While it's neat that this stuff is small, it's really not anything close to what's required for true home theatre projection. Even my old Benq projector didn't do so well at a native res of 800x600.
I really don't see the need to wank on about how this is a cheap alternative to home theatre projection. You'd be better off with a CRT TV over this device.
Yet another idiot thinking that being able to trace is the same as being able to catch criminals.
If they do it right, and yes, a lot do, then you'll be traced back to... well... an INNOCENT PERSON. With laws like this it is too much in the hands of "guilty until proven innocent".
The logs say it was you, therefore it was you - even if it wasn't. Meanwhile the scammers get away scott free.
I know myself, if I really wanted to not be traced, I wouldn't be. I'd be hijacking wireless, sticking trojan/worms with proxy facilities on as many workstations as I can. The list goes on.
No, this is not a good idea, even if you have this bogus "if you're not doing anything wrong you don't need to be worried" attitude. You DO need to be worried because as someone who is "innocent" you are a prime target for being the point of entry.
There is no way this idea will be able to get past any open UN boards. Kind of goes against the human rights charter of the UN.
To me, it's just another group of governments trying to get the UN to do something bogus. Unfortunately, the last time a country did that they bypassed the UN and just started killing innocent Iraqi people.
The was a "plan" to invade the country as an act of aggression(yes, this IS a war crime) and let the shattered country pick up the pieces.
Civil war has been raging for years now, and noone has the balls to call it that. Either for fear of losing their coveted position in the military, or for fear of being labled a traitor or "un-american".
To be honest, the whole thing stinks of intentional war crimes. It's the same crap that happened in Vietnam, causing the loss of life and maiming of a large percentage of their populations.
For me, as a non-american, I would like to see the responses of the US if they were invaded, their people raped, tortured, killed and mamed, then come back and say the occupying force is there to help.
Sure, Sadam was a fuckhead. Did some pretty bad shit, but, really... you fucking Americans put him there, funded him, gave him power. On top of this, the score is looking a lot worse for George W Retard (sorry, Bush)... he killed more people in the first week of the "war" than Sadam EVER did. More people have been tortured than Sadam EVER did... oh, it goes on.
The more the US fight wars where you're killing innocents (you know, the odd family, wedding party, hell, even funerals get the bombs) with your shiny new UAVs and high tech weaponry, the more the world will seek to harm you.
Supporting war is one thing I have never understood by a country that's touting "freedom and peace".
By that token Fibre Optics are "wireless" due to using an optical cable, rather than a metal wire.
The article heading is slightly misleading.
Either way, in practice, this isn't the best for communication as if LOS is broken, so is the data transmission. Simple atmospheric effects could lead to some pretty crap throughput.
Well... this is where Kim Stanley-Robinson's ideas of a space elevator come into play.
Slow effecient transport to the moon, faster inter-planetary transport from the moon to say... Mars.
The same people that say the space program is a waste of time, money and effort are the same people who complain that technology doesn't move fast enough. A lot of fallout from space technologies end up helping the world - water recycling is a BIG one. If you spent more than 5 minutes glossing over space flight you'd realise this.
Wow, I've never come across a bigger cry baby tardmonkey.
You cry about a bug, then refuse to submit a bug report. You know what, pack your computer up (or disassemble it, but I doubt you make your own computers) and send it back to whoever you bought it from because you're too fucking stupid to own one.
You posted on slashdot crying about a product issue with a free browser used by millions of people that has a very simple bug reporting system. Do you not see how unbelievably retarded you come across?
I'm no genius, but to me, reporting a bug that DIRECTLY AFFECTS YOU seems like a SMART thing to do. Crying on slashdot about it, then proceeding to try and prove that it's mozilla's fault you don't report bugs, well, really comes across as MONUMENTALLY FUCKING STUPID.
Then again, the stupidity of people using the internet never fails to astound me.
Look forward to seeing your place in the Darwin awards.
Nvidia are getting very scared now that ATi are beating them senseless. I run both ATi and Nvidia, so don't go down the "you're just a fanboy" angle either.
I've seen chip makers come and go, this is just another attempt by Nvidia to try and sure up support for their product, but this time they can't turn to ATi and say "look how crap their chips are" - they have to do it to Intel who are aiming the chips at corporate markets.
To be honest, the best bang for buck at the lower end of the market for 2D seems to be the Intel chips. One thing that does tend to surprise people is the complete lack of performance that the Nvidia chipsets have when not in 3D. ATi don't seem to have these problems having built around a solid base of 2D graphics engines in the 90's (Rage/RageII is at least one reason why people went with Macs back then). Nvidia is really feeling the pinch with ATi taking up the higher end of the market (pro-gear/high end HD) and intel suring up the lower end (GMA, etc). Nvidia pretty much are stuck with consumers buying their middle of the line gear (8600/9600).
