Any data storage standard is a compromise between reliability and capacity.
Not really. Seems to me I can store a LOT of data on paper. AND it works when the power's out, work in higher temperatures, is foldable, doesn't get eaten by magnets, is easily expandable, etc.
Any data storage standard is a compromise between reliability, speed, costs, and capacity. Costs include the price of the storage, the readers/writers, the physical storage for the device (how big it is), operating costs (power, environmental restrictions etc.), waste, etc. etc.
No, early versions of the PS3 can't handle the highest of the uber mega high end audio formats.
The HDMI port is physically too old to pump out teh 7.1 TRUE HD LOSSLESS MASTER bullshit.
Dunno if the Slim has been updated to HDMI 1.3 a(/b?) or 1.4. The original PS3 sits at HDMI 1.3 plain and only grabs the core stream for some of the audio formats and transcodes to 5.1 DTS. You can also do bitstream / linear PCM output, but only for 5.1 (not 7.1).
The PS3 also doesn't support some of the fancier color profiles (that no one will ever use) or increased color depth (that no one will ever use).
Fixing security issues is always the right answer. The alternative, not fixing security issues, is always the wrong answer.
This is a typical kdawson FUD post.
While I agree that all the security theater bullshit is bullshit, this article itself is bullshit.
Where's the rub? The implied notion that there's a security issue at all is bullshit.
A man walking in to a "secure" area through the exit is not a security issue. So yes, the correct action in this case is to do nothing, but no, there was no security issue to fix or not fix.
If you see it, you can kill it, with RPGs or whatever, so hovering in the air merely increases the range from which it can be struck.
Then there are no current levitation systems that don't involve massive airflow, making a huge dust cloud (also ingesting all kinds of junk into the engines)
Seems to me all that dust would make it kinda hard to see!
Fucker couldn't even remember Meryl's codec number and I RENTED THE GAME.
Not really, I owned it. When I was in a Blockbuster after having played it, I looked on their case for MGS (a standard DVD-style case with their printed out BLOCKBUSTER sleeve, not the real one) and they DID in fact reprint Meryl's codec number.
I was pleasantly surprised, though I do know it was a problem for a bunch of people. Apparently Meryl calls you eventually anyway, though.
Of course, if two Circuit Courts give different rulings on said topic, then it would almost certainly end up in front of the US Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court takes on as few cases as possible. Because they're lazy and don't want to expose their corruptions, or, at the very best, they don't want to be seen as "rocking the boat".
Supreme Court Justices should not be appointed for life by the President. They should be elected by popular vote to a term of 10 years. Oh, and NO CAMPAIGNING OR PARTY AFFILIATION AT ALL should be allowed.
People wishing to vote on the matter would have to (assume gasping positions!) look up the candidate's prior rulings and think for themselves.
"System tuning" would require actual tuning to the system.
The Goon Squad is probably just running some automated crapware to defrag, "fix" the registry, and other such nonsense. Of course, being crapware, it can often do more harm than good.
Oh tablets have their uses, sure. And it'd be nice to have a competent up-to-date one. But that isn't what this article is about - this article is about trying to shoehorn tablets as the next big market now that the Kindle ship has sailed and the netbook market is getting saturated. Freescale is trying to sell OEMs on features/price, blatantly ignoring the lack of a market. Lots of things are cheap. Doesn't mean there's demand.
Yes, I'm saying "Fuck Tablets", just as I said "Fuck "Netbooks"" and "Fuck the "Cloud"". But I'm saying it to the fucking marketers.
I'd love a good tablet. I wouldn't buy a netbook for myself, but if there was a good one for what someone else needed I'd recommend it. I use the "cloud" everyday, yet I don't need to make up bullshit buzzwords for it.
I'm simply reacting to the near future where OEMs buy up silicon and slap together some tablets. Some jump the gun, others wait and wait for The iTablet and the gTablet, but eventually there's a bunch of tablets out there that few people really want (because they won't be anything special). Instead of trying to make a better tablet, the OEMs will just have marketing shout "TABLET TABLET TABLET" from the mountaintops until you're giving them to granny to replace the digital photo frame you got her last year.
You can take my posts in one of two ways:
-The "me-too" and price-point marketing in the industry is ridiculous and I hate that we haven't seen anything really new or innovative in a long time.
-Everyone hates on shit once it's popular, but I was hating on shit before it was ever released.
$200 for the unit with the least amount of storage. $45 for the keyboard dock. $35 for their keyboard (the only one that will fit) $15 for a pack of 3 styluses (doesn't come with one because it's "designed for finger use" even though finger use is shit on it and nastifies the screen). $35 for the carrying bag which doesn't hold the keyboard dock or keyboard. $30 for a little travel mouse
OMG GOOGLE TABLET OMG APPLE TABLET OMG THE OLPC OF TABLETS. Shut the fuck up. If your company missed the "netbook" boat, then too bad. If you're not Amazon, you didn't make the Kindle - too bad.
