Have you ever thought that if you wanted something to be improved, then maybe you should just speak up and offer a solution?
Microsoft has well-paid employees whose job it is to come up with solutions to problems with Windows. Why should I be expected to do that job for free?
Even if I did want something to be improved, it would take a hundred thousand people saying the same thing as me for it to be worth Microsoft's time to listen. And because of the psychology involved--many users have a feeling of "experts designed this, so if I have a problem with it it's probably my fault instead of theirs"--that critical mass is unlikely to ever be reached.
However, your imaginary murderer would only be able to be extradited to the States if he committed the murder on US soil.
What if there are an American citizen and a Canadian citizen, each standing on their respective sides of the border, and the Canadian fires a gun at the American and kills him? Did the murder take place on US soil or Canadian soil?
this guy didn't break any US copyright law in the US; he broke US copyright law in Australia. [...] Basically, the whole problem in this case is that US law is being used as International Law.
The United States and Australia are both signatories to the Berne Convention, no? That means that the copyright law of the US--or of any other country that is a party--pretty much IS international law.
if you're on a budget or are really averse to a large featureset, you could grab an older model one and toss in your SIM card.
Indeed. Even the original grayscale-screened Sidekick is eminently usable for text communications: SMS, POP email, and AIM support are built-in, with IP-RELAY and i711 Wireless clients available as free downloads. The soft rubber keypad is a joy to thumb-type on.
a guy makes a myspace profile for some american political party
Incorrect.
He spends a fair bit of his own money on the project.
Correct.
The campaign team make it known their interested in it
Correct.
but are such complete jerks about the transfer (last minute cancelling phone conferences,etc...) that when someone mentions the idea of a fee he jumps at it.
Correct.
When the refused any idea of financial re-embusement for his work they stole the account.
I was trying to imagine new media pundit Jeff Jarvis covering electronic music, and it gave me cognitive dissonance.
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Every surgeon knows about reprofusion injury. You can go to Barnes & Noble and look it up in a surgery textbook.
I don't know what's scarier: that surgeons might buy surgery textbooks at Barnes & Noble, or that people who AREN'T surgeons might buy surgery textbooks at Barnes & Noble.
Thirteen undecillion, two hundred fifty-six decillion, two hundred seventy-eight nonillion, eight hundred eighty-seven octillion, nine hundred eighty-nine septillion, four hundred fifty-seven sextillion, six hundred fifty-one quintillion, eighteen quadrillion, eight hundred sixty-five trillion, nine hundred one billion, four hundred one million, seven hundred four thousand, six hundred forty.
Why do you NEED to carry THIRTY GIGABYTES of music with you at all times?
Why does anyone NEED to carry ANY music with them? We don't. But we LIKE to carry music with us so that we can listen to the music we want to listen to whenever and wherever we wish.
Your listening habits involve a small number of full albums that stay in rotation for a while. Mine don't. I like to put my entire collection on shuffle and be surprised at what comes up next. The more of my music collection I can have with me, the more fun I have.
My biggest gripe though, is with people attacking the UMD format.
I also don't think Sony had any choice BUT to go with UMD. Supporting full-size DVD media would have been even worse for battery life and made the thing clunky and un-pocketable. Building in a hard drive and allowing consumers to transfer movies from their computers would have been an explicit condonation of DVD ripping, and the Entertainment division would not stand for that. The Sony engineers did the best they could with UMD, which inherits many of the benefits of its MiniDisc precursor, but also all of its drawbacks. UMD is good -- but still not as good as solid-state cartridges for a portable console.
The PSP is the Playstation portable. The Gameboy is the game boy. Not the NES portable, not the Famicom portable.
Really? Because I remember a flood of home console ports and adaptations appearing on every Nintendo portable to date, from "Super Mario Land" and "Castlevania: The Adventure" on the original Game Boy to "Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros 3" on the Advance to "Mario 64 DS" and "Diddy Kong Racing" on the DS.
I don't think the PSP has failed; it's still selling better than any non-Nintendo portable in history, and has an active enough install base to sustain it for years. But still, it could have been so much more than it is.
The master disks exported by Microsoft were not "components" because the disks themselves where not combined with the "whole."
No, but (an exact copy of) the code contained on those disks is present in the final product, therefore the code could be considered a component of the system.
Assuming that we believe software is a patentable invention, which I'm sure we don't all.
