It is true. The problem is, you won't know which of the tracks you bought now you will still listen to 5 years down the line.
Think that's true of only stuff from the last decade? What about all those other acts from the 60s that didn't make it big (eg: the vast majority of them). Surely someone must have bought their albums...
Agree. The U.S. economy is melting down as we speak, and Sony is worried why people aren't investing in more HDTVs and Blu-ray players and buying all our movies again in another format at $30+ each for only a gain in resolution?
Hell, the economy even has only a little to do with it.
Make players that cost $100 and make the disc premium $1-2 more than standard DVDs ($15 for a new release DVD during the first week of sale at Walmart!) and you can even sell it during the recession.
I'm not sure if it's a zero-config wireless utility. All I can say is that my Ubuntu box automatically will log me into the wireless network and remember which wireless network I am logged into on next login.
I understand that with v8.10, it will log onto the wireless network as part of the boot process (currently it will do so only after you have logged in).
I had a conversation with a highly intelligent individual in her early thirties.
She had no idea that Apple still made computers. She has seen Apple stores and never went inside. She assumed that they were for selling iPod-related stuff.
I pointed her to http://www.apple.com/imac/ . Needless to say, she was blown away. I told her that next time she went to the mall, stop by the Apple store.
I have an awful suspicion that she is not unique in thinking that Apple got out of the PC market around when the iPod came out.
That being said, I'm pretty sure her next computer is going to be a max.:-)
I buy overpriced PCs bundled with shiny, snobbish crapware! Yes, I'm a Mac user, and while MS couldn't pay me to switch back, I'm still defending Vista (is that the smell of burnt karma in the morning?)
The more countries (and private groups) we have performing these types of missions, the better.
We can't expect the U.S. to do it alone, given all the poor and homeless people in the U.S., the recent financial system meltdown, and the large number of people in the penal system in the U.S.
The U.S. has other worries. Let Europe, India and China inherit the moon.
I am a doctor. I'm board certified in Internal Medicine and 4 subspecialties (cardiology, interventional cardiology, nuclear medicine, echocardiography), and plan to take the board exams in a couple other subspecialties. I have numerous plaques for being teacher of the year during my residency, fellowship, and my few years as an attending. I have the program director of one of the residency programs at the hospital calling to see if I can give extra lectures to the resident (at their request), even though I left the hospital and the hospital has ~20 other cardiologists.
By the way, I failed organic chemistry the first time I took it. I passed physical chemistry the first time around, but it almost kicked my ass as well.
Somehow I don't feel that organic chemistry is a good reflection of how I am as a physician.
IAAD (I Am A Doctor), and organic chemistry has less to do with the practice of medicine than general physics. (Really. Try understanding the limitations of an MRI machine without some physics background.)
I say get rid of organic chemistry and add in a requirement for something in the humanities, a year of a language, or something else that may actually come up when dealing with patients.
Or better yet, a year of economics, as physicians are notoriously bad at things dealing with money. I would suggest business management for a year, but is that even available as an undergraduate course?
Agree. I assume that he cannot comment on anything the RIAA says at this point, until this business is settled.
Also, I can't believe that Mr. Beckerman will represent himself, so this will cause him some cash or at least divert resources from the firm he works for.:-(
Maybe some other group can help him on a pro-bono basis?
My thought (admittedly based on other folks on the 'net) is that the kessel run is a race from one point on the surface of the volume of Kessel, to another point on the far end of the volume.
The fact that you can do it in a particularly small number of parsecs suggests that you are getting really close to the even horizon of a black hole at the center of Kessel.
I remember when Mozilla first decided to add an EULA to Firefox, and the coders weren't sure what the point was, except that a lot of other Windows software also had them.
My worry is, is this going to extend to the Firefox that is on the live CD (which will affect people more, due to the limitations of running anything on a live CD)?
I think the Mozilla guys are asshats about this. I'm surprised that they felt this was absolutely necessary.
Looks like the lawyers have taken over mozilla.org.
