Uhhh... I thought it was a given that people knew iPods could play MP3s. Of course they can. Try finding MP3s from online music stores though, that was my point. It is vendor lock-in because you have one store to buy music from (legally). That it shooting yourself in the foot when you buy one.
I'm with you that it makes the RIAA look foolish.
Bravo RIAA, I'm proud of you on this one. Honestly I am. Why is this a good thing? Because
a) It is the RIAA shooting itself in the foot, once again, and further quickening their demise
b) I don't buy music from iTunes, and I encourage everyone to buy a player that is compatible with more than one store. Sure Rhapsody works, but it isn't intended to and never know when that will break.
Apple fanbois, meet vendor lock-in. By buying a non-versatile peice of hardware, you just screwed yourself, you had it coming. Yes, I hate Microsoft as much as most people, but at least I have the freedom to play most any file formats under the sun on my PDA and have a choice of music stores to choose from. Competition = lower music prices.
Go ahead, rate this as a flame, but it is all truth.
Covers the basics of the elevator, what it looks like, how it works, etc...
The question of how this thing is powered never popped into my head before, but the video shows that they will use a lazer shot from the base station. Crazy stuff.
Covered a lot of the questions that have popped into my head while reading the previous 947 Slashdot/Space-elevator articles.
Highlights - Location? Straight south of California near the equator. - Timeframe? 15+ years - What if an airliner flew into it? Pretty much screwed. But the location is 400 miles from any air route so shouldn't be a problem. - How long would it take to get up? A few hours. - Wouldn't it be a huge lightning rod? Yeah, but that area of the world does not have lightning, so shouldn't be a problem. - Wouldn't the car that goes up the cable just pull it down and not crawl up it? Yes, but the car is only a few tons and the weight of the cable and weight on the other end was something like a couple thousand tons. So shouldn't be a problem.
There are a lot of "shouldn't be a problem"'s in there that one of them will be a problem. Exciting technology though.
Bearing this in mind, what's the point in having a rescue shuttle ready for the next two flights only?
While I see your point and think this is pretty dumb to waste all this money on rescue missions that will never fly, it's needed. Why? What if the same thing happens again in the next few missions? NASA is completely fucked and would be getting a fraction of the money they get now. It would be a long time before they recovered. If something else went wrong, and two consecutive missions saw the death of astronauts, or two out of three, same thing, NASA is fucked.
This is nothing more than simply giving people a sense of security. Not really the astronauts themselves as I'm sure they are confident nothing will happen, but more for the rest of the country.
NASA can't just say, "it was a freak accident that wasn't our fault, it's not going to happen again so we don't really need to do anything." If they don't have these rescue missions planned, that's what they'll be saying.
Planning on building a box, anyone want to comment on which one is better? Never used Freevo, played around with Myth a little bit, but my TV card at the time didn't work with it.
Microsoft doesn't have linux becuase it is linux, it hates it becuase it is the competition. With Sun knocking linux out of the way, who do you think Micosofts crosshairs center on then?
Bad conspiricy theory if you ask me.
Glad MS Anti-spyware advised me of that.
How come the other remote utility on my computer, Remote Desktop, wasn't detected too?
Oh wait... that's right.
I liked how it politely asked if I wanted to validate Windows
"Before obtaining the requested download, please take a moment to validate your genuine Microsoft Windows installation. Validation assures that you are running an authentic and fully-licensed copy of Windows. Validating now will enable faster access to genuine Windows downloads upon future visits to the Download Center. Please see the Why Validate? page to learn more about the Windows Genuine Advantage program and why validation is recommended."
Obviously clicked no.
If business commuters are the target, and laptops are required for this TV, that still doesn't answer my question of why not use this bandwidth for internet? I'm thinking the person who carries a laptop onboard would rather have internet than TV, no? Yes.
There is more money to be made by starting a TV network that you control the advertisments, that's the only reason for this. It's not beneficial or cool, it is just another gimmick.
"Boeing hasn't announced the names of the channels that will be available but they'll be international news and financial news channels, he says."
Booooooring. If you have a laptop, why the hell would you watch StockMarketTV? Watch a DVD or hell... play some scorched earth. I love my PDA when I take flights cause I just load a few DVD rips on my SD card and have enough juice and content to watch for about 8 hours.
Can airlines ever think of anything other than cheesy novelty features. Does anyone actually use the phones built into the seat? No. Use that high speed connection to give us internet!
