Well, I'll just have to use my audio out plug capable player that rips the files.
Ooh, gee, that was _so_ hard.
Resist - when you get "protected" music, use a credit card and return it for a credit reversal. If they dispute, phone the credit card company and refuse to pay. Then file in small claims court.
The editorial page is written by neo-cons, you're better off just giving up and turning on Fox News if you're going to bother reading that.
I'm talking the actual paper - the WSJ is just as good as the NYT in actually telling you what's going on, not the spin the elitists in Washington DC want you to buy...
And Minority Report is just the latest in a long line of Phillip K. Dick short stories made into movies, all of them (ok, except for that French one that wasn't SciFi) pretty good.
Not only is it true, but I just love getting those dividend checks from Nintendo along with the quarterlies that prove that it's true.
MSFT is really hurting - bad. If they can't sell 8-10 games per xBox, they lose money. Period. And the only reason their metric of games per box is where it is, is the 3 game bundles they sell it with...
At least I'll be laughing while I play Oddworld: Munch's Odyssey on the GameCube and The Sims on the PS2...
In recent news in the WSJ (don't know if online, I read the print version), they will be offering some xBox games for the GBA and GameCube, specifically including Oddworld: Munch's Odyssey.
OK, it's official, I have absolutely no reason to buy an xBox anymore.
The people we are locking up are NOT citizens of the USA.
Sadly, you are wrong on at least three counts.
Maybe you should read a real newspaper instead, like WSJ or NYT, instead of whatever you do read.
Re:This review makes too great a logical leap
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Minority Report
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No, I think if you'd actually watched the movie you'd be agreeing with the reviewer. He's not the only person to say this, including Ebert and Roper amongst others.
Seriously, sales of WinXP are way below target projections, revenues are drying up, if it wasn't for Win2K and OfficeXP than Bill G would have to apply for welfare in Redmond.
Note the key word is "sales".
How much do we make for a free download - zilch.
How much do we make for a cheapbytes - $2 (ok, $0.02 profit)
How much do we make for a regular sale - maybe $30.
Meanwhile MSFT charges $200 to $1000, depending on the bundle.
So if I sold 50000 Linux boxen, with 5000 clean distro copies (10 being net copied or free for every sale), I get (5000 x $30) + (5000 x $2) + (40000 x $0) = $150000 + $10000 + $0 = $160000 total.
And if I sell the same Win boxen, I get 25000 WinXP Pro at $500 + 15000 Win XP at $200 + 10000 Win2K Pro at $200 = $12500000 + $3000000 + $2000000 = $17500000 or $17.5 million
Therefore, even though I sold the same number of boxen with OS on it, MSFT gets 99 percent of the sales dollars and Linux gets 1 percent of the sales dollars.
Therefore, everyone is buying MSFT.
But wait! We actually sold the SAME NUMBER of Linux boxen as Win boxen!
Don't trust statistics and sales figures unless you have an MBA or took third level Statistics and Sales courses....
No, that's a lengthy way of saying the same thing.
Look, it's like Open Source docs - don't use a long expositional phrase to say the same thing you can say in a few well-chosen words.
E.g. "The highly mobile and agile lupine, which was brown in fur coloration, cleanly vaulted over the slow and speed challenged canine." is worse than "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog."
writes "SearchEngineWatch.com was compared the good and the bad of both engine. They wrote the cool thing about Teoma is that its community-seeking behavior is both query-specific, and happens in real time. Whenever you type in a query, we're actually looking for the communities after you type the query. Teoma's approach differs from Google's, which uses a similar, but more static ranking system. It's also unlike the approach taken by Northern Light that classify web pages based on pre-defined categories
In clear English, that would be:
writes "SearchEngineWatch.com has compared good and bad aspects of multiple search engines. They wrote that the cool thing about Teoma is that its community-seeking behavior is both query-specific, and happens in real time. Whenever you type in a query, we actually look for the communities after you type the query in. Teoma's approach differs from Google's, which uses a similar, but more static ranking system. It's also different from the approach taken by Northern Light that classify web pages based on pre-defined categories."
Sigh. Sure hope you're not writing any Open Source documentation...
Save 90 to 95 percent on the costs, and have fewer bugs in the first place, plus own the code outright - either BSD (owned by the feds) or GPL or one of the variants.
The most touching part of the lawyer's comments
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Was where he tried to reinvent history and describe the founding of the Net and the Web and redescribe the "role" of ICANN.
Some of us were there in the beginning. Some of us even predate CERN's role in popularizing the World Wide Web (that nasty www thingy).
In fact, some of us grew strong in the UseNet Flame Wars... which would make the current ICANN board shudder to hear the tale.
It all makes me wonder why bureaucracy has so much troubles with democracy and true representation.
I do. And then these hot shots gave all the politicians money and promised that deregulation would... get this... increase competition, increase service, and lower prices.
