That's pretty funny. No one I know outside of the techindustry would have ANY idea what the phrase "non-DRMed MP3s" means.
It's not blatent BS. My parents can download songs and burn CDs. They don't know what DRM is, and they don't care. Your "most" customers in your mind == "geek" customers, which are a very small minority. Your perception of the "normal" customer is really skewed towards people who know how technology works.
wha? at that rate there's no WAY they could get photos like that back to earth. 1 byte/sec? that's 1KB every 17 minutes. 3.5KB/hour... yeah, has to be more than that.
I guess their mmHg/psi conversion was incorrect. your numbers look better.
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1000 times? they don't have to wait that long.25psi is 1/58th of an atmosphere, in 30 days they would be down to.5 atmospheres, which seems like it would be getting pretty dangerous to me.
Didn't you see deep impact? (or that other one exactly like it.) The comet surface is probably 100x as complex and turbulent as mars, and we have a hard enough time with that. Getting it there would be hard enough, getting it back would be downright impossible.
Sure, they got duped by Milli-Vanilli, but that just goes to show that they actually pay attention to popular music, and not just what stuffy music critics think. I think picking junk pop music like that actually shows how in touch they are with popular opinion.
Say what you want about M-V, but they sure were popular. And the original poster was basically saying that these academies are out of touch and don't reward things that are popular.
I don't know about that. If Eminem can win some grammys, they can't be that out of touch. Seems to me that some pretty interesting and progressive artists have won lately.
I can't think of very many places that sell DVDs but not CDs. The 7-11 by my house sells both. There are lots of places that only sell CDs, however.
I don't really think you can compare the "value" of the two of them, since they are totally different animals. I don't watch too many DVDs all day long in my car, desk, house, etc. And conversely, most people don't sit down and stare at the stereo for two hours to listen to music. DVDs (purely price-wise) are not cheaper than CDs, and I guarantee there are 10x as many CD players as DVD players on the planet, if not more. Apples and Oranges. I was just pointing out to the original poster than CDs are not more expensive than DVDs, when it comes to me putting down cash to take one home.
There's probably more truth to that than you think. Macworld SF is the first week of January, and there's always a good chance we'll see some iPod updates.
How are they controling you? Do they prohibit you from visiting other sites or installing another OS/Apps? Just because they install some default image, that doesn't mean they're controling what you do with the system.
The difference is that the thieves in this case (music listeners) don't have a choice. They have to shop with the RIAA, where else are they going to get their music? You really think that these people equate buying the new britney CD w/ supporting the company that's suing them? Not likely. This isn't going to stop them from buying music.
And don't bother telling me about all the non-RIAA songs available, and how that's an option, because it's not.
And the hard drive. 2.5" hard drives are miserably slow. That's one of the big factors in the laptop machines I've owned, especially for disk-intensive apps.
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Those "cracks" were never cracks. They are mold lines, and only on the surface. If a piece of polycarbonate like that has a real crack, it looks much much more dramatic than that, and appears as more of a "ribbon" than a line.
Sorry, "soul" was probably the wrong word. How about creative thinking, or non-linear thinking. To use a stupid coined term.. thinking outside the box.
The computer can think logically through all the possible answers, but maybe the real answer is something you have to see between the lines.
It's saying a whole lot that it beat him? I would hope that a machine calculating trillions of moves would be able to.
Like a lot of articles I've read, the machine can often pick excellent moves at any given time, but it lacks an understanding of the overall flow of the game, and big-picture strategy.
Those kinds of things are hard to figure out for a machine without a soul, even with near-infinite cycles to spend.
Until the machine can prove the game and calculate a way to draw every time no matter what moves the other person makes, I think a human will always have a good chance at beating the machine.
Too bad that Gateway is just about the last vendor I would buy a server from. Maybe I'm just replying on some prejudices of mine, but does gateway make decent server hardware?
Why is this news? Hardware makers with the kind of volume that the Xbox has are going to get involved with the makers... Why would they buy an off-the-shelf part? It could keep costs down, but working closely w/ IBM to get something that's better performance, etc. is probably worth it.
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So where's the 60 page PDF so we can get right on tearing it apart line by line and laughing?
That's pretty funny. No one I know outside of the techindustry would have ANY idea what the phrase "non-DRMed MP3s" means.
