But it is not funny because of the age/under power of the tecnology but the advertising used to describe it. These system were advertised like they can do anything.
My favorite example in the batch of this phenomenon is the screenshot of a crudely-rendered chessboard on a 512x342, 1-bit Macintosh display -- labelled "unlimited graphics"!
he mentions a whale being found with a hand-thrown inuit spearhead embedded in its blubber. Or something along those lines... Anyway, it put the age of the animal well over 100 years.
Rather, it puts the age of the spearhead at well over 100 years. Isn't is possible--perhaps not likely, but possible--that the spearhead went unused for decades after being produced?
Since the money [for the fraudulently purchased cell phone] came out of [the credit card company's] pocket and not mine, I assume they didn't quit that easily.
The retail price of a phone is what, $250? $300?
It was almost certainly cheaper for your card issuer to simply eat the cost of the item than to dedicate any resources to investigating the crime. Now, if someone had used your card to buy a $3000 PC, they MIGHT have looked into it.
Unless you're a desktop developer who wants to port your app to the iPhone, and you don't have any familiarity with the web hydra of HTML/CSS/ECMAScript/DOM/AJAX/WebKit/MRUEQ. Then you need to learn about five new languages.
with some good Ajax codeing you could make a program that is as good as most other apps. Google shows that
Google shows that clever use of AJAX and related technologies can be used to create a web app that APPROACHES the quality of a desktop app, but they still haven't caught up 100%, or we'd all be using Google Docs instead of Word and OpenOffice.
On a mobile device with limited CPU power as it is, every layer between the app and the hardware is a significant performance handicap. I'm not seeing the wisdom of requiring developers to deal with a web layer between the app layer and the OS layer -- why? So I can run the same sudoku game code on my desktop as I do on my phone, in a 5x3" window?
this article is posted on the site of another industry that is beginning to pine for the fjords.
'Beginning'? The fjord-pining began at least a decade ago.
Almost every newspaper company missed the boat, and failed to ride the New Media wave as they should. Classifieds departments took tentative steps into online listings, but continued to pander to their traditional customer base (employment agencies, real estate brokers, and auto dealerships) instead of paying attention to what the actual audience wants, and Craigslist etc. grabbed up all the eyeballs.
This log-in business for newspaper sites is an example of how they do not understand their new customers, nor how their business has changed.
I don't agree with this. The New York Times not only requires registration for access to their site, but also charges for access to some content -- and yet, they're one of few online newspaper operations to be turning a profit. They must be doing SOMETHING right; but then, not every paper is like the NY Times, and what works for them probably does not for other papers.
Newspapers will not die, but they will evolve into something different, just as they did 20 years ago when USA Today was launched, just as they did 50 years ago when television took off, just as they did 100 years ago when radio blew up.
What if you want to use it to replicate 4 CDs so you can put them in 4 different CD players and not have to carry the CD around with you?
That is probably in violation of current copyright law.
Of course since this is supposed to be "million dollar" replication machines (whose parts probably cost a couple grand to buy and put together knowing "million dollar" machinery...)
No, it's probably equipment that actually costs over a million dollars.
Make no mistake, large-scale bootlegging operations like this aren't using those SCSI mini-towers where you pop in a CD and five CD-Rs and it burns copies at 12x, then affixing inkjet-printed labels by hand; they're using the same types of disc presses and screening machines that the major labels use. (Some may even use the VERY SAME machines as the majors, running on 'stolen time' at a legit pressing plant.)
You with the SCSI mini-tower, you have nothing to worry about.
People who copy CDs for their own use, dont sell them for profit.
Is this sentence supposed to be descriptive or proscriptive?
If you're giving advice to people who copy CDs, it should be well taken. With the amount of unauthorized copying that happens, and the limited investigative resources of the record companies and police, you stand a far lesser chance of legal trouble if you don't attempt to make a profit.
If you're pointing out a difference between what professional bootleggers and casual disc-burners do, I'm not so sure the difference is all that legally significant. In both cases somebody is acting to enrich themselves -- in one case by collecting hard cash, in the other by avoiding having to pay for another copy.
this will be another kick in pants to all the web developers out there who don't/can't/won't test their sites in anything other than IE before deployment....and a kick in the face to all of those who do/can/will test our site on a variety of browsers and platforms.
My support matrix may have just grown by 15% today. THANKS APPLE.
Not to mention that the show isnt from the POV of Tony
Sure it is! Tony Soprano was indisputably the subject of the entire series.
If you're saying that the 'camera' wasn't consistently located inside Tony's head, well, that's true. But very little film is actually shot from that perspective, and for good reason; see the first sequence from the "Doom" movie to understand why not.
It's an open question. Maybe the fade to black meant Tony died in that final instant; maybe it just meant that the series was over.
