1. When the record companies sold their 100-billionth CD, they probably celebrated by jacking up the prices - not by giving stuff away.
2. If You'll look at the prize - it's no biggie in terms of money (it's not even a car). It's all worth less than 15K, yet it's something that most people lust for - the coolest laptop, 10,000 songs, and the best MP3 player...
I'm still looking for a chess program that will actually teach me chess. I don't mean the basic moves, but things like "if you do this, you'll have a better position", or "don't do that because in 3 moves this will happen".
Is that too much to ask of a current AI? (seriously)
OK, fine. I'll just take all of my thousands of digital photos collected over the years, which are now organized in nested directories so that I can easily find photos of my kids that I took last November, or of fireworks at Sagami-ko, in the mountains of Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan in 2001, and dump all those pictures into one big folder so that Spatial Nautilus can deal with them better? Riiiiight...
Ummmm, yes. But use iPhoto to find stuff.
If there's one thing that got me thinking about a mac 'way of doing things' (after I bought my first mac 3 months ago), was the fact the in all my tinkering in the first month, I rarely handled actual files. And that's after moving/creating thousands of MP3s (in iTunes) and hundreds of JPGs (in iPhoto).
What every computer user needs is not an all-encompassing file browser, but good apps for organizing and searching your data - depending on what data it is. iTunes does this by letting you enter all the relevant fields and letting you search them on-the-fly; iPhoto lets you view all the images and enter keywords (place, person photographed) for for later searching. Both have 'folders' (although not nested), if you want to group some items together.
In short, most of the files created can and should be organized in other ways other than nested folders. As for me, I'm still crossing my fingers for a fully-indexed metadata filesystem for the mac (at WWDC), so I'll be able to keyword all the other stuff (HTML, Word, PSDs), and hopefully search it as easily as in iTunes...
while I too love the new Party Shuffle, it's a shame it's not also available on the iPod...
However, a new feature that got added to the iPod (with the new v3 update), is the ability to use Grouping in smart play lists (don't ask me why it didn't work in the first place...). Before this, any smart playlist that used a Grouping rule, came out empty on the iPod.
I use it to mostly as anti-grouping: I either mark songs DUPLICATE (if I have multiple copies of them at album/single/compilation), or simply DO_NOT_PLAY (if it's something like an hour+ of a DJ set or a Noam Chomsky speech). Also, when I ripped all of my CDs and some of my brother's/sister's/father's, I marked them as My_CDs etc., so I can now use that as well...
let's see them localize in Hebrew - it's right-to-left, not the usual roman characters, most translated stuff won't be understood by the users (which there are about 10 of...).
You are describing why the previous Disney-Pixar deal was good for Disney. While Disney can be happy with the deal they had (cause it made them a lot of money and will continue to do so for some time), it just broke a winning streak. They will have to explain this to their shareholders.
Furthemore, by your logic, Disney should break it's partnership with any studio that constantly makes hits for them, assuming they have the rights to those movies.
I'm maybe missing something but I really don't get this point. Who cares if someday (maybe even next year) Apple will produce only iPod Minis. While I doubt that this will be the case in the next few years, unlike what sales people tell you, you actually buy a product and not a brand. It doesn't matter if some time from now Apple will make regular iPods or not - you will still own your iPod Mini which will have the same size and capcity as the day you've bought it. That does not make you're choice of buying a mini or a regular valid.
You should look at your needs an options now, not the technology roadmap of the brand you're buying...
"They only want you when you're seventeen, when you're twenty-one you're no fun" -- Ladytron
The first country that had a Microsoft branch outside the US, and one that used Microsoft products for years, is shifting to alternatives. This usually gets people to think - maybe I can look at alterntives as well.
Also, most people aren't aware of this, but there are virtually no Macs in Israel, so there's no competition there...
1. doesn't this defeat the whole purpose of a cubicle - getting up and looking at all the others...
2. personaly i'd like to see a borg cube(icle)...
'scuse me, while i
An Israeli recording company, NMC, has just launched a new music service: Songs.co.il. It's basically 4 NIS per song (which is a bit less than 99 cents), with no subscription, but the kicker is that you buy regular non-DRMed MP3s, which you can download as many time as you'd like once you paid for them.
