Those same users would then obviously not have been able to install Ubuntu, so therefore the person that did install it would be able to copy and paste the commands for them.
I think you're missing the point; if they are producing a device that is designed to be a portable media viewer and is marketed as such, the only valid criticisms to level at it would be about its performance as such.
The article stipulates over and over that this thing has a niche, and that although it runs linux and is pretty hackable dont expect it to be much good at anything it wasnt designed for.
Your arguement implies that if you are looking for shampoo, any advertising for toothpaste you happen to see at that time are failed attempts to sell you shampoo in the form of toothpaste, which is a rather autistic worldview.
I also curious to know how the size of an object prescribes what it is supposed to be used for. My cheese grater has the same form factor as a PepperPad, but I dont expect to be able to listen to music on it.
The point of this product is that is big enough to comfortably view movies on (which a PDA is not) and not big and heavy like a notepad.
I got the Executor Ltd Ed. Tin Box set of the original trilogy on VHS with extras on a seperate tape plus script books for 80GBP before the special editions came out. It's the last time i bought any star wars film, until now! i know they'll release another version, but i really want to watch nice clean remastered star wars without the unconvincing CGI spoiling the mood.
Let's not forget "Space Raiders" which even recycled footage from Battle Beyond the Stars.
P.S. less of the Black Hole bashing please;-) Yes, the robots were a bit cheesy (except maximillian) but the rest of it was a genuinely well-executed moody sci-fi thriller, with a brilliant cast.
And totally off on a tangent, what is with everyone thinking TRON is shit? It's totally unique in concept and execution, again with a brilliant cast, exquisite visuals, ok some of the computer metaphors are kind of clunky but eliminating that, its a stone cold classic and a landmark in cinema history.
The term Piracy in this context doesn't even stem from the act of robbery at sea. It relates to Pirate radio which got it's name from the phenominon of unlicensed radio stations operating from Sea vessels in international waters to avoid being raided by the police.
It would be brilliant to see DirectX usurped by an open standard - then it might be more likely a game is ported to the Mac/Linux. Unfortunately all the major engine/middleware/tools are built for DirectX so chances are the games companies will largely stick to DX9 until most people have Vista. And if they can afford it, they may have optional features that exploit DX10 in the meantime.
I find it deeply disturbing that someone would consider jeopardising their liberty in such an egregious way just so they dont have to manually unlock their garage door.
It's like asking to be put in prison just so you can have a toilet right next to your bed.
I think characterising firefox as "riddled with bugs" and asserting that people aren't too keen to recommend it as secure vs IE7 is very misinformed.
Neither of those statements are true, assuming that by "people" you mean a significant proportion of the people aware of Firefox and what it offers. Unless something drastic has happened while my back was turned I am pretty sure that almost no-one who uses firefox would consider it less secure than Internet Explorer.
As for being "riddled" with bugs, even if it were determined that Firefox had as many or more identified bugs of a comparable or worse severity than Internet Explorer, that still wouldn't change that fact that safe browsing is a lot more reliant on sensible behaviour than browser stability. The lack of ActiveX in Firefox is the real saviour as far as drive-by spyware installations are concerned. And for the slightly savvier user, Javascript whitelisting via the NoScript extension eliminates cross-site scripting exploits, without crippling necessary or useful functionality on trusted sites.
Apparently the movements required by the controllers are very small, rather than frantic arm waving and constantly holding it out at arms length in front of you.
It's not like moving a mouse pointer around a 18" x 12" screen requires you to move the mouse around an 18" x 12" area of the desk. My wrist stays in the same place when i move my mouse the 2.5" it takes to traverse the entire width of my screen. If i had to keep my arm off the desk and pump the mouse backwards and forwards across the desk I'm sure Id get tired too, but as it is you can hold the Revolution controller in a very similar way to a normal controller, i.e. in your lap and just make easy gestures without having to move your entire arm if you dont want to.
The misconception that you have to wave your arms around comes from some videos posted on the net of people doing just that when demoing the device.
my freind had to take one of those online tests recently, so he did what you did and went to the website of the people who concoct the tests. There he noticed that they allow employers to sign up for a free trial, so he signed up as a fake employer, then took the test as a prospective employee thus submitting the results to himself. From that he was able to figure out what the "right" answers were, and it turns out that if you ever pick any options that are nearer either end of the scale of options, the report declares you a raving maladjusted maniac.
