It is revealing that OS X is evidently not covered in this book, especially since in many ways it is so different from other Unixes and since there are many reasons to expect that OS X users would *need* such a book.
I don't believe for one second the emphasis was on Linux because it made for a better acronym. Why not go with "AMP" ? Sticking "Linux" on the cover just helps the publishers capitalize on the Linux buzz, which makes me immediately wary of the book.
Free giveaways out of Universal's catalouge could be an incredible boost to sale of music-related hardware like the iPod
How exactly is this going to be an incredible boost to iPod sales when the meatiest part of Universal's catalogue is *already* available for download ?? You can't sell people things that people are already taking for free.
Maybe Apple will be happy when their whole catalog is up on Kazaa for download. Maybe.
It's easy to take a liberal approach to the whole MP3 issue when the catalogs in question don't belong to you. It sure would be interesting to see how they behave when the ripping and mixing and burning affects properties they own, and not properties owned by someone else.
But I have to wonder whether Apple really would do this in the first place. They're a computer company, scratching for a small piece of market share. The annals of business literature is replete with stories of companies who expanded into areas outside their core competencies and got squashed. Just look at what happened to Seagram when *they* got involved with Vivendi/Universal.
Let me know when you all finish filling out the application. I quit when I saw that the 3rd page had what looked like at least 20-30 additional questions. Forget the beta-test, what Phillips is really looking for is a lot of data points on a a huge market research study - I'm sure they could care less about the actual beta-test itself.
BlueDo sells a whole gamut of high-end remotes, including the Pronto and Harmony lines. Better yet, they also carry packages that include the JP1 cable, including a package with the highly rated Home Theater Master MX500 lCD remote, a good learning remote to program it, and a JP1 cable.
I'm still saving for this bundle which is one of the highest rated remotes on hifi-remotes.com.
I am not connected in any way with BlueDo, just been impressed by good store reviews and the great customer service I've experienced when I've made various inquiries.
Plus contractors have the ability to write off tons of expenses (home office & partial mortgage payments/car expenses/computer/dining expenses/some entertainment expenses) that regular employees can't take advantage of.
At home, on my modem, downloading several megs of spam seriously interferes with my ability to work.
So how do you think operators of websites feel when their sites are brought to their knees and/or they are hit with huge and unexpected ISP bills, because of an article posted on your company's website ? How do you think these operators feel when said effects become little more than a running joke on your company's website ?
If you can't see the parallel between spam and slashdotting, then you're not being fair. What's that old saw about the goose and the gander ?
I would be sitting behind one of those people in a movie theater.
Man, if you think *THAT'S* bad, I have one for you. I was actually in a theater when someone one row ahead of me *PLACED AN OUTGOING CALL*, talking at regular cell-phone volumes (read loud): "Hello, is Justin there ? Could I speak to Justin please ? Is Justin there ?". Everyone in the theater looked at each other, stunned.
I can understand someone forgetting to turn off their cell phones. But being so f*cking ignorant that you would place a call, when you could easily and freely walk to the lobby ? I say bully to the theaters who want to block cell phone signals.
why should anyone believe the results put together by one of the main rabidly anti-Windows voices which casts Windows in a negative light
People will often believe results and arguments without carefully scrutinizing the study, if these results somehow happen to coincide or reinforce their own world view. If you question whether or not that's happening at *this* website, you haven't been reading it long enough.
Evans Data sent out a survey to about 400 developers who are either known to have some involvement in Linux development, or work for companies that are involved in Linux development.
You mean the controversial 40% statistic means that 40% of such developers work primarily for Linux ? Isn't the flipside of this supposedly rosy story that 60% of programmers working in such companies are presumably NOT developing for Linux ? Hot damn, if this isn't a case of picking your sample to suit your theory, I don't know what is. I can just IMAGINE the vitriole that would be directed at a study reporting that, say, "a significant number of developers at companies developing applications for Windows are primarily developing for Windows."
