Upgradable in anything more than a trivial way, HD or Optical for example, basically an add-in card, blows the console economics out of the water. Socketed ram adds cost and drops speeds vs soldered. Same with CPU, and then we get to cooling issues..... Given MS's ability to keep the bumps on the 360 from shattering, would you want people to start mucking with that?
Part 2 is pointed out well above, console = fixed platform = cheap software testing. Upgrades = not fixed platform = testing nightmare.
While I haven't read the article (yeah, shame on me), I know more than enough about console development, economics and programming. I also talk to people doing the 'next gen' consoles almost every week. Having written for a console, I can tell you directly that 'upgrades' are, and will always be a non-starter. Anyone who posits it seriously is the walking equivalent of a flashing neon 'N00B' sign, complete with arrows.:)
Holy Sh*t! 10,000 pirates, that is 731 pirates (rounded up) for every available app. Dude, we need SOPA, and we need it fast to keep companies that do good work, like Microsoft, alive. Without them, who would innovate?
Because they charge the users a fair price for their services rather than offering pie-in-the-sky numbers that are so oversold it is laughable. Then they don't have to punishing you for trying to use what you bought because you are paying for it. That said, their prices are painful to us US folk.....
Why bother when they can be arbitrary and capricious? They don't need to actually PROVE it, they can just find usage models they don't like, cut your *ss off, and tell you to get bent when you complain. And charge you for the privilege. I just moved to Sprint, and both an Epic 4G and a Photon + Easytether means USB tethering without jailbreaking. Easy enough.
I haven't bothered to jailbreak it because of time limits for now, maybe when 2.4 comes out or something I might care enough. Easytether requires a USB connection and a shell command to start, but that is about it, works like a charm. USB might not have the ease of wi-fi tethering, but it charges your phone rather than sucking it dry when you use it.:) That and it is easy enough.
The real question is whether the top-level executives at News Corp were looking the other way.
Easy enough to answer, no they didn't know. They _SAID_ so themselves, and had the same policemen they are alleged to have bribed for leaks, tracking, and other things clear them. What more do you want? How dare you bring that liberal smear job in to this reputable forum!
The other real question is whether we will acknowledge that the shareholders soundly deserve to feel the effects of what they have chosen to invest in.
Of course not, they are the victims here as much as Murdock and his paper are! They were hacked, and the damage is immense. Feel sorry for them, and make sure that the poor innocent victims only trying to game a supposedly fair system for profit are protected. I feel we should have a bailout and a few laws passed to make reporting on this kind of thing illegal.
If assholes like those who run News Corp have a hard time attracting investors while more ethical companies have no such difficulties, that's a win for everyone.
No, you miss the point entirely. News Corp is the victim here, they were hacked! The people in charge apologised too, what more do you want a pony? Remember who is victimised by this.
It's fortunate for everyone that this happened in England where the corporations don't dominate government to quite the same degree as in the US.
OK, I can't play Fox commentator any more, I have do this part straight both as a member of said media and as a person who doesn't like this level of stupidity. What planet do you live on? The only difference is that it is better hidden in England, they are subtle, something that has been entirely lost in this country because things are so blatant there is no need for subtlety.
When you have bought your way out of governmental oversight and any possibility of legal repercussions, how else does one get punished for flagrant illegal behaviour. What you are seeing is the people fighting back against a system that has been thoroughly co-opted by those with more resources. It is classic guerrilla warfare, and more power to Lulzsec for doing it.
When an article wrongly bases itself on the premise that hardware hacker, IE Hotz, equals security hacker, IE Lulzsec, you have to scratch your head and wonder. When that article is from a 'reputable' computer publication, you have to wonder if they have a clue or not, or are just trolling for hits. Either way, PC mag just went down in my eyes to a level just above supermarket tabloids.
I would love to give you a counter statement, but I can't seem to get this Ubuntu box to run malware, so I guess the majority of apps DO run better on Windows.
