the performance isn't really an issue - this is mobile computing not some tower built for hardcore video editing. It's for laptops running normal biz apps - browsers, wp, spreadsheets. the comparison between, say, the crusoes 700mhz and a 800mhz PIII is irrelevent to most ordinary users.
if this chip runs really cold then what would be the effect of overclocking it? or can't you? I'm not a chip designer, so give me a break if I'm being daft
finally! a laptop that doesn't burn my knees off! yay!
ermmmm, how is this extorting anyone? I mean, you're upset because someone has decided not to sell you something that you wanted to buy - but didn't actually need to - and it's now extortion and a betrayal and utterly sickening.
how so? it's only a movie - and much as I love the trilogy - not a very good one.
the day the worse thing that can happen to me is the non-release of a film on dvd is the day I finally reach nirvana.
I met the inventor, James Dyson, earlier this year; he's quite a cult figure in the UK having re-invented the vacumn cleaner (by removing the bag, and using an internal vortex for suction.)
anyhow, he's a major engineering guy, and is trying to spearhead a movement to bring engineering and design back into schools.
true - but most people aren't "gamers" they're just people who play games. A big difference. Sure, you and I may have been inside the back of our machines with screwdrivers more often than we'd like...but that would scare most people half to death. fdisk might be your friend, but most people are scared to defrag in case it breaks something.
>How many zillions would install Linux to play it?
no zillions. Linux is hard, people. Maybe not to the regular/. population. But to the mass games playing market it is. Damn tricky stuff. To most minds a game, no matter how great, is not worth learning and installing a whole new OS, especially one like linux.
undoubtedly you'll read lots of posts saying this will brand people guilty before proven etc etc etc
Actually, all this will do is direct attention to those who appear about to break the law - and with that everyone else will be ignored.
Security guards aren't usually the brightest lights on the tree, and so - if they can get away with just monitoring those their super computer system tells them too, they will. Just human nature.
Seems the rest of us will be left alone even more.
Besides...they'd still have to witness you actually doing something to be arrested. If your flagged up, but don't do anything then there's no problem - it isn't as if cctv doesn't already watch you right now.
relax a bit. This is just a sign of big corporation snafu. The press office didn't talk to the developers. That's all. They'll put it right - because right now, I'm sure they're probably getting a serious bollocking (due not in small part to/.)
what's slightly more interesting is the question about whether people would be so upset if it was another small company - and not the big'n'scary corp like Sun...because GPL does mean that one day some big incumbent corp will publish a boxed something and stick lots of money behind its marketing and sell more than anyone else.
last time I was in Seattle someone told me how Starbucks got their name...much cash and hand-wringing, then someone read Moby Dick. Starbuck was the ships mate who loved coffee. ay wah-lar
that's why they have the mermaid.
not relevent really, but at least they had brought in some literature.
On another point...any company that is an iBar or an eFoo, gets immediately filed under c for clueless IMHO
forgive my ignorance, all you graphics people, but there aren't that many options are there? I mean, why does id need to know what sort of card I have when there are maybe 3 or 4 main types anyway, and they all have to work with opengl to play the game?
and what a damn good game it is. so there goes my boycott.
The problem here is that the W3C don't see what the internet is being used for: it might not be the dream of every slashdotter, or internet purist, but the web is a popular medium now...
and so these proposals won't work because everyone supplying content on the web wants the greatest possible audience. Who is going to enforce licensing, when everyone wants as big a market share as possible?
Amazon stopping people going onto their site because some bureaucrat has been slow in granting a digital id?
I think not - and until a licensing system mandatorily covers 100% of all internet users, you can forget it.
don't get too worked up about this: it's just a wheeze to get into the papers..."Evil Internet Ruins Business" "Pirates use bit of internet also used by paedophiles - shoot them both" that sort of thing
quite clever in a pandering-to-clueless-journos sort of way
ethics are indeed an odd reason to cite in these circumstances - the problem here though is one of targetting: bombing any target has a risk of killing civilians whether a missile is smart or not (though, that smartness depends on the operator...ask the Chinese about their embassy)
If the effects of any military cracking can be limited to military targets (and not knocking out the power to a children's hospital for example) then maybe it is MORE ethical (and certainly cheaper) than conventional warfare.
I met TimBL earlier this year for an interview I did for The Times of London. A very nice man indeed. I also asked him about the cash - whether he was jealous of Jeff Bezos et al. He wasn't, he said: they make their money from selling books (or whatever) not the internet. That, he said, was just a tool.
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the performance isn't really an issue - this is mobile computing not some tower built for hardcore video editing. It's for laptops running normal biz apps - browsers, wp, spreadsheets. the comparison between, say, the crusoes 700mhz and a 800mhz PIII is irrelevent to most ordinary users.
