"Would be ok for Microsoft to disallow any other browser than IE to be used with Windows? How about dissallowing usage of any other media players beside MS media player?"
Sure, if they wanted to. But Microsoft's a bonified monopoly, and therefore, it's different.
If Be wanted to exclude any other browser from BeOS, well, that's their prerogative. Just don't expect many sales.
I thought E-paper was supposed to be a piece of disposable paper on which you "printed" text by changing the color of the pixels embedded into it. So you could print the same piece of paper over and over again.
But those would be regular old 8.5x11" sheets at negligable cost.
So... why is this called e-paper rather than just a plain old e-book?
The obvious question might be: "Well, does Xerox machine toner cause cancer and reproductive harm?"
If it does, it might be wise to the inform the public of this fact. If it doesn't... well, don't vote for the guy that told everyone to put the signs up.
My school has a subscription to NetLibrary. I use it sometimes to look up certain things, but whenever I've tried reading an entire book on there, I've given up in short order. Having the physical thing in front of me is just so much easier.
I've been a random-shuffle fan for a while, but I've found myself sticking to whole albums lately.
I tend to be in the mood for a specific type of music, and nothing scratches that itch like an entire album devoted to it. Sure, I could tag each song with its specific genre and style, but that would require me to come up with a genre and style for each.
It also gives me a broader view of the artist to whom I'm listening. I never would've gained a healthy appreciation for Nirvana or The White Stripes if I hadn't listened to their albums all the way through.
And, well, listening to Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory from start to finish just brings me back to freshman year of college when I couldn't get enough of it.
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... if you have many contributers and they all create one (or several) small programs that do one thing well and interface cleanly with the other programs, a very clean and powerful system can come out of it."
I'm not sure how this relates to the ease-of-use issue. I can see how having multiple small well-designed programs can solve a problem better than one large monolithic program. But that doesn't really scale to the GUI world.
For example, I'd rather run Thunderbird to read my mail, news, and RSS feeds (through an extension) all in one place than run a mail reader, a news reader, and an RSS reader seperately.
Similarly, I'd rather run Gaim than Yahoo! Messenger, AIM, ICQ, and MSN seperately. I get a consistent interface, and I use fewer system resources.
How do these things apply to the whole "small tool that does one thing and does it well" paradigm?
They served a couple main purposes, both very useful to those so inclined:
1. local repairs - take your pc needing a repair or an upgrade to your local Gateway Country; better than juggling DHL packages from Dell
2. try before you buy - when I was shopping for laptops, I checked out my local Gateway Country to try them out. In this case, I decided on a Dell, but the experience sure helped.
I'm not so sure about your bleak outlook on Gateway's future.
My family's bought 3 PCs from them, and have never had any problems. I just bought my first Dell (laptop), and I've already needed to send it in for repairs.
Isolated anecdote, perhaps. But I've never seen any reason to dismiss Gateway. Their support site is leagues ahead of Dell's, and they've got the best-selling plasma TV on the market right now.
No need to question what it "amounts" to. You just stated that this kind of thing had already been done, checked out by Google, and rejected, presumably due to some flaw in the design. Yet, you provide no references whatsoever.
I'm not calling you a liar. I'm just saying that I, for one, would be very interested in seeing this other project you talk about.
I think this is probably just the game industry trying to find new material after WWII has been beaten to death over the past few years. After the Vietnam Era, what'll be the next video game wars? Gulf Storm? Somalia? Afghanistan?
What about the old forgotten wars? The War of 1812? Korea? WWI, for crying out loud?
I know I must be in the severe minority here, but I bought a song from buymusic.com once. Worked perfectly, and was the same price as all the others. I got it from them because none of the other stores had it. I'd say the problem was advertising.
Or maybe he (and the rest of his space plan commission, including Cheney and O'Keefe) want to finally give NASA the cohesive mission it's lacked for so long.
This is only mildly related to the article, but it made me think of it.
