Lord almighty! The speeds! 9 mbit? In 10 years? TEN? Well, that would definitely settle the score then! Just you wait, world, the US will catch up! Full throttle on the information highway!
The problem with broadband in large cities is that it's not trivial to pull up the pavement and lay some cable. You can't just go around placing a couple more telephone exchanges because that would better serve the customers. They have to make do with the existing copper, which is also a great excuse to milk that particular cow some more.
I guess you just can't win: let the "free" market decide and you have shitty service, have the government mix in you have people complaining. The latter would at least ensure that your country has a better infrastructure, but hey, I'm not telling you how to run your business.
Price comparison, we pay 55 European per month for 16/1, of which 12K/800 can be used effectively. Downsides are forced cut off and new IP every 24 hours (this just in Germany, not in countries like the Netherlands). This includes telephone and flatrate/unlimited access. Newer plans have movies on demand included as well.
This just screams for a "You must be new here" comment.
This is Slashdot, most every view is extremely tainted, simplified and biased. No experience whatsoever is needed. I thought that was a condition for admission?
Why not just use Windows? Or Macintosh? They're both stable, have stable drivers for any decent hardware, look nice...
I happen to value my freedom a lot more than that, especially when it comes to computers. As for the topic at hand, the proprietary drivers are usually pretty bad (I have an Ati card, so I'm partly to blame for that) as you can see in another post above this one.
Linux is a free operating system, in all senses of the word free. If that is not to your liking, there are loads of other OSes out there. Good luck.
Great! Speculation mixed with after-the-fact analysis.
This should all be nothing that a good marketing campaign can't handle. Notice how all the questions are very fuzzy, you can interpret them in any number of ways and answer them favourably for any game on the market.
Some examples Sims: you can play.. people, leading... ordinary (quote, unquote) lives. Doesn't look especially nice, not based on anything well-known. Initial target market: Who knows? Girls? Kids? Yes, afterwards it turns out everyone and their dog plays Sims. Social uniqueness: it was funny that I could exchange Sims with other savegames. Sims: Big hit.
Commandos: does not stand out at all, even at the time. Looked rather dull, with its faux 3D. Gameplay was nice but you had to use the keyboard for fast movement in the later levels, so not really for the inexperienced gamer. No social play. Communication of idea: "you blow up enemies in WW2", so much for standing out, right? But wait: this is in 2D! Game is based on a known idea only in so much as it is a WW2 game and view from the top 2D, so rather something to avoid. Target market: fuzzy question. You never really know who turns out to be a fan, right? So, anyone who likes Starcraft? Commandos: Big hit.
To be fair, they updated the wireless networking window as well. Then again, wireless was a total PITA in vanilla and SP1, so I'll file that under your firewall category.
This is interesting. So far, every major upgrade in audio or video quality/convenience has been picked up by pretty much every end user. Records -> tapes -> CD, VHS -> DVD. There is a vast difference between the quality of audio systems, from the cheapest Korean knock off tinny speakered all in one to hi-end audiophile discrete components. In TVs, the difference is far less. There are good TVs and bad ones, but a more expensive TV will not give you a much better picture than a reasonably priced one. It's usually better designed, has more features, but the image is the image is the image.
My point is that with BR/HDDVD and HD in general, the end users may not all move to this new system because they don't care, it's less convenient, too expensive, etc, resulting in more quality spread over the end users. Some will have a small TV with a couple of iTunes shows, some will have a large 7.1 surround with HD LCD setup in their basements, just like it is with audio systems now.
That's why unlimited packages (it's called flatrate over here) aren't sold as unlimited, but rather as "limited by a fair use policy". This most likely means that when the ISP feels that you're downloading too much, they can kick you off any time they like. I'm saying "most likely" because there's no real way of telling what a fair use policy really means.
I'm all for intelligent QoS, VoIP goes first, mail/html comes next, p2p comes last. Simplified for early morning perusal. But, I guess that anything that can get exploited for the good of the ISP instead of the customer, will.
Are you familiar with stored procedures? Subqueries? It's basic stuff.
(Sorry. Yes, I know that MySQL has all those things now, my point is that pgsql had them ages ago. Also, I'm a happy MySQL user. Also also, phppgadmin is nothing like phpmyadmin. Etc, etc)
The problem with your reasoning is that stockholders are very bad at long term projection. If they can turn a profit in a short time they'll jump at the chance, no matter what long term fall-out may be. This is true because stockholders don't care about the business itself but about the profit it makes. See, a typical stockholder doesn't care how good RedHat's maintenance subscription service level really is. If they can cut the service in half and still retain a number of clients, they will. This will ultimately be bad for business and it's immediately bad for customers and customer relations, but it will up the profit, so it's done.
