Thank you for providing such a clear, coherent, well thought out argument for the legalization of racketeering, extortion and blackmail. You must be most proud of yourself.
Well, it's good that the Norweigan government is finally following America's lead and deciding to support the for-profit penal system. The only remaining question is whether they'll mollycoddle the music offenders, or bunk 'em all together with manly men named Sven and Rolf. Woof!
You guys can call it whatever you want, but I'm just relieved that there's a big country to the north to escape to if the residents of Dumfuckistan pull more stupid stunts.
FWIW, if your Archos ever bites the dust (God forbid - it is a nice player), consider checking out the Xclef 500 - I'm getting one instead of an iPod because it's just a portable hard drive that doesn't use any drivers, and has a really good battery life without being $100 to replace like an iPod.
I would, but it's a 32-bit G4. I'd really like to be able to run 64-bit Tiger with the 64-bit G5 and 64-bit apps when they come out in 2-3 years. To do that, I'm willing to bite the bullet and spend $1750 or more on a new PC, whether it's a low-end PowerPC, or a more expensive PowerBook (when they finally come out).
As they say, if you're going to bother changing OS's, go whole hog.:-)
In my experience with the most user-friendly Linux distros out there (Mandrake and Xandros), they still pailed in friendliness next to my experience with Windows 2000, and had more bugs or annoying "features" without enough upsides. This is *my* experience, not anyone else's, so Linuxistas, please don't take it personally.
Given that I won't be using Microsoft when I replace my current 5-year old PC in the next year, I'll be moving to OS X. It's not Microsoft, and it's a lot nicer than Linux. Of course, it also costs an arm and a leg, but c'est la vie.
You should be sure that you're on solid ground before casting dispersions on both the usage and punctuation of another person's sentence. Using "Hopefully" is fine, per the explanation noted within this link. Unless, of course, you're a critic.
As for the remainder of the sentence, which part is wrong? Are suggesting the commas should appear outside the quotes? Otherwise, it's a complete sentence with both a prepositional and a dependent clause.
"I think it says the average person, is an idiot."
Yes-indeedee, you are correct. Hopefully, with the proliferation of braindead, thought-numbing programming like "Survivor," "Who's My Daddy," and "The Bachelorette," more marginal cases will slide down the tube that precludes them from ever having to think critically, thus freeing up salary and promotion space for the rest of us.
"The problem is that current stocks have taken up a "non-human molecule called N-glycolylneuraminic acid or Neu5Gc" - probably when they were grown in a lab culture containing animal-derived materials from mice and calf foetuses. Neu5Gc is found on the surface of animal cells, but the human immune system attacks it - the major reason for transplanted animal organ rejection in humans."
But hey, if you say they're fine, they must be fine. After all, you're posting to Slashdot.
"I'm not saying you have to go out and watch every episode of the Amazing Race or anything, but it's childish to reject something without giving it a fair sampling."
Even if it incurs the pain of being dumber for having watched a 30- to 60-second part of it?
The only silver lining for reality shows, IMO, is that we'll never be cursed by their existence in the syndicated re-run market. Otherwise, they suck pretty hard. Just my $0.02...
"Only apple can produce a DRM player with a format nobody uses. Damnit!"
Reply: "Yes, nobody uses iPods with AAC drm in th..."
Nice troll, I suppose, but what part of what was originally said was wrong? Besides HP and Apple, who else makes AAC-compatible players for the portable, home, or car market? Everyone except Sony support MP3, but I'm not aware of anyone besides Apple and HP who support AAC for the portable listening device market. In short, the original poster is right.
"the iTMS is the most successful online music store."
Yes, unless you count the original Napster, Kazaa, and the other file-sharing programs that dwarf it.
"You can ignore the data but that doesn't make them go away. The market is perfectly happy with AAC."
YOU can also ignore the data, and realize that the only reason AAC is popular is because the ITMS doesn't offer MP3's (encrypted or un-encrypted) for sale as an option. You can also ignore the data points that no audio CD players play AAC, no car systems play AAC, no players besides Apple and HP play AAC, and that if the iPod didn't also play MP3's, it would be the same sort of colossal failure that Sony ATRAC-only playing players have been.
Good idea, especially if at the final level of the game, you'd have to rush the field and successfully beat up Randy Johnson or, God bless him, Nolan Ryan.:-)
You are correct, but don't worry, it won't be abused since Congress and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (a rubber-stamp court) have complete oversight over everything the FBI does under Patriot. Honest.
"judging from what is being written about cooling problems I will also be able to fry bacon and eggs on it."
