Apple and IBM own enough patents to patent every square inch of my kitchen if they wanted... it is called R&D... most of this stuff won't make it to market
Linux works out of the box on PS3s. The big problem is that it doesn't give the linux environment access to all of the 3D features of the PS3, which basically cripples it for any sort of game use (which is probably intentional.)
If Sony enabled access to the PS3's 3D hardware within Linux I would buy it in a heartbeat, because I'm pretty sure a good all-around media player would follow that would support 1080p content (the Xbox Media Center project already has a Linux version of their software working for home media PCs and have said that if the PS3 allowed full access to the 3D hardware it wouldn't be too difficult to port it to the PS3)
The only way I could ever see myself buying a PS3 is to play BluRay. Other than that, the Wii is great fun.
Indeed... as you read his other posts in recent days he goes into the ThinkSecret takedown and how he thinks it is BS. This could easily be his way of fucking with Apple over what a lot of people see as total BS in the ThinkSecret 'settlement'
But with so many people already developing for ARM, why would you want to spend the time and money switching to x86... it isn't like people want XP/Vista on their mobile phone (if at all) and there are already ARM releases of a bunch of stuff...
Although I am not a developer, so I am anxious to hear what people in this thread say regarding any technical advantage having x86 may have over say ARM.
Or it could simply be that IE7 checks the header and if the document-type is XHTML Strict it will render it as strict, and if there is no doctype it will do its default Microsoft BS rendering.
And IE could probably ignore a lot of the 'tricks' that people have used over the years and only pay attention to the compliant code.
The Republican Youtube debate caused me to loose what little faith I had in CNN's ability to host a republican debate. It made the entire format look ridiculous (whereas I thought the Democratic one was great)
National Geographic has a project called The Genographic Project that will take your DNA and trace the ancient travels of your ancestry. It costs $100+S&H and your data is stored along with an anonymous code only you know (before you send it in.) Then the group takes all of the data it gets and puts it all together to further their research.
The team behind the project has already collected thousands of samples from people worldwide who have interesting lineages (Indiginous people in xyz area) and found out some REALLY cool stuff.
The $1k thing seems like a privacy nightmare though.
The biggest problem with the calendar system now is that there is no standard 2 way communication platform. I do all of my scheduling online then pull it down to Outlook on my PC, iCal on my Macbook Pro, then sync my blackberry with iCal so that IT pulls down google calendar.
If there was a good 2-way platform that would allow me to upload AND download (safely! I know there are hacks) from a service like Google Calendar I would be more likely to use it.
I am thinking of getting a hosted Exchange server but I don't want to pay the extra $$$ to Sprint and not get my current 'power vision' plan
I already do this a bit with Amazon's S3 storage system. It is really nice being able to store files anywhere and paying all of $0.03/month for it.
But hey, I'll take free any day.
On a somewhat related note: It would be great if Google bought the LexisNexus people. Having public access to their database would be a great public service.
Wiis are in short supply but it isn't because they aren't making many. They are putting out 1.8million/month now and still having 100% sellout. That is because they are selling, and have been selling, 500k consoles/month in North America.
I think even without the 'buzz' of having 100% sellout Nintendo would be doing quite well.
On a somewhat related note, the PS2 is outselling the PS3. Source
You are correct... Both have 'levels' but they are seamless (when you go from level-to-level all you see is a white semi-transparent text saying the title of the 'level' you are on.)
Although there are 'loading' screens, but that is just because the game is programed that way.
Portal is similar, but much more distinct in the way of 'levels.' But that works into the gameplay quite a bit because each 'level' is a new test. Once you get into the behind-the-scenes area there is no real 'level' change. Just loading screens, which you have with all Valve single player games.
The money doesn't even need to be poured into infrastructure anymore. Back in the late 90s they laid so much fiber/conduits that we will be perfectly fine for quite a long time.
Add on to that the lowering cost of long-range high-speed ethernet and I'm confident that there won't be a problem nearly as fast as people want to make it seem.
What is really needed here, however, is a wider adoption of multicast and local cache technology. That is going to be very costly to do.
Obviously you did not see the sarcasm in jay's post
I support the idea of having a lexicon/wiki/whatever. But going out and trying to sell the information that is inside the books is taking it too far.
