It only applies to 'low power' devices. So stick an ARM or Centrino chip in your hand held, and avoid using BLITing or 'a state machine to emulate the LCD driver' and you should be OK.
The ti-89 mario game was a complete reimplementation, not a ROM.
By a locking chip, which prevented duplicates from being used in the system. However, they didn't have anything to prevent copying at the time. Also, hardware encryption is very easy. They could have done DES (or even AES if it had been invented by then) in hardware with almost no cost.
Most people don't care about freedom, they just live their lives the way the government wants. They think it only affects "dissidents". Just look at America. 40% don't think the patriot act goes far enough. Lots of people think the press has too much freedom(!!!).
Love of freedom is something that some people have an inate desire for, but for most people that isn't true. However, it can be sold and packaged by like any product (for example, equate personal freedom with national freedom and make personal freedom 'patriotic' like in the American civil war).
In a lot of cases, freedom-loving intellectuals are smart enough to sell this to the public, but when an authoritarian government like the Chinese clamping down on dissidents while at the same time providing for the citizenry well, giving them what they want, pro-freedom revolution is a non-starter.
It will be intresting to see what happens when the chinese bubble pops...
Mao, back during the 1920's fond his support in the overlooked and abused peasants,
Yup, and then he fucked them harder then they'd ever been fucked before. Under Mao, peasents had a quota of grain they had to provide to the government, and a perminant minder. Pesants would often go hungry if they couldn't provide enough grain to meet their quota, even though they had produced more then enough to feed themselves. If they produced extra grain, they could only sell it at extra low prices. Mao's incompitance and idiocy resulted in the deaths of tens of millions of people.
Not that I'm some anti-communist McCarthiest, just point out what happened.
You know, switching between simple and traditional characters is pretty easy in software, there's a 1 to 1 correlation. I would expect most web browsers would support auto-conversion to the users prefrence...
Your asertion that short-form characters were adopted on a "small scale" is way off. Pretty much everything on the manland is written using it, and it's taught in schools. Outside of taiwan, most chinese is taught using short form. It kind of sucks, though, because long form is easier to read (IMO) because you are looking at more information to 'hook' onto. With computers, there is no diffrence in the amount of time it takes to write.
Wouldn't be that hard to setup. But I wonder, how can you have Electrical service needed to run internet connected PCs, but not have a space heater. I would expect a space heater to be much cheaper then a computer, and obviously more apealing in northern china.
I mean, maybe the electricity is expensive, but arn't these people supposed to be communists? I know they're adapting but I would think that things like electricity would be a base service.
So, what's that supposed to mean? I've noticed that Chinese people tend to use numbers as stand ins for Chinese characters that have similar pronunciations, but what is san chi er yi supposed to mean?
One of the most interesting is using 88 rather then ttyl when signing of instant messanges. 88 = "bai bai":P
Remember the little old lady that the RIAA busted? She claimed she owned all the music on CD already so it didn't matter if she downloaded all the music off the net? RIAA checked the checksums of the files vs her CDs and they were different.
Bullshit. Checksums would never survive compression.
Basically, you have two types of users. People who like computers, and people who don't. For people who don't, which make the vast majority of 'lusers' a command line is easier. They memorize specific tasks, and never get a general 'feel' for the machine. With a command line, they only need to memorize a string of commands -- usualy one. With a GUI, they need to memorize a ton of steps.
For people who like computers, a GUI is better to start with. Why? Because they can explore, click different buttons and visually see what their choices are. They'll quickly get an intuitive feel for how interfaces are designed and be able to use new applications without much trouble, at which point they won't be newbs anymore, and can start on figuring out the true power of the command line:)
Drinkable and non-drinkable. The last is in plentifull supply. The first is not.
Well, it depends on where you are. If you're in the sahara or the middle of the pasific, then yeah. On the other hand, most places have plenty of drinkable water.
People don't live in the desert where no food can be grown. Mass starvation, in every case is caused by either government bungling such as Mao's The Great Leap Forward program or outright malice, such as every other instance I know of.
Interestingly, someone posted a versions of this rant in a story about Aid to Zimbabwe, despite the fact that Zimbabwe has one of the most fertile land in Africa. People are starving over there because the agricultural economy has been all but destroyed by malicious mismanagement.
so that is 1000 people getting to drink for a day PER PC. 1000000 people per day for 1000 PCs. 1000000 people can drink for three years with 1000000 PCs...
Presumably, the water can be treated after the PCs have been made, and then people can drink it. And it's not like many people out there are thursting to death anyway, people tend not to live where water is not available.
1.5 tons of water. But all of that gets reused eventually. I mean, it's not like it gets jettisoned into space, or converted into energy.
I mean I suppose things like fossil fuels get converted into useless byproducts, but most of the stuff would not be. This is accounting is beyond a little suspicious. I mean, how many tons of stuff does a person eat and then shit out in their lifetime. Probably a lot more then 1.8 tons.
