If you click on their future release you'll see this:
SimLaptop
Want to play tons of games with speed and resolution - BUY a laptop.
Personally, I'm waiting for the PalmPilot PalmReader. "Yes, I see a long lifeline, a marriage in your future, and your SimCity is in desperate need of a capital gains tax."
CNET.com is just one of those sites where you can see the gears and sprockets of the mind working, you can tell they do have a clue, but when it comes down to it they always aim low, very low.
You just know there are people there who really do have a clue about tech, but must condescend pretty low to get the hits that pay the bills. This was the first time I've seen a hacker/cracker definition in any mainstream media. Yet, most of top 10 are very lame web page defacements that go on a few dozen times a day - you can view them at attrition.org. I'm still trying to piece together why movie URLs are so important. I don't make the assumption that because 100 million people saw that movie that 100 million people saw the defacement. Or cared.
CNET is one of the greatest modern hacks, they way they pile in both geek and goon and show them almost nothing, yet can still maintain a decent rep and pay the bills. Bravo!
Actually it costs them next to nothing to mail those form letters. They have lawyers that do nothing but do searches for "for dummies" -idg or something like that. Considering you're small potatoes and not making a penny off the disputed trademark I recommend sending them naked pictures of Emmanual Lewis as this is a scare tactic and nothing else.
Imagine if this really caught on, competitors would put the same thing on their machines and pop prices would be listed as pennies per degree.
It'll just start another price-war unless they learn a lesson from that on-line greed machine - ebay. Network all those machines together, put in a little terminal with 4 or 5 bid buttons and let the fun begin. "It's the last Sunkist folks, starting at $3.00" The funny part is people will probably love this.
Or you can just do without this whole mess and spray cold compressed air on to the thermometer and always buy 10 cent pop. Big grocery stores can put the vending machines in a cooler. "Pops in the cooler, maam."
Its actually not a bad idea, they could program these machines to lower the price slightly during hot days to encourage buying 2 pops when you'd normaly buy one. That way the vendor can make a little bit more money and the consumer could be all google-eyed when he sees 45cent pop.
Its probably a moot point, if I found one of these things I'd be the first to gather a little mob to trash them.
*sniff* It was so sad when that brown blur got into that bright blur and went back to his blurry home planet. I bet that little girl would be cute if she wasn't a blur.
Yeah its definatly niche humor, and I think its incredibly over-rated. But lots of/. readers compose that niche, let 'em enjoy it. But if the publisher is expecting to make a profit off that book, they're gonna be in for a surprise.
Who wants to take my bet that this little piece of technology will be used more for backups and transfers than MP3s? Essentially its a little pocket HD with lots of storage. Using my vast knowledge of economics, I sure it'll be a bit too expensive for mp3 kiddies who can burn their own CDs in the first place.
Someone is going to hack an IDE or SCSI controller for this baby and have a super-Jazz drive.
Jon, a suggestion here. I'm not saying it was but this aricle could have been written by cut + pasting the comments about MOSAIC2K when it was a news item. Slashdot readers have expressed this and much more, and that makes it seem pretty unworthy of being a feature. A little journalistic integrity goes a long way, skip the stuff we've beaten into the ground and use the REPLY button like we do, unless its against/. rules. That way you can post your opinions timely and get busy on writting about something else.
Parody is a fair use of copyright, so you aren't REALLY breaking copyright laws, but as the web and it parodies has shown us - be prepared to goto court.
Wow, its scary to agree with the Clinton on anything. Maybe now that he's practicaly out of office he can start doing something smart for the history books.
There may be some downsides?
Man, its already happened, look at the clue.com fiasco. Now the clue game makers (Hasbro?) have an even stronger foothold to take that domain from an established company. Whoever came up the with www.DOMAIN.tm.com idea is a genius. Very clever and very practical, but how does a slashdot voice get heard over the busybodies at Congress? Yeah, I'm not holding my breath either.
Its Ok though, I'm currently squatting www.repeal3028.com. Make me rich people!
Haven't they read The Moon is a Cruel Mistress? Keep it free! Save us from the revolution!
*sarcasm off* These are novelty items, their Canon BJC-4400 is just as good as mine, maybe I'll start printing out deeds and charging $100.
