I agree that providing a liability guarantee would be a selling point to corporate consumers of software; but commercial software vendors know that they would be bankrupted if they actually provided such guarantees since no vendor has shown that they can produce truly fault-tolerant products for the commercial market. Hence the EULA's...
BTW, the link to your site doesn't work..intentional?
Agreed. The key here is that in the case of many pop singers, they are not that different than the Milli Vanilli guys, with the exception of them actually singing the song. The folks who compose, orchestrate, and engineer the music are the true artists. Britney is nothing more than the mouthpiece for their work. What I think is sad is that Spears is being pimped out by her own mother.
I'm not going to get Showtime just to watch Stargate but I guarantee I'll watch when it gets syndicated. I think Showtime has a good plan with this; they have a show with decent brand recognition, and there is no reason the show has to be about the specific characters. The "Law and Order" franchise has shown that if there is good writing and direction that a show can stay viable in spite of actor changes.
You can record, edit, and press your music to CD's yourself, all with equipment that can be purchased at reasonable prices. You don't need a full studio(especially to record most pop music which uses a couple of chords and a singer who couldn't make their high school glee club) and you don't need a record company's marketing budget.
To be specific, Utopia is offering 15 mbps both ways for $44 per month to home users. That is ten times the bandwidth that Qwest is offering for DSL(when its available in your neighborhood) at only a slightly higher price. I moved to Sandy UT last year and am angry that Sandy did not participate in UTOPIA. With the kind of bandwidth UTOPIA is offering, I believe that the cities participating will see an explosion of online businesses, whether located in homes or business sites.
What is remarkable to me is that Seattle is so far behind in mass transit compared to the cities you listed above. Given Seattle's rep as a "progressive" town one would think that it would have been on the leading edge of mass transit.
Unfortunately, the US Congress often passes laws which are deliberately vague about what their intent is in passing the law, and so it is left up to the judiciary to make a decision when cases are brought to them.
The largest terrorist WMD trial in history is opening in Jordan. 13 Al-Qaida and Al-Zarqawi loyalists are being tried for an attempted and nearly succcessful catastrophic chemical weapons attack on Jordan.
Developments: * Defendents throw shoes in court! * Defendents chant "Allahu akbar" for over a half an hour to disrupt the court * Defendent, Al-Jayouzi threatens tribunal with "Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi will chop off your heads and stuff it up your mouths!" * The terrorists communicated with "secret ink"!
"Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi will chop off your heads and stuff it up your mouths, you God's enemies!" Al-Jayouzi threatened during initital proceedings in May.
Ten of the captured Al-Qaida terrorists on trial in Jordan for attempting to explode roughly 20 tons of chemical weapons with explosives. Authorities captured the weapons coming into Jordan through Syria.
The most dangerous terrorist plot ever foiled and brought to trial is being prosecuted right now in Jorddan. Al-Jayouzi, a follower of Al-Zarqawi, is on trial for planning and attempting to execute a Chemical Weapons attack in Jordan that could have killed as many as 80,000 civilians:
Al-Jayousi, identified as the head of a Jordanian terror cell, said he first met al-Zarqawi in Afghanistan, where al-Jayousi said he studied explosives, "before Afghanistan fell."
He said he later met al-Zarqawi in neighboring Iraq to plan the attacks, but was not specific about when.
"I have pledged loyalty to Abu-Musab to fully be obedient and listen to him without discussion," al-Jayousi said in the 20-minute videotape.
The commentator on the tape, who wasn't further identified, said the plotters targeted Jordan's secret service, its prime minister's office and the U.S. Embassy.
"At least 80,000 people would have been killed," the commentator said. Al-Zarqawi "is the terrorist" who plotted this operation."
Northeast Intelligence Reports more on the crime, capture and trial:
* The defendents roared "Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi will chop off your heads and stuff it up your mouths, you God's enemies," *
A total of thirteen terrorists, four who are being tried in absentia including Iraqi thug Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi, are on trial for plotting chemical and conventional attacks against government and public buildings in Jordan and elsewhere under the command of al Zarqawi. The Jordanian plot was uncovered and ultimately foiled on April 21, 2004, when the four alleged cell members were killed in a shoot-out with police. From that incident, additional evidence was collected and other cell members arrested, and are now on trial.
