The music indrustry doesn't want you to listen to different music they want you to listen to their popular music that you know from the radio.
Yes they do want people to listen to different music. They just want to be the first to catch the trend. Is this any different from any other company?
Tastes change. Popular bands don't stay popular forever. If the recording companies didn't keep on top of this, they would be out of business very quickly.
The recording companies dont want you spending money on show tickets, and merchandise because the artest gets a bigger cut of the action, and not them.
That's a good one. That must explain why record companies never ever spend money on bands when they go on tour... Of course the record companies want you to go to shows. It increases sales of CDs.
That is why Internet download are dangerious because it makes people aware of different music.
I don't have any studies to back this up, but unless they're a college student and have the chance to listen to different types of music, I would be willing to wager that the type of music that a person downloads would be almost identical to the type of music that they otherwise have in their collection. People tend to stick with what they know and are comfortable with.
Phillips, huh? That'll be real news to Sony - the inventor of the U-Matic and Beta formats. Philips did, however, co-develop the LaserDisc format with MCA.
Did not allow porn to be published on their system
Not quite. Porn was available on Beta long before you could get movies - even bootlegs. Anybody with two VCRs, a camera, a bunch of tapes and a lot of spare time to make copies could produce and publish porn. In fact, friend of mine had one of the first model Beta machines and proudly demonstrated it to his friends by showing a movie that he had gotten from a local dealer. It was a porno flick.
If using calculators is too easy for kids, then make it harder for them. Force them to use RPN calculators!!!
This wouldn't work too well because, after a very short time, an RPN calculator is far easier to use. If you don't think so, try doing a complex expression with calculators that use brackets and parentheses.
You always have a choice...... you can pay to have fiber run to your house.
Really? That's easy enough to say. Have you ever priced fiber or the equipment that you need to use to terminate a fiber connection? Better yet, have you ever tried to convince your local phone company to put in the equipment necessary just so you can have it? If you don't live in an area served by a CO or mini-CO that is already set up for it or you don't have a lot of money or political pull, forget it. The same goes for DSL.
Realistically, if your cable service doesn't provide Internet service, or you are too far away from a CO for DSL, or have the wrong exposure for dish, your choices are rather limited.
...and you should be able to hack anything you own -- it's yours.
I agree, but only with the following addition: Hacks place responsiblity completely on your shoulders - if you hack it and break it, too bad. The folks that built it don't have to fix it, take it back or even return your phone call. They do, however, get to point and laugh. Live with it.
A: Nothing that has anything to do with your point. Am I close?
Forgive me, but I don't quite see your point. Are you saying that, because these tools are 'free' as in they don't cost you anything, anything that is created with them should be free too? How about the people that use them? Should they not expect to be paid for their work? How about the systems that host the applications created with them? Free too?
Just because you don't want to pay for something doesn't mean that the costs for that thing go away.
I'm sorry that you've had problems, but, as in most cases, YMMV.
I have a twenty-year old Sony tape deck that still works. My Diskman player worked for over ten years until I used the wrong power adapter and fried the power circuit. The cassette/radio that I bought in the late '70s still works.
I've had good and bad experiences with all of the electronics I've purchased over the years - and I've bought a lot - and, with the exception of a series of Sanyo tape players, have had very few problems with them.
Have you considered environmental possibiilities? I had problems with just about all of my electronic equipment when I moved to San Francisco a bunch of years ago. I lost a tv, an amplifier, two computer power supplies and a monitor. It puzzled me until I learned that there was a huge arc welder right down the street that was causing problems all over the block. When he moved away, so did the problems...
For the vast majority of people taking pictures, JPEG is fine. The file size is relatively small, meaing that a lot of pictures can be stored on removable media, and the compression is pretty much unnoticeable.
The problems come when you save the same image multiple times. Each time you save a JPEG image it's compressed a bit further, with a loss of more information. Eventually, you can be left with a fuzzy mess. It takes a couple of times for it to become noticeable, but it happens. For the vast majority of people this isn't a problem, but for photographers, it's huge.
Also, the RAW format is a complete, uncompressed copy of what the CCD actually captured with none of the processing that a camera does when it creates a JPEG. All of the camera's settings are included as with the image as metadata rather than actually applied to the image, giving the photographer a chance to modify those settings when they process the image for reproduction.
