But the whole pricing fighting thing coming from the record industry is really helping Apple's credibility! Seriously, if it was Apple raising prices they'd have questions to deal with... No one likes the record industry but they have the best PR people in the world on their side generating good will(except perhaps the movie industry). Apple really needs something like the Kindle, perhaps a device that passively searches for wireless points when the user requests a song. Android of course is full of the potential for such things but there are other reasons Apple's fighting Google on that front.
Meh, music is close enough to on demand... more important right now is the lack of anything to listen to. Downloaded 5 top 100 compilations from various music critics, there's some interesting stuff going on in rap with Santogold, M.I.A. etc, but the whole genre is in danger of getting played out.
Banks stopped trusting each other after they started buying and selling a whole crapload of shitty debt.
Now it's hard to borrow money, which is funny because usually when the economy goes to shit money gets cheap (See 20s and the railroad,oil, and automotive barons).
It's a whole new kind of economic fuckup... it helps only one group. Communist states like Venezuela and China.
Look assnuggets,
if bandwidth continues to increase at the speed you made it do for the last 15 years the point will be moot in 2 years anyway... if you slow down you're just hardballing us... and your use... kinda done.
Second there will be an effort to integrate all transmissions around a custom standard... open wireless or mesh networks... your choice[note, you won't get money from the mesh].
Meanwhile, yes people are downloading more and that might interfere with legitimate services such as email and web access, do some routing... make T1s available for those who require them and see who bites.
VDSL is your friend, grow a pair and buy some from Korea.
Charge less... then you won't need so much security... coupled with this improve your damn tech support by giving them more power. They usually need to kick upstairs because they can't handle both billing and technical issues... hire techies pay them enough they know it's a stable career (with advancement into design and development) and give them the power to actually help people.
But I'm being silly, you already know all this and more about the problems associated with each of these issues... so go make lists of the problems and benefits, choose a solution and get to it.
Also... stay the fuck away from our liberties ( first amendment or Canadian Charter of Right and Freedoms equivalent) otherwise you're going to stunt history and even you twisted bastards aren't that [insult insulting term based on your assesment of this risk]
This is the case, my mother is in charge of the decision for the Ministry of Health in Ontario... They've already spent $300,000 on a study in this area but it seems silly when you consider that over the next 20 years this is unlikely to affect 99.999% of people and the remaining people will have such serious medical conditions that the cost of extracting stem cells will be a pitance.
I'm all for technologies in this space but this is money grubbing based on parental fears.
At least this won't stop me from buying video games while I babysit:)
Yea but good will extends to having products which work.
The Korean corporation produces a nanny state like system, but things tend to work. I'm not surprised this came from Samsung, I've had very good experiences with their products and intend to buy more.
Aside from the content itself TV has a normalizing influence. It's a representation of our culture and the way people normally interact, if you know anyone with Autism you realize that there are many ways we could interact and that the definition of "normal" used for societal interaction is very limited (for more information on this see "dating").
It's constantly in flux like fashion and there are only so many ways to stay "current."
TV is also something of a "dream medium" in that you might not always know who you are but what you want can be quite clear, what you choose to watch on TV is a combination of what you wish you were doing coupled with the kind of people you'd like to be interacting with (generation, income, lifestyle, [I'll leave the implications of porn as an exercise for the reader] whatever)...
It's unfortunate that SO much of TV is filled with jerks, assholes, and boring people. What you see is what you get it seems.
One critical phase is getting people to believe in your ideas.
People like grandiose ideas to get behind and to believe in someone they want them to be in some way better than they are.
A woman can meet a man think his idea is brilliant (and of course she already thought of it) but that his testosterone is what will make it successful in the world.
There are probably many encounters where you simply need to sell your idea.
Coding for example, if you have more than one person working on a project the amount of work produced is usually more than 2x the average skill level simply because you get multiple viewpoints on problems and an extra encyclopedia of libraries to draw on. Other skill sets such as web design and marketing are often needed to launch a an idea, sometimes people are able to bluff these skill sets but they are competing against corporations that have people with different skill sets for exactly this reason.
