Meet the Fockers, and some crap with J Lo in it over and over again, all the CGI laden movies, with huge acting names in them.. tend to be really flat movies. They have no feeling, no passion, crap stories, crap dialogoue.
But ooh ooh.. look! Explosions! zomg. that's so cool.
Why the hell should I be ashamed that I like spectacular explosions and CGI? If you have your prejudice you can keep it all to yourself. I prefer enjoying both the cheap indie movies and the CGI eye candy in Hollywood blockbusters.
There are turds and marvels in both areas. You're not going to actually tell me that all indie movies are great, are you? A lot of them are incomprehensible abstract mess, no redeeming qualities at all, not even a decent explosion.
I can't wait until they realize that it's not worth it, and just stop concerning themselves with copy-protecting their media and instead focus on creating good movies.
Let's keep things straight:
writers/directors/actors focus on creating good movies; movie distribution/marketing companies focus on wasting money on copy protecting their media. hackers concentrate ruining the cop protection efforts; the general consumer looks at the easier way to get their movie, be it rental/torrent/buy DVD/p2p: whatever seems better value.
I guess we have some people from the last century visiting us...
----------- 1. it is small enough to be always handy (keep it in your laptop bag, next to your puter, etc)
I have to agree. I saw some experimental graphical interfaces on TV yesterday, and it looks really promising, Not only you get to work visually, but you get to lay out your screen space as you want (for example, place shortcuts to needed references on your "task bar" they call it). And the best thing is: you can run multiple apps at once! But.. with my DOS, it's too much hassle to exit my text editor and open some shitty computer book reference all the time.
Of course it looks like quite the waste of resources: I mean, displaying loads of text in graphic mode. Why the effort when we have 80x25 text mode supported natively.
Actually I experimented with those "hot key" resident programs, which you can use to interrupt and existing program, but I'm getting out of RAM (512kb) pretty soon as I try to put more things at my fingertips. Maybe once I upgrade to 1 MB it'll be better (though I can only use 640kb of it). Additionally, with a 20MB disk I'm already running out of space to store everything I need, let alone an entire book worth of text.
----------- 2. since all it has are concise explanations - you'll spend less time wallowing in stuff you don't care about (when you want is something concise)
3. it is formatted specifically for quick syntax & example checks, rather than for general purpose documentation
Yup, looking up larger manuals on a computer is very slow, much slower than manually browsing a book. There are those new 286 processors, but they are quite expensive yet, so I'll have to churn with my trusty 4MHz 8086 for now.
----------- 4. there are benefits to books - you can easily add comments to them, you more (sometimes) more easily scan for information, etc, etc.
Ok you have a point here. It's very easy to add comments to books. I wish there was something like a common shared via network online MySQL manual, and it had a comments section on each page, consider the possibilities!
They could call it something like "User Comments", and you'd never run out of space, and even be able to read wise tips from other users.
But alas, it's 1985 and the Internet isn't even around the corner yet. So a book next to our IBM XT is our best option.
When caught making a mistake, they admit it, work to resolve it, and move on? I think there are a few other companies who could learn from that approach...
What a great approach indeed! Steal, and if caught, deny it a little, then cover it up.
Actually I think Google learned that from someone else's company, or is Google "innovating" here? A debate for the coming generations.
Re:A bit of perspective
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Let's put this in perspective. Not all of these buyers were American, and many of them have probably owned more than one iPod, but the population of the United States is slightly over 300 million. And Apple has apparently sold 100 million.
A bit of perspective coming your way too. Not all of those 300 million own any music player. A sizable chunk of them are kids below 4, or old people living in remote villages that have never worked on a computer, let alone know how to work with a digital music player.
So what was your point anyway.
It doesn't matter how many were replaced.
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The statistic is about "sold", so even if I replace my iPod every day, I put money out of my pocket and buy a new iPod.
Apple profits from selling the hardware, not from the active userbase, in fact, they benefit from smaller userbase (less loss/load on iTunes) that refreshes its hardware often.
Even if it was one single crazy guy, who bought 100 million iPods, Apple doesn't give a damn.
How on earth, in year 2007, is a book the quickest reference to anything. MySQL provides both instant manual lookup online, and indexed searchable CHM help manual reference.
Meanwhile the rest of us keep our eyes open for suv4x4 blindly driving over us while trying to park his slow-ass little truck in the suburbs.
Anonymous cowards shouldn't be afraid of suv-s. They are outside, where cowards are afraid to go, in fear someone will see them, and de-anonymize them.
