First you need to have good karma to get to meta-moderate and earn mod-points. Bigoted Apple Zealots like you, normally don't get good karma. Esp ones who post as Anonymous Coward.
Second, I answered this already to one of the other iPod Fanboys who thought that Apple never said that, and that the iPod was the greatest thing since sliced bread. I proved that not only did they say it, but use it as marketing to promote the iPod, and that it is incorrect. {SARCASM}Of course, you may question the sources, being the Apple iPod web page, and CNet posting an article from a MP3.COM author, after all, what does Apple know about their own products, and what does anyone from MP3.COM know about the history of MP3 players? {/SARCASM}
Apple iPod Color marketing exagerations "The original iPod changed the way you listen to music by putting thousands of songs in your pocket." As if nobody else put thousands of songs in your pocket? This seems to suggest that Apple's iPod was the first device to put thousands of songs in someone's pocket by using a hard drive?
Other MP3 players seem to have changed the way people listen to music, before the iPod even existed. "The world's first iPod
Credit for this goes to Compaq's Systems Research Center and the Palo Alto Advanced Development group--essentially a bunch of engineers from Compaq's laptop division who realized that hard drives could replace flash memory in MP3 players and enable them to hold far more music. When I reviewed the MP3 player these groups created (the Hango/Remote Solutions Personal Jukebox PJB-100), I was blown away by the then-unheard-of 6GB capacity, crystal-clear sound, and ample display, as compared with the skimpy 32MB devices I'd seen previously, such as the MPMan and the Rio." Maybe heavier than the iPod, but it clipped on the hip and fit into large pockets like the original iPod did (before the iPod Mini and Nano).
So much for Apple invented the MP3 player with a hard drive first, myth, and changed the way we listen to music. Apple really needs to be more honest in their marketing. So, apparently, do Apple Zealots like you. Are those URLS good enough for you, or are you going to go into shock and denial? Check and mate, sucker!
Yet Apple will claim to have the first hand held video player, ignoring the PSP and other hand held video players. Just like the iPod was not the first MP3 player either. Of course, Apple is great at rewriting history.
History should really be about stuff, that, oh, I dunno, really happened. Then that is just my opinion.
Watch as the Apple Zealots mod-bomb this comment of mine, and prove me correct.
I am glad someone got the joke I made. Bollocks to those who rated my comment offtopic, I got mod points too, suckas!
Was Derek Smart involved in this X2 game? Did he make the enemy Coca Cola vending machines or something? Why should I even bother to play a game that does not even have an original sounding name, and sounds like an obvious X-Men ripoff, or at least an X-Com ripoff.
it was a great movie, I hope X3 has Wolverine in it. Maybe X3 will have Jean Grey come back as Phoenix or Dark Phoenix? I cannot wait. I am such a big fan of the X-Men.
It sounds like a good idea until the creators of Star Trek and Babylon 5 send lawyers after them. Even parody is no longer considered "fair use" anymore due to new copyright and trademark laws.
Still I watched half of it, and it was quite funny, but has a twisted view of history that favors the Russians/CCCP/Soviet Union, etc. I think that it is the "Mirror Mirror" version of Pirk in this movie, the real Pirk would be appearing on commercials for Dotcom companies and trying to take off his singing career if he was stranded in the past, not try to form an Empire version of P-Fleet. Still the Babel 13 Commander Sherrypie tends to make too many speeches, and does not take enough actions.
Halfway through the film, I started to scream "Uggghhhhh my eyes, my eyes!" as I tried to read the subtitles that made no sense, look at the wooden acting, and tried to follow what little of a plot they had. As soon as my retinas heal up a bit, I'll watch the other half.
You mean that turning old TV shows into movies is not really that popular or profitable? Here all the time the MPAA had blamed low ticket sales on people downloading movies off P2P file sharing networks and not going to the theatres to watch them.
How about a movie on movie producers and movie managers? Wait, didn't Mel Brooks do that with "The Producers" somewhat? How about you remake that movie, and instead of play producers they are movie producers?
