Also I think all the stuff about "boosting consumer confidence" is kind of hilarious after the media trying to scare us for so long. If there wasn't such a fuss made in the media, I wonder how much things really would have changed.
Of course they're trying to cash in on the success. People have been trying to crack the tablet market since the 90s. Apple were the first people to actually design a decent touch interface of course, but their hardware design isn't anything special.
Only if he actually uploaded the files himself.. which he didn't. They're safely stored away in a museum. You'd need to have tight leather pants and an aerosol can to break in and steal it.
I wasn't trying to say that there won't be prior art or anything - just that they don't seem to have filed this patent with the intention of trolling Nintendo.
The patent was filed before anyone knew about the Wii's motion controls, but it was only granted a year ago. They probably tried to get Nintendo to license their patent before going this route.
I respect what he's done, and I somehow don't think he's going to be offended by my post. I can't believe you're getting offended by a thread on Slashdot. Aren't there some goatse trolls you can go and reply to?
I know, but if they filed the design a couple of years after the Wii came out for example, I'd say they were just trolling. Filing an actual design 1.5 years before the Wii came out gives them some credibility in my book.
No, they invented a device that's very much like the Wii-mote, a year and a half before the Wii came out. Try clicking on the link to the patent in TFS for a nice picture.
The Wii came out in November 2006, their patent was filed in July 2005. The design of their system isn't as elegant as the Wii's (then again, it's probably more accurate), but at least they're not trolling..
Yes, but most systems are still designed using the server/client concept. Often with a large centralised server and lots of clients pulling down much more data than they send. Under a peer-to-peer concept there is no centralised server in the system (or at least if there is one, it's not as heavily relied upon as with a traditional model), and you may be transmitting as much as (or more than) you're receiving.
Both have their pros and cons depending on the user-base and network, and yes it's sad that P2P is becoming synonymous with piracy.
I suppose you preferred when computers filled whole rooms? Our computers have always been getting smaller, which automatically makes them more practical and useful!
If you are wanting to game on PC, then I agree that Windows is the only relatively hassle-free option. That's why I started gaming on consoles.
iTunes was one of the reasons I got fed up of OSX. They don't really have any media players as good as Winamp on Windows, or Rhythmbox/Exaile/whatever-else-you-like on Linux (maybe some of these are available on OSX now of course). If iTunes had a play queue/dynamic playlist ("play next in party shuffle" is not the same thing..) it would be 100x better for a start.
Ubuntu and Mint (the only 2 Linux distros I've used recently) are both user friendly IMO. The only config file I've edited by hand on this Mint install has been my.emacs file. The other day I wanted to remap the capslock key to control, and started looking around online for ways to do it - I assumed I'd need a special program to remap keys as you do on Windows. Then I went to Preferences->Keyboard, and found it was a built in option.
Windows 7 in my opinion is a mess. It still has all the same settings pages as XP, but things aren't arranged in what I'd call an intuitive manner. Thankfully you can find what you want by typing the name of the thing you're looking for into the Start menu search bar to get around this, but I still think MS are going in a weird direction with their reorganisation of menus, especially with all the Ribbon guff. In Mint the main menu is great. It has a similar search function as Windows 7, but I never need it because everything is organised sensibly and efficiently.
On top of that, Windows 7 doesn't have anything like a package manager built in yet. This makes life so convenient, especially when setting up a new system. Why should I have to manually download and manually install all the same crap every time I use a new computer? With a package manager, you tick a couple of boxes, click apply, and it installs stable versions of everything you want. Then it keeps them up to date for you with one interface - no Java/Flash Update popups.
Another little niggle is that you can't make the Windows 7 Start menu smaller than about 150 pixels or so. You can auto-hide.. but then you can't see the system clock at a glance..
Having lots of little inconveniences like that together it just pisses me off, and it simply feels more pleasant to use Linux. Partially because it's more configurable than OSX and Windows. I've not changed much on this system since most things are good by default, but for example I've chosen a nice colour theme, replaced the task bar with a dock, and installed Guake as my terminal (f***ing love having a drop-down console in the OS, I bound it to super-t - it's very handy for me as a developer and network admin).
I expect MS will have their own store/package manager type thing soon, and OSX now has the App Store (though I don't know how it compares to package managers yet - ie if it contains a lot of commonly used free utilities). Overall things are going to keep getting better all round, which is nice. It's good to finally see some real competition in the OS space again.
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The problem is politics and the economy..
Also I think all the stuff about "boosting consumer confidence" is kind of hilarious after the media trying to scare us for so long. If there wasn't such a fuss made in the media, I wonder how much things really would have changed.
Of course they're trying to cash in on the success. People have been trying to crack the tablet market since the 90s. Apple were the first people to actually design a decent touch interface of course, but their hardware design isn't anything special.
Earlier post :p
“Your mother” is a large installation that turns food into feces [sic.]...
