First off, 2.8 mil isn't that much considering the amount of VC money that was thrown around during the Dot-Com craze. Also, you arn't hearing about 30 companies getting 3 mil every day, this is the first VC money of this amount I have heard of in awhile. The people funding the VC money are the owner's of Amazon and a couple of other Internet companies. You know, people who survived the meltdown and are making money. I don't know where getting some money and becoming popular has become a bad thing, honestly, people who say that remind me of teenagers whining about the last band that "sold out".
While this is nice and all...
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maybe this belongs in an Ask Slashdot thread about which RSS reader works best for me. I am sure that RSSOwl is a nice little program, but I would actually prefer a topic to discuss RSS readers in general, such as local client vs. web, feature set, reading web pages in the program versus in the browser, etc.
That is exactly what this is, Firefox with a bunch of extensions and plugins packaged together. I am using it now and while there is nothing mind-blowing, (although the on the fly history search is pretty F'ng sweet) it also doesn't have anything that would make me get rid of it right away. I think they have a decent idea of "Here is a version of Firefox that we prettied up and threw in some features." Even if you never use any of the other features, you still have a pleasant looking Firefox, so what is the harm in that?
There is also flawed logic in the argument you use about running two e-mail clients. You say that "Usenet Newsgorups have not gained as much popularity as the rest of the internet" but then comment that running the two programs are "not a good idea for the average user" If Usenet isn't popular, then how many average users are going to be using it and missing the "Combine and Decode" feature? I would say that the average user would be happier with the spam blocking features in Thunderbird, then if they are interested in finding out more with newsgroups, they can use the basic features in Thunderbird. If they really want to start using the advanced features of Usenet, they can get a specific program for that then that does more than OE.
Spam filters? Available in other clients, either natively or through add-ons.
The reason I use Thunderbird is because I havn't found another program on the Windows side that has the Bayesian e-mail filtering built-in. Outlook has junk mail updates from Microsoft, Eudora has set rules and OE has nothing built-in. The fact that I have trained my e-mail program on what is spam has made my e-mailing much easier.
The easiest way to find "obscure" music is P2P, of course
I would argue with this by saying that the easiest way to get obscure music is by going to a local record store and finding stuff there. Also, the point that was made by Sean about going to the store is a very valid one. I should have stated the only legal way to download music to be more correct. As for the viruses, I personally don't download viruses as I do not have any file sharing programs on my computer. I was trying to make a more general point that these P2P networks are getting flooded with viruses all the time and that users do download those files and help spread the problem.
As for iTMS forcing you to by an album song by song, that is actually the record label telling Apple to do that. Artists like Madonna have required this stipulation in their contracts. I am not saying that the AAC isn't lossless, but you will be hard pressed to find downloads on P2P networks that are lossless as well.
Yes, because the majority of those billion results are about 150K in size and are actually viruses. That is great that you want to find obscure music, but to be successful and make inroads on people who continue to steal music, these companies have to offer the popular artists.
Do they think people's motivation for using pay-to-download site will just be the fact that it's legal?
Imagine that idea, people might do the legal thing when presented a legal alternative. But there are other reasons as well. I can tell you that after iTMS came out, I have not downloaded an illegal song. I was given a legal alternative that works well. I do not have to install P2P clients that come loaded with spyware and I do not have to weed through Code Red, Blaster, Nimda or whatever viruses are spread through those networks. Those are the better reasons for moving off of P2P clients.
Now we get to see if postponing all of the iMac sales a couple months ago allowed them to get ready for the demand these new computers will have. It will be interesting if the delay will mean shipping dates closer to now than X-Mas.
Just because this is available, it does not mean you have to use it. This is an instance where some people may find a usefulness in checking their iPod to see if there is a wifi connection close to them. I don't understand why everyone is throwing a hissy fit because of something that you can download to your iPod. It isn't like Apple is now preinstalling this with every iPod. If you think it would be useful for you, download it, if you don't, then stop reading the thread, it seems easy enough for me.
As for why Slashdot feels the need to post it, they felt that some people would be interested in this. If you read every single post on Slashdot because every single one applies to you, well I have a feeling you are in the minority. I know that I read the things I am interested in, the title of this story was not confusing or misleading, so if you don't care, dont read it.
