This is not news, this is some sort of Digg like `news' post. Please refrain from posting n reason why foo is better then bar posts. I hope slashdot readers agree with me.
I whole-heartedly agree for the following reasons:
1. Lists are dumb because real journalists can form complete thoughts in the form of sentences and paragraphs instead of bullet-pointing single ideas.
2. Said paragraphs would give the news article flow and meaning conveying a complete argument instead of mindlessly listing items.
3. An actual article instead of a list would take more room allowing more intermediate pages of ads to be served up.
4. People tend to grow bored of lists about the fourth item down.
5. I bet you're not even reading this point.
6. Mouse + keyboard is infinitely easier to enter a/. reply with than a console controller and a "visual keyboard".
7. It's all about my C64 games being better than your Apple II games -- PC games are teh win, TFA is arguing on the wrong side of the wrong point to begin with!
So in conclusion and for the points listed above, macaroni definitely needs more cheese as well being dumb to post "news" with no substance and all points just to serve up more ads.
Personally I don't use ring tones for public performances of copyrighted acts. I use them to notify me when someone is calling so I know to answer my phone, a somewhat private action -- unless of course you're assuming that the general public would want to answer my phone as well?
Bandwidth = service, land = product. Your analogy makes as much sense as the fat man claiming residency at a buffet.
If you've been waiting for a flight at a gate at the airport you've seen how people "reserve" space so no one can sit next to them. There are plenty of seats, but if you throw your jacket in the seat to the left, throw your carryon in the seat to the right, you won't have to touch elbows with anyone else (that is, until you hop on the plane and get scrunched in the middle seat for 4 hours). Plenty of seats, yet most people find themselves standing anyway because of the assholes that grab more than their fair share.
As far as bandwidth goes, what is your fair share? Unfortunately, it is not as neatly defined as two seats on either side, but neither is it saturating your DSL line 24/7. The ISP has priced the service for a casual user (some have terms that you are actually using your computer - read closely) and have seperate business offerings for those that use bandwidth. I do agree that the majority of ISPs poorly document the difference or even define what they consider to be casual or residential use, but buying all you can eat doesn't mean you can start stuffing your pockets without being asked to leave.
On this note, I'm strangely amused by those people that yell at someone leaving a bathroom without washing their hands, but themselves do not wash before touching their own junk. When I think of bascarts in stores, grimey airport terminals, shaking hands at a meeting with people you don't know...
Don't we have this whole thing backwards? "Don't touch that, you don't know where it's been!" Yet, I know where it's been more than where my hands have been...
Now I actually have a reason to buy a 360! Being able to loaf on my couch and play great boardgames online without messing with my computer could easily be worth buying a $400 game console and paying monthly connection costs plus the costs of the games.
The sad part is, I'm being completely serious.
Nothing sad about it... Trading money for convenience.
I've tried for years to get a computer working decently for games in my entertainment center, slowly graduating from Svideo to eventually component HD, but always had issues with it being fuzzy, or the fonts were way to small, or too much flicker, or it sounds like my basement is under attack by Aliens from planet Hoover with all the noise the fans make (can't say the X360 is much of an improvement here, but compare that to some of the high-at-the-time nVidia or ATI cards with leaf blowers on them and it actually isn't that bad)
I know others may have caught on to a viable solution quicker with a PC, but I don't think for any less money than I've spent on a console, subscription and games for the X360.
In this page-and-a-half-spread-out-to-69-pages review, I didn't actually see the price listed, though it was listed as one of the cons. What is the price of this device?
I personally am not stirred by this as I have a set of linux servers set up to do the same functionality with much more speed and efficiency, but I can see this as a neat black-box turn-key solution for someone who can't deal with that level of complexity but can deal with a straight-forward UI.
What I'd like to see in a review like this is what throughput can the SAMBA server give among multiple clients, how many connections the bit-torrent client can handle before melting, what types of printers it can serve (Jetdirect, USB, real Centronics, etc)... you know, useful information I can use to make an informed decision.
Alternatively, forcibly convert everyone to Islam. Then we will all be on the same side.
My solution is better than yours, because your solution kills a lot of innocent people, whereas mine shows a respect for life.
Shi'a or Sunni? No matter how thin you slice it there will be a group of people that hate us.
Perhaps I should clarify - there will always be a group of elites opposed to the U.S., not because they hold anything in particular against us, but rather they gain political or other power by fighting us. They will always find a religious cover to stir the fanatics up to help them, much as certain politicians wrap their unconstitutional goals in the US flag to get the "patriots" to pass legislation without blinking.
