and to further clarify, you mus have the retail version of the "competing" distro to qualify. downloading a mandrake ISO is not enough to get the rebate.
Why suse and mandrake. The two biggest desktop oriented linux distros cen be "upgraded" to the... desktop sufficient at best RedHat? Almost osunds as bad as "upgrading" my debian to Windows 3.1
why should retailers be the ones responsible. if you do not want your kid playing violent video games, don't buy them for him, and confiscate them when you find them. who gave retailers (or lawmakers for that matter) parental responsibility?
ok, i was trolling about the porn thing...
but video games? what kid buys his own video games anyway? do you know any kid that has $60? if they do, they most likely have jobs, and are mature enough to be able to handle a violent video game. the restriction by law is not going to keep violent games out of kids hands because the kids are not going to be the ones buying the game anyway, its the parents, who should actually be paying attention to waht thier children play if they are concerned about them being exposed to violence.
actually i think this is all a kneejerk reaction to all of the press that grand theft auto 3 has been getting. GTA3 is 3d, looks pretty realistic, and has some seriously brutal violence. and it's fun too.
It looks like an interesting way to burn yourself. Seriously. The bubble looks kind of warped, and the hole he cut out cetainly looks home made, especially with the bubble on because they are not exactly the same size. He should have just taken a dell case that has a similar bubble already made that actually looks nice, and modify the bubble instead of making a half-assed crappy looking bubble himself
I like case mods, but to make it onto slashdot, i would expect it to be somewhat impressive, not a "why the hell did this make it to slashdot" kinda thing.
well, how would your identity be stolen? they are not stealing your eye, they are stealing a card with your retinal scan on the back. i imagine that what the retinal scan is for is that you present your card, then put your face to a retinal scanner to make sure that the card is not a fake and you say who you are.
now i don't like this idea, but i do feel that getting ahold of somebody's card with a retianl scan stored on the chip is no more risky than getting thier traditional id card stolen.
1280x1024 with 4xAA is a little overkill. you can't even tell the difference between 1xAA and 4xAA when running at such a high resolution... in fact the only discernable difference wil be the frame rate. running at 1xAA will look the same and perform much better.
no one else has mentioned this. in the article the guy says that in his calculations he factored in that 30 people were using the phone in the one train car. not that the phone is on, but that 30 people are USING thier phones. here in sweden anyway i notice 1 or 2 people actually using thier phones while in the train car. not 30 people simultaneously.
with everyone paranoid about credit card theft using high tech means people seem to forget that while most internet transactions are safe, what you really need to worry about are people who actually handle your card.
The cashier has access to your nubmer. the accountant has access to your number. the manager of the store has access to your nubmer. some stores print the entire number on reciepts so anybody willing to dumpster dive has access to your number. waiters and waitresses who carry your card off to the register in a restaurant has access to your number...
and now people in the parking lot have access to your number.
but it's not really stealing if i ipurchase things with someone else's card because i would not have bought anything if i did not have someone else's credit card number.
oh wait... I have been reading slashdot for too long!
I am suprised it took this long for a broadcaster to finally come out after the PVR people for something like this. I expected it a long time ago when PVR's first hit the scene. I think that instead of putting commercial breaks between the show we will start seeing picture-in-picture commercials or we will see MUCH more product placement in shows, perhaps with the stars of the shows themselves doing advertising like the Truman Show. Either that or an annoying block of text scrolling at the bottom of the screen, however advertisers probably don't feel there is enough sex appeal in scrolling text.
The only thing I know is that PVRs are here to stay, so broadcasters are going to have to change thier business model accordingly.
Yes, well if this were to actuaklly happen there would be much more study of mars before any humans went there, and they would determine if there in fact even was bacteria there. There most likely is not, so this whole question leads me to believe that nasa is simply interested in creating some hype so that they can distract people from the fact that they are a large, slow, tired, and dead organization.
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they need to work WITH blizzard to do the piracy checking. Blizzard does not want to help them get piracy checking working. They want them gone.
of course not
and to further clarify, you mus have the retail version of the "competing" distro to qualify. downloading a mandrake ISO is not enough to get the rebate.