Could be because you need hardware to read it, hardware to store it and hardware to transmit it? Email itself may be software, but everything that supports it is done in hardware.
Power stops, hardware that supports e-mail transmission, delivery and viewing stops. No email for you.
So, rather than buy a new box every two years, you buy a new display adapter, at twice the price, more frequently.
That's why I got out of PC gaming a long time ago. I got tired of the "you can run this on your system, but it only really works on a 2.6Thz processor with a VindleFIZZ 10000 display adapter and at least 1 Petabyte of RAM. Oh, and your old games aren't supported? That's just too bad." It's not that I don't like upgrading my system, it's just that I not enough of an equipment geek anymore to look forward to having equipment strewn all over the floor as I tear apart my system in order to get it to work. Again.
The nice things about consoles is that, when I buy a game for it, I know that it'll work. Straight out of the box. Every time. No upgrades necessary.
I'm glad to see that the hoi polloi seems to agree with my taste of films and appreciation of well-done sci-fi (evidenced by the long lines and box-office returns).
It's nice that your world view is confirmed because a group of people are willing to stand in line and shell out money (Barnum, anyone?), but as for good SF, Star Wars really doesn't quite cut it. Decent entertainment? yes. Fun? yes. SF? Not quite. Good SF? Not even close.
Gattica was good SF, Blade Runner was good SF, Minority Report was good SF. Star Wars is a Western in SF clothing. Does that mean that it was bad and the people who saw it were idiots? No, people can do whatever turns their crank so long as there's food left for me. But calling Star Wars SF is like calling Coors beer - sure, it's just like the real thing, but it's been hopelessly watered down for the masses
The problem isn't with the soft buttons, but the hard ones. Rotating the screen programmatically is quite easy, but you're going to have problems with the external switches and buttons unless you place similar buttons on the opposite side or corner.
I have a tablet pc. All I can say is that it's a good thing that I'm not left-handed like the two generations before me, 'cause the scroll and all the hard buttons would be real hard to use.
Floppy disk? We would have killed for floppy disks.
In my day, we had to magnetize each element of the core by hand. In the dark. With two safety pins and a battery. When the battery ran out, we had to use static electricity. I went through *six* pairs of shoes in one year.
RedHat doesn't have anywhere near a majority share of the market. Nor is it the only distributor of Linux, so Microsoft couldn't be accused (successfully) of buying RedHat to kill Linux, so why would the courts care?
I love BART's solution: close the doors under all circumstances and eventually the problem will go away. Blocking the doors will keep them open (and a trigger a voice that informs the passengers that the door is blocked), but doors that have already started closing will just keep closing.
I love watching people stick various parts of their anatomies into the almost-closed doors thinking that they will just open up like elevator doors do. They might, but only if the operator (who can be up to ten cars away) sees it. More than once I've seen someone drop their briefcase/purse/coat/whatever they used to keep the doors open so they could get in because the doors just wouldn't open the way that they thought it would/should and it was the only way that they could get free.
Unfortunately, the train won't start with the doors blocked (which, I feel, would be the ultimate sanction on blocking doors), but it does embarrass the person who tries and is real humorous for the riders to watch - unless the train goes out of service 'cause the door is broken...
That's because the term "opt-in" has been perverted to a degree not even seen in Newspeak.
Opt-in used to mean that I have chosen to receive something. Now it means that I haven't yet chosen *not* to receive something.
I'm sorry, that's a bit like saying that robbery is ok until the victim says "stop". Of course you have to use specific language and send it to an address that that may or may not exist and, oh, incidentally, it could take up to six months to process...
Then you probably wouldn't be using a Tablet PC, would you?
You look at your needs and you takes your choices. I have a 1.1Ghz Compaq/HP TC 1100 and for most tasks (even including, surprisingly enough, Photoshop), it works quite well.
I can not see any situation where this would be a better solution than what is already available.
I, for one, am glad that Apple is trying something new because just about anything is preferable to a scroll mouse.
I wasn't aware that laptops are so perfect now that there's no need to change anything. If so, maybe we can stop all of the R&D right now and spend the money on something more useful. It worked for AT&T when they split off Bell Labs, didn't it?
