Car companies learn a great deal from the design and manufacture of concept cars that DO make it into the design of production automobiles. The same can be said of race cars.
I agree, think of it this way, when the slashdotting goes down they are going to REALLY regret have a huge flash thingie. It STILL isn't as bad as flash intros though. Flash can be used to improve a website, but a flash intro can never be anything but wasted bandwidth on their part and time on my part.
Seriously I have wanted to do this since I first tried MAME, but MAME is continually evolving and I think will continue to push hardware limits. Since I don't have the money for a full-on gaming quality machine I have been giving serious thought to nabbing an old 100mhz pentium off of ebay and slapping a TV out video card (or heck, just hooking it to my TView VGA-2-NTSC convertor and making up a settop Stella player. Maybe up the power a little for a NES or (dare to dream SNES) emulator. I don't know why, but having grown up with Atari playing games on a PC monitor still just doesn't cut it, and playing console games on a monitor is just sick and wrong.:)
The problem I had with Kazaa is that they took out ads on Yahoo bragging on how you could download the latest Britney Spears and Eminem for free. That's not exactly the way to keep the powers that be off of your back. They're obviously centralized enough as an entity to organize an ad campaign and anyone stupid enough to advertise illegal activity deserves whatever happens to them.
I agree for the most part with the stereotype that honda drivers think stickers make you faster. I've always got near bone stock Honda driver thinking they can take me on. But the most annoying is the newer model camaro/firebird owners. You don't seem to fall into that category as you have done modifications to your car, still I can't go a week without some bone stock new camaro thinking he has something on my '71 Charger, '73 Roadrunner, or '70 911. Every single time they get humiliated, but camaro owner after camaro owner steps up to the plate. I think most camaro owners are buying the sticker makes cars faster hype and judging their ability on the fact that they can beat a honda with stickers.
I'm not a huge fan of punk, but I do agree there is more good commercial music from yesteryear than from today. Or rather that there is a larger range of music from yesteryear. In the 70's going to a rock concert could range from Lynyrd Skynryd to the Eagles to AC/DC. Quite a large range of music. Nowadays there seems to be only one subgenre of rock. Similar situation with pop from decades past and pop today.
Still there is alot of good music out of the mainstream. When I started taking up rockabilly piano I was able to find lots of new songs on MP3.com. With Jerry Lee Lewis selling out concerts at 70 some years of age I have no idea why some of these younger guys haven't been picked up and promoted by the record companies. That could be said of any genre. The fact that classic rock and oldies stations are still relatively popular is prove that the audience is there for more than the current subgenre of angry metal and bubblegum pop that we have to listen to. It's depressing to think that the next Carol King or Billy Joel is out there and we don't get to hear them because they aren't cute enough. Or the next Pete Townshend or Mick Jagger that we don't get to hear because they aren't angry enough. Personally I think the sex and drugs need to be put back into sex drugs and rock and roll. Maybe if these bands were getting laid and smoking some reefer they wouldn't be so freaking disgruntled all the time.:)
Hmm, a 23 year old female programmer... any chance of me making it into that blog? hehe. Just kidding, no need to send the jealous 500 lb boyfriend named Olaf my way!:)
I would certainly agree that if this were some type of patent-squatting attempt on Apple's part then they would be wrong for sure.
I also agree about the broad wording. I don't know why companies would so obviously phrase things to violate prior art and risk have legitimate infranctions of their patent thrown out of court because of it.
I agree that broad patents shouldn't get passed, but they do. That said, Apple CAN'T ban case mods. They would be VERY stupid to challenge such an obvious case of prior art in the court system as it would surely result in their patent being revoked.
"any hard drive in a transparent housing, with a led indicating seek or read, is covered by this patent"
It's not so much what is covered by the patent, as what Apple intends to enforce with it. Until I see what Apple has built that they are describing and whether or not they go after anything that can change color I don't see this as malicious a patent as say Amazon's 1-Click.
If, however, they have just built a case made out of a very large mood ring and start sueing mood ring manufacturers, then I'll have a problem with it.
If this has been said before feel free to mark it redundant, but wasn't Kazaa the one with the big banner ads on Yahoo! bragging how you could get the latest Britney and somebody else music for free so that they could profit from their spyware.
I agree the RIAA needs to either quit charging $18 for a CD or start putting more than one hit song on a CD, or both, but if somebody has to make money off of Britney Spears shouldn't it be her record label and not a bunch of spyware folk?
