we're handing you over to the 800lb gorilla who thinks Genghis Khan was an enlightened ruler.
Ghengis Khan invented the world's first international postal system and, being a strict yet tolerant atheist, decreed freedom of religion throughout his Empire. He promulgated research programs to ensure that teachers and doctors were free from taxation. He outlawed torture throughout the Mongol Empire (are you listening Mr Bush?) and spread knowledge of the abacus and the compass from Asia to Europe. Whereever he found existing feudal aristocracies he annihilated them utterly and replaced them with a strict meritocratic civil service. It is perhaps this last measure that alienated most of the other European and Asian empires and caused them (especially the jealous and fearful European barbarians) to write about him in such vituperative terms.
Oh goody. This might mean that the Israeli Defence Forces mightn't need to bulldoze quite so many Palestinian homes, offices, and schools looking for "tunnels" and "caches" and "terrorists".
Does Media Center have a service where I can buy content?
Good point, Apple blurred the difference between packaged software and rented software (music) quite well with iTunes.
Media Center plays AACs, but probably not Apple's DRMd AACs unless you use VideoLAN or Hymn to open them up. If I want to play licensed music I suppose I'd use AllOfMp3.com or similar. Let's hear it for global free trade!
The larger Archos uses 2.5" HDs so that sets a minimum limit on their size. But the V2 with the lithium cells are much slimmer than before - they fit in my pocket just fine. Then again, I wear combats with plenty of capacious pockets!
One major benefit of 2.5" is the cost - I got my 20GB Archos for $70 after rebate at Amazon. That's pretty amazing. And considering I can expand it to 80GB for around $80 that's compelling. I await the first 100GB 2.5" drives with great interest. I suspect, however, that the Archos disk interface craps out at the 48-bit LBA boundary...
There are the smaller media card reading Archos handhelds that probably use 1.8" HDs. I don't know for sure, but they are the same size as the standard iPod and include media card readers so it seems likely.
This will be great when something like iTunes for video becomes available.
"iTunes for Video" has been available for many years and it's called Media Center. Version 10 these days. Plays well with ArchosAV and ReplayTV. You can even get an iTunes/iPod maxi/mini skin to make you feel right at home...
I recently tried to load a few old CD-Rs that had been lying around for a while... nothing. Errors all over the place.
I have a few dozen CDRs I burned over ten years ago. I recently checked them (and made dupes). No errors.
Aside from the obvious (avoid sunlight, humidity, unsupported stacking) I think a lot of people made the mistake of writing on their CDRs using Sharpies or other pens with non water-soluble inks. I suspect that any oil-based inks used react with oxygen and ultraviolet and slowly corrode the upper vinyl layers of the CDRs. Eventually they make it more likely that oxygen and water vapour can penetrate through to the metallic layers, causing corrosion.
If more gullible journalists and people would think a little and do some simple, quick research before hitting the SEND button then we'd all be a lot better off.
That's true, but now us common masses will be using this for the likes of FPS fests. I see people stacking their rendering boxes along with their eSATA drives in nice, consumer-friendly racks with Ikea styling.
Using the fact of PCIe's long cable run lengths, I preicted the return of SLI over a year ago.
In fact, I further predict that graphics rendering will be externalized, and high-end rendering boxes consisting of just a card (or two) connected with external PCIe cables will be stacked and connected to a central host for extreme performance.
Why keep those hot, noisy cards inside the main CPU box?
Yahoo provides a free service, and as with a free service, you are at the mercy of the provider.
Obviously you've never had the undeniable pleasure of finding that Yahoo has peremptorally and summarily discontinued your account for "TOS Violations". That's all, just a little flag in their database. Nobody keeps any record of *how* or *why* this flag was applied. All your mail, contacts, address book, YIMs, gone. No ability to do a last backup.
Whatever about the "distributed Tivo" analogies, ReplayTV of course already has massive distributed show sharing, the most notable example being the 15,000-strong Poopli library.
I run these occasionally and it still gives me a kick to see the happy mac face pop up in a window as OS7/8 loads. I hear there are even OS.9 emulators, but I've never personally seen one running.
Think of any area, there are millions of customers who want a change for the better -- however the companies are just not letting the change happen and say that it's for the good of the customer, or that what the customer wants is illegal (and if it isn't illegal, they'll just pass a couple of laws and make it illegal).
if peer to peer really DOES take over, everything would be more equitable, we would be free of all the lock-ins and inefficient bottlenecks the big companies and governments have worked so hard to force on us
There is a reason that we assume that centralised systems work better; they are easier to establish, coordinate and control. This outlook only works if you are going for a fully anarchist system, which you will never get everyone to buy into, barring a massive sociological paradigm shift
RIAA, MPAA, governments, banking and financing industries, are all out to centralize control of flow of things. They are not going to give up that power easily.
