If it were it would have a CD drive, and you'd have to put the CD it's ripped from in the drive to play the MP3. It would also be limited to 32kbps, cost 6 times the price, and self-destruct if you put in a copy-protected Sony disc.
I'll take HP's cluelessness over Sony's active evil any day
If you don't want to pay for support and it's more trouble than it's worth to figure out with freely available information, then don't use the product.
They have the choice to charge for whatever services they want, and you have the choice to use them or not. That sound pretty fair to me, and a lot better than having to pay $50/user for a proprietary solution.
You're missing the point of free software. The business model is not:
1> create a product people will like 2> give it away for free 3> if people like it, maybe 1% will be kind enough to pay for it if we're lucky 4> profit??
This sort of thinking is exactly why so many distros can't raise enough money to support themselves. For every person like the parent poster who buys every version to support the distro, there's hundreds of free-loaders who will never buy one even if they use it for years.
The whole point of this model is that software should be free and companies should make their money on additional services. Maybe you're prefer them to make their money on tech support for their product. Then they'd have an incentive to make the program have serious problems to create a demand for support services. The merchandise will only sell well if the software is good enough to create a loyal fan-base, so there is still a strong incentive to create quality software.
As a consumer, I don't need pressed copies of my distro. Why should I buy goods I don't need? I'm better off just making a donation to them and saving them the cost of pressing the discs. If I think of it as a donation though, I'm more inclined to give to the EFF, so if they rely on charity, they'll lose out.
I do still have my official release discs of slackware 2.3 and 3.3 I bought before I got high-speed internet. Back then, the pressed CDs had some value to me, so I'd buy them.
2. BUY LINUX. only support for the companies that create your distributions will keep them creating those distributions. (I have bought every version of RedHat since 6 and a couple of copies of SuSE, etc)
Just a slight variation on this. I prefer to buy merchandise from the distribution I like. They still get my financial support, and instead of a box of old CDs I don't need any more, I have a mousepad, t-shirts, case plate, stuffed penguin, etc with the Slackware logo. That also has the advantage of giving them free advertising.
In case anyone from slackware reads this: Your store site needs work...and sell some coffee mugs!
An entangled particle is subatomic. That means it doesn't have electrons to drain away.
What do you think you mean by manipulate the particles?
The only thing entagled particles share is spin. If you move one particle the other does not also move.
The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle still applies, so that it is possible for a particle to travel faster than light, but it is not possible to send a signal faster than light. The proof by contridiction for that under quantum theory is still quite simple.
How does one use a single subatomic particle to "cause" a nuclear blast? The statement is meaningless.
Most of the people here have read the Ender series and know what an ansible is. A science fiction story does not equal a quantum mechanics theory.
The sad thing is that it's easier to use the command line. It's a pain to scan through the start menu looking for wordperfect when back in the DOS days, I could just run my "WP" batch file.
All you have to learn to get start is 5-10 commands and you're much better off with DOS or linux from the command line. Even now, I use the command prompt in windows instead of the GUI tools.
The latency is too high with the post office.
I tried playing Quake that way once, but my ping times were too high. Besides, with having to use all those CD-R's with only a few meg on them, it turned out to be cheaper to just get broadband.
Fans like to follow the lives of their favourite actors, not just watch them in movies. A computer character won't have a 'real life'.
Part of the reason is that people wish they could be like that. Who will be able to live vicariously through a computer program (slashdot crowd excluded).
Every programming textbook I used at university was strong on concepts and theory and considered syntax an irritation that got in the way.
For an introduction to programming from a conceptual viewpoint, try the books in the "Data Abstration and Problem Solving with [language]: Walls and Mirrors". That's what we used in first year, and it's a good introduction to programming from a conceptual point of view.
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If it were it would have a CD drive, and you'd have to put the CD it's ripped from in the drive to play the MP3. It would also be limited to 32kbps, cost 6 times the price, and self-destruct if you put in a copy-protected Sony disc.
I'll take HP's cluelessness over Sony's active evil any day
Jason
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If you don't want to pay for support and it's more trouble than it's worth to figure out with freely available information, then don't use the product.
They have the choice to charge for whatever services they want, and you have the choice to use them or not. That sound pretty fair to me, and a lot better than having to pay $50/user for a proprietary solution.
