My father grew up in a Finnish speaking household that strictly limited the Finn-speak around him. His parents were afraid that he would confuse English and Finn and thus fall behind in school. Since that time it has bee learned that children brought up in multilingual households can clearly seperate the multiple languages. That has to have something to do with the statistical findings here. Patterns for different languages will be clear enough to identify the boundaries. I think that's amazingly cool. I just wish my grandparents had had access to this information. I might know more Finn than I do. The ladies love language:)
photos will be whatever quality you took them at. they'll be resized to display on the iPod or external display. this isn't only meant so you can look at pictures on the iPod. it's so you can display them on a TV also. the pictures won't be resized or downgraded in quality when you sync them over. maybe as an option?
Sadly I think they're looking at the import "connected" tracks as one as the solution to gapless playback. Apple has an iTunes feedback page that needs some posts to hit it.
Overkill for some, not all. I'm using almost 30 GB right now and while I don't listen to all of that every week, it's incredibly nice having all my music in one place. If the 60 had been available when I bought my 40 GB just 3 months ago, I'd have bought it.
included with the announcement is news that 9 additional countries (Austria, Belgium, Finland, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain) in Europe now have access to the iTunes Music Store and that the much awaited Canadian store will be available in November.
Actually, nerd originated as knurd, being someone who didn't drink and thus the opposite of the jocks (or as they originated the ocs, the reverse of SCO). Clearly this meaning predates the days of Linus.
Aren't the developers demanding a price of nothing? The estimate is based on the the equivalent value. ie. What the software is worth if it was developed under a commercial environment with R&D, de-bugging, etc. with developers being payed by the hour or line of code. He also takes into account things like developer experience and code complexity.
I wonder what the value of Windows or OS X would be under his model. Or if either company sold them right now for that matter.
The great thing about first posting is you don't have to read the article. I didn't just write that on a/. board did I?
I've always thought a national ID would be a good thing. We have drivers licenses issued by states. Why not centralize it? Changing residence and drivers license would be a matter of filling out a form at a kiosk and swipping your card to re-localize it. Actually, we should have that now anyway. Why does some slow wit have to process my paperwork?
We don't really have the technology and infrastructure set up for a national ID (I can't imagine the goverment is ready to handle every citizen right now like this) but in the future I can't see why not.
As for the RFID part. Why not? The only bad part is the illusion of safety and the fear of public access to the signal.
Safety: Cops begin relying on a valid RFID to ID someone. counterfeiting becomes easier when the code is cracked. I don't see it as a problem. We have fake IDs now that are pretty good and with a secure method of generating the IDs and training cops, counterfeiting would probably be LESS of an issue. Of course this relies on secure RFID and in the end isn't any more of an issue than current fakes.
Public access: Yeah, walking along the street with a scanner in the area to steal your tag is a fear. So issue sleeves for the cards that block the signal. That way it's only accessible when the card is taken out.
I fail to see the real privacy issues here. We already have state IDs so RFID isn't an invasion of simply being a way to ID you. If a cop can ask for your RFID-less ID, why does the RFID ID pose a problem? Public identification via scanning is kin to the fear that walking around with your license stuck to your back with tape is fearful. You don't do that because you keep your ID secure. Keep the RFID secure by blocking it in public or with some other system that doesn't activate the signal unless requested by an authorized system.
It all comes down to the issue of whether we're at the point were RFID can be secure. I honestly don't know enough about how this works to say for sure, but I'd bet that in order for this to be put into action there will be methods to secure it.
Gah McIntosh is the apple, named after the Canadian farmer from the 1700s Macintosh is a raincoat, in England Macintosh is the computer, play on the apple theme and because it is synonymous with flexible
A few years ago the throttle regulator air intake got stuck open on my Saturn. Result? When my dad took it in for service he'd go 60 mph on the highway with his foot off the gas. He had to turn it off when stopped at lights.
I should have elaborated. If the computer is your airplane, the OS is the airport. It seems like a backwards analogy here, but it kinda fits. It works the other way around too, the airplane being the OS that runs on the airport.
Either way, you can land different planes at different airports. Sometimes you do it just because you can.
I'm sure there are plenty of old Macs out there that don't run OS X that can find new life with a linux system.
It's like those really old airplanes you always find in jungles. They're no use to me now, but there might be booty inside.
Don't you know that version numbers are largly meaningless? I wouldn't expect 2.0 until Sun decides to to completely re-write Java from the ground up. Or at least make some monumental change that decidedly sets it apart from 1.x. But then again version numbers are usually meaningless and just illustrate a timeline of releases. I guess an ideal method would use.x to demonstrate small changes and x would demonstrate large changes. But in practice people tend to see a jump from 1.4 to 1.5 and think "that's only a small change". A jump from 1.8 to 2.0 would be only a slightly bigger change.
