I bought some DVDs over the weekend only to find that the first 5, unskippable, minutes were advertisements for other things.
Why should I have to pay for advertisements being shoved in my face?
No problem here: just rent them from the store, copy them to DVDRW (sans all the crap, main feature only) and watch leisurely.
The producers treat us like s... it is time we do the same to them.
I am just making up a good excuse to buy 100 ipods using some grant money (I'll use most for "research" and have some spares---which in the meantime I can use: one for me, one for wifey, one for daughter, ah! and lets not forget our nice nephew... he said he'd mow the lawn a few times for free too).
Pathetic.
2. Price of digital books. The price is still too close to the cost of physical books. The discount from the physical edition is only a couple of dollars, despite not having to come up with materials and shipping. I don't mind paying a little for convenience, but not that much.
Precisely! I may want to read a book and then pass it on to my wife, or friend, or whatever. With the ebook you cannot do it. It is, basically, for your eyes only. I'd have to buy at last 2 copies of each e-book for my family. The only way for this to be worthwile for me is if the e-books were 50% off the dead tree versions.
(That, plus the still high cost of the (limited purpose) device makes it a non-starter for me.)
Your post is so full of nonsense... There are quite a few replies stating the obvios (kilo = 1000, NOT 1024, is the well established standard). Of course you have to continue with your non-sense by writing:
Terms are redefined based on context all the time - after all, what does a "metric tonne" have to do with pounds, anyway?
Precisely not much. In fact, you will find that 90% of the world does not use "metric tonne" but simply tonne or ton (without distinction) and it means 1000 kilograms.
I guess that the trouble with the kilobyte and other nonsensical definitions really arise (once again) from the americans' (I'd bet the kilobyte definition was invented here in the us) disregard for standards accepted by everyone else: metric system, that torture is not acceptable (in civilized societies), death penalty (ditto), evolution vs. creationism (50% of americans), respect for international agreements, and the list goes on and on.
Sure, it used to be that the US was the only major player in town, so why bother with anyone else (no longer true, as seen lately on many many fronts), and the difference between 1024 and 1000 was not that horrible (but at the GB or TB level things get comparatively worse). Sloppy standards make for nasty results at the end of the day.
Actually, I should have written that I'd give 1 kilo pieces of gold (meaning 1,000, NOT 1,024 you greedy bastards!)... Oh, well. It is better to put the joke late rather than never!
I would give 100 pieces of gold so that I would have mod points to mod you way up. All this issue of the 2^10 being called "kilo" is plain stupidity. This coming from the same people (programmers et al). that gave us all kinds of crazy scares (some justified, some like the y2k problem not) due to their sloppy accounting of possibilities...
Or just send people and cargo in different vehicles.. not only do you save yourself the trouble of man-rating a beast like the Saturn V but you also learn to say no to the committees that want to make your vehicle everything for everyone.
It is NOT nuclear forces. It is a combination of electromagnetic forces (mostly electrostatic, really) and the quantum mechanical Pauli exclusion (or anti-symmetry of the many-body electron states). And FYI, I do have a Ph.D. in physics...
(sorry if repost, the previous version got badly formatted, and I could not find how to edit)
1) Device: way too expensive for a f... ugly device (right out of the late 1980's...). How pays for designers???
2) e-Books: why are ebooks only a minor discount over the price of a paperback??? They are saving on: a) printing, b) stocking, c) distribution, d) over- and under-printing, etc, etc. E-books should be 10 times cheaper than a printed version given the smaller cost.
3) DRM: again related to the price of the e-books: if the ebook cost was 10 times less than a regular book I'd be willing to get a drm-d file that: a) cannot be shared even with family members (can I put the same e-book in my wife's reader, I guess not); b) cannot be lended to a friend; c) cannot be donated to my kid's school or to the public library; etc, etc. Again, given the minimal discount, I see no point in it.
4) How am I going to decorate my home without a nice set of books on the shelves? (I like them!).
5) Would you really like amazon to hold a virtual monopoly on what you read and to let them know ALL of your reading habits???
6) PDF anyone?
7) The only advantages I see (and they are quite nice, but not sufficient at this point): a) portability (last year I spent a lot of time traveling and would have loved to be able to carry 20 books with me...); and b) the opportunity to have essentially all your books with you all the time and be able to search them. That is really nice and this may give e-books a chance.
Well. I am not jumping on this device quite yet... (I do have a hacked iphone, though, love it!).
1) Device: way too expensive for a f... ugly device (right out of the late 1980's...). How pays for designers???
2) e-Books: why are ebooks only a minor discount over the price of a paperback??? They are saving on: a) printing, b) stocking, c) distribution, d) over- and under-printing, etc, etc. E-books should be 10 times cheaper than a printed version given the smaller cost.
3) DRM: again related to the price of the e-books: if the ebook cost was 10 times less than a regular book I'd be willing to get a drm-d file that: a) cannot be shared even with family members (can I put the same e-book in my wife's reader, I guess not); b) cannot be lended to a friend; c) cannot be donated to my kid's school or to the public library; etc, etc. Again, given the minimal discount, I see no point in it.
