Why would anyone purchase a creative commons movie?
Were you hiding under a rock for the last 2 weeks and the humble bundle event ? Event when given the possibility to pay 1c, people are ready to pay more for what they think is a good cause/quality product.
Why are there so many stories on slashdot about how awful e-Voting is? Is there a large part of the slashdot audience that seeks a return to pencil and paper solutions, instead of this new-fangled transistorisation? I think your idea makes perfect sense, the situation where a PROM is touched is the same situation as where a ballot box has been broken open.
I don't really get if you are complaining or agreeing...
Thing is, there are many differences between a ballot box and a e-voting system.
In the case of the ballot box, you need to tamper with it after the election, when it is best garded. Each ballot box only contain a limited number of votes, and you need to prepare a large amount of false ballots before hand.
In the case of the e-voting system, you can tamper with it before the election and make 'invisible' tampering (ROM flashing, replacing the display with hidden chips, etc). Once you got access to the machine once, you are good to change many elections. Also, the machine can contain more votes than a ballot box.
In my opinion, this is not a question of how hard it is to tamper with something, but the scale of the changes you can produce. Paper ballots only allow for small changes, while evoting allows for large scale changes
Yep, pure coincidence. It is called natural selection. What you are saying is like telling that superbugs appear in hospitals just before an antibiotic patent is about to run out...
This is a really good news. For what I remember, the whole 3D part / textures of Ryzom is of really high quality. This will be a huge boost for many independent developers who can't access quality 3D models easily.
Now, just have to fire up my install of OGRE3D, and check if I can load those models in it:)
Flash drives are flash drive. They are plugged in USB and recognized as such. SSD are using the same technology as flash drives with a SATA interface. External mechanical hard drives are using a SATA to USB adaptor to work in USB. So basically, all the technology is already existing.
They replaced the SATA interface with a USB interface (like in a normal tumb drive) or just dropped a normal SSD inside a normal SATA 2.5" external box et voila !
First, Facebook & Google data are not possible to regenerate, as they are personal things, like emails, messages, posts, etc.
Second, you have other sectors producing large amount of data beside your favourite networking website. One example is the LHC. It is going to produce terabytes of data per DAY (15 petabytes per year). Another are space telescopes. Those data can't just be 'regenerated'. 1 day worth of data is incredibly expensive to produce.
Distributed file systems are already there, and people use them. Maybe not on your level of computer usage.
When you don't know what you are talking about, I think it is better to just keep quiet.
I don't agree. I started reading the article, and it is only midway that I remembered I was reading a translated article. Compared to what you used to get, this is a damn good translation (and readable).
The timer is the remaining time before the end of the promotion. Can sound strange, but yeah, they already made $151k from 19000 people in 8 hours. 6 days 16 hours more to go.
I was wondering if I'm the only one who gave an amount around the mean, but now I have tested the games for a while, I think I will give more in the next few days.
All those games are of really high quality. The devs deserve more IMO.
The awesome part, if you followed this promotion since the begining is that the mean value people are giving keep on rising.
If I remember correctly, it started at $6 and now, it is a $7.99 (Apple would be happy;)). I guess people don't want to appear as cheap and give a bit above the mean.
Anyway, in something like 6h, they already made $115k, which is pretty awesome. I wonder how much the total will be buy the end of the promotion in 6 days.
It is exactly what internet is about. Taking pieces and bit from different willing people, and make something greater than just the sum of the parts.
This is an amazing performance, coordinating hundred of people around the world, people who will never meet, but are working together to bring to life a project.
Internet is not just for porn, facebook and WoW you know.
With the current rate of raise in capacity and reduction in size, I think the 10 million TB will hold in a hotel sized fridge or a beer cool box. We will never see full fridge sized home data storage.
Well, having to go dig an additional library to add native types is a bit paradoxal isn't it ? Even more when the software cost a lot of money and is directed at engineers.
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Not sure you can call someone unscrewing 4 screws a techguru...
Why would anyone purchase a creative commons movie?
Were you hiding under a rock for the last 2 weeks and the humble bundle event ? Event when given the possibility to pay 1c, people are ready to pay more for what they think is a good cause/quality product.
