This seems like better news for Apple than for Sirius. The boom in iPod sales, while not over yet by any means, isn't what it was six months ago (where inventory was hard to keep). Adding a new feature not present in any current iPod means that a sizable part of the satellite radio market becomes Apple customers as well (even if they already have an iPod or three).
But Sirius, fundamentally as a subscription service, is most likely going to sell a similar number of subscriptions regardless of whether the thing works like an iPod as well.
In fact, there is one feature that would decide whether Sirius (or XM, for that matter) would benefit from packaging their service with the iPod: Can you use the iPod to record from satellite radio and play it back later?
Why do we keep seeing articles where the solution to Windows security woes is to throw money at a new computer, when there are already ways to solve these issues for free? Burn ZoneAlarm to CD and install it on a new Windows installation before you hit the net for the updates. Use Firefox instead of IE, and keep aware of security updates. Use Thunderbird instead of Outlook, and use its features to disable "unsafe" HTML tags and to disable viewing attachments inline.
All it takes is a little bit of intelligence on the part of the user, and Windows is just as safe as any other platform. If you're going to switch, switch because you like the functionality of Apple's product, not out of fear and laziness.
I really hate CNN, they are getting as bad as Fox News.
Really? Then you might be interested in actually reading the article on Fox News's website - an Associated Press article that doesn't use the term "swiped" at all, and only uses "theft", "thieves", and "stealing" in the midst of quotes by Dan Glickman and somebody at DoJ.
There are plenty of voice actors who aren't in AFTRA or SAG willing to scab (and probably a few willing to scab who do have their union cards). Just change your credited name and take your $300 an hour. Many anime voice projects are non-union, and you see union members working on those all the time.
Except that Billy West (voice of Fry, Prof. Farnsworth, Zoidberg, Zapp Brannigan) has indicated that David X. Cohen (writer, exec producer) has talked with the Fox executives, and they were very open to going forward with this. This isn't just rumors from some comic con, this is coming from the actual people who make the show.
Well, it took Bioware a while, but they eventually did start releasing a few smaller expansions for NWN at a smaller price than the normal expansions. I haven't felt the need to pay the eight bucks for one to see if they're any good, though.
These folks have constructed a fly flight simulator, where they tether a fly in front of a set of lights that form a low-resolution view of a simulated environment. They then measure the torques produced by the fly and use that data to manipulate the environment simulation, so that the fly sees its environment moving about it even though it's tethered in place. They can use this to study the behavioral responses of flies to various stimuli (like a rapidly-approaching light or dark spot simulating a fly-swatter, to examine escape response).
I guess I would be more impressed if instead of having the cockroach walk on a trackball, they used cockroach EMG to control the robot.
Uhm.... Morrowind was in production for six years because the developers were busy designing 300 game hours' worth of content for the game. You could keep yourself busy for a very, very long time, even without expansion packs, if you didn't rush through the core quest to the end of the game.
BitTorrent and the stuff shared over it are not the same thing. BitTorrent is perfectly legitimate. Much of (but not all of, as you noted in your earlier post) the stuff shared over it is not.
This is not just some petty semantic argument. This is a serious matter, because the ??AA has gone to great lengths to get file-sharing technologies labeled as "evil" by governments, and subsequently ban those technologies, as part of their effort to eliminate sharing of content copyrighted by their members. But the solution isn't to ban technologies such as BitTorrent. BT already has already been applied numerous times for the distribution of legitimate content. Instead, the distribution of illegitimate content itself should be illegal. Strangely enough, it already is.
Having a company start charging $5 per month for the same service Zap2It provides only serves to encourage Zap2It to begin charging real-life cash for their service as well. And in the end, that means fewer choices, not more.
Oddly, though, there was a report on CNN Headline News about DeBeers making inroads into Chinese culture, where diamonds don't yet pervade as the symbol of being the bride in a wedding. They're starting to see some success, too, with a side effect of some Chinese brides ditching their beautiful red wedding attire in favor of boring Western white.
It'll suck for DeBeers if they get done converting a billion Chinese minds to thinking "diamonds are forever" when they suddenly have to about-face and say "moon rocks are the new symbol of love".
