Forgive me for being cynical, but I can't see many uses for something of that size. It seems to me to have all the functionality of a PC, while having all the UI woes of a handheld.
Now, I can think of things like being a portable place to dump picture files, and *maybe* to take notes on if you have small enough fingers. Other than that, I can think of nothing. Would someone mind enlightening me as to why this uber-expensive gadget is useful?
Freenet is not like being drunk liek I am now. Hello slashdot, if anyone would like to come over to my house and help me finish the 14 litres of beer that were taken out of my newly departed Keg of Labatt Blue, you are more than welcome. Pleaze hlep, my cousin has cancer.
All of this has been some horribly disjointed series of truths uttered by an arrogant drunkaard. I love you all, good night and good luck. modd me down accordingly.
The current nForce chipset used in the Xbox by default would use the MX2 (I believe) which is FAR inferior to the current xbox GPU. Obviously, M$ wouldn't use the stock GPU in their next console, since they don't adhere to that now.
Also, if you read my (very short) comment, you will see I used the words, "watered down" implying not fully featured. Yes, I read the article. Perhaps you should pay attention to a one-line post...
Agreed, I've yet to find any album that comes close to matching Crystal Method's Vegas for coding. It's compelling without being intrusive on my thoughts.
That's why I recently set my work browser's homepage to the current project I'm working on. That, and I got sick of having to "stop" slashdot.org from loading and then pulling up my project. Kill two birds with one stone;)
Word on the street is that funding for this project comes from Lionel Toy Trains in a massive effort to revive the interest in locomotive models. The first test run of this new train in space will sport an astronaut riding the front car of a gigantic toy train.
They fail to mention the reason that the Russians denied access was because their sattelite intelligence showed that the "specially built vehicle" was going to deposit four Tanyas and an Engineer.
More importantly, why didn't they just name the damn file-type JPEG2. Now I've gotta say "jay-peg two thousand" or "jay-peg two kay" when I talk. JPEG2 would've been sufficient. Why do we have this millenium obsession, even though we're 3 years into it?
Does anyone else hear the rumble of Nintendo closing in on this poor chap? I think it's sad when I read something like this and I first think "Oh cool. That's really smart, useless but cool." and then I cringe thinking about people like him getting squashed in litigation. I got five bucks that says he gets a cease and desist letter...
Heh, that or I've been successfully turned to/. pessimism. You decide.
Now, I don't see them embracing Open Source or GPL, because it just doesn't fit with making the amount of money they need to support such a large organization.
However, I firmly believe that the best they can do is stop the FUD tactics (like the newly released, but laughable Anti*nix campaign.) Fuck strong-arming your competition to get rid of them, and please stop buying votes in our govt, and lastly drop some of the dumb marketing campaigns.
I swear, if they used two-thirds of the resources that they use on legal, marketing, and "corporate strategy", they could focus on building a decent product that's enjoyable to use. Coerce me into using your product; don't beat me over the head with a money cudgel.
Thanks for clearing that up. I couldn't find that anywhere in my KDE2 setup, and when I looked through the screenshots between the two versions on kde.org's webpage, I noticed that the transparencies were only in KDE3 shots.
"KDE 3 comes out soon. What is the best new advancement/feature found in KDE 3 in your opinion?"
Heheh, screw functionality and "the greatly improved Javascript and DHTML support in Konqueror". What users REALLY want is translucent window backgrounds.
"If I could choose the real world or the Matrix, I'd choose" the real world cause it doesn't make me gag on it's plugins.
Be forewarned, this page is plugin hell. In two minutes of browsing I've run into Flash, Quicktime VR, RealPlayer. The Matrix is a highly complicated thing I guess...
Doesn't matter, I'll still pay through the nose to go to any sneak peak and I'll probably see it in theaters at least 3 times as well.
How can you patent something that could concievably be created by nature? Let's say that I patent the gene for neon green eyes, and somewhere down the road, some kid in Chicago is born with a mutation that gives him neon green eyes. Is he in violation of the patent? Must his parents pay our company because his body utilizes our patented gene?
This makes me wonder if robot hunting might become a new "sport". You know the classic scenario of many villains wanting to hunt humans because they're the only game that's difficult enough to bring down. Maybe we'll hear about a new kind of high-class robot safari? Heh, then we can all be evil-eccentrics without the guilt, or the evil...
I said "it lacks all the compassion and warmth of a real cat!"
As far as I know, when I speak of a robot lacking the compassion and warmth of a real cat, it means that real cats HAVE compassion and warmth. My statement implies this.
Sure, I'm programmer, and my grammatical skills aren't the best. But I just confirmed it with an English professor for a BigTen school who said the statement was perfectly normal.