According to my count we have: less competition less service and higher prices.
Wish al-Qaeda would attack a convention of the politicians and lobbyists who sold us down the river on that one...
Basically, what I'd like to know is how you see the implications of Privacy, personal and corporate, in terms of technological choices you need to make?
For example, do you see us moving like the rest of the civilized world towards a more personal-privacy oriented legal structure, and if this occurs, how would you and other search engines deal with this? Do you see any areas that Europe and Canada have already legislated that would prove very difficult for you (e.g. retention of server logs, query logs (comparitive to HIPAA regs), user logs) - or easier?
Do you think we'll move (not counting the current paranoid few months) towards a more totalitarian regime - and what implications does that have for your tech side? Would you need to mirror search queries to help hunt down Americans posting things disparaging the White House or Congress - for example.
Well, when you can do a 15 minute short film for only $500 - don't laugh, one of the finalists for best short at the Seattle International Film Fest did his own private film for that much - then even the big guys have to start counting the nickels.
Cost slashing, and the drop in hardware cost of total system cost, is the ally of Open Source and a direct threat to Closed Source.
I see top speed is 40 mph. Really sad when Seattle's 1960s Monorail has a top speed of around 60 mph.
Now, if we had jetpacks, that might be interesting...
Is it live or is it slow as IE?
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Gnome 2.0 RC1
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1) I find it faster. 2) I like the tabbed browsing.
Well, good arguments. I've noticed that most of the reviews say that Mozilla is a lot faster than IE, and much more secure, so I'll be loading the recent build on one of my Linux boxen this weekend to compare.
Slashdot Mirror
Well, I'll just have to use my audio out plug capable player that rips the files.
Ooh, gee, that was _so_ hard.
Resist - when you get "protected" music, use a credit card and return it for a credit reversal. If they dispute, phone the credit card company and refuse to pay. Then file in small claims court.
Noone can take your rights if you fight for them.
For only $500 USD, or ten years salary, you too can own your very own licensed copy of Red Windows!
... you can pay $0 and have Red Linux.
...
Or
Hmmm, basic economics says
The editorial page is written by neo-cons, you're better off just giving up and turning on Fox News if you're going to bother reading that.
...
I'm talking the actual paper - the WSJ is just as good as the NYT in actually telling you what's going on, not the spin the elitists in Washington DC want you to buy
And Minority Report is just the latest in a long line of Phillip K. Dick short stories made into movies, all of them (ok, except for that French one that wasn't SciFi) pretty good.
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Not only is it true, but I just love getting those dividend checks from Nintendo along with the quarterlies that prove that it's true.
...
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MSFT is really hurting - bad. If they can't sell 8-10 games per xBox, they lose money. Period. And the only reason their metric of games per box is where it is, is the 3 game bundles they sell it with
At least I'll be laughing while I play Oddworld: Munch's Odyssey on the GameCube and The Sims on the PS2
In recent news in the WSJ (don't know if online, I read the print version), they will be offering some xBox games for the GBA and GameCube, specifically including Oddworld: Munch's Odyssey.
OK, it's official, I have absolutely no reason to buy an xBox anymore.
The people we are locking up are NOT citizens of the USA.
Sadly, you are wrong on at least three counts.
Maybe you should read a real newspaper instead, like WSJ or NYT, instead of whatever you do read.
No, I think if you'd actually watched the movie you'd be agreeing with the reviewer. He's not the only person to say this, including Ebert and Roper amongst others.
Seriously, sales of WinXP are way below target projections, revenues are drying up, if it wasn't for Win2K and OfficeXP than Bill G would have to apply for welfare in Redmond.
....
Note the key word is "sales".
How much do we make for a free download - zilch.
How much do we make for a cheapbytes - $2 (ok, $0.02 profit)
How much do we make for a regular sale - maybe $30.
Meanwhile MSFT charges $200 to $1000, depending on the bundle.
So if I sold 50000 Linux boxen, with 5000 clean distro copies (10 being net copied or free for every sale), I get (5000 x $30) + (5000 x $2) + (40000 x $0) = $150000 + $10000 + $0 = $160000 total.
And if I sell the same Win boxen, I get 25000 WinXP Pro at $500 + 15000 Win XP at $200 + 10000 Win2K Pro at $200 = $12500000 + $3000000 + $2000000 = $17500000 or $17.5 million
Therefore, even though I sold the same number of boxen with OS on it, MSFT gets 99 percent of the sales dollars and Linux gets 1 percent of the sales dollars.
Therefore, everyone is buying MSFT.
But wait! We actually sold the SAME NUMBER of Linux boxen as Win boxen!
Don't trust statistics and sales figures unless you have an MBA or took third level Statistics and Sales courses
No, that's a lengthy way of saying the same thing.
Look, it's like Open Source docs - don't use a long expositional phrase to say the same thing you can say in a few well-chosen words.
