If you don't like our welfare state, you are more than welcome to move to another country where your demands for no taxes and no service will be served.
* Me as a private person: ALL games, Pages (OS X application) * Me as a professional: MS Excel, MS Outlook or other Exchange client equivalent * My colleagues: SPSS, Nvivo, MS Outlook or other Exchange client equivalent * My father as a professional: Adobe CS
The real reason why I don't switch to Linux on any of my computers at home: usability. Linux for the desktop is still too difficult to work with, even for a power user like me. EVERYTHING that reasonably needs to be configured has to be configurable in the GUI. You should never ever need to open a Terminal to fix things.
It deeply saddens me that people continue to support companies that pull this kind of crap.
I'm sure that Sony/Microsoft et al would change their tune of their products weren't selling. But, when their selling millions of crippled or bugged titles, my lone voice is crushed by the cacophonous accusations of paranoia.
The problem is that if we stop buying them, they will claim it was due to piracy or whatever and have the legislators make up new rules forcing us to purchase their products.
Institutions and companies as well for that matter, REALLY need to learn how to; read contracts and agreements, formulate needs and demands (preferably with help of a third party) and not to trust the seller of a product or service.
How hard can it really be? REALLY!? (If you really wanted and devoted resources to it, that is)
"Sell at a mass market price", "Embrace the cloudloosely", "Incorporate Kinect into the box", "Keep building out the entertainment functionality", "Launch with major franchises"...
Come on!!!
What an extremely unimaginative list of suggestions. Here's a proper list:
* Max amount of RAM that fits in to the SRP, preferably 16 GB, at least 8 GB, probably more important than CPU nowadays for consoles * Blu-Ray * Expansion through USB-ports, connect any USB harddrive
There are 100 times as many white teenagers plastered to their monitor messing around with their computer as there are black teenagers. Since successful tech entrepreneurs tend to be the kids who spent thousands of hours in front of their computer when they were kids, and the kids spending thousands of hours in front of their computer are almost all white (or asian), then of course almost all the tech entrepreneurs will be white.
It's got nothing to do with silicon valley. It's due to the comparative lack of computer availability to young black teens, and a cultural difference where American black culture has a much lower opinion on average of nerdy endeavors as opposed to American white culture.
In regard to an issue as important as this (why a certain sector is not reflecting society), it would be a lot easier to accept someone's opinion if they could refer to some kind of research or statistics instead of just offering blunt statements and/or rants.
Absolutely. And the writer of the piece (Richard Stallman) published by the Guardian seems to be marketing for free software. I mean, his statement that: "Even though the Android phones of today are considerably less bad than Apple or Windows smartphones, they cannot be said to respect your freedom." is in any way you look at it: bollocks.
WHY are they less bad? For whom?
Yes Apple smartphones are SuperLockedIn and not many people has much good to say of the new Windows phones. But come on, that blanket statement gets FOSS systems nowhere...
It's ADSL for most people, 8/12/24 Mbps is the normal speeds. You can see the stats yourself here: http://www.bredbandskollen.se/statistik/?section=1 (in Swedish only).
The price for broadband is normally about 250 SEK/€28/$38 a month, regardless of speed (8/12/24 Mbps ADSL or 100 Mbps fiber).
What do you mean "speed test", we've had gigabit broadband for some time in Sweden. It costs about 900 SEK/€100/$140, you can order it here: https://order.bredband2.com/index/products/cOrderType/broadband/iCitynetID/768537
Not available in all cities of course, but still. Not much news with gigabit broadband.
And that WiFi and most peoples computers, let alone routers are unable to push those speeds is not newsworthy either. At least not at/....
If you can use Google Purchased Storage as an online backup folder, it will be much cheaper than using Amazon S3. For example:
6 GB of storage every month and 6 GB of inbound traffic for making the backup from your computer and say about 1 GB of transfer for retrieving some important files, Google asks for $20.00 a year while Amazon charges you $27.60.
A similar calculation for using 100 GB of data for backup, 100 GB of inbound transfer each month and 10 GB of retrieved files; Google = $250.00, Amazon = $321,60.
I think it is too early to say if the Google option actually is a good way of backing up data. I have a similar option with the web host I am using, they offer a service to upload files "forever", where you pay a one time fee depending of the size of the file when you upload it (and then download it). I have a feeling that Google PS can be a good backup option for a lot of people (non-geeks and some geeks).
