So, you think people war drive for digital media? This has everything to do with sharing over the Internets, and nothing to do with people sharing files over private LANs.
All they want to do is sell CDs. They don't even want to have DRM-laden music stores like iTunes out selling music; they want their old, familiar CD media being sold for the highest price possible.
I know it wouldn't happen, but we have GOT to get these people and those they represent out of music distribution. People need a social site for artists only, unlike Myspace, where people create profiles equal to those of bands, cluttering the atmosphere with trash. Artists need to realize their option to record music in a studio, then distribute it over the internet for a small, reasonable fee with no restrictions.
Who needs exploits when most people will install ActiveX controls without knowing what they do anyway? All the site needs is a "Be sure to click the yellow bar at the top of your browser!" notice.
And here is a fine example of why FOSS should not try to emulate Microsoft software, but exceed it and BE DIFFERENT where better features could be had or improved on. Unfortunately, OOo is not usable in any corporate environment, and won't be until there's a major IT revolution. It is indeed bloated, and emulates years-old versions of MS Office in a failed attempt that wooing people familiar with Office to linux while sacrificing the main feature of MS Office - compatibility with other people running MS Office. It's unreasonable and really infeasible to ask people to re-export files in specific formats so you can view them in your Office emu.
This might reflect my bad experiences with trying to use OOo in a large corporate environment, where entirely missing pictures from PPTs and docs just doesn't work in the long run.
Primarily I think the reason for the control is actually to monopolize the availability of services and applications for the phone to guess who, Cingular. Same goes for most carriers who put apps like MobiTV or IM clients on their phones and want to charge you a monthly fee for them.
The Slashdot community would like to submit to you our deepest apologies for accidentally disparaging the Inuit community, as our Amurkan textbooks from grade-school and on refer to Eskimos as, well, Eskimos.
Also, fuck off.
1xRTT = 3G = Cingular's data offering. Should have made an EVDO-capable phone and partnered with Sprint or Verizon Wireless, what a waste.
This is the phone I've clamored for for quite a while, I'm really excited to see it come out and smash through the roof of my expectations. Apple's engineers have outdone themselves if this thing works right.
This "mesh network" idea is pretty pie-in-the-sky for the technically barren regions the idea is being pushed on. Is someone going to establish transponders or regenerators, bridges, etc for Internet access? If so, there's going to be much better 802.11 coverage in Africa than we have here. How far away are the schools? Does anyone even know if the schools are going to participate? Sometimes I think a bag of rice would be better spent on these areas than air dropping pastel, wind-up computers.
I watched a show about this on National Geographic about a year ago. I was determined to stop tapping my brakes for the slightest of reasons in an attempt to do my civic duty of not taking part in being a congestion agent. If only we could get the news out to everyone!
My point, being a network engineer for a big telco, is that no measure of redundancy will prevent outages 100% of the time. When in the context of controlling a craft flying into sub-orbit with passengers, common sense dictates that a pilot will be on board in the event of that.00001% chance all communication with the craft fails.
Reminds me of a video I saw recently where an executive touted her new plan to have 0 hours MTTR written into SLAs in the future. We all had a hearty laugh.
Something I noticed while skimming the document is that they're not entirely ruling out vehicles guided entirely from "the ground" via telemetry, stating that redundant links should be safe enough, citing UAVs as an example.
So let's take a look at the "recording" this "industry" does. In TheOldDays, the RecordingIndustry was necessary to get Artist's Music onto a Medium that could be gulped down by GeneralPublic.
Now(TM), we don't need the RecordingIndustry to record things for us to consume, because Artist has their own recording studio, or can rent time in one, and distribute Music to GeneralPublic with CDs they burned themselves, or sell their Music on Web2.0.
The complication is only that Artist doesn't have a way to control consumption of Music by GeneralPublic, because distribution of Music isn't limited by physical access to Medium anymore. Yeah, you could make tapes of Def Leppard's Hysteria, but you had to find someone who paid $10 for the tape, and then let that sucker run in your turbo tape duplicator (in my case, a dual cassette GE boombox - a music pirate's dream machine!) for a while before you could air guitar to Pour Some Sugar On Me.
On an unrelated note, remember ThatOneGuy who had 2 VCRs for recording VHS tapes he rented from Blockbuster? Remember how the FBI was always going to "come get him"?
Artists should rely on live performances to generate income, it's the only way to guarantee a transaction.
Well, they do have an EWS (Entire Works of Shakespeare) reference available in TFA for you - the earliest known bandwidth calculator, dating as far back as the Renaissance Period, when RFC 1149 was in its infancy.
I always wondered why the rate of DVDs / t is used as a way of conveying bandwidth developments to the public. It's kind of a tease, as though there will be some point at which it will be legal to stream DVD-quality video in some way without giving up all your rights or paying more for the right to do so than the service carrying your bitstream.
Why don't we ever get more information with these reports, such as latency and tests at different MTUs and all that good stuff that might actually make these superficial tests meaningful to network engineers?
