Well, whoever your customers on 'regular' SD sets are, there won't be any more made or sold so they're a dying breed. Slowly, sure, because a TV can last a long time, but they're a the last.
Why I think it's not going to be a complete bust -
3D Tvs are not massively more expensive than those without the capability
Computer games can be made 3d for not a lot more dev cost and look particularly good
The prevailing opinions on Slashdot are usually utterly wrong
That last one there seems to hold true regardless of whether I agree with/. or not, but the negative opinions on any new tech (strange for folks who are supposed to be geeks) are usually totally misplaced and emotionally based.
The problem comes when you want to both exchange data secretly and do it with anyone that asks. Bittorrent was never good for this. Private trackers offer at least some sort of protection I suppose, but it's not an ideal solution by any means.
What we need is for home users to start having a decent upload speed, so that a multihop, friend-to-friend network can spring up, such that you only ever exchange data with people you know, and they do with people they know until the whole world is joined...
That needs a lot of bandwidth, a lot of otherwise unnecessary bandwidth, but is feasible. I know there are some projects (OneSwarm) and some mature networking tools (I2P) out there that can already help.
Or you could just stop ripping stuff off. Just sayin'
With blackjack, and hookers? In fact, forget the sparkling wine!
Ah, whatever, but don't pretend that the US effort to call US sparkling wine Champagne was anything other than an attempt to muscle in on a well established product line, usurp and most likely then pollute the brand.
No, not really. The whole "Champagne" battle between the EU and the US a few years ago just left everyone thinking it was the US that were the assholes. Champagne comes from champagne. End of story. Want to make a similar style somewhere else? Call it after your own region, make your own name instead of piggybacking on someone else's hard work.
What it showed the world is that the US only cares about trademarks when it's to their benefit. Which is fine, but if its citizens could stop pretending to live in a free and fair nation, the rest of us will get off your backs.
There is an effort underway to do that right now, but they're going about it weirdly IMHO, by first trying to write an emulator for the USB key, then flash it with the unlocking firmware.
Maybe it's the best way, but to me it seems really convoluted.
The SIM card is already "Unlocked" in as much as you can put it in any phone you like. The locked part of an iPhone is the iOS itself, which will only run approved binaries until it's jailbroken.
Nice way to condone piracy idiot... let's not pretend anyone wants to use for the things like Homebrew.
Fsck off, troll.
Some of us DO want to use it to keep our legitimate games libraries on hard disk. There's zero technical or legal reason that the machine shouldn't do this, it's just an annoying DRM measure. I know defeating DRM is itself now illegal, but that's a travesty of justice IMHO and not a law I will respect.
So you can go on about condoning piracy all you like (and I know that a lot of people will pirate whatever they can get their hands on) but it's not everyone that's interested in this mod. I can do this with the PS2, I could (if I had more than 1 game) do it on the Wii (where it an also do things like bypass annoying region codes).
Frankly a PSN ban wouldn't be too much hassle. I never play online multiplayer and new games that require firmware updates usually come with them on disk, or they can be downloaded from a PC. So long as Sony don't actually brick these jailbroken PS3 consoles, which they may, then I don't actually care that much.
That's certainly one of the reasons this brit moved here.
That and the sunshine!
I figure the government are probably just as bad everywhere, but if I move country once in a while it'll take a while for me to truly understand how bad they are in the new place:)
"The fact he didn't kill himself first is proof he is a hypocrite and/or a liar. Or as the case is, both of those due to being crazy."
Why?
what use is killing yourself if nobody else is going to do it? In that crazy, whacked out world view it's perfectly valid to stay alive until such time as you have persuaded the world you're right.
Then you kill yourself. Or probably not, because this sort of mania is likely ego driven and killing himself is pobably not something he'd ever consider.
Umm, I'm not sure it's long since overshadowed, it has 38 million units sold compared to Xbox's 47 million. 9 million is a lot, but it isn't like the PS3 hasn't sold.
Also Sony get to ride the new 3d wave as the only console able to output 3d 720p games. I know a lot of people think it's going to fail, but we'll see on that front.