They own the moon about as much as Hale and Bop own a comet and A.C. Clarke owns part of Mars. Heck thats a compliment as they don't even have anything named after them.
Not really news as they've been in business for years, or at least someone selling moon deeds has. And not really newsworthy as its not legal. They are good for a laugh though, especially the group that claims to own the moon because thier ancestors were believed, by them, to be Lunies.
Many scientists are knee-jerk atheists, being unable to reconcile Genesis with the overwhelming evidence for something different.
Every atheist I know, including myself, isn't some reactionary knee-jerker but someone well versed in religous ideology, doctrine, and history. Much more so than most believers and with the added bonus of being informed on more than one religion. I'm sure I come off as typical to your average xtian, not because I'm ignorant but because I've had this conversation SO MANY TIMES before. When the religious start to criticize the non-religious its their job to read up and inform themselves, the same way I'm informed with their systems of beliefs. But this is almost never the case, as books that do criticize their religion are often frowned on by their religious establishment and are emotionaly hard on those who have been deeply indoctrined in this since birth.
In a perfect world religion is private, but its nature is to spread to keep it alive. History shows us that a lack of zeal = dead religion. And who dares take a dead religion seriously? When was the last time you heard, "That's blasphemous to Zoroaster!"
Knuth is just another modernizer of the religious myths. Without guys like him, we would be able to see how archaic they truly are. Look at cultures that don't have periodic modernization of myth like the Islamic countries. What is the consensus of the validity of their beliefs from more advanced cultures? Manily, lack of civil liberties and backwards fundie nonsense. Yet, they're at the same stage your religion was at one time. Being dictated from a god, you'd think it would be smart to remain consistant. But it isn't, so we have the Knuths of the world preaching their 'modern intelligent' views. To me its crap, to you it might be enlightenment.
How the talk of god eventually works its way into a coversation about established religion I'll never know. You can easily talk about the existance or non-existance of a god without dragging religion in the equation. Yet, most people will go from 'is there a god?' to 'is the church a valid social structure' in the same breath. This is a popular way for the religious to back up their claims and win people over with highly flawed arguments. When they argument should stay within the bounds of deism. For the most part the talk about 'god' is just a soft introduction to talk about 'my specific religion.'
About that 99% mystical part, well thats fiction if I've ever seen any. You may feel that way, but I sure don't. Every lack in someone's life doesn't mean they have bad karma or a sould crying out for freedom, it could be a million different factors and probably ordinary psychology. Your statement is about as provable as 'angels watch over me as I sleep yet no one can see them but i KNOW they're there.'
Your post really reflects that an intelligent person will do their best to rationalize their emotional beliefs to their intellect. The usual course is like you said, 'private and spiritual.' Which seems very contradictory to the goal of religion in the first place - to find truth.
I agree that Knuth isn't weak, in any tradition sense, but to me he is emotionally unable to deal with the world without a belief in a mystical supernatural force. To me that is a more of a lack of emotional strength, but not one that seriously affects one's ability to be successful in society. There's a lot to be said on how being religious helps you do better in society as a memeber of an established religion and its social perks. So its kind of a word game whether you can call it weakness. At least he's in good company, the last poll I've seen goes along the lines of 1. Xtian 2. Muslim 3. Non-religious.
I know you're trying real hard to create a realistic dog-driod and, as a dog owner, I'd like to recommend some upgrades.
Slobber: you have to make some slobber shoot out of the CCD camera hole. Something a little big filtheir than drinking water and make sure it gets everywhere. I recommend making it suck and shoot toilet water as it is almost as germ ridden as dog saliva.
Loud incessant annoying barking: these things are too quiet. It makes a rabbit seem loud. Make it bark at neighbors, family, other pets, and sometimes nothing at all.
Poop instinct: I know it won't produce poop, but you could at least make it search out the poop of other animals and then roll in it when it finds it.
Dig: Being a robotic dog, it should bury your needed electronics. Things like keyboards, remotes, backup tapes, laptops, etc.
Staring: Bored dogs love to stare at crap, sometimes ever your neighbors. Why not let it broadcast its CCD output to TV channel 4 so I can watch that cute blonde. "Oh hi little dog!"
Smell: Personaly I can't believe you guys are making much effort without even trying to make it fart. Show me a dog that doesn't fart and I'll show you roadkill.
