That ignores that the fact that the UK is a much smaller market to pay back on the production start-up costs, that the BBFC charges ludicrous amounts of money to "rate" videos, a requirement to be legally sold in the UK, and also the high VAT taxes among other things.
This is better? $4.5 per episode? For a 14 year old TV show?
Better than $7.50 an episode for the original series, which is about 30 years old, isn't it?
So? What does age really have to do with it?
That's still on TV!
Maybe where you are. It's not on the broadcast anywhere near me, and I'd rather pay for this than buy cable.
Believe it or not, I'd personally rather pay for the DVDs than pay for cable, as cable and over the air broadcasting has ads that get in the way of the actual show.
Then that's also discounting the possibility that the DVD video could easily be better in quality, and has the 5.1 audio to boot.
Stop buying this crap!
That is only your opinion. And I wish slashdotters would lighten up and quit being so damn opinionated, but then it wouldn't be Slashdot without it.
I don't think hardware companies are getting money from the media companies. It is more like a standard where they have to have the media company's support in order to succeed. Some people have said that the media companies have killed DAT by simply refusing to support it.
If the media companies had refused to support DVD, the DVD format would die, much like building a new computer architecture that _nobody_ supports, so the standards body put in two forms of copy protection, and the region coding to gain their support.
Well, then, it won't be long before companies quit using the logo. Just call it a "Music disc" and drop the logo. But maybe you'd need help from retailers to change their advertising nomenclature.
It is nice that you found some use with your calculator.
As I understand it, the HP drawbacks are:
*cost
*butt slow chip
I had very robust TI and Casio calculators - one Casio survived being thrown into a ditch full of snow and being chewed some by a dog. They've all probably survived falls onto concrete.
I only use the graphing calculators for large operations as I can see the entire data set and order of operations on one screen, even after it has been solved, if I find an error I can recall the entire calculation, correct a number and reexecute the entire computation, as well as having more than one data point and operation per line - large display HPs still only have one, anything with more than what, 6 data points end up scrolling off the screen.
And now that I'm not in any type of school, I don't have the time to retrain myself into doing everything in RPN. I can do it but the learning curve, the cost and the cost of errors is too high to merit getting proficient in HPs.
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because the PPro came out, and to everyone's suprise, kicked ass
A lot of people didn't know that the PPro was any good, for one, it required 32 bit software when 16bit was still pretty common, at the time Win95 was what everyone used and it was hybrid 16/32 bit code in the OS, and for a lower price you could have bought a competitive chip that ran the 16bit and 32 bit software decently. Certainly, those needing high-end power or reliability got the PPro but IIRC for a while it's performance was a pretty well kept secret.
Well, for one CSS has long been a useless defense against anything but casual copying (remember DeCSS), I forget how long it takes to decrypt a DVD, but I'm sure it takes longer to extract the actual data from the drive than it takes to decrypt that data.
So loosing that copy protection actually looses nothing now.
You still didn't fully make a proper comparison: Does the SGI 1600SW best CRT monitors on all the points listed?
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I don't think that the clone vendors were even given enough time to expand the market.
Wasn't Motorola spending 100M$ to retrofit a factory to make Mac clones? I don't remember Motorola even getting a chance to sell any under their licence. This was one of the things that strained the Motorola / Apple relationship.
When the FAQ writer says "read the documentation" as much as they do then they don't seem to understand that an FAQ is _part_ of the documentation too.
If it is beta software then I think they should be more up front about the beta-ness than simply having a sub 1.0 number and disuade non-coders from trying it before being as insulting as they can be _after_ they suffer through all this.
A direct quote of something else:
"Q: I'd like to compile MPlayer on Minix !
A: Me too."
What is the point of doing that? They could either be less terse or not have such a worthless item. I know it looks like a dumb request but they don't have to respond with dumb answers.
IMO, only total geeks really care. I can see where it's important to be dead on accurate but, how many people really care about 24 bytes either way? There are not that many instances where it matters.
I think it's just another geek attempt to confuse the general population as a whole to confuse the general population by adding even more minimally worthwhile techno-jargon.
"As an aside, I like to tinker with hardware and upgrade my PC frequently, but I'm getting tired of the assumption that a personal computer is obsolete and must be upgraded every few years. I think most folks have better ways to spend their money."
Agreed.
Right now my main computer, an Alpha 21164A, is about five years old. It does everything I need it to do. I know it's not a speed demon anymore but to be honest, even the GHz+ computers can look just as slow because XP takes so much power to look pretty.
