The thing is, it won't fight indecency. Witness the financial success of pay-per-view porn. "Indecent" programs will not have any problem finding their audience and getting their dollars. But at the same time, now people who don't want to contribute money to those channels won't have to, and won't have to take the "good" with the "bad" when it comes to paying for a service bundle. I can do the same and not have to pay for Fox News and other channels that feature content that offends me or that I do not wish to support. I think that's great. I wish I could break it down further and boycott certain shows or "personalities" without having to give up all of TV.
At my house, I am paying for cable internet, and I also get the local broadcast channels over cable, but I only do that because my cable provider discounts my rate if I do so and I get clearer reception of the local channels this way. I don't watch enough TV to justify paying another $30-50/month for all those channels, most of which I do not want anyway. If I could get any 10 channels + locals I wanted for, say, $2.50/channel/month, I'd do it. I'd get Sci Fi, History, Discover, IFC, AMC, Sundance, and Cartoon Network, and I'd be pretty happy with that. Getting 100 channels where almost all of the programming is garbage that I don't want, take it or leave it, is just not a way to attract my business.
Sorry to hear about your luck, but if that were really the case, then don't you think that storagereview.com's readership would have been keenly interested in learning that information?
I still remember the mid-90's, when application software widely sucked, and I remember loving betas because they offered a glimpse at the future which might not suck as much. New features, bug fixes, an interface that wasn't complete shit... betas had it all. Sure, sometimes they were crashy, but so was everything, and it wasn't like there were all that many bugs that made an application unusable.
They didn't review any Toshiba drives in this roundup, which they readily admit in their conclusion. This is maybe a sampling or a survey but not a comprehensive roundup.
If you measure time in processor cycles, it's a LOOOOOOOOONG time. 4 months x 30 days x 24 hrs x 60 minutes x 60 seconds x 3 GigaHertz = 3,110,4000 BILLION clock cycles.
Reader review comments are Amazon's "property", in that they can use them in any way they can dream up to make them money, and not have to owe anything to anyone else, but not in that way that they are responsible for any harm the comments may cause.
Today's l337 IM-speak will be tomorrow's Strunk & White. Strunk and White themselves upended a great deal of literary style when they streamlined the way the English language is used in formal writing, and I'm sure that Dickens, Shakespeare, and Chaucer rolled in their collective graves when The Elements of Style was first published. This is just another iteration of the same recursive pattern.
Yeah, and when they re-add them every single time you log in, and when they disable blocking or banning them, and when they IM you every 15 minutes with links to cool, hot stuff that you just have to buy, will it be a big deal then? Why not, it's their software. Since you're installing it on your machine, I guess you agree to grant them root on your system, too. I mean, they provide such a wonderful, free service, so it's not a big deal, right?
Big deal! I bet that's great for those of us who LIVE in the Environment. That's only, what 6 or 7 billion of us? Call me when they come up with something that matters. I'd do anything for another EZ Cheez, but all we get these days is a cure for AIDS and cars that help the Environment. Engineers and scientists, sheesh. Call me when there's some real news, OK?
Heard somewhere on a future battlefield... "I came here to kick ass and chew gum, and I'm all out of... oh wait a minute, they just airlifted in a whole pallet of this stuff. Looks like I won't have to kill you today, after all!"
You don't have to get your 20-ton gravisteer tug from the Earth's surface! There's already plenty of useful mass orbiting the sun right now! Just find the right one and give it a nudge. It's just a game of 3-d orbital billiards, with the entire planet on the line. Simple!
To plug the analog hole, they're going to have to cover TV screens with lead plates, and speaker cones will have to be filled with cement. Why is our legislature so clueless?
To gain momentum Linux needs a central installation architecture that all applications must use to properly install and run. The OS should ensure that applications are installed before they can be executed.
Must use? Can use? Mandatory to use but can use other methods as well?
I think I'd want to lean towards the latter. If there were an install wizard-like method, consistently available across every Linux app (or at least the ones most people want to use) I'm sure a lot of people would like to be able to use that. On the other hand if I want to compile from source, hand-hack some config files, and manually move them to the directories where they belong, I want to be able to retain that level of control. If they take that away and give us a shiny GUI wizard-like installer, I think a lot of people would be upset. But if they give us that easy install AND let us continue to do things as we see fit, everyone wins.
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The thing is, it won't fight indecency. Witness the financial success of pay-per-view porn. "Indecent" programs will not have any problem finding their audience and getting their dollars. But at the same time, now people who don't want to contribute money to those channels won't have to, and won't have to take the "good" with the "bad" when it comes to paying for a service bundle. I can do the same and not have to pay for Fox News and other channels that feature content that offends me or that I do not wish to support. I think that's great. I wish I could break it down further and boycott certain shows or "personalities" without having to give up all of TV.