I'm not going to get on you for having a cracked version, but I will get on you for blaming the company for not playing nice with your cracked version. You get what you pay for, in this case... nothing. Pay them and they'll help you out.
Side note: It didn't work right installing on top of my cracked version, uninstalled, didn't work, then once I deleted the trillian directory and installed it again, it worked fine. Probably had a different cracked version than I did though. I never used the pro features anyways.
Last month at a home electronics expo in Long Beach and there was a Kaliedescape manufacturer's training session for this DVD-jukebox. I've always been interested in HTPCs so this was a no-brainer to see this thing in action.
These units are pretty damn cool. I say units plural because you need three components.
1) Ripper
2) Storage/Server
3) Player
They all look really sleek, black cases with blue lighting. So as the SoCal sales rep was demo'ing the units, I was a bit confused why they seperated the ripper and server, the rep responded with "Many of our clients would prefer to have a slimmer component in their library or den and the server can be in the basement." What? The server is the size of a rackmount case and the ripper is a little bit smaller. Why not save some money and combine them? I asked how much the units cost and for a 1 room set up with 1.5 TB storage was around $27,000. A few people started laughing, and a few others just got up and walked out.
Why so expensive? Well for starters they include something like 50 DVDs already preloaded, which of course you are already paying for, but have no choice in what is preloaded other than 2-3 different packages. You can't buy the unit without the pre-loads. Also, the company decided to design the OS from scratch! Linux would be perfect for something like this, but nope, they said they've spent years developing a proprietary OS specifically for this unit. Stupid decision.
While demo'ing the unit, the rep had a difficult time browsing around, like he'd never used one before! There were also some noticable bugs in the GUI too that one of the company engineers had a difficult time working around. We sometimes sat there for 5-10 minutes while they sorted out these issues. It was really unbelievable that they were charging this insane amount for a unit I could build for around $1,000. I'm in IT sales and this guy was a prety bad salesman so I was shocked that they put him in charge of what should be the territory that has 90% of their sales, Southern California.
In speaking with many other companies showing off their latest media centers, PVRs, etc..., I saw some pretty impressive ones well priced too. Speaking with their reps, Kaliedescape was apparently the joke of the expo. They loved laughing and joking about that company.
Bottom line is it was a cool unit, but waaay over-priced as other have noted before me. What makes it even worse is the reps at the expo included their main sales reps and some engineers, who were trying to sell us to be dealers, were brutal. So I'm not sure what that says about the company as a whole, but it is probably not a good thing. I don't see any way this company survives unless they get a ton of athletes/movie stars buying them left and right. At this point, they've apparently only sold a few dozen and its been on the market for I believe about a year. He seemed rather proud of that but making probably $5,000 per system, that isn't going to cut it to support an entire company.
To answer a question I saw earlier about what's stopping the user from renting blockbuster movies to be ripped and returned. Nothing is stopping them. I asked that same question and the rep snobbishly laughed and explained that their clients don't rent movies, they buy them. Which is probably true. I also asked about how this is legal for them to do, and they said it took years of getting the movie indutry's backing, but they were finally able to do it. Looks like that might not have been the case after all. Now their clients all can be sued. Probably won't happen, but with the MPAA, you never know.
I'm an avid anti-*AA person (DVDCCA is close enough). But in this case, I really don't care. I think it's funny actually. I'll laugh if they sue this company in to bankruptcy. They're going to die off anyways, why not speed up the process.
That is rediculous. After playing 3 hours of this game, it's definately the best storyline, most in depth character-wise, most realistic emotional-wise GTA thus far. This is coming from a cracka from Kansas who has only drivin past Compton on the highway twice before.
Props to Rockstar for once again going against the grain. Sure, a Gangsta (not Gangster) theme has been a couple times before, but for a game that has so much riding on it, they took a chance and it definately paid off. They've done the mob/gangster before, time for something new.
Favorite features so far...
- Driving really fast and the screen becomes blurry (I'll call it Fast and the Furious effect),
- Being able to swim
- How insanely big the map is
- Rolling hills
Game is amazing so far, probably anticipated Vice City more than SA (actually forgot it came out today until I bought it at about 8PM), but having more fun in the first few hours with this than VC.
Slashdot Mirror
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/ 01/159241&tid=1937 &tid=215&tid=1264 7&mode=thread&tid=1262 9&mode=thread&tid=100
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/16/07621
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/30/12432
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/13/04282
Really? And legal? Which ones?
