Hah, kinda amusing that basically the -only- answer to the original question seems to be the 'the Netherlands' post and its replies.
But as a native dutchman, I'm interested in someone suggesting something else.. South Africa, Japan, Canada, Russia (moscow?) seem interesting places to be, but how are they if you plan to live there?
Assume, for a moment, that this story is found to be true ('by the DOJ'). Then what? Would Bush get impeached? Will all his (arguably quite insane) calls be reversed?
Yeah your thinking is the prevalent way of thinking in well, the western world I suppose. That doesn't mean it isn't fundamentally wrong:P (ooh was that a triple negative?)
OK let me elaborate, but first let me mention that I also shower daily.
With that said, the human body has a natural balance of acids, bacteria etc that cover it. While disregarding the 'smell' for now, lots of doctors will agree (please, look it up if you think Im using a fallacy here), that in essence your skin will be much better equipped to fight off hostile bacteria etc when it is at its intended balance of moisture/bacteria/sweat/etc. Washing all the good bacteria off with the bad leaves you less protected.
And as for the smell, yeah, if you sport you'd want to shower, but it would be a lot better if you then would not use any soap. And I challenge anyone to spot someone who is conscious about hygene, perhaps puts on perfume, but showers with soap once every two or even three days instead of daily.
The smelly guy we all know usually is smelly for way more serious reasons, like not changing underwear/socks/shirts, not washing at all, not showering for weeks, etc.
Strange that the 2 questions I care about most are unanswered so far.
1/ How are the NOISE LEVELS on this thing? I am looking to replace my settop CD/DVD player with a CD/DVD+bluray player, but if it sounds like a jet taking off.. OK with gaming I suppose that it needs to be cooled, but 'just' playing back some media needs to be quiet, both cooling-wise and optical-drive-whirring-wise.
2/ It must run LINUX. There are plenty of rumours that it does, but snapping back to my 'set top mediacenter' (CD/DVD/BR/etc).. I need it to play HD-DVD avi.. eh.. trailers, yeah, that's it.. trailers..
And no, I don't mean the subject the way you would think. I am saying Americans are TOO HYGENIC. Or to elaborate:
- Clean your kitchen? Antibacterial soap! - Slight cough? Penicillin! - Washing yourself? Every day a shower.
From a CONSUMER point of view it would make sense to try to keep as healthy as possible by eliminating all those evil bacteria. Kill them, use extra-strong cleaning products. Slightly sick? Use penicillin or whatever other 'industrial strenght' medicine.
And america is of course on the very bleeding edge of consumer-driven marketing where each soap is antibacterial by now, cause it sounds sensible.
From a MEDICAL point of view however, this approach is not a good idea. It's all in the way diseases and bacteria propagate. Use some type of 'killer' on a colony of bacteria, they die.. until the time one lucky bacteria accidentally is resistent against the killer.. and that one lives, multiplies, spreads..
With the result that that strain of bacteria can not be killed by simple means anymore. Now if this would only apply to the common cold, then well sure. But you're in trouble when you (accidentally) hit the SERIOUS bacteria, and make those resistent too.
And so on.
The lesson is: 'Only fight what really NEEDS to be fought'
I hope people realise that moving away from joker will result in exactly what the attacker intended: hurt joker.com. My own business is hosted @ joker and I'm feeling the hurt. But Im staying.
Next up: can everbody who gets hurt by this attack band together and start a class action suit against this ddos'er? Yeah, IF he gets caught...
We're the internet here, and if this hacker gets found, make an example of him.. he should be in deep debt for the rest of his life. THAT'll scare these script idiots...
- Pick a game you yourself haven't mastered.
- Pick somthing that doesn't require heaps of motor control (which you're presumably trained in, and she's not)
Hence: Space Channel 5 part 2 - all you need is rythm.
Hahaha I didn't mean THAT mature...
You've never heard of day of the tentacle? It's only the best (funniest, at least) point and click adventure ever made, IMHO.
It should work fine, the guys at that site are currently doing a fundraiser to get the Devs an Axim X50/X51 so they can make the 3D accellerator work! (right now it just uses GAPI like every other pocketpc has..) Once they use the dell's built in hardware accelleration Im sure the games will positively fly.
Im seriously considering donating as well - I have a LOT of final fantasy games that urgently need replaying.:P
Traditionally the PocketPC wasn't really seen as a serious contender to things like the PSP, however times are a changin, methinks.
Adventures: With scummvm - http://www.scummvm.org/ you can run any old lucasarts adventure perfectly:
Sam and Max
Day of the Tentacle
Full Throttle
And modern PocketPC's are starting to have 'doable' processing power too.. Dell Axim X51v has 640x480 screen plus a true 3D accellerator, for example. I bet PSX-1 emulators will start to work soon enough...
Depends I suppose. I think (most) people (know thyself..) are capable of multitasking with ears+speech. In theory you can get in a heated debate just as much with someone next to you, although arguably two people paying partial attention might mitigate the distractions.
