You're paying to use their servers to list the various IP addresses of the people who are currently sharing on the service. You are also paying for the search feature to scan the files of those users (a Napster scan doesn't go to each individual's machine to search for a track title, it downloads all of the available track titles and puts it on a central server).
That in addition to any new services BMG might want to provide. New B-tracks, special discounts, that sort of thing.
I'm concerned with the increasing occurance of giving static, permanent IP addresses to relatively dumb items. Palm Pilots, refrigerators, guns in the army, etc.
Why do devices that only really need temporary internet access get permanent IP's? If we didn't have all of these extra devices crowding available IP numbers, perhaps there would be no need to develop a more complex numbering system.
Of course, once you throw in the USB mouse, the high powered SB Live! doing surround sound, the 21" monitor, etc., your frame rate is sure to drop even more.
I have no problem with typo squatting as a whole, but there are a dozen Slashdot typo sites, one of which fram es Slashdot with a 2nd banner a d. Now I don't care... but this fo ols about 1 person every 2-3 days, and t hey fla me me for sel ling out and doing som ething so horrible as framing Slashdo t for extra ad space. So I guess typo sites that fr ame the site are pretty slimey, but as lo ng as the typo site provides a lin k to the correct site, I'm totally cool with 'em.
Out of curiousity, and a legitimate question, when are we going to get Japanese anime aired on cable that isn't buggered down with censorship (i.e. during nude scenes in bathtubs, violence with blood, etc)? I can understand when it's being broadcasted after school on Cartoon Network, but couldn't HBO or Cinemax carry an anime flick in its entirety? The bloody scenes in some DBZ come to mind...
It's their browser for their service. They're free to do that.
Right now I have a [wonderful machine besides but] Dell laptop I bought that defaults to Dell's website in IE. It can be changed, which I have already done to Yahoo, but if I click "Use Default" it zooms over to www.dell.com. Must be some kind of registry key.
With Slashdot's newer, larger user base, there are more and more people coming to the site that aren't Linux advocates, but people just plain interested in the things that drive "nerds" today (cross-platform compatibility, coding in general, tech toys for fun, etc.)
I have had this discussion with Rob before, and while I understand that it is "his" site, it has become much bigger than "his" views. He has every right to post sites that only have to do with Linux. He also has every right to alienate a small but vocal minority that feels Linux isn't the only "cool thing for Nerds" out there.
Me personally, for a good 3 months early on when I stopped being an AC, I deactivated Rob's stories from the Slashboxes (you can do this). I was tired of the Linux proganda garbage. Problem was, Taco does occasionally post a "good" story, one that doesn't have to do with mainstream Linux acceptance. I turned his stories back on, but I usually just peruse right by most of his front-page posts.
I don't mean to be flamebait, but, if this were Intel would we be asking for different benchmarks?
SPEC works for everyone. If Crusoe doesn't perform well on SPEC, why do we need to design a new SPEC?
And yeah, it runs longer on a laptop's batteries. So do Speedstep chips. I just received a new laptop (a screamer from Dell) that runs beautifully in both Windows and Linux. It uses a Speedstep chip, and the battery power I save is noticable (I've run the battery sometimes up to 4.5 hours).
- Standards-compliant PC hardware. - Fixed form the same as a console. - Consistent C++ programming language with no major differences (easy to port to from PC). - Stellar graphics hardware from NVidia, especially at TV resolutions. - A groundbreaking amount of voices on the soundcard.
If you were a developer and got a chance to play with this toy, would you turn it down?
PS2 is good and all, but to say XBox is going to be bad because "it's using standard parts" is, in your words "so damned lazy".
Personally, I'm putting my early money on the Dreamcast. Sega has always put innovation before profits, and games like the new Ecco and Jet Grind Radio are no exception.
Plus, you *have* to play NFL2K1. The gameplay and artificial intelligence are outstanding.
Encryption is the best bet for keeping sensitive information on anything that can be picked up and carried out of a secure location (this includes handhelds).
Thanks alot Cliff. Now what the hell are the rest of us Slashdot mongers going to do, if we can't give advice?
My favorite keyboard of all time, the MS Natural Keyboard (the original, not the new "pro" version with a horrifically large footprint) still hasn't come out with a wireless version. I would pay major bucks to see that come out.
As a piece of hardware, I think the original Natural keyboard stands alone (even better than MS's optical mice). Their original Sidewinder gamepad comes in a close second.
Plus, some of the motivation is a little aschew. If you want to push these chips into an old machine, you still have the problems of RAM limitations due to motherboard design. A fat lot 512MB of semi-faulty memory is going to do in a board that can only support up to 32MB (or better yet, an older chipset that supports up to 8 or 2).
In an interview with the IDG News Service after his keynote address, Paolini reiterated that Sun will eventually also make Java's source code fully open but said that he could not give any predictions as to when.
"I know you want me to say it will be in a week or in a year, but I can't say that. I can say that open source for Java is our goal. But we also continue to provide an environment that benefits everyone," Paolini said.
One aspect of closed source software that really hasn't been discussed is the potential "advantage" of having a responsible party for lawsuits.
Say (God forbid) someone decides to run a pacemaker off the kernel for WinCE. If the system crashes, you have a ready party who is responsible for the operating system. This is one of the reasons why Apple makes their "This software is not meant to be used in nuclear poewr stations, air traffic control, etc."
With open source you have noone to blame a potentially life-threatening crash on. A pacemaker with a Linux kernel dies. Who do you place the legality on? Linus?
