Well I guess its a good thing that more and more movies are being made/shot in Canada these days. w00t! Let the bit torrents begin!
Seriously how is this stupid US law going to translate in the real world.
Lets say for example that some movie is made in Canada, by a US Producer. Lets also say that they send a copy to an animation server farm down in New Zealand (I think Peter Jackson has such a facility down there).
If the movie is leaked from Canada onto the web, is the law enforceable?
If the movie is leaked from New Zealand onto the web, is the law enforcable?
In either case probably not. In which case the law really only exists for two purposes. One is to stop people in the US, from doing leaks. Two is to keep the Movie industry centeralized in the US market.
Lets face it all this is, is a way that the US can promote their industry without having to compete. Usual scare tatics. How much money do you think these corporations REALLY lose due to this leakage. How much PR do they get from it (unless their movie sucks balls I suppose)...
Anyway it seems I have entered into the tinfoil hat territory, and they are probably watching so I am out of here!
In other news is was announced that RIAA is going to also draft codes of conduct for radio stations, as people have the radio on too much and they are losing billions... They also plan to draft a code of conduct for the auto manufacturing industry...
Seriously who works for these people are the that stupid? The only point I can see that this may be usefull is to generate news and keep the RIAA on the forefront of peoples minds. In which case they were successful as it is posted here (probabbly among others).
If I were an ISP I would tell the RIAA to F#@&k off, regardless of my views on music priacy. This is NOT you industry stay the F^%@ out. Stick to your only monopoly thank you very much.
To think that this will work is laughable. It just illistrates how must these people lie, even to just stay in the headlines as everyone is getting sick of hearing them bitch about profits.
Yesterdays article is very relevent in this case: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/0 4/10/04 45225&tid=155&tid=141
Basically just make shit up so you get headlines and are featured in the news. Not a new ploy and it seem to still work.
Finally we can a have Mace Windo that can say "Shut the fuck up muther fucker!" in a lightsaber battle! I for one think this this already elevates this movie over the first two.
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#1 there is only one ad, that you can either close or ignore... You can't get rid of them all yahoo has to get paid... #2 yahoo filters spam better than most I have see out there. Particulary for a technology you just have to turn on. #3 It has pop3 access. It also has forwarding. #4 The recently (this year) updated all their interfaces...
Yes it has pop3 access. No you don't have to sign up for anything as far as I know. I have used it before (preferances)... Very easy to do. Only crappy part I find is that the spam filter in yahoo is actually quite good, but if you elect to pop3, you bypass it and all the crap has to be filtered by your mail browser (though probabaly by design).
DV.
China Population = 1,246,871,951 with 7.8% of BN US Population = 272,639,608 with 24.6% of BN UK Population = 59,113,439 with 25.2% of BN Spain Population = 39,167,744 with 3.8% of BN Canada Population = 31,006,347 with 4.9% of BN World Population = 5,995,544,836 with 100% of BN
Per Capita Botnets = PCB
So if we take china as the baseline population... Canada is about 40.2 times as small so 40.2 times 4.9% = 197% So if Canada was as large as China we would be pumping out like 197% of all the botnets in the world...
This statistically clearly shows that China is not pulling its weight as far as botnet creation is concerned. They should hike up their socks (or whatever) and start producing some botnets. Maybe they could start trying to use pirated versions of MS, I hear that works well...
Feel free to check my calculations or produce your own, I am 94.3% sure that it is valid (3 times out of 20)!
I vote we change it to "Johnny 12-pack". As I am pretty sure with the number of botnets on my personal computer I was singulary responsible for at least 3% of Canada's 4.9%.... Damn Corporate 2600 build XP Pro!
BTW thats sounds like a joke or something... "Tommy, Johnny, and Joe walk into a bar..."
Ok I have only two things to say about this topic.
