Seriously. Microsoft wouldn't spend 5 years talking with you in an attempt to get you to comply with their license. They'd just send in the lawyers and sue for millions in damagaes.
Pffff. What could possibly happen in only a month?
"They've broken through! Take cover!!!"
"They're coming this way! Run! RU--"
"There's no escape!"
"The fools! Why did they connect the Santabots to the Internet?!"
"And why were they armed?!"
Not to encourage this line of thought, but I wonder: If someone who was screwed over by the RIAA went berserk and murdered one of their lawyers/execs, how would that affect their willingness to continue blindly suing the hell out of people?
Gun crime in the UK may be dropping, but knife crime has shot through the roof.
When criminals can't get access to one tool, they'll just grab the next.
They're not talking about powering your do-everything smartphone with the ultra-bright screen. They're talking about an extremely basic device that would just make phone calls - nothing else.
Of course, I'm still a bit skeptical myself. I've seen these "sound will power our gadgets!" articles before.
Users switching from IE to FF means nothing in the long run
On the contrary. If not for Firefox on Windows, I wouldn't be using Linux today. As the GP said, "when people realize there are alternatives, they start to look for MORE of them".
That's all? Let's make it even more accurate...
The Vista guy, in his kingly garb, also weighs 350 pounds and has the flu. When he tries to whack the Mac guy over the head, he misses and collapses, coughing and wheezing.
The problem here is that boycotting the game actually sends the opposite message. The execs will attribute the low sales to piracy, and decide they need more draconian DRM.
Erm, perhaps you haven't been paying attention, but things have been getting faster, cheaper, and smaller for quite a while now. Memristors just promise to ensure the trend continues.
Oh, that's a fun thought. On the other hand, I don't really see anyone trying to build an antimatter bomb any time soon, since just keeping one on hand would be incredibly risky:
Something goes wrong storing a nuke: Area sealed off, that particular spot possibly radioactive
Something goes wrong storing an antimatter bomb: Area vaporized, that particular spot the center of a city-sized crater
How well is, say, a USB flash drive suited to archival purposes? They're pretty hardy little things, so I'd expect them to last longer than your average burned CD.
It's not "linux supports more devices, period", it's "linux supports more devices out of the box".
Of course, if your device doesn't work immediately in linux, you're SOL in most cases.
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As far as RTS goes, I'd like to see the AI act more human. Not just in how "smart" it plays, but in how quickly it can act.
Remember in Warcraft 2 (I've started playing it again recently, so I'll use it as an example), how you had to send roughly double the number of troops as the enemy to get a fair fight? The AI would have all its ogre-magi cast bloodlust (or all its paladins cast heal) simultaneously, while you'd be struggling to get a single spell out.
And while that was going on, they'd be effortlessly churning out more units. During the time you're looking at your base and getting some more units ready, your units in battle would be getting slaughtered.
So, what I'm really looking for in an AI is human-like delays between commands.
You want to talk power management? Here's my little anecdote:
I bought a laptop a few years ago. Dell Latitude X1. Nice. Shiny. Came with Windows XP.
You'd think all the hardware would work flawlessly out of the box, right? Wrong. It would go to sleep just fine, but after maybe 4 hours of sleep, it would suddenly wake up and play the "USB device connected!" sound and then stay awake until it ran out of power. So twice I put it to sleep, then went to sleep myself, and woke up to find the computer off and the battery empty. The third time it happened while I was nearby (which is the only reason I know what it was doing), and that was the last straw for me.
I had been dual-booting with Ubuntu for a while, but after that I just wiped XP for good and used Ubuntu full-time. And suspend hasn't broken since.
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Seriously. Microsoft wouldn't spend 5 years talking with you in an attempt to get you to comply with their license. They'd just send in the lawyers and sue for millions in damagaes.
Well yes, because the Linux zealots discredit or moderate down any part that states that Ubuntu isn't as user friendly as Mac OS X in any area.
Whereas Mac forum admins would simply delete the thread.
Pffff. What could possibly happen in only a month?
"They've broken through! Take cover!!!"
"They're coming this way! Run! RU--"
"There's no escape!"
"The fools! Why did they connect the Santabots to the Internet?!"
"And why were they armed?!"
