I'd be a little hesitant there- I think that paper conveys a certain sense of authority. I'm probably a bit old fashioned though. For example, I edit a magazine for the ACM called "Crossroads" (it's the student pub) and we distribute content online and in print. But if it was just online, that would feel amatuerish and not as "groovy." Knowing that 10,000's of people get a paper (and mind you COLOR!) copy in their mailbox has a certain appeal to it. And you can read it in the bathroom.
We're not talking newsweek here. Think more along the lines of a journal like nature. It costs $100 a year for a student to get it, and it costs exponentially more (well, a small exponent) for a library to get it, because they share. It is the sharing tax, I suppose. Nature will not put their full articicles online, for most of the people who read the journal are e-savvy and e-cheap. They would gobble it up. Science news is a weekly thing but it is free on the net. So I didn't subscribe. But I still donated to the Smithsonian. Nobody is going to "donate" to nature.
True, but that was over a domain name, not a business name. And of course it was wrong.
I look back to a fun example. In Allentown, PA, where I go to school, there is a place called Phoebe Floral. I know this because I bought flowers from there yesterday for the gf. Meanwhile, in the same city, there is a Phoebe Catering service and a Phoebe Book Shop. Now these are different Phoebi, and they don't sue each other because they sell different products. (and yet they are in the same town!)
I reiterate that etoy and etoys are both still doing business under their respective names, and the only reason that there was hooplah about the domain name is because a judge (who probably has a lot of toys now) bowed to corporate pressure.
From what I know (which isn't much) if they call the machine the x-box (as they typically have been) than they don't have trouble with someone calling themselves xbox (no hyphen). Plus, "customer confusion" can only help the other little company. Of course, then again so would a 10 million dollar gag. (Regretting not registerring the name in February!)
Excellent hyperlink trick. I haven't had the old bait and switch pulled on me since when I was in a warez group on IRC and was told here the rules were!
You are, however, forgetting we who use our sexy PowerBooks to lure women over to us who do not look at you with your P75 Compaq Persario that "really flys" with Linux because all other OS's suck and they aren't Free. Get a job, then a life, and go somewhere that you are appreciated, like a cemetary.
In ring 1 we have experts- people who are the veritable PhD candidates in a particular field. Granted it is a small ring, but it is there.
Ring 2 we have the nimrods, the trolls, the first -post natalie portman's hot grits, l33t hax0r, script kiddie, etc people. Fortunately it is the smallest ring, but I think that it grows faster as people give up on integrity and depart from Ring 3.
Ring 3 has the the normal everyday Joe/Jane. I am probably in this ring, at least in as far as computers are concerned. Personally I am a Cognitive Scientist, but I like to read about hardware and I like to tinker with OS's. I also feel that it is okay to pay for one and not know what is in it. Of course this subjects me to those in Ring 2, the people who capitalize the letter F in free when it refers to the almighty penguin. I have been moderated down for mentioning said fact, which I find is sad. I get reemed for pointing out that Linux steals many of the concepts from other OS's, and then defames them as trying to make money. Well, money pays people to figure out how to make a good OS. But that is a whole different rant.
I appreciate the occasional humor in a post, but not every single post. Let me explify with the Challenger anniversary. While some people relevantly pointed out that more a sigma of the population of the world was wiped out a couple days ago and Slashdot didn't mention it, others told me that the last thing that the teacher on the Challenger said was "you feed the dogs, I'll feed the fish." I want to see one of them grow the balls/hubris to climb a giant aerosol can and launch themself into a vacuum. Hell, they are the agorophobes who fear going outside for ridicule- hence "trolls" I suppose.
Don't forget, "Go Transmeta!" Intel makes two mistakes out of 50- bad bad bad! Transmeta is 0 for 2... "Well, they'll get 'em next time. Go Linus!"
Then perhaps the articles that are put up are ones that the editors think have a mockable value.
