I could see it being popular at gyms. Instead of watching whatever crappy show is on the gym TV, you could have your own show or movie on your PSP while you are sitting on a bike or running on a treadmill. Currently a lot of people read magazines while doing these activities without much of a problem, I don't think watching movies or TV on a portable player would be much of a stretch.
What would be even cooler is if the PSP could connect to your gym's cable or satellite feed, and stream one of the channels over a wireless link so you could choose something to watch if you didn't happen to bring anything with your. Or even a TV on demand thing... there's a lot of possibilities... the big question is will Sony be smart enough to realize and exploit them? History appears to indicate a big NO, just judging from the potential the PS2 had with it's Firewire, USB, harddrive, and network adapter capability...
Hopefully they can learn from the past and implement some of these cool ideas.
Networld+Interop is a pretty good conference I attended a few years ago which is also held in Vegas. http://www.interop.com/. Right at the beginning of May this year.. last time I went, lots of interesting Linux news and companies in attendance.
Yes, you're absolutely right. Before GTA, most car jackers would walk up to your car and politely ask you to step out before taking off with it.
In countries such as South Africa, many car jackers will not hesistate to shoot you in the face while your car is stopped, and then take off with it. I doubt they needed GTA to learn those skills.
People have been killing each other since the dawn of man for a variety of stupid reasons, and different societies have always looked for different scapegoats to hold accountable for this behavior. What we need to do is come to grips with the fact that some people are just evil and immoral, and stop trying to blame things like video games or industrial music for their actions.
Yeah, that's all fine until you find that you need to update or modify something in your system and the vendor you purchased it from is no longer supporting it. The instead of doing an update on a 2 or 3 year old system, you have to do a complete overhaul of something 10 to 15 years old, which may or may not have a fully compatible upgrade path.
Obviously if you have an old system that is still maintainable and compatbile with current systems, you might as well keep it around.
This is much easier if you're an enitrely open-source based shop, but that's pretty much the minority case, as much as we'd like it to be otherwise.
The problem with using legacy systems like that, is what happens when they need to be updated? Or the hardware fails? It's possible the software will no longer run on modern systems..
Even working hardware should be refreshed every few years just to keep up with the times and decrease the possibility of losing the whole operation because of outdated hardware and software. Sure it's not as cheap as keeping the old junk, but I think ultimately it's a better practice.
You can then donate the old hardware and write it off for tax purposes... not bad at all...
I landed my last two jobs in part because of my contributions to projects on my own time. Employers value the fact that you work on things out of your own interest and not just because you're being paid to do so. It shows you as a more motivated and creative individual..
"The little red needle is pointing to 'E', and while that's always stood for 'excellent' in my book, I guess it means I'm out of gas!" </obscure reference>
Kudos to anyone who knows the source for that one:)
The problems you cite are exactly why they have abolished photo radard here in British Columbia. If the ticket was challenged in court, the police officer in charge of the photo radar at the time was required to show up and testify. As soon as word got around that this was necessary, nearly everyone who got a ticket began to challenge it. The court system became completely clogged with challenges to photo radar speeding tickets, and the backlog was something ridiculous like 2 years or thereabouts. Any hope of making any money, or even recovering costs, on the program was completely lost. So it was scrapped. Not to mention, it was very hard to prove the owner of the car was the one driving at the time, so who do you give the demerits to?
If you hold alt, and push f and then e, the behavior SHOULD be to do the command under the file menu that has e as it's accellerator. This is intentional, and if Gnome does it differently, I think that's wrong. The f and e is a sequence, not necessarily distinct commands (eg: File -> Send Link in Mozilla). It's for convenience so you don't have to let go of alt before pushing e, or in case you let go late. If you make the mistake of going to the file menu when you wanted edit, then you can let go of alt and push alt-e to start a new sequence for doing something in the edit menu.
I just tested this. Push alt-f, and then push alt again on its own, the menu should disappear. Alt-f alt-e does switch to the edit menu here, in both Mozilla and Explorer.
Can you cite a source verifying this behavior? Or explain how I can verify what information is being sent to this "Anit Spyware Community" ? I'm really interested in what it's actually sending. More info please. Thank you.
That's why you set up weekly, nightly, and several times daily snapshots. That way if human error or file corruption occur, you'd be at most losing a few hours worth of work. It's fairly easy to implement with OSS software such as rdiff-backup, or more expensive but less resource intensive solutions are available. If you have money to burn, you can buy a NetApp and hardly have to worry about data loss ever again.
Well, despite the fact you don't have the guts to post under your own user name, I will join in the fray here.
Going back to the hiker analogy, hikers are also fased with the same kind of delays yet you don't see precautions like that being taken for people hiking in the woods.
It's very easy to underestimate the hike time, get caught in some bad weather, roll your ankle, get stuck somewhere, and all kinds of unforseen circumstances that can occur while on hike. Hell, it can get dark and you walk off the edge of a cliff. You don't see any kind of light houses being put up for individuals performing that kind of activity. I don't think there's enough to justify the cost of keeping all these lighthouses operating just so a bunch of people can float around in their pleasurecraft after dark.
