Any piece of consumer gear that bursts into flames unexpectedly is fundamentally flawed, and should be replaced without further ado.
Even a piece of gear that was out of warranty, broken from a fall, and capable of jumping 10 feet straight up into the air before exploding (according to the daughter)?
Amen to that. I remember in the long ago days of my undergrad CS assembler class (mid '80s) spending the first half of the semester working with the M68000 and thinking, huh, assembly isn't so bad. Then we switched to the 80286. Cue multiple brain explosions around the lab...
And I read both links as well. The second article contains no citations/proof about Apple and Nokia applying pressure on the standards group. Perhaps the blog author could somehow share with the world from where that assertion comes, or update the article to admit this is conjecture.
If I am mistaken, a link to the valid entry would be appreciated.
I just want a quality DVD release of the movie I saw in the theater 25 years ago. No updates/remixes/Han shot 2nd stuff... just the original. I know, too much to ask.
The parent's point was, however, that "there is no constitutional requirement for the state of the union to be a speech. This is true.
From Thomas Jefferson to Woodrow Wilson, there was no "convening of both houses" as the the SotU report was not considered an "extraordinary occasion." The report was simply prepared and sent to Congress.
The SotU provision is designed for two functions: to help Congress perform oversight on the President (Congress holding the President accountable for his actions is part of checks and balances), and to allow the President to submit "measures" to Congress. Since Wilson the primary function of the SotU has been severely diminished to the point where people think every January is an "extraordinary occasion".
All that aside, I don't agree with the idea of playing childish games like "defunding" the SotU as a way to "get back" at Bush. Both Congress and the White House simply need to uphold their oaths of office and the rule of law. After six years of performing no oversight, Congress should open full investigations, shining light into every corner of this presidency, and in this case determining what or who Libby is lying to protect. The President and Vice-President should comply with the investigation fully and without reservation, as they swore to do under oath.
Adam Selene calls Sharper Image. "I'd like to order 1000 of your largest Ionic Breeze machines. And do you deliver? Great, the address is 823 de la Paz Way, Luna City. Have a nice day."
Does a server even scale to support several hundred simultaneous graphic terminal clients?
Our IBM mainframe at the Fortune 500 company I worked for back in '92 supported over 3000 graphic terminals nationwide, with less than 500ms response time. Mainframes talk to control units, CUs talk to terminals - at the time, about 32 per channel. Good times.
Burning and then ripping music costs the consumer time and blank CDs.
I agree, downloading music from the iTunes store costs the consumer a certain amount of time, depending on the speed of their internet connection. Burning and then ripping that music also costs the consumer time, and a few pennies for a blank CD. On the other hand, driving to a brick-and-mortar store from my house, finding the CD I'm looking for (if they even have it in stock), and then driving home before ripping it into my computer takes much longer. Time and convenience advantage: online purchase.
I think you might have to retag your songs as well, which is a huge pain.
In my experience you only have to retag if you are ripping individual songs, not complete albums. Still, retagging does take time - but if I only want to buy one track the iTunes store (or any other online music store) is the way to go. It would be nice if I didn't have to buy the entire album from my brick-and-mortar store when all I want is a single song, but they "lock me in" to complete album purchases.
We should be able to move our music from one player to the next easily, regardless of whether our next player is an iPod or not. If you don't agree with the previous sentence, then say so. If you do agree, then tell me how it isn't inconvenient to burn/rip one's entire iTunes collection. It'd be even better if you'd show me how I can do it through iTunes without third party software.
I don't have an iPod, but I do have a Razr V3m. I can move mp3 files from iTunes to that device in a batch manner without any third-party software. Yes, if I want to move any of the files I've purchased from the iTunes Store to the Razr I need to burn them to a disc and then rip them back as mp3 files - but I do the CD burns anyway as part of my normal backup procedure. Not only am I protected from losing my downloaded music in a hard drive crash, I can re-import the music I've purchased from the iTunes store onto any another computer I may purchase in the future.
It isn't my 'fantasy' to vilify Apple here, but until it is possible through iTunes to move your music to another player in a batch manner, they are (perhaps inadvertently) locking users to the iPod. Apple doesn't get special treatment here just because they are the underdog.
As stated above, I'm not "locked-in" to using an iPod to listen to my iTunes music as I can easily batch transfer my music to the Razr using iTunes.
I am now forced to buy an iPod in order to play the music I legally bought from iTunes.
Why, exactly, is that? Play your music on your PC or Mac. Use your PC or Mac to burn your music to CD, and listen to that. Buy a different brand of music player and convert your music to play on that.
Your statement is incorrect on its face: you are not forced to buy an iPod in order to play your music, nor do you have to purchase the music again.
If email spam is illegal, then pop-up ads should also be illegal, for the exact same reasons. They are uninvited, unwanted wastes of bandwidth. This bandwith costs money, so pop-up ads are, in a way, a form of theft.<p>We need to band together ask for legislation to free us from this parasitical method of nickel and diming us to death.
