Haven't you heard? The War is Over, Linux has Won! This story has no merit. MS can charge whatever they want since we'll all be using linux and forced to pay their unreasonably low (free but possibly requiring beer depending on who you ask) licensing fees along side every pc purchase. Word is even Apple will be forced to pay the "linux tax". MS isn't our problem anymore.
The House is also not supposed to send laws to Bush that misrepresent their constituents, like laws encouraging martial law or destroying posse comitatus, etc. The Republican House has instead sent these laws to Bush, secretly or just quietly.
Let us not forget that there are more than enough Democrats in the house to make noise. If the Democrats were of a mind to save us from this, we might have heard about it before now.
I'm all for firing every incumbant in the government that means Republican or Democrat. That's the way to send a message IMHO. Unless there has been some voice crying out in the wilderness that I missed (very possible).
What I'd like to know is how the vote went but I still cannot get to the links above and my hands are too full to search at the moment.
If you want to add value to the CD experience, stop delivering just music and give me the music video. If it takes putting it on a DVD, fine. I remember browsing through the stacks and running across a band called Alice in Chains. I'd never heard of them but was intrigued by the accompanying VHS that came with their CD. The store manager, a buddy of mine, told me that he wished more bands would do this as it was a very hot seller. I loved the music and really enjoyed the video which was a live NY performance of the same music.
All of these years later, where are all of the music videos? I'd love to see the music videos of the old 70's and 80's music too. I'll bet it would be great on my ipod video.
Now, before you flame me for not buying from the Apple Music Store, let me make clear, I'm talking about having a reason for buying a CD (or DVD). High quality and a physical backup are still desirable. I'd still buy CDs as they are now but they are way overpriced and, oh yeah, the DRM/RIAA B.S. makes me not want to buy anything at any price, but that's another story.
P.S.
I hear some CDs have extra content but as they are made for some version of Windows they don't add value to me. If you can't give me a format I can play on any computer, don't bother. I don't want to be a slave to any OS be it Windows, OSX, *NIX in order to listen to/watch my music (or anything else for that matter).
Who needs another phone? There are more phones on the market than I know what to do with and given ipod sales, we all already have them. Combining the two just doesn't do much for me.
What's missing is the PDA/phone option especially for mac users. I have a treo 650 and I'm reasonably pleased but it's not great. There's no handwriting recognition like my old Palm devices. The WinCE devices are out of the question (sure there's missing sync but then you cannot sync to macs and pcs you have to pick one.
If there is a really good PDA Phone that supports lots of useful apps works with any OS (well at least Win/Mac and why not Linux), supports handwriting recognition I'll bet it doesn't have nearly as much competition as a music playing phone would.
I'm sure I'll get modded down for this, especially in an IT environment like/., but in the library world Garntner is considered to be a very, very unreliable source. Gartner has the reputation among the special library community (read:Business Research Libraries) as a heavily biased source in favor of current advertisers. If you spend money advertising with Gartner, you get favorable reviews. Don't spend on advertising, you get poor reviews or ignored.
I'm sure this isn't the case 100% of the time. In fact, even if it were common business practice it would make sense to do the opposite just to be able to point a finger and say "See, we don't really do that". None the less, it is the rep in much of the business library world not that it seems to matter to our IT department.
As the title states, consider the source. Valid advice IMHO for anything you read on any topic from any source. Hey, even slashdot lacks a modifier for accuracy. Doesn't that seem strange?
It seems like they left out a few obvious things to ban for fear of injury like:
Stairs - Broken bones from falls
Knives - cuts and accidental (or not) stabbing
Shop Class - just too many to mention
Music Class - Possible hyperventilation due to lack of outdoor exercise like "Tag"
Come on, I'm sure/.ers can help me think of a few more.
Are you sure they didn't mean the body spray. Those adds are annoying enough to merit banning IMHO.
"...it will be half the price, twice as good, and use a quarter of the electricity of conventional plasma and LCD TVs.
Combine that with energy efficiency, price advantage and the fact that the laser TVs will be half the weight and depth of plasma TVS, and Mr Pelaprat says "plasma is now something of the past"."
I Call B.S.
