No one writing about this knows any more of the details than what was released to the press. At best all of this is blind supposition and wasted mental bandwidth.
If all of the effort that went into these various prognostications of impending doom had been spent on coding we'd all be a lot better off.
RC2 isn't any better. You didn't mention how much memory you have, you pretty much need 1GB to do anything useful. Speed wise, Vista seems to be much better off without Aero running as it seems to be doing quite a bit of stuff outside the GPU that results in a bigger system memory footprint.
I had RC1, then RC2 running on a 3.2Ghz Pentium machine with 512MB. Apps like Adobe Lightroom (Beta 4) and Photoshop CS2 were slow enough to make me give up trying to use them.
My interest in Vista stems mostly from having attended a photographer's summit put on by Microsoft early this year. They were seeking input from pros about the features we'd like to see in Windows and there are actually a few things in Vista that were brought up there, even though the bulk of it was more of a pitch about where they are better than OSX. They still have a long long way to go though.
I know that in the roofing industry you can put down a membrane that complies with CRRC requirements and within a month it won't. Granted, we're talking about relatively flat horizontal surfaces but anything left outside almost immediately begins losing measurable reflectivity from dust and dirt.
You can find white kids in the Hamptons who speak like that, but the disclaimer specifically asks that everyone forgive the poster's poor parody of some garbled version of English because he is not poor or African, which means he cannot possibly be a native speaker of the garbled English, because only the poor and the African are, which is an untrue stereotype of the racist classist variety.
I would be suprised if they didn't hand it out more than that.
Some of the torrent sites list the most popular torrents at any given time, virtually all of the top 100 or so are copyrighted material and they all have several hundred seeds and several hundred leeches. Given the relatively large number of users the more traditional P2P sites have I would imagine a good version of a currently popular tune could be downloaded thousands of times, particularly given the unlimited amount of time it could be made available.
Also worth considering that if this defense ends up working the next tactic by the RIAA will likely involve them downloading several hundred thousand copies of a single song and taking you to court with that.
I'm sure that will go over as a real knee slapper at the next Klan rally. Good to see racism is alive and well even outside the less affluent regions of major cities.
In a lot of cases all Scientology needs to do is send a notice. Slashdot caved rather quickly with just a notice, that cases never made it to the lawsuit stage.
My car (truck actually) has a connector and I can control my iPod from my steering wheel, something that can't be via with an audio input jack. There are also several aftermarket solutions that work over CAN-BUS and the like, that allow control of the player via factory radio, as an AUX device.
I bet Meijers sells iPods. I've seen them in some odd places.
The Meijers near my house sells them. I once bought one out of a vending machine at an airport in Atlanta, because I was about to fly out to the boonies and was getting nervous about whether I would have enough storage space for photos.
Which brings me to the main reason I won't switch: I always carry a couple of iPods when I'm shooting long assignments so I can use them to store photos. Clamp on a readily available CF card reader and they make excellent portable hard drives that just happen to play music. If a Zune won't work as a generic HD or keep up with iPod's HD size I can't use it.
The coolness factor is also useful in my position, iPods are recognized by the most unlikely people in the most unlikely places and can get you out of difficult situations. Like when the KLA though I was on the wrong side and wanted to detain me. Lets see a Zune do that.
by jimstapleton (999106) on Thursday November 09, @03:03PM (#16788335)
so, basically, the standard capitolism mantra: "Screw the consumer"
You are so correct. I would much rather the government just took my money at gunpoint, delivered a PS3 to my home whenever they got around to it, and called that a service.
What we NEEDED to do was build good will all along the way as we marched towards Baghdad.
Absolutely. What we should have done was trail our military convoys with trucks carrying pre-built McDonalds restaurants and Wal-Mart Supercenters. Free DirectTV dishes to the first 500,000 people. Jam a burger in one hand and a pair of blue jeans in the other and no one can stay mad at you for very long.
In order to be effective in a battlefield situation you need to lean quite a bit toward hating everyone but yourself (and your fellow soldiers). One of the key reasons why modern armies have such a difficult time with insurgents is because modern armies must discriminate between civilian and military targets. Insurgents do not appear to concern themselves with this to the same degree.
I have ridden along with a wide variety of military forces in a wide variety of countries and the best ones always have an unwavering understanding of the fact that their job is to kill as many of the enemy as they possibly can with whatever means they have at their disposal. Asking those same people to keep the peace or rebuild the nation is a recipe for disaster.
