I honestly never knew B&N was selling them online. Whenever I've wanted to look for eBooks, I've headed to PeanutPress.com. At least they use Palm Reader documents, a format that's actually useful.
...to heck with Breathed. "Outland" was good, but frankly not that good. I wanna know what Bill Watterson ("Calvin & Hobbes") is up to. I'm sure it's not comic strips again, but I haven't heard anything much out of him since the strip ended. Surely he's out drawing something, somewhere?
iTunes Music Store for Windows, mainly. Already in the works.
That and the iSight FireWire webcam, which integrates nicely with iChat AV for broadband videoconferencing. Presumably if/when it's a hit, they'll start work on a USB 2.0 version and iChat AV for Windows.
The iPod practically requires FireWire or USB 2.0 to transfer what can be several gigs of music at a time. Bluetooth is designed for much lower speeds, think USB-sized. So adding it to an iPod would be impractical.
Adding Wi-Fi to an iPod would be kind of cool, but I'm pretty sure that would require more sophistication than that tiny OS is designed to handle. Plus it would be a massive drain on the battery, which you still need to connect physically in order to recharge.
Geez, why not point to the Apple site instead?
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We've now got a solution to the whole Matrix enigma. The machines can just unplug all the humans and harness bacteria instead.
I can imagine the new movie already....
"You are the One-Celled, Neo."
"You bacteria are a disease, a plague on this planet... but I guess you already knew that...." "Somehow he's found a way to copy himself. 'Mitosis,' I think he called it."
ISPs give you unlimited bandwidth for a fixed price (at least in the US, in most cases), so they often act to keep that within reason. This is why you're generally not allowed to operate a server on a consumer broadband line: you're chewing up too much bandwidth if your site is at all popular. This is also the argument the RIAA uses to encourage ISPs to report or at least disallow P2P filesharing.
Viruses and trojan horses that send out email all over the 'Net and/or DDoS systems are another useless waste of bandwidth, and should be discouraged as much as possible. "Open Internet" is fine, but there's no good reason for ISPs to let users use certain ports if there's no consumer-oriented purpose for doing so.
Should've been an anime, then. I swear, these days, a successful anime DVD set will make more profit than any sci-fi that the American networks can whip up.
This may come as a shock but CD-Rs can also be used to record data (gasp) or am I the only person in the free world who uses them for this purpose?
This would be significant if the CD-R sales weren't taking place in record stores. When people go to a store dedicated to selling music and buy blank CDs instead, it's reasonable to assume most of those CD-Rs are being used for MP3s.
The practice of refusing to buy CDs when we can download the same songs for free? Dude, that's not a boycott, that's been the status quo for the last three years. It's only a boycott if you refuse to download the music, too.
Seriously, there's good reasons to want to reverse-engineer this thing, not least of all the fact that some geeks do, in fact, have children. It's nice to pay $5 for a single episode of SpongeBob or whatever, but wouldn't it be even better if we could encode the format on our own recordable mini-CDs? Why pay for SpongeBob episodes in crummy b&w format when you can download them from KaZaa... er, import them using a video card... and burn them on $0.25 CD-Rs?
The company responsible, Aquada, suggest it's a good way to avoid congestion.
Well, certainly. After getting that much saline seaspray in your nose every weekday morning, you'll never have to complain about congestion again. Taxicabs could even market it as a remedy during the flu season.
He says: Right now I've come up with a couple ways that the transfer of ownership could take place.
It's interesting that he's auctioning something before he's figured out how to "ship" it to the purchaser. Surely this is a violation of EBay's policies?
Saying that it's foolish to sue people who don't have any money is like saying it's a waste of time to imprison robbers who have no job or family. The intention, obviously, is to let the news get out and deter other students from doing the same thing.
The flaw in their reasoning, of course, is that high school and college students read newspapers about as often as they read the law.
"God does not play dice with the universe. He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time." (Terry Pratchett, Good Omens)
I apply for Unix Systems Administrator positions sometimes, and virtually ALWAYS I get asked for my resume in... MS Word format.
