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...but wait until some 19 megapixel camera appears...

19 megapixel...Bah!

In my book, I'd say that there would have to be some pretty impressive "effort" exerted to build that bridge.

I've been there, and it's breathtaking. They actually have a sign in the exact middle that says "No Fishing From Bridge"!

This will be the scenario when it gets into a wreck.

this review of 40s.

The Gamecube was sold for a loss initially, as Nintendo (via Peter Main) themselves admitted. Don't have the time/energy to find an exact transcript, but a couple of places you can see references to it are here, and here. The highly regarded (and massively overrated) "Acts of Gord" website also references it, as do many other places. For some reason the GC got an early reputation for not selling at a loss, even though Nintendo said otherwise. This myth is slowly dying out, at least.

Most PS2s were of course rush-shipped by (massively expensive) air transport to make the US launch, so there is no way they were sold at a profit initially.

You very well could be right about the PSX, though I still suspect a slight loss in the beginning. I am perfectly willing to concede that, however.

Never argued the N64 was sold at a loss, so I won't defend that statement now, either. :P

I certainly wouldn't argue that selling at an initial loss is the "typical console business model", but it has been used by every major manufacturer (short of perhaps Atari). Especially if you expanded the idea to include selling for a loss at any point in the console's life, which seems fair to me. It is perfectly true to say that most recent consoles are sold using the razorblade model at one time or another, even if via a 'forced' early price-drop.

Glad to see you admit the Saturn was sold at a loss now, though. :D

XBox Media Center's page (googe cache)

There's my karma whoring for the month.

I realize that the sites already slashdotted, so here's the google cache http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:cBtUbkK6lukJ:we b.0sil8.com/episodes/megway/home.html+megway&hl=en of the front page. For the humor impaired: this is a parody of the segway.

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Even Google's Cache is slashdotted. Can no web server survive the wrath of Slashdot?

At first I thought you were making this up. But, then I searched for it.

However, this is quite the rediculous and even laughable strategy.

It made me giggle thinking that a MS product would be suceptible to the specification and API "chasing" that the open source community, who creates products for MS integration, does now (Samba, Mono, et al.).

I'm guessing there are plenty of kernel / distro / package hackers that would just have a field day with such a MS tool. I can hear them now, "it looks like they've figured out how to manage [foo] functionality. I guess it's time to make a change in CVS."

Anyway, given this, I doubt such a tool will ever come about.

Here is a science lesson (meant for high school students) on how to make a speaker. You can download the doc here or use Google's cache here.

"Yes, other studies have found any stimulating (fast) music works. Certain people still like to pretend it's an endorcement of classical music."

Not a big fan of classical music myself, but I can sort of see it working. Classical music has more of a pattern to it than modern dance music. Memorizing it takes a little more mental resources, depending on the song that is. I remember listening to a well made techno remake of Beethoven's 5th. (It's from the Jaguar Game Defender 2000, you can find it here, it's Trak 8 Bonus level..) I remember listening to it and thinking about how rich it felt. I never cared for the original orchestral version but the techno one was done very artistically. It felt like it had more artistic patterns to it than my typical library of techno music.

I really can't rationalize this on a a scientific level, but there's far more to this song to appreciate than I normally run across. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if more of my neurons were firing off pulses as a result of it.

I really don't think, though, it's because it's classical music specifically. I think it just has more to do with the way the composers had to make the music back then. Writing notes down on paper. One can imagine how, during the creation of that song, they'd make the notes themselves as artistic as possible. These days, I don't think music is quite made like that. Seems to be more about making the lyrics work and attaching a few loops and beats to it to chain the words together. I think the more 'engaging' music could easily be made today, it's a matter of focusing the artist down to making art from the patterns of notes.

Or maybe I'm just on crack. I just couldn't help remembering how much I appreciated hearing that techno remix of that song after reading the article today. Lots of ideas about that.

Ceramic.

