Well, a very rare first take. I was wondering about Tivo's Subscription service vs. The others. I know I believe, And they are here. I suspect Google and Tivo to crush the competion like nothing ever seen before.
I am forecasting a little bit. I can promise these vendor's are downplaying DRM as much as possible. While promoting interoperability.
I am sad to see the possible demise of the Beagle II. However, I have to temper that with my watching an animation of what they were attempting to accomplish and saying to myself: It will never work. It is too complex. I hope I am proven wrong in the long run.
Also, considering the millions of miles involved, The USA could not beat them by a lousy ten days? (A little humor, folks!)
My main point is that if you want durable aerospace vehicles that can survive the (Groan) impact. The Russians need to be the designers.
I happen to work for a TV station in the area and we reported it a week or so ago. I also happened to get a look at one of these cards and I can safely say they are very fragile in every since of the word. A very thin card, one chip. a couple of resistors, plus a one page of small print. No tech support.
I know what I am doing and I had a hard time with this thing.
And no, it never worked.
Move along, nothing to see here.
These rip-off artists milked a bunch of greedy people that got burned but did not dare turn them in.
Until, somebody got ticked off enough to turn everybody in.
I will leave it to Slashdot to calculate the odds of the squeal factor.
I would say that Lynch had much more time with the TV movie and it showed. I agree with you that I would have liked to have seen Lynch's and Herbert's full vision on the big screen.
Also, Herbert had to tell the audience at Worldcon that the banquet scene had to be cut from the movie for time, so that implies that the footage was shot, but never assembled.
Don't get me wrong, I respect David for the director he is. I just object his stylistic hijacking of one of the greats in literature, and Herbert going along with it.
I do suspect there is an untold story here.
That movie was meant to be an epic, and they spent money like water for that time.
Good post! Gotta tell you Frank Herbert sold out his soul when he told us drooling fans at Worldcon that Dune the movie was exactly how he envisioned it. Worms and all.
In a perverse oddity, the television version of Dune was far better IMO than the film release.
An interesting point crops up here, Since the battery in an iPod is not user replaceable this factory store should be loaded with refurbished Ipods. Therefore, there are a lot of dead iPods lying around or the old customers are paying for refurbishing or (more likely) Apple is selling the refurbished players just as fast as they are getting them refurbished.
IMHO Apple puts out a fine product. Just understand going in that you are going to have to deal with Apple on their terms. I think in some areas Apple is far more draconian then even Microsoft. However, they get away with it because they are not a monopoly by definition.
No, I see it as a lazyness among coders to grab the dragon by the "ahem" balls and outcode the beast. You as a community have shown yourselves more than capable of rising beyond the beast.
I thought you were better than that, Slashdot.
I thought the goal is to provide answers not the negative crush.
I am deeply hurt by this answer by a united community.
Please, I consider the project here: http://virt-dimension.sourceforge.net/ as more priority to getting Linux functionality to winblows to show off the stuff you programmers are capable of.
Very cool eye-candy. But if you cannot deliver as a community this kind of thing is going to be still-born.
Hit the stuff that counts.
I recently argued the only coder I know about this very subject. And he replied, "I don't have time for cross windows interfaces.''
I am here to tell you that is exactly why Linux is losing the desktop race.
"except that instead of a highly trained marketing department, it has us."
Well excuse me, Mr. +4 Poster.
I happen to work for a top Television station in the Promotions department and have a lot of skill. If somebody wants to put some seed money into an organisation devoted to promoting Linux in general. (No specific distro's.) I would be glad to devote my time. I think you should look at IBM's ad campaign for Linux rather than those Insane Microsoft Ads. (I suspect those ads reflect the reality of corporate life within Microsoft.)
This may be slightly off-topic but I was trying to resize my little brothers hardrive using XP's utilitys and ran into this annoying fact.