PS. How much confidence do you have in a product that goes through only about 10 releases and is suddenly at release 2000?;)
Remind me never to drive near you when you're "lost in a thought" before you "snap back to reality". I'm afraid it might lead to me "missing [being alive]".
That's interesting because everybody accepts cops setting up speed traps and using radar guns to catch speeders. And investigating murders and fraud in order to capture criminals. Yet we don't like the idea of an organization that would police the internet in order to stop the theft of music and movies. Without considering the state of the music and video industry, downloading mp3s and ripped movies without paying for them is illegal. Whether the laws need to be adjusted to allow copyrights to expire or prices to come down is beside the point. Right now these things are illegal, but no one advocates that policing the internet is a means to making it safer or more enriching.
Ya know, just to be consistent. Or re-issue Spaceballs as "Spaceballs Episode 2 'I Planned This All Along'" and then come out with Episode 1 The Search For More Money
This isn't insightful. How many people here didn't understand the postcard comment? Did anyone actually think that it would be thinner than a postcard? I certainly didn't think of a flag pole when I read the comparison.
The product is thicker than I expected but it's about the size that seems comfortable for its intended use.
Smaller than a postcard and about an inch thick would have been more descriptive, but I fail to see how this got you all hot and bothered. Got burned buying a mattress that as "bigger than a King size (in 2 dimensions only)" did you?
Not to be an ass (wait, that's exactly what I mean to be right now...), but those must be some pretty big people. 3 out of 4 means that each of those 3 make up 75%. I sure hope that that 4th person represents negative population or we're all screwed.
You wanted something more like:
A recent study shows that 4 out of 4 people took this survey.
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My father grew up in a Finnish speaking household that strictly limited the Finn-speak around him. His parents were afraid that he would confuse English and Finn and thus fall behind in school. Since that time it has bee learned that children brought up in multilingual households can clearly seperate the multiple languages. That has to have something to do with the statistical findings here. Patterns for different languages will be clear enough to identify the boundaries. I think that's amazingly cool. I just wish my grandparents had had access to this information. I might know more Finn than I do. The ladies love language :)
photos will be whatever quality you took them at. they'll be resized to display on the iPod or external display. this isn't only meant so you can look at pictures on the iPod. it's so you can display them on a TV also.
the pictures won't be resized or downgraded in quality when you sync them over.
maybe as an option?
Sadly I think they're looking at the import "connected" tracks as one as the solution to gapless playback. Apple has an iTunes feedback page that needs some posts to hit it.
Overkill for some, not all. I'm using almost 30 GB right now and while I don't listen to all of that every week, it's incredibly nice having all my music in one place. If the 60 had been available when I bought my 40 GB just 3 months ago, I'd have bought it.
included with the announcement is news that 9 additional countries (Austria, Belgium, Finland, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain) in Europe now have access to the iTunes Music Store and that the much awaited Canadian store will be available in November.
Actually, nerd originated as knurd, being someone who didn't drink and thus the opposite of the jocks (or as they originated the ocs, the reverse of SCO).
Clearly this meaning predates the days of Linus.
You are apparently not a fan of Douglas Adams.
The text you've quoted is surely in reference to Google Desktop and not Spotlight.
Aren't the developers demanding a price of nothing?
/. board did I?
The estimate is based on the the equivalent value. ie. What the software is worth if it was developed under a commercial environment with R&D, de-bugging, etc. with developers being payed by the hour or line of code.
He also takes into account things like developer experience and code complexity.
I wonder what the value of Windows or OS X would be under his model. Or if either company sold them right now for that matter.
The great thing about first posting is you don't have to read the article. I didn't just write that on a
Then don't carry the card where you don't want to be identified.
Then carry an RFID blocker with your card.
Until they plant these in your neck or we get to "Where iz your paperz" there are ways to not be identified.
Plus, they could always just use the photo software that can identify faces in a crowd.
I've always thought a national ID would be a good thing. We have drivers licenses issued by states. Why not centralize it? Changing residence and drivers license would be a matter of filling out a form at a kiosk and swipping your card to re-localize it. Actually, we should have that now anyway. Why does some slow wit have to process my paperwork?
We don't really have the technology and infrastructure set up for a national ID (I can't imagine the goverment is ready to handle every citizen right now like this) but in the future I can't see why not.
