a) using the remote user's computer to establish a telecommunications link to the network web site wherein the network web site comprises (i) a central host server coupled to a communications network for retrieving and transmitting the pre-selected portion of the pre-recorded music product upon request by a remote user and (ii) a central storage device for storing pre-selected portions of a plurality of different pre-recorded music products;
b) transmitting user identification data from the remote user's computer to the central host server thereby allowing the central host server to identify and track the user's progress through the network web site;
c) choosing at least one pre-selected portion of the pre-recorded music products from the central host server;
d) receiving the chosen pre-selected portion of the pre-recorded products; and
e) interactively previewing the received chosen pre-selected portion of the pre-recorded music product.
Libel laws? Surely nice Mr. Murdoch wouldn't want to sue anyone.
We have most of a totally revolutionary computer
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Looking at the slashdot news for the past few weeks, almost everything is about to be revolutionised.
We've increased memory bandwidth, and size. We've increased network speed, and decreased the cost. we have fast optical switches. We've increased mass storage space, we've increased mass storage reliability. Flat screens are now 4 times the size and resolution that they were before.
How long until we get a CPU that will be as revolutionary?
5 years down the line is used because computer time schedules saturate at 5. Nobody would start a major project if there were no returns for the next 5 years. Therefore 5 = infinity. 5 - 4.9999 = 5.
It could just be a design patent which as far as I understand it essentially says that you can build a device thats functionally the same but totally incompatible. (So you could patent a nut and bolt of a certain size, and prevent people from making nuts or bolts that fit)
In other words, using a different (incompatible but similar) set of Huffman codes would be a perfectly valid, and acceptable way to avoid having to pay royalties.
Aardman have the benefit that if they have a succesful film then they make HUGE quantities of money from the merchantising. Essentially the film is the advertising. I presume that this is where the money for this is coming from. Not all films can make money this way.
Of course it is also in their interests to encourage animation in general, so perhaps they don't intend to make any money from it at all.
Out in June according to my sources. Looks good. They've got an all star cast, including Mel Gibson, and a load of the British actors that you seem to see in every other film we produce.
Most of the attempts to associate women and computers seem to be patronising and sexist.
I saw an advertisment on (UK) TV a couple of days ago. I think it was for a magazine or a Sunday supplement about the Internet for Women. Essentially the gist was "We think that women are petrified of computers. We'll show you where all the sites about health and cosmetics are" (I get the feeling articles inside said "If this is too complicated get a man to help")
I think what we really need to do is to get rid of the assumption that Women are stereotypes.
Probably loss making. Thats the problem. Nobody wants to see them lose money unless they act in an evil way.
Besides, if too many people started to sign up for just 3 months, they would have to increase the minimum service time. This would put off the people who might want to use this the way it was intended, and we're relying on these people to subsidise us.
The size of the screen seems to be overkill for this sort of application. I wonder how succesful an ultra compressed PC with pretty much the same spec, but a tiny display, no modem or screen and a few rows of LCD text displays for the screen would cost
Really!? In that case they should add a decent graphics card and a marginally faster processor and sell for $300, and port the pizza key software to Linux.
I wonder how much these things actually cost. And does the inclusion of QNX add to the price?
If they sold it without the OS (who needs it anyway) at break even then they'd get a whole load of free publicity. Since the cost of parts will go down in the near future, they would soon be making a profit.
Getting it to work under BeOS is counting. (1,2,3,...20 seconds, booted, working)
Getting it to work (basically) under Linux is arithmetic. (Now then I have a 85 Hz refresh rate, a 250Mhz dot clock so the resolution I can have is......)
Getting it to work well under Linux is probably algebra, but it could be calculus.
Getting it to work under Windows is a combination Witchcraft and Voodoo, or something occult.
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I don't think thats quite true. Although I'm not sure if I count as a real hacker, I care about themes. The problem is that there aren't any themes designed for me.
My demands are different from most other people's. I want to have as little screen space taken up with title bars, menus, taskbars, launchbars, winebars as possible, as much of the control as neccesary pushed to the sides, and I want it to be very fast and responsive. I also want to have immediate access to any application I might need. When I use a different app that does something similar to the one I'm using Iwant it to be usable in the same way. I want a text editor and a word processor to have the same keyboard shortcuts. And for some reason I can't find a desktop theme that suits me. None of my demands are about the aesthetics. Just the ease of use.
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Who still uses OS/2?
The villian in Goldeneye
Why>
There's only room for one evil empire on the planet.
The method comprising the steps of:
Or to summarize
I think this is sarcasm but I am not sure.
Well, perhaps this line should explain it
By making sure the customer is incapable of viewing the DVDs they purchased, the MPAA can ensure nobody will pirate any of their releases
I think they should make sure that DVD's come in empty boxes instead. No-one can pirate it if they don't have the disk.
You speak as though copying GPL'ed code is a bad thing. Isn't that the whole point?