Post-it note prank
Balloons

I agree. As a society we need to rollback the expansion of corporate rights to pre-1886 levels.

google's cache has an interesting article about a speaker installation system using Motional Feedback, with an unflattering reference to Phillips Motional Feedback system:
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:bNVt5PxCxL8J:ww w.meyersound.com/news/press/sos_x10_800.htm+philip s+motional+feedback+driver&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

one problem with this approach is the pervasiveness of cookies designed for tracking. once your email is out there and linked to certain cookies (and thus profiles) the only way to "de-link" your email address is either to get rid of it or to stop accepting cookies *everywhere*.

double-click is an example that makes the problem easy to visualize. they run advertisements with cookies on many different sites. once they've started a profile on you any time you link (directly or indirectly) to one of their advertisements your profile grows.

once your email has been added to your profile it's too late.

google is no different than double-click in that they are a for-profit-company. that's why they keep their options open with respect to their privacy policy. if selling your personal data becomes very profitable (especially if they were experiencing financial hardship - i know that doesn't sound possible today) they'd do it in a heartbeat. they would be even more likely to do this post-ipo which seems like it will happen eventually.

i had a yahoo email address that i was using "anonymously". put in fake information like lots of folks. then one day a few months ago i noticed that all of the fake information had been replaced by my *real* information. now, i know a bit about anonymity, and while i wasn't under any delusions about the level of anonymity i had at yahoo i was surprised to see all of my personal data displayed given that i never explicitly gave yahoo that data.

since most companies profiling us are driven only by the bottom line and have no vision for a *better* society, yet have a very large impact on the way our society develops, it would be wise to roll back their influence on our lives, IMNSHO.

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Anyone have the link to the google cache?

i very much appreciate the author's insights. but just as AARG! noticed the EFF report's shortcomings, so his/her analysis is also lacking at least one important perspective. what AARG!'s analysis fails to duly acknowledge is the idea that trusted computing supplies Microsoft (replace "Microsoft" with the existing powerful entity of your choice) with a tool to maintain their power over others.

if Microsoft can enable *wide-spread* lock-in prior to alternatives sufficiently establishing themselves, alternatives may never appear. and if they do appear they may never become a true alternative due to Microsoft's ability to control the environment in which any alternative exists.

we live in a society that allows the existence of monopoly corporations with more rights than people. this allows environments to be created where choice is even harder to come by. customer lock-in means not only limiting/eliminating choice, it also means making it too painful to choose freedom.

Microsoft will continue to attempt to lock-in customers by manipulating the environment so there is less choice. they may or may not succeed to one degree or another. trusted computing gives Microsoft a new tool (in addition to their immense leverage over the computing industry, their political power, their financial resources, and their existing monopoly position) in establishing an environment where choice effectively does not exist.

in my mind this is a much more glaring omission than the technical misunderstandings of the EFF report. what's obvious is that the EFF is interested in being a watchdog for freedom, whereas AARG! seems to assume freedom will just happen.

again, trusted computing gives corporations another tool that allows them to consolidate their power, increase their control, and create environments where alternatives exist only in name.

i choose freedom, and will do all i can to rollback the expansion of corporate rights to pre-1886 levels.

P.S.
AARG!, if you read this i'd love to hear your reply (publicly as i don't use the email address attached to this account) to this concern. btw, is there a way to get a message to you?

Actually an ATM card is not a smartcard but just a magnetic stripe. These hold a surprisingly small amount of data, a little over a kilobit. Good luck fitting a rootkit in that!

A kilobit? You wish! Try 140 bytes. :-)

Here's links to google cache mirrors for the site:

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bossisms
qotd

I need the karma :-)

Here's links to google cache mirrors for the site:

techisms
bossisms
qotd

I need the karma :-)

Here's links to google cache mirrors for the site:

techisms
bossisms
qotd

I need the karma :-)

everyone keeps bragging about this guy having a plasma monitor. that certainly doesn't mean the guy's burning hundred dollar bills faster than brain cells. it's worth mention that the StreamStor PCI-816XF2 card costs $8,120 and the cable set is an extra $200. if he bought that for home use as a toy i'd be forced to track him down and slap the hell out of him on general principal.

The Washington Post gets it wrong (again!)

Googledorks are NOT hackers; it's a term for people who leave documents unprotected in a stupid or egregious manner.

Google hacking may be an old phenomenon but Long et al. have taken it to a new level of sophistication, with
scripted interactions with Google and a huge database of custom queries for finding protected documents and
information.

The Googledorks Page.

And lastly, despite people at private security firms "tracking the issue" and Homeland Security being "aware" of the problem but "unable to do anything about it", the truth is the issue could be stopped cold. Most of the hacks are built around a small set of specially crafted queries such as intitle:"index of". Blacklisting these queries at the search engine would end 99% of Google hacking in its current form.

