Notice that no mention is made of Microsoft's "Black Ops" division (often referred to as "R&D"), whose current research documents include "Mind Control using pre-packaged Windows Sound Schemes" and "The Manchurian Candidate and You: What it All Means."
No mention was made of sending shows over the internet...rather, it was to other units on a LAN.
And there is no way anyone could sue them for enabling commercial skipping...that's like saying someone could sue Sony because I can pause their VHS recorder during commercials, thus eliminating any possibility of having to watch advertisements.
If you're careful with your money, you'll give this one a miss. I say this for three reasons:
1. It's slow...remember how fast CDRW drives increased in their respective speeds? Give the DVD-R drives a few months, and they will be writing at 8x or better.
2. It's expensive...as with any new technology, this one is gonna break you if you buy it too soon. Again, wait a few months, and the price will be half of what it is now.
3. Too many standards...this wasn't ever really a problem with CD-RW, but the problem has existed elsewhere. With all this crap about DVD-RW and DVD+RW, a pair of incompatible standards that provide no real advantage over each other, one is best advised to just wait for one technology to disappear, and then buy the prevalent one. This should also happen during the next 4-6 months, as demand increases.
especially considering Dell's primary customer base: entry- to mid-level users who only know of Windows. These people flock to Dell because of word-of-mouth advertising and magazine articles that consistently point to Dell as being the industry leader in terms of customer support and end-user satisfaction. And I can't really blame them for dropping it...they are a business, and they are obligated to make money for their shareholders, so if an idea such as offering Linux was not making money (or even worse, costing too much), then it was just a business decision.
picture this if you need a better idea of what will happen during the "singularity"...
5 minutes before the singularity: "Hello, Dave..."
the moment of SINGULARITY: "ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US!!!"
Immediately after the singularity: "This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. If the problem persists, please contact the program vendor."
I'm seeing a lot of responses from people who are NOT happy about the potential impact that this could have on the Open Source movement. I must ask...HOW COULD THIS POSSIBLY BE A BAD THING?
This is the best thing that could possibly happen for Linux and the rest of the open-source software packages available today...for many reasons. First, if businesses are actually "scared" into jumping off the M$ bandwagon, and picking up Linux, then a very important event occurs...Open Source gets a good, swift kick in its developmental ass, because there will finally be a solid financially-backed demand for driver and software development. This is a HUGE benefit for all of us Linux users, as the OS will finally get the development support it truly needs. Once this happens, Linux could finally make its way onto the home desktop in a decent manner! And on top of all this, we get the pleasure of knowing that MicroSoft bit themselves in the ass by pushing away their own customers!
So WHO CARES if it's not the most "honorable" way of gaining support? It's SUPPORT, plain and simple. And badly needed support, i might add.
well, if a spammer's primary objective in his spamming pursuits is to make money, then YES, this WILL stop the spammer. A spammer doesn't get paid to just send out as many e-mails as he can...he gets paid for referrals and such. Or he gets paid when his business, for which he is advertising (spamming), makes a profit. Neither of these things occur (referrals or direct profits) if the advertising never reaches its intended audience. So the spamming becomes a futile practice, and the spammer gives up. No spam, no spammer.
Now don't get me wrong...i agree with you whole heartedly that the spammers should be the focus of our attention, as they are the ones to blame, but an easier and more immediate solution (as opposed to tracking down and prosecuting/threatening every last spammer) would be to eliminate spam on a massive scale.
i wonder if these researchers would be willing to move their operation so that their atom-smashing device would be centered around...oh...Redmond, Washington? I'm thinking maybe somewhere in the vicinity of the Microsoft complex...and if they could perform some more experiments with MS at ground zero, before...oh...the release of Windows XP...yeah, that would be great.
Come on, it's all for the sake of scientific advancement.
this whole ordeal really makes me question Shawn Fanning's sensibilities. He's a young millioinaire, and a pioneer to boot...he could drop out of the scene now, and live on as a legend in the world of technology...
but, instead, he dumps his money into a useless legal defense, and attempts to re-instate a totally useless service in competition with several more-than adequate replacements for the original, fully functional service. Why? I'd really like to know what's going through his head right now...what's his motivation at this point? To say "fuck the RIAA" in as many languages as possible? I just don't get it.
was somewhat questionable. I mean, what do they base their decisions on? There are plenty of more useFUL and useABLE websites out there...and quite a few of them are much more than just the over-the-top designs that many of the winners have fallen victim to. Take the Requiem for a Dream site for example...very nice looking, but slow to load, and TOTALLY USELESS.
And please don't tell me that the good websites are just too hard to find. They managed to dig up Peter Pan's home page (retarded at best), so I'm sure they can dig up anything they want.
Two things...
1. The use of rocket thrust for landing is HIGHLY practical, as it allows for a much slower and more controlled landing from high altitudes. Likewise, it allows the vehicle to ascend to a relatively low altitude and "hop" to a nearby landing site. For further information, try opening a parachute immediately after jumping off a 150-foot building. It doesn't work.
