On their site, there are a number of flash videos avaliable. On the one that is about gaming, and has "battle bee" initially printed on it, can anyone identify the first song that it plays?
You are obviously associating the government with the people and making them one entity, which is a wrong assumption to begin with. For one, most Chinese people are not part of the government of the nation. The wrongdoings of the Chinese government can be debated, but they are not the fault of the Chinese people! There is nothing wrong about reporting about the accomplishments of a people in an objective way. I have never seen a Slashdot article than praises the controversial actions of the Chinese government, which is the entitiy that you have problems with.
So before you go troll around with your anti-China posts, know that he people and the goverment are two different things. Get that straight.
Moreover, Slashdot being enligtened or liberal is not up to you to determine. In a totally open public forum, you cannot possibly make intelligent generalizations about the people here. By doing so, you are merely being ignorant.
Have you ever even used an iPod? just because of the fact that Apple does not officially support more than mac and windows does not mean that you simply CANNOT use it on Linux/BSD, or whatever OS that you use. I can tell you from being an iPod user that it works PERFECTLY with Linux, and it does not involve iTunes at all.
iTunes is simply an application that manages music and makes it easy to transfer music to the iPod, but it DOES NOT serve as the software that interfaces with the iPod and lets you access the hard disk. Using the SBP2 module in Linux lets you use the iPod like any other firewire disk drive, and there are tons of third party apps out there that let you sync your iPod with Linux (GNUpod... etc).
The iPod follows many standards, and therefore it works with more than just win+mac, but any platform that supports USB/Firewire disk drives. If your OS does not support either Firewire SBP2 or USB, then the problem lies within your OS, and not Apple making the iPod "not cross platform."
However, it's not without it's faults, both major and minor. Most of them are because they shoved it out the door too early,
However, even for a product that was "rushed" and "shoved out the door", iTunes just shows how careful and considerate Apple was to all of this. I agree that developers simply need time, but Apple is one of those companies with a clandestine interior, making it near impossible to see what is going on underneath it all. For all we know, they may have already started porting iTunes for Windows when iTunes 4 was first releasd.
Though I use Linux 95% of the time, when I'm using the Windows machine, iTunes is the player that I always use, and I have no major qualms with it.
Mandarin is the official dialect of China, and is THE most widely spoken language, with over 800 million speakers. Cantonese is a dialect only spoken in some southern regions of China, and with the goverment heavily promoting a singular dialect (mandarin), it would be near impossible to not find people who can speak Mandarin in a traditionally Cantonese region.
So, given the opportunity, I would recommend Mandarin over Cantonese, as it is more useful, and IMO, it just "sounds" more pleasing and less "annoying".
Because of the fact that they were literally handed the source to StarOffice 5.0, they immediately had on office suite to distribute. Though they did do a great job with improvements and smoothing out the quirks of staroffice (the "integrated' scheme of 5.x annoyed me terribly), they did not create all of openoffice in just 3 years. (note that the binary is still called soffice)
When using a TTY terminal in Linux, the scroll lock is an extremely useful key so that you can pause the output in order to read it. In most BIOS's, you can also press it to pause the info that it is giving you as well.
Many people think that scroll lock is now useless, except in Microsoft Excel, but it does have a much more useful purpose, at least in Linux and perhaps BSD.
Though it can be agreed that USB mice and keyboards don't really need that much bandwidth, you're forgetting that there are plenty of USB devices out there that DO.
For example, there exist external hard disks and MP3 players that connect to the computer through USB. These need all the bandwidth that they can get. The more you can transfer, faster it can get done. Moreover, I actually have a USB mouse that doubles as a memory stick reader. Does it need transfer speeds of up to 400mbps? Well, it sure would be a lot faster than this sluggish 10mbps or so.
Recently, I had the opportunity to test out two LaCiE brand external hard disks. One was firewire, the other USB2. They were both tested on the same machine, which was NOT USB2 hi-speed compliant. The result was that the firewire disk was much faster. Now do you see why the devices NEED it?
I would say that you're right on how Dell may be good at taking poorly implemented ideas and making a better product, but look at the enormous success of the iPod and the ITunes Music Store, and you'll see that they are not poorly implemented at all, but are the standard for what a good digital music player and music download service must be.
Dell has a much more powerful opponenet in this field than you might think.
Have you ever happened to put the three batteries in the calc with the wrong polarity? This may have caused the zener diode to fry, which may be why it is draining the batteries so fast. I heard that its a common problem in HP graphing calcs.
The worm has two methods of propogation: from vulnerable users who just view the e-mail, and from invulnurable users who install the patch. In the former case, there needs to be no user interaction to propogate the worm. The "vulnerability" is actually a flaw in Internet Explorer as the Washington Post article states.
I wonder what the return IP address on the mail is... wouldn't users be able to see the SMTP headers so that they would know that M$ did not send it to them?
No, Flash memory got its name because older models of it were nonvoltile memory modules that could be erased when exposed to ultraviolet light. It has nothing to do with blinking LEDs.
