Minidiscs have features often absent from iPods and their clones. Features such as both line in and optical line in allowing you to record onto blank media - because of this they're quite common for recording interviews prior to broadcast on the radio.
If these new ones can store 45 hours of music on a single disk at $7 then for $28 you have as much storage as a new mini ipod. For another $28 you have double the storage.
With a $7 disc, you can lend a disc to a friend, they can do what they please with it then give it back. In the meantime you still have your music player and your other music.
Blank minidiscs used to be expensive. Now you can pick them up for about 50p each. The same will happen with these new discs. Early adopters will always pay extra.
I suspect you're from North America given how quickly you dismissed the minidisc. Whenever I get on a bus or train here in the UK I will invariably see one or two people listening to minidisc players. Those who have used them seem to like them. I'm sure Sony know that too.
Actually I think it will be much more like CB Radio which also requires a license (the CB license is free for those over 14 and under 21, 15 GBP for others).
It's not that you'll have slightly more chance, you'll be entitled to use that part of the radio spectrum if you purchase a license.
It's maybe worth noting that CB equipment has to be compliant with UK standards for use in the UK - it's possible there could be a process where apparatus needs to be approved for use in the UK before you're allowed to plug it in in the same way as telephones here.
Maybe since it's Christmas day we can't expect people to read the manual.
Transaction support has been available with MySQL since 3.2x - that's over two years ago - you need to check what table type you are using. MySQL 4.x has replciation between master adn slave databases. Using replication you can easily do backups without taking down your live server. MySQL 4.1.1 Does subqueries. MySQL 5 should be where we get database clustering.
Now, if folk want to start criticising MySQL without complaining about these features being absent, that'd be great.
It's interesting that Outlook forces you to use Outlook Express as a usenet client, rather than having the functionality built in. This is fairly typical Microsoft practise when they want to be able to sell you something, yet still say the functionality via open standards is available.
For example, in Outlook there are frequent problems when using lots of IMAP folders. To share calendars etc, you need to use POP3. Microsoft, however, can sell you exchange server to replace your IMAP folders and allow you to share calendars.
If Outlook had built in NNTP support, every office would have a local NNTP server doing this. Instead, they'll add a new feature to Outlook that will only be available if you're running it with MS Exchange. Big bucks.
So you go to your boss and ask for a raise because you're good at your job. He says 'no'.
What is he sacks you for _asking_ for a raise? Have you got the money to sue your employer?
How about the guy in the cubicle next to you gets a raise, yet he's no better than you and does no more work than you. You ask for a raise and get turned down.
The boss decides to cut your annual holiday entitlement to 10 days to boost productivity.
Tough. AT least in a union there'd have been someone there to fight for you.
The fact we have loose usage of a biological term doesn't mean that the loose usage is correct. Either way, it's not the point - the poster was suggesting that cross breeding dogs which can happen naturally is the same as extracting genes from one type of fish and implanting them into another which doesn't really happen without a whole lot of human intervention. Without even considering the arguments for or against genetic modification of animals, comparing GM to cross-breeding is like comparing chalk to cheese.
they went about selecting different existing species and breeding them to create their perfect dog.
Really? That'd be a neat trick. If you are successful in breeding different species you get infertile offspring - that's what species are, different groups that don't crossbreed to produce fertile offspring. Like crossing a donkey and a horse to make a (normally infertile) mule.
Now taking two different breeds of dogs (which are both from the same species) and crossbreeding is a type of artificial selection, but that's nothing at all like taking parts of two different species and combining them into a new one.
Who is bankrolling the campaign? How does a company, dare I say, with no visible means of support come up with the scratch?
According to their website, kazaa is the world's most downlaoded software. They recorded 2.8 million downloads last week. Their software is full of adware. They receive revenue for every add they feed to your desktop.
Now even if their revenue per ad is tiny - even a fraction of a cent, just do the sums. 2.8 million is a big number. I suspect if you log in you'll also see a very big number of connected users, most of whom are "enjoying" a steady stream of ads in return for the free service. Multiply big number * fraction of a cent and that's their revenue stream.
