Now they're going in the tank, because the world has changed, and they did not change with it. They bit the poison pill, without realizing it, when they went digital. Once a thing is in digital domain, it can be copied as many times as you want. And there is no system that can keep it from being copied. You can devise the most clever one you want, and I will bring some little geek with a pen protector in his pocket into the room and he will fix it in a minute....
They bit the poison pill, and it's killing them. And I think what's killing them really, is that they have a bad business model that doesn't coincide with reality.
I think this says it all. They are trying to hold onto a business model that no longer works and they're using the government to do so. I don't personally agree with their practices I think they stink. They are pushing an antiquated system that requires their customers to either pay through the nose or become thieves. Make something prohibitively expensive, and I'm sorry $16.00 for an album that has at most of late one or two songs I like on it is prohibitively expensive, and you're pushing your customers to seek alternatives. I like iTunes, I can buy the one or two songs I want. And if there is an album that belongs together, say some of Rush's albums, I can buy them as a whole if I want to.
The truth is that as long as the RIAA can make the fistfuls of money they will continue to do so because they are a business. As soon as that business model become unfeasible, for them, not us, they will switch and find alternatives. Even with the piracy and decline in music purchasing they are still raking it in. There are too many 12 yr olds with disposable income that simply must have that latest Britney, NSync, or Avril album and will get it.
I also liked his comment that VH1 and MTV have unwittingly made music more about look and feel then about music. Most of my music dates back to before the 90's, with some notable exceptions.
This book does use XCode, its a typo in the reviewers review. I've just started reading it and the first thing it has me do in the first example is fire up XCode so no worries there.
I can't find one thing in the article that says this is being done by the government. This is a private company photographing what is publically visible. My only concern would be for the individuals captured in the frames. Are they going to doctor the images prior to posting them?
This is also an issue of control. If all Chinese electronics follow Chinese standards. Then they won't be able to utilize foreign media. Additionally the Chinese will only authorize those parties they deem usefull to use their standards. They can now control entirely the flow of information in their country, lock, stock, and barrel. Imagine if they develop a highly advanced operating system that becomes the defacto standard in the country, that also happens to have huge gaping back doors to allow the government to monitor everything. Or a DVD standard that prohibits foreign DVD's from functioning. I think this is their ultimate goal.
The Spiderman game on the PS was excellent. The movie version for the PS2 was even better. It really went a long way towards making me feel like I was actually spiderman. The game was very polished with decent voice acting. Bruce Cambell lent his talent to it.
Another title that has transitioned well from movie to game is the James Bond series. Back on the N64 Goldeneye rocked.
Another title the Alien vs. Predator series got its start with two movies. The second game was awesome. I especially loved playing as the face hugger looking for a victim and then getting to burst from his chest. The marine campaign actually managed to make me jump out of my chair.
My $0.02! The truth of the matter is this. All the love, attention and skill you turn upon mud pie will not make it into an edible concoction. Inversely, the most succulent ingredients in the hands of an inept chef will render the results inedible. Sorry Heinlein. A long winded way of saying that start with crap you're pretty much guaranteed crap at the end, but start with the best of material and you can still end up with crap if you're not careful. Nothing is a guaranteed formula for sucees.
The latest debacle of the Tomb Raider movie people claiming the video game people killed the movie with their poor game illustrates the point nicely.
no child can live in the cradle forever. At some point we're going to have to spread to the moon and other planets, if for no simpler reason then it's going to begin to get awefully crowded down here.
Other reasons to go:
Spreading humanity to other planets so as not to have all our 'eggs' in one basket
The potential discoveries are out there, new materials, etc.
and more about the irresponsibility of the press in reporting. This should never have been taken seriously, except in passing, as a sad commentary on the state of humanity. The heading should have been something like "Even Stupid people use Macs."
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No doubt you don't give a shit about Mac games - there aren't any! My post (a joke) was pointing out how sad it is that the mac platform never had anything other than the most popular PC games ported to it (and years AFTER the PC release). Now even the linux platform is getting DOOM III well before OS X will.
How do you explain Halo, admitedly 6 mos. later, and oh Warcraft III (simultaneous), and oh yeah Unreal Tournament 2004 only a week after the PC release.
