It seems to me that this would work except for the fact that it would be empty. It's what economists would call a network externality. That is, if there are people using system A it is immediately more attractive than system B. Like switching the US to metric. Or, for a better example, why cell phone companies started to offer those "call anyone in our network free" plans, you're more attractive if you have more customers. The problem would come with the fact that the people using your network would have no content to use, until they created it. This would hurt adoption greatly. If you built a bridge to the old network, to allow users to access that content, I think it would then discourage content creation on your network, and you've relegated yourself to proxy server.
Unless they are providing some other way to authenticate people when they sign up for a service this doesn't seem to me like it will do much. Now I didn't RTFA, but if it's restricting who can ask for the SSN or something like that then whomever needs to verify your identity will simply have to get a different bit of it, and then the SSN is no longer as significant. After all, who wants to pay your taxes?
I have to write a bunch of papers and at various times I end up in, say, a library away from my own machine, I can email myself links, but that's clumsy and a pain in the ass. If this worked well I'd be all over it, I move around too much for a normal clipboard. Another thing would be nice is when i am working with someone and in order to pass a url I just point them to the google page we've been using all day rather then trying to email or dictate.
I just wish it was out this week, by next week I won't need it for a few months.
I love that, I can print out a report with every single credit card that we handled that entire day if i am so inclined. Including experation dates and everything i'd need to use them, or clone them.
Actually it can be really difficult on laptops. My powerbook got really farked up and refused to shut down, even holding the power button down for 10 seconds couldn't turn it off. So I thought, hey I'll pull the battery, I took the damn thing out and the powerbook kept doing what it was doing. At this point i threw the computer out the window and moved to a shack in montana so, the problem was solved. I'm still not sure if it ever turned off.
That was really, really funny. First off that bill sucks at Doom, secondly the whole premise of the video. Also, did anyone else start laughing when bill says, "don't interrupt me?"
Isn't that the point, or at least part of it, of the fair use clause? You need to be able to make backups in case the original is no longer in a condition to be used. Maybe she'll have to produce a receipt to show that the copy on the ipod was actually paid for? We could have IRS style audits, but of our entire lives! Can you prove that you paid for those toothpicks?
I agree with your assesment of Dashboard, although I like the dictionary and wikipedia widgets along with the calendar and battery one, I rarely use it. Spotlight is cool, but most of the the time I use quicksilver to launch programs and commonly used documents. I thought that automator would be cool, but I went into it to try to script stripping the first and last few characters off of an ID3 title, and there was no way to do it, you can change the title, but I can do that in itunes with less work that launching an automator action anyway. That said, since I've gotten my powerbook my old PC has been on three times, the first two to get data off of it, and the last to look up some information about my network settings. The last time, after a month of using the powerbook, I was kinda confused by the interface, what's this? a start bar? how quiant. I can't launch programs by hitting ctrl-space and typing the first three letters? it takes how long to start up? I had a point somewhere along there, I dropped it, I agree about dashboard and automator, and havn't used spotlight much. But I love OSX and would die if I had to go back to windows.
Compiler error much.
I'm sorry, but I tried real hard to understand that, and my brain now hurts, I think you were saying that it's hard to keep a controller flat and that nintendo knows that it will be hard to implement a tilt sensor properly. But then that parenthesis never got closed.
The fact that these people are trying to make them bad makes some of these rather impressive. I've been going through the archives of both this one and the short lines contest, and they have an odd beauty to them. When I first read the story, on Fark, two days ago, I thought that they had come across these somewhere, not that people were trying,
For some reason I don't see most slashdotters handling carburetors.
For some reason I don't see most slashdotters handling breasts.
I'm serious about the first one, the second was obligatory.
I was looking at that and thought it was cool, some of the stuff looked expensive. Accurate time is good. I googled the model number of his most accurate clock, it costs $30,000. This guy could have bought himself a new car for what he spent on the clock. Either he has way too much time and money on his hands or I'm missing the part where someone gives the clock to him.
It seems like the internet should help make a change in this, I know that I would gladly pay small amounts for independant music or even better music from the lables. It should no longer be necessary to pimp the big artists when you can make just as much money off of people buying the music they actually enjoy, now that the costs of both are the same.
Uhm, I think that would be closer to 6/10, but close. If half of internet users are on XP, and 9/10 are on microsoft platforms that means that more than half of those MS users are on XP, if it were 4/10 that would mean that 36% of internet users use XP. The real percentage of MS customers would be (XP users)/(MS users)*(MS market percentage)=50% so uh, 50/90*100(assuming 100 MS users for easy percentages)= percentage of MS users who use XP. so 55.56%. I realize that this is anal retentive, but I did it mostly to work out in my head the way to actually get the answer to the problem.
