In all likelyhood, Apple would not be able to sell you music that did not have some form of DRM. We should be thankful that at the very least, the Apple DRM is unobtrusive and allows users some flexibility with their music.
I'm suprised that someone with such an expensive camera doesn't know the model number of it. The Canon Digital Rebel (Kiss in Japan) is called the 300D in the US, not the E300. (The latter, I believe, is a model of Mercedes-Benz.) Likewise, the "professional grade" camera is the 20D, not the E20. </nitpick>
Both a Kenworth over-the-road tractor and a Formula 1 car have about 1000 horsepower.
While I won't disagree with the F1 car (although you never can tell since F1 teams tend to keep exact HP figures a secret), I doubt you'll find many Kenworths (or any other trucks, for that matter) with 1000HP.
If you want to look at the two largest truck-engine manufacturers, Caterpillar is currently producing a 625HP engine (the C-15), while Cummins is producing a 565HP engine (the ISX). In general, at the speeds travelled in North America, combined with load restrictions imposed by law, that's plenty of power for most drivers.
Sorry to be OT, but I just thought I'd point this out -- my father was a truck driver for many years.
The parent raises a good point. My bad. As one person suggested, either save the stream using mplayer (I haven't tried this myself but I assume it could be done), or, if you look around there are some BitTorrent links to the whole thing. (I'm not about to post them here, though, since the PBS page mentions "rights restrictions"...)
If you haven't seen the series of PBS specials, "The Elegant Universe", I recommend that you do. They're free for download from the PBS website IIRC. It's an excellent and very informative discussion of some very interesting concepts.
i don't care how great ibooks are or aren't i won't EVER buy one until they offer a mouse BUTTON instead of that all-too-annoying touchPAD.
I don't understand. The iBook does have a mouse button, right below its touchpad. Do you mean one of those eraserhead-style pressure sensitive pointing devices (as IBM calls them, a "trackpoint")?
As an aside, even if you didn't like the touchpad, you could always carry around a mouse. I can understand that you don't like touchpads (personal preference and all), but don't toss the baby out with the bathwater -- even though it lacks an alternate pointing device, the iBook is still a great little notebook.
(FWIW, I own an IBM T40p which has both Touchpad and TrackPoint.)
I agree with the parent, and I really don't know how "Caveat Emptor" got modded 5, Insightful. There was NO fine print stating that these buyers would get a Mobility Radeon 9000, instead of the promised 9200. (A note to mods: Just because someone is FP, doesn't mean they have anything valid to say.)
And for all of the people out there who say, "Well, what does it matter, they got the same thing anyway," I remind them that for the majority of consumers (including myself!) who didn't know that 9000 ~= 9200, lots of them might have bought an X1000, a ZT3000, or an NX7000 specifically because of this "better" graphics chip.
Lastly, I'm not an advocate of frivolous lawsuits, but in this case, where literally thousands of consumers have been deliberately tricked (unless HP/Compaq can somehow prove it was a mistake that these machines were being loaded with 9000s), I think that if HP/Compaq is not willing to issue a refund or replacement notebook (with a 9200!) to anyone who was fooled, they should be taken to court in class-action.
As consumers, we cannot allow companies to use deceptive marketing tactics in order to sell their products. That is, unless you want to live in a country where you need to reverse-engineer everything you buy just to see if you actually are buying what is advertised.
An artsman and an Engineer once found a gallon can,
Said the artsman, "Match me drink for drink, let's see if you're a man."
They drank three drinks, the artsman fell, his face was turning green,
But the Engineer drank on and said, "It's only gasoline!"
You might not have heard of metonymy but even the dumbest person understands it. Clearly you don't.
I was going to mod this up, but instead I'll reply for all those interested; as I was.
Metonymy is defined by Merriam-Webster to be "a figure of speech consisting of the use of the name of one thing for that of another of which it is an attribute or with which it is associated (as "crown" in "lands belonging to the crown")".
(Now, what I don't understand, is the parent's name. exp(pi*sqrt(163)) = ~ 2.62*10^17. Can anyone explain this?)
So many choices! games, office, mail server, web server, about 2 dozen choices flooded my screen. This is madness! So after carefully considerating my options I decided to choose them all! I would be a Linux power-user to end all linux power-users!
Hahahaha! Mod parent up. Funniest thing I've read all week.
1) Build spaceship.
2) Fly it up to 100 km.
3) Come back safely.
4) -> 2)
This is Slashdot. I expect to see, at the very least, pseudo-code that's free of infinite loops. Try adding a break condition:
0) $maxTrips = number of trips you want to take; $numTrips = 0;
1) Build spaceship.
2) Fly it up to 100 km.
3) Come back safely.
4) if ($numTrips <= $maxTrips) {$numTrips++; goto 2;}
Well, I'm happy now, because now I know that the new P4 has a 40 + 20 + 95 = 155% chance of coming out before September. It's a sure-fire thing; thanks guys!
Slashdot Mirror
1. Become editor of /.
2. Post unedited, half-written article.
3. ???
In all likelyhood, Apple would not be able to sell you music that did not have some form of DRM. We should be thankful that at the very least, the Apple DRM is unobtrusive and allows users some flexibility with their music.
Well, my foot is in my mouth. Mea culpa.
I'm suprised that someone with such an expensive camera doesn't know the model number of it. The Canon Digital Rebel (Kiss in Japan) is called the 300D in the US, not the E300. (The latter, I believe, is a model of Mercedes-Benz.) Likewise, the "professional grade" camera is the 20D, not the E20.
