Pretty much every unix variant too. I did this with my sparcs a good 15 years ago. It wasn't news then either, it was the standard way of connecting a text terminal.
ObQuote: "Those who forget history are condemned to repeat it."
In that case, using rsync locally would be a good choice.
If you use --link-dest=DIR, rsync will hard link to any files that are identical, so you can have snapshots that are accessible as an entire tree but that consume little more space that a snapshot delta.
But the point is the parent's point still holds. You *can* put any FS you wish onto the card, but there's no guarantee your data will still be there when you come to read it. For instance, a "smart" SD card might doing background erasing of sectors that are marked as empty according to the FAT so that it can achieve faster write speeds when those sectors are re-used.
This was never really a surprise as it was one of their manifesto pledges to get rid of this project which was always going to be colossal waste of money and probably trivially crackable in a few years time anyway. That said, I'm really glad it's gone. This was just one of the many ways the previous Labour government was trying to erode the civil liberties in this country...
IMHO, it looks like they deluded themselves that everyone would make games specifically for the PS3 then have to go through hell to port the games to the other consoles, thus ensuring almost every game would be PS3 exclusive; the irony of that is amusing.
It wasn't that unreasonable a gamble. That's exactly how it played out on the PS2. People took the time to learn how to get the best out of extremely arcane hardware and the games on the PS2 were better than on all the other consoles of the time, particularly at the end when people were learning how to get even more out of the hardware.
The PS3 is the same thing, except they were a year late to the party and people had already got used to running Windows code almost verbatim on a 360 and it just working. Unfortunately, with the PS3, there's an *almost* decent enough enough powerpc chip in there that you can get away with it to a point, but it's far, far inferior to the 360 unless you're prepared to spend time optimising for SPU. Sadly, a lot of companies don't bother.
This is from the guy that has stated publically on numerous occasions that he *hates* the PS3. Presumably, it must have been because cell programming was too hard a challenge for his team as after 2 patches to the only title they released on the PS3, the Orange Box, it's still the most buggy game I have. On any platform. They haven't even managed to get sound playback working right.
It's a shame really. I used to have a lot of respect for Gabe Newell way back when his games were ground breaking. Nowadays it seems he'd rather pour vitriol on the PS3 than hire a couple of programmers who actually have experience at PS3 development to get things working. Sadly, the fact is that he's already lost too much face and wouldn't ever want to admit that he was wrong about the PS3. I wouldn't be at all surprised if this was just him taking a chance to troll Sony and jumping on the current otheros-fueled backlash at Sony being closed.
The fact is that all the major consoles are closed platforms. Incredibly so. None better than the others, none worse. In fact, I'd probably say that until a couple of months ago when Sony removed otheros, the PS3 was probably the most open of the consoles.
Yeah, it's an absolute disgrace. I pay £7.50 for broadband and £11.50 to BT just to provide the copper for my broadband connection and a phone dial tone which I never use.
Ironically, I used to be with Virgin cable and dropped down to a slower ADSL speed when I took out Sky because they require you to have a BT phone line so they can use the modem once every couple of months.
This law suite should fail. Not that I want to be on SONY's side but they were 100% clear in their intentions regarding the "other os" option from day one.
You mean stating that the PS3 was an "open platform" and that "Other OS" and "Game OS" would always be able to coexist on the same PS3?
Knowing that users that have the PS3 setup as a Linux test station are not using the PS3 store stuff in any case and wouldn't need the new capabilities
Big assumption you've made there. Lots of people used to use Linux and PSN. A small minority like myself have a PS3 dedicated to Linux (but even then, I still haven't upgraded beyond 3.15 on my main PS3 because it seems like a waste of a fat PS3).
No, tire is what happens when Brits are repeated subjected to Americans trying to correct British spelling into the peculiar bastardized American dialect. The poster even made it clear he was British, so there's no point criticising his correct spelling. And yes, before you get uppity, "criticising" can be spelt with an s. And yes, spelt is correct too.
But you're not factoring in perceived value. If they reduce the price of the top-end chips, they then have a better price-performance ratio for the customer, so demand for the low-end chips drops off. When they are unable to make their yield of top-end chips, they end up with a glut of low-end chips that nobody wants any more because the top-end ones are perceived as better value (and possibly also supply problems on the top-end chips because their yields happened to be low). They then end up with a glut of the low-end chips that nobody wants anymore because the high-end ones are perceived as better value, so the only way they can shift these chips is by lowering the cost so that the low-end chips are perceived as better value. Which is where we are at now.
