Looking at the local Best Buy and Walmart, I can't believe that BluRay makes up 20% of the demand of video discs. Even if you throw in all the Playstation 3 games. I'd be surprised if it was more than 5%.
Maybe 20% of generated income, since Bluray discs are not discounted and tend to be $30 or more, while DVDs are getting to be heavily discounted.
It should be interesting. Imagine getting an email of a physical object that gets printed on one of these. Now imagine an email of a virus that gets created by one of these and infects the people in the room. The implications are interesting.
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Do you think your body knows how to metabolize aspartane or whatever the artificial sweetener is in diet coke.
Evolution has allowed the human body to recognize dehydration and treat it by making us thirsty.
All the artificial sweeteners (including high fructose corn syrup) confuse that mechanism. Now when you are dehydrated you get hungry instead and end up taking in more calories rather than zero-cal water.
(Sorry for being way-off topic, but this has been a sore point for me for the last year:-) )
The ads shouldn't ruin the atmosphere of the game. As long as they seem appropriate wherever they appear, then I believe it is acceptable. The placement of ads in games should mimic the placement of ads in the real world. How about a scroll posted on a tree in front of an apothecary estolling the virtues of a Centrum Silver Elixer for +1 vitality?
Didn't Google present data on their disk failure rates? How about other large purchasers? Who cares if the manufacturers don't report them. If you have some very large purchasers report them, it may be more useful information, anyway.
Agree. Ubuntu on CD includes the whole OS, office suite, browser, email & calendaring, games, 3D effects and god knows what else. All of which work in a "Live CD" mode, in which you don't even need to install it on the computer.
The Live CD aspect saved me a few times when mucking about on a computer where the installed OS was unstable and/or virus-ridden.
Agree. Slim down the buttons and this will look quite nice.
An added benefit: I usually middle click on reply instead of left click, so that I keep my place in the thread and don't have to reload the page. Now left click on reply brings the reply box inline with the thread.:-)
When I type "sla" in the address bar, I want slashdot.org, not some random blog post with the term 'slashdot' in the title I happened to pass by at some point. The nice thing about awesombar is that the first time you select slashdot from the suggestions, it gets promoted to the first suggestion (if it wasn't already, since you likely visit it pretty often:-) )
Have you tried a squeezebox ( http://www.slimdevices.com/pi_squeezebox.html )? It's open source, has binaries for Windows, Mac OS X, and linux (including a repository for Debian/Ubuntu). I've had one for a couple years and it's a nice way to listen to my music in the living room without having an extra computer there or the TV on.
Several years ago on April fools slashdot changed it's entire colour scheme to a pink my little pony type theme and I beleive had the words omigodponies displayed on the site, possibly in place of slashdot. It's generally regarded as slashdot's best April fools joke. Actually, it was regarded as slashdot's best theme.
Reminds me of a Sci Fi story from a couple decades (at least) back. People around the world are doing their normal thing. There are newspapers and TV stations proclaiming that the end of the world is just a couple days away. People aren't terrified. If anything, they are happy. The day comes, and there is a countdown to "the end of the world". At the end of the countdown is the launch of the first star drive space ship. The newscasters then talk about how it's the end of the world...and the beginning of the universe.
It's a matter of the right tool for the right job. If your job involves rendering sites similar to acid3, a version of Opera that will come out later this year is likely for you. If your job involves flash on linux, apparently firefox is a better fit.
So that excludes the people who would want Photoshop to go Web-based, the MOST.
I'm talking about people using Opera or Konqueror on Linux. The Adobe Flash Player 7 and even 9 Beta works very, very poorly with these browsers, on Linux, and doesn't seem to be improving at all. The only browser being given attention is Firefox.
Guess we Linux users will have to wait for a long time, before we really starting using the internet and get recognised by the world. Unless, of course, you try using firefox sometimes.
To call rockbox an upgrade firmware is streching the truth a bit. Limited support for video, limited support for album art, and cluttered UI are real issues for individuals that want their players to "just work".
Mind you, I last installed it about 4 months ago. I'll try again if people say it's much better now.
The EULA issue is a red herring. The real problem is they pushed Safari to everyone who has iTunes. Most individuals who are not tech-savy will install Safari, given the option.
If Safari becomes the default browser on these systems, you end up with critical vulnerabilities in a browser installed on non-tech-savvy individuals' computers.
Not to mention if you use your home computer to stream media through the house. mp3/ogg files don't typically take up too much space (I can't imagine the vast majority of people using up more than a couple hundred GB), but what about TIVO-type DVRs. They can eat through a terabyte if you're not careful.
