Wikipedia doesn't represent a worldwide perspective; it represents a perspective that is the sum of the perspectives of every country, weighted by number of internet users. That includes a significant bias towards the US + Europe.
From what I remember of the earlier slashdot story, didn't it require a large tail of semi-random junk on the file, and so the consensus it was interesting but unexploitable? Or was that something else...
This kid is not a genius. I was a year behind him in high school. We had REAL geniuses. He's just stupid, for wasting a year getting a rubber stamp rather than an education.
The reason for that is because they have to carry their fuel up into space with them.... the more mass the payload has, the more fuel it has to carry, and the real killer is that you also have to carry more extra fuel to lift the extra fuel. So as the mass of your payload increases linearly, the mass of the fuel you'll need to launch it increases exponentially.
Trivially false. Just launch two rockets for twice the payload.
Of course, that'll only work where PDF is comprised of text documents instead of images.
I'd like to see a search appliance that would work in that case.
And let's not forget the iTMS lock-in problem. The people who spend the most on iTMS are probably the ones you want most (because they will buy from you/your partners). But they are also the ones with the most to lose from abandoning the iPod. So you have to give away free music for every song that they bought. Fun logistics there. And you don't think the RIAA will let you do that for FREE do you?
Actually, there's a decent chance MS will have to pay small/no royalties. It's the economics of it (from the RIAA's standpoint) - there's no opportunity cost to letting Zune users redownload their iTunes music for free. Almost no one would rebuy the same file under a different DRM, even if it wouldn't cost that much in the end, because of the psychological opposition to buying the exact same product twice. So, no lost sales, and they stand a chance of breaking the iTunes near-monopoly on music downloads, which has been a thorn in their side. (Remember Jobs refusing to allow prices other than $.99?)
It's not wifi or anything that's the killer app, it's the free redownloading of music that gives the Zune a good chance.
The government that brought us the Tuskeegee experiment, non consentual testing of psychotropic drugs or exposing retarded children to radiation [cambridgeclarion.org] is capable of damned near anything.
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I think this is the poster child for the "itsatrap" tag.
With a lot of tabs open I can easily get Firefox to grow to 500-600 MB. This is absurd, even on a system with 2GB memory.
Picasa? *cough*Writely*cough* Google Docs? YouTube?
Wikipedia doesn't represent a worldwide perspective; it represents a perspective that is the sum of the perspectives of every country, weighted by number of internet users. That includes a significant bias towards the US + Europe.
Three words: in loco parentis.
Say that about Ken Lay's testimony at his trial.
From what I remember of the earlier slashdot story, didn't it require a large tail of semi-random junk on the file, and so the consensus it was interesting but unexploitable? Or was that something else...
This kid is not a genius. I was a year behind him in high school. We had REAL geniuses. He's just stupid, for wasting a year getting a rubber stamp rather than an education.
If you could configure it to automatically listen to music of other people around you (e.g. on the train), it'd be pretty cool.
I was in the same presentation! He also mentioned another tactic captcha-breakers use - put it on a porn site and make those browsers solve it.
Trivially false. Just launch two rockets for twice the payload.
We could call that "Slashdot", a paragon of neutrality, free of any bias.
Of course, that'll only work where PDF is comprised of text documents instead of images. I'd like to see a search appliance that would work in that case.
Congratulations, you just invented the binary coded decimal.
Actually, there's a decent chance MS will have to pay small/no royalties. It's the economics of it (from the RIAA's standpoint) - there's no opportunity cost to letting Zune users redownload their iTunes music for free. Almost no one would rebuy the same file under a different DRM, even if it wouldn't cost that much in the end, because of the psychological opposition to buying the exact same product twice. So, no lost sales, and they stand a chance of breaking the iTunes near-monopoly on music downloads, which has been a thorn in their side. (Remember Jobs refusing to allow prices other than $.99?) It's not wifi or anything that's the killer app, it's the free redownloading of music that gives the Zune a good chance.
A state of 12.5 million people has to pay 500 grand in attorney's fees? Maybe they'll have to take out a mortgage on the state capitol. /sarcasm
Except keep a secret.
So people don't see your iPod in the car and steal it.
It's harmful to the market to let me use WMP instead of Real? *vomit*
The problem is, reality has a well-known anti-Sony bias.
Note "Korea, North" and "17. Korea, South." Those are the reason for the "41. United States".
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Why would the EFF or FSF want their money? They fund medical aid...
Why would they have to subpoena anything when they could already do a search of their own data? Dumbass karma-troll.