Seriously. Look at this from the New Scientist article:
Philips, the inventor of the Compact Disc, does not expect controversial attempts by the music industry to introduce CD "copy protection" technologies to last very long, because of consumer complaints. Philips is opposed to the use of copy protection systems.... Philips could refuse to license such copy protected discs as genuine CDs, or pursue some other legal obstruction to the practice. But Gary Wirtz, general manager of the Philips Copyright Office at its headquarters in the Netherlands, believes that copy protection technology will fail all by itself.
These are good guys, just like SonicBlue, Archos, and Apple. They need our support.
Music is in a hidden folder, so if you access the hidden folder, all is fine. I downloaded freeware called iPod Free File Sync (Mac OS 9 only) that does this. Works like a charm.
It's because a ton of slashdot readers own Macs, and many of the Linux fans who don't are legitimately interested in learning from Apple about how to be a successful alternative to the Windows PC.
Think you don't want it? Think again. I LOVE my iPod - I use it every day, in the car, walking to work, even at home when I'm in the living room and don't feel like bringing CDs or my Powerbook to the stereo. The convenience and size and weight make it worth every penny.
Who fucking cares if N*Sync or anyone else is in Star Wars as a cameo? It won't make any difference at all to the ultimate quality of the film. Now they see the hate and anger rising up out of the fans, and Lucas sees what he's created... I bet we get 10 more minutes of Jar Jar as a result.
a PR penalty, which you are exacting as we speak. I don't know what more one can do except that.
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Katz is right that the development of automated, unmanned vehicles has changed warfare significantly. Predator and Global Hawk together provide a much enhanced view of the battlefield, and because they're unmanned the cost of one being shot down is much lower.
As significant has been the development and mass production of precision ordnance such as the JDAM (Joint Direct Attack Munition), which can be dropped from a standard bomber (B-1 or B-52) but is satellite-guided. What's particularly interesting about JDAM is that it is attached to ordinary gravity bombs (of which the US military has a very large stockpile); it converts the current stock of inaccurate weapons to something much more accurate. IIRC something like 60-70% of bombs used in Afghanistan were precision-guided, as opposed to 10% or so in the Gulf and some larger percentage in Kosovo.
It's still not Attack of the Drones because the UAVs don't shoot at anything, or drop munitions. I think this is smart: a human needs to make the final call that the target is in fact what we think it is. AFAIK the Pentagon has no plans to change this division of labor: automated surveillance, humans leading the attack. But someone better informed than me may wish to supply further info here.
There most definitely ARE Windows friends and fans (even if it's all foes and freaks here). TUCOWS, for example, for years stood for The Ultimate Collection of Windows Software, and it was initially Winsock software because winsock.dll was the tool used to connect your Win3.x PC to the net back in the day. Lots of other examples.
It's true that it doesn't have as cohesive a community as Linux, but it doesn't have to. IT buyers and consumers buying PCs at Office Depot don't need that; but developers do have it, so far as I can tell.
Pre OS X, particularly in the awful OS 8.x days, Mac crashed ALL THE TIME. And these were HARD crashes, not just programs quitting on you; routinely work was lost.
From what I've read about X (I still use 9.2 because I have an older machine, but may upgrade shortly) it solves this problem quite nicely. But most "members of the Mac community" remember the crashes, not fondly, but well.
Personalization can be very, very useful, or it can be very, very annoying. I think it depends on whether it saves or costs time, whether it adds utility or just noise, and whether it seems creepy or helpful.
Time: It saves time for the airline agent to have your frequent flier number up and know about upcoming itineraries and available upgrades. It wastes time for the Safeway guy to read your receipt before giving it to you and say "Thank you Mr. So-and-so."
Utility: Amazon recommendations can be quite relevant, and are available when you want. Slashdot friend/foe system lets you see comments from people you know to be funny or informative. Personalized solicitation letters from a zillion charities who all buy the Unicef list are not of any value.
Creepy or not: Somehow automatic recognition of my name and credit card number from Caller ID gives me the creeps. What if someone else were using the phone and wanted to make changes to the account? Doesn't make me feel safe, even though it's a time saver. OTOH it's helpful for a travel agent to already know my credit card and FF numbers.
A lot of this is subjective. Paying attention to what gives customers a better experience is what marketers are ultimately responsible for; maybe this book will help, though talk of "stakeholders" suggests not (too mushy).
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Compaq tried shipping a multi-piece laptop (Compaq Concerto) back in the days of Windows for Pens. It was terribly unwieldy, so I'm not at all surprised that laptops with separate screens haven't been available since.
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And I was about to buy a dvd player from them. Delete that from the shopping cart!