In a page from al Qaeda's playbook, on Wednesday, May 4, 2005, prime suspect Azmi al-Jayousi disrupted the trial by throwing his shoes at military judges during the hearing in Amman, and threatening them with death. He did so to protest the killing of his four co-conspirators in a gun battle with police when the plot was thwarted last year. During the testimony of a medical doctor describing the wounds of the co-conspirators, al-Jayousi took off his slippers and hurled them at the chief judge, Colonel Fawaz Buqour, while shouting "Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi will chop off your heads and stuff it up your mouths, you God's enemies," pointing his finger at the three-man tribunal.
Another defendant, Ahmad Samir, shouted "The blood of our brothers will not go wasted." "Await death, Obeidat, for you are God's enemy," he roared, addressing the military prosecutor, Lt. Col. Mahmoud Obeidat.
During continued proceedings last week (in May), the defendants continues to show their contempt for judicial law by shouting "Allahu akbar" - "God is great" - in Arabic and by chanting other verses from the Qu'ran continuously for half an hour on Tuesday, May 10, 2005. The nine, lead by Azmi al-Jayousi, recited verses for around 30 minutes. "Our Sheik Abu-Musab, all your blood is not sufficient for him," they chanted, referring to those
In many cases, the cost of this treatment will be paid for by US taxpayers. Spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to keep someone alive an extra month strikes me as being hard to justify when those dollars could be spent extending lives by decades.
I support developing technology to improve health, of course; but sometimes I wonder if as a society (talking about the USA here) we shouldn't spend some time figuring out how we're going to pay for this unbelievably expensive treatment before we continue funding this kind of research. The skyrocketing cost of medical care is the biggest fiscal problem facing the US, in my opinion.
I climbed a 3,000 ft mountain just south of St Helens a few years ago and looking across the valley at the volcano was extremely impressive. It made me think of an enormous cannon. Really puts human activity in perspective...
That would explain the huge difference in tone of the writing that appears under this name. Wouldn't Infoworld want to note the difference between the two. In my ignorance I would just type "Cringely" into Google and read whatever came up.
Use computer generated voices in games. Problem solved...
Really, though, it is interesting that there has been so much focus on virtualizing the imagery in games and not so much in virtualizing the speech. Game purchasers have been willing to accept less-than-lifelike imagery since the beginning of video games; why is live voice-over so important?
In the first section of Revenge of the Sith, during the battle scene, the scenery seemed indistinguishable from film of actual places. I think that movie production is not far from being able to dispense with human actors and real sets completely.
It is especially significant for the alpinist community because it appears that barring extreme wind and visibility conditions now if there is an accident helicopter rescue is feasible. The difference in time between being carried off the mountain by your climbing mates and a helicopter pickup could mean the difference between dying and surviving.
Just FYI, there is evidence that Apple has a glut of IPods on its hands. The following is from CNN Money: "NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shares of Apple Computer Inc. fell 5 percent Friday, fueled by an Internet report of swelling inventory of its iPod digital music players.
The decline came after appleinsider.com, a web site that discusses issues related to the company's products, said Apple is "overstocked on most iPod models with about a month remaining in its third fiscal quarter." The report cited unnamed sources.
"Apple is believed to be sitting on its most significant inventory of iPod Shuffles since the player hit the market in February," the web site said. "According to reliable sources of information, tens of thousands of iPod shuffles remain idle in the channels this week alongside a good number of iPod photos."
Apple's iPod Shuffles are the least expensive in the iPod line, selling as low as $99.
Representatives for Cupertino, California-based Apple were not immediately available to comment Friday morning.
Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster said that growing iPod supplies are not surprising since the company did not introduce any new products during the quarter, and inventory caught up to slowing demand for the gadgets, which dominate the digital music market and are one of Apple's biggest revenue drivers. "
Somebody with mod points please upgrade parent to "Insightful"; the insight here is that IBM didn't have much incentive to keep Apple's business.
I agree with the parent poster's thought about the Apple hardware premium. And the referenced quote is part of the reason I dislike Jobs as much as I do Gates. Jobs is every bit as greedy as Gates.
They are going to tell us how the universe ends with 25 million megabytes and the kmown laws of physics when it's not possible to just break one decently encrypted message with all the computer power in the world in less than expected remaining life of our solar system?
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I agree that providing a liability guarantee would be a selling point to corporate consumers of software; but commercial software vendors know that they would be bankrupted if they actually provided such guarantees since no vendor has shown that they can produce truly fault-tolerant products for the commercial market. Hence the EULA's...
BTW, the link to your site doesn't work..intentional?