White the editors make little claim that this is a journalistic site, putting little comments like "If it only had three mouse buttons..." on the end of Apple articles, etc. sort of set the tone. There was once a day, long long ago (2 years) when/. was a happy place of intelligent conversation. I actually at one point came to Slashdot to hear about hardware before going to Ars Technica! Instead, the integrity that A.T. has now runs circles around that of Slashdot, where >10% of "fact" posts are amended as "oops, it was a rumor and we never checked."
Oh well, I am just ranting b/c I have no life. Go linux, and stuff. (+3 "Go Linux")
I am bothered that the highest rated posts onto science related articles are "Funny" ones. Also, "intelligent" articles seem to get less posts. When a post about Microsoft/Apple being bad comes up, well, tons of posts! But on the earth, the RSA algorithm, etc - under 200! And the highest rated? "Funny"
Although I admit that a few of the examples in this comment, the key point is that they are things that are integrated into the OS itself- Being able to mount a drive across the internet and have it become integrated into the system API (i.e., being able to save from word onto that drive), etc. is pretty cool.
By SMP being standard, sure it was for a while on professional workstations, but aside from the BeBox which had a limited market, Apple was first to make it standard on every machine they sold. Of course they removed it when they ran low on chips, but I have a feeling that it will be back this summer.
Also, the wireless lan thing- yes, the technology was invented by someone else. That is readily obvious- the point again is that Apple came up with a nice way to integrate it into the products. Similarly, gigabit ethernet was obvious invented by someone else, but the Mac was cool enough to make it the standard NIC in their workstations. When you buy a PC, the standard is 10/100. Get the idea?
I find that there is a lot extra value in Apple hardware. No company is perfect, sure. If they were perfect by the Slashdot defnition (sorry to those who don't fit the typical Slashdotter mentality), their machines would be cheap, specs open, and source code available. But then they would be put in price wars with people who have an easier time knocking things off, and gosh, then they would end up out of business.
If RHAT came up with the clever idea to make their linux look like OS X right out of the box, Apple would be in trouble. That is why they are heading off theme designers at the pass. Microsoft doesn't need to do this because they have the market. Apple does, because with each competitor with their features, they lose market. And in ECO 101 we learn that losing market is bad.
Sorry, I did over-react. I thought you were one of them. I just bought a Pismo in March so I am a little ticked that I missed the G4 train, but I think that this is a little sexier anyway. By supporting ram I meant that the pismo supports 512 but in reality can run a gig. But if you have a problem, apple will hear none of it. Now you can have your gig, and eat it too.
I do look forward to the UMA-2 in laptops, but my next purchase will probably be their 2nd rev of a G5 desktop; godwilling. (Perhaps I will get a UMA-3 laptop of one ever exists) The Ti is nice, and if I wasn't a student I would buy one and give my powerbook to a windows user. I need the G4, for I do some sick stuff with math that you'd slap me for. In the meantime, I will wear my apple proudly. Godspeed.
If they put the eraser head in the middle, they would be ridiculed as not being original by the trolls, and probably sued by IBM. If they put in a second mouse button, they would be ridiculed by the trolls, and they would violate the principal tennets of Human Computer Interaction. If they put in a third mouse button, they would be ridiculed by the trolls, and people would install linux on then and not use the other two buttons enough to make the development costs worthwhile. Oh, and the application writers would be pleased as punch to modify all their apps to allow for violating elegant use. And the users would pay for upgrades so that they can (not) use the other mouse buttons.
If you want more buttons, either map it to the keyboard or get an external mouse. Write up an applescript to make the buttons do different things in different apps, or use the contour overdrive software that will handle that for you. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
1) The logic board is a tad different- it has a differenet form factor to allow the machine to be thinner, longer, and shorter. Oh, and there's the whole different chipset thing.
2) Gosh, isn't the display 15.3 inches. Gosh, the old one was smaller. I guess that makes them different too.
