OMFROLFl33tH@X0rZG!! He said "Gameboy" in place of "Nintendo"! And I'm sure you're all the same people who nitpick at people using the the word "Xerox" and "copy" synonomously, right? But I guess when you really don't have anything relevant to post, that's the next best thing...
"Of Legal Affairs Magazine about granting legal recognition to computers: when that might happen, why it could happen, and what a discussion about it will teach humans about themselves."
Instead of launching into the "I, Robot 2," fiction let's simplify this a great deal-- When it can independently ask for legal representation, that's when you sit up and take notice.
So you "jam" your computer everyday by turning it "off"? OOOh, I see now... I think I'll go jam my microwave! Whoo Hoo! Time to go jam the TV with my remote control and an off switch.
They're two totally different subjects tenuously strung together by the use of the GPS system. There is no 'irony' here.
If there is one thing people need to learn about the scifi channel it that they CANNOT be allowed to comission their own movies under ANY circumstance. There are very very few instances where such an event has produce anything close to a desirable series, and more likely than not, you get something along the lines of "Aracnaphobids 4", the 4 spider movie in a long and hallowed series of really BAD spider movies. Wing Commander Galactica comes to mind.
From day one of their brainwashing advertisement blitz (they might as well have put a black and white spiralling swirl on the TV while they advertised it) it was super obvious that this was another of SCiFi's well abused formulas-- Rip it from the Big Screen and make it SUCK. In this case, Lord of the Rings was the obvious target, with a few other franchises mashed in for good measure. They should have just saved the money they spent licensing the the EarthSea name and spent it on a better script or something, because you could see it from day one: Suckage.
That, and anybody else notice their fondness of polar opposite movie titles? Dark light? Earth Sea? There's a few more, but it's getting to be as silly as Steven Segal's prepositional phrase movies...
"I'd hate to purchase one just to find out that I have to do it Sony's way, or no way"
You mean like every other poratble gaming system in existence? Come on now. I mean, what other way would you be doing it with Nintendo? Sega? NeoGeo Pocket?
People seem to be overly fond of comparing apples to oranges this thread around...
I can take all the whining and complaining about the battery life as long as said whiners own up to one simple fact: You're comparing a 125mb (+/-) memory card to multi-gigabytedisk storage. Fucking apples and oranges are raining out of the sky like locus from Apocalypse here. Ok, so the battery is five minutes to five hours long, depending on who you believe. Fine. At least be willing to admit what you're getting for that trade off-- Shit you will NEVER see the DS capable of because of that lack of storage space. And if you don't mind too much, let's take a stroll down memory lane and remember how this was one of the major issues that dogged the N64 when pitted against the PS1.
Does that make the DS a bad platform? Maybe, maybe not*. But you better be at least willing to consider that of course your DS is going to have a longer battery life. It's a memory card based system that only needs to access 128mb of information. As compared to spinning around a physical disk to access 1.8gb worth of information. I would even go so far as to speculate a pasting much like the one Nintendo recieved there as well, but that's just me and irrelevant here.
Hey, I remember the N64 and Nintendo's phobia of circular game media. I'll take the trade-off and smile, thankyouverymuch.
"Do you suppose that the long lines for the PSP have anything to do with the fact that the unit is in short supply?"
Do you suppose there would have been long lines regardless of the supply? Nod your head "Yes" and accept how absurd your rationalization is. To point-- There will be an unlimited number of showings for the new Starwars Ep3 movie, but you will STILL find people camping out campint oug weeks before hand. By the time of the first showing, lines will will wrap around the building. Being a movie doesn't make the comparison any less valid.
I would submit to the audience that those lines are less a function of supply and more a function of the popularity the product generates. I'm not dissmissing supply completely from the equation, but lets face it, supply will eventially be there.
After all, who do you think these early adopters you mention in the next breath are, anyway? They are people who would have been out there early anyway, be 5 or 5 million units... Just like the hardcore Starwars "early adoptors".