The NES was generally more apt for flashy graphics though, aside from being in colour, the screen was bigger and sound was more FM-tastic [than the Game Boy]
I think you mean "chip-tastic".
Neither the Game Boy nor the NES used FM Synthesis for their sound production (except for selected Famicom Disk System titles, but I don't think you meant you were playing those). They both had Nintendo-designed simple tone generators in them which were less advanced (but often also much less cheezy) than the FM synthesizers used in the Sega Megadrive/Genesis, the Adlib/early Sound Blaster PC soundcards, and just about every New Wave band of the 1980s.
I'd have expected you'd need some time to work out the answers.
That's the point exactly. The interviewer doesn't want to hear an immediate response of "oh, I'd use a radix sort". They want to hear you talk out your problem-solving process in real time, to see how close to their optimal solution you get in ten minutes' time and what ideas you might have for improving your first-pass solution if you had had more time.
No doubt it's a grueling process, and many of the people they interview don't possess the demeanor or the algorithmic brilliance to do well in such a scenario. But if they're finding engineers they want to hire using the system, I guess it must be working for them.
I would posit that people who want them archived should post them to usenet
Google is the only company in the world making any kind of serious effort to create a permanent archive of Usenet, and they already don't even archive binary postings. What happens if Google decides it's not in their interests to maintain that data anymore?
You have to say who it's copyrighted by, not just a date.
No, you don't. You don't even have to SAY it's copyrighted, as it's automatically assumed to be upon creation. Of course, definition of IP rights in theory and enforcement of those rights in practice often differ.
Of course as an excerpt here for academic purposes it's covered by fair use under US copyright law
Good lucking getting a judge to believe that Slashdot is a scholarly forum.
The whole idea of changing the rules then penalizing you from actions in the past should be banned.
It already is. Article I of the Constitution forbids the federal and state governments from passing any ex post facto law.
The court system generally doesn't mind the practice, though, if there is no penalty attached; if citizens benefit from retroactive application of a new law, it's often allowed. So if internet broadcasters were compelled to pay higher royalty rates under existing law, and this new law reduces their rates, that's probably not problematic.
you're all dancing arround his grave because he didn't want you to enjoy your movies the way you see fit?
If "the way I see fit" is expressly permitted me to by law and he was trying to take that away from me, is there any reason NOT to be happy that he will no longer deny me my rights?
This man turned the MPAA from a technical standards body into an opaquely unaccountable censorship board. I'd be lying if I said I was sorry to see him go.
But I already expressed those feeling when he stepped down from his MPAA post a couple years back. I don't have any particular reaction to news of his death.
If you're planning to print a lot, get a home laser rather than an inkjet.
And if you're planning to print very infrequently, also get a home laser rather than an inkjet. If an inkjet doesn't get used at least once per week or so, the ink will dry up and clog the print heads.
In fact, I can't see any reason to buy an inkjet printer at all, except for within a fairly narrow band of usage. Or if you want a multipurpose scanner/fax/copier/printer; few of those seem to be laser based.
But, open with lots of choices wins in the long run every time because it gives ownership of IT to the companies that use it instead of the companies the produce it.
While true, a lot of companies consider IT ownership to be more of a liability than an asset.
As the 7800 is close to a systolic model there is a limited class of programs that can be executed; but those that are in that class exhibit (near)perfect parallelism and so have zero hit from memory access costs. Actually the internal bandwidth on the 7800 is a bottleneck for some computations but I'm just going for coarse detail here.
I had no idea Atari's third 8-bit console was so powerful. It's too bad they had to shelve the system when the market crash hit, and never gained back the developer or user base that Nintendo snatched up a couple years later.
What if Microsoft wrote a new OS, and no one bothered writing applications for it, not even malware?
IBM would probably take custody of it after their partnership with Microsoft dissolved, and it would become the OS of choice for ATMs and financial workstations for years to come.
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Have you ever thought that if you wanted something to be improved, then maybe you should just speak up and offer a solution?
Microsoft has well-paid employees whose job it is to come up with solutions to problems with Windows. Why should I be expected to do that job for free?
Even if I did want something to be improved, it would take a hundred thousand people saying the same thing as me for it to be worth Microsoft's time to listen. And because of the psychology involved--many users have a feeling of "experts designed this, so if I have a problem with it it's probably my fault instead of theirs"--that critical mass is unlikely to ever be reached.
However, your imaginary murderer would only be able to be extradited to the States if he committed the murder on US soil.
