Every technology has downsides. This technology clearly has pretty serious upsides. Do you wonder whether the inventors of the integrated circuit lost sleep over the contributions of their work to the surveillance society?
It is craftily hidden in the "Summary" pane of the "Get info" dialog. (Available only to hackers who can figure out how to right click on the song and choose "Get Info", further obscured by making it the pane that first comes up.)
This really pisses me off...I've begun looking at hybrids, and I was shocked that most hybrids don't have much improved mileage. For instance, the Honda Accord hybrid gets only slightly better mileage. It has much higher horse power. As far as I can tell, the only hybrids on the market that don't funnel all the efficiency into more power are the Prius and the Civic.
Unless they can somehow get it installed in all popular browsers, this will fail. AJAX succeeds mostly because IE, Firefox and Opera all support it out of the box, and have for years.
I always hear this "3 months off" thing and get completely confused, given that my wife's school shuts down in the middle of June and classes start the last week in August. If you count the prep work she does every August, she actually only gets a month and a half off.
My salary as an engineer is 2.5X hers. She also pays somewhere around $500/year out of her own pocket on supplies.
I own a PS3. I've had it for a few weeks. I've had fun playing Elder Scrolls: Obsidian and Motor Storm. Blast Factor is also fun, though I doubt it'll have much longevity. It was only $5.99, though I've also been working my way through the original God of War. (I never owned a PS2.) I have been, at the moment, "loving in" in that it's taken up all my gaming time. (Though that's partially because my wife monopolizes "Puzzle Quest" when I'm home.)
I bought it because it's the first console I could get hooked up to my LCD. (Mainly, I'm sick of playing the PC-gamer upgrade cycle and sick of bug-ridden PC games and the shitty, bug-ridden copy protection they use.) I thought about a Wii, and may still pick one up, but honestly the sort of games it has don't excite me.
I didn't even consider an XBox, because I refuse to put any money towards Microsoft's efforts to expand their monopolistic bullshit beyond the PC. Honestly, I'm surprised a slashdotter can admit buying an XBox without holding their head in shame.
Beyond that..."excited enough to promote it" usually means "fanboy". Fuck that. I have fun...you can buy whatever console you want and as such, am completely uninterested in arguments about which console is "better". I stopped doing that sort of shit back in the "Apple ][ vs c64" days.
Yes, that's all perfectly logical from the perspective of the re-download world. What they don't realize is that your neighbor is torrenting a copy from some guy in Denmark who is perfectly happy to put in the effort to actually copy the disk itself.
The danger for the music industry is that their idiocy is actually making it easier for your neighbor to download (steal/pirate) the movie than to actually buy/download it in the legal manner.
It's not piracy that is killing the record store. It's downloading that is killing the record store. It's iTunes that is killing the record store. The record store is dying because people would rather pay $0.99 for a song than $12.99 for an album.
If piracy were the problem, then you wouldn't seen iTunes music store sales doubling every year.
It's all about one single feature: "usability". It's a feature that is subjective, and so, it's something that is always left off of bullet-point charts. The iPod is more successful than it's competitors simply because it is easier to use than any of its competitors.
If you want to use a monitor instead of a TV, you can't use component cables. You can get an HDMI->DVI converter, but not a component cable->DVI converter.
I got an email about it from them this morning. I'm depressed. Speakeasy is no where near the cheapest where I live, but I've hung on to them tenaciously partly because of the service, but mostly because of the extremely liberal terms of service. I pay extra so that I can have a static IP, run whatever servers I want, and generally actually use my connection.
If Best Buy changes this, and decides to act like the big idiot telecom companies like Comcast, I've got no reason to pay extra. I'll just take that package deal that Comcast keeps bugging me about.
That is true. Unfortunately, they keep telling the same goddamn story over and over. How many variations of "Incredibly powerful and evil force against little 'ol SG-1" can they do?
I hate the phone for exactly that reason. I had a coworker who would piss me off because he'd call for absolutely anything, regardless of whether or not it was an immediate need. I got to where I would refuse to answer the phone. He started IMing me things like "hey, ur there!?" If I ask him what he wanted, every other line was "can i call u?"
The worse bit was that he was a non-native English speaker and I couldn't fucking understand him on the phone.
It'd depend more on the person trying to do the persuading. Who hasn't met someone who in person has great charisma but writes emails like "so dude u shd totally do it it rocks!!!!" Who hasn't met someone who in person fumbles around with speech full of "ums" and "uhs", but writes clear, concise and persuasive emails?
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Every technology has downsides. This technology clearly has pretty serious upsides. Do you wonder whether the inventors of the integrated circuit lost sleep over the contributions of their work to the surveillance society?
It is craftily hidden in the "Summary" pane of the "Get info" dialog. (Available only to hackers who can figure out how to right click on the song and choose "Get Info", further obscured by making it the pane that first comes up.)
Maybe they would have gotten more viewers if they hadn't moved it to 10 PM, Sunday night. Some of us have jobs to go to Monday morning.
