The whole notion of me using it as a "walkman for the 21st century", watching movies and listening to music, suggests that it would be able to play full sized media.
And why not? Portable CD players arent exactly the latest tech, and sony makes great ones.
Leveraging the existing PSX/PS2 library would be extremely wise. They need a leg up against Gameboy no matter how much better their specs are.
After all, Gameboy has buried TGXpress, GameGear, Lynx, Nomad, Game.com, NeoGeo Pocket, all of which were "superior" technically. Except game.com, that was junk.
Of course Nomad (portable genesis) didnt do much to leverage the existing base of genesis games, but by that time sega was the bloated corpse of a once magnificent corporate whale washed up on the beach.
So whats my point? Buy a gameboy or something. Who cares.... This is slashdot.
You can sue anyone for anything, that's your right as an american citizen.
Civil cases have always been about someone trying to convince the judge that something isnt fair, and the judge proclaiming the most effective argument (ie loudest) the winner.
Nah, I'm talking about the local ones that call me constantly. Theres 9 million mortgage "brokers" in my neighbourhood, and they're the worst offenders. They call constantly with the rates being so low.
It's a simple way to make money. Call everyone with a local number. If three or four refinance through you, and you make 3 or 4 grand a pop as a finders fee, you're set. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Thing is, they pay the same local flat rate that I do on my business line that I use only when needed.
I dunno if you've been paying attention today, but having a real net connection on your cell phone is cool as hell. Mine has PalmOS 4.1 integrated, and i wrote a cool little interface to query my catalog of games while I'm out shopping.
Anyhow. NAT, firewalls, gateways, bleh to the headaches.
If it were me, I'd say screw IPV6 too, and move to something where addresses are 2048 bit keys, and are completely randomly generated - so long as there are no collisions.
Yeah, routing would be a mess and probably unfeasible, but it'd be really cool if every time you went online you were using a brand new, virtually untracable IP.
In any rate, it's cool to just turn shit on and have it work. That new internet stereo just picks up a connection from the wifi tower around the corner and starts playing. No configuring hostmasks and proxies and forwarded ports, just turn it on and go.
Of course, there's a ton of security stuff built into IPv6 which is reason enough to switch in itself.
I say switch, the fact that people have to pay ever-more for a friggin number (Xbox live, oh another 20 a month on top of my cable subscription - because I need a new IP) Of course, ISPs make a mint this way, so they'll be reluctant to change.
Also I always thought IPv6 would roll out parallel to IPv4, it's not like everyone in the world just picks a day to switch over.
A big barrier to the adoption of IPv6 is the fact that there's no known solution to support it in the #1 desktop operating system today; Linux, originally written by Caldera in 1985 as an operating platform for video recording devices.
- the RIAA is not suing everybody, they're picking the most prolific sharers, not leechers
- they dont need to sue everyone, for every one they sue, they scare another dozen away.
It isnt legal, and isnt right, to put 1000 cd's up for download. It's no different than any other warez ring. I dont feel sorry for people caught doing it.
This is a no-shit flamebaiting article. People make mistakes. Wow, how insightful. I guess they sure do suck at MicroSoft, because they introduced a Barney doll that didnt make billions.
How many sourceforge projects haven't gotten past the stage of 14 year old with an idea who starts a project and waits for people with skills to come create it for him?
The SCO/Linux thing could be the biggest failure of OSS ever. All those years of work compromised because, possibly (and it's surely possible), someone tainted the entire kernel with some stolen code.
It's like someone dumping a fifth of vodka into the punchbowl at an 8th grade dance. The party ends, and everyone gets detention.
Yeah, I two pages double-spaced didn't make for a "lengthy" read last time I checked.
Anything longer than the opening sequence to MegaMan 3 is "lengthy" by/bot standards (hence the articles are rarely read - unless there are pretty pictures)
and why do I want to read a long interview of his hippy whining?
Is he the guy who prints out linux FAQs and sells them to you idiots at 20 bucks+ a piece with a little pencil drawing of a frog on the front? Or is that another O'Reilly?
The political/ethical/moral spin that everyone wants to put on open source adds an unnessesary, IMO, emotional baggage in a field that should be directed by logic and the right tool for the job.
