I assume that the editors were watching and posted it immediately.
In any case, Hollywood finally gets it right - to be sure, SA didn't have much in the way of real competition, but I was pleasantly surprised regardless.
Here's hoping that Laputa is released domestically soon!
I played with it when it was first released - it is pretty darn cool, but the price is also pretty darn steep if you're lacking in the Nvidia graphics card department ($599 for one year).
If you have a Nvidia card, you're still looking at around $60 a year for a dumbed-down version without elevation data.
It's a neat product, but of limited use at the present time.
A more interesting (and worth-paying-for) modification along the same lines would be to have an interactive news/screensaver type program.
How about something where when your computer is idle it shows a 3D world and zooms into different areas of the globe and shows realtime news headlines based on the topics you pick? Have an option to hold down the shift key and click on a news headline on the globe and have it take you to the related news site.
Could be a nice bundle-in for CNN.
Would be nice to have realtime weather data (optionally) overlayed on it too.
Just a few thoughts. If they use them, send me a free account;P
I have the Canadian ExpressVU 5800, which is similar to the 508 offered by Dish Network in the US.
Currently due to Tivo (and I suppose Sonicblue) not offering their products in Canada, there is NO OTHER PVR HERE. Yes, you read that right, there is exactly ONE PVR service in Canada and ExpressVU has it.
I'm still at a loss to understand why Tivo is dragging their ass in getting their system installed up here. It's cold here, it rains a lot, people watch a helluva lot of TV. Bring the damn thing here and you'll make a FORTUNE.
The 5800 isn't anywhere near as good as the Tivo software, but it sure beats the hell out of nothing at all. Sure, the big feature I'd like is the season pass option, being able to search at least a week ahead of time, and some other minor software functionality tweaks.
The 2 minutes per search thing may be due to the network there? Executing a 2 day search on my machine takes about 10 seconds per search.
Well, by jam the signal, I'm referring to civillian GPS units which can easily be jammed and still leave military units (which operate on a wider reception bandwidth) available.
It's not an ideal solution as many soldiers have civillian GPS units for use themselves, but I suppose it could be used if necessary for short, critical operations.
To be honest though, Iraq's military is so inferior to anything being thrown at it, I doubt that they'd have any advantage if they had perfectly accurate GPS units anyway...
There was a big discussion on one of the GPS newsgroups about this very fact - at the time of the last gulf war, civillian GPS units were cheaper, more plentiful, and had more features that the troops wanted/required than the more cumbersome military GPS units.
One of the soldiers was talking about it in the group and basically said the military units were limited to showing long/lat and doing goto-waypoint distance/direction operations. At the same time, civillian units had mapping capabilities, easy to use graphic displays, and were about 1/2 the size.
As other posters have said, it's possible to adjust the SA signal geographically, so they could degrade the signal in the middle east without changing anything in north america. This is the first step that seems logical.
Alternately, they could leave SA off alltogether, and just jam the GPS signal in the area that they are performing operations - the GPS signal is relatively weak and an ECM aircraft could easily block hundreds of miles of GPS reception while flying out of range of ground-based weaponry.
When I was a poor student, I lived in a basement suite that had a problem during heavy rains... Namely that the floor became a bit squishy in areas...
Fortunately I moved out, however I did at one point find something resembling a truffle growing in a dark closet corner... Needless to say, I'm sure _that_ environment wasn't doing me any good.
Stuff like air conditioning/heating control units, media stuff like VCRs, PVRs, etc, and of course, lightswitches and power outlets to make those damn X-10 modules (and their popups) obsolete.
Actually, it would make sense for these to be defaulted (or restricted?) to non-routable internal IPs to prevent just that sort of thing. Make them usable on internal LANs only.
Every once in a while I get someone (boss-type people) who want to know my password is so they can get onto one of the machines I administer (presumably to screw it up for me).
I just tell them that my password is the same as my ATM number (it's not of course), so I can't give it to them.
This really shouldn't have been modded off-topic, it IS on topic. Internet filtering is EXACTLY what China uses on their own citizens to stop them from viewing objectionable material online.
Currently NZ says they're only going after porn. Maybe someday they'll decide that they should block any websites which are critical of THEIR government.
Censors don't fix problems, they hide them and pretend they don't exist...
Just remember, any time you want to censor someone on the internet, you have the catch-all "Child Porn" to enable you to do so!
Never mind that it might also "accidentally" stop music/movie trading, and the government "might" expand it later to include prohibiting other sites that, say, are critical of your government, policies, companies, etc...
It doesn't look all that great to me when compared with the SE P800...
The server has already pretty-much melted down, but it's another Nokia phone - all of the cells that I've had in the last few years have been GSM Nokias - they perform pretty decently, are easy to navigate around, but there's nothing ever really revolutionary...
