"April fools is only on the FIRST day of April, guys, not all month. "
Dude, you're just begging for Slashdot to use the dupe gag next April 1st. The whole point of that was to poke fun at all you twerps being noisy about it.
"A monitor is an output device. A scanner (optical reader, whatever) is an input device. Why merge the two when they should be mutually exclusive?"
Why is this +5 Insightful? Did I miss the computer class that said output devices can only be output devices? Why should there be any absolute rules like that?
I'm curious what you think of touch screens or Palm Pilots.
"On the other hand a mid level printer is about $2-3000. "
Nah, that'd be a high level printer. Mid-level would be in the $200-$300 range. My Brother 1440 laser printer was $300 a year ago, I expect it to last at least 2-3 years. Plus it does all the stuff I wanna right now.
For under $100 I could get it at either 32 or 64 meg of RAM, I'm not sure how high it can go but Crucial.com has the RAM for it pretty cheap.
"Anyone who hasn't figured out that the United States is a police state just hasn't been paying attention. This is really not a matter of opinion. The fact is that the U.S. has a larger percentage of its population in prison than any other nation in the world. There are two possible explanations for this circumstance: "
The USA is a huge and diverse country. How can you take any aspect of it and simplify it down to only two options? Don't see a few shades of gray there?
What kind of energy can we pull out of this sucker? Acceptable benchmarks are: how fast you can microwave a basket of hamsters, how many AMD machines you can power per unit of fuel, and how long can Marge Simpson blow dry her hair.
"...but if somebody makes a BSOD joke it's funny as hell. Go fig."
That's probably because the Linux zealots aren't up to date about the much greater stability of Windows 2k and even to a lesser extent, XP.
Making fun of Windows blue screens is like making fun of cell phones because of bad reception. It was really true a few years ago, today it's only likely under expected circumstances.
"The recording industry has stepped up its campaign against campus music swapping, filing suit against four university students who operated file-search services on their school's internal networks. "
Wouldn't it be cheaper to offer an educational discount on music CD's, thus encourage more CD purchases?
Probably because with Kazaa you can just fire in the band names and highlight + click the songs you want to come down, as opposed to getting all the CD's out, ripping them, then loading them back in.
At least that's my guess, I never asked him. I haven't talked to him in over a year.
"A perfectly legitimate use for this unit would be consolidation."
Slightly OT, but consolidation's the reason a friend of mine has downloaded a huge collection of MP3s. He got sick of messing around with his 100-disc changer. Pity the RIAA would rather inconvenience the people that enjoy their music the most.
"If I stand out on the corner in south-central LA and give away hunting rifles, I'm DEFINATELY contributing to murders."
Doubtful.
1.) Rifles are easier to get than handguns. For example, you can purchase one at 16 vs. 21 for handguns. Despite that, there aren't very many murders by hunting rifles.
2.) People aren't stupid. They don't buy guns then run around shooting other people. There are lots of people with guns that aren't murdering people.
3.) The manufacturer of a gun involved in a murder cannot be held responsible for what somebody elects to do with it.
"Um, that arguement is flawed and constantly brought up time and time again on/."
It's not flawed. It's perfectly justified. The GP32 is a general purpose machine with optimizations made for gaming. It has games being made specifically for it. If the popular use for it is playing emulated games for it, that's fine because people can do that legally. The company who manufactures the device has no responsibility to prevent that from happening. Realistically it can't. How can it be a general purpose machine if you put inhibitors on it to thwart emulation? That'd be like trying to make a gun that can't shoot when it's pointed at somebody.
In any case, I don't agree with you. The argument is quite valid and is well supported by the law. We have VCRs and cassette recorders and a slew of other devices that have likely spent a good deal of time violating copyrights. The court says they're okay, so why's this different?
You want a suggestion on how to modernize the music industry? It's simple: put more interesting content on the media.
Sound is FAR too easy to capture and distribute. Trying to lock that up is like trying to lock up light. Even if DRM is perfect in the eyes of the RIAA, garage bands can do their own redition of a song, free of restriction. As a matter of fact, that'd be in demand.
