... if there was a problem with it, they decided to take it off so they could fix it. If you tell somebody that part of their site isn't working properly, should they just leave it? OSViews.com would be complaining about this even if Google did leave it.
... wasn't the iTunes/iPod bundle the first mainstream way of legitimately getting RIAA music onto an MP3 jukebox? Sure, Napster was the first big music downloading phenomenon, but it pissed off the recording industry (like I care). However, Apple managed to get in there and do a proper setup of how new technology and the old recording industry business model could work together. They made a tightly knit system for purchasing music from the net and getting it onto the iPod, secured with DRM, so the RIAA would go along with it- it doesn't even go through a web browser or third party media player. They have even encrypted the wireless audio setup between iTunes and AirPort Express to please the RIAA. Real's tinkering with the DRM could make the RIAA jumpy about the security of the Apple music distribution model. Maybe that's what pissed off so many people. They probably didn't see what Real did as an alternative source for music, but as a threat to their current access to music. The way Real went about it wasn't very nice either. They wanted to join Apple, were rejected, then they forced their way in. People who were pleased to finally be able to legitimately harness the full potential of computers and portable players for mainstream music wouldn't be pleased with an uninvited guest crashing the party.
Check out the disco ball. I don't recall seeing that feature on the Enterprise. He actually did a pretty good makeover, considering the before shots. I think I saw a clip about this guy on television- he did all this stuff after his wife left him. He was claiming that he actually had a working transporter and could beam over to the pub around the corner. I didn't see the actual show, so I don't know if he was just kidding around or if he actually believed it himself.
Ages ago, I was surprised to learn that the definition of "economics" wasn't "the study of money" but rather the study of how people network their wants and needs. The definition I've come up with online is "the branch of social science that deals with the production and distribution and consumption of goods and services and their management". It always kept me wondering how an economy could exist without the use of money.
The thing about money is that, beyond the psychological impressions of it, it is simply a form of networking technology. I've always wondered if it could be replaced by another form of networking. With the advent of the Internet, it looks like another has possibly come about. The successes of "critical mass" phenomena such as Open Source, P2P, and Wikis shows that it is possible to do some things this way.
A system called LETS has been around for a while that maintains a form of local economy without using money. The Internet could allow such a system to be implemented on a much larger scale. I recall seeing something about it a while back on television that said the point of the system was to make people focus less on the currency and see that they could actually maintain a local economy without one.
I think there is an innate misconception in how an amount of money is percieved. The first impression of it is that it is a fixed measurement of something almost tangible, like mass, when in fact it is a percentage of the currency as a whole. It's a piece of a pie, and the pie doesn't get bigger- if you get a bigger piece, it means someone else has to get a smaller piece. It doesn't mean more pie for everyone. And it is actually a decentralised form of record-keeping. When you look at it that way, currency could simply be compared to something like the dewey decimal system, and can be replaced by other forms. The dependence on it also causes limitations. Take the example of an economy that requires a workforce smaller than the population. Should people that can't be part of the workforce simply be eliminated because they don't have an income? There is also an example of the illusion of money in The Money Myth Exploded by Louis Even.
I think that it is erroneous to compare not using currency with communism. The use of currency and democracy are independent of one another. You can still have democracy without currency. In fact, it would probably be a more ideal democracy because there wouldn't be the whole controversy of financial lobbying, soft money, biases from campaign contributions, rent-a-crowds, and vote buying.
I know- they were one of the first to do massive amounts of credit card transactions over the internet, did video on demand, spoofed the search engines, they propagate spam, trojans... they tested the capacity and security of the Internet in both good and bad ways that the rest of the "legit" computer industry had to keep up with. In fact I think one of the big secrets about the.com boom is that some of the major success stories were actually porn sites, but nobody wanted to mention that on the news.
"Unless you have an optical computer inside the switch to make these decisions, you'll still need electronic components."
I can recall reading years ago about the excitement of optical computers being developed, and I can even recall that someone made a large prototype of an optical processor. I presume that there are some implementations in the current industry, but I'd still love to see a fully optical computer. Still waiting:(
I predict a painfully slow death of ethernet, which will probably go the way of the floppy drive.
Apple is already introducing something called Xsan. A quote from their site...
