And if you want more, spend the $10 a month for their extreme package and they give you an extra 40GB a month. I have a SOHO account with them, which gave me 90GB a month transfer, now I have 130GB a month transfer. And they also double the speed. It's unreal, I'm getting essentially 10baseT speeds (3MB/s yes, with a B, not a b) from my colocated servers and other download points when I need to pull down data.
At this moment in time, PRACTICAL quantum computing is, yes.
> Is the space elevator sci-fi?
Again, at this moment in time, yes. Tests of a few thousand feet are a hell of a long way from geosyncronous orbit.
> Is nuclear fusion sci-fi?
No, it's a big bright ball in the sky. Now, if you're talking about humans initiating and controlling that reaction to extract more energy than they put into the reaction, then yes, it is in fact science fiction right now in 2006.
> Is a laser cannon sci-fi ? No.
Depends on your definition of cannon. If you mean something that can be effectively used as an offensive weapon against a hostile force, then this may be the first non-scifi example of such. If you mean a laser pointer, or something to cut out grills for your computer's fan in the shape of a nekkid chick, then no.
You want to make it even better? I picked up a VGA adapter for it from some online site for $10 a few weeks back and I cannot believe how much better the Dreamcast looks on a CRT monitor. The DC can render everything native at 640x480, and the sharpness and clarity you get over TVs is astonishing. Soul Calibur never looked so good! Best $10 investment I've made in gaming in a long time.
They did just announce plans to charge in the near future. How much do you want to bet that this very lawsuit was the catalyst for that decision? Probably figured they're going to have to pay people to read and vet all the housing ads from now on.
Sigh. Lawyers and idiots ruin something else for everyone so they can get a few bucks..
Valve has promised that if they go broke and need to shut down Steam, they will release a "final patch" for their games that removes the Steam requirement.
Yes.... And one company that I worked for that went out of business promised to pay all their staff severance pay too. Needless to say, the promise wasn't worth the paper it wasn't written on.
If Valve tanks and actually goes under, methinks the LAST thing on everyone's mind over there will be releasing a patch to cast their users free. In fact, it wouldn't surprise me at all if some lawyer involved with the assets specifically vetoed such an action on thr grounds that it harmed what was left of the company's assets.
Wow a personal anecdote. What a stunningly perceptive analysis of human nature and market forces. NOT
Yes, a personal anecdote. Which holds about as much truth as your editorial opinion above. However, unlike your little rant, I can back up my anecdote with additional info. There's lots of easily located evidence that a lot of people prefer to buy used as well, cost being a major, if not the only factor. Can you think of another "market force" that would convince all those people to buy used except the price angle?
And digital distribution doesn't work. Yet. How many people in comparison to the general PC gaming public even use Steam? Or Xbox live subscribers vs the install base of the Xbox? How many households in the US even have broadband vs the number of households with PCs? Until those numbers are way on the other side of 50% it won't take off as the principal method.
Where "reasonably priced" is roughly equal to "Free" that is.
Not really, no.
I buy games used for my consoles all the time. I almost never buy them new, because I don't feel there are that many games worth $60-$70 CDN. However, if I can get it used for $15-$20, that is just fine for me. Ergo, for me, games are too expensively priced for me to consider purchasing them at their initial sell price, so I don't buy them there. I either wait for them in the used bin, or the bargain bin after they get to be 3 or 4 years old. I don't need to buy a game the day, week, month or year it comes out, so I can afford to wait.
It makes me wonder if a game that sells 100,000 first run copies at $59 would sell more than 200,000 if it came out at $29. Those are just off-the-cuff numbers, I'm sure in reality there is a better profit/unit count sweet spot somewhere in the middle, but it seems nobody has seriously tried to find it in years.
There were thousands of factors you were unaware of when you judged him, yet you are absolutely sure of yourself.
Er, the court of LAW also judged him to be guilty of a crime, so therefore he faces the punishment for committing a crime. From TFA: But he kept an administrator-level SecureID card with him and used it to enter the network nine times.
NINE times. That's not a quick leaving-day "fuck-you" to the Man, that's premeditated and deliberate.
