Doesn't matter , this is Iomega, king of the flash in the pan proprietary removable storage market, soon after this comes out, a real standard will emerge and this will be fated to the big pile of obsolete technology with all the Zip, Click, Jaz, and Bernoulli drives.
Ahhh... the good old Commadore PET, one of the few computers that you could cause physical harm/damage to the system with some POKE commands.
We used on in high school to control our rail gun science project, worked great, until we were switching one of the relays (with a screw driver of course) and discharged a 600V capacitor into the I/O port... who let the smoke out?
I'll disclaim myself: Doesn't the new PSTwo have the network adapter built in?
Yes, the 7000 series have this, the thin little PS2's, about an inch thick.
The big things for me on the XBox are the Live service vs. the online story on the PS2, and the integrated 5.1 output. I know the PS2 supports 5.1 too, but I don't know first-hand how many games support it, so maybe that's not a big differentiator, either.
7000 series PS2's have this as well, lots of games have 5.1.
"So" says the guy in the shop, "your telling me that I have to pay more for less? And this is in my best interests? Your protecting me from what exactly?"
"Why from yourself, if everybody went out and got it for free, the industry wouldn't have any money to put out the next big Gigli."
As a web designer, I have to tell you that it's not easy to support all browsers equally. Granted getting the site to work in Mozilla is a given, but some of the mundane errors that crop up when trying to get them to work properly is extremely annoying, and half the time the errors make no sense at all.
Not really, just make sure your web pages are W3C valid and state that on the web page.
If a browser cannot render a W3C valid page correctly (ie. IE) then people should be made aware.
There needs to be an active enforcement of CSS and HTML standards that ALL browser manufacturers have to adhere by, or be forced to eat their balls, or something equally horrific.
There is, W3C again, just that Microsoft ignores it when it is convenient for them, bad tool breeds bad code.
This is only an issue with a certain combination of BIOS and chipset (nForce2). I have both 2.6.x (x86) and 2.6.x (x86_64) set-up on my machine booting via GRUB and also loading Win2K on an NTFS partition.
About 4-5 years ago there were some 3dfx commercials that had the engineer walking around the plant talking about how powerful their new processor was and how it could be used to "save the world" then over the loud speaker comes the message "Scrap that, we are going to use it for games instead.", next we see the engineers all croweded around a computer and one screams "Blow his freaking head off!"
Ad Critic used to have them before they went for profit.
Freedom is dangerous. Freedom makes it hard to enforce laws. Freedom makes it hard to "protect our children". Freedom makes government clumsy.
These are all true, and exactly none of them is a good reason to curtail such freedom. We must be ever vigilant for efforts to make the job of government and law enforcement easier at the expense of our liberty.
Quote:
"They that can give up liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790
A smaller scale experiment can give insights to a larger problem. Thus, before the Wright brothers flew, they made (essentially) toy airplanes.
Yes, but 40 years after the Wright brothers flew, planes looked nothing like the originals. We are still strapping people to ballistic missiles and shooting them into space.
75-80% of the space program is in maintaining the status quo, there is way too much stagnation and not enough innovation. Anything "outside the box" is usually not considered and if it is, then it is the first to lose funding.
...but we don't have much understanding of how or why it works, or what might lead to our current niche in the ecology abruptly reducing in distribution and scope...
This is kind of my point, looking for an answer when you don't understand the question. If NASA took 1/10th of the space station cost (approx. $8 billion) they could do a pile of BioSphere research on earth.
How much of that would go away without the need to occaisionally keep some %^&%* lucky bastards alive up there every now and then?
There is a huge industry built up around keeping the lucky bastard alive up there (the suppliers and government contractors prefer the constant flow of income), the problem is, he is so busy keeping the station from falling apart he has little to no time to do any research.
Don't get me wrong, I would love to be that lucky bastard, but at the rate we are going, my bones will be dust before space is commercialised.
Manned spaceflight will require us to develop an understanding of the requirements of supporting human life in a finite ecology located in space. That might be worthwhile....
But this problem could (and needs to) be solved here first, if we can't do it on earth what make you think any amount of money will give us the ability to do it in space?
If it came from anyone but Microsoft, I think the slashdot crowd would be all over it, installing open apps, getting it to do a myriad of different things.
True, actually if the Slashdot crowd wants to "get Microsoft" every one should go out and buy 5 Xboxes, but just the Xboxes, as they lose money on every one they sell, the consoles are always a loss leader, the games and accessories are where the money are.
Need a second controller, hey that will be ~$30 (US) for something that cost them less than $10 to build and package, go and buy a second Xbox, you'll get the controller and a spare Xbox and they (MS) lose some more money.
Do you really think Slate or MSNBC would have any credibility whatsoever if MS decided to excercise editorial content on them?
MSNBC not so much, but I'm guessing Slate is but a mere puppet of the MS FUD Machine, like all those think tank white papers that tell you how Windows is cheaper, better, and faster than open source (bought and paid for by Microsoft).