3) I know that PC133 notebook RAM is just all over the place. I don't understand why they didn't pour millions into making it run cooler and not use up the battery.
4) Wouldn't you know it- different graphics chipset.
5) Almost forgot, supports a gig of RAM instead of 512.
6) Oh, and dual antenna wireless. Built in.
Yeah, I see your point, they are exactly the same. Come on, don't sell your shit here, I'm not buying.
1) I love how whenever there is an apple story, the trolls go and click their right mouse button to automatically dump in some sort of anti-apple diatribe that they just finished typing up in windows before they booted into linux to do the post.
2) Although I will not argue that for the intermediate/advanced user, the ability to map clever commands to extra buttons on a mouse is useful, it is not compatible with good HCI principles. As much of a shocker as it is, people like to know that whenever they do a certain thing on a computer, it will always have the same result. When I click once on a file, I select it. A second time, I can rename it. Do it fast and I will run it. Your grandmother does not want to have to right click, scroll down to rename, and select it with the left mouse button. She does not want to right click an area in photoshop and paint in the background color and right click in paint shop pro and switch images (I made this up, but the point is that the event is inconsistent). In fact, if Linux is to be on the desktop, it could learn from simplifying things a bit.
If you want three buttons on an apple, plug in a mouse- that is what I do. The contour overdrive lets me scroll on webpages, right click to do what I want it to (open a new window in IE, bring up context menu's, etc). But the key is, the left button / the "only button" will always do what I want it to. Application developers don't have to worry that because Gates Inc makes right clicking bring up context menus that they have to also.
Sorry for the rambling rant, I am just sick of this stupid mouse button crap. We are a minority. My HCI text says that/maybe/ 10% of people use the right mouse button. Now recall the first time you used a mouse- it was hard. Admit it. You couldn't even play minesweeper; you know your first OS wasn't linux, so don't even give me any crap. You/tried/ to play soliaire, and you accidently right clicked the cards. Finally you learned how to use your fingers for something other than picking your ass, and now you crave for a 10 button mouse so that you can open porn images with one, paste a variety of trolls with others, and MAYBE, just MAYBE do something useful with the rest.
Cooling. Titanium will disperse heat across it's surface (metal is good at that- touch a pan handle where the wood/plastic part ends, or trust me). A G4 would make an easy-bake oven out of a plastic case, or sound like a cessana. All in all they did the best thing possible, and hell, "my data is so important that my laptop is made of titanium." That HAS to get you chicks!
I always thought that college was a place that sold 100Mbps internet access for $1000 a month... And it came with free live-motion chicks viewable through the window panel on my wall. I don't know if they were real though; never went outside my room. Of course I am of that select population that would, when given the option of a date and a LAN party, pick the latter. And if there are girls at the LAN party, it counts as a date, right?
I'm pretty sure that if 99% of the JPG's were pr0n, no geek would ever right a script to delete them automatically. At least not without archiving them to his personal directory:)
I didn't really have a lot of time to come up with a better analogy than the apple thing- the hidden message could be that one bad apple spoiled the whole bunch, and now rather than dealing in potentially bad apples, the web hosting firm has removed them from its inventory. It saves them the hassle of policing everybody, and usually minimizes the risk that they have some record company bitching them out.
The thing that upsets me the most about the guy's story is that he re-uploaded the MP3's as zip files. Now he is not only violating his TOS, he is bragging about it! I think they should terminate his account. Plus all the money from transfer fees from all the slashdotters loading up the site must have pissed them off:)
Okay, granted that maybe.00385 (rounded) percent of MP3's might actually be legal "everybody's happy" MP3's, but pretty much all of the rest of them are illegal. If you own the album, one would suppose that you could keep the MP3 for yourself, but to post it in a public web directory is a little bit sketchy (ala "MyDrive"). Perhaps it would be an issue of it was posted in a non web-accessible directory, but other than that, I think the ISP was doing the "smart thing." Think of it this way, if 99% of the apples in the bunch are rotten, would you spend your time digging around for the good one, or would you just pitch them all.
