I agree, except the use of DRM already limits the music to Sony players anyways, so how does the memory stick make things any worse?
AFAIK, there isn't any compatible DRM for music. Maybe CSS (the now-broken DVD restriction scheme) convinced the industry that if you let enough parties implement the technology somebody will mess up and let the cat out of the bag?
Yes, it is true, there is a lot of peer pressure to not be a stand out intellectually. But to be a stand out in sports, thats A OK.
I disagree.
Maybe the reason kids and schools are more worried about social activities and sports is because they want to have successful careers!
In America, MBAs think scientists and engineers with master's degrees who make as much as MBAs are overpaid. And since MBAs make all the decisions and have all the power, well you figure it out. Students are doing just what their culture rewards. Technical prowess is usually a one-way ticket to the middle class (not knocking it, personally I'm happy that way) but many of us Americans are gamblers and want a chance at the big time.
Well, wait a minute. So far all I've seen is anguish about the decline of the US. But remember, "dominance" is a relative term. Are we going downhill, or are other countries simply advancing quickly to close the gap? Look at China, look at India. Unlike in the past, now there are quality schools and economic growth and opportunity in these countries. It only makes sense that more students are staying there, and more important science is being done.
The big difference is that anybody qualified to take on the boxing champ can do it.
High-paid voice actors are lottery winners. Any other reasonable choice of 6 or 7 different voices would have worked just as well, but obviously there's no switching them now.
Because you're talkign about government intervention, and any time the government intervenes, it's a completel and abject failure.
You can't really believe that.
Without government intervention, there wouldn't even be any such thing as property rights. Producing anything would be a waste of time, because whoever raised the biggest private army would help himself to whatever you produced.
More proactive governments have laws controlling things like child labor and worker safety. If adding a safety guard to a metal stamping machine adds $15 to its cost, and the laws allow you to discard maimed workers without compensating them for injuries, then clearly that's the best way to increase shareholder value. In fact competitive pressures will kill off manufacturers that refuse to do that to people. So we have laws to make that illegal. Those practices may be "anti-business" for somebody with a very extreme viewpoint, but they're obviously good for individuals and the country as a whole.
I think you're just defining "government intervention" to mean "government overbearance, in my own opinion." Nobody is arguing that more regulation is always better.
However, I and most people think laws like the ones I mentioned are good. Well, there's no point having them if they can be circumvented merely by exporting work overseas, which is what the current laws force manufacturers to do.
I agree the Tunsten-E is the closest thing out there, though it's still over 20% thicker than the PalmV. It also mysteriously lacks the universal connector - there goes my foldable keyboard! Still, I would buy the Tungsten E if I were buying today.
I'd say we're a lot more likely to see a small nuke or two go off, which is bad in itself. But the chance of exchanging hundreds of H-Bombs thus causing on a nuclear winter etc. are now very small. Compared to the Cold War, terrorism is a minor annoyance.
Why do we need special rules, laws, and treaties about the dissemination of nuclear weapons information and materials? Shouldn't the existing laws against murder cover it?
The answer is no, they would be grossly ineffective. Special measures provide boundaries around dangerous technologies, so that even acquiring them is difficult. You don't wait until you see a mushroom cloud over New York to do something about it.
There is no doubt in my mind that if we allowed anybody with a large bank account to have nukes, the world would NOT have been nuclear conflict free for the last 60 years. You can argue that nuclear proliferation is still inevitable in the long run, with eg. Pakistan's recent reckless behavior as proof. But I would argue that regardless of the future, whatever anti-proliferation measures we've taken were ALREADY justified by the good years we already enjoyed.
If the world ever reaches the point where anybody can kill everybody, we're screwed. But we should definitely delay that day by however much we can.
I didn't bother with it at all. It's not worth the hassle of downloading, installing and figuring out iTunes, registering for an account at the iMusic store, and poking around to see if they happen to have what you want, all for one single track that's permanantly tied to Apple!?
Good grief, even those chinsey "CD Clubs" give you a few free albums up front (just for signing up - not just if you're a "winner"), and sell uncompressed, non-DRM discs for about the same price as an album download from Apple.
Simple, Microsoft's concern is a tribute to Linux. Publicizing this sort of thing bolsters the public image of Linux and denies Microsoft the advantage they seek by hiding their worries.
