unless you have found some "magic" headphones to use with your portable mp3 player, why on earth would you demand lossless encoding for it? the whole idea of a pocketsized music player is the portability and convenience. kind of why compression exists for music files.
radio is getting into this act as well. our classic rock station has sold themselves to ATT, and now a jock's story about meeting someone famous goes into, "and I took pictures of them you can see on our website. I used my ATT camera phone, and I gotta tell you, this is an awesome phone with awesome service. you should check them out."
I have never had to deal with someone hijacking my phone number, and every time I have moved it to a new location or cell carrier it has taken effect in less than a day after requesting it. Why must we put up with a much more chaotic system for domain names?
As for Godaddy being "evil", I've used them for years, had no trouble tranferring domains in or out, speak to live humans when I need to, and get phone calls from them when domains are expiring or when they have a deal that would actually lower what I pay.
I don't think of Baxter as "depressing" so much, more that he tends to take his stories to their absolute end, which often involves the death of the universe or the disintegration of the earth.
Many of his novels actually display a great amount of hope. Human intelligence often survives through incredible trials and demanding circumstances. The Ring plays out this way, as does Titan.
Voyage was one of the best "alternate history" novels I've read.
Back on topic, Heston was John Wayne with skill. He played some memorable characters, and rose to the occasion when cast in an "epic" film, like Ben Hur and The 10 Commandments.
Dune, and its descendants, are novels that rely a great deal on narration and inner dialogue to tell their stories. They work great as novels. Not so much as movies.
and for whoever is saying that the TV version was worth watching - shame on you.
maybe Hollywood should look to other genres of art to rape for movies: paintings perhaps, or sculpture. "Waterlilies, the Movie" has potential....
OK, it's easy to mock the old hippies for being afraid of radio waves. But in a nation that has been told that asbestos, thalidomide, red dye #2, aspartame and Vioxx are harmless I don't begrudge them their suspicion.
Rather than engage in derisive laughter, why not send them some helpful and relevant information that might assuage their concerns? If half the posters here wrote them a letter with a significant reference or two they might actually learn something. Remember, "Knowing is half the battle."
I consider myself most successful when no one thinks of the underlying technical infrastructure and they can just do what they do. It is when new tech is rolled out for no compelling reason that users and management think of IT as a pain in the ass.
In my last position the corporate IT dept. was always working on the next great enhancement, without considering the effects of the LAST great enhancement. The board would hire a CIO, he would make promises, rollout a big project, and get canned. We had six in a period of 12 years. They were always a friend of an executive, who knew nothing about our business. In my little office I mostly ignored them and ran what we needed.
The biggest shortcoming in IT people is business knowledge. If you don't understand what our company is doing and what makes it effective, then you can't implement truly beneficial enhancements. I am finding now that IT depts. are very insular, and rule out anyone who might bring such a business oriented mindset to the job.
this article and interview are NOT about mouses and joysticks. this article and interview are NOT about PC vs. Console.
This article and interview ARE about how the overwhelming majority of PCs sold in the US do not come remotely close to being able to run current game software. It is almost a plea to Intel to stop making integrated graphics chips, because they suck at running games. If 90% of the PCs sold can't run the software you write and publish, then you aren't going to be a big fan of PC gaming at the moment.
Yes, we know, if you're posting here you can build your own PC, upgrade your graphics card every six months, and use your mouse and keyboard to headshot Osama Bin Laden in his cave from orbit. That doesn't change the fact that you are a part of a minority, and can expect that other game publishers will begin thinking of bailing out on the PC as a platform.
Having downloaded the file, which amusingly is still available, and persued its contents, I have the following question: Who the hell watches Lipstick Jungle on a cell phone? Who the hell watches Lipstick Jungle? What IS Lipstick Jungle? Whose mind is so vacant that they have to get a TV fix on their mobile phone?
As for the website itself, their complaint is rather like a bank putting all of their customers' account balances on a webserver, and then complaining when someone looks at someone else's account. Yes, the action is dickish at best, but the fact that it can be carried out is dickisher.
"It's like you're saying it's not wrong to burgle someone's house and steal things you don't own because they failed to lock their doors."
so many bad analogies in this discussion.... and this one is among them.
Actually the situation is more like selling something on eBay, taking the item to a bus stop and leaving it on the bench, then telling the buyer to go pick it up. Except that after someone takes it home, it's still there.
"We should be able to to see what our police are doing and what our congesspeople are doing. Why? Because they work for us. ( If someone from a foreign country claimed the same privelege, we would not take them seriously, right? )
But once you grant that assertion, it follows - for all slashdot readers who are not self-employed - that your employer should be able to watch you.
