Itunes does not figure into the equation for me at all. I love my iPod, But I'm not a big fan of iTunes. I still use winamp to play all the music on my computer. and when I buy music, I buy the actual album, supporting my local independant record store.
Everyone talks about the iTunes/iPod bundling as being esential, but I'm sure there's lots of people like me who love the iPod, but could care less about iTunes
In a way, a browser is an OS, If google can create a portal that give basic functionality for what most people do in windows (web, email, digital photos, and downloads) within and opensource browser like firefox, it wouldn't be hard to move them to a open source OS that supports all their web-apps through the browser.
I really don't see this happening, seeing the (lack of ) sucess of web-apliances that we hear so much about.
Blizard is not a small company. you would think that they would have the resources to buy the appropriate bandwidth/server capacity.
I wonder if this is more of a problem with how the software itself is written. A rewrite in order to scale better is the only I reason I could see for a major delay.
Of course, in this case, Apple is probably just passing on the policies set by the recording companies in their contracts. If my guess is right, then hopefully they can use this ruling to get more equitable terms in their contracts.
I'm sure its the record companies that have dictated the pricing structure, but with exange rates, even if apple changed the price so it was more in line with the Euro using countries, the value of the currency could change again.
I guess you could do it dynamicaly, but $0.83-$1.12 a song doesn't quiet have the sanme ring as $0.99
I think that poor parental understanding and control of their children's using habits is to blame.
How about poor self control? I had to take counter strike of my computer so I get work done, but with two terms papers and to finals this week I have spent a lot more time on my computer looking at/. fark, and on my blog than studying. I think I have typed more in my blog than I have on my term papers, and here I am on slashdot, wasting more time.
Computers are great tools for learning, but they are also great tools for distraction.
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Are there any published studies about how much spam could be reduced if Microsoft could place more effective anti-spam features into the OS itself
I certainly wouldn't want spam features built into the OS. Isn't the reason why we all hate microsoft that they put too much stuff into their os?
Thunderbird does an ok job of filtering spam for me, although I'm very careful about where my email adress goes.
the biggest thing that could help stop spam is if no one bought anything. sapm costs basicly nothing to send, so if 1 person out of a billion buys viagra or whatever, the spamer makes a profit.
I'll split it with you... you think $150 will be enough?
seriously, I wonder how long it will take for some of those 43,000 games to start showing up on ebay for $2.99 + $10.99 shipping + handling, I'm sure they will go for really cheap, but don't see how you could ever get rid of that many games otherwise.
I don't see why the whole "soverign nation" thing matters.
The whole idea of of soverignty started with the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648. It attempted to end the holy wars by saying that the local princes/kings had the right to decide what religion would be practised inside their own borders. If the notion of soveringty holds through today, you could say that China has the right do decide what information makes it inside its borders. The WTO is seen as a threat to soveringty because it doesn't allow nations to enforce laws that could be barriers to trade.
Right now, Google is playing by China's rules, since it is a market with an incredible potential for growth. It woudl be interesting to see google take on China in the WTO, saying that censorship is a barrier to trade.
Google is now a public company though, and I don't think shareholders would be happy if they stayed out of the Chinese market for philosophical/political reasons.
I'd love to see a more open society in China, but the political reality is that it isn't going to happen.
There is a band called The Advantage, that play nothing but covers of classic 8bit ninetintedo songs, and they play them well. the songs may have simple bases, but they are actually really good musicly.
On thanksgiving me and my family enjoyed watching a bunch of old films for the Prelinger archives. Most of the movies were produced by some industry group, but of course after 50 years these have no value anymore.
Disney of course can still make money, and on principle, a can support them being able to get extensions, but it is stupid to not allow abandoned works to be free.
There's basically zero chance you'd be able to patch a stock Win2K/XP SP1 machine before you got nailed on an open Internet connection
on my college network, you aren't allowed to use the outside internet untill you have the most recent patches installed, which are mirror on internal servers.If you computer is caught sending spam or DOS attacks, you are kicked of the network completly untill you get it fixed
I'm not sure how effective this is, knowing the kind of shit people download, but its a start.
Heat is the problem, the reason why there are fans is that heat needs to escape and glass is an insulator, not a conductor.
My 500 watt reciever has a heat sink thats about 4x10x4, and has a fan that turns on a very high tempertures, which it usaul only reaches when it is cranked up for an extended period of time. What I'd really like to see is a volume controled fan controler. When the movie gets quiet, the fans slow down and then crank back up when it gets loud again.
but you can save yourslef some money and do what I do. Turn up the volume on my reciever loud enoguh so you can't hear the fans, or the wife complaining.
