In fact, the directional pad and button pads are analogue on the PS2 controller, they were pure digital "On/Off" on the PS1. Also, since the shape of the controller is pretty much perfect as far as most people are concerned, it would have been a little silly to replace it.
nor did they include a hdd or network connection
Makes it a damn sight cheaper than an XBox, particularly when they first came out, wonder if that was the idea?
And for kickers, they placed they power switch on the back of the system
This is golden! The power switch is on the front of the system. It's the one with the universal power switch symbol used on every TV, hifi, video recorder since I was born. Hold it down for a second, et voila!
On topic though, I agree that the whole ATRAC thing is a load of bollocks. The real reason I stopped buying Sony (with the exception of my PS2) is that after my minidisc walkman's power adapter broke and it cost £15 for a new one - even though its exactly the same as a £5 adapter you could buy from any electronics shop, just with a funky plug.
Why, as an American citizen, will I have to compete for jobs and college financial assistance with people who are here illegally from other countries?
Because it will teach you a valuable lesson about life.
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why don't the nice KDE people and the nice Gnome people work on developing a library that sits on top of [reiser 4] and then we can stop all the stupid name calling and use the right tool for the right job
I wouldn't normally jump in except this is modded +4, even though the poster doesn't appear to have read the article.
The article doesn't talk about an actual "file system" (it admits its a bit of a misnomer itself), merely a way of referencing files with "keywords" in database that, according to the author, will make it easier to find your files. The author has written a file browser and file selector dialogs for KDE that use this, then goes on to say that he's planning to make a GNOME implementation soon, but nowhere does anyone start any name calling.
Since this article essentially discusses a GUI and not a file system (which could be implemented at kernel level), it would be a little silly to use the same tool for GNOME and KDE, since they have different look-and-feel. That said, a common library of functions needed by both the GNOME and KDE versions would obviously be sensible, and would speed up porting to other desktops.
Furthermore, this idea claims to work on top of existing heirarchical file systems (removing the idea of a hierarchical FS completely would involve a major restructuring of the whole operating system and everything that works on it), so just saying that it should use reiser 4, I suppose because its just l33t, is a little redundant. This should work on top of just about any FS, ext2, reiser, or even an NFS mount.
Y'know, British folks are paying for the BBC website through our (all-but-) mandatory TV license fee, I don't really see why this should be opened up to people in other countries.
If you want TV without ads, move to the UK and pay your £116 (about $180 I guess) a year for it, otherwise stick with the service you get in the US, and don't expect the 60 million folks in the UK to pay for a service for 300 million folks in the US.
Put a piece of raw meat in your microwave. Set it for 15 minutes. Look at it when the 15 minutes are up and you can answer your own question.
Yeah, do it on "defrost" and it you won't be so scared, and the oven would still be pumping out about 1000 times more power than a wi-fi card.
Someone once told me (with a completely straight face) that a mobile phone generates enough microwaves in an hour to boil an egg. Well, I get a lot of free minutes per month with my phone that I don't normally use, so we put the phone right next to an egg and rang my house for an hour. Guess what, it didn't boil.
David Blunkett. British politician, now in charge of Homeland Security for the U.K. I'm sure that in spirit it would be translated to the "John Ashcroft Lifetime Award" for U.Sians, but the position Blunkett holds is probably more akin to Tom Ridge's.
David Blunkett isn't quite John Ashcroft's opposite number (he's Home Secretary, as opposed to Attorney General). However, he does sometimes seem to think he's a judge.
The reason Blunkett is recognised by this award is that he's trying to introduce a compulsory ID card scheme in the UK, which isn't very popular. He's also full of other gaffes, like he forcibly sacked the head of a police force because two girls were killed "on his watch" as it were. Even though the police force and the father of one of the girls opposed him.
"The material the wall is made out of has a marked impact on the permeability of EM waves."
Not to nitpick, but I believe you mean permittivity.
Not to be a smartass, but EM waves don't have permeability or permittivity, those two things are properties of materials, not waves. They do affect the waves though, as changes in wave impedance (which is dependant on wave frequency and material permeability, permittivity and conductance), may cause reflections - this is precisely the phenomenon that radar works off.
