it seems all they'd need to be "culturally different" is to throw in a few extra letters.
Well done at rewriting history. Brits don't had in extra letters, Americans remove letters willy nilly. Everyone knows it's truly Astronaught, which was one of the reasons the Brittish banned manned space flight. Unfortunately this article doesn't mention that problem at all.
Are you saying that only 49% of the population COULD have voted at all in the election? If so you're severly misinformed. 1% isn't the total number of people who voted, but the total number of people who voted online.
you don't like an entry, you can fix it yourself. Which is rather like going to a restaurant for a date, being served terrible food, and then being told by the waiter where to find the kitchen.
There are restaurants out there that let anyone cook up meals to serve their customers? Wow, I didn't know that. Could you point me to such a restaurant?
One wonders if there is a closet Trekker in the military press office.:-)
I can't wait until the military does away with it's "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy so those defending America don't have to keep their love for cock^H^H^H^H Star Trek secret.
The affiliates gave you Video On Demand (downloadable DVD-quality content via broadband) nearly a decade ago. I'm in Australia - the technological backwaters of the universe - and even we have VoD.
I wasn't aware of that, can you point me to where I can legally download tv shows on my PC?
In fact, there is nothing new whatsoever about downloading TV shows! I've got about 50 different channels on my cable box that allow me to do this whenever I want to, and at higher resolutions than iTMS.
What is new is I don't have to subscribe to a cable company for this though (in Australia cable tv isn't anywhere as big as in America), which is a good thing(TM). I don't have to pay for an Itunes subscription each month. I don't know if all VOD is free (I know some is), but Itunes only charges me for the tv show I download, which is a good thing(TM). Even if all VOD is free, Itunes is offering an alternative method of paying, which I much prefer.
I'm a fan of Apple (just bought some shares too), but am I the only one who thinks that Apple's threat lurking in the far dark future might be antitrust litigation?
I don't think so (and I'm not particularly an Apple fan;)). The difference is yes Apple has coupled Itunes and Ipod, but Itunes isn't installed by default on their browser which has the large majority of the market, and I just can't see MacOS becoming a serious desktop contender unless they change their business practices. At the moment, MacOS is only available for Apple's proprietry hardware (which some feel is extremely expensive). Even with their moving to x86 (that's the right term isn't it?) they're adding DRM to make it so MacOS can't be installed on non-Apple hardware (and while it will be broken, I can't see it overtaking Windows whilever it has the DRM).
The reason Itunes has taken off is because it doesn't require propreitry hardware. As for the Ipod, I'm completely baffled;)
Although if Apple did get a virtual monopoly in the desktop world with MacOS, then it could mean trouble. While it doesn't have anything to worry about DOJ, the EU might balk at Itunes being installed by default (IS Itunes installed by default at the moment?). I personally won't have a problem, IF it can be uninstalled (and I mean REALLY uninstalled). Then again I don't have a problem with having IE installed by default on Windows XP. Well, I wouldn't have a problem IF I could remove it properly.
Does the introduction of blogsearch.google.com mean that content on whatever Google deems a blog is being segregated from the rest of the Internet? Try cutting and pasting a phrase from your favorite A-list blog into Google's regular search: nada. Try putting it in blogsearch: voila!
The day when I can download my latest episodes of SG1 or my girlfriends O.C for $1.99 rather than wait 6-9months for it to come on TV in the UK is the day that I stop using eMule!
I too wait for the day I can use Itunes Video (with an Australian credit card), you lucky sod you. Although even if that day came tomorrow, I'd still wait until they offer a better resolution though (not that I download episodes from the internet, it's just too difficult).
You mean, paying for something that I can receive for free with a TV and an antenna?
You mean you get commercial free television with your antenna, for free? And you're able to call up whatever television you want JUST with your antenna? Wow. That's incredible.
Give me something I can't already get for free
A commercial free program that is yours forever. That's something you can't get for free (unless you use a video or CD, which can be lost or destroyed).
