Frankly I think it's a good move. Their mirrors were broken anyway! Every second ISO downloaded from their mirror failed md5 checksum. And GOOD LUCK trying to explain to their level-1 tech support monkies wtf an md5 checksum even is. 40 emails later and they'd still be trying to convince you that the reason the ISO fails a checksum is because your modem needs a reset.
And to be honest, I hope this trend extends all the way through their entire service offering to the point they eventually close shop altogether. Sigh.
FYI, Optus didn't 'give up' wiring their cable, they were forced out of it by greedy, crooked councils deciding to charge through the nose to get cable laying permits, then turning around and accusing optus of violating standards and safety specifications when they didn't pony up on the permits.
Unfortunately, all the people in the real world will hear is 'Windows' and just assume more software support than the Linux netbooks.
Otherwise Windows Mobile would have died 100 times over due to Linux smartphones by now. Hell it took iPhone and OSX just to make Microsoft wake up. To them Linux is still some obscure whisper they care not about.
If netbooks sold on ARM, they'd be selling with Windows CE/Mobile. The teens will be happy they can use facebook on the bus with a real keyboard. And you and I will be looking for somthing.. anything.. other than a netbook to fill the void.:(
This is what truly frustrates me about the ps3 (btw I do own one): It could have been so much better if they had just been willing to let it be better.
I know.. It's a game console etc etc not a super computer or a desktop replacement. But it could have been..
Raw power mitigated by an overly restrictive hypervisor that pretty much negates the raw power of the device
Install a linux with only a SLOW framebuffer that can't even play back HD media smoothly and makes no use of the CELL VME cores at all, only the slow PPC front end that run slower than a G4 and is pretty useless for any desktop tasks due to lack of any substantial amount of ram
CELL is limited to 6 of the would-be 8 cores due to the actual HIGH failure rate at the factory
Only decent app/game out there that makes full use of the hardware at all is folding@home. Yep, ONLY folding@home...
Card reader that was REMOVED from later models because some sony suit wanted to bump returns slightly to make it look like they were doing their job
Again.. ONLY folding@home.. whoopydoo
You mean like:
Raw Power
Linux install in the freaking menu (no cracking required)
Standard USB cable for controller charging
Free online play (no subscription BS)
Nearly flawless upnp video/music/image viewer (no need to install xmbc, etc)
Power adapter is BUILT IN (standard desktop power cord goes straight in the back)
Very low failure rate (unline some other console out there)
Can be run 24/7 without heat issues (I do folding@home CONSTANTLY while not playing games on it with no problems)
card reader built into the front (5 or 6 in one)
Folding at home (sponsored by sony themselves) as a native app
Remember, some of us actually have REASONS for picking a particular console!
Ignored all expert advice.. Expanded the scope beyond it's original intention despite this.. Decided to bypass the larger, more popular, more mainstream ISPs during trialling and instead used a very select few mainly used by 'ma and pa kettle' types who would be ignorant of anything should their net one day be slow and half missing..
Isn't it obvious? This was never about morality or protecting the innocent. This was about instigating a control mechanism. The ability to shut you up and control your perceptions.
Or.. perhaps he really thought he was doing the right thing, and going about it the right way.
Really, either way you look at it, either his motives or his competency do nothing but put Australians at risk of being subjugated.
He needs to be impeached.
Now, I'm all for his originally claimed intention. But I think we need to find someone else to implement it. Someone with half a fricken clue and no ulterior motives.
Did anyone else feel this guy lost all credibility when they read the bit where he wastes 1gb on/boot and uses lvm for a single volume as a second partition?
It's an SSD dude, space and overhead are already major concerns and you just exploded them..
Wrong, we don't have ever-present worldwide network. Even finding 'hot-spots' are hard.
The devices are wireless, he's saying, not the network. I use my phone and laptop on 3g to internet all the time as does anyone who bought an iphone.
