If you thought the movement for copy-protected MP3s/CDs were a joke, just wait until the real money starts being invested into copy-protected TV shows, then this "napsterization" will become a self fulfilling prophecy.
As you can see, the traditional idea of having a satellite phone service wil inevitably fail (*points to Iridium*) due to a lack of market. What needs to be done is similar to how the GPS satellites function. Admittedly, the government funded those. What needs to be seen is their wide usability for many different functions. A single satellite system that doubles for military and civilian use and for a TON of different GPS handheld devices ranging from pocket-sized to ones that go into the car (referring to Onstar). If you want satphones to get going, have the satellites capable of SMS, voice, maybe even compressed images. (This is Channel 11 reporting in the Sahara with live footage of sand moving). Perhaps that may be farfetched, but usually it's the client-side of the sat systems that need to be improved, not the satellite themselves. Anyways, proving a wide usability of different uses will expand the marketing potential to allow the company to have a profit margin (oh my god!).
This is clearly an April Fools joke manifested by someone. Look at the install.sh that comes with it..
#!/bin/sh
echo "calculating dependencies"
echo "creating compression libraries"
echo "loading compression libraries"
echo "#### done(1)."
echo "#### done(2)."
echo "#### done(3)."
echo "#### done(4)."
echo "#### done(5)."
echo "#### done(6)."
echo "#### done(7)."
echo "#### done(8)."
echo "#### done(9)."
echo "linking...done."
echo "installation complete."
And the README date is April 1, 2001
The lunzip is filled with "goldfinger"
and for lzip..
[19]:~/source/lzip# file lzip
lzip: JPEG image data, JFIF standard
I looked at the file, and it's a money with a banana, go see for yourself
HERE Great joke guys, the FAQ was decent on the sourceforge page. Got me.
Slashdot can be easily argued that it serves to educate people. If Akamai claims that they would support academic goals, why don't they allow Slashdot to use their caching system to get/.'d on the front page?
Another robot competition that is heavily funded by NASA (the program itself isn't, but more than a majority of high schools receive funding and sponsorship via NASA to compete in this) is the U.S. FIRST Competition. The focus of this competition is not to break the other robots (this is actually against the rules), but to instead achieve points by putting balls into goals and then they can receive bonus points by doing certain tricks. E.g.: hanging from the rail. Our school, Sylvania Northview, gets local funding from Dana Corporation Headquarters in Toledo, OH. It is a bit costly, but if the school can find the sponsorship, it's an excellent educational experience.
Admittedly, I haven't tried the latest Netscape 6 Release, howevr from when I tried their beta, the interface seemed a lot like
NeoPlanet.
It could be one big coincidence, or that they wanted to try to re-design their interface without spending the effort to be creative. Anyways, until Netscape comes out with some outstanding feature which makes it worth the time to download and install, I'll stay away from it.
You'll be up in awhile. This is a first time in a long time, that every state will probably count. As it stands of this write, Gore has 230 while Bush has 225. Even if Gore gets Florida, it will be up to the other western states (don't forget Alaska too!) to decide the future of the presidency, because the winner has to reach the 270 electoral votes requirement to be voted in. (Also remember, these are only exit polls!)
Great, more fodder for big blue. I wonder if they'll have it put Kramnik to the test. Also, has Kasparov beaten Kramnik before in a tournament? Or have they just never faced eachother before so maybe Kramnik was the underground best player all along.
This could be great for storage for the average cosnumer. But we have to remember hard drives have to be built to endure wear and tear. Average harddrives will be used for years on end, something so small sounds like it could be open to a lot of environmental factors in the computer, like scratches, heat, etc. So if there's one tiny defect it could ruin (gigabytes, terabytes, whatever) a majority of the storage cube. Are we willing to risk this much to have a god-like storage system?
Dialpad's apology is not only unique because they apologized, but also because they offer the option of not receiving their newsletters in your e-mail. I know many account-based website, (i.e.: Amazon, Live365) will send me just about enough junk from them alone from all of the other spam combined, without even asking. Atleast they offer a point to be unsubscribed, but Dialpad finally goes the extra mile of asking you when you first signup. A little sincerity (especially from corporations) can go a far way.
