who modded that troll? more importantly, why does he/she/it think that my assertion that microsoft's resources would be better spent elsewhere than supporting iffy products constitutes trolling? maybe they objected to my exaggerated failure rate? the fact that the Xbox360 has a number of glaring flaws is well documented. and lets face it folks, the fact of the matter is that you cant spend all your money supporting the old one if you want to make something you wont have to support so much. microsoft's already spent so much losing the HD format war with sony, and spent so much on replacing/repairing failed 360s, there's no way that even microsoft has the resources to keep this sort of thing up. i'll admit, i've got a fair few negative things to say about microsoft and it's actions in the market, but i think you should all give the idea that it might make a smart move some credit. extending the lives of the xbox360 and windowsXP was a dumb move, financially and strategically. if they would simply spend time and money on newer, better products (and maybe a discount if you've got a broken xbox), would magic a good portion of the problems away. all that being said, what pleases content providers and what pleases gamers is different, and i honestly believe both need to be made a bit angry for a moment in the interests of progress. it's a risk, yes, but some real stability and extensibility in the operating system of both personal computers and video game consoles created by the company would be vastly superior to the status quo.
with a 100% failure rate, they did that more to please the game companies than the consumers. doing something to protect the entire Xbox 360 content lineup and doing it for the people that actually use the product are different. its just like their extensions of the life of windows XP, they're not doing it for the consumer, they're doing it for the companies, and they shouldnt be doing it at all. the amount of resources being put into their existing crappy hardware and software systems is crippling their future, potentially half-decent, hardware and software systems.
Everything else breaks; wireless mice and keyboards someone stupidly ordered at my company, I would have got logitech stuff, and I told him that after the MS stuff started acting up. It was then put into the company handbook that all IT purchases have to go through me:p
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as for standard/non-standard, the processor, while technically a FRU, isnt on any microsoft system without a whole bunch of calling, and/or a new copy of windows. the trick is to lie and say that the old one broke... so i dont know how much you want to apply that to standard parts. in the area of HDDs and silly things like power supplies, you notice a difference. if only MS would turn back the clock and release a system like the Xbox, but with Xbox360 quality games!
... And, it's also true that the 360 is one of the most flawed pieces of major consumer electronics in recent history. I don't think it's quite as big a deal as most people think, though, since MS is replacing them for free...
that's a warranty, which they promised, presumably, before they knew it was going to fail on such a large scale. they're legally obligated to honor that warranty. if microsoft were to replace it for free, AND give us a half off coupon for the next time our 360s fail (by which time the warranty will be gone), i might consider giving them credit for that.
... and people like adding to their GamerScore*.
* Whoever thought this up at MS should get a promotion. It's one of the simplest yet most brilliant things MS has ever done. i disagree. whomever thought this up should be stolen by google, so that steve ballmer can throw a game chair!
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I have a feeling Congress is itching to dip some kind of sales tax on the Internet however. and you said:
Not Congress.
The New York Legislature.
and my bet is that both want to, and only the NY legislature was stupid enough to overstep it's authority and make a move that will damage American commerce. IF the united states congress, mentioned by the AC to whom i responded, were to take that step, large online retailers, the ones with all the money and clout, would throw a fit and we'd end up hearing about it more.
whether that hearing about it would be of bans on selling to customers outside of california, or amazon just establishing presences in other countries (ebay already has, not sure about amazon), congress would actively be obstructing the progress of the american economy, again. god knows new york is already trying it's best
then amazon would have to refuse to sell to the whole united states, and ebay would have to follow close behind, along with buy.com. sooner or later, congress has once again caused the opposite of progress!
i dont know, i think it'd be convenient to have some features on a watch. the only thing i'd have to have, really, was the watch and the phone to talk to each other and keep in sync.
you can look at your watch any time, but pulling out a cellphone willy nilly is rude.
KDE has its ups and downs compared to GNOME, but really, we shouldnt be using ether on our laptops:p mine's a compaq armada 7800, with a magical 400 MHz p2 at the helm. runs kubuntu (6.10, i believe) just fine, but has issues with almost every version of stock ubuntu. i attribute that to KDE's better (IMHO) management of resources.
im waiting to see how KDE4 looks on the desktop before i fudge with my laptop though!