It does it to the recording that calls to remind me about doctors appointments as well. I'm not sure if it does it to real people, because generally when you hang up on a real person that don't even try to hold the line open but for so long. (And I don't usually just hang up on people, or pick the phone right back up if I do)
I DID hang up on the recording, but it didn't hang up on me. When I picked the phone back up to call the doctor the recording was still talking. You have to wait quite a while before the recording will break the connection. At least with my telephone company.
I'd say at least 60% of all telemarketing calls I get are hangups and it is very annoying. My friend recently called from korea and left a message on my voicemail, his phone number didn't show up on the caller ID so no I have to answer all the unavailables. Sheesh, is it annoying.
The worst is the pre-recorded unsolicited crap though, I had one of those come in right as I was about to call the doctor for an emeregency. Luckily it didn't turn out to be anything because the damn recording tied up my line so long I would have died before I got through.
You may be right. There are certainly lots of people out there who do things that I can't believe they would do because they are sick or wrong (or sick AND wrong).
Thing about spammers though is that they themselves have to get flooded with it, and I can say for sure that they don't like it. Nobody likes being on the receiving end of junk email. Therefore it seems logical to assume that they know they are doing something that annoys people.
As far as Hilary goes, I think you would have to be a fairly sick person to think it is your right to invade someone else's privacy.
Snail mailers are getting as unscrupulous (and stupid) as spammers too. I've noticed the more official and important a letter looks the more likely it is to be trash.
It would really surprise me if deep down any of them REALLY believed that defense for the reasons I stated. Kind of like deep down Hilary Rosen KNOWS that it's wrong to hack into private citizens computers for sake of corporate profit.
Yes, I'm sarcasm impaired and my life really was enriched by the knowledge that most women are unsatisfied in bed and the apparent popularity of pedophile bestiality.
You see it doesn't really matter if the parent poster believes what he said or not. My point was that spammers don't believe what he said either. Spammers KNOW that they are annoying people. They KNOW that nobody is interested in the type of tastless garbage that they hock. But guess what?, they don't care because they have $750,000 houses.
Luckily based on the moderation I can assume that at least MOST of the people understood the point I was trying to make and acknowledge that even sarcasm can be target of rebuttal.
"He spams because he has useful information to get out"
Really! I know I personally don't know how I ever lived without knowing that 66% of all women are unsatisfied with their lover penis size, or that the president of Nigeria is desperate to smuggle 10 million dollars out of his country, or that hot underage girls have sex with beasts! What wonderful people these spammers are!
"plus it's so easy to just delete an email"
As opposed to throwing a letter in a big empty can?
"it's a lot more work to sort through physical mail and throw it out."
Are you serious? This is absurd. You got get physical mail ONCE per day. When you expect alot of important emails like me you end up checking every new message that comes in. In the mornings there are usually about 20 emails for me to ciphter through, with another 30 or so coming in during the day. 90% of them are junk.
The worst thing about duplicate stories isn't the fact that we've read them before, it's having to read posts by users complaining about editors not checking for old stories, when they themselves didn't bother to check that hundreds of people before them have already yelled DUPE! Sheesh.
They're built all the time. They just aren't called hobbit holes. Underground houses have a whole slew of advantages over above ground houses. If you've ever had a basement and realized that it is almost always a perfectly comfortable temperature without any heating or air conditioning then you know one.
There are disadvantages as well, but it's certainly not merely a novelty concept.
But when a grown adult man daydreams about living in an underground wizard cave instead of about girls, money, and cars, I believe that there is a problem.
I think most grown men already have girls, money and cars. What you describe aren't really the dreams of grown men anymore than living in a hobbit hole. Besides some of us have done that whole "being a grown up" thing and are getting quite bored with it all.
If you want to dream that you are a hairy headed Mel Gibson why shouldn't this guy dream he is a hairy footed Elijah Wood? To each his own I say.
When Radio Shack was an electronics parts supplier and not a corporate whore? Remember when you could go into the store without immediately being intercepting by someone asking you if you wanted Sprint cell phone service, MSN internet access, Dish Network, etc.? How I miss those days.
It wouldn't bother me so much if they just sold those things, but they actively try to force them upon you half the time. It's very annoying.
The other annoying thing is that the employee always seems to think they know more than you. I could go into radio shack and tell them I need a certain resister for a bilinear transdimensional flux capaciter and I SWEAR they would try to convince me that I needed another one instead. As if someone with a degree in bilinear transdimensional physics would be working for minimum wage at Radio Shack! Umm..well you get the point.:)
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Car companies learn a great deal from the design and manufacture of concept cars that DO make it into the design of production automobiles. The same can be said of race cars.
