Well, either TFA contains a typo and it actually meant 20MB/s, which is acceptable, or their prototype is significantly slower than both CD and DVD. Which is a possibility, but I don't think they'd even be working on this unless they thought it could be sped up significantly.
I don't want to install apps. This is a WORK phone. I want voice and text. It should NEVER crash. It should have a good battery life - be cheap and easy to replace, be lightweight and easy to use.
That doesn't sound like a blackberry then. It sounds like a phone.
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Bullshit. There's no reason that archival copies shouldn't be fair use. The only reason that it was never considered before VHS or so was that the idea was completely impractical. Who would set up a printing press and lay type to copy a book just for personal use, if they weren't planning on selling copies? Nobody. When cheap copying of electronic media came about, the exemption was natural. It didn't have anything really to do with the fragility of cassettes, so there's no reason it shoud be held invalid in the face of more "durable" media. Besides which, DVDs scratch up pretty bad, and sometimes it's even caused by a bad player, not sticky-fingered kids.
Well, from what I hear, the most common thing to do after you steal someone's plastic is to check it out by going a ways off and then trying to buy gas with it. Gas stations are more about getting you through quickly than card security, and the preliminary $1 charge is pretty much guaranteed to go through if the card is valid. So unfortunately, going somewhere unusual to buy gas happens to make you look a lot like a card thief to the computers.
1) Put away the barcode scanner. 2) Shelve the books alphabetically by author. 3) Go through the books and enter title, author, and anything that particularly interests you into a text file. 4) Find what you want with any text editor's "find" feature or grep.
Whether they call themselves "libertarian" or just simply "corporatist" is irrelevant
To equate libertarianism with love for "corporations" is so blind as to be scary. You see, the only thing that makes a corporation is government power. A government edict says "Company XYZ, you have unaccountably come by some of the rights of a natural person, even though this makes no sense, and on top of that, you're covered by a sort of communist collective-responsibility arrangement that will protect those truly responsible if you ever do anything evil. Go forth as XYZ Incorporated and some money!" Because although the government is ashamed of people who do something useful to make money, unlike themselves, they recognize the necessity. So they delegate out the responsibility, and in return for allowing this group of people to be productive, the government merely demands that XYZ Inc be available for use as public whipping-boys, and that they pay regular tribute to their patrons and protectors.
Libertarianism argues for the radical reduction of government power. That implies no favor for big companies to buy, no "corporations" at all, no elevation of one group of people above the rest, and no deflection of responsibility from those responsible. Would it work? Well, maybe. Does it favor the "corporate" mentality? Hell no.
- The controllers (extra buttons make it flexible for use in a number of roles, like the N64's was, and the GameCube's isn't) - I'm not sure what a mechanical eject lever is, but I'm pretty sure the PS2 has one too now. Not that there was anything wrong with a completely ordinary DVD-drive tray - Price: hardly relevant anymore. They're both rock-bottom. - Third-party game catalog focused on variety and just good games.
But yes, Sony's multitap stupidity does just suck;)
No, a game is supposed to be enjoyable. WoW isn't a game, it's a chore. It's a ridiculous chore, and an addiction that some people are susceptible to -- on top of which Blizzard expects you to give them money for it and to take their abuse whenever they feel like dishing it out.
A game on the other hand is something enjoyable that's between me and whoever I want to play with, with obnoxious third parties entirely optional. For example: Quake, Tetrinet, or Super Smash Brothers.
Actually, Vista seems to have a good idea behind it. "Vista" in English is subtly different than in Spanish. One aspect of the word is "what you can see from here", which makes sense in Microsoft's vision of the world on your desktop. Besides, it aptly describes the rolling hills teletubby wallpaper they had in XP.
Not to mention that the summary text is really nothing than some numbers taken out of context with absolutely no practical meaning. Really, what the fuck, Zonk? This is your idea of a "story"? It's more like a fourth grader's idea of a "science report".
Are we? If you put it that way, we already have, years and years and years ago. Almost no one is really on Stallman's side when you get down to the details. Probably because his sense of what's really good for the world is just not quite compatible with reality.
I'd say that the main reason Dreamcast failed was illegal copying. For better or for worse, you could/can literally download an image of a Dreamcast game, burn it to a regular CDR, and pop it right in and play. In the age of broadband, a lot of people were downloading those games.
On the other hand, the same exact flaw is the only reason the DreamCast is still (somewhat) alive today. Hooray for homebrew!
Hey, with any luck what happened to Sega in 1999 will happen to Microsoft. While everyone was out building 3rd-generation systems, Sega went and released a 2.5th-generation system which was eclipsed by Sony's release. When it happened to Sega it was bad, but if it happens to MS I don't mind. XBox just isn't that good, and the last thing we need is another sector for MS to crush competition in.