Normally a wave that reflects off people you would also expect to reflect off walls, unless I'm very much mistaken, so using radar to see people through brick walls involves being pretty damn clever.
I would expect the guys who designed this thing know a lot more than I, and a lot lot more than the grandparent, about EM waves, so they probably got a solution.
So now we have to depend on the processor in a $79 piece of asiaware to correctly detect and 'bleep' or otherwise censor dirty words? Please. This reminds me of the so-called "web censoring software" that looked for images with sufficient pixels in the color range of human flesh, and 'decided' that it was pr0n. It had a false positive rate = false negative rate.
As the article explains, the deciding whats appropriate business is done by humans, not a machine algorith.
Not sure what you mean by false positive rate = false negative rate. Is that supposed to be a bad thing? If they were both 0, it would surely be a perfect filter.
Anyway, this is not "the man" stopping you get at your pr0n. If you want the sex, don't buy this kind of dvd player. Don't accuse parents of being lazy just because they can't accompany their children 100% of the time. Many parents have to work. How are they supposed to check what their kids are doing on the school holidays? This is just getting some help with looking after the kids. Much cheaper than sending them to a day centre and much less restrictive on the kids.
I'm used to referring to the X system as "X Windows". Why doesn't Microsoft go after this name? Is it older than Microsoft Windows, or is it just that no one uses it commercially? Also, the are a lot of programs that claim to be "Window Managers" (e.g. twm, fvwm), which in combination with X, have basically the same functionality as MS Windows.
So either all these programs are also breaking Microsofts trademark, or that trademark is invalid (since it implies that "window" is a pretty generic word referring to the type of interface used by all the aforementioned systems).
SVG has animation capabilities, but being a replacement for Flash isn't really the point.
The most useful aspect I can see is it will allow web clients to zoom in and out of images to their hearts' content. This means that when you think the text on a web page is too small, you can use the zoom in function and instead of just getting massive writing and tiny images, you would get nice big images as well so you can read the text on the image-based navigation bar.
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will GNU/jokes ever stop being funny?
err.. yes
Kurds and Jews are the same. Terrorists, Ambidextrous, Devious, Dirty, Unfair, Bad and everything else than humans.
I think ambidextrous might mean something other than what you think it means, nice troll though.
I found this virus you would really like. It on installs your computer some program which ruins your system and break everything.
Please run the file attached for you, and you can have the virus too!
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Ok, this is going completely offtopic, but
The PS2 is simply two PS1 cpu's in one box.
Err, that's just a lie. PS specs vs PS2 specs.
They didn't improve the controller design
In fact, the directional pad and button pads are analogue on the PS2 controller, they were pure digital "On/Off" on the PS1. Also, since the shape of the controller is pretty much perfect as far as most people are concerned, it would have been a little silly to replace it.
nor did they include a hdd or network connection
Makes it a damn sight cheaper than an XBox, particularly when they first came out, wonder if that was the idea?
And for kickers, they placed they power switch on the back of the system
This is golden! The power switch is on the front of the system. It's the one with the universal power switch symbol used on every TV, hifi, video recorder since I was born. Hold it down for a second, et voila!
On topic though, I agree that the whole ATRAC thing is a load of bollocks. The real reason I stopped buying Sony (with the exception of my PS2) is that after my minidisc walkman's power adapter broke and it cost £15 for a new one - even though its exactly the same as a £5 adapter you could buy from any electronics shop, just with a funky plug.
Because it will teach you a valuable lesson about life.
I wouldn't normally jump in except this is modded +4, even though the poster doesn't appear to have read the article.
The article doesn't talk about an actual "file system" (it admits its a bit of a misnomer itself), merely a way of referencing files with "keywords" in database that, according to the author, will make it easier to find your files. The author has written a file browser and file selector dialogs for KDE that use this, then goes on to say that he's planning to make a GNOME implementation soon, but nowhere does anyone start any name calling.
Since this article essentially discusses a GUI and not a file system (which could be implemented at kernel level), it would be a little silly to use the same tool for GNOME and KDE, since they have different look-and-feel. That said, a common library of functions needed by both the GNOME and KDE versions would obviously be sensible, and would speed up porting to other desktops.
