Not likely that MS would care. MS wants control over 2 things:
1. Are you able to pirate games? 2. Are publishers able to sell Xbox games without paying license fees?
This is a cool tech hack, but I don't think it easily enables either of the above. Hence, I don't think MS is going to whip out the lawyers (at their own expense, and incurring negative publicity) to fight this.
You've got a point - I avoided the N64 altogether, so I have no idea how rancid the ports might have been.
I never could get the hang of GoldenEye though... something about the controls was just wrong to me. The newer consoles seem to do a much better job - dual sticks are the way to go.
My friends and I used to have the best times getting plastered and playing Q3A on the Dreamcast. Now, it's a couple Xboxes, a couple TVs, a hub, and Halo. Same effect, twice as many people crammed into my room.;)
Ah, this old argument. "You're just buying friends." Allow me to tell you a little about my house's budget for the year:
$1000 for rush - having events to get people in the door. Larger houses spend even more on this, so it's difficult not to be drowned out by the biggest houses on campus.
$1000 for pledge education - not only are there parties and road trips for bonding purposes, but we prefer to teach our pledges instead of haze them.
$1500 for formal - we get together to have a nice night out with our girlfriends.
$2500 for social - those parties that everyone likes to go to (whether they're greek or not?) They're not cheap. Someone has to pay for them.
$750 for philanthropy - not only do we hold events to raise money for various charities, but we pay to participate in events held by other houses for the same purpose.
Once those expenses are out of the way, you still have to maintain the house, keep in touch with our alumni, and other tasks.
So, by the end of it, there's no money left to "buy friends." Paying your fraternity dues is about pooling your resources in order to accomplish your goals as a group.
I'm a CIS major, and I'll tell you right now, we're not competing for the same jobs. We aren't learning the same skills, we won't have the same qualifications, and neither of our majors is some "dumbed-down" version of the other. If someone tries to use a CS and CIS major interchangeably, they're wasting resources either way.
I won't harp on your spelling; plenty of others have already done so.
Lastly, what's your problem with frat boys? We're not all drunken date-rapist troglodytes, as some would like to portray us.
Hmm... I think overpenetration would be a bitch. It's bad enough right now, where a stray round can blow through a suspect and into a hostage. This could only make it worse.
Also, a bullet would probably work much faster than a laser - note where the article has these pulses lasting for 3-5 seconds. It's not like you get hit with a single >1sec laser pulse and drop dead instantly.
Lastly, it's not going to be cheap. I think, dollar for dollar, a trained sniper is probably going to be more effective than a laser for the foreseeable future.
Bullshit. I have an Xbox, and I've got more games for it than for my PS2 and Gamecube put together. Sure, there's one or two crap titles, but I've got crap games for the PS2 as well (The Bouncer - WTF was I thinking?)
On top of that, Xbox Live is a lot of fun. Load up MechAssault, Ghost Recon, or Unreal Championship and blast away with full voice support, so you can talk trash while you're lighting people up.
And, there's Splinter Cell, which isn't even out for the other two consoles yet.
In short, don't dismiss the Xbox just because you think people don't play games on theirs. I don't even have a modchip in mine, let alone Linux, and I'm perfectly happy with it.
It's an IT site run by a former editor from The Register. Neither is particularly reliable, but they both make entertaining reading, and one can often get an idea of what might really be going on after filtering out all the bullshit rumors.
We covered this a little in my management class last semester....
Basically, they need to prove something called construct validity. That is, they need to prove that a correlation exists between credit history and job performance. Without that, a court can order them not to use the test.
Note that a credit check can be a valid measure in some cases, but I don't think IT director is one of them. Basically, the company's problem is in using a blanket policy of credit checks - they should only be used where valid, which is only in a few instances. I'd say it's valid for an investing consultant, where you're handling the money of others, or a national security agent (where poor finances might make you vulnerable to bribery by foreign agents.) It might be valid here, but they have to be able to prove it.
Wow. How mature and insightful, to assume that everyone who uses Windows must be a mindless drone. And so original too....