Slashdotters have often complained about there not being a commercial alternative to illegally downloading television shows. Slashdotters often said that they would happily pay a few bucks to download episodes legally. Now there finally is a legal alternative, and people are complaining about it just being a replica of what's provided for free on tv. Typical.
The article has been up for three and a half days.
That's what happens when you visit a news aggregation site. Either stop complaining or leave. Having news be "old" is a problem inherent with slashdot, get over it already.
I doubt very much there exists a PETA in Japan. When I went there in 2001 there was a "pet store" that lions in cages that were a little larger then the creature itself, and all sorts of other atrocities. When we asked our guide what we could do, the answer was nothing (the guide didn't take us to this place).
How is asking for a useful summary (because the link provided is unreadable to anyone who values their sanity) a troll or offtopic? It discusses the article (on topic) and unless you're a lover of ad companies it can hardly be considered a troll.
Typical slashdot mods smoking weed once again. I have a theory some mods mod down anything that contains swearing. I've found the likelihood of my post getting modded down increases when I use expletives. Fucking mods.
It's very sad that the monopolistic behavior is not being stopped.
For that you have the Republicans to thank:
It was not until April 3, 2000, however, that a ruling was reached. U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ruled that Microsoft had to be split into two companies. However, in June 2001 part of the ruling was overturned by a federal appeals court, and in September the Justice Department decided to seek a settlement with Microsoft instead of trying to split it up.
I don't understand why people watch advertising anymore, with all the options out there...
I prefer to give websites a fighting chance at me clicking on a link (and thus helping to support their business method). If they're ads are so obnoxious that I want to resort to an adblocker, I merely stop visiting the website.
I'm sorry, but I tried to read this article but was unsuccessful. The ads are obnoxious. Google ads, while annoying, are livable. Banners are bad enough, but flashing banners are extremely annoying. But when you have all of the above along with obnoxious inline linkvertisements, it's too bad to read.
Is anyone that was willing to wade through the shit, willing to put up a summary of the article (not a copy-paste job)? The slashdot article just has anti-Yahoo/Microsoft content along with a "take back instant messaging" heading. It doesn't really say how this "citizens revolt" is suppose to occur.
I think you'll find Jabber to be much easier for your average user. And it's an open protocol, allowing anyone to create it (which allows them to speak with any other implementation).
Microsoft and Yahoo! waved the interoperability flag, but now that both companies have built substantial IM communities with their own closed networks, they have lost their passion for open networks.
Well duh! Microsoft definitely doesn't care about openness except when it benefits them (and only while it benefits them). Both companies want a larger share of the market, they're willing to do anything to get it (even to form a temporary alliance to wage war against their enemy). I doubt this comes as a surprise to anyone really. Justice would be to force them both to open their networks or to be forced to suffer limitations in development. Unfortunately, Microsoft in particular again, justice seems to be something they're good at avoiding.
and if that meant not spending so much time signing souvenirs for fanboys to sell on eBay, you shouldn't hold it against him.
I don't hold him making money against him (although he IS a controversial figure when it comes to the Trek fandom, as well as an actor with what some of his co-workers have had to say in the past), I just think that those who ARE willing to put the extra effort in (regardless of the reasons) are placed a little higher in my heart.
I do find it amusing that one of the worse actors from Star Trek (in my opinion) is one of the most successful ones post Star Trek.
And if Apple is still providing this service in 5 or 10 years then that will be great. But with the way the article was talking, VCRs will die much sooner then that. Apple's Itunes Video Service won't be a serious alternative for VCRs in the next couple of years.
Slashdot Mirror
Give me a good reason and I will consider space flight
Slashdotters don't weigh as much in space.
it seems all they'd need to be "culturally different" is to throw in a few extra letters.
Well done at rewriting history. Brits don't had in extra letters, Americans remove letters willy nilly. Everyone knows it's truly Astronaught, which was one of the reasons the Brittish banned manned space flight. Unfortunately this article doesn't mention that problem at all.