When you aim high you tend to hurt real when you fall from grace, the whole 8800 to 9800 leap was abysmal at best unlike their main competitor who really pulled their finger out to release the 3xxx & 4xxx series.
All in all this seems like a bit of pork barrelling on Nvidia's part to detract from the complete lack of performance in their $1000 video card range. If anything this type of bullshit will be rewarded with a massive consumer (yes, geek and gamer) backlash.
I know my products, I know their limitations - I don't need some exec talking crap to tell me, and base level consumers will never read it.
Unfortunately as far as journalistic lisence goes this actually is acceptable. It is only 'rumored' and not backed up.
Sometimes the biggest freedoms we are given are the first to be exploited by people. More and more we see this kind of 'insider' journalism that leaves a lot to be desired. While I don't trust corporations most of the time, I do feel for the poor PR guys who have to simmer down possible tensions by 'rumors'.
In a perfect world this would not happen, but this is not a perfect world - and we should revel in that I suppose.
This is why I gave up on WoW and moved to Eve. I was end-game raiding for 6 months before I realised that it was just an e-peen fest - people would roll against you just to piss you off, rather than giving up items that are no use to them.
There is no "end-game" in Eve, there's just corps, alliances and soloists. You ALWAYS progress - we have a member in corp who's in the top 8% of players with regards to Skill Points, and he still has heaps to train.
Example, he got bored of building basic items for use, so he decided to build a Dreadnought (Capital ship with an approx worth of 1.5bn ISK) for the fun of it - 6 months later he started flying it.
The whole end-game idea sort of loses it's charm nowerdays, there is no progression, just the same mobs over and over again. Sure Eve's PvE is REAL lame, but that's not what the game pushes. It's the PvP, probably the best EVER devised for an MMO. Real consquences for your actions, not just a silly respawn when you die.
You really think twice about taking out expensive gear when you know that there's a high likelyhood of losing it.
While WoW is still picking up more and more players, I'm seeing more and more convert to Eve because they're bored with doing the same thing over and over again. Sure it feels good to down the final boss in a Raid, but it doesn't feel good when you've dropped him 50 times and every time he drops what you need someone who doesn't need it rolls on it.
I think people are mixing up Graphics Engine with "Look & Feel". Graphics Engines are a dime a dozen these days, so we don't even need to talk about them. The look & feel, gameplay & storyline are what really matters these days.
To me, it's almost single player WoW. I think most of us MMO fans who DID play Diablo I & II, and played WoW are kind of sick of it.
While the graphics are a bit "over the top" in the photoshopped shots, we can see what they are getting at.
Where's the dark almost scary feel to Diablo? Why does it look like Andy Worhol designed to textures? About their only saving grace will be gameplay, and to my knowledge, Blizzard aren't focused on gameplay anymore. Their aim is creation of addiciton - in a way the idea of carrot infront of the donkey is their business model nower days.
I do remember when Blizzard really did focus on gameplay, unfortunately they're ignoring gameplay and reconfiguring a known addicition system (bright flashy colours, continual expansions, ultra-low item drop rates).
Then again, maybe we've all moved past the hack & slash days of Diablo II and Blizzard knows this.
Good old neo-conservatives... mandatory cataloging of people's biometrics is not an interference with privacy at all.
Excuse me while I laugh my arse off.
Any mandatory gathering of information on citizens is a interference with one's privacy. Don't even bother responding with the "if you haven't done anything wrong then why worry".
As for article 30, you are doing exactly what article 30 states you are NOT to do with the human rights charter. Your understanding of human rights leaves a lot to be desired, in fact, I'd go so far as to say you're lack of knowledge on the subject is leading you to portray yourself as a fool. I hope you enjoy your neo-conservatism for all it's worth - nothing.
Actually, the people being hurt are the Yahoo users. If you think for one minute people are blind sheep maybe you need spend a bit more time away from your own little world and out in the thick of it.
I know myself if my mail providers started doing this I'd be moving my clients and my gaming clan/corp/guild away from those services. In fact, I'd make an extra special effort to show people how much Yahoo services suck.
While I am dead set against spam, this is NOT the answer. False positives are a good way to lock your company out, and give your competition the upper hand. By taking the typical neo-conservative idea of "we don't negotiate with " you are burning your bridges before you cross the river. Yahoo have always played second fiddle to the likes of Hotmail, and now Gmail, so acting like this will ensure that they fall even farther behind the competition.
