There is, a switch. A lot of times the switches are the ones that go bad in those kind of things as they are the movable parts.
In the same way, I recently moved to a new appartment (I am in UK now) which had some used furniture as a friend just left it. There was a coffee machine there, after 2 or three morning uses the machine switch broke, unfortunately there is no way to find a spare part on England (I think it is worse here than in USA), I will now wait for my next travel to Mexico and get a spare switch to fix it, until then, the cables are joined togheter and I use the switch in the wall.
I do not know but, one of the main reasons those kind of stores survive in my country (Mexico) is by selling replacement parts. Of course, in Mexico people will try to fix their blender machine 200 times before buying a new one and, compared to the USA, in Mexico we belive your motto is something like "USandThrow" as whenever something is broken in some way, people only throw it.
I know one of the main reasons of this is the wages, as it may be more expensive to pay someone to fix something than to buy it new. But our electronic shops (the main one is called Steren, our RadioShacks are just telephones & gadgets sellers) sell a lot of electric/electronic components to electronic technicians who make a living fixing house electronic appliances.
As a funny example, my father bought a TV in 1985 or something, it was a really big CRT tv (do not remember the actual size), we move from the west of the country to the east, and he take it with him. it was not until 2002 that we changed it for a Sony Wega (darn Sony), anyway, the old TV suffered from a lighting blast, and it got fixed, then it suffered from a 220 volts current blast (the electric supplier company technicians connected 220v instead of 110v which is normal in Mexico) and it got fixed again and I could go on...
Of course all those spare parts where bought at these electronic shops
I agree, I have been recently invited to LinkedIn by my PhD supervisor. It seems quite nice, right now there are some Google positions opened at Ireland. I may use it after finishing my PhD.
Except that speculating source has a reputation and isn't too likely to just pull something out of its ass and they're not just speculating, they're saying a source told them so...
I guess I'm being trolled but, I have almost all my music collection in ogg Q6 and it sounds quite good. When I was looking for an mp3 alternative I made some tests with a CD I had, I ripped to Wav and then encoded as MP3 and OGG in different bitrates. At least for me (and my hearing capabilites) OGG won the competition.
Nowadays, I buy everything in OGG (from a very nice russian store if you ask me) and I am very happy. From the CD's I buy I rip them to Ogg too.
I am sure you must have transcoded from mp3 to ogg, yes, that sounds really bad. I made that the first time I tried Ogg (that was a long time ago).
For a moment, I was going to look the web for references to answer to your post but, I am feeling very apathic and lazy.
It will be enough to say that, a lot of the software you mentioned was product of some people working at some University (meaning it was at least partially FUNDED by the tax payers). As an example, with gnome, was concieved by Miguel de Icaza while he was working in UNAM, which is a public University in Mexico. A lot of work was done there.
Then, there is KDE (and Koffice), which is based on the QT windowing api, from a corporation that gives their work for free. Same with Gnome, which toolkit came from GTK, the Gimp Toolkit. The Gimp was made by people at Berkeley (again, funded by government).
Again, with all the X implementations, they are being funded in one way or another by corporations.
What I want to conclude is, as in my original post, that no one of us would spend that much time for free. It is not possible in our current economic model.
I am sorry to break your bubble but that is the truth, the only thing that people is doing for free is the maintainance of some of the programs, and even that sometimes is not done well. And in other cases people must get paid to do it (as in OpenOffice) because nobody would like to touch that software.
Sure but, how many of the *real* applications (OpenOffice, mySQL, Eclipse, etc) would fail misserably if the corporations that are throwing money at them to develop them will fail when they stopped?
Do not confuse yourself, all the OpenSource applications that are worth something are product of some kind of closed source (for profit) application whose corporation saw more value in it as PR stunt than as software product.
Yeah, burn my freaking karma, I do not care, I slashdot does not accept thoughts outside the Anti-MS Pro-Linus lamewebos.
My console gaming sights are currently set on the Revolution.
Me too, I have my PC to play all the games that get to Playstation and Xbox (at least, all the games I care).
Unlike that, the Revolution is supposed to give me other kind of entertainment which I can not get now with my PC. So the winning combo for me is my hardcore PC + a Revolution. Meanwhile, I am happilly waiting playing HL2, WoW and CivIV.