It's Saturday morning 10 am I just woke up and started making breakfast. I know I am dyslexic but WTF I tried to read this post 3 times after reading the whole article linked to the topic. I still can't understand what this guy typed. Did you learn to type from Mr. Miyagi "CAPS ON. caps off"
It's hard to transmit the accents Steve Jobs puts in his speeches, in written form, you know:P Gimme a break.
What should've I done? Attach a score above the text, with pitch and velocity?
Namely, me. If they get music players, I demand that I be upgraded to an opteron at tax payers expense.
You clearly aren't after the BEST. Why have run-of-the-mill Opteron? They have just couple of cores. Nowadays, couple of cores is like a pocket calculator. Especially to Ruby on Rails.
You don't have money for THE BEST? Then you have even less money for THE WORST, so THIS EIGHT CORE MAC PRO is the PERFECT machine for this, or any, purpose. It's created ESPECIALLY FOR HOLDING SOURCE CODE, by our top engineers.
You don't just want it, you NEED IT. Treat yourself eight cores, and do it NOW, as next year we're releasing the 16 core Mac Pro and this one will be like a pocket calculator to it.
First of all, the taxes aren't just to pay for the music players, they are for a number of measures.
To successfully fund all these measures via taxing sat TV and soda, a new TV spot was created with a tagline "Be a patriot: drink soda and watch sat TV".
The budget for this TV spot will be funded from the income from sat TV and soda taxes as well. This way it makes sense.
"The iPods that will be given away are iPod Shuffle, a light music player that shuffles the songs and plays them randomly", explained a spokesman for the House of Representatives.
"We'll intermix the lectures with the latest pop and hip-hop singles, and the kids will have to put up with listening to lectures randomly so they can play they favorite music. We think it'll be a smashing success.".
This is a horrible idea. Seriously, how about spending the millions of dollars on teachers?
You could spend the money on teachers, but will this give your kids THE BEST MUSIC PLAYER in the world? I don't think so. Everyone could come up with the idea of giving the teachers money. But we have to DARE to be DIFFERENT. This is what distinguishes a follower from a leader. Are you a follower or a leader?
So, I think it's an INCREDIBLE IDEA. It's the BEST. IDEA. IN THE WORLD. EVER.
And that's nothing, EVERY KID IN AMERICA should have an iPod. Hell, every kid in the world should have one. Why spend all this money on inventing and producing OLPC, when iPod is here. Does OLPC even have headphones? Does it have a clickwheel? NO, it has a keyboard. Keyboards ARE BORING.
I know it, you know it, and the children know it: THIS is what really iPod is: raising the IQ of the children!
But even in English speaking countries, mileage is commonly used because "kilometrage" would just sound silly. Mileage or simply "fuel efficiency" is acceptable.
We use kilometrage here:( I think it comes from French.
Google more or less used sane HTML+CSS and I really didn't have any major issues with them.
Have you seen the amount of errors Google spews in the validators? It's in the hundreds. Most of the Google pages use excessive tables for layout.
Truth is ever simpler: sane or insane HTML+CSS, as long as the site is simple enough not to cause excessive scrolling on a tiny screen, or need complex JS/Flash, it'll work on any modern mobile device.
Microsoft isnt going to have to open their code, just the format. Remember Microsoft is a CONVICTED MONOPOLIST here in the US. This is no different than a pedophile having to register their address with the police.
But, of course! A software company that supplies the OS for over 90% of the desktop PC-s, and a man who rapes little kids - exactly the same thing!
Simple is genius, and you man, have gallons of wisdom to share with the world. Keep posting, keep posting!!
As for royalty payments, yes, Microsoft is disclosing interoperability protocols and other who want to used should pay, but... Microsoft's protocols are not stat-of-art technology, it is an implementation of ideas that are commonly used in IT industry. NFS is in essence the same thing as CIFS but with different protocol convention.
Most of what's done in the IT industry on a daily basis, isn't "state of the art" or innovation. When I spend 3 months developing complex web application system for a client, I usually resort to well established best practices, ideas, algorithms, and methods.
This doesn't mean what I did is worthless and I should be forced to open the sources to anyone for free.
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Meet the Fockers, and some crap with J Lo in it over and over again, all the CGI laden movies, with huge acting names in them.. tend to be really flat movies. They have no feeling, no passion, crap stories, crap dialogoue.
But ooh ooh.. look! Explosions! zomg. that's so cool.
Why the hell should I be ashamed that I like spectacular explosions and CGI? If you have your prejudice you can keep it all to yourself. I prefer enjoying both the cheap indie movies and the CGI eye candy in Hollywood blockbusters.
There are turds and marvels in both areas. You're not going to actually tell me that all indie movies are great, are you? A lot of them are incomprehensible abstract mess, no redeeming qualities at all, not even a decent explosion.