"Xsan storage networking eliminates the bottlenecks of Ethernet-based network file servers, whose performance will only get worse over time as denser formats such as HD become more common. Using Fibre Channel multipathing, in which two Fibre Channel cables connect a computer to the SAN, an Xsan client can theoretically achieve throughput of up to 400MBps, perfect for multiple editors working on a video project or a compute cluster that needs fast access to data to ensure each node crunches at full capacity."
Every time I hear about something being developed that they are going to launch into space, the timeframe is always in a decade or something. This is great to actually hear an announcement that will be followed by a launch in the same year. I wonder if they'll get it out before Windows XP SP2? Wait a minute- I hope it's not going to be running Windows XP SP2!
I've never owned a mobile phone because I've always thought that one day, they're going to say it is as bad as smoking. Sometimes I wonder if all this technology is really making things easier or more complicated. The Amish lifestyle is looking more and more appealing, especially every time I have a hard drive crash.
An unrelated example: brain disease has tripled in the past two decades in most developed countries. But not in Japan. Aren't you curious as to why?
I would like to know, as a matter of fact. Do you know, or was this the result of a survey that documented the effects while still searching for the cause?
I vaguely recollect that Japan and the Netherlands had lower incidences of heart disease, because of more fish oil in their diet. But Japan had a higher rate of colon cancers. I may be completely wrong, but I could have sworn I heard this stuff somewhere.
I wonder if this means that Apple will implement the same glowing keys feature that is present in the 15" and 17" Powerbooks on their desktop models. That's a great feature for allowing the use of a computer in the dark. In this case, the whole computer can light up when the lights go down. Great for getting that "computer tan".
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... if there was a problem with it, they decided to take it off so they could fix it. If you tell somebody that part of their site isn't working properly, should they just leave it? OSViews.com would be complaining about this even if Google did leave it.
... wasn't the iTunes/iPod bundle the first mainstream way of legitimately getting RIAA music onto an MP3 jukebox? Sure, Napster was the first big music downloading phenomenon, but it pissed off the recording industry (like I care). However, Apple managed to get in there and do a proper setup of how new technology and the old recording industry business model could work together. They made a tightly knit system for purchasing music from the net and getting it onto the iPod, secured with DRM, so the RIAA would go along with it- it doesn't even go through a web browser or third party media player. They have even encrypted the wireless audio setup between iTunes and AirPort Express to please the RIAA. Real's tinkering with the DRM could make the RIAA jumpy about the security of the Apple music distribution model. Maybe that's what pissed off so many people. They probably didn't see what Real did as an alternative source for music, but as a threat to their current access to music. The way Real went about it wasn't very nice either. They wanted to join Apple, were rejected, then they forced their way in. People who were pleased to finally be able to legitimately harness the full potential of computers and portable players for mainstream music wouldn't be pleased with an uninvited guest crashing the party.
Don't mess with Jobs' Reality Distortion Field(TM)!
Trademarked? I thought it was patented.
Still why waste the money on such a transparently corrupt "study". Just make the decision in a smokey backroom and move on.
They have to at least go through the motions of doing it legitimately so that the bovine masses don't realise they're being led to the slaughterhouse.
Why bother? They're using IE. Chances are they already have tons of them.
Of course that's based on the incorrect assumption that most users actually USE many of the features of MS Office.
But what about Clippy? Surely people can't do without Clippy!
Can anyone set me straight here?
Microsoft will be contacting you shortly.
Check out the disco ball. I don't recall seeing that feature on the Enterprise. He actually did a pretty good makeover, considering the before shots. I think I saw a clip about this guy on television- he did all this stuff after his wife left him. He was claiming that he actually had a working transporter and could beam over to the pub around the corner. I didn't see the actual show, so I don't know if he was just kidding around or if he actually believed it himself.
Ages ago, I was surprised to learn that the definition of "economics" wasn't "the study of money" but rather the study of how people network their wants and needs. The definition I've come up with online is "the branch of social science that deals with the production and distribution and consumption of goods and services and their management". It always kept me wondering how an economy could exist without the use of money.
The thing about money is that, beyond the psychological impressions of it, it is simply a form of networking technology. I've always wondered if it could be replaced by another form of networking. With the advent of the Internet, it looks like another has possibly come about. The successes of "critical mass" phenomena such as Open Source, P2P, and Wikis shows that it is possible to do some things this way.
