I knew doctors were smart, but to convince the higher-ups that playing video games on company time improves their skills, I am amazed.
Of course I'm joking, I have excellent hand-eye coordination from years of video games. It's the arm-eye, leg-eye, foot-eye and pretty much every other body part-eye coordination that leaves much to be desired.
I built a computer that does what the MP3Beamer does, does that mean I can sue?
This is OT, but does it seem like a high percentage of/. stories involving new technology also include a snippet about how X sued Y over frivilous object Z?
Consistency is good, but I think the KDE team is looking more at trying to make the 'perfect package'. In other words, their desktop system basically tries to include everything, from mp3s to cdburning to smb managing to instant messaging, all things that could be done with third party software as well. But KDE's programs are often the most newbie-friendly, and for people new to linux, KDE makes a nice manager because it includes all those things. But I guess the KDE team doesn't think they've really got everything the way they want it, so they're expanding and changing. As long as the changes aren't detrimental (except for having to learn them), I say keep innovating.
But, for many linux users who use the desktop as a place to hold terminal windows, we'll take fluxbox.
It's a matter of time and the average laptop having proprietary hardware. Sure, linux will run on most, if not all, laptops given enough time to 'play around with it,' but Joe Average who's sick of Windows doesn't care about ALSA or X.org vs XFree, he just wants his laptop to work with linux. Unfortunatly it doesn't come much more propriatery than some of the laptops out there, so the hardware support is sometimes flaky. I think most people know this, but the GP doesn't want to mess around with a even a single config file just to play MP3s. Not that I wouldn't mind doing that, but it does take more time than most people are willing to commit.
That said, there are many distros that work out of the box on laptops, particularly laptpos that aren't bleeding edge or are commonly used.
That's fairly amazing. It would be even more amazing if most of them worked... I can't imagine the latency of the overlapping channels and garbage data on the same channel.
Let's take it a bit further, how about some type of system where we tell it what we like, and it buys the food for us? Or maybe intigrating it with those scooter carts so we don't have to be given the hard task of walking around the store.
In all seriousness though, many people get confused by the U-Scan checkouts they have now... I can't wait to see my grandmother try to use this proposed system.
You need to do some research on WHY there was such high inflation for Germany. The jist of it is that the gov't kept printing more and more money, making each individual mark worth less and less, in addition the Nat'l bank (at the BEGINNING of the war) no longer backing their marks with gold. And the value of the mark had dropped significantly at the beginning of the war as well, not just after the reparations.
Calm down dude, I'm a fscking libertarian, so don't preach that crap to me. Second off, you really missed the point. It's a joke on the fact that a company is selling something, then advertising a free peice of software for it, instead of just treating it like every other free piece of software they have to download. Ever see an ad on TV that says "Buy product X and get product Y free!"? It's just marketing trying to ad the word "free" instead of just saying "you get product X and Y for Z dollars"
I laugh at them trying to call it 'Free'. Obviously it only runs on an OS that costs $100+, made by the same company. That's like calling Windows Explorer free, and charging $100 for the NT kernel.
There's a problem with that line of thinking (not ever giving out a SSN). There are other laws that require her SSN. For example, if she were to be working with radioactive materials, at say, a college in MA, if she refused to give her SSN, she would not be allowed to use radio active materials. It has nothing to do with security, but a persons SSN is just about the only number that tracks a person for life. And in the case of the radioactive stuff, we're required to keep her radiation exposure record for XX years even if she leaves, and the only way to reference it is by SSN (because any proprietary number we give her know, like a school ID#, doesn't mean anything to any other organization).
At the university I'm at, we have some 20,000 computers, plus we have to sign on (in other words, associate our NIC's MAC address) to the network with our Kerberos SSO information. And it's used for every department imaginable, from laundry money to getting jobs listings. Fortunatly, the minimum password length is 12 characters, and it has to be changed every 6 months (?). Long story short, when well implimented, Kerberos SSO can be a Good Thing.
In Chicago and other metropolitan areas, perhaps you can. If you took my statement to mean that there is no place on this planet where there are two cable companies, well, I guess you'd have to avoiding the first question (Where do you live), although you sort of answered it. Look, my point was there are industries like telecommunications that are already monopolies. Prior to 2000, to my knowledge, there was only one cable company in Indianapolis link. In the other rural areas of Indiana where I lived, there was only one cable company.
The gov't position: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/03/14/tech/mai n503753.shtml
It's also a problem in Michigan: http://www.pro-networks.org/forum/post-343606.html
The only thing I was trying to say, is that you can look at other services for the future of telephone services.
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Just blow $400 on the MP3Beamer!
I've never heard of this "404" record label. Or are they a group representing record labels? And why is /. affiliated with them?
I knew doctors were smart, but to convince the higher-ups that playing video games on company time improves their skills, I am amazed.
Of course I'm joking, I have excellent hand-eye coordination from years of video games. It's the arm-eye, leg-eye, foot-eye and pretty much every other body part-eye coordination that leaves much to be desired.
So, how many people had this thought pop into your mind when you read this post:
"I'm sorry Dave... I can't let you do that."
