It'll be interesting to see if they DO turn a profit. They've only just launched today, and it's possible that they have something else up their sleeve, or are confident that their greater size than Apple (though the brand recognition may be the same, WalMart has more of the "I can use this!" in the mindset of the majority, where anything Apple has an instant "uhh thats mac stuff" to non mac users) can help bring the sheer volume they need.
I'm certainly not going to vote for any of the LOTR pics as 'best movies'. Best "emulation of a coffee table picturebook" yes. Phenomenal scenes, pretty well done compositing, amazing themes but... everything just kept running ahead without giving me a feel of the true fellowship between our adventurers.
I've not read the LOTR books, and the movies have made me want to, but I don't feel they stand strongly on their own. Large format animated picture accessories to the books, but not on their own.
Strontium Nuclear Batteries are one. Known about and succesfully demonstrated since the early 90s, a single 5gram piece can put out enough SAFE radiation to be turned almost directly into energy, that it can supply 75 watts for months on end. It's not harmful to animals, it's not expensive, it's no more expensive than sterodent.
It's also a technology that nobody believes has any use because of the words "nuclear" and "radiation"
I don't think everything CAN be converged like this, they take time for consumers to shift opinions. Trying to fit six devices in one absolutely freezes a device as laughable as the worst of them. Let's say you get PDA, Laptop, Television, iPod and radio in one. Good, it's cool in theory until people realise they're not going to use the laptop features and they don't watch television anyway, anbd the other features could be made smaller again - why not get something cheaper and more suited to their purposes
It's a bit like an all-in-one box from the 1980s; AM Radio, Beta video box, Television and Atari games all in one.
Perhaps only the Radio and Television side may have been useful 5 years after it's released, but even then they're a perfectly good television saddled with crap AM radio and the Atari side is broken, with the only component unused being the Beta, only cos it was so unsupported.
People LIKE a single use, elegant solution like an iPod. They can wrap their heads around it, see "music player" and while it's pricey, they're able to justify a purchase on its price because all its features are related to cool, transportable audio.
What I find annoying is when you get those wannabe technophiles who think because they have a flashie animation and a cool sound they somehow have a good presentation.
I think you've hit the hammer on the head there.
Think back to when everyone first got homepages. Geocities. iridescent backgrounds, rainbow colours, huge text and animated gifs galore.
Fortunately the anonymity of the internet allowed us to email these people and go "Fuck your page sucks shit! burned my eyes. GAAAAAH".
Can't do that to the boss about his PPT presentation though.
> What scares me is that the schools are actually teaching and using PowerPoint!
Tell me about it. My nephew just finished his highschool finals. Among them was a course entitled "Computer programming and Software Design". Half the damned textbook was how to use MS Office.
I think the nature of humans to run on autopilot, and that will pull more people in than anything else. A correct-looking url will just add a few more to the gullible.
My boss in 2001 was a pretty cluey guy most of the time. Into his mailbox came one of the eBay scams. "Re-enter your username and password etc and we'll have your records up to date, otherwise your eBay account will be deleted". Partway through doing this he got a bit confused by the process, and I picked up immediately it's not an ebay address. I pointed that out to him. the email's fake. a scammer looking for a way to make a quick scam using his ebay account.
What's he do? goes straight to the main eBay site and starts looking for the equivalent page - he was still on the track of "Must update my ebay account details". It didn't even enter his head that the scam was a COMPLETE scam. half an hour later he's asking again whether or not maybe he should use the URL in the email because he didn't want to lose his eBay account.
A fake URL might catch a few more, but it's peoples attitude, trust of random emails, and acting on autopilot regarding emails that come into their mailbox that catches more than anything else IMHO
Curiously, in the time that SCO's site was "being attacked" they managed to
1. give the site a bit of a revamp. It's different, and content has changed. 2. Switch operating systems. http://uptime.netcraft.com/perf/graph?site=www.sco.com shows they have gone from using linux/apache before the attack, to unknown/apache after the attack.
Now, you're in the middle of what you claim is a network attack. You say your site is down, email is down, support is down, and you're working hard to get these things going again... so instead of actually trying to get the network up again, you revamp the site and change the OS of the server
SCO is so full of shit, and the mainstream media is licking up their bullshit press releases. Blah.
