Actually you do, cause higher reactor output creates a lot of steam flow noise which is traceable, and regardless of which all of that heat is kept the the reactor core, the sub it's self is relatively cool when they are not running silent.
And yes heat is of a concern when you dont want to have your computer making too much noise cooling it's self(both vibrations and soundcan be transmitted outside of the hull.)
Its a very tricky thing but the g4's low power consumption makes it a pretty cool chip compared to a P4
honestly anyone who pays a cent to SCO is a fool and should have talked to their legal department first..
Read Carefully
YOU CANT GET SUED BY SCO SINCE YOU NEVER BOUGHT SHIT FROM SCO.
Likewise a class action lawsuit should be filed by anyone who uses linux charging SCO with extortion, they are using scare tactics to get your money, nothing of any legal merit.
If there really is any offending code in the kernal (which I doubt) then SCO has to show it, and then, its only IBM's concern, not us. IBM would have to pay SCO NOT the end user.
PLEASE would someone start up a class action lawsuit already!!!!!
I guess sonys own PR given to CNN and about 1000 other places about the cost of the new PSX is better than some no name sony rep huh???
From Sony's own site
"Kutaragi went on to explain that while Sony has not settled on how to market the PSX, its price may be lower than some have predicted. Because the system is largely based on semiconductors already developed for the PS2, which are inexpensively produced at existing Sony facilities, Sony will be able to sell it for less than rival devices and still turn a profit. "
This was a old Press Release from may and doesnt reflect the $200 us pricing of the system, that came out today, this PR also confirms the rumored TV recording feature though I omitted that part
I also never said the adaptor was selling well, I said there are no games for it yet cause networking these systems is still new. I DO know FF online is not going to be a pay per month since the Japan version isnt, its actually just the price of the game according to square-enix.
And as for your 10 million networked according to CNN
"the online console gaming service has snagged 350,000 subscribers in North America" thats pretty shitty when you think about it. And after a year they expect that to drop since no one wants to pay 9.99 a month to keep it.
The simple fact remains it doesnt matter what system it is, it willl never break into the Online market
oh and BTW ilink was a firewire port that only the japan version of the PS 2 used, thats the reason it was ditched, it was never for networking iLink was the name of FireWire on the sony side which they cant use now that FireWire is the standard name for the connector (it used the unpowered 4 pin version, not the powered 6 pin), when the PS 2 was developed networking was still not a big priority, which it still isnt since the xbox live has very few customers even with it's 10 million networking kits:-P
Well they are trying to get rid of the adaptor, since the PSX is comming out.
and the PPSX is only $200, but offers alot better DVD support as well as wireless networking with other systems. (It was also rumored to offer DVD burning support but I dont have a confirmation on this)
And truth be told if the PS 2 has most of the market, Im sure at least half if not more know how to spell hard drive, heck why the hell would they release a linux kit for the thing which is only really good for learning to code if they didnt think technical people where buying it.
The basic point is that truth be told you dont know if that will be the case, as it is those people who want to play FF online HAVE to buy the hard drive, its bundled with the software and is required for play. In fact they send you a beta version of it for the testing they are doing right now, and with the amount of people who by the PS 2 because they are the ones that have the RPG market cornered (since Square-Enix have stated that they refuse to do buisness with Microsoft in the RPG relm) then its very likely that the HD market will be hopping for the PS2.
eh its the fact that thousands of geeks would be wearing your shirt though.
I have the same feeling about music and why when I have put my mp3's online they where for free, I dont care about the money just about people seeing/hearing my stuff.
It's open source at its finest;-)!!!!
Oh well I tried,
as for why it came out Slashdot.ORG I have no clue, I must admit I cheated cause I didnt feel like figuring it out by hand so I think the program I used f--ked it up. Shows me not to trust a program again:-P.
I actually like a lot of the designs, they are all pretty cool, and beat my design hands down, congrats to the winners.
Ah I dont know about that, For one thing if they set it up like the japan version, then you can kiss goodbye to memory cards since they saves them to HD. Plus if you make games that require it (Xenosaga could very well be a game like that since the first one was almost two DVD long, with hints 3 - 8 might actually be two dvd's or more) then it makes sence to have a HD.
