Sorry, not gonna happen. People in developing countries would prefer the machine that lets them play games *AND* watch movies, instead of separate machines for everything. That's why people in "developing countries" like mine just buy PCs. You can do both, AND you can hook them to a big screen too. That's how things work here - there is still a "family" computer. The "personal" computer concept is still working its way through.
And for this, I blame computer manufacturers too. When I wanted to buy a laptop 2 years ago, HP Argentina asked USD 2000 for the model I wanted. I got it on the local eBay, imported from USA, for $1200. The US price was $799 then. Dell started selling computers a couple of years ago. You can go to Dell Argentina and laugh for a while. First, the price, and second, the fact that ALL machines are preconfigured. You can't even ask for a larger monitor if you're ordering a desktop. Can't order more RAM, HDD, anything. The computers are sold AS IS.
Beige-box builders sell the same machine for half the price. You also get a pirated version of Windows 7 that WORKS instead of the bullshit Microsoft called "Windows 7 Starter", which won't let you run more than 3 apps at the same time. Or refuses to run in machines with over 1GB RAM.
The problem with the alternative you suggest is that you, naively of course, think that companies actually "give a fuck" about developing economies. They don't, period. Should they? Well, in my book, if the customer's got the money, then I don't care where he is from.
The XBOX and Wii are not sold officially in my country. The PS3 is, but the PSN service is not enabled. All 3 consoles go for $800+, which makes it hard to justify for an average household. Sony, MS and Nintendo don't bother lowering the prices - they make enough money in JapEurUSA to bother selling here.
Same with music and movie streaming services. Services like Spotify and Pandora aren't available, under the excuse of "licensing issues". It's an excuse, of course. They don't really work to solve it (because they don't care about the market), but also, it's not 100% true. Grooveshark works in my country just fine.
You know what company will "win" in the long run? The one that actually bothers making a service that works for most people in the world. The company that proves me that I can stream a movie cheaper, and faster, and with more quality than what I get when pirating stuff.
They need to start differentiating prices. They should price their stuff using their brains, not their greed. Right now it's literally cheaper for me to fly to Miami and get a Macbook Pro there, have dinner, sleep one night and fly back home the next day, than it is to buy it here. Even considering the money I lose for missing 2 days to work. If that's not fucked up, I don't know what is. The same applies to folks in the UK trying to use Adobe Creative Suite. It's cheaper to fly from london to NY and get it there than buying it in the UK.
Price policies, right now, are severely fucked up. Software and music are the worst offenders. It's really not about taxes. Taxes here are high but they don't justify the 4x price for an XBOX, or the 2x price for a music CD. Movies are a different story. It's cheap for me to go to the movies. On thursday I went to the premiere of Pirates of the Caribbean 4 (yes, that's 1 day before the US release), in 3D, with dolby sound and all, for the equivalente of US$ 6. It's my understanding that movie tickets in NY will set you back $20 or more. In comparison, the burger, fries, and cola I bought before the movie were more expensive. Now, if I want to get the movie's BD when it's released? It will cost me over $25.
So, as you can see, I *think* my rationale is right. They should offer a decent product, for a price that people *can* afford to pay (not market it as a high-end, elite thing, like the PS3 is here), and you will get millions of people to buy it. Keep up the current bullshit, and we will have the neverending discussion of why people pirate stuff.
Mactard Fanboys: mod me down already and save your time, no need to read the rest.
God I wish some day Apple will become dominant (or relevant, at least), so you mactards start getting viruses and antitrust lawsuits and whatnot. MAYBE THEN we will see that every company becomes "evil" like Microsoft when it gets the chance.
Yes and no. Many things you can discover by trial and error, others are a little more cryptic. For example, in my dad's old Renault 18, there was this symbol:
(!) (P)
What the hell does that mean? Oh, it means "Warning! Hand brake is on!" And that's one thing you may have no idea (especially women drivers -- just kidding). Yes, you will learn what it means in the end... but at risk of breaking your car. Why not just a simple text warning? "HANDBRAKE ENGAGED".
Or a little "aladdin lamp"... meaning "oil" (do most people today know that these lamps worked on OIL?).
I wonder if asian cars have the chinese characters instead of icons? Anyway, I'm a fan of descriptive text. I don't like to rely on icons alone. I guess europeans need to do that because of how many languages they have in such a (relatively) small area. But it shouldn't be *that* hard for manufacturers to be able to slide a dashboard template for different languages. I say "should", because it is hard to disassemble the dashboard.
I wouldn't know about the "spanish" curriculum, that would be from Spain, and I'm in Argentina. I don't remember studying snowflakes in elementary or high school.
Not really sure about how schools in the UK are. Here, schools don't usually have labs (except maybe a computer lab), they have a tiny library, and the rest is just classrooms. Didactic material is subject to a child's imagination, except the huge geometry set the teacher has (my mom had to buy her own, to teach), and a world OR the country's map. No projectors, slides, videos, animals, etc.
