I know most of the people on here are looking at this as an opportunity to get a usable digital camera for cheap (with a little elbow grease), but even if the attempts to hack it aren't successeful, the camera is still worth more than they're selling it for. You see, for hobbiest electronics people, LCD screens are ridiculously expensive. In single quantities you'd be lucky to get a lower resolution, monochrome LCD display for twice the cost of this camera, more likely three times the cost. LCD screens, more than any other products are given great discounts in bulk and huge price inflations in small quantities.
The problem is that there's already a verb, the word try! When you try something it's a trial. There's no need to "verb" a noun when the noun is already derived from a verb!
It's not a decision I made, it's the way things are. Look it up in the dictionary. The fact that some people don't use it like this doesn't automatically make it correct. Yes, languages evolve, but at this point it's not a verb and using it as one is very awkward.
Why would I bother watching olympic gymnastics on the BBC site when for only $9.95 per month I can watch naked gymnasts in streaming video with some uhh... "special moves" that the olympic committees frown upon.
It seems like there would be only a marginal intersection between the type of people that buy network attached storage devices and the type of people interested in hacking their network attached storage device. I mean, I would think most people who are able to hack their NSLU2 are also the type that have an extra computer around that they would use instead.
The name of the office is abberviated USPTO for a reason, it stands for United States Patent and Trademark Office. To register national trademarks you have to go through the USPTO. If you only need a regional trademark, you would do it as you said.
I read this headline as "Johansen Cracks Airborne Express Encryption". I was a little uneasy in that second or so before I read the blurb about the article.
After reading the article, I'm far less concerned about the cameras at the Olympics than I am about the other measures they've taken such as scanning phone communications (both mobile and land line) as well as monitoring e-mail, images and other electronic traffic. It seems to me that that kind of stuff is really what crosses the line. Ridiculous surveillance in public is one thing, but extreme surveillance of private communication is entirely another.
Well I don't know about human rights, but I bet that the security guards who get to keep an eye on the women's gymnastic events from 100 different angles are pretty happy.
Why is posted in YRO. Perhaps Michael, like many slashdotters has forgotten that YRO stands for "Your Rights Online". This has nothing to do with anyone's rights online.
I know how you feel, but I still think it's a bad idea to do that. I mean, ignore this SCO situation and the other ridiculous lawsuits, and it's easy to imagine a company that uses GPL products having a legitimate legal complaint against an open source software author (i.e. the author really did outright steal from them).
A clause like that just wouldn't work. I mean, really, it's not even worth discussing further once you think about it for a bit.
It seems like with this "keyboard" you'd have to have your fingers curved and somewhat tensed to hold the controller at all times. This would seem to me to cause more discomfort than a regular keyboard where for the most of the time, most of your fingers are relaxed.
This seems to be a recurring problem with many "alternative" keyboards like chording keyboards and such. Particularly it seems to be a problem with keyboards intended to be more "mobile". So a tip to you keyboard tinkerers out there: design your keybaord so that your fingers are lax and fully extended while no keys are being pressed.
Please cite sources. I'm pretty sure that is not the case. I mean, even if my assertion that the price break made them cheapest isn't true, certainly they must have been given some sort of price break for buying hundreds of G5s.
Regardless though, I find it hard to believe that they would be the cheapest solution outright. I remember looking up what a 64 bit PC comparable to the G5 towers would cost and it was a few hundred cheaper (granted this was not a pre-assembled system I was spec-ing out, just the sum cost of the various parts).
I'm sorry, I didn't read the article very carefully, I thought this was a large cluster of single processor computers rather than a small cluster of supercomputers. It does make sense that they're using Itaniums for this. Still though, I find it a little disturbing that my post above is now modded troll considering it really was an honest question. Whatever though.
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I know most of the people on here are looking at this as an opportunity to get a usable digital camera for cheap (with a little elbow grease), but even if the attempts to hack it aren't successeful, the camera is still worth more than they're selling it for. You see, for hobbiest electronics people, LCD screens are ridiculously expensive. In single quantities you'd be lucky to get a lower resolution, monochrome LCD display for twice the cost of this camera, more likely three times the cost. LCD screens, more than any other products are given great discounts in bulk and huge price inflations in small quantities.
