Yep, if you spend 5 minutes researching hardware, it's difficult to buy bad hardware these days. Just don't buy any hardware with less than 4.5 star ratings on newegg. If it only has three stars, reading through the comments you'll often read comments like "DOA, had to return three times before I got a working unit" etc etc. Cheap price to consumers usually means they skipped a step or two, which can bite you down the road.
I chose windows when I built my system. I use it to play games and surf the web, works great. Win7 is actually pretty great and doesn't really get in the way. I switched back from 10.4 to Win7, and was dual booting linux for a while. Mostly I don't see any need to lock myself out of 60-80% of the software market. Win7 has utilities you can install to get great unix type support these days. It's not perfect, but for the home user I can't really complain. The OS landscape has changed a lot since 2005 and as time goes by, these windows complaints sound more and more dated. While Linux and Apple had better offerings five, 10 years ago, they're about all on par and nobody is really at a disadvantage anymore. In five more years the only way you'll be able to tell Windows from Apple from Linux will be what logo pops up at boot before being dumped to the desktop.
Physical media perhaps. Encrypted portable hard drives with proprietary connections are coming, mark my words. Consoles will still have optical drives, but discs are dead in the long term. Expect to slurp CoD:MW9 or BF4 from a kiosk at GameStop to your portable hard drive in a few years. Smaller games might fit on a DVD or BRD, but blockbuster titles are going to be 50-80-150GB in just a few years. Disc size is going to have to go up dramatically or we're going to need to move on to HDD tech.
There's a good chance you might just slurp down your games on to a proprietary xbox external hard drive via a proprietary USB 3.0 connection at your local Walmart, Target or Gamestop kiosk
They already have game demo kiosks there, and Nintendo has been doing this for almost a decade with the DS/Gameboy
Then connect that proprietary drive to your home console. Capacity isn't an issue since when your drive runs out, just delete an old game you haven't played in a while (you can always slurp another copy of it later, since your purchase will be stored in the cloud forever). Also you could slurp the game off another friend's console... or in an emergency, actually download the game manually off the internet.
I'm pretty sure optical media is dead. How big would Rage, Skyrim, Battlefield 3 have been if they weren't restricted to compressed image size/quality? John Carmack has toyed with the idea of allowing a 1 terabyte version of the game. 50GB is ludicrously small given the fact that this technology is going to have to satiate us for the next 5-7 years. Whatever storage medium they plan on using, expect it to be no smaller than 80gb and probably closer to 150gb.
Try: $3/mo to access the GPS unit built in to your blackberry. That happened.
Verizon buys netflix: Charges you $0.20 every time you watch a film from the Criterion Collection, $0.40 for any movie released in the last 6 months, and $0.35 for any movie released in the last 18 months. On top of your $15/mo fee.
Oh and by the way, you'll need a Verizon Cable TV account to use Netflix if you're in a Verizon service area.
Yeah but AC starts out with 0 points, which means the interesting ones need to be modded up three times before I see them. What would be a +4 interesting post from a regular/. poster would fall below my +3 threshold. Browsing at +3 filters out 99% of the worthless AC posts already, but those rare, moderately interesting ones posted as an AC due to their job (usually the most interesting ones in the thread) still get through.
What part of "7% revenue drop" isn't impressive? We're discussing an industry whose stock prices fluctuate 2-5% based on missing revenue projections by a tenth of a percent.
Uh, that's how it's always been, ever since 2001 or so. I've tweaked the hell out of my account settings over the years, and when they did that awful 2.0 update earlier this year I think (when the option later became available) I set the discussion style to "Classic Discussion System (D1)", which may allow that option. But I guess that's the pitfall of posting without a net!
Friend +6 Fan+6 Foe +6 anonymous Modifier +1 New User Modifier +1 Small Comment Modifier1, -1 Long Comment Modifier 1, +1
And then browse at a threshold at +3, Threaded, Oldest First, Index Spill 600 and Reparent Highly Rated Comments as "True". Also helps if you have a healthy friends/foes list. Anybody willing to stick their neck out as an expert in a particular field and making a particularly informative post usually gets an add.
Yep (AC here - sorry!) Both myself and my neighbors (we share a connection) are pretty heavy BT users (we use Azureus or "Vuze Classic") and the IP didn't show up anything. We've had the same IP for at least 18 months. Either they're inflating their numbers drastically (who says they aren't lying horribly? This is the MPAA/RIAA after all) or only using encrypted trackers seems to have some effect.
As I understand it, they have a rough idea what their market valuation will be, and the amount of money they expect to earn. They then have to find 1-1000 buyers to buy all of the initial stock, who then turn around and piecemeal it out over a period of days/weeks/months/years. By going this route they confirm their buyers before the stock goes public, and they can get 100% of their stock offering in a lump sum, rather than waiting to sell it over time. If the company does poorly in the year that they're trying to sell their stock on the open market, they may not be able to sell 100% of it initially.
