Really? I've never used a DVR, and I'm 20 years old. I think that qualifies me as "the younger generation" based on what you're saying. And, just now, asking a couple friends of mine that are within a couple years of my age, they haven't ever used a DVR either (plural of anecdote != data, but you get my point). It's a funny thing: if you record a shitty television show and watch it some other time, it's still just as shitty.
Being signed to a record company doesn't necessarily mean being signed to an RIAA-member record company. I'd be very willing to bet than more than 1% of bands are signed to a non-RIAA record label.
I could see this being used in actually a pretty cool way by looking and seeing where there's a few people (not a lot mind you), and hopping to that place. Then, as that place gets more popular (10: more people there 20: more people come 30: goto 10), you can find another lightly popular place and hop there.
What Europeans seem to fail to realize is the complete lack of public transportation in most cities in the US. I would absolutely love to be able to not drive to work, but my only other option is a shitty bus service which
a) Is never on time and
b) Would require me to get up almost three hours earlier to be able to theoretically get to work on time. And I'd still have to walk about a mile to get to work.
Yes, Firefox is exciting insomuch as it's a pretty good browser. I really can't live without plugins like adblock anymore, and I've never had these mythical RAM problems, either (I also don't have >100 tabs open at a time, either). The reason why Firefox is really awesome is largely because it's an open source product that's achieved remarkable penetration with non-technical users. Note also that/. is owned by sourceforge, and so it's naturally going to have a strong bias towards open source software.
For instance, I'm willing to bet Trillian has as much market penetration as Opera does. GAIM (Pidgin now I guess) probably has a relatively equal market penetration as Trillian. If/. posts a story about Pidgin, fine. But I really don't give a shit about some proprietary program being updated. IMO, it's no different with Opera.
from the way all you people are bitching that you've never had to try to develop anything that uses the old Google Earth APIs. The choices are: COM API for Windows, an Apple Script API with something on the order or 5 actions, and the linux API, which oh wait, doesn't exist.
This, however, will be a unified API for every platform, once it's ported (this says under installing the plug-in that support for other platforms is coming in future releases). And one which I can already tell you is light years better than what I currently have to deal with.
What I was trying to get at is that, even though it doesn't really matter whether or not the average person supports net neutrality or not, they probably won't mind tiered Internet once they get their favorite reality television show faster.
And no, I didn't RTFA to see that it was Britain and not the US, but this is/. after all.
it's not a battle we're going to win. This is the United States, where the corporations control the government, entertainment controls the people, and the people control nothing.
Hell, ask the average Joe Sixpack if they'd like to have their American Idol episodes download faster at the expense of a bunch of pasty faced nerds not being able to access Slashdot at the same speed, I'm sure they'll be quite happy about it.
We're far beyond the ability to fight back against the stripping of our rights. Fight back and you're a terrorist, pedophile, and communist, of course.
The problem with this, of course, is that if you're a college student like I am, then most of your peers still won't be paying for Office or Photoshop or whatever. So really, they're not saving any money by going with free software and they're having to learn a new program.
Nothing? It costs you one parent's income. That's more expensive than private school.
Wrong. Seeing as I was homeschooled for most of my life (graduated at 16, getting ready to graduate with a bachelor's degree in Computer Science in a year at 19), I can most definitely say that there is zero need for a parent to be around all the time, and certainly not even enough to justify a parent quitting their job. The curriculum I used (I can't recall the name of it anymore. It was some kind of religious crap) was completely self-contained, and the only thing a parent needed to do really was to score the ocassional test (which took all of no time).
It sucks for the people who were drawn in by the marketing hype at stores like Best Buy and ended up buying hardware for a standard that doesn't even exist yet, and looks like it won't for another 2 years.
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Really? I've never used a DVR, and I'm 20 years old. I think that qualifies me as "the younger generation" based on what you're saying. And, just now, asking a couple friends of mine that are within a couple years of my age, they haven't ever used a DVR either (plural of anecdote != data, but you get my point). It's a funny thing: if you record a shitty television show and watch it some other time, it's still just as shitty.
Being signed to a record company doesn't necessarily mean being signed to an RIAA-member record company. I'd be very willing to bet than more than 1% of bands are signed to a non-RIAA record label.