Chew: I know it doesn't have a mouth but you could at least make a garbage disposal interface so he can drop stuff in there.
Jealousy Instinct: It would be kinda cute to watch it try to kill your children.
Mating: Just as cute to watch it mount the toaster.
Anti-Mailman program: except make my AIBO shoot mace at HIM.
If you follow my suggestions you'll have either an incredible best-seller or a few thousand terrible lawsuits.
A democracy isn't a majority dictatorship. Any responsible government will have protections for the minority, as history shows us the majority is almost always wrong.
Nor do I know of any working country where ciizens get to vote on each law or committee. All democracies give citizens the right to vote for representation. The 'will of the people' is as a real force as the 'divine right of kings.' Its just progaganda to make us feel like the winning team. Personally, I woudn't want the lowest common denominator getting control of legislation - elections are corrupt enough.
Your complaint has more to do with toucy-feely PC liberalism than anything else.
This does sound more like an error if anything else, but I don't like using lycos for almost the same reason. It always feels like a scam. The sites I get returned first seem suspiciously like they have some priority other than search criteria. Either lycos has some really screwed up code or maybe they are taking the occasional bribe or, this being the USA and all, might be indexing 'family friendly' first. Just a couple years ago it was one of my search engines of choice, oh well.
Why, why are you breaking my heart? If you could spend just a couple pennies a day you could own that album from our Lycos-cdnow store in no time. Its worth it, really. Its just a little money. Please be nice to me. I love you.
If you really want to get that mp3 just click here.
Reminds of me the 'Mom' corporation in last week's Futurama.
Does anyone really expect corporate self-interest to ever be nothing but the epitome of profiteering?
I don't see how your posting is even relevant to the original article which started this thread.
Right, my post was refering to your post, not specificaly to the article, but specific to you.
Once you put the crack pipe down you'll see that other newsites do not ask for a survey/info to view their news. Whether banner ads really compromise privacy remains to be seen. What my post was about is the general notion of privacy with accepable examples. Because you fancy yourself a moderator doesn't mean it isn't valid.
If you want to play the - hey this isn't specific to the article game you can look at the title of what you posted.
Now if somehow we could use this technology to get rid of the videogame banner ad on/., then we'd be getting somewhere.
Yeah, I know this is slightly offtopic, but this videogame banner is lagging my system and needless to say its pretty damn annoying. I'm calling for a ban against 'interactive banners.' Get your guns.
Hoping this fad goes the way of the parachute pants.
Cameras that play videogames? Oh I can see where this is headed - videogames that take your picture. Think how handsome and dignified you looked after that last 12 hour quake session. *Click*
Now imagine your mug on alt.binaries.pictures.nerds.
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SimLaptop
Want to play tons of games with speed and resolution - BUY a laptop.
Personally, I'm waiting for the PalmPilot PalmReader. "Yes, I see a long lifeline, a marriage in your future, and your SimCity is in desperate need of a capital gains tax."
Con: There's a large chance it'll only work on the chronically unattractive.
www.darwinawards.com
You just know there are people there who really do have a clue about tech, but must condescend pretty low to get the hits that pay the bills. This was the first time I've seen a hacker/cracker definition in any mainstream media. Yet, most of top 10 are very lame web page defacements that go on a few dozen times a day - you can view them at attrition.org. I'm still trying to piece together why movie URLs are so important. I don't make the assumption that because 100 million people saw that movie that 100 million people saw the defacement. Or cared.
CNET is one of the greatest modern hacks, they way they pile in both geek and goon and show them almost nothing, yet can still maintain a decent rep and pay the bills. Bravo!
Actually it costs them next to nothing to mail those form letters. They have lawyers that do nothing but do searches for "for dummies" -idg or something like that. Considering you're small potatoes and not making a penny off the disputed trademark I recommend sending them naked pictures of Emmanual Lewis as this is a scare tactic and nothing else.
It'll just start another price-war unless they learn a lesson from that on-line greed machine - ebay. Network all those machines together, put in a little terminal with 4 or 5 bid buttons and let the fun begin. "It's the last Sunkist folks, starting at $3.00" The funny part is people will probably love this.
Or you can just do without this whole mess and spray cold compressed air on to the thermometer and always buy 10 cent pop. Big grocery stores can put the vending machines in a cooler. "Pops in the cooler, maam."