The first time you sell an idea it's to other people who will be working towards it and there's only so many times you can presell half the profits.
If you have a "great idea!" you can try and sell it, if you have the charisma and a solid grasp of the core skill set you may be able to make it work. Otherwise just be available to edit or give your thoughts on the projects of others, it's a good balance between offering your skill set/insight and getting involved in a bunch of projects which are unlikely to succeed. If you are constantly available to edit and help others with their projects. You might find some that you feel you simply must get involved in.
I'll trade some editing for some project design advice if anyone is down:)
I think I speak for a great many PWDRUHTSW (People who don't really understand how this shit works) when I say, "WTF SCIENTISTS! WHERE'S OUR MOTHER FUCKING BOSON!".
An update on the status of the collider would be appreciated too, thank you.
"that knockoffs will work pretty much identically to an Android phone"
I had to comment on this plus +5.
Obviously once the software is all the same the devices will run almost identically, this is the whole point of open sourcing an operating system.
Once consumers can install any applications they want, and simply get a data plan, then all phones will work similarly (GTalk could win the IM/SMS format wars for example).
Complaining about similarity in phones is like suggesting that we're better off with seperate operating systems. All phones where you can install custom applications will be similar, and that will be a good thing.
Let's just hope the operating system they settle on is an Ubuntu 8.04 or OsX and not a Redhat 4.x or Windows.
I can't wait to buy an android phone and have my IM, email, ringtones, Skype etc all as part of my data plan (or available wherever wifi is, note to self: tell friends to open their WIFIs). I was very impressed with the dev kit and the demo videos I've seen, I expect to be recommending one to all my friends and family by christmas.
This is VERY good news for consumers and we should all make a point of supporting it.
Also kudos to Google for jumping the shark on the clone wars... it had to happen sometime and I'm glad Google has chosen to strike while the iron is hot and they still have the money to develop Apple (read iPhone) level hardware of their own. Clones are going to hurt Google's sales and their weird supplier contracts (read: Telus) but it will make things better for consumers and therefore for Google through customer choice.
I've just realized how much I hate the telecoms... I have become fan boy, destroyer of worlds:P
What is an appropriate punishment in this case? This person has the responsability for the american military and nuclear arsenal partially in his hands and he betrayed his democratic mandate... I don't think we should be lenient.
Meanwhile this guy snaps for a second kills his kid fucking up his life... and our justice system is trying to kill him.
Sorry for the article, there's not a lot of unbiased press surrounding that one.
Anyway conscious premeditated betrayal of government power is worse then losing control for 10 seconds in my book. Punching kids is fucking horrible, but our justice system has lost all ability to account for premeditation.
If people think something is the easiest way to do something they will persist in it in the face of a lot more hardship.
Like chasing women:P
But seriously I've seen it over and over, if people think the product they have has qualitity they'll look through it more closely and be more excited by feautres.
Everyone understands the problems associated with high voltage wiring as a replacement for gasoline.
The problems associated with exchanging batteries are the social problems we should be dealing with.
With proper regulation (American: "Oh shit a socialist!") exchanging batteries could be done in seconds. It could be fair, cheap, reduce points of failure and if you could still purchase batteries and recharge them from outlets increase the freedom of the user.
This entire article is a cynical negative spin on a positive development.
$5000 to hybridize a vehicle isn't a bad price, hybrid sedans have a similar premium and are successful, it seems likely there are areas where hybridizing engines makes sense and this development allows the marketplace to find those areas.
We know we're not going to Easter Island ourselves on gasoline, we've got nuclear. IMHOH we should strech the glory days of cheap powerful fuel as long as makes sense, hybrids are an efficient way of doing that.
I can't believe you can mention Jaws on Slashdot without writing about the problem for Slashdot users.
Jaws is software that reads, aloud, all the text on the screen (in a sensible way) for users with visual impairments. It has done the same thing for about 10 years and is on version 10... visually impaired users need to buy new versions of JAWS because it supports new OSs or applications.