Actually, it does infringe on Human Rights as defined by the United Nations.
My family has had a LOT to do with the UN and policies and frankly, this is a misrepresentation of the UN charters.
It's funny how people in one breath damn the UN for inaction, then in the next breath try to defile their charters by bending the definitions inside.
This is a VIOLATION OF BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS. It's an afront to these very "freedoms" that the US has claims they are fighting for.
If you want to not be a tosspot and understand that ALL liberties are ESSENTIAL, read the actal charter - I don't think you will, as you are a/. neo-conservative.
The key there is that this crap does happen and they do expect 24/7 coverage even if they pay fuck all. To be honest, "those" customers are at the bottom of the pile when it comes to support.
I have a friend who works for a major credit card company, they gave him a Blackberry, he works 24/7 when he has it. When he visits us he doesn't even bring it, and for good reason. He gets paid well, but not enough for being there when the bastardised database screws up after hours.
What rock are you living under? I'll email you a list... wait, no email, you live under a rock.
Basically every router you buy is running linux... is that plain enough? Oh, and the NAS you might have... linux.
Cisco owns Linksys... linksys are renouned for running linux on their hardware (Open-WRT is a firmware designed to open up this hardware for users - works on so many routers it's not funny).
Asus has been mentioned (EEEPC - v.shiny), Dell offer Linux alternatives.
I live in Brazil where there are many types of bananas available. Any supermarket has at least three different types. Just off my head, I can name at least six types of Brazilian bananas: Ouro ("gold"), Prata ("silver"), d'Agua ("water"), Maçã ("apple"), Nanica ("dwarf"), da Terra ("earth"). It was the same when I used to live in Tonga, colours of the rainbow in bananas. All tasting different and for different purposes.
I suppose this is what happens when you move a staple into a niche of the market. Here in Australia we get a few different kinds, but nowhere near as many as I've seen throught the pacific and asia.
Not sure, but I think our crops would be introduced species rather than native.
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I'd be more worried about bitmaps that make you fit out...
I think I'll stay with my Epson projector.
While it's neat that this stuff is small, it's really not anything close to what's required for true home theatre projection. Even my old Benq projector didn't do so well at a native res of 800x600.
I really don't see the need to wank on about how this is a cheap alternative to home theatre projection. You'd be better off with a CRT TV over this device.
Yet another idiot thinking that being able to trace is the same as being able to catch criminals.
If they do it right, and yes, a lot do, then you'll be traced back to... well... an INNOCENT PERSON. With laws like this it is too much in the hands of "guilty until proven innocent".
The logs say it was you, therefore it was you - even if it wasn't. Meanwhile the scammers get away scott free.
I know myself, if I really wanted to not be traced, I wouldn't be. I'd be hijacking wireless, sticking trojan/worms with proxy facilities on as many workstations as I can. The list goes on.
No, this is not a good idea, even if you have this bogus "if you're not doing anything wrong you don't need to be worried" attitude. You DO need to be worried because as someone who is "innocent" you are a prime target for being the point of entry.
There is no way this idea will be able to get past any open UN boards. Kind of goes against the human rights charter of the UN.
To me, it's just another group of governments trying to get the UN to do something bogus. Unfortunately, the last time a country did that they bypassed the UN and just started killing innocent Iraqi people.
Well, the issue is that there was no plan.
The was a "plan" to invade the country as an act of aggression(yes, this IS a war crime) and let the shattered country pick up the pieces.
Civil war has been raging for years now, and noone has the balls to call it that. Either for fear of losing their coveted position in the military, or for fear of being labled a traitor or "un-american".
To be honest, the whole thing stinks of intentional war crimes. It's the same crap that happened in Vietnam, causing the loss of life and maiming of a large percentage of their populations.
For me, as a non-american, I would like to see the responses of the US if they were invaded, their people raped, tortured, killed and mamed, then come back and say the occupying force is there to help.
Sure, Sadam was a fuckhead. Did some pretty bad shit, but, really... you fucking Americans put him there, funded him, gave him power. On top of this, the score is looking a lot worse for George W Retard (sorry, Bush)... he killed more people in the first week of the "war" than Sadam EVER did. More people have been tortured than Sadam EVER did... oh, it goes on.
The more the US fight wars where you're killing innocents (you know, the odd family, wedding party, hell, even funerals get the bombs) with your shiny new UAVs and high tech weaponry, the more the world will seek to harm you.
Supporting war is one thing I have never understood by a country that's touting "freedom and peace".
By that token Fibre Optics are "wireless" due to using an optical cable, rather than a metal wire.
