For all of the posts about Nintendo going soft, get a 360 or PS3. Seriously the Nintendo has always been the more "family oriented" gaming machine. While they do release some games that might be defined as "hardcore" now adays. It's still pretty much sticking to it's original game plan. With the Wii they added to their model by making it also fun to physically play, and makes it more aesthetically pleasing. I think they're going 100% in the right direction. Going to pick up RE4 for Wii tonight in fact.
They just cater to a different market. From a business point of view it's brilliant. Look who has money? The people who work their asses off so they dont have time to go on 10hour game-a-thons, but do have a little cash and the Wii fits that void. Then look at the PS3, it's catered toward HS/college kids who are probably broke and spend all their time gaming. See the problem? System is 2-3x expensive for a market that has less money to blow.
Just an observation, the reality is probably a lot more complex but that's my watered down perception of it all.
The OLPC concept is good, but seriously I think we have more pressuring issues to deal with. I'm not against the advancement of technology and what the OLPC has done has been good for what it was designed for.
But at the same time I feel like it's a waste of money compared to better causes, like I dont know, FEEDING or MEDICINE for kids.
Granted I grew up poor, and I wish I had a laptop when I was in high school and younger would have been able to kick start my career even earlier. But even then if it came to me having a free laptop, or seeing the kid down the street who eats government peanut butter on bread (no jelly) every day and no medical insurance. I'd gladly give it up to feed him/her for a while.
From a small thinking perspective this project is great, from the big picture it's just diverting funds that could have been better used.
For those about to flame me, Yes we should go to Mars! But we should we get things straight down here first.
I thought the RIAA received all of the money from record and online sales, plus merchandise etc. I was under the impression that old-school radio was actually PAID money to play songs every hour and received free music. Why would online be any different?
If AT&T wants to bitch about frequency licenses, it should be stated that the first few "channels" on the wifi spectrum are actually licensed to HAM operators. Part of the 2.4ghz spectrum is for amateur radio use.
I'm not a troll really, but this really sounds like AT&T is whining. If google can do it, make money, then their business plan is better.
But from AT&T's point of view I can see why they are upset, and they are just trying to protect themselves.
This is really about the same as MS embedding IE to kill off other companies who were solely browser developers (Netscape?).
I think the big different here, and I may stand corrected, is that google isn't doing it as a lost leader to lock someone in, but to better their product. So if that's the case I support it. Only time will tell though as things roll out.
I read this a day or so ago and it's interesting. Ignoring the whole money transaction the partnering is interesting. Intel is interested because they'll have an inside connection to designing their processors to be better adapted toward virtualization. On the flip side VMware will get to better turn their software to the architecture. It's a win-win situation.
My only hope is that Intel doesn't skew it's architecture so much that it becomes incompatible and that AMD is left behind. Would be nice if AMD could partner up as well, or create a consortium for "next gen architecture and virtualization enhancements" kinda like how MMX, SSE etc came about for graphics.
Wonder where he's getting his feed, it must be on a backbone or a teleco somewhere.
At that speed you're probably not going to get anything near that speed from a single source. But it would be nice to download every distro of linux from different sources in a minute:)
I'd like to see this tech come into place for CAN's (City Area Networks).
CEO: we need to start scanning now!
IT Guy: which computers should we start with?
CEO: Start with the people who file the most computer complains and go downward .. .. ..
(IT guy comes back next day)
IT Guy: Sir all of the Vista machines who had problems reported 0 infections, and at the bottom of the list the department running OS X and Linux development machines. They had tons of the stuff.
3) home basic edition.
Considering that the bulk of sales are home basic edition, that is why it leaves an overall bad taste in the consumers mouth. How many computers can you buy from BB, Target, Walmart, Circuit City that has Vista Ultra Super Server edition loaded vs Home edition. As the name alone implies it's used for the home user and that is the biggest buyer.
So if it sucks, then the bulk of Vista users are going to think it sucks.
The way they worded it made is sounds like FOSS was malware or a virus. "Scan your computer to detect a set of programs that you may not know exist in the system".
Plus what is the point in having a Linux scanner as it is all (nearly all OSS). Solaris I'm sure has a good bit of FOSS in it now adays (apache, php, sql, etc).
As for windows, what is it's purpose (Hey you're running gaim, firefox, etc) Once you have a list what does that imply? You must delete them? The only reason I can see doing this is for gathering statistical data. But I don't see average joe user doing that as they don't care. They just want something that works.
I'm curious if this program phones home afterwards.