The Japan one has sold very well, mostly cause of games like Final Fantasy Online, and I know the next version of the PS2 is comming with a hard drive AND network kit intigrated into the whole system. So I wouldnt count out a hard drive selling well.
Im sorry the PS 2 is still much more popular a game platform to think that people wont upgrade their old ones if something really cool comes out. Heck im still looking into buying the Linux kit for it even though I have 4 computers all of which run some form of linux.
Ah but if thhe PS2's planned HD comes out (not the linux one the game one that has to be used with Final Fantasy Online both of which are coming out this winter) then it is VERY possible you could do it minus some of the nice graphics.
I for one can give two shits about graphics, if the gameplay is good then who cares, too many games hide the fact they suck behind good graphics.
But see thats the biggest problem, and one all of us should be steamed with. WE shouldnt be making configuratons to let something work.
Christ I remeber re-writing the dos boot up files all the time to get ONE program to work. With 95-XP Microsoft was supposed to fix that, but guess what they didnt, they just changed how we did it.
Ok granted not every software manufacturer can make sure EVER app works with ever other app, but then its the OS manufacturers dutie to write code that prevents total system crashes and the (blue, grey, or sys.log dump of death depending on the system) to happen frequently.
I have gotten maybe 4 kernal panics running all of the software I do in Mac OS X, that a fair ammount better than before with 1.0 - 9.2.2 where crashes came fast and furious. Im happy, but not content, Apple should do better. I want once a year or less.
Same with Windows users, the problem here is us techs expect that we want Microsoft to improve their software. But most consumers dont so Microsoft doesnt. We are at the mercy of people who dont know it should be better, and a company who doesnt care about us tech guys.
Its a sucky prospect. but how can we improve this???
Ha my boss who's clueless on anything thats doesnt have Bills shinning face on it would never let me even think it. We all (my entire staff even the anti mac ones) want to put Linux on them, but "we have to give the students something they know" even if it means they have to move computer to computer because their old one is now getting re-imaged cause of a major crash.
Its not as bad now with XP, which was a beast to install on some of them, but still about a crash a day when you review the logs.
Wow, never really have a problem with my laptop, I leave it running 24/7 though and dont shut it at night (let it go through its log checks and such.) Only once with OS X 10.0 did I have a nasty crash, and it was cause of that stupid iTunes2 install problem.
See thats what I dont get about people flaming apple for expensive machines, Im a IT tech for my schoolsystem and constantly I get the go with PC's they are cheaper line, yet in comparison to our iMacs in the elementary and middle schools (mixture of both old and new ones) the computers we fix the most are our budget line Dells of which there are about 200 in comparison to almost 900 macs.
And those Macs are running on adverage 24 hours a day whereas the PC's are shutdown every night since they seem to crash less than when we did leave them on everyday.
I had to submit this cause I think its funny, even if the site is Mac centric
So just how many Wintels are messing their shorts three or more times a day, you ask? Well, we're not entirely sure; Microsoft claims to have 600 million customers, though not all of them necessarily use Windows. Let's make a conservative estimate and assume that 90% of Microsoft's customers use Windows of some flavor. That would mean there are 540 million using Windows, 27 million of whom, by the Billster's own admission, have computers that crash on average at least every eight hours. Meanwhile, Apple claims there are 25 million Mac users worldwide. Yes, there are apparently more Windows users rebooting crashed Wintels at least three times a day than there are Mac users total-- which, in one sense, is pretty sad for Apple, but in a larger sense is just plain pathetic for Microsoft.
Now how many people crash ONCE a day??? It seems odd that he would pick just twice a day to report, what would have looked more impressive would have been Bill saying "Only 5% of our users crash once or more using all of our operating systems."
I know as all you do it would have been a much more staggering figure since just about any Windows PC I see at work crashes once a day, so I can see why he didnt say it.
Glad my linux and OSX boxes crash on an average of once every 6 or 7 months or so.
see thats where my last argument of copying to CD comes in.
I cant remeber where I saw it but I did see a few articles that make mention to CD's being encoded at 96bps to begin with, making the idea that copying 128bps files to a 96 bps cd only brings the file quality back down to 96bps the normal CD quality sound. Course I might be wrong but my friends who do sound recording also stated this was a fact and while ripping from a cd to the computer produced a loss in quality, the reverse (ie starting out with a 128bps soundfile and burning it to a 96bps on the disk) only produced the normal quality degregation that a CD would have regardless.
