Because iTunes is starting to feature independent artists(starting with Moby sometime in July I think)
They realize that if you take away all the distribution costs, artists are going to start leaving the RIAA in droves.
They tried this thinking that the artists would just stay with the RIAA(maybe getting them to think that it was hard to negotiate with Apple etc), but now they realize that their cash cow is in danger. They can't just stop the service because that will take emphasis away from their lawsuits against traders(since there will be no legal way to download anymore).
Lesson: Don't listen to RIAA music, and support independent artists!
Well, a company is probably going to have to do it regardless, because people are going to demand indemnity if things fuck up, and they are going to want certified tech support.
However, I think an open source implentation could be viable provided you can find a company that would support it. It will be safer, and quite possibly chepaer than the proprietary system.
Because the name pentium came as the successor to the 80486,(ie 5, thus pentium) which was the successor to the 386, 286,186,8086. Thus the 5th generation of the 5th generation chip would have been kind of dumb. I think they should just abandon the pentium name all together, but by this point it has too much name recognition.
That is how many times you can burn a static playlist. Don't ask me why. (If it were the songs, you could always make a copy of the file when you first burn it, then copy the song back over once you are done) I don't know why they did this, maybe just to please the RIAA overlords.
This idea seems to have been around for a while. I remember seeing a few years ago a hd controller that you could plug standard ram into to act as a fast cache. Now granted this is on a much larger scale, but.
It is still cool though:P
You would think a company like sony that has a TON of R&D cash to throw around(if they want) on researching batteries, plus having a lot of other handheld electronics to practice with would have battery life mastered, but they actually only have a 3-6 hour limit, not bad, but not impressive. I guess it depends on how gamers use it. If you use it on a trip to grandmas should be fine, but a cross country roadtrip, you are going to be pissed:P
There are also a lot of secondary costs to windows worms as well. Increased network traffic affects those that do not even use windows(or those who are careful). Also, if a windows worm brings down a banking system, there is a cost again to innocent people who may not even use windows. Or for instance, if a supplier for a business goes down, then the buisness itself is adversely affected.
Windows worms(and malware in general) do not just adversely affect windows users, they have the potential to harm society in general(though I don't agree with the figures that some of these anti-virus people put out, they are just looking for sensationalism to sell their products)
Windows worms are everyone's problem, do your part to stop them!
To buy the new version of the book if you already have the old version, esp. if you do not do much graphics programming. The previous version seems to contain a lot of the same content, though the API(which can be found online) is updated.
You would be suprised what people can manage to do in those conditions, I have seen several people use this same pda(the Japanese version obviously) with their little AirH wireless modem(well, not exactly a MODulater/DEModulator but) I honestly could never use my iPod, but I'm just not as adept as most Japanese though.
Well, I am not so sure there will be a huge market in the US, but in Japan(Where the zaurus debuted), where people(even people with a lot of money) spend a lot of time on trains, and where there is a reasonably reliable wirerless data network, a lot of people like these. You can get a lot of the functionality(but maybe not the horsepower) of a laptop so you can do you work on the train(Japanese trains are notoriously crowded). I guess it all depends on what you want to do with the PDA and to a lesser extent, where you want to do it(versus having a laptop)
Actually, I use mainly my school account for email(it's just simpler) but because of a mix-up with registration(I was overseas at the time) my mail account was disabled and everything sent to it would get you a bounce from the mail daemon. It was like this for 3 months, but after I got it back online, I was still receiving all the spam I was getting before. Amazing.
But I wonder how profitable spam is to the spammers anymore. I can see how it may have been profitable when it was "new" ie most users were too trustoworthy of what was sent to them in the mail, however I would hope most people have wisened up, just as the volume of spam is increasing. I mean, how many times can you get a response that you were approved for a mortgage application that you never applied for or how many obscure dead relatives who work for Nigerian companies do people think they can have?
I know that you only need a small percentage of responses from spam to make it profitable, but do you think that spam will eventually collapse upon itself, both through improved filtering(though this is obviously a step in the wrong direction) and people just getting smart to the point where nobody responds to the emails anymore?
I'm curious as to what/. ers think about this.
When you need him. I cannot live without my sensationalist doomsday reporting! What is it with this fact-based rational approach to asteroids!
Bruce Willis save us!
Are consumers choosing AMDs on purpose or are they simply going with what seems to be the least inexpensive pc? Do finicky consumers(who may or may not be tech savvy) still see the intel bong at the end of a television commercial as a sign of quality(and thus worth the extra price?) Intel has had a name for a while that seemed worth the extra price. It may be a combination of AMD improving their image, superior CPU's and a decline in cpu brand importance that lead up to this surge.
