I'm sorry, but quicktime is a form of evil that can only be admired by the type of people who like to throw small cute fuzzy animals in a bag, tie it up, and toss it in a river.
A lot of people seem to have a problem with their "not" key lately as well. I've seen a lot of posts by people who have a certian point to make, but they mistakenly leave out the word 'not' where I can contextually assume they had intended to leave it in.
That, and mistaking "loose" vs "lose" seem to be all the rage these days.
Too bad your ISP/web hosting provider will probably just pull the plug as soon as they get a letter from the RIAA/MPAA, rather than investigating anything...
The point is that the RIAA used their power to intimidate whether or not they had any basis for winning, setting a very sharp example in the process.
They knew it would damage the college student financially one way or another. They just needed to show that they will mercilessly pursue anyone who even comes close to conflicting with their interest.
This is all they have to do -- the average person has no means to stand up to such a large conglomerate. So the victim will either spend several thousand on lawyers and also spend a lot of time in court, or just "pay the toll" (which probably would have amounted to about the same as the lawyer fees) so that they can go on with their lives.
Meanwhile, whether they get 12,000 out of the deal or not, the RIAA sets a very strong public example not to even remotely consider doing anything that might negatively affect them, or they will hurt you - one way or another.
I wrote my representatives in opposition over the SDMCA, and got a letter back basically telling me I'm wrong and that the SDMCA is good for the people.
It basically said something along the lines of: we really only will use this to go after the evil-doers, so don't mind the literal letter of the law which makes everyone an assumed criminal, unless otherwise specifically exempted.
The first month or so after I got my SK, I was disappointed to see no coverage when I went home to visit my parents. At some point, they must have installed a new cell in that area (between two smallish-sized towns), since I get a nearly full signal there now.
I don't follow the forums often enough to know the answers to your other questions...
I've still got my original device from the month that it came out. It's got a few scratches, and the "Open" label is even beginning to wear off from my thumb pressing that spot so often, but other than some dust and scratches, it's still working just as well as it did I got it, if not better (due to the update a while back)...
I do wish they'd do updates more often, and maybe ditch the crappy games that come with it for something more useful like a basic calculator...
HTML succeeded because it was so simple that every living thing with opposable thumbs could figure it out. Anyone could learn just from viewing the source of already existing content. The format is very forgiving if you make mistakes.
People can handle a mostly-text format with occasional escape codes to make something bigger, in italics, or to start a new paragraph.
However, I don't see anything like this happening with productivity suite file formats. Most of the data used to describe the documents created in these suites are too complicated for the average techno-neophyte to figure out.
I expect that few-to-no other protocols will ever come along which will have as simple of a learning curve (and therefore as much success) as HTML.
The advantage here is that a tape using the van der Waals force is reusable, whereas a chemical adhesive usually quickly degrades in performance with each re-application.
If this technology pans out for tire use, you will probably see it in Formula One followed by trickle down in to less-advanced racing series followed by eventual trickle down to consumer r-compound tires.
Your post just made me realize how useful it actually is.
I run a small network in my apartment with my roommates, and we all have various versions of windows, and some computers are "homed" on a different domain, especially if a friend brings his work laptop over during a lan party.
In these kind of environments, windows file sharing seems to be much more hassle than it's worth. On Win2k, it seems like it's a 10 step process just to share a folder. Even after that, it can take one or two minutes just to navigate the windows network to get to the other computer (why is this so slow anyway?).
Sometimes I've gotten so frustrated with it that I'll skip all the windows sharing BS and just upload the files to an FTP site hosted somewhere else on the internet, then have my friend, who is only 10 meters away from me and on the same private network as me, ftp it back down.
Sure, I could put my own ftp server on my machine, but that is too much hassle for a one-time use.
With something like this, it looks like it might be a quick and easy way to do file sharing that sounds a lot safer than most of the the simple alternatives...
My neighbor had one of these... It was *amazing* at the time. I remember seeing full screen decent quality full motion video for the first time, as well as 3d textured graphics for the first time on a console.
They were just a bit too early... The hardware to do this stuff at the time costed too much.
I think Einstein had a quote that stated this hypothesis.
I agree with the idea...
It is human nature to group up against a common enemy.
This is part of the reason I think if we did have conclusive evidence of other intellignet life out there it could affect some fundamental behaviors in our worldwide society.
If it would just stream multiple files across the same connection, it would help tremendously with transfers involving a lot of files. For example, uploading a few hundred HTML files, jpg and png images, etc.
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I'm sorry, but quicktime is a form of evil that can only be admired by the type of people who like to throw small cute fuzzy animals in a bag, tie it up, and toss it in a river.
Parent node contains ASCII art of the famous goatse.cx picture. Probably not work safe for most people... =)
A lot of people seem to have a problem with their "not" key lately as well. I've seen a lot of posts by people who have a certian point to make, but they mistakenly leave out the word 'not' where I can contextually assume they had intended to leave it in.
That, and mistaking "loose" vs "lose" seem to be all the rage these days.