And if anything, he agreed to the terms of srevice which explicitly state:
4.1.5. The storage and distribution of MP3 format files via the Company network is prohibited.
So the only right he has is to go pound sand or to find a new provider. Sorry to burst the bubble, but if you agree with terms of service, and then violate them, you don't have a right to complain- or at least nobody has to listen.
CT: "Works using a USB Cam, and obviously its not gonna be running under Linux any time soon, but this is pretty sweet."
Why not? That's not the sort of do it yourself spirit that Linux is all about. I'm pretty sure that Linus wasn't sitting in Tannenbaum's Operating Systems class muttering to himself "obviously this isn't going to run on my computer any time soon." Instead, he made it run on his computer. Some poor newbie probably said to himself (stream of concsioussness style):
Cool, I can use my head as a... oh, not for linux.
geekbox% reboot
Partition Magic
1 Windows
2 Linux
Partition? 1
Ok, well at least I can use it here. Who needs Linux anyway... Long live Bill.
Tsk tsk Taco, should have said,
"Let's get this thing on Linux!"
Just thought you needed an attitude adjustment, not meant to be flame or troll, just perhaps droll.
Scott,
I go to Muhelnberg College (right down the road) and we too are struggling to get speakers. My thought is that a few schools (like us LVAIC schools) should combine forces such that we have more power to make speakers want to come. Muhlenberg has around 20 CS majors total, so we are not very attractive to come speak at, but Muhlenberg, Lafeyette, Lehigh, Moravian, etc all got together, you would be surprised how much better response would be.
Yes, it was silly for me to say that the XBox uses WinCE- I was sort of being funny in a way b/c I don't know exactly what the name of the XboxOS is. Since it is a Ring0 kernel I don't think that they even really gave it a name, but if they did I'd like to know.. The system that the Xbox is some sort of magical Direct X goop. That is all that I think of Windows as though. They should probably call it WorkAroundOS or something... If none of the Microsoft software that is commonplace today makes it to the Xbox, I will be suprised nonetheless.
As I was laying in bed thinking about my previous post (#5), it all became clear to me why the X-box is so feature rich. Microsoft is exempt from the Gilette wager [to refresh, "Give away the razor, make it back on the blades."]. Play along: Let's say you buy the X-box with the intent on making it your own little computer. It runs WinCE (MS software quickly available... for a price: and they know that you WILL use MS software. The price that you drop on Office 2035 will quickly recoup any loss that they might have had). They know that no matter what, you will buy the blades. Okay, let's say you buy it to be a linux box... Okay, now you can't play those nice Xbox games. The 4000 (highball) people that do buy the box for that purpose are just a drop in the bucket anyway.
Bill Gates is like Cartman: you really should respect his authority. It must feel good to sit down at the craps table knowing that you made a winning roll before the dealer even hands you the dice.
Carmack pointed out a lot of interesting points about how the console folks make their money. They seem to follow the Gillette "Give away the razor, make it back on the blades" principle. With the growth of the internet and superfast network connections coming into many homes, it is not a surprise that the Game console manufacturers are a little bit hesitant to support all of the neat little gadgets available. It is sort of like the Netpliance system- they sell you the console with the expectation that they are going to make something back on it. If you go and buy a playstation, hook a a keyboard and a printer up to it, and maybe throw linux on it, they don't get anything in return for their wager that you are going to keep them alive. In the end, I don't really see how computers and consoles can really coexist peacefully... at least it is apparent that it gets harder every day.
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I'd be a little hesitant there- I think that paper conveys a certain sense of authority. I'm probably a bit old fashioned though. For example, I edit a magazine for the ACM called "Crossroads" (it's the student pub) and we distribute content online and in print. But if it was just online, that would feel amatuerish and not as "groovy." Knowing that 10,000's of people get a paper (and mind you COLOR!) copy in their mailbox has a certain appeal to it. And you can read it in the bathroom.