The article heading is slightly misleading.
Either way, in practice, this isn't the best for communication as if LOS is broken, so is the data transmission. Simple atmospheric effects could lead to some pretty crap throughput.
Well... this is where Kim Stanley-Robinson's ideas of a space elevator come into play.
Slow effecient transport to the moon, faster inter-planetary transport from the moon to say... Mars.
The same people that say the space program is a waste of time, money and effort are the same people who complain that technology doesn't move fast enough. A lot of fallout from space technologies end up helping the world - water recycling is a BIG one. If you spent more than 5 minutes glossing over space flight you'd realise this.
Idiot much?
You had a valid point until you put "lol" at the end... fail!
Wow, I've never come across a bigger cry baby tardmonkey.
You cry about a bug, then refuse to submit a bug report. You know what, pack your computer up (or disassemble it, but I doubt you make your own computers) and send it back to whoever you bought it from because you're too fucking stupid to own one.
You posted on slashdot crying about a product issue with a free browser used by millions of people that has a very simple bug reporting system. Do you not see how unbelievably retarded you come across?
I'm no genius, but to me, reporting a bug that DIRECTLY AFFECTS YOU seems like a SMART thing to do. Crying on slashdot about it, then proceeding to try and prove that it's mozilla's fault you don't report bugs, well, really comes across as MONUMENTALLY FUCKING STUPID.
Then again, the stupidity of people using the internet never fails to astound me.
Look forward to seeing your place in the Darwin awards.
I wouldn't call it that.
I'd call it a knee-jerk reaction to a non-issue.
Nvidia are getting very scared now that ATi are beating them senseless. I run both ATi and Nvidia, so don't go down the "you're just a fanboy" angle either.
I've seen chip makers come and go, this is just another attempt by Nvidia to try and sure up support for their product, but this time they can't turn to ATi and say "look how crap their chips are" - they have to do it to Intel who are aiming the chips at corporate markets.
To be honest, the best bang for buck at the lower end of the market for 2D seems to be the Intel chips. One thing that does tend to surprise people is the complete lack of performance that the Nvidia chipsets have when not in 3D. ATi don't seem to have these problems having built around a solid base of 2D graphics engines in the 90's (Rage/RageII is at least one reason why people went with Macs back then). Nvidia is really feeling the pinch with ATi taking up the higher end of the market (pro-gear/high end HD) and intel suring up the lower end (GMA, etc). Nvidia pretty much are stuck with consumers buying their middle of the line gear (8600/9600).
When you aim high you tend to hurt real when you fall from grace, the whole 8800 to 9800 leap was abysmal at best unlike their main competitor who really pulled their finger out to release the 3xxx & 4xxx series.
All in all this seems like a bit of pork barrelling on Nvidia's part to detract from the complete lack of performance in their $1000 video card range. If anything this type of bullshit will be rewarded with a massive consumer (yes, geek and gamer) backlash.
I know my products, I know their limitations - I don't need some exec talking crap to tell me, and base level consumers will never read it.
Unfortunately as far as journalistic lisence goes this actually is acceptable. It is only 'rumored' and not backed up.
Sometimes the biggest freedoms we are given are the first to be exploited by people. More and more we see this kind of 'insider' journalism that leaves a lot to be desired. While I don't trust corporations most of the time, I do feel for the poor PR guys who have to simmer down possible tensions by 'rumors'.
In a perfect world this would not happen, but this is not a perfect world - and we should revel in that I suppose.
When noone else RTFA on /. why would the editors?
Much love /.
This is why I gave up on WoW and moved to Eve. I was end-game raiding for 6 months before I realised that it was just an e-peen fest - people would roll against you just to piss you off, rather than giving up items that are no use to them.
There is no "end-game" in Eve, there's just corps, alliances and soloists. You ALWAYS progress - we have a member in corp who's in the top 8% of players with regards to Skill Points, and he still has heaps to train.
Example, he got bored of building basic items for use, so he decided to build a Dreadnought (Capital ship with an approx worth of 1.5bn ISK) for the fun of it - 6 months later he started flying it.
The whole end-game idea sort of loses it's charm nowerdays, there is no progression, just the same mobs over and over again. Sure Eve's PvE is REAL lame, but that's not what the game pushes. It's the PvP, probably the best EVER devised for an MMO. Real consquences for your actions, not just a silly respawn when you die.
You really think twice about taking out expensive gear when you know that there's a high likelyhood of losing it.
