My WoW guild prides itself on holding guild meetings in places players really weren't meant to go. For example, one meeting was held in the mountains above Orgrimmar. The only way to get there is to leap from Winterspring all the way across Azshara -- that is, all the way across a zone. Engineering priests and warlocks are crucial.
I wouldn't mind being able to record my own "podcasts" off of the waves from NPR.
I haven't checked them out with any great frequency so I don't know if they lag at all, but I think all those programs you mention have podcasts available. They might be available directly from NPR, but I know that they are available for free in the podcast section of iTMS.
Or maybe they're trying to convince the other movie houses that they're really serious about this and that the public is interested enough.
I think that this has to be the main purpose. Starting with Disney and related studios is good, but it was almost a given with Jobs's relationship. They need to convince the other studios that it isn't as risky as they seem to think -- and will be profitable.
But the other purpose is to prove to the potential consumer of movies via iTMS that they are serious. If a customer feels that he or she will have the potential for additional value with their iPods and the "iTV", they may be more likely to gravitate to the iTMS than the Amazon.com store. Of course, this indirectly convinces more studios, which convinces more customers, so the two purposes are certainly intertwined.
I play music purchased on iTMS using a stereo in two ways:
1. Stream it. I have an AirPort Express, which has an audio out that I can feed directly into the stereo. (I assume that there are other similar -- and perhaps more full featured -- wireless widgets now; there weren't other options when I bought it.) Control is the big issue here -- I hate having to go into another room to change the music -- or pause, or skip or... A Mac Mini (or equivalent PC with remote) would solve half of the problem, but I'd still need a monitor. This issue has basically made me consider eliminating my stereo and replace it with a cheap laptop to serve the same purpose.
2. Burn to CD. I rarely do this, since I spent all that time ripping the music off of CDs, but it certainly solves a whole host of problems.
I know about the Roku Soundbridge and other similar components, but none of them will stream protected (ie, purchased) songs. I would love to find out about other options.
In that case, I'm not sure I follow your point. In any well abstracted API, an arbitrary software application should be agnostic to the hardware, as long as the API functions as advertised. Clearly there will be software that requires direct access to the hardware layer, but that's irrelevant to the general argument of the post to which you responded. The transition from one hardware platform to another -- in fact, from one instruction set and even one endianness to another -- has been made greatly invisible to the software applications, except in relatively specialized contexts. Commonality has nothing to do with Apple's ability to accomplish that. And if the API is unchanged from Mac OS X (PowerPC) and Mac OS X (Intel), an arbitrary application would not be aware on which version it is running, unless it makes a specific request. That is to say, the only commonality that is relevant is commonality of Cocoa and Carbon and the BSD/Darwin subsystem -- and that just means that both systems use Mac OS X (Universal) APIs.
Not sure if I missed something in your statement. If so, please elaborate.
Yes, because clearly, as everyone knows, commonality is directly correlated to how difficult a task is.
If Mac OS X translates easily from one platform to another, it is due to well thought out software design -- and no wonder, given their NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP roots, which ran on Motorola, Intel, Sparc, and HP/PA. The commonality issue has to do with the politics or business of the switch, not the relatively invisible manner with which that switch is being accomplished.
Those are valid expenses -- for Apple or Napster or whoever is providing the tracks for download. The fact remains that there is a large per track cost that the labels are charging the distributors.
The labels are people with very little sense of Economics, but very good Marketing and Business skills. They stated that they want the prices to become untethered to Apple's $0.99 per track, and that that would cause more popular tracks to become more expensive. That is, as supply remains constant and demand rises, one would reasonably expect prices to rise, too. The problem is that supply does NOT remain constant in a download distribution economy -- at least not the supply of goods (tracks), although bandwidth -- again, the distributor's costs, not the label's -- remains fixed.
