Not to go all AOL ("me too!!") on you, but I've run with mine (and sweat on it, exposed to very cold/very hot temperatures, etc.) and have had no problems. The case is scratched a bit (more than a bit on the back metal portion), but other than that, I love it.
I can see an 8-digit code fitting inside a bottle cap...and if they use both alphas and digits:
36^8 = 2,821,109,907,456 codes / 100,000,000 free songs means that 1 out of 28,211 randomly selected codes would work (on average). That is assuming that each free song has a code (they might be "tiering" it so that some codes are redeemable for more than one free song).
That is quite a few, and I would hope that they would also have some sort of brute-force lockout mechanism.
I got an iTMS gift certificate not long ago, but I don't remember how many digits it had...12-15 at least. And I typed it correctly the first time, so I don't know about brute-force safeguards either.:)
While I agree with you that Trek was more "cohesive" (and of higher quality in general) when Roddenberry was still around, I'm not sure how much he had much to do with it. I think the consistency (and again, quality) of the earlier series can be largely attributed to the passion that the writers, directors, and performers had for the franchise (guys like Ron Moore on TNG and DS9 and Leonard Nimoy and Nick Meyer on the movies). They genuinely cared about putting out the best work that they could because many of them were either involved since the days of Kirk and Co. in the 60's or at least grew up watching them on TV. Now I sense that it is just about the bottom line: get something out the door that has the Enterprise in it.
It is sad to see it happen, because I grew older on TNG (and wiser on DS9) and will always have a soft spot in my heart for Roddenberry's universe, but I have to echo the sentiments of some previous posters: enough already...let's just give it a rest.
They can, of course, play MP3s...it would be market suicide to release a portable music device that couldn't, simply because the vast majority of most people's existing music collections are in MP3 format.
However, those (possibly ill-gotten:>) music collections are the past, and these companies are looking toward future profits from online music stores...that means DRM-enabled music formats have become the playing field.
I just tried it with the latest version of Paint Shop Pro and it does the same thing, whether opening the image as a file or attempting to paste it into an existing image:
"This application does not support the unauthorized processing of banknote images."
It includes this interesting link as well. As a geek, my immediate response was "how does this work??":)
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You might be interested to know (or you might already know, actually:>), that "The Handmaid's Tale" was recently created in opera form.
SHHHHHH...you'll get Richard Hoagland and the Art Bell Coast-to-Coast AM radio crew whipped into a frenzy. "This one series of rocks here, if you squint at it a certain way and look at it through cling wrap, looks a little peculiar to me...the only possible explanation is an ALIEN PRESENCE and GOVERNMENT CONSPIRACY."
...that lovely smoky smell that you are detecting is the scent of fried Dell motherboards because some poor schmoe thought that just because it looked like a standard, run-of-the-mill ATX power supply connection then it must actually BE one instead of some proprietary Dell look-alike with different power cable pinouts.
Let's face it...we should be thankful that Dell didn't try to shove some other piece of hacked non-standard hardware down everyone's throats: "Now, free with your purchase of any Dell Dimension desktop...our new DVD '@'R drive!!"
There really isn't any such thing as a "C# class"...there is a CLR class that just happened to be compiled from C# code. By the same token, there were never "VB6 classes"...they were COM components that implemented an automatically generated COM interface of the same name.
All throughout this article's thread, I see people saying C# when they mean the.NET CLR and vice versa. This makes me think that a lot of people still really don't know how.NET works...and Microsoft is largely to blame for that, I'll grant you.
You can use a CLR class that was written in any.NET language in any other.NET language. True, the.NET CLR itself doesn't support some of the things that you mentioned like multiple implementation (i.e. more than just the interface) inheritance, multimethods (which I'll have to confess that I don't even know what those are), etc. If you find yourself needing things like that to develop something, then you will just have to go with something else like staight C++.
Or else you're not really "purchasing" the song, more like it's being leased to you.
That's exactly what is happening...you don't own the music that you download from any of the "legit" online music stores, you are just being given a license to listen to it according to their terms, enforced by DRM. Granted, at this point, the difference seems more like semantics, but I think that people like to feel that they actually own something that they've shelled out real dollars for. My prediction is that as the Joe Sixpacks of the world start to discover online music stores, they are going to be happy about the selection and ease of use at first, but eventually frustrated with the restrictions.
I just wanted to personally thank you for actually using the correct term ("double entendre") instead of "euphemism". I think 99% of the population thinks that euphemism means "a veiled sexual reference".
