"See the ad campaign website for more, uh, facts."
Instead of making stupid comments like this why don't you try to refute the facts presented? If the tables were turned and this was a Sun or IBM site promoting Linux over Windows I'm sure your comment would be more like "See, more proof that Linux and OSS is better."
At my local Blockbuster they have a sticker on Dead Or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball (XBOX) that says you need to be 18 or older to rent this title yet their copies of Grand Theft Auto Double Pack (XBOX) has no such requirements. In fact no other game, regardless of how violent the game is, has this requirement. I'm not for banning any game based on content, I can self-censor thanks, but what's wrong with our society that we have little or no problem with violence and illicit behavior in a game but a video game with digitally created girls wearing bikinis is considered soft porn?
'...then proposes a 'control panel' as a centralized interface to manage all the communications one would make via the computer."'
What are the options? Drop nuke on spammer's house? Send in the black helicopters? The problem isn't so much on the receiver's end as it on the sender's end. Instead of forcing users to jump through flaming hoop after flaming hoop why don't we develop systems that make it more difficult to send spam in the first place? Jakob Neilsen, of all people, should know better than to suggest such a wasteful UI to solve a much deeper problem with the system itself. If you want total anonymity on the internet than you have to deal with these problems. You can't say only certain peolpe get to be anonymous and the people I don't like can't. You want to be able to spoof headers? Be prepared for spammers to take advantage of this "feature". You want to have the ability to have open relays? Get ready for the flood of spam that will use them.
I got a few XBOX games for Christams and a couple I can think of right away from this bunch are Prince of Persia and Sphinx and the CUrsed Mummy. Both are available for all the console platforms and Prince of Persia is available for the PC as well though I don't know which OS and I don't really care because I use Windows XP which all modern games support and I quit playing games on my PC for the most part (Dungeon Siege and Neverwinter Nights were not available for the XBOX).
What's to like about these games? They're both really great puzzle games mixed with a small amount of fighting though Prince of Persia can get a little aggrevating with its battles. Sphinx is a bit like Zelda except it has a very cool Egyptian mythology theme providing the backstory, characters, and environments.
Both have beautifully rendered graphics and Prince of Persia is really over the top with its use of lighting. There are breathtaking vistas throughout with sunlight streaming through latticed windows. The environmetns are just as beautiful and well thought out given the type of puzzled you have to solve.
If you have a console and a video/game rental place nearby, definitely check these two out.
"But no serious punishment or solution, such as splitting up the company, has even been considered."
Actually a split order was considered and the ruling lost on appeal. Just because you personally don't like the way the matter was resolved does not mean the solution was the best arrangement or all involved. I really wish you slashbots would quit thinking the world revolves around yourselves and if things aren't done your way they aren't done right. Get over yourself.
Didn't you get the memo? Information wants to be free. Lack of proper attribution is one the many by-products of this freedom. Welcome to the information revolution.
"we save them time, money and manpower by buying online and cutting their costs of making a transaction."
Until I see a breakdown of online distribution costs then no, this is simply not true just because you want it to be. I already know how money flows in the current distributin system (B.S. in Recording Industy, though I got out of being an audio engineer to become a graphic designer; art was always my real passion, music was only an enjoyable pasttime.) I take issue with the original posters numbers but I don't care to argue the point as no one rewlly wants to hear it. They just want to believe in their little fantasy world where they think everything is black and white. This, by the way, is why you 'smile through it because it's "online"'. RIAA bad, uggh, Interweb good, you know the mentality.
As for the RIAA charging labels, they do nothing of the kind in so far as albums go. The RIAA is a non-profit trade group, not some money grubbing evil empire that so many slashbots seem to believe. While it could be argued that the member companies actions might be questionable, the RIAA is not necessarily responsible. They have done some good you know. Why else do you think we have compatible formats for music? The labels would have made music an even bigger mess on their own.
They do pay for bandwidth and maintenence of the servers to host the music. These aren't single machines sitting in some geek's basement you know, they;re rather large and distributed facilities to enusre a decent level of performance when users log on.
