I don't think so. How do they benefit by coming out with a pda that does not support the two major pda os's out there (PalmOS, WinCE)?
PDA's do not synch to each other. Period. I know that IR port on your Palm is ever so useful, neh? What does PDA OS compatibility mean? To the PDA user, not much. As long as the requisite apps exist, and the price is right, and the PDA can synch to the REAL computer (ie, desktop/laptop running Win/MacOS/Linux), in many people's eyes it is a serious PDA. Add in a standard memory card (Flash/Smart/SD), and ability to export/save as some standard file format, and you have a PDA that's as good as any PocketPC/Palm out there.
Ok, assume that some large organization (preferrably an acroymn ending with AA) who's members have discovered the use of these "subsonics" to induce "happiness" and other emotions.
1) These emotion influencing subsonics can increase sales of songs in which they are embedded.
2) Control of emotions can be useful at large events or for other large organizations (government).
3) MP3's probably strip out the subsonics (depending on the bitrate, of course)... so they attenuate the usefulness of these subsonic-embedded songs. Thus removing the control element.
Is this why the music industry is also anti-MP3, even though they could embrace the future of music?
Is this why the government is loathe to control the "music cartel"? Because ultimately, the cartel is more useful than the alternative?
Let me see if I understood your argument: filtering software isn't perfect so the best thing is to take no action to protect kids.
Well, let me put it in a way even you can understand: Filtering causes more problems than it fixes. In fact, it fixes very little, and causes lots of problems. Read the links I attached.
Assuming that working censorware could be put in place (this, of course, is a whole other discussion) as an adult would you not be prepared to waive your rights to view porn etc. over a public computer in order to shield children from it ?
Don't get me wrong, I would love to give up *porn/indecent* material on public resources... but the reality is that a) there is a "moving line in the sand" of what people consider porn, and b) censorware repeatedly oversteps its bounds and blocks non-porn sites that have protected speech.
Ultimately, I'd be happy with a censorware solution that was a) open sourced b) open-access (you can see the sites that are blocked as well as the reasons they were blocked, and could contest censoring openly). Sadly, I doubt that this will ever happpen.
Wow, quite a rant. It sounds good, it really does. Here's the little issue you somehow missed:
Bush supports thieves and is trying to build an kleptocracy
Do you understand that? Do you think that if Bush had energy policy for sale they would keep them from companies like Enron? If companies like Enron had access do you think they would hesitate to use it? They did buy some from VP Dick Cheney. Remember that?
Bush has shown a remarkable lack of restraint as to what laws and inquiries he will evade, as have the thieves. Remember a little incedent about a year and a half ago? Around October 16th?
THAT'S why he's doing this, genius. I would think it would be obvious.
If you disagree with my "facts", maybe you should check your yours first. Proof, Mr. Rutledjw?
Until Cheney hands over his papers on his involvement with Enron, I don't think he should have any right to ask the same from Saddam.
Kent Brockman: "Ladies and Gentlemen, we have just lost the picture. But what we've seen speaks for itself. The Corvair spacecraft has apparently been taken over, conquered if you will, by a master race of giant space ants. It's difficult to tell from this vantage point whether they will consume the captive earth men or merely enslave them. One thing is for certain, there is no stopping them the ants will soon be here. And I for one welcome our new insect overlords. Would like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality I could be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar cave"
Ants: Ant 1: Protect the queen!
Ant 2: Which one's the queen?
Ant 3: I'm the queen!
Ant 1: No you're not!
Homer: Nooo! [his head smashed the colony, and the ants float free]
Ant 1: Freedom! Horrible, horrible freedom!
When the day arrives that Artificial Intelligence is good enough to allow anyone to get what they want and need out of their computer without taking one class or reading one tiny word in their manual will you still be angry at these people? When AI lowers the status of the average geek to that of a cockroach what will your snobbery have gained you?
Okay, mr. uber-luddite, keep watching The Matrix, AI, etc. and wait... and wait... and be prepared to wait your entire life. Because AI as you imagine it aint happening anytime soon.
Yes, I know. I've programmed backprop neural nets, genetic algorithms, you name it. The reality is that until there are *several* quantum leaps in computing, we will not see the cusp of artifical awareness, let alone consciousness.
My point? Technology is becoming more and more prevalent in modern life, and there's no way the toaster, HDTV, wifi chip, etc. of tomorrow, or even year after tomorrow will have the abilty to fix itself or understand the users needs. There need to be go-betweens to both create and understand both the machine and the human.
And we geeks will be there, so long as society needs the technology.
