it's definatly an issue of competing free technology. if most of these people are volunteers, why bother competing? it would make more sense to consolidate teams into larger, more powerful ones. right now, there's a dozen desktop distros, a dozen server distros, a dozen small distros, etc etc, and they could do so much more if they weren't developing the same things at the same time.
the real spyware threat has to do with people that don't know how to use their computers. there are way too many people using computers now that really shouldn't. the people who can't tell the difference between scams and real, when those popups come up that pretend to be really important, urgent, and real dialogs. or when people are faked into downloading an software "update"
i guess you could say some of the problem is that people are being told now to update their software feverishly and install as much anti-spyware software as possible and all this stuff when really sometimes they may be installing the wrong stuff.
OMG now they know my finger geometry!
would the government even WANT to buy that? who cares! from what some people have been saying, it doesn't even work half the time! it can't even be that accurate.
many people probably have the same finger geometry, this is just a tool to prevent someone from using someone elses pass and there's probably about a 1 in 100,000 chance of you having similar finger geometry to another person, not a 1 in 6 billion chance like you would for a finger print scan.
DRM does nothing when you can choose not use it
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who cares about DRM? last i checked CDs were still sold, at better quality and without restrictive DRMs. plus you get album art, and a real jewel case and a physical product. and most places sell CDs for about the same price as you could find them online.
1. who uses hotmail anyway? and if a lot of people do, they could easily just switch to a different free email service and get a better service (Gmail comes to mind)
2. what's so bad about the current junk mail filtering that people like Yahoo and most email clients (except for outlook express, of course) use? these adaptive junk systems work fine and I don't see why this is still a problem for some people.
am i the only one who doesn't get viruses without a virus scanner, on windows? am I the only one who only gets 1 or 2 spam emails every 1-3 days?
well then/. needs to state that specifically, because it's hard to believe that something under Rosetta would run as fast as a native build, because Rosetta runs at 60-70% of the speed.
yeah, after carefully reading the article, i was wrong but.....
firefox still isn't as fast. why not run a native intel build of firefox on the intel mac and compare it to the reosetta PPC build of firefox. the PPC one would get killed. The fact that Firefox runs just as fast under Rosetta means nothing except that the Intel 3.6HGhz processors are faster than G5s
how about if you took a poll saying "which next generation DVD player would you buy...
$400 BluRay player from Sony
$200 HD-DVD player from every other manufacterer"
i wonder who'd win. by the time blu-ray comes out, sony's consumer electronics will be even further in the dirt than it is now.
Sure Blu-Ray is probably a better format, but why bother when HD-DVD can deliver a movie of the same quality and be backwards compatible AND cheap?
Blu-Ray will always cost more because movie studios will have to release 2 (sometimes 3 because of the UMD) formats. With HD-DVDs, a layer can be made for regular DVD players so you don't have to support the previous generation's format
Rosetta tests demonstrate the PowerPC-native build of Firefox running just as fast as it does on a high-end G5.
What? Does Slashdot even know what Rosetta is?
Rosetta converts PPC binaries on the fly to Intel binaries. This is for programs that have not been compiled to MacIntel yet. If Firefox is Intel native, there is no reason to for Rosetta to do anything
all this "IBM doesn't need Apple" and "IBM glad to see Apple go" is typical of somebody who just got dumped big time. they are just covering up the fact that Intel was a better mate. Let's face it, Intel processors aren't the best around, but at least Intel knows how to make a laptop chip, and Apple's laptops are way more important to them than their desktops.
the only loss i see for apple is possibly their Xserves. I don't see Xeons competing. Hopefully, maybe Apple can keep their servers on the PowerPC hardware forever. Apple was never a server company, but they really hit something on those G5 servers that everybody uses as a cheap supercomputer solution.
the floppy era was supposed to be gone in 1998 (iMac). Part of the problem is that there is no replacement for floppies that's as cheap and disposable a media. the other problem is that too much stuff still depends on floppies.
we need a media that's not a USB flash drive. we need a media that will go inside the computer and won't stick out akwardly, and something that's dirt cheap for small capacities and a decent price for higher capacities.
how about a disk about half the size of a floppy, in a square shape, a little thicker, and with no flimsy plastic, designed to go in your pocket. something like a compactflash card, only the disk would go all the way into the computer instead of halfway like the CF cards.
wow now that i think about it camera memory cards aren't such a bad idea for a floppy replacement, but there would need to be one standard and there'd need to be slots on all computers.
you're making a good point here. ive never even seen a PSP section at EB Games (at least where i live) the signs on top of the shelves list all the systems in their sections except for PSP. The PSP is not on display to play at all in ANY stores.