When people invest millions of dollars in developing a standard like HD-DVD, Blu-Ray, or whatever comes along next (UV-DVD?)
Next comes Internet...
I can't wait until they realize that it's not worth it, and just stop concerning themselves with copy-protecting their media and instead focus on creating good movies.
Let's keep things straight:
writers/directors/actors focus on creating good movies;
movie distribution/marketing companies focus on wasting money on copy protecting their media.
hackers concentrate ruining the cop protection efforts;
the general consumer looks at the easier way to get their movie, be it rental/torrent/buy DVD/p2p: whatever seems better value.
I guess we have some people from the last century visiting us...
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1. it is small enough to be always handy (keep it in your laptop bag, next to your puter, etc)
I have to agree. I saw some experimental graphical interfaces on TV yesterday, and it looks really promising, Not only you get to work visually, but you get to lay out your screen space as you want (for example, place shortcuts to needed references on your "task bar" they call it). And the best thing is: you can run multiple apps at once! But.. with my DOS, it's too much hassle to exit my text editor and open some shitty computer book reference all the time.
Of course it looks like quite the waste of resources: I mean, displaying loads of text in graphic mode. Why the effort when we have 80x25 text mode supported natively.
Actually I experimented with those "hot key" resident programs, which you can use to interrupt and existing program, but I'm getting out of RAM (512kb) pretty soon as I try to put more things at my fingertips. Maybe once I upgrade to 1 MB it'll be better (though I can only use 640kb of it). Additionally, with a 20MB disk I'm already running out of space to store everything I need, let alone an entire book worth of text.
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2. since all it has are concise explanations - you'll spend less time wallowing in stuff you don't care about (when you want is something concise)
3. it is formatted specifically for quick syntax & example checks, rather than for general purpose documentation
Yup, looking up larger manuals on a computer is very slow, much slower than manually browsing a book. There are those new 286 processors, but they are quite expensive yet, so I'll have to churn with my trusty 4MHz 8086 for now.
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4. there are benefits to books - you can easily add comments to them, you more (sometimes) more easily scan for information, etc, etc.
Ok you have a point here. It's very easy to add comments to books. I wish there was something like a common shared via network online MySQL manual, and it had a comments section on each page, consider the possibilities!
They could call it something like "User Comments", and you'd never run out of space, and even be able to read wise tips from other users.
But alas, it's 1985 and the Internet isn't even around the corner yet. So a book next to our IBM XT is our best option.
When caught making a mistake, they admit it, work to resolve it, and move on? ...
I think there are a few other companies who could learn from that approach
What a great approach indeed! Steal, and if caught, deny it a little, then cover it up.
Actually I think Google learned that from someone else's company, or is Google "innovating" here? A debate for the coming generations.
Let's put this in perspective. Not all of these buyers were American, and many of them have probably owned more than one iPod, but the population of the United States is slightly over 300 million. And Apple has apparently sold 100 million.
A bit of perspective coming your way too. Not all of those 300 million own any music player. A sizable chunk of them are kids below 4, or old people living in remote villages that have never worked on a computer, let alone know how to work with a digital music player.
So what was your point anyway.
The statistic is about "sold", so even if I replace my iPod every day, I put money out of my pocket and buy a new iPod.
Apple profits from selling the hardware, not from the active userbase, in fact, they benefit from smaller userbase (less loss/load on iTunes) that refreshes its hardware often.
Even if it was one single crazy guy, who bought 100 million iPods, Apple doesn't give a damn.
How on earth, in year 2007, is a book the quickest reference to anything. MySQL provides both instant manual lookup online, and indexed searchable CHM help manual reference.
Meanwhile the rest of us keep our eyes open for suv4x4 blindly driving over us while trying to park his slow-ass little truck in the suburbs.
Anonymous cowards shouldn't be afraid of suv-s. They are outside, where cowards are afraid to go, in fear someone will see them, and de-anonymize them.
Lastly, just because you don't want to do a 3.5 second 0-60 to reach 175, doesn't mean that "noone" wants to. Open you eyes.
I'll open my eyes just in time for someone to drive me over at 175mph.
I never understood why people watch the 0-60 timing and top speed of a car. On the road, what you need is a stable, safe, efficient vehicle.
Noone really want to go 0-60 in 3.5 seconds and reach 175mph, unless they're looking to die, and do it as fast as possible.
It's Saturday morning 10 am I just woke up and started making breakfast. I know I am dyslexic but WTF I tried to read this post 3 times after reading the whole article linked to the topic. I still can't understand what this guy typed. Did you learn to type from Mr. Miyagi "CAPS ON. caps off"
:P Gimme a break.
