A police state is what Bush wants and a police state does exactly what you are referring to - slows down technology, slows down science (heck, Bush doesn't even know what science is) and slows down innovation and adoption of technologies.
A Bush vision of freedom is conformity. If you don't play by "american" rules you don't fit in and we will oppress you.
When i see people with "Another 4 years" stickers on there car it makes me sick as a HUMAN to know another HUMAN supports such a "beast" as our president.
How can people be so ignorant of society, people, and humans in general to support such a "beast"???
I love america, i love our values and our society - but not as a whole. I love america because i love the beauty of our country, our land and the history of the growth of our country. I love segments of our society and people with values - i don't oppress or try and control the peaces i "don't love" and that is yet again part of what america is.
Being oppressive of other countries and misleading people into believing we are liberating people through the means of war disgusts me as an american, as a person and as a human.
Peace is found through understanding, learning and processes of agreements, arrangements and most importantly through TRUST. Liberation through force doesn't offer ANY of that and liberation through force is an impossibility.
Thank you Bush for "liberating" iraq in the name of your "war on terrorism" while half of america falls.
Thank you bush for your police state vision and the hindering of freedom of choice, freedom of growth and the control of all aspects of life. Thank you for making corporate america part of your doctorine and vision of "peace".
Thanks for making it impossible to be a part of society and live within the means of my family.
What does this have to do with the hurricane and space ships - it goes back to the police state values our president has in that it doesn't matter to him so it doesn't matter to america.
Just like stem cell research doesn't matter to his wife so it doesn't matter to america.
The success of my family and my freedoms and what i value as freedoms don't matter to him so it doesn't matter to america.
I grew up with a dream to be an astronaut and the dreams of what exploration can offer - but it doesn't matter to bush's america. The only value of space exploration to bush is to increase his so called popularity.
If he had a real vision for america it wouldn't be under the guise of terrorism and compassion. It would be for the sake of humanity.
Americans should grow up and see that everyone in the world is a human no matter how unique and different they are - a believer in faith or science - we are all humans.
4 more years and what right will our children have to understand or even conceive of the values we appreciated today and yesterday.
The problem with america is the corporate behimoths that run the internet don't realize the social implications of the internet - in both computing and comminications respects.
Comcast doesn't want me to get 100mbit because i could then choose who i want to get my HD services from.
Verizon doesn't want to sell me 100mbit because i could choose who i want to get my voip/long distance from.
They both cap my outbound services so if i WANT the above stated services i have to pay for there premium "content" services and get crap i don't or will not use.
Corporate giants FEAR loosing control thus they limit technology until government laws and limits are set - these limits are usually artificial based upon corporate numbers thrown around and the ineptness to deliver anything based upon current technology.
In america the econmy is supported by "profits" and only "profits". Its not based upon the society needs of communications. In corporate america "networking" is still a verbal skill. Corporate americas has yet to understand the value or freedom of "network is the computer" scenerious of desktop sharing, application sharing, open storage systems, grid computing and freedom of information"
Corporate america wants me to pay for everything as a utility service instead of al-a-carte "facility" type service.
Utility is monopolistic in practice and design and the internet can't function or grow in markets where the utility is controlled by corporate vision instead of consumer demand.
The real implementation will be done through Avalon and Indigo API's that will be part of the longhorn release and made available on 2000,xp and 2003 os's.
This project aims to seperate the distinction of remote/local applications as well as migrate the interface to vector based rendering among other things.
The reason microsoft is building up its existing infrastructure using its outdated components is to simply compete in the market while they fine toon the technology that "could" revolutionize the market as well.
Who knows, maybe microsoft could produce a runtime like there.NET implementation that would allow linux/unix/other OS vendors to run the applications.
Video cards were just one aspect of "consumeristic" computing that i felt like citing. Geforce 3 cards are an excellent proof to my point that well designed and technologically advanced ahrdware can outlast the latest "consumer" versions that only boast minor improvements.
If you want another example - figrue this. I bought an Ultra160 SCSI rig with 10k rpms for 700 bucks 3 years ago. Say you have bought an ATA 66, ATA 133 and now an SATA rig over those last 3 years. The "consumer" technology is still slower than the SCSI technology as well as over those years of upgrades the "long run" figurative cost is cheaper than the short term "consumeristic" costs.
