So far, no one has found a road-and wheel combination in which the road has the same shape as the wheel. That's an intriguing challenge for mathematicians.
Why do they have to force us to use shitty proprietary players? I could give a crap about Car Talk, but there's some good shows on NPR that I WOULD love to listen to if I could, but I refuse to pollute my Windows box with RealPlayer.
Put on a wet t-shirt and go stand in the shade. You'll feel even cooler. A wet t-shirt outside in winter, even cooler. The reason being, if the water is evaporating because outside energy is being put into the system, it's sucking less thermal energy out of the body. A wet t-shirt on a hot day feels nice. A wet t-shirt in winter weather is horrible. If you want to keep it as cool as possible, you want to put as little outside energy into heating the water, and draw as much energy out of the container. Put it in the shade, in a place where the air is as dry as you can find it. If you're clever you might find a way to channel the breeze through the space in such a way as to accelerate the drying. The faster it dries, the cooler it will be. But not if you're drying it out by heating it!
My HP laptop purchased in February of this year for $700 after rebates came with restore CDs for the OS and all the extra stuff they bundled on a separate disk. It was very nice. Their tech support also helped me get a dual boot XP/Linux system installed, even though they don't officially support Linux on the model I bought. I like HP a lot. Even their website doesn't suck.
If it's showing HARM, then it's not HELPING the recording industry, ergo the RIAA ought to embrace this study.
1 CD for 5000 files downloaded doesn't sound like much, but when million or even billions of songs are traded, it adds up. If the harm can be quantified, people can be gone after through the courts and made to answer for the quantifiable harm they've caused.
If the study showed that p2p actually helped sales, as has been speculated by some, I'd expect the RIAA to denounce that, but then of course that would also be stupid of them if it turned out that it was actually true.
This could actually be useful if you could pull up commercial messages that you actually found useful. Like, if you enjoy a funny commercial, you could watch it again and again. Or more practically, if you preferred commercials that were strictly informative and objective and honest, you could call those up (all zero of them) and get good, reliable information on products you were considering purchasing.
People already do this, in fact, when they use the internet to research a purchase they are considering. If TiVo could somehow convince corporations to package the information in television friendly formats and provide the information to consumers on their demand, it might actually make sense for all parties and provide a useful service, rather than the intrusion and annoyance that typical commercials have turned into.
Even if it were possible to float the geodesics using passive solar heating, you'd have to live inside of an environment filled with air that was heated to temperatures necessary to make it thin enough to be bouyant. Probably this would be uncomfortable.
I don't know, this sounds like a dumb idea to me. I mean, I just don't see the synnergy between the two brands. If I want to go out for coffee, I go out for coffee. If I want to listen to music, I either go to a club or (back before I decided to boycott music) check out a music store. I guess some people go to coffee places to pick up girls and flirt, and amongst the young musical tastes can be a critical selection trait, and the young are an attractive demographic to target, but even so I don't see this catching on, really.
Is there any potential for a counter-suit here? This really seems like unfair behavior on Microsoft's stifle competition via a proxy corporation who'll do their dirty work for them. I hope someone can mount a counter-suit on behalf of the Linux community, and somehow defeat the MSFT legal juggernaut.
Finally, by forcing more air into the cylinders than ordinary air pressure would allow, we will be able to achieve more efficient combustion, which will in turn allow us to transmit more data using radio frequencies....Don't you just hate it when terminology gets mis-applied to stuff it has nothing to do with?
Dang it, this software isn't made out of platinum, either.
I wonder, if you "preview" a html page that has code in it to launch popup windows, do the popup windows launch when you highlight the file? I kindof doubt it, but I can't say it's impossible. But I think the html generated in the preview pane is not quite full-blown IE, though it most certainly does reuse code that is a part of IE.
I'm familiar with "Type-R" goods... Unless you actually *buy* a Type-R car, it's not going to go any faster with a Type-R decal. Fancy labeling is more like a decal than it is an actual performance enhancement.
