Umm.. I was creating Mac games with Turtle, Hypercard, and MacPaint in the 80's. I was a Mac user for over a decade, back when there used to be a grey area... So don't lecture me. I also notice that you didn't argue with anything I said.
One of the reasons that the Xbox was so easily turned into an amazing home entertainment center/emulation station, was that it was basically a PC. Everyone in the world uses PCs, and the software was easily ported, and the hardware easily understood. Microsoft will _not_ make the same mistake again.
You have to remember that the PPC only has about 1% of the global computing marketshare. It is a platform that is always the _last_ to get any homebrew apps, like ports of utilities to transfer or unpack xbox isos for instance. There just arent enough people on Mac. If you take the 1-2% of the global computer base, then take the fraction of a percent of that which are people capable of writing programs, and then the fraction of them who have time to make a mac app to interface a game console etc.. I think you're left with 3 people, and from what I'm told, they live in Sweden.
I think we will all be surprised by what M$ is cooking. Why in the world would they forsake things like backwards game compatibility, take time to tweak and make an NT kernel on PPC, apparently ditch the HD.. They are hatching a plan, and it involves linux and homebrew *NOT* running on xbox2.
Wow, interesting how a comment can go from "+3, funny" to "-1, troll" in a matter of seconds. I was merely pointing out that there are a lot of issues here at home as well. Often people think there is nothing left to explore here. I love Nasa and am very into the rovers/Mars exploration. I just wish some science back here at home was as well funded or glamorous.
Who would have ever thought, that one of mankind's thus far highest achievements would be building a robot to dig a trench somewhere far away, hoping to discover salt water.
Maybe if it digs deep enough it'll find an aids vaccine.
It had a EULA shrinkwrapped to it that said "Upon opening this letter I am hereby agreeing to..." so I just tossed it in the trash. I guess I'll wait till one of the letters gets leaked online, then I can just download it.
How can people talk about price vs. performance when the machines were discounted more than 25%! (read at bottom) Is price/performance a factor or something to boast about when a company is drastically reducing price just to get thair name in the news?
I mean, I gave my brother a dual 466 celeron last month, that's better price/performance than this super computing cluster.. bleh..
New Paper DRM created by the Publishing Indusrty Association of America (PIAA). The book is shrink wrapped in a EULA that you agree with upon breaking said wrapping. The EULA makes it illegal to to take the ship the book out of your specific region. It utilizes a small GPS chip in the back of the textbook, upon leaving a publisher designated geographic region or tampering with said chip, the digital "paper" the book is printed on turns black.
-----------just kidding------------- Quick! patent this technology! Before they do!
I think the EFF should team up with 2600 and share enormous quantities of brittany spears music from the spoofed IPs of terminal, pre-teen leukemia patients.
TimeWarner/AOL own Road Runner, one of the largest cable modem networks in the US. I find it odd that not a single AOL or Road Runner user got a soupena. This is dirty.
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Am I the only one who doesn't feel the need to see more "You've read all this before, but here it is again, even more watered down, maybe you can send the link to a friend or someone else if you know anyone that doesn't read slashdot as well" posts?
Does anyone know how they go after people? Some friends and I started mirroring huge txt file lists with names of copywritten material "madonna - like a virgin.mp3" (1k txt) to throw off RIAA bots. I mean if they just send a letter, then I could delete the text... or show them it was text..
Is this enough information (filenames) for them to break down my door, and take my computer equipment? This would kill my entire business. Not to mention I have proprietary software and art/animation for videogames I have worked on that I cannot allow others to see under my NDA.
But George said we'd all be flying Hydrogen Fueled cars in no time! *Shucks* I guess we'll have to fall back on the President's other equally realistic transportation policy; Unicorns.
A) [Why is it legal to record a song from the radio while recording a song from the Internet is considered theft and criminal?]
Way back in 1992, Congress drew a distinction between analog recording (on that tape recorder) and digital recording (the computer). In legislation enacted that year, they said that infringement actions cannot be filed against consumers who engage in copying using analog devices and certain types of digital devices on which royalties have been paid and which protect against serial copying of the copy.
So then copying this music is legal if it is stored on an analog medium? What analog mediums are there available? I heard about a drive that could record files to VHS tape a while back. Anyone?
With our current level of technology robots are incapable of existing in the art world. They may be able to create a useless, uninspired, simple meaningless object, scribble, or splatter, but they are incapable of the the silver tongued chaos, fraud, and illogic involved in passing off such pieces as anything other than what they are: sheer garbage.
You guys should advertise some decent products instead of going through all this trouble to link the TWO slashdotters out of hundreds of thousands who will now purchase his case, and no doubt feed him for a year.
