making Linux much more user friendly. While Linux distros still have a long ways to go, its good to see that they're on the right track!!
An interesting article, but a little light on the details. There is a really good piece on how space elevators work here.
God forbid that either of them use their money to improve their product or anything. Sheesh.
I'm sure Jon Katz is feverishly pounding away at his keyboard as we speak. The more I think about it, the more I'm convinced Jon Katz is nothing more than a poorly written perl script....
#macworld?
"It really doesn't matter what Web server you are running ... if you are not keeping up with patches, you're insecure."
I couldn't have said it better myself.
Sweet Jesus, bring it on!
I can't see any practical solution for this, and if the German gov't and its courts require Napster to find a way to cease the exchange of hate music, I think its just going to wind up that German users can't use Napster.
Anyone else have a thought on this?
Ugh what a horrible idea about the timezones!
I would hate to watch the sunrise at 10pm. Or conversely have it set at 10am. But hey, thats just me.
If you were really any of these things, you wouldn't have to tell us. We'd figure it out on our own. Thus we can conclude you're none of the above!
I found this press release by CreditCards.com from earlier this year. To summarize, "CreditCards.com is pleased to partner with CueCat to provide security to our database. We have been deeply impressed with CueCat's unbreakable Base64 encoding scheme. Rest assured that your financial information is now secure."