The images aren't meant to be realistic, they're meant to be representational. The images mean that humans have a torso, a smaller head, and 4 limbs in upper and lower pairs. Remember that these plaques may be seen by entities with no concept of shading, muscles, or any other style of art that we either innately comprehend due to our brain's "greedy" pattern recognition or have learned to accept as part of our years of seeing images. Every single element of the drawing must have a precise and unique meaning.
Although, the plaques carried by Voyager and Pioneer used more realistic artwork.
The video card is only 100% proprietary if it has an ADC connector. You can flash some PC video cards and drop them in a Mac and they'll work (at least, this used to work with GF2MXes. Not sure what's different about ATI cards).
Mac CPUs *can* be replaced (ZIF socket), but what with the last few years there have been very few modules sold worth upgrading *to*. And it's not as simple as just buying a part from Motorola, as the L2 backside cache is kept on the CPU module.
Reliance: *zero* problems after the first 48 hours when I had trouble signing up.
Quality: The quality of 128K AAC is arguable, but it sounds pretty good to me on my cheapass speakers.
Extra services: Album art (I'm guessing it's about 400x400), "People who bought X bought Y", exclusive tracks, related recommendations whose accuracy I can't really guage.
Range: They're probably well above the 200K songs they had back when it launched, but I recall them being dinged for not having various esoteric songs in the past.
Artist friendly: They still work through record labels, but they're starting to open up to indie music posting, and could take this in some very interesting directions if they wanted to (imagine if iTunes had a one-click "sell music" button...)
DRM: Yes, it has DRM, but it's pretty easy to remove it (burn it to a Redbook CD, and other methods).
Yeah, too bad the library we currently have is made of all of our books, all of our magazines, all of our old newspapers, all of our supermarket coupons, all of our random scraps of paper lying around the house, and so on. And it's not in any particular order. And some of the books have the wrong binding. And someone had to pay for printing all those books in the first place. A centralized solution (like the iTunes store) could easily do better than this (not better than the ideal, but better than the real-world implementation), especially if it's not spending so much effort on insulating itself against lawsuits.
If the era of paying for music is over, the era of music is over. As long as creating music isn't free, the creators will want to sell it and try to prevent people from sharing it. And why shouldn't they? Do you have a right to free music?
Education may be a right; bandwidth is not a right. If you're not using it for educational purposes, or if you're using it for illegal purposes, or *especially* if you're using it at the expense of other students who really are using it for educational purposes (see other posts in this article), you haven't got a leg to stand on when IT cuts you off.
If the dorm network is anything like the network at UIUC two years ago, they will block the Ethernet jack in your room. Good luck finding a router that can get around that.
Because their customers in general (and quite rightly) demand performance over security. It's not like anyone uses games for mission-critical purposes anyway.
In response to #2: Getting off the Earth's surface and out of the atmosphere is most of the work. It should be FAR easier to get from "up there" to interplanetary flight than it is to launch it from the surface.
Re:Yet another way to turn the nickle
on
The Borg MegaCube
·
· Score: 1
In the end, it's up to the individual to decide whether or not the re-release adds enough value to warrant a separate purchase.
So where's the problem? If it sells well, that means people wanted it. Nobody's forcing you to buy one.
I don't know if you can answer this, but: Why don't they just put the extra layer of plastic over the data layer anyway (and the label on top of that) even if it's just a single-sided DVD? This would also make every single DVD the same dimensions and weight.
...What is a *legal* use that justifies using the entire capacity (in either direction) of a cable modem for days at a time and yet does not justify upgrading to a business-class connection?
Re:Looking forward... mostly
on
Quicksilver
·
· Score: 4, Insightful
You do realize that all that stuff about neurolinguistic hackers was fictional? And that there will inevitably be untrue statements involved when fiction references historical fact? This is like demanding archaeological evidence of Middle Earth.
Slashdot Mirror
The images aren't meant to be realistic, they're meant to be representational. The images mean that humans have a torso, a smaller head, and 4 limbs in upper and lower pairs. Remember that these plaques may be seen by entities with no concept of shading, muscles, or any other style of art that we either innately comprehend due to our brain's "greedy" pattern recognition or have learned to accept as part of our years of seeing images. Every single element of the drawing must have a precise and unique meaning.
Although, the plaques carried by Voyager and Pioneer used more realistic artwork.
The video card is only 100% proprietary if it has an ADC connector. You can flash some PC video cards and drop them in a Mac and they'll work (at least, this used to work with GF2MXes. Not sure what's different about ATI cards).
Mac CPUs *can* be replaced (ZIF socket), but what with the last few years there have been very few modules sold worth upgrading *to*. And it's not as simple as just buying a part from Motorola, as the L2 backside cache is kept on the CPU module.
Finally something to replace all the Darl McBride jokes.
Yeah, too bad the library we currently have is made of all of our books, all of our magazines, all of our old newspapers, all of our supermarket coupons, all of our random scraps of paper lying around the house, and so on. And it's not in any particular order. And some of the books have the wrong binding. And someone had to pay for printing all those books in the first place. A centralized solution (like the iTunes store) could easily do better than this (not better than the ideal, but better than the real-world implementation), especially if it's not spending so much effort on insulating itself against lawsuits.
If the era of paying for music is over, the era of music is over. As long as creating music isn't free, the creators will want to sell it and try to prevent people from sharing it. And why shouldn't they? Do you have a right to free music?
Education may be a right; bandwidth is not a right. If you're not using it for educational purposes, or if you're using it for illegal purposes, or *especially* if you're using it at the expense of other students who really are using it for educational purposes (see other posts in this article), you haven't got a leg to stand on when IT cuts you off.
If the dorm network is anything like the network at UIUC two years ago, they will block the Ethernet jack in your room. Good luck finding a router that can get around that.
Because their customers in general (and quite rightly) demand performance over security. It's not like anyone uses games for mission-critical purposes anyway.
By then, OS X will have metal windows so perfectly polished you'll be able to see your own reflection in them.
In response to #2: Getting off the Earth's surface and out of the atmosphere is most of the work. It should be FAR easier to get from "up there" to interplanetary flight than it is to launch it from the surface.
I don't know if you can answer this, but: Why don't they just put the extra layer of plastic over the data layer anyway (and the label on top of that) even if it's just a single-sided DVD? This would also make every single DVD the same dimensions and weight.
Then "Trading Class As", followed by "A BTO Story".
Like so many other Slashdot fads, I first heard it on Simpsons.
One obvious advantage I can think of is that you only have to wait 6 years to see if you got it right, not 30.
FROG BLAST THE VENT CORE
Judging from the change list, it patches the USB, Bluetooth, and audio drivers. Maybe Apple doesn't feel comfortable changing kexts without a reboot.
I bet if my friends and I combined our incomes we could get up to $50,000 in taxes... Hey repetty, what's your social security number?
...What is a *legal* use that justifies using the entire capacity (in either direction) of a cable modem for days at a time and yet does not justify upgrading to a business-class connection?
You do realize that all that stuff about neurolinguistic hackers was fictional? And that there will inevitably be untrue statements involved when fiction references historical fact? This is like demanding archaeological evidence of Middle Earth.
Second picture, bottom row, three in from the left.
You can already get it. (Offer valid only in Soviet Russia...)
A number of posts here are already hoping for using this as animated wallpaper, another idea sci-fi's had for some time.