E.g. "The highly mobile and agile lupine, which was brown in fur coloration, cleanly vaulted over the slow and speed challenged canine." is worse than "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog."
Actually you ended a sentence with a prepositional phrase... who's with the bad grammar now?
Don't you say nuttin bad about my grammer, she's dead.
writes "SearchEngineWatch.com was compared the good and the bad of both engine. They wrote the cool thing about Teoma is that its community-seeking behavior is both query-specific, and happens in real time. Whenever you type in a query, we're actually looking for the communities after you type the query. Teoma's approach differs from Google's, which uses a similar, but more static ranking system. It's also unlike the approach taken by Northern Light that classify web pages based on pre-defined categories
...
In clear English, that would be:
writes "SearchEngineWatch.com has compared good and bad aspects of multiple search engines. They wrote that the cool thing about Teoma is that its community-seeking behavior is both query-specific, and happens in real time. Whenever you type in a query, we actually look for the communities after you type the query in. Teoma's approach differs from Google's, which uses a similar, but more static ranking system. It's also different from the approach taken by Northern Light that classify web pages based on pre-defined categories."
Sigh. Sure hope you're not writing any Open Source documentation
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never said it couldn't be sloppy, just that it will end up having fewer bugs.
sloppy code != buggy code
Save 90 to 95 percent on the costs, and have fewer bugs in the first place, plus own the code outright - either BSD (owned by the feds) or GPL or one of the variants.
Was where he tried to reinvent history and describe the founding of the Net and the Web and redescribe the "role" of ICANN.
... which would make the current ICANN board shudder to hear the tale.
...
Some of us were there in the beginning. Some of us even predate CERN's role in popularizing the World Wide Web (that nasty www thingy).
In fact, some of us grew strong in the UseNet Flame Wars
It all makes me wonder why bureaucracy has so much troubles with democracy and true representation.
It's just a technical problem, after all
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I do. And then these hot shots gave all the politicians money and promised that deregulation would ... get this ... increase competition, increase service, and lower prices.
...
According to my count we have:
less competition
less service
and higher prices.
Wish al-Qaeda would attack a convention of the politicians and lobbyists who sold us down the river on that one
Time to sue Qwest
Which was US West
It's not the best
And already messed
We need a breakup
We need a real firm
Not just a joke that
Is looted by it's execs
Qwest Qwest Qwest Qwest
[voices fade over hill]
Qwest Qwest Qwest Qwest
[voices fade beneath ground, as the Open Source Gnomes go back to work]
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Basically, what I'd like to know is how you see the implications of Privacy, personal and corporate, in terms of technological choices you need to make?
For example, do you see us moving like the rest of the civilized world towards a more personal-privacy oriented legal structure, and if this occurs, how would you and other search engines deal with this? Do you see any areas that Europe and Canada have already legislated that would prove very difficult for you (e.g. retention of server logs, query logs (comparitive to HIPAA regs), user logs) - or easier?
Do you think we'll move (not counting the current paranoid few months) towards a more totalitarian regime - and what implications does that have for your tech side? Would you need to mirror search queries to help hunt down Americans posting things disparaging the White House or Congress - for example.
One stop shopping - go to Walmart, buy PC with Linux and The Sims preloaded, go home, plug in, have fun.
Sweet!
Well, when you can do a 15 minute short film for only $500 - don't laugh, one of the finalists for best short at the Seattle International Film Fest did his own private film for that much - then even the big guys have to start counting the nickels.
Cost slashing, and the drop in hardware cost of total system cost, is the ally of Open Source and a direct threat to Closed Source.
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I kanna make it go any faster, the virus-antivirus engines arr held tahgether wi' balin' wire as 'tis.
... [looks sadly forelorn]
Spotty, I need more power, there's a worm out there with our name on it, and Sulu can't target it with all those popup windows in the way!
Ah'll see what I kin do
I see top speed is 40 mph. Really sad when Seattle's 1960s Monorail has a top speed of around 60 mph.
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Now, if we had jetpacks, that might be interesting
1) I find it faster.
2) I like the tabbed browsing.
Well, good arguments. I've noticed that most of the reviews say that Mozilla is a lot faster than IE, and much more secure, so I'll be loading the recent build on one of my Linux boxen this weekend to compare.
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ps2 - 199
dvd controler - 20
being able to play great games, and watch dvds on ur 50" tv screen. priceless.
Good point. I'm looking at that actually, so I can play The Sims on my tube, while my son plays Warcraft III on his iMac.
...more than just niche companies are writing desktop applications for it.
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Um, you mean like IBM and Oracle and
Guy, it's the 21st Century. That argument may have worked back in the day, but it's time you woke up and smelled the apps.
Some of my web pages have pacific keywords, so I've bounced more than my fair share of these to the FTC and other spam and abuse websites.
Sigh.
Friends don't let friends use Holey OS's.
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