Next Gen was California in the 1990s - the Captain took his therapist with him on board and no-one made a decision without getting a consensus from everyone that their feelings wouldn't be hurt. And Voyager - Janeway wasn't a captain, she was a self-loathing Democrat senator, never hesitating to put every other species' interests ahead of her crew's. Californians don't realize it, but they're held in contempt throughout the rest of the world - when some actress announces she's converted to Buddhism or taken to a macrobiotic diet or started wearing crystals, the rest of the world just rolls its eyes.
Replace 'the world' with 'America', and this works. The rest of the world actually doesn't give much of a fuck about California, as they think all of the US is the same way. However, in the US, I would agree that most Americans think Californians are presumptious weenies at best.
btw, im a Californian (how's the weather in your area):-)
Well, for the most part, I agreed with you. Until about 3 months ago. I got my new company laptop upgrade (to a P4M 1.8.. damn thing is like a lap heater).
I am finding that several things I thought would run on my desktop 500Mhz box are way too slow... like the 640x480 Matrix Superbowl trailer, and lots of internal apps, too.
As you mention, compiles are a bitch, too... but I do this is all under windows... with, in my opinion, poorly coded apps (Visual C++ is a dog).
So why do we need a new PC these days? Because of crufty code. Poorly optimized POS software. The faster your rig, the more cruft it can handle while you do a similar amount of work.
I think Gates' Correllary to Moore's Law is soo right on the money: "Every 18 months, the speed of software halves"
The justice system is currently terrified of bringing to justice anything large, but Java is now shipping with Windows. Kazaa *might* have enough legal wiggleroom to then license content and have the previous charges thrown out on the grounds that they weren't holding their copyrights properly.
Java is only shipping with Windows now, because Microsoft *broke* a liscencing agreement with Sun... and were a convicted Monopolist.
if we s/Sun/Kazaa/ and s/Microsoft/RIAA and MPAA/
then how is the situation at all similar?
Nope, I didn't think so either. Not that your hypothetical outcome isn't good... but your analogy doesn't make sense.
but as we have leared with AIM, SMB, and plenty of other proprietary protocols, or even proprietary implementations of open protocols (think M$)... what happens when the protocol provider changes the rules?
If it is possible to just slap a.avi file on the disc and have it (hopefully) (somehow) played on the standalone, and other manufacturers stard implementing this (and they will), everything will lead to a horrendous chaos of incompatibilites.
First, I'd like you to take a stab at the real standard that's being supported: MPEG4. Please note: This encompasses DivX (4.x+.. ie, all the legal versions), XviD,.mp4 files, and theoretically Quicktime 6. MPEG4 is bigger than DivX, and I'd say that this is not a fully compaitble DivX player anyway, since it doesn't play the hacked 3.11 version.
Yes, more crash resistant cars would be nice. Even if they used lots of steel. However, the auto industry would find probably that distasteful, as it would lower new car purchases. Don't expect a change until/unless there's legislation involved.
If not... well, I care more about my safety than I do about miles per gallon. I agree that most people don't need gas guzzlers such as SUV's, but the sacrifice of auto safety on the altar of the environment has been going on for way too long.
I honestly hope you weren't implying that SUV's are safer than other vehicles. There's plenty of articlesthat state otherwise.
without graphics card requirement is...
ADOM. Nice interface, with inventory, and esp. missle combat. Also has a nice, busy newsgroup of devoted followers @ rec.games.roguelike.adom
Here's the irony of the story, I didn't have any change either, so...[snip]
Hmmm don't you think payphone use has gone down because people can't be bothered to carry change? I sure as hell don't... and hell with pulling out my credit card and typing in 20+ more digits. In the convenience society in which we live, the payphone is altmodish.
Rather than build one from scratch why not simply buy an existing chip manufacturer and start from there?
Gee, why don't you put yourself in their place. They don't want something cheap; they want something that's completely free (as in "libre"). No IP issues, full control of the process, etc. A lot like why you might do "clean-room" implementations of various hardware... to avoid legal issues.
I think AC was trying to say that "true" results mean non-monetarily biased results. Of course, you can google-bomb your search phrase, and in fact there are many ways to artificially increase the pagerank. But pagerank != paidfor, which Inktomi definitely is. Google reserves the ads for the "paid advert" and "sponsored result" section, making it clearly seperate.
Short answer: There is no "true" result, but most people (including me) would take pagerank + obvious ads over paid inclusion.
As a "common carrier", the ISP is not responsiable...
Since this is the relevant part of your post, I thought I'd stop you right here. You are, unfortunately mistaken.
Take a look at why ISP's do not have common carrier status (in pdf). (for those of you who hate adobe, google-cached here in html).
An anti-MS rant, anti-America rant, a whine about unemployment.. All paraded around on whats supposed to be a respectable linux 'news' site.