Microsoft really screwed themselves over by launching too soon. The reason they did it was mostly to get a product out significantly sooner than Sony
I agree. When the Sony Playstation 3 and Revolution come out the Xbox360 will be seen as a "mid-step" next generation console. Something like a Gameboy Color.
Nintendo and Sony could force this by waiting utnil the middle of the year or a bit later, and then promote their systems under that premises.
It's just a placeholder label for x+1 iteration of gaming systems and games where x is our current generation of said systems and games.
I completely agree with you, that is the deffinition of next generation. It is nothing wrong per se. Say, Xbox360 is the next generation console of Xbox, and PS3 will be the next gen. of Ps2 and Revo of GC. The interesting bit is which of the three consoles will be *better*.
Better does not mean "will have more polygons or pixels per inch*, it means which one will be more enjoyable overall.
Next-generation graphics should permit players to become completely immersed in the universe that the developers have created for them.
Next generation graphics can be whatever the next generation developer wants. Almost all the game studios are focusing on number of displayable pixels or number of polygons per second. I think there is another factor which only Nintendo (and few other game devs) has considered. This is the refinment on the response of the characters. This may be considered as how many motion animation does a character has but it goes farther than that.
I remember when a game of Zelda for the gamecube was being developed and Miyamoto said they were going to use cell shading technology, a lot of people said that it was ugly and whatnot. One magazine stated that using cell shading will allow Nintendo to create *more expressive* characters, so you would be able to see a more vivid and expressive Link.
From this, we can compare for example, a GTA game with Zelda. In GTA you will have the wanna-be human like people pushing all the juice from the the system to mimic real persons, instead a game like Zelda which do not care about "lifelike" graphics would make cartoon characters but make them *feel* more real with all their details.
I just saw a Mario Advance preview (on Digg) and, although the game is just a side scroller with cartoon like graphics, Mario seems more alive than lots of other characters from other "next gen" games (for example, the King Kong xbox360 game I played in a ToysRUs where Kong and the Dinosaurs felt not really alive).
That will *really* increase game details, I would love to see that implemented on RPGs as it would open new possilibites of playability (what about being able to see or even *feel* the mood of other players / NPCs?)
I do not know why people bash Access like that. I have worked with access before as well as as with MS SQL Server and mySQL, I have used Postgre and Oracle only on non productive environments.
From all of those database engines, Access was the only one in which I could transport the data in a flash drive without any hassle (just copy de MDB file). I did not needed to install any program to show the database to other people using snapshot viewer.
Granted, it may not be good for databases that need to be accessed by more than one user each time but it is great to get orgainze a lot of data.
BTW, one of the things I did with access was to migrate some "!#$!"!@ Excel list database (they got a bunch of records and where managing them with excel data lists). It was very easy to create some tables on excel and import the data from excel.
Believe me, some buisness do not need anything more fancy than Access and it does the work, I think it is (as eeeeeevery other OS/app/language) just a tool and if used when it is needed it will do a great job.
If Nintendo opened things up similarly, I'd love to be able to develop games for use with the Revolution controller.
Certainly, the reason why I am waiting for the revolution is to grab one of those controllers. I may not buy the console soon but I will surely get one controller and look on how to connect it to the PC. I would love to start making games that use this controller. I know it wont be easy, as, after connecting it some drivers would be necessary. But I am developing one puzzle game which will benefit A LOT with the controller.
I agree, I do not know why all the buzz about the Nintendogs game, it is not new at all, at worst it is a tamagochi rehash, at best it is a balant copy of the Petz series by Ubisoft. I have had Dogz 5 for quite some time. I do not play it a lot as I do not find it really entertaining, I got it (with The Sims 1 and 2) because of the A.I. agent abilities.
I also have a question about playing games on Linux. Is it possible to use gamepads at all? I have a playstation type with 2 analog sticks, L1, L2, R1 and R2 buttons, 4 standards buttons the D-pad and a start and select button. I can use it in MSWindows XP without any driver (just plug it and it is recognized).
I like to play with gamepads as I got used to it from console gaming. I tried to connect this joystick 3 years ago to a Mandrake box but I could not use it, I believe the system "saw" it but there was no way (that I knew) to configure any game to use it.