Not too mention its taken years for people to figure in scalable IDE solutions and even now firewire and USB technologies are gathering up steam to compete.
However - you can by a shared bandwidth USB device and upgrade and upgrade and upgrade and move to usb 2.0 and only see a franction of the performance and value that a firewire setup would have cost you. Again - while firewire was a larger initial cost its technology has outlasted the "consumer usb device" simple because it was engineered over time for being a serial interface to high speed devices.
ofcourse firewire "b" is out and you can uprgade as with any technology advancement - my point is that if you chose firewire vs usb 1.0 when they both were announced years ago the firewire technology at "a" release is comparible to the many revisions of the USB "consumer" technology and the cost is moot over time.
Just choose a technology company and not a consumer company to be your vendor - while you may not have the latest and greatest specint scores your overall capacity, performance and useabaility over the time will be better, cheaper and more reliable.
Contractors are in high demand because of corporate emericas addiction to "project planning" (instead of IT Planning in general) and thus i highly doubt that querying corporate america is reflective even of a few percentage points of the entire market.
Those with highly demanded skills usually have a high turnover. I quite being "full time" myself because all i could get was a year, maybe 2 in full time before the job was turning me into something i wasn't.
Full timers these days usually get stuck "in the groove" usually doing more political and beaureucratic office day-to-day busy work rather then "technical implementation or design".
Sorry about my spelling but my allergy medicine is frying my b rain today.
Look up HyperTransport and the reason why the memory controller is onboard on opterons and you will see that they're working on this.
On the flipside, HD/Video card companies make money off SLOWING DOWN technology so people get hooked and play the upgrade game.
Companies don't make money off selling something that lasts 5 years anymore... they make money off selling something you buy every year. Thanks to consumer demand. We don't want to pay 500 bucks for a video card that lasts 5 years, we want to upgrade every year with a video card that costs 100 bucks.
Longrun price is the same, but in the short term consumers think they're getting a better deal and for ultra-consumers it feeds the addiction.
Bosnia was NOT an occupation by a single country it was a combination of NATO forces and UN sanctions and independent states that fought for the freedom of all the people oppressed in that war. If you wanted to compare iraq to bosnia we really should have worked with Nato and UN whenever sadamm gassed his own countrymen rather then wait until OIL was an issue.
Thankfully with Bosnia OIL and MONEY were NOT the issue. That was truely a war for freedom of many people
Don't forget Clinton and the DMCA.
DMCA was an attemp to setup digital controls on digital content. Atleast Clinton didn't come from the angle of pushing for "Fast Track" laws and obscene controls. The agenda was the protection of digital copyrights and atleast the crimes were civil.
It took Bush to turn it into the patriotic act and make computer "crimes" on the same par as terrorism - simply because they associate computer issues as a disription to the global economy.
Don't forget Clinton and some of the tax breaks passed during his time in office.
Geez, its fine to pass tax breaks when your not in a deficit. Last time i heard when Clinton left - he left a nice deficit.
How about these facts:
* Bush lied about Iraq
* Bush lied about WMD
* Our vice presidents company is making billions from an unjust war
* Occupation isn't Democracy - How can Bush claim a "just war" whenever no war is JUST.
* Freedom is the choice to live your life as YOU see fit. Not as your government sees fit. Bush is die hard on FREEDOM but over the last 3+ years we have lost MORE freedoms than under ANY president i can remember in my 28 years of being alive.
The scarriest thing in the world is Bush is taking down every "checks and balances" that our country has LIVED UPON and THRIVED UPON over the dozens of decades we have existed. Under Bush the president will be able to decided whatever he sees fit without consultation, without checks and without consideration of the other aspects of government.
It wasn't the CIA that failed to determine the issues of 9/11 before hand - It was the lack of foreign policy and the failures of many that lead us to 9/11. Why disband the CIA when the president should be impeached so we can keep the system of checks and balances and security measures in place that have protected our great nation for hundreds of years. Bush doesn't want us to live under the notion of freedom - He wants us to live on the pretense of security by defending his agenda of freedom.
Lack of consumer education isn't microsofts fault.
