Why in the world would I use *my* upload bandwidth to help the bloated Hollywood junkies make $$$, AND PAY THEM FOR IT ON TOP OF IT?? Do they really think that...
The same reason people do it today.
Faster download speeds and lower cost.
However, I would imagine that the hollywood junkies cannot compete with the cost of zero.
In Japanese at least, the on yomi (shi) of the number four is a homonym for death. Probably not the sort of feeling they would want to convey for a new console's launch.
Did allofmp3 pay a cent to artists getting downloaded? No RIAA , no DRM argument please. Lets say I downloaded David Gilmour album, did Mr. Gilmour get a cent?
I work for Microsoft as a programmer. I wrote Clippy. I don't get a cent off of every Office CD sold, bootlegged, or whatever, I just get a salary.
Actually, I lied. I work for Nike, I'm a sweatshop worker making sneakers. I don't get a cent off of every pair of shoes sold, bootlegged, or whatever, I just get a salary.
Actually, I lied. I'm a self employed shareware author. I wrote Paint Shop Pro. I get paid every time someone buys a copy of PSPro, I don't get a cent when its bootlegged or if noone buys the software.
Actually, I can't tell the truth. I work for Sony as a recording artist. I'm nobody big, just a studio musician that pays keyboard and effects for studio recordings. I don't get a cent off of every CD sold, I just get paid when I do work.
Besides big, brand name musicians, who works by the piece and expects lifetime royalties from each piece sold?
It is legal and moral to do it there, and in contrast it is illegal and immoral to sell it on the USA.
In ethics class, I missed the topic of morality and national borders.
So, its now moral to drive on the right side of the road in the USA, immoral to drive on the right side of the road in England?
The currently legal means of music distribution is simply outdated, just as outdated as casettes, 8 tracks, and vinyl. Sure, there are people that still use these things, maybe even prefer them, but I don't hear about how casettes, 8 tracks or vinyl is the new "iPod killer".
Currently, I can pay a flat monthly fee and store and watch my TV shows at my leasure. I can pay more for other content like HBO, and then store it and watch it at my leasure.
Currently, I pay the same people for internet access that sells me television service for internet access, but its illegal (and now immoral) for me to store and listen to music via that service, but legal and moral for me to watch television via that service.
CDs simply do not fit into my iPod any better than a vinyl record. So, what am I supposed to do?
With the current model, the option is to buy a CD, go through all of the plastic and crap to put the thing into my computer, convert the data from the CD to a format that my computer and iPod can use. So, at the end of the day all I have for my money is a backup copy of the music, when I never intended to pay for a backup copy, I wanted to pay for something that I can use.
Now, what is different between music and television? I don't want to watch TV while I'm at work, while I'm driving down the road, while I'm working out or any number of other situations.
Today, I download music that I already have on CD because its easier than ripping my CDs. Sometimes I listen to the radio because its easier to have a DJ choose the music for me. I don't believe I'm any less moral for downloading music than I am for listening to the radio or a CD that I bought.
Since the fucking tools in Redmond are shoving ever more bloated crap at us requiring us to replace our hardware ever more frequently why the hell don't governments charge Microsoft that recycling tax instead of pushing the problem down on the consumer who has no other choice.
Last I checked, XP was released in 2001. If hardware followed "as quickly" as Microsoft OS releases, then it would be much slower than Microsoft's pace. In my experience, hadware is usually replaced in 3-4 years, and frequently the older stuff is still used.
Most high schools in the US are run like hormone prisons: keep the pubescent teenagers contained and under strict lock and key until their bodies have finished turning them into adults.
The sad thing is that something like 85% of the big boy prisons are populated with people that did not finish the hormone prisons.
What I learned was true americans did not want the jobs, heck even I hated mine at the time. Another truth is many of the american employees were lazy, unproductive, had low self esteem and took little pride in their work.
The big difference here is that the Americans are at the bottom of the bunch, the Hispanics see this kind of work as an opportunity.
Americans have pride issues. We joke with people and ask them "would you like to biggie size that?" or "did you want paper or plastic?" which is basically the same as joking on Kenny's family because they are poor.