My question is if it is possible (and on which distro) to use this or any other gamepad/joystick with Cedega or Linux in general. Also, I have not seen in any distribution something similar to the MS "Gaming Options" window which shows you and lets you configure and test all your gamepads *the easy way*.
It does matter, in fact it matters more because of that, because it is a propietary application from a company that runs on Linux (it does not matter if it is free [as in beer]).
If Google ports all their applications to Linux, people that do not feel confortable with the KiDzE style of some of linux end user applications will have a familiar application to use in Linux.
The more propietary applications are ported to Linux the more users it will attract and the more Corporations will be attracted to port their applications.
My girlfriend currently plays something called Puyo Puyo or Puyo Pop on GBA, he also started to play Sims 2 for GBA. We tried Sims 2 for PC one night, we spent a lot of time making the characters and after 30 minutes "playing" the scenario we just stopped and have never tried it again.
What we have usually played is Mario Kart for the SNES (via zsnes) and I know she is playing Zelda (the one for N64, I think it is Ocarina of Time).
I like games a lot, unfortunately I do not have a lot of time to play them. The last games I *really* played was Commandos and Hitman. When I was in the university I used to play Age of Empires quite a lot (man, I remember arriving late to some lectures just for palying that).
I once had an Xbox, I bought it just because Ninja Gaiden was going to be released for it. I played some games (Robotech, Halo, Medal of Honor). But nowadays when I arrive from work I want a game which I can play for 10, 20 or 30 mintues and then stop it where it is.
The game I am currently playing is called TacticsArena (www.digisonline.com) it is a turn based strategy game pretty much based on chess but, it is a game that I can enjoy in 30 mintues and I do not have to "recall" anything from my previous games.
I think this is what casual gamers need and girls should be taken as casual gamers. I used to be a hardcore gamer, I even organized Lan Parties to play Unreal tournament and AOE multiplayer. But now, I want a game that distracts me and makes me think. I am hoping that nintendo will give some of that with the Revolution. Thus I might buy the console and get into gaming again after some years.
Agree, that was the meaning of my first post. It is McDonalds as a "Corporation" that is doing something bad to society, not because people there is bad, but because of the way Corporations work.
And it is the same in any other buisness. Take for example Wal*Mart on the house selling buisness or Shell on the Fuel buisness or Microsoft on the IT buisness or any other big corporation in any type of buisness. Corporations are inherently bad, that is what I called the "evil Conscience", it is the mechanism required to INCREASE PROFIT that makes corporations do evil. A corporation like a "living" entity MUST increase profits, in the beginning the corporation may not need a lot of profit increment (thus, Microsoft was not evil inthe beginning, McDonalds neither, Wal*Mart neither etc) but as times passes the "soul" of the corporation starts getting hungry for more and more revenue to make it grow, until at some point it does not cares what it does, what just matters is that it grows.
That is why you have stockholders that do not care about what the company does to increment the share value. They just want it to increase. So what is (moraly) flawed is the model of the corporation.
Indeed, google is watching you, the results you get from a -something query at google are based on you IP address search history. Try for example the two same queries,
-mn
With and without Tor-Privoxy (or any other proxy) and you will see the differences.
It is interesting to see what *they* infer about you uh?
p.s. You can't post to this page. Haha, slashdot vs Tor anonymizer
Oh, you could not say it better. The problem is not Google, the problem is Corporations. The way our economy works is what makes "people" do wrong.
I have always thought that Coroporations are kind of self consious monsters that created by the current capitalist model. It is not only in IT, all kind of Corporations end hurting basic human values in exchange of more profit for shareholders and, although the people working on those corporations are not "bad" per se, their actions joined with thousands of other coworkers create the evil consience that moves corporations.
But that thought is too deep for this article and people on slashdot, as for the article's title question (mind you if I did not read TFA is because It seems I need to pay to read it... is OSDN affiliated in some way with Time Warner now?) I say, that is not the *right question*, the question to answer is *What can I trust to google?*, will you trust your browsing history?, will you trust your personal email?, will you trust you buying?.
Personally, I trust my email and search history. I do not trust my computer information (other than browser and OS used) as I do nto use Google Desktop. I do not trust my buying habits as I do not use froogle, (I use ebay =o) ). And I do not trust my personal communication (skype/msn Messenger).
