You got it - I'm waiting patiently...thought I'd check on slashdot to see what the heck is going on - looks like we're hosed for now. Oh well, back to HALO 2.
Not really - I'm a mac user too so I'm not bashing here - but this is for moving data from one system to another. For mac users that would make copying applications REALLY easy. I can just imagine, here have Photoshop...
Do you think that there might be a connection between Sun and Microsoft on this one? Look who would have gained the most from SCO 'owning' Linux. Not Microsoft, but Sun, the most beleagured UNIX provider at present. I'm having trouble drawing the obvious connection - something more subtle going on here?
Yes, the citizens of the US could "beat" the US "Defence Force". That is assuming of course we don't vote away all of their rights that make this possible (privacy/speech/voting/guns). Once of course these rights are resigned the citizens essentially have said that they are happy with the direction (not the current state) of the government.
But today, could the "citizens of the US beat the US Defence force"? Yes. Ask the other question -- can the US "Defence" force beat it's own citizens?
Hmm interesting - couldn't you just add enough electrons to transform atoms? My atomic-physics is a little rusty but transmutation isn't a longshot anymore. Then using these components create the proper molecules?
Anyhow cars cost about 1000 times more than a CD and 20,0000 more than a song using iTunes 4 so I think it might be a big deal.
Isn't physical stuff technically already "open source" - I think thats why it is protected by patents for a few years...
Well then do the opposite right - vote for left wingers? I think we'd both say no to that since spam isn't a political or legislative problem.
It seems to me that spam is a technical plague that is fairly easy to overcome by end users. I have a "white list" of domains that I receive messages from. If someone needs to send me a message I either add their email or their domain to my allowed list. Everything else gets bounced back to the sender as if I don't exist.
Sure this may take a few minutes to initially set up and a couple seconds here and there to administer, but it's better than the two alternatives:
A) Dealing with spam on a regular basis, and worse, B) Another unenforceable, privacy invading law on the books.
Now the problem that ISPs need to solve is filtering out spam period - but until then setup some rules on your mail client. I'd imagine it would take as long to do as your post above.
It seems to me that this idea is a great idea if used for something aside from just telling you what is on sale and how your AAPL or MSFT stock is doing. Our paranoia shouldn't stand in the way of innovation so long as our information is protected and private. Consider the following benefits that your mom or wife could reap since God knows most of us don't do extensive grocery runs...
For example, as you significant other walks through the store and places things in the cart, it would be nice if the LCD showed how much the entire contents cost. This could very easily be done once RFIDs are used on all the items in the store (not a long way off either)
Another example would be for the loading a list into your cart from a PDA and having the cart "map" an efficient path through the store or tell you if something was out of stock or not on the shelf. If your cart saw that you wanted something that wasn't on the shelf, but was in stock an employee from the store could grab it and walk it up to you. It would be great if just once I could get back from the grocery store without forgetting something on the dang list.
Sure it could tell you what is on sale as you walk by an isle, saving plenty of employee time from updating labels (an estimated 80 hour per week task) and "enlightening" you with up to date information but this is something that isn't of deep or immediate value to shoppers.
In conclusion, we're all scared of what retailers know about us - but is the paranoia really worth it?
Let's see - if it was that old, how big would it's birthday cake have to be? Or would that not matter since it has essentially been in stasis for so long?
It seems as though I must be watching another dimension of the media.
This doesn't happen regularly on CNN at all. Fox News is another story, and maybe that other dimension I referred to. But Fox News programming doesn't usually include the references that the Character Assassination (blam blam) points I read through.
Well, back I go to that other dimension -- at least slashdot exists there too.
Unfortunately no companies can be completely comprised of "friends" -- hence the contractual agreements between individuals.
In the event that these contracts are breeched, companies may incur damages.
Yet, in Apple's case, it seems as though they are attempting to gobble up as much press as possible -- an interesting "marketing" campaign to say the least.
Somebody tell Carmack to tell Steve Jobs to tell the Next, I mean Os X team, to port DirectX to the Mac...if OpenGL REALLY is going to be dead that soon.
I've been looking for good statistics on the acceptance of OpenGL vs. DirectX for games in the past year. It seems as though more companies are releasing Mac versions of games, so wouldn't OpenGL still be used primarily to make such porting easier?
If John Carmack is on the advisory board, maybe Microsoft can build something good the first time around. Perhaps they've noticed they make shit the first time so they are buying companies and renting people to build it for them...
