Two people get burned and injured doing something stupid, and all of Slashdot apparently sits back and LAUGHS? Talked about DARWIN awards? "OoooOOOOoooOOOhhh... HAR HAR HAR... If these people FECKING DIE then it will teh R0x0rz!!! J00z der force!"
Reading over every comment in total disbelief... you people are just SICK.
it isn't self-replicating in any way that should make you nervous until it is creating its own energy to operate. as long as you have to plug it in, we're more than safe... we're dissapointed.
MMORPG games such as World of Warcraft get a hit of cash up front and then involve monthly revenue. Hollywood has nothing like that.
Most games cost between $30 and $50, no-matter what platform you're buying for. How much is a movie ticket? $8 to $10 for tickets or $20 to $30 for DVDs. How much do games cost to make vs. the revenue they bring in?
This is NOT a Troll! The NFL is granted a right to have a monopoly by congress, like MLB (Major League Baseball)... and the trade off is that the U.S. congress can sometimes step in and regulate it. This is fair because congress is a proportional representation of the population of the nation according to election - and the NFL did choose to derive their monopoly rights from congress.
SO... if the NFL is granted exclusive rights, are they allowed to themselves grant exclusive rights? It's a fair question, and important considering the ramifications.
I know it is offtopic, but from that perspective, Saddam Hussein stole $4 from every man woman and child on the planet, and for some people $4 is a week or a month's pay. Since he stole it from the U.N....he really did steal it from everyone.
Consolidation proceeds growth. There are mergers all over the place, not just high tech. Large cap stocks are going to have a good year in '05, and corporate spending is going to increase tangibly, especially on technology. Large caps are big stable companies that spend lots of money and hire lots of people.
Apple laptops like my iBook are designed in the USA by best-of-field engineers, which makes all the difference in the world. They don't go to Taiwan and see what some company there has put together as and order a million units... which is pretty much what everyone but IBM and Fujitsu do.
Don't lament that the machine and assembly line labor is done in nations with developing economies - it means our high tech equipment is that much cheaper for us... so we buy more and attain that much more of a productivity advantage.
I was hired to move away from Dallas, TX to Miami, FL with a $22,000 raise, an allowance for my townhome, and given my choice of a paid for new car or an allowance against my current car. Promoted from programmer to executive with some programming responsibilities.
I think people band together and bitch about jobs when they're out of work - and they're the only one's making any noise... those of us with jobs don't go around bragging about it, we just get down to business.
If you don't have a job... you HAVE A JOB: FIND A JOB AND QUIT BEING A BABY!::smiles:: Tough love.
QUOTE: "If I were a fusion scientist going to work on ITER, I'd much prefer to live in beautiful France than in the sparsely populated bit of North Japan where ITER would be built."
Yeaahhh... but that's not the point!
1. Which location will make a better video game when it all goes sour and opens a spiraling portal to Dark Aether?
2. You don't want the scientists to be distracted by the svelte natives.
Good point. Still, in my current fix, I fail to sympathize with them.::smiles::
I would gladly pay $.50 to $5.00 to re-download my purchased music. I'm not a criminal here... just a Mac user. I expect to have to watch my back when working with Linux and Windows. If I'm logged in as root it is all business. But syncing with iTunes? It should be fail-safe. I have friends with hundreds and hundreds of dollars of digital music. Making one-button answers to ambiguously worded questions that destroy your investment is not going to assist customers in meeting their needs, let alone encourage people to pay for digital content.
I'm not trolling here... it is simply stunning how with one simple click of a "YES" button you can lose your entire music library. I didn't agree to let iTunes WIPE my iPod. I agreed to let it re-home to my new user's music folder. What if I had loaded MP3s from my other computer? Would those be toast too?
It's a BAD design element, something they need to correct. And... if I am on an authorized computer... logging into iTMS with my "authorized" account... why shouldn't I be able to download my songs anew? It doesn't make it any less secure against people burning just their 10 CD limit. I could download a new album, copy it to several authorized PCs, and burn 10 copies from EACH workstation. Why restrict downloads to just one?
I reformatted my iBook recently and after iTunes installed I logged into iTMS and attempted to download my purchased music again. No can do. I read in their FAQ's that I needed to play a purchased song in order to authorize my computer. So I hooked up my iPod and it asked if I wanted to point it to my new home folder/and make it match my new home./ Not wanting to endanger my music, I said no. Well... iTunes grayed out all the songs on the iPod! I couldn't play any of them, let alone sync with it.
I unmounted it and reconnected the cable and this time agreed to let it home to my new music folder. iTunes prompty formatted the iPod and deleted my only copy of the music I'd purchased. WTF.
