The line just keeps blurring. The Motorola A1000 runs on the same OS as the P9xx phones but has a faster processor and more RAM, sports a 1.3MP camera and GPS and all that in a smaller phone! Oh yeah and it can run the NES/Megadrive/Gameboy emulator and EScummVM as well as syncing with Outlook:)
If it's open source then if someone starts adding company specific stuff, or things that the community don't agree with, can't they just be removed by someone else. Or it can be branched so that all the "Google Crap" that someone might add is a seperate development. Isn't that the whole point of OSS? Besides, Google could just employ anyone to contribute to Firefox, it doesn't have to be the "creator", but I can see why that would be useful to them.
I totally agree, I think the poster thought it would be funny; subjecting someone to all this criticism isn't a particularly nice thing to do. I appriciate the person may have spent time and effort on the report, but to be honest it should never have been submitted to slashdot in the way it was. It would have been much better for both the author and everyone else if the submitter had written something like:
"The author is Italian and would like an English speaking person to help translate his P2P manifest that he's working on. It brings up some valid points about P2P technologies albeit biased towards (illegal) file sharing, the author welcomes critism and wants to hear your views."
Here, you want a paragraph which is more meaningful, better structured and readable:
"P2P has a lot of potential for reducing costs and increasing bandwidth for distributing data but the technology needs to be developed further to protect the rights of content creators. Current solutions are synonymous with illegal pirating of music, films and applications; this is a stigma that will be hard to shift if current P2P technologies continue to allow this illegal distribution."
I'm sorry to slate someone so coldly, but honestly the article offers little fact and is practically illegible, I find it hard to take the author seriously. Do you disagree with me? Do you admit that you could also write something more meaningful in little or no time?
Here, you want a paragraph which is more meaningful, better structured and readable:
"P2P has a lot of potential for reducing costs and increasing bandiwdth for distributing data but the technology needs to be developed furthur to protect the rights of content creators. Current solutions are synonmous with illegal pirating of music, films and applications, this is a stigma that will be hard to shift if current P2P technologies continue to allow this illegal distribution."P2P has a lot of potential for reducing costs and increasing bandwidth for distributing data but the technology needs to be developed further to protect the rights of content creators. Current solutions are synonymous with illegal pirating of music, films and applications; this is a stigma that will be hard to shift if current P2P technologies continue to allow this illegal distribution."
I'm sorry to slate someone so coldly, but honestly the article offers little fact and is practically illegible, I find it hard to take the author seriously. Do you disagree with me? Do you admit that you could also write something more meaningful in little or no time?
If he submits it to Wikipedia I'd go straight on there and delete the whole thing and replace it with a picture of a huge steaming turd, since they are equivilent and the turd takes less time to view.
this 'Manifesto' is a joke right? It sounds like someone talking about how great the 'Power Rangers' is on Cartoon Network, how unstoppable and amzing they are, my god even the most powerful demon in the universe can't stop them!!1onehundredthousandonehundredandandeleven
I'm sorry I don't require the same level of standard from my devices as you do. I use the camera on my phone for fun, I'm not a professional photographer, I just want snap shots of me and my friends having fun and the 1.3 megapixel camera on my phone does a damn good job of it. The internet on my phone (Motorola A1000) is perfectly useable (mostly thanks to Opera's SSR technology and the large screen), and I find that most the websites I visit even have small screen friendly versions (such as news.bbc.co.uk). Streaming video is equally enjoyable due to the large, high resolution screen.
If I wanted to spend 4 hours doing reasearch on the internet or If I wanted to take hi quality photos at a special event then I'd proabably use a more appropriate device, but since 99% of the time my phone will surfice for what I need I am happy with it.
I wouldn't consider the functions on a modern phone "sub-par".
Well, I need a phone of course, I want a PDA for work, e-mail calender etc (work related) I also like to listen to music (my phone works great as an mp3 player), Games are nice (solitaire on your phone!)
Funny, I do want those features, just because you don't doesn't mean no phone should have them. You can still buy phones that do pretty much nothing useful other than being a phone, I reccommend you buy one of them; I'll buy one with a calender and games (since that's what I want).
You're right, why carry around a compact device that can take pictures, play games, sync with my calender and e-mails and allow me to make calls, connect to the internet and now stream videos when I can carry around a Gameboy, a phone, a pda and a camera and a laptop!!
