Well, this new portable sounds interesting..
I've read people bashing it because its (probable) limited audience, mostly hardcore gamers and techies, thus (according to them) not being much an intelligent product as they are needing badly the masses.
Anyways, if Nintendo plan is to use that as a kind of marketing tool it might be an interesting step.
Who is this supposed to be an incentive for? People who want to counterfeit money and the handful of graphic artists that use images of money?
They too, plus people who get annoyed by the false-positive currency identification, and the software slowdown caused by such feature.
Who knows what next... Companies may start crippling things such way that may prevent you scanning your own film-pictures (you need 'authorized' software, or a more expensive 'scannable' photo).
The companies are very creative when it comes to ripping your pockets.
Some people, particluarly in smaller countries, pay for Internet by the MB. How much are these ads going to cost?!
Agreed.
Myself I do have ADSL, but I do live in Brazil... What means, for example, that I cannot watch those QuickTime trailers in realtime due to the Brazil-US bottleneck.
So, yeah, obviously this is US-minded (or they're just naive)... Still, personally, I do not care. There are dozens of good quality websites around instead (not that I'm saying MSN or ESPN is something I care about in first place).
and just using more aggressive compression (e.g. MPEG-4). I'm glad to see that idea is going away.
If you just upgrade the video compression to MPEG-4, considering the 4/9GB DVD size will not shrink, you'll end with better quality than nowadays DVD.
But... Okay, if you're going to promote a new standard (thus making people to switch to newer DVD players) it's better to add other extras, including bigger storage size.
Since in the US decent digital cameras for personal use are accessible (price-wise) to Joe User, it seems reasonable.
In most places of the World, though, digital cameras are very expensive (let's remember they're priced in dollars).
Even an El Cheapo is not really "cheapo", and let's remember that such lowest-price devices produce pictures with much lower quality than a simple analog film camera.
The day digital cameras will turn omnipresent will come, but neither Kodak or any company will commit suicide in the other markets around the World.
Let's get extreme and start dropping packets from entire/24s from which spam is originating. In extreme cases, let's drop entire spam friendly ISPs. This is the only way to get rid of pink contracts, if all the customers of an ISP suddenly find that large parts of the Internet become unreachable to them.
Righ... Let's say you get some SPAM from an ISP in Argentina (200.x.x.x) - "oh, let's block the entire/24".
Great idea, now not only you blocked the whole country, but almost the entire South America.
Unfortunately the IP gluttony in the Northen Hemisphere didn't leave much IPs left to the "3rd World". -- Thus, you can't treat the networks here as if you were in the Asia or Europe.
Why people in Spain always believe they're the worst thing in Europe?
ADSL in Spain is OK i think. Look at the ADSL in Portugal... THAT stinks (pricey, 2GB limit a month.. and a provider called "Sapo" ("toad") ). Poor portuguese people.
Gosh, I'm in Brazil and my ADSL is not as restrictive as the ones in Portugal.:/
I do pay ~100 BRL (~35 USD) a month, for ADSL 600k/300k (Brasil Telecom).
I know that the plan for 300k/150k is ~80 BRL (~27 USD) a month.
I do have my own ADSL modem, so I don't have to pay the overpriced one they offer you when you sign up (they allow you to pay it in 1000x so you don't notice the rape).
...it isn't properly a "gift". Well, it wasn't meant that way.
This dates back to the very beginning of public Internet access in Brazil (~1996 AFAIR).
What happened is that people were scared on the possibility of the Internet here ending monopolised by the public telco (they controlled the phone lines), so they made a law forbidding the telcos being ISP themselves.
Unfortunately nobody predicted the ADSL so, yes, it's very stupid to have to pay an ISP while the telco provides everything you need.
So that's why ADSL users give money for free to dialup ISPs. Isn't that pretty...:))) :P
I do believe that HT does have future, perhaps not in its present form, but still.
I do remember when there was that RISC vs CISC thing in the 80s, people were saying that CISC was obsolete, RISC being the future and so on. What we see today is not pure RISC processors but something in between. -- It's just that the answer was not that pure or clean as people thought at first.
Few years ago there was BeBox and its BeOS. Well, BeOS had the philosophy for a machine not having a single super-powerful-burning-hot processor but, instead, several low-power combined.
