So some hotshot Ferrari-drivin' game developer who makes more money than God likes to buy video cards every week to compare 'em?
Actually dumbass, I think he gets the latest video cards sent to him for free.
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My parents were good parents I would have to say. I still got suspended from school, sat in dentention for most of my high school career, smoked weed, shoplifted, etc.
Your parents might be good people, but they're pretty shitty parents. You're a sad case of gross negligence.
I'm glad it's a plane from Boeing. When I first saw the title "X-45", I thought it's x10.com's latest innovation since the pop under ad - the pop inbetween ad, or the pop inside your ass ad.
they both fit in a pocket comfortably, so from a consumer standpoint they are of the same value -- pocketable. As opposed to a CD player which isn't. That's the only real contrast that a comnsumer cares about.
Clearly you don't talk to girls much. Do you know that pockets don't come in only one size? And that some pants do not even have pockets? Your argument makes as much sense as me discounting the size of Minidisc players since from a consumer standpoint they both fit in a backpack, or a very large pocket.
More specifically, I meant that the player with disc in it is likely to be pretty much the exact same size as a small minidisc player.
To make such a statement, you clearly weren't even around when the first Minidisc players were released. They had a footprint 2/3rds of a CD player and three times as thick. The footprint of the player has gotten so small these days that they are not that much bigger than a Minidisc itself. Can the size of the player ever get smaller than the footprint of a minidisc? No. Can the size of a dataplay player ever get smaller than a footprint of a minidisc? yes. In fact it already has.
And frankly I find all your talk about flash cards very amusing, since it has nothing to do with you spreading your minidisc vs. dataplay FUD. Your original post was clearly comparing the physical sizes of a minidisc versus a dataplay disc. And now in your reply you throw in 5 paragraphs about mp3s, flash media, and "consumer standpoint" when it's quite obvious that you know jackshit about consumer products, as well as having any experience with consumer marketing.
Yes, dataplay has more storage than a MD, but so what? Data space doesn't necessarily equate better quality.
data space doesn't equate better quality? Go take a CS class on infomation theory and come back, so I can school you with the proper terminology. It's funny that you even assume the codec they use is inferior to ATRAC. do you know what you're talking about?
But dataplay isn't offering any quality or cost advantage to offset the lack of recording, when plenty of small portable recordable formats are already available with similar quality and price.
*rolls eyes* It's a one-time recordable format like CD-R. At least read the article before trying to defend your ignorance and misinformation.
I'm surprised that you can't handle someone disagreeing with you wihtout assuming they must be a troll. There's a whole wide world out there, my friend...
That's the one thing I agree with in your post. Not only are there trolls, but there's a whole wide world of liars and idiots out there who thinks they're right despite otherwise...
They're not any smaller than minidiscs, and they're a lot more fragile, a lot less flexible, a lot less powerful, more expensive, no better quality, and no longer recording time (oh, I meant to say NO recording time).
That's like saying the 3.5 inch floppies are not any smaller than 5.25 inch floppies. A Dataplay disc is approximately 1 inch by 1 inch, while a minidisc is at least four times the area (approximately 2.75 inches by 2.5 inches), and you find the difference in physical area neglible?
no better quality and no longer recording time? Let's see, the minidisc stores a maximum of 160Mb of data. The dataplay disc stores 500Mb.
I'm shocked that a troll account with such a low userid still hasn't been trollslapped or disabled. And for posts like these, Taco really needs the moderation (-1, Complete Lie)
I just believe they're doing it for a reason that makes business sense to them rather than out of the "this is a really great technical idea" motivation.
Wait, let me get it straight - is it really your original and insightful contention that a for-profit company is making decisions because it makes business sense to them? oh the sheer defiance of their behavior from the norm just fucking shatters me! Can you be any more controversial?
Actually you're completely wrong. Voicestream is only capable of unlocking phones that were locked for Voicestream.
Think about it for a second - if every phone provider has the ability to unlock phones from other providers, it defeats the purpose of having locks in the first place, right?
Surely I hope no one followed your advice for real, and got stuck with a unusable phone and $200 short....
Let me get this straight - you think voluntary authentication by bnetd servers is not a major compromise to security?
