Not to detract from the general truth of your comments, but if doing business with Saudi Arabia were a deal-breaker for Israel, where would that leave the US? The Israelis wouldn't let ties to the Saudis stop them dealing with BAE for a microsecond.
preprogrammed as in each application's settings could be set by the OS, as in Apple's case, or the user may have to configure it to different layouts per application themselves, like with the whatsamagig.
In 2007, I cancelled my MySpace & facebook accounts, and haven't suffered a damn bit; in fact, I feel that I have more spare time and feel less obligated to engage with every fool who decides to leave me a message. I've decided I *like* the extra hurdles to communication that one email address and a single phone number give me. Since mobile phones, internet etc have come along, I've spent a steadily increasing amount of time responding to pointless messages, reading near-gibberish crap (hai 2 u LOL kekeke) and instead I can concentrate on my REAL friends & colleagues, who can reach me at near light speed whenever they choose to. Between privacy concerns and the general waste of time for anyone who isn't 14 and trying to collect friends in much the same indiscriminate fashion as a newly broadbanded teen does mp3s. I've made the decision to aim for quality in communication and connections, not quantity, and it's been a winning move.
As far as killer apps go, I think the aggregation site aggregators will be the go. Imagine, a site that aggregated slashdot, digg, reddit, engadget, oh wait, that's rss, never mind.
Perhaps (no, definitely) off topic, but I've really been wanting to ask the/. crowd...I know Ron Paul votes consistently, and is a constitutionally based voter, etc, and after eight years of Bush, integrity is very important, but how did a far-right dude who doesn't believe in evolution, and wants to cut ALL federal funding for the sciences get so damn popular with nerds? I'm in Australia, so I hope he wins, because I want to see the US go back to looking after its own problems rather than creating them elsewhere, but if I were in the US, I'd be terrified of this guy.
No, that's a crock. It's not rule as in reign, it's rule as in a straight line. Rule of thumb just means using your thumb as a length to measure, ie. rough estimate. Parent's usage wasn't any better.
...and all I got was a punch in the face from a caffeine addict with a Nokia! Seriously, I don't mind using mobile phones for convenience, but the day someone jumps the queue because he owns an iPhone is the day I punch a member of the mac community in the face.
So WTF does anyone but the guy trying to spin 73 different editions of one film into profit care? There's some big loss to the world if edited out material, bad takes, etc don't survive? And does anyone care if said dude (yes, I'm talking to you, Ridley "final edition, I promise" Scott) has to pay buckets of cash to preserve the bits that never made it to screen? I know I don't.
Yes, yes it is. Very good point. I guess I don't think of/. that way because I can't see the ads and don't subscribe. It also seems less obviously profit-motivated as Digg, for example. It's a tricky area, as any line you draw is arbitrary, and people do need to make a living, and be rewarded for their hard work and/or innovation. That still doesn't make it *feel* right. I'm just venting, really.
Is it just me, or are other people getting kind of sick of providing all the material for someone else to make money from? I know Norris will lose this, and rightly so, but I'm just getting a bit tired off all the pricks capitalizing on our creativity. Off topic, I know....
Seriously. First, he's talking about Apple's lawyers presenting him with a list of his assets as a covert threat...bullshit - in an email? I really, rally don't see Apple putting that on paper. Now the EFF has said they only represent people they like? They've represented spammers, for fucksake. It's like everyone's critical ability has been washed away by the promise of Apple bashing, or corporate bashing.
Shame on the lot of you. This is supposed to be a smart crowd here. Don't let your bias get to the point where you just look foolish. It's xmas, it's the weekend, but Apple lawyers are firing off quick replies that are increasingly brutal despite their previous emails all going directly public via FSJ? Come on, nerds, use your brains.
Look at the bottom of the page on the actual test "Top winners get interviews. All winners get free software", so this is just marketing bullshit, viral advertising for some software release.
I have an archive of ~5TB, currently on DVD for the most part. The current archiving process requires me to get off the couch every 6-8 minutes to catalogue the burned disc, label it, archive it, put in the next disc, start burning. So if I move to triple layer HD-DVD or Blu-Ray discs, and I get to burn ten DVDs worth of data on a disc, do you really think I'm going to suffer here, because of all the layers? No, I'll have to get off the couch LESS often, and still get more burned in less time on fewer discs.
Your six year old can't read yet and you're giving her video games that DON'T require reading? Why exactly are you encouraging illiteracy in your own offspring? Take the DS away and replace it with some readers, or get her some 'learn to read' games. No third option.
Last time I counted, I had 800,000 e-books on disk. For a large institution, I'd expect better. Their collection probably isn't mostly sci-fi and D&D manuals though:/
Apple is not an OS vendor, it's a hardware vendor that bundles an OS with the machine. The fact that OSX isn't made to install on anyone else's hardware puts it in a decidedly different commercial space.
We need interfaces that scale from basic to advanced...
You mean like Nero, with its basic and expert interfaces that you can toggle between with a click, or like FirstPagewith four interfaces from beginner to expert, or like the countless programs that have a wizard to walk beginners through while leaving a complex interface in place for advanced users? Plenty of gui designers are aware of the different needs of different users.
