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more oddness.I distinctly remember it saying 12/29/2000. I went back to check the it later and it said 03/29/2000. Shoulda checked the cache first
I wondered about the 480Mhz CPUs too cuz I've never heard of them. Really made me curious since we lose a 400 just about every week due to "e-cache writeback parity error" and there's never been a mention of "try the 480's" in any meetings or from our Sun reps to my knowledge. I asked a couple guys at werk and noone knew anything about 'em.
Has anyone tried to contact the epinions.com authors of the 450 and 4500 reviews? This E450 epinion (posted June 27, 2000) is quite similar to the reviewboard E450 posting. Likewise, this E4500 epinion (Aug 8, 2000) might as well be reviewboard's E4500 post. I believe both epinions were posted at times when the reviewboard posts were supposed to be unavailable.
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ARTICLE IS A FRAUDPlease see my earlier thread on this article. The article has been alterend since its original submission to Slashdot. Here's the clinching proof:
he E10k frame is capable of holding up to 16 system boards, with a minimum of 4 boards. Each system board can hold four CPUs (480mhz), 4GB RAM (4 banks of 1GB), and either 4 SBUS devices, or 2 PCI devices. (Note: in the future, this *may* support faster CPUs, 2x higher memory density, and 3 PCI devices per system board, specs are as of 03/29/2000)
For starters, 480mhz processors aren't even available NOW for the E10k, and only the E450. See this Sun Specifications for the E10kpage for verification.
Now, go read my view at Epinions about the Sun Enterprise 10000.
At this point, it should be pretty clear which is the original article and which is the changed one. BTW, if the people at Slashdot save a copy of the web pages before they post it, then check their original copy. You'll find that the date was really "12/29/00" at the review site, and not the "3/29/00" that it is now.
It doesn't make sense that a site would say that 480mhz processors are available in March when they aren't even available now. Not to mention the 2x density RAM that wasn't even announced for the lower-end servers at that point.
This story is a plagairism of my original work, and I am COMPLETELY DISGUSTED at the theft of my work.
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THANK YOU!But the correct URL is follows (easy to find since it is the only E4500 review):
Epinions Review vs Reviewboard Review. The "CIO/CTO" paragraph was a good example.
BTW, has anyone else noticed how redir, the person who originally submitted the article, is so vigirous in defending the authenticity of the reviews? Amazing for someone who just found a really interesting article and then submitted it.
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Re:WHAT THE **HELL**. PLEASE MOD THIS UP.
Then what you have to do is very very simple.Remember when you first joined epinions? Remember the big form they asked you to read and sign? Remember the bits in it authorizing them to take legal action against any site that uses your review without approval? Remember the bits asking you to inform them if you ever discover someone ripping off your review?
Excellent! Go here and report these violations, then sit back and let epinions' lawyers whip their asses.
Admit it, occasionally lawyers are good for something
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Re:WHAT THE **HELL**. PLEASE MOD THIS UP.
another paragraph is stolen from a different eopinions review of the e10k, posted in august. ha!
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WHAT THE **HELL**. PLEASE MOD THIS UP.This was an opinion I wrote on Epinions in the middle of the night. In fact, it was my first review for the site. You can read my review HERE.. Now read THEIR ARTICLE. Their nearly 100% identical. Paragraphs have been outright stolen.
All the sudden, this ends up as a review with a different author at another web site? What the HELL is going on? If you have questions, please EMAIL ME. jmccorm@galstar.com
This REALLY PISSES ME OFF! MY article pre-dates theirs. Hell, I should know. I wrote it in the middle of the night. And I don't see any date on their publication. I'm assuming it was published today or yesterday. I demand credit for my work. Hell, this is worth an article.
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Reviews
One place for any disgruntled PageCreators customers to go violate their terms of service and face a lawsuit is Epinions; they have a section for reviewing them at: http://dtobias.epinions.com/inet-Web_Hosting-All-
P age_CreatorsOne bad review is up there already. Though, other review sites have actually yanked their entire sections about this provider in response to threats of suits by Page Creators' lawyers. Spineless bastards...
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Re:Stupid Question
Yeah, it's subbed...but it's not like it matters. As long as you can read, you'll be fine.
By the way, check out my non-Katzian review of the movie.
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What's your priority: phone or mobile internet...?
I have a Sprint PCS Touchpoint 120 and it's pretty nifty. It handles the essential phone basics very well - a reasonable battery life and good coverage around town and the city (town = Boulder, CO, city = Denver). The signal easily gets lost if I go up into the mountains, but that's to be expected. I am a little wary of their billing / web ordering process though - when I signed up they accidentally created two accounts in my name and billed me an extra $50 that I didn't owe before they eventually got it sorted out. Finally, their web site is also often overloaded if you want to check or pay your account online.
