So lets see what information Google will have about us now... They have what we search for (our interests), our emails (our jobs/friends interests), our newsgroup posts, they can probably work out where we live roughly from google maps usage, and soon they will even know what stuff we're buying... Excuse me if I'm getting a little paranoid here!
that procedral gaming was the future. Imagine if GTA generated it's own cities for example, and countryside inbetween etc. it would be really cool. This sort of thing would really open up the exploration aspect in games.
The amount of Tom's Hardware articles has been rediculous lately. Does noone check the news page of toms site? Why do we have to mirror it on/.?
If Tom's page is so important to the slashdot crowd then twice a year do a summery of "The best Tom's Hardware Articles" or something along those lines. Quite frankly it seems to me Slashdot is getting paid to keep metioning this place, or the editors are just obsessing over Tom's hardware way too much.
"Internet piracy has hurt the whole music community in Germany, with legitimate sales falling by a third in just five years."
Last I heard I thought record sales were going up? Unless I'm much mistaken.
Also one thing I find intruiging is the services that get targetted, it's been Bearshare, Kazaa and now eDonkey. What about Bittorrent? Noone seems to be going for that one yet... Is there something that makes it harder?
Guess this shows that Microsoft were right about the Vista specs for 2008 they released ages ago, seems we may very well have 1TB storage in just-below-top-spec PC's. Just depends how soon it will be till consumers feel the urge to upgrade to that amount of space.
Those sorts of responces also go along with the "Edit the code yourself!" type ones too, which I can kinda understand why they're saying it, but do they really want the only people who use the software to be coders? Though I suppose technically they don't mind if nobody uses it...
I suppose thats what this whole thing comes down to, should people expect help for free software? I mean the authors of open source software usually write it for themselves rather than others, releasing it so others can help contribute, but at the same time so others can use it. The last part seems to be where the problems begin, people have different ideas of support for open source software.
This is definatly a problem within the linux "scene". For example, a friend of mine went to #linux on afternet, wanting help setting up a telnet server. The responces were basically "I'm not going to help you beacuse telnet is outdated and insecure", despite my friend repeatedly insisting that he wanted telnet, not SSH. Elitism and hoarding the knowledge seems to be prevalent.
Why in gods name isn't there a lunar orbiter satellite? Surely it would cost too much to set one up, and we could get some really hi-res images of the surface, I mean we really should have better quality ones by now.
Till the DRM gets cracked, it's bound to happen at some point, since apple's AAC DRM and the WMA v2 DRM (WMV as well?) have both had decryptors written.
As much as I like Linux, this article isn't that funny, bending the truth as much as microsoft has bent it the other way. If I want to read a funny jokey biased article I'll head over to Humorix. Check this one out http://humorix.org/articles/2005/05/openbsd/
Instead of being on some Linux conquest that one is just there for laughs:)
Gah yeah I hate that import tax, I've had it on numourous items until I got smart to it *cough* But it feels like there is no escaping rip-off britain sometimes.
Hmm, Wifi is pretty powerful transmission though, and I know Mobile phone masts have been prooven to weaken the blood-brain barrier. What research has actually been done into the possible health risks?
Well, you have to remember emulation itself is perfectly legal. It's just when you download ROMs that you don't own in cart form that you're breaking copyright laws. Then again I wonder if the "download ok - share not ok" thing applies to roms on the net as well.
Very true. You also have to remember a lot of our current technology is due to our population. If you think how many industries and people were involved in creating that computer on your desk, it really is mind boggling. Even if you know how to build a computer and all the equipment needed to produce the components, without the population it's useless. For a start who'd get the oil and refine it and then finally turn it into plastic, even the first steps require a lot of people.
MSN Messenger is pretty unreliable with cams in my experiance, hopefully this breakthrough will allow more Win32 MSN clients as well as Linux ones. I wonder how long it will be till aMSN adds webcam support now...
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So lets see what information Google will have about us now... They have what we search for (our interests), our emails (our jobs/friends interests), our newsgroup posts, they can probably work out where we live roughly from google maps usage, and soon they will even know what stuff we're buying... Excuse me if I'm getting a little paranoid here!