I think my next phone will be the P800 - once the price drops a bit...
Well I'm on the opposite side of the fence. I've seen UDPs fix problems a lot more often than I've seen them CAUSE problems.
I can only assume that you're not a regular usenet user. I've been using usenet since 1992 and without system admins enforcing UDPs, the whole network would've gone to hell years ago.
Face it, the reason the admins are putting the UDP in is to STOP SPAM. It's not like they want to block legitimate posts from their users.
Get a clue.
BTW: I block entire subnets from my mailserver because I get incoming spam from certain addresses in those blocks. Am I "censoring" people, or am I staging a "coup" if I do that?
Remember, it's my system and I can do what I want with it. The same as any other system admin, there's nothing that guarantees you access, or guarantees your post will be seen. This isn't the post office.
That shows EXACTLY what Microsoft has in store for customers over the next few years...
I can put up with a lot, but Palladium will be the 20 ton girder that broke the camel's back in this case.
As soon as software comes out that requires Palladium, I'm out of Microsoft software permanently.
I've tinkered with Linux but never really used it to a large degree, however I will not have outside companies dictating what I can and can't do on my own machine.
Any corporate executives who think they can cram this kind of crap down people's throats better think again.
Yes you do, but who cares, the ink is the expensive part, not the printer...
It's almost getting to the point where instead of buying new ink, you're better off just buying a new printer that comes with new ink carts.
Ah yes, except printer manufacturers have wised-up to this and are now shipping their printers with "starter ink" that's only 1/2 full so you don't do just that thing.
I honestly don't think you know what you're talking about.
My Epson Stylus 1200 (which is a fairly old 6 color wide-carriage inkjet) beats the hell out of most color laser printers I've seen, even fairly new ones.
Not to mention that when retrofitted with a continious-flow ink system (www.inksupply.com), it drops the cost per page to a fraction of the cost of a color laser. Instead of paying ~$50 for two ink carts, I'm now paying in the $2 range for bulk ink that's pulled directly from the bottles into the printhead.
The trick with inkjets is to use coated paper. If you're using plain paper, sure the output will suck, I have no illusions about that.
If I go with Epson's highest quality glossy photo paper, the output is beyond supurb...
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Cough, cough...
80 MILLION (US) dollars is a HELL of a lot of money for an online-only publication.
Get a smaller office, get out of san francisco - as an online publication, who cares where their office is, could be out of a basement if there's sufficient bandwidth and room for some server racks.
There's something REALLY wrong if they can't stay afloat with 50,000 subscribers. Most pay-sites would only dream of having that many paying subscribers.
Actually, as an educator, my work provides a living for quite a number of people, infact it enables them to get jobs that pay substantially more than minimum wage, and that's about as beneficial as you can get.
Now I'm sure that people could try and argue that without overpaid entertainers, western business would collapse and there would be no jobs anywhere, but we all know that's not the case.
But the point here is, why should performers think they're entitled to make hundreds of thousands, or millions of dollars a year? Because of their "ART"? Give me a break.
Sure there's lots of jobs created from their work, but a lot of jobs result from MY work. Sure I'd like to get paid more, but I'm under no illusions that my work is worth millions a year, why should they think that their work is? Probably just based on history.
And that's the problem with the music industry - they want to hold on to the past - themselves as the only distribution outlet, and of course, the performers want to hold onto their multi-million dollar contracts.
Times are changing, and in the end, performers and record labels may not (as pointed out in the article about China) be able to count on historical revenues and lifestyles when planning their careers these days.
Should talented musicians be rewarded more than talented scientists, neurosurgeons, designers, programmers, educators, engineers, etc?
I'm not a musician, yet the work I do is just as (or arguably MORE) beneficial to society than a "new top 40 song", yet I have to work a day-job and put in 9-5 hours and make under $100k/year.
Why shouldn't they?
Sorry musicians, I'm playing the world's smallest violin for you:P
Indeed - Inspite of the Japanese alias, I'm not Japanese, yet 90% of the music I've listened to over the last 5 or 6 years is J-Pop stuff from a variety of artists.
Ayu being by far the most popular.
But I honestly have almost zero interest in domestic/european music, so in some ways, I don't really care what the RIAA does as I don't listen to their products anyway.
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Perhaps I'm just not thinking this through properly for a Wednesday, but "What the hell is this crap?".
Comparing a videogame system to a digital camera?
Editors - Why are you wasting my time? What's next, comparing a toaster oven to a graphics card?
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On a single CPU (both systems), the intel system was nearly twice as fast. On a double CPU system again it was twice as fast.
Mac users are entitled to believe whatever they want, just don't try and convince us your computers are more powerful than PCs.
Sure they look better... (shrug).
N.
I assume that the editors were watching and posted it immediately.
