There was smoke, I tried to take a picture, I was told to go away, then everyone went on about their business. Oh, and don't miss the picture of a fire extinguisher I took
If you haven't already read TFA, please just move along.
can you believe people still use the telephone, the postal service, and parcel services like UPS or FedEx? What is up with THOSE people? Oh yeah, and some people still get together for meetings.
all jokes aside, I wouldn't really call email a "collab" tool, i would leave it as it was meant to be, and that is a communication tool. Sure, you can send files and converse about projects which can be seen as collaboration. Still, if "collaboration software" thinks it's biggest competitor is email, then they might as well jump ship now, because email isn't going anywhere.
I think cost is what drives piracy, and I think it's time the movie industry and recording industry realized this. Instead of spending more money on DRM that will be cracked anyway, they should just give in and realize that no one wants to pay $20-30 for one DVD. The people I know who purchase DVD's on a regular basis only buy them when they are on sale for $10 or below.
and, as you were hinting, people who pay for and download a movie should be entitled to burn it to dvd if they choose. I don't see how this new DRM is going to stop a person who pirates movies now. The DRM is only going to piss off legitimate purchasers whose only means of watching a DVD on their tv is thru a DVD. And you may say, "well then they need to buy a DVD and not download it." But how many people do you think are going to pay to download the movie and then realize they can't burn it? I think that number is going to be huge at first, then enough people will get sick of dealing with whatever tech support they try to call to fix the problem, then they are going to tell all of their friends, who tell all of their friends, which in turn decreases the number of people who download any movie legitimately, which makes it not even worth the effort to begin with. And in the end, the DRM might have effectively stopped 2 people from pirating the movie.
Many of the subpoenas asked for information related to products that can be used to filter out adult content for underage Internet users
few people realize the porn industry built the internet, but I know better. I'd be willing to bet that 90% of the people who read this article/comment could list free porn as one of their top interests in the computer/internet in 90's.
if the government takes away that foundation, the internet may crumble.
but this article is a little more interesting. Sure, the audience of the article is supposed to be console gamers, but the graph showing brand trust vs brand potential is interesting.
Apple's success story is "they finally got it right." It only took them 30 freakin' years to do it. Still, they aren't in the clear yet. It's great that the ipod's are selling well and it's making Apple a household name, but the true worth of the ipod will be seen in it's ability to convert users from PC to Mac as their brand trust goes up. I'd really like to see numbers on the amount of people that own an ipod and a pc vs. the number of people who own and ipod and a mac, and a graph to show the change w/ respect to time.
and the real MVP in the story is marketing. Someday soon, we'll be reading stories like this about Gnu/Linux, as soon as some one spends the money on marketing.
Maybe it's just me and my above average aptitude for the internet, but I have always had at least two (2) email addresses. One I use for sensitive things like banking and communication with trusted friends and family. The other I use to sign up for forums, washington post, etc....the sites that will use my email for spam. I am very choosey about which email address gets used where, and as a result, my main/personal email address has never gotten spam from anyone, and my other email address gets a rediculous amount of spam.
the main point of mentioning this is that i recently signed up for a Pay-Pal account. I used one of my more personal email accounts to sign up. A few weeks later I noticed my main "crap" email address was getting Pay-Pal phishing emails. They looked totally legit, and if i wasn't so savvy, I might have fell for it. I know this is News For Nerds and the majority of you already know the secrets of how to identify a phishing email, but I'll just break it down for effect.
The email address the Pay-Pal message was sent to does not have an account assigned to it. My account was created with another email address (that does not get these fake emails)
The address of the website linked to was an IP number, it was not www.paypal.com. While the legit paypal.com can be reached using an IP address, browsing to www.paypal.com will only go to the legit site (bar any hack attempts).
So, number one on my list is a dead give away that the message is a fake, since there is no possible reason that pay-pal would ever know i have that email account. Knowing this, i don't even need to open the email to see how convincing it is.
they are going to have the largest internet sperm and egg bank in the world...and it will all be 100% searchable, making it that much easier to get your designer baby.
especially the trend setting popular kids (who are often the most addicted)
this is because they are the only ones who care who has more friends than them. Personally, i think myspace and thefacebook (and stretching it more to deviantart) have potential in theory to be great websites to allow friends to find long lost friends, share ideas, and find new friends, but in actuality they become popularity contests.
and yes, i have accounts on both myspace and thefacebook.