I use a Mac at home; no MS Office, same problem. I just save it in RTF format and give it to them, since RTF usually just opens in Word for systems that rely heavily on Office. As long as they can double-click on it and get it in tbeir favorite word processor, they really don't care.
but in the end we will never have a pefectly safe mode of travel (on or off earth) because Safety Costs Money.
Reminds me of Larry Niven's Puppeteers, an entire alien race of "cowards" who designed the nigh-indestructible General Products hull but refused to fly in them. Only "insane" Puppeteers ever travelled in space, even in a General Products hull, because in true Catch-22 fashion the act of doing something as obviously dangerous as space travel was proof of insanity.
Following both Space Shuttle accidents you could find humans like that in droves. Before, they thought the space shuttle was this great accomplishment and wondered what it would be like to live in space, eat in space, have sex in space, etc. After, they loudly condemned NASA for ever wanting to send humans up into space in the first place.
Until someone can satisfactorily explain to me how this legislation will affect American sites and developers based entirely in the United States, I see no reason why Slashdot or any other company on this side of the pond should participate in the protest.
His main argument seems to be that there's a lot of crap on the Internet, and because of this it will eventually become useless. But where's the supporting argument?
Junk mail hasn't brought the postal service to its knees. Telemarketers are a pain, but people still use phones and even find new ways to travel with them. Every communication medium lends itself to abuse, but that has never eliminated the medium itself. Only a superior, easier, more widespread technology has ever done that (telegraphs giving way to telephones, for instance).
It's just another guy claiming the end of the 'Net is nigh, people. Move along.
Isn't this the exact reason why game mods are so popular? Regular joes with some creative talent (and a 3-D modeler) can enhance or completely rewrite a game using a commercial engine, letting someone else do all the non-creative technological development.
I don't think I could count the number of FPS/RPG games out there that rely on the latest Quake or Unreal engine to do the dirty work.
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the whole thing could have been avoided if only Neo had done another one of his Superman jumps.
Did you not catch the part where he tried, several times, to fly away and kept getting dragged back down?
I honestly never knew B&N was selling them online. Whenever I've wanted to look for eBooks, I've headed to PeanutPress.com. At least they use Palm Reader documents, a format that's actually useful.
...to heck with Breathed. "Outland" was good, but frankly not that good. I wanna know what Bill Watterson ("Calvin & Hobbes") is up to. I'm sure it's not comic strips again, but I haven't heard anything much out of him since the strip ended. Surely he's out drawing something, somewhere?
By my rapid calculations, ibiblio.org now owes SCO some $756,000 and change.
iTunes Music Store for Windows, mainly. Already in the works.
That and the iSight FireWire webcam, which integrates nicely with iChat AV for broadband videoconferencing. Presumably if/when it's a hit, they'll start work on a USB 2.0 version and iChat AV for Windows.
The iPod practically requires FireWire or USB 2.0 to transfer what can be several gigs of music at a time. Bluetooth is designed for much lower speeds, think USB-sized. So adding it to an iPod would be impractical.
Adding Wi-Fi to an iPod would be kind of cool, but I'm pretty sure that would require more sophistication than that tiny OS is designed to handle. Plus it would be a massive drain on the battery, which you still need to connect physically in order to recharge.
New iPods
New iMacs
I can imagine the new movie already....
Free the battery bacteria!
No slavery for electricity!
How many Rhodoferax died for your Walkman today?
Single-celled life forms are people too!
Et cetera, et cetera....
ISPs give you unlimited bandwidth for a fixed price (at least in the US, in most cases), so they often act to keep that within reason. This is why you're generally not allowed to operate a server on a consumer broadband line: you're chewing up too much bandwidth if your site is at all popular. This is also the argument the RIAA uses to encourage ISPs to report or at least disallow P2P filesharing.
Viruses and trojan horses that send out email all over the 'Net and/or DDoS systems are another useless waste of bandwidth, and should be discouraged as much as possible. "Open Internet" is fine, but there's no good reason for ISPs to let users use certain ports if there's no consumer-oriented purpose for doing so.