Novell sold rights to SCO. SCO teamed up with SuSE through United Linux to bring Linux to the masses. Novell buys SCO's United Linux Partner so they can bring Linux to even more of the masses and therefore must be sued for competing with SCO. How can you be a competitor when you're in a partnership?
Not sure why anyone spends the $$ on a big screen CRT/FPTV/RPTV anymore
Because a 36" flat tube wide-screen TV at, say 1,500 GBP ($2,500) or a 32" screen at a fraction of that cost will probably have a lifespan of a decade, with zero maintenance costs. The same cannot be said for any LCD projector I've seen.
Dreamweaver and Flash MX 2004, we can run the previous version on Linux. These are big commercial apps - their availability on Linux would be a great boost to the OS, but only if they arrive with Macromedia support.
Some smaller developers may well take up the older versions under linux - certainly there could be benefits for testing on a local machine that's already running Apache, PHP & mysql, but bigger developers will want latest releases to stay up to date in the marketplace.
The documentation doesn't tell you this, but if you choose to have quick backups, then you get very slow restores.
So they offered Quick Backups as an option rather than as default and you didn't think there must be some compromise? Don't you think that if quick backups were available without compromise, it would happen as standard?
Veritas would crash after restoring only a few gigabytes, requiring us to restart where we left off, only for it to crash again after a few gigabytes. This resulted in a few gaps in the restore.
Given the number of enterprise organisations using Veritas, this sounds a lot like a problem with your setup. Have you spoken to their technical support team? Someone's probably had similar problems before. They can probably identify the problem and help you fix it.
Veritas uses some proprietary format on tape, making it impossible for us to get at the data some other way so that we could write scripts to check what was restored and what was not.
You bought proprietary software, and it uses a proporietary format. Are you surprised? Of course you could always download your enterprise class backup solution from freshmeat. You buy enterprise software because of the support, so call up tech support, explain your problem. Ask them if they have a way of identifying what was backed up and what wasn't.
Veritas support is prohibitively expensive.
Yes, qualified technical experts tend to be. This is enterprise support, not a droid that can get by telling you to reinstall Win9x.
We were down for a week because of this horrible software.
No, you were down for a week because your SysAdmin clearly hadn't tested the company's disaster recovery plan before disaster finally hit. If you don't test your backup solution before you need it you can be 99% sure it'll fail when you do.
So you use something like symantec's corporate firewall so you can send firewall policies to the individual machines that work whether they're in the office or not.
They're your machines, whether they're in the office or not, it's your job to keep them secure. If you need a firewall to protect them in the office you equally need a firewall to protect them when they're on a broadband connection in someone's home - hell you probably need it even more then.
The simple answer is you can't. There will be lots of suggestions that you use sound - so if you're blind and deaf then you're excluded from email? What about those using Braille interfaces to read email. Can sound files overcome language barriers? There are so many obstacles all of which point back to one simple fact, that you can't assume anything about the user at the other end. That's why the web was designed so web pages sent the content and the browser decides how to display it - a properly coded web page should be accessible to anyone. When you content moves beyond ASCII text you start making a lot of assumptions about the other end, risk denying people access and, with many new laws coming into force, finding either you or your company facing a law suit for discrimination.
Could there be a new business model in opt-in calling?
Essentially marketers could cut down on the number of people they call, reducing their costs and increasing their success rate. With a higher success rate they get higher profit margins, that would allow them to either pass on discounts to those who do opt in, or even to pay people who are willing to be called and listen to the sales pitch.
Use spamassassin. You can either catch them with some bayes training, or even easier, set:
score MICROSOFT_EXECUTABLE 5
in/etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf
That way everything with an executable will be set as spam.
You can then use sieve or other mail scripting language to filter / discard the messages as apropriate.
When complaining about this it's worth remembering that there has been an open source internet voting project under the gnu auspices for some time. It's website is over here
Even better, if Verisign running your elections worries you, why not see if you can help the project. With a secure, trusted and freely available alternative, Verisign will find it more difficult to convince audit committees that their software is the best option.