I am just wondering what "normal" customer's will think, I mean - geeks and technophiles understand the the new efforts to close AACS is just not a solution, just another workaround in a loosing battle. But I wonder what normal people think, I really doubt that average Joe will think that a patch to this system is really a good thing. Most people want to be able to copy their content, make backups, etc. One of the benefits for a lot of people with the DVD format is that DVD players are available as region free players, you can copy disks from friends, etc. I'm not saying that piracy is necessarily a good thing, just that far too many (and increasing) people enjoy that and that in itself will be a problem for the next-gen media players.
Why support a country which has shown that it has a complete disregard for human rights, at least as long as it is about foreign citizens (but hey, they don't even take care of their own, so why like the rest of us...).
No, none of my money will go in to the great taxbin of the grand new US of A.
We're working with a client who has set up a pretty good system using Filemaker. This works great until they want to communicate with other databases (like MS SQL, MySQL etc) - which works, but is a pain.
FMP is a good product though, and you should really think twice about moving from the technology. Do you really have to?
If you really have to, I would recommend using PostgreSQL or another database which uses more of the SQL-standard than MySQL. Of course it is easy to create some kind of solution with PHP/MySQL, but consider other technologies too. And especially - can other technologies offer the ease of use for development and user that FMP do? If so, and you see that you have a real need for migration - go ahead. But plan ahead, because some of the things which is FMP's strengths could be hard to do with other technologies.
Note that I don't really like FMP, just recognizes that it - at times, is a good technology.
In Sweden you would have to pay a TV-license, which is about 160, since the iMac would include a TV-tuner. Here in Sweden, it is the TV-tuner which require a license, not the action (watching tellie) you want to perform.
Yes, this makes it mandatory to get a license when you buy a graphics card with TIVO-capabilies. But in contrast to when buying a TV, the retailer don't have to report you to Radiotjänst (Radio Services) who manages the licensing.
Very impressive for Bungie to actually release the game. I doubt that it (Halo) will be as impressive as it would have been if they had released it in 99/00.
Here's a press release entitled: EUROSETI TO REVEAL STARTLING UFO IMAGES AT THE NATIONAL SPACE CENTRE! (yes, all CAPS)
I'm putting it here so you can read it even after the site has been slashdotted.
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From Graham W. Birdsall, Publisher of UFO Magazine (UK)
EUROSETI TO REVEAL STARTLING UFO IMAGES AT THE NATIONAL SPACE CENTRE!
A full-page advertisement in the January 2003 issue of UFO Magazine has generated considerable interest amongst the UFO community. It refers to an event taking place on the weekend of 24-27 January, when some extraordinary satellite images of anomalous objects will be screened at the National Space Centre in Leicester. The screenings will be held on the evenings of Friday, Saturday and Sunday, with each commencing at 7.30pm.
For the past two years, hundreds of extraordinary UFO-like images have been gleaned by a Spanish-based team using two space-based satellites and which defy explanation.
NASA initially tried to explain the images away as pixel faults, passing meteors or asteroids, etc., but when a European-led consortium presented them with images that clearly were none of the aforementioned, they 'clamped up'.
On Tuesday, 7 January 2003, Mr. Mike Murray, one of the founders of EUROSETI, visited the offices of UFO Magazine to conduct a WORLD EXCLUSIVE filmed interview. With his kind permission, that interview - which features a healthy selection of these images - can now be viewed on our website.
http://www.ufomag.co.uk/euroseti.htm
Those wishing to attend the lectures at Britain's National Space Centre in Leicester should book their seat a.s.a.p. with EUROSETI. Tickets are £20.00 each and available NOW!
Note that each ticket holder will receive a FREE CD containing all of the EUROSETI images, including a vast range of computer analysed enhancements.
The EUROSETI ticket hotline number is: 01733 293720
When we've got faster Firewire, like 800-1600 Mbit, this will make a huge difference. Instead of Investing in expensive Gigabit-Ethernet switches and cables, just use Firewire instead. Maybe not the ideal solution for all, but for small companies and Lan-parties =) this could be great.
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If you don't like our welfare state, you are more than welcome to move to another country where your demands for no taxes and no service will be served.
* Me as a private person: ALL games, Pages (OS X application)
* Me as a professional: MS Excel, MS Outlook or other Exchange client equivalent
* My colleagues: SPSS, Nvivo, MS Outlook or other Exchange client equivalent
* My father as a professional: Adobe CS
The real reason why I don't switch to Linux on any of my computers at home: usability. Linux for the desktop is still too difficult to work with, even for a power user like me. EVERYTHING that reasonably needs to be configured has to be configurable in the GUI. You should never ever need to open a Terminal to fix things.