The Mac is getting more and more games and earlier then ever before. Take a walk into an Apple store or the section of a CompUSA and you will probably find more mainstream games for the Mac there then exist for Linux.
Will I use the new Hymn/Playfair program? Oh, probably - my.Mac account runs out and I'm not going to renew, and it's how I bought my iTunes songs in the past.
AFAIK you don't have to have a.MAC account in order to purchase from their music store. Is there some other reason that you will stop buying/playing your music when your.MAC account runs out?
No more then then the electromagnetic radiation already pouring through the aircraft. The concern with electronic devices is not that they will cause interference, just that they could. That is why they limit the use of electronic devices specifically during take-off and landing, because those are the most critical moments of any flight. Other devices are limited during the entire flight because of their increased likelihood of causing problems, ie. they use more power.
Also, your cell phone uses considerable more power in sending out and receiving signals then does your average wi-fi card. When was that last time you could get more then five hundred feet from your access point. In reality I'm chained to within a few dozen of feet away. We're talking extremely low power. Additionally they control the service so it will presumeably be disabled during take-off and landings, something you shouldn't be able to verify as your laptop should be stowed at the time. Maybe if you had one of those Belkin Wi-Fi detectors you could see.
Additionally, and this may be presuming much, the FAA and airlines have conducted a significant amount of reasearch into this and are aware, given that Boeing build both the aircraft and sponsors the Wi-Fi, know how the two will interact.
I'm just being picky, but as someone who owns an A70 (and has owned an A40), you can't store pictures from Canon's "user" line of digital cameras in uncompressed mode. Superfine, yes....
Which just goes to illustrate that if someone like myself can take great pictures with the camera it really must be simple to use;)
I personally like the Canon Digital Elph. I have the old 2 megapixel version, but there are even better versions of it out now that reach up to 4 megapixels. The image quality is very good, at least to my non-professional eyes. It's not good at capturing action shots, but its definitely small, about the size of a pack of cigarettes, maybe a little smaller. And its lens and mechanism retracts into the body protecting it whenever you shove it in your pocket.
As a side note, get the version that uses Compact Flash. They have an SD version but I would stay away from that at all costs because it is incredibly slow to write to. I have myself a 256 Meg CF, and I can store about 130 uncompressed shots on it.
And buy a spare rechargeable battery, it comes with one, but I find, at least with my version, that a second is a must. It costs around $20.00 bucks last time I checked.
I only see little kids carrying around thier gameboys. This doesn't mean non-kids don't have them. It only means non-kids don't want to be labelled as kids by non-kids.
Good point. Just because I don't see adults carrying around GB* doesn't mean they don't own them. But I still think it is somewhat indicative of the audience. There are some awesome games for the GBA that appeal to an adult audience so they are definitely out there. As a post above said I think ultimately we'll be the winners because competition will force each one to improve or fall to the wayside.
Nah, none of those things. And you're pretty bold for an AC. From one statement, however erroneous, you decide to pounce on someone. Big man. You go feel good about yourself now. Nurse that ego.
There are enough people out there who will buy both to keep both companies happy.
Also, in a way, they go after two different markets. The Gameboy is poised for the younger crowd, with their Pokemon and such. This isn't to say there are no good games for adults, Advance War I & II come to mind, just that I see more GB, GBC, and GBA in the hands of little kids then I do adults. The PS2 will almost certainly go after the older teen market and adults.
And ask yourself how many of you own more then one gaming console. I used to own a Gamecube, XBox, PS2, and Dreamcast. I know of plenty of other people who own at least two. So I don't believe Nintendo is in that big of a trouble, if they can keep their niche alive and prevent the PSP from encroaching they should be fine.
My PC is set to shut off after fifteen minutes of inactivity and my Mac has been on for nearly a month now. Even though I keep myself patched up to the nines I never quite trust keeping my XP machine on all the time. I figure that when I'm playing a game the machine is so preoccupied with what its doing that most external concerns will be ignored. Then it's off into standby for the machine. And this is behind 2 NAT firewalls and XP's own firewall. What level of paranoia I live with.
