The content production companies, such as the music and movie companies, want DRM to prevent the unlimited distribution of entertainment or information.
The content distribution companies, like Apple, want DRM to lock people into their other products, like the iPod.
Mac users buy Macs because they want to use OS X. Even when Windows was running on machines that were clearly faster, Mac users continued to buy Macs to use OS X.
Mac users in large part don't want to use Windows. As a Mac user, I wouldn't care if programs in Windows were significantly faster; I'd still have to use Windows to get that performance boost. And I'd rather use a slower Mac than faster Windows.
Yes, but what the article is saying is that if things like the speed of light aren't constants, then the light from those stars may have been traveling here at differing speeds.
All of the sudden our yardstick is broken, because if the speed of light isn't really constant, then two stars which seem to be the same distance away might actually be two very different distances away from us.
If light from a closer star came at a slower speed compared to light from a far star, then they may seem to be the same distance away from the earth.
Or if the speed of light changes over time, then light from one star may have traveled quite a distance longer than we thought to get here while light from another, newer star may have traveled less distance at a slower speed. The light from the two stars may lead us to believe that the two stars were similar distances away, when one was drastically older and drastically farther away.
Furl is a bookmarking site, and while furl was already a verb, its use has changed and grown by quite a bit since http://furl.net/ launched. Google was also a word before google.com existed, although it was spelled "googol".
And if there's any doubt about furl's popularity, a google search pulls up 89 million results for "furl" and over 61 million for "furl.net"
Replacing English all at once wouldn't make sense, since learning a new language is difficult and painful, and people want to stick with what they know.
English is already evolving very quickly right now, and it's being pushed by people text messaging and using the internet. Shorthand and short words are becoming the norm. Think about words like "blog", "IM", and "text", and abbreviations like "lol", "ianal" and "j/k".
Also, website names, which tend to be simple, are becoming verbs as part of everyday language. People say things like "google it" or "furl it".
It's not necessary to replace our language. It's already being updated and replaced, piece by piece.
A seller lists lower bids because we understand the concept of hooking. That's where you hook a bidder with their low initial bid, and because the bidder has already placed a level of commitment in the item, they are more likely to continue to bid on that item.
You obviously know nothing of this. Because well, your a moron.
You think seeing that the "great deal" I just clicked on has an unknown reserve price gets me or anyone else on that site to bid on your item when there are probably a hundred identical items just like it with no reserve? No, it doesn't. It just annoys people, and makes them a lot less likely to bid on your item. Unless it's the only one on the site, I will not bid on an item whose reserve has not been met. Period.
An elevator with the Mac UI would have a picture of the building, and you'd drag the elevator over the floor you wanted to go to, at which point the picture would change to be a picture of that floor, and then you'd drop the elevator on the specific room you wanted to go to, and it would take you to that room.
The innevitable encroachment of commercials to sattelite radio doesn't change the fact that it's great now. However, the point of bringing it up is that people use the lack of mind-numbing commercials as the major selling point of sattelite radio (see original post). I'd bet that in the future, when commercials have discovered and populated this frontier, subscriptions don't drop significantly.
Cable can have advertisers because they offer content which isn't available anywhere else. Radio is different in that the music you hear on Sirius or XM is for the most part the same stuff you hear on terrestrial radio. The talk stations on satellite radio do have commercials, and they can have them because they offer a product that's different than what you can get for free.
If XM or Sirius start playing ads on their music stations, at that point they become just like terrestrial radio, and they lose their draw. If my only choices are "free Clear Channel" and "Clear Channel-type service that I'm paying $140 for annually" then neither choice is worth it. Sirius' music stations don't play ads, so they can expect me to continue as a customer. If they start playing ads, they can't.
Your article was from 2002. At that point, Sirius had only been around three years. Now they've been around seven years, and I'm sure the technology has changed quite a bit.
As for the problems with sound quality in your Jetta, I've heard about major problems with many factory-installed systems from both XM and Sirius(through xmfan.com and siriusbackstage.com). Apparently the factory-installed antennas tend to be poor-quality.
One of my friends and I installed my Sirius car receiver and I installed my Sirius home receiver. The sound quality is just fine in both locations. If you know anyone who might know anything about car audio, I'd recommend having them look at your car to make sure the wiring was done correctly, and if possible, try a different antenna.
Although the FCC doesn't think people are strong enough to hear an impolite word, neither Sirius and XM will destroy a good song by bleeping out words.
I thought the same way before I tried a three-day trial streaming sirius. It's not the greatest quality stream, or even really a good quality stream, but they played a lot of music I didn't know. I liked it so much that I listened to it pretty much straight through the trial, even though my mp3 collection is ripped at a much-higher quality 192kbps vbr.