In any case, Hollywood finally gets it right - to be sure, SA didn't have much in the way of real competition, but I was pleasantly surprised regardless.
Here's hoping that Laputa is released domestically soon!
N.
I played with it when it was first released - it is pretty darn cool, but the price is also pretty darn steep if you're lacking in the Nvidia graphics card department ($599 for one year).
;P
If you have a Nvidia card, you're still looking at around $60 a year for a dumbed-down version without elevation data.
It's a neat product, but of limited use at the present time.
A more interesting (and worth-paying-for) modification along the same lines would be to have an interactive news/screensaver type program.
How about something where when your computer is idle it shows a 3D world and zooms into different areas of the globe and shows realtime news headlines based on the topics you pick? Have an option to hold down the shift key and click on a news headline on the globe and have it take you to the related news site.
Could be a nice bundle-in for CNN.
Would be nice to have realtime weather data (optionally) overlayed on it too.
Just a few thoughts. If they use them, send me a free account
The way I view Enterprise is "bitchy humans in space". I never got past the first episode.
N.
I have the Canadian ExpressVU 5800, which is similar to the 508 offered by Dish Network in the US.
Currently due to Tivo (and I suppose Sonicblue) not offering their products in Canada, there is NO OTHER PVR HERE. Yes, you read that right, there is exactly ONE PVR service in Canada and ExpressVU has it.
I'm still at a loss to understand why Tivo is dragging their ass in getting their system installed up here. It's cold here, it rains a lot, people watch a helluva lot of TV. Bring the damn thing here and you'll make a FORTUNE.
The 5800 isn't anywhere near as good as the Tivo software, but it sure beats the hell out of nothing at all. Sure, the big feature I'd like is the season pass option, being able to search at least a week ahead of time, and some other minor software functionality tweaks.
The 2 minutes per search thing may be due to the network there? Executing a 2 day search on my machine takes about 10 seconds per search.
N.
Well, by jam the signal, I'm referring to civillian GPS units which can easily be jammed and still leave military units (which operate on a wider reception bandwidth) available.
It's not an ideal solution as many soldiers have civillian GPS units for use themselves, but I suppose it could be used if necessary for short, critical operations.
To be honest though, Iraq's military is so inferior to anything being thrown at it, I doubt that they'd have any advantage if they had perfectly accurate GPS units anyway...
There was a big discussion on one of the GPS newsgroups about this very fact - at the time of the last gulf war, civillian GPS units were cheaper, more plentiful, and had more features that the troops wanted/required than the more cumbersome military GPS units.
One of the soldiers was talking about it in the group and basically said the military units were limited to showing long/lat and doing goto-waypoint distance/direction operations. At the same time, civillian units had mapping capabilities, easy to use graphic displays, and were about 1/2 the size.
As other posters have said, it's possible to adjust the SA signal geographically, so they could degrade the signal in the middle east without changing anything in north america. This is the first step that seems logical.
Alternately, they could leave SA off alltogether, and just jam the GPS signal in the area that they are performing operations - the GPS signal is relatively weak and an ECM aircraft could easily block hundreds of miles of GPS reception while flying out of range of ground-based weaponry.
N.
When I was a poor student, I lived in a basement suite that had a problem during heavy rains... Namely that the floor became a bit squishy in areas...
Fortunately I moved out, however I did at one point find something resembling a truffle growing in a dark closet corner... Needless to say, I'm sure _that_ environment wasn't doing me any good.
N.
Well, no, a toaster isn't a good example.
Stuff like air conditioning/heating control units, media stuff like VCRs, PVRs, etc, and of course, lightswitches and power outlets to make those damn X-10 modules (and their popups) obsolete.
N.
Actually, it would make sense for these to be defaulted (or restricted?) to non-routable internal IPs to prevent just that sort of thing. Make them usable on internal LANs only.
N.
Every once in a while I get someone (boss-type people) who want to know my password is so they can get onto one of the machines I administer (presumably to screw it up for me).
I just tell them that my password is the same as my ATM number (it's not of course), so I can't give it to them.
Works pretty well.
This really shouldn't have been modded off-topic, it IS on topic. Internet filtering is EXACTLY what China uses on their own citizens to stop them from viewing objectionable material online.
Currently NZ says they're only going after porn. Maybe someday they'll decide that they should block any websites which are critical of THEIR government.
Censors don't fix problems, they hide them and pretend they don't exist...
N.
Just remember, any time you want to censor someone on the internet, you have the catch-all "Child Porn" to enable you to do so!
Never mind that it might also "accidentally" stop music/movie trading, and the government "might" expand it later to include prohibiting other sites that, say, are critical of your government, policies, companies, etc...
Thin edge of the wedge...
N.
It doesn't look all that great to me when compared with the SE P800...
