All it's going to do is cause children to leave their cell phones at home, so parent's are totally unable to get into contact with them.
Well, if you're like me, there were no such things as cell phones when I was a kid. I didn't know one single person with a cell phone when I was in high school. I didn't have my first cell phone until after I graduated college. How is that any different than a kid leaving their cell phone behind so their parents can't track them? And how did I ever survive in those dark ages...
Lenovo's executive headquarters are in Purchase, New York, USA with principal operations in Beijing, China, and Raleigh, North Carolina, USA and an enterprise sales organization worldwide. The company employs more than 19,000 people worldwide.
I cant wait till Hollywood learns to charge more for shorter films with better special effects, with less content, and more sequels.
The Lion King 1 1/2 (same story, different POV, because that's exciting) Bambi 2 (also known as "We're Out of New Ideas") Jason X (Jason dies for the 10th time) Halloween H20 (Micheal dies for the 7th time) The Land Before Time XI (real dinosaurs died out faster than this movie series)
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I agree. Kids should put down those video games and pick up a copy of The Zombie Survival Guide instead. It's way better than video games at teaching kids how to defend themselves from the undead.
He states that gamers are now looking more towards next-gen titles, forgetting about the majority of Xbox titles.
Try telling that to my friends who own Xbox360s and complain that they have to keep their Xbox around to play a couple games they really like. Maybe they aren't the majority, but I know a few. I don't mean to come off sounding fanboy-ish, but that's one thing I think Sony did well. I only need to have my PS2 hooked up to play all of my PS1 and PS2 games.
Is video game prowess different than marksmanship or archery? Not all that much
Uh, what? As a gamer who's shot a gun and bow quite a bit in his life, there's a big difference between actually shooting at a target and pointing-and-clicking with a mouse. The problem is excellence in gaming doesn't bear the sex appeal excellence in athletics does.
I don't think sex appeal has all that much to do with it. For example, look at Olympic wrestlers. Cauliflower ear - hardly sexy.
I think it's more to do with the fact that Olympians are, for the most part, physically fit and Olympic events should require some physical activity. Breaking a sweat from being overweight and sitting at a computer drinking highly-caffinated carbonated sugar water while making yourself susceptible to carpal tunnel doesn't exactly count.
I think saying that the endgame of dungeon running and PvP is the "real" game is BS. Plenty of people hit the level cap in a game and quit soon after... or sit around and bitch that there is nothing to do.
...and plenty of people enjoy running end-game dungeons and PvPing. There's also plenty of people who take their time leveling from 1-60. There's also plenty of people who level to 60, then make a new character and enjoy leveling to 60 again. What's your point?
Warning: common sense detected - Please report to the nearest Anti-Sony bandwagon and jump on immediately!
Who cares that it's "UK news sources, citing retail contacts" with no actual proof and an already previous denial by Sony? http://www.ps3focus.com/archives/159
Hating Microsoft is so last year. We hate Sony now and all references to them are now spelled "$ony". Didn't you get the memo?
The BSD license pretty much states you can do whatever you want with the code (i.e. it's FREE to be incorporated in open source projects, closed source projects, or anything else). Any restrictions added would be a result of Nokia, not the BSD license.
Now Sony is once again trying to take ideas from Nintendo and incorperate them into their plan.
You do realize that there was a Linux kit for the PS2, released in 2002, that was supposed to be aimed at the homebrew crowd, right? (Yes, I realize it was a flop.) Seems to me that Nintendo is copying an idea that Sony first tried. (For the record, I'm a huge Nintendo fan who is very anxious for the Wii.)
IMHO, the only system that ever really had any sort of decent homebrew scene is the Dreamcast, but that wasn't exactly aided by Sega. http://www.dchomebrew.org/
His NTP server access policy explicitly limited use of said server to the Danish Internet Exchange (DIX). In return, DIX provided him with a free internet connection for his NTP server. Because D-Link was sucking so much bandwidth, DIX told Kamp he would have to pay yearly for the connection. D-Link disregarded his server policy and abused his server. That's why it's a problem.
Also, his server is a Stratum 1, and, while not explicitly written, the D-Link devices should getting the time via a Stratum 2 server. At least, that's how it's commonly done.
Being able to play a game for less than $500 PS3: N/A XBox 360: Included
First, I can play games for less than $500 w/ rumble controllers on my PS2. Don't need a Xbox360 for that.
XNA Framework: PS3: N/A XBox 360: Included
Second, do you know that the XNA Framework is? Besides being another buzzword, it's simply the.NET Framework tailored for game development. Oh no, Sony and Nintendo won't be able to use XNA, I'm sure all their games will suck now...
