I came here to post a similar comment. Keep your damn fingers off of my Seamonkey, you god-damned dirty apes. It's the last bastion for those of us who want an old-school browser.
Also, "What, another major design overhaul? How many is that so far in the past 2-3 years?"
Actually, the use of lead-free solder is likely one of the reasons that the 360, especially the original version, was so unreliable. The only thing hazardous in the 360 or XBone is what effect they will have on the market for future game systems. All it takes is a few lobbyists in the right places.
It should also depend on who is on the other end of the pipe. It's not easy to generate 77 terabytes of traffic when you're virtually unknown, because you have to have people with sufficient bandwidth on the other end to download that much from you. ISPs pay for peering to the backbone, and sometimes to other ISPs. But if the other end of the pipe is another FIOS user, it basically costs Verzon nothing, at least if those users are in the same metro area. Sure, it uses some of their core routing capacity, but that should be cheap compared to leasing someone else's links to reach the general internet.
But I do have to wonder how much of that 77 terabytes was seeding torrents.
And what about the secondhand market ten years later, after the Xbox Too is released? Will they decide at some point to drop whatever authorization server is needed to play the game disc you have? Will it even become impossible at some point to register new-old-stock shrink-wrapped games? Will there come a time when you can't even take it down out of the attic, dust it off, and play the games you bought 20 years earlier? What, you think still having an Xbox account will help? Just try to see what you can do online with the original Xbox now, and imagine what it would be like if DRM activation was a requirement.
So the hell with the regular secondhand market, what about the retro secondhand market? After all, old consoles and their enormous library of games (even if you don't consider emulation) have to be a major competitor to newer game systems. Oh sure, they won't have this year's NFL roster for the people who do nothing but play the annual sports games, but those games are worth zilch two years later anyhow. It's the games people grew up on and want to play again and again that can hurt the market for new games, so let's nip that in the bud while we (MS, Sony, etc.) still can.
So just throw away that N64 already. If we think you deserve to get some Goldeneye nostalgia, we'll see about letting you rent it for a few years on our newest hardware.
Please don't joke about Galactica '80. I was there, man! I was only a kid then and it scarred my mind, man! It was worse than Buck Rogers second season!
Why are you asking me? I don't have one of those stupid things. (Nor do I have PS3. Living room PC FTW, and MythTV PC soon. Also, antenna and no streaming.) I had read somewhere a few months ago that they were backing down from that branding. Doesn't mean what I read was true, of course.
Still, I think it would have been a decent name for the new box itself over "XBone".
So the third Xbox has been named "Xbox One"? BRILLIANT. I knew all along it wasn't going to be 720. That would have been just too stupid. I personally thought "Xbox Live" would have been a great name, but they've been ditching the Live branding, so I knew that wouldn't happen either. I heard "Xbox Infinity" as a possible name, and while still goofy, that still would have been better than what they picked.
For bonus points, do a GIS for Xbox One. Yeah, it's full of the old HUEG Xbox. And a few pimped and gimped 360s as well.
Oh well, at least they didn't pull an Apple and label it "The New Xbox(tm)".
I first used it in 97-00ish and it was okay for that era. When I had it imposed on me again for a few months (in 09 I think) it was a badly-polished turd. I was especially amused that while Bloatus is single-platform (Windows-only AFAIK), they still felt the need to have their own scroll-bar widget. It's such an amazing pile of fail.
Retesting both samples without the presence of the routers could fix this issue.
Even that isn't enough. Retesting with routers that had their radio modules disabled/removed would help prove that the radio signals were causing the problem.
The router itself generates heat, and the point of the root post was that it was the radiated heat that cause the result, not some puny low-power microwaves. I've had quite a few DSL modems "fail to germinate" because they overheated themselves. Right now at home I'm running one with the cover removed and a small heat sink (the only one I have small enough to fit between the capacitors, etc.) on the main chip.
If they can get warm enough to burn themselves up, they can also get warm enough to prevent a seed from growing, if through no other means than making the seed think that it's the wrong time of the year.
There was unmaking going on there too. They had some old Dell computers and such for kids to break up and hot-glue bits together. The coin cells from the computers were dead, so I couldn't make a throwie, but they had some 9V batteries, and I discovered that I could bend the legs of an LED apart and suspend it between the battery terminals.