Hear hear!, I wonder if they'll run a cross-promotion with the George Foreman grill to get the word out. I'd love to see old George doing his dance in one of those monochromatic Apple ads.:-)
"Science Applications has received about $170 million from the FBI for its work on the project. Sources said about $100 million of that would be essentially lost if the FBI were to scrap the software."
Hold on, isn't Science Applications (also known as SAIC) also that company that was so incompetent in creating Pro-U.S. propaganda in Iraq that their contract was pulled from them?
"Ya' know.. I was prepared to make an intelligent comment on how bailing out major industries (not companies) was a good thing, but after some thinking, I've realized that I was in error."
IMO, it depends. When I was young, I got the chance to read Lee Iacocca's first book (it was OK), and it had a really interesting section in there about the government's $1 billion bailout of Chrysler in the late 1970's. Whether the government should have done it or not is debatable (in the end, Chrysler repaid the government in full before the loan was due), but Iacocca pointed out that if Chrysler had gone under, not only would tens of thousands of Chrysler employees lost their jobs, but thousands of other people would have been laid off too as Chrysler's entire supply chain would have suffered with its collapse.
Practically speaking, the Chrysler bailout cost taxpayers $1 billion in the short term, but given that it was repaid, taxpayers saved a ton on all the unemployment benefits, bankruptcies and other costs of unemployment which DIDN'T happen.
"There are plenty of devices designed for this, such as the Nikon Coolwalker that are better suited to the task."
That's a nice looking device, but the machine featured in this/. story is expected to sell for 6,000 yen, which is roughly US$60.00. That's a lot cheaper than the 399 British pounds (about US$600) your linked machine goes for.
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Thank you for providing such a clear, coherent, well thought out argument for the legalization of racketeering, extortion and blackmail. You must be most proud of yourself.
Chuck
Well, it's good that the Norweigan government is finally following America's lead and deciding to support the for-profit penal system. The only remaining question is whether they'll mollycoddle the music offenders, or bunk 'em all together with manly men named Sven and Rolf. Woof!
You guys can call it whatever you want, but I'm just relieved that there's a big country to the north to escape to if the residents of Dumfuckistan pull more stupid stunts.
"Even the voting part is sort of unfair, in that retirees have nothing better to do on a Tuesday morning than go vote."
Oh, SUCK IT UP, man. Once every 2-4 years and you're complaining? My God, where's your pride?
FWIW, if your Archos ever bites the dust (God forbid - it is a nice player), consider checking out the Xclef 500 - I'm getting one instead of an iPod because it's just a portable hard drive that doesn't use any drivers, and has a really good battery life without being $100 to replace like an iPod.
http://www.digmind.com/store/index_500.html
Don't mean to sound like a marketing droid, but it looks nice.
I would, but it's a 32-bit G4. I'd really like to be able to run 64-bit Tiger with the 64-bit G5 and 64-bit apps when they come out in 2-3 years. To do that, I'm willing to bite the bullet and spend $1750 or more on a new PC, whether it's a low-end PowerPC, or a more expensive PowerBook (when they finally come out).
:-)
As they say, if you're going to bother changing OS's, go whole hog.
Funny, or Insightful?
In my experience with the most user-friendly Linux distros out there (Mandrake and Xandros), they still pailed in friendliness next to my experience with Windows 2000, and had more bugs or annoying "features" without enough upsides. This is *my* experience, not anyone else's, so Linuxistas, please don't take it personally.
Given that I won't be using Microsoft when I replace my current 5-year old PC in the next year, I'll be moving to OS X. It's not Microsoft, and it's a lot nicer than Linux. Of course, it also costs an arm and a leg, but c'est la vie.
YMMV.
You should be sure that you're on solid ground before casting dispersions on both the usage and punctuation of another person's sentence. Using "Hopefully" is fine, per the explanation noted within this link. Unless, of course, you're a critic.
As for the remainder of the sentence, which part is wrong? Are suggesting the commas should appear outside the quotes? Otherwise, it's a complete sentence with both a prepositional and a dependent clause.
"I think it says the average person, is an idiot."
Yes-indeedee, you are correct. Hopefully, with the proliferation of braindead, thought-numbing programming like "Survivor," "Who's My Daddy," and "The Bachelorette," more marginal cases will slide down the tube that precludes them from ever having to think critically, thus freeing up salary and promotion space for the rest of us.
>;-)
Pardon me? From the story:
"The problem is that current stocks have taken up a "non-human molecule called N-glycolylneuraminic acid or Neu5Gc" - probably when they were grown in a lab culture containing animal-derived materials from mice and calf foetuses. Neu5Gc is found on the surface of animal cells, but the human immune system attacks it - the major reason for transplanted animal organ rejection in humans."