So if you "strongly agree" that work is the highest priority in your life the report says you are an obsessive workaholic and are likely to be unstable. So all he did was tone down the strength of his agreement/disagreement with some answers and hey presto he has 90% suitability for the role and is an all round perfect employee. He was then hired on the basis of this, despite his employers commenting that he didnt sell himself very well in the interview.
Are television shows art?
Are photographs art?
Are books art?
Are gay people left handed?
These are stupid, badly framed questions. so is "Are videogames art?"
Pick specific games, then ask "Is mario 64 art?", "is Space Invaders art?". Perhaps then people can at least have a hope of debating the implied yes/no answer without going round in tedious circles trying to debate what exactly it is that they are being asked.
For my two cents, my intuition of whether something is art or not is simple - "is it an expression of passion and imagination". The difference between good art and bad art to me is the level of passion and/or imagination.
By my metric both mario 64 and space invaders are art. For fear of sounding like a hippy, I also consider both of them beautiful.
McDonaldland on the other hand is not art. There is no passion or imagination. (if there was it is totally undetectable to me).
Perhaps the correct response to driving winmodems and hardware with secret specifications is to say "Linux is not allowed to do that".
This avoids giving the impression that Linux is technologically retarded (which it clearly is not), whilst avoiding the insinuation that the responder is an "apologist".
I used to have to reinstall Windows 98 almost monthly. This was before viruses/spyware were a problem, it was just that windows 98 gradually crumbled to pieces from the minute i installed it.
Since i switched to win2k in 2001 i've only reinstalled it once due to an exploding hard drive. Win2k was great. I never had a reason to put slightly sinister windows XP on. Since I installed Ubuntu in October I haven't found any reason to use win2k anymore. I'm sure games would be a concern but i havent had any money to buy any games for ages so it's moot.
I'm incredibly curious to know what evidence there is that the earth is less than 10,000 years old.
It's important to note that debunking current dating methods does not constitute proof that the earth is any particular age, just that we don't know what age it actually is.
That having been said, is there any evidence at all that even suggests the earth is less that 10,000 years old? (other than the unsubstantiated hearsay of the bible).
I applaud you for going to the effort of following a scientific process to investigate your beliefs.
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Those same users would then obviously not have been able to install Ubuntu, so therefore the person that did install it would be able to copy and paste the commands for them.
Except for some inevitable contrived circumstances, a spambot can't physically hurt or kill you.
Haha, i read it is as "tears" as in crying tears.
Being a grass and a blackmailer is nothing to be proud of. Irrespective of what the people you are extorting money out of have done.
The article stipulates over and over that this thing has a niche, and that although it runs linux and is pretty hackable dont expect it to be much good at anything it wasnt designed for.
Your arguement implies that if you are looking for shampoo, any advertising for toothpaste you happen to see at that time are failed attempts to sell you shampoo in the form of toothpaste, which is a rather autistic worldview.
I also curious to know how the size of an object prescribes what it is supposed to be used for. My cheese grater has the same form factor as a PepperPad, but I dont expect to be able to listen to music on it.
The point of this product is that is big enough to comfortably view movies on (which a PDA is not) and not big and heavy like a notepad.
Yeah i thought that, also they kind of look like drawings rather than CGI.
I got the Executor Ltd Ed. Tin Box set of the original trilogy on VHS with extras on a seperate tape plus script books for 80GBP before the special editions came out. It's the last time i bought any star wars film, until now! i know they'll release another version, but i really want to watch nice clean remastered star wars without the unconvincing CGI spoiling the mood.
P.S. less of the Black Hole bashing please ;-) Yes, the robots were a bit cheesy (except maximillian) but the rest of it was a genuinely well-executed moody sci-fi thriller, with a brilliant cast.
And totally off on a tangent, what is with everyone thinking TRON is shit? It's totally unique in concept and execution, again with a brilliant cast, exquisite visuals, ok some of the computer metaphors are kind of clunky but eliminating that, its a stone cold classic and a landmark in cinema history.
