Should say: "'These large fee awards get passed on to OUR consumers.' Do they really understand why there are laws?"
And to answer that question... I don't think they care why there are laws. What they care about is prices... and penalizing them when YOU decide to break the law will only serve as motivation for them to jump ship.
Because, believe me, when you get sucked into a parallel dimension and you're standing face to face with an 8 ft tall pink dog-demon and all you've got is teh crappy 9mm the government issued you, you're going to be glad that you've at least seen the scenario before. You'll find that having at least rehearsed it a few times you'll be able to bunnyhop to safety (or better armament) while plugging the beast with a few rounds as if it was second nature instead of just standing there in a puddle of your own making and wishing you'd paid a little more attention to that DoomIII "game" instead of wasting all your time on City of Heros (because really, how likely is *that* to happen?).
Oh, there are plenty of programs available for the blessed poor. You can get a completely free education at Yale or Harvard if you happen to be of the right ethnicity, sex, or economic bracket. In fact, the poorer you are, the better your chances.
Ya, lucky bastards those poor people. I say we rich should rise up and overthrow the poor. err, wait...
Getting back to the privacy issue, Groove uses an encrypted XML store. One of the ways you could provide some clarity about the privacy issue would be to push this data through an encrypted store. You could keep the indexes unencrypted, but keep the rest of the data encrypted.
Nope that's not Sergey, that's the interviewer! Is this guy interviewing him or working for him?
Or is this picture a little creepy? The american astronaut looks like a serial killer or something and the russian looks like he's afraid because the american looks like a killer...
Any spacewalk to fix the gyroscope circuit breaker would be only the second time both station crew members would be outside the space station, leaving no one inside.
Lately it's seemed to me that we as a culture are running low on creativity.
You are terribly wrong. It's one thing to say that Star Trek is out of ideas... I agree completely. It's another thing to say that there's no creativity out there. To defend pop culture, I'd say there's lots of great material out there even in media. I think we've practically escaped the decline in the late 90's when pure crap was getting mainstream attention.
I'll avoid naming specifics, but say that hollywood directors are taking more chances, are more daring and creative than ever before. I think we're going to see a lot more good stuff at the theatre.
Lots of great music out there right now, you just have to know where to look - even if it's on the radio. In my hometown, most of the radio stations that played crap like the Backstreet Boys and Britney Spears have gone out of business and been replaced by stations with a wider range of taste.
Writers are also exploring topics and issues. I find scientists, engineers and physicists, while grounded in their discipline, are venturing into the world of fiction and taking creativity to a new level. This should be no surprise as the audience is generally more informed and knowledgeable than ever before.
It all comes down to knowing what you want and knowing where to find it.
But be sure to use blanks from different manufacturers. Otherwise your failures won't be independent, so the odds of all your copies going bad at roughly the same time (i.e., before you notice the first one has failed) is high.
So i guess someone was paying attention in Stats class;)
Actually, you probably could get some crazy compression if you get lossy on the riffs. I'm sure you could fit the entirety of the Chilli pepper albums in 5 or 6k.
The guy who wrote the first review you mentioned tried doing a diff between an mp3 and the source wav file in an attempt to figure out what lossy means! yikes.
from the screenshots and the general concept presented by Google that attachments will be rejected. Why do I say this? well..
1 GB is a helluva lot of space, but when you think of it 1 GB of text works out to on average 100MB of compressed ASCII. So what's the chance of someone using up their full 100MB of compressed text... for the average user it'd probably take YEARS.
I say there's a 10:1 chance that Google blocks attachments. For me, that means that GMail is essentially a glorified, logged IM. and.. just wait till the jane user discovers she can't send her photos to friends and family.
ya the only thing GMail has riding for it is publicity through controversy and the loyalty of geekdom to a company being forged into the next Microsoft.
(Apple) needs to make sure its formats (even though they are all pretty much based on open standards) are the standards. And the only way to really do that is to have QT become much more popular than it is today.
Hate to burst your bubble, but Quicktime has about as much of a chance of becoming ubiquitous as Real. In other words, not gonna happen. Sure, quicktime has gained a lot of ground in the movie trailer circles, but it's still a cpu-hog and memory whore. That alone makes it Real's partner in decline.
Sure Apple is making headway with the iPod, but when it boils down to it... the iPod is Apple's latest fad. Although the company has literally risen from the dead, they still appeas to subscribe to the philosophy that consumers want proprietary technology. They got it all wrong: consumers want innovation and Apple has a lot of that but Apple's products always lose in the long run because the company simply can't sustain its markets.
Both these guys are fools - Glaser should quit trying to save his real crap and Jobs isn't in any position to be cocky.
forget the licensing issues...
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this is one of the most useless ideas out there. I don't see any reason for people to purchase hw so they can use the same Windows box. PCs are sufficiently cheap right now that you're better off buying two and hooking them up over ethernet. You can still share files, share apps, etc. but crashes will affect only one user rather than two. Windows is not a multi-user system... it was designed for one user, and when it comes down to it XP is just a hack for multiple profiles.