If you wrote a book, would you want someone taking all the facts out of your book and publishing it for their own profit? This isn't fair use here. If these people wanted to make the sparknotes of Harry Potter, helping the reader understand the books, that is fine. The writer of the notes isn't taking away any money from the author and is adding their own content. This is literally taking every fact out of all 7 books and publishing them for a profit, and not sharing that money with the author.
I can't stress this enough. When I talk to people about hosting and they rely on 100% availability they NEED to go with geographically diverse locations. Even if it is a single backup somewhere you have to have something.
For example, Chicago's primary datacenter facility is in 350 E. Cermak (right next to McCormick Place) and the primary interconnect facility in that building is Equinix (which has the 5th and now 6th floors.) A year or so ago there was a major outage there (that mucked up a good amount of the internet in the midwest) when a power substation caught on fire and the Chicago Fire Department had to shut off power to the entire neighborhood. So the backup system started like it should, with the huge battery rooms powering everything (including the chillers) for a bit while the engineers started up the generators. Only thing is, the circuitry that controls the generators shorted out, so while the generators themselves were working, the UPS was working, the chillers were working, this one circuit board blew at the WRONG moment. And this isn't the only time this circuit has been used, they test the generators every few weeks.
Long story short, once the UPSes started running out of power the chillers started going, lights flickered, and for a VERY SHORT period of time the chillers went out before all of the servers did. Within a minute or two it got well over 100 degrees in that datacenter. Thank god the power cut out as quick as it did.
So yes, Equinix in that case did everything by the book. They had everything setup as you would set it up. It was no big deal. But something went wrong at the worst time for it to go wrong and all hell broke loose.
The stamp it and send it to yourself thing doesn't work... it will get thrown out... nothing prevents you from sending yourself an unopened empty letter tomorrow and in 6 months putting something in it and sealing it... as if it was your idea when you first sent it
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Apple and IBM own enough patents to patent every square inch of my kitchen if they wanted... it is called R&D... most of this stuff won't make it to market
The idea of making drugs like coke illegal is that they provide a major public health crisis.
Pot, on the other hand, is not really in that category.
And by someone you mean Sony, right?
Linux works out of the box on PS3s. The big problem is that it doesn't give the linux environment access to all of the 3D features of the PS3, which basically cripples it for any sort of game use (which is probably intentional.)
If Sony enabled access to the PS3's 3D hardware within Linux I would buy it in a heartbeat, because I'm pretty sure a good all-around media player would follow that would support 1080p content (the Xbox Media Center project already has a Linux version of their software working for home media PCs and have said that if the PS3 allowed full access to the 3D hardware it wouldn't be too difficult to port it to the PS3)
The only way I could ever see myself buying a PS3 is to play BluRay. Other than that, the Wii is great fun.
Indeed... as you read his other posts in recent days he goes into the ThinkSecret takedown and how he thinks it is BS. This could easily be his way of fucking with Apple over what a lot of people see as total BS in the ThinkSecret 'settlement'
But with so many people already developing for ARM, why would you want to spend the time and money switching to x86... it isn't like people want XP/Vista on their mobile phone (if at all) and there are already ARM releases of a bunch of stuff...
Although I am not a developer, so I am anxious to hear what people in this thread say regarding any technical advantage having x86 may have over say ARM.
Or it could simply be that IE7 checks the header and if the document-type is XHTML Strict it will render it as strict, and if there is no doctype it will do its default Microsoft BS rendering.
And IE could probably ignore a lot of the 'tricks' that people have used over the years and only pay attention to the compliant code.
But will the wrist strap on the rocket be strong enough? I don't want my Ares Rocket messing up my flat screen TV
That is not possible...
The Republican Youtube debate caused me to loose what little faith I had in CNN's ability to host a republican debate. It made the entire format look ridiculous (whereas I thought the Democratic one was great)
National Geographic has a project called The Genographic Project that will take your DNA and trace the ancient travels of your ancestry. It costs $100+S&H and your data is stored along with an anonymous code only you know (before you send it in.) Then the group takes all of the data it gets and puts it all together to further their research.
The team behind the project has already collected thousands of samples from people worldwide who have interesting lineages (Indiginous people in xyz area) and found out some REALLY cool stuff.
The $1k thing seems like a privacy nightmare though.
Get off my WAN!
The biggest problem with the calendar system now is that there is no standard 2 way communication platform. I do all of my scheduling online then pull it down to Outlook on my PC, iCal on my Macbook Pro, then sync my blackberry with iCal so that IT pulls down google calendar.
