The article even said... sometimes these quotes make people wonder if the reviewers are even real... which I've wondered before too. At first I thought omg... but I guess it really isn't surprising. Whatever, movies with good reviews usually suck anyway.
Yeah, but I think you also have to consider that Sulliven is speaking in plain english terms. It seems to me that the MPAA lawyer Sims is trying to confuse the Judges. Someone else mentioned that they felt since the judge had given her extra time that maybe they were willing to listen to her. I didn't get the feeling that the judges felt disrespect. Although, I wonder what kind of emotion she spoke with. It seemed like a few times she was whining "...but Judge--".
I think it would have been great to see this in real life. I'm very curious to see how the judges' facial reactions went. The text makes it hard to see who "spoke to" the judges in the best fashion.
I did notice that Alter and Sims seem to enjoy talking for huge amounts of time. They seemed to have an arrogance in their words that Sullivan lacked.
Hey guys, don't forget that the PCI and ISA busses are more than just slots on your motherboard. Only until recently was the IDE controller on most motherboards moved over to the PCI bus. If you have a floppy drive on your computer, chances are it is still using the ISA bus... So just because you don't have an ISA "slot", don't think that the bus is gone...
Okay... i like how the article says that MP3 is the only format that napster distributes (let's assume for a minute NAPSTER is the one doing it). So... um. How long do they think it will take before napster scans your drive for other formats? Seriously. Are people this blinded by the word technology? They think that there is some magical technological force at work here? Napster just shares files. People will use other programs to play MP3s other than Media Player and Real. What a concept. "Hey this sounds better with WinAmp, I'll use that." Wow, technology==magic.
Well its great and all that the inital chips will be available in 256mb varities...and a smaller physical chip is great for MP3s player and such... but the article says IBM doesn't think it'll be in volume production for another 10 years. So um...what difference does it make on the products we have today? Do you seriously think that 10 years from now we are still going to have portable mp3 players?
I don't like how the article makes it seem like MRAM is the answer to today's memory design challenges, when most of the products its going to benefit probably won't be around in 10 years. Or of they are around, they'll be completely different.
I had an interview with the Enterpise department at COMPAQ a few weeks ago for a EE position. They are working on a 4-proc IA64 with 64gigs of RAM.
I think about the P3-500 we have at work now running SCSI-3 with Oracle and how fast it works. I can't even begin to imagine how fast it'd be if we loaded the entire database into a RAMDISK and ran Oracle from that... (he hinted that is what they are trying to move towards).
...people wouldn't be stupid and post "Man, slow day for slashdot...they don't even read their own page." Its amazing how nobody that reads slashdot ever makes a mistake... or *gasp* miss a story themselves every now and then.
I hate posting knee-jerk reactions (did not read the article yet, sorry) but this idea just popped into my head.
Would you really be comfortable working on an open source project that was medically involved? I ask that because of the liability factor. Just look through some datasheets on TTL stuff sometime... on every single datasheet will say something along the lines of "not be used in the medical field." Why? Because companies want a better degree of product going into the medical field.
(I am not saying open source is not a "better degree" I am saying that if a company is going to be liable they want to be liable biased on product X and not product Y)
I don't know if I'd be comfortable to know that a section of code I wrote went into a heart monitor. What if I screwed something up and the monitor failed to alert the nurse of a problem?
Okay, so maybe I won't be sued... but I might not be able to sleep at night.
This is a great news and all, but it'll be a LONG time before anything is produced commerically from it. It would take considerable engineering efforts to implement a new process in manufacturing of any type of IC. Just look how slow copper is making the progression. Only bleeding edge technologies can benefit from it because the process of building an IC from copper is entirely different from alumnimun. Now, in that example just the materials are different... imagine if the entire method to produce transistors is different....
I think the idea of Battlebots is great.. SME has a yearly robotics contest and we entered the Sumo competiton several times.
What I don't like about BB is that they are remote controlled... that's on where near as fun as watching to autonomous bots go after each other...otherwise its just remote controlled power tools, you know?
EVERY link on their homepage takes you to a stupid explanation of what "1-click" means... I didn't searching yet... that'll probably do the same. Jeez.. 1-Click... its not THAT novel and new you know...
"By monitoring the way you hover your mouse cursor over a product's picture or description, we are able to determine your intentions for this product. We have found that many consumers were confused by the one-button mouse design. So we elminated it and made the entire mouse a button. Now, on the web, we have elminated the need to make a 'descision.' We at Apple Think Different, so you don't have to [think]."
Normally I'd support Apple, they do some cool stuff... Taco has it right... it sucks that they bought into this stupid patent.
where did that extrodinarily numbnuts quote in your sig come from
It is pretty old... way back when the RIO and mpMan came out... C|Net had a review on them. And that was the quote... "no matter how hard we shook them, they didn't skip." So I emailed him asking if he ACTUALLY shook it or if he just said that to prove a point. He told me that he had to shake it to make sure it wouldn't skip. I couldn't stop laughing.
