Regardless of whether you call this a podcast or not, this is big news. Podcasts represent a way for companies to communicate with customers in ways that press releases can't. Nintendo should try to have as much dialog as they can with customers as they begin their "revolutionary" journey and podcasting is a great way to accomplish that.
Now technically this isn't their first podcast because they released the audio of Satoru Iwata's keynote speech at the Game Developers Conference and called THAT a podcast. When I submitted the article I had a different title to try to reflect this fact BUT the title as is works- for all intents and purposes this really IS their podcast since it's an actual show and they intend to have more then one episode!
I've said it before and I'll say it again, the only possible explanation for the continued existence of USENET in the form we know it, is that it's probably one of the best sources of leads for capturing child pornographers. My theory is that governments won't let anyone touch it because they fear losing those leads.
If you "beat the game", and by that I mean finish every level and defeat every boss including the final boss, the game gets even better afterwards because you unlock a new way to play through each level again. Collecting all the medals was definitely not meant to be done the first time through and indeed impossible to do the first time through.
When you play it through again, with all your drawing skills in hand, its really a different experience, especially with the bonus unlocked.
Additionally, something I haven't seen mentioned in too many places, try drawing a loop for kirby to roll through and kirby will get a boost from it!
Does it really matter if the US is sue happy or not? The fact is, if you CAN be sued for something then you SHOULD protect yourself from it, regardless of whether or not anyone will ever sue for it.
The US wouldn't be so "sue happy" if the system were different- it's not the people it's the system.
Not that I'm complaining about the system or anything. DISCLAIMER: I work at a large class action law firm but IANAL.
I just bought a laptop and was considering something like this because, like most new laptops, my laptop has built in wifi. Now, I've configured my laptop to automatically connect to any available wireless network. Many/.ers seem to have said "I wouldn't connect it to the internet until I've wiped the hard drive" but no one has mentioned wireless yet so this gives me hope that the common thief would never even CONSIDER the trap that I'd lay for them:
With software like this installed, simply turning ON the laptop near an open access point will give away their location!
Now many have said "hard drive removal" negates the process and to them I say, password protect your bios settings so that the computer will boot, but access to bios is password protected so therefore changing out the hard drives becomes more difficult, assuming you can setup your bios for that and manually enter your HD information.
But this software, or the DYNDNS trick someone else mentioned + wifi = the win.
I don't understand how or why, but it seems that NO ONE knows that with credit cards if you don't get what you paid for then you can charge back the money to the seller. Further, if your card gets stolen or your card # gets abused or leaked on the internet you are only legally liable for the first $50 of fraud, and then CC companies generally don't even take you for that $50 and better yet if you report the fraud before any charges are made you are liable for NOTHING. NOTHING.
So seriously, quit messing around with direct bank account stuff on paypal (which IMO is very dangerous), and quit using debit cards for payment because CREDIT CARDS, while evil, offer the best protection you can get. What's sad is the number of people who pay their bills when they see fradulent charges and try to get it fixed directly the merchant, this is ok if you trust the merchant and just think a mistake has been made, but if you pay the bill then your ability to recover the money goes down significantly. Don't pay it if there are fradulent charges on there, call the CC company, they will take care of it and give you a new statement to pay. AOL exploited its customers ignorance of this rule when it fradulently continued to charge customers credit cards after customers canceled their accounts. They managed to steal away a coupla extra bucks and stave off their crisis since they knew that their customers wouldn't dispute the charges and that they could just tell the customers to go screw. Then again what is it that everyone says about AOL users again? Apparently AOL is aware of this too;)
Just be sure to pay 100% of your balance every statement. And don't try to abuse this system, card companies will figure out your game, they've got Frank Abagnale on their side.
Ahhh yes, VGCats, one of my favorite comics. And yes I agree he IS a genius. I love it!
And remember:
WARNING: PREGNANT WOMEN, THE ELDERLY AND CHILDREN UNDER 10 SHOULD AVOID PROLONGED EXPOSURE TO VGCats.
Caution: VGCats may suddenly accelerate to dangerous speeds.
Do not use VGCats on concrete.
Discontinue use of VGCats immediately if any of the following occurs: Itching , vertigo , dizziness , tingling in extremities , loss of balance or coordination , slurred speech , temporary blindness , profuse sweating , heart palpitations.
VGCats MAY STICK TO CERTAIN TYPES OF SKIN.
If VGCats begins to smoke, get away immediately. Seek shelter and cover your head.
