This is a travesty - not for the gain or loss of two billionaire corporations...
Why does everyone keep repeating this incorrect statement? Just because the submitter thinks it's true, doesn't mean it is.
Folks, Apple Records, Apple Corp, whatever you want to call it, is NOT a billionaire corporation. Sir Paul McCartney is a billionaire, but it's not because of Apple Corp or the Beatles. He is a billionaire because he bought out song publishing companies years ago, which is where the real money is. The Lennon estate was worth $100 million at the time of John Lennon's death, most due to investments Yoko made. The late George Harrison's estate was probably worth less than $100 million at the time of his death and Ringo Starr is definitely worth less than that. If you have any knowledge of royalty rates in the industy, you will know that the Beatles simply can't be making the kind of money some of you attribute to them. In my opinion, the Beatles and their lackeys have seriously mismanaged their catalog and the failure to put out "new" product (yes, believe it or not, there are still things in the vaults that could be released officially for the first time, such as the White Album demo sessions) more than once every 5+ years have actually kept them from earning as much money as they could have earned. They release material so infrequently that it sells simply because of scarcity, not because of merit. The last offical release, the Let It Be... Naked album of a few years ago, wasn't all that well liked, but we fans bought it anyway. It reminds me of Eddie Murphy's old joke about giving a starving man a cracker. He's not going to refuse to eat because he wants something else, he's going to say "Man, that was the best cracker I ever ate!"
I don't think there is any realistic chance of the Beatles (Apple Corp) competing against Apple Computers. Apple Corp likes to sit back and get paid. They don't like to actually do something to get the money and setting up their music download store would require real work.
This is, by far, the most disgusting "coffee" drink I've ever had, and this come from someone who's been known to suck on plugs of grounds like chewing tobacco when there's no hot water around...
There's a reason for this. It's called aspartame . I bought a 4 pack of the Wolfgang Puck coffee when it came out last year. I had no problems with any of the cans, they all worked fine. However, it wasn't until I got home with my purchase that I looked at the ingredients list and saw aspartame as an ingredient. I don't know why so many beverage manufacturers refuse to accept the fact that the vast majority of consumers despise the taste of this artificial "sweetener".
There probably are a few sick individuals who actually like the taste, but I've talked to people who drank diet drinks regularly and almost all of them told me that they didn't like the taste of aspartame, but put up with it to get a reduced calorie beverage. I don't think the beverage industry has ever really understood that tolerate != like Besides, lattes are not meant to be diet drinks anyway. It seems to me to be contradictory to make a latte and then make it a diet drink.
I have no idea whether or not this scene was in the original version of the film, which I did see when it came out. It's been too long for me to remember stuff like that. I can say that the human mind has an amazing ability to remember things that never happened. I worked with 2 guys a few years who both swore they saw on TV an episode of _You Bet Your Life_ with Groucho Marx where supposedly the following conversation took place:
Groucho: Why do you have so many kids? (NOTE: the man is said to have had 9 kids or maybe more, depending on who tells the story.) Man: I love my wife. Groucho: Well, I love my cigar, but I take it out every now and then.
I read some of a biography of Groucho and the author looked into this. He said that it NEVER happened on the TV show, but a conversation somewhat similar did happen in the early 1950s on Groucho's radio version of the show, which predated the TV version by some years. Interestingly enough, the incident did NOT happen on broadcast, but happened while the show was on a commercial break. If you look on the Internet, this whole story has been debunked at various sites, yet I had 2 guys who were very vehement that they saw this. I told one of them that there was no evidence anywhere to support his story and lots of evidence that it never happened and he basically said "I still remember seeing it."
One of the guys used to tell stories about a couple of Soupy Sales shows he swears were broadcast nationally in the early 1960's that involved some jokes about 4 letter words. I did some research on the internet and these have been debunked, yet this guy swears he saw these episodes. Frankly, it makes no sense at all that this could even be true in that era of broadcast TV, but this guy was about ready to fight you if you suggested that it didn't really happen. Maybe you're right and it was in the film, but sometimes memory plays tricks on us.
What I'm curious about is if Art Buchwald didn't settle with Paramount, and these practices were exposed in court, would the studio not be guilty of tax evasion if the movie made way more than reported?
