On GMail you have to add the domain name to the URL instead if you have a non-gmail.com address. While it's trivial for me to remember the URL, -all- of the non-techies in our company have issues with it and I have to just bookmark it for them. Having them remember their full email address would be quite a bit easier, since they already do.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cheap 2. costing little labor or trouble: Words are cheap. 4. of little account; of small value; mean; shoddy: cheap conduct; cheap workmanship.
Neither of those 2 definitions mean anything even close to 'inexpensive', and either of them could apply to this situation. Stop and look it up before you go grammar nazi'ing.
So the scientists say that their favorite toy is underfunded? Maybe they should help fund it a bit, then. That's the way everything else in the world works, isn't it? If you use it, you pay for it.
Yes, technically it is 'used' by everyone, so everyone should pay for it. But in reality only the scientists have any direct access to it, and we have to hope what they are doing is worthwhile.
Instead of funding the telescope, how about we fund the scientists that are doing things we want done, and THEY use their funding to rent the 'scope, funding it via projects that people find worthwhile.
I have a feeling this would actually mean that the 'scope gets less funding, showing just exactly how much these scientists value their toy.
Adding a cartridge to the DS for TV works great because you don't want to watch TV all the time.
Adding a cell cartridge to the DS doesn't work because you can't receive calls while you play games. Phones have to be a phone first and have the smarts to pause a game while you answer a call.
While not a truly hardhack, it is still basically a mod chip and questionably legal since it helps skirt around the copy protection of the games.
The M3 (at least the M3 Simply DS) doesn't boot like a regular game, but instead takes advantage of some aspect of the boot process to hijack the booting. Instead of making you press a button and showing the regular DS menu, it goes right to the ROM of the M3. This means it -is- still a hack as it alters the typical functioning of the device.
How do I know if my provider is using unsafe DNS practices?
I would like to run some checks against my domain and see if any of this applies to me. Can anyone recommend sites, utilities or linux commands to test it?
Would have been nice to include this info in the 'article' or even the summary, instead of just saying how un-secure everything is. Again.
While I don't know exactly what the OLPC will have, it is probably fairly easy to get FBReader working on it, which is what I use on the n800. For that, I've found the RTFs work very well. The HTML isn't quite as good as they split the book so each chapter is an html page, and fbreader doesn't always get it. Single-page HTML works great from other sources, though.
If you are just going to use a web browser to view it, the HTML version is probably the way to go.
I can't answer how -this- beats a PSP or DS, but I have an n800 and I can answer how that does.
The large screen is a must. The DS's screen doesn't get enough text on it at once, even using both screens, to read at a good clip.
The touch screen is -really- useful. I can tap a corner of the 'page' with my thumb and it'll go forward or backward in the text.
You don't have to hack or buy a questionably-legal cartridge to use the n800 for reading.
I can guess the Kindle would also add: 30 hours of battery life, and paper-like screen which could be easier on the eyes.
I bought the n800 mainly for ebook reading. I use it for other things as well now, but it really was just another $400 ebook reader when I bought it. But it -could- do other things, which this Kindle cannot. No Skype phone, web browsing, organizer, etc, etc.
One last unrelated thing: I see everyone talking about DRM'd ebooks. I have never bought a DRM'd ebook in my life and never will. I buy my books from baen.com (ALL completely DRM free and in several formats) which has -years- of good books that I don't have yet, and they release more each month than I can read in a month. In addition, Project Gutenburg has the classics.
I think they meant XBL 360's second. All of the celebration centers around the 360, and not the original XBox, except that you can now buy some games that were originally for it.
Personally, while I think this is a great idea, I also think I can probably find the original discs at a local store cheaper. I'm tempted to go looking, just for the fun of it.
Doesn't a duel imply that both parties are actively attacking each other? Game sites don't -care- about magazines at all, except for Japanese ones where they can scan the page and show that Mega Pony X3 is coming out over there sometime in the future. Local magazines get no attention whatsoever.