I think this is pretty ridiculous, he just glued stuff to his case and dry brushed it. There are people out there that make case art that transforms the CASE into sculpture; doesn't just use it as a medium to glue shit onto and stand action figures on. If he had embedded the computer into an Alien sculpture, or egg, I wouldn't have minded seeing it here.
I mean I can't really see a business really purchasing any of these. I mean maybe in some distant future where tech support people are strapped in with electronic seat restraints that clock them in and out every time they enter/leave the chair. As for "Ergonomic comfort" the last thing I want to have to do when i get up to take a break, use the head, or flee from a burning building, is slide the footrest out of the way, slide the keyboard to the side, and then make sure not to hit my head on the LCD on the way out.
Not to mention that this device requires you to: 1) use an LCD monitor 2) be unable to adjust where any of these things are. 3) take up valuable space with useless pieces of lame furniture. Your desk may take up space, but its a big flat thing you can put things on when you get tired of holding them.
Maybe this had a "desk upgrade" (ErgoDesk 9000!). Maybe they will release add ons like little magnetic pouches or something. This thing is a joke and is doomed for failure.
I clearly see that I must now store my MP3's on a hotswappable medium. I would love to hear what the guy's did with his stuff, his computers system, room, etc...
Do I need my copied DVDs or MP3s (backups) stored in a subterrainian silo with wireless access in case my house is entered by those who don't agree with my reading of "fair use"?
ENTRAPMENT - A person is 'entrapped' when he is induced or persuaded to commit a crime that he had no previous intent to commit.
Isn't it illegal to entrap people by soliciting via spam email for them to purchase your illegal product then twisting the screws because they use it?
If the government can't do it, why is Big Business allowed to?
Many people like to mod their consoles, allowing them to make "fair use" copies of games they have purchased, in case their children destroy or scratch the disk, or allow them to play import games from other countries (that they purchase online) that are unplayable in their own country. Many people also make their own games for consoles or handhelds, especially the Game Boy Advance, which has hundreds of cool demos and games, free, for people who have moded, or "flashable" cartridges. Last Christmas, siting the DMCA, Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony filed against Lik-Sang.com (my favorite game hardware site) for selling such mod chips, because they could also be used to play downloaded copies of games, which would be an illegal use under the DMCA. One of the largest issues at hand with the mod chip craze, is that most consoles are now sold at a loss, and the companies have locked themselves into a dangerous game where they primarily make money off of game sales, and these mega corporations only want you to be playing (and buying) their games, not freely downloadable games online, or booting LINUX.
A console that plays MP3s or DIVX over a network (or off its 100gb drive) as an entertainment center, or runs LINUX, is USELESS monetarily to Microsoft. This, like everything in the world, is about money.
The edited BIOS of the mod chip is the illegal thing under the DMCA. Almost all mod chip sites do *NOT SELL CHIPS WITH A BIOS*, you must download the bios from someone online. This is perfectly LEGAL (buying the mod with no BIOS), though it is illegal (under the DMCA) to download that BIOS. If he's being prosecuted and plead guilty, it was because he was selling mods preflashed with a bios. There are hundreds of MOD chip sites online, and they aren't being taken over by the DMCA.
You are missing the point, what I want the OS to do is NOT take processor cycles away from other apps that need them. An OS should be unobtrusive, and not interfere with the programs that run in it.
Simple UI tasks pegging a CPU is baltantly relevant, I don't see how you can dismiss it. If the UI is "pegging" the cpu, it hinders other tasks that applications are doing.
"highly configurable" and "less is more"?
If you ask me, "highly configurable" by definition, incorporates "less is more". Or else it wouldn't be highly configurable...
Heh, on a side note I find it Ironic: OSes you deem bloated and "highly configurable" I have actually used the term "Less is MORE" when describing. Like OSX, even in it's simplest state, it uses MORE processor cycles looking pretty than I would ever want my machine using. At a conference I ran a TOP under OSX and watched as I simply drug a window around; it ate 85-90% of the CPU!
Less can definitely still be way too much!
I use XP at work which I deem "highly configurable" because I run it bare, looking indistinguishable from NT4.
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Umm.. I was creating Mac games with Turtle, Hypercard, and MacPaint in the 80's. I was a Mac user for over a decade, back when there used to be a grey area... So don't lecture me. I also notice that you didn't argue with anything I said.
One of the reasons that the Xbox was so easily turned into an amazing home entertainment center/emulation station, was that it was basically a PC. Everyone in the world uses PCs, and the software was easily ported, and the hardware easily understood. Microsoft will _not_ make the same mistake again.