If you would buy stock in a somewhat anonymous company, would you go and investigate what their business practices are like? Do you care about their customer service? I appreciate that there are exceptions, but most likely you won't. Yes, there are people who invest in companies that they know and care about (sports clubs come to mind,) but the majority of investors invest for a profit. If a company can turn a profit sooner rather than later, they will go for it. Most investors won't care about the database, the open sourciness, the service, the customers or anything else, but they'll care about the numbers on the yearly report. There is linkage, but if it's not apparent, if it's not 1-1 related, there won't be much interest.
Our guiding principle is "Do the Right Thing." This means doing what is best for our staff members, customers, business partners, and communities for the long term, and believing that "right" answers exist. It also means measuring our success, not merely in financial terms, but by how consistently we act according to this principle.
What does "content provider" mean? It's a vague term. Is it the artist? Is it the production company? Is it the distributor? Are you deliberately being vague?
Ever been on youtube? It's this new site, and it has all this videos, you know, and it's like FREE.
Joking aside, YouTube is a very good example. Yes, quality is low. But it's getting better and better. Rocketboom is HD, fcol. I believe that there will be a serious hit on YouTube or sth similar and it will open the eyes of a lot of independent film makers. Right now it's kids with a crappy cam. There are a lot of talented people out there and equipment can be rented or borrowed. I foresee that we are going to get the same shift to home studios with movies as we have seen with music, and it will result in the same kind of hits (and misses.)
There will always be a place for large Hollywood productions. This is a good thing. I don't want to miss out on Jack Sparrow. The money being made is going to be less stupendous though. Think of the situation now as a big, government mandated web1.0 bubble. It's big because there is a lot of cash changing hands. It's government mandated (something we never even needed in IT) because of current copyright laws. It's a bubble because however you look at it, the only way is down. After the IT bubble burst, there were still IT jobs. There was still a need for the internet, the newest smartphones, the connected toaster, the latest OS. Some people lost their jobs, but there were a lot of people who didn't have a place in that industry anyway. Same thing goes for movies. The next Tom Cruise might not make as much as the current one, but hey, you know, I consider that to be a good thing.
The point is that Myspace, a large corp, asked Godaddy, another large corp, for the removal of a domain. The domain pointed to an ISP that hosted a site that had some passwords that are all over the internet. I am not saying Fyodor had a right to post those passwords (IANALetc but this sounds like a case of yelling fire in the cinema to me) but he didn't even have a chance to do anything about it. This all happened over his head, he wasn't notified. Myspace had no court order. Godaddy didn't have a legal or moral leg to stand on. Plus, the domain name itself has nothing to do with the content, which is hosted at the ISP, which is NOT Godaddy (AFAIK), so why didn't Myspace take it up with them? Or, omg, with Fyodor? The point is not that he shouldn't be punished (or not, it's for the court to decide) but that he was convicted and executed without so much as being told what for. That's why Godaddy is "evil": they don't want what's best for its customers (Fyodor in this case), they want what's safest for them. The land of the brave (and the free, but that's another post) it is not.
Also: can you supply a URL for that bootleg story? I'd like to check it out.
It's called Common Sense. You don't click on that.exe in the mail or downloaded from that crack website. You have a properly configured NAT router, and you don't have all ports forwarded to your computer to make MSN videochat work. You use Firefox or Opera, you open email as text.
All common sense, really... The only things Spybot would find for me were tracking cookies (which I don't mind so much, FF is set to delete unwanted cookies on close.) That was before switching to Linux, now I have no idea how to find spyware anymore;)
Tags are probably very community based, so they would only make sense within that community. (!itsatrap wouldn't work so well on iloveponies.co.ae). That said, why make tags which are meaningless to other communities or have vastly different meanings to other people available as a sorting or searching option? Sure, you could make some pretty mean stats proving any point you'd like (bad grammar in tags up 14.8% from last year! tag "yes" used in 87% of all blogs, world population feeling positive!) but I don't see the point.
Also, anyone trying to make a serious argument containing the word "blogosphere" should really try and get out more. Come on people, it's not world hunger we're solving here. Viz: http://coolestshop.com/headline-blog.html
I haven't looked into PDO yet, but MDB2 will work for your PHP4 code as well. I must add that MDB2 is not the golden egg either, its support for sequences is kind of lame when the db you're coding for natively supports them.
The downloaded games aren't your property. When Nintendo decides it's over for you or changes the fine print or whatever, you're no longer able to play the game. If you sell the Wii, the games are gone. They're non-transferable, you're not able to back them up (I think?), you can't sell them on eBay.
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(Damn, I didn't even notice... I must be new here. Or wait.)
Lord almighty! The speeds! 9 mbit? In 10 years? TEN? Well, that would definitely settle the score then! Just you wait, world, the US will catch up! Full throttle on the information highway!