Gamers only want game news. The interviews with developers and demos are nice, but the best stuff is always available online somewhere. And any developer that ignores the websites in favor of magazines loses a -lot- of free advertisement that gets to the target -immediately.-
I really don't see anything useful in magazines any more... The stuff they used to have like cheats, maps, etc... All of that is gone. Now the companies sell the maps and walkthroughs directly to the consumer, and cheats are always available online without having to figure out which backissue of Generic Gamer Monthly it was in.
No, it's not a 'duel'... It's 'I'm not dead yet!' Sorry bud, 'You will be soon!'
With comics, you are very much correct. I tried reading some comics (manga) on a 15" laptop... It was the most portable thing I had that was big enough. A PDA is way, way too small, and sitting at a computer to read is annoying. I came to the conclusion that a $2000 tablet PC (possibly a ModBook Pro) would be the best solution... And that it wasn't worth spending $2000+ to read a few comics.
For comics to look right on a computer screen, they'd have to be able to adjust the format, like a regular book does... And that's just not an option when dealing with old comics.
Oh well... Here's hoping cheap tablet PCs are just around the bend.
Read deeper. Don't just skim a few words from the paragraph.
Your "has no meaning" quote came out of your ass, apparently. I said they can't -say- it has meaning, not that it had none. They are claiming results when they can't say for sure what all they affected.
There is probably some bad journalism here, because any scientist worth a shit knows better than to claim things as broadly-scoped as this without a shitload of research and experimentation.
"A team of University of Tokyo researchers led by professors Hitoshi Sakano and Ko Kobayakawa have announced they have genetically engineered a mouse that does not fear cats, simply by controlling its sense of smell."
This should probably read:
A team of University of Tokyo researchers led by professors Hitoshi Sakano and Ko Kobayakawa have announced they have genetically engineered a mouse that does not fear cats while attempting to modify its sense of smell.
That's factual and there's nothing to dispute. It's not as sensational that way, though, so...
Or maybe they modified more than just the sense of smell, by mistake. I'm not trying to be all gloom and doom, but there's no way they fully understand what modifications they made. We still only know the very basics about DNA... Until they can -for sure- know all the effects modifying a gene will have, they can't say that their research means anything.
I happen to believe that they are correct in that mice fears predators at an instinct level... But I disagree that it's smell alone.
This is great advertisement for them. Since all they DO is market research, giving away some was a good idea... Taking it away and then giving it back was even better. Just brilliant.
Yeah, because that works -so- well. Let's see... Completely disregarding what the Bible says (which is the moral guidance for a -lot- of people), there have been plenty of other 'moral' actions that we no longer consider moral, or that a portion of the world, and a portion doesn't... Slavery, the equality of women and men, war, circumcision, -many- aspects of sex... The list goes on and on.
There are those who honestly believe it's okay to just physically take whatever you want. Does that mean it's okay?
There are those who honestly believe it's okay to just copy whatever files they want. Does that mean it's okay?
'Morals' are not an adequate replacement for laws. The morals of the majority are a good basis for the laws, though.
I don't work for a game company. I was refering to the (I thought) well known fact that EA requires massive overtime from all their game development staff. They're pretty much the industry leader in beating the shit out of an employee and getting thanked for it.
My point was that as bad as EA is, starting your own business it harder! Even if they wanted to take all the same people and just start a project, they'd have to PAY all those people from something... You suggest Venture Capital, but that isn't magic... You have to pound the pavement to get that as well. In the end, you either end up with a few people who destroy themselves to make it work (and fail doing it) or you end up with a bunch of people working their asses off to get the thing going. It'll make days at EA look like a picnic.
And of course, that's assuming they have an idea what they want to do, and can agree on it. Without an idea, there's no money and nothing to work on.
