and has to have an available USB port for the reciever
The point of Bluetooth is that in the future it could work with other things besides just a computer w/ the right drivers.
For instance. A bluetooth TV could let you use it for volume/channel control. A bluetooth projector could let you use it to control its features. A bluetooth system could let you lower/raise the screen. A bluetooth dvd player could give it control...etc. Any bluetooth enabled device that would have a use for a remote or mouse interface could use this.
"This will make ICANN a much more efficient and effective organization that will get things done better and faster and be more plugged-in to the community than we are now,"
Uh? How does getting rid of publicly voted board members, and then buffering yourself from the risk of being voted out make one "more plugged-in to the community"???
Do they actually believe the bull that they are shoveling? Do they actually expect us to believe it?
actually...he wasn't doing anything specific about the golf course.
The Sierra Club was already filing a court case about the golf course, and they used this guy's database of imagery as irrefutable proof as to what the golf course was doing so that they wouldn't have to fly their own helicopter out there
yeah...i turned off the tv to run down to the laundry room to put stuff in the dryer, came back, and forgot what i had been watching (the only other thing on was infomercials)
The market won't crash to a WinM.P. monopoly because of:
a)Quicktime b)Winamp (now has video support) c)Flash (now has MPEG4 support and ColdFusion has streaming capabilities)
all three are getting more powerful by expanding their capabilities, and outstripping media player in terms of functionality and ease of use.
We won't have a monopoly, but we will have an oligarchy controlled by AOL, Apple, and Microsoft, with the fringe groups being represented with Macromedia and others.
I know about data rates for electronic media. I develop CG animations, many for web use.
I would much rather wait for five minutes for a 3 minute file to download then to suffer the streaming.
People on dial-up avoid streaming media anyways because it looks (and sounds) like complete crap. Unfortuneately, the streams are rarely optimzied for faster connections, and so still look and sound aweful at DSL/cable modem speeds
Sounds to me like a last ditch effort to keep out of Chapter 11.
Real is known for proprietary products that take over a user's system.
Their most recent free player installs a system tray icon that can't be removed. Includes an auto-update feature that can't be disabled. And periodically uses that auto-update feature to spam the user.
Finding the free version of their player on their website is next to impossible.
The compression techniques are bulky and result in a lot of artifacting (both audio and video).
Its a bad product by a bad company and I refuse to install it on my systems. If there is something I want to see/hear and its only available as a RealMedia stream/file, then I don't download it.
Granted, in the long run, this may be a good thing because it is already a commonly used, established format, which is the kind of thing open-source software thrives on.
But like I said, I'm more inclined to believe that this is a last-ditch effort by RealNetworks to get their install base back up to the kinds of numbers they used to have.
Better hope...
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I hope they did backups.
And I hope they patch the hole before restoring from the backups.
So now that the Windows World has put out something comparable to the TiBook, where are all the rabid "Macs are too pricey compared to PCs people..."
Oh wait. Maybe the $2399 price tag shut them up.
I guess the $100 dollars more for TiBook nets you firewire and gigE.
Funny, expect for the gigE and firewire, this laptop compares (in terms of RAM, HD, combo drive, [lets not even start the processor speed flamewar]) to something inbetween the $3199 and $3799 TiBook. It blows away the specs on the $2499 one.
$100 difference for equatable machines huh? I think you're off by a factor of 10 or so.
If the guard reinserts the tape @ 3 am, and the system doesn't completely scan/recognize that its the wrong tape until he's gone or the backup schedule is over, then no-one will see it until it gets spit out again the next night. The security guard sees it, repeat.
Don't get me wrong. I do like Linux, and what it means to Microsoft. I'm even in the process of getting the feel for it and switching over myself.
But at work, I do a multitude of 'poweruser' tasks that are only feasable through Windows-only (or in a few cases Mac) software pacakges.
While I think that will change, it won't be for quite a while since the Windows apps have years and years of development behind them that they don't want to throw out the window.
When a reporter was writing an article on my company, we were asked what software packages we use (we mentioned both 3D Studio and Maya).
When we go the first draft of the article passed by us, the reporter had written that we used Maya on a certain major project for a whole slew of reasons, when in reality, we had been working exclusively in 3DStudio for that project.
