Dammit, it's because a US Senator already coined the phrase Information Superhighway to describe the world-wide packet switching network he invented. He created the term when he was Vice-President, but he actually invented the damn thing back in the Senate.
It's a highway. You put your stuff in the dump trucks, you hear me Senator Stevens! The dump trucks take your information along the superhighway and that is how it works.
Pipes, tubes, dump trucks; it's a god damn highway.
they say the connector appears to be purely analog.
How then does a digital signal leave that same port to later go through the optical audio cable? (Wait, SPDIF passthrough audio and video coming out of the same port... sounds like, um... HDMI)
All of you are guessing, and it's kinda annoying to see people fight about speculation and add their own.
It also wouldn't really make sense for MS to have HDMI capability in the current 360 but not offer a cable for it - do they want to make money or not?
Why doesn't it make sense? Ship the unit with more features than you know of and then sell functionality later. (Modern Cell phones anyone?) Remember the original Xbox? It certainly *could* play DVDs on its own - but it wouldn't let you until you bought the remote control add-on. It will be the same deal. I'm guessing it's already built in, but the cable you'll buy in the future will cover licensing fees. Besides, you let everyone buy DVI cables and so forth, get comfortable, and then start selling HDMI cables.
And why do I need HDMI? I've got optical audio and component video, HDMI will simply combine the two. If it is because we are talking digital vs. analog then bite my shiny metal ass. It's great and all, but we are talking about baby steps here.
The Roman Empire fell because they were too busy hiring and firing hoards from beyond their borders to fight each other.
Microsoft will fall when they make an alliance with Linus Torvalds to fight Steve Jobs (wait, this already happened in reverse...!) and they don't keep up with the tribute payments. Everyone wants MS to play nice with open source software and support standards, but those are the barbarians that will destroy Ro^H^H Microsoft.
Pax Microsoftus, it's the only way the Empire can survive.
Sure, the first four Google results on "deployment" are military sites, but the fourth is Microsoft talking software deployment. http://www.google.com/search?q=deployment
Why must you assume the worst? Sounds to me like bad marketing hype. Did you think Ginger (the Segway) was a new thermonuclear weapon? This guy could have been pushing a PC game or a new type of potato chip.
I'm guessing this is the Centrino based laptop we are talking about here. They are saying a type of laptop, not a type of card. If this is true, the fix will come, but havoc will spread. I think of my poor sister who loves her wireless laptop that only requires a push of a button to connect.
AOL doesn't make any money off of subscriptions. I'm just guessing, pulling shit out of my ass. I suspect however that their income is derived from their advertising and business partnership areas. AOL isn't an ISP, it's a BBS, started that way and nothing has changed. The big secret is that newspapers aren't being killed by the web and RSS, they are being killed by the new online newspapers.
AOL is the new online newspaper. Google, Yahoo! and MSN are all trying to become "portals", because portals are just electronic newspapers. They design the layout, pick the lettering and provide you with a digestible amount of ads and sales lines. It's not new media at all, it's the same damn thing. What do you read first thing in the morning? At lunch? The Internet has just given us newspapers that change on the fly and can actually work two ways. It's the same need, the same solution - information at hand. Entertainment, current events, comedy, debate, etc, it's all stuff we want and we get it somewhere.
Why do I say this? Look at the leading "homepages." A lot of people moved away from traditional portals like Yahoo or even Lycos to Google for a while, but now Google makes their own "home page" portal site because it "sticks" better (google.com/ig). Microsoft has made a huge technology jump from MSN.com to live.com, and could take a lead when Vista ships. The point is that all of these portals are fighting for your eyes so they can push ads or push you into doing business with their partners.
So what AOL is doing, and does, has a purpose. They don't even want to report you to collections. In fact, I'm sure they will overlook delinquencies when you are interested in signing up again. Free months so you don't cancel? Sure! No problem - don't even pay us if you don't want to. All they want is to have you come to them and request service. Cancel it in the first five minutes and you will easily get months free.
How can I say this? I work for a newspaper, in the circulation department. We aren't interested in the money people pay for the actual product. Even if all of our customers are delinquent we are happy - they are customers, we didn't "give away" the paper to them. In fact, at one time you could rack up hundreds of dollars in debt to us and we wouldn't bat an eye when you asked to get your paper restarted. (Now we are loosing money we can't afford that, they think) All that matters is that we can go the advertisers and say "we've got xxx,xxx people get the paper at home."
