You justified the hiding of ACTA... and then called people ill-informed. Maybe his sensationalist headline of "Government uses national security claim to protect the recording industry" would seem silly if the contents of ATCA were known. But they're not, so your statement about ACTA is just as speculatory as his (even if yours is founded on reasonable assumptions).
"The greatest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter" - (Churchill, afaik)
What there needs to be is some kind of supercrazyawesome education, and a willingness to pay attention and be involved, of the general population. Then, optionally, a way of getting the will of the general public involved.
I don't think you understand the difference between running Folding@home vs. leaving something in a reduced power state so it can scrape data from the internet.
Next you're going to tell me you're confused that your phone lasts for three days with out charging (in sleep mode), and so it's pathetic that the iPhone* has less than 12 hours of talk time.
* (note - I choose this only because it's a popular, recognizable "less then crappy" handset)
While I agree with some of your points, I would like to point out that when you "combine" the presidents to get $4 trillion in debt, you are combining both those who ran a surplus and those who ran a deficit. Not exactly an honest number.
Now, you're statements are based off a fairly old "lets get this hardware in the hands of developers with most of the hardware working" software stack, so indulge with me a little bit as I dispel some misconceptions, and explain what has brought me to love my freerunner. First and foremost: my intentions for this phone when I am done with it is to use it as a small, rather general purpose microcontroller (what are your plans for your iphone/gphone, the garbage?). Seriously, it has gps, wifi, two accelerometers, gsm modem, sd card, vga touchscreen, bluetooth, USB host mode (plug other USB devices into the the thing - heck yeah!), and open schematics. I even triple boot the phone with the old 2008.9 stack (cause it has a fairly stable userland), the latest SHR-testing (Stable Hybrid Release) for developing applications for the phone with the elementary widget set -note, this is where the stack is going. It boots in about 45 seconds, and is oh so shiney. (seriously, do you actually know anyone who TURNS OFF their phone anyway?), and I rolled my own (log in over ssh only) embedded linux system just to mess around with. All of these are INTENDED uses of the phone, with FULL access to hardware & software (sadly, not firmware, but you know how these FCC types are about their cellular modems and wifi networks).
A fine example of how open and flexible this phone is: I broke my freerunners screen (tragic, user error, really), and in about 5 minutes I had my computer connected to my phone with vncconnect, with very little hassle. Even when my phone is broken, it works as a phone (albeit within 12 feet of any linux box). This is just a continuation of the flexibility I've come to expect from my phone since I started using it for daily use in September (didn't have a sim card before that, can't comment on how good/crappy it was before then, but it does sound like it used to be pretty crappy before then). And then there's the userspace: tangogps is a fantastic maps application, I have fbreader for my ebooks from gutenberg.org, a few things I've made myself, and enough games for me (seriously, the iphone has x bajillion applications... that all do the same thing. So much less wasted replication of work in opensource projects). Syncing with my computer isn't up to snuff at the moment, but that will come. You might be able to argue that at the moment it isn't consumer ready (but believe you me it will be in just a few more months - FSO is awesome!), but it is by far "slashdot geek" ready (excepting those who talk and don't do, of course).
Another point: I have gcc installed on my phone, along with perl, and a bluetooth keyboard with full 80 character lines of text in portrait mode on a vga screen, what's not to love?
As far as I'm concerned, Android is for people who talk openness, OpenMoKo is for people who doopenness.
Anybody want to take over a small island with me, in the interests of (intellectual) freedom? Seriously, I feel as though the realm of ideas is my favourite playground, and with each extension & perversion of copyright law another bully shows up. Today I can't use the slide. Tomorrow, the swings. Content should be created to be used, not merely sold like some cheap toy./bitter
I wouldn't say "no" sense. It's battery backed up + connected to a compact flash slot, so when the power goes out it starts backing up your data to permanent storage.
You know they didn't stop this plan before developing a new one.
Working with ISP's? These guys already are attacking "Bandwidth heavy" (a.k.a. I-use-what-I-paid-for) users. I don't think it would be a stretch for them to add "If we suspect you of potentially illegal activities... resulting in immediate suspension of service" could easily hide in page 2973 of the Terms of Service.
New laws anyone?
ONewYorkCountryLawyer will probably have fewer opportunities to entertain us.
Slashdot's signal to noise ratio for those who are concerned about law and copyright goes down.
