Natoi writes "...You'd have to be running Windows and use a Sony developed proprietary software to listen to CD's published by Sony starting next year."
RTFA. "All 12-centimeter CD singles by Japanese artists rolling out from SME's group record companies are expected to be Label Gate CDs from Jan. 22." NOT All Sony CDs, just some Japanese ones.
Cowboy Neal: "What about car stereos and high- fidelity CD players?"
RTFA: "SME's new Label Gate CD consists of two kinds of music data -- one is data for audio devices to replay and the other is encoded compressed data for PCs to replay."
Maybe the audio data won't play on car and hifi CD players, but if not it's not by design.
Bush seems to think it's a great idea. Since you have given his party a massive vote of confidence (not even mentioning the gun nuts), it seems most Americans think so too.
but this... Well, the register says:
...but concludes that the company ought to set the right example by ensuring that each division "should eat its own dogfood." ... Huh? what kind of an official document would claim that their product is crap? This suggests that the paper is of an unofficial status.
"Eating your own dogfood" is a phrase used at MS; at least it was mentioned in Showstopper! by G. Pascal Zachary, about the creation of Win NT. This referred then to developing (writing and compiling) it using Win NT itself (previously they used Unix or VMS).
However, I know a few non-technical people who would argue the opposite:
"What's the point of learning X when we use Y at home?"
Of course the answer is that you go to school to learn things you can't at home. "What's the point of learning French at school when we speak English at home?"
It's a lot harder to spoof a phone number than it is an e-mail address.
However, if someone is actually trying to sell you something, they have to give a way to contact them -- a website, a physical address, a fax number. A little investigation could use this to make a solid chain of evidence. It's just law enforcement can't be bothered; indidually each spam is below their threshold. (Except if they're selling something highly illegal, like drugs or kiddie porn.)
while nearly every email to American ISP's and universities has resulted in a quick response
My point was that these smug assholes in filtering out Asia, also filter out my complaints about their spam. I've even had bounces because my mail, with a Yahoo return address, was sent via my Hong Kong ISP's SMTP. God knows how many other of my emails are just silently deleted because of this.
In fact, many belive the medicine in the ancient world was far supperior to that of today due to a deeper understanding of how the body heals naturally (modern medicine is often very invasive).
Yes, that's why we live two or three times as long as our hunter and gatherer ancestors. Where our health is degraded, it's from the massive pool of infection we expose ourselves to by living in urban communities, and eating fatty sugary food and not doing any exercise; not because of any lack of mystical medical wisdom.
I will admit that I am a creationist
That people like you can believe this garbage does rather support your assertion that our intelligence is not increasing.
The way that in a show about dinosaurs, the narrator will casually throw in a bit about "the brightly coloured skin" or saying that Australopithecus slept in trees and had good colour vision.
Since modern reptiles are "brightly coloured" and AFAIK, every ape/monkey/primate has good colour vision make these good assumptions. (Sleeping in trees, less so, but I didn't see that show so I don't know the context.) And in Walking With Dinosaurs, in the intro, and certainly in the "Making of" companion episode, they state that that they are (of course) making assumptions, and that in the narration they don't qualify every statement as part of the "wildlife documentary" style they are emulating.
It's far, far from the fake science of Fox "documentaries" on the paranormal, Noah's Ark or whacky conspiracy theories.
You don't need to be familiar with a language to check the placenames -- there are probably more weird spellings in English names than Spanish.
Since it was prominently in the cited story (which is in English), an editor with any pretensions to professionalism should have checked it.
How dissapointing. I thought it was only on Slashdot that everyone wrote run-on sentences, forgot to use apostrophes (its), and felt inclined to bitch about the most minute details. This happens in the "real world" too?
I don't know what your point is. Mine was, that in a professional context, the standard is higher. Since Slashdot has daily hits in the millions, pays a salary to its editors, a higher standard is appropriate than in a BB hosted on a 16 year old's box in his bedroom.
PS "disappointing", not "dissappointing" -- not a slam against you (I make typos all the time), but why isn't there a spelllcheck on submission -- they have weird stuff like "lameness filters" but can't be bothered to do such a simple, trivial thing.
That was my fault. I was in a hurry to submit it and did not proofread as much as I should have. Don't blame the editors for that one.
I'm an editor (in the real world). Checking text is what editors are supposed to do. Though on Slashdot, editors seem to publish two or three stories a day each (obviously they read many more), but are incapable of running a spellchecker, let alone checking place names, or seeing that the same story was posted 12 hours before and is still on the home page. I know its traditional for geeks to be dyslexic, but Slashdot takes it too far.