I think the computer industry is forgetting that actual people need to USE their machines and that people often end up feeling used when software bugfixes mean having to get new hardware. I've known a lot of people that have the idea that Big Hardware and Big Software are colluding, which is why the term "Wintel Duopoly" came about - new software required new hardware to work, and new hardware invariably required new software to work, and that support old software and old hardware is ignored. It's practically as if people using products even three years old have to go to flea markets to get stuff that works with what they have.
Heck, I tried getting Norton AntiVirus for my Dad, it turns out that the 2002 version _barely_ supports Windows 98B (~two or three years old now), only by means of including NAV 2001 on the CD for those users.
As for Macs, they look fine, seem to work fine for a lot of things, but some things are a real hassle.
The thing that I do like about Linux is that it's the users that decide obsolescence, not the companies. As long as there are available users they'll make their own determinations about what is obsolete. If it works fine for a person on a 386 then so be it.
What? I thought we were trying to prepare them to fight and die on the 21st century battlefield when they grow up!
Anyways, most of those toys seem to be purchased by teenagers. The McFarlane toy boxes show 12&up ratings, and have saftey warnings against allowing kids 0-3 from touching these.
I know it's off topic, but new car windshields can easily have close to $1000 list price. Older car's windshields cost less. It is in part to the age, size of windshield and how much money they think they can get for it.
That certainly depends on which sixth grader and whether that sixth grader wants a fair system in the first place if that sixth grader has a stake in the pot. Too many people assume children are innocent little darlings, it certainly isn't a general case. Often, you can give them a chance at chocolate and they'll do anything to get that.
There are plenty of ways to look at it. For one, if developers are really spending all this time bickering about politics rather than actual coding, then the object being developed will lag by default. Here you have some people trying to needlessly control what other people do with code. Unless that control is codified into the licence they don't have a leg to stand on.
So debian packages work under Windows. How many people will really use it? If the usage does get widespread, you'll get a wider user base and wider distribution of the code in those packages and maybe you'll even get some more developers.
And rather than just trying to keep Linux and its associated code "pure" why not subvert Windows to the point that eventually Windows isn't needed anymore?
Another thing is that secretaries are often permitted to sign the name of the person they work under, it is quite a common practice and IIRC when the supervisor permits underlings to sign their own name, that is also legally valid as they are acting as a representative of that person.
I know some of you are going to *really* hate me for this post. Mod me down if you feel like it but I think the point remains.
I think it is obvious that Rosen would have a bias for the RIAA's stance. Slashdotters have a strong bias against the RIAA's stance.
Is there any sort of remotely middle ground reporting anywhere?
Basically Slashdot discussing the RIAA or the RIAA discussing Slashdot is going to have a lot of blood involved, each side is going talk from such an incredibly biased viewpoint that there is an increasingly diminishing chance to pick out the truth among the propaganda. It is much like political parties talking about each other. They might all agree on a private level about something but simply disagree because they hate each other.
To me, it is obvious to me that a person commenting a Rosen speach as being about "rolling around in cash naked" has to be taken with a grain of salt.
So f*ck you is misspelled or used wrong. Big whoop. I don't think its use applies to business or academic situations anyways. I think its use probably stunts higher level thinking anyways, therefore I am limiting myself whenever I do use it.
Is anyone going to forget what those words. Hmmm, I need a word that rhymes with "witch" but starts with a "b".... Nope, the computer doesn't pop anything up.
I don't like Microsoft myself, but it seems many people are twitchy with the lynch finger whenever they do anything.
I find it interesting that people give up on a company's solid product history soo quickly with the fact that one bad product model was made.
Switch to Maxtor? Is anyone kidding me here? I personally wasn't impressed with the quality of their products and I've had to replace several of their drives, zip of IBM's.
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According to that reasoning us europeans are doing pretty darn well. At least, if you look at the pricetag on the R2 Simpsons -box.
R1 Box [play.com] £17.99 Delivered
R2 Box [play.com] £31.99 Delivered
That ignores that the fact that the UK is a much smaller market to pay back on the production start-up costs, that the BBFC charges ludicrous amounts of money to "rate" videos, a requirement to be legally sold in the UK, and also the high VAT taxes among other things.
This is better? $4.5 per episode? For a 14 year old TV show?
Better than $7.50 an episode for the original series, which is about 30 years old, isn't it?
So? What does age really have to do with it?
That's still on TV!
Maybe where you are. It's not on the broadcast anywhere near me, and I'd rather pay for this than buy cable.
