Umm, wait a minute... I thought it was bad enough that their pre-ripped tracks were of extra low quality; are you saying they were DRM'ed too?:-S Who came up with this concept? An RIAA intern?
And here I thought the point with a profitable music industry in today's social climate would be to move *away* from these so called "physical products". These DVD's will supposedly contain low quality versions rippable to CD's. Now they just need to answer the question of why people would rather rip low quality music than full quality music for CD's and various portable devices. I suspect the audio masochist community is rather small.
I'll pirate music and just assume this will flop while I wait for your answer, Warner Music.
Some say "but come on, it's impossible to compete with illegal piracy since it's free", but the whole idea would be about giving more than piracy. That's how to beat it, and how to make people pay. People do tend to pay for things not better than free stuff. For example, how about using on the fly encoding like that shady Russian music store? While their business may be shady, their technical solution and idea is excellent.
P2P networks rarely give too much of a choice in quality, especially with more rare/old albums. They're often not too organizes and easily searchable either, and quite chaotic. And then these media companies sit on more than likely huge high quality archives of music since the dawn of their copyrights came into effect, and they don't have the brains to figure out that beating piracy is using this immense advantage of theirs.
There's also the aspect of music fans that want to support their artists financially, but they barely even can anymore, unless they want to be severly restricted in how to listen to the music, or even worse, in how high quality they're allowed to hear it in.
The only exception is spreadsheets. I've not yet seen a new online abstraction that replaces spreadsheets, though calculations would be a natural feature to add to wiki systems.
Google Spreadsheets was made for users to develop and share spreadsheets, and co-develop them in real time. Imports and exports supports CSV and XLS with preserved formatting where applicable, and exports additionally supports HTML. Google Spreadsheets supports IE 6+ and Firefox 1.07 and 1.5+.
If you can look past Apple's corporate bravado, you'll see that Tiger is one impressive cat. And unlike Longhorn, it's shipping any day now. What a concept.
;-)
I'm not sure why he sticks (or does he? maybe he do run OS X on some computer; I'm not sure) with Windows, but I know he has "friends" at Microsoft, whatever the hell that means. Financial or real ones?;-)
I do wonder whether this will cause people (and companies) to re-evaluate the growing popularity and hence reliance on web-based email. Myself, I don't go near it.
I wouldn't rely on a webmail much if it's from some random local ISP, but if it's about a company having a major part as its company profile to provide webmail, like Microsoft, Google, or Yahoo!, I think you'd be pretty safe. I can't imagine these lacking some healthy amounts of redundancy as it would be devastating if e.g. Gmail suddenly crashed and Google couldn't do anything.
Hmm, interesting way of trying to recover the data, but I have to wonder what lead to his mistake of deleting the three volumes in the first place. That would be the interesting story to me, but unfortunately, it's mostly a story mostly of what followed:
Firstly you need to understand that in an attempt to recover the data swiftly, the engineer who deleted the 3 volumes in the first place swiftly followed up his error...
It's still an interesting story though, with other aspects making things even harder for the data recovery company:
The Sun NAS that we had selected for the mail storage platform is the first series of products to emerge from Sun since their purchase of StorageTek, and as such does not run the usual Sun OS of Solaris. It uses StorageTek's own proprietary OS which is a heavily modified FFS2 (Fast File System 2). The modifications are all about increasing the performance of the system to ensure enterprise level performance.
Our webmaster isn't really a member of an active gaming press site, just a fansite, and he got in. I wouldn't say it's too hard given the right contacts. But yes, grandparent may be wrong in that there are autograph-seeking boys running around there or something. But it sure isn't *that* limited, and I know another guy who let people in our community have tickets if anyone wanted to come, just out of kindness.
What is E3? Is it just a convention, a convenient vehicle for putting developers in the same room as producers and distributors? Or is it...a spectacle, a chance to throw out some massive hype and drum up interest in upcoming games?
From what I've seen -- yes, the latter, and what's confusing, given this decision -- the game companies seemed to love it for that. I'm not sure the ESA is fully in touch with either their most important gaming fans or most of the game companies themselves.
It's a bit sad though, because the game companies on E3 I've heard coverage from have been of varying sizes, and all happy to have all sorts of people come visit their booth. The point was to meet fans to spread a good word and hype for them after coming home, and get some press coverage too. Press coverage being only half of the PR value. E3 was also already quite "intimate" with plenty of chances for first hand chat with game company employees if you could at all visit.
