I thought this IPv9 was supposed to add some sort of security and managability, not IP addresses. Not that I've heard of IPv6. Not sure what computer systems can use it.
I don't think the US goverment really needs appreciation.
While one is worse than the other, that still doesn't mean that both aren't undesirable, infringing or wrong.
I think the US government should be rightfully criticized for a level of surveilence that is likely illegal, or was highly illegal before the PATRIOT was enacted.
The existence of MATRIX and ECHELON aren't exactly winning my confidence in the US government. The kind of things that they fail to cover up completely makes me wonder what they did manage to cover up, just didn't get any people with enough guts to be whistle blowers?
For a government that is supposed to be about checks and balances, neither seem to be used much.
It is a driver. nVidia, ATI, Matrox, etc. act as if releasing how to code for their hardware will expose to their competitors their precious designs. Does any new Matrox board even work well in 2D in Linux anymore?
They, and by a similar token, wireless network chip makers, are kind of counterpoint to the entire IC industry. Most semiconductor manufacturers freely give away information on how to use their product, even giving away free, non-obfuscated source code!
I really doubt the economic ramifications on drivers. They are in the business of selling hardware, not software, and if the drivers don't work satisfactorily, there's no way to fix them, why bother with the hardware?
One thing I find funny is that there are so many geeks that complain that the iPod is overpriced or expensive, but when a new $500 graphics card comes to town, the complaints about its pricing is relatively muted.
Ah well. I don't own a portable file player but if I decided one would fit my needs, I'd strongly consider an iPod, but not ignore the competition outright. It's just that the competition doesn't seem so relevant or as balanced in comparison at the moment either.
If we could take that to heart -- make an Open system that had a single high quality choice for every function you could like, instead of one based on thousands of discordant choices -- well, there'd be no stopping us.
I wish. Too many geeks can't give up the petty emacs vs. vi, Star Wars vs. Star Trek, Kirk vs. Picard, KDE vs. Gnome arguments even if to save their own lives. Linus started Linux because he didn't like Minux, and he still had BSD as a viable option.
On the other hand, a well-made online game tends to have a huge replay lifespan. Perhaps that is why Nintendo is hestitant to embrace them?
If the online players only account for a tiny fraction of gaming, why put so much development effort into it? If you make an on-line only game, you are limited to the number of subscribers.
I sure as heck don't want to pay a monthly subscription, although the games can be less predictable than the standard AI and give a better gameplay provided you don't get the type of opponents that give you the "m0tHerwh0r3shi7c0ck" language and associated stupidity.
There's also arcades, which used to give the same kind of competition and high replay value. It's too bad those aren't what they used to be.
It is hard to when those things charge you $1 for a few minutes of play, versus a rental which you pay a few dollars for two evenings or so.
Then there's the whole "I can't be bothered to properly maintain my systems" bit that the arcade owners get themselves into. I wouldn't pay a dollar for a few minutes on a screen whose colors have shifted so the reds and greens are each tilted and skewed away from each other.
I think Nintendo would be silly not to put a network interface on the next generation system. I doubt it is prohibitively expensive to put a 10/100 chip on board.
I still don't think I'd blame them for not putting it on the current system. When GC was released, I don't think PS2 had a net interface available, and I don't think I remember XBox details having been announced.
It seems silly given that I've heard that the WaveBird controller uses 802.11, and the GBA DS will have the same for interconnecting to other DS systems.
On the subject of IP, the only inherent problem in IPv4 was that nobody expected us to try hooking everything including the kitchen sink - literally - to the Internet.
Doesn't IP have four million digits? Give one to each person alive and you are past exhausted. I suspect that half of them don't care or have far more pressing needs such as clean food, water and shelter. Even the IP problem is something about distribution if MIT has a class A, and HP has two (one for HP, one from Compaq), and I doubt they use a fraction of them.