You're right, 54x CD burning is "fast enough" for anyone, so there's little to be gained from further speed innovations.
I'd say the next most important innovation of tangible benfit to the consumer would be in
making CDs more durable, so they can actually last the "lifetime" we were told they would last when CDs first hit the market in the early 80's.
Making them truly compatible so that there aren't problems with finnicky players only reading certain brands of media or not liking discs burned with certain writers.
Making the drives quieter, so it doesn't sound like a jet is taking off when I'm reading or writing to disk at high speed.
Better support for circumventing copy-protected disks so people can make legitimate backups of their media. (Yeah, I know, that one will be controvercial, but from a consumer's standpoint it's definitely a needed feature.)
See, not much imagination put to work and I already came up with four crucial areas where the current market's needs are not being met well enough to merit no further improvement.
There's still room for sports cars and hot rods. The 54x CD-RW is a hot rod. It maybe a hot rod with a flat gunmetal gray paintjob, but it'll still blow the doors off of any other CD-RW out there. This labeling stuff is more like the flamejob. Which, while attractive on a car, I doubt having a fancy label on your CDs is going to help you score with the opposite sex. So I think my criticism that this innovation doesn't really add value still stands.
I'm pretty sure there's no law limiting acceleration, so as long as you hit 0-60 in a few seconds and then STAY under the speed limit, I think you're good. But perhaps if you're a smart consumer you go with something more economical or with more cargo space or better safety or comfort features. All those things add value to the product. But a loud, garish paintjob really doesn't, (unless you're compensating for some other inadequacy, I suppose).
Yeah, but if the added feature adds little to no value to the product, then the obvious choice is to buy the cheaper model.
Only, it's not so obvious because marketing conditions us to believe that more expensive = better quality and more features = more useful. If a market is supposed to serve customers, I'd have to say this is the wrong direction for HP to be taking. I hope at least that they continue to offer the lower cost models.
It's worth noting that Yamaha dropped out of the optical drive business shortly after launching their Disk T@2 technology -- they made excellent quality drives loaded with practical features as well as the T@2 gimmick, but their mistake was to charge around $200 for them when the rest of the market was in the $50-100 range, so it's really no surprise they bowed out of the market.
I've got one of Yamaha's 44x drives with the T@2 feature in my system right now, and I love it, but I picked it up for $99 on clearance, and I've never used the T@2 feature, not even to try it out and see if it works.
While it is cool that CD writers can do this, it's a feature I don't think anyone asked for or needs. It's really just a gimmick.
It's a fairly cool gimmick, but it's like painting useless stripes or graphics on the side of a car and calling it a "Special Edition" and charging $3000 more for it -- it doesn't really make the product any more useful at accomplishing its intended purpose (storing data in the case of the CD drive, getting you from point A to point B in the case of the car.
It's as though suddenly storing data is insufficient, and now you have to do it while "looking good", which is just silly. Really, it just serves to mask that they haven't managed to innovate beyond 54x write speeds. The car looks faster, but the speed limit on the roads is still the same as if you bought a standard edition car.
1 - Keep them away from bullies and small minded people who won't understand or accept them.
2 - Once they're older, teach them how to deal with such people in an assertive manner that will be effective in defeating and suppressing anti-intellectuals.
Well, we don't know *what* Microsoft charges Dell for XP Home. Let's assume it's $45. And we know Dell sells complete entry-level shitboxes for around $400. So that's 10%.
But Microsoft's upgrade cost to go from XP Home to Pro is $199 which is the same as the upgrade cost from NT 4 to XP Pro, amazingly enough. So if you don't want to be stuck with XP Home on your system, you're screwed. Most OEMs don't allow you to upgrade from Home to Pro at time of purchase, or if they do, they charge the full retail upgrade price for it.
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Walls and ceiling seems to fall down, but don't.
Wow, they must have a killer psychedelic budget in addition to the insane audio budget.