Not to encourage this line of thought, but I wonder: If someone who was screwed over by the RIAA went berserk and murdered one of their lawyers/execs, how would that affect their willingness to continue blindly suing the hell out of people?
They'll be lucky if the perfume doesn't suffocate them first.
Gun crime in the UK may be dropping, but knife crime has shot through the roof. When criminals can't get access to one tool, they'll just grab the next.
They're not talking about powering your do-everything smartphone with the ultra-bright screen. They're talking about an extremely basic device that would just make phone calls - nothing else.
Of course, I'm still a bit skeptical myself. I've seen these "sound will power our gadgets!" articles before.
Users switching from IE to FF means nothing in the long run
On the contrary. If not for Firefox on Windows, I wouldn't be using Linux today. As the GP said, "when people realize there are alternatives, they start to look for MORE of them".
That's all? Let's make it even more accurate...
The Vista guy, in his kingly garb, also weighs 350 pounds and has the flu. When he tries to whack the Mac guy over the head, he misses and collapses, coughing and wheezing.
And the Mac guy is smirking the whole damn time.
I don't see many TV ads or billboards showing beautiful women playing with guns in an effort to make gun ownership sexy
They don't have to. Practically every movie and TV show out there is doing the advertising for them.
Don't feed the (rather obvious) troll, steveman...
The problem here is that boycotting the game actually sends the opposite message. The execs will attribute the low sales to piracy, and decide they need more draconian DRM.
Erm, perhaps you haven't been paying attention, but things have been getting faster, cheaper, and smaller for quite a while now. Memristors just promise to ensure the trend continues.
Unless you live in PG county, Maryland, where there is a "boiled water advisory" because all the tap water SUDDENLY TASTES LIKE SEWAGE.
Look, he's not even President yet. Don't start criticizing the guy's work before he actually starts the job.
And anyway, he's in favor of net neutrality, so I don't think he's about to start locking the net down.
Oh, that's a fun thought. On the other hand, I don't really see anyone trying to build an antimatter bomb any time soon, since just keeping one on hand would be incredibly risky:
Something goes wrong storing a nuke: Area sealed off, that particular spot possibly radioactive
Something goes wrong storing an antimatter bomb: Area vaporized, that particular spot the center of a city-sized crater
I'm assuming that, before coming to Slashdot to complain, you filed a bug report on this piece of alpha software, right?
b) Microsoft code is easier to exploit than it actually is
Wait... how does that work?
Sure, it's real. You just have to find someone who's immune to HIV, and then take his bone marrow. Easy!
How well is, say, a USB flash drive suited to archival purposes? They're pretty hardy little things, so I'd expect them to last longer than your average burned CD.
It's not "linux supports more devices, period", it's "linux supports more devices out of the box".
Of course, if your device doesn't work immediately in linux, you're SOL in most cases.
As far as RTS goes, I'd like to see the AI act more human. Not just in how "smart" it plays, but in how quickly it can act.
Remember in Warcraft 2 (I've started playing it again recently, so I'll use it as an example), how you had to send roughly double the number of troops as the enemy to get a fair fight? The AI would have all its ogre-magi cast bloodlust (or all its paladins cast heal) simultaneously, while you'd be struggling to get a single spell out.
And while that was going on, they'd be effortlessly churning out more units. During the time you're looking at your base and getting some more units ready, your units in battle would be getting slaughtered.
So, what I'm really looking for in an AI is human-like delays between commands.
You want to talk power management? Here's my little anecdote:
I bought a laptop a few years ago. Dell Latitude X1. Nice. Shiny. Came with Windows XP.
You'd think all the hardware would work flawlessly out of the box, right? Wrong. It would go to sleep just fine, but after maybe 4 hours of sleep, it would suddenly wake up and play the "USB device connected!" sound and then stay awake until it ran out of power. So twice I put it to sleep, then went to sleep myself, and woke up to find the computer off and the battery empty. The third time it happened while I was nearby (which is the only reason I know what it was doing), and that was the last straw for me.
I had been dual-booting with Ubuntu for a while, but after that I just wiped XP for good and used Ubuntu full-time. And suspend hasn't broken since.
dun dun DUN!
Every time this topic comes up, someone posts something about how this could remove the common carrier status of ISPs.
Repeat after me: ISPs do not have common carrier status.