That's maybe because Sony is a money making corporation. That means... *gasp* They want to make money! Oh my god! A consumer electronics company wanting to make MONEY?! Wow... Who would have thought...
Seriously, though, at first, Sony is going to want to make money off the stream of teenagers that come to download Napoleon Dynamite and movies such as Passion of the Christ for the Christian viewers. Sony will probably (hopefully) add more movies later.
They don't HAVE to be expensive... YOu can get even better Memory Stick Duos from people like Sandisk, like this guy (http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=2 61293) did. Sony is inherently going to expensive because they're Sony and they like to drive up the price on their own stuff other than their consoles.
And I didn't really like it. When Linux still worked on my computer (driver issues drove me insane and eventually just didn't support my computer), I loved Evolution. I'm just going to wait until Evolution gets ported to Windows. Sunbird just seems less usable than the rest.
You guys are thinking of the wrong doped. "Doped" in electronics means treated with a special dopant, which does NOT get you high. Instead, the dopant alters its conductive properties.
Not quite. Remember that 500 GB will not REALLY be 500 GB, being that drive manucaturers don't cound bytes correctly. Plus, 500 full GB plus 500 full GB does not equal 1 TB. 1 TB is still 1024 GB, so you'd need 24 more GB.
Since MS is so closely "tied" to the spyware industry, they'll know EVERYTHING about the spyware! Hell, they make IE, they've gotta know SOMETHING about spyware, being that lots of their employees run spyware scans every day on their work computers.
When I was about 4 (14 now), my grandpa was in a computer club. He had numerous different computers, from 20 years old to a month old at a time. I played with the C64 and got interested in the way it worked after I played some games on it. After that, computers just "clicked" with me. I went from playing games on the computers to messing with the insides of them. I just thought of them as INCREDIBLY interesting things.
The direct connection to the net would pose some problems in schoools, where the richer kids would have that acess to Google and basically get answers subconsciously. Would this be fair? No. It would be just like the cell phone text messaging situation today.
And not the way you may be thinking. There could be a possibility that that very "My computer is slow, I need a new one" attitude is fueling the computer market, and therefore development. Spyware makes people buy computers, so a lot of companies aren't doing a thing to stop it... Especially companies like HP and Dell, where computers are packed with so much crap that you can't distinguish between programs the parent company put on there or the spyware.
I'm surprised we didn't/. the weather service. That would have been great. "Now let's look at the weather... Wait... Where is it? Crap, it seems that geeky news site is at it again."
I'm not saying spammers are Nazis, just that we should melt their faces.
We all know that spammers are REALLY Neo-Nazis whose leader, Coyb- Err, Hitler Mark II is going to take over the universe.
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Or maybe I had a little too much bawls.
For one, to those people commenting about how some people say that they don't want to use SP2... It isn't their fault that they don't want to. When I installed SP2 on my computer, that was using a legal copy of Windows XP, my computer BSODed and the boot sector was screwed over. This was a mistake on the count of Microsoft that deleted a number of documents that I thought were in a stable, safe place. I now make a backup of all my data to an external hard drive every other day to make sure this doesn't happen.
Another comment I would like to make is for the people that are saying that ads are the only sources of revenue that websites have and we should be forced to read them and not block them. Yes, I agree that some websites need ads for money to run the site, but some ads are downright obnoxious. There are, however, sites that live off of things such as Google text only ads. www.neowin.net is an example, where you see at the top of the page only a simple text ad, or once in a while a picture ad. They are a fairly large website, and yet they support themselves by only a text ad. Interesting, isn't it? People rave about how websites absolutely have to have tons of ads to live, and yet Neowin has been living for a good 5 years now on text ads...
HUGE privacy issue. There is no telling what can be done with these devices. Plus, GPS unit's don't JUST measure distance traveled. Most also track where you are at all times.
I think some form of RAID is the best backup solution. Sure, it isn't cheap, but when you're constantly backing something up, there's almost a guarantee that you won't lose data. The worst case scenario would be when one or both of your drives fails. If that happened, you could still get some data recovery. And by RAID I don't mean the striping of a RAID 0 solution. I mean something that actually has redundancy.
It'd make the internet look like a Tom's Hardware review...
*Scanning a page with pointer... Moves pointer over word that just happens to be "thong"*
Window pops up saying... "Thong: Type of underwear, usually stringlike, that gives you a MAJOR wedgie in all the wrong (or right) places. *mini link*BUY THONGS NOW CONDOM SEX SEXY BONDAGE $30.00"
Things like those would be all over the page.
That monitor is actually a BenQ monitor with Dell's name on it. It's a great monitor, and has a 16ms response time, so it shouldn't lag at all in normal use. You should try video drivers or maybe even the mouse itself. There simply is no reason a good monitor such as that one (congratulations on your purchase. That's the best cost to performance monitor out right now.) should show lag in a normal situation. I have used a 25ms LCD, and it doesn't lag in normal use. Call Dell after if driver's don't work.
You never REALLY know what's in those things, do you? *gets whispered to*
Oh, not that kind of SPAM?
Pardon me...
On topic, the whole cell phone text message thing could become a huge problem. Since most cell phone carriers charge 10 cents a message (recieved, too), you can bet that would add up if mass spam gets directed to phones. The only way the're really gonna tackle this is by throwing the good old mystery meat at spammers... Or they could just pass legislation and hunt them down.
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That's maybe because Sony is a money making corporation. That means... *gasp* They want to make money! Oh my god! A consumer electronics company wanting to make MONEY?! Wow... Who would have thought... Seriously, though, at first, Sony is going to want to make money off the stream of teenagers that come to download Napoleon Dynamite and movies such as Passion of the Christ for the Christian viewers. Sony will probably (hopefully) add more movies later.