In sci-fi, good stories are almost exclusively *not* about interesting people. They are about interesting ideas.
Often true; interesting people as well as, not instead of, ideas is rare, and to be cherished, in SF. However, in this case, since the "acclaimed writer" is just recycling Frank Herbert's ideas, he doen't have anything to offer in that department either.
"Anderson's solo work has garnered wide critical acclaim: CLIMBING OLYMPUS (voted the best paperback SF novel of 1995 by Locus magazine),
Locus is the only one of these "accolades" I would take seriously.
RESURRECTION, INC. (nominated for the Bram Stoker Award),
"nominated" for an award no one's ever hard of?
and his novel BLINDFOLD (1996 preliminary Nebula nominee)
Wow! A "preliminary" nominee. What an honour.
[X Files novels] GROUND ZERO was voted "Best Science Fiction Novel of 1995" by the readers of SFX magazine.
A novelisation of a TV series was voted "best" by a special effects magazine. Interesting, but what what relation to literature (which is what "books" are) is this?
RUINS hit the New York Times bestseller list, the first X-FILES novel ever to do so, and was voted "Best Science Fiction Novel of 1996.
Another TV novelisation. And voted "best" by who?
Anyway, he's a hack, 90% of his output is rehashes of Star Wars, X-Files, and similar dreck (fun to watch, but for God's sake why waste your time reading this crap, you can only carry off this stuff with special efects to distract you from how silly it all is) and now he's "helping" the son of a famous real writer to exploit his memory.
The terrible thing is that garbage like this guy churns out is why real SF isn't treated with any respect.
Until quite recently (a few months ago) Apple kept all its service manuals on its ftp server, accessible by anon ftp. However, if anyone published the link, they come down heavily on them. A Mac mailing list I'm on goes into a frenzy if someone innocently enquires how to disassemble their computer, as the asshole nanny threatens to unsubscribe anyone who even mentions a link to a site with a link to the file on Apple's own site..
If you can understand why that should be illegal, perhaps you might enlighten me.
You can find these links (NOT the actual files, just links to Apple's own site) at Apple manuals though presently they don't work, Apple finally seem to have got a clue and put a high-tech security feature -- a password -- on access, though that's happened before and apparently pressure from their service centres is to make it easier by not having this.
Of course, most of these files are for hardware that Apple doesn't sell or support any more (Mac Quadras, eg). You can of course find mirrors of the files, and there are guys making some change by burning CDRs of them and selling them on EBay (I'd link that, but it appears Slashcode doen't allow EBay links) It's really hard to understand what their problem is with people knowing how to repair and upgrade their Macs, unless one goes with the forced obsolescence theory.
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Not all 600 were violations, but the John Lennon, Joe Cocker, Pink, Eminem, etc, MP3 compilations must be.
Oxford English Dictionary: acronym A word formed from the initial letters or parts of other words; loosely an abbreviation composed of initial letters.
initialism A group of initial letters used as an abbreviation, esp. one in which each letter is pronounced separately.
So, "loosely", an initialism is an acronym. (Not that I'd ever heard of an initialism before today.) But if one makes the distinction, I don't think that an acronym is an initialism either. Better to say both are abbreviations.
But anyway, "Tardis" is strictly an acronym, so it should be written thusly. Unfortunately, the BBC chooses otherwise.
Acronyms that you can pronounce are, in British usage, spelled with an initial cap only (eg Nato). Ones you have to spell out when speaking remain as all caps (CPR). So it's "Tardis".
In Asia VCD is a very common format. Most movies come in a 2-CD box. (Legal recent movies ar about $4, chaper than a single music CD.) You can get excellent quality (better than my broadcast TV). But if they squeeze more than about 50 minutes/disk the quality is noticably lower.
But for most TV shows, 1 broadcast hour would be fine, especially if you can filter out the ads, leaving about 42 minutes of actual show.
I used the costs quoted by the previous AC, who appeared to be an insider.
Most of the other charges I don't see really.
Anyway, Hughes is a multi-billion dollar corp, $3 million isn't a "huge gamble", it's pocket change. And similarly, $1.2 million profit is also peanuts. That's the real reason, I think, none of those in the company with the power to do this would get much kudos even if it brought in a profit.
Are you a shareholder of Hughes? If you were, would you want them spending 3+ million dollars a year on software that _might_ get 5000 subscribers at under $70 a month?
