The whole point of the article was the tension between your attitude and the need (if KDE is to become 'successful' as a desktop) for more catering to users' needs.
Hmmm... well, on my 512Mb system, it seems pretty quick to start up - the thing I like is that it also goes straight into that 'everything loaded up stage'. As for shutting down, I have the power button on my computer configured to hibernate, so it's just a case of hitting the off switch and then walking away. It hibernates, powers down and that it! love it;)
Say, (and this isn't a troll/bait, just curious) does Linux have that kind of thing avaliable?
Couldn't find exact data on it, but from the Peters projection (a map projection that conserves relative area) Europe looks to me to be slightly smaller geographically than the US, but not by much. (Note: Russia isn't really part of Europe)
However, I'm pretty sure the total population of Europe is greater than the US, but again, I don't remember the figures.
Few spam mails have valid return addresses. By autoresponding you are likely not getting mail back to the spammer and simply increasing the amount of (essentially useless) mail that gets sent through the system.
a) It's noisy b) It seems like a waste of elecricity to leave it on when I'm not using it
Therefore, speed of start-up is quite important to me*. I leave my computer at work on all the time because it gets put on the render farm when I'm not using it.
* One of the things I love about WinXP is the hibernation feature - turn the computer off - it saves the memory and powers down - turn it on, it restores it to exactly what you were doing before you turned it off.. lovely!
Yup - several people have done this kind of thing before - BeOS came faily close... the thing is, Bill is the only guy who's going to get pretty much the whole desktop world to use it....
Wouldn't these two be better seperated? Will I be able to record while gaming? What if the game I am playing is making heavy use of the harddrive? even with two hardrives I would imagine that if both functions (gaming/dvr) are being maxxed out there could be a problem...
Also, what happens if a game crashes the console? - it's not like crashes on console games are unheard of - on any platform...
When reading the original writeup it sounded like it was being burnt between the tracks or something - apparently this is not so. It also begs the question of whether this could be done in software with current CD burners...
They're talking about having made a cheap chip - it doesn't mention anything about including a CCD with that.
Such things exist already - my espion digital camera cost £40 (for the whole camera - and it's about 1cm x 3cm x 5cm in size), and it's based on the ST Microelectronics STV0680 chipset The chipset supports 8Mb memory - up to 640x480 resolution, has USB client controller built in, will drive an LCD display, and works as a USB webcam. Basically all you need to do to make a digital camera is connect a CCD with a lens, a couple of buttons, a USB plug and a battery to it and you're done.
This chip sounds very similar, but it hardly sounds new.
It's not like I'm an obsessive reader of/. or anything, but even I noticed that this story has been posted only two days before. Really, you guys are meant to be editors - don't you even read/.? I mean, reposting a story that is a few weeks old is fair enough, but two days? Hell, the old story is still listed on the front page!
Unlike most countries, where one of your parents have to be a citizen for you to be able to claim citizenship, Ireland has a policy of allowing those with a Irish grandparent to claim citizenship. Mick McCarthy, the Irish football coach is Irish because of this, IIRC...
Anyway, I'd imagine this boosts the number of people in the world who are able to claim to be Irish quite considerably.
I was under the impression that the whole reasoning behind the product activation stuff was that your computer had to connect to Microsoft's servers to activate, thereby allowing them to check your key against a 'canonical' list of keys, which would stop you from being able to use keygens etc.
I don't know how this fits in with keys being leaked from Dell, though.
I would be a bit pissed off if I was an American games company that was developing a similar game, having to compete with a product paid for at the taxpayer's expense and distributed for free in competition with my own product. Hell, I'd be mighty pissed off knowing that the sales tax from my games could be going to help create a direct competitor.
Jeebs. Which planet are you from? To be traitors they would have to have firstly have to have somehow sworn loyalty to you. As it turns out they have just made a different choice to you on what computer/OS to run...
But here's the thing: whatever it is you have written, the Art will see your hording as damage, and route around it. No matter how innovative you might be, no matter how talented or gifted, there exists somewhere out there someone who is equally or more talented as you, who will someday implement a program that solves the same problem, and who will release their code to the rest of us.
I don't think this is neccesarily true. One of the reasons people charge money for their programs and withhold their code is that they need some way to sustain themselves while they produce the code. Yes, many commercial programs do have 'free' alternatives, but there aren't that many that are as advanced. Partly it's a simple case of time - who do you get to pay for it? There aren't many people whose time is free, and there are only so many free projects which will get development funded. The rest has to be spare-time work.
You speak of 'The Art', but for most it is 'The Trade'. Development does take a lot of time, and therefore, money. Giving away the code for many invalidates the main ways in which that cost can be recouped. I don't think that's selfish.
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Last I heard, you were *buying* an XBox, not licensing it...
The whole point of the article was the tension between your attitude and the need (if KDE is to become 'successful' as a desktop) for more catering to users' needs.
Really, you've added nothing to the discussion.
Hmmm... well, on my 512Mb system, it seems pretty quick to start up - the thing I like is that it also goes straight into that 'everything loaded up stage'. As for shutting down, I have the power button on my computer configured to hibernate, so it's just a case of hitting the off switch and then walking away. It hibernates, powers down and that it! love it ;)
Say, (and this isn't a troll/bait, just curious) does Linux have that kind of thing avaliable?