Well, Hyper-Threading may push distributed processing technology to the desktop, to the masses, so we might have interesting changes in software and hardware philosophy in the future.
What you US folks think on Brazil is irrelevant.
Some facts for you:
USA is about 25% of Brazil exportations.
Tourism is just a smaller thing compared to other Brazilian sectors. Only cities like Rio de Janeiro are specially worried about this matter.
People in US will continue happily to buy our Brazilian products (no matter what happens to US tourists here) as they have good quality and are much cheaper than the ones 'made in America'.
Your first-world country is great man!
Just keep buying goods from the poor miserables here! (sigh.. you know that my computer is made of used cans and coconuts?)
Speaking against Jews (no matter what) is a very successfull installed-taboo.
No one had a problem about this subject before the end of the 2nd WW... But the Jewish people turned saint after that, it seems. At least I still can speak about arabs.
The towers collapsed like an implosion, they were made that way.
Imagine those buildings falling chaotically, the disaster would be much worse.
It's a very good work of engineering.
Wow, anyone who gets 40 spam emails a day must not be very smart.
Not really... I get about 50/day (which ~40 are pre-filtered by my ISP), yet i never put that address in public nor subscribed anything "strange" (i use other e-mail for that).
Why did it happen then?
Well, do you know those OutlookExpress-compatible virus? (No, I don't use that software).
Yeah, one nice day a (serious) company i had contact got infected with such virus and, surprise, my email address i protected so well got spreaded around and the spammers got it.
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Well, this new portable sounds interesting..
I've read people bashing it because its (probable) limited audience, mostly hardcore gamers and techies, thus (according to them) not being much an intelligent product as they are needing badly the masses.
Anyways, if Nintendo plan is to use that as a kind of marketing tool it might be an interesting step.
Who is this supposed to be an incentive for? People who want to counterfeit money and the handful of graphic artists that use images of money?
They too, plus people who get annoyed by the false-positive currency identification, and the software slowdown caused by such feature.
Who knows what next... Companies may start crippling things such way that may prevent you scanning your own film-pictures (you need 'authorized' software, or a more expensive 'scannable' photo).
The companies are very creative when it comes to ripping your pockets.
If you don't like using crippled software, you always have the option of using:
- free (GPL, other) software, like The Gimp
- free software printer drivers (and buying hardware from companies which support them).
Some people, particluarly in smaller countries, pay for Internet by the MB. How much are these ads going to cost?!
Agreed.
Myself I do have ADSL, but I do live in Brazil... What means, for example, that I cannot watch those QuickTime trailers in realtime due to the Brazil-US bottleneck.
So, yeah, obviously this is US-minded (or they're just naive)... Still, personally, I do not care. There are dozens of good quality websites around instead (not that I'm saying MSN or ESPN is something I care about in first place).
and just using more aggressive compression (e.g. MPEG-4). I'm glad to see that idea is going away.
If you just upgrade the video compression to MPEG-4, considering the 4/9GB DVD size will not shrink, you'll end with better quality than nowadays DVD.
But... Okay, if you're going to promote a new standard (thus making people to switch to newer DVD players) it's better to add other extras, including bigger storage size.
AFAIR a certain green friend of yours owns it already..
Since in the US decent digital cameras for personal use are accessible (price-wise) to Joe User, it seems reasonable.
In most places of the World, though, digital cameras are very expensive (let's remember they're priced in dollars).
Even an El Cheapo is not really "cheapo", and let's remember that such lowest-price devices produce pictures with much lower quality than a simple analog film camera.
The day digital cameras will turn omnipresent will come, but neither Kodak or any company will commit suicide in the other markets around the World.
that IPv6 makes encourages 'peer-to-peer based copyright violation systems'
Wow... They're being very technical here.
What next? Are they going to lobby for a new reserved TCP port called "RIAA_SERVICES" ?
Let's get extreme and start dropping packets from entire /24s from which spam is originating. In extreme cases, let's drop entire spam friendly ISPs.
/24".
This is the only way to get rid of pink contracts, if all the customers of an ISP suddenly find that large parts of the Internet become unreachable to them.
Righ... Let's say you get some SPAM from an ISP in Argentina (200.x.x.x) - "oh, let's block the entire
Great idea, now not only you blocked the whole country, but almost the entire South America.
