Microsoft will begin selling a $50 music player that will 'look and feel as good as the iPod' later this year
Please note thatt by "look and feel as good as the iPod" they mean they're selling a rounded green and blue plastic shell, they also threw a couple a couple beads inside which you shake, when they rattle it makes the shell a music player.
What geek nowadays uses pens? A modern geek would have an USB stick and/or other memory thingies sticking out of his breast pocket. And he/she would at least wear one Bluetooth headset and contact lenses instead of these Clark Kent glasses.
Yeah, but you realize that we're all way to cheap to buy his junk, just wait till he gets the bandwidth bil from tens(hundreds?) of thousands curious/.ers happy clicking away!
Am I the only one who thinks they shouldn't of kept quiet till after some Star Trek convention unleashed this bad boy on a group of inebriated Trekkies at the end of a bar crawl?!?
But how did the Monsanto seed get there originally?
If he purposly brought them into his field and planted them then Monsanto has a case. However if the seeds infected his crop from another source, not by his doing, and he was aware of it but still decided to seed his field with seeds from his own crop like he did every previous year than it's another issue entirely.
How ironic is it that these people can have a normal discussion with "faceless individuals" but as soon as they realize those individuals were from JBOSS they want to scream bloody murder?
Because now they know that those "faceless individuals" were not there to help them but instead were there entirely for their own profit and deliberatly misleading, even lying, to them in the process. If I found out someone whom I'd been turning to for advice because they claimed to be an honest individual had been lying about who they were the entire time to conceal a conflict of interest so they could sell me something I'd be pretty pissed off too!!
(and although I suspect my company *might* make something that may compete with JBoss that doesn't have any affect on my opinion)
I was looking at the Fedora site a while ago and noticed the url to download 1 but no mention of 2, curious I put in the url for FC1 and changed the 1 to a 2 and lo and behold, FC2 final!!! I promptly started up wget and started getting 120 K/s, awesome I thought, I'll be done in no time!!! Then a couple minutes later I noticed it had dropped to about 8, curious I reloaded the Fedora site and saw my ingeniously obtained URL prominently displayed on the download page. Ahh well, off to bittorrent...
I'd hate to think that a future historian would be forced to search through petabytes of things like 100 year old Slashdot first-posts in order to find information about our recent war with Iraq.
Then again that historian might be facinated by the wealth of cultural information present in those posts that is lacking in the CNN archives. How much do we know about the kind of conversations that went on in pubs in 16th century England? Don't try to guess what will be important to future generations or even your own friends and relatives. Besides I'd hope that the future historian would have some pretty neato data mining tools to get at what they want.
Yeah can you please send a few of your american developers up here? We can make the code but we just can't seem to produce the same quantity of bugs as you guys do. I mean administering a system is just no fun without panicking over a patch every couple days and we would really appreciate if you could show us how to make such buggy code so our users can enjoy the same level of patching as yours!
Really I can't imagine the grandma being convicted, or even charged unless the police officer was monumentally brain damaged, and then I can't imagine him having the knowhow to know what was going on. The act goes after the perpetrator of the SPAM, the person who writes the email and collects a list of email addresses of unwilling recipients. Under no circumstances would the grandma be charged unless they could show that she was the spammer, or perhaps an odd situation where the spammer is paying her to install the programs to spam, but even that scenerio (if it occured) she would likly not be charged because she could claim she assumed that people all opted in.
To the SPAM being sent from her computer argument also recall it's being sent through the computers of every ISP that the email travells to to reach the recipients computers, and I don't think those ISPs would be guilty either:)
If YOU steal, it's no big deal, but if a company steals, then fry em.
By not paying for the music, who do you think you are hurting? Companies are not machines. Surprise, you are hurting real live people who work for those evil companies.
So, now you ARE hurting innocent people.
Your attempts at justification are so sad.
Thought I would just clear up some of your incorrect assumptions in that I don't actually download music that I am not allowed to, the only free music I download is from Magnatunes in order to find stuff I like. Neither to I support those people who do download music they are not entitled to. The differences in the RIAA lawsuits vs. this GPL lawsuit are that for one this company knows precisely what they are doing, they have a legal department and were informed of the issue and have even been asked directly to stop, they have refused. People on kazaa don't necessarily have that knowledge and to the best of my knowledge the first time they are directly contacted is in the threat of an extremely costly lawsuit if they don't pay a lot of money (ie extortion). Also I'm not fully sure about my opinion on whether the RIAA should be suing, I can see the reasons why they are suing but I also have strong objections to how they are doing it (particularly the extortion aspect) I clearly did show my objections to their actions in my original post but my main purpose was to show that in fact these are very different issues and your(I assume you're the original AC) comparison was inaccurate.
going after someone who infringes on GPL IP is ok, but going after people who download music and movies is not ok.
