For all the naysayers, keep in mind, these truckers make their LIVING hauling product long distances. If this didn't work, or made the overall process less effecient, they'd know it. We're talking about their own profits it would be eating into, not some mystery lab result.
Sorry, but doubt hundreds of truckers are going to do that just to help out a company that involved in "psuedo science".
Aren't they then assuming that people are actually paying for Windows in S. Korea. What good does it do you to withdraw your product from the market when everyone is just stealing it anyway?
This would be pretty good a providing a pool of other players in about the same age group etc. for kids to play with. The only thing that bothers me is that rather than going to eat shitty food then running around in the play area, these little tubs of soon to be lard will be eating shit then sitting on their asses playing video games.
Knowing the average parent today, as long as little Timmy shuts up, that will work just fine.
So Fox owns the broadcasting rights to the show, but do they own the downloading rights?
Would this allow a producer to make a show, throw it on iTunes for $2 an episode, and then just continue to produce as long as they're making money? Sounds like a good way for fans to rescue worthwhile shows that are cancelled in place of "Who's Your Daddy" and the like.
Didn't anyone else notice you'd have to buy an entirely new DVD player to have the privlidge of buything these watch once then throw away discs? What is going through these people's heads when they think this is a good pitch?
Not only will I have to buy a new type of disc, which offers little over today's rentals (what, I don't have to return it to the store? Welcome to Netflix 5 years ago.) but at the same time I'm supposed to want to replace my entire living room set to do it?
Then there's the question of whether or not this new tech will work with the next gen of DVD's. I might see people replacing their DVD players if that means they'll get the 30GB or whatever version of DVD's, but for the same 9GB crap we have now? Don't think so.
Granted they went into zero detail as to how this will work, but I wonder if it will incorporate into the new DVD formats. (or maybe that's they way they plan on releasing it, who knows)
Funny though that the music and entertainment industry would rather put their fate in the hands of MS over the hands of their customers. Although the customer might eventually stop putting his/her hand in their pockets to pull out their wallet at the drop of a hat, and least they won't be putting their hands around your throat.
Honestly, seeing as these are $100 cheaper than the next flash alternative I could find, I'm tempted to just pick up two as boot devices.
One for my Windows machines at work, one for my Macs.
You'd use up about 1GB for the OS, then have 3+GB free for data extraction. Throw a bunch of diagnostic utilities on there (usually a hundred megs or so at most) and you've got a kick ass clean system to test hardware with when you're troubleshooting. And since its got a batter of its own, it's not reliant on having a powered USB port.
I'll tell you exactly why I stopped seeing movies in theatres.
FUCKING TV COMMERCIALS before every damn movie. I don't mind seeing TV commercials when I'm watching television. Commercials allow them to pay for the airwaves they're sending my way. Fine, fair trade.
However, to see the price of movie tickets go up $2 to $3 per in a three year span, while at the same time they're subjecting me to their damned marketing CRAP is too much.
I'm not going to pay $10 to watch commercials. I'm paying that much to get a big screen, big sound, and NO ADVERTISING. (movie previews are fine, at least they're on topic)
There's nothing more annoying than seeing that same shitty ass grainy TV commercial at 40' across and blasting your ear drums out.
You hear me movie execs? You allow commercials before your movies, and I WON'T SEE THEM. Fuck you.
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You don't really say just how much those irreplaceable files are worth to you. A lot of people have things are irreplaceable until they find out how much it will actually cost them to back it up properly. Then suddenly little Timmy's first steps don't look so hot.
Go pick yourself up a xRAID or the like and back all of your files up to a nice RAID 5 system. Once a year or so do a dump to optical media but just add additional space as necessary.
I know, zip of the flame retardant suit, but in all honesty, WTF to people bother with this. I can understand if it's just for the challenge of saying you got XYZ to run on something it wasn't really every supposed to, but this talk about maybe being a cheap PDA, web browser, digital swiss army knife just strikes me as naive dreaming.
Seems like by the time people figure out how to get even a quarter of all the functions to work that you'd need to actually use the device like people dream, the hackers have moved on to getting a new device to POST then babbling about it on Slashdot.
If you want to say that you're doing this as a novelty I understand, but does someone out there actually believe they're going to create a worthwhile market for these Linux booting abominations?
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Right, because long haul truckers tend to invest their extra cash into venture capitol on new technology.
For all the naysayers, keep in mind, these truckers make their LIVING hauling product long distances. If this didn't work, or made the overall process less effecient, they'd know it. We're talking about their own profits it would be eating into, not some mystery lab result.
Sorry, but doubt hundreds of truckers are going to do that just to help out a company that involved in "psuedo science".
Aren't they then assuming that people are actually paying for Windows in S. Korea. What good does it do you to withdraw your product from the market when everyone is just stealing it anyway?
Dude, that's like Matrix 101.
