You're still supporting the RIAA when you buy used albums. When you buy used albums, you're creating a market for used albums...which means you're making it easier for individuals to buy new albums with the confidence that they can unload them to a used record store in the future.
And how are you playing DRM'd AAC songs on a Clie? Right now it can only be done with either iTunes, an iPod or the upcoming Motorola cell phone that works with iTunes.
Even then, most applications are optimized for just one mouse button. Even if you're using a 2 or 3 button mouse, you still have to know which commands are associated with buttons 2 and 3, so you're no better off.
In the context of a laptop, a touchpad+1 button works well since your hands stay in one place. Anything more just adds clutter, as is the case with my Dell laptop's 2-button touchpad. My iBook's 1-button touchpad gives me a tighter interface.
There was a show in the 1980s called Manimal. Some guy could turn into an eagle, a black panther and maybe some other stuff (I was very young at the time). Sounds like a good DVD rental to me.
Or, maybe the games were unique in a way that they only attracted a niche market. Therefore, there is a possibility that those same teams could develop a breakout hit.
That provides no incentive for lazy web site developers to properly code their web pages for W3C compliance. I'd rather see users get angry and write letters and voice their intent to webmasters that they *will* go to the competition if they don't straighten up their sites.
Some time ago, I wrote a very lengthy email to <a href="http://bvmarketdata.com>bvmarketdata.com</a> , a website to which we pay a subscription at our office. Their website is a front end to a database that tracks acquisitions of small companies. Anyway...
The email is archived away now, but the gist of my message was that it was asinine to deliberately code a site to a specific browser when there are international standards available. I then cited other websites with far more complex database frontends that work fine with all browsers. Luckily, our industry group's email newsletter is now promoting the use of Firefox, so that may put some pressure to this particular site.
Windows XP Home should be Windows XP Pro to be comparable to OS X. That's another $100. Now, squeeze all those components into a case that is 2" high and 6" wide and long. What is the premium that you would have to pay for that engineering?
The people that are buying these are buying it for its all-in-one-ness (sans monitor of course) and small size. I "sold" a Mac Mini to a co-worker when I told her it was $500 and had everything she needed in something the size of a large paperback book. Funny enough, even though she already had a monitor, she upped to an eMac instead.
Isn't the Power Mac G5 already the development platform for XBox 2? A while back there was a story here on/. about a Microsoft employee that got canned for posting a picture of a pallet of G5's coming into MS's loading docks...and that was well before any inkling about what processor would power XBox 2.
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You're still going to get people bitching about the lack of a built-in FM tuner. Newsflash: adding an FM tuner to a cheap MP3 player does not an iPod killer make...if there was anything worth listening to on FM, I wouldn't need a music player in the first place!/offtopic rant
...when the Securities and Exchange Commission was created. By giving the public access to the financial statements and goings-on of publicly traded companies, the stock market became much more transparent and investors could make better decisions. However, given events like the Enron and Worldcom debacles, there is certainly much more room for disclosure.
SEC: Securities and Exchange Commission. They provide oversight for publicly traded companies. All publicly traded companies (companies whose stocks you can buy on the stock market) are required to file quarterly and annual financial statements with the SEC, in addition to press releases and notifications of when insiders buy and sell company stock, among other things.
All of this data is available to everyone through the EDGAR database/website: http://www.sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/webusers.htm
The Canadians have a similar website for Canadian public companies, SEDAR: www.sedar.com
By making all of this information freely available, all investors are informed and the free market stays "free".
IRS: Internal Revenue Service. They collect federal income taxes. Like Inland Revenue, but probably not as polite.
You can use TiVo's new "TiVo2Go" feature to send a show to a PC. It's saved as MPEG-2 with some sort of DRM encryption. However, there is already software that removes the encryption.
"The GPL requires that users be able to recompile their Linux kernel,"
No, it just requires that the source code changes are made available....see tivo.com/linux.
There's no need to get rid of the FCC altogether...just to bitchslap it back into only doing what it was created for, which is the allocation and licensing of EM frequencies. Nothing more, nothing less. The First Amendment and the market will take care of the rest.
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Heh, normally you'd have to pay to see that EPT1138 scene :)
I'll just say one thing about that link you just provided: It's a trap!
And there are no monsters around the village and it's really the 21st century, not the 19th.
Oh, and Mace Windu caused the train crash in Philly.
You're still supporting the RIAA when you buy used albums. When you buy used albums, you're creating a market for used albums...which means you're making it easier for individuals to buy new albums with the confidence that they can unload them to a used record store in the future.
And how are you playing DRM'd AAC songs on a Clie? Right now it can only be done with either iTunes, an iPod or the upcoming Motorola cell phone that works with iTunes.
