This could help hardcore games by reducing pressure on them to appeal to a wide audience, since there's no way they could compete with the general-audience games coming out now. It's a common process, where one splits into two, allowing better targeting for both, where before the one had to meet the needs of both markets.
And it's because of people doing this that stuff gets tightened down and in the end, its not the thieving bastards who suffer but the rest of us who pay for what we use instead of stealing it.
And yet the authors of Linux have found a way to deal with those pirating bastards without locking things down. And for the fucking last time, unauthorized copying is NOT stealing. Sheesh.
Microsoft are no more 'treating their customers like thieves' than a store that has security tags on the clothes and a scanner by each exit. Amazingly, only the shoplifters get bent out of shape about those.
OK, I bought Vista (hypothetical, of course) and take it home. Why is the metaphorical security tag still attached and beeping at me whenever I change my computer's hardware, among other things? Your analogy is plain flawed. Try again.
Mobile devices have very large storage, which can be compressed to varying degrees at will, better than 50% averaged across all data types.
Except the ones that take up the most space: video, music, and pictures.
Such a filesystem could look just like a real filesystem in every way, including total size, but hide the real data behind fake data and fake password. If it's all encrypted, it would be very hard to tell the difference, especially in an airport screening line.
Just try filling the drive with video, music, and pictures, and wonder why you can only fit half of what the free space suggested on the drive.
I've always thought it would be cool to have a candy box that would limit consumption. How big of a "pill" can this thing handle? And is it hard to break open if one is desperate for some chocolate?
What he demonstrates is that for the same or less power (Volts*Amps) of input to the motor driving the generator, he can cause the whole assembly to accelerate while using less power.
I can do the same, by applying a brake for the first case, and not applying it for the second case. Now, if he shows that the first case's efficiency is close to 100% (with the brake), then we've got something noteworthy.
It's entirely possible that some kind of machine could be built to extract energy locally which ultimately has a global source but that does not mean its perpetual, the Universe will still wind down total energy wise in the global space.
But you can't reduce the total energy either (just the total usable energy). And the law doesn't even require that usable energy be reduced. Consider a universe that contains a single rotating object; it will rotate forever. Now, in place of the rotating object, place a system of two spheres that constantly come together, bounce apart, then come together again (due to gravity). Now, replace with a more complex system which also constantly cycles energy in a similar manner. This is not to say that any possible universe will have this property, but that some configurations can.
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Given that in most places it rains less often than the sun shines, this seems like an astonishingly inefficient way to generate electricity.
Despite outward appearances, Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft aren't really competing in a free market; because their products are not interchangeable in practice -- unlike CD players, gas boilers or cars. Once you have invested in a game on one platform, it can only be used on that platform -- you can't replace your Wii with a PS3 and take your games across.
So what's the solution, a requirement that there be only one model and version of the game console for all time? The best that can occur is for companies not to make the situation any worse, like making two video disc formats with comparable feature sets, though I guess it's pretty much that way these days with game consoles, where the processor power and graphics are much more similar than in past times.
I know, another article bashing Vista, what could be more banal. (Kids! That word, meaning "trite" or "unoriginal", is pronounced "ba-NAHL". If you say it the wrong way like I did in an interview, it sounds naughty and you sound stupid.)
There is no single correct way to pronounce it. You're just being anal.
Another one for the annals of Slashdot language usage.
Repeat after me: mass increases as a cube of size (LxWxH), while strength increases only as a square of size (cross-section, LxW). Double the size of something without using stronger materials and it won't be able to withstand the same things as the smaller version. Since there's some limit to the strength of materials, at some point the larger one cannot be made as strong as the smaller.
"[...] The greatly reduced power budget will cut down on the amount of active cooling required by the console, which in turn will make it cheaper to produce and more reliable (this means fewer warrantied returns). Also affecting Sony's per-unit cost is the reduction in overall die size. A smaller die means a smaller, cheaper package; it also means that yields will be better and that each chip will cost less overall.'"
Agreed, if they copied then deleted data, or simply just deleted it, then "confiscated" and "destroyed" are appropriate terms. I should have at least STFA (scanned TFA).