Central control is not the way humanity, left to it's own devices, organizes itself. Centralized systems try to limit the natural peering we do to focus people for some particular end (closed countries and economies, corporate officers determining the company direction, jobs period limit us and what we do and who we talk to)
When you drop your mail into the mailbox, it enters a highly regulated, automated, centralized system that collects fees
Any mutually inter-dependent system can become self-organising and regulated according to custom and expectations. The key issue is the "centralisation". That's the central point.
I argue that the centralisation in this case stems from the State monopoly on money. In their recent history States have generally monopolized the right to issue fiat money for settlement of all debts, public and private, throughout their territory. For this monopoly to prevail they rely on consent, coercion, and the implicit threat of judicial or police violence.
Privatised money that removed this monopoly would also invalidate your counter-argument. There have been cases of non-State delivery networks for private citizens. Today we are in fact living through another periodic renaissance of non-State delivery companies (Fedex, UPS, etc). I think private money is just a matter of time and when and if that happens then a lot of formerly "centralised" economic networks will be reshaped.
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we're handing you over to the 800lb gorilla who thinks Genghis Khan was an enlightened ruler.
Ghengis Khan invented the world's first international postal system and, being a strict yet tolerant atheist, decreed freedom of religion throughout his Empire. He promulgated research programs to ensure that teachers and doctors were free from taxation. He outlawed torture throughout the Mongol Empire (are you listening Mr Bush?) and spread knowledge of the abacus and the compass from Asia to Europe. Whereever he found existing feudal aristocracies he annihilated them utterly and replaced them with a strict meritocratic civil service. It is perhaps this last measure that alienated most of the other European and Asian empires and caused them (especially the jealous and fearful European barbarians) to write about him in such vituperative terms.
I thought it was rather droll!
Or even FireUnWire
wireless firewire
Couldn't that be shortened to "firewireless", even "FireWiFi"?
The BBC are reporting
Are? Plural? What happened to "is"? Is the BBC like a Borg Collective these days?
(your answer may of course depend on your political perceptions of BBC reporting...)
Oh goody. This might mean that the Israeli Defence Forces mightn't need to bulldoze quite so many Palestinian homes, offices, and schools looking for "tunnels" and "caches" and "terrorists".
Does Media Center have a service where I can buy content?
Good point, Apple blurred the difference between packaged software and rented software (music) quite well with iTunes.
Media Center plays AACs, but probably not Apple's DRMd AACs unless you use VideoLAN or Hymn to open them up. If I want to play licensed music I suppose I'd use AllOfMp3.com or similar. Let's hear it for global free trade!
Most still are. (*Cough* Archos.)
The larger Archos uses 2.5" HDs so that sets a minimum limit on their size. But the V2 with the lithium cells are much slimmer than before - they fit in my pocket just fine. Then again, I wear combats with plenty of capacious pockets!
One major benefit of 2.5" is the cost - I got my 20GB Archos for $70 after rebate at Amazon. That's pretty amazing. And considering I can expand it to 80GB for around $80 that's compelling. I await the first 100GB 2.5" drives with great interest. I suspect, however, that the Archos disk interface craps out at the 48-bit LBA boundary...
There are the smaller media card reading Archos handhelds that probably use 1.8" HDs. I don't know for sure, but they are the same size as the standard iPod and include media card readers so it seems likely.
good battery life
You're kidding, right?
This will be great when something like iTunes for video becomes available.
"iTunes for Video" has been available for many years and it's called Media Center. Version 10 these days. Plays well with ArchosAV and ReplayTV. You can even get an iTunes/iPod maxi/mini skin to make you feel right at home...
I recently tried to load a few old CD-Rs that had been lying around for a while... nothing. Errors all over the place.
I have a few dozen CDRs I burned over ten years ago. I recently checked them (and made dupes). No errors.
Aside from the obvious (avoid sunlight, humidity, unsupported stacking) I think a lot of people made the mistake of writing on their CDRs using Sharpies or other pens with non water-soluble inks. I suspect that any oil-based inks used react with oxygen and ultraviolet and slowly corrode the upper vinyl layers of the CDRs. Eventually they make it more likely that oxygen and water vapour can penetrate through to the metallic layers, causing corrosion.
The idea is to make people feel stupid for being a part of the chain letter, not to insult them.
This works for me as well. I usually refer them to the following hoax busting sites:
Snopes
Urban Legends
Symantec Hoax Warnings ("$800 from Microsoft" is listed first on this page!