Firefly and Serenity are like Traveller
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I have played a Role Playing Game known as Traveller since 1984. We have been in situations like the crew of Serenity get into, only our plans work better, and we are not as gentle as their crew.
We considered ourselves to be gentlemen of opportunity, and wore many hats as the situation presented itself.
Sometimes we were heroes, pirates, smugglers, mercinaries, spies, bounty hunters, body guards, repo men, merchants, or any other vocation as long as someone was willing to pay, or we profited from it somehow.
Orion Blastar is the name of a Merchant turned Space Pirate that I played. He makes Malcom Reynolds look like little Suzy Sunshine. In one campaign we nuked two planets to make off with billions of credits from robbing banks after hitting the planets with nuclear missiles, and using normal missiles to blow open bank vaults. It was a 1970's/1960's technology planet for both planets, with an ultra-fascist government run by The Imperium, who are actually worse than The Alliance.
I run a MegaTraveller Yahoo Group where we discuss such things, and we have been waiting for the Firefly based movie to come out for a long time now.
I find that piracy reference offensive. I am a Space Pirate and a member in good standing of the Pirate's Union. Calling stealing songs off the Internet as piracy, gives us pirates a bad name. Call it a five finger discount or something else.
I don't hijack, I commandeer, I don't steal, I borrow, I don't loot, I find. Sometimes I have to pursaude people with a sword or gun, but they actually give me things after I threaten their lives.
Here is a list of PSP 2.0 Firmware features so really who wants to downgrade to 1.5 of the Firmware anyway? Sure there are a few warnings, so what? The PSP 2.0 Firmware upgrade works good enough for most people's needs. After all, you bought a PSP not a Nintendo DS, because of the Sony Quality and the Sony good name and image, right?
#1 Mozilla Calendar is not ready for prime time. I've missed appointments for it because I set a reminder for 60 minutes, but for some reason Mozilla Calendar decided to remind me 15 minutes before the appointments instead. When I checked, it said 15 minutes, but my default on appointments was 60, and I set all my appointments for 60 minutes. There are also times when alarms were set to go off, but did not. Other times that alarms keep going off, even after they have been acknowledged.
#2 Mozilla Calendar Plugin needs to be in memory in order for appointments to go off, Thunderbird loaded by itself will not do this. Tools/Calendar needs to be accessed every single time that Thunderbird is loaded, or else alarms won't go off.
#3 No synch options for other devices. It does support iCalendar and vCalendar file formats and some mutant CSV format that Outlook and Yahoo Calendar refuse to read.
#4 It should integrate with the Thunderbird address book for birthdays, etc, and add them to the calendar.
#5 It is not stable yet, and often crashes on my system.
Just use the same naming system
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they use for hurricanes. It is very simple, just name them after the ex-boyfriends and ex-girlfriends of every employee in the organization that names such things.
"Katrina discovered that I was cheating on her with Rita? I'll show them both after I get my organization to name hurricanes after them!" -Anonymous Weather Scientist
Perhaps they can name them after strippers, like the Melissa worm was named? Better yet, how about celebrities? I got infected with the Tom Cruse worm. Yeah well I got infected with Paris Hilton worm.:)
More than likely, it would just check for a valid DRM signature on each audio file. If one does not exist, like one you ripped from a CD you own into a MP3 file, it will, of course, delete it for you and accuse you of being a pirate. Then it will pop up ads telling you where you can buy a DRM copy of the songs due to the Spyware/Adware it installed. Lucky you, you get to buy each song you like twice in order to have a copy of it on your computer and a CD, to comply with the RIAA's definition of DRM. Once with your CD purchase, and twice via a DRM Music Store because your MP3 file just got wiped as a possibly bootleg copy and future MP3 rips will be deleted as well as remove the software that does the ripping. If you want a backup, simply buy a third copy. See how many rights they just gave you? Most people who do not use this software have the right to backup their songs, but this software takes away that right and gives you the right to buy multiple copies of the same song so the RIAA has a right to make more money off of you. Two rights do not make a wrong, so it must be more right!