I honestly believe that in the modern computing erra - the "network is the computer" and people should focus on securring the network to have a secure computer so that competant administrators are running a SECURE network instead of expecting every joe schmoe connected to it to understand that.
Microsoft makes it easy for the average joe to do the average job - that means office, excell, web browsing, graphics work, cad and what not.
Linux is just about there - but not quite. - Is that a fault of microsoft - no - its a fault of the advocacy simply spreading FUD vs spreading knowledge and facts.
free software is a choice for your computing solution - it isn't the answer. I chose windows because it gets the job done just like i chose linux for the very same reasons.
For development, i preferr linux - for day to day i preferr windows - simply because its easy. Easy to install, quick to boot, easy to support and short on requirements. I usually don't need to google on how to install photoshop or tweak my desktop. I just plug in and go and install a few updates (which is the same for any os..)
Again, secure the networks - Protect your networks from spam, protect your networks from virii, protect your networks from intrusions and setup a trusted computing platform based on a secure foundation.
The OS/PC is only a client to your network and the network is the foundation of your enterprise. Whatever TOOL you use ot solve your cient needs is irrespective of anything the government or courts are going to side - what should be happening is the government should be suing lame isp's, lame networks and lame schools for allowing blatent infringements on laws and lame security policies.
There is just NO way in todays world a software solution will be 100% secure - You have to protect your access from the base layer up.
It doesn't take THAT much computer resources to index your individual PC. There are efforts and programs that will use lucene to index your pc and you can query the index quickly and with low memory overhead even with the expense of a JVM loaded.
The theory of search is scallable - just the amount of documents on your PC is of such a low scale that even low end PC's would return results quickly.
True, raw audio is smaller than raw hdtv but even when broadcasting/imaging HDTV you don't use the full bandwidth of 4 bits per pixel so there is some "loss"
The increase to full 4:2:2 HDTV video at 1080p (progressive scan) and 384kbps variable bitrate audio would smoke just about everything out there and COULD happen with this technology relatively soon.
Atleast with some compression, a good codec and variable bitrate your not storing a bunch of "white noise" in data that could be used for video:)
I have a 120" projection screen - Current DVD-A audio sounds great to me - however Video sampling in large screens needs lots of work and the bandwidth & storage capacity of these disks would alleviate those issues.
Hopefully technology like this could put an and to D-VHS and low density (by this standard) Blue Ray and HD-DVD wannabees.
I have to say what the hell would you need that much space for anyway?
Digital video applications would be great for this type of density. Just think of watching a raw-encoded HDTV.ts stream of a 4 hour show at 1920x1080p on a digital projection system without any lossy compression and not to mention plenty of space for a variable bitrate 384kbps per channel surround sound track.
Movie theaters could publish entire movies in hi-def on a single 12cm disk rather than a 45lb set of reels that are expensive to ship, bulky to handle as well as expensive to produce.
Not only would movie markets love this, but anything related to imaging, science and especially seismic & charting companies. Just imagine being able to contain an entire 3d map os seismic data of the earths crust across an entire ocean on a single disk.
What do you mean no developers? The only hold out i'm aware of are Sony owned or Nintendo own companies.
Even EA has seen the light of day and will offer broad support of Xbox Live.
i think the PS2 has dead monkeys developing for it with all the crap that comes out. Goes for any console for that matter.
As for Console vs PC, there will not be a distinction in the near future. DRM will enforce console like licensing & features on your PC and now that PC/Gaming "conversion" is coming on quickly and affordably (pc's were too expensive for market acceptance and performance) it won't be long before we just have "Consumer" devices.
The XBOX has better HDTV support but both are on par for DVD playback.
DVD players are a dime a dozen these days.. may as well make your selection on games and what you want.
Obviously if you have HDTV i would suggest that you get the appropriate equipment to really enjoy HDTV content - like a Bravo D1 upconverting DVD player or similar product or wait a few months until the HD DVD standards are finished.
I had a hotmail account from before microsoft owned it and i got killed because someone reported me as spamming the newsgroups - simply because i used my hotmail account to post to the old Deja news web news interface selling sun hardware on the comp.sun.hardware.forsale:) I had linked to an ebay auction so i guess it was considered "spam" to link to an ebay auction at that time.