Battery life, on the other hand, is key.
if this chip runs really cold then what would be the effect of overclocking it? or can't you?
I'm not a chip designer, so give me a break if I'm being daft
finally! a laptop that doesn't burn my knees off! yay!
ermmmm, how is this extorting anyone? I mean, you're upset because someone has decided not to sell you something that you wanted to buy - but didn't actually need to - and it's now extortion and a betrayal and utterly sickening.
how so? it's only a movie - and much as I love the trilogy - not a very good one.
the day the worse thing that can happen to me is the non-release of a film on dvd is the day I finally reach nirvana.
I met the inventor, James Dyson, earlier this year; he's quite a cult figure in the UK having re-invented the vacumn cleaner (by removing the bag, and using an internal vortex for suction.)
anyhow, he's a major engineering guy, and is trying to spearhead a movement to bring engineering and design back into schools.
he's a top man...check out here
true - but most people aren't "gamers" they're just people who play games. A big difference. Sure, you and I may have been inside the back of our machines with screwdrivers more often than we'd like...but that would scare most people half to death. fdisk might be your friend, but most people are scared to defrag in case it breaks something.
getting off topic here, alas
>How many zillions would install Linux to play it?
/. population. But to the mass games playing market it is. Damn tricky stuff. To most minds a game, no matter how great, is not worth learning and installing a whole new OS, especially one like linux.
no zillions. Linux is hard, people. Maybe not to the regular
we don't oppress or monitor any less, we've just learnt to cover our tracks better.
you looked fantastic last night, by the way.
if we still had guns, we'd need the cameras even more
undoubtedly you'll read lots of posts saying this will brand people guilty before proven etc etc etc
Actually, all this will do is direct attention to those who appear about to break the law - and with that everyone else will be ignored.
Security guards aren't usually the brightest lights on the tree, and so - if they can get away with just monitoring those their super computer system tells them too, they will. Just human nature.
Seems the rest of us will be left alone even more.
Besides...they'd still have to witness you actually doing something to be arrested. If your flagged up, but don't do anything then there's no problem - it isn't as if cctv doesn't already watch you right now.
relax a bit. This is just a sign of big corporation snafu. The press office didn't talk to the developers. That's all. /.)
They'll put it right - because right now, I'm sure they're probably getting a serious bollocking (due not in small part to
what's slightly more interesting is the question about whether people would be so upset if it was another small company - and not the big'n'scary corp like Sun...because GPL does mean that one day some big incumbent corp will publish a boxed something and stick lots of money behind its marketing and sell more than anyone else.
quite possibly
or it could be worse
last time I was in Seattle someone told me how Starbucks got their name...much cash and hand-wringing, then someone read Moby Dick. Starbuck was the ships mate who loved coffee.
ay wah-lar
that's why they have the mermaid.
not relevent really, but at least they had brought in some literature.
On another point...any company that is an iBar or an eFoo, gets immediately filed under c for clueless IMHO
forgive my ignorance, all you graphics people, but there aren't that many options are there? I mean, why does id need to know what sort of card I have when there are maybe 3 or 4 main types anyway, and they all have to work with opengl to play the game?
and what a damn good game it is. so there goes my boycott.
The problem here is that the W3C don't see what the internet is being used for: it might not be the dream of every slashdotter, or internet purist, but the web is a popular medium now...
and so these proposals won't work because everyone supplying content on the web wants the greatest possible audience. Who is going to enforce licensing, when everyone wants as big a market share as possible?
Amazon stopping people going onto their site because some bureaucrat has been slow in granting a digital id?
I think not - and until a licensing system mandatorily covers 100% of all internet users, you can forget it.
nah...more likely us lovely Europeans waking up and reading Slashdot with our morning coffee - this is a rather international community here, remember
don't get too worked up about this: it's just a wheeze to get into the papers..."Evil Internet Ruins Business" "Pirates use bit of internet also used by paedophiles - shoot them both"
that sort of thing
quite clever in a pandering-to-clueless-journos sort of way
ethics are indeed an odd reason to cite in these circumstances - the problem here though is one of targetting: bombing any target has a risk of killing civilians whether a missile is smart or not (though, that smartness depends on the operator...ask the Chinese about their embassy)
If the effects of any military cracking can be limited to military targets (and not knocking out the power to a children's hospital for example) then maybe it is MORE ethical (and certainly cheaper) than conventional warfare.
I met TimBL earlier this year for an interview I did for The Times of London. A very nice man indeed. I also asked him about the cash - whether he was jealous of Jeff Bezos et al.
He wasn't, he said: they make their money from selling books (or whatever) not the internet. That, he said, was just a tool.
I don't know if I'd be quite as zen as that.