Keep in mind that Israel is one of the top pirating countries, and it will be interesting to see what will happen with this (I know I bought 10+ songs today)...
More info can be found here.
'Space Above and Beyond', which was quite an excellent SciFi show, it lasted something like one and a half to two and a half seasons before having the plug pulled on it.
I loved that show too... Me and a friend of mine downloaded half the eps in horrible quality and the other half at better quality (from SciFi channel reruns), and we watch it once in a while and are always amazed at how good this show was...
It is a shame that there's no DVD collection for SAaB, and I also remember seeing people look for the VHSs(!).
For the american readers, I think SciFi still reruns it every year or so, so you might want to check it out.
Remember the horrible, easy-to-lose dongles, and the fragile and unreliable pop-out connectors? Remember how THEN double-height PCMCIA cards came into vogue, since they were actually big enough to fit on some real connectors?
There are other solutions. For example my company used this one, which didn't only work with every telephone network it tried (Israel, Italy, England, Taiwan, US), it had this patented connector that doesn't require a dongle. All you need is innovation, and these things could be greate.
The stupid thing in that scene is that when you see each of Noe and Smith`s shots when they are running toward each other, the rain is in a ~30 degree angle against BOTH of them. So unless the Architect had something to do with this rain -it's impossible...
Did anyone else notice that the trailer used "Fluke - Zion", which is the Rave/Love Scene music in Reloaded? I mean, this movie was out a few months ago, and that music was the centerpiece of the scene...
Slashdot Mirror
...why there isn't a Mac OS X version...
"...The moons are approximately 3 kilometers (2 miles) and 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) across"
I don't get you're crazy system! How big is it in terms of VW Beetles?
...but "the Internet" runs IP and is a rather large entity that currently spans the world.
I thought "the Internet" is a rather large entity that spams the world...
Demo "eXistenZ" - captial x, capital z - new from Pilgrimage.
1. When the record companies sold their 100-billionth CD, they probably celebrated by jacking up the prices - not by giving stuff away.
2. If You'll look at the prize - it's no biggie in terms of money (it's not even a car). It's all worth less than 15K, yet it's something that most people lust for - the coolest laptop, 10,000 songs, and the best MP3 player...
Now that's what I call a cool company.
...and this story shall be known from now on as the 'Root Beer Story'
I'm still looking for a chess program that will actually teach me chess. I don't mean the basic moves, but things like "if you do this, you'll have a better position", or "don't do that because in 3 moves this will happen".
Is that too much to ask of a current AI? (seriously)
damn! since my previous gen Powerbook starts with UV409... does that mean I actually have an iBook?!
OK, fine. I'll just take all of my thousands of digital photos collected over the years, which are now organized in nested directories so that I can easily find photos of my kids that I took last November, or of fireworks at Sagami-ko, in the mountains of Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan in 2001, and dump all those pictures into one big folder so that Spatial Nautilus can deal with them better? Riiiiight...
Ummmm, yes. But use iPhoto to find stuff.
If there's one thing that got me thinking about a mac 'way of doing things' (after I bought my first mac 3 months ago), was the fact the in all my tinkering in the first month, I rarely handled actual files. And that's after moving/creating thousands of MP3s (in iTunes) and hundreds of JPGs (in iPhoto).
What every computer user needs is not an all-encompassing file browser, but good apps for organizing and searching your data - depending on what data it is. iTunes does this by letting you enter all the relevant fields and letting you search them on-the-fly; iPhoto lets you view all the images and enter keywords (place, person photographed) for for later searching. Both have 'folders' (although not nested), if you want to group some items together.
In short, most of the files created can and should be organized in other ways other than nested folders. As for me, I'm still crossing my fingers for a fully-indexed metadata filesystem for the mac (at WWDC), so I'll be able to keyword all the other stuff (HTML, Word, PSDs), and hopefully search it as easily as in iTunes...
while I too love the new Party Shuffle, it's a shame it's not also available on the iPod...
However, a new feature that got added to the iPod (with the new v3 update), is the ability to use Grouping in smart play lists (don't ask me why it didn't work in the first place...). Before this, any smart playlist that used a Grouping rule, came out empty on the iPod.