There other point was that since there are a few holdouts who still record to tape as well, your talking about a even lower qualitiy drop from 96 down to 48 which is then bumped up to the required 96 and cleaned up in scrubbers.So in any case the quality of your CD is never what you think it is.
Which they basically said was if you burn a CD from pure (not ripped) files then your not losing quality you wouldnt normally lose anyway.
1.) You can't reauthorize songs you purchaed if you move out of the country.
A) For now, they are working on the worldwide version of iTunes Music (as well as the PC version) more importantly if you taking you computer with you, it doesnt matter as other posts have pointed out here.
2.) You can't listen to them on anything that can't run iTunes (Macs, and soon Windows)
a) Also of now, they have talked about opening it up to other handheld players and Im sure someone will write a code to allow a open source MP3 player or other such stuff work with AAC's. Once the authorizing is done they dont need iTunes to play anymore, they just need to see the serial number matches.
3.) You are dependent on the continued existence of Apple to be able to authorize the playback of them.
a) Company with about 4 billion in the bank (of legit money not accounting errors) who puts out the 5 biggest movie studio apps as well as the number one MP3 player with 20% of the market. yeah they are going bye bye sometime soon
Honestly unless your a real audiophile you wont here a difference between the AAC's on your computer and CD's and I have worked my ass off to hear that it does (I also btw have perfect pitch and can hear very sesitive artifacts in recordings and other objects, VERY annoying when the TV is on downstairs but on a black screen and I am trying to sleep) You really cant tell the difference at all, most people dont have "kicking systems" and those that do still wont hear it. Anyone who says they can hear a quality degrade is either listening at a very low bit depth or is talking out of their ass. I mean we used records 8-tracks and cassettes for YEARS, and no one complained then and the quality of those arnt half that of CD's now
I know its funny I just started using Kazaa too since there wasnt a decent client for it yet.
But honestly I like using iTunes better anyway, 10 for a cd is not too much to spend in my honest opinion and I dont need liner notes I could look up the lyrics online
I was about to post the same thing but you beat me to it.
The whole reason your not allowed to play the tracks ON YOUR COMPUTER (ie you can still play them on the iPod and on CD's) is cause Apple has to iron out the distrubution laws for EVERY COUNTRY IN EUROPE AS WELL AS ANY OTHERS.
First off anyone arguing that DRM-less is the way to go is smoking a big fat one, there is noway in hell we could ever set that up even if the RIAA becamea smoking hole, artists would still not stand for it because there is a multitude of problems that get added to the mix if that where to happen so just forget it.
All in all Apple has managed to do somthing no one else has, make people NOT use p2p and instead spend money. Sure people still use p2p but there is a choice and you know what, chosing between spending 4 hours trying to download a entire album without the punk on the other end signing off, vs buying the cd for 10 bucks, I have chosen the later 4 times already and I am not upset with it, and mind you I have a t3 line, limewire AND kazza (and acqusition but its gnutella same as limewire) working on my mac. I just like using the iTunes music store better.
I also have a feeling this legal issue just means your not allowed to use it on computers made for other countries, i.e. a Mac for the spanish market, not a Mac bought in the US (which would in that case have a US serial number which the DRM would know
So go ahead bitch about shit, the truth is the person who submitted it was shown to have alternative motives to bitching about it (you know working for a COMPEATING service and all) but the truth is, iTunes has been a godsend to many because it proved our point of if you build it good, they will come which pretty much negates ANY argument the RIAA could have.
Not quiet, its become pretty obvious that they dont have the IP's and more importantly there are other share services out there that hide your IP, its not quiet over yet.
Fuck carrying it on me just install it one in every freaking movie theater and auditorium in the country.
I personally always wanted a device that would electricute people who have to have their cellphones on playing some Ja Rule ringtone as loud as humanly possible, but just making them not connect is fine with me.
Its funny I made the SAME argument, one could only figure they found a way to do it and not have it be a problem, is there any way you can actually make a band of radio frequences dissapear off the airwaves without using a jamming signal.