The WAP features were quite a fun toy for the first week or so, but you can't really do any serious stuff with 6 lines of text. I find myself using it occasionally to check my email and get movie times when I'm outside (one of the dangers of being in Boulder, I suppose). Look on Yahoo! for a WAP directory. Note that sending mail is possible but requires much patience, and there is no direct POP3/SMTP support (web email like Yahoo! works just fine). It has a secure WAP implementation of some sort, so you can happily buy stuff online from anywhere. The phone also has some basic PIM features, but I largely ignore them as I also have a Palm. I think I could plug my Palm into this phone and get online that way, but I've not yet had the urge to try.
In short: I love this phone. As long as you don't want the world, you should be fine with whatever Sprint WAP-enabled phone takes your fancy. You mention the NP1000 - I had a look at one in the store and I didn't like it. Sure, it has a larger screen - but it looked suspiciously fragile, and it was only single band (ie: no analog roaming).
I did find some reviews on Epinions, so go have a read. There was a mobile phone section up on the Deja.com buying forums, but they're gone now that Deja has reverted to being a usenet feed (yay!).
If you primarily need a new mobile phone - get one and enjoy WAP as a toy. If you need full web access (or if the phrase: "mobile ssh or telnet client" starts you drooling), get a VisorPhone (or wireless Palm if you don't mind not being able to make voice calls) - but the monthly subscription fee might be astronomical compared to the 1500-minute per month holiday offers I've seen Sprint pushing recently.
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Japanese version (slightly) better
I somehow got my hands on a copy of the movie on Sunday, three days before the official release and have watched it twice so far, once with the English dub and once with the Japanese dialog and subtitles.
On the one hand, the literal English translation of the subtitled version is better than the spoken English version. It "sounds" more Japanese and is truer to the spirit of the film. The English dialog, tailored for a mainstream audience and to match the lip movements of the characters, seems hokey and forced in comparison.
On the other hand, if you are unfamiliar with the movie, reading subtitles interferes with viewing the great cinematography. The film is very pretty, and it's a shame to be reading when you should be enjoying the scenery.
Bottom line: the Japanese language version is much better, but first time viewers might want to view the English language version so they can follow the movie and see the stunning visuals more easily.
Also, for an excellent review of the film (from an animator), check out Don't Miss Miyazaki's Epic (contains some spoilers). -
NOT on the Sony DCR-TVR315 NTSC
I got a Sony DCR-TVR315 NTSC and it's specified in the owner's manual that we can't do this. They don't say why...
Maibe because it's written on normal 8 mm tape and this is becomes a lossy format after a couple of years.
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Try epinions.com
Most of the Ask Slashdot columns can be answered by epinions.com.
Try here: http://www.epinions.com/elec-Comm-Mobileservice-Al l
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Re:Google's underlying problem is real.
Nonsense. Any simple web of trust algorithm could take care of this. Yes, it will take more computer hardware and software sophistication, but we have Moore's law to guarantee that that will happen. The key problem here is that Google bases rankings from all sites the same, instead of using a "web of trust" method of weighting rankings.
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Re:It's their choice.
Mrs. Clear Plastic meet Deda
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Forget Harry Browne...
Harry Potter for President!
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Re:AIBO knock-offThis is most likely poo-chi, which unfortunately doesn't look all that great:
AIBO has gotten a much better response:
Hope that helps.
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Re:AIBO knock-offThis is most likely poo-chi, which unfortunately doesn't look all that great:
AIBO has gotten a much better response:
Hope that helps.
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Re:Link to Everthing2?
Hai. So Desu. Gomen-Nasi.....
I meant that it was ironic that Hemos linked to Everything2, in order to explain an aspect of Hitchhiker's Guide Earth Edition. These two companies are the main players in this new market of User writeups on life. Also in this market is the startup E-Pinions
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Has Anyone here Actually Played It Yet?
Erg...what surprises me here is that most of the people commenting on this stuff haven't ever played it...I thought all this 3rd Party commentary only happened when there were posts that involved laws and stuff.
Anyway, here's my review of the game: Personally, the no head-bob makes me a bit ill, the ending is kind of forumlaic and yet unrewarding, and for those of you who think you go around fighting the Borg, they actually don't come into play for most of the game...short as it is.