Actually, in most listning tests(like this one, it was found that AAC was one of the worst formats, and that MP3 and OGG were closely tied.
Apple has a tendency to bloat the features of their products. AAC is nowhere near as good as MP3 is, but they come out with ambitious, if not overly deceptive messages like "rivals CD quality", when it is nowhere near MP3, and MP3 being nowhere near CD quality.
But I still think that the project for that Linux powered balloon is better: http://vpizza.org/~jmeehan/balloon/
Though there is no motion picture, the still images taken from over 80,000 ft up are very impressive.
Don't forget that the Open Source DRI 3D acceleration has indeed come in the last year alone, and most people use them for their ATI Radeons that ATI did not make Linux drivers for.
About a year ago, I bought an ATI Radeon 7500 PCI, and I couldn't use it at all because of the fact that there were no suitable Linux drivers for it (DRI only supported AGP at that time, I think), and just two months ago, I decided to check it out again, and with the new 4.3 version of XFree86, 3D acceleration works perfectly, though it is after this card has been left unused for over 10 months.
Would be simply to ignore SCO and all their empty threats, as well as their lack of evidence. You're taking this as though SCO actually HAS a case. If you would look at any of the stuff behind this shit, you would easily come upon the conclusion that SCO has no case, and simply wants to extort money from people.
I don't really get why the drivers side is always on the opposite side of the side of the road that you're supposed to be driving on (drive on right side of road = left side driver, drive on left side = right side driver) as I think it would be much easier to just put it on the same side. This way, people won't complain that I'm always too close to the right side of a lane.
Moreover, being right handed (I just happen to be in a country where cars drive on the right side of the road), I find it is much easier to operate the steering wheel with the right hand and shift with the left, and not the other way around. I just cannot steer with my left hand no matter how hard I try, therefore I just end up crossing my arms and it looks really weird.
Just think though... you're right that the majority of the Chinese population is very poor, but remember that the 20% or so of the population who reside in urban areas is still a HUGE amount of people, and just a bit less than the entire population of the United States.
Not potentially the biggest market... it is NOW
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If you check the statistics that are avaliable in many places (such as this one) you will see that the United States is actually second in the number of cellular phone subscriptions sold, and it is actually China that is number one in volume right now.
Sure, you may be wondering how most people manage to possibly even get by on a $50 paycheck a month, but realize that that is the national average, where all sorts of people are factored in. In a land of such contrast, there are still tons of terribly rich people, and those who earn upwards of $1200(USD) a month are not that uncommon.
80% of China's population is into agriculture, and only 20% of them are priveledged enough to be urbanites, but if you do the math, that would mean that there are more people living in cities in China than there are in the United States. In a place where image is everything, it is inevitable that cellular phones have become extremely popular, if not ubiquitous. On the street, almost everybody (and I mean somewhere like 9 out of 10 people) has a cell phone. It is no wonder why Motorola is considering this vast market, because this is only the tip of the iceberg. This many cellular service subscribers only indicate a market penetration of 13%. Imagine the profits of market penetration somewhere upwards to 50%.
Remember that article about SCO's other supporter, and that would be Sun? With this desktop that is for Linux, dosn't it make little sense to say that Sun is against Linux while it is clear that they are supporting it?
The article was actually quite speculative, to be fair, but it is quite irresponsible to put these speculations as facts, but who are we as Slashdotters to judge?
It's a pointless waste of time. The entire article does not really poke the surface of any actual fact, and is either mostly speculation (like speculting about how Sony will eventually need to make good on their promise for a PS3 in order to even be able to stand up to Microsoft, who "always wins") or just stereotyping about stuff (like how playing Nintendo makes you look less manly... if I read that right) Moreover, like any good./er, I hate his pro-M$ slant.
This is nothing more than a person's personal opinion on the state of the console gaming market today, and you would be crazy to site it in any research paper or anything of that sort.
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On their site, there are a number of flash videos avaliable. On the one that is about gaming, and has "battle bee" initially printed on it, can anyone identify the first song that it plays?
So before you go troll around with your anti-China posts, know that he people and the goverment are two different things. Get that straight.
Moreover, Slashdot being enligtened or liberal is not up to you to determine. In a totally open public forum, you cannot possibly make intelligent generalizations about the people here. By doing so, you are merely being ignorant.
On a platform like that, you could get done typing entire documents on VI while Emacs is still loading. :P
iTunes is simply an application that manages music and makes it easy to transfer music to the iPod, but it DOES NOT serve as the software that interfaces with the iPod and lets you access the hard disk. Using the SBP2 module in Linux lets you use the iPod like any other firewire disk drive, and there are tons of third party apps out there that let you sync your iPod with Linux (GNUpod... etc).
The iPod follows many standards, and therefore it works with more than just win+mac, but any platform that supports USB/Firewire disk drives. If your OS does not support either Firewire SBP2 or USB, then the problem lies within your OS, and not Apple making the iPod "not cross platform."