If they want to make a greater profit from it, the obvious answer to me would be to just raise the entrance fees and let the problem solve itself, without decisions of a changed purpose and more restrictions in the show itself. I doubt much of the game industry agree with this decision. It seems this is yet another transition of E3 started last year with the stricter "booth babe" guidelines, and maybe it'll be even more tightened down after these news. Who knows where the people in charge want to go with this, but I'd believe it's neither according to the game companies' or fans' wishes, most evidently because no game company has expressed a concern or a wish for change about this -- instead they've hyped the show on their respective websites, and on fansites for their webmasters to get exclusive coverage, etc.
Sometimes it's just too funny reading Slashdot.:-)
Microsoft Adds Risky System-Wide Undelete to Vista... in Linux, it would be something like...
Ubuntu To Bring Journalling to the Masses
All this is, is a UI to better exploit NTFS journalling.
All people thinking this was a security concern now must have lived under a false sense of security before undelete was built-in. Deleting files rarely ever made them unrecoverable, at least in Windows, and I doubt many other systems as well. And whether living under a false sense of security is better or not, I guess that can be debated.:-p
I don't understand why people even put so much weight in an avatar gender. I CRPG as both just to make things less boring. If I've played 2 men before, maybe it's time to just make a female character for the heck of it. I've also heard female gamers that play as male ones to not grab annoying attention (it's not all about gifts). With everything taken together -- men playing as women just for a change, women playing as men just for a change, women playing as men to blend in and grab less attention among guys in puberty, men playing as women to try get more gifts, why don't people then understand that avatars are a wildly inaccurate way of seeing the person behind the avatar? Computer (MMO)RPG's are also a way to escape reality for many; ponder that a while, and the realism of gender roles in a game.
It is currently being openly disseminated through spam emails that purport to come from Wal-Mart. If the recipient opens the mail attachment while running a Windows operating system, the Trojan then installs itself as a Firefox extension, presenting itself as a legitimate existing extension called numberedlinks.
I see nothing bugged in Outlook there. It seems more like just another software that's being launched by the user.
320x240 looks pretty crisp here. Sure, I would probably notice a difference if doubling X and Y resolution, and then it would look superb and very crisp. That is, at 640x480.
If people will be fooled into getting this for a small screen, I don't know if I should laugh or cry.
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Drill holes in them and hang them from fruiting trees - they keep the birds away.
Umm, wait a minute... I thought it was bad enough that their pre-ripped tracks were of extra low quality; are you saying they were DRM'ed too? :-S Who came up with this concept? An RIAA intern?
And here I thought the point with a profitable music industry in today's social climate would be to move *away* from these so called "physical products". These DVD's will supposedly contain low quality versions rippable to CD's. Now they just need to answer the question of why people would rather rip low quality music than full quality music for CD's and various portable devices. I suspect the audio masochist community is rather small.
I'll pirate music and just assume this will flop while I wait for your answer, Warner Music.
Some say "but come on, it's impossible to compete with illegal piracy since it's free", but the whole idea would be about giving more than piracy. That's how to beat it, and how to make people pay. People do tend to pay for things not better than free stuff. For example, how about using on the fly encoding like that shady Russian music store? While their business may be shady, their technical solution and idea is excellent.
P2P networks rarely give too much of a choice in quality, especially with more rare/old albums. They're often not too organizes and easily searchable either, and quite chaotic. And then these media companies sit on more than likely huge high quality archives of music since the dawn of their copyrights came into effect, and they don't have the brains to figure out that beating piracy is using this immense advantage of theirs.
There's also the aspect of music fans that want to support their artists financially, but they barely even can anymore, unless they want to be severly restricted in how to listen to the music, or even worse, in how high quality they're allowed to hear it in.
Sorry, bad link... For your clicking convenience: http://spreadsheets.google.com/
Google Spreadsheets was made for users to develop and share spreadsheets, and co-develop them in real time. Imports and exports supports CSV and XLS with preserved formatting where applicable, and exports additionally supports HTML. Google Spreadsheets supports IE 6+ and Firefox 1.07 and 1.5+.
So you are just going to make Bonzi starve like that? :-(
Because the music of today is actually better off looked at than listened on? ;-)
He has tried out Mac and its OS X.
Part of his conclusion:
I'm not sure why he sticks (or does he? maybe he do run OS X on some computer; I'm not sure) with Windows, but I know he has "friends" at Microsoft, whatever the hell that means. Financial or real ones?
From what I've seen and heard, they've already started on the RC1 branch, so I find the chances of them going back to betas by now more than slim.
