which is why I think they quit mentioning to users that they can set it up vertical and later models were built so you couldn't use it vertically.
To be sure, this is not and has never been the case. As recent as 2003 they were showing the ps2 standing on end, with said stands available all throughout the big PS2's life. The PStwo can stand on end as well, and there is a screw-in base for it. If they wanted to drive the point home they would have stopped putting rubber feet on the narrow end of the PS2.
Because he blew the doors off a program he caught wind of, and it struck him as illegal?
More like, going to jail because he caught the Feds with their dick in our collective mouths, and they hate it when people catch them breaking the law.
I mean, because if it's not one reason to warez it there's always another excuse. He's not optimistic, and he has no reason to be. The general public has certainly shown it isn't to be trusted.
They are not a part of Congress but they tend to be operated under the auspices of the government of the state in which they reside.
And ALL government agencies and institutions on the state AND federal level are bound by the constitution. If you want to go to a school where they can arbitrarily silence you, go to a private university and pay more for the privilege.
Did it ever not? Even at the lowest levels, the towns and points of interest are at most a 5 minute run apart. Anything longer probably has -some- NPC waiting to give you quests along the way. Once you have the flightpoints, no quest hub is more than 2 minutes (usually) from its target, less now that you can get a mount at 30. I mean, if you want to find something that hits it sure, fly east to west across Northrend. Halfway (borean tundra -> dalaran) is about 5 minutes. But there's faster ways to get across the continent, so I doubt it'd be valid.
Anyone who stalls and wanders for a long amount of time thinking there's nothing to do at their level or that it takes too long to get somewhere isn't looking or doesn't know where they're going. It's entirely possible to always have a full quest log and be doing something.
"arena challenges" with increasingly more difficult oponents
When someone refers to the "arena" in WoW, they're referring exclusively to PvP as that is the only arena in the game. Such has been requested for PvE based on the EQ system for older raid bosses, but it has yet to happen.
zones that were in "phases"
I wonder if this too is a confusion of terms. Currently, Blizzard's phasing allows multiple people to physically be in the same zone but have it appear wildly different for them, allowing lowbies to run into the Undercity and turn quests into the faction leader while someone who is 76-77 is barging through the hallways with Thrall killing Undead and taking down bosses.
Maybe you are thinking of instancing, which WoW does for all of its dungeons?
where even the graphics are generated remotely along with all the game logic.
Just consider the resources a machine would need to generate even 30fps video at 1920x1200. Multiply that by at least 10-20. Then add in the bandwidth requirements and the effects of latency. I don't see it happening, especially in the US where bandwidth is low and the caps are low.
Yea, it never caught on. It sold more than all RIM phones combined and windows mobile-based phones, but obviously it never caught on.
No, AT&T isn't looking for a replacement. They can't. The iPhone brought them subscribers out the ass, and I'm sure if they yank Apple's chain the wrong way we could see unlocked iPhones available without contract on the Apple store in short order. Then you'd see a huge chunk of AT&T's user-base migrate off to other GSM/3G based services real quick, and that'd only be bad for AT&T.
Technically, since this phone is being sold directly it's highly likely that the phone will be as open as can be, short of openmoko's level.
If the OS was fully open, then there would be no incentive for the network to buy the phone and subsidize the price - i.e. if you want a truly open phone - you'll get it but at a price.
It's more the other way around, the networks buy the phone and subsidize the price and thus work with the hardware manufacturer to lock down the OS. Phones you can get around this with almost always tend to, as you said, come at a price. Such as this which isn't that bad, really, but we'll know more at the end of January when people get their hands on it.
Shame about the display though, but that's what you get in the form factor it uses.
Probably about as well as the overall marketplace for Windows Mobile apps and other smartphones is, IE it's terribly fragmented and support for some things is incredibly spotty. You may find interesting apps that don't support your resolution, or don't rotate properly.
Each permutation of the hardware that is added requires more testing to ensure it works. The fact that JAVA is being used hasn't helped much in the cell phone world. In contrast, Apple's console-like iPhone and iPod Touch have attracted developers far more quickly than any other non-console mobile platform.
I guess that's the tradeoff for openness, you're guaranteed fragmentation.
And at best, will result in Dell being able to sell OS X.
Let me fix this for you:
And at best, will result in Apple not making OS X upgrades available except with proof of purchase of Mac hardware. No receipt, just a serial number. But even if Apple loses, they will do everything to ensure the only way to get copies of OS X is either secondhand (expensive) or warez (illegal.)
And it works for drives of up to 2TB. Really the only problem is 4GB max file size.
I had forgotten about those two particular limitations of Fat32 and it struck me when you mentioned them that we're about to run across the first. I had personally hit the 4GB limit a while back but at the rate things are going, before 2009 is out we'll see disks released that a single Fat32 partition doesn't support.
To think that when it was released with Windows95, people saw the 2TB limit and committed the first sin of computing technology: assuming an upper bound is beyond reach.
They should be watching American Idol and remain totally oblivious to the actions being taken by the administration that is currently forming and preparing to assume power in the Federal Government. Equally, the Obama administration is going about this totally the wrong way. How can they possibly run the government with everything in the open like that. Merely not recording it isn't good enough, they should do like the Bush administration and hide as many things as they can, being as secretive as possible.