Depending on what you consider right, it was right.
It was right because the climate in the US still allowed the Executive branch to do pretty much whatever it wanted under the guise of protecting us from terrorists. Right because the press, caught up in the wave of patriotism, was happy to copy and paste anything served up to them by the feds right on to their front pages, retractions and apologies about shoddy fact checking and shirking journalistic duty to be printed a couple years down the road on the back page. Most of the US and quite a few abroad were united by an honest and worthwhile desire to combat terrorism and the time was right to exploit that. I'd say that, considering the amount of money made off the whole thing, that is an excellent return on investment.
So in the sense that it could be done while everyone not on the receiving end of the bombs was still smiling it was a resounding success. Even with the benefit of hindsight and full knowledge that we were hoodwinked into supporting the invasion the best punishment we appear to be able to mete out is to hand control of congress to a political party that was just slightly less culpable in fabricating the entire deception.
Even more like: Lobbyists write new laws and, in exchange for campaign donations, committee heads allow them to be passed to the floor where congress votes according to party affiliation, the parties having determined which way their minions will vote based on campaign donations.
The one idea that would be very useful for Slashdotters to comprehend is that their particular reading of a particular law means next to nothing. All laws have to be considered in conjunction with their relevant case law.
In the US the courts have far more power over the day to day activities of your average citizen than any other branch. Not only do they broadly interpret that laws written by legislators, they consider whether specific actions, taken by the police for instance, comply with those laws and whether or not they violate any granted rights.
Not I but my brother voted on one of our iVotronic's today and told me that everything seemed to go well while he was at the polling place. One of the workers did tell him that the process is taking longer and voters are requiring a lot more assitance.
Actually, our machines vary by county. here is a regularly updated page that chronicles various voting related issues in the state.
All of the newness of our Voter ID law and our optical scan machines convinced me to actually vote today. Despite the glaring lack of quality candidates the process was fairly smooth.
After playing around with this this morning I can't quite get the hang of the grab and drag navigation. In photo mode (or bird's eye view I guess) it appears to limit the grab and drag range to the actual photo loaded into the frame, and the only way to move outside that is to load another photo by clicking in some kind of grid containing too-small-for-clarity thumbnails.
Maybe I'm wrong and didn't spend enough time with it, but that is a huge handicap, better photos or not. With Google Earth I can grab and drag to wherever. Half of what I want to find isn't tied to an address, it is much easier to find by following landmarks.
The RAZR's big benefit is its form factor. Only recently has any other phone really matched that and I'd say it has been bettered only by other Motorolas, at least based on what the carriers around here offer. That and the fact that I don't have to buy and carry around some cable that works only for my phone, I can charge and connect a RAZR with a USB cable.
Yes the UI has some drawbacks but cell phone UIs in general suck all around.
You could slap together Voter Information Packets until all of the world's trees committed suicide in an act of preemptive capitulation and it would not matter, because people in general will not take the time to read any of it, and even if they do they will not understand the bulk of what is written because they do not have the necessary fundamental understanding of even half the issues that pass in front of your average legislator.
From the example you give I assume you'd be overjoyed to give pedophiles unfettered access to the underpants of our children just because you don't want to see oil companies given competitive edge they need to keep more jobs and more wealth right here in the USA? You aren;t happy with just mentally deranging our kids, you want us all to lose our jobs and have to go on the state dole as well?
You print up your info packets and hope people read them. I'll slap the above paragraph on a billboard next to a major commuter artery. People want sensational marketing. They want one sentence, preferably one word, answers to everything. Freedom. Terror. Islamofacist. Children. We are conditioned to digest our information in tiny little bites. We no longer have the stomach for critical thinking.
If you want a single solution, and I know everyone does, eliminate the television entirely. Tear down every TV broadcast tower, rip out every inch of coax, laser blast the satellites from the sky. That would do more than any packets of any kind.
Fortunately the lives of politicians are a passing fancy for most people, only being important to them just before an election. This is good, because rooting around someone's personal life can get out of hand quickly and it usually doesn't offer much insight into who they actually are or what they stand for in political terms.
I have a friend/colleague (I'm a professional photographer) who does 'celebrity photojournalism' on a regular basis for a couple of big magazines. He can afford to rent a helicopter and buy fuel for the day to cover an A list celbrity wedding and still walk off with a nice profit, just because there are so many people who want to see those shots. I would hate to see that same appetite for substanceless voyeurism applied to politicians.
