Does this notion sound a lot like the paperless office to anyone? I reckon ereaders and tablets are just a fad at the moment.
Sure the analogy isn't a really good one, but i went in to a departments store today, and there was an ipad display with functioning units, and it was surrounded by kids playing on them, so i think they're popular with kids, all this talk about them being used for education is probably more a marketing excercise to make parents think that these things will turn their kids into prodigies.
All my usb controllers no longer work. As for the MP3 comment, check network walkman, sure it's the early days, but it's just a clear example of sony's attitude. Now, if they ever dreamt of doing that, they wouldn't have buckleys chance of competing, so that's why they just give the customers what they want. I suppose it just comes down to them trying to control the market rather than just producing good tech, which admittedly, sony is more than capable, it's just that they hamper it down with DRM.
I think that it's quite silly to try to go stupid with the permitting or disallowing technology. Soccer tries to make it as accessible as possible by not allowing any technology, and their reasoning is that they don't want to play a different game to that which a lot of kids and adults play in the park. I think that's a reasonable approach, but the football i mostly watch, rugby (league and union), in particular NRL, they use video refereeing mostly for legitimate scoring purposes, which in top tier games, is somewhat reasonable as well, however the main referee, though, has to make the decision to consult the video ref.
Using stuff like radios and tablets i think will be silly, the tech should be used to help with making the game fairer, that's about it
Sony have had numerous instances of really trying to stick it to the consumer, OtherOS and the rootkit scandal were the worst, all the other instances were somewhat less audacious, but still serving themselves ahead of their customers. Simple things like removing support from the PS3 for third party controllers, designing mp3 players which were really not friendly to the consumer, securom is a sony product as well, it's not big things as much as lots of little things, and that's why i agree with Unkl_Shvelven, they are swindlers.
I'm no pilot, so i don't know for certain, but i think they have protocols in case of this, if their instrumentation has an external outage, like GPS failure, they'll still have other instruments which can be used, less accurately, and with cumulative error, but they can still calculate where they are with some precision, if the GPS comes back online and tells them something drastically different, the pilots will no doubt start checking things, and they'll probably radio to somewhere else to get checked out on radar.
The whole reason that the iranians, if what they say is true, were able to do this is because the software in the drone didn't think of that happening, and was too easy to fool, whereas a trained pilot, will be far less so, because even underneath all that training, if their gps says that they're in one place, and then goes out for a bit, and then comes back and says they're somewhere really far away, a person will know that something is wrong, and will then check to see what is reliable and what isn't.
If this is true, then what the iranians did has more or less blown their chance, because now the americans will just update their software in the drones probably to do this, or at least check the reliability of the GPS data. My thoughts were more or less the same, as it seems pretty stupid that the software would allow it to just magically think it has changed location quite severely, but like i said, mk.X+1 probably won't be fooled as easily.
I don't think so, because from what i read, the judge was being impartial, if the class presented a case stipulating what laws sony broke, then the judgement would have been based on those merits, but from what i can see, the class lawyers came in more or less saying "they tooks mah linux". You can't just go into court like this guy http://youtu.be/wJuXIq7OazQ
Thing is, there's a few ways they could handle this, one is sure, they could make a military grade drone with hi tech and high reliability, it would probably cost as much 10, maybe more drones which are made with more standard parts and the necessary modification to make them work over long distances.
I suppose another part to it is, 10 basic drones is probably worth more than 1 military grade drone, and even if the basic ones can be easily controlled, if it's just a basic drone, there's nothing of value to reverse engineer, like wow, kung fu chip factory supplies the chips for the drones, and again, even though it might be easy to hijack or jam, equipment to do that isn't going to be all that common, and having ten times the drones quite easily could mean that they'd need to have jamming/hijacking equipment everywhere.
I think the whole idea of these drones is that they're meant to be cheap and worthless to the enemy, since there is nothing of value inside, so if they lose one by any means, it's a shrug of the shoulders and send in the next one.
They didn't pay off the competition, they just owned a few of the major studios and eventually decided to go blu ray only. If it wasn't for the PS3 being a blu ray player, the format would have failed by now.
I more or less agree, apple has tried to make a product for the consumers (except the ipad, tablets are far more overrated than smartphones imo), google has fallen victim to ridiculous allowances such as branding and unremovable bloatware, but i suppose it has also allowed them a much higher adoption rate.
However apple hasn't really been competitive on price though, it's just the cult branding has more or less gotten people used to spending that much, and used to lining up for days to ditch their old models and get the new ones, products are that good aren't they! I suppose that's why i still havn't replaced the thinkpad i bought 5 years ago, it works the other way around, good tech is hard to replace, not that it's value for money, worth buying or queuing for days to get it on day 0.