I currently have a support ticket with Apple on this but they have not responded. I just wanted to warn people how easy it is to DEEP FRY your entire music library when you're reloading your computer. I've seen other forum messages saying that music can only be downloaded once, so I may have lost my stuff permanently. I wonder now if I had downloaded a free song from iTMS and used that to authorize my computer if the iPod then would have been available to play the songs on and sync with.
Double the resolution, and blend the colors of neighboring pixels together to fit on a lower res. screen. Sounds like a new way of saying "anti-aliasing"...
And the window washers are now "corporate vision enhancers!"
Moderators: Feel free to change "hacking" to "cracking" or "hacking/cracking"... I understand the semantic sensitivity, and don't want to touch off a firestorm over a nuance I forgot to consider.
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Do you think computer hacking tools should be protected (in the United States) under the second amendment? Our right to "bear arms" is designed to defend against internal tyranny as much as external invasion. With the world built around information and its interpretation, to certify accountability it will remain necessary for individuals to have the ability to subvert (when necessary) the gatekeepers to popular exposure if those gatekeepers are to be kept honest.
If as much license were applied to the second amendment as has been claimed under the first, we would all be packing hand-held nuclear weapons. Is a port scanner or code disassembler too much to ask?
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· Score: 5, Interesting
Do you think that hacking tools should be protected (in the United States) under the second amendment?
One more reason why U.S. schools should reject the "IB World School" programs. The U.S. educational system needs some reforms no doubt, like busting up the teacher's unions, but "outsourcing curriculum" to other nations seems irresponsible and potentially subversive.
Dragon Age is not associated with Dungeons and Dragons, either... where Neverwinter Nights is built from the ground up using D&D rules and intellectual property.
Dragon Age gives the designers more freedom and the PHB's less profit sharing. It is a smart move now that Bioware has enough clout with customers.
Try and start a new shoe company and compete with Vans, Adidas, or Nike. Try and start a new car company and compete with GM, Toyota, Ford or Honda. It's big business and there are a lot of highly capitalized players already in the mix with good products and reputations.
New competition arises from time to time and joins the fray, but they are rare shooting stars of good product coupled with fortune - both the $$$ and the luck kind.
It takes a lot of money to run a news organization like the cable news outlets. For each camera shot during a program there are dozens of people working to bring it to life. For every headline there is a branch office somewhere employing on-the-street reporters, or else an expensive AP deal to allow rebroadcasting of that news item. It takes a lot of time and energy to maintain the connections to verify news stories, which is why smaller upstart outfits like the Drudge Report sometimes post unverified stories to let you see what's cookin' out there.
I say that simply to say that it is impossible, practically speaking, to produce live 24/7 news and commentary television withought being a big damn company with a lot of money. There are reasons why Wayne's World is not our primary source of news.
Ted knows all of this. He knows about the New Media like TownHall.com, MoveOn.org, OpinionJournal.com, DrudgeReport.com, Slashdot.org, etc... I really think he's just whining because for the first time in a long time the conservative voice has a home, and people who don't like liberal news filtering can leave it and go to the conservative source. And they are doing so in droves, which is why CNN's viewership is so tiny.
Nobody is going to wave a magick wand, either in legislation or via the free market, and suddenly give thousands of small businesses the capacity to produce quality news programming on a global scale. One just as well could say, "Everyone should have a lot of money!" Okay, well and good... but who is going to give it to them, and why? What if they don't want to?
He's really mad at Fox News' Rupert Murdoch for winning the fight for #1 cable news network. CNN now has less viewership in the 18-45 age range than the Cartoon Network, and that comes from Neilson Ratings. Ted Turner doesn't have a monopoly on cable news anymore and that chaps him.
Ted Turner WAS Big Media before he divested himself of AOL/TimeWarner when the stock fell through the floor. People were offered a choice on the free market and they chose something other than CNN. When the news is slanted one way or another, you run the risk of people rejecting the political statement you're trying to make and ultimately rejecting you as their source of news. Just as the New York Times is floundering as their circulation numbers fall, CNN has driven away a lot of audience with their spin. They just didn't have anywhere to go until the mid-90s.
And don't tell me they don't have a political slant. Did you see Bill Maher on Larry King Live last night? Larry let him say some pretty wild and counter-culture things without challenging him at all, when a challenge would have been good because it would have given Maher a chance to reason with people and explain things. At least on Fox News you get the Colmes perspective to offset the Hannity, and viewers like that because it draws a deeper picture of the issues.... Anyway, not trying to be flamebaiting here.
Just noting that there are circumstances that make Ted Turner less than objective about this issue.
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You people are just SICK.
Two people get burned and injured doing something stupid, and all of Slashdot apparently sits back and LAUGHS? Talked about DARWIN awards? "OoooOOOOoooOOOhhh... HAR HAR HAR... If these people FECKING DIE then it will teh R0x0rz!!! J00z der force!"
