Yes they do force you to upgrade firmware. Certian games that Sony released have a mandatory firmware update within them. Thus, if you want to play the game, the game will force you to update firmware. I won't be surprised if they later make UMD movies that also make you update firmware.
The XBOX is a prime example of that business model. They release hardware at a loss, but get it all back in licenscing and software costs. However, if you buy an XBOX, shouldn't you have to right to happily open it up and install Linux? Thats basic consumer rights. If I buy something, I should be able to do whatever I want with it.
Once again. This is an over example of Sony trying to control their customers. I am a firm believer of paying for content. If I buy a PSP, why should the company control if I happily void my warranty and install homebrewed software? They shouldn't. Its stupid. This type of control only hurts legitimate customers because all of the devious customers will easily find ways around this. A prime example is EA's system of not playing their games if they find any virtual drives. Well guess what? The legitimate customers all had to unmount whatever data they had on their virtual drives, or they had to download a crack that allowed the bypass. This much control over any system is not good. Maybe one company will wake up and smell the silicon, until then, keep hacking those systems for more functionality!
Waiting hours in line to get a glimpse of Miyamoto is pretty high on the almighty scales of geekiness. However, Miyamoto has done so much for Nintendo. Speaking of Miyamoto, the next Zelda game is sure to be fantastic. Miyamoto wasn't pleased with Windwaker. He made several negative comments regarding that. However, he said in a recent press release that the new Zelda game made up for Windwaker.
I don't know about you guys, but I'm really excited about the new Zelda game. More excited about the Revolution.
This is the only official Google release. Its really not that big of a deal when there are several other 3rd party Firefox extentions that add the same functionality. The only thing it does different, is add the Google suggest which I have found annoying to begin with. However, it is still a big win for Google as they have a bunch of happy Firefox users. If those happy Firefox users also happen to be stockholders, well... you get the picture.
Apparently Stallman only says GNU Linux. I think Leo Laporte invited him to be on TWiT podcast. He insisted that everyone only say GNU/Linux or he wouldn't come. I believe after that requirement, the TWiT crew cancelled their invitation.
Stallman also made of fool of himself on Leo's old show, "The Screen Savers" on TechTV before it was raped by G4. Apparently, Stallman forced everyone to say GNU/Linux, so Leo got his revenge by having Stallman sing the Free Software Foundation ditty. Although Stallman didn't see the humor in it, the viewers sure did.
I think what he meant to say, is that it will be the beginning of the end of features.
When the PS2 and XBOX were first announced, they were supposed to be loaded with features. One by one they were dropped.
The author means that while the PS3 and XBOX 360 are claimed to be chock full of features. They will be dropped one by one until only the most essential remain.
I can personally relate to this. While in AP Statistics, we practiced our mad stat skillz on the real world. We were encouraged to bring in newspaper clippings of studies and experiments and see if they were statistically sound. Most weren't. The most common form of bias in those studies were known as negative response. In this form of bias, only people with negative, strong feelings reply to the study question.
I am willing to bet that the CNN study is correct in it's assumption that most studies are incorrect.
I disagree with the statement that a linear regression should be done. If you look at most of the data, the data is very fluctuating constantly. A linear regression line would yield little data.
Statistically, the r-value and the r^2 value would be so low that any data predictions would be useless.
These graphs concecptualized the same way that the stock-market graphs are. Basically, you can't predict what happens to jobs based on previous analysis, but rather you predict jobs based on future anticipation.
Hypothetically, there might be a huge demand for java programmers right now. If you ran that data into a linear regression on any type of regression, the line would point straight up. However, what if it was already anticipated that a new more powerful programming language would be released in the following months?
None those graphs would be of any use.
However, I do agree, this project could become very sophisticated. Not in predicting jobs, but as an indicator of the strength of the IT sector.
Is that it does not offer predictions on future jobs. The stock market has software logging the performance of thousands of different stocks over several year periods. However, that gives no insight to how the stock WILL perform.
This is the exact same situation, this software logs the jobs available, but gives no insight to future availablity. This type of software should only be used as a rough picture of how the sector is performing now and not how it will perform 3 months from now.