If there was a good 2-way platform that would allow me to upload AND download (safely! I know there are hacks) from a service like Google Calendar I would be more likely to use it.
I am thinking of getting a hosted Exchange server but I don't want to pay the extra $$$ to Sprint and not get my current 'power vision' plan
rsync doesn't work with S3, but s3sync does
I already do this a bit with Amazon's S3 storage system. It is really nice being able to store files anywhere and paying all of $0.03/month for it.
But hey, I'll take free any day.
On a somewhat related note: It would be great if Google bought the LexisNexus people. Having public access to their database would be a great public service.
If Shelbyville and North Haverbrook can afford it we can too!
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Oh my god, Slashdot has become Reddit
Wiis are in short supply but it isn't because they aren't making many. They are putting out 1.8million/month now and still having 100% sellout. That is because they are selling, and have been selling, 500k consoles/month in North America.
I think even without the 'buzz' of having 100% sellout Nintendo would be doing quite well.
On a somewhat related note, the PS2 is outselling the PS3. Source
You are correct... Both have 'levels' but they are seamless (when you go from level-to-level all you see is a white semi-transparent text saying the title of the 'level' you are on.)
Although there are 'loading' screens, but that is just because the game is programed that way.
Portal is similar, but much more distinct in the way of 'levels.' But that works into the gameplay quite a bit because each 'level' is a new test. Once you get into the behind-the-scenes area there is no real 'level' change. Just loading screens, which you have with all Valve single player games.
The money doesn't even need to be poured into infrastructure anymore. Back in the late 90s they laid so much fiber/conduits that we will be perfectly fine for quite a long time.
Add on to that the lowering cost of long-range high-speed ethernet and I'm confident that there won't be a problem nearly as fast as people want to make it seem.
What is really needed here, however, is a wider adoption of multicast and local cache technology. That is going to be very costly to do.
Anyone know how much a cell phone manuf has to pay Sun to include the J2ME VM in their product?
Obviously you did not see the sarcasm in jay's post
I support the idea of having a lexicon/wiki/whatever. But going out and trying to sell the information that is inside the books is taking it too far.
If you wrote a book, would you want someone taking all the facts out of your book and publishing it for their own profit? This isn't fair use here. If these people wanted to make the sparknotes of Harry Potter, helping the reader understand the books, that is fine. The writer of the notes isn't taking away any money from the author and is adding their own content. This is literally taking every fact out of all 7 books and publishing them for a profit, and not sharing that money with the author.
At the risk of getting marked redundant: I totally agree, and I don't work for Netflix
This is a great contest, considering they have to publicly release the solution.
Although what is AT&T doing working on this problem?
I meant to remove the "No big deal" part of my post... It was part of a sentence that I thought I removed.
Hell no, the hosting company I do some work for left after that.
Equinix makes your CEO happy when he/she tours it, other than that it is just glitz.
They charge a fortune. New facility in the same building hasn't had a problem.
For example, Chicago's primary datacenter facility is in 350 E. Cermak (right next to McCormick Place) and the primary interconnect facility in that building is Equinix (which has the 5th and now 6th floors.) A year or so ago there was a major outage there (that mucked up a good amount of the internet in the midwest) when a power substation caught on fire and the Chicago Fire Department had to shut off power to the entire neighborhood. So the backup system started like it should, with the huge battery rooms powering everything (including the chillers) for a bit while the engineers started up the generators. Only thing is, the circuitry that controls the generators shorted out, so while the generators themselves were working, the UPS was working, the chillers were working, this one circuit board blew at the WRONG moment. And this isn't the only time this circuit has been used, they test the generators every few weeks.
Long story short, once the UPSes started running out of power the chillers started going, lights flickered, and for a VERY SHORT period of time the chillers went out before all of the servers did. Within a minute or two it got well over 100 degrees in that datacenter. Thank god the power cut out as quick as it did.
So yes, Equinix in that case did everything by the book. They had everything setup as you would set it up. It was no big deal. But something went wrong at the worst time for it to go wrong and all hell broke loose.
It could be worse, your datacenter could be hit by a tornado
The stamp it and send it to yourself thing doesn't work... it will get thrown out... nothing prevents you from sending yourself an unopened empty letter tomorrow and in 6 months putting something in it and sealing it... as if it was your idea when you first sent it