What? There is no way they are going to make another Firefly movie... The first one bombed.
According to some figures I looked up, it looks like it may have come close to breaking even at the box-office. Yes, that would constitute a bomb by normal standards, but I bet nearly everyone of the diehard Firefly fans who went to see it also bought it when it came out on DVD. That would amount to a fair amount of money for Fox...
...there appeared to be an increased risk among brain cancer sufferers on the side of the head where they held the phone...almost exactly the same decreased risk was seen on the other side of the head...
WTF?!? Maybe this is an example of why I'm not a scientist, but doesn't that prove the connection? It seems to suggest that the cancer isn't caused by the phone's cell transmissions (as those would almost certainly pass clean through the head). However, the fact that there's increased risk on the phone side and decreased risk on the other side would seem to suggest that the phone itself is emitting some sort of localized field that increases the risk. No?
RFID has obvious privacy flaws, why is the world pointed in the direction of RFID?
Because they handily solve so many pressing problems? Don't blame the technology for its misuse, that's the fault of people. Stores can deactivate RFID tags just as they remove the current crop of anti-theft devices. If they don't, don't shop there!
...it would not be great if Apple started selling cheap hardware...
I completely agree. I hope they don't do that. Keep selling the same high quality, high asthetic that they do now, and allow it to run Windows? I may buy Dell or Gateway (or something else) crap simply because I have run Windows software - but if I could do so on a high quality Apple box? Sure, I'd pay extra for that!
Does Apple still support this when you're not running Mac OS X?
Let us not forget that Apple is first, and foremost, a hardware company. So why not? While the make some really nice software, they have had to do so to lure you to their hardware because there were few other options on their platform. As many speculate, and I'm inclined to agree, their impending move to Intel based chips should allow their boxes to run Windows - which would break down the last barrier to widespread acceptance in corporate America and allow them to compete directly with Gateway and Dell and, thus, perhaps gain more marketshare. Of course, the question remains, if you can run Windows on a Apple box, will it still be a better box? Or will Windows drag its overall quality down?
I agree whole heartedly, all it takes to get people to watch commercials is clever/entertaining commercials. I for one will always stop and watch a Jack in the Box commercial, even as I skip over the others. Why? 'Cause they're funny as hell (usually)...
Of course, Coca-Cola Zero uses the full name because it's a diet that tastes like regular!
I realize taste is highly subjective, but I find Coca-Cola Zero definately does not taste like regular. The Diet Coke with Splenda is much closer than Zero is...
This safe, naturally occurring, unmodified virus... It is patented...
I guess I really don't understand the purpose of a patent. If it is a naturally occurring, unmodified virus, why on Earth should you be able to patent it? But I suppose if they can patent the human genome...
Or is it really the application of this virus as cancer therapy that's been patented?
I don't know how they're handling other DVRs... As for how it was done before, they would install this little box in your house and every time the light lit up you had to write down what you were watching at the time in a log book. Then they'd collect the books somehow (fedex?). From what I've heard you got a pitiful amount of compensation for your efforts. So, as you can imagine, the majority of people who would be willing do that that amount of work for next to nothing are not the kind of people who watch quality programming!:-)
Of course, if you are a Nielsen household, you're not supposed to admit it publicly lest someone try to influence your viewing habits artifically. But I figure this is anonymous enough...
Hooray! I've been one of the new Nielsen TiVo households for about a year now and I'm thrilled to see them finally starting to break things out this way. The best part is it's easy, I don't have to do anything different, they just collect the data from TiVo. Finally shows like Mythbusters, Iron Chef, etc., might finally get some respect!
It could be everybody, it could be a handful of loudmouths...
Very sensible of you. I suspect it's the latter, simply because I haven't experienced any of these problems myself. If it's as frequent as they say, you'd think I would have by now. Not even when playing the "backwards compatible" Halo 2 (which looks great, BTW). Which is where I'd expect the most problems!
More likely Apple wanted to test the waters to see how well such a product would be received without making an all out gambit in the market. This way, they can try it, but if it fails, well "we didn't have anything to do with the design, it just licensed our DRM". If it does well, I fully expect a slick-as-hell phone *designed by Apple* to come out, perhaps as part of a full size iPod offering...
Use iTunes and get an iPod. 75% of the market has already figured that out, but I guess you're in the 25% still on the fence. Don't assume that because iTunes is DRM'd that it's bad. You can have up to five computers at once authorized to listen to your music, you can burn your songs to CDs as often as you like, and everything "just works". Should the iTunes music store or Apple fold, you're not screwed. Once your computer is authorized, it does not need to "dial home" just to play a song. So, simply burn your songs off to an audio CD and re-rip in your new software.
I think he's saying if you forget to deauthorize, don't realize you have to, or are unable to do so due to a complete hardware failure. In which case Apple can wipe the slate clean for you. I'm guessing THAT is limited to once per year. As you say, though, you can authorize/deauthorize at will though the software.
