But the teachers unions constantly insist merit pay is impossible because you can't evaluate performance (apparently the one job in the universe whee this is true). How will they know which teachers are "masters"?
So, since pretty much every movie, song, and piece of software is "publicly available" if you have the right torrent tracker, it would be an outrage for Apple to pull, say, my new "Havatar" app that let's you play an full copy of the Avatar movie for free right?
bunch of FUD about things people supposedly can't do if they don't have the label/approval of "marriage" applied to their relationship All of this is of course patently untrue, since California already grants these rights (among others) to partners in a Domestic Partnership. Don't take my word for it though: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_partnership_in_California
Wow, where do you go to buy your Mac hardware without paying the cost of the bundled OS? Oh wait, you mean Apple uses the same "evil" tactic you accuse Microsoft of using on hardware that runs Windows (by the manufacturer's choice I might add since MS doesn't mac PC hardware).
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The short answer to how do you do "HD-in" is that you don't. I'm not aware of any consumer-grade offering that can take a raw, uncompressed HD signal like you get with component video, DVI, or HDMI going to you TV and do anything useful with it. All the existing boxes I've ever seen worked with compressed signals. I think the data-rate on raw DVI video is still prohibitive.
I don't know what the article/article summary was referring to, but I'm pretty sure this isn't even a SATA drive. At the very least the links they provide to, say, NewEgg for buying one aren't SATA. I'm pretty sure the SATA version of these 160GB perpendicular drives isn't actually available yet.
Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately it has basically nothing to do with my point that the statement "broadband penetration is non-existent" is completely bogus by any reasonable definition of non-existent.
To another parent's posting about the "embarrassing" level of broadband penetration in the U.S. Might I ask which countries with a population distribution similar to the U.S. are shining examples of how to get affordable broadband to everyone? It's a pretty darn easy problem to solve if your entire country is basically some islands with 1-10 large cities. It's not so easy when you have huge areas where people live many miles from the nearest telco CO.
Hmmm, non-existent broadband penetration you say? If by non-existent you mean the majority of Internet users in the United States, then I guess we agree. The percentage appears to be around 60% of Internet users. http://www.websiteoptimization.com/bw/0509/
Uh, I guess by "in the news", you must mean "posted on Slashdot". I doubt anyone outside the audience of this site knows or cares about some greasy-haired dude standing up to "the man".
Maybe Stallman should go work for the Brotherhood with Dave Chapelle.
This makes the most sense to me as well. Personally, I don't really even need/want the special "Aiport Express-thingy". Just let me play back movies on my HDTV with the Mini connected to it. That would kick butt, and I would seriously reconsider my Netflix subscription if they came out with a service that had any kind of decent selection.
Yup, I hear that. Back in the "starving student" days I grabbed what I could whenever it was a good deal. It would actually be kind of interesting if a company like Dell built slightly out-of-date PCs from totally surplus parts and tried to compete at this super-low-pricepoint. It would probably be a pain in the butt to support though, since most of their users aren't going to know how to deal with weird little issues themselves.
I make my own machines for a fraction of what Dell/Gateway/Apple charge and yet they're still very powerful
You forgot to tell us if the fraction is 9/10 or 11/10. Seriously, I doubt you can build one-offs with the same specs as a Dell (especially with some of the coupons you can find floating around) for very much cheaper. You can make quality arguments or whatever, but Dell is pretty darn efficient from a pricing standpoint and deal in huge volume.
Well, according to this Wikipedia article Madden 2005 was one of only 9 games to sell more than 1 million copies on the Xbox, so yeah I guess it's pretty important to them. It's even more important now that it's the only NFL game in town, and there won't be a competitive (better?) ESPN NFL game to compete with it.
Also, even in the PS2 world, the Madden has the next 3 top sellers after the GTA series and GT3. So, yes I would say they are quite justified ranking it highly in the article.
How many multi-million selling launch titles do you really think they're going to have for this thing?
Um, aren't all copies of the Mozilla applications "downloaded off the 'net"?. I don't see how that would be a deterrent to a large company using it.
In fact, most software even from large commercial vendors is distributed electronically now. CDs might be nice to have for collecting dust in a drawer somewhere, but why bother when you can just hit up Subscribenet, an FTP Site, a torrent, etc?
Unfortunately there still is stigma attached to products that don't require payment to a vendor in a lot of corporations, which is kind of funny since (in theory) it should be the goal of every for-profit corporation to minimize costs while maximizing revenue.
It is not a product, it's a set of (impossibly arcane) tools with which you can create a product
Actually, no. LDAP is (strangely enough) a "Lightweight" Directory Access Protocol. It's convenient that it also happens to use the letters LDAP for that, don't you think?
