I don't think your fallacy applies here. Have you ever seen the MS Windows source code? Know where to get it? Have friends that have it? If you send a FOIA request to Microsoft, will they give it to you?
Didn't think so, therefore it is BOTH secret AND proprietary.
yeah, well, there is a pretty long statute of limitations on conspiracy, at least you don't have the looming threat of hard time in a federal "pound-me-in-the-ass" prison...
from what I can remember, the human genome, as is with all other living things, stays constant to the species, with minute mutations occuring here and there as a result of evolution. I really don't see a big deal. Guy got a big head and decided that he would make himself to be one really fat lab-rat, fine by me. Just as long as the research was completed.
From my experience (2+ years in retail computer sales) the best laptops you can buy are ones that you cannot see, like a Dell or a Toshiba Tecra. (This is changing, however, their Satellite's have gotten very good recently, check out the 5005-s507, s504, or, if you want to go all out, s607) I would try cNet, they usually have some ok reviews on notebooks, or browse the opinion sites, keeping a air of cynicism since some of these people will bitch up a storm because they didn't know how to turn on the computer.
Personally speaking, if it were my money, I would go Toshiba. Great unit, low price, warranty extensions available through them for 3 years full accidental damage, the whole bit.
Terminal Services (or RDP) isn't anything new, it was jsut made popular when MS stopped calling it that and gave it a more down-to-earth name like Remote Desktop. I could easily RDP into my server at home from work and type a letter in Word, save it to the server HD, and retrieve it when I got home. There's your wireless monitor, but mine goes anywhere in the world, not some piddly couple of hundred feet.
From what I know from the product reps and my own personal research:
Pivot mechanism? Have no idea until I see one in person. Should be in retail stores in about 30 days.
Existing periphs and software: Full compatibility with everything Palm as far as software goes, as far as hardware goes, yeah, you still have to get it from Sony, but the spiffy digicam you might have picked up for a N760C will work with anything else.
IIRC, MP3's can be played using any Mem Stick media, doesn't have to be MagicGate (the SD version) Yes, native playing is supported.
Processor question was already answered.
Yeah, I agree with you there, the expandibility of the Sony is limited to the Memory Stick media. Be nice to have some sort of PC card or CF additions, but what can you do.:)
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I work for a major retail chain that sells these, and your answer is: kinda. Lots of people grill me asking what a US$600 PDA like a iPaq actually does for you, I go through the normal speil, that's about it. The color Palm's, OTOH, sell very well. Priced at US$399, they have better percieved value than even the iPaq, not everyone is savvy enough to load QNX or have the income to afford a iPaq with a microdrive to download their MP3 collections.
Sullivan: DID YOU, OR DID YOU NOT BULLY NETSCAPE INTO BROWSER SUBMISSION? Gates: I don't recall. Sullivan: Unless you wish to purchase a license agreement, you can't use that copyrighted phrase. You can have a lifetime, single user license for 3 million. Mr. North is very pleased with his.
As one who has done considerable research into watercooled stuff, the cooling gains are pretty good as compared to air cooling. This is multilied by the fact that the active cooling system on a notebook is limited to a tiny 60MM fan, and a heatsink that is about a half inch high. If you can keep the system closed, it won't be too bad, however this will add considerable weight to the unit, taking into account the resevoir, pump, waterblock, stuff like that.
The only copy protection that a GBA has is it's proprietary cartridge format. There really isn't any copy protection besides the fact that the only device available on the market that works with these cartridges is a GBA, until now.
You got it. Circumventing the cartridge format allows for the introduction of third-party games/memory devices to be implemented, thus eliminating the only real copy protection the GBA has, the NOA licensed GBA cartridge format.
Or so goes the NOA reasoning.
Like everyone else, I don't see the violation here. Back in the day of my first GameBoy, I lost a few of those tiny little cartridges, now that I would have the ability to back them up and save the originals at home, or even possibly back multiple games that I personally bought onto 1 easy to carry cartridge, I don't see where I violated anything.