I'm just curious if you have any rights and how the ever popular Gmail and growing yahoo mail will treat complaints as in my case it was someone upset with something i did claiming spam and not abuse by anymeans worth of terminating a long standing account and prohibiting me from accessing years of archived mail that was lost because of the cancellation.
They did email me i got a free passport account though. Funny i'm terminated but then they try and push something with real potential for abuse and sensitivity:)
Being the owner of Mozdex.com i was proud to find out that my name gets tossed around the Google campus and it appears some of the ideas of my project as well as the developers of the Nutch, Lucene and Egothore projects have been heard.
I'm not to sure what google would actually release, however it is interesting they're trying to back pedal on some of there policies and recent patents they had been filling
I don't wear a tinfoil hat, but i don't like the enormity and control google is pushing over the search engine world as well as the advertising/contextual marketing world. They have some of the most assinine Terms of Services and agreement policies i have ever seen. basically if you choose google you have to walk on pins and needles because you don't (nor never will) know how they operate and nor do you know if they will change something that will lead you to loosig all of your revenue or being banned, kicked or whatever they choose.
Google has perception of "love" but if you look at there tactics and what they plan on doing (as well as upcoming PATENTS) i find it hard to believe anyone would "love" google more than microsoft.
They're both aiming to be giants bigger than any corporation should be and having more control over data then one company should be.
I just edited the/etc/yum.conf and added the lines to the 1.92 release (rc3) and ran the yum update / upgrade and it worked fine.
I don't run LVM, however i was running the raid and tons of other features.
Machines are much more stable with rc3, so i'm anxious to plug the final in. Kernel 2.6 is much more reliable on HT & Xeons for me running java stuff in this release
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That goes for any company.. It took Apple years to get iTunes/iPod and OS/x vision together and then months longer to bring it to windows platform.
A police state is what Bush wants and a police state does exactly what you are referring to - slows down technology, slows down science (heck, Bush doesn't even know what science is) and slows down innovation and adoption of technologies.
A Bush vision of freedom is conformity. If you don't play by "american" rules you don't fit in and we will oppress you.
When i see people with "Another 4 years" stickers on there car it makes me sick as a HUMAN to know another HUMAN supports such a "beast" as our president.
How can people be so ignorant of society, people, and humans in general to support such a "beast"???
I love america, i love our values and our society - but not as a whole. I love america because i love the beauty of our country, our land and the history of the growth of our country. I love segments of our society and people with values - i don't oppress or try and control the peaces i "don't love" and that is yet again part of what america is.
Being oppressive of other countries and misleading people into believing we are liberating people through the means of war disgusts me as an american, as a person and as a human.
Peace is found through understanding, learning and processes of agreements, arrangements and most importantly through TRUST. Liberation through force doesn't offer ANY of that and liberation through force is an impossibility.
Thank you Bush for "liberating" iraq in the name of your "war on terrorism" while half of america falls.
Thank you bush for your police state vision and the hindering of freedom of choice, freedom of growth and the control of all aspects of life. Thank you for making corporate america part of your doctorine and vision of "peace".
Thanks for making it impossible to be a part of society and live within the means of my family.
What does this have to do with the hurricane and space ships - it goes back to the police state values our president has in that it doesn't matter to him so it doesn't matter to america.
Just like stem cell research doesn't matter to his wife so it doesn't matter to america.
The success of my family and my freedoms and what i value as freedoms don't matter to him so it doesn't matter to america.
I grew up with a dream to be an astronaut and the dreams of what exploration can offer - but it doesn't matter to bush's america. The only value of space exploration to bush is to increase his so called popularity.
If he had a real vision for america it wouldn't be under the guise of terrorism and compassion. It would be for the sake of humanity.
Americans should grow up and see that everyone in the world is a human no matter how unique and different they are - a believer in faith or science - we are all humans.
4 more years and what right will our children have to understand or even conceive of the values we appreciated today and yesterday.
The problem with america is the corporate behimoths that run the internet don't realize the social implications of the internet - in both computing and comminications respects.
Comcast doesn't want me to get 100mbit because i could then choose who i want to get my HD services from.
Verizon doesn't want to sell me 100mbit because i could choose who i want to get my voip/long distance from.
