oh come on, just about all of them do and have done for many many years.
and it would be better in the same way that reading a book is way better on a 10" screen than it is on a 2.5" screen.
Yeah the same way it's better to carry around a laptop running skype than a mobile phone. Seriously you would actually carry around an ipad for no other reason than a 10" viewfinder when you can use a 3.5-4" phone that is far more convenient and portable?
Color me strange but I'm looking forward to seeing the tablet that everyone's forgotten about: HP's WebOS based TouchPad.
I don't think anyone's forgotten about it - it was only just announced - but many people would be ignoring it for the time being given that it has no shipping models and no release date.
and you wanted a dedicated media consumer appliance that works out of the box the way you like it
They do not work 'out of the box' at all, in fact you need a pc/laptop with itunes installed and have to go through an activation process on that just to make them work.
The worst thing is that people with no idea were broadcasting their unencrypted data out into public spaces, anyone going past could capture and analyse that without any special equipment whatsoever.
Sure, Google is still king of search, but it hasn't been able to get much traction in other areas
Oh yeah, Android hasn't got any traction at all and no-one uses GMail, Google Maps or Google Docs. This must be your first trip back to civilisation for a while.
Oooh you better be careful there, some Anonymous fan will come whining about how Anonymous is not a group but its a concept or something along those lines;)
But that's the thing Westboro members could be Anonymous too, it's interesting how this "non-group" can denounce a release as not representative of Anonymous.
The real problem I have with the Xoom is that you have to sign up for the cellular data plan in order for the tablet to enable WiFi. No Verizon data plan? No WiFi for you, either. Sure, you can cancel after the WiFi's been activated, with a minimum of one month data service... but still, that's just outright extortion. And there's no release date on the WiFi-only Xoom yet, so it's the cellular-enabled Xoom or nothing.
Looks like it'll be a US-only thing, same as with the iphone. The rest of the world should be just fine.
And the law must operate within the confines of nature. Lawmakers can decree that pi = 3.0, global warming isn't happening, we aren't related to monkeys, or the earth is 6000 years old, but that won't make it so. They still don't really get it that sharing is a consequence of the way the universe works.
Nice strawman you've got there, that's science, not behavioral rules. But i get that you don't understand law and society, that much is obvious. Death is a consequence of the way the universe works but you can't just go around killing people, because that's the law and to be a part of society you must obey the law.
WIPO does not enact laws. You, as an individual or as a corporation, cannot be convicted or fined for not complying with its terms. It's up to countries, and how they do so differs widely.
Similarly, EU directives are not laws. They're binding guidelines to enact laws for member states.
Obviously, but IANAL so im just listing giving you the guidelines that are the basis for the laws of individual countries.
so anti-hate-speech laws are inherently immoral?
Yes, of course.
So you of course live in a country that doesn't have such laws then.
The DMCA (and associated WIPO regulations) is law too, you can't have it both ways.
I was, perhaps, not sufficiently precise in my wording. DMCA is something that basically says that I don't truly own the things that I buy; not even the particular copy of a work that is copyrighted.
No you were quite sufficient, you want to use the law to protect yourself but you don't want corporations using the law to protect themselves.
Since the conversation is all about how the next generation of smartphones will supplant the PC, then it is fair to assume this will impact Microsoft and Intel.
So, um, can you quote some of those anti-circumvention laws in Europe? Or in America other than USA?
are you incapable of using google? Have a look through WIPO and at EU directive 2001/29/ec.
Any law that stifles free speech is inherently immortal. If you don't enjoy free speech, that's another matter.
so anti-hate-speech laws are inherently immoral?
It's not an issue of having alternatives. It's an issue of being free to share information, and of being free to modify the hardware that you own by law.
The DMCA (and associated WIPO regulations) is law too, you can't have it both ways.
Yes they are leveraging the law for their business model
No, they have created a law for their business model
Actually i think you'll find it's 'yes' not 'no', regardless of who created the law Sony are leveraging it for their business model exactly as i stated.
But how do you do that, i mean why do you think it hasn't been done already?
What are you talking about? PC games do that all the time. Most of the information is stored server-side so that clients cannot alter it as they please. I mean, that won't exactly stop aimbots, but it gets rid of the most abusive cheats. Other than that, again, I say moderate the servers.