That makes this significant because up until now, only specials were done in HD. The BBC had previously said it was too expensive to make Doctor Who in HD due to all the special effects, so obviously we've reached a turning point where the money made from selling overseas has made it viable in HD. Win.
This task was just pointless. The CPU was already in there, the graphics card, disks, DVD drive etc... Make it a real challenge and actually get them to assemble the machine in order to win a speed-assembling prize.
get the analog/digital readings directly from the sensor package to correlate with the output
Not gonna happen, I'm afraid. Almost everything on a car in the last 10 years is done over a CANbus. You don't have hundreds of wires going into an ECU or a dial any more, you have a couple of buses, each connected to a load of devices.
> I mean very old, maybe going back to those 300-400MB disks we had on 486 computers or even older.
Hahaha. 300-400MB isn't "very old". It's only 20 years since I bought a 80MB hard disk for £150 and that was considered massive as a couple of years earlier 20MB was cutting edge and cost a few hundred pounds.
More significantly, as these pins are wired to the motherboard, they'll end up being either unused or having a de-facto purpose. My bet is on them being unused.
See, whilst I personally disagree with copyright extensions, it's interesting that all the things that people bemoan not entering into the public domain are exactly those things that are still commercial successes. So, your example of Paul's Boutique, the OP's Casino Royale, Peter Pan, Crucible, etc are works that are still immensely popular today and still drawing in vast sums for the copyright owner. So, I really can see why they fought so hard for copyright extensions.
What is a shame is old stuff that's not actually commercially viable but interesting historically that becomes next to impossible to obtain legally and are thus relegated to just being part of somebody's memory. When that generation dies, it'll be lost for good, which is very sad indeed.
Ideally, we'd need a system where once royalty earnings go below a certain threshold after a certain period of time for things to enter the public domain. Practically, though that would be next to impossible to implement given how many people might be able to claim distribution rights depending how widely licenced the material was originally.
Absolutely. Things like RSA encryption are good examples of patents. Things like the XOR patent are bad examples when they are so trivial that anybody could come up with the same.
The main problem is that patents aren't used to protect investment, they're used to stifle the competition.
You have clearly never read The Sun. It's famous for its ridiculous headlines and page 3 girls. Probably not in that order. It's never been one to overload its readers with facts.
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He said richer, not having a greater spending power... The US govt. debt is currently $13 trillion according to wikipedia [United States public debt]
ObQuote: "Those who forget history are condemned to repeat it."
If you use --link-dest=DIR, rsync will hard link to any files that are identical, so you can have snapshots that are accessible as an entire tree but that consume little more space that a snapshot delta.
How about adding ?junk=1234 or somesuch to the link to make it unique...
But the point is the parent's point still holds. You *can* put any FS you wish onto the card, but there's no guarantee your data will still be there when you come to read it. For instance, a "smart" SD card might doing background erasing of sectors that are marked as empty according to the FAT so that it can achieve faster write speeds when those sectors are re-used.
This was never really a surprise as it was one of their manifesto pledges to get rid of this project which was always going to be colossal waste of money and probably trivially crackable in a few years time anyway. That said, I'm really glad it's gone. This was just one of the many ways the previous Labour government was trying to erode the civil liberties in this country...
IMHO, it looks like they deluded themselves that everyone would make games specifically for the PS3 then have to go through hell to port the games to the other consoles, thus ensuring almost every game would be PS3 exclusive; the irony of that is amusing.
It wasn't that unreasonable a gamble. That's exactly how it played out on the PS2. People took the time to learn how to get the best out of extremely arcane hardware and the games on the PS2 were better than on all the other consoles of the time, particularly at the end when people were learning how to get even more out of the hardware.
The PS3 is the same thing, except they were a year late to the party and people had already got used to running Windows code almost verbatim on a 360 and it just working. Unfortunately, with the PS3, there's an *almost* decent enough enough powerpc chip in there that you can get away with it to a point, but it's far, far inferior to the 360 unless you're prepared to spend time optimising for SPU. Sadly, a lot of companies don't bother.
It's a shame really. I used to have a lot of respect for Gabe Newell way back when his games were ground breaking. Nowadays it seems he'd rather pour vitriol on the PS3 than hire a couple of programmers who actually have experience at PS3 development to get things working. Sadly, the fact is that he's already lost too much face and wouldn't ever want to admit that he was wrong about the PS3. I wouldn't be at all surprised if this was just him taking a chance to troll Sony and jumping on the current otheros-fueled backlash at Sony being closed.