I agree, think of it this way, when the slashdotting goes down they are going to REALLY regret have a huge flash thingie. It STILL isn't as bad as flash intros though. Flash can be used to improve a website, but a flash intro can never be anything but wasted bandwidth on their part and time on my part.
Seriously I have wanted to do this since I first tried MAME, but MAME is continually evolving and I think will continue to push hardware limits. Since I don't have the money for a full-on gaming quality machine I have been giving serious thought to nabbing an old 100mhz pentium off of ebay and slapping a TV out video card (or heck, just hooking it to my TView VGA-2-NTSC convertor and making up a settop Stella player. Maybe up the power a little for a NES or (dare to dream SNES) emulator. I don't know why, but having grown up with Atari playing games on a PC monitor still just doesn't cut it, and playing console games on a monitor is just sick and wrong. :)
The problem I had with Kazaa is that they took out ads on Yahoo bragging on how you could download the latest Britney Spears and Eminem for free. That's not exactly the way to keep the powers that be off of your back. They're obviously centralized enough as an entity to organize an ad campaign and anyone stupid enough to advertise illegal activity deserves whatever happens to them.
I agree for the most part with the stereotype that honda drivers think stickers make you faster. I've always got near bone stock Honda driver thinking they can take me on. But the most annoying is the newer model camaro/firebird owners. You don't seem to fall into that category as you have done modifications to your car, still I can't go a week without some bone stock new camaro thinking he has something on my '71 Charger, '73 Roadrunner, or '70 911. Every single time they get humiliated, but camaro owner after camaro owner steps up to the plate. I think most camaro owners are buying the sticker makes cars faster hype and judging their ability on the fact that they can beat a honda with stickers.
I'm not a huge fan of punk, but I do agree there is more good commercial music from yesteryear than from today. Or rather that there is a larger range of music from yesteryear. In the 70's going to a rock concert could range from Lynyrd Skynryd to the Eagles to AC/DC. Quite a large range of music. Nowadays there seems to be only one subgenre of rock. Similar situation with pop from decades past and pop today. Still there is alot of good music out of the mainstream. When I started taking up rockabilly piano I was able to find lots of new songs on MP3.com. With Jerry Lee Lewis selling out concerts at 70 some years of age I have no idea why some of these younger guys haven't been picked up and promoted by the record companies. That could be said of any genre. The fact that classic rock and oldies stations are still relatively popular is prove that the audience is there for more than the current subgenre of angry metal and bubblegum pop that we have to listen to. It's depressing to think that the next Carol King or Billy Joel is out there and we don't get to hear them because they aren't cute enough. Or the next Pete Townshend or Mick Jagger that we don't get to hear because they aren't angry enough. Personally I think the sex and drugs need to be put back into sex drugs and rock and roll. Maybe if these bands were getting laid and smoking some reefer they wouldn't be so freaking disgruntled all the time. :)
Hmm, a 23 year old female programmer... any chance of me making it into that blog? hehe. Just kidding, no need to send the jealous 500 lb boyfriend named Olaf my way! :)
I would certainly agree that if this were some type of patent-squatting attempt on Apple's part then they would be wrong for sure.
I also agree about the broad wording. I don't know why companies would so obviously phrase things to violate prior art and risk have legitimate infranctions of their patent thrown out of court because of it.
I agree that broad patents shouldn't get passed, but they do. That said, Apple CAN'T ban case mods. They would be VERY stupid to challenge such an obvious case of prior art in the court system as it would surely result in their patent being revoked.
It's not so much what is covered by the patent, as what Apple intends to enforce with it. Until I see what Apple has built that they are describing and whether or not they go after anything that can change color I don't see this as malicious a patent as say Amazon's 1-Click.
If, however, they have just built a case made out of a very large mood ring and start sueing mood ring manufacturers, then I'll have a problem with it.
If this has been said before feel free to mark it redundant, but wasn't Kazaa the one with the big banner ads on Yahoo! bragging how you could get the latest Britney and somebody else music for free so that they could profit from their spyware. I agree the RIAA needs to either quit charging $18 for a CD or start putting more than one hit song on a CD, or both, but if somebody has to make money off of Britney Spears shouldn't it be her record label and not a bunch of spyware folk?
Somebody on Slashdot modding down Wil Wheaton, yeah right! :) :)
You'll notice on the other hand I was sure to check the "no score +1 bonus" box.
