Yea I wasn't trying to cast aspersions- I just wanted to point out that those didn't appear to be actual photos and that things mightn't be as well on as they first appeared.
Just as well it wasn't Balmer who had his urges unveiled on stage, as they may have involved 'fucking killing' the competition and throwing a chair across the stage.
Also, who are these two trying to kid?
Steve Jobs will probably revel something similar next week, but he'll use someone cool, he'll have a much better product, and maybe we'll believe him.
It just occurred to me that having 2 screens and one touch sensitive one is an excellent way of avoiding someone creating a PSP emulator of the DS. Clever Nintento:)
Maybe someone can create one for my Sony Ericsson P910i, which has a tall touch sentsitive screen.;)
Well I guess that is an indication of how big a moron he is, how little he understands technology, and hopefully how little he understands how he is being fought via the internet.
At the same time, surely it's possible to use the same type of accelerometer that gets used in notebooks to detect falling motion and move the heads away from the platter when the phone is dropped.
Also, I'd imagine that a 1" HD is less succeptible to sudden deceleration than a larger model. That said, there are lots more things to go wrong in a HD as opposed to on a flash memory card.
Anyway to hell with phones (though a usb/wifi phone that is a 10GB hard drive would be nice) , I want to know when they're going to put these things into digital cameras and music players.
Also, when will I be able to get one for my PSP? My journey to my parents house at home can be 6 hours by bus. 10GB of documentary goodness would be cool compared to my current 1GB (about 2 hours) of entertainment.
"Even today, it is very difficult to avoid paying the Microsoft tax on most of Dell's desktops and notebooks."
There's an incredibly simple way of not paying MS tax, don't buy a Dell. Buy your components online, build your machine, get a dodgy copy of XP pro or your choice of linux dist. and give M$ the middle finger.
The USB powered coffee machine (not just mug warmer), or muffin/sandwich toaster thingy. Also, as well as powering your computer, this power supply will also heat your home, so that does away with the need for central heating too.
It also comes with some vouchers for the world carbon market[carbonfinance.org]
Interesting point- how do they expect us to abide by the licensing agreement in their music when they break their own software license agreements. The two agreements probably aren't one in the same though, so even though they break one, it doesn't mean we can break the other.
I propose selling pirated copies of Sony's DRMd CDs outside congress to see if this would hold up, because if it doesn't hold up then you'll have a pack of lawyers fighting each other to be the first to sue you withing.2194 * 10^-12 seconds. Or sooner.
IQ has nothing to do with conventional education, whatever that is. It's mainly natural ability. Education means you know more facts, not that you're any smarter.:op
What you really want to do is hack the glasses, install linux and program them so that they block out advertising, dupes on slashdot, ugly women, politicans, lawyers and fast food. You'd loose weight, have more money (no advertising) be surrounded by beautiful women and the world would be a wonderful place. Perfect.
They might be able to regulate internet service providers, making sure they are competitive, making sure that they provide high standards of service, provide service to rural areas etc., and basically all the things that a regulator should do. As for regulating the internet, well this smells like something that a shitload of lawyers would dream up a a way to make money. My comunications are none of their business and will remain so until I commit a crime.
The packets we send out into the world are our own, and if they want to regulate them, they can bite my shiny metal ass. Of course I'm not American, so they couldnt regulate me anyway.
What if every person outside Washington decided that they wanted to declare a new country called..... I dunno the United States of..., um, Americaa. Make NY the capital and make lawyers illegal. That'd solve most of your problems right there;o)
should start the announcement with the Professor saying 'Good news everyone'./injoke
I'm bloody glad to see futurama back- the show is waaay underrated next to the Simpsons. I've always thought Futurama was funnier, but then I am a/.tter.
Aha 10 million digits may be easy to store, but deviding that number by other number lower than half that number to prove it is actually a prime number isn't really that easy.
I assume (hope)there are other ways of proving primeness than brute forcing it by doing lots of divisions of series' of incredibly large numbers just to find the one that won't devide evenly.
Gaming, it's as easy as.... oh wait no it's not. Who expected anything different from Dell?
It's crap like this that tends to push gamers away from the PC and towards consoles (the occasion XB360 lockup being the exception that pees all over this post).
Fortunately for me I've got my machine just about stable on most games I try on it, but it does take a lot of effort to keep a machine up to date, most problems being fixed by new drivers & directX updates.
Dell should supply those gaming machines with just a clean copy of windows XP (or as clean as XP gets0) and the latest drivers and version of directX and let gamers screw things up themselves.
Oh, that machine looks like crap as well. Please Dell hire a few designers. Your cases make me want to scrape my eyes out with a rusty spoon.
As a side note, i'd like to ask what/.ers think of DirectX overall- are they relatively satisfied with how it works from a programmer's (as opposed to a user's)perspective, or does it suck 9 shades of butt and the world would be a better place without it? Just a question cause DX never really comes up on/.
Slashdot Mirror
Thats actually not a bad idea. The state would see more money worth of trash picking than it would ever see in cash from the tosser.
Yea I wasn't trying to cast aspersions- I just wanted to point out that those didn't appear to be actual photos and that things mightn't be as well on as they first appeared.
n _tophead_1 have a preview today.
Turns out that wired http://wired.com/news/culture/0,69946-0.html?tw=w
I wantssss it!
/gollum
Don't jump the gun too hard everyone, the images are, I think, 3D renderings and not final products. I want these so badly it hurts.
