yup, and we're too fat and happy to know when it's needed......whats going on in Iran is very similar to what happened in the US in 2004. Imagine how different the world would be today if we got off our lazy a$$es and did what the youth of Iran are doing today.....
i forgot to mention, i am currently working on a gov contract developing in an all-oracle software env right now. and due to the projects shoddy code(i came on years into dev), the gov has been pushing oracle for assistance. this has obviously has nothing to do with the Sun HW team, but oracle has recently sent us 2 oracle branded db servers to demo(and a completely braindead consultant with them). they are apparently black-magically tweaked for high performance db message queues. the specs are impressive....one 56-core box and one 128-core monster.....way more impressive then the perfomance increase actually gained from using them....
actually, the HW arm of Sun is arguably the most valuable to Oracle in the long term. they have been working hard for some time to be a one stop shop for web app dev & deployment. what better way than to sell Oracle branded server racks, running Oracle Solaris preloaded with Oracle Meblogic, BPEL, DB, etc....Oracle Dev machines also running Oracle Solaris preloaded with Oracle JDeveloper...and so on.....that you basically just plug in and turn on. once these babies are deployed to corps and gov agencies en mass, expect the cost of their consultant fees to really skyrocket. resistance is futile....
like many others that i've read here, my virgin experience with linux came in the form of many sleep deprived nights of reading and recompiling the kernel of a Slackware 8.1(9?) install. i did this at the recommendation of my peers as i was green to *NIX and the only experience i had with anything other than windows systems at the time was hacking my class projects on Solaris dummy terminals.
i joined the RUSLUG(http://ruslug.rutgers.edu/w/) and the great majority of them suggested this route. now i realize that this was a nerd hazing....however, the knowledge and familiarity with the inner workings of linux that i gained from those first couple of weeks is now priceless. not to mention that, once i perfected the process of configuring that machine, my sh!tty compaq presario laptop ran better than the day i brought it home...another added plus, my non-techy friends in the dorm were so thrown off by fluxbox, none of those virus magnets ever even tried to hop on my box anymore.
anyway, what first became of that introduction is something that still makes me proud to this day: the Prism driver. thats right, i as involved with the project that brought many of you wireless g in linux for the first time. i was responsible for the config/admin tools and the sh!tty documentation to help you script your settings.
no one who is familiar with it believes me when i tell them...until i make them bet on it and dig up notes and archived irc discussions...that got me many a free lunch over the years!
while that was a great learning experience...it is not something i want to ever go through again. which is why i must say this: what i first do with linux now is discouraging considering how long it's been since i worked on the prism project, how successful it was, and how far linux has come since then.....most of the time the first thing i do after installing linux on a system is hop on my VISTA box and scour the internet trying to figure out how to get my god damned wireless working!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
seriously, these are the same companies that make ATM machines....i've shocked an ATM machine before and i didn't receive any extra $ in my account. this is negligence at best, but most likely criminal.
ditto....rev A is amazing as is the GPS....WinMo is THE mobile platform at the moment IMHO...the sheer number of excellent freeware apps is astounding
i also have noticed a significant performance increase after upgrading to WM 6.1...i would highly recommend trying it if you haven't already....search ppcgeekz.com's forums for info...
honestly, this phone is a laptop/navigation replacement....
why is no one mentioning this?.....DELLs XPS 1330 is superior to all of the above and cheaper in similar configs(the shittiest 1330 houses the base MBAir).....i know dell is sour in this community, but trust me....this model is the real deal....
ummmm......yea, i'd mod you down if i had the points.....there should be -1 Fanboy mod.....you own a PS3, but the only thing you see on the 360 worth playing is Halo????....what about superior versions of all of the games PS3 has????.....the only *good* game that is PS3 exclusive is R&C....Uncharted, unfortunately, is a disappointment.....if it wasn't for the blue-ray player, my PS3 would never be used....
how come no one has posted anything on the fact that this thing was given the name Nigersaurus????? if someone was making some stupid racist joke, it would be trivial, but this is the official scientific name for this beast, and that makes it hilarious..... quit being so PC people, with Dave Chappelle AWOL, we need to make light of racial issues on our own.
um....considering, last night there were 60,000+ people playing it on xbox live last night around 9pm eastern, i would say CoD4 is making the noise, not getting lost in it.
wait a minute....what are we bragging about?....the fact that my ps3 has been idle long enough to decode the humpback whale's genome???....wtf....Hurry Sony and release Uncharted!!!!!!!!......
prepare the ports??.... Sony has the exclusive for X number of months(at least 6+)....so, no, the 'ports' won't be the reason that the 'original' gets held back... the reason is the same as all of the other delays, the ps3 is hard to code for and the dev's didn't anticipate some of the problems they are now encountering... this pisses me off because, the 'ports' will also be delayed because the ps3 date slipped...even though the 'ports' will probably be done long before Sony's exclusive grace period runs out. shit, the 360 'port' might even be further along than the 'original' at this point....
