That's exactly what I was thinking. I've got a row of boxes sitting on a shelf with Civ1 - 4/Warlords. If they put something on there that is a problem it will be the first cracked version that I've downloaded for free.
If it ends up being broken because of DRM, why not buy the game so the developers get their cut and then download the cracked version? You get an easy-to-use version, the developers get their cut, and everyone is happy.
My point was that if they have no problem stopping people in the streets to demand they prove they are hear legally, why not repurpose cameras they have already paid for and put them on the border?
If, say, Comcast is not providing service at the level that customers want, then the customers need to take their business elsewhere.
Yeah. In my area, AT&T offers DSL, Comcast offers digital cable, and if we want anything else we have to stick our thumbs up our asses. Two options is not a choice, it's a fucking joke.
First of all, thanks for not taking a flamethrower to me for my reply. I don't often make posts like that because I don't like getting vitriol in response to trying to have a dialog.
Can't get anywhere with a flamewar:-)
That won't make too a big difference. I'm 46 and didn't grow up with a computer in the house. Unless you want to count the Pong machine (No really that's all it did was play Pong). And I'm very much a technophile, and do mechanical design. My son is 21 and there was always computers around as he grew up. Yet he has no interest in the complexities of computers, only the application of them.
I'm 26, which, in my opinion, is the perfect age. I'm old enough to remember renting VHS tapes, seeing orange and green displays, being amazed at early "briefcase phones", and knowing a time before the consumer Internet. I'm also young enough to be able to take full advantage of it and have seen the Internet enter the public conciousness just as I was becomming an age old enough to figure it out easily...old enough to understand, young enough to learn it quickly.
People like your son baffle me. You can't expect to get the most out of something if you don't know how it works. This applies to cars, computers, music...you name it.
The counter to what I said about my son is this. A simple device like an iPad could be the gateway drug for some people, young and old alike. Not every junkie starts out on heroin.
I agree...it shouldn't be that way, but::shrug:: what'r you gonna do?
What you say is true. However for the "average user" (read not folks on/.) Install then uninstall a couple of programs on the Windows box, and the registry gets a little cranky. Or on Windows or OS X they read an article that changing this, that, or the other setting will make the machine do "something cool." And then suddenly it does work the same as it did before.
The system isn't borked or anything. But the machine no longer behaves as it once did so it might as well be completely screwed as far as the user is concerned.
Give the same group of people a device which does what they need to amuse themselves. With an OS designed for it. With very little flexibility to save them from themselves, and everybody's happy.
Yes, even you. Because now you don't have to spend a weekend trying to figure out what Aunt Emma did to trash her registry.
Fair enough. I still anxiously look forward to a time when no generation is left alive that grew up without a computer in the home.
Some people do just want digital picture books. Some just want to surf the web and stream Pandora. Just because someone doesn't want to use a computer for the same type. or breadth of things that you do doesn't mean they are stupid.
Agreed...but needing it to be the equivalent of Duplo blocks is ridiculous. You have to move up to regular Legos at SOME point.
If fact I'm very sure that there are a lot of people out there who are a lot smarter than you, or me, that just want that digital picture book.
Wanting and needing are two very different things.
its pretty obvious that you are so filled with hate for the ipad simply because you can't afford it.
Why of course, that must be it!
of course you could never admit it but that's because you're a gutter-snipe.
I don't know about that...I don't really go outside much.
95% of the criticism that's leveled against apple kit is based on jealously - it's an unspoken but obvious truth.
Yes, that's it. I'm jealous that people are spending the same amount of money on an iPad that I spent on my laptop, yet they have half the functionality of my purchase. Stupid features and usability. What the hell was I thinking, why wouldn't I want to spend the same amount of money for less functionality? Doy.
it's a leisure device, it's instant-on and easy enough for kids to use without messing things up.
Fuck that, I WANT my kid to mess his computer up. And when he does, unless it is something catastrophically, crazy messed up, he has to learn how to fix it himself.
My dad did the same with me, and it has served me very well. Provide the basics, let them figure out the rest. Mistakes are the best teachers.
Agreed. If you are a hardcore gamer or programmer, then yes tweaking your system to its fullest can be a complicated affair. If you are just a normal user, then the average consumer computer (i.e. one that runs OSX or Windows 7) is extremely simple. If all you do is websurfing, it doesn't take long to learn how to push the power button, wait for it to boot up, and click on the icon for your internet browser.
