But does the end user care, as long as the music they want is available for purchase?
If they've already bought an MP3 player, or want to buy one but can't afford an iPod--then yes, yes they do.
Personally, I love iPods and I love the iTMS (which I've used, even without owning an iPod). But I can certainly understand the perspective of someone who can afford a WMA-compatible player but not a $300+ iPod. It sucks, really, that you have to pay an additional $50-$100, or more, for an Apple iPod just so you can carry the music that only iTMS sells. Yes, you can burn those iTMS files down to a CD, then re-rip them to MP3 if you want to--but that's not so convenient, is it?
I really don't feel that Google News does a very good job of picking the best articles on a subject to make the front page.
This argument is applicable to any Google search. Google doesn't "pick" the best news articles or search results, it basically sorts them by popularity. If a lot of organizations report on a particular subject, those articles rise to the top of the page. If an article discusses a particular search result more deeply, that article rises to the top of its search results.
Maybe it is just really hard to properly organize news.
When you can give us a workable definition of "properly", I'll consider your arguments. As it is, even longtime news editors often have trouble deciding which articles deserve headline-page-one status and which ones ought to be bumped to the bottom. It's ultimately a matter of what one person considers important--except for Google, which considers what several hundred people consider to be important. It may not be better, but it's certainly no worse.
From what the article says, it seems like they just have a list of places where they say a >5 quake will occur between 2000 and 2010. Whoop-dee-fucking-doo.
Well, it's not that useful if you're planning a vacation, but if you're someone who's looking to buy a house somewhere in the state of California which you intend to pay insurance on for the next twenty years, it's tremendously valuable (especially to the insurance agencies).
Do they have a multiplayer version of this? Will it run on Linux?
You're thinking of SimQuake, the amazing new natural disaster simulator from the makers of SimCity! Build your own planet's tectonic plates, set them adrift on the sea of magma in the mantle, and watch them separate, collide, and reform over billions of years! Will the resultant undersea trenches, earthquakes and mountain ranges be the harbingers of new forms of life on your world, or the ultimate end of it? Only YOU can decide!
Also available in 2005: SimVolcano, SimNaturalSelection, and SimGalacticBlackHole. Special incentive discounts available for non-science teachers.
Basically, it ensures one device does not interfere with another. Which means, such restrictions exactly fit with the FCC's charter. The broadcast flag has nothing to do with it's charter.
But if a TV doesn't respect the broadcast flag, then it's interfering with the station's desire to keep the video private. There we go, everything's hunky-dory again.
Then the Chicago loonies vote for Chicago in first place, putting Chicago over the edge. Chicago wins, and 90% of people hate the band trip.
Yes, it's true that the Borda count is only for "honest voters". People who deliberately try to skew the system -- say, by placing Republicans first and Democrats eighth, when in reality they'd prefer to have Democrats second and Nader last -- leave themselves open to the possibility of the whole thing backfiring.
My stepdaughter is in a similar predicament as the poster. Her vision isn't as bad as "near-blind", but one eye is near-blind and the other is severely nearsighted.
My wife has always been her primary advocate in school, but we've done much of what the parent poster has done: get an IEP (even though she's at a private school which isn't required to follow an IEP, they do so), and use it to get enlarged books (they're free) and worksheets, and special consideration for homework (she's only required to do half as many math problems, for instance) and tests (her time limits are always extended).
She's tried electronic devices to enlarge her books and papers, but since she had to wheel it from classroom to classroom it was both unwieldy and very obvious -- not a good thing for a peer-conscious preteen. So yes, they have those devices and they work, but they're not as good as simply enlarging the books and papers. (I look forward to the day when all the textbooks come on an electronic tablet which can simply enlarge the font and/or invert the black and white as needed.)
Telling your child to have a sense of humor about such a situation is easier said than done; I'm sure we all remember how cruel kids of any age can be. The better thing to do is, as a parent, be understanding, comfortable, and above all be a strong advocate for his/her needs. Don't expect your child to speak up when he/she needs special assistance, because that may not be in his/her nature. But do ask him/her about any problems in the classroom and go to the teachers, or principal if necessary, yourself to correct it.
he German Army in fighting Russia is like an elephant attacking a host of ants. The elephant will kill thousands, perhaps even millions, of ants, but in the end their numbers will overcome him and he will be eaten to the bone.
Did anyone else have flashbacks to Peter Jackson's Battle of Pelenor Fields when they read that?
...this is exactly what we asked for, and it's the right way to do it. For years advocates of P2P have said that copyright holders (which, regrettably, includes corporate entities) should be pursuing the individual violators rather than trying to kill P2P software or force ISPs to block their use.
