Thank you for declaring this "flamebait." That you're doing it to supress somebody for badmouthing the President whose appointee is responsible for this is all the irony I need in one day.
Yeah, saying that other people's opinions suck is exactly the same as prosecuting them and preventing them from expressing any opinions again. Perhaps you didn't notice that moderation doesn't actually delete articles—it's merely a shorthand for all the folks who would otherwise have nothing more useful to say than "your opinion sucks" or "me too!"
T9 is a great boon to text messages. It's way, way, way harder to write a message in txt spk with T9 than it is to write with correct spelling. Many phones even helpfully make sentences start with a capital letter for you.
Hmm, it didn't take long for a standard "Bah! Features suck! Everything should be good for one thing and one thing only!" reply to turn up.
My current futurephone has a nice big 16-bit color display, another, smaller, 16-bit color display on the back, a camera, can do email, surf the web, play 48-voice polyphonic ringtones, and a whole ton of other stuff that I haven't figured out yet. I think that its battery life suffers a bit for this--it only gets about two weeks of standby, and about six hours of talk time. Good enough for me, I think.
Before that, I used an Ericsson T66, which makes a credit card look pretty darn large, and a Nokia 7210 which is only about a centimeter bigger in one dimension.
Actually, there are a couple of cool things about Rubyx that make it different from a run-o'-the-mill Linux distro, and the language they're in ain't one of 'em.
The first is that it's self-bootstrapping--you can just download the Rubyx script and use that to build an install ISO. That's pretty darned cool if you ask me.
The other cool thing about it is that it completely eschews the entire SysV init system with one of its own, based on dependencies instead of on educated guesses by the sysadmin (read: arbitrary order) as to what order services should start up and shut down in. This lets you speed up booting by starting independent services concurrently instead of waiting for each service to start up individually.
Well, just judging from the content of the article, the reporter hopped off the plane at Narita, took the train to Ueno, hopped onto the Yamanote to Shibuya (totally ignoring Akihabara, of course, only nerds would want to go there).
Then he walked across the street, right past, and completely ignoringthe infamous 109 shopping mall, the very heart of popular fashion and culture in all of Japan! But he was busy looking for an anime store! No time to find popular culture, he had popular culture to write about!
Then he went down the street to Mandarake, kibbitzed with the owner for a few minutes, turned around, ignored 109 again (although he apparently did notice the big screen on HMV, and probably the one on Tower Records too)...and went right back home again.
Oh, and he thinks Glay is a boy band. That's pretty funny. That's a bit like calling Insane Clown Posse a boy band.
When I read newspaper articles about things I know about, I honestly wonder why I believe anything I read about things I don't know about.
I have a Japanese Palm m505 which I picked up used in Tokyo. As a dictionary, it rules. One of the things on the CD that came with it was a nice, handy Japanese-English dictionary--it does J->E and E->J lookup, and lets you look up a kanji by a clever dictionary-switching interface.
The Palm lets you write Japanese in romaji (which is way more confusing than you'd think), or, alternately, it has a program called, "Rakuhira", which lets you write in hiragana in the Graffiti area, the way Kami-sama intended.
As of today, both our Prime Minister and Official Opposition were not elected. The PM who *was* elected retired and named a successor (hey, it's like a monarchy!), and the Opposition party didn't exist 2 weeks ago.
And in the US, if the President resigns (or retires), the Vice-President takes over until the next election. What's the big deal?
It's not even a particularly well-thought-out cash grab. All they're thinking is, "Hey, we can get even more free money! It worked with CD-Rs, why not just get the government to collect money for us for every person on the entire Internet?"
I have big problems with for-profit organizations using the government to bolster their bottom line.
What the hell is wrong with Nokia's designs lately? I know they are trying to innovate, but jesus christ, reign those designers in. Just cause someone can create a Winamp skin, doesn't mean they can design a phone.
You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.
Let 'em design away for a while--they're obviously having fun, and they're playing with the concept of what a cell phone is supposed to be like. A sense of play is very important; today's stupid-looking gizmo could turn out to be tomorrow's vital innovation.