Perhaps next they can propose a "Stupid Tax" on bloggers that post things that are stupid or have no facts to back them up. Perhaps next, a "Trolling Tax", or a "P0rn Tax", or perhaps they will force blogs to disclose what political groups they are funded by and how much was spent on the bandwidth for the blog?
The Internet is just another media technology like TV, Radio, or Newspapers, except anyone can use it and write on it anything they want to, and unlike the other medias, the Internet is unregulated and an anarchy.
Of course I've love to see a "Spam Tax" or a "Malware Infection Tax" to the people who send Spam or write Malware.
Billy Idol said it best in his "Cyberpunk" CD:
The future has imploded into the present. With no nuclear war, the new
battlefields are people's minds and souls. Megacorporations are the
new government. The computer generated info-domains are the new
frontiers. Though there is better living through science and
chemistry, we are all becoming cyborgs.
The computer is the new "cool tool," and though we say "all
information should be free," it is not. Information is power and
currency in the virtual world we inhabit, so mistrust authority.
Cyberpunks are the true rebels. Cyberculture is coming in under the
radar of ordinary society. An unholy alliance of the tech world, and
the world of organized dissent.
Ah yes, it is waaaaayyyyy to hard to bring up the history file in Firefox.
View/Sidebar/History
It is even harder to bring up the Cookies file to see where the perp has been.
Tools/Options/Privacy/View Cookies
Besides everyone knows that only criminals have something to hide, and will clear this information anyway on a daily basis.
Oh sure, the police can subpeona the Perp's ISP to get a history of all web sites that the Perp's account and IP visited. That would be too simple to do.
Instead let us ban all browsers except for Microsoft Internet Explorer. Only criminals and terrorists will use the Non-IE browsers, because they have something to hide. Why? Because the overpriced software the Police bought, instead of training the Officers how to do the search, will only work with IE.
Hey some F/OSS developers want to develop their own Forensics software to check where Mozilla, Firefox, Opera, etc has been, and let the Police use it for free? I think someone needs to help these Luddites out in their investigations.
Sure, force everyone to use IE, that way the government can force its Big Brother Spyware Monitoring software on every copy of Windows in existance to keep tabs on all of us. Then they just arrest anyone who does not use Windows with IE, for violating the new Cyber Laws.
Dual processor motherboards, has two sockets. One for an Intel chip, and one for a PowerPC chip. You choose which one you wish to use at the factory when you order it. If you chose one, and decided you need to run programs designed for the other, you can order that chip and have an Apple Tech put it in for you. If you cannot decide, order both chips and use them in a parallel processing.
Special dual-use Macintosh motherboards can be designed to work with an Intel chip, a PowerPC chip, or both.
For those who bought an Intel or PowerPC Mac without the dual-use capability, Apple will be happy to provide an expansion card with the other chip on it to run programs designed for that processor. Just like they used to have an Apple// or PC on a card for the original PowerMacs.
How about we put a fire under the MAME/MESS community and they design a PCI card standard that uses Intel X86, PowerPC, 680X0, Z80, 6502, 6509, Z800, MIPS, SH4, and other processors on it, or have the sockets to add processors to it for emulators and other systems to use to run non-Native code on the processor card. Then your F/OSS software can use the PowerPC on the PCI card to run PearPC on your Intel X86 Linux PC at almost normal speeds? Stick a G4 or G5 on a PCI card, and sell it for use with F/OSS software that uses the card.
How about the Asian community makes a PowerPC socket for their Intel X86 motherboards to use it as a co-processor for emulators and other things? Just buy a PowerPC chip, clip it in the socket, run PearPC, Bochs, or whatever, and be happy with your native run PowerPC OS of choice.
and they wonder why we were so excited over graphics so primative that the pixels were very large, the resolution was very low, the colors were limited to a few, and the graphics flickered because the 2600 could not draw more than three objects at once.
What is this new technology and why should I care about it? The article link does not work, Slashdot effect.