They don't HAVE to be expensive... YOu can get even better Memory Stick Duos from people like Sandisk, like this guy (http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=2 61293) did. Sony is inherently going to expensive because they're Sony and they like to drive up the price on their own stuff other than their consoles.
Hmm... Maybe THAT'S why IE's interface is so greyish white...
And I didn't really like it. When Linux still worked on my computer (driver issues drove me insane and eventually just didn't support my computer), I loved Evolution. I'm just going to wait until Evolution gets ported to Windows. Sunbird just seems less usable than the rest.
Is RFID needed in EVERYTHING? RFID this, RFID that... Next thing we know, an RFID tagged dildo will go on /. and they'll be describing how it works.
Now I have to get a 65 bit chip. Fuck you AMD, you stupid money mongers.
You guys are thinking of the wrong doped. "Doped" in electronics means treated with a special dopant, which does NOT get you high. Instead, the dopant alters its conductive properties.
Not quite. Remember that 500 GB will not REALLY be 500 GB, being that drive manucaturers don't cound bytes correctly. Plus, 500 full GB plus 500 full GB does not equal 1 TB. 1 TB is still 1024 GB, so you'd need 24 more GB.
Since MS is so closely "tied" to the spyware industry, they'll know EVERYTHING about the spyware! Hell, they make IE, they've gotta know SOMETHING about spyware, being that lots of their employees run spyware scans every day on their work computers.
When I was about 4 (14 now), my grandpa was in a computer club. He had numerous different computers, from 20 years old to a month old at a time. I played with the C64 and got interested in the way it worked after I played some games on it. After that, computers just "clicked" with me. I went from playing games on the computers to messing with the insides of them. I just thought of them as INCREDIBLY interesting things.
The direct connection to the net would pose some problems in schoools, where the richer kids would have that acess to Google and basically get answers subconsciously. Would this be fair? No. It would be just like the cell phone text messaging situation today.
And not the way you may be thinking. There could be a possibility that that very "My computer is slow, I need a new one" attitude is fueling the computer market, and therefore development. Spyware makes people buy computers, so a lot of companies aren't doing a thing to stop it... Especially companies like HP and Dell, where computers are packed with so much crap that you can't distinguish between programs the parent company put on there or the spyware.
I'm surprised we didn't /. the weather service. That would have been great. "Now let's look at the weather... Wait... Where is it? Crap, it seems that geeky news site is at it again."
I'm not saying spammers are Nazis, just that we should melt their faces. We all know that spammers are REALLY Neo-Nazis whose leader, Coyb- Err, Hitler Mark II is going to take over the universe. . . . Or maybe I had a little too much bawls.
And an account suspension? As if server rapage wasn't enough!
For one, to those people commenting about how some people say that they don't want to use SP2... It isn't their fault that they don't want to. When I installed SP2 on my computer, that was using a legal copy of Windows XP, my computer BSODed and the boot sector was screwed over. This was a mistake on the count of Microsoft that deleted a number of documents that I thought were in a stable, safe place. I now make a backup of all my data to an external hard drive every other day to make sure this doesn't happen. Another comment I would like to make is for the people that are saying that ads are the only sources of revenue that websites have and we should be forced to read them and not block them. Yes, I agree that some websites need ads for money to run the site, but some ads are downright obnoxious. There are, however, sites that live off of things such as Google text only ads. www.neowin.net is an example, where you see at the top of the page only a simple text ad, or once in a while a picture ad. They are a fairly large website, and yet they support themselves by only a text ad. Interesting, isn't it? People rave about how websites absolutely have to have tons of ads to live, and yet Neowin has been living for a good 5 years now on text ads...
HUGE privacy issue. There is no telling what can be done with these devices. Plus, GPS unit's don't JUST measure distance traveled. Most also track where you are at all times.
*walking along street* Hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm (humming a tune)... Wha? *looks up* AUUGGGHHHH!!! MY EEEEEEYEEEEESSSSS!!!
I think some form of RAID is the best backup solution. Sure, it isn't cheap, but when you're constantly backing something up, there's almost a guarantee that you won't lose data. The worst case scenario would be when one or both of your drives fails. If that happened, you could still get some data recovery. And by RAID I don't mean the striping of a RAID 0 solution. I mean something that actually has redundancy.
It'd make the internet look like a Tom's Hardware review... *Scanning a page with pointer... Moves pointer over word that just happens to be "thong"* Window pops up saying... "Thong: Type of underwear, usually stringlike, that gives you a MAJOR wedgie in all the wrong (or right) places. *mini link*BUY THONGS NOW CONDOM SEX SEXY BONDAGE $30.00" Things like those would be all over the page.
That monitor is actually a BenQ monitor with Dell's name on it. It's a great monitor, and has a 16ms response time, so it shouldn't lag at all in normal use. You should try video drivers or maybe even the mouse itself. There simply is no reason a good monitor such as that one (congratulations on your purchase. That's the best cost to performance monitor out right now.) should show lag in a normal situation. I have used a 25ms LCD, and it doesn't lag in normal use. Call Dell after if driver's don't work.
Having a firewall required would hinder gaming efforts by making it harder to connect to servers.
I just write mail back. It's rather funny when you get a reply from the spammer. That isn't automated.
You never REALLY know what's in those things, do you? *gets whispered to* Oh, not that kind of SPAM? Pardon me... On topic, the whole cell phone text message thing could become a huge problem. Since most cell phone carriers charge 10 cents a message (recieved, too), you can bet that would add up if mass spam gets directed to phones. The only way the're really gonna tackle this is by throwing the good old mystery meat at spammers... Or they could just pass legislation and hunt them down.