I think a screw-like shape might work here.
ARG! MP3! OGG! Quicktime!
Why do they have to force us to use shitty proprietary players? I could give a crap about Car Talk, but there's some good shows on NPR that I WOULD love to listen to if I could, but I refuse to pollute my Windows box with RealPlayer.
Won't someone please think of the end-users?
Put on a wet t-shirt and go stand in the shade. You'll feel even cooler. A wet t-shirt outside in winter, even cooler. The reason being, if the water is evaporating because outside energy is being put into the system, it's sucking less thermal energy out of the body. A wet t-shirt on a hot day feels nice. A wet t-shirt in winter weather is horrible. If you want to keep it as cool as possible, you want to put as little outside energy into heating the water, and draw as much energy out of the container. Put it in the shade, in a place where the air is as dry as you can find it. If you're clever you might find a way to channel the breeze through the space in such a way as to accelerate the drying. The faster it dries, the cooler it will be. But not if you're drying it out by heating it!
Ha, that's the funniest 80's drug paranoia moment I've heard of in a long time. Great story, good that you survived to tell it.
My HP laptop purchased in February of this year for $700 after rebates came with restore CDs for the OS and all the extra stuff they bundled on a separate disk. It was very nice. Their tech support also helped me get a dual boot XP/Linux system installed, even though they don't officially support Linux on the model I bought. I like HP a lot. Even their website doesn't suck.
Wow, 400 fps from a metal BB? Man, do I feel stupid now that I wasted all that money on the Radeon 9800. When is Tom's going to publish the review?
If it's showing HARM, then it's not HELPING the recording industry, ergo the RIAA ought to embrace this study.
1 CD for 5000 files downloaded doesn't sound like much, but when million or even billions of songs are traded, it adds up. If the harm can be quantified, people can be gone after through the courts and made to answer for the quantifiable harm they've caused.
If the study showed that p2p actually helped sales, as has been speculated by some, I'd expect the RIAA to denounce that, but then of course that would also be stupid of them if it turned out that it was actually true.
If they pay for it, they'll want to be able to control it, too. That means DRM and trusted computing, and Carnivore too.
...And it's not even April First. How about that?
I'm so confused, with all these movies about Christ that are out now, should I be following the shoe? Or the gourd?
This could actually be useful if you could pull up commercial messages that you actually found useful. Like, if you enjoy a funny commercial, you could watch it again and again. Or more practically, if you preferred commercials that were strictly informative and objective and honest, you could call those up (all zero of them) and get good, reliable information on products you were considering purchasing.
People already do this, in fact, when they use the internet to research a purchase they are considering. If TiVo could somehow convince corporations to package the information in television friendly formats and provide the information to consumers on their demand, it might actually make sense for all parties and provide a useful service, rather than the intrusion and annoyance that typical commercials have turned into.
Even if it were possible to float the geodesics using passive solar heating, you'd have to live inside of an environment filled with air that was heated to temperatures necessary to make it thin enough to be bouyant. Probably this would be uncomfortable.
With Zeppelin-NT's advanced kernel, it's much more stable with longer uptimes than Zeppelin '37, and far fewer crashes.
Great, now how can I complain about not being able to RTFA?
I don't know, this sounds like a dumb idea to me. I mean, I just don't see the synnergy between the two brands. If I want to go out for coffee, I go out for coffee. If I want to listen to music, I either go to a club or (back before I decided to boycott music) check out a music store. I guess some people go to coffee places to pick up girls and flirt, and amongst the young musical tastes can be a critical selection trait, and the young are an attractive demographic to target, but even so I don't see this catching on, really.
Quick! Someone form the WWWIAA and get Hilary Rosen on staff! Web designers are losing revenue due to piracy!
Is there any potential for a counter-suit here? This really seems like unfair behavior on Microsoft's stifle competition via a proxy corporation who'll do their dirty work for them. I hope someone can mount a counter-suit on behalf of the Linux community, and somehow defeat the MSFT legal juggernaut.