That's funny, but as someone who had never read the books before seeing Fellowship, I was really confused by the similar-sounding names. And since they were both bad guys (at least one was a bad guy...the other appears to be a bad eye;>), they were both discussed by other characters in the same context...which didn't help.
I agree...EphPod is great. Smooth interface, and includes a lot of features that MMJB doesn't but should have.
FYI, I use both iTunes and EphPod and they seem to get along well: iTunes when I need to transfer music that I purchased from iTMS, and EphPod for everything else.
It is very unlikely that Longhorn will look anything like this. If you look at the "Whistler" preview section of that guy's site, you can see that the screenshots of the initial builds looked nothing like what was eventually released (Windows XP). Further, Paul Thurrott is at best lacking in objectivity and a complete MS stooge at worst.
I don't know about using it for 150,000-hit websites, but for small apps where only one concurrent connection is needed (because even I'll admit that attempting to use Access in a multiuser application is an exercise in futility), Access is very easy to setup and maintain.
As for cost, it is tough to get less expensive than Access...all you need is one copy of Microsoft Office (not sure if you can still purchase Access separately from Word, Excel, etc.) to develop with and then you can distribute the database file with the application at no cost.
Their investigative methods seem a bit sketchy in this case...but anyone interested in this might also want to check out the Taos hum phenomenom. The government's alleged involvement in sound weaponry is also dramatized in a pretty decent X-Files episode.
I'm not trying to pass off either of the above sources as remotely scientific, for the record.:)
Read the parent a bit more carefully: "it's clearly a major hurdle to widespread adoption" (emphasis mine). To the "widespread" masses, which includes my mom (hehe), recompiling your browser to fix a compatibility problem with a plug-in is not something that they can and/or are willing to learn to do.
I know several developers there...I almost worked there myself actually. I've heard them mention on several occasions that they develop against production "real world" data simply because there is no test database large enough to test scaling and performance. I remember asking them if they could actually get consumer information on ME and they didn't act like it would be too difficult. Scary...
When did any sexually suggestive phrase suddenly become a "euphemism"? I hear a lot of people use "euphemism" when they mean "double entendre"...has anyone else noticed this??
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Not to go all AOL ("me too!!") on you, but I've run with mine (and sweat on it, exposed to very cold/very hot temperatures, etc.) and have had no problems. The case is scratched a bit (more than a bit on the back metal portion), but other than that, I love it.
I can see an 8-digit code fitting inside a bottle cap...and if they use both alphas and digits:
:)
36^8 = 2,821,109,907,456 codes / 100,000,000 free songs means that 1 out of 28,211 randomly selected codes would work (on average). That is assuming that each free song has a code (they might be "tiering" it so that some codes are redeemable for more than one free song).
That is quite a few, and I would hope that they would also have some sort of brute-force lockout mechanism.
I got an iTMS gift certificate not long ago, but I don't remember how many digits it had...12-15 at least. And I typed it correctly the first time, so I don't know about brute-force safeguards either.
I'm not sure how many people are going to understand the 19.5/Richard Hoagland references...I'm somewhat embarrased by the fact that I did. :)
From the Tinfoil Hat Master himself...
I've listened to too much late-night radio trying to fall asleep over the years...
Amen. :)
While I agree with you that Trek was more "cohesive" (and of higher quality in general) when Roddenberry was still around, I'm not sure how much he had much to do with it. I think the consistency (and again, quality) of the earlier series can be largely attributed to the passion that the writers, directors, and performers had for the franchise (guys like Ron Moore on TNG and DS9 and Leonard Nimoy and Nick Meyer on the movies). They genuinely cared about putting out the best work that they could because many of them were either involved since the days of Kirk and Co. in the 60's or at least grew up watching them on TV. Now I sense that it is just about the bottom line: get something out the door that has the Enterprise in it.
It is sad to see it happen, because I grew older on TNG (and wiser on DS9) and will always have a soft spot in my heart for Roddenberry's universe, but I have to echo the sentiments of some previous posters: enough already...let's just give it a rest.
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They can, of course, play MP3s...it would be market suicide to release a portable music device that couldn't, simply because the vast majority of most people's existing music collections are in MP3 format.
:>) music collections are the past, and these companies are looking toward future profits from online music stores...that means DRM-enabled music formats have become the playing field.
However, those (possibly ill-gotten
This guy is, at BEST, an unobjective journalist and at worst, a complete MS stooge. Consider anything that comes out of his piehole thusly.
This one is specific to US bills and this one is the parent site.
