Reading this article a certain little point comes to mind here. This system does not monitor what children eat, the only thing it is doing is showing what the children purchase and nothing else.
Once you purchase something you could always swap certain items with another kid or even drop it in the bin if its not to your taste.
Your parents are going to be happy that you've been eating your veggies + mineral water, while your friend who is on diet is going to be more then happy giving you that piece of steak + soda.
The problem is not about being able to use the money on junk food here, its the education they have been receiving from a young age which tells them that "Fast Food == Good", "Fast Food == Easy" and "Fast Food == Tasty".
In Japan we have been using contactless technology for our daily needs for a while now. Good examples of the technology are FelicaSuica and Edy.
As much as the/. crowd has been all skeptical about this technology, over here I've not heard of anything happening that could make headlines for this and I personally have been using them for my daily commute needs and have never had any sort of problems with them.
Now its understandable that people are getting all finicky about something like this, but I say first try it out before you make a comments on about it. Its a lot better then walking around with a wad of cash and it sure as hell beats having to stand in line trying to by a ticket for anything from airlines to trains.
I mean if these guys own the patent I say more power to them. Just maybe with events such as these happening and more to come in the near future we could expect the big boys to realise that patents are evil?
Pretty high hopes but a person could always dream.
Do you realise that there is more money to be made in recycling mobile phones then digging in a gold mine?
By recyling 70000 mobile phones and melting the metals down they are able to extract 1kg of gold. Now when you consider that out of 1 ton of dirt they are only able to extract around 10~50g of gold, at the very least your getting 4 times the amount of gold out of the same weight in mobile phones!
What would be ideal is to have it load itself without having to use an OS. That way you could dedicate 100% of your resources to the game instead of having to leave some of it for the OS below it.
This could ultimately help us OSS people cause I am sure more then a handful of people are using windows for gaming and no other reason.
This exact idea of directly loading off the disk has been around for so long, yet M$ is the first to push the idea to the forefront by making such a statement.
No bloody wonder they are sitting with all that $$$$ in the bank.
Firstly the chances of earths core going cold within our lifetime or while humans exist as a civilization is relatively slim.
Also another point is the day earths core goes cold is when its not gonna matter anymore, once movement stops below the crust earths magnetic field is going to go *POP* and then its bye-bye earth.
Its true that it will go cold "someday" but its not something that earthlings have to worry about anytime soon and by the time it even becomes a problem we would either be migrating to other solar systems or our civilization would not exist anymore.
The problem is not about taking pictures of girls wearing skirts. Its about people using there phones to take pictures "inside" their skirts.
If this happened to be your daughter who was getting pictures taken of would you be very happy as a parent?
To me this is a serious privacy issue and not something to be laughed at.
That exact same problem is happening over here in Japan. The way they are combating it is by having the devices make a sound when a picture or video is being taken.
That way if your taking a picture of a school girl going up a escalator with a skirt or pictures at a book store "big brother" will know that you are doing it.
If they get those consoles out more power to them, but looking at there track record and how the market is currently the odds are not in their favor I would think. They do not have much in the way of game developers backing them up, they do not have the finances now.
Unless your like M$ who had money to throw at it and who could deal with a loss of this magnitude, vaporware or not it seems to me like a sinking ship.
You seem to be missing a very important problem here. For you to be able to ride a wave your going to need to be able to match the speed that it is traveling at.....
Now considering that its a 25m wave the chances of your being able to paddle into it, let alone ride it is very unlikely.
If you did manage for some ridicules reason to reach that speed on the wave you would be instantly blown off your board because of the wind that rushes up the face of the wave which in turn would cause another problem.
It may seem like an alien concept for anybody on/. yet this happens to be one of the best ways to solve sleeping problems.
I used to have sleeping problems but since then I started kickboxing and weight training (2 hours a day) which has helped me get to sleep without any problems, solved the problem I was having with my back and shoulders and as a unexpected side effect put some decent muscles on.
Remember that humans were not built to deal with so much radiation coming off monitors:)
I mean I always see news on about patents and all things coming up but now I read the bill and have to say, "how the fuck do you guys deal with crap like that?".
I can whole-heartedly understand the point behind such a bill which would be to protect intellectual property but is not the meaning of this too broad?
Not trying to burst your bubble but as much as it sounds like fun fighting for 3 years would it not have saved time and money(cause time is money) if you just went and bought another moden which you know will work with your version of linux plus drivers?