</nitpick>
Both a Kenworth over-the-road tractor and a Formula 1 car have about 1000 horsepower.
While I won't disagree with the F1 car (although you never can tell since F1 teams tend to keep exact HP figures a secret), I doubt you'll find many Kenworths (or any other trucks, for that matter) with 1000HP.
If you want to look at the two largest truck-engine manufacturers, Caterpillar is currently producing a 625HP engine (the C-15), while Cummins is producing a 565HP engine (the ISX). In general, at the speeds travelled in North America, combined with load restrictions imposed by law, that's plenty of power for most drivers.
Sorry to be OT, but I just thought I'd point this out -- my father was a truck driver for many years.
You could say RAID 0 so it isn't even really a RAID level. It is more like AID.
And considering the price of some of these drives, you can drop the "I" as well. How does an AD sound?
No, those are peta-bits.
In Soviet Russia, Linux runs you!
The parent raises a good point. My bad. As one person suggested, either save the stream using mplayer (I haven't tried this myself but I assume it could be done), or, if you look around there are some BitTorrent links to the whole thing. (I'm not about to post them here, though, since the PBS page mentions "rights restrictions"...)
Heh, replying to my own post!
As I mentioned, you can download "The Elegant Universe" from the PBS website here.
It's divided up into 24 chapters -- 8 chapters for each hour of the three-hour series.
If you haven't seen the series of PBS specials, "The Elegant Universe", I recommend that you do. They're free for download from the PBS website IIRC. It's an excellent and very informative discussion of some very interesting concepts.
i don't care how great ibooks are or aren't i won't EVER buy one until they offer a mouse BUTTON instead of that all-too-annoying touchPAD.
I don't understand. The iBook does have a mouse button, right below its touchpad. Do you mean one of those eraserhead-style pressure sensitive pointing devices (as IBM calls them, a "trackpoint")?
As an aside, even if you didn't like the touchpad, you could always carry around a mouse. I can understand that you don't like touchpads (personal preference and all), but don't toss the baby out with the bathwater -- even though it lacks an alternate pointing device, the iBook is still a great little notebook.
(FWIW, I own an IBM T40p which has both Touchpad and TrackPoint.)
Touche.
Half the people I've talked to so far download music illegally.
He must be new at this.
I think it's a very intelligent collection of articles -- I mean, with gems like this one, how could you go wrong?
"The number Google is finite, but it's so large that it is infinite for all practical purposes."
Seriously, it's quite good. Go RTFA.
His webserver must be powered by the original "1984" Macintosh too, since the site is already /.ted!
I do not know one single circumcised person.
Maybe I shouldn't be asking this, but how are you so sure?
I agree with the parent, and I really don't know how "Caveat Emptor" got modded 5, Insightful. There was NO fine print stating that these buyers would get a Mobility Radeon 9000, instead of the promised 9200. (A note to mods: Just because someone is FP, doesn't mean they have anything valid to say.)
And for all of the people out there who say, "Well, what does it matter, they got the same thing anyway," I remind them that for the majority of consumers (including myself!) who didn't know that 9000 ~= 9200, lots of them might have bought an X1000, a ZT3000, or an NX7000 specifically because of this "better" graphics chip.
Lastly, I'm not an advocate of frivolous lawsuits, but in this case, where literally thousands of consumers have been deliberately tricked (unless HP/Compaq can somehow prove it was a mistake that these machines were being loaded with 9000s), I think that if HP/Compaq is not willing to issue a refund or replacement notebook (with a 9200!) to anyone who was fooled, they should be taken to court in class-action.
As consumers, we cannot allow companies to use deceptive marketing tactics in order to sell their products. That is, unless you want to live in a country where you need to reverse-engineer everything you buy just to see if you actually are buying what is advertised.
An artsman and an Engineer once found a gallon can,
Said the artsman, "Match me drink for drink, let's see if you're a man."
They drank three drinks, the artsman fell, his face was turning green,
But the Engineer drank on and said, "It's only gasoline!"
(from the Engineer's Hymn).
You might not have heard of metonymy but even the dumbest person understands it. Clearly you don't.
I was going to mod this up, but instead I'll reply for all those interested; as I was.
Metonymy is defined by Merriam-Webster to be "a figure of speech consisting of the use of the name of one thing for that of another of which it is an attribute or with which it is associated (as "crown" in "lands belonging to the crown")".
(Now, what I don't understand, is the parent's name. exp(pi*sqrt(163)) = ~ 2.62*10^17. Can anyone explain this?)
*Wipes tears from eyes* Now where did I put those mod points?
So many choices! games, office, mail server, web server, about 2 dozen choices flooded my screen. This is madness! So after carefully considerating my options
I decided to choose them all! I would be a Linux power-user to end all linux power-users!
Hahahaha! Mod parent up. Funniest thing I've read all week.
1) Build spaceship.
2) Fly it up to 100 km.
3) Come back safely.
4) -> 2)
This is Slashdot. I expect to see, at the very least, pseudo-code that's free of infinite loops. Try adding a break condition:
0) $maxTrips = number of trips you want to take; $numTrips = 0;
1) Build spaceship.
2) Fly it up to 100 km.
3) Come back safely.
4) if ($numTrips <= $maxTrips) {$numTrips++; goto 2;}
I don't even have a cell phone, let alone a 3G model :)
...you insensitive clod!
Well, I'm happy now, because now I know that the new P4 has a 40 + 20 + 95 = 155% chance of coming out before September. It's a sure-fire thing; thanks guys!