Of course! I feel silly for having forgotten about Pirate Radio. This gives me more reason to think that Websters really dropped the ball by not including a second definition of the word "pirate", in addition to the "naval highwayman" thing.
Fair enough... I agree it's a different story with laptops. I myself hate messting with their guts. I guess I feel pretty confident in servicing my own PC hardware, but if I had a laptop, maybe I would want a service deal.
Still, I think that just replacing whatever breaks in a desktop computer will cost you much less (and be less trouble) than buying name-brand OEM with a warranty. My views might be skewed by the fact that I've had very few hardware problems in my DIY box.
Sounds like the words of a tech-support junkie. I'm sorry to say, but you are a tool of the OEMs. It doesn't take very long to learn service a computer yourself; those Dell tech guys don't know much more than the average Slashdotter. The advantage is that you stop being a little baby who has to go cry to mommy every time something breaks, and start taking control over your hardware. Plus, it's fun!
As long as you refuse to break your Dell warranty and get inside your system, you will remain attached to their tits. Of course, this is what they want, because you apparently have the money to pay those ridiculous service contracts. For shame!
Wow, this "MARGARET WERTHEIM" is a total idiot. Anybody who even took an "intro to philosophy" course and didn't sleep through it would know that any talk about "breaking the laws of nature" is complete nonsense. If this experiment turns out to be right, the consequence will not be that the laws of nature were broken, but that they are different from what we were expecting. Maybe this MARGARET WERTHEIM learned in journalism school to generate interest through cliches and conceptual nonsense, and maybe that's good enough to fool LA Times editors, but I can tell you, this doesn't reaffirm my faith in American journalism.
I know it's not intended that way, but this reads like a troll. You're suggesting what, that D&D geeks all must have taped-up glasses, pimples, and a cracking program for porn site passwords? This was never the case, not even in the heyday of D&D.
D&D was a big part of my life in high school, and that of my friends. We were geeks in the sense that we were well-read, obsessed with weird details, interested in technology and willing to explore our fantasy. We also had an awesome garage band, crazy parties and fairly hot girlfriends who didn't mind occasionally taking a break from dice rolling for a marathon fuck. Maybe the high school jocks didn't think we were very cool, but that didn't make us rejects. I shudder to think how shitty my HS experience would have been had I not fallen in with "D&D geeks"--they were some of the coolest people I have ever known.
If you are not a native speaker of English please ignore this comment. But if you are, I strongly urge you to stop quoting an English dictionary and think that by doing so, you are making an argument of some sort. Obviously, Websters hasn't yet caught up with modern usage of the word "pirate." Big deal. So you have an outdated/inaccurate dictionary.
Please, young people, stop trying to treat dictionaries as manuals that legislate the rules of a language, when what they in fact do is describe (and sometimes misdescribe) common usage.
Sure, there is going to be a post-bust feeding frenzy when some of the freed-up talent gets gobbled up by the Silicon Valley survivors, but remember that most of the talented workers never actually owned property there. It's no wonder, when $.5M buys you something only slightly nicer than a shack in a sprawling, lifeless suburb.
If you were like many of the local workers who were renting and saving up, you simply cannot stay after your job evaporated. I'm not sure if the people are leaving to Seattle, Austin, India or whatever, but don't hold your breath waiting for Silicon Valley to rebloom.
In the long run, don't expect the job providers to stay, either. Other states are giving much better tax incentives to tech firms, who realize that Bay Area workers are much more expensive (and only marginally better), not because they're greedy, but because they have to pay the outregeous living costs.
I think you're quite right, and I too found this encouraging. You see, my tech dream device right now is a bluetooth living room remote control. Sure, it sounds stupid and frivolous and all that, and that's why I think Apple just might make one.
The idea would be for Apple to make a set-top living room hub connected by either Firewire or fast ethernet to your computer. There would be inputs/outputs on the box for video and audio, which would play on your living room TV and stereo. Using the BT remote, you would basically have a living room interface to the content of your computer, and be able to play back your music and video files in your living room. (I also imagine the BT remote would double as a universal IR remote; basically, the living room hub would relay commands to other components in "bright" IR pulses.)
The BT remote would basically log itself in to your main computer as a remote user, and have a rudimentary LCD filebrowser built in, giving you access to the contents of your hard drive. I imagine if you had the TV on, there would also be a more expansive interface to your computer (based on AppleTalk, maybe). And, of course, the thing would act as a PVR, but the files would shuttled through the interlink and saved on your hard drive, where you could later manipulate them with iMovie, recompress them, burn backups, or whatever. This means the box would have to do hardware compression (maybe into MPEG-4?) and also have enough numbercrunching power to play back compressed video from your HD, but neither of these features would be terribly expensive anymore.