People laugh at George W Bush, call him an imbecile, etc., but his handlers put him into the highest office of the most powerful country on earth with campaign speeches consisting of little more than repeated utterances of a few dozen phrases that tested well in front of a beef fed white Christian focus group.
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This is getting worse than Zune news.
No one writing about this knows any more of the details than what was released to the press. At best all of this is blind supposition and wasted mental bandwidth.
If all of the effort that went into these various prognostications of impending doom had been spent on coding we'd all be a lot better off.
RC2 isn't any better. You didn't mention how much memory you have, you pretty much need 1GB to do anything useful. Speed wise, Vista seems to be much better off without Aero running as it seems to be doing quite a bit of stuff outside the GPU that results in a bigger system memory footprint.
I had RC1, then RC2 running on a 3.2Ghz Pentium machine with 512MB. Apps like Adobe Lightroom (Beta 4) and Photoshop CS2 were slow enough to make me give up trying to use them.
My interest in Vista stems mostly from having attended a photographer's summit put on by Microsoft early this year. They were seeking input from pros about the features we'd like to see in Windows and there are actually a few things in Vista that were brought up there, even though the bulk of it was more of a pitch about where they are better than OSX. They still have a long long way to go though.
I know that in the roofing industry you can put down a membrane that complies with CRRC requirements and within a month it won't. Granted, we're talking about relatively flat horizontal surfaces but anything left outside almost immediately begins losing measurable reflectivity from dust and dirt.
Me too.
You can find white kids in the Hamptons who speak like that, but the disclaimer specifically asks that everyone forgive the poster's poor parody of some garbled version of English because he is not poor or African, which means he cannot possibly be a native speaker of the garbled English, because only the poor and the African are, which is an untrue stereotype of the racist classist variety.
Some of the torrent sites list the most popular torrents at any given time, virtually all of the top 100 or so are copyrighted material and they all have several hundred seeds and several hundred leeches. Given the relatively large number of users the more traditional P2P sites have I would imagine a good version of a currently popular tune could be downloaded thousands of times, particularly given the unlimited amount of time it could be made available.
Also worth considering that if this defense ends up working the next tactic by the RIAA will likely involve them downloading several hundred thousand copies of a single song and taking you to court with that.
Yes, +5 Funny.
I'm sure that will go over as a real knee slapper at the next Klan rally. Good to see racism is alive and well even outside the less affluent regions of major cities.
In a lot of cases all Scientology needs to do is send a notice. Slashdot caved rather quickly with just a notice, that cases never made it to the lawsuit stage.
Sure they do.
My car (truck actually) has a connector and I can control my iPod from my steering wheel, something that can't be via with an audio input jack. There are also several aftermarket solutions that work over CAN-BUS and the like, that allow control of the player via factory radio, as an AUX device.
The Meijers near my house sells them. I once bought one out of a vending machine at an airport in Atlanta, because I was about to fly out to the boonies and was getting nervous about whether I would have enough storage space for photos.
Which brings me to the main reason I won't switch: I always carry a couple of iPods when I'm shooting long assignments so I can use them to store photos. Clamp on a readily available CF card reader and they make excellent portable hard drives that just happen to play music. If a Zune won't work as a generic HD or keep up with iPod's HD size I can't use it.
The coolness factor is also useful in my position, iPods are recognized by the most unlikely people in the most unlikely places and can get you out of difficult situations. Like when the KLA though I was on the wrong side and wanted to detain me. Lets see a Zune do that.
You are so correct. I would much rather the government just took my money at gunpoint, delivered a PS3 to my home whenever they got around to it, and called that a service.
I think. The money they use to pay taxes could not possibly be the same money we pay them for goods and services, could it?
Absolutely. What we should have done was trail our military convoys with trucks carrying pre-built McDonalds restaurants and Wal-Mart Supercenters. Free DirectTV dishes to the first 500,000 people. Jam a burger in one hand and a pair of blue jeans in the other and no one can stay mad at you for very long.
In order to be effective in a battlefield situation you need to lean quite a bit toward hating everyone but yourself (and your fellow soldiers). One of the key reasons why modern armies have such a difficult time with insurgents is because modern armies must discriminate between civilian and military targets. Insurgents do not appear to concern themselves with this to the same degree.
I have ridden along with a wide variety of military forces in a wide variety of countries and the best ones always have an unwavering understanding of the fact that their job is to kill as many of the enemy as they possibly can with whatever means they have at their disposal. Asking those same people to keep the peace or rebuild the nation is a recipe for disaster.