Uhhh... I thought it was a given that people knew iPods could play MP3s. Of course they can. Try finding MP3s from online music stores though, that was my point. It is vendor lock-in because you have one store to buy music from (legally). That it shooting yourself in the foot when you buy one. I'm with you that it makes the RIAA look foolish.
Bravo RIAA, I'm proud of you on this one. Honestly I am. Why is this a good thing? Because
a) It is the RIAA shooting itself in the foot, once again, and further quickening their demise
b) I don't buy music from iTunes, and I encourage everyone to buy a player that is compatible with more than one store. Sure Rhapsody works, but it isn't intended to and never know when that will break.
Apple fanbois, meet vendor lock-in. By buying a non-versatile peice of hardware, you just screwed yourself, you had it coming. Yes, I hate Microsoft as much as most people, but at least I have the freedom to play most any file formats under the sun on my PDA and have a choice of music stores to choose from. Competition = lower music prices.
Go ahead, rate this as a flame, but it is all truth.
*Off to buy 79 cent songs*
www.firefox.org? Not sure why you would redirect users to a website design firm.
Just repeating what the interviewee said.
http://www.isr.us/video/SE-INTRO_Final-1stream-384 .wmv
Covers the basics of the elevator, what it looks like, how it works, etc...
The question of how this thing is powered never popped into my head before, but the video shows that they will use a lazer shot from the base station. Crazy stuff.
Covered a lot of the questions that have popped into my head while reading the previous 947 Slashdot/Space-elevator articles.
Highlights
- Location? Straight south of California near the equator.
- Timeframe? 15+ years
- What if an airliner flew into it? Pretty much screwed. But the location is 400 miles from any air route so shouldn't be a problem.
- How long would it take to get up? A few hours.
- Wouldn't it be a huge lightning rod? Yeah, but that area of the world does not have lightning, so shouldn't be a problem.
- Wouldn't the car that goes up the cable just pull it down and not crawl up it? Yes, but the car is only a few tons and the weight of the cable and weight on the other end was something like a couple thousand tons. So shouldn't be a problem.
There are a lot of "shouldn't be a problem"'s in there that one of them will be a problem. Exciting technology though.
lol... mirrordot couldn't even grab the story before the server melted.
While I see your point and think this is pretty dumb to waste all this money on rescue missions that will never fly, it's needed. Why? What if the same thing happens again in the next few missions? NASA is completely fucked and would be getting a fraction of the money they get now. It would be a long time before they recovered. If something else went wrong, and two consecutive missions saw the death of astronauts, or two out of three, same thing, NASA is fucked.
This is nothing more than simply giving people a sense of security. Not really the astronauts themselves as I'm sure they are confident nothing will happen, but more for the rest of the country.
NASA can't just say, "it was a freak accident that wasn't our fault, it's not going to happen again so we don't really need to do anything." If they don't have these rescue missions planned, that's what they'll be saying.
Planning on building a box, anyone want to comment on which one is better? Never used Freevo, played around with Myth a little bit, but my TV card at the time didn't work with it.
Sorry to offend the spelling police.
Microsoft doesn't have linux becuase it is linux, it hates it becuase it is the competition. With Sun knocking linux out of the way, who do you think Micosofts crosshairs center on then? Bad conspiricy theory if you ask me.
Who wants to translate that summary into english for us ANALs?
Off to RTFA will probably less luck.
It sucked having to click through a myriad of folders to play music, now I can just use this to search, find, and launch my media files. Thanks MPAA!
Glad MS Anti-spyware advised me of that. How come the other remote utility on my computer, Remote Desktop, wasn't detected too? Oh wait... that's right.
I liked how it politely asked if I wanted to validate Windows
"Before obtaining the requested download, please take a moment to validate your genuine Microsoft Windows installation. Validation assures that you are running an authentic and fully-licensed copy of Windows. Validating now will enable faster access to genuine Windows downloads upon future visits to the Download Center. Please see the Why Validate? page to learn more about the Windows Genuine Advantage program and why validation is recommended."
Obviously clicked no.
Without the internet, we're left with google desktop, which can only be so much fun. #1 is the internet
Ah hah... see, now we're talkin'
If business commuters are the target, and laptops are required for this TV, that still doesn't answer my question of why not use this bandwidth for internet? I'm thinking the person who carries a laptop onboard would rather have internet than TV, no? Yes. There is more money to be made by starting a TV network that you control the advertisments, that's the only reason for this. It's not beneficial or cool, it is just another gimmick.
