... by the Iraqi Information Minister. In the summary I was expecting it to say:
"This is a tablet pc, any who claim that it is not is an infidel. You can see it is shaped as Allah intended, a tablet. This "AirPanel" does not even exist. It is a figment of the imagination of the dogs of the oppressors."
you don't mind proprietary interfaces. I wonder how many/.'ers will pipe up and dismiss this tech since it doesn't support ATA (or anything else).
OR will they say, hey, it's fine for it's purpose and it's intended host is probably going to be something that you can't upgrade anyway (i.e. throwaway) so who cares? In either case it's a different market specialization than the micro drive.
Anyway, one thing they don't mention is the performance specs. What is the throughput of this technology? If it's designed to be low powered (which you would assume given it's intended usage), how long does it take for the drive to spin up, etc. Often when you simplify you get better mtbf (fewer things to fail), however with their push to produce a cheaper drive, will reliability suffer?
This is similar I'm sure to questions you get asked all the time, but with, I think, a slightly different twist.
In what context do you put your activities of your youth now that you are older and, presumably, wiser. Have your views of hacking and the ethical implications changed over the years? Back then, if it were demonstrable to you that your activities were causing harm (presumably financial), would it have made any difference back then, does it make any differnce now?
Was it the official Sony remote? I got the Sony remote (about a year ago, maybe more?) and it came with a cd to upgrade the firmware. Did the upgrade and everything works fine (and still does). I do seem to have a distant memory of others reporting some issues though. Probably a good idea to head over to google groups to check it out.
I, for one, this this is a bunch of BS. Sony should just focus on the PS3 and make that a better system.
This is not an upgrade. I would need to buy a new PS2 in order to take advantage of these features. I want to leave my next console purchase off for a few years, so that means I am not buying one.
What, focusing on the PS3 is EXACTLY what they're doing. Why do you think that this is just a small bump in features, and nothing earth shattering at that. By doing this, they keep the platform fresh in the face of all these price drops. Plus, as the article states, these type of features are more useful for the Japanese market where the PS2 is used more as a dvd player than here in the states. So if you're just playing games, you have NO REASON to buy this new version. The only people who care are those who use their PS2's extensively for dvd playback.
At the same time, I really a better DVD player on my PS2. The one in there now is real high-maintenance, needing to be cleaned before and in the middle of movies.
Do you have pets or smoke (or pets that smoke)? I've had my PS2 since they started shipping here in the states. Watch movies on it all the time (as well as music cds and games of course) and I've never cleaned the drive and it plays great.
Progressive scan and a quieter fan. This makes the PS2 much more compatible with home theatre setups. One of the things I don't like about the current PS2 is it's extremely loud fan (well if you're watching "quiet" movies or listening to music).
One "benefit" to Sony with supporting dvd-r is that they will probably sell more dvd-r burners now. Someone mentioned vcd, it makes no sense to support vcd as doing so will not drive more sales of other Sony products. I know that I'm more likely to buy a burner now since we use the PS2 as our primary dvd player and we are constantly worrying about the kids scratching up their dvd's.
This is a weird step, all of the protection schemes sony has been putting on the PS2, and now they are taking steps to allow dvd-r/dvd-rw to be completly supported, maybe they think backing up is fair use? Isen't sony part of the RIAA? I am a bit confused.
You know it might not be so weird. Those who aren't completely anti Sony have said that one of the reasons that Sony has been so reluctant to open the PS2 up more is that since they also manuf. other consumer electronics and provide content that they are under much more of a microscope vs companies like Microsoft. It could be that Sony has seen that they can successfully "get away" with providing these features now that the original hoopla surrounding the PS2 and it's dvd playing capabilities has died down.
Hmmm, is the removal of the firewire port a sign that Sony is moving away from making PS2 a digital hub type appliance. Perhaps they are focusing on PS3 instead in this regard. It's interesting that they never really did anything in this regard. Even having simple dv editing (once you add a hd) would have been possible and one could have imagined that you could have done some cool effects.
Is taco really a human? The/. editor turing test (/.ETT) has been applied and the answer is....
YES
Since any computer could be programmed to check for dupes. Unless of course TacoAI is sooo devious that it intentionally posts dupes to make is _seem_ like there is a real human being.
When Taco starts singing "Daisy", then we'll know the truth.
1 - rushs to be FP
2 - blames Microsoft (Microsoft related story or not)
3 - sing the virtues of OSS over PS if the story is about a security flaw in PS.
