Yes, because Slashdot should stick to doing what it does best: posting stories about unique casemods on websites hosted on a residential DSL account that dissapear into the void in about.03 seconds.
Apple already has the leg up on Netflix and the cable companies. Why?
Because they're Apple.
Because they don't have those orange and white paper envelopes that you have to interrupt your busy day to carry out to the mailbox.
Because they've never made you wait at home all day because you made a 9am apointment but their service technician doesn't show up until 3pm.
Apple will be your friend. They're this stylish, hip box that you just plug a cable into and it works. Pretty pictures will guide you through intuitive steps to get you exactly what you want. Nonthreatening, happy icons will bounce; movies you want to see will show up like *magic* on your TV, without any pesky tapes or plastic disks.
You still use plastic disks to watch movies? How...2004!
Ex: If I am in Manhattan (P) then I am in New York(Q) If I am not in Manhattan (~P) then I am not in New york (~Q) is FALSE. I could be in Brooklyn.
Therefore, where before having an iPod made you cool, now *not* having an iPod may not be the reason for your Uncoolness. You may have B.O., which can also make you Uncool.
If Apple really wants to raise itself back to the heights it once held, all they need is to become a player in the consumer home entertainment market. The success of the iPod can segue perfectly into a Home Entertainment Center component with a wireless keyboard, has broadband and email capabilities, and has SVideo/Component/DVI out along with all the audio connections.
With an elegant plastic and brushed aluminum case, a simple GUI that Apple's known for, and a bright glowing Macintosh logo (how Chic!) a computer that controls your entire entertainment platform (Video/Audio/Web) and that sells in the $300-$500 range would be the biggest thing Apple could ever do.
They could even license the software out to other players in the home entertainment field. Imagine the kinds of touches Sony could put on it!
Oh, and of course the other obvious alternative this guy could choose is to burn the songs he purchases to CD and then.....rip the newly made CD into a more widely compatible digital format, such as MP3, then get any bloody Digital portable he wants to play his songs...
For every knock against Donaldson's classic "Thomas Covenant" serieses (he's just published the first book of the third series) I see someone who's never even bothered to read his *REAL* contribution to SciFi- The Gap Cycle, (Conflict, Vision, Power, Madness, and Ruin) published betweein 1991-1996. An exciting Space Opera style adventure populated with interesting and fully realized characters who make decisions both good and evil. If high fantasy isn't your thing, his Wagnerian tale of the struggle to stay human against all odds is one that shouldn't be missed by any self-titled SciFi fan.
An object at rest tends to stay at rest. Yes -- Humanity, on the whole, tends to the paths of least resistance.
Look beyond that generalization and consider how part of the culture of America is how uncool school is. From stories of our heroes, Presidents and CEOs who dropped out of high school, to the glamorization of the 'cool' kids who cut class we have created the impression that shunning public education as the hip way to start being successful.
We've all sung along to lyrics like "We don't need no Education!" and "School's out for ever!" We've all rooted for Ferris Beuler, the Breakfast Club, and the kids from Saved by the Bell to outwit their bumbling teachers and principals and cut class in the most extreme ways possible. But it's songs and movies like this that has turned education into Enemy #1 for our youth.
If America is to do better academic-wise, it has to do more than just pour money down the public school drain. It has to change the image of education in our culture as something to be respected and appreciated as a necessity and not just an option. For every successful highschool dropout there are a thousand on food stamps and public welfare. For every professional athlete earning millions in the big leauge, there are a hundred thousand earning minimum wage.
Until we impress on young minds the fact that cool or uncool makes no difference when you're grown and penniless these facts will never change. If people want to talk about how the Rich Minority are taking over the country, just look at the uneducated majority and understand why. Sometimes it's not a conspiracy -- sometimes, it's just logic.
The story of two hammer-wielding Eskimo brothers in search of fruit, only to be brutally attacked by mutant Penguins and an unfathomable void that lurks just below the edge of the screen. Watch as they become obsessed with catching the evil condor that floats just above the top of the mountain!
With the recent success of Touching the Void, how could this *possibly* go wrong!?
And if not Ice Climber... how about Wrecking Crew! Or my personal favorite, Mach Rider!