But you're still not secure between the client and the proxy as far as network transport is concerned
Did you read the article? It says: "Transmissions between a client machine and PGP can themselves be encrypted using SSL."
So transport between client and proxy can (and should) be secured. Of course you'll need appropriate authentication mechanisms at the client end to make sure the client is trusted, but as long as you trust SSL the actual data transmission itself shouldn't present a problem.
Public DOmain is a very US concept - there's no equivilent here in the UK. As a result, they may be able to make such a claim in the United States, but at some point they're going to want to distribute their software outwith their own borders.
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If these new ones can store 45 hours of music on a single disk at $7 then for $28 you have as much storage as a new mini ipod. For another $28 you have double the storage.
With a $7 disc, you can lend a disc to a friend, they can do what they please with it then give it back. In the meantime you still have your music player and your other music.
Blank minidiscs used to be expensive. Now you can pick them up for about 50p each. The same will happen with these new discs. Early adopters will always pay extra.
I suspect you're from North America given how quickly you dismissed the minidisc. Whenever I get on a bus or train here in the UK I will invariably see one or two people listening to minidisc players. Those who have used them seem to like them. I'm sure Sony know that too.
DVD Jon really has that much cash?
It's not that you'll have slightly more chance, you'll be entitled to use that part of the radio spectrum if you purchase a license.
It's maybe worth noting that CB equipment has to be compliant with UK standards for use in the UK - it's possible there could be a process where apparatus needs to be approved for use in the UK before you're allowed to plug it in in the same way as telephones here.
Transaction support has been available with MySQL since 3.2x - that's over two years ago - you need to check what table type you are using. MySQL 4.x has replciation between master adn slave databases. Using replication you can easily do backups without taking down your live server. MySQL 4.1.1 Does subqueries. MySQL 5 should be where we get database clustering.
Now, if folk want to start criticising MySQL without complaining about these features being absent, that'd be great.
For example, in Outlook there are frequent problems when using lots of IMAP folders. To share calendars etc, you need to use POP3. Microsoft, however, can sell you exchange server to replace your IMAP folders and allow you to share calendars.
If Outlook had built in NNTP support, every office would have a local NNTP server doing this. Instead, they'll add a new feature to Outlook that will only be available if you're running it with MS Exchange. Big bucks.
What is he sacks you for _asking_ for a raise? Have you got the money to sue your employer?
How about the guy in the cubicle next to you gets a raise, yet he's no better than you and does no more work than you. You ask for a raise and get turned down.
The boss decides to cut your annual holiday entitlement to 10 days to boost productivity.
Tough. AT least in a union there'd have been someone there to fight for you.
the one running his web server seems to have crashed.
here
The fact we have loose usage of a biological term doesn't mean that the loose usage is correct. Either way, it's not the point - the poster was suggesting that cross breeding dogs which can happen naturally is the same as extracting genes from one type of fish and implanting them into another which doesn't really happen without a whole lot of human intervention. Without even considering the arguments for or against genetic modification of animals, comparing GM to cross-breeding is like comparing chalk to cheese.
Really? That'd be a neat trick. If you are successful in breeding different species you get infertile offspring - that's what species are, different groups that don't crossbreed to produce fertile offspring. Like crossing a donkey and a horse to make a (normally infertile) mule.
Now taking two different breeds of dogs (which are both from the same species) and crossbreeding is a type of artificial selection, but that's nothing at all like taking parts of two different species and combining them into a new one.
According to their website, kazaa is the world's most downlaoded software. They recorded 2.8 million downloads last week. Their software is full of adware. They receive revenue for every add they feed to your desktop.
Now even if their revenue per ad is tiny - even a fraction of a cent, just do the sums. 2.8 million is a big number. I suspect if you log in you'll also see a very big number of connected users, most of whom are "enjoying" a steady stream of ads in return for the free service. Multiply big number * fraction of a cent and that's their revenue stream.