Religion is just a misdirection to hide their true goals.
Oh please... both companies can still take lessons from Xerox PARC. This link points to a cool idea for a Plays Anywhere technology which could eliminate much of the proprietary format/interface issues.
If this follows the suit of previous MS hardware it should be of good quality and support, but how smart is it to compete against those manufacturers supporting your Plays For Zure standard?
If someone comes up with wireless (WiFi or bluetooth) syncing as well as good sound quality (also meaning it'll support a [DRM-free] lossless codec), I'll be sold, but until then I'll hang onto my 3-year-old iRiver unless it breaks.
And they are clearly Commodore sympathizers, since they parenthetically refer to the TRS-80 as the "Trash-80" for no good reason, without giving the Commode-Door the same treatment.
Since IBM purposefully destroyed evidence, SCO wants a ruling in their favor that it's ok to purposefully manufacture evidence. That would balance things out, right?
<Cyan> shouldn't SCO have access to the same "evidence".. hence their claim to begin with?
So true - SCO has been on a fishing trip from the start.
this country seems to award civil liberties to corporations. The police can't randomly search your house -- does this mean that private citizens can?
I think Joe Bob has my waffle iron under his bed - I don't have any documentable evidence, but I want him to box up and ship the contents of his master bedroom for my inspection. And if by happenstance I find any of my Playboys I'll claim the right to sue him for that as well!
Wouldn't there have to be some sliver of evidence in SCO's possession to get the courts to go along on the expedition?
Because those ads are not necessarily static or even served up by the publication's servers. If the ad consists of a "add_link_to_offsite_advertiser_server_here", anything that was "cleared" could change without notice.
It's rather hard to dynamically change printed copy;)
I plan on using my 360 and potentially PS3 mostly for playing games which should never require content protection for the display. The existing DVD quality sucks (badly) on the 360 so any HD-DVD addon isn't on my short list for the future, similarly I don't see the PS3 holding a candle to a dedicated blu-ray player.
Can you imagine buying a $100,000 sports car and having a regulator that won't let you use half the cylinders in the engine? I don't see why you defend this practice.
There is a quite strong aftermarket tuner industry to address those concerns, unfortunately Big Media has paid off the congresscritters to legislate away any bad analogy that I might have had via DMCA et al.
I seriously doubt any gamer would knowingly give upstream bandwidth when they're trying to play a game that requires low latency. Perhaps if it were P2P only for the duration that you are actually downloading (or until you notice and press A).
Doesn't Blizzard's WoW patching model work similar to this (shares until you hit complete and start the patch process)?
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I whole-heartedly agree for the following reasons:
1. Lists are dumb because real journalists can form complete thoughts in the form of sentences and paragraphs instead of bullet-pointing single ideas.
2. Said paragraphs would give the news article flow and meaning conveying a complete argument instead of mindlessly listing items.
3. An actual article instead of a list would take more room allowing more intermediate pages of ads to be served up.
4. People tend to grow bored of lists about the fourth item down.
5. I bet you're not even reading this point.
6. Mouse + keyboard is infinitely easier to enter a
7. It's all about my C64 games being better than your Apple II games -- PC games are teh win, TFA is arguing on the wrong side of the wrong point to begin with!
So in conclusion and for the points listed above, macaroni definitely needs more cheese as well being dumb to post "news" with no substance and all points just to serve up more ads.
...you mean by checking something against what somebody else had to say on the net about the legality of something?
Personally I don't use ring tones for public performances of copyrighted acts. I use them to notify me when someone is calling so I know to answer my phone, a somewhat private action -- unless of course you're assuming that the general public would want to answer my phone as well?
Bandwidth = service, land = product. Your analogy makes as much sense as the fat man claiming residency at a buffet.
If you've been waiting for a flight at a gate at the airport you've seen how people "reserve" space so no one can sit next to them. There are plenty of seats, but if you throw your jacket in the seat to the left, throw your carryon in the seat to the right, you won't have to touch elbows with anyone else (that is, until you hop on the plane and get scrunched in the middle seat for 4 hours). Plenty of seats, yet most people find themselves standing anyway because of the assholes that grab more than their fair share.
