In what way is it different to do this with a Tivo and DVD than it is with a videotape?
It's different in that data on a DVD is bits, that are readily transferrable to half the internet-capable world with just a few clicks. Like it or not, that makes it different than VHS tapes, which took time, money and equipment to pirate content on a large scale.
I'm not trying to defend the studios (far from it!) but saying that digital content is the same as physical content is missing the mark.
No, it doesn't. I have the 1.0 release installed, and the (maddening) behavior is the same.
Try this: Open an email. Ctrl-F and type something that you know is in the email. Click "Find Next".
Now click in the email window and select some text or something. Then hit ctrl-F again. Look, the text isn't selected. How irritating to have to select the text before you can type or paste another search string in.
I read a number of mailing list digests, and Thunderbird's "Find" is sooooo painful to use. Here's the scenario: the digest has a list of Subjects from individual emails in the digest. I see one of interest.
I select the subject of interest. Instead of having a "enter selection for find" command, I have to copy and paste. Fine. However, if the Find dialog is already up, when I hit ctrl-F, the text in the Find dialog isn't selected; I have to select the text, then paste my subject into the box.
Then I click the Find button. It finds the text and shows it to me at the very bottom of the window. This is so annoying that it's nearly beyond belief. I have to scroll down a bunch to see any context whatsoever.
So, my request for two enhancements:
When you hit ctrl-F, select the frickin' text in the Find dialog.
When you scroll the message window to show found text, scroll the found area to the vertical center of the window, not the very bottom.
OK, so go ahead and flame me for a) not just fixing the application myself, and b) not trying to figure out how to file my own bugs.
In my own defense, a) I have a day job and a life at night, and b) I started to file some bugs and direction number 1 was "download Mozilla and see if the same bug appears there". I don't use Mozilla, have no interest in it, and don't feel like jumping through hoops to file bugs.
what,everybody doesn't highling-right click-open in new tab?
No, some of us just control-click on a link. That opens the link in a new tab without having to navigate a context menu.
It's cool that Firefox does this, but I can't believe it doesn't open links from other applications in a new tab. Overwriting your current page is just wrong. The Firefox guys need to use Safari a little bit more to see how things should be done.:-)
Experience is definitely the key, and many times more important than a piece of paper saying you know what you know
Yes, but for that first job, a good school name on the resume definitely helps.
I was told that I was a shoo-in for my first job out of college, because it was a good school (Rensselaer) and the department head that was hiring for the position had also gone there. My feeling is that people who went to Podunk U. don't have that feeling of comradeship that makes them want to hire people from the same school.
My advice is: buy the best education you can possibly afford. It will serve you well for at least the first ten years. After that, where you went to school or what grades you got are much less important. (Assuming you're nailing some good experience.)
Wouldn't the sun have changed position or changed its intensity in that ammount of time?
Yes. If you look carefully, you can find stitching seams, with clear lighting differences to either side.
In the upper-right hand corner of the image, there are three beige buildings. Zoom way in to actually see them as buildings.:-) The one in the middle has a very clear seam near the left side of the building.
Since it's ultraviolet, you can't actually see it. Which means I won't have to be pissed off at those teenagers with their ultraviolet laser pointers at movie theaters!
With a UV laser pointer, you could give yourself a quick tan whenever you needed one!
Or, you could give your significant other a quick tattoo, using their own melanin!
So someone in Alaska's vote matters more than someone's in New York? If a state only has 1 million people, their vote is more valuable than a state that has 10 million.
I hate to break this to you, but that's already the case, even ignoring the electoral college.
Each state gets two senators, right off the bat, whether they have 1 million people or 10 million people. That means that each person in a low-population state has greater "power" than does someone in a high-population state.
The electoral college goes along the same idea.
1 person, 1 vote is the only fair system.
Fair in what way? Is it "fair" that I actually research the candidates' positions, watch the debates, and make informed decisions, but then my vote is countered by some idiot who votes the party line because his Dad did the same? Or some idiot who just thinks one candidate is better looking than the other? What's fair about that?