Should've been an anime, then. I swear, these days, a successful anime DVD set will make more profit than any sci-fi that the American networks can whip up.
This may come as a shock but CD-Rs can also be used to record data (gasp) or am I the only person in the free world who uses them for this purpose?
This would be significant if the CD-R sales weren't taking place in record stores. When people go to a store dedicated to selling music and buy blank CDs instead, it's reasonable to assume most of those CD-Rs are being used for MP3s.
Continue the boycott!
The practice of refusing to buy CDs when we can download the same songs for free? Dude, that's not a boycott, that's been the status quo for the last three years. It's only a boycott if you refuse to download the music, too.
Seriously, there's good reasons to want to reverse-engineer this thing, not least of all the fact that some geeks do, in fact, have children. It's nice to pay $5 for a single episode of SpongeBob or whatever, but wouldn't it be even better if we could encode the format on our own recordable mini-CDs? Why pay for SpongeBob episodes in crummy b&w format when you can download them from KaZaa... er, import them using a video card... and burn them on $0.25 CD-Rs?
The company responsible, Aquada, suggest it's a good way to avoid congestion.
Well, certainly. After getting that much saline seaspray in your nose every weekday morning, you'll never have to complain about congestion again. Taxicabs could even market it as a remedy during the flu season.
He says: Right now I've come up with a couple ways that the transfer of ownership could take place.
It's interesting that he's auctioning something before he's figured out how to "ship" it to the purchaser. Surely this is a violation of EBay's policies?
Saying that it's foolish to sue people who don't have any money is like saying it's a waste of time to imprison robbers who have no job or family. The intention, obviously, is to let the news get out and deter other students from doing the same thing.
The flaw in their reasoning, of course, is that high school and college students read newspapers about as often as they read the law.
"God does not play dice with the universe. He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time." (Terry Pratchett, Good Omens)
I apply for Unix Systems Administrator positions sometimes, and virtually ALWAYS I get asked for my resume in... MS Word format.
I use a Mac at home; no MS Office, same problem. I just save it in RTF format and give it to them, since RTF usually just opens in Word for systems that rely heavily on Office. As long as they can double-click on it and get it in tbeir favorite word processor, they really don't care.
but in the end we will never have a pefectly safe mode of travel (on or off earth) because Safety Costs Money.
Reminds me of Larry Niven's Puppeteers, an entire alien race of "cowards" who designed the nigh-indestructible General Products hull but refused to fly in them. Only "insane" Puppeteers ever travelled in space, even in a General Products hull, because in true Catch-22 fashion the act of doing something as obviously dangerous as space travel was proof of insanity.
Following both Space Shuttle accidents you could find humans like that in droves. Before, they thought the space shuttle was this great accomplishment and wondered what it would be like to live in space, eat in space, have sex in space, etc. After, they loudly condemned NASA for ever wanting to send humans up into space in the first place.
Until someone can satisfactorily explain to me how this legislation will affect American sites and developers based entirely in the United States, I see no reason why Slashdot or any other company on this side of the pond should participate in the protest.
His main argument seems to be that there's a lot of crap on the Internet, and because of this it will eventually become useless. But where's the supporting argument?
Junk mail hasn't brought the postal service to its knees. Telemarketers are a pain, but people still use phones and even find new ways to travel with them. Every communication medium lends itself to abuse, but that has never eliminated the medium itself. Only a superior, easier, more widespread technology has ever done that (telegraphs giving way to telephones, for instance).
It's just another guy claiming the end of the 'Net is nigh, people. Move along.
...so here's the Google cache.
Isn't this the exact reason why game mods are so popular? Regular joes with some creative talent (and a 3-D modeler) can enhance or completely rewrite a game using a commercial engine, letting someone else do all the non-creative technological development.
I don't think I could count the number of FPS/RPG games out there that rely on the latest Quake or Unreal engine to do the dirty work.
I certainly hope so, or there's no way in the world I'll be able to play "Unreal Tournament 2010" with internet multiplayer.