Microsoft has cut their software to $3 each and Intel has designed their own laptop called the Classmate to sell between $230 and $300, nearly double the XO's price.
The initial demand for the XO has fallen well below Mr. Negroponte's projections as Intel and Microsoft have successfully argued that their entries are superior. 45,000 have been ordered through the Give One, Get One campaign.
Congratulations! Now that Mr. Negroponte's been publicly screwed by Microsoft and Intel, he can officially call himself a computer manufacturer.
Thus far the Japanese animeka's and mangaka's have never protested. I have also not seen any such hints in the Japanese media. It only served to further their fanbase and potential market. Whenever a series became licensed in the US most groups fansubbing that series stopped.
Japan is waking up that there is an incredibly large following of their stuff online, and rather than say "Hey, look, a new market" they're doing the proud capitalist thing -- shooting themselves in the foot. Also, don't forget that, you know, Japanese IPs can access AnimeSuki and TokyoTosho and the like. There's nothing stopping them. If you do connect to a new, latest and greatest anime, or a DVD Rip, a good portion of the IPs will be from Japan. That is what is likely spurning this on.
Also, apparently one of the companies involved in the European takedown thing that's going on about this, Odex or somesuch, basically started sending nastygrams directly to users, saying they had to settle or else, and oh yeah, they owed Odex for sending the letters out too. Apparently it's some European thing, where a law firm can send out nastygrams for stuff they're not involved in or somesuch. (I've heard about similar things in Germany on Slashdot, anyway.)
What really gets me is the entitlement syndrome most of these Anime fans have. "Oh my GAWD, It's not licensed, that means it's copyright free in the US. GAWHD! How dare they get upset that we're BRINGING THEM NEW BUSINESS. They should be, like, thanking us."
They still haven't solved the #1 problem with cloning though: why would I want another one of me? My exact genes aren't that great as is.
If I ever need a kidney, I'd love to just be able to clone one of my originals. 0 chance of rejection!
Not to mention that by the time we're socially ready for cloning people, we'll likely have enough genetic engineering around to customize the clones. "Yeah, um, I want a clone of me, but, you know, taller and with a better metabolism."
And hey, sooner or later we'll get around to figuring out Mind Uploading / Downloading. Tired of being 50? Clone yourself a nice new 18 year old body and move your mind on in.
Or a combination of all 3. Tired of being fat, lazy, and having no charisma? Clone yourself a few years younger, make sure your new body is genetically pre-disposed to being attractive and physically talented, and move your brain on in.
Not with an attitude like that. You're not entitled to a high-paying job, you have to compete for it. The way to compete is to stay educated. Provide more value than "someone working for a third of what you do now".
But a nice troll, nonetheless.
I shouldn't have to compete with every twit in every 3rd world country willing to work for the cost of a soda a day.
Globalization is a horrible, horrible idea for everyone involved -- except the corporations.
I think Steve Ballmer already has prior art on this method.
IBM has been doing this sorta stuff since Steve Ballmer was a glint in his yuppy father's eye. Hell, IBM invented the modern "FUD" strategy that Microsoft is still trying to get perfect.
Each PC gets a message invisible to the user that looks like it comes from the other computer, telling it to stop communicating. But neither message originated from the other computer -- it comes from Comcast.'"
Isn't that called a smurf attack? Or something similar? Basically when you send a fake TCP/IP packet with faked headers that basically says "cancel this connection" over and over again?
Having said that, wouldn't it be somewhat easy to work around? Just filter those messages out during Bittorrent? Or extend the protocol to include a "Hi, we just got disconnected, want to try again from where we left off" step after the initial disconnect?
Don't confuse 'Usenet' with usenet.com. 'Usenet' is an internet-wide discussion system, with thousands of usenet nodes and of no central control.
Usenet.com provides paid access to Usenet newsgroups, and happened to land a nice DNS name.
And, as a Usenet provider, hasn't the RIAA of yesteryear already fought this battle and lost? After all, aren't Usenet servers Common Carriers, like the telcos? The Telcos are not liable for what goes on over their networks, Usenet.com isn't, either.
Essentially, this jackass ran up, forced the mic out of someone else's hands, was being escorted out when Kerry said he could stay, (this is about when the cameras started rolling), then he started asking inappropriate questions, so they cut his mic, then he just starts screaming like a jackass and tries to force himself on the stage, so TAZER TAZER TAZER and he gets to go away.
Most people think of DHCP as just giving an IP address, mask, gateway, and DNS. DHCP can do SO much more. We're talking HUNDREDS of pieces of data, including custom strings. Want to tell your IP phone where the call manager is? DHCP. Want to tell your Netware clients where the nearest replica server is? DHCP. Still using WINS for some strange reason? DHCP.
