I want to be in an uproar about this, but I think I've spent 10 minutes on the phone the last 60 days, whereas I use the 3g all the time. For 99.9% of my use, I would get better performance with no loss.
Both Steam and Apple offer great experiences at the exchange of freedom. As right as you are that DRM is bad, the fact I can go to any computer windows or OSX PC and pick up right where I left of on Plants Vs Zombies is worth it. It's my money and the trade off is worth it.
It's not necessary, but when you p0wn one of the largest computer/entertainment companies in the world, you can talk about it however you want. They earned it and if you had the skills I'm sure you'd have declared that Sony's encryption was verily compromised. For sooth.
Alternatives could be more expensive. Organic solutions usually still involve using other, more expensive, less effective products. They may still be worthwhile, but those effects are not covered in the grandparent post.
There's more to pesticides than crop yields, specifically cost. Pesticides make food cheaper, which in many parts of the world is the actual limiting factor in getting food.
Where are the comments on how DDOS could defended against? I come to Slashdot for technical insight, I already have Reddit if I want the armchair commentary on the political/social situation.
reduced need for local storage is counterbalanced by the increased need for a permanent connection, which in the end is a lot more expensive and cumbersome than local storage.
That is not the usagecase for Chrome OS. Although Chrome OS will allow you to work off-line, it expects you to do that only as a last resort. If you don't plan to spend the vast majority of your time on-line, then don't use Chrome OS.
If you are buying internet just for your Chrome OS computer, it will be more expensive than local storage, but more likely you already have the connection, so it is not an additional cost of the OS.
Isn't Windows XP licensed for netbooks at around $40? I doubt you will see much of a price decrease.
I think they could save a lot on hardware, for example local storage needs would be next to nil, so a 8gb flash drive could replace the hard drive. The system overhead should be much lower, so you could use a cheaper processor. All that would take some load off the battery, so you could trim that as well. In the end you could have a system which is just as fast as windows, but significantly cheaper.
But all that is speculation, there is a lot that remains to be seen, Chrome OS may have severe issues, especially at the beginning.
IMHO the only way Chrome OS is interesting is if it is released on netbooks that cost 150-200$ less than their Windows counterparts. Sure, it won't do everything a full OS does, but at a $250-300 price point, it would be very compelling for the same reasons netbooks were popular in the first place. If Chrome OS can bring netbooks back to their bare bones, dirt cheap, linux roots, they may have a hit on their hands. If they offer this for about the same price as a Win7 netbook, they shouldn't even bother.
Anyone else have any ideas how this could be an interesting/successful product?
But if you *really* valued gaming highly wouldn't you want to use a device that was designed for gaming without having a phone tacked on as a clunky extra feature?
Android is not a clunky extra feature. The phone is clearly designed for gaming, for starters, it has a dedicated gamepad. I *really* do value gaming highly, which is why I don't want to have to pick between spending money on a smart phone or a portable console.
I'll ignore all your condescension and answer simply:
You value call time/quality highly, which obviously won't be the strong suit of this phone. I'm interested because I value gaming highly, and nothing can replace a full gamepad for that. I don't make a lot of calls, if I miss a call they can leave a voicemail, even if I am playing a game.
people can't find you just hearing your handle, you have to literally spell it out for people to find you
How often do people hear your handle but not see it written down? Do you and your friends go around calling yourselves things like "Neo1337" in everyday conversation?
When I'm at a bar, writing utensils are not always handy, and here (Buenos Aires) e-mails are more useful that phone numbers because no one likes to use minutes on their phone. In that case I may speak my handle.
But you're right, I don't think I've heard someone else say my handle out-loud in forever.
Besides all you need to get a name without numbers is be good at mispelling things.
Yup. It's a tradition with me now to have a misspelling in my handle. I find it has two advantageousness. You can usually get the name you want. People can't find you just hearing your handle, you have to literally spell it out for people to find you. I need to put a misspelling in my last name.
Mind you, loss leaders (which subsidised hardware for expensive consumables are) are a distortion of a free market.
Indeed, they shouldn't be allowed to do such a thing in a free market.
Guys like you crack me up. You depend on the regulations as much or more than anyone else. You couldn't handle a truly free market. In a market with no regulations, you can't enforce a contract. In a truly free market your grocer can sell you poison and not tell you. If that's freedom to you, more power to you, but get ready to be screwed constantly, and screw constantly, because you won't survive unless you sink to their level.