As some of you know, price is not set by manufacturer cost, it is set by what the market is willing to pay. If it is twice as good, people will be willing to pay more. If people are willing to pay more, it will cost more. If they can produce it for half the price, then they will make more profit.
You mean the federal government is wasteful and inefficient? You mean they don't work hard?
My best friend and my Uncle have been working for the government for years. It's pretty much worse than you've ever heard (and I've heard bad. "I write one or two memos a week and make 6 figures." "There is a cot in the back room, they sleep on the job in shifts"
It's infuriating and why I tend to vote for anyone I think will cut government programs regardless of party. This story of slashdot is nothing compared to what's going on.
"The charges, including wire fraud and conspiracy, carry a maximum penalty of 12 years in prison and $30,000 in fines. The indictments follow on the heels of an HP investigation of internal leaks that conducted "bugged" emails to C-Net reporter Dawn Kawamoto, illicitly obtained hundreds of phone numbers, and spied on HP board members."
HP should have accused them of being terrorists first. Then they could have had the Feds do it for them legally.
"The gatorade example is bad, anyway. Gatorade, AFAIK, doesn't contain anything very strange, and an isotonic solution is made of completely normal things (water, salt, sugar, orange juice or banana IIRC)."
I used Gatorade as an example because the parent used Mercury. I figured one extreme merited another.
To train tactics, you have to practice the tactics with your team. Video game characters all have the same characteristics. People do not. The biggest differences are speed and grace/clumsiness."
Actually, the Counter-Strike I played was human vs human. No AI involved. You train your team against another team.
That said, though I was fairly good at the game after a lot of online time, I don't feel like a competent terrorist. If anything, I feel like less inclined (if ever I were inclined) because I see how easy it is to get killed without even seeing the enemy, Suffice to say that if terrorists are using CS to learn the art of terror tactics, I feel safer.
"And this is the problem, countries like India and China can get away with horrible working conditions, lapses in safety standards and employee rights that we take for granted in the U.S. I see examples of this all the time with illegal construction workers here in California. Since they are already in the country illegally, they have no incentive (or knowledge?) to follow OSHA safety standards that a legitimate construction company would have to follow. If you can get away with the same thing with exported labor, exchanging a few lives for $$$ many companies are willing to do this.
So what are you saying? Are you saying that we (U.S.) have a disadvantage because we have to treat people better or are you saying that we do not have a disadvantage because we (California) do it too?
"So essentially, U.S. companies are deferring those costs by working overseas. I for one think companies should be punished financially in someway or guarantee the same worker rights in those foreign countries."
Since they will be punished financially for NOT doing it by no longer being competitive, it's a sort of damned if you do, damned if you don't situation. We might want to think of a scenario where U.S. companies can win through some course of action.
"Another problem, and I think this is the biggest one, is the lack of national pride in the U.S. If the country you live in is say no more important to you then $200 off a plasma TV at Wal-Mart, what are you to care if jobs go overseas?"
Prices are set by what the market is willing to pay, not the cost to manufacture. Profits are made by the price minus the cost. Too many people get that confused.
"I'm just saying that economically speaking, there is no added value in the tag "made in U.S.A." anymore since it is no longer associated with quality or pride with the average consumer."
I agree but would remove the word "average" from that line. I'm well educated (Masters Degree) as is my wife and most of my friends. We research and think about our choices very hard before we buy. When I buy a car, it's made in Japan (my wife's Honda made in England is crap so is my mothers). Our American made cars have never been as good either. Publications like Consumer Reports don't do anything to change our minds. This goes for consumer electronics too. I want to buy American, really, but my experience and research tells me that I can get better quality for less money going elsewhere. I don't know for sure if it is inferior workmanship (i.e. the worker) or by design (i.e. corporate cost cutting) but there is a difference. When American companies decide to make quality their primary focus, things will change (for me) but that hasn't happened and with so many buying American out of patriotism, it may not for a while.
Let's say you release Gatorade into a river. By the time the effects become painfully obvious it'll be already too late: you'll have put innocent workers through hell, bankrupt business and damaged the economy. it'll have had a great effect on the economy of the area...
So I understand the idea of let's know what we are talking about before we jump to conclusions either way.