Its actually not a bad idea, they could program these machines to lower the price slightly during hot days to encourage buying 2 pops when you'd normaly buy one. That way the vendor can make a little bit more money and the consumer could be all google-eyed when he sees 45cent pop.
Its probably a moot point, if I found one of these things I'd be the first to gather a little mob to trash them.
Web: Film medium designed for the far-sighted.
Yeah its definatly niche humor, and I think its incredibly over-rated. But lots of /. readers compose that niche, let 'em enjoy it. But if the publisher is expecting to make a profit off that book, they're gonna be in for a surprise.
Someone is going to hack an IDE or SCSI controller for this baby and have a super-Jazz drive.
Jon, a suggestion here. I'm not saying it was but this aricle could have been written by cut + pasting the comments about MOSAIC2K when it was a news item. Slashdot readers have expressed this and much more, and that makes it seem pretty unworthy of being a feature. A little journalistic integrity goes a long way, skip the stuff we've beaten into the ground and use the REPLY button like we do, unless its against /. rules. That way you can post your opinions timely and get busy on writting about something else.
Parody is a fair use of copyright, so you aren't REALLY breaking copyright laws, but as the web and it parodies has shown us - be prepared to goto court.
There may be some downsides?
Man, its already happened, look at the clue.com fiasco. Now the clue game makers (Hasbro?) have an even stronger foothold to take that domain from an established company. Whoever came up the with www.DOMAIN.tm.com idea is a genius. Very clever and very practical, but how does a slashdot voice get heard over the busybodies at Congress? Yeah, I'm not holding my breath either.
Its Ok though, I'm currently squatting www.repeal3028.com. Make me rich people!
*sarcasm off* These are novelty items, their Canon BJC-4400 is just as good as mine, maybe I'll start printing out deeds and charging $100.
They own the moon about as much as Hale and Bop own a comet and A.C. Clarke owns part of Mars. Heck thats a compliment as they don't even have anything named after them.
Not really news as they've been in business for years, or at least someone selling moon deeds has. And not really newsworthy as its not legal. They are good for a laugh though, especially the group that claims to own the moon because thier ancestors were believed, by them, to be Lunies.
Every atheist I know, including myself, isn't some reactionary knee-jerker but someone well versed in religous ideology, doctrine, and history. Much more so than most believers and with the added bonus of being informed on more than one religion. I'm sure I come off as typical to your average xtian, not because I'm ignorant but because I've had this conversation SO MANY TIMES before. When the religious start to criticize the non-religious its their job to read up and inform themselves, the same way I'm informed with their systems of beliefs. But this is almost never the case, as books that do criticize their religion are often frowned on by their religious establishment and are emotionaly hard on those who have been deeply indoctrined in this since birth.
In a perfect world religion is private, but its nature is to spread to keep it alive. History shows us that a lack of zeal = dead religion. And who dares take a dead religion seriously? When was the last time you heard, "That's blasphemous to Zoroaster!"
Knuth is just another modernizer of the religious myths. Without guys like him, we would be able to see how archaic they truly are. Look at cultures that don't have periodic modernization of myth like the Islamic countries. What is the consensus of the validity of their beliefs from more advanced cultures? Manily, lack of civil liberties and backwards fundie nonsense. Yet, they're at the same stage your religion was at one time. Being dictated from a god, you'd think it would be smart to remain consistant. But it isn't, so we have the Knuths of the world preaching their 'modern intelligent' views. To me its crap, to you it might be enlightenment.
How the talk of god eventually works its way into a coversation about established religion I'll never know. You can easily talk about the existance or non-existance of a god without dragging religion in the equation. Yet, most people will go from 'is there a god?' to 'is the church a valid social structure' in the same breath. This is a popular way for the religious to back up their claims and win people over with highly flawed arguments. When they argument should stay within the bounds of deism. For the most part the talk about 'god' is just a soft introduction to talk about 'my specific religion.'
About that 99% mystical part, well thats fiction if I've ever seen any. You may feel that way, but I sure don't. Every lack in someone's life doesn't mean they have bad karma or a sould crying out for freedom, it could be a million different factors and probably ordinary psychology. Your statement is about as provable as 'angels watch over me as I sleep yet no one can see them but i KNOW they're there.'
