Well, check out the Verichip, which just sailed PAST the FDA, because they decided it was not a health issue.
Right, a computer chip embedded in the body is NOT a health issue. No, we don't need studies done on that, right? It's perfectly healthy, the company building it has told us that, so why should we question it?
A radio-frequency chip embedded in the body needs no study whatsoever, this has nothing to do with the gov't pushing technology through in the name of "security" without any concern for the well-being of its citizens. Hell, if we start to die off earlier, we're less of a burden on social security.
Which, of course, will be non-existent by the time most of the/. population will need it, but of course that's of less concern to our "elected officials" than making sure they have EVERY AMERICAN CITIZEN FINGERPRINTED like a common criminal.
Biometrics is booming, disaster-recovery services are booming, and even the people that hate the incursion of things like biometrics and face rec technology are drawing more attention to the companies that make it.
barely used P2P file-sharing programs at all. Instead, they used AOL's popular Instant Messenger to receive song files from friends."
What exactly does this prove? The guy's point was how easy it is to hand music to other people over the internet, and how simple it is for people to acquire things that have never before been so readily available.
Whoever wrote this is nitpicking to avoid the matter at hand.
...especially when the easiest humor lies down the skeptical path.
But I've learned a lot about the way life works from SimCity, and I've learned quite a bit about business from Sim games in general, especially Monopoly Tycoon.
It won't teach you everything, but you could very easily teach Economics 101 with a computer sim, if comeone actually put the thought and effort into it.
can it copy and paste between apps yet?
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honestly, that's just such a HUGE thing in a desktop environment.
consistent keystrokes that can copy and paste between apps -- is that so much to ask?
I would have them take this very quote and relate it to modern times:
If you don't want a man politically unhappy, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing as war. If the government is inefficient, top-heavy and tax mad, better it be all those things than people worry over it. Peace, Montag.
Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so full of "facts" they feel stuffed, but absolutely "brilliant" with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, and they'll get a *sense* of motion without moving.
And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change. Don't give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy. Any man who can take a TV wall apart and put it back together again, and most men can, nowadays, is happier than any man who tries to slide-rule, measure, and equate the universe, which just won't be measured or equated without making man feel bestial and lonely.
I know, I've tried it; to hell with it. So bring on your clubs and your parties, your acrobats and magicians, your daredevils, jet cars, motorcycle helicopters, your sex and heroin, more of everything to do with automatic reflex.
That's far and away my favorite passage in all of Literature.
so, wait a second...
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So what you're saying is that the heart of the net is whatever part of it the media decides to glom onto that week?
I hate to tell you this Jon, but "hackers in suburban bedrooms" are still just as prevalent as the Wired CEO of the Week, as are many, many dotcom companies that are actually making money.
The heart of the net is pure ones and zeroes. It has nothing to do with what aspects of it the Washington Post and Wired decide to pay attention to.
Just like there are "/. morons" who behave as you stated, there is the opposite side, people like yourself who simply assume things and trash other posters based on your misconception of what others have said.
Everyone go out and buy 5 or 6 copies of every protected CD, then return them all saying they were unplayable. The burden of proof can't be on the consumer, so when they see that it's hurting business, they'll be forced to stop the practice.
Silly question, obviously, but I just don't understand why every mention of Apple must compare them to Microsoft, or some other computing company that just doesn't fit the unmentioned analogy.
Apple is bigger than Gateway. They're bigger than a lot of computer companies, and their edge is that they're not just pushing beige boxes and whatever components float in from overseas, they have control over their entire platform.
Microsoft and Apple's business models couldn't be much further apart. And yet every mention of Apple in the media has to compare them to MS, or mention Bill Gates....
"By offering Ethernet-like speeds over regular phone wire, at reaches up to 5,000 feet, and co-existing with phone traffic, LRE brings rich, advanced services such as next generation video-on-demand to places it has not gone before."
So, once again, 90% of the population is too far from the CO for this to bring broadband into the home.
The problem isn't the last mile, contrary to the buzzwords... the problem is getting the pipe to run many, many miles to actual end users' homes.