This industry has gone from innovation to theft to bandwagon jumping to bandwagon hyping to hyping of planned bandwagon hyping.
History has proven time and time again that the market for tablets is very small. I don't give a shit how much hot air you blow into the media's ass, you're not going to make a bigger market for tablets because people don't like tablets.
As for this proposed tablet? It's sheer feature / price point marketing. The PHBs called a meeting with marketing and wrote some features on the board, then they came up with a price. And they're only doing it because of the incessant, unfounded rumors that tablets are going to be the next big market.
I sure as fuck WILL recognize the internet in 10 years.
There's money involved. Lots. Money hates change.
I'll still be able to go to cnn.com or whatever. I'll still be able to connect to shit via IPv4. I'll still be able to use HTTP and POP and IMAP and SMTP and FTP and etc.
The internet will be different, but it will still clearly be the internet, and I'll still be able to interact with it as I do today. There may be newer methods of interacting, sure, but they won't kill off the older methods.
As for the bold claims that people are "starting from scratch", all I can say is "lol no". I'm pretty sure we'll still be using wires (be they twisted pair or fiber) and modems and NICs. I'm pretty sure we'll still have MAC addresses and they'll still be relatively useless for 99% of people. I'm pretty sure the internet from a user's point of view will be the same, with more flashy crap. (By flashy crap, I mean both useless shiny baubles for the plebes AND shit like the festering pile of shit from Adobe.)
What's happening is that people are working on making the internet more secure and reliable on the back end. People don't see the back end. They see the front end. People will recognize the internet just fine.
As for the likelihood of there being any success in improving the security and trust and such on the internet: LOL. For tens of thousands of years we haven't been able to develop security and trust in real life. The people are the problem, not the system. People will go out of their way to get fucked every single time.
Imagine the internet was as restrictive as a prison. Now imagine the amount of fucking that would be going on.
I do NOT want a sea of divided little set top boxes that are merely adequate.
It pisses me off that Netflix HD streaming isn't available on the PC, but it is on dinky little boxes.
I was watching shit via Netflix's streaming service on my PC (connected to my TV) and when the PS3 finally got the Netflix service (you have to use a disc to run the Netflix software, though that should change soon) I noticed that shit was in HD.
Box A supports Hulu and Netflix but not Amazon. Box B supports Netflix and Amazon and promises future support for other things (will never happen). Box C lets you stream crap in crappy quality when you're away from home.
I'm amazed that a dumb box for dumb people has done so well. The concept of another box and another remote usually strike fear into the hearts of the plebes. Maybe it was the shitty name "Roku" that got people to love it.
Many TVs and Blu-Ray players already support some sort of streaming service or media channel, but it's never the one you want. This is precisely the kind of crap that SHOULD be standardized (though there's no technical reason to - it's brain-dead simple to stream video to a host on the internet) in order to help the consumer.
Pipes and buildings and computers need to live somewhere. Find them and shut them down physically.
How do you find them? Follow the money.
They moved stuff into the cloud? Clouds need to live somewhere. Find them and threaten to shut the cloud down physically. The cloud will then be willing to talk to you, and will shut down the people doing bad things.
How do you find them? Again, follow the money.
It's NEVER hard to shut someone down. What's hard is organizing the people with legal authority and getting them to give a shit.
Nerds like to think that the internet is some awesome force, and that information wants to be free, etc.
The internet is a fucking physical network maintained by real people. Abstract all you want. Personify all you want. But when you get the suits lined up against you, you're going down.
If you want to test it, just do the something that will get the most suits lined up against you.
USA? Child porn. Germany? Swastikas and Hitler. Middle East? A drawing of Mohamed.
The bottom line is that no one gives a shit that grandma's PC is thoroughly owned, or that your inbox is 99% spam, or whatever else.
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Any data storage standard is a compromise between reliability and capacity.
Not really.
Seems to me I can store a LOT of data on paper.
AND it works when the power's out, work in higher temperatures, is foldable, doesn't get eaten by magnets, is easily expandable, etc.
Any data storage standard is a compromise between reliability, speed, costs, and capacity.
Costs include the price of the storage, the readers/writers, the physical storage for the device (how big it is), operating costs (power, environmental restrictions etc.), waste, etc. etc.
No, early versions of the PS3 can't handle the highest of the uber mega high end audio formats.
The HDMI port is physically too old to pump out teh 7.1 TRUE HD LOSSLESS MASTER bullshit.
Dunno if the Slim has been updated to HDMI 1.3 a(/b?) or 1.4. The original PS3 sits at HDMI 1.3 plain and only grabs the core stream for some of the audio formats and transcodes to 5.1 DTS. You can also do bitstream / linear PCM output, but only for 5.1 (not 7.1).
