I only buy Brenthaven bags for my laptops. A little pricey, but well worth the expense. In most of the bags, the laptop is suspended inside, and the padding all around is very thick.
A good bag is like insurance... after all, if you spend $3000 on a laptop, shouldn't you shell out $200 for a decent bag to protect it?
I took issue with the reviewer about iTunes and streaming... he said that iTunes sufffers here, but really, iTunes can stream any MP3 stream as long as you have the URL, it's just that their built-in radio station picks are mostly from Live 365.
Also, I don't know if the other players have this feature, but iTunes will stream YOUR music to other iTunes listeners on your LAN, and it has a discovery feature so that you aren't typing in IP addresses. Very cool. I didn't think much about this until I actually got other people on the network to stream their music... it's fun to explore other people's musical tastes.
I buy the few CDs I want at concerts, in the hope that I'll still get legitimate music and the RIAA will get less money.
Hypocrisy sucks, pick a stance and stick with it.
It doesn't matter where you buy it, if you buy it new in shrinkwrap, you still support the RIAA.
If you DON'T want to support the RIAA, then buy your CD's from the used market... local second-hand record shops or Half.com. The RIAA receives absolutely zero from these transactions.
that if products like WASTE are widely adopted, then the RIAA wins. It's not a revolution, but a step backwards.
There has always been the illegal distribution of music between "trusted groups of users"... ever burn a compilation CD for a friend? What the RIAA is fighting is the free and widespread distribution of music between unknown parties.
The problem is, once the group becomes open, it then becomes easy to infiltrate and monitor.
I read recently that Apple spent $125 million on marketing iTunes & the iPod, so even if you divide that expense evenly between the two divisions, it still puts iTMS way into in the red.
BTW, I seem to recall that Apple's gross per song was 25, not 40.
It's entirely possible that DNF does not even exist as a real project at 3D Realms anymore. Consider that the vaporware state of the game generates a tremendous amount of buzz for the DN brand and for the company. Consider also the grandious vision that is always laid out for the game.
Now, why would 3D Realms go and kill all of this excitement and attention by trying to release a game that could never live up to the hype? It would be very anti-climactic and could even kill the franchise. They certainly don't want to release the next Daikatana.
Also, investors generally don't have bottomless pockets filled with cash. How long can they pour money into a game development team before they start demanding results? Two years? Three years? Five years?
In the meantime, 3D Realms has released a slew of other DN games, when they should have been working on DNF. Though it may have been a priority at one time, DNF is obviously not a priority right now. Or maybe what started out as DNF was cleverly reworked and released under another title, thinking that it wouldn't live up to the hype (DN: Manhattan Project? Max Payne?).
Here's my prediction: 3D Realms will continue to be evasive on the subject, and will continue to release DN games... and when one comes along that they feel is worthy of the honor, they will rechristen it as Duke Nukem Forever. But only after they've almost completely exhausted the hype surrounding DNF.
...the home she's living in is where one of my best friends grew up. I spent many, many hours there! That was REALLY wierd to see someone post that address on slashdot.
If she bought it, then she ain't doin that bad with the spamming. It's a two story, roughly 6,000 sq. ft., on an acre lot. I think it's valued somewhere around $250k.
BTW, interesting fact... sometime in the mid to late 70's, Slidell was the fastest growing city in the nation; Johnny Carson even mentioned it in his monologue. The Louisiana economy fell apart in the early 80's with the collapse of OPEC, and they've never quite recovered.
Actually, it's going to be funny to watch the response of the Democratic candidates. Just last week, Al Gore started speaking out against Iraq, and Howard Dean and Weslesy Clark have been outspoken opponents.
Granted, we still have out work cut out for us over there, but as far as the American public is concerned, this is a significant milestone.
Today's Slashdotting has saved my weak-willed self from spoiling the movie. Hopefully the urge to click through has passed by the time the site is responding...
If the last two movies were any indication of how the next one will play, then the spoilers will be far more entertaining.
I am looking forward to Cringley's next column where he proposes to answer the question of why auditing capabilities were not inlcuded in the touch screen voting machines.
I'll venture a guess at this... it's not that Diebold hasn't already thought of this, but that they are fulfilling the MINIMUM requirements of what has been requested of them. Then they get millions of machines out there, and there is another electoral controversy, this time involving e-voting machines. So a Diebold executive proposes that states invest in the next generation machine, which has a paper auditing trail. And then Diebold gets to sell two machines instead of one, doubling their revenue.
Look at it another way... every Microsoft product on the market could be revised and upgraded and improved in limitless ways... so why don't they? Because they don't have to. As long as they are growing sales at an acceptable rate, then they will simply sell the upgrades, which add a few more features--just enough to stimulate the next round of sales, and no more. The worst possible situation MS (or any other software company) could find themselves in is to sell a FINAL product, to which no future upgrade would ever be needed.
