1) Started outside US (harder for US Laws to smash) 2) Has discovered alternative sources of income (some controversial) instead of trying to cajole RIAA for permission to start a premium service that makes users pay. 3) Does not have server farms distributing illegal MP3s unlike Napster. 4) More decentralized software.
I collect CDs too, but do think that portable media type is the future. A simple instance where your CDs may prove to be too archaic would be when you would want to carry them around during travel and at the same time share it with folks staying back at home. Audio tapes replaced records for the same reason.
We have already reached a threshold where such technology can match CD quality but it hasnt really taken off as a distribution medium (over the internet) thanks to a few people who think MP3s = PIRACY and few others who would love to see you shell out extra cash for another CD.
All of the latest games ? Sorry, that can come only with some solid corporate backing . If we had that, linux would be a OS at #2 that could actually kick windows at #1.
Currently that corporate backing simply doesnt exist and i have always wondered why. Apple has a quick time player for windows, why doesnt it have one for linux ? Adobe PDFs - why doesnt it have a reader for linux ? Macromedia only recently release a buggy flash player (still in beta) for linux that cant run most of the stuff i could find online.
I dont know the answers to why these corporations wouldnt want to encourage development of smallest of linux apps. But this I believe is one of the big reasons linux is a greater success when it comes to governments adopting it rather than average Joe blow.
i disagree. When you have the occupants sitting inside the car its easier for both of you to adjust your conversation level depending on how tight the traffic is or how much of attention level is required. It would be difficult to expect the person on the other end of the phone to have similar understanding.
Besides that the difference between using a headset and talking to someone beside you is same as that between listening to your favourite song using a headphone and listening to it on a stereo. Which of the two do you think has a easier chance of having you preoccupied ?
I heard on a BBC documentary that the reason he did not complete the Silmarillion was because he had grown too attached to the vivid reality & imagination that went into his writing. It was too difficult for him to part with it. Apparantly finishing books could become a painful moment for authors.
Are you the guy (J* K*) who got laid off from my company last month ? A very smart guy, I swear he thought exactly the way you do , unfortunately they dint need him anymore. Unless you are foolhardy enough to believe that there could absolutely be no replacement for YOU for the price under these hellish market conditions, you would be a little more guarded in your approach.
If the guy is talking of increasing reliability for enterprise servers, companies are already along that path- e.g. IBM. If he is referring to day to day tasks of administration, automation in that aspect would be slow to come by. Is it just me or does anyone else think that the comparing IT administration to telephone lines is to over simplify the former ? The interface for one is more complex. The goals of IT admins going around trouble shooting application related problems cannot be narrowed down to distinct goals that telephone systems might have i.e: 1) Provide a Dial tone 2) Allow user to make a connection 3) Allow user to disconnect
I recently got a 24x CDRW thinking that NOW would be the time to get organized and burn all that data (wink wink) on my HD that I would have had to wait for days getting burned on my old 2x CDRW.
But guess what? laziness took over in less than 2 days and no burning happened. All i want for these CDRW is not a 100x or 1000x speed but a nice feeder tray - I drop in all my brand new CDs at the top, it gets burned, opens and drops it down to another hopper that holds my burned CD.
Nothing less than that is going to quench my need for Greed without having to move my butt.
good points there. Besides this, even if microsoft is successful in pushing its proprietary software there is not much of a loss to the open source community as a whole.
This is because of the very nature of Open source - free access to ALL of the Code (not just bits and pieces) which is ideal for education , research and development. Peek-a-boo release of code is never going to match that.
Not if Adobe took their permission. How hard would that be ?
Adobe to a publishing company : "We are trying to investigate a potential fraud and loss for your company due to a group involved in breaking your ebook's protection code. Can we have your permission to..."
Firstly, How can online activity ever be an active indicator of economic trends? Not everything done online is replicated at large in market in the real world. For example - I read news online, but dont buy any newspaper. I have browsed through catalogs of material online in amazon but havent bought much from them compared to what I would spend on totally different items in retail stores. The same applies for travel too.
