I'm not sure how relevant this is in the era of HD feeds, maybe they send them by HD/4DTV.
There is plenty of C band equipment to be had. I was practically given my 10ft dish. Some folks let you take theirs if you'll take it out of their yard. The setup's a little hard but it's paid for now.
They are very popular in rural areas and the service plans are still cheap. I like the fact that I can just buy the channels that I want for a very low annual fee - I get all the channels I want for less than a single month's cable fee.
I really don't think it's worth hunting them down, there are so many satellites to check and so many channels on each. I've never found anything worthwhile by doing random checks.
I guess it's a GUI command line, you get the best of both worlds. The thing I didn't like about command line is that it's typo-sensitive and conventional GUI did away with the need to type long commands. I can't speak for this program, but Quicksilver is fairly typo-insensitive, it can usually figure out what you wanted.
Many times, the record company has already sold off the overseas rights, so you have to make negotiations with each region. It may also be that it's a subsidiary of the main company, and they still want their cut, so you negotiate on a per-country basis.
For me, using Spotlight to do this is very inefficient. Quicksilver is usually several times faster. The difference is that Spotlight searches indexes that look inside files and that's unnecessary, it only needs to search the file name.
The problem is that it's not an auto-learning system, you have to make each of those shortcuts manually. With software like Quicksilver, I don't have to make any shortcuts, I just start entering letters and it will search my apps, my documents, my address book, my Firefox bookmarks, my FTP bookmarks, all my music, et. all and shows you the ones that those letters best fit. Quicksilver is a lot more forgiving with typos too, you can see your results before you execute them, and back out of them in case you made a mistake.
Apple may be better, but I've heard stories on this very forum, where several people complaining that Apple took many months to fix problems. I have not seen any fix to the Quicktime HREF vulnerability that caused virus trouble at MySpace, and I'm pretty sure Apple's known about that for several more weeks than this.
The problem that was stated is that the Big Macs aren't usually traded across borders. It really needs to be a cross section of traded commodities. It's a pretty tough job to do because the producers of some commodities are very cheap in the producing countries, such as oil producers vs. consumers.
Personally, I understand why 64 bit isn't necessarily supported, but then, they support Linux and AIX on 64 bit PPC. I don't know if the 64 bit on PPC is because they've had it working for longer, because of its POWER heritage or just because it's their architecture. I also wonder if there is something about the x86 implementation that makes porting to 64 bit pretty hard.
With respect to the browser plug-in, I don't really know that many people that are running 64 bit computers, using 64 bit aware operating systems and 64 bit software. I think it may just be a matter of trying to get something to suit most of the market and then plugging in the holes later.
HP sold a notebook specifically designed to support Linux. It was dropped in six months, without a replacement. Given the Linux market share numbers I've seen, I can't help but think that there wasn't sufficient market for this to make it worth their time.
Evolution is most certainly a theory, it is not considered a law. Don't take that the wrong way, in comparision, creationism is a hypothesis, calling it a theory would be an elevation of status. Hypothesis, theory and law are the three major states of scientific knowledge that I remember, and each takes a lot of work to go from the lower state to a higher state. The problem is firstly, even scientists aren't always specific enough about the use of these words. Another problem is that somehow the popular idea of theory has been watered down.
I think the 2004 "W" win was a coat-tail reaction to the "gay debate", the war didn't seem to have much to do with it. Also, oddly enough, there are people opposed to changing presidents in the middle of a war, though the Jon Stewart example of the bus driver that drove the bus into the ditch should not be allowed to drive again comes to mind.
I think Apple actually loves their DRM. It used to be that they lamented it and put some in, but they are so fiercely protecting it with a fervor that exceeds that of the RIAA.
The site said that the convention was 15 March 2006, that definitely predates the Core2-based Xeons. It's quite amazing how much can happen in a year. That's not to say that AMD's offerings are a slouch with regards to power consumption. The FB-DIMMs require a pretty hot chip to operate them, and each FB-DIMM is effectively its own memory bus.
I haven't seen the benchmark where an Intel quad processor was beat out more than a little bit by an Intel dual of the same core design. The next four socket Intel platform (IIRC, Tigerton) will give each socket its own front side bus.
I don't think AMD was the first to integrate a memory bus into the processor, just that AMD was the first to make it in a mass market processor. Intel will come around on the on-die memory controller deal, that is a little puzzling why it's not until late this year or some time next year. It would seem like that they should have had a secret project group formed many years ago, Intel is a big enough company that they should have had a contingency plan in action.