Some people choose to use Windows, after evaluating the pros and cons of each option. It's not always because that's what Dell sells you - Windows has advantages and disadvantages just like any other platform, and it is sometimes the right choice.
Sounds a little juvenile to me. You'd punish someone who's only "crime" was to prefer a certain browser?
It's just an unsync. packet. No big deal. I see nothing to get bent out of shape over. I'd prefer it if MS stuck to the standard, but this isn't all that bad.
I'm wondering, does WinNT server (in whatever iteration you prefer) really make a critical product for MS? I see SQL Server as critical; I see IIS as critical. Exchange is absolutely vital. AD ties it all together, so that's important. But just the basic server package? Is it really a make-or-break product for MS?
I don't think so. I think if MS provided a complete.NET server solution on BSD or similar, they'd still be just fine. The base server product is peanuts compared to all the addons you can pick up.
Imagine if MS just gave up on the server OS market and poured their resources into task-specific servers running on established server systems. They'd offer the best integration with Visual Studio, of course, and the best user experience with Office and IE, all of which would remain Windows-centric. That way, they keep the desktop monopoly.
The best parallel I can think of would be Oracle; you can get Oracle's database for many platforms, and lots of other addons for it, and Oracle makes their own development tools for it.
Of course, maybe I'm wrong and they want that server OS monopoly. But it seems to me that WinNT server is just a stepping-stone to larger goals; goals which may be equally well-served by running their products on other systems.
I know this screams offtopic, and I know these are just slashdot trolls, but does anyone else get a slight snicker out of these "Soviet Russia" posts? I've never made one, and I'll never make one, but occasionally I can't help but laugh.
Anyone else have a guilty pleasure of occasionally enjoying trolls? Come on, fess up; I just did.
Judging from the pile of antiquated technology in my basement, I wasn't aware that computers were actually disposable... come on, I know some of you have the same corner of your basement where there's still a 286 motherboard in a pile somewhere.
It would appear to me that's the exact situation they're trying to avoid. By having your app hosted elsewhere, your success is tied to theirs. If you host an XML Web Service and you go out of business, your clients are up shit creek with only a XML schema for a paddle. And you aren't paddling very far with that.
So your girlfriend has sense enough to run a modern OS with, IME, far fewer problems than Win9x, and you (passively) discourage this behavior?
1. How the hell do you get away with not fixing your girlfriend's computer? It's like an unwritten fucking law - date a geek, get free tech support. Hell, it's not just dating - friends and family seem to think I'm an on-call help desk (a fact which I've learned to exploit for free Guinness - 2 pt/hr, min. 2 pt. seems to work well for me.)
2. Why in all hell do you support 9x over 2k or XP? The NT series is far less problematic - if anything, when people complain about 9x, I tell them to check out 2k or XP.
I'm honestly curious as to your reasoning on this one.
Yes, I know I don't know everything about the tax laws. In fact, a major complaint abou ttax laws is that they are difficult to completely understand, including every loophole and exception.
However....
The original post stated that Microsoft has no right to take a loss on the XBox because they would thereby be reducing the government's tax revenue. Let me be perfectly clear on this; the government has no right to prevent Microsoft from taking a loss. None. Whatsoever.
If Microsoft wants to take advantage of a tax loophole to offset the losses encountered in starting up their XBox division, then that's their right. If you don't like the law they're using, vote for someone who will change it.
On top of this, Microsoft has every intention of making a profit from the XBox; otherwise, they wouldn't have made it. So, your argument doesn't hold true anyway. In the end, either their will be profit and the government will have its payday, or their will be a loss and all the slashbots will be dancing in the streets at Microsoft's misfortune. Either way, Microsoft's duty to make the most money possible is to their shareholders, not to their government.
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Well, if they ever get around to making that long-awaited adaptation of Infinite Jest, I think we know where to find the soundtrack.... ;)
Not likely that MS would care. MS wants control over 2 things:
1. Are you able to pirate games?
2. Are publishers able to sell Xbox games without paying license fees?
This is a cool tech hack, but I don't think it easily enables either of the above. Hence, I don't think MS is going to whip out the lawyers (at their own expense, and incurring negative publicity) to fight this.
We tried that. Isolationism as a public policy does not work.