As a computer expert of 20 years and programmer of 15 years, how will this effect me? Will I have to learn totally new things, or does it build on the old ones? Who owns the patents to this new technology? Will Microsoft release their own version of it and crush everyone?
Very good, I suspected as much from one of my previous posts. Face facts, when an Internet Idiot like Orion Blastar can figure out your plan, it isn't a very good one. Then again, maybe I am not so much of an idiot? Take that IWETHEY'ers! I figured it out before they did. Who is the idiot now?
existed before the iPod. The iPod is like a Windows CE 1.0 type PDA with a built in MP3/Audio Player and other features.
By the way, I think that there were MP3 players before the iPod. I recall that I had a cell phone that played MP3 files before Apple released the iPod. IIRC I used to have a Windows CE 1.0 HPC that had some audio player that could play MP3, MIDI, and other audio files, but the file size had to be small, because the secondary storage was battery backed up RAM.
If you think about it, the features that Apple wants to put into future iPods to play movies, and other media files, the Microsoft PocketPC already has. Imagine the iPod 2 or iPod 3 has bluetooth and wireless Internet abilities and a web browser, and PocketPCs have had those abilities for years now.
Besides everyone knows that Microsoft basically controls Apple, because if Apple does not do what Microsoft wants, Microsoft won't release a new version of MS-Office for the Macintosh. Steve Jobs wanted an iPod, Microsoft had the technology and patents, I think they made some sort of deal there. Also did anyone forget the money that Microsoft invested in Apple years ago? I think Microsoft wants to see that stock pay off.
Apple will continue to profit off the iPod and iTunes, until Microsoft decides to enter the market with their new version of PocketPC and MSMedia services to buy audio and video and multimedia files off of the Internet.
Ironically didn't Apple have patents on the Newton, and Palm have patents on the Palm Pilot, before there was a Windows CE? WTF? Was Microsoft the first one to file a patent for hand held media players that use hard drives or something? Or is it that Microsoft based Windows CE and PocketPC patents on Windows patents?
they should take a look at the records of who was using the computers in question when the porn was viewed. Then suspend their library card and fine them, and they lose access to the Library Internet system for a long time.
Suspending the Librarian is like firing the Clerk of a convience store because it got robbed while he/she was on duty, it makes no sense at all, because he/she is a victim of a crime too.
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First you need to have good karma to get to meta-moderate and earn mod-points. Bigoted Apple Zealots like you, normally don't get good karma. Esp ones who post as Anonymous Coward.
Second, I answered this already to one of the other iPod Fanboys who thought that Apple never said that, and that the iPod was the greatest thing since sliced bread. I proved that not only did they say it, but use it as marketing to promote the iPod, and that it is incorrect. {SARCASM}Of course, you may question the sources, being the Apple iPod web page, and CNet posting an article from a MP3.COM author, after all, what does Apple know about their own products, and what does anyone from MP3.COM know about the history of MP3 players? {/SARCASM}
Apple iPod Color marketing exagerations "The original iPod changed the way you listen to music by putting thousands of songs in your pocket." As if nobody else put thousands of songs in your pocket? This seems to suggest that Apple's iPod was the first device to put thousands of songs in someone's pocket by using a hard drive?
Other MP3 players seem to have changed the way people listen to music, before the iPod even existed. "The world's first iPod Credit for this goes to Compaq's Systems Research Center and the Palo Alto Advanced Development group--essentially a bunch of engineers from Compaq's laptop division who realized that hard drives could replace flash memory in MP3 players and enable them to hold far more music. When I reviewed the MP3 player these groups created (the Hango/Remote Solutions Personal Jukebox PJB-100), I was blown away by the then-unheard-of 6GB capacity, crystal-clear sound, and ample display, as compared with the skimpy 32MB devices I'd seen previously, such as the MPMan and the Rio." Maybe heavier than the iPod, but it clipped on the hip and fit into large pockets like the original iPod did (before the iPod Mini and Nano).
