Well it could, if any were available. Doom 3 you say? It's a year old.
When will Apple do something about attracting game developers to the platform? I understand it's Jobs himself who doesn't think games are important but they must see there's a lot of market there and it's hurting sales in family situations where kids have a big say in what kind of computer gets bought.
It certainly can run programs from memory stick, the recent v1.5 firmware update for Japanese-market devices was a download to MS and then ran from it. The problem is that such code must be signed. Once the encryption mechanism is broken homebrew development will be a reality.
Compared to flash media of various kinds, a UMD is big and spacious.
What if you could build a solid state UMD device? Then the difference between reading a memory stick and a UMD would be defeated.
Such a device would have a slot for some kind of media (CF, SD etc.) or just built-in storage and an optical output device to mate with the laser in the UMD reader. Some kind of trickery would need to be worked out to keep them aligned. Or the output could be a simple light bar, UMD width, with discrete output cells spaced the same as UMD tracks. Power could be by integrated rechargable battery.
I don't know if such a thing could be built affordably but if a hard drive can be made smaller than a CF card for a cell phone then I know it's possible. Sony must know that they can't keep the PSP closed forever, they just want to make it harder and own the whole thing for as long as possible. Even Nintendo tried to shut down various flash cart manufacturers.
It's worse than just 'X' - it can be any key, and every game makes up its own UI. Right now I have just two PSP games and they use different keys for familiar tasks - even between different screens within the games different keys are used for accept/back. You have to read EVERY piece of text to see what the buttons are going to do - this is the number 1 annoyance with using a PSP.
Apple's consistent UI policy was genius. (Use of past tense is intentional.)
You don't need "metal shielding", just functional shielding - plastic cases with conductive paint on the inside are not unknown. For home builders I recommend checking out the conductive paint available to electric guitar builders, i.e. http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Electronics,_pickups/S upplies:_Shielding/Conductive_Shielding_Paint.html - works great. In guitars it is used to shield the pickup cavity and back of the pickguard as an alternative to copper foil or tape which can be hard to apply around the tight curves. Works out cheaper than copper too. I'll still use metal in my cases because the motherboard tray and PCI slots are just too much work and not durable enough in wood.
Functionality aside, it's one of the ugliest things I have ever seen offered for sale as a PC. Isn't the idea of SFF that you can keep it on your desk? Aopen desparately need to hire some industrial designers. They don't have to make their boxes expensive but they do have to work out a desirable appearance, right now they appear to be making whatever size fits and tacking on bits of chrome and crap until it looks busy.
From your link: "The word "autarky" is from the Greek , which means "self-sufficiency" (derived from , "self," and , "to suffice"). It is sometimes confused with autarchy (Greek: ), which either means self-government or government by absolute rule."
It seems you were confused - this can often happen when a student politician decides to play grown-up. Tip for you - lay off the pomposity. You'll get more votes. Second tip: change your name, a majority of Australians will never vote for a Liberal named Jacques.
Do you say this because of the figurehead Governor General? Or are you confused as to what the word means? If we are not autarchic now it is because our Prime Minister has chosen to make us not so in practise.
without American supplies we would have been up the creek
Only in your dreams, which exist only to strengthen your apologist position. And the irony is you're probably one of those "never change our flag" types - when it suits you, you can pretend it means something.
Bullshit. For less money (or more depending on config) you get a Dell abortion with pathetic integrated graphics, "shared graphics memory", useless software and a monitor/KB/mouse that's only good for filling a dumpster. Thanks, but I'll take the Mac mini.
When you buy the 1.42 model you lose a little performance because of the "upgraded" hard drive. Every report on the 1.25GHz mini says it comes with a 5400rpm 8M cache 40GB drive. I have two 1.42 minis - one came with a 4200rpm 8M cache 80GB drive, the other came with a 4200rpm 2M cache drive.
Since then I've fitted a 7200rpm 8M cache drive - it makes a BIG difference!
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AND they stopped making "The Full Vermonty", which was a better flavor than CCBBB any day.
Richard Stallman has consistently proved he was a true visionnary
Yes, thank you for getting that right, down to the correct tense - for it is no longer the case. In the interview, RMS says "Any development of non-free software is harmful and unfortunate" - this are not the words of a visionary but those of a zealot. These days he can only alienate and repel. He's right about some things but it is a very rare figure of whom that can not be said.