Lots and lots of different directory-like products can speak LDAP (AD, OpenLDAP, Exchange, Novell Directory, Sun Directory, etc), but LDAP itself is not a tool or product.
You don't hear anyone saying "man I installed this sweet HTTP that lets me manage all my hypertext documents". For some reason this seems to happen a lot with LDAP (don't mean to pick on the parent post specifically). I'm not sure why, but maybe dumb product names like "OpenLDAP" have something to do with it.
Mearly[sic] by using words at all, you are actually creating reality, rather then observing it
In a word, no. In more words...
A cat is still a cat, or gato, or whatever word you want to use. The word you use to describe it doesn't change the reality of it's "catness" one iota. It might effect your ability to relate the catness of the creature in question to someone else, but it's still objectively a cat.
If I start calling thingies with four legs, hairballs, and bad attitudes "steak"s, I have in no way affected the objective reality of said thingies.
Yeah, my bad. You are right it's $40,000 per capita. Mis-read the CIA factbook. In anycase, I guess the general point that Walmart is very big and the US economy is freakin' huge still stands.:)
Um, why the heck is this insightful? I guess to a mod that can't do simple arithmetic maybe. 300 CDs would hold a *lot* more than any iPod I'm aware of. In fact it's probably more like 3x the capacity of the largest iPod.
Clearly CDs don't have the same convenience factor as HD/flash based players, but lets not just make up numbers to prove a point.
...our lack of a national healthcare system kills 18000 Americans every year because they lack basic healthcare
Riiiightt. Also, we murder thousands of people a year with our callous disregard for the laws of physics by choosing to let people cruise around at insane speeds higher than 15-20 MPH. You're willing to just sacrifice all those "innocents" just so you can drive your Prius with the peace symbol and rainbow stickers to your socialized medicine assembly line service station at 65MPH. What blatant disregard for human life.:)
Uh, try not to show yourself so blatantly ignorant of the Napster offerings. If you want to buy 99 cent tracks from Napster, they will happily sell you them.
Just think how many people *gasp* rent their movies from Netflix and Blockbuster too. Oh the horror. Plus, whose tastes don't change over time. I don't listen to too many of the songs I bought 15 years ago.
Sorry that you're bitter your leet iPod doesn't offer you this added flexibility. Better luck next time.
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Whoops somehow missed your post before adding my own. But, this exactly. They can't have it both ways.
But the teachers unions constantly insist merit pay is impossible because you can't evaluate performance (apparently the one job in the universe whee this is true). How will they know which teachers are "masters"?
Which one of these is emptier and has less activity than the other?
So, since pretty much every movie, song, and piece of software is "publicly available" if you have the right torrent tracker, it would be an outrage for Apple to pull, say, my new "Havatar" app that let's you play an full copy of the Avatar movie for free right?
bunch of FUD about things people supposedly can't do if they don't have the label/approval of "marriage" applied to their relationship
All of this is of course patently untrue, since California already grants these rights (among others) to partners in a Domestic Partnership.
Don't take my word for it though:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_partnership_in_California
Wow, where do you go to buy your Mac hardware without paying the cost of the bundled OS? Oh wait, you mean Apple uses the same "evil" tactic you accuse Microsoft of using on hardware that runs Windows (by the manufacturer's choice I might add since MS doesn't mac PC hardware).
The short answer to how do you do "HD-in" is that you don't. I'm not aware of any consumer-grade offering that can take a raw, uncompressed HD signal like you get with component video, DVI, or HDMI going to you TV and do anything useful with it. All the existing boxes I've ever seen worked with compressed signals. I think the data-rate on raw DVI video is still prohibitive.
I don't know what the article/article summary was referring to, but I'm pretty sure this isn't even a SATA drive. At the very least the links they provide to, say, NewEgg for buying one aren't SATA. I'm pretty sure the SATA version of these 160GB perpendicular drives isn't actually available yet.
Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately it has basically nothing to do with my point that the statement "broadband penetration is non-existent" is completely bogus by any reasonable definition of non-existent.
To another parent's posting about the "embarrassing" level of broadband penetration in the U.S. Might I ask which countries with a population distribution similar to the U.S. are shining examples of how to get affordable broadband to everyone? It's a pretty darn easy problem to solve if your entire country is basically some islands with 1-10 large cities. It's not so easy when you have huge areas where people live many miles from the nearest telco CO.
Hmmm, non-existent broadband penetration you say? If by non-existent you mean the majority of Internet users in the United States, then I guess we agree. The percentage appears to be around 60% of Internet users.
http://www.websiteoptimization.com/bw/0509/
Uh, I guess by "in the news", you must mean "posted on Slashdot". I doubt anyone outside the audience of this site knows or cares about some greasy-haired dude standing up to "the man".