Hmmm, the company that has fought tooth and nail to remove all user access to recovery CDs because they might pirate or something now wants us to use them? Bwahahaha. Glad I gave up on Windows a long time ago. Life is better now, not to mention cheaper, faster, less annoying, and less worrisome.
I have been commenting on/. for years, this account is the one I remembered. If I could find my old accounts, I would have a low 4 digit user #. I also respond on my own forums all the time, but I have been on the road so much I haven't had time for a few weeks.
"What bothers me, more than TEPCOs dishonesty (which, frankly, is only to be expected when a company relies on image as much or more than products), is the number of people here who went around marking those questioning TEPCO statements in previous discussions as trolls."
Sorry to go OT, but does anyone else sense a Sony analogy here?
-Charlie
(Note: The fact that I am typing this from the Narita airport while wondering what the huge fire on the horizon is is purely coincidental.)
Yeah, Yahoo is a good alternative because MS will never get their hands on that company. I mean, stop and think about it, Yahoo management would have to essentially throw in the towel in order to cash out while not caring about the company if they were to go near MS. It will NEVER happen, they would not only become a silicon valley laughing stock, but also hasten their slide to irrelevance. Yahoo + Bing, can you imagine that absurdity?
Oh wait......
Does AltaVista have a phone client?
-Charlie
(Note: Slashdot strips HTML6.1 compliant tags. The above may not be rendered right if you use an older browser.)
I don't go to 'seized' sites, and have never been to one. I have no reason to go, but the ICE's illegal actions, not to mention the MAFIAA's, make me fundamentally distrust my own government.
Like many others, I just installed the plugin. And will promote it. Yay to teh intertubes.
"If you want quality talent, and people more difficult to bribe/influence, you MUST pay them well." "A federal politician is just that -- at the top of their career chain. You get more for running committees, you get even more if you're the President."
So where are these quality and talented politicians? Does it take a while for them to notice the salaries and come running, or do we need to advertise on Jersey Shore to attract the right demographic to guide us toward our glory?
"People need to be paid in line with comparables!"
Sorry to not be up on the latest wage trends, but what do people in federal prison make nowadays?
> Opening up the netbook and using it as a GPS while driving has to be super fun!
The cost of a data plan would pay for a very nice GPS in a few months, and when you buy it, it is yours to keep!
> And I cant imagine the envy eyes in the subway when people see me take out a netbook to browse the web!
I too base all my tech purchasing decisions on what random strangers in public locations think, for I too am that shallow, vain, and enjoy pissing away money. Those f3wls that base their purchase decisions on such things as functionality and cost of ownership don't know the deep satisfaction obtained from a random person getting caught staring at my new widget. The endless treadmill that it puts you on is well understood by the people you think of as friends, so no problem there either.
> And opening up the computer in the middle of a BestBuy to browse for potentially lower prices for stuf f you just saw, all the tekkies there will drool at the sight of my super netbook!!!
If you shop at Best Buy, why are you even reading/.? That said, nothing that you couldn't accomplish with a camera on a dumb phone and a LITTLE patience.
> Man, I was such a fool getting myself a smartphone, I should had bought a netbook with a dataplan!!!
Yup. Something like a My-Fi with the same data plan is carrier agnostic, or at least not tied to the same carrier as your phone, has month to month plans, and can be shared among you and your friends on the subway, something that WILL make you the envy of the people on it. It can work with any device you have that supports wi-fi, and is in general a much better idea.
That said, if you buy a netbook, you are still a fool.
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Upgradable in anything more than a trivial way, HD or Optical for example, basically an add-in card, blows the console economics out of the water. Socketed ram adds cost and drops speeds vs soldered. Same with CPU, and then we get to cooling issues..... Given MS's ability to keep the bumps on the 360 from shattering, would you want people to start mucking with that?
Part 2 is pointed out well above, console = fixed platform = cheap software testing. Upgrades = not fixed platform = testing nightmare.
