Slashdot Mirror


User: mmkkbb

mmkkbb's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
1,209
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 1,209

  1. Re:Market Adjustment on Pay-Per-View Downloads of TV Shows? · · Score: 1

    So are you saying you would rather see new movie trailers on a 5-year-old DVD?

  2. Re:67 hours no? on GlobalFlyer Completes Record-Breaking Flight · · Score: 2, Informative

    the full load of fuel probably weighed considerably more than the empty aircraft

    The fully-loaded fuel tank was around 85% the plane's weight, IIRC, so you are correct.

  3. Re:Radius -- maybe my Pivot will work on my Pbook on Having Fun With PowerBook Motion Sensors · · Score: 2, Insightful

    it only works on macs with a motion sensor, which is only the new powerbook upgrades.

    you may have an option

  4. Re:Market Adjustment on Pay-Per-View Downloads of TV Shows? · · Score: 1

    I don't expect that will happen unless timely commercials are able to be added. Seeing a commercial for a discontinued product is funny sometimes, but i can't imagine the maker paying as much to put it there.

    NOW YOU'RE PLAYING WITH POWER!

  5. Re:Radius -- maybe my Pivot will work on my Pbook on Having Fun With PowerBook Motion Sensors · · Score: 1

    what new approach?

  6. Re:imac 2 on Having Fun With PowerBook Motion Sensors · · Score: 1

    Well, I never used one, so I couldn't say how well Mac OS 5 handled on-the-fly mdoe switches

  7. Re:imac 2 on Having Fun With PowerBook Motion Sensors · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Do you remember the Radius Pivot?

  8. Re:Physical Tilt Games... on Having Fun With PowerBook Motion Sensors · · Score: 5, Informative

    There already is such a game. It is called Neverball

  9. Re:What about Dilbert? on Daily Grind Webcomic Challenge · · Score: 1

    Huh? If I go to dilbert.com, I see the strip in today's paper. Is my paper always late?

  10. Re:Christopher Wren and the Cathedral/Bazaar on Cox on Torvalds and Linux Kernel Development · · Score: 1

    I really don't think this whole Cathedral/Bazaar analogy was well chosen in the first place

    Could you inform ESR of this please? He hasn't quite gotten the hint.

  11. Re:Crippleware on AirPort Express Streaming Audio From Any Program · · Score: 1

    Me too, but the reality is that it isn't going to happen. It's like waiting for open-source linux drivers from nvidia

  12. Re:I can't wait on Open Office 2.0 Beta Candidate Released · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I just fired up the OpenOffice spreadsheet, inserted the data, saved it as an .xls file, and my distributor won't have any idea I don't even own Microsoft Office.

    Which gives them exactly ZERO impetus to switch away from MS formats.

  13. Re:Apple's not going to like this. on AirPort Express Streaming Audio From Any Program · · Score: 1

    I didn't mean to complain :) I just think their products are overpriced. (Nicecast is $40? COME ON MAN)

  14. Re:Moral questions on MP3 Download Prices to Rise? · · Score: 1

    Sugar is sugar; whether it's granulated or caster or whatever, and whoever supplied it, it has pretty much the same effect. You wouldn't complain because someone put the wrong sort of sugar in your tea, would you? Music's different. People don't want some music, they want some specific music.

    Tough beans. Music, like many other things in life, is not a commodity. Do you complain about branded food products being more expensive than the store brand? How about the price difference between a Hyundai and a Mercedes?

  15. Re:Crippleware on AirPort Express Streaming Audio From Any Program · · Score: 1

    That's missing the component that captures audio, as far as I can tell. Close but not quite. With a little bit of work, you can probably get icecast and Soundflower to do the same thing (and work through iTunes, which is what Airfoil apparently does)

    I'd rather have something that hooks onto Soundflower and then uses Justeport to stream to the Airport Express.

  16. Re:Apple's not going to like this. on AirPort Express Streaming Audio From Any Program · · Score: 1

    It still uses iTunes. The backend uses the iTunes API to add a local stream to the library and send it to the Airport Express.

    So basically it ends up doing for $25 what a more patient user could do for free with icecast, Soundflower, and iTunes all wrapped in a nice package.

  17. Re:Crippleware on AirPort Express Streaming Audio From Any Program · · Score: 1

    The advantage here is that, unlike Audio Hijack Pro, Airfoil has no free equvalent like Soundflower.

  18. Re:www.allofmp3.com on MP3 Download Prices to Rise? · · Score: 1

    Well, I will enjoy using my new "free" PC. Oh, somebody took yours? Too bad.

  19. Re:Cancer on GUI Pioneer Jef Raskin Has Passed Away · · Score: 1

    Mod this up, please.

  20. Re:Not only adult stem cells -- RTFA... on Stem Cell Injections Pioneering Step Forward? · · Score: 1
  21. Re:Not only adult stem cells -- RTFA... on Stem Cell Injections Pioneering Step Forward? · · Score: 1

    but the only restrictions in the US are on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research.

    as far as I know, such research cannot be done in ANY FACILITY THAT RECEIVES FEDERAL FUNDING at all whatsoever.

  22. Re:Yeah! on Microsoft to Disable Online Windows Activation · · Score: 1

    Advocacy!

    No need to make up a word for one that already exists.

  23. Re:Simple. on Authenticity of International Help Organizations? · · Score: 1

    Why claim the tax deduction and declare publicly your donation.

    Well, there's not exactly a fine line between "completely anonymous" and "advertising your coolness and generosity."

  24. Re:Third World Countries...BAH! on Authenticity of International Help Organizations? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What's really sad is that the original comment is at +2 Insightful. :(

  25. Re:Simple. on Authenticity of International Help Organizations? · · Score: 1

    Don't forget, always donate anonymously and in private, why advertise your generosity, that is like buying a service, rather than donating charitably.

    I realize that this the Christian thing to do, but why not claim the tax deduction at least?