I skipped CS for aerospace engineering, deciding I'd keep computers/programming as an interesting hobby. Now I'm contemplating taking some random CS/SE classes to get some kind of formal working knowledge. I'd like to contribute to open-source projects, but I don't really know my stuff (besides some Perl and such).
So should I skip the CS/SE courses and head for the O'Reilly books? Or what?
By the way, this also may have some bearing on the article. I've seen a few posts in this discussion (and others) from people who love their programming, but who decided to keep it a hobby instead of ruin it with business and politics. So perhaps there are lots of "doing it for the love" people opting out, who knows.
The problem, of course, lies in the possibility that you'll find the wrong people.
Unless, of course, there were some way to prove that the person you're going to "take care of" is actually guilty... Why, you'd need some kind of court system... oh, wait...
Having read both PCGamer UK and PCGamer US, I would have to disagree, at least based on this one example. The UK version is written like a games-oriented Maxim, while the US version is written in a much more professional and in-depth manner. Not that that's saying much.
Well, that's new to me, thanks. It looks like that's for ripping the audio from DVDs, though, not from DVD-Audio discs. They're two different animals, although most DVD-A discs have a compatibility track for DVD readers.
What about a ripper for DVD-A, not just the audio from DVDs?
According to the freedesktop.org page, XOrg is x.org. I quote: "The XOrg Foundation, (a.k.a. X.org) has...". Of course, X.org is not "The XOrg Foundation", it's "The X.Org Foundation".
If I'm not mistaken, XOrg and X.org are one and the same. People are just leaving out a ".".
The copyright page of my church's standard NIV pew bibles have a notice that gives explicit permission to quote, reprint, copy, etc. a reasonable amount of the contents at the same time (no more than 50 pages at once or something). I believe it's from the International Bible Society.
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"Would be ok for Microsoft to disallow any other browser than IE to be used with Windows? How about dissallowing usage of any other media players beside MS media player?"
Sure, if they wanted to. But Microsoft's a bonified monopoly, and therefore, it's different.
If Be wanted to exclude any other browser from BeOS, well, that's their prerogative. Just don't expect many sales.
Why don't they offer RSS feeds for news.google.com too? Or do they?
I thought E-paper was supposed to be a piece of disposable paper on which you "printed" text by changing the color of the pixels embedded into it. So you could print the same piece of paper over and over again.
But those would be regular old 8.5x11" sheets at negligable cost.
So... why is this called e-paper rather than just a plain old e-book?
The obvious question might be: "Well, does Xerox machine toner cause cancer and reproductive harm?"
If it does, it might be wise to the inform the public of this fact. If it doesn't... well, don't vote for the guy that told everyone to put the signs up.
My school has a subscription to NetLibrary. I use it sometimes to look up certain things, but whenever I've tried reading an entire book on there, I've given up in short order. Having the physical thing in front of me is just so much easier.
I've been a random-shuffle fan for a while, but I've found myself sticking to whole albums lately.
I tend to be in the mood for a specific type of music, and nothing scratches that itch like an entire album devoted to it. Sure, I could tag each song with its specific genre and style, but that would require me to come up with a genre and style for each.
It also gives me a broader view of the artist to whom I'm listening. I never would've gained a healthy appreciation for Nirvana or The White Stripes if I hadn't listened to their albums all the way through.
And, well, listening to Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory from start to finish just brings me back to freshman year of college when I couldn't get enough of it.
I'm not sure how this relates to the ease-of-use issue. I can see how having multiple small well-designed programs can solve a problem better than one large monolithic program. But that doesn't really scale to the GUI world.
For example, I'd rather run Thunderbird to read my mail, news, and RSS feeds (through an extension) all in one place than run a mail reader, a news reader, and an RSS reader seperately.
Similarly, I'd rather run Gaim than Yahoo! Messenger, AIM, ICQ, and MSN seperately. I get a consistent interface, and I use fewer system resources.
How do these things apply to the whole "small tool that does one thing and does it well" paradigm?