But, one thing to remember is that, why should a refrigerator get internet access by a specific IP? I don't want outsiders to be able initiate connections, do I? Even with a firewall, I think that's asking for trouble.
The MD player itslef is larger and heavier than the ipod, with more moving parts. I like the access to all of my music at once.
The implied statement is that it is less reliable? I don't think so. I've dropped my MD player onto concrete numerous times while during playback, and this is one that didn't have the benefit of "parking" the heads like a mini hard drive player might.
The MD player / recorder I have has about the same volume (but different shape) as an iPod mini.
Funny that site doesn't have dimensions. The size of the hard drive is the only thing mentioned, but there's a lot of other stuff in the package to bulk that up a bit.
It does look like a nice little device though, but that depends on the dimensions. I'm curious how they can make money on them. A 4GB microdrive or whatever can be pretty expensive.
Though if your kid can learn C++ I presume he's probably mature enough
Ability does not equal maturity. Kids can do a lot of things, for many of them, it takes true maturity to NOT do them.
Knowledge does not equal wisdom, maturity or effort for that matter. A lot of people know things are bad for them, like unprotected sex, reckless driving, smoking and so on, but a great many people still do all of these despite knowing the dangers.
The quality at a given small bitrate is fine if one is trying to fit the best balance of quantity and quality on a 512MB flash player, but..
The thing is, given that a better codec generally saves space for a given sound quality, and that the codecs aren't that drastically different when given a more comfortable bitrate, I don't see the point. Just encode at a higher bit rate. Hard drives are cheap.
This opinion of mine is getting entrenched more so now that the hard drive players are on the verge of exceeding 60GB storage, is there a point? The current ones that do play ogg are IMO kind of ugly and ungainly.
If you want unfettered internet access, it is called a T1. Look it up. You signed up for a less expensive service in exchange for a few restrictions. No consumer-level ISP is out to provide you 100% unfettered service. You should have checked your terms of service before you signed on, the ISPs I've seen have it pretty clear that subscribers are not allowed to run servers through that link.
I know you don't care about the worm activity, but it costs the ISPs a lot of money to be hauling that traffic.
And that would be a great benefit for the one percent of users that would dare to get into their own laptop. The difficulty of replacing a keyboard varies by model, but it's not difficult, although it can be something of a delicate operation, at least with mine where there is a thin ribbon cable for the keyboard and the pointer.
Seriously, if you want to save money on installation, why not just go all the way and buy the parts from eBay or some third party supplier instead? Before you go half-cocked, I've bought six computers and oodles of parts on eBay over the past three years and had very little trouble.
I know one guy that read the model number of a laptop LCD panel that he cracked, put into Google and found the part for like 40% of what CompUSSR told him it would cost, installed. Once you add the time spent replacing it, that is about half off. Not shabby.
First, paragraphs and whitespace are friendly and are easy to get along with.
Second, I do agree that in many ways, DVDs are more sensitive than CD.
The quickest fix I've seen is just to use a disposable eyeglass wipe, preferably the ones that are safe for anti-reflective lenses. Use these to wipe the disc radially from the center. The pits are a lot smaller and I think they are a lot more succeptible to optical distortions of whatever invisible film is on the disc.
I also see better read rates on CDs too when I do this.
I'm not bothered by the multi-DVI connection, that bandwidth is needed. Actually, it appears that Apple used a double DVI standard which sends the 2x the DVI signal over one connector. Not too shabby.
I suspect that the DPI issues will be resolved before these displays become commonplace.
I too hate the 1280x1024 resolution. It should have been 1280x960 in the first place, or be 1365x1024.
One thing I've read in a few places is that Mac OS X doesn't do dpi scaling properly. I've seen places that claimed that W-XP does, but that also depends on software that handles it, even some of Microsoft's own software doesn't handle it well.
Toys for the rich? I thought most slashdotters were smart enough to know that it rarely remains that way.