The fact that people find computers sooo complicated and need pictures that look like they were drawn for pre-schoolers makes me fear for society. Have we as a culture really become that goddamn stupid? Do we really need our computers to function like digital picture books?
Oh noes, this one has words longer than four letters! Oh, and what the hell is this rectangular thing with the alphabet and a numbers on it? And what is this crazy contraption that slides around?
Seriously. 20 years ago, something like the iPad being a great idea to simplify computing would have been believable. Now? It's just fucking pathetic.
Larger size/more affordability, for the most part. I know it's a huge performance boost to a system, but I don't want to only have a 40 GB system drive, and the larger ones get a bit too rich for my blood.
I recognize the prices are high because they are still "new", but compared to the cost of a mechanical drive their price-per-GB is outrageous.
It's no different than a footballer or hockey player that has a broken body later on in life. Chess players use their minds like footballers and hockey players use their body.
...but for big-time storage, mechanical drives are still king. As the technology stands now, it is pretty much useless for large-scale storage due to many different things, not the least of which is the cost. That being said, I'm curious if by the time SSDs reach the capacity, price point, and reliability needed for long term storage if they will still be relevant.
Here's to hoping, though...I love the idea of an SSD, but they still need some advancements before I consider one as my main system drive, much less for storage.
I know this is the sort of thing that goes on at black hat conferences, but could this guy potentially get in some sort of legal trouble for demonstrating what he has found?
I've had to do this. When I bought Mass Effect for a friend for his birthday, we couldn't get it work on his PC no matter what we did. We ended up having to download the crack off::name redacted:: so he could play the game that was LEGALLY PURCHASED.
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That's exactly what I was thinking. I've got a row of boxes sitting on a shelf with Civ1 - 4/Warlords. If they put something on there that is a problem it will be the first cracked version that I've downloaded for free.
If it ends up being broken because of DRM, why not buy the game so the developers get their cut and then download the cracked version? You get an easy-to-use version, the developers get their cut, and everyone is happy.
That would only catch the really fast ones.
What, you mean like this one?
Or...you know....here legally...not hear...wow, lol :-)
My point was that if they have no problem stopping people in the streets to demand they prove they are hear legally, why not repurpose cameras they have already paid for and put them on the border?
Why not repurpose them and put them on the border? You know, since Arizona is so into stopping illegals...
Wine all you want, open-source fanatics. Our HTPCs are getting quite a nice boost in usability.
If, say, Comcast is not providing service at the level that customers want, then the customers need to take their business elsewhere.
Yeah. In my area, AT&T offers DSL, Comcast offers digital cable, and if we want anything else we have to stick our thumbs up our asses. Two options is not a choice, it's a fucking joke.
The iPad is comprable in performance to a modern netbook...and modern netbook's can handle flash just fine.
First of all, thanks for not taking a flamethrower to me for my reply. I don't often make posts like that because I don't like getting vitriol in response to trying to have a dialog.
Can't get anywhere with a flamewar :-)
That won't make too a big difference. I'm 46 and didn't grow up with a computer in the house. Unless you want to count the Pong machine (No really that's all it did was play Pong). And I'm very much a technophile, and do mechanical design. My son is 21 and there was always computers around as he grew up. Yet he has no interest in the complexities of computers, only the application of them.
I'm 26, which, in my opinion, is the perfect age. I'm old enough to remember renting VHS tapes, seeing orange and green displays, being amazed at early "briefcase phones", and knowing a time before the consumer Internet. I'm also young enough to be able to take full advantage of it and have seen the Internet enter the public conciousness just as I was becomming an age old enough to figure it out easily...old enough to understand, young enough to learn it quickly.
People like your son baffle me. You can't expect to get the most out of something if you don't know how it works. This applies to cars, computers, music...you name it.
The counter to what I said about my son is this. A simple device like an iPad could be the gateway drug for some people, young and old alike. Not every junkie starts out on heroin.
I agree...it shouldn't be that way, but ::shrug:: what'r you gonna do?
Trying to get everyone to re-post their comments will be quite a task. Doesn't help you've ruined it- you never said "Dupe much" last time.
it wasn't a dupe the first time, clod!
What you say is true. However for the "average user" (read not folks on /.) Install then uninstall a couple of programs on the Windows box, and the registry gets a little cranky. Or on Windows or OS X they read an article that changing this, that, or the other setting will make the machine do "something cool." And then suddenly it does work the same as it did before.