Is to start a 3rd party yourself. The problem with a 2 party system is that if neither party agrees with you on a viewpoint, you cannot express said viewpoint. You and your friends(the internet is great for organizing this) could always start a one-issue party and run for a local office(you have to start somewhere!) and convince others to join your cause. There have been a few one-issue parties in the past in the US, some successful(such as the Whigs whose initial issue was to be opposed to everything Andrew Jackson did) and less sucessful groups like the Free Soilers(abolition was their worthy, yet unsuccessful cause).
If you are successful enough, major politicians make take note(helps if you beat one of them in their own ranks) and will assimiliate your views into their platforms(amazing how most politicians, including both presidential candidates, assimilate views based on a combination of principle and vote pandering)
Young children who contract polio are likely to suffer only mild symptoms, and as result they may become permanently immune to the disease. Hence inhabitants of areas with better sanitation may actually be more susceptible to polio because fewer people have the disease as young children. People who have survived polio sometimes develop additional symptoms, notably muscle weakness, decades later; these symptoms are called post-polio syndrome.
It doesn't mention sewage exactly, I got that info from the History Channel.
Well, I wasn't advocating open sewers, I was just trying to prove a point, ultra-cleanliness can be almost as dangerous as living in filth. We should take basic precautions without going over the wall.
Reminds me of the polio outbreak in the US. It actually occured when they fixed the sewer system. In the early 20th century kids would often play in the streets with open sewage, and although polio existed, it never got out of hand. However when they cleaned up the streets and installed a modern sewage system, the infection rate shot up? Why? Because the kids playing in the streets with the open sewage developed an immunity to the disease early, but after the sewers were cleaned up, the kids did not get exposed to weaker forms and thus the contraction rate shot up.
This is why I think young people in America are going to be a lot more susceptible to disease as they grow older. As the germ phobes buy all these "anti-bacterial" products, it tends to make the developing immune systems in the children weaker because they do not have an opportunity to fight diseases at a young age. Sensationalist media like this doesn't help.
It started 20 years ago, the "Reagan Revolution" which Bush wants to imitate. Reagan cut everything that was not military, and his mark lasts to this day. Granted Clinton did very little to foster scientific research, instead there was $100 million for "cigar research" but I digress. One of the reason I supported Kerry from the get-go is because he is the only candidate actually promoting dramatic increases in civillian research funding. He wants to research energy independence, and start stem cell research again. I think that makes him the best candidate for president.
This is the thing I don't understand about quantum cryptography(maybe someone can explain it to me). If someone were to try to listen in, would you still be able to read the information being sent? If not, wouldn't this make DOS attacks relatively easy? The information isn't any good if you cannot transport it.
In the US also has something to do with it. During the cold war for the most part scientists were respected members of society because they were the ones whose inventions would embarass the Soviets(well, try to anyway). However, after the cold war ended, they culture started to turn on scientists and treated them as geeks who could not function in the real world.(Sinbad commercials not withstanding) Girls were also(to a certain extent) turned away from science, as it wasn't "feminine".
Also, in the US, scientists end up doing a lot of work and yet for the most part get treated like crap. I'm sure most of us/.rs love what we do, but how many can say they are honestly appreciated? The best and the brightest could always just go get an easy business degree and make a lot more money and put up with a lot more crap, because our culture stresses business as being the most important facet in our economy. However, look at places like India where, from what I have read, parents are very pushy in getting their children to become scientists/mathematicians etc.
When you add that into what posters have been saying about the huge bull in the living room that is military spending, we wind up with this. It seems like a vicious cycle too, the more scientific research moves overseas, the less reward there is for going into a science field, thus less people becoming scientists, thus more research moving overseas.
The K-12 system does have problems, however I think the current system to address these issues is grossly inadequate. While tests are important, a one-size-fits-all test alienates the truly gifted because they are bored(and because schools have to spend what little money they have on getting the rest of the students up to par, thus many of them are starting to slash gifted education programs). It also does not help students with what science really is, the scientific method. In all the labs we did in high school, we were basically told what the result will be, and we just had to go through the motions of doing the experiment and recording data values(and if they didn't co-incide with what we wanted we just fudged the data) This is backwards. Students should be encouraged to go to the lab first. First get them to list what they think will happen(for example, for grade school kids, drop a ball from 10 ft and record the time, then drop the ball from 20 ft and record the time, get them to guess how much longer it will take to drop from 20 ft versus 10, I bet a lot will say 2 times as long, then have them drop the ball and record what happens). Then after everyone has tested their own hypothesis, teach what really happens.
The strength of the American school system is creativity, it's weakness is rigor. We should not have to sacrafice one for the other.
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Because iTunes is starting to feature independent artists(starting with Moby sometime in July I think)
They realize that if you take away all the distribution costs, artists are going to start leaving the RIAA in droves.