"The results themselves are interesting, but the most remarkable part was that, of the 928 papers they found, 75% accepted that global warming was caused by human activities, either explicitly or implicitly. 25% made no mention either way. And not a single paper asserted otherwise." JamesBell submits this article by a geologist which suggests that the Earth is in serious, imminent, unavoidable danger."
Funny how Michael Crichton doesn't seem to think so... And you'll be hard pressed to find an author who does as much factual research on the subjects he writes about. Not saying his word is gospel, just dispelling the myth that there are no disscenting theroies or that propganda we're regularly fed is beyond question. So much so that I won't even bother linking the articles that measure the sun as heating up or the profound peaks and vallies the Earth's climate rolls through again. I know this is one of/.'s favorite staple topics, but this is totally bogus.
1) It's bright. Bright things moving though the atmosphere tend to be very very hot.
2) It's durable. Things that make it this far down tend to be be fairly substantial in nature.
So now we supposively have a bright, hot, durable object impacting a body of water at high speeds... THAT LEAVES NO TRACE AFTER IMPACT. Steam maybe? A ripple or two? Honestly, would somebody like to run a simulation on a superheated baseball sized rock slamming into the ocean at close to mach? Maybe a golfball to be conservative? Heck, I'm speculating the damn thing might explode just in temperature differential alone when it touches the water, if not angerly boil for a good long time.
The only conclusion I can specuate where it may have been any substantial object falling from the sky is that one in a billion chance it actually fully vaporized a second before impact. Even so, you'd still have some sort of audio event at those speeds, I'm imagining.
I'm going for visual artifact or an environmental lighting glitch myself.
Decades ago???? OOOOoooh, you mean like back in 1981, right? Let's buy some perspective here-- The goal was to create an affordable, reusable space vehical. Decades ago, this thing did qualify. Heck, for the russians it still sounds like it doesn't qualify.
Sure, now it might be time for a change, but I'd say the current shuttle has served it's intended purpose pretty damn well.
"Na, the US government critters cannot see past the next election"
Um, how many presidencies has US manned space flight endured again??? Yeah, too bad they axed that one after JFK. And what race are you talking about? I think we'll sit here a moment and take a breather while everybody else catches up.
"IO Data Device's new 'HDZ-UE1.6TS' exemplifies the recent trend towards demand for higher storage capacities -- it's an external hard drive setup offering a total capacity of 1.6TB."
Backup??? My p0rn collection will take up at least 3 of those.
"That doesn't sound like the Google I know and love."
No, it sounds more like the google that's been gobbling up third party services left and right to incorporate into itself ala Windows & Microsoft. I mean, who doesn't claim to be the good guy PR image thing anyway?
Yet another fine example that it really is all about the Benjamines regardless of what comes out of their mouth.
Fine, not "just" but when you outnumber your competition by several million boxes, only a fool would completely discount that fact as much as you have. If it was worth a hackers time and money to turn a MAc box into a bot in under 4 minutes, it's a done deal, no questions asked. Market share, with all those Windows boxes and their CD keys, credit card numbers and personal information make a much much much more inviting target to specialize in.
No, I'm no saying one is any better than the other, or that even the point you make is irrelevant, just the incentive to crack OS or Linux is SO much less on average.
"Stats of note: Although Macs and PC's got hit with equal opportunity, the XP SP1 machine was hit with 5 LSASS and 4 DCOM exploits while the Mac remained clean. The Linux desktop also was impenetrable, but only was only targeted by 0.26% of all attacks."
And in other news, Windows loaded machines outweighed both their Mac and Linux counterparts by several million units. In a totally unrelated story, reporters were also amazed to find that 99% of viruses written to specfically target windows machines.
Don't miss the <sarcasm> </sarcasm> tags.
