Ya, because AMD is really going out of business just before they release their much touted "Barcelona/K10" and their recently announced "Phenom" models (Phenom being of the K10 architecture), specifically the quad-core (one die, as you mentioned) "Phenom - Agena" processors.
So AMD lost the limelight to Intel with the release of the Core and Core-2 architectures. That doesn't mean that AMD is going out of business though. In another year when everybody is buying AMD Barcelona and Phenom chip-sets, people will be talking the same bullshit they are now except that statements will change from
"AMD Considering Going Fabless!11!! (story submitted by 1337 14yr old "hacker/blogger")"
to
"Intel Considering Going Fabless!11!! (story submitted by same 1337 "hacker/blogger", now 15yr old)"
So if you did want to invest in either AMD or Intel, now would be the time to go with AMD while people freak out over this speculation. And even if you don't want to hold those stocks till late 2007 or 2008 when the K10s are due to be out, you could sell those stocks a month from now when everybody realizes this article is the same bullshit speculation we always see and people are looking to buy back those stocks they sold off at a loss - bringing about the #5 step in any/. post - PROFIT!!!
I agree - something like "CentOS" might sound stupid, unless of course you know that its basically Red Hat Enterprise Linux, which is one of the top Linux distro's in the enterprise market. Or how about "OpenBSD" which might sound meaningless or a bunch of idealistic weenies only focused on code being open - unless you actually looked at it and know that its highly reputed for being one of the most secure operating systems on the planet in an "as-is, out of the box" configuration...
Either way, its a start towards getting support on whatever the underlying OS is to support someodd filesystem until the licensing bs can be worked around...
I'm guessing the **AA's had info passed to the judge suggesting that the info could be gotten from RAM - knowing full well themselves it cant' be. All they want is to make TorrentSpy's servers inoperable. Except that all they really have to do is spend a few hundred bucks to order more for that one (of how many?) server if staying up is that important to them. And with how much they make off of ads, I think they could easily cover the cost of a lawsuit with an order of more RAM on the side...
They already do - in fact its the biggest type of game over there. Except that most tend to be really only slide shows with some crappy story and make a decision (Do A or Do B? Say Y or X?). And the few 3d ones that do exist are based on some shitty action game-play more than sex. Oh, and did I mention that the majority of these (at least if you want h-scenes) tend to be on PC only?
Even if they did make a few with really good graphic textures in 3d - I think there's too much difference in the cultures.
Walmart doesn't sell porn games with the rest
The mainstream porn buying American/Euro guy would probably find getting off on h-anime and ero-games just too damned weird.
Theres a good chance that the anime loving college otaku would be too ashamed to go buy it
The biggest reason is that Sony would be too worried about their image to allow the making/selling of large amounts of such "Dating Sim" games. The gaming industry already gives Jack-ass Thompson enough fodder for his arguments to the courts and general public with violence in games - right now this is like him having a.308 deer hunting rifle against the industry. Making large amounts of games to be sold in the US where the central focus is sex would be like giving him a 30mm chain-gun...
You must be new here - back in _THE_ day, webpages had to be read in pure SGML, and prior to that, binary. Of course, gramps over in the corner still prefers to read 'em by flipping electromagnetic switches on his ENIAC, with the moths and other bugs stuck in the switches for his favorite snack...
Whats there to understand? Basically he just said that Marriot is bumping up their network backbone to better hand VOIP and Slingbox type devices (basically broadcasts and manipulates your tv via the net, and you can watch it via the Slingbox app on your laptop or supported cell-phone), along with adding docking stations and cables to hook up electronics and laptops and whatnot to your Marriot room's A/V system and network connection...
Really there weren't any buzzwords at all in it - Slingbox isn't a buzzword so much as a product, and VOIP has been around long enough that its no longer a buzzword (except for by companies such as Vonage)...
I'm not sure if this is worth replying to if being AC whether you'll read this or not, but I'll clarify what I was thinking anyway...
I never said the actual P2P download method - I guess I didn't clarify enough, but what I meant is that downloading the torrent file itself might not work (I'm not familiar enough with web-servers and proxy-servers) because to my understanding when you click on a link via proxy to download the torrent file, the server wouldn't know which to send it to (you can send but not receive via proxy, correct?). However, if you can actually download the torrent file via proxy, after getting it, you simply download straight without any proxy - its the TorrentSpy website you need to spoof your id to view, not to download the contents of the torrent file...
Second - if your argument had any truth to it, you aren't using P2P anyway with any other download service anyway as you go through about 20 or 30 different way-point IP's anyway just to connect to the net from your ISP's infrastructure...
Third - yes, uTorrent at the least supports downloading via proxy - I just checked as a matter of fact...
And Fourth - perhaps circa '95, but I can't believe you've been a/. reader since the literal '95, as/. was officially created in '97, as per the bottom header of/.