Maybe Stallman should go work for the Brotherhood with Dave Chapelle.
Cool, when did Irish people become a distinct race? If only I had known when applying for college scholarships.
This makes the most sense to me as well. Personally, I don't really even need/want the special "Aiport Express-thingy". Just let me play back movies on my HDTV with the Mini connected to it. That would kick butt, and I would seriously reconsider my Netflix subscription if they came out with a service that had any kind of decent selection.
Yup, I hear that. Back in the "starving student" days I grabbed what I could whenever it was a good deal. It would actually be kind of interesting if a company like Dell built slightly out-of-date PCs from totally surplus parts and tried to compete at this super-low-pricepoint. It would probably be a pain in the butt to support though, since most of their users aren't going to know how to deal with weird little issues themselves.
You forgot to tell us if the fraction is 9/10 or 11/10. Seriously, I doubt you can build one-offs with the same specs as a Dell (especially with some of the coupons you can find floating around) for very much cheaper. You can make quality arguments or whatever, but Dell is pretty darn efficient from a pricing standpoint and deal in huge volume.
Well, according to this Wikipedia article Madden 2005 was one of only 9 games to sell more than 1 million copies on the Xbox, so yeah I guess it's pretty important to them. It's even more important now that it's the only NFL game in town, and there won't be a competitive (better?) ESPN NFL game to compete with it.
Also, even in the PS2 world, the Madden has the next 3 top sellers after the GTA series and GT3. So, yes I would say they are quite justified ranking it highly in the article.
How many multi-million selling launch titles do you really think they're going to have for this thing?
Um, aren't all copies of the Mozilla applications "downloaded off the 'net"?. I don't see how that would be a deterrent to a large company using it.
In fact, most software even from large commercial vendors is distributed electronically now. CDs might be nice to have for collecting dust in a drawer somewhere, but why bother when you can just hit up Subscribenet, an FTP Site, a torrent, etc?
Unfortunately there still is stigma attached to products that don't require payment to a vendor in a lot of corporations, which is kind of funny since (in theory) it should be the goal of every for-profit corporation to minimize costs while maximizing revenue.
Actually, no. LDAP is (strangely enough) a "Lightweight" Directory Access Protocol. It's convenient that it also happens to use the letters LDAP for that, don't you think?
Lots and lots of different directory-like products can speak LDAP (AD, OpenLDAP, Exchange, Novell Directory, Sun Directory, etc), but LDAP itself is not a tool or product.
You don't hear anyone saying "man I installed this sweet HTTP that lets me manage all my hypertext documents". For some reason this seems to happen a lot with LDAP (don't mean to pick on the parent post specifically). I'm not sure why, but maybe dumb product names like "OpenLDAP" have something to do with it.
In a word, no. In more words...
A cat is still a cat, or gato, or whatever word you want to use. The word you use to describe it doesn't change the reality of it's "catness" one iota. It might effect your ability to relate the catness of the creature in question to someone else, but it's still objectively a cat.
If I start calling thingies with four legs, hairballs, and bad attitudes "steak"s, I have in no way affected the objective reality of said thingies.
That was my first thought as well, and then I remembered that what was Dejanews is actually (most of) Google *Groups* not Google News.
The News thing is relatively unique at least for the news sites that I am familiar with.
Yeah, my bad. You are right it's $40,000 per capita. Mis-read the CIA factbook. In anycase, I guess the general point that Walmart is very big and the US economy is freakin' huge still stands. :)
Huh?! Walmart revenue ~= $250 billion. US GDP ~= $40 trillion. I'll let you do the arithmetic, but here is a hint. It's nowhere *near* 9%.
They are huge yes, but let's not get carried away here.
Um, why the heck is this insightful? I guess to a mod that can't do simple arithmetic maybe. 300 CDs would hold a *lot* more than any iPod I'm aware of. In fact it's probably more like 3x the capacity of the largest iPod.
Clearly CDs don't have the same convenience factor as HD/flash based players, but lets not just make up numbers to prove a point.
Riiiightt. Also, we murder thousands of people a year with our callous disregard for the laws of physics by choosing to let people cruise around at insane speeds higher than 15-20 MPH. You're willing to just sacrifice all those "innocents" just so you can drive your Prius with the peace symbol and rainbow stickers to your socialized medicine assembly line service station at 65MPH. What blatant disregard for human life.
Uh, try not to show yourself so blatantly ignorant of the Napster offerings. If you want to buy 99 cent tracks from Napster, they will happily sell you them.
Just think how many people *gasp* rent their movies from Netflix and Blockbuster too. Oh the horror. Plus, whose tastes don't change over time. I don't listen to too many of the songs I bought 15 years ago.
Sorry that you're bitter your leet iPod doesn't offer you this added flexibility. Better luck next time.