It doesn't matter who I vote for tomorrow I'm still looking at rediculous DMCA-like bills being passed in the next presidential term.
You're right. So wake up and vote libertarian.
If you vote for either the Democrat or the Republican (as the lesser of two evils or whatever your reason) you're telling the "establishment" that you're OK with the way things are going and that you like having two choices that are as alike as two peas in a pod.
If enough people wake up and vote libertarian (or heck, any third party!) eventually some change will happen.
When you live in a state that's solid red or blue, it's much easier to vote for a third party, since your vote won't matter anyway.:-)
I should pay once for a lifetime right to watch such-and-such a movie.
So, when a company spends 20 million dollars remastering the Wizard of Oz, or the original Star Wars (ha!) movie into Super-Blu 3D format, you have a right to a copy of that, because you bought the VHS copy ten years ago? Riiiiight...
Do you also think you have a "right" to all the extras that will be produced and come out on the new format?
Don't worry -- the RPI alumni association will continue to send letters and call, long after you've paid off the school loans.
A friend of mine is the only person I know to avoid the RPI alumni plague -- before she left RPI, she changed her listed phone number to that of the Boston weather service.
No investigative work or research to prove it, not even a convincing argument to go along. Without any constructive points for improving "the situation", the article is worthless except maybe for some minimal entertainment value.
Did you even read the article? Did you click on any of the links? Specifically, the link to this page?
Gruber's making the argument for a user-oriented development process. Rather than coding the gee-nifty crap down at the bottom and then try to figure out how to slap a UI on top of it, figure out what functions the application should allow the user to accomplish, design the UI, then build the underlying code to enable those tasks.
There's obviously some middle ground to be reached, but I'm amazed that people can disagree that most open-source stuff has crappy UIs.
The parent post is overrated, IMHO, since there's no background knowledge on the author's part.
Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, has given full permission to these guys to use the name. Here's part of a post to the ebook-community mailing list (a yahoo group):
PGII only charges for certain files they modified or created,
and is paying PG the same royalty as we require from anyone.
and
Anyone who calls for such drastic action immediately just doesn't want
to see how things will work, they want to force the worst assumption
on us all. Project Gutenberg has always been open to experimentation.
And we also have always had the fine print that has allowed for the
production of "Project Gutenberg CDs" DVDs, etc., all by anyone
who wanted to give it a try.
In my humble opinion, this dilutes the Project Gutenberg name and idea, but it's Hart's to do with as he sees fit.
What I'd like to run is the XGrid Pixar plugin, to donate my dual 2GHz G5's night-time spare cpu cycles to producing the next Pixar movie. That would be cool.
Can you see the list of credits? "Also thanks to 24.35.100.153, 10.1.5.18,...":-)
Who makes up these names? Couldn't they at least come up with a gender-matching name? Did Salon outsource the picking of names to some country where it's unclear that "Loni" is a girl's name?
Geez, I just hope we're not too late -- questions like this tend to get answered by shysters with "well, that's cutting it close, but I'll see what we can do."
I have an 802.11g (Apple Airport Extreme if anyone cares) access point in my basement, in an electrical closet. I'm up on the second floor, on the other side of the house, and get excellent signal strength.
Now, that's only three floors, and my house isn't huge. If your four-story building is large, you should still be fine dropping a single access point in the middle of the second or third floor, assuming you have a cable drop at that location.
Worst case, you need two access points, and with the Airport, they can daisy chain one to the other -- one access point can use another access point for...access. I don't know about other brands.
But what makes the two-story, 6,000 square-foot home different from any other is what's inside -- the windows. They turn from clear to opaque white with the push of a button. Many double as speakers, computer monitors or television sets.
Wouldn't that let everyone in the neighborhood see what you're watching or surfing on your "window", but reversed?
But, integrate one of these with a big touch-sensitive area, and you have those cool mission-planning vertical planes of glass that you see in SF movies.
And, a trick you can play on visitors to your house -- when they ask where the bathroom is, point them at the big "window" you have displaying a fake hallway, and watch them bump their noses on it!