I believe it was Ralph Waldo Emerson (or perhaps another writer...) who said that "one person's right to swing his fist, ends where the other man's nose begins." For example, freedom of speech doesn't give you the right to etch, "I'm an asshole" on the hood of my car.
I don't believe this is really an issue of freedom of speech or censorship. It appears as though the individual is attempting to deter an open market with clear intent, malice and forethought.
Oh, one last thing, isn't my right to kick somebody off my site my gun-given-right too?
Microsoft won't kill the PC -- the only thing they can do is change it. They didn't spend the past 10 years working on Windows and building up a monopoly just to turn around and scrap it. What Gates is doing is simple...
A few months ago, I was watching CNN. Some guy from Sony was talking about how they were going to replace the PC with the Playstation2. Microsoft took this personally and is now Jihading against Sony for the console market. The scaring thing is, they probably will win.
I know some people will disagree, and I personally hope this will not come to pass -- but didn't we say the same thing about Netscape four years ago?
Yeah, this is starting to piss me off too. "The decision" isn't up to the artist -- It is up to me.
I have an entire partition shared out for people to see through gnutella. My entirely legal collection of music also resides on this partition. Since I paid for my computer and the network connection and the music, I'll put it where I damn well please.
I ask myself that ALL the time...
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This is indeed an interesting question...one that I ask myself everytime I go to Tower Records.
For example, I was looking at Eminem's new CD after I downloaded one of his songs using ghasp Macster. For some reason it was $19. I thought, "Gee, this isn't really worth THAT much. Plus, I don't really like that genre of music." So, the next day I was jumping around Amazon.com; I decided to check out the price of the same CD and bought it, since it was $13. Maybe this seems like an absurd example, but I think I fit into that "typical consumer" crowd. The only exception that I can think of, is that I actually bought a Mac last month. Regardless, I imagine other people have purchased music after discovering it on Napster -- even music from major labels.
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You got it - I'm waiting patiently...thought I'd check on slashdot to see what the heck is going on - looks like we're hosed for now. Oh well, back to HALO 2.
Not really - I'm a mac user too so I'm not bashing here - but this is for moving data from one system to another. For mac users that would make copying applications REALLY easy. I can just imagine, here have Photoshop...
Do you think that there might be a connection between Sun and Microsoft on this one? Look who would have gained the most from SCO 'owning' Linux. Not Microsoft, but Sun, the most beleagured UNIX provider at present. I'm having trouble drawing the obvious connection - something more subtle going on here?
Yes, the citizens of the US could "beat" the US "Defence Force". That is assuming of course we don't vote away all of their rights that make this possible (privacy/speech/voting/guns). Once of course these rights are resigned the citizens essentially have said that they are happy with the direction (not the current state) of the government.
But today, could the "citizens of the US beat the US Defence force"? Yes. Ask the other question -- can the US "Defence" force beat it's own citizens?
Hmm interesting - couldn't you just add enough electrons to transform atoms? My atomic-physics is a little rusty but transmutation isn't a longshot anymore. Then using these components create the proper molecules?
Anyhow cars cost about 1000 times more than a CD and 20,0000 more than a song using iTunes 4 so I think it might be a big deal.
Isn't physical stuff technically already "open source" - I think thats why it is protected by patents for a few years...
People who don't pay for music probably won't pay for email...actually if Apple were to charge per email then maybe it would work.
Here's an idea. If you want to send me an email you pay me 10 cents. Then I'd be happy to get spam.
Well then do the opposite right - vote for left wingers? I think we'd both say no to that since spam isn't a political or legislative problem.
It seems to me that spam is a technical plague that is fairly easy to overcome by end users. I have a "white list" of domains that I receive messages from. If someone needs to send me a message I either add their email or their domain to my allowed list. Everything else gets bounced back to the sender as if I don't exist.
Sure this may take a few minutes to initially set up and a couple seconds here and there to administer, but it's better than the two alternatives:
A) Dealing with spam on a regular basis, and worse,
B) Another unenforceable, privacy invading law on the books.
Now the problem that ISPs need to solve is filtering out spam period - but until then setup some rules on your mail client. I'd imagine it would take as long to do as your post above.
...just give me a license to kill the offenders - that'd be 'reward' enough. Oh wait, that and expense account.
But seriously what will the judicial system do then? Maybe if they do to spammers what they did to Mitnick...
Could this just be a way from them to spend more than 7.5% of their Adjusted Gross Income on a hobby to get another tax deduction? Hmm...
...it's not like anybody is really hiring, sponsoring visas, etc. That and it sounds like a publicity stunt to me (no such thing as bad PR).