And would upgrading really make that much of a difference? You upgrade a couple of times, then you need a new mobo, and after a while you need a new case to fit your new motherboard, and you practically have a new PC anyway. Its more like a gradual change to a new computer (combined with enough spare parts to build old machines) rather then large, discrete steps.
Check out the blog posts, especialy the third one. Apperanly real paid $2.5 million to a design company for design advice, and also hired an advertizing firm. The design company told them that they needed to make the software more use friendly, etc. The Advertizing company discovered that Real had universal name recgonition online (along with microsoft, google) but at the same universal distain.
Both were canned, and none of their suggestions were taken.
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-That stupid Goddamned tray icon that will not die. Where's the "FUCK OFF" button when you need it? Anytime I see that shit in the systray on a client's machine, I go right into regedit and nuke it because the incessant blinking drives me into a rage
I still use winamp (winamp 2 even), but most people these days use windows media or iTunes (on a mac) to play their mp3s.
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I never installed it, but I've seen it on other people's machines and it launches a popup when you play media files. WTF!? Showing you advertising simply for viewing content already on your hard drive! It's obscene (IMO). I'd never install that crap.
Is there any open source alternative for media serving? Why can't people just use that?
Right from the outset they were as money-grubbing as they could be. Maybe it costs a lot to write video codecs or something, but seriously lots of software companies can be profitable without being so obnoxious to their end users. Look at Adobe, they make plenty of money selling Acrobat and the free viewer doesn't suck.
And what is the deal with commercial websites? It seems like they have some sort of mania which prevents them from simply posting MPEGs. I mean, we get real, MS, or QuickTime. Seriously lame.
Did you read the article? The police caught the theif, arrested him, and got a confession saying he sold the stuff at EB. EB even belives this, and dosn't care.
What EB did here was completly illegal. And I don't mean downloading Mp3s, running unlicensed software, smoing weed kind of illegal. People can and do go to jail for doing that.
Upstream Engineering is willing to provide miniature color video projectors for use with portable video player, travel TV, laptops and handhelds next year.
Yeah, most companies would keep this kind of tech to themselves, to impress their friends!
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Intel and AMD's competition had been going crazy over the years, especialy after the athlon, and has driven up performance to insane levels.
But I guess that's ending now, and the two will simply compete on model numbering.
Using the pentium 8 2.4*10^24 (4.1ghz) will give me mad bragging rights over the Athlon 6 33*10^8 (4.08ghz) lusers. h4w.
It only applies to 'low power' devices. So stick an ARM or Centrino chip in your hand held, and avoid using BLITing or 'a state machine to emulate the LCD driver' and you should be OK.
The ti-89 mario game was a complete reimplementation, not a ROM.
By a locking chip, which prevented duplicates from being used in the system. However, they didn't have anything to prevent copying at the time. Also, hardware encryption is very easy. They could have done DES (or even AES if it had been invented by then) in hardware with almost no cost.
They show up as chinese characters on my screen.
Most people don't care about freedom, they just live their lives the way the government wants. They think it only affects "dissidents". Just look at America. 40% don't think the patriot act goes far enough. Lots of people think the press has too much freedom(!!!).
Love of freedom is something that some people have an inate desire for, but for most people that isn't true. However, it can be sold and packaged by like any product (for example, equate personal freedom with national freedom and make personal freedom 'patriotic' like in the American civil war).
In a lot of cases, freedom-loving intellectuals are smart enough to sell this to the public, but when an authoritarian government like the Chinese clamping down on dissidents while at the same time providing for the citizenry well, giving them what they want, pro-freedom revolution is a non-starter.
It will be intresting to see what happens when the chinese bubble pops...
Mao, back during the 1920's fond his support in the overlooked and abused peasants,
Yup, and then he fucked them harder then they'd ever been fucked before. Under Mao, peasents had a quota of grain they had to provide to the government, and a perminant minder. Pesants would often go hungry if they couldn't provide enough grain to meet their quota, even though they had produced more then enough to feed themselves. If they produced extra grain, they could only sell it at extra low prices. Mao's incompitance and idiocy resulted in the deaths of tens of millions of people.
Not that I'm some anti-communist McCarthiest, just point out what happened.
You know, switching between simple and traditional characters is pretty easy in software, there's a 1 to 1 correlation. I would expect most web browsers would support auto-conversion to the users prefrence...
Your asertion that short-form characters were adopted on a "small scale" is way off. Pretty much everything on the manland is written using it, and it's taught in schools. Outside of taiwan, most chinese is taught using short form. It kind of sucks, though, because long form is easier to read (IMO) because you are looking at more information to 'hook' onto. With computers, there is no diffrence in the amount of time it takes to write.
Wouldn't be that hard to setup. But I wonder, how can you have Electrical service needed to run internet connected PCs, but not have a space heater. I would expect a space heater to be much cheaper then a computer, and obviously more apealing in northern china.
