yes it has and then some. there is a last resort solution the founding fathers added into the constitution. how many guns do you own? get them while you still can before the "loop hole" is closed.
you do own guns right?
oh no! it looks like the government has already made possession of capital letters illegal!
Yes, I'm something like the ten thousandth Average Joe Slashdot to have an opinion on what Apple should do, but if I were in their shoes right now I'd be staffing up the OS X division, working on a broader selection of hardware drivers and preparing for an OEM release of their OS.
Dragging Windows users kicking and screaming to Vista might be the last straw that convinces them to seek an alternative OS, and although Linux is closer to being ready for the typical consumer's desktop than it's ever been, but not close enough yet. I think Apple should be poised to seize that market.
Yes, allowing users to (legally) run OS X on any x86 hardware instead of just Apple-badged models would cut into Apple's hardware sales -- but maybe it would be worth it for the massive boost in OS sales when every PC OEM comes running?
I work for Best Buy. It wasn't a matter of us not ordering them, it was a matter of them not offering them in the first place. We had requests all the time for the 20GB model.
But did those customer requests get forwarded to the buyers in Best Buy Corporate who actually dealt with Sony?
If very few 20GB PS3's were shipped from Sony to Best Buy, is that because Best Buy did not ask for very many, or because Sony did not offer the quantities that Best Buy wanted?
The console is not designed to run at 100% CPU 24/7 and will wear out quicker.
Only the moving parts (ie, CPU fan) should wear out appreciably more quickly due to sustained load. The silicon traces aren't going to degrade very much no matter how many electrons you push along them.
The Slashdot Automobile Analogy proves inadequate once again.
do you really need to tote around your ENTIRE collection in your pocket? Just seems like a 2GB flash card holding a couple hundred songs that you feel like listening to at the time would be just fine.
Feel like listening to at WHICH time? The time where I sync my MP3 player to my computer, or the time where I take it out of my pocket and want to listen to something?
The size of the text isn't the problem; I wouldn't be surprised if companies are required to provide large-type copies of their contracts upon request. The problem is that few people ever read in full the contracts they agree to, even though it is their duty to do so.
Why can't features be in fine print gotchas be in large print?
Again, the size of the text isn't the problem. Consumers need to read what they're agreeing to.
Why is it that a company can advertise something as true that others can show to be false?
Generally, they can't. But issues of truthfulness are rarely that black-and-white. An ISP advertising "unlimited" internet if they cap data transfer to 10GB/month may not be lying if there's no artificial cap on instantaneous transfer rate, for example. It depends on what "unlimited" is defined as.
Why can a company call themselves "perfect" when it's not?
Consumers, knowing that nothing can be perfect except God, reasonably should take the term as a figure of speech rather than literally.
Why is it okay that a company obfuscates things from their potential consumers?
It's in their best interests to do so. Any law or regulation that forced companies to put the best interests of other parties (such as customers) before their own would be ruinous.
Then there are tons of front-end things I do. I hate them. It's developing the same code OVER and OVER (since we basically make copies of some parts to be used numerous times) and the glue code always has to go in there and is a pain
Sounds like you must be doing it wrong. There's absolutely no reason for code reuse to be any more impossible on a web frontend than on any backend.
BTW, it doesn't matter if some or even nearly all cell phones don't cause interference with flight controls. All it takes is one person using one that does and things get ugly.
If only there were some sort of federal organization that could set and enforce interference standards for electronic devices...
Okay, so the 40-towers-at-once reasoning for banning cell phone use on planes seems reasonable enough to me to be acceptable. But I would really, really like someone to explain how operating my iPod or GameBoy during ascent or descent poses a risk to the plane.
So selling DRM-free AAC files will dethrone DRM-free MP3 files as the industry standard?
No, MP3 was never a music industry standard. It was (and is, and will be for the foreseeable future) the music CONSUMER standard.
As a consumer, I could give a fuck what standard the industry wants me to adopt. As long as the majority of content is available as MP3 files for audio and DivX-encoded AVI files for video, I have no reason to switch to something else.
Any software or hardware in its 1st release will have issues
Vista is not a first-release product, though. It is Windows NT Version 6.0.
After 15+ years of development, I would hope that the issues that surface with each new release would be relatively few and mild, even for major revisions like Vista.
with absolutely nothing running Vista Business sucked up 35-40% of my RAM. Thats sitting still, doing nothing, with nothing running.
If the machine is sitting still and doing nothing, it shouldn't matter if the OS uses 100% of available memory, maybe for pre-caching the next chunks of data it think you'll ask for, or running a background index process against your filesystem.
