My previous iPods were always filled to capacity with music encoded by myself from CDs. Now I have a 160GB iPod Classic, and it is 35% full, and my music collection has room to grow. Bliss!
Of course, Apple seems to believe you might be right, since they have discontinued this model. More fool them.
I haven't met one person offline who actually purchases music online.
I do. I buy all my music online - but as CDs, since my iPod isn't up to delivering the kind of sound quality I insist on when I'm at home.
I am perfectly tech literate, but it is rarely possible or worth the trouble to download non-legit music if you have a taste for anything other than mainstream crap.
Over time, I suspect physical books will inevitably be moving back to their original social place as cultural collectibles or luxury items.
That might be true if publishers and sellers could come up with some sort of agreement that doesn't unnecessarily lock out large sections of the world's population. For instance, I can buy dead-tree copies of most books from Amazon. But if I attempt to buy an electronic copy of the same book (from Australia), I usually hit a brick wall.
Well, I guess there is probably no machine ever manufactured that worked well for everybody. You obviously got a dud, where I (and several acquaintances) got a reliable, cheap and reasonably quick device. However, I never found a Breville toaster that worked...:-|
the idea that "communication is two way" does not seem to be founded in law, information theory, or common English usage...
Here's one version of a common definition (from Oxford English Dictionary): "sharing or exchange of information, news, or ideas".". That does indeed imply a two-way process. If your law or information theory don't cover that, then that's just too bad. The word itself (and its Latin origin) have been around far longer. And as far as your concept of English usage is concerned, I would suggest that yelling from the rooftops might be considered redundant in the absence of someone who hears and understands the message.
If we're actively looking for a given kind of product, there are lots of useful and effective ways for suppliers to make their products known to us when required.. That does not constitute a reason or excuse for continually waving marketing drivel under our noses at all times.
Marketroids have arrogated to themselves the right to pollute every visible surface with their crap, and for some reason nobody even seems to question that right.
I often think the world would be a better place if every single marketroid was rounded up and sent to the gas chambers.
You want a well built device that is not going to rely on OS specific closed source drivers?
I've had a Samsung ML-1710 laser printer for several years. It's only monochrome (which satisfies my limited requirements) but it has a very small footprint and is 100% reliable and is reasonably fast for a consumer-grade machine. And it works perfectly with CUPS. No proprietary hocus required.
There's only 1 way to complete protect a wireless network: Turn it off.
I have a better way, though it does have its downsides: Living a long way away from any roads or other settlements. But I guess there aren't too many places we can do that any more. I am fortunate enough to have a property in deepest, darkest Tasmania where my access road is 1.5 km away from a "C" road. I don't have much problem with wardrivers.
However, it's a long drive on my tractor to drop off my rubbish and pick up my snail-mail...:-)
You're right in that this analysis wouldn't work on most British people, since to be English is almost by definition to be a mongrel (in the nicest sense). But mtDNA by itself quite literally only tells half the story about one's ancestry. For the paternal side we would have to look at Y-chromosome DNA. And to have any sort of rigour, you would probably need a big cocktail of STRs and probably SNPs from the rest of the genome as well.
But as it's applied as TFA indicates, in an attempt to differentiate between African nationalities, the project is doomed to failure, since a lot of African cultures are nomadic or have bred from nomadic stock, and no-one knows anywhere near enough about their DNA to establish a real pattern.
It might be more honest if the British Government were to just admit that it is catering to a common and wide streak of racism that persists, and just cart anyone who doesn't speak with a BBC accent off to a concentration camp.
I know that sounds inflammatory, but when I was last living in Britain on a full-time basis, Thatcher was openly fostering the most openly fascist attitudes I imagined possible. The Labour party used to at least nominally stand for social justice, but I see none of that in their policies of the last decade, and it could be argued that in many ways the present Labour government is simply a more insidious version of its predecessor.
Seems to me there's a difference between your phone number being available for an app (i.e. for the customer's convenience) and the app passing it on to any third party.
A more honest approach would be some kind of opt-in if it has to be done at all.
Good. I was wondering if this was yet another asinine meme that had passed me by. Urban Dictionary defines phych (without providing any etymology) as "to beat someone shitless", which doesn't really parse in this context.
You might think you're joking... but global take-up of this technology is never going to happen until the US does something about its byzantine copyright laws. Amazon is perfectly able to sell an international customer a paper copy of most books, but is usually unable (or unwilling) to sell him a digital version. Which is, I guess, why I have yet to see a Kindle here in Australia.
Furthermore, when US publishers somehow manage to claim copyright on the work of a British author long after he is dead and his work has passed into the public domain in his own country (I'm thinking of George Orwell here, from a recent/. discussion), we see commercial greed not only crippling freedom of trade and expression, but unnecessarily complicating the lives of publishers, distributors and consumers.
