I bought a PPC 7100 when it first came out - this was one of the first generation PPCs and I figured, latest and greatest, right? Well it was about a year before it was easy to find software natively written for PPC -- a lot of the stuff ran in emulation and was actually slower than it was on my 68k mac at work (a Quadra I believe). The computer served me well after that but in the interim I kicked myself a big for not waiting until the PPC platform was more tried and true. So when the G3s first came out I bought one of the last generation of 604 computers (this was in the cloning days so it was a Power Tower Pro 225). A lean mean machine even today, at the time I was pleased with the choice as I heard about all kinds of problems people were having with the new architecture. Of course the G3 platform was nothing to sneeze at but when G4s came out I was glad I had waited. I'm hoping I can convince my work to buy me a new iBook G4 and I will be very happy to use it for a few years while all you guinea pigs snap up the latest and greatest intel-based Macs.
Riiight. So is there reason to believe the scientist lied to Nature? I mean besides the fact that the Congressman doesn't agree with his conclusions. Give me a break.
people always talk about Theora and how great it is
Yeah man every time I turn on the TV or radio it's like "ogg theora this and ogg theora that." Get on a bus or train and talk to other passengers, seems like that's all they talk about. Won't everybody just shut up about ogg theora already!
That's awesome! So I can use it to make free phone calls?
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The fact that people are more likely to store gigabytes of porn on their 'memex' than encyclopedias probably didn't enter the poor little guy's head.
Not everyone has these priorities, you know. Believe it or not, many people do store encyclopedias, and tons of non-pornographic photos, video, music, etc. on their hard drives. Not everyone stores gigabytes of porn.
I mean, I do, myself, of course, but I've heard that there are people who don't.
He predicted talking to machines in 1945. We still ain't there yet.
That makes him a visionary? I must be a genius then! I predicted flying bicycles and magic carpet strip clubs years ago and we're still not there yet.
</sarcasm>Seriously though he has some pretty wild speculation in that essay. I teach a course that deals with the history of information technology and I always assign that essay at the beginning; it blows a few minds (at least, the ones who actually sit through the entire thing). What's interesting is Bush is writing this at the end of WWII and before the cold war really gets started and he is worried about what scientists will do once the fat wartime govt contracts run out. In some ways this speculation is an attempt by Bush to offer a reason why the government should continue subsidizing scientific and technological progress. The advancement of knowledge (and the ability to access and process that knowledge) is his answer; it should take the place of the arrangements scientists have made with the Department of Defense.
yes I did, but I somehow missed that. I looked around the music catalog but since I didn't actually buy anything I just assumed that you could just buy it from the website. But this tells me you have 2 applications that you have to use to use this site -- a web browser and the software linked above. This makes it even less appealing.
It runs in a web browser. So it isn't a separate application, which makes the phrase "supports windows, os x, and linux" sound a little like marketing fluff.
As others have noted, this is a silly move; not only is there no popular music here, there really isn't much of anything at all. There is a lot more independent music they could be selling, and everything I could find on the site was totally obscure. And while I support the idea of having FLAC available from such a service, they are really cutting out a huge chunk of possible users who will only use mp3 or aac.
The article also states "Until now, the only evidence of Iraq's alleged attempts to buy uranium from Niger had turned out to be a forgery." So even if it is true, this does not exonerate the Bush lie -- at the time he spoke those words, the only evidence was in fact the forged documents (forged most likely by AEI's Michael Ledeen). And as another poster points out the Bush admin has since admitted that their only source of evidence for this was the documents that they already knew were forged.
It's been a while so I may be wrong but as I recall he released a version that detected the first wave of them but then he discontinued it shortly after that.
In other news, Steve Jobs made an announcement today: "Remember Apple's groundbreaking announcement about moving to Intel? Psyyyyych!!!!! Oh man I really had you guys going there....
Hey Bill! You owe me $20!!! That's 20 years salary to a working stiff like me, so pay up, bitch!"
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you misspelled BALLMER
Unlike coffee beans which are an unnatural source of .... wait, what? ... never mind.
Screw that. I live in Los Angeles, where the weather's the same all the time anyways.