Parallels is different, not better. Parallels allows you to use a lot of programs along side OS X, but it has some penalties too. Graphics-intense Windows software will work a lot better under Boot Camp because it gets what Parallels cannot offer (yet?), which is native graphics performance. Having two operating systems in memory may be a bit of a liability too, unless you really stuff the machine with memory.
What the suggestion is that Tiger owners would have to pay for the full version of Boot Camp, which incidentally, is a lower price than what Parallels wants. If you buy Leopard, then you get it as part of the package. I really don't see a problem with that.
I think the disparity stems from the different audiences. For a long time, getting into Linux required a fair amount of technical savviness, and the software for Windows and Macintosh have had a lot of time to mature. Also, the person that needs that type of software often isn't the type that can program. That sort of software also has a narrow user base. I'm trying to learn how to do some programming for a hardware device of my own and I'm finding that making a truly nice end-user program takes an incredible amount of work, so I can understand how a person or group that knows how the software should work wouldn't want to take on such a project.
I've thought about it but I think the idea needs a lot of work that's not being done.
For one, tagging needs to be a lot easier, it's easy to make a folder to drop files into, but there's nothing I've used yet where I can drop items into a "tag folder" to automatically tag them. I think a hybrid system is the way to go, I might have two groups of files that are in folders of the same folder name, but they have different parent folders for a reason, to exclude them from each other, and searching systems usually don't let me take that into account.
Anyway, what I'm saying is that I've had too many circumstances that spelunking folders was easier to do than performing a search and adding the correct exclusions to get what I want, to justify getting rid of the folder system. Maybe what is needed is a nested tagging system, subtags, I don't know, because sometimes a heirarchical system is the most effective way to find something.
Older systems can connect to newer hard drives. I don't know how much hard drives figure into this though, I think RAM size is a bigger factor so the computer knows where the data is without wasting too much time looking for it.
I've never heard of a parent's camera phone being a problem at school.
Complain as much as you like, the problem is that I think for a non-camera phone to exist, people need to be willing to pay more for them. The market for a phone without a camera is apparently a lot smaller and the camera element is cheap enough that a non-camera phone will cost more than a camera phone just by economies of scale. Most people seem to value features, and the convenience of a camera on a phone has been shown to be extremely popular such that Nokia became the world's largest camera manufacturer.
For taking quality pictures, I would always use a separate camera whenever possible. Still, I would value the ability to snap pictures in case I forgot or an unforseen circumstance came up that I need to shoot a picture. I can't carry my dedicated camera everywhere so the convenience of a compact device helps a lot.
While the ASCAP is not the RIAA, and might not be as bad as the RIAA, I thought that ASCAP is another organization that tends to go a little overboard. Such examples include suing bar owners and taxicab drivers for having the radio on when there are paying customers present without having paid a royalty fee. They even sued Boy Scout camps because the kids sang songs managed by ASCAP. Maybe it was in their legal right to do so, but sometimes exploiting your legal rights to their max isn't the smartest thing to do in terms of public relations.
Anyway, I think this two-rights system is weird and a bit much.
I just don't see Apple giving royalties on music except for sales of actual tracks. This entitlement business based on presumed guilt is a bit much, the labels don't directly see money for CD player sales, or CD writers for that matter, so there's little precedence for them to get royalties on other types of players. I don't think any of the RIAA can afford to drop iTunes, it is a top five seller for them and the margins are better for them. I don't doubt that a great many PMPs are being used to carry infringing copies of music, but that's no justification.
I'd think that Universal would embrace the Zune platform better than that, because they think they are being held hostage by Apple's dominance in the paid download market, having an alternative sales platform would give them leverage against Apple. The thought that they are dropping a fantastic viral promotional tool such as the "sharing" is just beyond baffling. We know the RIAA game is about control, but this is ludicrous to the level of "1) load gun. 2) shoot foot.".
I guess the real way forward is indie music and new, more enlightened labels.
I really don't think AoM is even close to a middle ground because music production costs money. I really don't think the AoM prices even begin to cover those expenses. You vastly overestimate the cost of replication, shipping and retail overhead. There's a lot more to the cost of making those bits than AoM's pricing structure can possibly sustain.
If you don't like the RIAA, that's fine, but the solution is to support indie music, not ripping off RIAA music through AoM or Limewire because that's still reinforcing the RIAA claim that RIAA music has value. Buying indie music from the indies ensures that more of your money goes to the people that actually make the music.
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I'm not sure how relevant this is in the era of HD feeds, maybe they send them by HD/4DTV.