This is an excellent question and one that I have wondered about since the Buchwald vs. Paramount case that you mentioned. I'm American and if I have learned anything from living in this country, it's that the tax man will get his cut, by God, no matter what it takes. I'm sure we Americans here have all heard those horror stories of the IRS going after children to get money that their parents owe and so on. Hollywood must be paying what Uncle Sam thinks is his fair share or he would have cracked down on them a long time ago. I have wondered if there are 2 sets of books like in the old Al Capone gangster days. One relatively honest set used for income tax purposes and another set used to pretend that everything loses money.
While Hollywood is the worst offender, "Hollywood Accounting" has been used in other areas as well, most notably sports. Wayne Huizinga, who made a fortune from Blockbuster Video, owned the Florida Marlins baseball team and their stadium when they won the World Series in 1997. Huizinga claimed that the Marlins lost money hand over fist by claiming expenses on everything he could such as "rent" for the stadium, which he actually paid himself since he owned the stadium. He used these terrible "loses" as his justification for selling off all the good players on the team after their victory and turning the team into one of baseball's worst by the next season.
While I think that there is a small chance that Hollywood might one day drop DVD or ticket prices enough to try to put a dent in piracy, the RIAA and its foreign equivalents have made it clear that if they can't sell you a CD for $18-20 then they don't want your business. They would really rather sell 1 CD at those prices than 10 at $10 each, which says a lot about their view of the world.
Once I was hired, I discovered that most other people who wanted the job and wrote "UNIX" in their resumes would apparently come up against a brick wall rather hard if they didn't have the experience behind the ink.
You aren't kidding. I think it was about 6 or 7 years ago, my department was looking to hire a person to work mostly with desktop PCs and be a junior UNIX system admin. We weren't looking for really strong UNIX skills, just a desire to learn and some prior knowledge. We got a lot of resumes from various headhunters, all of which said the applicant had UNIX skills. We started bringing people in for interviews. I am pretty good at detecting b.s. and I quickly began to realize that the only thing most of these people knew about UNIX was how to spell it. I began to ask applicants the following question:
How would you delete a file on a UNIX system?
The majority of people interested in the job couldn't answer that "stumper". I don't think I have to tell Slashdotters that if you don't know how to delete a file under UNIX, you DON'T know UNIX! One of our recruiter partners began to screen applicants for us by asking this question and he didn't even bother to send us the resume if the person couldn't answer the question.
No, seriously, what aren't they thinking of using cell phones for these days, except maybe making reliable, clear, and simple phone calls?
This crap gets modded "interesting"? Give me a break. There are normal "call only" cell phones as the author himself realizes when he says:
no thanks on advice about how to get phones that are just phones -- been there, done that...
So what's your problem, dumbass? You admit that you know how to get phones that are just phones. Guess what? Some of us actually want phones that can do more. We're not making you buy them. Nor do we want you making us buy phones that are just phones. I have a Nokia with T-Mobile that is a smart phone and it is useful to me. I don't use all the features it has, but I do use many of the non-calling features. If you don't like them, don't buy them. You do have a choice. Let me lay something on you that you don't seem smart enough to understand - if the market really and truly just wanted "phones that are just phones", someone would be selling nothing but those. Although they are available, there aren't that many of them because, like or not, that's not what most people want. Here's my final bit of advice for you: you != most people
Oh - and anyone interested in hearing the grey album mentioned in the/. summary, a torrent. It is an amazing album.
That, sir, is a matter of opinion. While I appreciate the work involved and the samples were interesting, Jay Z is devoid of any talent at all. I once read "Jay Z never writes down his lyrics". Translation - "he makes crap up on the spot". It sounds like it. Here is a Jay Z-type rap lyric of my own:
Don't do the crime If you can't do the time Gotta get a lime At the 5 and dime
Listen to The Black Album and you will see that my "lyrics" are just as profound (ha ha ha) as the vast majority of his lyrics. His lyrics rhyme, yes, but do they make any sense? For the most part, no. Forced rhymes abound everywhere. I am absolutely amazed that some people consider this guy a genius when he is quite probably the most untalented rapper on the scene. This is all subjective so I am not saying that you are wrong in praising the album, I am just offering an alternative viewpoint.
It's not really much of a complaint at all. Just a tiny tiny one. Not worth wasting much time on. Unfortunately, the written word does not always convey the same content as spoken language, but the point I failed to make was that if all I can say bad about the software is that "it's too simple", that's not really much of a complaint at all. At least I listed a deficiency of sorts in my post, unlike the parent.
They might as well fire all of their Windows ports division as well, QuickTime/iTunes on Windows is a piece of cr*p.
