I was just thinking about something similar a couple days ago. It seems like it would be fairly easy to implement on any os that already has a hibernate function. Why not multiple boot images even? Let me choose my work environment at boot and load up a ram image with any apps I've set up already running. Have a basic one that is just a fresh boot, nothing going on, etc. The avenue of thought that led me to it though was wondering why I need a 4 gigabyte hibernate file when 3 gigs of my memory is unused.
I just replaced a Toshiba X201 series with an Asus gaming notebook. My last one had an nVidia 8700, new one is a 9700. Went for a smaller screen on the new one as I was tired of lugging a 17 inch laptop around the world. There is literally nothing out that I can't play perfectly. Gotta hook it up? Same thing with a pc. I use the built in keyboard most times, occasionaly an external if I feel like having the screen a little further away. Don't care about upgrades. This laptop cost me 1200 bucks. In a year I'll sell it for 600 and buy a new one. Costs me less then a major cpu and gpu upgrade on a desktop. Maybe it's not for everyone but the idea that gaming laptops can't keep up is antiquated.
Well actually Microsoft used to be 98 shades of evil. Then they tried to make evil pretty for the MillEnnium. After that they grew to 2000 shades of evil. Eventually they became eXPerienced at being evil. Finally nowadays they've moved to a much broader form of evil. A VISTA if you will.
There are some smaller games that do this of course. Recently I've bought the penny arcade game and an rpg called eschalon:book 1 and both were unlockable with a key so the demo had the full game. The reason you don't see this on AAA games is twofold. First they are just too damn big. I've got a pretty nice broadband setup but I don't think I'll be downloading any 8 gigabyte demos any time soon. Second is that the companys are genuinely concerned about piracy. When all of the game is already there it is trivially easy in most cases to crack it to full. So then not only are people not paying for your game, but you are paying for the bandwidth to give them a free copy.
Don't forget the CdS and CdTe. Where do those come from? Are they expensive or cheap to make (regarding both energy and cost)? Hopefully they are cheap enough that your analysis holds cause we've been told for too many years that solar power is going to be a viable option and I hope it's finally about to come true.
Congratulations. You've created yourself a 6 hour delay and interrogation. At the end of it you'll simply be fingerprinted again and forced to pay for your new passport. I don't think the kind of semi-passive resistance you're advocating really works here. Though I still kind of like the idea I just find it hopeless.
We also get news from blogs, apple fan sites, and wikileaks. Non of those is peer reviewed either. The point is that it's not that people should take articles sourcing ArXiv with a grain of salt; it's that they should take everything with a grain of salt.
I have a Toshiba laptop with an HD-DVD drive. Unfortunately even though Toshiba marketed this particular model as a gaming/high end media solution the only graphics drivers they supply are not capable of playing some recent games. Bioshock for instance crashes immediately. Now being a fairly technical user I didn't have any significant problem finding an official nVIDIA driver with a modified INF file to get my games working just fine. Where does Microsoft's DRM support come in? Well the custom driver install is not recognized by Vista as HDCP capable. It breaks the required chain of trusted hardware/software and disallows the playback of HD-DVDs. My only recourse in the event that I choose to use my hardware as it was advertised to work is to do a complete driver reinstall with reboot to watch a movie, then do it again when done to get my system working properly again.
I'm even remotely qualified to answer this but it's Slashdot so what the hell. I always thought that the way orbit worked was that you got far enough away that you could equalize the reduced pull of the earths gravity with your forward momentum to achieve a stable relationship. Wouldn't getting essentially free altitude reduce the amount of fuel necessary to achieve that, resulting in reduced costs? I believe launching closer to the equator has a similar benefit where the added rotational velocity of the Earth gives you a free boost.
So what? Not every computer company needs to be Dell. If they sell enough to people like us to be profitable do they really need to care about the rest? Especially if the alternative is building xp boxes for the local market. I'd rather have access to.1% of a global market than 90% of my city.
The reason you don't do this is because it isn't illegal to sell violent games to kids. It isn't illegal to sell kids rated R movies either. Both the movie and game ratings standards are voluntary industry actions.