Space.com also had an article about this yesterday. It gives a little better timeline to when it will be available to check low mass stars in the future, as well as doing a comparision on other extrasolar planetary detection techniques.
Is it me, or is this returning to the days of dumb terminals? I think this is practical for some of the suggestions they had, ie. 2 children doing homework, but this is hardly a revolutionary idea.
I appreciate you calling me a troll, but it isn't my responsibility to hunt out these new features that make the Linux desktop great. If I am already using something that suits me just fine, I need to have a good reason to switch, ie. new features, better performance, etc. If you tell me there is innovation, then tell me what some of these features are on the Linux desktop. I am not opposed to change, I just need a reason to.
I did neglect to mention in my original posting that there were features of KDE 3 that I loved when it first came out, such as Konqueror. Part of the problem is that if all of these features are in the Linux desktop, why don't I know about them without having to investigate them. I know that Remote Desktop was does with XWindows and VNC before XP came out, but I can't tell you how many people love it because Microsoft told users the easiest ways to use it, what it is useful for, etc. While we may hate Microsoft for their practices, they do know how to market their product, something Linux needs to work on.
I have been reading articles about how Linux is ready to move into the desktop world for years now. In the past, I have tried to test these systems out, seeing if this is in fact true and always come up disappointed. The fact is that Linux is always playing catch up.
Everytime we see a new article about Linux desktops, they always tout how it has all of these features that Windows or Mac OS X has now. This is fine, but for someone who has Windows already, what is the incentive to move, I am using a system that has all of the features of Windows already.
Everytime I have made an excursion into the Linux desktop, I have found it to be missing one or two things I really need, then boot back into Windows and find it. If Linux is always following Windows in features, they there is no incentive to swtich.
I think Linux could have a chance at the desktop market, it just needs to innovate instead of imitate.
I hate to sound like a jerkass here, but if your kids are old enough to be playing BF1942, then how they not old enough to have your trust not to mess up the computer. If you are overly concerned about them messing up the computer, maybe you need to get a separate computer that only you use.
I don't give a damn. Yes, the iPod isn't perfect, but none of the products he mentions is. I am a bit sceptical of the jogging argument as well, seeing as the iPod has 25 minutes of skip protection. But in any case, I think the guy just wants to point out flaws in the iPod. All this is fine, but do you really want the Dell alternative that has the one feature that the iPod doesn't have, and is missing all of the other things that make the iPod great?
In response to the Radio selections, you can also play any Shoutcast streams as well. Also, in response to the AAC comment, I would prefer the higher quality AAC to MP3, or worse, WMA, any day of the week. Just because the iPod is the only player now to listen to it, how many do you think will be available in a year?
Yes, you are showing the man that as long as the artists are defending their rights to have copyrighted material, you will continue to steal music from them. I don't agree with the RIAA tactics, but they have to try something to defend their rights. Maybe if the online music stores do well, then the RIAA will see that there are ways to use the Internet successfully, and therefore stop such aggresive measures. By refusing to buy music from any source, you are simply fueling their fire.
I do understand that newer computers will have less to update, but I got a new computer one month ago, with SP1 installed on XP and still had 80MB of critical updates to install. To have a new computer require 80MB of updates is tough for a dial-up user. While this is part the distributers fault for not running the update before leaving the factory, it still is intimidating for a person who may have never had a computer before
I know this is Slashdot and all the Linux users need their daily affirmation that they are right, but guys, lay off the common user. To expect someone over dialup to have Windows XP patched with the 200 MB of updates since XP came out is rather harsh. I know this hits more broadband users, but working in tech support, we have seen a fair amount of dialup users get hit as well. So before telling the everyday user to switch to Linux for their home machine, maybe we should get Microsoft to check their product for problems before shipping it out.
While it is all well and good that we can use these maps to show that more water is close to the Equator, but I think the real usefulness of these satellites will come into play when this research can be applied to understanding gravity itself. It is nice to see where it is strongest on Earth, but we know so little about gravity and how it works, it would be nice to see this used to work towards the Unified Field Theory.
I think these satellites could also be used on other heavenly bodies, such as the Sun and Mars. Imagine placing these over Mars, it could potentially be used to see if there are fluctuations in the gravity field which could indicate if Mars has any movement under it's surface.