I use it to mostly as anti-grouping: I either mark songs DUPLICATE (if I have multiple copies of them at album/single/compilation), or simply DO_NOT_PLAY (if it's something like an hour+ of a DJ set or a Noam Chomsky speech). Also, when I ripped all of my CDs and some of my brother's/sister's/father's, I marked them as My_CDs etc., so I can now use that as well...
let's see them localize in Hebrew - it's right-to-left, not the usual roman characters, most translated stuff won't be understood by the users (which there are about 10 of...).
You are describing why the previous Disney-Pixar deal was good for Disney. While Disney can be happy with the deal they had (cause it made them a lot of money and will continue to do so for some time), it just broke a winning streak. They will have to explain this to their shareholders.
Furthemore, by your logic, Disney should break it's partnership with any studio that constantly makes hits for them, assuming they have the rights to those movies.
"At some point the mini will simply be the iPod."
I'm maybe missing something but I really don't get this point. Who cares if someday (maybe even next year) Apple will produce only iPod Minis. While I doubt that this will be the case in the next few years, unlike what sales people tell you, you actually buy a product and not a brand. It doesn't matter if some time from now Apple will make regular iPods or not - you will still own your iPod Mini which will have the same size and capcity as the day you've bought it. That does not make you're choice of buying a mini or a regular valid.
You should look at your needs an options now, not the technology roadmap of the brand you're buying...
"They only want you when you're seventeen, when you're twenty-one you're no fun" -- Ladytron
Here in Israel's Artillery they say that the bombs used are a few months before expiration anyways - so no saving money there...
Think about it like this:
The first country that had a Microsoft branch outside the US, and one that used Microsoft products for years, is shifting to alternatives. This usually gets people to think - maybe I can look at alterntives as well.
Also, most people aren't aware of this, but there are virtually no Macs in Israel, so there's no competition there...
Comic Book Guy: Worst. Comment. Ever.
1. doesn't this defeat the whole purpose of a cubicle - getting up and looking at all the others... 2. personaly i'd like to see a borg cube(icle)... 'scuse me, while i
An Israeli recording company, NMC, has just launched a new music service: Songs.co.il. It's basically 4 NIS per song (which is a bit less than 99 cents), with no subscription, but the kicker is that you buy regular non-DRMed MP3s, which you can download as many time as you'd like once you paid for them.
Keep in mind that Israel is one of the top pirating countries, and it will be interesting to see what will happen with this (I know I bought 10+ songs today)...
More info can be found here.
'Space Above and Beyond', which was quite an excellent SciFi show, it lasted something like one and a half to two and a half seasons before having the plug pulled on it.
I loved that show too... Me and a friend of mine downloaded half the eps in horrible quality and the other half at better quality (from SciFi channel reruns), and we watch it once in a while and are always amazed at how good this show was...
It is a shame that there's no DVD collection for SAaB, and I also remember seeing people look for the VHSs(!). For the american readers, I think SciFi still reruns it every year or so, so you might want to check it out.
When I read these lines, iexplore.exe shot up to 100% cpu. I swear. I am writing this as fast as I can, Windows gets meaner and blue-screens me...
...as The (evil) Architect put it...
I always experience nausea when I watch reality shows. What's new with that ?
Remember the horrible, easy-to-lose dongles, and the fragile and unreliable pop-out connectors? Remember how THEN double-height PCMCIA cards came into vogue, since they were actually big enough to fit on some real connectors?
There are other solutions. For example my company used this one, which didn't only work with every telephone network it tried (Israel, Italy, England, Taiwan, US), it had this patented connector that doesn't require a dongle. All you need is innovation, and these things could be greate.
Finally - crippled are considered defective !
Wait a minute, that doesn't sound right...
The stupid thing in that scene is that when you see each of Noe and Smith`s shots when they are running toward each other, the rain is in a ~30 degree angle against BOTH of them. So unless the Architect had something to do with this rain -it's impossible...
Did anyone else notice that the trailer used "Fluke - Zion", which is the Rave/Love Scene music in Reloaded? I mean, this movie was out a few months ago, and that music was the centerpiece of the scene...