Yes, going after a company who has taken copywrited work to claim as their own, and sell for profit, is different than using scare and extortion tactics against people who have allegedly copied copywrited work for for their personal use, and enabled other people to do the same.
Reading around it seems that the idea is to prove that the encryption method is good rather than just theoretically sound. Probably makes it easier to sell stuff based on ECC if you can show how hard it is to crack.
Wouldn't it just mean that the test program they were using to crack it just didn't happen to exploit any weaknesses that might exist? The uniqueness of the point is one thing but choosing it is another.
Clearly Rutan and company are not entirely doing this for the money as they have easily spent more than the $10M prize already.
They indeed might not be doing it entirely for the money but that is hardly evidence. From the start I've considered the $10 million to be more of a publicity stunt, an incentive to speed the projects along a little bit, and some startup cash so some company doesn't win and go bankrupt before they start selling tickets. Who ever gets there first is going to get huge publicity and they will be the first to sell tickets to all the hollywood superstars who want to go into orbit. The $10 mil is good for startup but they, and a lot of the other X-prize competitors who make a sucessful ship, will be raking in way more than that once they start carrying paid passengers.
I've been looking for a pair of those.. do you know where I can get some?;)
Sure, when you hit your 42nd stride make sure you can see a dog (doesn't matter if you have to stop and wait for this to happen) then tap twice with the right shoe, jump and spin 360 degrees, jump again and clap your shoes together while in the air, after you land tap 3 times with the left shoe and clap your hands twice. After this your shoes will be in god mode, sprint speed with unlimited endurance and no impact injuries.
I have both a bike and a pair of running shoes, when I want to do something recreational I go for a bike ride, when I want a workout I run.
* infinitely much easier on your feet, knees and back. True although it's possible to aleviate this somewhat by using proper technique and trail running (also make sure you have god shoes)
* you can spend much more power, and you have more flexibility in choosing a suitable power level The first part of this I simply cannot agree with, I get a much better workout while running in a much shorter time, plus I at least get my arms moving, doesn't really give them a workout but does improve the blood flow a bit. As to the level of the workout you definately have more felxibility in power though I have a lot of trouble keeping it as high as when I'm running. That alos brings up my biggest problem on a bike is achieving a steady tempo, traffic lights, downhills, technical trails, fun but there's no way to achieve a steady power output.
* you can cover a larger area so it's less boring It is a little more fun but I've never had trouble being bored while running, this is mostly because of the tempo and running trails helps as well.
* more flexibility in duration. Biking 8 hours a day is no problem for an untrained person, but running is. Nice thing for fun but not for a workout, part of the motivation in running is I can get a great workout in 1 hr, this is very tough on a bike where I don't like to be struggling for breath in traffic and trails are too technical to achieve a high enough speed (though this easy to achieve on a exercise bike)
* you can carry some luggage easily (iPod, phone, gps, book to read while pausing, drinks) I used to carry a walkman years ago then found I didn't need it, I simply don't get bored and find the music doesn't do anything for me, the rythm of running is all I need and I can't imagine bringing a book to read, how long do you pause!?! You should try to pace yourself so you don't need rest stops (unless you're doing intervals) this way you get the best workout, under no circumstances should you be taking rest breaks long enough, and while you're rested enough, to be able to read, the nice thing with running and biking is you can take a drink without slowing down too much.
* you don't need to wear silly clothing (although you certainly can) Bikers wear far sillier clothing than runners, and neither look especially silly while you're doing either (although sometimes a slow person all souped up can look a little silly).
* a modern bike is way more interesting technically than running shoes. I care nothing about technical interest when doing my workout (trying to pander to the geeks:), with a bike the technical aspect is actually a huge disadvantage, clean & lube the chain every couple weeks, make sure tires are pumped, replace the tires, and countless other problems (trewing rims, aligning gears, etc) bike maintainance is a big time commitment and certainly not an advantage to my running shoes.
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Microsoft will begin selling a $50 music player that will 'look and feel as good as the iPod' later this year
Please note thatt by "look and feel as good as the iPod" they mean they're selling a rounded green and blue plastic shell, they also threw a couple a couple beads inside which you shake, when they rattle it makes the shell a music player.
Bleeeeh. Stupid ninties tv show geek.
What geek nowadays uses pens? A modern geek would have an USB stick and/or other memory thingies sticking out of his breast pocket. And he/she would at least wear one Bluetooth headset and contact lenses instead of these Clark Kent glasses.
Exactly, that geek is completely obselete!
At the end of the test,
You will start to feel noticeably tired at 15:00 and you will feel most tired at 15:00
But if I'm just starting to feel noticeably tired at 15:00 shouldn't I be most tired sometime after 15:00?!
