[sigh] wankers like you are far more rabid than the average mac user.
And nobody has anything against the average apple user. Perfectly rational reasonable people for the most part I would assume. Just like the average Windows user, or the average Linux user, or the average blackberry user, or the average ebook user. They can accept that not everyone wants the same thing from their consumer elexctronics, and are happy to agree that I want to do something that they don't, so Apple products may not suit my needs..
The embarrassing ones are the ones that take any non devotional statement about Apple as a personal affront. And don't tell me they don't exist.
How about instead of innovating pointless pointing devices that normal humans can't understand they throw out the fucking trackpads and nipples and just include a small trackBALL instead.
I've used them on rack-mount keyboards and think they're much much much easier to use, and more accurate than the above.
You're missing the point -- they aren't thinking in terms of "half of something is better than nothing" -- they're thinking in terms of stream rippers. They WANT internet radio to die.
Right aim, wrong motive... Streamed internet radio is ok on a pair of PC speakers... but hardly full quality like a good CD rip. Especially once it is put into a new format, and compressed even further. What is much more dangerous to the big labels is...UNSIGNED OR INDEPENDENT ARTISTS!
Internet radio can play anything and everything. No predefined time slots, no specific genres, and each listener can have something different. And if it is tagged and suggestion based like Pandora or LastFM, then it can suggest artists that don't make the labels any profit. This not only gets in the way of saturating the airwaves/tubes with the latest boy or girl band or whatever current one hit wonder is being milked, but unsigned artists are almost as bad as pirates. They take away money that belongs to the recording companies by selling music they don't get a cut of, and they have yet to think up a law that stops this happening.
If enough people start listening to internet radio stations, then the label is not needed. distribution is not a problem any more. the internet has wrecked that justification. Manufacturing CDs or vinyl, again not really essential. The one thing they have to justify their existence is promotion, and internet radio attacks that reason.
Four years from now will gaming still be on a PC platform, with the success of the Xbox 360 and other current generation consoles?
Because the Xbox 360 and the PS3 are the first ever consoles yes?
The same thing was asked when the paint was still wet on the PS2 and original xbox. Consoles are much more powerful now than the last generation, and not as powerful as the next generation, but console games are not PC games. The two are different, and appeal to different people.
What is a "shadow home secretary" ? Just the title sounds scary and bigbrothery.
The opposite number of the actual one in the party that is not in power. Kind of mundane actually. There is a "shadow" every main position in government held by someone on the other party who basically says "you don't want to do it like that"
Seems to me that if you're a reviewer, your reputation for independence is more important than early access to films. Who cares if you review a movie early, if that review is nothing but a mouthpiece for Lucasfilm marketing?
Every reviewer with integrity should publish what they want, when they want. If the entire industry bars them from reviewing films until they're open, then people will learn not to see films on opening day. I don't think the industry wants that.
In theory, you are correct. The integrity of the reviewer is their main selling point, so they must protect it at all cost, because people are reading this reviewer's column for their judgement, not to get advertised to by some media company dickhead who wouldn't know a good movie from a hole in the ground. Content is what keeps people coming back for more right? And the advertising is only there to keep money coming in for production costs..
The reality however, is that the advertisers have the power, not the reviewer. Especially when it comes to huge multinational corporations and media empires. Fox could effectively create, produce and advertise something in house, and few would notice that no external coverage was around. So the days of a critic with any integrity are long gone. The fact that a bad review can be pulled like this and others proves it beyond any real doubt.
Bloggers and forums still have some integrity left, but even they are being polluted by astroturfers and sponsored blogs.
Jerry Falwell certainly didn't want his image used by Hustler Magazine, but he didn't have the power to stop them.
- David Stein
And unless his image was a registered trademark, that would be one reason why. Although the reason given was that it was parody rather than slander, and was not seen as being intended to be seen as anything else. He did get compensated for emotional trauma or something, which was fair enough.
A trademark must be enforced to remain valid. Failure to do so counts against the assertion that the trade mark is unique to a company or organisation. Three interlocking circles for Disney, or five interlocking circles for the Olympic organisation.. no difference. Had the video not had this specific parody of the logo, then they would not have a valid complaint, and would have basically pulled a Streisand.
