That is hard to achieve on its own, replacing the rest of the stuff under that limit would be tricky for sure.
That said, I would highly recommend you use at least some of that money to setup a file backup system that runs in a less-obvious place in your house. Get a small desktop PC with a wireless NIC, install your favorite *nix on it, and set it up in a closet or something. Then you can at least retain the important stuff if all your hardware is stolen in the future.
How easy would it be to emulate the old cell processor on the new hardware to support old titles?
You, I, or any slashdot user would likely find it an enormously difficult task. However, Sony has financial resources that likely exceed the net wealth of all active slashdot users combined, and has had plenty of time to figure this out. They did not decide this afternoon to use an X86 CPU for the PS4, they made the decision some time ago and could have started on the Cell emulation back then if they so wanted to.
Also, its been made clear by the industry that reselling of games is not the way to the future, delivery (and payment) on demand is.
True, but if you forcefully disconnect users from their existing libraries they might not be so excited to go out and hand over their money.
There is also the fact that they persistently sold the PS3 as "the best Blu-Ray player on the market". Now they want PS3 owners to get rid of their PS3 to upgrade to a PS4, but they won't have Blu-Ray support in the PS4?
I see no mention of whether or not there is an optical drive on this system. Obviously if they have no optical drive they have broken compatibility with existing titles from earlier playstations.
When I walk or drive past a gamestop, I seldom see people browsing, even when they are doing a big sale on used games. However they frequently have big banners up telling people to pre-order Halo 17, Half-life 12, or Fifa soccer 2020. It appears that they make more money from the new stuff than the old, from what I have seen from walking or driving past any number of gamestop locations in my area.
If you read the artcile (yeah, I know few slashdotters bother to RTFA) did you notice that you did not need to pay for it, regardless of where you were? Did you notice you are free to download it and redistribute it any way you like?
PLoS (and others now, as well) is providing open access publishing. Work is still peer reviewed but nothing is held behind a paywall.
Though we will probably see more of him as a contributor as you cant spend all your life consuming drugs and hookers
I highly doubt he made enough money from the sale of slashdot to afford drugs or hookers - or at least, not decent examples of either. In fact he may want to look into selling some of the former (though hopefully none of the latter) if he wants to make some money while he's still young; I doubt there are many other companies who want to hire someone to constantly write about facebook.
While of course bot masters pay essentially nothing for their CPU power, someone has to buy the systems that become zombies for the botnets. As those systems get faster, the things that a botnet master can do expands. For what it's worth I haven't seen an ssh-based attempt on my system in over a month - and the most recent one was only a few hundred attempts from one IP address that maps to Missouri - but I have seen distributed attempts on my system in the past that have made thousands of attempts at the root password (futile when root is disabled, which they would know if they read the ssh greeting) as well as distributed whitepages attacks going for common user names with easy/non-existent passwords.
If ISPs would actually start to take action against the users whose systems make up the botnets, we would see this activity reduced. However it is more profitable for the ISPs to not do so.
There might be an obvious reason not to do this, but considering how few keys are typed by the right pinky you might be able to get away with this. It would also have the advantage of being able to easily use other keyboards that you may come across in your regular existence.
Han Solo, or Han Solo's dad? It has been quite a while since he was in a Star Wars film, and he isn't really readily recognizable as Han Solo any more. It might be easier to find a younger (or younger-looking) actor to take the role if you want it to make sense and not be a tale of Han Solo's retirement.
If they are required to write a blog post every day, then I would expect that the writing quality would be allowed to slide as the lion's share of the students have other courses running concurrently; likewise if they are told something like "respond to this news story in the first 24 hours". However if they are given more time then they should be able to write better quality posts if the quality is suppoed to be part of the project. If instead the point is just to run some blogging software and see how it responds under conditions of X, Y, Z, then the quality of the writing itself might not be as important as its frequency and volume.
Pretty much, yes. Specifically games that people who are hard core into FPS consider to be "vintage" or "classic" - even though said games are many years younger than Wolfenstein, Doom, or even Quake. People who are big fans of it see it as a great gift to be able to buy Half-Life for $8 even though they bought it for $40 the first time, then bought the first special edition of it the year after for another $40, and the uber-mega-titanium-coated-diamond-edition of it the third year for another $60.