They tried this thinking that the artists would just stay with the RIAA(maybe getting them to think that it was hard to negotiate with Apple etc), but now they realize that their cash cow is in danger. They can't just stop the service because that will take emphasis away from their lawsuits against traders(since there will be no legal way to download anymore).
Lesson: Don't listen to RIAA music, and support independent artists!
Well, a company is probably going to have to do it regardless, because people are going to demand indemnity if things fuck up, and they are going to want certified tech support.
However, I think an open source implentation could be viable provided you can find a company that would support it. It will be safer, and quite possibly chepaer than the proprietary system.
Because the name pentium came as the successor to the 80486,(ie 5, thus pentium) which was the successor to the 386, 286,186,8086. Thus the 5th generation of the 5th generation chip would have been kind of dumb. I think they should just abandon the pentium name all together, but by this point it has too much name recognition.
That is how many times you can burn a static playlist. Don't ask me why. (If it were the songs, you could always make a copy of the file when you first burn it, then copy the song back over once you are done) I don't know why they did this, maybe just to please the RIAA overlords.
This idea seems to have been around for a while. I remember seeing a few years ago a hd controller that you could plug standard ram into to act as a fast cache. Now granted this is on a much larger scale, but. :P
It is still cool though
You would think a company like sony that has a TON of R&D cash to throw around(if they want) on researching batteries, plus having a lot of other handheld electronics to practice with would have battery life mastered, but they actually only have a 3-6 hour limit, not bad, but not impressive. I guess it depends on how gamers use it. If you use it on a trip to grandmas should be fine, but a cross country roadtrip, you are going to be pissed :P
There are also a lot of secondary costs to windows worms as well. Increased network traffic affects those that do not even use windows(or those who are careful). Also, if a windows worm brings down a banking system, there is a cost again to innocent people who may not even use windows. Or for instance, if a supplier for a business goes down, then the buisness itself is adversely affected.
Windows worms(and malware in general) do not just adversely affect windows users, they have the potential to harm society in general(though I don't agree with the figures that some of these anti-virus people put out, they are just looking for sensationalism to sell their products)
Windows worms are everyone's problem, do your part to stop them!
To buy the new version of the book if you already have the old version, esp. if you do not do much graphics programming. The previous version seems to contain a lot of the same content, though the API(which can be found online) is updated.
Most of what you will learn in colledge has little to do with anything.
Such as spelling? It is college last time I checked...
I should be able to voice my opinions about something even if I have never taken this test or any other CS AP test.
You would be suprised what people can manage to do in those conditions, I have seen several people use this same pda(the Japanese version obviously) with their little AirH wireless modem(well, not exactly a MODulater/DEModulator but) I honestly could never use my iPod, but I'm just not as adept as most Japanese though.
Well, I am not so sure there will be a huge market in the US, but in Japan(Where the zaurus debuted), where people(even people with a lot of money) spend a lot of time on trains, and where there is a reasonably reliable wirerless data network, a lot of people like these. You can get a lot of the functionality(but maybe not the horsepower) of a laptop so you can do you work on the train(Japanese trains are notoriously crowded). I guess it all depends on what you want to do with the PDA and to a lesser extent, where you want to do it(versus having a laptop)
Actually, I use mainly my school account for email(it's just simpler) but because of a mix-up with registration(I was overseas at the time) my mail account was disabled and everything sent to it would get you a bounce from the mail daemon. It was like this for 3 months, but after I got it back online, I was still receiving all the spam I was getting before. Amazing.
But I wonder how profitable spam is to the spammers anymore. I can see how it may have been profitable when it was "new" ie most users were too trustoworthy of what was sent to them in the mail, however I would hope most people have wisened up, just as the volume of spam is increasing. I mean, how many times can you get a response that you were approved for a mortgage application that you never applied for or how many obscure dead relatives who work for Nigerian companies do people think they can have? /. ers think about this.
I know that you only need a small percentage of responses from spam to make it profitable, but do you think that spam will eventually collapse upon itself, both through improved filtering(though this is obviously a step in the wrong direction) and people just getting smart to the point where nobody responds to the emails anymore?
I'm curious as to what
When you need him. I cannot live without my sensationalist doomsday reporting! What is it with this fact-based rational approach to asteroids!
Bruce Willis save us!
Are consumers choosing AMDs on purpose or are they simply going with what seems to be the least inexpensive pc? Do finicky consumers(who may or may not be tech savvy) still see the intel bong at the end of a television commercial as a sign of quality(and thus worth the extra price?) Intel has had a name for a while that seemed worth the extra price. It may be a combination of AMD improving their image, superior CPU's and a decline in cpu brand importance that lead up to this surge.
How exactly do people come up with model names/numbers for some of this stuff? For instance the X800, sounds like a mix between generic and random.
