Their "design" magic is putting all the most expensive features that are avalible into whatever product they make. Yes, that results in higher quality products, it also results in decades of mediocre sales for Apple. I love their designs as much as the next person, but choosing cheaper features isn't sacrificing ideals, its good business.
I suggest building drives with 8 read heads, all of which spin counter to the Cd at 25x, and the CD at 52x. Then we can burn disks faster then you can swap them in and out of the drive.
And can we figure out a way to get my disks to pop up like toast when they're done burning?
I think just about everyone on Slashdot is a paranoid nutcase, and the above post is a prime example of that. YOu think this group is pretending to talk about concerns in China, because if they said anything derogatory about the DOHS they would get arrested? That;'s bullshit and you know it. Nobody on this forum is genuinly affraid of being targeted by the government for critisizing the FBI/CIA/DOHS. If you are, your nuts, because thousands of online writers do so every day, and nobody threatens to put them in gulags.
I'm sick of every discussion of censorship being dominated by the tinfoil hat crowd. Use some common sense, and realise that there is absolutly no real evidence of any level of internet censorship by the US government, at all. If it happens, i'm first in line for the technology to get around it. But i really doubt that John Ashcroft is going to be firewalling Slashdot any time soon. OF course, if the arguments are going to continue to be so paranoid and baseless, maybe he should.
The one thing would like to see a line of flat panel screens across the front of the plane. During more interesting parts of the flight, these could provide a singular, wrap aroud view from cameras mounted inthe nozecone of the plane - it would look very cool.
The rest of the time,they could simply switch over to show inflight movies.
"hey, what you're failing to comprehend is that we happen to live in a society;"
Ya, that's what I'm doing. I forgot we live in a socioty. I thought we lived in a loose grouping of shanties, huts, and lean-too's deep in a forest somewhere.
But there rest of your argument is good.
Clock it, the requisite reference to 1984 was made by the 6th post in the discussion, i think that's a new record.
Seriously folks, go buy a second book. I hear Robert Ludlum's got some good stuff.
You know we're all in trouble when people are using Stalone movies as points of argument in a political debate.
Didn't you see rambo? Rambo is on the Taliban's side in that movie. So that proves they're the good guys.
People are just pissed about this archinving because they like the internet to be a 100% responsibility free zone - now matter what you say or do, you ca nalways change, edit or delete it later.
How about standing behind your comments and opinions, instead of just deleting them when they can be held against you? Yes - use nicknames and aliases, but dont expect that the things you put out there to be temporary. You put something out into the internet, it stays there, and it can be found later, thats the power of the net, and the price you pay for it.
I cannot remember the exact (or even approximate date) but at some point during the history of the British Empire (i believe between about 1550-1850) the King has a series of watchtowers built, streaching all the way from the atlantic ocean to London itself. The idea was to have the tower by the sea be on the lookout for the spanish Armada, and to light a signal fire in the tower to signal to the next tower, and to the next tower, and so on , until the signal reached London.
The construction and staffing of these towers would literally have cost a King's forture, the equivelent of many billions or trillions of dollars today. And the entire purpose was to pass on the signal fire - a SINGLE bit of information. Not even a byte, just a bit. I believe this is the most costly piece of binary data ever transmitted.
Why does everything involving security/privacy have to come down to the same tired, inapplicable old refences to 1984? We get it- your real smart and clever, having read the book along with 100 billion other people.
News flash - your not making some new, estute political observation that everyone else has missed, in the book 1984, the government takes away all privacy. Now this government is threatening people privacy, thank you for noticing. Can you please find a a factual basis for your argument, instead of just holding up an old novel and gesturing wildly? I get so sick of the orwell defence.
I fail to see how laws that force te government to tell the truth can be "harmfu" or be "exploited" y business. Environmental agreements like the Kyoto protocol will have unfair and devistating effects on the American economy, and they are based entirly on scientific opinion that is highly questionable at best. "Global Warming" is generally accepted to be true by just about everyone, although there is only limited data proving it. Shouldn't the public be allowed to question massive, sweeping legislation that is based largely on distorted, unproven or sometimes outright fialse scientific data?
This project is brings up some interesting questions about what Art is, and how it works. To be effective, a warning must be a truely universal work of art, understandable by all. IT should make the danger clear, but at the same time not try to scare people with superstition which may just attract more people then it deters.
Slashdot Mirror
Then the slashdot community can purchase both standards cheap at auction.