We're not talking newsweek here. Think more along the lines of a journal like nature. It costs $100 a year for a student to get it, and it costs exponentially more (well, a small exponent) for a library to get it, because they share. It is the sharing tax, I suppose. Nature will not put their full articicles online, for most of the people who read the journal are e-savvy and e-cheap. They would gobble it up. Science news is a weekly thing but it is free on the net. So I didn't subscribe. But I still donated to the Smithsonian. Nobody is going to "donate" to nature.
True, but that was over a domain name, not a business name. And of course it was wrong.
I look back to a fun example. In Allentown, PA, where I go to school, there is a place called Phoebe Floral. I know this because I bought flowers from there yesterday for the gf. Meanwhile, in the same city, there is a Phoebe Catering service and a Phoebe Book Shop. Now these are different Phoebi, and they don't sue each other because they sell different products. (and yet they are in the same town!)
I reiterate that etoy and etoys are both still doing business under their respective names, and the only reason that there was hooplah about the domain name is because a judge (who probably has a lot of toys now) bowed to corporate pressure.
From what I know (which isn't much) if they call the machine the x-box (as they typically have been) than they don't have trouble with someone calling themselves xbox (no hyphen). Plus, "customer confusion" can only help the other little company. Of course, then again so would a 10 million dollar gag. (Regretting not registerring the name in February!)
Excellent hyperlink trick. I haven't had the old bait and switch pulled on me since when I was in a warez group on IRC and was told here the rules were!
You are, however, forgetting we who use our sexy PowerBooks to lure women over to us who do not look at you with your P75 Compaq Persario that "really flys" with Linux because all other OS's suck and they aren't Free. Get a job, then a life, and go somewhere that you are appreciated, like a cemetary.
1) Perhaps there are even more users, and just the ratio of people having problems with it is a poor indicator of the number of users.
2) Apple, which has a fairly decent market share is basing their next OS off of this dead one.
I am glad to hear that you are open minded though.
I do agree that /. is a three ring circus.
In ring 1 we have experts- people who are the veritable PhD candidates in a particular field. Granted it is a small ring, but it is there.
Ring 2 we have the nimrods, the trolls, the first -post natalie portman's hot grits, l33t hax0r, script kiddie, etc people. Fortunately it is the smallest ring, but I think that it grows faster as people give up on integrity and depart from Ring 3.
Ring 3 has the the normal everyday Joe/Jane. I am probably in this ring, at least in as far as computers are concerned. Personally I am a Cognitive Scientist, but I like to read about hardware and I like to tinker with OS's. I also feel that it is okay to pay for one and not know what is in it. Of course this subjects me to those in Ring 2, the people who capitalize the letter F in free when it refers to the almighty penguin. I have been moderated down for mentioning said fact, which I find is sad. I get reemed for pointing out that Linux steals many of the concepts from other OS's, and then defames them as trying to make money. Well, money pays people to figure out how to make a good OS. But that is a whole different rant.
I appreciate the occasional humor in a post, but not every single post. Let me explify with the Challenger anniversary. While some people relevantly pointed out that more a sigma of the population of the world was wiped out a couple days ago and Slashdot didn't mention it, others told me that the last thing that the teacher on the Challenger said was "you feed the dogs, I'll feed the fish." I want to see one of them grow the balls/hubris to climb a giant aerosol can and launch themself into a vacuum. Hell, they are the agorophobes who fear going outside for ridicule- hence "trolls" I suppose.
Don't forget, "Go Transmeta!" Intel makes two mistakes out of 50- bad bad bad! Transmeta is 0 for 2... "Well, they'll get 'em next time. Go Linus!"
Until we meet again...
Then perhaps the articles that are put up are ones that the editors think have a mockable value.