Anyone who is suggesting that the threat of being jailed for file-sharing would not be a significant deterrent is so blinded by chauvinism as to have no credibility.
That may be more because the state of the art in PCs seems to advance so much more quickly. Thinking back to the PCs of 5-years ago, there seems to be *much* bigger advances in the PC world then the incremental increases in speeds that iMac users have had to content themselves with. PC company's CAN'T sell essentially the same computer for 5 years because the market will leave them behind. Apple, on the other hand, makes and controls its own market so this can never happen - even if maybe it should.
In a profile of a person who had undergone a sex-change operation, you would think they would pay more than passing notice to it. It might not mean much in terms of the *ames* that s/he designed, but what more could define this *person* than his/her struggling with this issue ? Heck, even the book "High Score" dealt with the issue more. I'm just shocked that a profile wouldn't cover one of the more interesting points of a person's life. Imagine a book about Clinton's presidency which only mentions Monica-gate in a few paragraphs.
The headline suggests that recall of ads is the same whether or not someone is fast-forwarding through it. Yet the bulk of the actual article details the statistical problems with the drawing of this conclusion, as well as the likelihood that at the fastest speeds, it's highly unlikely there's anything close to meaningful recall.
Of course, the majority of readers who find the headline somehow compatible with their world view will go on and on about it...
I bought the Audigy Ex (the first one) a few months ago. The Audigy 2 had just come out, but besides the fact that I got a great deal on mine, the external version had still not been released.
I didn't really care about the sound features that much, so I don't know it stacks up in that department, but what I was really interested in was being able to move all my cables from the back of my PC to my desktop. It drove me absolutely batty having to adjust the headphone volume by either reaching around to the back of the PC, or by running the mixer app. And it drove me crazy having to crawl under my desk to plug/unplug my headphones. Now I can plug in and adjust the volume with barely a reach.
I do wish that there was a master volume control on the panel, though, and I also wish that the damn cables attaching the external panel to the back of the PC wasn't so rigid - makes it really hard to position things. I understand that the Audigy 2 fixes at least the latter problem; I can't tell about the former because there doesn't seem to be specs on the Audigy2 Ex on the creative website.
The final wish on my list would be for them to have put a USB hub in the unit...oh well...
So 40 % of developers "focus" on Linux. Even if we accept that statistic at face value (which is itself ironic in an article which seems to be at least partly about dubious statistics), it doesn't mean what I think the author intends it to mean.
There are a disproportionate number of developers who work on Sun boxes relative to the number of Sun boxes in the whole computing market, for instance. That just means Sun machines are being used in situations where there is more custom development work going on, and in situations where companies need and can afford to pay for more people to maintain code. The proportion of Sun developers doesn't speak at all to the broader market share of Sun machines vis a vis Windows machines.
I always get a laugh when I see an article about the misuse and misinterpration of statistics, which trots out its own to-be-misused-and-interpreted statistics. What's that old saw about lies and damn lies ?
If they're really trying to build a device to listen to music from any room in the house, as they say in the article, they're going to have to use something other than 80211b... in my apartment, I get a weak signal just from going 80 feet between rooms, with none of the obvious obstructions except walls, even when all doors are open and I hold my laptop in the air and rotate it. They can say whatever they want, but if people are buying these to listen to stuff at opposite (or even not-so-opposite) parts of their house, they are going to be *sorely* disappointed.
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It is revealing that OS X is evidently not covered in this book, especially since in many ways it is so different from other Unixes and since there are many reasons to expect that OS X users would *need* such a book.
between you, Count Chocula, and the Trix rabbit ?
I don't believe for one second the emphasis was on Linux because it made for a better acronym. Why not go with "AMP" ? Sticking "Linux" on the cover just helps the publishers capitalize on the Linux buzz, which makes me immediately wary of the book.
Free giveaways out of Universal's catalouge could be an incredible boost to sale of music-related hardware like the iPod
How exactly is this going to be an incredible boost to iPod sales when the meatiest part of Universal's catalogue is *already* available for download ?? You can't sell people things that people are already taking for free.
