Re:Maybe we shouldn't be so quick to judge the ISP
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Ok, so technically it is censorship, but not government endorsed censorship. Only government endorsed censorship violates the constitution. As long as there isn't any giagantic monopoly in the media world, company's censoring things that are in their domain is legal(I say in their domain because for example a car comapny should not be able to censor a report by the NY Times about how crushed clown skulls are hidden inside the passenger side seat)
Re:This writer of the article is a journalistic ko
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/. is not part of the government
Give it a few years...
Maybe we shouldn't be so quick to judge the ISPs..
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ISPs tend to have a limited staff and I would imagine, get a lot of flack from RIAA/MPAA etc... Instead of using (sometimes limited) resources to ferret out real offenders, they just rubber stamp any request that comes in. Survival mechanism perhaps, prob. gets the RIAA off their backs.
Remember, an ISP can do (almost) whatever it wants with it's own network, it's a private company, not the government. So technically it isn't censorship. If you don't like the way they handle speech, start your own ISP, make free speech a cornerstone of your service. If ISPs lose enough business because of how they patrol their networks, maybe then the attitudes will change.
Yeah, but with the small screen you are limited to on a portable, do you really want anything fancy? I'm not sure I could play unreal tournament on a small screen. There are a ton of old games that you cannot find anymore(Leisure Suit Larry, a whole load of freeware games that came on this cd I bought 10 years ago) that were a lot of fun, but not very portable. Plus, a lot of times you had to mess around with "low memory" and whatnot just to get them to run. It would be nice to have a console that just "worked" with all those games.
It's too bad that the companies who made those games either:
a) don't exist anymore or
b) don't want to open source the games even though there is almost no chance of the games bringing any more revenue.
if they could take this technology and turn it into a "portable pc gaming console" of sorts(of similiar size and shape to the gba) In the article it states that they can run at 533 MHz fanless with a worst case power consumption of 2.5W. Wouldn't it be neat to create a gaming console(kind of like the phantom pc gaming console, only portable) for this with flash cards being the "cartridge"
Though licensing for the abandon-ware would be a pain. As would trying to standardize the input across a large number of games. But still, it would be friggin' cool to play leisure suit larry while you are bored in class!
From the apple switching to intel article: Scenario. Apple will announce its Intel initiative by showing a transition machine that uses both the Intel and Motorola processors. "So current Mac owners will not have to worry." This will be a high-end machine optimized to run Photoshop. Apple is adept at creating dual-processor architectures, so this won't be too radical. We've heard rumors of this kind of scenario for some time, under the code name Marklar.
That is one of the most bizzarely stupid ideas I have ever heard(in addition to being an obscure South Park reference) I have never heard of a dual CPU machine with different architectures, is he on crack? Plus, this was written after the IBM manufactured G5 chips(not Motorola like he states) came out. How would Apple, with it's (somewhat) limited resources be able to pull off something like that? Why would they pull off something like that?
Jeez, and yet the sad thing is this guy probably made more money espousing random stuff he pulled from his arse than I will make in my entire lifetime!
They really should make mathematics more like pokemon, it would get more people interested in the subject
Riemann-chu, I prove you! Then bust out the paper.
would be the ability to press a button in any app and have the track change(well, kind of how the volume up/volume down/brightness up/down works on the iBook), provided the app currently being used doesn't use the button. I know you can re-map keys, and you can script iTunes rather easily via applescript, but is there a way to associate a key with an applescript? Could save a lot of time flipping through windows.
Clock speed is good, but what I look for in a processor is that ephemeral processor attitude. Can I show it off to friends? Will my mother thinkk it's cute, or is it a little... dangerous? I want a processor that says something about me. That I'm a rebel that won't take no for an answer. That I'm cool without trying. If a processor can't do that for me, well I'm just not interested.
I have a suggestion, get a personlized tattoo on your ARM! *Rim shot
I apologize.
in both hardware and software. While their plan doesn't seem nearly as open as GPL software, it's still a step in the right direction.
If they succeed it doesn't bode well for the x86 architecture, which seems to be a victim of it's own success. They seem to be trapped into just adding faster clocks instead of changing the architecture. They still have neat things like Centrino, but the marketing droids seem to have control over the engineers there. Every update just seems to be a faster clock speed without regards to how much it actually increases performance(I think this is evident in a lot of consumer pc's were they put in the latest and greatest pentium processor but then add in a paltry amount of RAM) I'm not saying I know more than the Intel engineers, I think they are doing a fabulous job with what they have to work with, but...I don't know where I am going with this, I'll just sit back and burn some karma now....damn ADD
Maybe a tablet pc-esque device? Who knows..there has been code for handwriting recognition in OS X since 10.2, though it doesn't look like many things actually use it.
But then again, if Apple tries something like this it will probably dismissed as another Newton.