Its more of an analogue analogy - its not so much black and white/digital, but because pretty much everything can be seen as evil (cute little bunny rabbits that hand out millions of $$$ for no reason? Theres something evil about that rabbit, just not as much as Nazi persecution of Jews). So since everything is evil, its really a choice of which is the lesser evil...
Ok, so if they do just "block the entire US" whats to say somebody won't set up a mirror, a howto on using Proxy servers outside the US, or IP spoofing (not sure if that would work with downloads though...) or any of a billion other ways to get around this?
Except that would ignore the need to be cheap - as in using an old case you have lying around and getting at most $150 USD of hardware off of Newegg (plus shipping) - lowest being getting a working old Pentium 2 or 3 class machine for about $50 (plus shipping, for example retrobox.com - now merged with intechraoutlet.com), and then slap in a $20 or $40 SATA RAID card in the event the motherboard doesn't have SATA.
Doing it this way, if you have the knowledge to use RAID or LVM (or are willing/able to learn) - you could either
I think it is much more than just "the Linux community" that thinks Microsoft is full of shit with their lies and marketing ploys.
Even then, the people not in the *nix crowd are nerdy enough to generally understand your statement - its the normal people that you've got to educate, who don't understand that their monitor isn't the "CPU" and their tower/case isn't a "modem" because its those same people that don't think that there might be something else besides MS.
While bigger, more accurate, and prettier guns are nice - realize that the only thing a gun has to do is hit the target, which the AK-47 and newer brethren can do plenty well...
Perhaps because it allows for platform independent viewing of video files on most any current browser (IE, Firefox/Netscape, Opera, Safari, etc) - making it easier for most people to view?
Umm... In case you didn't see the descriptions in whatever GUI package manager you have, Iceweasel IS Firefox, just rebranded due to legal crap because Debian recompiles it and makes Debian specific optimizations...
You (the parent post) probably know this but it bears repeating:
"Harmony" is most certainly not the "regular mp3's" the GP was talking about. Regular mp3's are just that - either ripped fresh from a CD, p2p network, or any other source of non-DRM'd mp3 audio files.
In case you didn't know - most media player software anymore tends to at least have some kind of plugin allowing for basic writing to iPod's, and if you don't prefer that method, you can always load Rockbox or iPod Linux (unless your model isn't compatible with iPod Linux) allowing for drag and drop transfer of music and playlists with "/" as the root directory (using Rockbox).
So not only is your point not valid, it doesnt even seem to be on topic - so just how the hell is it insightful? I mean, where the damned hell did "Harmony" get brought up anyway? Again, just in case you didn't catch it, the gp wasn't talking about removing Apple's DRM at all, he's talking about music files of which neither Apple's nor any other DRM exists at all...
Even knowing that it will get shot down, it gets out because it gets said politician press/media coverage. IIRC there was some crap a few months back on Techdirt about a politician suggesting that school-books should be padded with kevlar "to stop bullets in case of a school shooting" - do you think that ever was meant to go through - all he wanted was the press coverage it got him? The only reason this *might* gain momentum is idiot soccer-moms who base decisions on rating alone ("A teletubbies game that's rated PG? Too much for my kids!") rather than having a look at the content of the game/movie/music/etc...
If you couldn't tell, its a classic reference to Futurama - quoting Bender. The part where you screwed up is that you took it too literally. What you where supposed to put in your reply is something akin to "Ah, screw the blackjack and the blow" - leaving Bender with hookers (hey at least the robot knows where his priorities are)...
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So AMD lost the limelight to Intel with the release of the Core and Core-2 architectures. That doesn't mean that AMD is going out of business though. In another year when everybody is buying AMD Barcelona and Phenom chip-sets, people will be talking the same bullshit they are now except that statements will change from to So if you did want to invest in either AMD or Intel, now would be the time to go with AMD while people freak out over this speculation. And even if you don't want to hold those stocks till late 2007 or 2008 when the K10s are due to be out, you could sell those stocks a month from now when everybody realizes this article is the same bullshit speculation we always see and people are looking to buy back those stocks they sold off at a loss - bringing about the #5 step in any
I agree - something like "CentOS" might sound stupid, unless of course you know that its basically Red Hat Enterprise Linux, which is one of the top Linux distro's in the enterprise market. Or how about "OpenBSD" which might sound meaningless or a bunch of idealistic weenies only focused on code being open - unless you actually looked at it and know that its highly reputed for being one of the most secure operating systems on the planet in an "as-is, out of the box" configuration...
Either way, its a start towards getting support on whatever the underlying OS is to support someodd filesystem until the licensing bs can be worked around...
I'm guessing the **AA's had info passed to the judge suggesting that the info could be gotten from RAM - knowing full well themselves it cant' be. All they want is to make TorrentSpy's servers inoperable. Except that all they really have to do is spend a few hundred bucks to order more for that one (of how many?) server if staying up is that important to them. And with how much they make off of ads, I think they could easily cover the cost of a lawsuit with an order of more RAM on the side...
Even if they did make a few with really good graphic textures in 3d - I think there's too much difference in the cultures.