Windows XP will not allow you to resize the boot partition using Microsofts software. I was stunned. How can all of these alternitives exist and the monolithic empire that Gates built refuses to acknowledge the problem while secretly sliding out possible fixes to vendors such as Semantec who are now employing Microsoft's tactics. DRM, never uninstall. (Of course I recently caught Novel installing much more on a windows box than they take away with an uninstall. Very tricky registry editing involved since Microsoft does support the protocol)
If you are using any Symantec software, I suggest you stop and re-evalute any and all alternative solutions.
In otherwords: Run away!
Get rid of it. I cannot explain in this forum how many, many, times I have had to fix PC's that have been screwed up by Symantec software.
I have never ever seen such double-speak as SCO practices. Donning a tinfoil hat, do you think Boies is being helped Pro Bono by the wild accusation division of the legal department at Microsoft?
Bags are much superior in translocating cats. Boxes are not a good idea when open them the feral cat tends to jump out at your face and sink the claws in. At least with a burlap bag you have a fifty/fifty chance of the cat going for the balls.
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That was really funny,
Thank you.
I almost choked a mouthful of beverage through my nose when I saw your post.
That is indeed a great observation.
Judging from your membership number I guess that is to be expected.
I just wanted to say thanks.
Excellent Post.
Please consider this a Karma mod.
Well yes, It is DRM up the a$$ but I was trying to be polite.
Well, a very rare first take. I was wondering about Tivo's Subscription service vs. The others. I know I believe, And they are here. I suspect Google and Tivo to crush the competion like nothing ever seen before.
I am forecasting a little bit. I can promise these vendor's are downplaying DRM as much as possible. While
promoting interoperability.
I have heard that they are going to selling shares on E-bay. I have alerted my E-bay friends.
"Then the game would be even more protected under the First Amendment, because it would be a political position."
First off, nice post. It made me think.
However, I have to point out what about the free speech rights of the anti-abortion fanatics?
Seems they get trampled on right and left.
I only use them as an example. And my point is that you are painting with broad strokes.
I am sad to see the possible demise of the Beagle II. However, I have to temper that with my watching an animation of what they were attempting to accomplish and saying to myself: It will never work. It is too complex. I hope I am proven wrong in the long run.
Also, considering the millions of miles involved, The USA could not beat them by a lousy ten days? (A little humor, folks!)
My main point is that if you want durable aerospace vehicles that can survive the (Groan) impact. The Russians need to be the designers.
Those later model Mig's are a shining example.
Yes, I ran into those 404 errors in Chinese.
/. pipe!
One thing I noted is that they are very "sticky" for want of a better term. Also, can anybody translate them?
I see loads of fun coming down the
I happen to work for a TV station in the area and we reported it a week or so ago. I also happened to get a look at one of these cards and I can safely say they are very fragile in every since of the word. A very thin card, one chip. a couple of resistors, plus a one page of small print. No tech support.
I know what I am doing and I had a hard time with this thing.
And no, it never worked.
Move along, nothing to see here.
These rip-off artists milked a bunch of greedy people that got burned but did not dare turn them in.
Until, somebody got ticked off enough to turn everybody in.
I will leave it to Slashdot to calculate the odds of the squeal factor.
I would say that Lynch had much more time with the TV movie and it showed. I agree with you that I would have liked to have seen Lynch's and Herbert's full vision on the big screen.
Also, Herbert had to tell the audience at Worldcon that the banquet scene had to be cut from the movie for time, so that implies that the footage was shot, but never assembled.
Don't get me wrong, I respect David for the director he is. I just object his stylistic hijacking of one of the greats in literature, and Herbert going along with it.
I do suspect there is an untold story here.
That movie was meant to be an epic, and they spent money like water for that time.
A karma nod to your post.
I just wish I could boost it to +5
Good post! Gotta tell you Frank Herbert sold out his soul when he told us drooling fans at Worldcon that Dune the movie was exactly how he envisioned it. Worms and all.