If the Battlenet authentication servers go down, bnetd could let in anyone, so pirates could only play when Battlenet goes down.
Hey, you know what's a even better idea? How about I modify bnetd to let anyone in, regardless of whether the Battlenet authentication servers are down or not? Then 100% of the pirates can play on my bnetd server 100% of the time!
Honestly, what you're suggesting is akin to liquor stores not checking IDs, and trusting the customers to buy beer only if they're 21. Phft, that's an idea..
If Microsoft suddenly changes how their browser handles downloaded files, tens of thousands (perhaps hundreds of thousands? any webpage which downloads files) of webpages "designed for IE" will have to be rewritten.
Good grief! Can somebody link to the tens of thousands of "designed for IE" webpages that are currently incompatible as a result of this patch?
In fact a proper "fix" of this hole probably involves de-integrating their browser and local file handling to some extent.
Eerrr.. a proper "fix" of Michael's previous article probably involves a higher level of computer literacy, and less impulsive urge to write expository essays that sound dramatic, but are wrong.
GPRS (also known as 2.5G) and 3G are packet-based, and also charge by the packet, so you get what you pay for.
In that sense, they don't have the same revenue model as ISPs that usually charge bandwidth by the month - their revenues aren't driven by the amortization of regular bandwidth usage per user.
My friend was vacation in Japan over the summer. While visiting an aquarium, he saw someone pointing his DoCoMo phone at the fish. Turns out he was using the built-in camera to take snapshots of the fish, so his friend on the other side of the conversation can see what he was looking at. Given that it was pre-3G when he was there - now, the same person would probably be watching a live video feed of the fish instead.
Watching movies on my phone is dumb -- I'd rather watch them on my home theater or in a real movie theater.
How big is your home theater again? Can you fit that in your pocket?
No one said they're showing feature films on the phones. Is this the ONLY application you can think of for movies?
Given that some applications can be frivolous, there are plenty of people that are using such "extrataneous features" in socially-enriching ways. Just because you're too boxed up in your "I need a real keyboard or home theater" mindset, don't speak for the rest of us.
I think the remedy is simple. We should just reserve all the current names that are registered under the.com,.net, and.org domains for the new TLDs, so that cybersquatters won't be able to abuse the new domain names offered. And the current domain owners get also their rightful domain names under the new TLDs.
I guess our future Chinese surveillance flights won't have hostage situations anymore...
"Aiight Wang Wei, you wanna play Chicken? I'm flying this plane 5000 miles away, sitting on an Aeron chair and sipping Mountain Dew. Let's show you who's gonna be Chicken now!"
I can't even think of how well the porn industry is going to exploit this new technology. I'm not blind, but I certainly plan on being able to feel that nipple with the new mouse. Woo hoo!
Your argument for "no slump for sex online" is completely false. For example, you say
He cites a report from sextracker.com that the number of free adult Web sites grew from 22,100 in l997 to 280,300 last year. Sex-for-pay sites grew from 230 to 1,100 during the same period.
Notice the survey is up to last year. If you track the dotcom boom up until last year, you'll still find tremedous growth. It's the beginning of last summer until now has the market been crashing down so quickly.
All your other dated surveys were made before the dotcom crash. How do you know if the sex online industry isn't slumping now? What if all those horny guys paying the sex sites were the ones downloading porn at work, and now they that they're fired they don't have the bandwidth to stream video from hotnakedteenagechickz.com?
really, I would love to see you spend a couple of days typing up everything in there. Especially when there are real cell phone numbers, icq numbers, and root passwords, and logs that can be verified by all the other parties involved
Anyway, does it really matter which one is the default?
Not from an engineering perspective, but it sure makes this piece of news irrelevant, since:
Since they'll also be including a 2.2 kernel "in parallel," this isn't totally earthshaking (some other distros have been shipping 2.2 stock and 2.4 optional Ib>for a little while), but it certainly is welcome news that SuSE is willing to reverse that order.
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So some hotshot Ferrari-drivin' game developer who makes more money than God likes to buy video cards every week to compare 'em?
Actually dumbass, I think he gets the latest video cards sent to him for free.
My parents were good parents I would have to say. I still got suspended from school, sat in dentention for most of my high school career, smoked weed, shoplifted, etc.