What if there are an American citizen and a Canadian citizen, each standing on their respective sides of the border, and the Canadian fires a gun at the American and kills him? Did the murder take place on US soil or Canadian soil?
this guy didn't break any US copyright law in the US; he broke US copyright law in Australia. [...] Basically, the whole problem in this case is that US law is being used as International Law.
The United States and Australia are both signatories to the Berne Convention, no? That means that the copyright law of the US--or of any other country that is a party--pretty much IS international law.
if you're on a budget or are really averse to a large featureset, you could grab an older model one and toss in your SIM card.
Indeed. Even the original grayscale-screened Sidekick is eminently usable for text communications: SMS, POP email, and AIM support are built-in, with IP-RELAY and i711 Wireless clients available as free downloads. The soft rubber keypad is a joy to thumb-type on.
a guy makes a myspace profile for some american political party
Incorrect.
He spends a fair bit of his own money on the project.
Correct.
The campaign team make it known their interested in it
Correct.
but are such complete jerks about the transfer (last minute cancelling phone conferences,etc...) that when someone mentions the idea of a fee he jumps at it.
Correct.
When the refused any idea of financial re-embusement for his work they stole the account.
Incorrect.
Ohhh, Buzzmachines.com.
I was trying to imagine new media pundit Jeff Jarvis covering electronic music, and it gave me cognitive dissonance.
Every surgeon knows about reprofusion injury. You can go to Barnes & Noble and look it up in a surgery textbook.
I don't know what's scarier: that surgeons might buy surgery textbooks at Barnes & Noble, or that people who AREN'T surgeons might buy surgery textbooks at Barnes & Noble.
Thirteen undecillion, two hundred fifty-six decillion, two hundred seventy-eight nonillion, eight hundred eighty-seven octillion, nine hundred eighty-nine septillion, four hundred fifty-seven sextillion, six hundred fifty-one quintillion, eighteen quadrillion, eight hundred sixty-five trillion, nine hundred one billion, four hundred one million, seven hundred four thousand, six hundred forty.
Why do you NEED to carry THIRTY GIGABYTES of music with you at all times?
Why does anyone NEED to carry ANY music with them? We don't. But we LIKE to carry music with us so that we can listen to the music we want to listen to whenever and wherever we wish.
Your listening habits involve a small number of full albums that stay in rotation for a while. Mine don't. I like to put my entire collection on shuffle and be surprised at what comes up next. The more of my music collection I can have with me, the more fun I have.
My biggest gripe though, is with people attacking the UMD format.
I also don't think Sony had any choice BUT to go with UMD. Supporting full-size DVD media would have been even worse for battery life and made the thing clunky and un-pocketable. Building in a hard drive and allowing consumers to transfer movies from their computers would have been an explicit condonation of DVD ripping, and the Entertainment division would not stand for that. The Sony engineers did the best they could with UMD, which inherits many of the benefits of its MiniDisc precursor, but also all of its drawbacks. UMD is good -- but still not as good as solid-state cartridges for a portable console.
The PSP is the Playstation portable. The Gameboy is the game boy. Not the NES portable, not the Famicom portable.
Really? Because I remember a flood of home console ports and adaptations appearing on every Nintendo portable to date, from "Super Mario Land" and "Castlevania: The Adventure" on the original Game Boy to "Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros 3" on the Advance to "Mario 64 DS" and "Diddy Kong Racing" on the DS.
I don't think the PSP has failed; it's still selling better than any non-Nintendo portable in history, and has an active enough install base to sustain it for years. But still, it could have been so much more than it is.
The master disks exported by Microsoft were not "components" because the disks themselves where not combined with the "whole."
No, but (an exact copy of) the code contained on those disks is present in the final product, therefore the code could be considered a component of the system.
Assuming that we believe software is a patentable invention, which I'm sure we don't all.
The NES was generally more apt for flashy graphics though, aside from being in colour, the screen was bigger and sound was more FM-tastic [than the Game Boy]
I think you mean "chip-tastic".
Neither the Game Boy nor the NES used FM Synthesis for their sound production (except for selected Famicom Disk System titles, but I don't think you meant you were playing those). They both had Nintendo-designed simple tone generators in them which were less advanced (but often also much less cheezy) than the FM synthesizers used in the Sega Megadrive/Genesis, the Adlib/early Sound Blaster PC soundcards, and just about every New Wave band of the 1980s.