When not in use, VGCats should be returned to its special container and kept in a cool, dry place (but not near any perishable foods). Failure to do so relieves the makers of VGCats, Wacky Products Incorporated, and its parent company Global Chemical Unlimited, of any and all liability.
Ingredients of VGCats include an unknown glowing substance which fell to Earth presumably from outer space.
This has been Steve Job's plan from the beginning(as evidenced by the fact that he said they've been running OS X on Intel chips from the start):
Step 1) Be better then Microsoft at a consumer OS
Step 2) Be cooler then Dell/etc at building hardware
Step 3) IPOD.
Then, when Microsoft begins beating the drum for the next OS upgrade drop the bomb:
Step 4) Deliver a Mac and an operating system that will let consumers emulate windows flawlessly based off of their existing windows licenses or just emulate windows apps period without having to run a windows sub-system
Step 5) ???
Step 6) Profit of course.
This is it folks. Apple is going FULL THROTTLE towards dethroning Windows from the consumer marketplace. If Jobs does what I think he's doing, come 2007 consumers will be chosing between the Longhorn upgrade OR an OS X "upgrade" for the same price for their PCs both OSes will run all previous windows apps and use existing software licenses to do so (or not if they can pull that off). AND if consumers want to buy a whole NEW PC, Apple's prices will have dropped significantly from going to the Intel platform and prices will be the same between a Dell running longhorn and an Apple running OS X. Licensing will be a challenge there tho (maybe, depends on how they do it), but Apple's luck here is that Microsoft has become so tarnished by the virus/spyware/adware outbreaks that they actually have a real fighting chance at pulling this off!
It's either that or Apple is down for the count and sell of their PC division like IBM has done and just do iPods and such...
Disclaimers: If Microsoft is smart they will license Windows to Apple as they have done in the past for other products so its a win-win for them.
Also I know that Apple so far has said that we won't see OS X standalone but look at what we've got here? OS X on a Pentium 4. FFS we can't believe anothe word they say!:P
Anonymous Coward in this case truely does apply to you. Not only that but even behind AC you don't have the guts to express why you feel the way you do about my post beyond simple trolling.
I'd love to hear what you had to say on the subject though and I promise to do more then just reply with "Get a life you fuckin idiot."
If this was about the battery not being removeable and Apple telling people to buy new iPods then why are people who DID get their battery replaced under the new Apple battery replacement plan able to get their money refunded? Read the claim form, people who paid Apple to replace their battery are getting half of their money back. This seems to indicate that there was something fundamentally wrong with the battery, that it shouldn't have needed to be replaced when it did and therefore consumers shouldn't have had to pay to have it replaced. Also it pokes a big hole in your argument.
In light of this I still don't understand what happened here. Anyone else care to take a stab at what is going on here?
This story is important not only because Morse code is demonstrated, atleast in this fashion, to still be relevant 170 years later, but also because we are on the cusp of a new innovation in mobile phone text messaging technologies: Morse code cellphone input for text messaging. As another poster already pointed out there is third party app already available for symbian based phones to do text messaging with morse input and its only a matter of time before we start seeing this built into cellphones from the start bringing MORSE CODE BACK FROM THE GRAVE.
ALL CAPS. YES.
Its just so insanely interesting to me that cellphones are now on the cusp of reviving Morse code and I plan on doing everything I can to promote this idea to make sure the cellphone companies hear it. One for the love of Morse but two because I'd love to be able to both send and receive text messages in Morse-- imagine the cellphone vibrating out in Morse code the text messages you've just received so you don't have to take your eyes off the road, or look at the phone in the middle of a meeting. Interestingly enough Nokia has pioneered informative Morse code messages on cellphones-- their SMS alerts can be set to send...--... or SMS when a text alert comes through and also there is a Nokia ringtone that has morse code in it as well. Further proof: Nokia has filed patents for morse code related technologies.
It's coming. Like it or not, Morse code is going to take over the world. Again.
Yes, EXACTLY. I see a news story smack the front page of my favorite news site and think wow can't wait for the/. discussion on this one... sometimes its already on/., sometimes its not, but eventually if its important enough it will make it there.
THIS story is truely important, but the reasons why are for another post. Which I shall post now.:)
Heh. No seriously, don't you think that samuel4242's comments might be read that way? I was merely suggesting the parent be modded up to insure that people don't take it that way and also to take an unfair jab at Java.:P
But your wrong about that second paragraph. I never said or suggested anything of the sort nor have I personally been involved in any emergency amateur radio activities. I just know some people who do volunteer and have worked emergency communications before and I guess I'm a little too proud of them, a little too defensive of them.
