The future I'm being shown is not to my liking. I refuse to play this game anymore. Over the years, I bought LPs, tapes, CDs, VHS tapes, Beta tapes, and ultimately DVDs. I won't do it anymore. I will hopefully get years out of my existing hardware, but when it breaks, I'm done. When the cable providers no longer transmit analog TV signals, my set will likely go to the dumpster. I refuse to deal with media that requires me to play their game. There are too many other ways for me to spend my time. As it is, I'm down to two TV shows anyway. Giving it up for good won't be difficult.
I stopped going to the movie theater two years ago, and quit buying DVDs about the same time. I stopped buying CDs four. It's easy to quit. I wish more people would back up their feelings with actions. If more did, the media producers would have no choice but to listen. As it is, the sheep will continue to play the no-win game the media producers graciously allow you to spend money to play. Have fun.
While I do think they should be prosecuted, I don't know that I believe in jail time for an offense like this. This isn't theft, it's copyright infridgement. I think the standard legal remedies like fining them out of existance are more than fair. Make the punishment fit the crime.
For one thing, the hacker community will be on these immediately, and I expect them to have a lot more functionality when that kicks in. I also look forward to having a laptop that I can use in less than ideal environments without fear of loosing something much more expensive. Last, I don't mind paying more for the device if it helps fund the project somewhat and helps provide the laptops for people less fortunate.
I can understand there might be a problem with scratches. Every product isn't perfect, but all this will do is give everyone in the suit a few $$$ or a free case or something, and the bottom feeding lawyers will make a huge pile of cash. Idiots.
You're right, it is your space. Pull out that little network cable at the back of the machine. There, nobody has access to it anymore. See how easy that was?
Some of us remember what it was like to use a computer before the internet. Strangely, they were still pretty useful for a lot of things.
I'm finding it harder every day to resist... Now if they'd only do something about the price.
$499 gets you a mac mini that has basically the same specs as my 15 month old powerbook. 512MB, 1.25 GHz G4. No, Apple doesn't compete with whitebox selling-out-of-my-trunk "vendors" on pricewatch.
Lets not forget giving you a really nice OS along with it, not some stripped down XP Home edition, or having to purchase your own copy of XP Pro for another $179 (or whatever).
Bingo. I worked in a tight three person team like thisa few years ago. I did the new development, another guy handled the client, comapny managers, and basically everything that just let me do my job. The less skilled girl designed forms, tracked bugs, corrected spelling mistakes, handled some of the builds. It worked fantastic, and we three were holding up one entire end of the company. We were bringing in more revenue than the department next to us with eighty employees, who couldn't make a deadline.
How often do existing pages change? Maybe in a case where people catch errors.
I have a spare 20GB lying around that I would install this on, if there was some way to sync it with the current state and have it download new pages and update current ones.
I don't know about most people, but the whole reason I have an iPod, and take my music with me, is because I'm sick of the garbage that is played on the radio, and the endless stream of commercials that I'm forced to listen to. Why do you now want to add that back into the unit?
Yes, actually, I do have an XP machine that regularly drops into a BSOD. I too am a software developer, writing mostly audio applications, and it is amazing to me how easy XP will crash when you start playing with hardware buffers on a audio card. I'm sure that much of this has to do with the drivers written for the card, but it's still quite easy for a rogue driver to take the whole machine with it.
Most people don't know that Roger Moore (born 1927) was actually older than Sean Connery (born 1930) by three years. Was a shock to me as well at the time I found out. I had always assumed that Roger Moore was Connery's younger replacement.
I wish that id HAD taken a stand. They said that they didn't want to hurt gamers and the industry, but to me, this seems to hurt more. This helps establish that what Creative did was okay as it worked out for them. If id had refused to use their patent, then Creative gains nothing from it, and might be discouraged from trying this BS tactic in the future.
I remember reading somewhere about some guy that kept a rubber duck in his desk drawer. When he would get stuck on a problem, he would pull out the duck and try to explain the problem he was having. Usually going through it helped solve the problem.
I've thought about it, but my co-workers already think I'm borderline insane.
I have been doing all my personal reading for the past couple of years on my PDAs. My current Sony Clie has been by far the best yet. Since I normally read at night, I keep the backlighting low, and find it both very easy on my eyes, and it last quite a while. During the day, I adjust it for lighting conditions, but still find it easy on the eyes. Having my books on the PDA means that I always have my book with me, and since I keep my reading list on there, I always have the next book waiting to start. I won't give it up for anything.
Holy shit. I seldom expect to read anything on/. that makes me nod my head in approval, but this is well said. Bravo. I only wish something like this would open some people's eyes.
"that we have a perpetual shortage of qualified people in the industry."
This is funny. A few years ago, after working on successful but boring software projects for the past ten years, I decided that I wanted to work in the game industry. I have no debt, and was willing to take a pay cut. I live in San Diego, home of a number of game companies, EA, Sony, etc. I figured it wouldn't be too difficult to get myself at least an entry level position with 10-years experience, just to learn the ropes. Nobody seemed willing to hire someone that didn't have several previously delivered games under their belt, despite a number of other successful consumer products and happy customers. I had sent resumes to all the companies in the area, as well as working briefly with a "game headhunter" which didn't work out as well. After roughly six months of trying, I gave up, and went back to working on my boring jobs. I'm guessing that the writer of the above quote isn't all that tied into the needs of the industry.