While WoW is still picking up more and more players, I'm seeing more and more convert to Eve because they're bored with doing the same thing over and over again. Sure it feels good to down the final boss in a Raid, but it doesn't feel good when you've dropped him 50 times and every time he drops what you need someone who doesn't need it rolls on it.
Agreed that the graphics do set the scene.
I think people are mixing up Graphics Engine with "Look & Feel". Graphics Engines are a dime a dozen these days, so we don't even need to talk about them. The look & feel, gameplay & storyline are what really matters these days.
To me, it's almost single player WoW. I think most of us MMO fans who DID play Diablo I & II, and played WoW are kind of sick of it.
While the graphics are a bit "over the top" in the photoshopped shots, we can see what they are getting at.
Where's the dark almost scary feel to Diablo? Why does it look like Andy Worhol designed to textures? About their only saving grace will be gameplay, and to my knowledge, Blizzard aren't focused on gameplay anymore. Their aim is creation of addiciton - in a way the idea of carrot infront of the donkey is their business model nower days.
I do remember when Blizzard really did focus on gameplay, unfortunately they're ignoring gameplay and reconfiguring a known addicition system (bright flashy colours, continual expansions, ultra-low item drop rates).
Then again, maybe we've all moved past the hack & slash days of Diablo II and Blizzard knows this.
Good old neo-conservatives... mandatory cataloging of people's biometrics is not an interference with privacy at all.
Excuse me while I laugh my arse off.
Any mandatory gathering of information on citizens is a interference with one's privacy. Don't even bother responding with the "if you haven't done anything wrong then why worry".
As for article 30, you are doing exactly what article 30 states you are NOT to do with the human rights charter. Your understanding of human rights leaves a lot to be desired, in fact, I'd go so far as to say you're lack of knowledge on the subject is leading you to portray yourself as a fool. I hope you enjoy your neo-conservatism for all it's worth - nothing.
Read article 12 again. It's quite plain to see that this is an infringement on this basic human right.
Then read article 30.
This will stop you from being confused.
Actually, the people being hurt are the Yahoo users. If you think for one minute people are blind sheep maybe you need spend a bit more time away from your own little world and out in the thick of it.
I know myself if my mail providers started doing this I'd be moving my clients and my gaming clan/corp/guild away from those services. In fact, I'd make an extra special effort to show people how much Yahoo services suck.
While I am dead set against spam, this is NOT the answer. False positives are a good way to lock your company out, and give your competition the upper hand. By taking the typical neo-conservative idea of "we don't negotiate with " you are burning your bridges before you cross the river. Yahoo have always played second fiddle to the likes of Hotmail, and now Gmail, so acting like this will ensure that they fall even farther behind the competition.
Nice work Yahoo, way to burn your customers.
Actually, it does infringe on Human Rights as defined by the United Nations.
My family has had a LOT to do with the UN and policies and frankly, this is a misrepresentation of the UN charters.
It's funny how people in one breath damn the UN for inaction, then in the next breath try to defile their charters by bending the definitions inside.
This is a VIOLATION OF BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS. It's an afront to these very "freedoms" that the US has claims they are fighting for.
If you want to not be a tosspot and understand that ALL liberties are ESSENTIAL, read the actal charter - I don't think you will, as you are a /. neo-conservative.
http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html
It's actually "a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day". :)
The key there is that this crap does happen and they do expect 24/7 coverage even if they pay fuck all. To be honest, "those" customers are at the bottom of the pile when it comes to support.
I have a friend who works for a major credit card company, they gave him a Blackberry, he works 24/7 when he has it. When he visits us he doesn't even bring it, and for good reason. He gets paid well, but not enough for being there when the bastardised database screws up after hours.
What rock are you living under? I'll email you a list... wait, no email, you live under a rock.
Basically every router you buy is running linux... is that plain enough? Oh, and the NAS you might have... linux.
Cisco owns Linksys... linksys are renouned for running linux on their hardware (Open-WRT is a firmware designed to open up this hardware for users - works on so many routers it's not funny).
Asus has been mentioned (EEEPC - v.shiny), Dell offer Linux alternatives.
Living under a rock is no excuse for ignorance...
I suppose this is what happens when you move a staple into a niche of the market. Here in Australia we get a few different kinds, but nowhere near as many as I've seen throught the pacific and asia.
Not sure, but I think our crops would be introduced species rather than native.
I thought that would be a reason to pick up the pitchfork... real geeks play Eve.
I think the problem is you're playing WoW. I really don't know why they studied just one game.
Maybe something like Eve would give them an idea of rage quitting. You lose a 500m ISK CNR to a Burn Eden or the likes. That makes you angry.
Or maybe just do what Eve does and change the game so botters are easier to kill. :)