Anyway sure, you'd be mildly distracted while talking and listening to someone whilst in an emotional debate, but Ive scared myself by just trying to adjust the radio channel on a car I didn't know and then playing the 'what-if' game.. what if a child would've run across that street while I was doing that..
I've read about studies (cant reproduce them, sorry, but they sounded reasonable) that when something unexpected happens, the reaction between ppl on the phone and normal people is basically identical. People just drop the phone (literally) and do what they have to do. Also reaction times are pretty equal, and people don't really swerve etc.
Things that ARE dangerous are things like trying to operate a complex(ish) thing like a car stereo, GPS navigator, audio players etc.
So imagine my surprise when I heard that a lot of people SMS with phones while driving.. now peering at a tiny screen while driving is a BAD idea.
First of all, this patent indeed seems unfair, just randomly combining two obvious current or future technologies ("lets patent in-flight muzak for teleporters!"). But let's leave that alone for a while and assume that the patent is not evil by itself.
Why are people so against companies that buy patents from inventors? I agree that it 'feels' wrong somehow when such a shell company starts to litigate, but let's face it - it's not.
In these cases the inventor gets money for the patent, he could've also said 'no' and kept it. Instead, he has made a (hopefully) informed decision to sell his rights. The patent-buyers made the choice to invest. The choice for the inventor is: get money NOW, or maybe get more money later, if you can afford the lawyers and time. Why do people consider this practice 'evil' while things like making money off trading stocks is considered perfectly legit? In the stock market you also buy a -share- of something you have no intellectual input in.
Incidentally: as far as I can tell, NTP is not the 'vulture' company but actually was founded by the actual inventor of the patents discussed here.
WHY oh WHY do these companies thing that I would be interested in 2001 technology? GPRS? You gotta be shittin me. Here in Europe most cutting edge (read: expensive, and this one ain't going to be cheap, boys 'n girls...) phones have UMTS - 30kbyte/second downloads. GPRS does 3. I believe the USA standard is called EDGE
This is exactly why I'm not interested in the Motorola MPX. (which incidentally is a similar thing, out for half a year, plus it is a very innovative CLAMSHELL design which I much prefer in a device with a sensitive touchscreen.
OK maybe Im just being silly, but why can't the RIAA (for example) do the following:
1/ Install super-secret p2p filesharing thingy
2/ Run monitoring firewall
3/ sue all ips that connect
4/ repeat 2-4
Perhaps slightly reverse enigineer all those neatly open-sourced programs to distinguish between incoming downloads and 'other stuff' (doesnt freenet store parts of other people's data on your computer?)
Slashdot Mirror
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://php.net/fopen
Hah, kinda amusing that basically the -only- answer to the original question seems to be the 'the Netherlands' post and its replies.
But as a native dutchman, I'm interested in someone suggesting something else.. South Africa, Japan, Canada, Russia (moscow?) seem interesting places to be, but how are they if you plan to live there?
Assume, for a moment, that this story is found to be true ('by the DOJ'). Then what? Would Bush get impeached? Will all his (arguably quite insane) calls be reversed?
Hey lay off, he didn't point to his own blog, at least.
(better late than never)
:P (ooh was that a triple negative?)
Yeah your thinking is the prevalent way of thinking in well, the western world I suppose. That doesn't mean it isn't fundamentally wrong
OK let me elaborate, but first let me mention that I also shower daily.
With that said, the human body has a natural balance of acids, bacteria etc that cover it. While disregarding the 'smell' for now, lots of doctors will agree (please, look it up if you think Im using a fallacy here), that in essence your skin will be much better equipped to fight off hostile bacteria etc when it is at its intended balance of moisture/bacteria/sweat/etc. Washing all the good bacteria off with the bad leaves you less protected.
And as for the smell, yeah, if you sport you'd want to shower, but it would be a lot better if you then would not use any soap. And I challenge anyone to spot someone who is conscious about hygene, perhaps puts on perfume, but showers with soap once every two or even three days instead of daily.
The smelly guy we all know usually is smelly for way more serious reasons, like not changing underwear/socks/shirts, not washing at all, not showering for weeks, etc.
Strange that the 2 questions I care about most are unanswered so far.
1/ How are the NOISE LEVELS on this thing? I am looking to replace my settop CD/DVD player with a CD/DVD+bluray player, but if it sounds like a jet taking off.. OK with gaming I suppose that it needs to be cooled, but 'just' playing back some media needs to be quiet, both cooling-wise and optical-drive-whirring-wise.
2/ It must run LINUX. There are plenty of rumours that it does, but snapping back to my 'set top mediacenter' (CD/DVD/BR/etc).. I need it to play HD-DVD avi.. eh.. trailers, yeah, that's it.. trailers..
And no, I don't mean the subject the way you would think. I am saying Americans are TOO HYGENIC. Or to elaborate:
- Clean your kitchen? Antibacterial soap!
- Slight cough? Penicillin!
- Washing yourself? Every day a shower.