4) Slipstream your own patched SP2 disc so you'll have the ICF and won't be vulnerable to bot exploits from the moment you reboot following an install.
Microsoft has done a fine job of creating proprietary interoperability between its server platform and its desktop platform. Look at all fancy hooks Exchange can be equipped with: Windows Mobile, LCS, OWA, SharePoint...why let Novell muck things up when you're pumping hush...er...investment money into them?
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When I lived on a military base as a kid, the one DoD channel that we got in English had Ultraman every Saturday morning, between Voltron and Captain Power.
I liked Voltron a lot better, because after putting up with the lame story line acted out by the annoying Voltron team, you would finally get to see Voltron FORM BLAZING SWORD and cut villianbots into a flash of white light. I'm guessing blinding flashes of light are cheaper than cutting objects in half, from a production standpoint.
Those poor phishers, having to send emails to defraud people of their hard-earned money, then having their livelihood ripped from beneath them by a software behemoth.
DAMN YOU MICROSOFT, I LOOK FORWARD TO "HELLO DEAR SIR" AND "UK LOTTERY INVESTIGATION" EMAILS, THEY MAKE ME FEEL IMPORTANT!!
Yeah, who the hell thought up this interface? Why wouldn't you just let the kids use an existing WM like XFCE, gnome, or KDE? This isn't going to be a very good learning tool if nothing works like it does in the real world. You don't learn anything by being put in a rubber-walled room with a couple of rubber balls, you learn by being in the real world and making mistakes. Who broke their DOS install as a kid and had to reinstall from scratch? These kids aren't retarded, they're just not exposed to modernity.
No no, News Corporation, which seems to unabashedly have constant, schizophrenic conflict between its entertainment offerings and the news and editorials it reports. It's like a snake eating its own tail.
Regarding TFA...this means someone out there is actually still listening to Bill O'Reilly, the self-proclaimed CULTURE WARRIOR! I'm forced to watch Fox all day at work, and have successfully learned to tune him out, except for when he's yelling at someone in a disingenuously excited manner. This moron's swagger and former Entertainment Tonight career just further prove that he's for sale at a certain price (and I'd love to see the real money trail), along with his herd of neocon sheep.
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So let's see here. DX10 games are coming mid-2008, and Fiji is due in 2009. Vista sucks on almost every computer it's possible to install it on.
I think we have another ME here, my friends.
So, you think people war drive for digital media? This has everything to do with sharing over the Internets, and nothing to do with people sharing files over private LANs.
All they want to do is sell CDs. They don't even want to have DRM-laden music stores like iTunes out selling music; they want their old, familiar CD media being sold for the highest price possible.
I know it wouldn't happen, but we have GOT to get these people and those they represent out of music distribution. People need a social site for artists only, unlike Myspace, where people create profiles equal to those of bands, cluttering the atmosphere with trash. Artists need to realize their option to record music in a studio, then distribute it over the internet for a small, reasonable fee with no restrictions.
Who needs exploits when most people will install ActiveX controls without knowing what they do anyway? All the site needs is a "Be sure to click the yellow bar at the top of your browser!" notice.
And for a control, how many words during a football game between AIDS-infected monkeys?
And here is a fine example of why FOSS should not try to emulate Microsoft software, but exceed it and BE DIFFERENT where better features could be had or improved on. Unfortunately, OOo is not usable in any corporate environment, and won't be until there's a major IT revolution. It is indeed bloated, and emulates years-old versions of MS Office in a failed attempt that wooing people familiar with Office to linux while sacrificing the main feature of MS Office - compatibility with other people running MS Office. It's unreasonable and really infeasible to ask people to re-export files in specific formats so you can view them in your Office emu.
This might reflect my bad experiences with trying to use OOo in a large corporate environment, where entirely missing pictures from PPTs and docs just doesn't work in the long run.
Primarily I think the reason for the control is actually to monopolize the availability of services and applications for the phone to guess who, Cingular. Same goes for most carriers who put apps like MobiTV or IM clients on their phones and want to charge you a monthly fee for them.
The Slashdot community would like to submit to you our deepest apologies for accidentally disparaging the Inuit community, as our Amurkan textbooks from grade-school and on refer to Eskimos as, well, Eskimos. Also, fuck off.
1xRTT = 3G = Cingular's data offering. Should have made an EVDO-capable phone and partnered with Sprint or Verizon Wireless, what a waste. This is the phone I've clamored for for quite a while, I'm really excited to see it come out and smash through the roof of my expectations. Apple's engineers have outdone themselves if this thing works right.
How insightful.
This "mesh network" idea is pretty pie-in-the-sky for the technically barren regions the idea is being pushed on. Is someone going to establish transponders or regenerators, bridges, etc for Internet access? If so, there's going to be much better 802.11 coverage in Africa than we have here. How far away are the schools? Does anyone even know if the schools are going to participate? Sometimes I think a bag of rice would be better spent on these areas than air dropping pastel, wind-up computers.