The issue is when you start to add application load to the machine -- does the OS release memory it's using for those "idle" tasks so that apps can use it, or is it greedy?
Windows comes with a perfectly usable GUI interface to volume controls and other audio hardware settings. Why did Realtek have to create a crapware application to do the same thing?
The problem with industrial hemp is still that a simple visual inspection won't tell you whether a plant contains THC or not. The feds don't want farmers hiding a quarter acre of a plant they can sell for $800/lb in the midst of 1000 acres of an identical-looking plant that sells for $0.50/lb.
Of course, Legalizing It would solve this problem as well, but that's not going to happen any time soon.
Sugar cane ethanol is the viable alternative, if you are going to use biomass based fuel. Brazil is doing it
Brazil also has a climate that's much more ideal for growing sugarcane than the continental US does. We use corn crops for food sweetening and fuel supply in no small part because that's what grows well here.
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yes it has and then some. there is a last resort solution the founding fathers added into the constitution. how many guns do you own? get them while you still can before the "loop hole" is closed.
you do own guns right?
oh no! it looks like the government has already made possession of capital letters illegal!
Yes, I'm something like the ten thousandth Average Joe Slashdot to have an opinion on what Apple should do, but if I were in their shoes right now I'd be staffing up the OS X division, working on a broader selection of hardware drivers and preparing for an OEM release of their OS.
Dragging Windows users kicking and screaming to Vista might be the last straw that convinces them to seek an alternative OS, and although Linux is closer to being ready for the typical consumer's desktop than it's ever been, but not close enough yet. I think Apple should be poised to seize that market.
Yes, allowing users to (legally) run OS X on any x86 hardware instead of just Apple-badged models would cut into Apple's hardware sales -- but maybe it would be worth it for the massive boost in OS sales when every PC OEM comes running?
I would say the best OS MS has ever put together has been Windows 2000
I would say it's MS-DOS 5.0.
But that's only because it was IBM, not Microsoft, that "put together" the MS code contained in OS/2 Warp.
I work for Best Buy. It wasn't a matter of us not ordering them, it was a matter of them not offering them in the first place. We had requests all the time for the 20GB model.
But did those customer requests get forwarded to the buyers in Best Buy Corporate who actually dealt with Sony?
If very few 20GB PS3's were shipped from Sony to Best Buy, is that because Best Buy did not ask for very many, or because Sony did not offer the quantities that Best Buy wanted?
The console is not designed to run at 100% CPU 24/7 and will wear out quicker.
Only the moving parts (ie, CPU fan) should wear out appreciably more quickly due to sustained load. The silicon traces aren't going to degrade very much no matter how many electrons you push along them.
The Slashdot Automobile Analogy proves inadequate once again.
do you really need to tote around your ENTIRE collection in your pocket? Just seems like a 2GB flash card holding a couple hundred songs that you feel like listening to at the time would be just fine.
Feel like listening to at WHICH time? The time where I sync my MP3 player to my computer, or the time where I take it out of my pocket and want to listen to something?
Why is small, difficult-to-read fine print okay?
The size of the text isn't the problem; I wouldn't be surprised if companies are required to provide large-type copies of their contracts upon request. The problem is that few people ever read in full the contracts they agree to, even though it is their duty to do so.
Why can't features be in fine print gotchas be in large print?
Again, the size of the text isn't the problem. Consumers need to read what they're agreeing to.
Why is it that a company can advertise something as true that others can show to be false?
Generally, they can't. But issues of truthfulness are rarely that black-and-white. An ISP advertising "unlimited" internet if they cap data transfer to 10GB/month may not be lying if there's no artificial cap on instantaneous transfer rate, for example. It depends on what "unlimited" is defined as.
Why can a company call themselves "perfect" when it's not?
Consumers, knowing that nothing can be perfect except God, reasonably should take the term as a figure of speech rather than literally.
Why is it okay that a company obfuscates things from their potential consumers?
It's in their best interests to do so. Any law or regulation that forced companies to put the best interests of other parties (such as customers) before their own would be ruinous.
some people even insulting the developers saying things like "only russians steal".
Russians, and the team that gave us Duke Nukem. They even stole graphics from Hi-Tech Excretions' horrible PC port of Mega Man, for gawd's sake!
Perhaps that's the real reason DNF is taking forever -- the team is actually creating their own graphics resources this time around.
(Yeah, right. As if I have the time to check if, say, Jarvis himself exists or is his real name.)
You're too lazy to evaluate the veracity of a news source yourself, therefore you want someone else to evaluate them for you.