The 'resolution' issue is with the game Dynasty Warriors Gundam... It only plays at 720p on the PS3, but will do at least 1080i on the 360. (Not 100% sure about 1080p.) There may be others, but my issue is with that game.
Hardware-wise, the PS3 is the winner (with the possible exception of RAM... What were they thinking?) but when it comes to software, the 360 is just plain easier to program for and has the bonus that it's not hard to make it run on 360 and PC both. The Wii (and DS) is also said to be nice to program for. Sony doesn't concentrate enough on the API/SDK side of things... They're too busy bragging about their raw power.
The obligatory car analogy: Towing power doesn't matter if you have to build a whole new frame every time you want to tow something.
Wouldn't be much of a 'regular house phone'... or a regular -anything- phone... If it had an operating system and a touchscreen. That instantly blows it out of 'regular' price range of less than $100.
And if you're going to go that far, why would it -not- have cellphone abilities as well? Think of the iPhone without the cellular bit, but with a VOIP interface. Would it be popular at all? Hell no. It would be the laughing stock of the internet for years. $600+ and only remotely desirable to anyone who knows what SIP is.
The only way his proposal makes a bit of sense is if it's a cheap regular home phone.
But how much is -really- management's fault (unrealistic goals, according to the summary) and how much is the employees'?
If they were capable of putting in the amount of work necessary for a startup, do you think EA Chicago would still have died? It's a -hell- of a lot more work than EA, no matter how bad EA is. EA only takes 80 hours a week, a startup takes every last second that's available... And if you don't have enough available, you won't make it.
My problem with the PS3 now is that all the good games (read: games that I like) are also on the 360. (Ratchet and Clank was amusing, but wasn't a 'buy' for me.) Many of them even play better on the 360 (higher res, less choppy, etc)... If I had waited for the 'killer game' for the PS3, I might never own one... There's nothing on horizon that's PS3-specific that I really care about.
I currently have 3 games on my shelf for PS3: DW Gundam, Stranglehold, and Bladestorm. And I should have just rented Stranglehold.
If I hadn't bought a 360 a -year- before, there'd be quite a few more titles there, like Enchanted Arms, Oblivion... Hmm... No, the rest of the games that'll be on both systems haven't come out yet, or won't. -sigh-
I -want- to like the PS3. It's great as a media platform, I like the controller a lot better (analog sticks are aligned, lighter) and I tend to think it's a more stable machine... But they're making it really hard to justify the buy... I'm afraid it might kill the thing.
You know what? I lied... There is one game that I'm very much looking forward to: Little Big Planet. I don't expect to play it for upwards of 200 hours like I did Oblivion, though. It'll be an amusing run through (moreso if it supports internet co-op) but nothing I'll be playing in a year.
So you'd rather see them jury-rig a home phone to do complicated things than have them create an interface on a mobile platform (PDA, phone, etc) that could do it much easier and visually, instead of having the user constantly listen to prompts and/or memorize button presses?
No thanks. I'd much rather see the same hooked up to a phone with a decent-sized screen (the iPhone comes to mind, even though I don't own one) and be able to control it like that. Maybe the Neo1973... Since OpenMoko is open source, it's probably not that hard to add this stuff to it, assuming most of it exists already and just needs to be modified for mobile use. In fact, I was just reading here yesterday that someone managed to use Bluetooth on a phone to track which housemate was where and great them when they enter, etc. I would love to have the house constantly adjust the lighting according to what room I'm in, which direction I'm walking, and what time of day it is.
This is one of those articles that you think 'Why isn't there more of these!? It's great!' but then remember that if there were more, they'd quickly become old-hat.
Kudos to them for doing it right... #7 was sure a surprise.
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On GMail you have to add the domain name to the URL instead if you have a non-gmail.com address. While it's trivial for me to remember the URL, -all- of the non-techies in our company have issues with it and I have to just bookmark it for them. Having them remember their full email address would be quite a bit easier, since they already do.