I try and schedule flights through PIT now...
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I flew there for the first time a few months ago, and was happy to find open WIFI in the food court, as well as shops and food that were not jacked up to normal airport prices. Nothing there was any more than at a regular shopping mall. Since then, I have intentionally scheduled my flights back to where I work so that my layover is at PIT. If I'm stuck there a few hours, I could care less. It's perfect for catching up on mail and surfing. In my case, it IS making a difference.
48? 28? You young ones know nothing. My HP in highschool was the 41C. That was, and will always be the ultimate geek calculator. You had an attachable magnetic card reader, thermal printer, plug in cartridges, and even it's own networking, HP IL. That was in addition to being the first calc with an alpha numeric display, fully programable, HACKABLE through synthetic programming. The calcs that came after it have all pailed in comparison.
Mine got some Mariah Carey video on it. I can't delete it, because it's on the main menu screen. Thank god I'm not forced to watch it. This is the kind of BS I always knew would eventually happen.
The guys at EDT (www.edt.com) who make all sorts of data acquisition and control cards, support Linux very well. I've used their LVDS cards for a handful of projects, and they are very knowledgeable and helpful with Linux. They have native drivers for the cards, sample code, etc. Highly recommended. I have no connection with them other than being a very satisfied customer.
It has a hard drive for exactly that purpose, patches, etc. I'm willing to bet that the next "upgrade" that people get for their XBoxen will fix that oversight.
I was the geek in HS that was walking around with this crap Novus RPN calculator that I won in a contest. It was cool, but wasn't much more than a calculator for me. When the 41C was announced, I was in heaven. Aside from it being $300, and myself having no money, it was what I wanted most in this world. I even cut out the ad for it from an OMNI magazine (remember those!), and framed it.
That year for xmas, after everything was open, and we were milling around the house, my mom told me there was one other present under the tree. I could have died when I got the wrapper off. I taught myself to program with that calculator. I would spend hours sitting around and write games for it, learning to convert bases, it got me into learing math that my teachers were never able to get me interested in. It set the course for my life as an engineer. It wasn't until years later that I was able to get on a computer, and learn to do anything more.
A few years ago, I was in a pinch, and sold my 41C on Ebay. I felt like shit after it was gone. So much time, so much passion went into that little box of electronics. I have had other HPs since then, up though the 48s. No matter what they do to the HP calcs, there will always be a warm spot in my heart for them. I doubt I would be where I am now without them.
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The future I'm being shown is not to my liking. I refuse to play this game anymore. Over the years, I bought LPs, tapes, CDs, VHS tapes, Beta tapes, and ultimately DVDs. I won't do it anymore. I will hopefully get years out of my existing hardware, but when it breaks, I'm done. When the cable providers no longer transmit analog TV signals, my set will likely go to the dumpster. I refuse to deal with media that requires me to play their game. There are too many other ways for me to spend my time. As it is, I'm down to two TV shows anyway. Giving it up for good won't be difficult.
I stopped going to the movie theater two years ago, and quit buying DVDs about the same time. I stopped buying CDs four. It's easy to quit. I wish more people would back up their feelings with actions. If more did, the media producers would have no choice but to listen. As it is, the sheep will continue to play the no-win game the media producers graciously allow you to spend money to play. Have fun.
While I do think they should be prosecuted, I don't know that I believe in jail time for an offense like this. This isn't theft, it's copyright infridgement. I think the standard legal remedies like fining them out of existance are more than fair. Make the punishment fit the crime.
For one thing, the hacker community will be on these immediately, and I expect them to have a lot more functionality when that kicks in. I also look forward to having a laptop that I can use in less than ideal environments without fear of loosing something much more expensive. Last, I don't mind paying more for the device if it helps fund the project somewhat and helps provide the laptops for people less fortunate.
I can understand there might be a problem with scratches. Every product isn't perfect, but all this will do is give everyone in the suit a few $$$ or a free case or something, and the bottom feeding lawyers will make a huge pile of cash. Idiots.
You're right, it is your space. Pull out that little network cable at the back of the machine. There, nobody has access to it anymore. See how easy that was?
Some of us remember what it was like to use a computer before the internet. Strangely, they were still pretty useful for a lot of things.
Lets not forget giving you a really nice OS along with it, not some stripped down XP Home edition, or having to purchase your own copy of XP Pro for another $179 (or whatever).
Bingo. I worked in a tight three person team like thisa few years ago. I did the new development, another guy handled the client, comapny managers, and basically everything that just let me do my job. The less skilled girl designed forms, tracked bugs, corrected spelling mistakes, handled some of the builds. It worked fantastic, and we three were holding up one entire end of the company. We were bringing in more revenue than the department next to us with eighty employees, who couldn't make a deadline.
How often do existing pages change? Maybe in a case where people catch errors.