The fact is that all the major consoles are closed platforms. Incredibly so. None better than the others, none worse. In fact, I'd probably say that until a couple of months ago when Sony removed otheros, the PS3 was probably the most open of the consoles.
Ironically, I used to be with Virgin cable and dropped down to a slower ADSL speed when I took out Sky because they require you to have a BT phone line so they can use the modem once every couple of months.
This law suite should fail. Not that I want to be on SONY's side but they were 100% clear in their intentions regarding the "other os" option from day one.
You mean stating that the PS3 was an "open platform" and that "Other OS" and "Game OS" would always be able to coexist on the same PS3?
They're even still publicising this fact here...
Knowing that users that have the PS3 setup as a Linux test station are not using the PS3 store stuff in any case and wouldn't need the new capabilities
Big assumption you've made there. Lots of people used to use Linux and PSN. A small minority like myself have a PS3 dedicated to Linux (but even then, I still haven't upgraded beyond 3.15 on my main PS3 because it seems like a waste of a fat PS3).
No, tire is what happens when Brits are repeated subjected to Americans trying to correct British spelling into the peculiar bastardized American dialect. The poster even made it clear he was British, so there's no point criticising his correct spelling. And yes, before you get uppity, "criticising" can be spelt with an s. And yes, spelt is correct too.
But you're not factoring in perceived value. If they reduce the price of the top-end chips, they then have a better price-performance ratio for the customer, so demand for the low-end chips drops off. When they are unable to make their yield of top-end chips, they end up with a glut of low-end chips that nobody wants any more because the top-end ones are perceived as better value (and possibly also supply problems on the top-end chips because their yields happened to be low). They then end up with a glut of the low-end chips that nobody wants anymore because the high-end ones are perceived as better value, so the only way they can shift these chips is by lowering the cost so that the low-end chips are perceived as better value. Which is where we are at now.
"Forms of life we've never seen may well be atermal." means "Forms of life we've never seen may well not depend on temperature"
That makes this significant because up until now, only specials were done in HD. The BBC had previously said it was too expensive to make Doctor Who in HD due to all the special effects, so obviously we've reached a turning point where the money made from selling overseas has made it viable in HD. Win.
This task was just pointless. The CPU was already in there, the graphics card, disks, DVD drive etc... Make it a real challenge and actually get them to assemble the machine in order to win a speed-assembling prize.
get the analog/digital readings directly from the sensor package to correlate with the output
Not gonna happen, I'm afraid. Almost everything on a car in the last 10 years is done over a CANbus. You don't have hundreds of wires going into an ECU or a dial any more, you have a couple of buses, each connected to a load of devices.
Hahaha. 300-400MB isn't "very old". It's only 20 years since I bought a 80MB hard disk for £150 and that was considered massive as a couple of years earlier 20MB was cutting edge and cost a few hundred pounds.
More significantly, as these pins are wired to the motherboard, they'll end up being either unused or having a de-facto purpose. My bet is on them being unused.
I can't remember when I last logged in, but it was certainly at least a year ago. I just logged in now and everything's just as I left it...
See, whilst I personally disagree with copyright extensions, it's interesting that all the things that people bemoan not entering into the public domain are exactly those things that are still commercial successes. So, your example of Paul's Boutique, the OP's Casino Royale, Peter Pan, Crucible, etc are works that are still immensely popular today and still drawing in vast sums for the copyright owner. So, I really can see why they fought so hard for copyright extensions.
What is a shame is old stuff that's not actually commercially viable but interesting historically that becomes next to impossible to obtain legally and are thus relegated to just being part of somebody's memory. When that generation dies, it'll be lost for good, which is very sad indeed.
Ideally, we'd need a system where once royalty earnings go below a certain threshold after a certain period of time for things to enter the public domain. Practically, though that would be next to impossible to implement given how many people might be able to claim distribution rights depending how widely licenced the material was originally.
And better still, 200gg which requires less hand movements than either of the other suggestions.
No, that is not robbery, that is theft. Robbery is taking of property by violent means or threat of violence.
The main problem is that patents aren't used to protect investment, they're used to stifle the competition.
You have clearly never read The Sun. It's famous for its ridiculous headlines and page 3 girls. Probably not in that order. It's never been one to overload its readers with facts.