I'm going into EE at Rice for grad school in the fall, planning to specialize in nanoengineering. Rice is one of the few schools I know of (actually, the only one) that has a center to analyze social effects of nanoscience.
Because we all know how us engineers are great at social effects of the larger kind.
I don't really know if it still exists. That was in 1997 or so, so all bets are off. An associate of mine told me about it. I don't recall how he came to find it. I had 40 plus 486 computers and a dozen first generation pentiums. I didn't think they belonged in the landfill. Plus they gave me a really nice tax break.
This sounds like a perfect fit to me. Given that budgets for libraries the country over are systematically being cut, not having to add the cost of software licensing to a collection of public access PC's is a great boon. Considering that the majority of computer use in the library is limitied to the internet and word processing the availability of suitable open source alternatives for these two activities also fits well. All in all I'd be surprised if we don't hear of more institutions moving to this as money becomes tight.
I know many years ago I donated a collection of 486 and early pentiums to a shop in brooklynn that refurbished them and distributed them to inner city workshops that taught kids how to work on computers. I can only imagine how much of a boon to this program it would have been had linux then been up to the level that it is today.
Whenever I run the 23" LCD in anything other then native I find it to blurry for my taste. So I would prefer a smaller LCD to running in non-native mode.
Thanks for the compliment. Getting into an argument would serve no purpose other then to clutter the thread.
What mouse do you use? I've got the Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer hooked up. Whenever I install the Intelli-point drivers my machine freezes regularly. So I'm running without it, which effectively means I have a really nice two button mouse.
My System:
Dual 1.25 G4
1 Gig RAM
10.3 by way of upgrade from Jaguar, although this was a problem then too
I don't necessarily believe the original intent of this poster was missed by the moderators. If by his posting his intent was to indicate that the gasoline companies would like nothing more then to discredit the burgeoning alternative energy cars then I think he suceeded. Not that the article is any way incorrect.
I did research on solar power cars back in the late 80's as part of an independent research project at my college. The more I dug into the subject the more I began to discover that all the juicy technical information regarding the subject was owned either by gasoline or oil companies. I was blown away. It was the first time I was confronted with the realities of business. What can I say call me naieve.
How about doing what KDE has been doing for years? When I log out of my KDE user account or I reboot all of the applications that were open when I left start up when I log back in. Even better applications like Konq even load the tabs/websites back up!...How about your terminal loading up the tabs and even the directories you were in when you left!
Why wait I have this already, albeit I don't log out. I just close the cover of my power book or put my desktop to sleep. The next time I start it back up it returns me to right where I left off with everything exactly as I left it.
I know this might not work as nicely on older hardware, sleep/hibernate support was buggy when it was first introduced, but my powerbook doesn't get turned off unless it's because of an Apple update.
Now that is a featured I would love to see, never having to reboot again after an update.
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The truth is that as long as the RIAA can make the fistfuls of money they will continue to do so because they are a business. As soon as that business model become unfeasible, for them, not us, they will switch and find alternatives. Even with the piracy and decline in music purchasing they are still raking it in. There are too many 12 yr olds with disposable income that simply must have that latest Britney, NSync, or Avril album and will get it.
I also liked his comment that VH1 and MTV have unwittingly made music more about look and feel then about music. Most of my music dates back to before the 90's, with some notable exceptions.
This book does use XCode, its a typo in the reviewers review. I've just started reading it and the first thing it has me do in the first example is fire up XCode so no worries there.
I can't find one thing in the article that says this is being done by the government. This is a private company photographing what is publically visible. My only concern would be for the individuals captured in the frames. Are they going to doctor the images prior to posting them?
This is also an issue of control. If all Chinese electronics follow Chinese standards. Then they won't be able to utilize foreign media. Additionally the Chinese will only authorize those parties they deem usefull to use their standards. They can now control entirely the flow of information in their country, lock, stock, and barrel. Imagine if they develop a highly advanced operating system that becomes the defacto standard in the country, that also happens to have huge gaping back doors to allow the government to monitor everything. Or a DVD standard that prohibits foreign DVD's from functioning. I think this is their ultimate goal.