I trust that to different corporations, and even, I do not care about that, as I think my information is not relevant in any way. The most naughty things you can get from my information is that I love to see lesbian sex, I hate DRM and I download for piratebay... oh , and maybe that I read slashdot from time to time.
SuperAudio (it had some other names too) were a Sony technology for higher quality sound than CDs, basically, a DVD where all the capacity were used for high quality sound.
"SACD uses a very different technology from CD and DVD-Audio to encode its audio data, a 1-bit delta-sigma modulation process known as Direct Stream Digital at the very high sampling rate of 2.8224 megahertz."
Unlike DVD-Audio which is the one you where writing about:
"DVD-Audio is a format for delivering high-fidelity audio content on a DVD. It offers many channels (from mono to 5.1 surround sound) at various sampling frequencies and sample rates. Compared to the CD format, the much higher capacity DVD format enables the inclusion of either considerably more music or far higher audio quality (reflected by higher linear sampling rates and higher vertical bit-rates, and/or additional channels for spatial sound reproduction)."
Of course you are correct in your point that they didnt take off, or they have not yet. Although I doubt they will take off soon (SACD), I believe they *will* in the near future as they have better sound quality than CDs and consequently than any kind of MP3. If you believe you can not distinguish between a normal CD sound and a SACD sound you just have to wait until you listen to one of those.
This kind of reminds me of the Atari/Nintendo/SuperNintendo graphics, when I saw the Nintendo graphics (compared to Atari ones) I thought they where the best graphics I have never seen and they where like cartoons. Then I saw SNES graphics and I thought the same.
You will have to judge HD content after you have seen it. Same as 2.1 vs 5.1 vs 7.1 vs holophonic sound. You may think it is not better enough for you but at the end you will see differences.
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There is, a switch. A lot of times the switches are the ones that go bad in those kind of things as they are the movable parts.
In the same way, I recently moved to a new appartment (I am in UK now) which had some used furniture as a friend just left it. There was a coffee machine there, after 2 or three morning uses the machine switch broke, unfortunately there is no way to find a spare part on England (I think it is worse here than in USA), I will now wait for my next travel to Mexico and get a spare switch to fix it, until then, the cables are joined togheter and I use the switch in the wall.
I do not know but, one of the main reasons those kind of stores survive in my country (Mexico) is by selling replacement parts. Of course, in Mexico people will try to fix their blender machine 200 times before buying a new one and, compared to the USA, in Mexico we belive your motto is something like "USandThrow" as whenever something is broken in some way, people only throw it.
I know one of the main reasons of this is the wages, as it may be more expensive to pay someone to fix something than to buy it new. But our electronic shops (the main one is called Steren, our RadioShacks are just telephones & gadgets sellers) sell a lot of electric/electronic components to electronic technicians who make a living fixing house electronic appliances.
As a funny example, my father bought a TV in 1985 or something, it was a really big CRT tv (do not remember the actual size), we move from the west of the country to the east, and he take it with him. it was not until 2002 that we changed it for a Sony Wega (darn Sony), anyway, the old TV suffered from a lighting blast, and it got fixed, then it suffered from a 220 volts current blast (the electric supplier company technicians connected 220v instead of 110v which is normal in Mexico) and it got fixed again and I could go on...
Of course all those spare parts where bought at these electronic shops
I agree, I have been recently invited to LinkedIn by my PhD supervisor. It seems quite nice, right now there are some Google positions opened at Ireland. I may use it after finishing my PhD.
Except that speculating source has a reputation and isn't too likely to just pull something out of its ass and they're not just speculating, they're saying a source told them so...
:)
Yeah, that sounds too much speculative to mee
I guess I'm being trolled but, I have almost all my music collection in ogg Q6 and it sounds quite good. When I was looking for an mp3 alternative I made some tests with a CD I had, I ripped to Wav and then encoded as MP3 and OGG in different bitrates. At least for me (and my hearing capabilites) OGG won the competition.
Nowadays, I buy everything in OGG (from a very nice russian store if you ask me) and I am very happy. From the CD's I buy I rip them to Ogg too.
I am sure you must have transcoded from mp3 to ogg, yes, that sounds really bad. I made that the first time I tried Ogg (that was a long time ago).
