He also explains that only 3% of the music iPods are capable of storing are DRM'd/from the iTunes store, the other 97% is likely pirated or legally ripped from CDs or other sources. So most people are not locked in since most if not all of the music on their iPods is not DRM'd. Well, DRM keeps me from buying the music online and therefor would look like I'm not locked in. No I'm not in. I'm locked OUT! I cannot download music from their musicstores, because if I do, I (or rather, my music) will become a part of those 3%. I don't want to be locked in. And I'm getting damn tired of ordering CD's online, waiting for the CD to arrive, put it in my computer and rip it, when iTunes and other musicstores offer me to download it within a minute.
This a holding me back at buying music. They are loosing money, while the music I do buy, will be counted in as "DRM free" and will help the 97% to get even bigger.
I would just love it, if they would remove DRM for good. I would probably go from $ 10-20 to $ 100-200 a month, if I could have the ease and speed of downloading it. (this last line was just added to remind the "big four" about what they are missing out on...:-)
Q: How fast does it go?
A: UNSW Sunswift III has been driven at up to 120km/h, however it could probably go faster than this. As the speed increases the power required increases dramatically (it is a cubic function), so in solar car racing average speed is of much greater interest! In good conditions (over a long distance) we can expect a cruising speed of 90km/h or more.
Our previous solar car, UNSW Sunswift II, reached a maximum speed of 140km/h.
From Wikipedia about Kangaroos:
The comfortable hopping speed for Red Kangaroos is about 20-25 km/h (13-16 mph), but speeds of up to 70 km/h (43 mph) can be attained, over short distances.
My guess is that you could easily catch up with a kangaroo...
Last time I was buying them at home depot, a socket was 79 cents and a cord was a few bucks. Why should I want to replace an already mature, tested, cheap, reliable technology with something that costs a whole lot more, and may direct power to where it is not wanted?
Why should I have X different chargers for my wireless devices? Imagine your desk if this was build into the table... your phone don't need a wire, wireless mice charge no matter where they are located, your keyboard always works, your PDA is charged when placed on the table and so is your laptop. You could have wires for all these things, but if I could avoid having x numbers of cradles and loose wires on my table, I would like that even more. And as I type this, I could imagine other things: Wireless hard disk (with wireless USB) and wireless desktop speakers, just to keep it in the nerd world and what about your desk lamp and the LCD picture frame:-) And you thought that I was done there? When a friend comes over and discovers that his phone is low on battery and your phone charger doesn't fit? Imagine your friend to be able bring "anything" without having to bring any wires at all.
This will also solve allot of the cable clutter under the table. Just think of all the things on your table that needs power and then imagine them without wires... Imagine this build into the walls - your speakers, tv and lights didn't need wires! Well, I don't know how it reacts to a nail, but there might be solutions for this too, like having a device that can sense where these things are placed, so you can go around them with your nails and screws.
Surely I can't be the only one excited about the possibilities with this kind freedom you can have?
As I understand it, one of the things about this project is that the system detects if an object needs power and only send power to where the object is. Thats one of the reasons they can pump even more power into the object, because they can concentrate power around the object.
I'm using WPA-PSK right now after doing no more than filling the details into System->Administration->Networking->Wireless Connection.
Well, thats what I tried (and many other howtos), but it didn't work... then I installed Vista, rightclicked the network icon and selected Connect to a network, select my network and entered password. This have worked with most Windows installations. The only Linux installation doing this on my laptop is SuSE and it didn't work stable at all.
That's the primary reason for me staying on Windows - what is a computer without network?:-)
I had the same problem (not being able to burn as a normal user) and found that Ubuntu detected the DVD-Rom/CD Writer in my IBM T43 laptop as a SCSI unit and Ubuntu is not setup to give normal users write rights to these drives. I had to edit some file to set the correct rights to the drive on each boot. Well, the details in my story might not be correct because Ubuntu went out a long time ago, after not being able to get WPA-PSK to work.
Just like the T-Rex, the reason they disappear is because they can't break their fall. No arms, no way to save them self. Well, the T-Rex had arms, but they where to short to do any difference.
Sound like you haven't used Windows XP? Or maybe it have been introduced in a service pack - I can't remember.