Is this coming out on Region 2 as well? Ah bollocks who cares i'll just get a region 1 copy.
The term Piracy in this context doesn't even stem from the act of robbery at sea. It relates to Pirate radio which got it's name from the phenominon of unlicensed radio stations operating from Sea vessels in international waters to avoid being raided by the police.
"The Boson Strangler" famous murderer of Dr. Higgs. :D
It would be brilliant to see DirectX usurped by an open standard - then it might be more likely a game is ported to the Mac/Linux. Unfortunately all the major engine/middleware/tools are built for DirectX so chances are the games companies will largely stick to DX9 until most people have Vista. And if they can afford it, they may have optional features that exploit DX10 in the meantime.
It's like asking to be put in prison just so you can have a toilet right next to your bed.
Why is my parent post a troll?
Neither of those statements are true, assuming that by "people" you mean a significant proportion of the people aware of Firefox and what it offers. Unless something drastic has happened while my back was turned I am pretty sure that almost no-one who uses firefox would consider it less secure than Internet Explorer.
As for being "riddled" with bugs, even if it were determined that Firefox had as many or more identified bugs of a comparable or worse severity than Internet Explorer, that still wouldn't change that fact that safe browsing is a lot more reliant on sensible behaviour than browser stability. The lack of ActiveX in Firefox is the real saviour as far as drive-by spyware installations are concerned. And for the slightly savvier user, Javascript whitelisting via the NoScript extension eliminates cross-site scripting exploits, without crippling necessary or useful functionality on trusted sites.
It's not like moving a mouse pointer around a 18" x 12" screen requires you to move the mouse around an 18" x 12" area of the desk. My wrist stays in the same place when i move my mouse the 2.5" it takes to traverse the entire width of my screen. If i had to keep my arm off the desk and pump the mouse backwards and forwards across the desk I'm sure Id get tired too, but as it is you can hold the Revolution controller in a very similar way to a normal controller, i.e. in your lap and just make easy gestures without having to move your entire arm if you dont want to.
The misconception that you have to wave your arms around comes from some videos posted on the net of people doing just that when demoing the device.
So if you "strongly agree" that work is the highest priority in your life the report says you are an obsessive workaholic and are likely to be unstable. So all he did was tone down the strength of his agreement/disagreement with some answers and hey presto he has 90% suitability for the role and is an all round perfect employee. He was then hired on the basis of this, despite his employers commenting that he didnt sell himself very well in the interview.
These are stupid, badly framed questions. so is "Are videogames art?"
Pick specific games, then ask "Is mario 64 art?", "is Space Invaders art?". Perhaps then people can at least have a hope of debating the implied yes/no answer without going round in tedious circles trying to debate what exactly it is that they are being asked.
For my two cents, my intuition of whether something is art or not is simple - "is it an expression of passion and imagination". The difference between good art and bad art to me is the level of passion and/or imagination.
By my metric both mario 64 and space invaders are art. For fear of sounding like a hippy, I also consider both of them beautiful.
McDonaldland on the other hand is not art. There is no passion or imagination. (if there was it is totally undetectable to me).
you should be modded to "Score 10: The Truth"
This avoids giving the impression that Linux is technologically retarded (which it clearly is not), whilst avoiding the insinuation that the responder is an "apologist".
Doesnt seem like there would be a competition so much as a merger.
Since i switched to win2k in 2001 i've only reinstalled it once due to an exploding hard drive. Win2k was great. I never had a reason to put slightly sinister windows XP on. Since I installed Ubuntu in October I haven't found any reason to use win2k anymore. I'm sure games would be a concern but i havent had any money to buy any games for ages so it's moot.
It's important to note that debunking current dating methods does not constitute proof that the earth is any particular age, just that we don't know what age it actually is.
That having been said, is there any evidence at all that even suggests the earth is less that 10,000 years old? (other than the unsubstantiated hearsay of the bible).
I applaud you for going to the effort of following a scientific process to investigate your beliefs.
I know they say "don't feed the trolls", but that's some 24 carat trolling, so here, have a cookie.
New console games cost £30-£40 here in the UK, which is $52-$70. They are often about $70.