If they are looking to increase sales by requiring subscriptions, I would think they'd likely have some sort of restrictions in their user agreement to prevent one blogger from just posting all the sales figures and everyone else pulling from him.
Considering recent class action lawsuits against Seagate and Western Digital on their labelling of "megabyte" or "gigabyte," maybe companies are going to adopt this new unit of measure.
I think I'm coming down with a rough cough. I have commissioned a panel of my house's top scientists (myself, and my Boston Terrier Daisy). After reviewing the data, the panel has come to the consensus that my condition is due entirely to excessive greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Since noon, January 20, 2001, I have been forced to breathe from the atmosphere of the Bush administration. To make matter worse, they have done NOTHING to fund research for alternative atmospheres. Clearly, Bush wants me to die. Since I consider myself young-at-heart, I am part of the children. Think of the children! I need to sue Bush too. How's about just a couple billion for my trouble. Oh, and it'll be for medicine for my condition, mmmm... menthol.
On the other hand, the web is a great place for Internet-based applications.
1) The data can be accessed from anywhere. Talk about portable! 2) Save yourself from cluttering up your own hard drive. Need to reinstall or switch the OS, hard drive fail? Fine. All them fancy servers have fancier backup systems than I'll ever have, so let them handle the hassle. 3) If the app needs an Internet connection to do 99% of it's function, an offline mode is futile for the vast majority of the public. 4) High-speed connections are becoming more and more popular. I have relatives with cable connections and do little more than browse a web site twice a week. Attachments and such in emails are then nearly as accessible as if they were on your own drive.
There must be more ozone up there to fill in the hole. Therefore... ZOMG, WE'RE GOING TO ALL DIE FROM OZONE OVERDOSING!!! Run, run! I'm already starting to feel it. I'm getting woozy. I need to talk to my lawyer, maybe it's mesothelioma or something too.
With that argument, they can refuse service if there is anything they did not install.
"Oh, I see the problem for your screen cracking. You installed World of Warcraft. It wasn't there when we gave it to you, so it's your problem if you want to go and do such craziness!"
So have one stoolie try and rob someone with a cop standing right there. He gets arrested. Now that cop is occupied for an hour taking him downtown, booking him, filling out paperwork.
And there you have a crowd of freshly paid people ready for the picking...
Here's one, how about to offer the file to others to download, without incurring your own ISP's transfer limits. All of Google's apps allow you to create documents, mark them private (so they're not searchable), then gives you a URL you're free to pass along to anyone you want to have download it.
That would be very handy for family photos, videos, etc. I'm sure Google's got a couple smart folks there to catch you when you're offering The Simpson's Movie and 50,000,000 download it at once. I know how you people think...
Zap2It has provided very good listing for the last 3 years, at least for those in the US. You could have been enjoying the benefits of MythTV for all this time.
I got a Tivo when they first came out, approximately December 1998. I haven't watched live TV or commercials since. That first generation Tivo kept chugging along without skipping a beat. I tried MythTV a couple years ago, and it's been a wonderful run. I used the KnoppMyth distribution. It provides a very easy setup for a dedicated box. In fact, now it's far easier than back when I first started using it. There is a lot more hardware auto-detected and everything. And not once did I ever have to tweak any scripts to get the TV guide data.
I'm sure these guys will have the data in a format that's just as easy to automatically download and import into Myth and we'll be able to continue working with ease. Don't be so scared. Give Myth a good try, it's light years more fun than Tivo.
When will PCI-E die already? I have no use for it. I checked all my closets, and there wasn't a single PCI-E card in any of them. I just don't see any purpose for it at all.
And what's the deal with 4-foot fences with gates around people's yards? What, you're too good to just climb/jump it? I have no problems doing it, and if all you people with gates would just exercise a little you'd be able to as well. That's what's wrong with this country, all you old people who want to work all day and not jump over fences. The world will be a much better place when we grow up, let me tell ya!
Then there's the pinky finger. I hate that thing. One of these days, I'm gonna cut it off, it pisses me off so much. The one or two of you who still do something with it can just buy a pinky-finger-adapter to use while sipping tea and eating crumpets or whatever you do with it.