People will likely disagree with me on this, but I'm convinced that these kinds of games are completely wasted being developed for a console. They really belong on a PC instead of being hindered by the limitations of consoles.
Don't you really mean, they belong on a console, instead of being hindered by a system like PC where everyone has a different card, and each card has different capabilities and different means of accomplishing the same effect, so you can't rely on any of it for artistic benefit?
I agree, especially with point 1. SoC was beautiful but you could absolutely tell that the PS2 hardware couldn't keep up. Framerates got so bad sometimes. Fortunately, the problem usually came up while you were riding the horse around, not during battles;)
As to HDR rendering, that would be great, but they did do an awesome job of faking it.
WordPerfect somewhere around 5 or 6 (before the sale) was a beautiful thing for a similar reason. And WP's paradigm of text interspersed with formatting "codes" which can be edited as a single stream using Reveal Codes is still far better than Word's idea of text modified by a separate block of formatting instructions which can't be reliably modified at all.
Okay, I'll put it to rest. But I would like to mention that Ubuntu makes things manageable. It'll use the free driver by default, but I haven't seen it have any problems with detection. And if you want ATI's driver, it's available as a package (and kept up-to-date).
You don't get 640x480 with no hardware acceleration. You get whatever resolution your monitor supports, with limited or no hardware 3D acceleration, depending on your card. 2D accel is no problem.
You have the worst imaginable examples. (All answers below assume a stock install of KDE, because that's what your gripes seemed to indicate)
What I mean is, why don't newly-installed packages offer to put shortcuts in my kicker menu or desktop? They've only done that for the past decade. Ever hear of tools like debian-menu?
I'd also really love the ability to drag shortcuts to and from my kicker and any other open folder. Works. Always has.
And rearrange the menus without having to hand edit a config file somewhere. Works. Always has. Click "edit menu" and then they just drag around nicely.
You know, in Windows, you can highlight almost anything and press F2 to rename it? Where's the equivalent in Linux?
Highlight almost anything and press F2 to rename it.
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Well, either TFA contains a typo and it actually meant 20MB/s, which is acceptable, or their prototype is significantly slower than both CD and DVD. Which is a possibility, but I don't think they'd even be working on this unless they thought it could be sped up significantly.
I don't want to install apps. This is a WORK phone. I want voice and text. It should NEVER crash. It should have a good battery life - be cheap and easy to replace, be lightweight and easy to use.
That doesn't sound like a blackberry then. It sounds like a phone.
Bullshit. There's no reason that archival copies shouldn't be fair use. The only reason that it was never considered before VHS or so was that the idea was completely impractical. Who would set up a printing press and lay type to copy a book just for personal use, if they weren't planning on selling copies? Nobody. When cheap copying of electronic media came about, the exemption was natural. It didn't have anything really to do with the fragility of cassettes, so there's no reason it shoud be held invalid in the face of more "durable" media. Besides which, DVDs scratch up pretty bad, and sometimes it's even caused by a bad player, not sticky-fingered kids.
Well, from what I hear, the most common thing to do after you steal someone's plastic is to check it out by going a ways off and then trying to buy gas with it. Gas stations are more about getting you through quickly than card security, and the preliminary $1 charge is pretty much guaranteed to go through if the card is valid. So unfortunately, going somewhere unusual to buy gas happens to make you look a lot like a card thief to the computers.
I'm only a small-l libertarian so I don't necessarily advocate going this far, but it's not implausible.
You've got your L's backwards.
1) Put away the barcode scanner.
2) Shelve the books alphabetically by author.
3) Go through the books and enter title, author, and anything that particularly interests you into a text file.
4) Find what you want with any text editor's "find" feature or grep.
Whether they call themselves "libertarian" or just simply "corporatist" is irrelevant
To equate libertarianism with love for "corporations" is so blind as to be scary. You see, the only thing that makes a corporation is government power. A government edict says "Company XYZ, you have unaccountably come by some of the rights of a natural person, even though this makes no sense, and on top of that, you're covered by a sort of communist collective-responsibility arrangement that will protect those truly responsible if you ever do anything evil. Go forth as XYZ Incorporated and some money!" Because although the government is ashamed of people who do something useful to make money, unlike themselves, they recognize the necessity. So they delegate out the responsibility, and in return for allowing this group of people to be productive, the government merely demands that XYZ Inc be available for use as public whipping-boys, and that they pay regular tribute to their patrons and protectors.
Libertarianism argues for the radical reduction of government power. That implies no favor for big companies to buy, no "corporations" at all, no elevation of one group of people above the rest, and no deflection of responsibility from those responsible. Would it work? Well, maybe. Does it favor the "corporate" mentality? Hell no.
I'm not sure I see why it's bad or "cheap" that the phone saves contact information to the SIM card.
