This has a very strong similarity to "elite" status granted to users of old school dial up BBSs for uploading or otherwise providing coveted data or services. Such similar systems were even loosely in place within AOL, Compuserve, Prodigy, and other dial-up ISPs long before 1998. Even forum profiles could conceivably fall into this category.
That's exactly what I was thinking. Some of the old forums I used to run we developed "social networking" features on them. This whole patent trolling crap just makes me feel that patents should be dispensed with and business should rely on the quality of their product rather than suing anyone who creates something similar.
Unfortunately the people with power are the patent trolls, so that'll never happen.
Yeh, I wouldn't touch an HP printer if you paid me (apart from an old LaserJet 4).
I went with a Samsung Laser and haven't looked back. 2 years on and I've still got dickloads of toner and it doesn't continually print test pages like the new HPs.
Wow, nice bullshit you're pulling there. Just because YOU see no need to print things out doesn't mean OTHERS see no need.
I own a printer for printing recipes (I really don't want to get spices, oils, other fluids, etc, in a laptop/tablet), application forms that REQUIRE a signature, Photos I want to frame, hell, there's a whole list of things that are needed to be printed.
If you're really that stupid to think that NO ONE needs to print ANYTHING then you really need a reality check.
Fuck the FBI, they have no right to snoop on me as an Australian citizen. In fact, ASIO (Australia's equivalent of the FBI) doesn't have a right to snoop on it's citizens without a court order.
I bet you're the kind of fucktard that supported illegal wiretapping by the FBI.
I don't think you've actually seen the Move in action vs the Kinect in action.
Move looks exactly as retarded as someone playing a Wii. There is almost NO precision. I watched two guys try the gladiator game they're using to demo the move, the amount of times the guys swung and it didn't register was phenominal.
Thing is, the move uses very similar technology to the Kinect. The main difference being that the Move is single camera with control vs dual camera with human tracking. I would actually say the Kinect is less like flailing around (the dance game looks quite good actually, you do have to dance) than the Move.
At the end of the day, this is just impressions from people who haven't used either.
I'd say your research is of greater weight than this article.
The institutes that did this "research" aren't mentioned, the only mention of an organisation is this "Mind Positive Parenting", which a quick search gives only really links back to articles referring to this "research". In fact, the only articles are from CBS.
I call bullshit on the whole article. This Reg Chapman seems to be just pushing the agenda of some fringe moral group (Mind Positive Parenting) that no doubt has had this article written to support a cause. I've seen this bullshit before with journalists having worked for a newspaper, they do it all the time just to get their 1000 word quota up. Grab someone's press release (whether real or not), move a few things about, sometimes even get the company offering the press release to write the article for them.
They may get caught out once in a while, but more often than not they'll just get paid.
Wow, ignorance may be bliss, but this is just stupid ignorance.
You can understeer and oversteer pretty much at any speed, depending on the corner and the car. Hell, I don't even drive and I know this. To say that a couple of thousand kilos of machine with 150bhp can't over/understeer under normal driving conditions (let's say, 110km/hr, the speed limit here in AU) is just pure ignorance of the laws of physics.
Do you feel big posting on a nerd/geek site and show your stupidity? I know it's popular to not learn anything these days...
I seem to recall that the 1859 solar storm caused the telegraph (the service not the trashy paper) network to run without batteries for some time after it.
Who knows, maybe this will trigger new science for harnessing solar flares/space storms.
Old HK Jackie Chan movies vs new Hollywood Jackie Chan movies.
New ones are so craptacular I can't even tollerate them through his amazing martial arts, give me Police Story, Project A or Armour Of The Gods and I'll actually enjoy it.
No, JB are bad. They're dodgy people from Keilor East. Thugs and crims, they've been caught up in a few instances of false advertising, and I seem to recall they were in hot water about grey imports/bootlegs a few years back.
This is no different to when I was at High School and Computing classes were all held on Windows machines, all apps were Windows apps, but I had a Mac (good old SE/30).
The difference here is that the kids can actually afford this shit, and if they can't the school should provide them.
Or, the US could take a queue from Australia and supply schools with government issue machines.
It's amusing that geeks hate these terms, but the unwashed masses love them. The seem to think it makes themselves sound "edgy" or "with it", meanwhile, anyone who knows more than how to use the odd website and check email don't use them.
I've never said "blogosphere" except to take the piss out of someone/something, and "tweet", well, I just tell people they have "twat" or are "twatting".
yep, I played it back when my modem would only sync at 24000 or so (stupid Telstra copper). Worked fine. Latency is different to bandwidth, people need to remember this. Good ISP and a clean line and I was able to compete against cablers on dialup playing Counter Strike beta.