Then buy just one! There're lots available. (I personally recommend the VTech A700, but I don't think you can get those outside of Canada for some reason. Shame, it's an awesome basic phone, batteries last forever, it gets good reception, and it weighs nearly nothing.)
Ain't nobody forcing you to get one of the cool toys. If you're looking for unexciting technology, what an earth are you doing reading Slashdot, of all places? Of course Slashdot will report on the greatest whiz-bang gadgetry--that's what it's for. Complaining that you "just want a phone" is neither insightful nor interesting.
Oh how nice. You just use your cellphone to make calls.
Thank you for your input. I DON'T CARE.
I don't even know why the vast batallions of people who insist on saying "Hi! I only use my phone for making calls!" think they're saying anything new or original.
If all you care about is making phone calls, there are lots of good, cheap phones which just do that. The VTech A700 comes right to mind--it's cheap, weighs nearly nothing, and just to keep all these people who insist on mentioning that they don't want their phones to do anything fun, has NO FEATURES. (Oh wait, I lied, it can send text messages. Sorry if that's too overwhelming a proliferation of features for y'all.)
If you don't like gadgets that do cool stuff...what the heck are you doing on Slashdot?!
And for the dude who bitches that all he wants is a few days of battery life and clear audio--hey, perhaps you should get rid of that 1989-standard brick and spend the twenty bucks to get a phone made this century! I've enjoyed crystal-clear audio and nice long battery life with every phone I've bought since 2000.
In the meantime, I'll just enjoy my own phone--it has a color display, polyphonic ringers, a web browser with freakin' Java, a built-in FM radio, a speakerphone, and it's tiny and weighs 83 grams (that's less than 3oz for the American readers). Oh yeah, and it can go for a week between charges and I can talk for hours on it.
Dangerous? Of course!
Just look at auto racing in the 1940s. A very large proportion of modern automotive safety innovations come directly from racing. This would be GREAT. It would be wonderful for rockets in 2030 to be as safe as cars are now.
"Sweetie, I don't think you play enough video games. You spend too much time running around outside, and I just don't think that's healthy. I want to see you spend at least three hours a day in front of that PS2.
"And no sneaking off to read books when you're supposed to be playing games, either!"
Yay! It's another Slashdot story about cell phones! I can't wait to see a bunch of posts from Americans saying "Do we REALLY NEED all these USELESS FEATURES on our PHONES?"
What is it about these people? Don't they realize that they, personally, are not being forced to use any of these cool features?
Bah.
Personally, I want the coolest damn phone in the world. I want it to play MPEGs, have a high-resolution color--what the hell, 3D--display, Dolby Digital surround sound, a karaoke machine, and a bicycle. I want to be able to program my phone in Java, C++, Ruby, O'Caml, Lisp, and COBOL. I want my phone to be more powerful than my computer. I want to play Quake on my phone. I want it to be a PDA, a Walkman, a camera, an eBook reader, anything they can fit in.
And I want to punch the next guy who whines "Who NEEDS ALL THESE FEATURES on a PHONE?" in the face.
I got a really cute Toshiba Portege super-slim notebook. The guy at the used-computer store was almost reluctant to sell it to me in the first place--it didn't have an OS on the hard drive at all. I said, "Got a DOS floppy handy? Show me if it boots." He did indeed show me that it booted, and I said "Great, I'll take it." Got it home, and I had Linux running on it in no time.
The thing is great--it weighs about three pounds, I've upgraded its hard drive to a beefier 30G so it has lots and lots of storage, and I can take it wherever I go.
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It was the new Johnny Cash album, The Man Comes Around. The record has bonus tracks which aren't available on the CD. Talk about a reversal of the normal procedure.
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Thank you for declaring this "flamebait." That you're doing it to supress somebody for badmouthing the President whose appointee is responsible for this is all the irony I need in one day.
Yeah, saying that other people's opinions suck is exactly the same as prosecuting them and preventing them from expressing any opinions again. Perhaps you didn't notice that moderation doesn't actually delete articles—it's merely a shorthand for all the folks who would otherwise have nothing more useful to say than "your opinion sucks" or "me too!"
