Would it be moving quickly enough to have the kinetic energy required to do the kind of damage that was done? Given that it was stationary, it wouldn't be hitting earth at more then terminal velocity, right?
It means what it means. The MacBook's graphics system is terrible, so pretty much no gaming at all. And the MacBooks comes with shoddy LCD panels whose image quality is unimpressive within its price range. (6bit color channels rather than 8bit). The iMac 20" also has this terrible LCD and you can't replace the hard drive so you'll have to pay premium if you want a bigger hard drive. The iMac 24" is good value, if you indeed have that much money to spare. And the MacBook Pro is also a fine piece of machinery, just outside the price range of most sane people.
Most people choose the MacBooks and the iMac 20", AFAIK. And those are overpriced compared to specs.
And yes, Safari is a fine browser. I use it for flickr, because firefox doesn't support color management.
Vista is indeed a disaster. It failed to stop Apple from continuing its growth. Macs are less value performance-wise than PCs, and regular people still buy ever more Macs. I think it is because OS X is easier to use and more secure than Vista. Microsoft is losing its grip on the consumer market, and will most likely end up competing on the corporate market. Oh, and XBox360. I'll give them that - the XBox360 is not so bad.
Wake up, buddy. OSX is based upon BSD. I can run Apache, Perl, Python, MySQL etc etc on my MacBook.
What's more, avoiding holes in the system is a prerequisite for making a secure system. However, it is no guarantee for a good system that people can use. Linux has some excellent back-end stuff, but it has taken a long to get the front-end to be friendly enough on Linux. It's kinda getting there, but it has taken too long.
Anyways: We don't use Linux (or OSX, or Vista) to scare people away. Or to feel superior. We use it because it is a good tool for doing whatever job we want to do - hopefully while keeping malware off our computers and not getting in our way more than necessary.
That editor would be free and fully functional if there were some smart people within EA. Imagine all those people downloading it to kill a few hours. "Oh wow, this so cool! Haha, look at that!". They end up getting hooked and then get curious as to how their creations will behave within the game. And there you go, sales stats +1. Given that you pay 10 bucks for the editor and probably 60 bucks for the full game, it seems pretty straightforward: The sales potential of a creature editor for 10 bucks is limited since you can't do much with it. However, it would be a low-cost advertising tool for the game. Separating out the creature editor, making an installer and then the bandwidth cost is probably not that many minutes of advertising on TV?
Greed is good. But the EA leadership kind of greed is obviously of the unimaginative kind.
Whether you are an idiot or not, it is wise to take note that calling other people "idiot" is not a productive thing to do. Just avoid trusting an idiot to do things that requires brains, and you'll be better off.
A scale of five or ten should not make too much of a difference. The difficult part (according to a Wired article) is figuring out the anchoring effect. If you've seen a lot of good movies lately, something mediocre will rate 2 stars, but if you've seen a lot of bad movies lately (ditch that significant other!) then a mediocre movie will more likely receive a three-star rating from you.
Linux is indeed more secure because of the higher eyeball count that comes with open source software. However, if you really want security then make sure to use older versions with backports for security fixes. Programmers introduce security flaws all the time. We are fail constantly, and our failures are made right later on - in open source.
Even the absolutely best AV product possible cannot block every threat because that problem is currently NP complete, to the best of my understanding. Such a product would not be able to block every threat on Linux or OSX either.
The Sony rootkit worked because of incompetence in both Redmond and in the AV industry. However, most people would have clicked through the "install application" screen by habit anyhow.
Microsoft should indeed make a service like the one that is integrated into the iPhone SDK: Only allow signed binaries. Average Joe cannot be expected to figure out what software is secure. Asking him for confirmation of whether he would like to install a piece of software is very much a flawed approach. Use techies mostly know how to protect ourselves. But those root kits run on Average Joe's computer, and until we can prevent him from installing that piece of malware and until he is forced to upgrade his system software and until all his applications are automatically upgraded with the latest security fixes - then we'll have these botnets.
Well - photovoltaics is excellent for powering air conditioning and offices. Maybe there is a business model here: Sell excess power to a storage company that stores the energy, and then sells it back at a slight premium at night? I think that may very well be more cost-effective compared to installing large battery capacity in each house (consider unused storage capacity).
Anyhow, Michael Nygard sounds like a guy who knows his airports. Had a smooth routine that worked. Until he got a MacBook Air and confused the authorities. If you confuse the authorities you must face the consequences!
ACC makes traffic flow smoother, allegedly. If 20% of the cars have ACC, there will be less traffic jams due to shock waves. It might be cost-effective for the government to subsidize such units to better utilize existing infrastructure capacity.
How do you know that you have the right guy to begin with? That's where it all breaks down. And even if you have a consistent story, I wonder if it would remain consistent under torture.