But seriously. If Linux ever becomes as popular as windows, I guarantee malcontents will find any and every way to comprimise your system in under 4 minutes. The same thing with Firefox. Every system has holes that can be exploited by a creative person with too much time on his hands. it's all about market share and whether it's worth the hackers' time to notice and crack them. Right now, Windows is where the money potential is at, with Linux and Apple trailing the rear by a super-large margin.
No, this isn't a flame for OS or Linux. This is a flame for everybody who keeps making these assnine comparisons and believes that they're OS integrity is somehow extra special or that Windows M$ is extra bad.
"This short article suggests that, in Korea, email is used only for formal communications, or by older, less tech-saavy generations, while IMs, blogs, and SMS has taken over as the primary means of day to day messages."
Good for Korea. Unfotuantely, it becomes a largely moot point once you leave korea due to the vastly different billing structures found in other countries. It's the primary means of communication in korean youth, therefore...? What's the conclusion we're trying to reach here?? Old people aren't tech saavy? OOOooh, big story there. That the rest of the world is not as tech saavy? Korea is hardly unique concerning the abundant use of IMs, blogs and SMSs, especially when compared to it's neighbors. Or maybe this story is just here to inform you that you're all tech backwards weenies.
I mean, for crying out loud, there's not enough to story here make a decent squirrle carcass, let alone something news worthy. I could have taken you on my last trips through japan and Singapore and told you that.
Debug that story selection script bot already. Meager crap like this submission shouldn't be seeing the light of day.
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OMFROLFl33tH@X0rZG!! He said "Gameboy" in place of "Nintendo"! And I'm sure you're all the same people who nitpick at people using the the word "Xerox" and "copy" synonomously, right? But I guess when you really don't have anything relevant to post, that's the next best thing...
"Of Legal Affairs Magazine about granting legal recognition to computers: when that might happen, why it could happen, and what a discussion about it will teach humans about themselves."
Instead of launching into the "I, Robot 2," fiction let's simplify this a great deal-- When it can independently ask for legal representation, that's when you sit up and take notice.
So you "jam" your computer everyday by turning it "off"? OOOh, I see now... I think I'll go jam my microwave! Whoo Hoo! Time to go jam the TV with my remote control and an off switch.
They're two totally different subjects tenuously strung together by the use of the GPS system. There is no 'irony' here.
If there is one thing people need to learn about the scifi channel it that they CANNOT be allowed to comission their own movies under ANY circumstance. There are very very few instances where such an event has produce anything close to a desirable series, and more likely than not, you get something along the lines of "Aracnaphobids 4", the 4 spider movie in a long and hallowed series of really BAD spider movies. Wing Commander Galactica comes to mind.
From day one of their brainwashing advertisement blitz (they might as well have put a black and white spiralling swirl on the TV while they advertised it) it was super obvious that this was another of SCiFi's well abused formulas-- Rip it from the Big Screen and make it SUCK. In this case, Lord of the Rings was the obvious target, with a few other franchises mashed in for good measure. They should have just saved the money they spent licensing the the EarthSea name and spent it on a better script or something, because you could see it from day one: Suckage.
That, and anybody else notice their fondness of polar opposite movie titles? Dark light? Earth Sea? There's a few more, but it's getting to be as silly as Steven Segal's prepositional phrase movies...
I think we can afford to award you all honorary geeks licenses...
"I'd hate to purchase one just to find out that I have to do it Sony's way, or no way"
You mean like every other poratble gaming system in existence? Come on now. I mean, what other way would you be doing it with Nintendo? Sega? NeoGeo Pocket?
People seem to be overly fond of comparing apples to oranges this thread around...
I can take all the whining and complaining about the battery life as long as said whiners own up to one simple fact: You're comparing a 125mb (+/-) memory card to multi-gigabyte disk storage. Fucking apples and oranges are raining out of the sky like locus from Apocalypse here. Ok, so the battery is five minutes to five hours long, depending on who you believe. Fine. At least be willing to admit what you're getting for that trade off-- Shit you will NEVER see the DS capable of because of that lack of storage space. And if you don't mind too much, let's take a stroll down memory lane and remember how this was one of the major issues that dogged the N64 when pitted against the PS1.