The smart thing for the film makers to do is to edit the footage, remove the Olympic logo, and resubmit. So long as they have permission from the owners of the copyright of any third party video footage, nobody can object. If they could put a subtitle with something like "Olympic logo removed for trademark violation reasons" then they could very possibly have a nice dig at the Olympic committee too.
If that's true, then I don't know why my local recycling centre is so uppity about taking stuff out of their electronics bin. By now, if anyone does that you get banned from the premises. My dumpster diving activities have been halted for now. I was planning to write a lettre to them to ask for an explanation, but I never came around doing it.
Standard issue CYA mentality. If you dumpster dive and injure yourself, you can theoretically at least, sue them. Any incident on their property is considered their responsibility, including such things as providing workers with correct protective clothing/training etc. You are not a worker, therefore you may very well explode in the presence of hazardous substances without correct training and regulation issue clothing.
In other words, legal departments would have a fit if they knew an unauthorised person picked up a cigarette packet without rubber gloves and regular aids tests.
Local government is a global pain in the backside. They work pretty much like a badly written sequential program with no way of altering the code.
10 Acquire regulation. 20 Assess the requirements for your department to follow the letter of the regulation. 30 Perform paperwork showing that you have complied with regulation. 40 Goto 10.
Indeed. So where would you put the Wacom on this laptop, assuming you still have to be able to sell a lot of them to make it worth making them in the first place?
(This is a serious question. Is there a solution?)
How about leaving the track pad out completely, and using the nipple for mouse duties, or combining the track pad with the digitizer surface?
Why? Don't you think it would be good for BSD and Apache and many other free software projects to benefit, rather than just those free software projects that are under GPL?
Why do you think it has to be released under only one license? The choice of the license is up to the owner of the code, so they can release on GPL, and BSD, and Apache, and Mozilla,and Microsoft draconian all at once. And why do you think anybody but Microsoft will benefit?
The thing is though, you seem to prefer things that force people to be "environmentally responsible". How about giving people choices instead of punitive measures for not being "environmentally responsible". The whole environmental movement would be much more acceptable to me if they would allow choice instead of coming up with new ways to drive up the price on everything they don't agree with.
Because wasteful practices are easier and more profitable.
To get someone to do something extra, there needs to be an incentive. Only a few will see their contribution to reducing waste as an incentive, so the rest need to be forced into it. Unless you can find a cheap and automatic way to create such an incentive. In which case, don't keep it to yourself.
Do we actually think it's funny any more? Do we actually think that others find it funny any more? Or do we just all know that everyone else has implicitly agreed that this topic is considered funny?
Yep.. Its funny. Kind of in the Monty Python quote funny, or the "In soviet Russia, * * you. This really seems to bother you.. why not sit down and have a quiet moment to compose yourself.. I'd have a chat and see what the root of the problem is but I've got to go recompile my kernel..
I doubt we will see kernel.org on the stock exchange but its good to see GNU/Linux is moving forward. Living in the UK I see GNU/Linux sees hurdles especially with ISP's because they require custom software to enable internet connections on first use.
Really? which ISPs need custom connection software(so I can avoid them). I don't have that much to do with very many ISPs, but the ones I have used and set up for friends were always user name and password, and nothing more. Even on ISP supplied routers. Setting up a manual email account can be a bit fiddly, but a fair few seem to be moving to webmail these days.
Compared to say Cnet's spin, which suggested that MS didn't spend very much on R&D compared to OSS companies.
Apparantly half its income - around $7B spent on R&D is "not much".
So how much did the whole open source platform spend on R&D as a group? Not just Red Hat or Novell, or any individual company, but combined, as they all pool the results of their research.
Look at it from their perspective though. All those companies are going open source, 'cause they can't successfully compete with Microsoft.
Or to put it another way, all these companies have realised that they can compete with Microsoft if they go open source. Pay per unit sale can be a disadvantage too.
Because the average Jow Sixpack doesn't know about those tools.
We better keep quiet about it then.. and not let these tools get out on the internet where anybody can get to them...Oops.
People are not as stupid as you seem to think. I've seen indifferent users express a desire to do something, and not stop trying until they figure it out. If someone has an incentive to do something, they will. Or they will find someone who can tell them how to do it.