Anyway, I hope this is the sort of thing Jobs has in mind when he repeats the mantra that the Mac will be the digital hub of the home. This is the sort of digital hub that I would actually buy.
You slashdotters should be better at recognizing "strategic" leaks. This is a part of the "big contract" dance that should now be familiar. When you're a company that basically assembles parts, it turns out it's in your interest to make sure your regular parts providers are giving you their absolute rock-bottom price. That's why you float rumors (remember what the Register is) that the contract is going the rival company. Now, MS just twiddle their thumbs and wait for Intel to call them with a deal MS can't refuse. Intel might even supply the chips at cost, to keep AMD from growing bigger and bolder.
Remember when Dell had that very prominent survey on their website about whether we would buy Dells with Athlons inside? I'm sure almost everybody wanted this, and many people even begged. I bet you Dell got some pretty sweet prices on the next batch of Intel chips! This is just good (and evil) marketing.
I think the idea is that Microsoft ultimately issues the marching orders. Sanders admits in the interview that it is basically in their power to decide whether a processor line succeeds or fails. It is interesting how even the cocky JerryS is not too proud to openly grovel at the feet of Microsoft.
BTW, this is also the first place where I've heard that Windows64 will natively run in 64 bit mode on the Hammers. (Did I read that right?) This is good news indeed for AMD (and for MS users). Of course it might only be news to me, but last I heard, it was still up in the air whether MS was going to bother with 64 bit Hammer support. Maybe all the recent SuSE work on 64 bit Hammer Linux gave them a little scare! Wow, it's great to read that even in this bleak world of monopolies, competition sometimes springs from the darndest places. I just wish Transmeta were still in the game.
For the World Cup, and all other sports-related matters I know of, Israel counts as a part of Europe. Economically, it makes sense to put them in that class, too. In the same way, Egypt is usually counted as a part of the Middle East despite the fact it is squarely on the African continent.
Aah, this made me laugh... I guess one nice thing about a far-from-computer-geek girlfriend is that she probably doesn't do searches for her boyfriend's postings on/.
However, I do recommend to everyone in this situation to be careful about what gets stored in their Mozilla history file.
Umm... today we call that "terrorism." (We might think it's justified terrorism, but this brings up an uncomfortable question about what else might be.)
It's actually worse than that, because by the time the law kicks in next year, we can assume that 2.5" HD prices will fall to about $3/GB CDN. This has the effect of basically rendering a whole class of devices unsellable.
I read submissions for "fucking lame" stories because I hope to find replies that menition the fact the story is fucking lame and doesn't belong on Slashdot. (To reassure myself that/. hasn't completely gone to hell.) It appears, though, that all of these (and there were many) got modded down. These are sad times we live in.
Aaaarg, I don't know how to start! Let me get this straight... you think that a sub-second rate guitar shop releasing instruments with Star Wars pictures on them is "news for nerds"? And then you feel "sour grapes" when a more reasonable editor realizes this is just fucking lame? Holy shit!
After I finish this post I'll paint my dick black and put a Darth Vader helmet on it. That should make a pretty cool Slashdot story! You see, chicks can't resist the power of the dark side.
You must have confused "news for nerds" with "news for lusers", because no self-respecting musician would play one of these. If I ever see anyone on stage playing a guitar with a Star Wars picture on it, they are getting a beer bottle thrown in their face before they can finish the first song. (I doubt I would be he who casts the first bottle...)
If you still think this is cool, I can also airbrush pretty portraits of the ST-Voyager cast on your instruments. Everybody will see your band and be impressed because it shows that you have enough integrity to pay to be an advertising tool for the Hollywood merchandising machine.
So please, buy one of these and come play in my town. And editors, please keep an eye out for the "Man Paints Own Dick Black and Appends Darth Vader Helmet" story. It will be under the "Star Wars" heading, of course.
I don't think anyone expected the DOJ to do anything to Microsoft after the Bush administration hijacked the government. However, there might still be hope in some of the separate state lawsuits. Also remember that the EU is investigating MS.
Just because the DOJ are wusses doesn't mean that MS is totally in the clear.
Well, for all of us who always mean to go to protests but need just a bit more inscentive, this might just do it! Imagine a party with thousands of young leftists out on a nice, sunny day. I know I would bring a rolled-up piece of plastic. Once the stuff gets sprayed, unroll the plastic, and because it would be dry, you could run on it, and jump headfirst onto the slimy surface. Now, come on. Who doesn't think this would be a lot of fun?