I'm not an Apple fanboy, but it seems to me that it's rather easy to just toss out an "iTunes is crap" type comment with no explanation at all. What exactly do you find deficient? Do you feel that QuickTime and iTunes work better or have functionality missing in the Windows version? My biggest complaint about them both is that they are too simple and have been dumbed down too much. Sometimes I have problems doing very simple functions on both because I assume incorrectly that sure you have do more than step X to make it work because that's how most other software works, but I have always been able to figure out how to do what I wanted even if it took a few tries because I wasn't looking for the simplest way possible. That is part of what has made Apple so successful - any idiot can figure out how to do what he wants with their software and hardware.
Heck, Blu-Ray discs from Sony (at least at first) will let you have full res video over analog connections, have any HD-DVD studios followed suit?
Yes they have on discs already released such as Serenity although there are no guarantees to continue to do so forever. Failure to do so would have had extremely negative consequences as those with older HDTVs that only have the analog connections would never consider supporting the form had that happened. However, the studios would prefer not to allow this because it somehow will "lead to piracy", so it is possible that a few years from now they may not support full res video on analog connections any more when they assume that the majority of HDTV owners have HDMI connectors and the studios think they can afford to screw over the owners of older HDTV sets.
You are, of course, correct, but it has always been like this. Emin Sirer's report strikes me as either: 1) Chicken Little - "The sky is falling! The sky is falling!" or 2) A graduate student who needed something to write a paper about.
What's next? A hysterical report about how (gasp!) a root server could be compromised and we'd all be hosed? Duh! Talk about stating the obvious.
If you buy this multimedia computer (AKA not a phone) will it be able to run this software (as you would assume since its bundled)? Alas, apparently this does not replace your other computer that requires at least 4 GB of disk space. I suppose if someone figured out how to run DirectX 9 on this multimedia computer...
Is this a troll? It should be obvious that you will have to run this software on your PC, not the phone. Sheesh! Nowhere does Nokia say that this software will run on the phone. If you actually think that someone would want to edit video on such a tiny screen, assuming that it was even possible to run the software on the phone, you have obviously never worked with video editing software before.
T-Mobile already does what you want. Why don't people like you freakin' STOP BUYING VERIZON PRODUCTS AND SERVICES and look at other companies instead of just assuming that everyone in the industry screws over their customers as badly as Verizon does?
If there was a government mandated network standard, I can promise you it would be like everything else in the US - it would be a standard that no one else in the world would support and would be technologically inferior because the businesses would cry "It would cost too much to do something better". No thanks, I'm grateful that there isn't a standard.
If you would just join the GSM world and stop worrying about CDMA providers and their crap, life would be a lot better for you.
I'm not a web professional, but I've been given the job of designing a small website for my employers, and IE's crappy CSS support has caused me a world of hurt.I was going to ask whether anything has been done about fixing it, but an earlier post regarding the Acid 2 test has pretty much answered that. (It's a wish list? Well, yeah, but if Konqueror and Safari can grant those wishes, why not IE?)
Haven't you learned? Microsoft doesn't support standards, it writes them. That way, whatever broken stuff their software does, it is "standards compliant". Referring to Acid2 as a "wish list" as the previous post you mentioned said says everything you need to know about Microsoft's plans. For what it's worth, Firefox can't correctly render the Acid2 test page either.
Muslims, Jews, and Christians all worship the same god. We slit eachother's throats because we don't worship the same god in the same way.
The usual Slashdot anti-religious bigotry rears its ugly head again, but I do give you mad props for at least not blaming everything on Christians. Since the end of WWII, I am not aware of any Jewish vs. Christian warring. Do you see which of the 3 groups I haven't mentioned, which group coincidentally DOES engage in throat slashing?
The prices are due to the public's willingness to pay $250 to see Madonna. The public is either stupid are has more money than sense. None of it has anything to do with P2P. If the public refused to pay $250 by simply not going to any of her shows, you'd see her tickets going for $50 in no time.
I think this is pretty astute. My best friend continues to pay whatever it costs to go to concerts by his favorite artists. He bitched big time about paying over a hundred dollars a ticket for 2 tickets to see Paul McCartney, but he went anyway on McCartney's last US tour. All the people I ever really wanted to see in concert I've managed to see already and I'm at a point in my life where it's just not worth $100 to me to see anybody in concert.