Your post really reflects that an intelligent person will do their best to rationalize their emotional beliefs to their intellect. The usual course is like you said, 'private and spiritual.' Which seems very contradictory to the goal of religion in the first place - to find truth.
I agree that Knuth isn't weak, in any tradition sense, but to me he is emotionally unable to deal with the world without a belief in a mystical supernatural force. To me that is a more of a lack of emotional strength, but not one that seriously affects one's ability to be successful in society. There's a lot to be said on how being religious helps you do better in society as a memeber of an established religion and its social perks. So its kind of a word game whether you can call it weakness. At least he's in good company, the last poll I've seen goes along the lines of 1. Xtian 2. Muslim 3. Non-religious.
Slobber: you have to make some slobber shoot out of the CCD camera hole. Something a little big filtheir than drinking water and make sure it gets everywhere. I recommend making it suck and shoot toilet water as it is almost as germ ridden as dog saliva.
Loud incessant annoying barking: these things are too quiet. It makes a rabbit seem loud. Make it bark at neighbors, family, other pets, and sometimes nothing at all.
Poop instinct: I know it won't produce poop, but you could at least make it search out the poop of other animals and then roll in it when it finds it.
Dig: Being a robotic dog, it should bury your needed electronics. Things like keyboards, remotes, backup tapes, laptops, etc.
Staring: Bored dogs love to stare at crap, sometimes ever your neighbors. Why not let it broadcast its CCD output to TV channel 4 so I can watch that cute blonde. "Oh hi little dog!"
Smell: Personaly I can't believe you guys are making much effort without even trying to make it fart. Show me a dog that doesn't fart and I'll show you roadkill.
Chew: I know it doesn't have a mouth but you could at least make a garbage disposal interface so he can drop stuff in there.
Jealousy Instinct: It would be kinda cute to watch it try to kill your children.
Mating: Just as cute to watch it mount the toaster.
Anti-Mailman program: except make my AIBO shoot mace at HIM.
If you follow my suggestions you'll have either an incredible best-seller or a few thousand terrible lawsuits.
Don't buy the hype, this isn't a low-priced residential robot, its a high-priced residential robot toy. And it doesn't even turn into a robot.
Now all I have to do is program the Omnibot 2000 to walk my AIBO and I'll be set.
Either the writer was too lazy to get his facts straight or thats how the official press release came out. Or ICANN is posting flamebait.
The board members chosen today were:
From the PSO: Philip Davidson (Europe); Vinton Cerf (United States); Jean-Francois Abramatic (Europe).
From the ASO: Ken Fockler (Canada); Pindar Wong (Asia); Rob Blokzijl (Europe).
A democracy isn't a majority dictatorship. Any responsible government will have protections for the minority, as history shows us the majority is almost always wrong.
Nor do I know of any working country where ciizens get to vote on each law or committee. All democracies give citizens the right to vote for representation. The 'will of the people' is as a real force as the 'divine right of kings.' Its just progaganda to make us feel like the winning team. Personally, I woudn't want the lowest common denominator getting control of legislation - elections are corrupt enough.
Your complaint has more to do with toucy-feely PC liberalism than anything else.
We're all paranoid in our own way.
Why, why are you breaking my heart? If you could spend just a couple pennies a day you could own that album from our Lycos-cdnow store in no time. Its worth it, really. Its just a little money. Please be nice to me. I love you.
If you really want to get that mp3 just click here.
Reminds of me the 'Mom' corporation in last week's Futurama.
Does anyone really expect corporate self-interest to ever be nothing but the epitome of profiteering?
Right, my post was refering to your post, not specificaly to the article, but specific to you.
Once you put the crack pipe down you'll see that other newsites do not ask for a survey/info to view their news. Whether banner ads really compromise privacy remains to be seen. What my post was about is the general notion of privacy with accepable examples. Because you fancy yourself a moderator doesn't mean it isn't valid.
If you want to play the - hey this isn't specific to the article game you can look at the title of what you posted.
The band not terribly concerned, replied to their manager with, "Man, pass the pipe or hit it."
Yeah, I know this is slightly offtopic, but this videogame banner is lagging my system and needless to say its pretty damn annoying. I'm calling for a ban against 'interactive banners.' Get your guns.
Hoping this fad goes the way of the parachute pants.
Now imagine your mug on alt.binaries.pictures.nerds.