Elite...... first (only?) game to use two screen modes on the screen at once :)
First - probably. Only - certainly not. The Amiga did this all the time. Apparently it was used by the spectrum from time to time as well.
On the subject of Best games, I quite liked Chucky Egg
popular in UK schools and .....Bulletproof as well.
I would have thought this would have made them popular in US schools. I could do with a bulletproof PC though, so I could shoot it when I got angry.
Libel laws? Surely nice Mr. Murdoch wouldn't want to sue anyone.
Looking at the slashdot news for the past few weeks, almost everything is about to be revolutionised.
We've increased memory bandwidth, and size. We've increased network speed, and decreased the cost. we have fast optical switches. We've increased mass storage space, we've increased mass storage reliability. Flat screens are now 4 times the size and resolution that they were before.
How long until we get a CPU that will be as revolutionary?
5 years down the line is used because computer time schedules saturate at 5. Nobody would start a major project if there were no returns for the next 5 years. Therefore 5 = infinity. 5 - 4.9999 = 5.
Medicine seems to set infinity at 10 years.
Can you provide a link, patent number or keyword?
It could just be a design patent which as far as I understand it essentially says that you can build a device thats functionally the same but totally incompatible. (So you could patent a nut and bolt of a certain size, and prevent people from making nuts or bolts that fit)
In other words, using a different (incompatible but similar) set of Huffman codes would be a perfectly valid, and acceptable way to avoid having to pay royalties.
Aardman have the benefit that if they have a succesful film then they make HUGE quantities of money from the merchantising. Essentially the film is the advertising. I presume that this is where the money for this is coming from. Not all films can make money this way.
Of course it is also in their interests to encourage animation in general, so perhaps they don't intend to make any money from it at all.
Out in June according to my sources. Looks good. They've got an all star cast, including Mel Gibson, and a load of the British actors that you seem to see in every other film we produce.
What does this actually cover? I would have expected it to be sufficiently abstract to cover all MDCT based lossy compression schemes.
Has anyone checked that this definitely doesn't infringe the patent?
Most of the attempts to associate women and computers seem to be patronising and sexist.
I saw an advertisment on (UK) TV a couple of days ago. I think it was for a magazine or a Sunday supplement about the Internet for Women. Essentially the gist was "We think that women are petrified of computers. We'll show you where all the sites about health and cosmetics are" (I get the feeling articles inside said "If this is too complicated get a man to help")
I think what we really need to do is to get rid of the assumption that Women are stereotypes.
Probably loss making. Thats the problem. Nobody wants to see them lose money unless they act in an evil way.
Besides, if too many people started to sign up for just 3 months, they would have to increase the minimum service time. This would put off the people who might want to use this the way it was intended, and we're relying on these people to subsidise us.
GPS, MP3 player and/or digital dashboard
The size of the screen seems to be overkill for this sort of application. I wonder how succesful an ultra compressed PC with pretty much the same spec, but a tiny display, no modem or screen and a few rows of LCD text displays for the screen would cost
Really!? In that case they should add a decent graphics card and a marginally faster processor and sell for $300, and port the pizza key software to Linux.
You didn't knock any marks off for the "'freeware' phenomenon that Linus Torvaldes started" comment.
Or is that covered by Troll and Flamebait?
I wonder how much these things actually cost. And does the inclusion of QNX add to the price?
If they sold it without the OS (who needs it anyway) at break even then they'd get a whole load of free publicity. Since the cost of parts will go down in the near future, they would soon be making a profit.
I tried the tanks comminucation method. Quite effective, but the bits get scrambled.
Is there and RFC for the famous train full of hard disks?
I've had experience with this
Getting it to work under BeOS is counting. (1,2,3,...20 seconds, booted, working)
Getting it to work (basically) under Linux is arithmetic. (Now then I have a 85 Hz refresh rate, a 250Mhz dot clock so the resolution I can have is......)
Getting it to work well under Linux is probably algebra, but it could be calculus.
Getting it to work under Windows is a combination Witchcraft and Voodoo, or something occult.
Meesa think you taka me too seriously.
Solid state digital video recorders with 2" cassettes and uncompressed video are just around the corner.
But the question is how much are these things going to cost?
Yeah, you fool. Its spelled humur!
Real hackers don't give a damn about themes
I don't think thats quite true. Although I'm not sure if I count as a real hacker, I care about themes. The problem is that there aren't any themes designed for me.
My demands are different from most other people's. I want to have as little screen space taken up with title bars, menus, taskbars, launchbars, winebars as possible, as much of the control as neccesary pushed to the sides, and I want it to be very fast and responsive. I also want to have immediate access to any application I might need. When I use a different app that does something similar to the one I'm using Iwant it to be usable in the same way. I want a text editor and a word processor to have the same keyboard shortcuts. And for some reason I can't find a desktop theme that suits me. None of my demands are about the aesthetics. Just the ease of use.