Proving that iPod users are either scrupulously honest or more paranoid they'll get sued by RIAA than owners of lesser music players."
Sounds like flamebait to me. Calling every other music player "lesser." Yeah, no other music player holds up to an iPod.
Instead of jumping all over the place, how about considering iPod users are more likely to have money hanging out of their pockets than other MP3 player users? Having more disposable income is highly likely to influence the choice between buying and finding less spendy ways to accumulate music.
Maybe because I don't have a pile of cash to throw at Sam Goody I'll rip my collection of CDs, I've been accumulating since they first came out, and make my own music (since I'm scrupulously honest) and if I can't get actually buy it I may resort to downloading.
The bad news? We won't be seeing any notebooks or handhelds with quantum chips in the near future.
Yeah, right. Let me introduce myself, my name is Richard and I am Vice Peon, Assistant to the High Junior Acolyte In Charge of Dustbins of the Holy Order of 8th Day Advanced Micro Devicers. Once we were few in numbers,
our faith challenged at every turn by the Church of Intel. Scoffed at, most cruelly as rank copyists without
an innovation to our name. After years of wandering the wilderness between iterations our faith was rewarded most gloriously!
Speak not of Quantum Notbooks and Handhelds being a thing of dreams, for we know the mighty AMD will deliver.
You'll see, you just watch! Ya betcha! Wrist devices, wearable quantum rings. Any second now. Yeah...
Someone Forgot To Tell The Spammers
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· Score: 2, Informative
In the past 72 hours I've got over 300 spam which got past my ISP's spam filters. 98 yesterday alone. When I clean out
the spam trap for my mail account it still has thousands piled up in there I need to erase.
Nostadamii these people ain't.
A little logic may explain the diminishing amount of spam by their measure, such as changing behaviour on the internet. I find much of it is
directly linked to postings on USENET groups, some of which have seen floods of cross-posting trolls. Some newsgroups seem to be dying out, others are flourishing. I expect
the spam is quite targeted, as some is obviously tied to the newsgroups I've posted on.
How would you like to swing on a star,
Carry moonbeans home in a jar,
You could be better off than you are,
You could be a fluorescent green pig!
Now the new pig is an animal with a bright green hide
His wings are powerful and wide!
He flies majestically through the skies
'Cause know genetic engineering risks are a pack of lies!
So if PETA and Greenpeace are your gigs,
You may be bombed a flying green pigs!
Watch out, world... we'll be living like the ewoks in no time!
Nah!
Tapping the trees for current will turn them into Triffids and they'll gobble us all up. Don't bother trying to climb a tree to get away from them, either.
at least they're not trying use them for cellular phone, they'll try to impress their own ring-tones on us
Which would you prefer to be used for mission critical applications, where failure can cost hundreds of millions of dollars in time and material, not to mention lost opportunity.
if bill gates' wife was admitted to the hospital and put on life support managed by one particular OS, which OS do you think he'd actually trust?
Well I don't trust these field service contracts too much, unless I know the supplier has local or regional stock. I've seen it way to often recently, these companies (HP, Dell, EMC) can get you an engineer on site in 2/4 hours, but the spare parts might take a lot longer than the agreed time.
This is the damning thing about JIT (Just In Time) everyone seems to have bought into this logic back in the 90's. Don't have space you are paying for filled up with stuff you aren't using right away (such as paper towels, toilet paper, etc.) Don't have money tied up in inventory, when the expense of shelving it can be left to some other guy.
The Auto companies got into this big in the 80's, phasing out large parts warehouses. I was stunned when I went to a dealer and found they could get a turnsignal part for a 1965 model car. In 2001 I broke an engine mount on a 1986 car and there was only 1 of that part left in North America (by computer search anyway.) I had to scrap the car.
So it goes with bargain prices on computer hardware now, nobody wants to foot the bill of holding the stuff. If it's specialized it'll probably be out of stock in a couple years as the manufacturers shift production to other parts and sources.
Who do Slashdot readers turn to when technology goes wrong? Do you trust them to deliver by tommorow, without fail?"
When I worked for people with a clue there were always redundancies and spare parts. Now shops
seem to run like the Petroleum Companies (claim to, anyway) and that is heavy dependence on JIT delivery
of goods. Overnight is about the best CDW or anyone else seems to promise anymore.
Gawds. We used to have actual Field Service contracts which guaranteed two hour response time, and that meant
someone was on site in two hours, not returning a call within that time.