The server has already pretty-much melted down, but it's another Nokia phone - all of the cells that I've had in the last few years have been GSM Nokias - they perform pretty decently, are easy to navigate around, but there's nothing ever really revolutionary...
I think my next phone will be the P800 - once the price drops a bit...
N.
Well I'm on the opposite side of the fence. I've seen UDPs fix problems a lot more often than I've seen them CAUSE problems.
I can only assume that you're not a regular usenet user. I've been using usenet since 1992 and without system admins enforcing UDPs, the whole network would've gone to hell years ago.
Face it, the reason the admins are putting the UDP in is to STOP SPAM. It's not like they want to block legitimate posts from their users.
Get a clue.
BTW: I block entire subnets from my mailserver because I get incoming spam from certain addresses in those blocks. Am I "censoring" people, or am I staging a "coup" if I do that?
Remember, it's my system and I can do what I want with it. The same as any other system admin, there's nothing that guarantees you access, or guarantees your post will be seen. This isn't the post office.
N.
That shows EXACTLY what Microsoft has in store for customers over the next few years...
I can put up with a lot, but Palladium will be the 20 ton girder that broke the camel's back in this case.
As soon as software comes out that requires Palladium, I'm out of Microsoft software permanently.
I've tinkered with Linux but never really used it to a large degree, however I will not have outside companies dictating what I can and can't do on my own machine.
Any corporate executives who think they can cram this kind of crap down people's throats better think again.
Yes you do, but who cares, the ink is the expensive part, not the printer...
It's almost getting to the point where instead of buying new ink, you're better off just buying a new printer that comes with new ink carts.
Ah yes, except printer manufacturers have wised-up to this and are now shipping their printers with "starter ink" that's only 1/2 full so you don't do just that thing.
N.
I honestly don't think you know what you're talking about.
My Epson Stylus 1200 (which is a fairly old 6 color wide-carriage inkjet) beats the hell out of most color laser printers I've seen, even fairly new ones.
Not to mention that when retrofitted with a continious-flow ink system (www.inksupply.com), it drops the cost per page to a fraction of the cost of a color laser. Instead of paying ~$50 for two ink carts, I'm now paying in the $2 range for bulk ink that's pulled directly from the bottles into the printhead.
The trick with inkjets is to use coated paper. If you're using plain paper, sure the output will suck, I have no illusions about that.
If I go with Epson's highest quality glossy photo paper, the output is beyond supurb...
N.
Cough, cough...
80 MILLION (US) dollars is a HELL of a lot of money for an online-only publication.
Get a smaller office, get out of san francisco - as an online publication, who cares where their office is, could be out of a basement if there's sufficient bandwidth and room for some server racks.
There's something REALLY wrong if they can't stay afloat with 50,000 subscribers. Most pay-sites would only dream of having that many paying subscribers.
N.
Sounds like something our prime minister would say ;P
N.
And of course, the standard unit of American measurement, "As long as XX football fields".
;P
I've been to one live football game in my life. But then again I don't live in the US.
Maybe if they measured in hockey rinks?
N.
Actually, as an educator, my work provides a living for quite a number of people, infact it enables them to get jobs that pay substantially more than minimum wage, and that's about as beneficial as you can get.
Now I'm sure that people could try and argue that without overpaid entertainers, western business would collapse and there would be no jobs anywhere, but we all know that's not the case.
But the point here is, why should performers think they're entitled to make hundreds of thousands, or millions of dollars a year? Because of their "ART"? Give me a break.
Sure there's lots of jobs created from their work, but a lot of jobs result from MY work. Sure I'd like to get paid more, but I'm under no illusions that my work is worth millions a year, why should they think that their work is? Probably just based on history.
And that's the problem with the music industry - they want to hold on to the past - themselves as the only distribution outlet, and of course, the performers want to hold onto their multi-million dollar contracts.
Times are changing, and in the end, performers and record labels may not (as pointed out in the article about China) be able to count on historical revenues and lifestyles when planning their careers these days.
N.
Should talented musicians be rewarded more than talented scientists, neurosurgeons, designers, programmers, educators, engineers, etc?
:P
I'm not a musician, yet the work I do is just as (or arguably MORE) beneficial to society than a "new top 40 song", yet I have to work a day-job and put in 9-5 hours and make under $100k/year.
Why shouldn't they?
Sorry musicians, I'm playing the world's smallest violin for you
N.
Indeed - Inspite of the Japanese alias, I'm not Japanese, yet 90% of the music I've listened to over the last 5 or 6 years is J-Pop stuff from a variety of artists.
Ayu being by far the most popular.
But I honestly have almost zero interest in domestic/european music, so in some ways, I don't really care what the RIAA does as I don't listen to their products anyway.
N.