I have little sympathy for him...he should have known what would happen when he sold out to AOL. If he wanted to retain control he shouldn't have sold. Hopefully now he'll start a new company where he can have complete control over released software.
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I DID a google search and can't find anything that describes the difference. I searched for "DVD-RAM DVD+RAM" and other such +/- combos, but the only thing I got returned to me was adverts & places to buy drives that handle those formats. No real information.
That's what is holding me back too. I can't seem to find any explanation of the difference. So anyone, what IS the difference?
Do a google search - there are tons of sites talking about it. If you can't decide which standard you want get the Sony DRU500A which does all of them (except DVD-RAM)
When I went to kill my membership, they offered me the same membership for less money
I just tried it on mine. Went from $13.95 for 2 out unlimited to $10.95 for 2 out 4 max per month. Interesting that they offerred the same to someone else here for $9.95 a month. They must take whatever you have now and subtract $3 or something. I've been a member since April 2000 but I rarely rent very much per month as I just don't have time.
You are way off base. Software patents themselves are unethical. Saying that I cannot write and freely publish software in my own free time without worrying about being legally harassed is a blatant violation of my first amendment right to free speech. Would you favor patents on literature or mathematics? Well, software patents are the same level of stupidity! That's why the US is one of the few countries in the world that even acknowledge them--and we NEED to change this!
I wasn't really addressing whether it is right to have software patents or not, but based on the fact that they do legally exist, I was addressing the fact that if anyone should pay for a breach of patent it should be the software maker, and not the software purchaser. This is somewhat directly related to the implied warranty of merchantability (assuming the EULA didn't kill it). It is stated that the product is fit for the purpose for which it is designed, and that the whole point of the warranty law is that it puts the costs and burdens on the seller/manufacturer to ensure that the product does what it is supposed to. Now if I go out and buy a product from a store, one of the things I am expecting is that the product is not against the law. And there is no way I could verify either before or after buying it that the closed-source software is breaching patents. So why should I as a end-user have to pay?
I'm sorry, but distributing code which violates a patent should definately not be infringing behavior; but IANAL. If it is, that is the nail in the OSS coffin. Now, if Microsoft explicltily claims that they will indemnify their users for patent violations... this is a different issue; but I very much doubt that Microsoft made any representations to this.
Um, no. Customers do not have access to Microsoft source code and there is no way for them to be able to determine if the product infringes patents. Microsoft was able to determine this and they should be held responsible for it. While I see your point about open source developers being hurt if they were made responsible, you also need to consider software ethics. If I make something that is illegal or hurts someone, etc. I should be held accountable, not the customer. The customer simply purchases it...the customer has no involvement in the creation of the product. But it seems slapping a EULA on there changes all of that.
I've used TurboTax I guess for the last 4 or 5 years. This year as I was getting ready to buy it I checked out amazon.com and saw all the negative reviews and decided not get it as I have 4 computers in my house. So I decided to get TaxCut. I bought it from Staples but you can get it from taxcut.com. It costs less than TurboTax and it can even import all the data from last year's TurboTax. Not only that but (at least at staples.com) there are tons of rebates on different products if you buy TurboTax ($30 off money, willpower free, home and business attorney free, mcafee free, norton personal firewall or antivirus free, checksoft express free, deduction pro free, etc.
This page you may find enlightening. It discusses the fact that the movie was in the works as early as 1998, that is was always to be called Monsters, Inc. (but the animators referred to it as Hidden City due to a cafe nearby). They released the first image of Mike on August 22, 2000.
So, we'll see these used on billboards or other advertising, using less power than conventional billboards which require lighting at night. These can be lit from within and changed in a moments notice.
Hook it up to a cellular network and they can download new ads into it....or even better, the states could have an emergency warning/traffic system to take over the billboards when needed...endless possibilities.
Sorry it wasn't quite clear -- I should have said, "only nominal power is required"...
I could forsee this being very useful for businesses and the like for 24 hour displays...little power and no burn in.
Although at home I would love to have this because my current 19" takes up my whole desk and puts out a whole lot of heat. I've been reluctant to get a LCD because of dead pixels and because the refresh is not good (for games), not to mention cost.
I don't quite think the poster understood the article. From the article:
Once a voltage has been applied to an iMoD element, it requires less power to hold the metallic layer in place than it does to move it.
Looks to me that *some* power is still required to keep the display going. If it loses power the layers would go back to their default state (which while the article does not state, it would appear its white when its off).
Likewise this statement:
but the cool this is that the display actually works like RAM (it retains its state until voltage is applied to reset it)
I'm no RAM expert but from my understanding (with current RAM), as soon as power is lost, so is the data. Unless you're talking about old magnetic RAM from the 50's and 60's, or IBM's upcoming MRAM, but I seriously doubt you were thinking of those.
Don't feel bad, I'm Catholic and I bash 'em all the time. Between 4 years of Sunday school and 9 years of Catholic schooling, I pretty much figured out that I want nothing to do with the Catholic Church.
and you'll find small changes. And that's only the last 30 or 40 years, imagine how much its changed in 800 or 1000 years!
