How many wrong numbers do you get? I get about two a month it seems, so I really don't care. I understand if your phone number is one digit of the local Pizza King, or is in fact the same number with one digit different in the prefix (556-1234, instead of 555-1234) and you're getting dozens of calls you don't want. I guess what I'm saying is if you really get so many wrong numbers it's a big problem then probably the underlying root cause here is something that could be addressed more easily than by inventing call block software.
Windows 95 actually sped up a lot of work and applications on the then current generation of hardware, IF you had what was then tons of ram and a big CPU [1] and made sure you weren't running anything that made it revert to timeslice multi-tasking etc... I can't really remember the details and I'm sure I don't want to, but I do remember that many multimedia and multi-tasking (Which in win 3.x was really more like task-switching) worked much better than in 3.x
Don.
1: You know big fast machine, like a 486DX80 with 24 megs of ram or something, and a four or five hundred megabyte hard-drive.
This is more pronounced than many of the younger among you realize, for instance I'm a geek, I read slashdot every day, I am technologically literate, but I'm old, I still buy CDs when I want music I don't really see me buying an IPOD any time soon, I don't download music and while I was briefly interested in the idea of a media center PC I haven't really planned or budgeted for one at any point in the near future. Worse I have a lot of friends who think like I do, we're just old. Not so much luddites. (I have 3 PCs sitting on the desk while I type this, two dinosaurs, and two of have multiple boot, so I'm hardly a technophobe.
Nope, I just read the novel again in the months before the film came out, along with "Food of the Gods" and the one where they go to the moon, I'm familiar with Well's incredibly preachy and shall we say "statement rich" style, but while his deeper messages may be what keeps critics and intellectuals interested in his work for the last century or so to me it's the pulp fun of his stories that make them truly great. Granted it's pulp paced at a start of the twentieth century pace.
Let me wander completely off topic for a second to do two things, 1 point out that most of HG Wells work is available through project Gutenberg, and recommend that anyone who likes Wells download and read The War in the Air by H. G. Wells which you can find here
Don't misunderstand me, it's a bad movie, and not in the "so bad it's good" sense, it's just bad, I reread the original novel just before the movie came out so I had it fresh in my mind. I suppose it would be more accurate to say that the Speilberg version recycled most of the key plot points and touched on the elements of the original story.
ID4 is not just a terrible recycling of Well's story it's a mishmash of all of the stories which had previously recycled elements of the War of the Worlds.
Case in point: Spielberg's War of the Worlds. I loved the animation, but Cruise? Give me a break! And that story? What crack-addicted pulp-writing hack came up with that? Geez. Imagine how awesome it would be if he'd picked a few unknown, high quality actors and followed the original book, as Pendragon tried to do? This effort was sick!
That would be H.G. Wells, the story follows the book fairly faithfully minus the change to modern day USA instead of victorian England, the problem is that people have been "borrowing" from this theme for right about a century. That and the fact that Cruise was awful.
Isn't that what a search engine does? You type in a phrase and it finds things like that and sends you a web page?
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It's not just that there are people that *WANT* the cutesy titles it's that there are those people, plus another larger segment of people who will gladly play a game that's cutesy, if it's fun.
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The entire Mario catalog, like another poster mentions below, before the NES, most of the Atari games were war oriented, most of the classic video games were violence oriented, Space War, Space Invaders, Asteroids, BattleZone, Red Baron, Tempest, Robotron while cutesy in appearance was about complete carnage with screaming family members crushed by giant green robots. Mario goes "boing" when he jumps Link is a cartoon (Zelda I) teenage mutant ninja turtles was somewhat cutesy, I was thinking of Mario Kart, but that's an SNES game, but to my ancient memory there seem to have been more cutesy NES games I've forgotten.
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That's what the gaming world needs. What made the NES such a hit? To me it was the wide variety of games, the availability of sports games (Double Dribble was awesome) and the actually interesting gameplay. The secret to Nintendo's success over the years was that even though their games were often too "cutesy" for the "hardcore" gamer the gameplay was fun, immediately accessable and intuitive. The new controller might be the ticket, but I also think they need a way to attract the puzzle gaming crowd to the new system and they'd have another round of amazing success. (Disclaimer, I hate puzzle games, I only have the patience for FPS games and RTS if it doesn't take too long to grasp and build, do all my "grinding" in real life)
Seriously, this is slashdot, we're here to read the headline, jump to conclusions, bash microsoft and start the odd flamewar, or occasionally engage in fascinating discussions that equally off topic. So who's clicking on the link anyway? Haven't you realized by now when we all claim that the link is "slashdotted" we mean we didn't click on it and we ain't gonna read the article anyway.