One can also argue there are far more hikers than there are boaters (due to the lower cost on entry no doubt). No doubt a lot more accidents too, I only hear of boating accidents here once in while, yet every week there's several stories in the papers of searches for lost hikers.
How about stand in one place, and take 30 photos per second... now try to identify moving objects. A bit easier, no? I think that's a more accurate analogy. Even simple toys like the PS2 with the EyeToy can handle that.
Such as these.
We have some here in the lab at school that I had a chance to play with, really interesting. Applications include training surgeons, 3D modelling, and no doubt many others.
Wow, intelligent commentary on Slashdot. What's the world coming too?;)
In all seriousness though, I think you've hit the nail on the head here. I wouldn't mind hearing the opinion of some of my bible thumping friends on this:p
I know they use the cell network, but they have another layer there. I believe they have ~10 master servers (unclear on the exact number, but I remember dealing with issues related to these) that communicate with the BBs. This allows you to say, call up RIM and get them to disable a blackberry if it is stolen, etc.
Yes, you're getting close. I've worked somewhat with RIM devices and there's some notable differences between them and other email-enabled cell phones / PDAs.
First of all, the phone does not poll the email server or anything like that to check for email. An organization using Blackberries for email would normally have a BES (Blackberry Enterprise Server) that will actually push out the email to the device.
Other features this enables is calendar sync, meeting requests, access to the company's intranet etc.
Also I believe RIM has their own network which sits on the cell phone network and communicates with the devices to deliver the mail and provide other services.
I'm not too familiar with the details of the case, but I'm sure the patents in question cover features such as these.
Ironically enough, some friends of mine and I are registered with CPCC and yet we have to pay the blank media levy on media we use to produce our own music yet have never seen a cent from CPCC.
You're assuming all the work they are doing is tied to the GUI, which is not necessarily true. When I was working helpdesk, our company had ~700 engineers with Unix workstations, many of which ran simulations and other processes that may take days or weeks to complete. The processes were simply launched separately from the X client initiating them, so you could restart the GUI.
And yes, in our company, helpdesk *did* have the time to unlock / restart people's X servers if they happened to crash, because taking down the machine should be a last resort. It really doesn't take that much time for an experienced admin (5 - 10 mins tops). We only had ~10 people on Unix support company wide.
I'm not saying this is always possible, but that it *IS* possible on Unix, and pretty much impossible on Windows.
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I could see it being popular at gyms. Instead of watching whatever crappy show is on the gym TV, you could have your own show or movie on your PSP while you are sitting on a bike or running on a treadmill. Currently a lot of people read magazines while doing these activities without much of a problem, I don't think watching movies or TV on a portable player would be much of a stretch.
What would be even cooler is if the PSP could connect to your gym's cable or satellite feed, and stream one of the channels over a wireless link so you could choose something to watch if you didn't happen to bring anything with your. Or even a TV on demand thing... there's a lot of possibilities... the big question is will Sony be smart enough to realize and exploit them? History appears to indicate a big NO, just judging from the potential the PS2 had with it's Firewire, USB, harddrive, and network adapter capability...
Hopefully they can learn from the past and implement some of these cool ideas.
Networld+Interop is a pretty good conference I attended a few years ago which is also held in Vegas. http://www.interop.com/. Right at the beginning of May this year.. last time I went, lots of interesting Linux news and companies in attendance.
That means my dream of having a bionic arm is not too far off!
Yes, you're absolutely right. Before GTA, most car jackers would walk up to your car and politely ask you to step out before taking off with it.
In countries such as South Africa, many car jackers will not hesistate to shoot you in the face while your car is stopped, and then take off with it. I doubt they needed GTA to learn those skills.
People have been killing each other since the dawn of man for a variety of stupid reasons, and different societies have always looked for different scapegoats to hold accountable for this behavior. What we need to do is come to grips with the fact that some people are just evil and immoral, and stop trying to blame things like video games or industrial music for their actions.
Build up your speed and tolerance for all the beer boat races you'll be participating in... I know I wish I did!
Yeah, that's all fine until you find that you need to update or modify something in your system and the vendor you purchased it from is no longer supporting it. The instead of doing an update on a 2 or 3 year old system, you have to do a complete overhaul of something 10 to 15 years old, which may or may not have a fully compatible upgrade path.
Obviously if you have an old system that is still maintainable and compatbile with current systems, you might as well keep it around.
This is much easier if you're an enitrely open-source based shop, but that's pretty much the minority case, as much as we'd like it to be otherwise.
The problem with using legacy systems like that, is what happens when they need to be updated? Or the hardware fails? It's possible the software will no longer run on modern systems..
Even working hardware should be refreshed every few years just to keep up with the times and decrease the possibility of losing the whole operation because of outdated hardware and software. Sure it's not as cheap as keeping the old junk, but I think ultimately it's a better practice.
You can then donate the old hardware and write it off for tax purposes... not bad at all...
I landed my last two jobs in part because of my contributions to projects on my own time. Employers value the fact that you work on things out of your own interest and not just because you're being paid to do so. It shows you as a more motivated and creative individual..
"The little red needle is pointing to 'E', and while that's always stood for 'excellent' in my book, I guess it means I'm out of gas!"