Hell, I won't buy a computer that doesn't let me use at *least* three of my 10 toes!
"the single button that forces her to memorize somekey+mouseclick to do basic things the rest of us do with the right mouse"
Control-click=right click
Command-click=middle click
Even then, most applications are optimized for just one mouse button. Even if you're using a 2 or 3 button mouse, you still have to know which commands are associated with buttons 2 and 3, so you're no better off.
In the context of a laptop, a touchpad+1 button works well since your hands stay in one place. Anything more just adds clutter, as is the case with my Dell laptop's 2-button touchpad. My iBook's 1-button touchpad gives me a tighter interface.
That's as effective as saying I'm a bodybuilder, albeit a weak and overweight one.
There was a show in the 1980s called Manimal. Some guy could turn into an eagle, a black panther and maybe some other stuff (I was very young at the time). Sounds like a good DVD rental to me.
"...for example astronauts cease all EVA activity and go to the most heavily shielded area..."
With the new dummy plug technology coming along nicely, this should hopefully be a thing of the past.
So they weren't designed in Georgia, I guess.
Or, maybe the games were unique in a way that they only attracted a niche market. Therefore, there is a possibility that those same teams could develop a breakout hit.
That provides no incentive for lazy web site developers to properly code their web pages for W3C compliance. I'd rather see users get angry and write letters and voice their intent to webmasters that they *will* go to the competition if they don't straighten up their sites.
> , a website to which we pay a subscription at our office. Their website is a front end to a database that tracks acquisitions of small companies. Anyway...
Some time ago, I wrote a very lengthy email to <a href="http://bvmarketdata.com>bvmarketdata.com</a
The email is archived away now, but the gist of my message was that it was asinine to deliberately code a site to a specific browser when there are international standards available. I then cited other websites with far more complex database frontends that work fine with all browsers. Luckily, our industry group's email newsletter is now promoting the use of Firefox, so that may put some pressure to this particular site.
Your Dell configuration has an error or two:
Windows XP Home should be Windows XP Pro to be comparable to OS X. That's another $100. Now, squeeze all those components into a case that is 2" high and 6" wide and long. What is the premium that you would have to pay for that engineering?
The people that are buying these are buying it for its all-in-one-ness (sans monitor of course) and small size. I "sold" a Mac Mini to a co-worker when I told her it was $500 and had everything she needed in something the size of a large paperback book. Funny enough, even though she already had a monitor, she upped to an eMac instead.
"I thought Doom 3 looked as good as some animated movies. Part of how it's pulled off is..."
By having most of the game take place in the dark?
Isn't the Power Mac G5 already the development platform for XBox 2? A while back there was a story here on /. about a Microsoft employee that got canned for posting a picture of a pallet of G5's coming into MS's loading docks...and that was well before any inkling about what processor would power XBox 2.
You're still going to get people bitching about the lack of a built-in FM tuner. Newsflash: adding an FM tuner to a cheap MP3 player does not an iPod killer make...if there was anything worth listening to on FM, I wouldn't need a music player in the first place! /offtopic rant
You can get a free cell phone (Mot V60) when you buy certain "My Scene" Barbies. So I hear.
"Linky says offer expired 31 Dec. 2004."
Is Linky related to Clippy in any way?
...when the Securities and Exchange Commission was created. By giving the public access to the financial statements and goings-on of publicly traded companies, the stock market became much more transparent and investors could make better decisions. However, given events like the Enron and Worldcom debacles, there is certainly much more room for disclosure.
SEC: Securities and Exchange Commission. They provide oversight for publicly traded companies. All publicly traded companies (companies whose stocks you can buy on the stock market) are required to file quarterly and annual financial statements with the SEC, in addition to press releases and notifications of when insiders buy and sell company stock, among other things.
All of this data is available to everyone through the EDGAR database/website: http://www.sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/webusers.htm
The Canadians have a similar website for Canadian public companies, SEDAR: www.sedar.com
By making all of this information freely available, all investors are informed and the free market stays "free".
IRS: Internal Revenue Service. They collect federal income taxes. Like Inland Revenue, but probably not as polite.
Go to TiVo's website and read about it. This functionality just came out in a recent software update.
You can use TiVo's new "TiVo2Go" feature to send a show to a PC. It's saved as MPEG-2 with some sort of DRM encryption. However, there is already software that removes the encryption.
"The GPL requires that users be able to recompile their Linux kernel,"
No, it just requires that the source code changes are made available....see tivo.com/linux.
There's no need to get rid of the FCC altogether...just to bitchslap it back into only doing what it was created for, which is the allocation and licensing of EM frequencies. Nothing more, nothing less. The First Amendment and the market will take care of the rest.