Yeah, sorta. But they're still there to make money, and they're trying to eliminate the competition. So it's still capitalistic ideas. Hell, these days, in some countries there isn't the much difference between a private enterprise and a state enterprise anyway, with all the under-the-table deals and such.
BTW. A state isn't inherently capitalistic or socialistic.
Pretty much every news agency does more to validate a story than Slashdot ever does. And when they do screw up, they make sure everyone knows.
Calling the Slashdot editors "editors" is a complete joke. They are not editors or journalists in the slightest sense. A quick browse over the front page should confirm that.
As for Slashdot doing better than most other sites by posting links to their original sources. That's because all Slashdot does is post links. They're not writing articles. If they didn't link to their "sources" then there would be nothing worth posting.
I still find value in Slashdot, but saying they're doing better than other big news sites in terms of integrity etc is just plain bollocks.
I think what Jobs means when he says "digital hub" is just that: A hub. They aren't too interesting in trying to make an all-in one type device. Rather, they will develop things they think are wise for their business, and leave the rest up to 3rd party companies to provide.
So I don't think we'll be seeing a media center PC from Apple any time soon. But I'm sure we'll see many things that make it easier for 3rd parties to add such stuff.
But yes, It would have been nice of them to have included digital audio out. I'm guessing the only reason they didn't was because the mini is supposed to be a low-end Mac, and many people still don't use digital audio yet.
Of course, for $400, you can get a much better screen, keyboard, and mouse. Not everyone wants portablity. For those that don't, I think a Mac mini is much better than an iBook.
But yes, the iBooks are still good value. Especially if you want the portablity.
If it's going to cost Apple nothing, then it's going to end up costing the end-user enourmosly...In battery life.
Video is much more power demanding than music. The display is going all time, the HDD is being accessed much more often, the CPU is crunching more numbers.
I'm pulling this out my ass; but I'm guessing you'd be lucky to 1 or 2 hours out of an iPod photo if all that was done was a firmware update to support video.
The only idiot here is the person who is suggesting it's necessary to change the entire world to make a difference, right after a comment pointing out the stupidity of thinking in black and white.
Since when the hell did I suggest we change the entire ecosystem to prevent all suffering? Since when did I say we should do anything at all?
Your are one of the most idiotic people I have meet on Slashdot. Not only do you jump to conclusions and make generalisations, but you completely miss the point. You take your dislike of me and try an fit it into an argument rather than arguing rationally.
Further evidence that you are an idiot is your use of the "foe" feature. Only a bitter idiot uses that, since it give them a way to know wether to agree or disagree with a post without having to think and use rational, logical decision-making processes.
I don't like the word either. But I doubt that's where it's origins are. And I don't think it's a meaningless or ambiguous word.
It's pretty clear what a blog is IMHO. It's a site (or section of a site) where the primary content is composed of many small blurbs sorted chronologically, usually of a casual/informal witting style.
They also don't have to be the personal musings and experiences of a famous person. There are many "news" style blogs that have a sharp subject focus (like Engadget.com, Gizmodo.com, etc). There are also many personal blogs that also have much content on a particular subject (Zeldman.com etc).
Also, blogs aren't really the same as a diary or journal. Those are both more focused on personal experiences. And as I said above, blogs aren't restricted to that.
Yes, I read the NY Times, along with many other papers/sites.
Most stuff is crap (well, mediocre really). This applies to pretty much everything, music, art, books, opinions.
Of course, this doesn't mean that 99% of newspapers are crap of course, because newspapers generally employ the 1% that are good a writting articles etc. if you get what I mean.
Blogs, on the other hand, can be created by pretty much anyone, so you get more mediocre content.
I'm not sure where socialism fits into this argument, BTW.
He said A/V output, not output to an iPod/external HDD. When working with real-time A/V stuff, I suspect that USB, using the main CPU and with it's general more overhead, is prone to dragading the quality etc. (even if it's just the occassional blip).
There's a reason why pretty much all video cameras have a Firewire connection rather than USB.