Maybe Apple will be happy when their whole catalog is up on Kazaa for download. Maybe.
It's easy to take a liberal approach to the whole MP3 issue when the catalogs in question don't belong to you. It sure would be interesting to see how they behave when the ripping and mixing and burning affects properties they own, and not properties owned by someone else.
But I have to wonder whether Apple really would do this in the first place. They're a computer company, scratching for a small piece of market share. The annals of business literature is replete with stories of companies who expanded into areas outside their core competencies and got squashed. Just look at what happened to Seagram when *they* got involved with Vivendi/Universal.
Let me know when you all finish filling out the application. I quit when I saw that the 3rd page had what looked like at least 20-30 additional questions. Forget the beta-test, what Phillips is really looking for is a lot of data points on a a huge market research study - I'm sure they could care less about the actual beta-test itself.
I really don't know what Slashdot editors do, but if they're not reading the site on a daily basis,
Maybe Slashdot editors are a lot smarter than we give them credit for...
BlueDo sells a whole gamut of high-end remotes, including the Pronto and Harmony lines. Better yet, they also carry packages that include the JP1 cable, including a package with the highly rated Home Theater Master MX500 lCD remote, a good learning remote to program it, and a JP1 cable.
I'm still saving for this bundle which is one of the highest rated remotes on hifi-remotes.com.
I am not connected in any way with BlueDo, just been impressed by good store reviews and the great customer service I've experienced when I've made various inquiries.
Plus contractors have the ability to write off tons of expenses (home office & partial mortgage payments/car expenses/computer/dining expenses/some entertainment expenses) that regular employees can't take advantage of.
At home, on my modem, downloading several megs of spam seriously interferes with my ability to work.
So how do you think operators of websites feel when their sites are brought to their knees and/or they are hit with huge and unexpected ISP bills, because of an article posted on your company's website ? How do you think these operators feel when said effects become little more than a running joke on your company's website ?
If you can't see the parallel between spam and slashdotting, then you're not being fair. What's that old saw about the goose and the gander ?
I've tried it before. People just looked at me funny and I didn't get any money...Must be doing something wrong...
Maybe you're not getting much money because your breasts are one or 3 cup sizes too small ?
Yeah, the French server I'm downloading things from seems to be surrendering a lot.
Yeah, but I bet they're making a sh*tload of money selling to the Iraqis.
I would be sitting behind one of those people in a movie theater.
Man, if you think *THAT'S* bad, I have one for you. I was actually in a theater when someone one row ahead of me *PLACED AN OUTGOING CALL*, talking at regular cell-phone volumes (read loud): "Hello, is Justin there ? Could I speak to Justin please ? Is Justin there ?". Everyone in the theater looked at each other, stunned.
I can understand someone forgetting to turn off their cell phones. But being so f*cking ignorant that you would place a call, when you could easily and freely walk to the lobby ? I say bully to the theaters who want to block cell phone signals.
why should anyone believe the results put together by one of the main rabidly anti-Windows voices which casts Windows in a negative light
People will often believe results and arguments without carefully scrutinizing the study, if these results somehow happen to coincide or reinforce their own world view. If you question whether or not that's happening at *this* website, you haven't been reading it long enough.
Evans Data sent out a survey to about 400 developers who are either known to have some involvement in Linux development, or work for companies that are involved in Linux development.
You mean the controversial 40% statistic means that 40% of such developers work primarily for Linux ? Isn't the flipside of this supposedly rosy story that 60% of programmers working in such companies are presumably NOT developing for Linux ? Hot damn, if this isn't a case of picking your sample to suit your theory, I don't know what is. I can just IMAGINE the vitriole that would be directed at a study reporting that, say, "a significant number of developers at companies developing applications for Windows are primarily developing for Windows."
Billings, MT is a high growth area. Of course, I haven't heard of any of my co-workers taking a job in Billings...
