I was more interested in a story that recently appeared on CourtTV's Forensic Files. It was about the first known (at least what they claim as such) forensic analysis of computer disks that had been cut (with pinking shears).
When the wife of an Air Force Sergeant is found dead on a Philippines air base, investigators are baffled. With no leads and no new suspects, they are forced to re-examine the man they suspected all along. Using a pioneering technique in computer forensics, authorities are able put together the pieces of a chilling puzzle. TV-14 V
Basically they used "post-it-note" like glued Scotch tape to piece the 5 1/4" floppy back and read it. What they originally believed would take 1+ million dollars to do ended up costing less than $150 -- $50 of which was a blown/tossed floppy drive head due to a poorly reconsructed disk.
Needless to say Tivo has been nabbing every one of these episodes and I'm hopelessly hooked.
United States Patent Office #2,736,728 Patented February 28, 1956 Richard P. Pioch, Indianapolis, Indiana, assignor, to Eli Lilly and Co., Indianapolis, Indiana, a corporation of Indiana. No drawing. Application December 6, 1954, Serial No. 473,443. 10 Claims. (Cl. 260-285.5)
I have never played Doom on LSD but I have played Quake and various other games. I was never terribly successful especially with games like Tetris.
If you are eating LSD I really suggest something outdoors like frisbee, hiking/walking, or frolf. You're bound to have a better time.
Linux *is* too complicated for a good many people but it doesn't have anything to do w/the system design or how it works. It's too complicated because it's different from what they use every day at work and at home.
Yes, it doesn't take that long to learn how to move around in the UI and find the alternative software that Linux runs. It's just different. People don't have enough time to eat, sleep, pay attention to their kids, or take their garbage cans in... They aren't going to have the time to install, adapt, and change the habits they learned using Windows for the past 15-20 years.
Compare that with Windows where, it's possible -- not likely, but possible -- that you'll need to use a command line now and again, or edit the Windows registry, where, as they like to tell you, one wrong move could destroy your system forever.
You know, I consider myself knowledgeable with computers. I run multiple OSs at home and have run many more over the course of my life. You know how many times I've edited the system registry since its inception? Less than 5. I really doubt that anyone *needs* to edit their registry ever.
You know how many times I've had to edit a configuration file on Linux? I just did it 12 times yesterday alone for two different programs. Will editing a.conf file on Linux crash your system? Maybe, maybe not, depends on what you're doing. But the likelihood that someone would have to do that editing is higher on Linux.
I love Linux. I use it on my servers, I use it on my desktops, and I use it on my entertainment center, where it powers my HDTV TiVo and my D-Link DSM-320 media player, which turns my network into a media library with terabytes of storage. Heck, I even run Linux on my Linksys WRT54G Wi-Fi access points, which hook the whole shebang together.
When was the last time you had to edit a configuration file with a text editor on your Tivo? I never have. When was the last time you had to fire up your WRT54G and wonder what all the fsck messages were? Never. Just because Linux is being used to power the device does not mean it wasn't designed to be user friendly. Most people don't surf the web and write research papers with a remote control or by hitting a recessed hard-reset button.
I realize that this was a tongue-in-cheek article and I realize that it was mildly humorous but I just really felt that it was just as bad as Microsoft claiming that Linux costs more. This bullshit where Linux users fault non-Linux users for not switching because of the lack of difficulty is just bullshit.
Linux isn't easy and it does have a learning curve. Most people just don't care to take the time to learn it.
I wonder if Microsoft just releases their "research" to give us stuff to make fun of:) Maybe they have the sense of humor!:)
Best of all, for all of its innovative design, GEM is suprisingly affordable.
Yeah, the GEM is surprisingly affordable but it certainly doesn't have an "innovative design" as it's just about the same as any electric golf cart with a roof and seatbelts.
Who gave those in charge a clue? It seems we're starting to see a paradigm shift... people who really abuse network resources are getting caught!
From the Editorial FAQ: Deciding the interest level of a story is a very subjective thing, and we have to take into account not only the intrinsic interest of the story itself, but what else is happening that day.
So, no, it's the "editors" picking and choosing articles that will shape the look of Slashdot on any given day/week/month. Just like some days we have Google Fuckathon days and months full of Slashvertisements of iPod Your Slashdot, today we have headlines that seem to make it appear that "someone" has a clue.