They both cap my outbound services so if i WANT the above stated services i have to pay for there premium "content" services and get crap i don't or will not use.
Corporate giants FEAR loosing control thus they limit technology until government laws and limits are set - these limits are usually artificial based upon corporate numbers thrown around and the ineptness to deliver anything based upon current technology.
In america the econmy is supported by "profits" and only "profits". Its not based upon the society needs of communications. In corporate america "networking" is still a verbal skill. Corporate americas has yet to understand the value or freedom of "network is the computer" scenerious of desktop sharing, application sharing, open storage systems, grid computing and freedom of information"
Corporate america wants me to pay for everything as a utility service instead of al-a-carte "facility" type service.
Utility is monopolistic in practice and design and the internet can't function or grow in markets where the utility is controlled by corporate vision instead of consumer demand.
The real implementation will be done through Avalon and Indigo API's that will be part of the longhorn release and made available on 2000,xp and 2003 os's.
.NET implementation that would allow linux/unix/other OS vendors to run the applications.
This project aims to seperate the distinction of remote/local applications as well as migrate the interface to vector based rendering among other things.
The reason microsoft is building up its existing infrastructure using its outdated components is to simply compete in the market while they fine toon the technology that "could" revolutionize the market as well.
Who knows, maybe microsoft could produce a runtime like there
Video cards were just one aspect of "consumeristic" computing that i felt like citing. Geforce 3 cards are an excellent proof to my point that well designed and technologically advanced ahrdware can outlast the latest "consumer" versions that only boast minor improvements.
If you want another example - figrue this. I bought an Ultra160 SCSI rig with 10k rpms for 700 bucks 3 years ago. Say you have bought an ATA 66, ATA 133 and now an SATA rig over those last 3 years. The "consumer" technology is still slower than the SCSI technology as well as over those years of upgrades the "long run" figurative cost is cheaper than the short term "consumeristic" costs.
Not too mention its taken years for people to figure in scalable IDE solutions and even now firewire and USB technologies are gathering up steam to compete.
However - you can by a shared bandwidth USB device and upgrade and upgrade and upgrade and move to usb 2.0 and only see a franction of the performance and value that a firewire setup would have cost you. Again - while firewire was a larger initial cost its technology has outlasted the "consumer usb device" simple because it was engineered over time for being a serial interface to high speed devices.
ofcourse firewire "b" is out and you can uprgade as with any technology advancement - my point is that if you chose firewire vs usb 1.0 when they both were announced years ago the firewire technology at "a" release is comparible to the many revisions of the USB "consumer" technology and the cost is moot over time.
Just choose a technology company and not a consumer company to be your vendor - while you may not have the latest and greatest specint scores your overall capacity, performance and useabaility over the time will be better, cheaper and more reliable.
Contractors are in high demand because of corporate emericas addiction to "project planning" (instead of IT Planning in general) and thus i highly doubt that querying corporate america is reflective even of a few percentage points of the entire market.
Those with highly demanded skills usually have a high turnover. I quite being "full time" myself because all i could get was a year, maybe 2 in full time before the job was turning me into something i wasn't.
Full timers these days usually get stuck "in the groove" usually doing more political and beaureucratic office day-to-day busy work rather then "technical implementation or design".
Sorry about my spelling but my allergy medicine is frying my b rain today.
Look up HyperTransport and the reason why the memory controller is onboard on opterons and you will see that they're working on this.
On the flipside, HD/Video card companies make money off SLOWING DOWN technology so people get hooked and play the upgrade game.
Companies don't make money off selling something that lasts 5 years anymore... they make money off selling something you buy every year. Thanks to consumer demand. We don't want to pay 500 bucks for a video card that lasts 5 years, we want to upgrade every year with a video card that costs 100 bucks.
Longrun price is the same, but in the short term consumers think they're getting a better deal and for ultra-consumers it feeds the addiction.
Bosnia was NOT an occupation by a single country it was a combination of NATO forces and UN sanctions and independent states that fought for the freedom of all the people oppressed in that war. If you wanted to compare iraq to bosnia we really should have worked with Nato and UN whenever sadamm gassed his own countrymen rather then wait until OIL was an issue.