In Slashdot style, I can refute that quite simply. I don't consider Sarin "massive" enough to be a WMD. A WMD should be REALLY massive.
There, now you're whole post is pointless and everybody here is free to continue on about how evil Bush, Cheney, Halliburton, Big Oil, the Military Industrial Complex, Capitalism, the healthcare system, guns, the CIA, warrantless wiretaps, the NSA, FBI, Homeland Security, and the Man are.... wait, did I include Microsoft? Damn, that's too much to go back and re-read it.
Dude, you'll be the laughing stock at the family reunion picnic if you send the announcement in a format like ODF. Grandma will be like, "Your announcement just doesn't have the richness I have come to expect from documents I usually read."
You're Powerpoint-type presentations at the office just won't have that flair when you put up six words on a huge projector. The senior vice-president of foozlages will get all up in your grill and stuff.
So sure, go ahead and save a document in ODF. Microsoft can't help you if it looks like crap.
I've heard people complaining about the degrading usefulness of the news due to it's decreasing truthfulness and content.
The bigger a news organization gets, the crappier they report, including Slashdot. They start out writing stuff that interests people. Then they pass it on to user-submitters, press releases, sound bites, etc. On the front page here currently, I count 16 articles that are just "User-XXX writes:" and a copy of what they submitted.
We'll see it more and more as the primaries and election get ramped up. Politician A will say Politician B sucks because he did X. Then the news orgs get all wacky, give it a snazzy title like "X-gate," talk about the implications of it, etc. After the buzz winds down, they will go to Politician B, he says, "No, I never did X." The end. No one does any research, find corroborating witnesses, etc.
In tech circles, reviews are copied from their press releases. "This item has A, B, C, D, E, F and G features. It will help you do H, I, and J tasks easier. It is clearly better than old-product-Z which only does A, B, C, D, E, and F. I give it an 8.9 out of 10."
What would be truely fairest of them all is if supermarket stockers could get a fair living wage without the burdens of having to work for it. The stress of having to show up at the store on time, perform a job adequately, etc is crushing the artistic spirit of billions of people around the world. Only then will one's mind be free to create artworks.... And who's to say me watching Spongebob all day is not art?? Only close-minded people, that's who.
I work in this evil health care system. I treat people with kidney failure. I treat everyone from homeless to wealthy people. They get their medication, treatments, and kidney transplants whether it be from their own insurance or state money and charities.
A coworker's mother with no insurance was diagnosed with uteran cancer. She was given a list of charities, free clinics, etc to contact. She did, had a hysterectomy, and is recovering without a penny spent.
In 2006, my wife racked up $600,000 in a hospital stay. The insurance settled with the hospital (as they do) for about $200,000. I pay $250 a month for it through my mediocre job. I would have to work 66 years for them to break even for that one stay. At no time did they say, "Alright, we've paid enough, you're out of the hospital on your own."
There are plenty of counter-examples to Michael Moore's movies. I've seen more people die from a fear of needles (voluntarily refusing treatment) than from lack of insurance/money.
I didn't understand why people charged $10-20 to ship an item like a video game, until I started unloading my dusty collection. By the time you figure in shipping, ebay, paypal fees, you're up in that ballpark.
What I don't understand are the generic adds for things like milk, pork, beef, etc. Is someone watching and saying, "Hmm, this beef stuff looks like it might be tasty. Let's go get some."
You must be new here. Slashdot does nothing more than insert the phrase "_user_ writes: " in front of user submissions and submits them directly to the front page. You can't call them "editors" when they do nothing but repeat what some user submitted to them, verbatim, grammar, spelling, punctuation errors and all. Don't expect them to go so far as to verify, fact-check, further research any topic, also. There are more and more submissions that are just random user blogs with things like, "I think XYZ is a conspiracy. Company XYZ needs to stop it."
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If they are looking to increase sales by requiring subscriptions, I would think they'd likely have some sort of restrictions in their user agreement to prevent one blogger from just posting all the sales figures and everyone else pulling from him.
Considering recent class action lawsuits against Seagate and Western Digital on their labelling of "megabyte" or "gigabyte," maybe companies are going to adopt this new unit of measure.