It costs >$750, for a visual impaired computer user JAWS is a necessity.
There are many open source efforts to replace JAWS and I wish everyone luck with it. It's costing the visually impaired community several million a year for upgrades.
There are too many touch screen phones on the market these days.
If you're blind and looking for a good phone look at the Nokia 6810... it has a good screen reader and an open source GPS system for navigation called Loadstone (which I did some work on).
For a blind user, bluetooth is a must as it lets you keep a headset with a reader for interfacing. I walked around for a while with the phone talking to me and it freaked people out.
Good luck on the search and message me if you want some more info...
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I had opera 8 Running on my 233 mhz pentium 1 laptop. It could do about 40 tabs... or one small size video. Your choice.
I understand what firefox zealots are happy about, I love adding little plugins to my windows desktop, to my IM, to whatever.
But can't you all just be happy there's a browser where you don't need to say "Firefox is better, if you get..(long list of plugins).
My firefox buddies when they see Opera are always impressed and that's without any major customization.
Yea bittorrent support isn't all there but most everything else is fantastic.
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True and Open source should embrace it as well. Banning Microsoft from using BSD libraries would prove their apocalypse :)
But the whole pricing fighting thing coming from the record industry is really helping Apple's credibility! Seriously, if it was Apple raising prices they'd have questions to deal with... No one likes the record industry but they have the best PR people in the world on their side generating good will(except perhaps the movie industry). Apple really needs something like the Kindle, perhaps a device that passively searches for wireless points when the user requests a song. Android of course is full of the potential for such things but there are other reasons Apple's fighting Google on that front.
Meh, music is close enough to on demand... more important right now is the lack of anything to listen to. Downloaded 5 top 100 compilations from various music critics, there's some interesting stuff going on in rap with Santogold, M.I.A. etc, but the whole genre is in danger of getting played out.
Get the companies to agree to replace damaged merchandise that's sent back to them at cost ($5 or so).
Banks stopped trusting each other after they started buying and selling a whole crapload of shitty debt.
Now it's hard to borrow money, which is funny because usually when the economy goes to shit money gets cheap (See 20s and the railroad,oil, and automotive barons).
It's a whole new kind of economic fuckup... it helps only one group. Communist states like Venezuela and China.
Look assnuggets, if bandwidth continues to increase at the speed you made it do for the last 15 years the point will be moot in 2 years anyway... if you slow down you're just hardballing us... and your use... kinda done.
Second there will be an effort to integrate all transmissions around a custom standard... open wireless or mesh networks... your choice[note, you won't get money from the mesh].
Meanwhile, yes people are downloading more and that might interfere with legitimate services such as email and web access, do some routing... make T1s available for those who require them and see who bites.
VDSL is your friend, grow a pair and buy some from Korea.
Charge less... then you won't need so much security... coupled with this improve your damn tech support by giving them more power. They usually need to kick upstairs because they can't handle both billing and technical issues... hire techies pay them enough they know it's a stable career (with advancement into design and development) and give them the power to actually help people.
But I'm being silly, you already know all this and more about the problems associated with each of these issues... so go make lists of the problems and benefits, choose a solution and get to it.
Also... stay the fuck away from our liberties ( first amendment or Canadian Charter of Right and Freedoms equivalent) otherwise you're going to stunt history and even you twisted bastards aren't that [insult insulting term based on your assesment of this risk]
This is the case, my mother is in charge of the decision for the Ministry of Health in Ontario... They've already spent $300,000 on a study in this area but it seems silly when you consider that over the next 20 years this is unlikely to affect 99.999% of people and the remaining people will have such serious medical conditions that the cost of extracting stem cells will be a pitance.
:)
I'm all for technologies in this space but this is money grubbing based on parental fears.
At least this won't stop me from buying video games while I babysit
Yea but good will extends to having products which work.
:)
The Korean corporation produces a nanny state like system, but things tend to work. I'm not surprised this came from Samsung, I've had very good experiences with their products and intend to buy more.
An interesting Example of Samsung thinking is this video which was circulating a few months ago. Apparently it's a volunteer (read mandatory) part of being an employee at this place.