For the most part, it is a way for a company to extract a little more money from a large number of gamers who like to keep buying the same thing repeatedly.
And yes, I know I will be lucky to not be moderated down for this. Bombs away.
Charging authors to publish is not much better than charging people to read the articles
Every journal I am aware of that uses any kind of peer review process does this. This system, however, is a lot cheaper. I recently publised in PLoS ONE and I had to pay around $1,500 for that. I really hope these guys can keep their publication costs down and manage to acquire some prestige so they get indexed in relevant places.
What we truly need is a system that is paid for by universities, cooperatively, that allows anyone to submit a paper and allows anyone to download as many or as few papers as they would like.
Some journals have tried that - look at the institutional memberships at PLoS (my institution is not a member) and BioMedCentral for example - the problem with that though is that memberships like that would usually be paid for by the school libraries and quite nearly every school in this country is trying to reduce their library expenditures.
From reading the article it seems the poster's son is interested in stuff like this and likes running a Minecraft - server, so it would be a hobby for him and therefore any time spent on recovering from losses would still be within the limits of an educational hobby.
Sure, but what is not clear is how much of the poster's time would be consumed by this. Is the son capable of managing this on his own (the abstract suggests the answer may be no)? If the dad has to put time into this then you need to estimate what his time is worth - in particular the opportunity cost of him not being available to do other fatherly stuff.
Sure, you can replace a PS or HD for less than the annual savings, but what if something bigger than that goes out? You are also ignoring the value of your time, as you would put a fair bit of time in to recovering from either of those losses.
That said, I run my own home server, but it's not something I do to save money. I run my own server because it allows me to configure it exactly how I want it configured and I know exactly how it is managed.
It puzzles me when I see that people work really hard to come up with difficult passwords for their bank accounts, but not for their personal accounts on their own computers. They really need to think about what value those passwords have to other people - in particular what could someone else do with those passwords if they had them?
I have used a fair number of different banks over the past couple decades and seen a lot of different online banking systems. Not once have I seen one where you could actually use the online system to arbitrarily move money outside the account owner's accounts. I have seen some where you can set up bill payments, but that was a chore and would not be useful for trying to pull money out quickly. Most online banking systems intentionally do not even give full account or routing numbers to logged in users, and I've never seen one give out SSN or DOB either.
On the other hand, people keep a lot of personal information on their PCs. If you can get their personal user names and passwords you could get a lot more useful information on them. A lot of users likely have their SSN and DOB in their browser cache somewhere, and almost everyone has their address somewhere in there.
You could host the video somewhere else, you know. Google deciding not to host it on their services does not in any way prevent you from hosting it somehwere else - or hosting it yourself. If it is not your video, you don't have to work too hrad to find out who posted it and contact them directly for it so you can host it somewhere for them.
In elementary school they'd often send me to the library to get rid of me. We had "library passes" that teachers could issue to students, and they were issued to me quite often. I spent most of my time reading whatever scientific books I could find in our library (often not realizing how out of date they were - I remember in particular reading a book on how great skylab was going to be).
However one time I looked up a profane word in the giant unabridged dictionary - and then showed it to my friends. The librarian was not amused.
If the pen will punish me for bad penmanship it will just bring back bad memories of being taught (much against my will) how to write in cursive back in 3rd grade. Hell, I enjoyed memorizing multiplication tables but dreaded cursive writing tests. I still remember my teacher giving me extra pages of just the dreaded lower-cased letter "r".
If this pen takes a similar approach I would just take the batteries out and go back to typing messages.
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What would you call Apple's offerings? The chromebook is a steal by comparison.
That is hard to achieve on its own, replacing the rest of the stuff under that limit would be tricky for sure.
That said, I would highly recommend you use at least some of that money to setup a file backup system that runs in a less-obvious place in your house. Get a small desktop PC with a wireless NIC, install your favorite *nix on it, and set it up in a closet or something. Then you can at least retain the important stuff if all your hardware is stolen in the future.
