NASA would have to start from the same place China is now if they decided to go to the moon again.
That's not entirely true. As demonstrated in Zubrin's A Case for Mars, the technology currently exists to launch a manned Mars mission. Furthermore, those systems as specified in the outline/profile, are usable for a Moon expedition. We have the technology and we have the experience in going to the moon...those both count for a lot.
I was referring to my mountain bike which is not ridden where there's any traffic. And my BMX bike gets ridden on a BMX track, which is closed-off and inaccessible to vehicles.
Note that I didn't say "my road bike"...because when I ride that, I'm out there, in traffic, and I want to have my full array of senses to detect traffic. (And yes, I wear a helmet every time I ride, too.)
1. If six hours isn't enough, take an airline power adapter with you and plug it in.
2. Sure it's cool. I ride mountain bikes and BMX bikes with my iPod turned on, and I can't remember it ever skipping. Chalk this argument up to FUD.
3. Boohoo. Quality costs money. Live with it. Show me another MP3 player with similar size, features, a decent UI/controls, and equal storage space that costs less.
4. What percentage of the owners of portable MP3 players are DJs that want to record their sets? DAT is lossless and is an industry standard, which makes it considerably better for recording your live sets.
5. Huh? Who cares? I'd be willing to bet that between 60 and 75 percent of the music on iPods everywhere is stuff that was downloaded, with 24 to 33 percent being ripped from personal collections, and the remaining 1% purchased from an online store. (On my iPod, which currently contains 4303 songs, 27 of them were purchased at the iTMS. 0.6%)
I guess the question is, how much did Samsung and iRiver pay for this article?
"With all of the police pursuits in California, can mandatory GPS and disabling devices in all vehicles be far away?"
Well, the next time I want to evade police, I'll disable the GPS box or buy my vehicle out-of-state.
Holes in the plan aside, given how susceptible police are to litigation, the first time someone is injured in a crash after their car is shut down at 70 mph, they're going to sue to bejesus out of the cops. And probably win.
Wow...and you have every right to not buy Symantec products. It's pretty common knowledge that companies try to alter the political landscape either through financial contributions or via leverage in the media, so how is this even news?
Maybe Proteron should drop the folks at Microsoft an email and thank them for the inspiration for LiteSwitch X in the first place.
Not that I'm pro-Microsoft, or anti-Proteron. I used LiteSwitch back in my OS 9 days, but Fried Christ on a Stick, don't demand credit for something that you copied from another OS in the first place.
In the case of apt, you aren't making a fair comparison. Apt works because there is a central repository for open source software...to get something similar on the Mac would require thousands of third-party vendors to cooperate on a single platform for delivering upgrades. Where the Mac (and Windows) have an advantage over apt is that neither of them require a recompile when upgrading to a new version of software. It's a binary patching job, something apt doesn't do. (At least not that I'm aware of. I didn't become a *nix junkie until OS X got me hooked.) Furthermore, this "innovation" seems to me to be about useless -- who on God's Green Earth wants to update everything at once? I know that there are certain upgrades I pointedly avoid, simply because I know that it will change the software in a way that is a hinderance to my workflow or my usual mode of operation. (I avoid upgrading to Canadian citizenship from U.S. citizenship, for example, because Canadian Mountain Dew does not have caffeine in it, and would be detrimental to my workflow.)
As for X Windows being able to change the windows manager -- big deal. There's no such thing as a self-consistent GUI anymore. Not in X11, Windows, or Mac. All WMs, including XP and OS X, are easily skin-able, which should really be all you need to do, anyway.
And back to the apt argument...fink, on OS X, does the exact same thing.
So I can get a machine that's slightly faster, costs about the same (Alienware -- I'm guessing), that has a higher TCO, running an operating system that's got severe security issues and one nasty GUI.
Or I can get an Apple, which might cost a bit more, has a lower TCO, running on OS based on UNIX, with a consistent GUI and a command-line interface, from a company that issues security patches in an extremely timely manner, where I don't have to install drivers to get my digital camera to work?
I'll stick with an Apple. My time is worth too much to waste it monkeying around with Windows and trying to get shit to work.