Fortunately I saw it in person and didn't have to deal with muffle-mic.
I think the best part overall was how it was so nicely wobbly. The bits inside seem to have been mounted to weak pieces of metal or springs, and that inset clock with the LEDs around it was most definitely mounted on springs. Then there was the general timey-wimey choice of things, like a sundial glued on top. And of course the blender control buttons switched to "blend". Yes, it does blend!
Hint: population is actually going down in developed countries. The only reason US population keeps going up is an influx mostly from the lesser-developed countries to the south. Japan is headed for a crisis where they will have problems finding enough people to take care of their elderly without increasing immigration. Right now the big overpopulation problems are China and India.
One of the main factors is when children turn from an asset into a liability. In pre-industrial cultures, more children are needed to account for child mortality, and the lack of child labor laws lets them provide income. Once child mortality goes down (as it has in the 20th century), population skyrockets until "big family" culture goes away. In post-industrial cultures, children are a drain on income and leisure time, leading to later and fewer children. Given the progress of civilization, and assuming no major wars or other problems that affect population or lifestyle, it's entirely possible that humans could top out at (IIRC) 11ish billion before shrinking back.
I've got a web proxy that blocks any page with t-w-i-t-t-e-r or y-o-u-t-u-b-e anywhere in the URL. I mean, I have no love for twits twitting, but that's going to far. I had to hack the URL just to see this thread.
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I came here to post a similar comment. Keep your damn fingers off of my Seamonkey, you god-damned dirty apes. It's the last bastion for those of us who want an old-school browser.
Also, "What, another major design overhaul? How many is that so far in the past 2-3 years?"
It's because of timey-wimey stuff. I'll explain later.
Bloody badgers. Blocking broadband bites.
And the hole (hopefully) provides the direction in which the energy pushes the asteroid.
reading from my phone while driving
What the fuck? Texting while driving is bad enough, but you're posting on Slashdot while driving?
I think you need a full week's vacation away from anything (other than neurons) that uses electricity.
http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/11/07/1559210/mit-slows-down-speed-of-light-in-new-game
Well, sort of. I'm going to guess that the difference is now they've released their code.
Actually, the use of lead-free solder is likely one of the reasons that the 360, especially the original version, was so unreliable. The only thing hazardous in the 360 or XBone is what effect they will have on the market for future game systems. All it takes is a few lobbyists in the right places.
It should also depend on who is on the other end of the pipe. It's not easy to generate 77 terabytes of traffic when you're virtually unknown, because you have to have people with sufficient bandwidth on the other end to download that much from you. ISPs pay for peering to the backbone, and sometimes to other ISPs. But if the other end of the pipe is another FIOS user, it basically costs Verzon nothing, at least if those users are in the same metro area. Sure, it uses some of their core routing capacity, but that should be cheap compared to leasing someone else's links to reach the general internet.
But I do have to wonder how much of that 77 terabytes was seeding torrents.
And what about the secondhand market ten years later, after the Xbox Too is released? Will they decide at some point to drop whatever authorization server is needed to play the game disc you have? Will it even become impossible at some point to register new-old-stock shrink-wrapped games? Will there come a time when you can't even take it down out of the attic, dust it off, and play the games you bought 20 years earlier? What, you think still having an Xbox account will help? Just try to see what you can do online with the original Xbox now, and imagine what it would be like if DRM activation was a requirement.
So the hell with the regular secondhand market, what about the retro secondhand market? After all, old consoles and their enormous library of games (even if you don't consider emulation) have to be a major competitor to newer game systems. Oh sure, they won't have this year's NFL roster for the people who do nothing but play the annual sports games, but those games are worth zilch two years later anyhow. It's the games people grew up on and want to play again and again that can hurt the market for new games, so let's nip that in the bud while we (MS, Sony, etc.) still can.
So just throw away that N64 already. If we think you deserve to get some Goldeneye nostalgia, we'll see about letting you rent it for a few years on our newest hardware.
Please don't joke about Galactica '80. I was there, man! I was only a kid then and it scarred my mind, man! It was worse than Buck Rogers second season!