Google for "Woodrow Wilson" AND "Henry Cabot Lodge" and see what I mean.
You've got a point - I avoided the N64 altogether, so I have no idea how rancid the ports might have been.
I never could get the hang of GoldenEye though... something about the controls was just wrong to me. The newer consoles seem to do a much better job - dual sticks are the way to go.
Why not just buy Quake 64, or Quake II?
;)
My friends and I used to have the best times getting plastered and playing Q3A on the Dreamcast. Now, it's a couple Xboxes, a couple TVs, a hub, and Halo. Same effect, twice as many people crammed into my room.
Ah, this old argument. "You're just buying friends." Allow me to tell you a little about my house's budget for the year:
$1000 for rush - having events to get people in the door. Larger houses spend even more on this, so it's difficult not to be drowned out by the biggest houses on campus.
$1000 for pledge education - not only are there parties and road trips for bonding purposes, but we prefer to teach our pledges instead of haze them.
$1500 for formal - we get together to have a nice night out with our girlfriends.
$2500 for social - those parties that everyone likes to go to (whether they're greek or not?) They're not cheap. Someone has to pay for them.
$750 for philanthropy - not only do we hold events to raise money for various charities, but we pay to participate in events held by other houses for the same purpose.
Once those expenses are out of the way, you still have to maintain the house, keep in touch with our alumni, and other tasks.
So, by the end of it, there's no money left to "buy friends." Paying your fraternity dues is about pooling your resources in order to accomplish your goals as a group.
Quite frankly, the part I enjoy is living with 25-30 of my close friends. This place really feels like home.
;)
And please, don't base your opinions of Greeks on MTV. They can't even get music right; I can't imagine how we're being misrepresented on there.
I'm a CIS major, and I'll tell you right now, we're not competing for the same jobs. We aren't learning the same skills, we won't have the same qualifications, and neither of our majors is some "dumbed-down" version of the other. If someone tries to use a CS and CIS major interchangeably, they're wasting resources either way.
I won't harp on your spelling; plenty of others have already done so.
Lastly, what's your problem with frat boys? We're not all drunken date-rapist troglodytes, as some would like to portray us.
Hmm... I think overpenetration would be a bitch. It's bad enough right now, where a stray round can blow through a suspect and into a hostage. This could only make it worse.
Also, a bullet would probably work much faster than a laser - note where the article has these pulses lasting for 3-5 seconds. It's not like you get hit with a single >1sec laser pulse and drop dead instantly.
Lastly, it's not going to be cheap. I think, dollar for dollar, a trained sniper is probably going to be more effective than a laser for the foreseeable future.
Bullshit. I have an Xbox, and I've got more games for it than for my PS2 and Gamecube put together. Sure, there's one or two crap titles, but I've got crap games for the PS2 as well (The Bouncer - WTF was I thinking?)
On top of that, Xbox Live is a lot of fun. Load up MechAssault, Ghost Recon, or Unreal Championship and blast away with full voice support, so you can talk trash while you're lighting people up.
And, there's Splinter Cell, which isn't even out for the other two consoles yet.
In short, don't dismiss the Xbox just because you think people don't play games on theirs. I don't even have a modchip in mine, let alone Linux, and I'm perfectly happy with it.
Some of those people on that show own their own labels, you know....
It's an IT site run by a former editor from The Register. Neither is particularly reliable, but they both make entertaining reading, and one can often get an idea of what might really be going on after filtering out all the bullshit rumors.
Huh. I'm a good writer, an excellent cook, and the last girl I was in bed with said, "Wow, so that's how it's supposed to feel!"
And I'm alone today.
There's more to it, including plain old luck.
Yeah, I always wondered about that. What's up with all the "First Post!" comments being all together?
We covered this a little in my management class last semester....
Basically, they need to prove something called construct validity. That is, they need to prove that a correlation exists between credit history and job performance. Without that, a court can order them not to use the test.
Note that a credit check can be a valid measure in some cases, but I don't think IT director is one of them. Basically, the company's problem is in using a blanket policy of credit checks - they should only be used where valid, which is only in a few instances. I'd say it's valid for an investing consultant, where you're handling the money of others, or a national security agent (where poor finances might make you vulnerable to bribery by foreign agents.) It might be valid here, but they have to be able to prove it.