It's not blatent BS. My parents can download songs and burn CDs. They don't know what DRM is, and they don't care. Your "most" customers in your mind == "geek" customers, which are a very small minority. Your perception of the "normal" customer is really skewed towards people who know how technology works.
wha? at that rate there's no WAY they could get photos like that back to earth. 1 byte/sec? that's 1KB every 17 minutes. 3.5KB/hour... yeah, has to be more than that.
Do you happen to know the bandwidth that they can send/receive?
I guess their mmHg/psi conversion was incorrect. your numbers look better.
1000 times? they don't have to wait that long .25psi is 1/58th of an atmosphere, in 30 days they would be down to .5 atmospheres, which seems like it would be getting pretty dangerous to me.
remember, the price for the toshiba drive that the 5GB iPod used when it was released was $399... which is exactly what the iPod cost.
Didn't you see deep impact? (or that other one exactly like it.) The comet surface is probably 100x as complex and turbulent as mars, and we have a hard enough time with that. Getting it there would be hard enough, getting it back would be downright impossible.
Sure, they got duped by Milli-Vanilli, but that just goes to show that they actually pay attention to popular music, and not just what stuffy music critics think. I think picking junk pop music like that actually shows how in touch they are with popular opinion.
Say what you want about M-V, but they sure were popular. And the original poster was basically saying that these academies are out of touch and don't reward things that are popular.
I don't know about that. If Eminem can win some grammys, they can't be that out of touch. Seems to me that some pretty interesting and progressive artists have won lately.
I can't think of very many places that sell DVDs but not CDs. The 7-11 by my house sells both. There are lots of places that only sell CDs, however.
I don't really think you can compare the "value" of the two of them, since they are totally different animals. I don't watch too many DVDs all day long in my car, desk, house, etc. And conversely, most people don't sit down and stare at the stereo for two hours to listen to music. DVDs (purely price-wise) are not cheaper than CDs, and I guarantee there are 10x as many CD players as DVD players on the planet, if not more. Apples and Oranges. I was just pointing out to the original poster than CDs are not more expensive than DVDs, when it comes to me putting down cash to take one home.
How are hell are DVDs easier and cheaper to get than CDs?
There's probably more truth to that than you think. Macworld SF is the first week of January, and there's always a good chance we'll see some iPod updates.
"controling"?
How are they controling you? Do they prohibit you from visiting other sites or installing another OS/Apps? Just because they install some default image, that doesn't mean they're controling what you do with the system.
The difference is that the thieves in this case (music listeners) don't have a choice. They have to shop with the RIAA, where else are they going to get their music? You really think that these people equate buying the new britney CD w/ supporting the company that's suing them? Not likely. This isn't going to stop them from buying music.
And don't bother telling me about all the non-RIAA songs available, and how that's an option, because it's not.
And the hard drive. 2.5" hard drives are miserably slow. That's one of the big factors in the laptop machines I've owned, especially for disk-intensive apps.
The previous post was a dupe too.
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Those "cracks" were never cracks. They are mold lines, and only on the surface. If a piece of polycarbonate like that has a real crack, it looks much much more dramatic than that, and appears as more of a "ribbon" than a line.
Sorry, "soul" was probably the wrong word. How about creative thinking, or non-linear thinking. To use a stupid coined term.. thinking outside the box.
The computer can think logically through all the possible answers, but maybe the real answer is something you have to see between the lines.
It's saying a whole lot that it beat him? I would hope that a machine calculating trillions of moves would be able to. Like a lot of articles I've read, the machine can often pick excellent moves at any given time, but it lacks an understanding of the overall flow of the game, and big-picture strategy. Those kinds of things are hard to figure out for a machine without a soul, even with near-infinite cycles to spend. Until the machine can prove the game and calculate a way to draw every time no matter what moves the other person makes, I think a human will always have a good chance at beating the machine.
Too bad that Gateway is just about the last vendor I would buy a server from. Maybe I'm just replying on some prejudices of mine, but does gateway make decent server hardware?
I think you'll find that the G5 is very competitive with Xeon systems, when it comes to workstations. Opterons... I think that remains to be seen.
That's US$13. $26k/year. That's not "pretty good" for helpdesk, unless you're talking about a complete entry-level newb job.
Actually they're not D, they're usually... oh shit, I've said too much.
Clam shuckers... that's priceless.
Why is this news? Hardware makers with the kind of volume that the Xbox has are going to get involved with the makers... Why would they buy an off-the-shelf part? It could keep costs down, but working closely w/ IBM to get something that's better performance, etc. is probably worth it.