As for the RFID part. Why not? The only bad part is the illusion of safety and the fear of public access to the signal.
Safety:
Cops begin relying on a valid RFID to ID someone. counterfeiting becomes easier when the code is cracked.
I don't see it as a problem. We have fake IDs now that are pretty good and with a secure method of generating the IDs and training cops, counterfeiting would probably be LESS of an issue. Of course this relies on secure RFID and in the end isn't any more of an issue than current fakes.
Public access:
Yeah, walking along the street with a scanner in the area to steal your tag is a fear. So issue sleeves for the cards that block the signal. That way it's only accessible when the card is taken out.
I fail to see the real privacy issues here. We already have state IDs so RFID isn't an invasion of simply being a way to ID you. If a cop can ask for your RFID-less ID, why does the RFID ID pose a problem? Public identification via scanning is kin to the fear that walking around with your license stuck to your back with tape is fearful. You don't do that because you keep your ID secure. Keep the RFID secure by blocking it in public or with some other system that doesn't activate the signal unless requested by an authorized system.
It all comes down to the issue of whether we're at the point were RFID can be secure. I honestly don't know enough about how this works to say for sure, but I'd bet that in order for this to be put into action there will be methods to secure it.
Gah
McIntosh is the apple, named after the Canadian farmer from the 1700s
Macintosh is a raincoat, in England
Macintosh is the computer, play on the apple theme and because it is synonymous with flexible
A few years ago the throttle regulator air intake got stuck open on my Saturn. Result? When my dad took it in for service he'd go 60 mph on the highway with his foot off the gas. He had to turn it off when stopped at lights.
getting off topic but related to part of your post...
Bah, I have a pending "Ask Slashdot" that I submitted almost a month ago.
I should have elaborated. If the computer is your airplane, the OS is the airport. It seems like a backwards analogy here, but it kinda fits. It works the other way around too, the airplane being the OS that runs on the airport.
Either way, you can land different planes at different airports. Sometimes you do it just because you can.
I'm sure there are plenty of old Macs out there that don't run OS X that can find new life with a linux system.
It's like those really old airplanes you always find in jungles. They're no use to me now, but there might be booty inside.
Because you still don't own your own private airport? What's your point here?
I love tornadoes ... but then I live on the moon so they won't directly affect me :).
Don't you know that version numbers are largly meaningless? I wouldn't expect 2.0 until Sun decides to to completely re-write Java from the ground up. Or at least make some monumental change that decidedly sets it apart from 1.x. But then again version numbers are usually meaningless and just illustrate a timeline of releases. I guess an ideal method would use .x to demonstrate small changes and x would demonstrate large changes. But in practice people tend to see a jump from 1.4 to 1.5 and think "that's only a small change". A jump from 1.8 to 2.0 would be only a slightly bigger change.
;)
PS. How much confidence do you have in a product that goes through only about 10 releases and is suddenly at release 2000?
hehe, sometimes I myself wonder how I get from point A to B. I can't wait for those robot cars.
Remind me never to drive near you when you're "lost in a thought" before you "snap back to reality". I'm afraid it might lead to me "missing [being alive]".
That's interesting because everybody accepts cops setting up speed traps and using radar guns to catch speeders. And investigating murders and fraud in order to capture criminals. Yet we don't like the idea of an organization that would police the internet in order to stop the theft of music and movies. Without considering the state of the music and video industry, downloading mp3s and ripped movies without paying for them is illegal. Whether the laws need to be adjusted to allow copyrights to expire or prices to come down is beside the point. Right now these things are illegal, but no one advocates that policing the internet is a means to making it safer or more enriching.
Ya know, just to be consistent. Or re-issue Spaceballs as "Spaceballs Episode 2 'I Planned This All Along'" and then come out with Episode 1 The Search For More Money
This isn't insightful. How many people here didn't understand the postcard comment? Did anyone actually think that it would be thinner than a postcard? I certainly didn't think of a flag pole when I read the comparison.
The product is thicker than I expected but it's about the size that seems comfortable for its intended use.
Smaller than a postcard and about an inch thick would have been more descriptive, but I fail to see how this got you all hot and bothered. Got burned buying a mattress that as "bigger than a King size (in 2 dimensions only)" did you?
Not to be an ass (wait, that's exactly what I mean to be right now...), but those must be some pretty big people. 3 out of 4 means that each of those 3 make up 75%. I sure hope that that 4th person represents negative population or we're all screwed.
You wanted something more like:
A recent study shows that 4 out of 4 people took this survey.
I think Mars Attacks is the closest with the Aliens being killed by country music.