I do not hate cats. I enjoy the company of my cat, Monet, very much.
Now introducing a cat without that litterbox smell! Sure, it doesn't move, and YES it lacks all the compassion and warmth of a real cat! And it's all yours for the new introductory price of $1,530. That's only FIVE TIMES more expensive than the real cat!
Now I'm going to have to bust out my old Hardy Boys Detective handbook to learn how to encrypt my messages. Everybody jump to OSDN as I'm officially starting the HaBOSEP (Hardy-Boys Open Source Encryption Project). Just send me 2$ for your secret decoder ring.
I don't dispute one bit that sharing programs are legal. The debate in my mind lies over the general use of the program. Previously I said, "...specific 'free music' programs are illegal."
That should have read something to the effect of,
"sharing programs that allow a disproportionate amount of piracy are illegal."
Think of it this way, you own a dance club on a college campus. That is a perfectly legal and legitamate business. However, your club becomes liable if it is being misused (copious illegal drug use/distribution or serving minors alcohol are good examples.) It's the responsibility of you, the owner to police such action and take appropriate measures.
Napster did not do this. While their foundation may have been completely legitamate, it was perverted into something else. It became a place where illegal activity was no longer the exception but became the rule. So bad in fact, preventative measures were not adequate as evidenced by the complete failure of their 'filtering system'.
Thus, in what was it's old incarnation, Napster is indeed an illegal file sharing program.
DRM can help consumers by lowering the cost of a products due to the fact publishers won't feel the need to overcome losses from piracy.
However, DRM in my opinion, is only useful if it meets the following conditions:
Is transparent to the user.
Requires no processor overhead.
Is secure. (increasingly difficult, arguably impossible) If the DRM is circumventable it's pointless.
It's cheap, and doesn't raise the cost of the medium. If it's costing more to protect it than it's saving, it doesn't belong there.
It must allow at least one copy to be made.
All in all, that's a very tall order. So I doubt any time within the next ten years these things will be realized. Until then, consumers will continue to scream bloody murder.
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Forgive me for being cynical, but I can't see many uses for something of that size. It seems to me to have all the functionality of a PC, while having all the UI woes of a handheld.
Now, I can think of things like being a portable place to dump picture files, and *maybe* to take notes on if you have small enough fingers. Other than that, I can think of nothing. Would someone mind enlightening me as to why this uber-expensive gadget is useful?
Freenet is not like being drunk liek I am now. Hello slashdot, if anyone would like to come over to my house and help me finish the 14 litres of beer that were taken out of my newly departed Keg of Labatt Blue, you are more than welcome. Pleaze hlep, my cousin has cancer.
All of this has been some horribly disjointed series of truths uttered by an arrogant drunkaard. I love you all, good night and good luck. modd me down accordingly.
The current nForce chipset used in the Xbox by default would use the MX2 (I believe) which is FAR inferior to the current xbox GPU. Obviously, M$ wouldn't use the stock GPU in their next console, since they don't adhere to that now.
Also, if you read my (very short) comment, you will see I used the words, "watered down" implying not fully featured. Yes, I read the article. Perhaps you should pay attention to a one-line post...
"nForce Preview"
Read: The guts to a watered down version of Xbox2. (I presume nForce3 or whatever will power the X^2)
Not really, but it tends to worry me more than a "Blunt Zaurus".
I've been having this same problem as well. Any thoughts on how to fend off the anti-zone?
Agreed, I've yet to find any album that comes close to matching Crystal Method's Vegas for coding. It's compelling without being intrusive on my thoughts.
That's why I recently set my work browser's homepage to the current project I'm working on. That, and I got sick of having to "stop" slashdot.org from loading and then pulling up my project. Kill two birds with one stone ;)
Word on the street is that funding for this project comes from Lionel Toy Trains in a massive effort to revive the interest in locomotive models. The first test run of this new train in space will sport an astronaut riding the front car of a gigantic toy train.
They fail to mention the reason that the Russians denied access was because their sattelite intelligence showed that the "specially built vehicle" was going to deposit four Tanyas and an Engineer.
More importantly, why didn't they just name the damn file-type JPEG2. Now I've gotta say "jay-peg two thousand" or "jay-peg two kay" when I talk. JPEG2 would've been sufficient. Why do we have this millenium obsession, even though we're 3 years into it?
Does anyone else hear the rumble of Nintendo closing in on this poor chap? I think it's sad when I read something like this and I first think "Oh cool. That's really smart, useless but cool." and then I cringe thinking about people like him getting squashed in litigation. I got five bucks that says he gets a cease and desist letter...
/. pessimism. You decide.
