Philips Electronics, the licensor of the CD logo, has refused to allow the hybrid discs to be sold with the CD logo unless the labels guarantee to assume responsibility for "read errors" on the CD side, a spokeswoman for Philips said.
My personal RIAA boycott has been ongoing for some time now, but the last few CDs that I did buy did not have the CD logo on them, nor do the discs in my wife's (who has not yet seen fit to join the boycott) collection. It seems to me that the big labels have been eschewing the official CD logo for some time now--so the lack of 'official licensing' for DualDisc shouldn't actually be a factor for its acceptance, at least from the CD side.
Although to the credit of slashdotters, the overwhelming majority of the one-star reviews given to katie.com were intelligent explanations of why, given the hypocritical conduct of the publisher, readers should steer clear of the title, not brainless flaming. Some even suggested other books for young adults which address internet safety instead.
Not that that stopped amazon from pulling them all anyway...
You may find fault with what words Katie J. is able to find to state her case, but don't try to turn the whole issue around completely: she's not the one who's doing anything here, it's Katie T.+lawyer+Penguin who are attacking her continued use of her own website. How you can get from that to Katie J. being an attention hog is beyond me; no one would be interviewing her in the first place if this hadn't happened.
Just because she doesn't defend herself flawlessly doesn't make her wrong all of a sudden.
No offense to the Poles (who in my opinion make the world's best sausage), but wouldn't more widely spoken languages like French, Spanish, or Russian address a more urgent need than Polish? Sure, the more i18n that gets done the better, but I don't see why most slashdot readers should be particularly interested in this...
There's a good web column Writing on your Palm that's all about the topic of using a PDA as a writer. I recommend checking out the past columns for a whole slew of info on Palm vs. PPC, handy add-on software, and the like.
It makes sense to use a PDA with a full-size keyboard, in my opinion (you get maximum portability plus word processor compatability), and with the same purchase you'll have an MP3 player and organiser (and portable web browser and e-mail client, if you get a decent one). Something to consider.
The whole format (along with SACD) offers consumers nothing except a more expensive alternative with "stronger" DRM. As people realise this, there's no chance of it catching on.
DVD-Audio players are required to have analog outputs only, which for multi channel music means you have to run 6 RCA cables (!) from your DVD-A player to your receiver (plus the digital audio and video cables you need for playing DVD videos). And the "superior sound quality" of both DVD-A and SACD is well outside the range of human hearing. At least AAC, DTS, and CD's can be sent to your receiver digitally. (A few companies offer player-receiver pairs that use a proprietary firewire type link to cut down on the cables, but all of a sudden you're in the $5,000+ range and you suddenly become locked out of switching players or receivers to a different brand.)
Whereas if you by a DTS audio disc, for example, you don't need any new equipment, the signals are sent to the receiver in digital form, and you have full multichannel audio. But those don't seem to be getting much support from the publishers. Meanwhile most people (myself included) are likely to be content with DPLII and its cousins like CS2, Logic 7 and the like that do quite a good job rendering stereo sources into multichannel.
Not true: the Governor General can involuntarily remove the PM at any time--which would happen in case of a blatant and dangerous abuse of power on the PM's part. It would never happen for anything less than a major crises though, as without massive popular support the monarchy could not survive such a bold move.
The system works well, because the GG can oust the PM, but only if it's really necessary. You can never have an impeachment for political gain, as may or may not have happened south of the border not too long ago...
I know this is the more common classification, but as you've picked up, I don't agree with it. They do cross some right-left lines, for sure, which makes them hard to classify. It depends on what you see as most important. But I think the key question is, what party have they replaced in Quebec? (Answer: Progressive-Conservative). Which was my main point, that the regionalism-versus-federalism in Canadian politics has guaranteed the more federal party a win in the last few elections, since obviously the regions divided against each other are smaller than the whole.
Specifically though, as far as increased provincial autonomy/decreased federal government, restrictions on immigration, and their use of the colour blue;) they are more like Tories than Liberals. Also I would consider nationalism to be a right-wing position regardless of the economic theory that accompanies it.
...And the Governor General and the Queen are even further removed from party politics than those you mentioned. (No Canadian has the $$ to bribe the latter!)
What we have had, however, is a five-party situation in which the right-wing vote is regionally split into three (a Western party, an Eastern English party, and an Eastern French party), which means the Liberals have known for a few elections in a row now that they're the only game in town. (The fifth party, the socialist NDP, is still deemed too left-wing to have a shot at winning a majority.)
