The idea of a PPV movie is to watch a movie, a) before it comes out on video, after it has left the theater, or b) watch a movie not worth owning, but worth catching so you can laugh with you friends, i.e. supertroopers. I support this trial, and hope that this will drive those bastard at Blockbuster out of business. (2 hours late = $5.99 extension charge)
This is all if you have a DVD player of course, but i will assume that most of the/. crew have one of those nifty betamax replacements. [CURSE PREVIEWS!]
Many DVD players now support picture cds, so you can just go to ebay and buy one of these 5 inch LCDs for about $40, stick the LCD into a picture frame, and have a digital picture frame for less money and less work... (did i mention that the resolution isn't great? oh well, we can't have it all).
You need a DVI to ADC converter to use the display. The graphics cards shipped with the new G4s come with both DVI and ADC (dual head card), and inorder to run a cinema display off of the DVI port, you need an adapter
With iTunes 3 and a new firmware update, you should be able to subscribe to one of the Audible newspaper digests. They have a daily collection from the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times, which you can automaticaly download to iTunes and thus your iPod. It will probably run you $10 a month.
I have to say I am somewhat suprised by the first few responces, asside from those which suggest sex with farm animals. I thought the Slashdot Community would have been a little more anxious to be as sociable and helpful in person as they are online.
But then it hit me. The Slashdot Community consists of a really diverse range of people, most of whom i wouldn't really like to meet. There's everything from 13 year old script kiddies to 60 year old unix gurus, and everything inbetween. And that diversity that would make a "reunion" a little weird is what makes Slashdot such a sucessful online community.
There is something for everybody on Slashdot. Although this has been a source of complaint in recent months ("What has happened to Slashdot?!?" and "This made front page?!?") I believe that because of the diverse nature of the followers Slashdot has to be the best source for news and tech talk on the net.
Tristan
I think Katz has really grown, because instead of trying to make witty attack on an okay film, he decided to chose a good film, and give a good review. But... "Dormer who, driven nearly mad by the insomnia he experiences in the long Alaskan day" uhhh how does that work? The last time i experienced insomnia during the day, i called it waking up.
Is it me, or was this article posted on Wired about 3 months ago? It is an interesting piece on the media steriotypes of the computing world, but news in its hour is better than this old stuff that seems to be popping up on Slasodot ever more frequently. Perhaps it is a drive to keep publishing articles even when there is no news.
Easy access has been sacraficed for low price, and better airflow. Personally, I would love an easy access case, but i would not pay lots of money for a case that allows for little fan expansion, and a perk that i enjoy only a few times in the life of the PC. It comes down to the fact that most people do not open their PC case once in the life of the computer, and those who build their own computers either add a few parts over the lifetime of the PC, or go down the road of modding, where the flexability provided by the case is the most important, not easy motherboard access.
I think (but I'm not sure) that blockbuster and other video rental places also check IDs just as theaters do. But I wonder if they care about video games... anyone know?
My experience is that Blockbuster has never asked me for ID when renting an R rated movie, regardless of their official policy. Also, when I finally asked for a Blockbuster card so I wouldn't have to mooch it off the parents every time I wanted to rent a film, one of the questions on the new card form filled out by the parent is whether the card owner would be able to rent R rated movies. It seems like this is a very intelligent way to control the content that minors see. Don't have the government move in on my viewing rights, thats my parents' job. As far as video games, i've bought a long list of "M" mature rated video games that is basically the "Parental Advisory" sticker for games without an adult.
Stig.
I have around 80GB of MP3's, and wanted to be able to listen to them on my $5k stereo system.
Pardon me, but that is the stupidist comment i've ever heard. You have a $5000 stereo system, and you listen to mp3s on it!!! You use compressed audio on perfect speakers? sounds like pure stupidity to me. You may have well spent $500 on some decent speakers if you were going to play mp3s so you can't hear the defects. Furthermore, 80 GB of mp3s?!? You sound like an audiophile wanna-be.
Stig
I had this problem when I placed a table fan next to my monitor on my desk in the middle of summer. The spinning magnets cause a very annoying flicker, and maybe hopefully not do some damage. Try moving the monitors farther away from racks or the generator, and that might fix the problem.
I am excited and dissapointed to hear this announcement. First, the idea that other companies are becomming interested in apple products as servers is very cool! Sadly, this machine is still too expencive to be practical in any accademic setting, and cheap PCs are still going to rule that piece of the pie... until some 500mhz streamlined sub $1000 rackmounts show up. Remember, the PPC archetecture simply generates less heat and requires less electricity to run, making it ideal for clusters. Come on apple, widen your spectrum!
Other countries fears that fission powererd rockets are actually orbiting nuclear weapons, able to be dropped on them at will. And again, even if they weren't bombs, orbiting fission rockets would be nuclear weapons: all you have to do is build the containment vessel so it can be blown apart on impact via conventional explosives, leaving a cloud of contamination.
Why on earth would somebody use fission powered rockets for low orbit transit? The mass and $$$ savings are only worth the hassle on long distance space travel. The focus of the article was on sending missions across the solarsystem, not to the international spacestation.
I never used B&N online store, so I am not sure how similar the Express Checkout system is to the 1-Click system. However, would not this stream of uninnovative pattents just convince people to improve on the theme rather than copy, thus improving customer experience? If B&N had to create a checkout system that was slightly or even extremely different than that of Amazon, although i am not sure what it would look like, wouldn't that provide the competiton that keeps things improving for the customer? I am not one to support frivolus lawsuits, but I can see a silver lining.
Stig.
Maybe I am just being a troll, but why put in the effort to port BSD to PPC when Apple has provided a perfectically good (yes i know not free) distro to the PPC already, with optimizations. It seems to me that alot of work in the open source community is wasted in redundant projects.