Skip the Whole Damn Show?
5. PROFIT !!!
Philips, the inventor of the Compact Disc, does not expect controversial attempts by the music industry to introduce CD "copy protection" technologies to last very long, because of consumer complaints. Philips is opposed to the use of copy protection systems. ... Philips could refuse to license such copy protected discs as genuine CDs, or pursue some other legal obstruction to the practice. But Gary Wirtz, general manager of the Philips Copyright Office at its headquarters in the Netherlands, believes that copy protection technology will fail all by itself.
These are good guys, just like SonicBlue, Archos, and Apple. They need our support.here's the pic
pay for it.
Call them GNU/Word attachments?
Music is in a hidden folder, so if you access the hidden folder, all is fine. I downloaded freeware called iPod Free File Sync (Mac OS 9 only) that does this. Works like a charm.
Think you don't want it? Think again. I LOVE my iPod - I use it every day, in the car, walking to work, even at home when I'm in the living room and don't feel like bringing CDs or my Powerbook to the stereo. The convenience and size and weight make it worth every penny.
That's true, there is no greater example of fools than the internet!
Who fucking cares if N*Sync or anyone else is in Star Wars as a cameo? It won't make any difference at all to the ultimate quality of the film. Now they see the hate and anger rising up out of the fans, and Lucas sees what he's created ... I bet we get 10 more minutes of Jar Jar as a result.
Yahoo is putting up "interstitials" - ads between link and story. So what?
a PR penalty, which you are exacting as we speak. I don't know what more one can do except that.
As significant has been the development and mass production of precision ordnance such as the JDAM (Joint Direct Attack Munition), which can be dropped from a standard bomber (B-1 or B-52) but is satellite-guided. What's particularly interesting about JDAM is that it is attached to ordinary gravity bombs (of which the US military has a very large stockpile); it converts the current stock of inaccurate weapons to something much more accurate. IIRC something like 60-70% of bombs used in Afghanistan were precision-guided, as opposed to 10% or so in the Gulf and some larger percentage in Kosovo.
It's still not Attack of the Drones because the UAVs don't shoot at anything, or drop munitions. I think this is smart: a human needs to make the final call that the target is in fact what we think it is. AFAIK the Pentagon has no plans to change this division of labor: automated surveillance, humans leading the attack. But someone better informed than me may wish to supply further info here.
the US was on the bomb side in this war.
p.s. 1500th post. Love me!
It's true that it doesn't have as cohesive a community as Linux, but it doesn't have to. IT buyers and consumers buying PCs at Office Depot don't need that; but developers do have it, so far as I can tell.
Oh come on. Comdex had something called Windows World for years. I think they've dropped the name, but the theme persists.
From what I've read about X (I still use 9.2 because I have an older machine, but may upgrade shortly) it solves this problem quite nicely. But most "members of the Mac community" remember the crashes, not fondly, but well.
http://slashdot.org/my/friends
http://slashdot.org/my/foes
You can also see who lists you as Friend or Foe by looking at my fans and freaks, respectively.
To add someone as friend/foe, go to their user page, click on a comment, then click the pearl. Or you can use the direct url, e.g.
http://slashdot.org/zoo.pl?op=addcheck&type=friend &uid=458715, if you know the uid NUMBER.
Lots more info is at the article introducing zoo.pl.
My next feature request: zoo.pl hall of fame! Popularity contest!
Maybe it's another implementation of RFC1149?
Time: It saves time for the airline agent to have your frequent flier number up and know about upcoming itineraries and available upgrades. It wastes time for the Safeway guy to read your receipt before giving it to you and say "Thank you Mr. So-and-so."
Utility: Amazon recommendations can be quite relevant, and are available when you want. Slashdot friend/foe system lets you see comments from people you know to be funny or informative. Personalized solicitation letters from a zillion charities who all buy the Unicef list are not of any value.
Creepy or not: Somehow automatic recognition of my name and credit card number from Caller ID gives me the creeps. What if someone else were using the phone and wanted to make changes to the account? Doesn't make me feel safe, even though it's a time saver. OTOH it's helpful for a travel agent to already know my credit card and FF numbers.
A lot of this is subjective. Paying attention to what gives customers a better experience is what marketers are ultimately responsible for; maybe this book will help, though talk of "stakeholders" suggests not (too mushy).
Compaq tried shipping a multi-piece laptop (Compaq Concerto) back in the days of Windows for Pens. It was terribly unwieldy, so I'm not at all surprised that laptops with separate screens haven't been available since.
remember Clerks... non-crap movies do get made on low budgets, you know. not every movie requires Jerry Bruckheimer
A Mac OS machine, not for the Linux die-hard. Who knew?