It's the maps and more specifically the navigation data you would have trouble with, they won't give that away for free... You can read the GPS data quite easily, and plot it over map images downloaded from google. I guess if you have an active mobile data connection you could feed the src and destination into google maps and plot a route, but making it recognise turns and tell you when to make them would be quite hard.
It can be done. Works on the N800 with Maemo mapper and downloadable map information from a few open mapping sites including, but not exclusively Google. Route planning and turn directions are supported. And if within range of a wifi signal, it downloads more maps on request. Nothing to stop this working with a 3G dongle or similar. There are also a few mapping apps for Linux that use the same services to utilise generic GPS modules for laptops.
makes you wonder if they used a stock install of vista, or the upcoming vista sp1 etc. 'here, it's not a pile of crap' (with each driver being run having been fully audited by microsoft, and everything tested beforehand to make sure it works)
A good test would have been to have them install the os themselves, on a box that could be randomly chosen from a large selection each with different hardware, and to see how well they fare with getting it all going.
Nope.. It must be on carefully vetted systems that have been tuned to work as perfectly as possible with well behaved apps, and 100% supported hardware. This is not a scientifically designed test of the OS, it's a PR exercise to show "How wrong you were about Vista".
The same could be done with any OS.
People continually complain about Linux being hard to configure, or not supporting all their hardware, but if it is done on carefully selected equipment, it's a doddle. By the same token, any OS can be made to look horrible with bad hardware choices and using unstable software. Guess which one a manufacturer is going to use to show case their OS?
As far as Bill was concerned, MS Bob was a big success, as he got to marry the project manager, which might not have been an option if the project had been ignominiously canned as it deserved to be.
Ahh.. so Bob was the equivalent of a wife/girlfriend chosen hifi component..
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[sigh] wankers like you are far more rabid than the average mac user.
And nobody has anything against the average apple user. Perfectly rational reasonable people for the most part I would assume. Just like the average Windows user, or the average Linux user, or the average blackberry user, or the average ebook user. They can accept that not everyone wants the same thing from their consumer elexctronics, and are happy to agree that I want to do something that they don't, so Apple products may not suit my needs..
The embarrassing ones are the ones that take any non devotional statement about Apple as a personal affront. And don't tell me they don't exist.
How about instead of innovating pointless pointing devices that normal humans can't understand they throw out the fucking trackpads and nipples and just include a small trackBALL instead. I've used them on rack-mount keyboards and think they're much much much easier to use, and more accurate than the above.
More accurate than a graphics tablet and stylus?
You're missing the point -- they aren't thinking in terms of "half of something is better than nothing" -- they're thinking in terms of stream rippers. They WANT internet radio to die.
Right aim, wrong motive... Streamed internet radio is ok on a pair of PC speakers... but hardly full quality like a good CD rip. Especially once it is put into a new format, and compressed even further. What is much more dangerous to the big labels is...UNSIGNED OR INDEPENDENT ARTISTS!
Internet radio can play anything and everything. No predefined time slots, no specific genres, and each listener can have something different. And if it is tagged and suggestion based like Pandora or LastFM, then it can suggest artists that don't make the labels any profit. This not only gets in the way of saturating the airwaves/tubes with the latest boy or girl band or whatever current one hit wonder is being milked, but unsigned artists are almost as bad as pirates. They take away money that belongs to the recording companies by selling music they don't get a cut of, and they have yet to think up a law that stops this happening.
If enough people start listening to internet radio stations, then the label is not needed. distribution is not a problem any more. the internet has wrecked that justification. Manufacturing CDs or vinyl, again not really essential. The one thing they have to justify their existence is promotion, and internet radio attacks that reason.
Four years from now will gaming still be on a PC platform, with the success of the Xbox 360 and other current generation consoles?
Because the Xbox 360 and the PS3 are the first ever consoles yes?
The same thing was asked when the paint was still wet on the PS2 and original xbox. Consoles are much more powerful now than the last generation, and not as powerful as the next generation, but console games are not PC games. The two are different, and appeal to different people.
What is a "shadow home secretary" ? Just the title sounds scary and bigbrothery.
The opposite number of the actual one in the party that is not in power. Kind of mundane actually. There is a "shadow" every main position in government held by someone on the other party who basically says "you don't want to do it like that"
Seems to me that if you're a reviewer, your reputation for independence is more important than early access to films. Who cares if you review a movie early, if that review is nothing but a mouthpiece for Lucasfilm marketing?