Finally, by forcing more air into the cylinders than ordinary air pressure would allow, we will be able to achieve more efficient combustion, which will in turn allow us to transmit more data using radio frequencies. ...Don't you just hate it when terminology gets mis-applied to stuff it has nothing to do with?
Dang it, this software isn't made out of platinum, either.
You can always turn off the preview "feature".
I wonder, if you "preview" a html page that has code in it to launch popup windows, do the popup windows launch when you highlight the file? I kindof doubt it, but I can't say it's impossible. But I think the html generated in the preview pane is not quite full-blown IE, though it most certainly does reuse code that is a part of IE.
You're right, 54x CD burning is "fast enough" for anyone, so there's little to be gained from further speed innovations.
I'd say the next most important innovation of tangible benfit to the consumer would be in
See, not much imagination put to work and I already came up with four crucial areas where the current market's needs are not being met well enough to merit no further improvement.
There's still room for sports cars and hot rods. The 54x CD-RW is a hot rod. It maybe a hot rod with a flat gunmetal gray paintjob, but it'll still blow the doors off of any other CD-RW out there. This labeling stuff is more like the flamejob. Which, while attractive on a car, I doubt having a fancy label on your CDs is going to help you score with the opposite sex. So I think my criticism that this innovation doesn't really add value still stands.
I'm pretty sure there's no law limiting acceleration, so as long as you hit 0-60 in a few seconds and then STAY under the speed limit, I think you're good. But perhaps if you're a smart consumer you go with something more economical or with more cargo space or better safety or comfort features. All those things add value to the product. But a loud, garish paintjob really doesn't, (unless you're compensating for some other inadequacy, I suppose).
Yeah, but if the added feature adds little to no value to the product, then the obvious choice is to buy the cheaper model.
Only, it's not so obvious because marketing conditions us to believe that more expensive = better quality and more features = more useful. If a market is supposed to serve customers, I'd have to say this is the wrong direction for HP to be taking. I hope at least that they continue to offer the lower cost models.
It's worth noting that Yamaha dropped out of the optical drive business shortly after launching their Disk T@2 technology -- they made excellent quality drives loaded with practical features as well as the T@2 gimmick, but their mistake was to charge around $200 for them when the rest of the market was in the $50-100 range, so it's really no surprise they bowed out of the market.
I've got one of Yamaha's 44x drives with the T@2 feature in my system right now, and I love it, but I picked it up for $99 on clearance, and I've never used the T@2 feature, not even to try it out and see if it works.
While it is cool that CD writers can do this, it's a feature I don't think anyone asked for or needs. It's really just a gimmick.
It's a fairly cool gimmick, but it's like painting useless stripes or graphics on the side of a car and calling it a "Special Edition" and charging $3000 more for it -- it doesn't really make the product any more useful at accomplishing its intended purpose (storing data in the case of the CD drive, getting you from point A to point B in the case of the car.
It's as though suddenly storing data is insufficient, and now you have to do it while "looking good", which is just silly. Really, it just serves to mask that they haven't managed to innovate beyond 54x write speeds. The car looks faster, but the speed limit on the roads is still the same as if you bought a standard edition car.
1 - Keep them away from bullies and small minded people who won't understand or accept them.
2 - Once they're older, teach them how to deal with such people in an assertive manner that will be effective in defeating and suppressing anti-intellectuals.
3 - Get them laid early in life.
Well, we don't know *what* Microsoft charges Dell for XP Home. Let's assume it's $45. And we know Dell sells complete entry-level shitboxes for around $400. So that's 10%.
But Microsoft's upgrade cost to go from XP Home to Pro is $199 which is the same as the upgrade cost from NT 4 to XP Pro, amazingly enough. So if you don't want to be stuck with XP Home on your system, you're screwed. Most OEMs don't allow you to upgrade from Home to Pro at time of purchase, or if they do, they charge the full retail upgrade price for it.