I don't think this is about paranoia, this is about quality control. (Most)People who play with these machines associate all games with the manufacturer of the console, regardless of who really made the game. Sony, Sega etc. don't want to look bad because someone else messed up.
I am not saying this a good thing, just pointing out that not all systems are "closed" because of paranoia, but for others reasons that might make more sense. Quality control and a uniform UI make sense to me.
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If they would pop a DVD player in these boxes, this could be the major breakthrough for DVD. It overcomes the most obvious disadvantage of DVD: you can record stuff with this thing and enjoy high quality DVD in one machine.
It will also improve the quality of your recordings as VHS tapes tend to get bad real quickly if you use them a lot for recording. (Especially if you're too lazy to go out and buy new ones, like yours truly)
I would buy one of these things if it had DVD. The main reason i didn't buy a DVD player yet is that it can't replace my VCR.
If they would put DVD RAM in it, you would be able to extend your movie collection a bit. Even editing out the commercials would be relatively easy to accomplish, if they put in the right software.
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One of our clients has a fairly large LAN, quite a few users, and only a few central databases that have to be used from every location. Fairly low- speed lines are used to connect everything together. (most common speed is 64 - 128 kbit. We use MS terminal servers now, to give the users a decent performance and a GUI.
With this setup we have to maintain PC's, regular office servers and terminal servers. This setup also confuses the hell out of a lot of the users, as they are not able to discern between local and remote.
I can see definitely see an application here for this technology. It would make stuff easier for both users and sysadmins.
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Are there no privacy laws in the U.S. ? I'm from the Netherlands and we have fairly strict laws on privacy. Organisations always have to inform the people involved that they are/will be registered. Organisations even have to show you what they've got on you if you request it. (This does not apply to all information, criminal investigation stuff for example is different) When these laws came into effect all organisations had to inform you what info they had on you and for what purpose. This opened my eyes a bit. I never visited a church in my life and found out I had been registered there as a member all my life.
Could someone tell me how this works in the U.S. ?
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Actually Mac support for Voodoo 3 has been announced. The announcement stressed the fact that the drivers would be optimized for AltiVec. (or "the velocity engine" as Apple likes to refer to it)
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Notice the quotes ? Failure is in the eye of the beholder. From a buyers (which most of us are) point of view, i don't think Java failed. I don't think Linux will fail. Why ? Because I expect them both to be alternatives to Microsofts products and not replacements. Who needs another Microsoft? As a consumer I want competition for Microsofts products, because that will improve all products involved.
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I recall something on tv about this (might have been on the BBC:-) ) They showed a full GUI where you would feel more resistance if you dragged something on the screen. Someone who was interviewed even mentioned increasing resistance if something you were dragging was "heavy" for instance a folder containing a lot of data. Unfortunately I don't remember who was working on this. Anyone hear/see/read something on this ?
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I see that there is a relationship between danger and heart-rate. But how can you figure out if someone with a certain heart-rate is in actual danger ? High heart-rates can mean a number of things. I wouldn't like to have the police at my front door everytime I show my girlfriend how much I love her. Or would this rather work on the principle of heart-rate 0==not good. What if it's taken off then ?
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Americans never cease to amaze me. Why are sexual references corrupting, and why is it okay to kill Kenny ? (Actually I don't know Kenny so I don't have an opinion on whether it's okay to kill him;-) )
In this discussion about this rating thingie there seem to be two themes that, according to the peeps here, (don't) justify this rating.
Sex: It seems that victorian values are still in place. Sex is bad, especially when someone speaks about it or even covertly refers to it. Kids should be kept completely ignorant about the existance of anything remotely connected to sex. Why bother them with knowledge that could prevent teenage pregnancies and perhaps even sexual abuse. We wouldn't want to give the kids any ideas now would we ?
Violence: On the other hand it's apparently okay to show kids people being killed, mutilated or violated. Kids can judge what's real and what's not. Kids know satire when they see it. Kids know they shouldn't kill any reallife Kennies.
I don't want to say what's the best way to teach children values, or whether it's good to expose them to violence or sex. I just want to point out that there is a weird difference in the way these two issues are judged by a lot of people, even very intelligent ones.