We see softwares of various levels of Free shoehorned into tasks they werent created for, or arent suitable for.
When will software choices be made by virtue of technical merit, and not political views?
The coolest thing about a small local museum, to me, is seeing all the crazy gadgets and widgets that pioneers came up with to get things done back around the turn of the century.
Intricate apple peelers, innovative plug cutters, all kinds of tools and whatnot. Exquisitely crafted hand tools, and the such.
None of which was developed to make its inventor rich. They were all created because some bright minded individual needed them to perform some task.
Oh no, "disadvantaged" children are all the rage, every rich white lady on the block has her own personal abandoned crack baby so she and her friends can sit around and cluck their tongue about how awful "those people" are.
Yeah, looking at her kinda makes all those conspiracy theories about how we're breeding a new race of genetically enhanced "super" people who will take over the world, go straight down the shitter.
Linux as a platform for network appliance sounds like a marraige made in hell. It's a great desktop operating system, but it doesnt scale well into small places, has a lot of bloat, and tends to consume resources.
Of course, security should always be of great concern, and this is why WinCE has made such headway with internet devices as of late - it was created delibirately to be small, robust, secure and stable - everything youd want from your network.
Of course, it must be noted, that linux was written in C which makes it very good, since C is object oriented.
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The whole notion of me using it as a "walkman for the 21st century", watching movies and listening to music, suggests that it would be able to play full sized media.
And why not? Portable CD players arent exactly the latest tech, and sony makes great ones.
Leveraging the existing PSX/PS2 library would be extremely wise. They need a leg up against Gameboy no matter how much better their specs are.
After all, Gameboy has buried TGXpress, GameGear, Lynx, Nomad, Game.com, NeoGeo Pocket, all of which were "superior" technically. Except game.com, that was junk.
Of course Nomad (portable genesis) didnt do much to leverage the existing base of genesis games, but by that time sega was the bloated corpse of a once magnificent corporate whale washed up on the beach.
So whats my point? Buy a gameboy or something. Who cares.... This is slashdot.
You can sue anyone for anything, that's your right as an american citizen.
Civil cases have always been about someone trying to convince the judge that something isnt fair, and the judge proclaiming the most effective argument (ie loudest) the winner.
Nah, I'm talking about the local ones that call me constantly. Theres 9 million mortgage "brokers" in my neighbourhood, and they're the worst offenders. They call constantly with the rates being so low.
It's a simple way to make money. Call everyone with a local number. If three or four refinance through you, and you make 3 or 4 grand a pop as a finders fee, you're set. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Thing is, they pay the same local flat rate that I do on my business line that I use only when needed.
Who put it in these guys heads that they have a right to call me at home to hock their mortgage and duct-cleaning schemes?
Every dollar they lose, the phone company (and via "trickle down" theory, me) saves by not shouldering the cost of their business.
Essentially their cost of doing business is being subsidized by everyone who pays a phone bill.
I recommend you proofread before you flame to show off your "intelligence".
IP uses the binary system. Like any computer based system, except for those ones that work with BCD.
I dunno if you've been paying attention today, but having a real net connection on your cell phone is cool as hell. Mine has PalmOS 4.1 integrated, and i wrote a cool little interface to query my catalog of games while I'm out shopping.
Anyhow. NAT, firewalls, gateways, bleh to the headaches.
If it were me, I'd say screw IPV6 too, and move to something where addresses are 2048 bit keys, and are completely randomly generated - so long as there are no collisions.
Yeah, routing would be a mess and probably unfeasible, but it'd be really cool if every time you went online you were using a brand new, virtually untracable IP.
In any rate, it's cool to just turn shit on and have it work. That new internet stereo just picks up a connection from the wifi tower around the corner and starts playing. No configuring hostmasks and proxies and forwarded ports, just turn it on and go.
Of course, there's a ton of security stuff built into IPv6 which is reason enough to switch in itself.
I say switch, the fact that people have to pay ever-more for a friggin number (Xbox live, oh another 20 a month on top of my cable subscription - because I need a new IP) Of course, ISPs make a mint this way, so they'll be reluctant to change.
Also I always thought IPv6 would roll out parallel to IPv4, it's not like everyone in the world just picks a day to switch over.