Me too. I made the switch about two years ago, and in the last few months made the switch at the office too (a nice progressive company). I am now completely windowless in my day to day existance. Good riddance. Welcome to the cult! Say it with me: "My name is XXXX, and I'm a Macaholic..."
Cut me a break. The other mention of Buzz Beer was post #13938847, a mere 54 posts before mine. At the time I hit the page and searched for other references it had not yet been posted. We must have been posting at very nearly the same time. And I get redundant for it. Boo, hiss.
Agreed. It also qualifies on other variants of the definition as well:
1. An individual thing or element of a class; a particular object or item: an article of clothing; articles of food. 2. A particular section or item of a series in a written document, as in a contract, constitution, or treaty. 3. A nonfictional literary composition that forms an independent part of a publication, as of a newspaper or magazine. 4. Grammar: 4.1. The part of speech used to indicate nouns and to specify their application. 4.2. Any of the words belonging to this part of speech. In English, the indefinite articles are a and an and the definite article is the. 5. A particular part or subject; a specific matter or point.
Is it an individual thing or element? Check. Is it a particular item of a series in a written document? Check. Is it a nonfictional literary composition that is an independant part of a publiction? Check. Is it a specific matter or point? Check. Sounds like an article to me. The only thing it is not, is a part of speech used to indicate nouns and specify their application.
What about the building's fire sprinkler system? Why did it fail? Or why didn't it have one?
I'm guessing you're an American. Having spent many years in Europe, I know that there are many buildings overseas that are older than our entire country. And, no, most of them have not been retrofitted to modern building codes. That's just the way it is. Though, as other have speculated, a fire as devistating as this one it may not have helped anyway.
It sucks that Taco had to change his name, but guess what? He should have known from the beginning that the name was against the rules. It's not like anything suddenly changed; that was the rule all along. If Taco didn't want to have to change the name of a well established character, he shouldn't have chosen a name that was blatantly against the rules in the first place.
Oh please. Like anybody actually reads the EULA's where such rules are spelled out. Did you?
And why is it that none of the widescreen laptops I've ever seen have a ratio that isn't the same as widescreen DVD, or HD? That is, 16:9? They're all something different...
The inclusion of a "Widescreen" option is puzzling, since the iPod cannot display video beyond 320x240 in h.264 and MPEG4 in 480x480. I'm not sure what benefit you'd get from changing this option. Perhaps this setting has something to do specifically with how widescreen televisions expect their video input, but since I live in SDTV land, I wouldn't know. I tried setting the widescreen option to "Yes" on my normal TV and it didn't seem to have any effect.
Discounting HDTV, the "Widescreen" DVD's are still technically formatted at a 4:3 aspect ratio on the disc. The only difference is that video is "squished" down from the 16:9 widescreen ratio. Video material that is flagged as widescreen and sent to a widescreen TV will be "unsquished" by the TV and stretched back out to fill the screen without black bars. On a standard aspect tv, the playback device must do this unsquishing itself and add the black bars to bring it back to a 4:3 ratio. The purpose of this setting in the iPod is probably the same as it is in a DVD player -- to tell it whether it should pass the video and flag is is (Widescreen = yes), or unsquish, add the black bars, and strip the flag (Widescreen = no). On programming that already is the standard 4:3 ratio this will make no difference.
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According to some figures I looked up, it looks like it may have come close to breaking even at the box-office. Yes, that would constitute a bomb by normal standards, but I bet nearly everyone of the diehard Firefly fans who went to see it also bought it when it came out on DVD. That would amount to a fair amount of money for Fox...
WTF?!? Maybe this is an example of why I'm not a scientist, but doesn't that prove the connection? It seems to suggest that the cancer isn't caused by the phone's cell transmissions (as those would almost certainly pass clean through the head). However, the fact that there's increased risk on the phone side and decreased risk on the other side would seem to suggest that the phone itself is emitting some sort of localized field that increases the risk. No?
Because they handily solve so many pressing problems? Don't blame the technology for its misuse, that's the fault of people. Stores can deactivate RFID tags just as they remove the current crop of anti-theft devices. If they don't, don't shop there!
Let us not forget that Seagate has now bought-out Maxtor... So, does it really matter?
How do we know he's not the one who wrote the Wikipedia articles in question?
I completely agree. I hope they don't do that. Keep selling the same high quality, high asthetic that they do now, and allow it to run Windows? I may buy Dell or Gateway (or something else) crap simply because I have run Windows software - but if I could do so on a high quality Apple box? Sure, I'd pay extra for that!
Let us not forget that Apple is first, and foremost, a hardware company. So why not? While the make some really nice software, they have had to do so to lure you to their hardware because there were few other options on their platform. As many speculate, and I'm inclined to agree, their impending move to Intel based chips should allow their boxes to run Windows - which would break down the last barrier to widespread acceptance in corporate America and allow them to compete directly with Gateway and Dell and, thus, perhaps gain more marketshare. Of course, the question remains, if you can run Windows on a Apple box, will it still be a better box? Or will Windows drag its overall quality down?
