Wow. You summed it very well. Problem is EVERY product & company thrives in the market (& I might also add economy in general) only because of innovation & new features irrespective of whether they are actually useful or necessary.
Soon ipod,zune,vista,Wii will be passe and something new will come and
the buying will start all over again.These companies....
Being from outside US & owning a iPod, I couldnt quite grasp how a player loved by so many actually doesnt offer FM.I thought that was a basic feature required.
Your post threw some light on why they dont bother about FM.
I have a passport case and will be sure to line it with mu-metal (not just aluminum foil) when I get a new passport in a few years.
I think thats dumb thing to do.When the security guys at the airport read your mu-metal'ed passport with their reader,it wont work & they would think its not a valid passport & you will be in trouble.
After reading last night's [slashdot.org] thread, I suppose encoding ~250 copies of the string "Kip Hawley is an idiot. Michael Chertoff is also an idiot" into an off-the-shelf 64kbit chip, putting the chip in a small wad of gum, and then swallowing the gum, is no longer an option.
First of all,why would you want to do that?
Two,the passport RFID reader needs to be within 10 cms from the chip to be able to read. So sont worry.You can swallow whatver you want to.:p
State Department spokeswoman Janelle Hironimus said existing passports will remain valid until they expire but, eventually, all U.S. passports -- about 13 million will be issued in 2006 -- will contain such chips
Because if they had used Windows:
1. They probably would have to pay Microsoft for product placement
2. Fill out tons of forms just to use the product on-air
3. Using something that wasn't Windows (and therefore unfamilliar with most people) looks "techier", or
4. KDE/Linux is free; why spend any more money than you have to?:)
Point no.3 is very valid. By making it look "techy", it gets featured
on Slashdot! Seriously,it has helped spread the show.
What exactly does one do with a 100 Mbps FTTH connection other than downloading a 700 MB DivX movie in 1 sec @ 12500 MB/sec ?
p.s:Did I get the no's right?
Paul Otellini, Intel's president and CEO, kicked off this season's IDF by coining the phrase "It's what's inside that counts", and spoke about why processing power matters again.
All these years we all thought whats outside the processor that matters?
So we have OLED for keyboard? What actually happened to those predictions that OLED would soon replace LCD for monitors?? Is anything happening in the mainstream?
But what Limewire accuses of RIAA is actually true. RIAA is literally destroying any music service they dont own. (and the courts dont seem to mind spending time on every one of the cases RIAA brings.)
The ARS Technica doesnt mention the version for any of the browsers they mention.When they say 47 bugs were discovered for Firefox,which version are they talking about? 1.5? 1.7? 2.0 Beta? Same for IE. 6 or 7?
I too have a feeling that the whole article is a whitewash written by BTjunkie.org itself. BTJunkie.org homepage links to that blog article. (which amusingly is featured in slashdot frontpage..Hmm)
And their stats seems to be HIGHLY INFLATED.
Todays Torrents:i,396 Total Torrents: 960,654 Total Trackers: 10,085 Total Seeders: 10.99mil Total Leechers: 16.57mil
Excuse me.11 Million seeders?
Compare that with the stats of wellknown sites like Mininova...
Total torrents in database 148,079 Total torrent downloads: 642,943,292 Total seeds: 1,704,142 Total leechers: 2,511,095 Total number of trackers: 1,492 Total searches today 333,557
On the contrary,I visit TPB only because its in the news for various reasons. For actual use,i find their UI to be too bland with brown (with wrong statistics).
Dude, at least site the source of your data (and more complete information at that): wikipedia page for Alan Cox.
Whats the big deal with you posting the wikipedia link? I didnt post it coz the wikipedia link was there in the story summary itself.What snippet I posted about Alan was for info only without any intention of appearing as if I wrote that. Dont unnecessarily colour things.& keep your dumb detective work to yourself.
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Wow. You summed it very well. Problem is EVERY product & company thrives in the market (& I might also add economy in general) only because of innovation & new features irrespective of whether they are actually useful or necessary.
Soon ipod,zune,vista,Wii will be passe and something new will come and the buying will start all over again.These companiesThanks for the write up on the state of FM in US.
Being from outside US & owning a iPod, I couldnt quite grasp how a player loved by so many actually doesnt offer FM.I thought that was a basic feature required.
Your post threw some light on why they dont bother about FM.
I think thats dumb thing to do.When the security guys at the airport read your mu-metal'ed passport with their reader,it wont work & they would think its not a valid passport & you will be in trouble.
First of all,why would you want to do that? :p
Two,the passport RFID reader needs to be within 10 cms from the chip to be able to read. So sont worry.You can swallow whatver you want to.
Add :" Dont Donate just about anywhere & everywhere" also.
Dude the show is available online @ NBC's site.
You can even download it if you have the intel processor they require.
Check this NBC page http://www.nbc.com/Heroes/
Point no.3 is very valid. By making it look "techy", it gets featured on Slashdot! Seriously,it has helped spread the show.
Yea. Not as interesting as NMAP featured in Matrix.
The only thing mildly interesting is that ,its a girl using that laptop :) - and the screenshots dont have the gal!
yea got it wrong. 12.5 MBps.
What exactly does one do with a 100 Mbps FTTH connection other than downloading a 700 MB DivX movie in 1 sec @ 12500 MB/sec ? p.s :Did I get the no's right?
All these years we all thought whats outside the processor that matters?
So we have OLED for keyboard?
What actually happened to those predictions that OLED would soon replace LCD for monitors?? Is anything happening in the mainstream?
But what Limewire accuses of RIAA is actually true. RIAA is literally destroying any music service they dont own. (and the courts dont seem to mind spending time on every one of the cases RIAA brings.)
The ARS Technica doesnt mention the version for any of the browsers they mention.When they say 47 bugs were discovered for Firefox ,which version are they talking about? 1.5? 1.7? 2.0 Beta? Same for IE. 6 or 7?
Sorry I havent got invitation code.
But,I just checked their site.Registration is open every weekend!
And their stats seems to be HIGHLY INFLATED.
Excuse me.11 Million seeders?Compare that with the stats of wellknown sites like Mininova...
On the contrary,I visit TPB only because its in the news for various reasons. For actual use,i find their UI to be too bland with brown (with wrong statistics).
Iam surprised they didnt write about the Big daddy torrent tracker site Demonoid.com
For everyone's sake the URL for the text posted is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Cox.
It is added here as slashdot doesnt allow editing comments!
May your soul rest in peace here on!
Isnt this updated 64 bit ? http://download.windowsvista.com/preview/rc1/en/x6 4/iso/vista_5728.16387.060917-1430_x64fre_client-L RMCxFRE_EN_DVD.iso
FTA :
Note: Your Beta 2/RC1 product keys will still be valid for this version.