I swear, now there are 2 things that I want tattooed to everyone's forehead: Correlation does not equal causation, and FAIR USE IS NOT A DMCA VIOLATION.
The way I see it, (I'm not employed in a corporation, but I have received a few "confidential" emails) the (L)users can/will undermine this by simply hitting Print. Now you are back to square 1, having to manually shred a physical document. Yeah, forwarding emails all over the place is convenient, but there will always be someone who is militantly "anti-computer" and prints out hard copies of everything they get.
I kinda see the point behind this, they are playing off of Enron, milking that scandal du jour for all it's worth. I bet the scandal next month will have something to do with Linux and those pesky "h4ck3rs", right on time to push the SSSCA through.
ah, but that the beauty of geek marriages, instead of a antiquated ring, he could just buy her something a little more utilitarian, like, say, a Beowulf cluster of...
One, eBay doesn't really make money on auctions from scammers. eBay bills monthly, and I doubt the guy is really sitting around with a credit card just waiting for eBay to charge him.
Not my fault. I don't care if the guy doesn't pay eBay. That is far from my concerns.
The other replies are true as well, about the whole "garage sale, guy next door" auction style, however, the guy next door doesn't charge a commission (it's the only thing you can really call it) on the sale. (short of a full blown real life auction, of course.)
I never actually did the research into the financial aspects of PayPal, and what they were paying out in fraud charges. Just goes to show, if you want to be a credit-card-esque company, you need to deal with credit-card-esque scammers and con artists.
there will always be a market for this now...
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now that the notorious hits of EverQuest, Ultima Online, and the still-blossoming Dark Ages of Camelot have come to be, Sony (who really picked up the slack from UO and their publishers) and others will, IMO, be releasing all their RPG's like this. Reason being, one person can't really build/admin/keep free from cheaters a server that holds thousands of people playing a MMORPG. I'ts not economically feasible.
This logic is exactly why FPS's like Half-Life, Q3, et al. will always be free, they don't have much of a choice. It doesn't take much for me to scrap together a server that will be able to play de_dust in Counterstrike with 15-20 people connecting. Even with the authentication process that HL has (and it is good), I'm sure there are ways around that and the ability to make a "separate network" of little game servers.
Seriously, if I just shelled out 3 grand for a notebook, I would consider it a veritable slap-in-the-face if eBay only compensates me 200 bucks (minus 25 dollar deductible, US$175 really) for a auction that they made money on, and that they insure.
I don't see many things wrong with this situation, only the fact that this is a testament to the power of groups and anonymity. Here you have a gander of people screwed by a common guy, united at first, then when this starts rolling all the l33t hax0rs come out of the woodwork to "help", asking for the guys CC number, SSN, and a host of other info.
1THz processors are nice and all, but what about the necessary advancements in motherboard bus technology to match? I mean, you can have as fast a car you want, you get it to a track and flatten it's tires, it's not going to go very far. Personally, I would like to see a better partnership of chipset manufacturers and processor manufacturers to make sure that the rise of processor speeds is proportionate to the rise of chipset speeds.
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I don't think your fallacy applies here. Have you ever seen the MS Windows source code? Know where to get it? Have friends that have it? If you send a FOIA request to Microsoft, will they give it to you?
Didn't think so, therefore it is BOTH secret AND proprietary.
yeah, well, there is a pretty long statute of limitations on conspiracy, at least you don't have the looming threat of hard time in a federal "pound-me-in-the-ass" prison...
from what I can remember, the human genome, as is with all other living things, stays constant to the species, with minute mutations occuring here and there as a result of evolution. I really don't see a big deal. Guy got a big head and decided that he would make himself to be one really fat lab-rat, fine by me. Just as long as the research was completed.
sony has a 90 day limited warranty UNTIL YOU REGISTER THE PRODUCT, then it goes into a full 1 year limited warranty. Read your book, troll.