Furthermore, this idea claims to work on top of existing heirarchical file systems (removing the idea of a hierarchical FS completely would involve a major restructuring of the whole operating system and everything that works on it), so just saying that it should use reiser 4, I suppose because its just l33t, is a little redundant. This should work on top of just about any FS, ext2, reiser, or even an NFS mount.
After 3 decades "on the job" as well, I thought he was like 12 or something.
Y'know, British folks are paying for the BBC website through our (all-but-) mandatory TV license fee, I don't really see why this should be opened up to people in other countries.
If you want TV without ads, move to the UK and pay your £116 (about $180 I guess) a year for it, otherwise stick with the service you get in the US, and don't expect the 60 million folks in the UK to pay for a service for 300 million folks in the US.
Put a piece of raw meat in your microwave. Set it for 15 minutes. Look at it when the 15 minutes are up and you can answer your own question.
Yeah, do it on "defrost" and it you won't be so scared, and the oven would still be pumping out about 1000 times more power than a wi-fi card.
Someone once told me (with a completely straight face) that a mobile phone generates enough microwaves in an hour to boil an egg. Well, I get a lot of free minutes per month with my phone that I don't normally use, so we put the phone right next to an egg and rang my house for an hour. Guess what, it didn't boil.
David Blunkett. British politician, now in charge of Homeland Security for the U.K. I'm sure that in spirit it would be translated to the "John Ashcroft Lifetime Award" for U.Sians, but the position Blunkett holds is probably more akin to Tom Ridge's.
David Blunkett isn't quite John Ashcroft's opposite number (he's Home Secretary, as opposed to Attorney General). However, he does sometimes seem to think he's a judge.
The reason Blunkett is recognised by this award is that he's trying to introduce a compulsory ID card scheme in the UK, which isn't very popular. He's also full of other gaffes, like he forcibly sacked the head of a police force because two girls were killed "on his watch" as it were. Even though the police force and the father of one of the girls opposed him.
"The material the wall is made out of has a marked impact on the permeability of EM waves." Not to nitpick, but I believe you mean permittivity.
Not to be a smartass, but EM waves don't have permeability or permittivity, those two things are properties of materials, not waves. They do affect the waves though, as changes in wave impedance (which is dependant on wave frequency and material permeability, permittivity and conductance), may cause reflections - this is precisely the phenomenon that radar works off.
Normally a wave that reflects off people you would also expect to reflect off walls, unless I'm very much mistaken, so using radar to see people through brick walls involves being pretty damn clever.
I would expect the guys who designed this thing know a lot more than I, and a lot lot more than the grandparent, about EM waves, so they probably got a solution.
As the article explains, the deciding whats appropriate business is done by humans, not a machine algorith.
Not sure what you mean by false positive rate = false negative rate. Is that supposed to be a bad thing? If they were both 0, it would surely be a perfect filter.
Anyway, this is not "the man" stopping you get at your pr0n. If you want the sex, don't buy this kind of dvd player. Don't accuse parents of being lazy just because they can't accompany their children 100% of the time. Many parents have to work. How are they supposed to check what their kids are doing on the school holidays? This is just getting some help with looking after the kids. Much cheaper than sending them to a day centre and much less restrictive on the kids.
I'm used to referring to the X system as "X Windows". Why doesn't Microsoft go after this name? Is it older than Microsoft Windows, or is it just that no one uses it commercially? Also, the are a lot of programs that claim to be "Window Managers" (e.g. twm, fvwm), which in combination with X, have basically the same functionality as MS Windows.
So either all these programs are also breaking Microsofts trademark, or that trademark is invalid (since it implies that "window" is a pretty generic word referring to the type of interface used by all the aforementioned systems).
Do you mean "lying journalists" or "one lying journalist and a dodgy editor, who have both been sacked"?
This story is also being carried by the Associated Press and you can see it has been used by a number of media outlets.
SVG has animation capabilities, but being a replacement for Flash isn't really the point.
The most useful aspect I can see is it will allow web clients to zoom in and out of images to their hearts' content. This means that when you think the text on a web page is too small, you can use the zoom in function and instead of just getting massive writing and tiny images, you would get nice big images as well so you can read the text on the image-based navigation bar.