Americans don't respect hard honest work, they respect bling and busting your ass at McDonald's is not going to get you too much bling.
Locks get picked. Cars get stolen. RFID can be disrupted, tampered with or your card can get stolen (I'm assuming you don't have RFID tags in your arm).
Someone across the world cannot pick a lock, steal a car, or disrupt an RFID tag, or any of those things.
None of those things expire, have to be changed, have to be mentally remembered, cannot easily be given to another person without disrupting my use of them.
Even simple locks that can be cut with simple wire cutters are more secure than a password because when a simple lock is used on something it symbolizes that it is something out of the ordinary.
Passwords are ordinary to the point of being obnoxious. Normal users don't associate them with security, but something that just happens all the time on computers. Even today, its fairly trivial to social engineer a password over the telephone, but even the blondest of secretaries would not give keys to basically anything.
Now that its 2006, can we now use a better form of "authentication" than a few ascii characters?
Every website wants you to have a password. You know, for important stuff like making a purchase because you use a password for a purchase at a brick and mortar store, right?
Well, since its a good practice to use unique passwords, and users get forgetful, then they use the web browser tool to store their passwords, then they forget their passwords, and when they use another computer or update their existing one, their tool does not work, and if it does work, then the browser gives away your passwords.
I don't use a password to get into my home, I don't start my car with a password, I don't use a password to get into my work. In fact, I don't even have a key for my work, server room, nothing (RFID). But all day at work, these programs continually ask for my password to the point that I dont consider my password secure because I have to change it, and use it so much, I'm desensisized (sp?) and say who cares?
What I'd like to see is for AMD to put the CPU and GPU on separate chips, but make them pin-compatible and attach them both to the hypertransport bus.
Maybe I'm just projecting, but what I think that you want, and many others out there want is simply a better bus, bridge, magic, glue or whatever you want to call it between the major parts of a computer.
There are many other xPUs out there that people want to add to computers, but the price/performance, especially if the data must go out to the peripheral and back to the main memory, CPU, or whatever simply does not pan out. I'm talking about crypto units, physics units, custom VLSI units, FFT units, TCP offloaders, there are tons of things that could make use of a better bus on a computer, but in recent history these things have mostly failed because the time that the price/performance seems reasonable CPUs progress to the point that they can just brute force the processing about as fast as the specialized addon can.
Right now we have FPUs, CPUs, and GPUs, and GPUs were able to sneak around the price/performance barrier because they are pretty much uni-directional devices.
Now regarding AMD's thrust here. I could be very wrong, but I believe that its either a waste of time or its something that will revolutionize computing, but I simply don't see the latter. A combo CPU/GPU either only targets the very low end generic computer or a specialized graphics type of computer. With the failure of the other addons to computers, I don't see the advantage. Graphics simply don't matter in the server market.
But seriously, when the first SCO thing came about, the Linux people said, "We don't want to infringe on anyone's IP, so tell us where it we are infringing, and we will rewrite the code."
Same applies here. Open source takes a little of the fun out of these things, now doesn't it?
Oh, great. You just know some wingnut wackjob is going to latch onto this nugget of information and try and use it as "evidence" of racial superiority. Then you'll get the 24-hour news networks milking it for all the ratings as they can.
First, what is the obsession for people to think everybody's equal when the fact is that they are not?
Black people are statistically darker than white people. Women are smaller, shorter, have boobies and larger hips. There are TONS of differences here, but to be as politically neutral as possible I'll stop with the examples here.
Trust me, if you look at the data, there are differences in races, cultures, religions, etc, and those differences are measurable, and there are even differences within a race, culture, and religion as well. There are also differences in dominance as well.
Now, regarding the better part. That is purely perceptual to the individual.
Lets try this. When you forget to lock your Lexus and it's not there when you are ready to go golfing, that sucks. Almost as much as when you go to use the server and some hackers are using it to joy ride the net and sell all your customer records while you are liable. But unlike the car, where you can buy a new one, it's a pain in the ass to buy a new company image.
Actually, thats a great analogy.
We have transitioned from the industrial age to the information age, and the security will follow that transition.
