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I agree completely. I am willing to tolerate questionable style but the purple on white makes my eyes hurt.
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Don't most digital cameras take a significant fraction of a second to move the picture data to storage? If the datapath between the CCD and storage isn't fast enough to support streamed data then you would have to literally tear the camera apart to use any of it.
Amen brother! This is just like that compact disc fad a few years ago. Some smartasses at Sony and Philips thought they could get the entire music industry to switch over to their new proprietary standard even though the discs cost more and didn't sound as good as mint vinyl on an audiophile setup. They thought consumers would buy it just because it was more convenient and it sounded better on budget equipment. What were they thinking?
Sure, and many mini-DV camcorders will shoot still pictures as well. The problem is that the cameras usually don't shoot more than 30 seconds of video and the camcorders take pictures at 1 megapixel. There isn't a device that is at least average at both tasks.
My phone can take crummy pictures and shoot 15 seconds of video, but I wouldn't consider it as either a primary camera or a primary camcorder solution.
What an unrealistic plan! How can a robot transform into a motorcycle AND a hover-bike? And who would want a lousy motorcycle if they had a hover-bike? Get real.
I believe this quote is referring to Sony Pictures, the movie producing subsidiary of Sony. It is quite possible that the only profits Sony Pictures made last year were from Spiderman, so the economic impact of a loss of license would be huge.
Why would anyone shell out money for a first generation 4-way 64-bit system with expensive processors and a proprietary OS when there are much more reliable alternatives from Sun, IBM, and HP? This is an extremely competitive market; what does SCO have to offer that more established brands don't?
And before anyone jumps on me about their OS, consider this: if their Linux distro doesn't use any proprietary technology then you can download the source and roll your own system, which cuts them out of the loop. I don't think this is the case. When it comes to software compatibility Linux wins easily on the desktop but not necessarily on the server, where established Unix vendors have a huge head start.
I could figure out how to use a gig on my phone. With an MP3 player, a camera, a video recorder and a GameBoy emulator I could fill up that gig in no time. And most PDAs can do more than a phone.
FYI RedHat is a distro of Linux, and you can download it for free. There are other free distros of Linux as well. You should read up on Linux before capping on it; I did and I don't even use it.
If M$ (or anyone else) wants to pay programmers to develop closed source software then more power to them. In that case developers get paid for producing something that is sold for cash.
If the Mozilla (or any other Open Source product) development team produces software that someone turns around and resells for cash then more power to them as well. Anyone can go download the source or even a precompiled binary without paying a cent. Anyone can choose to buy the commercial product or download the free version.
The WinCE licensing model sucks because free work does not lead to free results. M$ gets to take your work, which they have not paid for, and incorporate it into a commercial product that cannot be downloaded for free elsewhere. If you can't understand the difference between that and the Open Source model then you are impossibly thick. But I suspect you are actually just an M$ apologist grasping at straws.
Because we can. It's too late to limit the spread of the cold, or influenza, or AIDS, but SARS is new enough that we still have a chance to slow it down.
It's not gonna happen soon. The problem with the US, compared to most of Europe and Asia, is it's too damn big and empty. There are many areas with low population density, and cell transmitters cost money. The economic return on 100% coverage does not justify the cost. Canada is probably in the same boat.
You should let Phish and other bands like them know about that, if they have any free time from counting their money. Touring can be very lucrative if you do it constantly and you are good.
Most bands on major labels end up costing money rather than making it. That's what happens when you spend hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars on every album.
Primus spent five grand on their first album and ten grand on their second; even their third album, which was released on a major label and had a couple of videos, only cost thirty grand (I'm sure the videos cost extra). They didn't need to sell a million records to make money.
Wow, what a great product! It has everything my current phone has (Nokia 3650), except it isn't available yet!
How could Symbian have a chance against CE now that they only have advantages in currently shipping a working product and having business relationships with manufacturers of 99% of the mobile phones currently on the market?
How much does Linux cost? $0. So developers are paid nothing for fixes to a product that costs nothing. OTOH WinCE developers are paid nothing for fixes to a product that costs real money.
M$ is probably correct in assuming that developers will be motivated to produce fixes/additions to enhance the functionality of their own products. And if Microsoft continues to exploit their leverage like this they will alienate their developer base. If I were a device manufacturer I certainly wouldn't develop any new features for WinCE; I would be working for M$ for free.
