You just made a very minor error in your statement.
The internet will kill the RIAA.
Now that I have this post in my slashdot history, I can now count the time until I am eventually right. RIAA can absolutely not win, not now, not never. No amounts of lobbying, government attempts at control and regulation will ever stop people from doing what they want to do: listen to broadcasts.
The solution to this will be exactly what people have done in the past, do like the masses do.
Can't read my.DOC file? Get office.
So people who operate lists will request their members to open an account at yahoo/hotmail/gmail in order to receive the list emails. This will effectively put people off their ISP generated account, which in turn will render the (already next to useless) ISP emails to actually useless.
I have a hard time figuring out what exactly you're trying to say in your post. You're against pissing, is that it?
Or you're against asses? Or you're for asses? Or you want to trade your toilet for an ass? I'm confused! Maybe you're just against people who try to keep their fucking asses clean! That must be it. I don't like sitting in piss, regardless of how far from an animal I see myself as.
In any case, you assume several times in your post that i'm an american, which i'm not, so I will directly forward your flaming text to the trash (or recycle bin, if your text is recyclable.)
And by the way, the noise is a perfectly good issue. My office is close to a toilet. Hearing your splinkler while i'm on the phone with a client is mostly unwelcomed, but maybe in whatever country you're from (since you bash USA, you're probably not from there) maybe that sound is joyful and a great conversation piece.
I mean, I can't even sign "Happy birthday!" to my kid, I have to use some open-source song such as "Today is the anniversary of your birth!" with similar hooks, but not quite.
Thank you very much, copyright laws. You've made our world a better place!
This is becoming such a problem at my workspace that I now go use the toilet where mostly women use it, instead of the one close to me where mostly men use it.
I can't beleive that guys will purposefully pee standing up, spray the bowl, the seat, the floor, the walls, there might even be some on the ceiling, and then just walk away as it it was perfectly normal. WHAT THE FUCK? That's piss you got there on your shoes, not stream water!
I'm ashamed of being a man when I see the state guys leave toilets. Once I was in a public toilet at a theater and the only explanation I could come up with to explain the level of piss spray everywhere was that there must be a war waging inside the bowl between two countries, and one of them just discovered the atomic bomb.
Bingo. I do exactly that as well. Not only do I have the luxury to obtain an insanely easy to remember and spell email address, but I can create as many accounts as I need. Some throw-aways for website registrations, some permanent for family members.
Thus, I am free from *anyone's* uncertain future business practices. Will google ever charge? Will ads ever become too obstrusive? Will a general outage ever eat my emails for days while hundreds of google admins scramble to fix the problem?
It's becoming easier by the day to setup your own server, especially with all the linux distributions targeted for it and howtos and packages and blogs blogging on and on about how to setup your own Ubuntu server.
Plus, I have the added bonus of throwing whatever services I see fit on that box. A group of friends want a forum? Mom wants to put some pictures on the web? I have a ridiculously large file to use at work/friends or something? It does it all.
Right, that wire infrastructure maintenance argument makes a good case, and add to that what the article states about "improving scenery", that might be the whole motivation behind the project.
Afterall, who says this has nothing to do with environmental goals and simply a way to get their train infrastructure deeper into rural areas while mainting their high level of reliability?
If a fuel-cell train goes down you can still use the track and route around that track portion (given you have enough tracks), but if you have a power line problem, then it might bring down a whole section of your train tracks for quite some time.
Seriously, what can be possibly better than electric trains? Unless your electricity comes from coal, in which case replacing the power station to something else, say nuclear, would make more sense.
Fuel cells are useful for energy storage. Perfect to, say, drive a car for a few hours, then dump some more into your energy storage, and drive back, in any direction. Also, they're good to bring energy to remote location. Setup a quick electricity generator in the middle of nowhere. But for trains? They go on tracks, so installing a few wires isn't too expensive or difficult, making the electricity transportation far more efficient trought wires than fitting fuel cells on every locomotive, and then carrying all that hydrogen and.. sheesh!
Really, i see this as the wrong match of a technology to a need.
Nothing's "on the verge of dying" or anything here, really. Basically every handheld device is moving slightly towards a central idealistic box which we could call, the SmartPDApocketPhone or, SPPP.
The SPPP is basically a: PDA with more power and a GSM phone plugin or A phone with morepower and a touchscreen added or A miniaturized computer stripped of some functionalities, but added a touchscreen and a GSM phone plugin.
