Does this make anyone else think of the old Looney Toons cartoons where one character diverts another character's path of travel by painting a false line from the middle of the road to someplace else?
we need some kind of staleness check on new posts
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Toy Story 3 Scrapped
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It's really tiring to read two-week old happenings on Slashdot, come on folks. We've already seen this in a dozen other places back when it was news...
I don't understand why this post has to be about the iPod. This is true of all kinds of items sold on eBay, including everything from other types of mp3 players and media players to "external" enclosure hard drives and even whole computer systems (where the issue extends from multimedia content to installed commerical software applications for which the original media is not included because the seller intends to keep the license).
This isn't new, and it isn't about the iPod either. It's a much larger issue. Just go ahead and search eBay right now for devices with music and movies on them.
Since others have covered well the lunacy of predicting five years of sales on less than one year of data and no confirmed titles shipping beyond a few months from now, I'll move on to the underlying question I always have about this stuff......who cares? I mean seriously, are there people out there who go "ha ha my console makes more money than yours" or something? What a ridiculous idea. Why should a consumer care about anything other than whether they enjoy the thing and it offers the titles they want to play? This goes right up there with "oh this movie was good no matter what you say, because people bought a million tickets to it on the first day" or "that movie sucked, you can tell from the box office numbers."
Folks, good grief, just have some fun, this is entertainment.
Seriously, this was my first thought reading this as well. Not only does that figure seem to completely ignore the likely terminal velocity of the canister, I'm betting it supposes an inelastic collision. I'm sorry, did the can of worms land on an extremely large plate of hardened titanium? No, it probably landed in dirt someplace...
Maybe you should skip them both, and just buy a nicely decked out new home computer instead - or how about a nice home theater package?
Seriously the prices on these things are just insane.
it better play more video formats and codecs...
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Video iPod Oct 12?
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All I can say is if this is true, it better play more video container and codec combinations then Quicktime Player does otherwise it will be terribly limited. Unlike a Mac running OS X, users would not be able to trivially add codecs or install programs like VLC or MPlayer on an iPod as they are forced to do on a Mac in order to watch most "modern" commonly used codecs and container formats.
...but, the games, if they did not cause this then games might not be dangerous to children but then the government would be wrong in spending millions of tax dollars on needless investigations and......it's like, if the gun manufacturers are not to blame for gun crimes but grokster is to blame for p2p crimes and videogame companies are to blame *twitch* not to blame *twitch* to blame for....
I seriously have to wonder if the elegance of this metaphor is lost on an audience most of whose romantic experience has thus far been measured by progress bars with such captions as...
PROGRESS WITH DENISE
remember slashdot, that site that got taken down?
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Behind the Xbox Boot Code
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OH NOES! This article contains a description of how one might circumvent a copyright protection mechanism. WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP! DANGER WILL ROBINSON! DANGER!
It's funny, I've seen patently illegal topics discussed on Slashdot before but I'm not sure I've seen federal law violated within an article's content. Even the times I've seen DeCSS implementations posted (like the famous one in PERL) it was in comments.
Certainly corruption and misreporting on a massive scale can be avoided entirely by "backing up" an electronic process with a paper trail - because paper based voting systems are infallible!
I think they used to charge for the "just webmail" service but now it's free and even supports IMAP. They give you 2GB of space IIRC. For more details:
This sounds like a complete waste of tax money, yours and mine, to make someone look like they're "doing something" about this "problem" when in fact there's no real problem here at all.
Who did it? Rockstar developers, duh. Has anyone denied this? Is there any mystery? The game did not "conatin" these scenes, so who cares?
If anything I'm surprised nobody is going after whoever figured it out for "circumvention" of something, since that seems to be all the rage.
What's to be done? Nothing. Rockstar is already reprinting the game without the content in it. Nobody even had to tell them to, they just are.
WHO CARES? THIS IS NOT NEWS.
However fools everywhere are making it news, especially on Capitol Hill. You know all they're succeeding at?
TURNING THIS ALL INTO A HUGE TAXPAYER FUNDED ROCKSTAR COMMERCIAL.