Actually, i would think that thanks takes less time than thnkx because you have to move off the home row more. And being less serious you have to think about how much of an idiot you are, which the person on the other end does as well. Thx i can see, or TY, but thnkx makes you look like a moron. For the most part I try to avoid abbreviations in online conversations other than things like UT, BRB, or LOL. When I am actually saying something I wont type have u seen this? or I have to get ready 4 work. Basically, i don't mix acronyms or abbreviations with context.
Just thinking about this makes me want to go out and buy a few computers before this comes through. I really think that if computer hardware becomes DRM'd I will stop buying it. For what I do on a computer there isn't much that I need power for, and if it is more restrictive hardware, I just wont use it. I wonder if this will have the same effect on the average person, maybe not if it is easy to get around, but if you're thinking about a computer and your friend says, "man I just got a new dell with that windows longhorn and now I can't play my mp3's anymore," or "My videos look like crap, they want me to buy a new monitor" are you really going to be excited about getting that new computer? For the most part the really stupid DRM schemes havn't effected the user, and in the cases where they have(thinking about DRM'd CD's) they've either been circumvented quickly, or not bought.
I would'nt be so hopeful as to say that it will help linux, but it might get people thinking after all, most, inlcuding me at times, only care about functionality. If you start to take their ability to play their movies away we might see at least some of them looking into alternatives.
If there is no alternative to DRM'd tech we might see a slower cycle of innovation. Geeks are the people who buy the $1000 intel processors that just came out, and are the same people who don't like DRM, without them to be on the cutting edge will things get developed as quickly?
I think that this is true, but at least in OSX there is alot of room to actually get under the hood and change things, they do great with both. It just works out of the box, but in the event you want to do something more complex you can do it too(typing on my brand new powerbook).
OK, the whole post was just so I could say brand new Powerbook.
Absolutely fucking remarkable, I'm so glad I have Slashdot to give me such important information. I mean no more my?
Although this is probably the first step, they get you to stop thinking of it as your computer, then next revision of windows will have a "The RIAA's" prefix.
Having a little bit of experience with one of the two, I agree. Although the biggest lights(HPS's) like gym lights are only 1000 watts a piece, which adds up to 24 KWH a day, or like 750 a month. and that would probably bring in about 10,000 a month if done properly, CO2 and shit.
I think he meant to say half of the gamers are over age 18 and almost a quarter of those are over age 50. Which makes 12.5% and that seems much more reasonable.
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That'd be control click to you.
It seems to me that this would work except for the fact that it would be empty. It's what economists would call a network externality. That is, if there are people using system A it is immediately more attractive than system B. Like switching the US to metric. Or, for a better example, why cell phone companies started to offer those "call anyone in our network free" plans, you're more attractive if you have more customers.
The problem would come with the fact that the people using your network would have no content to use, until they created it. This would hurt adoption greatly. If you built a bridge to the old network, to allow users to access that content, I think it would then discourage content creation on your network, and you've relegated yourself to proxy server.
Unless they are providing some other way to authenticate people when they sign up for a service this doesn't seem to me like it will do much. Now I didn't RTFA, but if it's restricting who can ask for the SSN or something like that then whomever needs to verify your identity will simply have to get a different bit of it, and then the SSN is no longer as significant. After all, who wants to pay your taxes?
I have to write a bunch of papers and at various times I end up in, say, a library away from my own machine, I can email myself links, but that's clumsy and a pain in the ass. If this worked well I'd be all over it, I move around too much for a normal clipboard. Another thing would be nice is when i am working with someone and in order to pass a url I just point them to the google page we've been using all day rather then trying to email or dictate. I just wish it was out this week, by next week I won't need it for a few months.
I love that, I can print out a report with every single credit card that we handled that entire day if i am so inclined. Including experation dates and everything i'd need to use them, or clone them.
Actually it can be really difficult on laptops. My powerbook got really farked up and refused to shut down, even holding the power button down for 10 seconds couldn't turn it off. So I thought, hey I'll pull the battery, I took the damn thing out and the powerbook kept doing what it was doing. At this point i threw the computer out the window and moved to a shack in montana so, the problem was solved. I'm still not sure if it ever turned off.
Wait, does this mean that I can run Win2k on apple hardware now?! thank god I dont have to run that crappy mac OS anymore.
That was really, really funny. First off that bill sucks at Doom, secondly the whole premise of the video. Also, did anyone else start laughing when bill says, "don't interrupt me?"
Isn't that the point, or at least part of it, of the fair use clause? You need to be able to make backups in case the original is no longer in a condition to be used. Maybe she'll have to produce a receipt to show that the copy on the ipod was actually paid for? We could have IRS style audits, but of our entire lives! Can you prove that you paid for those toothpicks?
I agree with your assesment of Dashboard, although I like the dictionary and wikipedia widgets along with the calendar and battery one, I rarely use it. Spotlight is cool, but most of the the time I use quicksilver to launch programs and commonly used documents. I thought that automator would be cool, but I went into it to try to script stripping the first and last few characters off of an ID3 title, and there was no way to do it, you can change the title, but I can do that in itunes with less work that launching an automator action anyway.