Which could be good, i guess, because all the assholes at walmart dig into the screens with some type of really sharp objects all the time
why does everyone use europeans as an example for everything? i don't see how they are so superior or how they are better suited to be used as examples for the human race.
i'm about sick of people saying stuff like "well, they've been doing it in europe for years" as if that something would apply to everyone else in the world.
yeah, i want to stop driving my pickup truck because some French guy drives around in a go kart all day. or maybe i should do other european things, like watch soccer and listen to trance music, or become part of a 10-15% unemployment rate. because, they must be superior, the Europeans have been doing that for years!
Sorry, this has nothing to do with the subject at hand.
iwata said that it could possibly fall be hind by a small amount. that means 1 or 2 months. that's just too insignificant to make a difference.
I think the PSP won't be going anywhere for a while, but it may discourage Sony from making another handheld console. I mean, it's early in the game, but so far the PSP has failed to overtake Nintendo's marketshare, and has failed to be profitable and probably won't for a good amount of time. All it's doing right now is hindering Sony by eating their money.
The real problem here is that Xbox and PS3 are gunning for marketshare dominance with a total disregard for profitability. I'm glad Nintendo is taking a different road and doing some more interesting things with gaming instead of just beefing up graphics. The PS3's lifetime will mark about 25 years (by 2010) of Playstations using essentially the same controls to play the same types of games.
It's an OS. It does what I need it to do. Why do I need to have a bunch of stupid graphical flair to be more "inspired" when it's just going to slow down my computer and eat up more resources!
this isn't a freaking independant film festival, this is the machine that I use as a general purpose workhorse.
I have a mac, and you know what, it's slower and less responsive. Not only does the heavy graphics eat up RAM, CPU, and GPU usage, but the "cool" animations and all the flair around the system make the system go slower - on purpose - because you have to wait for the flashy animation to get done before you can click "ok" on a dialog box.
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it's definatly an issue of competing free technology. if most of these people are volunteers, why bother competing? it would make more sense to consolidate teams into larger, more powerful ones. right now, there's a dozen desktop distros, a dozen server distros, a dozen small distros, etc etc, and they could do so much more if they weren't developing the same things at the same time.
the real spyware threat has to do with people that don't know how to use their computers. there are way too many people using computers now that really shouldn't. the people who can't tell the difference between scams and real, when those popups come up that pretend to be really important, urgent, and real dialogs. or when people are faked into downloading an software "update"
i guess you could say some of the problem is that people are being told now to update their software feverishly and install as much anti-spyware software as possible and all this stuff when really sometimes they may be installing the wrong stuff.
OMG now they know my finger geometry! would the government even WANT to buy that? who cares! from what some people have been saying, it doesn't even work half the time! it can't even be that accurate.
many people probably have the same finger geometry, this is just a tool to prevent someone from using someone elses pass and there's probably about a 1 in 100,000 chance of you having similar finger geometry to another person, not a 1 in 6 billion chance like you would for a finger print scan.
who cares about DRM? last i checked CDs were still sold, at better quality and without restrictive DRMs. plus you get album art, and a real jewel case and a physical product. and most places sell CDs for about the same price as you could find them online.
a few things here.
1. who uses hotmail anyway? and if a lot of people do, they could easily just switch to a different free email service and get a better service (Gmail comes to mind)
2. what's so bad about the current junk mail filtering that people like Yahoo and most email clients (except for outlook express, of course) use? these adaptive junk systems work fine and I don't see why this is still a problem for some people.
am i the only one who doesn't get viruses without a virus scanner, on windows? am I the only one who only gets 1 or 2 spam emails every 1-3 days?
well then /. needs to state that specifically, because it's hard to believe that something under Rosetta would run as fast as a native build, because Rosetta runs at 60-70% of the speed.
yeah, after carefully reading the article, i was wrong but.....
firefox still isn't as fast. why not run a native intel build of firefox on the intel mac and compare it to the reosetta PPC build of firefox. the PPC one would get killed. The fact that Firefox runs just as fast under Rosetta means nothing except that the Intel 3.6HGhz processors are faster than G5s
how about if you took a poll saying "which next generation DVD player would you buy...
$400 BluRay player from Sony
$200 HD-DVD player from every other manufacterer"
i wonder who'd win. by the time blu-ray comes out, sony's consumer electronics will be even further in the dirt than it is now.
Sure Blu-Ray is probably a better format, but why bother when HD-DVD can deliver a movie of the same quality and be backwards compatible AND cheap?
Blu-Ray will always cost more because movie studios will have to release 2 (sometimes 3 because of the UMD) formats. With HD-DVDs, a layer can be made for regular DVD players so you don't have to support the previous generation's format
how the hell is this flamebait? i'm just describing what IBM's behavior is like and giving my opinion on what IBM's situation is like.