South america is a big market for European cars. If you take a look, all you will see will be VW, FIAT, Renault, Citroen, etc. And the European versions of Ford and Chevrolet. NO american cars here, except rare old (60s) exceptions, and a few Dodge Rams. And the odd japanese car too.
Also, you miss the point about using symbols: if you need to have scientific background (even elementary school) to use the air conditioner function in your car's UI, then you're doing it all wrong.
Yes. Snow is that white thing that appears in christmas postcards, all over the floor and houses. It doesn't look anything like a snowflake.
Oh, you mean that snow is actually made of billions of those little asterisk looking thingies? I always thought it was just little white balls that fell from the sky.
See? Where do you draw the line for "Minimum expectations"? MOST of the world doesn't get any snow - only high latitudes and mountain areas. Billions of people have never seen snow in real life. That's why I picked that particular example.
I don't think so. The problem is that the iPhone is "designed in California", by elitist industrial and UI designer. I have an Android phone. Do you know how to add an alarm? Click on the Bell button (that has "Alarm" text below it) and then the big fat button that *says* "Add an alarm".
I'm used to europeans cars too. They have no text, just icons, and it's silly. It's weird for me to sit in an american car, where all buttons are labeled with text (and it makes so much more sense). With cars you're basically forced to read the manual, because some of the symbols are really abstract. Others are really "culture specific", like the blue snowflake that means "turn on the air conditioner". I learned that "kinda because" it was near the fan controls, so I figured red=hot, blue=cold. But I had no idea what a snowflake was. Where I live we don't get snow, so the "asterisk thingy", by itself, doesn't mean anything to me. I've never seen a snowflake, and neither have most of the people in my country.
In spanish, no. We use the word "agregar", as in "agregar una alarma" (add an alarm), but "sumar" as in "sumar 4 y 5" (add 4 and 5). Both are synonyms, but according to the context, we use one or the other.
So no, a clock next to a plus sign doesn't really tell me much.
I still own an HP 50g, I don't use it anymore, because I don't need to. I learned to do all the basic math in my head. The guy next to me needed to do even the simplest multiplications in his calculator because he didn't bother memorizing anything. The problem with graphing calculators is that you need to LEARN to use the calculator, but before that, you need to LEARN your maths. It doesn't do everything for you. I mostly used it to check simple integrals which I didn't quite remember (we were allowed to have the basic integrals and derivatives tables on paper anyway). I always got straight 10's (we grade from 1 to 10 here), and the class was always whining that I passed because of my calc. So one day I did the exam with NO calculator - just pen and paper. Took a while to figure out a long division and a square root, but I passed with a 10 anyway. That shut them up for good.
Bottom line: if you don't study, you won't pass. the calculator is not going to solve things for you if you don't know how to use it.
Yes, because, as a lazy sysadmin *I* never had a box "pwnt". Guess what: I had. Never leave a Linux box running for over 1 year with no patches, on the public net, with WWW and SSH running in default ports. Get real, anonymous fag: linux is open source, and its release cycle is much faster than the other OS's. It's a moving target. That, and no fanboy geek will ever admit he had a Linux box owned.
Only in America could anyone call 6 cups a day "fairly normal". Well yes, if you're drinking that dirty water you Americans like to call "coffee". Normal people on the rest of the world, drink decent, strong coffee.
I seriously don't get the point about doing that. If you want a light drink, go for tea. Coffee is such an amazing, rich, delicious drink, that drinking it as a replacement for water is just stupid. I prefer single cup of expresso in the middle of the afternoon, rather than sipping a giant plastic cup all day long.
Your inner network shouldn't be visible if you set up a firewall (which you have to do either if you're using NAT or not).
As pointed earlier, someone could map your internal network, but this is simply a non issue with IPv6: your LAN database server, or SAMBA server, or Domain Controller will be protected by the firewall. If it needs to fetch something from the internet, it can use a disposable IPv6 address. You usually get assigned a/64, which is 2^64 addresses.
I wouldn't, if you knew how to properly set up a firewall. You obviously don't know. Hint: NAT is not for hiding things, firewalls and internal addressing are.
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Sorry, not gonna happen. People in developing countries would prefer the machine that lets them play games *AND* watch movies, instead of separate machines for everything. That's why people in "developing countries" like mine just buy PCs. You can do both, AND you can hook them to a big screen too. That's how things work here - there is still a "family" computer. The "personal" computer concept is still working its way through.
And for this, I blame computer manufacturers too. When I wanted to buy a laptop 2 years ago, HP Argentina asked USD 2000 for the model I wanted. I got it on the local eBay, imported from USA, for $1200. The US price was $799 then. Dell started selling computers a couple of years ago. You can go to Dell Argentina and laugh for a while. First, the price, and second, the fact that ALL machines are preconfigured. You can't even ask for a larger monitor if you're ordering a desktop. Can't order more RAM, HDD, anything. The computers are sold AS IS.