From a CONSUMER point of view it would make sense to try to keep as healthy as possible by eliminating all those evil bacteria. Kill them, use extra-strong cleaning products. Slightly sick? Use penicillin or whatever other 'industrial strenght' medicine.
And america is of course on the very bleeding edge of consumer-driven marketing where each soap is antibacterial by now, cause it sounds sensible.
From a MEDICAL point of view however, this approach is not a good idea. It's all in the way diseases and bacteria propagate. Use some type of 'killer' on a colony of bacteria, they die.. until the time one lucky bacteria accidentally is resistent against the killer.. and that one lives, multiplies, spreads..
With the result that that strain of bacteria can not be killed by simple means anymore. Now if this would only apply to the common cold, then well sure. But you're in trouble when you (accidentally) hit the SERIOUS bacteria, and make those resistent too.
And so on.
The lesson is: 'Only fight what really NEEDS to be fought'
I hope people realise that moving away from joker will result in exactly what the attacker intended: hurt joker.com. My own business is hosted @ joker and I'm feeling the hurt. But Im staying.
Next up: can everbody who gets hurt by this attack band together and start a class action suit against this ddos'er? Yeah, IF he gets caught...
We're the internet here, and if this hacker gets found, make an example of him.. he should be in deep debt for the rest of his life. THAT'll scare these script idiots...
But in general:
- Pick a game you yourself haven't mastered.
- Pick somthing that doesn't require heaps of motor control (which you're presumably trained in, and she's not)
Hence: Space Channel 5 part 2 - all you need is rythm.
Would be a good one..
Surprised (I didnt see) anyone ask this, but:
-Athlon 64's have SSE2.
Will this (in theory) work on AMD boxes?
Hahaha I didn't mean THAT mature... You've never heard of day of the tentacle? It's only the best (funniest, at least) point and click adventure ever made, IMHO.
http://www.noctemware.com/q3ce.html - 35-40fps with the Dell Axim x51v 3D accellerator.. :P
Im seriously considering donating as well - I have a LOT of final fantasy games that urgently need replaying. :P
http://www.fpsece.net/index.html - Plays most of the final fantasies at 40+fps on a 400Mhz Xscale device already.. nice.
Runs on anything? Nethack needs like 2000 key combinations.. how are you going to fit that into a pocket device that traditionally has 5-10 buttons?
Adventures: With scummvm - http://www.scummvm.org/ you can run any old lucasarts adventure perfectly:
And modern PocketPC's are starting to have 'doable' processing power too.. Dell Axim X51v has 640x480 screen plus a true 3D accellerator, for example. I bet PSX-1 emulators will start to work soon enough...
Depends I suppose. I think (most) people (know thyself..) are capable of multitasking with ears+speech. In theory you can get in a heated debate just as much with someone next to you, although arguably two people paying partial attention might mitigate the distractions. Anyway sure, you'd be mildly distracted while talking and listening to someone whilst in an emotional debate, but Ive scared myself by just trying to adjust the radio channel on a car I didn't know and then playing the 'what-if' game.. what if a child would've run across that street while I was doing that..
I've read about studies (cant reproduce them, sorry, but they sounded reasonable) that when something unexpected happens, the reaction between ppl on the phone and normal people is basically identical. People just drop the phone (literally) and do what they have to do. Also reaction times are pretty equal, and people don't really swerve etc.
Things that ARE dangerous are things like trying to operate a complex(ish) thing like a car stereo, GPS navigator, audio players etc.
So imagine my surprise when I heard that a lot of people SMS with phones while driving.. now peering at a tiny screen while driving is a BAD idea.
But let's leave that alone for a while and assume that the patent is not evil by itself
My point was more about the general case than this specific one.
Why are people so against companies that buy patents from inventors? I agree that it 'feels' wrong somehow when such a shell company starts to litigate, but let's face it - it's not.
In these cases the inventor gets money for the patent, he could've also said 'no' and kept it. Instead, he has made a (hopefully) informed decision to sell his rights. The patent-buyers made the choice to invest. The choice for the inventor is: get money NOW, or maybe get more money later, if you can afford the lawyers and time.
Why do people consider this practice 'evil' while things like making money off trading stocks is considered perfectly legit? In the stock market you also buy a -share- of something you have no intellectual input in.
Incidentally: as far as I can tell, NTP is not the 'vulture' company but actually was founded by the actual inventor of the patents discussed here.
This is the Motorola MPX: http://reviews.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/handhelds/0,39 023880,39164765,00.htm
This is exactly why I'm not interested in the Motorola MPX. (which incidentally is a similar thing, out for half a year, plus it is a very innovative CLAMSHELL design which I much prefer in a device with a sensitive touchscreen.
Does it run Linux well?
1/ Install super-secret p2p filesharing thingy
2/ Run monitoring firewall
3/ sue all ips that connect
4/ repeat 2-4
Perhaps slightly reverse enigineer all those neatly open-sourced programs to distinguish between incoming downloads and 'other stuff' (doesnt freenet store parts of other people's data on your computer?)