You must be new here - back in _THE_ day, webpages had to be read in pure SGML, and prior to that, binary. Of course, gramps over in the corner still prefers to read 'em by flipping electromagnetic switches on his ENIAC, with the moths and other bugs stuck in the switches for his favorite snack...
Whats there to understand? Basically he just said that Marriot is bumping up their network backbone to better hand VOIP and Slingbox type devices (basically broadcasts and manipulates your tv via the net, and you can watch it via the Slingbox app on your laptop or supported cell-phone), along with adding docking stations and cables to hook up electronics and laptops and whatnot to your Marriot room's A/V system and network connection...
Really there weren't any buzzwords at all in it - Slingbox isn't a buzzword so much as a product, and VOIP has been around long enough that its no longer a buzzword (except for by companies such as Vonage)...
I never said the actual P2P download method - I guess I didn't clarify enough, but what I meant is that downloading the torrent file itself might not work (I'm not familiar enough with web-servers and proxy-servers) because to my understanding when you click on a link via proxy to download the torrent file, the server wouldn't know which to send it to (you can send but not receive via proxy, correct?). However, if you can actually download the torrent file via proxy, after getting it, you simply download straight without any proxy - its the TorrentSpy website you need to spoof your id to view, not to download the contents of the torrent file...
Second - if your argument had any truth to it, you aren't using P2P anyway with any other download service anyway as you go through about 20 or 30 different way-point IP's anyway just to connect to the net from your ISP's infrastructure...
Third - yes, uTorrent at the least supports downloading via proxy - I just checked as a matter of fact...
And Fourth - perhaps circa '95, but I can't believe you've been a
Its more of an analogue analogy - its not so much black and white/digital, but because pretty much everything can be seen as evil (cute little bunny rabbits that hand out millions of $$$ for no reason? Theres something evil about that rabbit, just not as much as Nazi persecution of Jews). So since everything is evil, its really a choice of which is the lesser evil...
Ok, so if they do just "block the entire US" whats to say somebody won't set up a mirror, a howto on using Proxy servers outside the US, or IP spoofing (not sure if that would work with downloads though...) or any of a billion other ways to get around this?
Well then, I'm guessing either part of your manliness has died, or you've somehow gotten one of those mythical "Girlfriends" people always talk about
Doing it this way, if you have the knowledge to use RAID or LVM (or are willing/able to learn) - you could either
Or at least thats my experience anyway...
But not everybody always adheres to the ideals which they are supposed to, do they?
While bigger, more accurate, and prettier guns are nice - realize that the only thing a gun has to do is hit the target, which the AK-47 and newer brethren can do plenty well...
also the USS Cole and the US Embassy in Kenya...
Perhaps because it allows for platform independent viewing of video files on most any current browser (IE, Firefox/Netscape, Opera, Safari, etc) - making it easier for most people to view?
Umm... In case you didn't see the descriptions in whatever GUI package manager you have, Iceweasel IS Firefox, just rebranded due to legal crap because Debian recompiles it and makes Debian specific optimizations...
You (the parent post) probably know this but it bears repeating:
"Harmony" is most certainly not the "regular mp3's" the GP was talking about. Regular mp3's are just that - either ripped fresh from a CD, p2p network, or any other source of non-DRM'd mp3 audio files. In case you didn't know - most media player software anymore tends to at least have some kind of plugin allowing for basic writing to iPod's, and if you don't prefer that method, you can always load Rockbox or iPod Linux (unless your model isn't compatible with iPod Linux) allowing for drag and drop transfer of music and playlists with "/" as the root directory (using Rockbox).
So not only is your point not valid, it doesnt even seem to be on topic - so just how the hell is it insightful? I mean, where the damned hell did "Harmony" get brought up anyway? Again, just in case you didn't catch it, the gp wasn't talking about removing Apple's DRM at all, he's talking about music files of which neither Apple's nor any other DRM exists at all...
shopped or not - that image should never have existed, and is the bane of internet forum readers everywhere...
More importantly - if everybody else has to do this also, would that make otaku more acceptable to general society?
WHAT?!? A /. post involving the words "Soviet Russia" that isn't a backards Russia joke? Heresy!
Even knowing that it will get shot down, it gets out because it gets said politician press/media coverage. IIRC there was some crap a few months back on Techdirt about a politician suggesting that school-books should be padded with kevlar "to stop bullets in case of a school shooting" - do you think that ever was meant to go through - all he wanted was the press coverage it got him? The only reason this *might* gain momentum is idiot soccer-moms who base decisions on rating alone ("A teletubbies game that's rated PG? Too much for my kids!") rather than having a look at the content of the game/movie/music/etc...
If you couldn't tell, its a classic reference to Futurama - quoting Bender. The part where you screwed up is that you took it too literally. What you where supposed to put in your reply is something akin to "Ah, screw the blackjack and the blow" - leaving Bender with hookers (hey at least the robot knows where his priorities are)...