As far as his comments about user lockin go, many Universities (colleges in America) have already switched over to Linux often as a dual boot option.
Inviting students to tinker, schools move farther and farther from MSoft each year and need subsidies to keep them on board this will do more to put linux in people's education than the tiny confrences Microsoft is able to organize.
The thing holding linux back is it's inability to take risks regarding legal issues (Drivers mp3 codecs etc.) and the difficulties involved in it's use.
Intel uses DDR2 which is probably clocked at 667 MHZ as opposed to the 400MHZ of the AMD memory.
But DDR2 is a big pile of garbage, it was designed to be ultra cheap and junky but somehow the prices never actually came down all we got were a whole bunch of memory maker anti-trust cases while Intel was fed to the dogs.
AMD is looking at moving over to DDR2 now that it is hitting 800Mhz which might provide something like similar performance to DDR unfortunatly DDR3 is going to hit next year and it is actually supposed to provide a significant increase in performance.
Bittorrent is #1 the most popular file sharing mechanism, especially among novices.
Second it is insecure on the public servers which seem to all be building war chests to fight the industry when it comes.
Third other than the RIAA many copy protection lawsuits have targetted the sharers rather than the people downloading with bittorrent these people are increadibly exposed.
Fourth a lawsuit strongly in the favour of the motion picture industry will have a huge impact almost immediatly because bittorrent is somewhat centralized and I.P. addresses for leechers are totally exposed.
Unlike trying to shut down usenet, the napster clones, or any other service a judgement here has the potential of breaking illegal P2P.
Whatever he says now doesn't matter AT ALL because all the specs are already finalized.
Saying sure you can make your stuff work off of our stuff is meaningless.
The system is still region encoded, The system won't support blue tooth and other wireless controllers, won't support them through usb either though the system has it.
Won't support USB HD's woops smooth there.
won't support internet play beyond Live.
I'd say that's a lot of effort they put into giving the consumer choice, /me starts a slow clap.
We won't be affected if the U.N. takes over, things might move more quickly and domains will probably be cheaper and not get stolen by big companies quite so easily but other than that nothing will be diffrent.
If the U.S. keeps it nothing will change they will probably re-evaluate who is in control and maybe make some cosmetic improvements no bigie...
However if the net splits that will be interesting, will the U.S. force 'it's' sites to stay in their registry? Will they be allowed to double dip? How will new allocation be handled? When they are eventually remerged will there be conflicts?
I'm pretty concerned because I'd like to be part of the global web not the U.S. web and I live in Canada. I'm pretty sure most major backbones run through the U.S.
What will Slashdot do?
And how will this all influence the upcoming transition to IPv6?
To become incorperated you need to offer a service to the people of your nation, you are commited to serve your government.
If these companies won't negotiate with other countries and their government is unwilling to step in (As they would do to serve their own citizens) then there really is no good reason not to violate the patent.
If (movie.hitmovie.budget > revenue) revenue *=.9;
if (movie.hitmove.budget movie.hitmovie = movie.independant;
Asside from the fact I'm assigning a complex variable which only works under uber programming languages it makes perfect sense.
I don't regret that I don't have a Farrari, it takes time to make each one and I can't pay for that time, however I can offer bandwidth and acclaim to support the generosity of people willing to distribute information.
Here is my story, sitting in class (University I'm Canadian) waiting for a lecture on J-Unit to start, I see a guy sit down 2 seats over and pull out his PSP so I pull out my DS in the hope I can try his PSP, it doesn't really look that sexy to me but it's supposed to have ps2 quality games and I don't have a ps2.
I start Kirby and start playing, he doesn't look over.
I play for about 3-4 minutes, and look over again.
He still hasn't done anything, The lecture starts and I close the lid of my DS (putting it in suspend mode) He sighs and puts in his headphones, I look over, it looks like a driving game, it's ok it's no Project Gotham, or Forza, or even Ridge Racer 4.
He ends up playing during the entire lecture, I end up watching in disbeliefe for most of the lecture.
Here is another funny story about my DS, I lost the adapter! Seriously I lost the cute little adapter, so while I was visiting my family I saw an old friend and he borrowed my DS.
He was able to complete 3/4 of Kirby on the charge still in the machine (about 3/4).
It was a reassuring demonstration of battery life.
If they'd implemented support for Xvid or some other high compression codec (which they are doing anyway) they could fit a 2 hour movie on 9.4 GB I bet.
I'm sorry the reason the 360 is going to fail is that it has a $500 price tag.
Now for nerds that's the price of a primo video card or.5 of a laptop but for a parent?