With regards to Madonna, she has always priced her tickets on the upper end or beyond what the market was asking for. I remember on her first US tour back around 1984 or so and I remember being shocked at how "high" (at the time) her tickets were. She was asking for more than, for example, U2 were getting and they were a big, established band that was easily selling out arenas. Madonna had had 2 albums at the time and frankly, nobody realy knew if she was going to be a flash in the pan or not. I thought it was pretty gutsy of her to charge more than her well established peers were getting for touring. Even worse, Madonna's concert clocked in at about 70 minutes at the time due to her only have 2 albums out, so you not only paid more but you also got less for the money.
Indeed. I have a friend who used to buy Dells and he swore to me he would never do so again after dealing with "Sanjay" and company at Dell support. I know other people who feel that the quality has gone down with Dell's products and they also aren't looking to buy them again.
Dell is so far in bed with Intel that I don't think anything will make them ever offer AMD as an option. It's about as likely as Microsoft offering their own version of Linux.
I think most people aren't technically savvy enough or too lazy to bother searching for ways to beat the system
You're dead on here. I've read articles on the BBC about how many Chinese people actually support censorship. They, not the government, put pressure on local newcasts to only report "happy news". Many Chinese people view the restrictions as helpful in weeding out unwelcome "foreign influence".
While it might come as a big surprise to Slashdotters, I suspect that the majority of Chinese people know that they are being censored and they really don't care. They are more interested in buying apartments to live in and saving up for more consumer goods than worrying about whether or not they can search for anything under the sun. I also suspect that most Chinese people would be very surprised to learn that many in the west view them as living under a repressive government. I have no doubt that the majority of Chinese people would not make such an assessment themselves.
Just because you're paranoid, that doesn't mean that no one is watching you...
Seriously, you might want to take a chill pill, ritalin, or whatever you use to calm down. I used to work for the US government and I can tell you that they are so far in bed with Microsoft that they aren't going to support ODF at all unless Microsoft does. Microsoft's usual "embrace and extend" strategy won't work with ODF, so they are trying to ignore it for the most part. If I was you, I'd stop worrying about whether ODF might be used to make evil governments more effective or you're just going to be another OCD nut job. I'm sure that #1 on your list of evil governments is the USA government and you seem to have overlooked the fact that they are Microsoft's biggest supporter. I have lost count of how many times some US administration lackey has bitched to China, Russia, etc. about software piracy on behalf of Microsoft. Are you offering to give up Windows? Didn't think so. Windows, not ODF, is what the US government runs. Frankly, supporting an open document format is contrary to how I saw the government operate when I worked for them. It would be much likely for them to support a format that quickly becomes obsolete and then the documents become impossible to open.
Frankly, I'm starting to think maybe your post should be modded as "troll". I may be giving you more credit than you deserve for thinking that you can't really believe the stuff you posted.
Standard bank transfer? Oh, right, that's crippled and uncommon in the USA.
My American bank charges $25 per transfer to do this, dumbass. It's not crippled and uncommon, it's expensive . That's why people don't do bank transfers in the USA.
Romulan Ale is for lightweights. Real men drink Klingon Blookwine.
No, real men drink Klingon Bloodwine. That knock you hear at your door is the Geek Police. You have failed an elementary Star Trek knowledge test and are legally required to surrender your Geek Card.
Based on past experience neither organization really knows what it is doing. All they seem to do anymore is try to make the numbers for the next quarter so the stock holders and pundits are pleased so the stock price goes up. Which is the real problem with the entire industry, they are not able to look much further than 3 months down the road to the next analyst meeting.
This is a pretty astute post. Some analysts have called the proposed AT&T/Bell South merger as "a merger out of weakness". Others have said that this is why they are trying desperately to make Google, Amazon, etc. pay more for "using their pipes". They have run out of real ways to make money and are trying anything they can to get new revenue.
The bigger concern here is what will the laws say about my ripping the forced commercials out? Given the industry's history in developing copy protection schemes, this will likely be a trivial matter. Now, it's perfectly legal for me to do this with the OTA signal - will the DMCA be invoked against people who do this with the downloads?
Although the details are missing, almost certainly the shows will be good ol' Windows Media with DRM to prevent this very thing from happening. Yes, I would fully expect that should someone find a way to beat the DRM and make commercial free copies available that the long arm of the law will come after them.
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This is a travesty - not for the gain or loss of two billionaire corporations ...