The sad thing is that I was giving it honest info!
Yeah, /.ers happy clicking away!
but you realize that we're all way to cheap to buy his junk, just wait till he gets the bandwidth bil from tens(hundreds?) of thousands curious
Am I the only one who thinks they shouldn't of kept quiet till after some Star Trek convention unleashed this bad boy on a group of inebriated Trekkies at the end of a bar crawl?!?
Now that's a video I'd like to see!!
But how did the Monsanto seed get there originally?
If he purposly brought them into his field and planted them then Monsanto has a case. However if the seeds infected his crop from another source, not by his doing, and he was aware of it but still decided to seed his field with seeds from his own crop like he did every previous year than it's another issue entirely.
How ironic is it that these people can have a normal discussion with "faceless individuals" but as soon as they realize those individuals were from JBOSS they want to scream bloody murder?
Because now they know that those "faceless individuals" were not there to help them but instead were there entirely for their own profit and deliberatly misleading, even lying, to them in the process. If I found out someone whom I'd been turning to for advice because they claimed to be an honest individual had been lying about who they were the entire time to conceal a conflict of interest so they could sell me something I'd be pretty pissed off too!!
(and although I suspect my company *might* make something that may compete with JBoss that doesn't have any affect on my opinion)
I was looking at the Fedora site a while ago and noticed the url to download 1 but no mention of 2, curious I put in the url for FC1 and changed the 1 to a 2 and lo and behold, FC2 final!!! I promptly started up wget and started getting 120 K/s, awesome I thought, I'll be done in no time!!! Then a couple minutes later I noticed it had dropped to about 8, curious I reloaded the Fedora site and saw my ingeniously obtained URL prominently displayed on the download page. Ahh well, off to bittorrent...
You mean like Courier New 12 :)
Guess that change wasn't such abright idea after all!
With the mirror links posted on the front page the original site is quite responsive while the mirrors are being ./ed to oblivion!
Does this mean we've broken the "station wagon loaded with DVD's" barrier yet?
Depends how well the station wagon floats.
I'd hate to think that a future historian would be forced to search through petabytes of things like 100 year old Slashdot first-posts in order to find information about our recent war with Iraq.
Then again that historian might be facinated by the wealth of cultural information present in those posts that is lacking in the CNN archives. How much do we know about the kind of conversations that went on in pubs in 16th century England? Don't try to guess what will be important to future generations or even your own friends and relatives. Besides I'd hope that the future historian would have some pretty neato data mining tools to get at what they want.
Actually 0.002% of 40B would be 80M. 80K would be 0.00002%, but I believe the networth is correct.
Actually the original poster was correct, it's a ratio of 1:0.00002 which converts into 0.002%
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hey the more the merrier!
Yeah can you please send a few of your american developers up here?
We can make the code but we just can't seem to produce the same quantity of bugs as you guys do. I mean administering a system is just no fun without panicking over a patch every couple days and we would really appreciate if you could show us how to make such buggy code so our users can enjoy the same level of patching as yours!
Many companies wait to sue until the company being sued generates a certain amount of revenue.
Yeah, and we all know how cash strapped Adobe, Apple, Dell and all those other companies are!
Really I can't imagine the grandma being convicted, or even charged unless the police officer was monumentally brain damaged, and then I can't imagine him having the knowhow to know what was going on. The act goes after the perpetrator of the SPAM, the person who writes the email and collects a list of email addresses of unwilling recipients. Under no circumstances would the grandma be charged unless they could show that she was the spammer, or perhaps an odd situation where the spammer is paying her to install the programs to spam, but even that scenerio (if it occured) she would likly not be charged because she could claim she assumed that people all opted in.
:)
To the SPAM being sent from her computer argument also recall it's being sent through the computers of every ISP that the email travells to to reach the recipients computers, and I don't think those ISPs would be guilty either
If YOU steal, it's no big deal, but if a company steals, then fry em.
By not paying for the music, who do you think you are hurting? Companies are not machines. Surprise, you are hurting real live people who work for those evil companies.
So, now you ARE hurting innocent people.
Your attempts at justification are so sad.
Thought I would just clear up some of your incorrect assumptions in that I don't actually download music that I am not allowed to, the only free music I download is from Magnatunes in order to find stuff I like. Neither to I support those people who do download music they are not entitled to. The differences in the RIAA lawsuits vs. this GPL lawsuit are that for one this company knows precisely what they are doing, they have a legal department and were informed of the issue and have even been asked directly to stop, they have refused. People on kazaa don't necessarily have that knowledge and to the best of my knowledge the first time they are directly contacted is in the threat of an extremely costly lawsuit if they don't pay a lot of money (ie extortion). Also I'm not fully sure about my opinion on whether the RIAA should be suing, I can see the reasons why they are suing but I also have strong objections to how they are doing it (particularly the extortion aspect) I clearly did show my objections to their actions in my original post but my main purpose was to show that in fact these are very different issues and your(I assume you're the original AC) comparison was inaccurate.
going after someone who infringes on GPL IP is ok, but going after people who download music and movies is not ok.