Sony loves proprietary gear, probably more so than any other company, they seem to persist with them a lot, and quite a few of them have been failures, atrac in particular, if they didn't persist with atrac and tried to make a digital music player people actually wanted, i doubt the ipod would have been a success.
You do realize that the "dick smith" electronics store was sold to woolies in 1982? 60% in 1980, then the rest in 1982. Are you really talking about the store during the 70's? In addition, it does not make someone a hypocrite to behave in a different way to what the once did. Is the reformed alcoholic a hypocrite for wanting tighter alcohol regulation? You really haven't thought this through.
It is about his stores before they went to woolies, ie, when he was running them. Now, i think you really havn't thought it through, because it's all good and well that Dick Smith has all his money from that venture, he hasn't reformed, the foods business seems to be more about media squawking than anything else that noone else does what he didn't do.
If he was reformed, he'd at least acknowledge the fact, but hasn't, and won't, i think saying that he's reformed is drawing a really long bow, since your alcoholic annalogy would be akin to said alcoholic wanting tighter regulation, whilst having a large stockpile for himself.
Dick smith is a hypocrite, all his electronics stores revolved around importing the cheapest crap from overseas, so now for him to say buy australian is a huge backflip.
Back when that was happening with dick smith, australia was still manufacturing lots of stuff, now we're just importing everything, whilst exporting the raw materials.
This is clearly a publicity stunt and now looks to be moving towards a gaming campaign, they say some outrageous things, and clearly they see that they've hit a nerve with the gamers, their name is being moved around the interwebs a whole lot more at the moment while people discuss PETA.
Their goal is really to preach to their choir, and this sort of manufactured outrage is only to get free publicity.
Funny how people try to coin new words for which one more or less exists, and i find it somewhat grating that the "corporatocracy" link doesn't even have plutocracy in the side list of all those different terms.
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I would so mod this up if i had the points.
no, just use the metric system.
Well, i can't say that's true for me, at my work we print and fax daily.
Does this notion sound a lot like the paperless office to anyone? I reckon ereaders and tablets are just a fad at the moment.
Sure the analogy isn't a really good one, but i went in to a departments store today, and there was an ipad display with functioning units, and it was surrounded by kids playing on them, so i think they're popular with kids, all this talk about them being used for education is probably more a marketing excercise to make parents think that these things will turn their kids into prodigies.
What about Babylon AD, where as they are trying to enter the USA, unmanned drones start attacking them!
All my usb controllers no longer work. As for the MP3 comment, check network walkman, sure it's the early days, but it's just a clear example of sony's attitude. Now, if they ever dreamt of doing that, they wouldn't have buckleys chance of competing, so that's why they just give the customers what they want. I suppose it just comes down to them trying to control the market rather than just producing good tech, which admittedly, sony is more than capable, it's just that they hamper it down with DRM.
I think that it's quite silly to try to go stupid with the permitting or disallowing technology. Soccer tries to make it as accessible as possible by not allowing any technology, and their reasoning is that they don't want to play a different game to that which a lot of kids and adults play in the park. I think that's a reasonable approach, but the football i mostly watch, rugby (league and union), in particular NRL, they use video refereeing mostly for legitimate scoring purposes, which in top tier games, is somewhat reasonable as well, however the main referee, though, has to make the decision to consult the video ref.
Using stuff like radios and tablets i think will be silly, the tech should be used to help with making the game fairer, that's about it
Sony have had numerous instances of really trying to stick it to the consumer, OtherOS and the rootkit scandal were the worst, all the other instances were somewhat less audacious, but still serving themselves ahead of their customers. Simple things like removing support from the PS3 for third party controllers, designing mp3 players which were really not friendly to the consumer, securom is a sony product as well, it's not big things as much as lots of little things, and that's why i agree with Unkl_Shvelven, they are swindlers.
I'm no pilot, so i don't know for certain, but i think they have protocols in case of this, if their instrumentation has an external outage, like GPS failure, they'll still have other instruments which can be used, less accurately, and with cumulative error, but they can still calculate where they are with some precision, if the GPS comes back online and tells them something drastically different, the pilots will no doubt start checking things, and they'll probably radio to somewhere else to get checked out on radar.
The whole reason that the iranians, if what they say is true, were able to do this is because the software in the drone didn't think of that happening, and was too easy to fool, whereas a trained pilot, will be far less so, because even underneath all that training, if their gps says that they're in one place, and then goes out for a bit, and then comes back and says they're somewhere really far away, a person will know that something is wrong, and will then check to see what is reliable and what isn't.