Heh, that or I've been successfully turned to
Now, I don't see them embracing Open Source or GPL, because it just doesn't fit with making the amount of money they need to support such a large organization.
However, I firmly believe that the best they can do is stop the FUD tactics (like the newly released, but laughable Anti*nix campaign.) Fuck strong-arming your competition to get rid of them, and please stop buying votes in our govt, and lastly drop some of the dumb marketing campaigns.
I swear, if they used two-thirds of the resources that they use on legal, marketing, and "corporate strategy", they could focus on building a decent product that's enjoyable to use.
Coerce me into using your product; don't beat me over the head with a money cudgel.
ROFL. Didn't realize AC posts were disabled. Hehe, well, since I can't hide behind anonymity... whhhhheeeeeeeeee!
*gets modded down*
What?! The Taco made me do it!
And this makes you better/more right than him in what way? Note your distinct lack of argument, at least his comments had some substance behind them.
Thanks for clearing that up. I couldn't find that anywhere in my KDE2 setup, and when I looked through the screenshots between the two versions on kde.org's webpage, I noticed that the transparencies were only in KDE3 shots.
My bad.
"KDE 3 comes out soon. What is the best new advancement/feature found in KDE 3 in your opinion?"
:-P
Heheh, screw functionality and "the greatly improved Javascript and DHTML support in Konqueror". What users REALLY want is translucent window backgrounds.
Seriously though, it does look might sweet.
"If I could choose the real world or the Matrix, I'd choose" the real world cause it doesn't make me gag on it's plugins.
Be forewarned, this page is plugin hell. In two minutes of browsing I've run into Flash, Quicktime VR, RealPlayer. The Matrix is a highly complicated thing I guess...
Doesn't matter, I'll still pay through the nose to go to any sneak peak and I'll probably see it in theaters at least 3 times as well.
How can you patent something that could concievably be created by nature? Let's say that I patent the gene for neon green eyes, and somewhere down the road, some kid in Chicago is born with a mutation that gives him neon green eyes. Is he in violation of the patent? Must his parents pay our company because his body utilizes our patented gene?
This makes me wonder if robot hunting might become a new "sport". You know the classic scenario of many villains wanting to hunt humans because they're the only game that's difficult enough to bring down. Maybe we'll hear about a new kind of high-class robot safari? Heh, then we can all be evil-eccentrics without the guilt, or the evil...
It seems some of you have misread what I wrote...
I said "it lacks all the compassion and warmth of a real cat!"
As far as I know, when I speak of a robot lacking the compassion and warmth of a real cat, it means that real cats HAVE compassion and warmth. My statement implies this.
Sure, I'm programmer, and my grammatical skills aren't the best. But I just confirmed it with an English professor for a BigTen school who said the statement was perfectly normal.
I do not hate cats. I enjoy the company of my cat, Monet, very much.
(/me pulls out his best announcer voice)
Now introducing a cat without that litterbox smell! Sure, it doesn't move, and YES it lacks all the compassion and warmth of a real cat! And it's all yours for the new introductory price of $1,530. That's only FIVE TIMES more expensive than the real cat!
Now I'm going to have to bust out my old Hardy Boys Detective handbook to learn how to encrypt my messages. Everybody jump to OSDN as I'm officially starting the HaBOSEP (Hardy-Boys Open Source Encryption Project). Just send me 2$ for your secret decoder ring.
Say it ain't so, PGP, say it ain't so.
I don't dispute one bit that sharing programs are legal. The debate in my mind lies over the general use of the program. Previously I said, "...specific 'free music' programs are illegal."
That should have read something to the effect of,
"sharing programs that allow a disproportionate amount of piracy are illegal."
Think of it this way, you own a dance club on a college campus. That is a perfectly legal and legitamate business. However, your club becomes liable if it is being misused (copious illegal drug use/distribution or serving minors alcohol are good examples.) It's the responsibility of you, the owner to police such action and take appropriate measures.
Napster did not do this. While their foundation may have been completely legitamate, it was perverted into something else. It became a place where illegal activity was no longer the exception but became the rule. So bad in fact, preventative measures were not adequate as evidenced by the complete failure of their 'filtering system'.
Thus, in what was it's old incarnation, Napster is indeed an illegal file sharing program.
However, DRM in my opinion, is only useful if it meets the following conditions:
Is transparent to the user.
Requires no processor overhead.
Is secure. (increasingly difficult, arguably impossible) If the DRM is circumventable it's pointless.
It's cheap, and doesn't raise the cost of the medium. If it's costing more to protect it than it's saving, it doesn't belong there.
It must allow at least one copy to be made.
All in all, that's a very tall order. So I doubt any time within the next ten years these things will be realized. Until then, consumers will continue to scream bloody murder.