I remember a time when people said that about the original Pentium. Nobody ever needed that amount of power./sarcasm
And that 3840x2400 resolution should give your graphics card a workout trying to render your FPS games at biggie frame rates.
Fine. These are supposed to be for high end professional use, not gaming. Gaming will be eventually.
I don't have the money, but I want to see a 300dpi display. That's what I'd consider near-laser-quality such that the detail you see on the screen is closer to what you'd see on a printout. The standard 90-100 dpi isn't enough. I have a 125 dpi laptop display and I love it.
I turned on one pixel on my monitor and can hardly even see it!
I'd rather have the dpi go sub-perceptive. I can see individual pixels just fine.
Most fonts are rendered one pixel wide on the standard displays. Can you not read them? Of course, I hope the rendering is properly scaled, I like high dpi for the clean lines.
I think diesels are great, they have minimal CO2 production, but IIRC, combustion creates a lot of nitrates and particulates. That was one major reason why they are so hard to certify for US use. It doesn't help thta the US allows too much sulfurs in diesel.
VW does sell TDI in Jetta and New Beatle but VW overall is apparently losing reliability awards by a sizable margin.
I'm surprised a GM gets the guzzler tax, I thought they had a corporate edict to not sell cars that are hit with it.
Unfortunately, I hate SUVs, but when you have a situation where the politicians are inundated by the UAW and the big three to not enact higher economy standards on trucks, that's what you'd expect.
It's funny that you mention the GTO. Right after the Big Three won their stay from fuel economy on trucks so they can "protect" American workers, GM announced that they'd import their GTOs from their Australian branch.
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I meant "not that I've heard of IPv9".
What happened to versions 5, 7 and 8 anyway? Is the article even real?
I thought this IPv9 was supposed to add some sort of security and managability, not IP addresses. Not that I've heard of IPv6. Not sure what computer systems can use it.
I don't think the US goverment really needs appreciation.
While one is worse than the other, that still doesn't mean that both aren't undesirable, infringing or wrong.
I think the US government should be rightfully criticized for a level of surveilence that is likely illegal, or was highly illegal before the PATRIOT was enacted.
The existence of MATRIX and ECHELON aren't exactly winning my confidence in the US government. The kind of things that they fail to cover up completely makes me wonder what they did manage to cover up, just didn't get any people with enough guts to be whistle blowers?
For a government that is supposed to be about checks and balances, neither seem to be used much.
It is a driver. nVidia, ATI, Matrox, etc. act as if releasing how to code for their hardware will expose to their competitors their precious designs. Does any new Matrox board even work well in 2D in Linux anymore?
They, and by a similar token, wireless network chip makers, are kind of counterpoint to the entire IC industry. Most semiconductor manufacturers freely give away information on how to use their product, even giving away free, non-obfuscated source code!
I really doubt the economic ramifications on drivers. They are in the business of selling hardware, not software, and if the drivers don't work satisfactorily, there's no way to fix them, why bother with the hardware?
One thing I find funny is that there are so many geeks that complain that the iPod is overpriced or expensive, but when a new $500 graphics card comes to town, the complaints about its pricing is relatively muted.
Ah well. I don't own a portable file player but if I decided one would fit my needs, I'd strongly consider an iPod, but not ignore the competition outright. It's just that the competition doesn't seem so relevant or as balanced in comparison at the moment either.
If we could take that to heart -- make an Open system that had a single high quality choice for every function you could like, instead of one based on thousands of discordant choices -- well, there'd be no stopping us.
I wish. Too many geeks can't give up the petty emacs vs. vi, Star Wars vs. Star Trek, Kirk vs. Picard, KDE vs. Gnome arguments even if to save their own lives. Linus started Linux because he didn't like Minux, and he still had BSD as a viable option.
On the other hand, a well-made online game tends to have a huge replay lifespan. Perhaps that is why Nintendo is hestitant to embrace them?
If the online players only account for a tiny fraction of gaming, why put so much development effort into it? If you make an on-line only game, you are limited to the number of subscribers.