I would hate for somebody to spend a month learning e-commerece and find all of a sudden, the availability of the job is on a downward spiral.
Ah.... but China isn't industrialized now is it... and I believe I answered the question about Russia in the post already. Last time I checked, China is still a third world country.
The whole thing with the U.S. not signing the Kyoto treaty is very simple. The European countries simply cannot match our economic output. Of the industrialized countries, we have the cheapest labor force. Because of their lack of a cheap labor force (in relation to the US) and restricted space, it is not even feasible to produce goods that damage the small living space they have. This drives up costs. In order to remain competitive on the Global Market, they must get the big producers on the same playing ground. Of course they want the U.S. to sign, this put's our nation on the same productivity terms of theirs. This drives up our production costs and allows European goods to compete with American made goods. Now to the question of Russia. Why wouldn't they sign? Russia cannot compete with America anymore on the production scale. They cannot compete with China on the manufacturing scale (China manufactures the things we produce). Thus, caught in the middle, it is better for Russia to align with the European countries attempting to get America on the same terms.
Moreso, joining the Kyoto treaty would cost America 5 MILLION jobs. Thats by the DEMOCRATIC estimate (the tree huggers). Would you join a treaty if it meant your job?
I am Chinese. Every year I go back to China, I pick up GBA Games for 2 Dollars American. It's not the fact that the Chinese government doesn't do anything. It's more of the fact that intellectual property rights are not developed in China. Also, many Chinese people have a mindset that the American companies are exploiting Chinese resources and manpower so what the workers make rightly belong to them anyways. So many DVD's and GBA games are pirated under that circumstance. Fighting piracy isn't anything new, but it might take longer than previously thought to win this battle in developing third world countries such as China. The way to win this battle, is to make sure these developing countries have a means of passing and enforcing intellectual property rights.
This is the truth about capitalism. If employees are willing to work under such coniditions... then so be it. Until they either unionize or the practice falls under public eyes.... nothing will be changed.
We, as an open source community need to stop squaballing about the inclusion of GNOME or KDE. Truth is, average computer user doesn't know how to use "make install DESTDIR=~/pkg" they need their hand held. As a open source community we need to make software simpler to ultimately achieve the goal of converting more people to Linux. This must be done without sacrificing usability. This way people of all skillsets from the average Joe to SysAdmins and effectively utilize Linux, something XP hasn't done yet. If we can beat the enemy to this point, then we win a major battle. As for KDE or GNOME, I think both are very good. I'm more partial toward KDE myself (being a big SUSE fan) but I can easily use GNOME myself. Please do note that Pat hasn't made a decision, if he does, please remember that he will be thinking about an open-source commmandment... "OPTIONS ARE ALWAYS GOOD!!!" until then, we'll have to sit back and watch.
Why are people so fascinated with D&D? I really don't get it. There is a recent Wired article about how D&D is almost an alter ego (except they were referring to EverQuest). Not to be mean or abusive, but could it be that people with low self esteem or come from broken families play D&D (most D&D players, note MOST... never said ALL)? I have read several reports that hardcore RPG games really do have a influence on a person's life. The character they are influences the person they are. Often giving them higher self-esteem. Maybe D&D isn't that bad after all.
Have you read the Hacker's Manifesto??? I personally have it stuck to my locker at high school. I quote The Mentor "We make use of a service already existing without paying
for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn't run by profiteering gluttons, and
you call us criminals. We explore... and you call us criminals." That isn't cracking... it was the birth of the internet. That is hacking. However, no matter what your definition is... Wozniak was a fantastic hacker. This kid is also. He wrote a worm that was very weak, but very well coded.
Slashdot Mirror
Headlines of the future: "Koreans Create Robot to play Starcraft! White People Shudder in Fear!"
What... WEP encryption? Ahh... I understand... oxymorons for geeks. If that is what it is... I could Ace the AP English exam.
The Iranian hackers should first learn English. I was banging my head on the table reading that grammatically incorrect junk.