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First off, 2.8 mil isn't that much considering the amount of VC money that was thrown around during the Dot-Com craze. Also, you arn't hearing about 30 companies getting 3 mil every day, this is the first VC money of this amount I have heard of in awhile. The people funding the VC money are the owner's of Amazon and a couple of other Internet companies. You know, people who survived the meltdown and are making money. I don't know where getting some money and becoming popular has become a bad thing, honestly, people who say that remind me of teenagers whining about the last band that "sold out".
maybe this belongs in an Ask Slashdot thread about which RSS reader works best for me. I am sure that RSSOwl is a nice little program, but I would actually prefer a topic to discuss RSS readers in general, such as local client vs. web, feature set, reading web pages in the program versus in the browser, etc.
That is exactly what this is, Firefox with a bunch of extensions and plugins packaged together. I am using it now and while there is nothing mind-blowing, (although the on the fly history search is pretty F'ng sweet) it also doesn't have anything that would make me get rid of it right away. I think they have a decent idea of "Here is a version of Firefox that we prettied up and threw in some features." Even if you never use any of the other features, you still have a pleasant looking Firefox, so what is the harm in that?
Is there going to be a specific lane in case I want to travel through Texas at a lesuirely rate of 11 mph?
There is also flawed logic in the argument you use about running two e-mail clients. You say that "Usenet Newsgorups have not gained as much popularity as the rest of the internet" but then comment that running the two programs are "not a good idea for the average user" If Usenet isn't popular, then how many average users are going to be using it and missing the "Combine and Decode" feature? I would say that the average user would be happier with the spam blocking features in Thunderbird, then if they are interested in finding out more with newsgroups, they can use the basic features in Thunderbird. If they really want to start using the advanced features of Usenet, they can get a specific program for that then that does more than OE.
Spam filters? Available in other clients, either natively or through add-ons.
The reason I use Thunderbird is because I havn't found another program on the Windows side that has the Bayesian e-mail filtering built-in. Outlook has junk mail updates from Microsoft, Eudora has set rules and OE has nothing built-in. The fact that I have trained my e-mail program on what is spam has made my e-mailing much easier.
The easiest way to find "obscure" music is P2P, of course
I would argue with this by saying that the easiest way to get obscure music is by going to a local record store and finding stuff there. Also, the point that was made by Sean about going to the store is a very valid one. I should have stated the only legal way to download music to be more correct. As for the viruses, I personally don't download viruses as I do not have any file sharing programs on my computer. I was trying to make a more general point that these P2P networks are getting flooded with viruses all the time and that users do download those files and help spread the problem.
As for iTMS forcing you to by an album song by song, that is actually the record label telling Apple to do that. Artists like Madonna have required this stipulation in their contracts. I am not saying that the AAC isn't lossless, but you will be hard pressed to find downloads on P2P networks that are lossless as well.
Yes, because the majority of those billion results are about 150K in size and are actually viruses. That is great that you want to find obscure music, but to be successful and make inroads on people who continue to steal music, these companies have to offer the popular artists.
Do they think people's motivation for using pay-to-download site will just be the fact that it's legal?
Imagine that idea, people might do the legal thing when presented a legal alternative. But there are other reasons as well. I can tell you that after iTMS came out, I have not downloaded an illegal song. I was given a legal alternative that works well. I do not have to install P2P clients that come loaded with spyware and I do not have to weed through Code Red, Blaster, Nimda or whatever viruses are spread through those networks. Those are the better reasons for moving off of P2P clients.
Now we get to see if postponing all of the iMac sales a couple months ago allowed them to get ready for the demand these new computers will have. It will be interesting if the delay will mean shipping dates closer to now than X-Mas.
Just because this is available, it does not mean you have to use it. This is an instance where some people may find a usefulness in checking their iPod to see if there is a wifi connection close to them. I don't understand why everyone is throwing a hissy fit because of something that you can download to your iPod. It isn't like Apple is now preinstalling this with every iPod. If you think it would be useful for you, download it, if you don't, then stop reading the thread, it seems easy enough for me.