The real free market, the one the people who coined the phrase intended, is a specific set of constraints to produce a fair marketplace. It is tightly regulated to ensure it works as desired, it is by no means a free for all.
I get what you're saying. With 3 of these you should be able to get x,y,z coordinates. However, each of these is capable of getting the x,y,z for surfaces facing the camera, the problem is you need to hit all the surfaces. With 6 Kinects to cover front, back, left, right, top and bottom you could probably have the best coverage, but I expect four of them, one in each corner of the room like security cameras, would provide similar results.
Well, the US military part in Iraq is over. Sure, we have 10's of thousands of troops there, but we also have them in Germany, Japan, Korea and anywhere else we've won a war. And yes, Iraq is a more dangerous assignment that any of those places, but by and large the war was won (and as a loyal Bush hater that is not easy to say). A quick Google News search on Iraq right now did not even bring up any military operations.
So barring a civilian uprising, the US military in Iraq won't have to worry about these, either for attack or defense.
You have to know that upgrading an OS is a risky process, and there's no guaranty it will go smoothly. This is true of any major OS. Even iPhones, who have the mother of all homogeneous ecosystems have trouble with OS updates. If Ubuntu isn't updating well, wait for the LTS releases. This equals less updates and stronger support. If you want them to slow down their upgrade schedule, then you'll be half way there anyways. If you want them just to do better 6 month releases, well, I'm sure they are doing the best they can, if they knew how to do better they would.
The game is very impressive from a texture and polygon perspective, but I am getting progressively sicker of this massively dull pallet being used in games. It seems if there aren't magical powers (BioShock, Mass Effect) all the color in the world goes away (Fallout, Gears of War, Rage).
I wasn't always like this, but as time goes on, I like environments to be realistic & attractive. I am sick of wandering around in worlds that are just plain ugly. Impressive, realistic, but ugly.
Basically the US moves about 5 times as many people through planes as the next most active country. Assuming that any system could scale up perfectly, we should still expect 5 times as many terrorist attacks at the next country. All I know is I'm glad I'm not flying this thanksgiving.
Airport scanners are a joke. Unless they can detect anything in and out of a person's body they can and will be bypassed when needed. So here's the plan, rather than creating a softcore security theater, we copy the security methods of countries that do it effectively. Namely, Israel.
Of course we could just keep doing crazier and crazier scans as people progressively game the system, only to fail because their devices are faulty, not because they really had any trouble getting on the plane.
if Facebook wishes to become a player in the email market, they cannot block content.
This guy is kidding right? Facebook has 500 million active users, more than Hotmail. More than Gmail and Yahoo Mail combined. It is fair to say just by showing up they are a player.
The trouble was because of all the FRAUD up and down the line many many more of the loans in those baskets of high quality mortgages were actually low quality.
Fraud combined with the adjustable rate mortgages created the economic crisis. The fraud was the spark, and those loans were the gasoline. He's what we must learn from this crisis and never repeat (if I may be so bold):
Do not create loans which become more expensive when people start defaulting on their loans.
You create the potential for disaster because higher interest rates will cause defaults, and defaults will cause higher rates. That was the mechanism of the crisis. Fraud caused defaults (I mean if everyone paid their loans it wouldn't have mattered that they lied), which raised interest rates on existing loans. These loans were created for people who could not pay regular interest rates, so any increase was likely to be too high. Investors being aware of the death spin this would cause of this pull all their money out of the system, pushing rates even higher.
In this case it was fraud, but any reasonably sized hit to the economy would have caused the same thing. So long as we continue to use these types of loans, every time things a little wrong, they will go very wrong.
If you can only call, talk and hang up, it doesn't appear very useful to me. Listening would be a nice addition, and receiving calls as well...
It's obviously targeted at women.
I really wish I could mod you down. First, for getting the stereotype wrong. Men don't like to listen. Second, for a cheap sexist joke with no sense of irony. Don't get me wrong, I love offensive humor, but this lame offensive humor, that doesn't even get the offensive part right.
Slashdot Mirror
I want to be in an uproar about this, but I think I've spent 10 minutes on the phone the last 60 days, whereas I use the 3g all the time. For 99.9% of my use, I would get better performance with no loss.