"the infamous 'Neck Face' tag, spray-painted on a brick warehouse at Jay and Front Streets in Brooklyn. Try finding that in a guidebook."
Okay, one, I had no idea that there was anything infamous about two words of block-type grafffiti on a warehouse. I thought that happened all the time, in every warehouse district.
And two, anyone who's heard of this allegedly infamous graffiti tag doesn't need meta-semantic markup and GPS coordinates to find it. If you've heard of it, you know it's in DUMBO; so take the F train to York St, which is pretty much the only subway station that serves the neighborhood, come up to street level, and look down the block, and there it is.
I like LJ. It's a good service for a good price. I don't have any particular desire to set up my own blog; I'd rather use theirs, and I'm willing to pay for it.
Furthermore, LJ, isn't "just" a blog hosting site; it's also a bulletin board, RSS reader/aggregator, photo gallery and social network.
Good luck building something comparable to LJ on your own little $5-a-month shared web host.
install a hard disk up to 1TB in side to replace the original
Why bother? With the exception of a couple of console emulators, every XBMC application I've tried has had flawless support for Samba file sharing. I'd rather stick that 1TB drive in a desktop PC or network file server, and mount my video/game/music directories so they're accessible to any machine on the network, including the Xbox.
play it back in 480p/720p/1080i
Upscaled to 720p/1080i, it should be noted. The Xbox's CPU isn't quite powerful enough to decode most native HD content in realtime.
I think Microsoft/Sony completely missed the boat by overlooking this application for their gaming consoles.
I don't think they did; they just blew it on the implementation. There was an "Media Center Extender" package briefly available for the Xbox, which allowed the console to stream content off an XP MCE computer; the 360 has this capability built-in. But still you're limited to the content that Microsoft wants you to have access to; ideally, they want you buying it from the Xbox Marketplace.
XBMC has taken the approach that if you own the hardware, and you possess a copy of the content, you should be able to use them together however you want. And the result of this approach has been that XBMC is the best media center to yet exist.
no one in their right mind is going to give up their addresses.
No one in their right mind should fight tooth and nail to keep the big blocks of IPv4 addresses they have now, either. When IPv6 does reach critical mass, sometime in the next few years, IP addresses will be too cheap to meter. Those holdings will plummet in value.
As for myself, I haven't had a workstation with a public IP for five years now. NATFTW.
it's not like you're only allowed to present a given unknown word once. Present it many times, and use the word with the most hits.
True. But captchas generally require prompt feedback; you want to know right away whether or not the user has passed the Turing test, not leave it unknown for a couple hours until a sufficient number of other users have submitted their answers to establish a consensus.
DVD-covers. They are larger than CDs for no good reason.
Except that they fit perfectly, 2 to a spot, in media storage gear originally designed to hold VHS tapes.
Remember the CD longboxes of the early and mid 1980s? Same thing. More than half of the packaging was unnecessary, but it allowed record stores to keep their CD inventory in the same big wooden bins they had been using for vinyl LPs previously.
My favorite Slashdot bug is the comment counts on the Threshold drop-down menu. The count for the threshold you are browsing at is fairly accurate, as are the counts for thresholds higher than yours, but lower thresholds are severely undercounted.
It used to work correctly. Then, one day about five years ago, it stopped.
It was nice so that whether you needed to use the D-Pad or the Analog stick, your hand could be equally as comfortable
The N64 controller also made possible a third control configuration which was rarely, if ever, used by game developers; left hand on the D-pad and left shoulder button, right hand on the analog stick and Z-trigger.
This would have been pretty great for FPSes. I don't know why it was so under-utilized.
The Wii-mote and the NES advantage would be much better choices IMHO.
I think the list's authors have a point when they suggest that the Wii Remote hasn't had enough time to prove itself as one of the all-time greats, yet. The 360's controller is a clear evolution of the Xbox Controller S, so its benefits and drawbacks are easy to assess. The Wiimote is too novel still.
As for the NES Advantage, I didn't like it. Many games originally designed for the NES D-pad felt wrong on a joystick, and arcade ports suffered from the mushiness of the buttons; they didn't have the tactile snap of the Happ switches found in real arcade panels.
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But it is not funny because of the age/under power of the tecnology but the advertising used to describe it. These system were advertised like they can do anything.
My favorite example in the batch of this phenomenon is the screenshot of a crudely-rendered chessboard on a 512x342, 1-bit Macintosh display -- labelled "unlimited graphics"!
I used to dream of having a real C-64 laptop.
*goes to check if Ben Heckendorn has built one yet*
We eventual got tubes (terminals w/screen) in our offices, but usally 2 programmers per.
And that is the story of how Xtreme Programming was born.
