If the PSP was a game,video, pocket tivo playback, mp3 player all in one with a nice big vivid screen it would start to take a helluva bite out of the ipod market share.
Ah, yes. I'm sure that the iPod would be trounced by a device the size of a paperback book with a $499 price tag.
The PSP is already four times the size of an iPod, and has three times as many buttons. Anyone who says the PSP can draw iPod buyers doesn't understand the reasons people buy the iPod.
What's amazing about your comment -- and the fact that it got modded up -- is that the entire thread above it is full of people saying that Mormons are nice, great people, and that they'll tolerate you and leave you alone if you want, and that their church is doing a great job of guiding people well. The major exception was an ex-Mormon or two saying that they were treated badly when leaving.
Religion is not under attack, not on Slashdot and not in the United States. What HAS happened is that some evangelicals have decided to use their religion as a political tool, and poorly (using a knife to turn screws is possible, but bad for the knife). Everyone here is fine with Mormons being Mormons.
In my experience, most people cannot set up their machines themselves. I'm not talking about OS installation here. Most people who buy, say, a Dell, try to get someone to help them set it up.
Also, a better distro could easily have the setup that Rei describes included by default. But making a good distro is really, really hard.
I'm just talking about when they are the same physical road. I don't have anything against US highways, but in many places they exist only in theory and have been superceded by an interstate.
It depends to some degree on the magnification level. At some levels it displays both graphics (which say 35E, by the way, on an interstate shield) while at others only 77 is shown.
At what I will call zoom level "6", where "1" is all the way zoomed in, the 35E graphics are not shown at any point between where the roads diverge in Dallas and where they diverge in Denton, but there are six US 77 graphics along the way.
At the various levels there is a clear preference for the 77 graphic; consider also level 9. This is especially bogus due to the fact that there are no US 77 signs for the entire 20-mile stretch.
Zoom out a bit and scroll west, and you'll see the same phenomenon for I-20 going out of Fort Worth.
Well, as I recall, the whitespace used to be on the right. It does seem somehow more intrusive on the left, though.
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Google Maps is great, but I wish it wasn't so obsessed with US highway designations. Take the road between Dallas, TX and Denton, TX. On every other map it shows as I-35E, but Google Maps puts US 77 shields all over the place. I don't think the road is even marked on road signs as US 77.
Almost everywhere, the interstate highway designations should take priority over the US highway designations. I've reported this as a bug, but I've seen no response.
Would you say that nobody should have the right to control their own zoning laws except Iraq because the first known zoning laws were invented by the Babylonians?
I could deal with that. Zoning is a glorified way to keep poor people poor.
The truth is, when the ships left Earth-That-Was, once they got more than about a light-year out they discovered that Earth was actually in a region of extremely high-density space. Once outside this unusual region, it turned out that stars were not very far apart after all, and gravity worked much differently than had been thought. This neatly explained various problems in astrophysics like dark matter and the Pioneer anomaly.
So in the Firefly system, there are planets and stars sort of scattered around, but not really in orbit, just stationary and in balance. Gravity is simply not strong enough to pull them all together. The Alliance doesn't explain this to schoolchildren, and in fact existence the high-density space is a carefully guarded secret. If the Independents knew, they could look for a way to increase spatial density, and make their planets too far apart from the Alliance for central control. If you're heard using the word "orbit" in public, you'll soon hear some blue knocks on your door.
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Perhaps, but that would be quite a coup, as nobody else has managed to do so. Wouldn't the movie studios be afraid that people would be able to easily rip their Netflix rentals? Sure, that's easy enough to do already, but not with approved software.
Maybe the Apple system would both have DRM and require you to insert the DVD once a month or so to prove that you still have it? Seems a little cumbersome though.
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Presumably Apple's DVD license, just like every other DVD license, prohibits them from releasing a DVD ripper.
What precisely is the difference between acting like a Reaver and BEING a Reaver?
Are we going to have to come up with some kind of Turing test to figure it out? Perhaps if someone tries to get you to take a Turing test, and they survive, then you're not a Reaver?
Most of the huge TV shows of the last 30 years have had opening seasons that were not, shall we say, overwhelming. Seinfeld, for instance was not a hit its first year... or its second year.
