There is no limit to the number of CDs you can burn in iTunes. There's only a limit to the number of times identical playlists can be burned (7). You can therefore always burn a purchased song to CD. I find it hard to believe that anyone would burn 7 CDs of exactly the same playlist of copy protected songs (the burn limit doesn't apply to non-DRM music) without doing anything illegal. And if you still want to, you can take one of the burned CDs and duplicate it ad infinitum.
FWIW, the Thames used to freeze on a regular basis. There used to be fairs held on it when it was frozen. In 1410, it was frozen for more than 3 months.
Let's see: as a photographer, the GIMP is missing 16 bit support (showstopper), the healing brush (saves me hours of time doing dust removal and the like), adjustment layers, speed (I work with 300-500MB large format scans), proper color management, etc. Someone tell me - why _should_ I use The GIMP? To save a few hundred dollars - a small fraction of my total equipment cost? Being the dominant player, it's not for Photoshop to justify its existence - the GIMP needs to provide a compelling reason for people to use it, and I see absolutely none for serious users.
You imply that the coffee was significantly hotter than boiling water, but that's not possible. A degree or two, perhaps, since the water is not pure, but the laws of physics prevail.
What if Google is planning on combining this with a virtualization product so that it can be installed under Windows? Your average user is not going to be able to replace Windows. However, Google could release this as a "security zone" which people would install on top of Windows. That, combined with perhaps an improved UI and a suite of desktop software may get a more typical user to install it.
It seems that most of the comments belittle wine and wine drinkers as some sort of elitist group. I'm guessing that the people who are posting these comments have never actually tasted good wine, or don't appreciate it. That, however, doesn't mean the difference doesn't exist and is not obvious to even casual wine drinkers. For those who actually enjoy wine, the ability to recreate the aging process rapidly is a sort of holy grail. Aging mellows out the harsh elements of a fine wine and brings out a tremendous complexity. On the other hand, aging turns a weak wine dull and lifeless.
Interesting how all the WinTel fans used to use SPEC benchmarks to bash Macs and the PowerPC processor. Now, in some ironic twist of fate, the same people are using the fact that SPECmarks are fairly useless to say that Apple is lying.
The bottom line is that the benchmarks are useless except for people doing specialized tasks. The amount of work you can get done in a day has not changed much unless you do serious rendering work, finite element work, or something similarly CPU intensive.
I am probably one of the only mac users on a large (50000+ employees) network. I practically daily messages about patches, reboots, viruses, malware, etc. from corporate IT. I ignore them, and simply keep my computer up to date via Software Update.
Ironically, my computer being on the network technically violates IT policy. If I were to follow IT policy, I wouldn't get work done. Why can't IT leave people alone, especially in technical (engineering) environments?
As an engineer, I hate it when people use Excel for data analysis. It's a financial spreadsheet tool, and it's awful for anything else. Skip it, learn Matlab, and you'll never look back. Otherwise, you'll only cause others headaches when you hand them your "program" in Excel. The fact that Excel has a 65,535 row limit is an indicator that even Microsoft doesn't expect it to be used for real analysis.
The recording industry chooses to allow satellite radio broadcasts. They can choose not to, if they feel it helps their business. But there is no need for federal regulation just because the recording industry can't figure out how to run their business effectively.
People who have iPods have demonstrated a willingness to pay for ease of use and simplicity. That they would spend money at the iTunes Music Store to easily download music rather than go through the hassle of downloading it from a p2p network should not be surprising.
Umm...maybe it's because they're actually learning the individual words? Once they learn to comprehend words, they'll learn to comprehend the storyline. The latter cannot happen without the former.
I'm tired of all the people who say "use a regular DVD for high definition". Yes, compression has evolved. But compression alone doesn't make for a factor of 4+ without significant artifacting. Maybe some people don't see the difference, but to others, artifacting is painful.
It's perfectly reasonable to argue that HD DVD and Blu-ray won't catch on because the majority of people don't care, but that doesn't mean there's no difference.
