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Slashback: Armed, Cracked, Cables
Nearly anything is better than ribbon cables. aibrahim writes "In the recent /. article about Serial ATA some people wanted to know where SCSI was going, and if Serial ATA could deal with some higher end workstation and low end server requirements. Apparently it has been decided that Serial ATA 2 (pdf doc) and Serial Attached SCSI are the answers."
Because being an American is all about first-person shooters. and i starve writes: "For any of you FPS fans out there who have been champing at the bit to see the newest product of our very own government's attempt at a multiplayer video game since Marine Doom your day has final come. America's Army, which utilizes the Unreal Warfare engine was created and designed by the United States Army and is TOTALLY FREE! go grab it off of File Planet right now!"
Before you hit your "JINGO" button, though, An anonymous reader cautions "In typical Army fashion the release of America's Army is a bust. All the servers are either full or down and the way it's set up, you can't play past the basic training without completing some of the training online. Since you can't connect to any of the servers to complete that training you basically can't play the game at all. What a waste of taxpayer money."
Nobody needs to make any cracks about this. Anonymous Coward writes "According to this CNN Article, [some cracks were] found on Space Shuttle Columbia this week, possibly delaying missions for the remainder of the year. This crack is similar to the crack found on Columbia's sister ships, Atlantis and Discovery. "
Worst pun in relation to this gets no prize.
I kind of like the fragmentation of the different standards. the old ones that are no good will fall away in time, but the new ones will always have advancements making them even more versatile.
/like/ my Syquest SCSI cartridge drive)
For example, my PC has both an IDE expansion (7 IDE devices) and a SCSI card (2 devices) since they don't interfere with each other, i can have up to 24 devices, which is more than i could have with just IDE ATA expansion cards. I rather like the fact that my SCSI card can do 16 devices all on one cable where i have to add a new IDE channel for every 2 ATA drives i want.
Both hap there ups and downs, but they are well mached ups and downs. if we only had one interface, then we would have downs that we couldn't get past.
Imagine if noone ever made the PCI interface, and we had to use hacked together ISA connections for all of our add-ons. Noone complains that a new AGP bus is coming out, and complaints are few for other new interfaces. Anything that is better than what we have is, well, better than what we have.
I can't wait to get more interfaces. But i will always use the old ones, in conjunction. (I happen to
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If this really is a true simulation of the US military, wouldn't that mean it might give away information on our army to anyone in the world that might want to know this intelligence? This worries me, I hope they didn't include any sensitive information in it.
Somehow, mentioning this episode of Penny Arcade seems appropriate.
"What's so random about flipping a coin? Ever heard of the I Ching?"
Maybe because Voodoo cards are absolutely and undeniably crap? nVidia and even Matrox killed those worthless lines of "graphics" cards years ago. Sure, the Voodoo was neat when they hit the market at first, but as soon as nVidia showed up, the Voodoos were just braindead piles of junk in comparison.
No offense, dude, but complaining that a new game doesn't support your shitty Voodoo card holds about as much weight as me complaining that my old audio cassette recorder I used with a TRS-80 back in the day to store my programs isn't supported by Win2K on my P4. Maybe if 3dfx hadn't taken so many years to even make a stab at fully supporting a standard like OpenGL (instead of their f'ing moronic "glide" shit with the first few Voodoos), they wouldn't have been slaughtered by the companies that had a clue from the start.
Gracefully? It would've been graceful if Washington, at the end, was hiding in a tree like Charlie, sniping.
:P
Gracefully? By the end, we fought on England's terms and thrashed them handily. (And again some years later.)
Gracefully? An officer of our navy sacked several towns on English shores. English shores!
Gracefully? They could've kept fighting. And if they did, they would've continued to lose. Graceful? It was more a surrender than anything else.
They should've tried to tax tobacco. No one gives a flying fark about tea, but you wouldn't have seen anyone throwing good tobacco into the ocean.
For all of you out there that aren't signed up for slashdot subscription ( I'm one them ) it's time to relize the benefit of the model.
I'm a subscriber to gamespot complete. As a member I get access to their download network. Honestly I forget the name of the provide, someone please respond with it.
Anyways, I was queued for the download before it was released. The second is was, I was first in line for it. I got home for my 4th festivities to find it waiting for me.
Just think of it as a magazine subscriptions with benifits. Sign up for you favorite site!!, put your $ where you mouth is