This would be pretty good a providing a pool of other players in about the same age group etc. for kids to play with. The only thing that bothers me is that rather than going to eat shitty food then running around in the play area, these little tubs of soon to be lard will be eating shit then sitting on their asses playing video games.
Knowing the average parent today, as long as little Timmy shuts up, that will work just fine.
As most places have picked up on, the shows don't include the commercials. However, that's not saying they won't some time in the future.
So Fox owns the broadcasting rights to the show, but do they own the downloading rights?
Would this allow a producer to make a show, throw it on iTunes for $2 an episode, and then just continue to produce as long as they're making money? Sounds like a good way for fans to rescue worthwhile shows that are cancelled in place of "Who's Your Daddy" and the like.
It's like where they put chocolate and peanut butter together. Only evil.
When you leave your name and IP address in the letter, doesn't it defeat the purpose of posting AC?
HA HA HHAHAAHHAAH
Never played super monkey ball then? Giant friggin japanese bananna company commercial.
Didn't anyone else notice you'd have to buy an entirely new DVD player to have the privlidge of buything these watch once then throw away discs? What is going through these people's heads when they think this is a good pitch?
Not only will I have to buy a new type of disc, which offers little over today's rentals (what, I don't have to return it to the store? Welcome to Netflix 5 years ago.) but at the same time I'm supposed to want to replace my entire living room set to do it?
Then there's the question of whether or not this new tech will work with the next gen of DVD's. I might see people replacing their DVD players if that means they'll get the 30GB or whatever version of DVD's, but for the same 9GB crap we have now? Don't think so.
Granted they went into zero detail as to how this will work, but I wonder if it will incorporate into the new DVD formats. (or maybe that's they way they plan on releasing it, who knows)
Funny though that the music and entertainment industry would rather put their fate in the hands of MS over the hands of their customers. Although the customer might eventually stop putting his/her hand in their pockets to pull out their wallet at the drop of a hat, and least they won't be putting their hands around your throat.
What you need are pants like that.
Solar cells on the outside, and when she unzips your pants they light up inside to make life easier!
Go figure, typing properly now means you get your password cracked.
Guess that's all the more reason to keep that Cheetos bag crinkling as you type. Gotta stop the commies!
Where did you see that? I looked over the review and didn't see that.
Honestly, seeing as these are $100 cheaper than the next flash alternative I could find, I'm tempted to just pick up two as boot devices.
One for my Windows machines at work, one for my Macs.
You'd use up about 1GB for the OS, then have 3+GB free for data extraction. Throw a bunch of diagnostic utilities on there (usually a hundred megs or so at most) and you've got a kick ass clean system to test hardware with when you're troubleshooting. And since its got a batter of its own, it's not reliant on having a powered USB port.
I'll tell you exactly why I stopped seeing movies in theatres.
FUCKING TV COMMERCIALS before every damn movie. I don't mind seeing TV commercials when I'm watching television. Commercials allow them to pay for the airwaves they're sending my way. Fine, fair trade.
However, to see the price of movie tickets go up $2 to $3 per in a three year span, while at the same time they're subjecting me to their damned marketing CRAP is too much.
I'm not going to pay $10 to watch commercials. I'm paying that much to get a big screen, big sound, and NO ADVERTISING. (movie previews are fine, at least they're on topic)
There's nothing more annoying than seeing that same shitty ass grainy TV commercial at 40' across and blasting your ear drums out.
You hear me movie execs? You allow commercials before your movies, and I WON'T SEE THEM. Fuck you.
IIRC, Doom had a lot of very graphic anatomy lessons built in.
how does not getting a joke get rated +1 insightful?
maybe +1 clueless, or +1 right over your head.....
*sigh*
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However, the article said nothing about Yahoo becoming better, just Bigger. There's a world of difference between the two.
In Soviet Russia, SPAM unsubscribes YOU!
IIRC catfish have cartilidge, not bone. Although both will get stuck in your throat if you're not careful.
"What are we having for dinner tonight?"
Or we could just cut down on pollution for FREE!
Honestly, how much would it cost to require an SUV to get 30+ MPG instead of 15?
You don't really say just how much those irreplaceable files are worth to you. A lot of people have things are irreplaceable until they find out how much it will actually cost them to back it up properly. Then suddenly little Timmy's first steps don't look so hot.
Go pick yourself up a xRAID or the like and back all of your files up to a nice RAID 5 system. Once a year or so do a dump to optical media but just add additional space as necessary.
I know, zip of the flame retardant suit, but in all honesty, WTF to people bother with this. I can understand if it's just for the challenge of saying you got XYZ to run on something it wasn't really every supposed to, but this talk about maybe being a cheap PDA, web browser, digital swiss army knife just strikes me as naive dreaming.
Seems like by the time people figure out how to get even a quarter of all the functions to work that you'd need to actually use the device like people dream, the hackers have moved on to getting a new device to POST then babbling about it on Slashdot.
If you want to say that you're doing this as a novelty I understand, but does someone out there actually believe they're going to create a worthwhile market for these Linux booting abominations?