It's not just confusion, trademarks protect the work and effort put into creating mindshare. If I were to create a shoe company and call it Beebok, I'd be sued six ways from Sunday by Reebok. Sure, there's no confusion between the names but there is the matter of my using a similar name to help bolster my shoes based on the mindshare of Reebok.
Follow the steps outlined above for Outlook and choose "conversation". This allows you to follwo the thread of a mailing list. I've tried it with a couple I'm a member of and it works quite nicely. And this still trumps Evolution.
Than Outlook trumps this feature by a couple of years at least. You can group e-mails by numerous sorting criteria in Outlook. Not only that but you can sort by numerous criteria simultaneously by choosing multiple filters. In Outlook, turn on the advanced toolbar if it's not already on. Then click on the "group by box" and "field chooser". Drag any sorting criteria you want to organize by into the "group by box" at the top of your e-mail list area. The e-0mail is sortedby criteria in order from first to last item in the "group by box". It's powerful and it's been in Outlook since long before Evolution was dreampt of.
This article, however, is not about this. It goes far beyond simple sorting of e-mail and adds a useful UI on top of it to boot. I suggest you RTFA first.
...Slashbots worldwide demonstrate their ignorance and blind devotion to the grand pumbah, errr, penguin and fail to understand what this new interface is all about. Let me first state that this is not simply e-mail threading like that in many other applications, even including Outlook since at least Outlook 97, maybe even sooner but this was the first version I began using as my sole e-mail app (in Outlook: click the 'group by box' and 'field chooser' in the advanced toolbar menu and select the appropriate fields to sort e-mail by. Tres cool.) Go re-read the "Conversation Clues" section of the article for a bit more info. Here's a relevant snippet for those who can't be bothered to RTFA though:
It doesn't stop here. Venolia has also designed the user interface to give you some metrics about your conversations - you can find out at-a-glance just who you communicate with the most, and whether you are the originator, recipient or a participant. You can also see a complete list of the attachments, URLS, and images that are found in all your messages, in case you don't want to hunt through past e-mails to find that one document or Web site reference that you want.
Innovation does not necessarily mean invention. Sometimes innovation is merely making something that already exists work better or more accessible. Gina's UI research has definitely developed somethign innovative in the field of e-mail UI design.
...with one stone. If people answewred this this survey with the answers they gave here then Microsoft got you guys hook, line, and sinker. Now they can demonstrate to the business community that you guys are irrational morons with the intellect of a three year old. Congratulations.
If on the other hand you truly answered as responsible adults, which many of you don't seem to be, then they got some excellent advice on ways they can make Windows better and stem the adoption of Linux at home and businesses.
This has to be one of Microsoft's more ingenious marketing efforts to date.
"...they designed and built a world-class bridge... without a pedestrian/bicycle lane!"
Ummm...it's a highway. Bikes and pedestrians have no business on the highway. There are alternative routes bikes and pedestrians can take to cross the river.
Nice attempt to classify George Bush Jr. along with some of history's most despotic tyrants. However you failed to even check into his height with is 5'11", average height for a male and since he runs he's also in good shape. Aahnold is 6'2" so it would seem that he does tower a bit over the President though I doubt any platform the President may or may not have been on would have been that tall (no more than 3" is my math is correct). Whatever you may think of Bush's politics, he is not in the same class of person as the others you mention and any attempt to portray him as such only serves to show you for the uneducated moron you truly are.
You're right. I forgot they linked the two props via chains to a single engine. Regardless, this would have been an 800 lbs. engine and even that was far too heavy.
According to the piece Discovery Channel was running on the Wright Flyer yesterday (Dec. 17th), the Wright Brothers specifically steered away from steam powered engines because it took roughly 100 lbs. per horsepower and tehy wanted 8 horse power from each engine. That would have been a whopping 1600 lbs. for the engines alone. They wound up developing an gas powered aluminum engine similar to the ones Henry Ford was developing at the time as well. The engines painstakingly recreated for the replica weighed in at 170lbs. a piece and produced about 14 horse power each. Either Whitehead discovered a way to magically make significantly lighter steam-powered engines or the Discovery Channel show was grossly wrong in their estimates.