That said, people aren't always willing to pay what something is worth
On the contrary, which people are willing to pay for something is the DEFINITION of its worth.
he mentions a whale being found with a hand-thrown inuit spearhead embedded in its blubber. Or something along those lines... Anyway, it put the age of the animal well over 100 years.
Rather, it puts the age of the spearhead at well over 100 years. Isn't is possible--perhaps not likely, but possible--that the spearhead went unused for decades after being produced?
Since the money [for the fraudulently purchased cell phone] came out of [the credit card company's] pocket and not mine, I assume they didn't quit that easily.
The retail price of a phone is what, $250? $300?
It was almost certainly cheaper for your card issuer to simply eat the cost of the item than to dedicate any resources to investigating the crime. Now, if someone had used your card to buy a $3000 PC, they MIGHT have looked into it.
You don't need to learn yet another SDK.
Unless you're a desktop developer who wants to port your app to the iPhone, and you don't have any familiarity with the web hydra of HTML/CSS/ECMAScript/DOM/AJAX/WebKit/MRUEQ. Then you need to learn about five new languages.
with some good Ajax codeing you could make a program that is as good as most other apps. Google shows that
Google shows that clever use of AJAX and related technologies can be used to create a web app that APPROACHES the quality of a desktop app, but they still haven't caught up 100%, or we'd all be using Google Docs instead of Word and OpenOffice.
On a mobile device with limited CPU power as it is, every layer between the app and the hardware is a significant performance handicap. I'm not seeing the wisdom of requiring developers to deal with a web layer between the app layer and the OS layer -- why? So I can run the same sudoku game code on my desktop as I do on my phone, in a 5x3" window?
this article is posted on the site of another industry that is beginning to pine for the fjords.
'Beginning'? The fjord-pining began at least a decade ago.
Almost every newspaper company missed the boat, and failed to ride the New Media wave as they should. Classifieds departments took tentative steps into online listings, but continued to pander to their traditional customer base (employment agencies, real estate brokers, and auto dealerships) instead of paying attention to what the actual audience wants, and Craigslist etc. grabbed up all the eyeballs.
This log-in business for newspaper sites is an example of how they do not understand their new customers, nor how their business has changed.
I don't agree with this. The New York Times not only requires registration for access to their site, but also charges for access to some content -- and yet, they're one of few online newspaper operations to be turning a profit. They must be doing SOMETHING right; but then, not every paper is like the NY Times, and what works for them probably does not for other papers.
Newspapers will not die, but they will evolve into something different, just as they did 20 years ago when USA Today was launched, just as they did 50 years ago when television took off, just as they did 100 years ago when radio blew up.
What if you want to use it to replicate 4 CDs so you can put them in 4 different CD players and not have to carry the CD around with you?
That is probably in violation of current copyright law.
Of course since this is supposed to be "million dollar" replication machines (whose parts probably cost a couple grand to buy and put together knowing "million dollar" machinery...)
No, it's probably equipment that actually costs over a million dollars.
Make no mistake, large-scale bootlegging operations like this aren't using those SCSI mini-towers where you pop in a CD and five CD-Rs and it burns copies at 12x, then affixing inkjet-printed labels by hand; they're using the same types of disc presses and screening machines that the major labels use. (Some may even use the VERY SAME machines as the majors, running on 'stolen time' at a legit pressing plant.)
You with the SCSI mini-tower, you have nothing to worry about.
People who copy CDs for their own use, dont sell them for profit.
Is this sentence supposed to be descriptive or proscriptive?
If you're giving advice to people who copy CDs, it should be well taken. With the amount of unauthorized copying that happens, and the limited investigative resources of the record companies and police, you stand a far lesser chance of legal trouble if you don't attempt to make a profit.
If you're pointing out a difference between what professional bootleggers and casual disc-burners do, I'm not so sure the difference is all that legally significant. In both cases somebody is acting to enrich themselves -- in one case by collecting hard cash, in the other by avoiding having to pay for another copy.
this will be another kick in pants to all the web developers out there who don't/can't/won't test their sites in anything other than IE before deployment. ...and a kick in the face to all of those who do/can/will test our site on a variety of browsers and platforms.
My support matrix may have just grown by 15% today. THANKS APPLE.
Not to mention that the show isnt from the POV of Tony
Sure it is! Tony Soprano was indisputably the subject of the entire series.
If you're saying that the 'camera' wasn't consistently located inside Tony's head, well, that's true. But very little film is actually shot from that perspective, and for good reason; see the first sequence from the "Doom" movie to understand why not.
It's an open question. Maybe the fade to black meant Tony died in that final instant; maybe it just meant that the series was over.
"the infamous 'Neck Face' tag, spray-painted on a brick warehouse at Jay and Front Streets in Brooklyn. Try finding that in a guidebook."
