Nice thought. In a sales point of view this makes total sense... Looking at it that way, I'm suprised he didn't donate more. Well with the billions that he has
I think as long as I can see the computer then I am okay with it. There should be a way to turn the wireless card off, that way you know the computer has no connection to anything but the computer you are plugging into. You would plug your USB drive into the comp, turn it on and it would load your OS. When you are ready to surf the web you can turn on your wireless card that is built into the box, and go.
After reading a few posts on this subject, people are afraid that something might be loaded on the box that steals your information. Well someone also might be sniffing frames wirelessly and steal your information that way. Having personal information on your computer has and will always be a risk. You just have value the convenience vs risk and to what extreme you want to take it.
Someone also mentioned Windows not being able to load well enough on different hardware. This is 100% true and would be a major set back to this idea. Well, the idea of having your own personal Windows OS. You can still tote around your Windows programs if the hotel had personal desktops.
Sure, a shorter releaese cycle may seem better, but is it really? Correct me if I am wrong, but it is the short release cycle and shareholders constant demands for "more more more" that got MS office to be the bloatware that it is today; honestly, what can anyone do in todays MS office that couldnt be done in Office 2000?http://www.microsoft.com/office/editions/prodinfo/ compare.mspx
I have found many more uses in Word 2003 than in 2000.
You are talking about nerds here... Nerds have a tendency to try to use that kind of wit. Just like they can't say "newbie" and instead have to say "newb"... I suppose it is just accepted throughout the internet now. Just like ebonics is sadly accepted (although you should have rocks thrown at you when using it).:)
I just don't see them redoing regular nintendo games to retro-fit this controller. They will add on a normal way to play controller games and sell their service. Thats about it. They don't want to spend the money to change the way the game is made if only a few regular nintendo followers are going to play it.
If you are just talking about re-doing old nintendo games with new twists/story/functionality/graphics... Well Nintendo has been doing this for years. Zelda/Mario/Mario-Kart ect... It could be possible that they re-do a game like Bionic Comando. Its all in the developers hands.
I see gamers just duct taping the controller to their hand/arm so they don't have to hold the thing. Just put your arm in a good button pushing position and tape away. That will elimate getting excited about a game and accidentally throwing the controller across the room and hitting your wife/mother in the face.
Gates: Well, there's a ton of security capability that we are building in to Windows Vista. The whole thing about spyware, malware, phishing, a lot of things that support antivirus. The actual capability of getting updated signatures, that's something you need on an ongoing basis, so you need to ship that separately from the operating system itself and so we will have a way that people sign up from that separate from the operating system.
Oh look, Windows is not putting anti-virus/spyare protection into their operating system. Thats not too much of a suprise. MS can make more money selling their applications seperately. But the sad thing is that he tries to stray from the real reason once again. Oh you "NEED" to ship antivirus seperately because of constant updates... Wait a second, isn't Windows supposed to have constant updates in the first place? What a load of crap. Maybe you should start selling your updates at stores under this logic Bill. Blah.
Thats awesome. Think of it as the normal employee. If he were to walk out after a long day and see that, he would just have to chuckle. It would make his day!
I think silly advertizing is a lot better than Microsoft's way of kicking you right out the door. There are a lot of things that Sun could have done worse, so I favor them doing something that might amuse some people.
I totally agree. I've thought about this before as well. There should be an option to make the whole OS read-only. However, there is a need to create and write data in a business environment.
Every employee should have a jump drive to save data on. Any computer you come into contact with, you would insert your jump drive into. You can create documents, charts, surf the web with some limited user friendly options (like you don't want to write cookies), and chat with people. However you shouldn't be allowed to write to your hard drive.
Your jump drive and RAM should be the only interfaces you need to deal with in terms of writing. You can include encrypted keys in every pcaket that is sent to RAM and make sure that the public/private key is hidden and inaccessable. Let me re-state that the RAM and OS would be the owners of the public/private key. The jump drive doesn't need to be as secure because you could just disallow executiable programs on the jump drive. It would only be a read/write kind of thing.