4 - sing the virtues of OSS over PS if the story is about a security flaw in OSS.
5 - post contains "In Soviet Russia"
6 - post contains "Imagine a beo..."
7 - post contains Microsoft/Sony/MPAA/RIAA/DRM/DMCA is evil.
If any of these are true, then the poster is definitely human. A computer would never be smart enough to show so much creativity and independant thought;)
Actually this is a good example of why I made my comment. If statecharts are simply a way of representing state machines (which makes sense, but I was wondering if there was more to it to warrant a "new" book on a old subject) then that mere mention would have clarified things significantly. A great deal many programmers are familiar with state machines that have no clue about the UML statechart.
That's the sound of a topic that went zooming over the heads of most/.'ers (me included). It would have been quite nice of the author to include some links that describe what a statechart is and why a C++ programmer should care. It might be one of those things where the book is geared towards those who already know, but it would still be good so those who don't could get some background.
I know, I know, you can just google it yourself. But why have hundreds of people searching for exactly the same thing when one person could save a lot of people some time.
Well if someone has that much of your SSN, you probably have bigger security/privacy issues than someone simply looking up your grades. Though in general the idea of using ones SSN (or parts thereof) just doesn't leave you with a warm fuzzy.
As to your parents, well it's unfortunate that they feel compelled to use a tool like this in the way that they do. However, the bigger question is WHY they feel compelled to have to use it. It may be the "wow, we can do this" factor, which often times wears off. It could be that you are flakey and put them in a position to think that they HAVE to do this in order to make sure you are getting your homework done. I don't know which. But in any case, have you tried simply talking to them about the whole issue? Parents CAN be reasonable when talked to in an adult fashion (i.e. talk to them like and adult and they're more likely to treat you like one).
Shouldn't it be CRAP (Common Remote Appliance Protocol) ?
It is almost as useful as the tape eject on the remote. You still have to walk over to pull out the tape.
I use the eject all the time. Why have to wait after you press eject on the vcr itself? Press eject on the remote and the tape is ready and waiting by the time you mosey on over.
For this new fangled vcr, don't you get it. You put your frozen/refridgerated food in before you leave in the morning and you tell it to fire up from the office before you leave and when you get home, voila, food's done. Saying that it's not useful because you have to remember to put food in it is like saying that cars aren't useful because you have to remember to put gas in them after a while, DUH.
Instead of embedding webservers into everything, why not devlelop a new protocol for use by these types of rather simple applicances. This way you won't get 500 different types of web interfaces to these things. Then you could do some really cool stuff like being able to create scripts without having to worry about which brand etc. You could have your oven turn on, cook at 450 for an hour, then turn on burners 2 and 3 to start the veggies (you do eat your veggies don't you?) and when the roast gets to a nice medium rare (with your wired meat thermometer), turn the oven down to a nice warming temp. Of course the oven would also automatcially call the fire dept (and activate the kitchen sprinkler) if you forgot to remove that oven mitt from the burner or forgot to put the water in the pot. Basically a higher tech version of X10.
Mon - Windoze patch
Tue - Linux kernel patch
Wed - sendmail/samba patch
Thu - IIS/Outlook patch
Fri - Microwave/Fridge patch
Sat - Nerd wish I had a date instead of being on/. patch
Sun - Car ECU patch
It shows that intel has had to hack the processor cooling pretty severely to make the darned thing work at high clock frequencies.
How does a noisy fan equate to Intel kludging anything? All cpu's require cooling, AMD's, esp earlier Athlons, put out insane amounts of heat even at relatively (for nowdays) low clock rates. Do you have any links showing that Intel has had to go to outrageous extremes to cool their faster processors? The P4 I have sitting on the floor next to me is no noiser than any other computer I've heard. And the reputability of the company has very little to do with this issue. One of the biggest complaints about the Apple PowerMac line is the noise of the fans they use.
What does that have to do with the cpu? I have some machines that are fairly quiet and others that would make you go deaf faster than a MOAB, the processor makes no difference in this case, just because your oem decided to tack on noisy fans. The fan on my Athlon 1.4ghz is incredibly annoying, luckily it gets drowned out by the fans required to cool the 10000rpm scsi drives and the drone of the portable ac unit that is required to keep the room from spontaneously combusting;)
Pentium 4 is a lousy chip, the pentium 3 not much better
Please define "lousy". Do you mean that it requires more clock to reach a certain level of performance (which is what many typically mean). If so, how does this make it lousy if what you're measuring is the "complete" performance and not just say "efficiency". Intel made a very concious design choice when they went the super deep pipeline high clock route. Which has more "wow", the fact that you can ramp the clock rates up quicker, or that you can get more done with the clock that you have? Isn't this similar to engines, where you have one camp that likes big cubes and massive torque vs the camp that likes high effiency and high rpms. They both have their plus's and minus's and it really depends on the application?