No, no it doesn't.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cheap
2. costing little labor or trouble: Words are cheap.
4. of little account; of small value; mean; shoddy: cheap conduct; cheap workmanship.
Neither of those 2 definitions mean anything even close to 'inexpensive', and either of them could apply to this situation. Stop and look it up before you go grammar nazi'ing.
So the scientists say that their favorite toy is underfunded? Maybe they should help fund it a bit, then. That's the way everything else in the world works, isn't it? If you use it, you pay for it.
Yes, technically it is 'used' by everyone, so everyone should pay for it. But in reality only the scientists have any direct access to it, and we have to hope what they are doing is worthwhile.
Instead of funding the telescope, how about we fund the scientists that are doing things we want done, and THEY use their funding to rent the 'scope, funding it via projects that people find worthwhile.
I have a feeling this would actually mean that the 'scope gets less funding, showing just exactly how much these scientists value their toy.
Adding a cartridge to the DS for TV works great because you don't want to watch TV all the time.
Adding a cell cartridge to the DS doesn't work because you can't receive calls while you play games. Phones have to be a phone first and have the smarts to pause a game while you answer a call.
While not a truly hardhack, it is still basically a mod chip and questionably legal since it helps skirt around the copy protection of the games.
The M3 (at least the M3 Simply DS) doesn't boot like a regular game, but instead takes advantage of some aspect of the boot process to hijack the booting. Instead of making you press a button and showing the regular DS menu, it goes right to the ROM of the M3. This means it -is- still a hack as it alters the typical functioning of the device.
How do I know if my provider is using unsafe DNS practices?
I would like to run some checks against my domain and see if any of this applies to me. Can anyone recommend sites, utilities or linux commands to test it?
Would have been nice to include this info in the 'article' or even the summary, instead of just saying how un-secure everything is. Again.
Thanks.
It's in the national anthem. I think that constitutes 'they' calling it that.
While I don't know exactly what the OLPC will have, it is probably fairly easy to get FBReader working on it, which is what I use on the n800. For that, I've found the RTFs work very well. The HTML isn't quite as good as they split the book so each chapter is an html page, and fbreader doesn't always get it. Single-page HTML works great from other sources, though.
If you are just going to use a web browser to view it, the HTML version is probably the way to go.
I can't answer how -this- beats a PSP or DS, but I have an n800 and I can answer how that does.
The large screen is a must. The DS's screen doesn't get enough text on it at once, even using both screens, to read at a good clip.
The touch screen is -really- useful. I can tap a corner of the 'page' with my thumb and it'll go forward or backward in the text.
You don't have to hack or buy a questionably-legal cartridge to use the n800 for reading.
I can guess the Kindle would also add: 30 hours of battery life, and paper-like screen which could be easier on the eyes.
I bought the n800 mainly for ebook reading. I use it for other things as well now, but it really was just another $400 ebook reader when I bought it. But it -could- do other things, which this Kindle cannot. No Skype phone, web browsing, organizer, etc, etc.
One last unrelated thing: I see everyone talking about DRM'd ebooks. I have never bought a DRM'd ebook in my life and never will. I buy my books from baen.com (ALL completely DRM free and in several formats) which has -years- of good books that I don't have yet, and they release more each month than I can read in a month. In addition, Project Gutenburg has the classics.
Yes, because nothing looks as natural as a Japanese man with a mustache.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/image/19497/japans_new_royal_son.html
Hmmm... I'm not so sure about this plan of yours. It's probably easier to get a passer-by to stand in front of the machine for a moment, instead.
"and require an identification card of some sort."
Ah, so you read the summary. Very bold of you, sir.
FTFS: "the buyer must provide further identification such as a drivers licence."
I think they meant XBL 360's second. All of the celebration centers around the 360, and not the original XBox, except that you can now buy some games that were originally for it.
Personally, while I think this is a great idea, I also think I can probably find the original discs at a local store cheaper. I'm tempted to go looking, just for the fun of it.