Really? "nuclear gangsterism"? This is a pretty specific phrase, out of a specific book. It doesn't exist anywhere else on the internet but in summaries about that book, and in this slashdot article. Anyone care to comment on how this phrase ended up in the slashdot summary?
Because in politics, you get to wield enormous power, particularly at the state/federal level; protect your interests/investments, and help your friends and family become/stay wealthy, who do the same in turn for you and your children. It's no surprise that political dynasties like the Kennedys, the Bushes and others exist - it's a very successful and proven method of acquiring and maintaining wealth.
Wikipedia says he was an underwater demolition scubadiver. A decade after he left millitary service, they closed his division and reassigned those duties to SEALs. Handing both explosives and scubadiving require immense amounts of responsibility, particularly together, but what he did at the time wasn't a SEAL position.
Surely on a college campus, you can find more than 34 females to do a study on? I would imagine they spent 10-20 times the amount of time writing about their "findings" than they did surveying for data. Is this normal? A study like this wouldn't be terribly time consuming; I would hope for a sample of at least 100 samples, preferably from more than one region (cities/metro areas like London have at least 7 distinct dialects).
It's interesting (I can think of at least two people I know who do this vocal fry) but such a small sample size seems like a poor subject to waste time writing a paper on without doing another hour's worth of research.
Blagojevich ran the entire state of Illinois, and claims to not know how to use a computer. I'm not sure I could trust him with an iPod.
A movie star was in charge of California for several years, I am pretty sure we had a professional wrestler as the govenor of another state in the last 15 years.
Politics and booksmarts don't seem to have anything in common, as far as I can tell. Success in politics seems to be centered around who you know and how adept you are at talking to people and making both parties mutually happy. If politicians were booksmart they wouldn't need to pay analysts to sort out the facts of the studies that they commission.
If you have the capability to move a planet out of orbit and in the direction you want it to go, given the distance you should be able to fine tune the impact velocity using gravity wells and orbit corrections to somewhere just above zero, and then just wait for Titan to uh, melt, on to Mars over a period of centuries.
Well, we were pissed about the experts not being expert enough -- so here goes nothing -
What does Source Forge do that is above and beyond the call of duty to protect user information? Have you guys had any data breaches that you haven't disclosed, or fully disclosed? What would you have done differently in hindsight?
The problem I have with the "experts" is that they are generally contract based marketing spokespersons, whose main purpose is to deliver a crafted message to their targeted audience - a one way street. The problem with the "Experts" is that they don't have managerial status, don't sit in on the important meetings, and are just a part of the marketing arm.
I think what he is trying to get at here is that if Slashdot is going to allow sponsored Ask Slashdot articles, Slashdot needs to take this seriously and vet who is being sent in as an expert. You wouldn't send a marketroid to DEF CON, no, you send someone who is knowledgeable about the topic they're talking about and directly involved in what's going on.
The biggest problem I have with these "Experts" and "Community Liasons" is that they generally get an email from the marketing department outlining what is supposed to be said, and then they hit twitter, a couple of email lists and a cross section of the relevant press. They have no input on the company, no idea what future direction they're headed, and when concerns are lodged, they have to ignore them, or pass them along to their superiors without any expectation on hearing back from them.
Marketing departments tend to look on their contract "Experts" as a sort of living, breathing digital billboard. $1200 a month buys you someone who will interact with customers on a superficial level and provide filtered feedback from them, but since they're an arm of a marketing department, they aren't really providing the service the customers expect - a two way dialog. The end result is that customers turn to additional outlets like twitter where they can interact with actual employees of the company and get actual usable information. Twitter is a horrible interface for this sort of thing and nearly impossible to log. The fact that customers are bypassing these "experts" and going to a worse medium to get the information they need says a lot about how badly "experts" are being handled by online marketers.
In short, the community asks more of Slashdot's editors to give us a real expert and not someone deemed "safe" by the marketing department. Oh, and thanks for sticking your neck out in an obviously charged conversation, good to have input from the slashdot employees here!:)
I think the Windows Phone interface on the desktop is quaint. It's an interesting replacement for the start menu... but at the end of the day, that's all it is. I've been working with Win8 as a sort of free windows licence for a VM I run, and as soon as you use a traditional app, it kicks you back to the desktop and acts like Win7. It's one of those things that management is mandating to push... I guess they have an app store?, but at the end of the day all the new interface really is, is a full screen start menu.
It's really, really snappy on Virtual Box though. Goddamn.
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Yep, if you spend 5 minutes researching hardware, it's difficult to buy bad hardware these days. Just don't buy any hardware with less than 4.5 star ratings on newegg. If it only has three stars, reading through the comments you'll often read comments like "DOA, had to return three times before I got a working unit" etc etc. Cheap price to consumers usually means they skipped a step or two, which can bite you down the road.