But who will evaluate the evaluators? At what point do you yourself take responsiblity for deciding who to trust?
Then there are tons of front-end things I do. I hate them. It's developing the same code OVER and OVER (since we basically make copies of some parts to be used numerous times) and the glue code always has to go in there and is a pain
Sounds like you must be doing it wrong. There's absolutely no reason for code reuse to be any more impossible on a web frontend than on any backend.
I have an ipod with a physically messed up hard drive. Now it can still get some use.
Why not just buy a replacement hard drive?
The point is that he is selling his adapter to people who want more battery life or skip protection out of their video iPods.
Didn't the article say that the one iPod model the guy hadn't yet managed to hack the hard drive out of was the video iPod?
Heck, didn't the Slashdot story submission say that?
BTW, it doesn't matter if some or even nearly all cell phones don't cause interference with flight controls. All it takes is one person using one that does and things get ugly.
If only there were some sort of federal organization that could set and enforce interference standards for electronic devices...
Okay, so the 40-towers-at-once reasoning for banning cell phone use on planes seems reasonable enough to me to be acceptable. But I would really, really like someone to explain how operating my iPod or GameBoy during ascent or descent poses a risk to the plane.
So selling DRM-free AAC files will dethrone DRM-free MP3 files as the industry standard?
No, MP3 was never a music industry standard. It was (and is, and will be for the foreseeable future) the music CONSUMER standard.
As a consumer, I could give a fuck what standard the industry wants me to adopt. As long as the majority of content is available as MP3 files for audio and DivX-encoded AVI files for video, I have no reason to switch to something else.
The article itself says 10 million were sold.
How many of those were sold at clearance for $50 after Sega saw the writing on the wall?
All you need is an internet connection, 6 lines of code and a server to donwload an xml.
Now, you see why they change its name from 'Revolution'.
Perhaps.
What I don't see is why nobody's ever done something like this before, if it's so goddamned easy...
Any software or hardware in its 1st release will have issues
Vista is not a first-release product, though. It is Windows NT Version 6.0.
After 15+ years of development, I would hope that the issues that surface with each new release would be relatively few and mild, even for major revisions like Vista.
with absolutely nothing running Vista Business sucked up 35-40% of my RAM. Thats sitting still, doing nothing, with nothing running.
If the machine is sitting still and doing nothing, it shouldn't matter if the OS uses 100% of available memory, maybe for pre-caching the next chunks of data it think you'll ask for, or running a background index process against your filesystem.
The issue is when you start to add application load to the machine -- does the OS release memory it's using for those "idle" tasks so that apps can use it, or is it greedy?
Windows comes with a perfectly usable GUI interface to volume controls and other audio hardware settings. Why did Realtek have to create a crapware application to do the same thing?
You do realize that the Wii is basically an overclocked GameCube?
NO, I DIDN'T REALIZE THAT. I HAVEN'T BEEN HEARING PEOPLE VECTOR THAT SAME FACTOID FOR THE PAST YEAR AND A HALF.
Final Fantasy has always been about the graphics, as well as progress-quest style gameplay.
You must not remember Final Fantasies I through VI. The graphics of the first few games were blocky even by NES standards!
porting to the PS3 is a huge pain, because of the weird Cell architecture, with very limited memory per CPU.
You mean "per SPE". The Cell has only one CPU (in the classical sense), which has access to all 256MB of system memory.
Each of the 7 SPEs has only 256KB of local memory, which would have been enough for 40% of anybody back in 1980.
your argument is based on being upset that people might get in trouble for actually DOING SOMETHING ILLEGAL.
Please list all the circumstances in which making a copy of a digital music file is legal, and all those in which it is illegal.
What? You can't? I guess the issue isn't as simple as you make it out to be.
The problem with industrial hemp is still that a simple visual inspection won't tell you whether a plant contains THC or not. The feds don't want farmers hiding a quarter acre of a plant they can sell for $800/lb in the midst of 1000 acres of an identical-looking plant that sells for $0.50/lb.
Of course, Legalizing It would solve this problem as well, but that's not going to happen any time soon.
Sugar cane ethanol is the viable alternative, if you are going to use biomass based fuel. Brazil is doing it
Brazil also has a climate that's much more ideal for growing sugarcane than the continental US does. We use corn crops for food sweetening and fuel supply in no small part because that's what grows well here.
Miles Dyson! Didn't he create the precursor to the T-200 using the chips from the first Schwarzzenegger crushed in that press-thingie?
Yes, he was also the undisputed world heavyweight boxing champion during the late 1980's.