Unfortunately the IP gluttony in the Northen Hemisphere didn't leave much IPs left to the "3rd World". -- Thus, you can't treat the networks here as if you were in the Asia or Europe.
You can get monthly ADSL for about 100 kuai per month
So yes, you guys are being ripped off in the West. Move to China.
Sure... How do I apply for immigration?
Why people in Spain always believe they're the worst thing in Europe?
:/
ADSL in Spain is OK i think. Look at the ADSL in Portugal... THAT stinks (pricey, 2GB limit a month.. and a provider called "Sapo" ("toad") ). Poor portuguese people.
Gosh, I'm in Brazil and my ADSL is not as restrictive as the ones in Portugal.
I do pay ~100 BRL (~35 USD) a month, for ADSL 600k/300k (Brasil Telecom).
I know that the plan for 300k/150k is ~80 BRL (~27 USD) a month.
I do have my own ADSL modem, so I don't have to pay the overpriced one they offer you when you sign up (they allow you to pay it in 1000x so you don't notice the rape).
...it isn't properly a "gift". Well, it wasn't meant that way.
:)))
:P
This dates back to the very beginning of public Internet access in Brazil (~1996 AFAIR).
What happened is that people were scared on the possibility of the Internet here ending monopolised by the public telco (they controlled the phone lines), so they made a law forbidding the telcos being ISP themselves.
Unfortunately nobody predicted the ADSL so, yes, it's very stupid to have to pay an ISP while the telco provides everything you need.
So that's why ADSL users give money for free to dialup ISPs. Isn't that pretty...
...it's just that in 1992 you were downloading 50kB QWK packages,
nowadays you are downloading 50kB per e-mail.
I do believe that HT does have future, perhaps not in its present form, but still.
:)
I do remember when there was that RISC vs CISC thing in the 80s, people were saying that CISC was obsolete, RISC being the future and so on. What we see today is not pure RISC processors but something in between. -- It's just that the answer was not that pure or clean as people thought at first.
Few years ago there was BeBox and its BeOS. Well, BeOS had the philosophy for a machine not having a single super-powerful-burning-hot processor but, instead, several low-power combined.
Well, Hyper-Threading may push distributed processing technology to the desktop, to the masses, so we might have interesting changes in software and hardware philosophy in the future.
Sort of romantic thinking... But one can dream.
Some facts for you:
Your first-world country is great man!
Just keep buying goods from the poor miserables here! (sigh.. you know that my computer is made of used cans and coconuts?)
What next ?
Anal probes ?????
Don't give them ideas...
Let me mention that most people in Brazil are OK with this decision to identify US citizens.
The mayor of Rio de Janeiro is the one against it, and some people there bought that idea too, but they're just a minority in Brazil.
We won't miss you...
press the 'suspend' button...
small circuitry makes
CPU pin N (HALT): high
press again...
CPU pin N (HALT): low
so if you keep it in 'suspend' mode, Windows can survive for years!
Speaking against Jews (no matter what) is a very successfull installed-taboo.
No one had a problem about this subject before the end of the 2nd WW... But the Jewish people turned saint after that, it seems. At least I still can speak about arabs.
I wonder what would happen to the author of this, if he/she lived in the US:
politically incorrect thing.
The funniest thing is there are some (very few) sites which says "you can't access this, only IE etc etc" when actually you're running IE itself.
You can't expect intelligence from someone who codes html for a specific web browser.
The towers collapsed like an implosion, they were made that way.
Imagine those buildings falling chaotically, the disaster would be much worse.
It's a very good work of engineering.
Wow, anyone who gets 40 spam emails a day must not be very smart.
Not really... I get about 50/day (which ~40 are pre-filtered by my ISP), yet i never put that address in public nor subscribed anything "strange" (i use other e-mail for that).
Why did it happen then?
Well, do you know those OutlookExpress-compatible virus? (No, I don't use that software).
Yeah, one nice day a (serious) company i had contact got infected with such virus and, surprise, my email address i protected so well got spreaded around and the spammers got it.
This news shouldn't be here.
Who cares about those crazy things people take to the US tribunals?
Next news: Bush's cat has cancer. World tragedy.