There is plenty of C band equipment to be had. I was practically given my 10ft dish. Some folks let you take theirs if you'll take it out of their yard. The setup's a little hard but it's paid for now.
They are very popular in rural areas and the service plans are still cheap. I like the fact that I can just buy the channels that I want for a very low annual fee - I get all the channels I want for less than a single month's cable fee.
I really don't think it's worth hunting them down, there are so many satellites to check and so many channels on each. I've never found anything worthwhile by doing random checks.
I guess it's a GUI command line, you get the best of both worlds. The thing I didn't like about command line is that it's typo-sensitive and conventional GUI did away with the need to type long commands. I can't speak for this program, but Quicksilver is fairly typo-insensitive, it can usually figure out what you wanted.
I do use that method, but it's a bit slow to set up and it is not auto-learning.
I think the additional scrutiny made cheating harder to pull off without noticing.
Many times, the record company has already sold off the overseas rights, so you have to make negotiations with each region. It may also be that it's a subsidiary of the main company, and they still want their cut, so you negotiate on a per-country basis.
For me, using Spotlight to do this is very inefficient. Quicksilver is usually several times faster. The difference is that Spotlight searches indexes that look inside files and that's unnecessary, it only needs to search the file name.
The problem is that it's not an auto-learning system, you have to make each of those shortcuts manually. With software like Quicksilver, I don't have to make any shortcuts, I just start entering letters and it will search my apps, my documents, my address book, my Firefox bookmarks, my FTP bookmarks, all my music, et. all and shows you the ones that those letters best fit. Quicksilver is a lot more forgiving with typos too, you can see your results before you execute them, and back out of them in case you made a mistake.
Apple may be better, but I've heard stories on this very forum, where several people complaining that Apple took many months to fix problems. I have not seen any fix to the Quicktime HREF vulnerability that caused virus trouble at MySpace, and I'm pretty sure Apple's known about that for several more weeks than this.
The problem that was stated is that the Big Macs aren't usually traded across borders. It really needs to be a cross section of traded commodities. It's a pretty tough job to do because the producers of some commodities are very cheap in the producing countries, such as oil producers vs. consumers.
Personally, I understand why 64 bit isn't necessarily supported, but then, they support Linux and AIX on 64 bit PPC. I don't know if the 64 bit on PPC is because they've had it working for longer, because of its POWER heritage or just because it's their architecture. I also wonder if there is something about the x86 implementation that makes porting to 64 bit pretty hard.
With respect to the browser plug-in, I don't really know that many people that are running 64 bit computers, using 64 bit aware operating systems and 64 bit software. I think it may just be a matter of trying to get something to suit most of the market and then plugging in the holes later.
HP sold a notebook specifically designed to support Linux. It was dropped in six months, without a replacement. Given the Linux market share numbers I've seen, I can't help but think that there wasn't sufficient market for this to make it worth their time.
Evolution is most certainly a theory, it is not considered a law. Don't take that the wrong way, in comparision, creationism is a hypothesis, calling it a theory would be an elevation of status. Hypothesis, theory and law are the three major states of scientific knowledge that I remember, and each takes a lot of work to go from the lower state to a higher state. The problem is firstly, even scientists aren't always specific enough about the use of these words. Another problem is that somehow the popular idea of theory has been watered down.
I think the 2004 "W" win was a coat-tail reaction to the "gay debate", the war didn't seem to have much to do with it. Also, oddly enough, there are people opposed to changing presidents in the middle of a war, though the Jon Stewart example of the bus driver that drove the bus into the ditch should not be allowed to drive again comes to mind.
I think Apple actually loves their DRM. It used to be that they lamented it and put some in, but they are so fiercely protecting it with a fervor that exceeds that of the RIAA.
The site said that the convention was 15 March 2006, that definitely predates the Core2-based Xeons. It's quite amazing how much can happen in a year. That's not to say that AMD's offerings are a slouch with regards to power consumption. The FB-DIMMs require a pretty hot chip to operate them, and each FB-DIMM is effectively its own memory bus.
I haven't seen the benchmark where an Intel quad processor was beat out more than a little bit by an Intel dual of the same core design. The next four socket Intel platform (IIRC, Tigerton) will give each socket its own front side bus.
I don't think AMD was the first to integrate a memory bus into the processor, just that AMD was the first to make it in a mass market processor. Intel will come around on the on-die memory controller deal, that is a little puzzling why it's not until late this year or some time next year. It would seem like that they should have had a secret project group formed many years ago, Intel is a big enough company that they should have had a contingency plan in action.