It seems like every player that has come out so far has one problem or another. I mean I read the review and thought "This is it" till it hit the part *Windows only*.
Why do they have to go ahead and re-invent the wheel when they could have just taken a hint and used SMB/CIFS? I mean if the open source world could do it I am sure a these guys could have too.(does samba ring a bell?).
Also what is with the Region 1 only? Would it not have been better if they just made it region-free which would have let a hell of a lot more people go for the product? I am in Japan and I can tell you right now that the product is pretty much ruled out because of limitations like that.
Well a good way of going about this would be to download the updates from microsoft. They do provide them in binary format which you can install without having to goto the windows update site. I got a XP box as well and I do not even try to connect it to any network before I have patched all I can. Plus a firewall between you and your connection would help as well while at it:) Trying running a gateway using FreeBSD or your fav *nix OS and that would get you well on your way.
Valve is not a charity organization after all and I say good for them. The problem is that this I-Cafe has been making a profit from Valves hard work (however old this work may be) and I think that it is only fair that Valve gets renumeration for the work they did.
As for all the people flaming Valve I ask you, if you were running a business and you find out that somebody is making a profit off your sweat and blood while your getting *zip* what would you guys have to say about it?
I do not know about 30,000 Yen but I ended up paying in total 18,320 Yen (excl tax) for the phone. Already had a FOMA contract (used a P2102V before) so did not have to do much in the way of change for that part.
Anyways its nothing great, just a new phone with better sound and games. I am considering rather getting a another phone with GPS cause I am sure that I would have more use for a phone like that.
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Reading this article a certain little point comes to mind here. This system does not monitor what children eat, the only thing it is doing is showing what the children purchase and nothing else.
Once you purchase something you could always swap certain items with another kid or even drop it in the bin if its not to your taste.
Your parents are going to be happy that you've been eating your veggies + mineral water, while your friend who is on diet is going to be more then happy giving you that piece of steak + soda.
The problem is not about being able to use the money on junk food here, its the education they have been receiving from a young age which tells them that "Fast Food == Good", "Fast Food == Easy" and "Fast Food == Tasty".
In Japan we have been using contactless technology for our daily needs for a while now. Good examples of the technology are Felica Suica and Edy.
/. crowd has been all skeptical about this technology, over here I've not heard of anything happening that could make headlines for this and I personally have been using them for my daily commute needs and have never had any sort of problems with them.
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Now its understandable that people are getting all finicky about something like this, but I say first try it out before you make a comments on about it. Its a lot better then walking around with a wad of cash and it sure as hell beats having to stand in line trying to by a ticket for anything from airlines to trains.
I mean if these guys own the patent I say more power to them. Just maybe with events such as these happening and more to come in the near future we could expect the big boys to realise that patents are evil? Pretty high hopes but a person could always dream.
Do you realise that there is more money to be made in recycling mobile phones then digging in a gold mine?
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By recyling 70000 mobile phones and melting the metals down they are able to extract 1kg of gold. Now when you consider that out of 1 ton of dirt they are only able to extract around 10~50g of gold, at the very least your getting 4 times the amount of gold out of the same weight in mobile phones!
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What would be ideal is to have it load itself without having to use an OS. That way you could dedicate 100% of your resources to the game instead of having to leave some of it for the OS below it. This could ultimately help us OSS people cause I am sure more then a handful of people are using windows for gaming and no other reason.
This exact idea of directly loading off the disk has been around for so long, yet M$ is the first to push the idea to the forefront by making such a statement.
No bloody wonder they are sitting with all that $$$$ in the bank.
Whats the chances of his door being broken down if he was using Windows XP with IE instead of using lynx?
:)
This just goes to show that in the long-run, the TCO for M$ products are a lot lower then using other alternatives.
Firstly the chances of earths core going cold within our lifetime or while humans exist as a civilization is relatively slim.
Also another point is the day earths core goes cold is when its not gonna matter anymore, once movement stops below the crust earths magnetic field is going to go *POP* and then its bye-bye earth.
Its true that it will go cold "someday" but its not something that earthlings have to worry about anytime soon and by the time it even becomes a problem we would either be migrating to other solar systems or our civilization would not exist anymore.
