Because if Real screws something up in the process, it's Apple and the iPod that look bad. Apple wants control of their brand identity---not a bad thing, IMHO.
Now, if an individual wanted to do the same thing to get their own.rm files playing on the iPod, power to them. It's the corporate sponsored aspect of this that pisses Apple off.
If you had been without electricity for a week and if you had the source to the application you might have had some insentive to look into the source yourself to prevent it from happening to you again.
And why the heck is anyone doing a dumb project like this? I mean sure, it's neat, but its entirely impractical. You can have software monitor the temperatures reported by your motherboards built in temperature sensors. Or go further and put a digital LCD in the front of your case that shows the temp. Using the battery thing is quite silly.
Ahem...
The smart thing to do is not always the right thing to do. If you do the right thing, you are damn smart. -Me
This legend, the truth of which is not necessarily related to
its value, concerns a question in a physics degree exam at the
University of Copenhagen: "Describe how to determine the height
of a skyscraper with a barometer."
One student replied: "Tie a long piece of string to the neck
of the barometer, then lower the barometer from the roof of the
skyscraper to the ground. The length of the string plus the
length of the barometer will equal the height of the building."
This highly original answer so incensed the examiner that the
student was failed immediately.
He appealed on the grounds that his answer was indisputably
correct, and the university appointed an independent arbiter
to decide the case. The arbiter judged that the answer was
indeed correct, but did not display any noticeable knowledge
of physics.
To resolve the problem it was decided to call the student in
and allow him six minutes in which to provide a verbal answer
which showed at least a minimal familiarity with the basic
principles of physics.
For five minutes the student sat in silence, forehead creased
in thought. The arbiter reminded him that time was running
out, to which the student replied that he had several extremely
relevant answers, but couldn't make up his mind which to use.
On being advised to hurry up the student replied as follows:
"Firstly, you could take the barometer up to the roof of the
skyscraper, drop it over the edge, and measure the time it
takes to reach the ground. The height of the building can then
be worked out from the formula H = 0.5g x t squared. But bad
luck on the barometer.
"Or if the sun is shining you could measure the height of the
barometer, then set it on end and measure the length of its
shadow. Then you measure the length of the skyscraper's shadow,
and thereafter it is simple matter of proportional arithmetic
to work out the height of the skyscraper.
"But if you wanted to be highly scientific about it, you could
tie a short piece of string to the barometer and swing it like
a pendulum, first at ground level and then on the roof of the
skyscraper. The height is worked out by the difference in the
gravitational restoring force T = 2 pi sq root(l / g).
"Or if the skyscraper has an outside emergency staircase, it
would be easier to walk up it and mark off the height of the
skyscraper in barometer lengths, then add them up.
"If you merely wanted to be boring and orthodox about it, of
course, you could use the barometer to measure the air pres-
sure on the roof of the skyscraper and on the ground, and
convert the difference in millibars into feet to give the
height of the building.
"But since we are constantly being exhorted to exercise inde-
pendence of mind and apply scientific methods, undoubtedly
the best way would be to knock on the janitor's door and say
to him 'If you would like a nice new barometer, I will give
you this one if you tell me the height of this building'."
The student was Niels Bohr, the only Dane to win the Nobel
prize for Physics.
I wonder if someday some kid will be
like "Copying music is worst than stealing cars"
<Devil's Advocate>
From a (producer focused) economic perspective, it is. Stealing a car results in the purchase of another car from the manufacturer (whether it be through insurance or personal replacement). Copying music results in one less person who would buy the music from the manufacturer.
</Devil's Advocate>
Re:I know how to win, with no changes to the mouse
on
The Oldest Mouse Contest
·
· Score: 2, Funny
No, no, no! This will result in a very young mouse! What you need to do is speed the universe up to the speed of light while leaving the mouse stationary.
On confering with my tin foil hat database, doing a cross-lookup with your Slashdot ID, we have determined that it is under your sofa. Jeez, I thought they stopped selling that style in the 70's...?
Slashdot Mirror
So *you're* the Goatse guy!?
Put in a search for "Miserable Failure", still get Bush. Not so off, after all? ;)
Huxley wrote "Brave New World". Orwell wrote 1984. Just a little hint for your next libertarian pro-privacy rant.
IE; Broken and unsatisafactory.
I agree...but Microsoft aside...!
> perl -pi -e "s/\\benum\\b/myEnum/g" *.java
Don't forget the \b for word breaks, or you might end up with something a little different than you intended.
Who do you hate that badly? :D
The real Darl writes only in Italics...
Because if Real screws something up in the process, it's Apple and the iPod that look bad. Apple wants control of their brand identity---not a bad thing, IMHO.