"Microsoft is now as stable and secure as its competitors,"
Okay, put down the Kool-Aid and the crack pipe and step back slowly with your hands in the air.
That said...ARE YOU FUCKING INSANE?
If your answer to the question is "no", perhaps you'll want to enlighten us further as to where your formulate this opinion, because right now it seems that you have no experience with Linux or Mac OS X, and are just toeing the MS Party Line.
Get an OS X box and Red Hat box and call me back after you've used them for a few months.
I thought XP stood for eXcruciatingly Painful. They're switching to it here at work now...and I'm not sure how I want to respond. Do I ask to keep my Win2K setup? Or do I ask them to let me plug in my OS X laptop and do all my work on a real machine?
Agreed. It sucks, and Qwest is my only alternative, as well. (Downtown Minneapolis.) Qwest may be playing both sides of the fence, but at least they're not price-gouging me for the service.:-)
Here's my telemarketer horror story...as a quick bit of background, we already have a do-not-call list here in Minnesota, and have had one since sometime last year.
My girlfriend was home and I was at work. She got a call from a telemarketer. Said telemarketer (a woman) asked for me, and my girlfriend informed her that I was not home and that we were on Minnesota's do-not-call list before hanging up.
Where it gets really frightening is that the telemarketer called my girlfriend back and started an ill-advised bout of verbal beration directed at my girlfriend for hanging up on her. My girlfriend is not someone you trifle with, and she promptly said, "Why don't you get up off your Twinkie-inhaling fat ass and go find a real job, you dumb cunt?" And then hung up again.
(Note: I love my girlfriend. She kicks ass and it's fun to watch/overhear.)
So anyway, said telemarketer called back about thirty minutes later and my girlfriend didn't answer the phone. Said telemarketer didn't do a very good job of trying to disguise her voice, but left a message on the machine that said, "Hi Dan, this is Carla. Last night was great. Call me."
Well, "Carla", I have some bad news for you -- one, we could hear all your retarded co-workers giggling in the background before you hung up to the phone; two, you still sound like the dumb cunt that called my girlfriend thirty minutes prior.
With a large bug up my ass, I went home from work, and immediately called Qwest. Explained the situation to them, they were pretty shocked that a telemarketer would do something like that, but didn't dispute the story. Unfortunately, they couldn't tell me who the call had come from, and most telemarketers, including this one, block their called ID data. So my campaign to get the uppity bitch fired was right out the window. The good news is, for about an extra $2 a month on the phone bill, I was able to get a call-screening feature that won't let people without caller ID data dial straight through. They must enter their phone number...and if they try to put in a bogus #, it ends the call. It works like a champ. We've gotten *1* telemarketing call since, and only because I was dumb enough to answer without looking at the display, when I was expecting a buddy of mine to call.
FWIW, you don't need a DNC list. You can pay $2, or just get one of those portable air horns and blast it into the mouthpiece whenever someone starts wasting your time...telemarketer or not.:-)
...we're going to see the big five labels sue this new one because the songs that the "Good Label" uses notes that can be found in their intellectual property. (Basically to be used as an attack against the Creative Commons license. Something like that, right?
"My store specialised in family music - stuff that the whole family could listen to. I don't sell sick stuff like Marilyn Manson or cop-killer rap, and I'm proud to have one of the most extensive Christian rock sections that I know of."
And you wonder why your business faces ruin?
Seriously, this makes about as much sense as opening a bike shop and selling nothing but Huffys. You're picking the worst possible product AND aiming toward such a narrow demographic, that you've pretty much doomed yourself to failure, P2P or not.
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NASA would have to start from the same place China is now if they decided to go to the moon again. That's not entirely true. As demonstrated in Zubrin's A Case for Mars, the technology currently exists to launch a manned Mars mission. Furthermore, those systems as specified in the outline/profile, are usable for a Moon expedition. We have the technology and we have the experience in going to the moon...those both count for a lot.
So is jumping to conclusions.
I was referring to my mountain bike which is not ridden where there's any traffic. And my BMX bike gets ridden on a BMX track, which is closed-off and inaccessible to vehicles.
