Every so often ths comes up. Its an act. She's acting. Everyone who gets on the WL eventually gets asked that and the answer is always the same.
Its not about batteries its about price
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New AIBO Demo'd
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I still dig on AIBO, but until it is smart enough to home in on its base station and recharge itself when its batteries are running low, it's hard to consider AIBO ready for prime time.
If it was affordable and hackable (without getting lawyers involved) it could be a great, even useful, toy that would make furby look like a pile of puke.
No offense to the interesting furby hacks and hackers out there, but imagine a cheap less featured Aibo in millions of homes. Okay we all have PCs now, where are our damn robots?
How do you recover the data when readers for the media are no longer available? Seen any 8" floppies lately? How about 5.25"? The cost of transferring terabytes of archives to new media has cost the loss of literally TONS of data.
Media transfers have been done so many times its hardly a point worth discussing. Do you really think newspapers and photo archives have stuff sitting on 8" disks right now and wondering how they're going to get it off? That happened 15 years ago and the fact there isn't a big blackhole in photo records proves that it will continue.
Lastly, if you consider that photopaper is in itself lossy as it ages and that most "important" photos are in digital form already its a better idea to keep things 100% digital. Guitar amps excluded.
If we're going to move towards a format that's supposedly going to dethrone the CD, size and 50 more megs will not cut it. I'd rather have all my music on one CD-sized 10 gig disc than a bunch of little quarters. Preferably a disc that's sheathed like a floppy disk. No more scratches.
Sony is a member of the RIAA and no one was pushing the MD players in the US harder than they were. I think its pretty simple, people just (more or less) switched over and didn't want to rebuild their collections, buy a new stereo, car stereo etc because Sony says so. This isn't Microsoft.
Every audio report I've seen on the MD has been negative. Huge lossy problems and some copyright tomfoolery ruin it.
Hasn't anyone learned from the mistakes of A.C. Clarke and his predictions? I'm quite sick of it. I don't need Ray Kurzweil to tell me to hold my horses until some arbitrarily drawn date - I'm patient enough to wait for it. Worse, the promises of "hard" A.I. are scientifically unsound to begin with.
Also, why can't modern day prophets realize that the next big thing probably hasn't even been guessed at yet. The vacuum tube, computers, transistors, etc. Ray wasn't reading old sci-fi pulp mags about Moog-like synthesizers, they more or less appeared on the scene. Now Ray sells digital synths. Real visionary.
Shift right click, or right click in 2k its quite simple. The standard complaint that users don't know what they're doing thus MS is even more evil because it doesn't pay for a class or whatever is groundless. When someone needs to change the file extension they call their PC-smart buddies or asking on a web board or newsgroup.
This would be monopolistic if MS disabled this fuction, but instead this article is perfect for the mindless MS bashing that makes slashdot look so prejudiced. There are real MS complaints and this isn't one of them.
Maybe I'll get a job at salon. "Hi I'm the Slashdot baiter and I'm thinking of writing something inflammatory about the two button mouse. Think about it dudes, Mac has one button. MS is trying to confuse people for their own ends!"
Slow it down there, release the shift key, good. Phone calls, faxes, and even email are treated equally in most offices. Try write your rep for more info.
Representatives aren't tapped into the wired quite yet (Hello... Navi)
The write your rep program has been going on for quite some time and I've gotten snail mail replies to my letters. A rep that doesn't accept email will usually not even post an email address or ask to be contacted a different way.
You've never seen a kid watch Barney then
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IgNobel Awards
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Ask Morgan about how clueful politicians are when it comes to technology, what tactics are likely to impress your representatives to make intelligent tech-related decisions, and what you can do to steer the course of legislation which could affect your freedoms.
I got my digital planner, laptop, wireless transmitter, and cell phone watch all plugged into my thermbattery. Now, someone turn up the damn heat its freezing in here.
There's a limit to how much experimental equipment you can shove onto a Mars probe.