Although thinking about it wouldnt just broadcasting the same signal with a reversed sign wave cancel out the wave??
It could also be a trial thing too, it wasnt there 6 months ago just recently.
who knows I was never really great at physics, I just wanted people to know that people are experimenting with jamming signals and NOT getting the FCC on their ass
Interesting granted the hospital near my house has JUST SUCH A DEVICE, to block cellphone transmitions from entering the hospital. Dont ask me how, cause they refuse to tell me or let me see this device, but sure enough anytime I drive by on my way to the parkway the cellphone cuts out right at the hospital when I had a full signal 2 feet in front of and beyond the area.
and yes this is some sort of device, there are signs saying that cellphone signals are blocked all over the hospital.
Slashdot Mirror
And yes heat is of a concern when you dont want to have your computer making too much noise cooling it's self(both vibrations and soundcan be transmitted outside of the hull.)
Its a very tricky thing but the g4's low power consumption makes it a pretty cool chip compared to a P4
honestly anyone who pays a cent to SCO is a fool and should have talked to their legal department first..
Read Carefully
YOU CANT GET SUED BY SCO SINCE YOU NEVER BOUGHT SHIT FROM SCO.
Likewise a class action lawsuit should be filed by anyone who uses linux charging SCO with extortion, they are using scare tactics to get your money, nothing of any legal merit.
If there really is any offending code in the kernal (which I doubt) then SCO has to show it, and then, its only IBM's concern, not us. IBM would have to pay SCO NOT the end user.
PLEASE would someone start up a class action lawsuit already!!!!!
I guess sonys own PR given to CNN and about 1000 other places about the cost of the new PSX is better than some no name sony rep huh??? From Sony's own site "Kutaragi went on to explain that while Sony has not settled on how to market the PSX, its price may be lower than some have predicted. Because the system is largely based on semiconductors already developed for the PS2, which are inexpensively produced at existing Sony facilities, Sony will be able to sell it for less than rival devices and still turn a profit. " This was a old Press Release from may and doesnt reflect the $200 us pricing of the system, that came out today, this PR also confirms the rumored TV recording feature though I omitted that part I also never said the adaptor was selling well, I said there are no games for it yet cause networking these systems is still new. I DO know FF online is not going to be a pay per month since the Japan version isnt, its actually just the price of the game according to square-enix. And as for your 10 million networked according to CNN "the online console gaming service has snagged 350,000 subscribers in North America" thats pretty shitty when you think about it. And after a year they expect that to drop since no one wants to pay 9.99 a month to keep it. The simple fact remains it doesnt matter what system it is, it willl never break into the Online market
oh and BTW ilink was a firewire port that only the japan version of the PS 2 used, thats the reason it was ditched, it was never for networking iLink was the name of FireWire on the sony side which they cant use now that FireWire is the standard name for the connector (it used the unpowered 4 pin version, not the powered 6 pin), when the PS 2 was developed networking was still not a big priority, which it still isnt since the xbox live has very few customers even with it's 10 million networking kits :-P
and the PPSX is only $200, but offers alot better DVD support as well as wireless networking with other systems. (It was also rumored to offer DVD burning support but I dont have a confirmation on this)
And truth be told if the PS 2 has most of the market, Im sure at least half if not more know how to spell hard drive, heck why the hell would they release a linux kit for the thing which is only really good for learning to code if they didnt think technical people where buying it.
The basic point is that truth be told you dont know if that will be the case, as it is those people who want to play FF online HAVE to buy the hard drive, its bundled with the software and is required for play. In fact they send you a beta version of it for the testing they are doing right now, and with the amount of people who by the PS 2 because they are the ones that have the RPG market cornered (since Square-Enix have stated that they refuse to do buisness with Microsoft in the RPG relm) then its very likely that the HD market will be hopping for the PS2.
eh its the fact that thousands of geeks would be wearing your shirt though. I have the same feeling about music and why when I have put my mp3's online they where for free, I dont care about the money just about people seeing/hearing my stuff. It's open source at its finest ;-)!!!!
Oh well I tried, as for why it came out Slashdot.ORG I have no clue, I must admit I cheated cause I didnt feel like figuring it out by hand so I think the program I used f--ked it up. Shows me not to trust a program again :-P.
