Given Totems ability to show Youtube videos this wouldn't even have to take up harddrive space and could be updated in case some steps change in the future. It would all still feel really native since it's running in totems friendly player interface.
This is the first time I actually see something that might just work. It's nice. Has a decent formfactor and could really work for me. Finally something that doesn't make you look like an idiot while communting on the bus and reading LOTR.
Frankly, I really don't care what is allowed today and what is illegal the next day or vice versa. The record industry is confused, I know. But it's not my fucking problem. If they can't speak with one voice and come out every day with a new law/copyright/drm/ or whatever, I just don't care anymore. I share my stuff now without regret. They have proven to be clueless and it's not my job to follow every press release to have a semiidea of what is legal or illegal today. Now sue me for rebuying my LPs in the 90s as CDs and not doing the same with your DRM-ridden songs last year that you are now reselling as DRMfree MP3s. You can have your LedZeppelin Revivals, I have my LedZeppelin records and everything you produce today is rubbish anyway.
Hey, that's ok. I think most of us started like that. Personally I was trying to write a star wars game at the time. Never got beyond the intro either. But it looked kinda neat on my C=16,;)
6 months ago I used gmail and pandora for all my music and e-mail needs. First they took pandora from us and now gmail. Whats next? digg.com?/.? Linux? Should I sell my PC now, or what? Honestly. Just when I thought my country (germany) is getting a little relaxed in a paranoid world.;-(
I have been preaching this for years. Glad raises the topic. Actually, a year ago I wrote a song inspired by some concept art from the 70s:
Here it is, for your convenience, hope you like it.:)
ARTIFICIAL SUMMER BREEZE (BERNAL SPHERE)
Have you heard the news my dear? Were moving in our Bernal Sphere I read the brochure, it was clear the futures here within a year.
I bought a semidetatched place close to the zero G estates. well work on earths first SPS a giant maser, whod have guessed?
REFRAIN: We will wake up every morning under our acacia tree life looks just like california at the end of history A Bernal Sphere, a Bernal Sphere, a Bernal Sphere, my dear! Ohhh...Were moving in...
Our kids will attend junior high first generation born in sky everyone will life in peace in artificial summer breeze
Happy hour 24 everything you dream and more interstellar travel tickets outdoor family spacewalk picnics
REFRAIN: We will wake up every morning under our acacia tree life looks just like california at the end of history A Bernal Sphere, a Bernal Sphere, a Bernal Sphere, my dear! Ohhh...Were moving in...
---
BRIDGE: Well go jogging on the riverside breakfast on our own terrace floating high above the earth well go and surf the skies.
REPRISE: Come take my hand and have no fear our future is the Bernal Sphere but then again on second look just sketches from a 70s book.
If you install Ubuntu off the LiveCD, wich is recommended, it will detect your Windows installation and offer an option to install as a dual-boot. Painless.
I think its a mixture of the DRM/format lock-in, regular market saturation and growing competition. Personally I think that the lack of on the fly recording is one of the many reasons why I would get another mp3-player and not an iPod. But lets wait for Apples Showtime event and then talk about it again. Steve might have something to fix the xmas sales.
That question is so completely insulting to a developer -- it so trivializes their attempt to do something smart and useful for you -- that if you asked that question, developer morale would immediately plummet. If you have ever asked such a question in the past, you need to know that your company has lost productivity because of it. Even if it never resulted in a missed deadline. Once you insult your developers, they're not going to want to work hard for you. They're going to stop caring. Do something smart and get insulted? OK, stop trying to be smart. If you've ever had to limit your scope or drop features or push out a deadline or worse, and such a thing happened after you asked such a question, now you know why. If you've ever released something that was buggier than people expected, or more difficult to refactor than the developers expected, you can probably bet that a member of your team was insulted and stopped caring.
Ok, please understand, I didnt ask this question as I am a sysad myself and work a lot with devs and use a lot of GNU stuff wich gets most of my work done for me. BUT, the managers in my company often asked questions like this. I hate this kind of questions myself, but I just knew that they would ask it if theyd hear about this, so I included it. I am not a manager nor a dev. But a systema administrator and I know both kinds of people. Personally I am a strong supporter of the bottom up approach and libraries or ideas like CowAJAX are part of this. Just for clarification!:)
I understand the concept. But companies are kinda greedy when it gets to owning their proprietary stuff. Well, at least thats what its like in the company I work for.
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I just donated 100€. The reason was this newsbit. I guess this backifred....
That would have been awesome, Futurama blu-Ray with playable Game Demo...but NO! ;-/
Given Totems ability to show Youtube videos this wouldn't even have to take up harddrive space and could be updated in case some steps change in the future. It would all still feel really native since it's running in totems friendly player interface.
Can I touch Sabrina?
This is the first time I actually see something that might just work. It's nice. Has a decent formfactor and could really work for me. Finally something that doesn't make you look like an idiot while communting on the bus and reading LOTR.
FYI, this is NOT the first time. Spirit caught them before.