Not really. Sketchup still relies on traditional polygonyl modelling techniques to create the models. SketchUps strength lies in its ability to render images that look like someone sketched the illustration but all the scale, shape and lighting are realistic. It's a very cool, though frustrating in some ways, program that does a good job of creating acrhitectural sketches, that can be updated easily and in real-time, from acrhitectural blueprints for client review.
"if you give something to society, why do you have any say on what happens to it?"
Because society decided long ago to allow creators of art control of their intellectual property for a limited time after which it would fall into the public domain. Without this social contrct artists would not be afforded the possibility to create new work for a living. Before this guilds protected artists and wealthy patrons paid them handsomely to sculpt, compose and paint. The thought of trying to pass off a master's work as your own was unheard of.
Art is not the only thing protected by copyright law however. There are hundreds of thousands of publications that would cease to exist without the protections afforded by copyright law. Information would slow to a trickle or nearly cease at all if magazines, journals and newspapers were not protected by bottom-feeders stealing their content.
Society as a whole is served by this process whether you choose to see it or not. You r"betterment of mankind" tripe might work with the standard ignorant slashbot but in reality it's a non sqeuitur. Your statement is not backed up by any facts other than the common misguided, misconceptions of those who think like you.
News Flash - Copyright Law doesn't care whether the artist sees a return on their investment due to rampant violation of their intellectual property. The original poster was correct in saying that it is up to the copyright holder to decide how their music is distributed. In the US distribution is one of the five basic rights granted copyright holders and it's apparently similar in Canada hence the CRIA going after UPLOADERS, or to put it another way, illegal distributors or opyrighted material.
"Speak to some engineers at AMD and ask them how much the need for x86 backwards compatibility has hindered them and held them back."
Then explain to me why AMD decided to extend teh life of X86 through their 64-X86 based processors instead of dumping it and following Intel's lead with IA-64 and the Itanium? I'll tell you why; money, plain and simple. AMD sees money in extending teh life of X86 while Intel sees opportunity in develping a modern and much better platform. Because AMD refuses to drop X86, Intel will likely have to quickly develop (if they haven't already) a compatible chip to teh AMD 64-X86 line. Intel's willing to let it go, why isn't AMD? The world is not black and white.
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"See the ad campaign website for more, uh, facts."
Instead of making stupid comments like this why don't you try to refute the facts presented? If the tables were turned and this was a Sun or IBM site promoting Linux over Windows I'm sure your comment would be more like "See, more proof that Linux and OSS is better."
At my local Blockbuster they have a sticker on Dead Or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball (XBOX) that says you need to be 18 or older to rent this title yet their copies of Grand Theft Auto Double Pack (XBOX) has no such requirements. In fact no other game, regardless of how violent the game is, has this requirement. I'm not for banning any game based on content, I can self-censor thanks, but what's wrong with our society that we have little or no problem with violence and illicit behavior in a game but a video game with digitally created girls wearing bikinis is considered soft porn?
'...then proposes a 'control panel' as a centralized interface to manage all the communications one would make via the computer."'
What are the options? Drop nuke on spammer's house? Send in the black helicopters? The problem isn't so much on the receiver's end as it on the sender's end. Instead of forcing users to jump through flaming hoop after flaming hoop why don't we develop systems that make it more difficult to send spam in the first place? Jakob Neilsen, of all people, should know better than to suggest such a wasteful UI to solve a much deeper problem with the system itself. If you want total anonymity on the internet than you have to deal with these problems. You can't say only certain peolpe get to be anonymous and the people I don't like can't. You want to be able to spoof headers? Be prepared for spammers to take advantage of this "feature". You want to have the ability to have open relays? Get ready for the flood of spam that will use them.
I got a few XBOX games for Christams and a couple I can think of right away from this bunch are Prince of Persia and Sphinx and the CUrsed Mummy. Both are available for all the console platforms and Prince of Persia is available for the PC as well though I don't know which OS and I don't really care because I use Windows XP which all modern games support and I quit playing games on my PC for the most part (Dungeon Siege and Neverwinter Nights were not available for the XBOX).
