"'Computer games in 2034 are likely to offer simulated worlds and interactive storytelling that's more engaging than linear presentations such as those in most movies today.'"
Entertainment in 20 years will be more entertaining than entertainment today? go figure, never saw that coming.
I go to gaTech currently which is #100 on that list which I guess is alright. We have a number of buildings wired, all of which are where my classes are, including some of the reasearch buildings the bookstore the starbucks in the bookstore, and more of the eateries that are near the above mentioned research building.
What I tend to use wireless for in class is runing experiments for class projects where I can communicate with other group members during class via AIM, additionally in another class I use it to do the individual projects, the use of the wireless here is that I run CVS on my desktop computer, and need access to it when I'm in class. It's a nice little system. As for my other class I usually just do work for the two previous classes in it and not really pay attention
So think we could put this in a hybrid to make the electric side use less energy, and then use an alternative fuel like A21 to make hybrids even better?
Actually you can't access the music files that the iPod plays via just windows or the regular Mac OS gui. You can if you have something like OSX command line or cygwin that lets you at the underlying file structure, but I dunno how easy it is to add music, getting it off is easy enough.
Despite this aren't most windows only players the same way? Just big external HD's with some special place for the music?
I've only ever owned an iPod so I really don't know.
We are talking about open standards and how going with the ipod is some how a shot at MS for not having open standards, I contend that the iPod is not a good example of this.
All ipod like devices play mp3's
Well then, that pretty much knocks your original point out of play, doesn't it?
No, apple has a proprietary DRM just like windows. You get no more open standards with iPod than MS's product.
Really? Find any WMP-based service that is as generous with user's rights as iTunes' DRM. Or *any* other music service for that matter.
I'm not sure what you are getting at here. The ability to authorize up to 3 computers is a nice feature of iTunes if that's what you mean
MMJB supports the iPod because Apple let them before iTunes worked on windows.
So? I seem to recall you saying "why is it that only iTunes seems to support the iPod?"
Sorry should have been, only the products that apple says so can 'easily' ( see the next part) interpot with the iPod. And that's why there are only 2 apps approved by Apple.
That's absolute nonsense. If anyone needed a hardware manufacturer's "approval" for 3rd party software to work with their hardware, the technology industry would be crippled. Does "reverse engineering" mean anything to you?
But if you are forced to reverse engineer then you are obviously not using an open standard, you could just as easily reverse engineer whatever MS puts out too.
Can you point out where you are getting more open standard benefits from an iPod?
MMJB supports it cause apple used that as the iPod client before iTunes worked with Windows
As for the oter two, did they hack/jerry rig it to work with the iPod or did they actually use some published document from apple that describes how to interopt with the iPod?
All ipod like devices play mp3's, I know of none that don't that are actual competition, that wasn't part of my point. My point is that AAC DRM is no better then WMP DRM so how is it going with an open standard when you still have AAC DRM, which afaik is not open at all. In this case you aren't going away from MS for and open standard
MMJB supports the iPod because Apple let them before iTunes worked on windows. You have to get Apples approval, afaik, to interopt with the iPod.
If you want to dispute these point that's fine. I don't claim to know everything, just try to act moderatly mature if you do feel like responding.
but someone has to have a computer to receive the emails. This whole system looks like a central fax service to me. People fax stuff to one phone number which happens to be the distribution service, and then it gets distributed as a paper copy to the appropriate recipient
Yeah there are some bad people at MS, it's a given in any organization as large as there's, though I think they do a good job in keeping that number down though. The MS culture tends to be one of very nice people in my experience.
When I interned there my two times I found that being a not top level employee of the company, you are shielded from anything that may be going on, so you don't see, and you just see a happy place that is both fun to work at and be at.
I almost wish whatever was going on at the top level was more pervasive so people knew what was actually going on on a more personal level and make their decisions that way.
That said, I really have no clue what's going on at the top level, I just know if anything is it's all up there, and all the other employees are just trying to produce kick ass products despite what other issues may get in the way.
I like Eddie From Ohio. They are on an indie label not covered by iTunes. Napster claims to carry a lot of stuff 'others don't have'. I will probably not use napster for more than this, if they have it, but I don't want to install napster just to see if they have this one artist. If they do, then that's a different story.
What the music services need to do now is provide a web based interface to their music library. I really hate it that itunes and napster require you to instll their software before seeing if a particular song/artist/album is avail. If I'm only looking for a particular song/artist/album then I don't want to install some random piece of software first. Granted most people are going to pick and use one service as their primary, ie iTunes for me, but I'm not adverse to using others if they carry music I can't get through my primary.
I'm not so much being defensive of MS as of them making a completely false claim. They're reference claims that it's Win CE's fault, when the article the poster choose specifically says the opposite.
BMW has told CNETAsia that an electronic fault caused the problem, rather than a system crash of the car's Windows-based central computer, as other reports have speculated.
and ends with
But when contacted by CNETAsia, a spokeswoman from BMW Thailand said the car at fault was a 10-year old BMW 520i that had suffered a simple electronic failure.
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Well most women don't like most video games and those same women seem to like animal crossing. I don't claim either statement applies to all women.
You obviously have a very cool wife geekwise.
Just get Animal Crossing for the Gamecube. It's the game to get if you have a female SO who doesn't play games, most women love it. It worked for me.
"'Computer games in 2034 are likely to offer simulated worlds and interactive storytelling that's more engaging than linear presentations such as those in most movies today.'"
Entertainment in 20 years will be more entertaining than entertainment today? go figure, never saw that coming.