Their "design" magic is putting all the most expensive features that are avalible into whatever product they make. Yes, that results in higher quality products, it also results in decades of mediocre sales for Apple. I love their designs as much as the next person, but choosing cheaper features isn't sacrificing ideals, its good business.
I suggest building drives with 8 read heads, all of which spin counter to the Cd at 25x, and the CD at 52x. Then we can burn disks faster then you can swap them in and out of the drive. And can we figure out a way to get my disks to pop up like toast when they're done burning?
They can't, of course. Nobody judge would let this ruling stand. It's probably jsut a way for the company to exhort money from those it's suing.
I think just about everyone on Slashdot is a paranoid nutcase, and the above post is a prime example of that. YOu think this group is pretending to talk about concerns in China, because if they said anything derogatory about the DOHS they would get arrested? That;'s bullshit and you know it. Nobody on this forum is genuinly affraid of being targeted by the government for critisizing the FBI/CIA/DOHS. If you are, your nuts, because thousands of online writers do so every day, and nobody threatens to put them in gulags. I'm sick of every discussion of censorship being dominated by the tinfoil hat crowd. Use some common sense, and realise that there is absolutly no real evidence of any level of internet censorship by the US government, at all. If it happens, i'm first in line for the technology to get around it. But i really doubt that John Ashcroft is going to be firewalling Slashdot any time soon. OF course, if the arguments are going to continue to be so paranoid and baseless, maybe he should.
The one thing would like to see a line of flat panel screens across the front of the plane. During more interesting parts of the flight, these could provide a singular, wrap aroud view from cameras mounted inthe nozecone of the plane - it would look very cool. The rest of the time,they could simply switch over to show inflight movies.
"hey, what you're failing to comprehend is that we happen to live in a society;" Ya, that's what I'm doing. I forgot we live in a socioty. I thought we lived in a loose grouping of shanties, huts, and lean-too's deep in a forest somewhere. But there rest of your argument is good.
Clock it, the requisite reference to 1984 was made by the 6th post in the discussion, i think that's a new record. Seriously folks, go buy a second book. I hear Robert Ludlum's got some good stuff.
You know we're all in trouble when people are using Stalone movies as points of argument in a political debate. Didn't you see rambo? Rambo is on the Taliban's side in that movie. So that proves they're the good guys.
People are just pissed about this archinving because they like the internet to be a 100% responsibility free zone - now matter what you say or do, you ca nalways change, edit or delete it later. How about standing behind your comments and opinions, instead of just deleting them when they can be held against you? Yes - use nicknames and aliases, but dont expect that the things you put out there to be temporary. You put something out into the internet, it stays there, and it can be found later, thats the power of the net, and the price you pay for it.
I cannot remember the exact (or even approximate date) but at some point during the history of the British Empire (i believe between about 1550-1850) the King has a series of watchtowers built, streaching all the way from the atlantic ocean to London itself. The idea was to have the tower by the sea be on the lookout for the spanish Armada, and to light a signal fire in the tower to signal to the next tower, and to the next tower, and so on , until the signal reached London. The construction and staffing of these towers would literally have cost a King's forture, the equivelent of many billions or trillions of dollars today. And the entire purpose was to pass on the signal fire - a SINGLE bit of information. Not even a byte, just a bit. I believe this is the most costly piece of binary data ever transmitted.
Why does everything involving security/privacy have to come down to the same tired, inapplicable old refences to 1984? We get it- your real smart and clever, having read the book along with 100 billion other people. News flash - your not making some new, estute political observation that everyone else has missed, in the book 1984, the government takes away all privacy. Now this government is threatening people privacy, thank you for noticing. Can you please find a a factual basis for your argument, instead of just holding up an old novel and gesturing wildly? I get so sick of the orwell defence.
I fail to see how laws that force te government to tell the truth can be "harmfu" or be "exploited" y business. Environmental agreements like the Kyoto protocol will have unfair and devistating effects on the American economy, and they are based entirly on scientific opinion that is highly questionable at best. "Global Warming" is generally accepted to be true by just about everyone, although there is only limited data proving it. Shouldn't the public be allowed to question massive, sweeping legislation that is based largely on distorted, unproven or sometimes outright fialse scientific data?
The Pope is only the leader of the Catholic Church. The majority of Christians are not Catholic, and pay little attention to the Pope.
This project is brings up some interesting questions about what Art is, and how it works. To be effective, a warning must be a truely universal work of art, understandable by all. IT should make the danger clear, but at the same time not try to scare people with superstition which may just attract more people then it deters.