To me the authors are vandals not revolutionaries, and may have ensured WMA becomes the standard.
That's your own damn opinion. No need to damage an otherwise good story submission with it, Slashdot already has comments for just that purpose. Next time you'd like to tell me what you think of a story you're submitting save it for when the story is actually posted and make a comment about it.
Slashdot should be editing these comments out of the story submission but the editors are just as guilty. It makes me long for a kuro5hin that's more geeky and slightly less arrogant.
IBM seems very adept at learning from their mistakes. I have a feeling they have thought about OS/2 a lot, something along the lines of "if we had open sourced OS/2 we could have won."
I know this whole article is probably an April fools joke but because I'm a paid yahoo user I'll bite.
I really like yahoo's mail service. The spam blocking is exceptional and the disposable email address feature a life saver. It makes me more entrenched though. It'd take a lot of coaxing to get my friends to update their email addresses, I'd probably need a year to make the transition.
But with 1GB of space and good email searching (a weak spot with yahoo) I'd switch for sure.
I haven't seen anyone mention the source of the article as being japanese, unless they've been modded down.
Japanese culture has an entirely different structure than North American or European. This is especially true for women. I think a big part of the significance of this announcement is that there is an all-women team of engineers in Japan.
I have doubts that this product will even be considered for any markets outside Japan.
Halloween X Memo is probably the stupidest thing it could be called. It's not near halloween at the moment. Spring Memo? The March Memo? There are many better names, less confusing and more timely.
Bad names like this take a good point for Microsoft watchers and make them look like a bunch of flaky hippies.
This is the same issue that many scientists face, and I would guess many other fields. If you measure worth in money than there is less that can be said for giving your work away for free. While there are companies releasing their source for free while posting profits there are many more open source projects making no money and closed source companies making lots of money. If the two are mutually exclusive which matters more to you?
In science there is the opportunity to work in an interesting field while working for a corporation. The problem is the work will become patent encumbered and proprietary as soon as it has any value. To let other people share in the success, and even improve upon it, something like a University grant is required for which the pay is lower.
You do your best every day of your life, make major discoveries and solve complex problems, and then you die. If you work for a corporation it's likely that your work will remain the private property of that corporation long after you're dead, with most people associating your work with the company and not you. However, if you gave up potential money to share your work then it is more likely to live on with little chance that your work will be associated with anyone besides you. So, ecide which you find more compelling.
If women were better at endurance there would be more female than male winners of Survivor. And, with four of seven winners female, that is in fact that case.
I'm sure there are more examples, but that's the first easily googled idea I had.
An automatic transmission increases the price of inexpensive cars about 10%. I think autotuners will eventually come down in price to a similar level, perhaps 20-50% of the cheapest guitars. Once they're reverse engineered and mass produced by Yamaha you'll see them everywhere.
I know people that are aware of their own tone-deafedness enough to never even pick up a guitar. Think of people too afraid to sing: some tone-deaf people will still sing a drunken karaoke song but many won't. Autotuning will be a comfort for people that feel the same about musical instruments.
I'll let you in on a little secret: Bush will be reelected. Reports like this, missing WMD and a monstrous deficit will not be enough to dethrone him.
What you should really be scared of is Bush's next four years. Without the chance of being reelected he's going to push hard for policy that even some of his supporters can't stomach. Think the things listed above are bad? Prepare for worse.
This sounds like unreasonable resistance to change. I've read similar comments in this thread.
People say this kind of thing every time technology makes things easier for people. When it was released people thought the shopping cart was a crutch that would weaken people. The automatic transmission would make drivers worse. The truth is people are resistant to change.
Autotuning guitars will eventually become a standard feature and it will make guitars available to a wider audience. At the least, it will make new players give up less easily. I think that if that idea bothers you then you're probably not confident enough in your craft. Scared the legion of new players that can concentrate on melody instead of the mechanics of their instruments will steal your limelight? Sounds like it's time to brush up on your skills.
It would be a science if it wasn't for the pesky fact that strings are analog, and thus slightly flawed. A professional tunes a guitar for the particular songs that will be played on it. Watch big acts live and you'll see that they switch guitars nearly every song, sometimes for a guitar of the exact same make and model.