Seems to me we should have some analysis done before dumping anything into a river. After that, we can make an intelligent decision.
Oh please... When it comes to video games and movies, I am one of the most violent, sick and twisted individuals you will ever meet. I love to torture, maim and kill. When it comes to real life, I am one of the most kind, caring people you will ever meet. It would be impossible for me to shoot or stab or bomb another human being and even attempting to do so would make me sick to my stomach. Violence in video games and movies does NOT desensitize you to violence in the real world.
...and if you don't believe me, I'll bitch-slap you until you do.
But seriously folks. It really does. My wife is a school teacher who has been studying these things (actually brain development in kids). Studies are showing a dramatic difference in kids behavior after viewing violent video games vs non-violent activity (reading a book etc). That went counter to what I always believed but it appears pretty conclusive. Our children's brains are simply being wired differently (from ours- if your an old guy like me) based upon their experiences.
Does that make the game manufacturers accountable? No to me. Responsibility belongs to the individual who carries out the action and in children to the parents (to some degree).
Slashdotters are eventually going to have to face this reality. There is more proof of effect caused by video games in children than there is in global warming and it is time we stop believing in the science that supports the things we like and not in the science that doesn't.
What's even more exasperating about this situation is that Kerry wouldn't have had the power to change the abortion laws and Bush hasn't done a damn thing about them either. This makes the "my body my right" crowd just as idiotic. Abortion is always a steaming political debate right around an election and then subsides to nothing during the term because the trimester laws aren't budging.
I beg to differ. Have you seen the Supreme Court lately? Do you think the same two people would have been added had Kerry been elected? Do you think we might have had a difference of opinion had Kerry appointed two Judges (for life)? I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the Supreme Court will have a significant impact on the abortion issue.
I don't care which side you are on, you cannot deny that "something" has been done and we will live with it long after Bush leaves office.
What ever happened to just trying to educate the voters?
Using cyanide to poison drinking water for a major city? It would be easy to catch the guys, they'd be the ones dumping the tanker truck full of cyanide.
Plutonium would work much better.
I still think it would be pretty easy to spot the guys dumping a tanker truck full of plutonium.
I'll likely get a 1080p because of this. I've been playing 360 games on an old 27" Magnavox in a large room for the past 6 months or so (480i). Finally, I decided to upgrade my TV so i could fully enjoy the 360 experience. After doing a lot of shopping, I decided on a 42" plasma which supports 720p. I could have spent about $250 more for a 1080p LCD but why? The Plasma looks great, costs less and even though 1080p is technically better, I don't have a use for it yet and don't want to spend the cash future proffing when the technology is only going to get better and cheaper very quickly.
Suddenly the 360 supports 1080p. I have a 360! I can make use of 1080p right now!! Now I'm not future proofing for a price, I buying something I can use today. So why stick with the interim level of HD when I can move up and make use (would that constitute having my cake and eating it too)?
Now, all that said, I'd like to see some reviews before I spend my $$ but that should answer the question asked in the submission.
Market Share is an excuse for IT to not support my computer.
Market Share is an excuse for web sites to only support IE for Windows.
Market Share is an excuse for application vendors to only develop for windows and then tell someone willing to pay to go buy VirtualPC if they want to use their software.
Market Share is an excuse for game developers to support directx instead of opengl.
I hope this helps you to understand what the big deal is about market share. Oh, and a better car analogy would be the market share of diesel cars in the U.S. You may care about market share if you want your local gas station to sell a fuel that will make your car go vs. having to drive 20 miles to get a tank of gas. I think that is a better analogy.
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Haven't you heard? The War is Over, Linux has Won! This story has no merit. MS can charge whatever they want since we'll all be using linux and forced to pay their unreasonably low (free but possibly requiring beer depending on who you ask) licensing fees along side every pc purchase. Word is even Apple will be forced to pay the "linux tax". MS isn't our problem anymore.
The House is also not supposed to send laws to Bush that misrepresent their constituents, like laws encouraging martial law or destroying posse comitatus, etc. The Republican House has instead sent these laws to Bush, secretly or just quietly.
Let us not forget that there are more than enough Democrats in the house to make noise. If the Democrats were of a mind to save us from this, we might have heard about it before now.
