Having an online library will appeal to a lot of people.
Having an online library will appeal to a lot of people. But what Hollywood wants you to do is video-on-demand pay-per-view. If the telcos (or cable companies) really solve the last mile problem, the remaining technical problems will not be that much of a challenge.
Yes, the video-on-demand stuff I see. But what about the home-movie archive? (As in archives of the stuff dad shot with his MiniDV camera?)
Well I woulda thought that too... but where is the centerpoint of Charon's orbit around Pluto? Is it a double-planet? I dunno, you dunno, we dunno, they dunno. But isn't it nice that the terms are so vague we're all right?
Orbits aren't circular, they're elliptical, so it isn't that there's a center, it's that there are two foci, and the planet is at one of them. My question, then, is this: in the case of Pluto and Charon, is Charon at one focus of Pluto's "orbit around" Charon, just as Pluto is at one focus of Charon's orbit around Pluto? And what about the orbits of the Earth and Moon?
Cruithne isn't really a moon - it's a coorbital companion. And if you look at the Cruithne FAQ fm6 linked to, you'll see that it's not the only one. So if these coorbital companions counted as moons, this new object (if it isn't just a spent rocket booster) really would be the fifth moon.
Does the Earth have any other companions or moons?
Yes, the Moon. But apart from that, there are no natural objects known to be in close dynamical relationships with the Earth. NEW! Asteroid 1998 UP1 and 2000 PH5 have been found to be in similar relationships with our planet. We are currently (18 Sept 2001) working on publishing these results. Look for more info here soon.
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It sounds like it may have already settled into a stable orbit. There's no reason I can think of why the earth can't have a 50-day satellite.
My point was that folks like ReplayTV and Tivo would be most likely to buy drives like this, and computer manufacturers who market their computers around such software as iMovie and Windows MovieMaker.
If the environment gets more hostile, as I expect it to, adding removable storage to PVRs might become a legal problem, and folks will want to keep larger libraries of shows.
For computers, the idea of having an always-on-line library of home movies might become more desirable as broadband comes in.
How many of the Linux boxen are dual boot with either Windows or OS X? A more representative stat might be percentage of desktops with Windows, Linux, and Mac OS as their primary boot system, rather than just percentage of desktops owned.
That said, of course Linux would have more desktops: you can run Linux on nearly everything, while the Mac OSen need Mac hardware, and Mac hardware costs more. And let's face it - if you're competent enough to use Linux regularly, you're competent enough to get a copy of it for free.
Maybe you can count the number of developers you know (as someone in another thread above did) who have Macs on one hand, but what percentage of UNIX developers and cross-platform developers (including Web developers, e.g.) drool over Mac hardware they can't afford?
Good. A little feedback if you find it useful: it might be an idea to find someone who can do some market research into some of the things the MPAA and the RIAA are doing and see how the younger demographics shift with them. Senator Boxer might not like it if enough one-issue voters go Green in the next election (for the environment, the Patriot Act, etc.; I don't know how the Greens stand on the DMCA) and she loses her left flank; she won't lose to the Greens, but without support on her left she might lose to the Republicans.
Don't speculate on things you don't know anything about.
Reading what he has said, it sounds like HP decided that he was a liability for his outspokenness against MS, and that he decided he didn't want to work in a company where he couldn't speak out against MS, and he and HP decided it was time for him to leave. No need to speculate on his productivity, etc. Such things sometimes happen.
Rather than running for office, have you thought about approaching the Democratic party in California to put together some kind of issue caucus? (Or maybe you've already done it and I'm just ignorant.) There may be candidates in the party in CA who would be interested in broadening their constituency a bit.
You might want to keep in mind that the DMCA (the subject of this thread) is a US law; since the story is relevant only to the US, it would make sese that the comment is relevant only to the US.
As a side-note, does anyone have a theory on how Apple will name their products in the future once the 10.x numbers run out for them (or they get sick of 10.x)? Mac OS XIV anyone?
