it really says hat FNC thinks their viewers are in fact incredibly stupid.
Either that, or that its incredibly difficult to distinguish an animated show with 'Krusty the Clown' on a news show displaying sensationalist head-lines from the real FoxNews. Either way, it's egg on their face.
PS - i wore my asbestos underwear today.
*dons asbestos bee-keeper suit* Well, I actually like FoxNews.
Small shops can't afford to purchase tons of review items. Also, a lot of shops (especially Computer HW shops) review items *before* they are available to the public. Just like movies, people want to buy/see something the day it is released, not a week later after everyone else has tried it.
Only if "nice" is an odd way of spelling "evil". Do you know how crap "everything is a database" really is?
Actually, *nice* was referring to the information on the site. And if you read the *nice* information, you see that the file system will *still* be NTFS and that only the "Documents and Settings" folder (equivalent of '/home') will have the DB tie-ins and meta-data. You avoid the "everything is a database" problems with system files, etc and gain the benefits of "tons of user data is indexed and searchable."
That's a nice source of information there. I was especially interested in their description of WinFS.
Everything that is stored in the WinFS store is an item and each item has metadata properties that are described by a schema. Items that follow the schema are stored in the WinFS store as serialized.NET objects and are accessed through T-SQL views that give access to the items' properties.
Don't get me wrong, XFree86 is great and all, but I wish there was a replacement. I would be willing to wager that >75% of those of us who run a Linux desktop don't need hardly *any* of the advanced features in the X Windows server. I would like to see a completely modular, X-windows core-compatible windowing system for Linux. Want to use some of the advanced features? Add in the module, recompile, and go!
Wha? Maybe this is true for the 2 junior high kids who have a 3 year old v0.01a calendar project on sourceforge, but all highly succesful, highly popular projects (Linux, Mozilla, etc) have every bit as much testing and process as commercially-developed software. Don't beleive me? Try to sneak in some code that *breaks* the software. Go on.
but 90% of it's about killing people, making nuclear war more practical, or causing other kinds of evil and terrorism,
Oh come on! What kind of crap is this? Perhaps you've heard of that little DARPA creation called the INTARWEB?! =P
No one wants to make nuclear war 'practical.' 90% of research is about NOT killing people, as killing a lot of people typically doesn't help win wars. This isn't the middle ages where you can hope to wipe out an entire society in a single war. What DARPA is interested in is destroying *targets* - things like launchers, tanks, fighters, satellite links, etc. Successful live tests are those that *minimize* casualties, not maximize them. We've had the technology to maximize death for decades now.
What a load of crap. Look at spam and telemarketing. People are using methods to block these things because they are obtrusive. Are the spammers and telemarketers pissed off? Yes. Can they do anything about? Probably not.
Perhaps IHBT, but just in case:
Are you suggesting that telemarketers are just giving up now that there is a National Do Not Call list? Where have you been? They've been lobbying and protesting and suing everyone and everything they can. And spammers? Are they not coming up with sneakier ways of getting their crap into your inbox? If there was no such thing as spam filtering techniques, there would be no need for all the "tricks" the spammers use.
Wide use of 'blocking' technology makes those who have monetary interests in *NOT* being blocked work harder and smarter. The end result is that the strongest and most annoying survive.
I have mixed feeling on this. While I like the idea of more and more people using Mozilla/Firebird, monoculture is rarely good.
If Mozilla advertises that they can 'block ads' easily and everyone downloads and uses it, then you will piss off a lot of advertising people. Advertising people have money. They will either come up with new (annoying) methods of delivering advertisments, or buy some legislation that makes blocking ads illegal. Look at Tivo. They can't really advertise '30-second skip ahead' as 'Automatic Commercial Skipping Feature.' I think Replay TV already lost that fight. So Tivo makes it an 'undocumented' feature that only a few 'elite' users know about. Same thing with 'hacked' region-free DVD players.
Sometimes, it's nice to be one of the 'elite' who knows about and uses superior technology that's still under the radar of mainstream.
Kazaa lets you search for any bands/songs/artists and find out who has it. And they *are* going to share. Perhaps you have been under a rock. =P
[legal disclaimers] The poster of this comment does not endorse the trading/sharing of copyrighted material without the copyright holder's consent. Your milage may vary. Batteries not included. FDIC insured. EOE.]
"I'm sure all three services will evolve and get better, and others will enter the fray. But, for now, iTunes is the best choice on Windows." . . . [ waiting for my +Insightful mod points for simply repeating the last line I just read =P ]
Lets see...
The Blur is 5 minutes and 30 seconds into the movie, that means that member X leaked this film...
I guess you could remove a few frames to change the time stamp though =/ but if the watermarks are placed at 5,8,10 etc minute intervals it may be hard to remove.
A common misconception is that there are just these ~10 'Academy Gods' that grant worthiness to movies. The academy is a semi-diverse group of over 5000 members in the film-making industry.