As far as bandwidth goes, what is your fair share? Unfortunately, it is not as neatly defined as two seats on either side, but neither is it saturating your DSL line 24/7. The ISP has priced the service for a casual user (some have terms that you are actually using your computer - read closely) and have seperate business offerings for those that use bandwidth. I do agree that the majority of ISPs poorly document the difference or even define what they consider to be casual or residential use, but buying all you can eat doesn't mean you can start stuffing your pockets without being asked to leave.
On this note, I'm strangely amused by those people that yell at someone leaving a bathroom without washing their hands, but themselves do not wash before touching their own junk. When I think of bascarts in stores, grimey airport terminals, shaking hands at a meeting with people you don't know...
Don't we have this whole thing backwards? "Don't touch that, you don't know where it's been!" Yet, I know where it's been more than where my hands have been...
I've tried for years to get a computer working decently for games in my entertainment center, slowly graduating from Svideo to eventually component HD, but always had issues with it being fuzzy, or the fonts were way to small, or too much flicker, or it sounds like my basement is under attack by Aliens from planet Hoover with all the noise the fans make (can't say the X360 is much of an improvement here, but compare that to some of the high-at-the-time nVidia or ATI cards with leaf blowers on them and it actually isn't that bad)
I know others may have caught on to a viable solution quicker with a PC, but I don't think for any less money than I've spent on a console, subscription and games for the X360.
You happen to bump into anyone from the X-box team in that class?
I personally am not stirred by this as I have a set of linux servers set up to do the same functionality with much more speed and efficiency, but I can see this as a neat black-box turn-key solution for someone who can't deal with that level of complexity but can deal with a straight-forward UI.
What I'd like to see in a review like this is what throughput can the SAMBA server give among multiple clients, how many connections the bit-torrent client can handle before melting, what types of printers it can serve (Jetdirect, USB, real Centronics, etc)... you know, useful information I can use to make an informed decision.
Oh well...
This fact doesn't mean that we have to like it, ergo this discussion.
Perhaps I should clarify - there will always be a group of elites opposed to the U.S., not because they hold anything in particular against us, but rather they gain political or other power by fighting us. They will always find a religious cover to stir the fanatics up to help them, much as certain politicians wrap their unconstitutional goals in the US flag to get the "patriots" to pass legislation without blinking.
Religion is just a misdirection to hide their true goals.
Oh please... both companies can still take lessons from Xerox PARC. This link points to a cool idea for a Plays Anywhere technology which could eliminate much of the proprietary format/interface issues.
If the zound quality is good enough for critical listening and really iz coming to a ztore near me zune, I juzt may get one!
If this follows the suit of previous MS hardware it should be of good quality and support, but how smart is it to compete against those manufacturers supporting your Plays For Zure standard?
If someone comes up with wireless (WiFi or bluetooth) syncing as well as good sound quality (also meaning it'll support a [DRM-free] lossless codec), I'll be sold, but until then I'll hang onto my 3-year-old iRiver unless it breaks.
Since IBM purposefully destroyed evidence, SCO wants a ruling in their favor that it's ok to purposefully manufacture evidence. That would balance things out, right?
this country seems to award civil liberties to corporations. The police can't randomly search your house -- does this mean that private citizens can?
I think Joe Bob has my waffle iron under his bed - I don't have any documentable evidence, but I want him to box up and ship the contents of his master bedroom for my inspection. And if by happenstance I find any of my Playboys I'll claim the right to sue him for that as well!
Wouldn't there have to be some sliver of evidence in SCO's possession to get the courts to go along on the expedition?
No doubt.. I couldn't find a poster-worthy panaromic view of Alex anywhere...
*excitement level drops*
Because those ads are not necessarily static or even served up by the publication's servers. If the ad consists of a "add_link_to_offsite_advertiser_server_here", anything that was "cleared" could change without notice. It's rather hard to dynamically change printed copy ;)
*cough*MCSE*cough*
I plan on using my 360 and potentially PS3 mostly for playing games which should never require content protection for the display. The existing DVD quality sucks (badly) on the 360 so any HD-DVD addon isn't on my short list for the future, similarly I don't see the PS3 holding a candle to a dedicated blu-ray player.
There is a quite strong aftermarket tuner industry to address those concerns, unfortunately Big Media has paid off the congresscritters to legislate away any bad analogy that I might have had via DMCA et al.
Doesn't Blizzard's WoW patching model work similar to this (shares until you hit complete and start the patch process)?
I'm awake... I'd settle for 24,000,001 for an odd number, but not 25,000,000 ;)