(There's a link in the GP -- the one for Mario Kart and Animal Crossing)
The DS has built in Wi-fi. Assuming you're in range of either another DS (for an ad-hoc network) or a base station, you can play network capable games. Most multiplayer DS games even allow multiple DSes to play off of one copy of the game. (I'd like to say all, since I have yet to see one that doesn't, but I certainly haven't seen every DS game.) I think that games have to be specifically enabled to take advantage of anything other than the local ad-hoc network.
Right, two decades of Excel, and I still can't get a decent preview of a spreadsheet. Some innovation.
FYI, I haven't used the Windows version of Office in quite some time, so I can't say whether this feature is there, but the current Mac version has a Page Layout View which is okay. (Link goes to Mac Office features, which conveniently opens to a description of the Page Layout View).
IANAL and I don't know the details of the TPB case, so take this with an appropriate amount of salt, but there is something called contributory infringement. That is, if TPB knowingly allowed and abetted the infringement to occur, then they could be found liable. In addition, just because they are not in the US does not mean that they won't be subject to personal or in rem jurisdiction in America, depending on who and how they targeted with their site.
Now, how this applies to an International case involving a Torrent, I don't know, but something to keep in mind.
It depends if you watch a movie merely for the plot, or if you gain some additional sort of enjoyment from it, be it art, style, the mood it creates, or the mindless sense of abandonment of reality. Keep in mind that listening to a song just for the lyrics will grow old very quickly, but clearly that is not the only reason many people listen to music. The point is that while you may only derive pleasure from a movie's plot, someone else may enjoy other aspects.
Your comment "You can quote an entire movie line by line and I'm the moron" makes as much sense to some people as the equivalent "You know all the lyrics to an entire song" or "You know all the lines from a play" or.... Well, I hope you get the point.
In the end, while "listening to music is not at all like watching a movie [for Seumas]", it may be a similar experience for other people. Become a little more open minded, man.
While I don't really care what you believe, I am (at least for the near future) a Comanche MEP (Armament) Software Engineer, so I have first hand engineering sources. I do not know to which Aviation Week article you are refering, so I cannot comment on your statement directly.
It's actually rather quiet (for a helicopter). There's the great story about the demonstration in which one of the two prototypes snuck up from behind the grandstand without those seated noticing.
Actually, without going into details, it was intended to be the core of the digital battlefield, and the specs made it look like a flying radio tower. The MEP was focused, among other things, on the tactical internet and on digital messaging. There was a computer upgrade planned (within the cost of the program) in the next few years. I can't go into survivability features, but it had those, too.
While I don't know what system it will be using, the article explicitly states that they will not be using D20, because, apparently, D20 is not fun. The Computer says so, and the Computer is never wrong. The implication seems to be that it will not be an existing system.
The article did state that a fair number of the original supplements would be updated for this new edition, which may or may not mean that the system they are using may or may not be a derivation of the system that the original edition may or may not have used.
Except there is more utility at stake than merely the G5 (although, of course, for each entrant, the exact value of the utility will vary wildly). Some may gain pleasure from entering a contest, some may enjoy the possible prestige or resume boost from winning, for others, they might enjoy programming in general and see this as an opportunity to program but also have a chance at some material gain.
Clearly your utility is equivalent to your economic gain.
Another comment mentioned how to reactivate the root directory access from column view, but I wanted to add that there is another option. Every since Classic (perhaps 7.x, certainly 8.x) you can Command-click on the name in a Finder window's title bar to get a navigatable drop down listing of the path to the current window. Quite Invaluable.
Probably because the analysis was done by a toy store, who sells "Cards" as a single product, but "Simpsons Monopoly" versus "Lethargic Rabid Flying Monkey Monopoly" as two different products. No question that this would be more useful to the non-toy store owners out there if different card games were broken out by individual game; "War" and "52 Pick-up" have different audiences than "Bridge" and "Cribbage".
On the other hand, one of the "games" listed was a 3000 game compendium set, so I would say that "Cards" are roughly equivalent to that.