Of course, leave it to the billions of wasted dollars at DHS to get it wrong. At least we have Johnny (:

Seems as if the ballot has been taken off line due to /. or some other reason, but here is the cache.

ballot

Why do they have to be underground? Would it be so bad if they could have their own magazine and perhaps some clubs/organizations?

There have been tons of virus groups and magazines.

The google cache, in case that link doesn't go.

Click here for Google's Cache

There were countless contacts w/ Saddam, including all the punative measures taken against him, which were also part of that diplomatic process. The U.N. pleaded with him for 12 years to come clean. You're just lying, or grossly misinformed.

Here, I did a quick google search and here's just one url in thousands:
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:UedRn7Sg5C4J:ww w.wdi.bus.umich.edu/news/MKAAnnArborNews10_26_02.d oc+diplomacy+with+saddam&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

Honestly I don't think anybody actually believes that GW was interested in a diplomatic solution. He wanted to get saddam from the getgo. Probably because Saddam wanted to kill his dad.

Regime change had been the policy for years, though I think most Americans, including Bush, had long since figured the only way Saddam was ever going to be removed was by force. In fact, according to O'Neill, Bush asked for all available Iraq options, including invasion a few months after taking office, though he refused to narrow them down until after 9/11.

"the military situation is impossible (N. Korea),"

Why? What do you mean impossible? You mean the combined might of the US and coalition forces could not invade and occupy north Korea? That's just silly.

OK, now I'm certain of it, you're clueless:
1. N. Korea has thousands of artillery pointed at Seoul, S. Korea, and could level that city killing hundreds of thousands in minutes.
2. N. Korea has a vast, modern, dedicated army with the ability to strike many of our allies very hard from afar.
3. N. Korea has NUKES, you IDIOT. The fact this is news to you is proof you prefer your own ignorance just so you can go on bashing Bush.
4. N. Korea's population has been very thoroughly cut off from the rest of the world for 50 years. They remain the only country in the world where it is impossible for to get internet access. The people revere their leaders as gods, and have had no opposing points of view presented to them. Invasion, much less occupation, would be orders of magnitude more difficult than Iraq.

What American interests are you talking about?
Ok, let's try having a megalomaniacal dictator and avowed enemy of the U.S. who has invaded his neighbors twice and is pursuing WMD so he can try again w impunity in the most unstable region of the world, who is both openly and covertyly funding and supporting terrorism

But let's be real here. Being an enemy of the U.S. makes any dictator more desirable to you.

You have done no such thing. I'll ask again. There are hundreds of millions of people suffering all over the world. We could help many of them for less money then we spent in Iraq and with no loss of US soldiers. With a hundred billion or two we could end starvation and illeteracy in the entire world. We don't even have to invade or occupy countries. We could help them without using our military.

How utterly naive and uninformed. A few hundred billion wouldn't make a scratch on the world's poverty situation, not simply because it would take in fact several trillion, but because the dictators and thugs in most of these countries wouldn't be so humanitarian. They would do just as Saddam did, demand the payment be made to himself alone, then use it to build massive palaces or fund his opression machinery or army.

In fact, you stated Iraq was worst off now than under Saddam. I then asked if you would rather live in Iraq now or then. It is a simple yes/no question. How about an answer? I've answered yours about as well as I know how.

Heaven helps the man that helps himself.

Hold it, hold it. Let me get this straight: Microsoft is distributing code under the GPL license??!??!

The same licence they have been warning businesses about? The one they told the their customers, and the world, "We recommend you obtain counsel from your lawyer" before using?

The licence they called "viral?" The one they warned could "infect" your code?

"Have you considered the risk that GPL code might infringe on third party intellectual property rights?" Isn't that what they asked? Couldn't "the author of a GPL program unilaterally withdraw your right to distribute the program?" Weren't they so, so, worried about all this before? It's all in their GPL analysis FAQ.

I don't know if this is the first time they have distributed code under the GPL or not. In any case this shocks me. How could Microsoft be so irresponsible as to expose their customers to a licence that could lead them to disaster? And if it did, couldn't the customers hold Microsoft financially accountable? Why would they take such a risk?

It almost makes you think that Microsoft wasn't being honest when they said those things about the GPL... that they were simply trying to frighten people from what they knew, in fact, to be a very good, safe licence for their customers.