For a moment, I was going to look the web for references to answer to your post but, I am feeling very apathic and lazy.
It will be enough to say that, a lot of the software you mentioned was product of some people working at some University (meaning it was at least partially FUNDED by the tax payers). As an example, with gnome, was concieved by Miguel de Icaza while he was working in UNAM, which is a public University in Mexico. A lot of work was done there.
Then, there is KDE (and Koffice), which is based on the QT windowing api, from a corporation that gives their work for free. Same with Gnome, which toolkit came from GTK, the Gimp Toolkit. The Gimp was made by people at Berkeley (again, funded by government).
Again, with all the X implementations, they are being funded in one way or another by corporations.
What I want to conclude is, as in my original post, that no one of us would spend that much time for free. It is not possible in our current economic model.
I am sorry to break your bubble but that is the truth, the only thing that people is doing for free is the maintainance of some of the programs, and even that sometimes is not done well. And in other cases people must get paid to do it (as in OpenOffice) because nobody would like to touch that software.
So much for the goodness of OpenSource software...
The MHTML incompatibility plus the inability to search correctly in multi framed pages (like Java documentation).
Firefox pwn3z
Sure but, how many of the *real* applications (OpenOffice, mySQL, Eclipse, etc) would fail misserably if the corporations that are throwing money at them to develop them will fail when they stopped?
Do not confuse yourself, all the OpenSource applications that are worth something are product of some kind of closed source (for profit) application whose corporation saw more value in it as PR stunt than as software product.
Yeah, burn my freaking karma, I do not care, I slashdot does not accept thoughts outside the Anti-MS Pro-Linus lamewebos.
got plenty of karma here.
My console gaming sights are currently set on the Revolution.
Me too, I have my PC to play all the games that get to Playstation and Xbox (at least, all the games I care).
Unlike that, the Revolution is supposed to give me other kind of entertainment which I can not get now with my PC. So the winning combo for me is my hardcore PC + a Revolution. Meanwhile, I am happilly waiting playing HL2, WoW and CivIV.
Microsoft really screwed themselves over by launching too soon. The reason they did it was mostly to get a product out significantly sooner than Sony
I agree. When the Sony Playstation 3 and Revolution come out the Xbox360 will be seen as a "mid-step" next generation console. Something like a Gameboy Color.
Nintendo and Sony could force this by waiting utnil the middle of the year or a bit later, and then promote their systems under that premises.
It's just a placeholder label for x+1 iteration of gaming systems and games where x is our current generation of said systems and games.
I completely agree with you, that is the deffinition of next generation. It is nothing wrong per se. Say, Xbox360 is the next generation console of Xbox, and PS3 will be the next gen. of Ps2 and Revo of GC. The interesting bit is which of the three consoles will be *better*.
Better does not mean "will have more polygons or pixels per inch*, it means which one will be more enjoyable overall.
Next-generation graphics should permit players to become completely immersed in the universe that the developers have created for them.
Next generation graphics can be whatever the next generation developer wants. Almost all the game studios are focusing on number of displayable pixels or number of polygons per second. I think there is another factor which only Nintendo (and few other game devs) has considered. This is the refinment on the response of the characters. This may be considered as how many motion animation does a character has but it goes farther than that.
I remember when a game of Zelda for the gamecube was being developed and Miyamoto said they were going to use cell shading technology, a lot of people said that it was ugly and whatnot. One magazine stated that using cell shading will allow Nintendo to create *more expressive* characters, so you would be able to see a more vivid and expressive Link.
From this, we can compare for example, a GTA game with Zelda. In GTA you will have the wanna-be human like people pushing all the juice from the the system to mimic real persons, instead a game like Zelda which do not care about "lifelike" graphics would make cartoon characters but make them *feel* more real with all their details.
I just saw a Mario Advance preview (on Digg) and, although the game is just a side scroller with cartoon like graphics, Mario seems more alive than lots of other characters from other "next gen" games (for example, the King Kong xbox360 game I played in a ToysRUs where Kong and the Dinosaurs felt not really alive).
That will *really* increase game details, I would love to see that implemented on RPGs as it would open new possilibites of playability (what about being able to see or even *feel* the mood of other players / NPCs?)