2. They're not landing a wooden box here, so it is highly unlikely that the vehicle would catch fire during its descent. And besides, don't you think they would have considered that possibility, and used the appropriate materials?
is this your first time reading here on slashdot?
if not, then you may have noticed that sensitivity and compassion are not the most defining traits to be found in our readers/contributors.
hey, with innovation comes inherent difficulties. New communcations devices, new software, new virus. And when this bug finally gets squashed, there will be ten more to replace it. It's an inescapable fact of technological advancement.
i just spent the past three months helping my mother find her new home...two and a half months were spent using web realtors and such...and i'll be honest with you, the real estate sellers on the web have NOTHING in the way of true online resources. Realty websites do nothing except serve as an advertisement for the realtors who will ultimately get your business anyway.
Oh, and after two months on the 'net, we were able to locate and close on a house in less than three weeks with a local real estate agent. Guess some things just weren't meant for e-business.
OS developers are jumping on this opportunity because they know they can't compete on the desktop/server market. However, the embedded OS market is WIDE OPEN. PalmOS and WinCE are both nice, but they have limitations, and they're still rather new and underdeveloped. So there is plenty of opportunity for companies with good ideas and good designs to come up with something that really works well on a PDA or other embedded-OS device. Personally, i love the fact that microsoft really won't have a corner on this market...it opens the door for some real innovation and competition between companies.
and i suppose that the people "posing" as native americans created an entire culture, including several subcultures were created over a period of 20 or 30 years by the government?
hey, if the mammoths wanted to survive, they would have evolved to the point where they grew opposable thumbs and could walk upright on their hind legs.
kidding aside, who the hell cares? man has destroyed everything he has come into contact with for eons. This isn't news, it's a fact of life.
as good as this might be for the PS3 platform, it's bad news for the people buying it.
The more that these companies become intertwined with each other (i.e. Nintendo and Sony pulling from the same manufacturer), the less competition in the market. And less competition means higher prices. Higher prices mean this could potentially suck.
That's what's so fucked up with us right now! Asslicker
by the way, the thing that's REALLY fucked up with us is the fact that people are too often reduced to using the word "asslicker" in a debate over policy.
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That's great new for all of us John Tesh bootleggers!!!!
...but deadly underneath...
Notice that no mention is made of Microsoft's "Black Ops" division (often referred to as "R&D"), whose current research documents include "Mind Control using pre-packaged Windows Sound Schemes" and "The Manchurian Candidate and You: What it All Means."
No mention was made of sending shows over the internet...rather, it was to other units on a LAN.
And there is no way anyone could sue them for enabling commercial skipping...that's like saying someone could sue Sony because I can pause their VHS recorder during commercials, thus eliminating any possibility of having to watch advertisements.
i'm gonna buy this thing, melt it in a 40-gallon cast iron frying pan, and cook myself a 120-lb Windows PC made out of CHICKEN!!!
I wonder if the mice had to pay $20 million like that Tito guy...
1. It's slow...remember how fast CDRW drives increased in their respective speeds? Give the DVD-R drives a few months, and they will be writing at 8x or better.
2. It's expensive...as with any new technology, this one is gonna break you if you buy it too soon. Again, wait a few months, and the price will be half of what it is now.
3. Too many standards...this wasn't ever really a problem with CD-RW, but the problem has existed elsewhere. With all this crap about DVD-RW and DVD+RW, a pair of incompatible standards that provide no real advantage over each other, one is best advised to just wait for one technology to disappear, and then buy the prevalent one. This should also happen during the next 4-6 months, as demand increases.
i heard a rumor that this "HAL" is actually posting on Slashdot under the moniker "JonKatz"...
Bob: The plans for this craft were written in 3-B, dontchaknow...
Doug: Yeah, 3 beers and it looks great, eh!
especially considering Dell's primary customer base: entry- to mid-level users who only know of Windows. These people flock to Dell because of word-of-mouth advertising and magazine articles that consistently point to Dell as being the industry leader in terms of customer support and end-user satisfaction. And I can't really blame them for dropping it...they are a business, and they are obligated to make money for their shareholders, so if an idea such as offering Linux was not making money (or even worse, costing too much), then it was just a business decision.
That's capitalism.
picture this if you need a better idea of what will happen during the "singularity"...
5 minutes before the singularity: "Hello, Dave..."
the moment of SINGULARITY: "ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US!!!"
Immediately after the singularity: "This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. If the problem persists, please contact the program vendor."
I'm seeing a lot of responses from people who are NOT happy about the potential impact that this could have on the Open Source movement. I must ask...HOW COULD THIS POSSIBLY BE A BAD THING?