What we had said was that Maya and 3DStudio were both good programs for all those reasons. We never mentioned what package we were using on that project but the writer had 'condensed' the quotes, to the point where it was false.
Its like condensing this quote from the Bible: "Thou shalt not kill." to this: "Thou shalt... kill."
Find a *nix based CAD package that compares to AutoCAD. In terms of 3D, Maya is as usable as 3D Studio, but costs twice as much. And Gimp has absolutely nothing on Photoshop (I use both). Music Editing/Sound Engineering? forget it. Tax and Accounting packages (QuickBooks, TurboTax, etc.) - not there.
Although the training is a big issue (hint, its training end users in new software thats expensive, not the OS training), the big concern is software availability. What good does having the option of 30 different email clients if you cant do the major task that your company pays you to do.
The DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency) is a Federal agency with jurisdiction on any land under control of the Federal Government.
When it comes to issues over who's law superscedes, then state laws are soveriegn unless they conflict with federal laws. States can enact measures more stringent than federal regulations, but cannot enact measures that weaken federal laws.
Thats actually a refference to a short story by Harlan Ellison called "I have no mouth, and I must scream" wherein a computer ai (called AM) has destroyed/controlled the entire world save 4 people it keeps alive simply to torture.
MS now knows this guy's intent, and probably is already getting the ball rolling on how to thwart it. Most likely, they are already drafting a letter to the patent office on why this is an invalid patent (using whatever legalise they can come up with).
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it can even be used as a halloween costume
and has to have an available USB port for the reciever
The point of Bluetooth is that in the future it could work with other things besides just a computer w/ the right drivers.
For instance. A bluetooth TV could let you use it for volume/channel control. A bluetooth projector could let you use it to control its features. A bluetooth system could let you lower/raise the screen. A bluetooth dvd player could give it control...etc. Any bluetooth enabled device that would have a use for a remote or mouse interface could use this.
There will be bickering b/c of overlapping. Not sure how they'll settle that kind of thing.
4 more years of dragging their feet through the court system
"This will make ICANN a much more efficient and effective organization that will get things done better and faster and be more plugged-in to the community than we are now,"
Uh? How does getting rid of publicly voted board members, and then buffering yourself from the risk of being voted out make one "more plugged-in to the community"???
Do they actually believe the bull that they are shoveling? Do they actually expect us to believe it?
actually...he wasn't doing anything specific about the golf course.
The Sierra Club was already filing a court case about the golf course, and they used this guy's database of imagery as irrefutable proof as to what the golf course was doing so that they wouldn't have to fly their own helicopter out there
yeah...i turned off the tv to run down to the laundry room to put stuff in the dryer, came back, and forgot what i had been watching (the only other thing on was infomercials)
I saw it last night....it was...well...pathetic
The market won't crash to a WinM.P. monopoly because of:
a)Quicktime
b)Winamp (now has video support)
c)Flash (now has MPEG4 support and ColdFusion has streaming capabilities)
all three are getting more powerful by expanding their capabilities, and outstripping media player in terms of functionality and ease of use.
We won't have a monopoly, but we will have an oligarchy controlled by AOL, Apple, and Microsoft, with the fringe groups being represented with Macromedia and others.
I know about data rates for electronic media. I develop CG animations, many for web use.
I would much rather wait for five minutes for a 3 minute file to download then to suffer the streaming.
People on dial-up avoid streaming media anyways because it looks (and sounds) like complete crap. Unfortuneately, the streams are rarely optimzied for faster connections, and so still look and sound aweful at DSL/cable modem speeds
Sounds to me like a last ditch effort to keep out of Chapter 11.
Real is known for proprietary products that take over a user's system.
Their most recent free player installs a system tray icon that can't be removed. Includes an auto-update feature that can't be disabled. And periodically uses that auto-update feature to spam the user.
Finding the free version of their player on their website is next to impossible.
The compression techniques are bulky and result in a lot of artifacting (both audio and video).
Its a bad product by a bad company and I refuse to install it on my systems. If there is something I want to see/hear and its only available as a RealMedia stream/file, then I don't download it.
Granted, in the long run, this may be a good thing because it is already a commonly used, established format, which is the kind of thing open-source software thrives on.