The PS3 also doesn't support some of the fancier color profiles (that no one will ever use) or increased color depth (that no one will ever use).
http://media.aftenposten.no/archive/01011/SPACE-CHANDRA-NEBU_1011148x.jpg
Please, plebes, please choke the shitty US cell network further by watching TV on your phones in addition to all the other trivial shit you do.
Fixing security issues is always the right answer.
The alternative, not fixing security issues, is always the wrong answer.
This is a typical kdawson FUD post.
While I agree that all the security theater bullshit is bullshit, this article itself is bullshit.
Where's the rub? The implied notion that there's a security issue at all is bullshit.
A man walking in to a "secure" area through the exit is not a security issue. So yes, the correct action in this case is to do nothing, but no, there was no security issue to fix or not fix.
My say so?
No, the mandatory punishment (death) will.
Doc Brown said they wouldn't need roads where they were going, but if they had been going somewhere else they would have needed roads.
If you see it, you can kill it, with RPGs or whatever, so hovering in the air merely increases the range from which it can be struck.
Then there are no current levitation systems that don't involve massive airflow, making a huge dust cloud (also ingesting all kinds of junk into the engines)
Seems to me all that dust would make it kinda hard to see!
Fucker couldn't even remember Meryl's codec number and I RENTED THE GAME.
Not really, I owned it.
When I was in a Blockbuster after having played it, I looked on their case for MGS (a standard DVD-style case with their printed out BLOCKBUSTER sleeve, not the real one) and they DID in fact reprint Meryl's codec number.
I was pleasantly surprised, though I do know it was a problem for a bunch of people. Apparently Meryl calls you eventually anyway, though.
Of course, if two Circuit Courts give different rulings on said topic, then it would almost certainly end up in front of the US Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court takes on as few cases as possible. Because they're lazy and don't want to expose their corruptions, or, at the very best, they don't want to be seen as "rocking the boat".
Supreme Court Justices should not be appointed for life by the President. They should be elected by popular vote to a term of 10 years. Oh, and NO CAMPAIGNING OR PARTY AFFILIATION AT ALL should be allowed.
People wishing to vote on the matter would have to (assume gasping positions!) look up the candidate's prior rulings and think for themselves.
"System tuning" would require actual tuning to the system.
The Goon Squad is probably just running some automated crapware to defrag, "fix" the registry, and other such nonsense. Of course, being crapware, it can often do more harm than good.
Orly? Now we can add
$60 for a a replacement battery
to the list!
Oh tablets have their uses, sure. And it'd be nice to have a competent up-to-date one. But that isn't what this article is about - this article is about trying to shoehorn tablets as the next big market now that the Kindle ship has sailed and the netbook market is getting saturated. Freescale is trying to sell OEMs on features/price, blatantly ignoring the lack of a market. Lots of things are cheap. Doesn't mean there's demand.
Yes, I'm saying "Fuck Tablets", just as I said "Fuck "Netbooks"" and "Fuck the "Cloud"". But I'm saying it to the fucking marketers.
I'd love a good tablet. I wouldn't buy a netbook for myself, but if there was a good one for what someone else needed I'd recommend it. I use the "cloud" everyday, yet I don't need to make up bullshit buzzwords for it.
I'm simply reacting to the near future where OEMs buy up silicon and slap together some tablets.
Some jump the gun, others wait and wait for The iTablet and the gTablet, but eventually there's a bunch of tablets out there that few people really want (because they won't be anything special).
Instead of trying to make a better tablet, the OEMs will just have marketing shout "TABLET TABLET TABLET" from the mountaintops until you're giving them to granny to replace the digital photo frame you got her last year.
You can take my posts in one of two ways:
-The "me-too" and price-point marketing in the industry is ridiculous and I hate that we haven't seen anything really new or innovative in a long time.
-Everyone hates on shit once it's popular, but I was hating on shit before it was ever released.
True, new twists, improvements, etc. often breathe new life into an old design.
What we have here is essentially an updated tablet from 1999.
Wake me up when they've found some doing the Foxtrot or the Lindy Hop.
$200 for the unit with the least amount of storage.
$45 for the keyboard dock.
$35 for their keyboard (the only one that will fit)
$15 for a pack of 3 styluses (doesn't come with one because it's "designed for finger use" even though finger use is shit on it and nastifies the screen).
$35 for the carrying bag which doesn't hold the keyboard dock or keyboard.
$30 for a little travel mouse
OMG GOOGLE TABLET OMG APPLE TABLET OMG THE OLPC OF TABLETS.
Shut the fuck up. If your company missed the "netbook" boat, then too bad. If you're not Amazon, you didn't make the Kindle - too bad.
