You went to all the trouble to pirate a book that is now less than $13US? This isn't a troll (not really) but I can't believe you'd pirate for pirating's sake.
Netflix was a great service for me, and I was a customer for a little over a year. But as their popularity grew, it became harder and harder to get new releases, etc. Netflix always delivered what they said they would on-time, and the ones we sent back in got to them quickly almost every time.
The real problem for us then was availability, and as new releases became harder and harder to get (they show up in your selection queue as out of stock or delayed or something) we found ourselves buying the new releases we liked and using netflix for older stuff we weren't sure was any good before we bought. When we had seen all the ones we wanted to via the service, we saw no point to keeping it. I guess you could say we used it up.
Take this comment as you will, because most people don't watch as many as I do. To date, I have roughly 300 DVD's and watch anywhere from 3-9 per week, as I watch very little television.
They get slammed for voicing their opinions by other readers and 'biasing' the article. What do you expect them to do? I found the fact that they found it interesting, well, interesting. I guess you didn't find the fact that they thought it was interesting interesting.
How is it good that Darren Reed will be including ISO's? Looking at the thread this seems to be a cut towards the openbsd team by undermining their primary fund raising activity- selling cd's.
Besides, I have to wonder how resourceful someone is who doesn't know how to find OpenBSD ISO's via Google.
This isn't a troll, but this strikes me as counter-productive to Open Source in general, and it seems even sillier that one needs to distribute an entire ISO for such a small package.
Remember- it was Darren who changed his license which forced the OpenBSD team to remove his packages from the distro.
Ummm, hate to say it- unless they company you are doing it *to* is related or part of your company, what you do on Company time is still your responsibility. And besides, we're talking about many people simply voting *Once* in a poll, not running over anyone or punching anyone. We're not talking legal ramifications- we are talking people assuming that MS employees are some kind of Borg Collective.
Of course anyone who works for MS will be using.NET
Right. That's what I am saying. If you allow employees of candidates in the poll to vote, then don't be surprised if they do vote. ZDNet sounds like they are whining here.
I have to admit the 'old hat' statement was my own personal mini-troll. I am just sick of people bashing a company whether they turn right or left... you'd think they'd start on Netware or SCO or Corel or something.
As for the target audience, even ZDNet has little control there. You can print the page, but that's not to say that the audience will read it they way you intend.
It seems far more likely that an internal e-mail encouraged MS employees to vote for.NET, and they did. They seem quick to point out that some people from the microsoft.com domain tried to use automated voting, and they therefore blame that on the parent corporation. I'd have a much easier life if I could blame all my problems on my employer too.
My questions would be, "Did anyone else outside the microsoft.com domain try to use automated voting for any of the contestants?" or, "Do you have any evidence that the e-mail sent out encouraged ballot stuffing?"
How would a simple email with a link encouraging employees to vote be different than a presidential candidate sending an e-mail out telling everyone register for their party or even go an vote? Sure, there's an obvious bias, but what makes you think that *anyone* is voting that doesn't have a bias?
This all reeks of sensationalism and media-based MS-bashing. Whether you like MS or not, MS-bashing is old-hat.
This is great! The best thing is the opportunity for ultra-quiet CPU and power supply fans for the pc. This means the drive is the last noisy component! It's good to be a geek.
Run conduit or at least plenty of pull-wires/strings. That way you don't have as much of an issue and you can run what you like when the time comes. If you use conduit and pullwires, then you can pull/add/remove what you like.
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As long as you don't need it to
work with XP (No Flames Please), then go with the
Rio500.
They have Windows support (95-2000) that lets you load and erase music on the
unit only, while the
Linux drivers and apps let you copy music on and off the device. They come
with 64 Megs already, and you can add a
Smart Media card for more.
It's an older MP3 player, sure. Capacity is where you'll take the hit,
but if you want to use it as you will, and assuming you're a Linux user, the
Rio500 should do fine.
This might be a *little* offtopic, but are there any plans to post a Geek's Wishlist for this year? There have been some great submissions in years' past, and I think we'd all love to see them.