He wasn't busted for spamming, BTW, he was busted because he's dealing narcotics illegally and he recently flew to the DR on a forged passport.
In a somewhat surprisingly earnest assessment, the NYTimes has an article about the massive decline in movie-going that does not once try to blame piracy and file-sharing programs. It sounds like studios are beginning to understand that they have only themselves to blame.
But many movie executives and industry experts are beginning to conclude that something more fundamental is at work: Too many Hollywood movies these days, they say, just are not good enough.
Obviously this article was conceived, written, and posted by a BitTorrent using hacker who wants to see the continued demise of Hollywood be blamed on the wrong parties. There is no way that Hollywood is putting out bad movies. Look at how much they cost to produce, direct, edit, and market!
Even Robert Shaye, the studio leader behind "The Wedding Crashers," one of the summer's runaway hits, shares the worry about the industry's ability to connect with audiences. "I believe it's a cumulative thing, a seismic evolution of people's habits," said Mr. Shaye, chairman of New Line Cinema.
Yeah, people are annoyed with the fact that they have to pay $9.00+ to see something that cost 100+ million to make and it fucking blows. "Wait for DVD" is an all to common quote, especially with the MPAA pushing them out to the stores as fast as they can in order to attempt to curb piracy in the theatre.
It's really funny that they quoted Shaye. His movie, one of the few that did anything this summer (I haven't seen it yet), was done on a 40 million dollar budget and grossed nearly all of that back in its first weekend alone...
In previous years, he said, "you could still count on enough people to come whether you failed at entertaining them or not, out of habit, or boredom, or a desire to get out of the house. You had a little bit of backstop."
Yup, and honestly, it really seemed that it was more worth your while to spend quite a few dollars less, find a more enjoyable movie, and be able to relax for two hours. I can do that at home just as effectively for MUCH LESS money if I only wait for two months ($3.00 opposed to $18.50) and watch the DVD.
The box office numbers have led to intense, broad-ranging conversations across Hollywood about the implications. Many studios have commissioned market research to investigate the causes of moviegoing behavior - or the lack thereof.
Pay me, I guarantee you'll find out more and it will cost you less. I'll start you off here: pay the actors less money - they aren't worth 20+ million a movie. Don't use so many pointless special effects - they aren't working in most instances. Charge less for the movie so my ticket prices aren't $9+ -- you'll be able to better compete with DVD and people will be more likely to go to see the show. Ban cell phones, talking, and make adult only showings - it'll make adults more likely to see a movie w/o having to listen to a bunch of underaged kids, take calls, have their ringtones going, and spend the entire movie talking instead of watching the movie and/or making out. Finally, ask people what they think about it instead of whoever you have been paying to figure it out for you. In the article, Michael Lynton said:
Audiences have gotten smart to the marketing, and they can smell the good ones from the bad ones at a distance.
If we can why can't you? Seems like an open and shut case to me.
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I haven't used Bookmarks since 1998 or 1999. Too much of a hassle finding stuff when the links are dead anyway.
His solution, using a search engine, is a much better method as you might even come across something new and even MORE useful than what you had originally bookmarked.
I check a handful of websites daily. Mostly Google News, slashdot, MNspeak, geocaching.com, mngca.org, and usually some others. While having them setup in a hierarchy might leverage the association aspect, typing them in everytime exercises my memory and my typing. I guess we each have our own seperate areas we'd prefer to work on.
"I've definitely been picking up on the resentment," said Max Levchin, a founder of PayPal, the online payment service now owned by eBay. "They're a big company now, doing things people didn't expect them to do."
Obviously hoarding engineers and paying them well is something that the rest of the industry isn't doing so why shouldn't they resent Google?
Especially when Google releases well-received products that are "free".
I tried to copy/paste this and reformat it a BIT so that it was slightly more readable than what it was on the linked website. Ugh.
Why is there almost no proper capitalization? I mean, it's already damn near impossible to read but a five minute skim/correct session wouldn't have been too much to ask, would it?
On to the article (slight edits for format, no other changes):
****
Major Nelson (Moderator): We are just about to get started
Major Nelson (Moderator): Welcome to today's chat. I am happy to have J join us for an hour to take your questions on the Xbox 360. Just to let you know, due to J's injury he does have someone typing for him, but all of the answers are directly from J himself. With that said...welcome J. Also, we already have over 1,000 questions...many of which are similar, so we'll chose the ones that are most representative of the majority of the questions.