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but that sounds less like "DHCP is awesome" and more like "Lazy devs have added extensions to DHCP rather than implement a proper auto-configuration protocol for their other services."
Can't really blame V6 Autoconfig if it's not up to spec with... something else that's not following specs.
Put some money into their infrastructure to cope with the demand? Maybe stop overselling? Oh wait that would cost some dollars so forget that idea. Meanwhile, users on Verizon FIOS has reported to download over a terabyte worth of data a month without so much of a letter from Verizon. (who knows how long that lasts though)
Having worked at an ISP, I need to tell you, that for every customer that a DSL / Cable company signs up, the infrastructure required to service them (tearing up the streets, installing fiber / switches / etc) costs them enough that it takes them approximately 22 YEARS of selling you service to make it up.
There's a reason Comcast and the crew are way, WAY in debt. They're hoping some sort of angelic investors will swoop up and buy their REAL product -- your personal information and your accounts.
There's also a reason that ISPs, especially smaller ones, are moving to Wifi/Wimax. It takes about 6 months to make back the infrastructure when you hook up a Wireless customer. Not to mention if you're a small ISP and wanting to provide DSL, the phone companies ream you fast, hard, and without lube.
We can now easily predict that the German government will soon find it difficult to hire people with an admitted knowledge of computer security topics. If you were German, would you admit to such knowledge to an official questioner?
Sorta like how the US government has been complaining about the difficulty of hiring Arabic translators, despite the statistics from a few years back saying that there were several million US residence who were fluent in Arabic. (And, contrary to the jokes going around, they aren't all gay.;-)
I doubt it'll be hard at all. Once they have them all in jail, they'll be able to dictate terms of their release. "Hey, tired of that cell? Work for us at 50% what your worth, and we'll make our trumped up charges vanish."
Too late. Your stock price feed most likely has a time delay built in. Trading will have been halted as soon as the news comes out. This is the insiders dumping their stock before the news gets out.
Isn't that horribly, horribly illegal? Will we get to see the SEC frog-march Darl and the crew for insider trading?
It doesn't so much make Scientology look better, as make other religions look bad...
Of course Scientology isn't a cult. It's a Pyramid Scheme. L. Ron Hubbard just decided to add some excerpts from his shitty books to make it sound all SCI-MYSTICAL. Wooooo~.
It's certainly a censorship issue but hardly related to the techie world, unless I missed the RFC on Buddhist reincarnation.
Yeah, you did. Not to worry, the usenet archives from that period were lost due to media failure. Most of us have to reference the current practices that reference those ancient RFCs to get an idea of what they really meant.
The RFC in question is Negative 1337 (-1337), and is as follows:
RFC-1337 Biological based mental reinstallation using metaphysical backup medium. S. Gautama. 480 B.C. (Format: OGG=5168533812380 bytes) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE, HISTORIC)
However I still think that a kilometer -- or anything more than a few feet, really -- is longer than they would move inside the cable. Maybe if you fired at an oblique angle into an empty water pipe or something, so that the pellet could ricochet along inside the tube, but a cable (where the outside is presumably made of some fairly soft material that would absorb energy with each impact)... it seems unlikely.
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but aren't Fiberoptic cables lined with Kevlar? It's squishy but... It's still designed to stop bullets.
Or is Kevlar designed to absorb all the impact instead? That would definitely slow any traveling.
Whether or not VMWare violates Linux copyrights, the mere fact that this is being discussed may add to the perception of the GPL as a "viral" license, and steer developers/businesses away from using Linux and other GPL software in their products.
Is this a form of concerntrolling? I mean, if we can't talk about possible violations of the GPL because people will become afraid of... violating the GPL... where are we at then?
You have 10.0 hardware and want it to support 10.1?
Please stop posting such nonsense, or would you cry foul if your SSE3 CPU doesnt support SSE4 when its available?
Well, yes, I would cry foul is my SSE3 CPU suddenly didn't work with... SSE3. This is a MINOR version change, 10.0 to 10.1. If they were going from 10.0 to 11.0, that would be one thing. They're not.
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Is it me, or is it funny how Asus gets free publicity for screwing up.
No, they get free publicity for doing the right thing, which, unfortunately, is uncommon amongst the business world.
Microsoft has cut their software to $3 each and Intel has designed their own laptop called the Classmate to sell between $230 and $300, nearly double the XO's price.
The initial demand for the XO has fallen well below Mr. Negroponte's projections as Intel and Microsoft have successfully argued that their entries are superior. 45,000 have been ordered through the Give One, Get One campaign.
Congratulations! Now that Mr. Negroponte's been publicly screwed by Microsoft and Intel, he can officially call himself a computer manufacturer.
Way to go!
Thus far the Japanese animeka's and mangaka's have never protested. I have also not seen any such hints in the Japanese media. It only served to further their fanbase and potential market. Whenever a series became licensed in the US most groups fansubbing that series stopped.