If you didn't notice until the smell came out, how do you know it stopped an *hour* before?
Couldn't find exact data on it, but from the Peters projection (a map projection that conserves relative area) Europe looks to me to be slightly smaller geographically than the US, but not by much. (Note: Russia isn't really part of Europe)
However, I'm pretty sure the total population of Europe is greater than the US, but again, I don't remember the figures.
Few spam mails have valid return addresses. By autoresponding you are likely not getting mail back to the spammer and simply increasing the amount of (essentially useless) mail that gets sent through the system.
I don't leave my computer at home on 24/7 because
a) It's noisy
b) It seems like a waste of elecricity to leave it on when I'm not using it
Therefore, speed of start-up is quite important to me*. I leave my computer at work on all the time because it gets put on the render farm when I'm not using it.
* One of the things I love about WinXP is the hibernation feature - turn the computer off - it saves the memory and powers down - turn it on, it restores it to exactly what you were doing before you turned it off.. lovely!
Not so.
Atheist means that you believe there is no God.
Agnostic means that you are not really sure whether there is a God or not.
Neither position says anything about what you would believe in the light of new evidence.
Yup - several people have done this kind of thing before - BeOS came faily close... the thing is, Bill is the only guy who's going to get pretty much the whole desktop world to use it....
Wouldn't these two be better seperated? Will I be able to record while gaming? What if the game I am playing is making heavy use of the harddrive? even with two hardrives I would imagine that if both functions (gaming/dvr) are being maxxed out there could be a problem...
Also, what happens if a game crashes the console? - it's not like crashes on console games are unheard of - on any platform...
http://www.yamahamultimedia.com/press_02.htm
When reading the original writeup it sounded like it was being burnt between the tracks or something - apparently this is not so. It also begs the question of whether this could be done in software with current CD burners...
You already can...
They're talking about having made a cheap chip - it doesn't mention anything about including a CCD with that.
Such things exist already - my espion digital camera cost £40 (for the whole camera - and it's about 1cm x 3cm x 5cm in size), and it's based on the ST Microelectronics STV0680 chipset The chipset supports 8Mb memory - up to 640x480 resolution, has USB client controller built in, will drive an LCD display, and works as a USB webcam. Basically all you need to do to make a digital camera is connect a CCD with a lens, a couple of buttons, a USB plug and a battery to it and you're done.
This chip sounds very similar, but it hardly sounds new.
http://www.cloudmark.com/
... because the guy who posted this obviously couldn't be bothered....
It's not like I'm an obsessive reader of /. or anything, but even I noticed that this story has been posted only two days before. Really, you guys are meant to be editors - don't you even read /.? I mean, reposting a story that is a few weeks old is fair enough, but two days? Hell, the old story is still listed on the front page!
... considering that you used the word 'beated', I can't say that I'm surprised.
Well, it could have been worse.
... but largely becuase my grandfather did some of the seminal work on it and coined the term: ;-)
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/04120780
But yeah, there's a lot of crap out there.
Unlike most countries, where one of your parents have to be a citizen for you to be able to claim citizenship, Ireland has a policy of allowing those with a Irish grandparent to claim citizenship. Mick McCarthy, the Irish football coach is Irish because of this, IIRC...
Anyway, I'd imagine this boosts the number of people in the world who are able to claim to be Irish quite considerably.
Set your gopher proxy to something bogus.
I was under the impression that the whole reasoning behind the product activation stuff was that your computer had to connect to Microsoft's servers to activate, thereby allowing them to check your key against a 'canonical' list of keys, which would stop you from being able to use keygens etc.
I don't know how this fits in with keys being leaked from Dell, though.
Can anybody shed some light?
I would be a bit pissed off if I was an American games company that was developing a similar game, having to compete with a product paid for at the taxpayer's expense and distributed for free in competition with my own product. Hell, I'd be mighty pissed off knowing that the sales tax from my games could be going to help create a direct competitor.
Jeebs. Which planet are you from? To be traitors they would have to have firstly have to have somehow sworn loyalty to you. As it turns out they have just made a different choice to you on what computer/OS to run...
I don't think we have a moral obligation to share.
The closest thing I'd say to that is that it is perferable, alturistic and in the greater good to share our code when we can.
Sadly, for many of us we can't really share the code and still expect to make a living from writing it.
But here's the thing: whatever it is you have written, the Art will see your hording as damage, and route around it. No matter how innovative you might be, no matter how talented or gifted, there exists somewhere out there someone who is equally or more talented as you, who will someday implement a program that solves the same problem, and who will release their code to the rest of us.
I don't think this is neccesarily true. One of the reasons people charge money for their programs and withhold their code is that they need some way to sustain themselves while they produce the code. Yes, many commercial programs do have 'free' alternatives, but there aren't that many that are as advanced. Partly it's a simple case of time - who do you get to pay for it? There aren't many people whose time is free, and there are only so many free projects which will get development funded. The rest has to be spare-time work.
You speak of 'The Art', but for most it is 'The Trade'. Development does take a lot of time, and therefore, money. Giving away the code for many invalidates the main ways in which that cost can be recouped. I don't think that's selfish.