I agree whole heartedly, all it takes to get people to watch commercials is clever/entertaining commercials. I for one will always stop and watch a Jack in the Box commercial, even as I skip over the others. Why? 'Cause they're funny as hell (usually)...
I realize taste is highly subjective, but I find Coca-Cola Zero definately does not taste like regular. The Diet Coke with Splenda is much closer than Zero is...
I guess I really don't understand the purpose of a patent. If it is a naturally occurring, unmodified virus, why on Earth should you be able to patent it? But I suppose if they can patent the human genome...
Or is it really the application of this virus as cancer therapy that's been patented?
I don't know how they're handling other DVRs... As for how it was done before, they would install this little box in your house and every time the light lit up you had to write down what you were watching at the time in a log book. Then they'd collect the books somehow (fedex?). From what I've heard you got a pitiful amount of compensation for your efforts. So, as you can imagine, the majority of people who would be willing do that that amount of work for next to nothing are not the kind of people who watch quality programming! :-)
Of course, if you are a Nielsen household, you're not supposed to admit it publicly lest someone try to influence your viewing habits artifically. But I figure this is anonymous enough...
Hooray! I've been one of the new Nielsen TiVo households for about a year now and I'm thrilled to see them finally starting to break things out this way. The best part is it's easy, I don't have to do anything different, they just collect the data from TiVo. Finally shows like Mythbusters, Iron Chef, etc., might finally get some respect!
Very sensible of you. I suspect it's the latter, simply because I haven't experienced any of these problems myself. If it's as frequent as they say, you'd think I would have by now. Not even when playing the "backwards compatible" Halo 2 (which looks great, BTW). Which is where I'd expect the most problems!
More likely Apple wanted to test the waters to see how well such a product would be received without making an all out gambit in the market. This way, they can try it, but if it fails, well "we didn't have anything to do with the design, it just licensed our DRM". If it does well, I fully expect a slick-as-hell phone *designed by Apple* to come out, perhaps as part of a full size iPod offering...
Use iTunes and get an iPod. 75% of the market has already figured that out, but I guess you're in the 25% still on the fence. Don't assume that because iTunes is DRM'd that it's bad. You can have up to five computers at once authorized to listen to your music, you can burn your songs to CDs as often as you like, and everything "just works". Should the iTunes music store or Apple fold, you're not screwed. Once your computer is authorized, it does not need to "dial home" just to play a song. So, simply burn your songs off to an audio CD and re-rip in your new software.
I think he's saying if you forget to deauthorize, don't realize you have to, or are unable to do so due to a complete hardware failure. In which case Apple can wipe the slate clean for you. I'm guessing THAT is limited to once per year. As you say, though, you can authorize/deauthorize at will though the software.
Me too. I made the switch about two years ago, and in the last few months made the switch at the office too (a nice progressive company). I am now completely windowless in my day to day existance. Good riddance. Welcome to the cult! Say it with me: "My name is XXXX, and I'm a Macaholic..."
Cut me a break. The other mention of Buzz Beer was post #13938847, a mere 54 posts before mine. At the time I hit the page and searched for other references it had not yet been posted. We must have been posting at very nearly the same time. And I get redundant for it. Boo, hiss.
Is it an individual thing or element? Check. Is it a particular item of a series in a written document? Check. Is it a nonfictional literary composition that is an independant part of a publiction? Check. Is it a specific matter or point? Check. Sounds like an article to me. The only thing it is not, is a part of speech used to indicate nouns and specify their application.
Uh, wouldn't Buzz Beer from the Drew Carey show be considered prior art?
I'm guessing you're an American. Having spent many years in Europe, I know that there are many buildings overseas that are older than our entire country. And, no, most of them have not been retrofitted to modern building codes. That's just the way it is. Though, as other have speculated, a fire as devistating as this one it may not have helped anyway.
Oh please. Like anybody actually reads the EULA's where such rules are spelled out. Did you?
The PetaBox, as previously discussed on Slashdot sounds like just what you want...
And why is it that none of the widescreen laptops I've ever seen have a ratio that isn't the same as widescreen DVD, or HD? That is, 16:9? They're all something different...
Discounting HDTV, the "Widescreen" DVD's are still technically formatted at a 4:3 aspect ratio on the disc. The only difference is that video is "squished" down from the 16:9 widescreen ratio. Video material that is flagged as widescreen and sent to a widescreen TV will be "unsquished" by the TV and stretched back out to fill the screen without black bars. On a standard aspect tv, the playback device must do this unsquishing itself and add the black bars to bring it back to a 4:3 ratio. The purpose of this setting in the iPod is probably the same as it is in a DVD player -- to tell it whether it should pass the video and flag is is (Widescreen = yes), or unsquish, add the black bars, and strip the flag (Widescreen = no). On programming that already is the standard 4:3 ratio this will make no difference.