So much for all the students around the world who don't have email addresses ending in .edu
Well, i guess it is time to check if no-ip.com has hosts ending in .edu and set-up a home mail server :)
Why are there so many stories on slashdot about how awful e-Voting is? Is there a large part of the slashdot audience that seeks a return to pencil and paper solutions, instead of this new-fangled transistorisation? I think your idea makes perfect sense, the situation where a PROM is touched is the same situation as where a ballot box has been broken open.
I don't really get if you are complaining or agreeing...
Thing is, there are many differences between a ballot box and a e-voting system.
In the case of the ballot box, you need to tamper with it after the election, when it is best garded. Each ballot box only contain a limited number of votes, and you need to prepare a large amount of false ballots before hand.
In the case of the e-voting system, you can tamper with it before the election and make 'invisible' tampering (ROM flashing, replacing the display with hidden chips, etc). Once you got access to the machine once, you are good to change many elections. Also, the machine can contain more votes than a ballot box.
In my opinion, this is not a question of how hard it is to tamper with something, but the scale of the changes you can produce. Paper ballots only allow for small changes, while evoting allows for large scale changes
Yep, pure coincidence. It is called natural selection. What you are saying is like telling that superbugs appear in hospitals just before an antibiotic patent is about to run out...
This is a really good news. For what I remember, the whole 3D part / textures of Ryzom is of really high quality. This will be a huge boost for many independent developers who can't access quality 3D models easily.
Now, just have to fire up my install of OGRE3D, and check if I can load those models in it :)
Flash drives are flash drive. They are plugged in USB and recognized as such. SSD are using the same technology as flash drives with a SATA interface. External mechanical hard drives are using a SATA to USB adaptor to work in USB. So basically, all the technology is already existing.
They replaced the SATA interface with a USB interface (like in a normal tumb drive) or just dropped a normal SSD inside a normal SATA 2.5" external box et voila !
What's the news here ?
It is just you. I know a good specialist if you want.
Wrong, Steve said it was a electronic appliance. Any rumour that it is a full fledge computer with software lock is wrong.
Second, you have other sectors producing large amount of data beside your favourite networking website. One example is the LHC. It is going to produce terabytes of data per DAY (15 petabytes per year). Another are space telescopes. Those data can't just be 'regenerated'. 1 day worth of data is incredibly expensive to produce.
Distributed file systems are already there, and people use them. Maybe not on your level of computer usage.
When you don't know what you are talking about, I think it is better to just keep quiet.
I don't agree. I started reading the article, and it is only midway that I remembered I was reading a translated article. Compared to what you used to get, this is a damn good translation (and readable).
The timer is the remaining time before the end of the promotion. Can sound strange, but yeah, they already made $151k from 19000 people in 8 hours. 6 days 16 hours more to go.
All those games are of really high quality. The devs deserve more IMO.
If I remember correctly, it started at $6 and now, it is a $7.99 (Apple would be happy ;)). I guess people don't want to appear as cheap and give a bit above the mean.
Anyway, in something like 6h, they already made $115k, which is pretty awesome. I wonder how much the total will be buy the end of the promotion in 6 days.
Not giving anything is a lose for everyone. You don't get the game and they don't get the money.
I totally agree. This is an amazing piece of work. I need to grab the full discography to put while working.
This is an amazing performance, coordinating hundred of people around the world, people who will never meet, but are working together to bring to life a project.
Internet is not just for porn, facebook and WoW you know.
I agree. That's why I prefer Fedora.
If so, I guess it will be labelled as such in California soon.
You don't save air in bottle ? When air will run out, I will be the one laughing !
For example, for this article, I really thought they did manage to put 4 Go per chip before reading the comments ;)
With the current rate of raise in capacity and reduction in size, I think the 10 million TB will hold in a hotel sized fridge or a beer cool box. We will never see full fridge sized home data storage.
Well, having to go dig an additional library to add native types is a bit paradoxal isn't it ? Even more when the software cost a lot of money and is directed at engineers.
Slashdot sucks a little more each day, I think it is time to say good bye and never come back.
Since Slashdot is not changing, the sucking augmentation must be on your side. Ho, and Obvious Troll is Obvious.
You don't need to take shadowrun and remove all this, just pick up Cyberpunk 2020 directly ^^