The First kinda ticks me off. I go to a store and buy something, then the cashier takes my credit card and starts squinting at the back and compairing it to the recipt I just signed. It kinda makes me wonder, does this silly part time 17 year old that works at walmart really have the training to accuratly make decisions regarding my identify from my signiture... Are they all moonlighting as signiture analysts? Its just stupid. If anyone questioned my sig, I would be pretty pissed.
The second is that most either don't check or don't care, or like I mentioned above are no qualified to really make these kind of decisions anyway. An example of this is when I was in high school, my mom wanted me to pick something up for her at the store, so she just gave me her credit card. I was in my teens and didn't think it would work, so she wrote a note and said to call if there was a problem. Well I am not sure howmany teenagers have a gold card, but the cashier didn't care. I signed my own name, they checked and did say a thing.... So as a security feature, pretty useless.
I could see someone inspecting the signiture if you were buying some big ticket item like an engagement ring or a car or something, but on 99.9% of items it is a waste of time.
So it begs the question why is this news... Does/. think we didn't RTFA in the first place or too dumb to understand it... We needed the diluted verion i guess.... or maybe Zonk and Camander Taco don't compaire notes... who knows. EIther way same story twice in 3 days = yuck.
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DarthVain
Yeah I got rid of my landline for exactly that reason. I was getting too many telemarket call every day. Now that I am all Cell I only get a few (from companies I already deal with, like the cell company etc...)
Anyway My favorite line to deal with the telemarketers is very simple. I just pretended to be a kid every time.
Telemarketer: Hello, may I speak to whomever is in charge of chosing telephone service? You: I am sorry my dad isn't here right now... T: When would be a good time to call back? Y: Well he usually gets off work at 5pm T: Thank you we will try again another day. Y: Bye.
That simple. Guess what? Eventually they are gonna call you again no matter what you say. Just keep using it. Its Gold baby!
Heh, I work in Oil and Gas in Canada, and you have NO idea how right you are (not 100% about the oil, but gas for sure!).... However bad things seem to happen to nations that fuck with US on topic of Oil and Gas.... yikes! I don't wanna wake up one morning and have troops from the USA shoveling some "freedom" down my throat! AT least the Aussies have several Oceans between them and the good 'ole red, white, and blue...
easier to reply to me than all the people who thought this was "flamebait" for some reason...
#1) My comments were based on a round up review of ITX boards by VIA 600, 800, and 1000, the review really being about the 1000. General conclusion was ITX was very limited in real use.
#2) I am NOT saying that your Cyrix 800 or whatever is not an ok processor. I am also not saying that your DESKTOP Cyrix processor is in an ITX board. What I am saying is that a slower verions (see less heat and less power) IS in these boards. That by TODAYS standards they are not that fast, nor good for much. In the article I read the benchmarks would crazy... Like the power you get in a VIA C3 800 is about what you would get from a 400 or 266 Mhz P2 or something. While there is NOTHING wrong with either a 400 or 266 Mhz processor, their applaication today is limited. To say playing mp3's or runing Office 97 or something.... LIMITED FUNCTIONALILTY! Geesh.... I can't believe I got flamebait.. I have never gotten flamebait before. Well for all you ITX and Cyrix fanboys (all 6 of you) enjoy... I was just trying to point out the fact that these are underpowered and have limited use.
ok I hate replying to myself, but i just skimmed the article....
"The alliance comprises a group of IT hardware and software firms that have combined their expertise and products to help EDS create 'best of breed' solutions and compete with the likes of IBM Global Services and Hewlett-Packard for the most lucrative government and enterprise contracts."
came to my notice. Another check against whatever comes out of EDS's mouth. SO EDS is in direct compitition with IBM. IBM supports linux. Therefore Linux must suck. Quid pro quo right? Stupid article... Of course I also see it was from Zdnet so not that big of a surprise. Hmmmm I wonder who owns zdnet....