So much for Apple invented the MP3 player with a hard drive first, myth, and changed the way we listen to music. Apple really needs to be more honest in their marketing. So, apparently, do Apple Zealots like you. Are those URLS good enough for you, or are you going to go into shock and denial? Check and mate, sucker!
Yet Apple will claim to have the first hand held video player, ignoring the PSP and other hand held video players. Just like the iPod was not the first MP3 player either. Of course, Apple is great at rewriting history.
History should really be about stuff, that, oh, I dunno, really happened. Then that is just my opinion.
Watch as the Apple Zealots mod-bomb this comment of mine, and prove me correct.
Was Derek Smart involved in this X2 game? Did he make the enemy Coca Cola vending machines or something? Why should I even bother to play a game that does not even have an original sounding name, and sounds like an obvious X-Men ripoff, or at least an X-Com ripoff.
Only if Jabba The Hutt is involved. He know him as Michael Moore in the 21st century.
it was a great movie, I hope X3 has Wolverine in it. Maybe X3 will have Jean Grey come back as Phoenix or Dark Phoenix? I cannot wait. I am such a big fan of the X-Men.
It sounds like a good idea until the creators of Star Trek and Babylon 5 send lawyers after them. Even parody is no longer considered "fair use" anymore due to new copyright and trademark laws.
Still I watched half of it, and it was quite funny, but has a twisted view of history that favors the Russians/CCCP/Soviet Union, etc. I think that it is the "Mirror Mirror" version of Pirk in this movie, the real Pirk would be appearing on commercials for Dotcom companies and trying to take off his singing career if he was stranded in the past, not try to form an Empire version of P-Fleet. Still the Babel 13 Commander Sherrypie tends to make too many speeches, and does not take enough actions.
Halfway through the film, I started to scream "Uggghhhhh my eyes, my eyes!" as I tried to read the subtitles that made no sense, look at the wooden acting, and tried to follow what little of a plot they had. As soon as my retinas heal up a bit, I'll watch the other half.
You mean that turning old TV shows into movies is not really that popular or profitable? Here all the time the MPAA had blamed low ticket sales on people downloading movies off P2P file sharing networks and not going to the theatres to watch them.
How about a movie on movie producers and movie managers? Wait, didn't Mel Brooks do that with "The Producers" somewhat? How about you remake that movie, and instead of play producers they are movie producers?
I have played a Role Playing Game known as Traveller since 1984. We have been in situations like the crew of Serenity get into, only our plans work better, and we are not as gentle as their crew.
We considered ourselves to be gentlemen of opportunity, and wore many hats as the situation presented itself.
Sometimes we were heroes, pirates, smugglers, mercinaries, spies, bounty hunters, body guards, repo men, merchants, or any other vocation as long as someone was willing to pay, or we profited from it somehow.
Orion Blastar is the name of a Merchant turned Space Pirate that I played. He makes Malcom Reynolds look like little Suzy Sunshine. In one campaign we nuked two planets to make off with billions of credits from robbing banks after hitting the planets with nuclear missiles, and using normal missiles to blow open bank vaults. It was a 1970's/1960's technology planet for both planets, with an ultra-fascist government run by The Imperium, who are actually worse than The Alliance.
I run a MegaTraveller Yahoo Group where we discuss such things, and we have been waiting for the Firefly based movie to come out for a long time now.
I find that piracy reference offensive. I am a Space Pirate and a member in good standing of the Pirate's Union. Calling stealing songs off the Internet as piracy, gives us pirates a bad name. Call it a five finger discount or something else.
I don't hijack, I commandeer, I don't steal, I borrow, I don't loot, I find. Sometimes I have to pursaude people with a sword or gun, but they actually give me things after I threaten their lives.
Here is a list of PSP 2.0 Firmware features so really who wants to downgrade to 1.5 of the Firmware anyway? Sure there are a few warnings, so what? The PSP 2.0 Firmware upgrade works good enough for most people's needs. After all, you bought a PSP not a Nintendo DS, because of the Sony Quality and the Sony good name and image, right?