My favorite RMS quote, when asked about programmers writing non-free software:
"What about them? The programmers writing non-free software? They are doing something antisocial. They should get some other job."
Easy to say when you're RMS. When you occupy one of the very, very few positions in society where you don't have to have a job. Where you can afford to nobly say "no thanks!" to a salary from EFF. Where kindly benefactors let you keep a free office and others keep on showering you with grants. "Let them eat cake!" says RMS.
I could be an AC for this post I suppose. But then this could be too easily dismissed as a troll, which it is not.
Clearly you have no idea how it works. Many, many companies get the green card process rolling for H1-B workers as a matter of course. It takes about two years, so there is plenty of time to abandon the process if the new employee turns out to be not worth keeping.
All the Indian programmers I have worked with have been above average (and some spectacularly so). I totally agree with this book's author that they contribute more than they take away - but H1-B visas ARE the first step to immigration.
You're a rare example of a literate person, Mr. Aeonite. All those problems can be found in Slashdot posts every day - does the book include my favorite incorrect phrase, "could care less"? Your meticulous review is wasted on all but a very few Slashdot readers and I suspect even fewer have ever given any thought to the dos and don'ts of book layout.
I can easily picture the Slashdot editors all gathered around a monitor, looking blankly at your examples of mistakes and then at each other, wondering who will be the first to ask "Huh? What's wrong with that?!".
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Well it could, if any were available. Doom 3 you say? It's a year old.
When will Apple do something about attracting game developers to the platform? I understand it's Jobs himself who doesn't think games are important but they must see there's a lot of market there and it's hurting sales in family situations where kids have a big say in what kind of computer gets bought.
red-green-red-green means Christmas.
It certainly can run programs from memory stick, the recent v1.5 firmware update for Japanese-market devices was a download to MS and then ran from it. The problem is that such code must be signed. Once the encryption mechanism is broken homebrew development will be a reality.
Compared to flash media of various kinds, a UMD is big and spacious.
What if you could build a solid state UMD device? Then the difference between reading a memory stick and a UMD would be defeated.
Such a device would have a slot for some kind of media (CF, SD etc.) or just built-in storage and an optical output device to mate with the laser in the UMD reader. Some kind of trickery would need to be worked out to keep them aligned. Or the output could be a simple light bar, UMD width, with discrete output cells spaced the same as UMD tracks. Power could be by integrated rechargable battery.
I don't know if such a thing could be built affordably but if a hard drive can be made smaller than a CF card for a cell phone then I know it's possible. Sony must know that they can't keep the PSP closed forever, they just want to make it harder and own the whole thing for as long as possible. Even Nintendo tried to shut down various flash cart manufacturers.
It's worse than just 'X' - it can be any key, and every game makes up its own UI. Right now I have just two PSP games and they use different keys for familiar tasks - even between different screens within the games different keys are used for accept/back. You have to read EVERY piece of text to see what the buttons are going to do - this is the number 1 annoyance with using a PSP.
Apple's consistent UI policy was genius. (Use of past tense is intentional.)
You don't need "metal shielding", just functional shielding - plastic cases with conductive paint on the inside are not unknown. For home builders I recommend checking out the conductive paint available to electric guitar builders, i.e. http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Electronics,_pickups/S upplies:_Shielding/Conductive_Shielding_Paint.html - works great.
In guitars it is used to shield the pickup cavity and back of the pickguard as an alternative to copper foil or tape which can be hard to apply around the tight curves. Works out cheaper than copper too.
I'll still use metal in my cases because the motherboard tray and PCI slots are just too much work and not durable enough in wood.
Functionality aside, it's one of the ugliest things I have ever seen offered for sale as a PC. Isn't the idea of SFF that you can keep it on your desk? Aopen desparately need to hire some industrial designers. They don't have to make their boxes expensive but they do have to work out a desirable appearance, right now they appear to be making whatever size fits and tacking on bits of chrome and crap until it looks busy.
It certainly looks menacing. I would not stand on top of a building and point it at windows in downtown L.A. if you paid me. A lot.
From your link: "The word "autarky" is from the Greek , which means "self-sufficiency" (derived from , "self," and , "to suffice"). It is sometimes confused with autarchy (Greek: ), which either means self-government or government by absolute rule."