You have to remember that the PPC only has about 1% of the global computing marketshare. It is a platform that is always the _last_ to get any homebrew apps, like ports of utilities to transfer or unpack xbox isos for instance. There just arent enough people on Mac. If you take the 1-2% of the global computer base, then take the fraction of a percent of that which are people capable of writing programs, and then the fraction of them who have time to make a mac app to interface a game console etc.. I think you're left with 3 people, and from what I'm told, they live in Sweden.
As if switching to a virtually unknown hardware platform wasn't enough, flash memory maker M-Systems announced on Wednesday that it has signed a contract to provide storage products for future versions of the Xbox.. It looks like they are contemplating ditching hard drives altogether. I mean it was Microsofts using common components that allowed people to simply unplug the Seagate 9GB and plug in a 120GB to store games, video.. anything.
I think we will all be surprised by what M$ is cooking. Why in the world would they forsake things like backwards game compatibility, take time to tweak and make an NT kernel on PPC, apparently ditch the HD.. They are hatching a plan, and it involves linux and homebrew *NOT* running on xbox2.
Wow, interesting how a comment can go from "+3, funny" to "-1, troll" in a matter of seconds. I was merely pointing out that there are a lot of issues here at home as well. Often people think there is nothing left to explore here. I love Nasa and am very into the rovers/Mars exploration. I just wish some science back here at home was as well funded or glamorous.
Who would have ever thought, that one of mankind's thus far highest achievements would be building a robot to dig a trench somewhere far away, hoping to discover salt water.
Maybe if it digs deep enough it'll find an aids vaccine.
After creating the HamsterMIDI an automated process could upload the files to the internet via the RFC 1149 protocol.
I for one would love to see this. Because the day hamsters and pigeons can create and distribute music, is [insert RIAA flamebait here]..
It had a EULA shrinkwrapped to it that said "Upon opening this letter I am hereby agreeing to..." so I just tossed it in the trash. I guess I'll wait till one of the letters gets leaked online, then I can just download it.
They are on sale here
How can people talk about price vs. performance when the machines were discounted more than 25%! (read at bottom)
Is price/performance a factor or something to boast about when a company is drastically reducing price just to get thair name in the news?
I mean, I gave my brother a dual 466 celeron last month, that's better price/performance than this super computing cluster.. bleh..
New Paper DRM created by the Publishing Indusrty Association of America (PIAA). The book is shrink wrapped in a EULA that you agree with upon breaking said wrapping. The EULA makes it illegal to to take the ship the book out of your specific region. It utilizes a small GPS chip in the back of the textbook, upon leaving a publisher designated geographic region or tampering with said chip, the digital "paper" the book is printed on turns black.
-----------just kidding-------------
Quick! patent this technology! Before they do!
I think the EFF should team up with 2600 and share enormous quantities of brittany spears music from the spoofed IPs of terminal, pre-teen leukemia patients.
TimeWarner/AOL own Road Runner, one of the largest cable modem networks in the US. I find it odd that not a single AOL or Road Runner user got a soupena. This is dirty.
Am I the only one who doesn't feel the need to see more "You've read all this before, but here it is again, even more watered down, maybe you can send the link to a friend or someone else if you know anyone that doesn't read slashdot as well" posts?
Does anyone know how they go after people? Some friends and I started mirroring huge txt file lists with names of copywritten material "madonna - like a virgin.mp3" (1k txt) to throw off RIAA bots. I mean if they just send a letter, then I could delete the text... or show them it was text..
Is this enough information (filenames) for them to break down my door, and take my computer equipment? This would kill my entire business. Not to mention I have proprietary software and art/animation for videogames I have worked on that I cannot allow others to see under my NDA.
But George said we'd all be flying Hydrogen Fueled cars in no time! *Shucks* I guess we'll have to fall back on the President's other equally realistic transportation policy; Unicorns.
A) [Why is it legal to record a song from the radio while recording a song from the Internet is considered theft and criminal?]
Way back in 1992, Congress drew a distinction between analog recording (on that tape recorder) and digital recording (the computer). In legislation enacted that year, they said that infringement actions cannot be filed against consumers who engage in copying using analog devices and certain types of digital devices on which royalties have been paid and which protect against serial copying of the copy.
So then copying this music is legal if it is stored on an analog medium? What analog mediums are there available? I heard about a drive that could record files to VHS tape a while back. Anyone?
With our current level of technology robots are incapable of existing in the art world. They may be able to create a useless, uninspired, simple meaningless object, scribble, or splatter, but they are incapable of the the silver tongued chaos, fraud, and illogic involved in passing off such pieces as anything other than what they are: sheer garbage.