The point here is not that this guy should go un-punished, but that the punishment is unjust/excesive. Does this guy really deserve to basiclly have the rest of his life ruined, simply for breaking the NDA and copyright of some software?
I think there must be something wrong with your Treo. My Treo 600 (GSM) has only needed to be reset a couple of time in the year or so I've had it. And one of those times, it was probably caused by a 3rd-party hack. If you've already tried flushing it clean, not using 3rd party software, or updating the OS, then I suggest sending it back and getting a replacement.
Oh yeah. Blazer is shitty. I wish Opera would develop a version of their PDA browser for PalmOS.
You could say that. I was just going by the usual sense of the word: Your average company's "PR" department. All PR departments that I know of try their best to create a good impression on the public and try to down-play disasters.
No. I'm not a hypocrite. I don't even see how you can accuse me of such, since I never said that people should stop testing because it harms animals. I was just correcting the obvious false impression that this person was giving; that no animals are harmed in testing.
As for the pet snake, It's natural for a snake to eat rats. And the rat will die fairly quickly. People don't have to perform these experiments, and they also do it fully knowing that they may be harming the animal. So there's quite a bit of difference between feeding a snake and animal testing.
With regards to that suffering has been around for a long time. I fail to see what this has to do with anything. As why, simply because that's the way things used to be, should things continue to be the same way?
That kind of argument makes about as much sense as the argument that we must eat meat because we still have molars. Not that I want to turn this into an anti-meat eating argument, since I do eat meat. But the reason many use to justify this are quite stupid.
Perhaps you shouldn't make generalizations about people's ideologies and way of life by a single post. Perhaps you should also wake up and realise that many issues are not clear cut, and the many people are smart enough to realise this, and don't create black and white views on such subjects.
In terms of where I stand on the whole animal testing issue. I'm pretty much on the fence. Mainly because a lot of this research ends up preventing a lot of suffering.
You obviously didn't read the part about how it's hard to tell left from right, or that he has a very strict routine and that any change makes him feel quite uncomfortable.
Doesn't sound like a very peaceful world to me. Just a different world.
Blockbuster NZ is probably run a little differently, but what seems to happen here is after a while, the overnight new releases become 7 day new releases. Then they eventually drop to normal 7 day hire.
I don't think the terrorists are here to win a PR contest. They want to scare people, not win their sympathy. This is why they blow up bombs in crowed places and fly planes into buildings.
No, the animal rights groups don't care if or how much the animals suffer, they just don't want them being used in research, period.
But the whole point is that no-one can know if the animal was harmed untill AFTER the research has been done. Otherwise it wouldn't really be research, would it?
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BTW. A state isn't inherently capitalistic or socialistic.
...And those bloody socialists keep trying to tell us that capitalism doesn't lead to innovation!
Pretty much every news agency does more to validate a story than Slashdot ever does. And when they do screw up, they make sure everyone knows.
Calling the Slashdot editors "editors" is a complete joke. They are not editors or journalists in the slightest sense. A quick browse over the front page should confirm that.
As for Slashdot doing better than most other sites by posting links to their original sources. That's because all Slashdot does is post links. They're not writing articles. If they didn't link to their "sources" then there would be nothing worth posting.
I still find value in Slashdot, but saying they're doing better than other big news sites in terms of integrity etc is just plain bollocks.
So I don't think we'll be seeing a media center PC from Apple any time soon. But I'm sure we'll see many things that make it easier for 3rd parties to add such stuff.
But yes, It would have been nice of them to have included digital audio out. I'm guessing the only reason they didn't was because the mini is supposed to be a low-end Mac, and many people still don't use digital audio yet.
But yes, the iBooks are still good value. Especially if you want the portablity.
Video is much more power demanding than music. The display is going all time, the HDD is being accessed much more often, the CPU is crunching more numbers.
I'm pulling this out my ass; but I'm guessing you'd be lucky to 1 or 2 hours out of an iPod photo if all that was done was a firmware update to support video.
Since when the hell did I suggest we change the entire ecosystem to prevent all suffering? Since when did I say we should do anything at all?
