There is a large market for the Nintendo-style games - Mario, Zelda, Super Smash Bros, Mario Party, DK, etc - appeal to a huge percentage of the market. A new console that is bargain priced with a gimicky input device (that is not so bargain priced) and the potential to play online versions of some favorites (like Smash Bros) may be part of the formula that works for Nintendo.
Also, accessibility to non-gamers, and participation of non-gamers is quite amazing to me (I've seen it).
Who are the idiots that buy the crap that make it worthwhile for spammers to install the bots that send out the spam? Shouldn't the people that create this financial incentive somehow be to blame too?
Maybe I'm a little creeped out by viewing Michael Crook's apology, but "Sometimes it takes baby steps" sounded a lot like "It puts the lotion on its skin".
As a reliability gauge, replacement policy is important. But I've found that in reality, if a drive fails I don't want another one of the same to replace it.
It's a very slight difference in the positioning of the WD power connector within the physical position on the drive. It's still a 40 pin standard power connector, but you cannot slide it into the housing of an AccuSYS IDE RAID drive bay. You have to order a different AccuSYS model that is specifically for WD parallel IDE drives.
Out of curiosity, what model of Seagate has the fantastic rep?
From my experience, Western Digitals are (relatively) reliable. They unfortunately do not have the same power connector orientation as any other consumer drive on the planet, so if you want to use IDE RAID you have to get the type that either (1) fits any consumer ide drive or (2) fits a Western Digital Drive. (grr)
Had some good experiences with Maxtor. A couple of years ago (OK - maybe 6 or 8) we had batches of super reliable Maxtors - 10GB.
Some Samsungs are good, some are evil - the SP0411N was a particularly reliable model - the SP0802N sucked - out of a batch of 20, 15 of them died within a year: all reallocated sector errors beyond the threshold.
Seagates are a mixed bag too - been having a nice experience with the SATA models 160GB and 120GB - can't remember their model #'s off the top of my head. - The older Seagates, though, I spent a fair amount of time replacing.
IBM DeskStar's, as far as I know, have been quite good - for some reason didn't use too many.
Haven't looked far enough into the rest of the comments to see if anyone else has mentioned this yet, but at least the people with a blood alcohol level have an excuse for an accident.
What about the people who get into an accident who are SOBER? That is whose license should be taken away and should be prosecuted - they don't even have an excuse!
and the only effect we might see is incorrect time zone in e.g. mail headers from the US, if sent from an unpatched mail server with the wrong time. Or am I forgetting something?
Yes, you are forgetting mail headers from Canada:)
Odd that the FA entitled "Are Background Checks Necessary For IT Workers?" would have a hyperlink on "computer" that links to a junior high school definition of a computer ??!!
From the link:
The computer can selectively retrieve data into its main memory (RAM) from any peripheral device (terminal, disk, tape, etc.) connected to it...
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There is a large market for the Nintendo-style games - Mario, Zelda, Super Smash Bros, Mario Party, DK, etc - appeal to a huge percentage of the market. A new console that is bargain priced with a gimicky input device (that is not so bargain priced) and the potential to play online versions of some favorites (like Smash Bros) may be part of the formula that works for Nintendo.
Also, accessibility to non-gamers, and participation of non-gamers is quite amazing to me (I've seen it).
Easy to say, of course... Difficult to put into practice.
Yeah, especially for the author, Clive. He has the nanny looking after his 15 month old while he's playing an xbox game???
I do like, though, that it clears up the pronunciation issue.
Can't count how many times I've cringed when I've heard people say lee-nix and line-ex.
Who are the idiots that buy the crap that make it worthwhile for spammers to install the bots that send out the spam? Shouldn't the people that create this financial incentive somehow be to blame too?
I am neither lazy nor an idiot - I have a PDA with WiFi.
Good for browsing, checking email, great for running voip and skipping the cell network charges.
Did you get lost? slashdot.org instead of grandmas.house?
Maybe I'm a little creeped out by viewing Michael Crook's apology, but "Sometimes it takes baby steps" sounded a lot like "It puts the lotion on its skin".
Agreed - I like to check out the site map, in a lot of cases it's the uncluttered view that I wanted in the first place.
cisco 6900 series routers - flash RAM has been very reliable from my experience...close to a HD-type of demand.
As a reliability gauge, replacement policy is important. But I've found that in reality, if a drive fails I don't want another one of the same to replace it.
Cheers, fellow Canadian.
It's a very slight difference in the positioning of the WD power connector within the physical position on the drive. It's still a 40 pin standard power connector, but you cannot slide it into the housing of an AccuSYS IDE RAID drive bay. You have to order a different AccuSYS model that is specifically for WD parallel IDE drives.
Out of curiosity, what model of Seagate has the fantastic rep?
From my experience, Western Digitals are (relatively) reliable. They unfortunately do not have the same power connector orientation as any other consumer drive on the planet, so if you want to use IDE RAID you have to get the type that either (1) fits any consumer ide drive or (2) fits a Western Digital Drive. (grr)
Had some good experiences with Maxtor. A couple of years ago (OK - maybe 6 or 8) we had batches of super reliable Maxtors - 10GB.
Some Samsungs are good, some are evil - the SP0411N was a particularly reliable model - the SP0802N sucked - out of a batch of 20, 15 of them died within a year: all reallocated sector errors beyond the threshold.
Seagates are a mixed bag too - been having a nice experience with the SATA models 160GB and 120GB - can't remember their model #'s off the top of my head. - The older Seagates, though, I spent a fair amount of time replacing.
IBM DeskStar's, as far as I know, have been quite good - for some reason didn't use too many.
- it's eh?, not ay.
It hits the fan - awesome!
gad...I hope I'm not the only banjo playing hater.
Thanks - I'm not throwing any parties for myself yet, I have talked to people that have quit for more than a year and started again.
Good luck to you too.
I am on week 13 of quitting smoking - that's 13 weeks without a single drag *sigh* it is not easy.
Haven't looked far enough into the rest of the comments to see if anyone else has mentioned this yet, but at least the people with a blood alcohol level have an excuse for an accident.
What about the people who get into an accident who are SOBER? That is whose license should be taken away and should be prosecuted - they don't even have an excuse!
and the only effect we might see is incorrect time zone in e.g. mail headers from the US, if sent from an unpatched mail server with the wrong time. Or am I forgetting something?
Yes, you are forgetting mail headers from Canada :)
I like Mike Godwin's comment: There's not much that's bad on the Net, ...
wow...only in 1994
I would agree with you with the exception of teenage family members - they may be less likely to own a player and more likely to want one.
Odd that the FA entitled "Are Background Checks Necessary For IT Workers?" would have a hyperlink on "computer" that links to a junior high school definition of a computer ??!!
From the link:
The computer can selectively retrieve data into its main memory (RAM) from any peripheral device (terminal, disk, tape, etc.) connected to it...
Just kind of strange.
Something like
Slashdot Poll:
I am addicted to:
( ) MMORPGs
( ) Sex
( ) Crack
( ) Nicotine
( ) Caffeine
( ) "My Little Kitty" Merch
(*) Lurking about on Slashdot
I was waiting for someone to say this!
To all that believe: Belief is fine, be happy with yourselves - if I want to be as happy as you are, I'LL ASK.
Our IT manager (who likely doesn't know what IT is an acronym for) recently had on a list of "to do" items:
That one always caused a few smirks from the programming staff.
back in '92 it could have been possible.