Beige-box builders sell the same machine for half the price. You also get a pirated version of Windows 7 that WORKS instead of the bullshit Microsoft called "Windows 7 Starter", which won't let you run more than 3 apps at the same time. Or refuses to run in machines with over 1GB RAM.
The problem with the alternative you suggest is that you, naively of course, think that companies actually "give a fuck" about developing economies. They don't, period. Should they? Well, in my book, if the customer's got the money, then I don't care where he is from.
The XBOX and Wii are not sold officially in my country. The PS3 is, but the PSN service is not enabled. All 3 consoles go for $800+, which makes it hard to justify for an average household. Sony, MS and Nintendo don't bother lowering the prices - they make enough money in JapEurUSA to bother selling here.
Same with music and movie streaming services. Services like Spotify and Pandora aren't available, under the excuse of "licensing issues". It's an excuse, of course. They don't really work to solve it (because they don't care about the market), but also, it's not 100% true. Grooveshark works in my country just fine.
You know what company will "win" in the long run? The one that actually bothers making a service that works for most people in the world. The company that proves me that I can stream a movie cheaper, and faster, and with more quality than what I get when pirating stuff.
They need to start differentiating prices. They should price their stuff using their brains, not their greed. Right now it's literally cheaper for me to fly to Miami and get a Macbook Pro there, have dinner, sleep one night and fly back home the next day, than it is to buy it here. Even considering the money I lose for missing 2 days to work. If that's not fucked up, I don't know what is. The same applies to folks in the UK trying to use Adobe Creative Suite. It's cheaper to fly from london to NY and get it there than buying it in the UK.
Price policies, right now, are severely fucked up. Software and music are the worst offenders. It's really not about taxes. Taxes here are high but they don't justify the 4x price for an XBOX, or the 2x price for a music CD. Movies are a different story. It's cheap for me to go to the movies. On thursday I went to the premiere of Pirates of the Caribbean 4 (yes, that's 1 day before the US release), in 3D, with dolby sound and all, for the equivalente of US$ 6. It's my understanding that movie tickets in NY will set you back $20 or more. In comparison, the burger, fries, and cola I bought before the movie were more expensive. Now, if I want to get the movie's BD when it's released? It will cost me over $25.
So, as you can see, I *think* my rationale is right. They should offer a decent product, for a price that people *can* afford to pay (not market it as a high-end, elite thing, like the PS3 is here), and you will get millions of people to buy it. Keep up the current bullshit, and we will have the neverending discussion of why people pirate stuff.
By your logic, we should assume that if they get no xbox they will study EVERYTHING for the next year!
1) Ban XBOXes
2) See grades skyrocket
3) ???
4) Profit!
So, why can't you use the FREE XNA development kit to do programming for the 360? Just saying...
There is a prerequisite: you need to be a smug anti-microsoft linux fanboy first.
Mactard Fanboys: mod me down already and save your time, no need to read the rest.
God I wish some day Apple will become dominant (or relevant, at least), so you mactards start getting viruses and antitrust lawsuits and whatnot. MAYBE THEN we will see that every company becomes "evil" like Microsoft when it gets the chance.
waaah waaah i hate microsoft waaah waaah i dont want the xbox to become the shit, i want it to be anything non-microsoft.
oh that's not what you said? sorry, it just sounded like that.
Yes and no. Many things you can discover by trial and error, others are a little more cryptic. For example, in my dad's old Renault 18, there was this symbol:
(!) (P)
What the hell does that mean? Oh, it means "Warning! Hand brake is on!" And that's one thing you may have no idea (especially women drivers -- just kidding). Yes, you will learn what it means in the end... but at risk of breaking your car. Why not just a simple text warning? "HANDBRAKE ENGAGED".
Or a little "aladdin lamp"... meaning "oil" (do most people today know that these lamps worked on OIL?).
I wonder if asian cars have the chinese characters instead of icons? Anyway, I'm a fan of descriptive text. I don't like to rely on icons alone. I guess europeans need to do that because of how many languages they have in such a (relatively) small area. But it shouldn't be *that* hard for manufacturers to be able to slide a dashboard template for different languages. I say "should", because it is hard to disassemble the dashboard.
I wouldn't know about the "spanish" curriculum, that would be from Spain, and I'm in Argentina. I don't remember studying snowflakes in elementary or high school.
Not really sure about how schools in the UK are. Here, schools don't usually have labs (except maybe a computer lab), they have a tiny library, and the rest is just classrooms. Didactic material is subject to a child's imagination, except the huge geometry set the teacher has (my mom had to buy her own, to teach), and a world OR the country's map. No projectors, slides, videos, animals, etc.