Never seen it in the Japanese media?
Here ya go.
Japan is waking up that there is an incredibly large following of their stuff online, and rather than say "Hey, look, a new market" they're doing the proud capitalist thing -- shooting themselves in the foot. Also, don't forget that, you know, Japanese IPs can access AnimeSuki and TokyoTosho and the like. There's nothing stopping them. If you do connect to a new, latest and greatest anime, or a DVD Rip, a good portion of the IPs will be from Japan. That is what is likely spurning this on.
Also, apparently one of the companies involved in the European takedown thing that's going on about this, Odex or somesuch, basically started sending nastygrams directly to users, saying they had to settle or else, and oh yeah, they owed Odex for sending the letters out too. Apparently it's some European thing, where a law firm can send out nastygrams for stuff they're not involved in or somesuch. (I've heard about similar things in Germany on Slashdot, anyway.)
What really gets me is the entitlement syndrome most of these Anime fans have. "Oh my GAWD, It's not licensed, that means it's copyright free in the US. GAWHD! How dare they get upset that we're BRINGING THEM NEW BUSINESS. They should be, like, thanking us."
They still haven't solved the #1 problem with cloning though: why would I want another one of me? My exact genes aren't that great as is.
If I ever need a kidney, I'd love to just be able to clone one of my originals. 0 chance of rejection!
Not to mention that by the time we're socially ready for cloning people, we'll likely have enough genetic engineering around to customize the clones. "Yeah, um, I want a clone of me, but, you know, taller and with a better metabolism."
And hey, sooner or later we'll get around to figuring out Mind Uploading / Downloading. Tired of being 50? Clone yourself a nice new 18 year old body and move your mind on in.
Or a combination of all 3. Tired of being fat, lazy, and having no charisma? Clone yourself a few years younger, make sure your new body is genetically pre-disposed to being attractive and physically talented, and move your brain on in.
Not with an attitude like that. You're not entitled to a high-paying job, you have to compete for it. The way to compete is to stay educated. Provide more value than "someone working for a third of what you do now".
But a nice troll, nonetheless.
I shouldn't have to compete with every twit in every 3rd world country willing to work for the cost of a soda a day.
Globalization is a horrible, horrible idea for everyone involved -- except the corporations.
Who the hell buys electronics at Kmart, anyway?
Answer: The average consumer.
This is NOT good news for Sony.
I think Steve Ballmer already has prior art on this method.
IBM has been doing this sorta stuff since Steve Ballmer was a glint in his yuppy father's eye. Hell, IBM invented the modern "FUD" strategy that Microsoft is still trying to get perfect.
The Mythbusters are going to take cockroaches and other insects and apply successively higher doses of radiation in a controlled setting.
:)
So, what precautions do they have on hand in the event one of them grows to enormous size and goes on a rampage?
Given that Jamie likes Big Boom(tm) and that Adam would probably have a Geekgasm if that happened... I don't think they'd mind that much.
Each PC gets a message invisible to the user that looks like it comes from the other computer, telling it to stop communicating. But neither message originated from the other computer -- it comes from Comcast.'"
Isn't that called a smurf attack? Or something similar? Basically when you send a fake TCP/IP packet with faked headers that basically says "cancel this connection" over and over again?
Having said that, wouldn't it be somewhat easy to work around? Just filter those messages out during Bittorrent? Or extend the protocol to include a "Hi, we just got disconnected, want to try again from where we left off" step after the initial disconnect?
Does this affect people running encryption?
Don't confuse 'Usenet' with usenet.com. 'Usenet' is an internet-wide discussion system, with thousands of usenet nodes and of no central control.
Usenet.com provides paid access to Usenet newsgroups, and happened to land a nice DNS name.
And, as a Usenet provider, hasn't the RIAA of yesteryear already fought this battle and lost? After all, aren't Usenet servers Common Carriers, like the telcos? The Telcos are not liable for what goes on over their networks, Usenet.com isn't, either.
This would be like Dell refusing warranty service on someone who hooked up a HP printer, or bought a ATI video card off NewEgg.Com.
The worst they can do is ask you disconnect the 3rd party hardware to see if that fixes the situation.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/9/18/10649/5334
Essentially, this jackass ran up, forced the mic out of someone else's hands, was being escorted out when Kerry said he could stay, (this is about when the cameras started rolling), then he started asking inappropriate questions, so they cut his mic, then he just starts screaming like a jackass and tries to force himself on the stage, so TAZER TAZER TAZER and he gets to go away.
Fun stuff.
Most people think of DHCP as just giving an IP address, mask, gateway, and DNS. DHCP can do SO much more. We're talking HUNDREDS of pieces of data, including custom strings. Want to tell your IP phone where the call manager is? DHCP. Want to tell your Netware clients where the nearest replica server is? DHCP. Still using WINS for some strange reason? DHCP.