That's the appeal of Sirius for me. They play a lot of music I'd never hear anywhere else, and they have a lot of good stations from many different genres. It helps me find a lot of new music to add to my iPod.
I have 67 channels of commercial-free music, plus tons of non-music entertainment channels, comedy, sports and other channels at my fingertips. I trust them to provide worthwhile content much more than I trust Clear Channel.
But not all computer users are businesses. I would expect that piracy would be much more common among individuals, due to individuals not having as much money to afford software, and due to businesses being more afraid of being caught.
If Joe Blow on the street is pirating a $700 program, chances are that he wouldn't be willing to pay $700 for it even if that was the only way to obtain it.
I've been a Mac user since 7.1, and I agree for the most part. While there may be an odd feature here or there that the classic Mac OS had over OS X(like the ability to access any control panel from the apple menu), usability in OS X, for the most part, seems better than in OS 9. Features like Exposé, column-view, and the dock(which I know a lot of people hate, but which I really do like) have made things easier.
On the other hand, there are some improvements I'd like to see in the dock:
An option to have all drives appear in the dock (on by default, and your home folder should appear there too, by default)
An option to reorganize [applications][folders][files][trash] and add separators, and put them on different sides of the screen if I want, or not have them pinned together.
spring-loaded folders in the dock (and spring-loaded folders originally included the ability to just double-click on a folder and hold to get inside of it, rather than needing to drag something to it. That's behavior that should be brought back outside of the dock.)
hierarchical smart folders in the dock- (Right now, you can drag them in, but you can't navigate them as a menu. WTF?)
Some kind of better way to view names, and much more descriptive default folder icons,
like these
Reverse the behavior when dragging to or out of the dock. You should have to hold apple to add something or drag something out, versus the way it is now, having to hold apple to prevent it from adding something or from dragging something out. Right now, if you hold apple and drag something out of the dock, it moves it. If you move it out of the dock and then hold only option, you copy it. If you move it out of the dock and then hold apple and option, it makes a shortcut.
This behavior would be more consistent by reversing the behavior.
Control-clicking on a window should bring up an option to Close the damn window, not just open it.
When right-clicking on an app in the dock, the menu should include:
Hide [name of Application]
Hide Others
Show All
Preferences
Hidden applications should be grayed out by default in the dock, rather than needing the terminal command defaults write com.apple.Dock showhidden -bool yes
In addition to those, there are some other issues I find annoying:
There should be some way to choose how many whole columns I wanted in Finder windows, to prevent half-columns, and an option to have every column window span the screen.
There should be some system preference with two checkboxes to prevent icons and/or windows from getting behind the dock, regardless of which side of the screen the dock is on.
Work on improving consistency. That is one thing that OS 9 had going for it. It was anal-retentively consistent. OS X is pretty consistent, but it's not quite as consistent as OS 9 was.
You do know you can customize that right? First off, I would recommend going back to the classic menu (I prefer this myself).
Right-Click the Start menu
Click Properties in the context menu
Select the Start Menu tab
Select the radio button for Classic Start Menu
If you feel so inclined check out the Customize options
Once you are done, click the OK button
Next, organize your program folders, so that they make sense to you. Click and drag stuff where you want it. To alphabetize a folder, right click in it and click Sort by Name.
But then, like the author of TFA, I guess you just don't want to spend time at it.
Wow. I never knew the start menu was just as easy to customize as it is to use.
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For a spreadsheet app, Tables is looking promising.
You don't think the MacBook Pro, Power Mac G5, or Mac Mini look tasteful?
Have you ever seen one of them in person? The designs are very simple, with very little decoration.
You're both right.
The content production companies, such as the music and movie companies, want DRM to prevent the unlimited distribution of entertainment or information.
The content distribution companies, like Apple, want DRM to lock people into their other products, like the iPod.
Mac users buy Macs because they want to use OS X. Even when Windows was running on machines that were clearly faster, Mac users continued to buy Macs to use OS X.
Mac users in large part don't want to use Windows. As a Mac user, I wouldn't care if programs in Windows were significantly faster; I'd still have to use Windows to get that performance boost. And I'd rather use a slower Mac than faster Windows.
Yes, but what the article is saying is that if things like the speed of light aren't constants, then the light from those stars may have been traveling here at differing speeds.
All of the sudden our yardstick is broken, because if the speed of light isn't really constant, then two stars which seem to be the same distance away might actually be two very different distances away from us.
If light from a closer star came at a slower speed compared to light from a far star, then they may seem to be the same distance away from the earth.
Or if the speed of light changes over time, then light from one star may have traveled quite a distance longer than we thought to get here while light from another, newer star may have traveled less distance at a slower speed. The light from the two stars may lead us to believe that the two stars were similar distances away, when one was drastically older and drastically farther away.