it will be interesting to see how i get modded. and the score will be totally dependent on which fanboy group has more mod points at the moment. be gentile ps3guys, i own one and am currently counting the days till Uncharted:Drake's Fortune drops so i can dust off my cheap blu-ray player....err, ps3...
i missed the show, but i'm also missing the gist of the problem here....was he touting doritos as the national chip? nationalizing the production and distribution of doritos for the betterment of American society? will he bring the doritos top brass into his administration and hook them up with high paying, tax funded jobs if he gets elected? no, because that would be criminal....
huh....sounds an awful lot like hillary and the health care industry to me....so is her campaign illegal? why not? because she goes out of her way to hide the fact that much of her campaign contributions come from those in health care instead of getting on national TV and being truthful about it?....sounds bass ackwards to me....
a better product? are people really stupid enough to install a hacked OS on their system and believe that the only "extra funtionality" is that they no longer have to insert discs to play games?.... seriously, installing a hacked OS = giving ownership of your hardware to a 15 year old russian kid named Boris. ironically, these idiots who install pirated OSes are probably the same people complaining about the insecurity if Windows.
i got my console day 1 and while it's loud, runs hot and occasionally freezes, it is hands down the best game system i have ever owned....and i've owned them all since the NES excluding the neogeo.
preface: i own all 3 current gen consoles... i love how the ps3 and wii guys take shots at each other and the xbox crowd. all of their arguments are hardware based because they have no games to argue about.
now...what do i want to play today on my 360....decisions, decisions...
cue troll points in 3, 2,....
I am suprised that the wii is ahead of the 360 and i am totally convinced that it is a FAD. Don't get me wrong, i am a huge nintendo fan...i was so excited when the 'revolution' was annouced. i bought 100 shares of nintendo stock that day. i preached to friends and family that this was going to completely change the way that games are played and that in 5 years, all of the consoles would convert. a year later, boy was i wrong. the idea was there, the implementation was horrible. i wish that they had waited a couple of years, so they could but more powerful hardware in the machine and give devs more time to brainstorm, because the graphics are tired and the games are non-existant.
These are game systems, and the fact is, the 360 has far more and far better games to play on it. My wii has been collecting dust since i beat Zelda. Sports was a great tech demo, but got tired pretty quick. Play was weak...thank god i got a controller with it...
i was seriously considering selling it until it was announced that manhunt 2 would ship in october. i am really counting on just a few good games(fight night, table tennis, manhunt) to change my view, because at this point, i feel as though the $300 i spent on the wii was the biggest waste i've encountered in a while. i should have bought some more stock so i could have made some more money on the masses that are apparently still blindly buying into the hype. shit, even putting that $300 into a ps3 would have made more sense at this point. Uncharted is about to come out and that looks amazing.
mark my words, wii will go the way of the gamecube this generation. in 2 years, only 5 year olds will be playing sponge bob, and qrandma will be playing shuffle board on it.
EVD0 owns all...my Sanyo M1 owns the iPhone. sure, it doesn't have the nice big touch screen, but it can do everything the iPhone can and faster thanks to EVd0. the only thing the iPhone has on mine is the whole iMovie thing, but seriously, who wants to watch a movie on a phone? Sprint and Verizon will have their answers to iPhone soon and i wouldn't be surprised if they were made by microsoft and/or sony.
false, because unless you goto a "computer show" in some convention center for the hardware, it's actually not cheaper at all. couple that with 0 support if your system fails.
i understand building a comp for the learning experience, but i can't stand elitists like you looking down on people that buy them. i have many friends who share your tainted view and recently we tested it. i bought my XPS at the same time my friend build his gaming rig and guess what?
who's cost more upfront(excluding the extended warranty i got)? his
who's had was up and running faster? mine
who's runs HL2/CS:S better? mine
who's had a hardware failure already? his
so, stop spreading misinformation. the only argument i can think of for building a rig yourself besides the experience of doing it is the fact that you can buy better quality components. but to most people the warranties and support that dell, best buy, etc. offer with new ready made PCs out weight that.
I have a friend that works for a major bank. He recently told me he hated people like me(i pay my balance in full whenever i ave one to avoid interest charges) and when i asked him who he loved, what was his response? Small time eBay scammers. They actually make money off of fraud. How else are they going to sell their "Protection Plans"? If the system was secure, as it could and should be, there would be no reason for anyone to "Sign up for the Credit Protection Plan for the low fee of..."
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yup, and we're too fat and happy to know when it's needed......whats going on in Iran is very similar to what happened in the US in 2004. Imagine how different the world would be today if we got off our lazy a$$es and did what the youth of Iran are doing today.....