I hate to discredit your argument there but modern translators are working off of ancient documents, not the 60's translation. I could go on and on about dead sea scrolls showing little changes to the manuscripts of later, etc. but I won't bother.
However, IE does not have the same popup blocking abilities Phoenix does. The suggestion you provide, to disable Active Scripting, does stop popups, but it also stops *all* scripting. That is a lot different than what Phoenix does, which specifically stops popups but allows other scripting to work. This finegrained control is a godsend for me, as some sites with popups require other scripting to work. Now I can use them and not see the popups. Also, the ease of whitelisting a site involves nothing more than two mouseclicks. So I stand by my statement on popups; IE does not compare to Phoenix in this regard.
True it does not have it natively, but there is a freeware app called adshield that works great. I use IE at home with adshield, and Phoenix at work. Though I do wished Phoenix had a similar ad blocker (there is one based on site, but not by URL...so if the contents and ads come from the same server, you're out of luck)
In the case of Earth 2, they just pre-empted too many shows due to football on Sunday nights and kept moving around the timeslot. I was an avid viewer and couldn't find the show half the time. No wonder the ratings weren't what they wanted. As far as SG-1 goes, I kept Showtime for two years just for that show... and dropped it as soon as it moved over to sci-fi.
Kindof like what Fox did to Dark Angel. Also I only subscribed to Showtime for Stargate...I mean, I *tried* to find other stuff on Showtime worth watching...but there wasn't any
We already know what happens when you can buy MP3s online at a comparable price, people still trade music and don't buy them. A quick Google search came up with this page [about.com] with links to a few place you can buy legal MP3s. MP3s are available to be legally purchased, but people still are not doing it. That is because for most people, P2P is about getting stuff for free.
Could that be because:
1. Of the sites mentioned, not all of them use MP3 and of the ones that do, you have no control over what bitrate or encoder is used
2. The prices are comparable...which is exactly the problem. With a CD you have the booklet, the case, and most importantly the CD which you can rip to MP3, ogg, etc. Now which of these do you get with the downloads? What if you want to do a different bitrate, what if you want to switch to ogg, etc.? With a CD you can, with their overpriced download, you can't.
3. The selection is very limited or non-existent (see emusic, musicnet, liquidaudio, etc, etc.)
4. They don't bother to show you what songs they actually have unless you sign up (I'm just using emusic and musicnet as an example)
I just played it and its very much like the original, except there is no fog in the maze and the magnet seems to be broke (doesn't work across screens).
I agree...the upfront cost is a major turnoff, even with their rebates.
My biggest gripe is that they (presumbably) knew about each other and yet didn't try to make a standard. So for example, my Kenwood head unit is Sirrius ready but if I wanted XM my head unit would not work with it (I'd have to have a seperate display, buttons, etc.). I have yet to see any car radios that support both Sirrius and XM and for me, I'd like to have a choice.
Another gripe is the antennas. Right now (at least for Sirrius) there is mainly just one antenna made by several companies. I'd prefer a little choice here too...like stealth antennas, antennas you could put on the inside of the rear window, etc. I know visibility, etc. is a concern but I think they could solve any issues there.
And speaking of visibility, I wonder how these radios perform in a thunder storm?
And I thought you meant a drunk should be driving the truck. I had hilarious imaginings of some slob staggering out of the cab and puking on the security officer's shoes.
No I would never advocate drunk driving, especially with such a dangerous cargo. Those free hours add up you know.
That's what a drunk truck is for. Maybe 10 seconds and you're done, and lots of CD's on the front door step. I of course do not advocate such things, merely stating how someone could do it:)
i agree. send it back to them. i mean a million disk will be hard as hell to move off a truck before the cops show up
That's what a drunk truck is for. Maybe 10 seconds and you're done, and lots of CD's on the front door step. I of course do not advocate such things, merely stating how someone could do it:)
NASA spends $1,000,000 plus to built a space-pen, the Russians use a pencil. Now, they are building a space elevator to get down the street to buy a cheap car that couldn't hit 55 if it was droped out of a plane.
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I have little sympathy for him...he should have known what would happen when he sold out to AOL. If he wanted to retain control he shouldn't have sold. Hopefully now he'll start a new company where he can have complete control over released software.
Try some of these:
Do a google search - there are tons of sites talking about it. If you can't decide which standard you want get the Sony DRU500A which does all of them (except DVD-RAM)
I just tried it on mine. Went from $13.95 for 2 out unlimited to $10.95 for 2 out 4 max per month. Interesting that they offerred the same to someone else here for $9.95 a month. They must take whatever you have now and subtract $3 or something. I've been a member since April 2000 but I rarely rent very much per month as I just don't have time.
Sounds to me like that need to get out the good ole' Singapore whip. 15 slashes ought to make them stay inside.