Windows XP usually pop up with window, where you can choose (like explore it) what to do with the connected USB drive. I think this is much better than just showing an icon on the desktop, where you might have to minimize windows to get to it. I have to admit, that I haven't connect a USB drive to a Linux box for some time, so it might have gotten better.
The other thing with Windows XP is that you don't need to use the "safely remove hardware"-thing. When the connected USB drive is finished writing data, you can unplug it. I believe it's because Windows XP flush the cache right away (or it's turn off?), so when the device is done "blinking", you can remove it. How Linux reacts... I don't know.
So the steps on Windows is more like this:
1. Plug USB stick into USB port 2. Select action (explore it) 3. Do your stuff 4. Remove it, when the USB stick is not blinking anymore.
Are the steps for Linux the same today?
I have an Epson 4990 and have used it to scan negatives - but only 35mm. It includes several placeholders for many different sizes, but you don't have to use them, so You can scan negatives in A4 size. It also can scan using different light (UV I think) in the the process of removing dust and scratches. I'm happy with the result, but I'm no photograph or anything close to being a professional in the world of pictures.
I haven't used it for a while, so I can't remember it in details, but the (Windows) software is able to automatically straighten, separate and crop scanned photos.
I just saved myself 6 hours of patching the OS from Windows UpdateHmmm... 6 hours? How slow is your internet connection? Nothing I would use for hosting a website. And no, rebooting Windows does not take an hour and updating Windows does not mean you have to reboot 40 times. 4 times maybe (which I still think is 3 times to many), but nothing that would cause you to update for 6 hours.
just imagine if you had the original WinXP Pro disk, add 2 more windows update rounds to that number (SP1 and then SP2).And thats why you are not an Windows administrator. Since you have a custom compiled Apache, I would guess that this is something you have done before and if your where a Windows administrator, you would slipstream SP2 onto you Windows installation CD. And if you only had a non-SP2 installation CD, you would still only need to install SP2.
Does Windows Update even give you a chance to install SP1 anymore?
I'm not saying Windows is perfect, but you don't have to make it worse than it is. But that might be the reason for your comment to be rated "Funny".:-)
Where are the vast majority of Slashdot readers from? Vast majority of internet users for that matter?
Well, I dont know about the first part, but the second part seems to be in Asia, then comes Europe and then North America as the three major places where the Intenetusers are. If you are to belive these stats:
http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
I can't detect any lag, using my Logitech MX1000 mouse. I have seen a lag in Bluetooth mice (at least some older equipment), but not non-Bluetooth mice. I play Battlefield 2 almost daily.
Currently, I have only seen speeds at 24-25 KB/s, but that might just be the devices I have used. The next Bluetooth version or maybe wireless USB will solve this problem.
seem to remember around 2001 when blue tooth was getting recognition. Companies were saying that you would need no cables running from your computer to your monitor/mouse/keyboard/printer. Ok we have the keyboard and mouse but after 5 years nothing else.
You can get wireless cameras and printers today - both using WiFi or Bluetooth.
Access Points are getting "auto channel" options. Wireless mouse og keyboards are getting easier to setup and are more stable than the first wave of these products.
All new things have a period, where the "user-bugs" are being found and corrected. I think wireless network is only now starting to be easy and stable enuff to be used by normal people. Once i thought, after seeing a wireless mouse in action at one of my friends, that I would NEVER get a wireless keyboard or mouse. But after a couple of generations of these things, I bought myself a wireless mouse and keyboard and it worked just like they had wires.
Then, what about the support? It have to get harder to debug some of these new things? Well, yes, but it have been quite a while since I have had a problem, setting up somebodys display settings. What I mean is that we get new kind of problems all the time and for some reason, many of the old problems seams to disapear. As a matter of fact, the only problems I have had with wireless keyboards og mices have related to old hardware. The new stuff I see, just works.
The morale of the story? New things have bugs and inconvenient ways of working, but this is something that will get fixed.
Personaly, I would rather loose my mouse (or keyboard) so badly, that I would have to buy a new one, instead of having a wire again. With that said, I have never lost my mouse (or keyboard) more than it being under a sheet of paper or some other stuff on my desk.