Also, a clear explanation to give to upper management is that the attention and money spent on security should be proportional to the perceived value of that information and the desire to keep the information available for its users.
Fort Knox has an army base next door and pretty good security. My house has a simple lock that can be kicked in with minimal desire.
The problem is that NASA, and other space agencies, standardized on a date/time format composed of day-of-year (1..366) and time-of-day (UTC). This goes back to the 1960s. In ASCII, the clock looks like "310 04:35.27.642".
I guess that is why when I program and for other programs that care about dates use their own internal format that can be added, subtracted, etc.
My personal preferance is time_t format. Databases use a format that is larger to accomodate a wider range of dates.
Now, regarding the space shuttle, I would assume (and this is a BIG assumption here not knowing the code requirements) that time difference is what is significant, not the actual time.
Again, at a first glance, I don't see where a space shuttle would care if its January, December, EST, GMT, or whatever, it seems as though the delta is what is important.
Its always important to pick good datatypes, otherwise you will always be writing code to patch the deficiencies in your datatype choice.
the truth is people should never cite wikipedia as a source. It's not because the information is wrong, but it's because the information has not been vetted in a process that can be methodically demonstrated.
I guess it could be cited similar to an anonymous interview (if that is an acceptable source).
My point is that regardless of the accuracy of Wikipedia, its a dynamic medium.
If I were to cite 2+2=4 from Wikipedia today, tomorrow it could be 2+2=5. There is no versioning or release dates for a Wikipedia article, so citing it is about the same as citing an anonymous interview with someone.
"This" is a little unclear, but regarding the less than 1 mil for a peon and greater than 1 mil for a corp, its called a sliding scale. You can't even get a corp's attention for less than a mil because it will go to their legal department and your cheap lawyer will not understand their legalese and tell you "there is nothing we can do". Heck, just the time involved in a big case justifies a good portion of the money. The money involved is directly proportional to the time it takes to go to court if it does. This is also a good thing because if any bozo could sue Google for $5 mil and get a check next week, EVERYBODY would be doing it. If someone sues Google and wins $5 mil after a 5 year legal battle and then the lawyers take all of the money, people are less likely to sue at the drop of a hat.
I hate to be defending the system, but I've been involved with it, and it makes much more sense than it seems at the surface.
No. I can use the shell, read and write mail and Usenet, surf the web, chat with others, manage windows, etc., all without using the mouse. I rarely even find the mouse convenient; it sits there a long movement away from where my hands are (on the keyboard), and it requires adjusting hand movement to the position of a pointer in a different plane.
Don't even start the ergonomics issues with computers. Mice are only the beginning.
OK, we have a keyboard that is designed to slow english text input down. Then there is the ingrained to the hardware level of the CAPLOCKS key. Then there is the 6 or so inches of crap to the right of the keyboard (arrows, page up/down, numeric keypad), and then after skipping over all of that stuff there is the auxilary input device, the mouse that has almost replaced the enter/return key. (Yes, this is mostly biased towards right handed people like computer input is in general).
I hate to say this, but actually (and ironically) Windows is the best OS to have if your mouse is broken. OS X is the worst.
The only FM radio station I listen to is 88.7FM because that's the station that my iPod FM transmitter is set to.
Wow! Mystery finally solved.
I would surf the FM channels and land on 88.7 sometimes and I thought it was cool because it had no commercials, but I was puzzled why it always played sucky music and sometimes the songs would skip to a new track.
I Agree. I just want a simple phone with decent standby time and excellent reception. I don't need a camera or an MP3 player or a web browser. I just want a phone... seriously.
I agree also, but look at the bottom paragraph:
And will it appear in the United States? For that to happen, Reith says, Motorola will have to find a willing service provider or agree to sell its product alongside no-name brands at drugstores.
Ouch!
Basically, this phone is being developed and marketed for "economically challenged" markets, and they still plan on selling the good phones to europe and asia, and selling the expensive crappy, phones to the US people.
To me, this phone seems awsome. 9mm thick, the display is "always on" but consumes no power between screen updates. It sounds like just a good phone.
If you do the job right, no ones sure you've done anything at all.