The Spiderman game on the PS was excellent. The movie version for the PS2 was even better. It really went a long way towards making me feel like I was actually spiderman. The game was very polished with decent voice acting. Bruce Cambell lent his talent to it.
Another title that has transitioned well from movie to game is the James Bond series. Back on the N64 Goldeneye rocked.
Another title the Alien vs. Predator series got its start with two movies. The second game was awesome. I especially loved playing as the face hugger looking for a victim and then getting to burst from his chest. The marine campaign actually managed to make me jump out of my chair.
My $0.02!
The truth of the matter is this. All the love, attention and skill you turn upon mud pie will not make it into an edible concoction. Inversely, the most succulent ingredients in the hands of an inept chef will render the results inedible. Sorry Heinlein. A long winded way of saying that start with crap you're pretty much guaranteed crap at the end, but start with the best of material and you can still end up with crap if you're not careful. Nothing is a guaranteed formula for sucees.
The latest debacle of the Tomb Raider movie people claiming the video game people killed the movie with their poor game illustrates the point nicely.
Since when has expression and customization been useless...er...ok I can see your point but it is still pretty damn cool.
Other reasons to go:
and more about the irresponsibility of the press in reporting. This should never have been taken seriously, except in passing, as a sad commentary on the state of humanity. The heading should have been something like "Even Stupid people use Macs."
No doubt you don't give a shit about Mac games - there aren't any! My post (a joke) was pointing out how sad it is that the mac platform never had anything other than the most popular PC games ported to it (and years AFTER the PC release). Now even the linux platform is getting DOOM III well before OS X will.
How do you explain Halo, admitedly 6 mos. later, and oh Warcraft III (simultaneous), and oh yeah Unreal Tournament 2004 only a week after the PC release.
The Mac is getting more and more games and earlier then ever before. Take a walk into an Apple store or the section of a CompUSA and you will probably find more mainstream games for the Mac there then exist for Linux.
Will I use the new Hymn/Playfair program? Oh, probably - my .Mac account runs out and I'm not going to renew, and it's how I bought my iTunes songs in the past.
.MAC account in order to purchase from their music store. Is there some other reason that you will stop buying/playing your music when your .MAC account runs out?
AFAIK you don't have to have a
No more then then the electromagnetic radiation already pouring through the aircraft. The concern with electronic devices is not that they will cause interference, just that they could. That is why they limit the use of electronic devices specifically during take-off and landing, because those are the most critical moments of any flight. Other devices are limited during the entire flight because of their increased likelihood of causing problems, ie. they use more power.
Also, your cell phone uses considerable more power in sending out and receiving signals then does your average wi-fi card. When was that last time you could get more then five hundred feet from your access point. In reality I'm chained to within a few dozen of feet away. We're talking extremely low power. Additionally they control the service so it will presumeably be disabled during take-off and landings, something you shouldn't be able to verify as your laptop should be stowed at the time. Maybe if you had one of those Belkin Wi-Fi detectors you could see.
Additionally, and this may be presuming much, the FAA and airlines have conducted a significant amount of reasearch into this and are aware, given that Boeing build both the aircraft and sponsors the Wi-Fi, know how the two will interact.
I'm just being picky, but as someone who owns an A70 (and has owned an A40), you can't store pictures from Canon's "user" line of digital cameras in uncompressed mode. Superfine, yes....
;)
Which just goes to illustrate that if someone like myself can take great pictures with the camera it really must be simple to use
I sit corrected.
I personally like the Canon Digital Elph. I have the old 2 megapixel version, but there are even better versions of it out now that reach up to 4 megapixels. The image quality is very good, at least to my non-professional eyes. It's not good at capturing action shots, but its definitely small, about the size of a pack of cigarettes, maybe a little smaller. And its lens and mechanism retracts into the body protecting it whenever you shove it in your pocket.
As a side note, get the version that uses Compact Flash. They have an SD version but I would stay away from that at all costs because it is incredibly slow to write to. I have myself a 256 Meg CF, and I can store about 130 uncompressed shots on it.
And buy a spare rechargeable battery, it comes with one, but I find, at least with my version, that a second is a must. It costs around $20.00 bucks last time I checked.
I only see little kids carrying around thier gameboys. This doesn't mean non-kids don't have them. It only means non-kids don't want to be labelled as kids by non-kids.