What im talking about is things like aimbots and wall hacks, the most prevalent and most annoying hacks in multiplayer gaming. What do you mean by 'most of the information'? Maps, textures, interaction functionality, etc... is held locally.
Consoles existed (in subsidized form even) before 1998, which is when DMCA came into force.
Back then consoles were a hell of a lot different to the architectures they have now, it wasn't until the mid-late 90s when piracy began to be an issue and architectures moved to be more similar to PCs.
Furthermore, most countries in the world do not have any counterpart to DMCA anti-circumvention measures, which does not prevent Sony and others from selling consoles there.
I think you'll find that most of the markets targeted by sony *do* have DMCA-like anti-circumvention laws. Most of Europe, America, Australia, Japan, etc...
In any case, if consoles in their modern shape can't exist without DMCA, then it's too bad for them - same as any other business model relying on an inherently immoral law that is likely to be overturned eventually.
Calling it 'inherently immoral' just to try and give your opinion more basis isn't fooling anyone. You could always get a PC, the DMCA-free alternative is available to you! Personally i won't buy another sony console after they removed OtherOS. I like having a gaming environment free of hacks and cheaters and i also like that i have a PC that i can do whatever i want with, best of both worlds.
Yes they are leveraging the law for their business model, i think you'll find that's what most businesses do.
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No, I wouldn't haul around an iPad for the sole purpose of taking a photo. I'm surprised you would even ask that.
Well it obviously isn't that much better then, particularly if 'WAY better' has already been diluted down to nothing more than a larger viewfinder.
Not all digital cameras have LCDs.
oh come on, just about all of them do and have done for many many years.
and it would be better in the same way that reading a book is way better on a 10" screen than it is on a 2.5" screen.
Yeah the same way it's better to carry around a laptop running skype than a mobile phone. Seriously you would actually carry around an ipad for no other reason than a 10" viewfinder when you can use a 3.5-4" phone that is far more convenient and portable?
Color me strange but I'm looking forward to seeing the tablet that everyone's forgotten about: HP's WebOS based TouchPad.
I don't think anyone's forgotten about it - it was only just announced - but many people would be ignoring it for the time being given that it has no shipping models and no release date.
I haven't looked at the quality of the iPad's camera
The ipad doesn't even have a camera.
That way you could see what you are taking a video of without having to peek through a little hole.
Get with the times, even the most basic cameras have had LCDs on them for just this purpose for well over a decade.
Put it on a tripod, and it would be WAY better for portraits than some little hand held camera.
In what way would it be 'WAY better' for portraits?
and you wanted a dedicated media consumer appliance that works out of the box the way you like it
They do not work 'out of the box' at all, in fact you need a pc/laptop with itunes installed and have to go through an activation process on that just to make them work.
To my surprise, none of the links given really backup or explain his this thesis.
thesis? wtf?
keep me entertained and somewhat productive until I land and able to use my laptop.
Or you could just use your laptop on the flight.
The worst thing is that people with no idea were broadcasting their unencrypted data out into public spaces, anyone going past could capture and analyse that without any special equipment whatsoever.
Sure, Google is still king of search, but it hasn't been able to get much traction in other areas
Oh yeah, Android hasn't got any traction at all and no-one uses GMail, Google Maps or Google Docs. This must be your first trip back to civilisation for a while.
That didn't take long.
Anonymous is the set of all people who are choosing to remain anonymous at any given time.
Wrong, just because you are anonymous does not mean you have anything to do with Anonymous. Note capitalisation.
To be a group it would have to have a combination operation and satisfy axioms of associativity, closure, identity and invertibility.
Only if you only accept that there is only one definition of 'group' and that is the mathematical one, which is false.
So you're wrong.
No i'm not.
You got a math geek instead of an Anonymous fan.
And an ignorant one at that.
Oooh you better be careful there, some Anonymous fan will come whining about how Anonymous is not a group but its a concept or something along those lines ;)
ffs...why don't italics tags work anymore?!
But that's the thing Westboro members could be Anonymous too, it's interesting how this "non-group" can denounce a release as not representative of Anonymous.
It was probably written by Westboro themselves to get some publicity.
The real problem I have with the Xoom is that you have to sign up for the cellular data plan in order for the tablet to enable WiFi. No Verizon data plan? No WiFi for you, either. Sure, you can cancel after the WiFi's been activated, with a minimum of one month data service... but still, that's just outright extortion. And there's no release date on the WiFi-only Xoom yet, so it's the cellular-enabled Xoom or nothing.