Wasn't it EDS the large corporation that allowed 60,000 or so computers to crash in the UK gouvernment because they didn't do the required Windows Update awhile back... also see:
Kinda makes you wonder if they are fit to comment on this sort of thing.
Microsoft says Linux sucks? Say it ain't so... Could it be that they are in DIRECT compatition with them... News at 11... according to MS the TOC is also higher on linux nm linux is FREE... yadda yadda support... ever try to get MS support or any real support? Oh look dell is next how appropiate...
Dell, ok they aren't the ones to really comment either. They are so in MS pocket it just isn't funny. Dell is basically just a dilivery service for Intel and MS. They think Linux is no good either eh... well go figure. They also say AMD is no good. Well we all know that is true. They are much slower, more expensive, and consume more energy... oh wait...
Oracle... all I know is they make DBMS systems. While a good portion of their systems probably run on some flavor of unix/linux/bsd/vms/etc... all the clients (ie buisness) will be Windows, which is MS, which is probably 80-90% of their buisness, so again go figure. (I may be full of crap on this one, I am just making stuff up now...:)
Cisco... don't they make networks and cables and such? wtf does their opinion matter about linux and its scaleability and security... What OS do they use. How SPECIFIC is it? how USELESS would it be to a general user... so who cares what Cisco says.
Sun. Well much like microsoft they make their own OS and systems.... so yeah direct compitition may say the other guys product sucks... Everyone go out and buy Solarius NOW! right....
EMC? who the f#@k are EMC? Ok I googled them, and if it is the same one as www.emc.com then I still don't know wtf they do! Though by the looks of it they dabble in a bit of everything corporate or enterprise (Much like EDS, btw whats with 3 letter names starting with "E" anyway). So maybe they might be able to make a semi useful comment. Then again Bah! Never heard of 'em so who cares!
In conclusion: This is a stupid statement and/or article to make. News is "supposed" to be unbiased. To make a big anouncement, to discover, that linux is not scaleable nor secure, is hardly believable (true or not) if it comes from the mouth of those that are in direct compitition, have a lot to gain or lose by the addmission. In other words, Lame.
They have similer processes for the beef industry:
1) Blame Canada 2) Ban Canadian Beef 3) Raise Prices 4) ??? 5) Profit
Never mind the US people are getting screwed by their own... Oh thats right their President is from Texas right.... Hmmmmm.... Bet he has a few buddies in the beef industry....
and for the salmon quotas:
1) Blame Canada 2) Fish where ever they like and however much they want 3) ??? 4) Profit
sure there are more examples. Other reply is correct in that we have become too dependant upon US trade. They snap and we jump. I would rather see money spend diversifing our trading partners now than trying to apease the US and their silly claims.
I throught the whole point of Free Trade was to promote or influance a more level playing field to increase trade. What seems to be happening is where compitition is to much they just change the rules in their favor.
However this dependance works both ways. We are the largest trading partner with the US. I say we call their bluff and see who gets screwed more.
Yeah I had almost forgotten about those "Nano-ITX" boards... I remember several sites saying they had them but were out of stock or pre-order... that was like a year ago it seem. Very sketchy... Bad VIA bad!
also check this out... same website! lol
http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS4897375933.html "Just released"... funny... I see posts going back into 2003!!! Guess what its 2005 and I don't see any. Probably same bs.
OK people before you all jump on this bandwagon, do some research and check out some reviews.... The ITX using a mobile P4 is interesting... Dual ITX VIA to me is not. VIA owns what was CRIX remember those? No? You know why, because they sucked, they were low power, but ultra low profermance. They come up with the ITX platform so that they could pimp off these horrible processors. From what I have read they are not good for much of anything except single task as an mp3 player. Now with dual it MAY be able to play a DVD without dying... but probably not as the onboard grafix are weak to say the least. Don't get me wrong, ITX as a technology is pretty interesting, but lack of performance is a major problem. Eveyone knows the pros and cons of dual processors (probably here anyway), so the likelihood of anything taking advantage of it is unlikey. In all it will probably let you play a mp3 AND do someting else rather than just single tasking. Perhaps if they spent more time on their processors and less time on their boards they might get somewhere... who knows maybe they are... but anyway in all likelihood a VIA ITX DUAL will still be underpowered for all but the simplest applications. A desktop replacement it is not. Guess will have to just wait for the reviews... Though in the past, production, availability, lack of reviews and information has been a problem. It would not surprise me if this is a paper launch, and it will remain etheral for months or forever.