However, let's look at this in simple terms without specifics. Your account and account are tools you need to do your job if you work in IT, correct? If the story said "Fired mechanic broke into the shop and cut up $10,000 worth of his replacements' tools and equipment with an acetylene torch" you wouldn't be saying "boo" about it, even though this would probably be quicker to recover from (borrow other workers' tools in the shop until insurance replaces them a few days later) than a forensic audit on a system (shut it down and lock everyone out until you figure out how someone got in and what they did).
Here's the take-away from this: He was fired. He broke things belonging to the company after he was fired. That is a crime. He goes to jail for doing it. End of story.
True, but have you got any interfaces that ARE fast for flash memory? Hard drives are quite speedy as well, it's just having to move that damn head around that makes them look bad, after all.
"There will always be a need for storage, but when was the last time you tapped out a drive"
Last week at the parents' place. Two days ago at work. Probably tonight as well at home. You were saying?
No matter how much storage you put in a given system, it will eventually be not enough. I've seen it a million times.
Also, flash memory is way too slow to be used as primary storage. Putting 512MB of MP3s on my SD card takes almost a three minutes. Drive to drive, that's under 10 seconds.
And let's not even mention how quickly a cache partition would die with the 100,000 writes before failure standard of current flash drives...
The point is, the people running Nintendo have been pretty much saying "We don't care if you like regular controllers. You'll do it our way, or not at all."
Err... Aren't Microsoft and Sony also saying that? Or did I miss when they brought out the 3D position based controllers for the PS2 and Xbox? When you look at it, everyone else is also forcing you to do it their way. It's just you happen to be used to "their way". The PS2 has USB ports. Why can't I plug in a USB keyboard and use WASD and a mouse for FPS games?
I wonder how many people that complain about the 360 emulation have actually used any other emulators before, especially newly released ones?
No. It's this simple. If Microsoft puts on the box "backwards compatible", it god damn well better be backwards compatible. Not 40% backwards compatible, not 80%, defintely not 80% this week, 73% the next, and a month later 82% backwards compatible.
It usually takes the authors years to get near perfect emulation up and running.
The difference, is this is something people have paid hundreds of dollars for, not some freeware hobby emulator that Bob works on 2 hours a week in his spare time.
Consoles are supposed to be black-boxed commodities for the average consumer, not beta tests that geeks will just "understand" if there are rough/jagged edges and need a bunch of tweaks and patches.
Bottom line: If you can do it, do it. If you can't, don't claim you can as a selling point for your box and spend the next six months trying to patch it.
Did you get paid for that last 15-30 minutes you were in?
If you get paid for the next two weeks from that moment forward, then yeah, you got paid for wasting your time like that for 15-30 minutes. And then got a nealy 2 week holiday on top of it.
Would you rely on a spokesperson to tell you how much of their equipment is affected by a potentially devastating flaw? Remember what Sony said about the rootkit..
It's not a chip that can be added for $10 in 5 years. By the time these things get cheap enough to be included in electronics as an afterthought, their patent will have expired.
Plus, economies of scale do not bode well for that. Let's take GPSs as an example since they're a similar technology, construction wise, although there are probably 10,000 GPS devices sold for every at range RFID reader. How much do handheld GPSs still cost, despite massive market penetration? Weren't people predicting they'd be fitting on a chip and in every DVD player for region control by 2006?
So yeah, not gonna happen. Not unless someone else comes up with a killer app for RFID readers that makes people want to make millions of readers per year.
I've worked with RFID readers on projects before. For one that has a useful range, which is to say one that you don't have to rub the tag against physically, the reader will cost about 3x what a Tivo costs. Somehow I just can't see quadrupling the cost of the unit for this feature.
Not to take away from the guys accomplishments but will a time come when we all but do away with the need to press the flesh
Well, seeing as these are gaming competitions, I imagine that silly little speed-of-light limitation thing might cause him some issues with lag if he's playing in a competition half a world away...
So, to answer your question, as soon as we get the FTL data transfer thing solved, people won't need to fly to LAN gaming competitions.
it's not self replicating and doesn't attack other people's PC over the internet or such
Oh. So by that definition ANY rootkit is just peachy.
It's mostly single homer users affected
Where do you think those zombie botnets that send out all the crap spam are located? That's right. Compromised home users who don't even know something's wrong because their system has been hit with a rootkit. Now Sony has created a powerful new tool for the spambot creators to use. Thanks Sony!