Sooooo all in all, every device is slowly becoming another. The phone is dead by the way. Yeah, anyone tried to buy a phone that is just, well, a phone? You can't. You can only buy phones with pda/cameras/games/internet on it.
It's all just slightly different devices merging into what the consumer wants. The original pda platform and the original phone platform and every other original platform are all dying, and they'll all become a new, centralized handheld system.
If anyone is surprised by the incompetence of governmental bureaucracy, please email me about my new perpetual motion machine that taps the unlimited energy of herbal pills.
Are you using the quickloader? Because it's kind of a cheat if you do and claim fast load times. Of course having most of the binaries loaded before launch will make a quick loading...
Given that they already do business with EMC, the fact that the author states they want to keep "cost effective" might mean that they already ruled out more-EMC as being too expensive.
Or they're just too cheap to do it, and turn to slashdot for a quick fix that will probably not do it.
I read in a magazine last year that children-oriented fakes like backpacks and the like were often of better quality than the real brands would produce, using better quality images or better design.
This probably doesn't apply to electronics and computer hardware, as the fake cheap-knockoff is always of considerably less quality.
Believe it or not, many audiophiles consider records to still be the superior-sounding medium.
All you have to do is listen to a good quality LP on a good quality turntable with good quality stereo and you'll be pretty much convinced. Vinyl LPs have a warm, fuzzy, rich quality to it that digital often doesn't have. It's not even a matter of which one is of better quality, it's which one that is more enjoyable to listen to.
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You just made a very minor error in your statement.
The internet will kill the RIAA.
Now that I have this post in my slashdot history, I can now count the time until I am eventually right. RIAA can absolutely not win, not now, not never. No amounts of lobbying, government attempts at control and regulation will ever stop people from doing what they want to do: listen to broadcasts.
The solution to this will be exactly what people have done in the past, do like the masses do.
.DOC file? Get office.
Can't read my
So people who operate lists will request their members to open an account at yahoo/hotmail/gmail in order to receive the list emails. This will effectively put people off their ISP generated account, which in turn will render the (already next to useless) ISP emails to actually useless.
I have a hard time figuring out what exactly you're trying to say in your post. You're against pissing, is that it?
Or you're against asses? Or you're for asses? Or you want to trade your toilet for an ass? I'm confused! Maybe you're just against people who try to keep their fucking asses clean! That must be it. I don't like sitting in piss, regardless of how far from an animal I see myself as.
In any case, you assume several times in your post that i'm an american, which i'm not, so I will directly forward your flaming text to the trash (or recycle bin, if your text is recyclable.)
And by the way, the noise is a perfectly good issue. My office is close to a toilet. Hearing your splinkler while i'm on the phone with a client is mostly unwelcomed, but maybe in whatever country you're from (since you bash USA, you're probably not from there) maybe that sound is joyful and a great conversation piece.
It is, isn't it?
I mean, I can't even sign "Happy birthday!" to my kid, I have to use some open-source song such as "Today is the anniversary of your birth!" with similar hooks, but not quite.
Thank you very much, copyright laws. You've made our world a better place!
This is becoming such a problem at my workspace that I now go use the toilet where mostly women use it, instead of the one close to me where mostly men use it.
I can't beleive that guys will purposefully pee standing up, spray the bowl, the seat, the floor, the walls, there might even be some on the ceiling, and then just walk away as it it was perfectly normal. WHAT THE FUCK? That's piss you got there on your shoes, not stream water!
I'm ashamed of being a man when I see the state guys leave toilets. Once I was in a public toilet at a theater and the only explanation I could come up with to explain the level of piss spray everywhere was that there must be a war waging inside the bowl between two countries, and one of them just discovered the atomic bomb.
When will they learn?
Oh wait, they won't.
Better join RIAA now.
Bingo. I do exactly that as well. Not only do I have the luxury to obtain an insanely easy to remember and spell email address, but I can create as many accounts as I need. Some throw-aways for website registrations, some permanent for family members.
Thus, I am free from *anyone's* uncertain future business practices. Will google ever charge? Will ads ever become too obstrusive? Will a general outage ever eat my emails for days while hundreds of google admins scramble to fix the problem?
It's becoming easier by the day to setup your own server, especially with all the linux distributions targeted for it and howtos and packages and blogs blogging on and on about how to setup your own Ubuntu server.
