What I don't get is how the editor's found this even worthy to be put on the main page . . . I mean, for real, is it just because it was written by Dvorak? If Joe Schmoe from Internet Gossip Today had written this same article, does anyone honestly think it would make/.?
I feel robbed of my time after reading that article . . . I have heard bad things about Dvorak in the past, but thought I'd give one of his articles a chance since I had never experienced his idiocy first hand . . . but God . . . I want my 2 minutes back!
If it was "Joe Schmoe" would you have even read the article, or for that matter the summary of the article here, or the discussion that followed it? I would think not. Dvorak if nothing else is good at getting everyone together to complain about him and I always find those discussions more entertaining than the original Dvorak story.
All domains are worth precisely $12. No more, no less.
If someone has registered a domain, and is offering to sell it to you for more than that, they're nothing but leeching parasites, or as the PC like to call them, "cyber-squatters".
Don't feed the parasites.
Let's apply your reasoning to concert tickets. I am going to see Pearl Jam tommorrow, all of the seats have a face value of $53, the concert sold out in 15 minutes. If I wanted to buy floor seats in the first 10 rows from Stub Hub(where I got my tickets from, damn they sold out fast) I would have needed to pay hundreds of dollars. Seats with a less desirable view were selling for much less.
I ask you are all Pearl Jam concert tickets worth precisely $53? Or was it only possible to purchase those tickets for $53 at one point and the more desirable ones are "worth" much, much more.
While I can understand the reasoning for the networks argument, doesn't Cablevision, an evil company who made a mockery of the Knicks, destroyed our hopes for bringing the NFL back to NYC, didn't carry Yankee games for a year (disclaimer I am a Mets fan and still think it was wrong) and countless other atrocities against the people of New York but I digress, pay to re-broadcast network content already? Do they have an obligation to air it when the network says so? They may very well need to do that just throwing it out there.
The fact that the Inno can record a digital copy of an entire song, and is designed specifically to grab whole songs even if you choose you save the song in the middle of listening to it seems to me to be more specifically designed for an infringing use than just allowing the recording of FM broadcast quality radio signals. At the very least, it seems more likely to fail to meet the standards set in Sony v. Universal, while I can't see any possible way a device that can just record ordinary broadcasts wouldn't meet those standards, since that was exactly what the case was about.
I don't think RIAA's correct in the XM case, but I'm sure they wouldn't be in a case against Creative, and I think they're sure of it too.
Maybe you don't have an XM Radio, but, the XM signal is not exactly like listening to a CD quality recording, the station streams are compressed and while some stations have bettet bitrates than others, I would still compare it to an FM signal only there is no static.
I am using my SkyFi 2 and the XM Boombox/Car Kit as my reference.
I'd hardly call the only player in PC soundcards a smaller company, shoot I would bet that there are more Soundblaster Audigy's and Live's around than whole Macs.
The actual claim was: "The Mac gives you the same access to the Internet as Windows.
How about the Mac gives you the same access to the Internet as Windows, without the threat of spyware and viruses bogging down your machine or having to view DRM'ed to hell files.
There are a lot of different ways to look at everything.
Just a word of caution, if you actually care about remaining anonymous with regards to a customer loyalty card then you can only make transactions in cash with that store. The moment you use a credit card that info is correlated to your account and then they do have your proper name associated with it. And yes, they do collect some credit card data because one of the things stores with loyalty cards like to track is how many people are paying with credit and what they're buying on credit.
I have always heard that stores can not use information attached to your credit card to track you, one of the reasons they ask for your phone number or zip code in a lot of places is that they can not get it from your credit information.
I have used both, I have Time Warner DVR, my brother-in-law has Direct TV with Tivo. The Sat/Tivo guide is slow and clunky and makes a boop sound everytime I turn it on, it boops whenever you fast forward as well. I really don't like the boops. My other problem with it is there is no built in Picture in Picture. My Time Warner box has that, it works even if your tv is not PIP capable. I can also record 2 shows at once, which I understand Tivo has just come up with? As far a making recommendations, I don't really see a use for that. So Tivo may be great for some people but I don't need one, my Time Warner box gives me features I actually use, the PIP is great for checking baseball scores while watching a show with your wife.
I usually come to the discussions arising from these two trolls' articles, and I often even post, but I gave up clicking on the links to read their articles well over a year ago. I suggest everyone else does the same too.
To take your idea one step further, if no one on Slashdot would comment on these articles from Cringely, Dvorak, etc. then maybe the editors would not post them and the world could be a happier place.
The answer is to take all your money, convert it into gold coins, then bury it in a chest on an uninhabited island. Don't forget to kill the pirates who helped you bury it before leaving. Celebrate with a bottle of rum.
But why would I take people who download music/movies illegally to help me bury my treasure.
Did they also destroy all the daily tape backups of that database. I somehow don't think that any government, even Canada's, would destroy a database of it's citizens no matter what the reason.
From what I've seen DDR2 is not much more expensive, if it is at all than regular old DDR ram. Of course you will need to buy new RAM but those on the bleeding edge don't really care about dropping 150 dollars on some RAM if they are going to buy a 1000 dollar FX-62 and most likely the newest 500 dollar video card.
As has been said many times Slashdot is CmdrTaco's blog, not a democratic news website, such as Digg wants to be.
Disclaimer: I read both Slashdot and Digg and am not partial to either site.
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What I don't get is how the editor's found this even worthy to be put on the main page . . . I mean, for real, is it just because it was written by Dvorak? If Joe Schmoe from Internet Gossip Today had written this same article, does anyone honestly think it would make /.?
I feel robbed of my time after reading that article . . . I have heard bad things about Dvorak in the past, but thought I'd give one of his articles a chance since I had never experienced his idiocy first hand . . . but God . . . I want my 2 minutes back!
