Sony, in their infinite wisdom, didn't create PS3's that can read PS2 game discs.
Sony decided that full or partial hardware support for PS2 games was inflating the cost and complexity of the PS3.
The PS2 "Slim" - which also ditched the "OtherOS" and full PS2 compatibility - is still in production and still available from American outlets like Amazon.com for around $100.
But ya, if they are capable of this (with sheer numbers), they could be capable of more. Basically I'm for anything that scares the MPAA somewhat even if the "fighting" (in this case) is rather childish.
Whatever else may be on the Tea Party agenda, two things are not:
The free movie fix for the geek. Letting a mob from 4Chan hijack the web and blackout any site they don't like.
It would be easy - easy - for the anti-intellectual, anti-elitist, sentiment in American political life to find a new target in the geek's adolescent sense of entitlement.
Yes because Excel, Powerpoint, Quicken, Maya, and Twitter are so much better . ..
But they really are that much better.
The motivational poster is at least a century old.
Excel, Powerpoint and Quicken play on that same instinct to make your mark, get ahead in your career.
This isn't the image conjured up by the GIMP.
Twitter suggests fun and play. Maya, worlds of illusion, mystery, and magic. The tech that brings home an Oscar. Catapults Blue Sky Studios into the big-time with Ice Age and Scrat.
While a blender is a small household appliance your teenage girl uses to make smoothies.
Explain to me why you file this lawsuit in a federal court in New York and not a state court in California - where a judge just might be a little less hostile to the trade in "medical" marijuana.
German is not my first language; corrections and other improvements welcome
The link is to "heise Open Source" and and to what is unmistakably the argument for the defense: that any failings in Linux and Open Sourcce had nothing to do with this debacle.
If you try to search Google for an oppossing - or at least independepent - point of view you loop back to "Open Source" and Slashdot as the only sources for this story.
I did a write up like this back in 1997 with Win95 and some flavor of Red Hat. It has been thirteen years and the basic arguments still haven't changed.
That is because Slashdot hasn't changed.
The Borg icon and stained glass window are proof of that.
Geek talks to geek. There is dialog with the far greater mass of users who have chosen OSX, the iOS or Windows.
I'm not disputing your 2% number, because I don't have any other numbers to dispute it with. But not all computers are new computers. To be fair, my gut tells me the two cheeseburgers I had for lunch were just what I needed, so it lies to me sometimes.
Yes it does.
If you click on a website, someone, somewhere, has another data point for their webstats - and nowhere does the news for the "open web" or Linux look partcularly good: iOS Tops Linux
Their owners, who can't afford a new computer, were grateful to get the results of my dumpster-diving, reformatting, and refurbishing. It costs me (and them) nothing.
Nothing but your time. But your time is not unlimited.
Walmart.com is open 24/7/365 and it stocks 149 flavors of the Windows laptop, 88 desktops and 102 printers for the 64-bit Win 7 world.
Metro New York City has a population of 19 million, and is ethnically, religiously, and culturally diverse.
Approximately 36% of the city's population is foreign-born. In New York no single country or region of origin dominates. The ten largest countries of origin for modern day immigration are the Dominican Republic, China, Jamaica, Guyana, Mexico, Ecuador, Haiti, Trinidad and Tobago, Colombia and Russia. The largest ethnic groups in New York City are African American, Italian, Jewish, and Irish. The New York City metropolitan area is home to the largest Jewish community outside Israel, and the city proper contains the largest Jewish community in the world. It is also home to nearly a quarter of the nation's South Asians, the largest African American community of any city in the country, and comprised as of 2008 a population of 659,596 ethnic Chinese. the largest outside of Asia.New York City
Manhattan has 354 million square feet of office space.
But New York remains importantly, if less visibly, a manufacturing center. There are no unmarketable skills, however obscure.
The fool on the run takes to the back roads, the Pacific, the Klondike - where the youngest child will point him out as the stranger. The one who doesn't belong. Doesn't dress the part. Doesn't act the part.