J Allard (Expert):
A: we'll get going with the first question now....
J Allard (Expert): Q: My question: Can Microsoft guarantee that the HDD will be fully uitilised when present or are we going to see long load times with a slow DVD unit as standard from most developers.
A: just like last generation utilization of things like xbox live and the hard drive will be up to the game designers and just like last time we expect game developers to be excited by this. we have been in clear communication for more than a year that some scenarios will include a disconnected hard drive and it has not slowed them down
J Allard (Expert):
Q: Mr. Expert, will the Xbox 360 games use the hard drive for game saves and caching like the original Xbox did?
A: absolutely. we think game designers have all kinds of innovative ideas that the hard drive will be used for. use of the hard drive is not limited to game scenarios. like xbox 1 you will be able to do things like rip and store music and don't forget about live scenarios and all the downloadable content
J Allard (Expert):
Q: Why is the hard drive so highly priced? A 20GB hard drive now a days goes for about 20-30... why $100? I believe this will deter alot of sales..
A: the 20 gb hard drive is a 2.5 inch user servicable drive and is more expense than a pc "crack the box" drive. it's one of the reasons we pushed to create a compelling premium bundle.
J Allard (Expert):
Q: Why is the hard drive so highly priced? A 20GB hard drive now a days goes for about 20-30... why $100? I believe this will deter alot of sales..
A: one of the reasons that we designed a user removable hard drive is in direct response to the hard core gaming audience to make it easier to take game saves, game maps, soundtracks, etc. easily to their friends house or lan party. they also wanted the ability to upgrade to larger capacity drives. and if the drive is not present because someone in the house took it on the road, you still want to be able to use the console for movies, music or games.
J Allard (Expert):
Q: will the loss of HDD mean that all games will be made without the HDD in mind, therefore effecting users of the premium pack?
A: absolute not. consider this last generation where somewhere in the neighborhood of 20% of game consoles had hard drives attached. this did not deter game developers from utilizing the hard drive both for exclusive games and cross platform games on xbox. this generation our first party team and our exclusive content developers are just as committed to using the hard drive and like we they demonstrated with this generation our third party cross platform developers are committed as well. games like splinter cell, madden, and tony hawk all demonstrated unique capabilities in hard drive configured systems.
J Allard (Expert):
Q: Can we stream videos from our PCs?
A: yes. if you have media center on those pcs. you will be able to stream standard and high definition video.
When they talk about the extender DSLAM hardware being rugged they aren't kidding:
Only the size of a small shoe-box, and being fully submersible to a depth of 5m (16 feet), the R8as can be deployed in more locations than any other DSLAM. It can be installed on a pole, or in a pit or manhole susceptible to flooding, as well as other locations such as un-powered cross-connect cabinets. Its small size and light weight also allows it to be suspended from overhead cable.
I'd like to know if they were serving DSL through a submersed DSLAM during the testing phase. I'd really like to know if works as well as they claim.
Yes, it's important to save these animals, but should we be putting more effort into saving the animals than we put into bringing animals here from half a world away? I'd be more interested in seeing them hunting free/tamper free zones for native animals.
Eagles are too high in the area 99% of the time to attract tourists.
Bison look like hairy cows with dreadlocks. They are slow moving, typically boring, and will eat hay out of your hand if you stick it through the fence. Not much fun for tourists.
Wolves are scary -- especially at midnight when there's a full moon and on the basketball court. Michael J. Fox's relevance died in the 1980s so people wouldn't want to come and see him.
I'd be more interested in seeing them hunting free/tamper free zones for native animals.
You have a brain. These "scientists" are interested in "Jurassic Park" and they are advertising a wildlife park for tourism purposes only.
My intended definition of "superior" was for hunting, killing, and consuming (in whatever manner) of other animals.
One species that can watch another dwindle and die without taking action? Personally, I don't think that's particularly superior.
You don't think it's morally superior. There's a difference you know.
As "Superior animals" I think humanity has a duty to protect other species.
I think we have a duty to protect only ourselves (as we were intended to do) and that *may* include protecting other species that we depend on for our survival. Introducing large animals from Africa to North America for tourism isn't something that is needed for our survival.
Reintroducing the modern relatives of the Late Pleistocene losers to North America could spark fresh interest in conservation, contribute to biodiversity and begin to put right some of the wrongs caused by human activities.