How easy would it be to emulate the old cell processor on the new hardware to support old titles?
You, I, or any slashdot user would likely find it an enormously difficult task. However, Sony has financial resources that likely exceed the net wealth of all active slashdot users combined, and has had plenty of time to figure this out. They did not decide this afternoon to use an X86 CPU for the PS4, they made the decision some time ago and could have started on the Cell emulation back then if they so wanted to.
Also, its been made clear by the industry that reselling of games is not the way to the future, delivery (and payment) on demand is.
True, but if you forcefully disconnect users from their existing libraries they might not be so excited to go out and hand over their money.
There is also the fact that they persistently sold the PS3 as "the best Blu-Ray player on the market". Now they want PS3 owners to get rid of their PS3 to upgrade to a PS4, but they won't have Blu-Ray support in the PS4?
I see no mention of whether or not there is an optical drive on this system. Obviously if they have no optical drive they have broken compatibility with existing titles from earlier playstations.
Find a job more suited to your lack of ability already (though I admit it's going to be hard to find a job that requires less).
Timothy has been with slashdot for so long that he is no longer qualified to do anything else.
When I walk or drive past a gamestop, I seldom see people browsing, even when they are doing a big sale on used games. However they frequently have big banners up telling people to pre-order Halo 17, Half-life 12, or Fifa soccer 2020. It appears that they make more money from the new stuff than the old, from what I have seen from walking or driving past any number of gamestop locations in my area.
If you read the artcile (yeah, I know few slashdotters bother to RTFA) did you notice that you did not need to pay for it, regardless of where you were? Did you notice you are free to download it and redistribute it any way you like?
PLoS (and others now, as well) is providing open access publishing. Work is still peer reviewed but nothing is held behind a paywall.
Though we will probably see more of him as a contributor as you cant spend all your life consuming drugs and hookers
I highly doubt he made enough money from the sale of slashdot to afford drugs or hookers - or at least, not decent examples of either. In fact he may want to look into selling some of the former (though hopefully none of the latter) if he wants to make some money while he's still young; I doubt there are many other companies who want to hire someone to constantly write about facebook.
While of course bot masters pay essentially nothing for their CPU power, someone has to buy the systems that become zombies for the botnets. As those systems get faster, the things that a botnet master can do expands. For what it's worth I haven't seen an ssh-based attempt on my system in over a month - and the most recent one was only a few hundred attempts from one IP address that maps to Missouri - but I have seen distributed attempts on my system in the past that have made thousands of attempts at the root password (futile when root is disabled, which they would know if they read the ssh greeting) as well as distributed whitepages attacks going for common user names with easy/non-existent passwords.
If ISPs would actually start to take action against the users whose systems make up the botnets, we would see this activity reduced. However it is more profitable for the ISPs to not do so.
Nothing wrong with you being modded down when your wrong
Actually, there is, because there is no down moderation for "wrong" or "disagree". Some people get moderator points and seem to feel otherwise...
Indeed. I can't seem to prevent myself from making that particular mistake.
There might be an obvious reason not to do this, but considering how few keys are typed by the right pinky you might be able to get away with this. It would also have the advantage of being able to easily use other keyboards that you may come across in your regular existence.
Han Solo, or Han Solo's dad? It has been quite a while since he was in a Star Wars film, and he isn't really readily recognizable as Han Solo any more. It might be easier to find a younger (or younger-looking) actor to take the role if you want it to make sense and not be a tale of Han Solo's retirement.
If they are required to write a blog post every day, then I would expect that the writing quality would be allowed to slide as the lion's share of the students have other courses running concurrently; likewise if they are told something like "respond to this news story in the first 24 hours". However if they are given more time then they should be able to write better quality posts if the quality is suppoed to be part of the project. If instead the point is just to run some blogging software and see how it responds under conditions of X, Y, Z, then the quality of the writing itself might not be as important as its frequency and volume.
which in turn is degraded into another enzyme
Should say
which in turn is degraded by another enzyme
It makes no sense for a product of alcohol degradation to become an enzyme on it's own.
