There is a fundamental difference. By stealing a watch, I'm keeping someone else from buying it. A Rolex isn't infinitely reproducible, the way software is. Unless I tell someone I downloaded Photoshop, there is no detectable loss to Adobe.
Nah. Most of their speculation was based on dwindling worldwide supply, but that's since been attributed to a typhoon in Taiwan.
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I'm frustrated that, in price/performance comparisons, no one brings up a Mac's benefit to video production professionals. Today's G4 with SuperDrive, Final Cut Pro, and DVD Studio Pro costs about $90,000 less than the comparable solution in recent history. These are the people Apple's really shooting for, and Apple's pleasing them.
My problem with the characters in FF wasn't the texture of their skin. Every one of them (except the cops in mecha suits) moved like a Disney animatronic figure. This is why many cartoon characters can seem very realistic: many cel animators concentrate on the movement and articulation of the bodies, rather than detail of surfaces. When will the CG industry learn that detail is much, much less important than giving your actors believable jaw movement?
Serial Experiments: Lain is a weird, thoughtful, slow-moving story that deals with issues of encroaching technology and our relationship to it. It's the perfect example of what this article's talking about. See it on DVD -- the animation is digitally enhanced, and it looks great on a big screen.
as a government agency, the USPS wouldn't be able to filter spam. Spammers could complain that it's governmental prior restraint to filter their unsolicited ads.
They could certainly filter spam, the same way they can currently filter bulk-rate mail if you ask them to. Most people aren't aware that the P.O. has a form that permanently removes your address from bulk mailing lists.
For the past two months, two days a week, three times a day, I've been performing Chris's Creatures, a kids' show on this very topic at the St. Louis Science Center. The four sticking points: what was on their skin, how fast they moved, how much they ate, and how they treated their babies. It's nice to be able to toss in the heart bit to show that there's still some debate.
Accepted or not, the warm-blooded theory is pushed to hundreds of kids and parents daily in Dig Dinos, a current SLSC exhibit. Jack Horner, Bob Bakker, and other specialists have been weighing in on it too.
All geeks should be employed at the local science center. Endless fun.
And this announcement comes right in time to boost PotA awareness for The Magic Smoking Monkey Theatre's April 5 auditions for Planet of the Apes - Live! I've read the script, and, boy, is this one gonna be a doozy. So, any Midwest-based Planet of the Apes fans, get yourself to St. Louis in May for this rare opportunity.
Okay. I see your point. These are all the same things I miss when I boot into Win98 from BeOS. I just have a hard time swallowing the word "ease" along with the installation, configuration, and updating of any Linux distro.
I somehow doubt he meant "ease of use". Configurability, yes. A bit more ease than the standard MS product, yes. But surely other environments would spring to mind first if "ease of use" was a major goal. What's the opposite of FUD?
Bad companies can do good things every now and again, just as good companies can do stupid things.
Amazon isn't condemned for being huge. It's condemned because it's huge and abuses its size when making bonehead market-narrowing moves like this. Yes, geeks have bought from Amazon a lot in the past. That doesn't make the One-Click patent any less wrong.
What *real* significance does this have in terms of the real world. This date means nothing in terms of science, math, technology, it's just another date... and it's not even that cool.
Wordplay and numberplay are at the heart of geek spirit. Lighten up.
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Because my parents refused to heed my warnings that their 486 might not fare too well over the Great Date Change, I got to do a little observational research this morning. The PC will only boot successfully every third try or so, and the date is now Jan. 4, 1980 (ah, the good old days!), with no hope of correcting it. As of yet, however, they've found no problems with everyday word processing, solitaire, and the like.
A movie containing real footage of Andy would have been much more interesting.
Sadly, Man on the Moon is little more than a Kaufman highlight reel, with Carrey doing his uncanny impersonation. For longtime Kaufman fans this isn't very satisfying. The movie has very little to offer other than the unadorned events of Andy's life. It's just your standard biopic.
This must be Milos Forman's thing these days. While The People vs. Larry Flynt and Man on the Moon both left me flat, Amadeus is endlessly captivating, because the film has a momentum that comes from outside the timeline of Mozart's life.
Man on the Moon is merely educational, and not great filmmaking.
Unimaginative plot? The hell?! It's very rare that we're presented with a film as complex and layered as The Talented Mr. Ripley. The audience is truly perplexed (and often frustrated) by the main character's actions, something I haven't experienced since seeing The Last Time I Committed Suicide. No, it's not a happy film, but the movements of the plot are pleasantly baffling. Ripley made me want to read the rest of the books in the series.
What confirmation do we have that this is actually a question from the Army, and not an average user looking for a quick review of the system he's planning on buying? The list looks like it's copied straight from a manufacturer's web page (note the warranty info, and inclusion of basic peripherals), and several posters have pointed out that the components don't match up well with the intended use.
Or, I suppose it could have very poorly researched.
The ICQ homepage? Sweet jesus... just last night friends and I were laughing about how it's universally mocked for illegibility. Is this really where Mirabilis makes money from ICQ, which has been in "beta" for the four-odd years I've been using it?
It seems to me that saying "go public with an Initial Public Offering" is a bit redundant, or at least awkward syntax. With all the IPOs these days, should we find a more elegant way of phrasing this?
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There is a fundamental difference. By stealing a watch, I'm keeping someone else from buying it. A Rolex isn't infinitely reproducible, the way software is. Unless I tell someone I downloaded Photoshop, there is no detectable loss to Adobe.
