I'd just like to thank everyone that followed up on my post. I honestly had no idea how much Java was used as a server-side language and I am quite surprised. I still feel that it is bloated, but I can see the reasons for using it.
I for one was really disappointed with the N64. The best console games I have played to date are Zelda on the SNES, the first Zelda, and Metroid on the SNES. Why? These games were not 3D.
Why is it that every new game coming out has to have some sort of funky camera that follows the character around? They are hard to use, they make seeing the character difficult, and for some reason, they always get screwed up in the middle of an action scene. Not to mention the whole 3D world in itself. 3D is great for flight sims and racing games, but if all the new games for the Gamecube are into the latest 3D fad, then I will not be purchasing it. I'd rather have ease of use than these lame-ass 3D views.
WTF? Did the idea of making money ever occur to you? If I had an algorithm that could distinguish between porn and my friends being dumbasses, I could sell it and be rich. Did the company come right out and say they were only in this so they could censor email? I don't recall reading that part.
Welcome to the new war. I'm thinking that the 'war' between Oracle and SQL Server is going to be like the war between Netscape and IE. It will be interesting to see who comes out on top.
From the article, they are offering 10 million to "anyone who could get any application to run on Microsoft's TPC-C clustered-database configuration that the Transaction Processing Council." Perhaps MS should take them up on this bet.. it could be fun to see.
Drugs are used everywhere. To think that the IT field is somehow too elite to be stricken with this is naive. As the article and another slashdotter pointed out, there is a lot of money and drugs are of course a place to spend that money.
Personally, I liked how they mentioned caffeine as a drug. Interesting thought all by itself.
"Instead of going for the highest possible performance, which does not contribute to software development, our idea was to create a developer-friendly next generation TV game machine that maintained above-standard capabilities."
Good lord, somebody finally got it! I have owned every system Nintendo has released and my least favorite was the N64. The majority of the games just plain sucked.
News to other game makers, I don't care about the power of the box if the stuff on them sucks. This goes for PC games as well.
I used to think Gnutella was great. It had speedy searches and was pretty fast. But now it just sucks. It's not so much that searches take forever now, it's that the searches return so much shit with them. Ads for webpages, viruses, things that don't even pertain to what you were searching for.
Gnutella needs a replacement and doesn't need to continually get a facelift that makes it look nicer.
What would be interesting would be to combine the CueCat scanner and the Lego Mindstorms. For instance, I am sitting at my desk. In my cd-player, which has a massive sound system, I want to change the CD. Instead of getting up to do it, I scan in a bar code related tot he CD I want to hear. The robot changes it for me.
I am not sure how either of these two devices work (yet), but the fusion of the two could be kind of cool.
I can't wait until we get to 1.21 GHz.. then I can run around saying, "1.21 GHz? 1.21 GHz?! The only thing capable of producing that much power is a bolt of lightning!!"
The page in question is in German (duh), so here is ye olde Bablefish translation:
Web inquiry:
Windows quite far in front In the inquiry after the best operating system on MSNBC the page turned in wondrous way. If morning was appropriate still for Linux, like reported, with 28% of 18.500 voices in guidance on Friday, then the voice proportion of the free operating system sank until Sunday evening on 3% of 384.848 voices. The inquiry took a strange process: Thus Linux achieved a high on Saturday mornings against 3 o'clock with 39% - from that up to then delivered 29,100 voices approximately 11,350 was allotted to the free operating system. In the following 20 hours 126,500 voices were then added, from which however 800 (according to 0.6%) was surprisingly only allotted to Linux. Thus the being correct proportion doubled itself both from Windows 95/98/ME and NT/2000. now moves with some the suspicion, there must have been manipulated. Trust no statistics, which you did not falsify...
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Kinda messy, but I didn't want to change it from what BF put it as.
This sort of reminds me of terrorism. If you give in to terrorists, then other terrorists will do the same thing knowing that you will.
If they are giving out stock options, how long will it take for every schmoe out there to start figuring out how to rip CDs and create ISOs just for the stock options.
Screw college, I can make more in stocks by stealing shit, plus its funner!
I don't know about the rest of you, but I've already removed my credit card number and asked Amazon to remove all personal information about me from their site. This irks me a lot. I realize that my personal information is already out there, but the idea of someone making money off of me like that really pisses me off.
I highly doubt they're going to remove my personal information simply because I asked. All I can do is screw it all up so whomever gets it next can't use it correctly. Amazon.com is no longer on my places to shop because of this.
What interests me about these type of services is their stock potential. Although the IPO rush is gone, there are still going to be a few that are really hot. I expect a service like this to be one of those simply because it has such potential.
But like others have said, it depends on whether or not they can do it right... that is quick, efficient, and multi-national.
. . . A surprisingly large portion of Napster traffic is that of unsigned artists/artists who have explicitly allowed their material to be traded. Indeed, there are several times more artists in Napster's "New Artists" program than there are signed by the major labels--and all of them allow trading of their music. ..
This may or may not be true, I have no idea. However, I am one of those people who actually did go to the new artists section to see what was there. I found lots of interesting music that looked really cool. But, I was unable to find it on Napster. I simply don't understand how they promote these artists if they don't have their music available. And no, I didn't quit after searching for just one artist.. I searched for about a dozen.