The problem is that there's already a verb, the word try! When you try something it's a trial. There's no need to "verb" a noun when the noun is already derived from a verb!
No, no I didn't.
Posting anonymously is for trolls who want to keep their account's karma in line.
It's not a decision I made, it's the way things are. Look it up in the dictionary. The fact that some people don't use it like this doesn't automatically make it correct. Yes, languages evolve, but at this point it's not a verb and using it as one is very awkward.
Mod parent up!
I would kill for BBC olympic coverage. I just cannot stand watching Bob Costas for one moment longer. For God's sake NBC, get another sports anchor!
I don't have anything against the guy, I think he's fine, but when he's doing 80% of the coverage himself it starts to make my head swell.
Why would I bother watching olympic gymnastics on the BBC site when for only $9.95 per month I can watch naked gymnasts in streaming video with some uhh... "special moves" that the olympic committees frown upon.
Greedo shot first.
This is it. I'm getting a laser disc player.
It seems like there would be only a marginal intersection between the type of people that buy network attached storage devices and the type of people interested in hacking their network attached storage device. I mean, I would think most people who are able to hack their NSLU2 are also the type that have an extra computer around that they would use instead.
The name of the office is abberviated USPTO for a reason, it stands for United States Patent and Trademark Office. To register national trademarks you have to go through the USPTO. If you only need a regional trademark, you would do it as you said.
"Linux vs. Windows"? Now the editors are just getting lazy. That could be the title for ~50% of the articles ever posted on Slashdot. Geez.
I read this headline as "Johansen Cracks Airborne Express Encryption". I was a little uneasy in that second or so before I read the blurb about the article.
After reading the article, I'm far less concerned about the cameras at the Olympics than I am about the other measures they've taken such as scanning phone communications (both mobile and land line) as well as monitoring e-mail, images and other electronic traffic. It seems to me that that kind of stuff is really what crosses the line. Ridiculous surveillance in public is one thing, but extreme surveillance of private communication is entirely another.
Well I don't know about human rights, but I bet that the security guards who get to keep an eye on the women's gymnastic events from 100 different angles are pretty happy.
Why is posted in YRO. Perhaps Michael, like many slashdotters has forgotten that YRO stands for "Your Rights Online". This has nothing to do with anyone's rights online.
I know how you feel, but I still think it's a bad idea to do that. I mean, ignore this SCO situation and the other ridiculous lawsuits, and it's easy to imagine a company that uses GPL products having a legitimate legal complaint against an open source software author (i.e. the author really did outright steal from them).
A clause like that just wouldn't work. I mean, really, it's not even worth discussing further once you think about it for a bit.
So I guess I can't make any more infrared recordings of my neighbors having sex with the curtains open. Well, not in the summer anyways.
I rate the write-up for the article at -1: Troll.
It seems like with this "keyboard" you'd have to have your fingers curved and somewhat tensed to hold the controller at all times. This would seem to me to cause more discomfort than a regular keyboard where for the most of the time, most of your fingers are relaxed.
This seems to be a recurring problem with many "alternative" keyboards like chording keyboards and such. Particularly it seems to be a problem with keyboards intended to be more "mobile". So a tip to you keyboard tinkerers out there: design your keybaord so that your fingers are lax and fully extended while no keys are being pressed.
Seems like it would be pretty nice if only I had three hands.
Nuts to Kirk, bring back Welshie!
Please cite sources. I'm pretty sure that is not the case. I mean, even if my assertion that the price break made them cheapest isn't true, certainly they must have been given some sort of price break for buying hundreds of G5s.
Regardless though, I find it hard to believe that they would be the cheapest solution outright. I remember looking up what a 64 bit PC comparable to the G5 towers would cost and it was a few hundred cheaper (granted this was not a pre-assembled system I was spec-ing out, just the sum cost of the various parts).
I'm sorry, I didn't read the article very carefully, I thought this was a large cluster of single processor computers rather than a small cluster of supercomputers. It does make sense that they're using Itaniums for this. Still though, I find it a little disturbing that my post above is now modded troll considering it really was an honest question. Whatever though.