</obscure reference>
Kudos to anyone who knows the source for that one
Hopefully they also fix the bug where the playcount file gets corrupted if the iPod goes in to deep sleep. Pretty annoying.
The problems you cite are exactly why they have abolished photo radard here in British Columbia. If the ticket was challenged in court, the police officer in charge of the photo radar at the time was required to show up and testify. As soon as word got around that this was necessary, nearly everyone who got a ticket began to challenge it. The court system became completely clogged with challenges to photo radar speeding tickets, and the backlog was something ridiculous like 2 years or thereabouts. Any hope of making any money, or even recovering costs, on the program was completely lost. So it was scrapped. Not to mention, it was very hard to prove the owner of the car was the one driving at the time, so who do you give the demerits to?
If you hold alt, and push f and then e, the behavior SHOULD be to do the command under the file menu that has e as it's accellerator. This is intentional, and if Gnome does it differently, I think that's wrong. The f and e is a sequence, not necessarily distinct commands (eg: File -> Send Link in Mozilla). It's for convenience so you don't have to let go of alt before pushing e, or in case you let go late. If you make the mistake of going to the file menu when you wanted edit, then you can let go of alt and push alt-e to start a new sequence for doing something in the edit menu.
I just tested this. Push alt-f, and then push alt again on its own, the menu should disappear. Alt-f alt-e does switch to the edit menu here, in both Mozilla and Explorer.
Can you cite a source verifying this behavior? Or explain how I can verify what information is being sent to this "Anit Spyware Community" ? I'm really interested in what it's actually sending. More info please. Thank you.
That's why you set up weekly, nightly, and several times daily snapshots. That way if human error or file corruption occur, you'd be at most losing a few hours worth of work. It's fairly easy to implement with OSS software such as rdiff-backup, or more expensive but less resource intensive solutions are available. If you have money to burn, you can buy a NetApp and hardly have to worry about data loss ever again.
Well, despite the fact you don't have the guts to post under your own user name, I will join in the fray here.
Going back to the hiker analogy, hikers are also fased with the same kind of delays yet you don't see precautions like that being taken for people hiking in the woods.
It's very easy to underestimate the hike time, get caught in some bad weather, roll your ankle, get stuck somewhere, and all kinds of unforseen circumstances that can occur while on hike. Hell, it can get dark and you walk off the edge of a cliff. You don't see any kind of light houses being put up for individuals performing that kind of activity. I don't think there's enough to justify the cost of keeping all these lighthouses operating just so a bunch of people can float around in their pleasurecraft after dark.
One can also argue there are far more hikers than there are boaters (due to the lower cost on entry no doubt). No doubt a lot more accidents too, I only hear of boating accidents here once in while, yet every week there's several stories in the papers of searches for lost hikers.
How about stand in one place, and take 30 photos per second... now try to identify moving objects. A bit easier, no? I think that's a more accurate analogy. Even simple toys like the PS2 with the EyeToy can handle that.
Such as these. We have some here in the lab at school that I had a chance to play with, really interesting. Applications include training surgeons, 3D modelling, and no doubt many others.
Yeah yeah, you got me there. Just for the record, I do know the difference between "to" and "too" :P
Wow, intelligent commentary on Slashdot. What's the world coming too? ;)
:p
In all seriousness though, I think you've hit the nail on the head here. I wouldn't mind hearing the opinion of some of my bible thumping friends on this
I know they use the cell network, but they have another layer there. I believe they have ~10 master servers (unclear on the exact number, but I remember dealing with issues related to these) that communicate with the BBs. This allows you to say, call up RIM and get them to disable a blackberry if it is stolen, etc.
Yes, you're getting close. I've worked somewhat with RIM devices and there's some notable differences between them and other email-enabled cell phones / PDAs.
First of all, the phone does not poll the email server or anything like that to check for email. An organization using Blackberries for email would normally have a BES (Blackberry Enterprise Server) that will actually push out the email to the device.
Other features this enables is calendar sync, meeting requests, access to the company's intranet etc.
Also I believe RIM has their own network which sits on the cell phone network and communicates with the devices to deliver the mail and provide other services.
I'm not too familiar with the details of the case, but I'm sure the patents in question cover features such as these.
I just love having to wait an hour at the registrar's for them to bring up my unofficial transcript because the system is "having problems"..
Hm. Sounds kind of familiar.
Ironically enough, some friends of mine and I are registered with CPCC and yet we have to pay the blank media levy on media we use to produce our own music yet have never seen a cent from CPCC.
You're assuming all the work they are doing is tied to the GUI, which is not necessarily true. When I was working helpdesk, our company had ~700 engineers with Unix workstations, many of which ran simulations and other processes that may take days or weeks to complete. The processes were simply launched separately from the X client initiating them, so you could restart the GUI.
And yes, in our company, helpdesk *did* have the time to unlock / restart people's X servers if they happened to crash, because taking down the machine should be a last resort. It really doesn't take that much time for an experienced admin (5 - 10 mins tops). We only had ~10 people on Unix support company wide.
I'm not saying this is always possible, but that it *IS* possible on Unix, and pretty much impossible on Windows.