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It's different in that data on a DVD is bits, that are readily transferrable to half the internet-capable world with just a few clicks. Like it or not, that makes it different than VHS tapes, which took time, money and equipment to pirate content on a large scale.
I'm not trying to defend the studios (far from it!) but saying that digital content is the same as physical content is missing the mark.
I was under the impression that Japan was part of Asia -- is this incorrect?
The iPod is apparently quite popular in Japan, stomping Sony's offerings into the ground. See for example, this article.
Yes, the rest of us read the Slate article that is 80% about how race was a big thing in the Earthsea (and other Le Guin) books.
Try this: Open an email. Ctrl-F and type something that you know is in the email. Click "Find Next".
Now click in the email window and select some text or something. Then hit ctrl-F again. Look, the text isn't selected. How irritating to have to select the text before you can type or paste another search string in.
I select the subject of interest. Instead of having a "enter selection for find" command, I have to copy and paste. Fine. However, if the Find dialog is already up, when I hit ctrl-F, the text in the Find dialog isn't selected; I have to select the text, then paste my subject into the box.
Then I click the Find button. It finds the text and shows it to me at the very bottom of the window. This is so annoying that it's nearly beyond belief. I have to scroll down a bunch to see any context whatsoever.
So, my request for two enhancements:
OK, so go ahead and flame me for a) not just fixing the application myself, and b) not trying to figure out how to file my own bugs.
In my own defense, a) I have a day job and a life at night, and b) I started to file some bugs and direction number 1 was "download Mozilla and see if the same bug appears there". I don't use Mozilla, have no interest in it, and don't feel like jumping through hoops to file bugs.
OK, call me cranky. :-)
Happy Holidays!
No, some of us just control-click on a link. That opens the link in a new tab without having to navigate a context menu.
It's cool that Firefox does this, but I can't believe it doesn't open links from other applications in a new tab. Overwriting your current page is just wrong. The Firefox guys need to use Safari a little bit more to see how things should be done. :-)
Yes, but for that first job, a good school name on the resume definitely helps.
I was told that I was a shoo-in for my first job out of college, because it was a good school (Rensselaer) and the department head that was hiring for the position had also gone there. My feeling is that people who went to Podunk U. don't have that feeling of comradeship that makes them want to hire people from the same school.
My advice is: buy the best education you can possibly afford. It will serve you well for at least the first ten years. After that, where you went to school or what grades you got are much less important. (Assuming you're nailing some good experience.)
Yes. If you look carefully, you can find stitching seams, with clear lighting differences to either side.
In the upper-right hand corner of the image, there are three beige buildings. Zoom way in to actually see them as buildings. :-) The one in the middle has a very clear seam near the left side of the building.
Let's give it ten years - wikipedia still won't be a conventional dictionary
Until you learn the difference between dictionary and encyclopedia, you shouldn't weigh in on this subject. :-)
You might as well look up thesaurus while you're at it.
See the large version of the picture here.
With a UV laser pointer, you could give yourself a quick tan whenever you needed one!
Or, you could give your significant other a quick tattoo, using their own melanin!
I hate to break this to you, but that's already the case, even ignoring the electoral college.
Each state gets two senators, right off the bat, whether they have 1 million people or 10 million people. That means that each person in a low-population state has greater "power" than does someone in a high-population state.
The electoral college goes along the same idea.
1 person, 1 vote is the only fair system.
Fair in what way? Is it "fair" that I actually research the candidates' positions, watch the debates, and make informed decisions, but then my vote is countered by some idiot who votes the party line because his Dad did the same? Or some idiot who just thinks one candidate is better looking than the other? What's fair about that?
You're right. So wake up and vote libertarian.
If you vote for either the Democrat or the Republican (as the lesser of two evils or whatever your reason) you're telling the "establishment" that you're OK with the way things are going and that you like having two choices that are as alike as two peas in a pod.
If enough people wake up and vote libertarian (or heck, any third party!) eventually some change will happen.