If it was "Joe Schmoe" would you have even read the article, or for that matter the summary of the article here, or the discussion that followed it? I would think not. Dvorak if nothing else is good at getting everyone together to complain about him and I always find those discussions more entertaining than the original Dvorak story.
It's very simple really.
All domains are worth precisely $12. No more, no less.
If someone has registered a domain, and is offering to sell it to you for more than that, they're nothing but leeching parasites, or as the PC like to call them, "cyber-squatters".
Don't feed the parasites.
Let's apply your reasoning to concert tickets. I am going to see Pearl Jam tommorrow, all of the seats have a face value of $53, the concert sold out in 15 minutes. If I wanted to buy floor seats in the first 10 rows from Stub Hub(where I got my tickets from, damn they sold out fast) I would have needed to pay hundreds of dollars. Seats with a less desirable view were selling for much less.
I ask you are all Pearl Jam concert tickets worth precisely $53? Or was it only possible to purchase those tickets for $53 at one point and the more desirable ones are "worth" much, much more.
Sweden does not equal Switzerland last time I checked. I do believe they might export some sort of fancy meatballs though.
In Soviet Russia, communists call YOU!
But what do they call you?
Well thats better than "Welcome to (random communist country). You are free of the burden of owning land."
While I can understand the reasoning for the networks argument, doesn't Cablevision, an evil company who made a mockery of the Knicks, destroyed our hopes for bringing the NFL back to NYC, didn't carry Yankee games for a year (disclaimer I am a Mets fan and still think it was wrong) and countless other atrocities against the people of New York but I digress, pay to re-broadcast network content already? Do they have an obligation to air it when the network says so? They may very well need to do that just throwing it out there.
The local news people must have read the same article. Reporting at it's finest ladies and gentlemen.
Loose change?? That is all you will have left after paying the lawyers.
The fact that the Inno can record a digital copy of an entire song, and is designed specifically to grab whole songs even if you choose you save the song in the middle of listening to it seems to me to be more specifically designed for an infringing use than just allowing the recording of FM broadcast quality radio signals.
At the very least, it seems more likely to fail to meet the standards set in Sony v. Universal, while I can't see any possible way a device that can just record ordinary broadcasts wouldn't meet those standards, since that was exactly what the case was about.
I don't think RIAA's correct in the XM case, but I'm sure they wouldn't be in a case against Creative, and I think they're sure of it too.
Maybe you don't have an XM Radio, but, the XM signal is not exactly like listening to a CD quality recording, the station streams are compressed and while some stations have bettet bitrates than others, I would still compare it to an FM signal only there is no static.
I am using my SkyFi 2 and the XM Boombox/Car Kit as my reference.
I'd hardly call the only player in PC soundcards a smaller company, shoot I would bet that there are more Soundblaster Audigy's and Live's around than whole Macs.
Note to submitters/editors: Not everyone lives in US/Canada. /joke on/ Right only the people that matter do. /joke off/
The actual claim was:
"The Mac gives you the same access to the Internet as Windows.
How about the Mac gives you the same access to the Internet as Windows, without the threat of spyware and viruses bogging down your machine or having to view DRM'ed to hell files.
There are a lot of different ways to look at everything.
Just a word of caution, if you actually care about remaining anonymous with regards to a customer loyalty card then you can only make transactions in cash with that store. The moment you use a credit card that info is correlated to your account and then they do have your proper name associated with it. And yes, they do collect some credit card data because one of the things stores with loyalty cards like to track is how many people are paying with credit and what they're buying on credit.
I have always heard that stores can not use information attached to your credit card to track you, one of the reasons they ask for your phone number or zip code in a lot of places is that they can not get it from your credit information.
It's not OK for the current conservative White House to use your phone contacts to estimate your opinion of the current energy policy.
Would it be OK if a liberal White House did that? Because if you think Democrats wouldn't use this information you are surely kidding yourself.
I have used both, I have Time Warner DVR, my brother-in-law has Direct TV with Tivo. The Sat/Tivo guide is slow and clunky and makes a boop sound everytime I turn it on, it boops whenever you fast forward as well. I really don't like the boops. My other problem with it is there is no built in Picture in Picture. My Time Warner box has that, it works even if your tv is not PIP capable. I can also record 2 shows at once, which I understand Tivo has just come up with? As far a making recommendations, I don't really see a use for that. So Tivo may be great for some people but I don't need one, my Time Warner box gives me features I actually use, the PIP is great for checking baseball scores while watching a show with your wife.
What is there to uninstall, there is no registry to muck up. Drag your app to the trash, can't be much easier can it?
Windows can't write to an HFS partition, so no matter what is installed under Windows I don't believe it can touch the OSX part of that hard drive.
However, the Post does have the "Best Sports in Town".
Did they also destroy all the daily tape backups of that database. I somehow don't think that any government, even Canada's, would destroy a database of it's citizens no matter what the reason.
From what I've seen DDR2 is not much more expensive, if it is at all than regular old DDR ram. Of course you will need to buy new RAM but those on the bleeding edge don't really care about dropping 150 dollars on some RAM if they are going to buy a 1000 dollar FX-62 and most likely the newest 500 dollar video card.
Programs that require you to be genuine authed will not install/run (IE7, Windows Defender, etc). That is a good thing isn't it?
Is it the mad crazy super duper bomb diggity, for shizzle? The correct term is fo shizzle. Just call me the l33t sp33k grammar nazi.
As has been said many times Slashdot is CmdrTaco's blog, not a democratic news website, such as Digg wants to be. Disclaimer: I read both Slashdot and Digg and am not partial to either site.