Your parents might be good people, but they're pretty shitty parents. You're a sad case of gross negligence.
I'm glad it's a plane from Boeing. When I first saw the title "X-45", I thought it's x10.com's latest innovation since the pop under ad - the pop inbetween ad, or the pop inside your ass ad.
timothy and I went to see Spider-Man, yesterday and we were the only two people in that theatre
Nice yo! Last time that happened to me and my girlfriend we had sex for the entire movie, and didn't even watch one bit of it.
and you and timothy do anything... oh wait a minute, nevermind.
they both fit in a pocket comfortably, so from a consumer standpoint they are of the same value -- pocketable. As opposed to a CD player which isn't. That's the only real contrast that a comnsumer cares about.
Clearly you don't talk to girls much. Do you know that pockets don't come in only one size? And that some pants do not even have pockets? Your argument makes as much sense as me discounting the size of Minidisc players since from a consumer standpoint they both fit in a backpack, or a very large pocket.
More specifically, I meant that the player with disc in it is likely to be pretty much the exact same size as a small minidisc player.
To make such a statement, you clearly weren't even around when the first Minidisc players were released. They had a footprint 2/3rds of a CD player and three times as thick. The footprint of the player has gotten so small these days that they are not that much bigger than a Minidisc itself. Can the size of the player ever get smaller than the footprint of a minidisc? No. Can the size of a dataplay player ever get smaller than a footprint of a minidisc? yes. In fact it already has.
And frankly I find all your talk about flash cards very amusing, since it has nothing to do with you spreading your minidisc vs. dataplay FUD. Your original post was clearly comparing the physical sizes of a minidisc versus a dataplay disc. And now in your reply you throw in 5 paragraphs about mp3s, flash media, and "consumer standpoint" when it's quite obvious that you know jackshit about consumer products, as well as having any experience with consumer marketing.
Yes, dataplay has more storage than a MD, but so what? Data space doesn't necessarily equate better quality.
data space doesn't equate better quality? Go take a CS class on infomation theory and come back, so I can school you with the proper terminology. It's funny that you even assume the codec they use is inferior to ATRAC. do you know what you're talking about?
But dataplay isn't offering any quality or cost advantage to offset the lack of recording, when plenty of small portable recordable formats are already available with similar quality and price.
*rolls eyes* It's a one-time recordable format like CD-R. At least read the article before trying to defend your ignorance and misinformation.
I'm surprised that you can't handle someone disagreeing with you wihtout assuming they must be a troll. There's a whole wide world out there, my friend...
That's the one thing I agree with in your post. Not only are there trolls, but there's a whole wide world of liars and idiots out there who thinks they're right despite otherwise...
They're not any smaller than minidiscs, and they're a lot more fragile, a lot less flexible, a lot less powerful, more expensive, no better quality, and no longer recording time (oh, I meant to say NO recording time).
That's like saying the 3.5 inch floppies are not any smaller than 5.25 inch floppies. A Dataplay disc is approximately 1 inch by 1 inch, while a minidisc is at least four times the area (approximately 2.75 inches by 2.5 inches), and you find the difference in physical area neglible?
no better quality and no longer recording time? Let's see, the minidisc stores a maximum of 160Mb of data. The dataplay disc stores 500Mb.
(Reference: minidisc.org)
I'm shocked that a troll account with such a low userid still hasn't been trollslapped or disabled. And for posts like these, Taco really needs the moderation (-1, Complete Lie)
Never in my life have I thought that this page would someday exist.
Now it's all about waiting for the nomination from the academy.
I just believe they're doing it for a reason that makes business sense to them rather than out of the "this is a really great technical idea" motivation.
Wait, let me get it straight - is it really your original and insightful contention that a for-profit company is making decisions because it makes business sense to them? oh the sheer defiance of their behavior from the norm just fucking shatters me! Can you be any more controversial?
Actually you're completely wrong. Voicestream is only capable of unlocking phones that were locked for Voicestream.
Think about it for a second - if every phone provider has the ability to unlock phones from other providers, it defeats the purpose of having locks in the first place, right?
Surely I hope no one followed your advice for real, and got stuck with a unusable phone and $200 short....