Provide more content on the CD, like a music video or interview with the artist. Heck, stop selling music CD's period. Make them DVD's where the music has accompanying video to go with it. *Shrug* I don't care.
The RIAA's biggest problem is they're not doing enough to make us want to buy their stuff. We can't even return it if it doesn't suit our tastes. What kind of shitty business practice is that?
"seriously now, ppl. is M$ software reliable enough to such operation ?"
I used to have a home-brew PVR based on Windows Media 7. The computer had a TV Tuner card that was set up with Snapstream (www.snapstream.com) to capture shows and encode them with WM7 in real time. I also had it hooked up to a TV so I could watch the videos when they were done encoding.
The system had an average up-time of around 2 months before needing a reboot, usually because the sound card gave up for whatever reason. Every week it captured around 10 hours of stuff, and most of it was watched on that computer.
Yes, MS is quite up to it. The WM7 codec was a pretty good codec to boot.
"And just as Captain Picard ordered self destruct, the movie paused. A gray box appeared on the screen with the words 'A Windows Media Update is now available, would you like to download it now?"
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"I too am sick to death of the, "if you want to do this you have to run Windows" crap."
Yeah, competition really sucks, duddn't it? Now the Linux Community will have to develop a competing prodcut that's better. Bummer.
"April fools is only on the FIRST day of April, guys, not all month. "
Dude, you're just begging for Slashdot to use the dupe gag next April 1st. The whole point of that was to poke fun at all you twerps being noisy about it.
It's not the end of the world.
"A monitor is an output device. A scanner (optical reader, whatever) is an input device. Why merge the two when they should be mutually exclusive?"
Why is this +5 Insightful? Did I miss the computer class that said output devices can only be output devices? Why should there be any absolute rules like that?
I'm curious what you think of touch screens or Palm Pilots.
" I can't wait to see Dave Berg's take."
I've seen it. It's a picture of a computer with two keyboards labeled his and hers.
"On the other hand a mid level printer is about $2-3000. "
Nah, that'd be a high level printer. Mid-level would be in the $200-$300 range. My Brother 1440 laser printer was $300 a year ago, I expect it to last at least 2-3 years. Plus it does all the stuff I wanna right now.
For under $100 I could get it at either 32 or 64 meg of RAM, I'm not sure how high it can go but Crucial.com has the RAM for it pretty cheap.
I don't think the author of this Slashdot story factored in that the price of printers has gone down steadily over the years.
"Anyone who hasn't figured out that the United States is a police state just hasn't been paying attention. This is really not a matter of opinion. The fact is that the U.S. has a larger percentage of its population in prison than any other nation in the world. There are two possible explanations for this circumstance: "
The USA is a huge and diverse country. How can you take any aspect of it and simplify it down to only two options? Don't see a few shades of gray there?
What kind of energy can we pull out of this sucker? Acceptable benchmarks are: how fast you can microwave a basket of hamsters, how many AMD machines you can power per unit of fuel, and how long can Marge Simpson blow dry her hair.
"Ummm. You might want to check the date on that list. IBM are "good guys" now. "
I was thinking about IBM's defective hard drives and laptop batteries.
"TurboTax doesn't seem like it should even show up anywhere."
Um, have you been reading Slashdot lately?
Mod parent up!! (So we can laugh!)
"Okay everybody... ... you know the drill. Pitchforks ready! "
Whoah, slow down there buddy. We gotta check the list.
-Microsoft? No.
-RIAA/MPAA? No.
-IBM? No.
-Amazon? No.
-TurboTax? No.
Sorry, Samba's not on the list. Turn in your pitchfork for a song of praise.
"I'll buy your product if you support Ogg Vorbis..."
My question is, why would he buy a set top box to do that if his collection's already encoded? Doesn't he have a computer already to play these on?
"...I intend to rack up a good deal of karma whether you support it or not."
I agree, it smells like karma whoring to me.
"...but if somebody makes a BSOD joke it's funny as hell. Go fig."
That's probably because the Linux zealots aren't up to date about the much greater stability of Windows 2k and even to a lesser extent, XP.
Making fun of Windows blue screens is like making fun of cell phones because of bad reception. It was really true a few years ago, today it's only likely under expected circumstances.
