I remember our Mayor presided over the opening of a 25 year old time capsule put there by the local schools. Inside was a lazer disc. When he asked to view the contents of it, nobody could find a device to play it. Vint is right. And its not just a DRM thing, its a lack of standards thing too.
In the case of the time capsule you describe, it was a dork thing, not a lack of standards thing.
Whomever put the laser disk in the time capsule thought they were being all futuristic and stuff. They should have put a cassette in the capsule, or a vinyl LP. Or a message on fricking punched paper tape. Those were all common recognized standards 25 years ago. A Laser Disk was a 'woo-woo' futuristic bullshit thing. It didn't represent what things were like 25 years ago, it was just someone being stupid and buying hype about what would exist in the future.
I remember, before the Bruce Perens incident, when slashdot ID numbers were hidden.
It's sort of distasteful how it's become the opposite of what it was back then, something to show off about.
No, this isn't my first account, obviously. There are accounts lost to the ether in my past. Probably that's the case for a lot of other people here.
BTW, "Mae Ling Mak, Naked and Petrified", thought you're probably to young to remember. Before the newbs changed it to Natalie Portman (did Miss Mak sue or something?)
When you want to listen to Nas's Illmatic you don't think "I want to fire up Grooveshark so I can listen to Illmatic." You just think "I really want to listen to the one of the greatest rap albums of all time right now."'
Not me. I think "I think I'd better format that SD card, because it has one of the greatest rap albums of all time on it."
Is there a 'scope' to format my SD card?
Is there even provision for removable storage like an SD card??
They clearly need to push broadband out to that town you enjoy visiting. Probably it will diminish it's appeal as a place to visit when they do so, but progress.
It's for people who have a mediocre tech knowledge. They work for a company that produces RF devices, and they are one of the techs in the R&D lab, but they actually don't understand the difference between depletion and enhancement mode MOSFETs. That could matter sometimes, but instead they're the guy who started calling the new front end design 'the salamander' so they know enough 'in' lingo to get by.
So what you're saying is people don't need to understand a concept. They simply need to gather up enough data and hurl it at statistical methods until something good happens.
You were given a calculator far too early in life. That 'derivative' function on your calculator has stunted you.
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He is probably comparing a LD in a stainless steel shuttle or something like that, to a DVD in a jewel box.
In the case of the time capsule you describe, it was a dork thing, not a lack of standards thing.
Whomever put the laser disk in the time capsule thought they were being all futuristic and stuff. They should have put a cassette in the capsule, or a vinyl LP. Or a message on fricking punched paper tape. Those were all common recognized standards 25 years ago. A Laser Disk was a 'woo-woo' futuristic bullshit thing. It didn't represent what things were like 25 years ago, it was just someone being stupid and buying hype about what would exist in the future.
Let's not be apples-oranges.
Are there more charging points than gas pumps? And how long does a vehicle have to stay docked at said charging point, compared to time at a gas pump?
It's silly for electric vehicle advocates to put out disinformation. Don't they claim that's what the other side does?
Trotskyism/GNAA spam... it's all the same crap.
Buy a copy of the fucking Militant! Please!
Apple is offering crazy money to get folks to jump the other way, but not having anywhere near that kind of success.
Why would any tech person want to go to a marketing-department-run shithole like Apple?
I thought GM was killing Holden off this year or next. And throwing a 'bone' to the Holden dealers by allowing them to sell Corvettes in Oz.
Are you all excited and stuff? I've hated GM since they killed Saturn.
If you cant drive and focus on driving simply because they key pops out of the ignition, well you got bigger problems in life anyway
I think you meant to type 'the engine kills and power steering stops working. And the airbags become disabled.'
Obviously, my Kindle has a decryption tool. Otherwise I wouldn't be able to read the books on it.
So obviously only SOME decryption tools are outlawed.
That's something we can chip away at.
This is a VESA standards deal. Apple will shun it.
They seek to have their proprietary stuff adopted as 'standards' that they own.
So everybody is going to sing? Instead of just listening to recordings of a few people singing?
Why does anything at all have to change for that to happen?
So what are you going to do with your soap box?
I remember, before the Bruce Perens incident, when slashdot ID numbers were hidden.
It's sort of distasteful how it's become the opposite of what it was back then, something to show off about.
No, this isn't my first account, obviously. There are accounts lost to the ether in my past. Probably that's the case for a lot of other people here.
BTW, "Mae Ling Mak, Naked and Petrified", thought you're probably to young to remember. Before the newbs changed it to Natalie Portman (did Miss Mak sue or something?)
When you want to listen to Nas's Illmatic you don't think "I want to fire up Grooveshark so I can listen to Illmatic." You just think "I really want to listen to the one of the greatest rap albums of all time right now."'
Not me. I think "I think I'd better format that SD card, because it has one of the greatest rap albums of all time on it."
Is there a 'scope' to format my SD card?
Is there even provision for removable storage like an SD card??
It's Ubuntu. Wouldn't they be sending ASCII art images of themselves to others.
"Wait... just a sec... let me configure my termcap file..."
We demand Tux Racer.
They clearly need to push broadband out to that town you enjoy visiting. Probably it will diminish it's appeal as a place to visit when they do so, but progress.
Google is run and financed by admen.
It's for people who have a mediocre tech knowledge. They work for a company that produces RF devices, and they are one of the techs in the R&D lab, but they actually don't understand the difference between depletion and enhancement mode MOSFETs. That could matter sometimes, but instead they're the guy who started calling the new front end design 'the salamander' so they know enough 'in' lingo to get by.
"I've been working on the railroad
all the live long day.
I've been working on the railroad,
since they took my truck away."
I want more of those slopeheads on the freeway singing that song.
Noscript just served up a page with a big hole in it.
I think there's some prior art.
So what you're saying is people don't need to understand a concept. They simply need to gather up enough data and hurl it at statistical methods until something good happens.
You were given a calculator far too early in life. That 'derivative' function on your calculator has stunted you.
Web Design is the 'Telephone Sanitizing' of IT.
Isn't there a rocket to put them all on, with their 'design' corruption of a markup language?
Apple is cashing in their chips, but they don't have a hand.
McDonalds has better french fries than most of their competitors.
'World's Best' is a pretty hard standard in any category for anything.