When I first started reading PA, it was a comic strip about Gabe and a Squirrel sitting on a bench. After that, there was the worlds first taste of the conflict between Red Vs. Blue (although I think they were Tribes characters, not Halo).
What was the motivation to change to the now familiar format of Gabe vs Tycho at home and at play? Was it art imitating life, or just a natural progression from simple strips to more complex storylines (the dreaded Continuity!)?
Except it seems that a Bungie-ism (there are tons, like using the numbers 3 and 7) is to release on a Tuesday. When's the next time 2/9 is on a Tuesday?
Or, the connection could be that 2/9 is exactly *3* months from 11/9, Halo 2's release date. Bungieisms within Bungieisms!
IANAL, but IIRC the ability to "Backup" a copywrited media is restricted to You personally backing up Your Own copy. Your friend who might have the same idential item, may *not* give you a "Backup" copy made from his own disk, for example.
Just like you can't legally download a digital copy of a movie you just watched on TV, even if it was broadcast over public airwaves and you were a good consumer and watched every commercial.
Wow, the second most interesting program that Mozilla has to offer, and they *still* haven't fixed the one reason I don't use it. I don't understand how something so fundimental to Newsgroups (Combine and Decode split binary posts) still hasn't been implemented.
I have a copy of Forte Agent I have carried with me since 1996 that I still can't get rid of, just for this use. I'd almost use Outlook Express, except for that dirty feeling I get whenever I think of all the spam I receive that could be carrying a dangerous payload. MS won't let us turn off HTML in the preview pane and Mozilla won't let us combine and decode newsgroup posts. And so I wait, still in 1996, to someday use a modern email/news program at home.
Someone should modernize and combine Pine and Tin -- still my favorite combo of all time.
That can be prevented by Kerry starting off the conversation with a "No no takebacks" gambit. Bush then can make a "Sleaze Call Beats All" which negates "no no X" gambits, but opens up the possibility of Kerry giving Bush "Two for flinching" and "Stealing Shotgun" even if it was clearly called for before, as long as both his cheeks are in the chair before Bush's. Otherwise, a third party such as Chaney can call "Reload!" and claim Shotgun for himself.
As much as I think the two-party system is one of the major flaws in our system of democracy, right now it's the system we live in. It's the rules of the game that say that the most popular candidate wins everything, and everyone else packs up and goes home. As long as these are the rules, we have to have a strategy to make sure we do the best we can within these rules.
Would a viable third party candidate fix this system? Of course!
Does the current situation, with two candidates deadlocked at (important statistic here:) 48% vs 46%, mean that any 3rd party candidate is "Viable?" With a maximum of 6 percentage points (not counting Margin of Error) there's no point in pretending that anyone besides #1 or #2 is going to win.
So, you either have choice #1: madness and greed, or choice #2: something else. At this time, any other choice leads back to #1. Maybe a third option will present itself some day, but until that day comes I would rather back #2 with all my might than allow #1 to dominate this country any more.
No voting option will ever get me the government I really want. But I can make sure my vote counts for a government I would rather have over one I would much rather not.
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It would probably look something like -9.8m/s^2, given an axis with the origin at the center of the earth...
I'm sure there's microsoft joke in there somewhere, just screaming for freedom...
Doom was one of the greatest coop games ever created. Why they left it out of the D3 PC version is beyond me.
Hopefully, they didn't make the same mistake for the board game!
Yes, because Slashdot should stick to doing what it does best: posting stories about unique casemods on websites hosted on a residential DSL account that dissapear into the void in about .03 seconds.
Apple already has the leg up on Netflix and the cable companies. Why?
Because they're Apple.
Because they don't have those orange and white paper envelopes that you have to interrupt your busy day to carry out to the mailbox.
Because they've never made you wait at home all day because you made a 9am apointment but their service technician doesn't show up until 3pm.
Apple will be your friend. They're this stylish, hip box that you just plug a cable into and it works. Pretty pictures will guide you through intuitive steps to get you exactly what you want. Nonthreatening, happy icons will bounce; movies you want to see will show up like *magic* on your TV, without any pesky tapes or plastic disks.
You still use plastic disks to watch movies? How...2004!