802.11 PS3 - included Xbox360 - Add-on available for $100
60gb HD PS3 - included Xbox360 - N/A, only 20GB HD available
Motion-sensitive controllers PS3 - included Xbox360 - N/A
Blu-ray PS3 - included Xbox360 - N/A, HD-DVD available (someday) for additional cost
etc... Hell, the Wii is going to include motion-sensitve controllers and wifi. I'd rather drop $600 up front to have those features included, instead of $400 then piecing the damn thing together when/if components come together. Say you spend $400 for an Xbox360, then add wifi. That makes it $500. Now add HD-DVD which will be at least $100, now you're up to $600. That's the cost of a high-end PS3 and you still don't have all the features it includes. But hey, to each his own.
Sony is messing up big time in the gaming world, the PS3 is just the latest bastard creation where they didn't listen to the market or the players.
As for games, they can't even hold developers to the PS3 platform because of the lack of developer support and CRAP development tools for it.
They have a great Cell processor technology and even Sony doesn't seem to understand the best ways to get the most out of it, let alone provide developers with tools to do so.
Edit xorg.conf as needed (if needed) and tada! You're running X. I've installed FreeBSD on all kinds of hardware and have never had a problem getting X running. As far as user/support community, mailing lists and bsdforums.org have provided me with answers to all the *BSD questions I've had.
Xbox 360. Dunno, the PS3 and the game market will determine this. From what I understand the 360 is a decent gaming platform, but lacking in games at this time.
I agree the market will decide. Knowing a few people with Xbox360s, I don't so much hear complaints about lack of games, I think the complaint I hear the most is not being able to run some Xbox games on it. While I only need to have my PS2 hooked up to play PS1 and PS2 games, my roommate needs to keep both his Xbox and Xbox360 handy to be able to play all his games.
Microsoft's version of Java died for some reason.
The beauty of Java is that it's cross-platform friendly. As I understand it, Microsoft's implementation of Java wasn't all that cross-platform friendly (had platform-specific features), didn't support JNI, and a few other things - which resulted in Sun suing them, and winning. I think that had a lot to do with it. I'm guessing they didn't so much like the idea of supporting a technology that they couldn't use to tie developers and users to the MS platform.
Your college Japanese professor must be an idiot. Sounds like you're not too far behind. Have you ever successfully learned a foreign language?
Oh noes!!1! it takes effort!!11!!
I took Japanese for 8 years (4 in HS, 4 in college), and I also studied in Japan for a semester. Am I completely fluent? No. Can I hold conversation with people beyond a 1st grade level? Most definately. While I was in Japan, I held conversations with people my age and above all the time. In my time studying Japanese, I learned 1500+ kanji, I learned how to count, I learned stroke order of characters, and I learned the various levels of honorifics. And I can't say I spent anymore time studying Japanese than I did with any other class. My college Japanese professor will tell you that, since I never did any of the homework. The grammar is alien? Gee, ya think? I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact that it's not a Western Germanic Language... Guess what? Native speakers of Japanese, Korean, and Chinese say the same things about English, Spanish, German, and French as you have about Japanese.
Here, let me sum up your reply: "Boo-hoo! It's too hard!" So what's your point? Ok, so learning Japanese isn't for you. I enjoyed it. Why discourage others from trying to learn it?
Why the fuck your comment was modded +5, Insightful is beyond me.
While I like OpenBSD I don't have a need to support OpenBSD. On the other hand I do use and would donate money to OpenSSH.
Uh, I hate to tell you, but it's all the same people. If you read the OpenSSH project is prettypage it states "OpenSSH is developed by the OpenBSD Project." So yes, you do have a need to support the OpenBSD project if you want them to continue to develop OpenSSH. There isn't a entity setup for OpenBSD or any other of their projects it seems. It's questionable what actually happens with the money donated.
I'm sure they squander all the money on booze and hookers. Pardon the sarcasm, but it's pretty much the same as if you sent Linux a check to help support the Linux project. And if you check out the donations page, there's quite a list of names there. I'm sure if something fishy was happening to the money, someone would have noticed by now. Besides, the OpenBSD project is basically Theo's baby. Why would he jepordize it by not being honest?
"Evolution" in the sense that things change and adapt over time has been proven.
However, "evolution" with respect to the origin of life is a theory. It makes sense and there's evidence to support it, but it's yet to actually be proven.
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The only one I'm aware of is OliveBSD.
http://g.paderni.free.fr/olivebsd/
Haven't used it myself, however.
All it's going to do is cause children to leave their cell phones at home, so parent's are totally unable to get into contact with them.
Well, if you're like me, there were no such things as cell phones when I was a kid. I didn't know one single person with a cell phone when I was in high school. I didn't have my first cell phone until after I graduated college. How is that any different than a kid leaving their cell phone behind so their parents can't track them? And how did I ever survive in those dark ages...
I thought Lenovo was based out of China, not Raleigh?
That was always my impression as well. However, from their "About" page (http://www.lenovo.com/lenovo/us/en/):
I cant wait till Hollywood learns to charge more for shorter films with better special effects, with less content, and more sequels.