I worked for a little over a year at a job involving CAD, where about 40 people were in a large room containing a cube farm that had previously been used for tabletop drafting (the old drafting tables were still there, for example). The building had been built no later than the 1960s, and so the electrical system was woefully unprepared for the load that all the computers and 21" monitors placed on it, especially after most of the full-timers got upgraded to whatever was top-of-the-line at the time.
Well, during the summer, the room would get a little bit warm (not uncomfortably so) in the afternoon, and eventually the circuit breaker decided enough was enough. Half of the computers in the room cut power, followed by heads poking up over the cube walls saying "Damn it" and "What the hell?" Figuring that the one side of the office was jinxed, a few people would unplug and plug into the power strips across the center aisle. Thirty minutes later, the other side of the room shut down.
Replacing the wiring (so we could replace the breakers) was out of the question, so the final answer was to take a little clamp-on desk fan and clamp it onto the breaker panel door, pointing it at the breakers to keep them cool. Not pretty, but it kept the computers on during the summer afternoons.
Anyway, I suspect that while the highest-tech companies in their fancy new buildings don't have this sort of trouble, there are lots of not-so-high-tech companies out there that make prodigious use of computers in buildings that aren't up for the task, and face situations like this and the insane building heat problem you mentioned.
The Presidential race was substantially more polarized than the various Senate races, which could indicate why, in closely-contested precincts, respondents might be more likely to lie about their Presidential vote as opposed to their Senate vote. Similarly, due to the incredible divisiveness surrounding the election, Kerry voters in very pro-Bush precincts might be the most motivated to seek out pollsters.
Also, the report should have examined House races rather than Senate races for their collective statistics (to compare accuracy to Presidential races), because everybody gets to vote for their representative every two years, but fully one-third of all states don't even *have* a Senate race each election.
Control is their agenda, though I disagree that their ultimate goal is "control for the hell of it". The thing is that they want control on both ends of the artistic media, on both the consumption side *and* the production side. They were doing a great job of that up until now, but they see Internet distribution as a serious threat to that control.
They won't be able to control the artists if the artists see that there's an alternative to Big Media for distributing their content, and that's why Big Media pushes so hard to shut down and/or "tax" Internet distribution.
Actually, the name is what has prevented me from tuning in, with all the continuity changes that occurred from the original series. But now, there are enough episodes that I've missed (read: all of them) that catching up with the plot is a big factor in why I don't start watching, even though pretty much everyone says it's a good enough series that I should overlook things like the female Starbuck and the non-robotic Cylons.
But you know.......
I could resolve this problem quickly by downloading the first few episodes via BitTorrent. And if I find the series to be as good as people say it is, I might even shell out for the DVD.
That response failed to entertain the possibility that exit poll respondents would lie about who they voted for, an effect that would have twice the effect that plain non-response would have. They also ignored the original report's hypothesis that Kerry supporters would frequently seek out exit pollsters, which would skew the data further. When taken in conjunction with the "Reluctant Bush Responder in Mixed Political Company" hypothesis, this possibility simply cannot be discounted, even given the data in their report, because the vast majority of the precincts were fairly evenly split, and so would have a far greater magnitude of effect on the results.
In other words, I think saying that the original report has been "discredited" is going a bit too far. Yes, there are questions that have been raised, but I wouldn't discount the report out of hand until E/M has an opportunity to respond to the challenges (it's only been a month since the challenge report was released).
The limit of the split process is that the stock is continually splitting at a 1+epsilon to 1 ratio, while the stock price increases by an infinitesimal amount during the same infinitesimal period of time. At that limit, the stock price isn't actually increasing, but the value to the investor is, because the number of shares they hold is increasing.
Stop trying to win this one, go pick a battle that you're not certain to lose.
That's a lot of bluster from somebody who keeps missing the point.
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This seems like better news for Apple than for Sirius. The boom in iPod sales, while not over yet by any means, isn't what it was six months ago (where inventory was hard to keep). Adding a new feature not present in any current iPod means that a sizable part of the satellite radio market becomes Apple customers as well (even if they already have an iPod or three).