Doesn't a duel imply that both parties are actively attacking each other? Game sites don't -care- about magazines at all, except for Japanese ones where they can scan the page and show that Mega Pony X3 is coming out over there sometime in the future. Local magazines get no attention whatsoever.
Gamers only want game news. The interviews with developers and demos are nice, but the best stuff is always available online somewhere. And any developer that ignores the websites in favor of magazines loses a -lot- of free advertisement that gets to the target -immediately.-
I really don't see anything useful in magazines any more... The stuff they used to have like cheats, maps, etc... All of that is gone. Now the companies sell the maps and walkthroughs directly to the consumer, and cheats are always available online without having to figure out which backissue of Generic Gamer Monthly it was in.
No, it's not a 'duel'... It's 'I'm not dead yet!' Sorry bud, 'You will be soon!'
With books, I whole-heartedly disagree.
With comics, you are very much correct. I tried reading some comics (manga) on a 15" laptop... It was the most portable thing I had that was big enough. A PDA is way, way too small, and sitting at a computer to read is annoying. I came to the conclusion that a $2000 tablet PC (possibly a ModBook Pro) would be the best solution... And that it wasn't worth spending $2000+ to read a few comics.
For comics to look right on a computer screen, they'd have to be able to adjust the format, like a regular book does... And that's just not an option when dealing with old comics.
Oh well... Here's hoping cheap tablet PCs are just around the bend.
Read deeper. Don't just skim a few words from the paragraph.
Your "has no meaning" quote came out of your ass, apparently. I said they can't -say- it has meaning, not that it had none. They are claiming results when they can't say for sure what all they affected.
There is probably some bad journalism here, because any scientist worth a shit knows better than to claim things as broadly-scoped as this without a shitload of research and experimentation.
"A team of University of Tokyo researchers led by professors Hitoshi Sakano and Ko Kobayakawa have announced they have genetically engineered a mouse that does not fear cats, simply by controlling its sense of smell."
This should probably read:
A team of University of Tokyo researchers led by professors Hitoshi Sakano and Ko Kobayakawa have announced they have genetically engineered a mouse that does not fear cats while attempting to modify its sense of smell.
That's factual and there's nothing to dispute. It's not as sensational that way, though, so...
That's journalism for ya.
Or maybe they modified more than just the sense of smell, by mistake. I'm not trying to be all gloom and doom, but there's no way they fully understand what modifications they made. We still only know the very basics about DNA... Until they can -for sure- know all the effects modifying a gene will have, they can't say that their research means anything.
I happen to believe that they are correct in that mice fears predators at an instinct level... But I disagree that it's smell alone.
This is great advertisement for them. Since all they DO is market research, giving away some was a good idea... Taking it away and then giving it back was even better. Just brilliant.
Yeah, because that works -so- well. Let's see... Completely disregarding what the Bible says (which is the moral guidance for a -lot- of people), there have been plenty of other 'moral' actions that we no longer consider moral, or that a portion of the world, and a portion doesn't... Slavery, the equality of women and men, war, circumcision, -many- aspects of sex... The list goes on and on.
There are those who honestly believe it's okay to just physically take whatever you want. Does that mean it's okay?
There are those who honestly believe it's okay to just copy whatever files they want. Does that mean it's okay?
'Morals' are not an adequate replacement for laws. The morals of the majority are a good basis for the laws, though.
I don't work for a game company. I was refering to the (I thought) well known fact that EA requires massive overtime from all their game development staff. They're pretty much the industry leader in beating the shit out of an employee and getting thanked for it.
My point was that as bad as EA is, starting your own business it harder! Even if they wanted to take all the same people and just start a project, they'd have to PAY all those people from something... You suggest Venture Capital, but that isn't magic... You have to pound the pavement to get that as well. In the end, you either end up with a few people who destroy themselves to make it work (and fail doing it) or you end up with a bunch of people working their asses off to get the thing going. It'll make days at EA look like a picnic.