Stig.
Maybe I am wrong, but dosn't the Treo provide all of these features, and the benifit of a widly adopted OS with programs and a computer sync feature? It seems to me to miss alot of the features of the Treo, and not provide a whole lot in return. Save money, maybe, but you still have to cary your palm around.
Slashdot Mirror
The idea of a PPV movie is to watch a movie, a) before it comes out on video, after it has left the theater, or b) watch a movie not worth owning, but worth catching so you can laugh with you friends, i.e. supertroopers. I support this trial, and hope that this will drive those bastard at Blockbuster out of business. (2 hours late = $5.99 extension charge)
This is all if you have a DVD player of course, but i will assume that most of the /. crew have one of those nifty betamax replacements. [CURSE PREVIEWS!]
Many DVD players now support picture cds, so you can just go to ebay and buy one of these 5 inch LCDs for about $40, stick the LCD into a picture frame, and have a digital picture frame for less money and less work... (did i mention that the resolution isn't great? oh well, we can't have it all).
You need a DVI to ADC converter to use the display. The graphics cards shipped with the new G4s come with both DVI and ADC (dual head card), and inorder to run a cinema display off of the DVI port, you need an adapter
With iTunes 3 and a new firmware update, you should be able to subscribe to one of the Audible newspaper digests. They have a daily collection from the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times, which you can automaticaly download to iTunes and thus your iPod. It will probably run you $10 a month.
I have to say I am somewhat suprised by the first few responces, asside from those which suggest sex with farm animals. I thought the Slashdot Community would have been a little more anxious to be as sociable and helpful in person as they are online. But then it hit me. The Slashdot Community consists of a really diverse range of people, most of whom i wouldn't really like to meet. There's everything from 13 year old script kiddies to 60 year old unix gurus, and everything inbetween. And that diversity that would make a "reunion" a little weird is what makes Slashdot such a sucessful online community. There is something for everybody on Slashdot. Although this has been a source of complaint in recent months ("What has happened to Slashdot?!?" and "This made front page?!?") I believe that because of the diverse nature of the followers Slashdot has to be the best source for news and tech talk on the net. Tristan
I think Katz has really grown, because instead of trying to make witty attack on an okay film, he decided to chose a good film, and give a good review. But... "Dormer who, driven nearly mad by the insomnia he experiences in the long Alaskan day" uhhh how does that work? The last time i experienced insomnia during the day, i called it waking up.
Is it me, or was this article posted on Wired about 3 months ago? It is an interesting piece on the media steriotypes of the computing world, but news in its hour is better than this old stuff that seems to be popping up on Slasodot ever more frequently. Perhaps it is a drive to keep publishing articles even when there is no news.
Was this a joke? The "artifacts" are to signal reel change.
Easy access has been sacraficed for low price, and better airflow. Personally, I would love an easy access case, but i would not pay lots of money for a case that allows for little fan expansion, and a perk that i enjoy only a few times in the life of the PC. It comes down to the fact that most people do not open their PC case once in the life of the computer, and those who build their own computers either add a few parts over the lifetime of the PC, or go down the road of modding, where the flexability provided by the case is the most important, not easy motherboard access.
I have around 80GB of MP3's, and wanted to be able to listen to them on my $5k stereo system. Pardon me, but that is the stupidist comment i've ever heard. You have a $5000 stereo system, and you listen to mp3s on it!!! You use compressed audio on perfect speakers? sounds like pure stupidity to me. You may have well spent $500 on some decent speakers if you were going to play mp3s so you can't hear the defects. Furthermore, 80 GB of mp3s?!? You sound like an audiophile wanna-be. Stig
I had this problem when I placed a table fan next to my monitor on my desk in the middle of summer. The spinning magnets cause a very annoying flicker, and maybe hopefully not do some damage. Try moving the monitors farther away from racks or the generator, and that might fix the problem.
I am excited and dissapointed to hear this announcement. First, the idea that other companies are becomming interested in apple products as servers is very cool! Sadly, this machine is still too expencive to be practical in any accademic setting, and cheap PCs are still going to rule that piece of the pie... until some 500mhz streamlined sub $1000 rackmounts show up. Remember, the PPC archetecture simply generates less heat and requires less electricity to run, making it ideal for clusters. Come on apple, widen your spectrum!
Why on earth would somebody use fission powered rockets for low orbit transit? The mass and $$$ savings are only worth the hassle on long distance space travel. The focus of the article was on sending missions across the solarsystem, not to the international spacestation.
You mean since when do I have to spend .324 seconds getting a serial to watch a hi-res trailer?
"and the integration with current mail programs sucks! " Think Hushmail. Encryption standard web based email system.
I never used B&N online store, so I am not sure how similar the Express Checkout system is to the 1-Click system. However, would not this stream of uninnovative pattents just convince people to improve on the theme rather than copy, thus improving customer experience? If B&N had to create a checkout system that was slightly or even extremely different than that of Amazon, although i am not sure what it would look like, wouldn't that provide the competiton that keeps things improving for the customer? I am not one to support frivolus lawsuits, but I can see a silver lining. Stig.
Maybe I am just being a troll, but why put in the effort to port BSD to PPC when Apple has provided a perfectically good (yes i know not free) distro to the PPC already, with optimizations. It seems to me that alot of work in the open source community is wasted in redundant projects. Stig.
Maybe I am wrong, but dosn't the Treo provide all of these features, and the benifit of a widly adopted OS with programs and a computer sync feature? It seems to me to miss alot of the features of the Treo, and not provide a whole lot in return. Save money, maybe, but you still have to cary your palm around.