Reading over every comment in total disbelief... you people are just SICK.
it isn't self-replicating in any way that should make you nervous until it is creating its own energy to operate. as long as you have to plug it in, we're more than safe... we're dissapointed.
"my god, its full of stars."
I thought the phrase "siliconize photonics" was familiar...
(Feb.04) Intel Devises Chip Speed Breakthrough
(Oct.04) Optical Control of Light on a Silicon Chip
Which Hollywood doesn't own.
MMORPG games such as World of Warcraft get a hit of cash up front and then involve monthly revenue. Hollywood has nothing like that.
Most games cost between $30 and $50, no-matter what platform you're buying for. How much is a movie ticket? $8 to $10 for tickets or $20 to $30 for DVDs. How much do games cost to make vs. the revenue they bring in?
This is NOT a Troll! The NFL is granted a right to have a monopoly by congress, like MLB (Major League Baseball)... and the trade off is that the U.S. congress can sometimes step in and regulate it. This is fair because congress is a proportional representation of the population of the nation according to election - and the NFL did choose to derive their monopoly rights from congress.
SO... if the NFL is granted exclusive rights, are they allowed to themselves grant exclusive rights? It's a fair question, and important considering the ramifications.
I know it is offtopic, but from that perspective, Saddam Hussein stole $4 from every man woman and child on the planet, and for some people $4 is a week or a month's pay. Since he stole it from the U.N. ...he really did steal it from everyone.
Consolidation proceeds growth. There are mergers all over the place, not just high tech. Large cap stocks are going to have a good year in '05, and corporate spending is going to increase tangibly, especially on technology. Large caps are big stable companies that spend lots of money and hire lots of people.
...we're all going to buy one anyway. :)
Apple laptops like my iBook are designed in the USA by best-of-field engineers, which makes all the difference in the world. They don't go to Taiwan and see what some company there has put together as and order a million units... which is pretty much what everyone but IBM and Fujitsu do.
Don't lament that the machine and assembly line labor is done in nations with developing economies - it means our high tech equipment is that much cheaper for us... so we buy more and attain that much more of a productivity advantage.
I was hired to move away from Dallas, TX to Miami, FL with a $22,000 raise, an allowance for my townhome, and given my choice of a paid for new car or an allowance against my current car. Promoted from programmer to executive with some programming responsibilities.
::smiles:: Tough love.
I think people band together and bitch about jobs when they're out of work - and they're the only one's making any noise... those of us with jobs don't go around bragging about it, we just get down to business.
If you don't have a job... you HAVE A JOB: FIND A JOB AND QUIT BEING A BABY!
QUOTE: "If I were a fusion scientist going to work on ITER, I'd much prefer to live in beautiful France than in the sparsely populated bit of North Japan where ITER would be built."
Yeaahhh... but that's not the point!
1. Which location will make a better video game when it all goes sour and opens a spiraling portal to Dark Aether?
2. You don't want the scientists to be distracted by the svelte natives.
3. Don't do that!
Good point. Still, in my current fix, I fail to sympathize with them. ::smiles::
I would gladly pay $.50 to $5.00 to re-download my purchased music. I'm not a criminal here... just a Mac user. I expect to have to watch my back when working with Linux and Windows. If I'm logged in as root it is all business. But syncing with iTunes? It should be fail-safe. I have friends with hundreds and hundreds of dollars of digital music. Making one-button answers to ambiguously worded questions that destroy your investment is not going to assist customers in meeting their needs, let alone encourage people to pay for digital content.
The 15GB iPod WAS my music backup!
I'm not trolling here... it is simply stunning how with one simple click of a "YES" button you can lose your entire music library. I didn't agree to let iTunes WIPE my iPod. I agreed to let it re-home to my new user's music folder. What if I had loaded MP3s from my other computer? Would those be toast too?
It's a BAD design element, something they need to correct. And... if I am on an authorized computer... logging into iTMS with my "authorized" account... why shouldn't I be able to download my songs anew? It doesn't make it any less secure against people burning just their 10 CD limit. I could download a new album, copy it to several authorized PCs, and burn 10 copies from EACH workstation. Why restrict downloads to just one?
I reformatted my iBook recently and after iTunes installed I logged into iTMS and attempted to download my purchased music again. No can do. I read in their FAQ's that I needed to play a purchased song in order to authorize my computer. So I hooked up my iPod and it asked if I wanted to point it to my new home folder /and make it match my new home./ Not wanting to endanger my music, I said no. Well... iTunes grayed out all the songs on the iPod! I couldn't play any of them, let alone sync with it.
I unmounted it and reconnected the cable and this time agreed to let it home to my new music folder. iTunes prompty formatted the iPod and deleted my only copy of the music I'd purchased. WTF.