It shreds the iPod in every way. Plays WMA and OGG like the iPod doesn't. 20GB drive, records standard like the iPod doesn't, has built in radio as the iPod doesn't, mic input (yes it records standard) true SRS surround sound, USB2.0 like the iPod doesn't, digital and analog audio out, the sexiest case on a portable music player ever, and all for $370.
When an SMTP client connects to our spamhole, we note the number of times it has connected before. If this number is below a configurable threshold, we simply redirect it's connection through the spamhole to a real SMTP server and allow it an unmodified session. This provides for any potential 'test' email the spammer may attempt to send through the 'open relay' to verify successful delivery to successfuly pass through the system and be delivered. Many spammers do this to validate their open relays prior to attempting bulk mailings. The downside to this is that a few SPAM emails may actually be delivered by your spamhole. Such is the price to pay for tricking the spammer into continued use of your 'open relay'.
So it's not quite just a dumb smtp receiver, but acts as a real one until the spam starts being sent.
If Xouvert catches on, does this mean that the sound engines of KDE and gnome will become obsolete, or will they collide with MAS?
There's a few places Linux has failed miserably for me as a desktop, and consistent audio has been one. If I get KDE audio working, six other non KDE apps suddenly go silent, If I get those working, KDE audio apps error on me. Same story sadly. Now, perhaps it's just me not knowing what to futz around with, but to repeat a cliche, "I shouldn't have to do that".
Perhaps kernel level device sharing would work, but I don't know if adding another sound engine would help much
That thing looks horrible. It's very cool keeping old tech alive for so many reasons. The games were good, the price can be good now, 10 years later, and it's VERY good to have newer geeks see what was possible on limited hardware
But damn, for a device that's going to sell in the millions, getting the design right first go doesn't cost any extra afterwards.
Games may have a reputation of being just "kids toys" but they don't have to look like a fisher price gadget
> 2. iRiver iHP-120, which I personally think is the best. > 20Gb hard drive, built-in mic, ogg playing, et cetera. > Great player.
I'll back that up too. It shreds the iPod in every way. Plays WMA and OGG like the iPod doesn't. 20GB drive, records standard like the iPod doesn't, has built in radio as the iPod doesn't, mic input (yes it records standard) true SRS surround sound, USB2.0 like the iPod doesn't, digital and analog audio out, the sexiest case on a portable music player ever, and all for $370.
Doesn't Darl have to show 4 quarters of profit to get his bonus and this is the last one?
I fear that also having suspended their financial reports (showing basically that they're screwed) from the 8th until the 22nd of this month, there won't be enough time in holidays for their stock to divebomb into the ground. What with 30 more days they can keep talking crap, it seems come December 30th Darl's millions will be his.
Here's the gun I want to shoot you with, will you load it for me?
wtf. that's dumb. I'm calling the police.
mind helping me dial 911?
Darl McBride at school.
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My brother was telling me about going to school with a *Darrell* McBride who used to piss himself in class repeatedly. Turned out he was so scared of pissing himself in class and getting laughed at, that he would piss himself in class and get laughed at, bringing up a repeating cycle that would happen weekly. Darrell's favourite retort? He'd sue everyone for laughing.
This was in the early 70s (and the wrong country) so the kid would be a bit too young to be Darl, but damn it fits.
But a tablet mac sounds like the furthest device from possibility to me. I'm just going on gut feeling admittedly.
Apple tend to innovate in solid areas. There's the odd revolution (the original mac, the original powerbooks) and then there's refining what already exists and people want, such as iPods
a Mac tablet would be refining a current idea that few people want.
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That works for me!.
(damned mozilla)
> you better start looking elseware
What a neat term for software made by overseas contract programmers
"Elseware"
> you better start looking elseware What a neat term for software made by overseas contract programmers Elseware
It'll be interesting to see if they DO turn a profit. They've only just launched today, and it's possible that they have something else up their sleeve, or are confident that their greater size than Apple (though the brand recognition may be the same, WalMart has more of the "I can use this!" in the mindset of the majority, where anything Apple has an instant "uhh thats mac stuff" to non mac users) can help bring the sheer volume they need.
