"There's also a lighter version that has about half the power, for half the price."
Half the power. That would be five hours, right? Um. There's this battery that gets five hours and it comes free with the ibook.
I'm not sure I'd be too keen on buying one of these devices, as I can't think of many cases where a fully charged spare battery wouldn't do the trick. I guess a flight to japan would require 15 hours of battery time or so, but I can't think of something I would want to do for 15 hours straight on a plane.
This has a flip-down screen, built-in ethernet, tv tuner, and DVD drive. OR, you could be 0ld-sk00l and use this
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"I await -1 troll" Karma-whoring are we?
I'm sorry, but having used both, I can say that KDE3 cannot even approach Aqua's usability, speed, or elegance. I love linux, and especially KDE, but don't try and kid yourself that you have a UI that even comes close to Aqua. I can make a web page that looks like the OS X dock, but that doesn't mean I've evaluated it.
Believe me, I know what it's like to be "the computer whiz", and I feel that since I've been gifted with something, I ought to share it. To do otherwise would be unjust.
"Ask/. Is The Lazy Man's Version of Usenet and Google"
Asking the librarian is the lazy man's card catalogue. It's all about context. Usenet's not very good about that, and Google can be like drinking from a firehose, often with inaccurate data (not google's fault). People come to ask slashdot to get good contextual advice firsthand. Instead, they get elitist punks who never had to learn things. They sprung from the womb and began coding.
"didn't you read the man pages while your mom was gestating? Please. Ask google."
Well the grinding noise should be familiar to anyone who has had to wait through windows paging through win386.swp or pagefile.sys, particularly on an older drive.
Obviously these massive engineering companies don't think that any DRM can't be broken/circumvented ever. That's why their goal is to make it as inconvenient as possible to do so. Would you go through the hassle of finding a high-res printer, scan the image, and save it as a jpg everytime that someone wanted a copy? Moreover, would a casual user? No. That's the goal.
"Ok everyone. Here is the newest unbreakable scheme. On the license, we give everybody their unique key to unlock their content. When they playback/read the file we've given them, we deliver the bitstream through the speakers, then the use their heads to calculate the unencrypted result. Don't follow? Here's a demo!"
"Here's Dustin Hoffman, he's going to show us how this is done. I just hit play here, and..."
*a blindfolded Dustin Hoffman walks onto the stage*
*a modem-like squeal is emitted from the speakers*
*presenter holds up a placard reading "Oops, I did it again"*
dustin: "Yeah, definitely Britney Spears."
*audience claps*
*more squealing*
dustin: "Yeah, definitely Crime and Punishment. Yeah."
Presenter: "Thank you, thank you. Be sure to come back next time, when we will discuss the solution to the "humming/speaking" circumvention method"
I mean up-to-date in terms of gameplay, graphics, and depth. While tuxracer is a decent distraction, we're not talking about something I would drop money on a new card for, or even something that would have been a marketable, high dollar ($50, instead of say, $10) game 4 years ago.
The unfortunate fact of the matter is that even if the gaming industry rehashes gaming concepts, they have a level of polish that can't be found in open source games.
Take, for instance, Deus Ex. Was it revolutionary? No, it was a first person shooter. Was it highly interactive, engaging, and immersive? I think so. Were the production values high? Yes. And that is what is missing from the current line-up of open source games.
Open Source development cannot hope to keep pace with commercial game development. The time frames are too short, production costs too high, and talent at too much of a premium to create games that would require a high end graphics card. Which is what we are talking about, right?
Some types of games are very successful in Open Source (See: mahjongg, which I play every day). But the games that use a high level ATI or Nvidia card are not developed by the Open Source community. Engines, maybe (see Id), but the game content, no way. Maybe someday, but not today.
That being said, Microsoft is not going to open their source. No chance, not at all, no way, no how.
I would love for everybody to be able to use Linux without a loss of the easy to use solitaire they know and love. But they won't be able to for some time. Love it or hate it, Microsoft is with us.
I am not in anyway denigrating the open source model, and I think it will fix a lot of what is wrong with modern computing, but not right now.
Microsoft needs to be accountable for their patches, and that's all I was saying.
Btw, I'm surprise I didn't get even a single +1: funny for the Linus thing. That was comedy gold, Jerry.
People who actually examine the patches on their Open Source O.S. raise your hands.
Linus put your hand down.
Seriously, we should be pushing for accountability, not a world were everybody's grandma has to learn C++ just to make sure that the big bad software company hasn't installed a trojan horse.
When you got your oil changed last, did you take the engine apart to make sure that your mechanic didn't put a rabbit in there?
I know that you probably change your own oil. It's an example.
In other news... A pastry factory custodian's brain was doubled in size by the insertion of an extra gene. He's reported to be in good spirits, and looks forward to a full life of intelligence and happiness.
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"There's also a lighter version that has about half the power, for half the price."
Half the power. That would be five hours, right? Um. There's this battery that gets five hours and it comes free with the ibook.
I'm not sure I'd be too keen on buying one of these devices, as I can't think of many cases where a fully charged spare battery wouldn't do the trick. I guess a flight to japan would require 15 hours of battery time or so, but I can't think of something I would want to do for 15 hours straight on a plane.
Is it still source code?
What if I have a program that takes "illegal" code and turns it into cubist art. Is it still source code?
Now, if I have a program that does the opposite, and a cubist accidentally paints my program, does he go to jail?
This has a flip-down screen, built-in ethernet, tv tuner, and DVD drive. OR, you could be 0ld-sk00l and use this
"I await -1 troll" Karma-whoring are we?