(Further, and as a sidebar, I can't imagine any traditional OS [Unix, Windows, MacOS, BeOS] being viable for a medical device. Most are proprietarily written in assembly within the device, and rightfully so. When reaction times are so key, any operating system with priorities, threads, or even basic multitasking could be disastrous.)
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That in addition to any new services BMG might want to provide. New B-tracks, special discounts, that sort of thing.
Why do devices that only really need temporary internet access get permanent IP's? If we didn't have all of these extra devices crowding available IP numbers, perhaps there would be no need to develop a more complex numbering system.
...to Sony.
I know I really shouldn't be, but is anyone else scared when CmdrTaco makes a statement like this?
If I can push 30 I'm perfectly happy.
Wait, that's my typewriter...
I have no problem with typo squatting as a whole, but there are a dozen Slashdot typo sites, one of which fra m es Slashdot with a 2nd banner a d. Now I don' t care ... but this f o ols about 1 person every 2-3 days, and t hey fl a me me for se l ling out and doing so m ething so horrible as framing Slashd o t for extra ad space. So I guess typo sites that f r ame the site are pretty slimey, but as l o ng as the typo site provides a li n k to the correct site, I'm totally cool with 'em.
Out of curiousity, and a legitimate question, when are we going to get Japanese anime aired on cable that isn't buggered down with censorship (i.e. during nude scenes in bathtubs, violence with blood, etc)? I can understand when it's being broadcasted after school on Cartoon Network, but couldn't HBO or Cinemax carry an anime flick in its entirety? The bloody scenes in some DBZ come to mind...
By the way, it's hard for anyone to take you seriously when your .sig consists of two ASCII birds propped on an ASCII penis.
I'm a big Dreamcast fan, but what would prevent Sony from doing a VRAM memory expansion, similar to what N64 did for its core memory?
Submitted this story days ago. Was denied (no biggie, but there is some better, more accurate information here).
Not OS-independent, but a hell of a lot more swankier. Plus, it wouldn't take much effort to craft some rudimentary drivers in Linux.
Right now I have a [wonderful machine besides but] Dell laptop I bought that defaults to Dell's website in IE. It can be changed, which I have already done to Yahoo, but if I click "Use Default" it zooms over to www.dell.com. Must be some kind of registry key.
With Slashdot's newer, larger user base, there are more and more people coming to the site that aren't Linux advocates, but people just plain interested in the things that drive "nerds" today (cross-platform compatibility, coding in general, tech toys for fun, etc.)
I have had this discussion with Rob before, and while I understand that it is "his" site, it has become much bigger than "his" views. He has every right to post sites that only have to do with Linux. He also has every right to alienate a small but vocal minority that feels Linux isn't the only "cool thing for Nerds" out there.
Me personally, for a good 3 months early on when I stopped being an AC, I deactivated Rob's stories from the Slashboxes (you can do this). I was tired of the Linux proganda garbage. Problem was, Taco does occasionally post a "good" story, one that doesn't have to do with mainstream Linux acceptance. I turned his stories back on, but I usually just peruse right by most of his front-page posts.
Now if they can only divert that saved money over to Moesha...
SPEC works for everyone. If Crusoe doesn't perform well on SPEC, why do we need to design a new SPEC?
And yeah, it runs longer on a laptop's batteries. So do Speedstep chips. I just received a new laptop (a screamer from Dell) that runs beautifully in both Windows and Linux. It uses a Speedstep chip, and the battery power I save is noticable (I've run the battery sometimes up to 4.5 hours).
Any ideas to what shape an asteroid named "Eros" would be?
- Standards-compliant PC hardware.
- Fixed form the same as a console.
- Consistent C++ programming language with no major differences (easy to port to from PC).
- Stellar graphics hardware from NVidia, especially at TV resolutions.
- A groundbreaking amount of voices on the soundcard.
If you were a developer and got a chance to play with this toy, would you turn it down? PS2 is good and all, but to say XBox is going to be bad because "it's using standard parts" is, in your words "so damned lazy".
Plus, you *have* to play NFL2K1. The gameplay and artificial intelligence are outstanding.
Thanks alot Cliff. Now what the hell are the rest of us Slashdot mongers going to do, if we can't give advice?
Where's the next DeCSS story?
As a piece of hardware, I think the original Natural keyboard stands alone (even better than MS's optical mice). Their original Sidewinder gamepad comes in a close second.
Plus, some of the motivation is a little aschew. If you want to push these chips into an old machine, you still have the problems of RAM limitations due to motherboard design. A fat lot 512MB of semi-faulty memory is going to do in a board that can only support up to 32MB (or better yet, an older chipset that supports up to 8 or 2).
"I know you want me to say it will be in a week or in a year, but I can't say that. I can say that open source for Java is our goal. But we also continue to provide an environment that benefits everyone," Paolini said.
Huh?
Say (God forbid) someone decides to run a pacemaker off the kernel for WinCE. If the system crashes, you have a ready party who is responsible for the operating system. This is one of the reasons why Apple makes their "This software is not meant to be used in nuclear poewr stations, air traffic control, etc."
With open source you have noone to blame a potentially life-threatening crash on. A pacemaker with a Linux kernel dies. Who do you place the legality on? Linus?
(Further, and as a sidebar, I can't imagine any traditional OS [Unix, Windows, MacOS, BeOS] being viable for a medical device. Most are proprietarily written in assembly within the device, and rightfully so. When reaction times are so key, any operating system with priorities, threads, or even basic multitasking could be disastrous.)
I have one on both sides of my Windows2000/Linux box. If anyone needs help setting up their own... :)