So hang on... so the judge dismissed an objection to a report that implied that having a Shared Files folder would satisfy the terms of 17 USC 106(3). Er, is this good or bad news?
these claims of the Wii only appealing to the young and the poor are really bizarre in my opinion
I agree 100%. My friends (all professional thirtysomethings) were never interested in my PS2, but now I have a Wii they're coming round every weekend to play. I won't be at all surprised if several of them - people who've never had any sort of gaming console before - buy their own Wiis before long. Nintendo fans may only make up a minority of "gamers", but Nintendo's appeal goes far beyond that.
What a ridiculous comment. Microsoft has been found to be a Monopoly by the US Department of Justice and the European Commission. This isn't merely some guy's opinion - this is an international finding of legal fact.
Fry: Well, sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio. And in magazines. And movies. And at ball games, and on buses. And milk cartons. And T-shirts. And written in the sky. But not in dreams. No, sir-ee!
Doesn't that just indicate the total number of emails in the conversation (including ones you've sent yourself)? It doesn't seem to give you any clues as to how many of them are unread. I might just be stupid, but it looks like that to me.
Also, I forgot to mention in my earlier post: another niggle I have with threading arises if I send an email to (say) three people who each respond to me privately. I end up having three quite separate conversations, but Gmail combines them all into a single thread. It's not a disaster, but it doesn't exactly make for easy reference.
When you're composing a new email, that field is there; but if you're replying to an existing email you have to click a link to make it appear. I agree with the guy you're replying to: this just seems like pointlessly obstructive design. I also share some of his reservations about conversation threading. I too have problems with Gmail splitting conversations into lots of little pairs of 'Seamus, me' exchanges - I think it's caused by having a blank subject line, but if someone sends me an email with a blank subject I don't want to be forced by my software to make one up for my reply.
Gmail's threading also causes me trouble when I send an email to a group of people, because the first reply shows up as coming from the right person, but then it starts appending other respondents to the end of the list - so if more than one person has replied since I last checked my mail, I often can't see (from the inbox view) who they all are. Sometimes this has even caused me to miss emails: if two people reply to something I've sent out, Gmail says Inbox (1) (because there's only one thread with new messages) and I can only see one new name in the 'From:' column. So I click on the thread and read 'my new message', and often don't realise there's another one off the bottom of the screen (as the right-hand scroll-bar is my only clue). I click back to the inbox, Gmail marks the whole thread as read, and I go about my business in blissful ignorance.
Beside that, however, I should say that Gmail is definitely the best email service I've ever used, free or otherwise: I use it in preference to my ISP's own mail service, and having all my mail accessible from anywhere - even if I sent it via Thunderbird at home - is unbelievably useful. I just really wish they'd give you the option of a non-threaded inbox view.
For fuck's sake. I hate giving money to Apple. But now my girlfriend's going to insist on having one of these new iPod Nanos for Christmas. And what really winds me up is that she isn't even going to care about the capacity, or the battery, or the patented scroll-wheel interface, or iTunes integration, or anything like that. She's going to want it because it's blue.
This definitely happened - I can vouch for it. A few days ago my girlfriend was trying to apply for a job via her GMail account, and every time she sent her CV it bounced back saying 'sender's IP address rejected' (or something like that). In the end, I had to send her CV for her through a different SMTP server. Nice going, Spamhaus!
The thing about Marx is that he set out principles, not practices. If you think he wrote a set of rules for running a country then I can see why you'd think that Marxists "keep trying the same thing over and over again and expect a different result." But in fact, over the past century or so, people have tried many, many different ways to build a society on Marxist principles.
Unfortunately, no one has yet found a way of doing this that isn't vulnerable to corruption, which tends to produce a system where the efforts of the masses are at least partly hijacked for the benefit of the ruling elite. I can see how you would consider this 'dehumanizing', but this isn't Marxism: this is what's known as 'capitalism'.
Perhaps Creative are hoping for a settlement along the lines of 'we'll acknowledge that our patent on playlists is bullshit if you admit that your patent on the jog-wheel is bullshit.'
I remember the 'c:\con\con' thing, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if you could also kill Word by typing a certain path, thanks to Microsoft's innovative 'automatically create hyperlinks' feature.
D and G certainly do exist in Hindi (or, to be precise, in Devanagari, which is the alphabet used by Hindi and Sanskrit); but they're different from DH and GH, which are represented by completely different letters. If Slashdot supported Unicode I could show you the letters; but alas I can't, so you'll just have to take my word for it. I don't suppose you were that bothered anyway.;)
Does any of that actually matter? I don't particularly care about the size of the motherboard inside the thing, I just want to know that it does what I want.
(In fact, I suspect the Vision M's motherboard is bigger and draws more power simply because it does a lot more than the iPod - it supports a much wider range of video and audio codecs, and can output at four times the resolution in four times as more colours.
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So hang on... so the judge dismissed an objection to a report that implied that having a Shared Files folder would satisfy the terms of 17 USC 106(3). Er, is this good or bad news?
these claims of the Wii only appealing to the young and the poor are really bizarre in my opinion
I agree 100%. My friends (all professional thirtysomethings) were never interested in my PS2, but now I have a Wii they're coming round every weekend to play. I won't be at all surprised if several of them - people who've never had any sort of gaming console before - buy their own Wiis before long. Nintendo fans may only make up a minority of "gamers", but Nintendo's appeal goes far beyond that.
if it is was your money that was being stolen from you, would you be spouting the same rubbish?
