going by RIAA court cases, they will claim probably more then 1000x what they are actually worth..
But what would stop google from doing a hostile take-over? all it takes would be to convince a few key share-holders that the music industry is going down and they wont see a good return on their investments anyway, give them twice the tradingprice per share, and you can be the owner of a recordcompany quicker then you can actually say record company.
Shareholder greed is their motivation, and can in this case, be their weak spot
after reading this post, and checking out spotify, i was this close to signing up, untill i stoped and thought about my usage. I primarily listen to music either at work, or in public transit. Work is so insanely firewalled that it would all have to be mobile-streamed over 3G. at 160kbps, it would amount to 72MB per hour, now take the aproximately 100 hours per month i listen to music, and explain to my mobile provider that 7.2 GB purely for music is fair use...
with current technology, spotify simply can not fill my usecase in any convincing way.
I will admit that i am not really all that used to the idea of paying for a music subscription, but if spotify would really provide me with music 24/7 for $10, i'd give it a try, too bad they cant (even if the reasons for that are beyond their control)
The subscription should actually be much cheaper than it currently is. Right now a lot of these subscription services are ridiculously overpriced compared to what you pay by listening to commercials. They are in fact making a lot more money with the subscription model.
I personally dont think 5 bucks is that overpriced, the problem is that for my own usage i would need the premium package (i work behind a rather strict firewall), and i dont know how my mobile provider would react to me streaming music over 3G for 10 hours a day. Or how i would react to non-perfect 3G coverage interrupting my music. (160kbps means 1.2 MB per minute, 70 MB per hour, a mere 10 hours would get me near 80%-90% of my FUP, without any websurfing, while i listen around 80-120 hours of music per month)
So for me, spending those 10 bucks per month of an actual CD or a bargain bin game give me more (and lasting) entertainment then spotify would provide.
If in the future, i spend a lot of time in the garage (i sure hope so), i'll put up a computer to play music, and i might give spotify a try
any new zelda would probably get the twilight princes treatment, skip release for the current gen, polish it up a bit, and release early on the next-gen console
How about De Blob 2, Super Mario Galaxy 2 (which GP may have meant instead of the original), DK Country Returns, Raving Rabbids: Travel in Time, Pro Evolution Soccer, Just Dance 2, I could go on, especially if I include WiiWare games.
Just because they're not your cup of tea doesn't make them bad games.You wouldn't believe how much fun my wife and I have with Just Dance 2. Granted the games I play have changed since I was married and had kids, but I don't see that as a bad thing. I still have as much fun as I used to. Maybe more because I don't avoid "crap" games that are actually tons of fun.
Including just dance into your argument isnt gonna work when you try to convince any of the "hard core gamers" that the wii has just as much noteworthy titles as the 360/ps3.
From what i see, nintendo's problem isnt console sales, it's attach rate. If 90% of wii owners are family people who have it to play wii-golf and just-dance when they have family over, they wont be selling as many games as sony/microsoft, where the typical owner buys/plays many more games
but both chips are heavily based on the ones in the gamecube. The wii basically runs a sub-standard evolution (for 5 years time in tech-land anyway) of the gamecube chips, shrink the die, add more cache, clock it up etc..
Not a bad idea if you have a major selling point not reliant upon more horsepower, but rather underwhelming as well
i just thought of something, when we moved into our current house, we put in a wooden floor (on the second floor, it's a drive-in house) and under that floor is insulation which has a foil layer. That might explain the dismal wifi reception just a few meters up
Starting in my early teens i got more and more interested in computers, but since turning 20 (and getting my license), i've been going more towards just being good with computers (and earning my money with them) and being genuinely fascinated by cars, today a 20 year old V6 engine gets me more excited then a 12-core opteron or something.
Building a computer from of the shelf parts seems so simple compared to working on an actual mechanical engine
I dont have any C++ experience, so i was just going by what i saw in Cache, and to be honest, i wouldnt know a better way to handle conflict situations in multiple inheritence, but my point is that it still isnt very user friendly, and to be honest i dont really see the need for multiple inheritence anyway
Also, the slashdot comment system currently borders on the unusable, replying to a deeply nested post is painfull to say the least. I realize us geeks suck at user interface, but come on...