I'm not advocating either side here, just pointing out the logical consequences of the position that we should be able to watch them."
But those aren't two sides, just one. The OTHER side would claim that no one can ever, without your explicit permission on a case by case basis, record, transcribe, log or photograph anything you do.
For me - government activity should be out in the open and accessible to the citizenry. Private activity should only be disclosed with the permission of the persons involved.
I have come across this more than once, and not from Apple. Sungard is one company that is operating the same way. SOX, unfortunately, open to interpretation, and the big consulting firms have made money hand over fist on interpretation. If you develop new software, or add "materially new" functions to existing software, the interpretation is that you either charge for it, or you can't capitalize the development costs, thus shrinking your bottom line.
....there is a need for people who actually develop browser software to use this. but, of course, what it is really being used for is. "my favorite browser scored X", even when there are maybe six people here who know what's going on in the test. something tells me that there is little correlation between an Acid3 score and how well a browser displays a page.
On my first day of Tests and Measurements the prof asked, "What does an IQ test measure?"
The correct answer, of course, is "how good someone is at taking IQ tests."
Most people I know are just the opposite, they expect everything to be as reliable as their landline telephone service, and they complain like hell when it isn't.
But I agree with most of the comments that I've read. When given a choice between price and reliability, many people choose price. If you really want 99.999% uptime, buy a T1.
my former employer offered us the option to buy into an online health records system. the selling points were that we could easily be sure that any doctor we saw could have instant access to all of our history, and we could review treatments and billing records.
I chose not to participate, because the provider was new and unknown to me. I don't think I would want to use Google, because they ARE known to me.
I'll just keep asking for copies of records when I visit a doctor, and keep them in my filing cabinet.
some of us want to visit Cuba, like everyone else in the world can.
some of us would love an opportunity to live in a Caribbean island nation while working to bring their network infrastructure up to international standards.
There is no "reform" in this legislation. We pay the patent holder $1,000,000,000 dollars and take his patent. If I'm him it's a no brainer. No lawsuits, no possibility of losing, and I get a billion dollars.
As an American citizen all I can say is, that billion dollars better come from the banks, and not from taxpayers.
The only thing I have on my hard drive that takes up multiple gigabytes is music. I don't need all that music on a laptop, that's why God (Steve?) made iPods.
I use a laptop for working away from my desktop. All of my applications and data fit easily into 64GB, with room to spare.
moderated feedback could work, but would certainly involve more overhead. (is slashbay.com registered yet? I'll bet is is now.)
ebay has indeed become something different than it once was. the good is still there (oddball items from people's basements, etc), but it is mostly a haven for people who bought the "how to get rich on the internet" books.
another option for them could be Karma - an aggregate rating that doesn't show individual scores. I have found, however, that the best way to insure a decent experience is to email a seller before bidding: ask a question, and make a decision to bid on the nature and quality of the answer.
but aren't patents supposed to cover a specific implementation of an idea? it seems that these days they get stretched to cover ALL implementations of an idea. perhaps i am being naive, but so often a patent is awarded, and they the holder sues anyone who does anything remotely similar. that ain't right.
Phantasie was one my early favorite games on the C64, and for the first time I got to see the box in the article. I had a cracked copy and photocopied instructions, and played it for what seems like a long, long time.
AP Microsoft Tops Street in 2Q; PC Sales Up Friday January 25, 9:45 am ET By Jessica Mintz, AP Technology Writer Microsoft Beats Street in 2nd Quarter; Vista, Office, Xbox Games Helped
SEATTLE (AP) -- Microsoft Corp. forecast a rosy 2008 -- despite broader economic worries -- after it blew by Wall Street's expectations for a second consecutive quarter. "We will be impacted just like everybody else," if the U.S. falls into a recession, Chief Financial Officer Chris Liddell said Thursday. "But overall, we feel very optimistic about our second half."
Company officials touted rising sales in each of Microsoft's business divisions, a slate of important upcoming business-software launches and the growing contribution from sales in non-U.S. markets.
Microsoft raised its outlook Thursday for the rest of its fiscal year, which ends in June, matching Wall Street's forecast and sending shares up in after-hours trading.
The software maker's quarterly earnings jumped 79 percent to $4.71 billion, or 50 cents per share, from $2.63 billion, or 26 cents per share in the second quarter a year earlier. Quarterly revenue climbed 31 percent to $16.37 billion from $12.5 billion.
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unless you have found some "magic" headphones to use with your portable mp3 player, why on earth would you demand lossless encoding for it? the whole idea of a pocketsized music player is the portability and convenience. kind of why compression exists for music files.
radio is getting into this act as well. our classic rock station has sold themselves to ATT, and now a jock's story about meeting someone famous goes into, "and I took pictures of them you can see on our website. I used my ATT camera phone, and I gotta tell you, this is an awesome phone with awesome service. you should check them out."