Why suse and mandrake. The two biggest desktop oriented linux distros cen be "upgraded" to the ... desktop sufficient at best RedHat? Almost osunds as bad as "upgrading" my debian to Windows 3.1
Irvine Spectrum and some no name theatre in burbank.
he was not justifying his stealing. he was pointing out that the mpaa is talking out of thier collective asses.
the places these would be installed in do not have existing fixtures, since they are not connected to a power grid.
why should retailers be the ones responsible. if you do not want your kid playing violent video games, don't buy them for him, and confiscate them when you find them. who gave retailers (or lawmakers for that matter) parental responsibility?
it is perfectly legal for a kid to go to an R rated movie. the ratings are by the MPAA, and enforced by the theater staff. no government involvement
ok, i was trolling about the porn thing... but video games? what kid buys his own video games anyway? do you know any kid that has $60? if they do, they most likely have jobs, and are mature enough to be able to handle a violent video game. the restriction by law is not going to keep violent games out of kids hands because the kids are not going to be the ones buying the game anyway, its the parents, who should actually be paying attention to waht thier children play if they are concerned about them being exposed to violence.
it is unconstitutional. where in the constitution does it mention that speech can be free but not to children?
actually i think this is all a kneejerk reaction to all of the press that grand theft auto 3 has been getting. GTA3 is 3d, looks pretty realistic, and has some seriously brutal violence. and it's fun too.
It looks like an interesting way to burn yourself. Seriously. The bubble looks kind of warped, and the hole he cut out cetainly looks home made, especially with the bubble on because they are not exactly the same size. He should have just taken a dell case that has a similar bubble already made that actually looks nice, and modify the bubble instead of making a half-assed crappy looking bubble himself
I like case mods, but to make it onto slashdot, i would expect it to be somewhat impressive, not a "why the hell did this make it to slashdot" kinda thing.
well, how would your identity be stolen? they are not stealing your eye, they are stealing a card with your retinal scan on the back. i imagine that what the retinal scan is for is that you present your card, then put your face to a retinal scanner to make sure that the card is not a fake and you say who you are. now i don't like this idea, but i do feel that getting ahold of somebody's card with a retianl scan stored on the chip is no more risky than getting thier traditional id card stolen.
i would consider goatse.cx to be a deadly quarrel
it is not a comparision. it is simply a representation.
think of the deadly conflict that is happening in this guy's server room right now. slashdotted in 1 minute.
1280x1024 with 4xAA is a little overkill. you can't even tell the difference between 1xAA and 4xAA when running at such a high resolution... in fact the only discernable difference wil be the frame rate. running at 1xAA will look the same and perform much better.
no one else has mentioned this. in the article the guy says that in his calculations he factored in that 30 people were using the phone in the one train car. not that the phone is on, but that 30 people are USING thier phones. here in sweden anyway i notice 1 or 2 people actually using thier phones while in the train car. not 30 people simultaneously.
you think they are gonna spend the money for that?
umm.. what is Adobe LiveMotion 2.0 then?
in a couple of decades encryption will be more powerful also.
with everyone paranoid about credit card theft using high tech means people seem to forget that while most internet transactions are safe, what you really need to worry about are people who actually handle your card.
The cashier has access to your nubmer. the accountant has access to your number. the manager of the store has access to your nubmer. some stores print the entire number on reciepts so anybody willing to dumpster dive has access to your number. waiters and waitresses who carry your card off to the register in a restaurant has access to your number...
and now people in the parking lot have access to your number.
but it's not really stealing if i ipurchase things with someone else's card because i would not have bought anything if i did not have someone else's credit card number.
oh wait... I have been reading slashdot for too long!
I am suprised it took this long for a broadcaster to finally come out after the PVR people for something like this. I expected it a long time ago when PVR's first hit the scene. I think that instead of putting commercial breaks between the show we will start seeing picture-in-picture commercials or we will see MUCH more product placement in shows, perhaps with the stars of the shows themselves doing advertising like the Truman Show. Either that or an annoying block of text scrolling at the bottom of the screen, however advertisers probably don't feel there is enough sex appeal in scrolling text.
The only thing I know is that PVRs are here to stay, so broadcasters are going to have to change thier business model accordingly.
Yes, well if this were to actuaklly happen there would be much more study of mars before any humans went there, and they would determine if there in fact even was bacteria there. There most likely is not, so this whole question leads me to believe that nasa is simply interested in creating some hype so that they can distract people from the fact that they are a large, slow, tired, and dead organization.