Yeah, it seemed that way to me as well, but a lot of people I know thought that it was real, though most of them did wonder how one could calculate the chances of surviving an instance room so precisely.
I really doubt that any of the opposition parties will try to make a copyright reform petition an issue of confidence. If we see a premature general election, it will not be because of media user's rights, I promise you.
"Congratulations on the successful implantation of your new miraculous vision-restoring eye implants! Please note, however, that because of the DMCA Revision of 2009, you are now required to wear a heavy blindfold in any place where you are at risk of viewing copyrighted materials, such as public streets, shopping venues, movie theatres, your workplace and your home."
The reason for the missing Radeons, I read, was that ATI chose some really high-end RAM for the card and then ran into a supply shortage of said RAM, which is why they've fallen way short of the demand.
Also why the X850 actually has lower-clocked RAM than the X800, because it's much easier to ensure a good supply of it. I hear it still bests the X800, though apparently not by any kind of astounding margin.
That's what I was hoping for too, but it still doesn't justify a PowerBook for me. I'm quite happy with my combination of big, rugged x86 desktop with small, light but still quite peppy Apple laptop (I've got a 12" iBook from the most recent generation, 1.2GHz G4 with 512MB of RAM) because I never really *need* to do any really demanding stuff while mobile. I find PDAs aren't enough, but this lil number is plenty powerful enough for e-mail, IRC, web browsing and a bit of light gaming with plenty of battery time. (I can get about 4.5 hours while using 802.11g networks and I can play a solid two hours of World of WarCraft off the battery, with all graphical options turned way down but completely playable framerates). And I got all this for a little more than $1400 CDN. (bought Kingston RAM, not Apple branded)
For many people I know, especially students like me, the G4 iBook is perfect alongside our homebuilt PC desktops. The only guys I know who can justify PowerBooks are my friend who works at a video production shop and need to work while moving around (12" PBG4) and another who's a music student and uses his as his only computer and for taking around for recording, mixing and editing at gigs. (17" PBG4) The PowerBooks are wonderful for those kind of people, but for us less-demanding (and less financially able) folks, we're fine with our iBooks, thanks, and we'll take battery life over bleeding-edge power any day.
...just use my old PowerBook. It runs OS9 but they don't care. All they want is to e-mail their photos to everyone. My other grandfather had WebTV until his provider discontinued it. He just used that so he could receive and reply to e-mails. We've offered to buy him a PC since but he's now content going over to his neighbour's house once or twice a week to use theirs to check his e-mail.
This product could be good for the elderly, I guess. But I know that none of my older relatives have enough faith in the internet to even think of banking online.
Yoda Stories was awesome. I wasted so much time playing that game while pretending to do research papers...
Truly a tragedy that it got left off the list.
I'm even having trouble loading it from mirrors. I've tried gcache, mirrordot and nyud. So far, Gcache took several minutes to load the text and the pictures aren't loaded still.
Holy crap guys, the mirrors have all been slashdotted!
I *was* going to say that here in Canada, (thanks to a supreme court ruling) placing stuff in a shared folder is legal (because it is) and doesn't qualify as distribution of copyrighted material. But then I stopped and thought for a moment and I realized that BitTorrent might not be protected by that. It could be said that an inherent function of the program is that when you run it you send material to other people, instead of just placing it in an accessible shared folder.
I'm no lawyer, but I'd say us Canadians might have to watch out in the near future after all.
It's got plenty of publicity, anyway. I actually heard about this from MY MOM this morning before I read it online. If it's being drummed up enough for her to hear about it I'd say the RIAA is gonna have something to say about this pretty soon too.
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Yeah, it seemed that way to me as well, but a lot of people I know thought that it was real, though most of them did wonder how one could calculate the chances of surviving an instance room so precisely.
With regards to Leeroy, you know that whole thing was a deliberate setup just to make a funny video, right?
A guy that I know plays on that server and has spent some time on the Ventrilo channel used by Leeroy's guild.
Where is the Moderated Funny?
