... terrorism is a tactic: you can't have a war against a tactic. Unless, of course, you want a 'war' that will never end, and I suspect that those taking political advantage of this issue are thinking along those lines.
I guess you were'nt paying attention to U.S. elections over the last several years. Since 9-11, nothing has dominated politics more than the so-called "War On Terror".
Sega was bleeding red ink when they finally got out of the hardware business - Nintendo is still making a profit, and has cash reserves as well. Meanwhile, as stated many times, both Sony and Microsoft are LOSING money on their games divisions. Who's the real winner here?
Yeah-- it is not literally nobody-- but statistically it is probably pretty close.
The parent implied it was an empty gesture, not that it wasn't for everyone. It's nice to know that people like me are statistically close to "nobody".
I enjoy good-old-fashioned paper books, but I also enjoy ebooks on my Palm PDA, as do a number of my friends. I know of couple of people who use their PDAs for that alone. With a built-in lighting source, it's very convenient, and I also grab some reading time while in line at the grocery store, or in the waiting room at the doctor's office, or while I'm getting my car serviced. Carrying dozens of novels on a small pocketable device is very cool.
Ebooks are very poplular in the PDA community, for Palm OS and PPC. They're not for everyone, and they're not going to replace books. And I'm grateful that there are a few authors willing to give them away, even if I am "statistically insignificant."
I believe DRM is futile. However, it's real easy to release a 320 page book online as a protest about DRM when *nobody* wants to read a digital version or spend $80 to print it.
I read a lot of books on my Palm PDA using iSilo, and Cory conveniently provided his book in that format, along with several other convenient formats. Why would he do that if he didn't want people to take advantage of it.?
Geez, with all of the sympathy around here for our 'overburdened' corporations, I'm not very optomistic about the future of the western worker. Yes, we're all appauled at those lazy Europeans, with their 5 weeks of vacation time, but CEO's pulling a cool hundred million a year while they tour the world's golf courses on their private jets don't seem to arouse much outrage around here.
As an American worker, I had always hoped that someday we in the U.S. could have a more "European" approach to how the average middle-class worker is treated, but apparently my future model lies in India. And free-market evangalists are going to tell me this is a good thing: "I'm sorry you're working long hours for low wages, but look at all of those cheap consumer products you can buy!"
the dark room is one of the few places that magic still occurs...
It's funny, but I got that same 'magic' feeling the first time I used Photoshop. Conversely, I found the chemical darkroom to just be a pain in the ass.
Yes, there are asshole liberals too. That doesn't let the Bush administration off the hook, especially since they are arguably the most powerful entity on the planet right now.
The E2 can do everything you mentioned, and is *only* $250, which I believe is less than your Clie cost when it was new. It also has excellent battery life, and a much nicer screen than the Clie. Take a look at one, you might actually like it.
Slashdot has become very predictable when it comse to PDA news: "We just don't get it". Well fine, you don't like PDAs. I personally find my PDA indispensible. I don't, however, scratch my head in bewilderment when I find out that someone has a different method for staying organized than I do. I also prefer Palm OS to anything out there at the moment.
I could explain the myriad of ways that a PDA makes my life easier, but then that's been discussed extensively in the *many* previous Slashdot PDA threads started by people who "just don't get it." Of course, if Apple ever releases one, I suppose a lot people around here will suddenly discover the PDA to be indispensible as well.
I've heard this argument before, but I don't think it's true - and I was a BIG Dreamcast fan. What killed the Dreamcast was lack of 3rd party support, particularly EA Sports (they're a huge factor in the console market), and the Sony Playstation 2 hype machine ("Toy Story - quality graphics"). When the pirating on the Dreamcast started getting big, Sega was ready to put in a new ROM chip to stop it, but by that time they had already decided to let the Dreamcast die.
AA failed miserably because instead of being original they were shallow and vicious copy cats. Most of their junk was a mean spirited parody of some other sucessful show.
Air America now has 51 stations, and reaches millions of viewers. It is also, according to Time magazine, "financially stable."
If your going to compete with the likes of Rush, Hannity, and the right you need to deliver facts and keep the slant off.
I almost spit up my drink over that line. Do you really believe that Rush and Hannity don't have a "slant"? Sounds like you drank the coolade to me.