I just tried it with the latest version of Paint Shop Pro and it does the same thing, whether opening the image as a file or attempting to paste it into an existing image:
:)
"This application does not support the unauthorized processing of banknote images."
It includes this interesting link as well. As a geek, my immediate response was "how does this work??"
You might be interested to know (or you might already know, actually :>), that "The Handmaid's Tale" was recently created in opera form.
SHHHHHH...you'll get Richard Hoagland and the Art Bell Coast-to-Coast AM radio crew whipped into a frenzy. "This one series of rocks here, if you squint at it a certain way and look at it through cling wrap, looks a little peculiar to me...the only possible explanation is an ALIEN PRESENCE and GOVERNMENT CONSPIRACY."
Let's face it...we should be thankful that Dell didn't try to shove some other piece of hacked non-standard hardware down everyone's throats: "Now, free with your purchase of any Dell Dimension desktop...our new DVD '@'R drive!!"
There really isn't any such thing as a "C# class"...there is a CLR class that just happened to be compiled from C# code. By the same token, there were never "VB6 classes"...they were COM components that implemented an automatically generated COM interface of the same name.
.NET CLR and vice versa. This makes me think that a lot of people still really don't know how .NET works...and Microsoft is largely to blame for that, I'll grant you.
.NET language in any other .NET language. True, the .NET CLR itself doesn't support some of the things that you mentioned like multiple implementation (i.e. more than just the interface) inheritance, multimethods (which I'll have to confess that I don't even know what those are), etc. If you find yourself needing things like that to develop something, then you will just have to go with something else like staight C++.
All throughout this article's thread, I see people saying C# when they mean the
You can use a CLR class that was written in any
Or else you're not really "purchasing" the song, more like it's being leased to you.
That's exactly what is happening...you don't own the music that you download from any of the "legit" online music stores, you are just being given a license to listen to it according to their terms, enforced by DRM. Granted, at this point, the difference seems more like semantics, but I think that people like to feel that they actually own something that they've shelled out real dollars for. My prediction is that as the Joe Sixpacks of the world start to discover online music stores, they are going to be happy about the selection and ease of use at first, but eventually frustrated with the restrictions.
I just wanted to personally thank you for actually using the correct term ("double entendre") instead of "euphemism". I think 99% of the population thinks that euphemism means "a veiled sexual reference".
Sorry...just a pet peeve.
That's funny, but as someone who had never read the books before seeing Fellowship, I was really confused by the similar-sounding names. And since they were both bad guys (at least one was a bad guy...the other appears to be a bad eye ;>), they were both discussed by other characters in the same context...which didn't help.
I agree...EphPod is great. Smooth interface, and includes a lot of features that MMJB doesn't but should have.
FYI, I use both iTunes and EphPod and they seem to get along well: iTunes when I need to transfer music that I purchased from iTMS, and EphPod for everything else.
It is very unlikely that Longhorn will look anything like this. If you look at the "Whistler" preview section of that guy's site, you can see that the screenshots of the initial builds looked nothing like what was eventually released (Windows XP). Further, Paul Thurrott is at best lacking in objectivity and a complete MS stooge at worst.
I suspect that your comment was somewhat tongue-in-cheek, by in all seriousness: if ST:TNG was bad sci-fi, what the HELL was Voyager? ;)
I don't know about using it for 150,000-hit websites, but for small apps where only one concurrent connection is needed (because even I'll admit that attempting to use Access in a multiuser application is an exercise in futility), Access is very easy to setup and maintain.
As for cost, it is tough to get less expensive than Access...all you need is one copy of Microsoft Office (not sure if you can still purchase Access separately from Word, Excel, etc.) to develop with and then you can distribute the database file with the application at no cost.
I'm not trying to pass off either of the above sources as remotely scientific, for the record. :)
Read the parent a bit more carefully: "it's clearly a major hurdle to widespread adoption" (emphasis mine). To the "widespread" masses, which includes my mom (hehe), recompiling your browser to fix a compatibility problem with a plug-in is not something that they can and/or are willing to learn to do.
e (2.17828whatever) is Napier's Constant, not Euler's Constant.
I know several developers there...I almost worked there myself actually. I've heard them mention on several occasions that they develop against production "real world" data simply because there is no test database large enough to test scaling and performance. I remember asking them if they could actually get consumer information on ME and they didn't act like it would be too difficult. Scary...
When did any sexually suggestive phrase suddenly become a "euphemism"? I hear a lot of people use "euphemism" when they mean "double entendre"...has anyone else noticed this??