Depending on what you consider right, it was right.
It was right because the climate in the US still allowed the Executive branch to do pretty much whatever it wanted under the guise of protecting us from terrorists. Right because the press, caught up in the wave of patriotism, was happy to copy and paste anything served up to them by the feds right on to their front pages, retractions and apologies about shoddy fact checking and shirking journalistic duty to be printed a couple years down the road on the back page. Most of the US and quite a few abroad were united by an honest and worthwhile desire to combat terrorism and the time was right to exploit that. I'd say that, considering the amount of money made off the whole thing, that is an excellent return on investment.
So in the sense that it could be done while everyone not on the receiving end of the bombs was still smiling it was a resounding success. Even with the benefit of hindsight and full knowledge that we were hoodwinked into supporting the invasion the best punishment we appear to be able to mete out is to hand control of congress to a political party that was just slightly less culpable in fabricating the entire deception.
Even more like: Lobbyists write new laws and, in exchange for campaign donations, committee heads allow them to be passed to the floor where congress votes according to party affiliation, the parties having determined which way their minions will vote based on campaign donations.
Interpretation of the law is everything.
The one idea that would be very useful for Slashdotters to comprehend is that their particular reading of a particular law means next to nothing. All laws have to be considered in conjunction with their relevant case law.
In the US the courts have far more power over the day to day activities of your average citizen than any other branch. Not only do they broadly interpret that laws written by legislators, they consider whether specific actions, taken by the police for instance, comply with those laws and whether or not they violate any granted rights.
Not I but my brother voted on one of our iVotronic's today and told me that everything seemed to go well while he was at the polling place. One of the workers did tell him that the process is taking longer and voters are requiring a lot more assitance.
All of the newness of our Voter ID law and our optical scan machines convinced me to actually vote today. Despite the glaring lack of quality candidates the process was fairly smooth.
After playing around with this this morning I can't quite get the hang of the grab and drag navigation. In photo mode (or bird's eye view I guess) it appears to limit the grab and drag range to the actual photo loaded into the frame, and the only way to move outside that is to load another photo by clicking in some kind of grid containing too-small-for-clarity thumbnails.
Maybe I'm wrong and didn't spend enough time with it, but that is a huge handicap, better photos or not. With Google Earth I can grab and drag to wherever. Half of what I want to find isn't tied to an address, it is much easier to find by following landmarks.
The RAZR's big benefit is its form factor. Only recently has any other phone really matched that and I'd say it has been bettered only by other Motorolas, at least based on what the carriers around here offer. That and the fact that I don't have to buy and carry around some cable that works only for my phone, I can charge and connect a RAZR with a USB cable.
Yes the UI has some drawbacks but cell phone UIs in general suck all around.
From the example you give I assume you'd be overjoyed to give pedophiles unfettered access to the underpants of our children just because you don't want to see oil companies given competitive edge they need to keep more jobs and more wealth right here in the USA? You aren;t happy with just mentally deranging our kids, you want us all to lose our jobs and have to go on the state dole as well?
You print up your info packets and hope people read them. I'll slap the above paragraph on a billboard next to a major commuter artery. People want sensational marketing. They want one sentence, preferably one word, answers to everything. Freedom. Terror. Islamofacist. Children. We are conditioned to digest our information in tiny little bites. We no longer have the stomach for critical thinking.
If you want a single solution, and I know everyone does, eliminate the television entirely. Tear down every TV broadcast tower, rip out every inch of coax, laser blast the satellites from the sky. That would do more than any packets of any kind.
You are thinking of "at will employment".
Fortunately the lives of politicians are a passing fancy for most people, only being important to them just before an election. This is good, because rooting around someone's personal life can get out of hand quickly and it usually doesn't offer much insight into who they actually are or what they stand for in political terms.
I have a friend/colleague (I'm a professional photographer) who does 'celebrity photojournalism' on a regular basis for a couple of big magazines. He can afford to rent a helicopter and buy fuel for the day to cover an A list celbrity wedding and still walk off with a nice profit, just because there are so many people who want to see those shots. I would hate to see that same appetite for substanceless voyeurism applied to politicians.
People laugh at George W Bush, call him an imbecile, etc., but his handlers put him into the highest office of the most powerful country on earth with campaign speeches consisting of little more than repeated utterances of a few dozen phrases that tested well in front of a beef fed white Christian focus group.
If that isn't genius I don't know what is..