"science does not always have to be usefull."
So installing Linux on the XBOX is an exercise in Science?
"The recording industry has stepped up its campaign against campus music swapping, filing suit against four university students who operated file-search services on their school's internal networks. "
Wouldn't it be cheaper to offer an educational discount on music CD's, thus encourage more CD purchases?
"Do what I did. Quit college." ... and forever remain dependent on P2P.
"Why didn't your friend ripped his CDs instead? "
Probably because with Kazaa you can just fire in the band names and highlight + click the songs you want to come down, as opposed to getting all the CD's out, ripping them, then loading them back in.
At least that's my guess, I never asked him. I haven't talked to him in over a year.
"A perfectly legitimate use for this unit would be consolidation."
Slightly OT, but consolidation's the reason a friend of mine has downloaded a huge collection of MP3s. He got sick of messing around with his 100-disc changer. Pity the RIAA would rather inconvenience the people that enjoy their music the most.
"If I stand out on the corner in south-central LA and give away hunting rifles, I'm DEFINATELY contributing to murders."
/."
Doubtful.
1.) Rifles are easier to get than handguns. For example, you can purchase one at 16 vs. 21 for handguns. Despite that, there aren't very many murders by hunting rifles.
2.) People aren't stupid. They don't buy guns then run around shooting other people. There are lots of people with guns that aren't murdering people.
3.) The manufacturer of a gun involved in a murder cannot be held responsible for what somebody elects to do with it.
"Um, that arguement is flawed and constantly brought up time and time again on
It's not flawed. It's perfectly justified. The GP32 is a general purpose machine with optimizations made for gaming. It has games being made specifically for it. If the popular use for it is playing emulated games for it, that's fine because people can do that legally. The company who manufactures the device has no responsibility to prevent that from happening. Realistically it can't. How can it be a general purpose machine if you put inhibitors on it to thwart emulation? That'd be like trying to make a gun that can't shoot when it's pointed at somebody.
In any case, I don't agree with you. The argument is quite valid and is well supported by the law. We have VCRs and cassette recorders and a slew of other devices that have likely spent a good deal of time violating copyrights. The court says they're okay, so why's this different?
"I have heard of users with far faster K6-2s and K6-3s not being able to run very many games full speed."
It'll be easier for the GP32, they won't have to do an expensive resizing operation because the display's only 320 by 240.
"Oddly, audience members reported that the movie was more entertaining with the gray box than without."
Wow, somebody that didn't like Nemsis. Those are real hard to come by!
We already have this, it's called radio.
You want a suggestion on how to modernize the music industry? It's simple: put more interesting content on the media.
Sound is FAR too easy to capture and distribute. Trying to lock that up is like trying to lock up light. Even if DRM is perfect in the eyes of the RIAA, garage bands can do their own redition of a song, free of restriction. As a matter of fact, that'd be in demand.
Provide more content on the CD, like a music video or interview with the artist. Heck, stop selling music CD's period. Make them DVD's where the music has accompanying video to go with it. *Shrug* I don't care.
The RIAA's biggest problem is they're not doing enough to make us want to buy their stuff. We can't even return it if it doesn't suit our tastes. What kind of shitty business practice is that?
"seriously now, ppl. is M$ software reliable enough to such operation ?"
I used to have a home-brew PVR based on Windows Media 7. The computer had a TV Tuner card that was set up with Snapstream (www.snapstream.com) to capture shows and encode them with WM7 in real time. I also had it hooked up to a TV so I could watch the videos when they were done encoding.
The system had an average up-time of around 2 months before needing a reboot, usually because the sound card gave up for whatever reason. Every week it captured around 10 hours of stuff, and most of it was watched on that computer.
Yes, MS is quite up to it. The WM7 codec was a pretty good codec to boot.
"And just as Captain Picard ordered self destruct, the movie paused. A gray box appeared on the screen with the words 'A Windows Media Update is now available, would you like to download it now?"
"Umm... shouldn't it go without saying that it's theatre quality if they're rolling it out?"
;)
They're trying to set your expectations appropriately low.