That would explain why it would have a link that says "slashdot it" and not "digg it".
Who said that? They need a clue-by-four strike.
Parallels is different, not better. Parallels allows you to use a lot of programs along side OS X, but it has some penalties too. Graphics-intense Windows software will work a lot better under Boot Camp because it gets what Parallels cannot offer (yet?), which is native graphics performance. Having two operating systems in memory may be a bit of a liability too, unless you really stuff the machine with memory.
What the suggestion is that Tiger owners would have to pay for the full version of Boot Camp, which incidentally, is a lower price than what Parallels wants. If you buy Leopard, then you get it as part of the package. I really don't see a problem with that.
I think the disparity stems from the different audiences. For a long time, getting into Linux required a fair amount of technical savviness, and the software for Windows and Macintosh have had a lot of time to mature. Also, the person that needs that type of software often isn't the type that can program. That sort of software also has a narrow user base. I'm trying to learn how to do some programming for a hardware device of my own and I'm finding that making a truly nice end-user program takes an incredible amount of work, so I can understand how a person or group that knows how the software should work wouldn't want to take on such a project.
I've thought about it but I think the idea needs a lot of work that's not being done.
For one, tagging needs to be a lot easier, it's easy to make a folder to drop files into, but there's nothing I've used yet where I can drop items into a "tag folder" to automatically tag them. I think a hybrid system is the way to go, I might have two groups of files that are in folders of the same folder name, but they have different parent folders for a reason, to exclude them from each other, and searching systems usually don't let me take that into account.
Anyway, what I'm saying is that I've had too many circumstances that spelunking folders was easier to do than performing a search and adding the correct exclusions to get what I want, to justify getting rid of the folder system. Maybe what is needed is a nested tagging system, subtags, I don't know, because sometimes a heirarchical system is the most effective way to find something.
Older systems can connect to newer hard drives. I don't know how much hard drives figure into this though, I think RAM size is a bigger factor so the computer knows where the data is without wasting too much time looking for it.
I've never heard of a parent's camera phone being a problem at school.
Complain as much as you like, the problem is that I think for a non-camera phone to exist, people need to be willing to pay more for them. The market for a phone without a camera is apparently a lot smaller and the camera element is cheap enough that a non-camera phone will cost more than a camera phone just by economies of scale. Most people seem to value features, and the convenience of a camera on a phone has been shown to be extremely popular such that Nokia became the world's largest camera manufacturer.
For taking quality pictures, I would always use a separate camera whenever possible. Still, I would value the ability to snap pictures in case I forgot or an unforseen circumstance came up that I need to shoot a picture. I can't carry my dedicated camera everywhere so the convenience of a compact device helps a lot.
While the ASCAP is not the RIAA, and might not be as bad as the RIAA, I thought that ASCAP is another organization that tends to go a little overboard. Such examples include suing bar owners and taxicab drivers for having the radio on when there are paying customers present without having paid a royalty fee. They even sued Boy Scout camps because the kids sang songs managed by ASCAP. Maybe it was in their legal right to do so, but sometimes exploiting your legal rights to their max isn't the smartest thing to do in terms of public relations.
Anyway, I think this two-rights system is weird and a bit much.
I just don't see Apple giving royalties on music except for sales of actual tracks. This entitlement business based on presumed guilt is a bit much, the labels don't directly see money for CD player sales, or CD writers for that matter, so there's little precedence for them to get royalties on other types of players. I don't think any of the RIAA can afford to drop iTunes, it is a top five seller for them and the margins are better for them. I don't doubt that a great many PMPs are being used to carry infringing copies of music, but that's no justification.
I'd think that Universal would embrace the Zune platform better than that, because they think they are being held hostage by Apple's dominance in the paid download market, having an alternative sales platform would give them leverage against Apple. The thought that they are dropping a fantastic viral promotional tool such as the "sharing" is just beyond baffling. We know the RIAA game is about control, but this is ludicrous to the level of "1) load gun. 2) shoot foot.".
I guess the real way forward is indie music and new, more enlightened labels.
I really don't think AoM is even close to a middle ground because music production costs money. I really don't think the AoM prices even begin to cover those expenses. You vastly overestimate the cost of replication, shipping and retail overhead. There's a lot more to the cost of making those bits than AoM's pricing structure can possibly sustain.
If you don't like the RIAA, that's fine, but the solution is to support indie music, not ripping off RIAA music through AoM or Limewire because that's still reinforcing the RIAA claim that RIAA music has value. Buying indie music from the indies ensures that more of your money goes to the people that actually make the music.