Mac OS X could do it if someone creates a Terminal widget - so far I have not found one. All you would have to do is hit F12 - and there is your terminal, pulled up in lovely Mac OSX fashion.;)
I am curious about something related to this - we have all heard about dinosaur industries fighting very hard to stay on top. RIAA is a great example of this as everyone knows. The fallout includes them stifling inovation with lawsuits and lobbying. Eventually I do believe they will fall. But what do you think the backlash might be when the oil industry is no longer needed? Our government is pretty heavily in bed with oil tycoons and the like, and those are the guys in power for goodness sake. We are talking about a president willing to throw all caution to the wind in order to drill for oil in protected teritories. How do we know that our government will be altruistic in helping the world achieve what would be an immense victory against the dependence on oil and other heavily polluting natural resources? Is there even anything we can do about it? All it would take is one REALLY bad "cold fusion incident" or "cold fusion terrorist attack" to make the whole process illegal. Crazier things have happened.
A lot of the posts here talk about "artist rights" and "compensating the artist" or perhaps "incenting the artist to produce". We all know it has nothing to do with that - this is about making it worth the publishing companies while to produce a huge hit - so it can profit them for a 100 years. People dont live that long, obviously this ISNT for the artist - companies can live forever. At least until the revolution comes anyway...
In the future expect this madness to stop - the governments will finally get a big enough payout and say "ok ok - copyright lasts 1,000 years".
Not to be cynical...but. Welcome to capitalism. People WILL try to get ahead simply by outspending you. Typical of a rich-get-richer poor-get-poorer climate where you have to HAVE money to MAKE it.
I am surprised there is not talk about the price drop for the Cinema Displays. 200 dollar drop is amazing!! I am going to buy one this Friday when I attend my Tiger release party @ Richmond Short Pump Apple Store.:)
(yes...shameless mac addict, but i only switched about one year ago, never looked back)
The point of this system is NOT to distribute RIAA copyrighted works. That is a huge different between this and say, KaZaa or Limewire.
When the supreme court was hearing the case of MGM vs Grokster, one of the main issues was that the Beta Max decision "(a.k.a. the "Sony Betamax ruling") held that a distributor cannot be held liable for users' infringement so long as the tool is capable of substantial noninfringing uses." One of the main issues in the MGM V Grok case is that the majority of its use is used for "infringing uses", i.e. trading copyrighted works (even though there are plenty of legal uses), and the makers knew this, thereby using the traded copyright material as startup capital. In this new software, the main idea is NOT to distribute Copyrighted works (without permission of the copyright owner), and I do hope that the software maintainers take steps to eliminate illegal activity on their network.
The ability for music consumers to have easy access to a central wealth of non-crippled music is exactly the type of legal counterbalance to the RIAA tyranny over music distribution, NOT pirating.
I own a DS...hate it in fact. VERY few games out so far, nintendo is basically sitting on its rear. At least with the PSP you can do many more things with it like eBooks (now if we could find some eBooks), movies, pitures, mp3, etc.
Are they kidding? Putting this guy in jail will be the informational age equivalent of being a martyr! Someone should tell the prosecutors: "If you strike him down, he will become more powerful than you could possibly imagine!"
I agree with you..pretty much anything can be addictive, especially if it is enjoyable. I think what is new here is that we are finding that MMORPGs are especially addictive because they are in fact designed to be. Again, that is nothing new - smoking was designed to be addictive by the tabbaco industry, casions are designed to keep you gambling, etc. The newsworhtyness in the article is just pointing out that the trend in videogames is changing in that they are now being intentionally designed to be addictive.
On a side note, I played WoW for about 2 months. At first I played about 5-10 hours per week. A month later I was playing 30+ hours a week, and I really started noticing a decline in work performance and personal life balance. I realized I was falling into the addiction trap, so I canceled my account. Anyone can do that - you just have to be a little self-aware, and understand the danger.
I found TFA's a little weak on content, so here are some way more interesting ones:
Did your uncle-in-law have anything to say about WHY in the world they could do that? It doesnt make a bit of sense to me why a private company should be able to shut out the public from building something that will benefit everyone. Is there some law somewhere that says on they are allowed to put wires in the ground? What about wireless? Do they own the air we breathe to?
Does this not just fuel the executive business case to outsource? No threat of unions, no threat of high cost of labor, plenty of replacements. No more whining Americans... Granted, those things COULD happen in other countries, but the chances are arugably less, and the bottom line is that salary is WAY cheaper...
I struggle along with my file organization...I try to keep everything in several main folders (Music, Movies, Pictures, Code, Documents), but invariably it requires maintenance and diligence on my part to adhere to my storage policies.
I think that an iTunes-like interface for your whole hard drive would be highly beneficial to manage the myriad files people have these days with those 200GB HDDs.