... Naked album of a few years ago, wasn't all that well liked, but we fans bought it anyway. It reminds me of Eddie Murphy's old joke about giving a starving man a cracker. He's not going to refuse to eat because he wants something else, he's going to say "Man, that was the best cracker I ever ate!"
Why does everyone keep repeating this incorrect statement? Just because the submitter thinks it's true, doesn't mean it is.
Folks, Apple Records, Apple Corp, whatever you want to call it, is NOT a billionaire corporation. Sir Paul McCartney is a billionaire, but it's not because of Apple Corp or the Beatles. He is a billionaire because he bought out song publishing companies years ago, which is where the real money is. The Lennon estate was worth $100 million at the time of John Lennon's death, most due to investments Yoko made. The late George Harrison's estate was probably worth less than $100 million at the time of his death and Ringo Starr is definitely worth less than that. If you have any knowledge of royalty rates in the industy, you will know that the Beatles simply can't be making the kind of money some of you attribute to them. In my opinion, the Beatles and their lackeys have seriously mismanaged their catalog and the failure to put out "new" product (yes, believe it or not, there are still things in the vaults that could be released officially for the first time, such as the White Album demo sessions) more than once every 5+ years have actually kept them from earning as much money as they could have earned. They release material so infrequently that it sells simply because of scarcity, not because of merit. The last offical release, the Let It Be
I don't think there is any realistic chance of the Beatles (Apple Corp) competing against Apple Computers. Apple Corp likes to sit back and get paid. They don't like to actually do something to get the money and setting up their music download store would require real work.
This is, by far, the most disgusting "coffee" drink I've ever had, and this come from someone who's been known to suck on plugs of grounds like chewing tobacco when there's no hot water around...
There's a reason for this. It's called aspartame . I bought a 4 pack of the Wolfgang Puck coffee when it came out last year. I had no problems with any of the cans, they all worked fine. However, it wasn't until I got home with my purchase that I looked at the ingredients list and saw aspartame as an ingredient. I don't know why so many beverage manufacturers refuse to accept the fact that the vast majority of consumers despise the taste of this artificial "sweetener".
There probably are a few sick individuals who actually like the taste, but I've talked to people who drank diet drinks regularly and almost all of them told me that they didn't like the taste of aspartame, but put up with it to get a reduced calorie beverage. I don't think the beverage industry has ever really understood that
tolerate != like
Besides, lattes are not meant to be diet drinks anyway. It seems to me to be contradictory to make a latte and then make it a diet drink.
I have no idea whether or not this scene was in the original version of the film, which I did see when it came out. It's been too long for me to remember stuff like that. I can say that the human mind has an amazing ability to remember things that never happened. I worked with 2 guys a few years who both swore they saw on TV an episode of _You Bet Your Life_ with Groucho Marx where supposedly the following conversation took place:
Groucho: Why do you have so many kids? (NOTE: the man is said to have had 9 kids or maybe more, depending on who tells the story.)
Man: I love my wife.
Groucho: Well, I love my cigar, but I take it out every now and then.
I read some of a biography of Groucho and the author looked into this. He said that it NEVER happened on the TV show, but a conversation somewhat similar did happen in the early 1950s on Groucho's radio version of the show, which predated the TV version by some years. Interestingly enough, the incident did NOT happen on broadcast, but happened while the show was on a commercial break. If you look on the Internet, this whole story has been debunked at various sites, yet I had 2 guys who were very vehement that they saw this. I told one of them that there was no evidence anywhere to support his story and lots of evidence that it never happened and he basically said "I still remember seeing it."
One of the guys used to tell stories about a couple of Soupy Sales shows he swears were broadcast nationally in the early 1960's that involved some jokes about 4 letter words. I did some research on the internet and these have been debunked, yet this guy swears he saw these episodes. Frankly, it makes no sense at all that this could even be true in that era of broadcast TV, but this guy was about ready to fight you if you suggested that it didn't really happen. Maybe you're right and it was in the film, but sometimes memory plays tricks on us.
What I'm curious about is if Art Buchwald didn't settle with Paramount, and these practices were exposed in court, would the studio not be guilty of tax evasion if the movie made way more than reported?
This is an excellent question and one that I have wondered about since the Buchwald vs. Paramount case that you mentioned. I'm American and if I have learned anything from living in this country, it's that the tax man will get his cut, by God, no matter what it takes. I'm sure we Americans here have all heard those horror stories of the IRS going after children to get money that their parents owe and so on. Hollywood must be paying what Uncle Sam thinks is his fair share or he would have cracked down on them a long time ago. I have wondered if there are 2 sets of books like in the old Al Capone gangster days. One relatively honest set used for income tax purposes and another set used to pretend that everything loses money.
