I actually paid the $15 for it, and, you're right: it sucks. It's basically the bad tracks from Play with new samples. There are one or two good tracks on it, but nothing memorable.
Sales slipped with 18 because Play was simply a much better album.
For instance, in my organization, we use instant messaging to communicate about projects without leaving our workspaces, which can lead to further distractions and reduce productivity.
You discuss company-sensitive information over a plaintext protocol on the Internet?
Do you do your banking that way too?
Can I have your Social Security Number right now, or should I just wait until "ngrep -i...-..-...." picks yours up?
If you're going to use IM, at the very least set up an internal server and connect to that. Otherwise, you're dumb.
nobody seems to use Wifi for the ultimate killer app: short-range handheld voice terminals -- a.k.a. cordless phones.
Nobody seems to care, because (unless you have been living in a cave for the past 10 years or so), we already have perfectly good cordless phone technology.
This is one of the lamest, most Slashdot-Retarded questions I've ever seen here.
Here's the one I got. Cost about $500 (with installation and everything), and it plays any kind of MP3 I've got (up to the limit, 320K/sec, including VBR stuff). Handles ID3 tags, sounds fine, and lets me take a few hundred hours' worth of music with me in a little folder full of CDs. Doesn't get too much easier than that...
I'm proud that you can download divx's on your computer.
My mom can't. She doesn't have a computer.
The whole point of this article is that this is supposed to open a whole new world of piracy to everyday people without a computer or knowledge of how to use one.
There's no mass market for pirated content nowadays.
Nobody purchases stuff they can steal for free.
There will be no pirate Divx market. Most (or even a significant number of) people will not base their purchasing decisions on whether or not their DVD player can handle pirated content. They do not do this now, either.
Excellent distinction but, all the same, I really do think that from a price / utility / necessary skill point of view, this trend has all the elements necessary to cause a fundamental shift in content piracy, especially in the majority of the world where most people don't already own DVD players.
That's great, but you're very wrong. While there may be a huge online pirated-movie trade, there's absolutely no physical analog in the real world. I can't drive into the ghetto and pick up "Attack of the Clones" on DivX. (I can get it on VHS or, perhaps, even VCD.) I can't mail-order the latest movies, or even good old ones, on DivX (I can on DVD.)
There's no market for this. There is nobody clamoring for something to play all their DivX movies on (those people already have computers.) Nobody needs this. Therefore, this is not a big deal.
...but the latest Linux kernel is gonna be just as godawful slow and bulky on an ancient pen-based tablet as an old version of DOS or Windows will be, perhaps even slower.
I've got an old 486 laptop that I got from work (it's been replaced several times over) that I thought would be a decent candidate for Linux. And I guess it was -- if you enjoyed being able to watch the screen refresh itself in X, or listening to the hard drive chatter as it slowly ran out of physical RAM and ate into swap -- and all I was doing was running X in 8 bit color with an "aterm" open!
You're going to be using a machine without a keyboard, which pretty much necessitates X windows (and a newer version at that!) and a newer kernel. If you don't want to get any use out of your tablet PC, then, by all means, use Linux! It'll run "xscreensaver" really nice, as long as you only use "life" or "rotor" mode.
I can see the "Ask Slashdot" now: I manage a large aerospace machine shop and I'd like to run my shop on Linux. Is there an open-source 3D CAD/CAM program that will create NC programs that will properly control my 5-axis milling machines, lathes, and Okuma grinders? I hope to convince my managers this is a good idea!
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Whenever they figure out how to show it on the LABEL side, call me.
This new and exciting technology is just what you are looking for!!!
- A.P.
Perhaps Moby's latest album just isn't that good?
I actually paid the $15 for it, and, you're right: it sucks. It's basically the bad tracks from Play with new samples. There are one or two good tracks on it, but nothing memorable.
Sales slipped with 18 because Play was simply a much better album.
- A.P.
For instance, in my organization, we use instant messaging to communicate about projects without leaving our workspaces, which can lead to further distractions and reduce productivity.
...-..-...." picks yours up?
You discuss company-sensitive information over a plaintext protocol on the Internet?
Do you do your banking that way too?
Can I have your Social Security Number right now, or should I just wait until "ngrep -i
If you're going to use IM, at the very least set up an internal server and connect to that. Otherwise, you're dumb.
- A.P.
It's only a matter of time before someone DDoSes the goddamned thing and sends it careening into an embankment.