What I am thinking about is an interface like iTunes. Back in the windows days, I would organize my mp3s like any other files - you keep separate folders for genres (or artists, or however you wanted to sort it) all under an mp3 directory. Then you use that structure to create playlists in your fav mp3 playing software.
Fast forward to the days of iTunes - I hardly know where my mp3 files are located - I have a huge library list which is full of metadata that helps me to locate individual songs, or songs of a certain type or genre. The iTunes software takes care of storing them on the hard drive and organizing them in a way that is meaningful to itself. I have way more power and flexibility in creating my playlists since I can do smart searches through the db list of songs.
Of course, the major drawback here is you have to now keep up with metadata. While I think some clever means of doing this can be conceived (when you purchase a song from the iTunes store, it comes with meta-data already attached), some work will always be put on the user if you expect to have some customized results.
If its not mission critical, I would go with Server Beach - for about 100 dollars you get 2000 GB of bandwidth! there is no contract, and server set up only takes a day in most cases. I went with them for a 3 month short term project where we used the server for DNS purposes. Customer service was EXCELLENT.
Please dont flame me for this: but why would an OS X user want to install a linux distro? OS X already has a UNIX base, and will run almost any linux app anyway. You can even run X windows...so why do we want linux on OS X again?
I was at this game only a few short hours ago - the mood there was incredible. I was actually surprised at the number of packers fans who showed up - there was plenty of jeering amongst everyone in the stands (me included, being both a packer fan and a democrat).
At one point there was what seemed to be the scoring play of the game from Washington Redskins - it would have made the score 21-20, but it was called back for a very interesting foul. (NFL.com reports: " The flag apparently was thrown because Thrash was not set for a full second after going into motion on the play. He said he didn't want to comment on the call because he "didn't know for sure" if it was the right one.") Seems to me to be the exact kind of tone of the election too - very close, with some contested calls!!
You have a good point...heaven forbid we ever get in a war with the countries that make our machines, write our code, and provide our oil...what the hell do we even DO anymore?
Simple - its not about building a better product at all. You have to see that there is no correlation between good software and successful software. MS can make more money writing bad software. It would cost them a lot of money to actually do a re-write of the system, which is really what they need at this point. Also, as a sweet little side benefit a mini industry has come about as a result of their insecure OS - the spyware / anti-spyware and virus / anti-virus mostly revolve around the Windows OS. Sure, a lot of it has to do with number of users, but you have to admit that its just plain easier to write virus code for a system that lets you execute it via the web browser!
My number one piece of advice would be to not pay for the service...there are plenty of ways to meet people online without paying more than your internet connection.
That being said, here is my experience with those services:
I did the match.com thing for a couple years off and on and here is what I found out - (disclaimer: all based on experience and not on solid fact. Anything that resembles a solid fact, is, in fact, based on opinion) -
- (Fishing): maybe 60% of women (especially those somewhat attractive) just post ads on the site so they can see how many men respond, and what kind of men respond. They do this to validate that they are attractive because they generally do not respond to any of these men at all.
- (Uglies): About another 20% or so are just plain ugly. They WILL respond to inquiry, and contrary to popular belief, being ugly does NOT make you smart. I went on several dates with (*ahem*) not very good-looking girls who had the personality of a pizza box.
- (Crazies): 5% are crazy and will have sex with you on the first date.
- (Gems): That brings me to the final 15% - this is the part you are waiting for. They are very nice girls, of average to good looks, and are genuinely interested and ready to meet a comparable male. Most of them are already talking to another guy, probably an alpha male.
Be warned that unless you look like Fabio or better, you will probably not hear from any women - they expect you to contact them. You might get one or two bites from the 20% uglies mentioned above, but you should ignore these.
In the end, I fell in love with a girl I knew for some time, but was always unavailable. Sometimes, you just have to stop looking for love and wait for it to find you. However - if you just wanna have some fun, meet some (VERY) interesting people, sure try the online thing - but I wouldn't expect very much!!
Why was parent modded as troll? He provided a valid soloution - not necessarily a good "diplomatic one". Also, I believe that it was mostly posted to show how group think exists even on slashdot.
As far as the size of the box, I dont think that is an issue for me, personally. The xbox looks about the size of a stereo component, and I find it looks nice on an entertainment center. Unless you are carrying it around (why? its not a DS or PSP or GBA), size is the least important factor to me.
Actually...I would rather have a larger box the remains cooler than a small box that has a potential to run really hot.
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Mac OS X could do it if someone creates a Terminal widget - so far I have not found one. All you would have to do is hit F12 - and there is your terminal, pulled up in lovely Mac OSX fashion. ;)
I'll say what most citizens feel:
"Wake me up when its bad enough to revolt".
Its gonna take more than this to rile six-pack-joe. And I don't think we can make a huge difference WITHOUT his numbers!!