Damn you Mr. Jobs and your enginmatic personality! Now I won't be able to get any real work done!
Well, provided Microsoft gets back on schedule with Virtual PC for the G5(They had to do a lot of re-working because of a crucial instruction set difference between the G4 and G5, emulating little endian I think), the G5 may run XP just fine. It may not run it as fast as an intel CPU(wasn't designed to do so), but for most mac users who have a need for virtual pc, it will run quick enough I bet.
Meh, if you were a REAL GEEK you would settle for a drive-through wedding(while messing with your powerbook) and put off honeymoon activities until you got an FP on your new G5!
and say that if your company's secrets are that valuable, the safest way to get rid of hard drives is just to scrap them. Laptops are a slightly different story, but how much can one actually expect to get off an auction of an old hard drive off of ebay? By the time you figure in all the auction fees, labor to ship them etc, I would bet that the companies probably don't make that much. It might just be safer to eat the cost than to try to sell them. It all really depends on the value of your secrets.
in filter research, maybe we should be spending it on educating users in basic protections....or converting the unwashed masses. I like the 2nd one better:P
Please note the sarcasm in the "unwashed masses" comment before modding me as a troll:P
in that if you burn at a faster rate than a different reader can read, the DVD cannot be read. I know a while back when I had a blazing 2x cd ROM, my friend burned me something on a 4x, but alas, I couldn't read it. Needless to say I was pissed...
DVDs probably work the same way, in which case, the faster burn may only be so useful, but I am probably wrong on that.
Re:I only watched TechTV once
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had the Nazi's decided to devote more resources to it. Though it really wouldn't have helped them win the war.
Pointless flame: not invading Russia, maybe, but..
At least Zuse went to work with the allies instead of the Soviets after the war.
There was an interesting ask slashdot about this subject a while back(well, slightly different, he wanted to get rid of even needing the dvds all together), maybe you should check it out.
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It will be interesting to see though if someone can come up with a web interface that will allow you to change it from the living room laptop(or maybe even a little embedded device). There is an API for iTunes through apples developer program(you can get the docs for free). I haven't looked through the API, but there has to be a way to browse/change the current track(ie run Apache on the server and have it accept commands, and make calls to the iTunes API). Might make an interesting FOSS project.
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Ok, so technically it is censorship, but not government endorsed censorship. Only government endorsed censorship violates the constitution. As long as there isn't any giagantic monopoly in the media world, company's censoring things that are in their domain is legal(I say in their domain because for example a car comapny should not be able to censor a report by the NY Times about how crushed clown skulls are hidden inside the passenger side seat)
/. is not part of the government
Give it a few years...
ISPs tend to have a limited staff and I would imagine, get a lot of flack from RIAA/MPAA etc... Instead of using (sometimes limited) resources to ferret out real offenders, they just rubber stamp any request that comes in. Survival mechanism perhaps, prob. gets the RIAA off their backs.
Remember, an ISP can do (almost) whatever it wants with it's own network, it's a private company, not the government. So technically it isn't censorship. If you don't like the way they handle speech, start your own ISP, make free speech a cornerstone of your service. If ISPs lose enough business because of how they patrol their networks, maybe then the attitudes will change.
Yeah, but with the small screen you are limited to on a portable, do you really want anything fancy? I'm not sure I could play unreal tournament on a small screen. There are a ton of old games that you cannot find anymore(Leisure Suit Larry, a whole load of freeware games that came on this cd I bought 10 years ago) that were a lot of fun, but not very portable. Plus, a lot of times you had to mess around with "low memory" and whatnot just to get them to run. It would be nice to have a console that just "worked" with all those games.
It's too bad that the companies who made those games either:
a) don't exist anymore or
b) don't want to open source the games even though there is almost no chance of the games bringing any more revenue.
if they could take this technology and turn it into a "portable pc gaming console" of sorts(of similiar size and shape to the gba) In the article it states that they can run at 533 MHz fanless with a worst case power consumption of 2.5W. Wouldn't it be neat to create a gaming console(kind of like the phantom pc gaming console, only portable) for this with flash cards being the "cartridge"
Though licensing for the abandon-ware would be a pain. As would trying to standardize the input across a large number of games. But still, it would be friggin' cool to play leisure suit larry while you are bored in class!
show us your bits! show us your bits!
Thank you for reading this lame joke, enjoy the rest of your day!
From the apple switching to intel article:
Scenario. Apple will announce its Intel initiative by showing a transition machine that uses both the Intel and Motorola processors. "So current Mac owners will not have to worry." This will be a high-end machine optimized to run Photoshop. Apple is adept at creating dual-processor architectures, so this won't be too radical. We've heard rumors of this kind of scenario for some time, under the code name Marklar.