Rosetta tests demonstrate the PowerPC-native build of Firefox running just as fast as it does on a high-end G5. What? Does Slashdot even know what Rosetta is?
Rosetta converts PPC binaries on the fly to Intel binaries. This is for programs that have not been compiled to MacIntel yet. If Firefox is Intel native, there is no reason to for Rosetta to do anything
all this "IBM doesn't need Apple" and "IBM glad to see Apple go" is typical of somebody who just got dumped big time. they are just covering up the fact that Intel was a better mate. Let's face it, Intel processors aren't the best around, but at least Intel knows how to make a laptop chip, and Apple's laptops are way more important to them than their desktops. the only loss i see for apple is possibly their Xserves. I don't see Xeons competing. Hopefully, maybe Apple can keep their servers on the PowerPC hardware forever. Apple was never a server company, but they really hit something on those G5 servers that everybody uses as a cheap supercomputer solution.
the floppy era was supposed to be gone in 1998 (iMac). Part of the problem is that there is no replacement for floppies that's as cheap and disposable a media. the other problem is that too much stuff still depends on floppies.
we need a media that's not a USB flash drive. we need a media that will go inside the computer and won't stick out akwardly, and something that's dirt cheap for small capacities and a decent price for higher capacities.
how about a disk about half the size of a floppy, in a square shape, a little thicker, and with no flimsy plastic, designed to go in your pocket. something like a compactflash card, only the disk would go all the way into the computer instead of halfway like the CF cards.
wow now that i think about it camera memory cards aren't such a bad idea for a floppy replacement, but there would need to be one standard and there'd need to be slots on all computers.
please, don't forget that the nintendo DS and revolution can still connect to standard routers.
This device that Nintendo is releasing is only for people who don't want to get a router/have dial-up.
have any of you heard of java?
people may just stick with normal DVDs. maybe both formats suck!
Blu Ray is expensive, and you if more companies follow Toshiba's example, HD-DVDs won't play on 99% of TVs. Are these companies half retarded?
Don't they realize that to 99.9% of the world DVD quality is pretty damn good even for some of the largest HDTVs?
you're making a good point here. ive never even seen a PSP section at EB Games (at least where i live) the signs on top of the shelves list all the systems in their sections except for PSP. The PSP is not on display to play at all in ANY stores. Which could be good, i guess, because all the assholes at walmart dig into the screens with some type of really sharp objects all the time
are you guys stupid enough to think that just because IBM announced it that apple will use it?
plus opera costs freaking money
the pieces on offer include Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader's lightsabers...
When some star wars geek picks these up for $1,000,000 he'll be really dissapointed to find out that they don't really work.
in greece, even if there is a drinking age, it's totally ignored. i don't think they have one.
why does everyone use europeans as an example for everything? i don't see how they are so superior or how they are better suited to be used as examples for the human race. i'm about sick of people saying stuff like "well, they've been doing it in europe for years" as if that something would apply to everyone else in the world. yeah, i want to stop driving my pickup truck because some French guy drives around in a go kart all day. or maybe i should do other european things, like watch soccer and listen to trance music, or become part of a 10-15% unemployment rate. because, they must be superior, the Europeans have been doing that for years! Sorry, this has nothing to do with the subject at hand.
i guess the movie "stealth" will have to be renamed "avoiding detection by moving carefully"
yeah, i did mean 15. sorry for the typo!
that 150 hours of community service and $1300 fine is really going to stamp out piracy!
iwata said that it could possibly fall be hind by a small amount. that means 1 or 2 months. that's just too insignificant to make a difference. I think the PSP won't be going anywhere for a while, but it may discourage Sony from making another handheld console. I mean, it's early in the game, but so far the PSP has failed to overtake Nintendo's marketshare, and has failed to be profitable and probably won't for a good amount of time. All it's doing right now is hindering Sony by eating their money. The real problem here is that Xbox and PS3 are gunning for marketshare dominance with a total disregard for profitability. I'm glad Nintendo is taking a different road and doing some more interesting things with gaming instead of just beefing up graphics. The PS3's lifetime will mark about 25 years (by 2010) of Playstations using essentially the same controls to play the same types of games.
It's an OS. It does what I need it to do. Why do I need to have a bunch of stupid graphical flair to be more "inspired" when it's just going to slow down my computer and eat up more resources! this isn't a freaking independant film festival, this is the machine that I use as a general purpose workhorse. I have a mac, and you know what, it's slower and less responsive. Not only does the heavy graphics eat up RAM, CPU, and GPU usage, but the "cool" animations and all the flair around the system make the system go slower - on purpose - because you have to wait for the flashy animation to get done before you can click "ok" on a dialog box.