Guess that Free Software is inherently political. If you don't like it, tell your boss that Slashdot != Linux... It's not even "respectable"... whatever the fuck you think that means.
Perhaps you should find a "respectable" Linux site, and stick with it.
But maybe what they're suggesting is that if you use your PC (with a tuner card) to record digital content, and then can access that through your DVD player.
Yeah, I think have overlooked something. Like if you have a PC-based PVR, you probably can output the signal directly to the TV anyway.
You can also download or trade shows over the internet with your PC.
Ok, like you can't do this already with a PC-PVR.
That'd be cool.
No, other than the wireless connetion, it's rather useless.
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Phoenix 0.5 and Mozilla 1.1 both seem to work fine for me (on Win2k). What version of 'Zilla/NS are you using?
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PDA's do not synch to each other. Period. I know that IR port on your Palm is ever so useful, neh? What does PDA OS compatibility mean? To the PDA user, not much. As long as the requisite apps exist, and the price is right, and the PDA can synch to the REAL computer (ie, desktop/laptop running Win/MacOS/Linux), in many people's eyes it is a serious PDA. Add in a standard memory card (Flash/Smart/SD), and ability to export/save as some standard file format, and you have a PDA that's as good as any PocketPC/Palm out there.
Ok, assume that some large organization (preferrably an acroymn ending with AA) who's members have discovered the use of these "subsonics" to induce "happiness" and other emotions.
1) These emotion influencing subsonics can increase sales of songs in which they are embedded.
2) Control of emotions can be useful at large events or for other large organizations (government).
3) MP3's probably strip out the subsonics (depending on the bitrate, of course)... so they attenuate the usefulness of these subsonic-embedded songs. Thus removing the control element.
Is this why the music industry is also anti-MP3, even though they could embrace the future of music?
Is this why the government is loathe to control the "music cartel"? Because ultimately, the cartel is more useful than the alternative?
Curiouser and curiouser...
Well, let me put it in a way even you can understand: Filtering causes more problems than it fixes. In fact, it fixes very little, and causes lots of problems. Read the links I attached.
This is a MAJOR assumption, and one that's shown to be wrong on many occasions.
Don't get me wrong, I would love to give up *porn/indecent* material on public resources... but the reality is that a) there is a "moving line in the sand" of what people consider porn, and b) censorware repeatedly oversteps its bounds and blocks non-porn sites that have protected speech.
Ultimately, I'd be happy with a censorware solution that was a) open sourced b) open-access (you can see the sites that are blocked as well as the reasons they were blocked, and could contest censoring openly).
Sadly, I doubt that this will ever happpen.
Bush supports thieves and is trying to build an kleptocracy
Do you understand that? Do you think that if Bush had energy policy for sale they would keep them from companies like Enron? If companies like Enron had access do you think they would hesitate to use it? They did buy some from VP Dick Cheney. Remember that?
Bush has shown a remarkable lack of restraint as to what laws and inquiries he will evade, as have the thieves. Remember a little incedent about a year and a half ago? Around October 16th?
THAT'S why he's doing this, genius. I would think it would be obvious.
If you disagree with my "facts", maybe you should check your yours first. Proof, Mr. Rutledjw?
Until Cheney hands over his papers on his involvement with Enron, I don't think he should have any right to ask the same from Saddam.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, we have just lost the picture. But what we've seen speaks for itself. The Corvair spacecraft has apparently been taken over, conquered if you will, by a master race of giant space ants. It's difficult to tell from this vantage point whether they will consume the captive earth men or merely enslave them. One thing is for certain, there is no stopping them the ants will soon be here. And I for one welcome our new insect overlords. Would like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality I could be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar cave"
Ants:
Ant 1: Protect the queen!
Ant 2: Which one's the queen?
Ant 3: I'm the queen!
Ant 1: No you're not!
Homer: Nooo! [his head smashed the colony, and the ants float free]
Ant 1: Freedom! Horrible, horrible freedom!
-Deep Space Homer
Okay, mr. uber-luddite, keep watching The Matrix, AI, etc. and wait... and wait... and be prepared to wait your entire life. Because AI as you imagine it aint happening anytime soon.
Yes, I know. I've programmed backprop neural nets, genetic algorithms, you name it. The reality is that until there are *several* quantum leaps in computing, we will not see the cusp of artifical awareness, let alone consciousness.
My point? Technology is becoming more and more prevalent in modern life, and there's no way the toaster, HDTV, wifi chip, etc. of tomorrow, or even year after tomorrow will have the abilty to fix itself or understand the users needs. There need to be go-betweens to both create and understand both the machine and the human.
And we geeks will be there, so long as society needs the technology.