In Denmark, we have a site called fuckwww (http://fuckwww.dk/), that tries to kill "www". Not a big success, but they have a "service" where people typing in www.example.com gets redirected to a site telling people not to use www and then redirects them on to example.com. This site: http://www.2hansen.dk/ is an example of this.
To say 86 (and thus stay on topic) you say in Dutch 6 and eighty
I'm from Denmark, where we use the same way to pronouce it ("six and eighty"). We do, however, have have a shorter way of saying "eighty".. "firs" (where the i is said like the i in ice). That was the defence speach... here comes the ugly part:
1 = en = one and 10 = ti = ten
2 = to = two and 20 = tyve = twenty
3 = tre = three and 30 = tredive = thrity
4 = fire = four and 40 = fyrre = forty
5 = fem = five and 50 = halvtreds = fifty
6 = seks = six and 60 = treds = sixty
7 = syv = seven and 70 = halvfjerds = seventy
8 = otte = eight and 80 = firs = eighty
9 = ni = nine and 90 = halvfems = ninety
As you can see, no smart pattern with these numbers in the danish system. How should a person know that "seks"(6) x 10 = treds(60)?
With that said, we also have a smarter system, that works like the English one:
1 = et and 10 = ti
2 = to and 20 = toti
3 = tre and 30 = treti
4 = fire and 40 = fireti ... and so you can see, like the English, we just add "ti" behind the number - "ti" like 10, so the system is complete (fem-ti = 5 x 10). This system is known by many, but its not used that much because it semes like something old people use. And have to admit that I don't know wich of the two systems where the first one, but i like the last one better, but use the first one because every one else use it.
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This a holding me back at buying music. They are loosing money, while the music I do buy, will be counted in as "DRM free" and will help the 97% to get even bigger.
I would just love it, if they would remove DRM for good. I would probably go from $ 10-20 to $ 100-200 a month, if I could have the ease and speed of downloading it. (this last line was just added to remind the "big four" about what they are missing out on...
Why should I have X different chargers for my wireless devices? Imagine your desk if this was build into the table... your phone don't need a wire, wireless mice charge no matter where they are located, your keyboard always works, your PDA is charged when placed on the table and so is your laptop. You could have wires for all these things, but if I could avoid having x numbers of cradles and loose wires on my table, I would like that even more. And as I type this, I could imagine other things: Wireless hard disk (with wireless USB) and wireless desktop speakers, just to keep it in the nerd world and what about your desk lamp and the LCD picture frame :-) And you thought that I was done there? When a friend comes over and discovers that his phone is low on battery and your phone charger doesn't fit? Imagine your friend to be able bring "anything" without having to bring any wires at all.
This will also solve allot of the cable clutter under the table. Just think of all the things on your table that needs power and then imagine them without wires... Imagine this build into the walls - your speakers, tv and lights didn't need wires! Well, I don't know how it reacts to a nail, but there might be solutions for this too, like having a device that can sense where these things are placed, so you can go around them with your nails and screws.
Surely I can't be the only one excited about the possibilities with this kind freedom you can have?
As I understand it, one of the things about this project is that the system detects if an object needs power and only send power to where the object is. Thats one of the reasons they can pump even more power into the object, because they can concentrate power around the object.
That's the primary reason for me staying on Windows - what is a computer without network?
Just like the T-Rex, the reason they disappear is because they can't break their fall. No arms, no way to save them self. Well, the T-Rex had arms, but they where to short to do any difference.
Sound like you haven't used Windows XP? Or maybe it have been introduced in a service pack - I can't remember.
Windows XP usually pop up with window, where you can choose (like explore it) what to do with the connected USB drive. I think this is much better than just showing an icon on the desktop, where you might have to minimize windows to get to it. I have to admit, that I haven't connect a USB drive to a Linux box for some time, so it might have gotten better.
The other thing with Windows XP is that you don't need to use the "safely remove hardware"-thing. When the connected USB drive is finished writing data, you can unplug it. I believe it's because Windows XP flush the cache right away (or it's turn off?), so when the device is done "blinking", you can remove it. How Linux reacts... I don't know.
So the steps on Windows is more like this:
1. Plug USB stick into USB port 2. Select action (explore it) 3. Do your stuff 4. Remove it, when the USB stick is not blinking anymore.