Then again, a crap ISP and crappy line means crap latency even on ADSL. Most of the latency I've ever experienced can be put down to the ISP (I've changed ISP a number of times and seen varying results). So this game would work fine in 3g, I've played Eve and WoW over 3g. A little laggy at times, but otherwise Ok.
That being said, I don't really like Vendetta, it just doesn't look or feel as clean as other MMOs out there - yes, I know, it's only 4 dudes, but really, I wouldn't pay for a sub.
Most of the time HDDs will be fine if the heads are parked and you don't go above about 4g (I think). Still, you really don't want a medium that is as unstable as an HDD for your backups. The more opportunities for a backup to fail the more risk you're taking by using it, and the risk with HDDs would be in the "extreme" category.
We only use RAID as a short term data recovery system, so suggesting using HDDs as a backup (RAID or otherwise) is just silly. I have seen business' install brand new robotic tape libraries over the last few years, so it looks like they aren't going anywhere in an hurry.
I really don't think we're going to see a big change until they nail holographic storage, make it stable and make it cheap enough for business to consider it.
Unfortunately with a company infected such as SCO we're looking at zombie cases for eternity - resurrected cases that just seek to sap the intellectual capabilities of anyone involved.
We need someone armed with a lawnmower, cricket bat, or the likes to put this one to rest.
In Australia we've always used L/100KM as our measurement for vehicle efficiency, I've always wondered why the US is so different when it comes to this. We also have a government website for old & new car efficiencies which is most handy when choosing a car.
It really is a scam though. They do nothing other than pacify the masses into thinking their doing something positive for the environment when they've not tested or even care to test the items that carry their sticker.
For the record, I am Australian and I am well aware of who EnergyStar are and what a massive clusterfuck it became. No doubt started with good intentions, but as with everything that is underfunded and overstretched, they stopped actually doing their job.
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I signed up, in Australia.
I saw this turn up on palgn.com.au under their releases and questioned the July release date.
Fingers crossed I get into the Beta.
They're just scared Amazon is going to sue them.
This has a very strong similarity to "elite" status granted to users of old school dial up BBSs for uploading or otherwise providing coveted data or services. Such similar systems were even loosely in place within AOL, Compuserve, Prodigy, and other dial-up ISPs long before 1998. Even forum profiles could conceivably fall into this category.
That's exactly what I was thinking. Some of the old forums I used to run we developed "social networking" features on them. This whole patent trolling crap just makes me feel that patents should be dispensed with and business should rely on the quality of their product rather than suing anyone who creates something similar.
Unfortunately the people with power are the patent trolls, so that'll never happen.
Yeh, I wouldn't touch an HP printer if you paid me (apart from an old LaserJet 4).
I went with a Samsung Laser and haven't looked back. 2 years on and I've still got dickloads of toner and it doesn't continually print test pages like the new HPs.
Wow, nice bullshit you're pulling there. Just because YOU see no need to print things out doesn't mean OTHERS see no need.
I own a printer for printing recipes (I really don't want to get spices, oils, other fluids, etc, in a laptop/tablet), application forms that REQUIRE a signature, Photos I want to frame, hell, there's a whole list of things that are needed to be printed.
If you're really that stupid to think that NO ONE needs to print ANYTHING then you really need a reality check.
You seriously think the other side of politics isn't going to pick this up and run with it?
Nice, deal with the problem not the cause.
Fuck the FBI, they have no right to snoop on me as an Australian citizen. In fact, ASIO (Australia's equivalent of the FBI) doesn't have a right to snoop on it's citizens without a court order.
I bet you're the kind of fucktard that supported illegal wiretapping by the FBI.
I don't think you've actually seen the Move in action vs the Kinect in action.
Move looks exactly as retarded as someone playing a Wii. There is almost NO precision. I watched two guys try the gladiator game they're using to demo the move, the amount of times the guys swung and it didn't register was phenominal.
Thing is, the move uses very similar technology to the Kinect. The main difference being that the Move is single camera with control vs dual camera with human tracking. I would actually say the Kinect is less like flailing around (the dance game looks quite good actually, you do have to dance) than the Move.
At the end of the day, this is just impressions from people who haven't used either.
I'd say your research is of greater weight than this article.
The institutes that did this "research" aren't mentioned, the only mention of an organisation is this "Mind Positive Parenting", which a quick search gives only really links back to articles referring to this "research". In fact, the only articles are from CBS.