Agreed. The key here is that in the case of many pop singers, they are not that different than the Milli Vanilli guys, with the exception of them actually singing the song. The folks who compose, orchestrate, and engineer the music are the true artists. Britney is nothing more than the mouthpiece for their work. What I think is sad is that Spears is being pimped out by her own mother.
I'm not going to get Showtime just to watch Stargate but I guarantee I'll watch when it gets syndicated. I think Showtime has a good plan with this; they have a show with decent brand recognition, and there is no reason the show has to be about the specific characters. The "Law and Order" franchise has shown that if there is good writing and direction that a show can stay viable in spite of actor changes.
You can record, edit, and press your music to CD's yourself, all with equipment that can be purchased at reasonable prices. You don't need a full studio(especially to record most pop music which uses a couple of chords and a singer who couldn't make their high school glee club) and you don't need a record company's marketing budget.
To be specific, Utopia is offering 15 mbps both ways for $44 per month to home users. That is ten times the bandwidth that Qwest is offering for DSL(when its available in your neighborhood) at only a slightly higher price. I moved to Sandy UT last year and am angry that Sandy did not participate in UTOPIA. With the kind of bandwidth UTOPIA is offering, I believe that the cities participating will see an explosion of online businesses, whether located in homes or business sites.
What is remarkable to me is that Seattle is so far behind in mass transit compared to the cities you listed above. Given Seattle's rep as a "progressive" town one would think that it would have been on the leading edge of mass transit.
Unfortunately, the US Congress often passes laws which are deliberately vague about what their intent is in passing the law, and so it is left up to the judiciary to make a decision when cases are brought to them.
History's Largest WMD Trial Begins
The largest terrorist WMD trial in history is opening in Jordan. 13 Al-Qaida and Al-Zarqawi loyalists are being tried for an attempted and nearly succcessful catastrophic chemical weapons attack on Jordan.
Developments:
* Defendents throw shoes in court!
* Defendents chant "Allahu akbar" for over a half an hour to disrupt the court
* Defendent, Al-Jayouzi threatens tribunal with "Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi will chop off your heads and stuff it up your mouths!"
* The terrorists communicated with "secret ink"!
"Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi will chop off your heads and stuff it up your mouths, you God's enemies!" Al-Jayouzi threatened during initital proceedings in May.
Ten of the captured Al-Qaida terrorists on trial in Jordan for attempting to explode roughly 20 tons of chemical weapons with explosives. Authorities captured the weapons coming into Jordan through Syria.
The most dangerous terrorist plot ever foiled and brought to trial is being prosecuted right now in Jorddan. Al-Jayouzi, a follower of Al-Zarqawi, is on trial for planning and attempting to execute a Chemical Weapons attack in Jordan that could have killed as many as 80,000 civilians:
Al-Jayousi, identified as the head of a Jordanian terror cell, said he first met al-Zarqawi in Afghanistan, where al-Jayousi said he studied explosives, "before Afghanistan fell."
He said he later met al-Zarqawi in neighboring Iraq to plan the attacks, but was not specific about when.
"I have pledged loyalty to Abu-Musab to fully be obedient and listen to him without discussion," al-Jayousi said in the 20-minute videotape.
The commentator on the tape, who wasn't further identified, said the plotters targeted Jordan's secret service, its prime minister's office and the U.S. Embassy.
"At least 80,000 people would have been killed," the commentator said. Al-Zarqawi "is the terrorist" who plotted this operation."
Northeast Intelligence Reports more on the crime, capture and trial:
* The defendents roared "Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi will chop off your heads and stuff it up your mouths, you God's enemies," *
A total of thirteen terrorists, four who are being tried in absentia including Iraqi thug Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi, are on trial for plotting chemical and conventional attacks against government and public buildings in Jordan and elsewhere under the command of al Zarqawi. The Jordanian plot was uncovered and ultimately foiled on April 21, 2004, when the four alleged cell members were killed in a shoot-out with police. From that incident, additional evidence was collected and other cell members arrested, and are now on trial.
In a page from al Qaeda's playbook, on Wednesday, May 4, 2005, prime suspect Azmi al-Jayousi disrupted the trial by throwing his shoes at military judges during the hearing in Amman, and threatening them with death. He did so to protest the killing of his four co-conspirators in a gun battle with police when the plot was thwarted last year. During the testimony of a medical doctor describing the wounds of the co-conspirators, al-Jayousi took off his slippers and hurled them at the chief judge, Colonel Fawaz Buqour, while shouting "Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi will chop off your heads and stuff it up your mouths, you God's enemies," pointing his finger at the three-man tribunal.