I sure as heck don't want to pay a monthly subscription, although the games can be less predictable than the standard AI and give a better gameplay provided you don't get the type of opponents that give you the "m0tHerwh0r3shi7c0ck" language and associated stupidity.
There's also arcades, which used to give the same kind of competition and high replay value. It's too bad those aren't what they used to be.
It is hard to when those things charge you $1 for a few minutes of play, versus a rental which you pay a few dollars for two evenings or so.
Then there's the whole "I can't be bothered to properly maintain my systems" bit that the arcade owners get themselves into. I wouldn't pay a dollar for a few minutes on a screen whose colors have shifted so the reds and greens are each tilted and skewed away from each other.
I think Nintendo would be silly not to put a network interface on the next generation system. I doubt it is prohibitively expensive to put a 10/100 chip on board.
I still don't think I'd blame them for not putting it on the current system. When GC was released, I don't think PS2 had a net interface available, and I don't think I remember XBox details having been announced.
It seems silly given that I've heard that the WaveBird controller uses 802.11, and the GBA DS will have the same for interconnecting to other DS systems.
Let business be free to manipulate their customers! It's good for the economy.
Having people take your life savings and spending it as they choose is definitely good for the economy.
It appears that CERT is officially under DoHS - at least that is what Yahoo implies.
Keep in mind that this is the same DoHS that got a D+ in computer security a few months ago.
On the subject of IP, the only inherent problem in IPv4 was that nobody expected us to try hooking everything including the kitchen sink - literally - to the Internet.
Doesn't IP have four million digits? Give one to each person alive and you are past exhausted. I suspect that half of them don't care or have far more pressing needs such as clean food, water and shelter. Even the IP problem is something about distribution if MIT has a class A, and HP has two (one for HP, one from Compaq), and I doubt they use a fraction of them.
But, one thing to remember is that, why should a refrigerator get internet access by a specific IP? I don't want outsiders to be able initiate connections, do I? Even with a firewall, I think that's asking for trouble.
The MD player itslef is larger and heavier than the ipod, with more moving parts. I like the access to all of my music at once.
The implied statement is that it is less reliable? I don't think so. I've dropped my MD player onto concrete numerous times while during playback, and this is one that didn't have the benefit of "parking" the heads like a mini hard drive player might.
The MD player / recorder I have has about the same volume (but different shape) as an iPod mini.
There are MD-Data drives. I've seen them with my own eyes, but you are right, none of the ones I've found are portable.
How much does that Flash card cost again? MDs are easily available at about $1 a piece in quantities of ten or twenty.
Funny that site doesn't have dimensions. The size of the hard drive is the only thing mentioned, but there's a lot of other stuff in the package to bulk that up a bit.
It does look like a nice little device though, but that depends on the dimensions. I'm curious how they can make money on them. A 4GB microdrive or whatever can be pretty expensive.
Though if your kid can learn C++ I presume he's probably mature enough
Ability does not equal maturity. Kids can do a lot of things, for many of them, it takes true maturity to NOT do them.
Knowledge does not equal wisdom, maturity or effort for that matter. A lot of people know things are bad for them, like unprotected sex, reckless driving, smoking and so on, but a great many people still do all of these despite knowing the dangers.
I think that assumes Lynx can't be used? The content people think is inappropriate for their children doesn't always involve GIFs and JPGs.
If you want a say in what children should and should not be involved in, raise your own.
The quality at a given small bitrate is fine if one is trying to fit the best balance of quantity and quality on a 512MB flash player, but..
The thing is, given that a better codec generally saves space for a given sound quality, and that the codecs aren't that drastically different when given a more comfortable bitrate, I don't see the point. Just encode at a higher bit rate. Hard drives are cheap.
This opinion of mine is getting entrenched more so now that the hard drive players are on the verge of exceeding 60GB storage, is there a point? The current ones that do play ogg are IMO kind of ugly and ungainly.
