The mistake was underestimating the volume of calls. Given how rabid 24 fans are, whatever machine connected to the stated IP (had it been a potentially possible one) would have burst into flames in real time. At least a cell phone is limited to only one call/connection at a time.
Probably intentionally invalid, learning from past mistakes. Last season, a prop cellphone number was briefly shown onscreen, and apparently the phone rings constantly in the prop room. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24_(television)#Fan_p hone
They've added an extensive new feature. Isn't the point of a beta supposed to be (in theory, when it's not just a marketing ploy) to test such things and iron out bugs?
I don't think the government has any interest in protecting our privacy. They pay lip service at press conferences, but nothing seems to change. An example, for all the Canadians voting in the federal election today...if you received one of those cards in the mail that says you are registered to vote, that means your name and address, along with other personal information, is on the federal voters list. This list isn't just for the government...it's distributed to each candidate for each party running in that election. That's right, your name, your address, and your personal information is in the hands of the Liberal Party, the Conservative Party, and even the Marijuana Party if you've filed a Canadian tax return in the past 10 years or so and didn't check the tiny little box excluding the CCRA from sharing your information. Once it's in the hands of the public, it can go anywhere (be stolen from the campaign office, or even sold to help finance the campaign). There are laws against the redistribution of this information, but the laws in place are essentially unenforceable, and punishing an offender after the damage has been done does nothing to protect our privacy. So you'll pardon me if I have little faith in the governments interest in protecting us.
I'm suspicious that some of the people here are just worried that they won't be able to pirate commercial ebooks.
That actually wasn't what I was thinking. Right now, I use Plucker to translate and read HTML documents on my (admittedly past its prime) Palm Vx. I can take larger webpages, such as HOWTOs, online manuals, and any other text-focused web content, and read them semi-conveniently on my old portable. I'm hoping this device will extend this kind of functionality, so maybe I can keep larger pages (doesn't take long to fill that 8MB on the Palm Vx).
Since IBM holds tons of patents related to SOI technology, I doubt it'll be 'cost-effective' for Intel anytime soon. The technology itself isn't the real issue here, it's the licensing.
Nice try, but RDRAM was never on-die in Intel chips. Sure, they fucked up by locking themselves into it, but this is a completely different situation. Consumers haven't been able to choose their L2 cache architecture since the days of cache-on-a-stick.
My big question is, what will it display? If it will only show eBooks bought from Sony Connect, in whatever asinine incompatible format Sony dreams up this time, then I'll have no interest. But a device that could take an unencumbered text-like file (PDF, HTML, plaintext, etc) would be a killer device. If its compatible with Project Gutenberg, sign me up.
TOS was going downhill badly in season 3 and Roddenberry didn't care.
Um, Roddenberry was almost uninvolved with season 3 of TOS. In protest of NBC putting the show in the timeslot-of-death, he turned over most of the reigns to Fred Freiburger.
I've seen some malicious trolls in my day, but you, sir, are the worst. They took down the entirety of de.wikipedia.org for user content containing those words. Do you hate Slashdot so much that you're willing to risk the same fate for it?
Sounds to me like the AFP caught wind that someone who had internet access killed himself, then decided to combine the story with this report, from 2003, on the death of Brandon Vedas.
Astoundingly bad journalism...stealing detail from an unrelated past event and implying that they happened again.
So, will we let our fear of potential bad uses outweigh the potential good it could do? Probably.
I hope not. I just hope this drug is as restricted as hospital-strength narcotics are...locked in a hospital, requiring supervision for access and administration. If they let people take these pills home, there could be trouble, but you rarely see drugs like Fentanyl (which has similar access controls as what I just described) diverted onto the street, even though many addicts would just love to get some.
If I'm understanding what you said, they log all HTTP traffic, and keep the logs forever? Holy smokes! Where do they keep it all? Even if a student only generated (for the sake of argument) 10k of log per day, when you multiply that by (again, say) 1000 students, at school for (say) 240 days a year (Sept to April), with logs kept for ten years (so far, and more years to come), you're looking at close to 23GB of nothing but HTTP logs. Wasteful.
When XP Service Pack 2 came out, Microsoft offered free CDs for customers who were unable to download the service pack. Now that a fresh install of Windows XP requires an internet connection to provide full security via updates, are there any plan to make available a regular update rollup CD for customers? I'd be willing to pay a (nominal, like shipping) cost for a regularly-issued CD I could use to deploy patches offline.
Magic pill indeed...if it erases short-term memories of traumatic events, it would be the ultimate date-rape drug. GHB (the date-rape drug du jour) already does this to some extent...a drug whose actual purpose is to do this would be horrible if diverted.