This really pisses me off...I've begun looking at hybrids, and I was shocked that most hybrids don't have much improved mileage. For instance, the Honda Accord hybrid gets only slightly better mileage. It has much higher horse power. As far as I can tell, the only hybrids on the market that don't funnel all the efficiency into more power are the Prius and the Civic.
Unless they can somehow get it installed in all popular browsers, this will fail. AJAX succeeds mostly because IE, Firefox and Opera all support it out of the box, and have for years.
I always hear this "3 months off" thing and get completely confused, given that my wife's school shuts down in the middle of June and classes start the last week in August. If you count the prep work she does every August, she actually only gets a month and a half off.
My salary as an engineer is 2.5X hers. She also pays somewhere around $500/year out of her own pocket on supplies.
Unix has an object-oriented shell. It's called "python".
Don't call me a "slashdotter". I have more brains than that.
I own a PS3. I've had it for a few weeks. I've had fun playing Elder Scrolls: Obsidian and Motor Storm. Blast Factor is also fun, though I doubt it'll have much longevity. It was only $5.99, though I've also been working my way through the original God of War. (I never owned a PS2.) I have been, at the moment, "loving in" in that it's taken up all my gaming time. (Though that's partially because my wife monopolizes "Puzzle Quest" when I'm home.)
I bought it because it's the first console I could get hooked up to my LCD. (Mainly, I'm sick of playing the PC-gamer upgrade cycle and sick of bug-ridden PC games and the shitty, bug-ridden copy protection they use.) I thought about a Wii, and may still pick one up, but honestly the sort of games it has don't excite me.
I didn't even consider an XBox, because I refuse to put any money towards Microsoft's efforts to expand their monopolistic bullshit beyond the PC. Honestly, I'm surprised a slashdotter can admit buying an XBox without holding their head in shame.
Beyond that..."excited enough to promote it" usually means "fanboy". Fuck that. I have fun...you can buy whatever console you want and as such, am completely uninterested in arguments about which console is "better". I stopped doing that sort of shit back in the "Apple ][ vs c64" days.
You realize that they haven't discontinued the PS2, and that it costs less than a Wii, right?
At my house, there's five working computers, though only three are mine.
In the past, courts have rules that an encryption key is analogous to a physical key, and like a physical key, can be demanded with a warrant.
Knock on the door and ask.
I once accidently dropped my harddrive-based player three feet onto a metal stairwell. It then would randomly hang and became basically unusable.
I've dropped my flash-based Nano from three feet onto concrete numerous times. It still plays perfectly.
Yes, that's all perfectly logical from the perspective of the re-download world. What they don't realize is that your neighbor is torrenting a copy from some guy in Denmark who is perfectly happy to put in the effort to actually copy the disk itself.
The danger for the music industry is that their idiocy is actually making it easier for your neighbor to download (steal/pirate) the movie than to actually buy/download it in the legal manner.
It's not piracy that is killing the record store. It's downloading that is killing the record store. It's iTunes that is killing the record store. The record store is dying because people would rather pay $0.99 for a song than $12.99 for an album.
If piracy were the problem, then you wouldn't seen iTunes music store sales doubling every year.
Which competitor do you expect to be wiped out? Nintendo is making money hand-over-fist and Sony has enough cash to sell PS3s at a loss for years...
(And Quicken never lost to MS Money...it outsells MS Money by a very large margin.)
Yup. I personally spent about six man-months fixing Y2K bugs that would have caused serious problems had they not been fixed.
It's all about one single feature: "usability". It's a feature that is subjective, and so, it's something that is always left off of bullet-point charts. The iPod is more successful than it's competitors simply because it is easier to use than any of its competitors.
"WiFi" isn't sexy. What is sexy is "try/share/buy music from the player without having to have a computer turned on".
If you want to use a monitor instead of a TV, you can't use component cables. You can get an HDMI->DVI converter, but not a component cable->DVI converter.
I got an email about it from them this morning. I'm depressed. Speakeasy is no where near the cheapest where I live, but I've hung on to them tenaciously partly because of the service, but mostly because of the extremely liberal terms of service. I pay extra so that I can have a static IP, run whatever servers I want, and generally actually use my connection.
If Best Buy changes this, and decides to act like the big idiot telecom companies like Comcast, I've got no reason to pay extra. I'll just take that package deal that Comcast keeps bugging me about.
That is true. Unfortunately, they keep telling the same goddamn story over and over. How many variations of "Incredibly powerful and evil force against little 'ol SG-1" can they do?
I hate the phone for exactly that reason. I had a coworker who would piss me off because he'd call for absolutely anything, regardless of whether or not it was an immediate need. I got to where I would refuse to answer the phone. He started IMing me things like "hey, ur there!?" If I ask him what he wanted, every other line was "can i call u?"
The worse bit was that he was a non-native English speaker and I couldn't fucking understand him on the phone.
It'd depend more on the person trying to do the persuading. Who hasn't met someone who in person has great charisma but writes emails like "so dude u shd totally do it it rocks!!!!" Who hasn't met someone who in person fumbles around with speech full of "ums" and "uhs", but writes clear, concise and persuasive emails?