The studios reportedly agreed to send out VHS screeners (recipients previously had a choice between VHS and DVD) encrypted with a special security code traceable to individual Academy members. (Such a move will, presumably, keep the likes of Steven Spielberg (news) from cranking out a few extra copies and selling them on eBay.)
That's close to what we have now. But there are tons of ways around that. Want to 'meet' with an official? Sure, invite him out to your private vacation house in the Bahamas. Wine and dine him. Give him unlimited use of your 'maid' service. Oops! Is that a suitcase filled with $20 bills? It sure is, why don't you just keep that. And these earrings are for your wife. Son needs a job? Why didn't you say so, we have a lucrative opening for a daydreamer that starts at $130K/year. Anytime you need to borrow the jet, just call. Etc...
"I don't want to pay for a BMW! If BMW wants me to have one of their cars, there should be a way where I don't have to share my money. I want it now, and I don't want to pay. If there is a car manufacturer I like and they need money, then yes, I'd like the choice please, but don't assume everyone likes to pay money just to drive the latest BMW model."
Please tell me that's not what you were trying to say.
Yes, 1.1MP is useless for 'real' photography, but what photographer ues a phone for his work? If you want good pictures, carry around your 5MP camera, not this. By your logic, laptops are useless since a 'real' PC has a 21" CRT. Walkmans/iPods are useless since a 'real" stereo has 18" subwoofers. Snubbed-nose revolvers are useless since a 'real" gun has a night scope and 26" barrel.
You (and several other people here) don't seem to understand the market these devices are targetting. They are not trying to replace the dedicated devices. They are catering to a niche market that wants a combination of decent (who cares if they aren't great) devices in a small form factor.
Is a DigiCam better at photography than this? Yes. Is a Palm a better PDA than this? Yes. It a GBA a better handheld gaming device than this? Yes. Do the type of people who would be interested in this device care about those things? NO!
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Fix the rating please. It's the same as the ISBN.
No, that's the rating. It's a *really* good book!
Chappell points out that the book's author is also Jess' creator, so he speaks from authority.
And without bias, I'm sure. =P
it really says hat FNC thinks their viewers are in fact incredibly stupid.
Either that, or that its incredibly difficult to distinguish an animated show with 'Krusty the Clown' on a news show displaying sensationalist head-lines from the real FoxNews. Either way, it's egg on their face.
PS - i wore my asbestos underwear today.
*dons asbestos bee-keeper suit*
Well, I actually like FoxNews.
Ok, I'll be fair.. I have woody on my laptop.
[SNL] "Tommy, dude, tell me you got that on tape!" [/SNL] =P
Small shops can't afford to purchase tons of review items. Also, a lot of shops (especially Computer HW shops) review items *before* they are available to the public. Just like movies, people want to buy/see something the day it is released, not a week later after everyone else has tried it.
Only if "nice" is an odd way of spelling "evil". Do you know how crap "everything is a database" really is?
Actually, *nice* was referring to the information on the site. And if you read the *nice* information, you see that the file system will *still* be NTFS and that only the "Documents and Settings" folder (equivalent of '/home') will have the DB tie-ins and meta-data. You avoid the "everything is a database" problems with system files, etc and gain the benefits of "tons of user data is indexed and searchable."
That's a nice source of information there. I was especially interested in their description of WinFS.
Everything that is stored in the WinFS store is an item and each item has metadata properties that are described by a schema. Items that follow the schema are stored in the WinFS store as serialized
I just don't think this "hands-free" thing, in its current incarnation, is going to take off.
Locutus
And just how big is an antelope's hand?
Oh wait, I found it: 1 Antelope Hand ~= 0.067 VW Beetles
Don't get me wrong, XFree86 is great and all, but I wish there was a replacement. I would be willing to wager that >75% of those of us who run a Linux desktop don't need hardly *any* of the advanced features in the X Windows server. I would like to see a completely modular, X-windows core-compatible windowing system for Linux. Want to use some of the advanced features? Add in the module, recompile, and go!
Wha? Maybe this is true for the 2 junior high kids who have a 3 year old v0.01a calendar project on sourceforge, but all highly succesful, highly popular projects (Linux, Mozilla, etc) have every bit as much testing and process as commercially-developed software. Don't beleive me? Try to sneak in some code that *breaks* the software. Go on.
Yeah, I hate still having to deal with horrible projects like Bob.
You misspelled 'Clippy.'
but 90% of it's about killing people, making nuclear war more practical, or causing other kinds of evil and terrorism,
Oh come on! What kind of crap is this? Perhaps you've heard of that little DARPA creation called the INTARWEB?! =P
No one wants to make nuclear war 'practical.' 90% of research is about NOT killing people, as killing a lot of people typically doesn't help win wars. This isn't the middle ages where you can hope to wipe out an entire society in a single war. What DARPA is interested in is destroying *targets* - things like launchers, tanks, fighters, satellite links, etc. Successful live tests are those that *minimize* casualties, not maximize them. We've had the technology to maximize death for decades now.