Primarily because the BSD's maintainers seem to prefer the configuration file. There are several things that distinguish BSD from Linux, and the Kernel Config file is a big one. You may find that not all OS quirks are due to technical roadblocks but to particular people's preferences.
To use an analogy, Directors of movies like to step into the editing booth and make sure certain scenes/footage stay in the movie- sometimes not because they have merit on their own, but because the director wants them there.
An often-overlooked aspect of the kernel community of the open Unices is the lack of true central authority. Before you flame, some OS's have stronger leadership than others, and some are ruled more by a group concensus than others. It seems a it obvious that this question came from a user who hasn't spent much time in the BSD 'community'. Spend more time there and I think this and many other questions will be answered, just maybe not the way you expect.
Gran Turismo 3? --> Need for Speed
Shen Mue ? --> Max Payne
Crazy Taxi? -->
Devil May Cry? --> Lame Ass, boring game
Mario Party 3? -->
--> CounterStrike?
--> Ghost Recon?
--> Command & Conquer Series?
--> Baldur's Gate?
--> Diablo Series?
Some of the titles are a little weaker (GT3 does rock) but one, two, or even 3 games doesn't justify the cost of a console. The point is that yes, there are different titles, but there are many one-for-ones with the PC. As for games *never* being available for the PC, that's what MS is trying to do with the Xbox- the PC and the XB both use DirectX 8. As far as head-to-head, uhhh how are you connected and reading slashdot? After all,/. requires readers have a pc and a internet connection too. 3. Are the 6 people going to pitch in and help pay for the console? I wnt to a small lan party and played 3 different titles and we all brought pc's... some of us brought laptops. As for spectators, we play the game for fun, not to show it off to others.
Console games for the large part never do justice to the PC titles they rip off either- that's what it's a moot point.
Again, my point is that the console isn't worth one or two games.
I agree with you on many of those counts, but the issue is still you or me.
I don't have driver problems all the time, and I don't get error messages
when I install my games. I too, like to play games sometimes for only 5 or
10 minutes, so I play:
Now I can image when my son outgrows those sites, he might be ready for a
console. No one has really made that point here- they all cite drivers
issues, error messages, etc. But my point is that many people may be
buying into marketing and thinking they somehow need a console.
I hate to be a spoiler for this kind of great news, but...
I seriously considered all three of the latest consoles for me and my family.
I was open to spending up to about $500 on game stuff, but I came to these
conclusions:
Playstation 2 has some great titles like Gran Turismo 3, etc. but
has no native ethernet or storage.
XBox is cool too, but has absolutely zero kid's games. This
is a biggie.
Nintendo is cheaper, has plenty of titles, and I probably wouldn't bother
trying to hook it up to the internet.
But these are all pretty much irrelevant. The PC makes a great
platform, and I already have a couple very good gaming machines. The PC
has more titles, cheaper games, downloadable demos, and can and already is
connected to the internet. I for one am seeing the console industry
getting closer to the closed-up boxen that I loathe. I like building some
of my PC's, and the console seems to be heading in that direction.
I am quite interested to hear what other Slashdotters think about just
keeping their PC's (or getting a new one) instead of also getting a game
console.
I think what Bill is saying is that he feels the Open Source movement is riding on the coat-tails of Microsoft's success. I think he is implying that Microsoft broke ground and created a standards-based system of software (Office, Windows, etc) and the Open Source movement is using some of his original ideas and yet claiming to be at odds with MS.
As far as Bill being clueless- remember any large Corporation's PR stuff is like a big card game. Bill and Co. are very, very smart no matter how evil they may or may not be. Don't think for a second that Bill hasn't thought through the whole OSS movement.
Slashdot Mirror
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/02/19/184720 8&mode=thread&tid=100
Congratulations, both of you!
You went to all the trouble to pirate a book that is now less than $13US? This isn't a troll (not really) but I can't believe you'd pirate for pirating's sake.
Sounds kinda silly.