Supporting Android, iOS and Blackberry phones is a pain in the arse at the moment but a Windows based system would be able to use Active Directory.
the phone companies (and users) are gonna love that one. Watching your computer take 20 minutes to boot up is bad enough, now imagine doing that with a phone over spotty 3G data connections...
If you are pioneering a completely new language, why not pioneer a new virtual machine, and lawyer up and make sure Oracle doesn't have any grounds to sue you?
quite probably, building a new VM/runtime isnt all that easy, never mind attaining some performance.
Also, lawyering up enough that larry wont go after you as soon as you say xVM, is probably impossible, he even went after google (and if there is any company capable of killing oracle, its either google or microsoft)
A mod point, a mod point, my IBM JDK for a mod point!
Just to add in, if you want any kind of a clear language, PLEASE forget about multiple enheritance. I've seen a language which did it (Intersystems Cache, dreadfull), and in conflicting enheritance situations, the actual implementation for a method which gets called is the one from the first class after "extends". how that is supposed to help anyone, i'll never understand.
It also allows you to royally screw up the one purpose per class best practice, in ways never seen before, hello god object!
If i actually had wodka in the house, i'd drink one tonight on Yuri, sadly though, he will have to settle for a glass of ice-thea (it will have a slice of lemon though)
50 years of manned spaceflight! Here's to another 50, even if we achieve only half of the last 50 years, it will be worth watching
It's not "nuclear apologists". It's realists who want to maintain our standard of life, and understand what acceptable risks are. Life is all about risk management, and flipping out about the word "nuclear" is very poor risk management.
I fully agree with your assesment, but part of the reality about nuclear is that people WILL flip out when you say the N word, so far this has seriously hampered advances in the field of reactor design, and we are left running very old plants, which could have been upgraded and made safer/better, if it werent for the general public flipping out about anything nuclear.
I seriously think nuclear is technically the way forward, and probably the only way to sustain our current way of life and progress, however the way the public reacts to these things (and in general has not enough knowledge to actually understand what happened at chernobyl/fukushima, and how new and improved reactors wouldnt fail that way), might make it impossible for nuclear to actually be a viable sollution.
Maybe in 100-200 years, after half the worlds population has died of starvation/energy wars and the horrors of the nuclear spectre have been forgotten, we can start with a clean slate
slow courses and catching up dont really work, if you catch up to your supply ship at 1000 km/h, that means that to dock peacefully, either you need to slow down a lot, of the other craft needs to speed up a lot. I also suspect continously differing transit trajectories between earth/mars would screw it up big time.
The obvious trick would be to just stage the supplies in mars orbit
So far there are only two apps that actually have Linux versions: Guitar Pro 6, Firefox and Abiword. This may not be popular with the Linux crowd, but everything else that might be of interest to me is quite frankly NOT GOOD ENOUGH.
Sure there are plenty of server administration apps and tools, but I'm not interested in becoming an IT guy. Most of us aren't.
i'm guessing you dont think the calculator is good enough either?
my problem with batman as an engineer is that in the reboot, all the tech is built by julius fox (if i remember mr. Freemans character correctly) and his skunk works department within wayne industries. Bruce himself is nothing but a whiney MBA going emo over his killed parents and how his sweetheart cant handle him being batman.
I'm not exactly sure how batman got his tech in the older material, but new style batman is rather uninteresting, hell, even alfred is a more interesting character then bruce wayne in the dark knight.
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hell, you might even argue that anyone currently still running vista is somehwat of a masochist, who WANTS to be screwed by MS..
going by RIAA court cases, they will claim probably more then 1000x what they are actually worth..
But what would stop google from doing a hostile take-over? all it takes would be to convince a few key share-holders that the music industry is going down and they wont see a good return on their investments anyway, give them twice the tradingprice per share, and you can be the owner of a recordcompany quicker then you can actually say record company.