This seems to finally get the behemoth cable and phone companies from trying to monopolize such services, but brings the wireless providers into the mix (it's probably their cell-phone towers)."
Earthlink *is* a behemoth cable provider...
Why were they paying to post others' ads?
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I mean, what kind of a business model is that?
It seems to me that they should pursue the anti-pay-per-view model, in which the people making the content (the advertising companies) should pay adcritic for each end-user viewing of their ads...
The only irony I see here is in the inanity of the original business model. It amazes me that people are still surprised that it's difficult to run high-bandwidth sites and stay afloat, and this has GOT to be one of the highest-bandwidth sites out there.
Why were they pursuing "taditional" web-ad revenues when their real target should have been Coca Cola, Budwesier, etc....
...than clicking on a slashdotted link is clicking on a link that works, getting 3 or 4 pages in and interested, THEN having the site get slashdotted....
I was speeding down the interstate the other night, passing people on the right, when i spotted a speed trap too late. I saw the cop's lights go on, and watched him looking for a space to pull onto the highway to pull me over.
I jumped into the middle lane, then the right lane, hid behind a trailer truck, then shot off the offramp, and wandered off and hid.
At that point, I realized I'd been playing WAY too much GTA3. It was my first reaction.
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Well, check out the Verichip, which just sailed PAST the FDA, because they decided it was not a health issue.
/. population will need it, but of course that's of less concern to our "elected officials" than making sure they have EVERY AMERICAN CITIZEN FINGERPRINTED like a common criminal.
Right, a computer chip embedded in the body is NOT a health issue. No, we don't need studies done on that, right? It's perfectly healthy, the company building it has told us that, so why should we question it?
A radio-frequency chip embedded in the body needs no study whatsoever, this has nothing to do with the gov't pushing technology through in the name of "security" without any concern for the well-being of its citizens. Hell, if we start to die off earlier, we're less of a burden on social security.
Which, of course, will be non-existent by the time most of the
Biometrics is booming, disaster-recovery services are booming, and even the people that hate the incursion of things like biometrics and face rec technology are drawing more attention to the companies that make it.
My favorite line from Microsoft will always be one of the blurbs from the Win95 installation:
"Everything you do will be more fun"
barely used P2P file-sharing programs at all. Instead, they used AOL's popular Instant Messenger to receive song files from friends."
What exactly does this prove? The guy's point was how easy it is to hand music to other people over the internet, and how simple it is for people to acquire things that have never before been so readily available.
Whoever wrote this is nitpicking to avoid the matter at hand.
...especially when the easiest humor lies down the skeptical path.
But I've learned a lot about the way life works from SimCity, and I've learned quite a bit about business from Sim games in general, especially Monopoly Tycoon.
It won't teach you everything, but you could very easily teach Economics 101 with a computer sim, if comeone actually put the thought and effort into it.
honestly, that's just such a HUGE thing in a desktop environment.
consistent keystrokes that can copy and paste between apps -- is that so much to ask?
I would have them take this very quote and relate it to modern times:
If you don't want a man politically unhappy, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing as war. If the government is inefficient, top-heavy and tax mad, better it be all those things than people worry over it. Peace, Montag.
Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so full of "facts" they feel stuffed, but absolutely "brilliant" with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, and they'll get a *sense* of motion without moving.
And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change. Don't give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy. Any man who can take a TV wall apart and put it back together again, and most men can, nowadays, is happier than any man who tries to slide-rule, measure, and equate the universe, which just won't be measured or equated without making man feel bestial and lonely.
I know, I've tried it; to hell with it. So bring on your clubs and your parties, your acrobats and magicians, your daredevils, jet cars, motorcycle helicopters, your sex and heroin, more of everything to do with automatic reflex.
That's far and away my favorite passage in all of Literature.
So what you're saying is that the heart of the net is whatever part of it the media decides to glom onto that week?
I hate to tell you this Jon, but "hackers in suburban bedrooms" are still just as prevalent as the Wired CEO of the Week, as are many, many dotcom companies that are actually making money.