"Boeing hasn't announced the names of the channels that will be available but they'll be international news and financial news channels, he says."
Booooooring. If you have a laptop, why the hell would you watch StockMarketTV? Watch a DVD or hell... play some scorched earth. I love my PDA when I take flights cause I just load a few DVD rips on my SD card and have enough juice and content to watch for about 8 hours.
Can airlines ever think of anything other than cheesy novelty features. Does anyone actually use the phones built into the seat? No. Use that high speed connection to give us internet!
Side note: It didn't work right installing on top of my cracked version, uninstalled, didn't work, then once I deleted the trillian directory and installed it again, it worked fine. Probably had a different cracked version than I did though. I never used the pro features anyways.
This is going to have to do pretty damn far before it sets precedence, especially since as the other post said... it's a civil suit.
These units are pretty damn cool. I say units plural because you need three components. 1) Ripper 2) Storage/Server 3) Player
They all look really sleek, black cases with blue lighting. So as the SoCal sales rep was demo'ing the units, I was a bit confused why they seperated the ripper and server, the rep responded with "Many of our clients would prefer to have a slimmer component in their library or den and the server can be in the basement." What? The server is the size of a rackmount case and the ripper is a little bit smaller. Why not save some money and combine them? I asked how much the units cost and for a 1 room set up with 1.5 TB storage was around $27,000. A few people started laughing, and a few others just got up and walked out.
Why so expensive? Well for starters they include something like 50 DVDs already preloaded, which of course you are already paying for, but have no choice in what is preloaded other than 2-3 different packages. You can't buy the unit without the pre-loads. Also, the company decided to design the OS from scratch! Linux would be perfect for something like this, but nope, they said they've spent years developing a proprietary OS specifically for this unit. Stupid decision.
While demo'ing the unit, the rep had a difficult time browsing around, like he'd never used one before! There were also some noticable bugs in the GUI too that one of the company engineers had a difficult time working around. We sometimes sat there for 5-10 minutes while they sorted out these issues. It was really unbelievable that they were charging this insane amount for a unit I could build for around $1,000. I'm in IT sales and this guy was a prety bad salesman so I was shocked that they put him in charge of what should be the territory that has 90% of their sales, Southern California.
In speaking with many other companies showing off their latest media centers, PVRs, etc..., I saw some pretty impressive ones well priced too. Speaking with their reps, Kaliedescape was apparently the joke of the expo. They loved laughing and joking about that company.
Bottom line is it was a cool unit, but waaay over-priced as other have noted before me. What makes it even worse is the reps at the expo included their main sales reps and some engineers, who were trying to sell us to be dealers, were brutal. So I'm not sure what that says about the company as a whole, but it is probably not a good thing. I don't see any way this company survives unless they get a ton of athletes/movie stars buying them left and right. At this point, they've apparently only sold a few dozen and its been on the market for I believe about a year. He seemed rather proud of that but making probably $5,000 per system, that isn't going to cut it to support an entire company.
To answer a question I saw earlier about what's stopping the user from renting blockbuster movies to be ripped and returned. Nothing is stopping them. I asked that same question and the rep snobbishly laughed and explained that their clients don't rent movies, they buy them. Which is probably true. I also asked about how this is legal for them to do, and they said it took years of getting the movie indutry's backing, but they were finally able to do it. Looks like that might not have been the case after all. Now their clients all can be sued. Probably won't happen, but with the MPAA, you never know.
I'm an avid anti-*AA person (DVDCCA is close enough). But in this case, I really don't care. I think it's funny actually. I'll laugh if they sue this company in to bankruptcy. They're going to die off anyways, why not speed up the process.
That is rediculous. After playing 3 hours of this game, it's definately the best storyline, most in depth character-wise, most realistic emotional-wise GTA thus far. This is coming from a cracka from Kansas who has only drivin past Compton on the highway twice before. Props to Rockstar for once again going against the grain. Sure, a Gangsta (not Gangster) theme has been a couple times before, but for a game that has so much riding on it, they took a chance and it definately paid off. They've done the mob/gangster before, time for something new. Favorite features so far... - Driving really fast and the screen becomes blurry (I'll call it Fast and the Furious effect), - Being able to swim - How insanely big the map is - Rolling hills Game is amazing so far, probably anticipated Vice City more than SA (actually forgot it came out today until I bought it at about 8PM), but having more fun in the first few hours with this than VC.