I only looked at the first few locations on the list, but several of them were obviously blurred or pixelated -- the Naval Observatory in DC is a perfect blurry circle amid high-res imagery, and the Air Force Base listed as #4 looks like someone inserted a mosaic art piece over the image.
Did this guy really not look at these locations? Those were in the top five, and there are links to the Google Maps locations in question, for crying out loud.
If you RTFA, you'll see that no one is losing access to their music, they just won't be able to transfer them to another computer without a workaround such as burning them to a CD. Annoying, yes, but not the end of the world.
Not that I'm all for DRM, this just isn't as big of a deal as the article makes it sound. This won't be the wake-up call that makes the average user see the evils of DRM, because most of them won't even notice.
Actually, that link just takes me to my account page -- I think that since they were going to cancel the feature, they removed the profiles capability from accounts that didn't already have it set up (so that people didn't start using it just before it was removed). This makes me think that this is probably a real case of backpedaling due to customer feedback, and not just a marketing ploy. If they were trying to push profiles, there'd be a big link on everyone's account page.
If you RTFA, you'll see that the devices actually work just fine -- the problem is that the people the government is paying to use them can't figure them out.
There's a simple fix for this; type "about:config" in the address bar and look for "browser.tabs.tabMinWidth". This value dictates the smallest size that the tabs will shrink to before employing the scroll bar. I have mine set to 50, and this seems to be about the same value used in FF 1.5. So basically, you get the 1.5 behavior, with the added bonus that when the tab bar gets full you can scroll it.
Running an Ewido scan on a computer I had to clean up at work resulted in nearly 20,000 malicious items being found. Many of them were just tracking cookies, but even so, I took a screenshot; I might still have it somewhere....It was damned impressive.
So, if Blu-ray players are expensive as hell, and HD-DVD players are also expensive (though not quite as much), wouldn't a player that combined the capabilities of the two be even more expensive? Unless these things can be produced relatively cheaply, then this isn't going to be the answer to the format war.
I think that if the entire country is making copies of your material, you qualify as "well-known". Your point about not belonging to an organization is probably valid (though I didn't RTFA, so I don't know how that works).
Personally, I use CD-R spindles...the big ones can hold 50 or 100 discs each. Sometimes more if you take out those little foam things they use as padding.
It makes for efficient storage, but when you actually need to find a CD, it's even worse than thin cases or binders, because you have to shuffle through a huge stack of discs to find the one you're looking for...and that's assuming that you know which spindle it's on in the first place.
So...basically, for ease-of-location, spindles are a bad idea.
Not that I'm doubting the validity of the article (at least, any more so than usual), but couldn't the submitter have found a more reputable source than a news blog on LiveJournal? You'd think that a real news site would have, y'know, a real news site.
"You may want to check our past records of price points when launching past hardware... I think you'll agree that we always come up with an affordable price point."
In case anyone is out of the loop here, all of Nintendo's main consoles have retailed or US$199. You can draw your own conclusions from there.
In other news, "Spongebob Squarepants Typing" has also received an M rating, because it was found that a third-party modification could replace the opening "Who lives in a pineapple under the sea" movie with a porno clip of the user's choice.
Seriously, since when does the ability to insert something lewd into a game mean that the game should get a higher rating? If I can start a game of Final Fantasy and call my characters "Fuck" "Shit" and "Ass", does that mean that the game should no longer be sold to children?
Didn't read TFA, so I don't know if it mentions this, but the Taps-playing device is not for the lazy, but rather because there is a shortage of actual trumpet players for military funerals. A lot of burials are having to resort to using CD players; at least with these gadgets some of the ceremony is retained.
I never really realized that this was much of a problem. Hell, I went to a high school of 200 students in the middle of nowhere -- cornfields on three sides, and such -- and I took courses in HTML/web design and BASIC/Visual Basic there. The year after I graduated, they introduced a C++ class, and I think now they've also added Java and some sort of Flash course. They seem to be doing pretty cool stuff there, and like I said, this is in Bumblefuck, Midwest. I'm surprised that other schools are so far behind in terms of programming.
Maybe I'm behind the times here, bu what, precisely, is bloodless surgery? I read TFA and I still don't know. How do you cut open someone's chest to fix a heart valve without there being blood?
The sort of people who don't know the difference between Pentium and Intel probably aren't going to be installing this anyway, made for novices or not.
Not yours. When I hit the reply button, there were four comments basically calling Zonk an idiot for posting this on the front page. That's what I was referring to.
Microrobots? That has to be the most awkward word ever. Why didn't they go with the obvious word that simply screams stylish and marketable -- Microbots?
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Did this guy really not look at these locations? Those were in the top five, and there are links to the Google Maps locations in question, for crying out loud.