While I haven't read the article (yeah, shame on me), I know more than enough about console development, economics and programming. I also talk to people doing the 'next gen' consoles almost every week. Having written for a console, I can tell you directly that 'upgrades' are, and will always be a non-starter. Anyone who posits it seriously is the walking equivalent of a flashing neon 'N00B' sign, complete with arrows. :)
-Charlie
Holy Sh*t! 10,000 pirates, that is 731 pirates (rounded up) for every available app. Dude, we need SOPA, and we need it fast to keep companies that do good work, like Microsoft, alive. Without them, who would innovate?
-Charlie
Real men would scan the IPv6 space too.... :)
-Charlie
In related news, food prices on the ISS are expected to spike in early trading tomorrow.....
In more news, 17 Murdock newspapers printed leaks about concerns that relatives of ISS crew have about their safety.
-Charlie
And for all of you high and mighty types who think it is better, it comes with Firefox. Ha! Take that hippies.
-Charlie
(Note: The above is sarcasm)
Because they charge the users a fair price for their services rather than offering pie-in-the-sky numbers that are so oversold it is laughable. Then they don't have to punishing you for trying to use what you bought because you are paying for it. That said, their prices are painful to us US folk.....
-Charlie
Why bother when they can be arbitrary and capricious? They don't need to actually PROVE it, they can just find usage models they don't like, cut your *ss off, and tell you to get bent when you complain. And charge you for the privilege. I just moved to Sprint, and both an Epic 4G and a Photon + Easytether means USB tethering without jailbreaking. Easy enough.
I haven't bothered to jailbreak it because of time limits for now, maybe when 2.4 comes out or something I might care enough. Easytether requires a USB connection and a shell command to start, but that is about it, works like a charm. USB might not have the ease of wi-fi tethering, but it charges your phone rather than sucking it dry when you use it. :) That and it is easy enough.
-Charlie
Look at who advertises in Baseline, and how they make their money before taking this as gospel.
-Charlie
What is this 'wired' thing? It sounds cool.
-Charlie
The real question is whether the top-level executives at News Corp were looking the other way.
Easy enough to answer, no they didn't know. They _SAID_ so themselves, and had the same policemen they are alleged to have bribed for leaks, tracking, and other things clear them. What more do you want? How dare you bring that liberal smear job in to this reputable forum!
The other real question is whether we will acknowledge that the shareholders soundly deserve to feel the effects of what they have chosen to invest in.
Of course not, they are the victims here as much as Murdock and his paper are! They were hacked, and the damage is immense. Feel sorry for them, and make sure that the poor innocent victims only trying to game a supposedly fair system for profit are protected. I feel we should have a bailout and a few laws passed to make reporting on this kind of thing illegal.
If assholes like those who run News Corp have a hard time attracting investors while more ethical companies have no such difficulties, that's a win for everyone.
No, you miss the point entirely. News Corp is the victim here, they were hacked! The people in charge apologised too, what more do you want a pony? Remember who is victimised by this.
It's fortunate for everyone that this happened in England where the corporations don't dominate government to quite the same degree as in the US.
OK, I can't play Fox commentator any more, I have do this part straight both as a member of said media and as a person who doesn't like this level of stupidity. What planet do you live on? The only difference is that it is better hidden in England, they are subtle, something that has been entirely lost in this country because things are so blatant there is no need for subtlety.
-Charlie
When you have bought your way out of governmental oversight and any possibility of legal repercussions, how else does one get punished for flagrant illegal behaviour. What you are seeing is the people fighting back against a system that has been thoroughly co-opted by those with more resources. It is classic guerrilla warfare, and more power to Lulzsec for doing it.
It also made me smile, so win/win.
-Charlie
That's a big piece of pi.
-Charlie
For the same reason you need a license for things covered under fair use perhaps?
-Charlie
When an article wrongly bases itself on the premise that hardware hacker, IE Hotz, equals security hacker, IE Lulzsec, you have to scratch your head and wonder. When that article is from a 'reputable' computer publication, you have to wonder if they have a clue or not, or are just trolling for hits. Either way, PC mag just went down in my eyes to a level just above supermarket tabloids.