The heart of the net is pure ones and zeroes. It has nothing to do with what aspects of it the Washington Post and Wired decide to pay attention to.
Here's the deal:
Humor is subjective.
Sing it with me kids,
What might be right for you.... May not be right for some....
but it takes...
diff'rent strokes, it takes.... diff'rent strokes....
There's nothing more amusing than someone telling another person that what they're laughing at isn't funny.
I would separate each chapter to be checked out as a whole from CVS.
Version control is indispensible for stuff like this, yet people rarely think to use it.
How exactly did I trash it? I didn't.
Just like there are "/. morons" who behave as you stated, there is the opposite side, people like yourself who simply assume things and trash other posters based on your misconception of what others have said.
I didn't say there was anything wrong about it, I was just pointing out that it had become more than just another distro.
It is now a brand. Like Coke, or Tommy Hilfiger.
Thank you, AOL, for pointing this out to us.
It would make a great deal of sense for AOL/Time-Warner to acquire an operating system for leverage against Microsoft
RedHat is a brand. Just like Coke, just like AOL.
If we needed something to make us see this (and this rumor is true), it is a deal just like this that would prove that it's just about branding.
Everyone go out and buy 5 or 6 copies of every protected CD, then return them all saying they were unplayable. The burden of proof can't be on the consumer, so when they see that it's hurting business, they'll be forced to stop the practice.
How do I make that concept accessible and interesting to 40,000 citizens?
Use puppets. MAke one of them act mean, make the other one act kind, and make sure that the kind one explains the moral at the end.
Barring that, most voters won't pay attention.
How much does Jon Katz have?
Silly question, obviously, but I just don't understand why every mention of Apple must compare them to Microsoft, or some other computing company that just doesn't fit the unmentioned analogy.
Apple is bigger than Gateway. They're bigger than a lot of computer companies, and their edge is that they're not just pushing beige boxes and whatever components float in from overseas, they have control over their entire platform.
Microsoft and Apple's business models couldn't be much further apart. And yet every mention of Apple in the media has to compare them to MS, or mention Bill Gates....
Get over it, Katz. Ot at least get it.
Has anyone heard of any planned hardware acceleration support for Quartz?
Doesn't it seem like something Apple should have worked out before releasing the new iMac without said support?
Mike Hi. Get Blowie the dolphin, please.
Crow and Tom Blowie?
Mike Yeah, there's always a Blowie. (Devil Fish)
"By offering Ethernet-like speeds over regular phone wire, at reaches up to 5,000 feet, and co-existing with phone traffic, LRE brings rich, advanced services such as next generation video-on-demand to places it has not gone before."
So, once again, 90% of the population is too far from the CO for this to bring broadband into the home.
The problem isn't the last mile, contrary to the buzzwords... the problem is getting the pipe to run many, many miles to actual end users' homes.
Another great director turned whore.
Hollywood, how we do love thee and thy destructive ways.
This seems to finally get the behemoth cable and phone companies from trying to monopolize such services, but brings the wireless providers into the mix (it's probably their cell-phone towers)."
Earthlink *is* a behemoth cable provider...
I mean, what kind of a business model is that?
It seems to me that they should pursue the anti-pay-per-view model, in which the people making the content (the advertising companies) should pay adcritic for each end-user viewing of their ads...
The only irony I see here is in the inanity of the original business model. It amazes me that people are still surprised that it's difficult to run high-bandwidth sites and stay afloat, and this has GOT to be one of the highest-bandwidth sites out there.
Why were they pursuing "taditional" web-ad revenues when their real target should have been Coca Cola, Budwesier, etc....
...than clicking on a slashdotted link is clicking on a link that works, getting 3 or 4 pages in and interested, THEN having the site get slashdotted....
I tell you what, tho....
I was speeding down the interstate the other night, passing people on the right, when i spotted a speed trap too late. I saw the cop's lights go on, and watched him looking for a space to pull onto the highway to pull me over.
I jumped into the middle lane, then the right lane, hid behind a trailer truck, then shot off the offramp, and wandered off and hid.
At that point, I realized I'd been playing WAY too much GTA3. It was my first reaction.