I'm certainly not going to vote for any of the LOTR pics as 'best movies'. Best "emulation of a coffee table picturebook" yes. Phenomenal scenes, pretty well done compositing, amazing themes but... everything just kept running ahead without giving me a feel of the true fellowship between our adventurers.
I've not read the LOTR books, and the movies have made me want to, but I don't feel they stand strongly on their own. Large format animated picture accessories to the books, but not on their own.
I'd imagine someone that's needed to install 55 operating systems would be the LAST one to comment on how productive you could be on any OS.
Maybe he's happy with OSX because it's about as clumsy and bug ridden as several OS's in one!
Mac OSX, NetBSD, Classic MacOS, NeXTSTEP and Mach, all rolled into one, and five times as bad as each on its own!
Strontium Nuclear Batteries are one. Known about and succesfully demonstrated since the early 90s, a single 5gram piece can put out enough SAFE radiation to be turned almost directly into energy, that it can supply 75 watts for months on end. It's not harmful to animals, it's not expensive, it's no more expensive than sterodent.
It's also a technology that nobody believes has any use because of the words "nuclear" and "radiation"
It'll come soon enough
I don't think everything CAN be converged like this, they take time for consumers to shift opinions. Trying to fit six devices in one absolutely freezes a device as laughable as the worst of them. Let's say you get PDA, Laptop, Television, iPod and radio in one. Good, it's cool in theory until people realise they're not going to use the laptop features and they don't watch television anyway, anbd the other features could be made smaller again - why not get something cheaper and more suited to their purposes
It's a bit like an all-in-one box from the 1980s; AM Radio, Beta video box, Television and Atari games all in one.
Perhaps only the Radio and Television side may have been useful 5 years after it's released, but even then they're a perfectly good television saddled with crap AM radio and the Atari side is broken, with the only component unused being the Beta, only cos it was so unsupported.
People LIKE a single use, elegant solution like an iPod. They can wrap their heads around it, see "music player" and while it's pricey, they're able to justify a purchase on its price because all its features are related to cool, transportable audio.
What I find annoying is when you get those wannabe technophiles who think because they have a flashie animation and a cool sound they somehow have a good presentation.
I think you've hit the hammer on the head there.
Think back to when everyone first got homepages. Geocities. iridescent backgrounds, rainbow colours, huge text and animated gifs galore.
Fortunately the anonymity of the internet allowed us to email these people and go "Fuck your page sucks shit! burned my eyes. GAAAAAH".
Can't do that to the boss about his PPT presentation though.
> But do screwdrivers make kids dumb?
If you stab one in the head with a screwdriver, well, yes.
> What scares me is that the schools are actually teaching and using PowerPoint!
Tell me about it. My nephew just finished his highschool finals. Among them was a course entitled "Computer programming and Software Design". Half the damned textbook was how to use MS Office.
Mmmm, favourite text editor - vi, emacs or Word?
I think the nature of humans to run on autopilot, and that will pull more people in than anything else. A correct-looking url will just add a few more to the gullible.
My boss in 2001 was a pretty cluey guy most of the time. Into his mailbox came one of the eBay scams. "Re-enter your username and password etc and we'll have your records up to date, otherwise your eBay account will be deleted". Partway through doing this he got a bit confused by the process, and I picked up immediately it's not an ebay address. I pointed that out to him. the email's fake. a scammer looking for a way to make a quick scam using his ebay account.
What's he do? goes straight to the main eBay site and starts looking for the equivalent page - he was still on the track of "Must update my ebay account details". It didn't even enter his head that the scam was a COMPLETE scam. half an hour later he's asking again whether or not maybe he should use the URL in the email because he didn't want to lose his eBay account.
A fake URL might catch a few more, but it's peoples attitude, trust of random emails, and acting on autopilot regarding emails that come into their mailbox that catches more than anything else IMHO
Curiously, in the time that SCO's site was "being attacked" they managed to
o .com shows they have gone from using linux/apache before the attack, to unknown/apache after the attack.
1. give the site a bit of a revamp. It's different, and content has changed.
