Becuase Jack Thompson is also in the mainstream media and people believe that Tetris can cause killing sprees on streets with nothing more than USB pen drive.
In other news, scientists have invented a time machine that allows people to travel back to when they are fourteen, a time when names like shark and Kill3r are cool.
I'd agree with you if it's a md5hash or similar, but the encryption used to send emails and so forth has to be decrypted quickly, I'm sure the government could do that with ease.
This isn't really news, sure, the resolution will be higher, but resolution compared to lens quality and sensor size is nothing.
When phones start coming with a good lens assembly, then it'll be news.
Everyone also neglects the fact that phone memory is still very small, and high-res desktop monitors hardly bump 2 megapixels, nevermind 8. The only reason someone would need 8 is for print work, and anyone doing print work with a mobile phone deserves to be shot.
So the government, which can invoke the army's help, or the police force, each with powerful mainframes, can't break some 40 year old's crappy email encryption that's used to send pictures of kiddies to his mates.
Interesting article, but I'm not sure how many Slashdotters can fit a cluster powerful enough to saturate a GigE interconnect in their mother's basement.
Honestly, I think this is a good thing. MS is going to the root of the cause, which is when ol' Joe Sixpack types in google but misspells and downloads personal search bar from some random IP address.
This along with the phishing filter will hopefully solve alot of web crime and issues like that.
Regardless of the fact that i've heard these predictions many, many times over, I can safely say that the story is yet another false one. Tell me where you'll hear the manager of a company say "I know! We'll buy Macs which cost twice as much for the same hardware, and load a boot manager which emulates BIOS through EFI and run WinXP!".
Apple fanboys have always stated the hardware as a reason to switch, since that has gone, as has application exclusiveness, the only reason left to switch is OS X(*cough*FreeBSD*cough*), which most people wont do becuase of boot camp.
Another argument I hear for this often is the fact that gamers can switch with ease now. What kind of serious gamer uses a X1600?
"Microsoft Media Center can't export video in an iPod format."
Since when has Apple been able to export to any MS PMC device?
This article reeks of Apple-ness.
I personally owna media centre, 30 mins searching for the newest drivers and finding a mpeg decoder and it's up and running. Interface has never stuttered and it handles a library of 70+ programmes (~1.8GB/hr) and 2GB of music, not to mention my pictures and such.
Microsoft Media Centre really is better than a slow computer with a fancy iTunes front end.
If this is done well then I can see the revolution being used for excercise as well as fun.
Much like what the Eyetoy was marketed to do, minus the rootkit.
I see.
Elite was going to be one of my examples, but I thought more modern games would have been a better example.
To be fair, AoE can be about resources, anyone who has played it for a small amount of time will know that once you focus on the challenge, all the game really is about is collecting resources (and you can forge alliances).
"Why not, for example, a space exploration game -- concentrating on the science, economics, and logistics involved, instead of the usual shoot-the-evil-green-aliens theme?"
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that what games like Homeworld and Age of Empires are all about?
There isn't really much point, very few internet connections are going to be over 10mbit/s let alone 1000gbit/s.
The only application this is really going to have is transferring huge files, and even then, hard disks arn't fast enough to saturate the network bandwidth.
Can't wait to get home so I can play Duke Nukem Forever on my 8-core Phantom while talking to my mates using a VOIP phone and recording HDTV over IPTV on my Media Center machine with a super-fast fiber-to-the-home connection.
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My G5 got over 10,000 points in 3DMark. Oh, wait...
If they're so smart then why do they need a dumbed down interface?
Or why do they pay double or triple price for simple pieces of hardware that works with Mac like an external USB hard drive?
Or why do Mac users suggest that a laptop isn't for use on a lap just becuase the MacBook Shit is too hot? (Off the intellectual hotspot Digg)
Becuase Jack Thompson is also in the mainstream media and people believe that Tetris can cause killing sprees on streets with nothing more than USB pen drive.
In other news, scientists have invented a time machine that allows people to travel back to when they are fourteen, a time when names like shark and Kill3r are cool.
Games? Windows? Anti-aliasing? On Slashdot? I didn't know you could do all that on FreeBSD..
I'd agree with you if it's a md5hash or similar, but the encryption used to send emails and so forth has to be decrypted quickly, I'm sure the government could do that with ease.
When phones start coming with a good lens assembly, then it'll be news.
Everyone also neglects the fact that phone memory is still very small, and high-res desktop monitors hardly bump 2 megapixels, nevermind 8. The only reason someone would need 8 is for print work, and anyone doing print work with a mobile phone deserves to be shot.
So the government, which can invoke the army's help, or the police force, each with powerful mainframes, can't break some 40 year old's crappy email encryption that's used to send pictures of kiddies to his mates.
Next up, Alzheimer's cure found.
Interesting article, but I'm not sure how many Slashdotters can fit a cluster powerful enough to saturate a GigE interconnect in their mother's basement.
This along with the phishing filter will hopefully solve alot of web crime and issues like that.
Apple fanboys have always stated the hardware as a reason to switch, since that has gone, as has application exclusiveness, the only reason left to switch is OS X(*cough*FreeBSD*cough*), which most people wont do becuase of boot camp.
Another argument I hear for this often is the fact that gamers can switch with ease now. What kind of serious gamer uses a X1600?As long as Microsoft are fixing them I'm not too bothered about this, but it would be nice to know what exactly they are fixing.
Just you wait until people are changing permissions and emerge -u world'ing their collegues computers.
I think we've found the cause of DNF's relaxed shedule.
The latest Slackware distro was made with a 486 with 4MB of RAM...
I personally owna media centre, 30 mins searching for the newest drivers and finding a mpeg decoder and it's up and running. Interface has never stuttered and it handles a library of 70+ programmes (~1.8GB/hr) and 2GB of music, not to mention my pictures and such. Microsoft Media Centre really is better than a slow computer with a fancy iTunes front end.
I want those floatig point numbers faster, damnit.
If this is done well then I can see the revolution being used for excercise as well as fun. Much like what the Eyetoy was marketed to do, minus the rootkit.
I see. Elite was going to be one of my examples, but I thought more modern games would have been a better example. To be fair, AoE can be about resources, anyone who has played it for a small amount of time will know that once you focus on the challenge, all the game really is about is collecting resources (and you can forge alliances).
"Why not, for example, a space exploration game -- concentrating on the science, economics, and logistics involved, instead of the usual shoot-the-evil-green-aliens theme?"
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that what games like Homeworld and Age of Empires are all about?
There isn't really much point, very few internet connections are going to be over 10mbit/s let alone 1000gbit/s. The only application this is really going to have is transferring huge files, and even then, hard disks arn't fast enough to saturate the network bandwidth.
Who wouldn't want 7 SPEs?
Crazy developers..
Can't wait to pick up Toshiba's finest blenders and nuclear reactors.
Can't wait to get home so I can play Duke Nukem Forever on my 8-core Phantom while talking to my mates using a VOIP phone and recording HDTV over IPTV on my Media Center machine with a super-fast fiber-to-the-home connection.