What a load of crap. Look at spam and telemarketing. People are using methods to block these things because they are obtrusive. Are the spammers and telemarketers pissed off? Yes. Can they do anything about? Probably not.
Perhaps IHBT, but just in case:
Are you suggesting that telemarketers are just giving up now that there is a National Do Not Call list? Where have you been? They've been lobbying and protesting and suing everyone and everything they can. And spammers? Are they not coming up with sneakier ways of getting their crap into your inbox? If there was no such thing as spam filtering techniques, there would be no need for all the "tricks" the spammers use.
Wide use of 'blocking' technology makes those who have monetary interests in *NOT* being blocked work harder and smarter. The end result is that the strongest and most annoying survive.
I have mixed feeling on this. While I like the idea of more and more people using Mozilla/Firebird, monoculture is rarely good.
If Mozilla advertises that they can 'block ads' easily and everyone downloads and uses it, then you will piss off a lot of advertising people. Advertising people have money. They will either come up with new (annoying) methods of delivering advertisments, or buy some legislation that makes blocking ads illegal. Look at Tivo. They can't really advertise '30-second skip ahead' as 'Automatic Commercial Skipping Feature.' I think Replay TV already lost that fight. So Tivo makes it an 'undocumented' feature that only a few 'elite' users know about. Same thing with 'hacked' region-free DVD players.
Sometimes, it's nice to be one of the 'elite' who knows about and uses superior technology that's still under the radar of mainstream.
Maybe get the Cute guy to work on it a bit...
*blushes*
"Aww shucks..."
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Oh, you mean that guy who did the 'Qute' icons? Bah. =P
Kazaa lets you search for any bands/songs/artists and find out who has it. And they *are* going to share. Perhaps you have been under a rock. =P
[legal disclaimers]
The poster of this comment does not endorse the trading/sharing of copyrighted material without the copyright holder's consent. Your milage may vary. Batteries not included. FDIC insured. EOE.]
"I'm sure all three services will evolve and get better, and others will enter the fray. But, for now, iTunes is the best choice on Windows."
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[ waiting for my +Insightful mod points for simply repeating the last line I just read =P ]
Lets see...
The Blur is 5 minutes and 30 seconds into the movie, that means that member X leaked this film...
I guess you could remove a few frames to change the time stamp though =/
but if the watermarks are placed at 5,8,10 etc minute intervals it may be hard to remove.
Read this
A common misconception is that there are just these ~10 'Academy Gods' that grant worthiness to movies. The academy is a semi-diverse group of over 5000 members in the film-making industry.
What a great idea and insightful idea!
From the article (emphasis mine):
The studios reportedly agreed to send out VHS screeners (recipients previously had a choice between VHS and DVD) encrypted with a special security code traceable to individual Academy members. (Such a move will, presumably, keep the likes of Steven Spielberg (news) from cranking out a few extra copies and selling them on eBay.)
For anyone who wants to 'pronounce' the number:
, 45 6
2^128 is:
340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211
Which is:
340 undecillion,
282 decillion,
366 nonillion,
920 octillion,
938 septillion,
463 sextillion,
463 quintillion,
374 quadrillion,
607 trillion,
431 billion,
768 million,
211 thousand,
456.
I find your ideas intriguing and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
That's close to what we have now. But there are tons of ways around that. Want to 'meet' with an official? Sure, invite him out to your private vacation house in the Bahamas. Wine and dine him. Give him unlimited use of your 'maid' service. Oops! Is that a suitcase filled with $20 bills? It sure is, why don't you just keep that. And these earrings are for your wife. Son needs a job? Why didn't you say so, we have a lucrative opening for a daydreamer that starts at $130K/year. Anytime you need to borrow the jet, just call. Etc...
What?
"I don't want to pay for a BMW! If BMW wants me to have one of their cars, there should be a way where I don't have to share my money. I want it now, and I don't want to pay. If there is a car manufacturer I like and they need money, then yes, I'd like the choice please, but don't assume everyone likes to pay money just to drive the latest BMW model."
Please tell me that's not what you were trying to say.
Yes, 1.1MP is useless for 'real' photography, but what photographer ues a phone for his work? If you want good pictures, carry around your 5MP camera, not this. By your logic, laptops are useless since a 'real' PC has a 21" CRT. Walkmans/iPods are useless since a 'real" stereo has 18" subwoofers. Snubbed-nose revolvers are useless since a 'real" gun has a night scope and 26" barrel.
You (and several other people here) don't seem to understand the market these devices are targetting. They are not trying to replace the dedicated devices. They are catering to a niche market that wants a combination of decent (who cares if they aren't great) devices in a small form factor.
Is a DigiCam better at photography than this? Yes. Is a Palm a better PDA than this? Yes. It a GBA a better handheld gaming device than this? Yes. Do the type of people who would be interested in this device care about those things? NO!