They are holding your money, making interest on it, not giving you the benefit of that interest, and not giving you your console.
Interesting point. Can we charge THEM interest, due to their failure to hold up their end of the contract? It's obviously no longer a pre-order (as they stated it would be when we laid down our money), if fulfillment is taking place three months after release.
Trust me, you'll be glad you did. You'll quickly understand that Star Trek is overrated crap
Thank you for your insightful comment. You, however, are not me. I have watched, and will continue to watch non-Star Trek scifi, but just because you like something better, doesn't mean I should suddenly dislike it or choose something else. Your opinion is certainly valid for you, but you need to realize it may not reflect the whole entire world. You think Trek sucks. I think it doesn't suck. The world didn't end with me saying that, so I guess we can disagree.
(of course, now I'm labelled a 'fanboy', which for some odd reason is somehow derogatory)
Why can't we all recognize that everyone has an opinion and is entitled to have it, rather than descending to denigration of people because of the opinions they hold?
While this is certainly news, I'm surprised that the integration of Adsense comes as a shock to anyone. Since I highly doubt we'll see "Go to Google for more information. Type Aitch Tee Tee Pee colon slash slash double you double you double you dot gee oh oh gee el ee dot see oh em.", the only other 'content' to deliver by radio is ads supplied by customers for their product, which would require some kind of integration with their existing system (Adsense). My crystal ball doesn't tell me if this will be a successful experiment, but I highly doubt Google will use it to advertise Google.
And "Pee colon slash" sounds pretty awful, anyways.;)
iPod compatibility isn't the point. I'll bet the music will stream gorgeously through an xBox360 to a stereo, of through a Media Centre Extender to the rest of your 'digital home'. Will an all-you-can-eat subscription model, it seems like this is another gambit to gain a foothold into in-home entertainment, not portable.
I don't know much about Bluetooth, so correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't your BT keyboard and mouse be pair with the KVM switch, then physically split to the two computers? I've been considering a configuration like this, and if it won't work, it'd be nice to know before I go shopping...
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Is this what they would call an adverposting?
The mistake was underestimating the volume of calls. Given how rabid 24 fans are, whatever machine connected to the stated IP (had it been a potentially possible one) would have burst into flames in real time. At least a cell phone is limited to only one call/connection at a time.
Probably intentionally invalid, learning from past mistakes. Last season, a prop cellphone number was briefly shown onscreen, and apparently the phone rings constantly in the prop room. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24_(television)#Fan_p hone
They've added an extensive new feature. Isn't the point of a beta supposed to be (in theory, when it's not just a marketing ploy) to test such things and iron out bugs?
A gabber is someone who talks too much, but has nothing important to say. Examples include politicians, salespeople, and myself.
I don't think the government has any interest in protecting our privacy. They pay lip service at press conferences, but nothing seems to change. An example, for all the Canadians voting in the federal election today...if you received one of those cards in the mail that says you are registered to vote, that means your name and address, along with other personal information, is on the federal voters list. This list isn't just for the government...it's distributed to each candidate for each party running in that election. That's right, your name, your address, and your personal information is in the hands of the Liberal Party, the Conservative Party, and even the Marijuana Party if you've filed a Canadian tax return in the past 10 years or so and didn't check the tiny little box excluding the CCRA from sharing your information. Once it's in the hands of the public, it can go anywhere (be stolen from the campaign office, or even sold to help finance the campaign). There are laws against the redistribution of this information, but the laws in place are essentially unenforceable, and punishing an offender after the damage has been done does nothing to protect our privacy. So you'll pardon me if I have little faith in the governments interest in protecting us.
I thought we were over that 'Blame Canada' stuff since the South Park movie left theatres.
I'm suspicious that some of the people here are just worried that they won't be able to pirate commercial ebooks.
That actually wasn't what I was thinking. Right now, I use Plucker to translate and read HTML documents on my (admittedly past its prime) Palm Vx. I can take larger webpages, such as HOWTOs, online manuals, and any other text-focused web content, and read them semi-conveniently on my old portable. I'm hoping this device will extend this kind of functionality, so maybe I can keep larger pages (doesn't take long to fill that 8MB on the Palm Vx).
Since IBM holds tons of patents related to SOI technology, I doubt it'll be 'cost-effective' for Intel anytime soon. The technology itself isn't the real issue here, it's the licensing.
Nice try, but RDRAM was never on-die in Intel chips. Sure, they fucked up by locking themselves into it, but this is a completely different situation. Consumers haven't been able to choose their L2 cache architecture since the days of cache-on-a-stick.