I suppose HP and IBM still offer such, but if you're on anyone elses PC's or servers then you've
dug your own grave.
I thought we already knew this - that bees fly because little ridges on their wing roots act as vortex generators, breaking up the airflow above the wing?
Y'see, the engineers who design cars a brilliant, top of the line people, rarely make a blunder. This is the intelligent design part. Then the design is run past accountants, who shop the parts out, make design changes based upon cost savings or target price. That's the semi part.
I open the door and get inside (where the bee is or hasn't teleported in yet) and close the door, which amazingly, despite the best efforts of beancounters, doesn't fall off!
So seriously...were these CalTech researchers purposed with finding one more way to discredit ID, or is that just the agenda of our story's submitter (and the original article's author)?
In TFA it addresses the old creationist argument that science couldn't explain bee flight. The author simply spun it to ID, nail in coffin, etc.
Teleportation explains how they always managet to be inside your car, even when the windows were all the way up.
Nails? Coffins? Intelligent Design? Pfft! What do these have to do with each other?
Why do bees fly?
Because they forgot how to teleport!
man, i thought everyone knew that already.. all you had to do was ask them.
Cal Tech shouldn't be worrying about beating back old riddles posed by the flocks and
get back to the business at hand of figuring out how to hack scoreboards.
The last time we had a story it was Woo-Suk Hwang...
It's more a matter of which is the correct way to state his name. Anglicized is First, Last. In Korea (corea, chosun, etc.) it's the family name first, followed by sur-name Woo-suk Hwang is correct for his home country, but in the west he will be Hwang Woo-suk.
The worst bit of the fraud, as I heard on the BBC this morning, is it lead
to considerable investment in Cell Research in S. Korea because Hwang was
not at the periphery, but at the forefront of the field. Now S. Korea will be
relegated to backwater status in the field of Stem Cell and Cloning Research
(which will in all likelihood severly diminish their chances for a spot in the
2008 Olympics Tailored Stem Cell competition.)
However, Don Asmussen of San Francisco Datebook notoriety has again
nailed it
and skewered bystanding bigwigs in Washington DC and Hollywood on his followthrough.
But will he try out for the 2008 Olympic Political/Social Commentary squad, that's the big question
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Sounds like flamebait to me. Calling every other music player "lesser." Yeah, no other music player holds up to an iPod.
Instead of jumping all over the place, how about considering iPod users are more likely to have money hanging out of their pockets than other MP3 player users? Having more disposable income is highly likely to influence the choice between buying and finding less spendy ways to accumulate music.
Maybe because I don't have a pile of cash to throw at Sam Goody I'll rip my collection of CDs, I've been accumulating since they first came out, and make my own music (since I'm scrupulously honest) and if I can't get actually buy it I may resort to downloading.
Yes and the proto type will be called: The One Ring.
that acolyte sauron, he sure is in a rotten mood...
The bad news? We won't be seeing any notebooks or handhelds with quantum chips in the near future.
Yeah, right. Let me introduce myself, my name is Richard and I am Vice Peon, Assistant to the High Junior Acolyte In Charge of Dustbins of the Holy Order of 8th Day Advanced Micro Devicers. Once we were few in numbers, our faith challenged at every turn by the Church of Intel. Scoffed at, most cruelly as rank copyists without an innovation to our name. After years of wandering the wilderness between iterations our faith was rewarded most gloriously! Speak not of Quantum Notbooks and Handhelds being a thing of dreams, for we know the mighty AMD will deliver.
You'll see, you just watch! Ya betcha! Wrist devices, wearable quantum rings. Any second now. Yeah...
In the past 72 hours I've got over 300 spam which got past my ISP's spam filters. 98 yesterday alone. When I clean out the spam trap for my mail account it still has thousands piled up in there I need to erase.
Nostadamii these people ain't. A little logic may explain the diminishing amount of spam by their measure, such as changing behaviour on the internet. I find much of it is directly linked to postings on USENET groups, some of which have seen floods of cross-posting trolls. Some newsgroups seem to be dying out, others are flourishing. I expect the spam is quite targeted, as some is obviously tied to the newsgroups I've posted on.
virii, virii, virii! muah ha ha ha haaaa!
Nope! Spotted chickens, plaid geese and paisely turkeys.
You'll know they've got H5N1 when they have printed on their tail feathers:
How would you like to swing on a star,
Carry moonbeans home in a jar,
You could be better off than you are,
You could be a fluorescent green pig!
Now the new pig is an animal with a bright green hide
His wings are powerful and wide!