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but that sounds less like "DHCP is awesome" and more like "Lazy devs have added extensions to DHCP rather than implement a proper auto-configuration protocol for their other services."
Can't really blame V6 Autoconfig if it's not up to spec with... something else that's not following specs.
Put some money into their infrastructure to cope with the demand? Maybe stop overselling? Oh wait that would cost some dollars so forget that idea. Meanwhile, users on Verizon FIOS has reported to download over a terabyte worth of data a month without so much of a letter from Verizon. (who knows how long that lasts though)
Having worked at an ISP, I need to tell you, that for every customer that a DSL / Cable company signs up, the infrastructure required to service them (tearing up the streets, installing fiber / switches / etc) costs them enough that it takes them approximately 22 YEARS of selling you service to make it up.
There's a reason Comcast and the crew are way, WAY in debt. They're hoping some sort of angelic investors will swoop up and buy their REAL product -- your personal information and your accounts.
There's also a reason that ISPs, especially smaller ones, are moving to Wifi/Wimax. It takes about 6 months to make back the infrastructure when you hook up a Wireless customer. Not to mention if you're a small ISP and wanting to provide DSL, the phone companies ream you fast, hard, and without lube.
We can now easily predict that the German government will soon find it difficult to hire people with an admitted knowledge of computer security topics. If you were German, would you admit to such knowledge to an official questioner?
;-)
Sorta like how the US government has been complaining about the difficulty of hiring Arabic translators, despite the statistics from a few years back saying that there were several million US residence who were fluent in Arabic. (And, contrary to the jokes going around, they aren't all gay.
I doubt it'll be hard at all. Once they have them all in jail, they'll be able to dictate terms of their release. "Hey, tired of that cell? Work for us at 50% what your worth, and we'll make our trumped up charges vanish."
Too late. Your stock price feed most likely has a time delay built in. Trading will have been halted as soon as the news comes out. This is the insiders dumping their stock before the news gets out.
Isn't that horribly, horribly illegal? Will we get to see the SEC frog-march Darl and the crew for insider trading?
The game companies that thought it would fail and weren't prepared for its success.
Given that this EXACT SAME DAMNED THING happened with the PSP vs DS launch, the 3rd parties have only themselves to blame this time.
Here's an article in which it's argued that Scientology is not a cult: http://www.slate.com/id/2171416/
It doesn't so much make Scientology look better, as make other religions look bad...
Of course Scientology isn't a cult. It's a Pyramid Scheme. L. Ron Hubbard just decided to add some excerpts from his shitty books to make it sound all SCI-MYSTICAL. Wooooo~.
It's certainly a censorship issue but hardly related to the techie world, unless I missed the RFC on Buddhist reincarnation.
Yeah, you did. Not to worry, the usenet archives from that period were lost due to media failure. Most of us have to reference the current practices that reference those ancient RFCs to get an idea of what they really meant.
The RFC in question is Negative 1337 (-1337), and is as follows:
RFC-1337 Biological based mental reinstallation using metaphysical backup medium. S. Gautama. 480 B.C. (Format: OGG=5168533812380 bytes) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE, HISTORIC)
One thing I don't get is how he managed 41.61% CPU utuilization while transferring a file. Did he have the ethernet equivalent of a winmodem?
No, he had the OS equivalent of a Winmodem.
Why can't Microsoft compete without buying the outcome of the game? Are their products that poor?
Yes.
(This has been another installment of "Simple Answers for Simple Questions.")
and a bottle of moonshine for antiseptic AND anaesthetic.
Funny thing is, there are groups (UN? Red Cross?) that send out Moonshine kits for that very reason.
However I still think that a kilometer -- or anything more than a few feet, really -- is longer than they would move inside the cable. Maybe if you fired at an oblique angle into an empty water pipe or something, so that the pellet could ricochet along inside the tube, but a cable (where the outside is presumably made of some fairly soft material that would absorb energy with each impact)
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but aren't Fiberoptic cables lined with Kevlar? It's squishy but... It's still designed to stop bullets.
Or is Kevlar designed to absorb all the impact instead? That would definitely slow any traveling.
Whether or not VMWare violates Linux copyrights, the mere fact that this is being discussed may add to the perception of the GPL as a "viral" license, and steer developers/businesses away from using Linux and other GPL software in their products.
Is this a form of concern trolling? I mean, if we can't talk about possible violations of the GPL because people will become afraid of... violating the GPL... where are we at then?
How can this be surprising?
You have 10.0 hardware and want it to support 10.1?
Please stop posting such nonsense, or would you cry foul if your SSE3 CPU doesnt support SSE4 when its available?
Well, yes, I would cry foul is my SSE3 CPU suddenly didn't work with