Is to start a 3rd party yourself. The problem with a 2 party system is that if neither party agrees with you on a viewpoint, you cannot express said viewpoint. You and your friends(the internet is great for organizing this) could always start a one-issue party and run for a local office(you have to start somewhere!) and convince others to join your cause. There have been a few one-issue parties in the past in the US, some successful(such as the Whigs whose initial issue was to be opposed to everything Andrew Jackson did) and less sucessful groups like the Free Soilers(abolition was their worthy, yet unsuccessful cause).
If you are successful enough, major politicians make take note(helps if you beat one of them in their own ranks) and will assimiliate your views into their platforms(amazing how most politicians, including both presidential candidates, assimilate views based on a combination of principle and vote pandering)
Now I can get my Swedish Bikini team pictures faster than ever!
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio:
Young children who contract polio are likely to suffer only mild symptoms, and as result they may become permanently immune to the disease. Hence inhabitants of areas with better sanitation may actually be more susceptible to polio because fewer people have the disease as young children. People who have survived polio sometimes develop additional symptoms, notably muscle weakness, decades later; these symptoms are called post-polio syndrome.
It doesn't mention sewage exactly, I got that info from the History Channel.
Well, I wasn't advocating open sewers, I was just trying to prove a point, ultra-cleanliness can be almost as dangerous as living in filth. We should take basic precautions without going over the wall.
Reminds me of the polio outbreak in the US. It actually occured when they fixed the sewer system. In the early 20th century kids would often play in the streets with open sewage, and although polio existed, it never got out of hand. However when they cleaned up the streets and installed a modern sewage system, the infection rate shot up? Why? Because the kids playing in the streets with the open sewage developed an immunity to the disease early, but after the sewers were cleaned up, the kids did not get exposed to weaker forms and thus the contraction rate shot up.
This is why I think young people in America are going to be a lot more susceptible to disease as they grow older. As the germ phobes buy all these "anti-bacterial" products, it tends to make the developing immune systems in the children weaker because they do not have an opportunity to fight diseases at a young age. Sensationalist media like this doesn't help.
It started 20 years ago, the "Reagan Revolution" which Bush wants to imitate. Reagan cut everything that was not military, and his mark lasts to this day. Granted Clinton did very little to foster scientific research, instead there was $100 million for "cigar research" but I digress. One of the reason I supported Kerry from the get-go is because he is the only candidate actually promoting dramatic increases in civillian research funding. He wants to research energy independence, and start stem cell research again. I think that makes him the best candidate for president.
This is the thing I don't understand about quantum cryptography(maybe someone can explain it to me). If someone were to try to listen in, would you still be able to read the information being sent? If not, wouldn't this make DOS attacks relatively easy? The information isn't any good if you cannot transport it.
In the US also has something to do with it. During the cold war for the most part scientists were respected members of society because they were the ones whose inventions would embarass the Soviets(well, try to anyway). However, after the cold war ended, they culture started to turn on scientists and treated them as geeks who could not function in the real world.(Sinbad commercials not withstanding) Girls were also(to a certain extent) turned away from science, as it wasn't "feminine". /.rs love what we do, but how many can say they are honestly appreciated? The best and the brightest could always just go get an easy business degree and make a lot more money and put up with a lot more crap, because our culture stresses business as being the most important facet in our economy. However, look at places like India where, from what I have read, parents are very pushy in getting their children to become scientists/mathematicians etc.
Also, in the US, scientists end up doing a lot of work and yet for the most part get treated like crap. I'm sure most of us
When you add that into what posters have been saying about the huge bull in the living room that is military spending, we wind up with this. It seems like a vicious cycle too, the more scientific research moves overseas, the less reward there is for going into a science field, thus less people becoming scientists, thus more research moving overseas.
The K-12 system does have problems, however I think the current system to address these issues is grossly inadequate. While tests are important, a one-size-fits-all test alienates the truly gifted because they are bored(and because schools have to spend what little money they have on getting the rest of the students up to par, thus many of them are starting to slash gifted education programs). It also does not help students with what science really is, the scientific method. In all the labs we did in high school, we were basically told what the result will be, and we just had to go through the motions of doing the experiment and recording data values(and if they didn't co-incide with what we wanted we just fudged the data) This is backwards. Students should be encouraged to go to the lab first. First get them to list what they think will happen(for example, for grade school kids, drop a ball from 10 ft and record the time, then drop the ball from 20 ft and record the time, get them to guess how much longer it will take to drop from 20 ft versus 10, I bet a lot will say 2 times as long, then have them drop the ball and record what happens). Then after everyone has tested their own hypothesis, teach what really happens.
The strength of the American school system is creativity, it's weakness is rigor. We should not have to sacrafice one for the other.