A system called LETS has been around for a while that maintains a form of local economy without using money. The Internet could allow such a system to be implemented on a much larger scale. I recall seeing something about it a while back on television that said the point of the system was to make people focus less on the currency and see that they could actually maintain a local economy without one.
I think there is an innate misconception in how an amount of money is percieved. The first impression of it is that it is a fixed measurement of something almost tangible, like mass, when in fact it is a percentage of the currency as a whole. It's a piece of a pie, and the pie doesn't get bigger- if you get a bigger piece, it means someone else has to get a smaller piece. It doesn't mean more pie for everyone. And it is actually a decentralised form of record-keeping. When you look at it that way, currency could simply be compared to something like the dewey decimal system, and can be replaced by other forms. The dependence on it also causes limitations. Take the example of an economy that requires a workforce smaller than the population. Should people that can't be part of the workforce simply be eliminated because they don't have an income? There is also an example of the illusion of money in The Money Myth Exploded by Louis Even.
I think that it is erroneous to compare not using currency with communism. The use of currency and democracy are independent of one another. You can still have democracy without currency. In fact, it would probably be a more ideal democracy because there wouldn't be the whole controversy of financial lobbying, soft money, biases from campaign contributions, rent-a-crowds, and vote buying.
I know- they were one of the first to do massive amounts of credit card transactions over the internet, did video on demand, spoofed the search engines, they propagate spam, trojans... they tested the capacity and security of the Internet in both good and bad ways that the rest of the "legit" computer industry had to keep up with. In fact I think one of the big secrets about the .com boom is that some of the major success stories were actually porn sites, but nobody wanted to mention that on the news.
You forgot to mention it must also be programmed not to mistake the audience for its opponent and go on a bloody rampage.
you forgot to accentuate...
...in Japan!
"Unless you have an optical computer inside the switch to make these decisions, you'll still need electronic components."
I can recall reading years ago about the excitement of optical computers being developed, and I can even recall that someone made a large prototype of an optical processor. I presume that there are some implementations in the current industry, but I'd still love to see a fully optical computer. Still waiting :(
Whats the point of blazing high speeds without the content???
You'll be getting HDTV porn on-demand. As usual, the adult industry will be the first to test the technological limits of the internet.
I predict a painfully slow death of ethernet, which will probably go the way of the floppy drive.
Apple is already introducing something called Xsan. A quote from their site...
Don't forget that God looks like a few stars that light up when he talks.
You really should stop sitting in front of Christmas trees while on acid.
Every time I hear about something being developed that they are going to launch into space, the timeframe is always in a decade or something. This is great to actually hear an announcement that will be followed by a launch in the same year. I wonder if they'll get it out before Windows XP SP2? Wait a minute- I hope it's not going to be running Windows XP SP2!
I've never owned a mobile phone because I've always thought that one day, they're going to say it is as bad as smoking. Sometimes I wonder if all this technology is really making things easier or more complicated. The Amish lifestyle is looking more and more appealing, especially every time I have a hard drive crash.
An unrelated example: brain disease has tripled in the past two decades in most developed countries. But not in Japan. Aren't you curious as to why?
I would like to know, as a matter of fact. Do you know, or was this the result of a survey that documented the effects while still searching for the cause?
I vaguely recollect that Japan and the Netherlands had lower incidences of heart disease, because of more fish oil in their diet. But Japan had a higher rate of colon cancers. I may be completely wrong, but I could have sworn I heard this stuff somewhere.
I wonder if this means that Apple will implement the same glowing keys feature that is present in the 15" and 17" Powerbooks on their desktop models. That's a great feature for allowing the use of a computer in the dark. In this case, the whole computer can light up when the lights go down. Great for getting that "computer tan".
If you try to put it there but it's too hot, then do it at night.
And you thought Euro Disney was a flop...
I meant more along the lines of TCP/IP and routers. Modems and telephone networks are fine, so long as they aren't run through the internet.
Perhaps the funnest next to using made-up words.
What are you talking about? "Funnest" is a perfectly cromulent word.
So this singularity thing is supposed to meant we are going to become a Borg collective?