In a perverse oddity, the television version of Dune was far better IMO than the film release.
Like father, like son.
Uh, oh. Very bad news. This asshole has government contacts. One thing I can say is that this new "War" will bankrupt the RIAA or the country.
"Have you considered a refurb unit?"
An interesting point crops up here, Since the battery in an iPod is not user replaceable this factory store should be loaded with refurbished Ipods. Therefore, there are a lot of dead iPods lying around or the old customers are paying for refurbishing or (more likely) Apple is selling the refurbished players just as fast as they are getting them refurbished.
IMHO Apple puts out a fine product. Just understand going in that you are going to have to deal with Apple on their terms. I think in some areas Apple is far more draconian then even Microsoft. However, they get away with it because they are not a monopoly by definition.
No, I see it as a lazyness among coders to grab the dragon by the "ahem" balls and outcode the beast. You as a community have shown yourselves more than capable of rising beyond the beast.
I thought you were better than that, Slashdot.
I thought the goal is to provide answers not the negative crush.
I am deeply hurt by this answer by a united community.
Please, I consider the project here: http://virt-dimension.sourceforge.net/ as more priority to getting Linux functionality to winblows to show off the stuff you programmers are capable of.
Very cool eye-candy. But if you cannot deliver as a community this kind of thing is going to be still-born.
Hit the stuff that counts.
I recently argued the only coder I know about this very subject. And he replied, "I don't have time for cross windows interfaces.''
I am here to tell you that is exactly why Linux is losing the desktop race.
"except that instead of a highly trained marketing department, it has us."
Well excuse me, Mr. +4 Poster.
I happen to work for a top Television station in the Promotions department and have a lot of skill. If somebody wants to put some seed money into an organisation devoted to promoting Linux in general. (No specific distro's.) I would be glad to devote my time. I think you should look at IBM's ad campaign for Linux rather than those Insane Microsoft Ads. (I suspect those ads reflect the reality of corporate life within Microsoft.)
And don't forget you only want 1.5-2 Grams of downward pressure on your needle or cactus or whatever.
In case you did not notice, I rank Symantec software right up there with Gator. (Er, the software formerly known as Gator.)
MHO
This may be slightly off-topic but I was trying to resize my little brothers hardrive using XP's utilitys and ran into this annoying fact.
Windows XP will not allow you to resize the boot partition using Microsofts software. I was stunned. How can all of these alternitives exist and the monolithic empire that Gates built refuses to acknowledge the problem while secretly sliding out possible fixes to vendors such as Semantec who are now employing Microsoft's tactics. DRM, never uninstall. (Of course I recently caught Novel installing much more on a windows box than they take away with an uninstall. Very tricky registry editing involved since Microsoft does support the protocol)
If you are using any Symantec software, I suggest you stop and re-evalute any and all alternative solutions.
In otherwords: Run away!
Get rid of it. I cannot explain in this forum how many, many, times I have had to fix PC's that have been screwed up by Symantec software.
Thank for confirming the direct hand of Microsoft.
I also wanted to point out the coindidence of the timing of the recently launched hacker reward fund and the switch away from Linux reward fund.
Also I find it ironic that the man who brought down Microsoft is now engaged by Microsoft to bring down the GPL.
If that is not a classic example of embrace and extend. I don't know what is.
This means SCO has to put up or shut up.
Score one for the good guys.
Looks like IBM has the judge in their corner.
I have never ever seen such double-speak as SCO practices. Donning a tinfoil hat, do you think Boies is being helped Pro Bono by the wild accusation division of the legal department at Microsoft?
Yeah, I gonna feel real safe plowing into that big rig that was disabled using this technology.
Get a clue people, just because it is possible does not mean it meets the reality check.
Bags are much superior in translocating cats. Boxes are not a good idea when open them the feral cat tends to jump out at your face and sink the claws in. At least with a burlap bag you have a fifty/fifty chance of the cat going for the balls.