I would love to give you a counter statement, but I can't seem to get this Ubuntu box to run malware, so I guess the majority of apps DO run better on Windows.
Hmmm, the company that has fought tooth and nail to remove all user access to recovery CDs because they might pirate or something now wants us to use them? Bwahahaha. Glad I gave up on Windows a long time ago. Life is better now, not to mention cheaper, faster, less annoying, and less worrisome.
I have been commenting on /. for years, this account is the one I remembered. If I could find my old accounts, I would have a low 4 digit user #. I also respond on my own forums all the time, but I have been on the road so much I haven't had time for a few weeks.
-Charlie
You are wrong about both the site, and how I left.
-Charlie
No, you do _NOT_ run, that would only spread the radiation as you bleed out and die.
-Charlie
"What bothers me, more than TEPCOs dishonesty (which, frankly, is only to be expected when a company relies on image as much or more than products), is the number of people here who went around marking those questioning TEPCO statements in previous discussions as trolls."
Sorry to go OT, but does anyone else sense a Sony analogy here?
-Charlie
(Note: The fact that I am typing this from the Narita airport while wondering what the huge fire on the horizon is is purely coincidental.)
Yeah, Yahoo is a good alternative because MS will never get their hands on that company. I mean, stop and think about it, Yahoo management would have to essentially throw in the towel in order to cash out while not caring about the company if they were to go near MS. It will NEVER happen, they would not only become a silicon valley laughing stock, but also hasten their slide to irrelevance. Yahoo + Bing, can you imagine that absurdity?
Oh wait......
Does AltaVista have a phone client?
-Charlie
(Note: Slashdot strips HTML6.1 compliant tags. The above may not be rendered right if you use an older browser.)
I don't go to 'seized' sites, and have never been to one. I have no reason to go, but the ICE's illegal actions, not to mention the MAFIAA's, make me fundamentally distrust my own government.
Like many others, I just installed the plugin. And will promote it. Yay to teh intertubes.
-Charlie
"If you want quality talent, and people more difficult to bribe/influence, you MUST pay them well."
"A federal politician is just that -- at the top of their career chain. You get more for running committees, you get even more if you're the President."
So where are these quality and talented politicians? Does it take a while for them to notice the salaries and come running, or do we need to advertise on Jersey Shore to attract the right demographic to guide us toward our glory?
"People need to be paid in line with comparables!"
Sorry to not be up on the latest wage trends, but what do people in federal prison make nowadays?
-Charlie
> Opening up the netbook and using it as a GPS while driving has to be super fun!
The cost of a data plan would pay for a very nice GPS in a few months, and when you buy it, it is yours to keep!
> And I cant imagine the envy eyes in the subway when people see me take out a netbook to browse the web!
I too base all my tech purchasing decisions on what random strangers in public locations think, for I too am that shallow, vain, and enjoy pissing away money. Those f3wls that base their purchase decisions on such things as functionality and cost of ownership don't know the deep satisfaction obtained from a random person getting caught staring at my new widget. The endless treadmill that it puts you on is well understood by the people you think of as friends, so no problem there either.
> And opening up the computer in the middle of a BestBuy to browse for potentially lower prices for stuf f you just saw, all the tekkies there will drool at the sight of my super netbook!!!
If you shop at Best Buy, why are you even reading /.? That said, nothing that you couldn't accomplish with a camera on a dumb phone and a LITTLE patience.
> Man, I was such a fool getting myself a smartphone, I should had bought a netbook with a dataplan!!!
Yup. Something like a My-Fi with the same data plan is carrier agnostic, or at least not tied to the same carrier as your phone, has month to month plans, and can be shared among you and your friends on the subway, something that WILL make you the envy of the people on it. It can work with any device you have that supports wi-fi, and is in general a much better idea.
That said, if you buy a netbook, you are still a fool.
-Charlie
"Is it part of the NSA, or is it a separate organization?"
If you don't know the answer to the simple puzzles, why would you bother to go and look at the complex ones? :)
-Charlie