That's a new Fridge, a shiney new fridge.
They crammed it with ram and cores but when only.6 million units ship before christmas you'll be hard pressed to find game makers who are willing to invest 1-3 million to try and make a game for it.
Microsoft will start hurting because those game makers won't want to pay their (probably higher than ever) royalty and testing fees and basically the whole thing will collapse.
Sony might hit the same price point, and could be on the same ship which will make life easier for both companies but if Sony hits a lower price point they'll be duking it out with the revolution.
The revolution will have next gen graphics even if they can't compare with the big boys and if they can get their controller ducks in a row providing sports, FPS, RPG and perhaps even RTS on a console with good online support they'll win.
you risk the complete loss of the incredibly lucrative industry that relies on emergency, last-minute blivet purchasing by morons who don't understand time zones and can't wait a hour!
Yea, we're risking trade with the U.S. Didn't you RTFA?
What they could really use is total access to technology, Africa is one of the most resource rich countries in the world.
There are few reasons to assume if they had access to technical documentation they couldn't develop their own manufacturing and help themselves, even more disturbing is the seeming lack of outside trade, Africa has oil and precious stones which are sold through other countries who pay them a pitance, admittedly the Africans didn't have enough capiltal to start their own industry but if they have access to the technical information at least they'd have an idea of the complexities involved.
Free informtation would be good for progress around the world, it would challenge companies to be original year over year, but the effects on developing countries would me increadible.
Slashdot Mirror
The U.K. has lower broadband penetration.
And a lower percentage of people with internet access.
Can I ask a question... Could the linux people go through EVERY SINGLE HOW TO and see if they can replace it with a batch file?
As far as his comments about user lockin go, many Universities (colleges in America) have already switched over to Linux often as a dual boot option.
Inviting students to tinker, schools move farther and farther from MSoft each year and need subsidies to keep them on board this will do more to put linux in people's education than the tiny confrences Microsoft is able to organize.
The thing holding linux back is it's inability to take risks regarding legal issues (Drivers mp3 codecs etc.) and the difficulties involved in it's use.
A list of Hardware, the driver it has and the latest driver available.
Why is this so hard?
Early revs typically have better support for user made hardware.
Cough
PS3 = built in HD = teh modding win!
"Honda".
Why must Slashdotters be so U.S. centric? It's really sad.
The novel as a genre reinvented women giving us what can be considered the modern western woman with the works of Jane Austin.
Perhaps if we wait long enough this medium will show some teeth, female teeth.
With a 6600GT a 2600+ and a Gig of ram.
That stuff is all about 1-2 years old.
Maybe it's true the hardware pushthrough is slower these days.
I certainly don't feel the need to upgrade, I just got Fear running in 1280 it's sexy.
Turn off soft shadows, there is probably some shadow setting that disabling will give you like 60-70% more performance.
Intel uses DDR2 which is probably clocked at 667 MHZ as opposed to the 400MHZ of the AMD memory.
But DDR2 is a big pile of garbage, it was designed to be ultra cheap and junky but somehow the prices never actually came down all we got were a whole bunch of memory maker anti-trust cases while Intel was fed to the dogs.
AMD is looking at moving over to DDR2 now that it is hitting 800Mhz which might provide something like similar performance to DDR unfortunatly DDR3 is going to hit next year and it is actually supposed to provide a significant increase in performance.
Bittorrent is #1 the most popular file sharing mechanism, especially among novices.
Second it is insecure on the public servers which seem to all be building war chests to fight the industry when it comes.
Third other than the RIAA many copy protection lawsuits have targetted the sharers rather than the people downloading with bittorrent these people are increadibly exposed.
Fourth a lawsuit strongly in the favour of the motion picture industry will have a huge impact almost immediatly because bittorrent is somewhat centralized and I.P. addresses for leechers are totally exposed.
Unlike trying to shut down usenet, the napster clones, or any other service a judgement here has the potential of breaking illegal P2P.
Um the system ships in like 2 weeks.
Whatever he says now doesn't matter AT ALL because all the specs are already finalized.
Saying sure you can make your stuff work off of our stuff is meaningless.
The system is still region encoded, The system won't support blue tooth and other wireless controllers, won't support them through usb either though the system has it.
Won't support USB HD's woops smooth there.
won't support internet play beyond Live.
I'd say that's a lot of effort they put into giving the consumer choice,
/me starts a slow clap.
This is really stupid, like 70-80% of people have access to a computer, way more than have access to a car. (Because Duh Kids)
Most people use less than 1% of their theoretically bandwidth and you are complaining about using tax dollars on this?