Yup. A sysadmin is one of the strangest jobs ever. There is no real schooling for it, most people are not that good at it, its fairly stressful with little external gratitude... The list goes on.
Now, regarding this sysadmin of the year thing. Another strange thing about this sysadmin business is that I know of approximately 0 "famous" or even known ones besides the BOFH. That too goes into the stuff I said in the first paragraph.
Other similar jobs are janitors, God, and security people. However, the last one can really get some at least local press by being a PITA for implementing some new draconian policy.
Downloading wallpapers for my walls is going to be awesome
So true. This is coming too. With epaper and the like, and with the higer res HDTVs that are wall mountable, getting this stuff to be thinner is just a matter of time.
I think it would be the shit to be able to have even a static display cover every inch of a wall. You know when you pick a new wallpaper with your computer it doesn't look the same as the thumbnail, be it better or worse. You never really know until you try. Doing that with a real wall would be killer.
Now with this image in question, I'm not that impressed:
True Scale Resolution: 227 dpi
Yeah, its big, but 200 dpi is nothing to get that excited about.
Wikipedia's biggest flaw is that the admins simply can not stop a large biased mob of editors trying to keep the article biased. Just look at all the articles related to Ayn Rand. All of them are in some way slanted in favor of Rand and/or her fans because a mob of her fans keep it in perpetual bias. So far, I haven't found one admin who's willing to deal with the problem; all of them have told me that it's too big of a mess for them to handle, or flat out refused to do anything.
Time will tell. Today, school books, including history books have errors in them, but either the information is not important and will be forgotten, or it will get corrected in time.
Personally, I find Wikipedia to be surprisingly neutral and factual. Sure, there are exceptions.
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Why in the world would I use *my* upload bandwidth to help the bloated Hollywood junkies make $$$, AND PAY THEM FOR IT ON TOP OF IT?? Do they really think that...
The same reason people do it today.
Faster download speeds and lower cost.
However, I would imagine that the hollywood junkies cannot compete with the cost of zero.
In Japanese at least, the on yomi (shi) of the number four is a homonym for death. Probably not the sort of feeling they would want to convey for a new console's launch.
Then they will probably call it a Pentium.
I wonder what kind of sniffer he was using to get passwords is 'seconds', including the higher-ups... weren't they not in the building at that time?
The same thing that people have been doing for over 10 years.
Lanman hash sniffs.
Did allofmp3 pay a cent to artists getting downloaded? No RIAA , no DRM argument please. Lets say I downloaded David Gilmour album, did Mr. Gilmour get a cent?
I work for Microsoft as a programmer. I wrote Clippy. I don't get a cent off of every Office CD sold, bootlegged, or whatever, I just get a salary.
Actually, I lied. I work for Nike, I'm a sweatshop worker making sneakers. I don't get a cent off of every pair of shoes sold, bootlegged, or whatever, I just get a salary.
Actually, I lied. I'm a self employed shareware author. I wrote Paint Shop Pro. I get paid every time someone buys a copy of PSPro, I don't get a cent when its bootlegged or if noone buys the software.
Actually, I can't tell the truth. I work for Sony as a recording artist. I'm nobody big, just a studio musician that pays keyboard and effects for studio recordings. I don't get a cent off of every CD sold, I just get paid when I do work.
Besides big, brand name musicians, who works by the piece and expects lifetime royalties from each piece sold?
It is legal and moral to do it there, and in contrast it is illegal and immoral to sell it on the USA.
In ethics class, I missed the topic of morality and national borders.
So, its now moral to drive on the right side of the road in the USA, immoral to drive on the right side of the road in England?
The currently legal means of music distribution is simply outdated, just as outdated as casettes, 8 tracks, and vinyl. Sure, there are people that still use these things, maybe even prefer them, but I don't hear about how casettes, 8 tracks or vinyl is the new "iPod killer".
Currently, I can pay a flat monthly fee and store and watch my TV shows at my leasure. I can pay more for other content like HBO, and then store it and watch it at my leasure.