Thanks. You are so right. I thought it was my european heritage but obviously this guy qualifies as a dick globally. ;)
This list is not complete with the C116. Terrible, terrrrible. Glad those days are over. ;)
Awesome, how a mac user dualboots into linux for gaming. Absolutely priceless. ;)
Basically because you are more creative than the whole bunch of hollywood writers. Don't be proud, it's not that hard. :)
Frankly, I really don't care what is allowed today and what is illegal the next day or vice versa. The record industry is confused, I know. But it's not my fucking problem. If they can't speak with one voice and come out every day with a new law/copyright/drm/ or whatever, I just don't care anymore. I share my stuff now without regret. They have proven to be clueless and it's not my job to follow every press release to have a semiidea of what is legal or illegal today. Now sue me for rebuying my LPs in the 90s as CDs and not doing the same with your DRM-ridden songs last year that you are now reselling as DRMfree MP3s. You can have your LedZeppelin Revivals, I have my LedZeppelin records and everything you produce today is rubbish anyway.
I'd suggest: bearable
Hey, that's ok. I think most of us started like that. Personally I was trying to write a star wars game at the time. Never got beyond the intro either. But it looked kinda neat on my C=16, ;)
6 months ago I used gmail and pandora for all my music and e-mail needs. /.? Linux? ;-(
First they took pandora from us and now gmail. Whats next? digg.com?
Should I sell my PC now, or what? Honestly. Just when I thought my country (germany) is getting a little relaxed in a paranoid world.
Compositors, compositors, compositors, compositors,...
erm, given the timeframe wouldnt Fords age place the story somewhere deep in the 70s? I wonder how this fits with the Indy universe... ;-/
I have been preaching this for years. Glad raises the topic.
:)
Actually, a year ago I wrote a song inspired by some concept art from the 70s:
Here it is, for your convenience, hope you like it.
ARTIFICIAL SUMMER BREEZE (BERNAL SPHERE)
Have you heard the news my dear?
Were moving in our Bernal Sphere
I read the brochure, it was clear
the futures here within a year.
I bought a semidetatched place
close to the zero G estates.
well work on earths first SPS
a giant maser, whod have guessed?
REFRAIN:
We will wake up every morning
under our acacia tree
life looks just like california
at the end of history
A Bernal Sphere, a Bernal Sphere,
a Bernal Sphere, my dear!
Ohhh...Were moving in...
Our kids will attend junior high
first generation born in sky
everyone will life in peace
in artificial summer breeze
Happy hour 24
everything you dream and more
interstellar travel tickets
outdoor family spacewalk picnics
REFRAIN:
We will wake up every morning
under our acacia tree
life looks just like california
at the end of history
A Bernal Sphere, a Bernal Sphere,
a Bernal Sphere, my dear!
Ohhh...Were moving in...
---
BRIDGE:
Well go jogging on the riverside
breakfast on our own terrace
floating high above the earth
well go and surf the skies.
REPRISE:
Come take my hand and have no fear
our future is the Bernal Sphere
but then again on second look
just sketches from a 70s book.
too busy gaming!
Except that it sounds scary as hell.
Lets keep the doomsday movie-references coming, Ill start:
Wargames...
Will it feature Skaven???
A playable race even?? Pretty please...
If you install Ubuntu off the LiveCD, wich is recommended, it will detect your Windows installation and offer an option to install as a dual-boot.
Painless.
I think its a mixture of the DRM/format lock-in, regular market saturation and growing competition. Personally I think that the lack of on the fly recording is one of the many reasons why I would get another mp3-player and not an iPod. But lets wait for Apples Showtime event and then talk about it again. Steve might have something to fix the xmas sales.
"an entire season of Firefly" - Not to say THE entire season! ;-/
That question is so completely insulting to a developer -- it so trivializes their attempt to do something smart and useful for you -- that if you asked that question, developer morale would immediately plummet. If you have ever asked such a question in the past, you need to know that your company has lost productivity because of it. Even if it never resulted in a missed deadline. Once you insult your developers, they're not going to want to work hard for you. They're going to stop caring. Do something smart and get insulted? OK, stop trying to be smart. If you've ever had to limit your scope or drop features or push out a deadline or worse, and such a thing happened after you asked such a question, now you know why. If you've ever released something that was buggier than people expected, or more difficult to refactor than the developers expected, you can probably bet that a member of your team was insulted and stopped caring.
:)
Ok, please understand, I didnt ask this question as I am a sysad myself and work a lot with devs and use a lot of GNU stuff wich gets most of my work done for me. BUT, the managers in my company often asked questions like this. I hate this kind of questions myself, but I just knew that they would ask it if theyd hear about this, so I included it. I am not a manager nor a dev. But a systema administrator and I know both kinds of people. Personally I am a strong supporter of the bottom up approach and libraries or ideas like CowAJAX are part of this. Just for clarification!
I understand the concept. But companies are kinda greedy when it gets to owning their proprietary stuff. Well, at least thats what its like in the company I work for.