The big (supposed) surprise for this Sunday's episode of the X-files is that someone will die. My money is on Krychek (ok, I know I didn't spell his name right but whatever). It won't be Mulder, because Duchovney has said in interviews that his character will be back next season in an episode by episode basis (no over-riding commitment like this year's 11 out of 22), Gillian Anderson has next year to finish out her contract, and Robert Patrick and Annabeth Gish have both said they'll be back next year if asked. <p>What is really fun is that the guy who played the Cigarette Smoking Man (William B. Davis) has said that his character isn't dead. Chris Carter (again,based on what he said in a recent interview) has something going on with the story line that will set things up for another movie.
The truth is out there...
A few bits of reality intervention here:
The X-33 is a scale-model prototype, not a functional space plane. That is the X-34, which hasn't even left the drawing boards (or CAD system, whatever).
The X-33 program isn't even relying anymore on NASA funding (go to their site at VentureStar.com and look for yourselves. So what if Space.com claims NASA pulled the plug? On a program they don't fund? Big whoop. I'm pulling the plug on Microsoft. Oh, wait, I don't give them my money.
My guess is that Space.com is trolling for public reaction, because even though NASA's budget increased, the money isn't going toward what they (the folks at Space.com) think is important. Here's a hint: they hate NASA, always have, and think they could do a better job of guiding our country's growth into outer space. Remember that their founding members came out of the aborted L-5 group from the '70s.
The X projects will continue, as they primarily have, to be funded on private monies. If they get cut it will be because the corporations decide to end them, not NASA.
One, because it is tres gnarly to observe Linux folks yet again benefitting from a Mac-based innovation.;-)
Two, because Marathon shaped the direction of first person shoot-em-ups through the Quake and Unreal years. There were true FPS's before Marathon (anybody remember Ultima Underground?), but this game upped the bar considerably.
What would truly make me happy would be a first-person D&D game. I know that Neverwinter Nights will have all the rules of 3rd edition AD&D, but it's a top-down game. Give me a virtual reality, what I see is what I get D&D game, wearing a headphone/mike to chat with my co-players and - whoa, baby. That game will rule the world.
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Last quarter in the US, 90% of all computer sales over $1000 were Macs. Enough drove for you?
Even a piece of gear that was out of warranty, broken from a fall, and capable of jumping 10 feet straight up into the air before exploding (according to the daughter)?
Cyberspace. William Gibson, Neuromancer 1984
Or perhaps you're referring to the term cyberspace. First used in published form by Vernor Vinge, True Names 1981
Establishes the prior art, allows to the idea to benefit the public, and you can still receive compensation.
That's why the ad had a countdown timer at the bottom of the screen showing how long it took to perform those tasks. Oh, wait. It didn't.
What it did do is claim that you can accomplish these tasks quickly by using an iPhone communicating at 3g speeds.
Back in '86, you could buy two $2500 Mac Pluses for the cost of a single IBM AT (which didn't include a monitor).
Just like today, Macs can be "cheap" if you compare them to their competition.
Amen to that. I remember in the long ago days of my undergrad CS assembler class (mid '80s) spending the first half of the semester working with the M68000 and thinking, huh, assembly isn't so bad. Then we switched to the 80286. Cue multiple brain explosions around the lab...
Or a charging station could be embedded in your driveway/garage where you park your electric car.
And I read both links as well. The second article contains no citations/proof about Apple and Nokia applying pressure on the standards group. Perhaps the blog author could somehow share with the world from where that assertion comes, or update the article to admit this is conjecture.
If I am mistaken, a link to the valid entry would be appreciated.
I just want a quality DVD release of the movie I saw in the theater 25 years ago. No updates/remixes/Han shot 2nd stuff... just the original. I know, too much to ask.
"Iowa State College - the high school after high school."
yeah, that's my alma mater...
The parent's point was, however, that "there is no constitutional requirement for the state of the union to be a speech. This is true.
From Thomas Jefferson to Woodrow Wilson, there was no "convening of both houses" as the the SotU report was not considered an "extraordinary occasion." The report was simply prepared and sent to Congress.
The SotU provision is designed for two functions: to help Congress perform oversight on the President (Congress holding the President accountable for his actions is part of checks and balances), and to allow the President to submit "measures" to Congress. Since Wilson the primary function of the SotU has been severely diminished to the point where people think every January is an "extraordinary occasion".
All that aside, I don't agree with the idea of playing childish games like "defunding" the SotU as a way to "get back" at Bush. Both Congress and the White House simply need to uphold their oaths of office and the rule of law. After six years of performing no oversight, Congress should open full investigations, shining light into every corner of this presidency, and in this case determining what or who Libby is lying to protect. The President and Vice-President should comply with the investigation fully and without reservation, as they swore to do under oath.
Adam Selene calls Sharper Image. "I'd like to order 1000 of your largest Ionic Breeze machines. And do you deliver? Great, the address is 823 de la Paz Way, Luna City. Have a nice day."