Good news:
Fewer trolls confusing copyright infringement with theft (less opportunity)
Fewer computerless/internetless/lifeless people getting sued because of a shotgun approach to legal combat
This means they are paying attention to the fact that they are losing, both in the courts of law and public opinion
No more 150,000 time actuall damages (I know, I know, "That's over 9,000!!!111one!1!")
People not being sued based off of an 8 digit hexadecimal number is unequivocally "A Good Thing".
Slashdot's signal to noise ratio for those who don't care about law and copyright goes up.
Besides, the days of one or two people with next to no money producing a commercially viable game are pretty much gone.
This argument may be of some merit in the PC gaming scene, but is somewhat ignorant of the emerging game market: cellphones. In this end of the gaming spectrum it is hard for me to even imagine more than a small handful of people working on a title. There's the guy who had the original idea, a few programmers, and a graphic designer if you feel the need. Yet with so few resources, it will be done in a month. Two people working on games on the scale of Crysis, WoW, etc? Yeah, forget about it. But two buddies can still team up in this modern world and make a buck having some fun.
So it launches applications 10 times faster [sic] (should say in 1/10 the amount of time), but the article only claims speed improvements of about 3.5 to 1. People need to seriously examine how they quote or accept statistics.
Jim Elliott, vice president of memory marketing at Samsung, said the new 256GB drive can store 25 high-definition movies taking up 10GB of space each in just 21 minutes, which he said is a significant advancement over a 7200rpm hard disk drive, which takes about 70 minutes.
Ah yes, but you don't have the seek times of the 7200rpm drive which are at best ~7ms. And since opening an application involves opening lots of different files (in different physical locations on the drive), this is where launching an app can be 10x faster.
So for straight writing a single, large, contiguous piece of data, it's only 3.5 times faster. For loading 200 random, tiny files, it's ten times faster.
Slashdot Mirror
Linux 0.98? Wow! If I might ask, what'd it ship on?
Grandparent
2. It came on a professionally printed CD .
Sure, here's some code to do that:
if (strcmp(link.postedby, "Anonymous Coward") == 0 || strstr(link.url, "goatse") != NULL) return false;
else return true;
Fixed that for you ;)
You justified the hiding of ACTA... and then called people ill-informed. Maybe his sensationalist headline of "Government uses national security claim to protect the recording industry" would seem silly if the contents of ATCA were known. But they're not, so your statement about ACTA is just as speculatory as his (even if yours is founded on reasonable assumptions).
No, no there doesn't.
"The greatest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter" - (Churchill, afaik)
What there needs to be is some kind of supercrazyawesome education, and a willingness to pay attention and be involved, of the general population. Then, optionally, a way of getting the will of the general public involved.
I don't think you understand the difference between running Folding@home vs. leaving something in a reduced power state so it can scrape data from the internet.
Next you're going to tell me you're confused that your phone lasts for three days with out charging (in sleep mode), and so it's pathetic that the iPhone* has less than 12 hours of talk time.
* (note - I choose this only because it's a popular, recognizable "less then crappy" handset)
You're wrong, shut up.
Mmm, powerful logic you have there.
While I agree with some of your points, I would like to point out that when you "combine" the presidents to get $4 trillion in debt, you are combining both those who ran a surplus and those who ran a deficit. Not exactly an honest number.
That is all.
'We're the only form of entertainment online that's interactive â" movies and music are linear.'
Reading slashdot is a form of entertainment, that's online, and interactive. But it's not a game. Right? Right???
Idiot or troll?
I don't know which you are, cause the GP's sig clearly indicates sarcasm.
No, I've never seen a demo of the phone.
Why would I, when I own one?
Now, you're statements are based off a fairly old "lets get this hardware in the hands of developers with most of the hardware working" software stack, so indulge with me a little bit as I dispel some misconceptions, and explain what has brought me to love my freerunner. First and foremost: my intentions for this phone when I am done with it is to use it as a small, rather general purpose microcontroller (what are your plans for your iphone/gphone, the garbage?). Seriously, it has gps, wifi, two accelerometers, gsm modem, sd card, vga touchscreen, bluetooth, USB host mode (plug other USB devices into the the thing - heck yeah!), and open schematics. I even triple boot the phone with the old 2008.9 stack (cause it has a fairly stable userland), the latest SHR-testing (Stable Hybrid Release) for developing applications for the phone with the elementary widget set -note, this is where the stack is going. It boots in about 45 seconds, and is oh so shiney. (seriously, do you actually know anyone who TURNS OFF their phone anyway?), and I rolled my own (log in over ssh only) embedded linux system just to mess around with. All of these are INTENDED uses of the phone, with FULL access to hardware & software (sadly, not firmware, but you know how these FCC types are about their cellular modems and wifi networks).