I have experienced the whine sound on a couple of Palm devices I've had, and it's not audible unless you hold your ear within a foot or so of the screen surface. That said, I've got a T5, which as the poster above said is the display most similar to the new T|X, and it's completely silent. Just checked.;)
Office space is not just the square footage cost. And mananging office space is a pain in the ass. If you rent too much of it you're wasting money, and if you rent too little to accomodate your company's growth, you're looking to either move or get some more space on another floor in six months. Cubicles at least offer a certain amount of flexibility in how the space is allocated and you can comfortably get more people into less space with them. Are they perfect? No, but like many other posters I've had jobs in them for over a decade and in the majority of cases it was just fine as long as everyone around you understands it's a work environment, not a rumpus room.
As for "companies with cubicles are doomed", how does that explain Intel? IIRC they were kicking ass and taking names under Andy Grove's watch, and HE worked in a cubicle along with everyone else at his insistence.
Well the people who installed it were recommended by Red Hat.
Yeah. So? I've had people in who were recommended by vendors, and they turned out to be a waste of oxygen. It's unfortunate, but some companies/consultants that can get into a big vendor's "recommended" list do it as a result of one guy passing their test and then he leaves, but the consulting company (who may now have nobody who knows anything about whatever they're "recommended" for) gets the call.
For big life-changing implementations like this you have to get references from a couple of the intregrators' previous clients, and the references have to concern the same area of expertise. Doesn't matter if they did a bang-up multiple location Exchange server install, you're not doing that. And if their key guy Fred was so instrumental to the last two installs they did of this kind of thing, according to their references and Fred no longer works there, that could be a red flag, etc.
My bad. I misread that to mean forbid the carriage of electronic devices. I still think that forbidding even the use would be problematic, especially cell phones, and as someone else pointed out, digital watches.
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And if you want more, spend the $10 a month for their extreme package and they give you an extra 40GB a month. I have a SOHO account with them, which gave me 90GB a month transfer, now I have 130GB a month transfer. And they also double the speed. It's unreal, I'm getting essentially 10baseT speeds (3MB/s yes, with a B, not a b) from my colocated servers and other download points when I need to pull down data.
Neither of those will tell you which way you're pointing.
???
My SportTrac Color has a compass function that tells me which way I point it....
> Is quantum computing sci-fi?
At this moment in time, PRACTICAL quantum computing is, yes.
> Is the space elevator sci-fi?
Again, at this moment in time, yes. Tests of a few thousand feet are a hell of a long way from geosyncronous orbit.
> Is nuclear fusion sci-fi?
No, it's a big bright ball in the sky. Now, if you're talking about humans initiating and controlling that reaction to extract more energy than they put into the reaction, then yes, it is in fact science fiction right now in 2006.
> Is a laser cannon sci-fi ? No.
Depends on your definition of cannon. If you mean something that can be effectively used as an offensive weapon against a hostile force, then this may be the first non-scifi example of such. If you mean a laser pointer, or something to cut out grills for your computer's fan in the shape of a nekkid chick, then no.
You want to make it even better? I picked up a VGA adapter for it from some online site for $10 a few weeks back and I cannot believe how much better the Dreamcast looks on a CRT monitor. The DC can render everything native at 640x480, and the sharpness and clarity you get over TVs is astonishing. Soul Calibur never looked so good! Best $10 investment I've made in gaming in a long time.
They did just announce plans to charge in the near future. How much do you want to bet that this very lawsuit was the catalyst for that decision? Probably figured they're going to have to pay people to read and vet all the housing ads from now on.
Sigh. Lawyers and idiots ruin something else for everyone so they can get a few bucks..
Valve has promised that if they go broke and need to shut down Steam, they will release a "final patch" for their games that removes the Steam requirement.
Yes.... And one company that I worked for that went out of business promised to pay all their staff severance pay too. Needless to say, the promise wasn't worth the paper it wasn't written on.
If Valve tanks and actually goes under, methinks the LAST thing on everyone's mind over there will be releasing a patch to cast their users free. In fact, it wouldn't surprise me at all if some lawyer involved with the assets specifically vetoed such an action on thr grounds that it harmed what was left of the company's assets.
