Depends on what they meant to say. If he meant "Give me results that are not as commercial as, say, a Yahoo store front" might yield results with a detailed review and a link to purchase.
Uh, it's not Arabic vs. Roman numerals that makes a digital clock. Analog clocks (and sundials) have hands (or gnomons). This one doesn't. It just has numbers. You know, like 1 2 3 4 5.
Those might be easier for you to handle than spelling. I'd look into them if I were you.
No, it's really not. That's not a living creature, and there's no axle (which is the key invention). There is no example in nature of a wheel on an axle, certainly not a powered one.
The bacterial flagellum is a fascinating device, but not exactly the same as a wheel on an axle.
No, just because it's not edited and annotated by a human means it's not a blog.
It's a different beast entirely. It's a news aggregator. Some blogs have news aggregation features (like/.) but that's neither necessary nor sufficient for something to be a "blog".
NASA designed the ACRV ten or fifteen years ago. That would have done just about everything Kliper is designed to do.
Designing a space craft is NOT the same as building and flight-testing them.
The question (both in Russia and here in the US) is not one of technology. The question is one of political will, and thereby funding.
We have the technology to put a mission on Mars within ten years, for a fraction of NASA's current budget. Why don't we? No vision. The politicians don't hear the people screaming that this is the Right Thing to Do, because by and large, the people aren't screaming that.
I think that making assumptions based on what you assume the makeup of any given community to be, and applying those assumptions to any given individual, is pretty silly.
Statistics NEVER determine the behavior of a given actor.
So, no, there is no "mass hypocrisy". I am not accountable to agree with what anybody else in any "community" might say.
You assume that since I read Slashdot, I'm either an open source developer or one of their groupies. You're wrong.
The link clearly does NOT show that. It shows that people with college degrees are a dead heat, and people without college degrees voted for Bush.
We're still splitting hairs. Half the country voted for Bush, half for Kerry. There are a couple groups and dichotomies that varied from the norm, but saying "Well all the SMART people voted for Kerry!" is misleading, prejudicial, and not supported by the data.
1) You assume that publishing crap makes ratings sink. I can think of several counter-examples.
2) The public doesn't pay the bills for news media. The advertisers do. So that's whose needs get satisfied. Sometimes those needs line up with "the public interest", but sometimes monkeys fly out my butt too.
"Unless it's something you're paying for, you're not going to care that much about it."
People say that all the time, and I totally don't understand it. You're telling me that I care more about JUNK that I've paid for, rather than really useful things I've been given? I think you're off your rocker.
Why on EARTH would the manufacturers, who profit from proprietary battery designs, ever make standard cell sizes? I think you misunderstand whose interests they're looking out for.
So, your entire point is based on one marketroid not knowing that two products used different OSes, and then corrected himself when he found out?
The other articles basically say what I said. "Good looking hardware." "Roku hasn't yet done anything wrong."
So, again: Speculation and hearsay. Whatever might have happened before, Roku seems very clear now that they support SlimServer as one option for streaming to their device, and under the GPL that is totally OK.
"If they are introduced to it in this limited way, the vast majority of the people will never know that you could use an iPod to transfer files back and forth."
The vast majority of people won't care. I haven't ever had occasion to do this, and if I did want to, it's trivially easy. You might argue that your average Joe doesn't know how to maintain a car...should they then not buy one?
People can learn how to solve problems.
"The IT industry trounces the media industry in terms of turnover, so I don't see why we have to pander to them."
The IT industry has zero political clout. That's why we have to pander to them. 'Tain't right, but it's reality.
So somebody on a message forum somewhere said "Shenanigans!" and you immediately assume Roku is violating the GPL.
In other words, "No, Moofie, I don't have a substantial claim. I am reporting hearsay."
I think that if Slim didn't want people to "pass it off as their own" (which Roku doesn't do) or "give nothing back" (what should Roku give back? They're a hardware mfr.) then they should have drawn up a license that says that.
"Last I heard, Roku gives back nothing to the project, possibly in violation of the GPL."
And possibly, they eat babies and voted for George Bush.
Do you have a substantial claim, or are you just speculating?
Roku has much better looking hardware. It's hard for me to accept that one would sound substantially different than the other, since they're just playing a digital bitstream. If Slim didn't want their software to be used by other people, they probably shouldn't have GPLed it.
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Depends on what they meant to say. If he meant "Give me results that are not as commercial as, say, a Yahoo store front" might yield results with a detailed review and a link to purchase.
In other words, maybe the man said what he meant.
I bet the inventor didn't think of that. [/sarcasm]
Uh, it's not Arabic vs. Roman numerals that makes a digital clock. Analog clocks (and sundials) have hands (or gnomons). This one doesn't. It just has numbers. You know, like 1 2 3 4 5.
Those might be easier for you to handle than spelling. I'd look into them if I were you.
If it were a pony, he could put on his pink cowboy hat and ride it.