I knew this was coming... I'm beyond glad I printed the page out a few days ago. I was really surprised they hadn't gotten a letter yet.
I think DC can make an argument that the software violates their IP (whatever that is, and however weak their argument is... i think they can make one). Now... I don't see anythign wrong with the hardware side of it.
I got my Cue:;'#$.,==+Cat before they changed their EULA, and since RS didn't get my name and address I feel I have no obligation to any changes they make. So, therefore...I can do with this little piece of hardware as I please. It just so happens I'm allergic to white plastic...so to use their wonderful product I removed it from its casing.
You know...whatever. If they want to waste their money on Legal crap that no one cares about, let them. Are we REALLY worth it? I mean, seriously. How many people have taken theirs apart? Is it worth the cost of all this trouble and bad publicity on their part?
If people want violent games off the market, they should be raising their children in such a way that the kids would *freely choose* not to play them, because the violence would not appeal to them.
I'm utterly appauled at the fact that you claim it should be MY responsbility to raise MY kids. We all know that us parents simply do not have the time to raise our own children. In should be society's responsbility and if society produces violent games, it is society's fault. It is most certainly NOT mine! Or any other parent's for that matter!
Seriously: I fully agree with you, and I wish everyone else could see it that way. But I don't think its going happen... too many people think in the same manner I'm being saracastic.
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The article even said... sometimes these quotes make people wonder if the reviewers are even real... which I've wondered before too. At first I thought omg... but I guess it really isn't surprising. Whatever, movies with good reviews usually suck anyway.
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EXACTLY. I don't think the judges bought into that assumption though. They seemed to be confused as to what the problem with the 1st copy is....
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Yeah, but I think you also have to consider that Sulliven is speaking in plain english terms. It seems to me that the MPAA lawyer Sims is trying to confuse the Judges. Someone else mentioned that they felt since the judge had given her extra time that maybe they were willing to listen to her. I didn't get the feeling that the judges felt disrespect. Although, I wonder what kind of emotion she spoke with. It seemed like a few times she was whining "...but Judge--".
I think it would have been great to see this in real life. I'm very curious to see how the judges' facial reactions went. The text makes it hard to see who "spoke to" the judges in the best fashion.
I did notice that Alter and Sims seem to enjoy talking for huge amounts of time. They seemed to have an arrogance in their words that Sullivan lacked.
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Judge: With audio digital tapes, can?t the user make one copy without infringing?
Alter: That?s exactly right.
Judge: And without it violating that Act?
Alter: That?s right.
Judge: Perfectly true copy.
Alter: That?s right.
Judge: As far as most human ears are concerned, indistinguishable from the original?
Alter: Correct.
Judge: Right?
Alter: Yes.
Judge: Can they post that on the Internet?
Alter: Well, under the Home Recording Act, there?s no ? you run into at that point in time a potential copyright violation.
Judge: If you post the copy?
Alter: I would suggest that that might violate the Copyright Act.
Judge: But you get to make the first copy?
Alter: That?s correct.
Judge: So why couldn?t they do that with DVDs?
Alter: Well, my point is is that it would not give the content providers any protection, because if someone made one copy --
Judge: Wouldn?t it give them the same protection the Audio Act gave the music providers?
Alter: No. Because once ? let me try to explain. Once that copy is on the Internet, if it is naked --
Judge: Well, maybe you can enjoin them from putting it on the Internet. That?s an idea.
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Hey guys, don't forget that the PCI and ISA busses are more than just slots on your motherboard. Only until recently was the IDE controller on most motherboards moved over to the PCI bus. If you have a floppy drive on your computer, chances are it is still using the ISA bus... So just because you don't have an ISA "slot", don't think that the bus is gone...
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Anyone else get a Javascript error when they go to the new starwars main page? Hmmm.....
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Okay... i like how the article says that MP3 is the only format that napster distributes (let's assume for a minute NAPSTER is the one doing it). So... um. How long do they think it will take before napster scans your drive for other formats? Seriously. Are people this blinded by the word technology? They think that there is some magical technological force at work here? Napster just shares files. People will use other programs to play MP3s other than Media Player and Real. What a concept. "Hey this sounds better with WinAmp, I'll use that." Wow, technology==magic.
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Well its great and all that the inital chips will be available in 256mb varities...and a smaller physical chip is great for MP3s player and such... but the article says IBM doesn't think it'll be in volume production for another 10 years. So um...what difference does it make on the products we have today? Do you seriously think that 10 years from now we are still going to have portable mp3 players?
I don't like how the article makes it seem like MRAM is the answer to today's memory design challenges, when most of the products its going to benefit probably won't be around in 10 years. Or of they are around, they'll be completely different.