The problem is not about taking pictures of girls wearing skirts. Its about people using there phones to take pictures "inside" their skirts. If this happened to be your daughter who was getting pictures taken of would you be very happy as a parent? To me this is a serious privacy issue and not something to be laughed at.
That exact same problem is happening over here in Japan. The way they are combating it is by having the devices make a sound when a picture or video is being taken. That way if your taking a picture of a school girl going up a escalator with a skirt or pictures at a book store "big brother" will know that you are doing it.
The best part is that the expansion is "Free" instead of having to goto a store and fork out another $50 like all the other MMO's out there.
:)
In 9 hours and I will be heading over to Yulai to get some goodies on market there to provide the people, should be able to start raking in the isks!
Also lvl4 agents are going to be making me a very very rich man
You clearly have not been to Japan if you think French woman are easier!
This happened after an upgrade from Unix to Windows.
I did not know that this could be considered as an upgrade........
If they get those consoles out more power to them, but looking at there track record and how the market is currently the odds are not in their favor I would think. They do not have much in the way of game developers backing them up, they do not have the finances now.
Unless your like M$ who had money to throw at it and who could deal with a loss of this magnitude, vaporware or not it seems to me like a sinking ship.
You seem to be missing a very important problem here. For you to be able to ride a wave your going to need to be able to match the speed that it is traveling at.....
:)
Now considering that its a 25m wave the chances of your being able to paddle into it, let alone ride it is very unlikely.
If you did manage for some ridicules reason to reach that speed on the wave you would be instantly blown off your board because of the wind that rushes up the face of the wave which in turn would cause another problem.
Better luck next time mate
Does this mean that plans for taking the flying steam-powered train to the stars is cancelled?
If McBride is Hudson from Aliens then I would assume that Linux is the Aliens? After all Hudson was taken and used for god knows what :p
Incubator anyone?
Try moving your body two hours a day at least :)
/. yet this happens to be one of the best ways to solve sleeping problems.
:)
It may seem like an alien concept for anybody on
I used to have sleeping problems but since then I started kickboxing and weight training (2 hours a day) which has helped me get to sleep without any problems, solved the problem I was having with my back and shoulders and as a unexpected side effect put some decent muscles on.
Remember that humans were not built to deal with so much radiation coming off monitors
I mean I always see news on about patents and all things coming up but now I read the bill and have to say, "how the fuck do you guys deal with crap like that?". I can whole-heartedly understand the point behind such a bill which would be to protect intellectual property but is not the meaning of this too broad?
Not trying to burst your bubble but as much as it sounds like fun fighting for 3 years would it not have saved time and money(cause time is money) if you just went and bought another moden which you know will work with your version of linux plus drivers?
It seems like every player that has come out so far has one problem or another. I mean I read the review and thought "This is it" till it hit the part *Windows only*.
:)
Why do they have to go ahead and re-invent the wheel when they could have just taken a hint and used SMB/CIFS? I mean if the open source world could do it I am sure a these guys could have too.(does samba ring a bell?).
Also what is with the Region 1 only? Would it not have been better if they just made it region-free which would have let a hell of a lot more people go for the product? I am in Japan and I can tell you right now that the product is pretty much ruled out because of limitations like that.
Just my 2 cents on a sleepy Thursday morning
One small step for the patent holder.
Two steps back for man kind.......
So much for foresight.
Well a good way of going about this would be to download the updates from microsoft. They do provide them in binary format which you can install without having to goto the windows update site. I got a XP box as well and I do not even try to connect it to any network before I have patched all I can. Plus a firewall between you and your connection would help as well while at it :) Trying running a gateway using FreeBSD or your fav *nix OS and that would get you well on your way.
Valve is not a charity organization after all and I say good for them. The problem is that this I-Cafe has been making a profit from Valves hard work (however old this work may be) and I think that it is only fair that Valve gets renumeration for the work they did.
As for all the people flaming Valve I ask you, if you were running a business and you find out that somebody is making a profit off your sweat and blood while your getting *zip* what would you guys have to say about it?
I sure has hell would not be happy about it.
I do not know about 30,000 Yen but I ended up paying in total 18,320 Yen (excl tax) for the phone. Already had a FOMA contract (used a P2102V before) so did not have to do much in the way of change for that part. Anyways its nothing great, just a new phone with better sound and games. I am considering rather getting a another phone with GPS cause I am sure that I would have more use for a phone like that.