Apple's actually doing something pretty amazing -- solving the Chicken Vs. Egg paradox by providing *both* elements at the same time.
-Why buy an iPod/MacMini if I can do the same thing with X?
-Why buy music/movies through iTunes/iFlix if I have nothing to use it with?
What they are doing is providing you with mutually inclusive needs, and tieing them both together with the one thing most other products lack: style.
You need an iPod -- why? To play the songs you downloaded on iTunes. But *also* to be cool!
You'll need a MiniMac -- why? To play the movies you downloaded from iFlix. But *also* to be cool!
Face it, it's not an accident. These things were designed to work independently, but they're too complimentary not to require having both.
Yeah! And I just paid five hundred dollars for this new TV. How *DARE* the cable companies charge me to watch their channels?
I mean, I just paid *five Hundred dollars* !
I believe that's called "Denying the Antecedent"
If P -> Q
it does not follow that ~P = ~Q.
Ex: If I am in Manhattan (P) then I am in New York(Q)
If I am not in Manhattan (~P) then I am not in New york (~Q) is FALSE. I could be in Brooklyn.
Therefore, where before having an iPod made you cool, now *not* having an iPod may not be the reason for your Uncoolness. You may have B.O., which can also make you Uncool.
XBox has Halo and Gotham Racing.
You forgot Fable.
But I've been trying to since I paid cash for it.
If you're talking about a change, where's the Delta?
-I think that the author has been using too much PowerPoint
-There are alot of good examples presented
-However, the tendency to make everything a bulletpoint, a la Powerpoint, can be overwhelming
-Case in point, Page 1
-Are you still reading this?
-This bullet is important, but I chose to put it down here because it doesn't seem "sexy" enough.
-At least he didn't choose an obnoxious background
-CONCLUSION: the author been using too much PowerPoint.
If Apple really wants to raise itself back to the heights it once held, all they need is to become a player in the consumer home entertainment market. The success of the iPod can segue perfectly into a Home Entertainment Center component with a wireless keyboard, has broadband and email capabilities, and has SVideo/Component/DVI out along with all the audio connections.
With an elegant plastic and brushed aluminum case, a simple GUI that Apple's known for, and a bright glowing Macintosh logo (how Chic!) a computer that controls your entire entertainment platform (Video/Audio/Web) and that sells in the $300-$500 range would be the biggest thing Apple could ever do.
They could even license the software out to other players in the home entertainment field. Imagine the kinds of touches Sony could put on it!
Oh, and of course the other obvious alternative this guy could choose is to burn the songs he purchases to CD and then... ..rip the newly made CD into a more widely compatible digital format, such as MP3, then get any bloody Digital portable he wants to play his songs...
Just because something was published pre-1990 doesn't mean it's bad. Remember, Lord of the Rings was published in 1954!
For every knock against Donaldson's classic "Thomas Covenant" serieses (he's just published the first book of the third series) I see someone who's never even bothered to read his *REAL* contribution to SciFi- The Gap Cycle, (Conflict, Vision, Power, Madness, and Ruin) published betweein 1991-1996. An exciting Space Opera style adventure populated with interesting and fully realized characters who make decisions both good and evil. If high fantasy isn't your thing, his Wagnerian tale of the struggle to stay human against all odds is one that shouldn't be missed by any self-titled SciFi fan.
An object at rest tends to stay at rest. Yes -- Humanity, on the whole, tends to the paths of least resistance.
Look beyond that generalization and consider how part of the culture of America is how uncool school is. From stories of our heroes, Presidents and CEOs who dropped out of high school, to the glamorization of the 'cool' kids who cut class we have created the impression that shunning public education as the hip way to start being successful.
We've all sung along to lyrics like "We don't need no Education!" and "School's out for ever!" We've all rooted for Ferris Beuler, the Breakfast Club, and the kids from Saved by the Bell to outwit their bumbling teachers and principals and cut class in the most extreme ways possible. But it's songs and movies like this that has turned education into Enemy #1 for our youth.
If America is to do better academic-wise, it has to do more than just pour money down the public school drain. It has to change the image of education in our culture as something to be respected and appreciated as a necessity and not just an option. For every successful highschool dropout there are a thousand on food stamps and public welfare. For every professional athlete earning millions in the big leauge, there are a hundred thousand earning minimum wage.