The corporations may be a bit severe in their approach, and IMO the RIAA's tactic of fining offenders through a pre-court settlement is something of a miscarriage of justice. But when press releases tell us about P2P users busted for blatantly ignoring copyright holders' rights -- to the tune of thousands of files, twenty-four hours a day -- I find it hard to sympathize with them.
A while ago, I was remarking how there was no software to easily build 3D "RvB"-style animations on personal computers, the way Apple's iMovie or GarageBand software lets you build your own movies and music. Then I saw the box for "The Sims 2" and noticed the bit where you could script your Sims and record their actions as a standalone movie.
I knew the moment I saw that, that it was only a matter of time before people started posting their own "Simcoms" online. It never occurred to me that the RvB folks would be the first ones out of the gate. Bravo, fellas.
with HP selling iPods now, wouldn't it be sweet to have one of these top-end iPaq's running some sort of stripped down OSX?
A nice dream, but I don't see how you're adding iPaq+iPod and getting osXpaq. They're two completely incompatible portable gadgets whose only commonality is the company selling them and the size of the pocket they fit into.
The HP iPod is merely licensed and resold by HP; they're not adding anything to the gadget. Just the opposite, in fact: they're preinstalling iTunes (for Windows, natch) to HP computers to go with it. And the iPod doesn't run OS X or anything like it, of course -- the iPod OS is licensed from a third party, PortalPlayer, and its resemblance to OS X is purely cosmetic.
The silliest thing about grass is that it's an artificially stunted plant. The grass wants to grow long but by mowing it you are cropping it to the roots. The grass is permanently kept in the juvenille state. Why bother?
Coincidentally, the reason is because it's for my juvenile states. My kids, that is. Ages three, two, and one, all of whom just love to run around on a big flat lawn (which has to be kept short, because the one-year-old actually stumbles over unmowed grass), ride their trikes down the hill, roll down it, sit on it, lay on it, chase each other on it....
When they get older, we may set up a soccer goal, a volleyball net, or a cheap croquet game. Or a picnic table to have barbeque dinners at. With a nice big lawn, the possibilities for kids and families to enjoy it are nearly endless. With a nice garden, it looks great, but the play value is severely diminished -- especially for toddlers, who'd just pull the plants to pieces anyway.
So it's a very nice attempt, but really too perfect.
You don't ever watch network television, do you? Hollywood is all about making actresses and actors look as insanely perfect as possible. Just find some pictures of Tommy Lee Jones before he's had his makeup put on.
I'm trying to think of something witty to say about running linux on such a device, but I'm actually lost for words. Quick, someone say something funny!
Now you can build a Beowulf cluster on the back of your CS textbook!
I realize that another spammer will take advantadge of the hole next week but if the hosters were blacklisted from DNS servers, the offending files might get removed a little faster.
That would take time. It's much quicker and easier to just slashdot the site.
I've got a related question, actually: the now-universal symbol for "power", a zero with the top open and a vertical bar (number one) sticking through the opening, was something I first noticed on Mac computers.
Without giving them too much credit for something that's pretty trivial anyway, did Apple really originate this "power icon", or did they borrow it from someone else?
if 'Star Wars' isn't what Lucas wanted when it was complete, why didn't he do what Edvard Munch did with his painting and just create another movie?
Um, he did. It's called "Star Wars Special Edition" (etc.) to distinguish it from "Star Wars" (etc.). He then released it a couple of decades later and clearly distinguished it in all the marketing materials.
I don't recall any stories about Picasso sneaking into museums with a paintbrush to touch up his old work....
No, but I do recall an article recently about how Edvard Munch's The Scream actually exists as six or eight different, broadly identical paintings, all of which are by his hand. Or how George Seurat made changes to Sunday on the Island of La Grand Jatte, most noticably adding the pointillist frame around the canvas, long after he'd completed the actual work. Or how Renaissance painters routinely created multiple copies of their works on demand, and they were often created by students of the original artist's studio but signed by the artist himself.
The statement "An artist's work is never done" is even more true in the world of painting than in most other media, historically speaking.
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But does the end user care, as long as the music they want is available for purchase?
If they've already bought an MP3 player, or want to buy one but can't afford an iPod--then yes, yes they do.
Personally, I love iPods and I love the iTMS (which I've used, even without owning an iPod). But I can certainly understand the perspective of someone who can afford a WMA-compatible player but not a $300+ iPod. It sucks, really, that you have to pay an additional $50-$100, or more, for an Apple iPod just so you can carry the music that only iTMS sells. Yes, you can burn those iTMS files down to a CD, then re-rip them to MP3 if you want to--but that's not so convenient, is it?