Well, why not? A second look might not be a bad thing. But only if it doesn't lead down a blind alley in the way that Firewire did. If Apple goes down this path as the article suggests, and uses Light Peak as its only interface, it would be buying trouble. Having only grudgingly been forgiven for leaving customers with Firewire devices in the lurch (with their smaller laptops) in favour of a de facto standard USB 2.0, telling them that they can no longer use their iPod or USB HDD will go down like a lead balloon.
In that sense, it would make more sense for Apple to throw in its lot with USB 3.0. At least a Type A plug will still fit in the hole, even if it is only at 480Mb/s.
and I'm really annoyed that health care is currently distracting the Senate from an issue that affects the future of the entire human race.
Well, this doesn't help, but I can see why health care is the focus of attention: it is one thing the government can do something about. Climate change is a serious problem, but it is now too big to fix, since no-one has the will to adopt a policy amounting to more than "business as usual" and "let's have another toke on that big ole' oil-pipe".
A lot of political mileage is being made of proposed emissions trading schemes, but it's too late for that. They are just accounting exercises - like pushing food around on the plate to make it look like you're eating less.
I'm sorry if that sounds defeatist, but I'd be happy to hear an alternative. People will not change until they're forced to.
The owner of the gmail account should be able to sue the bank for damaging their business.
That might not be very easy to prove. Especially since it was the action of the judge that nuked his account. Good luck suing him. But you're right in that the judge was way out of line in capriciously disrupting someone's life when he has done nothing wrong.
This brings up another point: there is an increasing tendency for American companies to conflate US Law with World Law. If I, a gmail account holder living in Australia, had my account nuked by some craniorectal US judge, I would be mightily pissed off, since no US judge has jurisdiction over me. But no matter how pissed off I was, I would have no redress.
This just makes me glad I run my own mail server...
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Paranoid or not, I hope you've revoked the access of your sudoer with the dictionary password...
Isn't this the wrong forum to ask this question? Pimply 11-year-old slashbots and exercise? Well, hello?
;-)
*ducks*
My previous iPods were always filled to capacity with music encoded by myself from CDs. Now I have a 160GB iPod Classic, and it is 35% full, and my music collection has room to grow. Bliss!
Of course, Apple seems to believe you might be right, since they have discontinued this model. More fool them.
I haven't met one person offline who actually purchases music online.
I do. I buy all my music online - but as CDs, since my iPod isn't up to delivering the kind of sound quality I insist on when I'm at home.
I am perfectly tech literate, but it is rarely possible or worth the trouble to download non-legit music if you have a taste for anything other than mainstream crap.
Over time, I suspect physical books will inevitably be moving back to their original social place as cultural collectibles or luxury items.
That might be true if publishers and sellers could come up with some sort of agreement that doesn't unnecessarily lock out large sections of the world's population. For instance, I can buy dead-tree copies of most books from Amazon. But if I attempt to buy an electronic copy of the same book (from Australia), I usually hit a brick wall.
This is clearly stupid.
But to say that it's therefore not communication is ill-founded.
If you read my post, you'll notice that I never said that.
The druids (although we don't know much else about them) were several thousand years later.
Well, except for the reliability thing, yeah...
:-|
Well, I guess there is probably no machine ever manufactured that worked well for everybody. You obviously got a dud, where I (and several acquaintances) got a reliable, cheap and reasonably quick device. However, I never found a Breville toaster that worked...
the idea that "communication is two way" does not seem to be founded in law, information theory, or common English usage...
Here's one version of a common definition (from Oxford English Dictionary): "sharing or exchange of information, news, or ideas".". That does indeed imply a two-way process. If your law or information theory don't cover that, then that's just too bad. The word itself (and its Latin origin) have been around far longer. And as far as your concept of English usage is concerned, I would suggest that yelling from the rooftops might be considered redundant in the absence of someone who hears and understands the message.
If we're actively looking for a given kind of product, there are lots of useful and effective ways for suppliers to make their products known to us when required.. That does not constitute a reason or excuse for continually waving marketing drivel under our noses at all times.
Marketroids have arrogated to themselves the right to pollute every visible surface with their crap, and for some reason nobody even seems to question that right.
I often think the world would be a better place if every single marketroid was rounded up and sent to the gas chambers.
You want a well built device that is not going to rely on OS specific closed source drivers?
I've had a Samsung ML-1710 laser printer for several years. It's only monochrome (which satisfies my limited requirements) but it has a very small footprint and is 100% reliable and is reasonably fast for a consumer-grade machine. And it works perfectly with CUPS. No proprietary hocus required.
I am almost certain ... that this $10,000 fine will cripple Oracle's ability to compete in the future
I would be inclined to diagnose atrophy of moderator's irony gland.
However, three lefts do, in fact commonly make a right.