Are the steps for Linux the same today?
I have an Epson 4990 and have used it to scan negatives - but only 35mm. It includes several placeholders for many different sizes, but you don't have to use them, so You can scan negatives in A4 size. It also can scan using different light (UV I think) in the the process of removing dust and scratches. I'm happy with the result, but I'm no photograph or anything close to being a professional in the world of pictures. I haven't used it for a while, so I can't remember it in details, but the (Windows) software is able to automatically straighten, separate and crop scanned photos.
I just saved myself 6 hours of patching the OS from Windows UpdateHmmm... 6 hours? How slow is your internet connection? Nothing I would use for hosting a website. And no, rebooting Windows does not take an hour and updating Windows does not mean you have to reboot 40 times. 4 times maybe (which I still think is 3 times to many), but nothing that would cause you to update for 6 hours.
:-)
just imagine if you had the original WinXP Pro disk, add 2 more windows update rounds to that number (SP1 and then SP2).And thats why you are not an Windows administrator. Since you have a custom compiled Apache, I would guess that this is something you have done before and if your where a Windows administrator, you would slipstream SP2 onto you Windows installation CD. And if you only had a non-SP2 installation CD, you would still only need to install SP2.
Does Windows Update even give you a chance to install SP1 anymore?
I'm not saying Windows is perfect, but you don't have to make it worse than it is. But that might be the reason for your comment to be rated "Funny".
If these screenshots are corret, we now have proff that Apple copied Microsofts idea about using colors!
How old is this mouse? 3 seconds have to bee an error somewhere. What did Logitech say?
I can't detect any lag, using my Logitech MX1000 mouse. I have seen a lag in Bluetooth mice (at least some older equipment), but not non-Bluetooth mice. I play Battlefield 2 almost daily.
Currently, I have only seen speeds at 24-25 KB/s, but that might just be the devices I have used. The next Bluetooth version or maybe wireless USB will solve this problem.
Access Points are getting "auto channel" options. Wireless mouse og keyboards are getting easier to setup and are more stable than the first wave of these products.
All new things have a period, where the "user-bugs" are being found and corrected. I think wireless network is only now starting to be easy and stable enuff to be used by normal people. Once i thought, after seeing a wireless mouse in action at one of my friends, that I would NEVER get a wireless keyboard or mouse. But after a couple of generations of these things, I bought myself a wireless mouse and keyboard and it worked just like they had wires.
Then, what about the support? It have to get harder to debug some of these new things? Well, yes, but it have been quite a while since I have had a problem, setting up somebodys display settings. What I mean is that we get new kind of problems all the time and for some reason, many of the old problems seams to disapear. As a matter of fact, the only problems I have had with wireless keyboards og mices have related to old hardware. The new stuff I see, just works.
The morale of the story? New things have bugs and inconvenient ways of working, but this is something that will get fixed.
So you got a faulty unit?
Personaly, I would rather loose my mouse (or keyboard) so badly, that I would have to buy a new one, instead of having a wire again. With that said, I have never lost my mouse (or keyboard) more than it being under a sheet of paper or some other stuff on my desk.
In Denmark, we have a site called fuckwww (http://fuckwww.dk/), that tries to kill "www". Not a big success, but they have a "service" where people typing in www.example.com gets redirected to a site telling people not to use www and then redirects them on to example.com. This site: http://www.2hansen.dk/ is an example of this.
I dont want to read your blog ... could you make a video?
1 = en = one and 10 = ti = ten
2 = to = two and 20 = tyve = twenty
3 = tre = three and 30 = tredive = thrity
4 = fire = four and 40 = fyrre = forty
5 = fem = five and 50 = halvtreds = fifty
6 = seks = six and 60 = treds = sixty
7 = syv = seven and 70 = halvfjerds = seventy
8 = otte = eight and 80 = firs = eighty
9 = ni = nine and 90 = halvfems = ninety
As you can see, no smart pattern with these numbers in the danish system. How should a person know that "seks"(6) x 10 = treds(60)?
With that said, we also have a smarter system, that works like the English one:
1 = et and 10 = ti
2 = to and 20 = toti
3 = tre and 30 = treti
4 = fire and 40 = fireti