this will make Wikipedia by far the most likely site for an average internet user to have a truly free and open video experience
Yes. An experience of videos that won't play in the average internet user's browser. It's easier to click the "close window" button than it is to care about broken video on a broken web site.
I just wish speed limits were designed for modern cars and modern traffic, not increasing revenue.
As long as the Lincoln Town Car is still on the road then I think the posted speed limits are just fine thankyouverymuch. Most cars on the road have crap suspensions and are poorly braked. Since I have to drive with those cars around me, I'd rather it be slowly.
You can find HPDE track days everywhere now. If you want to drive fast, do it there.
With very few exceptions, if you're pulling down $120k/year and one house payment away from the street, you've made some really, really stupid choices.
Either that or you live in California. It's hard to find a house for under $800,000 here.
OK, 515 GB per square inch, and the first product will be a 300 GB single disk. So that disk is less than a square inch? Sweet! And you thought the iPod flea was a joke...
Hey, I know what I'll do! I'll tweak this compiled library, which I don't have source code to, by running this Perl script I found on the Internet! The library only controls unimportant things for which I need no guarantees of connectness, like my online banking. Gosh, I'm so glad there have never been any viruses or security holes in software ever.
Whether or not this new finding is sound science, Europe has had a little ice age before. When is the last time you went ice skating on the Thames? Keep this in mind the next time you hear about climate change. It happens. A lot.
Just as I said before... Apple basically gave up building good harware.
Steve made this very clear:
"It is a development platform only. This is not a product. This will never be shipped as a product. It's just for you guys to get started in development. And actually, you have to return them by the end of 2006 because we don't want them floating around out there. These are not products."
Perhaps Sears somehow sponsors or supports CR? Either that or they just have no realistic way of testing reliability over a period of time.
You can't look at the top rated model and decide that it is the best one long term. The ratings in a CR review represent how the products performed during the test. The ratings do not necessarily represent the best products.
Nearly every CR review has another section that details the reliability of the brands represented in the test over a period of time that they've been testing the products. Also, poorly performing brands will generally be noted as such in the performance ratings if a product scores well.
Adobe's PDF format is one that has simply been reverse-engineered instead of replaced.
The PDF Reference is available for all to see. No need to RE it.
But this gives weight to your argument. Adobe has been remarkable successful with PDF simply by encouraging others to use it. They happen to sell the most full featured PDF creation tools, but others have been able to take advantage with still more success.
I read most of the posts here and to summarize, we geeks are fed up to the top of our heads with the current state of affairs. Namely, corporations that don't give a damn about us.
Don't extrapolate geeks that read/. to mean everyone else in "the industry." Chances are pretty good if you're reading/. at work, you're a bit bored or discontent with your job.
Maybe you should be offended that it implies that "Western" cultures are full of people who are argumentitive, subversive and prone to waste time questioning decisions.
Not at all. This quality of questioning authority is what pushes "Western" culture forward. Sometimes those in positions to make decisions make bad decisions. If enough people are willing to question this, mistakes can be avoided or corrected.
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this will make Wikipedia by far the most likely site for an average internet user to have a truly free and open video experience
Yes. An experience of videos that won't play in the average internet user's browser. It's easier to click the "close window" button than it is to care about broken video on a broken web site.
meat? Seriously. Get off the hippy diet and get yourself a taco.
I just wish speed limits were designed for modern cars and modern traffic, not increasing revenue.
As long as the Lincoln Town Car is still on the road then I think the posted speed limits are just fine thankyouverymuch. Most cars on the road have crap suspensions and are poorly braked. Since I have to drive with those cars around me, I'd rather it be slowly.
You can find HPDE track days everywhere now. If you want to drive fast, do it there.
Then Audi or the IOC would sue them.
Steve Jobs has "contacts" all over the universe, I guess.
With very few exceptions, if you're pulling down $120k/year and one house payment away from the street, you've made some really, really stupid choices.
Either that or you live in California. It's hard to find a house for under $800,000 here.
OK, 515 GB per square inch, and the first product will be a 300 GB single disk. So that disk is less than a square inch? Sweet! And you thought the iPod flea was a joke...
See? Apples have always had innovations years before PCs.
The only computer virus I've ever had was the WDEF virus. Disinfectant caught it right away. That was 1992, so I guess I'm too smug.
Hey, I know what I'll do! I'll tweak this compiled library, which I don't have source code to, by running this Perl script I found on the Internet! The library only controls unimportant things for which I need no guarantees of connectness, like my online banking. Gosh, I'm so glad there have never been any viruses or security holes in software ever.
You don't have the source code? I do.
Whether or not this new finding is sound science, Europe has had a little ice age before. When is the last time you went ice skating on the Thames? Keep this in mind the next time you hear about climate change. It happens. A lot.
Have you ever been to Nevada? I'm pretty sure that's why God made it.
Don't be so sure. Chief Sohcahtoa helped me figure out how long my Christmas lights need to be to fit along my roof line. Thanks Chief!
Just as I said before ... Apple basically gave up building good harware.
Steve made this very clear:
"It is a development platform only. This is not a product. This will never be shipped as a product. It's just for you guys to get started in development. And actually, you have to return them by the end of 2006 because we don't want them floating around out there. These are not products."
Tell that to Google.
No, more likely "tell that to Apple." Apple is in a better position to become another Microsoft but nobody knows it. Quite brilliant, actually.
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This is a fairly good list of notable Apple flubs, but why include Microsoft Word 6? It sure was a dog, but that wasn't Apple's fault.
///. It was such a failure that perhaps the list's originator doesn't even know about it.
In it's place, I'd like to nominate the Apple
Perhaps Sears somehow sponsors or supports CR? Either that or they just have no realistic way of testing reliability over a period of time.
You can't look at the top rated model and decide that it is the best one long term. The ratings in a CR review represent how the products performed during the test. The ratings do not necessarily represent the best products.
Nearly every CR review has another section that details the reliability of the brands represented in the test over a period of time that they've been testing the products. Also, poorly performing brands will generally be noted as such in the performance ratings if a product scores well.
Adobe's PDF format is one that has simply been reverse-engineered instead of replaced.
The PDF Reference is available for all to see. No need to RE it.
But this gives weight to your argument. Adobe has been remarkable successful with PDF simply by encouraging others to use it. They happen to sell the most full featured PDF creation tools, but others have been able to take advantage with still more success.
What's NeXT? Why that's the computer and operating system that Sir Tim developed his little WWW.app on.
I still don't understand why they don't have iTMS in Canada yet.
A difference of about 350 million people seems to be a good reason.
Paul McGann was a fabulous Doctor in the 1996 movie, but the writing was terrible. That's why it flopped.
I only hope the BBC holds back on budget just like the old days so the storytelling has to bear the weight, not the effects.
I read most of the posts here and to summarize, we geeks are fed up to the top of our heads with the current state of affairs. Namely, corporations that don't give a damn about us.
/. to mean everyone else in "the industry." Chances are pretty good if you're reading /. at work, you're a bit bored or discontent with your job.
/. at work.)
Don't extrapolate geeks that read
(And, um, I'm reading
Next big thing in computers: the then-if statement!
print "this already exists\n" if ($usingPerl);
Maybe you should be offended that it implies that "Western" cultures are full of people who are argumentitive, subversive and prone to waste time questioning decisions.
Not at all. This quality of questioning authority is what pushes "Western" culture forward. Sometimes those in positions to make decisions make bad decisions. If enough people are willing to question this, mistakes can be avoided or corrected.
I am not a lemming.