In Japan only Old People whine about rootkits
I do not know why people bash Access like that. I have worked with access before as well as as with MS SQL Server and mySQL, I have used Postgre and Oracle only on non productive environments.
From all of those database engines, Access was the only one in which I could transport the data in a flash drive without any hassle (just copy de MDB file). I did not needed to install any program to show the database to other people using snapshot viewer.
Granted, it may not be good for databases that need to be accessed by more than one user each time but it is great to get orgainze a lot of data.
BTW, one of the things I did with access was to migrate some "!#$!"!@ Excel list database (they got a bunch of records and where managing them with excel data lists). It was very easy to create some tables on excel and import the data from excel.
Believe me, some buisness do not need anything more fancy than Access and it does the work, I think it is (as eeeeeevery other OS/app/language) just a tool and if used when it is needed it will do a great job.
If Nintendo opened things up similarly, I'd love to be able to develop games for use with the Revolution controller.
Certainly, the reason why I am waiting for the revolution is to grab one of those controllers. I may not buy the console soon but I will surely get one controller and look on how to connect it to the PC. I would love to start making games that use this controller. I know it wont be easy, as, after connecting it some drivers would be necessary. But I am developing one puzzle game which will benefit A LOT with the controller.
I agree, I do not know why all the buzz about the Nintendogs game, it is not new at all, at worst it is a tamagochi rehash, at best it is a balant copy of the Petz series by Ubisoft. I have had Dogz 5 for quite some time. I do not play it a lot as I do not find it really entertaining, I got it (with The Sims 1 and 2) because of the A.I. agent abilities.
I also have a question about playing games on Linux. Is it possible to use gamepads at all? I have a playstation type with 2 analog sticks, L1, L2, R1 and R2 buttons, 4 standards buttons the D-pad and a start and select button. I can use it in MSWindows XP without any driver (just plug it and it is recognized).
I like to play with gamepads as I got used to it from console gaming. I tried to connect this joystick 3 years ago to a Mandrake box but I could not use it, I believe the system "saw" it but there was no way (that I knew) to configure any game to use it.
My question is if it is possible (and on which distro) to use this or any other gamepad/joystick with Cedega or Linux in general. Also, I have not seen in any distribution something similar to the MS "Gaming Options" window which shows you and lets you configure and test all your gamepads *the easy way*.
Does anybody has any experience on this?
It does matter, in fact it matters more because of that, because it is a propietary application from a company that runs on Linux (it does not matter if it is free [as in beer]).
If Google ports all their applications to Linux, people that do not feel confortable with the KiDzE style of some of linux end user applications will have a familiar application to use in Linux.
The more propietary applications are ported to Linux the more users it will attract and the more Corporations will be attracted to port their applications.
I agree with you,
My girlfriend currently plays something called Puyo Puyo or Puyo Pop on GBA, he also started to play Sims 2 for GBA. We tried Sims 2 for PC one night, we spent a lot of time making the characters and after 30 minutes "playing" the scenario we just stopped and have never tried it again.
What we have usually played is Mario Kart for the SNES (via zsnes) and I know she is playing Zelda (the one for N64, I think it is Ocarina of Time).
I like games a lot, unfortunately I do not have a lot of time to play them. The last games I *really* played was Commandos and Hitman. When I was in the university I used to play Age of Empires quite a lot (man, I remember arriving late to some lectures just for palying that).
I once had an Xbox, I bought it just because Ninja Gaiden was going to be released for it. I played some games (Robotech, Halo, Medal of Honor). But nowadays when I arrive from work I want a game which I can play for 10, 20 or 30 mintues and then stop it where it is.
The game I am currently playing is called TacticsArena (www.digisonline.com) it is a turn based strategy game pretty much based on chess but, it is a game that I can enjoy in 30 mintues and I do not have to "recall" anything from my previous games.
I think this is what casual gamers need and girls should be taken as casual gamers. I used to be a hardcore gamer, I even organized Lan Parties to play Unreal tournament and AOE multiplayer. But now, I want a game that distracts me and makes me think. I am hoping that nintendo will give some of that with the Revolution. Thus I might buy the console and get into gaming again after some years.
I look at them more like McDonalds.