I go to gaTech currently which is #100 on that list which I guess is alright. We have a number of buildings wired, all of which are where my classes are, including some of the reasearch buildings the bookstore the starbucks in the bookstore, and more of the eateries that are near the above mentioned research building.
What I tend to use wireless for in class is runing experiments for class projects where I can communicate with other group members during class via AIM, additionally in another class I use it to do the individual projects, the use of the wireless here is that I run CVS on my desktop computer, and need access to it when I'm in class. It's a nice little system. As for my other class I usually just do work for the two previous classes in it and not really pay attention
So think we could put this in a hybrid to make the electric side use less energy, and then use an alternative fuel like A21 to make hybrids even better?
The first link on the google link in the article just points back to this /. article :) Guess googles on top of things.
Actually you can't access the music files that the iPod plays via just windows or the regular Mac OS gui. You can if you have something like OSX command line or cygwin that lets you at the underlying file structure, but I dunno how easy it is to add music, getting it off is easy enough.
Despite this aren't most windows only players the same way? Just big external HD's with some special place for the music?
I've only ever owned an iPod so I really don't know.
We are talking about open standards and how going with the ipod is some how a shot at MS for not having open standards, I contend that the iPod is not a good example of this.
All ipod like devices play mp3's
Well then, that pretty much knocks your original point out of play, doesn't it?
No, apple has a proprietary DRM just like windows. You get no more open standards with iPod than MS's product.
Really? Find any WMP-based service that is as generous with user's rights as iTunes' DRM. Or *any* other music service for that matter.
I'm not sure what you are getting at here. The ability to authorize up to 3 computers is a nice feature of iTunes if that's what you mean
MMJB supports the iPod because Apple let them before iTunes worked on windows.
So? I seem to recall you saying "why is it that only iTunes seems to support the iPod?"
Sorry should have been, only the products that apple says so can 'easily' ( see the next part) interpot with the iPod. And that's why there are only 2 apps approved by Apple.
That's absolute nonsense. If anyone needed a hardware manufacturer's "approval" for 3rd party software to work with their hardware, the technology industry would be crippled. Does "reverse engineering" mean anything to you?
But if you are forced to reverse engineer then you are obviously not using an open standard, you could just as easily reverse engineer whatever MS puts out too.
Can you point out where you are getting more open standard benefits from an iPod?
MMJB supports it cause apple used that as the iPod client before iTunes worked with Windows
As for the oter two, did they hack/jerry rig it to work with the iPod or did they actually use some published document from apple that describes how to interopt with the iPod?
All ipod like devices play mp3's, I know of none that don't that are actual competition, that wasn't part of my point. My point is that AAC DRM is no better then WMP DRM so how is it going with an open standard when you still have AAC DRM, which afaik is not open at all. In this case you aren't going away from MS for and open standard
MMJB supports the iPod because Apple let them before iTunes worked on windows. You have to get Apples approval, afaik, to interopt with the iPod.
If you want to dispute these point that's fine. I don't claim to know everything, just try to act moderatly mature if you do feel like responding.
iPod and AAC DRM are open standards? If so why is it that only iTunes seems to support the iPod?
but someone has to have a computer to receive the emails. This whole system looks like a central fax service to me. People fax stuff to one phone number which happens to be the distribution service, and then it gets distributed as a paper copy to the appropriate recipient
How is this different than a fax machine exactly?
I highly recommend Photopia. It's a really cool interactive fiction that can be played in less than 2 hours.
Yeah there are some bad people at MS, it's a given in any organization as large as there's, though I think they do a good job in keeping that number down though. The MS culture tends to be one of very nice people in my experience.
That's just on casual friday
if only dead ends were named as such I'd go with
1 seg fault dead end
When I interned there my two times I found that being a not top level employee of the company, you are shielded from anything that may be going on, so you don't see, and you just see a happy place that is both fun to work at and be at.
I almost wish whatever was going on at the top level was more pervasive so people knew what was actually going on on a more personal level and make their decisions that way.
That said, I really have no clue what's going on at the top level, I just know if anything is it's all up there, and all the other employees are just trying to produce kick ass products despite what other issues may get in the way.
While I've worked for MS before and may again I always find their street address rather funny/ironic.
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA
it's called marketing outsourcing.
Phone companies should just make it optional to use 911 with tracking or no 911 at all, they can market it as the 'Do or Die' service.
yes of course. My situation is this.
I like Eddie From Ohio. They are on an indie label not covered by iTunes. Napster claims to carry a lot of stuff 'others don't have'. I will probably not use napster for more than this, if they have it, but I don't want to install napster just to see if they have this one artist. If they do, then that's a different story.
What the music services need to do now is provide a web based interface to their music library. I really hate it that itunes and napster require you to instll their software before seeing if a particular song/artist/album is avail. If I'm only looking for a particular song/artist/album then I don't want to install some random piece of software first. Granted most people are going to pick and use one service as their primary, ie iTunes for me, but I'm not adverse to using others if they carry music I can't get through my primary.
I'm not so much being defensive of MS as of them making a completely false claim. They're reference claims that it's Win CE's fault, when the article the poster choose specifically says the opposite.
"Perhaps the recent trapping of Thai dignitaries inside a BMW should be a warning to us all."
Did you actually read the article????
It starts with this paragraph
BMW has told CNETAsia that an electronic fault caused the problem, rather than a system crash of the car's Windows-based central computer, as other reports have speculated.
and ends with
But when contacted by CNETAsia, a spokeswoman from BMW Thailand said the car at fault was a 10-year old BMW 520i that had suffered a simple electronic failure.