he Washington Post reports on the loss of knowledge in ephemeral web pages, which a medical researcher compares to the burning of ancient Alexandria's library.
The main difference being that most of what was in ancient Alexandria's library was considered to be of importance to at least a sizeable group of people, if not the majority, whereas most of the web pages that disappear every day are simply dross.
If you've been reading/.for any length of time, then you know that P2P distribution of music, legally and otherwise, is having a largely positive impact on music sales as a whole. Because the music you actually WANT to listen to is so much more accessible, you spend more time listening to music, and your demand for quality music increases, causing you at some point to start opening your wallet more and start buying more music.
The whole issue with the RIAA, though, is control.The scenario I described above is a fairly complex marketing strategy that involves giving away a lot of music in order to increase sales overall. The RIAA is VERY uncomfortable with that. They are used to getting a few sheckles out of every music transaction, and don't want to adapt their business model.
Have to say, though, that the RIAA created this market--with the very radio stations that play their music. They have created the expectation in our minds that music ought to be free for the casual listener, even though there really was a transaction involved (the radio stations paid the licensing fees). The public is simply behaving as they have been trained to do, though times and technology have changed. They are still listening to music for free for casual use (via downloads now), and investing in the artists they really care about.
However, the RIAA will most definitely freak out, as the public drags them kicking and screaming into the 21st century.
At least with a cell phone, if you are truly paranoid, you just take the batteries out of it. Not much the non-automotive guy can do to disable these systems (or the black-boxes that record information during an accident).
Just reach into the fuse box and pull the fuse...
Yahoo has been doing this for years...
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The fact is that Pixar knows how to tell a great story. The CG is meaningless without that. There are lots of CG movies and TV shows flooding the market these days, but Pixar is still able to make a name for themselves because it's about the story first and the technology second.
The problem with cryogenically freezing someone is all of the cracking that occurs in the frozen body. A show on TV not long ago was profiling a cryogenics company, and the spokesman was saying that they had only recently figured out a way to keep the brain from having dozens, rather than hundreds, of cracks in it after freezing.
Can you imagine Walt's brain having hundreds of fissures in it? Even if they could cure what killed him, he'd still be dead from the massive brain damage.
Cryogenics is nothing more than snake oil, a way to steal the estates of dying rich people.
Were they getting it on? The way she was breathing into Neo's mouth and running her fingers across the holes in his back, I thought she was playing him like a piccolo...
I'm dating myself here (not that anyone else would), but when Excalibur came out, way back in the day, and HBO would show it, they'd have a 10 minute intermission for popcorn, bathroom, whatever. That was great, except for one tiny little problem... THEY NEVER STOPPED THE FRICKEN MOVIE WHILE THE INTERMISSION SCREEN WAS UP. You'd miss the whole transition to the quest for the Grail, and be totally lost when the movie came back up.
McDonalds can commit to giving away $1 billion in iTunes songs, but realistically, probably less than a third of those tokens would be redeemed. Most of their customers probably don't have either an iPod or iTunes installed. And if they're giving away specific songs only, then you can count on that figure being far, far less than a third.
Still, it's a great idea to motivate the teenage/young adult demographic to visit McD's more frequently.
War is always about taking control of real estate. Nobody on earth owns any land on other planets yet, so what would be the point of fighting in space?
The difference being that Win XP is the successor to NT, which also ran fine on that system. Apple made some stray comments about backwards compatibility when they started the OS X project, but they really had no idea how resource instensive it was going to be because it was so radically different from OS 9. I mean, typically, OS's run slower and slower with each version because of feature bloat; but OS X is getting faster and faster as they learn how to optimize it.
Before OS X, the larger concern for me was that older OS's be able to run on newer hardware because of the potential speed increase.
Frankly, I'd rather that Apple spend their resources learning how to optimize OS X on newer machines than on making it run on systems that are five years old. Because let's face it, people who keep their systems 5+ years aren't exactly driving the industry forward.
I think "Apple ][ Forever" was an attempt by folks inside of Apple (most notably Woz) to keep Apple from dumping the Apple ][ in the face of the Macintosh. Of course, they failed.
