In the same genre I would like to see a miniseries or set of Movies made from Turtledoves wonderful WorldWar series. It adds the twist of the aliens invading earth during WWII -- and what strange alliences and situations that leads to. (The humans having to set aside their differences to battle the bigger evil...) A really good read.
Dead like mp3 died when ogg came out? Bluetooth won't die now that the consumers have picked it up. It may have died for networking....much the same way the Cesna died for transcontinental flights...Read (that is not what it was meant for)...I use a bluetooth GPS setup in a system we have rolled out to over 500 people and counting. There will be another 1500 by years end with those little socket cards and Emtac radio's. Bluetooth was meant to gid rid of wires on devices close to your body...Not to replace 802.11x so you could sit on the back 40 and surf pr0n with the access point in your basement.
The fact that a label has taken a chance on an album is a good 5% qualifier that maybe it is quality material. If every Jim Bob with a copy of pro tools and a youth of piano lessons has the ability to participate then it would get even harder to find the 5%. Look at mp3.com -- yes there is some quality stuff there from unsigned bands -- yet 98% of it is from bands that would never get signed for the same reason that even though I can catch a baseball, I would never get a call from the Mets.....
$800 ? They must be smokin crack. Is this what we have come to in order to use PDA's that run Linux? I can get a Dell Axim (That has to pay the Msoft tax for PPC 2002) and the same specs hardware wise (CPU, Memory, Expansion Slots, etc.) sans the keyboard for about $500 dollars cheaper. I could buy a nice thumboard for $500!! And as the message I am replying to already stated -- I could get in on a good laptop for about $900. I bet I could get a lot more out of a 40 Gig HD, Full Screen, 256 Meg $800 laptop than I could a 64 meg "pocket" device that costs the same.
From a hobbyist perspective -- I want something that has a keyboard, smaller than a laptop, bigger than a PDA (screenwise at least), WLAN, Bluetooth, Harddrive, and battery life that supports the ability to listen to mp3's while surfing the internet over the WLAN -- for more than about 3 hours a pop. I have tried a variety of laptops AND PDA's -- and have yet to find one that does not drain in less than 3 hours of actual use. If I am straddled to a power outlet I may as well use my desktop. I don't have to give up screensize or performance.
The dreamcast did not die -- the other consoles just refuse to live. I mean come on -- look at the music people today are buying, look at the TV shows that people are watching. Hell -- MTV does not even play videos anymore and can still stay on the air? I may be getting old, but nowdays it's all about flash and hype -- nobody cares about quality, Integrity, and substance anymore. The DC died for the same reason Freaks and Geeks was cancelled. The DC died for the same reason Spiderman made millions and broke records from just a mediocre adaption of a good comic. The DC died for the same reason PS2, Gamecube, and Xbox are still trying to figure out online play and the ability to actually use a keyboard and mouse with FPS games -- almost 4 years after it was out the door default with DC. Who knows....
Much like the Metallica VS. Napster debate, I think using a success story that moves millions no matter what the "pirate" rate is a bad move to gain the publics sympathy.
On the other end of the spectrum with the little guy "piracy" is more of a promotion than anything also. (Getting their name out there).
I think the people who have a legitimate beef would be the artist that sells 25K records, or a movie that opens to a week at $500,000....Those are the people (if they offer a quality product) that are going to be hurt by Joe and Jane (Pirate).
Ok I typed all my term papers in VI -- but man these command flags and classpaths used to simply execute java programs have got to go....Not to mention I have never found 2 java programs that execute from the same version of the JVM.
If you could buy any of this stuff, my guess would be Tokyo or Korea. Granted, that is a little further than me driving to Best Buy or Circuit City....But I bet if I did want to cross the Pacific -- most of these things would be vaporware anyway...
How cool...I can setup a wireless lan to my Laptop and setup and setup my new $700 dollar blue tooth enabled Ipaq to take forwarded packets from the bluetooth on the Laptop -- and then forward the packets so I can browse the web in real style on my Gameboy. Cool -- Every generation gets you a smaller screen and less disk space.....Now only if I could forward the packets from my gameboy to my cellphone....Hot damn -- I need to get me one of them new fangled blue tooth enabled cellphones...and then the circle of degradation and the quest for the smallest screen and suckiest input method will be complete.
And this will take the shelf space in the store video game sections that now hold what? Is something like this enough to send an existing system packing?
now this is a good chance for some of you out of work java programmers in portland to stop hanging around the nudie bars (some of the best in the country -- IMO) and pad that old resume....
A small presentation showing the cost of Microsoft Word VS. gvim on 5000 desktops should be a good start. (And yet there is still that grumpy old guy with the beard who insists on compiling Emacs on all the servers....errr...)