That said, since I've gotten my powerbook my old PC has been on three times, the first two to get data off of it, and the last to look up some information about my network settings. The last time, after a month of using the powerbook, I was kinda confused by the interface, what's this? a start bar? how quiant. I can't launch programs by hitting ctrl-space and typing the first three letters? it takes how long to start up?
I had a point somewhere along there, I dropped it, I agree about dashboard and automator, and havn't used spotlight much. But I love OSX and would die if I had to go back to windows.
Compiler error much. I'm sorry, but I tried real hard to understand that, and my brain now hurts, I think you were saying that it's hard to keep a controller flat and that nintendo knows that it will be hard to implement a tilt sensor properly. But then that parenthesis never got closed.
I saw this headline and thought I was gonna be reading an article about wifi in police cars in order to communicate or something, oh well.
The fact that these people are trying to make them bad makes some of these rather impressive. I've been going through the archives of both this one and the short lines contest, and they have an odd beauty to them. When I first read the story, on Fark, two days ago, I thought that they had come across these somewhere, not that people were trying,
For some reason I don't see most slashdotters handling carburetors. For some reason I don't see most slashdotters handling breasts. I'm serious about the first one, the second was obligatory.
I was looking at that and thought it was cool, some of the stuff looked expensive. Accurate time is good. I googled the model number of his most accurate clock, it costs $30,000. This guy could have bought himself a new car for what he spent on the clock. Either he has way too much time and money on his hands or I'm missing the part where someone gives the clock to him.
It seems like the internet should help make a change in this, I know that I would gladly pay small amounts for independant music or even better music from the lables. It should no longer be necessary to pimp the big artists when you can make just as much money off of people buying the music they actually enjoy, now that the costs of both are the same.
And now i read the fail to convince part of the thing and feel like a jackass. No posting right after I get off work
Uhm, I think that would be closer to 6/10, but close. If half of internet users are on XP, and 9/10 are on microsoft platforms that means that more than half of those MS users are on XP, if it were 4/10 that would mean that 36% of internet users use XP. The real percentage of MS customers would be (XP users)/(MS users)*(MS market percentage)=50% so uh, 50/90*100(assuming 100 MS users for easy percentages)= percentage of MS users who use XP. so 55.56%. I realize that this is anal retentive, but I did it mostly to work out in my head the way to actually get the answer to the problem.
Actually, i would think that thanks takes less time than thnkx because you have to move off the home row more. And being less serious you have to think about how much of an idiot you are, which the person on the other end does as well. Thx i can see, or TY, but thnkx makes you look like a moron. For the most part I try to avoid abbreviations in online conversations other than things like UT, BRB, or LOL. When I am actually saying something I wont type have u seen this? or I have to get ready 4 work. Basically, i don't mix acronyms or abbreviations with context.
Just thinking about this makes me want to go out and buy a few computers before this comes through. I really think that if computer hardware becomes DRM'd I will stop buying it. For what I do on a computer there isn't much that I need power for, and if it is more restrictive hardware, I just wont use it. I wonder if this will have the same effect on the average person, maybe not if it is easy to get around, but if you're thinking about a computer and your friend says, "man I just got a new dell with that windows longhorn and now I can't play my mp3's anymore," or "My videos look like crap, they want me to buy a new monitor" are you really going to be excited about getting that new computer? For the most part the really stupid DRM schemes havn't effected the user, and in the cases where they have(thinking about DRM'd CD's) they've either been circumvented quickly, or not bought. I would'nt be so hopeful as to say that it will help linux, but it might get people thinking after all, most, inlcuding me at times, only care about functionality. If you start to take their ability to play their movies away we might see at least some of them looking into alternatives. If there is no alternative to DRM'd tech we might see a slower cycle of innovation. Geeks are the people who buy the $1000 intel processors that just came out, and are the same people who don't like DRM, without them to be on the cutting edge will things get developed as quickly?
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I think that this is true, but at least in OSX there is alot of room to actually get under the hood and change things, they do great with both. It just works out of the box, but in the event you want to do something more complex you can do it too(typing on my brand new powerbook). OK, the whole post was just so I could say brand new Powerbook.
Absolutely fucking remarkable, I'm so glad I have Slashdot to give me such important information. I mean no more my? Although this is probably the first step, they get you to stop thinking of it as your computer, then next revision of windows will have a "The RIAA's" prefix.
Having a little bit of experience with one of the two, I agree. Although the biggest lights(HPS's) like gym lights are only 1000 watts a piece, which adds up to 24 KWH a day, or like 750 a month. and that would probably bring in about 10,000 a month if done properly, CO2 and shit.
I think he meant to say half of the gamers are over age 18 and almost a quarter of those are over age 50. Which makes 12.5% and that seems much more reasonable.