As a side note I wasn't trying to belittle other hobbies-- I just think it's not a "hobby" is all, that was part of my point really, was that he wasn't looking at it as a hobby.
But you have to admit the mission to mars is pretty cool.
How funny. Amateur Radio has left you in the dust and you don't even know it. Amateur Radio is the most technologically advanced "hobby" on the planet. Does YOUR hobby have:
What about after the hurricanes? After Charlie tore trough Port Charlotte and knocked down all local sheriff and fire radio towers ham radio operators were there cranking up new towers, equipping the sheriff and first responders with new radios so they could save lives. They even used that tracking system I mentioned on all of the vehicles involved in rescue operations so that way the first responders could coordinate their vehicles more efficiently...
But you've probably stopped reading. Like I could care. All I want to do is enlighten those who read your comment, give them a different point of view. Show them that Amateur Radio DOES matter, is an important part of our lives and will be around a long, long time. BPL or no.
"The PS3, like the Xbox 360, will feature a removable 2.5" HDD. No word on size."
That was Anand's commentary, not something that appeared in the photographs. The official specs tho say this "Storage HDD Detachable 2.5" HDD slot x 1" and the way it read to me was that, like the original PS2, there is a slot for a hard drive but not neccesarily one that is built in.
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Regardless of whether you call this a podcast or not, this is big news. Podcasts represent a way for companies to communicate with customers in ways that press releases can't. Nintendo should try to have as much dialog as they can with customers as they begin their "revolutionary" journey and podcasting is a great way to accomplish that.
Now technically this isn't their first podcast because they released the audio of Satoru Iwata's keynote speech at the Game Developers Conference and called THAT a podcast. When I submitted the article I had a different title to try to reflect this fact BUT the title as is works- for all intents and purposes this really IS their podcast since it's an actual show and they intend to have more then one episode!
But every ISP that has usenet service does the exact same thing.
As I mentioned in another post, there's something going on thats protecting USENET and all those ISPs...
I've said it before and I'll say it again, the only possible explanation for the continued existence of USENET in the form we know it, is that it's probably one of the best sources of leads for capturing child pornographers. My theory is that governments won't let anyone touch it because they fear losing those leads.
Don't forget the excellent BBSMates website which is kinda like friendster except for old BBS users and sysops.
:) and thats where I got my username, celerityfm from- The Celerity BBS software I used to use.
My old board is even on there
Thank you Jason Scott for this documentary, it really does bring back the memories!
Hah hah that was pretty good :)
:)
Obviously because I am posting I have no mod points, but someone should hook it up
If you "beat the game", and by that I mean finish every level and defeat every boss including the final boss, the game gets even better afterwards because you unlock a new way to play through each level again. Collecting all the medals was definitely not meant to be done the first time through and indeed impossible to do the first time through.
When you play it through again, with all your drawing skills in hand, its really a different experience, especially with the bonus unlocked.
Additionally, something I haven't seen mentioned in too many places, try drawing a loop for kirby to roll through and kirby will get a boost from it!
Huh. They'll be removing the requirement just in time for the morse code revival: Morse on cellphones.
Who woulda thought?!
Does it really matter if the US is sue happy or not? The fact is, if you CAN be sued for something then you SHOULD protect yourself from it, regardless of whether or not anyone will ever sue for it.
The US wouldn't be so "sue happy" if the system were different- it's not the people it's the system.
Not that I'm complaining about the system or anything. DISCLAIMER: I work at a large class action law firm but IANAL.
I just bought a laptop and was considering something like this because, like most new laptops, my laptop has built in wifi. Now, I've configured my laptop to automatically connect to any available wireless network. Many /.ers seem to have said "I wouldn't connect it to the internet until I've wiped the hard drive" but no one has mentioned wireless yet so this gives me hope that the common thief would never even CONSIDER the trap that I'd lay for them:
With software like this installed, simply turning ON the laptop near an open access point will give away their location!
Now many have said "hard drive removal" negates the process and to them I say, password protect your bios settings so that the computer will boot, but access to bios is password protected so therefore changing out the hard drives becomes more difficult, assuming you can setup your bios for that and manually enter your HD information.
But this software, or the DYNDNS trick someone else mentioned + wifi = the win.
Here it is in all of its glory, Behold, two IBM drives.
Man, glad this is finally over.
BEST advice EVER for Internet sales.