Both Steam and Apple offer great experiences at the exchange of freedom. As right as you are that DRM is bad, the fact I can go to any computer windows or OSX PC and pick up right where I left of on Plants Vs Zombies is worth it. It's my money and the trade off is worth it.
It's not necessary, but when you p0wn one of the largest computer/entertainment companies in the world, you can talk about it however you want. They earned it and if you had the skills I'm sure you'd have declared that Sony's encryption was verily compromised. For sooth.
Alternatives could be more expensive. Organic solutions usually still involve using other, more expensive, less effective products. They may still be worthwhile, but those effects are not covered in the grandparent post.
There's more to pesticides than crop yields, specifically cost. Pesticides make food cheaper, which in many parts of the world is the actual limiting factor in getting food.
Where are the comments on how DDOS could defended against? I come to Slashdot for technical insight, I already have Reddit if I want the armchair commentary on the political/social situation.
reduced need for local storage is counterbalanced by the increased need for a permanent connection, which in the end is a lot more expensive and cumbersome than local storage.
That is not the usagecase for Chrome OS. Although Chrome OS will allow you to work off-line, it expects you to do that only as a last resort. If you don't plan to spend the vast majority of your time on-line, then don't use Chrome OS.
If you are buying internet just for your Chrome OS computer, it will be more expensive than local storage, but more likely you already have the connection, so it is not an additional cost of the OS.
Isn't Windows XP licensed for netbooks at around $40? I doubt you will see much of a price decrease.
I think they could save a lot on hardware, for example local storage needs would be next to nil, so a 8gb flash drive could replace the hard drive. The system overhead should be much lower, so you could use a cheaper processor. All that would take some load off the battery, so you could trim that as well. In the end you could have a system which is just as fast as windows, but significantly cheaper.
But all that is speculation, there is a lot that remains to be seen, Chrome OS may have severe issues, especially at the beginning.
IMHO the only way Chrome OS is interesting is if it is released on netbooks that cost 150-200$ less than their Windows counterparts. Sure, it won't do everything a full OS does, but at a $250-300 price point, it would be very compelling for the same reasons netbooks were popular in the first place. If Chrome OS can bring netbooks back to their bare bones, dirt cheap, linux roots, they may have a hit on their hands. If they offer this for about the same price as a Win7 netbook, they shouldn't even bother.
Anyone else have any ideas how this could be an interesting/successful product?
But if you *really* valued gaming highly wouldn't you want to use a device that was designed for gaming without having a phone tacked on as a clunky extra feature?
Android is not a clunky extra feature. The phone is clearly designed for gaming, for starters, it has a dedicated gamepad. I *really* do value gaming highly, which is why I don't want to have to pick between spending money on a smart phone or a portable console.
I'll ignore all your condescension and answer simply:
You value call time/quality highly, which obviously won't be the strong suit of this phone. I'm interested because I value gaming highly, and nothing can replace a full gamepad for that. I don't make a lot of calls, if I miss a call they can leave a voicemail, even if I am playing a game.
people can't find you just hearing your handle, you have to literally spell it out for people to find you
How often do people hear your handle but not see it written down? Do you and your friends go around calling yourselves things like "Neo1337" in everyday conversation?
When I'm at a bar, writing utensils are not always handy, and here (Buenos Aires) e-mails are more useful that phone numbers because no one likes to use minutes on their phone. In that case I may speak my handle.
But you're right, I don't think I've heard someone else say my handle out-loud in forever.
Let me allay any doubts.
Besides all you need to get a name without numbers is be good at mispelling things.
Yup. It's a tradition with me now to have a misspelling in my handle. I find it has two advantageousness. You can usually get the name you want. People can't find you just hearing your handle, you have to literally spell it out for people to find you. I need to put a misspelling in my last name.
The second paragraph I wrote was about that.
Indeed, they shouldn't be allowed to do such a thing in a free market.
Guys like you crack me up. You depend on the regulations as much or more than anyone else. You couldn't handle a truly free market. In a market with no regulations, you can't enforce a contract. In a truly free market your grocer can sell you poison and not tell you. If that's freedom to you, more power to you, but get ready to be screwed constantly, and screw constantly, because you won't survive unless you sink to their level.