On the tail of exhorbiant claims made by PS3, Xbox, and Nintendo, Neo-Geo had their own press confrence about their upcoming console system.
"Well we decided to stay away from broadband systems" explained Hoshi "Super Dry" Asahi. "We plan on using sub-space to transmit our online content. Our engineer's have developed isolinear chips that will allow this giving us a through-put of 4.7 library of congress/fortnight!" Other details of the new console system include:
- Made of platinum to increase "Bling" factor - Controllers will be in the form of a mentalband - Will intergrate a 60" HD TV in each console - Will be solar powered using special nano paint
It is rumored that it will also be backward compatible with the renown Infinitum Labs system. It will also be cell-phone, DVD player, Mp3 player, and AM/FM radio.
It will also be released in 6 months (baring any delays, which are not expected to happen...)
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I for one just want to see 600 software engineers muntiny agaist their managers, just once!
Well I guess its a good thing that more and more movies are being made/shot in Canada these days. w00t! Let the bit torrents begin!
Seriously how is this stupid US law going to translate in the real world.
Lets say for example that some movie is made in Canada, by a US Producer. Lets also say that they send a copy to an animation server farm down in New Zealand (I think Peter Jackson has such a facility down there).
If the movie is leaked from Canada onto the web, is the law enforceable?
If the movie is leaked from New Zealand onto the web, is the law enforcable?
In either case probably not. In which case the law really only exists for two purposes. One is to stop people in the US, from doing leaks. Two is to keep the Movie industry centeralized in the US market.
Lets face it all this is, is a way that the US can promote their industry without having to compete. Usual scare tatics. How much money do you think these corporations REALLY lose due to this leakage. How much PR do they get from it (unless their movie sucks balls I suppose)...
Anyway it seems I have entered into the tinfoil hat territory, and they are probably watching so I am out of here!
DarthVain
I for one welcome our Sat wielding Overlords!
They are the googlest googlers of all googledot!
In other news is was announced that RIAA is going to also draft codes of conduct for radio stations, as people have the radio on too much and they are losing billions... They also plan to draft a code of conduct for the auto manufacturing industry...
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Seriously who works for these people are the that stupid? The only point I can see that this may be usefull is to generate news and keep the RIAA on the forefront of peoples minds. In which case they were successful as it is posted here (probabbly among others).
If I were an ISP I would tell the RIAA to F#@&k off, regardless of my views on music priacy. This is NOT you industry stay the F^%@ out. Stick to your only monopoly thank you very much.
To think that this will work is laughable. It just illistrates how must these people lie, even to just stay in the headlines as everyone is getting sick of hearing them bitch about profits.
Yesterdays article is very relevent in this case:
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/
Basically just make shit up so you get headlines and are featured in the news. Not a new ploy and it seem to still work.
Bah thats all from me, these creeps make me sick.
Finally we can a have Mace Windo that can say "Shut the fuck up muther fucker!" in a lightsaber battle! I for one think this this already elevates this movie over the first two.
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BanKnoppix! csh baby!
#1 there is only one ad, that you can either close or ignore... You can't get rid of them all yahoo has to get paid...
#2 yahoo filters spam better than most I have see out there. Particulary for a technology you just have to turn on.
#3 It has pop3 access. It also has forwarding.
#4 The recently (this year) updated all their interfaces...