My big question is, what will it display? If it will only show eBooks bought from Sony Connect, in whatever asinine incompatible format Sony dreams up this time, then I'll have no interest. But a device that could take an unencumbered text-like file (PDF, HTML, plaintext, etc) would be a killer device. If its compatible with Project Gutenberg, sign me up.
But this is Sony, so I'm not holding much hope.
TOS was going downhill badly in season 3 and Roddenberry didn't care.
Um, Roddenberry was almost uninvolved with season 3 of TOS. In protest of NBC putting the show in the timeslot-of-death, he turned over most of the reigns to Fred Freiburger.
Actually, I think 'analize' is quite appropriate for what he did to Sony (and what Sony did to us, for that matter).
I've seen some malicious trolls in my day, but you, sir, are the worst. They took down the entirety of de.wikipedia.org for user content containing those words. Do you hate Slashdot so much that you're willing to risk the same fate for it?
Sounds to me like the AFP caught wind that someone who had internet access killed himself, then decided to combine the story with this report, from 2003, on the death of Brandon Vedas.
Astoundingly bad journalism...stealing detail from an unrelated past event and implying that they happened again.
So, will we let our fear of potential bad uses outweigh the potential good it could do? Probably.
I hope not. I just hope this drug is as restricted as hospital-strength narcotics are...locked in a hospital, requiring supervision for access and administration. If they let people take these pills home, there could be trouble, but you rarely see drugs like Fentanyl (which has similar access controls as what I just described) diverted onto the street, even though many addicts would just love to get some.
If I'm understanding what you said, they log all HTTP traffic, and keep the logs forever? Holy smokes! Where do they keep it all? Even if a student only generated (for the sake of argument) 10k of log per day, when you multiply that by (again, say) 1000 students, at school for (say) 240 days a year (Sept to April), with logs kept for ten years (so far, and more years to come), you're looking at close to 23GB of nothing but HTTP logs. Wasteful.
When XP Service Pack 2 came out, Microsoft offered free CDs for customers who were unable to download the service pack. Now that a fresh install of Windows XP requires an internet connection to provide full security via updates, are there any plan to make available a regular update rollup CD for customers? I'd be willing to pay a (nominal, like shipping) cost for a regularly-issued CD I could use to deploy patches offline.
Magic pill indeed...if it erases short-term memories of traumatic events, it would be the ultimate date-rape drug. GHB (the date-rape drug du jour) already does this to some extent...a drug whose actual purpose is to do this would be horrible if diverted.
They are holding your money, making interest on it, not giving you the benefit of that interest, and not giving you your console.
Interesting point. Can we charge THEM interest, due to their failure to hold up their end of the contract? It's obviously no longer a pre-order (as they stated it would be when we laid down our money), if fulfillment is taking place three months after release.
Trust me, you'll be glad you did. You'll quickly understand that Star Trek is overrated crap
Thank you for your insightful comment. You, however, are not me. I have watched, and will continue to watch non-Star Trek scifi, but just because you like something better, doesn't mean I should suddenly dislike it or choose something else. Your opinion is certainly valid for you, but you need to realize it may not reflect the whole entire world. You think Trek sucks. I think it doesn't suck. The world didn't end with me saying that, so I guess we can disagree.
(of course, now I'm labelled a 'fanboy', which for some odd reason is somehow derogatory)
Why can't we all recognize that everyone has an opinion and is entitled to have it, rather than descending to denigration of people because of the opinions they hold?
While this is certainly news, I'm surprised that the integration of Adsense comes as a shock to anyone. Since I highly doubt we'll see "Go to Google for more information. Type Aitch Tee Tee Pee colon slash slash double you double you double you dot gee oh oh gee el ee dot see oh em.", the only other 'content' to deliver by radio is ads supplied by customers for their product, which would require some kind of integration with their existing system (Adsense). My crystal ball doesn't tell me if this will be a successful experiment, but I highly doubt Google will use it to advertise Google.
;)
And "Pee colon slash" sounds pretty awful, anyways.
Perhaps the government is outsourcing their computer security to Microsoft.
iPod compatibility isn't the point. I'll bet the music will stream gorgeously through an xBox360 to a stereo, of through a Media Centre Extender to the rest of your 'digital home'. Will an all-you-can-eat subscription model, it seems like this is another gambit to gain a foothold into in-home entertainment, not portable.
I don't know much about Bluetooth, so correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't your BT keyboard and mouse be pair with the KVM switch, then physically split to the two computers? I've been considering a configuration like this, and if it won't work, it'd be nice to know before I go shopping...