Oh come on. How has any piece of legislation "directly affected" you? Sure, no one's come to my door to arrest me citing the Patriot Act, but then again, they sure could if they wanted to go through my library records and think I'm a national security threat.
It's not about whether the Patriot Act has "directly affected" you, it's about the gradual erosion of your civil liberties this Act affords.
And do you think there would be big front page stories if there were cases of abuse of the Act? Of course not. Just because you haven't heard about it doesn't mean it isn't going on.
The very last line of the article, hanging out all by itself:
Scientists might test the vaccine in an outbreak of Ebola under emergency conditions.
There was a very intruiging article in the New Yorker awhile back about just this subject: testing HIV/AIDS vaccines and other pharmaceuticals on Africans. Unfortunately it's not available online, and I wouldn't want to go into any more detail and risk being -1 Offtopic. But here's a short summary of the article.
I mean, really, this story is just rampant speculation. The story is published on a rumor site, for Christ's sake.
Would editors of an online news source post a political story that links to an article they read on the Drudge Report? Or a sports story that links to an article on an online betting site? Come on Slashdot, how about some higher standards for your front page.
But now, if they have these little polymer chips, it should be of almost no cost to the musician. Anyone else follow my thinking?
It seems to me what you're hinting at is a future of music without the middle man (i.e. record labels) if artists are able to produce at low or no cost the music they make. Except that artists can do that now, via mp3s or some other form of electronic file distribution, or do as you did by burning their music onto CD-Rs. The real issue isn't so much the cost of the manufacturing as it is the necessity of the record label for purposes of distribution if an artist has "big dreams."
Independent music has thrived through vinyl, 8-tracks, cassettes, CDs, and mp3s, I doubt a new media format will change the nature of the industry significantly.
I love the New York Times, but they could've gotten more insightful predictions from grade schoolers on some of these.
Drugs that don't addict? Come on Moby, think of something that might have more of an impact beyond just increased profits for your lame brand of new age trance music.
The article focuses solely on the first-world, too
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And I bet that OPEC et al are looking into the most efficient way to convert oil into hydrogen - I mean, what else are they going to do with it once eveyone starts driving fuel-cell powered cars?
OPEC could simply shop their oil to fast-developing nations with huge populations without the government infrastructure and finances to foster a shift from oil to hydrogen based power. I'm thinking India, Brazil, and China will become OPEC's best friends in the event that the US and other Western industrial powers gradually move towards hydrogen-based energy sources.
It's all well and good to celebrate the move towards hydrogen-powered automobiles in the US and other current industrial powers, but to assume that the OPEC cartel and nations with oil-based economies will become irrelevant in the near future is a huge (and dangerous) oversight on the part of the Economist, IMO.
Although forbidden by the US Constitution, FTAA's copyright section would allow companies to copyright facts and scientific data.
Can you imagine the lobbying power that would line up behind this sort of a clause? Just off the top of my head, this sort of stipulation could allow phamaceuticals to create a monopoly on "facts" (e.g., the chemical makeup of, say, a drug that fights HIV) to generate astronomical profits while legally eliminating the competition of "generic" drugs.
So a US General, whose livelihood depends on the prospect or actuality of war, thinks that space will be a battleground at some point "in the next 20 years." OMG! It's so hard to believe he said that.
I bet if you asked, you could find a prominent US businessman who thinks space will become the next great financial frontier at some unspecified point "in the next 20 years," too.
And I would even go so far as to say a scientist thinks outer space will become the next focus of scientific inquiry "in the next 20 years!"
This article is nothing but idle speculation from a man who likely has no more ability to foresee a war in space than you or I.
I dunno, how is betting on a futures market like this any different from betting on, say, Northrop Grumman to produce the next generation of B-2 stealth bomber for the US military? Both terrorists and stealth bombers have been known to kill innocent children.
True, when you buy stock in Northrop Grumman, you're not betting on a terrible tragedy like a suicide bombing -- I'm exaggerating for effect. But if the moral outrage on/. is that this money is used to bet on the death of innocent people, then perhaps we should all re-examine the nature of the US's stock exchange with regard to weapons manufacturers and other companies that make products that kill people (Philip Morris maybe?).
Why don't you just e-mail slashdot@oNETculon.org, as per the instructions in the submitter's linked name and tell him to cut it out, Dave Coulier style????
Of course how much it will resemble the Mac version would be debatable.
I'm guessing it would look awfully similar to QuickTime for Windows.
I'm not so much surprised by this announcement as I am surprised that it's taken Apple this long just to get around to hiring someone to start porting iTunes to Windows. MusicMatch must've been doing a pretty good job for them in the interim.
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...some would probably rate Brown vs. the Board of Education, Brown II, and the Korean War as a little more "exciting" than aeriel reconnaissance.
But then again, all those things fall in the category of "stuff that matters."
...is why this would have been a Good Thing in the first place. I'm genuinely curious about this, but why would anyone shell out cash for a PPC mobo that only supported G3s? It's a good chip, yeah, but for similar cash you could get a much better x86 solution and run some variety of Linux on it, no?
Obviously there must be some advantages to a PPC board running YDL as compared to an x86 board running a comparable Linux distro that I don't understand, but I can't imagine what sort of market would pay for a board that would run such an aging processor.
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how has the patriot act directly affected you?
Oh come on. How has any piece of legislation "directly affected" you? Sure, no one's come to my door to arrest me citing the Patriot Act, but then again, they sure could if they wanted to go through my library records and think I'm a national security threat.
It's not about whether the Patriot Act has "directly affected" you, it's about the gradual erosion of your civil liberties this Act affords.
And do you think there would be big front page stories if there were cases of abuse of the Act? Of course not. Just because you haven't heard about it doesn't mean it isn't going on.