The problem with broadband in large cities is that it's not trivial to pull up the pavement and lay some cable. You can't just go around placing a couple more telephone exchanges because that would better serve the customers. They have to make do with the existing copper, which is also a great excuse to milk that particular cow some more.
I guess you just can't win: let the "free" market decide and you have shitty service, have the government mix in you have people complaining. The latter would at least ensure that your country has a better infrastructure, but hey, I'm not telling you how to run your business.
Price comparison, we pay 55 European per month for 16/1, of which 12K/800 can be used effectively. Downsides are forced cut off and new IP every 24 hours (this just in Germany, not in countries like the Netherlands). This includes telephone and flatrate/unlimited access. Newer plans have movies on demand included as well.
This just screams for a "You must be new here" comment.
This is Slashdot, most every view is extremely tainted, simplified and biased. No experience whatsoever is needed. I thought that was a condition for admission?
Why not just use Windows? Or Macintosh? They're both stable, have stable drivers for any decent hardware, look nice...
I happen to value my freedom a lot more than that, especially when it comes to computers. As for the topic at hand, the proprietary drivers are usually pretty bad (I have an Ati card, so I'm partly to blame for that) as you can see in another post above this one.
Linux is a free operating system, in all senses of the word free. If that is not to your liking, there are loads of other OSes out there. Good luck.
Great! Speculation mixed with after-the-fact analysis.
This should all be nothing that a good marketing campaign can't handle. Notice how all the questions are very fuzzy, you can interpret them in any number of ways and answer them favourably for any game on the market.
Some examples
Sims: you can play.. people, leading... ordinary (quote, unquote) lives. Doesn't look especially nice, not based on anything well-known. Initial target market: Who knows? Girls? Kids? Yes, afterwards it turns out everyone and their dog plays Sims. Social uniqueness: it was funny that I could exchange Sims with other savegames.
Sims: Big hit.
Commandos: does not stand out at all, even at the time. Looked rather dull, with its faux 3D. Gameplay was nice but you had to use the keyboard for fast movement in the later levels, so not really for the inexperienced gamer. No social play. Communication of idea: "you blow up enemies in WW2", so much for standing out, right? But wait: this is in 2D! Game is based on a known idea only in so much as it is a WW2 game and view from the top 2D, so rather something to avoid. Target market: fuzzy question. You never really know who turns out to be a fan, right? So, anyone who likes Starcraft?
Commandos: Big hit.
To be fair, they updated the wireless networking window as well. Then again, wireless was a total PITA in vanilla and SP1, so I'll file that under your firewall category.
> save for the early adopters
This is interesting. So far, every major upgrade in audio or video quality/convenience has been picked up by pretty much every end user. Records -> tapes -> CD, VHS -> DVD. There is a vast difference between the quality of audio systems, from the cheapest Korean knock off tinny speakered all in one to hi-end audiophile discrete components. In TVs, the difference is far less. There are good TVs and bad ones, but a more expensive TV will not give you a much better picture than a reasonably priced one. It's usually better designed, has more features, but the image is the image is the image.
My point is that with BR/HDDVD and HD in general, the end users may not all move to this new system because they don't care, it's less convenient, too expensive, etc, resulting in more quality spread over the end users. Some will have a small TV with a couple of iTunes shows, some will have a large 7.1 surround with HD LCD setup in their basements, just like it is with audio systems now.
That's why unlimited packages (it's called flatrate over here) aren't sold as unlimited, but rather as "limited by a fair use policy". This most likely means that when the ISP feels that you're downloading too much, they can kick you off any time they like. I'm saying "most likely" because there's no real way of telling what a fair use policy really means.
I'm all for intelligent QoS, VoIP goes first, mail/html comes next, p2p comes last. Simplified for early morning perusal. But, I guess that anything that can get exploited for the good of the ISP instead of the customer, will.
Are you familiar with stored procedures? Subqueries? It's basic stuff.
(Sorry. Yes, I know that MySQL has all those things now, my point is that pgsql had them ages ago. Also, I'm a happy MySQL user. Also also, phppgadmin is nothing like phpmyadmin. Etc, etc)
If you would buy stock in a somewhat anonymous company, would you go and investigate what their business practices are like? Do you care about their customer service? I appreciate that there are exceptions, but most likely you won't. Yes, there are people who invest in companies that they know and care about (sports clubs come to mind,) but the majority of investors invest for a profit. If a company can turn a profit sooner rather than later, they will go for it. Most investors won't care about the database, the open sourciness, the service, the customers or anything else, but they'll care about the numbers on the yearly report. There is linkage, but if it's not apparent, if it's not 1-1 related, there won't be much interest.
(From here: http://www.mathworks.com/company/aboutus/mission_
I think that is very well said, and I think it's something that doesn't go over well for public companies. MathWorks is still privately held.
