It appears that the European Commission may not in fact be a complete waste of space after all. Wonders will never cease. Now if they could just get France and Germany to obey the deficit rules they signed up for...
"Citizen Journalism" - is that like loads of mostly clueless people posting whatever crap in the world interests them on some website? Surely that could never work;-).
I didn't say it works as well as onboard video RAM. But if you read the benchmarks, it's pretty clear it could have it's uses on budget cards, which is what it's intended for.
Lots of less-clued-up people, unfortunately. I tried to explain this to a couple of secretaries at my last job, but despite the fact that their efforts to unsubscribe from spam lists had zero, if not a negative, effect on the quantity of spam they were getting, they still didn't believe me. Some people are just born suckers.
I'm sure they'll get to a PPC port. But I currently use NetFront on my iPAQ, and that'll take some beating. The "Smart-Fit" page rendering does an amazing job of reformatting pages to be readable on the small screen. Plus tabbed browsing, very high degree of "big browser" compatibility, and a JVM for good measure. NetFront ain't free though, so a decent PPC version of Minimo would be velcome.
I also want less pseudo-science scare mongering with half baked statistics that do not stand up to critical thought
Why on earth is this modded insightful? While there are obvious difficulties in collecting data to validate climate models, the fact is there is a lot of historical data (geological records etc), and model after model shows human factors having a major effect on the earths climate.
The parent poster hasn't critiqued any of the science or data going into those models, but simply labelled it all "pseudo-science" out of hand. Insightful my arse.
I see a lot of people saying things like "you do more time for rape and muder, so these sentences are disproportional". But the purpose of the criminal justice system is to try and make people comply with the law, not just to punish them for breaking it. Increasing the sentences for already serious crimes like rape and murder won't significantly affect the likelihood of people comitting those crimes, because of the nature of the crimes. On the other hand, if a crime like spamming is seen as a high-profit, low risk option (slap on the wrist and a fine), the law will be widely broken. It is therefore perfectly reasonable to impose hefty jailtime sentences to make sure spamming is not seen as a low-risk crime. Just my 2 cents.
Malware written for fun isn't any less damaging, I guess, but when apparently written specifically for a commercial purpose (sending spam in this case) it's certainly more annoying IMHO. At least if this case is anything to go by, there's likely to be more of a forensic trail left by the perpetrators due to the associated commercial activities. I hope this Ibragimov guy gets what's coming to him.
Trek needs a (long) hiatus if all you want to do is come back and recycle the same old material in a slightly different guise yet again.
Personally I would like to see something like a Maquis spin-off, or a Section 31 spin-off, whatever. You know, break the mold, explore some of the not-so-utopian aspects of the federation, have some characters that don't go flying around the galaxy with the starfleet regulations up their arses pissing everyone off. No holodeck episodes. No time travel episodes, or other lame excuses for period peices. There would be no need for a hiatus to do something like that. Wishful thinking though.
I must say I've watched a fair few events, and I can't actually name one sponsors brand from the games, so I don't think the advertising is too in-your-face. Plus no commercial breaks on the BBC, which overall makes it seem less commercialised than a typical televised sporting event.
I don't really care what they do to suckers^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hpeople who actually travel to watch the games in person, they're kind of asking for it.
*Target market: people who have already grown out of games, and their wives! OK, so the kids might actually be vaguely interested.
*Subscription: $30/month for crap games, anything worth paying will be extra.
*Console cost: Free with 2 year sub, $??? with a 1 year sub.
Somehow I can't see this working. With your PC or conventional console, $30/month will get you a new game, or a couple of used/budget titles, which you get to keep for ever if you like, or you can trade them in/sell them. Plus you can rent a good few games for that money, without a monthly commitment.
If the $30/month actually gets you access to a constantly expanding list of decent games, or the premium games have a suitably small one-off fee (rather than pay per play, or limited time payment) then they might just pull it off. I'm not holding my breath though, I guess we'll see when they eventually list some publishers.