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I was asked a question by a co-worker yesterday, and did not have a solid answer. Since it somewhat relates to this story and google did nothing but bring back ads for popup blockers, I thought I would loose it to the/. people. Simple question -- Anybody who has used Firebird, Mozilla, Opera, etc -- has seen how much better the browsing experience is without countless popups. What is stopping Microsoft from putting out a version or patch of/to IE that has this feature? I know that the conspirecy theorists could speculate to no end on this one, but is there a simple answer?
My thoughts exactlly. Any one of you imagine if the RIAA knocked on your door....How many of you could afford a lawyer to fight off the wolves for an extended period of time? VS. a few thousand bucks to settle. They could just turn the screws until you were out of money and resources -- either way they win....
I for one....
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I am glad that us in the midwest will actually be able to have an event that we can drive to in a couple of hours. I see all the posts blasting Des Moines, but these people don't seem to complain when the events are within shooting distance of where they live -- L.A., New York...etc..
"I think being a sales person had being non-tech as a prerequisit sometimes...."
After being in the professional world and dealing with salesman on a regular basis for 10 years -- I do find it rather amazing that I have yet to meet one that was not TOTALLY ignorant on techy skills. This is way Twilight Zoneish. I have stumbled across techies in all walks of life -- but yet never a salesman. Maybe it is some part of the deal they make with the devil when they are given their golden bullshit talent.
Kudos to him. Well informed, spoken, and fair answers. I do not have to agree with them all to sympathize. Anyone who has had to offer "support" to a non-computer type in your family or circle of friends can sympathize with trying to do away with as much confusion as possible. (and like it or not, in a single user desktop environment -- having to login or su as root in order to install programs is crazy.) I guess I would lean more towards a system that installed "after rollout or 3rd party apps" into privdir's (or home directories) by default rather than giving full root....because diskspace is pretty cheap anymore -- and in a typical home user environment (single user) the chances of getting the same app installed 20 times in 20 different privdirs is minimal anyhow.
That is why the service mp3.com tried to offer was so cool. Purchase the actual CD and while you are waiting for it to ship -- feel free to listen to and download mp3's of the CD you just purchased or any previous purchases. The best of both worlds -- instant gratification and digital copies, and then in a few days -- the real thing to add to your collection. The fact that service got RIAA hate and not love I will never know.
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In the same genre I would like to see a miniseries or set of Movies made from Turtledoves wonderful WorldWar series. It adds the twist of the aliens invading earth during WWII -- and what strange alliences and situations that leads to. (The humans having to set aside their differences to battle the bigger evil...) A really good read.
Wow. I guess they want the crowd that thinks xp and 2000 is to cheap.
Dead like mp3 died when ogg came out? Bluetooth won't die now that the consumers have picked it up. It may have died for networking....much the same way the Cesna died for transcontinental flights...Read (that is not what it was meant for)...I use a bluetooth GPS setup in a system we have rolled out to over 500 people and counting. There will be another 1500 by years end with those little socket cards and Emtac radio's. Bluetooth was meant to gid rid of wires on devices close to your body...Not to replace 802.11x so you could sit on the back 40 and surf pr0n with the access point in your basement.
The fact that a label has taken a chance on an album is a good 5% qualifier that maybe it is quality material. If every Jim Bob with a copy of pro tools and a youth of piano lessons has the ability to participate then it would get even harder to find the 5%. Look at mp3.com -- yes there is some quality stuff there from unsigned bands -- yet 98% of it is from bands that would never get signed for the same reason that even though I can catch a baseball, I would never get a call from the Mets.....
$800 ? They must be smokin crack. Is this what we have come to in order to use PDA's that run Linux? I can get a Dell Axim (That has to pay the Msoft tax for PPC 2002) and the same specs hardware wise (CPU, Memory, Expansion Slots, etc.) sans the keyboard for about $500 dollars cheaper. I could buy a nice thumboard for $500!! And as the message I am replying to already stated -- I could get in on a good laptop for about $900. I bet I could get a lot more out of a 40 Gig HD, Full Screen, 256 Meg $800 laptop than I could a 64 meg "pocket" device that costs the same.
work in a pet store and we are always in need of paper to line the Chinchilla corrals etc.
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Chinchilla's deserve sawdust and at the very least straw. What kind of animal are you to let them live in/on paper.
From a hobbyist perspective -- I want something that has a keyboard, smaller than a laptop, bigger than a PDA (screenwise at least), WLAN, Bluetooth, Harddrive, and battery life that supports the ability to listen to mp3's while surfing the internet over the WLAN -- for more than about 3 hours a pop. I have tried a variety of laptops AND PDA's -- and have yet to find one that does not drain in less than 3 hours of actual use. If I am straddled to a power outlet I may as well use my desktop. I don't have to give up screensize or performance.