If this is true, then what the iranians did has more or less blown their chance, because now the americans will just update their software in the drones probably to do this, or at least check the reliability of the GPS data. My thoughts were more or less the same, as it seems pretty stupid that the software would allow it to just magically think it has changed location quite severely, but like i said, mk.X+1 probably won't be fooled as easily.
I don't think so, because from what i read, the judge was being impartial, if the class presented a case stipulating what laws sony broke, then the judgement would have been based on those merits, but from what i can see, the class lawyers came in more or less saying "they tooks mah linux". You can't just go into court like this guy http://youtu.be/wJuXIq7OazQ
Sounds like the class need better lawyers!
You probably can't get closer to the truth, my perception has been the same, with all this posturing between the USA, Israel and Iran.
Thing is, there's a few ways they could handle this, one is sure, they could make a military grade drone with hi tech and high reliability, it would probably cost as much 10, maybe more drones which are made with more standard parts and the necessary modification to make them work over long distances.
I suppose another part to it is, 10 basic drones is probably worth more than 1 military grade drone, and even if the basic ones can be easily controlled, if it's just a basic drone, there's nothing of value to reverse engineer, like wow, kung fu chip factory supplies the chips for the drones, and again, even though it might be easy to hijack or jam, equipment to do that isn't going to be all that common, and having ten times the drones quite easily could mean that they'd need to have jamming/hijacking equipment everywhere.
I think the whole idea of these drones is that they're meant to be cheap and worthless to the enemy, since there is nothing of value inside, so if they lose one by any means, it's a shrug of the shoulders and send in the next one.
I'd laugh if they didn't encrypt the radio signals controlling the drone, but if they didn't, they probably will now.
1.3gb, wow, i've got 8 tabs open and i'm only doing 0.3gb
What about SACD and ATRAC?
They didn't pay off the competition, they just owned a few of the major studios and eventually decided to go blu ray only. If it wasn't for the PS3 being a blu ray player, the format would have failed by now.
I more or less agree, apple has tried to make a product for the consumers (except the ipad, tablets are far more overrated than smartphones imo), google has fallen victim to ridiculous allowances such as branding and unremovable bloatware, but i suppose it has also allowed them a much higher adoption rate.
However apple hasn't really been competitive on price though, it's just the cult branding has more or less gotten people used to spending that much, and used to lining up for days to ditch their old models and get the new ones, products are that good aren't they! I suppose that's why i still havn't replaced the thinkpad i bought 5 years ago, it works the other way around, good tech is hard to replace, not that it's value for money, worth buying or queuing for days to get it on day 0.
And sony also has to following to its name;
Minidisc
UMD
Atrac
SACD
memory stick (incl. MagicGate)
Sony loves proprietary gear, probably more so than any other company, they seem to persist with them a lot, and quite a few of them have been failures, atrac in particular, if they didn't persist with atrac and tried to make a digital music player people actually wanted, i doubt the ipod would have been a success.
I'm sorry, but a satirical music video is not science.
Neither are high school bloggers
You do realize that the "dick smith" electronics store was sold to woolies in 1982? 60% in 1980, then the rest in 1982. Are you really talking about the store during the 70's? In addition, it does not make someone a hypocrite to behave in a different way to what the once did. Is the reformed alcoholic a hypocrite for wanting tighter alcohol regulation? You really haven't thought this through.
It is about his stores before they went to woolies, ie, when he was running them. Now, i think you really havn't thought it through, because it's all good and well that Dick Smith has all his money from that venture, he hasn't reformed, the foods business seems to be more about media squawking than anything else that noone else does what he didn't do.
If he was reformed, he'd at least acknowledge the fact, but hasn't, and won't, i think saying that he's reformed is drawing a really long bow, since your alcoholic annalogy would be akin to said alcoholic wanting tighter regulation, whilst having a large stockpile for himself.
Dick smith is a hypocrite, all his electronics stores revolved around importing the cheapest crap from overseas, so now for him to say buy australian is a huge backflip. Back when that was happening with dick smith, australia was still manufacturing lots of stuff, now we're just importing everything, whilst exporting the raw materials.
This is clearly a publicity stunt and now looks to be moving towards a gaming campaign, they say some outrageous things, and clearly they see that they've hit a nerve with the gamers, their name is being moved around the interwebs a whole lot more at the moment while people discuss PETA.
Their goal is really to preach to their choir, and this sort of manufactured outrage is only to get free publicity.
Funny how people try to coin new words for which one more or less exists, and i find it somewhat grating that the "corporatocracy" link doesn't even have plutocracy in the side list of all those different terms.