This hints at a debate I've had with several people about whether there exists any distinction between "traditional" art, and today's digital counterpart. One aspect of traditional art that makes it what it is, is the very real and tangible "co-mingling" of the medium, and the artist's own hands. This might be less true for a photographic image than it is for say, a painting or sculpture, but in many cases it does require a fair degree of "coaxing" the hardware to get the results you're after.
While some might argue that this is still true with digital imaging, I'd say that the whole process has a new layer of abstraction that removes the artist one step away from the medium itself. With digital, you're dealing with bits, with painting, and photography, and sculpture, you're dealing with a very real level of phyical interaction that just isn't there with digital media.
This whole argument seems artbitrary and ultimately pointless. If it looks good hainging on my wall, I don't care much how it was created. Unless there are lingering odors.
Most people who think that good photographs are created in Photoshop are simply lousy photographers. If you know your craft, you'll need to do very little work in a photo editor.
God, I get so sick of this line of thinking. Why was it valid for a photographer like Ansel Adams to use extensive darkroom manipulation to get a great print, yet somehow unacceptable for a modern photographer to use Photoshop in much the same way? I hate to break it to you, but I think Ansel Adams would have LOVED Photoshop.
I have a problem this fact: the PATRIOT act abbrogates the right to a speedy trial. Previous constitutional protections guarenteed that a person could be held for only a very limited time without a trial, and they must be charged with a crime. Under the Patriot Act the executive branch can, at their own discretion, detain a person for an indefinate period of time. The only legal requirement is that the President considers them a national security risk, but he can keep detainees a secret, and there is no judicial review of the process. In fact, he doesn't even have to accuse them of any crimes or place them legally under arrest, just "disappear" them. This sounds like something I would expect in a banana republic, not in the USA. The fact that this frightening aspect hasn't been used so far is not reassuring, and in any case, if a few political trouble makers just 'disappeared', how would we even know?
I find it ironic that conservates, who during the Waco and Ruby Ridge episodes were ranting about the evil Janet Reno threatening their civil liberties, have rolled over on the very rights the claimed to care about. Not that liberals are much better - after all, the only senator to vote against the PATRIOT act was Russ Fiengold.
On the night of the 2004 election, when I heard that you re-elected George W. Bush to be your leader, after four years of what he had done, I thought to myself "The american citizens deserve everything that happens to them."
... maybe you don't realize that the 'whiners' are probably people who did not vote for Bush. Yes he won, 51% to 48%, but that's hardly a mandate. We are a very divided nation right now, and a 2% change in the vote is all it would take to make the US, in your eyes I guess, a nation less deserving of bad things.
Warning: the PDA market share info is from the Gartner study, which does NOT include the PalmOne Treo. I know of several Palm OS PDA users who have switched over to the Treo, and are, according to this study, counted as lost to the Palm OS user base.
Granted, I'm sure there are plenty of Pocket PC and other OS smartphones which need to be included as well - which is why this study is flawed and shouldn't be used for any sweeping conclusions.
The replys to this thread are highly predictable, and one thing is certain: this issue will never be resolved in any kind of way that leads to a constructive, global course of action. There are far too many pseudo-scientists out there with a political agenda who will cloud the issue, and the average person will in the end be left clueless. And I don't expect that what passes for a news media will do anything to help clarify the debate either. These times are just to fractious for anything constructive to be done. In short, we may be screwed.
I just hope that those who have children think long and hard about what kind of world we want to leave for them.
Crazy Taxi taught me how to hit-and-run. Burnout 3 taught me to maximize my crash damage. Unreal Tournament taught me to aim for the head. Mario Kart taught me to throw things at my fellow motorists. The Sims taught me that voyerism is fun. Counterstike helped me learn to be an effective terrorist. Fable taught me that being evil is just another way to play a game.
Following the news has taught me that the world is going completely insane.
I don't agree. The PS2 may have had week launch titles, but there was an expectation that good games were coming. I remember everyone drooling over teasers for Metal Gear Solid 2 and Final Fantasy X. Everyone knew that Sony had the developers lined up, and they eventually did deliver.
The Dreamcast was doomed from the start because third parties like EA announced they were never going to support it. Like it or not, EA's sports titles are a huge factor in console sales. While the hardware is a factor, it's software that makes or breaks a console's success.
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... terrorism is a tactic: you can't have a war against a tactic. Unless, of course, you want a 'war' that will never end, and I suspect that those taking political advantage of this issue are thinking along those lines.