"domestic military operations"?
"DOMESTIC MILITARY OPERATIONS"?
that phrase scares the shit out of me. i want the military standing at the border looking out, not standing on the street corner looking at me.
I have never had to deal with someone hijacking my phone number, and every time I have moved it to a new location or cell carrier it has taken effect in less than a day after requesting it. Why must we put up with a much more chaotic system for domain names?
As for Godaddy being "evil", I've used them for years, had no trouble tranferring domains in or out, speak to live humans when I need to, and get phone calls from them when domains are expiring or when they have a deal that would actually lower what I pay.
I don't think of Baxter as "depressing" so much, more that he tends to take his stories to their absolute end, which often involves the death of the universe or the disintegration of the earth.
Many of his novels actually display a great amount of hope. Human intelligence often survives through incredible trials and demanding circumstances. The Ring plays out this way, as does Titan.
Voyage was one of the best "alternate history" novels I've read.
Back on topic, Heston was John Wayne with skill. He played some memorable characters, and rose to the occasion when cast in an "epic" film, like Ben Hur and The 10 Commandments.
Dune, and its descendants, are novels that rely a great deal on narration and inner dialogue to tell their stories. They work great as novels. Not so much as movies.
and for whoever is saying that the TV version was worth watching - shame on you.
maybe Hollywood should look to other genres of art to rape for movies: paintings perhaps, or sculpture. "Waterlilies, the Movie" has potential....
OK, it's easy to mock the old hippies for being afraid of radio waves. But in a nation that has been told that asbestos, thalidomide, red dye #2, aspartame and Vioxx are harmless I don't begrudge them their suspicion.
Rather than engage in derisive laughter, why not send them some helpful and relevant information that might assuage their concerns? If half the posters here wrote them a letter with a significant reference or two they might actually learn something. Remember, "Knowing is half the battle."
I consider myself most successful when no one thinks of the underlying technical infrastructure and they can just do what they do. It is when new tech is rolled out for no compelling reason that users and management think of IT as a pain in the ass.
In my last position the corporate IT dept. was always working on the next great enhancement, without considering the effects of the LAST great enhancement. The board would hire a CIO, he would make promises, rollout a big project, and get canned. We had six in a period of 12 years. They were always a friend of an executive, who knew nothing about our business. In my little office I mostly ignored them and ran what we needed.
The biggest shortcoming in IT people is business knowledge. If you don't understand what our company is doing and what makes it effective, then you can't implement truly beneficial enhancements. I am finding now that IT depts. are very insular, and rule out anyone who might bring such a business oriented mindset to the job.
this article and interview are NOT about mouses and joysticks. this article and interview are NOT about PC vs. Console.
This article and interview ARE about how the overwhelming majority of PCs sold in the US do not come remotely close to being able to run current game software. It is almost a plea to Intel to stop making integrated graphics chips, because they suck at running games. If 90% of the PCs sold can't run the software you write and publish, then you aren't going to be a big fan of PC gaming at the moment.
Yes, we know, if you're posting here you can build your own PC, upgrade your graphics card every six months, and use your mouse and keyboard to headshot Osama Bin Laden in his cave from orbit. That doesn't change the fact that you are a part of a minority, and can expect that other game publishers will begin thinking of bailing out on the PC as a platform.
Having downloaded the file, which amusingly is still available, and persued its contents, I have the following question: Who the hell watches Lipstick Jungle on a cell phone? Who the hell watches Lipstick Jungle? What IS Lipstick Jungle? Whose mind is so vacant that they have to get a TV fix on their mobile phone?
As for the website itself, their complaint is rather like a bank putting all of their customers' account balances on a webserver, and then complaining when someone looks at someone else's account. Yes, the action is dickish at best, but the fact that it can be carried out is dickisher.
"It's like you're saying it's not wrong to burgle someone's house and steal things you don't own because they failed to lock their doors."
so many bad analogies in this discussion.... and this one is among them.
Actually the situation is more like selling something on eBay, taking the item to a bus stop and leaving it on the bench, then telling the buyer to go pick it up. Except that after someone takes it home, it's still there.
"We should be able to to see what our police are doing and what our congesspeople are doing. Why? Because they work for us. ( If someone from a foreign country claimed the same privelege, we would not take them seriously, right? )
But once you grant that assertion, it follows - for all slashdot readers who are not self-employed - that your employer should be able to watch you.
I'm not advocating either side here, just pointing out the logical consequences of the position that we should be able to watch them."