Small wonder then, that the Liberal party stops caring about their public image, opening the door both to sloppy management of policies and outright corruption (which is all coming to light now). They don't even care how bad they look because they're the only party who can win.
We'll see if in the next election the new super-Tories (the two English right-wing parties have merged) will change this situation. Personally I think they'll still have trouble getting votes in Eastern Canada, but I hope they can get enough to bring about a minority government (Liberal+NDP).
Are we to infer from this that you regularly strike up conversations with members of the general public walking down the street? I'd be curious to know whether you (and particularly the strangers you approach) actually find this to be worthwhile socialising.
For my own part, the only conversations strangers have initiated with me while I was walking down the street all begin with "spare some change?" Even that is rare enough that I have no problem listening to headphones to break up the monotony and don't feel it's being "anti-social". (Although I'll side with you in the case of being in a school--but not walking down the street or on the bus, those are just monotonous daily routines that never contain any socialising whether you're open to it or not.)
So just how big does a chunk of frozen methane have to be in order to make it all the way to the earth's surface? This is way outside my area of expertise, but I'd have to imagine frozen methane melts pretty darn quick. Apparently comets are bigger than I thought, if a minor broken-off chunk of one can make it all the way down here without melting.
The complaints about the Zaurus' PIM apps are well-known and widely-circulated, but just in the 6 months I've had my Zaurus the situation has improved greatly. The Sharp 3.x ROMs have updated apps, but what I've found most useful is korganizer, which obviously syncs flawlessly with korganizer on the desktop (where I was running KDE anyway). That works great for me; I realise others have different needs but there are options out there; the PIM section on the website in the link above has 83 packages.
I can see the handwriting on the wall, soon the buggers' invasion will allow Locke and Demosthenes to obtain unprecedented political authority! Something must be done!
The worlds largest computer company is in the process of migrating their whole HP-UX line
Of course, to the best of my knowledge, *IBM * doesn't have much of an HP-UX line, so I can't imagine this migration you speak of is a very big undertaking.
timothy, man, come on!/. editors need to have basic wildcard skills:
2* already means "any year starting with 2"; for single-digit substitution use ?: 2??? is the year of desktop linux.
man bash | grep -A32 "Any character"
And yes, desktop GNU/Linux is just around the corner:-)
Definately recommended, Emacs 21 rocks!
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I upgraded my Emacs to 21.2 a couple years ago and I've never been happier. Having icons in X (even though no one ever uses them) brings a more modern feel, and colours in the terminal is nice to have too. Unicode and multilingual support is now seamless.
By the way, has anyone else noticed how many typos there are on Slashdot these days...
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V guvax gurer fubhyq or n fynfuqbg frpgvba jurer nyy cbfgf unir gb or va EBG13. Guvf fvgr qbrfa'g yrg zr jnfgr rabhtu gvzr nf vg vf!
And while we're on this kind of thing, does anyone know what the point of the UNIX command "rev" is? (as in "$ echo This is pointless | rev" -> sseltniop si sihT)? Why on earth does that come installed on Debian, and does every distro and UNIX variant use it?
If you've seen a prototype blu-ray player you'd know that's not true--they're not simple optical disks, so unless there are two drives (like a dual DVD-VCR player, which costs considerably more than a solo player), then the OP's assumptions were correct.
Blue ray disks come in a built in protective plastic case, like 3 1/2 inch floppies. This is because the very small track widths make error correction so much more difficult. Even with DVDs there have been a lot of consumer complaints over how easily they scratch, and hi-def disks (in any format, unless someone comes out with one on a laser-disc size platter) are going to be that much more fragile, so this change is not as boneheaded as it sounds.
Yes, this is amazing--but I predict that in ten more years computers will be twice as fast, ten thousand times larger, and so expensive that only the five richest kings in Europe will be able to aford one.
although paradoxically too long to be played within the 2-hour judging period
It's not actually a requirement that the game be playable within two hours; the rule is that the judges only will play the game for two hours before scoring it, whether they've completed it or not. (And now that the comp's over, it's so much the better to have two such high-quality games that go above and beyond in terms of length.)
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The source of its 'ultimateness' is explained on their homepage:
See here.
Philips Electronics, the licensor of the CD logo, has refused to allow the hybrid discs to be sold with the CD logo unless the labels guarantee to assume responsibility for "read errors" on the CD side, a spokeswoman for Philips said.