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I had an interview with the Enterpise department at COMPAQ a few weeks ago for a EE position. They are working on a 4-proc IA64 with 64gigs of RAM.
I think about the P3-500 we have at work now running SCSI-3 with Oracle and how fast it works. I can't even begin to imagine how fast it'd be if we loaded the entire database into a RAMDISK and ran Oracle from that... (he hinted that is what they are trying to move towards).
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...people wouldn't be stupid and post "Man, slow day for slashdot...they don't even read their own page." Its amazing how nobody that reads slashdot ever makes a mistake... or *gasp* miss a story themselves every now and then.
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I love the reference to fuckedcompany.com on the First Aid poster.
I nearly laughed my ass off.
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Its fake.
How could he write that to "all@microsoft.com" and not expect _one_ person to leak it?
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I hate posting knee-jerk reactions (did not read the article yet, sorry) but this idea just popped into my head.
Would you really be comfortable working on an open source project that was medically involved? I ask that because of the liability factor. Just look through some datasheets on TTL stuff sometime... on every single datasheet will say something along the lines of "not be used in the medical field." Why? Because companies want a better degree of product going into the medical field.
(I am not saying open source is not a "better degree" I am saying that if a company is going to be liable they want to be liable biased on product X and not product Y)
I don't know if I'd be comfortable to know that a section of code I wrote went into a heart monitor. What if I screwed something up and the monitor failed to alert the nurse of a problem?
Okay, so maybe I won't be sued... but I might not be able to sleep at night.
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This is a great news and all, but it'll be a LONG time before anything is produced commerically from it. It would take considerable engineering efforts to implement a new process in manufacturing of any type of IC. Just look how slow copper is making the progression. Only bleeding edge technologies can benefit from it because the process of building an IC from copper is entirely different from alumnimun. Now, in that example just the materials are different... imagine if the entire method to produce transistors is different....
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I think the idea of Battlebots is great.. SME has a yearly robotics contest and we entered the Sumo competiton several times.
What I don't like about BB is that they are remote controlled... that's on where near as fun as watching to autonomous bots go after each other...otherwise its just remote controlled power tools, you know?
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EVERY link on their homepage takes you to a stupid explanation of what "1-click" means... I didn't searching yet... that'll probably do the same. Jeez.. 1-Click ... its not THAT novel and new you know...
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"By monitoring the way you hover your mouse cursor over a product's picture or description, we are able to determine your intentions for this product. We have found that many consumers were confused by the one-button mouse design. So we elminated it and made the entire mouse a button. Now, on the web, we have elminated the need to make a 'descision.' We at Apple Think Different, so you don't have to [think]."
Normally I'd support Apple, they do some cool stuff... Taco has it right... it sucks that they bought into this stupid patent.
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where did that extrodinarily numbnuts quote in your sig come from
It is pretty old... way back when the RIO and mpMan came out... C|Net had a review on them. And that was the quote... "no matter how hard we shook them, they didn't skip." So I emailed him asking if he ACTUALLY shook it or if he just said that to prove a point. He told me that he had to shake it to make sure it wouldn't skip. I couldn't stop laughing.
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Yeah... i better take that out as well... =)
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I guess they don't have a clue because if they did...it'd be called a Clue::Cat and not a Cue::Cat.....
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I knew this was coming... I'm beyond glad I printed the page out a few days ago. I was really surprised they hadn't gotten a letter yet.
I think DC can make an argument that the software violates their IP (whatever that is, and however weak their argument is... i think they can make one). Now... I don't see anythign wrong with the hardware side of it.
I got my Cue:;'#$.,==+Cat before they changed their EULA, and since RS didn't get my name and address I feel I have no obligation to any changes they make. So, therefore...I can do with this little piece of hardware as I please. It just so happens I'm allergic to white plastic...so to use their wonderful product I removed it from its casing.
You know...whatever. If they want to waste their money on Legal crap that no one cares about, let them. Are we REALLY worth it? I mean, seriously. How many people have taken theirs apart? Is it worth the cost of all this trouble and bad publicity on their part?
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what use is information about aim & iqc ?
Its nice to know what's going on with them so one day when licq and gaim won't connect, I'll know why....
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what use is information about aim & iqc ?
Its nice to know what's going on with then so one day when licq and gaim won't connect, I'll know why....
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If people want violent games off the market, they should be raising their children in such a way that the kids would *freely choose* not to play them, because the violence would not appeal to them.
I'm utterly appauled at the fact that you claim it should be MY responsbility to raise MY kids. We all know that us parents simply do not have the time to raise our own children. In should be society's responsbility and if society produces violent games, it is society's fault. It is most certainly NOT mine! Or any other parent's for that matter!
Seriously: I fully agree with you, and I wish everyone else could see it that way. But I don't think its going happen... too many people think in the same manner I'm being saracastic.
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