.rm files playing on the iPod, power to them. It's the corporate sponsored aspect of this that pisses Apple off.
Now, if an individual wanted to do the same thing to get their own
You've got your damn transparency! Haven't you seen the menus??
--Steve Jobs
I know this...this is UNIX!
Osama, that you?
Be sure to include:
66.35.250.150
That kills more of my time than I know what to do with.
If you had been without electricity for a week and if you had the source to the application you might have had some insentive to look into the source yourself to prevent it from happening to you again.
:P
Remarkable, with no power....
And why the heck is anyone doing a dumb project like this? I mean sure, it's neat, but its entirely impractical. You can have software monitor the temperatures reported by your motherboards built in temperature sensors. Or go further and put a digital LCD in the front of your case that shows the temp. Using the battery thing is quite silly.
Ahem...
The smart thing to do is not always the right thing to do. If you do the right thing, you are damn smart. -Me
You can't prove that!
I hope to GOD that you used a script to generate that and did not spend all the time in Slashdot's editor typing it out manually.
In case you didn't, here's one for you:
Please use this for all future GNU/humor attempts.
Actually, that's AOL 9.0 Optimized! You'll want to finish that house of CDs with a Snoop Dogg record.
(Nice sig, BTW...)
This legend, the truth of which is not necessarily related to
its value, concerns a question in a physics degree exam at the
University of Copenhagen: "Describe how to determine the height
of a skyscraper with a barometer."
One student replied: "Tie a long piece of string to the neck
of the barometer, then lower the barometer from the roof of the
skyscraper to the ground. The length of the string plus the
length of the barometer will equal the height of the building."
This highly original answer so incensed the examiner that the
student was failed immediately.
He appealed on the grounds that his answer was indisputably
correct, and the university appointed an independent arbiter
to decide the case. The arbiter judged that the answer was
indeed correct, but did not display any noticeable knowledge
of physics.
To resolve the problem it was decided to call the student in
and allow him six minutes in which to provide a verbal answer
which showed at least a minimal familiarity with the basic
principles of physics.
For five minutes the student sat in silence, forehead creased
in thought. The arbiter reminded him that time was running
out, to which the student replied that he had several extremely
relevant answers, but couldn't make up his mind which to use.
On being advised to hurry up the student replied as follows:
"Firstly, you could take the barometer up to the roof of the
skyscraper, drop it over the edge, and measure the time it
takes to reach the ground. The height of the building can then
be worked out from the formula H = 0.5g x t squared. But bad
luck on the barometer.
"Or if the sun is shining you could measure the height of the
barometer, then set it on end and measure the length of its
shadow. Then you measure the length of the skyscraper's shadow,
and thereafter it is simple matter of proportional arithmetic
to work out the height of the skyscraper.
"But if you wanted to be highly scientific about it, you could
tie a short piece of string to the barometer and swing it like
a pendulum, first at ground level and then on the roof of the
skyscraper. The height is worked out by the difference in the
gravitational restoring force T = 2 pi sq root(l / g).
"Or if the skyscraper has an outside emergency staircase, it
would be easier to walk up it and mark off the height of the
skyscraper in barometer lengths, then add them up.
"If you merely wanted to be boring and orthodox about it, of
course, you could use the barometer to measure the air pres-
sure on the roof of the skyscraper and on the ground, and
convert the difference in millibars into feet to give the
height of the building.
"But since we are constantly being exhorted to exercise inde-
pendence of mind and apply scientific methods, undoubtedly
the best way would be to knock on the janitor's door and say
to him 'If you would like a nice new barometer, I will give
you this one if you tell me the height of this building'."
The student was Niels Bohr, the only Dane to win the Nobel
prize for Physics.
I wonder if someday some kid will be
like "Copying music is worst than stealing cars"
<Devil's Advocate>
From a (producer focused) economic perspective, it is. Stealing a car results in the purchase of another car from the manufacturer (whether it be through insurance or personal replacement). Copying music results in one less person who would buy the music from the manufacturer.
</Devil's Advocate>
No, no, no! This will result in a very young mouse! What you need to do is speed the universe up to the speed of light while leaving the mouse stationary.
Voila! Old mouse!
Not to mention you could wake up with an AOL CD staring at you from across the bed.
Honey, is that you?
(Or should that be "U"?)
So now we just have to explain how the elephants got into the haunted houses
They got there from the clouds, of course!
On confering with my tin foil hat database, doing a cross-lookup with your Slashdot ID, we have determined that it is under your sofa. Jeez, I thought they stopped selling that style in the 70's...?
Love,
The Government
easy--they just know where the rocks are...