-1, does not understand difference between crowdable and non-crowdable assets
What a ridiculous comment. Microsoft has been found to be a Monopoly by the US Department of Justice and the European Commission. This isn't merely some guy's opinion - this is an international finding of legal fact.
I'd be interested to know why you say that. The EU's own English style guide uses it as a prefix (check out e.g. page 90)...
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The Zune runs Windows Mobile? Uh-oh. This could be Microsoft's E.T. moment...
Leela: Didn't you have ads in the 20th century?
Fry: Well, sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio. And in magazines. And movies. And at ball games, and on buses. And milk cartons. And T-shirts. And written in the sky. But not in dreams. No, sir-ee!
The quick-stream fix and GOP fix features ...
Hell yeah, I'd pay for a program that could fix the GOP.
Automatic commercial detection is the "killer app" feature that none of the commercial DVR's dare to include.
A sentence that (I think) neatly points up the big problem with the USA's legal system...
Does it even qualify as news if it's that old?
It's not news, it's... hang on, which tab am I in?
Doesn't that just indicate the total number of emails in the conversation (including ones you've sent yourself)? It doesn't seem to give you any clues as to how many of them are unread. I might just be stupid, but it looks like that to me.
Also, I forgot to mention in my earlier post: another niggle I have with threading arises if I send an email to (say) three people who each respond to me privately. I end up having three quite separate conversations, but Gmail combines them all into a single thread. It's not a disaster, but it doesn't exactly make for easy reference.
When you're composing a new email, that field is there; but if you're replying to an existing email you have to click a link to make it appear. I agree with the guy you're replying to: this just seems like pointlessly obstructive design. I also share some of his reservations about conversation threading. I too have problems with Gmail splitting conversations into lots of little pairs of 'Seamus, me' exchanges - I think it's caused by having a blank subject line, but if someone sends me an email with a blank subject I don't want to be forced by my software to make one up for my reply.
Gmail's threading also causes me trouble when I send an email to a group of people, because the first reply shows up as coming from the right person, but then it starts appending other respondents to the end of the list - so if more than one person has replied since I last checked my mail, I often can't see (from the inbox view) who they all are. Sometimes this has even caused me to miss emails: if two people reply to something I've sent out, Gmail says Inbox (1) (because there's only one thread with new messages) and I can only see one new name in the 'From:' column. So I click on the thread and read 'my new message', and often don't realise there's another one off the bottom of the screen (as the right-hand scroll-bar is my only clue). I click back to the inbox, Gmail marks the whole thread as read, and I go about my business in blissful ignorance.
Beside that, however, I should say that Gmail is definitely the best email service I've ever used, free or otherwise: I use it in preference to my ISP's own mail service, and having all my mail accessible from anywhere - even if I sent it via Thunderbird at home - is unbelievably useful. I just really wish they'd give you the option of a non-threaded inbox view.
All together now: 'Wii shall not, Wii shall not be moved...'
Because it's region-locked, you see...
Oh, never mind.
For fuck's sake. I hate giving money to Apple. But now my girlfriend's going to insist on having one of these new iPod Nanos for Christmas. And what really winds me up is that she isn't even going to care about the capacity, or the battery, or the patented scroll-wheel interface, or iTunes integration, or anything like that. She's going to want it because it's blue.
Impressive. They hacked a Diebold voting machine in less time than it took me to work out how to navigate their photo-story!
So plug it into the empty port on your keyboard.
Doesn't work - you get an error message saying that there isn't enough power. You have to plug it directly into the back of the Mac. Brilliant.
Ach, I was just being silly about the phrase "as in". I know what was meant, but really, the word "encyclopedia" is not in the phrase "has ethics"...
It's supposed to be an "encyclopedia", as in "have ethics".
Nope, sorry - now matter how carefully I listen to the phrase "have ethics", I can't catch the word "encyclopedia" in there.
This definitely happened - I can vouch for it. A few days ago my girlfriend was trying to apply for a job via her GMail account, and every time she sent her CV it bounced back saying 'sender's IP address rejected' (or something like that). In the end, I had to send her CV for her through a different SMTP server. Nice going, Spamhaus!
The thing about Marx is that he set out principles, not practices. If you think he wrote a set of rules for running a country then I can see why you'd think that Marxists "keep trying the same thing over and over again and expect a different result." But in fact, over the past century or so, people have tried many, many different ways to build a society on Marxist principles.
Unfortunately, no one has yet found a way of doing this that isn't vulnerable to corruption, which tends to produce a system where the efforts of the masses are at least partly hijacked for the benefit of the ruling elite. I can see how you would consider this 'dehumanizing', but this isn't Marxism: this is what's known as 'capitalism'.
Perhaps Creative are hoping for a settlement along the lines of 'we'll acknowledge that our patent on playlists is bullshit if you admit that your patent on the jog-wheel is bullshit.'
I remember the 'c:\con\con' thing, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if you could also kill Word by typing a certain path, thanks to Microsoft's innovative 'automatically create hyperlinks' feature.
D and G certainly do exist in Hindi (or, to be precise, in Devanagari, which is the alphabet used by Hindi and Sanskrit); but they're different from DH and GH, which are represented by completely different letters. If Slashdot supported Unicode I could show you the letters; but alas I can't, so you'll just have to take my word for it. I don't suppose you were that bothered anyway. ;)
Does any of that actually matter? I don't particularly care about the size of the motherboard inside the thing, I just want to know that it does what I want.
(In fact, I suspect the Vision M's motherboard is bigger and draws more power simply because it does a lot more than the iPod - it supports a much wider range of video and audio codecs, and can output at four times the resolution in four times as more colours.