I am curious about something related to this - we have all heard about dinosaur industries fighting very hard to stay on top. RIAA is a great example of this as everyone knows. The fallout includes them stifling inovation with lawsuits and lobbying. Eventually I do believe they will fall. But what do you think the backlash might be when the oil industry is no longer needed? Our government is pretty heavily in bed with oil tycoons and the like, and those are the guys in power for goodness sake. We are talking about a president willing to throw all caution to the wind in order to drill for oil in protected teritories. How do we know that our government will be altruistic in helping the world achieve what would be an immense victory against the dependence on oil and other heavily polluting natural resources? Is there even anything we can do about it? All it would take is one REALLY bad "cold fusion incident" or "cold fusion terrorist attack" to make the whole process illegal. Crazier things have happened.
A lot of the posts here talk about "artist rights" and "compensating the artist" or perhaps "incenting the artist to produce". We all know it has nothing to do with that - this is about making it worth the publishing companies while to produce a huge hit - so it can profit them for a 100 years. People dont live that long, obviously this ISNT for the artist - companies can live forever. At least until the revolution comes anyway...
In the future expect this madness to stop - the governments will finally get a big enough payout and say "ok ok - copyright lasts 1,000 years".
Only the Sith see things as black and white.
Not to be cynical...but. Welcome to capitalism. People WILL try to get ahead simply by outspending you. Typical of a rich-get-richer poor-get-poorer climate where you have to HAVE money to MAKE it.
are you kidding??? set -o vi goddangit! Gots to start these newbs on the right foot!
AsSeenOnTV - are you an Apple exec?? :P
:)
I am surprised there is not talk about the price drop for the Cinema Displays. 200 dollar drop is amazing!! I am going to buy one this Friday when I attend my Tiger release party @ Richmond Short Pump Apple Store.
(yes...shameless mac addict, but i only switched about one year ago, never looked back)
The point of this system is NOT to distribute RIAA copyrighted works. That is a huge different between this and say, KaZaa or Limewire.
When the supreme court was hearing the case of MGM vs Grokster, one of the main issues was that the Beta Max decision "(a.k.a. the "Sony Betamax ruling") held that a distributor cannot be held liable for users' infringement so long as the tool is capable of substantial noninfringing uses." One of the main issues in the MGM V Grok case is that the majority of its use is used for "infringing uses", i.e. trading copyrighted works (even though there are plenty of legal uses), and the makers knew this, thereby using the traded copyright material as startup capital. In this new software, the main idea is NOT to distribute Copyrighted works (without permission of the copyright owner), and I do hope that the software maintainers take steps to eliminate illegal activity on their network.
The ability for music consumers to have easy access to a central wealth of non-crippled music is exactly the type of legal counterbalance to the RIAA tyranny over music distribution, NOT pirating.
I own a DS...hate it in fact. VERY few games out so far, nintendo is basically sitting on its rear. At least with the PSP you can do many more things with it like eBooks (now if we could find some eBooks), movies, pitures, mp3, etc.
Anyone wanna buy a DS??
Are they kidding? Putting this guy in jail will be the informational age equivalent of being a martyr! Someone should tell the prosecutors: "If you strike him down, he will become more powerful than you could possibly imagine!"
I agree with you..pretty much anything can be addictive, especially if it is enjoyable. I think what is new here is that we are finding that MMORPGs are especially addictive because they are in fact designed to be. Again, that is nothing new - smoking was designed to be addictive by the tabbaco industry, casions are designed to keep you gambling, etc. The newsworhtyness in the article is just pointing out that the trend in videogames is changing in that they are now being intentionally designed to be addictive.
On a side note, I played WoW for about 2 months. At first I played about 5-10 hours per week. A month later I was playing 30+ hours a week, and I really started noticing a decline in work performance and personal life balance. I realized I was falling into the addiction trap, so I canceled my account. Anyone can do that - you just have to be a little self-aware, and understand the danger.
I found TFA's a little weak on content, so here are some way more interesting ones:
JiveMagazine
Understanding MMO Addiction
Did your uncle-in-law have anything to say about WHY in the world they could do that? It doesnt make a bit of sense to me why a private company should be able to shut out the public from building something that will benefit everyone. Is there some law somewhere that says on they are allowed to put wires in the ground? What about wireless? Do they own the air we breathe to?
Does this not just fuel the executive business case to outsource? No threat of unions, no threat of high cost of labor, plenty of replacements. No more whining Americans... Granted, those things COULD happen in other countries, but the chances are arugably less, and the bottom line is that salary is WAY cheaper...
I struggle along with my file organization...I try to keep everything in several main folders (Music, Movies, Pictures, Code, Documents), but invariably it requires maintenance and diligence on my part to adhere to my storage policies.