Hoaxbusters
VMyths
If more gullible journalists and people would think a little and do some simple, quick research before hitting the SEND button then we'd all be a lot better off.
External rendering boxes are nothing new
That's true, but now us common masses will be using this for the likes of FPS fests. I see people stacking their rendering boxes along with their eSATA drives in nice, consumer-friendly racks with Ikea styling.
Using the fact of PCIe's long cable run lengths, I preicted the return of SLI over a year ago.
In fact, I further predict that graphics rendering will be externalized, and high-end rendering boxes consisting of just a card (or two) connected with external PCIe cables will be stacked and connected to a central host for extreme performance.
Why keep those hot, noisy cards inside the main CPU box?
Yahoo provides a free service, and as with a free service, you are at the mercy of the provider.
Obviously you've never had the undeniable pleasure of finding that Yahoo has peremptorally and summarily discontinued your account for "TOS Violations". That's all, just a little flag in their database. Nobody keeps any record of *how* or *why* this flag was applied. All your mail, contacts, address book, YIMs, gone. No ability to do a last backup.
Yahoo is evil.
Whatever about the "distributed Tivo" analogies, ReplayTV of course already has massive distributed show sharing, the most notable example being the 15,000-strong Poopli library.
Yeah, if you can make Word 5.1 (which is a Mac-only product) run on Windows, I'll give you more than just mod points...
What about one of the many old-school Mac emulators for Windows?
I run these occasionally and it still gives me a kick to see the happy mac face pop up in a window as OS7/8 loads. I hear there are even OS.9 emulators, but I've never personally seen one running.
Think of any area, there are millions of customers who want a change for the better -- however the companies are just not letting the change happen and say that it's for the good of the customer, or that what the customer wants is illegal (and if it isn't illegal, they'll just pass a couple of laws and make it illegal).
Exactly. I think both the Negroponte brothers dress up their centralized, Statist ideologies as "common sense". Which is a very common strategy of centrists everywhere.
if peer to peer really DOES take over, everything would be more equitable, we would be free of all the lock-ins and inefficient bottlenecks the big companies and governments have worked so hard to force on us
Exactly. I think both the Negroponte brothers dress up their centralized, Statist ideologies as "common sense". Which is a very common strategy of centrists everywhere.
There is a reason that we assume that centralised systems work better; they are easier to establish, coordinate and control. This outlook only works if you are going for a fully anarchist system, which you will never get everyone to buy into, barring a massive sociological paradigm shift
Exactly. I think both the Negroponte brothers dress up their centralized, Statist ideologies as "common sense". Which is a very common strategy of centrists everywhere.
RIAA, MPAA, governments, banking and financing industries, are all out to centralize control of flow of things. They are not going to give up that power easily.
Exactly. I think both the Negroponte brothers dress up their centralized, Statist ideologies as "common sense". Which is a very common strategy of centrists everywhere.
I have not read a single piece written by this person having anything resembling substance. He embodies the prototypical techological-determinist.
He wears his ideology close to his chest. I think both the Negroponte brothers dress up their centralized, Statist ideologies as "common sense". Which is a very common strategy of centrists everywhere.
Central control is not the way humanity, left to it's own devices, organizes itself. Centralized systems try to limit the natural peering we do to focus people for some particular end (closed countries and economies, corporate officers determining the company direction, jobs period limit us and what we do and who we talk to)
Exactly. I think both the Negroponte brothers dress up their centralized, Statist ideologies as "common sense". Which is a very common strategy of centrists everywhere.
Like nature, social systems can come in a variety of kinds, whether strictly hierarchal or peer-to-peer.
Exactly. I think both the Negroponte brothers dress up their centralized, Statist ideologies as "common sense". Which is a very common strategy of centrists everywhere.
When you drop your mail into the mailbox, it enters a highly regulated, automated, centralized system that collects fees
Any mutually inter-dependent system can become self-organising and regulated according to custom and expectations. The key issue is the "centralisation". That's the central point.
I argue that the centralisation in this case stems from the State monopoly on money. In their recent history States have generally monopolized the right to issue fiat money for settlement of all debts, public and private, throughout their territory. For this monopoly to prevail they rely on consent, coercion, and the implicit threat of judicial or police violence.
Privatised money that removed this monopoly would also invalidate your counter-argument. There have been cases of non-State delivery networks for private citizens. Today we are in fact living through another periodic renaissance of non-State delivery companies (Fedex, UPS, etc). I think private money is just a matter of time and when and if that happens then a lot of formerly "centralised" economic networks will be reshaped.