However, even for a product that was "rushed" and "shoved out the door", iTunes just shows how careful and considerate Apple was to all of this. I agree that developers simply need time, but Apple is one of those companies with a clandestine interior, making it near impossible to see what is going on underneath it all. For all we know, they may have already started porting iTunes for Windows when iTunes 4 was first releasd.
Though I use Linux 95% of the time, when I'm using the Windows machine, iTunes is the player that I always use, and I have no major qualms with it.
So, given the opportunity, I would recommend Mandarin over Cantonese, as it is more useful, and IMO, it just "sounds" more pleasing and less "annoying".
Because of the fact that they were literally handed the source to StarOffice 5.0, they immediately had on office suite to distribute. Though they did do a great job with improvements and smoothing out the quirks of staroffice (the "integrated' scheme of 5.x annoyed me terribly), they did not create all of openoffice in just 3 years. (note that the binary is still called soffice)
Many people think that scroll lock is now useless, except in Microsoft Excel, but it does have a much more useful purpose, at least in Linux and perhaps BSD.
For example, there exist external hard disks and MP3 players that connect to the computer through USB. These need all the bandwidth that they can get. The more you can transfer, faster it can get done. Moreover, I actually have a USB mouse that doubles as a memory stick reader. Does it need transfer speeds of up to 400mbps? Well, it sure would be a lot faster than this sluggish 10mbps or so.
Recently, I had the opportunity to test out two LaCiE brand external hard disks. One was firewire, the other USB2. They were both tested on the same machine, which was NOT USB2 hi-speed compliant. The result was that the firewire disk was much faster. Now do you see why the devices NEED it?
Speaking of which, more of this stuff shoud be for firewire.
Dell has a much more powerful opponenet in this field than you might think.
Have you ever happened to put the three batteries in the calc with the wrong polarity? This may have caused the zener diode to fry, which may be why it is draining the batteries so fast. I heard that its a common problem in HP graphing calcs.
I wonder what the return IP address on the mail is... wouldn't users be able to see the SMTP headers so that they would know that M$ did not send it to them?
No, Flash memory got its name because older models of it were nonvoltile memory modules that could be erased when exposed to ultraviolet light. It has nothing to do with blinking LEDs.
Apple has a tendency to bloat the features of their products. AAC is nowhere near as good as MP3 is, but they come out with ambitious, if not overly deceptive messages like "rivals CD quality", when it is nowhere near MP3, and MP3 being nowhere near CD quality.
But I still think that the project for that Linux powered balloon is better: http://vpizza.org/~jmeehan/balloon/ Though there is no motion picture, the still images taken from over 80,000 ft up are very impressive.
Don't forget that the Open Source DRI 3D acceleration has indeed come in the last year alone, and most people use them for their ATI Radeons that ATI did not make Linux drivers for. About a year ago, I bought an ATI Radeon 7500 PCI, and I couldn't use it at all because of the fact that there were no suitable Linux drivers for it (DRI only supported AGP at that time, I think), and just two months ago, I decided to check it out again, and with the new 4.3 version of XFree86, 3D acceleration works perfectly, though it is after this card has been left unused for over 10 months.
Would be simply to ignore SCO and all their empty threats, as well as their lack of evidence. You're taking this as though SCO actually HAS a case. If you would look at any of the stuff behind this shit, you would easily come upon the conclusion that SCO has no case, and simply wants to extort money from people.
Moreover, being right handed (I just happen to be in a country where cars drive on the right side of the road), I find it is much easier to operate the steering wheel with the right hand and shift with the left, and not the other way around. I just cannot steer with my left hand no matter how hard I try, therefore I just end up crossing my arms and it looks really weird.
Just think though... you're right that the majority of the Chinese population is very poor, but remember that the 20% or so of the population who reside in urban areas is still a HUGE amount of people, and just a bit less than the entire population of the United States.
Sure, you may be wondering how most people manage to possibly even get by on a $50 paycheck a month, but realize that that is the national average, where all sorts of people are factored in. In a land of such contrast, there are still tons of terribly rich people, and those who earn upwards of $1200(USD) a month are not that uncommon.
80% of China's population is into agriculture, and only 20% of them are priveledged enough to be urbanites, but if you do the math, that would mean that there are more people living in cities in China than there are in the United States. In a place where image is everything, it is inevitable that cellular phones have become extremely popular, if not ubiquitous. On the street, almost everybody (and I mean somewhere like 9 out of 10 people) has a cell phone. It is no wonder why Motorola is considering this vast market, because this is only the tip of the iceberg. This many cellular service subscribers only indicate a market penetration of 13%. Imagine the profits of market penetration somewhere upwards to 50%.
I think that we can thank SCO for all that.
The article was actually quite speculative, to be fair, but it is quite irresponsible to put these speculations as facts, but who are we as Slashdotters to judge?
This is nothing more than a person's personal opinion on the state of the console gaming market today, and you would be crazy to site it in any research paper or anything of that sort.
OpenOffice so does not do the same thing.