Your are one of the most idiotic people I have meet on Slashdot. Not only do you jump to conclusions and make generalisations, but you completely miss the point. You take your dislike of me and try an fit it into an argument rather than arguing rationally.
Further evidence that you are an idiot is your use of the "foe" feature. Only a bitter idiot uses that, since it give them a way to know wether to agree or disagree with a post without having to think and use rational, logical decision-making processes.
It's pretty clear what a blog is IMHO. It's a site (or section of a site) where the primary content is composed of many small blurbs sorted chronologically, usually of a casual/informal witting style.
They also don't have to be the personal musings and experiences of a famous person. There are many "news" style blogs that have a sharp subject focus (like Engadget.com, Gizmodo.com, etc). There are also many personal blogs that also have much content on a particular subject (Zeldman.com etc).
Also, blogs aren't really the same as a diary or journal. Those are both more focused on personal experiences. And as I said above, blogs aren't restricted to that.
Most stuff is crap (well, mediocre really). This applies to pretty much everything, music, art, books, opinions.
Of course, this doesn't mean that 99% of newspapers are crap of course, because newspapers generally employ the 1% that are good a writting articles etc. if you get what I mean.
Blogs, on the other hand, can be created by pretty much anyone, so you get more mediocre content.
I'm not sure where socialism fits into this argument, BTW.
99% of everything is crap. Blog are no different. This is their only problem. Could everyone please now shut the fuck up about blogs? Thanks.
He said A/V output, not output to an iPod/external HDD. When working with real-time A/V stuff, I suspect that USB, using the main CPU and with it's general more overhead, is prone to dragading the quality etc. (even if it's just the occassional blip).
There's a reason why pretty much all video cameras have a Firewire connection rather than USB.
IHBT.
The point here is not that this guy should go un-punished, but that the punishment is unjust/excesive. Does this guy really deserve to basiclly have the rest of his life ruined, simply for breaking the NDA and copyright of some software?
You call the comment about hijacking moronic. The exact same can be said about your "taking a crap in a resturant's food" comment.
Oh yeah. Blazer is shitty. I wish Opera would develop a version of their PDA browser for PalmOS.
These industry analysis idiots need to include smartphones in there PDA stats if they're going to compare platforms with those stats.
You could say that. I was just going by the usual sense of the word: Your average company's "PR" department. All PR departments that I know of try their best to create a good impression on the public and try to down-play disasters.
As for the pet snake, It's natural for a snake to eat rats. And the rat will die fairly quickly. People don't have to perform these experiments, and they also do it fully knowing that they may be harming the animal. So there's quite a bit of difference between feeding a snake and animal testing.
With regards to that suffering has been around for a long time. I fail to see what this has to do with anything. As why, simply because that's the way things used to be, should things continue to be the same way?
That kind of argument makes about as much sense as the argument that we must eat meat because we still have molars. Not that I want to turn this into an anti-meat eating argument, since I do eat meat. But the reason many use to justify this are quite stupid.
Perhaps you shouldn't make generalizations about people's ideologies and way of life by a single post. Perhaps you should also wake up and realise that many issues are not clear cut, and the many people are smart enough to realise this, and don't create black and white views on such subjects.
In terms of where I stand on the whole animal testing issue. I'm pretty much on the fence. Mainly because a lot of this research ends up preventing a lot of suffering.
Doesn't sound like a very peaceful world to me. Just a different world.
Blockbuster NZ is probably run a little differently, but what seems to happen here is after a while, the overnight new releases become 7 day new releases. Then they eventually drop to normal 7 day hire.
Exactly, they censor the movie before the movie is even released to the theaters ;)
I don't think the terrorists are here to win a PR contest. They want to scare people, not win their sympathy. This is why they blow up bombs in crowed places and fly planes into buildings.
I think you are confusing a local terrorist attack with starting a war in another country.
But the whole point is that no-one can know if the animal was harmed untill AFTER the research has been done. Otherwise it wouldn't really be research, would it?
Or that rats that had their dopamine systems destroyed, and as a result, died because they couldn't be bothered to eat.
In some fields of science, the animals being tested on are probably living quite a nice life. But for others, it really is tourture.