Is it like iTunes for FPS games?
Pretty much, yes. Specifically games that people who are hard core into FPS consider to be "vintage" or "classic" - even though said games are many years younger than Wolfenstein, Doom, or even Quake. People who are big fans of it see it as a great gift to be able to buy Half-Life for $8 even though they bought it for $40 the first time, then bought the first special edition of it the year after for another $40, and the uber-mega-titanium-coated-diamond-edition of it the third year for another $60.
For the most part, it is a way for a company to extract a little more money from a large number of gamers who like to keep buying the same thing repeatedly.
And yes, I know I will be lucky to not be moderated down for this. Bombs away.
Charging authors to publish is not much better than charging people to read the articles
Every journal I am aware of that uses any kind of peer review process does this. This system, however, is a lot cheaper. I recently publised in PLoS ONE and I had to pay around $1,500 for that. I really hope these guys can keep their publication costs down and manage to acquire some prestige so they get indexed in relevant places.
What we truly need is a system that is paid for by universities, cooperatively, that allows anyone to submit a paper and allows anyone to download as many or as few papers as they would like.
Some journals have tried that - look at the institutional memberships at PLoS (my institution is not a member) and BioMedCentral for example - the problem with that though is that memberships like that would usually be paid for by the school libraries and quite nearly every school in this country is trying to reduce their library expenditures.
Are you telling me that Packard-Bell is back in business?
From reading the article it seems the poster's son is interested in stuff like this and likes running a Minecraft - server, so it would be a hobby for him and therefore any time spent on recovering from losses would still be within the limits of an educational hobby.
Sure, but what is not clear is how much of the poster's time would be consumed by this. Is the son capable of managing this on his own (the abstract suggests the answer may be no)? If the dad has to put time into this then you need to estimate what his time is worth - in particular the opportunity cost of him not being available to do other fatherly stuff.
Sure, you can replace a PS or HD for less than the annual savings, but what if something bigger than that goes out? You are also ignoring the value of your time, as you would put a fair bit of time in to recovering from either of those losses.
That said, I run my own home server, but it's not something I do to save money. I run my own server because it allows me to configure it exactly how I want it configured and I know exactly how it is managed.
It puzzles me when I see that people work really hard to come up with difficult passwords for their bank accounts, but not for their personal accounts on their own computers. They really need to think about what value those passwords have to other people - in particular what could someone else do with those passwords if they had them?
I have used a fair number of different banks over the past couple decades and seen a lot of different online banking systems. Not once have I seen one where you could actually use the online system to arbitrarily move money outside the account owner's accounts. I have seen some where you can set up bill payments, but that was a chore and would not be useful for trying to pull money out quickly. Most online banking systems intentionally do not even give full account or routing numbers to logged in users, and I've never seen one give out SSN or DOB either.
On the other hand, people keep a lot of personal information on their PCs. If you can get their personal user names and passwords you could get a lot more useful information on them. A lot of users likely have their SSN and DOB in their browser cache somewhere, and almost everyone has their address somewhere in there.
We've seen a lot of these "post your questions" topics, but hardly any answers lately. When will we start seeing responses?
You could host the video somewhere else, you know. Google deciding not to host it on their services does not in any way prevent you from hosting it somehwere else - or hosting it yourself. If it is not your video, you don't have to work too hrad to find out who posted it and contact them directly for it so you can host it somewhere for them.
In elementary school they'd often send me to the library to get rid of me. We had "library passes" that teachers could issue to students, and they were issued to me quite often. I spent most of my time reading whatever scientific books I could find in our library (often not realizing how out of date they were - I remember in particular reading a book on how great skylab was going to be).
However one time I looked up a profane word in the giant unabridged dictionary - and then showed it to my friends. The librarian was not amused.
If the pen will punish me for bad penmanship it will just bring back bad memories of being taught (much against my will) how to write in cursive back in 3rd grade. Hell, I enjoyed memorizing multiplication tables but dreaded cursive writing tests. I still remember my teacher giving me extra pages of just the dreaded lower-cased letter "r".
If this pen takes a similar approach I would just take the batteries out and go back to typing messages.