4) How am I going to decorate my home without a nice set of books on the shelves? (I like them!).
5) Would you really like amazon to hold a virtual monopoly on what you read and to let them know ALL of your reading habits???
6) PDF anyone?
7) The only advantages I see (and they are quite nice, but not sufficient at this point): a) portability (last year I spent a lot of time traveling and would have loved to be able to carry 20 books with me...); and b) the opportunity to have essentially all your books with you all the time and be able to search them. That is really nice and this may give e-books a chance.
Well. I am not jumping on this device quite yet... (I do have a hacked iphone, though, love it!).
First a comment: "The average power emitted in a single shot is about 10 kilowatts at 100 hertz". What's that, a microwave at 100 Hz?? Microwaves have frequencies at the GHz range...
Second: probably a trivial amount of shielding (likely already in place in the car, *if* the ECM is inside the engine compartment) would suffice to stop this since the penetration depth of a GHz signal is very very small in metals (microns of metal would block it).
Seems like a nice toy, probably not very useful, possibly dangerous to people around (e.g. with a pacemaker). Just a ploy to get a government grant...
Yes, but it only draws enough electricity to fill the capacitors instead of constantly drawing enough power to bring the monitor out of standby.
Sure you're going to use some extra electricity to come out of standby, but this does cut down on that amount in a vast manner.
Which part of the law of conservation of energy you do not understand? The fact that it still uses power when "off" (in standby) means the energy is coming from somewhere.
What the fuck are you smoking?
I'm sitting here on my Macbook sharing my 3G connection from my phone over WiFi to a few of my coworkers' laptops, and Apache is certainly not running. Currently I'm on 10.5, but I never had to turn it on with 10.4 either.
Hey, nice manners, eh? Where did you say you grew up?
In 10.4.11, if you do not enable "personal web sharing" (which enables apache), then you cannot connect to the internet (the gateway is closed). It says so and it is so. I do not know why, but it is...
Huh? Apache? I think this might be a case where you just happened to click it and didn't realize the internet sharing was working. I've never had to enable Apache to share my internet connection.
In 10.4.11, if you do not enable "personal web sharing" (which enables apache), then you cannot connect to the internet (the gateway is closed). It says so and it is so. I do not know why, but it is...
This is on OSX 10.4. I wanted to share an internet connection (internet to eth0, then the airport card serving as a gateway for 2 laptops and an iphone to access the internet). All peachy, but this stupid OS does not let me do it unless I also setup an apache webserver?!?!?! Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? I do NOT want a webserver, just for the machine to be a gateway, but no... (sure there must be a way, but I did not feel like digging through pages of documentation... ended up allowing the server but changing the httpd config file to listen only to 127.0.0.1. The Macs always force you do work around the OS in silly ways... Sure it is a nicer system than Windoze and it has more apps available than linux (I used to be a linux-only person), but it is weird...
That has been my feeling for a while. Since they try to block me from enjoying *MY* equipment and *MY* media (bought cd's and dvd's) in the way that *I* see fit, now I do not buy anything else from them (haven't done it in 4 years) and get things from libraries, friends, web, etc. It all started when I tried to use my SONY laptop to watch a dvd while traveling in Europe. Sorry, can't do. DVD's there are a different region code (and sony uses mashita crap dvd's that cannot be made region free). Why would I not be able to watch DVD's properly paid for in a device that is meant to travel? CRAP! No more $$ for you ever again. (before that realization I used to spend about $100/month on buying CD's and DVD's, since 4 years ago I spend NOTHING). Perhaps that is why their sales are going down...
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I am just making up a good excuse to buy 100 ipods using some grant money (I'll use most for "research" and have some spares---which in the meantime I can use: one for me, one for wifey, one for daughter, ah! and lets not forget our nice nephew... he said he'd mow the lawn a few times for free too). Pathetic.
Precisely! I may want to read a book and then pass it on to my wife, or friend, or whatever. With the ebook you cannot do it. It is, basically, for your eyes only. I'd have to buy at last 2 copies of each e-book for my family. The only way for this to be worthwile for me is if the e-books were 50% off the dead tree versions.
(That, plus the still high cost of the (limited purpose) device makes it a non-starter for me.)
Or one could use a mirror that let, say 20% of the light through (which should be enough for the low resolution viewfinder to get a decent image).
Actually, I should have written that I'd give 1 kilo pieces of gold (meaning 1,000, NOT 1,024 you greedy bastards!)... Oh, well. It is better to put the joke late rather than never!
I would give 100 pieces of gold so that I would have mod points to mod you way up. All this issue of the 2^10 being called "kilo" is plain stupidity. This coming from the same people (programmers et al). that gave us all kinds of crazy scares (some justified, some like the y2k problem not) due to their sloppy accounting of possibilities...
The Supreme Court doesn't set presidents, they set precedents.
Oh, wait...
They don't? Look at Gore vs. Bush in yr 2000...And then kiss your funding good-bye...
For doing something really stupid (irritating a tiger) and getting killed, hence removing his DNA from the human gene pool...