Every reviewer with integrity should publish what they want, when they want. If the entire industry bars them from reviewing films until they're open, then people will learn not to see films on opening day. I don't think the industry wants that.
In theory, you are correct. The integrity of the reviewer is their main selling point, so they must protect it at all cost, because people are reading this reviewer's column for their judgement, not to get advertised to by some media company dickhead who wouldn't know a good movie from a hole in the ground. Content is what keeps people coming back for more right? And the advertising is only there to keep money coming in for production costs..
The reality however, is that the advertisers have the power, not the reviewer. Especially when it comes to huge multinational corporations and media empires. Fox could effectively create, produce and advertise something in house, and few would notice that no external coverage was around. So the days of a critic with any integrity are long gone. The fact that a bad review can be pulled like this and others proves it beyond any real doubt.
Bloggers and forums still have some integrity left, but even they are being polluted by astroturfers and sponsored blogs.
I thought it would use the flux capacitor to fix itself the nanosecond it sense an error, without the user ever knowing
Only if they reverse the polarity at the right moment.
Jerry Falwell certainly didn't want his image used by Hustler Magazine, but he didn't have the power to stop them. - David Stein
And unless his image was a registered trademark, that would be one reason why. Although the reason given was that it was parody rather than slander, and was not seen as being intended to be seen as anything else. He did get compensated for emotional trauma or something, which was fair enough. A trademark must be enforced to remain valid. Failure to do so counts against the assertion that the trade mark is unique to a company or organisation. Three interlocking circles for Disney, or five interlocking circles for the Olympic organisation.. no difference. Had the video not had this specific parody of the logo, then they would not have a valid complaint, and would have basically pulled a Streisand. The smart thing for the film makers to do is to edit the footage, remove the Olympic logo, and resubmit. So long as they have permission from the owners of the copyright of any third party video footage, nobody can object. If they could put a subtitle with something like "Olympic logo removed for trademark violation reasons" then they could very possibly have a nice dig at the Olympic committee too.
If that's true, then I don't know why my local recycling centre is so uppity about taking stuff out of their electronics bin. By now, if anyone does that you get banned from the premises. My dumpster diving activities have been halted for now. I was planning to write a lettre to them to ask for an explanation, but I never came around doing it.
Standard issue CYA mentality. If you dumpster dive and injure yourself, you can theoretically at least, sue them. Any incident on their property is considered their responsibility, including such things as providing workers with correct protective clothing/training etc. You are not a worker, therefore you may very well explode in the presence of hazardous substances without correct training and regulation issue clothing.
In other words, legal departments would have a fit if they knew an unauthorised person picked up a cigarette packet without rubber gloves and regular aids tests.
Local government is a global pain in the backside. They work pretty much like a badly written sequential program with no way of altering the code.
10 Acquire regulation.
20 Assess the requirements for your department to follow the letter of the regulation.
30 Perform paperwork showing that you have complied with regulation.
40 Goto 10.
Indeed. So where would you put the Wacom on this laptop, assuming you still have to be able to sell a lot of them to make it worth making them in the first place? (This is a serious question. Is there a solution?)
How about leaving the track pad out completely, and using the nipple for mouse duties, or combining the track pad with the digitizer surface?
... and their critics are all fair and rational! *cough* *cough* cough*
About as much as their users are objective and reasonable. Nasty cough you have there..
Why? Don't you think it would be good for BSD and Apache and many other free software projects to benefit, rather than just those free software projects that are under GPL?
Why do you think it has to be released under only one license? The choice of the license is up to the owner of the code, so they can release on GPL, and BSD, and Apache, and Mozilla,and Microsoft draconian all at once. And why do you think anybody but Microsoft will benefit?
You assume they are working on a way to interact better with open source.. Not so. They are trying to find a cure....
The thing is though, you seem to prefer things that force people to be "environmentally responsible". How about giving people choices instead of punitive measures for not being "environmentally responsible". The whole environmental movement would be much more acceptable to me if they would allow choice instead of coming up with new ways to drive up the price on everything they don't agree with.