Not to worry, a quick search on mp3.com turned them up.
How come every new concept of the future has to be aerodynamic? I mean, please, it's not like my machine is going to be going faster because it has a slender design. How the hell am I supposed to balance things on that thing if it has all those curves? Give me a damn computer that is a square and won't tip over.
Although now that I think about it, a drink holder in the case would be pretty damn cool.
One of my biggest gripes with the N64 is that every damn game seems to be using the 3D landscape, run-around-as-mario-or-link camera view. I hate that. It looked cool for about two seconds.
I really enjoyed the old Zelda games. They were great. I still play them. But when it hit the N64, they lost something they once had. It was now a question of trying to jump through hoops and it was no longer fun.
I hope this new system returns to the old camera views, ease of use, and great storyline.
I really don't know how much I would like having something like this that I use all day long. I mean, it sounds nice. But isn't it really just eye-candy? Look at the transition effects in Win2k. They were going to be really cool, but now everyone I know just turns them off.
I get pissed when my mouse runs in to a piece of dirt on the desk and causes it to act different than I expect. I don't see how it will be much different if the app is going to be that dirt for me. Guess I'll wait and see though.
But the bill also allows that customer's Internet service provider to collect hundreds or thousands of bad messages sent through its main computers and sue the mailer for $10 on each one, providing the incentive of millions of dollars in potential damages.
Now this could be very damaging to a company. It's good to see that ISPs are not being left out of this bill. Good work, Colorado!
Forgot to log in.. thought I'd try again.:) After looking at sting.com, I have to wonder why Sting didn't just try to buy him off. I mean, it doesn't look like there is much time spent on the site so perhaps offering a small amount of money would have been a better idea. Oh well. Sucks for Sting, I guess (the band, that is).
"An estimated 5 to 10 miles in diameter, that 1974 discovery, named Leda"
So what does it take to become a moon? I mean, 5 to 10 miles is not very big, in my mind at least. Is it merely a size issue or are there other things taken into consideration?
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I'd just like to thank everyone that followed up on my post. I honestly had no idea how much Java was used as a server-side language and I am quite surprised. I still feel that it is bloated, but I can see the reasons for using it.
:)
Deamons OUT!
I for one was really disappointed with the N64. The best console games I have played to date are Zelda on the SNES, the first Zelda, and Metroid on the SNES. Why? These games were not 3D.
Why is it that every new game coming out has to have some sort of funky camera that follows the character around? They are hard to use, they make seeing the character difficult, and for some reason, they always get screwed up in the middle of an action scene. Not to mention the whole 3D world in itself. 3D is great for flight sims and racing games, but if all the new games for the Gamecube are into the latest 3D fad, then I will not be purchasing it. I'd rather have ease of use than these lame-ass 3D views.
That's true too, I suppose. Profits are not a bad thing, however. They're what make the world go 'round.
:)
I think we are a long way off from a good porn-detection algorithm. If and when we get one, however, we can set up a worm to find all of it.
WTF? Did the idea of making money ever occur to you? If I had an algorithm that could distinguish between porn and my friends being dumbasses, I could sell it and be rich. Did the company come right out and say they were only in this so they could censor email? I don't recall reading that part.
Welcome to the new war. I'm thinking that the 'war' between Oracle and SQL Server is going to be like the war between Netscape and IE. It will be interesting to see who comes out on top.
From the article, they are offering 10 million to "anyone who could get any application to run on Microsoft's TPC-C clustered-database configuration that the Transaction Processing Council." Perhaps MS should take them up on this bet.. it could be fun to see.
Drugs are used everywhere. To think that the IT field is somehow too elite to be stricken with this is naive. As the article and another slashdotter pointed out, there is a lot of money and drugs are of course a place to spend that money.
Personally, I liked how they mentioned caffeine as a drug. Interesting thought all by itself.
"Instead of going for the highest possible performance, which does not contribute to software development, our idea was to create a developer-friendly next generation TV game machine that maintained above-standard capabilities."
Good lord, somebody finally got it! I have owned every system Nintendo has released and my least favorite was the N64. The majority of the games just plain sucked.
News to other game makers, I don't care about the power of the box if the stuff on them sucks. This goes for PC games as well.
Here's hoping the new Metroid will rule me.
I used to think Gnutella was great. It had speedy searches and was pretty fast. But now it just sucks. It's not so much that searches take forever now, it's that the searches return so much shit with them. Ads for webpages, viruses, things that don't even pertain to what you were searching for.
Gnutella needs a replacement and doesn't need to continually get a facelift that makes it look nicer.
What would be interesting would be to combine the CueCat scanner and the Lego Mindstorms. For instance, I am sitting at my desk. In my cd-player, which has a massive sound system, I want to change the CD. Instead of getting up to do it, I scan in a bar code related tot he CD I want to hear. The robot changes it for me.
I am not sure how either of these two devices work (yet), but the fusion of the two could be kind of cool.