We always give away free "upgrades" to a customers subscriptions, not because it gets them to buy more papers, because they can be included in our daily circulation numbers. AOL is doing the same thing. Slashdot is even doing the same thing. Imagine if upon a six month Slashdot hiatus you decide to come back, what if then you've got mod points? Don't you think they are trying to get you to visit more to see more ads.
AOL is the newspaper, Slashdot is for us, CNN is for some, Yahoo is for some, MSN is for some, random-lusers-blog.com is another for one or two people. It all depends on the person. It isn't anything new, we've just got more options (and kick-ass search engines that can sift through it all).
Title should read: AOL Tries A Tactic From Every Other Media Provider's Business.
Overall, between the PS2 and the Dreamcast, there is not as significant a difference in graphics quality as you might expect. Sure the PS2 can handle more polygons on paper, but when you actually see games side by side, the difference is not what you'd expect given the hype... and the price=2E "How do you explain this?" you might ask. Well, just like an Apple running faster at 450MHz than a Pentium III running at 700MHz, it's the way the system is using the processing power that matters, not just the raw numbers. You can't simply count polygons, memory, or megahertz, since each system uses its resources differently, and much of the efficiency comes from the way that programmers utilize these resources. Apparently, the PS2 is not that easy to program, while the Dreamcast has proven to be a big hit with developers. Titles for the PS2 will clearly get better in the long run, as programmers exploit more of the system's resources, but here and now, it's almost dead even.
Where the Dreamcast really breaks away from the PS2 is with the modem and Net access. Right out of the box, the Dreamcast not only acts like an Internet appliance capable of surfing the Web, but it's also capable of head-to-head online gaming. I connected over the Net using SegaNet (but any ISP will do). SegaNet is a full ISP you can use for Dreamcast or PC for $21.95/mo. Within 10 minutes out of the box, I was playing NFL2K and Quake III Arena against randomly chosen opponents without a hitch. Even at 56K, the games were incredible. I lost, naturally, but I enjoyed losing so much I kept going back for more. Anyone who buys a Dreamcast and plans to play online should get Quake III Arena - it's no fun alone, but over the Net, it'll get your blood pumpin' faster than Dick Cheney on Election Day=2E
I've always understood that bittorrent was not allowed on GoDaddy's servers, not domain names. To interfere with domain registrations based on content, other than when responding to a subpoena, is just plain wrong. It isn't GoDaddy's responsibility to police the domains it registered, if it was, it would be a scary place to live. Then everyone would be doing it.
Let the content servers handle content and service inspection. It should be in their contract, not the registrars. Only if people are using GoDaddy's hosting services should this be an issue, and then just their hosting services should be denied.
Millions of vets and active duty soldiers had their identities stolen recently, and they were probably taken from well patched, completely up to date Windows machines."
The information was stolen from an analyst's laptop, in his home. It might have been a window they got through, but I'm pretty sure then went throught the doors. On the other hand, the analyst was reported as having obtained a MCSE recently.
I swear that when I saw the headline I was thinking "Real Person Shooter" !!!
R typically stands for real in these cases, and not being familiar with rock as a choice, I figured they were going to duel. I like that we can sometimes take the justice system back a few hundred years every now and then. Maybe they should just tie up both parties and throw them into a body of water - whoever lives obviously is wrong!
This is a basic troll. This is the summary of many previous Slashdot discussions. The least the user could do is use a comma or semicolon so I could read that in one fluid sentence.
A girl I work with mentioned she had a MySpace page so I decided to look it up when I got home (she wanted us to). Trying to find it I stumbled upon another girl's page that works in the same office. On her page she says that she is bi-sexual. I (like an idiot) repeated to someone that her page said she was "bi" and it got out everywhere. She was upset, I don't blame her. But if she wanted the world to know, they why can't I tell a few people? I explained to her that she should expect people to find out - she published the information on the internets!!!
No matter, she was lying on her MySpace page. After it was all said and done, I 'outed' a straight girl.
You are worried about the recovery shell, but not about your network services....