Oh, and since my main job is telecom, I get asked to run cabling for friends. At various times I've had my entire refrigerator full of beer because of it.
barters the way to go. I help my neighbor(who owns a tire shop) set up dsl on his computer and got free mounting, balencing and liftime rotation on a new set of tires for my car. It was 20 minutes of work that he never would have paid me $80 for, but had no problem giving me $80 worth of service for it.
I think companies should be burning more r&d money. Bell labs used to do all sorts of crazy things that had nothing to do with telecomunications and came up with all sorts of interesting stuff (think UNIX).
Once it got spun off into Lucent Technologies, profit and pleasing the shareholders became the cheif motive, and most of the sciensist who were workign on porjects that weren't directly profitable were laid off.
Intel's fault isn't in a failed product, but that it started to market something that wasn't ready for primetime. I say let the scienctists work on the product before worrying about selling the product.
I submitted this story too, and I can promise that I don't work for the Times. I do happen to spend at least 30 minutes a day reading it tough. I think it is one of the best sources of news out there
I don't normaly read the times for tech news though (that's what slashdot is for). But it certainly rather see this posted than a nother article about the guy who made a working death star out of old shampoo bottles and ber cans in his parents basement:)
Its takes less than 7 seconds from the time I open the lid on my powerbook untill I can browse available networks. The wifi dector doesn't even tell you if you will be able to connect to the network or not. I don't really see the use for these devices
I got in a car accident about 6 years ago, and was fine except for a few bruises, although the car fliped end over end. I was aminor at the time, and the police forced me into an ambulance before my mom got there. The ride to the hospital was about 3 miles, and cost $1000. at the hospital, the hooked up an IV and put on a heart rate monitor in case of internal injuries and then all the docotrs and nurses went to lunch. Being bored, I decided to disconect my heart monitor to see what happen. I watched my line go flat, and no on e ever came. 30 minutes later, they decided they need to room, so they pulled out the IV and put me into waiting room while my mom signed the papers. the bill $5000.
I also got a ticket for crossing the median, although the car was upside down when i crossed it.
That was totaly off topic, but my point was that anyone without health insurance would be bankrupt in an accident like that. I would much rather see my taxes go to fund more public health efforts and lost cost interent than to subsidize big corporations.
Governemnt is a nessecary evil. no cou.ld never get a private compnay to build higways or any other public infastructure without the price being prohibitve for most people.
My dad taught science in public high schools for 25 years before quiting. In the last school he worked at, the football team got new uniforms every year, but he was forced to by lab equipment out of his own pocket. He gave a damn about the students, but unfortently he did not have the the support of the administration.
If america is going to maintain a competive edge in the world, we have to get kids excited abotu science. There are lots of great universities out there, but what happens when kids come out of high school hating science beacuse they had bad teachers?
Adult entertainment is a multi-billion dollar business. It's not going anywhere, and I'm sure pretty much any slashdotter has the skills to find pr0n even if the FCC makes earthlink and comcast block playboy dot com.
senators and congressman hold these kinds of hearings all the tme so they can tell their constituants that they are actually doing stuff.
I felt no reason to upgrade from my 2.9x untill 5.05 came out, and relized that it wasn't that bad. I use itunes to load up my iPod and to put on party shuffle, for you guessed it, parties, but for my day to day sudio needs WinAmp has been it since I first got 1.something on my cyrix 166 runing win95
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Everyone talks about the iTunes/iPod bundling as being esential, but I'm sure there's lots of people like me who love the iPod, but could care less about iTunes
I really don't see this happening, seeing the (lack of ) sucess of web-apliances that we hear so much about.
Blizard is not a small company. you would think that they would have the resources to buy the appropriate bandwidth/server capacity. I wonder if this is more of a problem with how the software itself is written. A rewrite in order to scale better is the only I reason I could see for a major delay.
Harry poter is slightly more questionable, but anything that gets compared to snowcrash I would consider reading.
I'm sure its the record companies that have dictated the pricing structure, but with exange rates, even if apple changed the price so it was more in line with the Euro using countries, the value of the currency could change again.
I guess you could do it dynamicaly, but $0.83-$1.12 a song doesn't quiet have the sanme ring as $0.99
Computers are great tools for learning, but they are also great tools for distraction.
I certainly wouldn't want spam features built into the OS. Isn't the reason why we all hate microsoft that they put too much stuff into their os?