I was flipping through a few channels the other day, and happened upon Lou Dobbs on CNN. He was talking about outsourcing of jobs to Mexico. That's fine. The headline was "War on the Middle Class". That's left biased, don't you think?
Recently, I needed to register a couple of domain names. While Go Daddy was the cheapest by $2 or $3/yr, their abominable web site was enough to drive me to name.com. Anyone who designs a cluttered, in-your-face web site like GoDaddy's probably has no clue about web development. I figured that it was only a matter of time before compatibility failed with such a poor design.
There's nothing wrong, per se, about rebates. Both you, the consumer, and the company selling the product benefit from the people who fail to turn in their rebate forms. This is essentially a win-win situation (except for people who forget about the rebate). If you don't like the idea of rebates, nobody is forcing you to claim them or to buy products offering them.
What is wrong is when the manufacturer fails to pay the rebate when correctly submitted. This violates the stated agreement and amounts to fraud.
Exactly. And what is the reason that voters don't know the implications? Because they choose to remain ignorant.
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When children say things like "This is boring" or "Will I learn anything this year in school?", their needs should be accommodated. It seems criminal, yet all too often such children's pleas simply go ignored.
I completely agree. The problem is that the same people who won't sit down for an hour to listen to music won't spend a minute to think about what you're saying and see that you have a point. Nowadays people equate taste with snobbery:(
While this doesn't address your question, you mention the necessity of using MS office files. Be absolutely sure you are aware of the limitations of importing/exporting MS office documents. Contrary to what a lot of slashdotters imply, the document compatibility is only so-so when working with complex Word and Powerpoint files, which forced me back away from OO.org. Don't get me wrong - I don't like MS Office myself. But when forced to work with MS Office files, it's incredibly difficult to use any other tool.
I know most people don't care, but Word still can't properly typeset a document. Type an "fi", and you'll see what I mean (they should change into a single glyph). Even OS X's TextEdit (similar to Notepad on windows) does it.
Hyphenation in Word is totally jacked. Just try to full justify a document - all the spacing is incorrrect because it doesn't properly hyphenate words.
Maybe I'm all wrong, and they'll have fixed this in Office 12. I guess I shouldn't prejudge, right?
There are plenty of people here who don't understand the ramifications of an economically unsustainable technology. What that shows is that hybrids tend to be an inefficient use of resources. Think about it this way. What if you save the money by not getting a hybrid, and use the savings to move closer to work? Or to buy more energy efficient appliances? What if the savings were used to enhance public transportation? To blindly allocate resources to one technology and ignoring the financial impact is downright foolhardy, and doesn't even help the environment from a system perspective either.
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Well, it depends on what side of the fence you're on. To relinquish that control is to put critical infrastructure in the hands of a foreign entity, if you're the United States. Nobody is stopping foreign governments from switching to alternate root nameservers, the same way nobody is stopping US government agencies from switching remote email providers.
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I know I'm going to get modded down because I'm about to criticize one of the darlings of Slashdot, but I have some karma to burn:
The problem with OO.org is that it attempts to be a clone of MS Office rather than a good office suite. I run MS Office using Crossover Office, and it is much faster (I don't have numbers, but it's on the order of 5-10x, even more for some very large documents) than OO.org. I'm not ideology driven - I need to get real work done. For me, that means document compatibility and speed. When I generate my own documents, I use LaTeX and Matlab to produce documents superior in quality to both OO.org and MS Office in an open document format. When reading large documents, OO.org is unstable, is not 100% compatible, and is too slow for day to day use. I tried opening one Word document killed OO.org after an hour, where MS Office opened it in a minute or so.
Bottom line - why _should_ I be using OO.org? It suffers in compatibility on the reading side, and doesn't generate true publication quality documents on the output side. I understand that document compatibility issues are really Microsoft's fault, but, again, I have to be pragmatic. A couple of hundred dollars is negligible compared to the value of my time.