I'm all for firing every incumbant in the government that means Republican or Democrat. That's the way to send a message IMHO. Unless there has been some voice crying out in the wilderness that I missed (very possible).
What I'd like to know is how the vote went but I still cannot get to the links above and my hands are too full to search at the moment.
If you want to add value to the CD experience, stop delivering just music and give me the music video. If it takes putting it on a DVD, fine. I remember browsing through the stacks and running across a band called Alice in Chains. I'd never heard of them but was intrigued by the accompanying VHS that came with their CD. The store manager, a buddy of mine, told me that he wished more bands would do this as it was a very hot seller. I loved the music and really enjoyed the video which was a live NY performance of the same music.
All of these years later, where are all of the music videos? I'd love to see the music videos of the old 70's and 80's music too. I'll bet it would be great on my ipod video.
Now, before you flame me for not buying from the Apple Music Store, let me make clear, I'm talking about having a reason for buying a CD (or DVD). High quality and a physical backup are still desirable. I'd still buy CDs as they are now but they are way overpriced and, oh yeah, the DRM/RIAA B.S. makes me not want to buy anything at any price, but that's another story.
P.S.
I hear some CDs have extra content but as they are made for some version of Windows they don't add value to me. If you can't give me a format I can play on any computer, don't bother. I don't want to be a slave to any OS be it Windows, OSX, *NIX in order to listen to/watch my music (or anything else for that matter).
It's bias is to get a laugh at the expense of the people in power.
Which makes it is one of the few major information outlets that has any kind of adversarial relationship to government.
I guess the Rush Limbaugh Show is NOT biased so long as the Democrats are in power.
Who needs another phone? There are more phones on the market than I know what to do with and given ipod sales, we all already have them. Combining the two just doesn't do much for me.
What's missing is the PDA/phone option especially for mac users. I have a treo 650 and I'm reasonably pleased but it's not great. There's no handwriting recognition like my old Palm devices. The WinCE devices are out of the question (sure there's missing sync but then you cannot sync to macs and pcs you have to pick one.
If there is a really good PDA Phone that supports lots of useful apps works with any OS (well at least Win/Mac and why not Linux), supports handwriting recognition I'll bet it doesn't have nearly as much competition as a music playing phone would.
I'm sure I'll get modded down for this, especially in an IT environment like /., but in the library world Garntner is considered to be a very, very unreliable source. Gartner has the reputation among the special library community (read:Business Research Libraries) as a heavily biased source in favor of current advertisers. If you spend money advertising with Gartner, you get favorable reviews. Don't spend on advertising, you get poor reviews or ignored.
I'm sure this isn't the case 100% of the time. In fact, even if it were common business practice it would make sense to do the opposite just to be able to point a finger and say "See, we don't really do that". None the less, it is the rep in much of the business library world not that it seems to matter to our IT department.
As the title states, consider the source. Valid advice IMHO for anything you read on any topic from any source. Hey, even slashdot lacks a modifier for accuracy. Doesn't that seem strange?
It seems like they left out a few obvious things to ban for fear of injury like:
/.ers can help me think of a few more.
Stairs - Broken bones from falls
Knives - cuts and accidental (or not) stabbing
Shop Class - just too many to mention
Music Class - Possible hyperventilation due to lack of outdoor exercise like "Tag"
Come on, I'm sure
Are you sure they didn't mean the body spray. Those adds are annoying enough to merit banning IMHO.
"...it will be half the price, twice as good, and use a quarter of the electricity of conventional plasma and LCD TVs.
Combine that with energy efficiency, price advantage and the fact that the laser TVs will be half the weight and depth of plasma TVS, and Mr Pelaprat says "plasma is now something of the past"."
I Call B.S.
As some of you know, price is not set by manufacturer cost, it is set by what the market is willing to pay. If it is twice as good, people will be willing to pay more. If people are willing to pay more, it will cost more. If they can produce it for half the price, then they will make more profit.
only to those whose "security" in reality consists of not much - or even nothing - more than obscurity.
..which accounts for a whole lot of people.
That's incitement to murder, hardly a category of protected speech.
Here is the sig file of one of our own frequent posters on slashdot.