Are you saying that only 49% of the population COULD have voted at all in the election? If so you're severly misinformed. 1% isn't the total number of people who voted, but the total number of people who voted online.
Why on God's Green Earth should anybody care about Estonians voting besides Estonians?
Because voting via the internet is something many Americans are interested in, so they're interested in attempts at making it work.
Slashdot should stick to what it does best tech news a week late.
You mean like they did with this article? Or is internet voting not considered tech news?
I wonder what would have had to happen for it to be considered a failure.
More people voting then are actually elligble would have been considered a failure. By the losing opponent(s) anyway.
you don't like an entry, you can fix it yourself. Which is rather like going to a restaurant for a date, being served terrible food, and then being told by the waiter where to find the kitchen.
There are restaurants out there that let anyone cook up meals to serve their customers? Wow, I didn't know that. Could you point me to such a restaurant?
What other, hard back, 200 lb, $2000, encyclopedia chronicles the history of slashdot?
I wasn't aware there was one to begin with, let alone there be another one!
One wonders if there is a closet Trekker in the military press office. :-)
I can't wait until the military does away with it's "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy so those defending America don't have to keep their love for cock^H^H^H^H Star Trek secret.
The affiliates gave you Video On Demand (downloadable DVD-quality content via broadband) nearly a decade ago. I'm in Australia - the technological backwaters of the universe - and even we have VoD.
I wasn't aware of that, can you point me to where I can legally download tv shows on my PC?
In fact, there is nothing new whatsoever about downloading TV shows! I've got about 50 different channels on my cable box that allow me to do this whenever I want to, and at higher resolutions than iTMS.
What is new is I don't have to subscribe to a cable company for this though (in Australia cable tv isn't anywhere as big as in America), which is a good thing(TM). I don't have to pay for an Itunes subscription each month. I don't know if all VOD is free (I know some is), but Itunes only charges me for the tv show I download, which is a good thing(TM). Even if all VOD is free, Itunes is offering an alternative method of paying, which I much prefer.
I'm a fan of Apple (just bought some shares too), but am I the only one who thinks that Apple's threat lurking in the far dark future might be antitrust litigation?
;)). The difference is yes Apple has coupled Itunes and Ipod, but Itunes isn't installed by default on their browser which has the large majority of the market, and I just can't see MacOS becoming a serious desktop contender unless they change their business practices. At the moment, MacOS is only available for Apple's proprietry hardware (which some feel is extremely expensive). Even with their moving to x86 (that's the right term isn't it?) they're adding DRM to make it so MacOS can't be installed on non-Apple hardware (and while it will be broken, I can't see it overtaking Windows whilever it has the DRM).
;)
I don't think so (and I'm not particularly an Apple fan
The reason Itunes has taken off is because it doesn't require propreitry hardware. As for the Ipod, I'm completely baffled
Although if Apple did get a virtual monopoly in the desktop world with MacOS, then it could mean trouble. While it doesn't have anything to worry about DOJ, the EU might balk at Itunes being installed by default (IS Itunes installed by default at the moment?). I personally won't have a problem, IF it can be uninstalled (and I mean REALLY uninstalled). Then again I don't have a problem with having IE installed by default on Windows XP. Well, I wouldn't have a problem IF I could remove it properly.
Does the introduction of blogsearch.google.com mean that content on whatever Google deems a blog is being segregated from the rest of the Internet? Try cutting and pasting a phrase from your favorite A-list blog into Google's regular search: nada. Try putting it in blogsearch: voila!
I wish! Here's my results from your test:
* Searching a common phrase on the blog websnark returns a link to websnark in normal google
* Same phrase in blogsearch returns websnark as well
So no, unfortunately we're still getting stuck with blogs in normal google.
The day when I can download my latest episodes of SG1 or my girlfriends O.C for $1.99 rather than wait 6-9months for it to come on TV in the UK is the day that I stop using eMule!