I think I'm coming down with a rough cough. I have commissioned a panel of my house's top scientists (myself, and my Boston Terrier Daisy). After reviewing the data, the panel has come to the consensus that my condition is due entirely to excessive greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Since noon, January 20, 2001, I have been forced to breathe from the atmosphere of the Bush administration. To make matter worse, they have done NOTHING to fund research for alternative atmospheres. Clearly, Bush wants me to die. Since I consider myself young-at-heart, I am part of the children. Think of the children! I need to sue Bush too. How's about just a couple billion for my trouble. Oh, and it'll be for medicine for my condition, mmmm ... menthol.
Too bad, I was hoping for a nice birthday present early next year. With normal game delays, this could be pushed to summer-time.
I can top that...
Hell, if a low uid is worth $2000 now, imagine what it'd be worth in 20 years! I'll be rich one day.
Now, where are these low uid threads?
On the other hand, the web is a great place for Internet-based applications.
1) The data can be accessed from anywhere. Talk about portable!
2) Save yourself from cluttering up your own hard drive. Need to reinstall or switch the OS, hard drive fail? Fine. All them fancy servers have fancier backup systems than I'll ever have, so let them handle the hassle.
3) If the app needs an Internet connection to do 99% of it's function, an offline mode is futile for the vast majority of the public.
4) High-speed connections are becoming more and more popular. I have relatives with cable connections and do little more than browse a web site twice a week. Attachments and such in emails are then nearly as accessible as if they were on your own drive.
There must be more ozone up there to fill in the hole. Therefore ... ZOMG, WE'RE GOING TO ALL DIE FROM OZONE OVERDOSING!!! Run, run! I'm already starting to feel it. I'm getting woozy. I need to talk to my lawyer, maybe it's mesothelioma or something too.
With that argument, they can refuse service if there is anything they did not install.
"Oh, I see the problem for your screen cracking. You installed World of Warcraft. It wasn't there when we gave it to you, so it's your problem if you want to go and do such craziness!"
So have one stoolie try and rob someone with a cop standing right there. He gets arrested. Now that cop is occupied for an hour taking him downtown, booking him, filling out paperwork.
And there you have a crowd of freshly paid people ready for the picking...
Here's one, how about to offer the file to others to download, without incurring your own ISP's transfer limits. All of Google's apps allow you to create documents, mark them private (so they're not searchable), then gives you a URL you're free to pass along to anyone you want to have download it.
That would be very handy for family photos, videos, etc. I'm sure Google's got a couple smart folks there to catch you when you're offering The Simpson's Movie and 50,000,000 download it at once. I know how you people think...
How many shades of brown will the next Quake have? 32k? 64k? 4096k? That's all we really want to know!!
Zap2It has provided very good listing for the last 3 years, at least for those in the US. You could have been enjoying the benefits of MythTV for all this time.
I got a Tivo when they first came out, approximately December 1998. I haven't watched live TV or commercials since. That first generation Tivo kept chugging along without skipping a beat. I tried MythTV a couple years ago, and it's been a wonderful run. I used the KnoppMyth distribution. It provides a very easy setup for a dedicated box. In fact, now it's far easier than back when I first started using it. There is a lot more hardware auto-detected and everything. And not once did I ever have to tweak any scripts to get the TV guide data.
I'm sure these guys will have the data in a format that's just as easy to automatically download and import into Myth and we'll be able to continue working with ease. Don't be so scared. Give Myth a good try, it's light years more fun than Tivo.
When will PCI-E die already? I have no use for it. I checked all my closets, and there wasn't a single PCI-E card in any of them. I just don't see any purpose for it at all.
And what's the deal with 4-foot fences with gates around people's yards? What, you're too good to just climb/jump it? I have no problems doing it, and if all you people with gates would just exercise a little you'd be able to as well. That's what's wrong with this country, all you old people who want to work all day and not jump over fences. The world will be a much better place when we grow up, let me tell ya!
Then there's the pinky finger. I hate that thing. One of these days, I'm gonna cut it off, it pisses me off so much. The one or two of you who still do something with it can just buy a pinky-finger-adapter to use while sipping tea and eating crumpets or whatever you do with it.