It's hard to transmit the accents Steve Jobs puts in his speeches, in written form, you know
What should've I done? Attach a score above the text, with pitch and velocity?
Namely, me. If they get music players, I demand that I be upgraded to an opteron at tax payers expense.
You clearly aren't after the BEST. Why have run-of-the-mill Opteron? They have just couple of cores. Nowadays, couple of cores is like a pocket calculator. Especially to Ruby on Rails.
You don't have money for THE BEST? Then you have even less money for THE WORST, so THIS EIGHT CORE MAC PRO is the PERFECT machine for this, or any, purpose. It's created ESPECIALLY FOR HOLDING SOURCE CODE, by our top engineers.
You don't just want it, you NEED IT. Treat yourself eight cores, and do it NOW, as next year we're releasing the 16 core Mac Pro and this one will be like a pocket calculator to it.
- Steve J.
I'm sorry that was meant as a joke, I really doubt they plan to do what I said.
First of all, the taxes aren't just to pay for the music players, they are for a number of measures.
To successfully fund all these measures via taxing sat TV and soda, a new TV spot was created with a tagline "Be a patriot: drink soda and watch sat TV".
The budget for this TV spot will be funded from the income from sat TV and soda taxes as well. This way it makes sense.
Is VMWare Player with OSX loaded: $0.
"The iPods that will be given away are iPod Shuffle, a light music player that shuffles the songs and plays them randomly", explained a spokesman for the House of Representatives.
"We'll intermix the lectures with the latest pop and hip-hop singles, and the kids will have to put up with listening to lectures randomly so they can play they favorite music. We think it'll be a smashing success.".
This is a horrible idea. Seriously, how about spending the millions of dollars on teachers?
You could spend the money on teachers, but will this give your kids THE BEST MUSIC PLAYER in the world? I don't think so.
Everyone could come up with the idea of giving the teachers money. But we have to DARE to be DIFFERENT. This is what distinguishes a follower from a leader. Are you a follower or a leader?
So, I think it's an INCREDIBLE IDEA. It's the BEST. IDEA. IN THE WORLD. EVER.
And that's nothing, EVERY KID IN AMERICA should have an iPod. Hell, every kid in the world should have one. Why spend all this money on inventing and producing OLPC, when iPod is here. Does OLPC even have headphones? Does it have a clickwheel? NO, it has a keyboard. Keyboards ARE BORING.
I know it, you know it, and the children know it: THIS is what really iPod is: raising the IQ of the children!
- Steve J.
But even in English speaking countries, mileage is commonly used because "kilometrage" would just sound silly. Mileage or simply "fuel efficiency" is acceptable.
:( I think it comes from French.
We use kilometrage here
Google more or less used sane HTML+CSS and I really didn't have any major issues with them.
Have you seen the amount of errors Google spews in the validators? It's in the hundreds.
Most of the Google pages use excessive tables for layout.
Truth is ever simpler: sane or insane HTML+CSS, as long as the site is simple enough not to cause excessive scrolling on a tiny screen, or need complex JS/Flash, it'll work on any modern mobile device.
How exactly is that question insightful? Mark this up as insightful as well please.
I'm as surprised as you are. This must've been the shortest insightful post ever.
That said, GGP was talking out his rear hole.
Raytracing, by definition, is not hardware-accelerated. Of course the RSX isn't being used.
Where is, if I may ask, this 'definition'?
How true, I'd much rather deal with the rapist.
If I give you two options: a) put up with Windows on your PC b) hand your kid to a pedophile
You'd pick b) !? Oh wait, this is Slashdot...
Microsoft isnt going to have to open their code, just the format. Remember Microsoft is a CONVICTED MONOPOLIST here in the US. This is no different than a pedophile having to register their address with the police.
But, of course! A software company that supplies the OS for over 90% of the desktop PC-s, and a man who rapes little kids - exactly the same thing!
Simple is genius, and you man, have gallons of wisdom to share with the world. Keep posting, keep posting!!
As for royalty payments, yes, Microsoft is disclosing interoperability protocols and other who want to used should pay, but... Microsoft's protocols are not stat-of-art technology, it is an implementation of ideas that are commonly used in IT industry. NFS is in essence the same thing as CIFS but with different protocol convention.
Most of what's done in the IT industry on a daily basis, isn't "state of the art" or innovation. When I spend 3 months developing complex web application system for a client, I usually resort to well established best practices, ideas, algorithms, and methods.
This doesn't mean what I did is worthless and I should be forced to open the sources to anyone for free.