However, it is kind of fun...best described as a 2-hour special episode of Voyager on steroids. One thing I thought was really weird (besides the bad modeling) is that all the ST:V cast members do their own voices...except for 7 of 9...it's this obvious knock-off...What happened there? -
Re:Need Keyboards and storage space
Last I checked console games mostly don't have keyboards and use game pads.
Isn't there a keyboard planned for the PSX2? There's already a keyboard for Dreamcast, and I have vague memories about one for the original PSX, but I might be mistaken.
I'd wonder more about acceptance - the Saturn had an online kit available, but got next to no use. Of course, that system isn't the best example to use for much of anything positive from a market aspect.:P
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Re:ok now say your sorry everyone
Actually, I'm suggesting that words in links are the problem. If you search for "Ass" on epinions, you'll see that there's a link from the movie "The Golden Ass" to this URL:
http://www.epinions.com/book_mu-2053922
Now if I were writing a link parser for a search engine, I might throw out that last part, since it's not obviously HTML or a directory. (Yes, that wouldn't be optimal, but it's a reasonable mistake.) And presumably you can find similar links for "gerber", "forks", and "babies", too.
So perhaps Google's engine sees about a zillion links with all sorts of words pointing to Epinion's top level, and assumes that epinions top level is relevant to those. It's generally a pretty good assumption, even if it falls down in the case of Epinions.
Of course, it's completely possible that the guys at Epinions walk a briefcase full of cash over to Google on the first of every month, and that's why Epinions ranks highly for people wanting to fork babies in their asses. But there are other possibilities, too, so maybe you should give Google the benefit of the doubt.
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Re:ok now say your sorry everyoneThe cached root page doesn't contain the works "gerber", "forks", "babies", or "ass".
Are you suggesting that google combines all this information:
- this epinions page contains the word "ass"
- this epinions page contains the words "gerber", "babies", and "forks"
- The above links have a link to http://epinions.com/
Perhaps, but I'd think that many more general-purpose sites (eg. yahoo) would match in this way, and I haven't seen any sites show up nearly as much as epinions has.
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Re:ok now say your sorry everyoneThe cached root page doesn't contain the works "gerber", "forks", "babies", or "ass".
Are you suggesting that google combines all this information:
- this epinions page contains the word "ass"
- this epinions page contains the words "gerber", "babies", and "forks"
- The above links have a link to http://epinions.com/
Perhaps, but I'd think that many more general-purpose sites (eg. yahoo) would match in this way, and I haven't seen any sites show up nearly as much as epinions has.
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Re:Google and epinions?
I think you are mistaken. Here is a simple experiment (disclaimer: this is a product I wrote an epinions review for):
Google Search
Resulting Epinions link
This is not a link to the main epinions page. It is a link for the exact item searched for. Here is anothe r one. My advice to you: put up or shut up. Really, instead of just saying you have noticed something, prove it and people might listen. -
TheNet....Yes and No
And if the Net is, in fact, fostering a political/social movement designed to protest, curb or transform corporatism, that could well be the most significant and unexpected contribution to public life that technology has made since e-mail
Yes, the Net definitely fosters faster communications which can allow individuals to transmit their praise/hatred of corporate actions quickly. I think that Slashdot helps aid this process by providing the Anonymous Coward feature which allows people to speak and hide their identity.
In addition, there are various rating sites that are popular with people. These sites allow people to speak and rant about the positives and negatives about consumers goods/services. Some examples are Deja and (referral link) Epinions, which I use almost everytime I need to do consumer research.
However, any communication on the Internet is useless if the courts don't enforce free speech. With the news that URLs aren't property, this is just more ammunition that corporate sharks^H^H^H^H^H^Hlawyers can use against people who register RandomFortune500CompanySucks.com. And some companies think they can control free speech by using the trademark game! Is this trademark clause the future loophole that will control free speech? I hope it doesn't follow along the paths of the Interstate Commerce Act.
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You Only Agree Because You Don't Know Everything.I used to be a huge fan of the Olympics. Now the Summer Olympics I used to wait every 4 years to see, I will never see again. In fact, I'm disgusted that you can even act as if there's any sort of camraderie left in this highly commercialized, sponsor driven orgy of capitalism.
Read my brother's editorial on how there will be NO live coverage of the Olympics, and basically why we hate what NBC has done to the Games.
Do you want to see the Olympics? DON'T watch NBC.
I seem to remember the Olympics running pre-NBC coverage just fine. I got round-the-clock coverage of sports I wanted to see, and learned about sports I'd never heard of. Table Tennis, Team Handball, Fencing, the High Jump...all of that isn't going to be ANYWHERE on NBC.