Those animals are dwindling in numbers for a reason and should remain as such. Believe it or not that's the nature of the Earth. Superior animals control populations of other animals and sometimes entire populations die creating chain reactions.
I am thrilled that we have advanced enough scientifically to help with animal populations but I really think that we should just let it go and let the Earth work the way it has for billions of years.
Shit happens -- let's work with the way the world works rather than trying to recreate how it was all the time.
If you don't like the fact you are being spied upon on private property, you *can* use your weight as a citizen to push for laws against survelance in private space. Because you accept that as the status quo, it will reamin that way.
Excuse me? I'm stupid? For standing up for what I believe in? I don't believe that I have a right to infringe on the rights of others to do as they fucking please with their OWN property.
It's really sad when someone thinks that *more* legislation is a good thing.
What you need to do, if you don't like something, is to stop going to that store and to tell others not to go there either (and why). If enough people agree that the benefits don't outweigh the negative aspects then they go out of business.
Problem solved w/o more time wasted in the courts creating unnecessary legislation for something that we shouldn't be attempting to control.
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The one fucking question I really wanted him to answer he wasn't even asked.
Instead something completely worthless like Winkydink asks: How do you pronounce your name? shows up instead.
Thanks Slashdot.
Or becoming a hacker because I wanted to meet Sandra Bullock. Man, what a time-waster this has turned out to be.
Too bad your mom wouldn't let you buy that motorcycle eh?
I was more interested in a story that recently appeared on CourtTV's Forensic Files. It was about the first known (at least what they claim as such) forensic analysis of computer disks that had been cut (with pinking shears).
From their website:
"Shear" Luck"
When the wife of an Air Force Sergeant is found dead on a Philippines air base, investigators are baffled. With no leads and no new suspects, they are forced to re-examine the man they suspected all along. Using a pioneering technique in computer forensics, authorities are able put together the pieces of a chilling puzzle. TV-14 V
Basically they used "post-it-note" like glued Scotch tape to piece the 5 1/4" floppy back and read it. What they originally believed would take 1+ million dollars to do ended up costing less than $150 -- $50 of which was a blown/tossed floppy drive head due to a poorly reconsructed disk.
Needless to say Tivo has been nabbing every one of these episodes and I'm hopelessly hooked.
United States Patent Office #2,736,728
Patented February 28, 1956
Richard P. Pioch, Indianapolis, Indiana, assignor, to Eli Lilly and Co., Indianapolis, Indiana, a corporation of Indiana.
No drawing. Application December 6, 1954, Serial No. 473,443. 10 Claims.
(Cl. 260-285.5)
I have never played Doom on LSD but I have played Quake and various other games. I was never terribly successful especially with games like Tetris.
If you are eating LSD I really suggest something outdoors like frisbee, hiking/walking, or frolf. You're bound to have a better time.
YMMV.
People were still used to "Windows" regardless of its UI. Even if the UI design changes people are still comfortable with the name.
I'm confused:
I have a problem with this (apart from the obvious -- that Windows hasn't been around for the past 15-20 years)
This is 2005. From what I remember Windows 1.0 was released 11/85. Would you have been more satisfied if I had said 15-19.5 years?
Then how come OSX is so freakin' easy for everyone to use? It only takes a few minutes.
Actually, I find OS X the most difficult to use at times probably because it's the most "different" for me.
Reason number one: Linux is too complicated
.conf file on Linux crash your system? Maybe, maybe not, depends on what you're doing. But the likelihood that someone would have to do that editing is higher on Linux.
:) Maybe they have the sense of humor! :)
Linux *is* too complicated for a good many people but it doesn't have anything to do w/the system design or how it works. It's too complicated because it's different from what they use every day at work and at home.
Yes, it doesn't take that long to learn how to move around in the UI and find the alternative software that Linux runs. It's just different. People don't have enough time to eat, sleep, pay attention to their kids, or take their garbage cans in... They aren't going to have the time to install, adapt, and change the habits they learned using Windows for the past 15-20 years.
Compare that with Windows where, it's possible -- not likely, but possible -- that you'll need to use a command line now and again, or edit the Windows registry, where, as they like to tell you, one wrong move could destroy your system forever.
You know, I consider myself knowledgeable with computers. I run multiple OSs at home and have run many more over the course of my life. You know how many times I've edited the system registry since its inception? Less than 5. I really doubt that anyone *needs* to edit their registry ever.