But those aren't two sides, just one. The OTHER side would claim that no one can ever, without your explicit permission on a case by case basis, record, transcribe, log or photograph anything you do.
For me - government activity should be out in the open and accessible to the citizenry. Private activity should only be disclosed with the permission of the persons involved.
I have come across this more than once, and not from Apple. Sungard is one company that is operating the same way. SOX, unfortunately, open to interpretation, and the big consulting firms have made money hand over fist on interpretation. If you develop new software, or add "materially new" functions to existing software, the interpretation is that you either charge for it, or you can't capitalize the development costs, thus shrinking your bottom line.
....there is a need for people who actually develop browser software to use this. but, of course, what it is really being used for is. "my favorite browser scored X", even when there are maybe six people here who know what's going on in the test. something tells me that there is little correlation between an Acid3 score and how well a browser displays a page.
On my first day of Tests and Measurements the prof asked, "What does an IQ test measure?"
The correct answer, of course, is "how good someone is at taking IQ tests."
Most people I know are just the opposite, they expect everything to be as reliable as their landline telephone service, and they complain like hell when it isn't.
But I agree with most of the comments that I've read. When given a choice between price and reliability, many people choose price. If you really want 99.999% uptime, buy a T1.
my former employer offered us the option to buy into an online health records system. the selling points were that we could easily be sure that any doctor we saw could have instant access to all of our history, and we could review treatments and billing records.
I chose not to participate, because the provider was new and unknown to me. I don't think I would want to use Google, because they ARE known to me.
I'll just keep asking for copies of records when I visit a doctor, and keep them in my filing cabinet.
some of us like Cuban cigars.
some of us want to visit Cuba, like everyone else in the world can.
some of us would love an opportunity to live in a Caribbean island nation while working to bring their network infrastructure up to international standards.
There is no "reform" in this legislation. We pay the patent holder $1,000,000,000 dollars and take his patent. If I'm him it's a no brainer. No lawsuits, no possibility of losing, and I get a billion dollars.
As an American citizen all I can say is, that billion dollars better come from the banks, and not from taxpayers.
The only thing I have on my hard drive that takes up multiple gigabytes is music. I don't need all that music on a laptop, that's why God (Steve?) made iPods.
I use a laptop for working away from my desktop. All of my applications and data fit easily into 64GB, with room to spare.
moderated feedback could work, but would certainly involve more overhead. (is slashbay.com registered yet? I'll bet is is now.)
ebay has indeed become something different than it once was. the good is still there (oddball items from people's basements, etc), but it is mostly a haven for people who bought the "how to get rich on the internet" books.
another option for them could be Karma - an aggregate rating that doesn't show individual scores. I have found, however, that the best way to insure a decent experience is to email a seller before bidding: ask a question, and make a decision to bid on the nature and quality of the answer.
but aren't patents supposed to cover a specific implementation of an idea? it seems that these days they get stretched to cover ALL implementations of an idea. perhaps i am being naive, but so often a patent is awarded, and they the holder sues anyone who does anything remotely similar. that ain't right.
hoping for a return to sanity....
as does everyone who drives on the NJ Turnpike. do I win?
Phantasie was one my early favorite games on the C64, and for the first time I got to see the box in the article. I had a cracked copy and photocopied instructions, and played it for what seems like a long, long time.
AP
Microsoft Tops Street in 2Q; PC Sales Up
Friday January 25, 9:45 am ET
By Jessica Mintz, AP Technology Writer
Microsoft Beats Street in 2nd Quarter; Vista, Office, Xbox Games Helped
SEATTLE (AP) -- Microsoft Corp. forecast a rosy 2008 -- despite broader economic worries -- after it blew by Wall Street's expectations for a second consecutive quarter.
"We will be impacted just like everybody else," if the U.S. falls into a recession, Chief Financial Officer Chris Liddell said Thursday. "But overall, we feel very optimistic about our second half."
Company officials touted rising sales in each of Microsoft's business divisions, a slate of important upcoming business-software launches and the growing contribution from sales in non-U.S. markets.
Microsoft raised its outlook Thursday for the rest of its fiscal year, which ends in June, matching Wall Street's forecast and sending shares up in after-hours trading.
The software maker's quarterly earnings jumped 79 percent to $4.71 billion, or 50 cents per share, from $2.63 billion, or 26 cents per share in the second quarter a year earlier. Quarterly revenue climbed 31 percent to $16.37 billion from $12.5 billion.
"hey don't "deserve" any punishment for making pages that fit the realities of the world."
not overt, explicit punishment, no. but they took the risk of developing to a broken platform, and that risk has a price.