Thunderbird does an ok job of filtering spam for me, although I'm very careful about where my email adress goes.
the biggest thing that could help stop spam is if no one bought anything. sapm costs basicly nothing to send, so if 1 person out of a billion buys viagra or whatever, the spamer makes a profit.
seriously, I wonder how long it will take for some of those 43,000 games to start showing up on ebay for $2.99 + $10.99 shipping + handling, I'm sure they will go for really cheap, but don't see how you could ever get rid of that many games otherwise.
and if your not in china, then this doesn't really wall under "your rights online."
The whole idea of of soverignty started with the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648. It attempted to end the holy wars by saying that the local princes/kings had the right to decide what religion would be practised inside their own borders. If the notion of soveringty holds through today, you could say that China has the right do decide what information makes it inside its borders. The WTO is seen as a threat to soveringty because it doesn't allow nations to enforce laws that could be barriers to trade.
Right now, Google is playing by China's rules, since it is a market with an incredible potential for growth. It woudl be interesting to see google take on China in the WTO, saying that censorship is a barrier to trade.
Google is now a public company though, and I don't think shareholders would be happy if they stayed out of the Chinese market for philosophical/political reasons.
I'd love to see a more open society in China, but the political reality is that it isn't going to happen.
There is a band called The Advantage, that play nothing but covers of classic 8bit ninetintedo songs, and they play them well. the songs may have simple bases, but they are actually really good musicly.
Disney of course can still make money, and on principle, a can support them being able to get extensions, but it is stupid to not allow abandoned works to be free.
on my college network, you aren't allowed to use the outside internet untill you have the most recent patches installed, which are mirror on internal servers.If you computer is caught sending spam or DOS attacks, you are kicked of the network completly untill you get it fixed
I'm not sure how effective this is, knowing the kind of shit people download, but its a start.
Heat is the problem, the reason why there are fans is that heat needs to escape and glass is an insulator, not a conductor.
My 500 watt reciever has a heat sink thats about 4x10x4, and has a fan that turns on a very high tempertures, which it usaul only reaches when it is cranked up for an extended period of time.
What I'd really like to see is a volume controled fan controler. When the movie gets quiet, the fans slow down and then crank back up when it gets loud again.
but you can save yourslef some money and do what I do. Turn up the volume on my reciever loud enoguh so you can't hear the fans, or the wife complaining.
Oh, and since my main job is telecom, I get asked to run cabling for friends. At various times I've had my entire refrigerator full of beer because of it. barters the way to go. I help my neighbor(who owns a tire shop) set up dsl on his computer and got free mounting, balencing and liftime rotation on a new set of tires for my car. It was 20 minutes of work that he never would have paid me $80 for, but had no problem giving me $80 worth of service for it.
Once it got spun off into Lucent Technologies, profit and pleasing the shareholders became the cheif motive, and most of the sciensist who were workign on porjects that weren't directly profitable were laid off.
Intel's fault isn't in a failed product, but that it started to market something that wasn't ready for primetime. I say let the scienctists work on the product before worrying about selling the product.
I don't normaly read the times for tech news though (that's what slashdot is for). But it certainly rather see this posted than a nother article about the guy who made a working death star out of old shampoo bottles and ber cans in his parents basement :)
Its takes less than 7 seconds from the time I open the lid on my powerbook untill I can browse available networks. The wifi dector doesn't even tell you if you will be able to connect to the network or not. I don't really see the use for these devices
I also got a ticket for crossing the median, although the car was upside down when i crossed it.
That was totaly off topic, but my point was that anyone without health insurance would be bankrupt in an accident like that. I would much rather see my taxes go to fund more public health efforts and lost cost interent than to subsidize big corporations.
Governemnt is a nessecary evil. no cou.ld never get a private compnay to build higways or any other public infastructure without the price being prohibitve for most people.
I for one welcoem my new new Lnus overlord.
If america is going to maintain a competive edge in the world, we have to get kids excited abotu science. There are lots of great universities out there, but what happens when kids come out of high school hating science beacuse they had bad teachers?
senators and congressman hold these kinds of hearings all the tme so they can tell their constituants that they are actually doing stuff.
I felt no reason to upgrade from my 2.9x untill 5.05 came out, and relized that it wasn't that bad. I use itunes to load up my iPod and to put on party shuffle, for you guessed it, parties, but for my day to day sudio needs WinAmp has been it since I first got 1.something on my cyrix 166 runing win95
They made a beowulf cluster of all the top 10?