Instead, I can look forward to seeing a whole week and a half of GYMNASTICS! WOO F*CKING HOO! In between, we'll show the Dream Team 70 beat every other team in the world with coaches alone, and some human interest stories about those beloved Gymnasts, and if the Women's Soccer doesn't lose, you can bet there will be a day or two of them.
When I was young, corporations ran HUGE promotions with the Olympics...but I still saw live coverage of sports. All the sports. In fact, I wish McDonalds would run sponsorship they way they ran it back in '88 and '84. They gave you these little scratch cards with prizes for Bronze, Silver and Gold. If the US won a medal in that event, you won the prize scratched off. You got some really random events like Women's Field Hockey and stuff, but you wanted that Big Mac, so you watched that event.
Now the only people I see getting excited about the Olympics are women. Because here are the events you will see on NBC, F*CKING GUARANTEED:
- Women's Indivdual Gymnastics
- Women's Team Gymnastics
- Men's Indivdual Gymnastics
- Women's Team Gymnastics
- Swimming
- Synchronized Swimming
- Women's Diving
- Men's Diving
- Women's Soccer
- Cycling Road Race (Only because of Lance Armstrong.)
- Track (No & Field...just track. Only the 100, 200 and 400 most likely.)
The Olympics I loved as a kid are gone. I have to derive my own enjoyment by looking at the box scores to find out who won, but now I'm not going to even be able to find out about those real time. "Pirate" the Olympics, go right f*cking ahead!
In addition, do you have any idea how ordinary people like you & me get tickets for the games? We'd would ostensibly send away money to reserve our tickets. If they're popular events, you won't get tickets, but get this, if you don't get a seat, THEY F*CKING KEEP YOUR MONEY ANYWAY!
My brother went to the games in Atlanta. He ran into people who lost upwards of $5,000 trying to get tickets for events that the sponsors had ALREADY FILLED, and they got JACK SHIT for $5,000.
This year, to make room for extra cameras, they booted another group of people from the opening cermonies...no refunds for them! What kind of f*cking scam is that?! Sell the seat 4 times over, don't give refunds, and award the seat to a sponsor. The IOOC and NBC win the gold again this year for screwing the people UP THE ASS! -
Re:Freewwweb and the rest
I use WorldShare as a backup to my pay ISP. One survey a month isn't bad and besides that they donate 5% of what you would have paid them to your favorite charity. WorldShare has recieved an 89% recomendation at ePinions. There are also a number of other free ISPs listed there too.
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Gale Encrypted Chat System
(Presumably, one could do this even on private
channels by running a hacked ircd, doing the
snooping at the server -- more efficient, too)
There's a chat system out there with public key
crypto on public messages, encryption (symmetric
session keys, persistent/signed public keys),
and a reasonable mapping of user identifier to
username@domain. It's called gale, and there's
more info at www.gale.org.
There are a few other chat systems out there with
crypto, even some crypto-extensions to IRC. I reviewed
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more can be found about dbirchall here
Hey Dan, I'm glad you're a geek enjoying life. You have beautiful wife and best of luck to you.
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Not really good news, but not really bad news.I was sad to see that TurboLinux was cutting folks, since I've gotten to know some people there over the last year, and like Lonn says, they have (or had) some really, really good talent. I'm glad, though, that they're not planning more cuts.
As far as the original person wondering what they meant by "enterprise" products, I can only guess they're unaware of TurboLinux's TurboCluster Server clustering solution, which I've been working with for the last year.
TurboLinux Workstation and TurboLinux Server always struck me as "just one more distro," while TurboCluster Server was definitely a horse (or box) of a different color, and for quite some time was the only server clustering (as opposed to computational clustering) solution available in packaged form for Linux.
(My other thoughts on TLTCS are somewhere right around here for anyone curious.)
Anyway, it looks like they'll be continuing to support and focus on my favorite product, so I guess I should be happy. I should probably also mail my friends and see if they're still around... maybe we can pick some of them up where I work!
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Re:other components - $499 goggles - COOL!Forget about the Sony goggles. Look at these for $499 or $399!!
Combine that with the roll-up keyboard mentioned early... chills.
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Re:Circuit City and Netpliance3: sell the i-opener at $199 to those who don't sign up for service
that way they will make some money off their products,
This is the idea I originally had until I remembered that even at $199 the I-opener is a loss leader. The netpliance originally cost $300 as can be seen at the bottom of this article and in this article it states they upped the price to $300 after using $199 as an intro price. The current price of $99 is a promotion and is not a price the company will be able to maintain for the long term.