Novell sold rights to SCO. SCO teamed up with SuSE through United Linux to bring Linux to the masses. Novell buys SCO's United Linux Partner so they can bring Linux to even more of the masses and therefore must be sued for competing with SCO. How can you be a competitor when you're in a partnership?
Because a 36" flat tube wide-screen TV at, say 1,500 GBP ($2,500) or a 32" screen at a fraction of that cost will probably have a lifespan of a decade, with zero maintenance costs. The same cannot be said for any LCD projector I've seen.
Are we going to be missing a great deal?
Don't release anything between November and December or it'll never make it to a "best of", "coolest of" or "top 5,000 things" list.
Some smaller developers may well take up the older versions under linux - certainly there could be benefits for testing on a local machine that's already running Apache, PHP & mysql, but bigger developers will want latest releases to stay up to date in the marketplace.
So they offered Quick Backups as an option rather than as default and you didn't think there must be some compromise? Don't you think that if quick backups were available without compromise, it would happen as standard?
Veritas would crash after restoring only a few gigabytes, requiring us to restart where we left off, only for it to crash again after a few gigabytes. This resulted in a few gaps in the restore.
Given the number of enterprise organisations using Veritas, this sounds a lot like a problem with your setup. Have you spoken to their technical support team? Someone's probably had similar problems before. They can probably identify the problem and help you fix it.
Veritas uses some proprietary format on tape, making it impossible for us to get at the data some other way so that we could write scripts to check what was restored and what was not.
You bought proprietary software, and it uses a proporietary format. Are you surprised? Of course you could always download your enterprise class backup solution from freshmeat. You buy enterprise software because of the support, so call up tech support, explain your problem. Ask them if they have a way of identifying what was backed up and what wasn't.
Veritas support is prohibitively expensive.
Yes, qualified technical experts tend to be. This is enterprise support, not a droid that can get by telling you to reinstall Win9x.
We were down for a week because of this horrible software.
No, you were down for a week because your SysAdmin clearly hadn't tested the company's disaster recovery plan before disaster finally hit. If you don't test your backup solution before you need it you can be 99% sure it'll fail when you do.
They're your machines, whether they're in the office or not, it's your job to keep them secure. If you need a firewall to protect them in the office you equally need a firewall to protect them when they're on a broadband connection in someone's home - hell you probably need it even more then.
The simple answer is you can't. There will be lots of suggestions that you use sound - so if you're blind and deaf then you're excluded from email? What about those using Braille interfaces to read email. Can sound files overcome language barriers? There are so many obstacles all of which point back to one simple fact, that you can't assume anything about the user at the other end. That's why the web was designed so web pages sent the content and the browser decides how to display it - a properly coded web page should be accessible to anyone. When you content moves beyond ASCII text you start making a lot of assumptions about the other end, risk denying people access and, with many new laws coming into force, finding either you or your company facing a law suit for discrimination.
The site www.royalbank.com is running IBM_HTTP_SERVER on AIX.
Could there be a new business model in opt-in calling? Essentially marketers could cut down on the number of people they call, reducing their costs and increasing their success rate. With a higher success rate they get higher profit margins, that would allow them to either pass on discounts to those who do opt in, or even to pay people who are willing to be called and listen to the sales pitch.
score MICROSOFT_EXECUTABLE 5
in /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf
That way everything with an executable will be set as spam. You can then use sieve or other mail scripting language to filter / discard the messages as apropriate.
Even better, if Verisign running your elections worries you, why not see if you can help the project. With a secure, trusted and freely available alternative, Verisign will find it more difficult to convince audit committees that their software is the best option.
Did you read the article? It says: "Transmissions between a client machine and PGP can themselves be encrypted using SSL."
So transport between client and proxy can (and should) be secured. Of course you'll need appropriate authentication mechanisms at the client end to make sure the client is trusted, but as long as you trust SSL the actual data transmission itself shouldn't present a problem.
Public DOmain is a very US concept - there's no equivilent here in the UK. As a result, they may be able to make such a claim in the United States, but at some point they're going to want to distribute their software outwith their own borders.