The Newton WAS a very important part of their product line, and was even starting to make money right before it got the axe. The Newton could have OWNED the mid- to high-end PDA market right now if Apple had nurtured it. See how Apple is gradually morphing the iPod into a PDA? They know that PDA's are the future. Unfortunately, the Newton was a Sculley project, and I believe Jobs killed it for that very reason, out of spite. And then I think he deeply regretted what he had done, because he tried to buy out Palm, which was populated with most of the former Newton engineers.
Running the original Rhapsody version of OS X on a TAM? A PPC 603e processor? Why would you want to do that? Rhapsody ran way slow on my 400 mhz G3 Blue & White tower, I can't imagine trying to run it on a TAM.
Beige G3's get the shaft? Fine with me. Why should Apple commit tremendous engineering resources to running the latest OS on Macs they sold four and five years ago? The experience would not be satisfying, even if they did.
Scroll Lock? Who cares? I want to know why we still have NUM LOCK on all modern keyboards! I know that the numeric keypad also functioned as arrow keys, but that's why they added ARROW KEYS to the keyboard!
Nothing is more infuriating than typing in a monstrously long serial number, only to look up and find that the NUM LOCK wasn't engaged and you have to start over! GRRRRRRR!!!!!
Newton was a devout Christian and a creationist. That doesn't play well in the modern scientific community, where atheism and agnosticism are the ruling ideologies. If Isaac Newton were applying for a university job today, he would be treated with disdain. From this biography:
He loved God and believed God's Word-- all of it. He wrote, 'I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by men who were inspired. I study the Bible daily'. He also wrote, 'Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance'.
Coinciding with the upgrade, Yahoo said it would likely disable access to outside IM services such as Trillian. Yahoo set a deadline of Wednesday for its forced upgrade and its intention to disconnect Trillian.
This is most definitely an attempt on Yahoo's part to block third-party IM clients.
Nowhere in the article does it state that Yahoo still supports a standards initiative, or that it has any intent to work with third parties.
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he Washington Post reports on the loss of knowledge in ephemeral web pages, which a medical researcher compares to the burning of ancient Alexandria's library.
The main difference being that most of what was in ancient Alexandria's library was considered to be of importance to at least a sizeable group of people, if not the majority, whereas most of the web pages that disappear every day are simply dross.
If you've been reading /.for any length of time, then you know that P2P distribution of music, legally and otherwise, is having a largely positive impact on music sales as a whole. Because the music you actually WANT to listen to is so much more accessible, you spend more time listening to music, and your demand for quality music increases, causing you at some point to start opening your wallet more and start buying more music.
The whole issue with the RIAA, though, is control.The scenario I described above is a fairly complex marketing strategy that involves giving away a lot of music in order to increase sales overall. The RIAA is VERY uncomfortable with that. They are used to getting a few sheckles out of every music transaction, and don't want to adapt their business model.
Have to say, though, that the RIAA created this market--with the very radio stations that play their music. They have created the expectation in our minds that music ought to be free for the casual listener, even though there really was a transaction involved (the radio stations paid the licensing fees). The public is simply behaving as they have been trained to do, though times and technology have changed. They are still listening to music for free for casual use (via downloads now), and investing in the artists they really care about.
However, the RIAA will most definitely freak out, as the public drags them kicking and screaming into the 21st century.
At least with a cell phone, if you are truly paranoid, you just take the batteries out of it. Not much the non-automotive guy can do to disable these systems (or the black-boxes that record information during an accident).
Just reach into the fuse box and pull the fuse...
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The fact is that Pixar knows how to tell a great story. The CG is meaningless without that. There are lots of CG movies and TV shows flooding the market these days, but Pixar is still able to make a name for themselves because it's about the story first and the technology second.
The problem with cryogenically freezing someone is all of the cracking that occurs in the frozen body. A show on TV not long ago was profiling a cryogenics company, and the spokesman was saying that they had only recently figured out a way to keep the brain from having dozens, rather than hundreds, of cracks in it after freezing.
Can you imagine Walt's brain having hundreds of fissures in it? Even if they could cure what killed him, he'd still be dead from the massive brain damage.
Cryogenics is nothing more than snake oil, a way to steal the estates of dying rich people.
The image replicators work for the Matrix, so anyone playing the game will only see the raw code streaming down their screen.
They don't want your body to be jacked into the Matrix, just your credit card.