Believe it or not, I'd personally rather pay for the DVDs than pay for cable, as cable and over the air broadcasting has ads that get in the way of the actual show.
Then that's also discounting the possibility that the DVD video could easily be better in quality, and has the 5.1 audio to boot.
Stop buying this crap!
That is only your opinion. And I wish slashdotters would lighten up and quit being so damn opinionated, but then it wouldn't be Slashdot without it.
I don't think hardware companies are getting money from the media companies. It is more like a standard where they have to have the media company's support in order to succeed. Some people have said that the media companies have killed DAT by simply refusing to support it.
If the media companies had refused to support DVD, the DVD format would die, much like building a new computer architecture that _nobody_ supports, so the standards body put in two forms of copy protection, and the region coding to gain their support.
Well, then, it won't be long before companies quit using the logo. Just call it a "Music disc" and drop the logo. But maybe you'd need help from retailers to change their advertising nomenclature.
Well, it's obvious we have an adult human male and female pair. I guess children are irrelevant here.
Then there's a map of the solar system.
A fold-up map of earth. There seems to be a symbol in Asia.
A bit of a primer on cellular biology & DNA, etc. It looks like we have some (bio?)chemistry in there too.
Maybe the common atmospheric gasses.
Some mathematics, maybe the pythagorean theorem there. Probably the value of pi with that circle / radian thing.
It is nice that you found some use with your calculator.
As I understand it, the HP drawbacks are:
*cost
*butt slow chip
I had very robust TI and Casio calculators - one Casio survived being thrown into a ditch full of snow and being chewed some by a dog. They've all probably survived falls onto concrete.
I only use the graphing calculators for large operations as I can see the entire data set and order of operations on one screen, even after it has been solved, if I find an error I can recall the entire calculation, correct a number and reexecute the entire computation, as well as having more than one data point and operation per line - large display HPs still only have one, anything with more than what, 6 data points end up scrolling off the screen.
And now that I'm not in any type of school, I don't have the time to retrain myself into doing everything in RPN. I can do it but the learning curve, the cost and the cost of errors is too high to merit getting proficient in HPs.
because the PPro came out, and to everyone's suprise, kicked ass
A lot of people didn't know that the PPro was any good, for one, it required 32 bit software when 16bit was still pretty common, at the time Win95 was what everyone used and it was hybrid 16/32 bit code in the OS, and for a lower price you could have bought a competitive chip that ran the 16bit and 32 bit software decently. Certainly, those needing high-end power or reliability got the PPro but IIRC for a while it's performance was a pretty well kept secret.
Well, for one CSS has long been a useless defense against anything but casual copying (remember DeCSS), I forget how long it takes to decrypt a DVD, but I'm sure it takes longer to extract the actual data from the drive than it takes to decrypt that data.
So loosing that copy protection actually looses nothing now.
You still didn't fully make a proper comparison: Does the SGI 1600SW best CRT monitors on all the points listed?
I don't think that the clone vendors were even given enough time to expand the market.
Wasn't Motorola spending 100M$ to retrofit a factory to make Mac clones? I don't remember Motorola even getting a chance to sell any under their licence. This was one of the things that strained the Motorola / Apple relationship.
When the FAQ writer says "read the documentation" as much as they do then they don't seem to understand that an FAQ is _part_ of the documentation too.
If it is beta software then I think they should be more up front about the beta-ness than simply having a sub 1.0 number and disuade non-coders from trying it before being as insulting as they can be _after_ they suffer through all this.
A direct quote of something else:
"Q: I'd like to compile MPlayer on Minix !
A: Me too."
What is the point of doing that? They could either be less terse or not have such a worthless item. I know it looks like a dumb request but they don't have to respond with dumb answers.
IMO, only total geeks really care. I can see where it's important to be dead on accurate but, how many people really care about 24 bytes either way? There are not that many instances where it matters.
I think it's just another geek attempt to confuse the general population as a whole to confuse the general population by adding even more minimally worthwhile techno-jargon.
"Compaq has one too, 2700. Not sure if its slim enough for you."
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1 80 -subfamily.html
They apparently have several: http://www.compaq.com/products/notebooks/index.ht
Only one with a 15" display & 1GB RAM and that unit is probably thicker than a TiBook.
http://www.compaq.com/products/notebooks/n180/n
"As an aside, I like to tinker with hardware and upgrade my PC frequently, but I'm getting tired of the assumption that a personal computer is obsolete and must be upgraded every few years. I think most folks have better ways to spend their money."
