You also have to take into account the bit that got cut from my blurb--he's from the London School of Economics. I don't know anything about that place, but from its name I'm guessing it's not particularly known for it's evolutionary biology program.
That'll show the people who said MS was only getting into the console business to milk people on the hardware treadmill!
Oracle Appliance
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Oracle Linux?
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· Score: 3, Interesting
Admittedly, I don't follow or know a whole lot about Oracle, but wouldn't a move like this open the door to them selling a self-contained Oracle Appliance for small- and medium-sized businesses? Of course, they could also supply a list of supported hardware for people to run it on machines purchased elsewhere or built by the company's hardware guru.
Does Trend Micro's product work on the 64-bit version of Vista? Apparently it's the 64-bit version that only allows signed drivers and has many of the extra security methods in place. That's what Norton and McAfee are complaining about. Their products will work fine on the 32-bit version.
That seems like a typical response from Sony these days. When asked whether they're simply going to use the space for high-def cutscenes, they respond with, "No, we're going to synergistically leverage the high capacity and bandwidth of the new BluRay media format to deliver super high-resolution full motion video and multichannel surround audio."
Well, I suspect that this is his way of applying the "community standards of decency" (which can be used at a local level to prohibit the sale of "offensive" materials") to the game. Since everybody in his jurisdiction is exposed to far greater levels of violence on TV on a routine basis, any attempts to prohibit the game's sale due to the amount of violence contained in it will be futile.
Re:Add feature when they can make them work.
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I think you've pretty much hit it here. Yes, the iPod will eventually support wireless. But when it does, it will support many of the useful features that people are complaining that the Zune doesn't support, such as wireless syncing with your host machine and wireless downloads of purchases. The wireless sharing ability that the Zune features is kind of a nice idea, but it's more gimmicky than anything, IMHO. More like it's another "feature" to add to the side of the box than anything that people will use.
Don't you love that? You can smack two tech "editors" with one stone (mixed idioms what?). The submitter is the "news editor" of Hexus, while Hemos is some sort of "editor" here at Slashdot. I think this helps to show where journalistic professionalism falls in the online tech news world.
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I can get the second video, but not the one of them "in action."
Well, your office is clearly blocking material that's NSFW.
And Halo 2 isn't even a 360 title. Not to mention that NFS:MW is also available for just about every other platform out there, too.
Think of the single adults!
Oh, I will. I'll also include some of the married ones, too...
So, it's a DVD with built in USB ports? So I can use it like a hub, right? Or is someone confused with the difference between a port and a plug?
I'm gonna go trademark the term DVDongle right now!
...so his prediction should be taken with a rather large grain of salt.
Oh, absolutely agreed. I almost submitted this in the "It's funny, laugh" category.
You also have to take into account the bit that got cut from my blurb--he's from the London School of Economics. I don't know anything about that place, but from its name I'm guessing it's not particularly known for it's evolutionary biology program.
That'll show the people who said MS was only getting into the console business to milk people on the hardware treadmill!
Admittedly, I don't follow or know a whole lot about Oracle, but wouldn't a move like this open the door to them selling a self-contained Oracle Appliance for small- and medium-sized businesses? Of course, they could also supply a list of supported hardware for people to run it on machines purchased elsewhere or built by the company's hardware guru.
Does Trend Micro's product work on the 64-bit version of Vista? Apparently it's the 64-bit version that only allows signed drivers and has many of the extra security methods in place. That's what Norton and McAfee are complaining about. Their products will work fine on the 32-bit version.
That seems like a typical response from Sony these days. When asked whether they're simply going to use the space for high-def cutscenes, they respond with, "No, we're going to synergistically leverage the high capacity and bandwidth of the new BluRay media format to deliver super high-resolution full motion video and multichannel surround audio."
Therefore, by their logic, umbrellas cause autism.
Well that does it! Billy's just going to have to deal with getting wet on his way to school. I don't want him turning into one of those freak kids...
It's like people are incapable of reading anything with any degree of subtlety anymore... very strange.
What are you getting at here?
Well, I suspect that this is his way of applying the "community standards of decency" (which can be used at a local level to prohibit the sale of "offensive" materials") to the game. Since everybody in his jurisdiction is exposed to far greater levels of violence on TV on a routine basis, any attempts to prohibit the game's sale due to the amount of violence contained in it will be futile.
"There's a lot of violence," Judge Friedman said. "A whole lot. Less than we see on television every night."
It's nice to see that a judge is actually comparing this to the other media that we're exposed to out here in the real world.
Damn! I was really hoping that slashdot was going to give me a link where I could impulse-buy vast quantities of dopamine...
Now that the PowerPC platform is pretty much defunct...
You might want to let IBM know about that. It seems that they didn't get the memo.
Well, considering Yellow Dog was developed as a PowerPC distro based on Red Hat, it all kinda makes sense.
Please get off the net, Senator Frist.
...and stay out of my tubes!!!
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I think you've pretty much hit it here. Yes, the iPod will eventually support wireless. But when it does, it will support many of the useful features that people are complaining that the Zune doesn't support, such as wireless syncing with your host machine and wireless downloads of purchases. The wireless sharing ability that the Zune features is kind of a nice idea, but it's more gimmicky than anything, IMHO. More like it's another "feature" to add to the side of the box than anything that people will use.
Don't you love that? You can smack two tech "editors" with one stone (mixed idioms what?). The submitter is the "news editor" of Hexus, while Hemos is some sort of "editor" here at Slashdot. I think this helps to show where journalistic professionalism falls in the online tech news world.
You mean that just because they haven't been King of the Hill for a few months now that they're still in the game? Wow! Who'da thunkit?
...but for some reason, I'm unusually dense.
Yes, we've noticed. : p
(sorry, couldn't let that one slip by)
One of them newfangled "search" features would be handy, too...
Derrr. Should've mentioned, it's not free, but it's pretty cheap if you're serious about producing a podcast.