Does that make the DS a bad platform? Maybe, maybe not*. But you better be at least willing to consider that of course your DS is going to have a longer battery life. It's a memory card based system that only needs to access 128mb of information. As compared to spinning around a physical disk to access 1.8gb worth of information. I would even go so far as to speculate a pasting much like the one Nintendo recieved there as well, but that's just me and irrelevant here.
Hey, I remember the N64 and Nintendo's phobia of circular game media. I'll take the trade-off and smile, thankyouverymuch.
*probably
"Do you suppose that the long lines for the PSP have anything to do with the fact that the unit is in short supply?"
Do you suppose there would have been long lines regardless of the supply? Nod your head "Yes" and accept how absurd your rationalization is. To point-- There will be an unlimited number of showings for the new Starwars Ep3 movie, but you will STILL find people camping out campint oug weeks before hand. By the time of the first showing, lines will will wrap around the building. Being a movie doesn't make the comparison any less valid.
I would submit to the audience that those lines are less a function of supply and more a function of the popularity the product generates. I'm not dissmissing supply completely from the equation, but lets face it, supply will eventially be there.
After all, who do you think these early adopters you mention in the next breath are, anyway? They are people who would have been out there early anyway, be 5 or 5 million units... Just like the hardcore Starwars "early adoptors".
But... Didn't the people waiting in line first for the 5 minute rollarcoaster get to ride it first?
"It keeps accurate time and needs no electricity; it needs to be weight reset every 13 hours."
Accurate, you say? Every 13 hours? If only every clock were that accurate...
"The results themselves are interesting, but the most remarkable part was that, of the 928 papers they found, 75% accepted that global warming was caused by human activities, either explicitly or implicitly. 25% made no mention either way. And not a single paper asserted otherwise." JamesBell submits this article by a geologist which suggests that the Earth is in serious, imminent, unavoidable danger."
/.'s favorite staple topics, but this is totally bogus.
Funny how Michael Crichton doesn't seem to think so... And you'll be hard pressed to find an author who does as much factual research on the subjects he writes about. Not saying his word is gospel, just dispelling the myth that there are no disscenting theroies or that propganda we're regularly fed is beyond question. So much so that I won't even bother linking the articles that measure the sun as heating up or the profound peaks and vallies the Earth's climate rolls through again. I know this is one of
"Why not the Octium or Nonium?
Because you sould like a bad D&D game?
Ok, it's really simple.
1) It's bright.
Bright things moving though the atmosphere tend to be very very hot.
2) It's durable.
Things that make it this far down tend to be be fairly substantial in nature.
So now we supposively have a bright, hot, durable object impacting a body of water at high speeds... THAT LEAVES NO TRACE AFTER IMPACT. Steam maybe? A ripple or two? Honestly, would somebody like to run a simulation on a superheated baseball sized rock slamming into the ocean at close to mach? Maybe a golfball to be conservative? Heck, I'm speculating the damn thing might explode just in temperature differential alone when it touches the water, if not angerly boil for a good long time.
The only conclusion I can specuate where it may have been any substantial object falling from the sky is that one in a billion chance it actually fully vaporized a second before impact. Even so, you'd still have some sort of audio event at those speeds, I'm imagining.
I'm going for visual artifact or an environmental lighting glitch myself.
""The Register has a comment piece of the marriage (speculative) between IBM and Apple.
Good luck getting around that massive ego named Steve Jobs. I'm thinking an AOL-TimeWarner style meltdown, personally.
"Decades ago, this thing did qualify."
Didn't didn't DIDN'T.
Damn typos.
Decades ago???? OOOOoooh, you mean like back in 1981, right? Let's buy some perspective here-- The goal was to create an affordable, reusable space vehical. Decades ago, this thing did qualify. Heck, for the russians it still sounds like it doesn't qualify.