You know how many times I've had to edit a configuration file on Linux? I just did it 12 times yesterday alone for two different programs. Will editing a
I love Linux. I use it on my servers, I use it on my desktops, and I use it on my entertainment center, where it powers my HDTV TiVo and my D-Link DSM-320 media player, which turns my network into a media library with terabytes of storage. Heck, I even run Linux on my Linksys WRT54G Wi-Fi access points, which hook the whole shebang together.
When was the last time you had to edit a configuration file with a text editor on your Tivo? I never have. When was the last time you had to fire up your WRT54G and wonder what all the fsck messages were? Never. Just because Linux is being used to power the device does not mean it wasn't designed to be user friendly. Most people don't surf the web and write research papers with a remote control or by hitting a recessed hard-reset button.
I realize that this was a tongue-in-cheek article and I realize that it was mildly humorous but I just really felt that it was just as bad as Microsoft claiming that Linux costs more. This bullshit where Linux users fault non-Linux users for not switching because of the lack of difficulty is just bullshit.
Linux isn't easy and it does have a learning curve. Most people just don't care to take the time to learn it.
I wonder if Microsoft just releases their "research" to give us stuff to make fun of
Best of all, for all of its innovative design, GEM is suprisingly affordable.
Yeah, the GEM is surprisingly affordable but it certainly doesn't have an "innovative design" as it's just about the same as any electric golf cart with a roof and seatbelts.
Actually it's the individual movie theater that sets the ticket price and rules. Not the producers of the film.
The movie costs a certain amount to buy which is relative to how much it cost to make or how well the theatre believes it will do.
Thus, in effect, the makers of the movie set the price.
Who gave those in charge a clue? It seems we're starting to see a paradigm shift... people who really abuse network resources are getting caught!
From the Editorial FAQ:
Deciding the interest level of a story is a very subjective thing, and we have to take into account not only the intrinsic interest of the story itself, but what else is happening that day.
So, no, it's the "editors" picking and choosing articles that will shape the look of Slashdot on any given day/week/month. Just like some days we have Google Fuckathon days and months full of Slashvertisements of iPod Your Slashdot, today we have headlines that seem to make it appear that "someone" has a clue.
He wasn't busted for spamming, BTW, he was busted because he's dealing narcotics illegally and he recently flew to the DR on a forged passport.
In a somewhat surprisingly earnest assessment, the NYTimes has an article about the massive decline in movie-going that does not once try to blame piracy and file-sharing programs. It sounds like studios are beginning to understand that they have only themselves to blame.
But many movie executives and industry experts are beginning to conclude that something more fundamental is at work: Too many Hollywood movies these days, they say, just are not good enough.
Obviously this article was conceived, written, and posted by a BitTorrent using hacker who wants to see the continued demise of Hollywood be blamed on the wrong parties. There is no way that Hollywood is putting out bad movies. Look at how much they cost to produce, direct, edit, and market!
Even Robert Shaye, the studio leader behind "The Wedding Crashers," one of the summer's runaway hits, shares the worry about the industry's ability to connect with audiences. "I believe it's a cumulative thing, a seismic evolution of people's habits," said Mr. Shaye, chairman of New Line Cinema.
Yeah, people are annoyed with the fact that they have to pay $9.00+ to see something that cost 100+ million to make and it fucking blows. "Wait for DVD" is an all to common quote, especially with the MPAA pushing them out to the stores as fast as they can in order to attempt to curb piracy in the theatre.
It's really funny that they quoted Shaye. His movie, one of the few that did anything this summer (I haven't seen it yet), was done on a 40 million dollar budget and grossed nearly all of that back in its first weekend alone...
In previous years, he said, "you could still count on enough people to come whether you failed at entertaining them or not, out of habit, or boredom, or a desire to get out of the house. You had a little bit of backstop."
Yup, and honestly, it really seemed that it was more worth your while to spend quite a few dollars less, find a more enjoyable movie, and be able to relax for two hours. I can do that at home just as effectively for MUCH LESS money if I only wait for two months ($3.00 opposed to $18.50) and watch the DVD.
The box office numbers have led to intense, broad-ranging conversations across Hollywood about the implications. Many studios have commissioned market research to investigate the causes of moviegoing behavior - or the lack thereof.