At my house, I am paying for cable internet, and I also get the local broadcast channels over cable, but I only do that because my cable provider discounts my rate if I do so and I get clearer reception of the local channels this way. I don't watch enough TV to justify paying another $30-50/month for all those channels, most of which I do not want anyway. If I could get any 10 channels + locals I wanted for, say, $2.50/channel/month, I'd do it. I'd get Sci Fi, History, Discover, IFC, AMC, Sundance, and Cartoon Network, and I'd be pretty happy with that. Getting 100 channels where almost all of the programming is garbage that I don't want, take it or leave it, is just not a way to attract my business.
Yeah, but does anyone's TiVo allow them to surf the net, run Office, and play games?
DR DOS isn't a retard, it's a fully qualified Doctor, with a PhD and everything!
DR DOS, PhD.
Sorry to hear about your luck, but if that were really the case, then don't you think that storagereview.com's readership would have been keenly interested in learning that information?
I still remember the mid-90's, when application software widely sucked, and I remember loving betas because they offered a glimpse at the future which might not suck as much. New features, bug fixes, an interface that wasn't complete shit... betas had it all. Sure, sometimes they were crashy, but so was everything, and it wasn't like there were all that many bugs that made an application unusable.
They didn't review any Toshiba drives in this roundup, which they readily admit in their conclusion. This is maybe a sampling or a survey but not a comprehensive roundup.
If you measure time in processor cycles, it's a LOOOOOOOOONG time. 4 months x 30 days x 24 hrs x 60 minutes x 60 seconds x 3 GigaHertz = 3,110,4000 BILLION clock cycles.
See, Taco! I told you if you started filtering dupes, people would find a way to complain!
Back to the drawing board...
In the same way that the clap means you're a popular lay.
We've been living with Outlook/Exchange Server for this long... is the worst REALLY ahead of us?
A: He's the guy who's going to sue you for not having heard of him, thereby damaging his reputation by implying that he isn't famous.
A: He's the guy who's going to sue the judge who threw him out of court for damaging his reputation and hurting his chances of winning his case.
A: He's the guy who's going to sue Slashdot for mentioning his name in a forum that is strongly biasted against stupidity.
Hold your pinkie to your mouth when you say a number that big!
Reader review comments are Amazon's "property", in that they can use them in any way they can dream up to make them money, and not have to owe anything to anyone else, but not in that way that they are responsible for any harm the comments may cause.
It's really sweet being a corporation.
Today's l337 IM-speak will be tomorrow's Strunk & White. Strunk and White themselves upended a great deal of literary style when they streamlined the way the English language is used in formal writing, and I'm sure that Dickens, Shakespeare, and Chaucer rolled in their collective graves when The Elements of Style was first published. This is just another iteration of the same recursive pattern.
Yeah, and when they re-add them every single time you log in, and when they disable blocking or banning them, and when they IM you every 15 minutes with links to cool, hot stuff that you just have to buy, will it be a big deal then? Why not, it's their software. Since you're installing it on your machine, I guess you agree to grant them root on your system, too. I mean, they provide such a wonderful, free service, so it's not a big deal, right?
Years ago, I installed AOL AIM on my Windows NT New Technology desktop, which I paid for with money that I withdrew from the ATM Machine.
Agreed. Grandparent reads like an astroturfing MS shill, to me.
"Giant crocodile remains found"- "GODZILLA LIVES! IT IS TRUE!!! REMAINS BEING SENT TO TOKYO!!!"
If that happened, it would be a dupe.
But really, they should just stick with Hobbits and Kong. Peter Jackson is driving paleontology like no other right now.
Big deal! I bet that's great for those of us who LIVE in the Environment. That's only, what 6 or 7 billion of us? Call me when they come up with something that matters. I'd do anything for another EZ Cheez, but all we get these days is a cure for AIDS and cars that help the Environment. Engineers and scientists, sheesh. Call me when there's some real news, OK?
Heard somewhere on a future battlefield... "I came here to kick ass and chew gum, and I'm all out of... oh wait a minute, they just airlifted in a whole pallet of this stuff. Looks like I won't have to kill you today, after all!"
How the hell did this get modded insightful?
You don't have to get your 20-ton gravisteer tug from the Earth's surface! There's already plenty of useful mass orbiting the sun right now! Just find the right one and give it a nudge. It's just a game of 3-d orbital billiards, with the entire planet on the line. Simple!
Dark Helmet: When will then be now?
Col. Sanders: Soon.
To plug the analog hole, they're going to have to cover TV screens with lead plates, and speaker cones will have to be filled with cement. Why is our legislature so clueless?
In other words, it will be a black hole for your processor cycles.
To gain momentum Linux needs a central installation architecture that all applications must use to properly install and run. The OS should ensure that applications are installed before they can be executed.
Must use? Can use? Mandatory to use but can use other methods as well?
I think I'd want to lean towards the latter. If there were an install wizard-like method, consistently available across every Linux app (or at least the ones most people want to use) I'm sure a lot of people would like to be able to use that. On the other hand if I want to compile from source, hand-hack some config files, and manually move them to the directories where they belong, I want to be able to retain that level of control. If they take that away and give us a shiny GUI wizard-like installer, I think a lot of people would be upset. But if they give us that easy install AND let us continue to do things as we see fit, everyone wins.