Why not just let the patent's slip then into the public domain? It costs a good bit, almost doubling each year that you renew a patent. So if they're allowing universal access the patents are then pretty much public domain except they can still say they are the owners. Sounds like they virtually GPL'd their patents:)
They do kinda. The Opera browser supports flash. I often enjoy watching YouTube and video.google.com using my Wii. There are also several public domain movies you can watch. If you like old sci-fi or horror try doing a search.
The thing that really frustrates me is how the DS and Wii are setup for net play. The whole concept of getting friends codes from people is horrible. Keep in mind except for kids who can ask other kids in school to trade, you're basically screwing over the entire "18-30" geek niche who have little to no friends or know noone who has a Wii.
I like how Id games do it. You can connect to a central server, get a list of open games and open people and just play. after a while you can gain (game friends) and it's easier to setup times with people you've at least talked to before.
Meanwhile after adding countless friends codes and knowing NONE of them, it's VERY VERY rare to get a game with anyone. So it virtually kills net play for me. The only game I've had any luck playing online with was Animal Crossing for DS.
I know people are going to respond "it was designed to be safe for kids to keep sicko's away" and I can see that as a valid point. But don't make games like Metroid, and market to everyone and impose this rule that destroys the online gaming experience. If I was a parent I would monitor my kids gaming, don't hard code it so everyone is screwed.
Done venting, lol.
Give it till the end of the summer when metroid comes out.
I never understood the appeal of metroid, but to each their own. Personally I can't wait till Animal Crossing comes out! It was a big reason I bought a Wii, that and the Virtual Console.
I knew before I bought it that I would more than likely never dish out $50 for a game, that's just way to much money. But getting to play classic games for $5-10, internet browsing, news, weather, it's been a treat. If only they would add streaming media support (not flash in Opera) I think Nintendo could completely ditch it as a gaming machine and market it as a wonderful entertainment box, and I would buy it for that reason alone.
I use my Wii every other day. News, Weather, modest internet browsing from the couch. Oddly out of all the gaming I have done I'd say 90% has been GC games, and some N64 games via Virtual Console. I've had mine since about Feb, and probably have clocked less than 4 hours of actually Wii gaming. But I still use it every other day. To my it's not just a console, but an wonderful appliance that can also plays games. Just need to find some good games.
So far the only 2 games I've liked have been Zelda and Elebits.
It's not so much that a real spammer will have to pay, as much as the fact it gives them a control over your email that you don't have. Since you are the end user you should be able to define what is and isn't spam. Giving them control makes you powerless. What if you're LUG suddenly is blacklisted and you can't receive emails, and they refuse to remove them from the blacklist unless the LUG pays them the money?
Agree digital effects and rendering should be used as a tool to help the story, not a story to push rendering. I watch a lot more Japanese and British content now a days because a lot of the junk being pushed out of hollywood is nothing but CGI foreplay, used to please the eyes and dim the brain with no real content.
Are we being too hard on Goodmail for their plans to charge senders a quarter-penny per message to bypass companies' spam filters?
No. Personally I think it's fraud, since you're telling and selling the customer one thing, then allowing people to bypass their own securty for a profit at the expense of it's end users.
I've even gone as far as to compiling a minimal Linux distribution for one of my test machines so my CPU intensive application can squeek out every last drop of performance as possible. Beyond the normal renice -20
Perhaps this is a term difference, but hasn't all versions of Windows from 95 up been running in protected mode? Otherwise how do they get access to larger linear memory mapping versus segmented chunks like the DOS days.
Yes QA testers. Or people who don't really pay attention and use Firefox normally. But when an app or email says "click this link" and IE is the default browser if pops up.
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They just cater to a different market. From a business point of view it's brilliant. Look who has money? The people who work their asses off so they dont have time to go on 10hour game-a-thons, but do have a little cash and the Wii fits that void. Then look at the PS3, it's catered toward HS/college kids who are probably broke and spend all their time gaming. See the problem? System is 2-3x expensive for a market that has less money to blow.
Just an observation, the reality is probably a lot more complex but that's my watered down perception of it all.
Check out Elebits, it's a really good game. Kinda reminds me of Pikman.
Ever played Rygar? lol
But at the same time I feel like it's a waste of money compared to better causes, like I dont know, FEEDING or MEDICINE for kids. Granted I grew up poor, and I wish I had a laptop when I was in high school and younger would have been able to kick start my career even earlier. But even then if it came to me having a free laptop, or seeing the kid down the street who eats government peanut butter on bread (no jelly) every day and no medical insurance. I'd gladly give it up to feed him/her for a while.
From a small thinking perspective this project is great, from the big picture it's just diverting funds that could have been better used. For those about to flame me, Yes we should go to Mars! But we should we get things straight down here first.
After all it's just free advertising for them.