I'm hoping this reduced usage of power would also allow the notebook's battery to have a longer life, because most owners for notebooks (atleast business travelers) look for longer living notebook batteries without the additional weight that most larger-sized batteries suffer from. Also, finally a bigger leap in notebook improvements have come. A year or so ago most notebooks were upgraded in many aspects and made them much more usable, but then the advancement of usability seemed to trickle. Now this'll hopefully give the notebook industry a large push.
Reverse engineering is one of the few things consumers can do that can check the quality, integrity, and for the most part, ethics of a company's product. It can be most compared to the government's checks and balances system, except where the real power lies wit hthe consumer in this situation. Almost seems like the exploits that are released for security holes, it might seem evil, but it's needed to keep the corporations on their toes.
Maybe this is his type of a subliminal message..
"Oh older stuff, Napster must've gotten bought out"
"la de da de da"
"I need to go to Slashdot more often to make sure I don't miss these types of things"
Is this goign to become another O.J. Simpson trial? This also brings up the fact that having a to nof money can get you out of almost anything. Then again, who knows.. maybe the judge will grant it because he/she is just sick of hearing about Microsoft everyday.. just like we are.
Sure, there are some frivolous lawsuits that are started in the States, but most of the time they are threatening cease and decist orders or they are just intimidation letters/emails. Very rarely, especially to small companies like local ISPs, will a judge care enough to even see it.
Even though the court chose not to listen to it, this also opens up the possibility that they are responsible for the content flowing through it. However, would any person be isane enough to actually sue their ISP for "delivering" this content? Sure, it may mean it's possible, but the actual chances of this happening are microscopically low.
What would Napster do with this money? I would actually consider paying for it. But is it possible to Napster to track where each song is downloaded then pay the appropiate royalties to the artist? I can only imagine the type of cash flow going into Napster if this was ever reinstated. Also, this would fuel gnutella, as the previous slashdot article mentioned.
Slashdot Mirror
Talk about one hell of a monopoly if this ever rolls out in the mainstream..
If you thought the movement for copy-protected MP3s/CDs were a joke, just wait until the real money starts being invested into copy-protected TV shows, then this "napsterization" will become a self fulfilling prophecy.
Another lyrics site that works great is this one that is hosted at Astralabs.
As you can see, the traditional idea of having a satellite phone service wil inevitably fail (*points to Iridium*) due to a lack of market. What needs to be done is similar to how the GPS satellites function. Admittedly, the government funded those. What needs to be seen is their wide usability for many different functions. A single satellite system that doubles for military and civilian use and for a TON of different GPS handheld devices ranging from pocket-sized to ones that go into the car (referring to Onstar). If you want satphones to get going, have the satellites capable of SMS, voice, maybe even compressed images. (This is Channel 11 reporting in the Sahara with live footage of sand moving). Perhaps that may be farfetched, but usually it's the client-side of the sat systems that need to be improved, not the satellite themselves. Anyways, proving a wide usability of different uses will expand the marketing potential to allow the company to have a profit margin (oh my god!).
Does the False Authority Syndrome include accepting Slashdot stories as fact too?
This is clearly an April Fools joke manifested by someone. Look at the install.sh that comes with it.. #! /bin/sh
echo "calculating dependencies"
echo "creating compression libraries"
echo "loading compression libraries"
echo "#### done(1)."
echo "#### done(2)."
echo "#### done(3)."
echo "#### done(4)."
echo "#### done(5)."
echo "#### done(6)."
echo "#### done(7)."
echo "#### done(8)."
echo "#### done(9)."
echo "linking...done."
echo "installation complete."
And the README date is April 1, 2001
The lunzip is filled with "goldfinger"
and for lzip..
[19]:~/source/lzip# file lzip
lzip: JPEG image data, JFIF standard
I looked at the file, and it's a money with a banana, go see for yourself
HERE Great joke guys, the FAQ was decent on the sourceforge page. Got me.
Slashdot can be easily argued that it serves to educate people. If Akamai claims that they would support academic goals, why don't they allow Slashdot to use their caching system to get /.'d on the front page?