[Theory] Apple Mac OS X 10.0-10.9 (Oh-ess-ten ten-point-nine); then Apple OSX 11.0 (Oh-ess-EX eleven-point-zero).
As for X11, I had no problems installing XFree86 several different ways on my OS X 10.1 Mac; the sort of folks who are going to use X apps for Mac don't need to have an Apple-annointed way of doing it.
There is no clear answer to the question "Is glass solid or liquid?". In terms of molecular dynamics and thermodynamics it is possible to justify various different views that it is a highly viscous liquid, an amorphous solid, or simply that glass is another state of matter which is neither liquid nor solid.
Just because Apple has an OS X port for x86 hardware, that doesn't mean that it works on more than just their reference hardware. See http://www.opensource.apple.com/projects/darwin/1. 4/x86_install_notes.txt , the install notes for Darwin for x86:
IDE:
Only the PIIX4 IDE controllers have been found to work.
Attached devices must be UDMA/33 compatible or better.
Ethernet:
Intel 8255x 10/100 ethernet controllers are supported.
Video:
You must have a VESA 2.0 compliant video card. Almost all modern graphics cards are VESA 2.0 compliant. However, emulators such as vmware do not have VESA 2.0 compliant emulated video cards.
Successfully tested hardware:
All 440BX motherboards tested have worked with their internal IDE controllers.
IBM ThinkPad A21m (with onboard Intel ethernet)
Known to not be supported:
All AMD and VIA based systems.
I would imagine that any version of OS X for x86 has only been tested on the supported hardware. This does not an x86 product make. Apple is just letting Motorola know that if they have to make the switch, they can.
Yes, because we know that anything that is popular is automatically bad. And of course we know that anything obscure and unread by the masses is automatically better.
You really think American Gods is obscure and unread by the masses? Sorry, but unread and obscure books don't get on the New York Times Bestseller List.
I will never, ever, understand why certain people must hate anything that a lot of other people happen to like (see also: movies, Titanic).
Titanic is a bad movie, period. Has nothing to do with its popularity. Most of the people who liked it have very underdeveloped taste. Star Wars was a good movie, and it was quite popular. Apocalypse Now was a great movie, and it was popular. So was the Godfather. So was Schindler's List.
Let's see: which is better, Power Rangers or Dune? I'd gather that Power Rangers is a lot more widely known. . .
"I think I crash about once a week, heavy browsing use."
Is that on XP?
Yes. Wouldn't be any point responding to you if I didn't have the same platform.
"A lot depends upon whether or not you uninstall first, then reinstall."
For the benefit of those of you wondering 'so which is better?' the Mozilla site says 'Installing on top of previously installed builds may cause problems'. So bye-bye bookmarks and downloaded pluggins, hello clean install..
On XP, just use the uninstall mechanism, then install. This leaves behind the bookmarks (which are in your user directory, not in the Mozilla directory). I'm sure there's an easy way to save the plugins, too.
I think I crash about once a week, heavy browsing use. A lot depends upon whether or not you uninstall first, then reinstall. Not ideal, I know, but it's only a few seconds, and your profile and email and such are still intact.
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Having an online library will appeal to a lot of people.
Having an online library will appeal to a lot of people. But what Hollywood wants you to do is video-on-demand pay-per-view. If the telcos (or cable companies) really solve the last mile problem, the remaining technical problems will not be that much of a challenge.
Yes, the video-on-demand stuff I see. But what about the home-movie archive? (As in archives of the stuff dad shot with his MiniDV camera?)
Thanks, btw.
Well I woulda thought that too... but where is the centerpoint of Charon's orbit around Pluto? Is it a double-planet? I dunno, you dunno, we dunno, they dunno. But isn't it nice that the terms are so vague we're all right?
Orbits aren't circular, they're elliptical, so it isn't that there's a center, it's that there are two foci, and the planet is at one of them. My question, then, is this: in the case of Pluto and Charon, is Charon at one focus of Pluto's "orbit around" Charon, just as Pluto is at one focus of Charon's orbit around Pluto? And what about the orbits of the Earth and Moon?