Until we impress on young minds the fact that cool or uncool makes no difference when you're grown and penniless these facts will never change. If people want to talk about how the Rich Minority are taking over the country, just look at the uneducated majority and understand why. Sometimes it's not a conspiracy -- sometimes, it's just logic.
...Ice Climber, the movie!
... how about Wrecking Crew! Or my personal favorite, Mach Rider!
It's got action, excitement and suspense...
The story of two hammer-wielding Eskimo brothers in search of fruit, only to be brutally attacked by mutant Penguins and an unfathomable void that lurks just below the edge of the screen. Watch as they become obsessed with catching the evil condor that floats just above the top of the mountain!
With the recent success of Touching the Void, how could this *possibly* go wrong!?
And if not Ice Climber
When I first started reading PA, it was a comic strip about Gabe and a Squirrel sitting on a bench. After that, there was the worlds first taste of the conflict between Red Vs. Blue (although I think they were Tribes characters, not Halo).
What was the motivation to change to the now familiar format of Gabe vs Tycho at home and at play? Was it art imitating life, or just a natural progression from simple strips to more complex storylines (the dreaded Continuity!)?
And two minus nine is what? Seven.
Negative seven, at least in the Integer set.
Except it seems that a Bungie-ism (there are tons, like using the numbers 3 and 7) is to release on a Tuesday. When's the next time 2/9 is on a Tuesday?
Or, the connection could be that 2/9 is exactly *3* months from 11/9, Halo 2's release date. Bungieisms within Bungieisms!
IANAL, but IIRC the ability to "Backup" a copywrited media is restricted to You personally backing up Your Own copy. Your friend who might have the same idential item, may *not* give you a "Backup" copy made from his own disk, for example.
Just like you can't legally download a digital copy of a movie you just watched on TV, even if it was broadcast over public airwaves and you were a good consumer and watched every commercial.
Wow, the second most interesting program that Mozilla has to offer, and they *still* haven't fixed the one reason I don't use it. I don't understand how something so fundimental to Newsgroups (Combine and Decode split binary posts) still hasn't been implemented.
I have a copy of Forte Agent I have carried with me since 1996 that I still can't get rid of, just for this use. I'd almost use Outlook Express, except for that dirty feeling I get whenever I think of all the spam I receive that could be carrying a dangerous payload. MS won't let us turn off HTML in the preview pane and Mozilla won't let us combine and decode newsgroup posts. And so I wait, still in 1996, to someday use a modern email/news program at home.
Someone should modernize and combine Pine and Tin -- still my favorite combo of all time.
That can be prevented by Kerry starting off the conversation with a "No no takebacks" gambit. Bush then can make a "Sleaze Call Beats All" which negates "no no X" gambits, but opens up the possibility of Kerry giving Bush "Two for flinching" and "Stealing Shotgun" even if it was clearly called for before, as long as both his cheeks are in the chair before Bush's. Otherwise, a third party such as Chaney can call "Reload!" and claim Shotgun for himself.
Scary thought.
Want to know what's worse? That the words are "I stand on God for thee!"
If I was God, I'd be, like "Get the hell off me ya freaking Canuck! I've got better things to do than be your rug!"
As much as I think the two-party system is one of the major flaws in our system of democracy, right now it's the system we live in. It's the rules of the game that say that the most popular candidate wins everything, and everyone else packs up and goes home. As long as these are the rules, we have to have a strategy to make sure we do the best we can within these rules.
Would a viable third party candidate fix this system? Of course!
Does the current situation, with two candidates deadlocked at (important statistic here:) 48% vs 46%, mean that any 3rd party candidate is "Viable?" With a maximum of 6 percentage points (not counting Margin of Error) there's no point in pretending that anyone besides #1 or #2 is going to win.
So, you either have choice #1: madness and greed, or choice #2: something else. At this time, any other choice leads back to #1. Maybe a third option will present itself some day, but until that day comes I would rather back #2 with all my might than allow #1 to dominate this country any more.
No voting option will ever get me the government I really want. But I can make sure my vote counts for a government I would rather have over one I would much rather not.