Jason
You're missing the point of free software. The business model is not:
1> create a product people will like
2> give it away for free
3> if people like it, maybe 1% will be kind enough to pay for it if we're lucky
4> profit??
This sort of thinking is exactly why so many distros can't raise enough money to support themselves. For every person like the parent poster who buys every version to support the distro, there's hundreds of free-loaders who will never buy one even if they use it for years.
The whole point of this model is that software should be free and companies should make their money on additional services. Maybe you're prefer them to make their money on tech support for their product. Then they'd have an incentive to make the program have serious problems to create a demand for support services. The merchandise will only sell well if the software is good enough to create a loyal fan-base, so there is still a strong incentive to create quality software.
As a consumer, I don't need pressed copies of my distro. Why should I buy goods I don't need? I'm better off just making a donation to them and saving them the cost of pressing the discs. If I think of it as a donation though, I'm more inclined to give to the EFF, so if they rely on charity, they'll lose out.
I do still have my official release discs of slackware 2.3 and 3.3 I bought before I got high-speed internet. Back then, the pressed CDs had some value to me, so I'd buy them.
2. BUY LINUX. only support for the companies that create your distributions will keep them creating those distributions. (I have bought every version of RedHat since 6 and a couple of copies of SuSE, etc)
Just a slight variation on this. I prefer to buy merchandise from the distribution I like. They still get my financial support, and instead of a box of old CDs I don't need any more, I have a mousepad, t-shirts, case plate, stuffed penguin, etc with the Slackware logo. That also has the advantage of giving them free advertising.
In case anyone from slackware reads this: Your store site needs work...and sell some coffee mugs!
Jason
I though the only command anyone ever used on the C128 was:
go64
You can't entangle particles over a distance. Entangled particles are created at the same time and place, they can then be transported apart.
Amount of energy isn't an issue.
Wavefunctions don't entangle. A wave function is just the probability of a certain particle being in a certain state at a certain time.
Jason
An entangled particle is subatomic. That means it doesn't have electrons to drain away.
What do you think you mean by manipulate the particles?
The only thing entagled particles share is spin. If you move one particle the other does not also move.
The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle still applies, so that it is possible for a particle to travel faster than light, but it is not possible to send a signal faster than light. The proof by contridiction for that under quantum theory is still quite simple.
How does one use a single subatomic particle to "cause" a nuclear blast? The statement is meaningless.
Most of the people here have read the Ender series and know what an ansible is. A science fiction story does not equal a quantum mechanics theory.
Jason
The sad thing is that it's easier to use the command line. It's a pain to scan through the start menu looking for wordperfect when back in the DOS days, I could just run my "WP" batch file.
All you have to learn to get start is 5-10 commands and you're much better off with DOS or linux from the command line. Even now, I use the command prompt in windows instead of the GUI tools.
Jason
Or is the Leonid shower billed as "once in a lifetime" every year?
This is basic Economics 101.
It sell for $300, and the cost to produce it is $45.
That means the profit is $255 and the gross margin is $255/$300 * 100 = 85%.
The other $255 pays for IE and WMP
How can they be losing money? They can charge almost anything they want for the booths and the big companies will still pay it.
Then they turn around and charge the visitors. They win on both sides.
The latency is too high with the post office. I tried playing Quake that way once, but my ping times were too high. Besides, with having to use all those CD-R's with only a few meg on them, it turned out to be cheaper to just get broadband.
This is the same marketing plan as collectable card games. The more you pay, the stronger your play level regardless of skill.
Fans like to follow the lives of their favourite actors, not just watch them in movies. A computer character won't have a 'real life'.
Part of the reason is that people wish they could be like that. Who will be able to live vicariously through a computer program (slashdot crowd excluded).
Jason
Every programming textbook I used at university was strong on concepts and theory and considered syntax an irritation that got in the way.
For an introduction to programming from a conceptual viewpoint, try the books in the "Data Abstration and Problem Solving with [language]: Walls and Mirrors". That's what we used in first year, and it's a good introduction to programming from a conceptual point of view.
Jason
instead of rewritting the same old games, they continued the series with new stories?
Jason