I call bullshit on the whole article. This Reg Chapman seems to be just pushing the agenda of some fringe moral group (Mind Positive Parenting) that no doubt has had this article written to support a cause. I've seen this bullshit before with journalists having worked for a newspaper, they do it all the time just to get their 1000 word quota up. Grab someone's press release (whether real or not), move a few things about, sometimes even get the company offering the press release to write the article for them.
They may get caught out once in a while, but more often than not they'll just get paid.
Dammit. My favourite one too!
DOWN THE HATCH!
Wow, ignorance may be bliss, but this is just stupid ignorance.
You can understeer and oversteer pretty much at any speed, depending on the corner and the car. Hell, I don't even drive and I know this. To say that a couple of thousand kilos of machine with 150bhp can't over/understeer under normal driving conditions (let's say, 110km/hr, the speed limit here in AU) is just pure ignorance of the laws of physics.
Do you feel big posting on a nerd/geek site and show your stupidity? I know it's popular to not learn anything these days...
I seem to recall that the 1859 solar storm caused the telegraph (the service not the trashy paper) network to run without batteries for some time after it.
Who knows, maybe this will trigger new science for harnessing solar flares/space storms.
While the first two are plausable, the latter has the highest possibility.
The more people are involved in the process, the more human stupidity shines through.
Case in point:
Old HK Jackie Chan movies vs new Hollywood Jackie Chan movies.
New ones are so craptacular I can't even tollerate them through his amazing martial arts, give me Police Story, Project A or Armour Of The Gods and I'll actually enjoy it.
I think he smoked too much crack, just random dribblings.
No, JB are bad. They're dodgy people from Keilor East. Thugs and crims, they've been caught up in a few instances of false advertising, and I seem to recall they were in hot water about grey imports/bootlegs a few years back.
Even if you are able to set up an IRC client it doesn't mean you're tech savvy. Austnet.org is a prime example of this.
This is no different to when I was at High School and Computing classes were all held on Windows machines, all apps were Windows apps, but I had a Mac (good old SE/30).
The difference here is that the kids can actually afford this shit, and if they can't the school should provide them.
Or, the US could take a queue from Australia and supply schools with government issue machines.
It's amusing that geeks hate these terms, but the unwashed masses love them. The seem to think it makes themselves sound "edgy" or "with it", meanwhile, anyone who knows more than how to use the odd website and check email don't use them.
I've never said "blogosphere" except to take the piss out of someone/something, and "tweet", well, I just tell people they have "twat" or are "twatting".
yep, I played it back when my modem would only sync at 24000 or so (stupid Telstra copper). Worked fine. Latency is different to bandwidth, people need to remember this. Good ISP and a clean line and I was able to compete against cablers on dialup playing Counter Strike beta.
Then again, a crap ISP and crappy line means crap latency even on ADSL. Most of the latency I've ever experienced can be put down to the ISP (I've changed ISP a number of times and seen varying results). So this game would work fine in 3g, I've played Eve and WoW over 3g. A little laggy at times, but otherwise Ok.
That being said, I don't really like Vendetta, it just doesn't look or feel as clean as other MMOs out there - yes, I know, it's only 4 dudes, but really, I wouldn't pay for a sub.
Most of the time HDDs will be fine if the heads are parked and you don't go above about 4g (I think). Still, you really don't want a medium that is as unstable as an HDD for your backups. The more opportunities for a backup to fail the more risk you're taking by using it, and the risk with HDDs would be in the "extreme" category.
We only use RAID as a short term data recovery system, so suggesting using HDDs as a backup (RAID or otherwise) is just silly. I have seen business' install brand new robotic tape libraries over the last few years, so it looks like they aren't going anywhere in an hurry.
I really don't think we're going to see a big change until they nail holographic storage, make it stable and make it cheap enough for business to consider it.
Unfortunately with a company infected such as SCO we're looking at zombie cases for eternity - resurrected cases that just seek to sap the intellectual capabilities of anyone involved.
We need someone armed with a lawnmower, cricket bat, or the likes to put this one to rest.
In Australia we've always used L/100KM as our measurement for vehicle efficiency, I've always wondered why the US is so different when it comes to this. We also have a government website for old & new car efficiencies which is most handy when choosing a car.
It really is a scam though. They do nothing other than pacify the masses into thinking their doing something positive for the environment when they've not tested or even care to test the items that carry their sticker.
For the record, I am Australian and I am well aware of who EnergyStar are and what a massive clusterfuck it became. No doubt started with good intentions, but as with everything that is underfunded and overstretched, they stopped actually doing their job.