Thankfully with Bosnia OIL and MONEY were NOT the issue. That was truely a war for freedom of many people
DMCA was an attemp to setup digital controls on digital content. Atleast Clinton didn't come from the angle of pushing for "Fast Track" laws and obscene controls. The agenda was the protection of digital copyrights and atleast the crimes were civil.
It took Bush to turn it into the patriotic act and make computer "crimes" on the same par as terrorism - simply because they associate computer issues as a disription to the global economy.
Geez, its fine to pass tax breaks when your not in a deficit. Last time i heard when Clinton left - he left a nice deficit.
How about these facts:
* Bush lied about Iraq
* Bush lied about WMD
* Our vice presidents company is making billions from an unjust war
* Occupation isn't Democracy - How can Bush claim a "just war" whenever no war is JUST.
* Freedom is the choice to live your life as YOU see fit. Not as your government sees fit. Bush is die hard on FREEDOM but over the last 3+ years we have lost MORE freedoms than under ANY president i can remember in my 28 years of being alive.
The scarriest thing in the world is Bush is taking down every "checks and balances" that our country has LIVED UPON and THRIVED UPON over the dozens of decades we have existed. Under Bush the president will be able to decided whatever he sees fit without consultation, without checks and without consideration of the other aspects of government.
It wasn't the CIA that failed to determine the issues of 9/11 before hand - It was the lack of foreign policy and the failures of many that lead us to 9/11. Why disband the CIA when the president should be impeached so we can keep the system of checks and balances and security measures in place that have protected our great nation for hundreds of years. Bush doesn't want us to live under the notion of freedom - He wants us to live on the pretense of security by defending his agenda of freedom.
That is downright scary.
Lack of consumer education isn't microsofts fault.
I honestly believe that in the modern computing erra - the "network is the computer" and people should focus on securring the network to have a secure computer so that competant administrators are running a SECURE network instead of expecting every joe schmoe connected to it to understand that.
Microsoft makes it easy for the average joe to do the average job - that means office, excell, web browsing, graphics work, cad and what not.
Linux is just about there - but not quite. - Is that a fault of microsoft - no - its a fault of the advocacy simply spreading FUD vs spreading knowledge and facts.
free software is a choice for your computing solution - it isn't the answer. I chose windows because it gets the job done just like i chose linux for the very same reasons.
For development, i preferr linux - for day to day i preferr windows - simply because its easy. Easy to install, quick to boot, easy to support and short on requirements. I usually don't need to google on how to install photoshop or tweak my desktop. I just plug in and go and install a few updates (which is the same for any os..)
Again, secure the networks - Protect your networks from spam, protect your networks from virii, protect your networks from intrusions and setup a trusted computing platform based on a secure foundation.
The OS/PC is only a client to your network and the network is the foundation of your enterprise. Whatever TOOL you use ot solve your cient needs is irrespective of anything the government or courts are going to side - what should be happening is the government should be suing lame isp's, lame networks and lame schools for allowing blatent infringements on laws and lame security policies.
There is just NO way in todays world a software solution will be 100% secure - You have to protect your access from the base layer up.
It doesn't take THAT much computer resources to index your individual PC. There are efforts and programs that will use lucene to index your pc and you can query the index quickly and with low memory overhead even with the expense of a JVM loaded.
The theory of search is scallable - just the amount of documents on your PC is of such a low scale that even low end PC's would return results quickly.
last time i checked the opteron lines had the memory controller on the chip hence the lightning fast fsb support at almost native clockrates..
True, raw audio is smaller than raw hdtv but even when broadcasting/imaging HDTV you don't use the full bandwidth of 4 bits per pixel so there is some "loss"
:)
The increase to full 4:2:2 HDTV video at 1080p (progressive scan) and 384kbps variable bitrate audio would smoke just about everything out there and COULD happen with this technology relatively soon.
Atleast with some compression, a good codec and variable bitrate your not storing a bunch of "white noise" in data that could be used for video
I have a 120" projection screen - Current DVD-A audio sounds great to me - however Video sampling in large screens needs lots of work and the bandwidth & storage capacity of these disks would alleviate those issues.
Hopefully technology like this could put an and to D-VHS and low density (by this standard) Blue Ray and HD-DVD wannabees.