Looks like it'll be a US-only thing, same as with the iphone. The rest of the world should be just fine.
And the law must operate within the confines of nature. Lawmakers can decree that pi = 3.0, global warming isn't happening, we aren't related to monkeys, or the earth is 6000 years old, but that won't make it so. They still don't really get it that sharing is a consequence of the way the universe works.
Nice strawman you've got there, that's science, not behavioral rules. But i get that you don't understand law and society, that much is obvious. Death is a consequence of the way the universe works but you can't just go around killing people, because that's the law and to be a part of society you must obey the law.
WIPO does not enact laws. You, as an individual or as a corporation, cannot be convicted or fined for not complying with its terms. It's up to countries, and how they do so differs widely.
Similarly, EU directives are not laws. They're binding guidelines to enact laws for member states.
Obviously, but IANAL so im just listing giving you the guidelines that are the basis for the laws of individual countries.
so anti-hate-speech laws are inherently immoral?
Yes, of course.
So you of course live in a country that doesn't have such laws then.
The DMCA (and associated WIPO regulations) is law too, you can't have it both ways.
I was, perhaps, not sufficiently precise in my wording. DMCA is something that basically says that I don't truly own the things that I buy; not even the particular copy of a work that is copyrighted.
No you were quite sufficient, you want to use the law to protect yourself but you don't want corporations using the law to protect themselves.
considering that nintendo and sony are both currently turning profits on hardware sales
No they aren't, you are confusing 'not making a loss' with 'making a profit'.
Since the conversation is all about how the next generation of smartphones will supplant the PC, then it is fair to assume this will impact Microsoft and Intel.
MS have already shown Windows 8 running on ARM.
So, um, can you quote some of those anti-circumvention laws in Europe? Or in America other than USA?
are you incapable of using google? Have a look through WIPO and at EU directive 2001/29/ec.
Any law that stifles free speech is inherently immortal. If you don't enjoy free speech, that's another matter.
so anti-hate-speech laws are inherently immoral?
It's not an issue of having alternatives. It's an issue of being free to share information, and of being free to modify the hardware that you own by law.
The DMCA (and associated WIPO regulations) is law too, you can't have it both ways.
Yes they are leveraging the law for their business model
No, they have created a law for their business model
Actually i think you'll find it's 'yes' not 'no', regardless of who created the law Sony are leveraging it for their business model exactly as i stated.
What im talking about is things like aimbots and wall hacks, the most prevalent and most annoying hacks in multiplayer gaming.
I know. Moderation.
There is a system for that in source games...short of it is that it doesn't work and cheating is still rampant.
But how do you do that, i mean why do you think it hasn't been done already?
What are you talking about? PC games do that all the time. Most of the information is stored server-side so that clients cannot alter it as they please. I mean, that won't exactly stop aimbots, but it gets rid of the most abusive cheats. Other than that, again, I say moderate the servers.
What im talking about is things like aimbots and wall hacks, the most prevalent and most annoying hacks in multiplayer gaming. What do you mean by 'most of the information'? Maps, textures, interaction functionality, etc... is held locally.
Consoles existed (in subsidized form even) before 1998, which is when DMCA came into force.
Back then consoles were a hell of a lot different to the architectures they have now, it wasn't until the mid-late 90s when piracy began to be an issue and architectures moved to be more similar to PCs.
Furthermore, most countries in the world do not have any counterpart to DMCA anti-circumvention measures, which does not prevent Sony and others from selling consoles there.
I think you'll find that most of the markets targeted by sony *do* have DMCA-like anti-circumvention laws. Most of Europe, America, Australia, Japan, etc...
In any case, if consoles in their modern shape can't exist without DMCA, then it's too bad for them - same as any other business model relying on an inherently immoral law that is likely to be overturned eventually.
Calling it 'inherently immoral' just to try and give your opinion more basis isn't fooling anyone. You could always get a PC, the DMCA-free alternative is available to you! Personally i won't buy another sony console after they removed OtherOS. I like having a gaming environment free of hacks and cheaters and i also like that i have a PC that i can do whatever i want with, best of both worlds.
Yes they are leveraging the law for their business model, i think you'll find that's what most businesses do.
Its just a Pico ITX x86 PC in a case similar to an XBox 360.
What are the specs?