Pay me, I guarantee you'll find out more and it will cost you less. I'll start you off here: pay the actors less money - they aren't worth 20+ million a movie. Don't use so many pointless special effects - they aren't working in most instances. Charge less for the movie so my ticket prices aren't $9+ -- you'll be able to better compete with DVD and people will be more likely to go to see the show. Ban cell phones, talking, and make adult only showings - it'll make adults more likely to see a movie w/o having to listen to a bunch of underaged kids, take calls, have their ringtones going, and spend the entire movie talking instead of watching the movie and/or making out. Finally, ask people what they think about it instead of whoever you have been paying to figure it out for you. In the article, Michael Lynton said:
Audiences have gotten smart to the marketing, and they can smell the good ones from the bad ones at a distance.
If we can why can't you? Seems like an open and shut case to me.
Dodge, Dive, Dip, Duck, and Dodge.
I haven't used Bookmarks since 1998 or 1999. Too much of a hassle finding stuff when the links are dead anyway.
His solution, using a search engine, is a much better method as you might even come across something new and even MORE useful than what you had originally bookmarked.
I check a handful of websites daily. Mostly Google News, slashdot, MNspeak, geocaching.com, mngca.org, and usually some others. While having them setup in a hierarchy might leverage the association aspect, typing them in everytime exercises my memory and my typing. I guess we each have our own seperate areas we'd prefer to work on.
YMMV.
From the article:
"I've definitely been picking up on the resentment," said Max Levchin, a founder of PayPal, the online payment service now owned by eBay. "They're a big company now, doing things people didn't expect them to do."
Obviously hoarding engineers and paying them well is something that the rest of the industry isn't doing so why shouldn't they resent Google?
Especially when Google releases well-received products that are "free".
Kinda ruins the business model for everyone else.
You know, you're obviously trolling but I'll respond anyway:
Maybe if I had posted as AC there might have been some doubt, but being that I posted it as myself, no.
I tried to copy/paste this and reformat it a BIT so that it was slightly more readable than what it was on the linked website. Ugh.
Why is there almost no proper capitalization? I mean, it's already damn near impossible to read but a five minute skim/correct session wouldn't have been too much to ask, would it?
On to the article (slight edits for format, no other changes):
****
Major Nelson (Moderator): We are just about to get started
Major Nelson (Moderator): Welcome to today's chat. I am happy to have J join us for an hour to take your questions on the Xbox 360. Just to let you know, due to J's injury he does have someone typing for him, but all of the answers are directly from J himself. With that said...welcome J. Also, we already have over 1,000 questions...many of which are similar, so we'll chose the ones that are most representative of the majority of the questions.
J Allard (Expert):
A: we'll get going with the first question now....
J Allard (Expert):
Q: My question: Can Microsoft guarantee that the HDD will be fully uitilised when present or are we going to see long load times with a slow DVD unit as standard from most developers.
A: just like last generation utilization of things like xbox live and the hard drive will be up to the game designers and just like last time we expect game developers to be excited by this. we have been in clear communication for more than a year that some scenarios will include a disconnected hard drive and it has not slowed them down
J Allard (Expert):
Q: Mr. Expert, will the Xbox 360 games use the hard drive for game saves and caching like the original Xbox did?
A: absolutely. we think game designers have all kinds of innovative ideas that the hard drive will be used for. use of the hard drive is not limited to game scenarios. like xbox 1 you will be able to do things like rip and store music and don't forget about live scenarios and all the downloadable content
J Allard (Expert):
Q: Why is the hard drive so highly priced? A 20GB hard drive now a days goes for about 20-30... why $100? I believe this will deter alot of sales..
A: the 20 gb hard drive is a 2.5 inch user servicable drive and is more expense than a pc "crack the box" drive. it's one of the reasons we pushed to create a compelling premium bundle.
J Allard (Expert):
Q: Why is the hard drive so highly priced? A 20GB hard drive now a days goes for about 20-30... why $100? I believe this will deter alot of sales..
A: one of the reasons that we designed a user removable hard drive is in direct response to the hard core gaming audience to make it easier to take game saves, game maps, soundtracks, etc. easily to their friends house or lan party. they also wanted the ability to upgrade to larger capacity drives. and if the drive is not present because someone in the house took it on the road, you still want to be able to use the console for movies, music or games.