According to NEO, "J002E3 was not a minor planet (Sept. 6.68 UT)". Does this means that they've already confirmed that it's space junk?
Actually, everyone is in fact saying that it's a UFO. One of Earth origin (unless it's natural).
Cruithne isn't really a moon - it's a coorbital companion. And if you look at the Cruithne FAQ fm6 linked to, you'll see that it's not the only one. So if these coorbital companions counted as moons, this new object (if it isn't just a spent rocket booster) really would be the fifth moon.
Does the Earth have any other companions or moons?
Yes, the Moon. But apart from that, there are no natural objects known to be in close dynamical relationships with the Earth. NEW! Asteroid 1998 UP1 and 2000 PH5 have been found to be in similar relationships with our planet. We are currently (18 Sept 2001) working on publishing these results. Look for more info here soon.
It sounds like it may have already settled into a stable orbit. There's no reason I can think of why the earth can't have a 50-day satellite.
My point was that folks like ReplayTV and Tivo would be most likely to buy drives like this, and computer manufacturers who market their computers around such software as iMovie and Windows MovieMaker.
If the environment gets more hostile, as I expect it to, adding removable storage to PVRs might become a legal problem, and folks will want to keep larger libraries of shows.
For computers, the idea of having an always-on-line library of home movies might become more desirable as broadband comes in.
What do you think, ES?
What do people actually put on 320GB hard drives?
Four letters:
T
I
V
O
Bigger drives mean bigger video libraries on PVRs, more home movies, etc.
How many of the Linux boxen are dual boot with either Windows or OS X? A more representative stat might be percentage of desktops with Windows, Linux, and Mac OS as their primary boot system, rather than just percentage of desktops owned.
That said, of course Linux would have more desktops: you can run Linux on nearly everything, while the Mac OSen need Mac hardware, and Mac hardware costs more. And let's face it - if you're competent enough to use Linux regularly, you're competent enough to get a copy of it for free.
Maybe you can count the number of developers you know (as someone in another thread above did) who have Macs on one hand, but what percentage of UNIX developers and cross-platform developers (including Web developers, e.g.) drool over Mac hardware they can't afford?
Good. A little feedback if you find it useful: it might be an idea to find someone who can do some market research into some of the things the MPAA and the RIAA are doing and see how the younger demographics shift with them. Senator Boxer might not like it if enough one-issue voters go Green in the next election (for the environment, the Patriot Act, etc.; I don't know how the Greens stand on the DMCA) and she loses her left flank; she won't lose to the Greens, but without support on her left she might lose to the Republicans.
Don't speculate on things you don't know anything about.
Reading what he has said, it sounds like HP decided that he was a liability for his outspokenness against MS, and that he decided he didn't want to work in a company where he couldn't speak out against MS, and he and HP decided it was time for him to leave. No need to speculate on his productivity, etc. Such things sometimes happen.
Rather than running for office, have you thought about approaching the Democratic party in California to put together some kind of issue caucus? (Or maybe you've already done it and I'm just ignorant.) There may be candidates in the party in CA who would be interested in broadening their constituency a bit.
> explain to me how Linux has any
> kind of edge over OS X.
Three things:
1. There are Linux distributions for many different architectures.
2. Price.
3. License (freedom).
Of course, there are a lot more than three things that OS X has over Linux, beginning with usability.
That's in the US only
You might want to keep in mind that the DMCA (the subject of this thread) is a US law; since the story is relevant only to the US, it would make sese that the comment is relevant only to the US.
As a side-note, does anyone have a theory on how Apple will name their products in the future once the 10.x numbers run out for them (or they get sick of 10.x)? Mac OS XIV anyone?
[Theory] Apple Mac OS X 10.0-10.9 (Oh-ess-ten ten-point-nine); then Apple OSX 11.0 (Oh-ess-EX eleven-point-zero).