Firefly had the misfortune of being released at a very odd time for TV, where shows were commonly cancelled after even a few episodes failed to attract mainstream attention. This was during the "reality TV" fad and was a common fate for shows at the time.
Studio execs have now realized that it takes time for a series to develop an audience, and a good show will do well in DVD sales even if the viewing audience is relatively small. As a result we are seeing more interesting and nuanced shows, with much less "reality TV" game shows.
The fact that over 70% of California voters go to the polls shows that it is still very normal to do so. Oregon has a relatively small population.
In the United States, the places which have the most problems are those where the members of the population self-identify strongly as belonging to some group other than "Americans". Our crime problems are in the diverse areas, in other words.
Crap, I need to go. Anyway, I wouldn't be surprised if religion is a major cause of social ills. I just have a little bit of skepticism. For instance, from following Dallas politics it is clear to me that "black" ministers do their followers a tremendous disservice by promoting an "us vs. them" mentality which impairs cooperation. However, I can point to strong historical reasons why blacks in Dallas are poorer than whites, and I think the issue today is still a very complicated one. I am still a proponent of the elimination of religion, but I'd hesitate to call it The Answer.
Last thing -- I wouldn't cite stats on Muslims as diversity, since I don't think Islam and Christianity are really very different. The major world religions are converging in fundamentals; religion thrives on darkness, and there is only so much darkness left in an increasingly bright world.
Nah, you're still thinking overt coercion. Maybe my example wasn't so good, but what I'm saying is that it's a bad idea to give people the option of turning voting into a social thing. Sure, there are absentee ballots, but it's still very normal to not use them. It's a matter of averting groupthink.
I should also say that if we see an increase in the number of absentee ballots, to the point where they are a major influence on a majority of elections, we will need to come up with better ways to verify them and prevent abuses.
As for your OT link -- I read the summary and I don't agree with their thinking. It seems like the conclusion that religion is bad for society is based to a great extent on the United States, but I think there are other reasons for the ills of the US that they are ignoring. It seems to me that Europeans have a poor understanding of the diversity in American society, and how that diversity makes us fundamentally different from most European nations. That's just a top-of-the-head opinion though and I would need to read the actual study to have solid conclusions.
I think you're going off in the wrong direction because you are focusing on outright fraud. There's much to say for a system of voting that has separation from the person's life as a core principle. To me, the idea is that the real person shows up only when they are truly alone. You put them in a booth, as it were, and they can mark what they really believe and completely forget it once they put it in the slot.
What if I'm a conservative and my girlfriend is a liberal? I can easily mask my political opinions by agreeing with certain things she says and listening attentively yet quietly to things I don't agree with, but that doesn't work if she can see my votes.
Just imagine Election Night -- "oh, we'd better check our votes to make sure those evil Republicans didn't steal them! Where's your registration card?" The "anonymous registration" thing you mention is completely useless, since it brings us back to the "what do you have to hide" nonsense.
Going further, what's the point? If someone says "I voted for Kerry but this system says it was counted for Bush", there's not a single thing that can be done about it.
Bah, Microsoft is just copying Japan, where as far as I can tell there are only three corporations. None of them have names per se, so I call them GoodCorp, EvilCorp, and BigCorp. I feel that my understanding of Japan has increased dramatically since I figured this out, especially when I realized that the government is a subsidary of BigCorp.
As the owner of the "iTunes" trademark, Apple has the right to use the name for anything it would like. They could insist that the microcontroller in a new digital toaster was "iTunes", if they were so inclined.
Regardless, the software running on the "iTunes phone" is not similar in any meaningful way to the software application previously called "iTunes". Users of the "iTunes phone" will have the real iTunes installed on their computer, though.
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If the PSP was a game,video, pocket tivo playback, mp3 player all in one with a nice big vivid screen it would start to take a helluva bite out of the ipod market share.
Ah, yes. I'm sure that the iPod would be trounced by a device the size of a paperback book with a $499 price tag.
The PSP is already four times the size of an iPod, and has three times as many buttons. Anyone who says the PSP can draw iPod buyers doesn't understand the reasons people buy the iPod.