Has anyone managed to, or even bothered to try to put a full linux distro on any of these instead of android?
I know the debian chroot thing has been around for a while, but I'd really love to be able to put debian or maemo or something like that onto another handset.
I love my N900, but there are newer, shinier toys out there but I like my mainstream mobile linux...
iDevices may well be as big as you say in the US. Whilst I know a few folks with iPhones in the UK it's a long way from 2/3, hell it's a long way from a third. I don't know how big they are here in Australia, I've only seen one iPad but then I don't have many friends yet being a recent migrant.
I have, it's true, seen a lot more people with iPhones than with a Nnintendo DS though, that much is true.
It's a bit of a weird situation for the law though, isn't it?
it's not exactly false advertising because it was there at the time and if you'd searched through all the small print I'm sure you would have found a lot of "we can do what we like, no guarantees sucker" type text. Judges do seem to be getting less tolerant of that crap I suppose.
But yeah, I can't see that this fits false advertising, it's a little more like reneging on a contract.
my laptop boots Win7 in a lot more than that. It's a Core 2 Duo with 4G of RAM. Hell, my laptop's barely off the BIOS screen in 15 seconds.
Also you might want to consider that the discussion was about time for reboot after a kernel update. Win 7 shutdown and machine restart is probably approaching that.
Win 7 also does that nasty old MS trick that I hate so very much - it displays the desktop pretty quickly after login but you have to wait another couple of minutes until you can actually use the damn thing.
Now I am going to get flamed big time.
well, you did ask for it by comparing full boot time to reboot time, and making fantastic claims. I'd use win7 more if it only took 15 seconds to boot. That would be great!!
Well, to be fair, they're not saying alcoholics live longer, just that heavy drinkers do. There's a difference between an addict who is poisoning themselves thin with it, and the fat jolly man that has a fair number of beers a few more times a week than we thought was healthy.
"There is a smaller reason in that I've seen a lot of people, including friends, do... inadvisable things while drunk"
Yeah, but I bet they were laughing their asses off whilst they were doing it.
Drinking to excess once in a while is fun an d a great way to blow off steam. It's also dangerous and antisocial, which makes it even more appealing to some of us:)
It's not about the piracy; it's about the hypocrisy of many individuals in objecting to one form of misconduct with respect to favored products while encouraging that misconduct (or even participating in it) with regard to disfavored products. It's unequivocally prevalent on Slashdot.
Right... so it's about license hypocrisy, and you give an example of Photoshop as something that lots of people don't respect the licensing for (pirate). And it's very prevalent here (something I certainly haven't noticed).
You're generalizing an entire group of people (in two successive posts now), on a tangential issue, in a situation that is not mutually exclusive.
Then I'm not sure why you see it as a "bigger problem".
That's exactly what I was responding to - your allegations that people who advocate FOSS also rip off commercial software -
But to me, there is a bigger problem in that many, but certainly not all and hopefully not even most, open source advocates engage in mental gymnastics around the issue--working themselves into a lather about companies or individuals not giving back or breaking the "spirit" as they view it, stealing from these projects (and note how no one EVER false-pedant "corrects" with the 'it's not stealing' broken argument on a F/OSS story), while actively engaging in infringement of proprietary licenses. The sentiment is clear, but there is no reconciling this position.
What else could you possibly be saying there? That many FOSS advocated pirate stuff like photoshop. I repeat, you have a disconnect, FOSS users and advocates are usually the very people that won't do that, they'll use FOSS software.
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Well, whoever your customers on 'regular' SD sets are, there won't be any more made or sold so they're a dying breed. Slowly, sure, because a TV can last a long time, but they're a the last.
Why I think it's not going to be a complete bust -
That last one there seems to hold true regardless of whether I agree with /. or not, but the negative opinions on any new tech (strange for folks who are supposed to be geeks) are usually totally misplaced and emotionally based.
1. I didn't see either but have heard exactly the opposite - The Alice was great fun and well worth the effort but Avatar was boring and preachy.