FTFY
It would be kind of funny if it contains an Adobe Reader exploit.. this guy is obviously into his illegal activities in a big way..
Only if he actually uploaded the files himself.. which he didn't. They're safely stored away in a museum. You'd need to have tight leather pants and an aerosol can to break in and steal it.
By that definition, pretty much all shitty software is art..
I wasn't trying to say that there won't be prior art or anything - just that they don't seem to have filed this patent with the intention of trolling Nintendo.
The patent was filed before anyone knew about the Wii's motion controls, but it was only granted a year ago. They probably tried to get Nintendo to license their patent before going this route.
I respect what he's done, and I somehow don't think he's going to be offended by my post. I can't believe you're getting offended by a thread on Slashdot. Aren't there some goatse trolls you can go and reply to?
According to Wikipedia, they kept the motion controllers a secret until the later 2005 Tokyo Game Show though.
I know, but if they filed the design a couple of years after the Wii came out for example, I'd say they were just trolling. Filing an actual design 1.5 years before the Wii came out gives them some credibility in my book.
You are an idiot.
No, they invented a device that's very much like the Wii-mote, a year and a half before the Wii came out. Try clicking on the link to the patent in TFS for a nice picture.
The Wii came out in November 2006, their patent was filed in July 2005. The design of their system isn't as elegant as the Wii's (then again, it's probably more accurate), but at least they're not trolling..
Your brain must be thick as shit if you can't figure out that I was referring to it being an OS default font issue rather than a problem with Chrome.
Yes, but most systems are still designed using the server/client concept. Often with a large centralised server and lots of clients pulling down much more data than they send. Under a peer-to-peer concept there is no centralised server in the system (or at least if there is one, it's not as heavily relied upon as with a traditional model), and you may be transmitting as much as (or more than) you're receiving.
Both have their pros and cons depending on the user-base and network, and yes it's sad that P2P is becoming synonymous with piracy.
How well are they publicising this law? Simply having the law in place does feck all if nobody knows about it.
More like your OS. I'm running Chrome in Mint, and the I is thicker and slightly wider spaced than the lls.
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I had similarly annoying experiences with updating stuff on OSX. It could do with a nice package manager.
I suppose you preferred when computers filled whole rooms? Our computers have always been getting smaller, which automatically makes them more practical and useful!
If you are wanting to game on PC, then I agree that Windows is the only relatively hassle-free option. That's why I started gaming on consoles.
iTunes was one of the reasons I got fed up of OSX. They don't really have any media players as good as Winamp on Windows, or Rhythmbox/Exaile/whatever-else-you-like on Linux (maybe some of these are available on OSX now of course). If iTunes had a play queue/dynamic playlist ("play next in party shuffle" is not the same thing..) it would be 100x better for a start.
Ubuntu and Mint (the only 2 Linux distros I've used recently) are both user friendly IMO. The only config file I've edited by hand on this Mint install has been my .emacs file. The other day I wanted to remap the capslock key to control, and started looking around online for ways to do it - I assumed I'd need a special program to remap keys as you do on Windows. Then I went to Preferences->Keyboard, and found it was a built in option.
Windows 7 in my opinion is a mess. It still has all the same settings pages as XP, but things aren't arranged in what I'd call an intuitive manner. Thankfully you can find what you want by typing the name of the thing you're looking for into the Start menu search bar to get around this, but I still think MS are going in a weird direction with their reorganisation of menus, especially with all the Ribbon guff. In Mint the main menu is great. It has a similar search function as Windows 7, but I never need it because everything is organised sensibly and efficiently.
On top of that, Windows 7 doesn't have anything like a package manager built in yet. This makes life so convenient, especially when setting up a new system. Why should I have to manually download and manually install all the same crap every time I use a new computer? With a package manager, you tick a couple of boxes, click apply, and it installs stable versions of everything you want. Then it keeps them up to date for you with one interface - no Java/Flash Update popups.
Another little niggle is that you can't make the Windows 7 Start menu smaller than about 150 pixels or so. You can auto-hide.. but then you can't see the system clock at a glance..
Having lots of little inconveniences like that together it just pisses me off, and it simply feels more pleasant to use Linux. Partially because it's more configurable than OSX and Windows. I've not changed much on this system since most things are good by default, but for example I've chosen a nice colour theme, replaced the task bar with a dock, and installed Guake as my terminal (f***ing love having a drop-down console in the OS, I bound it to super-t - it's very handy for me as a developer and network admin).
I expect MS will have their own store/package manager type thing soon, and OSX now has the App Store (though I don't know how it compares to package managers yet - ie if it contains a lot of commonly used free utilities). Overall things are going to keep getting better all round, which is nice. It's good to finally see some real competition in the OS space again.
Nope, I just remember seeing her on an interview or two.
And lots of sex!
It all made sense to me, and it's useful to know that SSL is less than trustworthy right now.
By the way - you spelled blatantly wrong while saying things were wrong. Ho ho ho.