"In the future, people only run for fun!"
"Run for fun? What the hell kind of fun is that?"
Were they getting it on? The way she was breathing into Neo's mouth and running her fingers across the holes in his back, I thought she was playing him like a piccolo...
I'm dating myself here (not that anyone else would), but when Excalibur came out, way back in the day, and HBO would show it, they'd have a 10 minute intermission for popcorn, bathroom, whatever. That was great, except for one tiny little problem... THEY NEVER STOPPED THE FRICKEN MOVIE WHILE THE INTERMISSION SCREEN WAS UP. You'd miss the whole transition to the quest for the Grail, and be totally lost when the movie came back up.
Ah, the pointless things I remember...
I hope the new DVD has an extra-special "toilet break" feature!
Oh, you mean like the Rave Scene in the Matrix Reloaded?
McDonalds can commit to giving away $1 billion in iTunes songs, but realistically, probably less than a third of those tokens would be redeemed. Most of their customers probably don't have either an iPod or iTunes installed. And if they're giving away specific songs only, then you can count on that figure being far, far less than a third.
Still, it's a great idea to motivate the teenage/young adult demographic to visit McD's more frequently.
That's what fleaBay is for.
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Well, as long as the kids pay their license fees for their Linux systems, they won't have to be indicted.
War is always about taking control of real estate. Nobody on earth owns any land on other planets yet, so what would be the point of fighting in space?
Where else?
The difference being that Win XP is the successor to NT, which also ran fine on that system. Apple made some stray comments about backwards compatibility when they started the OS X project, but they really had no idea how resource instensive it was going to be because it was so radically different from OS 9. I mean, typically, OS's run slower and slower with each version because of feature bloat; but OS X is getting faster and faster as they learn how to optimize it.
Before OS X, the larger concern for me was that older OS's be able to run on newer hardware because of the potential speed increase.
Frankly, I'd rather that Apple spend their resources learning how to optimize OS X on newer machines than on making it run on systems that are five years old. Because let's face it, people who keep their systems 5+ years aren't exactly driving the industry forward.
I think "Apple ][ Forever" was an attempt by folks inside of Apple (most notably Woz) to keep Apple from dumping the Apple ][ in the face of the Macintosh. Of course, they failed.
The Newton WAS a very important part of their product line, and was even starting to make money right before it got the axe. The Newton could have OWNED the mid- to high-end PDA market right now if Apple had nurtured it. See how Apple is gradually morphing the iPod into a PDA? They know that PDA's are the future. Unfortunately, the Newton was a Sculley project, and I believe Jobs killed it for that very reason, out of spite. And then I think he deeply regretted what he had done, because he tried to buy out Palm, which was populated with most of the former Newton engineers.
Running the original Rhapsody version of OS X on a TAM? A PPC 603e processor? Why would you want to do that? Rhapsody ran way slow on my 400 mhz G3 Blue & White tower, I can't imagine trying to run it on a TAM.
Beige G3's get the shaft? Fine with me. Why should Apple commit tremendous engineering resources to running the latest OS on Macs they sold four and five years ago? The experience would not be satisfying, even if they did.
Scroll Lock? Who cares? I want to know why we still have NUM LOCK on all modern keyboards! I know that the numeric keypad also functioned as arrow keys, but that's why they added ARROW KEYS to the keyboard!
Nothing is more infuriating than typing in a monstrously long serial number, only to look up and find that the NUM LOCK wasn't engaged and you have to start over! GRRRRRRR!!!!!
Newton was a devout Christian and a creationist. That doesn't play well in the modern scientific community, where atheism and agnosticism are the ruling ideologies. If Isaac Newton were applying for a university job today, he would be treated with disdain. From this biography:
He loved God and believed God's Word-- all of it. He wrote, 'I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by men who were inspired. I study the Bible daily'. He also wrote, 'Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance'.
Coinciding with the upgrade, Yahoo said it would likely disable access to outside IM services such as Trillian. Yahoo set a deadline of Wednesday for its forced upgrade and its intention to disconnect Trillian.
This is most definitely an attempt on Yahoo's part to block third-party IM clients.
Nowhere in the article does it state that Yahoo still supports a standards initiative, or that it has any intent to work with third parties.
It just makes sense when you think about it...