Yes it has pop3 access. No you don't have to sign up for anything as far as I know. I have used it before (preferances)... Very easy to do. Only crappy part I find is that the spam filter in yahoo is actually quite good, but if you elect to pop3, you bypass it and all the crap has to be filtered by your mail browser (though probabaly by design).
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China Population = 1,246,871,951 with 7.8% of BN
US Population = 272,639,608 with 24.6% of BN
UK Population = 59,113,439 with 25.2% of BN
Spain Population = 39,167,744 with 3.8% of BN
Canada Population = 31,006,347 with 4.9% of BN
World Population = 5,995,544,836 with 100% of BN
Per Capita Botnets = PCB
So if we take china as the baseline population...
Canada is about 40.2 times as small so 40.2 times 4.9% = 197% So if Canada was as large as China we would be pumping out like 197% of all the botnets in the world...
This statistically clearly shows that China is not pulling its weight as far as botnet creation is concerned. They should hike up their socks (or whatever) and start producing some botnets. Maybe they could start trying to use pirated versions of MS, I hear that works well...
Feel free to check my calculations or produce your own, I am 94.3% sure that it is valid (3 times out of 20)!
Out.
DarthVain
I vote we change it to "Johnny 12-pack". As I am pretty sure with the number of botnets on my personal computer I was singulary responsible for at least 3% of Canada's 4.9%.... Damn Corporate 2600 build XP Pro!
BTW thats sounds like a joke or something... "Tommy, Johnny, and Joe walk into a bar..."
someone may want to mirror this baby...
http://www.zug.com/pranks/credit_card/
Ok I have only two things to say about this topic.
The First kinda ticks me off. I go to a store and buy something, then the cashier takes my credit card and starts squinting at the back and compairing it to the recipt I just signed. It kinda makes me wonder, does this silly part time 17 year old that works at walmart really have the training to accuratly make decisions regarding my identify from my signiture... Are they all moonlighting as signiture analysts? Its just stupid. If anyone questioned my sig, I would be pretty pissed.
The second is that most either don't check or don't care, or like I mentioned above are no qualified to really make these kind of decisions anyway. An example of this is when I was in high school, my mom wanted me to pick something up for her at the store, so she just gave me her credit card. I was in my teens and didn't think it would work, so she wrote a note and said to call if there was a problem. Well I am not sure howmany teenagers have a gold card, but the cashier didn't care. I signed my own name, they checked and did say a thing.... So as a security feature, pretty useless.
I could see someone inspecting the signiture if you were buying some big ticket item like an engagement ring or a car or something, but on 99.9% of items it is a waste of time.
Anyway thats my 2 cents...
Lucy Lawless a la Xena for Super Woman...
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/15/134 1203&tid=172&tid=1
/. think we didn't RTFA in the first place or too dumb to understand it... We needed the diluted verion i guess.... or maybe Zonk and Camander Taco don't compaire notes... who knows. EIther way same story twice in 3 days = yuck.
RTFA!
I am pretty sure the BBC news post is just a dumbed down version of this report:
http://www.honeynet.org/papers/bots/
So it begs the question why is this news... Does
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DarthVain
Yeah I got rid of my landline for exactly that reason. I was getting too many telemarket call every day. Now that I am all Cell I only get a few (from companies I already deal with, like the cell company etc...)
Anyway My favorite line to deal with the telemarketers is very simple. I just pretended to be a kid every time.
Telemarketer: Hello, may I speak to whomever is in charge of chosing telephone service?
You: I am sorry my dad isn't here right now...
T: When would be a good time to call back?
Y: Well he usually gets off work at 5pm
T: Thank you we will try again another day.
Y: Bye.
That simple. Guess what? Eventually they are gonna call you again no matter what you say. Just keep using it. Its Gold baby!