I'm glad someone else has thought of this.:)
"Under federal sentencing guidelines, Ashley faces 70 to 87 months in prison for his role in the attacks"
Unless he pleads non-guilty, which he should. If you plead guilty then they give you the maximum sentence. Non-guilty defendants have a change of arguing a couple of years off their sentence.
I do understand that most of their goals are just to find a real organism... But I believe we have already solved the "orgamisms on other planets" mystery by the dead bacteria on the rocks of mars.
I should have specified, but I am leaning toward a complex organism. I have total confidence that some kind of single cell or a small multi cell organism could adapt to Titan's environment.
I just don't understand where scientists think that it would be possible to live on one of these moons. From the article,
"But David Grinspoon of the Southwest Research Institute says organisms could occupy specific niches, such as hot springs. They could use acetylene, in reaction with hydrogen gas, to release enough energy to power metabolism, and possibly to heat their environments. "
I just don't see this happening. The reason that earth can be heated is because of the sun. When you stand outside you can feel the heat that is generated from the sun. The earth also had a hot core but that isn't near enough to keep it heated. Plus the fact that the hot spots on Titan that are generated by its own core, are going to be tiny. You are not going to be able to eat or drink as there is no resource for food. These scientists really have big dreams. They make this stuff out to be like a real fairy tale... Its nice to know some things about the planet but when they try to convince themselves that it is habitable then it just gets a little silly.
I honestly think no one can tell which handheld is going to win the wars. Personally, I'm tired of seeing Slashdot articles on it (not a flame to Slashdot! I rather see more news than a small flow of news).
I seriously think you all just need to wait 10 years, then add all the figures together and just finally reach a quick solution. PSP sells 4 million, DS sells 3 million. PSP wins, END OF STORY. (or visa versa... which ever you want to win).
I do agree, but no one bothers to play RTSs on consoles... When I try to play a FPS on a console I lose horribly and cannot remotely do good. This is because I am so used to playing them with a mouse... (I wonder what a halo 2 team on xbox vs a halo 2 team on a computer would do... I bet the guys on the computer would win). Anyways I'm just saying people have adapted to FPSs so they probably could adapt to RTSs. But it probably is a little worse on a console, I agree.
At first you probably think he is trying to say that games are harder to produce because you have to succumb to the high graphics and excellent gameplay that gamers expect these days. This article doesn't seem to be leading toward that.
It seems he is trying to come at an angle that most of us don't understand, and that is physically programming the game. When you have to program the game on a kernel level with such propritary equipment, then it becomes hard as you probably have to learn the hardware everytime they come out with a new system. Programmers have to redevelop a whole entire style of code to the newest system that comes out. If this is true, and putting this up against the PC; then you see that the PC pretty much stays a lot of the same in a kernel type environment. Plus the fact that everything seems to work together and act the same. Of course, I have no idea how to write a video game and most of us don't. But he probably has a lot more insight on what is going on in a kernel software development tyep environment for all the new systems.
I suppose saying "obviously unaware" sounds like a mean bitchy post and I didn't mean it that way so I apologize. I was just trying to enlighten you that "renting" things really happens more than some people think.
You are obviously unaware of how many things that you think you buy but you really only rent.
Microsft products
I lot of other software people use
The ditch in your yard is owned by the US
Any mailbox you buy is owned by the US postal service
Any kind of service like video renting, phone, internet
If this thing can report back to the company about hack attempts, then it can report anything. I guarentee that if they were to become popular, video/music industries would be paying them to report users who have put in a burned disk of a video or music. And I'm sure that is 80% of their plan after all. Usually companies that make strange decisions like this do it for financial reasons. (Well I'm not really sure but it sure does sound fesible.)
When I worked at a machine shop, it really was expensive to keep the tips of tool's that cut materials to not become dull. It is possible with this new invention that they could start making cutting tools for lathes/mills that would last a lot longer than the diamond tipped tools they use now. This could potentially lower the cost of a lot of items (unless the companies just keep the revenue for themselves).
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Nice thought. In a sales point of view this makes total sense... Looking at it that way, I'm suprised he didn't donate more. Well with the billions that he has
I think as long as I can see the computer then I am okay with it. There should be a way to turn the wireless card off, that way you know the computer has no connection to anything but the computer you are plugging into. You would plug your USB drive into the comp, turn it on and it would load your OS. When you are ready to surf the web you can turn on your wireless card that is built into the box, and go.