And of course, that's assuming they have an idea what they want to do, and can agree on it. Without an idea, there's no money and nothing to work on.
The 'resolution' issue is with the game Dynasty Warriors Gundam... It only plays at 720p on the PS3, but will do at least 1080i on the 360. (Not 100% sure about 1080p.) There may be others, but my issue is with that game.
Hardware-wise, the PS3 is the winner (with the possible exception of RAM... What were they thinking?) but when it comes to software, the 360 is just plain easier to program for and has the bonus that it's not hard to make it run on 360 and PC both. The Wii (and DS) is also said to be nice to program for. Sony doesn't concentrate enough on the API/SDK side of things... They're too busy bragging about their raw power.
The obligatory car analogy: Towing power doesn't matter if you have to build a whole new frame every time you want to tow something.
" a regular house phone"
Wouldn't be much of a 'regular house phone'... or a regular -anything- phone... If it had an operating system and a touchscreen. That instantly blows it out of 'regular' price range of less than $100.
And if you're going to go that far, why would it -not- have cellphone abilities as well? Think of the iPhone without the cellular bit, but with a VOIP interface. Would it be popular at all? Hell no. It would be the laughing stock of the internet for years. $600+ and only remotely desirable to anyone who knows what SIP is.
The only way his proposal makes a bit of sense is if it's a cheap regular home phone.
But how much is -really- management's fault (unrealistic goals, according to the summary) and how much is the employees'?
If they were capable of putting in the amount of work necessary for a startup, do you think EA Chicago would still have died? It's a -hell- of a lot more work than EA, no matter how bad EA is. EA only takes 80 hours a week, a startup takes every last second that's available... And if you don't have enough available, you won't make it.
My problem with the PS3 now is that all the good games (read: games that I like) are also on the 360. (Ratchet and Clank was amusing, but wasn't a 'buy' for me.) Many of them even play better on the 360 (higher res, less choppy, etc)... If I had waited for the 'killer game' for the PS3, I might never own one... There's nothing on horizon that's PS3-specific that I really care about.
I currently have 3 games on my shelf for PS3: DW Gundam, Stranglehold, and Bladestorm. And I should have just rented Stranglehold.
If I hadn't bought a 360 a -year- before, there'd be quite a few more titles there, like Enchanted Arms, Oblivion... Hmm... No, the rest of the games that'll be on both systems haven't come out yet, or won't. -sigh-
I -want- to like the PS3. It's great as a media platform, I like the controller a lot better (analog sticks are aligned, lighter) and I tend to think it's a more stable machine... But they're making it really hard to justify the buy... I'm afraid it might kill the thing.
You know what? I lied... There is one game that I'm very much looking forward to: Little Big Planet. I don't expect to play it for upwards of 200 hours like I did Oblivion, though. It'll be an amusing run through (moreso if it supports internet co-op) but nothing I'll be playing in a year.
So you'd rather see them jury-rig a home phone to do complicated things than have them create an interface on a mobile platform (PDA, phone, etc) that could do it much easier and visually, instead of having the user constantly listen to prompts and/or memorize button presses?
... Since OpenMoko is open source, it's probably not that hard to add this stuff to it, assuming most of it exists already and just needs to be modified for mobile use. In fact, I was just reading here yesterday that someone managed to use Bluetooth on a phone to track which housemate was where and great them when they enter, etc. I would love to have the house constantly adjust the lighting according to what room I'm in, which direction I'm walking, and what time of day it is.
No thanks. I'd much rather see the same hooked up to a phone with a decent-sized screen (the iPhone comes to mind, even though I don't own one) and be able to control it like that. Maybe the Neo1973
This is one of those articles that you think 'Why isn't there more of these!? It's great!' but then remember that if there were more, they'd quickly become old-hat.
Kudos to them for doing it right... #7 was sure a surprise.