Agree, that was the meaning of my first post. It is McDonalds as a "Corporation" that is doing something bad to society, not because people there is bad, but because of the way Corporations work.
And it is the same in any other buisness. Take for example Wal*Mart on the house selling buisness or Shell on the Fuel buisness or Microsoft on the IT buisness or any other big corporation in any type of buisness. Corporations are inherently bad, that is what I called the "evil Conscience", it is the mechanism required to INCREASE PROFIT that makes corporations do evil. A corporation like a "living" entity MUST increase profits, in the beginning the corporation may not need a lot of profit increment (thus, Microsoft was not evil inthe beginning, McDonalds neither, Wal*Mart neither etc) but as times passes the "soul" of the corporation starts getting hungry for more and more revenue to make it grow, until at some point it does not cares what it does, what just matters is that it grows.
That is why you have stockholders that do not care about what the company does to increment the share value. They just want it to increase. So what is (moraly) flawed is the model of the corporation.
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hah!, man welcome to the 21st century, you should look them on Ebay
Of course!!!
you do not happen to have a linky with a picture for that uh?
Will 2006 be the year of Desktop Linux?
*runs*
Indeed, google is watching you, the results you get from a -something query at google are based on you IP address search history. Try for example the two same queries,
-mn
With and without Tor-Privoxy (or any other proxy) and you will see the differences.
It is interesting to see what *they* infer about you uh?
p.s.
You can't post to this page.
Haha, slashdot vs Tor anonymizer
Oh, you could not say it better. The problem is not Google, the problem is Corporations. The way our economy works is what makes "people" do wrong.
I have always thought that Coroporations are kind of self consious monsters that created by the current capitalist model. It is not only in IT, all kind of Corporations end hurting basic human values in exchange of more profit for shareholders and, although the people working on those corporations are not "bad" per se, their actions joined with thousands of other coworkers create the evil consience that moves corporations.
But that thought is too deep for this article and people on slashdot, as for the article's title question (mind you if I did not read TFA is because It seems I need to pay to read it... is OSDN affiliated in some way with Time Warner now?) I say, that is not the *right question*, the question to answer is *What can I trust to google?*, will you trust your browsing history?, will you trust your personal email?, will you trust you buying?.
Personally, I trust my email and search history. I do not trust my computer information (other than browser and OS used) as I do nto use Google Desktop. I do not trust my buying habits as I do not use froogle, (I use ebay =o) ). And I do not trust my personal communication (skype/msn Messenger).
I trust that to different corporations, and even, I do not care about that, as I think my information is not relevant in any way. The most naughty things you can get from my information is that I love to see lesbian sex, I hate DRM and I download for piratebay... oh , and maybe that I read slashdot from time to time.
SuperAudio (it had some other names too) were a Sony technology for higher quality sound than CDs, basically, a DVD where all the capacity were used for high quality sound.
Not true, SACD (Super Audio CD) is something different from DVD-Audio:
"SACD uses a very different technology from CD and DVD-Audio to encode its audio data, a 1-bit delta-sigma modulation process known as Direct Stream Digital at the very high sampling rate of 2.8224 megahertz."
Unlike DVD-Audio which is the one you where writing about:
"DVD-Audio is a format for delivering high-fidelity audio content on a DVD. It offers many channels (from mono to 5.1 surround sound) at various sampling frequencies and sample rates. Compared to the CD format, the much higher capacity DVD format enables the inclusion of either considerably more music or far higher audio quality (reflected by higher linear sampling rates and higher vertical bit-rates, and/or additional channels for spatial sound reproduction)."
Of course you are correct in your point that they didnt take off, or they have not yet. Although I doubt they will take off soon (SACD), I believe they *will* in the near future as they have better sound quality than CDs and consequently than any kind of MP3. If you believe you can not distinguish between a normal CD sound and a SACD sound you just have to wait until you listen to one of those.
This kind of reminds me of the Atari/Nintendo/SuperNintendo graphics, when I saw the Nintendo graphics (compared to Atari ones) I thought they where the best graphics I have never seen and they where like cartoons. Then I saw SNES graphics and I thought the same.
You will have to judge HD content after you have seen it. Same as 2.1 vs 5.1 vs 7.1 vs holophonic sound. You may think it is not better enough for you but at the end you will see differences.