Yes they do force you to upgrade firmware. Certian games that Sony released have a mandatory firmware update within them. Thus, if you want to play the game, the game will force you to update firmware. I won't be surprised if they later make UMD movies that also make you update firmware.
The XBOX is a prime example of that business model. They release hardware at a loss, but get it all back in licenscing and software costs. However, if you buy an XBOX, shouldn't you have to right to happily open it up and install Linux? Thats basic consumer rights. If I buy something, I should be able to do whatever I want with it.
Once again. This is an over example of Sony trying to control their customers. I am a firm believer of paying for content. If I buy a PSP, why should the company control if I happily void my warranty and install homebrewed software? They shouldn't. Its stupid. This type of control only hurts legitimate customers because all of the devious customers will easily find ways around this. A prime example is EA's system of not playing their games if they find any virtual drives. Well guess what? The legitimate customers all had to unmount whatever data they had on their virtual drives, or they had to download a crack that allowed the bypass. This much control over any system is not good. Maybe one company will wake up and smell the silicon, until then, keep hacking those systems for more functionality!
Waiting hours in line to get a glimpse of Miyamoto is pretty high on the almighty scales of geekiness. However, Miyamoto has done so much for Nintendo. Speaking of Miyamoto, the next Zelda game is sure to be fantastic. Miyamoto wasn't pleased with Windwaker. He made several negative comments regarding that. However, he said in a recent press release that the new Zelda game made up for Windwaker. I don't know about you guys, but I'm really excited about the new Zelda game. More excited about the Revolution.
This is the only official Google release. Its really not that big of a deal when there are several other 3rd party Firefox extentions that add the same functionality. The only thing it does different, is add the Google suggest which I have found annoying to begin with. However, it is still a big win for Google as they have a bunch of happy Firefox users. If those happy Firefox users also happen to be stockholders, well... you get the picture.
Apparently Stallman only says GNU Linux. I think Leo Laporte invited him to be on TWiT podcast. He insisted that everyone only say GNU/Linux or he wouldn't come. I believe after that requirement, the TWiT crew cancelled their invitation.
Stallman also made of fool of himself on Leo's old show, "The Screen Savers" on TechTV before it was raped by G4. Apparently, Stallman forced everyone to say GNU/Linux, so Leo got his revenge by having Stallman sing the Free Software Foundation ditty. Although Stallman didn't see the humor in it, the viewers sure did.
This is ironic that it is a BBC article because BBC is blocked by my friendly Great Firewall of China.
I think what he meant to say, is that it will be the beginning of the end of features. When the PS2 and XBOX were first announced, they were supposed to be loaded with features. One by one they were dropped. The author means that while the PS3 and XBOX 360 are claimed to be chock full of features. They will be dropped one by one until only the most essential remain.
I can personally relate to this. While in AP Statistics, we practiced our mad stat skillz on the real world. We were encouraged to bring in newspaper clippings of studies and experiments and see if they were statistically sound. Most weren't. The most common form of bias in those studies were known as negative response. In this form of bias, only people with negative, strong feelings reply to the study question.
I am willing to bet that the CNN study is correct in it's assumption that most studies are incorrect.
I disagree with the statement that a linear regression should be done. If you look at most of the data, the data is very fluctuating constantly. A linear regression line would yield little data. Statistically, the r-value and the r^2 value would be so low that any data predictions would be useless. These graphs concecptualized the same way that the stock-market graphs are. Basically, you can't predict what happens to jobs based on previous analysis, but rather you predict jobs based on future anticipation. Hypothetically, there might be a huge demand for java programmers right now. If you ran that data into a linear regression on any type of regression, the line would point straight up. However, what if it was already anticipated that a new more powerful programming language would be released in the following months? None those graphs would be of any use. However, I do agree, this project could become very sophisticated. Not in predicting jobs, but as an indicator of the strength of the IT sector.
Is that it does not offer predictions on future jobs. The stock market has software logging the performance of thousands of different stocks over several year periods. However, that gives no insight to how the stock WILL perform.
This is the exact same situation, this software logs the jobs available, but gives no insight to future availablity. This type of software should only be used as a rough picture of how the sector is performing now and not how it will perform 3 months from now.
