The *always* do that at E3 though... OK so you remember OtherOS and the root kit, but do you remember the dual-HDMI-out on the PS3? Remember Eight Days? The card readers? The 6 USB ports? Streaming your video files to your friends in Home? The importance of a single-SKU? Remember when backwards compatibility was a "core value" of the PS brand? Remember when every PS3 title would run in 1080p? Remember when motion sensing was a gimmick, and rumble on a wireless controller was impossible?
So they generated a ton of good will by telling us they would let us own what we bought... the same guys who stripped the Linux functionality out of a device they'd already sold us just a couple of years back, and you believed them?
If half the people who *didn't* use it actually questioned whether Sony were correct in nerfing devices in our living rooms, they'd have had a tougher time.
As it was, those of us who *did* use it got shouted down by those who showed a rabid devotion to the right of a company to remotely disable features of consoles we'd bought and paid for.
Or maybe the fact smartphones are mass-market has brought the console wars to John Q. Public's pockets.
As a Galaxy S3 owner, I say fuck all this "techcnical luddite" talk, it's just a bunch of hipster bullshit. Once you get to spending more than a couple of hundred bucks, there's no such thing as a bad smartphone any more.
I don't mean to pry, but how many donations have you had on iOS? I'm about to launch an Android app and will be porting it to iOS at some point, I've heard iOS is more profitable but it would be good to get an real-world idea of just how different the numbers are.
That's a shame, I wonder if they fixed it by Warp - I ran that on off-the-shelf components back in 1995 and it was awesome. It could run Windows in a Window no problem, even games would run fine.
I was sad when it died, it was a number of years before I saw another OS handle running an OS within an OS as gracefully as Warp.
He's describing deduplication; an established technology - widely used at file system level and in enterprise storage/backup products - and in which hash collisions are a known risk which is mitigated in various ways.
And even where there is life, intelligent life of the giant parabolic dish building variety is certainly not a given.
I've thought about this quite a lot. We would likely not have been able to get a meaningful foothold on this planet had the dinosaurs not been wiped out.
As we explore space, we may find life isn't particularly unusual, but it might also be the case that the dominant forms of life tend to trend towards those of the "big angry reptile" variety.
I can't watch the video right now, but I can point out that the militia mentioned in the constitution isn't defined as simply a bunch of civilians with guns - it's defined as being both well regulated and necessary for the security of the state.
The 2nd Amendment was PRIMARILY about ensuring US citizens could do one thing above and beyond all others; Overthrow the US government by killing _people_. Not Bambi. People. Government people.
"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
It's not about overthrowing the government, dumbass, it's about defending it.
I think westboro baptist is a joke. They should not be taken seriously. 90% of the 'bandwidth' given to their message comes from the overly sensitive sorts when they demand legal protections for their butthurt feelings on national tv. Just ignore them.
Were you forced to endure them spewing their hate at a service for one of your deceased loved ones, you may find these opinions change.
For another, as pointed out regularly here on Slashdot, weapons don't kill people - people kill people
That argument is specifically about guns, not bombs.
Take everyone who agrees with the statement "civilians should be allowed to carry concealed handguns on planes," then replace the word 'handguns' with 'explosives' and see how support plummets.
Also we're at the verge of a netbook-caliber tablet crash where everyone realizes they all suck and stop buying them.
That's a shame, between making music, editing video and photos, web browsing, social networking, media streaming, writing and gaming, I seem to get a lot of use out of mine.
So how long do you think it will be before people like me realise they suck, roughly? There's a lot of people going to be in for a big disappointment on that day.
As a result, people just aren't upgrading any more, unless their software requires it. Of course, this might not apply to certain applications (namely high-end games)
Also, more often than not, today's PC games are also targeted for consoles - i.e. they're designed specifically for 5+ year old hardware.
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The *always* do that at E3 though... OK so you remember OtherOS and the root kit, but do you remember the dual-HDMI-out on the PS3? Remember Eight Days? The card readers? The 6 USB ports? Streaming your video files to your friends in Home? The importance of a single-SKU? Remember when backwards compatibility was a "core value" of the PS brand? Remember when every PS3 title would run in 1080p? Remember when motion sensing was a gimmick, and rumble on a wireless controller was impossible?
So they generated a ton of good will by telling us they would let us own what we bought... the same guys who stripped the Linux functionality out of a device they'd already sold us just a couple of years back, and you believed them?