Nah. Most of their speculation was based on dwindling worldwide supply, but that's since been attributed to a typhoon in Taiwan.
I'm frustrated that, in price/performance comparisons, no one brings up a Mac's benefit to video production professionals. Today's G4 with SuperDrive, Final Cut Pro, and DVD Studio Pro costs about $90,000 less than the comparable solution in recent history. These are the people Apple's really shooting for, and Apple's pleasing them.
My problem with the characters in FF wasn't the texture of their skin. Every one of them (except the cops in mecha suits) moved like a Disney animatronic figure. This is why many cartoon characters can seem very realistic: many cel animators concentrate on the movement and articulation of the bodies, rather than detail of surfaces. When will the CG industry learn that detail is much, much less important than giving your actors believable jaw movement?
Serial Experiments: Lain is a weird, thoughtful, slow-moving story that deals with issues of encroaching technology and our relationship to it. It's the perfect example of what this article's talking about. See it on DVD -- the animation is digitally enhanced, and it looks great on a big screen.
Tax money does not go to the Post Office. It operates on revenue collected from postage sales, P.O. box rentals, and such -- just like any business.
They could certainly filter spam, the same way they can currently filter bulk-rate mail if you ask them to. Most people aren't aware that the P.O. has a form that permanently removes your address from bulk mailing lists.
For the past two months, two days a week, three times a day, I've been performing Chris's Creatures, a kids' show on this very topic at the St. Louis Science Center. The four sticking points: what was on their skin, how fast they moved, how much they ate, and how they treated their babies. It's nice to be able to toss in the heart bit to show that there's still some debate.
Accepted or not, the warm-blooded theory is pushed to hundreds of kids and parents daily in Dig Dinos, a current SLSC exhibit. Jack Horner, Bob Bakker, and other specialists have been weighing in on it too.
All geeks should be employed at the local science center. Endless fun.
And this announcement comes right in time to boost PotA awareness for The Magic Smoking Monkey Theatre's April 5 auditions for Planet of the Apes - Live! I've read the script, and, boy, is this one gonna be a doozy. So, any Midwest-based Planet of the Apes fans, get yourself to St. Louis in May for this rare opportunity.
Okay. I see your point. These are all the same things I miss when I boot into Win98 from BeOS.
I just have a hard time swallowing the word "ease" along with the installation, configuration, and updating of any Linux distro.
I somehow doubt he meant "ease of use". Configurability, yes. A bit more ease than the standard MS product, yes. But surely other environments would spring to mind first if "ease of use" was a major goal. What's the opposite of FUD?
The previous post sounds like a troll or someone playing devil's advocate, but I'll answer anyway...
Let me point out once again that Amazon most certainly did not "come up with" the concepts behind their "One-Click" patent.
Or, better yet, check out Best Book Buys, and you'll find that Amazon's nearly always last.
Bad companies can do good things every now and again, just as good companies can do stupid things.
Amazon isn't condemned for being huge. It's condemned because it's huge and abuses its size when making bonehead market-narrowing moves like this. Yes, geeks have bought from Amazon a lot in the past. That doesn't make the One-Click patent any less wrong.
Slashdot readers who are also NPR listeners in the St. Louis area should remember that today has also been declared Ben Abel day by the mayor!
It's only $40 as it stands right now...
It's called humor, and it was invented a while back, too.
Because my parents refused to heed my warnings that their 486 might not fare too well over the Great Date Change, I got to do a little observational research this morning. The PC will only boot successfully every third try or so, and the date is now Jan. 4, 1980 (ah, the good old days!), with no hope of correcting it. As of yet, however, they've found no problems with everyday word processing, solitaire, and the like.
Sadly, Man on the Moon is little more than a Kaufman highlight reel, with Carrey doing his uncanny impersonation. For longtime Kaufman fans this isn't very satisfying. The movie has very little to offer other than the unadorned events of Andy's life. It's just your standard biopic.
This must be Milos Forman's thing these days. While The People vs. Larry Flynt and Man on the Moon both left me flat, Amadeus is endlessly captivating, because the film has a momentum that comes from outside the timeline of Mozart's life.
Man on the Moon is merely educational, and not great filmmaking.
Unimaginative plot? The hell?! It's very rare that we're presented with a film as complex and layered as The Talented Mr. Ripley. The audience is truly perplexed (and often frustrated) by the main character's actions, something I haven't experienced since seeing The Last Time I Committed Suicide . No, it's not a happy film, but the movements of the plot are pleasantly baffling. Ripley made me want to read the rest of the books in the series.
What confirmation do we have that this is actually a question from the Army, and not an average user looking for a quick review of the system he's planning on buying? The list looks like it's copied straight from a manufacturer's web page (note the warranty info, and inclusion of basic peripherals), and several posters have pointed out that the components don't match up well with the intended use.
Or, I suppose it could have very poorly researched.
The ICQ homepage? Sweet jesus... just last night friends and I were laughing about how it's universally mocked for illegibility. Is this really where Mirabilis makes money from ICQ, which has been in "beta" for the four-odd years I've been using it?
Nitpicky? Yes.
It seems to me that saying "go public with an Initial Public Offering" is a bit redundant, or at least awkward syntax. With all the IPOs these days, should we find a more elegant way of phrasing this?