I watched a show about this on National Geographic about a year ago. I was determined to stop tapping my brakes for the slightest of reasons in an attempt to do my civic duty of not taking part in being a congestion agent. If only we could get the news out to everyone!
My point, being a network engineer for a big telco, is that no measure of redundancy will prevent outages 100% of the time. When in the context of controlling a craft flying into sub-orbit with passengers, common sense dictates that a pilot will be on board in the event of that .00001% chance all communication with the craft fails.
Reminds me of a video I saw recently where an executive touted her new plan to have 0 hours MTTR written into SLAs in the future. We all had a hearty laugh.
The leprechauns in my attic have filed a Freedom of Information Act request in response to your allegations.
Something I noticed while skimming the document is that they're not entirely ruling out vehicles guided entirely from "the ground" via telemetry, stating that redundant links should be safe enough, citing UAVs as an example.
Boy, they have a lot of misplaced faith.
Depends on the technology. If it's FTTP then yes, if FTTH then your NID has an ONT in it.
So let's take a look at the "recording" this "industry" does. In TheOldDays, the RecordingIndustry was necessary to get Artist's Music onto a Medium that could be gulped down by GeneralPublic.
Now(TM), we don't need the RecordingIndustry to record things for us to consume, because Artist has their own recording studio, or can rent time in one, and distribute Music to GeneralPublic with CDs they burned themselves, or sell their Music on Web2.0.
The complication is only that Artist doesn't have a way to control consumption of Music by GeneralPublic, because distribution of Music isn't limited by physical access to Medium anymore. Yeah, you could make tapes of Def Leppard's Hysteria, but you had to find someone who paid $10 for the tape, and then let that sucker run in your turbo tape duplicator (in my case, a dual cassette GE boombox - a music pirate's dream machine!) for a while before you could air guitar to Pour Some Sugar On Me.
On an unrelated note, remember ThatOneGuy who had 2 VCRs for recording VHS tapes he rented from Blockbuster? Remember how the FBI was always going to "come get him"?
Artists should rely on live performances to generate income, it's the only way to guarantee a transaction.
Well, they do have an EWS (Entire Works of Shakespeare) reference available in TFA for you - the earliest known bandwidth calculator, dating as far back as the Renaissance Period, when RFC 1149 was in its infancy.
I always wondered why the rate of DVDs / t is used as a way of conveying bandwidth developments to the public. It's kind of a tease, as though there will be some point at which it will be legal to stream DVD-quality video in some way without giving up all your rights or paying more for the right to do so than the service carrying your bitstream.
Why don't we ever get more information with these reports, such as latency and tests at different MTUs and all that good stuff that might actually make these superficial tests meaningful to network engineers?
4) Slipstream your own patched SP2 disc so you'll have the ICF and won't be vulnerable to bot exploits from the moment you reboot following an install.
Microsoft has done a fine job of creating proprietary interoperability between its server platform and its desktop platform. Look at all fancy hooks Exchange can be equipped with: Windows Mobile, LCS, OWA, SharePoint...why let Novell muck things up when you're pumping hush...er...investment money into them?
When I lived on a military base as a kid, the one DoD channel that we got in English had Ultraman every Saturday morning, between Voltron and Captain Power.
I liked Voltron a lot better, because after putting up with the lame story line acted out by the annoying Voltron team, you would finally get to see Voltron FORM BLAZING SWORD and cut villianbots into a flash of white light. I'm guessing blinding flashes of light are cheaper than cutting objects in half, from a production standpoint.
An escape pod? Where are the Segways and trampolines? They keep any GI Joes in there?
Those poor phishers, having to send emails to defraud people of their hard-earned money, then having their livelihood ripped from beneath them by a software behemoth.
DAMN YOU MICROSOFT, I LOOK FORWARD TO "HELLO DEAR SIR" AND "UK LOTTERY INVESTIGATION" EMAILS, THEY MAKE ME FEEL IMPORTANT!!
Yeah, who the hell thought up this interface? Why wouldn't you just let the kids use an existing WM like XFCE, gnome, or KDE? This isn't going to be a very good learning tool if nothing works like it does in the real world. You don't learn anything by being put in a rubber-walled room with a couple of rubber balls, you learn by being in the real world and making mistakes. Who broke their DOS install as a kid and had to reinstall from scratch? These kids aren't retarded, they're just not exposed to modernity.
No no, News Corporation, which seems to unabashedly have constant, schizophrenic conflict between its entertainment offerings and the news and editorials it reports. It's like a snake eating its own tail.
Regarding TFA...this means someone out there is actually still listening to Bill O'Reilly, the self-proclaimed CULTURE WARRIOR! I'm forced to watch Fox all day at work, and have successfully learned to tune him out, except for when he's yelling at someone in a disingenuously excited manner. This moron's swagger and former Entertainment Tonight career just further prove that he's for sale at a certain price (and I'd love to see the real money trail), along with his herd of neocon sheep.