I recently set up Dapper on a school development computer and got Apache, PHP, PostgreSQL, and SSH working in a matter of minutes, so, to the developers of Ubuntu, kudos.
Getting these services started, once installed, only takes seconds and configuration time could be minutes (up to hours) but securing these services could take over a day (if done correctly, including recompiling if needed). Don't worry about that recovery shell - you are being r00ted remotely!
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If your apple tree hangs over my fence, I can eat those apples that grow over my yard.
I'm not sure if I can climb the apple tree from the branches on my side to get their apples though.
Hey, with enough fuel, everything is aerodynamic!
Dammit, it's because a US Senator already coined the phrase Information Superhighway to describe the world-wide packet switching network he invented. He created the term when he was Vice-President, but he actually invented the damn thing back in the Senate.
It's a highway. You put your stuff in the dump trucks, you hear me Senator Stevens! The dump trucks take your information along the superhighway and that is how it works.
Pipes, tubes, dump trucks; it's a god damn highway.
I knew you were going to be redundant.
they say the connector appears to be purely analog.
How then does a digital signal leave that same port to later go through the optical audio cable? (Wait, SPDIF passthrough audio and video coming out of the same port... sounds like, um... HDMI)
All of you are guessing, and it's kinda annoying to see people fight about speculation and add their own.
It also wouldn't really make sense for MS to have HDMI capability in the current 360 but not offer a cable for it - do they want to make money or not?
Why doesn't it make sense? Ship the unit with more features than you know of and then sell functionality later. (Modern Cell phones anyone?) Remember the original Xbox? It certainly *could* play DVDs on its own - but it wouldn't let you until you bought the remote control add-on. It will be the same deal. I'm guessing it's already built in, but the cable you'll buy in the future will cover licensing fees. Besides, you let everyone buy DVI cables and so forth, get comfortable, and then start selling HDMI cables.
And why do I need HDMI? I've got optical audio and component video, HDMI will simply combine the two. If it is because we are talking digital vs. analog then bite my shiny metal ass. It's great and all, but we are talking about baby steps here.
Now I know why I've seen comments posted on the Internet that read:
The Roman Empire fell because they were too busy hiring and firing hoards from beyond their borders to fight each other.
Microsoft will fall when they make an alliance with Linus Torvalds to fight Steve Jobs (wait, this already happened in reverse...!) and they don't keep up with the tribute payments. Everyone wants MS to play nice with open source software and support standards, but those are the barbarians that will destroy Ro^H^H Microsoft.
Pax Microsoftus, it's the only way the Empire can survive.
Sure, the first four Google results on "deployment" are military sites, but the fourth is Microsoft talking software deployment. http://www.google.com/search?q=deployment
Why must you assume the worst? Sounds to me like bad marketing hype. Did you think Ginger (the Segway) was a new thermonuclear weapon? This guy could have been pushing a PC game or a new type of potato chip.
Thanks for the support.
You encrypt the data yourself...
I'm guessing this is the Centrino based laptop we are talking about here. They are saying a type of laptop, not a type of card. If this is true, the fix will come, but havoc will spread. I think of my poor sister who loves her wireless laptop that only requires a push of a button to connect.
What fun.
In Communist China, Google Censors You!
AOL doesn't make any money off of subscriptions. I'm just guessing, pulling shit out of my ass. I suspect however that their income is derived from their advertising and business partnership areas. AOL isn't an ISP, it's a BBS, started that way and nothing has changed. The big secret is that newspapers aren't being killed by the web and RSS, they are being killed by the new online newspapers.
AOL is the new online newspaper. Google, Yahoo! and MSN are all trying to become "portals", because portals are just electronic newspapers. They design the layout, pick the lettering and provide you with a digestible amount of ads and sales lines. It's not new media at all, it's the same damn thing. What do you read first thing in the morning? At lunch? The Internet has just given us newspapers that change on the fly and can actually work two ways. It's the same need, the same solution - information at hand. Entertainment, current events, comedy, debate, etc, it's all stuff we want and we get it somewhere.
