imagine a 16Gb or even 32Gb iPhone, unlikely though those will be this year mainly due to the high cost of 16 or 32Gb of flash memory.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of iPhones, unlikely though these are already difficult enough to get your hand on one, let alone 20 including mobile phone contracts.
Back in ~2000 IIRC Australia had 256kbps, 512kbps, and 1.5mbps "broadband" (DSL only - Cable was faster but with incredibly small quotas). A point of discussion was legislation in the United Kingdom where broadband was, by definition, at least 500kbps. Many in Australia today still use the apt substitute of "fraudband". Half a megabit really isn't too "broad" by today's standards.
Mate: high 5 on wanting to help out. I'm a coder who doesn't contribute to existing projects (mostly due to time contraints and not for a lack of interest or desire) but releases the odd tool under a GPL or BSD license (or similar).
The lack of documentation in FLOSS aside (no flames please) you'd obviously be contributing to user documentation. I personally favour "complete" user documentation for a single system such as the FreeBSD Handbook (Gentoo and Debian have similar efforts). Of course even blogging HOWTOs may be useful to some one some day.
There are other ways to contribute. Hanging out on forums or IRC channels designed for helping end users in need is useful.
[...] most "intelligent teenagers" are smart enough to be aware of much of the bullshit associated with growing up and being aware of wider sociopolitical, environmental and other issues and they need a release for the anger
That's total bullshit man. (Warning: The first sentence is the most intelligent in this post.) A greater ability, talent, intelligence, or whatever you want to call it, does not preclude the difficulties of a person's social development and education. Most go through the "troubled teens" much as any other teenager; many are in fact impeded by it and suffer further.
With hard drives, data doesn't just go away. Sure, it may not be recoverable with simple "undelete" software, but data recovery experts will charge far less than $200,000 to pull important files off of a wiped hard drive.
I'm just assuming the harddisks were secure erased, considering that is what pretty much every govenment in the world does when formatting harddisks.
Or $38bn was the potential fine for whatever illegal data they were holding and they couldn't go to a recovery specialist.;-)
I slave full time but still study for a BSc part time and, as I've been at the school for longer than your average undergraduate, know quite a few PhDs, Professors, and the like.
They all have such a drive for their research. All they want to do is conquer their current topic of research and make scientific progress. I cannot imagine any of them wanting a job like this (EA's treatment of staff, namely 80 hour weeks with no overtime pay, aside).
I believe it is more to do with impotent television programmers. They employ a reactive purchasing policy: when something rates well in the USA, buy it for next year. It's that simple.
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She'll get over it when she finds the perfecltly useful gram of coke on the coffee table.
You're too young to be so cynical. ;-)
Back in ~2000 IIRC Australia had 256kbps, 512kbps, and 1.5mbps "broadband" (DSL only - Cable was faster but with incredibly small quotas). A point of discussion was legislation in the United Kingdom where broadband was, by definition, at least 500kbps. Many in Australia today still use the apt substitute of "fraudband". Half a megabit really isn't too "broad" by today's standards.
Nah he shoulda just gone back to sleep.
Mate: high 5 on wanting to help out. I'm a coder who doesn't contribute to existing projects (mostly due to time contraints and not for a lack of interest or desire) but releases the odd tool under a GPL or BSD license (or similar).
The lack of documentation in FLOSS aside (no flames please) you'd obviously be contributing to user documentation. I personally favour "complete" user documentation for a single system such as the FreeBSD Handbook (Gentoo and Debian have similar efforts). Of course even blogging HOWTOs may be useful to some one some day.
There are other ways to contribute. Hanging out on forums or IRC channels designed for helping end users in need is useful.
Just duplicate HTTP to httporn://whatever.com with a different porn-I-mean-port.
I slave full time but still study for a BSc part time and, as I've been at the school for longer than your average undergraduate, know quite a few PhDs, Professors, and the like.
They all have such a drive for their research. All they want to do is conquer their current topic of research and make scientific progress. I cannot imagine any of them wanting a job like this (EA's treatment of staff, namely 80 hour weeks with no overtime pay, aside).
One with a realistic portrayal of drug use like Neuromancer.
It is for high schoolers, right?
And you've got too much spare time on your hands.
Amen brother.
/. should be more careful with their posting of Slate articles, The Register, and the like. A man can dream.
Perhaps the editors of
When did "columnists" and "journalists" begin writing about this shit? It's not news. It's not an editorial. It's an advertisement. Who cares?
If noone gives a presentation, does the flaw really exist?
I believe it is more to do with impotent television programmers. They employ a reactive purchasing policy: when something rates well in the USA, buy it for next year. It's that simple.
Clearly anyone who has ever had any contact with open source is a card carrying pinkie!
Troll me, but this article is not news. We need a bullshit or a snore tag.
P.S. And probably an angry moderation option.
I'll let others discuss the merits of points 1 and 2 in the blurb. There is definitely another: keep content providers happy with DRM "technologies".
;-)
I'll let others debate the merits of DRM.