A real solution, that's already been mentioned here, is having one Linux box and setting up multiple desktops with VNC. That's if you absolutely must combine your systems or want to have apps installed on one setup. You can have as many dumb terminals as you want hooked into that machine.
Making a machine multi-user is a software problem not a hardware one and this idea will FAIL.
OK, fine you don't want to fragment the Java API by GPL'ing it. If you have our best interests in mind, why not make the source available under a license that allows people to help improve the implementation with out breaking the API standard. You guys can retain control of Java... but Java can still be improved and made faster and better than it is.
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Let's use stealth bombers instead to drop water.
I don't know.. I think a $5 big mac will accomplish the same feat.
And to answer that question... I don't think they care why there are laws. What they care about is prices... and penalizing them when YOU decide to break the law will only serve as motivation for them to jump ship.
Thanks for the rundown, Will Hunting.
I'm glad someone found a use for all those aol cds.
Then I remembered that the dafault is for the OS to handle the pagefile size.
Why 1 terabyte of hard drive space when you have 2 gig of memory?
But, then I remembered that the OS is Windows and therefore shit.
Ya, lucky bastards those poor people. I say we rich should rise up and overthrow the poor. err, wait...
Nope that's not Sergey, that's the interviewer! Is this guy interviewing him or working for him?
I guess you already smoked your bowl.
If anything, it's the other way around!
Sorry Dave, I can't do that.
You are terribly wrong. It's one thing to say that Star Trek is out of ideas... I agree completely. It's another thing to say that there's no creativity out there. To defend pop culture, I'd say there's lots of great material out there even in media. I think we've practically escaped the decline in the late 90's when pure crap was getting mainstream attention.
I'll avoid naming specifics, but say that hollywood directors are taking more chances, are more daring and creative than ever before. I think we're going to see a lot more good stuff at the theatre.
Lots of great music out there right now, you just have to know where to look - even if it's on the radio. In my hometown, most of the radio stations that played crap like the Backstreet Boys and Britney Spears have gone out of business and been replaced by stations with a wider range of taste.
Writers are also exploring topics and issues. I find scientists, engineers and physicists, while grounded in their discipline, are venturing into the world of fiction and taking creativity to a new level. This should be no surprise as the audience is generally more informed and knowledgeable than ever before.
It all comes down to knowing what you want and knowing where to find it.
So i guess someone was paying attention in Stats class ;)
Your mother.
Actually, you probably could get some crazy compression if you get lossy on the riffs. I'm sure you could fit the entirety of the Chilli pepper albums in 5 or 6k.
The guy who wrote the first review you mentioned tried doing a diff between an mp3 and the source wav file in an attempt to figure out what lossy means! yikes.
course not... it's in the Google cache dummy!
sorry, buddy there's no such thing as a flux capacitor.
1 GB is a helluva lot of space, but when you think of it 1 GB of text works out to on average 100MB of compressed ASCII. So what's the chance of someone using up their full 100MB of compressed text... for the average user it'd probably take YEARS.
I say there's a 10:1 chance that Google blocks attachments. For me, that means that GMail is essentially a glorified, logged IM. and.. just wait till the jane user discovers she can't send her photos to friends and family.
ya the only thing GMail has riding for it is publicity through controversy and the loyalty of geekdom to a company being forged into the next Microsoft.
Hate to burst your bubble, but Quicktime has about as much of a chance of becoming ubiquitous as Real. In other words, not gonna happen. Sure, quicktime has gained a lot of ground in the movie trailer circles, but it's still a cpu-hog and memory whore. That alone makes it Real's partner in decline.
Sure Apple is making headway with the iPod, but when it boils down to it... the iPod is Apple's latest fad. Although the company has literally risen from the dead, they still appeas to subscribe to the philosophy that consumers want proprietary technology. They got it all wrong: consumers want innovation and Apple has a lot of that but Apple's products always lose in the long run because the company simply can't sustain its markets.
Both these guys are fools - Glaser should quit trying to save his real crap and Jobs isn't in any position to be cocky.
A real solution, that's already been mentioned here, is having one Linux box and setting up multiple desktops with VNC. That's if you absolutely must combine your systems or want to have apps installed on one setup. You can have as many dumb terminals as you want hooked into that machine.
Making a machine multi-user is a software problem not a hardware one and this idea will FAIL.
I'm sure your walkie-talkie's free... go ahead make the call.
The SoundBlaster Denial of Service.
That's right.. we're fighting back against DRM - one bug report at a time!
OK, fine you don't want to fragment the Java API by GPL'ing it. If you have our best interests in mind, why not make the source available under a license that allows people to help improve the implementation with out breaking the API standard. You guys can retain control of Java... but Java can still be improved and made faster and better than it is.