Sounds like it is important for torturers to torture both guilty and innocent people as part of their training. Hopefully, they'll figure out a way to tell them apart!
Wouldn't it be feasible that intelligent life could arise on a planet that is liquid? As long as the temperature of the liquid is sufficiently stable, there are sufficient chemical building blocks and there is not too much current, single cell organisms and then multi cell organisms could emerge.. Or am I wrong?
Anyhow, cool to hear that being the third rock from the sun is nothing special.
amsn? Really? That fugly mess that actually asks me of my architecture? (every heard about/proc and uname, amsn developers?)
That's the second part of my complaints: The developers tend to be the type that goes for programmatic elegance over usability. Reality check: Nobody's gonna use your app just because your coding skills are great. They will use your app because it is great. Or else the won't use it at all. Pidgin is a nicer chat app, but it lacks webcam capability. See where we are going with this? We have two programs: One barely usable with the required specifications, and a second that is usable but is not up to speed on the requirements. Would you like to be boiled or fried, good Sir?
It may also shock you that people expect all those funky email forwards to work. And the younger users expect msn to have webcam capabilities. Etc etc.
Ubuntu is pretty nice. Locating and installing new applications is easier that on windows. But: Too many applications are one step behind their commercial alternatives. I personally think the problem lies with who doesn't develop these applications: People hellbent on making things as easy to use as possible.
I've been hanging around Slashdot for a looong time. 10 years? But just not often enough to know who Roland is.
Anyhow, comment on the story and not the submitter. Or maybe just shut the hell up? If people stop complaining about shitty stories, then the shitty stories will no longer be published since it will no longer generate the clicks used to complain about the shitty story!
Maybe-maybe the Wii just haven't got the juice required to juice up Duke? Or that a complete bottoms-up rewrite and re-design of all graphics is simply not worth it?
I'm no gaming developer, but I guess XBox360 and PS3 games share quite a lot of textures and 3D models. And textures and 3D models take a lof of money to develop! Is it possible to automatically downscale textures and 3D models to work on the Wii? Anyone?
If so - good on ya. You just made a crappy product slightly less profitable! I hope you also sent a mail to Fry's to explain why you returned that camera.
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Who f*cken cares about this bit. The largest error in the OP was that there were no references to the expected growth in the marked for sissy laptops.
Would it be moving quickly enough to have the kinetic energy required to do the kind of damage that was done? Given that it was stationary, it wouldn't be hitting earth at more then terminal velocity, right?
It means what it means. The MacBook's graphics system is terrible, so pretty much no gaming at all. And the MacBooks comes with shoddy LCD panels whose image quality is unimpressive within its price range. (6bit color channels rather than 8bit). The iMac 20" also has this terrible LCD and you can't replace the hard drive so you'll have to pay premium if you want a bigger hard drive. The iMac 24" is good value, if you indeed have that much money to spare. And the MacBook Pro is also a fine piece of machinery, just outside the price range of most sane people.
Most people choose the MacBooks and the iMac 20", AFAIK. And those are overpriced compared to specs.
And yes, Safari is a fine browser. I use it for flickr, because firefox doesn't support color management.
Vista is indeed a disaster. It failed to stop Apple from continuing its growth. Macs are less value performance-wise than PCs, and regular people still buy ever more Macs. I think it is because OS X is easier to use and more secure than Vista. Microsoft is losing its grip on the consumer market, and will most likely end up competing on the corporate market. Oh, and XBox360. I'll give them that - the XBox360 is not so bad.
Wake up, buddy. OSX is based upon BSD. I can run Apache, Perl, Python, MySQL etc etc on my MacBook.
What's more, avoiding holes in the system is a prerequisite for making a secure system. However, it is no guarantee for a good system that people can use. Linux has some excellent back-end stuff, but it has taken a long to get the front-end to be friendly enough on Linux. It's kinda getting there, but it has taken too long.
Anyways: We don't use Linux (or OSX, or Vista) to scare people away. Or to feel superior. We use it because it is a good tool for doing whatever job we want to do - hopefully while keeping malware off our computers and not getting in our way more than necessary.
That editor would be free and fully functional if there were some smart people within EA. Imagine all those people downloading it to kill a few hours. "Oh wow, this so cool! Haha, look at that!". They end up getting hooked and then get curious as to how their creations will behave within the game. And there you go, sales stats +1. Given that you pay 10 bucks for the editor and probably 60 bucks for the full game, it seems pretty straightforward: The sales potential of a creature editor for 10 bucks is limited since you can't do much with it. However, it would be a low-cost advertising tool for the game. Separating out the creature editor, making an installer and then the bandwidth cost is probably not that many minutes of advertising on TV?
Greed is good. But the EA leadership kind of greed is obviously of the unimaginative kind.