I have a spare 20GB lying around that I would install this on, if there was some way to sync it with the current state and have it download new pages and update current ones.
I don't know about most people, but the whole reason I have an iPod, and take my music with me, is because I'm sick of the garbage that is played on the radio, and the endless stream of commercials that I'm forced to listen to. Why do you now want to add that back into the unit?
Yes, actually, I do have an XP machine that regularly drops into a BSOD. I too am a software developer, writing mostly audio applications, and it is amazing to me how easy XP will crash when you start playing with hardware buffers on a audio card. I'm sure that much of this has to do with the drivers written for the card, but it's still quite easy for a rogue driver to take the whole machine with it.
Most people don't know that Roger Moore (born 1927) was actually older than Sean Connery (born 1930) by three years. Was a shock to me as well at the time I found out. I had always assumed that Roger Moore was Connery's younger replacement.
I wish that id HAD taken a stand. They said that they didn't want to hurt gamers and the industry, but to me, this seems to hurt more. This helps establish that what Creative did was okay as it worked out for them. If id had refused to use their patent, then Creative gains nothing from it, and might be discouraged from trying this BS tactic in the future.
I'm worried they might wake up Cthulhu down there....
Diet Coke out the nose sucks....
Shit that was funny
I remember reading somewhere about some guy that kept a rubber duck in his desk drawer. When he would get stuck on a problem, he would pull out the duck and try to explain the problem he was having. Usually going through it helped solve the problem.
I've thought about it, but my co-workers already think I'm borderline insane.
I have been doing all my personal reading for the past couple of years on my PDAs. My current Sony Clie has been by far the best yet. Since I normally read at night, I keep the backlighting low, and find it both very easy on my eyes, and it last quite a while. During the day, I adjust it for lighting conditions, but still find it easy on the eyes. Having my books on the PDA means that I always have my book with me, and since I keep my reading list on there, I always have the next book waiting to start. I won't give it up for anything.
Holy shit. I seldom expect to read anything on /. that makes me nod my head in approval, but this is well said. Bravo. I only wish something like this would open some people's eyes.
"that we have a perpetual shortage of qualified people in the industry."
This is funny. A few years ago, after working on successful but boring software projects for the past ten years, I decided that I wanted to work in the game industry. I have no debt, and was willing to take a pay cut. I live in San Diego, home of a number of game companies, EA, Sony, etc. I figured it wouldn't be too difficult to get myself at least an entry level position with 10-years experience, just to learn the ropes. Nobody seemed willing to hire someone that didn't have several previously delivered games under their belt, despite a number of other successful consumer products and happy customers. I had sent resumes to all the companies in the area, as well as working briefly with a "game headhunter" which didn't work out as well. After roughly six months of trying, I gave up, and went back to working on my boring jobs. I'm guessing that the writer of the above quote isn't all that tied into the needs of the industry.
I flew there for the first time a few months ago, and was happy to find open WIFI in the food court, as well as shops and food that were not jacked up to normal airport prices. Nothing there was any more than at a regular shopping mall. Since then, I have intentionally scheduled my flights back to where I work so that my layover is at PIT. If I'm stuck there a few hours, I could care less. It's perfect for catching up on mail and surfing. In my case, it IS making a difference.
48? 28? You young ones know nothing. My HP in highschool was the 41C. That was, and will always be the ultimate geek calculator. You had an attachable magnetic card reader, thermal printer, plug in cartridges, and even it's own networking, HP IL. That was in addition to being the first calc with an alpha numeric display, fully programable, HACKABLE through synthetic programming. The calcs that came after it have all pailed in comparison.
Mine got some Mariah Carey video on it. I can't delete it, because it's on the main menu screen. Thank god I'm not forced to watch it. This is the kind of BS I always knew would eventually happen.
The guys at EDT (www.edt.com) who make all sorts of data acquisition and control cards, support Linux very well. I've used their LVDS cards for a handful of projects, and they are very knowledgeable and helpful with Linux. They have native drivers for the cards, sample code, etc. Highly recommended. I have no connection with them other than being a very satisfied customer.
I was the geek in HS that was walking around with this crap Novus RPN calculator that I won in a contest. It was cool, but wasn't much more than a calculator for me. When the 41C was announced, I was in heaven. Aside from it being $300, and myself having no money, it was what I wanted most in this world. I even cut out the ad for it from an OMNI magazine (remember those!), and framed it.
That year for xmas, after everything was open, and we were milling around the house, my mom told me there was one other present under the tree. I could have died when I got the wrapper off. I taught myself to program with that calculator. I would spend hours sitting around and write games for it, learning to convert bases, it got me into learing math that my teachers were never able to get me interested in. It set the course for my life as an engineer. It wasn't until years later that I was able to get on a computer, and learn to do anything more.
A few years ago, I was in a pinch, and sold my 41C on Ebay. I felt like shit after it was gone. So much time, so much passion went into that little box of electronics. I have had other HPs since then, up though the 48s. No matter what they do to the HP calcs, there will always be a warm spot in my heart for them. I doubt I would be where I am now without them.
Thanks HP!