The benefit is that instead of a pile of text books, all you need to carry around with you is one thin slate. Break it or lose it entirely (not uncommon on college campuses) and it can be replaced with all of your downloaded content.
Furthermore, d/l the Kindle reader for your iPhone/iPod Touch and you have everything available there as well on a device you're likely to have with you always.
Plus, you can purchase and read all of Amazon's other Kindle books, PDFs, and the like. There are positives to this idea.
Tell my again why any consumer would actually want to use a system like this? Centralized servers and after-the-fact revocation of use are the next-to-the-worst bad things.
The worst is pay-for-each-play, which is the Holy Grail of the entertainment industry's wet dreams - which I suspect this system will also support.
Kill it now before it can spread and become entrenched.
What's a good, free cleaner for Windows to wipe all current unallocated file space - and preferably deleted files names as well? The court may have said you can't inspect any.doc files, but when you look through that unallocated space there is no longer a file type associated with it, allowing that slimy RIAA to read all the.tmp versions of your.doc,.pdf,.eml, and every other prohibited file type. Cleaning unallocated file space should be part of everyone's general housekeeping.
And do you really think that the RIAA will be bound to obey court rules?
RIAA: "Your Honor, we found a resume stored as a PDF file that conclusively proves that the defendant was at the address during the time in question."
Court: "You were not supposed to be looking for anything except music files and P2P programs."
RIAA: "Sure, sure, but now that we found it we want to admit it to really screw over the defendant because our fishing expedition has paid off."
Court: "And why do you think I would ever allow that?"
RIAA: "You've already took the totally tainted evidence from our illegal investigator Media Sentry, so why are you suddenly getting all prissy about it now?"
Court: "Okay, go ahead."
This is why you should never let the RIAA image your hard drive under any circumstances. Once that horse is out you can never truly close that barn door again. Better to tell people on Craigslist to come and steal your computer than to turn it over to those RIAA bastards.
Where as Microsoft has to list 12 different type of applications they won't allow in their store, as usual the Apple list is both shorter and simpler. It consists of: Apps we or AT&T simply don't like.
If the rumor mill says it's worth $700M and the founders feel it's only worth $250M, and its profits are a big ZERO now and for the foreseeable future, then it's worth $250,000.00 at best.
This is a really stupid idea to cement the power of Tyranny of the Easily Offended, in the same way Feminism was in good part a way to move less-attractive women into the mainstream. Everybody is offended by something so anything you write will fall afoul of this really stupid idea.
The world does not come with bumpers, training wheels, automatic sensitivity, and no sharp objects. You will be offended, hurt, angry, and in tears, about things you encounter along the way. That's the way the world is. Rather than trying to change the Universe, why not just learn to deal with it?
Of course this puts all the sensitivity trainers and those who benefit from itout of business -- but this would be a Good Thing!
Does anybody actually believe that Obama wants this money for anything other than even more bloated government spending? Rather than reducing the deficit it will be, "Gee Wow! Now we've got even MORE money to spend!"
Talk about what Microsoft and Obama have in common is a bloatware future for the rest of us.
The day Blizzard dies (all companies eventually fall to newer, better competitors) I will not shed a tear. It's sad to me that such an arrogant, litigation happy, customer-bashing company has succeeded as well as it has to this point.
Why do you keep trying to lockout your homebrew users, who are some of your most talented fans? Why not end this stupid war and simply sell an open version that can run what people want to run on it?
Same for Apple. You are trying to control too much. Leads me to cheer for an open Android platform with healthy competition from clone makers. The biggest jump in improvement of the Apple platform I ever saw was during the brief period that Apple allowed clone makers.
Proprietary systems are never to the consumer's advantage.
Word I heard is that because PCs can't virtualize devices that an XP VM under W7 will run like crap - although on AMD processors it will be a little less like crap due to better memory virtualization than Intel yet has.
This is especially a problem if you try to run a 3D game on a modern GPU under XP VM.
Word I heard is that because PCs can't virtualize devices that an XP VM under W7 will run like crap - although on AMD processors it will be a little less like crap due to better memory virtualization than Intel yet has.