/. was a happy place of intelligent conversation. I actually at one point came to Slashdot to hear about hardware before going to Ars Technica! Instead, the integrity that A.T. has now runs circles around that of Slashdot, where >10% of "fact" posts are amended as "oops, it was a rumor and we never checked."
White the editors make little claim that this is a journalistic site, putting little comments like "If it only had three mouse buttons..." on the end of Apple articles, etc. sort of set the tone. There was once a day, long long ago (2 years) when
Oh well, I am just ranting b/c I have no life. Go linux, and stuff. (+3 "Go Linux")
I am risking karma here:
I am bothered that the highest rated posts onto science related articles are "Funny" ones. Also, "intelligent" articles seem to get less posts. When a post about Microsoft/Apple being bad comes up, well, tons of posts! But on the earth, the RSA algorithm, etc - under 200! And the highest rated? "Funny"
I just think that is "funny" that's all...
Although I admit that a few of the examples in this comment, the key point is that they are things that are integrated into the OS itself- Being able to mount a drive across the internet and have it become integrated into the system API (i.e., being able to save from word onto that drive), etc. is pretty cool.
By SMP being standard, sure it was for a while on professional workstations, but aside from the BeBox which had a limited market, Apple was first to make it standard on every machine they sold. Of course they removed it when they ran low on chips, but I have a feeling that it will be back this summer.
Also, the wireless lan thing- yes, the technology was invented by someone else. That is readily obvious- the point again is that Apple came up with a nice way to integrate it into the products. Similarly, gigabit ethernet was obvious invented by someone else, but the Mac was cool enough to make it the standard NIC in their workstations. When you buy a PC, the standard is 10/100. Get the idea?
I find that there is a lot extra value in Apple hardware. No company is perfect, sure. If they were perfect by the Slashdot defnition (sorry to those who don't fit the typical Slashdotter mentality), their machines would be cheap, specs open, and source code available. But then they would be put in price wars with people who have an easier time knocking things off, and gosh, then they would end up out of business.
If RHAT came up with the clever idea to make their linux look like OS X right out of the box, Apple would be in trouble. That is why they are heading off theme designers at the pass. Microsoft doesn't need to do this because they have the market. Apple does, because with each competitor with their features, they lose market. And in ECO 101 we learn that losing market is bad.
Sorry, I did over-react. I thought you were one of them. I just bought a Pismo in March so I am a little ticked that I missed the G4 train, but I think that this is a little sexier anyway. By supporting ram I meant that the pismo supports 512 but in reality can run a gig. But if you have a problem, apple will hear none of it. Now you can have your gig, and eat it too.
I do look forward to the UMA-2 in laptops, but my next purchase will probably be their 2nd rev of a G5 desktop; godwilling. (Perhaps I will get a UMA-3 laptop of one ever exists) The Ti is nice, and if I wasn't a student I would buy one and give my powerbook to a windows user. I need the G4, for I do some sick stuff with math that you'd slap me for. In the meantime, I will wear my apple proudly. Godspeed.
If they put the eraser head in the middle, they would be ridiculed as not being original by the trolls, and probably sued by IBM. If they put in a second mouse button, they would be ridiculed by the trolls, and they would violate the principal tennets of Human Computer Interaction. If they put in a third mouse button, they would be ridiculed by the trolls, and people would install linux on then and not use the other two buttons enough to make the development costs worthwhile. Oh, and the application writers would be pleased as punch to modify all their apps to allow for violating elegant use. And the users would pay for upgrades so that they can (not) use the other mouse buttons.
If you want more buttons, either map it to the keyboard or get an external mouse. Write up an applescript to make the buttons do different things in different apps, or use the contour overdrive software that will handle that for you. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Ok, let's see.
1) The logic board is a tad different- it has a differenet form factor to allow the machine to be thinner, longer, and shorter. Oh, and there's the whole different chipset thing.