So someone brings ninja stars on a 747 and goes on a bloody rampage (or...well...two, three people before everyone in the 5 rows above and behind tie him up with seat belt extenders...)
You cannot predict how people will behave in a crisis.
Least of all, perhaps, when they are belted down in the confined spaces of an airliner - and the killer on board has weapons he has shown beyond doubt that he knows how to use.
Security theater is not security.
The Shuriken was often a simple, improvised, weapon, a secondary weapon, but never, historically, a toy.
There are more cases of passengers stopping lunatics on planes than there are of TSA stopping lunatics from getting on planes.
Its not because he's rich, its because its his own fucking plane and quite honestly he should be able to do whatever he wants to with his own property, just like there are rules in buses and taxis that don't apply to your own personal cars.
The international border is not - never has been - never will be - the same experience as taking the cross-town bus.
If I then have to pirate the whole game just to get around the DLC DRM, I will.
Then all the essential components of your next game will become accessible only when you are on-line and only when your account is marked "paid in full."
The moment the indie producer hears the word piracy is the moment he begins looking for a more secure platform - first on the console and then - maybe - on the Mac or Windows PC.
But lets not forget that although the price will be zeroed, the NGO's will still not be able to see what the software is doing, will still not be able to change the software.
Maybe they don't want to. Maybe they don't need to.
Maybe the time and money isn't there.
Maybe it matters more that an NGO's staff and volunteers have the software they know how to use and are comfortable in using.
Maybe it's the the job that matters and not ideological purity or political correctness.
I wish there were a way that we could take actors, news-people, and sports figures with good gigs who insist on complaining, and have them work at a real job for a couple of years.
Shouldn't the same standard be applied to the Slashdot poster?
Whose median income - or at least his expectations - are rather high.
You do understand that in many places normal food crops are still fertilized by feces?
But....
The use of human feces as fertilizer is a risky practice as it may contain disease-causing pathogens and because it contains heavy metals. Nevertheless, in developing nations it is widespread. Common parasitic worm infections, such as ascariasis, in these countries are linked to night soil, since their eggs are in feces.Night soil
Nearly 2.2 million people die each year because of diarrhea-related diseases, including cholera, according to WHO statistics. More than 80 percent of those cases can be attributed to contact with contaminated water and a lack of proper sanitation.Human Waste Used by 200 Million Farmers, Study Says
Slashdot Mirror
Sony, in their infinite wisdom, didn't create PS3's that can read PS2 game discs.
Sony decided that full or partial hardware support for PS2 games was inflating the cost and complexity of the PS3.
The PS2 "Slim" - which also ditched the "OtherOS" and full PS2 compatibility - is still in production and still available from American outlets like Amazon.com for around $100.
Guilty until proven innocent is traditional for males accused of sex crimes in America.
Historically, I think you would find many women who would disagree with you.
Sexual assault experts dispel date rape myths
But ya, if they are capable of this (with sheer numbers), they could be capable of more.
Basically I'm for anything that scares the MPAA somewhat even if the "fighting" (in this case) is rather childish.
Whatever else may be on the Tea Party agenda, two things are not:
The free movie fix for the geek.
Letting a mob from 4Chan hijack the web and blackout any site they don't like.
It would be easy - easy - for the anti-intellectual, anti-elitist, sentiment in American political life to find a new target in the geek's adolescent sense of entitlement.
Yes because Excel, Powerpoint, Quicken, Maya, and Twitter are so much better . . .
But they really are that much better.
The motivational poster is at least a century old.
Excel, Powerpoint and Quicken play on that same instinct to make your mark, get ahead in your career.
This isn't the image conjured up by the GIMP.
Twitter suggests fun and play. Maya, worlds of illusion, mystery, and magic. The tech that brings home an Oscar. Catapults Blue Sky Studios into the big-time with Ice Age and Scrat.
While a blender is a small household appliance your teenage girl uses to make smoothies.
Explain to me why you file this lawsuit in a federal court in New York and not a state court in California - where a judge just might be a little less hostile to the trade in "medical" marijuana.