Mouse/keyboard is about it. Display won't be wireless.
don't forget bluetooth headsets, mobiles, xbox and ps3 controllers, and my wifi set top box streaming divx probably counts as wireless display.
Umm, I guess they still have access if they have a warrant.
And now in the UK they don't even need a warrant:P
But still, these are all things that were 'coming true' in 1999. Predicting them in 2009 was actually being extremely pessimistic
$10 says what she meant was one time during college when she missed a hand-in deadline, she used a tcsh shell on the school's Origin 2000 running IRIX for 5 minutes to submit her assignment to the lecturer's email inbox (having one of the computer sciences geeks show her how after she promised to go for drinks, who then prattled on for 4 hours about AT&T and BSD Licenses)
The in-game browser is still essential at times to view eve-specific pages that make use of the integration and item data features. You don't get that when using an external browser.
2 cents: If it's a full standards compliant browser, it'd be awesome if CCP would replace their incredibly broken, quirky, and almost useless in-game browser in Eve-Online with it.
Just expanding on this a bit... The problem as I saw it, when trying Yellowdog and others, is that they desired to support the PS3 and the old school macs with the same binary distro, so every thing's built targeting not just the generation before cell but 2 or 3 before it and optimized for the entirely wrong pipeline. Add to this the fact that ALL of the device's IO is arbitrated by a software layer in the hypervisor (including network IO), the 256mb of ram, and the blocked GPU and VRam (no CUDA), and the Cell itself being restricted to 6 cores (1 disabled for yield, 1 reserved for the hypervisor) this platform is essentially useless for anything but educational toy purposes as far as high performance computing is concerned. Granted, it's a GAME CONSOLE not a super computer, but Sony DID promise to 'fully' support linux and homebrew on these machines. I can understand them wishing to protect their interests, and don't blame them for the hypervisor setup, however being able to use the vram and gpu for CUDA tasks would have made this thing bearable for this use. And Yellowdog not aiming for the lowest-common-denominator would have made it fun and maybe even practical. I sure hope Fixstars fixes this.
..and reboots randomly in the middle of phone calls, requires a monthly hard reset, won't have any manufacturer support once the next model comes out, etc etc
Slashdot Mirror
.. they are now trying to patent the diode
now, *this* one should be marked as troll, and the OP is just a sad truth
Frankly I think it's a good move. Their mirrors were broken anyway! Every second ISO downloaded from their mirror failed md5 checksum. And GOOD LUCK trying to explain to their level-1 tech support monkies wtf an md5 checksum even is. 40 emails later and they'd still be trying to convince you that the reason the ISO fails a checksum is because your modem needs a reset. And to be honest, I hope this trend extends all the way through their entire service offering to the point they eventually close shop altogether. Sigh.
FYI, Optus didn't 'give up' wiring their cable, they were forced out of it by greedy, crooked councils deciding to charge through the nose to get cable laying permits, then turning around and accusing optus of violating standards and safety specifications when they didn't pony up on the permits.
Conway's plan is even scarrier than Conroy's plan ;)
is that Conroy is still in office. I'm fairly certain this guy is on crack.
Unfortunately, all the people in the real world will hear is 'Windows' and just assume more software support than the Linux netbooks. Otherwise Windows Mobile would have died 100 times over due to Linux smartphones by now. Hell it took iPhone and OSX just to make Microsoft wake up. To them Linux is still some obscure whisper they care not about. If netbooks sold on ARM, they'd be selling with Windows CE/Mobile. The teens will be happy they can use facebook on the bus with a real keyboard. And you and I will be looking for somthing.. anything.. other than a netbook to fill the void. :(
This is what truly frustrates me about the ps3 (btw I do own one): It could have been so much better if they had just been willing to let it be better. I know.. It's a game console etc etc not a super computer or a desktop replacement. But it could have been..
You mean like:
Remember, some of us actually have REASONS for picking a particular console!