I wasn't really addressing whether it is right to have software patents or not, but based on the fact that they do legally exist, I was addressing the fact that if anyone should pay for a breach of patent it should be the software maker, and not the software purchaser. This is somewhat directly related to the implied warranty of merchantability (assuming the EULA didn't kill it). It is stated that the product is fit for the purpose for which it is designed, and that the whole point of the warranty law is that it puts the costs and burdens on the seller/manufacturer to ensure that the product does what it is supposed to. Now if I go out and buy a product from a store, one of the things I am expecting is that the product is not against the law. And there is no way I could verify either before or after buying it that the closed-source software is breaching patents. So why should I as a end-user have to pay?
Um, no. Customers do not have access to Microsoft source code and there is no way for them to be able to determine if the product infringes patents. Microsoft was able to determine this and they should be held responsible for it. While I see your point about open source developers being hurt if they were made responsible, you also need to consider software ethics. If I make something that is illegal or hurts someone, etc. I should be held accountable, not the customer. The customer simply purchases it...the customer has no involvement in the creation of the product. But it seems slapping a EULA on there changes all of that.
Oh really?
I've used TurboTax I guess for the last 4 or 5 years. This year as I was getting ready to buy it I checked out amazon.com and saw all the negative reviews and decided not get it as I have 4 computers in my house. So I decided to get TaxCut. I bought it from Staples but you can get it from taxcut.com. It costs less than TurboTax and it can even import all the data from last year's TurboTax. Not only that but (at least at staples.com) there are tons of rebates on different products if you buy TurboTax ($30 off money, willpower free, home and business attorney free, mcafee free, norton personal firewall or antivirus free, checksoft express free, deduction pro free, etc.
And no IMAP for mail
This page you may find enlightening. It discusses the fact that the movie was in the works as early as 1998, that is was always to be called Monsters, Inc. (but the animators referred to it as Hidden City due to a cafe nearby). They released the first image of Mike on August 22, 2000.
Hook it up to a cellular network and they can download new ads into it....or even better, the states could have an emergency warning/traffic system to take over the billboards when needed...endless possibilities.
I could forsee this being very useful for businesses and the like for 24 hour displays...little power and no burn in.
Although at home I would love to have this because my current 19" takes up my whole desk and puts out a whole lot of heat. I've been reluctant to get a LCD because of dead pixels and because the refresh is not good (for games), not to mention cost.
I don't quite think the poster understood the article. From the article:
Once a voltage has been applied to an iMoD element, it requires less power to hold the metallic layer in place than it does to move it.
Looks to me that *some* power is still required to keep the display going. If it loses power the layers would go back to their default state (which while the article does not state, it would appear its white when its off).
Likewise this statement:
but the cool this is that the display actually works like RAM (it retains its state until voltage is applied to reset it)
I'm no RAM expert but from my understanding (with current RAM), as soon as power is lost, so is the data. Unless you're talking about old magnetic RAM from the 50's and 60's, or IBM's upcoming MRAM, but I seriously doubt you were thinking of those.
Then I guess you're ex-Catholic
I hate to discredit your argument there but modern translators are working off of ancient documents, not the 60's translation. I could go on and on about dead sea scrolls showing little changes to the manuscripts of later, etc. but I won't bother.
True it does not have it natively, but there is a freeware app called adshield that works great. I use IE at home with adshield, and Phoenix at work. Though I do wished Phoenix had a similar ad blocker (there is one based on site, but not by URL...so if the contents and ads come from the same server, you're out of luck)
Kindof like what Fox did to Dark Angel. Also I only subscribed to Showtime for Stargate...I mean, I *tried* to find other stuff on Showtime worth watching...but there wasn't any
Could that be because:
1. Of the sites mentioned, not all of them use MP3 and of the ones that do, you have no control over what bitrate or encoder is used
2. The prices are comparable...which is exactly the problem. With a CD you have the booklet, the case, and most importantly the CD which you can rip to MP3, ogg, etc. Now which of these do you get with the downloads? What if you want to do a different bitrate, what if you want to switch to ogg, etc.? With a CD you can, with their overpriced download, you can't.
3. The selection is very limited or non-existent (see emusic, musicnet, liquidaudio, etc, etc.)
4. They don't bother to show you what songs they actually have unless you sign up (I'm just using emusic and musicnet as an example)
I just played it and its very much like the original, except there is no fog in the maze and the magnet seems to be broke (doesn't work across screens).
My biggest gripe is that they (presumbably) knew about each other and yet didn't try to make a standard. So for example, my Kenwood head unit is Sirrius ready but if I wanted XM my head unit would not work with it (I'd have to have a seperate display, buttons, etc.). I have yet to see any car radios that support both Sirrius and XM and for me, I'd like to have a choice.
Another gripe is the antennas. Right now (at least for Sirrius) there is mainly just one antenna made by several companies. I'd prefer a little choice here too...like stealth antennas, antennas you could put on the inside of the rear window, etc. I know visibility, etc. is a concern but I think they could solve any issues there.
And speaking of visibility, I wonder how these radios perform in a thunder storm?
No I would never advocate drunk driving, especially with such a dangerous cargo. Those free hours add up you know.
Oh actually a dump truck would be better....
That's what a drunk truck is for. Maybe 10 seconds and you're done, and lots of CD's on the front door step. I of course do not advocate such things, merely stating how someone could do it :)
That's an urban legend. See for yourself