Currently, I pay the same people for internet access that sells me television service for internet access, but its illegal (and now immoral) for me to store and listen to music via that service, but legal and moral for me to watch television via that service.
CDs simply do not fit into my iPod any better than a vinyl record. So, what am I supposed to do?
With the current model, the option is to buy a CD, go through all of the plastic and crap to put the thing into my computer, convert the data from the CD to a format that my computer and iPod can use. So, at the end of the day all I have for my money is a backup copy of the music, when I never intended to pay for a backup copy, I wanted to pay for something that I can use.
Now, what is different between music and television? I don't want to watch TV while I'm at work, while I'm driving down the road, while I'm working out or any number of other situations.
Today, I download music that I already have on CD because its easier than ripping my CDs. Sometimes I listen to the radio because its easier to have a DJ choose the music for me. I don't believe I'm any less moral for downloading music than I am for listening to the radio or a CD that I bought.
Since the fucking tools in Redmond are shoving ever more bloated crap at us requiring us to replace our hardware ever more frequently why the hell don't governments charge Microsoft that recycling tax instead of pushing the problem down on the consumer who has no other choice.
Last I checked, XP was released in 2001. If hardware followed "as quickly" as Microsoft OS releases, then it would be much slower than Microsoft's pace. In my experience, hadware is usually replaced in 3-4 years, and frequently the older stuff is still used.
Most high schools in the US are run like hormone prisons: keep the pubescent teenagers contained and under strict lock and key until their bodies have finished turning them into adults.
The sad thing is that something like 85% of the big boy prisons are populated with people that did not finish the hormone prisons.
What I learned was true americans did not want the jobs, heck even I hated mine at the time. Another truth is many of the american employees were lazy, unproductive, had low self esteem and took little pride in their work.
The big difference here is that the Americans are at the bottom of the bunch, the Hispanics see this kind of work as an opportunity.
Americans have pride issues. We joke with people and ask them "would you like to biggie size that?" or "did you want paper or plastic?" which is basically the same as joking on Kenny's family because they are poor.
Americans don't respect hard honest work, they respect bling and busting your ass at McDonald's is not going to get you too much bling.
Locks get picked. Cars get stolen. RFID can be disrupted, tampered with or your card can get stolen (I'm assuming you don't have RFID tags in your arm).
Someone across the world cannot pick a lock, steal a car, or disrupt an RFID tag, or any of those things.
None of those things expire, have to be changed, have to be mentally remembered, cannot easily be given to another person without disrupting my use of them.
Even simple locks that can be cut with simple wire cutters are more secure than a password because when a simple lock is used on something it symbolizes that it is something out of the ordinary.
Passwords are ordinary to the point of being obnoxious. Normal users don't associate them with security, but something that just happens all the time on computers. Even today, its fairly trivial to social engineer a password over the telephone, but even the blondest of secretaries would not give keys to basically anything.
Now that its 2006, can we now use a better form of "authentication" than a few ascii characters?
Every website wants you to have a password. You know, for important stuff like making a purchase because you use a password for a purchase at a brick and mortar store, right?
Well, since its a good practice to use unique passwords, and users get forgetful, then they use the web browser tool to store their passwords, then they forget their passwords, and when they use another computer or update their existing one, their tool does not work, and if it does work, then the browser gives away your passwords.
I don't use a password to get into my home, I don't start my car with a password, I don't use a password to get into my work. In fact, I don't even have a key for my work, server room, nothing (RFID). But all day at work, these programs continually ask for my password to the point that I dont consider my password secure because I have to change it, and use it so much, I'm desensisized (sp?) and say who cares?
Can we get over passwords soon?
What I'd like to see is for AMD to put the CPU and GPU on separate chips, but make them pin-compatible and attach them both to the hypertransport bus.
Maybe I'm just projecting, but what I think that you want, and many others out there want is simply a better bus, bridge, magic, glue or whatever you want to call it between the major parts of a computer.
There are many other xPUs out there that people want to add to computers, but the price/performance, especially if the data must go out to the peripheral and back to the main memory, CPU, or whatever simply does not pan out. I'm talking about crypto units, physics units, custom VLSI units, FFT units, TCP offloaders, there are tons of things that could make use of a better bus on a computer, but in recent history these things have mostly failed because the time that the price/performance seems reasonable CPUs progress to the point that they can just brute force the processing about as fast as the specialized addon can.