You can lend/sell used steam games?
2. Is it likely that EA will release a game that "pro gamers" want to play? A game that is not a glorified FarmVille.
Like Battlefield?
MPAA = Motion Picture Association of America
RIAA = Recording Industry Association of America
If half the people who *didn't* use it actually questioned whether Sony were correct in nerfing devices in our living rooms, they'd have had a tougher time.
As it was, those of us who *did* use it got shouted down by those who showed a rabid devotion to the right of a company to remotely disable features of consoles we'd bought and paid for.
If you pay x people billions of dollars for acting like maniacs, how many more would start behaving like maniacs just for the payoff?
Or maybe the fact smartphones are mass-market has brought the console wars to John Q. Public's pockets.
As a Galaxy S3 owner, I say fuck all this "techcnical luddite" talk, it's just a bunch of hipster bullshit. Once you get to spending more than a couple of hundred bucks, there's no such thing as a bad smartphone any more.
Now find a free or paid app like iMovie or Garageband on Android, Ready? Go!
I don't mean to pry, but how many donations have you had on iOS? I'm about to launch an Android app and will be porting it to iOS at some point, I've heard iOS is more profitable but it would be good to get an real-world idea of just how different the numbers are.
That's a shame, I wonder if they fixed it by Warp - I ran that on off-the-shelf components back in 1995 and it was awesome. It could run Windows in a Window no problem, even games would run fine.
I was sad when it died, it was a number of years before I saw another OS handle running an OS within an OS as gracefully as Warp.
That implies block-level dedupe, it'll be looking at chunks, doesn't matter if the files themselves are encrypted or not.
He's describing deduplication; an established technology - widely used at file system level and in enterprise storage/backup products - and in which hash collisions are a known risk which is mitigated in various ways.
"TL;DR: the data's probably deduplicated."
And even where there is life, intelligent life of the giant parabolic dish building variety is certainly not a given.
I've thought about this quite a lot. We would likely not have been able to get a meaningful foothold on this planet had the dinosaurs not been wiped out.
As we explore space, we may find life isn't particularly unusual, but it might also be the case that the dominant forms of life tend to trend towards those of the "big angry reptile" variety.
A valid point, with one caveat: everybody can perceive frame rates faster than 30.
I can't watch the video right now, but I can point out that the militia mentioned in the constitution isn't defined as simply a bunch of civilians with guns - it's defined as being both well regulated and necessary for the security of the state.
The 2nd Amendment was PRIMARILY about ensuring US citizens could do one thing above and beyond all others; Overthrow the US government by killing _people_. Not Bambi. People. Government people.
"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
It's not about overthrowing the government, dumbass, it's about defending it.
They're also not routinely used to commit massacres.
China is a nation of 1 billion people.
1,344,130,000 in 2011.
Pretty big number... so big we can round down - dropping the equivalent of the entire population of the United States - and nobody bats an eye.
I have a feeling you're wrong - funerals are for the living, not the dead.
I think westboro baptist is a joke. They should not be taken seriously. 90% of the 'bandwidth' given to their message comes from the overly sensitive sorts when they demand legal protections for their butthurt feelings on national tv. Just ignore them.
Were you forced to endure them spewing their hate at a service for one of your deceased loved ones, you may find these opinions change.
Apple is a company that makes its money selling hardware with a proprietary OS, not homegrowing competitive and complex applications.
There's noting on any rival mobile platform which is remotely competitive with Garageband or iMovie on iOS.
Maps was a huge mistake, but to say they're incapable of making competitive apps is selling them short.
For another, as pointed out regularly here on Slashdot, weapons don't kill people - people kill people
That argument is specifically about guns, not bombs.
Take everyone who agrees with the statement "civilians should be allowed to carry concealed handguns on planes," then replace the word 'handguns' with 'explosives' and see how support plummets.
Also we're at the verge of a netbook-caliber tablet crash where everyone realizes they all suck and stop buying them.
That's a shame, between making music, editing video and photos, web browsing, social networking, media streaming, writing and gaming, I seem to get a lot of use out of mine.
So how long do you think it will be before people like me realise they suck, roughly? There's a lot of people going to be in for a big disappointment on that day.
As a result, people just aren't upgrading any more, unless their software requires it. Of course, this might not apply to certain applications (namely high-end games)
Also, more often than not, today's PC games are also targeted for consoles - i.e. they're designed specifically for 5+ year old hardware.