It seems to me that this idea is a great idea if used for something aside from just telling you what is on sale and how your AAPL or MSFT stock is doing. Our paranoia shouldn't stand in the way of innovation so long as our information is protected and private. Consider the following benefits that your mom or wife could reap since God knows most of us don't do extensive grocery runs...
For example, as you significant other walks through the store and places things in the cart, it would be nice if the LCD showed how much the entire contents cost. This could very easily be done once RFIDs are used on all the items in the store (not a long way off either)
Another example would be for the loading a list into your cart from a PDA and having the cart "map" an efficient path through the store or tell you if something was out of stock or not on the shelf. If your cart saw that you wanted something that wasn't on the shelf, but was in stock an employee from the store could grab it and walk it up to you. It would be great if just once I could get back from the grocery store without forgetting something on the dang list.
Sure it could tell you what is on sale as you walk by an isle, saving plenty of employee time from updating labels (an estimated 80 hour per week task) and "enlightening" you with up to date information but this is something that isn't of deep or immediate value to shoppers.
In conclusion, we're all scared of what retailers know about us - but is the paranoia really worth it?
Let's see - if it was that old, how big would it's birthday cake have to be? Or would that not matter since it has essentially been in stasis for so long?
Hmm.
Building web history -- bit by bit.
It seems as though I must be watching another dimension of the media.
This doesn't happen regularly on CNN at all. Fox News is another story, and maybe that other dimension I referred to. But Fox News programming doesn't usually include the references that the Character Assassination (blam blam) points I read through.
Well, back I go to that other dimension -- at least slashdot exists there too.
Building web history -- bit by bit.
Unfortunately no companies can be completely comprised of "friends" -- hence the contractual agreements between individuals.
In the event that these contracts are breeched, companies may incur damages.
Yet, in Apple's case, it seems as though they are attempting to gobble up as much press as possible -- an interesting "marketing" campaign to say the least.
Yes... The original post was just me blowing off some steam about Microsoft buying Bungie -- a company that I used to (and still kinda) admire.
Somebody tell Carmack to tell Steve Jobs to tell the Next, I mean Os X team, to port DirectX to the Mac...if OpenGL REALLY is going to be dead that soon.
I've been looking for good statistics on the acceptance of OpenGL vs. DirectX for games in the past year. It seems as though more companies are releasing Mac versions of games, so wouldn't OpenGL still be used primarily to make such porting easier?
If John Carmack is on the advisory board, maybe Microsoft can build something good the first time around. Perhaps they've noticed they make shit the first time so they are buying companies and renting people to build it for them...
I believe it was Ralph Waldo Emerson (or perhaps another writer...) who said that "one person's right to swing his fist, ends where the other man's nose begins." For example, freedom of speech doesn't give you the right to etch, "I'm an asshole" on the hood of my car.
I don't believe this is really an issue of freedom of speech or censorship. It appears as though the individual is attempting to deter an open market with clear intent, malice and forethought.
Oh, one last thing, isn't my right to kick somebody off my site my gun-given-right too?
Perhaps we should rid the internet of anonymity because criminals like to remain anonymous -- just like you...
Microsoft won't kill the PC -- the only thing they can do is change it. They didn't spend the past 10 years working on Windows and building up a monopoly just to turn around and scrap it. What Gates is doing is simple...
A few months ago, I was watching CNN. Some guy from Sony was talking about how they were going to replace the PC with the Playstation2. Microsoft took this personally and is now Jihading against Sony for the console market. The scaring thing is, they probably will win.
I know some people will disagree, and I personally hope this will not come to pass -- but didn't we say the same thing about Netscape four years ago?
Yeah, this is starting to piss me off too. "The decision" isn't up to the artist -- It is up to me.
I have an entire partition shared out for people to see through gnutella. My entirely legal collection of music also resides on this partition. Since I paid for my computer and the network connection and the music, I'll put it where I damn well please.
This is indeed an interesting question...one that I ask myself everytime I go to Tower Records.
For example,
I was looking at Eminem's new CD after I downloaded one of his songs using ghasp Macster. For some reason it was $19. I thought, "Gee, this isn't really worth THAT much. Plus, I don't really like that genre of music." So, the next day I was jumping around Amazon.com; I decided to check out the price of the same CD and bought it, since it was $13. Maybe this seems like an absurd example, but I think I fit into that "typical consumer" crowd. The only exception that I can think of, is that I actually bought a Mac last month. Regardless, I imagine other people have purchased music after discovering it on Napster -- even music from major labels.