Why stop at 200GB? You could use a 500GB drive and have 150% additional capacity with zero gain in size. I'm a little disappointed that the nano cases won't quite fit anymore though. As the article states though, this is one mod any nano owner cannot do without.
Ha, you can turn your thinker down a notch or two. I was refering only to the fact that I was providing speculative opinion myself. For what it is worth though, that was a thoughtfully deep comment you made. Offtopic for sure, but thoughtfully deep indeed.
That's probably the collective HD-DVD camp's line of thinking. Then when the standard gain's mass-movement, region lock-in gets slipped back into the standard because of newly founded "concerns" from the content producers. All the pros (of course, aside from the very real cost-, and very arguable format structure- benefit)that the format has going for it suddenly disappear.
Actually, the article states that the U.N. wants to have the DNS computers turned over to them. Which is interesting considering that would be ceding private property to a government organization.
The article speaks of handing over control of the servers. Man, I'd hate to be the IT guy in charge of that migration! Anyhoo, I don't think they want to move them anywhere, which leads me to the next point:
The US is hardly "doing as it pleases".
Sure, we can't exactly call them the DNS Nazi's yet, but the point in the article that I was refering to is that RNS distribution is heavily biased towards first world countries like the U.S. and the United Kingdom. I know, I know, no shit, we got tons of people, tons of commerce, why does Madagascar need a larger percent of the pie? Well, asking no one in particular, why should the U.S. decide? Should Best Buy tell Mom's Refridgerators what they can sell?
The article doesn't go into such detail, but I assume that the same people (as in people like you and me) are going to be operating the servers from the same location still if such a thing were to happen, but the U.N. doesn't want the U.S. to be able to tell them to go screw themselves when a constituent needs some help in attempting to improve their quality of living through technology, most importantly, the communications and commerce that are touched by it. Is the U.S. holding these people back? I don't know personally, but the U.N., with the EU's chiming, seems to think so. If the U.N. is the EU's puppet, I'll agree with you in that we got something to worry about here. I don't think that is the case though.
Fair point, but the U.N. isn't in cahoots with any particular country last time I checked, nor for that matter is it European-centric as you insinuated in the O.P..
Sure, the UN may be broke in many people's opinion, but it is still an arguably unbiased governing body for the participating world. The U.S., my country, developed what is now the internet, but I don't see how giving some oversight of the operations of a global network to a "global" organization is bad for the internet.
Does it say anywhere that the U.N. would shut down U.S. DNS operations and give it to someone else? I think the idea is that the U.S. should not be able to do as they please in this situation without any need to respond to outside concerns. I have to agree with that.
I haven't tried it, have you? Regardless, you'll be okay . . . the system supports the good old Gamecube controllers and memory cards too.
Whether the new games will is another thing. I'm actually excited to try the new controller out, but I'll stand right next to you and throw mine in the fire if they suck.
I'm not saying Reiser4 isn't the shiznit (or whatever the kids say these days), but I just come from a time and place where being objective and modest about your own trade or art speaks far stronger than unmodest self-PR work. If he had said, "these people said this about my work," which from my understanding, many people have said many positve things about Reiser4, I would never have posted a comment entitled, "No one cares, but . . . "
In case Slashdot is Slashdotted, here is the text of the newspost for your convenience:
Posted by Cliff on Monday September 12, @11:20AM
from the last-mile-broadcast-broadband dept.
PalletBoy asks: "I live in BFE (read 'remote') Pennsylvania where BroadBand is not available in any form save satellite, which is no good for price and latency reasons (curse my MMO addiction!). My big question is: what is the -actual- current status of WiMAX technology? Different sites have me believing different things and I can't find an exact answer to the question 'When will I be able to buy a WiMAX router and cards so I can remotely receive broadband?' When will WiMAX (802.16) be solidly standardized, out, and affordable? Or is it already there?"
Hopefully that helps save Slashdot's bandwidth for more news of the same importance.
That makes 4G a perfect candidate for next-generation deployment. Think of it as being like how most people skip a few generations of processing increase before upgrading most PC components. I know Verizon is hedging on their EV-DO service, along with a few other companies, but I'm sure all of the rest that haven't made much investment into 3G will be all over technology like this that offers such a gross increase in bandwidth.