The dreamcast did not die -- the other consoles just refuse to live. I mean come on -- look at the music people today are buying, look at the TV shows that people are watching. Hell -- MTV does not even play videos anymore and can still stay on the air? I may be getting old, but nowdays it's all about flash and hype -- nobody cares about quality, Integrity, and substance anymore. The DC died for the same reason Freaks and Geeks was cancelled. The DC died for the same reason Spiderman made millions and broke records from just a mediocre adaption of a good comic. The DC died for the same reason PS2, Gamecube, and Xbox are still trying to figure out online play and the ability to actually use a keyboard and mouse with FPS games -- almost 4 years after it was out the door default with DC. Who knows....
Much like the Metallica VS. Napster debate, I think using a success story that moves millions no matter what the "pirate" rate is a bad move to gain the publics sympathy.
On the other end of the spectrum with the little guy "piracy" is more of a promotion than anything also. (Getting their name out there).
I think the people who have a legitimate beef would be the artist that sells 25K records, or a movie that opens to a week at $500,000....Those are the people (if they offer a quality product) that are going to be hurt by Joe and Jane (Pirate).
Ok I typed all my term papers in VI -- but man these command flags and classpaths used to simply execute java programs have got to go....Not to mention I have never found 2 java programs that execute from the same version of the JVM.
If you could buy any of this stuff, my guess would be Tokyo or Korea. Granted, that is a little further than me driving to Best Buy or Circuit City....But I bet if I did want to cross the Pacific -- most of these things would be vaporware anyway...
Dude, your gettin' s sun.
How cool...I can setup a wireless lan to my Laptop and setup and setup my new $700 dollar blue tooth enabled Ipaq to take forwarded packets from the bluetooth on the Laptop -- and then forward the packets so I can browse the web in real style on my Gameboy. Cool -- Every generation gets you a smaller screen and less disk space.....Now only if I could forward the packets from my gameboy to my cellphone....Hot damn -- I need to get me one of them new fangled blue tooth enabled cellphones...and then the circle of degradation and the quest for the smallest screen and suckiest input method will be complete.
And this will take the shelf space in the store video game sections that now hold what? Is something like this enough to send an existing system packing?
now this is a good chance for some of you out of work java programmers in portland to stop hanging around the nudie bars (some of the best in the country -- IMO) and pad that old resume....
A small presentation showing the cost of Microsoft Word VS. gvim on 5000 desktops should be a good start. (And yet there is still that grumpy old guy with the beard who insists on compiling Emacs on all the servers....errr...)
I was asked a question by a co-worker yesterday, and did not have a solid answer. Since it somewhat relates to this story and google did nothing but bring back ads for popup blockers, I thought I would loose it to the /. people. Simple question -- Anybody who has used Firebird, Mozilla, Opera, etc -- has seen how much better the browsing experience is without countless popups. What is stopping Microsoft from putting out a version or patch of/to IE that has this feature? I know that the conspirecy theorists could speculate to no end on this one, but is there a simple answer?
Sounds like a job for My Cousin Vinny.
My thoughts exactlly. Any one of you imagine if the RIAA knocked on your door....How many of you could afford a lawyer to fight off the wolves for an extended period of time? VS. a few thousand bucks to settle. They could just turn the screws until you were out of money and resources -- either way they win....
I am glad that us in the midwest will actually be able to have an event that we can drive to in a couple of hours. I see all the posts blasting Des Moines, but these people don't seem to complain when the events are within shooting distance of where they live -- L.A., New York...etc..
Well duh -- if it was a real product do you think they would post it on Slashdot?
"I think being a sales person had being non-tech as a prerequisit sometimes...."
After being in the professional world and dealing with salesman on a regular basis for 10 years -- I do find it rather amazing that I have yet to meet one that was not TOTALLY ignorant on techy skills. This is way Twilight Zoneish. I have stumbled across techies in all walks of life -- but yet never a salesman. Maybe it is some part of the deal they make with the devil when they are given their golden bullshit talent.
Kudos to him. Well informed, spoken, and fair answers. I do not have to agree with them all to sympathize. Anyone who has had to offer "support" to a non-computer type in your family or circle of friends can sympathize with trying to do away with as much confusion as possible. (and like it or not, in a single user desktop environment -- having to login or su as root in order to install programs is crazy.) I guess I would lean more towards a system that installed "after rollout or 3rd party apps" into privdir's (or home directories) by default rather than giving full root....because diskspace is pretty cheap anymore -- and in a typical home user environment (single user) the chances of getting the same app installed 20 times in 20 different privdirs is minimal anyhow.
That is why the service mp3.com tried to offer was so cool. Purchase the actual CD and while you are waiting for it to ship -- feel free to listen to and download mp3's of the CD you just purchased or any previous purchases. The best of both worlds -- instant gratification and digital copies, and then in a few days -- the real thing to add to your collection. The fact that service got RIAA hate and not love I will never know.
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