You are pretending to be an authority. I don't think you know the law.
i forgot to mention, i am currently working on a gov contract developing in an all-oracle software env right now. and due to the projects shoddy code(i came on years into dev), the gov has been pushing oracle for assistance. this has obviously has nothing to do with the Sun HW team, but oracle has recently sent us 2 oracle branded db servers to demo(and a completely braindead consultant with them). they are apparently black-magically tweaked for high performance db message queues. the specs are impressive....one 56-core box and one 128-core monster.....way more impressive then the perfomance increase actually gained from using them....
actually, the HW arm of Sun is arguably the most valuable to Oracle in the long term. they have been working hard for some time to be a one stop shop for web app dev & deployment. what better way than to sell Oracle branded server racks, running Oracle Solaris preloaded with Oracle Meblogic, BPEL, DB, etc....Oracle Dev machines also running Oracle Solaris preloaded with Oracle JDeveloper...and so on.....that you basically just plug in and turn on. once these babies are deployed to corps and gov agencies en mass, expect the cost of their consultant fees to really skyrocket. resistance is futile....
like many others that i've read here, my virgin experience with linux came in the form of many sleep deprived nights of reading and recompiling the kernel of a Slackware 8.1(9?) install. i did this at the recommendation of my peers as i was green to *NIX and the only experience i had with anything other than windows systems at the time was hacking my class projects on Solaris dummy terminals.
i joined the RUSLUG(http://ruslug.rutgers.edu/w/) and the great majority of them suggested this route. now i realize that this was a nerd hazing....however, the knowledge and familiarity with the inner workings of linux that i gained from those first couple of weeks is now priceless. not to mention that, once i perfected the process of configuring that machine, my sh!tty compaq presario laptop ran better than the day i brought it home...another added plus, my non-techy friends in the dorm were so thrown off by fluxbox, none of those virus magnets ever even tried to hop on my box anymore.
anyway, what first became of that introduction is something that still makes me proud to this day: the Prism driver. thats right, i as involved with the project that brought many of you wireless g in linux for the first time. i was responsible for the config/admin tools and the sh!tty documentation to help you script your settings.
no one who is familiar with it believes me when i tell them...until i make them bet on it and dig up notes and archived irc discussions...that got me many a free lunch over the years!
while that was a great learning experience...it is not something i want to ever go through again. which is why i must say this: what i first do with linux now is discouraging considering how long it's been since i worked on the prism project, how successful it was, and how far linux has come since then.....most of the time the first thing i do after installing linux on a system is hop on my VISTA box and scour the internet trying to figure out how to get my god damned wireless working!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
seriously....WTF!!!!!
seriously, these are the same companies that make ATM machines....i've shocked an ATM machine before and i didn't receive any extra $ in my account. this is negligence at best, but most likely criminal.
Three years down the road i'll still have to manually install my notebooks wireless and graphics card drivers....
ditto....rev A is amazing as is the GPS....WinMo is THE mobile platform at the moment IMHO...the sheer number of excellent freeware apps is astounding
i also have noticed a significant performance increase after upgrading to WM 6.1...i would highly recommend trying it if you haven't already....search ppcgeekz.com's forums for info...
honestly, this phone is a laptop/navigation replacement....
why is no one mentioning this?.....DELLs XPS 1330 is superior to all of the above and cheaper in similar configs(the shittiest 1330 houses the base MBAir).....i know dell is sour in this community, but trust me....this model is the real deal....
if you are using opera mobile, you can set it to identify your device as a "Desktop"....this will allow you to view pages un-filtered/formatted.
defective by design....o wait, it's an apple product.....scratch that......NEW FEATURE!!!!
ummmm......yea, i'd mod you down if i had the points.....there should be -1 Fanboy mod.....you own a PS3, but the only thing you see on the 360 worth playing is Halo????....what about superior versions of all of the games PS3 has????.....the only *good* game that is PS3 exclusive is R&C....Uncharted, unfortunately, is a disappointment.....if it wasn't for the blue-ray player, my PS3 would never be used....
how come no one has posted anything on the fact that this thing was given the name Nigersaurus?????
if someone was making some stupid racist joke, it would be trivial, but this is the official scientific name for this beast, and that makes it hilarious.....
quit being so PC people, with Dave Chappelle AWOL, we need to make light of racial issues on our own.
um....considering, last night there were 60,000+ people playing it on xbox live last night around 9pm eastern, i would say CoD4 is making the noise, not getting lost in it.
wait a minute....what are we bragging about?....the fact that my ps3 has been idle long enough to decode the humpback whale's genome???....wtf....Hurry Sony and release Uncharted!!!!!!!!......
prepare the ports??....
