I agree. People used PCs to suggest that mainframes would be dead, and they are still around. Radio was supposed to kill newspapers, TV to kill radio and the Internet is supposed to kill everything else. The market for newspapers and other media may be diminishing, but I don't think any of them are going to be dead any time soon. Some quack even suggested that radio is dead because of the iPod, but there are far more radio listeners than iPod owners. Something like around 90% of people listen to at least some radio every week, I would be surprised to see if 10% of the population used iPods.
So long as YouTube staff doesn't deliberately post copyrighted material, and as long as they take down offending videos when they get a take-down notice, I don't think there's much of a legal leg to stand on.
I agree, it's not as if holding onto such small sums of money for such a short time becomes a major income generator. Even if it's 12% APY, that's $1/month per downpayment.
The problem is that anyone that thinks that a downloaded movie file is comparable to its DVD counterpart is, quite frankly, delusional. It's not undercutting because it's not the same product, not the same quality and certainly not the same level of features. The iTunes version doesn't offer 5.1 audio, multiple audio tracks, any subtitle or caption tracks, any interactive features, no commentary, no bloopers/outtakes, music videos, interviews or anything like that, just a more heavily compressed video file with one stereo audio track. Heck, they can only be played on one brand of portable media players, whereas with DVD, you can pick from any portable DVD player. Maybe there are people that don't care about those differences.
The goal is to maximize profits. It's a fucking corporation, not some charitable organization.
If you think you are right, I think you should tell that to the web site management:
The MIT Media Lab has launched a new research initiative to develop a $100 laptop--a technology that could revolutionize how we educate the world's children. To achieve this goal, a new, non-profit association, One Laptop per Child (OLPC), has been created, which is independent of MIT.
It's not the standard for-profit corporation as you suggest.
Google isn't afraid of buying things, so I don't know what you are talking about.
Google bought a satellite mapping company, an online spreadsheet program, an online word processing program, and a photo management program. It looks like they bought Blogger too. They might have bought SketchUp. The weird thing is that Google didn't already have a service or program for most of the other purchases, this time they already had their Video service but bought YouTube anyway. I think that's a more clear way of just buying their way into the market segment leader.
It's probably necessary for the heavy uses. The more a contact device is read, the more you'll want wireless because contacts wear out. If not on the dots, then the contacts on the readers would wear out. Then you have to worry about alignment and such. With wireless, you don't have to worry about the contacts corroding, wearing out, getting bent, flaking or anything like that. You might have to worry about interference, but if you are reading a dot on a card that you feed a machine, I think shielding would be easy enough. I think the proximity might be one of those things that help isolate the signal from the noise.
The US has or had satellites that can detect particle bursts from nuclear explosions. If such satellites are still in operation (though likely any current ones are generations improved from the originals), then the US intelligence system would know for certain.
As an aside, that type of satellite was the type that originally detected gamma ray bursts from billions of years ago and they were almost a total mystery until the last decade.
The problem is that makes the device a lot larger and a little heavier too. I think the entire nano weighs less than an AA battery, maybe an AAA battery.
I think it's done largely for appearance's sake, no exposed screws or latches. It's part of how they get to be so thin. I mean, the closest competitive unit in the US are the Sansas and those are twice as thick as the comparable nano, and you still have to get inside it in order to replace the battery.
Last I checked, Apple offers a replacement plan for $60. What they do is take your old iPod, your $60, and return you a refurbished iPod, one with a fresh battery and without any of the dings, pits or scratches of your old unit. It looks like a totally fresh unit. I think it's well worth the $60.
There are plenty of other services that will replace the battery for $30-$40.
So no, I really don't think it's a huge problem. While there has been some noise, but LiON batteries generally last quite a while, I think I estimated with the previous generations that even if you listened 10 hours a day, you'll get over a year and a half of use out of an iPod. That's not bad, in my opinion.
I really don't think celebrating a death is incitement of murder by itself. The death has already happened. Incitement of murder is making strong suggestions or demands that people should go out and murder more people, and that there was reasonable expectation that others would go along with it. So only if the celebration of the death was to go out and murder more people can it be considered incitement.
Frankly, the troll needs help, but I don't see how it fits, but the article is kind of bare of details.
Serenity felt a lot like two or three three movies crammed into the time slot of one. The pace was so rediculously fast and they covered so much that it's kind of annoying that way. It also didn't have as much comedy, at least I thought so.