The secret police state is at risk!
It deeply saddens me that people continue to support companies that pull this kind of crap.
I'm sure that Sony/Microsoft et al would change their tune of their products weren't selling. But, when their selling millions of crippled or bugged titles, my lone voice is crushed by the cacophonous accusations of paranoia.
The problem is that if we stop buying them, they will claim it was due to piracy or whatever and have the legislators make up new rules forcing us to purchase their products.
Institutions and companies as well for that matter, REALLY need to learn how to; read contracts and agreements, formulate needs and demands (preferably with help of a third party) and not to trust the seller of a product or service.
How hard can it really be? REALLY!? (If you really wanted and devoted resources to it, that is)
"Sell at a mass market price", "Embrace the cloudloosely", "Incorporate Kinect into the box", "Keep building out the entertainment functionality", "Launch with major franchises"...
Come on!!!
What an extremely unimaginative list of suggestions. Here's a proper list:
* Max amount of RAM that fits in to the SRP, preferably 16 GB, at least 8 GB, probably more important than CPU nowadays for consoles
* Blu-Ray
* Expansion through USB-ports, connect any USB harddrive
There are 100 times as many white teenagers plastered to their monitor messing around with their computer as there are black teenagers. Since successful tech entrepreneurs tend to be the kids who spent thousands of hours in front of their computer when they were kids, and the kids spending thousands of hours in front of their computer are almost all white (or asian), then of course almost all the tech entrepreneurs will be white.
It's got nothing to do with silicon valley. It's due to the comparative lack of computer availability to young black teens, and a cultural difference where American black culture has a much lower opinion on average of nerdy endeavors as opposed to American white culture.
In regard to an issue as important as this (why a certain sector is not reflecting society), it would be a lot easier to accept someone's opinion if they could refer to some kind of research or statistics instead of just offering blunt statements and/or rants.
"click to enlarge" suddenly has a new ring to it...
Your only REAL loyalty is to yourself. Make the choice that will make your life better. It's as "easy" as that.
I thought crowdsourcing was the way of the future, what have I missed?
Absolutely. And the writer of the piece (Richard Stallman) published by the Guardian seems to be marketing for free software. I mean, his statement that: "Even though the Android phones of today are considerably less bad than Apple or Windows smartphones, they cannot be said to respect your freedom." is in any way you look at it: bollocks.
WHY are they less bad? For whom?
Yes Apple smartphones are SuperLockedIn and not many people has much good to say of the new Windows phones. But come on, that blanket statement gets FOSS systems nowhere...
It's ADSL for most people, 8/12/24 Mbps is the normal speeds. You can see the stats yourself here: http://www.bredbandskollen.se/statistik/?section=1 (in Swedish only).
The price for broadband is normally about 250 SEK/€28/$38 a month, regardless of speed (8/12/24 Mbps ADSL or 100 Mbps fiber).
What do you mean "speed test", we've had gigabit broadband for some time in Sweden. It costs about 900 SEK/€100/$140, you can order it here: https://order.bredband2.com/index/products/cOrderType/broadband/iCitynetID/768537
Not available in all cities of course, but still. Not much news with gigabit broadband.
And that WiFi and most peoples computers, let alone routers are unable to push those speeds is not newsworthy either. At least not at /. ...
What countries need fingerprints to enter? I've traveled in Asia and pretty much every shithole in earth and have never needed to give my fingerprint.
Perhaps if you stopped travelling in "shitholes" you would encounter this... This mostly happens to people entering the Land of the Free
Boring response:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
If you can use Google Purchased Storage as an online backup folder, it will be much cheaper than using Amazon S3. For example:
6 GB of storage every month and 6 GB of inbound traffic for making the backup from your computer and say about 1 GB of transfer for retrieving some important files, Google asks for $20.00 a year while Amazon charges you $27.60.
A similar calculation for using 100 GB of data for backup, 100 GB of inbound transfer each month and 10 GB of retrieved files; Google = $250.00, Amazon = $321,60.
I think it is too early to say if the Google option actually is a good way of backing up data. I have a similar option with the web host I am using, they offer a service to upload files "forever", where you pay a one time fee depending of the size of the file when you upload it (and then download it). I have a feeling that Google PS can be a good backup option for a lot of people (non-geeks and some geeks).