That's not good enough. Firefox has been running on OS X for years, and it doesn't look like a Mac app. By this time, the controls were supposed to look like Mac controls.
Furl is a bookmarking site, and while furl was already a verb, its use has changed and grown by quite a bit since http://furl.net/ launched. Google was also a word before google.com existed, although it was spelled "googol".
And if there's any doubt about furl's popularity, a google search pulls up 89 million results for "furl" and over 61 million for "furl.net"
Replacing English all at once wouldn't make sense, since learning a new language is difficult and painful, and people want to stick with what they know.
English is already evolving very quickly right now, and it's being pushed by people text messaging and using the internet. Shorthand and short words are becoming the norm. Think about words like "blog", "IM", and "text", and abbreviations like "lol", "ianal" and "j/k".
Also, website names, which tend to be simple, are becoming verbs as part of everyday language. People say things like "google it" or "furl it".
It's not necessary to replace our language. It's already being updated and replaced, piece by piece.
No, the best way to get something is to both bid at the last moment and bid the most money.
I watch Craig Ferguson. He's the funniest of the four late night talk show hosts.
An elevator with the Mac UI would have a picture of the building, and you'd drag the elevator over the floor you wanted to go to, at which point the picture would change to be a picture of that floor, and then you'd drop the elevator on the specific room you wanted to go to, and it would take you to that room.
Cable can have advertisers because they offer content which isn't available anywhere else. Radio is different in that the music you hear on Sirius or XM is for the most part the same stuff you hear on terrestrial radio. The talk stations on satellite radio do have commercials, and they can have them because they offer a product that's different than what you can get for free.
If XM or Sirius start playing ads on their music stations, at that point they become just like terrestrial radio, and they lose their draw. If my only choices are "free Clear Channel" and "Clear Channel-type service that I'm paying $140 for annually" then neither choice is worth it. Sirius' music stations don't play ads, so they can expect me to continue as a customer. If they start playing ads, they can't.
Your article was from 2002. At that point, Sirius had only been around three years. Now they've been around seven years, and I'm sure the technology has changed quite a bit.
As for the problems with sound quality in your Jetta, I've heard about major problems with many factory-installed systems from both XM and Sirius(through xmfan.com and siriusbackstage.com). Apparently the factory-installed antennas tend to be poor-quality.
One of my friends and I installed my Sirius car receiver and I installed my Sirius home receiver. The sound quality is just fine in both locations. If you know anyone who might know anything about car audio, I'd recommend having them look at your car to make sure the wiring was done correctly, and if possible, try a different antenna.
That's another good thing about satellite.
Although the FCC doesn't think people are strong enough to hear an impolite word, neither Sirius and XM will destroy a good song by bleeping out words.
I thought the same way before I tried a three-day trial streaming sirius. It's not the greatest quality stream, or even really a good quality stream, but they played a lot of music I didn't know. I liked it so much that I listened to it pretty much straight through the trial, even though my mp3 collection is ripped at a much-higher quality 192kbps vbr.
That's the appeal of Sirius for me. They play a lot of music I'd never hear anywhere else, and they have a lot of good stations from many different genres. It helps me find a lot of new music to add to my iPod.
I have 67 channels of commercial-free music, plus tons of non-music entertainment channels, comedy, sports and other channels at my fingertips. I trust them to provide worthwhile content much more than I trust Clear Channel.
Exactly what is an "essential" government function?
Go to System Preferences:Energy Saver:Options and check Wake for Ethernet network administrator access.
But not all computer users are businesses. I would expect that piracy would be much more common among individuals, due to individuals not having as much money to afford software, and due to businesses being more afraid of being caught.
If Joe Blow on the street is pirating a $700 program, chances are that he wouldn't be willing to pay $700 for it even if that was the only way to obtain it.
I'm using Firefox, and with Flash content blocked, I still see a link on the right side at the top. It appears to be a javascript link.
And forgive me, as I'm using a Mac, but I was able to open it in QuickTime, and I could easily edit it and export it to a different format.
On the other hand, there are some improvements I'd like to see in the dock:
Hide [name of Application]
Hide Others
Show All
Preferences
In addition to those, there are some other issues I find annoying:
- Right-Click the Start menu
- Click Properties in the context menu
- Select the Start Menu tab
- Select the radio button for Classic Start Menu
- If you feel so inclined check out the Customize options
- Once you are done, click the OK button
Next, organize your program folders, so that they make sense to you. Click and drag stuff where you want it. To alphabetize a folder, right click in it and click Sort by Name .But then, like the author of TFA, I guess you just don't want to spend time at it.
Wow. I never knew the start menu was just as easy to customize as it is to use.