It had already been cancelled. The show had gotten staggeringly expensive for basic cable. Pity, but at least Matt and Trey can work on the "That's My Bush!" movie. Assuming 9/11 hasn't killed that.
The main problem with being a real Windows booster is that if you use the same sort of passionate language Mac/Linux fans use, you sound as if you've had a Redmond brain implant that randomly connects to MS's marketing division. Check out the ZDNet forums for examples.
Not only are bitmaps handled natively by Quartz, they're used for interface objects. Icons are actually 128x128 bitmaps that are scaled on the fly as needed. Take a look at Dock magnification to see how well it handles the scaling.
Any word about what Microcode's emulating it on? If this is like Basilisk, etc., it's going to be a VPC-like compatibility layer running on top of some other OS -- hopefully on the *Nix of your choice, but I'm guessing it'll be Windows. That should take care of the problems of hardware compatibility (the virtual iMac will be taking care of the hardware abstraction layer), but we'd still be at the mercy of the underlying OS for keeping all of the equipment working. Which is a step away from the whole-widget Apple approach, and a bit of a hard sell to current Mac users.
You missed the allusion. Neville Chamberlain is the prime minister who appeased Hitler (cf. Roxio:Gracenote). By contrast, the Winston Churchill quote is referring to the proper stance against Gracenote.
The longer a problem exists, the more support calls they will get to address it. Support calls to Microsoft are not free. Read: coffers.
Support calls are not handled by Microsoft. They pay the Convergys Corp. to take the calls (I'm a former employee). MS loses money on every incoming call.
Which is something I was curious about, not having read Fellowship in a while. Isn't Éowyn supposed to be Aragorn's love interest, or is that just Book III?
My list's already started. U2 and Elvis Costello (who's releasing a new album next year) are both signed to UMG-affiliated labels.
While I sympathize with the/.'ers who will boycott major-label acts in favor of local or indie artists, there's a limit to how far you can go in this direction. While StarOffice or KOffice are close enough to MS products to justify their use, music's different from software; there are some artists out there that are irreplaceable (they aren't all boy, you know).
I'd recommend sending the artist's management a note along the lines of: I've bought music from your clients for years, but I can't support this unfair treatment of legitimate fans by your label, so I can't in good conscience buy any further CDs from the artist.
If that means not buying, pirating or even listening to the next Elvis Costello CD, then that's the price I'm going to pay.
Testifying against Elcomsoft doesn't have to mean he has to dig up dirt about their money-laundering or porn-ring operations (unless that's what they're up to). It simply means discussing the technical details by which their product was created and what it does. I imagine Dmitry and Elcomsoft still believe that they're in the right, and that with the facts on the table they'll be vindicated.
Do you have a source for that? Because I can think of a few holes in that story:
1) Bantam Books is a paperback publisher; theoretically without as much clout to order a sequel as a hardcover publisher.
2) If Tolkien were writing a sequel strictly for the money, he took his sweet time. The Hobbit appeared in 1937; The Fellowship of the Ring didn't appear until 1954.
3) In any case, Ballantine, not Bantam, produced the paperback.
I don't argue that Tolkien may have written it for the money, at least in part, but it's hardly a sequel-for-hire.
You consider this a mistake on their part? It's very shrewd if they can pull it off.
Nearly a century of freely-available recorded music suggests that they won't.
Right now, music fans buy pieces of plastic and play them on stereos. If I want to play a goofy novelty album I bought on a lark twenty years ago, I can pull it out of my record collection. If I want to hear the works of some long-out-of-print blues master, I can hunt down those albums in a used record store.
Pressplay and MusicNet are trying to rejigger the music industry as a commodity -- download it, listen once or twice, then trash it. But that's not the way many of us treat music. And it'll take more than killing the alternatives to get us to change.
One additional thing. If the artist you're not buying is a favorite of yours -- Vivendi Universal has thousands of acts, take your pick -- drop their management, fan club, or Web site a note saying that you're a big fan, you've bought tons of stuff from them in the past, but their label's new copy-protection makes it impossible to continue buying their music. That way, they KNOW that they've lost a sale.
I believe it was Roger Ebert who proposed the even/odd Trek rule. I don't have a copy of Ebert's Little Movie Glossary on hand, but here's how he rated the last six:
The Voyage Home: *** 1/2
Final Frontier: **
Undiscovered Country: (not online; don't remember if he did this one)
Generations: **
First Contact: *** 1/2
Insurrection: **
Back when I was in high school, all we had were Apple IIs. The software we didn't have, we made -- hand-coded with AppleSoft BASIC. That was quite a learning experience, though I doubt it rubbed off on that many potential programmers.
They Might Be Giants have a deal with EMusic that does pretty much what you suggested. When I subscribed to their TMBG Unlimited, I got their new album, autographed, as a bonus, plus tons of outtakes and other free stuff.
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It had already been cancelled. The show had gotten staggeringly expensive for basic cable. Pity, but at least Matt and Trey can work on the "That's My Bush!" movie. Assuming 9/11 hasn't killed that.
The main problem with being a real Windows booster is that if you use the same sort of passionate language Mac/Linux fans use, you sound as if you've had a Redmond brain implant that randomly connects to MS's marketing division. Check out the ZDNet forums for examples.
