Recent content by kevlinsky

So how would they differentiate between someone playing the game and then using it on a different PC/XBox/Playstation/whatever, and someone who resells the game? Or would they tie it to a particular ID? I do feel bad for the developers. But at the same time, I can't justify spending $50 for a...

The phone, as drawn, is not feasible with current technology. Let me go modify that photo and put a 1 in front of the 5 for the camera; HEY 15 MP PIXEL CAMERA ON A PHONE, WOW!!1!ONE! Like it or not, Apple set the current bar, and everyone is copying, including the guy who drew this picture...

GENTLEMEN! I... have made LOVE to this MACHINE! And in retrospect... I ask myself WHY?

The $500 units still have the ps2 hardware. The new 80gb $600 units removed the PS2 hardware. Even if it is a "clearance sale," you are still getting the same thing for less.

Kasparov's bad play on the sixth move is somehow the fault of IBM? Secondly, you can't add up all the matches because the second iteration of Deep Blue was twice as fast as the first one. Thirdly, it's been over a decade since those games. If estimate using Moore's Law, a Deep Blue built...

What you talkin' 'bout, Ockie? Kasparov got beaten in the 1997 rematch. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Blue_-_Kasparov,_1997,_Game_6 http://www.research.ibm.com/deepblue/

Here are the arguments I've seen for the OLPC initiative: It teaches kids to use computers. It is cheaper than textbooks. It is a highly effective teaching tool. Here are the rebuttals (the numbers below correspond to the ones above): This is the argument big companies go after. OLPCs...

It is amusing that it is made entirely out of duct tape, but there are easier ways to build a ghetto case. Just look at how much effort they must have gone through to build the rigid parts of the case using nothing but tape!! My most ghetto case build was when I used PVC pipes to build out a...

What really "grinds my gears" about this whole situation is that SoundExchange charges royalties for ALL music transmitted through web radio, not just music produced by labels that are affiliated with the RIAA. There was talk at some point that if the RIAA manages to push through this...

I meant the disadvantages of such software. The primary advantage of the pico is that it offloads firewall functions from the system. With a multi-core processor, it is easier to devote resources to anti-virus/firewalls, especially since most programs are still single-threaded.

Friedmud does raise an interesting question. How scrutable is the company Yoggie Security Systems? They have already had a product, the gatekeeper, on the market for nine months, and from the looks of it, the pico is a miniaturized version of the gatekeeper. The gatekeeper is a hardware firewall...

The catch-22 you mention is indeed troublesome for most people; it was a problem for me when I got started. There are two general points I would like to make on the issue. The first is that there are "sandboxes" out there for people to try with no risk. These are the LiveCD distributions, of...

I will preface this by saying that I use both Linux (Gentoo and Xubuntu) and Windows. I haven't seen that many "zealots" in the Linux forums I periodically go to when I need to ask a question. The worst I've seen is basic RTFM or "This question has already been answered" type of stuff, and that...

You've nailed a few points on the head. First of all, yes, in there are more powerful tools than the TI-89. After all, I called it "Mathematica Light;" that implies that there is a full version of Mathematica that can do a whole lot more. Secondly, you can be an amateur at something without...

This article is retarded. Kids who put notes on their ipods aren't all that creative. People have been sneaking notes into tests for years. I remember writing dates and names on my forearms and palms prior to history tests. In fact, technology is causing kids to be slackers nowadays. Consider...