I'm using Firefox and the bullet points are slightly to the left of the leftmost characters in the non-bullet lines.
I really doubt that any of the opposition parties will try to make a copyright reform petition an issue of confidence. If we see a premature general election, it will not be because of media user's rights, I promise you.
"...financier and breeding ground of every major terrorist organization with the exception of the IRA..."
Don't forget the FLQ.
How did we get here from "privacy on the internet" anyway?
"Congratulations on the successful implantation of your new miraculous vision-restoring eye implants! Please note, however, that because of the DMCA Revision of 2009, you are now required to wear a heavy blindfold in any place where you are at risk of viewing copyrighted materials, such as public streets, shopping venues, movie theatres, your workplace and your home."
The reason for the missing Radeons, I read, was that ATI chose some really high-end RAM for the card and then ran into a supply shortage of said RAM, which is why they've fallen way short of the demand. Also why the X850 actually has lower-clocked RAM than the X800, because it's much easier to ensure a good supply of it. I hear it still bests the X800, though apparently not by any kind of astounding margin.
That's what I was hoping for too, but it still doesn't justify a PowerBook for me. I'm quite happy with my combination of big, rugged x86 desktop with small, light but still quite peppy Apple laptop (I've got a 12" iBook from the most recent generation, 1.2GHz G4 with 512MB of RAM) because I never really *need* to do any really demanding stuff while mobile. I find PDAs aren't enough, but this lil number is plenty powerful enough for e-mail, IRC, web browsing and a bit of light gaming with plenty of battery time. (I can get about 4.5 hours while using 802.11g networks and I can play a solid two hours of World of WarCraft off the battery, with all graphical options turned way down but completely playable framerates). And I got all this for a little more than $1400 CDN. (bought Kingston RAM, not Apple branded)
For many people I know, especially students like me, the G4 iBook is perfect alongside our homebuilt PC desktops. The only guys I know who can justify PowerBooks are my friend who works at a video production shop and need to work while moving around (12" PBG4) and another who's a music student and uses his as his only computer and for taking around for recording, mixing and editing at gigs. (17" PBG4) The PowerBooks are wonderful for those kind of people, but for us less-demanding (and less financially able) folks, we're fine with our iBooks, thanks, and we'll take battery life over bleeding-edge power any day.
...just use my old PowerBook. It runs OS9 but they don't care. All they want is to e-mail their photos to everyone. My other grandfather had WebTV until his provider discontinued it. He just used that so he could receive and reply to e-mails. We've offered to buy him a PC since but he's now content going over to his neighbour's house once or twice a week to use theirs to check his e-mail.
This product could be good for the elderly, I guess. But I know that none of my older relatives have enough faith in the internet to even think of banking online.
It was hidden between the "o" and the "r" in the FNORD!
Yoda Stories was awesome. I wasted so much time playing that game while pretending to do research papers... Truly a tragedy that it got left off the list.
I'm even having trouble loading it from mirrors. I've tried gcache, mirrordot and nyud. So far, Gcache took several minutes to load the text and the pictures aren't loaded still. Holy crap guys, the mirrors have all been slashdotted!
I *was* going to say that here in Canada, (thanks to a supreme court ruling) placing stuff in a shared folder is legal (because it is) and doesn't qualify as distribution of copyrighted material. But then I stopped and thought for a moment and I realized that BitTorrent might not be protected by that. It could be said that an inherent function of the program is that when you run it you send material to other people, instead of just placing it in an accessible shared folder. I'm no lawyer, but I'd say us Canadians might have to watch out in the near future after all.
Too true, since 100mbit wireless will be available in a year or two with 802.11n, won't it? And 10gbit over copper ethernet is well on its way.
What sort of Milk-to-Cookie deliciousness transfer rates do you think we can expect to see?
It's got plenty of publicity, anyway. I actually heard about this from MY MOM this morning before I read it online. If it's being drummed up enough for her to hear about it I'd say the RIAA is gonna have something to say about this pretty soon too.
They've just now changed it back.