Or has that been said dozens of times? I haven't read the comments.
That worked for me until the network admins shut off his 'net connection because he was sharing.
I built a computer that does what the MP3Beamer does, does that mean I can sue?
/. stories involving new technology also include a snippet about how X sued Y over frivilous object Z?
This is OT, but does it seem like a high percentage of
Consistency is good, but I think the KDE team is looking more at trying to make the 'perfect package'. In other words, their desktop system basically tries to include everything, from mp3s to cdburning to smb managing to instant messaging, all things that could be done with third party software as well. But KDE's programs are often the most newbie-friendly, and for people new to linux, KDE makes a nice manager because it includes all those things. But I guess the KDE team doesn't think they've really got everything the way they want it, so they're expanding and changing. As long as the changes aren't detrimental (except for having to learn them), I say keep innovating.
But, for many linux users who use the desktop as a place to hold terminal windows, we'll take fluxbox.
It's a matter of time and the average laptop having proprietary hardware. Sure, linux will run on most, if not all, laptops given enough time to 'play around with it,' but Joe Average who's sick of Windows doesn't care about ALSA or X.org vs XFree, he just wants his laptop to work with linux. Unfortunatly it doesn't come much more propriatery than some of the laptops out there, so the hardware support is sometimes flaky. I think most people know this, but the GP doesn't want to mess around with a even a single config file just to play MP3s. Not that I wouldn't mind doing that, but it does take more time than most people are willing to commit.
That said, there are many distros that work out of the box on laptops, particularly laptpos that aren't bleeding edge or are commonly used.
On a price per gig scale: 512MB Shuffle: $99 = $200/gig 1GB Shuffle: $149 = $149/gig 4GB mini: $199 = $50 6GB mini: $249 = $42 20GB iPod: $299 = $15 30GB Photo: $349 = $12 ** MISSING ** 60GB Photo: $449 = $7.5 Logically, I should be able to buy a 120GB iPod for $650.
That's fairly amazing. It would be even more amazing if most of them worked... I can't imagine the latency of the overlapping channels and garbage data on the same channel.
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It's anal rape... what isn't funny about it?
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Let's take it a bit further, how about some type of system where we tell it what we like, and it buys the food for us? Or maybe intigrating it with those scooter carts so we don't have to be given the hard task of walking around the store.
In all seriousness though, many people get confused by the U-Scan checkouts they have now... I can't wait to see my grandmother try to use this proposed system.
You people make me sick.
You need to do some research on WHY there was such high inflation for Germany. The jist of it is that the gov't kept printing more and more money, making each individual mark worth less and less, in addition the Nat'l bank (at the BEGINNING of the war) no longer backing their marks with gold. And the value of the mark had dropped significantly at the beginning of the war as well, not just after the reparations.
Nuculer. It's pronounced nuculer.
Nm, the article wasn't about BME.
Boston U, which is right next door to MIT, has had a BioEng program for some time. Why no article for them?
Calm down dude, I'm a fscking libertarian, so don't preach that crap to me. Second off, you really missed the point. It's a joke on the fact that a company is selling something, then advertising a free peice of software for it, instead of just treating it like every other free piece of software they have to download. Ever see an ad on TV that says "Buy product X and get product Y free!"? It's just marketing trying to ad the word "free" instead of just saying "you get product X and Y for Z dollars"
I laugh at them trying to call it 'Free'. Obviously it only runs on an OS that costs $100+, made by the same company. That's like calling Windows Explorer free, and charging $100 for the NT kernel.
Yes! The CO2 problem is from underdeveloped countries without emissions standards, not the US.
There's a problem with that line of thinking (not ever giving out a SSN). There are other laws that require her SSN. For example, if she were to be working with radioactive materials, at say, a college in MA, if she refused to give her SSN, she would not be allowed to use radio active materials. It has nothing to do with security, but a persons SSN is just about the only number that tracks a person for life. And in the case of the radioactive stuff, we're required to keep her radiation exposure record for XX years even if she leaves, and the only way to reference it is by SSN (because any proprietary number we give her know, like a school ID#, doesn't mean anything to any other organization).
At the university I'm at, we have some 20,000 computers, plus we have to sign on (in other words, associate our NIC's MAC address) to the network with our Kerberos SSO information. And it's used for every department imaginable, from laundry money to getting jobs listings. Fortunatly, the minimum password length is 12 characters, and it has to be changed every 6 months (?). Long story short, when well implimented, Kerberos SSO can be a Good Thing.
In Chicago and other metropolitan areas, perhaps you can. If you took my statement to mean that there is no place on this planet where there are two cable companies, well, I guess you'd have to avoiding the first question (Where do you live), although you sort of answered it. Look, my point was there are industries like telecommunications that are already monopolies. Prior to 2000, to my knowledge, there was only one cable company in Indianapolis link. In the other rural areas of Indiana where I lived, there was only one cable company. The gov't position: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/03/14/tech/mai n503753.shtml
It's also a problem in Michigan: http://www.pro-networks.org/forum/post-343606.html
The only thing I was trying to say, is that you can look at other services for the future of telephone services.