"Yeah, this story is pretty self-explaining... good work FOSS!"
Yes, this story is pretty self-explaining... but I question what does indeed explains
So did I, but for a different reason:
"Open Source - News For The Enterprise" is the only source for the story.
Everyone else I found searching Google just repeats the tale as told on Slashdot, as if it were the gospel truth -
and not merely an argument for the defense that exonerates Linux and the Open Source app of any and all responsibility for the debacle.
German is not my first language; corrections and other improvements welcome
The link is to "heise Open Source" and and to what is unmistakably the argument for the defense: that any failings in Linux and Open Sourcce had nothing to do with this debacle.
If you try to search Google for an oppossing - or at least independepent - point of view you loop back to "Open Source" and Slashdot as the only sources for this story.
Let's see, did a factory restore of a Dell with Windows XP and it wouldn't boot with the Nvidia card that came with it.
The first time I saw that problem I solved it by simply cleaning the contacts and resetting the card.
If the project isn't interesting or important enough to warrant being finished, abandon it.
Someone has to clean house.
SourceForge is the Island of the Damned.
You can waste an ungodly amount of time there trying to find something alive among the corpses.
Why did the Model T Ford look like that?
There is not an auto garage at every rural crossroads.
You can probably fetch a mechanic who knows how to repair farm machinery and the like.
Things you will know will break or go out of alignment must be easy to fix.
So you keep it simple.
Dirt and gravel roads demand high clearance.
High pressure tires means frequent blowouts - and there is no auto club to call for help.
Ford was successful because he understood how to fit his car into the existing infrastructure.
It's a lesson worth remembering.
I did a write up like this back in 1997 with Win95 and some flavor of Red Hat. It has been thirteen years and the basic arguments still haven't changed.
That is because Slashdot hasn't changed.
The Borg icon and stained glass window are proof of that.
Geek talks to geek. There is dialog with the far greater mass of users who have chosen OSX, the iOS or Windows.
I'm not disputing your 2% number, because I don't have any other numbers to dispute it with. But not all computers are new computers. To be fair, my gut tells me the two cheeseburgers I had for lunch were just what I needed, so it lies to me sometimes.
Yes it does.
If you click on a website, someone, somewhere, has another data point for their webstats - and nowhere does the news for the "open web" or Linux look partcularly good: iOS Tops Linux
Their owners, who can't afford a new computer, were grateful to get the results of my dumpster-diving, reformatting, and refurbishing. It costs me (and them) nothing.
Nothing but your time. But your time is not unlimited.
Walmart.com is open 24/7/365 and it stocks 149 flavors of the Windows laptop, 88 desktops and 102 printers for the 64-bit Win 7 world.
It's quite interesting that PRICE is missing from the comparison. I'd say that based on their own scoring system, that would make it dead even!
The geek can't let go the fantasy of the "Microsoft Tax."
There are enormous economies of scale at play in the Windows market.
WalMart sells 149 flavors of the Windows laptop on-line. 88 desktops. 102 printers. It is pretty much all 64 bit Win 7 Home.
That does not happen when product is slow-moving. Difficult to sell. Expensive to service and support.
New Zealand has a population of 4 million.
73% of unmixed European descent. Demographics of New Zealand
Metro New York City has a population of 19 million, and is ethnically, religiously, and culturally diverse.
Approximately 36% of the city's population is foreign-born. In New York no single country or region of origin dominates. The ten largest countries of origin for modern day immigration are the Dominican Republic, China, Jamaica, Guyana, Mexico, Ecuador, Haiti, Trinidad and Tobago, Colombia and Russia. The largest ethnic groups in New York City are African American, Italian, Jewish, and Irish.
The New York City metropolitan area is home to the largest Jewish community outside Israel, and the city proper contains the largest Jewish community in the world. It is also home to nearly a quarter of the nation's South Asians, the largest African American community of any city in the country, and comprised as of 2008 a population of 659,596 ethnic Chinese. the largest outside of Asia. New York City
The Islamic population in 2004-2005 was around 600,000. Columbia Presents First-Ever Study on Muslim Political, Social, Religious Identity in NYC
Manhattan has 354 million square feet of office space.