After reading a few posts on this subject, people are afraid that something might be loaded on the box that steals your information. Well someone also might be sniffing frames wirelessly and steal your information that way. Having personal information on your computer has and will always be a risk. You just have value the convenience vs risk and to what extreme you want to take it.
Someone also mentioned Windows not being able to load well enough on different hardware. This is 100% true and would be a major set back to this idea. Well, the idea of having your own personal Windows OS. You can still tote around your Windows programs if the hotel had personal desktops.
Sure, a shorter releaese cycle may seem better, but is it really? Correct me if I am wrong, but it is the short release cycle and shareholders constant demands for "more more more" that got MS office to be the bloatware that it is today; honestly, what can anyone do in todays MS office that couldnt be done in Office 2000? http://www.microsoft.com/office/editions/prodinfo/ compare.mspx
I have found many more uses in Word 2003 than in 2000.
Unless you are Wal-mart. :)
You are talking about nerds here... Nerds have a tendency to try to use that kind of wit. Just like they can't say "newbie" and instead have to say "newb"... I suppose it is just accepted throughout the internet now. Just like ebonics is sadly accepted (although you should have rocks thrown at you when using it). :)
I just don't see them redoing regular nintendo games to retro-fit this controller. They will add on a normal way to play controller games and sell their service. Thats about it. They don't want to spend the money to change the way the game is made if only a few regular nintendo followers are going to play it. If you are just talking about re-doing old nintendo games with new twists/story/functionality/graphics... Well Nintendo has been doing this for years. Zelda/Mario/Mario-Kart ect... It could be possible that they re-do a game like Bionic Comando. Its all in the developers hands.
I see gamers just duct taping the controller to their hand/arm so they don't have to hold the thing. Just put your arm in a good button pushing position and tape away. That will elimate getting excited about a game and accidentally throwing the controller across the room and hitting your wife/mother in the face.
Can't you just do a /etc/apache2/./apache restart?
It only takes a couple of seconds and doesn't require the whole system to reboot...
Gates: Well, there's a ton of security capability that we are building in to Windows Vista. The whole thing about spyware, malware, phishing, a lot of things that support antivirus. The actual capability of getting updated signatures, that's something you need on an ongoing basis, so you need to ship that separately from the operating system itself and so we will have a way that people sign up from that separate from the operating system.
Oh look, Windows is not putting anti-virus/spyare protection into their operating system. Thats not too much of a suprise. MS can make more money selling their applications seperately. But the sad thing is that he tries to stray from the real reason once again. Oh you "NEED" to ship antivirus seperately because of constant updates... Wait a second, isn't Windows supposed to have constant updates in the first place? What a load of crap. Maybe you should start selling your updates at stores under this logic Bill. Blah.
Thats awesome. Think of it as the normal employee. If he were to walk out after a long day and see that, he would just have to chuckle. It would make his day!
I think silly advertizing is a lot better than Microsoft's way of kicking you right out the door. There are a lot of things that Sun could have done worse, so I favor them doing something that might amuse some people.
Definitely make sure you have enough ground straps and a place to ground them to......
Because we ALL know 99% of techies out there ALWAYS use ground straps. A+ basics right there.
I totally agree. I've thought about this before as well. There should be an option to make the whole OS read-only. However, there is a need to create and write data in a business environment. Every employee should have a jump drive to save data on. Any computer you come into contact with, you would insert your jump drive into. You can create documents, charts, surf the web with some limited user friendly options (like you don't want to write cookies), and chat with people. However you shouldn't be allowed to write to your hard drive. Your jump drive and RAM should be the only interfaces you need to deal with in terms of writing. You can include encrypted keys in every pcaket that is sent to RAM and make sure that the public/private key is hidden and inaccessable. Let me re-state that the RAM and OS would be the owners of the public/private key. The jump drive doesn't need to be as secure because you could just disallow executiable programs on the jump drive. It would only be a read/write kind of thing. I'm glad someone else has thought of this. :)
Yes I meant plea non-guilty. And I also meant "chance". :-p
"Under federal sentencing guidelines, Ashley faces 70 to 87 months in prison for his role in the attacks" Unless he pleads non-guilty, which he should. If you plead guilty then they give you the maximum sentence. Non-guilty defendants have a change of arguing a couple of years off their sentence.