A fine example of how open and flexible this phone is: I broke my freerunners screen (tragic, user error, really), and in about 5 minutes I had my computer connected to my phone with vncconnect, with very little hassle. Even when my phone is broken, it works as a phone (albeit within 12 feet of any linux box). This is just a continuation of the flexibility I've come to expect from my phone since I started using it for daily use in September (didn't have a sim card before that, can't comment on how good/crappy it was before then, but it does sound like it used to be pretty crappy before then). And then there's the userspace: tangogps is a fantastic maps application, I have fbreader for my ebooks from gutenberg.org, a few things I've made myself, and enough games for me (seriously, the iphone has x bajillion applications... that all do the same thing. So much less wasted replication of work in opensource projects). Syncing with my computer isn't up to snuff at the moment, but that will come. You might be able to argue that at the moment it isn't consumer ready (but believe you me it will be in just a few more months - FSO is awesome!), but it is by far "slashdot geek" ready (excepting those who talk and don't do, of course).
Another point: I have gcc installed on my phone, along with perl, and a bluetooth keyboard with full 80 character lines of text in portrait mode on a vga screen, what's not to love?
As far as I'm concerned, Android is for people who talk openness, OpenMoKo is for people who doopenness.
I'm running out of places to move to.
Anybody want to take over a small island with me, in the interests of (intellectual) freedom? Seriously, I feel as though the realm of ideas is my favourite playground, and with each extension & perversion of copyright law another bully shows up. Today I can't use the slide. Tomorrow, the swings. Content should be created to be used, not merely sold like some cheap toy. /bitter
Mild correction: all mothers must exist in some state of constant quantum communication with their children.
What, the fact that the ancient Pentium 4 was cause I/O bottlenecks? Agreed, their test hardware was very underwhelming.
Ostensibly, that battery is only there to give the device power while it backs up your data to a compact flash card.
Of course, you already knew that cause you read TFA, right? right?
I wouldn't say "no" sense. It's battery backed up + connected to a compact flash slot, so when the power goes out it starts backing up your data to permanent storage.
My apologies - forgot I wasn't supposed to RTFA.
because everyone should utilize hours learning config files and command switches FOOL!
Fixed that for you.
Shutdown button... has the word "shutdown" on it. This is the biggest improvement over vista.
Having two of them in my computer right now.
You clearly lack reding comprehension skills.
Mod parent "+1 Ironic"
First the sad stuff
Good news:
I thought Microsoft was against the "theft" (infringement) of Intellectual "Property" (assets).
Perhaps you should use the term 'asset(s)' instead of 'property'
Besides, the days of one or two people with next to no money producing a commercially viable game are pretty much gone.
This argument may be of some merit in the PC gaming scene, but is somewhat ignorant of the emerging game market: cellphones. In this end of the gaming spectrum it is hard for me to even imagine more than a small handful of people working on a title. There's the guy who had the original idea, a few programmers, and a graphic designer if you feel the need. Yet with so few resources, it will be done in a month. Two people working on games on the scale of Crysis, WoW, etc? Yeah, forget about it. But two buddies can still team up in this modern world and make a buck having some fun.
So it launches applications 10 times faster [sic] (should say in 1/10 the amount of time), but the article only claims speed improvements of about 3.5 to 1. People need to seriously examine how they quote or accept statistics.
Jim Elliott, vice president of memory marketing at Samsung, said the new 256GB drive can store 25 high-definition movies taking up 10GB of space each in just 21 minutes, which he said is a significant advancement over a 7200rpm hard disk drive, which takes about 70 minutes.
Ah yes, but you don't have the seek times of the 7200rpm drive which are at best ~7ms. And since opening an application involves opening lots of different files (in different physical locations on the drive), this is where launching an app can be 10x faster.
So for straight writing a single, large, contiguous piece of data, it's only 3.5 times faster. For loading 200 random, tiny files, it's ten times faster.
Does this mean mp3 playback 'out of the box,' for Ubuntu, Fedora?