You're missing the point that if this happened, we'd have been subjected to a lot more bad songs. Was I the only person who read the first line or two of any of the songs and skipped to the end of them? They were AWFUL. Good writer or not, his song writing skills bit big time.
I'm against stupidity, but I'm forced to correspond with stupid people all day. Perhaps he gets well written letters from people in prison, and they are pedophiles. He likely gets letters from prisoners who ate their own parents with a subtle tomato basil sauce, but is still able to correspond with them despite never having eaten his own parents.
Now people will be able to sharpen their cellphones and use them as weapons directly, rather than having to use them as only part of the main weapon that is their SUV...
Aren't the users of these networks already doing this all on their own? I've seen versions of songs performed by bands that were dead by the time the song named in the title was actually written, Beethoven Symphonies attributed to nearly everyone else, etc. 99% of any group of users knows crap, and they seek to prove it at every turn, and yet these networks haven't killed themselves off from inside yet.
Despite the fact that I kept picturing kermit doing the fighting with all that bouncing around, I was simply glad that there were no frozen-time effects. Last thing we need is more homage paid to The Matrix with bullet time...
...gather new information for it's database from the web... or any other authoritative source.
Maybe Cyc won't be able to differentiate The Onion's news articles from real news either...
"When asked, Cyc wasn't sure which band 'ruled.' Having compiled millions of fan sites for bands as diverse as Journey, N*Sync, Black Sabbath, and some local Chicago garage band by the name of 'shit stew, Cyc was deadlocked with millions of conflicting teenaged opinions.
Well, perhaps Cyc could function as a Bush-to-English real-time translation system if they were to feed in a couple thousand hours of him speaking. Assuming the machine didn't commit silicon suicide....
Here's the thing; Napster isn't filing for bankruptcy as a result of government oppression or RIAA meddling or anything of the sort. They were simply a neat idea with no business merit at all.
Napster:TOG was neat, and it was free... Maybe under the mistaken theory that they could get people addicted and then start charging $5 a month to the junkies to get access to the network. Not a workable solution, as we've all seen in the past, as free service after free service folded. They'd begin to realize that buying $5000 laptops for all their staff and cool cars for the execs didn't help the bottom line when there was no revenue at all. Ah, the post-IPO spending sprees....
Napster:TNG stood no better chance of making money. They were pinning everything on the BMG deal at the end, and as anyone knows, if your company only has one client, you're that client's bitch. N:TNG was effectively what resulted when the government and industry forced the company into the "charging" stage of a failing dot.com. Don't kid yourself that they'd have done alright if they'd been left to their own devices and moved to a subscription model on their own timing. People get pissy when they have to start paying for something that's always been free... Paying for Slashdot yet?
Well, there's also the fact that opening weekend for Spiderman saw the movie playing on hundreds of screens thousands of times a day here... One 12 screen theatre had ONLY Spiderman, all day from 10:00am.
Star Wars opening weekend? A couple dozen theatres showing on a couple screens, making for hundreds of shows a day.
Didn't Katz say something in there about how the less hyped movie was Spiderman? Funny... there was a whole lot of money tossed into hype, specifically to get the movie on more screens for more viewers, in order to try to win viewers away from Clones. It was only in the second week of Clones' run here that it was opened up into more of a wider set of times.
All this "biggest weekend" and "biggest grossing" movie is crap unless you compare A) the number of screens the movie was shown on B) correct for inflation C) factor in promotional and tie-in budgets...
"The Mars Polar Lander was to touch down in exactly the right spot in 1999 and would have undoubtedly detected the ice had it not malfunctioned on the way down."
What a coincidence... It's the Martians trying to corner the solar system's market on Martian Glacial Water supply. Soon yuppies with too much money will pay millions for 100mL of Red Water...
Are you suggesting that a skilled web 'developer' who writes slick JavaScript wouldn't have a clue about system security?
Or that perhaps giving the world at large access to your lower level functions is a bad idea? I mean, if that were the case, wouldn't MS have revamped IIS well before now?
It's unbelieveable the kind of amazing announcements that get made on April 1 every year. Shocking that we see nothing of jet packs powered by cold fusion cells the size of an AA battery...
Yet will be as popular as black-market small-dish satellite....
Those that want to record Seinfeld repeats on the digital TV system will find or make devices to do just that. They'll be available on ebay for a while, and everyone will know someone who has one.