I actually like a lot of the designs, they are all pretty cool, and beat my design hands down, congrats to the winners.
Ah I dont know about that, For one thing if they set it up like the japan version, then you can kiss goodbye to memory cards since they saves them to HD. Plus if you make games that require it (Xenosaga could very well be a game like that since the first one was almost two DVD long, with hints 3 - 8 might actually be two dvd's or more) then it makes sence to have a HD. The Japan one has sold very well, mostly cause of games like Final Fantasy Online, and I know the next version of the PS2 is comming with a hard drive AND network kit intigrated into the whole system. So I wouldnt count out a hard drive selling well. Im sorry the PS 2 is still much more popular a game platform to think that people wont upgrade their old ones if something really cool comes out. Heck im still looking into buying the Linux kit for it even though I have 4 computers all of which run some form of linux.
Ah but if thhe PS2's planned HD comes out (not the linux one the game one that has to be used with Final Fantasy Online both of which are coming out this winter) then it is VERY possible you could do it minus some of the nice graphics. I for one can give two shits about graphics, if the gameplay is good then who cares, too many games hide the fact they suck behind good graphics.
Christ I remeber re-writing the dos boot up files all the time to get ONE program to work. With 95-XP Microsoft was supposed to fix that, but guess what they didnt, they just changed how we did it.
Ok granted not every software manufacturer can make sure EVER app works with ever other app, but then its the OS manufacturers dutie to write code that prevents total system crashes and the (blue, grey, or sys.log dump of death depending on the system) to happen frequently.
I have gotten maybe 4 kernal panics running all of the software I do in Mac OS X, that a fair ammount better than before with 1.0 - 9.2.2 where crashes came fast and furious. Im happy, but not content, Apple should do better. I want once a year or less.
Same with Windows users, the problem here is us techs expect that we want Microsoft to improve their software. But most consumers dont so Microsoft doesnt. We are at the mercy of people who dont know it should be better, and a company who doesnt care about us tech guys.
Its a sucky prospect. but how can we improve this???
Its not as bad now with XP, which was a beast to install on some of them, but still about a crash a day when you review the logs.
Wow, never really have a problem with my laptop, I leave it running 24/7 though and dont shut it at night (let it go through its log checks and such.) Only once with OS X 10.0 did I have a nasty crash, and it was cause of that stupid iTunes2 install problem.
And those Macs are running on adverage 24 hours a day whereas the PC's are shutdown every night since they seem to crash less than when we did leave them on everyday.
How did this get modded a troll, I thought it was humorus cause before OS X the Mac os DID crash ever 2 hours, I know Im a die hard mac user.
I had to submit this cause I think its funny, even if the site is Mac centric So just how many Wintels are messing their shorts three or more times a day, you ask? Well, we're not entirely sure; Microsoft claims to have 600 million customers, though not all of them necessarily use Windows. Let's make a conservative estimate and assume that 90% of Microsoft's customers use Windows of some flavor. That would mean there are 540 million using Windows, 27 million of whom, by the Billster's own admission, have computers that crash on average at least every eight hours. Meanwhile, Apple claims there are 25 million Mac users worldwide. Yes, there are apparently more Windows users rebooting crashed Wintels at least three times a day than there are Mac users total-- which, in one sense, is pretty sad for Apple, but in a larger sense is just plain pathetic for Microsoft.
But on to my topic,
Now how many people crash ONCE a day??? It seems odd that he would pick just twice a day to report, what would have looked more impressive would have been Bill saying "Only 5% of our users crash once or more using all of our operating systems."
I know as all you do it would have been a much more staggering figure since just about any Windows PC I see at work crashes once a day, so I can see why he didnt say it.
Glad my linux and OSX boxes crash on an average of once every 6 or 7 months or so.
I cant remeber where I saw it but I did see a few articles that make mention to CD's being encoded at 96bps to begin with, making the idea that copying 128bps files to a 96 bps cd only brings the file quality back down to 96bps the normal CD quality sound. Course I might be wrong but my friends who do sound recording also stated this was a fact and while ripping from a cd to the computer produced a loss in quality, the reverse (ie starting out with a 128bps soundfile and burning it to a 96bps on the disk) only produced the normal quality degregation that a CD would have regardless.