They served a couple main purposes, both very useful to those so inclined:
1. local repairs - take your pc needing a repair or an upgrade to your local Gateway Country; better than juggling DHL packages from Dell
2. try before you buy - when I was shopping for laptops, I checked out my local Gateway Country to try them out. In this case, I decided on a Dell, but the experience sure helped.
I'm not so sure about your bleak outlook on Gateway's future.
My family's bought 3 PCs from them, and have never had any problems. I just bought my first Dell (laptop), and I've already needed to send it in for repairs.
Isolated anecdote, perhaps. But I've never seen any reason to dismiss Gateway. Their support site is leagues ahead of Dell's, and they've got the best-selling plasma TV on the market right now.
No need to question what it "amounts" to. You just stated that this kind of thing had already been done, checked out by Google, and rejected, presumably due to some flaw in the design. Yet, you provide no references whatsoever.
I'm not calling you a liar. I'm just saying that I, for one, would be very interested in seeing this other project you talk about.
Sorry, you saying "We did it" doesn't constitute evidence.
I think this is probably just the game industry trying to find new material after WWII has been beaten to death over the past few years. After the Vietnam Era, what'll be the next video game wars? Gulf Storm? Somalia? Afghanistan?
What about the old forgotten wars? The War of 1812? Korea? WWI, for crying out loud?
I know I must be in the severe minority here, but I bought a song from buymusic.com once. Worked perfectly, and was the same price as all the others. I got it from them because none of the other stores had it. I'd say the problem was advertising.
Or maybe he (and the rest of his space plan commission, including Cheney and O'Keefe) want to finally give NASA the cohesive mission it's lacked for so long.
This is only mildly related to the article, but it made me think of it.
I skipped CS for aerospace engineering, deciding I'd keep computers/programming as an interesting hobby. Now I'm contemplating taking some random CS/SE classes to get some kind of formal working knowledge. I'd like to contribute to open-source projects, but I don't really know my stuff (besides some Perl and such).
So should I skip the CS/SE courses and head for the O'Reilly books? Or what?
By the way, this also may have some bearing on the article. I've seen a few posts in this discussion (and others) from people who love their programming, but who decided to keep it a hobby instead of ruin it with business and politics. So perhaps there are lots of "doing it for the love" people opting out, who knows.
ballsome.com, my personal site.
I figure if I don't like looking at it every time I open a browser window, nobody else will.
The problem, of course, lies in the possibility that you'll find the wrong people.
Unless, of course, there were some way to prove that the person you're going to "take care of" is actually guilty... Why, you'd need some kind of court system... oh, wait...
I haven't been keeping up with my CS since the late beta days... what broke it? Define "broken".
Having read both PCGamer UK and PCGamer US, I would have to disagree, at least based on this one example. The UK version is written like a games-oriented Maxim, while the US version is written in a much more professional and in-depth manner. Not that that's saying much.
That's a cool idea... where'd you get the random hexes?
If I'm not mistaken, you still won't be able to make (legal) bit-for-bit backups of your movies, since the blank media has the CSS sectors pre-burned.
Of course, you didn't say anything about legality...
Well, that's new to me, thanks. It looks like that's for ripping the audio from DVDs, though, not from DVD-Audio discs. They're two different animals, although most DVD-A discs have a compatibility track for DVD readers.
What about a ripper for DVD-A, not just the audio from DVDs?
I give it one week after release.
DVD-Audio has already been released. I haven't seen any way to rip it, have you?
According to the freedesktop.org page, XOrg is x.org. I quote: "The XOrg Foundation, (a.k.a. X.org) has ...". Of course, X.org is not "The XOrg Foundation", it's "The X.Org Foundation".
If I'm not mistaken, XOrg and X.org are one and the same. People are just leaving out a ".".
The copyright page of my church's standard NIV pew bibles have a notice that gives explicit permission to quote, reprint, copy, etc. a reasonable amount of the contents at the same time (no more than 50 pages at once or something). I believe it's from the International Bible Society.