He flies majestically through the skies
'Cause know genetic engineering risks are a pack of lies!
So if PETA and Greenpeace are your gigs,
You may be bombed a flying green pigs!
Nah!
Tapping the trees for current will turn them into Triffids and they'll gobble us all up. Don't bother trying to climb a tree to get away from them, either.
at least they're not trying use them for cellular phone, they'll try to impress their own ring-tones on us
Are you a billionaire, too?
if bill gates' wife was admitted to the hospital and put on life support managed by one particular OS, which OS do you think he'd actually trust?
go over to the lab and club them with his oscar.
This is the damning thing about JIT (Just In Time) everyone seems to have bought into this logic back in the 90's. Don't have space you are paying for filled up with stuff you aren't using right away (such as paper towels, toilet paper, etc.) Don't have money tied up in inventory, when the expense of shelving it can be left to some other guy.
The Auto companies got into this big in the 80's, phasing out large parts warehouses. I was stunned when I went to a dealer and found they could get a turnsignal part for a 1965 model car. In 2001 I broke an engine mount on a 1986 car and there was only 1 of that part left in North America (by computer search anyway.) I had to scrap the car.
So it goes with bargain prices on computer hardware now, nobody wants to foot the bill of holding the stuff. If it's specialized it'll probably be out of stock in a couple years as the manufacturers shift production to other parts and sources.
When I worked for people with a clue there were always redundancies and spare parts. Now shops seem to run like the Petroleum Companies (claim to, anyway) and that is heavy dependence on JIT delivery of goods. Overnight is about the best CDW or anyone else seems to promise anymore.
Gawds. We used to have actual Field Service contracts which guaranteed two hour response time, and that meant someone was on site in two hours, not returning a call within that time.
I suppose HP and IBM still offer such, but if you're on anyone elses PC's or servers then you've dug your own grave.
It's all run by the Cagey Bee
Announcing Bill The Cat's PC Operating System -- As many bugs, if not more than other leading brands, such as Microsoft Windows 98, 2000 and XP!
So Microsoft poo-poos the bugs. Not an issue, overblown, won't affect anybody.
Andy Grove could advise them on how not to handle such situations.
please tell me one of the bugs is not a bee, we're still sorting it out.
Wait... you're telling me bees have root access?
Well dang! That explains everything!
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It's called semi-intelligent design.
Y'see, the engineers who design cars a brilliant, top of the line people, rarely make a blunder. This is the intelligent design part. Then the design is run past accountants, who shop the parts out, make design changes based upon cost savings or target price. That's the semi part.
I open the door and get inside (where the bee is or hasn't teleported in yet) and close the door, which amazingly, despite the best efforts of beancounters, doesn't fall off!
I won't hold Dell's decision against AMD
In TFA it addresses the old creationist argument that science couldn't explain bee flight. The author simply spun it to ID, nail in coffin, etc.
Teleportation explains how they always managet to be inside your car, even when the windows were all the way up.
Nails? Coffins? Intelligent Design? Pfft! What do these have to do with each other? Why do bees fly?
Because they forgot how to teleport!
man, i thought everyone knew that already .. all you had to do was ask them.
Cal Tech shouldn't be worrying about beating back old riddles posed by the flocks and get back to the business at hand of figuring out how to hack scoreboards.
No, really!
When cattle move to these new macs I'll be able to pick up one of the current models for a fraction and that's all I want! =)
Whomever said journalists are brilliant?
It's more a matter of which is the correct way to state his name. Anglicized is First, Last. In Korea (corea, chosun, etc.) it's the family name first, followed by sur-name Woo-suk Hwang is correct for his home country, but in the west he will be Hwang Woo-suk.
Hwang Woo-suk: I committed fraud.
Panel: *deliberates* No you didn't.
In other news the field of biosciences is now been determined, not merely to be warped (by political influences), but bent by the Hwang scandal.
The worst bit of the fraud, as I heard on the BBC this morning, is it lead to considerable investment in Cell Research in S. Korea because Hwang was not at the periphery, but at the forefront of the field. Now S. Korea will be relegated to backwater status in the field of Stem Cell and Cloning Research (which will in all likelihood severly diminish their chances for a spot in the 2008 Olympics Tailored Stem Cell competition.)
However, Don Asmussen of San Francisco Datebook notoriety has again nailed it and skewered bystanding bigwigs in Washington DC and Hollywood on his followthrough.
But will he try out for the 2008 Olympic Political/Social Commentary squad, that's the big question