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There is no limit to the number of CDs you can burn in iTunes. There's only a limit to the number of times identical playlists can be burned (7). You can therefore always burn a purchased song to CD. I find it hard to believe that anyone would burn 7 CDs of exactly the same playlist of copy protected songs (the burn limit doesn't apply to non-DRM music) without doing anything illegal. And if you still want to, you can take one of the burned CDs and duplicate it ad infinitum.
FWIW, the Thames used to freeze on a regular basis. There used to be fairs held on it when it was frozen. In 1410, it was frozen for more than 3 months.
Let's see: as a photographer, the GIMP is missing 16 bit support (showstopper), the healing brush (saves me hours of time doing dust removal and the like), adjustment layers, speed (I work with 300-500MB large format scans), proper color management, etc. Someone tell me - why _should_ I use The GIMP? To save a few hundred dollars - a small fraction of my total equipment cost? Being the dominant player, it's not for Photoshop to justify its existence - the GIMP needs to provide a compelling reason for people to use it, and I see absolutely none for serious users.
You imply that the coffee was significantly hotter than boiling water, but that's not possible. A degree or two, perhaps, since the water is not pure, but the laws of physics prevail.
What if Google is planning on combining this with a virtualization product so that it can be installed under Windows? Your average user is not going to be able to replace Windows. However, Google could release this as a "security zone" which people would install on top of Windows. That, combined with perhaps an improved UI and a suite of desktop software may get a more typical user to install it.
Perhaps this what Steve Jobs referred to when he talked about the efficiency of future chips in Intel's roadmap?
It seems that most of the comments belittle wine and wine drinkers as some sort of elitist group. I'm guessing that the people who are posting these comments have never actually tasted good wine, or don't appreciate it. That, however, doesn't mean the difference doesn't exist and is not obvious to even casual wine drinkers.
For those who actually enjoy wine, the ability to recreate the aging process rapidly is a sort of holy grail. Aging mellows out the harsh elements of a fine wine and brings out a tremendous complexity. On the other hand, aging turns a weak wine dull and lifeless.
Interesting how all the WinTel fans used to use SPEC benchmarks to bash Macs and the PowerPC processor. Now, in some ironic twist of fate, the same people are using the fact that SPECmarks are fairly useless to say that Apple is lying. The bottom line is that the benchmarks are useless except for people doing specialized tasks. The amount of work you can get done in a day has not changed much unless you do serious rendering work, finite element work, or something similarly CPU intensive.
I am probably one of the only mac users on a large (50000+ employees) network. I practically daily messages about patches, reboots, viruses, malware, etc. from corporate IT. I ignore them, and simply keep my computer up to date via Software Update. Ironically, my computer being on the network technically violates IT policy. If I were to follow IT policy, I wouldn't get work done. Why can't IT leave people alone, especially in technical (engineering) environments?
As an engineer, I hate it when people use Excel for data analysis. It's a financial spreadsheet tool, and it's awful for anything else. Skip it, learn Matlab, and you'll never look back. Otherwise, you'll only cause others headaches when you hand them your "program" in Excel.
The fact that Excel has a 65,535 row limit is an indicator that even Microsoft doesn't expect it to be used for real analysis.
The recording industry chooses to allow satellite radio broadcasts. They can choose not to, if they feel it helps their business. But there is no need for federal regulation just because the recording industry can't figure out how to run their business effectively.
People who have iPods have demonstrated a willingness to pay for ease of use and simplicity. That they would spend money at the iTunes Music Store to easily download music rather than go through the hassle of downloading it from a p2p network should not be surprising.
Umm...maybe it's because they're actually learning the individual words? Once they learn to comprehend words, they'll learn to comprehend the storyline. The latter cannot happen without the former.
I'm tired of all the people who say "use a regular DVD for high definition". Yes, compression has evolved. But compression alone doesn't make for a factor of 4+ without significant artifacting. Maybe some people don't see the difference, but to others, artifacting is painful.