As for X11, I had no problems installing XFree86 several different ways on my OS X 10.1 Mac; the sort of folks who are going to use X apps for Mac don't need to have an Apple-annointed way of doing it.
My understanding (IANAL) is that the shape of the letters isn't protected (e.g., a PNG), only the font itself (e.g., if it is embeded).
But maybe it's a liquid . . .
There is no clear answer to the question "Is glass solid or liquid?". In terms of molecular dynamics and thermodynamics it is possible to justify various different views that it is a highly viscous liquid, an amorphous solid, or simply that glass is another state of matter which is neither liquid nor solid.
From the page linked at the end of the posting.
Can't the fact that the idea has been around for a long time, in both sci-fi books, movie and games mean this has "prior art".
Uh, no. I am not a patent lawyer, but I believe prior art means someone actually has to have built such a thing, not just dreamed it up.
I wonder is American Gods out in paperback yet. :-)
Paperback came out May 2002, according to the CIP data in my paperback copy (HarperCollins; N. American printing).
Well, if Power Rangers is a movie, it's probably better than the movie made of Dune.
Make that "better than both movies made of Dune." Not quite, but close enough to make it funny.
Just because Apple has an OS X port for x86 hardware, that doesn't mean that it works on more than just their reference hardware. See http://www.opensource.apple.com/projects/darwin/1. 4/x86_install_notes.txt , the install notes for Darwin for x86:
IDE:
Only the PIIX4 IDE controllers have been found to work.
Attached devices must be UDMA/33 compatible or better.
Ethernet:
Intel 8255x 10/100 ethernet controllers are supported.
Video:
You must have a VESA 2.0 compliant video card. Almost all modern graphics cards are VESA 2.0 compliant. However, emulators such as vmware do not have VESA 2.0 compliant emulated video cards.
Successfully tested hardware:
All 440BX motherboards tested have worked with their internal IDE controllers.
IBM ThinkPad A21m (with onboard Intel ethernet)
Known to not be supported:
All AMD and VIA based systems.
I would imagine that any version of OS X for x86 has only been tested on the supported hardware. This does not an x86 product make. Apple is just letting Motorola know that if they have to make the switch, they can.
"Dispossessed" is a fabulous book, and the gender-bending shows a pretty "alternate" approach to S/F in and of itself. And it was published in 1975.
Are you thinking of The Dispossessed or The Left Hand of Darkness?
Yes, because we know that anything that is popular is automatically bad. And of course we know that anything obscure and unread by the masses is automatically better.
You really think American Gods is obscure and unread by the masses? Sorry, but unread and obscure books don't get on the New York Times Bestseller List.
I will never, ever, understand why certain people must hate anything that a lot of other people happen to like (see also: movies, Titanic).
Titanic is a bad movie, period. Has nothing to do with its popularity. Most of the people who liked it have very underdeveloped taste. Star Wars was a good movie, and it was quite popular. Apocalypse Now was a great movie, and it was popular. So was the Godfather. So was Schindler's List.
Let's see: which is better, Power Rangers or Dune? I'd gather that Power Rangers is a lot more widely known. . .
"I think I crash about once a week, heavy browsing use."
Is that on XP?
Yes. Wouldn't be any point responding to you if I didn't have the same platform.
"A lot depends upon whether or not you uninstall first, then reinstall."
For the benefit of those of you wondering 'so which is better?' the Mozilla site says 'Installing on top of previously installed builds may cause problems'. So bye-bye bookmarks and downloaded pluggins, hello clean install..
On XP, just use the uninstall mechanism, then install. This leaves behind the bookmarks (which are in your user directory, not in the Mozilla directory). I'm sure there's an easy way to save the plugins, too.
I think I crash about once a week, heavy browsing use. A lot depends upon whether or not you uninstall first, then reinstall. Not ideal, I know, but it's only a few seconds, and your profile and email and such are still intact.