Not to get into a burger flamewar, especially since I have never eaten at (or heard of) Jody Maroni's, but the best hamburger I have ever had is at Louis' Lunch, in New Haven, CT. They claim to have invented the hamburger, and certainly have been around long enough for it to have been a possibility (~100 years).
Just don't ask for ketchup or fries. They get upset. Only possible toppings are onion, tomatoes, and cheese, and it's served on toast.
If it's published, it's media. It may not be relevant or broadly distributed media, but it's media. Just because Slashdot does not typically write articles does not disallow it from being considered "the media". Reader's Digest, Harper's, Utne Reader -- there are many examples of periodicals which republish text found elsewhere, while doing little more than providing commentary on that text -- if even that. For better or for worse, Slashdot does affect some public opinion.
Now, you may say that it only reaches a targetted segment of the general audience, but that's okay. What is the threshold for reaching a large enough audience to be considered "the media"? Everything from Psychology Today to the New Criterion to the Paris Review to People Magazine to the New York Times all service some subset of the entire general audience, but I think you would be hard pressed to claim than any of those could not be called "the media". Of course, you may be defining "the media" as CNN, ABC, the New York Times, and a few other very major sources. I still question what the threshold is to be considered "the media".
According to Netcraft, the Army is currently using WebSTAR on OS X to serve www.army.mil. You are right that they did use Classic at one point, but they switched to Windows, and then switched back to Mac OS X.
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The New Beetle is based on the same A3 chassis as the Golf and the Jetta, and all three cars have the same 1.8T as the Audi 1.8T. The main difference is the lack of quattro/4motion. (Plus the most recent Audi use a slightly different engine, and have more luxry features.)
My 2001 NB has 150 horsepower and plenty of torque; the current Turbo S has 180. For a car of its weight, there is plenty of engine -- plus the drivetrain is efficient enough that there is comparatively little power lost, versus the typical Altima, Accord, or Civic.
As to your comment that the NB is favored by teenage girls, but no one else, the purchase demographics is split evenly male/female. It's a safe vehicle that's comfortable, fun to drive, and has a surprising amount of storage space, so why not?
Do your research -- or at least take a test drive -- before you spout off.
I'm often surprised and pleased by the smells, colors, and tastes created by simple dishes. I probably cook Italian and Cambodian/Southeast Asian cuisine the most, but I have come to discover that cooking is incredibly fun. All I need to do now is master the art of portions; somehow I always cook way too much food no matter how many people are around.
A good introduction to cooking is Alton Brown's I'm Just Here for the Food, which tends to describe why different forms of cooking/heating have a different effect on the food. The most important thing when not baking is to let the flavors guide you.
I was an avid origamist in grade school, but then let it fall by the wayside. In the last few years, however, I have seen some absolutely incredible models and have been reinspired. Some example sites:
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My WoW guild prides itself on holding guild meetings in places players really weren't meant to go. For example, one meeting was held in the mountains above Orgrimmar. The only way to get there is to leap from Winterspring all the way across Azshara -- that is, all the way across a zone. Engineering priests and warlocks are crucial.
Or maybe they're trying to convince the other movie houses that they're really serious about this and that the public is interested enough.
I think that this has to be the main purpose. Starting with Disney and related studios is good, but it was almost a given with Jobs's relationship. They need to convince the other studios that it isn't as risky as they seem to think -- and will be profitable.
But the other purpose is to prove to the potential consumer of movies via iTMS that they are serious. If a customer feels that he or she will have the potential for additional value with their iPods and the "iTV", they may be more likely to gravitate to the iTMS than the Amazon.com store. Of course, this indirectly convinces more studios, which convinces more customers, so the two purposes are certainly intertwined.
I play music purchased on iTMS using a stereo in two ways:
1. Stream it. I have an AirPort Express, which has an audio out that I can feed directly into the stereo. (I assume that there are other similar -- and perhaps more full featured -- wireless widgets now; there weren't other options when I bought it.) Control is the big issue here -- I hate having to go into another room to change the music -- or pause, or skip or... A Mac Mini (or equivalent PC with remote) would solve half of the problem, but I'd still need a monitor. This issue has basically made me consider eliminating my stereo and replace it with a cheap laptop to serve the same purpose.
