3) Would someone please investigate the RIAA to see if they're using any Linux systems? Personally I'd love to see the RIAA and SCO duke it out in court instead of on consumers who have to settle on their terms...
They're not Daleks! You can't kill them by running them into each other. With our luck, they'd probably combine into some sort of uber-litigious company and destroy all computer technology. We'd all be reduced to writing on stone tablets by fire!
I'm sure Linksys/Cisco will really love the idea of having to pay SCO some money to be able to ship some of its more recent wireless routers. SCO is going to be crushed by a big company like Cisco; it's only a matter of time (and how much we let them whine).
This thing is fast approaching some of the old PC's I have sitting in the basement. When a graphing calculator gets a faster clock speed than my 200MHz file server I'm going to jump off a bridge.
This is exactly the kind of toy people need to bring in to theme parks, and one of the more interesting uses I've seen of tech. Some questions:
How does it store so much audio? Did Disney get a really nice deal on some flash RAM?
How do they update it so fast? It seems (from the second article) like it flashes new data into its brain within seconds of being near an infrared receiver.
Any slashdotters near enough to a Disneyworld location to pick one up and hack it? This is a much better fit interface-wise for theme parks than a PDA-style device.
I had problems with 3D gameplay as well, and besides, it doesn't make a good game more fun -- so I started working on a 2D one (with SDL) instead. Out of fear for my bandwidth, I sadly will not be posting links -- but email me (mrseigen@sdf.loneSHOTGUNstar.org minus assault weapon) if you want one.
The display is 16-bit color. The ARM processor will likely be similar to the one in your GBA. What I'm really wondering is if someone will port Progress Quest.
I would assume this signifies that they are suing whoever they come across first for whatever song they come across first. Likely they will sue for the other songs of the artist as well.
Which makes me wonder if you should post fake tracks like the RIAA did.. that way if they sue you, you can claim you were helping them to seed the network with false files, invoice and then countersue them.
No shit. Being a teacher is an excuse to do your job properly and earn money, not build little empires because your union membership won't allow you to get fired.
Somebody sure is watching and tracking individual students, but they're definitely not interested in the student's success -- collecting all this data together and using it to generate mass "trends" will likely end up in having various kids who are doing well being sat down and had a talking-to by the school's guidance counsellors about not dropping out, merely because they don't fit the trend. Same thing happened with kids who may fit the "school shooter" profile.
There's no excuse for this data collection -- but hey, schools and prisons are the two places where new privacy invasion is tried out before being installed in mainstream society.
A lot of the companies who make Linux-dedicated laptops have just reformatted over an out-of-the-box Windows laptop and installed Linux, so you're still paying the Microsoft tax. If you could find a laptop with no OS, I'm sure that would be greatly appreciated.
I have to say I made a boo-boo. The article in question actually tells that the processor is available for direct order, not pre-order as I had let on. Not like it stopped anyone who cared.
Every consumer should be armed with one of these -- I know I'd be less likely to buy a certain product if human rights abuses or pollution histories popped up on FoobarCo's UltraCereal.
How the fuck did a gaming API ever get enough priveleges in a "modern" operating system to be able to cause any kind of problems beyond resource starvation?
You should make them pay a site license to indemnify themselves from getting sued for theft of those bullets. After all, it's kind of hard to win a theft of property when your property is a couple pounds of shrapnel around major organs.
The only real dying trend showcased in this site is that of quality games (except for Rival Turf). I'd still rather have a kick-ass game than the shit they're pumping out today with nice box art on it.
It'd be nice to have like a sub-$1200 chunk of hardware running on PPC970. It probably wouldn't even dent Apple's market share unless someone figures out how to run OS X on it.
These are mostly Americans. I don't think their public school system has the slightest bit of clue about the Brits, other than that they fought the Yanks over something or other and drive on the wrong hand side of the road.
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Don't worry, now that the US gov's on our side, they can relegate their best propagandists to coming up with SCO jokes.
"Why did SCO cross the road?"