If you RTFA, you'll see that no one is losing access to their music, they just won't be able to transfer them to another computer without a workaround such as burning them to a CD. Annoying, yes, but not the end of the world.
Not that I'm all for DRM, this just isn't as big of a deal as the article makes it sound. This won't be the wake-up call that makes the average user see the evils of DRM, because most of them won't even notice.
Actually, that link just takes me to my account page -- I think that since they were going to cancel the feature, they removed the profiles capability from accounts that didn't already have it set up (so that people didn't start using it just before it was removed). This makes me think that this is probably a real case of backpedaling due to customer feedback, and not just a marketing ploy. If they were trying to push profiles, there'd be a big link on everyone's account page.
If you RTFA, you'll see that the devices actually work just fine -- the problem is that the people the government is paying to use them can't figure them out.
If you look closely at the pictures, you can even see where they blurred out the "Y!" logo in the IE7 screenshot.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a big Google supporter, but someone dropped the ball on this. (It's since been fixed.)
There's a simple fix for this; type "about:config" in the address bar and look for "browser.tabs.tabMinWidth". This value dictates the smallest size that the tabs will shrink to before employing the scroll bar. I have mine set to 50, and this seems to be about the same value used in FF 1.5. So basically, you get the 1.5 behavior, with the added bonus that when the tab bar gets full you can scroll it.
A good idea, but reminds me a lot of this. Not much new here, though I'm glad to see that the idea is still afloat -- it sounds interesting.
Running an Ewido scan on a computer I had to clean up at work resulted in nearly 20,000 malicious items being found. Many of them were just tracking cookies, but even so, I took a screenshot; I might still have it somewhere....It was damned impressive.
Please DO NOT Digg/Slashdot this server, I'm just setting it up and is not ready for high load!
Since their computers will be melting into slag fairly quickly, we may not be running Linux on the Wii after all.
So you're saying we need meta-metamods? But who will mod them?
So, if Blu-ray players are expensive as hell, and HD-DVD players are also expensive (though not quite as much), wouldn't a player that combined the capabilities of the two be even more expensive? Unless these things can be produced relatively cheaply, then this isn't going to be the answer to the format war.
I think that if the entire country is making copies of your material, you qualify as "well-known". Your point about not belonging to an organization is probably valid (though I didn't RTFA, so I don't know how that works).
It makes for efficient storage, but when you actually need to find a CD, it's even worse than thin cases or binders, because you have to shuffle through a huge stack of discs to find the one you're looking for...and that's assuming that you know which spindle it's on in the first place.
So...basically, for ease-of-location, spindles are a bad idea.
Not that I'm doubting the validity of the article (at least, any more so than usual), but couldn't the submitter have found a more reputable source than a news blog on LiveJournal? You'd think that a real news site would have, y'know, a real news site.
In case anyone is out of the loop here, all of Nintendo's main consoles have retailed or US$199. You can draw your own conclusions from there.
In other news, "Spongebob Squarepants Typing" has also received an M rating, because it was found that a third-party modification could replace the opening "Who lives in a pineapple under the sea" movie with a porno clip of the user's choice. Seriously, since when does the ability to insert something lewd into a game mean that the game should get a higher rating? If I can start a game of Final Fantasy and call my characters "Fuck" "Shit" and "Ass", does that mean that the game should no longer be sold to children?
Didn't read TFA, so I don't know if it mentions this, but the Taps-playing device is not for the lazy, but rather because there is a shortage of actual trumpet players for military funerals. A lot of burials are having to resort to using CD players; at least with these gadgets some of the ceremony is retained.
I never really realized that this was much of a problem. Hell, I went to a high school of 200 students in the middle of nowhere -- cornfields on three sides, and such -- and I took courses in HTML/web design and BASIC/Visual Basic there. The year after I graduated, they introduced a C++ class, and I think now they've also added Java and some sort of Flash course. They seem to be doing pretty cool stuff there, and like I said, this is in Bumblefuck, Midwest. I'm surprised that other schools are so far behind in terms of programming.
Maybe I'm behind the times here, bu what, precisely, is bloodless surgery? I read TFA and I still don't know. How do you cut open someone's chest to fix a heart valve without there being blood?
But...did they review the iZilla?
Yeah...this was news in 1988. It's been pretty widely known for a very long time. Good job, Slashdot -- way to keep up on the times.
The sort of people who don't know the difference between Pentium and Intel probably aren't going to be installing this anyway, made for novices or not.
Not yours. When I hit the reply button, there were four comments basically calling Zonk an idiot for posting this on the front page. That's what I was referring to.
I for one can't wait for the new Sam & Max game. It's been far too long. Glad to see that development hasn't completely died yet.
Microrobots? That has to be the most awkward word ever. Why didn't they go with the obvious word that simply screams stylish and marketable -- Microbots?