While Hollywood is the worst offender, "Hollywood Accounting" has been used in other areas as well, most notably sports. Wayne Huizinga, who made a fortune from Blockbuster Video, owned the Florida Marlins baseball team and their stadium when they won the World Series in 1997. Huizinga claimed that the Marlins lost money hand over fist by claiming expenses on everything he could such as "rent" for the stadium, which he actually paid himself since he owned the stadium. He used these terrible "loses" as his justification for selling off all the good players on the team after their victory and turning the team into one of baseball's worst by the next season.
While I think that there is a small chance that Hollywood might one day drop DVD or ticket prices enough to try to put a dent in piracy, the RIAA and its foreign equivalents have made it clear that if they can't sell you a CD for $18-20 then they don't want your business. They would really rather sell 1 CD at those prices than 10 at $10 each, which says a lot about their view of the world.
Once I was hired, I discovered that most other people who wanted the job and wrote "UNIX" in their resumes would apparently come up against a brick wall rather hard if they didn't have the experience behind the ink.
You aren't kidding. I think it was about 6 or 7 years ago, my department was looking to hire a person to work mostly with desktop PCs and be a junior UNIX system admin. We weren't looking for really strong UNIX skills, just a desire to learn and some prior knowledge. We got a lot of resumes from various headhunters, all of which said the applicant had UNIX skills. We started bringing people in for interviews. I am pretty good at detecting b.s. and I quickly began to realize that the only thing most of these people knew about UNIX was how to spell it. I began to ask applicants the following question:
How would you delete a file on a UNIX system?
The majority of people interested in the job couldn't answer that "stumper". I don't think I have to tell Slashdotters that if you don't know how to delete a file under UNIX, you DON'T know UNIX! One of our recruiter partners began to screen applicants for us by asking this question and he didn't even bother to send us the resume if the person couldn't answer the question.
No, seriously, what aren't they thinking of using cell phones for these days, except maybe making reliable, clear, and simple phone calls?
This crap gets modded "interesting"? Give me a break. There are normal "call only" cell phones as the author himself realizes when he says:
no thanks on advice about how to get phones that are just phones -- been there, done that...
So what's your problem, dumbass? You admit that you know how to get phones that are just phones. Guess what? Some of us actually want phones that can do more. We're not making you buy them. Nor do we want you making us buy phones that are just phones. I have a Nokia with T-Mobile that is a smart phone and it is useful to me. I don't use all the features it has, but I do use many of the non-calling features. If you don't like them, don't buy them. You do have a choice. Let me lay something on you that you don't seem smart enough to understand - if the market really and truly just wanted "phones that are just phones", someone would be selling nothing but those. Although they are available, there aren't that many of them because, like or not, that's not what most people want. Here's my final bit of advice for you:
you != most people
Oh - and anyone interested in hearing the grey album mentioned in the /. summary, a torrent. It is an amazing album.
That, sir, is a matter of opinion. While I appreciate the work involved and the samples were interesting, Jay Z is devoid of any talent at all. I once read "Jay Z never writes down his lyrics". Translation - "he makes crap up on the spot". It sounds like it. Here is a Jay Z-type rap lyric of my own:
Don't do the crime
If you can't do the time
Gotta get a lime
At the 5 and dime
Listen to The Black Album and you will see that my "lyrics" are just as profound (ha ha ha) as the vast majority of his lyrics. His lyrics rhyme, yes, but do they make any sense? For the most part, no. Forced rhymes abound everywhere. I am absolutely amazed that some people consider this guy a genius when he is quite probably the most untalented rapper on the scene. This is all subjective so I am not saying that you are wrong in praising the album, I am just offering an alternative viewpoint.
Ok, how exactly is this a complaint?
It's not really much of a complaint at all. Just a tiny tiny one. Not worth wasting much time on. Unfortunately, the written word does not always convey the same content as spoken language, but the point I failed to make was that if all I can say bad about the software is that "it's too simple", that's not really much of a complaint at all. At least I listed a deficiency of sorts in my post, unlike the parent.
They might as well fire all of their Windows ports division as well, QuickTime/iTunes on Windows is a piece of cr*p.