Too bad your ISP/web hosting provider will probably just pull the plug as soon as they get a letter from the RIAA/MPAA, rather than investigating anything...
The point is that the RIAA used their power to intimidate whether or not they had any basis for winning, setting a very sharp example in the process.
They knew it would damage the college student financially one way or another. They just needed to show that they will mercilessly pursue anyone who even comes close to conflicting with their interest.
This is all they have to do -- the average person has no means to stand up to such a large conglomerate. So the victim will either spend several thousand on lawyers and also spend a lot of time in court, or just "pay the toll" (which probably would have amounted to about the same as the lawyer fees) so that they can go on with their lives.
Meanwhile, whether they get 12,000 out of the deal or not, the RIAA sets a very strong public example not to even remotely consider doing anything that might negatively affect them, or they will hurt you - one way or another.
3. Sale or purchase of positions in church or state.
While we're at it.. let's not forget this one.
I think we found the perfect word for the RIAA...
I wrote my representatives in opposition over the SDMCA, and got a letter back basically telling me I'm wrong and that the SDMCA is good for the people.
It basically said something along the lines of: we really only will use this to go after the evil-doers, so don't mind the literal letter of the law which makes everyone an assumed criminal, unless otherwise specifically exempted.
There's a town in Florida called 'Jupiter'. I'm not sure if they have any Saturn or Mercury dealers there =)
Has anyone ever posted the true spec sheet showing cost of manufacturing and assembling of parts?
Sort of, but you'll have to pay.
I hereby coin the term:
Heisenburglary
How is coverage now?
The first month or so after I got my SK, I was disappointed to see no coverage when I went home to visit my parents. At some point, they must have installed a new cell in that area (between two smallish-sized towns), since I get a nearly full signal there now.
I don't follow the forums often enough to know the answers to your other questions...
I've still got my original device from the month that it came out. It's got a few scratches, and the "Open" label is even beginning to wear off from my thumb pressing that spot so often, but other than some dust and scratches, it's still working just as well as it did I got it, if not better (due to the update a while back)...
I do wish they'd do updates more often, and maybe ditch the crappy games that come with it for something more useful like a basic calculator...
HTML succeeded because it was so simple that every living thing with opposable thumbs could figure it out. Anyone could learn just from viewing the source of already existing content. The format is very forgiving if you make mistakes.
People can handle a mostly-text format with occasional escape codes to make something bigger, in italics, or to start a new paragraph.
However, I don't see anything like this happening with productivity suite file formats. Most of the data used to describe the documents created in these suites are too complicated for the average techno-neophyte to figure out.
I expect that few-to-no other protocols will ever come along which will have as simple of a learning curve (and therefore as much success) as HTML.
The advantage here is that a tape using the van der Waals force is reusable, whereas a chemical adhesive usually quickly degrades in performance with each re-application.
Although I am averse to many buzzwords, I don't consider this one.
It gives the reader a scale of magnitude, without requiring it to be spelled out in many more words.
If this technology pans out for tire use, you will probably see it in Formula One followed by trickle down in to less-advanced racing series followed by eventual trickle down to consumer r-compound tires.
What is this? Voodoo engineering? =P
Cool someone else who wonders the same as me =)
If not us, then whoever *was* first must have wondered "WTF?"...
Your post just made me realize how useful it actually is.
I run a small network in my apartment with my roommates, and we all have various versions of windows, and some computers are "homed" on a different domain, especially if a friend brings his work laptop over during a lan party.
In these kind of environments, windows file sharing seems to be much more hassle than it's worth. On Win2k, it seems like it's a 10 step process just to share a folder. Even after that, it can take one or two minutes just to navigate the windows network to get to the other computer (why is this so slow anyway?).
Sometimes I've gotten so frustrated with it that I'll skip all the windows sharing BS and just upload the files to an FTP site hosted somewhere else on the internet, then have my friend, who is only 10 meters away from me and on the same private network as me, ftp it back down.
Sure, I could put my own ftp server on my machine, but that is too much hassle for a one-time use.
With something like this, it looks like it might be a quick and easy way to do file sharing that sounds a lot safer than most of the the simple alternatives...
My neighbor had one of these... It was *amazing* at the time. I remember seeing full screen decent quality full motion video for the first time, as well as 3d textured graphics for the first time on a console.
They were just a bit too early... The hardware to do this stuff at the time costed too much.
They should have lobbied like the music industry did to make it illegal for them to become obsolete.
Didn't that Godel guy have something to say about this?
I think Einstein had a quote that stated this hypothesis.
I agree with the idea...
It is human nature to group up against a common enemy.
This is part of the reason I think if we did have conclusive evidence of other intellignet life out there it could affect some fundamental behaviors in our worldwide society.
I've always wondered how well the old Zmodem protocol could be adapted to UDP...
Anyone come across anything like this?
If it would just stream multiple files across the same connection, it would help tremendously with transfers involving a lot of files. For example, uploading a few hundred HTML files, jpg and png images, etc.
They need to quit optimizing their drivers for a 3D benchmark!
If anything, optimize them for Star Wars Galaxies =)