Because these anti-science crackpots are trying to make it look as if NASA spent billions with nothing to show for it. They're trying to undermine the faith that society has in science.
I could draw parallels with creationism.
While I don't disagree with the argument that an entire country (USA) that believes that the moon landings were fake is a bad thing, should people have faith in science? It is somewhat ironic that your next sentence mentioned creationism, which is questionable (or exaggerated ridicule of good) "science" being supported almost completely by faith.
I don't think that NASA, with it's money problems, should be worrying about what conspiracy theorists say about the moon landing. It would be like the federal government spending lots of time and effort into refuting the spottings of aliens at the Roswell crash. Wasted resources on closed ears. Both lies and truth spread at the speed that they want to be heard and for that reason the truth will never catch up with certain people, no matter how much effort is put into spreading the truth. Besides, NASA needs the money for things like the ISS and getting to Pluto before the atmosphere freezes.
Intel and AMD have both signed on to Microsoft's Palladium program. We need a chip maker who hasn't succumbed to this yet.
How about looking to China and the yet-to-be-released Dragon Processor? Considering how China has made a few nose-snubs at Microsoft (Red Flag Linux and Chinux come to mind), they may decide to avoid the idea of Palladium altogether.
Then again, there may be enough computing power out there on the market -- we can just get what we need and stop buying until Palladium dies. It shouldn't be here for a few years, right?
Anyone who's actually played the GameCube's Legend of Zelda "The Wind Waker" will tell you that your comments are so off-base that they're laughable. There is a great deal of "adult" anime in the world, movies like Princess Mononoke. Are these just for kids? No. Same with Zelda. Just because the art style is cartoon animation doesn't immediately make the game something of the Saturday Morning variety.
Maybe you should try playing it before you make snap judgements.
And perhaps you should actually look at my post and read what it said -- the cartoon animation is not necessarily what makes the game so kiddy, it's the content. Try not to act so obtuse.
Princess Mononoke is one of my favorite movies, BTW. You're just looking for somebody to flame.
Miyamoto's games aren't aimed at kids, per se. They're aimed at the young at heart, those that can set aside their preconceived notions and enjoy a game regardless of how "realistic" or "mature" it is.
I'm sorry, but when playing a game like Zelda it really breaks the adventure and intrigue to see things like singing frogs and cameo appearances from the Super Mario Brothers. The cartoon shading isn't necessarily what makes the new game so kiddie, it's the content. I do consider myself young at heart, but I play a certain game to experience a certain type of adventure. The total change over the years from the original theme to the kiddie theme has totally turned me off from playing any more games in the Zelda series.
It wouldn't be so bad if Miyamoto took paths such as this with only certain games (like Mario Bros) but how far will he go? There are certain games that shouldn't be messed with. Take Metroid, for example. From what I've seen the game is great and keeps it's original age range in mind. But could you imagine the fuss if the next title in the series featured Samus popping balloons and throwing cream-pie missles at cute enemies with toothy smiles? That's exactly the kind of feeling I get when playing the new Legend of Zelda after growing up with the old.
Heh, I "back up" my data on my own hard drive. The D: partition keeps everything I'd ever want and if my OS ever screws up I simply reformat C:. That's not to say I don't have have a CD with essential data on it burned.
Couldn't all of these petty arguments be solved if the command was not if (...) {...}, but instead {if (...)...} or if {(...)...}?
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I don't have to read the article. I've been working with Alphas all my life. There is nothing for 99.9% of the applications you use everyday that could benefit from running itself in a 64 bit address space.
After looking at your title and seeing no relation to your first paragraph, I know I wouldn't have to read the rest of your post and still know exactly where you went wrong. The "market" for a computer is not necessarily defined by what new applications it can offer. It can be defined by Joe Average coming home to his house carrying a huge box, telling his wife "You've gotta check this out. Its got sixty-four bits!"
(Chances are he's never worked with a "computer" in his life, and thinks he'll have to assemble all 64 pieces manually.)
It's RAX, RBX, etc. Don't know what the 'r' stands for, but it makes for the funny RIP instruction pointer:).
Considering that the 8 new 64-bit registers are labeled R7 - R15, I'm guessing that R stands for "Register". But what do I know?