T9 is a great boon to text messages. It's way, way, way harder to write a message in txt spk with T9 than it is to write with correct spelling. Many phones even helpfully make sentences start with a capital letter for you.
Hmm, it didn't take long for a standard "Bah! Features suck! Everything should be good for one thing and one thing only!" reply to turn up.
My current futurephone has a nice big 16-bit color display, another, smaller, 16-bit color display on the back, a camera, can do email, surf the web, play 48-voice polyphonic ringtones, and a whole ton of other stuff that I haven't figured out yet. I think that its battery life suffers a bit for this--it only gets about two weeks of standby, and about six hours of talk time. Good enough for me, I think.
Before that, I used an Ericsson T66, which makes a credit card look pretty darn large, and a Nokia 7210 which is only about a centimeter bigger in one dimension.
The game description says:
So why the hell isn't there a Linux version?!
Actually, there are a couple of cool things about Rubyx that make it different from a run-o'-the-mill Linux distro, and the language they're in ain't one of 'em.
The first is that it's self-bootstrapping--you can just download the Rubyx script and use that to build an install ISO. That's pretty darned cool if you ask me.
The other cool thing about it is that it completely eschews the entire SysV init system with one of its own, based on dependencies instead of on educated guesses by the sysadmin (read: arbitrary order) as to what order services should start up and shut down in. This lets you speed up booting by starting independent services concurrently instead of waiting for each service to start up individually.
And where the hell is Ico? For crying out loud. If there's any game that deserves to be high in a list of "Greatest Games Of All Time", Ico's it.
There should be a "best abstract game" category as well, for things like Bejeweled and Tetris.
They didn't mention that cool tin can that the Linux version of Quake 3 came in! That was the best.
Well, just judging from the content of the article, the reporter hopped off the plane at Narita, took the train to Ueno, hopped onto the Yamanote to Shibuya (totally ignoring Akihabara, of course, only nerds would want to go there).
Then he walked across the street, right past, and completely ignoring the infamous 109 shopping mall, the very heart of popular fashion and culture in all of Japan! But he was busy looking for an anime store! No time to find popular culture, he had popular culture to write about!
Then he went down the street to Mandarake, kibbitzed with the owner for a few minutes, turned around, ignored 109 again (although he apparently did notice the big screen on HMV, and probably the one on Tower Records too)...and went right back home again.
Oh, and he thinks Glay is a boy band. That's pretty funny. That's a bit like calling Insane Clown Posse a boy band.
When I read newspaper articles about things I know about, I honestly wonder why I believe anything I read about things I don't know about.
I have a Japanese Palm m505 which I picked up used in Tokyo. As a dictionary, it rules. One of the things on the CD that came with it was a nice, handy Japanese-English dictionary--it does J->E and E->J lookup, and lets you look up a kanji by a clever dictionary-switching interface.
The Palm lets you write Japanese in romaji (which is way more confusing than you'd think), or, alternately, it has a program called, "Rakuhira", which lets you write in hiragana in the Graffiti area, the way Kami-sama intended.
Plus, you can play Bejeweled on it.
As of today, both our Prime Minister and Official Opposition were not elected. The PM who *was* elected retired and named a successor (hey, it's like a monarchy!), and the Opposition party didn't exist 2 weeks ago.
And in the US, if the President resigns (or retires), the Vice-President takes over until the next election. What's the big deal?
This is just a cash grab, nothing more than that.
It's not even a particularly well-thought-out cash grab. All they're thinking is, "Hey, we can get even more free money! It worked with CD-Rs, why not just get the government to collect money for us for every person on the entire Internet?"
I have big problems with for-profit organizations using the government to bolster their bottom line.
Is Vann supposed to be a member of Glay or of L'arc~en~ciel?
It's that time of the year again--time for Slashdot to be taken in by the Hop-On "disposable cell phone" scam!
You'd think that after, what, five or six times now, the editors would've figured it out by now, wouldn't you? Or am I being excessively optimistic?
You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.
Let 'em design away for a while--they're obviously having fun, and they're playing with the concept of what a cell phone is supposed to be like. A sense of play is very important; today's stupid-looking gizmo could turn out to be tomorrow's vital innovation.