I guess you were'nt paying attention to U.S. elections over the last several years. Since 9-11, nothing has dominated politics more than the so-called "War On Terror".
Sega was bleeding red ink when they finally got out of the hardware business - Nintendo is still making a profit, and has cash reserves as well. Meanwhile, as stated many times, both Sony and Microsoft are LOSING money on their games divisions. Who's the real winner here?
Yeah-- it is not literally nobody-- but statistically it is probably pretty close.
The parent implied it was an empty gesture, not that it wasn't for everyone. It's nice to know that people like me are statistically close to "nobody".
I enjoy good-old-fashioned paper books, but I also enjoy ebooks on my Palm PDA, as do a number of my friends. I know of couple of people who use their PDAs for that alone. With a built-in lighting source, it's very convenient, and I also grab some reading time while in line at the grocery store, or in the waiting room at the doctor's office, or while I'm getting my car serviced. Carrying dozens of novels on a small pocketable device is very cool.
Ebooks are very poplular in the PDA community, for Palm OS and PPC. They're not for everyone, and they're not going to replace books. And I'm grateful that there are a few authors willing to give them away, even if I am "statistically insignificant."
I believe DRM is futile. However, it's real easy to release a 320 page book online as a protest about DRM when *nobody* wants to read a digital version or spend $80 to print it.
I read a lot of books on my Palm PDA using iSilo, and Cory conveniently provided his book in that format, along with several other convenient formats. Why would he do that if he didn't want people to take advantage of it.?
So speak for yourself, please.
Geez, with all of the sympathy around here for our 'overburdened' corporations, I'm not very optomistic about the future of the western worker. Yes, we're all appauled at those lazy Europeans, with their 5 weeks of vacation time, but CEO's pulling a cool hundred million a year while they tour the world's golf courses on their private jets don't seem to arouse much outrage around here.
As an American worker, I had always hoped that someday we in the U.S. could have a more "European" approach to how the average middle-class worker is treated, but apparently my future model lies in India. And free-market evangalists are going to tell me this is a good thing: "I'm sorry you're working long hours for low wages, but look at all of those cheap consumer products you can buy!"
Welcome to the Brave New World.
the dark room is one of the few places that magic still occurs...
It's funny, but I got that same 'magic' feeling the first time I used Photoshop. Conversely, I found the chemical darkroom to just be a pain in the ass.
Yes, there are asshole liberals too. That doesn't let the Bush administration off the hook, especially since they are arguably the most powerful entity on the planet right now.
The E2 can do everything you mentioned, and is *only* $250, which I believe is less than your Clie cost when it was new. It also has excellent battery life, and a much nicer screen than the Clie. Take a look at one, you might actually like it.
Slashdot has become very predictable when it comse to PDA news: "We just don't get it". Well fine, you don't like PDAs. I personally find my PDA indispensible. I don't, however, scratch my head in bewilderment when I find out that someone has a different method for staying organized than I do. I also prefer Palm OS to anything out there at the moment.
I could explain the myriad of ways that a PDA makes my life easier, but then that's been discussed extensively in the *many* previous Slashdot PDA threads started by people who "just don't get it." Of course, if Apple ever releases one, I suppose a lot people around here will suddenly discover the PDA to be indispensible as well.
Couldn't you get Monica Lewinsky in there too?
I've heard this argument before, but I don't think it's true - and I was a BIG Dreamcast fan. What killed the Dreamcast was lack of 3rd party support, particularly EA Sports (they're a huge factor in the console market), and the Sony Playstation 2 hype machine ("Toy Story - quality graphics"). When the pirating on the Dreamcast started getting big, Sega was ready to put in a new ROM chip to stop it, but by that time they had already decided to let the Dreamcast die.
AA failed miserably because instead of being original they were shallow and vicious copy cats. Most of their junk was a mean spirited parody of some other sucessful show.
Air America now has 51 stations, and reaches millions of viewers. It is also, according to Time magazine, "financially stable."
If your going to compete with the likes of Rush, Hannity, and the right you need to deliver facts and keep the slant off.
I almost spit up my drink over that line. Do you really believe that Rush and Hannity don't have a "slant"? Sounds like you drank the coolade to me.