Of course the price of one manned mission would equal hundreds if not thousands of probes which could cover many different parts of the planet with different objectives. A manned mission would be very limited in scope and certainly not worth the price.
people come out of them thinking 'I AM NOW AN EXPERT'.
That's a huge generalization. From my experience its 'this will help me get a job/make me look more qualified' not necessarily suddenly gaining guru status.
I know its clever on Slashdot to knock certifications but this is way out of line. Passing a test is simply that: passing a test. Regardless, even if someone had some kind of ego boost they will shortly be put in their place when they can't perform on the job like someone with 10 years experience.
Unfortunately, there's a very small market for books on lyrics only, not music, not tab, but just words. Harryfox is employed by the record companies to protect that market. For some odd reason record companies think they can sell you a CD and then later sell you the lyrics in a $5 book.
Where are the deep messages against pop culture in this funny yet completely brainless movie? Complain about the industry all you want, but if you bothered to see this you'll see Jon is seeing what he wants to see and he's got you hook, line, and sinker.
Of all the comedy actors out there I'd rather give my 5 bucks up to Ben. If you ever saw his old TV show or his role in Heavyweights you'll know exactly why.
Zoolander is not a social statement!
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Review: Zoolander
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I hate to break this to you, but the last thing this movie was was a commentary on fashion or pop culture. Its such a funny yet completely ridiculous take on the fashion industry that if you saw some kind of message in there then you've got bigger things to worry about. There's no jabs at real designers or at people who buy from them just surreal characters and situations designed to deliver three gags per minute.
Saying this movie has social value is like saying dumb and dumber put the rich elite in their place. Its typical Stiller and Wil Ferrel comedy turned up to 11. Some of the gags don't work, but this kept me laughing quite a bit.
Not to mention its got Milla Jovovich playing a very sexy fashion henchwoman. Natalie Portman makes a cameo too, in fact every celebrity in the known universe makes a cameo.
Considering ad blocking software and methods are free and the commercial webserver certainly isn't who do you think is going to win? Sounds like this firm is just feeding off the fears of the dot.com collapse.
"Internet companies are going down," he said.
Yeah, its called VC money running out and not having a viable business plan. I'd like to see some proof that the small % of users who block ads are really the cause of boo.com or whomever going out of business. Something tells me there's no such proof.
Non-sales sites are really going to have to realize that there will be x% of people who block ads, x% will never come back after getting 2 pop-ups in a row, and x% who don't care about your monetary worries.
I have the right to use my PC, including my browser, as I see fit. You do not have the right to make a profit. You have to earn a profit. There's no reason why anyone should be subsidizing your webpage on the mating habits of small canines. Pay for your own bandwidth. Find a decent business plan and take the first paragraph of this post into consideration. Good Luck.
If we followed all the calls to concede any ad blocking, which is done by a very small minority of web surfers btw, the pop unders and flash commercials will continue to happen. The job of many sites isn't just to break even but to milk the internet for all its worth and when it comes to privacy issues users will respond unkindly.
I draw the line when the ads become intrusive.
This is completely arbitrary, first you defend ads and registration then condemn pop-unders then later condemn animanted gifs. If you're not letting the gif play out, guess what - you're blocking 'regular ads' too.
For the most part this software is one the many attempts to come up with an excuse to explain why so-and-so.com isn't making money. They should re-examine their business plan if their bigest threat is ad blockers.
"I mean, look, it's really cool to sit up here in our sexless spandex uniforms, downing Klavorian Synth-Ale and pretending we're not all running the Caligula program on the Holodeck
This is just genius. A future where all your needs are met? Yeah, its going to be a hedonistic orgy.
What % of users even bother with ad blocking or are even capable of installing junkbuster? I'd say this group is a very computer literate and thus small group. Ads are being served, people see them, some click on them, and yet its not enough. Even if it was enough, Salon's job is to maximize profits. So every evil ad plan you can imagine will be tested somewhere.
Blame the business plan not the relatively few ad blockers.
Slashdot Mirror
Every so often ths comes up. Its an act. She's acting. Everyone who gets on the WL eventually gets asked that and the answer is always the same.