But like I said, I'm more inclined to believe that this is a last-ditch effort by RealNetworks to get their install base back up to the kinds of numbers they used to have.
I hope they did backups.
And I hope they patch the hole before restoring from the backups.
More likely they'll dot-bomb.
Do you know who has your passwords?
Why not just make 10 louder?
Well, you see, uh, ours goes to 11.
So now that the Windows World has put out something comparable to the TiBook, where are all the rabid "Macs are too pricey compared to PCs people..."
Oh wait. Maybe the $2399 price tag shut them up.
I guess the $100 dollars more for TiBook nets you firewire and gigE.
Funny, expect for the gigE and firewire, this laptop compares (in terms of RAM, HD, combo drive, [lets not even start the processor speed flamewar]) to something inbetween the $3199 and $3799 TiBook. It blows away the specs on the $2499 one.
$100 difference for equatable machines huh? I think you're off by a factor of 10 or so.
Actually it probably is true....
If the guard reinserts the tape @ 3 am, and the system doesn't completely scan/recognize that its the wrong tape until he's gone or the backup schedule is over, then no-one will see it until it gets spit out again the next night. The security guard sees it, repeat.
"a curious student" huh?
:)
something you aren't sharing?
Yeah, Photoshop 3 is available for UNIX.
And I said QuickBooks, not Quicken.
Don't get me wrong. I do like Linux, and what it means to Microsoft. I'm even in the process of getting the feel for it and switching over myself.
But at work, I do a multitude of 'poweruser' tasks that are only feasable through Windows-only (or in a few cases Mac) software pacakges.
While I think that will change, it won't be for quite a while since the Windows apps have years and years of development behind them that they don't want to throw out the window.
Exactly.
... kill."
When a reporter was writing an article on my company, we were asked what software packages we use (we mentioned both 3D Studio and Maya).
When we go the first draft of the article passed by us, the reporter had written that we used Maya on a certain major project for a whole slew of reasons, when in reality, we had been working exclusively in 3DStudio for that project.
What we had said was that Maya and 3DStudio were both good programs for all those reasons. We never mentioned what package we were using on that project but the writer had 'condensed' the quotes, to the point where it was false.
Its like condensing this quote from the Bible: "Thou shalt not kill." to this: "Thou shalt
its not retraining....
its software, software, software
Find a *nix based CAD package that compares to AutoCAD. In terms of 3D, Maya is as usable as 3D Studio, but costs twice as much. And Gimp has absolutely nothing on Photoshop (I use both). Music Editing/Sound Engineering? forget it. Tax and Accounting packages (QuickBooks, TurboTax, etc.) - not there.
Although the training is a big issue (hint, its training end users in new software thats expensive, not the OS training), the big concern is software availability. What good does having the option of 30 different email clients if you cant do the major task that your company pays you to do.
has told...that it plans eventually to eliminate users' ability to disable Microsoft's access to their systems.'
Of course, if you are willing to pay just a little more, Microsoft will sell you security. Coincidence? I think not.
Other devices do use floppy power connectors.
For instance, the head unit for my Creative SBLive 5.1 Platinum and various casemod toys like temperature monitors, fan speed indicators, etc.
The DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency) is a Federal agency with jurisdiction on any land under control of the Federal Government.
When it comes to issues over who's law superscedes, then state laws are soveriegn unless they conflict with federal laws. States can enact measures more stringent than federal regulations, but cannot enact measures that weaken federal laws.
Thats actually a refference to a short story by Harlan Ellison called "I have no mouth, and I must scream" wherein a computer ai (called AM) has destroyed/controlled the entire world save 4 people it keeps alive simply to torture.
I hate that stupid piece of shit!
for those of you that didn't get the parent joke (or my reply) rent this movie
Well, since we all know MS monitors /.:
/. for screwing over this plan.
MS now knows this guy's intent, and probably is already getting the ball rolling on how to thwart it. Most likely, they are already drafting a letter to the patent office on why this is an invalid patent (using whatever legalise they can come up with).
So, thanks
not the front face, but the front edge of the top, in a spot that is easy to reach while sitting at the desk, but difficult to accidentaly hit