Yes, going after a company who has taken copywrited work to claim as their own, and sell for profit, is different than using scare and extortion tactics against people who have allegedly copied copywrited work for for their personal use, and enabled other people to do the same.
Problems? Tell me about it!!
I can see why it would run a little slower under linux, but 41 minutes?!?
Slashdot... sports? You do realize that would involve getting up and moving right?
Baseball... moving? You do realize that most of baseball involves sitting still on a bench, or standing still in a field, right?
(sorry baseball fans who will now start flaming me:)
Reading around it seems that the idea is to prove that the encryption method is good rather than just theoretically sound. Probably makes it easier to sell stuff based on ECC if you can show how hard it is to crack.
Wouldn't it just mean that the test program they were using to crack it just didn't happen to exploit any weaknesses that might exist? The uniqueness of the point is one thing but choosing it is another.
Clearly Rutan and company are not entirely doing this for the money as they have easily spent more than the $10M prize already.
They indeed might not be doing it entirely for the money but that is hardly evidence. From the start I've considered the $10 million to be more of a publicity stunt, an incentive to speed the projects along a little bit, and some startup cash so some company doesn't win and go bankrupt before they start selling tickets. Who ever gets there first is going to get huge publicity and they will be the first to sell tickets to all the hollywood superstars who want to go into orbit. The $10 mil is good for startup but they, and a lot of the other X-prize competitors who make a sucessful ship, will be raking in way more than that once they start carrying paid passengers.
(also make sure you have god shoes)
;)
I've been looking for a pair of those.. do you know where I can get some?
Sure, when you hit your 42nd stride make sure you can see a dog (doesn't matter if you have to stop and wait for this to happen) then tap twice with the right shoe, jump and spin 360 degrees, jump again and clap your shoes together while in the air, after you land tap 3 times with the left shoe and clap your hands twice. After this your shoes will be in god mode, sprint speed with unlimited endurance and no impact injuries.
I have both a bike and a pair of running shoes, when I want to do something recreational I go for a bike ride, when I want a workout I run.
* infinitely much easier on your feet, knees and back.
True although it's possible to aleviate this somewhat by using proper technique and trail running (also make sure you have god shoes)
* you can spend much more power, and you have more flexibility in choosing a suitable power level
The first part of this I simply cannot agree with, I get a much better workout while running in a much shorter time, plus I at least get my arms moving, doesn't really give them a workout but does improve the blood flow a bit. As to the level of the workout you definately have more felxibility in power though I have a lot of trouble keeping it as high as when I'm running. That alos brings up my biggest problem on a bike is achieving a steady tempo, traffic lights, downhills, technical trails, fun but there's no way to achieve a steady power output.
* you can cover a larger area so it's less boring
It is a little more fun but I've never had trouble being bored while running, this is mostly because of the tempo and running trails helps as well.
* more flexibility in duration. Biking 8 hours a day is no problem for an untrained person, but running is.
Nice thing for fun but not for a workout, part of the motivation in running is I can get a great workout in 1 hr, this is very tough on a bike where I don't like to be struggling for breath in traffic and trails are too technical to achieve a high enough speed (though this easy to achieve on a exercise bike)
* you can carry some luggage easily (iPod, phone, gps, book to read while pausing, drinks)
I used to carry a walkman years ago then found I didn't need it, I simply don't get bored and find the music doesn't do anything for me, the rythm of running is all I need and I can't imagine bringing a book to read, how long do you pause!?! You should try to pace yourself so you don't need rest stops (unless you're doing intervals) this way you get the best workout, under no circumstances should you be taking rest breaks long enough, and while you're rested enough, to be able to read, the nice thing with running and biking is you can take a drink without slowing down too much.
* you don't need to wear silly clothing (although you certainly can)
Bikers wear far sillier clothing than runners, and neither look especially silly while you're doing either (although sometimes a slow person all souped up can look a little silly).
* a modern bike is way more interesting technically than running shoes.
I care nothing about technical interest when doing my workout (trying to pander to the geeks:), with a bike the technical aspect is actually a huge disadvantage, clean & lube the chain every couple weeks, make sure tires are pumped, replace the tires, and countless other problems (trewing rims, aligning gears, etc) bike maintainance is a big time commitment and certainly not an advantage to my running shoes.