Why are you asking me? I don't have one of those stupid things. (Nor do I have PS3. Living room PC FTW, and MythTV PC soon. Also, antenna and no streaming.) I had read somewhere a few months ago that they were backing down from that branding. Doesn't mean what I read was true, of course.
Still, I think it would have been a decent name for the new box itself over "XBone".
work that is now done by human beings, mostly Level 1 support, could be done by a software machine
MUAHAHAHAHAHAAAHAHAHAHA. Oh, sorry, you were serious. Oh well, MUAAHAHAHAHAHHAAAHAH!!!!
Don't worry, the software will be written by contractors from India. And it will be set up as its own tech support line.
Don't you mean "Windows 8 One"?
XP was more likely a reference to the Greek letters chi and rho, which were in turn a reference the code name "Cairo".
That "experience" thing sounds like the kind of bull you come up with after the fact to explain it so that the Alex Jones types don't go ballistic.
So the third Xbox has been named "Xbox One"? BRILLIANT. I knew all along it wasn't going to be 720. That would have been just too stupid. I personally thought "Xbox Live" would have been a great name, but they've been ditching the Live branding, so I knew that wouldn't happen either. I heard "Xbox Infinity" as a possible name, and while still goofy, that still would have been better than what they picked.
For bonus points, do a GIS for Xbox One. Yeah, it's full of the old HUEG Xbox. And a few pimped and gimped 360s as well.
Oh well, at least they didn't pull an Apple and label it "The New Xbox(tm)".
I first used it in 97-00ish and it was okay for that era. When I had it imposed on me again for a few months (in 09 I think) it was a badly-polished turd. I was especially amused that while Bloatus is single-platform (Windows-only AFAIK), they still felt the need to have their own scroll-bar widget. It's such an amazing pile of fail.
Retesting both samples without the presence of the routers could fix this issue.
Even that isn't enough. Retesting with routers that had their radio modules disabled/removed would help prove that the radio signals were causing the problem.
The router itself generates heat, and the point of the root post was that it was the radiated heat that cause the result, not some puny low-power microwaves. I've had quite a few DSL modems "fail to germinate" because they overheated themselves. Right now at home I'm running one with the cover removed and a small heat sink (the only one I have small enough to fit between the capacitors, etc.) on the main chip.
If they can get warm enough to burn themselves up, they can also get warm enough to prevent a seed from growing, if through no other means than making the seed think that it's the wrong time of the year.
There was unmaking going on there too. They had some old Dell computers and such for kids to break up and hot-glue bits together. The coin cells from the computers were dead, so I couldn't make a throwie, but they had some 9V batteries, and I discovered that I could bend the legs of an LED apart and suspend it between the battery terminals.
Fortunately I saw it in person and didn't have to deal with muffle-mic.
I think the best part overall was how it was so nicely wobbly. The bits inside seem to have been mounted to weak pieces of metal or springs, and that inset clock with the LEDs around it was most definitely mounted on springs. Then there was the general timey-wimey choice of things, like a sundial glued on top. And of course the blender control buttons switched to "blend". Yes, it does blend!
Hint: population is actually going down in developed countries. The only reason US population keeps going up is an influx mostly from the lesser-developed countries to the south. Japan is headed for a crisis where they will have problems finding enough people to take care of their elderly without increasing immigration. Right now the big overpopulation problems are China and India.
One of the main factors is when children turn from an asset into a liability. In pre-industrial cultures, more children are needed to account for child mortality, and the lack of child labor laws lets them provide income. Once child mortality goes down (as it has in the 20th century), population skyrockets until "big family" culture goes away. In post-industrial cultures, children are a drain on income and leisure time, leading to later and fewer children. Given the progress of civilization, and assuming no major wars or other problems that affect population or lifestyle, it's entirely possible that humans could top out at (IIRC) 11ish billion before shrinking back.
You farging icehole bastage!
...and does my Android tablet dream of electric sheep?
I've got a web proxy that blocks any page with t-w-i-t-t-e-r or y-o-u-t-u-b-e anywhere in the URL. I mean, I have no love for twits twitting, but that's going to far. I had to hack the URL just to see this thread.
RTFA. He's using a bunch of images of QR codes, which have built in error correction.