It does accentuate how out of touch both Seinfeld and Gates are (and even mentions that fact).
You would have no idea that it's a commercial about an OS.
In fact, you can run the same commercial and put a picture of Tux at the end, with the slogan "Keep uninvited pests away" (or something like that; I'm not a marketing guy) and be quite effective.
Maybe google will sell pre-filled servers to libraries that contain a terabyte of the news archive and a way to update directly from google.com for a nominal fee.
Maybe libraries will just use the google archive and save all the expense and space of the microfilm archive and put it to better use.
I was recently researching a local event that occurred in July 2007 and was on the front page of the local paper at the time.
I have to use the paper's pay-per-view to get a digitized copy or paper reproduction of the article or find a paper copy in my local library's archive (if they even have a copy).
And this newspaper has a pretty nice web page with search and everything.
It's not a resource hog. I can fit my OS and all my applications (Yes, including OpenOffice 2, GIMP and everything you need under the sun) in a couple of GB if you wanted to.
Many linux distributions (including Ubuntu) come on Live CDs that include the OS, desktop, openoffice.org, firefox, and god knows what else in less than 700mb.
Then there are distributions like Damn Small Linux that do even better.
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It is true. The problem is, you won't know which of the tracks you bought now you will still listen to 5 years down the line.
Think that's true of only stuff from the last decade? What about all those other acts from the 60s that didn't make it big (eg: the vast majority of them). Surely someone must have bought their albums...
I'm out of the house 13 hours a day 5 days a week. I get home and I have chores and a new born to deal with.
You really shouldn't use the term "new born". To the lay person, that usually signifies a living child. The correct term is "Macbook Pro".
The correct place is on top of the computer, so you can use the heat generated by your video cards to cook the ramen.
Is MediaSentry a licensed private investigator in the state(s) involved at the time of the infraction?
If not, they may not be a wholly unbiased witness.
An error has occurred on the error logging device.
Obviously supply far outweighs demand.
The solution is for the worker to train in something in which demand is high.
Agree. The U.S. economy is melting down as we speak, and Sony is worried why people aren't investing in more HDTVs and Blu-ray players and buying all our movies again in another format at $30+ each for only a gain in resolution?
Hell, the economy even has only a little to do with it.
Make players that cost $100 and make the disc premium $1-2 more than standard DVDs ($15 for a new release DVD during the first week of sale at Walmart!) and you can even sell it during the recession.
I'm not sure if it's a zero-config wireless utility. All I can say is that my Ubuntu box automatically will log me into the wireless network and remember which wireless network I am logged into on next login.
I understand that with v8.10, it will log onto the wireless network as part of the boot process (currently it will do so only after you have logged in).
Slightly off topic.
I had a conversation with a highly intelligent individual in her early thirties.
She had no idea that Apple still made computers. She has seen Apple stores and never went inside. She assumed that they were for selling iPod-related stuff.
I pointed her to http://www.apple.com/imac/ . Needless to say, she was blown away. I told her that next time she went to the mall, stop by the Apple store.
I have an awful suspicion that she is not unique in thinking that Apple got out of the PC market around when the iPod came out.
That being said, I'm pretty sure her next computer is going to be a max. :-)
I buy overpriced PCs bundled with shiny, snobbish crapware! Yes, I'm a Mac user, and while MS couldn't pay me to switch back, I'm still defending Vista (is that the smell of burnt karma in the morning?)
Where is my +1 Bizarre mod when I need it?
The more countries (and private groups) we have performing these types of missions, the better.
We can't expect the U.S. to do it alone, given all the poor and homeless people in the U.S., the recent financial system meltdown, and the large number of people in the penal system in the U.S.
The U.S. has other worries. Let Europe, India and China inherit the moon.