Shareholder greed is their motivation, and can in this case, be their weak spot
after reading this post, and checking out spotify, i was this close to signing up, untill i stoped and thought about my usage. I primarily listen to music either at work, or in public transit. Work is so insanely firewalled that it would all have to be mobile-streamed over 3G. at 160kbps, it would amount to 72MB per hour, now take the aproximately 100 hours per month i listen to music, and explain to my mobile provider that 7.2 GB purely for music is fair use...
with current technology, spotify simply can not fill my usecase in any convincing way.
I will admit that i am not really all that used to the idea of paying for a music subscription, but if spotify would really provide me with music 24/7 for $10, i'd give it a try, too bad they cant (even if the reasons for that are beyond their control)
The subscription should actually be much cheaper than it currently is. Right now a lot of these subscription services are ridiculously overpriced compared to what you pay by listening to commercials. They are in fact making a lot more money with the subscription model.
I personally dont think 5 bucks is that overpriced, the problem is that for my own usage i would need the premium package (i work behind a rather strict firewall), and i dont know how my mobile provider would react to me streaming music over 3G for 10 hours a day. Or how i would react to non-perfect 3G coverage interrupting my music. (160kbps means 1.2 MB per minute, 70 MB per hour, a mere 10 hours would get me near 80%-90% of my FUP, without any websurfing, while i listen around 80-120 hours of music per month)
So for me, spending those 10 bucks per month of an actual CD or a bargain bin game give me more (and lasting) entertainment then spotify would provide.
If in the future, i spend a lot of time in the garage (i sure hope so), i'll put up a computer to play music, and i might give spotify a try
any new zelda would probably get the twilight princes treatment, skip release for the current gen, polish it up a bit, and release early on the next-gen console
How about De Blob 2, Super Mario Galaxy 2 (which GP may have meant instead of the original), DK Country Returns, Raving Rabbids: Travel in Time, Pro Evolution Soccer, Just Dance 2, I could go on, especially if I include WiiWare games.
Just because they're not your cup of tea doesn't make them bad games.You wouldn't believe how much fun my wife and I have with Just Dance 2. Granted the games I play have changed since I was married and had kids, but I don't see that as a bad thing. I still have as much fun as I used to. Maybe more because I don't avoid "crap" games that are actually tons of fun.
Including just dance into your argument isnt gonna work when you try to convince any of the "hard core gamers" that the wii has just as much noteworthy titles as the 360/ps3.
From what i see, nintendo's problem isnt console sales, it's attach rate. If 90% of wii owners are family people who have it to play wii-golf and just-dance when they have family over, they wont be selling as many games as sony/microsoft, where the typical owner buys/plays many more games
but both chips are heavily based on the ones in the gamecube. The wii basically runs a sub-standard evolution (for 5 years time in tech-land anyway) of the gamecube chips, shrink the die, add more cache, clock it up etc..
Not a bad idea if you have a major selling point not reliant upon more horsepower, but rather underwhelming as well
I'll probably get one for the girlfriend..
The only games on the wii which acutally got me hooked were mario kart and metroid, and that isnt enough for me to buy a console.
On the plus side, this might trigger microsoft and sony to ramp up their next-gen machines. I love my 360, but somehow i wouldnt mind a new machine
meanwhile, here i am, with my android phone, with flash disabled.
Choice is good, android allows you to run flash, or to turn it all off
Oh, btw, can you're iPad2 modify it's host file to adblock not only for itself
I'm iPad2? damn, i've been selling myself short at my job, clearly i'm worth much more!
(sorry dude, i feel a bit nitpicky today)
Damn, my cores only go to 11 :(
i just thought of something, when we moved into our current house, we put in a wooden floor (on the second floor, it's a drive-in house) and under that floor is insulation which has a foil layer. That might explain the dismal wifi reception just a few meters up
same here
Starting in my early teens i got more and more interested in computers, but since turning 20 (and getting my license), i've been going more towards just being good with computers (and earning my money with them) and being genuinely fascinated by cars, today a 20 year old V6 engine gets me more excited then a 12-core opteron or something.
Building a computer from of the shelf parts seems so simple compared to working on an actual mechanical engine
I dont have any C++ experience, so i was just going by what i saw in Cache, and to be honest, i wouldnt know a better way to handle conflict situations in multiple inheritence, but my point is that it still isnt very user friendly, and to be honest i dont really see the need for multiple inheritence anyway
Also, the slashdot comment system currently borders on the unusable, replying to a deeply nested post is painfull to say the least. I realize us geeks suck at user interface, but come on...