Yes, companies do spend money on something that seems like useless fluff, but sometimes they come up with something new and innovative. I would prefer that they keep spending money on "stupid features" and possibly devise a new way of doing things than focus exclusively on cheap boxes.
Apple may not be at the top of the market as far as sales go, but they're still around. Very few of their less innovative competitors can say the same...
You won't have to worry about the dust. You can't use this anyway.
The National Electrical Code requires that wiring in a plenum has a special teflon cladding that won't burn and fill the ducts with smoke in the case of a fire. I didn't see this mentioned in the article...
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Yes they do want people to listen to different music. They just want to be the first to catch the trend. Is this any different from any other company?
Tastes change. Popular bands don't stay popular forever. If the recording companies didn't keep on top of this, they would be out of business very quickly.
The recording companies dont want you spending money on show tickets, and merchandise because the artest gets a bigger cut of the action, and not them.
That's a good one. That must explain why record companies never ever spend money on bands when they go on tour... Of course the record companies want you to go to shows. It increases sales of CDs.
That is why Internet download are dangerious because it makes people aware of different music.
I don't have any studies to back this up, but unless they're a college student and have the chance to listen to different types of music, I would be willing to wager that the type of music that a person downloads would be almost identical to the type of music that they otherwise have in their collection. People tend to stick with what they know and are comfortable with.
Phillips, huh? That'll be real news to Sony - the inventor of the U-Matic and Beta formats. Philips did, however, co-develop the LaserDisc format with MCA.
Did not allow porn to be published on their system
Not quite. Porn was available on Beta long before you could get movies - even bootlegs. Anybody with two VCRs, a camera, a bunch of tapes and a lot of spare time to make copies could produce and publish porn. In fact, friend of mine had one of the first model Beta machines and proudly demonstrated it to his friends by showing a movie that he had gotten from a local dealer. It was a porno flick.
This wouldn't work too well because, after a very short time, an RPN calculator is far easier to use. If you don't think so, try doing a complex expression with calculators that use brackets and parentheses.
Really? That's easy enough to say. Have you ever priced fiber or the equipment that you need to use to terminate a fiber connection? Better yet, have you ever tried to convince your local phone company to put in the equipment necessary just so you can have it? If you don't live in an area served by a CO or mini-CO that is already set up for it or you don't have a lot of money or political pull, forget it. The same goes for DSL.
Realistically, if your cable service doesn't provide Internet service, or you are too far away from a CO for DSL, or have the wrong exposure for dish, your choices are rather limited.
You could always move, I guess.
I agree, but only with the following addition: Hacks place responsiblity completely on your shoulders - if you hack it and break it, too bad. The folks that built it don't have to fix it, take it back or even return your phone call. They do, however, get to point and laugh. Live with it.
A: Nothing that has anything to do with your point. Am I close?
Forgive me, but I don't quite see your point. Are you saying that, because these tools are 'free' as in they don't cost you anything, anything that is created with them should be free too? How about the people that use them? Should they not expect to be paid for their work? How about the systems that host the applications created with them? Free too?
Just because you don't want to pay for something doesn't mean that the costs for that thing go away.
Or, better yet, why should I be forced to indirectly subsidize the company that you work for by paying for your Internet access?
Is bling a word?
I have a twenty-year old Sony tape deck that still works. My Diskman player worked for over ten years until I used the wrong power adapter and fried the power circuit. The cassette/radio that I bought in the late '70s still works.
I've had good and bad experiences with all of the electronics I've purchased over the years - and I've bought a lot - and, with the exception of a series of Sanyo tape players, have had very few problems with them.
Have you considered environmental possibiilities? I had problems with just about all of my electronic equipment when I moved to San Francisco a bunch of years ago. I lost a tv, an amplifier, two computer power supplies and a monitor. It puzzled me until I learned that there was a huge arc welder right down the street that was causing problems all over the block. When he moved away, so did the problems...
The problems come when you save the same image multiple times. Each time you save a JPEG image it's compressed a bit further, with a loss of more information. Eventually, you can be left with a fuzzy mess. It takes a couple of times for it to become noticeable, but it happens. For the vast majority of people this isn't a problem, but for photographers, it's huge.
Also, the RAW format is a complete, uncompressed copy of what the CCD actually captured with none of the processing that a camera does when it creates a JPEG. All of the camera's settings are included as with the image as metadata rather than actually applied to the image, giving the photographer a chance to modify those settings when they process the image for reproduction.