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could be too much to hope for. i know some pretty honest judges (they tell me when they're saying F*** you to the law, at least), but no honest executive branch types.
next thing we know, it will be cracking google toolbar and getting a look at search histories associated with gmail accounts, and since all spam is invariably connected with some form of sex industry...
i cant wait to get the line "get a larger hadron collider with our revolutionary unix-based pill!"
yeah, if you can build a botnet like that, chances are very good you could get a job at the air force... i heard they're doing some attacks of their own, which the ability to covertly take control of millions of computers for simultaneous internetwork traffic would certainly be useful for. imagine every computer on the botnet loading OPEC's website at the same time!
she's approximately 25 years older than me. maybe i'll ask for his daughter instead:p
i also technically save my time trimming the hedges, he sends his kids over to do my yardwork, as "thanks" for their high speed internet service. my other neighbor makes cookies!
if my neighbor is broadcasting his garage tools across a wide area of our neighborhood on a public freqency, why not enjoy?
ideally though, you've got a setup like my neighbors and i have. i give them wifi, they let me use their hedge clippers.
if you dont want your community to use your wireless, but you want the ease of unsecured access, use mac address filtering on your wireless router. most all 802.11b/g/n integrated service routers come with that feature in an easy to use package. if you CBA to keep people off your network, it WILL be used.
it makes it a bit harder to add devices to the network, but once again, tis still easy.
i keep mine unsecured simply so that if there is ever a disaster in the area, the cisco NERV (i got to tour it the other day, was awesome) can override it and add it to the disaster mesh. i think of it as community service.
i can point to things on the intrusion detection side of things... i only bother with the people who have a stick up their arses about security on wireless networks. i have no problem letting my neighbors use my network, it's more than speedy enough for all of us, but wardrivers who decide they want to "inform me of the risks" deserve some of their own medicine.
http://www.lids.org/
i wont help you with the getting them back part, that's illegal.
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you mean THROW musical chairs...
who modded that troll? more importantly, why does he/she/it think that my assertion that microsoft's resources would be better spent elsewhere than supporting iffy products constitutes trolling? maybe they objected to my exaggerated failure rate? the fact that the Xbox360 has a number of glaring flaws is well documented. and lets face it folks, the fact of the matter is that you cant spend all your money supporting the old one if you want to make something you wont have to support so much. microsoft's already spent so much losing the HD format war with sony, and spent so much on replacing/repairing failed 360s, there's no way that even microsoft has the resources to keep this sort of thing up. i'll admit, i've got a fair few negative things to say about microsoft and it's actions in the market, but i think you should all give the idea that it might make a smart move some credit. extending the lives of the xbox360 and windowsXP was a dumb move, financially and strategically. if they would simply spend time and money on newer, better products (and maybe a discount if you've got a broken xbox), would magic a good portion of the problems away. all that being said, what pleases content providers and what pleases gamers is different, and i honestly believe both need to be made a bit angry for a moment in the interests of progress. it's a risk, yes, but some real stability and extensibility in the operating system of both personal computers and video game consoles created by the company would be vastly superior to the status quo.
with a 100% failure rate, they did that more to please the game companies than the consumers. doing something to protect the entire Xbox 360 content lineup and doing it for the people that actually use the product are different. its just like their extensions of the life of windows XP, they're not doing it for the consumer, they're doing it for the companies, and they shouldnt be doing it at all. the amount of resources being put into their existing crappy hardware and software systems is crippling their future, potentially half-decent, hardware and software systems.
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as for standard/non-standard, the processor, while technically a FRU, isnt on any microsoft system without a whole bunch of calling, and/or a new copy of windows. the trick is to lie and say that the old one broke... so i dont know how much you want to apply that to standard parts. in the area of HDDs and silly things like power supplies, you notice a difference. if only MS would turn back the clock and release a system like the Xbox, but with Xbox360 quality games!
... And, it's also true that the 360 is one of the most flawed pieces of major consumer electronics in recent history. I don't think it's quite as big a deal as most people think, though, since MS is replacing them for free...that's a warranty, which they promised, presumably, before they knew it was going to fail on such a large scale. they're legally obligated to honor that warranty. if microsoft were to replace it for free, AND give us a half off coupon for the next time our 360s fail (by which time the warranty will be gone), i might consider giving them credit for that.