As for why Slashdot feels the need to post it, they felt that some people would be interested in this. If you read every single post on Slashdot because every single one applies to you, well I have a feeling you are in the minority. I know that I read the things I am interested in, the title of this story was not confusing or misleading, so if you don't care, dont read it.
Space.com also had an article about this yesterday. It gives a little better timeline to when it will be available to check low mass stars in the future, as well as doing a comparision on other extrasolar planetary detection techniques.
Is it me, or is this returning to the days of dumb terminals? I think this is practical for some of the suggestions they had, ie. 2 children doing homework, but this is hardly a revolutionary idea.
I appreciate you calling me a troll, but it isn't my responsibility to hunt out these new features that make the Linux desktop great. If I am already using something that suits me just fine, I need to have a good reason to switch, ie. new features, better performance, etc. If you tell me there is innovation, then tell me what some of these features are on the Linux desktop. I am not opposed to change, I just need a reason to.
I did neglect to mention in my original posting that there were features of KDE 3 that I loved when it first came out, such as Konqueror. Part of the problem is that if all of these features are in the Linux desktop, why don't I know about them without having to investigate them. I know that Remote Desktop was does with XWindows and VNC before XP came out, but I can't tell you how many people love it because Microsoft told users the easiest ways to use it, what it is useful for, etc. While we may hate Microsoft for their practices, they do know how to market their product, something Linux needs to work on.
Everytime we see a new article about Linux desktops, they always tout how it has all of these features that Windows or Mac OS X has now. This is fine, but for someone who has Windows already, what is the incentive to move, I am using a system that has all of the features of Windows already.
Everytime I have made an excursion into the Linux desktop, I have found it to be missing one or two things I really need, then boot back into Windows and find it. If Linux is always following Windows in features, they there is no incentive to swtich.
I think Linux could have a chance at the desktop market, it just needs to innovate instead of imitate.
I hate to sound like a jerkass here, but if your kids are old enough to be playing BF1942, then how they not old enough to have your trust not to mess up the computer. If you are overly concerned about them messing up the computer, maybe you need to get a separate computer that only you use.
http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/ShowMainServl et/showid-428/
I just ate lunch and am sleepy already. I don't think Mr. Boss would be too happy at me attempting to read these articles while at work.
I don't give a damn. Yes, the iPod isn't perfect, but none of the products he mentions is. I am a bit sceptical of the jogging argument as well, seeing as the iPod has 25 minutes of skip protection. But in any case, I think the guy just wants to point out flaws in the iPod. All this is fine, but do you really want the Dell alternative that has the one feature that the iPod doesn't have, and is missing all of the other things that make the iPod great?
Don't let Ozzie Smith hear about this, he will end up missing Burn's game visiting it!
In response to the Radio selections, you can also play any Shoutcast streams as well. Also, in response to the AAC comment, I would prefer the higher quality AAC to MP3, or worse, WMA, any day of the week. Just because the iPod is the only player now to listen to it, how many do you think will be available in a year?
Yes, you are showing the man that as long as the artists are defending their rights to have copyrighted material, you will continue to steal music from them. I don't agree with the RIAA tactics, but they have to try something to defend their rights. Maybe if the online music stores do well, then the RIAA will see that there are ways to use the Internet successfully, and therefore stop such aggresive measures. By refusing to buy music from any source, you are simply fueling their fire.
I do understand that newer computers will have less to update, but I got a new computer one month ago, with SP1 installed on XP and still had 80MB of critical updates to install. To have a new computer require 80MB of updates is tough for a dial-up user. While this is part the distributers fault for not running the update before leaving the factory, it still is intimidating for a person who may have never had a computer before
I know this is Slashdot and all the Linux users need their daily affirmation that they are right, but guys, lay off the common user. To expect someone over dialup to have Windows XP patched with the 200 MB of updates since XP came out is rather harsh. I know this hits more broadband users, but working in tech support, we have seen a fair amount of dialup users get hit as well. So before telling the everyday user to switch to Linux for their home machine, maybe we should get Microsoft to check their product for problems before shipping it out.
I think these satellites could also be used on other heavenly bodies, such as the Sun and Mars. Imagine placing these over Mars, it could potentially be used to see if there are fluctuations in the gravity field which could indicate if Mars has any movement under it's surface.