What does "content provider" mean? It's a vague term. Is it the artist? Is it the production company? Is it the distributor? Are you deliberately being vague?
Ever been on youtube? It's this new site, and it has all this videos, you know, and it's like FREE.
Joking aside, YouTube is a very good example. Yes, quality is low. But it's getting better and better. Rocketboom is HD, fcol. I believe that there will be a serious hit on YouTube or sth similar and it will open the eyes of a lot of independent film makers. Right now it's kids with a crappy cam. There are a lot of talented people out there and equipment can be rented or borrowed. I foresee that we are going to get the same shift to home studios with movies as we have seen with music, and it will result in the same kind of hits (and misses.)
There will always be a place for large Hollywood productions. This is a good thing. I don't want to miss out on Jack Sparrow. The money being made is going to be less stupendous though. Think of the situation now as a big, government mandated web1.0 bubble. It's big because there is a lot of cash changing hands. It's government mandated (something we never even needed in IT) because of current copyright laws. It's a bubble because however you look at it, the only way is down. After the IT bubble burst, there were still IT jobs. There was still a need for the internet, the newest smartphones, the connected toaster, the latest OS. Some people lost their jobs, but there were a lot of people who didn't have a place in that industry anyway. Same thing goes for movies. The next Tom Cruise might not make as much as the current one, but hey, you know, I consider that to be a good thing.
The point is that Myspace, a large corp, asked Godaddy, another large corp, for the removal of a domain. The domain pointed to an ISP that hosted a site that had some passwords that are all over the internet. I am not saying Fyodor had a right to post those passwords (IANALetc but this sounds like a case of yelling fire in the cinema to me) but he didn't even have a chance to do anything about it. This all happened over his head, he wasn't notified. Myspace had no court order. Godaddy didn't have a legal or moral leg to stand on. Plus, the domain name itself has nothing to do with the content, which is hosted at the ISP, which is NOT Godaddy (AFAIK), so why didn't Myspace take it up with them? Or, omg, with Fyodor? The point is not that he shouldn't be punished (or not, it's for the court to decide) but that he was convicted and executed without so much as being told what for.
That's why Godaddy is "evil": they don't want what's best for its customers (Fyodor in this case), they want what's safest for them. The land of the brave (and the free, but that's another post) it is not.
Also: can you supply a URL for that bootleg story? I'd like to check it out.
In conclusion, there are issues with the DRM in the Zune but if you never play copyrighted content you will never experience them.
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Track record.
You mean like Orkut?
His keyboard repeat rate probably couldn't keep up with the exponential browser pop ups.
It's called Common Sense. You don't click on that .exe in the mail or downloaded from that crack website. You have a properly configured NAT router, and you don't have all ports forwarded to your computer to make MSN videochat work. You use Firefox or Opera, you open email as text.
;)
All common sense, really... The only things Spybot would find for me were tracking cookies (which I don't mind so much, FF is set to delete unwanted cookies on close.) That was before switching to Linux, now I have no idea how to find spyware anymore
Tags are probably very community based, so they would only make sense within that community. (!itsatrap wouldn't work so well on iloveponies.co.ae). That said, why make tags which are meaningless to other communities or have vastly different meanings to other people available as a sorting or searching option? Sure, you could make some pretty mean stats proving any point you'd like (bad grammar in tags up 14.8% from last year! tag "yes" used in 87% of all blogs, world population feeling positive!) but I don't see the point.
Also, anyone trying to make a serious argument containing the word "blogosphere" should really try and get out more. Come on people, it's not world hunger we're solving here. Viz: http://coolestshop.com/headline-blog.html
I haven't looked into PDO yet, but MDB2 will work for your PHP4 code as well. I must add that MDB2 is not the golden egg either, its support for sequences is kind of lame when the db you're coding for natively supports them.
And it's gone again... I was looking for the edit but couldn't find it; it's been deleted again with a reference to the talk page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Patent_troll#Fen ner_Investments
Good luck next time!
(PS it wasn't me)
The downloaded games aren't your property. When Nintendo decides it's over for you or changes the fine print or whatever, you're no longer able to play the game. If you sell the Wii, the games are gone. They're non-transferable, you're not able to back them up (I think?), you can't sell them on eBay.
Conclusion: cartridges own VC games.
PS. I just bought SMB and it totally rocks!
I'm guessing you're in the USA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Virtual_Conso le_titles_(North_America)
SMW will come out shortly. Lots more games for you than for us poor Europeans though...
Also: SMB3! Duck Hunt, probably with the Wiimote as the gun? Super Metroid, Donkey Kong Country...
> But what if they aren't being abused and never will be?
What if the DMCA would have never been abused for censoring (see Scientology, etc)?
"Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely"
I don't remember where I read this, but I think the virtual console games support suspend mode. The article had screenshots, too. Pretty screenshots.
is there for a reason, folks!