J Allard (Expert):
Q: will the loss of HDD mean that all games will be made without the HDD in mind, therefore effecting users of the premium pack?
A: absolute not. consider this last generation where somewhere in the neighborhood of 20% of game consoles had hard drives attached. this did not deter game developers from utilizing the hard drive both for exclusive games and cross platform games on xbox. this generation our first party team and our exclusive content developers are just as committed to using the hard drive and like we they demonstrated with this generation our third party cross platform developers are committed as well. games like splinter cell, madden, and tony hawk all demonstrated unique capabilities in hard drive configured systems.
J Allard (Expert):
Q: Can we stream videos from our PCs?
A: yes. if you have media center on those pcs. you will be able to stream standard and high definition video.
J Allard (Expert):
Q: Why even offer the core packa
Let's see what their attitudes are when their ass is on the line.
Plenty of people put their faith on the line and trust their lives to their doctors and to the miraculous works of their respective god(s).
We aren't *only* talking about the political gainings brought by supporting the religious right here.
The worms come in, the worms go out.
;)
I thought it was running Linux? If you wanted to watch worms make sure they have the LCD running unpatched Windows
When they talk about the extender DSLAM hardware being rugged they aren't kidding:
Only the size of a small shoe-box, and being fully submersible to a depth of 5m (16 feet), the R8as can be deployed in more locations than any other DSLAM. It can be installed on a pole, or in a pit or manhole susceptible to flooding, as well as other locations such as un-powered cross-connect cabinets. Its small size and light weight also allows it to be suspended from overhead cable.
I'd like to know if they were serving DSL through a submersed DSLAM during the testing phase. I'd really like to know if works as well as they claim.
Yes, it's important to save these animals, but should we be putting more effort into saving the animals than we put into bringing animals here from half a world away? I'd be more interested in seeing them hunting free/tamper free zones for native animals.
Eagles are too high in the area 99% of the time to attract tourists.
Bison look like hairy cows with dreadlocks. They are slow moving, typically boring, and will eat hay out of your hand if you stick it through the fence. Not much fun for tourists.
Wolves are scary -- especially at midnight when there's a full moon and on the basketball court. Michael J. Fox's relevance died in the 1980s so people wouldn't want to come and see him.
I'd be more interested in seeing them hunting free/tamper free zones for native animals.
You have a brain. These "scientists" are interested in "Jurassic Park" and they are advertising a wildlife park for tourism purposes only.
Shouldn't "Superior animals" help others?
My intended definition of "superior" was for hunting, killing, and consuming (in whatever manner) of other animals.
One species that can watch another dwindle and die without taking action? Personally, I don't think that's particularly superior.
You don't think it's morally superior. There's a difference you know.
As "Superior animals" I think humanity has a duty to protect other species.
I think we have a duty to protect only ourselves (as we were intended to do) and that *may* include protecting other species that we depend on for our survival. Introducing large animals from Africa to North America for tourism isn't something that is needed for our survival.
Reintroducing the modern relatives of the Late Pleistocene losers to North America could spark fresh interest in conservation, contribute to biodiversity and begin to put right some of the wrongs caused by human activities.
Those animals are dwindling in numbers for a reason and should remain as such. Believe it or not that's the nature of the Earth. Superior animals control populations of other animals and sometimes entire populations die creating chain reactions.
I am thrilled that we have advanced enough scientifically to help with animal populations but I really think that we should just let it go and let the Earth work the way it has for billions of years.
Shit happens -- let's work with the way the world works rather than trying to recreate how it was all the time.
If you don't like the fact you are being spied upon on private property, you *can* use your weight as a citizen to push for laws against survelance in private space. Because you accept that as the status quo, it will reamin that way.
Excuse me? I'm stupid? For standing up for what I believe in? I don't believe that I have a right to infringe on the rights of others to do as they fucking please with their OWN property.
It's really sad when someone thinks that *more* legislation is a good thing.
What you need to do, if you don't like something, is to stop going to that store and to tell others not to go there either (and why). If enough people agree that the benefits don't outweigh the negative aspects then they go out of business.
Problem solved w/o more time wasted in the courts creating unnecessary legislation for something that we shouldn't be attempting to control.
Hang on, are you saying that there exist stores with cameras in the dressing rooms?
Yes. Welcome to 2005.
And some of them don't even have notice of this?
I couldn't possibly speak for all stores that have cameras in their dressing areas so I said "most places".