This is the best thing that could possibly happen for Linux and the rest of the open-source software packages available today...for many reasons. First, if businesses are actually "scared" into jumping off the M$ bandwagon, and picking up Linux, then a very important event occurs...Open Source gets a good, swift kick in its developmental ass, because there will finally be a solid financially-backed demand for driver and software development. This is a HUGE benefit for all of us Linux users, as the OS will finally get the development support it truly needs. Once this happens, Linux could finally make its way onto the home desktop in a decent manner! And on top of all this, we get the pleasure of knowing that MicroSoft bit themselves in the ass by pushing away their own customers!
So WHO CARES if it's not the most "honorable" way of gaining support? It's SUPPORT, plain and simple. And badly needed support, i might add.
well, if a spammer's primary objective in his spamming pursuits is to make money, then YES, this WILL stop the spammer. A spammer doesn't get paid to just send out as many e-mails as he can...he gets paid for referrals and such. Or he gets paid when his business, for which he is advertising (spamming), makes a profit. Neither of these things occur (referrals or direct profits) if the advertising never reaches its intended audience. So the spamming becomes a futile practice, and the spammer gives up. No spam, no spammer.
Now don't get me wrong...i agree with you whole heartedly that the spammers should be the focus of our attention, as they are the ones to blame, but an easier and more immediate solution (as opposed to tracking down and prosecuting/threatening every last spammer) would be to eliminate spam on a massive scale.
i wonder if these researchers would be willing to move their operation so that their atom-smashing device would be centered around...oh...Redmond, Washington? I'm thinking maybe somewhere in the vicinity of the Microsoft complex...and if they could perform some more experiments with MS at ground zero, before ...oh...the release of Windows XP...yeah, that would be great.
Come on, it's all for the sake of scientific advancement.
this whole ordeal really makes me question Shawn Fanning's sensibilities. He's a young millioinaire, and a pioneer to boot...he could drop out of the scene now, and live on as a legend in the world of technology...
but, instead, he dumps his money into a useless legal defense, and attempts to re-instate a totally useless service in competition with several more-than adequate replacements for the original, fully functional service. Why? I'd really like to know what's going through his head right now...what's his motivation at this point? To say "fuck the RIAA" in as many languages as possible? I just don't get it.
was somewhat questionable. I mean, what do they base their decisions on? There are plenty of more useFUL and useABLE websites out there...and quite a few of them are much more than just the over-the-top designs that many of the winners have fallen victim to. Take the Requiem for a Dream site for example...very nice looking, but slow to load, and TOTALLY USELESS.
And please don't tell me that the good websites are just too hard to find. They managed to dig up Peter Pan's home page (retarded at best), so I'm sure they can dig up anything they want.
the best humor is seldom understood by the masses.
now who's a troll?
Two things... 1. The use of rocket thrust for landing is HIGHLY practical, as it allows for a much slower and more controlled landing from high altitudes. Likewise, it allows the vehicle to ascend to a relatively low altitude and "hop" to a nearby landing site. For further information, try opening a parachute immediately after jumping off a 150-foot building. It doesn't work. 2. They're not landing a wooden box here, so it is highly unlikely that the vehicle would catch fire during its descent. And besides, don't you think they would have considered that possibility, and used the appropriate materials?
is this your first time reading here on slashdot? if not, then you may have noticed that sensitivity and compassion are not the most defining traits to be found in our readers/contributors.
hey, with innovation comes inherent difficulties. New communcations devices, new software, new virus. And when this bug finally gets squashed, there will be ten more to replace it. It's an inescapable fact of technological advancement.
i just spent the past three months helping my mother find her new home...two and a half months were spent using web realtors and such...and i'll be honest with you, the real estate sellers on the web have NOTHING in the way of true online resources. Realty websites do nothing except serve as an advertisement for the realtors who will ultimately get your business anyway.
Oh, and after two months on the 'net, we were able to locate and close on a house in less than three weeks with a local real estate agent. Guess some things just weren't meant for e-business.
OS developers are jumping on this opportunity because they know they can't compete on the desktop/server market. However, the embedded OS market is WIDE OPEN. PalmOS and WinCE are both nice, but they have limitations, and they're still rather new and underdeveloped. So there is plenty of opportunity for companies with good ideas and good designs to come up with something that really works well on a PDA or other embedded-OS device. Personally, i love the fact that microsoft really won't have a corner on this market...it opens the door for some real innovation and competition between companies.
and i suppose that the people "posing" as native americans created an entire culture, including several subcultures were created over a period of 20 or 30 years by the government?
hey, if the mammoths wanted to survive, they would have evolved to the point where they grew opposable thumbs and could walk upright on their hind legs.
kidding aside, who the hell cares? man has destroyed everything he has come into contact with for eons. This isn't news, it's a fact of life.
as good as this might be for the PS3 platform, it's bad news for the people buying it. The more that these companies become intertwined with each other (i.e. Nintendo and Sony pulling from the same manufacturer), the less competition in the market. And less competition means higher prices. Higher prices mean this could potentially suck.
That's what's so fucked up with us right now! Asslicker
by the way, the thing that's REALLY fucked up with us is the fact that people are too often reduced to using the word "asslicker" in a debate over policy.