But if you used FPGAs with asynchronous logic and base3 transistors then you would be cooking with gas! All we need to do is reverse the polarity and we've got an inexpensive supercomputer!
Why wouldn't anyone use web services? You get human-readable data objects. You can leverage HTTP as a transport, which makes it really easy to deploy robust servers built on proven technology. HTTP also gives you a variety of flexible security solutions, especially when it comes to firewalls.
And since the standards are open you can hack wrappers for other communication protocols around a web service transport. It should be possible for.Net clients to talk to J2EE back ends and vice versa. The big question is whether all these companies are going to play nice. I think customers will demand it though, so they will have no choice.
That's great if it works for you. I hope those ads help keep Google in business, since it is my favorite site.
I didn't even know what you were talking about until I tried a quick search. I don't even notice those links; my brain must instantly recognize them as ads and ignore them completely. The colored background makes that particularly easy.
Maybe the first practical application of Artificial Intelligence will be the comprehensive recognition and disposal of advertisements and spam:)
I prefer Google as my home page even though I've got a fat corporate pipe at work and broadband at home. Who wants to wait even a few seconds for a home page to load?
Someone keeps putting pictures of improbable USB devices seen in Japanese stores on HardOCP. Stuff like electric blankets. I found the idea of a USB Foreman Grill plausible until they claimed it was powered from the 100 millivolt USB connection:)
"Note: This product contains advanced technology that enables you to play this album on (device x). Other devices may not be compatible with our technology."
Because if your CD player/computer is expecting a CD rather than the crap they are selling then it's because your player "isn't compatible".
Thierer seems to think that a lack of government interference in this case promotes lassez-faire economic policy, but he is mistaken. A free market depends on good information. How can consumers make good choices on products if they don't know what they are buying?
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I remember when I was a kid and I had nothing better to do than flame on. Ah, the memories. What are you saving your karma for? Are you going to try redeeming it for cash? Or maybe you figure it's going to get you into heaven? Oh, I got it! You think it makes you an 133T H4XOR! You go ahead and hold onto that karma capped account, you never know what pot of gold might be at the end of that rainbow.
I agree completely. I am willing to tolerate questionable style but the purple on white makes my eyes hurt.
Don't most digital cameras take a significant fraction of a second to move the picture data to storage? If the datapath between the CCD and storage isn't fast enough to support streamed data then you would have to literally tear the camera apart to use any of it.
Amen brother! This is just like that compact disc fad a few years ago. Some smartasses at Sony and Philips thought they could get the entire music industry to switch over to their new proprietary standard even though the discs cost more and didn't sound as good as mint vinyl on an audiophile setup. They thought consumers would buy it just because it was more convenient and it sounded better on budget equipment. What were they thinking?
Sure, and many mini-DV camcorders will shoot still pictures as well. The problem is that the cameras usually don't shoot more than 30 seconds of video and the camcorders take pictures at 1 megapixel. There isn't a device that is at least average at both tasks.
My phone can take crummy pictures and shoot 15 seconds of video, but I wouldn't consider it as either a primary camera or a primary camcorder solution.
What an unrealistic plan! How can a robot transform into a motorcycle AND a hover-bike? And who would want a lousy motorcycle if they had a hover-bike? Get real.
I believe this quote is referring to Sony Pictures, the movie producing subsidiary of Sony. It is quite possible that the only profits Sony Pictures made last year were from Spiderman, so the economic impact of a loss of license would be huge.
Why would anyone shell out money for a first generation 4-way 64-bit system with expensive processors and a proprietary OS when there are much more reliable alternatives from Sun, IBM, and HP? This is an extremely competitive market; what does SCO have to offer that more established brands don't?
And before anyone jumps on me about their OS, consider this: if their Linux distro doesn't use any proprietary technology then you can download the source and roll your own system, which cuts them out of the loop. I don't think this is the case. When it comes to software compatibility Linux wins easily on the desktop but not necessarily on the server, where established Unix vendors have a huge head start.
I don't see the added value in this system.
I could figure out how to use a gig on my phone. With an MP3 player, a camera, a video recorder and a GameBoy emulator I could fill up that gig in no time. And most PDAs can do more than a phone.