Sure, now it might be time for a change, but I'd say the current shuttle has served it's intended purpose pretty damn well.
"Na, the US government critters cannot see past the next election"
Um, how many presidencies has US manned space flight endured again??? Yeah, too bad they axed that one after JFK. And what race are you talking about? I think we'll sit here a moment and take a breather while everybody else catches up.
"The Energia Rocket and Space Corporation, the organization that has built all of Russian's human space vehicles for the past half century,
Space vehicals like the Buran space shuttle! No, wait... That was designed by NASA too...
"You misspelled Tribes. Granted, Onslaught isn't an exact replica of Tribes' gameplay, it shares more in common than it differs."
Tribes:Vengance, UT2k4... It's so hard to tell them apart these days, y'know?
"IO Data Device's new 'HDZ-UE1.6TS' exemplifies the recent trend towards demand for higher storage capacities -- it's an external hard drive setup offering a total capacity of 1.6TB."
Backup??? My p0rn collection will take up at least 3 of those.
"That doesn't sound like the Google I know and love."
No, it sounds more like the google that's been gobbling up third party services left and right to incorporate into itself ala Windows & Microsoft. I mean, who doesn't claim to be the good guy PR image thing anyway?
Yet another fine example that it really is all about the Benjamines regardless of what comes out of their mouth.
"This is not because of just marketshare"
Fine, not "just" but when you outnumber your competition by several million boxes, only a fool would completely discount that fact as much as you have. If it was worth a hackers time and money to turn a MAc box into a bot in under 4 minutes, it's a done deal, no questions asked. Market share, with all those Windows boxes and their CD keys, credit card numbers and personal information make a much much much more inviting target to specialize in.
No, I'm no saying one is any better than the other, or that even the point you make is irrelevant, just the incentive to crack OS or Linux is SO much less on average.
"Stats of note: Although Macs and PC's got hit with equal opportunity, the XP SP1 machine was hit with 5 LSASS and 4 DCOM exploits while the Mac remained clean. The Linux desktop also was impenetrable, but only was only targeted by 0.26% of all attacks."
And in other news, Windows loaded machines outweighed both their Mac and Linux counterparts by several million units. In a totally unrelated story, reporters were also amazed to find that 99% of viruses written to specfically target windows machines.
Don't miss the <sarcasm> </sarcasm> tags.
But seriously. If Linux ever becomes as popular as windows, I guarantee malcontents will find any and every way to comprimise your system in under 4 minutes. The same thing with Firefox. Every system has holes that can be exploited by a creative person with too much time on his hands. it's all about market share and whether it's worth the hackers' time to notice and crack them. Right now, Windows is where the money potential is at, with Linux and Apple trailing the rear by a super-large margin.
No, this isn't a flame for OS or Linux. This is a flame for everybody who keeps making these assnine comparisons and believes that they're OS integrity is somehow extra special or that Windows M$ is extra bad.
"This short article suggests that, in Korea, email is used only for formal communications, or by older, less tech-saavy generations, while IMs, blogs, and SMS has taken over as the primary means of day to day messages."
Good for Korea. Unfotuantely, it becomes a largely moot point once you leave korea due to the vastly different billing structures found in other countries. It's the primary means of communication in korean youth, therefore...? What's the conclusion we're trying to reach here?? Old people aren't tech saavy? OOOooh, big story there. That the rest of the world is not as tech saavy? Korea is hardly unique concerning the abundant use of IMs, blogs and SMSs, especially when compared to it's neighbors. Or maybe this story is just here to inform you that you're all tech backwards weenies.
I mean, for crying out loud, there's not enough to story here make a decent squirrle carcass, let alone something news worthy. I could have taken you on my last trips through japan and Singapore and told you that.
Debug that story selection script bot already. Meager crap like this submission shouldn't be seeing the light of day.
"Fanless Media Center Box..."
It must hurt to be such and unpopular media center...
Waaaaaaait for it....