Movie theaters could publish entire movies in hi-def on a single 12cm disk rather than a 45lb set of reels that are expensive to ship, bulky to handle as well as expensive to produce.
Not only would movie markets love this, but anything related to imaging, science and especially seismic & charting companies. Just imagine being able to contain an entire 3d map os seismic data of the earths crust across an entire ocean on a single disk.
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What? War was their best album!!
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Uhm... War as in "war" not the album labeled war
You know - death, bombs, genocide, hitler and shit
This got modded up as insightfull?
What do you mean no developers? The only hold out i'm aware of are Sony owned or Nintendo own companies.
Even EA has seen the light of day and will offer broad support of Xbox Live.
i think the PS2 has dead monkeys developing for it with all the crap that comes out. Goes for any console for that matter.
As for Console vs PC, there will not be a distinction in the near future. DRM will enforce console like licensing & features on your PC and now that PC/Gaming "conversion" is coming on quickly and affordably (pc's were too expensive for market acceptance and performance) it won't be long before we just have "Consumer" devices.
The XBOX has better HDTV support but both are on par for DVD playback.
:)
DVD players are a dime a dozen these days.. may as well make your selection on games and what you want.
Obviously if you have HDTV i would suggest that you get the appropriate equipment to really enjoy HDTV content - like a Bravo D1 upconverting DVD player or similar product or wait a few months until the HD DVD standards are finished.
A console works best as a console
Last time i checked the IRS 1040 forms had a section specifically to un reimbursed work related expenses.
Sure, its only a tax break but what the hey. Electronic leases suck anyway. Sounds like your employeer is a real dweeb anyhow
I'm just curious if you have any rights and how the ever popular Gmail and growing yahoo mail will treat complaints as in my case it was someone upset with something i did claiming spam and not abuse by anymeans worth of terminating a long standing account and prohibiting me from accessing years of archived mail that was lost because of the cancellation.
They did email me i got a free passport account though. Funny i'm terminated but then they try and push something with real potential for abuse and sensitivity
I'm not to sure what google would actually release, however it is interesting they're trying to back pedal on some of there policies and recent patents they had been filling
I don't wear a tinfoil hat, but i don't like the enormity and control google is pushing over the search engine world as well as the advertising/contextual marketing world. They have some of the most assinine Terms of Services and agreement policies i have ever seen. basically if you choose google you have to walk on pins and needles because you don't (nor never will) know how they operate and nor do you know if they will change something that will lead you to loosig all of your revenue or being banned, kicked or whatever they choose.
See what it is all about.
Google has perception of "love" but if you look at there tactics and what they plan on doing (as well as upcoming PATENTS) i find it hard to believe anyone would "love" google more than microsoft.
They're both aiming to be giants bigger than any corporation should be and having more control over data then one company should be.
Both are just as scary
All i had to do was
1. wget the latest "yum-2.0.7xxxx" rpm from the fastested mirror
2. wget the "fedora-release"
rpm -Uvh yum*
rpm -Uvh fedora-release*
yum update
yum upgrade
and i rebooted
Ofcourse, i have serial access into the server so i could watch grub and bootup process, so if you don't have direct access just be carefull.
I've upgraded from RH9, FC1 and FC2 RC2,3 and now FC2 all this way.
As gmail doesn't work with opera either.
:)
Thats worth another 12.5 million from google's purses
I just edited the /etc/yum.conf and added the lines to the 1.92 release (rc3) and ran the yum update / upgrade and it worked fine.
I don't run LVM, however i was running the raid and tons of other features.
Machines are much more stable with rc3, so i'm anxious to plug the final in. Kernel 2.6 is much more reliable on HT & Xeons for me running java stuff in this release
worked for me. I had one yum error but i was able to reboot and had no issues. This was on 5 servers as well.
I don't use LVM which apparently is the only big reason you would need the cd's and the installer to upgrade from what i understand.
i'm running FC2 rc3, so i'll yum up later on to the latest stable
I find it funny that something that has 25million un-moded versions out there has someone saying "0 since the device would not have been worth it"
Myself and 24,999,999 other people bought the xbox to play games and it does that much better then anything out there..
The fact that it can be "hacked" to be a media center is just icing on the cake.
However your claim of no value without the ability to circumvent its core use is pathetic.