You don't think Apple would let this amazing situation they've worked so hard to create slip through their fingers do you?
Apple only has to flip the switch and open Music Store up to other players, formats and DRM, and the game goes on.
But that's just it... that's all Apple has to do. But this is Apple you are talking about. And that's just it. I don't wanna get all about the Apple zealots, but this just comes down to it.... Do you think Apple is gunna just flip the switch, or will this be another case of "We're Apple and we're better than you!" syndrome?
It was perfectly QUIET before this person showed up. Your argument is stupid and you sir are an IDIOT. Think before you write. Maybe I'm not in my car. Maybe that car isn't the only one that passes by.
Turn up your own stereo, what a lame ass idea that only makes the problem worse. Plus most exhaust systems get quieter when the vehicle is stoped, unlike car stereos which can be a lot louder than even a loud exhaust when a car is parked outside your bedroom window idling for minutes while the thoughtless driver is waiting for friends to come out and get picked up.
"No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here.
Boom, sooner or later. BOOM!"
While I spent 1 year in the US I saw countless guns...
The point we Americans are making is; Of all those scary guns you have seen, how many of them actually shot you?
Now here's the other question; Of all those surveillance cameras, How many of those have actually shot you?
I can answer the gun-violence numbers in America quite easily. They aren't allowed everywhere. It's a lot easier to carry a gun of any kind in Texas than it is in California. More people get shot in California than do in Texas.
When the state of Florida allowed concealed carry, Crime against Floridians went down. However crime against tourists went up. This had to do with an easily visible difference in the license plates of rental cars. The point is, The criminals didn't know which Floridians were carrying. They knew tourists couldn't carry. This made tourists easy targets. --Since this they changed the license plates of rental cars.
I don't know if the story is anything to do with Jabber. I mean look at it this way; What would it mean if Google started its own IM service period?
Yahoo did it and what did that mean? AIM/AOL are still here. But the thought is interesting enough as it is.
As for an open protocol... I don't know if it would mean a whole hell of a lot. I like the IM but I also like the ability to use VoIP or Video if I want.
Whatever Google comes up with I can only speculate that the quality of the clientele would be a lot highr than either AOL or MSN. I'm using Y! now, but more as it's the only one I have after ruling the other two out that has any number of people to be able to chat with.
I read this article, and What a load of Horse Shit
Again we see lofty ideals of what is to come in the future. I'm sorry but I call bullshit on most of his ideas.
The world will change and it will change a lot in ten years, but much will also stay the same. Again here we see another sci-fi author telling us about how goo the future will be and how much better man kind will be. I got news for you, people suck.
If we use the last 20 years of society's evolution as a guideline, we will see that the number one driver in technology has been pr0n. (VHS vs Beta and whiz bang multimedia for computers).
Ask yourself this; What life changing devices have entered in your life without making you feel better or feel happier? pr0n is an example of this, but what about the ability to steal music right and left, or adrenaline pumping games, or anything that glorifies ME ME ME!
Lets stop trying to see how wonderful society will be in the future, if the past is any indication of the future, we're going to stay a bunch of self gratifying savages and any technological advancement is going to reflect that ever so clearly.
Not that theres anything wrong with us being savages --as long as we admit it.
>>Why should I be *forced* to see some ad when I don't have to.
>Umm, because it's paying for the site you're using?
Yes!, but no Cigar!
I am perfectly willing to see adverts that help pay for content. That is one thing. But these ads are quite literaly dangerous.
Simple Blinking. Whell maybe not dangerous unless you have epilepsy or something do detract way too much
Advertisements for illegal products, or from unscrupulous entities. DANGER WIL ROBINSON I'm sorry but these ads are the responsibility of the content provider. I do not believe in giving content providers a free ride here. If you make a website and on your creation is an ad for something illegal or for a scam, you ARE PARTLY RESPONSIBLE.
MAL-WARE, SPY-WARE, AD-WARE and PORN-WARE. Again DANGER DANGER DANGER. Content providers are also partly responsible for this.
