I have a PCMCIA that connects via a Wireless CellBased technology (like cellphone/3G but a different technology) that gets me 1Mbps down.
Why on earth would I want your 3G at marginally better than one third that speed?
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And somebody PLEASE drag me into court for breaking it.
The first thing my defence lawyer would do is have the COURT STENOGRAPHER arrested for using a device which INDUCEs users to INFRINGE COPYRIGHT.
The second thing would be to ask the PROSECUTION if they have a piece of paper/writing pad/pen or even a pencil, either on their person or if they even own or use any of these devices. (And then have THEM arrested for breaking the law).
Personally, I would much prefer if they DID use UFS, since UFS is found on every major OS, except Windows. It would be nice to see a Windows UFS driver, so people's external hard drives would not be limited to slow, nasty, fragmenting, wasteful FAT32.
Of course we all know this will *never* happen.
In WindowsSpeak (a modern variant of DoubleSpeak from 1984) UFS stands for Unreadable FileSystem.
will launch hardware products... that will look and feel as good as the iPod product. And they will undoubtedly be a little bit less expensive and so head-to-head against Apple
So this heresay and rumor about potential products which are claimed to look and feel similar to the iPOD (ie no specifications, nor even rumors of specs) is NEWS????
Is this because
You've all lost your minds (Mad Cow Disease rampant in America???)
You're so sick of "news from Iraq" that *anything* is better
... ditto "the presidential election"
Media Beat UP and HYPE is *always* news, no matter which crack-induced nightmares they paraphrase
Or maybe it's simply
Let Apple take the portable digital music market by storm
Release rumor and hearsay (with not even a HINT of specifications) of an "iPOD Killer"
???
Profit
To quote a well known (if fictional) American: Frankly madam, I don't give a damn.
And just like the "scientists" used the FINITE Improbability Generator at parties to "simultaneously shift all the atoms in the hostesses undergarments 12 inches to the left", I'm dead-set certain there's some scientists out there thinking up "alternate uses" for this technology:
A sad but true fact is that my SciFi collection is SO wide and deep that I *actually know* the story he's referring to (and yes, it's a *very* good read).
Actually, the sad part is that FOR THE LIFE OF ME I *cannot* remember either the author or the title.
Seriously folks, has there *ever* in the history of Hollywood been a movie-from-a-scifi-novel which didn't actually rape-and-pillage the story in some way or other?
You can't try to understand temporal anomalies and paradoxes (paradoxi??) by starting from a normal thread of reality and then buggering things up by introducing "the paradox".
That's the whole point of a paradox. { exhibiting inexplicable or contradictory aspects }
For those who aren't entirely sure: Here's "the paradox" --> If Skynet never tried to kill John, he wouldn't have been concieved in the first place.
The Paradox was created by The Temporal Anomaly (SkyNET sending The Terminator back in time to kill John)
Of course, if you were A Time Lord, you'd understand that fiddling with the past (and sometimes the future) will often lead to Paradoxes (paradoxi??) and generally bugger up causality No End.
Given GWBs much publicised stance on sex/pregnancy/religion , I'm sure this is the first step in outlawing anything even vaguely in the direction of sex-education/family-planning/etc on the grounds that it merely encourages the godless masses to have sex outside of marriage and without intention of producing offspring.
Essentially it's a move by the religious puritannical few to control the masses of satan-worshipping lustbucket countrymen.
Then again, this is the United States of America, said contry never having recovered from its heritage of Religious Puritans.
Seriously people, in some ways America is as much a religious freak as some of those nothing-but-sandy-deserts-and-oil countries that are so muchly in the news these days.
Nobody else has, and the article was certainly not even thinking of going there.
What exactly are they selling?
a Raw Audio track in all ways identical to what you get when you purchase a mass-market factory-pressed CD? (ie buy ~16 of these and you have "an audio CD")
the WAV file equivalent?
the {insert preferred lossless encoded format here} equivalent?
a 320Kbps encoded MP3? (ie plays everywhere and not-quite-but-nearly-as-good-as-lossless)
a 16kbps encoded MP3? (ie totally-crap-but-still-plays-anywhere)
the {insert hellspawn DRM managed format here} equivalent?