Obviously you can convert it into a desktop by plugging in an external monitor...
...but...
...Let's get this straight. The airline contends that you bought a ticket on them in order to check a broken laptop through normal baggage handling (you wouldn't be taking it to use on your trip if you knew it was broken ahead of time) just so that you could get your laptop repaired for the cost of a plane ticket and your time. And you're letting them get away with this garbage? You must be new to life overall.
Here's the rub. TSA opens and checks most bags. They check for bombs that might look like...oh...say...laptop computers. So they make you show that your computer actually operates like a computer.
They open your bag and your laptop either operates perfectly, or they don't let it on the plane and probably question, if not arrest, you. Really good chance that your laptop operated just fine when they inspected it. So what happened?
Option 1: TSA broke it while "inspecting" it. Real good chance there since they had it out and were handling it. But because they broke it themselves they put it back in and shipped it along so as not to have it be their problem.
Option 2: It was broken after the TSA inspection and before you picked it up again.
Option 3: There is no option three. It was broken during the baggage handling, the airline didn't tell you not to put laptops in your luggage because they get broken all the time, and now they don't want to pay for it.
You've already shown yourself to be stupid twice now. Once when you checked your laptop, and the second time when you let the airline bluff you out of what you're due for their damage of your equipment. Do you really want to go for three?
If this is a standard government requirement common across many facilities than I'd expect there to be a list of approved vendors and products, and that vendors will be making a line of products to meet the requirements of their largest customer.
Or you could just find out what everybody else is using, rather than reinvent the wheel yourself.
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The benefit is that instead of a pile of text books, all you need to carry around with you is one thin slate. Break it or lose it entirely (not uncommon on college campuses) and it can be replaced with all of your downloaded content.
Furthermore, d/l the Kindle reader for your iPhone/iPod Touch and you have everything available there as well on a device you're likely to have with you always.
Plus, you can purchase and read all of Amazon's other Kindle books, PDFs, and the like. There are positives to this idea.
Tell my again why any consumer would actually want to use a system like this? Centralized servers and after-the-fact revocation of use are the next-to-the-worst bad things.
The worst is pay-for-each-play, which is the Holy Grail of the entertainment industry's wet dreams - which I suspect this system will also support.
Kill it now before it can spread and become entrenched.
What's a good, free cleaner for Windows to wipe all current unallocated file space - and preferably deleted files names as well? The court may have said you can't inspect any .doc files, but when you look through that unallocated space there is no longer a file type associated with it, allowing that slimy RIAA to read all the .tmp versions of your .doc, .pdf, .eml, and every other prohibited file type. Cleaning unallocated file space should be part of everyone's general housekeeping.
I think that was Media Defender.
And do you really think that the RIAA will be bound to obey court rules?
RIAA: "Your Honor, we found a resume stored as a PDF file that conclusively proves that the defendant was at the address during the time in question."
Court: "You were not supposed to be looking for anything except music files and P2P programs."
RIAA: "Sure, sure, but now that we found it we want to admit it to really screw over the defendant because our fishing expedition has paid off."
Court: "And why do you think I would ever allow that?"
RIAA: "You've already took the totally tainted evidence from our illegal investigator Media Sentry, so why are you suddenly getting all prissy about it now?"
Court: "Okay, go ahead."
This is why you should never let the RIAA image your hard drive under any circumstances. Once that horse is out you can never truly close that barn door again. Better to tell people on Craigslist to come and steal your computer than to turn it over to those RIAA bastards.
Where as Microsoft has to list 12 different type of applications they won't allow in their store, as usual the Apple list is both shorter and simpler. It consists of: Apps we or AT&T simply don't like.
Who really needed Twitter anyway. E-mail, voice mail, IM, what's next -- five second audio sound bites (sound-bytes) to all your loser followers?
If the rumor mill says it's worth $700M and the founders feel it's only worth $250M, and its profits are a big ZERO now and for the foreseeable future, then it's worth $250,000.00 at best.
This is a really stupid idea to cement the power of Tyranny of the Easily Offended, in the same way Feminism was in good part a way to move less-attractive women into the mainstream. Everybody is offended by something so anything you write will fall afoul of this really stupid idea.