I bought a PPC 7100 when it first came out - this was one of the first generation PPCs and I figured, latest and greatest, right? Well it was about a year before it was easy to find software natively written for PPC -- a lot of the stuff ran in emulation and was actually slower than it was on my 68k mac at work (a Quadra I believe). The computer served me well after that but in the interim I kicked myself a big for not waiting until the PPC platform was more tried and true. So when the G3s first came out I bought one of the last generation of 604 computers (this was in the cloning days so it was a Power Tower Pro 225). A lean mean machine even today, at the time I was pleased with the choice as I heard about all kinds of problems people were having with the new architecture. Of course the G3 platform was nothing to sneeze at but when G4s came out I was glad I had waited. I'm hoping I can convince my work to buy me a new iBook G4 and I will be very happy to use it for a few years while all you guinea pigs snap up the latest and greatest intel-based Macs.
Riiight. So is there reason to believe the scientist lied to Nature? I mean besides the fact that the Congressman doesn't agree with his conclusions. Give me a break.
Which means that there is no need for the Congressman to be investigating this issue. He should have just asked Nature magazine who funded the study.
Yeah man every time I turn on the TV or radio it's like "ogg theora this and ogg theora that." Get on a bus or train and talk to other passengers, seems like that's all they talk about. Won't everybody just shut up about ogg theora already!
Wait a minute.
What the bloody hell is ogg theora?
The Czars will be successful. Czars are always successful. Just look how well they did in Russia.
You're just not cooking them with enough of the magic butter.
point it at cops. If you get busted, just say your daughter was playing with it...
That's awesome! So I can use it to make free phone calls?
Not everyone has these priorities, you know. Believe it or not, many people do store encyclopedias, and tons of non-pornographic photos, video, music, etc. on their hard drives. Not everyone stores gigabytes of porn.
I mean, I do, myself, of course, but I've heard that there are people who don't.
I'm too lazy to read the post above. Will somebody summarize it for me?
That makes him a visionary? I must be a genius then! I predicted flying bicycles and magic carpet strip clubs years ago and we're still not there yet.
</sarcasm>Seriously though he has some pretty wild speculation in that essay. I teach a course that deals with the history of information technology and I always assign that essay at the beginning; it blows a few minds (at least, the ones who actually sit through the entire thing). What's interesting is Bush is writing this at the end of WWII and before the cold war really gets started and he is worried about what scientists will do once the fat wartime govt contracts run out. In some ways this speculation is an attempt by Bush to offer a reason why the government should continue subsidizing scientific and technological progress. The advancement of knowledge (and the ability to access and process that knowledge) is his answer; it should take the place of the arrangements scientists have made with the Department of Defense.
yes I did, but I somehow missed that. I looked around the music catalog but since I didn't actually buy anything I just assumed that you could just buy it from the website. But this tells me you have 2 applications that you have to use to use this site -- a web browser and the software linked above. This makes it even less appealing.
It runs in a web browser. So it isn't a separate application, which makes the phrase "supports windows, os x, and linux" sound a little like marketing fluff.
As others have noted, this is a silly move; not only is there no popular music here, there really isn't much of anything at all. There is a lot more independent music they could be selling, and everything I could find on the site was totally obscure. And while I support the idea of having FLAC available from such a service, they are really cutting out a huge chunk of possible users who will only use mp3 or aac.
Not only that; it doesn't even have a single tattoo on it!
That's right. I don't care what IBM says about it; I want empirical evidence. Has anyone counted the number of Usenet posts about OS/2?
The article also states "Until now, the only evidence of Iraq's alleged attempts to buy uranium from Niger had turned out to be a forgery." So even if it is true, this does not exonerate the Bush lie -- at the time he spoke those words, the only evidence was in fact the forged documents (forged most likely by AEI's Michael Ledeen). And as another poster points out the Bush admin has since admitted that their only source of evidence for this was the documents that they already knew were forged.
you know, the one out of three that is complete nonsense.
Well, there is a one in three chance that this study is nonsense.
Sure! And then we might all finally learn what SVG stands for.
It has been for decades. If you listen to the Woodstock album you can hear Country Joe leading 350,000 people in a cheer praising this editor.
It's been a while so I may be wrong but as I recall he released a version that detected the first wave of them but then he discontinued it shortly after that.
Hey Bill! You owe me $20!!! That's 20 years salary to a working stiff like me, so pay up, bitch!"