There other point was that since there are a few holdouts who still record to tape as well, your talking about a even lower qualitiy drop from 96 down to 48 which is then bumped up to the required 96 and cleaned up in scrubbers.So in any case the quality of your CD is never what you think it is.
Which they basically said was if you burn a CD from pure (not ripped) files then your not losing quality you wouldnt normally lose anyway.
A) For now, they are working on the worldwide version of iTunes Music (as well as the PC version) more importantly if you taking you computer with you, it doesnt matter as other posts have pointed out here.
2.) You can't listen to them on anything that can't run iTunes (Macs, and soon Windows)
a) Also of now, they have talked about opening it up to other handheld players and Im sure someone will write a code to allow a open source MP3 player or other such stuff work with AAC's. Once the authorizing is done they dont need iTunes to play anymore, they just need to see the serial number matches.
3.) You are dependent on the continued existence of Apple to be able to authorize the playback of them.
a) Company with about 4 billion in the bank (of legit money not accounting errors) who puts out the 5 biggest movie studio apps as well as the number one MP3 player with 20% of the market. yeah they are going bye bye sometime soon
Honestly unless your a real audiophile you wont here a difference between the AAC's on your computer and CD's and I have worked my ass off to hear that it does (I also btw have perfect pitch and can hear very sesitive artifacts in recordings and other objects, VERY annoying when the TV is on downstairs but on a black screen and I am trying to sleep) You really cant tell the difference at all, most people dont have "kicking systems" and those that do still wont hear it. Anyone who says they can hear a quality degrade is either listening at a very low bit depth or is talking out of their ass. I mean we used records 8-tracks and cassettes for YEARS, and no one complained then and the quality of those arnt half that of CD's now
I know its funny I just started using Kazaa too since there wasnt a decent client for it yet. But honestly I like using iTunes better anyway, 10 for a cd is not too much to spend in my honest opinion and I dont need liner notes I could look up the lyrics online
I was about to post the same thing but you beat me to it.
The whole reason your not allowed to play the tracks ON YOUR COMPUTER (ie you can still play them on the iPod and on CD's) is cause Apple has to iron out the distrubution laws for EVERY COUNTRY IN EUROPE AS WELL AS ANY OTHERS.
First off anyone arguing that DRM-less is the way to go is smoking a big fat one, there is noway in hell we could ever set that up even if the RIAA becamea smoking hole, artists would still not stand for it because there is a multitude of problems that get added to the mix if that where to happen so just forget it.
All in all Apple has managed to do somthing no one else has, make people NOT use p2p and instead spend money. Sure people still use p2p but there is a choice and you know what, chosing between spending 4 hours trying to download a entire album without the punk on the other end signing off, vs buying the cd for 10 bucks, I have chosen the later 4 times already and I am not upset with it, and mind you I have a t3 line, limewire AND kazza (and acqusition but its gnutella same as limewire) working on my mac. I just like using the iTunes music store better.
I also have a feeling this legal issue just means your not allowed to use it on computers made for other countries, i.e. a Mac for the spanish market, not a Mac bought in the US (which would in that case have a US serial number which the DRM would know
So go ahead bitch about shit, the truth is the person who submitted it was shown to have alternative motives to bitching about it (you know working for a COMPEATING service and all) but the truth is, iTunes has been a godsend to many because it proved our point of if you build it good, they will come which pretty much negates ANY argument the RIAA could have.
probably not
Not quiet, its become pretty obvious that they dont have the IP's and more importantly there are other share services out there that hide your IP, its not quiet over yet.
I personally always wanted a device that would electricute people who have to have their cellphones on playing some Ja Rule ringtone as loud as humanly possible, but just making them not connect is fine with me.
Although thinking about it wouldnt just broadcasting the same signal with a reversed sign wave cancel out the wave??
It could also be a trial thing too, it wasnt there 6 months ago just recently.
who knows I was never really great at physics, I just wanted people to know that people are experimenting with jamming signals and NOT getting the FCC on their ass
and yes this is some sort of device, there are signs saying that cellphone signals are blocked all over the hospital.