When you live in a state that's solid red or blue, it's much easier to vote for a third party, since your vote won't matter anyway. :-)
So, when a company spends 20 million dollars remastering the Wizard of Oz, or the original Star Wars (ha!) movie into Super-Blu 3D format, you have a right to a copy of that, because you bought the VHS copy ten years ago? Riiiiight...
Do you also think you have a "right" to all the extras that will be produced and come out on the new format?
A friend of mine is the only person I know to avoid the RPI alumni plague -- before she left RPI, she changed her listed phone number to that of the Boston weather service.
Baloney. You just have to contact apple tech support, they de-authorize all your machines, then you re-authorizes the ones you want authorized.
Don't listen to the FUD. :-)
Did you even read the article? Did you click on any of the links? Specifically, the link to this page?
Gruber's making the argument for a user-oriented development process. Rather than coding the gee-nifty crap down at the bottom and then try to figure out how to slap a UI on top of it, figure out what functions the application should allow the user to accomplish, design the UI, then build the underlying code to enable those tasks.
There's obviously some middle ground to be reached, but I'm amazed that people can disagree that most open-source stuff has crappy UIs.
The parent post is overrated, IMHO, since there's no background knowledge on the author's part.
Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, has given full permission to these guys to use the name. Here's part of a post to the ebook-community mailing list (a yahoo group):
PGII only charges for certain files they modified or created, and is paying PG the same royalty as we require from anyone.
and
Anyone who calls for such drastic action immediately just doesn't want to see how things will work, they want to force the worst assumption on us all. Project Gutenberg has always been open to experimentation. And we also have always had the fine print that has allowed for the production of "Project Gutenberg CDs" DVDs, etc., all by anyone who wanted to give it a try.
In my humble opinion, this dilutes the Project Gutenberg name and idea, but it's Hart's to do with as he sees fit.
What I'd like to run is the XGrid Pixar plugin, to donate my dual 2GHz G5's night-time spare cpu cycles to producing the next Pixar movie. That would be cool.
..." :-)
Can you see the list of credits? "Also thanks to 24.35.100.153, 10.1.5.18,
Maybe it's just me, but where's the frickin' download link?
Keep fees very low.
Use the revenue from that service to maintain the service, expand and even pour it back into the city's budget.
Or, they could
I'd rather see towns mandate multiple cable/DSL providers and let the market drive the prices down.
Editor's note: All names have been changed.
Later in the article:
Loni is a great guy.
Loni?
Who makes up these names? Couldn't they at least come up with a gender-matching name? Did Salon outsource the picking of names to some country where it's unclear that "Loni" is a girl's name?
Geez, I just hope we're not too late -- questions like this tend to get answered by shysters with "well, that's cutting it close, but I'll see what we can do."
I have an 802.11g (Apple Airport Extreme if anyone cares) access point in my basement, in an electrical closet. I'm up on the second floor, on the other side of the house, and get excellent signal strength.
Now, that's only three floors, and my house isn't huge. If your four-story building is large, you should still be fine dropping a single access point in the middle of the second or third floor, assuming you have a cable drop at that location.
Worst case, you need two access points, and with the Airport, they can daisy chain one to the other -- one access point can use another access point for...access. I don't know about other brands.
I counted 44 devices that were available "today", and most of those were embedded, such as the exercise bike.
I would expect that at least half of the devices that aren't yet available will never be available.
And is listing a reference design (see the Atlas ACE reference design, or the MicroPDA, or the i.MX Reference Design PDA) really valid?
But what makes the two-story, 6,000 square-foot home different from any other is what's inside -- the windows. They turn from clear to opaque white with the push of a button. Many double as speakers, computer monitors or television sets.
Wouldn't that let everyone in the neighborhood see what you're watching or surfing on your "window", but reversed?
But, integrate one of these with a big touch-sensitive area, and you have those cool mission-planning vertical planes of glass that you see in SF movies.
And, a trick you can play on visitors to your house -- when they ask where the bathroom is, point them at the big "window" you have displaying a fake hallway, and watch them bump their noses on it!