Methinks people need to wake up and smell the HYPE.
If this was a shameless attempt to score off the recent Digital Music wave, it didn't work. Yahoo Finance shows SBUX Stock didn't do all that well Friday (Reuters had this news Thu March 11 ~8pm)
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I have a PCMCIA that connects via a Wireless CellBased technology (like cellphone/3G but a different technology) that gets me 1Mbps down.
Why on earth would I want your 3G at marginally better than one third that speed?
And somebody PLEASE drag me into court for breaking it.
The first thing my defence lawyer would do is have the COURT STENOGRAPHER arrested for using a device which INDUCEs users to INFRINGE COPYRIGHT.
The second thing would be to ask the PROSECUTION if they have a piece of paper/writing pad/pen or even a pencil, either on their person or if they even own or use any of these devices. (And then have THEM arrested for breaking the law).
An article on thinking satellites and *only* one single reference to Terminator (ie SkyNET)?
What, is it National Do-Not-Post-On-Slashdot Day or something?
Seriously folks - put the Slashdot Moderator (and Meta-Moderators) to good use, and let them have-at-it against The Patent Applications.
They've got many years experience dealing with patent (in the sense of obvious/synonym apparent) Trolls.
While technologically do-able, I'm uncertain as to whether this will succeed in the commercial world.
I think we'll all just have to wait and see.
Personally, I would much prefer if they DID use UFS, since UFS is found on every major OS, except Windows. It would be nice to see a Windows UFS driver, so people's external hard drives would not be limited to slow, nasty, fragmenting, wasteful FAT32.
Of course we all know this will *never* happen.
In WindowsSpeak (a modern variant of DoubleSpeak from 1984) UFS stands for Unreadable FileSystem.
Anyone remember this?
...OGG OGG OGG egg and OGG; OGG OGG OGG OGG OGG OGG baked beans OGG OGG OGG...
Waitress Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and OGG; egg bacon and OGG; egg bacon sausage and OGG; OGG bacon sausage and OGG; OGG egg OGG OGG bacon and OGG; OGG sausage OGG OGG bacon OGG tomato and OGG;
Vikings OGG OGG OGG OGG...
Waitress
Vikings OGG! Lovely OGG! Lovely OGG!
For LinkSYS to support WPA in AP-AP (Wireless Bridge) mode on their WAP54G.
"Note:WPA does not work in Wireless Bridge mode in this release"
Dammit people, WHEN will you get it right?
We don't need no stinkin NEW Products, we need completed features in our firmware for existing products.
So this heresay and rumor about potential products which are claimed to look and feel similar to the iPOD (ie no specifications, nor even rumors of specs) is NEWS????
Is this because
- You've all lost your minds (Mad Cow Disease rampant in America???)
- You're so sick of "news from Iraq" that *anything* is better
- ... ditto "the presidential election"
- Media Beat UP and HYPE is *always* news, no matter which crack-induced nightmares they paraphrase
Or maybe it's simply- Let Apple take the portable digital music market by storm
- Release rumor and hearsay (with not even a HINT of specifications) of an "iPOD Killer"
- ???
- Profit
To quote a well known (if fictional) American: Frankly madam, I don't give a damn.And just like the "scientists" used the FINITE Improbability Generator at parties to "simultaneously shift all the atoms in the hostesses undergarments 12 inches to the left", I'm dead-set certain there's some scientists out there thinking up "alternate uses" for this technology:
Lower-Echelon-Science-Geek: "mmmm, high-resolution pr0n".
from the womens toilets , no doubt, as even astronomical geeks don't get "any"
And I know for absolute certain what all you (well, us) SlashDOTerS were thinking:
How-TO: Instantaneous Infallible SlashDOT Effect -> Post ONE image from this camera online.
An alternate title for this article could have been:
FermiLAB Scientists seek to prove Theories behind the Origins of The SlashDOT Effect
A sad but true fact is that my SciFi collection is SO wide and deep that I *actually know* the story he's referring to (and yes, it's a *very* good read).
