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Microsoft Secret Prototype Phone Stolen
bossanovalithium writes to tell us that details are emerging about the theft of a top secret prototype mobile device stolen from an executive's pocket. Time to start watching eBay. "There are fears that leaks regarding the features and early bugs in the software could mar the launch of Windows Mobile 6.5 which the company hopes will give it the edge over the iPhone and the new Google Android operating system. The new product includes support for touch-screen technology similar to that found on the Apple iPhone. Among the features offered in the new service unveiled by Microsoft's chief executive, Steve Ballmer, on Tuesday, is a version of Windows Marketplace for Mobiles, which is set to compete with the popular Apple's App Store and provide easy ways to download music and products to mobiles. "
http://www.teamfortress.com/scoutupdate/
Can't wait.
Scout is my favorite class.
I'll be lobbing baseballs at people, chugging energy drinks, and scatter gunning the fuck out of shit. (Scatter gun replacement will probably be a lame nail gun, I need my boomstick.)
Microsoft is terrible. I hate Apple, but Microsoft is fucking ridiculous.
A windows marketplace? Are they going to call the programs... Zapps!
"Hey man, check out my ZunePhone with my Zapps on it!"
For once... could MS give us quality? JUST ONCE.. QUALITY.
I'm actually writing this from within Windows 7 beta, and I was just making the discussion to go back to XP 64 because video playback performance in Windows 7 is garbage.
I asked similar questions when i posted this last night, but it seems bossanovalithium had a better write-up or has connection to be posted first...
yeh, off-topic, but this kind of shit is why i don't bother to moderate. Why bother moderating when for 2 years i never see posted anything i suggest (and, no, before you ask, anyone, YES, i submit to be shared or submit as a story when this stuff has backfired on me...), and when maybe 5 times, the next day, someone ELSE gets posted. Makes me think of cronyims. But, what the hell. My fatal flaw expecting a little better. Like Slashdot posting submissions using only a single submitter name, but multiples, when multiple people submit within 2 to 4 hours of one another, especially since the moderators seem to wait long enough.
And, no, pretty much nobody here is of big-time-magazine caliber, so the cronyism should stop.
Previously: "Linux... Toward the Sunrise..." Now: "Linux... Toward the-- No, now, part of Every Sunrise"
To whomever marked me off-topic (regrettably, /. cannot foresee the need to create for each story a category called "unattributable anonymous frack's slights" so that responses of negative sentiment don't appear to be aimed at the thread not really responsible...)
If every one knows it's cronyism, and accepts it, then i guess it IS offtopic. I never DID think /. was anything approaching democratic. This kind of off-topic slight by someone out there (being allowed to stand as marked) just underscores it.
Previously: "Linux... Toward the Sunrise..." Now: "Linux... Toward the-- No, now, part of Every Sunrise"
moderators.
To get a story posted here, i've wondered whom i'd have to rim or suck to just ONCE not be fucked over by having a well-worn moderator ALWAYS have his/her submission 12 to 15 hours AFTER MINE get posted, and his is basically a paraphrasing of the parent website.
It's almost becoming a personal point of shame that i even grouse about it, but it sure would be nice if thunder from on high rocked and lightning shocked those who perpetuate cronyism here. One way to put an end to it is to force them to get out of their heads they're NOT going to be getting CNN or BBC or CNET positions by virtue of having a hard-on-raging, ego-as-big-as-Hoover-Dam, 3,442 published submissions. The way to do it is to make sure that when multiple people submit the same story suggestion within a few hours of each other (ESPECIALLY if the never-published person scoops the frat-rat), the scooped gets listed, but below the one scooping. It could enhance the sense of community many of us may mistakenly presume to be here. Most of us end up just shouting at a writing wall, and a handful of moderators (some good, some retaliatory) ultimately have the last laugh.
Slashdot needs:
-- a multi-submitter recognition system
-- a histogrm of scoring, not "most recent score"
-- a troll-/flambait-/off-topic-/ outing scheme to prevent hit-and-run whackos having anonymity
-- better meta-association of comments that often get shoved around out of relation/context to their initial parent
-- a term limit on standing-moderator status
Previously: "Linux... Toward the Sunrise..." Now: "Linux... Toward the-- No, now, part of Every Sunrise"