Sidenote: A poll might be interesting: Would you rather have your kids: - having safe sex ? - beating people up ?
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I don't agree that harddrives aren't much faster then back in the seventies. Harddrives have something like 10 - 20 times faster (data tranfer rates). Even the access times have gone down a little. Ofcourse if you compare this to the way processors have evolved this doesn't seem like much, but when you look at the numbers they're still pretty impressive. Still, I would like to see some faster drives too. Not really sure on how the hdmakers are going to accomplish this though.
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There's something in the description that's kind of interesting. It says that it has a built-in capability to restrict access to websites (for kids and other obnoxious family members) AND (and this is what got me) there will be a webpage set up where parents can view what websites their kids visited. I wonder if they mean they will set it up so you can view your browser history on your local machine or if they will make this gadget report to their servers about what you've been up to. In other words: No more porn for those of you with a better half:-/ This kinda bothers me, I would personally hate to have all the websites I visited logged on a remote system which might be accessible to (Insert name of curious person here). My boss wouldn't be happy if he would get a report on how much time I spent on slashdot;-)
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First of all GSM is not encrypted, the codes mentioned above are just for accessing the SIM card and GSM-network. GSM is, however, hard to intercept, because it uses severely compressed data, and because GSM-network cells are quite small, so a lot of hand-off's and frequency changes take place. (a hand-off is when you move from cell to cell, essentially from one network antenna to another network antenna)
NMT is a thing of the past in Holland. The phone companies have stopped offering NMT services, moving all their clients to GSM. Losing NMT isn't a big loss tho, the better sound quality and the ability to travel thru numerous countries without losing your network connection make GSM a far superior system.
Actually there is a GSM network in the U.S. covering some of the major cities. (NYC comes to mind). Unfortunately the U.S. network operates on different frequencies from the rest of the world so you still need a different phone there.
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I remember reading about this project at least two years ago. Don't remember who was going to do this nor the exact technical details, but this is definitely not new(s)
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Seriously, I think the headers you posted are clear. Maybe it's some silly prank, or someone trying to show off his ability to "spoof" mailadresses. (Obviously not aware of headers n stuff)
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Would anyone know what chipsets this setup supports ? I'v been looking to upgrade my LX Pentium II 266 to something faster. Celeron is my only viable option because of the 66 Mhz bus restriction.
I want this !!
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The lawsuit against Microsoft points in this general direction. People from IBM have stated that Microsoft forced them to keep OS/2 development/marketing low profile or Microsoft would charge them very high prices for Windows-licenses. Which ofcourse would make it very difficult for IBM to sell their PCs in the mainstream business market. This might have been the same with Apple: "Don't compete with NT or no Office for you" I think OS X for Intel might still happen, maybe as Darwin for Intel when Apple decides to open up more of its source. With a lot of open BSD's out there for Intel someone will get it into his/her head to put some Intel hw support in there.
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Something in this discussion doesn't seem right. Most people were adamantly against the new Australian laws on controlling content on the internet on behalf of their population or any other way of "controlling" the internet, but when it comes to stopping spam it seems that for some people everything is allowed. If you say that AOL should be banned from USENET altogether, you are in fact not that much different from the Australian government as you pretend to be.
It seems to me that some people here define their freedom by limiting other people's freedom. This is not what i would call freedom.
I am not saying that if people abuse their rights on an online service, we shouldn't punish them. But punishing individuals is not the same as excluding a large internetprovider and all it's clients.
I, for one, think that a lot of people are a bit over-sensitive to spam. They will classify anything they read that does not concern them or has a slight commercial reference as spam. If you don't want to read it there are plenty of ways to avoid it, especially on usenet. I use several filters myself to get rid of the usual crap.
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I don't think this is about paranoia, this is about quality control. (Most)People who play with these machines associate all games with the manufacturer of the console, regardless of who really made the game. Sony, Sega etc. don't want to look bad because someone else messed up.
I am not saying this a good thing, just pointing out that not all systems are "closed" because of paranoia, but for others reasons that might make more sense. Quality control and a uniform UI make sense to me.