These is the content provider's problem why these ads are blocked by the viewers. You content providers need to have some moral responsibility to your viewers to protect "mom and pop" and Joe-sixpack from being blatently abused.
Sure we web-serfs aren't your clients, but without us you would have no clients.
Now fix these problems on your sites so we can enjoy them without having our computers destroyed or GO PUNCH YOUR OWN DAMN MONKEY
You sound like you have absolutely no concept of just how big the Great Lakes really are.
These lakes are huge. I live on one of them. Calling them lakes is almost misleading. These really are inland fresh water seas. You can't see accross them!
The volume of these lakes is so large you aren't going to have any effect.
Besideds the amount of warm water dumped in by the Coal plant down the way has had little effect other than some very localized warming right by the outlet, This would be nowhere near as much of a temperature gradient even if they just dumped the used water back in. But they aren't They are essentially pre-heating the drinking water they have been getting out of the lake for a hundred years before they use it for drinking. Used water is the same used water that has alwaysed passed through the sewage plant
My computer is seven years old, and it still runs Mozilla and StarOffice respectably. The reason it is still good is that it likes having 512MB of RAM, a decent hard drive, and a decent video card (leaving RAM slots open on a new computer is essential, too, for longevity).
YOu don't have a $599 computer that looks like Mickey Mouse either. Point being is that if the novelty wears out after 12 months, you bought the computer for too old of a kid! You buy it for a six year old, You can be alright with it 3 years later for a 9 year old... when the kid turns 10 you better have bought something better than that.
No, but a few years, at least. It'll take two years for a $599 computer to get under a dollar a day of ownership. I think if many people itemized their bills and expensive belongings on how much they cost each day to keep, they'd be amazed. Perhaps they'd start understanding why their credit cards are full and why they have no savings.
If yer that hard up for money you shouldn't be buying expensive "novelty" gifts. SHEESH There are plenty of options.
"...a toy whose novelty will wear off quite quickly. Kids grow up fast, and what will happen to that limited mousey computer in 12 months?"
And how long is a PC supposed to last? Novelty wearning out? It's a PC it's probably better the kid starts to hate it just as it's becomming and old POS computer!
What? You think you're gunna give this to a 6 year old and expect he/she keeps it to take to college? People keep computers too long as it is - Particularly non-geeky (ab)users. The best thing about the whole deal here is the fact it'll get thrown out on time.
My girlfriend is a real estate agent and needs access to the local MLS web site to see info on homes for sale. That website doesn't say it requires explorer, the java applets just don't work with firefox. They come up but are not actually functional and the page layouts poorly to say the least. Not using their site is not a choice - that is THE site you need to go to if you want to be an agent and make any money.
Well I can say it again though, Stop using sites that use IE. Ho much is your income really worth? At some point (And I Agree we may not be there quite yet) The dangers of running IE may be more of a problem then the income you receive using it as a tool.
Like I said ---it may not be THAT bad now, but at the rate we are going it will be and then what?
The time to start shouting is now, not after the whole system breaks and we're all screwed - Asking for help from Microsoft has proven to not work. What happens to your income when your computer and all its records are lost, or worse stolen?
You girlfriend does have a choice, the problem now is the choices you see other than not using IE are not pallatable. IE leave the taste of shit in my mouth now, keep eating, you'll taste it too.
The only time I use IE is to run this retarded courseware I occasionally have to use for College, or going to Windows Update to patch things. Like this damn fool 'sploit. Thank you very much, MS. Fix your fsckn OS, already, k?
Well Don't use Windows then. ---I know it's so simplistic but as for the patches, not using Windows fixes that really quick.