Another robot competition that is heavily funded by NASA (the program itself isn't, but more than a majority of high schools receive funding and sponsorship via NASA to compete in this) is the U.S. FIRST Competition. The focus of this competition is not to break the other robots (this is actually against the rules), but to instead achieve points by putting balls into goals and then they can receive bonus points by doing certain tricks. E.g.: hanging from the rail. Our school, Sylvania Northview, gets local funding from Dana Corporation Headquarters in Toledo, OH. It is a bit costly, but if the school can find the sponsorship, it's an excellent educational experience.
It must be the solution to keep a site running after being slashdotted. Of course everyone wants it.
Even more wingate power to the kiddies..
Admittedly, I haven't tried the latest Netscape 6 Release, howevr from when I tried their beta, the interface seemed a lot like NeoPlanet. It could be one big coincidence, or that they wanted to try to re-design their interface without spending the effort to be creative. Anyways, until Netscape comes out with some outstanding feature which makes it worth the time to download and install, I'll stay away from it.
You'll be up in awhile. This is a first time in a long time, that every state will probably count. As it stands of this write, Gore has 230 while Bush has 225. Even if Gore gets Florida, it will be up to the other western states (don't forget Alaska too!) to decide the future of the presidency, because the winner has to reach the 270 electoral votes requirement to be voted in. (Also remember, these are only exit polls!)
Great, more fodder for big blue. I wonder if they'll have it put Kramnik to the test. Also, has Kasparov beaten Kramnik before in a tournament? Or have they just never faced eachother before so maybe Kramnik was the underground best player all along.
This could be great for storage for the average cosnumer. But we have to remember hard drives have to be built to endure wear and tear. Average harddrives will be used for years on end, something so small sounds like it could be open to a lot of environmental factors in the computer, like scratches, heat, etc. So if there's one tiny defect it could ruin (gigabytes, terabytes, whatever) a majority of the storage cube. Are we willing to risk this much to have a god-like storage system?
If we patented these methods of world destruction, could the human race survive forever?
Dialpad's apology is not only unique because they apologized, but also because they offer the option of not receiving their newsletters in your e-mail. I know many account-based website, (i.e.: Amazon, Live365) will send me just about enough junk from them alone from all of the other spam combined, without even asking. Atleast they offer a point to be unsubscribed, but Dialpad finally goes the extra mile of asking you when you first signup. A little sincerity (especially from corporations) can go a far way.
I'm hoping this reduced usage of power would also allow the notebook's battery to have a longer life, because most owners for notebooks (atleast business travelers) look for longer living notebook batteries without the additional weight that most larger-sized batteries suffer from. Also, finally a bigger leap in notebook improvements have come. A year or so ago most notebooks were upgraded in many aspects and made them much more usable, but then the advancement of usability seemed to trickle. Now this'll hopefully give the notebook industry a large push.
Reverse engineering is one of the few things consumers can do that can check the quality, integrity, and for the most part, ethics of a company's product. It can be most compared to the government's checks and balances system, except where the real power lies wit hthe consumer in this situation. Almost seems like the exploits that are released for security holes, it might seem evil, but it's needed to keep the corporations on their toes.
Maybe this is his type of a subliminal message.. "Oh older stuff, Napster must've gotten bought out" "la de da de da" "I need to go to Slashdot more often to make sure I don't miss these types of things"
Just what we need .. more fodder for the script kiddies.
Is this goign to become another O.J. Simpson trial? This also brings up the fact that having a to nof money can get you out of almost anything. Then again, who knows.. maybe the judge will grant it because he/she is just sick of hearing about Microsoft everyday .. just like we are.
Great, another step towards Microsoft integration of another product into its own. Slashdot's icon for Microsoft of Bill Gates is truly justified..
Sure, there are some frivolous lawsuits that are started in the States, but most of the time they are threatening cease and decist orders or they are just intimidation letters/emails. Very rarely, especially to small companies like local ISPs, will a judge care enough to even see it.
Even though the court chose not to listen to it, this also opens up the possibility that they are responsible for the content flowing through it. However, would any person be isane enough to actually sue their ISP for "delivering" this content? Sure, it may mean it's possible, but the actual chances of this happening are microscopically low.
What would Napster do with this money? I would actually consider paying for it. But is it possible to Napster to track where each song is downloaded then pay the appropiate royalties to the artist? I can only imagine the type of cash flow going into Napster if this was ever reinstated. Also, this would fuel gnutella, as the previous slashdot article mentioned.