From my experience (2+ years in retail computer sales) the best laptops you can buy are ones that you cannot see, like a Dell or a Toshiba Tecra. (This is changing, however, their Satellite's have gotten very good recently, check out the 5005-s507, s504, or, if you want to go all out, s607) I would try cNet, they usually have some ok reviews on notebooks, or browse the opinion sites, keeping a air of cynicism since some of these people will bitch up a storm because they didn't know how to turn on the computer.
Personally speaking, if it were my money, I would go Toshiba. Great unit, low price, warranty extensions available through them for 3 years full accidental damage, the whole bit.
Terminal Services (or RDP) isn't anything new, it was jsut made popular when MS stopped calling it that and gave it a more down-to-earth name like Remote Desktop. I could easily RDP into my server at home from work and type a letter in Word, save it to the server HD, and retrieve it when I got home. There's your wireless monitor, but mine goes anywhere in the world, not some piddly couple of hundred feet.
all I saw was a glorified PDA with a 10 inch screen running Citrix or RDP. I can't even imagine the latencies if that thing is 500 or so feet away.
what'e next, a wireless monitor for my PDA?
hmph.
From what I know from the product reps and my own personal research:
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Pivot mechanism? Have no idea until I see one in person. Should be in retail stores in about 30 days.
Existing periphs and software: Full compatibility with everything Palm as far as software goes, as far as hardware goes, yeah, you still have to get it from Sony, but the spiffy digicam you might have picked up for a N760C will work with anything else.
IIRC, MP3's can be played using any Mem Stick media, doesn't have to be MagicGate (the SD version) Yes, native playing is supported.
Processor question was already answered.
Yeah, I agree with you there, the expandibility of the Sony is limited to the Memory Stick media. Be nice to have some sort of PC card or CF additions, but what can you do.
I work for a major retail chain that sells these, and your answer is: kinda. Lots of people grill me asking what a US$600 PDA like a iPaq actually does for you, I go through the normal speil, that's about it. The color Palm's, OTOH, sell very well. Priced at US$399, they have better percieved value than even the iPaq, not everyone is savvy enough to load QNX or have the income to afford a iPaq with a microdrive to download their MP3 collections.
I just want Leisure Suit Larry. In 32 bit color. Antialiased would be nice too, but now I'm being picky.
Everybody would start simulations, and the one with the worst damage lose...
:)
hehehe, I can see it now, some world leader halfway around the world simulates a nuclear explosion...
"no fucking way you hit me with that last nuke, I was right behind you. This guy's using a fuckin bot!"
bah, it's payday, I'm in a weird mood
I can visualize the cross-examination in my head:
Sullivan: DID YOU, OR DID YOU NOT BULLY NETSCAPE INTO BROWSER SUBMISSION?
Gates: I don't recall.
Sullivan: Unless you wish to purchase a license agreement, you can't use that copyrighted phrase. You can have a lifetime, single user license for 3 million. Mr. North is very pleased with his.
heh, more like the cops are wearing crampons, which raises a whole host of legal issues :)
As cool as it sounds, someone else thought of it already :)
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http://www.infoworld.com/articles/pi/xml/00/04/
As one who has done considerable research into watercooled stuff, the cooling gains are pretty good as compared to air cooling. This is multilied by the fact that the active cooling system on a notebook is limited to a tiny 60MM fan, and a heatsink that is about a half inch high. If you can keep the system closed, it won't be too bad, however this will add considerable weight to the unit, taking into account the resevoir, pump, waterblock, stuff like that.
I don't think there is a greater tribute than that, to have a couple hundred or maybe thousand people SCREAMING KILL the WABBIT to What's Opera, Doc?
Hot damn, that must have been cool.
RIP Chuck Jones, I don't think you will ever be succeeded, not in this lifetime.
The only copy protection that a GBA has is it's proprietary cartridge format. There really isn't any copy protection besides the fact that the only device available on the market that works with these cartridges is a GBA, until now.