Could be because you need hardware to read it, hardware to store it and hardware to transmit it? Email itself may be software, but everything that supports it is done in hardware.
Power stops, hardware that supports e-mail transmission, delivery and viewing stops. No email for you.
That's why I got out of PC gaming a long time ago. I got tired of the "you can run this on your system, but it only really works on a 2.6Thz processor with a VindleFIZZ 10000 display adapter and at least 1 Petabyte of RAM. Oh, and your old games aren't supported? That's just too bad." It's not that I don't like upgrading my system, it's just that I not enough of an equipment geek anymore to look forward to having equipment strewn all over the floor as I tear apart my system in order to get it to work. Again.
The nice things about consoles is that, when I buy a game for it, I know that it'll work. Straight out of the box. Every time. No upgrades necessary.
It's nice that your world view is confirmed because a group of people are willing to stand in line and shell out money (Barnum, anyone?), but as for good SF, Star Wars really doesn't quite cut it. Decent entertainment? yes. Fun? yes. SF? Not quite. Good SF? Not even close.
Gattica was good SF, Blade Runner was good SF, Minority Report was good SF. Star Wars is a Western in SF clothing. Does that mean that it was bad and the people who saw it were idiots? No, people can do whatever turns their crank so long as there's food left for me. But calling Star Wars SF is like calling Coors beer - sure, it's just like the real thing, but it's been hopelessly watered down for the masses
And, yes, I am an elitist snob.
I have a tablet pc. All I can say is that it's a good thing that I'm not left-handed like the two generations before me, 'cause the scroll and all the hard buttons would be real hard to use.
In my day, we had to magnetize each element of the core by hand. In the dark. With two safety pins and a battery. When the battery ran out, we had to use static electricity. I went through *six* pairs of shoes in one year.
RedHat doesn't have anywhere near a majority share of the market. Nor is it the only distributor of Linux, so Microsoft couldn't be accused (successfully) of buying RedHat to kill Linux, so why would the courts care?
I love watching people stick various parts of their anatomies into the almost-closed doors thinking that they will just open up like elevator doors do. They might, but only if the operator (who can be up to ten cars away) sees it. More than once I've seen someone drop their briefcase/purse/coat/whatever they used to keep the doors open so they could get in because the doors just wouldn't open the way that they thought it would/should and it was the only way that they could get free.
Unfortunately, the train won't start with the doors blocked (which, I feel, would be the ultimate sanction on blocking doors), but it does embarrass the person who tries and is real humorous for the riders to watch - unless the train goes out of service 'cause the door is broken...
Then you would be correct. Many of the original NT designers worked on VMS at DEC, including their lead architect.
Here's the story: http://www.windowsitpro.com/Articles/Index.cfm?Iss ueID=97&ArticleID=4494
All of the instrument packages are on the same side - that's the "front"...
Where was that? It was certainly not any place that I know of.
Opt-in used to mean that I have chosen to receive something. Now it means that I haven't yet chosen *not* to receive something.
I'm sorry, that's a bit like saying that robbery is ok until the victim says "stop". Of course you have to use specific language and send it to an address that that may or may not exist and, oh, incidentally, it could take up to six months to process...
You look at your needs and you takes your choices. I have a 1.1Ghz Compaq/HP TC 1100 and for most tasks (even including, surprisingly enough, Photoshop), it works quite well.
I, for one, am glad that Apple is trying something new because just about anything is preferable to a scroll mouse.
I wasn't aware that laptops are so perfect now that there's no need to change anything. If so, maybe we can stop all of the R&D right now and spend the money on something more useful. It worked for AT&T when they split off Bell Labs, didn't it?
Yes, companies do spend money on something that seems like useless fluff, but sometimes they come up with something new and innovative. I would prefer that they keep spending money on "stupid features" and possibly devise a new way of doing things than focus exclusively on cheap boxes.
Apple may not be at the top of the market as far as sales go, but they're still around. Very few of their less innovative competitors can say the same...
The National Electrical Code requires that wiring in a plenum has a special teflon cladding that won't burn and fill the ducts with smoke in the case of a fire. I didn't see this mentioned in the article...