Longest. Sentence. Ever.
CE
Maybe now we won't be firing at ourselves the majority of the time. ... unmanned drones and vehicles will be?
CE
You guys should advertise some decent products instead of going through all this trouble to link the TWO slashdotters out of hundreds of thousands who will now purchase his case, and no doubt feed him for a year.
I think this is pretty ridiculous, he just glued stuff to his case and dry brushed it. There are people out there that make case art that transforms the CASE into sculpture; doesn't just use it as a medium to glue shit onto and stand action figures on. If he had embedded the computer into an Alien sculpture, or egg, I wouldn't have minded seeing it here.
"The Future of Workspace"
I mean I can't really see a business really purchasing any of these. I mean maybe in some distant future where tech support people are strapped in with electronic seat restraints that clock them in and out every time they enter/leave the chair. As for "Ergonomic comfort" the last thing I want to have to do when i get up to take a break, use the head, or flee from a burning building, is slide the footrest out of the way, slide the keyboard to the side, and then make sure not to hit my head on the LCD on the way out.
Not to mention that this device requires you to:
1) use an LCD monitor
2) be unable to adjust where any of these things are.
3) take up valuable space with useless pieces of lame furniture. Your desk may take up space, but its a big flat thing you can put things on when you get tired of holding them.
Maybe this had a "desk upgrade" (ErgoDesk 9000!). Maybe they will release add ons like little magnetic pouches or something. This thing is a joke and is doomed for failure.
I clearly see that I must now store my MP3's on a hotswappable medium. I would love to hear what the guy's did with his stuff, his computers system, room, etc...
Do I need my copied DVDs or MP3s (backups) stored in a subterrainian silo with wireless access in case my house is entered by those who don't agree with my reading of "fair use"?
CE
"sold on Ebay and through email Spam"
umm.. if you receive an email spam about a product, then decide to buy it, you could have had no previous intent. Read the article.
ENTRAPMENT - A person is 'entrapped' when he is induced or persuaded to commit a crime that he had no previous intent to commit.
Isn't it illegal to entrap people by soliciting via spam email for them to purchase your illegal product then twisting the screws because they use it? If the government can't do it, why is Big Business allowed to?
Many people like to mod their consoles, allowing them to make "fair use" copies of games they have purchased, in case their children destroy or scratch the disk, or allow them to play import games from other countries (that they purchase online) that are unplayable in their own country. Many people also make their own games for consoles or handhelds, especially the Game Boy Advance, which has hundreds of cool demos and games, free, for people who have moded, or "flashable" cartridges. Last Christmas, siting the DMCA, Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony filed against Lik-Sang.com (my favorite game hardware site) for selling such mod chips, because they could also be used to play downloaded copies of games, which would be an illegal use under the DMCA. One of the largest issues at hand with the mod chip craze, is that most consoles are now sold at a loss, and the companies have locked themselves into a dangerous game where they primarily make money off of game sales, and these mega corporations only want you to be playing (and buying) their games, not freely downloadable games online, or booting LINUX.
A console that plays MP3s or DIVX over a network (or off its 100gb drive) as an entertainment center, or runs LINUX, is USELESS monetarily to Microsoft. This, like everything in the world, is about money.
The edited BIOS of the mod chip is the illegal thing under the DMCA. Almost all mod chip sites do *NOT SELL CHIPS WITH A BIOS*, you must download the bios from someone online. This is perfectly LEGAL (buying the mod with no BIOS), though it is illegal (under the DMCA) to download that BIOS. If he's being prosecuted and plead guilty, it was because he was selling mods preflashed with a bios. There are hundreds of MOD chip sites online, and they aren't being taken over by the DMCA.
CE
You are missing the point, what I want the OS to do is NOT take processor cycles away from other apps that need them. An OS should be unobtrusive, and not interfere with the programs that run in it.
Simple UI tasks pegging a CPU is baltantly relevant, I don't see how you can dismiss it. If the UI is "pegging" the cpu, it hinders other tasks that applications are doing.
CE
"highly configurable" and "less is more"? If you ask me, "highly configurable" by definition, incorporates "less is more". Or else it wouldn't be highly configurable...
Heh, on a side note I find it Ironic: OSes you deem bloated and "highly configurable" I have actually used the term "Less is MORE" when describing. Like OSX, even in it's simplest state, it uses MORE processor cycles looking pretty than I would ever want my machine using. At a conference I ran a TOP under OSX and watched as I simply drug a window around; it ate 85-90% of the CPU!
Less can definitely still be way too much!
I use XP at work which I deem "highly configurable" because I run it bare, looking indistinguishable from NT4.