Well, I guess the author of the article must be wrong then...
Sure would be ironic if those 50,000 online banner impressions on oreillynet.com Amazon receives ... turn out to constitute patent infringement.
Even if Amazon received a whole dollar for every single impression - which you can sure they don't - the total is a drop in a large bucket.
I think this would act as a deterrent." Right...
Anyone who is suggesting that the threat of being jailed for file-sharing would not be a significant deterrent is so blinded by chauvinism as to have no credibility.
That may be more because the state of the art in PCs seems to advance so much more quickly. Thinking back to the PCs of 5-years ago, there seems to be *much* bigger advances in the PC world then the incremental increases in speeds that iMac users have had to content themselves with. PC company's CAN'T sell essentially the same computer for 5 years because the market will leave them behind. Apple, on the other hand, makes and controls its own market so this can never happen - even if maybe it should.
In a profile of a person who had undergone a sex-change operation, you would think they would pay more than passing notice to it. It might not mean much in terms of the *ames* that s/he designed, but what more could define this *person* than his/her struggling with this issue ? Heck, even the book "High Score" dealt with the issue more. I'm just shocked that a profile wouldn't cover one of the more interesting points of a person's life. Imagine a book about Clinton's presidency which only mentions Monica-gate in a few paragraphs.
Since the film was apparently slated to pay him $11M, sucks to be him just as much as us if he doesn't play the part.
I'd be happy to ever be in the position where a bad back was the only thing keeping me from starring in a $11M Hollywood blockbuster.
The headline suggests that recall of ads is the same whether or not someone is fast-forwarding through it. Yet the bulk of the actual article details the statistical problems with the drawing of this conclusion, as well as the likelihood that at the fastest speeds, it's highly unlikely there's anything close to meaningful recall.
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Of course, the majority of readers who find the headline somehow compatible with their world view will go on and on about it
I bought the Audigy Ex (the first one) a few months ago. The Audigy 2 had just come out, but besides the fact that I got a great deal on mine, the external version had still not been released.
I didn't really care about the sound features that much, so I don't know it stacks up in that department, but what I was really interested in was being able to move all my cables from the back of my PC to my desktop. It drove me absolutely batty having to adjust the headphone volume by either reaching around to the back of the PC, or by running the mixer app. And it drove me crazy having to crawl under my desk to plug/unplug my headphones. Now I can plug in and adjust the volume with barely a reach.
I do wish that there was a master volume control on the panel, though, and I also wish that the damn cables attaching the external panel to the back of the PC wasn't so rigid - makes it really hard to position things. I understand that the Audigy 2 fixes at least the latter problem; I can't tell about the former because there doesn't seem to be specs on the Audigy2 Ex on the creative website.
The final wish on my list would be for them to have put a USB hub in the unit...oh well...
So 40 % of developers "focus" on Linux. Even if we accept that statistic at face value (which is itself ironic in an article which seems to be at least partly about dubious statistics), it doesn't mean what I think the author intends it to mean.
There are a disproportionate number of developers who work on Sun boxes relative to the number of Sun boxes in the whole computing market, for instance. That just means Sun machines are being used in situations where there is more custom development work going on, and in situations where companies need and can afford to pay for more people to maintain code. The proportion of Sun developers doesn't speak at all to the broader market share of Sun machines vis a vis Windows machines.
I always get a laugh when I see an article about the misuse and misinterpration of statistics, which trots out its own to-be-misused-and-interpreted statistics. What's that old saw about lies and damn lies ?
If they're really trying to build a device to listen to music from any room in the house, as they say in the article, they're going to have to use something other than 80211b ... in my apartment, I get a weak signal just from going 80 feet between rooms, with none of the obvious obstructions except walls, even when all doors are open and I hold my laptop in the air and rotate it. They can say whatever they want, but if people are buying these to listen to stuff at opposite (or even not-so-opposite) parts of their house, they are going to be *sorely* disappointed.