RIAA Cop: OK, Mr. Carnegie - just what do you think you're doing?
Citizen: Um, listening to a record I checked out from the library?
RIAA Cop: "Checked out"? Don't you mean "Used to commit a crime!?"
Citizen: Um, no. I don't think-
RIAA Cop: That's the problem - you don't think! Come with me - we're going to Walmart so you can BUY that record. "Checked out" - I've never heard such a pathetic excuse.
So why not bring it out in CD-size and give us, say, 5Gb?
Why would we want to buy another set of binders to hold our media? I'm firmly convinced the similar look and feel of CD's and DVD's contributed to DVD's success.
Eventually smaller is not better, but only... smaller.
" That is plenty of time for some advanced civilization to detect our planet, send probes, send colony ships, terraform, and have a few billion citizens, even if they can't exceed the speed of light."
Why is it a given that an alien species would WANT to colonize our planet? Maybe that's a trait unique to us.
We've only been broadcasting our presence for what, 100 years or so? How would an alien species have decided we were a likely candidate for life if radio broadcasts were necessary?
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Statistics seem to dictate we are not alone in the universe. Unfortunately, they also dictate that we won't get to talk to our neighbors anytime soon.
It's incredibly frustrating to me to think that there may be hundreds or even thousands of other species out there that are just too far away from us or technologically displaced from us (we're too primitive or they're too primitive) for us to ever make meaningful contact.
The very FIRST work to give us the term Robot - R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) by Karel Capek in 1920 posited the mechanical man destroying humans. Terminator is about 60 years too late to be original in that regard.
I didn't say the biggest, just one of the biggest. And no, Weisenheimers in the wings, I'm not saying SCO is used by more websites than Linux or Solaris or Windows.
The Zoidbergs on Slashdot really piss me off sometimes.
One of the biggest uses of SCO is running web servers.
Anyone know where we could find the top 100 web sites running SCO so we can write to them and ask them to please consider an alternative or bid our business goodbye?
I've been very disappointed with the way the Ogg support has played out.
It plays Ogg, and someone has written a database manager for it that is pretty darn good. HOWEVER...
"However" is that they have not built Ogg support into the Neuros Synchronization Manager and the other app doesn't pick up.m3u playlists. I could rebuild 300+ playlists by hand, but I really don't want to.
Neuros is working on getting Ogg into NSM, but the final version has slipped from August to September to "we're not telling you when".
If I'd known, I'd have waited. Serves me right for believing the hype.
To rely on any code to be perfect is a fool's errand. Sorry, but Bill is right here. (Ow! That hurt to say.)
"All code has at least one extra instruction and at least one bug. Therefore by extrapolation, all programs can be reduced to one instruction that doesn't work."
Put current releases on this for $10 and watch the green roll in. After two-three weeks in national release, release to this system, and they'll do great. It'll cut into theatre revenue a little, but less than you'd expect.
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I guess we're even then.
Citizen: Um, listening to a record I checked out from the library?
RIAA Cop: "Checked out"? Don't you mean "Used to commit a crime!?"
Citizen: Um, no. I don't think-
RIAA Cop: That's the problem - you don't think! Come with me - we're going to Walmart so you can BUY that record. "Checked out" - I've never heard such a pathetic excuse.
Why would we want to buy another set of binders to hold our media? I'm firmly convinced the similar look and feel of CD's and DVD's contributed to DVD's success.
Eventually smaller is not better, but only... smaller.
Of course if we discovered that island, missionaries would be there is twenty minutes.
" That is plenty of time for some advanced civilization to detect our planet, send probes, send colony ships, terraform, and have a few billion citizens, even if they can't exceed the speed of light." Why is it a given that an alien species would WANT to colonize our planet? Maybe that's a trait unique to us. We've only been broadcasting our presence for what, 100 years or so? How would an alien species have decided we were a likely candidate for life if radio broadcasts were necessary?
It's incredibly frustrating to me to think that there may be hundreds or even thousands of other species out there that are just too far away from us or technologically displaced from us (we're too primitive or they're too primitive) for us to ever make meaningful contact.
More about R.U.R.
We can't stop here. This is bat country!
One can dream...
The Zoidbergs on Slashdot really piss me off sometimes.
Anyone know where we could find the top 100 web sites running SCO so we can write to them and ask them to please consider an alternative or bid our business goodbye?
I will not be using this horrid construct.
I'm leaving out extra milk and cookies this year.
I haven't tried it. Will it do WIP, PIP, and retainer-based billing? Those are usually the stumbling blocks.
Get Quickbooks and PeachTree on Linux and you'll get a lot of small business attention.
It plays Ogg, and someone has written a database manager for it that is pretty darn good. HOWEVER...
"However" is that they have not built Ogg support into the Neuros Synchronization Manager and the other app doesn't pick up .m3u playlists. I could rebuild 300+ playlists by hand, but I really don't want to.
Neuros is working on getting Ogg into NSM, but the final version has slipped from August to September to "we're not telling you when".
If I'd known, I'd have waited. Serves me right for believing the hype.
I mimmediately checked my 401K to make sure I didn't own that fund.
"All code has at least one extra instruction and at least one bug. Therefore by extrapolation, all programs can be reduced to one instruction that doesn't work."
How much of that was in kids' artwork for the refrigerator door? Cause that would store a lot better in a vector file format...
The hero of a really dumb book.
I cringe every year when the higher-ups get the technology issue at Christmas.
Did you ever notice the Slashdot 20 second rule is fucking annoying when you don't want to pontificate, but just ask a simple question!
And Marty chuckles, but I can see, watching him that he's thinking, like maybe its not such a bad idea."
What I know about is Texas. And out here, you're on your own.
Thanks for the good info.
Put current releases on this for $10 and watch the green roll in. After two-three weeks in national release, release to this system, and they'll do great. It'll cut into theatre revenue a little, but less than you'd expect.