Besides, what's to stop you from pointing a good camcorder at the screen and recording it that way? There's ALWAYS a way, even if it's a generation apart from the original, that's fine. How popular were dubbed mix tapes in the 80s?
At least Super I-Ching doesn't charge by the minute. Unfortunately, I never seem to get through to God - I always seem to reach some joker named Gord, and he's none too happy about the bad listing in the directory.
For the most part, kernel re-compiles can be rendered a non-issue for users with a completely modularized kernel like what you'll get if you install Redhat 7.x. I'm sure there are other systems that do the same thing, with everything there, ready to be installed if the hardware's detected.
Aunt Tiley would likely not need to upgrade her kernel all that often once she's up and running anyhow. We don't need to establish the same kind of upgrade-frenzy that Microsoft and others have pushed. Linux isn't a purely market-driven product, and so frequent updates aren't a requirement just to stay in business. Short of any major technical or security issues, Aunt Tiley would be fine running the default kernel for quite some time. No need to upgrade to the latest and greatest kernel in order to get more eye-candy. Hell, the eye-candy's in a wholely seperate bunch of non-kernel packages anyhow.
So, Aunt Tiley could as easily grab the new kernel upgrades and new kernel modules via red-carpet or Redhat's FTP site. A simple upgrade using RPM since she's never installed anything from a TAR, she should never run into any kinds of conflicts.
I don't see Aunt Tiley or anyone out side of us hairy-chested geeks wanting to recompile their kernel anyhow. When was the last time your Aunt Tiley insisted she needed to use regedt32? They're users, not tweakers. A normal user shouldn't have to recompile the kernel. Ever. Thanks to loadable modules which have been around forever. It's just a matter of a good installation system that sets things up well to begin with.
I used to work with RealPlayer when I was working for a long-gone Real Partner. They had that Unique Identifier idea as well, and you could turn it off, too.
There was a call, however, that would allow the server to flip the switch and enable it again. Another allowed you to turn cookies on or off in your default browser. Very interesting.
I can't imagine anyone like Microsoft doing anything like that, though.
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You're missing the point that if this happened, we'd have been subjected to a lot more bad songs. Was I the only person who read the first line or two of any of the songs and skipped to the end of them? They were AWFUL. Good writer or not, his song writing skills bit big time.
I'm against stupidity, but I'm forced to correspond with stupid people all day. Perhaps he gets well written letters from people in prison, and they are pedophiles. He likely gets letters from prisoners who ate their own parents with a subtle tomato basil sauce, but is still able to correspond with them despite never having eaten his own parents.
Now people will be able to sharpen their cellphones and use them as weapons directly, rather than having to use them as only part of the main weapon that is their SUV...
Aren't the users of these networks already doing this all on their own? I've seen versions of songs performed by bands that were dead by the time the song named in the title was actually written, Beethoven Symphonies attributed to nearly everyone else, etc. 99% of any group of users knows crap, and they seek to prove it at every turn, and yet these networks haven't killed themselves off from inside yet.
Despite the fact that I kept picturing kermit doing the fighting with all that bouncing around, I was simply glad that there were no frozen-time effects. Last thing we need is more homage paid to The Matrix with bullet time...
Maybe Cyc won't be able to differentiate The Onion's news articles from real news either...
"When asked, Cyc wasn't sure which band 'ruled.' Having compiled millions of fan sites for bands as diverse as Journey, N*Sync, Black Sabbath, and some local Chicago garage band by the name of 'shit stew, Cyc was deadlocked with millions of conflicting teenaged opinions.
Well, perhaps Cyc could function as a Bush-to-English real-time translation system if they were to feed in a couple thousand hours of him speaking. Assuming the machine didn't commit silicon suicide....
No, he'd only sell a couple dozen. Oh, millions would read it, but only from the PDFs that one of those buyers would scan and generate...
Yes, but if you drink at a bar, drive, and kill 20 schoolkids, why is the bartender sued?