I do wonder whether this will cause people (and companies) to re-evaluate the growing popularity and hence reliance on web-based email. Myself, I don't go near it.
I wouldn't rely on a webmail much if it's from some random local ISP, but if it's about a company having a major part as its company profile to provide webmail, like Microsoft, Google, or Yahoo!, I think you'd be pretty safe. I can't imagine these lacking some healthy amounts of redundancy as it would be devastating if e.g. Gmail suddenly crashed and Google couldn't do anything.
It's still an interesting story though, with other aspects making things even harder for the data recovery company:
Our webmaster isn't really a member of an active gaming press site, just a fansite, and he got in. I wouldn't say it's too hard given the right contacts. But yes, grandparent may be wrong in that there are autograph-seeking boys running around there or something. But it sure isn't *that* limited, and I know another guy who let people in our community have tickets if anyone wanted to come, just out of kindness.
From what I've seen -- yes, the latter, and what's confusing, given this decision -- the game companies seemed to love it for that. I'm not sure the ESA is fully in touch with either their most important gaming fans or most of the game companies themselves.
It's a bit sad though, because the game companies on E3 I've heard coverage from have been of varying sizes, and all happy to have all sorts of people come visit their booth. The point was to meet fans to spread a good word and hype for them after coming home, and get some press coverage too. Press coverage being only half of the PR value. E3 was also already quite "intimate" with plenty of chances for first hand chat with game company employees if you could at all visit.
If they want to make a greater profit from it, the obvious answer to me would be to just raise the entrance fees and let the problem solve itself, without decisions of a changed purpose and more restrictions in the show itself. I doubt much of the game industry agree with this decision. It seems this is yet another transition of E3 started last year with the stricter "booth babe" guidelines, and maybe it'll be even more tightened down after these news. Who knows where the people in charge want to go with this, but I'd believe it's neither according to the game companies' or fans' wishes, most evidently because no game company has expressed a concern or a wish for change about this -- instead they've hyped the show on their respective websites, and on fansites for their webmasters to get exclusive coverage, etc.
Sometimes it's just too funny reading Slashdot. :-)
... in Linux, it would be something like ...
:-p
Microsoft Adds Risky System-Wide Undelete to Vista
Ubuntu To Bring Journalling to the Masses
All this is, is a UI to better exploit NTFS journalling.
All people thinking this was a security concern now must have lived under a false sense of security before undelete was built-in. Deleting files rarely ever made them unrecoverable, at least in Windows, and I doubt many other systems as well. And whether living under a false sense of security is better or not, I guess that can be debated.
These hackers need to be taught how much involved NASA is in killing Libanese people. :-p
Oh boy, I always said WoW had the wierdiest people, but that fetish it just plain wrong!
I don't understand why people even put so much weight in an avatar gender. I CRPG as both just to make things less boring. If I've played 2 men before, maybe it's time to just make a female character for the heck of it. I've also heard female gamers that play as male ones to not grab annoying attention (it's not all about gifts). With everything taken together -- men playing as women just for a change, women playing as men just for a change, women playing as men to blend in and grab less attention among guys in puberty, men playing as women to try get more gifts, why don't people then understand that avatars are a wildly inaccurate way of seeing the person behind the avatar? Computer (MMO)RPG's are also a way to escape reality for many; ponder that a while, and the realism of gender roles in a game.
This may be hard for you to accept, but in war people die.
I don't think he believed otherwise.
Their language may be crude
I don't think his problem was with the language.
I think it was about how they found it fun. The mentality.
It makes no difference to a dead insurgent, but it do make a difference in the perception of the US army.
... and here's the actual press release for the discovery in case you want some more meat than given by the simplified USA Today article.
The most emotional ending I've seen was the one after completing Grim Fandango, but no, it was pretty far from crying though. :-p
I see nothing bugged in Outlook there. It seems more like just another software that's being launched by the user.
Since it involves executing an attachment while being a Windows administrator, it's more about the user than any OS security issues in this case.
I agree; I don't understand it at all.
320x240 looks pretty crisp here. Sure, I would probably notice a difference if doubling X and Y resolution, and then it would look superb and very crisp. That is, at 640x480.
If people will be fooled into getting this for a small screen, I don't know if I should laugh or cry.
I've never understood why people with 1-2GB of RAM freak out when applications actually use some of that available memory.
They do when Firefox resource usage starts to impact other applications' performance.
The problem isn't that Firefox may use a lot of free memory, the problem is that this behavior affect other hungry applications.
It feels kind of silly when you're working on a large Photoshop project and have a stupid web browser affect it, of all things.