2. Piranha 3d has 3d nakedness. What's not to like?
There are always ways to exchange data secretly.
The problem comes when you want to both exchange data secretly and do it with anyone that asks. Bittorrent was never good for this. Private trackers offer at least some sort of protection I suppose, but it's not an ideal solution by any means.
What we need is for home users to start having a decent upload speed, so that a multihop, friend-to-friend network can spring up, such that you only ever exchange data with people you know, and they do with people they know until the whole world is joined...
That needs a lot of bandwidth, a lot of otherwise unnecessary bandwidth, but is feasible. I know there are some projects (OneSwarm) and some mature networking tools (I2P) out there that can already help.
Or you could just stop ripping stuff off. Just sayin'
With blackjack, and hookers? In fact, forget the sparkling wine!
Ah, whatever, but don't pretend that the US effort to call US sparkling wine Champagne was anything other than an attempt to muscle in on a well established product line, usurp and most likely then pollute the brand.
No, not really. The whole "Champagne" battle between the EU and the US a few years ago just left everyone thinking it was the US that were the assholes. Champagne comes from champagne. End of story. Want to make a similar style somewhere else? Call it after your own region, make your own name instead of piggybacking on someone else's hard work.
What it showed the world is that the US only cares about trademarks when it's to their benefit. Which is fine, but if its citizens could stop pretending to live in a free and fair nation, the rest of us will get off your backs.
There is an effort underway to do that right now, but they're going about it weirdly IMHO, by first trying to write an emulator for the USB key, then flash it with the unlocking firmware.
Maybe it's the best way, but to me it seems really convoluted.
Where did you get that idea?
The SIM card is already "Unlocked" in as much as you can put it in any phone you like. The locked part of an iPhone is the iOS itself, which will only run approved binaries until it's jailbroken.
Nice way to condone piracy idiot... let's not pretend anyone wants to use for the things like Homebrew.
Fsck off, troll.
Some of us DO want to use it to keep our legitimate games libraries on hard disk. There's zero technical or legal reason that the machine shouldn't do this, it's just an annoying DRM measure. I know defeating DRM is itself now illegal, but that's a travesty of justice IMHO and not a law I will respect.
So you can go on about condoning piracy all you like (and I know that a lot of people will pirate whatever they can get their hands on) but it's not everyone that's interested in this mod. I can do this with the PS2, I could (if I had more than 1 game) do it on the Wii (where it an also do things like bypass annoying region codes).
Frankly a PSN ban wouldn't be too much hassle. I never play online multiplayer and new games that require firmware updates usually come with them on disk, or they can be downloaded from a PC. So long as Sony don't actually brick these jailbroken PS3 consoles, which they may, then I don't actually care that much.
Loud as a jet engine?
Compared to the Xbox my PS3 fat was as quiet as a mouse. The newer PS3 slim is quieter still.
Granted, compared to something fanless it still makes some noise, but I have the tv on loud enough I don't hear it.
You could try mediatomb, it does DLNA to the PS3 too and I've not experienced much stuttering with it.
That's certainly one of the reasons this brit moved here.
That and the sunshine!
I figure the government are probably just as bad everywhere, but if I move country once in a while it'll take a while for me to truly understand how bad they are in the new place :)
"The fact he didn't kill himself first is proof he is a hypocrite and/or a liar. Or as the case is, both of those due to being crazy."
Why?
what use is killing yourself if nobody else is going to do it? In that crazy, whacked out world view it's perfectly valid to stay alive until such time as you have persuaded the world you're right.
Then you kill yourself. Or probably not, because this sort of mania is likely ego driven and killing himself is pobably not something he'd ever consider.
Umm, I'm not sure it's long since overshadowed, it has 38 million units sold compared to Xbox's 47 million. 9 million is a lot, but it isn't like the PS3 hasn't sold.
Also Sony get to ride the new 3d wave as the only console able to output 3d 720p games. I know a lot of people think it's going to fail, but we'll see on that front.
Has anyone managed to, or even bothered to try to put a full linux distro on any of these instead of android?