Why do I say this? Look at the leading "homepages." A lot of people moved away from traditional portals like Yahoo or even Lycos to Google for a while, but now Google makes their own "home page" portal site because it "sticks" better (google.com/ig). Microsoft has made a huge technology jump from MSN.com to live.com, and could take a lead when Vista ships. The point is that all of these portals are fighting for your eyes so they can push ads or push you into doing business with their partners.
So what AOL is doing, and does, has a purpose. They don't even want to report you to collections. In fact, I'm sure they will overlook delinquencies when you are interested in signing up again. Free months so you don't cancel? Sure! No problem - don't even pay us if you don't want to. All they want is to have you come to them and request service. Cancel it in the first five minutes and you will easily get months free.
How can I say this? I work for a newspaper, in the circulation department. We aren't interested in the money people pay for the actual product. Even if all of our customers are delinquent we are happy - they are customers, we didn't "give away" the paper to them. In fact, at one time you could rack up hundreds of dollars in debt to us and we wouldn't bat an eye when you asked to get your paper restarted. (Now we are loosing money we can't afford that, they think) All that matters is that we can go the advertisers and say "we've got xxx,xxx people get the paper at home."
We always give away free "upgrades" to a customers subscriptions, not because it gets them to buy more papers, because they can be included in our daily circulation numbers. AOL is doing the same thing. Slashdot is even doing the same thing. Imagine if upon a six month Slashdot hiatus you decide to come back, what if then you've got mod points? Don't you think they are trying to get you to visit more to see more ads.
AOL is the newspaper, Slashdot is for us, CNN is for some, Yahoo is for some, MSN is for some, random-lusers-blog.com is another for one or two people. It all depends on the person. It isn't anything new, we've just got more options (and kick-ass search engines that can sift through it all).
Title should read: AOL Tries A Tactic From Every Other Media Provider's Business.
http://www.streettech.com/archives_gadget/DCvsPS2
It depends on what we are talking... but the Dreamcast was part of the PS2 generation. You just don't remember it.
This Fox news show brought to you by Sony.
I've always understood that bittorrent was not allowed on GoDaddy's servers, not domain names. To interfere with domain registrations based on content, other than when responding to a subpoena, is just plain wrong. It isn't GoDaddy's responsibility to police the domains it registered, if it was, it would be a scary place to live. Then everyone would be doing it.
Let the content servers handle content and service inspection. It should be in their contract, not the registrars. Only if people are using GoDaddy's hosting services should this be an issue, and then just their hosting services should be denied.
Silly.
Oh and you were doing so good too!
Millions of vets and active duty soldiers had their identities stolen recently, and they were probably taken from well patched, completely up to date Windows machines."
The information was stolen from an analyst's laptop, in his home. It might have been a window they got through, but I'm pretty sure then went throught the doors. On the other hand, the analyst was reported as having obtained a MCSE recently.
I swear that when I saw the headline I was thinking "Real Person Shooter" !!!
R typically stands for real in these cases, and not being familiar with rock as a choice, I figured they were going to duel. I like that we can sometimes take the justice system back a few hundred years every now and then. Maybe they should just tie up both parties and throw them into a body of water - whoever lives obviously is wrong!
Wait, I forgot to add Unix finger to that.
Unix Talk
Interesting!?!?
This is a basic troll. This is the summary of many previous Slashdot discussions. The least the user could do is use a comma or semicolon so I could read that in one fluid sentence.
Funny MySpace story:
A girl I work with mentioned she had a MySpace page so I decided to look it up when I got home (she wanted us to). Trying to find it I stumbled upon another girl's page that works in the same office. On her page she says that she is bi-sexual. I (like an idiot) repeated to someone that her page said she was "bi" and it got out everywhere. She was upset, I don't blame her. But if she wanted the world to know, they why can't I tell a few people? I explained to her that she should expect people to find out - she published the information on the internets!!!
No matter, she was lying on her MySpace page. After it was all said and done, I 'outed' a straight girl.
Getting these services started, once installed, only takes seconds and configuration time could be minutes (up to hours) but securing these services could take over a day (if done correctly, including recompiling if needed). Don't worry about that recovery shell - you are being r00ted remotely!
The Chinese government won't even let their citizens use the keyboard and mouse:
/ 06/confirmed_all_t.html
http://rconversation.blogs.com/rconversation/2005
Two words:
Noah's Ark