Let me get this straight - you think voluntary authentication by bnetd servers is not a major compromise to security?
If the Battlenet authentication servers go down, bnetd could let in anyone, so pirates could only play when Battlenet goes down.
Hey, you know what's a even better idea? How about I modify bnetd to let anyone in, regardless of whether the Battlenet authentication servers are down or not? Then 100% of the pirates can play on my bnetd server 100% of the time!
Honestly, what you're suggesting is akin to liquor stores not checking IDs, and trusting the customers to buy beer only if they're 21. Phft, that's an idea..
I want the minutes of the board meeting where Jean said "screw apple. we're intuitively obviously worth so much more than that."
Heck, that memo would probably raise more on Ebay than what they got from Palm..
Michael exaggerated this exploit beyond belief:
If Microsoft suddenly changes how their browser handles downloaded files, tens of thousands (perhaps hundreds of thousands? any webpage which downloads files) of webpages "designed for IE" will have to be rewritten.
Good grief! Can somebody link to the tens of thousands of "designed for IE" webpages that are currently incompatible as a result of this patch?
In fact a proper "fix" of this hole probably involves de-integrating their browser and local file handling to some extent.
Eerrr.. a proper "fix" of Michael's previous article probably involves a higher level of computer literacy, and less impulsive urge to write expository essays that sound dramatic, but are wrong.
GPRS (also known as 2.5G) and 3G are packet-based, and also charge by the packet, so you get what you pay for.
In that sense, they don't have the same revenue model as ISPs that usually charge bandwidth by the month - their revenues aren't driven by the amortization of regular bandwidth usage per user.
My friend was vacation in Japan over the summer. While visiting an aquarium, he saw someone pointing his DoCoMo phone at the fish. Turns out he was using the built-in camera to take snapshots of the fish, so his friend on the other side of the conversation can see what he was looking at. Given that it was pre-3G when he was there - now, the same person would probably be watching a live video feed of the fish instead.
Watching movies on my phone is dumb -- I'd rather watch them on my home theater or in a real movie theater.
How big is your home theater again? Can you fit that in your pocket?
No one said they're showing feature films on the phones. Is this the ONLY application you can think of for movies?
Given that some applications can be frivolous, there are plenty of people that are using such "extrataneous features" in socially-enriching ways. Just because you're too boxed up in your "I need a real keyboard or home theater" mindset, don't speak for the rest of us.
eeyyaahh!!!!
Haven't you heard? This technology doesn't support the one-buttoned Apple mouse!
Um, wait a second...
"Aiight Wang Wei, you wanna play Chicken? I'm flying this plane 5000 miles away, sitting on an Aeron chair and sipping Mountain Dew. Let's show you who's gonna be Chicken now!"
I can't even think of how well the porn industry is going to exploit this new technology. I'm not blind, but I certainly plan on being able to feel that nipple with the new mouse. Woo hoo!
He cites a report from sextracker.com that the number of free adult Web sites grew from 22,100 in l997 to 280,300 last year. Sex-for-pay sites grew from 230 to 1,100 during the same period.
Notice the survey is up to last year. If you track the dotcom boom up until last year, you'll still find tremedous growth. It's the beginning of last summer until now has the market been crashing down so quickly.
All your other dated surveys were made before the dotcom crash. How do you know if the sex online industry isn't slumping now? What if all those horny guys paying the sex sites were the ones downloading porn at work, and now they that they're fired they don't have the bandwidth to stream video from hotnakedteenagechickz.com?
really, I would love to see you spend a couple of days typing up everything in there. Especially when there are real cell phone numbers, icq numbers, and root passwords, and logs that can be verified by all the other parties involved
is today MIT appreciation day?
*cough* trolls *cough*
No comment. Make your own jokes.
Not from an engineering perspective, but it sure makes this piece of news irrelevant, since:
Since they'll also be including a 2.2 kernel "in parallel," this isn't totally earthshaking (some other distros have been shipping 2.2 stock and 2.4 optional Ib>for a little while), but it certainly is welcome news that SuSE is willing to reverse that order.
What a great summary ya fucking thief. Excuse my French, but stealing is stealing. Pirates like you are a pretty sad breed indeed.