I still dig on AIBO, but until it is smart enough to home in on its base station and recharge itself when its batteries are running low, it's hard to consider AIBO ready for prime time.
If it was affordable and hackable (without getting lawyers involved) it could be a great, even useful, toy that would make furby look like a pile of puke.
No offense to the interesting furby hacks and hackers out there, but imagine a cheap less featured Aibo in millions of homes. Okay we all have PCs now, where are our damn robots?
How do you recover the data when readers for the media are no longer available? Seen any 8" floppies lately? How about 5.25"? The cost of transferring terabytes of archives to new media has cost the loss of literally TONS of data.
Media transfers have been done so many times its hardly a point worth discussing. Do you really think newspapers and photo archives have stuff sitting on 8" disks right now and wondering how they're going to get it off? That happened 15 years ago and the fact there isn't a big blackhole in photo records proves that it will continue.
Lastly, if you consider that photopaper is in itself lossy as it ages and that most "important" photos are in digital form already its a better idea to keep things 100% digital. Guitar amps excluded.
I bet this article was chosen just so michael can point out the typo and make the editors look like, well, editors.
Slashdot: where the coders can't implement a built in spell check.
If we're going to move towards a format that's supposedly going to dethrone the CD, size and 50 more megs will not cut it. I'd rather have all my music on one CD-sized 10 gig disc than a bunch of little quarters. Preferably a disc that's sheathed like a floppy disk. No more scratches.
Sony is a member of the RIAA and no one was pushing the MD players in the US harder than they were. I think its pretty simple, people just (more or less) switched over and didn't want to rebuild their collections, buy a new stereo, car stereo etc because Sony says so. This isn't Microsoft.
Every audio report I've seen on the MD has been negative. Huge lossy problems and some copyright tomfoolery ruin it.
Hasn't anyone learned from the mistakes of A.C. Clarke and his predictions? I'm quite sick of it. I don't need Ray Kurzweil to tell me to hold my horses until some arbitrarily drawn date - I'm patient enough to wait for it. Worse, the promises of "hard" A.I. are scientifically unsound to begin with.
Also, why can't modern day prophets realize that the next big thing probably hasn't even been guessed at yet. The vacuum tube, computers, transistors, etc. Ray wasn't reading old sci-fi pulp mags about Moog-like synthesizers, they more or less appeared on the scene. Now Ray sells digital synths. Real visionary.
Startup.com the movie was about the same kind of government meets private industry to spread information scheme. They failed, hopefully this wont.
Shift right click, or right click in 2k its quite simple. The standard complaint that users don't know what they're doing thus MS is even more evil because it doesn't pay for a class or whatever is groundless. When someone needs to change the file extension they call their PC-smart buddies or asking on a web board or newsgroup.
This would be monopolistic if MS disabled this fuction, but instead this article is perfect for the mindless MS bashing that makes slashdot look so prejudiced. There are real MS complaints and this isn't one of them.
Maybe I'll get a job at salon. "Hi I'm the Slashdot baiter and I'm thinking of writing something inflammatory about the two button mouse. Think about it dudes, Mac has one button. MS is trying to confuse people for their own ends!"
Slow it down there, release the shift key, good. Phone calls, faxes, and even email are treated equally in most offices. Try write your rep for more info.
Representatives aren't tapped into the wired quite yet (Hello ... Navi)
The write your rep program has been going on for quite some time and I've gotten snail mail replies to my letters. A rep that doesn't accept email will usually not even post an email address or ask to be contacted a different way.
Watching TV is being alone.
Ask Morgan about how clueful politicians are when it comes to technology, what tactics are likely to impress your representatives to make intelligent tech-related decisions, and what you can do to steer the course of legislation which could affect your freedoms.
Umm, okay I'll ask if you're too shy.
I got my digital planner, laptop, wireless transmitter, and cell phone watch all plugged into my thermbattery. Now, someone turn up the damn heat its freezing in here.
There's a limit to how much experimental equipment you can shove onto a Mars probe.