The only thing keeping Pentium-line procs afloat is marketing at this point.
But don't you think that Intel "plays the market". By this I mean their processors have the price/performance ratio that they currently do because the market allows them to? It would appear that Intel could certainly afford to drop the price of their chips quite considerably if they wanted to, but this would be very damaging to the bottom line in the share holders eyes for no real benefit. So Intel continues to have the price of their chips higher than anyone else, because it makes their pocket books fat. If push came to shove, they could do a LOT of damage to the clones while still being able to survive.
I think you'd be happier if you typed:
C:\> deltree \Windows
You're making an assumption that they are running Windows. This could be a happy DOS user (DOS 2.1 RULES!), or an OS/2 user who insists on going down with the ship:)
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The same thing that prevents people from changing the OpenSSL source to say "connectto("some guys online bank account")
You can't decrypt anything without the appropriate key to do so. There's nothing you can change in the source to magically disable it.
The difference being one usually doesn't want others to get into their bank account. However, if person A didn't mind sharing their key, person B could have a modified version of the code that didn't look in the approved place (or whatever) and use person A's key instead, allowing them access to the content. I guess you could try to generate another key based on something like the persons hardware, but even then, you could modify the code to automagically generate this very same key.
Agreed, but this appears to be for smaller independant film makers/distributers/theaters, not for the George Lucas' of the world. Plus, how many standards are there for this type of distribution system? How many products are offered and what type of price range are we talking about? Do other manufacturers offer packages? If so, then what's wrong with MS trying to get into this market segment?
WTF is right, but WTF are you talking about. Looking good? The big thing here is the infrastructure that this all represents. Being able to distribute and display completely digitally at a somewhat reasonable price is the news here. I guess MS should not attempt to move into any new markets or find new uses for their technology?
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... by the Iraqi Information Minister. In the summary I was expecting it to say:
"This is a tablet pc, any who claim that it is not is an infidel. You can see it is shaped as Allah intended, a tablet. This "AirPanel" does not even exist. It is a figment of the imagination of the dogs of the oppressors."
you don't mind proprietary interfaces. I wonder how many /.'ers will pipe up and dismiss this tech since it doesn't support ATA (or anything else).
OR will they say, hey, it's fine for it's purpose and it's intended host is probably going to be something that you can't upgrade anyway (i.e. throwaway) so who cares? In either case it's a different market specialization than the micro drive.
Anyway, one thing they don't mention is the performance specs. What is the throughput of this technology? If it's designed to be low powered (which you would assume given it's intended usage), how long does it take for the drive to spin up, etc. Often when you simplify you get better mtbf (fewer things to fail), however with their push to produce a cheaper drive, will reliability suffer?
This is similar I'm sure to questions you get asked all the time, but with, I think, a slightly different twist.
In what context do you put your activities of your youth now that you are older and, presumably, wiser. Have your views of hacking and the ethical implications changed over the years? Back then, if it were demonstrable to you that your activities were causing harm (presumably financial), would it have made any difference back then, does it make any differnce now?
Was it the official Sony remote? I got the Sony remote (about a year ago, maybe more?) and it came with a cd to upgrade the firmware. Did the upgrade and everything works fine (and still does). I do seem to have a distant memory of others reporting some issues though. Probably a good idea to head over to google groups to check it out.
I, for one, this this is a bunch of BS. Sony should just focus on the PS3 and make that a better system. This is not an upgrade. I would need to buy a new PS2 in order to take advantage of these features. I want to leave my next console purchase off for a few years, so that means I am not buying one.
What, focusing on the PS3 is EXACTLY what they're doing. Why do you think that this is just a small bump in features, and nothing earth shattering at that. By doing this, they keep the platform fresh in the face of all these price drops. Plus, as the article states, these type of features are more useful for the Japanese market where the PS2 is used more as a dvd player than here in the states. So if you're just playing games, you have NO REASON to buy this new version. The only people who care are those who use their PS2's extensively for dvd playback.
At the same time, I really a better DVD player on my PS2. The one in there now is real high-maintenance, needing to be cleaned before and in the middle of movies.
