Do we have the right to post our political opinions anonymously? We sure do. Does a politician have a right to reveal who the anonymous posters are? He or she certainly does!
Compared to most inexpensive cell phones in Japan, the iPhone is a few steps backwards in terms of its feature set. I have a better feature set with my Toshiba W45T. The only advantages to the iPhone are the touch screen and its built-in Wifi, but that is not enough to make it seriously competitive here in Japan. Even more problematic it its price tag: the phone itself is over-priced, and the service plans are likewise a joke.
As Worf said, those more human-looking Klingons are a branch of the Klingon genome that other Klingons do not speak of... Still, they swing a mean batleth.
Cripes. This is old stuff. Ever since ITMS started, you couldn't register an account with it in the USA unless you had a USA issued credit card with a USA billing address. I life in Japan but all of my CC's are issued by USA banks, so Apple refuses me. Likewise, ITMS Japan refuses me because all of my CC's are issued by USA banks, not Japanese banks. So I don't buy downloaded music. Instead, I rent CDs from the Video/CD store which works out to about 30 cents a track.
I think it's a minor miracle that the print SF/F magazines are still making a go of it. They have always had a precarious fingerhold in the first place, compared to other publications. Nowadays, with major newspapers like The New York Times and Chicago Tribune having a tough go of it, I'm surprised that Asimov's, Analog, and F&SF are still managing print versions. Lately it's all moving online, which is where I expect to see the SF/F zines to eventually migrate.
So now/. will get the censor's swipe in Thailand, since these days just mentioning the King seems to set off the self-appointed royal honor watchdogs. Calling all tourists: take your cash to Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam. Tourist capital flight is possibly the only thing that will get their attention.
Psystar is starting to sound about Mac OSX a little like SCO sounded with Linux. This is definitely throwing in the kitchen sink. Next will be the toilet.
So what. The Zune and the iPod are overrated and overpriced. So Obama should maybe start using an off brand. It will no doubt be just as good. I speak as someone who has two iPods and an iPhone.
You mean people still buy stuff on Amazon? I stopped buying stuff there when they dragooned small press POD publishers into using their in-house POD printing division to produce books.
As for music, not only have I stopped downloading any of it from any store because of DRM crap and other problems, I've stopped buying CDs. I'm music free, haven't bought or downloaded a new tune in over two years.
Next to go will be videos, cable, and DVD. Once you clear all of that shite from your consciousness, you really start to realize just how much of it IS shite, and what a waste of time it all is.
The weird thing here is that the cheapskates who buy the Psystar would never buy a Mac anyway and are too stupid to realize they should probably go for Ubuntu Linux. Anyone even remotely design conscious and concerned about ease of use would go for the Mac or for Windows. I don't think Apple's losing any money.
From folks I know in the publishing industry who deal with questions of whether e-book piracy is a problem, the emerging consensus seems to be that not only is it not a problem, making e-book versions available very likely helps print version sales. Baen Books goes so far as to make copies of some of their books available for free in its Baen Books Free Library. As nearly as they can tell, this has helped boost sales for paid books. Pogue is definitel WAY off the mark on this particular call.
Been in Japan almost 30 years. Have never once visited 2-Channel. Signal to noise ratio is too close to garble, by all reports. Hang out at the West Exit of Shinjuku Station during rush hour for a physical demonstration of 2Ch effect on your consciousness.
Slash.dot is a model organized thought in comparison.
I've been using Macs since 1984. Every time someone says of a Mac app that it doesn't "feel" like a Mac app, I wonder, WTF? What's a Mac app supposed to feel like?
There have been four or five major changes in the Mac OS. Every time the OS changes, the so-called "feel" changes. I've come to the conclusion that the "real feel" of a Mac app is whatever app I'm pointing at when I say "it feels like..."
I use NeoOffice, which is actually OO.org in a different wrapper, and I've noticed that it seems to have as many features as MS Officeâ"at least, as many of the features as any human is bound to use in a lifetime.
What are mature features? You mean they have age lines?
Yep. I tried to post a comment about a program named Cocktail (an OS X maintenance app), and it was banned by the language purity cop software monitoring the site.
What a cry baby. You can't know with any certainty that a reader who sends letters by postal mail is who he or she claims to be. What makes anyone think such certainty would be likely via the internet?
Rowling's suit is about someone using her material, from her books, to compile another book for his own profit (and that of a different publisher). She's saying, "No, you can't profit off of my stuff without my permission." I hope she wins.
Nope. The kid didn't do his homework. While the asteroid may pass around 38,000 km from earth at the closest point, it will pass the equatorial ecliptic at around 51,000 km, too far away to collide with any geosynchronous satellites.
Also to be noted: According to NASA, the kid did not contact anyone there to obtain any data. The kid's bright and engaged and had a heck of an idea for a science fair project, but his lesser-educated, sensation-mongering elders jumped the gun and made him look like a fool.
Japan has had a thorough-going Family Register system in place since beginning of the Tokugawa Shogunate over 300 years ago. Juki Net is an electronic extension. Japanese are obsessed with verifying that people are actually who they say they are. Thus, there is really nothing new here. What will be new (and disturbing) is if ordinary citizens are compelled to start carrying around identity cards and are required to produce them on demand by police.
Who would have thought the RIAA had licensed the rest of the universe as well. So much for the Music of the Spheres. I hope those scientists are prepared for the infringement claims...
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Do we have the right to post our political opinions anonymously? We sure do. Does a politician have a right to reveal who the anonymous posters are? He or she certainly does!