What's its SMS email address, again?
- A.P.
How does this affect my rights online? This is a business practices investigation, not an MP3-downloading court case.
- A.P.
s/MEE/BEA/g
- A.P.
Man, and I thought the stuff I sold on the playground was a little shady.
- A.p.
I know it's a novel concept around these parts...
- A.P.
Once that LNUX stock dips low enough, I'm sure he will be...
- A.P.
This looks vaguely familiar.
- A.P.
nobody seems to use Wifi for the ultimate killer app: short-range handheld voice terminals -- a.k.a. cordless phones.
Nobody seems to care, because (unless you have been living in a cave for the past 10 years or so), we already have perfectly good cordless phone technology.
This is one of the lamest, most Slashdot-Retarded questions I've ever seen here.
- A.P.
We have several systems at work with up to 24 gigs of RAM and 18 CPUs. Why is the installation of this thing that important?
If it had 64 terabytes of RAM, it'd be interesting.
- A.P.
Here's the one I got. Cost about $500 (with installation and everything), and it plays any kind of MP3 I've got (up to the limit, 320K/sec, including VBR stuff). Handles ID3 tags, sounds fine, and lets me take a few hundred hours' worth of music with me in a little folder full of CDs. Doesn't get too much easier than that...
- A.P.
Why can't the world just grab a clue and use LED's instead...
Um, stopped at a traffic light lately?
- A.P.
You completely missed the point.
I'm proud that you can download divx's on your computer.
My mom can't. She doesn't have a computer.
The whole point of this article is that this is supposed to open a whole new world of piracy to everyday people without a computer or knowledge of how to use one.
It won't.
- A.P.
There's no mass market for pirated content nowadays.
Nobody purchases stuff they can steal for free.
There will be no pirate Divx market. Most (or even a significant number of) people will not base their purchasing decisions on whether or not their DVD player can handle pirated content. They do not do this now, either.
Please, stop smoking crack.
Thank you.
- A.P.
Excellent distinction but, all the same, I really do think that from a price / utility / necessary skill point of view, this trend has all the elements necessary to cause a fundamental shift in content piracy, especially in the majority of the world where most people don't already own DVD players.
That's great, but you're very wrong. While there may be a huge online pirated-movie trade, there's absolutely no physical analog in the real world. I can't drive into the ghetto and pick up "Attack of the Clones" on DivX. (I can get it on VHS or, perhaps, even VCD.) I can't mail-order the latest movies, or even good old ones, on DivX (I can on DVD.)
There's no market for this. There is nobody clamoring for something to play all their DivX movies on (those people already have computers.) Nobody needs this. Therefore, this is not a big deal.
- A.P.
- A.P.
Where will these computerless, non-techie people obtain their DivX discs for their modded XBoxes from? The Pirated Movie Fairy?
- A.P.
Don't you mean a "surgence"?
Thanks to DivX, they'll sell 5 more X-Boxes this month.
- A.P.
You freaks scare me.
- A.P.
...is that if you'd included a goatse.cx link, your post would be at -1, Troll instead of +4, Funny.
- A.P.
Is it like that Simply Soda shit you can get at Wal-Mart?
- A.P.
...but the latest Linux kernel is gonna be just as godawful slow and bulky on an ancient pen-based tablet as an old version of DOS or Windows will be, perhaps even slower.
I've got an old 486 laptop that I got from work (it's been replaced several times over) that I thought would be a decent candidate for Linux. And I guess it was -- if you enjoyed being able to watch the screen refresh itself in X, or listening to the hard drive chatter as it slowly ran out of physical RAM and ate into swap -- and all I was doing was running X in 8 bit color with an "aterm" open!
You're going to be using a machine without a keyboard, which pretty much necessitates X windows (and a newer version at that!) and a newer kernel. If you don't want to get any use out of your tablet PC, then, by all means, use Linux! It'll run "xscreensaver" really nice, as long as you only use "life" or "rotor" mode.
- A.P.
Well, I certainly won't be using it, then!
I can see the "Ask Slashdot" now: I manage a large aerospace machine shop and I'd like to run my shop on Linux. Is there an open-source 3D CAD/CAM program that will create NC programs that will properly control my 5-axis milling machines, lathes, and Okuma grinders? I hope to convince my managers this is a good idea!
- A.P.
This was a JOKE.
HELLO!! Is anyone HOME in that EMPTY CAVERN you call a SKULL?
- A.P.