But Sirius, fundamentally as a subscription service, is most likely going to sell a similar number of subscriptions regardless of whether the thing works like an iPod as well.
In fact, there is one feature that would decide whether Sirius (or XM, for that matter) would benefit from packaging their service with the iPod: Can you use the iPod to record from satellite radio and play it back later?
Why do we keep seeing articles where the solution to Windows security woes is to throw money at a new computer, when there are already ways to solve these issues for free? Burn ZoneAlarm to CD and install it on a new Windows installation before you hit the net for the updates. Use Firefox instead of IE, and keep aware of security updates. Use Thunderbird instead of Outlook, and use its features to disable "unsafe" HTML tags and to disable viewing attachments inline.
All it takes is a little bit of intelligence on the part of the user, and Windows is just as safe as any other platform. If you're going to switch, switch because you like the functionality of Apple's product, not out of fear and laziness.
I really hate CNN, they are getting as bad as Fox News.
Really? Then you might be interested in actually reading the article on Fox News's website - an Associated Press article that doesn't use the term "swiped" at all, and only uses "theft", "thieves", and "stealing" in the midst of quotes by Dan Glickman and somebody at DoJ.
There are plenty of voice actors who aren't in AFTRA or SAG willing to scab (and probably a few willing to scab who do have their union cards). Just change your credited name and take your $300 an hour. Many anime voice projects are non-union, and you see union members working on those all the time.
Did someone just mention powdered toast?
Cling tenaciously to my buttocks!
Except that Billy West (voice of Fry, Prof. Farnsworth, Zoidberg, Zapp Brannigan) has indicated that David X. Cohen (writer, exec producer) has talked with the Fox executives, and they were very open to going forward with this. This isn't just rumors from some comic con, this is coming from the actual people who make the show.
Mom: Cram a bastard in it, you crap!
Well, it took Bioware a while, but they eventually did start releasing a few smaller expansions for NWN at a smaller price than the normal expansions. I haven't felt the need to pay the eight bucks for one to see if they're any good, though.
These folks have constructed a fly flight simulator, where they tether a fly in front of a set of lights that form a low-resolution view of a simulated environment. They then measure the torques produced by the fly and use that data to manipulate the environment simulation, so that the fly sees its environment moving about it even though it's tethered in place. They can use this to study the behavioral responses of flies to various stimuli (like a rapidly-approaching light or dark spot simulating a fly-swatter, to examine escape response).
I guess I would be more impressed if instead of having the cockroach walk on a trackball, they used cockroach EMG to control the robot.
Uhm.... Morrowind was in production for six years because the developers were busy designing 300 game hours' worth of content for the game. You could keep yourself busy for a very, very long time, even without expansion packs, if you didn't rush through the core quest to the end of the game.
Google disagrees.
You can't polish a turd.
BitTorrent and the stuff shared over it are not the same thing. BitTorrent is perfectly legitimate. Much of (but not all of, as you noted in your earlier post) the stuff shared over it is not.
This is not just some petty semantic argument. This is a serious matter, because the ??AA has gone to great lengths to get file-sharing technologies labeled as "evil" by governments, and subsequently ban those technologies, as part of their effort to eliminate sharing of content copyrighted by their members. But the solution isn't to ban technologies such as BitTorrent. BT already has already been applied numerous times for the distribution of legitimate content. Instead, the distribution of illegitimate content itself should be illegal. Strangely enough, it already is.
Having a company start charging $5 per month for the same service Zap2It provides only serves to encourage Zap2It to begin charging real-life cash for their service as well. And in the end, that means fewer choices, not more.
No irony there. Hatch is a hobbyist Christian musician who commercially sells some of his music.
Please, think of the starving record company execs!
Not to mention that he generates carbon dioxide rather than oxygen.
Oddly, though, there was a report on CNN Headline News about DeBeers making inroads into Chinese culture, where diamonds don't yet pervade as the symbol of being the bride in a wedding. They're starting to see some success, too, with a side effect of some Chinese brides ditching their beautiful red wedding attire in favor of boring Western white.