I think that an iTunes-like interface for your whole hard drive would be highly beneficial to manage the myriad files people have these days with those 200GB HDDs.
What I am thinking about is an interface like iTunes. Back in the windows days, I would organize my mp3s like any other files - you keep separate folders for genres (or artists, or however you wanted to sort it) all under an mp3 directory. Then you use that structure to create playlists in your fav mp3 playing software.
Fast forward to the days of iTunes - I hardly know where my mp3 files are located - I have a huge library list which is full of metadata that helps me to locate individual songs, or songs of a certain type or genre. The iTunes software takes care of storing them on the hard drive and organizing them in a way that is meaningful to itself. I have way more power and flexibility in creating my playlists since I can do smart searches through the db list of songs.
Of course, the major drawback here is you have to now keep up with metadata. While I think some clever means of doing this can be conceived (when you purchase a song from the iTunes store, it comes with meta-data already attached), some work will always be put on the user if you expect to have some customized results.
If its not mission critical, I would go with Server Beach - for about 100 dollars you get 2000 GB of bandwidth! there is no contract, and server set up only takes a day in most cases. I went with them for a 3 month short term project where we used the server for DNS purposes. Customer service was EXCELLENT.
Good luck!
Please dont flame me for this: but why would an OS X user want to install a linux distro? OS X already has a UNIX base, and will run almost any linux app anyway. You can even run X windows...so why do we want linux on OS X again?
I was at this game only a few short hours ago - the mood there was incredible. I was actually surprised at the number of packers fans who showed up - there was plenty of jeering amongst everyone in the stands (me included, being both a packer fan and a democrat).
At one point there was what seemed to be the scoring play of the game from Washington Redskins - it would have made the score 21-20, but it was called back for a very interesting foul. (NFL.com reports: " The flag apparently was thrown because Thrash was not set for a full second after going into motion on the play. He said he didn't want to comment on the call because he "didn't know for sure" if it was the right one.")
Seems to me to be the exact kind of tone of the election too - very close, with some contested calls!!
You have a good point...heaven forbid we ever get in a war with the countries that make our machines, write our code, and provide our oil...what the hell do we even DO anymore?
Simple - its not about building a better product at all. You have to see that there is no correlation between good software and successful software. MS can make more money writing bad software. It would cost them a lot of money to actually do a re-write of the system, which is really what they need at this point. Also, as a sweet little side benefit a mini industry has come about as a result of their insecure OS - the spyware / anti-spyware and virus / anti-virus mostly revolve around the Windows OS. Sure, a lot of it has to do with number of users, but you have to admit that its just plain easier to write virus code for a system that lets you execute it via the web browser!
My number one piece of advice would be to not pay for the service...there are plenty of ways to meet people online without paying more than your internet connection.
That being said, here is my experience with those services:
I did the match.com thing for a couple years off and on and here is what I found out - (disclaimer: all based on experience and not on solid fact. Anything that resembles a solid fact, is, in fact, based on opinion) -
- (Fishing): maybe 60% of women (especially those somewhat attractive) just post ads on the site so they can see how many men respond, and what kind of men respond. They do this to validate that they are attractive because they generally do not respond to any of these men at all.
- (Uglies): About another 20% or so are just plain ugly. They WILL respond to inquiry, and contrary to popular belief, being ugly does NOT make you smart. I went on several dates with (*ahem*) not very good-looking girls who had the personality of a pizza box.
- (Crazies): 5% are crazy and will have sex with you on the first date.
- (Gems): That brings me to the final 15% - this is the part you are waiting for. They are very nice girls, of average to good looks, and are genuinely interested and ready to meet a comparable male. Most of them are already talking to another guy, probably an alpha male.
Be warned that unless you look like Fabio or better, you will probably not hear from any women - they expect you to contact them. You might get one or two bites from the 20% uglies mentioned above, but you should ignore these.
In the end, I fell in love with a girl I knew for some time, but was always unavailable. Sometimes, you just have to stop looking for love and wait for it to find you. However - if you just wanna have some fun, meet some (VERY) interesting people, sure try the online thing - but I wouldn't expect very much!!
Why was parent modded as troll? He provided a valid soloution - not necessarily a good "diplomatic one". Also, I believe that it was mostly posted to show how group think exists even on slashdot.
Awww great. Now the EFF will be considered a terrorist organazation and threat to Our Way Of Life.
(Hackers who support organazations who disaprove of Orwellian futures? They MUST be terrorists!)
quick question for you: have you been able to get it to work with the wireless card? (airport built in)
As far as the size of the box, I dont think that is an issue for me, personally. The xbox looks about the size of a stereo component, and I find it looks nice on an entertainment center. Unless you are carrying it around (why? its not a DS or PSP or GBA), size is the least important factor to me.
Actually...I would rather have a larger box the remains cooler than a small box that has a potential to run really hot.