I mean, maybe the electricity is expensive, but arn't these people supposed to be communists? I know they're adapting but I would think that things like electricity would be a base service.
So, what's that supposed to mean? I've noticed that Chinese people tend to use numbers as stand ins for Chinese characters that have similar pronunciations, but what is san chi er yi supposed to mean?
:P
One of the most interesting is using 88 rather then ttyl when signing of instant messanges. 88 = "bai bai"
Remember the little old lady that the RIAA busted? She claimed she owned all the music on CD already so it didn't matter if she downloaded all the music off the net? RIAA checked the checksums of the files vs her CDs and they were different.
Bullshit. Checksums would never survive compression.
Basically, you have two types of users. People who like computers, and people who don't. For people who don't, which make the vast majority of 'lusers' a command line is easier. They memorize specific tasks, and never get a general 'feel' for the machine. With a command line, they only need to memorize a string of commands -- usualy one. With a GUI, they need to memorize a ton of steps.
:)
For people who like computers, a GUI is better to start with. Why? Because they can explore, click different buttons and visually see what their choices are. They'll quickly get an intuitive feel for how interfaces are designed and be able to use new applications without much trouble, at which point they won't be newbs anymore, and can start on figuring out the true power of the command line
Drinkable and non-drinkable. The last is in plentifull supply. The first is not.
Well, it depends on where you are. If you're in the sahara or the middle of the pasific, then yeah. On the other hand, most places have plenty of drinkable water.
People don't live in the desert where no food can be grown. Mass starvation, in every case is caused by either government bungling such as Mao's The Great Leap Forward program or outright malice, such as every other instance I know of.
Interestingly, someone posted a versions of this rant in a story about Aid to Zimbabwe, despite the fact that Zimbabwe has one of the most fertile land in Africa. People are starving over there because the agricultural economy has been all but destroyed by malicious mismanagement.
so that is 1000 people getting to drink for a day PER PC. 1000000 people per day for 1000 PCs. 1000000 people can drink for three years with 1000000 PCs...
Presumably, the water can be treated after the PCs have been made, and then people can drink it. And it's not like many people out there are thursting to death anyway, people tend not to live where water is not available.
1.5 tons of water. But all of that gets reused eventually. I mean, it's not like it gets jettisoned into space, or converted into energy.
I mean I suppose things like fossil fuels get converted into useless byproducts, but most of the stuff would not be. This is accounting is beyond a little suspicious. I mean, how many tons of stuff does a person eat and then shit out in their lifetime. Probably a lot more then 1.8 tons.
And would upgrading really make that much of a difference? You upgrade a couple of times, then you need a new mobo, and after a while you need a new case to fit your new motherboard, and you practically have a new PC anyway. Its more like a gradual change to a new computer (combined with enough spare parts to build old machines) rather then large, discrete steps.
The poster was claming everything should be in ~/etc. Basicaly the same, except every user gets their own version.
Check out the blog posts, especialy the third one. Apperanly real paid $2.5 million to a design company for design advice, and also hired an advertizing firm. The design company told them that they needed to make the software more use friendly, etc. The Advertizing company discovered that Real had universal name recgonition online (along with microsoft, google) but at the same universal distain.
Both were canned, and none of their suggestions were taken.
-That stupid Goddamned tray icon that will not die. Where's the "FUCK OFF" button when you need it? Anytime I see that shit in the systray on a client's machine, I go right into regedit and nuke it because the incessant blinking drives me into a rage
Untill it reinstalls itself when run...
I still use winamp (winamp 2 even), but most people these days use windows media or iTunes (on a mac) to play their mp3s.
I never installed it, but I've seen it on other people's machines and it launches a popup when you play media files. WTF!? Showing you advertising simply for viewing content already on your hard drive! It's obscene (IMO). I'd never install that crap.
Is there any open source alternative for media serving? Why can't people just use that?
Right from the outset they were as money-grubbing as they could be. Maybe it costs a lot to write video codecs or something, but seriously lots of software companies can be profitable without being so obnoxious to their end users. Look at Adobe, they make plenty of money selling Acrobat and the free viewer doesn't suck.
And what is the deal with commercial websites? It seems like they have some sort of mania which prevents them from simply posting MPEGs. I mean, we get real, MS, or QuickTime. Seriously lame.
Did you read the article? The police caught the theif, arrested him, and got a confession saying he sold the stuff at EB. EB even belives this, and dosn't care.
What EB did here was completly illegal. And I don't mean downloading Mp3s, running unlicensed software, smoing weed kind of illegal. People can and do go to jail for doing that.
Upstream Engineering is willing to provide miniature color video projectors for use with portable video player, travel TV, laptops and handhelds next year.
Yeah, most companies would keep this kind of tech to themselves, to impress their friends!