FYI RedHat is a distro of Linux, and you can download it for free. There are other free distros of Linux as well. You should read up on Linux before capping on it; I did and I don't even use it.
If M$ (or anyone else) wants to pay programmers to develop closed source software then more power to them. In that case developers get paid for producing something that is sold for cash.
If the Mozilla (or any other Open Source product) development team produces software that someone turns around and resells for cash then more power to them as well. Anyone can go download the source or even a precompiled binary without paying a cent. Anyone can choose to buy the commercial product or download the free version.
The WinCE licensing model sucks because free work does not lead to free results. M$ gets to take your work, which they have not paid for, and incorporate it into a commercial product that cannot be downloaded for free elsewhere. If you can't understand the difference between that and the Open Source model then you are impossibly thick. But I suspect you are actually just an M$ apologist grasping at straws.
Because we can. It's too late to limit the spread of the cold, or influenza, or AIDS, but SARS is new enough that we still have a chance to slow it down.
You can turn the bouncing tits off in "Dead Or Alive"? Why?
It's not gonna happen soon. The problem with the US, compared to most of Europe and Asia, is it's too damn big and empty. There are many areas with low population density, and cell transmitters cost money. The economic return on 100% coverage does not justify the cost. Canada is probably in the same boat.
You should let Phish and other bands like them know about that, if they have any free time from counting their money. Touring can be very lucrative if you do it constantly and you are good.
Most bands on major labels end up costing money rather than making it. That's what happens when you spend hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars on every album.
Primus spent five grand on their first album and ten grand on their second; even their third album, which was released on a major label and had a couple of videos, only cost thirty grand (I'm sure the videos cost extra). They didn't need to sell a million records to make money.
Wow, what a great product! It has everything my current phone has (Nokia 3650), except it isn't available yet!
How could Symbian have a chance against CE now that they only have advantages in currently shipping a working product and having business relationships with manufacturers of 99% of the mobile phones currently on the market?
How much does Linux cost? $0. So developers are paid nothing for fixes to a product that costs nothing. OTOH WinCE developers are paid nothing for fixes to a product that costs real money.
M$ is probably correct in assuming that developers will be motivated to produce fixes/additions to enhance the functionality of their own products. And if Microsoft continues to exploit their leverage like this they will alienate their developer base. If I were a device manufacturer I certainly wouldn't develop any new features for WinCE; I would be working for M$ for free.
But if you used FPGAs with asynchronous logic and base3 transistors then you would be cooking with gas! All we need to do is reverse the polarity and we've got an inexpensive supercomputer!
Why wouldn't anyone use web services? You get human-readable data objects. You can leverage HTTP as a transport, which makes it really easy to deploy robust servers built on proven technology. HTTP also gives you a variety of flexible security solutions, especially when it comes to firewalls.
.Net clients to talk to J2EE back ends and vice versa. The big question is whether all these companies are going to play nice. I think customers will demand it though, so they will have no choice.
And since the standards are open you can hack wrappers for other communication protocols around a web service transport. It should be possible for
That's great if it works for you. I hope those ads help keep Google in business, since it is my favorite site.
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I didn't even know what you were talking about until I tried a quick search. I don't even notice those links; my brain must instantly recognize them as ads and ignore them completely. The colored background makes that particularly easy.
Maybe the first practical application of Artificial Intelligence will be the comprehensive recognition and disposal of advertisements and spam
I prefer Google as my home page even though I've got a fat corporate pipe at work and broadband at home. Who wants to wait even a few seconds for a home page to load?
Someone keeps putting pictures of improbable USB devices seen in Japanese stores on HardOCP. Stuff like electric blankets. I found the idea of a USB Foreman Grill plausible until they claimed it was powered from the 100 millivolt USB connection :)
So are you saying that 4 gigs ought to be enough for anyone?
Royalty demands royalties! The irony is delicious.
They will come up with a label like this:
"Note: This product contains advanced technology that enables you to play this album on (device x). Other devices may not be compatible with our technology."
Because if your CD player/computer is expecting a CD rather than the crap they are selling then it's because your player "isn't compatible".
Thierer seems to think that a lack of government interference in this case promotes lassez-faire economic policy, but he is mistaken. A free market depends on good information. How can consumers make good choices on products if they don't know what they are buying?