In Slashdot style, I can refute that quite simply. I don't consider Sarin "massive" enough to be a WMD. A WMD should be REALLY massive.
... wait, did I include Microsoft? Damn, that's too much to go back and re-read it.
There, now you're whole post is pointless and everybody here is free to continue on about how evil Bush, Cheney, Halliburton, Big Oil, the Military Industrial Complex, Capitalism, the healthcare system, guns, the CIA, warrantless wiretaps, the NSA, FBI, Homeland Security, and the Man are.
Dude, you'll be the laughing stock at the family reunion picnic if you send the announcement in a format like ODF. Grandma will be like, "Your announcement just doesn't have the richness I have come to expect from documents I usually read."
You're Powerpoint-type presentations at the office just won't have that flair when you put up six words on a huge projector. The senior vice-president of foozlages will get all up in your grill and stuff.
So sure, go ahead and save a document in ODF. Microsoft can't help you if it looks like crap.
I've heard people complaining about the degrading usefulness of the news due to it's decreasing truthfulness and content.
The bigger a news organization gets, the crappier they report, including Slashdot. They start out writing stuff that interests people. Then they pass it on to user-submitters, press releases, sound bites, etc. On the front page here currently, I count 16 articles that are just "User-XXX writes:" and a copy of what they submitted.
We'll see it more and more as the primaries and election get ramped up. Politician A will say Politician B sucks because he did X. Then the news orgs get all wacky, give it a snazzy title like "X-gate," talk about the implications of it, etc. After the buzz winds down, they will go to Politician B, he says, "No, I never did X." The end. No one does any research, find corroborating witnesses, etc.
In tech circles, reviews are copied from their press releases. "This item has A, B, C, D, E, F and G features. It will help you do H, I, and J tasks easier. It is clearly better than old-product-Z which only does A, B, C, D, E, and F. I give it an 8.9 out of 10."
That's pretty impressive, considering I can only make out about half the damn things I come across.
Nah, letmetellyasumthin, he'll grow up to be like this kid.
What would be truely fairest of them all is if supermarket stockers could get a fair living wage without the burdens of having to work for it. The stress of having to show up at the store on time, perform a job adequately, etc is crushing the artistic spirit of billions of people around the world. Only then will one's mind be free to create artworks. ... And who's to say me watching Spongebob all day is not art?? Only close-minded people, that's who.
I work in this evil health care system. I treat people with kidney failure. I treat everyone from homeless to wealthy people. They get their medication, treatments, and kidney transplants whether it be from their own insurance or state money and charities.
A coworker's mother with no insurance was diagnosed with uteran cancer. She was given a list of charities, free clinics, etc to contact. She did, had a hysterectomy, and is recovering without a penny spent.
In 2006, my wife racked up $600,000 in a hospital stay. The insurance settled with the hospital (as they do) for about $200,000. I pay $250 a month for it through my mediocre job. I would have to work 66 years for them to break even for that one stay. At no time did they say, "Alright, we've paid enough, you're out of the hospital on your own."
There are plenty of counter-examples to Michael Moore's movies. I've seen more people die from a fear of needles (voluntarily refusing treatment) than from lack of insurance/money.
No way, 512kb encoding makes the silence sound WAY more realistic if you have any sort of mediocre sound system.
All that is needed is a consensus. Someone should put up a Wikipedia entry to state it. Then there is no denying the truth!
I didn't understand why people charged $10-20 to ship an item like a video game, until I started unloading my dusty collection. By the time you figure in shipping, ebay, paypal fees, you're up in that ballpark.
What I don't understand are the generic adds for things like milk, pork, beef, etc. Is someone watching and saying, "Hmm, this beef stuff looks like it might be tasty. Let's go get some."
You must be new here. Slashdot does nothing more than insert the phrase "_user_ writes: " in front of user submissions and submits them directly to the front page. You can't call them "editors" when they do nothing but repeat what some user submitted to them, verbatim, grammar, spelling, punctuation errors and all. Don't expect them to go so far as to verify, fact-check, further research any topic, also. There are more and more submissions that are just random user blogs with things like, "I think XYZ is a conspiracy. Company XYZ needs to stop it."