Well said!
that procedral gaming was the future. Imagine if GTA generated it's own cities for example, and countryside inbetween etc. it would be really cool. This sort of thing would really open up the exploration aspect in games.
The amount of Tom's Hardware articles has been rediculous lately. Does noone check the news page of toms site? Why do we have to mirror it on /.?
If Tom's page is so important to the slashdot crowd then twice a year do a summery of "The best Tom's Hardware Articles" or something along those lines. Quite frankly it seems to me Slashdot is getting paid to keep metioning this place, or the editors are just obsessing over Tom's hardware way too much.
I may be dating myself
Don't worry, I think the majority of the slashdot crowd date themselves.
"Internet piracy has hurt the whole music community in Germany, with legitimate sales falling by a third in just five years."
Last I heard I thought record sales were going up? Unless I'm much mistaken.
Also one thing I find intruiging is the services that get targetted, it's been Bearshare, Kazaa and now eDonkey. What about Bittorrent? Noone seems to be going for that one yet... Is there something that makes it harder?
Guess this shows that Microsoft were right about the Vista specs for 2008 they released ages ago, seems we may very well have 1TB storage in just-below-top-spec PC's. Just depends how soon it will be till consumers feel the urge to upgrade to that amount of space.
Those sorts of responces also go along with the "Edit the code yourself!" type ones too, which I can kinda understand why they're saying it, but do they really want the only people who use the software to be coders? Though I suppose technically they don't mind if nobody uses it...
I suppose thats what this whole thing comes down to, should people expect help for free software? I mean the authors of open source software usually write it for themselves rather than others, releasing it so others can help contribute, but at the same time so others can use it. The last part seems to be where the problems begin, people have different ideas of support for open source software.
This is definatly a problem within the linux "scene". For example, a friend of mine went to #linux on afternet, wanting help setting up a telnet server. The responces were basically "I'm not going to help you beacuse telnet is outdated and insecure", despite my friend repeatedly insisting that he wanted telnet, not SSH. Elitism and hoarding the knowledge seems to be prevalent.
At least linuxquestions.org is still friendly.
Why in gods name isn't there a lunar orbiter satellite? Surely it would cost too much to set one up, and we could get some really hi-res images of the surface, I mean we really should have better quality ones by now.
Till the DRM gets cracked, it's bound to happen at some point, since apple's AAC DRM and the WMA v2 DRM (WMV as well?) have both had decryptors written.
As much as I like Linux, this article isn't that funny, bending the truth as much as microsoft has bent it the other way. If I want to read a funny jokey biased article I'll head over to Humorix. Check this one out http://humorix.org/articles/2005/05/openbsd/
:)
Instead of being on some Linux conquest that one is just there for laughs
Gah yeah I hate that import tax, I've had it on numourous items until I got smart to it *cough* But it feels like there is no escaping rip-off britain sometimes.
"Don't steal - the goverment hates competition"
Hmm, Wifi is pretty powerful transmission though, and I know Mobile phone masts have been prooven to weaken the blood-brain barrier. What research has actually been done into the possible health risks?
Well, you have to remember emulation itself is perfectly legal. It's just when you download ROMs that you don't own in cart form that you're breaking copyright laws. Then again I wonder if the "download ok - share not ok" thing applies to roms on the net as well.
I can imagine a lot of people who pre-ordered will be annoyed at this, since I imagine they'll be locked into the first-gen models.
Very true. You also have to remember a lot of our current technology is due to our population. If you think how many industries and people were involved in creating that computer on your desk, it really is mind boggling. Even if you know how to build a computer and all the equipment needed to produce the components, without the population it's useless. For a start who'd get the oil and refine it and then finally turn it into plastic, even the first steps require a lot of people.
http://users.aol.com/s6sj7gt/picode.htm
:)
Quite an entertaining read
MSN Messenger is pretty unreliable with cams in my experiance, hopefully this breakthrough will allow more Win32 MSN clients as well as Linux ones. I wonder how long it will be till aMSN adds webcam support now...
I agree. This is why I rip all my CDs to FLAC format. You get true CD quality and also if I break the CD, I've got a 1:1 backup.