Secondly, even if they do manage to get the software that tracks information on to peoples machine. How is this very different from online votes which almost always go with a disclaimer saying "The results represent only those who have been online on the site and is not scientifically valid" ?
They seem to have tons of predictions already . Is it just me or does someone else see their common trend of predicting that online business is THE IN thing.
but that still cant take away the credit for what could have been a potential presight from these imaginative authors. The whole article seems to be NOT about throwing away credit for discovery to these authors, but about the possibility "of discovery not being discovery itself" but a mere realization of something already existing - a very interesting thought. A quote for you from the article:
"as Mr. Siegfried defines them, are not human inventions awaiting technological realization, but rather insights into the nature of reality."
Think about this , when we go to the movies and we know that the movie is going to have aliens & a futuristic theme - why do we go in expecting aliens to look in a particular way (egg shaped heads with long oval eyes) ? flying saucers to be circular ? architecture to be composed of tall towers ? If you think that it is because of the way they have been habitually potrayed in the movies, my question is
"How has there been so much uniformity in such thoughts/imaginations about the future among those who have pictured it that way ?"
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1) Started outside US (harder for US Laws to smash)
2) Has discovered alternative sources of income (some controversial) instead of trying to cajole RIAA for permission to start a premium service that makes users pay.
3) Does not have server farms distributing illegal MP3s unlike Napster.
4) More decentralized software.
feel free to add to the list..
your xbox is not wireless-doesnt have bandwidth issues, case closed.
check out the picture . Looks very cool.
If their target market is someone with a "home network", they better tend to needs of uber geeks and release a linux version of their software.
I collect CDs too, but do think that portable media type is the future. A simple instance where your CDs may prove to be too archaic would be when you would want to carry them around during travel and at the same time share it with folks staying back at home. Audio tapes replaced records for the same reason.
We have already reached a threshold where such technology can match CD quality but it hasnt really taken off as a distribution medium (over the internet) thanks to a few people who think MP3s = PIRACY and few others who would love to see you shell out extra cash for another CD.
it doesn't run all of the latest games
All of the latest games ? Sorry, that can come only with some solid corporate backing . If we had that, linux would be a OS at #2 that could actually kick windows at #1.
Currently that corporate backing simply doesnt exist and i have always wondered why. Apple has a quick time player for windows, why doesnt it have one for linux ? Adobe PDFs - why doesnt it have a reader for linux ? Macromedia only recently release a buggy flash player (still in beta) for linux that cant run most of the stuff i could find online.
I dont know the answers to why these corporations wouldnt want to encourage development of smallest of linux apps. But this I believe is one of the big reasons linux is a greater success when it comes to governments adopting it rather than average Joe blow.
a sensible one will say
"You got fear !" and then go quiet.
There is however a new 9.0 version will be programmed to systematically bring down your fear.
" Hey Shmuck ! Is that all you got eh ? I can smell the poopie in yo pants. Come on, dont be a sissy ! When I was your age.."
i disagree. When you have the occupants sitting inside the car its easier for both of you to adjust your conversation level depending on how tight the traffic is or how much of attention level is required. It would be difficult to expect the person on the other end of the phone to have similar understanding.
Besides that the difference between using a headset and talking to someone beside you is same as that between listening to your favourite song using a headphone and listening to it on a stereo. Which of the two do you think has a easier chance of having you preoccupied ?
I heard on a BBC documentary that the reason he did not complete the Silmarillion was because he had grown too attached to the vivid reality & imagination that went into his writing. It was too difficult for him to part with it. Apparantly finishing books could become a painful moment for authors.
you know, conspiracy theories, underground stuff, basement, nerds with puters up at 12:45 AM.. there is a connection
I caught the ruddy spelling mistake. Should that have read :
"If you have Tolkien's fingerprint memorized, it's safe to say you REALLY NEED A NEW HOBBIT.."