The real free market, the one the people who coined the phrase intended, is a specific set of constraints to produce a fair marketplace. It is tightly regulated to ensure it works as desired, it is by no means a free for all.
So wont 3 Kinects make 3D video?
I get what you're saying. With 3 of these you should be able to get x,y,z coordinates. However, each of these is capable of getting the x,y,z for surfaces facing the camera, the problem is you need to hit all the surfaces. With 6 Kinects to cover front, back, left, right, top and bottom you could probably have the best coverage, but I expect four of them, one in each corner of the room like security cameras, would provide similar results.
Well, the US military part in Iraq is over. Sure, we have 10's of thousands of troops there, but we also have them in Germany, Japan, Korea and anywhere else we've won a war. And yes, Iraq is a more dangerous assignment that any of those places, but by and large the war was won (and as a loyal Bush hater that is not easy to say). A quick Google News search on Iraq right now did not even bring up any military operations.
So barring a civilian uprising, the US military in Iraq won't have to worry about these, either for attack or defense.
Dear BJ,
You have to know that upgrading an OS is a risky process, and there's no guaranty it will go smoothly. This is true of any major OS. Even iPhones, who have the mother of all homogeneous ecosystems have trouble with OS updates. If Ubuntu isn't updating well, wait for the LTS releases. This equals less updates and stronger support. If you want them to slow down their upgrade schedule, then you'll be half way there anyways. If you want them just to do better 6 month releases, well, I'm sure they are doing the best they can, if they knew how to do better they would.
The game is very impressive from a texture and polygon perspective, but I am getting progressively sicker of this massively dull pallet being used in games. It seems if there aren't magical powers (BioShock, Mass Effect) all the color in the world goes away (Fallout, Gears of War, Rage).
I wasn't always like this, but as time goes on, I like environments to be realistic & attractive. I am sick of wandering around in worlds that are just plain ugly. Impressive, realistic, but ugly.
I did some research and, well, there's a dimension to this I had not considered:
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/tra_air_tra_pas_car-transportation-air-transport-passengers-carried
Basically the US moves about 5 times as many people through planes as the next most active country. Assuming that any system could scale up perfectly, we should still expect 5 times as many terrorist attacks at the next country. All I know is I'm glad I'm not flying this thanksgiving.
Airport scanners are a joke. Unless they can detect anything in and out of a person's body they can and will be bypassed when needed. So here's the plan, rather than creating a softcore security theater, we copy the security methods of countries that do it effectively. Namely, Israel.
Of course we could just keep doing crazier and crazier scans as people progressively game the system, only to fail because their devices are faulty, not because they really had any trouble getting on the plane.
if Facebook wishes to become a player in the email market, they cannot block content.
This guy is kidding right? Facebook has 500 million active users, more than Hotmail. More than Gmail and Yahoo Mail combined. It is fair to say just by showing up they are a player.
The trouble was because of all the FRAUD up and down the line many many more of the loans in those baskets of high quality mortgages were actually low quality.
Fraud combined with the adjustable rate mortgages created the economic crisis. The fraud was the spark, and those loans were the gasoline. He's what we must learn from this crisis and never repeat (if I may be so bold):
Do not create loans which become more expensive when people start defaulting on their loans.
You create the potential for disaster because higher interest rates will cause defaults, and defaults will cause higher rates. That was the mechanism of the crisis. Fraud caused defaults (I mean if everyone paid their loans it wouldn't have mattered that they lied), which raised interest rates on existing loans. These loans were created for people who could not pay regular interest rates, so any increase was likely to be too high. Investors being aware of the death spin this would cause of this pull all their money out of the system, pushing rates even higher.
In this case it was fraud, but any reasonably sized hit to the economy would have caused the same thing. So long as we continue to use these types of loans, every time things a little wrong, they will go very wrong.
Clearly 4 people disagree with you. Someone even modded him insightful!
No doubt about it. And I don't argue it wasn't funny. Just that it's a really lame funny. Wouldn't have been worth my mod points.
If you can only call, talk and hang up, it doesn't appear very useful to me. Listening would be a nice addition, and receiving calls as well...
It's obviously targeted at women.
I really wish I could mod you down. First, for getting the stereotype wrong. Men don't like to listen. Second, for a cheap sexist joke with no sense of irony. Don't get me wrong, I love offensive humor, but this lame offensive humor, that doesn't even get the offensive part right.