I'd have expected you'd need some time to work out the answers.
That's the point exactly. The interviewer doesn't want to hear an immediate response of "oh, I'd use a radix sort". They want to hear you talk out your problem-solving process in real time, to see how close to their optimal solution you get in ten minutes' time and what ideas you might have for improving your first-pass solution if you had had more time.
No doubt it's a grueling process, and many of the people they interview don't possess the demeanor or the algorithmic brilliance to do well in such a scenario. But if they're finding engineers they want to hire using the system, I guess it must be working for them.
That includes doing away with everything that connects them to Stanford in terms of exclusivity as well, as that hasn't helped in that effort as well.
Sounds like someone's a bitter USC grad...
Doesn't this mean they'll just change the contract on new DVDs?
What contract?
Did you have to sign anything (other than maybe a credit card slip) the last time you bought a DVD?
I would posit that people who want them archived should post them to usenet
Google is the only company in the world making any kind of serious effort to create a permanent archive of Usenet, and they already don't even archive binary postings. What happens if Google decides it's not in their interests to maintain that data anymore?
You have to say who it's copyrighted by, not just a date.
No, you don't. You don't even have to SAY it's copyrighted, as it's automatically assumed to be upon creation. Of course, definition of IP rights in theory and enforcement of those rights in practice often differ.
Of course as an excerpt here for academic purposes it's covered by fair use under US copyright law
Good lucking getting a judge to believe that Slashdot is a scholarly forum.
The whole idea of changing the rules then penalizing you from actions in the past should be banned.
It already is. Article I of the Constitution forbids the federal and state governments from passing any ex post facto law.
The court system generally doesn't mind the practice, though, if there is no penalty attached; if citizens benefit from retroactive application of a new law, it's often allowed. So if internet broadcasters were compelled to pay higher royalty rates under existing law, and this new law reduces their rates, that's probably not problematic.
you're all dancing arround his grave because he didn't want you to enjoy your movies the way you see fit?
If "the way I see fit" is expressly permitted me to by law and he was trying to take that away from me, is there any reason NOT to be happy that he will no longer deny me my rights?
This man turned the MPAA from a technical standards body into an opaquely unaccountable censorship board. I'd be lying if I said I was sorry to see him go.
But I already expressed those feeling when he stepped down from his MPAA post a couple years back. I don't have any particular reaction to news of his death.
If you're planning to print a lot, get a home laser rather than an inkjet.
And if you're planning to print very infrequently, also get a home laser rather than an inkjet. If an inkjet doesn't get used at least once per week or so, the ink will dry up and clog the print heads.
In fact, I can't see any reason to buy an inkjet printer at all, except for within a fairly narrow band of usage. Or if you want a multipurpose scanner/fax/copier/printer; few of those seem to be laser based.
So yes a BJ was involved, but he was impeached for lying under oath about a BJ. Something any one of us would do jail time for.
Only if found guilty of lying under oath. Which Clinton never was.
So? If 5 billion people say 1+1=3, that doesn't mean I have to listen to them.
But on the other hand if 5 billion people say 1+1=2 and you insist that it's 3, you're probably the one that's wrong.
But, open with lots of choices wins in the long run every time because it gives ownership of IT to the companies that use it instead of the companies the produce it.
While true, a lot of companies consider IT ownership to be more of a liability than an asset.
As the 7800 is close to a systolic model there is a limited class of programs that can be executed; but those that are in that class exhibit (near)perfect parallelism and so have zero hit from memory access costs. Actually the internal bandwidth on the 7800 is a bottleneck for some computations but I'm just going for coarse detail here.
I had no idea Atari's third 8-bit console was so powerful. It's too bad they had to shelve the system when the market crash hit, and never gained back the developer or user base that Nintendo snatched up a couple years later.
Back in the late 80's or early 90's couldn't you swap out processor's?
Even before then. I remember using an IBM PC-XT in which my dad had swapped out the stock Intel 8088 CPU with a faster-running NEC V20.
What if Microsoft wrote a new OS, and no one bothered writing applications for it, not even malware?
IBM would probably take custody of it after their partnership with Microsoft dissolved, and it would become the OS of choice for ATMs and financial workstations for years to come.
I've actually written and published a book (http://zxgoldenyears.com/) on the ZX Spectrum (full-colour, coffee table format)
Unfortunately, due to design limitations of the printing process, the book is limited to two colors per square inch on each page...