NB: I'm aware iPrimus are by no means a small ISP, however their contribution for the trial was opt-IN, and only on a still-very-small select group...
Ignored all expert advice.. Expanded the scope beyond it's original intention despite this.. Decided to bypass the larger, more popular, more mainstream ISPs during trialling and instead used a very select few mainly used by 'ma and pa kettle' types who would be ignorant of anything should their net one day be slow and half missing.. Isn't it obvious? This was never about morality or protecting the innocent. This was about instigating a control mechanism. The ability to shut you up and control your perceptions. Or.. perhaps he really thought he was doing the right thing, and going about it the right way. Really, either way you look at it, either his motives or his competency do nothing but put Australians at risk of being subjugated. He needs to be impeached. Now, I'm all for his originally claimed intention. But I think we need to find someone else to implement it. Someone with half a fricken clue and no ulterior motives.
Did anyone else feel this guy lost all credibility when they read the bit where he wastes 1gb on /boot and uses lvm for a single volume as a second partition?
It's an SSD dude, space and overhead are already major concerns and you just exploded them..
Wrong, we don't have ever-present worldwide network. Even finding 'hot-spots' are hard.
The devices are wireless, he's saying, not the network. I use my phone and laptop on 3g to internet all the time as does anyone who bought an iphone.
Mouse/keyboard is about it. Display won't be wireless.
don't forget bluetooth headsets, mobiles, xbox and ps3 controllers, and my wifi set top box streaming divx probably counts as wireless display.
Umm, I guess they still have access if they have a warrant.
And now in the UK they don't even need a warrant :P
But still, these are all things that were 'coming true' in 1999. Predicting them in 2009 was actually being extremely pessimistic
Did you also notice how a decent chunk of his 'predictions' were things that were around in 1999?
$10 says what she meant was one time during college when she missed a hand-in deadline, she used a tcsh shell on the school's Origin 2000 running IRIX for 5 minutes to submit her assignment to the lecturer's email inbox (having one of the computer sciences geeks show her how after she promised to go for drinks, who then prattled on for 4 hours about AT&T and BSD Licenses)
The in-game browser is still essential at times to view eve-specific pages that make use of the integration and item data features. You don't get that when using an external browser.
Well after RTFA'ing, I see it's based on webkit. Nice.
2 cents: If it's a full standards compliant browser, it'd be awesome if CCP would replace their incredibly broken, quirky, and almost useless in-game browser in Eve-Online with it.
just one word: bahahahahahahahahahahaha
erm, I hadn't ticked 'post anonymously' to that.. oh well.
Just expanding on this a bit... The problem as I saw it, when trying Yellowdog and others, is that they desired to support the PS3 and the old school macs with the same binary distro, so every thing's built targeting not just the generation before cell but 2 or 3 before it and optimized for the entirely wrong pipeline. Add to this the fact that ALL of the device's IO is arbitrated by a software layer in the hypervisor (including network IO), the 256mb of ram, and the blocked GPU and VRam (no CUDA), and the Cell itself being restricted to 6 cores (1 disabled for yield, 1 reserved for the hypervisor) this platform is essentially useless for anything but educational toy purposes as far as high performance computing is concerned. Granted, it's a GAME CONSOLE not a super computer, but Sony DID promise to 'fully' support linux and homebrew on these machines. I can understand them wishing to protect their interests, and don't blame them for the hypervisor setup, however being able to use the vram and gpu for CUDA tasks would have made this thing bearable for this use. And Yellowdog not aiming for the lowest-common-denominator would have made it fun and maybe even practical. I sure hope Fixstars fixes this.
"High Performance"..... Except, it's slow as HELL, and access to the GPU is blocked.
..and reboots randomly in the middle of phone calls, requires a monthly hard reset, won't have any manufacturer support once the next model comes out, etc etc
Yet it's not even Windows 7, it's Windows 6.1.6801. Seems Microsoft is agreeing after all.
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