5000 subs x 12 months x $70 = $4.2 million
That's $1.2 million profit, 40% return on investment. So yes, I would.
If China doesn't want Intel competition, bam! no Intel competition.
China is part of the WTO. They've since opened up large sectors of their economy to foreign competition, against opposition from local interests. However, if the govt decides to buy these chips for their own use, that's a massive enough sale.
And anyway, though US isn't communist they manage to bar free trade in anything that annoys local pressure groups (steel, grain, etc).
Linking a Geocities page to Slashdot? It's DOA, as everyone (inluding even Chrisd, though he can't spell "transparency" so perhaps he's not running at full throttle at the moment) should know, not guess. So no one knows the facts of the story and no one can make any rational comment. (Pause for the obvious joke.)
Generally, midrange buisness that can't afford regular backups will be hit hardest by this
For God's sake, I'm unemployed and I make backups on to CDR. I have a 25 cent disk which currently holds a couple of months incremental backups. If only I could afford to buy another blank CDR...
I bought PC last year with a Grandmars i815 mobo, with a Phoenix BIOS. I put in my old hard disks, one for Win, one Linux, and powered on. The BIOS came up with a boot select screen to choose which OS to boot in... (not lilo, this was before that) I was pretty amazed and looked for some docs on this. Absolutely nothing on paper, on Grandmars or Phoenx's websites. (Lots on how to physically build it, though.) Nothing I could find on Google. I wondered what the point of putting in such a useful feature was if you didn't tell anyone about it. I never would have discoverd it if I hadn't had two bootable disks ready.
So it's hard not to suspect something like what happened to Be, when they persuaded a manufacturor to install BeOS to dualboot with Windows, and MS perusaded them to remove nay mention of this feature from the manual.
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RTFA. "All 12-centimeter CD singles by Japanese artists rolling out from SME's group record companies are expected to be Label Gate CDs from Jan. 22." NOT All Sony CDs, just some Japanese ones.
Cowboy Neal: "What about car stereos and high- fidelity CD players?"
RTFA: "SME's new Label Gate CD consists of two kinds of music data -- one is data for audio devices to replay and the other is encoded compressed data for PCs to replay."
Maybe the audio data won't play on car and hifi CD players, but if not it's not by design.
Bush seems to think it's a great idea. Since you have given his party a massive vote of confidence (not even mentioning the gun nuts), it seems most Americans think so too.
Of course the answer is that you go to school to learn things you can't at home. "What's the point of learning French at school when we speak English at home?"
However, if someone is actually trying to sell you something, they have to give a way to contact them -- a website, a physical address, a fax number. A little investigation could use this to make a solid chain of evidence. It's just law enforcement can't be bothered; indidually each spam is below their threshold. (Except if they're selling something highly illegal, like drugs or kiddie porn.)
My point was that these smug assholes in filtering out Asia, also filter out my complaints about their spam. I've even had bounces because my mail, with a Yahoo return address, was sent via my Hong Kong ISP's SMTP. God knows how many other of my emails are just silently deleted because of this.
So that's why American ISPs ignore me when I complain about the spam they send to me in Hong Kong.
Yes, that's why we live two or three times as long as our hunter and gatherer ancestors. Where our health is degraded, it's from the massive pool of infection we expose ourselves to by living in urban communities, and eating fatty sugary food and not doing any exercise; not because of any lack of mystical medical wisdom. I will admit that I am a creationist
That people like you can believe this garbage does rather support your assertion that our intelligence is not increasing.
Since modern reptiles are "brightly coloured" and AFAIK, every ape/monkey/primate has good colour vision make these good assumptions. (Sleeping in trees, less so, but I didn't see that show so I don't know the context.) And in Walking With Dinosaurs, in the intro, and certainly in the "Making of" companion episode, they state that that they are (of course) making assumptions, and that in the narration they don't qualify every statement as part of the "wildlife documentary" style they are emulating.
It's far, far from the fake science of Fox "documentaries" on the paranormal, Noah's Ark or whacky conspiracy theories.
You don't need to be familiar with a language to check the placenames -- there are probably more weird spellings in English names than Spanish. Since it was prominently in the cited story (which is in English), an editor with any pretensions to professionalism should have checked it.
I don't know what your point is. Mine was, that in a professional context, the standard is higher. Since Slashdot has daily hits in the millions, pays a salary to its editors, a higher standard is appropriate than in a BB hosted on a 16 year old's box in his bedroom.