I've never bought or seen a DVD with adverts on it (other than a rental).
Indeed, how dare the movie companies; who pour millions into the film your about to watch display their logo, I mean, really! It's not like the film wouldn't have be made without them, who do they think they are!?
Warnings? Bah, why should the movies companies try and protect their investments, what a rubbish business model.
Really we don't know if it made a difference about complaining, but they said they would take it into "consideration", we got a load of people to sign that the lecturer said there wouldn't be work in the exam when there was. In conclusion the graphics course was the worst module in the entire degree (perhaps with the exception of russian electronis;)
As for the online timetable! WTF! A computer department that can't share an excel spreadsheet on the internet *sigh* idiots.
Windows Laptops do indeed do this as well, though sleep can be hibernate or suspend to ram usually. With hibernate you can leave the power off as long as you like, since the memory is written to disk and reloaded the next time you power up (don't know what sort of sleep Apple tops do).
I have to take security passes to work, which have both proximity and swipe access, in conjunction with a PIN. I have to take the cards to work everyday, everyone wears them round their neck, since they are also photocards, without them we can't even get in the front door of the office! I have no problem with this, and I've yet to not take it with me, like wearing shoes to work.
If you're going to be stuck with adverts, wouldn't you prefer they were relevant to what you're doing, rather than just constant penis enlargment spam (unless of course your browsing penis enlargment sites;)
Because Finjan is a company that would make a mountain out of a mole hill if it sold their software, if they were to do this properly they could have just told Microsoft about the problem and kept quite about it. But that doesn't sell their products, they sell security prodcuts, which rely on exploits. The chances are that this isn't really a major issue, and probably relies on some obscure system setup which could only be achieved on purpose and for the sake of introducing a hole, which no user would ever have in reality.
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The line just keeps blurring. The Motorola A1000 runs on the same OS as the P9xx phones but has a faster processor and more RAM, sports a 1.3MP camera and GPS and all that in a smaller phone! Oh yeah and it can run the NES/Megadrive/Gameboy emulator and EScummVM as well as syncing with Outlook :)
Aren't you just describing a Mac?
If it's open source then if someone starts adding company specific stuff, or things that the community don't agree with, can't they just be removed by someone else. Or it can be branched so that all the "Google Crap" that someone might add is a seperate development. Isn't that the whole point of OSS? Besides, Google could just employ anyone to contribute to Firefox, it doesn't have to be the "creator", but I can see why that would be useful to them.
I totally agree, I think the poster thought it would be funny; subjecting someone to all this criticism isn't a particularly nice thing to do. I appriciate the person may have spent time and effort on the report, but to be honest it should never have been submitted to slashdot in the way it was. It would have been much better for both the author and everyone else if the submitter had written something like:
"The author is Italian and would like an English speaking person to help translate his P2P manifest that he's working on. It brings up some valid points about P2P technologies albeit biased towards (illegal) file sharing, the author welcomes critism and wants to hear your views."
something like that...
Grr slashdot, heres the actual post:
Here, you want a paragraph which is more meaningful, better structured and readable:
"P2P has a lot of potential for reducing costs and increasing bandwidth for distributing data but the technology needs to be developed further to protect the rights of content creators. Current solutions are synonymous with illegal pirating of music, films and applications; this is a stigma that will be hard to shift if current P2P technologies continue to allow this illegal distribution."
I'm sorry to slate someone so coldly, but honestly the article offers little fact and is practically illegible, I find it hard to take the author seriously. Do you disagree with me? Do you admit that you could also write something more meaningful in little or no time?
Here, you want a paragraph which is more meaningful, better structured and readable:
"P2P has a lot of potential for reducing costs and increasing bandiwdth for distributing data but the technology needs to be developed furthur to protect the rights of content creators. Current solutions are synonmous with illegal pirating of music, films and applications, this is a stigma that will be hard to shift if current P2P technologies continue to allow this illegal distribution."P2P has a lot of potential for reducing costs and increasing bandwidth for distributing data but the technology needs to be developed further to protect the rights of content creators. Current solutions are synonymous with illegal pirating of music, films and applications; this is a stigma that will be hard to shift if current P2P technologies continue to allow this illegal distribution."