Hope you don't mind my butting in b100dian, but I closed the joke tag for you:
YES ITS A FAATURE COMPARISON AS SIBLNG SADE
TAHT1111!!11 OMG WTF LOL IS DA BTA IS TEH COMPARISON IS BTWEN THNGS SOME PAOPLA ALRAADY ENJOY AND THNGS SOM3 OTHERS MIGHT ENJOY IN DA FUTUR3
IF11!11!!! OMG WTF LOL THEY AVER FINISH TEH BTA1!!11!1! LOL
Your comment and the other replies to it are all correct, but there is one distinction to think about.
Now whether this is Microsoft's intentions I'm not sure, but the core OS likely won't have any more functionality added between now and Vista's release. The "meat" that people are waiting for in Beta 2 and subsequent releases are all applets and applications, not directly integrated components of the OS.
I could be wrong, but like you said, it doesn't make much sense that MS would call this a Beta with every intention to add critical pieces of the OS at a later date. While somewhat unrelated, it's also worth mentioning that Microsoft released Beta 1 of WinFS two days ago on the 29th to everyone's surprise, which doesn't work with the Vista beta, but installs as an add-on "component" in XP.
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Why stop at 200GB? You could use a 500GB drive and have 150% additional capacity with zero gain in size. I'm a little disappointed that the nano cases won't quite fit anymore though. As the article states though, this is one mod any nano owner cannot do without.
Warez is a free alternative. Consider yourself corrected.
Legal disclaimer: I do not condone warez.
Ha, you can turn your thinker down a notch or two. I was refering only to the fact that I was providing speculative opinion myself. For what it is worth though, that was a thoughtfully deep comment you made. Offtopic for sure, but thoughtfully deep indeed.
That's probably the collective HD-DVD camp's line of thinking. Then when the standard gain's mass-movement, region lock-in gets slipped back into the standard because of newly founded "concerns" from the content producers. All the pros (of course, aside from the very real cost-, and very arguable format structure- benefit)that the format has going for it suddenly disappear.
Let's hear it for marketing! Yay!
And now again for speculative opinion! Yay!
"the studio's entry into the Internet sphere must be accompanied by fail-safe methods to prevent the films from being copied and redistributed."
.mp4s?
Apple DRM'd
Actually, the article states that the U.N. wants to have the DNS computers turned over to them. Which is interesting considering that would be ceding private property to a government organization.
The article speaks of handing over control of the servers. Man, I'd hate to be the IT guy in charge of that migration! Anyhoo, I don't think they want to move them anywhere, which leads me to the next point:
The US is hardly "doing as it pleases".
Sure, we can't exactly call them the DNS Nazi's yet, but the point in the article that I was refering to is that RNS distribution is heavily biased towards first world countries like the U.S. and the United Kingdom. I know, I know, no shit, we got tons of people, tons of commerce, why does Madagascar need a larger percent of the pie? Well, asking no one in particular, why should the U.S. decide? Should Best Buy tell Mom's Refridgerators what they can sell?
The article doesn't go into such detail, but I assume that the same people (as in people like you and me) are going to be operating the servers from the same location still if such a thing were to happen, but the U.N. doesn't want the U.S. to be able to tell them to go screw themselves when a constituent needs some help in attempting to improve their quality of living through technology, most importantly, the communications and commerce that are touched by it. Is the U.S. holding these people back? I don't know personally, but the U.N., with the EU's chiming, seems to think so. If the U.N. is the EU's puppet, I'll agree with you in that we got something to worry about here. I don't think that is the case though.
Fair point, but the U.N. isn't in cahoots with any particular country last time I checked, nor for that matter is it European-centric as you insinuated in the O.P..
Sure, the UN may be broke in many people's opinion, but it is still an arguably unbiased governing body for the participating world. The U.S., my country, developed what is now the internet, but I don't see how giving some oversight of the operations of a global network to a "global" organization is bad for the internet.
Does it say anywhere that the U.N. would shut down U.S. DNS operations and give it to someone else? I think the idea is that the U.S. should not be able to do as they please in this situation without any need to respond to outside concerns. I have to agree with that.
Hey now, at least Taco acknowledged it and apologized in advance. Have you seen that before?
I know where you're going, but you gotta remember, people here can't get it any other way.
Not limited in shape to the human hand, the new controller can be applied to many situations.
Imagine what you could do with it shoved up your ass or cootch. The girls will love this thing!