2. Burn to CD. I rarely do this, since I spent all that time ripping the music off of CDs, but it certainly solves a whole host of problems.
I know about the Roku Soundbridge and other similar components, but none of them will stream protected (ie, purchased) songs. I would love to find out about other options.
In that case, I'm not sure I follow your point. In any well abstracted API, an arbitrary software application should be agnostic to the hardware, as long as the API functions as advertised. Clearly there will be software that requires direct access to the hardware layer, but that's irrelevant to the general argument of the post to which you responded. The transition from one hardware platform to another -- in fact, from one instruction set and even one endianness to another -- has been made greatly invisible to the software applications, except in relatively specialized contexts. Commonality has nothing to do with Apple's ability to accomplish that. And if the API is unchanged from Mac OS X (PowerPC) and Mac OS X (Intel), an arbitrary application would not be aware on which version it is running, unless it makes a specific request. That is to say, the only commonality that is relevant is commonality of Cocoa and Carbon and the BSD/Darwin subsystem -- and that just means that both systems use Mac OS X (Universal) APIs.
Not sure if I missed something in your statement. If so, please elaborate.
Yes, because clearly, as everyone knows, commonality is directly correlated to how difficult a task is.
If Mac OS X translates easily from one platform to another, it is due to well thought out software design -- and no wonder, given their NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP roots, which ran on Motorola, Intel, Sparc, and HP/PA. The commonality issue has to do with the politics or business of the switch, not the relatively invisible manner with which that switch is being accomplished.
Those are valid expenses -- for Apple or Napster or whoever is providing the tracks for download. The fact remains that there is a large per track cost that the labels are charging the distributors.
The labels are people with very little sense of Economics, but very good Marketing and Business skills. They stated that they want the prices to become untethered to Apple's $0.99 per track, and that that would cause more popular tracks to become more expensive. That is, as supply remains constant and demand rises, one would reasonably expect prices to rise, too. The problem is that supply does NOT remain constant in a download distribution economy -- at least not the supply of goods (tracks), although bandwidth -- again, the distributor's costs, not the label's -- remains fixed.
(There's a link in the GP -- the one for Mario Kart and Animal Crossing)
The DS has built in Wi-fi. Assuming you're in range of either another DS (for an ad-hoc network) or a base station, you can play network capable games. Most multiplayer DS games even allow multiple DSes to play off of one copy of the game. (I'd like to say all, since I have yet to see one that doesn't, but I certainly haven't seen every DS game.) I think that games have to be specifically enabled to take advantage of anything other than the local ad-hoc network.
The Computer is your friend!
Of course, you'd go through clones a bit too quickly...
Would still be fun -- backstabbing, confusion, lies, deceipt, mutants -- everything one could ask for!
IANAL and I don't know the details of the TPB case, so take this with an appropriate amount of salt, but there is something called contributory infringement. That is, if TPB knowingly allowed and abetted the infringement to occur, then they could be found liable. In addition, just because they are not in the US does not mean that they won't be subject to personal or in rem jurisdiction in America, depending on who and how they targeted with their site.
Now, how this applies to an International case involving a Torrent, I don't know, but something to keep in mind.
Your comment "You can quote an entire movie line by line and I'm the moron" makes as much sense to some people as the equivalent "You know all the lyrics to an entire song" or "You know all the lines from a play" or.... Well, I hope you get the point.
In the end, while "listening to music is not at all like watching a movie [for Seumas]", it may be a similar experience for other people. Become a little more open minded, man.
Russell
While I don't really care what you believe, I am (at least for the near future) a Comanche MEP (Armament) Software Engineer, so I have first hand engineering sources. I do not know to which Aviation Week article you are refering, so I cannot comment on your statement directly.