;)
I don't understand how or why, but it seems that NO ONE knows that with credit cards if you don't get what you paid for then you can charge back the money to the seller. Further, if your card gets stolen or your card # gets abused or leaked on the internet you are only legally liable for the first $50 of fraud, and then CC companies generally don't even take you for that $50 and better yet if you report the fraud before any charges are made you are liable for NOTHING. NOTHING.
So seriously, quit messing around with direct bank account stuff on paypal (which IMO is very dangerous), and quit using debit cards for payment because CREDIT CARDS, while evil, offer the best protection you can get. What's sad is the number of people who pay their bills when they see fradulent charges and try to get it fixed directly the merchant, this is ok if you trust the merchant and just think a mistake has been made, but if you pay the bill then your ability to recover the money goes down significantly. Don't pay it if there are fradulent charges on there, call the CC company, they will take care of it and give you a new statement to pay. AOL exploited its customers ignorance of this rule when it fradulently continued to charge customers credit cards after customers canceled their accounts. They managed to steal away a coupla extra bucks and stave off their crisis since they knew that their customers wouldn't dispute the charges and that they could just tell the customers to go screw. Then again what is it that everyone says about AOL users again? Apparently AOL is aware of this too
Just be sure to pay 100% of your balance every statement. And don't try to abuse this system, card companies will figure out your game, they've got Frank Abagnale on their side.
Being an ex-IRC junky I get most of this, but the day trader stuff I don't get. Can anyone provide a translation for maximum funnay?
Ahhh yes, VGCats, one of my favorite comics. And yes I agree he IS a genius. I love it!
And remember:
WARNING: PREGNANT WOMEN, THE ELDERLY AND CHILDREN UNDER 10 SHOULD AVOID PROLONGED EXPOSURE TO VGCats.
Caution: VGCats may suddenly accelerate to dangerous speeds.
Do not use VGCats on concrete.
Discontinue use of VGCats immediately if any of the following occurs:
Itching , vertigo , dizziness , tingling in extremities , loss of balance or coordination , slurred speech , temporary blindness , profuse sweating , heart palpitations.
VGCats MAY STICK TO CERTAIN TYPES OF SKIN.
If VGCats begins to smoke, get away immediately.
Seek shelter and cover your head.
When not in use, VGCats should be returned to its special container and kept in a cool, dry place (but not near any perishable foods). Failure to do so relieves the makers of VGCats, Wacky Products Incorporated, and its parent company Global Chemical Unlimited, of any and all liability.
Ingredients of VGCats include an unknown glowing substance which fell to Earth presumably from outer space.
Do not taunt VGCats
VGCats comes partly assembled.
VGCats comes with a limited lifetime guarantee.
Even after thinking about it for an hour or so and realizing I indeed cannot spell, I still feel the same way.
MY SPECULATION
:P
This has been Steve Job's plan from the beginning(as evidenced by the fact that he said they've been running OS X on Intel chips from the start):
Step 1) Be better then Microsoft at a consumer OS
Step 2) Be cooler then Dell/etc at building hardware
Step 3) IPOD.
Then, when Microsoft begins beating the drum for the next OS upgrade drop the bomb:
Step 4) Deliver a Mac and an operating system that will let consumers emulate windows flawlessly based off of their existing windows licenses or just emulate windows apps period without having to run a windows sub-system
Step 5) ???
Step 6) Profit of course.
This is it folks. Apple is going FULL THROTTLE towards dethroning Windows from the consumer marketplace. If Jobs does what I think he's doing, come 2007 consumers will be chosing between the Longhorn upgrade OR an OS X "upgrade" for the same price for their PCs both OSes will run all previous windows apps and use existing software licenses to do so (or not if they can pull that off). AND if consumers want to buy a whole NEW PC, Apple's prices will have dropped significantly from going to the Intel platform and prices will be the same between a Dell running longhorn and an Apple running OS X. Licensing will be a challenge there tho (maybe, depends on how they do it), but Apple's luck here is that Microsoft has become so tarnished by the virus/spyware/adware outbreaks that they actually have a real fighting chance at pulling this off!
It's either that or Apple is down for the count and sell of their PC division like IBM has done and just do iPods and such...
Disclaimers:
If Microsoft is smart they will license Windows to Apple as they have done in the past for other products so its a win-win for them.
Also I know that Apple so far has said that we won't see OS X standalone but look at what we've got here? OS X on a Pentium 4. FFS we can't believe anothe word they say!