The guitars are being tuned ever so slightly different to compensate for the fact that the strings don't behave entirely perfectly. Wound strings tune a bit different than unwound, for example.
Of course most people tune their open strings and don't worry about the slight errors in some of their chords.
This isn't being in the black. Being in the back means being profitable and they've been profitable long before now. This isn't a sign of business strength either, since many companies keep some debt around just so they have some flexibility when it comes to reporting their financials.
This is more of a business decision to run a debt-free company. With 4.8 billion cash on hand they could have been debt free before now.
I've spoken with Mr. Robertson myself. Even though the circumstances were such that he was doing me a big favor I was still impressed by how abrasive he was.
It should be no surprise that a project with a lone visionary leader can make a better product than one with a committee. XFree86 is lagging behind, plagued with problems. It's also run by a committee. Firefox is screaming along, adding features rapidly and increasing quality - with just one leader.
Steve Wozniak made the Apple I basically by himself. DOS was written by Tim Patterson in two months.
Design by committee rarely works, and never well. It might be argued this is one of the greatest risks to the open source development model.
The problem with throttling at the client, such as bittorrent, is when you have more than one computer downloading, which many geeks do. The second computer might be the living room box, the girlfriend's or, more likely, the roommate's. You don't want to give each box half your desired max since usually only one machine will be downloading at a time.
The teaser trailer for Ice Age was brilliant. The little rat running around with his nut.
The trailer for Emperor's New Groove sucked. I don't remember it but I recall how much I loathed it. I got tricked into watching the movie on video and only then realised how much better the film was.
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Man, that's a funny joke! You actually used "stable" and "OS9" in the same post! I didn't think it was possible.
To me the authors are vandals not revolutionaries, and may have ensured WMA becomes the standard.
That's your own damn opinion. No need to damage an otherwise good story submission with it, Slashdot already has comments for just that purpose. Next time you'd like to tell me what you think of a story you're submitting save it for when the story is actually posted and make a comment about it.
Slashdot should be editing these comments out of the story submission but the editors are just as guilty. It makes me long for a kuro5hin that's more geeky and slightly less arrogant.
IBM seems very adept at learning from their mistakes. I have a feeling they have thought about OS/2 a lot, something along the lines of "if we had open sourced OS/2 we could have won."
I know this whole article is probably an April fools joke but because I'm a paid yahoo user I'll bite.
I really like yahoo's mail service. The spam blocking is exceptional and the disposable email address feature a life saver. It makes me more entrenched though. It'd take a lot of coaxing to get my friends to update their email addresses, I'd probably need a year to make the transition.
But with 1GB of space and good email searching (a weak spot with yahoo) I'd switch for sure.
I haven't seen anyone mention the source of the article as being japanese, unless they've been modded down.
Japanese culture has an entirely different structure than North American or European. This is especially true for women. I think a big part of the significance of this announcement is that there is an all-women team of engineers in Japan.
I have doubts that this product will even be considered for any markets outside Japan.
Ok, maybe this is a little complex. Let me explain: I'm SpamJunkie. That's my name. OK? Now, go look at the title of this story? eh? eh?
Still don't get it? Damn moderators...
This guy is stealing my schtick!
That's pretty funny, lol!
I know what I am doing.
I nearly bust a gut!
Windows Server 2003 has streaming (for Windows Media) built in.
Mac OS X server has Quicktime streaming built in, and it's damn easy. But you want it for windows or linux? That's ok, because it's free.
Halloween X Memo is probably the stupidest thing it could be called. It's not near halloween at the moment. Spring Memo? The March Memo? There are many better names, less confusing and more timely.
Bad names like this take a good point for Microsoft watchers and make them look like a bunch of flaky hippies.
I believe it's called parenting.
That's a common misconception. It's actually called birth control.
This is the same issue that many scientists face, and I would guess many other fields. If you measure worth in money than there is less that can be said for giving your work away for free. While there are companies releasing their source for free while posting profits there are many more open source projects making no money and closed source companies making lots of money. If the two are mutually exclusive which matters more to you?
In science there is the opportunity to work in an interesting field while working for a corporation. The problem is the work will become patent encumbered and proprietary as soon as it has any value. To let other people share in the success, and even improve upon it, something like a University grant is required for which the pay is lower.