This hints at a debate I've had with several people about whether there exists any distinction between "traditional" art, and today's digital counterpart. One aspect of traditional art that makes it what it is, is the very real and tangible "co-mingling" of the medium, and the artist's own hands. This might be less true for a photographic image than it is for say, a painting or sculpture, but in many cases it does require a fair degree of "coaxing" the hardware to get the results you're after.
While some might argue that this is still true with digital imaging, I'd say that the whole process has a new layer of abstraction that removes the artist one step away from the medium itself. With digital, you're dealing with bits, with painting, and photography, and sculpture, you're dealing with a very real level of phyical interaction that just isn't there with digital media.
This whole argument seems artbitrary and ultimately pointless. If it looks good hainging on my wall, I don't care much how it was created. Unless there are lingering odors.
Most people who think that good photographs are created in Photoshop are simply lousy photographers. If you know your craft, you'll need to do very little work in a photo editor.
God, I get so sick of this line of thinking. Why was it valid for a photographer like Ansel Adams to use extensive darkroom manipulation to get a great print, yet somehow unacceptable for a modern photographer to use Photoshop in much the same way? I hate to break it to you, but I think Ansel Adams would have LOVED Photoshop.
I have a problem this fact: the PATRIOT act abbrogates the right to a speedy trial. Previous constitutional protections guarenteed that a person could be held for only a very limited time without a trial, and they must be charged with a crime. Under the Patriot Act the executive branch can, at their own discretion, detain a person for an indefinate period of time. The only legal requirement is that the President considers them a national security risk, but he can keep detainees a secret, and there is no judicial review of the process. In fact, he doesn't even have to accuse them of any crimes or place them legally under arrest, just "disappear" them. This sounds like something I would expect in a banana republic, not in the USA. The fact that this frightening aspect hasn't been used so far is not reassuring, and in any case, if a few political trouble makers just 'disappeared', how would we even know?
I find it ironic that conservates, who during the Waco and Ruby Ridge episodes were ranting about the evil Janet Reno threatening their civil liberties, have rolled over on the very rights the claimed to care about. Not that liberals are much better - after all, the only senator to vote against the PATRIOT act was Russ Fiengold.
On the night of the 2004 election, when I heard that you re-elected George W. Bush to be your leader, after four years of what he had done, I thought to myself "The american citizens deserve everything that happens to them."
... maybe you don't realize that the 'whiners' are probably people who did not vote for Bush. Yes he won, 51% to 48%, but that's hardly a mandate. We are a very divided nation right now, and a 2% change in the vote is all it would take to make the US, in your eyes I guess, a nation less deserving of bad things.
Always count on Slashdot for the latest reviews!
Warning: the PDA market share info is from the Gartner study, which does NOT include the PalmOne Treo. I know of several Palm OS PDA users who have switched over to the Treo, and are, according to this study, counted as lost to the Palm OS user base.
Granted, I'm sure there are plenty of Pocket PC and other OS smartphones which need to be included as well - which is why this study is flawed and shouldn't be used for any sweeping conclusions.
The replys to this thread are highly predictable, and one thing is certain: this issue will never be resolved in any kind of way that leads to a constructive, global course of action. There are far too many pseudo-scientists out there with a political agenda who will cloud the issue, and the average person will in the end be left clueless. And I don't expect that what passes for a news media will do anything to help clarify the debate either. These times are just to fractious for anything constructive to be done. In short, we may be screwed.
I just hope that those who have children think long and hard about what kind of world we want to leave for them.
Crazy Taxi taught me how to hit-and-run.
Burnout 3 taught me to maximize my crash damage.
Unreal Tournament taught me to aim for the head.
Mario Kart taught me to throw things at my fellow motorists.
The Sims taught me that voyerism is fun.
Counterstike helped me learn to be an effective terrorist.
Fable taught me that being evil is just another way to play a game.
Following the news has taught me that the world is going completely insane.
I don't agree. The PS2 may have had week launch titles, but there was an expectation that good games were coming. I remember everyone drooling over teasers for Metal Gear Solid 2 and Final Fantasy X. Everyone knew that Sony had the developers lined up, and they eventually did deliver.
The Dreamcast was doomed from the start because third parties like EA announced they were never going to support it. Like it or not, EA's sports titles are a huge factor in console sales. While the hardware is a factor, it's software that makes or breaks a console's success.
My computer's getting faster, but I'm getting slower.