That is one of the most bizzarely stupid ideas I have ever heard(in addition to being an obscure South Park reference) I have never heard of a dual CPU machine with different architectures, is he on crack? Plus, this was written after the IBM manufactured G5 chips(not Motorola like he states) came out. How would Apple, with it's (somewhat) limited resources be able to pull off something like that? Why would they pull off something like that?
Jeez, and yet the sad thing is this guy probably made more money espousing random stuff he pulled from his arse than I will make in my entire lifetime!
They really should make mathematics more like pokemon, it would get more people interested in the subject
Riemann-chu, I prove you! Then bust out the paper.
would be the ability to press a button in any app and have the track change(well, kind of how the volume up/volume down/brightness up/down works on the iBook), provided the app currently being used doesn't use the button. I know you can re-map keys, and you can script iTunes rather easily via applescript, but is there a way to associate a key with an applescript? Could save a lot of time flipping through windows.
Clock speed is good, but what I look for in a processor is that ephemeral processor attitude. Can I show it off to friends? Will my mother thinkk it's cute, or is it a little ... dangerous? I want a processor that says something about me. That I'm a rebel that won't take no for an answer. That I'm cool without trying. If a processor can't do that for me, well I'm just not interested.
I have a suggestion, get a personlized tattoo on your ARM!
*Rim shot
I apologize.
in both hardware and software. While their plan doesn't seem nearly as open as GPL software, it's still a step in the right direction.
If they succeed it doesn't bode well for the x86 architecture, which seems to be a victim of it's own success. They seem to be trapped into just adding faster clocks instead of changing the architecture. They still have neat things like Centrino, but the marketing droids seem to have control over the engineers there. Every update just seems to be a faster clock speed without regards to how much it actually increases performance(I think this is evident in a lot of consumer pc's were they put in the latest and greatest pentium processor but then add in a paltry amount of RAM) I'm not saying I know more than the Intel engineers, I think they are doing a fabulous job with what they have to work with, but...I don't know where I am going with this, I'll just sit back and burn some karma now....damn ADD
Maybe a tablet pc-esque device? Who knows..there has been code for handwriting recognition in OS X since 10.2, though it doesn't look like many things actually use it.
But then again, if Apple tries something like this it will probably dismissed as another Newton.
Damn you Mr. Jobs and your enginmatic personality! Now I won't be able to get any real work done!
Well, provided Microsoft gets back on schedule with Virtual PC for the G5(They had to do a lot of re-working because of a crucial instruction set difference between the G4 and G5, emulating little endian I think), the G5 may run XP just fine. It may not run it as fast as an intel CPU(wasn't designed to do so), but for most mac users who have a need for virtual pc, it will run quick enough I bet.
Meh, if you were a REAL GEEK you would settle for a drive-through wedding(while messing with your powerbook) and put off honeymoon activities until you got an FP on your new G5!
You do trust your employees, right?
It would be hilarious to find out that your PHB is into goatse!
and say that if your company's secrets are that valuable, the safest way to get rid of hard drives is just to scrap them. Laptops are a slightly different story, but how much can one actually expect to get off an auction of an old hard drive off of ebay? By the time you figure in all the auction fees, labor to ship them etc, I would bet that the companies probably don't make that much. It might just be safer to eat the cost than to try to sell them. It all really depends on the value of your secrets.
giving the members of the Board an ivory backscratcher
/. post, you are truly a god among men(I'm not trolling or being sarcastic here), you rule!
An obscure Simpson's reference in a
in filter research, maybe we should be spending it on educating users in basic protections....or converting the unwashed masses. I like the 2nd one better :P :P
Please note the sarcasm in the "unwashed masses" comment before modding me as a troll
It read 2x burned cds, it was probably just a shitty cd reader.
in that if you burn at a faster rate than a different reader can read, the DVD cannot be read. I know a while back when I had a blazing 2x cd ROM, my friend burned me something on a 4x, but alas, I couldn't read it. Needless to say I was pissed...
DVDs probably work the same way, in which case, the faster burn may only be so useful, but I am probably wrong on that.
pointless flame!
had the Nazi's decided to devote more resources to it. Though it really wouldn't have helped them win the war.
Pointless flame: not invading Russia, maybe, but..
At least Zuse went to work with the allies instead of the Soviets after the war.
There was an interesting ask slashdot about this subject a while back(well, slightly different, he wanted to get rid of even needing the dvds all together), maybe you should check it out.
Croooooooooooooooow!
It will be interesting to see though if someone can come up with a web interface that will allow you to change it from the living room laptop(or maybe even a little embedded device). There is an API for iTunes through apples developer program(you can get the docs for free). I haven't looked through the API, but there has to be a way to browse/change the current track(ie run Apache on the server and have it accept commands, and make calls to the iTunes API). Might make an interesting FOSS project.