Mind you, I'm totally in agreement with your post, just thought I'd take a moment to blow everyone's minds.
adj.
1. See: redundant
I haven't tried it, have you? Regardless, you'll be okay . . . the system supports the good old Gamecube controllers and memory cards too.
Whether the new games will is another thing. I'm actually excited to try the new controller out, but I'll stand right next to you and throw mine in the fire if they suck.
I'm not saying Reiser4 isn't the shiznit (or whatever the kids say these days), but I just come from a time and place where being objective and modest about your own trade or art speaks far stronger than unmodest self-PR work. If he had said, "these people said this about my work," which from my understanding, many people have said many positve things about Reiser4, I would never have posted a comment entitled, "No one cares, but . . . "
In other words, "0MG WTF!?!! STFU >@! LOL"
"Comparing Reiser4 to WinFS, Reiser says in the interview, "Reiser4 is a much more mature design . . ."."
What is better than having the file system's author make unbiased competitive claims about their own products?
LAST POST!!
In case Slashdot is Slashdotted, here is the text of the newspost for your convenience:
Posted by Cliff on Monday September 12, @11:20AM
from the last-mile-broadcast-broadband dept.
PalletBoy asks: "I live in BFE (read 'remote') Pennsylvania where BroadBand is not available in any form save satellite, which is no good for price and latency reasons (curse my MMO addiction!). My big question is: what is the -actual- current status of WiMAX technology? Different sites have me believing different things and I can't find an exact answer to the question 'When will I be able to buy a WiMAX router and cards so I can remotely receive broadband?' When will WiMAX (802.16) be solidly standardized, out, and affordable? Or is it already there?"
Hopefully that helps save Slashdot's bandwidth for more news of the same importance.
Word to your mother and your father.
I don't know, but I'd rather think that your peanut butter is in my chocolate.
Oh wait, err, that sounds bad, huh?
Yeah, god damn them for putting out a quality game that people like. Jerks.
Well I had to school through 20 miles of videogames to get to snow. Now that's a bitch!
Offtopic please. Thank you in advance.
That makes 4G a perfect candidate for next-generation deployment. Think of it as being like how most people skip a few generations of processing increase before upgrading most PC components. I know Verizon is hedging on their EV-DO service, along with a few other companies, but I'm sure all of the rest that haven't made much investment into 3G will be all over technology like this that offers such a gross increase in bandwidth.
Hope you don't mind my butting in b100dian, but I closed the joke tag for you:
YES ITS A FAATURE COMPARISON AS SIBLNG SADE TAHT1111!!11 OMG WTF LOL IS DA BTA IS TEH COMPARISON IS BTWEN THNGS SOME PAOPLA ALRAADY ENJOY AND THNGS SOM3 OTHERS MIGHT ENJOY IN DA FUTUR3 IF11!11!!! OMG WTF LOL THEY AVER FINISH TEH BTA1!!11!1! LOL
Translated by means of Moi using the AOL Translator
PS - Is b100dian an Armenian nick?
They:pron. Used to refer to the ones previously mentioned or implied.
Ever:adv. In any way; at all
Finish:v. tr. To bring to an end; terminate
The:def. art. Used before singular or plural nouns and noun phrases that denote particular, specified persons or things
Beta:n. An incomplete, work-in-process software release
Put it all together now and say it with me:
Does that make more sense? If there's anymore confusion, I would begin by taking the comment you replied to less seriously.
I'll do the same for your post and hope you're laughing as much as I am at the rediculous amount of time I spent replying to it.
Your comment and the other replies to it are all correct, but there is one distinction to think about.
Now whether this is Microsoft's intentions I'm not sure, but the core OS likely won't have any more functionality added between now and Vista's release. The "meat" that people are waiting for in Beta 2 and subsequent releases are all applets and applications, not directly integrated components of the OS.
I could be wrong, but like you said, it doesn't make much sense that MS would call this a Beta with every intention to add critical pieces of the OS at a later date. While somewhat unrelated, it's also worth mentioning that Microsoft released Beta 1 of WinFS two days ago on the 29th to everyone's surprise, which doesn't work with the Vista beta, but installs as an add-on "component" in XP.
To summarize: It's a feature comparison, not performance.
Well I'll be, I stand corrected. The economic muscle of the south makes itself apparent once again.