Note that I didn't say "my road bike"...because when I ride that, I'm out there, in traffic, and I want to have my full array of senses to detect traffic. (And yes, I wear a helmet every time I ride, too.)
1. If six hours isn't enough, take an airline power adapter with you and plug it in.
2. Sure it's cool. I ride mountain bikes and BMX bikes with my iPod turned on, and I can't remember it ever skipping. Chalk this argument up to FUD.
3. Boohoo. Quality costs money. Live with it. Show me another MP3 player with similar size, features, a decent UI/controls, and equal storage space that costs less.
4. What percentage of the owners of portable MP3 players are DJs that want to record their sets? DAT is lossless and is an industry standard, which makes it considerably better for recording your live sets.
5. Huh? Who cares? I'd be willing to bet that between 60 and 75 percent of the music on iPods everywhere is stuff that was downloaded, with 24 to 33 percent being ripped from personal collections, and the remaining 1% purchased from an online store. (On my iPod, which currently contains 4303 songs, 27 of them were purchased at the iTMS. 0.6%)
I guess the question is, how much did Samsung and iRiver pay for this article?
"Is this the beginning of the end for Macromedia?"
No, it's another nail in the anti-trust coffin for Microsoft.
...who's trying to hack the Sun?
(Pun so totally intended.)
"With all of the police pursuits in California, can mandatory GPS and disabling devices in all vehicles be far away?" Well, the next time I want to evade police, I'll disable the GPS box or buy my vehicle out-of-state.
Holes in the plan aside, given how susceptible police are to litigation, the first time someone is injured in a crash after their car is shut down at 70 mph, they're going to sue to bejesus out of the cops. And probably win.
How to secure the Internet without breaking it: kick all Microsoft products off it.
I knew I should have registered askclippy.com -- I coulda made a mint!
Wow...and you have every right to not buy Symantec products. It's pretty common knowledge that companies try to alter the political landscape either through financial contributions or via leverage in the media, so how is this even news?
Maybe Proteron should drop the folks at Microsoft an email and thank them for the inspiration for LiteSwitch X in the first place.
Not that I'm pro-Microsoft, or anti-Proteron. I used LiteSwitch back in my OS 9 days, but Fried Christ on a Stick, don't demand credit for something that you copied from another OS in the first place.
In the case of apt, you aren't making a fair comparison. Apt works because there is a central repository for open source software...to get something similar on the Mac would require thousands of third-party vendors to cooperate on a single platform for delivering upgrades. Where the Mac (and Windows) have an advantage over apt is that neither of them require a recompile when upgrading to a new version of software. It's a binary patching job, something apt doesn't do. (At least not that I'm aware of. I didn't become a *nix junkie until OS X got me hooked.) Furthermore, this "innovation" seems to me to be about useless -- who on God's Green Earth wants to update everything at once? I know that there are certain upgrades I pointedly avoid, simply because I know that it will change the software in a way that is a hinderance to my workflow or my usual mode of operation. (I avoid upgrading to Canadian citizenship from U.S. citizenship, for example, because Canadian Mountain Dew does not have caffeine in it, and would be detrimental to my workflow.)
As for X Windows being able to change the windows manager -- big deal. There's no such thing as a self-consistent GUI anymore. Not in X11, Windows, or Mac. All WMs, including XP and OS X, are easily skin-able, which should really be all you need to do, anyway.
And back to the apt argument...fink, on OS X, does the exact same thing.
My $0.02, anyway.
So I can get a machine that's slightly faster, costs about the same (Alienware -- I'm guessing), that has a higher TCO, running an operating system that's got severe security issues and one nasty GUI.
Or I can get an Apple, which might cost a bit more, has a lower TCO, running on OS based on UNIX, with a consistent GUI and a command-line interface, from a company that issues security patches in an extremely timely manner, where I don't have to install drivers to get my digital camera to work?
I'll stick with an Apple. My time is worth too much to waste it monkeying around with Windows and trying to get shit to work.
Well, gee, I guess it's a good thing I registered my cell number with the do-not-call registry.
I'm glad that a $50K English degree got me some sort of recognition somewhere. :-D
No, genius. I meant toeing.
