I for one am glad that the article about digg was posted as I now have somewhere else to go besides newster and technocrat to get interesting articles. I find I don't spend much time on slashdot anymore...
Slashdot: It was a fun ride while it lasted! Farewell...
This isn't 1905 and as long as I have a few choices Ma Bell won't be one of them. I've got cable... if they blow it I can go satellite, Power, Fiber, and worst case scenario I'll become an activist to set up a community Coop ISP.
What Dell and every other MP3 manufacturer out there doesn't "get" is the beauty of why I am listening to a Shuffle right now.
Simplicity!
If I want a player that can do all that stuuf I will get one large enough to hold my whole library! If I am going to carry 1GB around I just want it to play... and be easy to use. Don't give me a screen to look at... don't give me a bunch of option... I don't have a use for an FM player I am listening to MP3s! My phone has a voice recorder.. calculator... calendar... you get the idea.
The Shuffle is sooo perfect because of what it does simply... we just bought twenty for a bunch of little old ladies who will never figure out 99.9% of the mp3 players on the market, but can push the big round button with the play symbol.
Well... enough with the product endorsement, but hopefully you do "get" the idea. The Shuffle especially combined with iTunes "autofill" feature IS the perfect flash memory mp3 player.
Standford's Stanley, a VW Taureg run by 100000 lines of code can hit 40 mph and has now traversed all but 3 miles of last year's desert course without problems.
Satellite TV was *FREE* as in beer to anyone who had a dish. You could watch all of the "Premium" channels without a fee. Then came scrambling... slowly channel after channel became scrambled and you had to either pay up or buy a "black box" and risk getting caught.
Does anyone seriously think that computers will be different from every other technology where the manufacturer has locked out the end user (Automobile, Television, etc)?
DRM is coming... like it, hate it, fight it... it's coming. Doesn't mean we have to make it easy and for once the end user has a chance thanks to Linux...
have the computer run a script that emails you after it's been on battery power for two minutes?
You'll get you're email about a minute after the power (and therefore the network) comes back on! Although this has been done with systems that have modems attached for dial out notification.
Maybe he didn't say it... but you have to admit that it has been the source of almost endless humour. Come on, admit it! Gore is a Bore! But spin the facts a bit and it's downright entertaining.
Just goes to show that people are more interested in entertainment that truth. Pretty pathetic really...
My personal gripe about apple... I bought an Imac 19 days before 10.3 Panther was released. Apple refused to give me the new version.
From my experience Apple's customer service reputation is mostly hype. I have dealt with them on several issues and like the one cited above they have fallen flat every time.
But like most people... what? Ooooo... Pretty hardware!
Ditto... The system used high pressure air to inject into the body, but some injections still had to be injected through a needle.
Also, the injecections were preceded by a warning (I don't know if it was true) that if you flinched and moved away from the "gun" that it could/would tear the skin and be very painful. I don't know anyone who had that happen... so I guess the warning worked.
As far as the pain goes... yes they were painful, but did not carry the stigma and worry of the needle. They were also much quicker to administer as you litterally kept walking down a line while getting shot into the top of each arm.
Was thinking about updating my system... planned to spend around $1000... 1% would come out to 10 bucks.
For many reasons I would not want that 10 bucks going to certain companies/individuals.
This is a huge issue that you just can't get around... fine, Canada wants to impose a media and now hardware tax to support groups I strongly dislike that's fine, but not in the US , at least not if I have anything to say about it!
The fact is that it tends to get exciting a bit more often that I wish and I suspect the "exciting" as in pull your hair out... the CIO is screaming at you... get it fixed yesterday... isn't the kind of exciting that a 9yr is thinking of.
Until the system can print color high res and do so in under 30 seconds for less that $.20/cd (cost above standard cdr) this will be niche device.
Those of us doing alot of short run CDr find the cheapest and easiest method is still paper labels through a color laser printer.
I've never had a label peel off inside a drive... heck, I can't even get 'em loose when I misplace them for 1/8 of a sec, so that isn't my worry.
Now according to the NIST (Care and Handling of CDs and DVDs the 2 worries wrt to CDr and labels are the label adhesive eating into the dye layer and the label peeling off (Page 23).
For what it's worth I moved to spending the extra pennies on inkjet (or thermal) printable media that has an extra coating on the CDr to provide protection against the adhesive affecting the dye as well as peeling removing the reflector.
I would be interested in hearing any knowledgeable comments regarding the effectiveness of the extra layer on printable CDr. (Trolls need not apply)
Like it or not Microsoft has alot of bargaining power and if they can make a "concession" that allows them to retain a grip over the corporate and buisiness arena then they will make the so called concessions and still manipulate the markets as they have always done.
The question really is what can the OSS community do to negate the effect of these so called concessions and really force Microsoft into a different way of doing business?
Just make the computers available and let the children see others using them and they will figure it out for themselves.
For example: A friend of mine whose son is Down Syndrome always had Macs around and his son saw others playing with them and using them. When the child was only 2 1/2 years old (and noone was watching) he went over, got out a game he wanted to play, inserted into the Mac drive, and began playing.
Is it too much to hope someone might build a strong tool for doing this that will run on Linux? Having Copernic rated #1 is wonderful for folks still running Windows, and Google is wonderful for folks still running Windows, and...