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If they would pop a DVD player in these boxes, this could be the major breakthrough for DVD. It overcomes the most obvious disadvantage of DVD: you can record stuff with this thing and enjoy high quality DVD in one machine.
It will also improve the quality of your recordings as VHS tapes tend to get bad real quickly if you use them a lot for recording. (Especially if you're too lazy to go out and buy new ones, like yours truly)
I would buy one of these things if it had DVD. The main reason i didn't buy a DVD player yet is that it can't replace my VCR.
If they would put DVD RAM in it, you would be able to extend your movie collection a bit. Even editing out the commercials would be relatively easy to accomplish, if they put in the right software.
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One of our clients has a fairly large LAN, quite a few users, and only a few central databases that have to be used from every location. Fairly low- speed lines are used to connect everything together. (most common speed is 64 - 128 kbit. We use MS terminal servers now, to give the users a decent performance and a GUI.
With this setup we have to maintain PC's, regular office servers and terminal servers. This setup also confuses the hell out of a lot of the users, as they are not able to discern between local and remote.
I can see definitely see an application here for this technology. It would make stuff easier for both users and sysadmins.
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Are there no privacy laws in the U.S. ? I'm from the Netherlands and we have fairly strict laws on privacy. Organisations always have to inform the people involved that they are/will be registered. Organisations even have to show you what they've got on you if you request it. (This does not apply to all information, criminal investigation stuff for example is different)
When these laws came into effect all organisations had to inform you what info they had on you and for what purpose. This opened my eyes a bit. I never visited a church in my life and found out I had been registered there as a member all my life.
Could someone tell me how this works in the U.S. ?
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Actually Mac support for Voodoo 3 has been announced. The announcement stressed the fact that the drivers would be optimized for AltiVec. (or "the velocity engine" as Apple likes to refer to it)
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Notice the quotes ? Failure is in the eye of the beholder. From a buyers (which most of us are) point of view, i don't think Java failed. I don't think Linux will fail. Why ? Because I expect them both to be alternatives to Microsofts products and not replacements. Who needs another Microsoft? As a consumer I want competition for Microsofts products, because that will improve all products involved.
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A cpl of months ago Linus said in an interview he bought a quad xeon, does he count as a kernel hacker ? ;-)
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Greatly appreciated :-)
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I recall something on tv about this (might have been on the BBC :-) ) They showed a full GUI where you would feel more resistance if you dragged something on the screen. Someone who was interviewed even mentioned increasing resistance if something you were dragging was "heavy" for instance a folder containing a lot of data. Unfortunately I don't remember who was working on this. Anyone hear/see/read something on this ?
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I see that there is a relationship between danger and heart-rate. But how can you figure out if someone with a certain heart-rate is in actual danger ? High heart-rates can mean a number of things. I wouldn't like to have the police at my front door everytime I show my girlfriend how much I love her. Or would this rather work on the principle of heart-rate 0==not good. What if it's taken off then ?
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Americans never cease to amaze me. Why are sexual references corrupting, and why is it okay to kill Kenny ? (Actually I don't know Kenny so I don't have an opinion on whether it's okay to kill him ;-) )
In this discussion about this rating thingie there seem to be two themes that, according to the peeps here, (don't) justify this rating.
Sex:
It seems that victorian values are still in place. Sex is bad, especially when someone speaks about it or even covertly refers to it. Kids should be kept completely ignorant about the existance of anything remotely connected to sex. Why bother them with knowledge that could prevent teenage pregnancies and perhaps even sexual abuse. We wouldn't want to give the kids any ideas now would we ?
Violence:
On the other hand it's apparently okay to show kids people being killed, mutilated or violated. Kids can judge what's real and what's not. Kids know satire when they see it. Kids know they shouldn't kill any reallife Kennies.
I don't want to say what's the best way to teach children values, or whether it's good to expose them to violence or sex.
I just want to point out that there is a weird difference in the way these two issues are judged by a lot of people, even very intelligent ones.
Sidenote:
A poll might be interesting: Would you rather have your kids:
- having safe sex ?
- beating people up ?
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First of all congrats on this news.
I have to agree on the Europe thing though, mornings are boring without fresh slashdot material.