I am a doctor. I'm board certified in Internal Medicine and 4 subspecialties (cardiology, interventional cardiology, nuclear medicine, echocardiography), and plan to take the board exams in a couple other subspecialties. I have numerous plaques for being teacher of the year during my residency, fellowship, and my few years as an attending. I have the program director of one of the residency programs at the hospital calling to see if I can give extra lectures to the resident (at their request), even though I left the hospital and the hospital has ~20 other cardiologists.
By the way, I failed organic chemistry the first time I took it. I passed physical chemistry the first time around, but it almost kicked my ass as well.
Somehow I don't feel that organic chemistry is a good reflection of how I am as a physician.
IAAD (I Am A Doctor), and organic chemistry has less to do with the practice of medicine than general physics. (Really. Try understanding the limitations of an MRI machine without some physics background.)
I say get rid of organic chemistry and add in a requirement for something in the humanities, a year of a language, or something else that may actually come up when dealing with patients.
Or better yet, a year of economics, as physicians are notoriously bad at things dealing with money. I would suggest business management for a year, but is that even available as an undergraduate course?
Agree. I assume that he cannot comment on anything the RIAA says at this point, until this business is settled.
Also, I can't believe that Mr. Beckerman will represent himself, so this will cause him some cash or at least divert resources from the firm he works for. :-(
Maybe some other group can help him on a pro-bono basis?
I'm from the moon, you insensitive clod!
And a parsec is a measure of distance.
My thought (admittedly based on other folks on the 'net) is that the kessel run is a race from one point on the surface of the volume of Kessel, to another point on the far end of the volume.
The fact that you can do it in a particularly small number of parsecs suggests that you are getting really close to the even horizon of a black hole at the center of Kessel.
but this is a bit much.
I remember when Mozilla first decided to add an EULA to Firefox, and the coders weren't sure what the point was, except that a lot of other Windows software also had them.
My worry is, is this going to extend to the Firefox that is on the live CD (which will affect people more, due to the limitations of running anything on a live CD)?
I think the Mozilla guys are asshats about this. I'm surprised that they felt this was absolutely necessary.
Looks like the lawyers have taken over mozilla.org.
I'm an ubuntu user for three years, but I think it would be smart for any company that large to go with Red Hat for the better corporate penetration.
Actually, I found parts of it pretty funny.
It does accentuate how out of touch both Seinfeld and Gates are (and even mentions that fact).
You would have no idea that it's a commercial about an OS.
In fact, you can run the same commercial and put a picture of Tux at the end, with the slogan "Keep uninvited pests away" (or something like that; I'm not a marketing guy) and be quite effective.
Does it work in a virtual machine?
Otherwise, you can play it and then reformat the hard drive.
Libraries will adapt.
Maybe google will sell pre-filled servers to libraries that contain a terabyte of the news archive and a way to update directly from google.com for a nominal fee.
Maybe libraries will just use the google archive and save all the expense and space of the microfilm archive and put it to better use.
Forget about stuff before 1997.
I was recently researching a local event that occurred in July 2007 and was on the front page of the local paper at the time.
I have to use the paper's pay-per-view to get a digitized copy or paper reproduction of the article or find a paper copy in my local library's archive (if they even have a copy).
And this newspaper has a pretty nice web page with search and everything.
While we're on the subject, is there any way to transcode DVDs to divx with a .avi container on linux systems?
I'm trying to create .avi files similar to what I can download from torrents that will play on a DVD player that can also play Ultra Divx files. (see this player: http://www.amazon.com/Philips-DVP5140-Multiformat-Windows-Support/dp/B000F2KUK8/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1220573310&sr=8-1 )
It's not a resource hog. I can fit my OS and all my applications (Yes, including OpenOffice 2, GIMP and everything you need under the sun) in a couple of GB if you wanted to.
Many linux distributions (including Ubuntu) come on Live CDs that include the OS, desktop, openoffice.org, firefox, and god knows what else in less than 700mb.
Then there are distributions like Damn Small Linux that do even better.
If people are using chrome and not IE, they generate more ad revenue.
If people are using chrome and not Firefox, they don't have to pay mozilla.org.