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My favorite part so far (not at the end yet) is the part about why Microsoft would support it
Back-scratching. Remember how an AMD figurehead testified in favor of Microsoft at the DOJ trial? It may have been enough to convince MS not to walk hand-in-hand with Intel while it tries to crush the #2 chipmaker.
What is so bad about x86 anyhow? Is it that its support for smaller sections of registers (8 bit AL register that merged with 8 bit AH register to become the 16 bit AX register, then EAX, RAX, etc) made for more hardware that slowed it down? That's apparently not the case, with the speed war between AMD and Intel pushing ~3 GHz. So why does x86 have such a bad rap? Because it is little-endian?
You knowingly put something capable of burning you on your lap and it of course spilled while driving?
If you had taken the time to read the text at the link, you would know that the 79-year old woman was in the passenger seat -- and the car stopped -- when this happened.
Windows 9x should NEVER have existed. Win95 should never have been released. MS should have stuck with 3.11 and then killed it and DOS when they released NT 4.0.
Windows 9x was important to Microsoft's wallet and its conquest of the operating system market. If they had waited until NT was up to speed, OS/2 would probably have dominated. Hence "coulda, shoulda, woulda" doesn't mean much to the company that made the software you loathe so much.
If you'd prefer, the whole of Slashdot could go into a "Bill Gates / Steve Jobs should never have been born" rant, but that doesn't do us much good either, does it?:)
Actually, as Phoenix is a cut-down version of Mozilla, it means we shall soon "type ahead" with it too. BTW, Mozilla is better for those who also want an integrated mailer, we're not discussing the very same app, here...
I want Mozilla's integrated mailer, but not the integrated webpage composer. Any Mozilla spin-offs out there that feature this? Preferably without Mozilla's (1.1+) bothersome "download manager".
What ever happend to Dragon Warrior? I loved that game back in the day of NES!
The original was re-released for the GBC, with this weird "personality test" at the beginning, and without all the cool medival speak. No more "thou"s and "hath"s, which is a real shame.
In Japan, the Dragon Warrior (aka Dragon Quest) series kept going while the U.S. (What about Europe? Australia?) audience was cut out of the loop. Japan also got a DW1 & 2 combo cart with improved graphics for the SNES.
Astrophysics.... 85th largest in the world... Call the department of homeland security, this could be terrorism!
We should actually be worried about the eithty-fourth fastest computer in the world... Saddam Hussein has built it out of a warehouse of imported PlayStation 2s.
Face it: DOS is a very, very primitive OS. Even in 1981 when it was released, it was already outdated.
Do you judge Windows 2000 / XP today by how outdated Windows 1.0 was when it was released? After all, it didn't even have overlapping Windows! That's just holding a grudge, wouldn't you say?
A decade later, when it was still shipped on most PCs, it was even more outdated. multi-user, multitasking... As a die-hard Microsoft user you probably don't know, but those existed long before Windows - and also before DOS.
It would really depend on how you define "primitive", and how necessary those (often bloated) "advanced" features are. If the user doesn't really need more than what DOS offers, no multi-tasking, no bells and whistles, runs a large collection of existing software, then does it really matter how old it is? A battery-powered, 5 speed Model Uber-2000 screwdriver would still be passed over today by most people for a simple philips that fits neatly in a small toolbox.
DOS still has its fans today. See the FreeDOS project. If such a project can improve DOS (I've been under the understanding that it stands for Direct Operating System) to a 32-bit operating system that does many of the things that modern operating systems do today while still maintaining the simple and efficient elements of older DOSes, why should it ever "die"?
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*Lack of NTFS support by default: Near-neccessary for 2000/XP dual-booters
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Unless you're a FAT32 user, such as myself.
Because these anti-science crackpots are trying to make it look as if NASA spent billions with nothing to show for it. They're trying to undermine the faith that society has in science.
I could draw parallels with creationism.
While I don't disagree with the argument that an entire country (USA) that believes that the moon landings were fake is a bad thing, should people have faith in science? It is somewhat ironic that your next sentence mentioned creationism, which is questionable (or exaggerated ridicule of good) "science" being supported almost completely by faith.