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Interesting. The new form has problems with > ; and < ; in text only submissions...
Should be an interesting poll:
How much money do you have in your (checking+savings) bank accounts?
1. 12 paychecks
Looking at the local Best Buy and Walmart, I can't believe that BluRay makes up 20% of the demand of video discs. Even if you throw in all the Playstation 3 games. I'd be surprised if it was more than 5%.
Maybe 20% of generated income, since Bluray discs are not discounted and tend to be $30 or more, while DVDs are getting to be heavily discounted.
It should be interesting. Imagine getting an email of a physical object that gets printed on one of these. Now imagine an email of a virus that gets created by one of these and infects the people in the room. The implications are interesting.
Buildings-shmildings.
Roads-shmoads.
Bridges... Oh Shit!
How about water.
:-) )
Do you think your body knows how to metabolize aspartane or whatever the artificial sweetener is in diet coke.
Evolution has allowed the human body to recognize dehydration and treat it by making us thirsty.
All the artificial sweeteners (including high fructose corn syrup) confuse that mechanism. Now when you are dehydrated you get hungry instead and end up taking in more calories rather than zero-cal water.
(Sorry for being way-off topic, but this has been a sore point for me for the last year
Targeting adds for a genre can be interesting...
Didn't Google present data on their disk failure rates? How about other large purchasers? Who cares if the manufacturers don't report them. If you have some very large purchasers report them, it may be more useful information, anyway.
Does Vista even come on CD? I thought it was a DVD only release.
Agree. Ubuntu on CD includes the whole OS, office suite, browser, email & calendaring, games, 3D effects and god knows what else. All of which work in a "Live CD" mode, in which you don't even need to install it on the computer.
The Live CD aspect saved me a few times when mucking about on a computer where the installed OS was unstable and/or virus-ridden.
Apparently Apple suddenly mentioned that carbon would not be supported in 64bit, meaning that a lot of code will have to be ported to cocoa.
Agree. Slim down the buttons and this will look quite nice.
:-)
An added benefit: I usually middle click on reply instead of left click, so that I keep my place in the thread and don't have to reload the page. Now left click on reply brings the reply box inline with the thread.
Of course, it will be bette
The whoosh bit should be that /. is CmdrTaco's blog.
Have you tried a squeezebox ( http://www.slimdevices.com/pi_squeezebox.html )? It's open source, has binaries for Windows, Mac OS X, and linux (including a repository for Debian/Ubuntu). I've had one for a couple years and it's a nice way to listen to my music in the living room without having an extra computer there or the TV on.
Reminds me of a Sci Fi story from a couple decades (at least) back. People around the world are doing their normal thing. There are newspapers and TV stations proclaiming that the end of the world is just a couple days away. People aren't terrified. If anything, they are happy. The day comes, and there is a countdown to "the end of the world". At the end of the countdown is the launch of the first star drive space ship. The newscasters then talk about how it's the end of the world...and the beginning of the universe.
It's a matter of the right tool for the right job. If your job involves rendering sites similar to acid3, a version of Opera that will come out later this year is likely for you. If your job involves flash on linux, apparently firefox is a better fit.
I'm talking about people using Opera or Konqueror on Linux. The Adobe Flash Player 7 and even 9 Beta works very, very poorly with these browsers, on Linux, and doesn't seem to be improving at all. The only browser being given attention is Firefox.
Guess we Linux users will have to wait for a long time, before we really starting using the internet and get recognised by the world. Unless, of course, you try using firefox sometimes.
To call rockbox an upgrade firmware is streching the truth a bit. Limited support for video, limited support for album art, and cluttered UI are real issues for individuals that want their players to "just work".
Mind you, I last installed it about 4 months ago. I'll try again if people say it's much better now.
The EULA issue is a red herring. The real problem is they pushed Safari to everyone who has iTunes. Most individuals who are not tech-savy will install Safari, given the option.
If Safari becomes the default browser on these systems, you end up with critical vulnerabilities in a browser installed on non-tech-savvy individuals' computers.
Not to mention if you use your home computer to stream media through the house. mp3/ogg files don't typically take up too much space (I can't imagine the vast majority of people using up more than a couple hundred GB), but what about TIVO-type DVRs. They can eat through a terabyte if you're not careful.
Should be fun when ReactOS hits Beta this year or gold in a couple years (wishful thinking). :-)
Try telling that to an engineer that is pre-law or pre-med.