I know the debian chroot thing has been around for a while, but I'd really love to be able to put debian or maemo or something like that onto another handset.
I love my N900, but there are newer, shinier toys out there but I like my mainstream mobile linux...
Interesting use of 'FUD'. it's more like Hope uncertainty and unfounded optimism.
Indeed, and to use up all that cocaine that was just cluttering up the office....
Dead topic I know but I felt compelled to reply -
iDevices may well be as big as you say in the US. Whilst I know a few folks with iPhones in the UK it's a long way from 2/3, hell it's a long way from a third. I don't know how big they are here in Australia, I've only seen one iPad but then I don't have many friends yet being a recent migrant.
I have, it's true, seen a lot more people with iPhones than with a Nnintendo DS though, that much is true.
It's a bit of a weird situation for the law though, isn't it?
it's not exactly false advertising because it was there at the time and if you'd searched through all the small print I'm sure you would have found a lot of "we can do what we like, no guarantees sucker" type text. Judges do seem to be getting less tolerant of that crap I suppose.
But yeah, I can't see that this fits false advertising, it's a little more like reneging on a contract.
"A pint is a pound the world around (at least that's the mnemonic that they taught us in gradeschool) ;-)"
Whilst it's good as a memory aide, it's wrong.
A US pint is 450ml. A UK pint is 568 ml. I suspect that means that the weight of a US pint of a given substance vs a UK pint will differ!
You must have some damned fine hardware sir!
my laptop boots Win7 in a lot more than that. It's a Core 2 Duo with 4G of RAM.
Hell, my laptop's barely off the BIOS screen in 15 seconds.
Also you might want to consider that the discussion was about time for reboot after a kernel update. Win 7 shutdown and machine restart is probably approaching that.
Win 7 also does that nasty old MS trick that I hate so very much - it displays the desktop pretty quickly after login but you have to wait another couple of minutes until you can actually use the damn thing.
Now I am going to get flamed big time.
well, you did ask for it by comparing full boot time to reboot time, and making fantastic claims. I'd use win7 more if it only took 15 seconds to boot. That would be great!!
Well, to be fair, they're not saying alcoholics live longer, just that heavy drinkers do. There's a difference between an addict who is poisoning themselves thin with it, and the fat jolly man that has a fair number of beers a few more times a week than we thought was healthy.
"There is a smaller reason in that I've seen a lot of people, including friends, do... inadvisable things while drunk"
Yeah, but I bet they were laughing their asses off whilst they were doing it.
Drinking to excess once in a while is fun an d a great way to blow off steam. It's also dangerous and antisocial, which makes it even more appealing to some of us :)
Doesn't mean it can't still be awesome.
Some of those marketing suits probably did some pretty wild stuff in their younger days, before settling down to make some serious money.
It's not about the piracy; it's about the hypocrisy of many individuals in objecting to one form of misconduct with respect to favored products while encouraging that misconduct (or even participating in it) with regard to disfavored products. It's unequivocally prevalent on Slashdot.
Right... so it's about license hypocrisy, and you give an example of Photoshop as something that lots of people don't respect the licensing for (pirate). And it's very prevalent here (something I certainly haven't noticed).
You're generalizing an entire group of people (in two successive posts now), on a tangential issue, in a situation that is not mutually exclusive.
Then I'm not sure why you see it as a "bigger problem".
That's exactly what I was responding to - your allegations that people who advocate FOSS also rip off commercial software -
But to me, there is a bigger problem in that many, but certainly not all and hopefully not even most, open source advocates engage in mental gymnastics around the issue--working themselves into a lather about companies or individuals not giving back or breaking the "spirit" as they view it, stealing from these projects (and note how no one EVER false-pedant "corrects" with the 'it's not stealing' broken argument on a F/OSS story), while actively engaging in infringement of proprietary licenses. The sentiment is clear, but there is no reconciling this position.
What else could you possibly be saying there? That many FOSS advocated pirate stuff like photoshop. I repeat, you have a disconnect, FOSS users and advocates are usually the very people that won't do that, they'll use FOSS software.