What's to like about these games? They're both really great puzzle games mixed with a small amount of fighting though Prince of Persia can get a little aggrevating with its battles. Sphinx is a bit like Zelda except it has a very cool Egyptian mythology theme providing the backstory, characters, and environments.
Both have beautifully rendered graphics and Prince of Persia is really over the top with its use of lighting. There are breathtaking vistas throughout with sunlight streaming through latticed windows. The environmetns are just as beautiful and well thought out given the type of puzzled you have to solve.
If you have a console and a video/game rental place nearby, definitely check these two out.
"But no serious punishment or solution, such as splitting up the company, has even been considered."
Actually a split order was considered and the ruling lost on appeal. Just because you personally don't like the way the matter was resolved does not mean the solution was the best arrangement or all involved. I really wish you slashbots would quit thinking the world revolves around yourselves and if things aren't done your way they aren't done right. Get over yourself.
Didn't you get the memo? Information wants to be free. Lack of proper attribution is one the many by-products of this freedom. Welcome to the information revolution.
I'm glad I still support copyrights.
Really? Someone should tell Colgate University. I'm sure the founder of Colgate would like to know his name is simply made up.
"we save them time, money and manpower by buying online and cutting their costs of making a transaction."
Until I see a breakdown of online distribution costs then no, this is simply not true just because you want it to be. I already know how money flows in the current distributin system (B.S. in Recording Industy, though I got out of being an audio engineer to become a graphic designer; art was always my real passion, music was only an enjoyable pasttime.) I take issue with the original posters numbers but I don't care to argue the point as no one rewlly wants to hear it. They just want to believe in their little fantasy world where they think everything is black and white. This, by the way, is why you 'smile through it because it's "online"'. RIAA bad, uggh, Interweb good, you know the mentality.
As for the RIAA charging labels, they do nothing of the kind in so far as albums go. The RIAA is a non-profit trade group, not some money grubbing evil empire that so many slashbots seem to believe. While it could be argued that the member companies actions might be questionable, the RIAA is not necessarily responsible. They have done some good you know. Why else do you think we have compatible formats for music? The labels would have made music an even bigger mess on their own.
They do pay for bandwidth and maintenence of the servers to host the music. These aren't single machines sitting in some geek's basement you know, they;re rather large and distributed facilities to enusre a decent level of performance when users log on.
Gammsworld? What a waste. I'd love to see Traveller turned into a computer RPG.
It's not just confusion, trademarks protect the work and effort put into creating mindshare. If I were to create a shoe company and call it Beebok, I'd be sued six ways from Sunday by Reebok. Sure, there's no confusion between the names but there is the matter of my using a similar name to help bolster my shoes based on the mindshare of Reebok.
Not really,
Lindows is to Windows as OS is to OS.
Mythic it to Mythica as Company is to game?
Wait a second, something's not quite like the other here.
Follow the steps outlined above for Outlook and choose "conversation". This allows you to follwo the thread of a mailing list. I've tried it with a couple I'm a member of and it works quite nicely. And this still trumps Evolution.
"...(including Evoulution)..."
Than Outlook trumps this feature by a couple of years at least. You can group e-mails by numerous sorting criteria in Outlook. Not only that but you can sort by numerous criteria simultaneously by choosing multiple filters. In Outlook, turn on the advanced toolbar if it's not already on. Then click on the "group by box" and "field chooser". Drag any sorting criteria you want to organize by into the "group by box" at the top of your e-mail list area. The e-0mail is sortedby criteria in order from first to last item in the "group by box". It's powerful and it's been in Outlook since long before Evolution was dreampt of.
This article, however, is not about this. It goes far beyond simple sorting of e-mail and adds a useful UI on top of it to boot. I suggest you RTFA first.
Innovation does not necessarily mean invention. Sometimes innovation is merely making something that already exists work better or more accessible. Gina's UI research has definitely developed somethign innovative in the field of e-mail UI design.