Heh, I work in Oil and Gas in Canada, and you have NO idea how right you are (not 100% about the oil, but gas for sure!).... However bad things seem to happen to nations that fuck with US on topic of Oil and Gas.... yikes! I don't wanna wake up one morning and have troops from the USA shoveling some "freedom" down my throat! AT least the Aussies have several Oceans between them and the good 'ole red, white, and blue...
easier to reply to me than all the people who thought this was "flamebait" for some reason...
#1) My comments were based on a round up review of ITX boards by VIA 600, 800, and 1000, the review really being about the 1000. General conclusion was ITX was very limited in real use.
#2) I am NOT saying that your Cyrix 800 or whatever is not an ok processor. I am also not saying that your DESKTOP Cyrix processor is in an ITX board. What I am saying is that a slower verions (see less heat and less power) IS in these boards. That by TODAYS standards they are not that fast, nor good for much. In the article I read the benchmarks would crazy... Like the power you get in a VIA C3 800 is about what you would get from a 400 or 266 Mhz P2 or something. While there is NOTHING wrong with either a 400 or 266 Mhz processor, their applaication today is limited. To say playing mp3's or runing Office 97 or something.... LIMITED FUNCTIONALILTY! Geesh.... I can't believe I got flamebait.. I have never gotten flamebait before. Well for all you ITX and Cyrix fanboys (all 6 of you) enjoy... I was just trying to point out the fact that these are underpowered and have limited use.
ok I hate replying to myself, but i just skimmed the article....
"The alliance comprises a group of IT hardware and software firms that have combined their expertise and products to help EDS create 'best of breed' solutions and compete with the likes of IBM Global Services and Hewlett-Packard for the most lucrative government and enterprise contracts."
came to my notice. Another check against whatever comes out of EDS's mouth. SO EDS is in direct compitition with IBM. IBM supports linux. Therefore Linux must suck. Quid pro quo right? Stupid article... Of course I also see it was from Zdnet so not that big of a surprise. Hmmmm I wonder who owns zdnet....
Time for my tinfoil hat...
EDS, Oracle, Cisco, Microsoft, Sun, Dell and EMC
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Wasn't it EDS the large corporation that allowed 60,000 or so computers to crash in the UK gouvernment because they didn't do the required Windows Update awhile back... also see:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/01/172
Kinda makes you wonder if they are fit to comment on this sort of thing.
Microsoft says Linux sucks? Say it ain't so... Could it be that they are in DIRECT compatition with them... News at 11... according to MS the TOC is also higher on linux nm linux is FREE... yadda yadda support... ever try to get MS support or any real support? Oh look dell is next how appropiate...
Dell, ok they aren't the ones to really comment either. They are so in MS pocket it just isn't funny. Dell is basically just a dilivery service for Intel and MS. They think Linux is no good either eh... well go figure. They also say AMD is no good. Well we all know that is true. They are much slower, more expensive, and consume more energy... oh wait...
Oracle... all I know is they make DBMS systems. While a good portion of their systems probably run on some flavor of unix/linux/bsd/vms/etc... all the clients (ie buisness) will be Windows, which is MS, which is probably 80-90% of their buisness, so again go figure. (I may be full of crap on this one, I am just making stuff up now...:)
Cisco... don't they make networks and cables and such? wtf does their opinion matter about linux and its scaleability and security... What OS do they use. How SPECIFIC is it? how USELESS would it be to a general user... so who cares what Cisco says.
Sun. Well much like microsoft they make their own OS and systems.... so yeah direct compitition may say the other guys product sucks... Everyone go out and buy Solarius NOW! right....
EMC? who the f#@k are EMC? Ok I googled them, and if it is the same one as www.emc.com then I still don't know wtf they do! Though by the looks of it they dabble in a bit of everything corporate or enterprise (Much like EDS, btw whats with 3 letter names starting with "E" anyway). So maybe they might be able to make a semi useful comment. Then again Bah! Never heard of 'em so who cares!