Protesters look like hippies, but they're not dumb. I'm sure that they would figure out a strategy for dealing with the goo. For example: as soon as your're slimed, get down on your stomach, and pull yourself forward by planting a sharp object into the ground and pulling yourself forward. Then, you realize you're drunk, high, slimy and prone with a bunch of drunk, high hippy chicks you don't know. Hmmm. I know what would be on my mind right about then.
You can be sure that a police-lubricated orgy for peace would get into the news. Plus, now let's be serious, it would be a lot of fun!
I have been on panel that makes admission decisions at my university. I can tell you that we always roll our eyes a bit when we get transcrips from Kansas. This story really reinforced my view that basic education in Kansas has broken down. I sure hope there aren't many geniuses that grow up there, because they'll have a very hard time being taken seriously at our best and even our more mediocre schools. And I'm afraid that if you're from Kansas, you have to go out of state if you want to go to a good college, where admissions boards will giggle and say: "4.0 in Kansas? It's probably because she thinks Eve was made from Adam's rib." I hope these Kansas school board idiots understand just how much they are hurting the young people of Kansas, and in the long run, the state itself.
Well, we know the Kansas school board really knows their biology. After all, that's why Kansas is such an education leader: the first to teach Creationism instead of the theory of evolution. I sure hope that these fine judgement calls by the Kansas school board continue. In fact, I wish these people would just take over. Then, we could get rid of atheistic science alltogether, give everyone school uniforms (burkas for women!), punish pre-marital sex, and make illegal anything that violates the teachings of the One Great Religion. Bless Kansas!
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Of course! I feel silly for having forgotten about Pirate Radio. This gives me more reason to think that Websters really dropped the ball by not including a second definition of the word "pirate", in addition to the "naval highwayman" thing.
Still, I think that just replacing whatever breaks in a desktop computer will cost you much less (and be less trouble) than buying name-brand OEM with a warranty. My views might be skewed by the fact that I've had very few hardware problems in my DIY box.
Clever! I see your name must be Da Masta... "Dr. Spork" is a bit of wishful thinking, though, because right now I'm still ABD.
As long as you refuse to break your Dell warranty and get inside your system, you will remain attached to their tits. Of course, this is what they want, because you apparently have the money to pay those ridiculous service contracts. For shame!
Wow, this "MARGARET WERTHEIM" is a total idiot. Anybody who even took an "intro to philosophy" course and didn't sleep through it would know that any talk about "breaking the laws of nature" is complete nonsense. If this experiment turns out to be right, the consequence will not be that the laws of nature were broken, but that they are different from what we were expecting. Maybe this MARGARET WERTHEIM learned in journalism school to generate interest through cliches and conceptual nonsense, and maybe that's good enough to fool LA Times editors, but I can tell you, this doesn't reaffirm my faith in American journalism.
D&D was a big part of my life in high school, and that of my friends. We were geeks in the sense that we were well-read, obsessed with weird details, interested in technology and willing to explore our fantasy. We also had an awesome garage band, crazy parties and fairly hot girlfriends who didn't mind occasionally taking a break from dice rolling for a marathon fuck. Maybe the high school jocks didn't think we were very cool, but that didn't make us rejects. I shudder to think how shitty my HS experience would have been had I not fallen in with "D&D geeks"--they were some of the coolest people I have ever known.
We're boycotting these guys, remember?
Please, young people, stop trying to treat dictionaries as manuals that legislate the rules of a language, when what they in fact do is describe (and sometimes misdescribe) common usage.
If you were like many of the local workers who were renting and saving up, you simply cannot stay after your job evaporated. I'm not sure if the people are leaving to Seattle, Austin, India or whatever, but don't hold your breath waiting for Silicon Valley to rebloom.
In the long run, don't expect the job providers to stay, either. Other states are giving much better tax incentives to tech firms, who realize that Bay Area workers are much more expensive (and only marginally better), not because they're greedy, but because they have to pay the outregeous living costs.
The idea would be for Apple to make a set-top living room hub connected by either Firewire or fast ethernet to your computer. There would be inputs/outputs on the box for video and audio, which would play on your living room TV and stereo. Using the BT remote, you would basically have a living room interface to the content of your computer, and be able to play back your music and video files in your living room. (I also imagine the BT remote would double as a universal IR remote; basically, the living room hub would relay commands to other components in "bright" IR pulses.)
The BT remote would basically log itself in to your main computer as a remote user, and have a rudimentary LCD filebrowser built in, giving you access to the contents of your hard drive. I imagine if you had the TV on, there would also be a more expansive interface to your computer (based on AppleTalk, maybe). And, of course, the thing would act as a PVR, but the files would shuttled through the interlink and saved on your hard drive, where you could later manipulate them with iMovie, recompress them, burn backups, or whatever. This means the box would have to do hardware compression (maybe into MPEG-4?) and also have enough numbercrunching power to play back compressed video from your HD, but neither of these features would be terribly expensive anymore.