Do you have pets or smoke (or pets that smoke)? I've had my PS2 since they started shipping here in the states. Watch movies on it all the time (as well as music cds and games of course) and I've never cleaned the drive and it plays great.
Progressive scan and a quieter fan. This makes the PS2 much more compatible with home theatre setups. One of the things I don't like about the current PS2 is it's extremely loud fan (well if you're watching "quiet" movies or listening to music).
One "benefit" to Sony with supporting dvd-r is that they will probably sell more dvd-r burners now. Someone mentioned vcd, it makes no sense to support vcd as doing so will not drive more sales of other Sony products. I know that I'm more likely to buy a burner now since we use the PS2 as our primary dvd player and we are constantly worrying about the kids scratching up their dvd's.
This is a weird step, all of the protection schemes sony has been putting on the PS2, and now they are taking steps to allow dvd-r/dvd-rw to be completly supported, maybe they think backing up is fair use? Isen't sony part of the RIAA? I am a bit confused.
You know it might not be so weird. Those who aren't completely anti Sony have said that one of the reasons that Sony has been so reluctant to open the PS2 up more is that since they also manuf. other consumer electronics and provide content that they are under much more of a microscope vs companies like Microsoft. It could be that Sony has seen that they can successfully "get away" with providing these features now that the original hoopla surrounding the PS2 and it's dvd playing capabilities has died down.
Hmmm, is the removal of the firewire port a sign that Sony is moving away from making PS2 a digital hub type appliance. Perhaps they are focusing on PS3 instead in this regard. It's interesting that they never really did anything in this regard. Even having simple dv editing (once you add a hd) would have been possible and one could have imagined that you could have done some cool effects.
... Microchannel was the way to go.
then negative humans?
/.?
Oh, you mean communicating with those on
Is taco really a human? The /. editor turing test (/.ETT) has been applied and the answer is ....
YES
Since any computer could be programmed to check for dupes. Unless of course TacoAI is sooo devious that it intentionally posts dupes to make is _seem_ like there is a real human being.
When Taco starts singing "Daisy", then we'll know the truth.
For any article posted does the user:
;)
1 - rushs to be FP
2 - blames Microsoft (Microsoft related story or not)
3 - sing the virtues of OSS over PS if the story is about a security flaw in PS.
4 - sing the virtues of OSS over PS if the story is about a security flaw in OSS.
5 - post contains "In Soviet Russia"
6 - post contains "Imagine a beo..."
7 - post contains Microsoft/Sony/MPAA/RIAA/DRM/DMCA is evil.
If any of these are true, then the poster is definitely human. A computer would never be smart enough to show so much creativity and independant thought
Actually this is a good example of why I made my comment. If statecharts are simply a way of representing state machines (which makes sense, but I was wondering if there was more to it to warrant a "new" book on a old subject) then that mere mention would have clarified things significantly. A great deal many programmers are familiar with state machines that have no clue about the UML statechart.
That's the sound of a topic that went zooming over the heads of most /.'ers (me included). It would have been quite nice of the author to include some links that describe what a statechart is and why a C++ programmer should care. It might be one of those things where the book is geared towards those who already know, but it would still be good so those who don't could get some background.
I know, I know, you can just google it yourself. But why have hundreds of people searching for exactly the same thing when one person could save a lot of people some time.
Well if someone has that much of your SSN, you probably have bigger security/privacy issues than someone simply looking up your grades. Though in general the idea of using ones SSN (or parts thereof) just doesn't leave you with a warm fuzzy.
As to your parents, well it's unfortunate that they feel compelled to use a tool like this in the way that they do. However, the bigger question is WHY they feel compelled to have to use it. It may be the "wow, we can do this" factor, which often times wears off. It could be that you are flakey and put them in a position to think that they HAVE to do this in order to make sure you are getting your homework done. I don't know which. But in any case, have you tried simply talking to them about the whole issue? Parents CAN be reasonable when talked to in an adult fashion (i.e. talk to them like and adult and they're more likely to treat you like one).
Shouldn't it be CRAP (Common Remote Appliance Protocol) ? It is almost as useful as the tape eject on the remote. You still have to walk over to pull out the tape.
I use the eject all the time. Why have to wait after you press eject on the vcr itself? Press eject on the remote and the tape is ready and waiting by the time you mosey on over.