2) Gosh, isn't the display 15.3 inches. Gosh, the old one was smaller. I guess that makes them different too.
3) I know that PC133 notebook RAM is just all over the place. I don't understand why they didn't pour millions into making it run cooler and not use up the battery.
4) Wouldn't you know it- different graphics chipset.
5) Almost forgot, supports a gig of RAM instead of 512.
6) Oh, and dual antenna wireless. Built in.
Yeah, I see your point, they are exactly the same. Come on, don't sell your shit here, I'm not buying.
1) I love how whenever there is an apple story, the trolls go and click their right mouse button to automatically dump in some sort of anti-apple diatribe that they just finished typing up in windows before they booted into linux to do the post.
/maybe/ 10% of people use the right mouse button. Now recall the first time you used a mouse- it was hard. Admit it. You couldn't even play minesweeper; you know your first OS wasn't linux, so don't even give me any crap. You /tried/ to play soliaire, and you accidently right clicked the cards. Finally you learned how to use your fingers for something other than picking your ass, and now you crave for a 10 button mouse so that you can open porn images with one, paste a variety of trolls with others, and MAYBE, just MAYBE do something useful with the rest.
2) Although I will not argue that for the intermediate/advanced user, the ability to map clever commands to extra buttons on a mouse is useful, it is not compatible with good HCI principles. As much of a shocker as it is, people like to know that whenever they do a certain thing on a computer, it will always have the same result. When I click once on a file, I select it. A second time, I can rename it. Do it fast and I will run it. Your grandmother does not want to have to right click, scroll down to rename, and select it with the left mouse button. She does not want to right click an area in photoshop and paint in the background color and right click in paint shop pro and switch images (I made this up, but the point is that the event is inconsistent). In fact, if Linux is to be on the desktop, it could learn from simplifying things a bit.
If you want three buttons on an apple, plug in a mouse- that is what I do. The contour overdrive lets me scroll on webpages, right click to do what I want it to (open a new window in IE, bring up context menu's, etc). But the key is, the left button / the "only button" will always do what I want it to. Application developers don't have to worry that because Gates Inc makes right clicking bring up context menus that they have to also.
Sorry for the rambling rant, I am just sick of this stupid mouse button crap. We are a minority. My HCI text says that
Good night. Sorry to the polite people.
Cooling. Titanium will disperse heat across it's surface (metal is good at that- touch a pan handle where the wood/plastic part ends, or trust me). A G4 would make an easy-bake oven out of a plastic case, or sound like a cessana. All in all they did the best thing possible, and hell, "my data is so important that my laptop is made of titanium." That HAS to get you chicks!
I always thought that college was a place that sold 100Mbps internet access for $1000 a month... And it came with free live-motion chicks viewable through the window panel on my wall. I don't know if they were real though; never went outside my room. Of course I am of that select population that would, when given the option of a date and a LAN party, pick the latter. And if there are girls at the LAN party, it counts as a date, right?
If Microsoft was using Linux code in Windows, why the hell does it always crash?
I'm pretty sure that if 99% of the JPG's were pr0n, no geek would ever right a script to delete them automatically. At least not without archiving them to his personal directory :)
:)
I didn't really have a lot of time to come up with a better analogy than the apple thing- the hidden message could be that one bad apple spoiled the whole bunch, and now rather than dealing in potentially bad apples, the web hosting firm has removed them from its inventory. It saves them the hassle of policing everybody, and usually minimizes the risk that they have some record company bitching them out.
The thing that upsets me the most about the guy's story is that he re-uploaded the MP3's as zip files. Now he is not only violating his TOS, he is bragging about it! I think they should terminate his account. Plus all the money from transfer fees from all the slashdotters loading up the site must have pissed them off
Okay, granted that maybe .00385 (rounded) percent of MP3's might actually be legal "everybody's happy" MP3's, but pretty much all of the rest of them are illegal. If you own the album, one would suppose that you could keep the MP3 for yourself, but to post it in a public web directory is a little bit sketchy (ala "MyDrive"). Perhaps it would be an issue of it was posted in a non web-accessible directory, but other than that, I think the ISP was doing the "smart thing." Think of it this way, if 99% of the apples in the bunch are rotten, would you spend your time digging around for the good one, or would you just pitch them all.