HTH
There's only 1 way to complete protect a wireless network: Turn it off.
:-)
I have a better way, though it does have its downsides: Living a long way away from any roads or other settlements. But I guess there aren't too many places we can do that any more. I am fortunate enough to have a property in deepest, darkest Tasmania where my access road is 1.5 km away from a "C" road. I don't have much problem with wardrivers.
However, it's a long drive on my tractor to drop off my rubbish and pick up my snail-mail...
Don't knock it - self-illuminating houses (even if only for milliseconds) are the in thing in the new energy-concious world. ;-)
Damn, I wish I'd thought of that. :-D
You're right in that this analysis wouldn't work on most British people, since to be English is almost by definition to be a mongrel (in the nicest sense). But mtDNA by itself quite literally only tells half the story about one's ancestry. For the paternal side we would have to look at Y-chromosome DNA. And to have any sort of rigour, you would probably need a big cocktail of STRs and probably SNPs from the rest of the genome as well.
But as it's applied as TFA indicates, in an attempt to differentiate between African nationalities, the project is doomed to failure, since a lot of African cultures are nomadic or have bred from nomadic stock, and no-one knows anywhere near enough about their DNA to establish a real pattern.
It might be more honest if the British Government were to just admit that it is catering to a common and wide streak of racism that persists, and just cart anyone who doesn't speak with a BBC accent off to a concentration camp.
I know that sounds inflammatory, but when I was last living in Britain on a full-time basis, Thatcher was openly fostering the most openly fascist attitudes I imagined possible. The Labour party used to at least nominally stand for social justice, but I see none of that in their policies of the last decade, and it could be argued that in many ways the present Labour government is simply a more insidious version of its predecessor.
Seems to me there's a difference between your phone number being available for an app (i.e. for the customer's convenience) and the app passing it on to any third party.
A more honest approach would be some kind of opt-in if it has to be done at all.
Citation & spellchecker needed.
Good. I was wondering if this was yet another asinine meme that had passed me by. Urban Dictionary defines phych (without providing any etymology) as "to beat someone shitless", which doesn't really parse in this context.
OK. I was joking about the consonants, all right? I even spelt it out for you with a ":-D".
Or do I have to poke you in the eye with a ";-)"?
But the DRM in it is state-of-art!
/. discussion), we see commercial greed not only crippling freedom of trade and expression, but unnecessarily complicating the lives of publishers, distributors and consumers.
You might think you're joking... but global take-up of this technology is never going to happen until the US does something about its byzantine copyright laws. Amazon is perfectly able to sell an international customer a paper copy of most books, but is usually unable (or unwilling) to sell him a digital version. Which is, I guess, why I have yet to see a Kindle here in Australia.
Furthermore, when US publishers somehow manage to claim copyright on the work of a British author long after he is dead and his work has passed into the public domain in his own country (I'm thinking of George Orwell here, from a recent
Well, I guess if your language has that many consonants, you could be asking for a ham sandwich and no-one would know. :-D
it's Intel's version of USB 3
Well, why not? A second look might not be a bad thing. But only if it doesn't lead down a blind alley in the way that Firewire did. If Apple goes down this path as the article suggests, and uses Light Peak as its only interface, it would be buying trouble. Having only grudgingly been forgiven for leaving customers with Firewire devices in the lurch (with their smaller laptops) in favour of a de facto standard USB 2.0, telling them that they can no longer use their iPod or USB HDD will go down like a lead balloon.
In that sense, it would make more sense for Apple to throw in its lot with USB 3.0. At least a Type A plug will still fit in the hole, even if it is only at 480Mb/s.
and I'm really annoyed that health care is currently distracting the Senate from an issue that affects the future of the entire human race.
Well, this doesn't help, but I can see why health care is the focus of attention: it is one thing the government can do something about. Climate change is a serious problem, but it is now too big to fix, since no-one has the will to adopt a policy amounting to more than "business as usual" and "let's have another toke on that big ole' oil-pipe".
A lot of political mileage is being made of proposed emissions trading schemes, but it's too late for that. They are just accounting exercises - like pushing food around on the plate to make it look like you're eating less.
I'm sorry if that sounds defeatist, but I'd be happy to hear an alternative. People will not change until they're forced to.
The owner of the gmail account should be able to sue the bank for damaging their business.
That might not be very easy to prove. Especially since it was the action of the judge that nuked his account. Good luck suing him. But you're right in that the judge was way out of line in capriciously disrupting someone's life when he has done nothing wrong.
This brings up another point: there is an increasing tendency for American companies to conflate US Law with World Law. If I, a gmail account holder living in Australia, had my account nuked by some craniorectal US judge, I would be mightily pissed off, since no US judge has jurisdiction over me. But no matter how pissed off I was, I would have no redress.
This just makes me glad I run my own mail server...