I would hate for somebody to spend a month learning e-commerece and find all of a sudden, the availability of the job is on a downward spiral.
I can pirate everything listed above from the net for free so that perfectly qualifies as "on the net for free."
"On the net for free"
Does pirating count? If so, then I haven't paid for:
My version of Windows XP, MS Office Pro, and MS Encarta.
Ah.... but China isn't industrialized now is it... and I believe I answered the question about Russia in the post already. Last time I checked, China is still a third world country.
It's like Dexter's Laboratory on Cartoon Network. Anyone whos seen the show knows what I'm talking about.
The whole thing with the U.S. not signing the Kyoto treaty is very simple. The European countries simply cannot match our economic output. Of the industrialized countries, we have the cheapest labor force. Because of their lack of a cheap labor force (in relation to the US) and restricted space, it is not even feasible to produce goods that damage the small living space they have. This drives up costs. In order to remain competitive on the Global Market, they must get the big producers on the same playing ground. Of course they want the U.S. to sign, this put's our nation on the same productivity terms of theirs. This drives up our production costs and allows European goods to compete with American made goods. Now to the question of Russia. Why wouldn't they sign? Russia cannot compete with America anymore on the production scale. They cannot compete with China on the manufacturing scale (China manufactures the things we produce). Thus, caught in the middle, it is better for Russia to align with the European countries attempting to get America on the same terms. Moreso, joining the Kyoto treaty would cost America 5 MILLION jobs. Thats by the DEMOCRATIC estimate (the tree huggers). Would you join a treaty if it meant your job?
I am Chinese. Every year I go back to China, I pick up GBA Games for 2 Dollars American. It's not the fact that the Chinese government doesn't do anything. It's more of the fact that intellectual property rights are not developed in China. Also, many Chinese people have a mindset that the American companies are exploiting Chinese resources and manpower so what the workers make rightly belong to them anyways. So many DVD's and GBA games are pirated under that circumstance. Fighting piracy isn't anything new, but it might take longer than previously thought to win this battle in developing third world countries such as China. The way to win this battle, is to make sure these developing countries have a means of passing and enforcing intellectual property rights.
This is the truth about capitalism. If employees are willing to work under such coniditions... then so be it. Until they either unionize or the practice falls under public eyes.... nothing will be changed.
We, as an open source community need to stop squaballing about the inclusion of GNOME or KDE. Truth is, average computer user doesn't know how to use "make install DESTDIR=~/pkg" they need their hand held. As a open source community we need to make software simpler to ultimately achieve the goal of converting more people to Linux. This must be done without sacrificing usability. This way people of all skillsets from the average Joe to SysAdmins and effectively utilize Linux, something XP hasn't done yet. If we can beat the enemy to this point, then we win a major battle. As for KDE or GNOME, I think both are very good. I'm more partial toward KDE myself (being a big SUSE fan) but I can easily use GNOME myself. Please do note that Pat hasn't made a decision, if he does, please remember that he will be thinking about an open-source commmandment... "OPTIONS ARE ALWAYS GOOD!!!" until then, we'll have to sit back and watch.
Why are people so fascinated with D&D? I really don't get it. There is a recent Wired article about how D&D is almost an alter ego (except they were referring to EverQuest). Not to be mean or abusive, but could it be that people with low self esteem or come from broken families play D&D (most D&D players, note MOST... never said ALL)? I have read several reports that hardcore RPG games really do have a influence on a person's life. The character they are influences the person they are. Often giving them higher self-esteem. Maybe D&D isn't that bad after all.
You are a CS Major? What do you know... so I am I. I usually can own pretty good on cs_assault on !!!CT!!! how bout you. ROFL...
Have you read the Hacker's Manifesto??? I personally have it stuck to my locker at high school. I quote The Mentor "We make use of a service already existing without paying for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn't run by profiteering gluttons, and you call us criminals. We explore... and you call us criminals." That isn't cracking... it was the birth of the internet. That is hacking. However, no matter what your definition is... Wozniak was a fantastic hacker. This kid is also. He wrote a worm that was very weak, but very well coded.