I really don't feel that Google News does a very good job of picking the best articles on a subject to make the front page.
This argument is applicable to any Google search. Google doesn't "pick" the best news articles or search results, it basically sorts them by popularity. If a lot of organizations report on a particular subject, those articles rise to the top of the page. If an article discusses a particular search result more deeply, that article rises to the top of its search results.
Maybe it is just really hard to properly organize news.
When you can give us a workable definition of "properly", I'll consider your arguments. As it is, even longtime news editors often have trouble deciding which articles deserve headline-page-one status and which ones ought to be bumped to the bottom. It's ultimately a matter of what one person considers important--except for Google, which considers what several hundred people consider to be important. It may not be better, but it's certainly no worse.
From what the article says, it seems like they just have a list of places where they say a >5 quake will occur between 2000 and 2010. Whoop-dee-fucking-doo.
Well, it's not that useful if you're planning a vacation, but if you're someone who's looking to buy a house somewhere in the state of California which you intend to pay insurance on for the next twenty years, it's tremendously valuable (especially to the insurance agencies).
Do they have a multiplayer version of this? Will it run on Linux?
You're thinking of SimQuake, the amazing new natural disaster simulator from the makers of SimCity! Build your own planet's tectonic plates, set them adrift on the sea of magma in the mantle, and watch them separate, collide, and reform over billions of years! Will the resultant undersea trenches, earthquakes and mountain ranges be the harbingers of new forms of life on your world, or the ultimate end of it? Only YOU can decide!
Also available in 2005: SimVolcano, SimNaturalSelection, and SimGalacticBlackHole. Special incentive discounts available for non-science teachers.
Basically, it ensures one device does not interfere with another. Which means, such restrictions exactly fit with the FCC's charter. The broadcast flag has nothing to do with it's charter.
But if a TV doesn't respect the broadcast flag, then it's interfering with the station's desire to keep the video private. There we go, everything's hunky-dory again.
Then the Chicago loonies vote for Chicago in first place, putting Chicago over the edge. Chicago wins, and 90% of people hate the band trip.
Yes, it's true that the Borda count is only for "honest voters". People who deliberately try to skew the system -- say, by placing Republicans first and Democrats eighth, when in reality they'd prefer to have Democrats second and Nader last -- leave themselves open to the possibility of the whole thing backfiring.
Er, never mind. It's late, I'm tired, gimme a break....
...here's a link to the actual article.
My stepdaughter is in a similar predicament as the poster. Her vision isn't as bad as "near-blind", but one eye is near-blind and the other is severely nearsighted.
My wife has always been her primary advocate in school, but we've done much of what the parent poster has done: get an IEP (even though she's at a private school which isn't required to follow an IEP, they do so), and use it to get enlarged books (they're free) and worksheets, and special consideration for homework (she's only required to do half as many math problems, for instance) and tests (her time limits are always extended).
She's tried electronic devices to enlarge her books and papers, but since she had to wheel it from classroom to classroom it was both unwieldy and very obvious -- not a good thing for a peer-conscious preteen. So yes, they have those devices and they work, but they're not as good as simply enlarging the books and papers. (I look forward to the day when all the textbooks come on an electronic tablet which can simply enlarge the font and/or invert the black and white as needed.)
Telling your child to have a sense of humor about such a situation is easier said than done; I'm sure we all remember how cruel kids of any age can be. The better thing to do is, as a parent, be understanding, comfortable, and above all be a strong advocate for his/her needs. Don't expect your child to speak up when he/she needs special assistance, because that may not be in his/her nature. But do ask him/her about any problems in the classroom and go to the teachers, or principal if necessary, yourself to correct it.
he German Army in fighting Russia is like an elephant attacking a host of ants. The elephant will kill thousands, perhaps even millions, of ants, but in the end their numbers will overcome him and he will be eaten to the bone.
Did anyone else have flashbacks to Peter Jackson's Battle of Pelenor Fields when they read that?
...this is exactly what we asked for, and it's the right way to do it. For years advocates of P2P have said that copyright holders (which, regrettably, includes corporate entities) should be pursuing the individual violators rather than trying to kill P2P software or force ISPs to block their use.
The corporations may be a bit severe in their approach, and IMO the RIAA's tactic of fining offenders through a pre-court settlement is something of a miscarriage of justice. But when press releases tell us about P2P users busted for blatantly ignoring copyright holders' rights -- to the tune of thousands of files, twenty-four hours a day -- I find it hard to sympathize with them.