I do understand that most of their goals are just to find a real organism... But I believe we have already solved the "orgamisms on other planets" mystery by the dead bacteria on the rocks of mars. I should have specified, but I am leaning toward a complex organism. I have total confidence that some kind of single cell or a small multi cell organism could adapt to Titan's environment.
I just don't understand where scientists think that it would be possible to live on one of these moons. From the article,
"But David Grinspoon of the Southwest Research Institute says organisms could occupy specific niches, such as hot springs. They could use acetylene, in reaction with hydrogen gas, to release enough energy to power metabolism, and possibly to heat their environments. "
I just don't see this happening. The reason that earth can be heated is because of the sun. When you stand outside you can feel the heat that is generated from the sun. The earth also had a hot core but that isn't near enough to keep it heated. Plus the fact that the hot spots on Titan that are generated by its own core, are going to be tiny. You are not going to be able to eat or drink as there is no resource for food. These scientists really have big dreams. They make this stuff out to be like a real fairy tale... Its nice to know some things about the planet but when they try to convince themselves that it is habitable then it just gets a little silly.
I honestly think no one can tell which handheld is going to win the wars. Personally, I'm tired of seeing Slashdot articles on it (not a flame to Slashdot! I rather see more news than a small flow of news).
I seriously think you all just need to wait 10 years, then add all the figures together and just finally reach a quick solution. PSP sells 4 million, DS sells 3 million. PSP wins, END OF STORY. (or visa versa... which ever you want to win).
I do agree, but no one bothers to play RTSs on consoles... When I try to play a FPS on a console I lose horribly and cannot remotely do good. This is because I am so used to playing them with a mouse... (I wonder what a halo 2 team on xbox vs a halo 2 team on a computer would do... I bet the guys on the computer would win). Anyways I'm just saying people have adapted to FPSs so they probably could adapt to RTSs. But it probably is a little worse on a console, I agree.
I think if people can play Halo 2 on a console, then they could adapt and play RTS's just as well...
At first you probably think he is trying to say that games are harder to produce because you have to succumb to the high graphics and excellent gameplay that gamers expect these days. This article doesn't seem to be leading toward that.
It seems he is trying to come at an angle that most of us don't understand, and that is physically programming the game. When you have to program the game on a kernel level with such propritary equipment, then it becomes hard as you probably have to learn the hardware everytime they come out with a new system. Programmers have to redevelop a whole entire style of code to the newest system that comes out. If this is true, and putting this up against the PC; then you see that the PC pretty much stays a lot of the same in a kernel type environment. Plus the fact that everything seems to work together and act the same. Of course, I have no idea how to write a video game and most of us don't. But he probably has a lot more insight on what is going on in a kernel software development tyep environment for all the new systems.
Consider this before forming opinions.
I suppose saying "obviously unaware" sounds like a mean bitchy post and I didn't mean it that way so I apologize. I was just trying to enlighten you that "renting" things really happens more than some people think.
You are obviously unaware of how many things that you think you buy but you really only rent.
Microsft products
I lot of other software people use
The ditch in your yard is owned by the US
Any mailbox you buy is owned by the US postal service
Any kind of service like video renting, phone, internet
If this thing can report back to the company about hack attempts, then it can report anything. I guarentee that if they were to become popular, video/music industries would be paying them to report users who have put in a burned disk of a video or music. And I'm sure that is 80% of their plan after all. Usually companies that make strange decisions like this do it for financial reasons. (Well I'm not really sure but it sure does sound fesible.)
I would have taken Jamba over
Joomla(exclaimationpoint)
When I worked at a machine shop, it really was expensive to keep the tips of tool's that cut materials to not become dull. It is possible with this new invention that they could start making cutting tools for lathes/mills that would last a lot longer than the diamond tipped tools they use now. This could potentially lower the cost of a lot of items (unless the companies just keep the revenue for themselves).