Those books don't sit on the shelf gathering dust when you're a passionate reader...they are whipped out of the shelves to find that great passage, they're pulled down and loaned out by the bucketload, because passionate readers want everyone else to enjoy those books as much as they do.
It's not about ego, it's about maintaining a wonderful, extremely valuable resource. Collecting isn't generally driven by ego, it's driven by love for the thing you collect. I understand that for the barely literate, it may seem like these readers are making fun of you with their big collections, but really, dude, they just love books.
How the hell is this marked insightful? I've never seen anything so patently drooling-on-your-shirt crazy getting modded UP. Dude, have you ANY IDEA how hard it is to get a job at Google? How big do you figure Google Israel's offices are, exactly? Why do I get the feeling you talk a lot about "international bankers" and such?
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I'd hand out cigars, but there's what...1.1 million of you?
And that will sort out your choice of Hi-Def playback how, exactly? Try to follow the conversation.
Not to detract from the general truth of your comments, but if doing business with Saudi Arabia were a deal-breaker for Israel, where would that leave the US? The Israelis wouldn't let ties to the Saudis stop them dealing with BAE for a microsecond.
preprogrammed as in each application's settings could be set by the OS, as in Apple's case, or the user may have to configure it to different layouts per application themselves, like with the whatsamagig.
Programmable versus pre-programmed. That would be the Ummm point.
As far as killer apps go, I think the aggregation site aggregators will be the go. Imagine, a site that aggregated slashdot, digg, reddit, engadget, oh wait, that's rss, never mind.
Perhaps (no, definitely) off topic, but I've really been wanting to ask the /. crowd...I know Ron Paul votes consistently, and is a constitutionally based voter, etc, and after eight years of Bush, integrity is very important, but how did a far-right dude who doesn't believe in evolution, and wants to cut ALL federal funding for the sciences get so damn popular with nerds? I'm in Australia, so I hope he wins, because I want to see the US go back to looking after its own problems rather than creating them elsewhere, but if I were in the US, I'd be terrified of this guy.
No, that's a crock. It's not rule as in reign, it's rule as in a straight line. Rule of thumb just means using your thumb as a length to measure, ie. rough estimate. Parent's usage wasn't any better.
...and all I got was a punch in the face from a caffeine addict with a Nokia! Seriously, I don't mind using mobile phones for convenience, but the day someone jumps the queue because he owns an iPhone is the day I punch a member of the mac community in the face.
RFID makes it a bit more than a consolidation of cards, really.
So WTF does anyone but the guy trying to spin 73 different editions of one film into profit care? There's some big loss to the world if edited out material, bad takes, etc don't survive? And does anyone care if said dude (yes, I'm talking to you, Ridley "final edition, I promise" Scott) has to pay buckets of cash to preserve the bits that never made it to screen? I know I don't.
I write Chuck Norris jokes for one ;)
Yes, yes it is. Very good point. I guess I don't think of /. that way because I can't see the ads and don't subscribe. It also seems less obviously profit-motivated as Digg, for example. It's a tricky area, as any line you draw is arbitrary, and people do need to make a living, and be rewarded for their hard work and/or innovation. That still doesn't make it *feel* right. I'm just venting, really.
Is it just me, or are other people getting kind of sick of providing all the material for someone else to make money from? I know Norris will lose this, and rightly so, but I'm just getting a bit tired off all the pricks capitalizing on our creativity. Off topic, I know....
Shame on the lot of you. This is supposed to be a smart crowd here. Don't let your bias get to the point where you just look foolish. It's xmas, it's the weekend, but Apple lawyers are firing off quick replies that are increasingly brutal despite their previous emails all going directly public via FSJ? Come on, nerds, use your brains.
Look at the bottom of the page on the actual test "Top winners get interviews. All winners get free software", so this is just marketing bullshit, viral advertising for some software release.
Slow....boo hoo hoo - slower than what?
No, I'm Ne....wait, I'm not that guy. Sorry, carry on.
Your six year old can't read yet and you're giving her video games that DON'T require reading? Why exactly are you encouraging illiteracy in your own offspring? Take the DS away and replace it with some readers, or get her some 'learn to read' games. No third option.
Last time I counted, I had 800,000 e-books on disk. For a large institution, I'd expect better. Their collection probably isn't mostly sci-fi and D&D manuals though :/
Apple is not an OS vendor, it's a hardware vendor that bundles an OS with the machine. The fact that OSX isn't made to install on anyone else's hardware puts it in a decidedly different commercial space.
It's not about ego, it's about maintaining a wonderful, extremely valuable resource. Collecting isn't generally driven by ego, it's driven by love for the thing you collect. I understand that for the barely literate, it may seem like these readers are making fun of you with their big collections, but really, dude, they just love books.
How the hell is this marked insightful? I've never seen anything so patently drooling-on-your-shirt crazy getting modded UP. Dude, have you ANY IDEA how hard it is to get a job at Google? How big do you figure Google Israel's offices are, exactly? Why do I get the feeling you talk a lot about "international bankers" and such?
Five years is an awfully long time ago. Heads up, editors :)