Netflix was a great service for me, and I was a customer for a little over a year. But as their popularity grew, it became harder and harder to get new releases, etc. Netflix always delivered what they said they would on-time, and the ones we sent back in got to them quickly almost every time.
The real problem for us then was availability, and as new releases became harder and harder to get (they show up in your selection queue as out of stock or delayed or something) we found ourselves buying the new releases we liked and using netflix for older stuff we weren't sure was any good before we bought. When we had seen all the ones we wanted to via the service, we saw no point to keeping it. I guess you could say we used it up.
Take this comment as you will, because most people don't watch as many as I do. To date, I have roughly 300 DVD's and watch anywhere from 3-9 per week, as I watch very little television.
They get slammed for voicing their opinions by other readers and 'biasing' the article. What do you expect them to do? I found the fact that they found it interesting, well, interesting. I guess you didn't find the fact that they thought it was interesting interesting.
How is it good that Darren Reed will be including ISO's? Looking at the thread this seems to be a cut towards the openbsd team by undermining their primary fund raising activity- selling cd's.
Besides, I have to wonder how resourceful someone is who doesn't know how to find OpenBSD ISO's via Google.
This isn't a troll, but this strikes me as counter-productive to Open Source in general, and it seems even sillier that one needs to distribute an entire ISO for such a small package.
Remember- it was Darren who changed his license which forced the OpenBSD team to remove his packages from the distro.
Ummm, hate to say it- unless they company you are doing it *to* is related or part of your company, what you do on Company time is still your responsibility. And besides, we're talking about many people simply voting *Once* in a poll, not running over anyone or punching anyone. We're not talking legal ramifications- we are talking people assuming that MS employees are some kind of Borg Collective.
Of course anyone who works for MS will be using .NET
Right. That's what I am saying. If you allow employees of candidates in the poll to vote, then don't be surprised if they do vote. ZDNet sounds like they are whining here.
I have to admit the 'old hat' statement was my own personal mini-troll. I am just sick of people bashing a company whether they turn right or left... you'd think they'd start on Netware or SCO or Corel or something.
As for the target audience, even ZDNet has little control there. You can print the page, but that's not to say that the audience will read it they way you intend.
It seems far more likely that an internal e-mail encouraged MS employees to vote for .NET, and they did. They seem quick to point out that some people from the microsoft.com domain tried to use automated voting, and they therefore blame that on the parent corporation. I'd have a much easier life if I could blame all my problems on my employer too.
My questions would be, "Did anyone else outside the microsoft.com domain try to use automated voting for any of the contestants?" or, "Do you have any evidence that the e-mail sent out encouraged ballot stuffing?"
How would a simple email with a link encouraging employees to vote be different than a presidential candidate sending an e-mail out telling everyone register for their party or even go an vote? Sure, there's an obvious bias, but what makes you think that *anyone* is voting that doesn't have a bias?
This all reeks of sensationalism and media-based MS-bashing. Whether you like MS or not, MS-bashing is old-hat.
The 2nd and third reasons are goo, but the first was a huge misconception...
LSA: Local Security Agent
NSA: Network Security Agent
People back when that story was published saw 'NSA' and jumped the gun.
This is great! The best thing is the opportunity for ultra-quiet CPU and power supply fans for the pc. This means the drive is the last noisy component! It's good to be a geek.
Anything more to say? Nope, don't think so. I guess I should be the one to say 'Last Post!'
Run conduit or at least plenty of pull-wires/strings. That way you don't have as much of an issue and you can run what you like when the time comes. If you use conduit and pullwires, then you can pull/add/remove what you like.
I'm not addicted... I can quit Diablo2 anytime I want. I just don't want to.
These will never be successful as long as people are scared of 10 year olds.
Besides, many cities, counties and states do not allow vehicles of this description on sidewalks.
Blammo.
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I read that thread and more. Results vary in support for the 500, and I have had varying to no results on my Dell Inspiron.
Absolutely. Check this post too.
As long as you don't need it to work with XP (No Flames Please), then go with the Rio500.
