At a cost of over $4 Billion, is this system really going to offer any major advantages over GPS, or is it merely a politicised 'anything you can do we can do better' by the European Space Agency?"
Shouldn't that say anything you can do we can do 28 years later?
From the article: The effort is incredibly weak, much like Sharman's attempt to dissuade Australian users, as it's little more than some JavaScript code that can be implemented into any web site. Dozens of scripts, even those usable by forum users, can easily display an individual's IP address.
The actual URI of the web page is http://www.grokster.com/index.php It is not JavaScript, but is in fact php (i suspect they use the $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"] php variable, but I can't be sure.)
Planet: Any natural roughly spherical object (a) orbiting a star or stars (b), with no other natural objects in the same orbit around (b) which are not orbiting said object (a), and which is in a stable orbit around said star or stars (b)
Planetoid: Any object which would be a planet as defined above, other than not being in a stable orbit
Rouge Planet: Any object which was once a planet, and is no longer in an orbit around a star or stars
Moon: Any natural object in stable orbit around a planet
Actually, we'll reject it because we don't need it. There is a surplus of medically trained, as well as non-medical, volunteers available, as well as the entire medical community of New Orleans who will be needing jobs. It is much more effective and efficiant to simply have them provide the neccessary medical care.
And before you try to argue and tell me I don't know what I'm talking about, you should know that I was deployed to Louisiana with a medical disaster team for two weeks, to provide medical support, and we were recalled after one week due to us no longer being needed (thanks to the surplus of volunteers).
I do agree that in certain isolated areas (web searching and email for example) Google is Microsoft's biggest competitor. However, seing as how Google does not produce any operating systems or productivity software (yet?), I don't agree that Google is in competition with Microsoft on the same level that Apple is.
I for one say kudos to Steve Jobs, and all of Apple on a job well done. Even though I don't use an Apple at the moment, I am very pleased that Microsoft's biggest competitor is doing well. Perhaps this will strike some fear into the folks over at Microsoft, encouraging them to reduce prices and improve their products.
Now it just remains to be seen if Apple can maintain this level of growth.
If the copyrights expired, then the movies are in the public domain, and there is no reason they cannot be rerelased by anyone with a vhs player and a dvd recorder.
If the contracts have expired, and the copyrights have not, then your argument would apply.
That's incorrect. A Video Cassette Recorder (VCR) plays from, and records to Video Home System (VHS (a format patented by JVC (Victor Company of Japan))) tapes.
A Video Cassette Player (VCP) plays (but does not record to) VHS tapes.
There is no such thing as a VCR tape
Ever tried to listen to an audio book on CD?
How about watching a long movie?
Even if the CD/DVD player you use supports resuming from where you left off (usually though some sort of onboard RAM which stores the timecode IIRC), you can't pop a CD or DVD out of one machine, and put it in another, and just pick up where you left off.
You can with audio cassettes and VHS.
If it's running linux, do you think that the open source nature will help with emulation programs? What about running other emulators on the PS3? Perhaps that was part of Sony's strategy. Hell, it might even run WINE fairly well.
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Virtual tax!
At a cost of over $4 Billion, is this system really going to offer any major advantages over GPS, or is it merely a politicised 'anything you can do we can do better' by the European Space Agency?"
Shouldn't that say anything you can do we can do 28 years later ?
From the article:
The effort is incredibly weak, much like Sharman's attempt to dissuade Australian users, as it's little more than some JavaScript code that can be implemented into any web site. Dozens of scripts, even those usable by forum users, can easily display an individual's IP address.
The actual URI of the web page is http://www.grokster.com/index.php
It is not JavaScript, but is in fact php (i suspect they use the $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"] php variable, but I can't be sure.)
Does this mean that Maxtor drives will stop sucking, or that Seagate drives will start to?
If we slashdot them, maybe Blizzard will take notice? Everyone start clicking here, and don't stop!
what went wrong in Level3: http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/msg13166. html
I'd like to point out that the parent should be modded up FUNNY, not INTERESTING
Bullets are kinetic energy weapons :o
...and other related terms
Planet: Any natural roughly spherical object (a) orbiting a star or stars (b), with no other natural objects in the same orbit around (b) which are not orbiting said object (a), and which is in a stable orbit around said star or stars (b)
Planetoid: Any object which would be a planet as defined above, other than not being in a stable orbit
Rouge Planet: Any object which was once a planet, and is no longer in an orbit around a star or stars
Moon: Any natural object in stable orbit around a planet
Read all about it here http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/27/15 5212
Actually, we'll reject it because we don't need it. There is a surplus of medically trained, as well as non-medical, volunteers available, as well as the entire medical community of New Orleans who will be needing jobs. It is much more effective and efficiant to simply have them provide the neccessary medical care. And before you try to argue and tell me I don't know what I'm talking about, you should know that I was deployed to Louisiana with a medical disaster team for two weeks, to provide medical support, and we were recalled after one week due to us no longer being needed (thanks to the surplus of volunteers).
You are seriously telling us that you have never heard of Apple Macintosh?
http://www.nextfest.net/
Well, I just bought a Dell Inspiron XPS Gen 2, and my decision on that machine was based in part on the 256MB NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra it has.
Full(er) system specs at http://avin456.firehose.us:81/newcomp.txt
I do agree that in certain isolated areas (web searching and email for example) Google is Microsoft's biggest competitor. However, seing as how Google does not produce any operating systems or productivity software (yet?), I don't agree that Google is in competition with Microsoft on the same level that Apple is.
Forgive me if I've missed something, but how is Google a competitor of Apple?
I for one say kudos to Steve Jobs, and all of Apple on a job well done. Even though I don't use an Apple at the moment, I am very pleased that Microsoft's biggest competitor is doing well. Perhaps this will strike some fear into the folks over at Microsoft, encouraging them to reduce prices and improve their products. Now it just remains to be seen if Apple can maintain this level of growth.
Actually, I submitted that comment while at work. :p
If the copyrights expired, then the movies are in the public domain, and there is no reason they cannot be rerelased by anyone with a vhs player and a dvd recorder.
If the contracts have expired, and the copyrights have not, then your argument would apply.
That's incorrect. A Video Cassette Recorder (VCR) plays from, and records to Video Home System (VHS (a format patented by JVC (Victor Company of Japan))) tapes. A Video Cassette Player (VCP) plays (but does not record to) VHS tapes. There is no such thing as a VCR tape
Ever tried to listen to an audio book on CD? How about watching a long movie? Even if the CD/DVD player you use supports resuming from where you left off (usually though some sort of onboard RAM which stores the timecode IIRC), you can't pop a CD or DVD out of one machine, and put it in another, and just pick up where you left off. You can with audio cassettes and VHS.
If it's running linux, do you think that the open source nature will help with emulation programs? What about running other emulators on the PS3? Perhaps that was part of Sony's strategy. Hell, it might even run WINE fairly well.
Only a geek knows how to fsck well.
quit jacking my sig :p