Wow. How mature and insightful, to assume that everyone who uses Windows must be a mindless drone. And so original too....
Some people choose to use Windows, after evaluating the pros and cons of each option. It's not always because that's what Dell sells you - Windows has advantages and disadvantages just like any other platform, and it is sometimes the right choice.
Sounds a little juvenile to me. You'd punish someone who's only "crime" was to prefer a certain browser?
It's just an unsync. packet. No big deal. I see nothing to get bent out of shape over. I'd prefer it if MS stuck to the standard, but this isn't all that bad.
I'm wondering, does WinNT server (in whatever iteration you prefer) really make a critical product for MS? I see SQL Server as critical; I see IIS as critical. Exchange is absolutely vital. AD ties it all together, so that's important. But just the basic server package? Is it really a make-or-break product for MS?
.NET server solution on BSD or similar, they'd still be just fine. The base server product is peanuts compared to all the addons you can pick up.
I don't think so. I think if MS provided a complete
Imagine if MS just gave up on the server OS market and poured their resources into task-specific servers running on established server systems. They'd offer the best integration with Visual Studio, of course, and the best user experience with Office and IE, all of which would remain Windows-centric. That way, they keep the desktop monopoly.
The best parallel I can think of would be Oracle; you can get Oracle's database for many platforms, and lots of other addons for it, and Oracle makes their own development tools for it.
Of course, maybe I'm wrong and they want that server OS monopoly. But it seems to me that WinNT server is just a stepping-stone to larger goals; goals which may be equally well-served by running their products on other systems.
I know this screams offtopic, and I know these are just slashdot trolls, but does anyone else get a slight snicker out of these "Soviet Russia" posts? I've never made one, and I'll never make one, but occasionally I can't help but laugh.
Anyone else have a guilty pleasure of occasionally enjoying trolls? Come on, fess up; I just did.
Judging from the pile of antiquated technology in my basement, I wasn't aware that computers were actually disposable... come on, I know some of you have the same corner of your basement where there's still a 286 motherboard in a pile somewhere.
My mother always told me... "Find something you're good at and stick with it."
It would appear to me that's the exact situation they're trying to avoid. By having your app hosted elsewhere, your success is tied to theirs. If you host an XML Web Service and you go out of business, your clients are up shit creek with only a XML schema for a paddle. And you aren't paddling very far with that.
So your girlfriend has sense enough to run a modern OS with, IME, far fewer problems than Win9x, and you (passively) discourage this behavior?
1. How the hell do you get away with not fixing your girlfriend's computer? It's like an unwritten fucking law - date a geek, get free tech support. Hell, it's not just dating - friends and family seem to think I'm an on-call help desk (a fact which I've learned to exploit for free Guinness - 2 pt/hr, min. 2 pt. seems to work well for me.)
2. Why in all hell do you support 9x over 2k or XP? The NT series is far less problematic - if anything, when people complain about 9x, I tell them to check out 2k or XP.
I'm honestly curious as to your reasoning on this one.
If it wasn't funny, then why did I laugh?
Yes, I know I don't know everything about the tax laws. In fact, a major complaint abou ttax laws is that they are difficult to completely understand, including every loophole and exception.
However....
The original post stated that Microsoft has no right to take a loss on the XBox because they would thereby be reducing the government's tax revenue. Let me be perfectly clear on this; the government has no right to prevent Microsoft from taking a loss. None. Whatsoever.
If Microsoft wants to take advantage of a tax loophole to offset the losses encountered in starting up their XBox division, then that's their right. If you don't like the law they're using, vote for someone who will change it.
On top of this, Microsoft has every intention of making a profit from the XBox; otherwise, they wouldn't have made it. So, your argument doesn't hold true anyway. In the end, either their will be profit and the government will have its payday, or their will be a loss and all the slashbots will be dancing in the streets at Microsoft's misfortune. Either way, Microsoft's duty to make the most money possible is to their shareholders, not to their government.