Making comments which someone like you can spin to imply sympathy for terrorists, is worse than shooting someone in the face? As for the Former Vice President's comments in this terrible oppressive place. How about the vast amount of monies the Former President Bush and his family (including the current President) have gotten from people in that same country?
I know I'm the umpteenth person to point it out, but there's now a "format" consisting of a fancy way to zip a web page? Well, I guess that means I need to quit reading/. and get my butt to work filing a patent for this nonesense.
On second thought. Who in their right mind, much less among the slashdot crowd thinks that.pdf is anything but a complete pain in the ass? Yes, they print the same, and you can print to them out of various and sundry applications that are to crappy to properly export data. So I'll give you that.pdf is better than... well it's sometimes better than the alternative, but this thing sounds like a slightly less elegant solution than using powerpoint. (Shudder)
Wait, this isn't a poll?
I actually like this idea, when I'm at work looking for something in a hurry I use google to find a vendor that can solve a problem immediately, and that means getting someone on the phone who can A: Help me B: Tell me right away that they can't help me so I can resume my search C: Give me some idea if there's someone out there who can help me
It would be more accurate to say that the existence of the Randi challenge means that there aren't any people who can reproduce a provably paranormal phenomenon on demand. Not that there are no "ghosts" for example, ghosts are for an example notorious for their habits of only showing up when and where they choose and only revealing themselves to people who aren't likely to be believed. There's nothing about the Randi challenge that disproves that your uncle Edwin's best friends third cousin didn't really have a premonition that he shouldn't go to work the day the train derailed and killed everyone on riding it that day. All it suggests is that this person can't reliably replicate this on demand. This sort of thing is actually very damning evidence against the Silvia Browne and John Edwards of the world, but says next to nothing about the reality of one time or non-reliable paranormal events. I'm not even suggesting that those non-reliable events aren't the result of selective thinking, or selective memory or that they really are paranormal in some way. However that there are several prizes to be won with a repeating, provable paranormal power that haven't been claimed isn't proof that no one has ever seen a ghost. Or more accurately that ghosts don't exist.
Empirically demonstrated, proven by to skeptics "paranormal" abilities of any sort would be millions, if not billions, and god forbid these "ablities" the Randi people would be in at the sub-basement level of the investment opportunity of a lifetime. That alone would make the financial considerations nuetral.
Furthermore if any single one of these soothsayers or or people who claim various paranomral abilities could truthfully demonstrate something that could be replicated in a double blind trial they'd be beating down doors to have it proven to the skeptical world. I understand there's money to be made in fleecing the stupid and foolish, but just stop to ponder how much money a relaible phsycic could make from the insurance companies, for example, or how much money there would be in actually being able to talk to the dead. Find me someone who can actually find water, oil or lost items via dowsing and if we can talk them into giving us.5% each we can all retire comfortably.
125 messages per second. = 7500 messages per minute. = 450,000 per hour = 10,800,000 text messages per day. What is the population of Manhattan? How many cells are they talking about? I don't doubt that it's a simplification. But 125 of something per *second* is a hell of a lot of anything.
This is news? Seriously, I'm not the most hardcore MS basher alive, but they've been doing this from the begining, now they're just going to admit to doing this.
There is no need for humanity to have Mars colonies, or an extensive off planet presence for civilization to survive even a dinosaur killing scale impact. Think Cold War era undeground shelters, long term survival planning for large numbers of people, caches of tools, technological implements etc, could be stored away in dispersed caches. Carefully storing up large quantities of survival foods, seeds etc could assure that civilization survives. I'm a big booster for space exploration and colonization, but I've always thought this to be a bit of a BS. train of reasoning.
Now using this space program to divert an asteroid is clearly better than hunkering down and digging in. However I really think we could dig in and survive even a big one with 1950 technology.
I actually saw my father shoot a dragonfly out of the air with a.22 rifle from a distance of about 10 yards. Not that that has anything to do with this, but how often does the subject of bugs and guns come up.
While I'm aware this comment is a +5 funny. It's the truest thing I've read in this whole thread. What the bad word is the point in hassling legitimate American Citizens, in order to find the one Tourist(Bush pronounciation) that's dumb enough to try to come through Canada, when we're letting literally millions of people in through the southern border without even seriously pretending to care about their entry? The US goverment has it's priorities so far out of touch with reality it's stunning. Never mind the *Billions* we spent on bomb detection for airlin safety, after the attack on Septemeber eleventh 2001, when terrorist didn't attack the USA with any bombs at all. Good call Department of Homeland Security.