...with one stone. If people answewred this this survey with the answers they gave here then Microsoft got you guys hook, line, and sinker. Now they can demonstrate to the business community that you guys are irrational morons with the intellect of a three year old. Congratulations.
If on the other hand you truly answered as responsible adults, which many of you don't seem to be, then they got some excellent advice on ways they can make Windows better and stem the adoption of Linux at home and businesses.
This has to be one of Microsoft's more ingenious marketing efforts to date.
"...they designed and built a world-class bridge ... without a pedestrian/bicycle lane!"
Ummm...it's a highway. Bikes and pedestrians have no business on the highway. There are alternative routes bikes and pedestrians can take to cross the river.
Nice attempt to classify George Bush Jr. along with some of history's most despotic tyrants. However you failed to even check into his height with is 5'11", average height for a male and since he runs he's also in good shape. Aahnold is 6'2" so it would seem that he does tower a bit over the President though I doubt any platform the President may or may not have been on would have been that tall (no more than 3" is my math is correct). Whatever you may think of Bush's politics, he is not in the same class of person as the others you mention and any attempt to portray him as such only serves to show you for the uneducated moron you truly are.
You're right. I forgot they linked the two props via chains to a single engine. Regardless, this would have been an 800 lbs. engine and even that was far too heavy.
According to the piece Discovery Channel was running on the Wright Flyer yesterday (Dec. 17th), the Wright Brothers specifically steered away from steam powered engines because it took roughly 100 lbs. per horsepower and tehy wanted 8 horse power from each engine. That would have been a whopping 1600 lbs. for the engines alone. They wound up developing an gas powered aluminum engine similar to the ones Henry Ford was developing at the time as well. The engines painstakingly recreated for the replica weighed in at 170lbs. a piece and produced about 14 horse power each. Either Whitehead discovered a way to magically make significantly lighter steam-powered engines or the Discovery Channel show was grossly wrong in their estimates.
HTML, bah!!! Give me plain text or give me death.
Not really. Sketchup still relies on traditional polygonyl modelling techniques to create the models. SketchUps strength lies in its ability to render images that look like someone sketched the illustration but all the scale, shape and lighting are realistic. It's a very cool, though frustrating in some ways, program that does a good job of creating acrhitectural sketches, that can be updated easily and in real-time, from acrhitectural blueprints for client review.
"if you give something to society, why do you have any say on what happens to it?"
Because society decided long ago to allow creators of art control of their intellectual property for a limited time after which it would fall into the public domain. Without this social contrct artists would not be afforded the possibility to create new work for a living. Before this guilds protected artists and wealthy patrons paid them handsomely to sculpt, compose and paint. The thought of trying to pass off a master's work as your own was unheard of.
Art is not the only thing protected by copyright law however. There are hundreds of thousands of publications that would cease to exist without the protections afforded by copyright law. Information would slow to a trickle or nearly cease at all if magazines, journals and newspapers were not protected by bottom-feeders stealing their content.
Society as a whole is served by this process whether you choose to see it or not. You r"betterment of mankind" tripe might work with the standard ignorant slashbot but in reality it's a non sqeuitur. Your statement is not backed up by any facts other than the common misguided, misconceptions of those who think like you.
News Flash - Copyright Law doesn't care whether the artist sees a return on their investment due to rampant violation of their intellectual property. The original poster was correct in saying that it is up to the copyright holder to decide how their music is distributed. In the US distribution is one of the five basic rights granted copyright holders and it's apparently similar in Canada hence the CRIA going after UPLOADERS, or to put it another way, illegal distributors or opyrighted material.
"Speak to some engineers at AMD and ask them how much the need for x86 backwards compatibility has hindered them and held them back."
Then explain to me why AMD decided to extend teh life of X86 through their 64-X86 based processors instead of dumping it and following Intel's lead with IA-64 and the Itanium? I'll tell you why; money, plain and simple. AMD sees money in extending teh life of X86 while Intel sees opportunity in develping a modern and much better platform. Because AMD refuses to drop X86, Intel will likely have to quickly develop (if they haven't already) a compatible chip to teh AMD 64-X86 line. Intel's willing to let it go, why isn't AMD? The world is not black and white.