You know, it's almost frightening how far down in the Slashdot comments I had to scroll before I FINALLY saw someone asking this question.
Seriously, rip your DVD porn into iTunes with Handbrake (Here's a HOWTO for the uninitiated) and you've got the perfect, private, pocketable porno player... with alliteration, even.
I'm suprised the GOP hasn't already pre-ordered every single one of these "to protect the children".
The flaw in the CueCat concept was this - it was trying to solve a problem that no one had...
Exactly! It's funny, I think this is the first example of where if this thing had been sold originally for what the alpha-geeks were modding it to do at the time, it coulda been a raging success, instead of just a footnote. Everyone needs an easy way to catalog all their junk. No one really needed what this product was created for.
I can't see how Debian is going to keep up the rapid pace of Ubuntu releases at this rate.
Now, now, let's not get cocky. I like Ubuntu also, in fact I've been using it exclusivly for the last 7-8 months and I really appreciate all the little desktop tweaks that Ubuntu provides, but without the hard work of hundreds of Debian developers, Ubuntu wouldn't be the joy it is to work with day to day.
While HD TVs may not now have a wide distrabution, they are very obviously the future. What Nintendo is setting themselves up for is a console that is obsolete in a couple of years when everybody starts to get HD.
And in a few years it'll be time for, guess what, a new round of gaming consoles! I think Nintendo is being really smart here, if this console's half as revolutionary as Nintendo claims, and it's 200 bucks cheaper than everyone else's (but still making a tidy profit for Nintendo) it might just claim supremacy in this round of the console wars. Most people don't have 6000 dollar plasmas at home. Most people will never have 6000 plasmas at home. They're gonna wait 4 years 'til they're 400 bucks at Best Buy and then buy one... to go with their Playstation 4.
A big list of them updated regularly, with ratings and short, pithy reviews are available from the good people at Little Fluffy Industries (littlefluffy.com). This site completely killed my at-work productivity for nearly three months.
Those statements are the exact reason that, when it was time to replace my Sony DRU-A05 after it died, I went with a Plextor.
This latest bit of news puts a serious cramp in the shiny-happy feeling produced by that press release of March 8.
>... unfortunately, if they just offer bundled >binary drivers for everything as they are >likely to do, it leaves users up s**t creek >come upgrade time.
This was exactly my concern on reading the article. Sounds like a great idea to be able to get Ubuntu on my laptop, standard, but then if this is a custom, HP-specific distribution (as the article suggests), can I "apt-get dist-upgrade" in six months when the next Ubuntu release comes out and still have it "just work"? Is this a one-off thing, or is HP commited to following Ubuntu's release schedule?
I always recommend users consider a password comprised largely of profanity. This has proven to have several benefits:
1. It's makes passwords "sticky" and easier to remember, so you can make them arbitrarily long. It's easy for your password to be 1Mg\/\/v
when it stands for "lick my gibbering whale vulva."
2. Because these passwords are potentially embarassing, users are much less likely to write them down in any conspicuous place (like the sticky note on the monitor).
3. An additional benefit of the embarassment factor, users are less likely to give their password out to others, thus protecting against social engineering attacks.
Yeah, there are several services like this out there already. My favorite (and the original, I believe) is dodgeit.com. You can create an address on the fly for any site that requires one, then check it through their slim and unobtrusive web interface or (and this is my favorite part, any other service offer this?) via RSS.
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You know, it's almost frightening how far down in the Slashdot comments I had to scroll before I FINALLY saw someone asking this question.
Seriously, rip your DVD porn into iTunes with Handbrake (Here's a HOWTO for the uninitiated) and you've got the perfect, private, pocketable porno player... with alliteration, even.
I'm suprised the GOP hasn't already pre-ordered every single one of these "to protect the children".
Just imagine if every technology we have were built only with its most narrowly conceived function in mind.
Gah, it'd be like living in IKEA!
The flaw in the CueCat concept was this - it was trying to solve a problem that no one had...
Exactly! It's funny, I think this is the first example of where if this thing had been sold originally for what the alpha-geeks were modding it to do at the time, it coulda been a raging success, instead of just a footnote. Everyone needs an easy way to catalog all their junk. No one really needed what this product was created for.
I can't see how Debian is going to keep up the rapid pace of Ubuntu releases at this rate. Now, now, let's not get cocky. I like Ubuntu also, in fact I've been using it exclusivly for the last 7-8 months and I really appreciate all the little desktop tweaks that Ubuntu provides, but without the hard work of hundreds of Debian developers, Ubuntu wouldn't be the joy it is to work with day to day.
While HD TVs may not now have a wide distrabution, they are very obviously the future. What Nintendo is setting themselves up for is a console that is obsolete in a couple of years when everybody starts to get HD. And in a few years it'll be time for, guess what, a new round of gaming consoles! I think Nintendo is being really smart here, if this console's half as revolutionary as Nintendo claims, and it's 200 bucks cheaper than everyone else's (but still making a tidy profit for Nintendo) it might just claim supremacy in this round of the console wars. Most people don't have 6000 dollar plasmas at home. Most people will never have 6000 plasmas at home. They're gonna wait 4 years 'til they're 400 bucks at Best Buy and then buy one... to go with their Playstation 4.
A big list of them updated regularly, with ratings and short, pithy reviews are available from the good people at Little Fluffy Industries (littlefluffy.com). This site completely killed my at-work productivity for nearly three months.
Those statements are the exact reason that, when it was time to replace my Sony DRU-A05 after it died, I went with a Plextor. This latest bit of news puts a serious cramp in the shiny-happy feeling produced by that press release of March 8.
Yeah, they'dve had to pay me to use Windows ME, too :-).
>... unfortunately, if they just offer bundled >binary drivers for everything as they are >likely to do, it leaves users up s**t creek >come upgrade time. This was exactly my concern on reading the article. Sounds like a great idea to be able to get Ubuntu on my laptop, standard, but then if this is a custom, HP-specific distribution (as the article suggests), can I "apt-get dist-upgrade" in six months when the next Ubuntu release comes out and still have it "just work"? Is this a one-off thing, or is HP commited to following Ubuntu's release schedule?
It's Breezy Badger!
I always recommend users consider a password comprised largely of profanity. This has proven to have several benefits: 1. It's makes passwords "sticky" and easier to remember, so you can make them arbitrarily long. It's easy for your password to be 1Mg\/\/v when it stands for "lick my gibbering whale vulva." 2. Because these passwords are potentially embarassing, users are much less likely to write them down in any conspicuous place (like the sticky note on the monitor). 3. An additional benefit of the embarassment factor, users are less likely to give their password out to others, thus protecting against social engineering attacks.
Yeah, there are several services like this out there already. My favorite (and the original, I believe) is dodgeit.com. You can create an address on the fly for any site that requires one, then check it through their slim and unobtrusive web interface or (and this is my favorite part, any other service offer this?) via RSS.