For one I wouldn't mention/. on a resume for any reason. Golf, Poker and possibly Skiing, doesn't matter if you've ever tried any of them or ever intend to, those are your hobbies. Possibly if you're in a red state you can list some form of many hunting, but only if you can answer questions about it if the interviewer shows an interest. (Same goes for, golf, poker, and Skiing, but how smart do you have to be to pretend to know anything about those three)
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How many wrong numbers do you get? I get about two a month it seems, so I really don't care. I understand if your phone number is one digit of the local Pizza King, or is in fact the same number with one digit different in the prefix (556-1234, instead of 555-1234) and you're getting dozens of calls you don't want. I guess what I'm saying is if you really get so many wrong numbers it's a big problem then probably the underlying root cause here is something that could be addressed more easily than by inventing call block software.
Windows 95 actually sped up a lot of work and applications on the then current generation of hardware, IF you had what was then tons of ram and a big CPU [1] and made sure you weren't running anything that made it revert to timeslice multi-tasking etc... I can't really remember the details and I'm sure I don't want to, but I do remember that many multimedia and multi-tasking (Which in win 3.x was really more like task-switching) worked much better than in 3.x Don. 1: You know big fast machine, like a 486DX80 with 24 megs of ram or something, and a four or five hundred megabyte hard-drive.
This is more pronounced than many of the younger among you realize, for instance I'm a geek, I read slashdot every day, I am technologically literate, but I'm old, I still buy CDs when I want music I don't really see me buying an IPOD any time soon, I don't download music and while I was briefly interested in the idea of a media center PC I haven't really planned or budgeted for one at any point in the near future. Worse I have a lot of friends who think like I do, we're just old. Not so much luddites. (I have 3 PCs sitting on the desk while I type this, two dinosaurs, and two of have multiple boot, so I'm hardly a technophobe.
Let me wander completely off topic for a second to do two things, 1 point out that most of HG Wells work is available through project Gutenberg, and recommend that anyone who likes Wells download and read The War in the Air by H. G. Wells which you can find here
Don't misunderstand me, it's a bad movie, and not in the "so bad it's good" sense, it's just bad, I reread the original novel just before the movie came out so I had it fresh in my mind. I suppose it would be more accurate to say that the Speilberg version recycled most of the key plot points and touched on the elements of the original story. ID4 is not just a terrible recycling of Well's story it's a mishmash of all of the stories which had previously recycled elements of the War of the Worlds.
Case in point: Spielberg's War of the Worlds. I loved the animation, but Cruise? Give me a break! And that story? What crack-addicted pulp-writing hack came up with that? Geez. Imagine how awesome it would be if he'd picked a few unknown, high quality actors and followed the original book, as Pendragon tried to do? This effort was sick!
That would be H.G. Wells, the story follows the book fairly faithfully minus the change to modern day USA instead of victorian England, the problem is that people have been "borrowing" from this theme for right about a century. That and the fact that Cruise was awful.
Isn't that what a search engine does? You type in a phrase and it finds things like that and sends you a web page?
It's not just that there are people that *WANT* the cutesy titles it's that there are those people, plus another larger segment of people who will gladly play a game that's cutesy, if it's fun.
The entire Mario catalog, like another poster mentions below, before the NES, most of the Atari games were war oriented, most of the classic video games were violence oriented, Space War, Space Invaders, Asteroids, BattleZone, Red Baron, Tempest, Robotron while cutesy in appearance was about complete carnage with screaming family members crushed by giant green robots. Mario goes "boing" when he jumps Link is a cartoon (Zelda I) teenage mutant ninja turtles was somewhat cutesy, I was thinking of Mario Kart, but that's an SNES game, but to my ancient memory there seem to have been more cutesy NES games I've forgotten.
That's what the gaming world needs. What made the NES such a hit? To me it was the wide variety of games, the availability of sports games (Double Dribble was awesome) and the actually interesting gameplay. The secret to Nintendo's success over the years was that even though their games were often too "cutesy" for the "hardcore" gamer the gameplay was fun, immediately accessable and intuitive. The new controller might be the ticket, but I also think they need a way to attract the puzzle gaming crowd to the new system and they'd have another round of amazing success. (Disclaimer, I hate puzzle games, I only have the patience for FPS games and RTS if it doesn't take too long to grasp and build, do all my "grinding" in real life)
Seriously, this is slashdot, we're here to read the headline, jump to conclusions, bash microsoft and start the odd flamewar, or occasionally engage in fascinating discussions that equally off topic. So who's clicking on the link anyway? Haven't you realized by now when we all claim that the link is "slashdotted" we mean we didn't click on it and we ain't gonna read the article anyway.
I do 90% of my internet surfing on a 500mhz celeron. That has a street value of what? $5?
Making comments which someone like you can spin to imply sympathy for terrorists, is worse than shooting someone in the face? As for the Former Vice President's comments in this terrible oppressive place. How about the vast amount of monies the Former President Bush and his family (including the current President) have gotten from people in that same country?
I know I'm the umpteenth person to point it out, but there's now a "format" consisting of a fancy way to zip a web page? Well, I guess that means I need to quit reading /. and get my butt to work filing a patent for this nonesense.