I'm not an Apple fanboy, but it seems to me that it's rather easy to just toss out an "iTunes is crap" type comment with no explanation at all. What exactly do you find deficient? Do you feel that QuickTime and iTunes work better or have functionality missing in the Windows version? My biggest complaint about them both is that they are too simple and have been dumbed down too much. Sometimes I have problems doing very simple functions on both because I assume incorrectly that sure you have do more than step X to make it work because that's how most other software works, but I have always been able to figure out how to do what I wanted even if it took a few tries because I wasn't looking for the simplest way possible. That is part of what has made Apple so successful - any idiot can figure out how to do what he wants with their software and hardware.
Heck, Blu-Ray discs from Sony (at least at first) will let you have full res video over analog connections, have any HD-DVD studios followed suit?
Yes they have on discs already released such as Serenity although there are no guarantees to continue to do so forever. Failure to do so would have had extremely negative consequences as those with older HDTVs that only have the analog connections would never consider supporting the form had that happened. However, the studios would prefer not to allow this because it somehow will "lead to piracy", so it is possible that a few years from now they may not support full res video on analog connections any more when they assume that the majority of HDTV owners have HDMI connectors and the studios think they can afford to screw over the owners of older HDTV sets.
It's all a big pyramid.
You are, of course, correct, but it has always been like this. Emin Sirer's report strikes me as either:
1) Chicken Little - "The sky is falling! The sky is falling!"
or
2) A graduate student who needed something to write a paper about.
What's next? A hysterical report about how (gasp!) a root server could be compromised and we'd all be hosed? Duh! Talk about stating the obvious.
If you buy this multimedia computer (AKA not a phone) will it be able to run this software (as you would assume since its bundled)? Alas, apparently this does not replace your other computer that requires at least 4 GB of disk space. I suppose if someone figured out how to run DirectX 9 on this multimedia computer...
Is this a troll? It should be obvious that you will have to run this software on your PC, not the phone. Sheesh! Nowhere does Nokia say that this software will run on the phone. If you actually think that someone would want to edit video on such a tiny screen, assuming that it was even possible to run the software on the phone, you have obviously never worked with video editing software before.
T-Mobile already does what you want. Why don't people like you freakin' STOP BUYING VERIZON PRODUCTS AND SERVICES and look at other companies instead of just assuming that everyone in the industry screws over their customers as badly as Verizon does?
If there was a government mandated network standard, I can promise you it would be like everything else in the US - it would be a standard that no one else in the world would support and would be technologically inferior because the businesses would cry "It would cost too much to do something better". No thanks, I'm grateful that there isn't a standard.
If you would just join the GSM world and stop worrying about CDMA providers and their crap, life would be a lot better for you.
it's of the necessitary to resist the Permanent Career Implant Chip. I thank our friends in Wisconsin for leading the way!
I'm not a web professional, but I've been given the job of designing a small website for my employers, and IE's crappy CSS support has caused me a world of hurt.I was going to ask whether anything has been done about fixing it, but an earlier post regarding the Acid 2 test has pretty much answered that. (It's a wish list? Well, yeah, but if Konqueror and Safari can grant those wishes, why not IE?)
Haven't you learned? Microsoft doesn't support standards, it writes them. That way, whatever broken stuff their software does, it is "standards compliant". Referring to Acid2 as a "wish list" as the previous post you mentioned said says everything you need to know about Microsoft's plans. For what it's worth, Firefox can't correctly render the Acid2 test page either.
While this was a useful post, the following statement:
I have found that most users can remember these kinds of passwords.
is enough to warrant modding this article as "funny".
Muslims, Jews, and Christians all worship the same god. We slit eachother's throats because we don't worship the same god in the same way.
The usual Slashdot anti-religious bigotry rears its ugly head again, but I do give you mad props for at least not blaming everything on Christians. Since the end of WWII, I am not aware of any Jewish vs. Christian warring. Do you see which of the 3 groups I haven't mentioned, which group coincidentally DOES engage in throat slashing?
The prices are due to the public's willingness to pay $250 to see Madonna. The public is either stupid are has more money than sense. None of it has anything to do with P2P. If the public refused to pay $250 by simply not going to any of her shows, you'd see her tickets going for $50 in no time.
I think this is pretty astute. My best friend continues to pay whatever it costs to go to concerts by his favorite artists. He bitched big time about paying over a hundred dollars a ticket for 2 tickets to see Paul McCartney, but he went anyway on McCartney's last US tour. All the people I ever really wanted to see in concert I've managed to see already and I'm at a point in my life where it's just not worth $100 to me to see anybody in concert.