What's amazing about your comment -- and the fact that it got modded up -- is that the entire thread above it is full of people saying that Mormons are nice, great people, and that they'll tolerate you and leave you alone if you want, and that their church is doing a great job of guiding people well. The major exception was an ex-Mormon or two saying that they were treated badly when leaving.
Religion is not under attack, not on Slashdot and not in the United States. What HAS happened is that some evangelicals have decided to use their religion as a political tool, and poorly (using a knife to turn screws is possible, but bad for the knife). Everyone here is fine with Mormons being Mormons.
Well, on iTunes the complete first season of Lost is available for $35. I compared that to the DVD set on Amazon at $38.
In my experience, most people cannot set up their machines themselves. I'm not talking about OS installation here. Most people who buy, say, a Dell, try to get someone to help them set it up.
Also, a better distro could easily have the setup that Rei describes included by default. But making a good distro is really, really hard.
I'm just talking about when they are the same physical road. I don't have anything against US highways, but in many places they exist only in theory and have been superceded by an interstate.
It depends to some degree on the magnification level. At some levels it displays both graphics (which say 35E, by the way, on an interstate shield) while at others only 77 is shown.
At what I will call zoom level "6", where "1" is all the way zoomed in, the 35E graphics are not shown at any point between where the roads diverge in Dallas and where they diverge in Denton, but there are six US 77 graphics along the way.
At the various levels there is a clear preference for the 77 graphic; consider also level 9. This is especially bogus due to the fact that there are no US 77 signs for the entire 20-mile stretch.
Zoom out a bit and scroll west, and you'll see the same phenomenon for I-20 going out of Fort Worth.
Well, as I recall, the whitespace used to be on the right. It does seem somehow more intrusive on the left, though.
Google Maps is great, but I wish it wasn't so obsessed with US highway designations. Take the road between Dallas, TX and Denton, TX. On every other map it shows as I-35E, but Google Maps puts US 77 shields all over the place. I don't think the road is even marked on road signs as US 77.
Almost everywhere, the interstate highway designations should take priority over the US highway designations. I've reported this as a bug, but I've seen no response.
Would you say that nobody should have the right to control their own zoning laws except Iraq because the first known zoning laws were invented by the Babylonians?
I could deal with that. Zoning is a glorified way to keep poor people poor.
Or the evil Alliance teacher could be lying.
The truth is, when the ships left Earth-That-Was, once they got more than about a light-year out they discovered that Earth was actually in a region of extremely high-density space. Once outside this unusual region, it turned out that stars were not very far apart after all, and gravity worked much differently than had been thought. This neatly explained various problems in astrophysics like dark matter and the Pioneer anomaly.
So in the Firefly system, there are planets and stars sort of scattered around, but not really in orbit, just stationary and in balance. Gravity is simply not strong enough to pull them all together. The Alliance doesn't explain this to schoolchildren, and in fact existence the high-density space is a carefully guarded secret. If the Independents knew, they could look for a way to increase spatial density, and make their planets too far apart from the Alliance for central control. If you're heard using the word "orbit" in public, you'll soon hear some blue knocks on your door.
Perhaps, but that would be quite a coup, as nobody else has managed to do so. Wouldn't the movie studios be afraid that people would be able to easily rip their Netflix rentals? Sure, that's easy enough to do already, but not with approved software.
Maybe the Apple system would both have DRM and require you to insert the DVD once a month or so to prove that you still have it? Seems a little cumbersome though.
Presumably Apple's DVD license, just like every other DVD license, prohibits them from releasing a DVD ripper.
What precisely is the difference between acting like a Reaver and BEING a Reaver?
Are we going to have to come up with some kind of Turing test to figure it out? Perhaps if someone tries to get you to take a Turing test, and they survive, then you're not a Reaver?
Most of the huge TV shows of the last 30 years have had opening seasons that were not, shall we say, overwhelming. Seinfeld, for instance was not a hit its first year... or its second year.
Firefly had the misfortune of being released at a very odd time for TV, where shows were commonly cancelled after even a few episodes failed to attract mainstream attention. This was during the "reality TV" fad and was a common fate for shows at the time.
Studio execs have now realized that it takes time for a series to develop an audience, and a good show will do well in DVD sales even if the viewing audience is relatively small. As a result we are seeing more interesting and nuanced shows, with much less "reality TV" game shows.