Wow a personal anecdote. What a stunningly perceptive analysis of human nature and market forces. NOT
Yes, a personal anecdote. Which holds about as much truth as your editorial opinion above. However, unlike your little rant, I can back up my anecdote with additional info. There's lots of easily located evidence that a lot of people prefer to buy used as well, cost being a major, if not the only factor. Can you think of another "market force" that would convince all those people to buy used except the price angle?
And digital distribution doesn't work. Yet. How many people in comparison to the general PC gaming public even use Steam? Or Xbox live subscribers vs the install base of the Xbox? How many households in the US even have broadband vs the number of households with PCs? Until those numbers are way on the other side of 50% it won't take off as the principal method.
Where "reasonably priced" is roughly equal to "Free" that is.
Not really, no.
I buy games used for my consoles all the time. I almost never buy them new, because I don't feel there are that many games worth $60-$70 CDN. However, if I can get it used for $15-$20, that is just fine for me. Ergo, for me, games are too expensively priced for me to consider purchasing them at their initial sell price, so I don't buy them there. I either wait for them in the used bin, or the bargain bin after they get to be 3 or 4 years old. I don't need to buy a game the day, week, month or year it comes out, so I can afford to wait.
It makes me wonder if a game that sells 100,000 first run copies at $59 would sell more than 200,000 if it came out at $29. Those are just off-the-cuff numbers, I'm sure in reality there is a better profit/unit count sweet spot somewhere in the middle, but it seems nobody has seriously tried to find it in years.
There were thousands of factors you were unaware of when you judged him, yet you are absolutely sure of yourself.
Er, the court of LAW also judged him to be guilty of a crime, so therefore he faces the punishment for committing a crime. From TFA: But he kept an administrator-level SecureID card with him and used it to enter the network nine times.
NINE times. That's not a quick leaving-day "fuck-you" to the Man, that's premeditated and deliberate.
However, let's look at this in simple terms without specifics. Your account and account are tools you need to do your job if you work in IT, correct? If the story said "Fired mechanic broke into the shop and cut up $10,000 worth of his replacements' tools and equipment with an acetylene torch" you wouldn't be saying "boo" about it, even though this would probably be quicker to recover from (borrow other workers' tools in the shop until insurance replaces them a few days later) than a forensic audit on a system (shut it down and lock everyone out until you figure out how someone got in and what they did).
Here's the take-away from this: He was fired. He broke things belonging to the company after he was fired. That is a crime. He goes to jail for doing it. End of story.
$400 for a device that can't search an e-book? Forget it! Even my palm does that.
SD cards are slow. Flash memory is not.
True, but have you got any interfaces that ARE fast for flash memory? Hard drives are quite speedy as well, it's just having to move that damn head around that makes them look bad, after all.
"There will always be a need for storage, but when was the last time you tapped out a drive"
Last week at the parents' place. Two days ago at work. Probably tonight as well at home. You were saying?
No matter how much storage you put in a given system, it will eventually be not enough. I've seen it a million times.
Also, flash memory is way too slow to be used as primary storage. Putting 512MB of MP3s on my SD card takes almost a three minutes. Drive to drive, that's under 10 seconds.
And let's not even mention how quickly a cache partition would die with the 100,000 writes before failure standard of current flash drives...
The point is, the people running Nintendo have been pretty much saying "We don't care if you like regular controllers. You'll do it our way, or not at all."
Err... Aren't Microsoft and Sony also saying that? Or did I miss when they brought out the 3D position based controllers for the PS2 and Xbox? When you look at it, everyone else is also forcing you to do it their way. It's just you happen to be used to "their way". The PS2 has USB ports. Why can't I plug in a USB keyboard and use WASD and a mouse for FPS games?
I wonder how many people that complain about the 360 emulation have actually used any other emulators before, especially newly released ones?
No. It's this simple. If Microsoft puts on the box "backwards compatible", it god damn well better be backwards compatible. Not 40% backwards compatible, not 80%, defintely not 80% this week, 73% the next, and a month later 82% backwards compatible.
It usually takes the authors years to get near perfect emulation up and running.