Right now we have FPUs, CPUs, and GPUs, and GPUs were able to sneak around the price/performance barrier because they are pretty much uni-directional devices.
Now regarding AMD's thrust here. I could be very wrong, but I believe that its either a waste of time or its something that will revolutionize computing, but I simply don't see the latter. A combo CPU/GPU either only targets the very low end generic computer or a specialized graphics type of computer. With the failure of the other addons to computers, I don't see the advantage. Graphics simply don't matter in the server market.
But seriously, when the first SCO thing came about, the Linux people said, "We don't want to infringe on anyone's IP, so tell us where it we are infringing, and we will rewrite the code."
Same applies here. Open source takes a little of the fun out of these things, now doesn't it?
Oh, great. You just know some wingnut wackjob is going to latch onto this nugget of information and try and use it as "evidence" of racial superiority. Then you'll get the 24-hour news networks milking it for all the ratings as they can.
First, what is the obsession for people to think everybody's equal when the fact is that they are not?
Black people are statistically darker than white people. Women are smaller, shorter, have boobies and larger hips. There are TONS of differences here, but to be as politically neutral as possible I'll stop with the examples here.
Trust me, if you look at the data, there are differences in races, cultures, religions, etc, and those differences are measurable, and there are even differences within a race, culture, and religion as well. There are also differences in dominance as well.
Now, regarding the better part. That is purely perceptual to the individual.
Lets try this. When you forget to lock your Lexus and it's not there when you are ready to go golfing, that sucks. Almost as much as when you go to use the server and some hackers are using it to joy ride the net and sell all your customer records while you are liable. But unlike the car, where you can buy a new one, it's a pain in the ass to buy a new company image.
Actually, thats a great analogy.
We have transitioned from the industrial age to the information age, and the security will follow that transition.
Also, a clear explanation to give to upper management is that the attention and money spent on security should be proportional to the perceived value of that information and the desire to keep the information available for its users.
Fort Knox has an army base next door and pretty good security. My house has a simple lock that can be kicked in with minimal desire.
The problem is that NASA, and other space agencies, standardized on a date/time format composed of day-of-year (1..366) and time-of-day (UTC). This goes back to the 1960s. In ASCII, the clock looks like "310 04:35.27.642".
I guess that is why when I program and for other programs that care about dates use their own internal format that can be added, subtracted, etc.
My personal preferance is time_t format. Databases use a format that is larger to accomodate a wider range of dates.
Now, regarding the space shuttle, I would assume (and this is a BIG assumption here not knowing the code requirements) that time difference is what is significant, not the actual time.
Again, at a first glance, I don't see where a space shuttle would care if its January, December, EST, GMT, or whatever, it seems as though the delta is what is important.
Its always important to pick good datatypes, otherwise you will always be writing code to patch the deficiencies in your datatype choice.
the truth is people should never cite wikipedia as a source. It's not because the information is wrong, but it's because the information has not been vetted in a process that can be methodically demonstrated.
I guess it could be cited similar to an anonymous interview (if that is an acceptable source).
My point is that regardless of the accuracy of Wikipedia, its a dynamic medium.
If I were to cite 2+2=4 from Wikipedia today, tomorrow it could be 2+2=5. There is no versioning or release dates for a Wikipedia article, so citing it is about the same as citing an anonymous interview with someone.
This was one of the selling features of living in the US vs USSR. We were free to come and go, in the USSR travel was very restricted.
Personally, I'm disgusted.
I'm serious -- can someone explain this to me?
"This" is a little unclear, but regarding the less than 1 mil for a peon and greater than 1 mil for a corp, its called a sliding scale. You can't even get a corp's attention for less than a mil because it will go to their legal department and your cheap lawyer will not understand their legalese and tell you "there is nothing we can do". Heck, just the time involved in a big case justifies a good portion of the money. The money involved is directly proportional to the time it takes to go to court if it does. This is also a good thing because if any bozo could sue Google for $5 mil and get a check next week, EVERYBODY would be doing it. If someone sues Google and wins $5 mil after a 5 year legal battle and then the lawyers take all of the money, people are less likely to sue at the drop of a hat.