I can sympathize with you. You are correct that I haven't sold much. Actually I only have 7 feedback and only one of those was something I sold. It's for that very reason that I didn't need the hassle of getting a negative feedback. 1 out of 7 would have looked pretty bad I thought. As near as I can figure from their actions and descriptions in various forums over the years EBay doesn't care about sellers. They don't. They care about buyers. This seems backwards doesn't it? Don't all their fees come from the seller side? But then again when they have virtually every buyer then the sellers won't have much choice about where to sell.
For better or worse some sellers screwed the rest over. People started sending out emails saying that if for any reason you left a neutral or negative feedback they would leave negative feedback on you. It discouraged honesty from buyers. I myself ended up leaving a positive feedback with negative comment attached after buying a cell phone that had been misrepresented.
Not that I disagree with the overall direction of your post, but I think having to prove your driving ability every 5 years starting at 20 would be even better.
hehe. I used to do phone support for Dell and when people would ask my why it takes so long I would tell them this. Imagine that you are a car mechanic. Now imagine that you have to help somebody fix their car by phone and all they can tell you is "it sounds funny". It's gonna take some time. (I know, I know. another comp/car analogy. mod away)
There are places in Africa that only run the power grid every other day and you complain of having a third world infrastructure in the USA? Get real. I don't disagree with you about government enforced monopolies, just your use of hyperbole in support of that idea.
I had the opportunity a couple months ago to attend a speech by the Woz. I'm sure the creation of Apple Computers is not a foreign story to many of us here but it's a really neat experience to hear it direct from the man himself. He just has such an overwhelming passion for technology and the way it affects our lives. Quite aside from the normal mac vs pc wars here on Slashdot I think it is important to remember the history involved. I am sure many of you are like me. We define ourselves by our relationships, our hobbies, and our passions. Who would we be without the invention of the personal computer? What would we be doing with out lives absent the idea of bringing computers out of the corporation and in to every last home? I learned basic at 4 years old. I don't remember a time in my life when computers weren't a huge part of it. I salute Jobs and Wozniak both for having the vision (and the luck!) to spawn a revolution.
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I was just thinking about something similar a couple days ago. It seems like it would be fairly easy to implement on any os that already has a hibernate function. Why not multiple boot images even? Let me choose my work environment at boot and load up a ram image with any apps I've set up already running. Have a basic one that is just a fresh boot, nothing going on, etc. The avenue of thought that led me to it though was wondering why I need a 4 gigabyte hibernate file when 3 gigs of my memory is unused.
In a third world country you are lucky if you have ready access to electricity and clean water. Never mind high speed internet.
I just replaced a Toshiba X201 series with an Asus gaming notebook. My last one had an nVidia 8700, new one is a 9700. Went for a smaller screen on the new one as I was tired of lugging a 17 inch laptop around the world. There is literally nothing out that I can't play perfectly. Gotta hook it up? Same thing with a pc. I use the built in keyboard most times, occasionaly an external if I feel like having the screen a little further away. Don't care about upgrades. This laptop cost me 1200 bucks. In a year I'll sell it for 600 and buy a new one. Costs me less then a major cpu and gpu upgrade on a desktop. Maybe it's not for everyone but the idea that gaming laptops can't keep up is antiquated.
Well actually Microsoft used to be 98 shades of evil. Then they tried to make evil pretty for the MillEnnium. After that they grew to 2000 shades of evil. Eventually they became eXPerienced at being evil. Finally nowadays they've moved to a much broader form of evil. A VISTA if you will.
I read in the dev notes that the next version will finally be able to find Waldo.
There are some smaller games that do this of course. Recently I've bought the penny arcade game and an rpg called eschalon:book 1 and both were unlockable with a key so the demo had the full game. The reason you don't see this on AAA games is twofold. First they are just too damn big. I've got a pretty nice broadband setup but I don't think I'll be downloading any 8 gigabyte demos any time soon. Second is that the companys are genuinely concerned about piracy. When all of the game is already there it is trivially easy in most cases to crack it to full. So then not only are people not paying for your game, but you are paying for the bandwidth to give them a free copy.
Don't forget the CdS and CdTe. Where do those come from? Are they expensive or cheap to make (regarding both energy and cost)? Hopefully they are cheap enough that your analysis holds cause we've been told for too many years that solar power is going to be a viable option and I hope it's finally about to come true.
Congratulations. You've created yourself a 6 hour delay and interrogation. At the end of it you'll simply be fingerprinted again and forced to pay for your new passport. I don't think the kind of semi-passive resistance you're advocating really works here. Though I still kind of like the idea I just find it hopeless.