Okay, one, I had no idea that there was anything infamous about two words of block-type grafffiti on a warehouse. I thought that happened all the time, in every warehouse district.
And two, anyone who's heard of this allegedly infamous graffiti tag doesn't need meta-semantic markup and GPS coordinates to find it. If you've heard of it, you know it's in DUMBO; so take the F train to York St, which is pretty much the only subway station that serves the neighborhood, come up to street level, and look down the block, and there it is.
I like LJ. It's a good service for a good price. I don't have any particular desire to set up my own blog; I'd rather use theirs, and I'm willing to pay for it.
Furthermore, LJ, isn't "just" a blog hosting site; it's also a bulletin board, RSS reader/aggregator, photo gallery and social network.
Good luck building something comparable to LJ on your own little $5-a-month shared web host.
If you're upset with the service find somewhere better or stop complaining.
That's nonsense. If you're upset with the service you are receiving, you always have three options:
1. Find somewhere better
2. Stop complaining
3. KEEP COMPLAINING UNTIL THEY FIX IT!
It's not like the users are paying for the privilege.
Except for the large percentage of LiveJournal users who are.
Ahem. You meant to say, "Unless you're actually planning to commit copyright infringement by sharing the songs, I don't see what the problem is."
Committing copyright infringement IS breaking the law.
Perhaps you have conflated "breaking the law" with "committing a crime"? Copyright infringement is a violation of civil law, but not a criminal act.
install a hard disk up to 1TB in side to replace the original
Why bother? With the exception of a couple of console emulators, every XBMC application I've tried has had flawless support for Samba file sharing. I'd rather stick that 1TB drive in a desktop PC or network file server, and mount my video/game/music directories so they're accessible to any machine on the network, including the Xbox.
play it back in 480p/720p/1080i
Upscaled to 720p/1080i, it should be noted. The Xbox's CPU isn't quite powerful enough to decode most native HD content in realtime.
I think Microsoft/Sony completely missed the boat by overlooking this application for their gaming consoles.
I don't think they did; they just blew it on the implementation. There was an "Media Center Extender" package briefly available for the Xbox, which allowed the console to stream content off an XP MCE computer; the 360 has this capability built-in. But still you're limited to the content that Microsoft wants you to have access to; ideally, they want you buying it from the Xbox Marketplace.
XBMC has taken the approach that if you own the hardware, and you possess a copy of the content, you should be able to use them together however you want. And the result of this approach has been that XBMC is the best media center to yet exist.
no one in their right mind is going to give up their addresses.
No one in their right mind should fight tooth and nail to keep the big blocks of IPv4 addresses they have now, either. When IPv6 does reach critical mass, sometime in the next few years, IP addresses will be too cheap to meter. Those holdings will plummet in value.
As for myself, I haven't had a workstation with a public IP for five years now. NATFTW.
it's not like you're only allowed to present a given unknown word once. Present it many times, and use the word with the most hits.
True. But captchas generally require prompt feedback; you want to know right away whether or not the user has passed the Turing test, not leave it unknown for a couple hours until a sufficient number of other users have submitted their answers to establish a consensus.
DVD-covers. They are larger than CDs for no good reason.
Except that they fit perfectly, 2 to a spot, in media storage gear originally designed to hold VHS tapes.
Remember the CD longboxes of the early and mid 1980s? Same thing. More than half of the packaging was unnecessary, but it allowed record stores to keep their CD inventory in the same big wooden bins they had been using for vinyl LPs previously.
My favorite Slashdot bug is the comment counts on the Threshold drop-down menu. The count for the threshold you are browsing at is fairly accurate, as are the counts for thresholds higher than yours, but lower thresholds are severely undercounted.
It used to work correctly. Then, one day about five years ago, it stopped.
Since the Max and the Advantage were both made by Nintendo at about the same time, I would imagine they ran on pretty much identical chips and code.
Which is to say, I'd bet, "a 555 timer".
It was nice so that whether you needed to use the D-Pad or the Analog stick, your hand could be equally as comfortable
The N64 controller also made possible a third control configuration which was rarely, if ever, used by game developers; left hand on the D-pad and left shoulder button, right hand on the analog stick and Z-trigger.
This would have been pretty great for FPSes. I don't know why it was so under-utilized.
The Wii-mote and the NES advantage would be much better choices IMHO.
I think the list's authors have a point when they suggest that the Wii Remote hasn't had enough time to prove itself as one of the all-time greats, yet. The 360's controller is a clear evolution of the Xbox Controller S, so its benefits and drawbacks are easy to assess. The Wiimote is too novel still.
As for the NES Advantage, I didn't like it. Many games originally designed for the NES D-pad felt wrong on a joystick, and arcade ports suffered from the mushiness of the buttons; they didn't have the tactile snap of the Happ switches found in real arcade panels.