Please, stop. Just STFU and sit down, everyone. Go do something else with my money, like defend freedom or something.
They were going to include her, but her colossal ass wouldn't fit in the space allotted for the article.
*rimshot*
Re:That garbage worth 580 million? (it's not php)
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Fox to Purchase Myspace
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Dude, that's unfair to PHP developers everywhere...
MySpace runs CFML, and always has. Specifically, today they runs their CFML application code on Blue Dragon, rather than ColdFusion for the increased scalability and compatibility with a.NET stack. Their leaders spoke at CFUnited a few weeks ago.
Woah, you mean Apple is a for-profit business and its leaders have made a crucial decision to ensure future profitability?
Why, as an Apple user or an Apple stockholder would I not expect this? What about the WWDC keynote didn't already make this clear?
The reasons given in the media, by Apple, have included supply line issues with IBM based on performance, efficiency, heat, cost, and availability. What's so shocking here?
The "real" reason? Please. The posted needs to ask FOXNEWS for a job.
I'm a strong proponent of open source both in concept and in considering open source solutions at the Fortune 200 where I work as a technology strategist. However sometimes you really have a hard time selling some of the less enlightened at a big company on the merits of fully opening a project.
In case anyone interested in this subject hasn't checked them out before, you might want to read up a little on Avalanche, a consortium which provides a slightly less open but slightly more palatable (to resistant PHB's) option for corporations looking to experiment with sharing IP.
I know the question was about open sourcing a corporate project, but I thought this might be relevant to mention because the idea came up constantly when the subject was broached of opening up a major platform product at our company. Sadly, in the end, neither the shared source or open source model was chosen.
The good news, though, was that the decision was made to continue the life of the project in question and in fact port it to Linux, rather than replacing it with a costly COTS solution - so at least it was a partial victory for the "clueful" involved.
As someone said earlier, for one-off support issues I solve for friend and friends of friends or small businesses and NPO's I just point them at my Amazon list or something similar.
I don't want the hassle of doing real, taxable business with a bunch of different entities. However a pile of small gifts that stacks up each year is nice and stays under the radar of Irwin R. Shyster.
I'm relatively uninformed on what a "GNU" system looks liken these days versus an average "GNU / Linux" system (to use the parlance preferred by the HURD herd).
If I'm intruiged in trying out "GNU" what is the best way to get and install it? Is there a "distribution" of a completely GNU system running the HURD with an installer that's user-friendly and fairly straightforward yet? Or is a totally GNU system still in the state that "SNU / Linux" was back when lots of reading and domain knowledge was required to make an early Slackware distro work?
Am I the only one who finds it extremely unwise that they've made a major release without synchronizing their freely distributable version?
If anything, wouldn't one want to update the distributable version first, then the commercial version - so that people can check out the improvements and thus be incented to buy?
Perhaps there is some confusion over the fact that the link "Groups" from the main Google pages now points at the beta. However if one goes to "groups.google.com" directly, you see the same old interface and merely a link inviting you to try the beta if you like.
I happen to have been doing some research all last week and this weekend on groups.google.com and have not noticed any strange changes at all. Sounds to me like they just changed a link on their front page to drive traffic to the beta, big deal?
I still see the same interface I always have. I see a link inviting me to try the beta thing, but if I just click on Advanced Search I see the same options I always see and use.
...just how much are these flourescent lights saving you?
I mean they emit horrid RF noise, if you have sensitive hearing which I imagine you do as a recording engineer they sound terribly annoying, and they make everything look wrong (though I suppose some folks are more bothered by that than others).
Personally if I lived in a house with all flourescent lighting, I would just want to go outside all the time, and I would be kind of grossed out by how people, artwork, and even food looked...but that's me. Let's talk about you.
How much money are you really saving using these? You're setting up a home recording studio. I bet a couple of your cables alone, save any of your equipment, costs you more than these lights will save you over several years.
I think you'll find that in your case, you can be a lot more effectively frugal and environmentally friendly by worrying about a properly tuned digital thermostat or improved insulation and HVAC in your older house than saving any real money with these lights, which are fundamentally incompatible with your hobby.