The world does not come with bumpers, training wheels, automatic sensitivity, and no sharp objects. You will be offended, hurt, angry, and in tears, about things you encounter along the way. That's the way the world is. Rather than trying to change the Universe, why not just learn to deal with it?
Of course this puts all the sensitivity trainers and those who benefit from itout of business -- but this would be a Good Thing!
Does anybody actually believe that Obama wants this money for anything other than even more bloated government spending? Rather than reducing the deficit it will be, "Gee Wow! Now we've got even MORE money to spend!"
Talk about what Microsoft and Obama have in common is a bloatware future for the rest of us.
It was probably much harder to achieve this non-interoperability than actual interoperability would have ever been.
Excuse me but, don't goats emit carbon in the form of CO2 just by breathing - and methane by farting?
Then how come Slashdot only allows 120 characters in your sig line, including html tags? Enquiring minds yada yada yada.
Why does this sound like a cross between an Onion and Swine Flu?
Did they really think that this wouldn't get out in the end?
Did they calculate that they would come out ahead anyway?
The day Blizzard dies (all companies eventually fall to newer, better competitors) I will not shed a tear. It's sad to me that such an arrogant, litigation happy, customer-bashing company has succeeded as well as it has to this point.
Why do you keep trying to lockout your homebrew users, who are some of your most talented fans? Why not end this stupid war and simply sell an open version that can run what people want to run on it?
Same for Apple. You are trying to control too much. Leads me to cheer for an open Android platform with healthy competition from clone makers. The biggest jump in improvement of the Apple platform I ever saw was during the brief period that Apple allowed clone makers.
Proprietary systems are never to the consumer's advantage.
This is especially a problem if you try to run a 3D game on a modern GPU under XP VM.
Word I heard is that because PCs can't virtualize devices that an XP VM under W7 will run like crap - although on AMD processors it will be a little less like crap due to better memory virtualization than Intel yet has.
But this is Chicago. Everybody knows that we don't operate by the same rules as everyone else. How else can you explain Blagojevich and Obama?
Obviously you can convert it into a desktop by plugging in an external monitor...
...Let's get this straight. The airline contends that you bought a ticket on them in order to check a broken laptop through normal baggage handling (you wouldn't be taking it to use on your trip if you knew it was broken ahead of time) just so that you could get your laptop repaired for the cost of a plane ticket and your time. And you're letting them get away with this garbage? You must be new to life overall.
...but...
Here's the rub. TSA opens and checks most bags. They check for bombs that might look like...oh...say...laptop computers. So they make you show that your computer actually operates like a computer.
They open your bag and your laptop either operates perfectly, or they don't let it on the plane and probably question, if not arrest, you. Really good chance that your laptop operated just fine when they inspected it. So what happened?
Option 1: TSA broke it while "inspecting" it. Real good chance there since they had it out and were handling it. But because they broke it themselves they put it back in and shipped it along so as not to have it be their problem.
Option 2: It was broken after the TSA inspection and before you picked it up again.
Option 3: There is no option three. It was broken during the baggage handling, the airline didn't tell you not to put laptops in your luggage because they get broken all the time, and now they don't want to pay for it.
You've already shown yourself to be stupid twice now. Once when you checked your laptop, and the second time when you let the airline bluff you out of what you're due for their damage of your equipment. Do you really want to go for three?
If this is a standard government requirement common across many facilities than I'd expect there to be a list of approved vendors and products, and that vendors will be making a line of products to meet the requirements of their largest customer.
Or you could just find out what everybody else is using, rather than reinvent the wheel yourself.
Okay you went and blew the light, I know I left the replacement bulb around here somewhere, but every time I look at it it disappears.
Time for a voter revolt in Minnesota. Throw all of these clowns who want to run every aspect of your lives out and start over.
This post would have been Redundant if it had been First Post.
Realtime raytracing on the desktop is 5 years away. It has always been 5 years away, and it will always be 5 years away.
Why? Because monitors will always be much bigger and faster 5 years from now, multiplying the level of the requirements for realtime raytracing.