On second thought. Who in their right mind, much less among the slashdot crowd thinks that .pdf is anything but a complete pain in the ass? Yes, they print the same, and you can print to them out of various and sundry applications that are to crappy to properly export data. So I'll give you that .pdf is better than... well it's sometimes better than the alternative, but this thing sounds like a slightly less elegant solution than using powerpoint. (Shudder)
Wait, this isn't a poll? I actually like this idea, when I'm at work looking for something in a hurry I use google to find a vendor that can solve a problem immediately, and that means getting someone on the phone who can A: Help me B: Tell me right away that they can't help me so I can resume my search C: Give me some idea if there's someone out there who can help me
It would be more accurate to say that the existence of the Randi challenge means that there aren't any people who can reproduce a provably paranormal phenomenon on demand. Not that there are no "ghosts" for example, ghosts are for an example notorious for their habits of only showing up when and where they choose and only revealing themselves to people who aren't likely to be believed. There's nothing about the Randi challenge that disproves that your uncle Edwin's best friends third cousin didn't really have a premonition that he shouldn't go to work the day the train derailed and killed everyone on riding it that day. All it suggests is that this person can't reliably replicate this on demand. This sort of thing is actually very damning evidence against the Silvia Browne and John Edwards of the world, but says next to nothing about the reality of one time or non-reliable paranormal events. I'm not even suggesting that those non-reliable events aren't the result of selective thinking, or selective memory or that they really are paranormal in some way. However that there are several prizes to be won with a repeating, provable paranormal power that haven't been claimed isn't proof that no one has ever seen a ghost. Or more accurately that ghosts don't exist.
Empirically demonstrated, proven by to skeptics "paranormal" abilities of any sort would be millions, if not billions, and god forbid these "ablities" the Randi people would be in at the sub-basement level of the investment opportunity of a lifetime. That alone would make the financial considerations nuetral. Furthermore if any single one of these soothsayers or or people who claim various paranomral abilities could truthfully demonstrate something that could be replicated in a double blind trial they'd be beating down doors to have it proven to the skeptical world. I understand there's money to be made in fleecing the stupid and foolish, but just stop to ponder how much money a relaible phsycic could make from the insurance companies, for example, or how much money there would be in actually being able to talk to the dead. Find me someone who can actually find water, oil or lost items via dowsing and if we can talk them into giving us .5% each we can all retire comfortably.
125 messages per second. = 7500 messages per minute. = 450,000 per hour = 10,800,000 text messages per day. What is the population of Manhattan? How many cells are they talking about? I don't doubt that it's a simplification. But 125 of something per *second* is a hell of a lot of anything.
>Yes, lets. How many Shuttles have failed on launch? (None.) Uhm, I think you mean one don't you?
This is news? Seriously, I'm not the most hardcore MS basher alive, but they've been doing this from the begining, now they're just going to admit to doing this.
There is no need for humanity to have Mars colonies, or an extensive off planet presence for civilization to survive even a dinosaur killing scale impact. Think Cold War era undeground shelters, long term survival planning for large numbers of people, caches of tools, technological implements etc, could be stored away in dispersed caches. Carefully storing up large quantities of survival foods, seeds etc could assure that civilization survives. I'm a big booster for space exploration and colonization, but I've always thought this to be a bit of a BS. train of reasoning. Now using this space program to divert an asteroid is clearly better than hunkering down and digging in. However I really think we could dig in and survive even a big one with 1950 technology.
I actually saw my father shoot a dragonfly out of the air with a .22 rifle from a distance of about 10 yards. Not that that has anything to do with this, but how often does the subject of bugs and guns come up.
While I'm aware this comment is a +5 funny. It's the truest thing I've read in this whole thread. What the bad word is the point in hassling legitimate American Citizens, in order to find the one Tourist(Bush pronounciation) that's dumb enough to try to come through Canada, when we're letting literally millions of people in through the southern border without even seriously pretending to care about their entry? The US goverment has it's priorities so far out of touch with reality it's stunning. Never mind the *Billions* we spent on bomb detection for airlin safety, after the attack on Septemeber eleventh 2001, when terrorist didn't attack the USA with any bombs at all. Good call Department of Homeland Security.
Uhm... All I see is a web site and the little yellow firefox prevented a popup from opening on this web site bar.
For one I wouldn't mention /. on a resume for any reason. Golf, Poker and possibly Skiing, doesn't matter if you've ever tried any of them or ever intend to, those are your hobbies. Possibly if you're in a red state you can list some form of many hunting, but only if you can answer questions about it if the interviewer shows an interest. (Same goes for, golf, poker, and Skiing, but how smart do you have to be to pretend to know anything about those three)