Compared to most inexpensive cell phones in Japan, the iPhone is a few steps backwards in terms of its feature set. I have a better feature set with my Toshiba W45T. The only advantages to the iPhone are the touch screen and its built-in Wifi, but that is not enough to make it seriously competitive here in Japan. Even more problematic it its price tag: the phone itself is over-priced, and the service plans are likewise a joke.
As Worf said, those more human-looking Klingons are a branch of the Klingon genome that other Klingons do not speak of... Still, they swing a mean batleth.
Cripes. This is old stuff. Ever since ITMS started, you couldn't register an account with it in the USA unless you had a USA issued credit card with a USA billing address. I life in Japan but all of my CC's are issued by USA banks, so Apple refuses me. Likewise, ITMS Japan refuses me because all of my CC's are issued by USA banks, not Japanese banks. So I don't buy downloaded music. Instead, I rent CDs from the Video/CD store which works out to about 30 cents a track.
I think it's a minor miracle that the print SF/F magazines are still making a go of it. They have always had a precarious fingerhold in the first place, compared to other publications. Nowadays, with major newspapers like The New York Times and Chicago Tribune having a tough go of it, I'm surprised that Asimov's, Analog, and F&SF are still managing print versions. Lately it's all moving online, which is where I expect to see the SF/F zines to eventually migrate.
So now /. will get the censor's swipe in Thailand, since these days just mentioning the King seems to set off the self-appointed royal honor watchdogs. Calling all tourists: take your cash to Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam. Tourist capital flight is possibly the only thing that will get their attention.
Loser Pays, and loser goes to prison for patent fraud.
Psystar is starting to sound about Mac OSX a little like SCO sounded with Linux. This is definitely throwing in the kitchen sink. Next will be the toilet.
This "robotic" wife looks suspiciously like the "lifelike" sex dolls one can find advertised in the pages of Japanese comic books.
No, it's Welfare for the big labels.
So what. The Zune and the iPod are overrated and overpriced. So Obama should maybe start using an off brand. It will no doubt be just as good. I speak as someone who has two iPods and an iPhone.
You mean people still buy stuff on Amazon? I stopped buying stuff there when they dragooned small press POD publishers into using their in-house POD printing division to produce books.
As for music, not only have I stopped downloading any of it from any store because of DRM crap and other problems, I've stopped buying CDs. I'm music free, haven't bought or downloaded a new tune in over two years.
Next to go will be videos, cable, and DVD. Once you clear all of that shite from your consciousness, you really start to realize just how much of it IS shite, and what a waste of time it all is.
The weird thing here is that the cheapskates who buy the Psystar would never buy a Mac anyway and are too stupid to realize they should probably go for Ubuntu Linux. Anyone even remotely design conscious and concerned about ease of use would go for the Mac or for Windows. I don't think Apple's losing any money.
From folks I know in the publishing industry who deal with questions of whether e-book piracy is a problem, the emerging consensus seems to be that not only is it not a problem, making e-book versions available very likely helps print version sales. Baen Books goes so far as to make copies of some of their books available for free in its Baen Books Free Library. As nearly as they can tell, this has helped boost sales for paid books. Pogue is definitel WAY off the mark on this particular call.
Gosh. I've been using PCs since 1984, and I didn't even know much about /. until a couple of years ago.
It became obvious rather quickly that I hadn't missed much...
Been in Japan almost 30 years. Have never once visited 2-Channel. Signal to noise ratio is too close to garble, by all reports. Hang out at the West Exit of Shinjuku Station during rush hour for a physical demonstration of 2Ch effect on your consciousness.
Slash.dot is a model organized thought in comparison.
Frankly, it doesn't sound like much of a weapon at all, and it seems like something any sound engineer could build on the kitchen table.
I've been using Macs since 1984. Every time someone says of a Mac app that it doesn't "feel" like a Mac app, I wonder, WTF? What's a Mac app supposed to feel like?
There have been four or five major changes in the Mac OS. Every time the OS changes, the so-called "feel" changes. I've come to the conclusion that the "real feel" of a Mac app is whatever app I'm pointing at when I say "it feels like..."
NeoOffice feels like a Mac app.
I use NeoOffice, which is actually OO.org in a different wrapper, and I've noticed that it seems to have as many features as MS Officeâ"at least, as many of the features as any human is bound to use in a lifetime. What are mature features? You mean they have age lines?
Yep. I tried to post a comment about a program named Cocktail (an OS X maintenance app), and it was banned by the language purity cop software monitoring the site.
What a cry baby. You can't know with any certainty that a reader who sends letters by postal mail is who he or she claims to be. What makes anyone think such certainty would be likely via the internet?
Rowling's suit is about someone using her material, from her books, to compile another book for his own profit (and that of a different publisher). She's saying, "No, you can't profit off of my stuff without my permission." I hope she wins.
Nope. The kid didn't do his homework. While the asteroid may pass around 38,000 km from earth at the closest point, it will pass the equatorial ecliptic at around 51,000 km, too far away to collide with any geosynchronous satellites. Also to be noted: According to NASA, the kid did not contact anyone there to obtain any data. The kid's bright and engaged and had a heck of an idea for a science fair project, but his lesser-educated, sensation-mongering elders jumped the gun and made him look like a fool.
Japan has had a thorough-going Family Register system in place since beginning of the Tokugawa Shogunate over 300 years ago. Juki Net is an electronic extension. Japanese are obsessed with verifying that people are actually who they say they are. Thus, there is really nothing new here. What will be new (and disturbing) is if ordinary citizens are compelled to start carrying around identity cards and are required to produce them on demand by police.
Who would have thought the RIAA had licensed the rest of the universe as well. So much for the Music of the Spheres. I hope those scientists are prepared for the infringement claims...