A while ago, I was remarking how there was no software to easily build 3D "RvB"-style animations on personal computers, the way Apple's iMovie or GarageBand software lets you build your own movies and music. Then I saw the box for "The Sims 2" and noticed the bit where you could script your Sims and record their actions as a standalone movie.
I knew the moment I saw that, that it was only a matter of time before people started posting their own "Simcoms" online. It never occurred to me that the RvB folks would be the first ones out of the gate. Bravo, fellas.
with HP selling iPods now, wouldn't it be sweet to have one of these top-end iPaq's running some sort of stripped down OSX?
A nice dream, but I don't see how you're adding iPaq+iPod and getting osXpaq. They're two completely incompatible portable gadgets whose only commonality is the company selling them and the size of the pocket they fit into.
The HP iPod is merely licensed and resold by HP; they're not adding anything to the gadget. Just the opposite, in fact: they're preinstalling iTunes (for Windows, natch) to HP computers to go with it. And the iPod doesn't run OS X or anything like it, of course -- the iPod OS is licensed from a third party, PortalPlayer, and its resemblance to OS X is purely cosmetic.
Why not embed them in each artwork?
Because generally, it's easy to tell when a priceless work of art has been stolen without checking the logs at the exit door.
Put a fake on display, and hide the real one somewhere else.
That's called "security through obscurity," my friend.
The silliest thing about grass is that it's an artificially stunted plant. The grass wants to grow long but by mowing it you are cropping it to the roots. The grass is permanently kept in the juvenille state. Why bother?
Coincidentally, the reason is because it's for my juvenile states. My kids, that is. Ages three, two, and one, all of whom just love to run around on a big flat lawn (which has to be kept short, because the one-year-old actually stumbles over unmowed grass), ride their trikes down the hill, roll down it, sit on it, lay on it, chase each other on it....
When they get older, we may set up a soccer goal, a volleyball net, or a cheap croquet game. Or a picnic table to have barbeque dinners at. With a nice big lawn, the possibilities for kids and families to enjoy it are nearly endless. With a nice garden, it looks great, but the play value is severely diminished -- especially for toddlers, who'd just pull the plants to pieces anyway.
So it's a very nice attempt, but really too perfect.
You don't ever watch network television, do you? Hollywood is all about making actresses and actors look as insanely perfect as possible. Just find some pictures of Tommy Lee Jones before he's had his makeup put on.
I'm trying to think of something witty to say about running linux on such a device, but I'm actually lost for words. Quick, someone say something funny!
Now you can build a Beowulf cluster on the back of your CS textbook!
Email address used for file sharing?
* asdf@asdf.com
* schwartzenegger@california.gov
* sit@home.org
* eat@joes.com
* cowboyneal@slashdot.org
I realize that another spammer will take advantadge of the hole next week but if the hosters were blacklisted from DNS servers, the offending files might get removed a little faster.
That would take time. It's much quicker and easier to just slashdot the site.
I've got a related question, actually: the now-universal symbol for "power", a zero with the top open and a vertical bar (number one) sticking through the opening, was something I first noticed on Mac computers.
Without giving them too much credit for something that's pretty trivial anyway, did Apple really originate this "power icon", or did they borrow it from someone else?
From the auction text, it looks like the only actual part of the "computer" is the lens that was used as the "eye" of HAL.
Dang, really? I *thought* that was an awfully low price for a real working A.I.
if 'Star Wars' isn't what Lucas wanted when it was complete, why didn't he do what Edvard Munch did with his painting and just create another movie?
Um, he did. It's called "Star Wars Special Edition" (etc.) to distinguish it from "Star Wars" (etc.). He then released it a couple of decades later and clearly distinguished it in all the marketing materials.
I don't recall any stories about Picasso sneaking into museums with a paintbrush to touch up his old work....
No, but I do recall an article recently about how Edvard Munch's The Scream actually exists as six or eight different, broadly identical paintings, all of which are by his hand. Or how George Seurat made changes to Sunday on the Island of La Grand Jatte, most noticably adding the pointillist frame around the canvas, long after he'd completed the actual work. Or how Renaissance painters routinely created multiple copies of their works on demand, and they were often created by students of the original artist's studio but signed by the artist himself.
The statement "An artist's work is never done" is even more true in the world of painting than in most other media, historically speaking.
When Armageddon comes, the cockroaches will have robot versions of themselves for slaves.
I, for one, welcome our new robotic cockroach overlords.