This industry has gone from innovation to theft to bandwagon jumping to bandwagon hyping to hyping of planned bandwagon hyping.
History has proven time and time again that the market for tablets is very small. I don't give a shit how much hot air you blow into the media's ass, you're not going to make a bigger market for tablets because people don't like tablets.
As for this proposed tablet? It's sheer feature / price point marketing. The PHBs called a meeting with marketing and wrote some features on the board, then they came up with a price. And they're only doing it because of the incessant, unfounded rumors that tablets are going to be the next big market.
I sure as fuck WILL recognize the internet in 10 years.
There's money involved. Lots. Money hates change.
I'll still be able to go to cnn.com or whatever. I'll still be able to connect to shit via IPv4. I'll still be able to use HTTP and POP and IMAP and SMTP and FTP and etc.
The internet will be different, but it will still clearly be the internet, and I'll still be able to interact with it as I do today. There may be newer methods of interacting, sure, but they won't kill off the older methods.
As for the bold claims that people are "starting from scratch", all I can say is "lol no". I'm pretty sure we'll still be using wires (be they twisted pair or fiber) and modems and NICs. I'm pretty sure we'll still have MAC addresses and they'll still be relatively useless for 99% of people. I'm pretty sure the internet from a user's point of view will be the same, with more flashy crap. (By flashy crap, I mean both useless shiny baubles for the plebes AND shit like the festering pile of shit from Adobe.)
What's happening is that people are working on making the internet more secure and reliable on the back end. People don't see the back end. They see the front end. People will recognize the internet just fine.
As for the likelihood of there being any success in improving the security and trust and such on the internet: LOL. For tens of thousands of years we haven't been able to develop security and trust in real life. The people are the problem, not the system. People will go out of their way to get fucked every single time.
Imagine the internet was as restrictive as a prison. Now imagine the amount of fucking that would be going on.
"This is the end of the road, Galvatron!"
Fucking Rodimus.
That's Spirit, not Galvatron.
Even with the Matrix you're still a fuckup.
I do NOT want a sea of divided little set top boxes that are merely adequate.
It pisses me off that Netflix HD streaming isn't available on the PC, but it is on dinky little boxes.
I was watching shit via Netflix's streaming service on my PC (connected to my TV) and when the PS3 finally got the Netflix service (you have to use a disc to run the Netflix software, though that should change soon) I noticed that shit was in HD.
Box A supports Hulu and Netflix but not Amazon.
Box B supports Netflix and Amazon and promises future support for other things (will never happen).
Box C lets you stream crap in crappy quality when you're away from home.
I'm amazed that a dumb box for dumb people has done so well. The concept of another box and another remote usually strike fear into the hearts of the plebes. Maybe it was the shitty name "Roku" that got people to love it.
Many TVs and Blu-Ray players already support some sort of streaming service or media channel, but it's never the one you want. This is precisely the kind of crap that SHOULD be standardized (though there's no technical reason to - it's brain-dead simple to stream video to a host on the internet) in order to help the consumer.
When are they going to stop counting the radio antennae / spires / tethered helium balloons at the top?
Pipes and buildings and computers need to live somewhere. Find them and shut them down physically.
How do you find them? Follow the money.
They moved stuff into the cloud?
Clouds need to live somewhere. Find them and threaten to shut the cloud down physically. The cloud will then be willing to talk to you, and will shut down the people doing bad things.
How do you find them? Again, follow the money.
It's NEVER hard to shut someone down.
What's hard is organizing the people with legal authority and getting them to give a shit.
Nerds like to think that the internet is some awesome force, and that information wants to be free, etc.
The internet is a fucking physical network maintained by real people. Abstract all you want. Personify all you want. But when you get the suits lined up against you, you're going down.
If you want to test it, just do the something that will get the most suits lined up against you.
USA? Child porn.
Germany? Swastikas and Hitler.
Middle East? A drawing of Mohamed.
The bottom line is that no one gives a shit that grandma's PC is thoroughly owned, or that your inbox is 99% spam, or whatever else.
Too bad measuring those photons will be a higher O() complexity computation.
It's flamebait because tying is not anti-competitive in and of itself
Yes it is.
nor should it be illegal
It is. Apple would be attacked for it if their market share weren't abysmal.
Vertical integration of hardware and software
This doesn't mean anything. These are vacuous buzzwords.
Apple is simply applying [the big-Iron Unix business model] to consumer computers.
Uh, no. You don't know what "big iron" means and you don't know about business models.
Tomatos and lettuce have waaaaaaaaaaay less nutritional value than the meat cheese and bun.
I need carbs.
I need protein.
I need fat.
I DON'T need filler plant crap. I'm not a cow. I'm what eats cows.
Vegetables suck.