They have Windows support (95-2000) that lets you load and erase music on the unit only, while the Linux drivers and apps let you copy music on and off the device. They come with 64 Megs already, and you can add a Smart Media card for more.
It's an older MP3 player, sure. Capacity is where you'll take the hit, but if you want to use it as you will, and assuming you're a Linux user, the Rio500 should do fine.
This might be a *little* offtopic, but are there any plans to post a Geek's Wishlist for this year? There have been some great submissions in years' past, and I think we'd all love to see them.
NP
Primarily because the BSD's maintainers seem to prefer the configuration file. There are several things that distinguish BSD from Linux, and the Kernel Config file is a big one. You may find that not all OS quirks are due to technical roadblocks but to particular people's preferences.
To use an analogy, Directors of movies like to step into the editing booth and make sure certain scenes/footage stay in the movie- sometimes not because they have merit on their own, but because the director wants them there.
An often-overlooked aspect of the kernel community of the open Unices is the lack of true central authority. Before you flame, some OS's have stronger leadership than others, and some are ruled more by a group concensus than others. It seems a it obvious that this question came from a user who hasn't spent much time in the BSD 'community'. Spend more time there and I think this and many other questions will be answered, just maybe not the way you expect.
Gran Turismo 3? --> Need for Speed
/. requires readers have a pc and a internet connection too. 3. Are the 6 people going to pitch in and help pay for the console? I wnt to a small lan party and played 3 different titles and we all brought pc's... some of us brought laptops. As for spectators, we play the game for fun, not to show it off to others.
Shen Mue ? --> Max Payne
Crazy Taxi? -->
Devil May Cry? --> Lame Ass, boring game
Mario Party 3? -->
--> CounterStrike?
--> Ghost Recon?
--> Command & Conquer Series?
--> Baldur's Gate?
--> Diablo Series?
Some of the titles are a little weaker (GT3 does rock) but one, two, or even 3 games doesn't justify the cost of a console. The point is that yes, there are different titles, but there are many one-for-ones with the PC. As for games *never* being available for the PC, that's what MS is trying to do with the Xbox- the PC and the XB both use DirectX 8. As far as head-to-head, uhhh how are you connected and reading slashdot? After all,
Console games for the large part never do justice to the PC titles they rip off either- that's what it's a moot point.
Again, my point is that the console isn't worth one or two games.
I agree with you on many of those counts, but the issue is still you or me.
I don't have driver problems all the time, and I don't get error messages when I install my games. I too, like to play games sometimes for only 5 or 10 minutes, so I play:
Quake 3 Arena
CounterStrike
Ghost Recon
And for the kids we like:
Nick Jr.
PBS
Now I can image when my son outgrows those sites, he might be ready for a console. No one has really made that point here- they all cite drivers issues, error messages, etc. But my point is that many people may be buying into marketing and thinking they somehow need a console.
I hate to be a spoiler for this kind of great news, but...
I seriously considered all three of the latest consoles for me and my family. I was open to spending up to about $500 on game stuff, but I came to these conclusions:
But these are all pretty much irrelevant. The PC makes a great platform, and I already have a couple very good gaming machines. The PC has more titles, cheaper games, downloadable demos, and can and already is connected to the internet. I for one am seeing the console industry getting closer to the closed-up boxen that I loathe. I like building some of my PC's, and the console seems to be heading in that direction.
I am quite interested to hear what other Slashdotters think about just keeping their PC's (or getting a new one) instead of also getting a game console.
I think what Bill is saying is that he feels the Open Source movement is riding on the coat-tails of Microsoft's success. I think he is implying that Microsoft broke ground and created a standards-based system of software (Office, Windows, etc) and the Open Source movement is using some of his original ideas and yet claiming to be at odds with MS.
As far as Bill being clueless- remember any large Corporation's PR stuff is like a big card game. Bill and Co. are very, very smart no matter how evil they may or may not be. Don't think for a second that Bill hasn't thought through the whole OSS movement.