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Does this make anyone else think of the old Looney Toons cartoons where one character diverts another character's path of travel by painting a false line from the middle of the road to someplace else?
It's really tiring to read two-week old happenings on Slashdot, come on folks. We've already seen this in a dozen other places back when it was news...
I don't understand why this post has to be about the iPod. This is true of all kinds of items sold on eBay, including everything from other types of mp3 players and media players to "external" enclosure hard drives and even whole computer systems (where the issue extends from multimedia content to installed commerical software applications for which the original media is not included because the seller intends to keep the license).
This isn't new, and it isn't about the iPod either. It's a much larger issue. Just go ahead and search eBay right now for devices with music and movies on them.
Since others have covered well the lunacy of predicting five years of sales on less than one year of data and no confirmed titles shipping beyond a few months from now, I'll move on to the underlying question I always have about this stuff... ...who cares? I mean seriously, are there people out there who go "ha ha my console makes more money than yours" or something? What a ridiculous idea. Why should a consumer care about anything other than whether they enjoy the thing and it offers the titles they want to play? This goes right up there with "oh this movie was good no matter what you say, because people bought a million tickets to it on the first day" or "that movie sucked, you can tell from the box office numbers."
Folks, good grief, just have some fun, this is entertainment.
Seriously, this was my first thought reading this as well. Not only does that figure seem to completely ignore the likely terminal velocity of the canister, I'm betting it supposes an inelastic collision. I'm sorry, did the can of worms land on an extremely large plate of hardened titanium? No, it probably landed in dirt someplace...
Maybe you should skip them both, and just buy a nicely decked out new home computer instead - or how about a nice home theater package?
Seriously the prices on these things are just insane.
All I can say is if this is true, it better play more video container and codec combinations then Quicktime Player does otherwise it will be terribly limited. Unlike a Mac running OS X, users would not be able to trivially add codecs or install programs like VLC or MPlayer on an iPod as they are forced to do on a Mac in order to watch most "modern" commonly used codecs and container formats.
...but, the games, if they did not cause this then games might not be dangerous to children but then the government would be wrong in spending millions of tax dollars on needless investigations and... ...it's like, if the gun manufacturers are not to blame for gun crimes but grokster is to blame for p2p crimes and videogame companies are to blame *twitch* not to blame *twitch* to blame for....
ILLOGICAL! ILLOGICAL! THIS DOES NOT COMPUTE!
PROGRESS WITH DENISE
OH NOES! This article contains a description of how one might circumvent a copyright protection mechanism. WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP! DANGER WILL ROBINSON! DANGER!
:)
It's funny, I've seen patently illegal topics discussed on Slashdot before but I'm not sure I've seen federal law violated within an article's content. Even the times I've seen DeCSS implementations posted (like the famous one in PERL) it was in comments.
This really raises the bar in audacity.
Certainly corruption and misreporting on a massive scale can be avoided entirely by "backing up" an electronic process with a paper trail - because paper based voting systems are infallible!
Just ask anyone from Florida.
I think they used to charge for the "just webmail" service but now it's free and even supports IMAP. They give you 2GB of space IIRC. For more details:
http://www.aim.com/ (click on webmail)
Dude, I heard Sven dies right away and the Princess ends up in the Blue Lion! No way!
I also heard it was Snape who killed him, right after Dumbledore.
That Alan Rickman, can't trust him...
This sounds like a complete waste of tax money, yours and mine, to make someone look like they're "doing something" about this "problem" when in fact there's no real problem here at all.
Who did it? Rockstar developers, duh. Has anyone denied this? Is there any mystery? The game did not "conatin" these scenes, so who cares?
If anything I'm surprised nobody is going after whoever figured it out for "circumvention" of something, since that seems to be all the rage.
What's to be done? Nothing. Rockstar is already reprinting the game without the content in it. Nobody even had to tell them to, they just are.
WHO CARES? THIS IS NOT NEWS.
However fools everywhere are making it news, especially on Capitol Hill. You know all they're succeeding at?
TURNING THIS ALL INTO A HUGE TAXPAYER FUNDED ROCKSTAR COMMERCIAL.