Secondly 1 year of service costs $250 ($21.50 * 12) which is about a $100 of profit per year. A more suitable and realistic plan would probably be- 1. sell the I-opener at $149 to those who sign up for at least 2 years of service. (Total customer expenditure - $649)
- 2. sell the I-opener at $259 to those who sign up for 1 year of service. (Total customer expenditure - $549)
- 3. sell the I-opener at $450 to those who sign up for at least 2 years of service. (Total customer expenditure - $450)
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Webby Awards Suck =(Excessive lobbying: The road to a webby award. Because Slashdot users have nothing better to do, it's destined to win a Webby. Does it deserve it?
The only good category is the Services category where Epinions and Kozmo fight it out for the most revolutionary sites on the web this year.
Does slashdot deserve a webby? Is it revolutionary in design or concept? I don't think so! Personally, I wrote-in a vote for PayYoBillz in the Communities category! =) It may not deserve it, but do any of the others? Maybe some write-ins for Usenet will have it win. ^_^
- Jeremy Fuller
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I'm Moving To Epinions.comSlashdot.org writers are the worst ever! The moderators are even worse. If you disagree with them they call you a "Troll" while they give retards who can't spell who say 'linux iz cul' +99 "Insightful." I'm moving to Epinions for good =(
- Jeremy Fuller
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Links...
- Computing Review
- Epinions
- Deja.com (see Consumer Electronics>>Communications>>Cell Phones)
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Review:
APEX 600A review on epinions HERE.
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It has been done, sort of
at epinions.com. You can rate a ton of different things and people can rate reviews. The site includes a section for software, including OSes. You can rate people's opinions. Pretty neat idea, really.
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It has been done, sort of
at epinions.com. You can rate a ton of different things and people can rate reviews. The site includes a section for software, including OSes. You can rate people's opinions. Pretty neat idea, really.
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Re:ConsumerRevolution is coming soon
Sounds similar to www.epinions.com. Not a bad idea overall.
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Cybiko
Cybikos will relay emails for each other, if I understand correctly. I haven't used one, but it sounds like a badass little toy for $99. Plug it into your computer and you can serve as an Internet gateway (CyWIG) for any other Cybiko in range.
Anyone else have one of these yet?
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Re:Too many apps!
We don't need more applications... We need better applications. Instead of saying, "I want to write my own web browser," why not contribute to Mozilla instead? Instead of writing "Yet Another MP3 Player," contribute code to one of the more established ones.
You're missing the point on how Open Source software development produces better software. If you think in terms of evolution or "software Darwinism", then the variety of 30 competing projects is a good thing. Instant Messaging on Linux is still a new niche where a lot of experimentation is going on. Eventually, things will settle down and a few successful clients will emerge. If projects like Jabber are any indication, then the end result is going to be software that is better than commercial alternatives...a common theme with OS software.
You do highlight an important challenge: developing reputation managers for Open Source. Something like Epinions.com, but geared to our community. Something to help you seperate the wheat from the chaff.
When using freshmeat, I usually have to scan several entries. By looking at their various summaries, Web pages, and frequently by trying out a few packages, I filter out the projects that don't seem to be very well supported. This usually works, but it is time consuming, and doesn't take advantage of the fact that someone else with similar interests as mine probably just did the same thing a week ago. Collaborative Filtering, which is just a form of reputation management, would come in real handy. In fact, I'd be suprised if FreshMeat wasn't already working on this. -
Cool, beat the hype of epinions.com
This company sounds like they went one step furhter than the much hyped Epinions.com. Epinions lets you review things, but people can't later ask questions about the review. Informarco.com will probably move into the reviews realm I would guess once they are fully operational. I am glad to see this kind of competition.
One question though: Can you answer a question that hasn't yet been asked? That would be a cool idea but it seems as if there site only lets you answer "asked" questions.
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Re:Upcoming Ender novelsFYI, the original short story was also called "Ender's Game" (I'm 95% sure of this). "Maps in a Mirror" is the best single-author anthology I've read - find it if possible. However, it's around 1000 pages hardcover, so... You can probably also find the short story in an anthology of Hugo (?) award winners from the year it was published - late 1970s, I think. I know it won an award, probably the John C. Campbell award, which I believe is affiliated with the Hugo, though I'm not sure of any of that.
There is, however, a book called "Ender's War"; it's "Ender's Game" and "Speaker for the Dead" bound in one volume, published sometime in the 1980s. I found it in Powell's City of Books a few weeks ago but didn't buy it (I wish I had, to complete my Ender collection with this obscurity). I don't know if it's still available.
If you want another review of "Ender's Game" the novel, I wrote an epinion (silly name) which you can find at Epinions.com. I think it's pretty interesting, but...
Abigail