You buy new shit, consider yourself a beta tester. Waiting a few months to let others find these problems has always seemed smart to me, and I really don't feel like I lose anything.
"These organizations now, for the very first time, have an alternative to the historical Microsoft-desktop paradigm," he said.
Haven't tracked down the detailed specs of this realease, but what can possibly make that true for Red Hat Desktop, but not for any previous Linux distro?
Well, kudos to your kid, I guess he'll get more benefit from a PC than from TV etc. I don't have kids myself, but I've spent enough time fixing the stuff young relatives have broken that I hope you're ruggedising that new machine though;-).
Familiar does not have an Adobe eBook Reader. Let me reiterate, Adobe eBook format != PDF. Nor does it support Microsoft Reader or Palm Reader, the formats in which most ebooks are sold. So in the context of ebooks your comments are pretty inane.
Anyway, I tried Familiar a while back, and it wasn't ready for prime time. It may have improved since, but anti-microsoft zealotry aside, PocketPC is a perfectly decent PDA OS in my opinion.
But is this an issue? Does anyone actually read books on screen?
I read ebooks almost to the exclusion of paper books as far as entertainment books are concerned - textbooks and manuals are another story. However I do the reading on my iPaq, and there is no Adobe eBook Reader for PocketPC (Abobe eBook != PDF). So I guess I'll have to stick with the free stuff.
I agree. Web browsers were designed to be fault tolerant, and just look at all the horrendously broken crap that passes for HTML out there. Dangerous stuff.
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It appears that the European Commission may not in fact be a complete waste of space after all. Wonders will never cease. Now if they could just get France and Germany to obey the deficit rules they signed up for...
"Citizen Journalism" - is that like loads of mostly clueless people posting whatever crap in the world interests them on some website? Surely that could never work ;-).
I didn't say it works as well as onboard video RAM. But if you read the benchmarks, it's pretty clear it could have it's uses on budget cards, which is what it's intended for.
The advantage of which is that you have less system RAM available for other stuff?
The advantage of which is that system RAm is cheaper, and most people have more of it than they need.
Lots of less-clued-up people, unfortunately. I tried to explain this to a couple of secretaries at my last job, but despite the fact that their efforts to unsubscribe from spam lists had zero, if not a negative, effect on the quantity of spam they were getting, they still didn't believe me. Some people are just born suckers.
I'm sure they'll get to a PPC port. But I currently use NetFront on my iPAQ, and that'll take some beating. The "Smart-Fit" page rendering does an amazing job of reformatting pages to be readable on the small screen. Plus tabbed browsing, very high degree of "big browser" compatibility, and a JVM for good measure. NetFront ain't free though, so a decent PPC version of Minimo would be velcome.
I also want less pseudo-science scare mongering with half baked statistics that do not stand up to critical thought
Why on earth is this modded insightful? While there are obvious difficulties in collecting data to validate climate models, the fact is there is a lot of historical data (geological records etc), and model after model shows human factors having a major effect on the earths climate.
The parent poster hasn't critiqued any of the science or data going into those models, but simply labelled it all "pseudo-science" out of hand. Insightful my arse.
ROFL - that's classic - where's the damn mod points when you need em?
I see a lot of people saying things like "you do more time for rape and muder, so these sentences are disproportional". But the purpose of the criminal justice system is to try and make people comply with the law, not just to punish them for breaking it. Increasing the sentences for already serious crimes like rape and murder won't significantly affect the likelihood of people comitting those crimes, because of the nature of the crimes. On the other hand, if a crime like spamming is seen as a high-profit, low risk option (slap on the wrist and a fine), the law will be widely broken. It is therefore perfectly reasonable to impose hefty jailtime sentences to make sure spamming is not seen as a low-risk crime. Just my 2 cents.