Another defendant, Ahmad Samir, shouted "The blood of our brothers will not go wasted." "Await death, Obeidat, for you are God's enemy," he roared, addressing the military prosecutor, Lt. Col. Mahmoud Obeidat.
During continued proceedings last week (in May), the defendants continues to show their contempt for judicial law by shouting "Allahu akbar" - "God is great" - in Arabic and by chanting other verses from the Qu'ran continuously for half an hour on Tuesday, May 10, 2005. The nine, lead by Azmi al-Jayousi, recited verses for around 30 minutes. "Our Sheik Abu-Musab, all your blood is not sufficient for him," they chanted, referring to those
In many cases, the cost of this treatment will be paid for by US taxpayers. Spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to keep someone alive an extra month strikes me as being hard to justify when those dollars could be spent extending lives by decades.
I support developing technology to improve health, of course; but sometimes I wonder if as a society (talking about the USA here) we shouldn't spend some time figuring out how we're going to pay for this unbelievably expensive treatment before we continue funding this kind of research. The skyrocketing cost of medical care is the biggest fiscal problem facing the US, in my opinion.
So what you're really saying is that Slashdot has the same editorial standards as the Washington Post...:)
to the phrase "knock boots"....
I climbed a 3,000 ft mountain just south of St Helens a few years ago and looking across the valley at the volcano was extremely impressive. It made me think of an enormous cannon. Really puts human activity in perspective...
Nice.....So you're saying a lan party could be referred to as a cat and mouse game?
Tell the Kiwis to make sure to pay him after he lures away the rats, or he'll take their kids too.
to hear that someone turned Google down! That's like telling ST. Peter at the pearly gates "No, thanks"..
That would explain the huge difference in tone of the writing that appears under this name. Wouldn't Infoworld want to note the difference between the two. In my ignorance I would just type "Cringely" into Google and read whatever came up.
Use computer generated voices in games. Problem solved...
Really, though, it is interesting that there has been so much focus on virtualizing the imagery in games and not so much in virtualizing the speech.
Game purchasers have been willing to accept less-than-lifelike imagery since the beginning of video games; why is live voice-over so important?
In the first section of Revenge of the Sith, during the battle scene, the scenery seemed indistinguishable from film of actual places. I think that movie production is not far from being able to dispense with human actors and real sets completely.
It is especially significant for the alpinist community because it appears that barring extreme wind and visibility conditions now if there is an accident helicopter rescue is feasible. The difference in time between being carried off the mountain by your climbing mates and a helicopter pickup could mean the difference between dying and surviving.
Just FYI, there is evidence that Apple has a glut of IPods on its hands. The following is from CNN Money:
"NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shares of Apple Computer Inc. fell 5 percent Friday, fueled by an Internet report of swelling inventory of its iPod digital music players.
The decline came after appleinsider.com, a web site that discusses issues related to the company's products, said Apple is "overstocked on most iPod models with about a month remaining in its third fiscal quarter." The report cited unnamed sources.
"Apple is believed to be sitting on its most significant inventory of iPod Shuffles since the player hit the market in February," the web site said. "According to reliable sources of information, tens of thousands of iPod shuffles remain idle in the channels this week alongside a good number of iPod photos."
Apple's iPod Shuffles are the least expensive in the iPod line, selling as low as $99.
Representatives for Cupertino, California-based Apple were not immediately available to comment Friday morning.
Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster said that growing iPod supplies are not surprising since the company did not introduce any new products during the quarter, and inventory caught up to slowing demand for the gadgets, which dominate the digital music market and are one of Apple's biggest revenue drivers. "
Somebody with mod points please upgrade parent to "Insightful"; the insight here is that IBM didn't have much incentive to keep Apple's business.
I agree with the parent poster's thought about the Apple hardware premium. And the referenced quote is part of the reason I dislike Jobs as much as I do Gates. Jobs is every bit as greedy as Gates.
how many of the test subjects went into labor...
since Apple is apparently ditching PPC for Intel.
So they'll have a crappy OS running on a crappy chip. Glad I sold my AAPL stock...
A couple of hours of porting has got to cost less that VMWare licensing fees...
They are going to tell us how the universe ends with 25 million megabytes and the kmown laws of physics when it's not possible to just break one decently encrypted message with all the computer power in the world in less than expected remaining life of our solar system?