Basically, this is saying you are going to have a piece of hardware in your den that is a frontend to a pc running XP MediaCenter Edition. Does this sound like a Xbox 360 to anyone else? Personally, the reason I refuse to buy a Xbox360 is because of the necessity of having a computer running MCE to use themedia capabilities. My original XBOX running XBMC can stream media any number of ways (samba share, Itunes, etc.) off of my regular old PC running Windows, Linux, OSX...whatever I want. And if I was to make a computer to take its place, it would have these same qualities, plus the added ability of a PVR. All media that I did not record from tv/cable/satelite would be streamed from my server/desktop. Furthermore, this computer would be the size of my Xbox or smaller, using mini-itx technology.
Another thing, I don't think anyone ever intended for a living-room media-pc to be used as a normal, everyday computer. TFA mentions surfing the internet and typing papers, which leads me to believe the author has never even used MCE before. While MCE can be used on a dektop pc, the "media" UI is dominated by exactly what you are going to use a set-top or living room pc for...media. And the current HTPC offerings are not necessarily designed to host every type of media you have, and there is nothing keeping them from streaming media from your server/desktop. Most are designed to be PVR and DVD player replacements, so there is nothing stopping you from using the included hdd for the sole purpose of recording tv shows, while you back up dvd's and host your music library on your server/desktop.
Personally, I think CNET is just a bunch of morons who get paid to act like journalists to advertise the highest bidder's product.
any notice that google is popping up in odd places on tv? the instances that pop in to my mind are a Pontiac advert and CSI. the pontiac ad tells you to "Google Pontiac for more info" and they show the google homepage with pontiac being typed in to the search. In the CSI I saw last night (it was a repeat, but can't remember the episode name), some one was in the lab searching google for some information. Though the actor didn't say "i searched google" or anything like that, they did show them lookin at the google page for a few seconds.
similarly, i was watching Tiger Woods get interviewed on 60 Minutes last night, and at teh end of the interview they said "go to Yahoo and search for Tiger Woods to get more info."
i would assume that the "google music" search result page is soon going to expand in to other areas, such as car pages and tv pages....wait and see
a laptop, a book, a pen, a calculator, an education...the list goes on. What they have in common: they are tools to success that are only usefull if used properly, and used to their fullest.
a similar argument to this entire thread is: What is the point of having a college education if you aren't going to use it?
I've gotten in to the habbit of only one program at a time, and I made my swap ~128MB, so i haven't had too many problems. I don't think I would've gotten that dinosaur of a laptop running so well, so easily if it wasn't for DSL (damn small linux).
I tried for about 6 months to get *nix running on my Toshiba Satellite 225CDS. (Pentium 1 133mhz, 16mb ram, 1.5gb HD, CD drive broken so only floppy available, 1 USB port, Cardbus PCMCIA, originally ran win95) I was able to get Debian Woody and NetBSD running, and was able to get X11 and Fluxbox running, but man was it slow. It took literally a day to compile things. So, I finally caved and bought an extra 32MB of memory, and it made all the difference. I ended up putting DamnSmallLinux on and it runs fairly well. My only quarrel is that the laptop has CardBus, not pure PCMCIA. The reason I'm upset about that is I got a Linksys WPC11 v4 from my boss for free, so I figured I could use it in the only laptop I had lying around my house. The card is said to work with Linux using the Ndiswrapper, but the card will not work with my old, inferior laptop.
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I'm leaning towards sometime soon.
that is a powerful deduction. I don't know if i would have ever drawn that conclusion, but I guess that's why I don't study insects.
There was smoke, I tried to take a picture, I was told to go away, then everyone went on about their business. Oh, and don't miss the picture of a fire extinguisher I took
If you haven't already read TFA, please just move along.
all jokes aside, I wouldn't really call email a "collab" tool, i would leave it as it was meant to be, and that is a communication tool. Sure, you can send files and converse about projects which can be seen as collaboration. Still, if "collaboration software" thinks it's biggest competitor is email, then they might as well jump ship now, because email isn't going anywhere.
who would ever want to listen to music by Charles Barkely? O wait, that's a 'GN'?
and, as you were hinting, people who pay for and download a movie should be entitled to burn it to dvd if they choose. I don't see how this new DRM is going to stop a person who pirates movies now. The DRM is only going to piss off legitimate purchasers whose only means of watching a DVD on their tv is thru a DVD. And you may say, "well then they need to buy a DVD and not download it." But how many people do you think are going to pay to download the movie and then realize they can't burn it? I think that number is going to be huge at first, then enough people will get sick of dealing with whatever tech support they try to call to fix the problem, then they are going to tell all of their friends, who tell all of their friends, which in turn decreases the number of people who download any movie legitimately, which makes it not even worth the effort to begin with. And in the end, the DRM might have effectively stopped 2 people from pirating the movie.
that survey is pretty funny...I bet most of the answers people gave were lies tho, just for the laugh effect
and that dead space is usually a tissue
i think the subject of the comment shows my typing/editing skills are not up to par...thanks for catching that, tho.