The people that did the design, effects & post work were doing a good job. The problem is the directors, producers, executive producers and the network nitwit meddlers weren't doing a good job. Anyone that did the writing needs to be able to write something better than a fanfic.
Save for keeping the language, it would do well as a TV episode (similar has been done in Trek-dom), but I don't think it would make for something that will have a decent mainstream pull to justify a theatrical movie. It's hard enough getting people to watch a foreign film with subtitles, I think the set of people in the US that are willing to watch a subtitled Star Trek movie is too small.
Is there a more "proper" name for what you call framing? It's not called that in that list.
I do understand that it's kind of devious, it seems pretty close to false dilemma but I don't think that fully captures the idea. Unfortunately it's those who manage to define the terms that generally manage to win the argument. I mean, it's hard to counter the "cut and run" without being even more ridiculous, The Daily Show has played some ridiculous statements made by Democrats trying to counter "cut and run".
TDS may be left wing but they do mock the Democrats a lot. Jon Stewart even called them Ewoks once in reference to their powerlessness, mocked John Kerry many times, as well as picked on many other Democrats. Stewart has even said in interviews with other shows that the Democrat's message is weak to the point of being worthless that they really aren't an effective alternative to sway voters away from the Republicans.
I think there is another issue here. Fox is trying to smear the Dems by saying he's a Dem when the whole scandal really taints the Republican party because the Reps are the ones that tried to cover up his actions to be able to keep the house.
I don't think the FSB is really as much of a limitation as you think. For one, the FSB bandwidth matches the memory bus bandwidth. Sure, there is other I/O, but that's much lower order of magnitude, and that memory bus bandwidth is what would be the limiting factor on AMD's chip as well. Hypertransport isn't necessarily what makes AMD's system better, what helps them more is the on-die memory bus to get better latency.
I think there is an issue with taking the "slashdot platform" as a whole and using it to assume that slashdotters are inherently hypocritical. The people that argue for abolition of copyright may not be the same people that spit blood when the GPL is violated. I hope no one here is arguing for both because that is hypocrisy - GPL is protected because of copyright law, without it, we probably would not have seen the Linksys router software released, among other things.
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I agree. People used PCs to suggest that mainframes would be dead, and they are still around. Radio was supposed to kill newspapers, TV to kill radio and the Internet is supposed to kill everything else. The market for newspapers and other media may be diminishing, but I don't think any of them are going to be dead any time soon. Some quack even suggested that radio is dead because of the iPod, but there are far more radio listeners than iPod owners. Something like around 90% of people listen to at least some radio every week, I would be surprised to see if 10% of the population used iPods.
So long as YouTube staff doesn't deliberately post copyrighted material, and as long as they take down offending videos when they get a take-down notice, I don't think there's much of a legal leg to stand on.
I'm not sure I'd categorize him as unstable, just brusque.
Slashdot. Oh wait, they wanted a positive connotation.
I think waiting in line for a game console is pretty lame anyway. There's not a whole lot I'd consider waiting in line to get.
I agree, it's not as if holding onto such small sums of money for such a short time becomes a major income generator. Even if it's 12% APY, that's $1/month per downpayment.
The problem is that anyone that thinks that a downloaded movie file is comparable to its DVD counterpart is, quite frankly, delusional. It's not undercutting because it's not the same product, not the same quality and certainly not the same level of features. The iTunes version doesn't offer 5.1 audio, multiple audio tracks, any subtitle or caption tracks, any interactive features, no commentary, no bloopers/outtakes, music videos, interviews or anything like that, just a more heavily compressed video file with one stereo audio track. Heck, they can only be played on one brand of portable media players, whereas with DVD, you can pick from any portable DVD player. Maybe there are people that don't care about those differences.
The goal is to maximize profits. It's a fucking corporation, not some charitable organization.
If you think you are right, I think you should tell that to the web site management:
The MIT Media Lab has launched a new research initiative to develop a $100 laptop--a technology that could revolutionize how we educate the world's children. To achieve this goal, a new, non-profit association, One Laptop per Child (OLPC), has been created, which is independent of MIT.
It's not the standard for-profit corporation as you suggest.
Google isn't afraid of buying things, so I don't know what you are talking about.
Google bought a satellite mapping company, an online spreadsheet program, an online word processing program, and a photo management program. It looks like they bought Blogger too. They might have bought SketchUp. The weird thing is that Google didn't already have a service or program for most of the other purchases, this time they already had their Video service but bought YouTube anyway. I think that's a more clear way of just buying their way into the market segment leader.