The main goal is to create an "exact" copy of the Windows XP interface (without any registered logo/graphic), (Score:4, Funny)
Maybe I'm just sleepy, but wasn't the anniversary two years ago?
Yes it was, they were a bit slow with it, but its finally here - the slashdot repost.
Are you the guy (J* K*) who got laid off from my company last month ? A very smart guy, I swear he thought exactly the way you do , unfortunately they dint need him anymore. Unless you are foolhardy enough to believe that there could absolutely be no replacement for YOU for the price under these hellish market conditions, you would be a little more guarded in your approach.
If the guy is talking of increasing reliability for enterprise servers, companies are already along that path- e.g. IBM. If he is referring to day to day tasks of administration, automation in that aspect would be slow to come by. Is it just me or does anyone else think that the comparing IT administration to telephone lines is to over simplify the former ? The interface for one is more complex. The goals of IT admins going around trouble shooting application related problems cannot be narrowed down to distinct goals that telephone systems might have i.e:
1) Provide a Dial tone
2) Allow user to make a connection
3) Allow user to disconnect
I recently got a 24x CDRW thinking that NOW would be the time to get organized and burn all that data (wink wink) on my HD that I would have had to wait for days getting burned on my old 2x CDRW.
But guess what? laziness took over in less than 2 days and no burning happened. All i want for these CDRW is not a 100x or 1000x speed but a nice feeder tray - I drop in all my brand new CDs at the top, it gets burned, opens and drops it down to another hopper that holds my burned CD.
Nothing less than that is going to quench my need for Greed without having to move my butt.
Wonder why webquotes functionality did not incorporate searches on google groups.
After all, words and their connotations are better understood from a regular conversation. It is something i do regularly to check word usuage.
good points there. Besides this, even if microsoft is successful in pushing its proprietary software there is not much of a loss to the open source community as a whole.
This is because of the very nature of Open source - free access to ALL of the Code (not just bits and pieces) which is ideal for education , research and development. Peek-a-boo release of code is never going to match that.
Actually I don't think that would be legal at all
Not if Adobe took their permission. How hard would that be ?
Adobe to a publishing company : "We are trying to investigate a potential fraud and loss for your company due to a group involved in breaking your ebook's protection code. Can we have your permission to..."
slashdot.kids.us
I have three points ,
Firstly, How can online activity ever be an active indicator of economic trends? Not everything done online is replicated at large in market in the real world. For example - I read news online, but dont buy any newspaper. I have browsed through catalogs of material online in amazon but havent bought much from them compared to what I would spend on totally different items in retail stores. The same applies for travel too.
Secondly, even if they do manage to get the software that tracks information on to peoples machine. How is this very different from online votes which almost always go with a disclaimer saying "The results represent only those who have been online on the site and is not scientifically valid" ?
They seem to have tons of predictions already . Is it just me or does someone else see their common trend of predicting that online business is THE IN thing.
all the pr0n u mean ? too late, thats the next STROY...
they quite obviously had to support everything that were documenting with proof, they probably factored that in.
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how is that for funny cartoon ?
It has a hideous meaning that one slashdotter's pain is another slashdotter's funny comment. hehe
that is cosmEtologist from cosmetics btw...
but that still cant take away the credit for what could have been a potential presight from these imaginative authors. The whole article seems to be NOT about throwing away credit for discovery to these authors, but about the possibility "of discovery not being discovery itself" but a mere realization of something already existing - a very interesting thought. A quote for you from the article:
"as Mr. Siegfried defines them, are not human inventions awaiting technological realization, but rather insights into the nature of reality."
Think about this , when we go to the movies and we know that the movie is going to have aliens & a futuristic theme - why do we go in expecting aliens to look in a particular way (egg shaped heads with long oval eyes) ? flying saucers to be circular ? architecture to be composed of tall towers ? If you think that it is because of the way they have been habitually potrayed in the movies, my question is
"How has there been so much uniformity in such thoughts/imaginations about the future among those who have pictured it that way ?"