Of course transparency in government is bad, it leads to accountability. Setting precedent for that is terrible.
Aren't we angry. Not a BoingBoing reader or terribly familiar with Doctorow myself but your vitriol seems mostly inspired by some personal vendetta than anything constructive.
Doctorow's education (or lack thereof) aside, he's free to make whatever point he wants. It's up to you to prove his lack of education in any way inhibits his ability to contribute to society. There have been many people who were never formally educated who have contributed greatly.
I do not count a company that publishes Halo fanfiction "books" to be a publisher.
What -you- consider a publisher is irrelevant. He started his own company and got ISBNs for his books and apparently they're readily available. He's gone and done more than most loud-mouthed slashbots who whine about "teh evil corporations" and do nothing about it.
He's also a hypocritical little shit
Hypocracy would only be the appropriate label if he decried the blind spamming of DMCA takedown notices... then went and did it himself and continued to decry the takedowns sent by others. Also, I don't think -he- can press charges, but I'm not up on how federal law works in that respect. If he can, then at worst I would chalk it up to apathy, before that, a lack of funds.
What drugs did she put in their water?
I don't know, but someone must've pissed in your coffee. You cite the fact that they mention she plays games and that's somehow a reason to deny her USC's conferrance of the title of "fellow"? Maybe you should go and talk to them, find out why they decided to grant them the titles. You may not like it, but you'd at least disagree while being informed instead of ranting based on the fact that they mentioned two GAMES. Oh no, GAMES.
if can't put the money directly into the hand of the person who created the work, it's better not to pay for it at all, and it's better to help others to also not pay for it at all.
What if it wasn't just one person? What if it was a studio that brought all the people and resources together to create a work?
Will you shaft them just because they're a studio, or will you demand the ability to generate 10-100-1000 transactions to pay each member of a production individually?
I think the point of this is more in figuring out how to, step by step, intercept and prevent the syndrome entirely.
Sure, abortion prevents it as well. But the option to defeat the syndrome during development and not have it expressed at all in a living person would be better.
How about we just go all the way and have computer simulated battles. When the damage and casualty reports come in we can just have people in those areas report for termination and dynamite the areas affected.
In other news, a ship in orbit was just marked as destroyed. Its representatives will be disposed of and as soon as the rest come down they will be disposed of as well.
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To be sure, this is not and has never been the case. As recent as 2003 they were showing the ps2 standing on end, with said stands available all throughout the big PS2's life. The PStwo can stand on end as well, and there is a screw-in base for it. If they wanted to drive the point home they would have stopped putting rubber feet on the narrow end of the PS2.
Maybe, but first they have to ensure that the cabin does better in safety tests.
http://jalopnik.com/cars/news/chinese-suv-scores-zero-in-european-safety-test-126200.php
Going to jail why?
Because he blew the doors off a program he caught wind of, and it struck him as illegal?
More like, going to jail because he caught the Feds with their dick in our collective mouths, and they hate it when people catch them breaking the law.
This is why Intel is pushing USB: it is entirely CPU dependent.
You won't notice it when you're running with X * 2 logical cores. It'll be shuffled off to some low utilization core.
Maybe if said HD camera has a USB host controller, like that USB-2-GO stuff.
Otherwise, I suspect USB 3.0 is as braindead as USB 1.0 and will still require a computer to do all the actual work.
But you'll warez it, right?
I mean, because if it's not one reason to warez it there's always another excuse. He's not optimistic, and he has no reason to be. The general public has certainly shown it isn't to be trusted.
You sound as if by doing this they're undermining something?
They are not a part of Congress but they tend to be operated under the auspices of the government of the state in which they reside.
And ALL government agencies and institutions on the state AND federal level are bound by the constitution. If you want to go to a school where they can arbitrarily silence you, go to a private university and pay more for the privilege.
Did it ever not? Even at the lowest levels, the towns and points of interest are at most a 5 minute run apart. Anything longer probably has -some- NPC waiting to give you quests along the way. Once you have the flightpoints, no quest hub is more than 2 minutes (usually) from its target, less now that you can get a mount at 30. I mean, if you want to find something that hits it sure, fly east to west across Northrend. Halfway (borean tundra -> dalaran) is about 5 minutes. But there's faster ways to get across the continent, so I doubt it'd be valid.
Anyone who stalls and wanders for a long amount of time thinking there's nothing to do at their level or that it takes too long to get somewhere isn't looking or doesn't know where they're going. It's entirely possible to always have a full quest log and be doing something.
When someone refers to the "arena" in WoW, they're referring exclusively to PvP as that is the only arena in the game. Such has been requested for PvE based on the EQ system for older raid bosses, but it has yet to happen.
I wonder if this too is a confusion of terms. Currently, Blizzard's phasing allows multiple people to physically be in the same zone but have it appear wildly different for them, allowing lowbies to run into the Undercity and turn quests into the faction leader while someone who is 76-77 is barging through the hallways with Thrall killing Undead and taking down bosses.