For this new fangled vcr, don't you get it. You put your frozen/refridgerated food in before you leave in the morning and you tell it to fire up from the office before you leave and when you get home, voila, food's done. Saying that it's not useful because you have to remember to put food in it is like saying that cars aren't useful because you have to remember to put gas in them after a while, DUH.
Instead of embedding webservers into everything, why not devlelop a new protocol for use by these types of rather simple applicances. This way you won't get 500 different types of web interfaces to these things. Then you could do some really cool stuff like being able to create scripts without having to worry about which brand etc. You could have your oven turn on, cook at 450 for an hour, then turn on burners 2 and 3 to start the veggies (you do eat your veggies don't you?) and when the roast gets to a nice medium rare (with your wired meat thermometer), turn the oven down to a nice warming temp. Of course the oven would also automatcially call the fire dept (and activate the kitchen sprinkler) if you forgot to remove that oven mitt from the burner or forgot to put the water in the pot. Basically a higher tech version of X10.
Great
/. patch
Mon - Windoze patch
Tue - Linux kernel patch
Wed - sendmail/samba patch
Thu - IIS/Outlook patch
Fri - Microwave/Fridge patch
Sat - Nerd wish I had a date instead of being on
Sun - Car ECU patch
It shows that intel has had to hack the processor cooling pretty severely to make the darned thing work at high clock frequencies.
How does a noisy fan equate to Intel kludging anything? All cpu's require cooling, AMD's, esp earlier Athlons, put out insane amounts of heat even at relatively (for nowdays) low clock rates. Do you have any links showing that Intel has had to go to outrageous extremes to cool their faster processors? The P4 I have sitting on the floor next to me is no noiser than any other computer I've heard. And the reputability of the company has very little to do with this issue. One of the biggest complaints about the Apple PowerMac line is the noise of the fans they use.
What does that have to do with the cpu? I have some machines that are fairly quiet and others that would make you go deaf faster than a MOAB, the processor makes no difference in this case, just because your oem decided to tack on noisy fans. The fan on my Athlon 1.4ghz is incredibly annoying, luckily it gets drowned out by the fans required to cool the 10000rpm scsi drives and the drone of the portable ac unit that is required to keep the room from spontaneously combusting ;)
Pentium 4 is a lousy chip, the pentium 3 not much better
Please define "lousy". Do you mean that it requires more clock to reach a certain level of performance (which is what many typically mean). If so, how does this make it lousy if what you're measuring is the "complete" performance and not just say "efficiency". Intel made a very concious design choice when they went the super deep pipeline high clock route. Which has more "wow", the fact that you can ramp the clock rates up quicker, or that you can get more done with the clock that you have? Isn't this similar to engines, where you have one camp that likes big cubes and massive torque vs the camp that likes high effiency and high rpms. They both have their plus's and minus's and it really depends on the application?
The only thing keeping Pentium-line procs afloat is marketing at this point.
But don't you think that Intel "plays the market". By this I mean their processors have the price/performance ratio that they currently do because the market allows them to? It would appear that Intel could certainly afford to drop the price of their chips quite considerably if they wanted to, but this would be very damaging to the bottom line in the share holders eyes for no real benefit. So Intel continues to have the price of their chips higher than anyone else, because it makes their pocket books fat. If push came to shove, they could do a LOT of damage to the clones while still being able to survive.
I think you'd be happier if you typed: C:\> deltree \Windows
:)
You're making an assumption that they are running Windows. This could be a happy DOS user (DOS 2.1 RULES!), or an OS/2 user who insists on going down with the ship
The same thing that prevents people from changing the OpenSSL source to say "connectto("some guys online bank account") You can't decrypt anything without the appropriate key to do so. There's nothing you can change in the source to magically disable it.
The difference being one usually doesn't want others to get into their bank account. However, if person A didn't mind sharing their key, person B could have a modified version of the code that didn't look in the approved place (or whatever) and use person A's key instead, allowing them access to the content. I guess you could try to generate another key based on something like the persons hardware, but even then, you could modify the code to automagically generate this very same key.
Agreed, but this appears to be for smaller independant film makers/distributers/theaters, not for the George Lucas' of the world. Plus, how many standards are there for this type of distribution system? How many products are offered and what type of price range are we talking about? Do other manufacturers offer packages? If so, then what's wrong with MS trying to get into this market segment?
WTF is right, but WTF are you talking about. Looking good? The big thing here is the infrastructure that this all represents. Being able to distribute and display completely digitally at a somewhat reasonable price is the news here. I guess MS should not attempt to move into any new markets or find new uses for their technology?