Actually, the sad part is that FOR THE LIFE OF ME I *cannot* remember either the author or the title.
Considering what they did to I, Robot, I've got a bad feeling about this.
Not to mention Do androids dream of electric sheep and Supertoys Last All Summer Long
Seriously folks, has there *ever* in the history of Hollywood been a movie-from-a-scifi-novel which didn't actually rape-and-pillage the story in some way or other?
but it appears that some of the major characters from the Bradbury story aren't in the credits
Yet another SciFi film who'se *only* relationship to the novel of the same title is
{cue drumroll}
The Title.
This is a case of either:
- complete incompetence
- astounding arrogance
Either way it's a significant embarrasment for Intel as well as a non-trivial financial issue.The Big question is where is R'lyeh?
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wagn'nagl fhtagn.
Rinse, repeat.
Most people make this mistake.
You can't try to understand temporal anomalies and paradoxes (paradoxi??) by starting from a normal thread of reality and then buggering things up by introducing "the paradox".
That's the whole point of a paradox. { exhibiting inexplicable or contradictory aspects }
For those who aren't entirely sure: Here's "the paradox" --> If Skynet never tried to kill John, he wouldn't have been concieved in the first place.
The Paradox was created by The Temporal Anomaly (SkyNET sending The Terminator back in time to kill John)
Of course, if you were A Time Lord, you'd understand that fiddling with the past (and sometimes the future) will often lead to Paradoxes (paradoxi??) and generally bugger up causality No End.
Actually , it's Je ne sais quoi.
Literally I don't know what.
The funny thing is this limeric was written by a Biologist who specialized in Fungi
Obviously the glow-in-the-dark "special magic" variety.
Why the name Gravity B? Was there a probe called Gravity A?
Because this is the second time they've tried experiments to "prove" frame dragging.
I think Sheik S Peer said it best
Something about "Two bees, or not two bees.
I'd never buy a wooden computer.
I'd never even accept one if it was given to me.
Reminds me too much of Greeks Bearing Gifts.
(clue for the philestines: I think we have enough trouble with TROJANS already)
I submitted this story yesterday MORNING with much better links. Again, I guess it's a matter of BLOW JOBS.
Sigh! Yet Another Rabid Apple Fan!
I submitted this story yesterday MORNING with much better links. Again, I guess it's a matter of BLOW JOBS.
This being slashdot, I'm sure most would much rather BUGGER GATES (at least, those with suchlike sexual tendancies).
Given GWBs much publicised stance on sex/pregnancy/religion , I'm sure this is the first step in outlawing anything even vaguely in the direction of sex-education/family-planning/etc on the grounds that it merely encourages the godless masses to have sex outside of marriage and without intention of producing offspring.
Essentially it's a move by the religious puritannical few to control the masses of satan-worshipping lustbucket countrymen.
Then again, this is the United States of America, said contry never having recovered from its heritage of Religious Puritans.
Seriously people, in some ways America is as much a religious freak as some of those nothing-but-sandy-deserts-and-oil countries that are so muchly in the news these days.
What exactly are they selling?
- a Raw Audio track in all ways identical to what you get when you purchase a mass-market factory-pressed CD?
- the WAV file equivalent?
- the {insert preferred lossless encoded format here} equivalent?
- a 320Kbps encoded MP3? (ie plays everywhere and not-quite-but-nearly-as-good-as-lossless)
- a 16kbps encoded MP3? (ie totally-crap-but-still-plays-anywhere)
- the {insert hellspawn DRM managed format here} equivalent?
Methinks people need to wake up and smell the HYPE.(ie buy ~16 of these and you have "an audio CD")
If this was a shameless attempt to score off the recent Digital Music wave, it didn't work. Yahoo Finance shows SBUX Stock didn't do all that well Friday (Reuters had this news Thu March 11 ~8pm)
Of course C is dead, it has been for years.
Anyone who wants can even go and look at the scrolls.