Agreed.
Right now my main computer, an Alpha 21164A, is about five years old. It does everything I need it to do. I know it's not a speed demon anymore but to be honest, even the GHz+ computers can look just as slow because XP takes so much power to look pretty.
I think the computer industry is forgetting that actual people need to USE their machines and that people often end up feeling used when software bugfixes mean having to get new hardware. I've known a lot of people that have the idea that Big Hardware and Big Software are colluding, which is why the term "Wintel Duopoly" came about - new software required new hardware to work, and new hardware invariably required new software to work, and that support old software and old hardware is ignored. It's practically as if people using products even three years old have to go to flea markets to get stuff that works with what they have.
Heck, I tried getting Norton AntiVirus for my Dad, it turns out that the 2002 version _barely_ supports Windows 98B (~two or three years old now), only by means of including NAV 2001 on the CD for those users.
As for Macs, they look fine, seem to work fine for a lot of things, but some things are a real hassle.
The thing that I do like about Linux is that it's the users that decide obsolescence, not the companies. As long as there are available users they'll make their own determinations about what is obsolete. If it works fine for a person on a 386 then so be it.
Oh no! think of the children!
What? I thought we were trying to prepare them to fight and die on the 21st century battlefield when they grow up!
Anyways, most of those toys seem to be purchased by teenagers. The McFarlane toy boxes show 12&up ratings, and have saftey warnings against allowing kids 0-3 from touching these.
I know it's off topic, but new car windshields can easily have close to $1000 list price. Older car's windshields cost less. It is in part to the age, size of windshield and how much money they think they can get for it.
But otherwise your point remains and I agree.
A sixth-grader could design a more fair system.
That certainly depends on which sixth grader and whether that sixth grader wants a fair system in the first place if that sixth grader has a stake in the pot. Too many people assume children are innocent little darlings, it certainly isn't a general case. Often, you can give them a chance at chocolate and they'll do anything to get that.
I agree.
There are plenty of ways to look at it. For one, if developers are really spending all this time bickering about politics rather than actual coding, then the object being developed will lag by default. Here you have some people trying to needlessly control what other people do with code. Unless that control is codified into the licence they don't have a leg to stand on.
So debian packages work under Windows. How many people will really use it? If the usage does get widespread, you'll get a wider user base and wider distribution of the code in those packages and maybe you'll even get some more developers.
And rather than just trying to keep Linux and its associated code "pure" why not subvert Windows to the point that eventually Windows isn't needed anymore?
Another thing is that secretaries are often permitted to sign the name of the person they work under, it is quite a common practice and IIRC when the supervisor permits underlings to sign their own name, that is also legally valid as they are acting as a representative of that person.
?
I thought that once a song gets onto the iPod you can't get a copy back off it in digital form.
(it calls itself Basically GPL, which, BTW, hasn't been approved by the OSI)
Huh? Is this saying that GPL is not approved by the OSI?
Then why is it at the top of this list?
I know some of you are going to *really* hate me for this post. Mod me down if you feel like it but I think the point remains.
I think it is obvious that Rosen would have a bias for the RIAA's stance. Slashdotters have a strong bias against the RIAA's stance.
Is there any sort of remotely middle ground reporting anywhere?
Basically Slashdot discussing the RIAA or the RIAA discussing Slashdot is going to have a lot of blood involved, each side is going talk from such an incredibly biased viewpoint that there is an increasingly diminishing chance to pick out the truth among the propaganda. It is much like political parties talking about each other. They might all agree on a private level about something but simply disagree because they hate each other.
To me, it is obvious to me that a person commenting a Rosen speach as being about "rolling around in cash naked" has to be taken with a grain of salt.
I guess you have never been a student or had a job.
Besides the point. For the types of things that would need a grammar checker it simply wouldn't be appropriate.
So f*ck you is misspelled or used wrong. Big whoop. I don't think its use applies to business or academic situations anyways. I think its use probably stunts higher level thinking anyways, therefore I am limiting myself whenever I do use it.
Is anyone going to forget what those words. Hmmm, I need a word that rhymes with "witch" but starts with a "b".... Nope, the computer doesn't pop anything up.
I don't like Microsoft myself, but it seems many people are twitchy with the lynch finger whenever they do anything.
Right.
I find it interesting that people give up on a company's solid product history soo quickly with the fact that one bad product model was made.
Switch to Maxtor? Is anyone kidding me here? I personally wasn't impressed with the quality of their products and I've had to replace several of their drives, zip of IBM's.