How the hell is copying your data confiscating it? Come on, when you download a song, you aren't stealing it (confiscating it), and the same goes for when they copy your data. Sure, it's fucked up that they keep a copy, but it's not confiscation unless they keep the laptop or delete the data on it.
At $70bn, it's tantalizingly affordable by the standards of this roundup: a train that could beat airliners from one side of the country to the other.
From A to B. Airplanes can go from one of the hundreds (thousands?) of airports that already exist, and the cost of building a new airport is the same whether it's 100 or 1000 miles away. Beats what, again?
Yes, it will be a sad day when Duke Nukem Forever is released, especially since it'll probably be some other game relabeled, kind of like what's happened with Commodore/Amiga recently.
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This could help hardcore games by reducing pressure on them to appeal to a wide audience, since there's no way they could compete with the general-audience games coming out now. It's a common process, where one splits into two, allowing better targeting for both, where before the one had to meet the needs of both markets.
You know, it'd be better if you refused to buy such software, otherwise they think you don't mind it being crippled.
And yet the authors of Linux have found a way to deal with those pirating bastards without locking things down. And for the fucking last time, unauthorized copying is NOT stealing. Sheesh.
OK, I bought Vista (hypothetical, of course) and take it home. Why is the metaphorical security tag still attached and beeping at me whenever I change my computer's hardware, among other things? Your analogy is plain flawed. Try again.
Except the ones that take up the most space: video, music, and pictures.
Just try filling the drive with video, music, and pictures, and wonder why you can only fit half of what the free space suggested on the drive.
I was attempting humor, since it says "$40", forty dollars.
I've always thought it would be cool to have a candy box that would limit consumption. How big of a "pill" can this thing handle? And is it hard to break open if one is desperate for some chocolate?
Microsoft must be strapped for cash these days...
I can do the same, by applying a brake for the first case, and not applying it for the second case. Now, if he shows that the first case's efficiency is close to 100% (with the brake), then we've got something noteworthy.
But you can't reduce the total energy either (just the total usable energy). And the law doesn't even require that usable energy be reduced. Consider a universe that contains a single rotating object; it will rotate forever. Now, in place of the rotating object, place a system of two spheres that constantly come together, bounce apart, then come together again (due to gravity). Now, replace with a more complex system which also constantly cycles energy in a similar manner. This is not to say that any possible universe will have this property, but that some configurations can.
But it's a great way to generate research money.
This energy is just drops in the bucket compared to what they could get from lightning.
Base64 encoding, I take it?
So what's the solution, a requirement that there be only one model and version of the game console for all time? The best that can occur is for companies not to make the situation any worse, like making two video disc formats with comparable feature sets, though I guess it's pretty much that way these days with game consoles, where the processor power and graphics are much more similar than in past times.
Another one for the annals of Slashdot language usage.
I consider Concast's new terms of service indecent. Can I have them removed?
Repeat after me: mass increases as a cube of size (LxWxH), while strength increases only as a square of size (cross-section, LxW). Double the size of something without using stronger materials and it won't be able to withstand the same things as the smaller version. Since there's some limit to the strength of materials, at some point the larger one cannot be made as strong as the smaller.
My only question is, will this reduce the cost?
Sorry, can you give me an analogy in terms of Autobots and Decepticons?
Agreed, if they copied then deleted data, or simply just deleted it, then "confiscated" and "destroyed" are appropriate terms. I should have at least STFA (scanned TFA).
How the hell is copying your data confiscating it? Come on, when you download a song, you aren't stealing it (confiscating it), and the same goes for when they copy your data. Sure, it's fucked up that they keep a copy, but it's not confiscation unless they keep the laptop or delete the data on it.
Johnny Lee's head tracking using Wiimote sure seems effective enough for examining 3D objects with a normal display.
Dupes are necessary for the holographic effect.
From A to B. Airplanes can go from one of the hundreds (thousands?) of airports that already exist, and the cost of building a new airport is the same whether it's 100 or 1000 miles away. Beats what, again?
Yes, it will be a sad day when Duke Nukem Forever is released, especially since it'll probably be some other game relabeled, kind of like what's happened with Commodore/Amiga recently.