/support/s_terms.asp
And if anything, he agreed to the terms of srevice which explicitly state:
4.1.5. The storage and distribution of MP3 format files via the Company network is prohibited.
Which are clearly shown at http://www.halfpricehosting. com
So the only right he has is to go pound sand or to find a new provider. Sorry to burst the bubble, but if you agree with terms of service, and then violate them, you don't have a right to complain- or at least nobody has to listen.
Point, match, set.
CT: "Works using a USB Cam, and obviously its not gonna be running under Linux any time soon, but this is pretty sweet."
Why not? That's not the sort of do it yourself spirit that Linux is all about. I'm pretty sure that Linus wasn't sitting in Tannenbaum's Operating Systems class muttering to himself "obviously this isn't going to run on my computer any time soon." Instead, he made it run on his computer. Some poor newbie probably said to himself (stream of concsioussness style):
Cool, I can use my head as a... oh, not for linux.
geekbox% reboot
Partition Magic
1 Windows
2 Linux
Partition? 1
Ok, well at least I can use it here. Who needs Linux anyway... Long live Bill.
Tsk tsk Taco, should have said,
"Let's get this thing on Linux!"
Just thought you needed an attitude adjustment, not meant to be flame or troll, just perhaps droll.
Scott, I go to Muhelnberg College (right down the road) and we too are struggling to get speakers. My thought is that a few schools (like us LVAIC schools) should combine forces such that we have more power to make speakers want to come. Muhlenberg has around 20 CS majors total, so we are not very attractive to come speak at, but Muhlenberg, Lafeyette, Lehigh, Moravian, etc all got together, you would be surprised how much better response would be.
Yes, it was silly for me to say that the XBox uses WinCE- I was sort of being funny in a way b/c I don't know exactly what the name of the XboxOS is. Since it is a Ring0 kernel I don't think that they even really gave it a name, but if they did I'd like to know.. The system that the Xbox is some sort of magical Direct X goop. That is all that I think of Windows as though. They should probably call it WorkAroundOS or something... If none of the Microsoft software that is commonplace today makes it to the Xbox, I will be suprised nonetheless.
As I was laying in bed thinking about my previous post (#5), it all became clear to me why the X-box is so feature rich. Microsoft is exempt from the Gilette wager [to refresh, "Give away the razor, make it back on the blades."]. Play along: Let's say you buy the X-box with the intent on making it your own little computer. It runs WinCE (MS software quickly available... for a price: and they know that you WILL use MS software. The price that you drop on Office 2035 will quickly recoup any loss that they might have had). They know that no matter what, you will buy the blades. Okay, let's say you buy it to be a linux box... Okay, now you can't play those nice Xbox games. The 4000 (highball) people that do buy the box for that purpose are just a drop in the bucket anyway.
Bill Gates is like Cartman: you really should respect his authority. It must feel good to sit down at the craps table knowing that you made a winning roll before the dealer even hands you the dice.
Carmack pointed out a lot of interesting points about how the console folks make their money. They seem to follow the Gillette "Give away the razor, make it back on the blades" principle. With the growth of the internet and superfast network connections coming into many homes, it is not a surprise that the Game console manufacturers are a little bit hesitant to support all of the neat little gadgets available. It is sort of like the Netpliance system- they sell you the console with the expectation that they are going to make something back on it. If you go and buy a playstation, hook a a keyboard and a printer up to it, and maybe throw linux on it, they don't get anything in return for their wager that you are going to keep them alive. In the end, I don't really see how computers and consoles can really coexist peacefully... at least it is apparent that it gets harder every day.