Malware written for fun isn't any less damaging, I guess, but when apparently written specifically for a commercial purpose (sending spam in this case) it's certainly more annoying IMHO. At least if this case is anything to go by, there's likely to be more of a forensic trail left by the perpetrators due to the associated commercial activities. I hope this Ibragimov guy gets what's coming to him.
I really hope you guys elect Dubya again. We in Europe need all the help we can get competing in science, so Bush is our man.
Trek needs a (long) hiatus if all you want to do is come back and recycle the same old material in a slightly different guise yet again.
Personally I would like to see something like a Maquis spin-off, or a Section 31 spin-off, whatever. You know, break the mold, explore some of the not-so-utopian aspects of the federation, have some characters that don't go flying around the galaxy with the starfleet regulations up their arses pissing everyone off. No holodeck episodes. No time travel episodes, or other lame excuses for period peices. There would be no need for a hiatus to do something like that. Wishful thinking though.
I must say I've watched a fair few events, and I can't actually name one sponsors brand from the games, so I don't think the advertising is too in-your-face. Plus no commercial breaks on the BBC, which overall makes it seem less commercialised than a typical televised sporting event.
I don't really care what they do to suckers^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hpeople who actually travel to watch the games in person, they're kind of asking for it.
*Target market: people who have already grown out of games, and their wives! OK, so the kids might actually be vaguely interested.
*Subscription: $30/month for crap games, anything worth paying will be extra.
*Console cost: Free with 2 year sub, $??? with a 1 year sub.
Somehow I can't see this working. With your PC or conventional console, $30/month will get you a new game, or a couple of used/budget titles, which you get to keep for ever if you like, or you can trade them in/sell them. Plus you can rent a good few games for that money, without a monthly commitment.
If the $30/month actually gets you access to a constantly expanding list of decent games, or the premium games have a suitably small one-off fee (rather than pay per play, or limited time payment) then they might just pull it off. I'm not holding my breath though, I guess we'll see when they eventually list some publishers.
LOL, somebody mod parent up!
OK, so what percentage of that 10,000 is actually kiddie pr0n?
;-)
I wonder about that. I'm all for banning child porn, but I wouldn't want to miss out on any 18 year old hotties
You buy new shit, consider yourself a beta tester. Waiting a few months to let others find these problems has always seemed smart to me, and I really don't feel like I lose anything.
"These organizations now, for the very first time, have an alternative to the historical Microsoft-desktop paradigm," he said.
Haven't tracked down the detailed specs of this realease, but what can possibly make that true for Red Hat Desktop, but not for any previous Linux distro?
Although 20 votes total is probably not statistically significant ...
Well, kudos to your kid, I guess he'll get more benefit from a PC than from TV etc. I don't have kids myself, but I've spent enough time fixing the stuff young relatives have broken that I hope you're ruggedising that new machine though ;-).
WTF!! You're building a machine for your four year old? Can it even read yet?
Familiar does not have an Adobe eBook Reader. Let me reiterate, Adobe eBook format != PDF. Nor does it support Microsoft Reader or Palm Reader, the formats in which most ebooks are sold. So in the context of ebooks your comments are pretty inane.
Anyway, I tried Familiar a while back, and it wasn't ready for prime time. It may have improved since, but anti-microsoft zealotry aside, PocketPC is a perfectly decent PDA OS in my opinion.
But is this an issue? Does anyone actually read books on screen?
I read ebooks almost to the exclusion of paper books as far as entertainment books are concerned - textbooks and manuals are another story. However I do the reading on my iPaq, and there is no Adobe eBook Reader for PocketPC (Abobe eBook != PDF). So I guess I'll have to stick with the free stuff.
I agree. Web browsers were designed to be fault tolerant, and just look at all the horrendously broken crap that passes for HTML out there. Dangerous stuff.
From the news.com article:
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"We're not in the double digits yet for upselling people to the full suite, but we are making progress," he said.
I think they've got some work to do