Whether you are an idiot or not, it is wise to take note that calling other people "idiot" is not a productive thing to do. Just avoid trusting an idiot to do things that requires brains, and you'll be better off.
A scale of five or ten should not make too much of a difference. The difficult part (according to a Wired article) is figuring out the anchoring effect. If you've seen a lot of good movies lately, something mediocre will rate 2 stars, but if you've seen a lot of bad movies lately (ditch that significant other!) then a mediocre movie will more likely receive a three-star rating from you.
Whoa.
Linux is indeed more secure because of the higher eyeball count that comes with open source software. However, if you really want security then make sure to use older versions with backports for security fixes. Programmers introduce security flaws all the time. We are fail constantly, and our failures are made right later on - in open source.
Even the absolutely best AV product possible cannot block every threat because that problem is currently NP complete, to the best of my understanding. Such a product would not be able to block every threat on Linux or OSX either.
The Sony rootkit worked because of incompetence in both Redmond and in the AV industry. However, most people would have clicked through the "install application" screen by habit anyhow.
Microsoft should indeed make a service like the one that is integrated into the iPhone SDK: Only allow signed binaries. Average Joe cannot be expected to figure out what software is secure. Asking him for confirmation of whether he would like to install a piece of software is very much a flawed approach. Use techies mostly know how to protect ourselves. But those root kits run on Average Joe's computer, and until we can prevent him from installing that piece of malware and until he is forced to upgrade his system software and until all his applications are automatically upgraded with the latest security fixes - then we'll have these botnets.
Widespread solar power deployment would turn this time-of-day difference around. Energy would be abundant at daytime, and less so at night.
Well - photovoltaics is excellent for powering air conditioning and offices. Maybe there is a business model here: Sell excess power to a storage company that stores the energy, and then sells it back at a slight premium at night? I think that may very well be more cost-effective compared to installing large battery capacity in each house (consider unused storage capacity).
I see The Pun!
Anyhow, Michael Nygard sounds like a guy who knows his airports. Had a smooth routine that worked. Until he got a MacBook Air and confused the authorities. If you confuse the authorities you must face the consequences!
ACC makes traffic flow smoother, allegedly. If 20% of the cars have ACC, there will be less traffic jams due to shock waves. It might be cost-effective for the government to subsidize such units to better utilize existing infrastructure capacity.
Sounds like it is important for torturers to torture both guilty and innocent people as part of their training. Hopefully, they'll figure out a way to tell them apart!
Obviously not, unklefucker. I'll check kopete out, though. I haven't checked it out because I mostly use the gnome environment. Thanks for the tip!
Wouldn't it be feasible that intelligent life could arise on a planet that is liquid? As long as the temperature of the liquid is sufficiently stable, there are sufficient chemical building blocks and there is not too much current, single cell organisms and then multi cell organisms could emerge.. Or am I wrong?
Anyhow, cool to hear that being the third rock from the sun is nothing special.
amsn? Really? That fugly mess that actually asks me of my architecture? (every heard about /proc and uname, amsn developers?)
That's the second part of my complaints: The developers tend to be the type that goes for programmatic elegance over usability. Reality check: Nobody's gonna use your app just because your coding skills are great. They will use your app because it is great. Or else the won't use it at all. Pidgin is a nicer chat app, but it lacks webcam capability. See where we are going with this? We have two programs: One barely usable with the required specifications, and a second that is usable but is not up to speed on the requirements. Would you like to be boiled or fried, good Sir?
It may also shock you that people expect all those funky email forwards to work. And the younger users expect msn to have webcam capabilities. Etc etc.
Ubuntu is pretty nice. Locating and installing new applications is easier that on windows. But: Too many applications are one step behind their commercial alternatives. I personally think the problem lies with who doesn't develop these applications: People hellbent on making things as easy to use as possible.
I thought they were the same guy?
flickr would become one.
I've been hanging around Slashdot for a looong time. 10 years? But just not often enough to know who Roland is.
Anyhow, comment on the story and not the submitter. Or maybe just shut the hell up? If people stop complaining about shitty stories, then the shitty stories will no longer be published since it will no longer generate the clicks used to complain about the shitty story!
Maybe-maybe the Wii just haven't got the juice required to juice up Duke? Or that a complete bottoms-up rewrite and re-design of all graphics is simply not worth it?
I'm no gaming developer, but I guess XBox360 and PS3 games share quite a lot of textures and 3D models. And textures and 3D models take a lof of money to develop! Is it possible to automatically downscale textures and 3D models to work on the Wii? Anyone?
If so - good on ya. You just made a crappy product slightly less profitable! I hope you also sent a mail to Fry's to explain why you returned that camera.
It's not Dark Matter, you ignorant clod. It's 0.1% from Dark Matter. That's infinity from Dark Matter!
Breathless posts? Ever seen a breathing post? Now THAT would be internet-newsworthy!