I think his site design promotes abusive comments. The TalkBack/message area is unthreaded, and sometimes messages are added to the top of the list, sometimes to the bottom--who knows why. It's total chaos, and it basically comes down to who shouts the loudest as far as who gets heard (or maybe just who makes the most offensive comments). Intelligent people tend to stay away from shouting matches, so the children win out the day.
If Harry remade his site with Slashcode, he'd have much more engagning and insightful discussions going on.
I have several ideas that could make great money but they ultimately require money to make money. Does anyone have a good suggestion for raising capital without forfeiting the rights to one's intellectual property?
I'd say don't get greedy. Yes, bringing investors on board requires giving up control. But with that money generally comes a wealth of business management experience that you may be lacking.
If your idea is good enough to get the right investors interested, then I guarantee you can go a lot farther WITH savvy business partners than without.
this was still a free market economy. There will ALWAYS be makers of non-TC boards. In fact, I would dare say that Phoenix is putting themselves at risk with this move, and may end up losing a lot of marketshare because of it.
Remember DIVX movie CD's? A totally DRM solution for a market that wasn't looking for it and didn't want it. The MPAA wanted very badly to shove that down our throats, but consumers stayed away in droves. At the end of the day, the older DVD format won out.
Phoenix may be trying to appease Microsoft by introducing TC motherboards, but at the end of the day, they still have to answer to their own shareholders and turn a profit.
Oddly, everything you site as an example of original OSS development is actually derivative of something else.
Apple's Expose was a totally original concept that's now been copied by OSS developers.
It's one thing upgrade and revise existing ideas along what would appear to be a natural path of progression, and something else entirely to brainstorm new products and new interfaces, and mass market them.
In my experience, crackers view themselves as golden brown and delicious, especially with a slice of cheese on top of them and some wine to wash it down.
However, it's been a while since I talked to a cracker, so things may have changed.
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Every time you set that puppy down, the impact is transmitted through the case to the laptop.
As much as I love a full cavity search, I'm not sure this is such a great feature.
Yeah, I think that that goatse.cx guy was trying to carry one of those cases through airport security, hence the photo....
I only buy Brenthaven bags for my laptops. A little pricey, but well worth the expense. In most of the bags, the laptop is suspended inside, and the padding all around is very thick.
A good bag is like insurance... after all, if you spend $3000 on a laptop, shouldn't you shell out $200 for a decent bag to protect it?
The best prices I've found online are at Irv's Discount Luggage.
I took issue with the reviewer about iTunes and streaming... he said that iTunes sufffers here, but really, iTunes can stream any MP3 stream as long as you have the URL, it's just that their built-in radio station picks are mostly from Live 365.
Also, I don't know if the other players have this feature, but iTunes will stream YOUR music to other iTunes listeners on your LAN, and it has a discovery feature so that you aren't typing in IP addresses. Very cool. I didn't think much about this until I actually got other people on the network to stream their music... it's fun to explore other people's musical tastes.
I buy the few CDs I want at concerts, in the hope that I'll still get legitimate music and the RIAA will get less money.
Hypocrisy sucks, pick a stance and stick with it.
It doesn't matter where you buy it, if you buy it new in shrinkwrap, you still support the RIAA.
If you DON'T want to support the RIAA, then buy your CD's from the used market... local second-hand record shops or Half.com. The RIAA receives absolutely zero from these transactions.
that if products like WASTE are widely adopted, then the RIAA wins. It's not a revolution, but a step backwards.
There has always been the illegal distribution of music between "trusted groups of users"... ever burn a compilation CD for a friend? What the RIAA is fighting is the free and widespread distribution of music between unknown parties.
The problem is, once the group becomes open, it then becomes easy to infiltrate and monitor.
I read recently that Apple spent $125 million on marketing iTunes & the iPod, so even if you divide that expense evenly between the two divisions, it still puts iTMS way into in the red.
BTW, I seem to recall that Apple's gross per song was 25, not 40.
iTunes runs on Windows now, too. Time to crawl out from underneath that rock you've been living under...
It's entirely possible that DNF does not even exist as a real project at 3D Realms anymore. Consider that the vaporware state of the game generates a tremendous amount of buzz for the DN brand and for the company. Consider also the grandious vision that is always laid out for the game.
Now, why would 3D Realms go and kill all of this excitement and attention by trying to release a game that could never live up to the hype? It would be very anti-climactic and could even kill the franchise. They certainly don't want to release the next Daikatana.
Also, investors generally don't have bottomless pockets filled with cash. How long can they pour money into a game development team before they start demanding results? Two years? Three years? Five years?
In the meantime, 3D Realms has released a slew of other DN games, when they should have been working on DNF. Though it may have been a priority at one time, DNF is obviously not a priority right now. Or maybe what started out as DNF was cleverly reworked and released under another title, thinking that it wouldn't live up to the hype (DN: Manhattan Project? Max Payne?).