You got it. Circumventing the cartridge format allows for the introduction of third-party games/memory devices to be implemented, thus eliminating the only real copy protection the GBA has, the NOA licensed GBA cartridge format.
Or so goes the NOA reasoning.
Like everyone else, I don't see the violation here. Back in the day of my first GameBoy, I lost a few of those tiny little cartridges, now that I would have the ability to back them up and save the originals at home, or even possibly back multiple games that I personally bought onto 1 easy to carry cartridge, I don't see where I violated anything.
I swear, now there are 2 things that I want tattooed to everyone's forehead: Correlation does not equal causation, and FAIR USE IS NOT A DMCA VIOLATION.
The way I see it, (I'm not employed in a corporation, but I have received a few "confidential" emails) the (L)users can/will undermine this by simply hitting Print. Now you are back to square 1, having to manually shred a physical document. Yeah, forwarding emails all over the place is convenient, but there will always be someone who is militantly "anti-computer" and prints out hard copies of everything they get.
I kinda see the point behind this, they are playing off of Enron, milking that scandal du jour for all it's worth. I bet the scandal next month will have something to do with Linux and those pesky "h4ck3rs", right on time to push the SSSCA through.
it may be just me, but I really think it's funny that a guy that was once in B-movie softcore like
:)
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0108142
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0108143
could direct a serious, thought provoking film
"That's the beauty of America! I love it! And I love you!" Samuel L. Jackson in Great White Hype
ah, but that the beauty of geek marriages, instead of a antiquated ring, he could just buy her something a little more utilitarian, like, say, a Beowulf cluster of...
:P
I'm just going to stop there
Congratulations, Rob.
One, eBay doesn't really make money on auctions from scammers. eBay bills monthly, and I doubt the guy is really sitting around with a credit card just waiting for eBay to charge him.
Not my fault. I don't care if the guy doesn't pay eBay. That is far from my concerns.
The other replies are true as well, about the whole "garage sale, guy next door" auction style, however, the guy next door doesn't charge a commission (it's the only thing you can really call it) on the sale. (short of a full blown real life auction, of course.)
I never actually did the research into the financial aspects of PayPal, and what they were paying out in fraud charges. Just goes to show, if you want to be a credit-card-esque company, you need to deal with credit-card-esque scammers and con artists.
now that the notorious hits of EverQuest, Ultima Online, and the still-blossoming Dark Ages of Camelot have come to be, Sony (who really picked up the slack from UO and their publishers) and others will, IMO, be releasing all their RPG's like this. Reason being, one person can't really build/admin/keep free from cheaters a server that holds thousands of people playing a MMORPG. I'ts not economically feasible.
This logic is exactly why FPS's like Half-Life, Q3, et al. will always be free, they don't have much of a choice. It doesn't take much for me to scrap together a server that will be able to play de_dust in Counterstrike with 15-20 people connecting. Even with the authentication process that HL has (and it is good), I'm sure there are ways around that and the ability to make a "separate network" of little game servers.
Seriously, if I just shelled out 3 grand for a notebook, I would consider it a veritable slap-in-the-face if eBay only compensates me 200 bucks (minus 25 dollar deductible, US$175 really) for a auction that they made money on, and that they insure.
I don't see many things wrong with this situation, only the fact that this is a testament to the power of groups and anonymity. Here you have a gander of people screwed by a common guy, united at first, then when this starts rolling all the l33t hax0rs come out of the woodwork to "help", asking for the guys CC number, SSN, and a host of other info.
hey fucker, you better hope I never see you in my store, I'll MAKE you buy shit. :)
-Jeff
1THz processors are nice and all, but what about the necessary advancements in motherboard bus technology to match? I mean, you can have as fast a car you want, you get it to a track and flatten it's tires, it's not going to go very far. Personally, I would like to see a better partnership of chipset manufacturers and processor manufacturers to make sure that the rise of processor speeds is proportionate to the rise of chipset speeds.