Because wasteful practices are easier and more profitable. To get someone to do something extra, there needs to be an incentive. Only a few will see their contribution to reducing waste as an incentive, so the rest need to be forced into it. Unless you can find a cheap and automatic way to create such an incentive. In which case, don't keep it to yourself.
What have his beliefs on religion got to do with anything?
Not a follower of Saint Steve, Brother Ballmer or the holy penguin I would assume.
Virgin Media for one
Another reason to avoid then.
Do we actually think it's funny any more? Do we actually think that others find it funny any more? Or do we just all know that everyone else has implicitly agreed that this topic is considered funny?
Yep.. Its funny. Kind of in the Monty Python quote funny, or the "In soviet Russia, * * you. This really seems to bother you.. why not sit down and have a quiet moment to compose yourself.. I'd have a chat and see what the root of the problem is but I've got to go recompile my kernel..
Can someone get AC a chair...
Not you Steve..
I doubt we will see kernel.org on the stock exchange but its good to see GNU/Linux is moving forward. Living in the UK I see GNU/Linux sees hurdles especially with ISP's because they require custom software to enable internet connections on first use.
Really? which ISPs need custom connection software(so I can avoid them). I don't have that much to do with very many ISPs, but the ones I have used and set up for friends were always user name and password, and nothing more. Even on ISP supplied routers. Setting up a manual email account can be a bit fiddly, but a fair few seem to be moving to webmail these days.
Compared to say Cnet's spin, which suggested that MS didn't spend very much on R&D compared to OSS companies.
Apparantly half its income - around $7B spent on R&D is "not much".
So how much did the whole open source platform spend on R&D as a group? Not just Red Hat or Novell, or any individual company, but combined, as they all pool the results of their research.
It's only spin if it isn't true..
Look at it from their perspective though. All those companies are going open source, 'cause they can't successfully compete with Microsoft.
Or to put it another way, all these companies have realised that they can compete with Microsoft if they go open source. Pay per unit sale can be a disadvantage too.
When you can't even count on the user/operator to have an 8th grade education, a dozen pictures is worth far more than 12,000 words.
Only if the pictures lead to more pictures. Which is kind of pointless if you are trying to write a letter.
Because the average Jow Sixpack doesn't know about those tools.
We better keep quiet about it then.. and not let these tools get out on the internet where anybody can get to them...Oops. People are not as stupid as you seem to think. I've seen indifferent users express a desire to do something, and not stop trying until they figure it out. If someone has an incentive to do something, they will. Or they will find someone who can tell them how to do it.
It's the maps and more specifically the navigation data you would have trouble with, they won't give that away for free...
You can read the GPS data quite easily, and plot it over map images downloaded from google. I guess if you have an active mobile data connection you could feed the src and destination into google maps and plot a route, but making it recognise turns and tell you when to make them would be quite hard.
It can be done. Works on the N800 with Maemo mapper and downloadable map information from a few open mapping sites including, but not exclusively Google. Route planning and turn directions are supported. And if within range of a wifi signal, it downloads more maps on request. Nothing to stop this working with a 3G dongle or similar. There are also a few mapping apps for Linux that use the same services to utilise generic GPS modules for laptops.
makes you wonder if they used a stock install of vista, or the upcoming vista sp1 etc. 'here, it's not a pile of crap'
(with each driver being run having been fully audited by microsoft, and everything tested beforehand to make sure it works)
A good test would have been to have them install the os themselves, on a box that could be randomly chosen from a large selection each with different hardware, and to see how well they fare with getting it all going.
Nope.. It must be on carefully vetted systems that have been tuned to work as perfectly as possible with well behaved apps, and 100% supported hardware. This is not a scientifically designed test of the OS, it's a PR exercise to show "How wrong you were about Vista".
The same could be done with any OS.
People continually complain about Linux being hard to configure, or not supporting all their hardware, but if it is done on carefully selected equipment, it's a doddle. By the same token, any OS can be made to look horrible with bad hardware choices and using unstable software. Guess which one a manufacturer is going to use to show case their OS?
As far as Bill was concerned, MS Bob was a big success, as he got to marry the project manager, which might not have been an option if the project had been ignominiously canned as it deserved to be.
Ahh.. so Bob was the equivalent of a wife/girlfriend chosen hifi component..