Our IBM mainframe at the Fortune 500 company I worked for back in '92 supported over 3000 graphic terminals nationwide, with less than 500ms response time. Mainframes talk to control units, CUs talk to terminals - at the time, about 32 per channel. Good times.
Oh, and IAAF. Got the corn/soybean monkey off my back about 5 years ago and put in an organic vineyard.
I agree, downloading music from the iTunes store costs the consumer a certain amount of time, depending on the speed of their internet connection. Burning and then ripping that music also costs the consumer time, and a few pennies for a blank CD. On the other hand, driving to a brick-and-mortar store from my house, finding the CD I'm looking for (if they even have it in stock), and then driving home before ripping it into my computer takes much longer. Time and convenience advantage: online purchase.
I think you might have to retag your songs as well, which is a huge pain.In my experience you only have to retag if you are ripping individual songs, not complete albums. Still, retagging does take time - but if I only want to buy one track the iTunes store (or any other online music store) is the way to go. It would be nice if I didn't have to buy the entire album from my brick-and-mortar store when all I want is a single song, but they "lock me in" to complete album purchases.
We should be able to move our music from one player to the next easily, regardless of whether our next player is an iPod or not. If you don't agree with the previous sentence, then say so. If you do agree, then tell me how it isn't inconvenient to burn/rip one's entire iTunes collection. It'd be even better if you'd show me how I can do it through iTunes without third party software.I don't have an iPod, but I do have a Razr V3m. I can move mp3 files from iTunes to that device in a batch manner without any third-party software. Yes, if I want to move any of the files I've purchased from the iTunes Store to the Razr I need to burn them to a disc and then rip them back as mp3 files - but I do the CD burns anyway as part of my normal backup procedure. Not only am I protected from losing my downloaded music in a hard drive crash, I can re-import the music I've purchased from the iTunes store onto any another computer I may purchase in the future.
It isn't my 'fantasy' to vilify Apple here, but until it is possible through iTunes to move your music to another player in a batch manner, they are (perhaps inadvertently) locking users to the iPod. Apple doesn't get special treatment here just because they are the underdog.As stated above, I'm not "locked-in" to using an iPod to listen to my iTunes music as I can easily batch transfer my music to the Razr using iTunes.
Why, exactly, is that? Play your music on your PC or Mac. Use your PC or Mac to burn your music to CD, and listen to that. Buy a different brand of music player and convert your music to play on that.
Your statement is incorrect on its face: you are not forced to buy an iPod in order to play your music, nor do you have to purchase the music again.
I've still got the video tape - first VCR; thought it'd be cool to record a shuttle launch. Couldn't bear to erase it afterwards.
If email spam is illegal, then pop-up ads should also be illegal, for the exact same reasons. They are uninvited, unwanted wastes of bandwidth. This bandwith costs money, so pop-up ads are, in a way, a form of theft.<p>We need to band together ask for legislation to free us from this parasitical method of nickel and diming us to death.
The big (supposed) surprise for this Sunday's episode of the X-files is that someone will die. My money is on Krychek (ok, I know I didn't spell his name right but whatever). It won't be Mulder, because Duchovney has said in interviews that his character will be back next season in an episode by episode basis (no over-riding commitment like this year's 11 out of 22), Gillian Anderson has next year to finish out her contract, and Robert Patrick and Annabeth Gish have both said they'll be back next year if asked. <p>What is really fun is that the guy who played the Cigarette Smoking Man (William B. Davis) has said that his character isn't dead. Chris Carter (again,based on what he said in a recent interview) has something going on with the story line that will set things up for another movie.
The truth is out there...
A few bits of reality intervention here:
The X-33 is a scale-model prototype, not a functional space plane. That is the X-34, which hasn't even left the drawing boards (or CAD system, whatever).
The X-33 program isn't even relying anymore on NASA funding (go to their site at VentureStar.com and look for yourselves. So what if Space.com claims NASA pulled the plug? On a program they don't fund? Big whoop. I'm pulling the plug on Microsoft. Oh, wait, I don't give them my money.
My guess is that Space.com is trolling for public reaction, because even though NASA's budget increased, the money isn't going toward what they (the folks at Space.com) think is important. Here's a hint: they hate NASA, always have, and think they could do a better job of guiding our country's growth into outer space. Remember that their founding members came out of the aborted L-5 group from the '70s.
The X projects will continue, as they primarily have, to be funded on private monies. If they get cut it will be because the corporations decide to end them, not NASA.
One, because it is tres gnarly to observe Linux folks yet again benefitting from a Mac-based innovation. ;-)
Two, because Marathon shaped the direction of first person shoot-em-ups through the Quake and Unreal years. There were true FPS's before Marathon (anybody remember Ultima Underground?), but this game upped the bar considerably.
What would truly make me happy would be a first-person D&D game. I know that Neverwinter Nights will have all the rules of 3rd edition AD&D, but it's a top-down game. Give me a virtual reality, what I see is what I get D&D game, wearing a headphone/mike to chat with my co-players and - whoa, baby. That game will rule the world.