A big barrier to the adoption of IPv6 is the fact that there's no known solution to support it in the #1 desktop operating system today; Linux, originally written by Caldera in 1985 as an operating platform for video recording devices.
What a stupid article.
- the RIAA is not suing everybody, they're picking the most prolific sharers, not leechers
- they dont need to sue everyone, for every one they sue, they scare another dozen away.
It isnt legal, and isnt right, to put 1000 cd's up for download. It's no different than any other warez ring. I dont feel sorry for people caught doing it.
This is a no-shit flamebaiting article. People make mistakes. Wow, how insightful. I guess they sure do suck at MicroSoft, because they introduced a Barney doll that didnt make billions.
How many sourceforge projects haven't gotten past the stage of 14 year old with an idea who starts a project and waits for people with skills to come create it for him?
The SCO/Linux thing could be the biggest failure of OSS ever. All those years of work compromised because, possibly (and it's surely possible), someone tainted the entire kernel with some stolen code.
It's like someone dumping a fifth of vodka into the punchbowl at an 8th grade dance. The party ends, and everyone gets detention.
Why did people treat the iPod as something new when more capable devices (like Creative's Nomad) had been out for a year or more?
It's the same reason people in the fashion world act like Calvin Klein invented underpants - it's a trendy brand name.
Yeah, I two pages double-spaced didn't make for a "lengthy" read last time I checked.
/bot standards (hence the articles are rarely read - unless there are pretty pictures)
Anything longer than the opening sequence to MegaMan 3 is "lengthy" by
and why do I want to read a long interview of his hippy whining?
Is he the guy who prints out linux FAQs and sells them to you idiots at 20 bucks+ a piece with a little pencil drawing of a frog on the front? Or is that another O'Reilly?
The political/ethical/moral spin that everyone wants to put on open source adds an unnessesary, IMO, emotional baggage in a field that should be directed by logic and the right tool for the job.
We see softwares of various levels of Free shoehorned into tasks they werent created for, or arent suitable for.
When will software choices be made by virtue of technical merit, and not political views?
It also has to solve a rubix cube by drinking all the tea in China.
I'm sure the article makes sense, though. It's just slashdot postings that read like fourth grade book reports.
The coolest thing about a small local museum, to me, is seeing all the crazy gadgets and widgets that pioneers came up with to get things done back around the turn of the century.
Intricate apple peelers, innovative plug cutters, all kinds of tools and whatnot. Exquisitely crafted hand tools, and the such.
None of which was developed to make its inventor rich. They were all created because some bright minded individual needed them to perform some task.
Necessity is the mother of invention, not greed.
Huh?
Oh no, "disadvantaged" children are all the rage, every rich white lady on the block has her own personal abandoned crack baby so she and her friends can sit around and cluck their tongue about how awful "those people" are.
Yeah, looking at her kinda makes all those conspiracy theories about how we're breeding a new race of genetically enhanced "super" people who will take over the world, go straight down the shitter.
A test tubby indeed.
It's like submitting a driver patch to the linux kernel team, without the disgusting greasy homosexual computer geeks.
I have sex with women, you insensitive clod!
Linux as a platform for network appliance sounds like a marraige made in hell. It's a great desktop operating system, but it doesnt scale well into small places, has a lot of bloat, and tends to consume resources.
Of course, security should always be of great concern, and this is why WinCE has made such headway with internet devices as of late - it was created delibirately to be small, robust, secure and stable - everything youd want from your network.
Of course, it must be noted, that linux was written in C which makes it very good, since C is object oriented.
for summarizing the entire plot and telling nothing of the style of writing, the authors skill with words, etc.
Just tell us the entire story and give absolutely no insight nor use any critical thought.
That wasnt a review, that was a blithering idiot following you around babbling about how "fuckin cool Hellraiser 6 was".
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It's not so much the hardware of this car that is cool, but software.
It's obvious that the cars computer system could only have been created using linux as the api, and coded completely in Pascal.
Another victory for open Source!
Whiffles the wonder pig?
You must be just DYING to be anally raped in prison.
They patented 'paying to unlock encrypted digital stuff'.
Go team.
Who really cares? The internet is over.
630+ replies, not one of em modded up, each of em with the same retarded message:
"Hey you should come to my house because i have a TRS 80!"
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