--
Be a patriot: Murder a Republican.
So, is it free speech or should he be jailed?
Would it make a difference if he changed republican to democrat? If he changed it to black?
We even had to fire a few individuals for using the office T1 to swap songs on Napster (this was back when Napster was both popular and illegal).
:)
You call yourself a slashdotter? Napster wasn't illegal, it was used for illegal purposes no matter what the courts said.
You mean the federal government is wasteful and inefficient? You mean they don't work hard?
My best friend and my Uncle have been working for the government for years. It's pretty much worse than you've ever heard (and I've heard bad. "I write one or two memos a week and make 6 figures." "There is a cot in the back room, they sleep on the job in shifts"
It's infuriating and why I tend to vote for anyone I think will cut government programs regardless of party. This story of slashdot is nothing compared to what's going on.
"The charges, including wire fraud and conspiracy, carry a maximum penalty of 12 years in prison and $30,000 in fines. The indictments follow on the heels of an HP investigation of internal leaks that conducted "bugged" emails to C-Net reporter Dawn Kawamoto, illicitly obtained hundreds of phone numbers, and spied on HP board members."
HP should have accused them of being terrorists first. Then they could have had the Feds do it for them legally.
"The gatorade example is bad, anyway. Gatorade, AFAIK, doesn't contain anything very strange, and an isotonic solution is made of completely normal things (water, salt, sugar, orange juice or banana IIRC)."
I used Gatorade as an example because the parent used Mercury. I figured one extreme merited another.
To train tactics, you have to practice the tactics with your team. Video game characters all have the same characteristics. People do not. The biggest differences are speed and grace/clumsiness."
Actually, the Counter-Strike I played was human vs human. No AI involved. You train your team against another team.
That said, though I was fairly good at the game after a lot of online time, I don't feel like a competent terrorist. If anything, I feel like less inclined (if ever I were inclined) because I see how easy it is to get killed without even seeing the enemy, Suffice to say that if terrorists are using CS to learn the art of terror tactics, I feel safer.
"And this is the problem, countries like India and China can get away with horrible working conditions, lapses in safety standards and employee rights that we take for granted in the U.S. I see examples of this all the time with illegal construction workers here in California. Since they are already in the country illegally, they have no incentive (or knowledge?) to follow OSHA safety standards that a legitimate construction company would have to follow. If you can get away with the same thing with exported labor, exchanging a few lives for $$$ many companies are willing to do this.
.
So what are you saying? Are you saying that we (U.S.) have a disadvantage because we have to treat people better or are you saying that we do not have a disadvantage because we (California) do it too?
"So essentially, U.S. companies are deferring those costs by working overseas. I for one think companies should be punished financially in someway or guarantee the same worker rights in those foreign countries."
Since they will be punished financially for NOT doing it by no longer being competitive, it's a sort of damned if you do, damned if you don't situation. We might want to think of a scenario where U.S. companies can win through some course of action.
"Another problem, and I think this is the biggest one, is the lack of national pride in the U.S. If the country you live in is say no more important to you then $200 off a plasma TV at Wal-Mart, what are you to care if jobs go overseas?"
Prices are set by what the market is willing to pay, not the cost to manufacture. Profits are made by the price minus the cost. Too many people get that confused
"I'm just saying that economically speaking, there is no added value in the tag "made in U.S.A." anymore since it is no longer associated with quality or pride with the average consumer."
I agree but would remove the word "average" from that line. I'm well educated (Masters Degree) as is my wife and most of my friends. We research and think about our choices very hard before we buy. When I buy a car, it's made in Japan (my wife's Honda made in England is crap so is my mothers). Our American made cars have never been as good either. Publications like Consumer Reports don't do anything to change our minds. This goes for consumer electronics too. I want to buy American, really, but my experience and research tells me that I can get better quality for less money going elsewhere. I don't know for sure if it is inferior workmanship (i.e. the worker) or by design (i.e. corporate cost cutting) but there is a difference. When American companies decide to make quality their primary focus, things will change (for me) but that hasn't happened and with so many buying American out of patriotism, it may not for a while.
"And by the way, guys can get breast cancer too."
Perhaps we should make our sites pink and blue since this is not common knowledge in order to increase "awareness".