You'll get it back in lower fees from the teleco's that don't have to run last mile connections.
People who don't think AT ALL about how this benefits everyone before complaining about taxation, well I guess they are right wing.
We won't be affected if the U.N. takes over, things might move more quickly and domains will probably be cheaper and not get stolen by big companies quite so easily but other than that nothing will be diffrent.
If the U.S. keeps it nothing will change they will probably re-evaluate who is in control and maybe make some cosmetic improvements no bigie...
However if the net splits that will be interesting, will the U.S. force 'it's' sites to stay in their registry? Will they be allowed to double dip? How will new allocation be handled? When they are eventually remerged will there be conflicts?
I'm pretty concerned because I'd like to be part of the global web not the U.S. web and I live in Canada. I'm pretty sure most major backbones run through the U.S.
What will Slashdot do?
And how will this all influence the upcoming transition to IPv6?
openness increases the trustworthiness
It's teh communism!
You don't need to incorporate, or sell your product.
These companies can afford it largely because they get tax incentives to do so.
To become incorperated you need to offer a service to the people of your nation, you are commited to serve your government.
If these companies won't negotiate with other countries and their government is unwilling to step in (As they would do to serve their own citizens) then there really is no good reason not to violate the patent.
Sure there will.
.9;
If (movie.hitmovie.budget > revenue)
revenue *=
if (movie.hitmove.budget movie.hitmovie = movie.independant;
Asside from the fact I'm assigning a complex variable which only works under uber programming languages it makes perfect sense.
I don't regret that I don't have a Farrari, it takes time to make each one and I can't pay for that time, however I can offer bandwidth and acclaim to support the generosity of people willing to distribute information.
Here is my story, sitting in class (University I'm Canadian) waiting for a lecture on J-Unit to start, I see a guy sit down 2 seats over and pull out his PSP so I pull out my DS in the hope I can try his PSP, it doesn't really look that sexy to me but it's supposed to have ps2 quality games and I don't have a ps2.
I start Kirby and start playing, he doesn't look over.
I play for about 3-4 minutes, and look over again.
He still hasn't done anything, The lecture starts and I close the lid of my DS (putting it in suspend mode) He sighs and puts in his headphones, I look over, it looks like a driving game, it's ok it's no Project Gotham, or Forza, or even Ridge Racer 4.
He ends up playing during the entire lecture, I end up watching in disbeliefe for most of the lecture.
Here is another funny story about my DS, I lost the adapter! Seriously I lost the cute little adapter, so while I was visiting my family I saw an old friend and he borrowed my DS.
He was able to complete 3/4 of Kirby on the charge still in the machine (about 3/4).
It was a reassuring demonstration of battery life.
Oh really?
If they'd implemented support for Xvid or some other high compression codec (which they are doing anyway) they could fit a 2 hour movie on 9.4 GB I bet.
I've seen a few in action but mostly all I've seen is Loading loading and more loading.
I'm sorry the reason the 360 is going to fail is that it has a $500 price tag.
.5 of a laptop but for a parent?
.6 million units ship before christmas you'll be hard pressed to find game makers who are willing to invest 1-3 million to try and make a game for it.
Now for nerds that's the price of a primo video card or
That's a new Fridge, a shiney new fridge.
They crammed it with ram and cores but when only
Microsoft will start hurting because those game makers won't want to pay their (probably higher than ever) royalty and testing fees and basically the whole thing will collapse.
Sony might hit the same price point, and could be on the same ship which will make life easier for both companies but if Sony hits a lower price point they'll be duking it out with the revolution.
The revolution will have next gen graphics even if they can't compare with the big boys and if they can get their controller ducks in a row providing sports, FPS, RPG and perhaps even RTS on a console with good online support they'll win.
you risk the complete loss of the incredibly lucrative industry that relies on emergency, last-minute blivet purchasing by morons who don't understand time zones and can't wait a hour!
Yea, we're risking trade with the U.S.
Didn't you RTFA?
What they could really use is total access to technology, Africa is one of the most resource rich countries in the world.
There are few reasons to assume if they had access to technical documentation they couldn't develop their own manufacturing and help themselves, even more disturbing is the seeming lack of outside trade, Africa has oil and precious stones which are sold through other countries who pay them a pitance, admittedly the Africans didn't have enough capiltal to start their own industry but if they have access to the technical information at least they'd have an idea of the complexities involved.
Free informtation would be good for progress around the world, it would challenge companies to be original year over year, but the effects on developing countries would me increadible.