It does it to the recording that calls to remind me about doctors appointments as well. I'm not sure if it does it to real people, because generally when you hang up on a real person that don't even try to hold the line open but for so long. (And I don't usually just hang up on people, or pick the phone right back up if I do)
I DID hang up on the recording, but it didn't hang up on me. When I picked the phone back up to call the doctor the recording was still talking. You have to wait quite a while before the recording will break the connection. At least with my telephone company.
I'd say at least 60% of all telemarketing calls I get are hangups and it is very annoying. My friend recently called from korea and left a message on my voicemail, his phone number didn't show up on the caller ID so no I have to answer all the unavailables. Sheesh, is it annoying. The worst is the pre-recorded unsolicited crap though, I had one of those come in right as I was about to call the doctor for an emeregency. Luckily it didn't turn out to be anything because the damn recording tied up my line so long I would have died before I got through.
You may be right. There are certainly lots of people out there who do things that I can't believe they would do because they are sick or wrong (or sick AND wrong). Thing about spammers though is that they themselves have to get flooded with it, and I can say for sure that they don't like it. Nobody likes being on the receiving end of junk email. Therefore it seems logical to assume that they know they are doing something that annoys people. As far as Hilary goes, I think you would have to be a fairly sick person to think it is your right to invade someone else's privacy.
Snail mailers are getting as unscrupulous (and stupid) as spammers too. I've noticed the more official and important a letter looks the more likely it is to be trash.
It would really surprise me if deep down any of them REALLY believed that defense for the reasons I stated. Kind of like deep down Hilary Rosen KNOWS that it's wrong to hack into private citizens computers for sake of corporate profit.
Yes, I'm sarcasm impaired and my life really was enriched by the knowledge that most women are unsatisfied in bed and the apparent popularity of pedophile bestiality.
You see it doesn't really matter if the parent poster believes what he said or not. My point was that spammers don't believe what he said either. Spammers KNOW that they are annoying people. They KNOW that nobody is interested in the type of tastless garbage that they hock. But guess what?, they don't care because they have $750,000 houses.
Luckily based on the moderation I can assume that at least MOST of the people understood the point I was trying to make and acknowledge that even sarcasm can be target of rebuttal.
Really! I know I personally don't know how I ever lived without knowing that 66% of all women are unsatisfied with their lover penis size, or that the president of Nigeria is desperate to smuggle 10 million dollars out of his country, or that hot underage girls have sex with beasts! What wonderful people these spammers are!
"plus it's so easy to just delete an email"
As opposed to throwing a letter in a big empty can?
"it's a lot more work to sort through physical mail and throw it out."
Are you serious? This is absurd. You got get physical mail ONCE per day. When you expect alot of important emails like me you end up checking every new message that comes in. In the mornings there are usually about 20 emails for me to ciphter through, with another 30 or so coming in during the day. 90% of them are junk.
The worst thing about duplicate stories isn't the fact that we've read them before, it's having to read posts by users complaining about editors not checking for old stories, when they themselves didn't bother to check that hundreds of people before them have already yelled DUPE! Sheesh.
They're built all the time. They just aren't called hobbit holes. Underground houses have a whole slew of advantages over above ground houses. If you've ever had a basement and realized that it is almost always a perfectly comfortable temperature without any heating or air conditioning then you know one. There are disadvantages as well, but it's certainly not merely a novelty concept.
I think most grown men already have girls, money and cars. What you describe aren't really the dreams of grown men anymore than living in a hobbit hole. Besides some of us have done that whole "being a grown up" thing and are getting quite bored with it all.
If you want to dream that you are a hairy headed Mel Gibson why shouldn't this guy dream he is a hairy footed Elijah Wood? To each his own I say.
When Radio Shack was an electronics parts supplier and not a corporate whore? Remember when you could go into the store without immediately being intercepting by someone asking you if you wanted Sprint cell phone service, MSN internet access, Dish Network, etc.? How I miss those days. :)
It wouldn't bother me so much if they just sold those things, but they actively try to force them upon you half the time. It's very annoying.
The other annoying thing is that the employee always seems to think they know more than you. I could go into radio shack and tell them I need a certain resister for a bilinear transdimensional flux capaciter and I SWEAR they would try to convince me that I needed another one instead. As if someone with a degree in bilinear transdimensional physics would be working for minimum wage at Radio Shack! Umm..well you get the point.
He's at 4 now. Maybe your good luck helped him! :)