The English word is astronaut. What they say in China is their business. But it makes no sense whatsoever to coin another English word to mean "astronaut from China."
In the media realm, they have their DRM solution, their media formats (both video and audio), tools for generating that media, server and client software, management tools, etc., etc., etc. It's an integrated end to end solution that simply is not matched by anyone else. David Berlind talks about the "unstoppable Microsoft Media Juggernaut."
I am the guy who responded to Craig
Mundie's "Who are you?" with "I'm your worst nightmare", and that I've
in fact been something pretty close to your company's worst nightmare
since about 1997.
How terrible it has been for them, to have this guy as their worst nightmare.
Linux is making huge gains in the server market. The statistics show that.
Linux is just starting to gain in the corporate/government desktop market. Expect this to take at least another 3 years.
Once OEMs are comfortable with Linux (due to large orders from corporations/governments), they will start offering it on desktops
Funny, I remember reading posts like this on slashdot in 2000. Has anything, at all, changed?
Let me tell you, the comment by another poster that you have to recompile the kernel to make your laptop sleep is reason enough to forget all about Linux for another three years.
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Exactly. Also, never autorun CDs.
Only the ones with A-List stars.
The Bible is full of porn. Erotica at least. I demand literal interpretation of the Word of God!
So you still use Betamax then?
Exactly. They'll just distribute the vids in iPod friendly format and let the buyers/users/pirates do whatever they want with them.
"Papercast." I like it.
And we all know what happens when you piss off the blogosphere.
I can think of one they already have rights to.
Bell Is Back (flash)
I suspect quite a few people have, um, "medical" images on their iPods.
As long as I can put my own videos (e.g. recorded with a TV capture card) on the iPod, this is awesome. If it's for the store only, forget it.
All of it?
In Korea, anyway.
The English word is astronaut. What they say in China is their business. But it makes no sense whatsoever to coin another English word to mean "astronaut from China."
The network is the computer! That's what Google said this week, so it must be true.
the Chinese Gulag. Criticize it and you too will end up in laogai.
Students raise hands and shout "ME ME ME ME ME!!!!" when they get the answer.
How terrible it has been for them, to have this guy as their worst nightmare.
What a pompous ass.
Also the Wall Street Journal, where Mossberg writes - a fact you could have checked by reading the article or looking at the URL.
So Hollywood will lose a bundle on this harebrained scheme.
Linux is just starting to gain in the corporate/government desktop market. Expect this to take at least another 3 years.
Once OEMs are comfortable with Linux (due to large orders from corporations/governments), they will start offering it on desktops
Funny, I remember reading posts like this on slashdot in 2000. Has anything, at all, changed?
Let me tell you, the comment by another poster that you have to recompile the kernel to make your laptop sleep is reason enough to forget all about Linux for another three years.
God put them on earth to test you.
Via evolution, of course.
I have never heard of anything like this before.
Makes me feel old...