I can't wait until we get to 1.21 GHz.. then I can run around saying, "1.21 GHz? 1.21 GHz?! The only thing capable of producing that much power is a bolt of lightning!!"
1.21GHz!!
The page in question is in German (duh), so here is ye olde Bablefish translation:
Web inquiry:
Windows quite far in front In the inquiry after the best operating system on MSNBC the page turned in wondrous way. If morning was appropriate still for Linux, like reported, with 28% of 18.500 voices in guidance on Friday, then the voice proportion of the free operating system sank until Sunday evening on 3% of 384.848 voices. The inquiry took a strange process: Thus Linux achieved a high on Saturday mornings against 3 o'clock with 39% - from that up to then delivered 29,100 voices approximately 11,350 was allotted to the free operating system. In the following 20 hours 126,500 voices were then added, from which however 800 (according to 0.6%) was surprisingly only allotted to Linux. Thus the being correct proportion doubled itself both from Windows 95/98/ME and NT/2000. now moves with some the suspicion, there must have been manipulated. Trust no statistics, which you did not falsify...
----
Kinda messy, but I didn't want to change it from what BF put it as.
From the article, you can find gPulp at http://gnutellang.wego.com/.
This sort of reminds me of terrorism. If you give in to terrorists, then other terrorists will do the same thing knowing that you will.
If they are giving out stock options, how long will it take for every schmoe out there to start figuring out how to rip CDs and create ISOs just for the stock options.
Screw college, I can make more in stocks by stealing shit, plus its funner!
Give it to me, I'll test it for them.
"Judge Judy is a man!?" Bwhahaha! Think of the power.
Uh.. on a realistic note so I don't get moderated down... umm.. Time to start encrypting my email.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I've already removed my credit card number and asked Amazon to remove all personal information about me from their site. This irks me a lot. I realize that my personal information is already out there, but the idea of someone making money off of me like that really pisses me off.
I highly doubt they're going to remove my personal information simply because I asked. All I can do is screw it all up so whomever gets it next can't use it correctly. Amazon.com is no longer on my places to shop because of this.
What interests me about these type of services is their stock potential. Although the IPO rush is gone, there are still going to be a few that are really hot. I expect a service like this to be one of those simply because it has such potential.
But like others have said, it depends on whether or not they can do it right... that is quick, efficient, and multi-national.
. . . A surprisingly large portion of Napster traffic is that of unsigned artists/artists who have explicitly allowed their material to be traded. Indeed, there are several times more artists in Napster's "New Artists" program than there are signed by the major labels--and all of them allow trading of their music. . .
This may or may not be true, I have no idea. However, I am one of those people who actually did go to the new artists section to see what was there. I found lots of interesting music that looked really cool. But, I was unable to find it on Napster. I simply don't understand how they promote these artists if they don't have their music available. And no, I didn't quit after searching for just one artist.. I searched for about a dozen.
Not to worry, a quick search on mp3.com turned them up.
How come every new concept of the future has to be aerodynamic? I mean, please, it's not like my machine is going to be going faster because it has a slender design. How the hell am I supposed to balance things on that thing if it has all those curves? Give me a damn computer that is a square and won't tip over.
Although now that I think about it, a drink holder in the case would be pretty damn cool.
One of my biggest gripes with the N64 is that every damn game seems to be using the 3D landscape, run-around-as-mario-or-link camera view. I hate that. It looked cool for about two seconds.
I really enjoyed the old Zelda games. They were great. I still play them. But when it hit the N64, they lost something they once had. It was now a question of trying to jump through hoops and it was no longer fun.
I hope this new system returns to the old camera views, ease of use, and great storyline.
I really don't know how much I would like having something like this that I use all day long. I mean, it sounds nice. But isn't it really just eye-candy? Look at the transition effects in Win2k. They were going to be really cool, but now everyone I know just turns them off.
I get pissed when my mouse runs in to a piece of dirt on the desk and causes it to act different than I expect. I don't see how it will be much different if the app is going to be that dirt for me. Guess I'll wait and see though.
I can see it now, the mailboxes of Colorado residents will be filled with "ADV: Getting spammed lately?" email.
But the bill also allows that customer's Internet service provider to collect hundreds or thousands of bad messages sent through its main computers and sue the mailer for $10 on each one, providing the incentive of millions of dollars in potential damages.
Now this could be very damaging to a company. It's good to see that ISPs are not being left out of this bill. Good work, Colorado!
I have two thoughts on this. First, ten bucks is not much. It's hardly worth the hassel of going to court over for such a small amount.
But, on the flip side, 10 bucks from 100,000 people would certainly be a bad thing for a company. It will be interesting to see where this goes.
Forgot to log in.. thought I'd try again. :) After looking at sting.com, I have to wonder why Sting didn't just try to buy him off. I mean, it doesn't look like there is much time spent on the site so perhaps offering a small amount of money would have been a better idea. Oh well. Sucks for Sting, I guess (the band, that is).
"An estimated 5 to 10 miles in diameter, that 1974 discovery, named Leda"
So what does it take to become a moon? I mean, 5 to 10 miles is not very big, in my mind at least. Is it merely a size issue or are there other things taken into consideration?