Sony has the exclusive for X number of months(at least 6+)....so, no, the 'ports' won't be the reason that the 'original' gets held back...
the reason is the same as all of the other delays, the ps3 is hard to code for and the dev's didn't anticipate some of the problems they are now encountering...
this pisses me off because, the 'ports' will also be delayed because the ps3 date slipped...even though the 'ports' will probably be done long before Sony's exclusive grace period runs out.
shit, the 360 'port' might even be further along than the 'original' at this point....
it will be interesting to see how i get modded. and the score will be totally dependent on which fanboy group has more mod points at the moment.
be gentile ps3guys, i own one and am currently counting the days till Uncharted:Drake's Fortune drops so i can dust off my cheap blu-ray player....err, ps3...
i missed the show, but i'm also missing the gist of the problem here....was he touting doritos as the national chip? nationalizing the production and distribution of doritos for the betterment of American society? will he bring the doritos top brass into his administration and hook them up with high paying, tax funded jobs if he gets elected? no, because that would be criminal....
huh....sounds an awful lot like hillary and the health care industry to me....so is her campaign illegal? why not? because she goes out of her way to hide the fact that much of her campaign contributions come from those in health care instead of getting on national TV and being truthful about it?....sounds bass ackwards to me....
a better product?
are people really stupid enough to install a hacked OS on their system and believe that the only "extra funtionality" is that they no longer have to insert discs to play games?....
seriously, installing a hacked OS = giving ownership of your hardware to a 15 year old russian kid named Boris.
ironically, these idiots who install pirated OSes are probably the same people complaining about the insecurity if Windows.
i got my console day 1 and while it's loud, runs hot and occasionally freezes, it is hands down the best game system i have ever owned....and i've owned them all since the NES excluding the neogeo.
preface: i own all 3 current gen consoles...
i love how the ps3 and wii guys take shots at each other and the xbox crowd. all of their arguments are hardware based because they have no games to argue about.
now...what do i want to play today on my 360....decisions, decisions...
cue troll points in 3, 2,.... I am suprised that the wii is ahead of the 360 and i am totally convinced that it is a FAD. Don't get me wrong, i am a huge nintendo fan...i was so excited when the 'revolution' was annouced. i bought 100 shares of nintendo stock that day. i preached to friends and family that this was going to completely change the way that games are played and that in 5 years, all of the consoles would convert. a year later, boy was i wrong. the idea was there, the implementation was horrible. i wish that they had waited a couple of years, so they could but more powerful hardware in the machine and give devs more time to brainstorm, because the graphics are tired and the games are non-existant. These are game systems, and the fact is, the 360 has far more and far better games to play on it. My wii has been collecting dust since i beat Zelda. Sports was a great tech demo, but got tired pretty quick. Play was weak...thank god i got a controller with it... i was seriously considering selling it until it was announced that manhunt 2 would ship in october. i am really counting on just a few good games(fight night, table tennis, manhunt) to change my view, because at this point, i feel as though the $300 i spent on the wii was the biggest waste i've encountered in a while. i should have bought some more stock so i could have made some more money on the masses that are apparently still blindly buying into the hype. shit, even putting that $300 into a ps3 would have made more sense at this point. Uncharted is about to come out and that looks amazing. mark my words, wii will go the way of the gamecube this generation. in 2 years, only 5 year olds will be playing sponge bob, and qrandma will be playing shuffle board on it.
EVD0 owns all...my Sanyo M1 owns the iPhone. sure, it doesn't have the nice big touch screen, but it can do everything the iPhone can and faster thanks to EVd0. the only thing the iPhone has on mine is the whole iMovie thing, but seriously, who wants to watch a movie on a phone? Sprint and Verizon will have their answers to iPhone soon and i wouldn't be surprised if they were made by microsoft and/or sony.
somebody tried to pwn our picinic basket...
false, because unless you goto a "computer show" in some convention center for the hardware, it's actually not cheaper at all. couple that with 0 support if your system fails.
i understand building a comp for the learning experience, but i can't stand elitists like you looking down on people that buy them. i have many friends who share your tainted view and recently we tested it. i bought my XPS at the same time my friend build his gaming rig and guess what?
who's cost more upfront(excluding the extended warranty i got)? his
who's had was up and running faster? mine
who's runs HL2/CS:S better? mine
who's had a hardware failure already? his
so, stop spreading misinformation. the only argument i can think of for building a rig yourself besides the experience of doing it is the fact that you can buy better quality components. but to most people the warranties and support that dell, best buy, etc. offer with new ready made PCs out weight that.
I have a friend that works for a major bank. He recently told me he hated people like me(i pay my balance in full whenever i ave one to avoid interest charges) and when i asked him who he loved, what was his response? Small time eBay scammers. They actually make money off of fraud. How else are they going to sell their "Protection Plans"? If the system was secure, as it could and should be, there would be no reason for anyone to "Sign up for the Credit Protection Plan for the low fee of..."