It's a strange concept and there are some odd approaches being taken so that people can wrap their heads around the idea.
I have real doubts about measuring or compairing one song to another. Does time = worth? How about how many notes are being used? Is classical worth more than pop?
I guess in the end it just comes down to the same concept that governs all monitary transactions. How much will the market bear or what is the song worth to you?
I think it will take a damned sophisiticated bit of equipment to measure what people are actually seeing. It has already been pointed out that people are "Tivo-ing" and "time shifting". In addition, our TVs and cable boxes are fired up even when we are watching DVDs in a separate video mode. Not to mention the hours we spend playing Everquest in a Video mode 2 while the box (connected to Video 1) is tuned in to CSPAN. How often do we surf four or five programs to dodge ads? What about when I turn the TV off but the cable box is still on? How about PIP with sound off for the baseball game but on in MTV screen? One family member does Final Fantasy/VH1.
I noted these and other behaviors when I kept a log for one research group. My summation was that for a very large chunk of time when the TV or cable was on, we weren't watching what it looked like we were watching.
SOE has claimed copyright infringement. Sony lead attorney, R. U. Stiltskin, said that in compensation the mother must give up...
her first born child!!!!
Details of the delay remain vague. But industry watchers say the Motorola-iTunes phones, as well as digital music on cell phones in general, still needs to find a way for carriers to make money.
"The network operators may see some incremental revenue from digital music downloads," said Gartner analyst Ben Wood, "but it won't be the bonanza many predicted."
Product details are scant. But the iTunes-equipped Motorola phones were supposed to download songs from a desktop computer -- via a cable or a short-range wireless technology like Bluetooth -- and store up to 100 songs.
Although a potential boon for both Apple and Motorola, it's hard to say how the wireless carriers will fit in.
Since customers would buy songs directly from Apple or download their CDs from a computer, carriers don't stand to gain much selling Motorola's iTunes phones. Carriers subsidize the cost of phones, so they want ways to recoup their money.
Actually what you really want to do is to build a set of evolving self-assembling robots that get their parts by disassembling other robots. That way there is evolutionary pressure to evolve faster and faster self-assemblers.
Or faster and faster disassmeblers. There can be only one.
OUR universe appears to be unfathomably uniform. Look across space from one edge of the visible universe to the other, and you'll see that the microwave background radiation filling the cosmos is at the same temperature everywhere. That may not seem surprising until you consider that the two edges are nearly 28 billion light years apart and our universe is only 14 billion years old
This one has me so puzzled I'm sure I won't even understand someone's kind effort at an explanation. Wouldn't one expect the horizon edges to be exactly twice the distance from the center? I mean the BigBang happens and spreads out in all directions. 14 billion years later the edges are 28 billion light years apart--14 light years along one radius and 14 along the other. What am I missing?
Wait a second! Maybe I solved it! Stoopid fizzassits.
Combine this with spotlight/tiger in mac os. Spotlight indexes PDF content. print it to pdf and it will be searchable. Assuming you have a Mac that is.
Yea, I've done the same. Every year I archive only the necessary messages to PDF as one big file so I can search for the nugget of data I'm looking for. I don't get too anal about it 'cause I don't really have to do searches too often.
Main Apache Apple AskSlashdot 5 more Books BSD 1 more Developers 4 more Games 19 more Interviews IT 2 more Linux 1 more Politics Science 5 more YRO 2 more Help FAQ Bugs Stories Old Stories Old Polls Topics Hall of Fame Submit Story About Supporters Code Awards Services Broadband PriceGrabber Product Guide Special Offers Tech Jobs Why rumors? Why rumors? (Score:1) by BWJones (18351) on Friday March 11, @12:06PM (#11911436) (http://prometheus.me...b/pubx_pubx_bwj.html) So, while it is interesting to speculate on what Apple may be doing and where they may be going with various products, I have never really understood the rabid nature of the fan sites and rumor sites. What is the point with rumors? Can anybody explain that to me?
I don't know what the author of the parent thinks but I would love to find out the Eggs were the RealThing. It would be exciting. I was just as excited and desirous of Cold Fusion. At the time I remember telling people, "This could really be a valid phenomenon".
I believe the hurtles for new ideas should be determined by how disconnected those ideas are from established ones. If something is remarkable but derived from a proven body of work then the hurtles should be lower. Consider nanotechnology as an example. Sounds outrageous but hey, they are constructing the building blocks as we speak.
To my ear the concept of the Eggs seem to me totally unique. Certainly the statistics component has precedent but the core concept of anything influencing random events seems to violate the definition of random. It could just be that this will be an evolutionary jump in our understanding--but the proponents should expect to have a lot of 'splain' to do Lucy.
Ad homenum attacks have no place in scientific discussion
Agreed. I might be willing to believe that the Eggs (love the name BTW) are being influenced but my question is, who is going to interpret what it is that's effecting these machines? Is there a person in the next room going through a divorce or is the Pope going to die? No, I'm sorry this is observer bias. Like the article says,
Cynics will quite rightly point out that there is always some global event that could be used to 'explain' the times when the Egg machines behaved erratically. After all, our world is full of wars, disasters and terrorist outrages, as well as the occasional global celebration. Are the scientists simply trying too hard to detect patterns in their raw data?
See the interesting documentary Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey which is both mysterious and tragic. The virtuosity of the aged player who learned under Mr. Theremin was impressive.
First of all we have the purist gamers and, let's say, somecasual gamers (apparently many) that support the activity of our subject.
Of course we also have entrepreneurs, hackers, manual laborers, and outsourcing (if it can be called that anymore) and paranoia (I mean, now any farming party or group can be looked at askance). and godonlyknowswhat the publishers and their IT staff are up to.