I too wait for the day I can use Itunes Video (with an Australian credit card), you lucky sod you. Although even if that day came tomorrow, I'd still wait until they offer a better resolution though (not that I download episodes from the internet, it's just too difficult).
You mean, paying for something that I can receive for free with a TV and an antenna?
You mean you get commercial free television with your antenna, for free? And you're able to call up whatever television you want JUST with your antenna? Wow. That's incredible.
Give me something I can't already get for free
A commercial free program that is yours forever. That's something you can't get for free (unless you use a video or CD, which can be lost or destroyed).
Slashdotters have often complained about there not being a commercial alternative to illegally downloading television shows. Slashdotters often said that they would happily pay a few bucks to download episodes legally. Now there finally is a legal alternative, and people are complaining about it just being a replica of what's provided for free on tv. Typical.
The article has been up for three and a half days.
That's what happens when you visit a news aggregation site. Either stop complaining or leave. Having news be "old" is a problem inherent with slashdot, get over it already.
I doubt very much there exists a PETA in Japan. When I went there in 2001 there was a "pet store" that lions in cages that were a little larger then the creature itself, and all sorts of other atrocities. When we asked our guide what we could do, the answer was nothing (the guide didn't take us to this place).
How is asking for a useful summary (because the link provided is unreadable to anyone who values their sanity) a troll or offtopic? It discusses the article (on topic) and unless you're a lover of ad companies it can hardly be considered a troll.
Typical slashdot mods smoking weed once again. I have a theory some mods mod down anything that contains swearing. I've found the likelihood of my post getting modded down increases when I use expletives. Fucking mods.
For that you have the Republicans to thank: Source Source
I don't understand why people watch advertising anymore, with all the options out there...
I prefer to give websites a fighting chance at me clicking on a link (and thus helping to support their business method). If they're ads are so obnoxious that I want to resort to an adblocker, I merely stop visiting the website.
for copyright infringement
I'm sorry, but I tried to read this article but was unsuccessful. The ads are obnoxious. Google ads, while annoying, are livable. Banners are bad enough, but flashing banners are extremely annoying. But when you have all of the above along with obnoxious inline linkvertisements, it's too bad to read.
Is anyone that was willing to wade through the shit, willing to put up a summary of the article (not a copy-paste job)? The slashdot article just has anti-Yahoo/Microsoft content along with a "take back instant messaging" heading. It doesn't really say how this "citizens revolt" is suppose to occur.
I think you'll find Jabber to be much easier for your average user. And it's an open protocol, allowing anyone to create it (which allows them to speak with any other implementation).
Microsoft and Yahoo! waved the interoperability flag, but now that both companies have built substantial IM communities with their own closed networks, they have lost their passion for open networks.
Well duh! Microsoft definitely doesn't care about openness except when it benefits them (and only while it benefits them). Both companies want a larger share of the market, they're willing to do anything to get it (even to form a temporary alliance to wage war against their enemy). I doubt this comes as a surprise to anyone really. Justice would be to force them both to open their networks or to be forced to suffer limitations in development. Unfortunately, Microsoft in particular again, justice seems to be something they're good at avoiding.
and if that meant not spending so much time signing souvenirs for fanboys to sell on eBay, you shouldn't hold it against him.
I don't hold him making money against him (although he IS a controversial figure when it comes to the Trek fandom, as well as an actor with what some of his co-workers have had to say in the past), I just think that those who ARE willing to put the extra effort in (regardless of the reasons) are placed a little higher in my heart.
I do find it amusing that one of the worse actors from Star Trek (in my opinion) is one of the most successful ones post Star Trek.
In five or ten years
And if Apple is still providing this service in 5 or 10 years then that will be great. But with the way the article was talking, VCRs will die much sooner then that. Apple's Itunes Video Service won't be a serious alternative for VCRs in the next couple of years.