But hey, if you say they're fine, they must be fine. After all, you're posting to Slashdot.
Good catch, this deserves to be modded up more.
"I'm not saying you have to go out and watch every episode of the Amazing Race or anything, but it's childish to reject something without giving it a fair sampling."
Even if it incurs the pain of being dumber for having watched a 30- to 60-second part of it?
The only silver lining for reality shows, IMO, is that we'll never be cursed by their existence in the syndicated re-run market. Otherwise, they suck pretty hard. Just my $0.02...
"Only apple can produce a DRM player with a format nobody uses. Damnit!"
Reply:
"Yes, nobody uses iPods with AAC drm in th..."
Nice troll, I suppose, but what part of what was originally said was wrong? Besides HP and Apple, who else makes AAC-compatible players for the portable, home, or car market? Everyone except Sony support MP3, but I'm not aware of anyone besides Apple and HP who support AAC for the portable listening device market. In short, the original poster is right.
"the iTMS is the most successful online music store."
Yes, unless you count the original Napster, Kazaa, and the other file-sharing programs that dwarf it.
"You can ignore the data but that doesn't make them go away. The market is perfectly happy with AAC."
YOU can also ignore the data, and realize that the only reason AAC is popular is because the ITMS doesn't offer MP3's (encrypted or un-encrypted) for sale as an option. You can also ignore the data points that no audio CD players play AAC, no car systems play AAC, no players besides Apple and HP play AAC, and that if the iPod didn't also play MP3's, it would be the same sort of colossal failure that Sony ATRAC-only playing players have been.
But, live and let live.
I don't know, I suppose it depends on how much pressure all 10 of you can put on Sony.
>;-)
Good idea, especially if at the final level of the game, you'd have to rush the field and successfully beat up Randy Johnson or, God bless him, Nolan Ryan. :-)
That's fine and fancy, but the burning question for me is whether TakeTwo will put out a game with "Steroids-On" and "Steroids-Off" options.
Chuck
"I hope i'm not correct with this interpetation."
You are correct, but don't worry, it won't be abused since Congress and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (a rubber-stamp court) have complete oversight over everything the FBI does under Patriot. Honest.
Chuck
"judging from what is being written about cooling problems I will also be able to fry bacon and eggs on it."
:-)
Hear hear!, I wonder if they'll run a cross-promotion with the George Foreman grill to get the word out. I'd love to see old George doing his dance in one of those monochromatic Apple ads.
"Science Applications has received about $170 million from the FBI for its work on the project. Sources said about $100 million of that would be essentially lost if the FBI were to scrap the software."
Hold on, isn't Science Applications (also known as SAIC) also that company that was so incompetent in creating Pro-U.S. propaganda in Iraq that their contract was pulled from them?
http://www.corpwatch.org
http://www.prwatch.org
Why does the government keep giving them contracts when they suck?
"Don't corporate managers see the need to reward employees for their hard work?"
Sure, they get to keep their job instead of seeing it outsourced to the Philippines.
Chuck
"Ya' know.. I was prepared to make an intelligent comment on how bailing out major industries (not companies) was a good thing, but after some thinking, I've realized that I was in error."
IMO, it depends. When I was young, I got the chance to read Lee Iacocca's first book (it was OK), and it had a really interesting section in there about the government's $1 billion bailout of Chrysler in the late 1970's. Whether the government should have done it or not is debatable (in the end, Chrysler repaid the government in full before the loan was due), but Iacocca pointed out that if Chrysler had gone under, not only would tens of thousands of Chrysler employees lost their jobs, but thousands of other people would have been laid off too as Chrysler's entire supply chain would have suffered with its collapse.
Practically speaking, the Chrysler bailout cost taxpayers $1 billion in the short term, but given that it was repaid, taxpayers saved a ton on all the unemployment benefits, bankruptcies and other costs of unemployment which DIDN'T happen.
Chuck
"There are plenty of devices designed for this, such as the Nikon Coolwalker that are better suited to the task."
/. story is expected to sell for 6,000 yen, which is roughly US$60.00. That's a lot cheaper than the 399 British pounds (about US$600) your linked machine goes for.
That's a nice looking device, but the machine featured in this
Chuck
For Ebeneza Scrooge.... How does it feel to ruin young peoples live over something with questionable value...
I don't know, why don't you ask the idiots who felt compelled to ruin their young lives warezing things with questionable value?
I guess what I'm asking is, do Starbucks snobs exist? And, if so, may we laugh at them?
/after/ you've tripped them.
The answer to both questions is YES, absolutely. However, it's considered good etiquette to not laugh at them until
Peace.