But New York remains importantly, if less visibly, a manufacturing center. There are no unmarketable skills, however obscure.
The fool on the run takes to the back roads, the Pacific, the Klondike - where the youngest child will point him out as the stranger. The one who doesn't belong. Doesn't dress the part. Doesn't act the part.
So someone brings ninja stars on a 747 and goes on a bloody rampage (or...well...two, three people before everyone in the 5 rows above and behind tie him up with seat belt extenders...)
You cannot predict how people will behave in a crisis.
Least of all, perhaps, when they are belted down in the confined spaces of an airliner - and the killer on board has weapons he has shown beyond doubt that he knows how to use.
Security theater is not security.
The Shuriken was often a simple, improvised, weapon, a secondary weapon, but never, historically, a toy.
There are more cases of passengers stopping lunatics on planes than there are of TSA stopping lunatics from getting on planes.
Citation needed.
Its not because he's rich, its because its his own fucking plane and quite honestly he should be able to do whatever he wants to with his own property, just like there are rules in buses and taxis that don't apply to your own personal cars.
The international border is not - never has been - never will be - the same experience as taking the cross-town bus.
Released American hiker arrives in Oman
It all becomes clear with the motive "to make a buck".
Should I assume you make your home in a Benedictine monastery?
If I then have to pirate the whole game just to get around the DLC DRM, I will.
Then all the essential components of your next game will become accessible only when you are on-line and only when your account is marked "paid in full."
The moment the indie producer hears the word piracy is the moment he begins looking for a more secure platform - first on the console and then - maybe - on the Mac or Windows PC.
But lets not forget that although the price will be zeroed, the NGO's will still not be able to see what the software is doing, will still not be able to change the software.
Maybe they don't want to. Maybe they don't need to.
Maybe the time and money isn't there.
Maybe it matters more that an NGO's staff and volunteers have the software they know how to use and are comfortable in using.
Maybe it's the the job that matters and not ideological purity or political correctness.
Get the 400 mbit and then sell wi-fi connections to your neighbors.
If you have a contract that allows re-sale -
and if you want to want the legal, technical, and financial responsibilities of running a mini-ISP out of your home.
The subpoena comes to you as the owner of record of the parent account.
How exactly is a post that contains no evidence for its claims "insightful"?
Consider it the cheap-shot Microsoft bashing of the day mod.
I wish there were a way that we could take actors, news-people, and sports figures with good gigs who insist on complaining, and have them work at a real job for a couple of years.
Shouldn't the same standard be applied to the Slashdot poster?
Whose median income - or at least his expectations - are rather high.
All jobs look easy when you don't have to them.
Particularly when the pay is better than yours.
Actually, 363 people want to pay for creating it. At least when I checked... More now I am sure.
Let's put this in perspective:
Avery Fisher Hall, home of the New York Philharmonic, has 2,738 seats.
The DRM free iTunes 30 concert season subscription to the Philharmonic is $150. $5 a concert for a first-tier orchestra, venue, and production team.
Civil disobedience isn't about defying the law in the comfort of your own home; it's about when you get caught and defy the authorities.
It's about being accepting the risk of interrogation, trial and conviction.
Civil disobedience only works in scarcities someone actually cares about things like proper procedure, equity and fairness, justice and mercy.
You do understand that in many places normal food crops are still fertilized by feces?
But....
The use of human feces as fertilizer is a risky practice as it may contain disease-causing pathogens and because it contains heavy metals. Nevertheless, in developing nations it is widespread. Common parasitic worm infections, such as ascariasis, in these countries are linked to night soil, since their eggs are in feces. Night soil
Nearly 2.2 million people die each year because of diarrhea-related diseases, including cholera, according to WHO statistics. More than 80 percent of those cases can be attributed to contact with contaminated water and a lack of proper sanitation. Human Waste Used by 200 Million Farmers, Study Says