Yeah but:
#1 Mozilla Calendar is not ready for prime time. I've missed appointments for it because I set a reminder for 60 minutes, but for some reason Mozilla Calendar decided to remind me 15 minutes before the appointments instead. When I checked, it said 15 minutes, but my default on appointments was 60, and I set all my appointments for 60 minutes. There are also times when alarms were set to go off, but did not. Other times that alarms keep going off, even after they have been acknowledged.
#2 Mozilla Calendar Plugin needs to be in memory in order for appointments to go off, Thunderbird loaded by itself will not do this. Tools/Calendar needs to be accessed every single time that Thunderbird is loaded, or else alarms won't go off.
#3 No synch options for other devices. It does support iCalendar and vCalendar file formats and some mutant CSV format that Outlook and Yahoo Calendar refuse to read.
#4 It should integrate with the Thunderbird address book for birthdays, etc, and add them to the calendar.
#5 It is not stable yet, and often crashes on my system.
they use for hurricanes. It is very simple, just name them after the ex-boyfriends and ex-girlfriends of every employee in the organization that names such things.
:)
"Katrina discovered that I was cheating on her with Rita? I'll show them both after I get my organization to name hurricanes after them!" -Anonymous Weather Scientist
Perhaps they can name them after strippers, like the Melissa worm was named? Better yet, how about celebrities? I got infected with the Tom Cruse worm. Yeah well I got infected with Paris Hilton worm.
More than likely, it would just check for a valid DRM signature on each audio file. If one does not exist, like one you ripped from a CD you own into a MP3 file, it will, of course, delete it for you and accuse you of being a pirate. Then it will pop up ads telling you where you can buy a DRM copy of the songs due to the Spyware/Adware it installed. Lucky you, you get to buy each song you like twice in order to have a copy of it on your computer and a CD, to comply with the RIAA's definition of DRM. Once with your CD purchase, and twice via a DRM Music Store because your MP3 file just got wiped as a possibly bootleg copy and future MP3 rips will be deleted as well as remove the software that does the ripping. If you want a backup, simply buy a third copy. See how many rights they just gave you? Most people who do not use this software have the right to backup their songs, but this software takes away that right and gives you the right to buy multiple copies of the same song so the RIAA has a right to make more money off of you. Two rights do not make a wrong, so it must be more right!
The Internet is just another media technology like TV, Radio, or Newspapers, except anyone can use it and write on it anything they want to, and unlike the other medias, the Internet is unregulated and an anarchy.
Of course I've love to see a "Spam Tax" or a "Malware Infection Tax" to the people who send Spam or write Malware.
Billy Idol said it best in his "Cyberpunk" CD:
Ah yes, it is waaaaayyyyy to hard to bring up the history file in Firefox.
View/Sidebar/History
It is even harder to bring up the Cookies file to see where the perp has been.
Tools/Options/Privacy/View Cookies
Besides everyone knows that only criminals have something to hide, and will clear this information anyway on a daily basis.
Oh sure, the police can subpeona the Perp's ISP to get a history of all web sites that the Perp's account and IP visited. That would be too simple to do.
Instead let us ban all browsers except for Microsoft Internet Explorer. Only criminals and terrorists will use the Non-IE browsers, because they have something to hide. Why? Because the overpriced software the Police bought, instead of training the Officers how to do the search, will only work with IE.
Hey some F/OSS developers want to develop their own Forensics software to check where Mozilla, Firefox, Opera, etc has been, and let the Police use it for free? I think someone needs to help these Luddites out in their investigations.
Sure, force everyone to use IE, that way the government can force its Big Brother Spyware Monitoring software on every copy of Windows in existance to keep tabs on all of us. Then they just arrest anyone who does not use Windows with IE, for violating the new Cyber Laws.
Sorry my mistake. My mind has been slipping recently due to my many illnesses.
I meant the Asian motherboard maker companies. My mistake.
Pilot, Logo, and MUMPS. Those are the way to go, to the extreeeeeeeeemmmmmmeeee!