Conversely..
Let's say you release Gatorade into a river. By the time the effects become painfully obvious it'll be already too late: you'll have put innocent workers through hell, bankrupt business and damaged the economy. it'll have had a great effect on the economy of the area...
So I understand the idea of let's know what we are talking about before we jump to conclusions either way.
Seems to me we should have some analysis done before dumping anything into a river. After that, we can make an intelligent decision.
Oh please... When it comes to video games and movies, I am one of the most violent, sick and twisted individuals you will ever meet. I love to torture, maim and kill. When it comes to real life, I am one of the most kind, caring people you will ever meet. It would be impossible for me to shoot or stab or bomb another human being and even attempting to do so would make me sick to my stomach. Violence in video games and movies does NOT desensitize you to violence in the real world.
...and if you don't believe me, I'll bitch-slap you until you do.
But seriously folks. It really does. My wife is a school teacher who has been studying these things (actually brain development in kids). Studies are showing a dramatic difference in kids behavior after viewing violent video games vs non-violent activity (reading a book etc). That went counter to what I always believed but it appears pretty conclusive. Our children's brains are simply being wired differently (from ours- if your an old guy like me) based upon their experiences.
Does that make the game manufacturers accountable? No to me. Responsibility belongs to the individual who carries out the action and in children to the parents (to some degree).
Slashdotters are eventually going to have to face this reality. There is more proof of effect caused by video games in children than there is in global warming and it is time we stop believing in the science that supports the things we like and not in the science that doesn't.
What's even more exasperating about this situation is that Kerry wouldn't have had the power to change the abortion laws and Bush hasn't done a damn thing about them either. This makes the "my body my right" crowd just as idiotic. Abortion is always a steaming political debate right around an election and then subsides to nothing during the term because the trimester laws aren't budging.
I beg to differ. Have you seen the Supreme Court lately? Do you think the same two people would have been added had Kerry been elected? Do you think we might have had a difference of opinion had Kerry appointed two Judges (for life)? I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the Supreme Court will have a significant impact on the abortion issue.
I don't care which side you are on, you cannot deny that "something" has been done and we will live with it long after Bush leaves office.
What ever happened to just trying to educate the voters?
Great question. Whay ever happened to education?
Using cyanide to poison drinking water for a major city? It would be easy to catch the guys, they'd be the ones dumping the tanker truck full of cyanide.
Plutonium would work much better.
I still think it would be pretty easy to spot the guys dumping a tanker truck full of plutonium.
I'll likely get a 1080p because of this. I've been playing 360 games on an old 27" Magnavox in a large room for the past 6 months or so (480i). Finally, I decided to upgrade my TV so i could fully enjoy the 360 experience. After doing a lot of shopping, I decided on a 42" plasma which supports 720p. I could have spent about $250 more for a 1080p LCD but why? The Plasma looks great, costs less and even though 1080p is technically better, I don't have a use for it yet and don't want to spend the cash future proffing when the technology is only going to get better and cheaper very quickly.
Suddenly the 360 supports 1080p. I have a 360! I can make use of 1080p right now!! Now I'm not future proofing for a price, I buying something I can use today. So why stick with the interim level of HD when I can move up and make use (would that constitute having my cake and eating it too)?
Now, all that said, I'd like to see some reviews before I spend my $$ but that should answer the question asked in the submission.
What is the fascination with market share?
Market Share is an excuse for IT to not support my computer.
Market Share is an excuse for web sites to only support IE for Windows.
Market Share is an excuse for application vendors to only develop for windows and then tell someone willing to pay to go buy VirtualPC if they want to use their software.
Market Share is an excuse for game developers to support directx instead of opengl.
I hope this helps you to understand what the big deal is about market share. Oh, and a better car analogy would be the market share of diesel cars in the U.S. You may care about market share if you want your local gas station to sell a fuel that will make your car go vs. having to drive 20 miles to get a tank of gas. I think that is a better analogy.
Since the Mac is now essentially a PC clone, why would you pay a premium for Mac hardware?
Dude, the 1990's just called. They want their Mac dogma back.
Considering the earlier article on power use. I find myself shutting down the 360 very frequently, except in the winter.