With regards to Madonna, she has always priced her tickets on the upper end or beyond what the market was asking for. I remember on her first US tour back around 1984 or so and I remember being shocked at how "high" (at the time) her tickets were. She was asking for more than, for example, U2 were getting and they were a big, established band that was easily selling out arenas. Madonna had had 2 albums at the time and frankly, nobody realy knew if she was going to be a flash in the pan or not. I thought it was pretty gutsy of her to charge more than her well established peers were getting for touring. Even worse, Madonna's concert clocked in at about 70 minutes at the time due to her only have 2 albums out, so you not only paid more but you also got less for the money.
Indeed. I have a friend who used to buy Dells and he swore to me he would never do so again after dealing with "Sanjay" and company at Dell support. I know other people who feel that the quality has gone down with Dell's products and they also aren't looking to buy them again.
Dell is so far in bed with Intel that I don't think anything will make them ever offer AMD as an option. It's about as likely as Microsoft offering their own version of Linux.
I think most people aren't technically savvy enough or too lazy to bother searching for ways to beat the system
You're dead on here. I've read articles on the BBC about how many Chinese people actually support censorship. They, not the government, put pressure on local newcasts to only report "happy news". Many Chinese people view the restrictions as helpful in weeding out unwelcome "foreign influence".
While it might come as a big surprise to Slashdotters, I suspect that the majority of Chinese people know that they are being censored and they really don't care. They are more interested in buying apartments to live in and saving up for more consumer goods than worrying about whether or not they can search for anything under the sun. I also suspect that most Chinese people would be very surprised to learn that many in the west view them as living under a repressive government. I have no doubt that the majority of Chinese people would not make such an assessment themselves.
Just because you're paranoid, that doesn't mean that no one is watching you...
Seriously, you might want to take a chill pill, ritalin, or whatever you use to calm down. I used to work for the US government and I can tell you that they are so far in bed with Microsoft that they aren't going to support ODF at all unless Microsoft does. Microsoft's usual "embrace and extend" strategy won't work with ODF, so they are trying to ignore it for the most part. If I was you, I'd stop worrying about whether ODF might be used to make evil governments more effective or you're just going to be another OCD nut job. I'm sure that #1 on your list of evil governments is the USA government and you seem to have overlooked the fact that they are Microsoft's biggest supporter. I have lost count of how many times some US administration lackey has bitched to China, Russia, etc. about software piracy on behalf of Microsoft. Are you offering to give up Windows? Didn't think so. Windows, not ODF, is what the US government runs. Frankly, supporting an open document format is contrary to how I saw the government operate when I worked for them. It would be much likely for them to support a format that quickly becomes obsolete and then the documents become impossible to open.
Frankly, I'm starting to think maybe your post should be modded as "troll". I may be giving you more credit than you deserve for thinking that you can't really believe the stuff you posted.
Standard bank transfer? Oh, right, that's crippled and uncommon in the USA.
My American bank charges $25 per transfer to do this, dumbass. It's not crippled and uncommon, it's expensive . That's why people don't do bank transfers in the USA.
Romulan Ale is for lightweights. Real men drink Klingon Blookwine.
No, real men drink Klingon Bloodwine. That knock you hear at your door is the Geek Police. You have failed an elementary Star Trek knowledge test and are legally required to surrender your Geek Card.
Based on past experience neither organization really knows what it is doing. All they seem to do anymore is try to make the numbers for the next quarter so the stock holders and pundits are pleased so the stock price goes up. Which is the real problem with the entire industry, they are not able to look much further than 3 months down the road to the next analyst meeting.
This is a pretty astute post. Some analysts have called the proposed AT&T/Bell South merger as "a merger out of weakness". Others have said that this is why they are trying desperately to make Google, Amazon, etc. pay more for "using their pipes". They have run out of real ways to make money and are trying anything they can to get new revenue.
The bigger concern here is what will the laws say about my ripping the forced commercials out? Given the industry's history in developing copy protection schemes, this will likely be a trivial matter. Now, it's perfectly legal for me to do this with the OTA signal - will the DMCA be invoked against people who do this with the downloads?
Although the details are missing, almost certainly the shows will be good ol' Windows Media with DRM to prevent this very thing from happening. Yes, I would fully expect that should someone find a way to beat the DRM and make commercial free copies available that the long arm of the law will come after them.