I chose windows when I built my system. I use it to play games and surf the web, works great. Win7 is actually pretty great and doesn't really get in the way. I switched back from 10.4 to Win7, and was dual booting linux for a while. Mostly I don't see any need to lock myself out of 60-80% of the software market. Win7 has utilities you can install to get great unix type support these days. It's not perfect, but for the home user I can't really complain. The OS landscape has changed a lot since 2005 and as time goes by, these windows complaints sound more and more dated. While Linux and Apple had better offerings five, 10 years ago, they're about all on par and nobody is really at a disadvantage anymore. In five more years the only way you'll be able to tell Windows from Apple from Linux will be what logo pops up at boot before being dumped to the desktop.
I have those set to 0
Physical media perhaps. Encrypted portable hard drives with proprietary connections are coming, mark my words. Consoles will still have optical drives, but discs are dead in the long term. Expect to slurp CoD:MW9 or BF4 from a kiosk at GameStop to your portable hard drive in a few years. Smaller games might fit on a DVD or BRD, but blockbuster titles are going to be 50-80-150GB in just a few years. Disc size is going to have to go up dramatically or we're going to need to move on to HDD tech.
There's a good chance you might just slurp down your games on to a proprietary xbox external hard drive via a proprietary USB 3.0 connection at your local Walmart, Target or Gamestop kiosk
They already have game demo kiosks there, and Nintendo has been doing this for almost a decade with the DS/Gameboy
Then connect that proprietary drive to your home console. Capacity isn't an issue since when your drive runs out, just delete an old game you haven't played in a while (you can always slurp another copy of it later, since your purchase will be stored in the cloud forever). Also you could slurp the game off another friend's console... or in an emergency, actually download the game manually off the internet.
I'm pretty sure optical media is dead. How big would Rage, Skyrim, Battlefield 3 have been if they weren't restricted to compressed image size/quality? John Carmack has toyed with the idea of allowing a 1 terabyte version of the game. 50GB is ludicrously small given the fact that this technology is going to have to satiate us for the next 5-7 years. Whatever storage medium they plan on using, expect it to be no smaller than 80gb and probably closer to 150gb.
Try: $3/mo to access the GPS unit built in to your blackberry. That happened.
Verizon buys netflix: Charges you $0.20 every time you watch a film from the Criterion Collection, $0.40 for any movie released in the last 6 months, and $0.35 for any movie released in the last 18 months. On top of your $15/mo fee.
Oh and by the way, you'll need a Verizon Cable TV account to use Netflix if you're in a Verizon service area.
Yeah but AC starts out with 0 points, which means the interesting ones need to be modded up three times before I see them. What would be a +4 interesting post from a regular /. poster would fall below my +3 threshold. Browsing at +3 filters out 99% of the worthless AC posts already, but those rare, moderately interesting ones posted as an AC due to their job (usually the most interesting ones in the thread) still get through.
What part of "7% revenue drop" isn't impressive? We're discussing an industry whose stock prices fluctuate 2-5% based on missing revenue projections by a tenth of a percent.
Uh, that's how it's always been, ever since 2001 or so. I've tweaked the hell out of my account settings over the years, and when they did that awful 2.0 update earlier this year I think (when the option later became available) I set the discussion style to "Classic Discussion System (D1)", which may allow that option. But I guess that's the pitfall of posting without a net!
P.S. the stock D1 settings are terrible, adjust your score modifiers accordingly:
Insightful +1
Offtopic +1
Flamebait +1
Troll +1
Informative +6
Redundant -4
Friend +6
Fan+6
Foe +6
anonymous Modifier +1
New User Modifier +1
Small Comment Modifier1, -1
Long Comment Modifier 1, +1
And then browse at a threshold at +3, Threaded, Oldest First, Index Spill 600 and Reparent Highly Rated Comments as "True". Also helps if you have a healthy friends/foes list. Anybody willing to stick their neck out as an expert in a particular field and making a particularly informative post usually gets an add.
Hah. Uh, always hit preview when posting as an AC!
Yep (AC here - sorry!) Both myself and my neighbors (we share a connection) are pretty heavy BT users (we use Azureus or "Vuze Classic") and the IP didn't show up anything. We've had the same IP for at least 18 months. Either they're inflating their numbers drastically (who says they aren't lying horribly? This is the MPAA/RIAA after all) or only using encrypted trackers seems to have some effect.
As I understand it, they have a rough idea what their market valuation will be, and the amount of money they expect to earn. They then have to find 1-1000 buyers to buy all of the initial stock, who then turn around and piecemeal it out over a period of days/weeks/months/years. By going this route they confirm their buyers before the stock goes public, and they can get 100% of their stock offering in a lump sum, rather than waiting to sell it over time. If the company does poorly in the year that they're trying to sell their stock on the open market, they may not be able to sell 100% of it initially.