Supporting Android, iOS and Blackberry phones is a pain in the arse at the moment but a Windows based system would be able to use Active Directory.
the phone companies (and users) are gonna love that one. Watching your computer take 20 minutes to boot up is bad enough, now imagine doing that with a phone over spotty 3G data connections...
If you are pioneering a completely new language, why not pioneer a new virtual machine, and lawyer up and make sure Oracle doesn't have any grounds to sue you?
quite probably, building a new VM/runtime isnt all that easy, never mind attaining some performance.
Also, lawyering up enough that larry wont go after you as soon as you say xVM, is probably impossible, he even went after google (and if there is any company capable of killing oracle, its either google or microsoft)
A mod point, a mod point, my IBM JDK for a mod point!
Just to add in, if you want any kind of a clear language, PLEASE forget about multiple enheritance. I've seen a language which did it (Intersystems Cache, dreadfull), and in conflicting enheritance situations, the actual implementation for a method which gets called is the one from the first class after "extends". how that is supposed to help anyone, i'll never understand.
It also allows you to royally screw up the one purpose per class best practice, in ways never seen before, hello god object!
google for portable firefox, no instal needed, but you do get full blown firefox, including stuff like firebug
then here's an anecdote for you
Vista runs like a pig on my GFs machine (quad core phenom II with 8gb ram). Windows 7 runs far more acceptable
Still nothing compared to my dual core athlon 7750 with Fedora, but to be fair, that machine has an SSD in it
If i actually had wodka in the house, i'd drink one tonight on Yuri, sadly though, he will have to settle for a glass of ice-thea (it will have a slice of lemon though)
50 years of manned spaceflight! Here's to another 50, even if we achieve only half of the last 50 years, it will be worth watching
It's not "nuclear apologists". It's realists who want to maintain our standard of life, and understand what acceptable risks are. Life is all about risk management, and flipping out about the word "nuclear" is very poor risk management.
I fully agree with your assesment, but part of the reality about nuclear is that people WILL flip out when you say the N word, so far this has seriously hampered advances in the field of reactor design, and we are left running very old plants, which could have been upgraded and made safer/better, if it werent for the general public flipping out about anything nuclear.
I seriously think nuclear is technically the way forward, and probably the only way to sustain our current way of life and progress, however the way the public reacts to these things (and in general has not enough knowledge to actually understand what happened at chernobyl/fukushima, and how new and improved reactors wouldnt fail that way), might make it impossible for nuclear to actually be a viable sollution.
Maybe in 100-200 years, after half the worlds population has died of starvation/energy wars and the horrors of the nuclear spectre have been forgotten, we can start with a clean slate
slow courses and catching up dont really work, if you catch up to your supply ship at 1000 km/h, that means that to dock peacefully, either you need to slow down a lot, of the other craft needs to speed up a lot. I also suspect continously differing transit trajectories between earth/mars would screw it up big time.
The obvious trick would be to just stage the supplies in mars orbit
So far there are only two apps that actually have Linux versions: Guitar Pro 6, Firefox and Abiword. This may not be popular with the Linux crowd, but everything else that might be of interest to me is quite frankly NOT GOOD ENOUGH.
Sure there are plenty of server administration apps and tools, but I'm not interested in becoming an IT guy. Most of us aren't.
i'm guessing you dont think the calculator is good enough either?
I never could get the Remote Desktop (as in, MS's remoting protocol) client/server to run on my Ubuntu... 8.04 I think, at the time.
why would you want to? Ubuntu supports remote desktop out of the box with VNC, for which there are numerous clients on all OSes
my problem with batman as an engineer is that in the reboot, all the tech is built by julius fox (if i remember mr. Freemans character correctly) and his skunk works department within wayne industries. Bruce himself is nothing but a whiney MBA going emo over his killed parents and how his sweetheart cant handle him being batman.
I'm not exactly sure how batman got his tech in the older material, but new style batman is rather uninteresting, hell, even alfred is a more interesting character then bruce wayne in the dark knight.