I'm sorry to slate someone so coldly, but honestly the article offers little fact and is practically illegible, I find it hard to take the author seriously. Do you disagree with me? Do you admit that you could also write something more meaningful in little or no time?
If he submits it to Wikipedia I'd go straight on there and delete the whole thing and replace it with a picture of a huge steaming turd, since they are equivilent and the turd takes less time to view.
this 'Manifesto' is a joke right? It sounds like someone talking about how great the 'Power Rangers' is on Cartoon Network, how unstoppable and amzing they are, my god even the most powerful demon in the universe can't stop them!!1onehundredthousandonehundredandandeleven
I'm sorry I don't require the same level of standard from my devices as you do. I use the camera on my phone for fun, I'm not a professional photographer, I just want snap shots of me and my friends having fun and the 1.3 megapixel camera on my phone does a damn good job of it. The internet on my phone (Motorola A1000) is perfectly useable (mostly thanks to Opera's SSR technology and the large screen), and I find that most the websites I visit even have small screen friendly versions (such as news.bbc.co.uk). Streaming video is equally enjoyable due to the large, high resolution screen.
If I wanted to spend 4 hours doing reasearch on the internet or If I wanted to take hi quality photos at a special event then I'd proabably use a more appropriate device, but since 99% of the time my phone will surfice for what I need I am happy with it.
I wouldn't consider the functions on a modern phone "sub-par".
Well, I need a phone of course, I want a PDA for work, e-mail calender etc (work related) I also like to listen to music (my phone works great as an mp3 player), Games are nice (solitaire on your phone!)
Funny, I do want those features, just because you don't doesn't mean no phone should have them. You can still buy phones that do pretty much nothing useful other than being a phone, I reccommend you buy one of them; I'll buy one with a calender and games (since that's what I want).
Ermm.. or you can simply turn bluetooth off?
You're right, why carry around a compact device that can take pictures, play games, sync with my calender and e-mails and allow me to make calls, connect to the internet and now stream videos when I can carry around a Gameboy, a phone, a pda and a camera and a laptop!!
Symbian OS is nothing to do with Microsoft or Windows.
I've never bought or seen a DVD with adverts on it (other than a rental).
Indeed, how dare the movie companies; who pour millions into the film your about to watch display their logo, I mean, really! It's not like the film wouldn't have be made without them, who do they think they are!?
Warnings? Bah, why should the movies companies try and protect their investments, what a rubbish business model.
*sigh* need I go on.
Really we don't know if it made a difference about complaining, but they said they would take it into "consideration", we got a load of people to sign that the lecturer said there wouldn't be work in the exam when there was. In conclusion the graphics course was the worst module in the entire degree (perhaps with the exception of russian electronis ;)
As for the online timetable! WTF! A computer department that can't share an excel spreadsheet on the internet *sigh* idiots.
So it has nothing to do with the fact that MS Office is actually very good at what it does then?
Windows Laptops do indeed do this as well, though sleep can be hibernate or suspend to ram usually. With hibernate you can leave the power off as long as you like, since the memory is written to disk and reloaded the next time you power up (don't know what sort of sleep Apple tops do).
although, no doubt you'll need xbox live, or at least a net connection to your xbox for it to work.
Have you ever tried writing a 3D engine?
I have to take security passes to work, which have both proximity and swipe access, in conjunction with a PIN. I have to take the cards to work everyday, everyone wears them round their neck, since they are also photocards, without them we can't even get in the front door of the office! I have no problem with this, and I've yet to not take it with me, like wearing shoes to work.
If you're going to be stuck with adverts, wouldn't you prefer they were relevant to what you're doing, rather than just constant penis enlargment spam (unless of course your browsing penis enlargment sites ;)
Link to Skynet5.
There is a system called Skynet already, now in its 5th incarnation, its a satellite comms system for the military.
Because Finjan is a company that would make a mountain out of a mole hill if it sold their software, if they were to do this properly they could have just told Microsoft about the problem and kept quite about it. But that doesn't sell their products, they sell security prodcuts, which rely on exploits. The chances are that this isn't really a major issue, and probably relies on some obscure system setup which could only be achieved on purpose and for the sake of introducing a hole, which no user would ever have in reality.