Good point. Just because I don't see adults carrying around GB* doesn't mean they don't own them. But I still think it is somewhat indicative of the audience. There are some awesome games for the GBA that appeal to an adult audience so they are definitely out there. As a post above said I think ultimately we'll be the winners because competition will force each one to improve or fall to the wayside.
Nah, none of those things. And you're pretty bold for an AC. From one statement, however erroneous, you decide to pounce on someone. Big man. You go feel good about yourself now. Nurse that ego.
There are enough people out there who will buy both to keep both companies happy.
Also, in a way, they go after two different markets. The Gameboy is poised for the younger crowd, with their Pokemon and such. This isn't to say there are no good games for adults, Advance War I & II come to mind, just that I see more GB, GBC, and GBA in the hands of little kids then I do adults. The PS2 will almost certainly go after the older teen market and adults.
And ask yourself how many of you own more then one gaming console. I used to own a Gamecube, XBox, PS2, and Dreamcast. I know of plenty of other people who own at least two. So I don't believe Nintendo is in that big of a trouble, if they can keep their niche alive and prevent the PSP from encroaching they should be fine.
My PC is set to shut off after fifteen minutes of inactivity and my Mac has been on for nearly a month now. Even though I keep myself patched up to the nines I never quite trust keeping my XP machine on all the time. I figure that when I'm playing a game the machine is so preoccupied with what its doing that most external concerns will be ignored. Then it's off into standby for the machine. And this is behind 2 NAT firewalls and XP's own firewall. What level of paranoia I live with.
I'm going into EE at Rice for grad school in the fall, planning to specialize in nanoengineering. Rice is one of the few schools I know of (actually, the only one) that has a center to analyze social effects of nanoscience.
Because we all know how us engineers are great at social effects of the larger kind.
I don't really know if it still exists. That was in 1997 or so, so all bets are off. An associate of mine told me about it. I don't recall how he came to find it. I had 40 plus 486 computers and a dozen first generation pentiums. I didn't think they belonged in the landfill. Plus they gave me a really nice tax break.
This sounds like a perfect fit to me. Given that budgets for libraries the country over are systematically being cut, not having to add the cost of software licensing to a collection of public access PC's is a great boon. Considering that the majority of computer use in the library is limitied to the internet and word processing the availability of suitable open source alternatives for these two activities also fits well. All in all I'd be surprised if we don't hear of more institutions moving to this as money becomes tight.
I know many years ago I donated a collection of 486 and early pentiums to a shop in brooklynn that refurbished them and distributed them to inner city workshops that taught kids how to work on computers. I can only imagine how much of a boon to this program it would have been had linux then been up to the level that it is today.
Whenever I run the 23" LCD in anything other then native I find it to blurry for my taste. So I would prefer a smaller LCD to running in non-native mode.
Thanks for the compliment. Getting into an argument would serve no purpose other then to clutter the thread.
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I don't necessarily believe the original intent of this poster was missed by the moderators. If by his posting his intent was to indicate that the gasoline companies would like nothing more then to discredit the burgeoning alternative energy cars then I think he suceeded. Not that the article is any way incorrect.
I did research on solar power cars back in the late 80's as part of an independent research project at my college. The more I dug into the subject the more I began to discover that all the juicy technical information regarding the subject was owned either by gasoline or oil companies. I was blown away. It was the first time I was confronted with the realities of business. What can I say call me naieve.
How about doing what KDE has been doing for years? When I log out of my KDE user account or I reboot all of the applications that were open when I left start up when I log back in. Even better applications like Konq even load the tabs/websites back up! ...How about your terminal loading up the tabs and even the directories you were in when you left!
Why wait I have this already, albeit I don't log out. I just close the cover of my power book or put my desktop to sleep. The next time I start it back up it returns me to right where I left off with everything exactly as I left it.
I know this might not work as nicely on older hardware, sleep/hibernate support was buggy when it was first introduced, but my powerbook doesn't get turned off unless it's because of an Apple update.
Now that is a featured I would love to see, never having to reboot again after an update.
I understand the technical meaning between that. I meant will the features merit the description incremental or major.