Maybe you are thinking of instancing, which WoW does for all of its dungeons?
Just consider the resources a machine would need to generate even 30fps video at 1920x1200. Multiply that by at least 10-20. Then add in the bandwidth requirements and the effects of latency. I don't see it happening, especially in the US where bandwidth is low and the caps are low.
Yea, it never caught on. It sold more than all RIM phones combined and windows mobile-based phones, but obviously it never caught on.
No, AT&T isn't looking for a replacement. They can't. The iPhone brought them subscribers out the ass, and I'm sure if they yank Apple's chain the wrong way we could see unlocked iPhones available without contract on the Apple store in short order. Then you'd see a huge chunk of AT&T's user-base migrate off to other GSM/3G based services real quick, and that'd only be bad for AT&T.
Technically, since this phone is being sold directly it's highly likely that the phone will be as open as can be, short of openmoko's level.
It's more the other way around, the networks buy the phone and subsidize the price and thus work with the hardware manufacturer to lock down the OS. Phones you can get around this with almost always tend to, as you said, come at a price. Such as this which isn't that bad, really, but we'll know more at the end of January when people get their hands on it.
Shame about the display though, but that's what you get in the form factor it uses.
Probably about as well as the overall marketplace for Windows Mobile apps and other smartphones is, IE it's terribly fragmented and support for some things is incredibly spotty. You may find interesting apps that don't support your resolution, or don't rotate properly.
Each permutation of the hardware that is added requires more testing to ensure it works. The fact that JAVA is being used hasn't helped much in the cell phone world. In contrast, Apple's console-like iPhone and iPod Touch have attracted developers far more quickly than any other non-console mobile platform.
I guess that's the tradeoff for openness, you're guaranteed fragmentation.
If the openmoko hardware was worth a damn, then maybe.
It's OK if you don't care for fast data, or being able to reliably make phone calls.
Let me fix this for you:
And at best, will result in Apple not making OS X upgrades available except with proof of purchase of Mac hardware. No receipt, just a serial number. But even if Apple loses, they will do everything to ensure the only way to get copies of OS X is either secondhand (expensive) or warez (illegal.)
I had forgotten about those two particular limitations of Fat32 and it struck me when you mentioned them that we're about to run across the first. I had personally hit the 4GB limit a while back but at the rate things are going, before 2009 is out we'll see disks released that a single Fat32 partition doesn't support.
To think that when it was released with Windows95, people saw the 2TB limit and committed the first sin of computing technology: assuming an upper bound is beyond reach.
Yes, and they shouldn't.
They should be watching American Idol and remain totally oblivious to the actions being taken by the administration that is currently forming and preparing to assume power in the Federal Government. Equally, the Obama administration is going about this totally the wrong way. How can they possibly run the government with everything in the open like that. Merely not recording it isn't good enough, they should do like the Bush administration and hide as many things as they can, being as secretive as possible.
Of course transparency in government is bad, it leads to accountability. Setting precedent for that is terrible.
Aren't we angry. Not a BoingBoing reader or terribly familiar with Doctorow myself but your vitriol seems mostly inspired by some personal vendetta than anything constructive.
Doctorow's education (or lack thereof) aside, he's free to make whatever point he wants. It's up to you to prove his lack of education in any way inhibits his ability to contribute to society. There have been many people who were never formally educated who have contributed greatly.
What -you- consider a publisher is irrelevant. He started his own company and got ISBNs for his books and apparently they're readily available. He's gone and done more than most loud-mouthed slashbots who whine about "teh evil corporations" and do nothing about it.
Hypocracy would only be the appropriate label if he decried the blind spamming of DMCA takedown notices... then went and did it himself and continued to decry the takedowns sent by others. Also, I don't think -he- can press charges, but I'm not up on how federal law works in that respect. If he can, then at worst I would chalk it up to apathy, before that, a lack of funds.
I don't know, but someone must've pissed in your coffee. You cite the fact that they mention she plays games and that's somehow a reason to deny her USC's conferrance of the title of "fellow"? Maybe you should go and talk to them, find out why they decided to grant them the titles. You may not like it, but you'd at least disagree while being informed instead of ranting based on the fact that they mentioned two GAMES. Oh no, GAMES.
What if it wasn't just one person? What if it was a studio that brought all the people and resources together to create a work?
Will you shaft them just because they're a studio, or will you demand the ability to generate 10-100-1000 transactions to pay each member of a production individually?
I was going to respond, but then I realized you were a ridiculous doomsday troll.
GTFO you worthless lie-spreading troll.
Libertarianism is just a pretty name for Corporatism.
You trade the federal government for large corporations, whom are totally unaccountable to you.
I think the point of this is more in figuring out how to, step by step, intercept and prevent the syndrome entirely.
Sure, abortion prevents it as well. But the option to defeat the syndrome during development and not have it expressed at all in a living person would be better.
How about we just go all the way and have computer simulated battles. When the damage and casualty reports come in we can just have people in those areas report for termination and dynamite the areas affected.
In other news, a ship in orbit was just marked as destroyed. Its representatives will be disposed of and as soon as the rest come down they will be disposed of as well.