Trebek sells life insurance.
That's rich.
I bought that CD specifically for that vaporware!
Army Contractor To Build A 1566 Xserve Cluster You totally misspelled "1337."
Where are all the people who were crying last week about Apple not supporting Jaguar? Huh?!? WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SAY FOR YOURSELVES NOW!!!
Go ahead and mod me +1 Flamebait, just RECOGNIZE that you people are the FISH that took the bait last week!
So high and mighty with your mod points.
The very last line of the article, hanging out all by itself:
Scientists might test the vaccine in an outbreak of Ebola under emergency conditions.
There was a very intruiging article in the New Yorker awhile back about just this subject: testing HIV/AIDS vaccines and other pharmaceuticals on Africans. Unfortunately it's not available online, and I wouldn't want to go into any more detail and risk being -1 Offtopic. But here's a short summary of the article.
I mean, really, this story is just rampant speculation. The story is published on a rumor site, for Christ's sake.
Would editors of an online news source post a political story that links to an article they read on the Drudge Report? Or a sports story that links to an article on an online betting site? Come on Slashdot, how about some higher standards for your front page.
But now, if they have these little polymer chips, it should be of almost no cost to the musician. Anyone else follow my thinking?
It seems to me what you're hinting at is a future of music without the middle man (i.e. record labels) if artists are able to produce at low or no cost the music they make. Except that artists can do that now, via mp3s or some other form of electronic file distribution, or do as you did by burning their music onto CD-Rs. The real issue isn't so much the cost of the manufacturing as it is the necessity of the record label for purposes of distribution if an artist has "big dreams."
Independent music has thrived through vinyl, 8-tracks, cassettes, CDs, and mp3s, I doubt a new media format will change the nature of the industry significantly.
I learned two things:
- MTV's music download service will "compete with iTunes and everyone else"
AND
- "MTV will also be competing with a relaunched Napster and recently launched BuyMusic.com"
Wait, make that three things: there's no way to get back the five minutes I spent reading that article.
I love the New York Times, but they could've gotten more insightful predictions from grade schoolers on some of these. Drugs that don't addict? Come on Moby, think of something that might have more of an impact beyond just increased profits for your lame brand of new age trance music.
Disallow: /kids/baseball/teeball-20020923/iraq
OPEC could simply shop their oil to fast-developing nations with huge populations without the government infrastructure and finances to foster a shift from oil to hydrogen based power. I'm thinking India, Brazil, and China will become OPEC's best friends in the event that the US and other Western industrial powers gradually move towards hydrogen-based energy sources.
It's all well and good to celebrate the move towards hydrogen-powered automobiles in the US and other current industrial powers, but to assume that the OPEC cartel and nations with oil-based economies will become irrelevant in the near future is a huge (and dangerous) oversight on the part of the Economist, IMO.
You guys owe me a LOT of cash.
Just think, you could spend a $5 to have your songs bumped to the top of the queue in your living room! And all of this without a PC!
Although forbidden by the US Constitution, FTAA's copyright section would allow companies to copyright facts and scientific data.
Can you imagine the lobbying power that would line up behind this sort of a clause? Just off the top of my head, this sort of stipulation could allow phamaceuticals to create a monopoly on "facts" (e.g., the chemical makeup of, say, a drug that fights HIV) to generate astronomical profits while legally eliminating the competition of "generic" drugs.
So a US General, whose livelihood depends on the prospect or actuality of war, thinks that space will be a battleground at some point "in the next 20 years." OMG! It's so hard to believe he said that.
I bet if you asked, you could find a prominent US businessman who thinks space will become the next great financial frontier at some unspecified point "in the next 20 years," too.
And I would even go so far as to say a scientist thinks outer space will become the next focus of scientific inquiry "in the next 20 years!"
This article is nothing but idle speculation from a man who likely has no more ability to foresee a war in space than you or I.
Hunan!
Inflation signs one-year deal, will remain on the economic team through 2004!
I hereby predict that a year from now we will be paying more for the same service we have now.
I dunno, how is betting on a futures market like this any different from betting on, say, Northrop Grumman to produce the next generation of B-2 stealth bomber for the US military? Both terrorists and stealth bombers have been known to kill innocent children.
True, when you buy stock in Northrop Grumman, you're not betting on a terrible tragedy like a suicide bombing -- I'm exaggerating for effect. But if the moral outrage on /. is that this money is used to bet on the death of innocent people, then perhaps we should all re-examine the nature of the US's stock exchange with regard to weapons manufacturers and other companies that make products that kill people (Philip Morris maybe?).
Why don't you just e-mail slashdot@oNETculon.org, as per the instructions in the submitter's linked name and tell him to cut it out, Dave Coulier style????
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"minus the BSD" --rlthomps-1
Of course how much it will resemble the Mac version would be debatable.
I'm guessing it would look awfully similar to QuickTime for Windows.
I'm not so much surprised by this announcement as I am surprised that it's taken Apple this long just to get around to hiring someone to start porting iTunes to Windows. MusicMatch must've been doing a pretty good job for them in the interim.
...some would probably rate Brown vs. the Board of Education, Brown II, and the Korean War as a little more "exciting" than aeriel reconnaissance. But then again, all those things fall in the category of "stuff that matters."
You might find you get what you iNeed.
...is why this would have been a Good Thing in the first place. I'm genuinely curious about this, but why would anyone shell out cash for a PPC mobo that only supported G3s? It's a good chip, yeah, but for similar cash you could get a much better x86 solution and run some variety of Linux on it, no?
Obviously there must be some advantages to a PPC board running YDL as compared to an x86 board running a comparable Linux distro that I don't understand, but I can't imagine what sort of market would pay for a board that would run such an aging processor.