Then buy just one! There're lots available. (I personally recommend the VTech A700, but I don't think you can get those outside of Canada for some reason. Shame, it's an awesome basic phone, batteries last forever, it gets good reception, and it weighs nearly nothing.)
Ain't nobody forcing you to get one of the cool toys. If you're looking for unexciting technology, what an earth are you doing reading Slashdot, of all places? Of course Slashdot will report on the greatest whiz-bang gadgetry--that's what it's for. Complaining that you "just want a phone" is neither insightful nor interesting.
More than half the people in the small, remote, northern town my parents live in have broadband. (Big River, Saskatchewan.)
It's not just the big cities in Canada.
Oh how nice. You just use your cellphone to make calls.
Thank you for your input. I DON'T CARE.
I don't even know why the vast batallions of people who insist on saying "Hi! I only use my phone for making calls!" think they're saying anything new or original.
If all you care about is making phone calls, there are lots of good, cheap phones which just do that. The VTech A700 comes right to mind--it's cheap, weighs nearly nothing, and just to keep all these people who insist on mentioning that they don't want their phones to do anything fun, has NO FEATURES. (Oh wait, I lied, it can send text messages. Sorry if that's too overwhelming a proliferation of features for y'all.)
If you don't like gadgets that do cool stuff...what the heck are you doing on Slashdot?!
And for the dude who bitches that all he wants is a few days of battery life and clear audio--hey, perhaps you should get rid of that 1989-standard brick and spend the twenty bucks to get a phone made this century! I've enjoyed crystal-clear audio and nice long battery life with every phone I've bought since 2000.
In the meantime, I'll just enjoy my own phone--it has a color display, polyphonic ringers, a web browser with freakin' Java, a built-in FM radio, a speakerphone, and it's tiny and weighs 83 grams (that's less than 3oz for the American readers). Oh yeah, and it can go for a week between charges and I can talk for hours on it.
Dangerous? Of course! Just look at auto racing in the 1940s. A very large proportion of modern automotive safety innovations come directly from racing. This would be GREAT. It would be wonderful for rockets in 2030 to be as safe as cars are now.
"Sweetie, I don't think you play enough video games. You spend too much time running around outside, and I just don't think that's healthy. I want to see you spend at least three hours a day in front of that PS2.
"And no sneaking off to read books when you're supposed to be playing games, either!"
Wow! I can't wait until Enlightenment gets out of alpha and 1.0 is announced!
Yay! It's another Slashdot story about cell phones! I can't wait to see a bunch of posts from Americans saying "Do we REALLY NEED all these USELESS FEATURES on our PHONES?"
What is it about these people? Don't they realize that they, personally, are not being forced to use any of these cool features?
Bah.
Personally, I want the coolest damn phone in the world. I want it to play MPEGs, have a high-resolution color--what the hell, 3D--display, Dolby Digital surround sound, a karaoke machine, and a bicycle. I want to be able to program my phone in Java, C++, Ruby, O'Caml, Lisp, and COBOL. I want my phone to be more powerful than my computer. I want to play Quake on my phone. I want it to be a PDA, a Walkman, a camera, an eBook reader, anything they can fit in.
And I want to punch the next guy who whines "Who NEEDS ALL THESE FEATURES on a PHONE?" in the face.
I got a really cute Toshiba Portege super-slim notebook. The guy at the used-computer store was almost reluctant to sell it to me in the first place--it didn't have an OS on the hard drive at all. I said, "Got a DOS floppy handy? Show me if it boots." He did indeed show me that it booted, and I said "Great, I'll take it." Got it home, and I had Linux running on it in no time.
The thing is great--it weighs about three pounds, I've upgraded its hard drive to a beefier 30G so it has lots and lots of storage, and I can take it wherever I go.
Thank God it wasn't Cho Aniki - Bakuretsu Rantou Hen.
Wow, bitching about how Slashdot has nothing but all this nerdy crap?
Boy are you in the wrong place.
And I only bought it last week!
It was the new Johnny Cash album, The Man Comes Around . The record has bonus tracks which aren't available on the CD. Talk about a reversal of the normal procedure.