Plus, I have the added bonus of throwing whatever services I see fit on that box. A group of friends want a forum? Mom wants to put some pictures on the web? I have a ridiculously large file to use at work/friends or something? It does it all.
Dugg for the creative title.
Hmm what's with all those nested comments?
Seriously, if you want to reach Digg frontpage, you need to add "AMAZING". It's mandatory now.
Free at 29,95$ per month is not so free in my book. Way to mislead with the title there, poster!
A year ago called, they want their joke templates back!
Right, that wire infrastructure maintenance argument makes a good case, and add to that what the article states about "improving scenery", that might be the whole motivation behind the project.
Afterall, who says this has nothing to do with environmental goals and simply a way to get their train infrastructure deeper into rural areas while mainting their high level of reliability?
If a fuel-cell train goes down you can still use the track and route around that track portion (given you have enough tracks), but if you have a power line problem, then it might bring down a whole section of your train tracks for quite some time.
Seriously, what can be possibly better than electric trains? Unless your electricity comes from coal, in which case replacing the power station to something else, say nuclear, would make more sense.
.. sheesh!
Fuel cells are useful for energy storage. Perfect to, say, drive a car for a few hours, then dump some more into your energy storage, and drive back, in any direction. Also, they're good to bring energy to remote location. Setup a quick electricity generator in the middle of nowhere. But for trains? They go on tracks, so installing a few wires isn't too expensive or difficult, making the electricity transportation far more efficient trought wires than fitting fuel cells on every locomotive, and then carrying all that hydrogen and
Really, i see this as the wrong match of a technology to a need.
Nothing's "on the verge of dying" or anything here, really. Basically every handheld device is moving slightly towards a central idealistic box which we could call, the SmartPDApocketPhone or, SPPP.
The SPPP is basically a:
PDA with more power and a GSM phone plugin
or
A phone with morepower and a touchscreen added
or
A miniaturized computer stripped of some functionalities, but added a touchscreen and a GSM phone plugin.
Sooooo all in all, every device is slowly becoming another. The phone is dead by the way. Yeah, anyone tried to buy a phone that is just, well, a phone? You can't. You can only buy phones with pda/cameras/games/internet on it.
It's all just slightly different devices merging into what the consumer wants. The original pda platform and the original phone platform and every other original platform are all dying, and they'll all become a new, centralized handheld system.
If anyone is surprised by the incompetence of governmental bureaucracy, please email me about my new perpetual motion machine that taps the unlimited energy of herbal pills.
i'm frankly a bit surprised that so many people don't know what you're talking about
Really??? This *surprises* you? You know you're on the internet here, right?
Are you using the quickloader? Because it's kind of a cheat if you do and claim fast load times. Of course having most of the binaries loaded before launch will make a quick loading...
Actually, I *can* wait for the day I get punched in the face.
Given that they already do business with EMC, the fact that the author states they want to keep "cost effective" might mean that they already ruled out more-EMC as being too expensive.
Or they're just too cheap to do it, and turn to slashdot for a quick fix that will probably not do it.
Maybe in the US. Here in Canada, HEC (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) has been having mandatory laptops for many years, and it works great.
I read in a magazine last year that children-oriented fakes like backpacks and the like were often of better quality than the real brands would produce, using better quality images or better design.
This probably doesn't apply to electronics and computer hardware, as the fake cheap-knockoff is always of considerably less quality.
Believe it or not, many audiophiles consider records to still be the superior-sounding medium.
All you have to do is listen to a good quality LP on a good quality turntable with good quality stereo and you'll be pretty much convinced. Vinyl LPs have a warm, fuzzy, rich quality to it that digital often doesn't have. It's not even a matter of which one is of better quality, it's which one that is more enjoyable to listen to.
The episodes become extreme and unbelievable and are purposely going for a laugh, rather than 'seemingly' accidentally stumbling on it.
I think you've just described, in one single sentence, what actually sets "good commedy" apart from standard ordinary comedy.
I wish more stuff was like you described. I need more futurama.
You must be new to this interweb thing.
Rule #1: Chances are, liunx or bsd will run on [insert name]
Rule #2: Chances are, google will find information regarding rule #1.
Like here, 2nd google result.
According to TFA
TFA? What FA? This was an advertisement directed at OQO's website!