The issue with saving contacts directly to SIM is that it's too simple; while my phone stores
Joe => (
Mobile => xxx
Home => yyy
Email => foo@slashdot.org
Custom Ring => joeblo.mid
)
and some more if I like, a SIM card is able to store
Joe => yyy
or if you're really "lucky",
"Joe/M" => xxx
"Joe/H" => yyy
Dr. Gene Ray, is that you?
With the PS2 you have
;)
- The controllers (extra buttons make it flexible for use in a number of roles, like the N64's was, and the GameCube's isn't)
- I'm not sure what a mechanical eject lever is, but I'm pretty sure the PS2 has one too now. Not that there was anything wrong with a completely ordinary DVD-drive tray
- Price: hardly relevant anymore. They're both rock-bottom.
- Third-party game catalog focused on variety and just good games.
But yes, Sony's multitap stupidity does just suck
No, a game is supposed to be enjoyable. WoW isn't a game, it's a chore. It's a ridiculous chore, and an addiction that some people are susceptible to -- on top of which Blizzard expects you to give them money for it and to take their abuse whenever they feel like dishing it out.
A game on the other hand is something enjoyable that's between me and whoever I want to play with, with obnoxious third parties entirely optional. For example: Quake, Tetrinet, or Super Smash Brothers.
Actually, Vista seems to have a good idea behind it. "Vista" in English is subtly different than in Spanish. One aspect of the word is "what you can see from here", which makes sense in Microsoft's vision of the world on your desktop. Besides, it aptly describes the rolling hills teletubby wallpaper they had in XP.
Not to mention that the summary text is really nothing than some numbers taken out of context with absolutely no practical meaning. Really, what the fuck, Zonk? This is your idea of a "story"? It's more like a fourth grader's idea of a "science report".
Are we? If you put it that way, we already have, years and years and years ago. Almost no one is really on Stallman's side when you get down to the details. Probably because his sense of what's really good for the world is just not quite compatible with reality.
I'd say that the main reason Dreamcast failed was illegal copying. For better or for worse, you could/can literally download an image of a Dreamcast game, burn it to a regular CDR, and pop it right in and play. In the age of broadband, a lot of people were downloading those games.
On the other hand, the same exact flaw is the only reason the DreamCast is still (somewhat) alive today. Hooray for homebrew!
Hey, with any luck what happened to Sega in 1999 will happen to Microsoft. While everyone was out building 3rd-generation systems, Sega went and released a 2.5th-generation system which was eclipsed by Sony's release. When it happened to Sega it was bad, but if it happens to MS I don't mind. XBox just isn't that good, and the last thing we need is another sector for MS to crush competition in.
People will likely disagree with me on this, but I'm convinced that these kinds of games are completely wasted being developed for a console. They really belong on a PC instead of being hindered by the limitations of consoles.
Don't you really mean, they belong on a console, instead of being hindered by a system like PC where everyone has a different card, and each card has different capabilities and different means of accomplishing the same effect, so you can't rely on any of it for artistic benefit?
I agree, especially with point 1. SoC was beautiful but you could absolutely tell that the PS2 hardware couldn't keep up. Framerates got so bad sometimes. Fortunately, the problem usually came up while you were riding the horse around, not during battles ;)
As to HDR rendering, that would be great, but they did do an awesome job of faking it.
WordPerfect somewhere around 5 or 6 (before the sale) was a beautiful thing for a similar reason. And WP's paradigm of text interspersed with formatting "codes" which can be edited as a single stream using Reveal Codes is still far better than Word's idea of text modified by a separate block of formatting instructions which can't be reliably modified at all.
I don't have an Icepick XD -- but a #1 flathead screwdriver will do. Where do you live?
Probably. Who's "Ed Felton" and why is he impersonating Ed Felten?
Okay, I'll put it to rest. But I would like to mention that Ubuntu makes things manageable. It'll use the free driver by default, but I haven't seen it have any problems with detection. And if you want ATI's driver, it's available as a package (and kept up-to-date).
You don't get 640x480 with no hardware acceleration. You get whatever resolution your monitor supports, with limited or no hardware 3D acceleration, depending on your card. 2D accel is no problem.
It's not that hard to set up an OS. You don't need to "get ATI drivers".
You have the worst imaginable examples. (All answers below assume a stock install of KDE, because that's what your gripes seemed to indicate)
What I mean is, why don't newly-installed packages offer to put shortcuts in my kicker menu or desktop?
They've only done that for the past decade. Ever hear of tools like debian-menu?
I'd also really love the ability to drag shortcuts to and from my kicker and any other open folder.
Works. Always has.
And rearrange the menus without having to hand edit a config file somewhere.
Works. Always has. Click "edit menu" and then they just drag around nicely.
You know, in Windows, you can highlight almost anything and press F2 to rename it? Where's the equivalent in Linux?
Highlight almost anything and press F2 to rename it.