The Lion King 1 1/2 (same story, different POV, because that's exciting)
Bambi 2 (also known as "We're Out of New Ideas")
Jason X (Jason dies for the 10th time)
Halloween H20 (Micheal dies for the 7th time)
The Land Before Time XI (real dinosaurs died out faster than this movie series)
I agree. Kids should put down those video games and pick up a copy of The Zombie Survival Guide instead. It's way better than video games at teaching kids how to defend themselves from the undead.
He states that gamers are now looking more towards next-gen titles, forgetting about the majority of Xbox titles.
Try telling that to my friends who own Xbox360s and complain that they have to keep their Xbox around to play a couple games they really like. Maybe they aren't the majority, but I know a few. I don't mean to come off sounding fanboy-ish, but that's one thing I think Sony did well. I only need to have my PS2 hooked up to play all of my PS1 and PS2 games.
Is video game prowess different than marksmanship or archery? Not all that much
Uh, what? As a gamer who's shot a gun and bow quite a bit in his life, there's a big difference between actually shooting at a target and pointing-and-clicking with a mouse.
The problem is excellence in gaming doesn't bear the sex appeal excellence in athletics does.
I don't think sex appeal has all that much to do with it. For example, look at Olympic wrestlers. Cauliflower ear - hardly sexy.
I think it's more to do with the fact that Olympians are, for the most part, physically fit and Olympic events should require some physical activity. Breaking a sweat from being overweight and sitting at a computer drinking highly-caffinated carbonated sugar water while making yourself susceptible to carpal tunnel doesn't exactly count.
If you dislike Slashdot so much, why are you spending time posting comments here and wasting pixels on my screen? Go read Digg and quit your bitching.
I think saying that the endgame of dungeon running and PvP is the "real" game is BS. Plenty of people hit the level cap in a game and quit soon after... or sit around and bitch that there is nothing to do.
Warning: common sense detected - Please report to the nearest Anti-Sony bandwagon and jump on immediately!
Who cares that it's "UK news sources, citing retail contacts" with no actual proof and an already previous denial by Sony? http://www.ps3focus.com/archives/159
Hating Microsoft is so last year. We hate Sony now and all references to them are now spelled "$ony". Didn't you get the memo?
Congratulations - you have successfully shown you don't know anything about the BSD license.
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Read this before you post: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.ph
The BSD license pretty much states you can do whatever you want with the code (i.e. it's FREE to be incorporated in open source projects, closed source projects, or anything else). Any restrictions added would be a result of Nokia, not the BSD license.
Now Sony is once again trying to take ideas from Nintendo and incorperate them into their plan.
You do realize that there was a Linux kit for the PS2, released in 2002, that was supposed to be aimed at the homebrew crowd, right? (Yes, I realize it was a flop.) Seems to me that Nintendo is copying an idea that Sony first tried. (For the record, I'm a huge Nintendo fan who is very anxious for the Wii.)
IMHO, the only system that ever really had any sort of decent homebrew scene is the Dreamcast, but that wasn't exactly aided by Sega. http://www.dchomebrew.org/
Money, so they say,
is the root of all evil today.
His NTP server access policy explicitly limited use of said server to the Danish Internet Exchange (DIX). In return, DIX provided him with a free internet connection for his NTP server. Because D-Link was sucking so much bandwidth, DIX told Kamp he would have to pay yearly for the connection. D-Link disregarded his server policy and abused his server. That's why it's a problem.
Also, his server is a Stratum 1, and, while not explicitly written, the D-Link devices should getting the time via a Stratum 2 server. At least, that's how it's commonly done.
Does that help explain things better?
Rumble controllers:
PS3: N/A
XBox 360: Included
Being able to play a game for less than $500
PS3: N/A
XBox 360: Included
First, I can play games for less than $500 w/ rumble controllers on my PS2. Don't need a Xbox360 for that.
XNA Framework:
PS3: N/A
XBox 360: Included
Second, do you know that the XNA Framework is? Besides being another buzzword, it's simply the
Uh, ok...
Let's compare features of the high-end packages:
HDMI support
PS3 - included
Xbox360 - N/A
802.11
PS3 - included
Xbox360 - Add-on available for $100
60gb HD
PS3 - included
Xbox360 - N/A, only 20GB HD available
Motion-sensitive controllers
PS3 - included
Xbox360 - N/A
Blu-ray
PS3 - included
Xbox360 - N/A, HD-DVD available (someday) for additional cost
etc... Hell, the Wii is going to include motion-sensitve controllers and wifi. I'd rather drop $600 up front to have those features included, instead of $400 then piecing the damn thing together when/if components come together. Say you spend $400 for an Xbox360, then add wifi. That makes it $500. Now add HD-DVD which will be at least $100, now you're up to $600. That's the cost of a high-end PS3 and you still don't have all the features it includes. But hey, to each his own.