I don't think that NASA, with it's money problems, should be worrying about what conspiracy theorists say about the moon landing. It would be like the federal government spending lots of time and effort into refuting the spottings of aliens at the Roswell crash. Wasted resources on closed ears. Both lies and truth spread at the speed that they want to be heard and for that reason the truth will never catch up with certain people, no matter how much effort is put into spreading the truth. Besides, NASA needs the money for things like the ISS and getting to Pluto before the atmosphere freezes.
I RTFA,
You Read The F*cking Annual?
Just bought a 60 Gig 7200 RPM drive for $50
New? Good god man, where? Tell me now for I must buy!
> ...they need your support...
.. Geek corporate welfare.
Great
Actually, the building is starting to fall apart, and about a dozen geeks are needed to hold the ceiling up. Anybody else interested?
Intel and AMD have both signed on to Microsoft's Palladium program. We need a chip maker who hasn't succumbed to this yet.
How about looking to China and the yet-to-be-released Dragon Processor? Considering how China has made a few nose-snubs at Microsoft (Red Flag Linux and Chinux come to mind), they may decide to avoid the idea of Palladium altogether.
Then again, there may be enough computing power out there on the market -- we can just get what we need and stop buying until Palladium dies. It shouldn't be here for a few years, right?
Anyone who's actually played the GameCube's Legend of Zelda "The Wind Waker" will tell you that your comments are so off-base that they're laughable. There is a great deal of "adult" anime in the world, movies like Princess Mononoke. Are these just for kids? No. Same with Zelda. Just because the art style is cartoon animation doesn't immediately make the game something of the Saturday Morning variety.
Maybe you should try playing it before you make snap judgements.
And perhaps you should actually look at my post and read what it said -- the cartoon animation is not necessarily what makes the game so kiddy, it's the content. Try not to act so obtuse.
Princess Mononoke is one of my favorite movies, BTW. You're just looking for somebody to flame.
Miyamoto's games aren't aimed at kids, per se. They're aimed at the young at heart, those that can set aside their preconceived notions and enjoy a game regardless of how "realistic" or "mature" it is.
I'm sorry, but when playing a game like Zelda it really breaks the adventure and intrigue to see things like singing frogs and cameo appearances from the Super Mario Brothers. The cartoon shading isn't necessarily what makes the new game so kiddie, it's the content. I do consider myself young at heart, but I play a certain game to experience a certain type of adventure. The total change over the years from the original theme to the kiddie theme has totally turned me off from playing any more games in the Zelda series.
It wouldn't be so bad if Miyamoto took paths such as this with only certain games (like Mario Bros) but how far will he go? There are certain games that shouldn't be messed with. Take Metroid, for example. From what I've seen the game is great and keeps it's original age range in mind. But could you imagine the fuss if the next title in the series featured Samus popping balloons and throwing cream-pie missles at cute enemies with toothy smiles? That's exactly the kind of feeling I get when playing the new Legend of Zelda after growing up with the old.
The more source code they give out, the greater chance that someone will leak it, right? Isn't Microsoft taking a big risk doing this?
Heh, I "back up" my data on my own hard drive. The D: partition keeps everything I'd ever want and if my OS ever screws up I simply reformat C:. That's not to say I don't have have a CD with essential data on it burned.
Er... Why not? "NO!!" isn't very descriptive. :)
Couldn't all of these petty arguments be solved if the command was not if (...) {...}, but instead {if (...) ...} or if {(...) ...}?
I don't have to read the article. I've been working with Alphas all my life. There is nothing for 99.9% of the applications you use everyday that could benefit from running itself in a 64 bit address space.
After looking at your title and seeing no relation to your first paragraph, I know I wouldn't have to read the rest of your post and still know exactly where you went wrong. The "market" for a computer is not necessarily defined by what new applications it can offer. It can be defined by Joe Average coming home to his house carrying a huge box, telling his wife "You've gotta check this out. Its got sixty-four bits!"
(Chances are he's never worked with a "computer" in his life, and thinks he'll have to assemble all 64 pieces manually.)
It's RAX, RBX, etc. Don't know what the 'r' stands for, but it makes for the funny RIP instruction pointer :).