It'll suck for DeBeers if they get done converting a billion Chinese minds to thinking "diamonds are forever" when they suddenly have to about-face and say "moon rocks are the new symbol of love".
I worked for a little over a year at a job involving CAD, where about 40 people were in a large room containing a cube farm that had previously been used for tabletop drafting (the old drafting tables were still there, for example). The building had been built no later than the 1960s, and so the electrical system was woefully unprepared for the load that all the computers and 21" monitors placed on it, especially after most of the full-timers got upgraded to whatever was top-of-the-line at the time.
Well, during the summer, the room would get a little bit warm (not uncomfortably so) in the afternoon, and eventually the circuit breaker decided enough was enough. Half of the computers in the room cut power, followed by heads poking up over the cube walls saying "Damn it" and "What the hell?" Figuring that the one side of the office was jinxed, a few people would unplug and plug into the power strips across the center aisle. Thirty minutes later, the other side of the room shut down.
Replacing the wiring (so we could replace the breakers) was out of the question, so the final answer was to take a little clamp-on desk fan and clamp it onto the breaker panel door, pointing it at the breakers to keep them cool. Not pretty, but it kept the computers on during the summer afternoons.
Anyway, I suspect that while the highest-tech companies in their fancy new buildings don't have this sort of trouble, there are lots of not-so-high-tech companies out there that make prodigious use of computers in buildings that aren't up for the task, and face situations like this and the insane building heat problem you mentioned.
The Presidential race was substantially more polarized than the various Senate races, which could indicate why, in closely-contested precincts, respondents might be more likely to lie about their Presidential vote as opposed to their Senate vote. Similarly, due to the incredible divisiveness surrounding the election, Kerry voters in very pro-Bush precincts might be the most motivated to seek out pollsters.
Also, the report should have examined House races rather than Senate races for their collective statistics (to compare accuracy to Presidential races), because everybody gets to vote for their representative every two years, but fully one-third of all states don't even *have* a Senate race each election.
Control is their agenda, though I disagree that their ultimate goal is "control for the hell of it". The thing is that they want control on both ends of the artistic media, on both the consumption side *and* the production side. They were doing a great job of that up until now, but they see Internet distribution as a serious threat to that control.
They won't be able to control the artists if the artists see that there's an alternative to Big Media for distributing their content, and that's why Big Media pushes so hard to shut down and/or "tax" Internet distribution.
Their days as middlemen are numbered.
Actually, the name is what has prevented me from tuning in, with all the continuity changes that occurred from the original series. But now, there are enough episodes that I've missed (read: all of them) that catching up with the plot is a big factor in why I don't start watching, even though pretty much everyone says it's a good enough series that I should overlook things like the female Starbuck and the non-robotic Cylons.
But you know.......
I could resolve this problem quickly by downloading the first few episodes via BitTorrent. And if I find the series to be as good as people say it is, I might even shell out for the DVD.
That response failed to entertain the possibility that exit poll respondents would lie about who they voted for, an effect that would have twice the effect that plain non-response would have. They also ignored the original report's hypothesis that Kerry supporters would frequently seek out exit pollsters, which would skew the data further. When taken in conjunction with the "Reluctant Bush Responder in Mixed Political Company" hypothesis, this possibility simply cannot be discounted, even given the data in their report, because the vast majority of the precincts were fairly evenly split, and so would have a far greater magnitude of effect on the results.
In other words, I think saying that the original report has been "discredited" is going a bit too far. Yes, there are questions that have been raised, but I wouldn't discount the report out of hand until E/M has an opportunity to respond to the challenges (it's only been a month since the challenge report was released).
You might have seen a housefly, maybe even a superfly, but I bet you ain't never seen a snake fly!
The limit of the split process is that the stock is continually splitting at a 1+epsilon to 1 ratio, while the stock price increases by an infinitesimal amount during the same infinitesimal period of time. At that limit, the stock price isn't actually increasing, but the value to the investor is, because the number of shares they hold is increasing.
Stop trying to win this one, go pick a battle that you're not certain to lose.
That's a lot of bluster from somebody who keeps missing the point.