2. Switch operating systems. http://uptime.netcraft.com/perf/graph?site=www.sc
Now, you're in the middle of what you claim is a network attack. You say your site is down, email is down, support is down, and you're working hard to get these things going again... so instead of actually trying to get the network up again, you revamp the site and change the OS of the server
SCO is so full of shit, and the mainstream media is licking up their bullshit press releases. Blah.
It shreds the iPod in every way. Plays WMA and OGG like the iPod doesn't. 20GB drive, records standard like the iPod doesn't, has built in radio as the iPod doesn't, mic input (yes it records standard) true SRS surround sound, USB2.0 like the iPod doesn't, digital and analog audio out, the sexiest case on a portable music player ever, and all for $370.
go to http://www.outwardsound.com/products.php/7/278/ for a look.
Any news on how the port of mozilla to AmigaOS is going?
As the article says
When an SMTP client connects to our spamhole, we note the number of times it has connected before. If this number is below a configurable threshold, we simply redirect it's connection through the spamhole to a real SMTP server and allow it an unmodified session. This provides for any potential 'test' email the spammer may attempt to send through the 'open relay' to verify successful delivery to successfuly pass through the system and be delivered. Many spammers do this to validate their open relays prior to attempting bulk mailings. The downside to this is that a few SPAM emails may actually be delivered by your spamhole. Such is the price to pay for tricking the spammer into continued use of your 'open relay'.
So it's not quite just a dumb smtp receiver, but acts as a real one until the spam starts being sent.
I could look at it and go
"this is UNIX! I know this!"
If Xouvert catches on, does this mean that the sound engines of KDE and gnome will become obsolete, or will they collide with MAS?
There's a few places Linux has failed miserably for me as a desktop, and consistent audio has been one. If I get KDE audio working, six other non KDE apps suddenly go silent, If I get those working, KDE audio apps error on me. Same story sadly. Now, perhaps it's just me not knowing what to futz around with, but to repeat a cliche, "I shouldn't have to do that".
Perhaps kernel level device sharing would work, but I don't know if adding another sound engine would help much
That thing looks horrible. It's very cool keeping old tech alive for so many reasons. The games were good, the price can be good now, 10 years later, and it's VERY good to have newer geeks see what was possible on limited hardware
But damn, for a device that's going to sell in the millions, getting the design right first go doesn't cost any extra afterwards.
Games may have a reputation of being just "kids toys" but they don't have to look like a fisher price gadget
> 2. iRiver iHP-120, which I personally think is the best.
> 20Gb hard drive, built-in mic, ogg playing, et cetera.
> Great player.
I'll back that up too. It shreds the iPod in every way. Plays WMA and OGG like the iPod doesn't. 20GB drive, records standard like the iPod doesn't, has built in radio as the iPod doesn't, mic input (yes it records standard) true SRS surround sound, USB2.0 like the iPod doesn't, digital and analog audio out, the sexiest case on a portable music player ever, and all for $370.
go to http://www.outwardsound.com/products.php/7/278/ for a look.
> with specificity.
I can admit I'm ignorant there. What's that mean in the context of this case?
Doesn't Darl have to show 4 quarters of profit to get his bonus and this is the last one?
I fear that also having suspended their financial reports (showing basically that they're screwed) from the 8th until the 22nd of this month, there won't be enough time in holidays for their stock to divebomb into the ground. What with 30 more days they can keep talking crap, it seems come December 30th Darl's millions will be his.
Here's the gun I want to shoot you with, will you load it for me?
wtf. that's dumb. I'm calling the police.
mind helping me dial 911?
My brother was telling me about going to school with a *Darrell* McBride who used to piss himself in class repeatedly. Turned out he was so scared of pissing himself in class and getting laughed at, that he would piss himself in class and get laughed at, bringing up a repeating cycle that would happen weekly. Darrell's favourite retort? He'd sue everyone for laughing.
This was in the early 70s (and the wrong country) so the kid would be a bit too young to be Darl, but damn it fits.
But a tablet mac sounds like the furthest device from possibility to me. I'm just going on gut feeling admittedly.
Apple tend to innovate in solid areas. There's the odd revolution (the original mac, the original powerbooks) and then there's refining what already exists and people want, such as iPods
a Mac tablet would be refining a current idea that few people want.