The scary thing is that they managed to produce coordinated engineers
Aside from the content itself TV has a normalizing influence. It's a representation of our culture and the way people normally interact, if you know anyone with Autism you realize that there are many ways we could interact and that the definition of "normal" used for societal interaction is very limited (for more information on this see "dating").
It's constantly in flux like fashion and there are only so many ways to stay "current."
TV is also something of a "dream medium" in that you might not always know who you are but what you want can be quite clear, what you choose to watch on TV is a combination of what you wish you were doing coupled with the kind of people you'd like to be interacting with (generation, income, lifestyle, [I'll leave the implications of porn as an exercise for the reader] whatever)...
It's unfortunate that SO much of TV is filled with jerks, assholes, and boring people. What you see is what you get it seems.
One critical phase is getting people to believe in your ideas.
:)
People like grandiose ideas to get behind and to believe in someone they want them to be in some way better than they are.
A woman can meet a man think his idea is brilliant (and of course she already thought of it) but that his testosterone is what will make it successful in the world.
There are probably many encounters where you simply need to sell your idea.
Coding for example, if you have more than one person working on a project the amount of work produced is usually more than 2x the average skill level simply because you get multiple viewpoints on problems and an extra encyclopedia of libraries to draw on. Other skill sets such as web design and marketing are often needed to launch a an idea, sometimes people are able to bluff these skill sets but they are competing against corporations that have people with different skill sets for exactly this reason.
The first time you sell an idea it's to other people who will be working towards it and there's only so many times you can presell half the profits.
If you have a "great idea!" you can try and sell it, if you have the charisma and a solid grasp of the core skill set you may be able to make it work. Otherwise just be available to edit or give your thoughts on the projects of others, it's a good balance between offering your skill set/insight and getting involved in a bunch of projects which are unlikely to succeed. If you are constantly available to edit and help others with their projects. You might find some that you feel you simply must get involved in.
I'll trade some editing for some project design advice if anyone is down
I think I speak for a great many PWDRUHTSW (People who don't really understand how this shit works) when I say, "WTF SCIENTISTS! WHERE'S OUR MOTHER FUCKING BOSON!".
An update on the status of the collider would be appreciated too, thank you.
"that knockoffs will work pretty much identically to an Android phone"
:P
I had to comment on this plus +5.
Obviously once the software is all the same the devices will run almost identically, this is the whole point of open sourcing an operating system.
Once consumers can install any applications they want, and simply get a data plan, then all phones will work similarly (GTalk could win the IM/SMS format wars for example).
Complaining about similarity in phones is like suggesting that we're better off with seperate operating systems. All phones where you can install custom applications will be similar, and that will be a good thing.
Let's just hope the operating system they settle on is an Ubuntu 8.04 or OsX and not a Redhat 4.x or Windows.
I can't wait to buy an android phone and have my IM, email, ringtones, Skype etc all as part of my data plan (or available wherever wifi is, note to self: tell friends to open their WIFIs). I was very impressed with the dev kit and the demo videos I've seen, I expect to be recommending one to all my friends and family by christmas.
This is VERY good news for consumers and we should all make a point of supporting it.
Also kudos to Google for jumping the shark on the clone wars... it had to happen sometime and I'm glad Google has chosen to strike while the iron is hot and they still have the money to develop Apple (read iPhone) level hardware of their own. Clones are going to hurt Google's sales and their weird supplier contracts (read: Telus) but it will make things better for consumers and therefore for Google through customer choice.
I've just realized how much I hate the telecoms... I have become fan boy, destroyer of worlds
What is an appropriate punishment in this case? This person has the responsability for the american military and nuclear arsenal partially in his hands and he betrayed his democratic mandate... I don't think we should be lenient.
Meanwhile this guy snaps for a second kills his kid fucking up his life... and our justice system is trying to kill him.
Sorry for the article, there's not a lot of unbiased press surrounding that one.