My personal RIAA boycott has been ongoing for some time now, but the last few CDs that I did buy did not have the CD logo on them, nor do the discs in my wife's (who has not yet seen fit to join the boycott) collection. It seems to me that the big labels have been eschewing the official CD logo for some time now--so the lack of 'official licensing' for DualDisc shouldn't actually be a factor for its acceptance, at least from the CD side.
Although to the credit of slashdotters, the overwhelming majority of the one-star reviews given to katie.com were intelligent explanations of why, given the hypocritical conduct of the publisher, readers should steer clear of the title, not brainless flaming. Some even suggested other books for young adults which address internet safety instead.
Not that that stopped amazon from pulling them all anyway...
You may find fault with what words Katie J. is able to find to state her case, but don't try to turn the whole issue around completely: she's not the one who's doing anything here, it's Katie T.+lawyer+Penguin who are attacking her continued use of her own website. How you can get from that to Katie J. being an attention hog is beyond me; no one would be interviewing her in the first place if this hadn't happened.
Just because she doesn't defend herself flawlessly doesn't make her wrong all of a sudden.
No offense to the Poles (who in my opinion make the world's best sausage), but wouldn't more widely spoken languages like French, Spanish, or Russian address a more urgent need than Polish? Sure, the more i18n that gets done the better, but I don't see why most slashdot readers should be particularly interested in this...
(clicks on link)
oh, wait a minute...
There's a good web column Writing on your Palm that's all about the topic of using a PDA as a writer. I recommend checking out the past columns for a whole slew of info on Palm vs. PPC, handy add-on software, and the like.
It makes sense to use a PDA with a full-size keyboard, in my opinion (you get maximum portability plus word processor compatability), and with the same purchase you'll have an MP3 player and organiser (and portable web browser and e-mail client, if you get a decent one). Something to consider.
The whole format (along with SACD) offers consumers nothing except a more expensive alternative with "stronger" DRM. As people realise this, there's no chance of it catching on.
DVD-Audio players are required to have analog outputs only, which for multi channel music means you have to run 6 RCA cables (!) from your DVD-A player to your receiver (plus the digital audio and video cables you need for playing DVD videos). And the "superior sound quality" of both DVD-A and SACD is well outside the range of human hearing. At least AAC, DTS, and CD's can be sent to your receiver digitally. (A few companies offer player-receiver pairs that use a proprietary firewire type link to cut down on the cables, but all of a sudden you're in the $5,000+ range and you suddenly become locked out of switching players or receivers to a different brand.)
Whereas if you by a DTS audio disc, for example, you don't need any new equipment, the signals are sent to the receiver in digital form, and you have full multichannel audio. But those don't seem to be getting much support from the publishers. Meanwhile most people (myself included) are likely to be content with DPLII and its cousins like CS2, Logic 7 and the like that do quite a good job rendering stereo sources into multichannel.
Not true: the Governor General can involuntarily remove the PM at any time--which would happen in case of a blatant and dangerous abuse of power on the PM's part. It would never happen for anything less than a major crises though, as without massive popular support the monarchy could not survive such a bold move.
The system works well, because the GG can oust the PM, but only if it's really necessary. You can never have an impeachment for political gain, as may or may not have happened south of the border not too long ago...
I know this is the more common classification, but as you've picked up, I don't agree with it. They do cross some right-left lines, for sure, which makes them hard to classify. It depends on what you see as most important. But I think the key question is, what party have they replaced in Quebec? (Answer: Progressive-Conservative). Which was my main point, that the regionalism-versus-federalism in Canadian politics has guaranteed the more federal party a win in the last few elections, since obviously the regions divided against each other are smaller than the whole.
;) they are more like Tories than Liberals. Also I would consider nationalism to be a right-wing position regardless of the economic theory that accompanies it.
Specifically though, as far as increased provincial autonomy/decreased federal government, restrictions on immigration, and their use of the colour blue
...And the Governor General and the Queen are even further removed from party politics than those you mentioned. (No Canadian has the $$ to bribe the latter!)
What we have had, however, is a five-party situation in which the right-wing vote is regionally split into three (a Western party, an Eastern English party, and an Eastern French party), which means the Liberals have known for a few elections in a row now that they're the only game in town. (The fifth party, the socialist NDP, is still deemed too left-wing to have a shot at winning a majority.)
Small wonder then, that the Liberal party stops caring about their public image, opening the door both to sloppy management of policies and outright corruption (which is all coming to light now). They don't even care how bad they look because they're the only party who can win.