It's perfectly reasonable to argue that HD DVD and Blu-ray won't catch on because the majority of people don't care, but that doesn't mean there's no difference.
I was flipping through a few channels the other day, and happened upon Lou Dobbs on CNN. He was talking about outsourcing of jobs to Mexico. That's fine. The headline was "War on the Middle Class". That's left biased, don't you think?
Recently, I needed to register a couple of domain names. While Go Daddy was the cheapest by $2 or $3/yr, their abominable web site was enough to drive me to name.com. Anyone who designs a cluttered, in-your-face web site like GoDaddy's probably has no clue about web development. I figured that it was only a matter of time before compatibility failed with such a poor design.
There's nothing wrong, per se, about rebates. Both you, the consumer, and the company selling the product benefit from the people who fail to turn in their rebate forms. This is essentially a win-win situation (except for people who forget about the rebate). If you don't like the idea of rebates, nobody is forcing you to claim them or to buy products offering them. What is wrong is when the manufacturer fails to pay the rebate when correctly submitted. This violates the stated agreement and amounts to fraud.
Exactly. And what is the reason that voters don't know the implications? Because they choose to remain ignorant.
When children say things like "This is boring" or "Will I learn anything this year in school?", their needs should be accommodated. It seems criminal, yet all too often such children's pleas simply go ignored.
I completely agree. The problem is that the same people who won't sit down for an hour to listen to music won't spend a minute to think about what you're saying and see that you have a point. :(
Nowadays people equate taste with snobbery
While this doesn't address your question, you mention the necessity of using MS office files. Be absolutely sure you are aware of the limitations of importing/exporting MS office documents. Contrary to what a lot of slashdotters imply, the document compatibility is only so-so when working with complex Word and Powerpoint files, which forced me back away from OO.org. Don't get me wrong - I don't like MS Office myself. But when forced to work with MS Office files, it's incredibly difficult to use any other tool.
I know most people don't care, but Word still can't properly typeset a document. Type an "fi", and you'll see what I mean (they should change into a single glyph). Even OS X's TextEdit (similar to Notepad on windows) does it. Hyphenation in Word is totally jacked. Just try to full justify a document - all the spacing is incorrrect because it doesn't properly hyphenate words. Maybe I'm all wrong, and they'll have fixed this in Office 12. I guess I shouldn't prejudge, right?
There are plenty of people here who don't understand the ramifications of an economically unsustainable technology. What that shows is that hybrids tend to be an inefficient use of resources. Think about it this way. What if you save the money by not getting a hybrid, and use the savings to move closer to work? Or to buy more energy efficient appliances? What if the savings were used to enhance public transportation? To blindly allocate resources to one technology and ignoring the financial impact is downright foolhardy, and doesn't even help the environment from a system perspective either.
Well, it depends on what side of the fence you're on. To relinquish that control is to put critical infrastructure in the hands of a foreign entity, if you're the United States.
Nobody is stopping foreign governments from switching to alternate root nameservers, the same way nobody is stopping US government agencies from switching remote email providers.
I know I'm going to get modded down because I'm about to criticize one of the darlings of Slashdot, but I have some karma to burn: The problem with OO.org is that it attempts to be a clone of MS Office rather than a good office suite. I run MS Office using Crossover Office, and it is much faster (I don't have numbers, but it's on the order of 5-10x, even more for some very large documents) than OO.org. I'm not ideology driven - I need to get real work done. For me, that means document compatibility and speed. When I generate my own documents, I use LaTeX and Matlab to produce documents superior in quality to both OO.org and MS Office in an open document format. When reading large documents, OO.org is unstable, is not 100% compatible, and is too slow for day to day use. I tried opening one Word document killed OO.org after an hour, where MS Office opened it in a minute or so. Bottom line - why _should_ I be using OO.org? It suffers in compatibility on the reading side, and doesn't generate true publication quality documents on the output side. I understand that document compatibility issues are really Microsoft's fault, but, again, I have to be pragmatic. A couple of hundred dollars is negligible compared to the value of my time.