Really? "nuclear gangsterism"? This is a pretty specific phrase, out of a specific book. It doesn't exist anywhere else on the internet but in summaries about that book, and in this slashdot article. Anyone care to comment on how this phrase ended up in the slashdot summary?
Because in politics, you get to wield enormous power, particularly at the state/federal level; protect your interests/investments, and help your friends and family become/stay wealthy, who do the same in turn for you and your children. It's no surprise that political dynasties like the Kennedys, the Bushes and others exist - it's a very successful and proven method of acquiring and maintaining wealth.
Wikipedia says he was an underwater demolition scubadiver. A decade after he left millitary service, they closed his division and reassigned those duties to SEALs. Handing both explosives and scubadiving require immense amounts of responsibility, particularly together, but what he did at the time wasn't a SEAL position.
You win the prize for "low content post of the day" and it's not even lunch time yet.
Surely on a college campus, you can find more than 34 females to do a study on? I would imagine they spent 10-20 times the amount of time writing about their "findings" than they did surveying for data. Is this normal? A study like this wouldn't be terribly time consuming; I would hope for a sample of at least 100 samples, preferably from more than one region (cities/metro areas like London have at least 7 distinct dialects).
It's interesting (I can think of at least two people I know who do this vocal fry) but such a small sample size seems like a poor subject to waste time writing a paper on without doing another hour's worth of research.
actually, Texas ultimately rejected creationism in the school curriculum (thankfully)
Blagojevich ran the entire state of Illinois, and claims to not know how to use a computer. I'm not sure I could trust him with an iPod.
A movie star was in charge of California for several years, I am pretty sure we had a professional wrestler as the govenor of another state in the last 15 years.
Politics and booksmarts don't seem to have anything in common, as far as I can tell. Success in politics seems to be centered around who you know and how adept you are at talking to people and making both parties mutually happy. If politicians were booksmart they wouldn't need to pay analysts to sort out the facts of the studies that they commission.
The Nobel Peace Prize pays out pretty well; generally $1-3 million USD depending on market variations.
If you have the capability to move a planet out of orbit and in the direction you want it to go, given the distance you should be able to fine tune the impact velocity using gravity wells and orbit corrections to somewhere just above zero, and then just wait for Titan to uh, melt, on to Mars over a period of centuries.
Well, we were pissed about the experts not being expert enough -- so here goes nothing -
What does Source Forge do that is above and beyond the call of duty to protect user information? Have you guys had any data breaches that you haven't disclosed, or fully disclosed? What would you have done differently in hindsight?
The problem I have with the "experts" is that they are generally contract based marketing spokespersons, whose main purpose is to deliver a crafted message to their targeted audience - a one way street. The problem with the "Experts" is that they don't have managerial status, don't sit in on the important meetings, and are just a part of the marketing arm.
:)
I think what he is trying to get at here is that if Slashdot is going to allow sponsored Ask Slashdot articles, Slashdot needs to take this seriously and vet who is being sent in as an expert. You wouldn't send a marketroid to DEF CON, no, you send someone who is knowledgeable about the topic they're talking about and directly involved in what's going on.
The biggest problem I have with these "Experts" and "Community Liasons" is that they generally get an email from the marketing department outlining what is supposed to be said, and then they hit twitter, a couple of email lists and a cross section of the relevant press. They have no input on the company, no idea what future direction they're headed, and when concerns are lodged, they have to ignore them, or pass them along to their superiors without any expectation on hearing back from them.
Marketing departments tend to look on their contract "Experts" as a sort of living, breathing digital billboard. $1200 a month buys you someone who will interact with customers on a superficial level and provide filtered feedback from them, but since they're an arm of a marketing department, they aren't really providing the service the customers expect - a two way dialog. The end result is that customers turn to additional outlets like twitter where they can interact with actual employees of the company and get actual usable information. Twitter is a horrible interface for this sort of thing and nearly impossible to log. The fact that customers are bypassing these "experts" and going to a worse medium to get the information they need says a lot about how badly "experts" are being handled by online marketers.
In short, the community asks more of Slashdot's editors to give us a real expert and not someone deemed "safe" by the marketing department. Oh, and thanks for sticking your neck out in an obviously charged conversation, good to have input from the slashdot employees here!
I think the Windows Phone interface on the desktop is quaint. It's an interesting replacement for the start menu... but at the end of the day, that's all it is. I've been working with Win8 as a sort of free windows licence for a VM I run, and as soon as you use a traditional app, it kicks you back to the desktop and acts like Win7. It's one of those things that management is mandating to push... I guess they have an app store?, but at the end of the day all the new interface really is, is a full screen start menu.
It's really, really snappy on Virtual Box though. Goddamn.
He saw the writing on the wall and got out while the getting was good