surely this is a plus for pda devices? just download small conf files for whichever devices you want to control with a host program. no need to spend ages programming it, when someone else has...
IMO its this sort of thing, which would just make time travel, if it did happen, have no effect...
1. Build a time machine 2. Go into the past (why would you go to the future to get info on what you just created?) 3. In the past, release details on how to make the time machine. 4. The time machine is made in the past, resulting in no need for 1. (sure you might do it after someone makes www.howiwentthroughtime.info, but youd not do it first) 5. without the need for 1, 1 wouldnt be done, meaning it wouldnt be done in the past. meaning 1 *would* happen... 6. goto 1.
what i still dont understand is why people think they can justify copying their games as "backups". you may "own" the media (the original) which you would then be in your own right to scratch with a knife.
but "backing up" the dvd or cd, is making a copy of copyrighted matierial. its not a copy of the product, its a copy of the copyrighted stuff on the product
sure it might be practical for small children/pets, but then so is then selling it for money...
no ads in the middle of programs, not cutting just to fit in an extra 4 mins of adverts. not bad for £200 or so a year i reckon (comes with free radio too!)
i thought that ms werent doing the xbox for profit (not primarily)
*i* thought microsoft wanted to get into the other parts of your house. get under your tv, make a "record tv" product for the xbox (im sure it wont take much effort for them to develop a tv-in adapter etc)
$30 for the tv recording program that plays on your already existing XBox with its "xxxxmb hdd", or $300 on Tivo (which doesnt play dvds, or games)
from there, they could do interactive tv, (web surfing email etc)
*thats* what i thought the xbox was all about, microsoft want to get out of your pc and into your toaster(v2.1)
if microsoft own a lot of ntl/telewest, and they take the football rights contract, it may influence more people to go with the cable operators.
probably not enough demand for 1st division to convince people to switch over from rupert murdoch's stranglehold, but its another(?) exclusive on TW/NTL's list
the xbox is/was suppsoed to be a standalone CONSOLE, not a pc. i for one do not want to see ANYBODY use online connectivity for getting "new features" (read bug fixes) itll just turn into a pc, then people will stop buying it.
aside from publisher demands (where games arent finished yet are demanded by publishers who want their quick buck) the fact that most console games are well polished are because they arent thought of with "patches" in mind.
i think the problem still lies with BT's debts, and their stubborness. they cant afford bring out new technology or fixing lines etc so that dsl can reach further, but if they said that publicly, their backing (stocks?) would ditch them in a second. BT screwed up bad by monopolising their phone lines and oftel came in too late.
the way i see it, bt will split up seperate bits all sold off, the dsl side will split up further and NTL/Telewest will take up more ground (i believe ntl/telewest are targetting area's without dsl where they are present)
still, this will probably take another 5/6 years:/
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surely this is a plus for pda devices? just download small conf files for whichever devices you want to control with a host program. no need to spend ages programming it, when someone else has...
just a thought
IMO its this sort of thing, which would just make time travel, if it did happen, have no effect...
1. Build a time machine
2. Go into the past (why would you go to the future to get info on what you just created?)
3. In the past, release details on how to make the time machine.
4. The time machine is made in the past, resulting in no need for 1. (sure you might do it after someone makes www.howiwentthroughtime.info, but youd not do it first)
5. without the need for 1, 1 wouldnt be done, meaning it wouldnt be done in the past. meaning 1 *would* happen...
6. goto 1.
yeah right, i pick my nose, and boom ive deleted my porn
what i still dont understand is why people think they can justify copying their games as "backups". you may "own" the media (the original) which you would then be in your own right to scratch with a knife.
but "backing up" the dvd or cd, is making a copy of copyrighted matierial. its not a copy of the product, its a copy of the copyrighted stuff on the product
sure it might be practical for small children/pets, but then so is then selling it for money...
get a shelf
i smell a giant PR stunt
no ads in the middle of programs, not cutting just to fit in an extra 4 mins of adverts. not bad for £200 or so a year i reckon (comes with free radio too!)
if they base it on the UK version of robot wars, all they'll have to do is hope the enemy cant get up after being flipped over
" you also want microsoft to have free reign on your PC"
free reign on windows. i still dispute microsoft own their product.
still, these sorts of changes shouldnt be so hidden away. it may be bad marketing, but it wont shift many(if any) people away from windows
hmm, time to troll...
"If you can find me a publisher and programmer of any of those titles who depends on royalties from those games to live, please contact me."
i can live without a car(in fact, i could probably live without a lung), that doesnt mean i dont mind having it taken away from me(car or lung)
have you not seen john livingstones website? www.e-brownpaperbag.co.uk
"No mother, it IS a job, health plana dn everything look! btw, you need that chair of yours?"
note to self: must stop chewing on metal pen
4) commander taco arrives a week later than any other slashdot admin
"nothing a month, yeah, i think we can swing that"
until you required de-pruning (see dilbert episode)
i should have just made somehting that groups pages by cup size
"public school is front for mass CD copy circumvention"
i thought that ms werent doing the xbox for profit (not primarily)
*i* thought microsoft wanted to get into the other parts of your house. get under your tv, make a "record tv" product for the xbox (im sure it wont take much effort for them to develop a tv-in adapter etc)
$30 for the tv recording program that plays on your already existing XBox with its "xxxxmb hdd", or $300 on Tivo (which doesnt play dvds, or games)
from there, they could do interactive tv, (web surfing email etc)
*thats* what i thought the xbox was all about, microsoft want to get out of your pc and into your toaster(v2.1)
obviously he's someone with just dilbert and life in hell "comic books". (and maybe "the complete works of shakespere and monty python")
i think this just proves how essential us geeks are. time to take over i think
if microsoft own a lot of ntl/telewest, and they take the football rights contract, it may influence more people to go with the cable operators.
probably not enough demand for 1st division to convince people to switch over from rupert murdoch's stranglehold, but its another(?) exclusive on TW/NTL's list
the xbox is/was suppsoed to be a standalone CONSOLE, not a pc. i for one do not want to see ANYBODY use online connectivity for getting "new features" (read bug fixes) itll just turn into a pc, then people will stop buying it.
aside from publisher demands (where games arent finished yet are demanded by publishers who want their quick buck) the fact that most console games are well polished are because they arent thought of with "patches" in mind.
any geeks with money are gonna be throwing haikus everywhere...
google reaches more
geeks meet art
no more money
i think the problem still lies with BT's debts, and their stubborness. they cant afford bring out new technology or fixing lines etc so that dsl can reach further, but if they said that publicly, their backing (stocks?) would ditch them in a second. BT screwed up bad by monopolising their phone lines and oftel came in too late.
:/
the way i see it, bt will split up seperate bits all sold off, the dsl side will split up further and NTL/Telewest will take up more ground (i believe ntl/telewest are targetting area's without dsl where they are present)
still, this will probably take another 5/6 years
"Hell, we should be criticizing the keyboard for its short-sighted 'one key at a time' input"
:]
i dunno, piano's only evolved in the sense of things being done for them(enhancements if you will), rather than an interface change.
just need to program one of these "web" buttons to type out goatse.cx for me similar to my helicopter sample on my casio keyboard
im sure there could be innovation in the keyboard like the "apple mouse", that one with the drag-your-finger-to-click-etc
perhaps a drag over q types qu instead of just a press for q