As for your College, last I looked you have a choice of where you go to school and truth be told, What kind of education are you getting if an institution refuses to take simple safeguards. You can change things, go to a different school, or as a real shocker, why not motivate your school to make the change. When we have the Department of Homeland Security telling us we shouldn't use IE, it should send a wake-up call to these colleges, banks and other institutions about the flaw in what they are doing
I realize you mayhave reasons for attending the school you do, and they may outweigh the dangers of using IE, but that's life. And sometimes life sucks ass
What? Like sites that do not function if they can't open a thousand windows? or can't force you to agree to download and install something without crashing the browser? (insert zillions of other annoying or dangerous exploits here)
If a site REQUIRES Internet Explorer perhaps you shouldn't go there. I mean now that the Department of Homeland Security is urging people not to use IE, Your bank better think real hard about requiring you to use it.
isn't the iPod basically the size of the HDD inside it?
Um think about what you just said. If the iPod were the size of the hard drive in it, the hard drive would have to be on the outside. The iPod is nearly as small as the hard drive, not the same size.
If I remember correctly the left 11 digits are used for make, model, production location, model year etc.... ---the 8th digit from the right is the model year alpha-numeric 1-9 + A-Z they skip 0, I, O and Q (L = 1990 and S=1995)
They could become case sensitive with the year, or use mor characters in the ASCII table.
I thought the last 6 digits were supposed to be unique, except it doesn't make sense since I have never seen letters there (maybe there are) and that would have broke after 1 Million cars.
They could just reassign the letter used for the manufacturer and start over with the year code. This doesn't sound like it has to be that big of a problem for them. Do all GM's have to start with 1G and all Fords with 1F and all toyotas with 1T?????
how did they manage to keep the clocks in sync despite the long distances, different time zones and slow rates of travel back then?
Well by looking at the phase of the moon. If you know at what time the moon will be in what phase at a given loaction, you can calculate your location by the difference in time as measured by the sun.
Unfortunately, this requires quite a bit more math than you think, and the margin of error is quite high without very good instruments. TZhis would probably be why Captian Cook's mission to Tahiti didn't help any when they tried to figure it out way back then.
In the 1880s it was possible to use a telegraph line between to closer observation points for time sychronization with much better instrumentation.
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You don't think Apple would let this amazing situation they've worked so hard to create slip through their fingers do you?
Apple only has to flip the switch and open Music Store up to other players, formats and DRM, and the game goes on.
But that's just it... that's all Apple has to do. But this is Apple you are talking about. And that's just it. I don't wanna get all about the Apple zealots, but this just comes down to it.... Do you think Apple is gunna just flip the switch, or will this be another case of "We're Apple and we're better than you!" syndrome?
If it bothers you, turn up your own stereo.
It was perfectly QUIET before this person showed up. Your argument is stupid and you sir are an IDIOT. Think before you write. Maybe I'm not in my car. Maybe that car isn't the only one that passes by.
Turn up your own stereo, what a lame ass idea that only makes the problem worse. Plus most exhaust systems get quieter when the vehicle is stoped, unlike car stereos which can be a lot louder than even a loud exhaust when a car is parked outside your bedroom window idling for minutes while the thoughtless driver is waiting for friends to come out and get picked up.
SO... now not only do I see ads in games, but I get to look forward to new and exciting ads from time-to-time.
Something tells me this will do nothing to lower the price of a game or even keep the price about the same.
It would be one thing if this would help me, but now I am paying to play a game, I am paying for ads and I am using up my bandwidth to get these ads.
And this isn't like the promise of ad-supported software we've already had the joy of dealing with HOW?
And I suppose these ads aren't gunna spy on me? DAMNIT I PAID! I should have to put up with this shit
"No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here.
Ivanova, Babylon 5Boom, sooner or later. BOOM!"
I couldn't have said it better
While I spent 1 year in the US I saw countless guns...
The point we Americans are making is; Of all those scary guns you have seen, how many of them actually shot you?
Now here's the other question; Of all those surveillance cameras, How many of those have actually shot you?
I can answer the gun-violence numbers in America quite easily. They aren't allowed everywhere. It's a lot easier to carry a gun of any kind in Texas than it is in California. More people get shot in California than do in Texas.