I am just wondering what "normal" customer's will think, I mean - geeks and technophiles understand the the new efforts to close AACS is just not a solution, just another workaround in a loosing battle. But I wonder what normal people think, I really doubt that average Joe will think that a patch to this system is really a good thing. Most people want to be able to copy their content, make backups, etc. One of the benefits for a lot of people with the DVD format is that DVD players are available as region free players, you can copy disks from friends, etc. I'm not saying that piracy is necessarily a good thing, just that far too many (and increasing) people enjoy that and that in itself will be a problem for the next-gen media players.
Me too
Why support a country which has shown that it has a complete disregard for human rights, at least as long as it is about foreign citizens (but hey, they don't even take care of their own, so why like the rest of us...).
No, none of my money will go in to the great taxbin of the grand new US of A.
We're working with a client who has set up a pretty good system using Filemaker. This works great until they want to communicate with other databases (like MS SQL, MySQL etc) - which works, but is a pain.
FMP is a good product though, and you should really think twice about moving from the technology. Do you really have to?
If you really have to, I would recommend using PostgreSQL or another database which uses more of the SQL-standard than MySQL. Of course it is easy to create some kind of solution with PHP/MySQL, but consider other technologies too. And especially - can other technologies offer the ease of use for development and user that FMP do? If so, and you see that you have a real need for migration - go ahead. But plan ahead, because some of the things which is FMP's strengths could be hard to do with other technologies.
Note that I don't really like FMP, just recognizes that it - at times, is a good technology.
In Sweden you would have to pay a TV-license, which is about 160, since the iMac would include a TV-tuner. Here in Sweden, it is the TV-tuner which require a license, not the action (watching tellie) you want to perform.
Yes, this makes it mandatory to get a license when you buy a graphics card with TIVO-capabilies. But in contrast to when buying a TV, the retailer don't have to report you to Radiotjänst (Radio Services) who manages the licensing.
Halo was due in 1999/2000
Very impressive for Bungie to actually release the game. I doubt that it (Halo) will be as impressive as it would have been if they had released it in 99/00.
Perhaps it should have stayed vaporware...
http://www.ufocity.com/modules/news/article.php?st oryid=3521
Here's a press release entitled: EUROSETI TO REVEAL STARTLING UFO IMAGES AT THE NATIONAL SPACE CENTRE! (yes, all CAPS)
I'm putting it here so you can read it even after the site has been slashdotted.
---
From Graham W. Birdsall, Publisher of UFO Magazine (UK)
EUROSETI TO REVEAL STARTLING UFO IMAGES AT THE NATIONAL SPACE CENTRE!
A full-page advertisement in the January 2003 issue of UFO Magazine has generated considerable interest amongst the UFO community. It refers to an event taking place on the weekend of 24-27 January, when some extraordinary satellite images of anomalous objects will be screened at the National Space Centre in Leicester. The screenings will be held on the evenings of Friday, Saturday and Sunday, with each commencing at 7.30pm.
For the past two years, hundreds of extraordinary UFO-like images have been gleaned by a Spanish-based team using two space-based satellites and which defy explanation.
NASA initially tried to explain the images away as pixel faults, passing meteors or asteroids, etc., but when a European-led consortium presented them with images that clearly were none of the aforementioned, they 'clamped up'.
On Tuesday, 7 January 2003, Mr. Mike Murray, one of the founders of EUROSETI, visited the offices of UFO Magazine to conduct a WORLD EXCLUSIVE filmed interview. With his kind permission, that interview - which features a healthy selection of these images - can now be viewed on our website.
http://www.ufomag.co.uk/euroseti.htm
Those wishing to attend the lectures at Britain's National Space Centre in Leicester should book their seat a.s.a.p. with EUROSETI. Tickets are £20.00 each and available NOW!
Note that each ticket holder will receive a FREE CD containing all of the EUROSETI images, including a vast range of computer analysed enhancements.
The EUROSETI ticket hotline number is: 01733 293720
When we've got faster Firewire, like 800-1600 Mbit, this will make a huge difference. Instead of Investing in expensive Gigabit-Ethernet switches and cables, just use Firewire instead. Maybe not the ideal solution for all, but for small companies and Lan-parties =) this could be great.
Nice, at last a webcam with a decent resolution.
Maya in Mac OS X is a nice solution. Get the fastest available Powermac G4 and max out the RAM. Result: You have a very nice setup for using Maya.