I currently have a support ticket with Apple on this but they have not responded. I just wanted to warn people how easy it is to DEEP FRY your entire music library when you're reloading your computer. I've seen other forum messages saying that music can only be downloaded once, so I may have lost my stuff permanently. I wonder now if I had downloaded a free song from iTMS and used that to authorize my computer if the iPod then would have been available to play the songs on and sync with.
Double the resolution, and blend the colors of neighboring pixels together to fit on a lower res. screen. Sounds like a new way of saying "anti-aliasing" ...
And the window washers are now "corporate vision enhancers!"
Good point.
... I understand the semantic sensitivity, and don't want to touch off a firestorm over a nuance I forgot to consider.
Moderators: Feel free to change "hacking" to "cracking" or "hacking/cracking"
Do you think computer hacking tools should be protected (in the United States) under the second amendment? Our right to "bear arms" is designed to defend against internal tyranny as much as external invasion. With the world built around information and its interpretation, to certify accountability it will remain necessary for individuals to have the ability to subvert (when necessary) the gatekeepers to popular exposure if those gatekeepers are to be kept honest.
If as much license were applied to the second amendment as has been claimed under the first, we would all be packing hand-held nuclear weapons. Is a port scanner or code disassembler too much to ask?
Do you think that hacking tools should be protected (in the United States) under the second amendment?
The U.S. Marine Corps motto is "Semper Fidelis", often simply said as, "Semper Fi" It is Latin for "Always Faithful."
Semper Wifi is a joke.
One more reason why U.S. schools should reject the "IB World School" programs. The U.S. educational system needs some reforms no doubt, like busting up the teacher's unions, but "outsourcing curriculum" to other nations seems irresponsible and potentially subversive.
Dragon Age is not associated with Dungeons and Dragons, either... where Neverwinter Nights is built from the ground up using D&D rules and intellectual property. Dragon Age gives the designers more freedom and the PHB's less profit sharing. It is a smart move now that Bioware has enough clout with customers.
Try and start a new shoe company and compete with Vans, Adidas, or Nike. Try and start a new car company and compete with GM, Toyota, Ford or Honda. It's big business and there are a lot of highly capitalized players already in the mix with good products and reputations.
New competition arises from time to time and joins the fray, but they are rare shooting stars of good product coupled with fortune - both the $$$ and the luck kind.
It takes a lot of money to run a news organization like the cable news outlets. For each camera shot during a program there are dozens of people working to bring it to life. For every headline there is a branch office somewhere employing on-the-street reporters, or else an expensive AP deal to allow rebroadcasting of that news item. It takes a lot of time and energy to maintain the connections to verify news stories, which is why smaller upstart outfits like the Drudge Report sometimes post unverified stories to let you see what's cookin' out there.
I say that simply to say that it is impossible, practically speaking, to produce live 24/7 news and commentary television withought being a big damn company with a lot of money. There are reasons why Wayne's World is not our primary source of news.
Ted knows all of this. He knows about the New Media like TownHall.com, MoveOn.org, OpinionJournal.com, DrudgeReport.com, Slashdot.org, etc... I really think he's just whining because for the first time in a long time the conservative voice has a home, and people who don't like liberal news filtering can leave it and go to the conservative source. And they are doing so in droves, which is why CNN's viewership is so tiny.
Nobody is going to wave a magick wand, either in legislation or via the free market, and suddenly give thousands of small businesses the capacity to produce quality news programming on a global scale. One just as well could say, "Everyone should have a lot of money!" Okay, well and good... but who is going to give it to them, and why? What if they don't want to?
He's really mad at Fox News' Rupert Murdoch for winning the fight for #1 cable news network. CNN now has less viewership in the 18-45 age range than the Cartoon Network, and that comes from Neilson Ratings. Ted Turner doesn't have a monopoly on cable news anymore and that chaps him.
... Anyway, not trying to be flamebaiting here.
Ted Turner WAS Big Media before he divested himself of AOL/TimeWarner when the stock fell through the floor. People were offered a choice on the free market and they chose something other than CNN. When the news is slanted one way or another, you run the risk of people rejecting the political statement you're trying to make and ultimately rejecting you as their source of news. Just as the New York Times is floundering as their circulation numbers fall, CNN has driven away a lot of audience with their spin. They just didn't have anywhere to go until the mid-90s.
And don't tell me they don't have a political slant. Did you see Bill Maher on Larry King Live last night? Larry let him say some pretty wild and counter-culture things without challenging him at all, when a challenge would have been good because it would have given Maher a chance to reason with people and explain things. At least on Fox News you get the Colmes perspective to offset the Hannity, and viewers like that because it draws a deeper picture of the issues.
Just noting that there are circumstances that make Ted Turner less than objective about this issue.