The fact that over 70% of California voters go to the polls shows that it is still very normal to do so. Oregon has a relatively small population.
In the United States, the places which have the most problems are those where the members of the population self-identify strongly as belonging to some group other than "Americans". Our crime problems are in the diverse areas, in other words.
Crap, I need to go. Anyway, I wouldn't be surprised if religion is a major cause of social ills. I just have a little bit of skepticism. For instance, from following Dallas politics it is clear to me that "black" ministers do their followers a tremendous disservice by promoting an "us vs. them" mentality which impairs cooperation. However, I can point to strong historical reasons why blacks in Dallas are poorer than whites, and I think the issue today is still a very complicated one. I am still a proponent of the elimination of religion, but I'd hesitate to call it The Answer.
Last thing -- I wouldn't cite stats on Muslims as diversity, since I don't think Islam and Christianity are really very different. The major world religions are converging in fundamentals; religion thrives on darkness, and there is only so much darkness left in an increasingly bright world.
Nah, you're still thinking overt coercion. Maybe my example wasn't so good, but what I'm saying is that it's a bad idea to give people the option of turning voting into a social thing. Sure, there are absentee ballots, but it's still very normal to not use them. It's a matter of averting groupthink.
I should also say that if we see an increase in the number of absentee ballots, to the point where they are a major influence on a majority of elections, we will need to come up with better ways to verify them and prevent abuses.
As for your OT link -- I read the summary and I don't agree with their thinking. It seems like the conclusion that religion is bad for society is based to a great extent on the United States, but I think there are other reasons for the ills of the US that they are ignoring. It seems to me that Europeans have a poor understanding of the diversity in American society, and how that diversity makes us fundamentally different from most European nations. That's just a top-of-the-head opinion though and I would need to read the actual study to have solid conclusions.
Yeah, the iPods have had USB charging for, what, 80 million years now?
I think you're going off in the wrong direction because you are focusing on outright fraud. There's much to say for a system of voting that has separation from the person's life as a core principle. To me, the idea is that the real person shows up only when they are truly alone. You put them in a booth, as it were, and they can mark what they really believe and completely forget it once they put it in the slot.
What if I'm a conservative and my girlfriend is a liberal? I can easily mask my political opinions by agreeing with certain things she says and listening attentively yet quietly to things I don't agree with, but that doesn't work if she can see my votes.
Just imagine Election Night -- "oh, we'd better check our votes to make sure those evil Republicans didn't steal them! Where's your registration card?" The "anonymous registration" thing you mention is completely useless, since it brings us back to the "what do you have to hide" nonsense.
Going further, what's the point? If someone says "I voted for Kerry but this system says it was counted for Bush", there's not a single thing that can be done about it.
How does your post serve as any sort of a response to mine? Your $30 Target watch doesn't have a sapphire crystal, or even a glass one most likely.
A sapphire crystal can't be scratched by anything as mundane as keys. They cost way too much for something like an iPod though.
As for your comments on your other devices, this thread is already way too full of useless anecdotal crap.
A watch of that price likely uses an aluminum oxide crystal, not glass.
Bah, Microsoft is just copying Japan, where as far as I can tell there are only three corporations. None of them have names per se, so I call them GoodCorp, EvilCorp, and BigCorp. I feel that my understanding of Japan has increased dramatically since I figured this out, especially when I realized that the government is a subsidary of BigCorp.
You could do a Google search for "google censors china".
As the owner of the "iTunes" trademark, Apple has the right to use the name for anything it would like. They could insist that the microcontroller in a new digital toaster was "iTunes", if they were so inclined.
Regardless, the software running on the "iTunes phone" is not similar in any meaningful way to the software application previously called "iTunes". Users of the "iTunes phone" will have the real iTunes installed on their computer, though.
No, your comment doesn't make any sense.
The Motorola phone doesn't run anything that looks or works like iTunes. It's an "iTunes phone" because you can sync your music to it from iTunes.
The phone should be considered an "iPod phone" for all intents and purposes, but Apple didn't want to dilute the "iPod" brand for something so clunky.
Uh, "she", guys. Last I checked. ;)