Please, stop. Just STFU and sit down, everyone. Go do something else with my money, like defend freedom or something.
They were going to include her, but her colossal ass wouldn't fit in the space allotted for the article.
*rimshot*
Dude, that's unfair to PHP developers everywhere...
.NET stack. Their leaders spoke at CFUnited a few weeks ago.
MySpace runs CFML, and always has. Specifically, today they runs their CFML application code on Blue Dragon, rather than ColdFusion for the increased scalability and compatibility with a
Is this news? Didn't various Netflix corporate leaders make open comments about download plans several months ago?
Woah, you mean Apple is a for-profit business and its leaders have made a crucial decision to ensure future profitability?
Why, as an Apple user or an Apple stockholder would I not expect this? What about the WWDC keynote didn't already make this clear?
The reasons given in the media, by Apple, have included supply line issues with IBM based on performance, efficiency, heat, cost, and availability. What's so shocking here?
The "real" reason? Please. The posted needs to ask FOXNEWS for a job.
I'm a strong proponent of open source both in concept and in considering open source solutions at the Fortune 200 where I work as a technology strategist. However sometimes you really have a hard time selling some of the less enlightened at a big company on the merits of fully opening a project.
In case anyone interested in this subject hasn't checked them out before, you might want to read up a little on Avalanche, a consortium which provides a slightly less open but slightly more palatable (to resistant PHB's) option for corporations looking to experiment with sharing IP.
http://www.avalanchecorporatetechnology.net/
I know the question was about open sourcing a corporate project, but I thought this might be relevant to mention because the idea came up constantly when the subject was broached of opening up a major platform product at our company. Sadly, in the end, neither the shared source or open source model was chosen.
The good news, though, was that the decision was made to continue the life of the project in question and in fact port it to Linux, rather than replacing it with a costly COTS solution - so at least it was a partial victory for the "clueful" involved.
As someone said earlier, for one-off support issues I solve for friend and friends of friends or small businesses and NPO's I just point them at my Amazon list or something similar.
I don't want the hassle of doing real, taxable business with a bunch of different entities. However a pile of small gifts that stacks up each year is nice and stays under the radar of Irwin R. Shyster.
I'm relatively uninformed on what a "GNU" system looks liken these days versus an average "GNU / Linux" system (to use the parlance preferred by the HURD herd).
If I'm intruiged in trying out "GNU" what is the best way to get and install it? Is there a "distribution" of a completely GNU system running the HURD with an installer that's user-friendly and fairly straightforward yet? Or is a totally GNU system still in the state that "SNU / Linux" was back when lots of reading and domain knowledge was required to make an early Slackware distro work?
Am I the only one who finds it extremely unwise that they've made a major release without synchronizing their freely distributable version?
If anything, wouldn't one want to update the distributable version first, then the commercial version - so that people can check out the improvements and thus be incented to buy?
Perhaps there is some confusion over the fact that the link "Groups" from the main Google pages now points at the beta. However if one goes to "groups.google.com" directly, you see the same old interface and merely a link inviting you to try the beta if you like.
I happen to have been doing some research all last week and this weekend on groups.google.com and have not noticed any strange changes at all. Sounds to me like they just changed a link on their front page to drive traffic to the beta, big deal?
I still see the same interface I always have. I see a link inviting me to try the beta thing, but if I just click on Advanced Search I see the same options I always see and use.
...just how much are these flourescent lights saving you?
I mean they emit horrid RF noise, if you have sensitive hearing which I imagine you do as a recording engineer they sound terribly annoying, and they make everything look wrong (though I suppose some folks are more bothered by that than others).
Personally if I lived in a house with all flourescent lighting, I would just want to go outside all the time, and I would be kind of grossed out by how people, artwork, and even food looked...but that's me. Let's talk about you.
How much money are you really saving using these? You're setting up a home recording studio. I bet a couple of your cables alone, save any of your equipment, costs you more than these lights will save you over several years.
I think you'll find that in your case, you can be a lot more effectively frugal and environmentally friendly by worrying about a properly tuned digital thermostat or improved insulation and HVAC in your older house than saving any real money with these lights, which are fundamentally incompatible with your hobby.