It's actually rather quiet (for a helicopter). There's the great story about the demonstration in which one of the two prototypes snuck up from behind the grandstand without those seated noticing.
Actually, without going into details, it was intended to be the core of the digital battlefield, and the specs made it look like a flying radio tower. The MEP was focused, among other things, on the tactical internet and on digital messaging. There was a computer upgrade planned (within the cost of the program) in the next few years. I can't go into survivability features, but it had those, too.
Just a correction to your "what it didn't have".
an ex (?) Comanche Software Engineer
While I don't know what system it will be using, the article explicitly states that they will not be using D20, because, apparently, D20 is not fun. The Computer says so, and the Computer is never wrong. The implication seems to be that it will not be an existing system.
The article did state that a fair number of the original supplements would be updated for this new edition, which may or may not mean that the system they are using may or may not be a derivation of the system that the original edition may or may not have used.
Russ-L
Except there is more utility at stake than merely the G5 (although, of course, for each entrant, the exact value of the utility will vary wildly). Some may gain pleasure from entering a contest, some may enjoy the possible prestige or resume boost from winning, for others, they might enjoy programming in general and see this as an opportunity to program but also have a chance at some material gain.
Clearly your utility is equivalent to your economic gain.
Another comment mentioned how to reactivate the root directory access from column view, but I wanted to add that there is another option. Every since Classic (perhaps 7.x, certainly 8.x) you can Command-click on the name in a Finder window's title bar to get a navigatable drop down listing of the path to the current window. Quite Invaluable.
Russell
On the other hand, one of the "games" listed was a 3000 game compendium set, so I would say that "Cards" are roughly equivalent to that.
Russell
Not to get into a burger flamewar, especially since I have never eaten at (or heard of) Jody Maroni's, but the best hamburger I have ever had is at Louis' Lunch, in New Haven, CT. They claim to have invented the hamburger, and certainly have been around long enough for it to have been a possibility (~100 years).
Just don't ask for ketchup or fries. They get upset. Only possible toppings are onion, tomatoes, and cheese, and it's served on toast.
If it's published, it's media. It may not be relevant or broadly distributed media, but it's media. Just because Slashdot does not typically write articles does not disallow it from being considered "the media". Reader's Digest, Harper's, Utne Reader -- there are many examples of periodicals which republish text found elsewhere, while doing little more than providing commentary on that text -- if even that. For better or for worse, Slashdot does affect some public opinion.
Now, you may say that it only reaches a targetted segment of the general audience, but that's okay. What is the threshold for reaching a large enough audience to be considered "the media"? Everything from Psychology Today to the New Criterion to the Paris Review to People Magazine to the New York Times all service some subset of the entire general audience, but I think you would be hard pressed to claim than any of those could not be called "the media". Of course, you may be defining "the media" as CNN, ABC, the New York Times, and a few other very major sources. I still question what the threshold is to be considered "the media".
Russell
Russell
The New Beetle is based on the same A3 chassis as the Golf and the Jetta, and all three cars have the same 1.8T as the Audi 1.8T. The main difference is the lack of quattro/4motion. (Plus the most recent Audi use a slightly different engine, and have more luxry features.)
My 2001 NB has 150 horsepower and plenty of torque; the current Turbo S has 180. For a car of its weight, there is plenty of engine -- plus the drivetrain is efficient enough that there is comparatively little power lost, versus the typical Altima, Accord, or Civic.
As to your comment that the NB is favored by teenage girls, but no one else, the purchase demographics is split evenly male/female. It's a safe vehicle that's comfortable, fun to drive, and has a surprising amount of storage space, so why not?
Do your research -- or at least take a test drive -- before you spout off.
Oh well, trolls will be trolls, I guess.
A good introduction to cooking is Alton Brown's I'm Just Here for the Food, which tends to describe why different forms of cooking/heating have a different effect on the food. The most important thing when not baking is to let the flavors guide you.
Russell Ahrens
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