Considering that the 8 new 64-bit registers are labeled R7 - R15, I'm guessing that R stands for "Register". But what do I know?
My favorite part so far (not at the end yet) is the part about why Microsoft would support it
Back-scratching. Remember how an AMD figurehead testified in favor of Microsoft at the DOJ trial? It may have been enough to convince MS not to walk hand-in-hand with Intel while it tries to crush the #2 chipmaker.
What is so bad about x86 anyhow? Is it that its support for smaller sections of registers (8 bit AL register that merged with 8 bit AH register to become the 16 bit AX register, then EAX, RAX, etc) made for more hardware that slowed it down? That's apparently not the case, with the speed war between AMD and Intel pushing ~3 GHz. So why does x86 have such a bad rap? Because it is little-endian?
Sorry, I meant K'tang, not P'kunk. The P'kunk have been around since SC2.
I enjoyed the Pkunk, the DakTakLakPak and the XChaggers. Most of the rest I could have done without, especially the claymation.
You knowingly put something capable of burning you on your lap and it of course spilled while driving?
If you had taken the time to read the text at the link, you would know that the 79-year old woman was in the passenger seat -- and the car stopped -- when this happened.
Windows 9x should NEVER have existed. Win95 should never have been released. MS should have stuck with 3.11 and then killed it and DOS when they released NT 4.0.
:)
Windows 9x was important to Microsoft's wallet and its conquest of the operating system market. If they had waited until NT was up to speed, OS/2 would probably have dominated. Hence "coulda, shoulda, woulda" doesn't mean much to the company that made the software you loathe so much.
If you'd prefer, the whole of Slashdot could go into a "Bill Gates / Steve Jobs should never have been born" rant, but that doesn't do us much good either, does it?
> I want Mozilla's integrated mailer, but not the integrated webpage composer.
You have options--just don't install composer.
Except that the option for Composer isn't in the list. (mozilla-win32-1.0.1-fullinstaller.exe) I just checked again.
Actually, as Phoenix is a cut-down version of Mozilla, it means we shall soon "type ahead" with it too. BTW, Mozilla is better for those who also want an integrated mailer, we're not discussing the very same app, here...
I want Mozilla's integrated mailer, but not the integrated webpage composer. Any Mozilla spin-offs out there that feature this? Preferably without Mozilla's (1.1+) bothersome "download manager".
What ever happend to Dragon Warrior? I loved that game back in the day of NES!
The original was re-released for the GBC, with this weird "personality test" at the beginning, and without all the cool medival speak. No more "thou"s and "hath"s, which is a real shame.
In Japan, the Dragon Warrior (aka Dragon Quest) series kept going while the U.S. (What about Europe? Australia?) audience was cut out of the loop. Japan also got a DW1 & 2 combo cart with improved graphics for the SNES.
Astrophysics.... 85th largest in the world... Call the department of homeland security, this could be terrorism!
We should actually be worried about the eithty-fourth fastest computer in the world... Saddam Hussein has built it out of a warehouse of imported PlayStation 2s.
Face it: DOS is a very, very primitive OS. Even in 1981 when it was released, it was already outdated.
Do you judge Windows 2000 / XP today by how outdated Windows 1.0 was when it was released? After all, it didn't even have overlapping Windows! That's just holding a grudge, wouldn't you say?
A decade later, when it was still shipped on most PCs, it was even more outdated. multi-user, multitasking... As a die-hard Microsoft user you probably don't know, but those existed long before Windows - and also before DOS.
It would really depend on how you define "primitive", and how necessary those (often bloated) "advanced" features are. If the user doesn't really need more than what DOS offers, no multi-tasking, no bells and whistles, runs a large collection of existing software, then does it really matter how old it is? A battery-powered, 5 speed Model Uber-2000 screwdriver would still be passed over today by most people for a simple philips that fits neatly in a small toolbox.
DOS still has its fans today. See the FreeDOS project. If such a project can improve DOS (I've been under the understanding that it stands for Direct Operating System) to a 32-bit operating system that does many of the things that modern operating systems do today while still maintaining the simple and efficient elements of older DOSes, why should it ever "die"?