Why does all that matter? Simple reasons, like more of us getting to use our preferred OS at work, and less frustration getting hardware to work under Linux because of better OEM support. That's why popularity matters.
I've been waiting and waiting for Palm or somebody to release a worthy update to the Palm V - something no thicker or heavier, but with much more memory, a faster processor, and a high-resolution screen. I haven't been able to find any such thing.
Meanwhile my m515 serves me fairly well, but the color screen - as you say - is of little benefit, drains the battery, and makes the unit both thicker and heavier than the Palm V, though not by much. All these new photo-taking Palms are even thicker and heavier. As far as I'm concerned (and I've used 3 different Palm organizers daily for the past 5 years) they're headed the wrong direction.
Many watches DO do something different when you hold a button down - they enter a "set" mode (to input the starting position of a countdown timer, or to set the time). I suppose Casio's Databank watches do too.
I have found Samba very workable and not too hard to set up.
At first I only thought of Samba as a hack to interoperate with Windows and assumed NFS was better. But over a few years I've had a number of troubles with NFS, from timeouts to UID translation to large file support (on Linux - I'm sure NFS is better on Solaris!) Finally I realized that Samba is not just a scab, it works fine and is easy to set up. Now I use it even to network Linux boxes. Sure Samba's guts might be messy but it doesn't seem to hurt anything.
I'm unclear about what exactly is being tested here. I was under the impression that satellites with atomic clocks had already confirmed relativistic effects on time:
At the time of launch of the first NTS-2 satellite (June 1977), which contained the first Cesium clock to be placed in orbit, there were some who doubted that relativistic effects were real. A frequency synthesizer was built into the satellite clock system so that after launch, if in fact the rate of the clock in its final orbit was that predicted by GR, then the synthesizer could be turned on bringing the clock to the coordinate rate necessary for operation. The atomic clock was first operated for about 20 days to measure its clock rate before turning on the synthesizer. The frequency measured during that interval was parts in faster than clocks on the ground; if left uncorrected this would have resulted in timing errors of about 38,000 nanoseconds per day. The difference between predicted and measured values of the frequency shift was only parts in , well, within the accuracy capabilities of the orbiting clock. This then gave about a validation of the combined motional and gravitational shifts for a clock at earth radii.
And then I read that even if this new probe does not measure the effect, most people will simply conclude that the experimental results are invalid. So are we proving a new result conclusively, and if so what is it?
I don't know... if possible, it's always better to have the option of unleashing all your processing power on a single thread. Of course presumably all these cores together will be faster than any single processor for running a bunch of independent or loosely coupled processes. But if the processes are TOO loosely coupled, a cluster of x86 boxes will put up a good fight (for instance, google runs on a huge cluster). And then there will be SMP Xeons, Opterons, and G5s in the race. Niagra may still be better in some small niche, but how much better - enough to justify a big fat Sun price tag?
As for the 3d desktop forget it, Sun isn't taking over the desktop in our lifetimes.
Well, the laptop I'm using right now runs RedHat9 with kernel 2.6 from kernel.org. There were a few hiccups but that was because of 2.4/2.6 incompatibilities, and not RedHat specific.
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AFAIK, there isn't any compatible DRM for music. Maybe CSS (the now-broken DVD restriction scheme) convinced the industry that if you let enough parties implement the technology somebody will mess up and let the cat out of the bag?
Maybe the reason kids and schools are more worried about social activities and sports is because they want to have successful careers!
In America, MBAs think scientists and engineers with master's degrees who make as much as MBAs are overpaid. And since MBAs make all the decisions and have all the power, well you figure it out. Students are doing just what their culture rewards. Technical prowess is usually a one-way ticket to the middle class (not knocking it, personally I'm happy that way) but many of us Americans are gamblers and want a chance at the big time.
Well, wait a minute. So far all I've seen is anguish about the decline of the US. But remember, "dominance" is a relative term. Are we going downhill, or are other countries simply advancing quickly to close the gap? Look at China, look at India. Unlike in the past, now there are quality schools and economic growth and opportunity in these countries. It only makes sense that more students are staying there, and more important science is being done.
High-paid voice actors are lottery winners. Any other reasonable choice of 6 or 7 different voices would have worked just as well, but obviously there's no switching them now.