We also get news from blogs, apple fan sites, and wikileaks. Non of those is peer reviewed either. The point is that it's not that people should take articles sourcing ArXiv with a grain of salt; it's that they should take everything with a grain of salt.
I have a Toshiba laptop with an HD-DVD drive. Unfortunately even though Toshiba marketed this particular model as a gaming/high end media solution the only graphics drivers they supply are not capable of playing some recent games. Bioshock for instance crashes immediately. Now being a fairly technical user I didn't have any significant problem finding an official nVIDIA driver with a modified INF file to get my games working just fine. Where does Microsoft's DRM support come in? Well the custom driver install is not recognized by Vista as HDCP capable. It breaks the required chain of trusted hardware/software and disallows the playback of HD-DVDs. My only recourse in the event that I choose to use my hardware as it was advertised to work is to do a complete driver reinstall with reboot to watch a movie, then do it again when done to get my system working properly again.
If I were a shark you'd already be dead...
iBought a 3g iPhone but iGet no iSignal at home so people always think iHungup on them.
I'm even remotely qualified to answer this but it's Slashdot so what the hell. I always thought that the way orbit worked was that you got far enough away that you could equalize the reduced pull of the earths gravity with your forward momentum to achieve a stable relationship. Wouldn't getting essentially free altitude reduce the amount of fuel necessary to achieve that, resulting in reduced costs? I believe launching closer to the equator has a similar benefit where the added rotational velocity of the Earth gives you a free boost.
So what? Not every computer company needs to be Dell. If they sell enough to people like us to be profitable do they really need to care about the rest? Especially if the alternative is building xp boxes for the local market. I'd rather have access to .1% of a global market than 90% of my city.
Neither of us is dead, so I'm obviously not a software patent.
If I were a software patent you'd already be dead.
The reason you don't do this is because it isn't illegal to sell violent games to kids. It isn't illegal to sell kids rated R movies either. Both the movie and game ratings standards are voluntary industry actions.
The sad thing is I have no idea if you are joking. I'll have to check back later and see how you've been modded.
Have you played any mmorpgs? Removing support for the capslock key would be the single greatest thing they could do.
I can sympathize with you. You are correct that I haven't sold much. Actually I only have 7 feedback and only one of those was something I sold. It's for that very reason that I didn't need the hassle of getting a negative feedback. 1 out of 7 would have looked pretty bad I thought. As near as I can figure from their actions and descriptions in various forums over the years EBay doesn't care about sellers. They don't. They care about buyers. This seems backwards doesn't it? Don't all their fees come from the seller side? But then again when they have virtually every buyer then the sellers won't have much choice about where to sell.
For better or worse some sellers screwed the rest over. People started sending out emails saying that if for any reason you left a neutral or negative feedback they would leave negative feedback on you. It discouraged honesty from buyers. I myself ended up leaving a positive feedback with negative comment attached after buying a cell phone that had been misrepresented.
Not that I disagree with the overall direction of your post, but I think having to prove your driving ability every 5 years starting at 20 would be even better.
hehe. I used to do phone support for Dell and when people would ask my why it takes so long I would tell them this. Imagine that you are a car mechanic. Now imagine that you have to help somebody fix their car by phone and all they can tell you is "it sounds funny". It's gonna take some time. (I know, I know. another comp/car analogy. mod away)
There are places in Africa that only run the power grid every other day and you complain of having a third world infrastructure in the USA? Get real. I don't disagree with you about government enforced monopolies, just your use of hyperbole in support of that idea.
I had the opportunity a couple months ago to attend a speech by the Woz. I'm sure the creation of Apple Computers is not a foreign story to many of us here but it's a really neat experience to hear it direct from the man himself. He just has such an overwhelming passion for technology and the way it affects our lives. Quite aside from the normal mac vs pc wars here on Slashdot I think it is important to remember the history involved. I am sure many of you are like me. We define ourselves by our relationships, our hobbies, and our passions. Who would we be without the invention of the personal computer? What would we be doing with out lives absent the idea of bringing computers out of the corporation and in to every last home? I learned basic at 4 years old. I don't remember a time in my life when computers weren't a huge part of it. I salute Jobs and Wozniak both for having the vision (and the luck!) to spawn a revolution.