It seems you were confused - this can often happen when a student politician decides to play grown-up. Tip for you - lay off the pomposity. You'll get more votes. Second tip: change your name, a majority of Australians will never vote for a Liberal named Jacques.
Wow, Jacques, since you pointed out some spelling errors in an opponent's post I am now totally convinced you must be right and he wrong.
Q.(addressed to Sir Robert Menzies) What are you gonna do about 'ousing?
A.(from Menzies) Put an 'H' in front of it.
You've got to love that kind of attitude.
We're not an autarchic nation
Do you say this because of the figurehead Governor General? Or are you confused as to what the word means? If we are not autarchic now it is because our Prime Minister has chosen to make us not so in practise.
without American supplies we would have been up the creek
Only in your dreams, which exist only to strengthen your apologist position. And the irony is you're probably one of those "never change our flag" types - when it suits you, you can pretend it means something.
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?desc ription=22-161-609&depa=0
Or you could pay double for the Apple product, if your religion commands it.
Phrase it still another way - what kind of idiot pays that much money for a slow external 60GB hard drive?
The built in windows movie editing software is the competitor to iMovie
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Yeah, in the same sense that Pee Wee Herman is a competitor for Lance Armstrong
Nice handwave over the stuff you don't have an answer for!
Bullshit. For less money (or more depending on config) you get a Dell abortion with pathetic integrated graphics, "shared graphics memory", useless software and a monitor/KB/mouse that's only good for filling a dumpster. Thanks, but I'll take the Mac mini.
Most programmers don't have to suffer that way.
Stallman invented code bloat with Emacs; Microsoft merely embraced and extended.
Among geeks the only insipration you need is "because it was there!". Witness cheap RAID on Mac that works, driven by a Mac mini:
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"The Mac mini Maxi"
http://www.appletalk.com.au/articles/index.php?
When you buy the 1.42 model you lose a little performance because of the "upgraded" hard drive. Every report on the 1.25GHz mini says it comes with a 5400rpm 8M cache 40GB drive. I have two 1.42 minis - one came with a 4200rpm 8M cache 80GB drive, the other came with a 4200rpm 2M cache drive.
Since then I've fitted a 7200rpm 8M cache drive - it makes a BIG difference!
AND they stopped making "The Full Vermonty", which was a better flavor than CCBBB any day.
Oh? I thought it meant "asshole" a la Kurt Vonnegut.
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Richard Stallman has consistently proved he was a true visionnary
Yes, thank you for getting that right, down to the correct tense - for it is no longer the case. In the interview, RMS says "Any development of non-free software is harmful and unfortunate" - this are not the words of a visionary but those of a zealot. These days he can only alienate and repel. He's right about some things but it is a very rare figure of whom that can not be said.
My favorite RMS quote, when asked about programmers writing non-free software:
"What about them? The programmers writing non-free software? They are doing something antisocial. They should get some other job."
Easy to say when you're RMS. When you occupy one of the very, very few positions in society where you don't have to have a job. Where you can afford to nobly say "no thanks!" to a salary from EFF. Where kindly benefactors let you keep a free office and others keep on showering you with grants. "Let them eat cake!" says RMS.
I could be an AC for this post I suppose. But then this could be too easily dismissed as a troll, which it is not.
(And nobody resents new money like old money)
Clearly you have no idea how it works. Many, many companies get the green card process rolling for H1-B workers as a matter of course. It takes about two years, so there is plenty of time to abandon the process if the new employee turns out to be not worth keeping.
All the Indian programmers I have worked with have been above average (and some spectacularly so). I totally agree with this book's author that they contribute more than they take away - but H1-B visas ARE the first step to immigration.
Oh I don't know, I hear there are some very good openings in proctology.
Like, colloquialisms are not always good, ok? Just because they're like, common, doesn't make them, like, good.
Oh, and I'd just like to say that D&D has jumped the shark. How cool am I for saying that!
You're a rare example of a literate person, Mr. Aeonite. All those problems can be found in Slashdot posts every day - does the book include my favorite incorrect phrase, "could care less"? Your meticulous review is wasted on all but a very few Slashdot readers and I suspect even fewer have ever given any thought to the dos and don'ts of book layout.
I can easily picture the Slashdot editors all gathered around a monitor, looking blankly at your examples of mistakes and then at each other, wondering who will be the first to ask "Huh? What's wrong with that?!".