The system isn't borked or anything. But the machine no longer behaves as it once did so it might as well be completely screwed as far as the user is concerned.
Give the same group of people a device which does what they need to amuse themselves. With an OS designed for it. With very little flexibility to save them from themselves, and everybody's happy.
Yes, even you. Because now you don't have to spend a weekend trying to figure out what Aunt Emma did to trash her registry.
Fair enough. I still anxiously look forward to a time when no generation is left alive that grew up without a computer in the home.
Some people do just want digital picture books. Some just want to surf the web and stream Pandora. Just because someone doesn't want to use a computer for the same type. or breadth of things that you do doesn't mean they are stupid.
Agreed...but needing it to be the equivalent of Duplo blocks is ridiculous. You have to move up to regular Legos at SOME point.
If fact I'm very sure that there are a lot of people out there who are a lot smarter than you, or me, that just want that digital picture book.
Wanting and needing are two very different things.
Gah, meant the summaries start and end are almost flipped, not the same :/
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=10/05/05/2222250
lolwut? The summaries even end almost exactly the same!
its pretty obvious that you are so filled with hate for the ipad simply because you can't afford it.
Why of course, that must be it!
of course you could never admit it but that's because you're a gutter-snipe.
I don't know about that...I don't really go outside much.
95% of the criticism that's leveled against apple kit is based on jealously - it's an unspoken but obvious truth.
Yes, that's it. I'm jealous that people are spending the same amount of money on an iPad that I spent on my laptop, yet they have half the functionality of my purchase. Stupid features and usability. What the hell was I thinking, why wouldn't I want to spend the same amount of money for less functionality? Doy.
it's a leisure device, it's instant-on and easy enough for kids to use without messing things up.
Fuck that, I WANT my kid to mess his computer up. And when he does, unless it is something catastrophically, crazy messed up, he has to learn how to fix it himself.
My dad did the same with me, and it has served me very well. Provide the basics, let them figure out the rest. Mistakes are the best teachers.
Or that their "freedom" as creators is squelched for the same reason?"
The more restrictions that are placed on your creation, the less choices you have in creating it.
Is it really necessary to state something this obvious? HTML5 is the way of the future, Flash is the way of today. Why not support both?
Agreed. If you are a hardcore gamer or programmer, then yes tweaking your system to its fullest can be a complicated affair. If you are just a normal user, then the average consumer computer (i.e. one that runs OSX or Windows 7) is extremely simple. If all you do is websurfing, it doesn't take long to learn how to push the power button, wait for it to boot up, and click on the icon for your internet browser.
The fact that people find computers sooo complicated and need pictures that look like they were drawn for pre-schoolers makes me fear for society. Have we as a culture really become that goddamn stupid? Do we really need our computers to function like digital picture books?
Oh noes, this one has words longer than four letters! Oh, and what the hell is this rectangular thing with the alphabet and a numbers on it? And what is this crazy contraption that slides around?
Seriously. 20 years ago, something like the iPad being a great idea to simplify computing would have been believable. Now? It's just fucking pathetic.
Larger size/more affordability, for the most part. I know it's a huge performance boost to a system, but I don't want to only have a 40 GB system drive, and the larger ones get a bit too rich for my blood.
I recognize the prices are high because they are still "new", but compared to the cost of a mechanical drive their price-per-GB is outrageous.
It's no different than a footballer or hockey player that has a broken body later on in life. Chess players use their minds like footballers and hockey players use their body.
...but for big-time storage, mechanical drives are still king. As the technology stands now, it is pretty much useless for large-scale storage due to many different things, not the least of which is the cost. That being said, I'm curious if by the time SSDs reach the capacity, price point, and reliability needed for long term storage if they will still be relevant.
Here's to hoping, though...I love the idea of an SSD, but they still need some advancements before I consider one as my main system drive, much less for storage.
I know this is the sort of thing that goes on at black hat conferences, but could this guy potentially get in some sort of legal trouble for demonstrating what he has found?
I've had to do this. When I bought Mass Effect for a friend for his birthday, we couldn't get it work on his PC no matter what we did. We ended up having to download the crack off ::name redacted:: so he could play the game that was LEGALLY PURCHASED.
Insanely stupid.
Yesterday Apple finally launched its much hyped iPad to the world
Seriously? I mean, come on dude...if you fail at shilling, you need to really examine your life.
You could just....ya know...not buy an iPad.
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What about scrolling marquees and animated "under construction" GIFs, you insensitive clod!