If AT&T wants to bitch about frequency licenses, it should be stated that the first few "channels" on the wifi spectrum are actually licensed to HAM operators. Part of the 2.4ghz spectrum is for amateur radio use.
This is really about the same as MS embedding IE to kill off other companies who were solely browser developers (Netscape?).
I think the big different here, and I may stand corrected, is that google isn't doing it as a lost leader to lock someone in, but to better their product. So if that's the case I support it. Only time will tell though as things roll out.
My only hope is that Intel doesn't skew it's architecture so much that it becomes incompatible and that AMD is left behind. Would be nice if AMD could partner up as well, or create a consortium for "next gen architecture and virtualization enhancements" kinda like how MMX, SSE etc came about for graphics.
I'd like to see this tech come into place for CAN's (City Area Networks).
CEO: we need to start scanning now!
..
..
..
IT Guy: which computers should we start with?
CEO: Start with the people who file the most computer complains and go downward
(IT guy comes back next day)
IT Guy: Sir all of the Vista machines who had problems reported 0 infections, and at the bottom of the list the department running OS X and Linux development machines. They had tons of the stuff.
So if it sucks, then the bulk of Vista users are going to think it sucks.
The way they worded it made is sounds like FOSS was malware or a virus. "Scan your computer to detect a set of programs that you may not know exist in the system". Plus what is the point in having a Linux scanner as it is all (nearly all OSS). Solaris I'm sure has a good bit of FOSS in it now adays (apache, php, sql, etc). As for windows, what is it's purpose (Hey you're running gaim, firefox, etc) Once you have a list what does that imply? You must delete them? The only reason I can see doing this is for gathering statistical data. But I don't see average joe user doing that as they don't care. They just want something that works. I'm curious if this program phones home afterwards.
Why not just let the patent's slip then into the public domain? It costs a good bit, almost doubling each year that you renew a patent. So if they're allowing universal access the patents are then pretty much public domain except they can still say they are the owners. Sounds like they virtually GPL'd their patents :)
They do kinda. The Opera browser supports flash. I often enjoy watching YouTube and video.google.com using my Wii. There are also several public domain movies you can watch. If you like old sci-fi or horror try doing a search.
I like how Id games do it. You can connect to a central server, get a list of open games and open people and just play. after a while you can gain (game friends) and it's easier to setup times with people you've at least talked to before.
Meanwhile after adding countless friends codes and knowing NONE of them, it's VERY VERY rare to get a game with anyone. So it virtually kills net play for me. The only game I've had any luck playing online with was Animal Crossing for DS.
I know people are going to respond "it was designed to be safe for kids to keep sicko's away" and I can see that as a valid point. But don't make games like Metroid, and market to everyone and impose this rule that destroys the online gaming experience. If I was a parent I would monitor my kids gaming, don't hard code it so everyone is screwed. Done venting, lol.
I never understood the appeal of metroid, but to each their own. Personally I can't wait till Animal Crossing comes out! It was a big reason I bought a Wii, that and the Virtual Console. I knew before I bought it that I would more than likely never dish out $50 for a game, that's just way to much money. But getting to play classic games for $5-10, internet browsing, news, weather, it's been a treat. If only they would add streaming media support (not flash in Opera) I think Nintendo could completely ditch it as a gaming machine and market it as a wonderful entertainment box, and I would buy it for that reason alone.
So far the only 2 games I've liked have been Zelda and Elebits.
It's not so much that a real spammer will have to pay, as much as the fact it gives them a control over your email that you don't have. Since you are the end user you should be able to define what is and isn't spam. Giving them control makes you powerless. What if you're LUG suddenly is blacklisted and you can't receive emails, and they refuse to remove them from the blacklist unless the LUG pays them the money?
lol agree, everytime I see CGI I think of common gateway interface and wonder what a movie has to do with a web application.
Agree digital effects and rendering should be used as a tool to help the story, not a story to push rendering. I watch a lot more Japanese and British content now a days because a lot of the junk being pushed out of hollywood is nothing but CGI foreplay, used to please the eyes and dim the brain with no real content.
No. Personally I think it's fraud, since you're telling and selling the customer one thing, then allowing people to bypass their own securty for a profit at the expense of it's end users.
processing cycles. CPU's don't download or do anything other than compute finite math in cycles so a description really isn't needed.
Curious how this works.
Perhaps this is a term difference, but hasn't all versions of Windows from 95 up been running in protected mode? Otherwise how do they get access to larger linear memory mapping versus segmented chunks like the DOS days.
Yes QA testers. Or people who don't really pay attention and use Firefox normally. But when an app or email says "click this link" and IE is the default browser if pops up.