"Microsoft is now as stable and secure as its competitors,"
Okay, put down the Kool-Aid and the crack pipe and step back slowly with your hands in the air.
That said...ARE YOU FUCKING INSANE?
If your answer to the question is "no", perhaps you'll want to enlighten us further as to where your formulate this opinion, because right now it seems that you have no experience with Linux or Mac OS X, and are just toeing the MS Party Line.
Get an OS X box and Red Hat box and call me back after you've used them for a few months.
I thought XP stood for eXcruciatingly Painful. They're switching to it here at work now...and I'm not sure how I want to respond. Do I ask to keep my Win2K setup? Or do I ask them to let me plug in my OS X laptop and do all my work on a real machine?
Agreed. It sucks, and Qwest is my only alternative, as well. (Downtown Minneapolis.) Qwest may be playing both sides of the fence, but at least they're not price-gouging me for the service. :-)
Here's my telemarketer horror story...as a quick bit of background, we already have a do-not-call list here in Minnesota, and have had one since sometime last year.
:-)
My girlfriend was home and I was at work. She got a call from a telemarketer. Said telemarketer (a woman) asked for me, and my girlfriend informed her that I was not home and that we were on Minnesota's do-not-call list before hanging up.
Where it gets really frightening is that the telemarketer called my girlfriend back and started an ill-advised bout of verbal beration directed at my girlfriend for hanging up on her. My girlfriend is not someone you trifle with, and she promptly said, "Why don't you get up off your Twinkie-inhaling fat ass and go find a real job, you dumb cunt?" And then hung up again.
(Note: I love my girlfriend. She kicks ass and it's fun to watch/overhear.)
So anyway, said telemarketer called back about thirty minutes later and my girlfriend didn't answer the phone. Said telemarketer didn't do a very good job of trying to disguise her voice, but left a message on the machine that said, "Hi Dan, this is Carla. Last night was great. Call me."
Well, "Carla", I have some bad news for you -- one, we could hear all your retarded co-workers giggling in the background before you hung up to the phone; two, you still sound like the dumb cunt that called my girlfriend thirty minutes prior.
With a large bug up my ass, I went home from work, and immediately called Qwest. Explained the situation to them, they were pretty shocked that a telemarketer would do something like that, but didn't dispute the story. Unfortunately, they couldn't tell me who the call had come from, and most telemarketers, including this one, block their called ID data. So my campaign to get the uppity bitch fired was right out the window. The good news is, for about an extra $2 a month on the phone bill, I was able to get a call-screening feature that won't let people without caller ID data dial straight through. They must enter their phone number...and if they try to put in a bogus #, it ends the call. It works like a champ. We've gotten *1* telemarketing call since, and only because I was dumb enough to answer without looking at the display, when I was expecting a buddy of mine to call.
FWIW, you don't need a DNC list. You can pay $2, or just get one of those portable air horns and blast it into the mouthpiece whenever someone starts wasting your time...telemarketer or not.
I suppose the best thing about 2-3 minute shorts is that you can only pack so much bad dialogue and so many plot loopholes into them.
No, it's just over 1. I bought it last fall the day it was released. (Yes, I am a geek that sat in line @ the Apple store for the midnight opening.)
...Walt Disney, the slashed femoral artery of monetary blood. I have to wonder how long its going to take the patient to bleed to death.
"How soon before someone hacks it?"
Depends on who built the embedded OS.
Microsoft, you say? In that case, it was hacked before they even turned on the juice.
...we're going to see the big five labels sue this new one because the songs that the "Good Label" uses notes that can be found in their intellectual property. (Basically to be used as an attack against the Creative Commons license. Something like that, right?
"My store specialised in family music - stuff that the whole family could listen to. I don't sell sick stuff like Marilyn Manson or cop-killer rap, and I'm proud to have one of the most extensive Christian rock sections that I know of."
And you wonder why your business faces ruin?
Seriously, this makes about as much sense as opening a bike shop and selling nothing but Huffys. You're picking the worst possible product AND aiming toward such a narrow demographic, that you've pretty much doomed yourself to failure, P2P or not.