The difference, is this is something people have paid hundreds of dollars for, not some freeware hobby emulator that Bob works on 2 hours a week in his spare time.
Consoles are supposed to be black-boxed commodities for the average consumer, not beta tests that geeks will just "understand" if there are rough/jagged edges and need a bunch of tweaks and patches.
Bottom line: If you can do it, do it. If you can't, don't claim you can as a selling point for your box and spend the next six months trying to patch it.
Did you get paid for that last 15-30 minutes you were in?
If you get paid for the next two weeks from that moment forward, then yeah, you got paid for wasting your time like that for 15-30 minutes. And then got a nealy 2 week holiday on top of it.
As other have said, this is SOP at most places.
Would you rely on a spokesperson to tell you how much of their equipment is affected by a potentially devastating flaw? Remember what Sony said about the rootkit..
It's not a chip that can be added for $10 in 5 years. By the time these things get cheap enough to be included in electronics as an afterthought, their patent will have expired.
Plus, economies of scale do not bode well for that. Let's take GPSs as an example since they're a similar technology, construction wise, although there are probably 10,000 GPS devices sold for every at range RFID reader. How much do handheld GPSs still cost, despite massive market penetration? Weren't people predicting they'd be fitting on a chip and in every DVD player for region control by 2006?
So yeah, not gonna happen. Not unless someone else comes up with a killer app for RFID readers that makes people want to make millions of readers per year.
I've worked with RFID readers on projects before. For one that has a useful range, which is to say one that you don't have to rub the tag against physically, the reader will cost about 3x what a Tivo costs. Somehow I just can't see quadrupling the cost of the unit for this feature.
Not to take away from the guys accomplishments but will a time come when we all but do away with the need to press the flesh
Well, seeing as these are gaming competitions, I imagine that silly little speed-of-light limitation thing might cause him some issues with lag if he's playing in a competition half a world away...
So, to answer your question, as soon as we get the FTL data transfer thing solved, people won't need to fly to LAN gaming competitions.
Perhaps you could point out some open chipsets and video cards they could have taken advantage of, given their budgetary and quantity needs?
it's not self replicating and doesn't attack other people's PC over the internet or such
Oh. So by that definition ANY rootkit is just peachy.
It's mostly single homer users affected
Where do you think those zombie botnets that send out all the crap spam are located?
That's right. Compromised home users who don't even know something's wrong because their system has been hit with a rootkit. Now Sony has created a powerful new tool for the spambot creators to use. Thanks Sony!
I have experienced the whine sound on a couple of Palm devices I've had, and it's not audible unless you hold your ear within a foot or so of the screen surface. That said, I've got a T5, which as the poster above said is the display most similar to the new T|X, and it's completely silent. Just checked. ;)
Office space is not just the square footage cost. And mananging office space is a pain in the ass. If you rent too much of it you're wasting money, and if you rent too little to accomodate your company's growth, you're looking to either move or get some more space on another floor in six months. Cubicles at least offer a certain amount of flexibility in how the space is allocated and you can comfortably get more people into less space with them. Are they perfect? No, but like many other posters I've had jobs in them for over a decade and in the majority of cases it was just fine as long as everyone around you understands it's a work environment, not a rumpus room.
As for "companies with cubicles are doomed", how does that explain Intel? IIRC they were kicking ass and taking names under Andy Grove's watch, and HE worked in a cubicle along with everyone else at his insistence.
Well the people who installed it were recommended by Red Hat.
Yeah. So? I've had people in who were recommended by vendors, and they turned out to be a waste of oxygen. It's unfortunate, but some companies/consultants that can get into a big vendor's "recommended" list do it as a result of one guy passing their test and then he leaves, but the consulting company (who may now have nobody who knows anything about whatever they're "recommended" for) gets the call.
For big life-changing implementations like this you have to get references from a couple of the intregrators' previous clients, and the references have to concern the same area of expertise. Doesn't matter if they did a bang-up multiple location Exchange server install, you're not doing that. And if their key guy Fred was so instrumental to the last two installs they did of this kind of thing, according to their references and Fred no longer works there, that could be a red flag, etc.
My bad. I misread that to mean forbid the carriage of electronic devices. I still think that forbidding even the use would be problematic, especially cell phones, and as someone else pointed out, digital watches.