Are we so devoid of things of interest that we need to recall an article dated "12 May 2006"?
how about having a MDFICO (quality of provider)? hell! they wouldn't like that a bit, would they?
It is NOT nuclear forces. It is a combination of electromagnetic forces (mostly electrostatic, really) and the quantum mechanical Pauli exclusion (or anti-symmetry of the many-body electron states). And FYI, I do have a Ph.D. in physics...
I thought that MS only pushed for vista...
1) Device: way too expensive for a f... ugly device (right out of the late 1980's...). How pays for designers???
2) e-Books: why are ebooks only a minor discount over the price of a paperback??? They are saving on: a) printing, b) stocking, c) distribution, d) over- and under-printing, etc, etc. E-books should be 10 times cheaper than a printed version given the smaller cost.
3) DRM: again related to the price of the e-books: if the ebook cost was 10 times less than a regular book I'd be willing to get a drm-d file that: a) cannot be shared even with family members (can I put the same e-book in my wife's reader, I guess not); b) cannot be lended to a friend; c) cannot be donated to my kid's school or to the public library; etc, etc. Again, given the minimal discount, I see no point in it.
4) How am I going to decorate my home without a nice set of books on the shelves? (I like them!).
5) Would you really like amazon to hold a virtual monopoly on what you read and to let them know ALL of your reading habits???
6) PDF anyone?
7) The only advantages I see (and they are quite nice, but not sufficient at this point): a) portability (last year I spent a lot of time traveling and would have loved to be able to carry 20 books with me...); and b) the opportunity to have essentially all your books with you all the time and be able to search them. That is really nice and this may give e-books a chance.
Well. I am not jumping on this device quite yet... (I do have a hacked iphone, though, love it!).
1) Device: way too expensive for a f... ugly device (right out of the late 1980's...). How pays for designers??? 2) e-Books: why are ebooks only a minor discount over the price of a paperback??? They are saving on: a) printing, b) stocking, c) distribution, d) over- and under-printing, etc, etc. E-books should be 10 times cheaper than a printed version given the smaller cost. 3) DRM: again related to the price of the e-books: if the ebook cost was 10 times less than a regular book I'd be willing to get a drm-d file that: a) cannot be shared even with family members (can I put the same e-book in my wife's reader, I guess not); b) cannot be lended to a friend; c) cannot be donated to my kid's school or to the public library; etc, etc. Again, given the minimal discount, I see no point in it. 4) How am I going to decorate my home without a nice set of books on the shelves? (I like them!). 5) Would you really like amazon to hold a virtual monopoly on what you read and to let them know ALL of your reading habits??? 6) PDF anyone? 7) The only advantages I see (and they are quite nice, but not sufficient at this point): a) portability (last year I spent a lot of time traveling and would have loved to be able to carry 20 books with me...); and b) the opportunity to have essentially all your books with you all the time and be able to search them. That is really nice and this may give e-books a chance. Well. I am not jumping on this device quite yet... (I do have a hacked iphone, though, love it!).
First a comment: "The average power emitted in a single shot is about 10 kilowatts at 100 hertz". What's that, a microwave at 100 Hz?? Microwaves have frequencies at the GHz range... Second: probably a trivial amount of shielding (likely already in place in the car, *if* the ECM is inside the engine compartment) would suffice to stop this since the penetration depth of a GHz signal is very very small in metals (microns of metal would block it). Seems like a nice toy, probably not very useful, possibly dangerous to people around (e.g. with a pacemaker). Just a ploy to get a government grant...
This is on OSX 10.4. I wanted to share an internet connection (internet to eth0, then the airport card serving as a gateway for 2 laptops and an iphone to access the internet). All peachy, but this stupid OS does not let me do it unless I also setup an apache webserver?!?!?! Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? I do NOT want a webserver, just for the machine to be a gateway, but no... (sure there must be a way, but I did not feel like digging through pages of documentation... ended up allowing the server but changing the httpd config file to listen only to 127.0.0.1. The Macs always force you do work around the OS in silly ways... Sure it is a nicer system than Windoze and it has more apps available than linux (I used to be a linux-only person), but it is weird...
Hence she now owns the copyright to the derivative work. Fair use, indeed.
That has been my feeling for a while. Since they try to block me from enjoying *MY* equipment and *MY* media (bought cd's and dvd's) in the way that *I* see fit, now I do not buy anything else from them (haven't done it in 4 years) and get things from libraries, friends, web, etc. It all started when I tried to use my SONY laptop to watch a dvd while traveling in Europe. Sorry, can't do. DVD's there are a different region code (and sony uses mashita crap dvd's that cannot be made region free). Why would I not be able to watch DVD's properly paid for in a device that is meant to travel? CRAP! No more $$ for you ever again. (before that realization I used to spend about $100/month on buying CD's and DVD's, since 4 years ago I spend NOTHING). Perhaps that is why their sales are going down...
Remember, this is from the company that makes an OS that collapses if, e.g., the printer driver gets corrupted. It is all consistent, you see?
... until someone breaks the DRM. Why do they even still bother spending $$$ on technologies bound to fail?