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Wrong tense... slipped
I for one am glad that the article about digg was posted as I now have somewhere else to go besides newster and technocrat to get interesting articles. I find I don't spend much time on slashdot anymore...Slashdot: It was a fun ride while it lasted! Farewell...
This isn't 1905 and as long as I have a few choices Ma Bell won't be one of them. I've got cable... if they blow it I can go satellite, Power, Fiber, and worst case scenario I'll become an activist to set up a community Coop ISP.
Ma Bell is to late in coming back to the game!
I am not saying I support what these companies are doing, but bully censoring is still censoring...
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Simplicity!
If I want a player that can do all that stuuf I will get one large enough to hold my whole library! If I am going to carry 1GB around I just want it to play... and be easy to use. Don't give me a screen to look at... don't give me a bunch of option... I don't have a use for an FM player I am listening to MP3s! My phone has a voice recorder.. calculator... calendar... you get the idea.
The Shuffle is sooo perfect because of what it does simply... we just bought twenty for a bunch of little old ladies who will never figure out 99.9% of the mp3 players on the market, but can push the big round button with the play symbol.
Well... enough with the product endorsement, but hopefully you do "get" the idea. The Shuffle especially combined with iTunes "autofill" feature IS the perfect flash memory mp3 player.
ah... i see YOU haven't support the 10k... 5 9s ona 10k? What're you smokin'? A week at a time would be nice!
Herbie!
Does anyone seriously think that computers will be different from every other technology where the manufacturer has locked out the end user (Automobile, Television, etc)?
DRM is coming... like it, hate it, fight it... it's coming. Doesn't mean we have to make it easy and for once the end user has a chance thanks to Linux...
With that kind of database the children would be safe! Think of the children!
You'll get you're email about a minute after the power (and therefore the network) comes back on! Although this has been done with systems that have modems attached for dial out notification.
Maybe he didn't say it... but you have to admit that it has been the source of almost endless humour. Come on, admit it! Gore is a Bore! But spin the facts a bit and it's downright entertaining.
Just goes to show that people are more interested in entertainment that truth. Pretty pathetic really...
Yeah, everything except Longhorn :-p
While I am all for taking lawyers to the zoo, I believe the issue is one of trademark and not copyright.
Month? Don't you mean daily?
What? You're were talking about the same article? oh... that's different then.
My personal gripe about apple... I bought an Imac 19 days before 10.3 Panther was released. Apple refused to give me the new version.
From my experience Apple's customer service reputation is mostly hype. I have dealt with them on several issues and like the one cited above they have fallen flat every time.
But like most people... what? Ooooo... Pretty hardware!
Also, the injecections were preceded by a warning (I don't know if it was true) that if you flinched and moved away from the "gun" that it could/would tear the skin and be very painful. I don't know anyone who had that happen... so I guess the warning worked.
As far as the pain goes... yes they were painful, but did not carry the stigma and worry of the needle. They were also much quicker to administer as you litterally kept walking down a line while getting shot into the top of each arm.
I want my 7 Megapixel Digital camera phone with the 3GB harddrive that I can boot my linux PPC system from...
Oh, and $19.95 seems fair too!
For many reasons I would not want that 10 bucks going to certain companies/individuals.
This is a huge issue that you just can't get around... fine, Canada wants to impose a media and now hardware tax to support groups I strongly dislike that's fine, but not in the US , at least not if I have anything to say about it!
I wish it wasn't...
The fact is that it tends to get exciting a bit more often that I wish and I suspect the "exciting" as in pull your hair out... the CIO is screaming at you... get it fixed yesterday... isn't the kind of exciting that a 9yr is thinking of.
Here's wishing for a nice boring week this week!
You're new around here, aren't you?
Those of us doing alot of short run CDr find the cheapest and easiest method is still paper labels through a color laser printer.
I've never had a label peel off inside a drive... heck, I can't even get 'em loose when I misplace them for 1/8 of a sec, so that isn't my worry.
Now according to the NIST (Care and Handling of CDs and DVDs the 2 worries wrt to CDr and labels are the label adhesive eating into the dye layer and the label peeling off (Page 23).
For what it's worth I moved to spending the extra pennies on inkjet (or thermal) printable media that has an extra coating on the CDr to provide protection against the adhesive affecting the dye as well as peeling removing the reflector.
I would be interested in hearing any knowledgeable comments regarding the effectiveness of the extra layer on printable CDr. (Trolls need not apply)
The question really is what can the OSS community do to negate the effect of these so called concessions and really force Microsoft into a different way of doing business?
Just my $.02...
For example: A friend of mine whose son is Down Syndrome always had Macs around and his son saw others playing with them and using them. When the child was only 2 1/2 years old (and noone was watching) he went over, got out a game he wanted to play, inserted into the Mac drive, and began playing.
Just my $.02 inflation unadjusted.
I knew where the reference came from, but let's face it... the Nicene Creed has little in common with the truth of the scriptures.
We can take the discussion offline if you care to... contact me at slashdot AT esims DOT org.
"I believe in the absolute truth of hope."
Just a couple random comments...
There is a difference between knowing and believing:
You can believe a lie, you cannot know a lie:
I believe oranges are square... I can believe it, not know it.
Absolutism is a characteristic of God.
If you know the truth of who God is then you have moved beyond just believing (since you can believe some thing that is not true) into knowing.
Like I said... just a couple random comments not intended to to bring out the trolls (no doubt it will, this is Slashdot).
Yeah... sounds like you need a Mac!
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