Without government intervention, there wouldn't even be any such thing as property rights. Producing anything would be a waste of time, because whoever raised the biggest private army would help himself to whatever you produced.
More proactive governments have laws controlling things like child labor and worker safety. If adding a safety guard to a metal stamping machine adds $15 to its cost, and the laws allow you to discard maimed workers without compensating them for injuries, then clearly that's the best way to increase shareholder value. In fact competitive pressures will kill off manufacturers that refuse to do that to people. So we have laws to make that illegal. Those practices may be "anti-business" for somebody with a very extreme viewpoint, but they're obviously good for individuals and the country as a whole.
I think you're just defining "government intervention" to mean "government overbearance, in my own opinion." Nobody is arguing that more regulation is always better.
However, I and most people think laws like the ones I mentioned are good. Well, there's no point having them if they can be circumvented merely by exporting work overseas, which is what the current laws force manufacturers to do.
Reports on G5 noise are mixed; apparently it varies alot between machines, or they built some early noisy ones and then fixed it.
Even big safes full of bonds and stuff do that, as I learned watching "Die Hard."
I'd say we're a lot more likely to see a small nuke or two go off, which is bad in itself. But the chance of exchanging hundreds of H-Bombs thus causing on a nuclear winter etc. are now very small. Compared to the Cold War, terrorism is a minor annoyance.
The answer is no, they would be grossly ineffective. Special measures provide boundaries around dangerous technologies, so that even acquiring them is difficult. You don't wait until you see a mushroom cloud over New York to do something about it.
There is no doubt in my mind that if we allowed anybody with a large bank account to have nukes, the world would NOT have been nuclear conflict free for the last 60 years. You can argue that nuclear proliferation is still inevitable in the long run, with eg. Pakistan's recent reckless behavior as proof. But I would argue that regardless of the future, whatever anti-proliferation measures we've taken were ALREADY justified by the good years we already enjoyed.
If the world ever reaches the point where anybody can kill everybody, we're screwed. But we should definitely delay that day by however much we can.
Good grief, even those chinsey "CD Clubs" give you a few free albums up front (just for signing up - not just if you're a "winner"), and sell uncompressed, non-DRM discs for about the same price as an album download from Apple.
And no, I don't blame Apple for the situation.
Why does all that matter? Simple reasons, like more of us getting to use our preferred OS at work, and less frustration getting hardware to work under Linux because of better OEM support. That's why popularity matters.
Meanwhile my m515 serves me fairly well, but the color screen - as you say - is of little benefit, drains the battery, and makes the unit both thicker and heavier than the Palm V, though not by much. All these new photo-taking Palms are even thicker and heavier. As far as I'm concerned (and I've used 3 different Palm organizers daily for the past 5 years) they're headed the wrong direction.
Many watches DO do something different when you hold a button down - they enter a "set" mode (to input the starting position of a countdown timer, or to set the time). I suppose Casio's Databank watches do too.
Ah, well I didn't mean they're actually safer, just that the idea of driving over a Civic would appeal to them.
Good link, check out this one. Hummer ought to put that in their ads, somehow I think this is really the appeal after all.
That is bizarre, why are they targeting us? Why not at least base it on something less ambiguous, such as pay?
I have found Samba very workable and not too hard to set up. At first I only thought of Samba as a hack to interoperate with Windows and assumed NFS was better. But over a few years I've had a number of troubles with NFS, from timeouts to UID translation to large file support (on Linux - I'm sure NFS is better on Solaris!) Finally I realized that Samba is not just a scab, it works fine and is easy to set up. Now I use it even to network Linux boxes. Sure Samba's guts might be messy but it doesn't seem to hurt anything.
As for the 3d desktop forget it, Sun isn't taking over the desktop in our lifetimes.
Just today cnn is reporting that 2 of 5 "web users" do have broadband. The trend over the last 5 years is pretty clear!
Next you're going to tell me people could see in color before the 50s!
Well, the laptop I'm using right now runs RedHat9 with kernel 2.6 from kernel.org. There were a few hiccups but that was because of 2.4/2.6 incompatibilities, and not RedHat specific.
I think the point of this thing is that it's cheaper than 2 computers. If I were running an Internet cafe or a student lab it might be interesting.