No, it's really not. That's not a living creature, and there's no axle (which is the key invention). There is no example in nature of a wheel on an axle, certainly not a powered one.
The bacterial flagellum is a fascinating device, but not exactly the same as a wheel on an axle.
I wonder if Intel has learned from the mistakes they made in the last, what? Ten years? Twelve?
Hope you're right. We'll see.
For the record, any billionaire visionaries who want a poor visionary with a BS in aerospace engineering need to email me.
Because they don't have any vision either.
Rutan and Paul Allen are on the right track, fortunately. They're just not there yet.
No, just because it's not edited and annotated by a human means it's not a blog.
/.) but that's neither necessary nor sufficient for something to be a "blog".
It's a different beast entirely. It's a news aggregator. Some blogs have news aggregation features (like
Which, by the way, is the stupidest word evar.
Humans explore. That's what makes them human.
NASA designed the ACRV ten or fifteen years ago. That would have done just about everything Kliper is designed to do.
Designing a space craft is NOT the same as building and flight-testing them.
The question (both in Russia and here in the US) is not one of technology. The question is one of political will, and thereby funding.
We have the technology to put a mission on Mars within ten years, for a fraction of NASA's current budget. Why don't we? No vision. The politicians don't hear the people screaming that this is the Right Thing to Do, because by and large, the people aren't screaming that.
I think they should be, but that's just me.
I think that making assumptions based on what you assume the makeup of any given community to be, and applying those assumptions to any given individual, is pretty silly.
Statistics NEVER determine the behavior of a given actor.
So, no, there is no "mass hypocrisy". I am not accountable to agree with what anybody else in any "community" might say.
You assume that since I read Slashdot, I'm either an open source developer or one of their groupies. You're wrong.
The link clearly does NOT show that. It shows that people with college degrees are a dead heat, and people without college degrees voted for Bush.
We're still splitting hairs. Half the country voted for Bush, half for Kerry. There are a couple groups and dichotomies that varied from the norm, but saying "Well all the SMART people voted for Kerry!" is misleading, prejudicial, and not supported by the data.
1) You assume that publishing crap makes ratings sink. I can think of several counter-examples.
2) The public doesn't pay the bills for news media. The advertisers do. So that's whose needs get satisfied. Sometimes those needs line up with "the public interest", but sometimes monkeys fly out my butt too.
"Unless it's something you're paying for, you're not going to care that much about it."
People say that all the time, and I totally don't understand it. You're telling me that I care more about JUNK that I've paid for, rather than really useful things I've been given? I think you're off your rocker.
"Perhaps blogs will some day be fact checked, and reliable."
I used to think the same thing about old-school news media. Now I proceed from the assumption that EVERYBDOY is full of crap.
Google News is not a blog.
You forgot Poland!
Oh good, so instead of planned obsolesence, I'll have devices that I am using actually start to decompose while I'm still using them.
Remember when durable goods were durable?
Why on EARTH would the manufacturers, who profit from proprietary battery designs, ever make standard cell sizes? I think you misunderstand whose interests they're looking out for.
Hint: Not yours.
I think you're really bad at baking. And using computers. And being funny.
That's exactly the opposite of the numbers that I've seen thrown around. Do you have a citation? I'm curious to get to the bottom of this.
So, your entire point is based on one marketroid not knowing that two products used different OSes, and then corrected himself when he found out?
The other articles basically say what I said. "Good looking hardware." "Roku hasn't yet done anything wrong."
So, again: Speculation and hearsay. Whatever might have happened before, Roku seems very clear now that they support SlimServer as one option for streaming to their device, and under the GPL that is totally OK.
So what's the problem?
"If they are introduced to it in this limited way, the vast majority of the people will never know that you could use an iPod to transfer files back and forth."
The vast majority of people won't care. I haven't ever had occasion to do this, and if I did want to, it's trivially easy. You might argue that your average Joe doesn't know how to maintain a car...should they then not buy one?
People can learn how to solve problems.
"The IT industry trounces the media industry in terms of turnover, so I don't see why we have to pander to them."
The IT industry has zero political clout. That's why we have to pander to them. 'Tain't right, but it's reality.
So somebody on a message forum somewhere said "Shenanigans!" and you immediately assume Roku is violating the GPL.
In other words, "No, Moofie, I don't have a substantial claim. I am reporting hearsay."
I think that if Slim didn't want people to "pass it off as their own" (which Roku doesn't do) or "give nothing back" (what should Roku give back? They're a hardware mfr.) then they should have drawn up a license that says that.
They didn't.
"Last I heard, Roku gives back nothing to the project, possibly in violation of the GPL."
And possibly, they eat babies and voted for George Bush.
Do you have a substantial claim, or are you just speculating?
Roku has much better looking hardware. It's hard for me to accept that one would sound substantially different than the other, since they're just playing a digital bitstream. If Slim didn't want their software to be used by other people, they probably shouldn't have GPLed it.