I know lots of people that if they see it on TV, it must be true, they just accept it at face value. You just have to remember that there are 4 sides to every story:
Just because home copying is legal in Canada, ie. you borrow my disc and make a copy that is legal under the Canadian Copyright Act. Making a copy and giving it to somebody is illegal.
We are all presumed guilty anyway, as we are charged a tax on blank CD's for money to go to the "poor starving" artists. SOCAN has collected the money, but last I had heard none (or very little) had ever made it to the artists as it was mainly used to pay for the administration of collecting the fee.
At that point, the only means for social change would become bloody revolution. Finding and killing the methuselas would become an obscession for anyone who wanted to change things for the better (or even at all).
Slashdot Mirror
We used on in high school to control our rail gun science project, worked great, until we were switching one of the relays (with a screw driver of course) and discharged a 600V capacitor into the I/O port... who let the smoke out?
Yes, the 7000 series have this, the thin little PS2's, about an inch thick.
The big things for me on the XBox are the Live service vs. the online story on the PS2, and the integrated 5.1 output. I know the PS2 supports 5.1 too, but I don't know first-hand how many games support it, so maybe that's not a big differentiator, either.
7000 series PS2's have this as well, lots of games have 5.1.
"Why from yourself, if everybody went out and got it for free, the industry wouldn't have any money to put out the next big Gigli."
Not really, just make sure your web pages are W3C valid and state that on the web page.
If a browser cannot render a W3C valid page correctly (ie. IE) then people should be made aware.
There needs to be an active enforcement of CSS and HTML standards that ALL browser manufacturers have to adhere by, or be forced to eat their balls, or something equally horrific.
There is, W3C again, just that Microsoft ignores it when it is convenient for them, bad tool breeds bad code.
Then don't bother with USB, use Firewire as it can handle the bandwith better, take the Canopus ADVC-100 with composite signal in, DV signal out.
USB2 is fast and all, but it still lacks bandwidth allocation and syncronus transfer.
This is only an issue with a certain combination of BIOS and chipset (nForce2). I have both 2.6.x (x86) and 2.6.x (x86_64) set-up on my machine booting via GRUB and also loading Win2K on an NTFS partition.
Stop the FUD.
About 4-5 years ago there were some 3dfx commercials that had the engineer walking around the plant talking about how powerful their new processor was and how it could be used to "save the world" then over the loud speaker comes the message "Scrap that, we are going to use it for games instead.", next we see the engineers all croweded around a computer and one screams "Blow his freaking head off!"
Ad Critic used to have them before they went for profit.
These are all true, and exactly none of them is a good reason to curtail such freedom. We must be ever vigilant for efforts to make the job of government and law enforcement easier at the expense of our liberty.
Quote:
"They that can give up liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790
Yes, but 40 years after the Wright brothers flew, planes looked nothing like the originals. We are still strapping people to ballistic missiles and shooting them into space.
75-80% of the space program is in maintaining the status quo, there is way too much stagnation and not enough innovation. Anything "outside the box" is usually not considered and if it is, then it is the first to lose funding.
This is kind of my point, looking for an answer when you don't understand the question. If NASA took 1/10th of the space station cost (approx. $8 billion) they could do a pile of BioSphere research on earth.
How much of that would go away without the need to occaisionally keep some %^&%* lucky bastards alive up there every now and then?
There is a huge industry built up around keeping the lucky bastard alive up there (the suppliers and government contractors prefer the constant flow of income), the problem is, he is so busy keeping the station from falling apart he has little to no time to do any research.
Don't get me wrong, I would love to be that lucky bastard, but at the rate we are going, my bones will be dust before space is commercialised.
But this problem could (and needs to) be solved here first, if we can't do it on earth what make you think any amount of money will give us the ability to do it in space?
Perhaps they will be even stupid enough to send one to dubya@whitehouse.gov, then some sparks will fly.
What a bunch of maroons.
True, actually if the Slashdot crowd wants to "get Microsoft" every one should go out and buy 5 Xboxes, but just the Xboxes, as they lose money on every one they sell, the consoles are always a loss leader, the games and accessories are where the money are.
Need a second controller, hey that will be ~$30 (US) for something that cost them less than $10 to build and package, go and buy a second Xbox, you'll get the controller and a spare Xbox and they (MS) lose some more money.
Just ask MS, they will tell you.
Load Linux. :)
MSNBC not so much, but I'm guessing Slate is but a mere puppet of the MS FUD Machine, like all those think tank white papers that tell you how Windows is cheaper, better, and faster than open source (bought and paid for by Microsoft).
I know lots of people that if they see it on TV, it must be true, they just accept it at face value. You just have to remember that there are 4 sides to every story:
We are all presumed guilty anyway, as we are charged a tax on blank CD's for money to go to the "poor starving" artists. SOCAN has collected the money, but last I had heard none (or very little) had ever made it to the artists as it was mainly used to pay for the administration of collecting the fee.
"There can be only one.... Highlander"
Bad Darl, bad, go to your office with no stock options...