I could see this being used in actually a pretty cool way by looking and seeing where there's a few people (not a lot mind you), and hopping to that place. Then, as that place gets more popular (10: more people there 20: more people come 30: goto 10), you can find another lightly popular place and hop there.
They weren't trying to downplay him, they were actually doing quite the opposite. Compare:
Alice: Hey, Bob, did you hear who's in town!?
Bob: Hmm? No, who?
Alice: Well, just the President of the United States!
Very likely.
What Europeans seem to fail to realize is the complete lack of public transportation in most cities in the US. I would absolutely love to be able to not drive to work, but my only other option is a shitty bus service which
a) Is never on time and
b) Would require me to get up almost three hours earlier to be able to theoretically get to work on time. And I'd still have to walk about a mile to get to work.
Yes, Firefox is exciting insomuch as it's a pretty good browser. I really can't live without plugins like adblock anymore, and I've never had these mythical RAM problems, either (I also don't have >100 tabs open at a time, either). The reason why Firefox is really awesome is largely because it's an open source product that's achieved remarkable penetration with non-technical users. Note also that /. is owned by sourceforge, and so it's naturally going to have a strong bias towards open source software.
/. posts a story about Pidgin, fine. But I really don't give a shit about some proprietary program being updated. IMO, it's no different with Opera.
For instance, I'm willing to bet Trillian has as much market penetration as Opera does. GAIM (Pidgin now I guess) probably has a relatively equal market penetration as Trillian. If
When will people understand that Stallman doesn't believe in choice. He believes in having it his way and his way only.
I'm not saying I agree with him, but saying he believes in having choice is just silly.
The website for the plugin says plugins are planned for Linux and OS X in future builds.
from the way all you people are bitching that you've never had to try to develop anything that uses the old Google Earth APIs. The choices are: COM API for Windows, an Apple Script API with something on the order or 5 actions, and the linux API, which oh wait, doesn't exist.
This, however, will be a unified API for every platform, once it's ported (this says under installing the plug-in that support for other platforms is coming in future releases). And one which I can already tell you is light years better than what I currently have to deal with.
In other words, STFU.
>neooffice sucks balls
Good thing the Aqua port of the selfsame free office suite is now in beta, and NeoOffice will soon be history.
What I was trying to get at is that, even though it doesn't really matter whether or not the average person supports net neutrality or not, they probably won't mind tiered Internet once they get their favorite reality television show faster.
/. after all.
And no, I didn't RTFA to see that it was Britain and not the US, but this is
Hell, ask the average Joe Sixpack if they'd like to have their American Idol episodes download faster at the expense of a bunch of pasty faced nerds not being able to access Slashdot at the same speed, I'm sure they'll be quite happy about it.
So... I suppose what you're saying is that we should attempt to catch people (who aren't yet criminals) before they can commit a crime?
Hmm... that's an interesting idea, but... it does seem like I've heard it before.
"The Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to domestic military operations."
We're far beyond the ability to fight back against the stripping of our rights. Fight back and you're a terrorist, pedophile, and communist, of course.
>I know which I think is more likely....
As do I.
3) "Honey! The new season of American Idol is starting!" "Okay, let me just save this Word document and I'll be right there."
Making an atomic bomb is easy!
Step one: find an atom
Step two: split it!
The problem with this, of course, is that if you're a college student like I am, then most of your peers still won't be paying for Office or Photoshop or whatever. So really, they're not saving any money by going with free software and they're having to learn a new program.
Anyone who is piggybacking on unsecured wireless?
has been reading Cryptonomicon.
I thought that was Einstein pictured...
Nothing? It costs you one parent's income. That's more expensive than private school.
Wrong.
Seeing as I was homeschooled for most of my life (graduated at 16, getting ready to graduate with a bachelor's degree in Computer Science in a year at 19), I can most definitely say that there is zero need for a parent to be around all the time, and certainly not even enough to justify a parent quitting their job. The curriculum I used (I can't recall the name of it anymore. It was some kind of religious crap) was completely self-contained, and the only thing a parent needed to do really was to score the ocassional test (which took all of no time).
It sucks for the people who were drawn in by the marketing hype at stores like Best Buy and ended up buying hardware for a standard that doesn't even exist yet, and looks like it won't for another 2 years.
IANAL, but I think the difference is that podcasting is not a product that a company is selling, whereas this TightPod and Profit Pod are.
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