We'll see if in the next election the new super-Tories (the two English right-wing parties have merged) will change this situation. Personally I think they'll still have trouble getting votes in Eastern Canada, but I hope they can get enough to bring about a minority government (Liberal+NDP).
Yes, well according to every Dr. Evil movie I'd ever seen, it didn't seem like it would be so hard to settle on the moon...
Before anyone writes a cheque for this plan, I say they should have to terraform the moon first as a proof of concept.
Not only that but, coffee contains large quantities of water, which is essential for human life.
Conclusion: it is impossible for a human being to survive without coffee.
Are we to infer from this that you regularly strike up conversations with members of the general public walking down the street? I'd be curious to know whether you (and particularly the strangers you approach) actually find this to be worthwhile socialising.
For my own part, the only conversations strangers have initiated with me while I was walking down the street all begin with "spare some change?" Even that is rare enough that I have no problem listening to headphones to break up the monotony and don't feel it's being "anti-social". (Although I'll side with you in the case of being in a school--but not walking down the street or on the bus, those are just monotonous daily routines that never contain any socialising whether you're open to it or not.)
So just how big does a chunk of frozen methane have to be in order to make it all the way to the earth's surface? This is way outside my area of expertise, but I'd have to imagine frozen methane melts pretty darn quick. Apparently comets are bigger than I thought, if a minor broken-off chunk of one can make it all the way down here without melting.
The complaints about the Zaurus' PIM apps are well-known and widely-circulated, but just in the 6 months I've had my Zaurus the situation has improved greatly. The Sharp 3.x ROMs have updated apps, but what I've found most useful is korganizer, which obviously syncs flawlessly with korganizer on the desktop (where I was running KDE anyway). That works great for me; I realise others have different needs but there are options out there; the PIM section on the website in the link above has 83 packages.
(This message was posted from a Zaurus, fwiw.)
I can see the handwriting on the wall, soon the buggers' invasion will allow Locke and Demosthenes to obtain unprecedented political authority! Something must be done!
The worlds largest computer company is in the process of migrating their whole HP-UX line
Of course, to the best of my knowledge, * IBM * doesn't have much of an HP-UX line, so I can't imagine this migration you speak of is a very big undertaking.
timothy, man, come on! /. editors need to have basic wildcard skills:
:-)
2* already means "any year starting with 2"; for single-digit substitution use ?:
2??? is the year of desktop linux.
man bash | grep -A32 "Any character"
And yes, desktop GNU/Linux is just around the corner
I upgraded my Emacs to 21.2 a couple years ago and I've never been happier. Having icons in X (even though no one ever uses them) brings a more modern feel, and colours in the terminal is nice to have too. Unicode and multilingual support is now seamless.
:-)
By the way, has anyone else noticed how many typos there are on Slashdot these days...
V guvax gurer fubhyq or n fynfuqbg frpgvba jurer nyy cbfgf unir gb or va EBG13.
Guvf fvgr qbrfa'g yrg zr jnfgr rabhtu gvzr nf vg vf!
And while we're on this kind of thing, does anyone know what the point of the UNIX command "rev" is? (as in "$ echo This is pointless | rev" -> sseltniop si sihT)? Why on earth does that come installed on Debian, and does every distro and UNIX variant use it?
If you've seen a prototype blu-ray player you'd know that's not true--they're not simple optical disks, so unless there are two drives (like a dual DVD-VCR player, which costs considerably more than a solo player), then the OP's assumptions were correct.
Blue ray disks come in a built in protective plastic case, like 3 1/2 inch floppies. This is because the very small track widths make error correction so much more difficult. Even with DVDs there have been a lot of consumer complaints over how easily they scratch, and hi-def disks (in any format, unless someone comes out with one on a laser-disc size platter) are going to be that much more fragile, so this change is not as boneheaded as it sounds.
Yes, this is amazing--but I predict that in ten more years computers will be twice as fast, ten thousand times larger, and so expensive that only the five richest kings in Europe will be able to aford one.
Hopefully the phone doesn't just spell out the text in this format...
Umm, isn't spelling out the text how you're supposed to read this stuff? It's not like there's an audible difference between "R U" and "are you"...
although paradoxically too long to be played within the 2-hour judging period
It's not actually a requirement that the game be playable within two hours; the rule is that the judges only will play the game for two hours before scoring it, whether they've completed it or not. (And now that the comp's over, it's so much the better to have two such high-quality games that go above and beyond in terms of length.)
Congrats to the winners.