Anyway, I hope this is the sort of thing Jobs has in mind when he repeats the mantra that the Mac will be the digital hub of the home. This is the sort of digital hub that I would actually buy.
Remember when Dell had that very prominent survey on their website about whether we would buy Dells with Athlons inside? I'm sure almost everybody wanted this, and many people even begged. I bet you Dell got some pretty sweet prices on the next batch of Intel chips! This is just good (and evil) marketing.
BTW, this is also the first place where I've heard that Windows64 will natively run in 64 bit mode on the Hammers. (Did I read that right?) This is good news indeed for AMD (and for MS users). Of course it might only be news to me, but last I heard, it was still up in the air whether MS was going to bother with 64 bit Hammer support. Maybe all the recent SuSE work on 64 bit Hammer Linux gave them a little scare! Wow, it's great to read that even in this bleak world of monopolies, competition sometimes springs from the darndest places. I just wish Transmeta were still in the game.
For the World Cup, and all other sports-related matters I know of, Israel counts as a part of Europe. Economically, it makes sense to put them in that class, too. In the same way, Egypt is usually counted as a part of the Middle East despite the fact it is squarely on the African continent.
If you were the magnetic pole, would you want to stay in Canada?
This was a part from the German ARD afternoon news. The video speaks for itself, even if you don't understand the German commentary.
However, I do recommend to everyone in this situation to be careful about what gets stored in their Mozilla history file.
A Beowulf cluster of these doing the Macarena!
Umm... today we call that "terrorism." (We might think it's justified terrorism, but this brings up an uncomfortable question about what else might be.)
It's actually worse than that, because by the time the law kicks in next year, we can assume that 2.5" HD prices will fall to about $3/GB CDN. This has the effect of basically rendering a whole class of devices unsellable.
I read submissions for "fucking lame" stories because I hope to find replies that menition the fact the story is fucking lame and doesn't belong on Slashdot. (To reassure myself that /. hasn't completely gone to hell.) It appears, though, that all of these (and there were many) got modded down. These are sad times we live in.
After I finish this post I'll paint my dick black and put a Darth Vader helmet on it. That should make a pretty cool Slashdot story! You see, chicks can't resist the power of the dark side.
You must have confused "news for nerds" with "news for lusers", because no self-respecting musician would play one of these. If I ever see anyone on stage playing a guitar with a Star Wars picture on it, they are getting a beer bottle thrown in their face before they can finish the first song. (I doubt I would be he who casts the first bottle...)
If you still think this is cool, I can also airbrush pretty portraits of the ST-Voyager cast on your instruments. Everybody will see your band and be impressed because it shows that you have enough integrity to pay to be an advertising tool for the Hollywood merchandising machine.
So please, buy one of these and come play in my town. And editors, please keep an eye out for the "Man Paints Own Dick Black and Appends Darth Vader Helmet" story. It will be under the "Star Wars" heading, of course.
Just because the DOJ are wusses doesn't mean that MS is totally in the clear.
Protesters look like hippies, but they're not dumb. I'm sure that they would figure out a strategy for dealing with the goo. For example: as soon as your're slimed, get down on your stomach, and pull yourself forward by planting a sharp object into the ground and pulling yourself forward. Then, you realize you're drunk, high, slimy and prone with a bunch of drunk, high hippy chicks you don't know. Hmmm. I know what would be on my mind right about then.
You can be sure that a police-lubricated orgy for peace would get into the news. Plus, now let's be serious, it would be a lot of fun!
I have been on panel that makes admission decisions at my university. I can tell you that we always roll our eyes a bit when we get transcrips from Kansas. This story really reinforced my view that basic education in Kansas has broken down. I sure hope there aren't many geniuses that grow up there, because they'll have a very hard time being taken seriously at our best and even our more mediocre schools. And I'm afraid that if you're from Kansas, you have to go out of state if you want to go to a good college, where admissions boards will giggle and say: "4.0 in Kansas? It's probably because she thinks Eve was made from Adam's rib." I hope these Kansas school board idiots understand just how much they are hurting the young people of Kansas, and in the long run, the state itself.
Well, we know the Kansas school board really knows their biology. After all, that's why Kansas is such an education leader: the first to teach Creationism instead of the theory of evolution. I sure hope that these fine judgement calls by the Kansas school board continue. In fact, I wish these people would just take over. Then, we could get rid of atheistic science alltogether, give everyone school uniforms (burkas for women!), punish pre-marital sex, and make illegal anything that violates the teachings of the One Great Religion. Bless Kansas!