Toms Hardware constantly is doing reviews of monitors and such, and just released a new review of 19 monitors the other day
...but how about the common courtesy of a reach-around?
few people realize the porn industry built the internet, but I know better. I'd be willing to bet that 90% of the people who read this article/comment could list free porn as one of their top interests in the computer/internet in 90's.
if the government takes away that foundation, the internet may crumble.
Arial vs. Helvetica
Apple's success story is "they finally got it right." It only took them 30 freakin' years to do it. Still, they aren't in the clear yet. It's great that the ipod's are selling well and it's making Apple a household name, but the true worth of the ipod will be seen in it's ability to convert users from PC to Mac as their brand trust goes up. I'd really like to see numbers on the amount of people that own an ipod and a pc vs. the number of people who own and ipod and a mac, and a graph to show the change w/ respect to time.
and the real MVP in the story is marketing. Someday soon, we'll be reading stories like this about Gnu/Linux, as soon as some one spends the money on marketing.
thats because most companies have warranties longer than 14 days.
it's only a matter of time before CSI has a computer virus DNA scanner/fingerprinter.
the main point of mentioning this is that i recently signed up for a Pay-Pal account. I used one of my more personal email accounts to sign up. A few weeks later I noticed my main "crap" email address was getting Pay-Pal phishing emails. They looked totally legit, and if i wasn't so savvy, I might have fell for it. I know this is News For Nerds and the majority of you already know the secrets of how to identify a phishing email, but I'll just break it down for effect.
So, number one on my list is a dead give away that the message is a fake, since there is no possible reason that pay-pal would ever know i have that email account. Knowing this, i don't even need to open the email to see how convincing it is.
they are going to have the largest internet sperm and egg bank in the world...and it will all be 100% searchable, making it that much easier to get your designer baby.
this is because they are the only ones who care who has more friends than them. Personally, i think myspace and thefacebook (and stretching it more to deviantart) have potential in theory to be great websites to allow friends to find long lost friends, share ideas, and find new friends, but in actuality they become popularity contests.
and yes, i have accounts on both myspace and thefacebook.
not only free, but open source under the GPL
Another thing, I don't think anyone ever intended for a living-room media-pc to be used as a normal, everyday computer. TFA mentions surfing the internet and typing papers, which leads me to believe the author has never even used MCE before. While MCE can be used on a dektop pc, the "media" UI is dominated by exactly what you are going to use a set-top or living room pc for...media. And the current HTPC offerings are not necessarily designed to host every type of media you have, and there is nothing keeping them from streaming media from your server/desktop. Most are designed to be PVR and DVD player replacements, so there is nothing stopping you from using the included hdd for the sole purpose of recording tv shows, while you back up dvd's and host your music library on your server/desktop.
Personally, I think CNET is just a bunch of morons who get paid to act like journalists to advertise the highest bidder's product.
tv domination: pending
any notice that google is popping up in odd places on tv? the instances that pop in to my mind are a Pontiac advert and CSI. the pontiac ad tells you to "Google Pontiac for more info" and they show the google homepage with pontiac being typed in to the search. In the CSI I saw last night (it was a repeat, but can't remember the episode name), some one was in the lab searching google for some information. Though the actor didn't say "i searched google" or anything like that, they did show them lookin at the google page for a few seconds.
similarly, i was watching Tiger Woods get interviewed on 60 Minutes last night, and at teh end of the interview they said "go to Yahoo and search for Tiger Woods to get more info."
i would assume that the "google music" search result page is soon going to expand in to other areas, such as car pages and tv pages....wait and see
a similar argument to this entire thread is: What is the point of having a college education if you aren't going to use it?
I've gotten in to the habbit of only one program at a time, and I made my swap ~128MB, so i haven't had too many problems. I don't think I would've gotten that dinosaur of a laptop running so well, so easily if it wasn't for DSL (damn small linux).
I tried for about 6 months to get *nix running on my Toshiba Satellite 225CDS. (Pentium 1 133mhz, 16mb ram, 1.5gb HD, CD drive broken so only floppy available, 1 USB port, Cardbus PCMCIA, originally ran win95) I was able to get Debian Woody and NetBSD running, and was able to get X11 and Fluxbox running, but man was it slow. It took literally a day to compile things. So, I finally caved and bought an extra 32MB of memory, and it made all the difference. I ended up putting DamnSmallLinux on and it runs fairly well. My only quarrel is that the laptop has CardBus, not pure PCMCIA. The reason I'm upset about that is I got a Linksys WPC11 v4 from my boss for free, so I figured I could use it in the only laptop I had lying around my house. The card is said to work with Linux using the Ndiswrapper, but the card will not work with my old, inferior laptop.