PS "disappointing", not "dissappointing" -- not a slam against you (I make typos all the time), but why isn't there a spelllcheck on submission -- they have weird stuff like "lameness filters" but can't be bothered to do such a simple, trivial thing.
I'm an editor (in the real world). Checking text is what editors are supposed to do. Though on Slashdot, editors seem to publish two or three stories a day each (obviously they read many more), but are incapable of running a spellchecker, let alone checking place names, or seeing that the same story was posted 12 hours before and is still on the home page. I know its traditional for geeks to be dyslexic, but Slashdot takes it too far.
Often true; interesting people as well as, not instead of, ideas is rare, and to be cherished, in SF. However, in this case, since the "acclaimed writer" is just recycling Frank Herbert's ideas, he doen't have anything to offer in that department either.
Locus is the only one of these "accolades" I would take seriously.
RESURRECTION, INC. (nominated for the Bram Stoker Award),
"nominated" for an award no one's ever hard of?
and his novel BLINDFOLD (1996 preliminary Nebula nominee)
Wow! A "preliminary" nominee. What an honour.
[X Files novels] GROUND ZERO was voted "Best Science Fiction Novel of 1995" by the readers of SFX magazine.
A novelisation of a TV series was voted "best" by a special effects magazine. Interesting, but what what relation to literature (which is what "books" are) is this?
RUINS hit the New York Times bestseller list, the first X-FILES novel ever to do so, and was voted "Best Science Fiction Novel of 1996.
Another TV novelisation. And voted "best" by who? Anyway, he's a hack, 90% of his output is rehashes of Star Wars, X-Files, and similar dreck (fun to watch, but for God's sake why waste your time reading this crap, you can only carry off this stuff with special efects to distract you from how silly it all is) and now he's "helping" the son of a famous real writer to exploit his memory.
The terrible thing is that garbage like this guy churns out is why real SF isn't treated with any respect.
If you can understand why that should be illegal, perhaps you might enlighten me.
You can find these links (NOT the actual files, just links to Apple's own site) at Apple manuals though presently they don't work, Apple finally seem to have got a clue and put a high-tech security feature -- a password -- on access, though that's happened before and apparently pressure from their service centres is to make it easier by not having this.
Of course, most of these files are for hardware that Apple doesn't sell or support any more (Mac Quadras, eg). You can of course find mirrors of the files, and there are guys making some change by burning CDRs of them and selling them on EBay (I'd link that, but it appears Slashcode doen't allow EBay links) It's really hard to understand what their problem is with people knowing how to repair and upgrade their Macs, unless one goes with the forced obsolescence theory.
See this page from Ziemann's site.
But anyway, "Tardis" is strictly an acronym, so it should be written thusly. Unfortunately, the BBC chooses otherwise.
Acronyms that you can pronounce are, in British usage, spelled with an initial cap only (eg Nato). Ones you have to spell out when speaking remain as all caps (CPR). So it's "Tardis".
But for most TV shows, 1 broadcast hour would be fine, especially if you can filter out the ads, leaving about 42 minutes of actual show.
Most of the other charges I don't see really. Anyway, Hughes is a multi-billion dollar corp, $3 million isn't a "huge gamble", it's pocket change. And similarly, $1.2 million profit is also peanuts. That's the real reason, I think, none of those in the company with the power to do this would get much kudos even if it brought in a profit.
5000 subs x 12 months x $70 = $4.2 million
That's $1.2 million profit, 40% return on investment. So yes, I would.
China is part of the WTO. They've since opened up large sectors of their economy to foreign competition, against opposition from local interests. However, if the govt decides to buy these chips for their own use, that's a massive enough sale.
And anyway, though US isn't communist they manage to bar free trade in anything that annoys local pressure groups (steel, grain, etc).
Linking a Geocities page to Slashdot? It's DOA, as everyone (inluding even Chrisd, though he can't spell "transparency" so perhaps he's not running at full throttle at the moment) should know, not guess. So no one knows the facts of the story and no one can make any rational comment. (Pause for the obvious joke.)
For God's sake, I'm unemployed and I make backups on to CDR. I have a 25 cent disk which currently holds a couple of months incremental backups. If only I could afford to buy another blank CDR...
So it's hard not to suspect something like what happened to Be, when they persuaded a manufacturor to install BeOS to dualboot with Windows, and MS perusaded them to remove nay mention of this feature from the manual.