Next Gen was California in the 1990s - the Captain took his therapist with him on board and no-one made a decision without getting a consensus from everyone that their feelings wouldn't be hurt. And Voyager - Janeway wasn't a captain, she was a self-loathing Democrat senator, never hesitating to put every other species' interests ahead of her crew's. Californians don't realize it, but they're held in contempt throughout the rest of the world - when some actress announces she's converted to Buddhism or taken to a macrobiotic diet or started wearing crystals, the rest of the world just rolls its eyes.
Replace 'the world' with 'America', and this works. The rest of the world actually doesn't give much of a fuck about California, as they think all of the US is the same way. However, in the US, I would agree that most Americans think Californians are presumptious weenies at best. btw, im a Californian (how's the weather in your area) :-)
Well, for the most part, I agreed with you. Until about 3 months ago. I got my new company laptop upgrade (to a P4M 1.8.. damn thing is like a lap heater).
I am finding that several things I thought would run on my desktop 500Mhz box are way too slow... like the 640x480 Matrix Superbowl trailer, and lots of internal apps, too.
As you mention, compiles are a bitch, too... but I do this is all under windows... with, in my opinion, poorly coded apps (Visual C++ is a dog).
So why do we need a new PC these days? Because of crufty code. Poorly optimized POS software. The faster your rig, the more cruft it can handle while you do a similar amount of work.
I think Gates' Correllary to Moore's Law is soo right on the money: "Every 18 months, the speed of software halves"
Java is only shipping with Windows now, because Microsoft *broke* a liscencing agreement with Sun... and were a convicted Monopolist. if we s/Sun/Kazaa/ and s/Microsoft/RIAA and MPAA/ then how is the situation at all similar?
Nope, I didn't think so either. Not that your hypothetical outcome isn't good... but your analogy doesn't make sense.
but as we have leared with AIM, SMB, and plenty of other proprietary protocols, or even proprietary implementations of open protocols (think M$)... what happens when the protocol provider changes the rules?
First, I'd like you to take a stab at the real standard that's being supported: MPEG4. Please note: This encompasses DivX (4.x+.. ie, all the legal versions), XviD, .mp4 files, and theoretically Quicktime 6. MPEG4 is bigger than DivX, and I'd say that this is not a fully compaitble DivX player anyway, since it doesn't play the hacked 3.11 version.
So how the hell is this bad for standards?
If not... well, I care more about my safety than I do about miles per gallon. I agree that most people don't need gas guzzlers such as SUV's, but the sacrifice of auto safety on the altar of the environment has been going on for way too long.
I honestly hope you weren't implying that SUV's are safer than other vehicles. There's plenty of articles that state otherwise.
without graphics card requirement is... ADOM. Nice interface, with inventory, and esp. missle combat. Also has a nice, busy newsgroup of devoted followers @ rec.games.roguelike.adom
Hmmm don't you think payphone use has gone down because people can't be bothered to carry change? I sure as hell don't... and hell with pulling out my credit card and typing in 20+ more digits. In the convenience society in which we live, the payphone is altmodish.
You got a link to back up your "facts"?
...because the only real difference between us and China, is that in China, they *know* they live in a police state.
Gee, why don't you put yourself in their place. They don't want something cheap; they want something that's completely free (as in "libre"). No IP issues, full control of the process, etc. A lot like why you might do "clean-room" implementations of various hardware... to avoid legal issues.
True results? What does that mean? ...[snip]
I think AC was trying to say that "true" results mean non-monetarily biased results. Of course, you can google-bomb your search phrase, and in fact there are many ways to artificially increase the pagerank. But pagerank != paidfor, which Inktomi definitely is. Google reserves the ads for the "paid advert" and "sponsored result" section, making it clearly seperate.
Short answer: There is no "true" result, but most people (including me) would take pagerank + obvious ads over paid inclusion.
Since this is the relevant part of your post, I thought I'd stop you right here. You are, unfortunately mistaken. Take a look at why ISP's do not have common carrier status (in pdf). (for those of you who hate adobe, google-cached here in html).
Guess that Free Software is inherently political. If you don't like it, tell your boss that Slashdot != Linux... It's not even "respectable"... whatever the fuck you think that means.
Perhaps you should find a "respectable" Linux site, and stick with it.
Yeah, I think have overlooked something. Like if you have a PC-based PVR, you probably can output the signal directly to the TV anyway.
You can also download or trade shows over the internet with your PC.
Ok, like you can't do this already with a PC-PVR.
That'd be cool.
No, other than the wireless connetion, it's rather useless.
And guess who owns the media?
I wonder...
For those who are a bit confused about the rules of Calvin Ball...
Its only absolute rule is you can't play it the same way twice.
Phoenix 0.5 and Mozilla 1.1 both seem to work fine for me (on Win2k). What version of 'Zilla/NS are you using?