If you want unfettered internet access, it is called a T1. Look it up. You signed up for a less expensive service in exchange for a few restrictions. No consumer-level ISP is out to provide you 100% unfettered service. You should have checked your terms of service before you signed on, the ISPs I've seen have it pretty clear that subscribers are not allowed to run servers through that link.
I know you don't care about the worm activity, but it costs the ISPs a lot of money to be hauling that traffic.
And that would be a great benefit for the one percent of users that would dare to get into their own laptop. The difficulty of replacing a keyboard varies by model, but it's not difficult, although it can be something of a delicate operation, at least with mine where there is a thin ribbon cable for the keyboard and the pointer.
Seriously, if you want to save money on installation, why not just go all the way and buy the parts from eBay or some third party supplier instead? Before you go half-cocked, I've bought six computers and oodles of parts on eBay over the past three years and had very little trouble.
I know one guy that read the model number of a laptop LCD panel that he cracked, put into Google and found the part for like 40% of what CompUSSR told him it would cost, installed. Once you add the time spent replacing it, that is about half off. Not shabby.
First, paragraphs and whitespace are friendly and are easy to get along with.
Second, I do agree that in many ways, DVDs are more sensitive than CD.
The quickest fix I've seen is just to use a disposable eyeglass wipe, preferably the ones that are safe for anti-reflective lenses. Use these to wipe the disc radially from the center. The pits are a lot smaller and I think they are a lot more succeptible to optical distortions of whatever invisible film is on the disc.
I also see better read rates on CDs too when I do this.
Paragraphs should be your friend.
I'm not bothered by the multi-DVI connection, that bandwidth is needed. Actually, it appears that Apple used a double DVI standard which sends the 2x the DVI signal over one connector. Not too shabby.
I suspect that the DPI issues will be resolved before these displays become commonplace.
I too hate the 1280x1024 resolution. It should have been 1280x960 in the first place, or be 1365x1024.
One thing I've read in a few places is that Mac OS X doesn't do dpi scaling properly. I've seen places that claimed that W-XP does, but that also depends on software that handles it, even some of Microsoft's own software doesn't handle it well.
Toys for the rich? I thought most slashdotters were smart enough to know that it rarely remains that way.
/sarcasm
I remember a time when people said that about the original Pentium. Nobody ever needed that amount of power.
And that 3840x2400 resolution should give your graphics card a workout trying to render your FPS games at biggie frame rates.
Fine. These are supposed to be for high end professional use, not gaming. Gaming will be eventually.
I don't have the money, but I want to see a 300dpi display. That's what I'd consider near-laser-quality such that the detail you see on the screen is closer to what you'd see on a printout. The standard 90-100 dpi isn't enough. I have a 125 dpi laptop display and I love it.
I turned on one pixel on my monitor and can hardly even see it!
I'd rather have the dpi go sub-perceptive. I can see individual pixels just fine.
Most fonts are rendered one pixel wide on the standard displays. Can you not read them? Of course, I hope the rendering is properly scaled, I like high dpi for the clean lines.
I think diesels are great, they have minimal CO2 production, but IIRC, combustion creates a lot of nitrates and particulates. That was one major reason why they are so hard to certify for US use. It doesn't help thta the US allows too much sulfurs in diesel.
VW does sell TDI in Jetta and New Beatle but VW overall is apparently losing reliability awards by a sizable margin.
Unfortunately, it is heavily politicized.
I'm surprised a GM gets the guzzler tax, I thought they had a corporate edict to not sell cars that are hit with it.
Unfortunately, I hate SUVs, but when you have a situation where the politicians are inundated by the UAW and the big three to not enact higher economy standards on trucks, that's what you'd expect.
It's funny that you mention the GTO. Right after the Big Three won their stay from fuel economy on trucks so they can "protect" American workers, GM announced that they'd import their GTOs from their Australian branch.