Here's my prediction: 3D Realms will continue to be evasive on the subject, and will continue to release DN games... and when one comes along that they feel is worthy of the honor, they will rechristen it as Duke Nukem Forever. But only after they've almost completely exhausted the hype surrounding DNF.
...the home she's living in is where one of my best friends grew up. I spent many, many hours there! That was REALLY wierd to see someone post that address on slashdot.
If she bought it, then she ain't doin that bad with the spamming. It's a two story, roughly 6,000 sq. ft., on an acre lot. I think it's valued somewhere around $250k.
BTW, interesting fact... sometime in the mid to late 70's, Slidell was the fastest growing city in the nation; Johnny Carson even mentioned it in his monologue. The Louisiana economy fell apart in the early 80's with the collapse of OPEC, and they've never quite recovered.
Bush gets re-elected.
WOOO HOOOOOOO!!!! YEAH, BABY!!!!!
Actually, it's going to be funny to watch the response of the Democratic candidates. Just last week, Al Gore started speaking out against Iraq, and Howard Dean and Weslesy Clark have been outspoken opponents.
Granted, we still have out work cut out for us over there, but as far as the American public is concerned, this is a significant milestone.
Today's Slashdotting has saved my weak-willed self from spoiling the movie. Hopefully the urge to click through has passed by the time the site is responding...
If the last two movies were any indication of how the next one will play, then the spoilers will be far more entertaining.
Go to Radio Shack, get a cassette adapter that will allow you to hook up and play your portable MP3 player through the car's cassette player.
I am looking forward to Cringley's next column where he proposes to answer the question of why auditing capabilities were not inlcuded in the touch screen voting machines.
I'll venture a guess at this... it's not that Diebold hasn't already thought of this, but that they are fulfilling the MINIMUM requirements of what has been requested of them. Then they get millions of machines out there, and there is another electoral controversy, this time involving e-voting machines. So a Diebold executive proposes that states invest in the next generation machine, which has a paper auditing trail. And then Diebold gets to sell two machines instead of one, doubling their revenue.
Look at it another way... every Microsoft product on the market could be revised and upgraded and improved in limitless ways... so why don't they? Because they don't have to. As long as they are growing sales at an acceptable rate, then they will simply sell the upgrades, which add a few more features--just enough to stimulate the next round of sales, and no more. The worst possible situation MS (or any other software company) could find themselves in is to sell a FINAL product, to which no future upgrade would ever be needed.
I think his site design promotes abusive comments. The TalkBack/message area is unthreaded, and sometimes messages are added to the top of the list, sometimes to the bottom--who knows why. It's total chaos, and it basically comes down to who shouts the loudest as far as who gets heard (or maybe just who makes the most offensive comments). Intelligent people tend to stay away from shouting matches, so the children win out the day.
If Harry remade his site with Slashcode, he'd have much more engagning and insightful discussions going on.
He's referring to the fact that HL is based on the Quake I engine, which Valve licensed from id. However, Valve rewrote some 70% of the code.
All your BIOS are belong to us.
I have several ideas that could make great money but they ultimately require money to make money. Does anyone have a good suggestion for raising capital without forfeiting the rights to one's intellectual property?
I'd say don't get greedy. Yes, bringing investors on board requires giving up control. But with that money generally comes a wealth of business management experience that you may be lacking.
If your idea is good enough to get the right investors interested, then I guarantee you can go a lot farther WITH savvy business partners than without.
this was still a free market economy. There will ALWAYS be makers of non-TC boards. In fact, I would dare say that Phoenix is putting themselves at risk with this move, and may end up losing a lot of marketshare because of it.
Remember DIVX movie CD's? A totally DRM solution for a market that wasn't looking for it and didn't want it. The MPAA wanted very badly to shove that down our throats, but consumers stayed away in droves. At the end of the day, the older DVD format won out.
Phoenix may be trying to appease Microsoft by introducing TC motherboards, but at the end of the day, they still have to answer to their own shareholders and turn a profit.
Set your ISP account to remember your password on your laptop; it's your best chance of catching a thief.
Yes. Check out my 2400-page thesis, shortly to follow.
Oddly, everything you site as an example of original OSS development is actually derivative of something else.
Apple's Expose was a totally original concept that's now been copied by OSS developers.
It's one thing upgrade and revise existing ideas along what would appear to be a natural path of progression, and something else entirely to brainstorm new products and new interfaces, and mass market them.
It has NOTHING to do with SVG, Flash, or Web standards.
Actually, competing with Flash is EXACTLY what Microsoft has in mind.
Read this article for more info.
"Look, ours does everything that theirs does, PLUS a little bit more!"
In my experience, crackers view themselves as golden brown and delicious, especially with a slice of cheese on top of them and some wine to wash it down.
However, it's been a while since I talked to a cracker, so things may have changed.