*sigh*
Anonymous Coward in this case truely does apply to you. Not only that but even behind AC you don't have the guts to express why you feel the way you do about my post beyond simple trolling.
I'd love to hear what you had to say on the subject though and I promise to do more then just reply with "Get a life you fuckin idiot."
Atleast at first.
(damn short subjects)--
If this was about the battery not being removeable and Apple telling people to buy new iPods then why are people who DID get their battery replaced under the new Apple battery replacement plan able to get their money refunded? Read the claim form, people who paid Apple to replace their battery are getting half of their money back. This seems to indicate that there was something fundamentally wrong with the battery, that it shouldn't have needed to be replaced when it did and therefore consumers shouldn't have had to pay to have it replaced. Also it pokes a big hole in your argument.
In light of this I still don't understand what happened here. Anyone else care to take a stab at what is going on here?
This story is important not only because Morse code is demonstrated, atleast in this fashion, to still be relevant 170 years later, but also because we are on the cusp of a new innovation in mobile phone text messaging technologies: Morse code cellphone input for text messaging. As another poster already pointed out there is third party app already available for symbian based phones to do text messaging with morse input and its only a matter of time before we start seeing this built into cellphones from the start bringing MORSE CODE BACK FROM THE GRAVE.
...--... or SMS when a text alert comes through and also there is a Nokia ringtone that has morse code in it as well. Further proof: Nokia has filed patents for morse code related technologies.
ALL CAPS. YES.
Its just so insanely interesting to me that cellphones are now on the cusp of reviving Morse code and I plan on doing everything I can to promote this idea to make sure the cellphone companies hear it. One for the love of Morse but two because I'd love to be able to both send and receive text messages in Morse-- imagine the cellphone vibrating out in Morse code the text messages you've just received so you don't have to take your eyes off the road, or look at the phone in the middle of a meeting. Interestingly enough Nokia has pioneered informative Morse code messages on cellphones-- their SMS alerts can be set to send
It's coming. Like it or not, Morse code is going to take over the world. Again.
Yes, EXACTLY. I see a news story smack the front page of my favorite news site and think wow can't wait for the /. discussion on this one... sometimes its already on /., sometimes its not, but eventually if its important enough it will make it there.
:)
THIS story is truely important, but the reasons why are for another post. Which I shall post now.
NO U.
:P
Heh. No seriously, don't you think that samuel4242's comments might be read that way? I was merely suggesting the parent be modded up to insure that people don't take it that way and also to take an unfair jab at Java.
"Slow to catch on" eh? No pun intended?
Yes mod the parent up. The confusion between Javascript and Java is never ending.
There is one thing for sure though... nothing will finally deliver what Java promised. It's dead Jim.
JavaSCRIPT on the other hand...
Ok he won he got me. A troll is a troll.
But your wrong about that second paragraph. I never said or suggested anything of the sort nor have I personally been involved in any emergency amateur radio activities. I just know some people who do volunteer and have worked emergency communications before and I guess I'm a little too proud of them, a little too defensive of them.
As a side note I wasn't trying to belittle other hobbies-- I just think it's not a "hobby" is all, that was part of my point really, was that he wasn't looking at it as a hobby.
But you have to admit the mission to mars is pretty cool.
A mission to Mars
14 privately owned satellites in orbit
Experiments and payload aboard the International Space Station (and Space Shuttles when they fly again)
A worldwide GPS based tracking system
An independent worldwide wireless data network
No? Are you even still reading this? If so then ask yourself this, does your "hobby" provide emergency communications during disasters? Does it? DOES IT? Was it THERE during the TSUNAMIS like amateur radio was?
What about after the hurricanes? After Charlie tore trough Port Charlotte and knocked down all local sheriff and fire radio towers ham radio operators were there cranking up new towers, equipping the sheriff and first responders with new radios so they could save lives. They even used that tracking system I mentioned on all of the vehicles involved in rescue operations so that way the first responders could coordinate their vehicles more efficiently...
But you've probably stopped reading. Like I could care. All I want to do is enlighten those who read your comment, give them a different point of view. Show them that Amateur Radio DOES matter, is an important part of our lives and will be around a long, long time. BPL or no.
I see it now
"The PS3, like the Xbox 360, will feature a removable 2.5" HDD. No word on size."
That was Anand's commentary, not something that appeared in the photographs. The official specs tho say this "Storage HDD Detachable 2.5" HDD slot x 1" and the way it read to me was that, like the original PS2, there is a slot for a hard drive but not neccesarily one that is built in.
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