You do your best every day of your life, make major discoveries and solve complex problems, and then you die. If you work for a corporation it's likely that your work will remain the private property of that corporation long after you're dead, with most people associating your work with the company and not you. However, if you gave up potential money to share your work then it is more likely to live on with little chance that your work will be associated with anyone besides you. So, ecide which you find more compelling.
If women were better at endurance there would be more female than male winners of Survivor. And, with four of seven winners female, that is in fact that case.
I'm sure there are more examples, but that's the first easily googled idea I had.
An automatic transmission increases the price of inexpensive cars about 10%. I think autotuners will eventually come down in price to a similar level, perhaps 20-50% of the cheapest guitars. Once they're reverse engineered and mass produced by Yamaha you'll see them everywhere.
I know people that are aware of their own tone-deafedness enough to never even pick up a guitar. Think of people too afraid to sing: some tone-deaf people will still sing a drunken karaoke song but many won't. Autotuning will be a comfort for people that feel the same about musical instruments.
I'll let you in on a little secret: Bush will be reelected. Reports like this, missing WMD and a monstrous deficit will not be enough to dethrone him.
What you should really be scared of is Bush's next four years. Without the chance of being reelected he's going to push hard for policy that even some of his supporters can't stomach. Think the things listed above are bad? Prepare for worse.
This sounds like unreasonable resistance to change. I've read similar comments in this thread.
People say this kind of thing every time technology makes things easier for people. When it was released people thought the shopping cart was a crutch that would weaken people. The automatic transmission would make drivers worse. The truth is people are resistant to change.
Autotuning guitars will eventually become a standard feature and it will make guitars available to a wider audience. At the least, it will make new players give up less easily. I think that if that idea bothers you then you're probably not confident enough in your craft. Scared the legion of new players that can concentrate on melody instead of the mechanics of their instruments will steal your limelight? Sounds like it's time to brush up on your skills.
Tuning is a science, not an art.
It would be a science if it wasn't for the pesky fact that strings are analog, and thus slightly flawed. A professional tunes a guitar for the particular songs that will be played on it. Watch big acts live and you'll see that they switch guitars nearly every song, sometimes for a guitar of the exact same make and model.
The guitars are being tuned ever so slightly different to compensate for the fact that the strings don't behave entirely perfectly. Wound strings tune a bit different than unwound, for example.
Of course most people tune their open strings and don't worry about the slight errors in some of their chords.
Thanks for writing your comment in Courier without using paragraph breaks. The paragraph is only the unit of composition.
Why did you bother to use periods?
This isn't being in the black. Being in the back means being profitable and they've been profitable long before now. This isn't a sign of business strength either, since many companies keep some debt around just so they have some flexibility when it comes to reporting their financials.
This is more of a business decision to run a debt-free company. With 4.8 billion cash on hand they could have been debt free before now.
I've spoken with Mr. Robertson myself. Even though the circumstances were such that he was doing me a big favor I was still impressed by how abrasive he was.
It should be no surprise that a project with a lone visionary leader can make a better product than one with a committee. XFree86 is lagging behind, plagued with problems. It's also run by a committee. Firefox is screaming along, adding features rapidly and increasing quality - with just one leader.
Steve Wozniak made the Apple I basically by himself. DOS was written by Tim Patterson in two months.
Design by committee rarely works, and never well. It might be argued this is one of the greatest risks to the open source development model.
The problem with throttling at the client, such as bittorrent, is when you have more than one computer downloading, which many geeks do. The second computer might be the living room box, the girlfriend's or, more likely, the roommate's. You don't want to give each box half your desired max since usually only one machine will be downloading at a time.
The proper solution is to throttle in the router.
I agree, Grandpa.
"Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times."
-- Niccolo Machiavelli
It's all about the trailers.
The teaser trailer for Ice Age was brilliant. The little rat running around with his nut.
The trailer for Emperor's New Groove sucked. I don't remember it but I recall how much I loathed it. I got tricked into watching the movie on video and only then realised how much better the film was.
In other words: it's all about marketing.
Lucasfilm owns theforce.net. They had a very good idea who he works for.