Well, basically the problem is that it's against the licencing that iTMS sets up, so they're basically paying money to get DRM encumbered music that is no more legal than stuff they can download for free without DRM. So where's the benefit for the customer?
Plus, read further into the article, and notice that he mentions that the original article as posted had the correct information in it.
The big problem with the Wikipedia as I read what he's trying to say is not simply that the article has incorrect information, but that the general quality of this article from both a factual and readability standpoint has trended down across 15 edits.
I don't know that it's a good thing to make a conclusion about the 'pedia from just one article, but it's worrying that rather than the project going towards correctness, it's going towards entropy.
Guess which is the single most used widget when people are browsing any given site?
The back button.
It gets used more than any kind of link on sites, any other program button, anything. As far as I'm concerned, it could be a big huge button right in the middle of the screen, but that might be taking it just a little bit too far...
See, I thought that myself, and I came to the conclusion that one of the reasons I liked X-Wing and tie fighter so much was because there hadn't really been anything big enough for me to notice out of the SW universe since the movies. The games were great for me because they, for the first time, allowed me to revisit some of my favourite movies ever.
Now it's different. Even putting aside the arguments one way or another about the quality of what's being produced from the franchise right now, it's undeniable that we're surrounded with it.
Exactly, and this is what enabled the transition between the typing/word processing "experts" (I.E. Secretaries) and now when we have managers doing their own typing and letter writing. Do you think that Joe Manager would have bothered learning the cryptic commands required to type a letter? No, he or she would have just sent it off to the secretarial pool to be done. As it was, she or he was able to fumble along and get the letter out the door in a more or less reasonable format.
Nowadays, you need to be a much higher level person to have an assistant than you used to. For better or for worse, the bad UI of Word enabled the shape of the office today.
If you were to RTFA you'd notice that it was both:
Consumers can purchase Media Center Extender devices in two forms: As a set-top box from leading manufacturers Hewlett-Packard and Linksys. As a peripheral kit for the Xbox console from Microsoft.
Once again, this is a process though that will not really be used simply because of political reasons.
Concrete entombment is the process of choice right now because politicians think hey! We might be able to make bombs out of this stuff some day! Make sure that however you store it, we can recover it, ok?
Once you vitrify something, there's no way you can recover the radioactive materials. We've had processes much safer than entombment (even if they weren't as good as this method) for years that have this problem.
If you really want a safe method of storing used radioactive materials, all you have to do is convince the politicans that you'll never want to blow the crap up. It's not a technical issue.
I'm more upset about the omission of Magnus Pyke. I think he was the person who taught me more about science than anyone else at an early age with 'Don't Ask Me'. (I know, I know... Dating myself here.)
Plus, he was on that Thomas Dolby song, that's got to count for something, right?
"These lights represent larger settlements, as smaller ones (like villages) don't simply generate enough light to be seen on this picture."
Dunno about that... In Canada, you can clearly see Churchill Manitoba (population 1200) Inuvuk and Yellowknife NWT (populations 3300 and 17000 respectively), Iqaluit and Resolute Bay Nunavit, (pops 5000 and 200 respectively).
My assumption is that the photos that made up this one were like any other one with varieties in the exposure time showing different levels of light depending on what was around. Spots like Resolute Bay show up when there's nothing else around them for thousands of kilometers and is the only spot of light in that particular photo. If the same light source was closer to a population centre like the great lakes, it would never actually be there because the exposure is set for the brighter spots in the same photo.
So according to this even someone who pots half their shots is below average? Geesh. I must be way further below average than I thought then, cuz I only get about a quarter of them...
Which is why, in Windows XP, a warning message comes on telling you that your CapsLock key is on when you're at the login screen. I thought that was pretty cool meself.
Heh. I remember watching a crappy show on a local cable access channel that had all sorts of music on it that I thought sounded familiar. I thought about it for a while until I remembered that they were all demo songs from a Roland synth.
Of course they'll make money from the services... I'm probably restatng the obvious here, but when they say "Free Hardware", what they mean is that "if you buy a support contract from us, we'll give you the hardware for free for the duration of that contract". They don't just put thousands of SPARC systems on the loading dock and say "hey everybody, come and get 'em"!
It makes sense really, (and you can do this whether you open up the software or not) sell a contract which supplies you with hardware, software, and support systems all in one basket with a yearly payment which takes care of everything...
Sorta like Red Hat, but they do the whole widget, to use the Apple terminology.
Just thought now that it would be interesting if Google got enough of a marketshare to become a defacto monopoly... Dunno what could be considered barriers to entry for competing search engines, but who knows...
Anyway, I guess my point is that this kind of thing is ambiguous at best right now, but when the rules change because they're a monopoly, it might make for some interesting court cases.
a great place to passivly radiate unwanted heat to.