But that couldn't be... could it?

Actually, many backbones have switched to IPv6 because ROUTING is FASTER on IPv6 than IPv4.
On this simple fact I assume that the author of this article just don't know what he is talking about. As for security and as for NAT (which is less secure than he even thinks it is, as a protection).

IPv4 has seen many, many security issues in the *recent* past btw (ISN Prediction anyone ? Spoof with any ip)

He also forgot that there are tunnels from ipv4 to ipv6 and from ipv6 to ipv4, effectivly adding compatibility. If someone is stuck with ipv4 somewhere on the globe, np, he setup a tunnel to ipv6 and none is stuck. Damn FUD, I say.

refs:

IPv6 FAQ

Routing

(IPv6 has less headers => faster routing

(Better QoS => more efficient network

(etc.)

Dude, celebrity or not, there is a guild rate for commerical and/or radio voice overs, and they're all probably getting the same $$. Microsoft probably "sponsored" their studies for about the same or more dollars ("the larger the amount of money, the more the study is in your favor", is the way it goes, I don't doubt).

Why do you post repeated replies to my messages? Isn't one enough? They do log IPs, you know.

I think OSS is a great idea when it works.

I have no idea what you're talking about with the "damning entries" in my journal.

Heres the google cache of the rankings.
It's from the 12th of December. PCLinuxOS is 11th in the last 3 months column.

Web Design Best Practices, was a research project to see where the majority of sites place their links, shopping carts, global navigation, search boxes, etc. Unfortunately, the site seems to have disappeared, so the link is Google cache.

Here's the surviving mirror in Russian with links to the resources in English if you scroll down.

Japanese phone in US market? Take a quick look at the cell phones available in the US, Japanese vendors have very small percentage of the market. Korean vendors like LG or Samsung has much better share of the markets.

Japanese 2G system is based on Docomo's own TDMA technology and isn't compatible with the international standard GSM. While this allows Docomo to evolve the system faster and benefit from the success of i-mode in Japan, the incompatibility has casue Japanse phone vendors such as Panasonic, Sony and others the world market.

The world wide mobile phone market has been dominated by the MEN (Motorola, Ericsson, and Nokia) and three of them has combined market shares of 80% or so.

Right now, the battlefield for mobile phone market is in China who has 250 millions mobile subscribers and that's almost the whole population of the US. Chinese market is expected to double to 500 millions by 2007.

The battle in China is just the beginning and the next will be India with has only 5 millions of cell phone subscribers. With a population of 1 billions, there are plenty of growth opportunities.

Laying out the facts about the market, we can see how important Chinese cell phne market is today. Whoever gets Chinese market will get India market. Cell phone, much like computers, has almost the same price across the world. A handset costs $100 in the US will still cost $100 in China or Inida. In this regard, US market is relatively unimportant.

In late 2002, several Chinese vendors like Ningbo Bird, TCL, Haier and Legend announced that they would enter the Chinese cell phone market while was dominated by MEN with 80% market shares along with Samsung, Panasonic and Seimen for the rest, the Chinese vendors was laughed at by the press. The prediction was the Chinese vendors' combined market share would be about 10%. Early this year, the number was adjusted to 20% and the truth came out is that Chinese vendors now have 55% of the Chinese cell phone markets and Motorola was overtaken by Ningbo Bird which is now the #1 cell phone vendor in China.

However, with all the glory in gaining the market share, Chinese vendors was doing it by licensing, OEM, ODM the phones from vendors from other countries such as Korea, Taiwan, Europe, and US including Motorola. Lack of the control to the core technologies, the Chinese vendors can't gain huge profit from their market share and also means their market domination depends on the competitors to supply the technologies.

Now, with market shares at hand, the Chinese vendors will be able to support domestic vendors to develop technologies for cell phones. Europe GSM has long developing the model of having large companies like Nokia or Ericsson in charge of the global branding and marketing while supporting start-ups at home to do design and development. Same thing is going to happen in China. The company E28 in the story was founded by top level executive of Motorola's China operation.

In conclusion, Japanese vendors are niche in the global cell phone markets. US cell phones market isn't important because there is no market growth and the standard used in the US is also not standard compliant (GSM runs at 900/1800 Mhz while US GSM called PCS runs at 1900 Mhz). The real market of significant is China today and India tomorrow and whoever wins China today will have India tomorrow.