It's probably necessary for the heavy uses. The more a contact device is read, the more you'll want wireless because contacts wear out. If not on the dots, then the contacts on the readers would wear out. Then you have to worry about alignment and such. With wireless, you don't have to worry about the contacts corroding, wearing out, getting bent, flaking or anything like that. You might have to worry about interference, but if you are reading a dot on a card that you feed a machine, I think shielding would be easy enough. I think the proximity might be one of those things that help isolate the signal from the noise.
The US has or had satellites that can detect particle bursts from nuclear explosions. If such satellites are still in operation (though likely any current ones are generations improved from the originals), then the US intelligence system would know for certain.
As an aside, that type of satellite was the type that originally detected gamma ray bursts from billions of years ago and they were almost a total mystery until the last decade.
The problem is that makes the device a lot larger and a little heavier too. I think the entire nano weighs less than an AA battery, maybe an AAA battery.
You get a totally refurbished unit in exchange.
I think it's done largely for appearance's sake, no exposed screws or latches. It's part of how they get to be so thin. I mean, the closest competitive unit in the US are the Sansas and those are twice as thick as the comparable nano, and you still have to get inside it in order to replace the battery.
Last I checked, Apple offers a replacement plan for $60. What they do is take your old iPod, your $60, and return you a refurbished iPod, one with a fresh battery and without any of the dings, pits or scratches of your old unit. It looks like a totally fresh unit. I think it's well worth the $60.
There are plenty of other services that will replace the battery for $30-$40.
So no, I really don't think it's a huge problem. While there has been some noise, but LiON batteries generally last quite a while, I think I estimated with the previous generations that even if you listened 10 hours a day, you'll get over a year and a half of use out of an iPod. That's not bad, in my opinion.
I really don't think celebrating a death is incitement of murder by itself. The death has already happened. Incitement of murder is making strong suggestions or demands that people should go out and murder more people, and that there was reasonable expectation that others would go along with it. So only if the celebration of the death was to go out and murder more people can it be considered incitement.
Frankly, the troll needs help, but I don't see how it fits, but the article is kind of bare of details.
Serenity felt a lot like two or three three movies crammed into the time slot of one. The pace was so rediculously fast and they covered so much that it's kind of annoying that way. It also didn't have as much comedy, at least I thought so.
The people that did the design, effects & post work were doing a good job. The problem is the directors, producers, executive producers and the network nitwit meddlers weren't doing a good job. Anyone that did the writing needs to be able to write something better than a fanfic.
Save for keeping the language, it would do well as a TV episode (similar has been done in Trek-dom), but I don't think it would make for something that will have a decent mainstream pull to justify a theatrical movie. It's hard enough getting people to watch a foreign film with subtitles, I think the set of people in the US that are willing to watch a subtitled Star Trek movie is too small.
That sounds like quite a bit of work getting it going.
Is there a more "proper" name for what you call framing? It's not called that in that list.
I do understand that it's kind of devious, it seems pretty close to false dilemma but I don't think that fully captures the idea. Unfortunately it's those who manage to define the terms that generally manage to win the argument. I mean, it's hard to counter the "cut and run" without being even more ridiculous, The Daily Show has played some ridiculous statements made by Democrats trying to counter "cut and run".
I think something like that would need a fairly complex neural net, something computers aren't and don't simulate all that well.
TDS may be left wing but they do mock the Democrats a lot. Jon Stewart even called them Ewoks once in reference to their powerlessness, mocked John Kerry many times, as well as picked on many other Democrats. Stewart has even said in interviews with other shows that the Democrat's message is weak to the point of being worthless that they really aren't an effective alternative to sway voters away from the Republicans.
I think there is another issue here. Fox is trying to smear the Dems by saying he's a Dem when the whole scandal really taints the Republican party because the Reps are the ones that tried to cover up his actions to be able to keep the house.
I don't think the FSB is really as much of a limitation as you think. For one, the FSB bandwidth matches the memory bus bandwidth. Sure, there is other I/O, but that's much lower order of magnitude, and that memory bus bandwidth is what would be the limiting factor on AMD's chip as well. Hypertransport isn't necessarily what makes AMD's system better, what helps them more is the on-die memory bus to get better latency.
I think there is an issue with taking the "slashdot platform" as a whole and using it to assume that slashdotters are inherently hypocritical. The people that argue for abolition of copyright may not be the same people that spit blood when the GPL is violated. I hope no one here is arguing for both because that is hypocrisy - GPL is protected because of copyright law, without it, we probably would not have seen the Linksys router software released, among other things.