Just as well it wasn't Balmer who had his urges unveiled on stage, as they may have involved 'fucking killing' the competition and throwing a chair across the stage.
Also, who are these two trying to kid?
Steve Jobs will probably revel something similar next week, but he'll use someone cool, he'll have a much better product, and maybe we'll believe him.
It just occurred to me that having 2 screens and one touch sensitive one is an excellent way of avoiding someone creating a PSP emulator of the DS. Clever Nintento :)
;)
Maybe someone can create one for my Sony Ericsson P910i, which has a tall touch sentsitive screen.
Yes, but how many divorces?
Well I guess that is an indication of how big a moron he is, how little he understands technology, and hopefully how little he understands how he is being fought via the internet.
Or not.
Will it run linux?
At the same time, surely it's possible to use the same type of accelerometer that gets used in notebooks to detect falling motion and move the heads away from the platter when the phone is dropped.
Also, I'd imagine that a 1" HD is less succeptible to sudden deceleration than a larger model. That said, there are lots more things to go wrong in a HD as opposed to on a flash memory card.
Anyway to hell with phones (though a usb/wifi phone that is a 10GB hard drive would be nice) , I want to know when they're going to put these things into digital cameras and music players.
Also, when will I be able to get one for my PSP? My journey to my parents house at home can be 6 hours by bus. 10GB of documentary goodness would be cool compared to my current 1GB (about 2 hours) of entertainment.
in person or over a network?
"Even today, it is very difficult to avoid paying the Microsoft tax on most of Dell's desktops and notebooks."
There's an incredibly simple way of not paying MS tax, don't buy a Dell. Buy your components online, build your machine, get a dodgy copy of XP pro or your choice of linux dist. and give M$ the middle finger.
The USB powered coffee machine (not just mug warmer), or muffin/sandwich toaster thingy. Also, as well as powering your computer, this power supply will also heat your home, so that does away with the need for central heating too.
It also comes with some vouchers for the world carbon market[carbonfinance.org]
I waantsssss it, it'sssss miine!
/gollum
Interesting point- how do they expect us to abide by the licensing agreement in their music when they break their own software license agreements. The two agreements probably aren't one in the same though, so even though they break one, it doesn't mean we can break the other.
.2194 * 10^-12 seconds. Or sooner.
I propose selling pirated copies of Sony's DRMd CDs outside congress to see if this would hold up, because if it doesn't hold up then you'll have a pack of lawyers fighting each other to be the first to sue you withing
Is anyone surprised?
*Wind howling*
*Dogs barking in the distance*
*Tumbleweed passes*
*Chuch bell tolls in the next town*
No I didn't think so either.
IQ has nothing to do with conventional education, whatever that is. It's mainly natural ability. Education means you know more facts, not that you're any smarter. :op
What you really want to do is hack the glasses, install linux and program them so that they block out advertising, dupes on slashdot, ugly women, politicans, lawyers and fast food. You'd loose weight, have more money (no advertising) be surrounded by beautiful women and the world would be a wonderful place. Perfect.
They might be able to regulate internet service providers, making sure they are competitive, making sure that they provide high standards of service, provide service to rural areas etc., and basically all the things that a regulator should do. As for regulating the internet, well this smells like something that a shitload of lawyers would dream up a a way to make money. My comunications are none of their business and will remain so until I commit a crime.
;o)
The packets we send out into the world are our own, and if they want to regulate them, they can bite my shiny metal ass. Of course I'm not American, so they couldnt regulate me anyway.
What if every person outside Washington decided that they wanted to declare a new country called..... I dunno the United States of..., um, Americaa. Make NY the capital and make lawyers illegal. That'd solve most of your problems right there
DRM....Divorce Reason Monitors? Watch yourself bud.
Yes I noticed my typo too. Pendant :op
Don't even say that.
*Shudders*
Actually, Apple to Intel is a similar type of shock. I knew I forgot one, d'oh.
Adobe & Macromedia
Google & AOL (well 5% of)
Seagate & Maxtor
2005 has been a year of spending money for big players, it seems. Can anyone predict any more big moves before Dec. 1st?
should start the announcement with the Professor saying 'Good news everyone'. /injoke
/.tter.
I'm bloody glad to see futurama back- the show is waaay underrated next to the Simpsons. I've always thought Futurama was funnier, but then I am a
Aha 10 million digits may be easy to store, but deviding that number by other number lower than half that number to prove it is actually a prime number isn't really that easy.
I assume (hope)there are other ways of proving primeness than brute forcing it by doing lots of divisions of series' of incredibly large numbers just to find the one that won't devide evenly.
Heh, as if they'd pass the savings onto the customer ;o) /troll
Gaming, it's as easy as.... oh wait no it's not. Who expected anything different from Dell?
/.ers think of DirectX overall- are they relatively satisfied with how it works from a programmer's (as opposed to a user's)perspective, or does it suck 9 shades of butt and the world would be a better place without it? Just a question cause DX never really comes up on /.
It's crap like this that tends to push gamers away from the PC and towards consoles (the occasion XB360 lockup being the exception that pees all over this post).
Fortunately for me I've got my machine just about stable on most games I try on it, but it does take a lot of effort to keep a machine up to date, most problems being fixed by new drivers & directX updates.
Dell should supply those gaming machines with just a clean copy of windows XP (or as clean as XP gets0) and the latest drivers and version of directX and let gamers screw things up themselves.
Oh, that machine looks like crap as well. Please Dell hire a few designers. Your cases make me want to scrape my eyes out with a rusty spoon.
As a side note, i'd like to ask what