Sir, please note that I still succeeded in getting my comment's subjectline reproduced by virtue of people replying to it, hence I am more biologically fertile than you.
I've got a Motorola v3 razr and in many ways, it's quite worse than my first cell phone, those humble, old-school Nokias. See, on the Nokia, there was a number-number-number combination for every operation. Using it was fast, simple, intuitive. With these new phones, you have to manually scroll through menus, wait for the display to catch up with your input, etc. It's a royal pain.
And I don't see any reason you can't have the features that marketing loves (camera, streaming video, whatever crap they want to put in) without also leavign the basic functions alone--address book, dialing, changing LCD brightness, etc. Why not just have a "basic" mode and then be able to switch over to a fancy bullshit mode?
I tend to avoid most computer games, even though I love the things to death. Since I use computers all day at work, and I seem predisposed to having achy joints (sharps pains, swelling, and dull aches in hands, elbows, and shoulders), I just can't spent another few hours twitching and doing repetitive movements without pain.
Is this finally the crack in the dam we've all been waiting for to wash away the entrenched monopolies of 20th century music production? Or just a sell-out waiting to happen?
...I would love to get feedback from employers. It's too bad that we live in such a litigious society where you can't even give advice to people who don't make the cut.
...afford a per-song cost in that range. I think I got spoiled by eMusic recently by getting songs for 22 cents/song. And there was no whole album penalty for anything. I even got long tracks-as-album (60 minute songs) for the same price. Only downsides to eMusic are: 1) only independent artists, so I still miss my Autechre, Boards of Canada, etc., 2) No official/maintained Linux client, just an old one they used to support.
Eh? I have installed it multiple times on several different machines and OSes without any problem. I guess if you try to erase already occupied space that'd be bad... but it's not easy to do that.
1. Maybe you don't *want* data to be portable. It'd make it that much easier for spammers, hiring managers, etc. to scrape the web for your info.
2. I imagine MySpace et al will end up like the instant messengers, either with networks merging/interoperating or a universal client that will be able to interface with all the networks.
I'm not entirely certain it'd work on memory cards, but it works great on hard drives. You can overwrite clustertips, free space, etc. with many passes of psuedo-random data. I think the new version is commercial, so here's a link to an older version:
http://www.tolvanen.com/eraser/
We've already seen traditional advertising via the tubes. I guess all that's left is for the next presidential candidates to launch attacks/defenses on there.
Slashdot Mirror
Last night my phalls suffered a backlash when I found my girlfriend had installed one of those South African anti-rape devices in you-know-where.
Sir, please note that I still succeeded in getting my comment's subjectline reproduced by virtue of people replying to it, hence I am more biologically fertile than you.
Chilly urine is all I have to contribute to this story.
..and it doesn't run Linux!
Good to know. I should blame Verizon, then. I wonder if those "hacks"/firmware replacement can change the menus.
I've got a Motorola v3 razr and in many ways, it's quite worse than my first cell phone, those humble, old-school Nokias. See, on the Nokia, there was a number-number-number combination for every operation. Using it was fast, simple, intuitive. With these new phones, you have to manually scroll through menus, wait for the display to catch up with your input, etc. It's a royal pain.
And I don't see any reason you can't have the features that marketing loves (camera, streaming video, whatever crap they want to put in) without also leavign the basic functions alone--address book, dialing, changing LCD brightness, etc. Why not just have a "basic" mode and then be able to switch over to a fancy bullshit mode?
Man, it really frustrates me.
I tend to avoid most computer games, even though I love the things to death. Since I use computers all day at work, and I seem predisposed to having achy joints (sharps pains, swelling, and dull aches in hands, elbows, and shoulders), I just can't spent another few hours twitching and doing repetitive movements without pain.
How about changes to make it easier or even possible to revoke bad patents?
I think the decision to use an asymmetric CPU by Sony was a wrong one.
Oooh,*burn*!
Is it a desperate cause?
Yes.
...making artists *believe* that they (the record labels) are the only way to make it big. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy of sorts.
Is this finally the crack in the dam we've all been waiting for to wash away the entrenched monopolies of 20th century music production? Or just a sell-out waiting to happen?
Yes.
Even Google is having trouble taking on that sector...
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http://blogs.business2.com/beta/2006/12/google_ch
...I would love to get feedback from employers. It's too bad that we live in such a litigious society where you can't even give advice to people who don't make the cut.
I know, the article probably only refers to visible light, but note that we've detected things as far away as 12 billion light years: http://hypertextbook.com/facts/1998/JiYoungLee.sht ml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasars
...14- and 16-year-olds is illegal.
...that blasts people with security information/education.
Wyoming hits rocket!
They even come in "Electrifying colors". http://www.superwarehouse.com/Imation_3.5_Neon_Flo ppy_for_PC_(10_pk)/11916/p/47954
...afford a per-song cost in that range. I think I got spoiled by eMusic recently by getting songs for 22 cents/song. And there was no whole album penalty for anything. I even got long tracks-as-album (60 minute songs) for the same price. Only downsides to eMusic are: 1) only independent artists, so I still miss my Autechre, Boards of Canada, etc., 2) No official/maintained Linux client, just an old one they used to support.
...as less a commercial/military enterprise and more as a public utility that everyone should have a right to access, just like water or electricity.
Eh? I have installed it multiple times on several different machines and OSes without any problem. I guess if you try to erase already occupied space that'd be bad... but it's not easy to do that.
1. Maybe you don't *want* data to be portable. It'd make it that much easier for spammers, hiring managers, etc. to scrape the web for your info. 2. I imagine MySpace et al will end up like the instant messengers, either with networks merging/interoperating or a universal client that will be able to interface with all the networks.
I'm not entirely certain it'd work on memory cards, but it works great on hard drives. You can overwrite clustertips, free space, etc. with many passes of psuedo-random data. I think the new version is commercial, so here's a link to an older version: http://www.tolvanen.com/eraser/
We've already seen traditional advertising via the tubes. I guess all that's left is for the next presidential candidates to launch attacks/defenses on there.