See, I always thought that vacum was a BAD place to try to radiate heat to... Heat being a property of how active the molecules were. Vaccum, having nothing in it, doesn't transfer heat - which is why we have vaccum flasks, which keep hot things hot and cold things cold.
Of course, I'm not a science guy, so what do I know, right?
I'm a designer, and I can't tell you how upset I am that Sony decided to stop selling their mid and low range CRT's. It took me a while to figure out who made a good CRT, and I finally, after auditioning NEC, Samsung, Viewsonic, and pretty much every other major manufacturer, figured out Sony was the only one who made one up to my standards (in my pricerange). This was about 2 months before they announced they were getting out of the CRT game.
If I had the money I'd buy half a dozen G520s and keep them in my attic so I'd never have to deal with it again... I just hope that by the time the one I have dies that the flat screens will finally be good enough.
I honestly believe that without Microsoft it wouldn't be Apple - at least the way they are now...
If Apple allowed clones, then yes, but otherwise, it would be whoever it was that published the specifications for an open and extensable hardware set which many people could compete on and extend.
There is NO way we would have the huge base of installed machines all pretty much built on a standard without many people competing with interoperable hardware, whatever the software was that ran on it.
We can argue the analogies if you want, or the value of the machines themselves, but the point is that they've had a profound effect on the industry - pretty much everyone follows their lead with respect to how they sell machines now (even Apple).
Dell has revolutionized the computer industry as much or more (arguably) than Apple.
Not with their computers, but with their business models.
They invented the concept of JIT inventory for the industry, of high-volume custom configured machines, of pushing margins to the floor, of cutting costs, etc.
The industry, or at least the consumer, holds a big debt to Dell for transforming the way we buy computers.
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Well, basically the problem is that it's against the licencing that iTMS sets up, so they're basically paying money to get DRM encumbered music that is no more legal than stuff they can download for free without DRM. So where's the benefit for the customer?
Exactly.
Plus, read further into the article, and notice that he mentions that the original article as posted had the correct information in it.
The big problem with the Wikipedia as I read what he's trying to say is not simply that the article has incorrect information, but that the general quality of this article from both a factual and readability standpoint has trended down across 15 edits.
I don't know that it's a good thing to make a conclusion about the 'pedia from just one article, but it's worrying that rather than the project going towards correctness, it's going towards entropy.
Guess which is the single most used widget when people are browsing any given site?
The back button.
It gets used more than any kind of link on sites, any other program button, anything. As far as I'm concerned, it could be a big huge button right in the middle of the screen, but that might be taking it just a little bit too far...
See, I thought that myself, and I came to the conclusion that one of the reasons I liked X-Wing and tie fighter so much was because there hadn't really been anything big enough for me to notice out of the SW universe since the movies. The games were great for me because they, for the first time, allowed me to revisit some of my favourite movies ever.
Now it's different. Even putting aside the arguments one way or another about the quality of what's being produced from the franchise right now, it's undeniable that we're surrounded with it.
Exactly, and this is what enabled the transition between the typing/word processing "experts" (I.E. Secretaries) and now when we have managers doing their own typing and letter writing. Do you think that Joe Manager would have bothered learning the cryptic commands required to type a letter? No, he or she would have just sent it off to the secretarial pool to be done. As it was, she or he was able to fumble along and get the letter out the door in a more or less reasonable format.
Nowadays, you need to be a much higher level person to have an assistant than you used to. For better or for worse, the bad UI of Word enabled the shape of the office today.
If you were to RTFA you'd notice that it was both:
Consumers can purchase Media Center Extender devices in two forms:
As a set-top box from leading manufacturers Hewlett-Packard and Linksys.
As a peripheral kit for the Xbox console from Microsoft.
Once again, this is a process though that will not really be used simply because of political reasons.
Concrete entombment is the process of choice right now because politicians think hey! We might be able to make bombs out of this stuff some day! Make sure that however you store it, we can recover it, ok?
Once you vitrify something, there's no way you can recover the radioactive materials. We've had processes much safer than entombment (even if they weren't as good as this method) for years that have this problem.
If you really want a safe method of storing used radioactive materials, all you have to do is convince the politicans that you'll never want to blow the crap up. It's not a technical issue.
I'm more upset about the omission of Magnus Pyke. I think he was the person who taught me more about science than anyone else at an early age with 'Don't Ask Me'. (I know, I know... Dating myself here.)
Plus, he was on that Thomas Dolby song, that's got to count for something, right?
"These lights represent larger settlements, as smaller ones (like villages) don't simply generate enough light to be seen on this picture."