South america is a big market for European cars. If you take a look, all you will see will be VW, FIAT, Renault, Citroen, etc. And the European versions of Ford and Chevrolet. NO american cars here, except rare old (60s) exceptions, and a few Dodge Rams. And the odd japanese car too.
Also, you miss the point about using symbols: if you need to have scientific background (even elementary school) to use the air conditioner function in your car's UI, then you're doing it all wrong.
Yes. Snow is that white thing that appears in christmas postcards, all over the floor and houses. It doesn't look anything like a snowflake.
Oh, you mean that snow is actually made of billions of those little asterisk looking thingies? I always thought it was just little white balls that fell from the sky.
See? Where do you draw the line for "Minimum expectations"? MOST of the world doesn't get any snow - only high latitudes and mountain areas. Billions of people have never seen snow in real life. That's why I picked that particular example.
I don't think so. The problem is that the iPhone is "designed in California", by elitist industrial and UI designer. I have an Android phone. Do you know how to add an alarm? Click on the Bell button (that has "Alarm" text below it) and then the big fat button that *says* "Add an alarm".
I'm used to europeans cars too. They have no text, just icons, and it's silly. It's weird for me to sit in an american car, where all buttons are labeled with text (and it makes so much more sense). With cars you're basically forced to read the manual, because some of the symbols are really abstract. Others are really "culture specific", like the blue snowflake that means "turn on the air conditioner". I learned that "kinda because" it was near the fan controls, so I figured red=hot, blue=cold. But I had no idea what a snowflake was. Where I live we don't get snow, so the "asterisk thingy", by itself, doesn't mean anything to me. I've never seen a snowflake, and neither have most of the people in my country.
In spanish, no. We use the word "agregar", as in "agregar una alarma" (add an alarm), but "sumar" as in "sumar 4 y 5" (add 4 and 5). Both are synonyms, but according to the context, we use one or the other.
So no, a clock next to a plus sign doesn't really tell me much.
I still own an HP 50g, I don't use it anymore, because I don't need to. I learned to do all the basic math in my head. The guy next to me needed to do even the simplest multiplications in his calculator because he didn't bother memorizing anything.
The problem with graphing calculators is that you need to LEARN to use the calculator, but before that, you need to LEARN your maths. It doesn't do everything for you. I mostly used it to check simple integrals which I didn't quite remember (we were allowed to have the basic integrals and derivatives tables on paper anyway).
I always got straight 10's (we grade from 1 to 10 here), and the class was always whining that I passed because of my calc. So one day I did the exam with NO calculator - just pen and paper. Took a while to figure out a long division and a square root, but I passed with a 10 anyway. That shut them up for good.
Bottom line: if you don't study, you won't pass. the calculator is not going to solve things for you if you don't know how to use it.
Yes, because, as a lazy sysadmin *I* never had a box "pwnt". Guess what: I had. Never leave a Linux box running for over 1 year with no patches, on the public net, with WWW and SSH running in default ports. Get real, anonymous fag: linux is open source, and its release cycle is much faster than the other OS's. It's a moving target.
That, and no fanboy geek will ever admit he had a Linux box owned.
Well, better get used to it, fanboy.
Typewriter? Fucking hipster.
I drink clean, fresh water to survive.
Only in America could anyone call 6 cups a day "fairly normal". Well yes, if you're drinking that dirty water you Americans like to call "coffee". Normal people on the rest of the world, drink decent, strong coffee.
I seriously don't get the point about doing that. If you want a light drink, go for tea. Coffee is such an amazing, rich, delicious drink, that drinking it as a replacement for water is just stupid. I prefer single cup of expresso in the middle of the afternoon, rather than sipping a giant plastic cup all day long.
Your inner network shouldn't be visible if you set up a firewall (which you have to do either if you're using NAT or not).
As pointed earlier, someone could map your internal network, but this is simply a non issue with IPv6: your LAN database server, or SAMBA server, or Domain Controller will be protected by the firewall. If it needs to fetch something from the internet, it can use a disposable IPv6 address. You usually get assigned a /64, which is 2^64 addresses.
A standard (and recommended) allocation is a /64, which gives you 2^64 available IPv6 addresses.
It gets funnier: Someone just told me it's 300 MILLION. Good Lord!
But the GP was talking about *every detail* of the network, wasn't he?
Also, IPv6 has privacy extensions, disposable addresses you can easily change.
Stupid comment is stupid. That's why you post anonymous, because you know you're being a hardass.
That's why ipv6 is more efficient at routing. Also, your comment is stupid.
I wouldn't, if you knew how to properly set up a firewall. You obviously don't know. Hint: NAT is not for hiding things, firewalls and internal addressing are.
what about the other 297 earths? I said 300, not 3.