Modifies what software? It doesn't modify a single thing on the iPod.
"This is about Real pretending to simply be providing interoperability while they are really modifying the operating system without telling people that's what they are doing."
wtf are you talking about? what OS are they modifying?
Intending to watch the DVD was not intent to kill someone, likewise for the firing range (although that's a little tougher).
Knowledge that what you do might hurt someone is not intent to hurt them. If that was the case, you couldn't do anything dangerous at all without the intent to kill, and that's just not the way it works.
Doing it for the express purpose of hurting them is intent, anything else is negligence. By your rules, any time you drove anywhere you would be commiting attempted murder because you know that someone might jump in front of you.
Simply put, not paying attention to what you are doing is never murder, unless you went out of your way to make sure that someone was hurt by it, in which case it's not indiscriminate at all, it's very deliberate.
Hmm, 2 hours to anywhere in the world would mean the plane would have to travel at 6000 miles an hour (mach 8.5) Are any of these planes/spacecraft designed to go that fast? And that's not even taking into account takeoff and landing times. Spaceship one goes up to mach 3 right now, it looks like.
Yeah, we had better let those people in Denver, Alaska, Las Vegas and phoenix know that they weather is going to kill them.
The fastest growing city in the US is in the middle of a desert, and that's not stopping it at all.
A better question is will the population grow at that same rate. Even with 2000 times less space (which I doubt would happen that fast), I would be willing to bet that there will still be enough space.
You've never driven across the US, have you? "livable real estate" is by no means scarse.
Sure, buying a house in Seattle is tough these days, but that's a choice I make to live here.
two words: bluetooth range.
bluetooth is an interesting (but mostly pointless) way to replace the wires to your desk phone, but it's bad for intra-office roaming, since it doesn't have a good range, and it's not designed to be set up for a pervasive, large WLAN.
While Nokia used to account for 1 in every 3 phones sold worldwide, they are down to 28.9 percent.
Holy Cow, they lost a whole 4.4%?! That's a really interesting way to make it sound like a big loss, when it's really not.
Typically they don't pre-announce so that the new upcoming product doesn't stunt sales of the current product. But in this case, they stopped selling the old one, so you might as well fire up the Hype Engine early.
In order not to pay any income tax, I would have to donate all but a few thousand $ of my income... which isn't an option unless the Non-Profit org is the "House and Feed Joe's Family Fund"
"This Macrovision technology does NOT install spyware or vaporware of any kind on a users PC."
Uh... do they even know what vaporware means? I love press releases like this, they should just how little the PR goons know about anything related to this technology.
I'm really curious where the whole "lampshade on the head" reference came from. Is there some movie or book that started this idea? It seems like an oddly well-known thing.
If you don't have a PS1 or 2 now (meaning, you also don't have any PS1/2 games) why would you buy a PS3 to play games you've never played, that have been out for 1-8 years?
Don't you think it would cost significantly more money to break it up and recycle it, just to get some Al and Fe that could be had elsewhere easier and cheaper?
The fact that it was not used 30 years ago is wasteful, but recycling it now would be even more of a waste.
"but surely it wouldn't be that difficult for apple to release iTunes for win 98? "
You do understand that the difference between XP/2K and 98 is pretty huge when it comes to underlying technology, right? Of course you don't, otherwise you wouldn't make a comment like that. Apple would much rather focus on making it work well on the platforms that people use now, vs. grandfathering in a 6 year old OS.
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"This is about Real pretending to simply be providing interoperability while they are really modifying the operating system without telling people that's what they are doing."
wtf are you talking about? what OS are they modifying?
guess what 802.11a and .11g both use right now? Yup, OFDM.
802.11a and g already use OFDM, I'm not aware of who (if anyone) owns the basic patents on it
Knowledge that what you do might hurt someone is not intent to hurt them. If that was the case, you couldn't do anything dangerous at all without the intent to kill, and that's just not the way it works.
Doing it for the express purpose of hurting them is intent, anything else is negligence. By your rules, any time you drove anywhere you would be commiting attempted murder because you know that someone might jump in front of you.
Simply put, not paying attention to what you are doing is never murder, unless you went out of your way to make sure that someone was hurt by it, in which case it's not indiscriminate at all, it's very deliberate.
Hmm, 2 hours to anywhere in the world would mean the plane would have to travel at 6000 miles an hour (mach 8.5) Are any of these planes/spacecraft designed to go that fast? And that's not even taking into account takeoff and landing times. Spaceship one goes up to mach 3 right now, it looks like.
30 years ago the world population was 4.014B, 20 years ago it was 4.77B, 10 years 5.615M You are right though, the 80 billion number is bunk.
Yeah, we had better let those people in Denver, Alaska, Las Vegas and phoenix know that they weather is going to kill them. The fastest growing city in the US is in the middle of a desert, and that's not stopping it at all.
A better question is will the population grow at that same rate. Even with 2000 times less space (which I doubt would happen that fast), I would be willing to bet that there will still be enough space.
You've never driven across the US, have you? "livable real estate" is by no means scarse. Sure, buying a house in Seattle is tough these days, but that's a choice I make to live here.
two words: bluetooth range. bluetooth is an interesting (but mostly pointless) way to replace the wires to your desk phone, but it's bad for intra-office roaming, since it doesn't have a good range, and it's not designed to be set up for a pervasive, large WLAN.
Good to see that you're supporting the newest stupid pyramid scheme with your dig there... way to go!
god help you if it includes "protein globules from cows" as well.
Can something be that elitist when almost a million of them are sold every 3 months?
While Nokia used to account for 1 in every 3 phones sold worldwide, they are down to 28.9 percent. Holy Cow, they lost a whole 4.4%?! That's a really interesting way to make it sound like a big loss, when it's really not.
Typically they don't pre-announce so that the new upcoming product doesn't stunt sales of the current product. But in this case, they stopped selling the old one, so you might as well fire up the Hype Engine early.
In order not to pay any income tax, I would have to donate all but a few thousand $ of my income... which isn't an option unless the Non-Profit org is the "House and Feed Joe's Family Fund"
Uh... do they even know what vaporware means? I love press releases like this, they should just how little the PR goons know about anything related to this technology.
I'm really curious where the whole "lampshade on the head" reference came from. Is there some movie or book that started this idea? It seems like an oddly well-known thing.
Someone explain to me how MRAM will help with stability if it is simply replacing the same type of functionality that good old fashioned RAM has.
I don't get it.
There are few things on /. that actually make me chuckle, and your hybrid coke-tart (pop-a-cola?) was one of them.
The fact that it was not used 30 years ago is wasteful, but recycling it now would be even more of a waste.
That doesn't change the fact that there is friction going on. When you create some zero-friction oil, drop me an email.
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You do understand that the difference between XP/2K and 98 is pretty huge when it comes to underlying technology, right? Of course you don't, otherwise you wouldn't make a comment like that. Apple would much rather focus on making it work well on the platforms that people use now, vs. grandfathering in a 6 year old OS.