"To get to the courtroom!"
"BWA HA HA HA HA! That's a keeper"
I'm sure Linksys/Cisco will really love the idea of having to pay SCO some money to be able to ship some of its more recent wireless routers. SCO is going to be crushed by a big company like Cisco; it's only a matter of time (and how much we let them whine).
*toggles off Caldera news*
Nice post you have here. Would be a shame if something were to happen to it.
This thing is fast approaching some of the old PC's I have sitting in the basement. When a graphing calculator gets a faster clock speed than my 200MHz file server I'm going to jump off a bridge.
How does it store so much audio? Did Disney get a really nice deal on some flash RAM?
How do they update it so fast? It seems (from the second article) like it flashes new data into its brain within seconds of being near an infrared receiver.
Any slashdotters near enough to a Disneyworld location to pick one up and hack it? This is a much better fit interface-wise for theme parks than a PDA-style device.
I consider "pure" to mean no marketing or publisher idiots have been all over the game.
I had problems with 3D gameplay as well, and besides, it doesn't make a good game more fun -- so I started working on a 2D one (with SDL) instead. Out of fear for my bandwidth, I sadly will not be posting links -- but email me (mrseigen@sdf.loneSHOTGUNstar.org minus assault weapon) if you want one.
The display is 16-bit color. The ARM processor will likely be similar to the one in your GBA. What I'm really wondering is if someone will port Progress Quest.
I would assume this signifies that they are suing whoever they come across first for whatever song they come across first. Likely they will sue for the other songs of the artist as well.
Which makes me wonder if you should post fake tracks like the RIAA did.. that way if they sue you, you can claim you were helping them to seed the network with false files, invoice and then countersue them.
No shit. Being a teacher is an excuse to do your job properly and earn money, not build little empires because your union membership won't allow you to get fired.
Somebody sure is watching and tracking individual students, but they're definitely not interested in the student's success -- collecting all this data together and using it to generate mass "trends" will likely end up in having various kids who are doing well being sat down and had a talking-to by the school's guidance counsellors about not dropping out, merely because they don't fit the trend. Same thing happened with kids who may fit the "school shooter" profile.
There's no excuse for this data collection -- but hey, schools and prisons are the two places where new privacy invasion is tried out before being installed in mainstream society.
A lot of the companies who make Linux-dedicated laptops have just reformatted over an out-of-the-box Windows laptop and installed Linux, so you're still paying the Microsoft tax. If you could find a laptop with no OS, I'm sure that would be greatly appreciated.
I have to say I made a boo-boo. The article in question actually tells that the processor is available for direct order, not pre-order as I had let on. Not like it stopped anyone who cared.
(First submission! w00t!)
Every consumer should be armed with one of these -- I know I'd be less likely to buy a certain product if human rights abuses or pollution histories popped up on FoobarCo's UltraCereal.
You know it's sad when you crack a joke about an off-the-wall feature and somebody already implemented it.
In related news, gamers were being investigated for running illicit airports from their back yards.
"Well, there's this huge loud swooshing noise, what else could it be?" stated one officer.
How the fuck did a gaming API ever get enough priveleges in a "modern" operating system to be able to cause any kind of problems beyond resource starvation?
You should make them pay a site license to indemnify themselves from getting sued for theft of those bullets. After all, it's kind of hard to win a theft of property when your property is a couple pounds of shrapnel around major organs.
The only real dying trend showcased in this site is that of quality games (except for Rival Turf). I'd still rather have a kick-ass game than the shit they're pumping out today with nice box art on it.
It'd be nice to have like a sub-$1200 chunk of hardware running on PPC970. It probably wouldn't even dent Apple's market share unless someone figures out how to run OS X on it.
If he did that, the companies would go "this is stupid, goodbye judge".
They're megacorporations. They can do whatever the hell they want.
These are mostly Americans. I don't think their public school system has the slightest bit of clue about the Brits, other than that they fought the Yanks over something or other and drive on the wrong hand side of the road.