Of course the price of one manned mission would equal hundreds if not thousands of probes which could cover many different parts of the planet with different objectives. A manned mission would be very limited in scope and certainly not worth the price.
people come out of them thinking 'I AM NOW AN EXPERT'.
That's a huge generalization. From my experience its 'this will help me get a job/make me look more qualified' not necessarily suddenly gaining guru status.
I know its clever on Slashdot to knock certifications but this is way out of line. Passing a test is simply that: passing a test. Regardless, even if someone had some kind of ego boost they will shortly be put in their place when they can't perform on the job like someone with 10 years experience.
Unfortunately, there's a very small market for books on lyrics only, not music, not tab, but just words. Harryfox is employed by the record companies to protect that market. For some odd reason record companies think they can sell you a CD and then later sell you the lyrics in a $5 book.
Are you okay?
Where are the deep messages against pop culture in this funny yet completely brainless movie? Complain about the industry all you want, but if you bothered to see this you'll see Jon is seeing what he wants to see and he's got you hook, line, and sinker.
Of all the comedy actors out there I'd rather give my 5 bucks up to Ben. If you ever saw his old TV show or his role in Heavyweights you'll know exactly why.
"This is a school for ants!!!"
I hate to break this to you, but the last thing this movie was was a commentary on fashion or pop culture. Its such a funny yet completely ridiculous take on the fashion industry that if you saw some kind of message in there then you've got bigger things to worry about. There's no jabs at real designers or at people who buy from them just surreal characters and situations designed to deliver three gags per minute.
Saying this movie has social value is like saying dumb and dumber put the rich elite in their place. Its typical Stiller and Wil Ferrel comedy turned up to 11. Some of the gags don't work, but this kept me laughing quite a bit.
Not to mention its got Milla Jovovich playing a very sexy fashion henchwoman. Natalie Portman makes a cameo too, in fact every celebrity in the known universe makes a cameo.
Considering ad blocking software and methods are free and the commercial webserver certainly isn't who do you think is going to win? Sounds like this firm is just feeding off the fears of the dot.com collapse.
"Internet companies are going down," he said.
Yeah, its called VC money running out and not having a viable business plan. I'd like to see some proof that the small % of users who block ads are really the cause of boo.com or whomever going out of business. Something tells me there's no such proof.
Non-sales sites are really going to have to realize that there will be x% of people who block ads, x% will never come back after getting 2 pop-ups in a row, and x% who don't care about your monetary worries.
I have the right to use my PC, including my browser, as I see fit. You do not have the right to make a profit. You have to earn a profit. There's no reason why anyone should be subsidizing your webpage on the mating habits of small canines. Pay for your own bandwidth. Find a decent business plan and take the first paragraph of this post into consideration. Good Luck.
If we followed all the calls to concede any ad blocking, which is done by a very small minority of web surfers btw, the pop unders and flash commercials will continue to happen. The job of many sites isn't just to break even but to milk the internet for all its worth and when it comes to privacy issues users will respond unkindly.
I draw the line when the ads become intrusive.
This is completely arbitrary, first you defend ads and registration then condemn pop-unders then later condemn animanted gifs. If you're not letting the gif play out, guess what - you're blocking 'regular ads' too.
For the most part this software is one the many attempts to come up with an excuse to explain why so-and-so.com isn't making money. They should re-examine their business plan if their bigest threat is ad blockers.
"I mean, look, it's really cool to sit up here in our sexless spandex uniforms, downing Klavorian Synth-Ale and pretending we're not all running the Caligula program on the Holodeck
This is just genius. A future where all your needs are met? Yeah, its going to be a hedonistic orgy.
What % of users even bother with ad blocking or are even capable of installing junkbuster? I'd say this group is a very computer literate and thus small group. Ads are being served, people see them, some click on them, and yet its not enough. Even if it was enough, Salon's job is to maximize profits. So every evil ad plan you can imagine will be tested somewhere.
Blame the business plan not the relatively few ad blockers.