Sony is messing up big time in the gaming world, the PS3 is just the latest bastard creation where they didn't listen to the market or the players.
As for games, they can't even hold developers to the PS3 platform because of the lack of developer support and CRAP development tools for it.
They have a great Cell processor technology and even Sony doesn't seem to understand the best ways to get the most out of it, let alone provide developers with tools to do so.
Can you give ANY proof to back up those claims?
I eventually hit the eject on FreeBSD as I couldn't even get X up and running.
Well...Edit xorg.conf as needed (if needed) and tada! You're running X. I've installed FreeBSD on all kinds of hardware and have never had a problem getting X running. As far as user/support community, mailing lists and bsdforums.org have provided me with answers to all the *BSD questions I've had.
Xbox 360. Dunno, the PS3 and the game market will determine this. From what I understand the 360 is a decent gaming platform, but lacking in games at this time.
I agree the market will decide. Knowing a few people with Xbox360s, I don't so much hear complaints about lack of games, I think the complaint I hear the most is not being able to run some Xbox games on it. While I only need to have my PS2 hooked up to play PS1 and PS2 games, my roommate needs to keep both his Xbox and Xbox360 handy to be able to play all his games.
Microsoft's version of Java died for some reason.
The beauty of Java is that it's cross-platform friendly. As I understand it, Microsoft's implementation of Java wasn't all that cross-platform friendly (had platform-specific features), didn't support JNI, and a few other things - which resulted in Sun suing them, and winning. I think that had a lot to do with it. I'm guessing they didn't so much like the idea of supporting a technology that they couldn't use to tie developers and users to the MS platform.
Your college Japanese professor must be an idiot. Sounds like you're not too far behind. Have you ever successfully learned a foreign language?
Oh noes!!1! it takes effort!!11!!
I took Japanese for 8 years (4 in HS, 4 in college), and I also studied in Japan for a semester. Am I completely fluent? No. Can I hold conversation with people beyond a 1st grade level? Most definately. While I was in Japan, I held conversations with people my age and above all the time. In my time studying Japanese, I learned 1500+ kanji, I learned how to count, I learned stroke order of characters, and I learned the various levels of honorifics. And I can't say I spent anymore time studying Japanese than I did with any other class. My college Japanese professor will tell you that, since I never did any of the homework. The grammar is alien? Gee, ya think? I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact that it's not a Western Germanic Language... Guess what? Native speakers of Japanese, Korean, and Chinese say the same things about English, Spanish, German, and French as you have about Japanese.
Here, let me sum up your reply: "Boo-hoo! It's too hard!" So what's your point? Ok, so learning Japanese isn't for you. I enjoyed it. Why discourage others from trying to learn it?
Why the fuck your comment was modded +5, Insightful is beyond me.
While I like OpenBSD I don't have a need to support OpenBSD. On the other hand I do use and would donate money to OpenSSH.
Uh, I hate to tell you, but it's all the same people. If you read the OpenSSH project is prettypage it states "OpenSSH is developed by the OpenBSD Project." So yes, you do have a need to support the OpenBSD project if you want them to continue to develop OpenSSH.
There isn't a entity setup for OpenBSD or any other of their projects it seems. It's questionable what actually happens with the money donated.
I'm sure they squander all the money on booze and hookers. Pardon the sarcasm, but it's pretty much the same as if you sent Linux a check to help support the Linux project. And if you check out the donations page, there's quite a list of names there. I'm sure if something fishy was happening to the money, someone would have noticed by now. Besides, the OpenBSD project is basically Theo's baby. Why would he jepordize it by not being honest?
The BSD one requires you to mention UC @ Berkely and has strange clauses to advertising of the software.
No it doesn't. That clause was removed in 1999.
Refer to:
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.ph
Yeah, because nobody has ever done that before *cough* Unreal Tournament *cough*.
True, but Quake 1 had it even before that. Way before 2001, which was when MS filed for this patent.
I think there is a point to be made in the fact that we don't try nearly as hard to sell our crap overseas as foreigners do selling their crap to us.
Say what? Where did this "fact" come from? Have you ever been overseas?
In my travels abroad, I've seen LOTS of McDonalds, Starbucks, Coca-Cola, Marlboro, etc.
Evolution is FACT
Yes and no.
"Evolution" in the sense that things change and adapt over time has been proven.
However, "evolution" with respect to the origin of life is a theory. It makes sense and there's evidence to support it, but it's yet to actually be proven.
The author was a member of the FreeBSD core team for a little while. That's about as much of a UNIX hacker as it's possible to be...
To add to that, he's also a NetBSD developer, MySQL developer, Vinum Volume Manager developer, and has contributed code to the Linux kernel.
So yes, I'd say he's one helluva UNIX hacker.