Not only are bitmaps handled natively by Quartz, they're used for interface objects. Icons are actually 128x128 bitmaps that are scaled on the fly as needed. Take a look at Dock magnification to see how well it handles the scaling.
Any word about what Microcode's emulating it on? If this is like Basilisk, etc., it's going to be a VPC-like compatibility layer running on top of some other OS -- hopefully on the *Nix of your choice, but I'm guessing it'll be Windows. That should take care of the problems of hardware compatibility (the virtual iMac will be taking care of the hardware abstraction layer), but we'd still be at the mercy of the underlying OS for keeping all of the equipment working. Which is a step away from the whole-widget Apple approach, and a bit of a hard sell to current Mac users.
You missed the allusion. Neville Chamberlain is the prime minister who appeased Hitler (cf. Roxio:Gracenote). By contrast, the Winston Churchill quote is referring to the proper stance against Gracenote.
The longer a problem exists, the more support calls they will get to address it. Support calls to Microsoft are not free. Read: coffers.
Support calls are not handled by Microsoft. They pay the Convergys Corp. to take the calls (I'm a former employee). MS loses money on every incoming call.
He's written quite a bit about the RIAA on his site. Here's one:n ta ries/20000321work4hire.html
http://www.npgmusicclub.com/npgmc/freedom/comme
Oh, right. I also haven't read The Return of the King in a while.
I was just shocked to hear about a /. reader getting to second base.
Which is something I was curious about, not having read Fellowship in a while. Isn't Éowyn supposed to be Aragorn's love interest, or is that just Book III?
My list's already started. U2 and Elvis Costello (who's releasing a new album next year) are both signed to UMG-affiliated labels.
/.'ers who will boycott major-label acts in favor of local or indie artists, there's a limit to how far you can go in this direction. While StarOffice or KOffice are close enough to MS products to justify their use, music's different from software; there are some artists out there that are irreplaceable (they aren't all boy, you know).
While I sympathize with the
I'd recommend sending the artist's management a note along the lines of: I've bought music from your clients for years, but I can't support this unfair treatment of legitimate fans by your label, so I can't in good conscience buy any further CDs from the artist.
If that means not buying, pirating or even listening to the next Elvis Costello CD, then that's the price I'm going to pay.
Testifying against Elcomsoft doesn't have to mean he has to dig up dirt about their money-laundering or porn-ring operations (unless that's what they're up to). It simply means discussing the technical details by which their product was created and what it does. I imagine Dmitry and Elcomsoft still believe that they're in the right, and that with the facts on the table they'll be vindicated.
Do you have a source for that? Because I can think of a few holes in that story:
1) Bantam Books is a paperback publisher; theoretically without as much clout to order a sequel as a hardcover publisher.
2) If Tolkien were writing a sequel strictly for the money, he took his sweet time. The Hobbit appeared in 1937; The Fellowship of the Ring didn't appear until 1954.
3) In any case, Ballantine, not Bantam, produced the paperback.
I don't argue that Tolkien may have written it for the money, at least in part, but it's hardly a sequel-for-hire.
You consider this a mistake on their part? It's very shrewd if they can pull it off.
Nearly a century of freely-available recorded music suggests that they won't.
Right now, music fans buy pieces of plastic and play them on stereos. If I want to play a goofy novelty album I bought on a lark twenty years ago, I can pull it out of my record collection. If I want to hear the works of some long-out-of-print blues master, I can hunt down those albums in a used record store.
Pressplay and MusicNet are trying to rejigger the music industry as a commodity -- download it, listen once or twice, then trash it. But that's not the way many of us treat music. And it'll take more than killing the alternatives to get us to change.
Communicating from Seanet here. I feel like I'm running my computer by candlelight. How did I ever survive 49,333 bps?
Um...you want us to post after we lose Internet access?
Good for the Eels. However, I can't help noticing that they're signed to MCA in Europe, so they're somewhat at the mercy of Universal.
One additional thing. If the artist you're not buying is a favorite of yours -- Vivendi Universal has thousands of acts, take your pick -- drop their management, fan club, or Web site a note saying that you're a big fan, you've bought tons of stuff from them in the past, but their label's new copy-protection makes it impossible to continue buying their music. That way, they KNOW that they've lost a sale.
I believe it was Roger Ebert who proposed the even/odd Trek rule. I don't have a copy of Ebert's Little Movie Glossary on hand, but here's how he rated the last six:
The Voyage Home: *** 1/2
Final Frontier: **
Undiscovered Country: (not online; don't remember if he did this one)
Generations: **
First Contact: *** 1/2
Insurrection: **
Back when I was in high school, all we had were Apple IIs. The software we didn't have, we made -- hand-coded with AppleSoft BASIC. That was quite a learning experience, though I doubt it rubbed off on that many potential programmers.
...was The Castle of Fu Manchu. Deep, deep hurting.
They Might Be Giants have a deal with EMusic that does pretty much what you suggested. When I subscribed to their TMBG Unlimited, I got their new album, autographed, as a bonus, plus tons of outtakes and other free stuff.
Too late!
Does this mean we won't hear Arthur's battle cry, either?
"Not in the face! Not in the face!"
@#$%! I forgot about Elliott Bay!
Never mind. I'm OT anyway.