Dual processor motherboards, has two sockets. One for an Intel chip, and one for a PowerPC chip. You choose which one you wish to use at the factory when you order it. If you chose one, and decided you need to run programs designed for the other, you can order that chip and have an Apple Tech put it in for you. If you cannot decide, order both chips and use them in a parallel processing.
// or PC on a card for the original PowerMacs.
Special dual-use Macintosh motherboards can be designed to work with an Intel chip, a PowerPC chip, or both.
For those who bought an Intel or PowerPC Mac without the dual-use capability, Apple will be happy to provide an expansion card with the other chip on it to run programs designed for that processor. Just like they used to have an Apple
How about we put a fire under the MAME/MESS community and they design a PCI card standard that uses Intel X86, PowerPC, 680X0, Z80, 6502, 6509, Z800, MIPS, SH4, and other processors on it, or have the sockets to add processors to it for emulators and other systems to use to run non-Native code on the processor card. Then your F/OSS software can use the PowerPC on the PCI card to run PearPC on your Intel X86 Linux PC at almost normal speeds? Stick a G4 or G5 on a PCI card, and sell it for use with F/OSS software that uses the card.
How about the Asian community makes a PowerPC socket for their Intel X86 motherboards to use it as a co-processor for emulators and other things? Just buy a PowerPC chip, clip it in the socket, run PearPC, Bochs, or whatever, and be happy with your native run PowerPC OS of choice.
I thought it was Mono?
and they wonder why we were so excited over graphics so primative that the pixels were very large, the resolution was very low, the colors were limited to a few, and the graphics flickered because the 2600 could not draw more than three objects at once.
What is this new technology and why should I care about it? The article link does not work, Slashdot effect.
As a computer expert of 20 years and programmer of 15 years, how will this effect me? Will I have to learn totally new things, or does it build on the old ones? Who owns the patents to this new technology? Will Microsoft release their own version of it and crush everyone?
Very good, I suspected as much from one of my previous posts. Face facts, when an Internet Idiot like Orion Blastar can figure out your plan, it isn't a very good one. Then again, maybe I am not so much of an idiot? Take that IWETHEY'ers! I figured it out before they did. Who is the idiot now?
existed before the iPod. The iPod is like a Windows CE 1.0 type PDA with a built in MP3/Audio Player and other features.
By the way, I think that there were MP3 players before the iPod. I recall that I had a cell phone that played MP3 files before Apple released the iPod. IIRC I used to have a Windows CE 1.0 HPC that had some audio player that could play MP3, MIDI, and other audio files, but the file size had to be small, because the secondary storage was battery backed up RAM.
If you think about it, the features that Apple wants to put into future iPods to play movies, and other media files, the Microsoft PocketPC already has. Imagine the iPod 2 or iPod 3 has bluetooth and wireless Internet abilities and a web browser, and PocketPCs have had those abilities for years now.
Besides everyone knows that Microsoft basically controls Apple, because if Apple does not do what Microsoft wants, Microsoft won't release a new version of MS-Office for the Macintosh. Steve Jobs wanted an iPod, Microsoft had the technology and patents, I think they made some sort of deal there. Also did anyone forget the money that Microsoft invested in Apple years ago? I think Microsoft wants to see that stock pay off.
Apple will continue to profit off the iPod and iTunes, until Microsoft decides to enter the market with their new version of PocketPC and MSMedia services to buy audio and video and multimedia files off of the Internet.
Ironically didn't Apple have patents on the Newton, and Palm have patents on the Palm Pilot, before there was a Windows CE? WTF? Was Microsoft the first one to file a patent for hand held media players that use hard drives or something? Or is it that Microsoft based Windows CE and PocketPC patents on Windows patents?
they should take a look at the records of who was using the computers in question when the porn was viewed. Then suspend their library card and fine them, and they lose access to the Library Internet system for a long time.
Suspending the Librarian is like firing the Clerk of a convience store because it got robbed while he/she was on duty, it makes no sense at all, because he/she is a victim of a crime too.