Dunno about that... In Canada, you can clearly see Churchill Manitoba (population 1200) Inuvuk and Yellowknife NWT (populations 3300 and 17000 respectively), Iqaluit and Resolute Bay Nunavit, (pops 5000 and 200 respectively).
My assumption is that the photos that made up this one were like any other one with varieties in the exposure time showing different levels of light depending on what was around. Spots like Resolute Bay show up when there's nothing else around them for thousands of kilometers and is the only spot of light in that particular photo. If the same light source was closer to a population centre like the great lakes, it would never actually be there because the exposure is set for the brighter spots in the same photo.
So according to this even someone who pots half their shots is below average? Geesh. I must be way further below average than I thought then, cuz I only get about a quarter of them...
I wonder what that says about the people I beat?
Which is why, in Windows XP, a warning message comes on telling you that your CapsLock key is on when you're at the login screen. I thought that was pretty cool meself.
Heh. I remember watching a crappy show on a local cable access channel that had all sorts of music on it that I thought sounded familiar. I thought about it for a while until I remembered that they were all demo songs from a Roland synth.
Of course they'll make money from the services... I'm probably restatng the obvious here, but when they say "Free Hardware", what they mean is that "if you buy a support contract from us, we'll give you the hardware for free for the duration of that contract". They don't just put thousands of SPARC systems on the loading dock and say "hey everybody, come and get 'em"!
It makes sense really, (and you can do this whether you open up the software or not) sell a contract which supplies you with hardware, software, and support systems all in one basket with a yearly payment which takes care of everything...
Sorta like Red Hat, but they do the whole widget, to use the Apple terminology.
"...but Texas has had alot of problems with gun related crimes, so the state legislature decided to take a hardline stance."
And have gun related crimes gone down since then?
So what's Windows? Micro? Monolithic? Neither?
I seem to remember reading somewhere that it was Micro, but I don't remember if the source was authoritative, or even if I remember it correctly.
Just thought now that it would be interesting if Google got enough of a marketshare to become a defacto monopoly... Dunno what could be considered barriers to entry for competing search engines, but who knows...
Anyway, I guess my point is that this kind of thing is ambiguous at best right now, but when the rules change because they're a monopoly, it might make for some interesting court cases.
Well there you go, I learned something today.
Cool.
a great place to passivly radiate unwanted heat to.
See, I always thought that vacum was a BAD place to try to radiate heat to... Heat being a property of how active the molecules were. Vaccum, having nothing in it, doesn't transfer heat - which is why we have vaccum flasks, which keep hot things hot and cold things cold.
Of course, I'm not a science guy, so what do I know, right?
Agree wholeheartedly.
I'm a designer, and I can't tell you how upset I am that Sony decided to stop selling their mid and low range CRT's. It took me a while to figure out who made a good CRT, and I finally, after auditioning NEC, Samsung, Viewsonic, and pretty much every other major manufacturer, figured out Sony was the only one who made one up to my standards (in my pricerange). This was about 2 months before they announced they were getting out of the CRT game.
If I had the money I'd buy half a dozen G520s and keep them in my attic so I'd never have to deal with it again... I just hope that by the time the one I have dies that the flat screens will finally be good enough.
I honestly believe that without Microsoft it wouldn't be Apple - at least the way they are now...
If Apple allowed clones, then yes, but otherwise, it would be whoever it was that published the specifications for an open and extensable hardware set which many people could compete on and extend.
There is NO way we would have the huge base of installed machines all pretty much built on a standard without many people competing with interoperable hardware, whatever the software was that ran on it.
We can argue the analogies if you want, or the value of the machines themselves, but the point is that they've had a profound effect on the industry - pretty much everyone follows their lead with respect to how they sell machines now (even Apple).
I wouldn't read too much into that figre on Google.
An increase of 3%-4% could just mean an increase from 3.49 to 3.50.
Of course, it could also mean an increase from 3.49 - 4.49, but we wouldn't know, would we?
Dell has revolutionized the computer industry as much or more (arguably) than Apple.
Not with their computers, but with their business models.
They invented the concept of JIT inventory for the industry, of high-volume custom configured machines, of pushing margins to the floor, of cutting costs, etc.
The industry, or at least the consumer, holds a big debt to Dell for transforming the way we buy computers.
Of course, they suck, but oh well...
Holy crap. And I thought it was expensive to see Phantom at $100.00 a ticket. Of course, that was in Toronto, so the prices might be cheaper here.
What might be the price for a partially obstructed seat I wonder?
Exactly. As opposed to SLEDs. Single Large Expensive Drives.
Big drives made to much more stringent quality standards, which would last longer before failing etc...
Of course, now that SLEDs don't exist any more, the acronym is changed to Independent since there is no point of comparison for the Inexpensive part.