Anyway conscious premeditated betrayal of government power is worse then losing control for 10 seconds in my book. Punching kids is fucking horrible, but our justice system has lost all ability to account for premeditation.
Just create a country, say "There is no illegal information". Watch the brains pour in.
Beyond the scientific community any entrepreneurs looking to infringe patents would set up shop there.
If people think something is the easiest way to do something they will persist in it in the face of a lot more hardship.
:P
Like chasing women
But seriously I've seen it over and over, if people think the product they have has qualitity they'll look through it more closely and be more excited by feautres.
Can we start calling them changing points please?
Everyone understands the problems associated with high voltage wiring as a replacement for gasoline.
The problems associated with exchanging batteries are the social problems we should be dealing with.
With proper regulation (American: "Oh shit a socialist!") exchanging batteries could be done in seconds. It could be fair, cheap, reduce points of failure and if you could still purchase batteries and recharge them from outlets increase the freedom of the user.
This entire article is a cynical negative spin on a positive development.
$5000 to hybridize a vehicle isn't a bad price, hybrid sedans have a similar premium and are successful, it seems likely there are areas where hybridizing engines makes sense and this development allows the marketplace to find those areas.
We know we're not going to Easter Island ourselves on gasoline, we've got nuclear. IMHOH we should strech the glory days of cheap powerful fuel as long as makes sense, hybrids are an efficient way of doing that.
Openness of ideas hits another hurdle.
Fail.
Ok, who RFA...
It just appeared? Breaking the speed of light in it's magnitude?
Seems a bit anti-hawkings now doesn't it.
We still love you!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_particle
Can someone clarify if Hawkings radiation is what the parents suggests or what this wikipedia article suggests?
Is it the breakdown of a black hole or merely pairs of particles being spontaneously generated on the event horizon and unable to recombine?
One serious question to consider is: should we attempt to trigger artificial panspermia? Is it unethical?
See THIS IS WHY WE HAVE SECRET GOVERNMENT AGENCIES.
When the Aliens come we can say we knew nothing... now go about your business citizen.
I can't believe you can mention Jaws on Slashdot without writing about the problem for Slashdot users.
Jaws is software that reads, aloud, all the text on the screen (in a sensible way) for users with visual impairments. It has done the same thing for about 10 years and is on version 10... visually impaired users need to buy new versions of JAWS because it supports new OSs or applications.
It costs >$750, for a visual impaired computer user JAWS is a necessity.
There are many open source efforts to replace JAWS and I wish everyone luck with it. It's costing the visually impaired community several million a year for upgrades.
There are too many touch screen phones on the market these days.
If you're blind and looking for a good phone look at the Nokia 6810... it has a good screen reader and an open source GPS system for navigation called Loadstone (which I did some work on).
For a blind user, bluetooth is a must as it lets you keep a headset with a reader for interfacing. I walked around for a while with the phone talking to me and it freaked people out.
Good luck on the search and message me if you want some more info...
I had opera 8 Running on my 233 mhz pentium 1 laptop. It could do about 40 tabs... or one small size video. Your choice.
I understand what firefox zealots are happy about, I love adding little plugins to my windows desktop, to my IM, to whatever.
But can't you all just be happy there's a browser where you don't need to say "Firefox is better, if you get..(long list of plugins).
My firefox buddies when they see Opera are always impressed and that's without any major customization.
Yea bittorrent support isn't all there but most everything else is fantastic.
The younger generation of nerds needs to know what women look like, we need to set an example. So!
... enjoy.
Youtube to the rescue.
And of Course
It's a hobby, I'm way outside of the brainpower to do the math.
So I found some videos and articles to help me out: YouTube to the rescue Warning there's some crap with bird in there.
Finding the Higg's Boson is the big prize, if they find it it will help with this which disrupts the notion of black holes as "singularities" and raises some philosophical, and religious questions... largely if the theorized particle is not found.
Also interesting is the evaporating black hole theory, which is all but proven so don't worry (Cough CNN).
Personally I've always been facinated by Virtual particles and am curious about the implication of examining non-singularity black holes.
Enjoy it, it's gonna be cool as hell!