I'm sorry, but having used both, I can say that KDE3 cannot even approach Aqua's usability, speed, or elegance. I love linux, and especially KDE, but don't try and kid yourself that you have a UI that even comes close to Aqua. I can make a web page that looks like the OS X dock, but that doesn't mean I've evaluated it.
Believe me, I know what it's like to be "the computer whiz", and I feel that since I've been gifted with something, I ought to share it. To do otherwise would be unjust.
"Ask /. Is The Lazy Man's Version of Usenet and Google"
Asking the librarian is the lazy man's card catalogue. It's all about context. Usenet's not very good about that, and Google can be like drinking from a firehose, often with inaccurate data (not google's fault). People come to ask slashdot to get good contextual advice firsthand. Instead, they get elitist punks who never had to learn things. They sprung from the womb and began coding.
"didn't you read the man pages while your mom was gestating? Please. Ask google."
Nice point about noise, by the way.
Well the grinding noise should be familiar to anyone who has had to wait through windows paging through win386.swp or pagefile.sys, particularly on an older drive.
kid: Mom, how do I spell "elitist" ?
mom: Google it, you lazy sot!
Boy I'm getting tired of hearing posts like yours every ask slashdot....
Oh, be fair. nobody liked myst.
Very pretty, yet oh so bad. They sold a metric ass-load of the game, yet I don't know many people who solved every puzzle without outside assistance.
I preferred 7th guest (under a killing moon wasn't bad either) for that kind of game.
I guess you've never bought an AS/400... ;)
Immerse it in mineral oil!
;)
It will stay cool *and* you can get a second story onto slashdot when you do it!
Obviously these massive engineering companies don't think that any DRM can't be broken/circumvented ever. That's why their goal is to make it as inconvenient as possible to do so. Would you go through the hassle of finding a high-res printer, scan the image, and save it as a jpg everytime that someone wanted a copy? Moreover, would a casual user? No. That's the goal.
Ah, but by using CP, I make him a worthless 0. ;)
"Ok everyone. Here is the newest unbreakable scheme. On the license, we give everybody their unique key to unlock their content. When they playback/read the file we've given them, we deliver the bitstream through the speakers, then the use their heads to calculate the unencrypted result. Don't follow? Here's a demo!"
"Here's Dustin Hoffman, he's going to show us how this is done. I just hit play here, and..."
*a blindfolded Dustin Hoffman walks onto the stage*
*a modem-like squeal is emitted from the speakers*
*presenter holds up a placard reading "Oops, I did it again"*
dustin: "Yeah, definitely Britney Spears."
*audience claps*
*more squealing*
dustin: "Yeah, definitely Crime and Punishment. Yeah."
Presenter: "Thank you, thank you. Be sure to come back next time, when we will discuss the solution to the "humming/speaking" circumvention method"
I mean up-to-date in terms of gameplay, graphics, and depth. While tuxracer is a decent distraction, we're not talking about something I would drop money on a new card for, or even something that would have been a marketable, high dollar ($50, instead of say, $10) game 4 years ago.
The unfortunate fact of the matter is that even if the gaming industry rehashes gaming concepts, they have a level of polish that can't be found in open source games. Take, for instance, Deus Ex. Was it revolutionary? No, it was a first person shooter. Was it highly interactive, engaging, and immersive? I think so. Were the production values high? Yes. And that is what is missing from the current line-up of open source games.
Open Source development cannot hope to keep pace with commercial game development. The time frames are too short, production costs too high, and talent at too much of a premium to create games that would require a high end graphics card. Which is what we are talking about, right?
Some types of games are very successful in Open Source (See: mahjongg, which I play every day). But the games that use a high level ATI or Nvidia card are not developed by the Open Source community. Engines, maybe (see Id), but the game content, no way. Maybe someday, but not today.
If he wants to play good, up-to-date games, he'll be playing closed source games.
I think the slashdot effect has that pretty well covered at this point... ;)
First, I use Linux and OS X.
That being said, Microsoft is not going to open their source. No chance, not at all, no way, no how.
I would love for everybody to be able to use Linux without a loss of the easy to use solitaire they know and love. But they won't be able to for some time. Love it or hate it, Microsoft is with us.
I am not in anyway denigrating the open source model, and I think it will fix a lot of what is wrong with modern computing, but not right now.
Microsoft needs to be accountable for their patches, and that's all I was saying.
Btw, I'm surprise I didn't get even a single +1: funny for the Linus thing. That was comedy gold, Jerry.
People who actually examine the patches on their Open Source O.S. raise your hands.
Linus put your hand down.
Seriously, we should be pushing for accountability, not a world were everybody's grandma has to learn C++ just to make sure that the big bad software company hasn't installed a trojan horse.
When you got your oil changed last, did you take the engine apart to make sure that your mechanic didn't put a rabbit in there?
I know that you probably change your own oil. It's an example.
Oops. Wrong thread.
It makes for some good surrealist commentary, though, I suppose.
yes, and parsing through node trees in XML will *really* help the speed aspect of Fortran. Yep.
Don't even get me start on CORBA...
I was asking the name of the mouse from the expirement...
It was a joke...
I know what I was thinking of, that's why I made the reference. Geesh.
Algernon, perhaps?
In other news...
A pastry factory custodian's brain was doubled in size by the insertion of an extra gene. He's reported to be in good spirits, and looks forward to a full life of intelligence and happiness.
Such an excellent post. If only I had mod points.