When the state of Florida allowed concealed carry, Crime against Floridians went down. However crime against tourists went up. This had to do with an easily visible difference in the license plates of rental cars. The point is, The criminals didn't know which Floridians were carrying. They knew tourists couldn't carry. This made tourists easy targets. --Since this they changed the license plates of rental cars.
The left over CD spindles that blank CD-Rs come in is great for keeping a few doughnuts or bagles fresh for a while.
>>Joogle? No. Should be called Gabber. :)
>Gabber, you say?
Call the damn thing GOOBER fer all I care!
I don't know if the story is anything to do with Jabber. I mean look at it this way; What would it mean if Google started its own IM service period?
Yahoo did it and what did that mean? AIM/AOL are still here. But the thought is interesting enough as it is.
As for an open protocol... I don't know if it would mean a whole hell of a lot. I like the IM but I also like the ability to use VoIP or Video if I want.
Whatever Google comes up with I can only speculate that the quality of the clientele would be a lot highr than either AOL or MSN. I'm using Y! now, but more as it's the only one I have after ruling the other two out that has any number of people to be able to chat with.
Again we see lofty ideals of what is to come in the future. I'm sorry but I call bullshit on most of his ideas.
The world will change and it will change a lot in ten years, but much will also stay the same. Again here we see another sci-fi author telling us about how goo the future will be and how much better man kind will be. I got news for you, people suck.
If we use the last 20 years of society's evolution as a guideline, we will see that the number one driver in technology has been pr0n. (VHS vs Beta and whiz bang multimedia for computers).
Ask yourself this; What life changing devices have entered in your life without making you feel better or feel happier? pr0n is an example of this, but what about the ability to steal music right and left, or adrenaline pumping games, or anything that glorifies ME ME ME!
Lets stop trying to see how wonderful society will be in the future, if the past is any indication of the future, we're going to stay a bunch of self gratifying savages and any technological advancement is going to reflect that ever so clearly.
Not that theres anything wrong with us being savages --as long as we admit it.
>>Why should I be *forced* to see some ad when I don't have to.
>Umm, because it's paying for the site you're using?
Yes!, but no Cigar!
I am perfectly willing to see adverts that help pay for content. That is one thing. But these ads are quite literaly dangerous.
Simple Blinking. Whell maybe not dangerous unless you have epilepsy or something do detract way too much
Advertisements for illegal products, or from unscrupulous entities. DANGER WIL ROBINSON I'm sorry but these ads are the responsibility of the content provider. I do not believe in giving content providers a free ride here. If you make a website and on your creation is an ad for something illegal or for a scam, you ARE PARTLY RESPONSIBLE.
MAL-WARE, SPY-WARE, AD-WARE and PORN-WARE. Again DANGER DANGER DANGER. Content providers are also partly responsible for this.
These is the content provider's problem why these ads are blocked by the viewers. You content providers need to have some moral responsibility to your viewers to protect "mom and pop" and Joe-sixpack from being blatently abused.
Sure we web-serfs aren't your clients, but without us you would have no clients.
Now fix these problems on your sites so we can enjoy them without having our computers destroyed or GO PUNCH YOUR OWN DAMN MONKEY
You sound like you have absolutely no concept of just how big the Great Lakes really are.
These lakes are huge. I live on one of them. Calling them lakes is almost misleading. These really are inland fresh water seas. You can't see accross them!
The volume of these lakes is so large you aren't going to have any effect.
Besideds the amount of warm water dumped in by the Coal plant down the way has had little effect other than some very localized warming right by the outlet, This would be nowhere near as much of a temperature gradient even if they just dumped the used water back in. But they aren't They are essentially pre-heating the drinking water they have been getting out of the lake for a hundred years before they use it for drinking. Used water is the same used water that has alwaysed passed through the sewage plant
You wanna run that by me again?
It is? ££ ££
YOu don't have a $599 computer that looks like Mickey Mouse either. Point being is that if the novelty wears out after 12 months, you bought the computer for too old of a kid! You buy it for a six year old, You can be alright with it 3 years later for a 9 year old... when the kid turns 10 you better have bought something better than that.