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I don't agree that harddrives aren't much faster then back in the seventies. Harddrives have something like 10 - 20 times faster (data tranfer rates). Even the access times have gone down a little. Ofcourse if you compare this to the way processors have evolved this doesn't seem like much, but when you look at the numbers they're still pretty impressive.
Still, I would like to see some faster drives too. Not really sure on how the hdmakers are going to accomplish this though.
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There's something in the description that's kind of interesting. It says that it has a built-in capability to restrict access to websites (for kids and other obnoxious family members) AND (and this is what got me) there will be a webpage set up where parents can view what websites their kids visited. :-/ ;-)
I wonder if they mean they will set it up so you can view your browser history on your local machine or if they will make this gadget report to their servers about what you've been up to. In other words: No more porn for those of you with a better half
This kinda bothers me, I would personally hate to have all the websites I visited logged on a remote system which might be accessible to (Insert name of curious person here). My boss wouldn't be happy if he would get a report on how much time I spent on slashdot
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Thought I'd pop in a few facts on GSM.
First of all GSM is not encrypted, the codes mentioned above are just for accessing the SIM card and GSM-network. GSM is, however, hard to intercept, because it uses severely compressed data, and because GSM-network cells are quite small, so a lot of hand-off's and frequency changes take place.
(a hand-off is when you move from cell to cell, essentially from one network antenna to another network antenna)
NMT is a thing of the past in Holland. The phone companies have stopped offering NMT services, moving all their clients to GSM. Losing NMT isn't a big loss tho, the better sound quality and the ability to travel thru numerous countries without losing your network connection make GSM a far superior system.
Actually there is a GSM network in the U.S. covering some of the major cities. (NYC comes to mind). Unfortunately the U.S. network operates on different frequencies from the rest of the world so you still need a different phone there.
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I remember reading about this project at least two years ago. Don't remember who was going to do this nor the exact technical details, but this is definitely not new(s)
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Another body part I have to feel insecure about .....
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I don't think your boss would have any reason to suspect anything. Do you like working that much ?
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Why didn't I get any ? ;-)
Seriously, I think the headers you posted are clear. Maybe it's some silly prank, or someone trying to show off his ability to "spoof" mailadresses. (Obviously not aware of headers n stuff)
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Looks pretty cool. Where would they get the miniature traindrivers ?
Science never ceases to amaze me. The only thing I don't understand is how they would assemble whatever they are building.
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Sigh
Looks like you're right...
Silly how small things can make you happy then not....
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Would anyone know what chipsets this setup supports ? I'v been looking to upgrade my LX Pentium II 266 to something faster. Celeron is my only viable option because of the 66 Mhz bus restriction.
I want this !!
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The lawsuit against Microsoft points in this general direction. People from IBM have stated that Microsoft forced them to keep OS/2 development/marketing low profile or Microsoft would charge them very high prices for Windows-licenses. Which ofcourse would make it very difficult for IBM to sell their PCs in the mainstream business market.
This might have been the same with Apple: "Don't compete with NT or no Office for you"
I think OS X for Intel might still happen, maybe as Darwin for Intel when Apple decides to open up more of its source. With a lot of open BSD's out there for Intel someone will get it into his/her head to put some Intel hw support in there.
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I always did find Pamela offensive
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Something in this discussion doesn't seem right. Most people were adamantly against the new Australian laws on controlling content on the internet on behalf of their population or any other way of "controlling" the internet, but when it comes to stopping spam it seems that for some people everything is allowed.
If you say that AOL should be banned from USENET altogether, you are in fact not that much different from the Australian government as you pretend to be.
It seems to me that some people here define their freedom by limiting other people's freedom. This is not what i would call freedom.
I am not saying that if people abuse their rights on an online service, we shouldn't punish them. But punishing individuals is not the same as excluding a large internetprovider and all it's clients.
I, for one, think that a lot of people are a bit over-sensitive to spam. They will classify anything they read that does not concern them or has a slight commercial reference as spam. If you don't want to read it there are plenty of ways to avoid it, especially on usenet. I use several filters myself to get rid of the usual crap.
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