Here's the thing; Napster isn't filing for bankruptcy as a result of government oppression or RIAA meddling or anything of the sort. They were simply a neat idea with no business merit at all. Napster:TOG was neat, and it was free... Maybe under the mistaken theory that they could get people addicted and then start charging $5 a month to the junkies to get access to the network. Not a workable solution, as we've all seen in the past, as free service after free service folded. They'd begin to realize that buying $5000 laptops for all their staff and cool cars for the execs didn't help the bottom line when there was no revenue at all. Ah, the post-IPO spending sprees.... Napster:TNG stood no better chance of making money. They were pinning everything on the BMG deal at the end, and as anyone knows, if your company only has one client, you're that client's bitch. N:TNG was effectively what resulted when the government and industry forced the company into the "charging" stage of a failing dot.com. Don't kid yourself that they'd have done alright if they'd been left to their own devices and moved to a subscription model on their own timing. People get pissy when they have to start paying for something that's always been free... Paying for Slashdot yet?
Let's not even address the "recent" flaws that the upcoming service pack hopes to fix.
Well, there's also the fact that opening weekend for Spiderman saw the movie playing on hundreds of screens thousands of times a day here... One 12 screen theatre had ONLY Spiderman, all day from 10:00am.
Star Wars opening weekend? A couple dozen theatres showing on a couple screens, making for hundreds of shows a day.
Didn't Katz say something in there about how the less hyped movie was Spiderman? Funny... there was a whole lot of money tossed into hype, specifically to get the movie on more screens for more viewers, in order to try to win viewers away from Clones. It was only in the second week of Clones' run here that it was opened up into more of a wider set of times.
All this "biggest weekend" and "biggest grossing" movie is crap unless you compare A) the number of screens the movie was shown on B) correct for inflation C) factor in promotional and tie-in budgets...
What a coincidence... It's the Martians trying to corner the solar system's market on Martian Glacial Water supply. Soon yuppies with too much money will pay millions for 100mL of Red Water...
Are you suggesting that a skilled web 'developer' who writes slick JavaScript wouldn't have a clue about system security? Or that perhaps giving the world at large access to your lower level functions is a bad idea? I mean, if that were the case, wouldn't MS have revamped IIS well before now?
You're suggesting that /. has ever not been a waste of your time? Misguided?
Actually it's funnier that people think that anonymity is a right...
It's unbelieveable the kind of amazing announcements that get made on April 1 every year. Shocking that we see nothing of jet packs powered by cold fusion cells the size of an AA battery...
I seem to remember thinking the same thing about Altavista.... nobody can kill IT... I don't go back there unless I need something translated.
And grows, and grows....
I don't think you read the article, or you'd know that the iPod is better even though it doesn't play OGG either.
I suppose it could work...
Those that want to record Seinfeld repeats on the digital TV system will find or make devices to do just that. They'll be available on ebay for a while, and everyone will know someone who has one.
Besides, what's to stop you from pointing a good camcorder at the screen and recording it that way? There's ALWAYS a way, even if it's a generation apart from the original, that's fine. How popular were dubbed mix tapes in the 80s?
At least Super I-Ching doesn't charge by the minute. Unfortunately, I never seem to get through to God - I always seem to reach some joker named Gord, and he's none too happy about the bad listing in the directory.
Aunt Tiley would likely not need to upgrade her kernel all that often once she's up and running anyhow. We don't need to establish the same kind of upgrade-frenzy that Microsoft and others have pushed. Linux isn't a purely market-driven product, and so frequent updates aren't a requirement just to stay in business. Short of any major technical or security issues, Aunt Tiley would be fine running the default kernel for quite some time. No need to upgrade to the latest and greatest kernel in order to get more eye-candy. Hell, the eye-candy's in a wholely seperate bunch of non-kernel packages anyhow.
So, Aunt Tiley could as easily grab the new kernel upgrades and new kernel modules via red-carpet or Redhat's FTP site. A simple upgrade using RPM since she's never installed anything from a TAR, she should never run into any kinds of conflicts.
I don't see Aunt Tiley or anyone out side of us hairy-chested geeks wanting to recompile their kernel anyhow. When was the last time your Aunt Tiley insisted she needed to use regedt32? They're users, not tweakers. A normal user shouldn't have to recompile the kernel. Ever. Thanks to loadable modules which have been around forever. It's just a matter of a good installation system that sets things up well to begin with.
There was a call, however, that would allow the server to flip the switch and enable it again. Another allowed you to turn cookies on or off in your default browser. Very interesting.
I can't imagine anyone like Microsoft doing anything like that, though.