No, but a few years, at least. It'll take two years for a $599 computer to get under a dollar a day of ownership. I think if many people itemized their bills and expensive belongings on how much they cost each day to keep, they'd be amazed. Perhaps they'd start understanding why their credit cards are full and why they have no savings.
If yer that hard up for money you shouldn't be buying expensive "novelty" gifts. SHEESH There are plenty of options.
And how long is a PC supposed to last? Novelty wearning out? It's a PC it's probably better the kid starts to hate it just as it's becomming and old POS computer!
What? You think you're gunna give this to a 6 year old and expect he/she keeps it to take to college? People keep computers too long as it is - Particularly non-geeky (ab)users. The best thing about the whole deal here is the fact it'll get thrown out on time.
Heh I still get a kick out of my old Pentium 60MHz I once had. BOOM!
Well I can say it again though, Stop using sites that use IE. Ho much is your income really worth? At some point (And I Agree we may not be there quite yet) The dangers of running IE may be more of a problem then the income you receive using it as a tool.
Like I said ---it may not be THAT bad now, but at the rate we are going it will be and then what?
The time to start shouting is now, not after the whole system breaks and we're all screwed - Asking for help from Microsoft has proven to not work. What happens to your income when your computer and all its records are lost, or worse stolen?
You girlfriend does have a choice, the problem now is the choices you see other than not using IE are not pallatable. IE leave the taste of shit in my mouth now, keep eating, you'll taste it too.
Well Don't use Windows then. ---I know it's so simplistic but as for the patches, not using Windows fixes that really quick.
As for your College, last I looked you have a choice of where you go to school and truth be told, What kind of education are you getting if an institution refuses to take simple safeguards. You can change things, go to a different school, or as a real shocker, why not motivate your school to make the change. When we have the Department of Homeland Security telling us we shouldn't use IE, it should send a wake-up call to these colleges, banks and other institutions about the flaw in what they are doing
I realize you mayhave reasons for attending the school you do, and they may outweigh the dangers of using IE, but that's life. And sometimes life sucks ass
It's a university, isn't it? Why not ask them to have their computer students build another one?
What? Like sites that do not function if they can't open a thousand windows? or can't force you to agree to download and install something without crashing the browser? (insert zillions of other annoying or dangerous exploits here)
If a site REQUIRES Internet Explorer perhaps you shouldn't go there. I mean now that the Department of Homeland Security is urging people not to use IE, Your bank better think real hard about requiring you to use it.
Um think about what you just said. If the iPod were the size of the hard drive in it, the hard drive would have to be on the outside. The iPod is nearly as small as the hard drive, not the same size.
If I remember correctly the left 11 digits are used for make, model, production location, model year etc.... ---the 8th digit from the right is the model year alpha-numeric 1-9 + A-Z they skip 0, I, O and Q (L = 1990 and S=1995)
They could become case sensitive with the year, or use mor characters in the ASCII table.
I thought the last 6 digits were supposed to be unique, except it doesn't make sense since I have never seen letters there (maybe there are) and that would have broke after 1 Million cars.
They could just reassign the letter used for the manufacturer and start over with the year code. This doesn't sound like it has to be that big of a problem for them. Do all GM's have to start with 1G and all Fords with 1F and all toyotas with 1T?????
The use of a Pentium 4 or better as a weapon can easily be avoided by running any Windows variant on it.
how did they manage to keep the clocks in sync despite the long distances, different time zones and slow rates of travel back then?
Well by looking at the phase of the moon. If you know at what time the moon will be in what phase at a given loaction, you can calculate your location by the difference in time as measured by the sun.
Unfortunately, this requires quite a bit more math than you think, and the margin of error is quite high without very good instruments. TZhis would probably be why Captian Cook's mission to Tahiti didn't help any when they tried to figure it out way back then.
In the 1880s it was possible to use a telegraph line between to closer observation points for time sychronization with much better instrumentation.