... and people like adding to their GamerScore*. * Whoever thought this up at MS should get a promotion. It's one of the simplest yet most brilliant things MS has ever done. i disagree. whomever thought this up should be stolen by google, so that steve ballmer can throw a game chair!you know what's great about the PS3 that will never get ported to the 360? standard computer hardware. and quality, cant beat quality.
give it a blu ray player if you want, you'll still end up with a red ring.
and my bet is that both want to, and only the NY legislature was stupid enough to overstep it's authority and make a move that will damage American commerce. IF the united states congress, mentioned by the AC to whom i responded, were to take that step, large online retailers, the ones with all the money and clout, would throw a fit and we'd end up hearing about it more.
whether that hearing about it would be of bans on selling to customers outside of california, or amazon just establishing presences in other countries (ebay already has, not sure about amazon), congress would actively be obstructing the progress of the american economy, again. god knows new york is already trying it's best
then amazon would have to refuse to sell to the whole united states, and ebay would have to follow close behind, along with buy.com. sooner or later, congress has once again caused the opposite of progress!
i dont know, i think it'd be convenient to have some features on a watch. the only thing i'd have to have, really, was the watch and the phone to talk to each other and keep in sync.
you can look at your watch any time, but pulling out a cellphone willy nilly is rude.but if people know what they're doing at the machines, how will they Riggall the votes?
it should, but sometimes we forget that errors occur on linux too... no software is perfect once you move past "hello world".
KDE has its ups and downs compared to GNOME, but really, we shouldnt be using ether on our laptops :p mine's a compaq armada 7800, with a magical 400 MHz p2 at the helm. runs kubuntu (6.10, i believe) just fine, but has issues with almost every version of stock ubuntu. i attribute that to KDE's better (IMHO) management of resources.
im waiting to see how KDE4 looks on the desktop before i fudge with my laptop though!yes, you just need to set the CD up as a repository in the atp sources list. http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Feisty#Adding_a_CD-ROM_or_DVD_repository
could be too much to hope for. i know some pretty honest judges (they tell me when they're saying F*** you to the law, at least), but no honest executive branch types.
now lets get the national supreme court to agree, then we'll be getting somewhere!
best we can hope for is that someone read simon's words of hope: http://federkiel.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/gtk-30-getting-serious/
maybe if you're lucky, the author of http://mobile.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=527884&cid=23125954 will license their newly acquired patent on shutting up to you!
grandparent did not speculate on ownership of patents, instead simply remarking that they are surprised there are no patents on it.
IIRC, apple DOES own patents relating to the technology, but a Chinese company owns the actual multi-touch hardware patents.kindly patent shutting your mouth
next thing we know, it will be cracking google toolbar and getting a look at search histories associated with gmail accounts, and since all spam is invariably connected with some form of sex industry...
i cant wait to get the line "get a larger hadron collider with our revolutionary unix-based pill!"yeah, if you can build a botnet like that, chances are very good you could get a job at the air force... i heard they're doing some attacks of their own, which the ability to covertly take control of millions of computers for simultaneous internetwork traffic would certainly be useful for. imagine every computer on the botnet loading OPEC's website at the same time!
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/04/1639219she's approximately 25 years older than me. maybe i'll ask for his daughter instead :p
i also technically save my time trimming the hedges, he sends his kids over to do my yardwork, as "thanks" for their high speed internet service. my other neighbor makes cookies!if my neighbor is broadcasting his garage tools across a wide area of our neighborhood on a public freqency, why not enjoy? ideally though, you've got a setup like my neighbors and i have. i give them wifi, they let me use their hedge clippers.
if you dont want your community to use your wireless, but you want the ease of unsecured access, use mac address filtering on your wireless router. most all 802.11b/g/n integrated service routers come with that feature in an easy to use package. if you CBA to keep people off your network, it WILL be used.
it makes it a bit harder to add devices to the network, but once again, tis still easy.
i keep mine unsecured simply so that if there is ever a disaster in the area, the cisco NERV (i got to tour it the other day, was awesome) can override it and add it to the disaster mesh. i think of it as community service.
http://blogs.cisco.com/news/2007/11/video_ciscos_network_emergency.htmli can point to things on the intrusion detection side of things... i only bother with the people who have a stick up their arses about security on wireless networks. i have no problem letting my neighbors use my network, it's more than speedy enough for all of us, but wardrivers who decide they want to "inform me of the risks" deserve some of their own medicine. http://www.lids.org/ i wont help you with the getting them back part, that's illegal.