In conclusion: This is a stupid statement and/or article to make. News is "supposed" to be unbiased. To make a big anouncement, to discover, that linux is not scaleable nor secure, is hardly believable (true or not) if it comes from the mouth of those that are in direct compitition, have a lot to gain or lose by the addmission. In other words, Lame.
and no I didn't RTFA.
My 2 cents, enjoy!
DarthVain
They have similer processes for the beef industry:
1) Blame Canada
2) Ban Canadian Beef
3) Raise Prices
4) ???
5) Profit
Never mind the US people are getting screwed by their own... Oh thats right their President is from Texas right.... Hmmmmm.... Bet he has a few buddies in the beef industry....
and for the salmon quotas:
1) Blame Canada
2) Fish where ever they like and however much they want
3) ???
4) Profit
sure there are more examples. Other reply is correct in that we have become too dependant upon US trade. They snap and we jump. I would rather see money spend diversifing our trading partners now than trying to apease the US and their silly claims.
I throught the whole point of Free Trade was to promote or influance a more level playing field to increase trade. What seems to be happening is where compitition is to much they just change the rules in their favor.
However this dependance works both ways. We are the largest trading partner with the US. I say we call their bluff and see who gets screwed more.
Yeah I had almost forgotten about those "Nano-ITX" boards... I remember several sites saying they had them but were out of stock or pre-order... that was like a year ago it seem. Very sketchy... Bad VIA bad!
also check this out... same website! lol
http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS4897375933.html
"Just released"... funny... I see posts going back into 2003!!! Guess what its 2005 and I don't see any. Probably same bs.
OK people before you all jump on this bandwagon, do some research and check out some reviews.... The ITX using a mobile P4 is interesting... Dual ITX VIA to me is not. VIA owns what was CRIX remember those? No? You know why, because they sucked, they were low power, but ultra low profermance. They come up with the ITX platform so that they could pimp off these horrible processors. From what I have read they are not good for much of anything except single task as an mp3 player. Now with dual it MAY be able to play a DVD without dying... but probably not as the onboard grafix are weak to say the least. Don't get me wrong, ITX as a technology is pretty interesting, but lack of performance is a major problem. Eveyone knows the pros and cons of dual processors (probably here anyway), so the likelihood of anything taking advantage of it is unlikey. In all it will probably let you play a mp3 AND do someting else rather than just single tasking. Perhaps if they spent more time on their processors and less time on their boards they might get somewhere... who knows maybe they are... but anyway in all likelihood a VIA ITX DUAL will still be underpowered for all but the simplest applications. A desktop replacement it is not. Guess will have to just wait for the reviews... Though in the past, production, availability, lack of reviews and information has been a problem. It would not surprise me if this is a paper launch, and it will remain etheral for months or forever.
:)
Anyway my 2 cents
and no I didn't RTFA
This just in from Neo-geo:
On the tail of exhorbiant claims made by PS3, Xbox, and Nintendo, Neo-Geo had their own press confrence about their upcoming console system.
"Well we decided to stay away from broadband systems" explained Hoshi "Super Dry" Asahi. "We plan on using sub-space to transmit our online content. Our engineer's have developed isolinear chips that will allow this giving us a through-put of 4.7 library of congress/fortnight!" Other details of the new console system include:
- Made of platinum to increase "Bling" factor
- Controllers will be in the form of a mentalband
- Will intergrate a 60" HD TV in each console
- Will be solar powered using special nano paint
It is rumored that it will also be backward compatible with the renown Infinitum Labs system. It will also be cell-phone, DVD player, Mp3 player, and AM/FM radio.
It will also be released in 6 months (baring any delays, which are not expected to happen...)
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I am sure it has already been said before but with Apples insignificant market share who really cares who Apple backs in the DVD wars?
/. anyway??? ).... :)
I took a pool in our office and we are gonna back HD-DVD.... that is about as meaningful a statement.
Interesting (or worrisom) for Apple users, but who gives a F@&k for everyone else (how may apple users read
my 0.02$