In any case the MMORPGxyz world is perhaps the most complex and dynamic gameplay milieux to this point.
Sounds more like RL to me everyday.
For those of us who understand by seeing something demonstrated--which is prolly a result of being raised by TV but TADS-FAD (that's a different subject for another day). Hmmm, kinda looks like an Expose rif! What think you?
Same RDF that Steve exudes nowadays. Observe the flourish with which he removes the boot disc from his jacket and starts the machine up. It's exciting to see this early presentation of many components of compuring that we take for granted. And how great was the execution of the device itself--both in hardware and software? Many people hadn't seen a mouse at the time. Small floppy format, text to speech and a GUI! I believe that some of those images are shown utilizing an application that was part of the included software. MacDraw maybe? Perhaps most thrilling was the pan of the audience at the end. Literally, the first Mac was something to stand and cheer about.
On the humorous side was the File or Edit pull-down menu with about 2 sub-items in it.
Resonance: a cable will tend to vibrate; it will be necessary to dampen the vibration. Usually this is done with strategically placed weights. With an object climbing the cable, however, the resonance will be constantly changing.
The result will be music that whales everywhere can enjoy!
What about this assertion from the MacIntouch page?
John C. Welch
...Using/Library/StartupItems/ for it shows some thought about Mac OS X. One of the problems with that directory is that, while items in it run as root prior to login, you don't have to be root to create startup items in that directory, nor do they have to be owned by root to run. Any admin user can use this directory to create startup items that will run as root. That's a weakness that hopefully will get fixed....
Could a Trojan be written to trick the user into installing a StartUp Item?
Yea, the big thing about dead people (or seriously ill, near death people) is that they look very different from health individuals. That's the first thing that gets your attention before you even get to the point of considering CPR. It's not like you discover the pulselessness first.
Fine. Outsourcing is the right of every company, whether it's outsourcing motherboard construction or programming. Of course the flip side to the free market is being able to buy from any country.
GMTA! I think one thing is obvious from reading the comments that have been posted. Globalization has too many variables and is still too new for us to fully appreciate the impact it will have. What is obvious is that there is going to be some kinda re-alignment of resources, incomes, profits etc. A commentary on CNBC noted that the US, being more flexible will be at some advantage over more rigid economies. But who knows for sure?
Slashdot Mirror
I have real doubts about measuring or compairing one song to another. Does time = worth? How about how many notes are being used? Is classical worth more than pop?
I guess in the end it just comes down to the same concept that governs all monitary transactions. How much will the market bear or what is the song worth to you?
Please God no cross species infection!
I noted these and other behaviors when I kept a log for one research group. My summation was that for a very large chunk of time when the TV or cable was on, we weren't watching what it looked like we were watching.
SOE has claimed copyright infringement. Sony lead attorney, R. U. Stiltskin, said that in compensation the mother must give up... her first born child!!!!
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Or faster and faster disassmeblers. There can be only one.
This one has me so puzzled I'm sure I won't even understand someone's kind effort at an explanation. Wouldn't one expect the horizon edges to be exactly twice the distance from the center? I mean the BigBang happens and spreads out in all directions. 14 billion years later the edges are 28 billion light years apart--14 light years along one radius and 14 along the other. What am I missing?
Wait a second! Maybe I solved it! Stoopid fizzassits.
Yah, drag it to iTunes!
I believe the hurtles for new ideas should be determined by how disconnected those ideas are from established ones. If something is remarkable but derived from a proven body of work then the hurtles should be lower. Consider nanotechnology as an example. Sounds outrageous but hey, they are constructing the building blocks as we speak. To my ear the concept of the Eggs seem to me totally unique. Certainly the statistics component has precedent but the core concept of anything influencing random events seems to violate the definition of random. It could just be that this will be an evolutionary jump in our understanding--but the proponents should expect to have a lot of 'splain' to do Lucy.
Ad homenum attacks have no place in scientific discussion
Yes!
See the interesting documentary Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey which is both mysterious and tragic. The virtuosity of the aged player who learned under Mr. Theremin was impressive.
First of all we have the purist gamers and, let's say, some casual gamers (apparently many) that support the activity of our subject. Of course we also have entrepreneurs, hackers, manual laborers, and outsourcing (if it can be called that anymore) and paranoia (I mean, now any farming party or group can be looked at askance). and godonlyknowswhat the publishers and their IT staff are up to.
In any case the MMORPGxyz world is perhaps the most complex and dynamic gameplay milieux to this point. Sounds more like RL to me everyday.
For those of us who understand by seeing something demonstrated--which is prolly a result of being raised by TV but TADS-FAD (that's a different subject for another day). Hmmm, kinda looks like an Expose rif! What think you?
Mod'emUp!
Same RDF that Steve exudes nowadays. Observe the flourish with which he removes the boot disc from his jacket and starts the machine up. It's exciting to see this early presentation of many components of compuring that we take for granted. And how great was the execution of the device itself--both in hardware and software? Many people hadn't seen a mouse at the time. Small floppy format, text to speech and a GUI! I believe that some of those images are shown utilizing an application that was part of the included software. MacDraw maybe? Perhaps most thrilling was the pan of the audience at the end. Literally, the first Mac was something to stand and cheer about.
On the humorous side was the File or Edit pull-down menu with about 2 sub-items in it.
The result will be music that whales everywhere can enjoy!
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Could a Trojan be written to trick the user into installing a StartUp Item?
Needs work. What about Rhonda?
Once a month my wife takes the twenty so I have to get a fresh one.
I'm gonna guess that the handle is there so the item can be lifted in order to dust underneath.