I hate to be defending the system, but I've been involved with it, and it makes much more sense than it seems at the surface.
There is always the appeal process too...
No. I can use the shell, read and write mail and Usenet, surf the web, chat with others, manage windows, etc., all without using the mouse. I rarely even find the mouse convenient; it sits there a long movement away from where my hands are (on the keyboard), and it requires adjusting hand movement to the position of a pointer in a different plane.
Don't even start the ergonomics issues with computers. Mice are only the beginning.
OK, we have a keyboard that is designed to slow english text input down. Then there is the ingrained to the hardware level of the CAPLOCKS key. Then there is the 6 or so inches of crap to the right of the keyboard (arrows, page up/down, numeric keypad), and then after skipping over all of that stuff there is the auxilary input device, the mouse that has almost replaced the enter/return key. (Yes, this is mostly biased towards right handed people like computer input is in general).
I hate to say this, but actually (and ironically) Windows is the best OS to have if your mouse is broken. OS X is the worst.
The only FM radio station I listen to is 88.7FM because that's the station that my iPod FM transmitter is set to.
Wow! Mystery finally solved.
I would surf the FM channels and land on 88.7 sometimes and I thought it was cool because it had no commercials, but I was puzzled why it always played sucky music and sometimes the songs would skip to a new track.
Now I know!
I Agree. I just want a simple phone with decent standby time and excellent reception. I don't need a camera or an MP3 player or a web browser. I just want a phone... seriously.
I agree also, but look at the bottom paragraph:
And will it appear in the United States? For that to happen, Reith says, Motorola will have to find a willing service provider or agree to sell its product alongside no-name brands at drugstores.
Ouch!
Basically, this phone is being developed and marketed for "economically challenged" markets, and they still plan on selling the good phones to europe and asia, and selling the expensive crappy, phones to the US people.
To me, this phone seems awsome. 9mm thick, the display is "always on" but consumes no power between screen updates. It sounds like just a good phone.
Too bad we can't get one.
If you do the job right, no ones sure you've done anything at all.
Yup. A sysadmin is one of the strangest jobs ever. There is no real schooling for it, most people are not that good at it, its fairly stressful with little external gratitude... The list goes on.
Now, regarding this sysadmin of the year thing. Another strange thing about this sysadmin business is that I know of approximately 0 "famous" or even known ones besides the BOFH. That too goes into the stuff I said in the first paragraph.
Other similar jobs are janitors, God, and security people. However, the last one can really get some at least local press by being a PITA for implementing some new draconian policy.
Downloading wallpapers for my walls is going to be awesome
So true. This is coming too. With epaper and the like, and with the higer res HDTVs that are wall mountable, getting this stuff to be thinner is just a matter of time.
I think it would be the shit to be able to have even a static display cover every inch of a wall. You know when you pick a new wallpaper with your computer it doesn't look the same as the thumbnail, be it better or worse. You never really know until you try. Doing that with a real wall would be killer.
Now with this image in question, I'm not that impressed:
True Scale Resolution: 227 dpi
Yeah, its big, but 200 dpi is nothing to get that excited about.
Kim du Toit explained this phenomenon some time ago in this essay. I think he hit it right on the head.
Careful, I called it feminization here on slashdot 6 or so months ago and got modded to oblivion.
Wikipedia's biggest flaw is that the admins simply can not stop a large biased mob of editors trying to keep the article biased. Just look at all the articles related to Ayn Rand. All of them are in some way slanted in favor of Rand and/or her fans because a mob of her fans keep it in perpetual bias. So far, I haven't found one admin who's willing to deal with the problem; all of them have told me that it's too big of a mess for them to handle, or flat out refused to do anything.
Time will tell. Today, school books, including history books have errors in them, but either the information is not important and will be forgotten, or it will get corrected in time.
Personally, I find Wikipedia to be surprisingly neutral and factual. Sure, there are exceptions.