Unless the peformance is close or better than windows peformance (pretty bloody hard all things considered) It won't be a serious option for msot gamers *anyway*. I sincerely hope they cna pull it off, it would be great and a huge boost to the Linux community, most kids wanna play games, if they can play them under linux it might keep them away from WinXP that little bit more.. Particualry the hacker types who no doubt don't like windows but need their daily counterstrike . Linux needs them for the next generation of OSS coders.
FOR CRYING OUT LOUD PEOPLE!
The issue in the end is not religion at all, it is purely economic. Marx would see this as a class war, and he would be correct. The US has been screwing the Middle East for decades, this is retaliation. Extremism rises when you have poverty, look at post WWI Germany, Russia under the Tsars, Afghanistan after 30 years of war.
Amongst the rhetoric there have been a few statements that basically confirm this, Islamic fanaticism is merely a front. The way to defeat such things is to rebuild the countries. Drop troops, lots of them into Afghanistan, rebuild the country, you would have the support of all those oppressed under the Taliban. This fanaticism needs mainstream support or at least acceptance to survive and thrive, if you remove their cause of tolerating if not supporting it will mostly go away. Look macro not micro people.
*sighs* pure/true freedom of speach is impossible becuase it allows others to take away the freedom of speach of others. Wake up, true freedom of speach does not exist and certainly not inside our currant structure.
Differences are
a: most people have 15in screens
b: 500mb? I'm not seeing DVD quality in that somehow.
c: Most people who watch pirate DIVX;)'s aren't going to pay anyway.
Who will pay pay slightly less and $500 for a TV out card to get a shithouse quality movie(paticualry after going though a consumer level TVOUT card) on your 4foot plasma?
$1-2 difference (pay per view is around $4 right?) is not going to be enough, to cover bandwidth costs i doubt they can go much lower. Stupid attempt to stop the unstoppable.
Geez every time i check back together somthing new has borken - now the slashboxes have lost their borders.....
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I have to agree entirly, i am in EXACTLY the same boat. I moved ot 2k about 2 months ago after i got sick of reinstalling 98 every 3 months becuause it builds up crap and slowly dies. XP i iwll ue after my dead body, thats why i'm currantly downloading mandrake so i can slowly move, dual boot for now.
The problem with moving totally which i would do now if i could was that i need access/exell/VB for school, i have no choice (except for using mySQL to piss off my teacher instead of access as i am doing) about using those, they don't consider other operating systems at all and are totally locked into contracts with msft.
SO thats why less than half of your even bothered to vote. I used to live in the UK, the govt is not that open, in fact its pretty damn crook in places.
Still better than the US by a few hundred miles tho.
Are you trying to tell me an organsied, funded terrorist organisation with no base that can be attacked in retalitation can't sneak a briefcase into the country, or buy one on the black market???
And that were gonna go, bah, thats only one kiloton, who cares, it'll only take out half of manhatten island?????
Vs a country, which is by firing a nuke at the US, jsut begging to be nuked to hell and back, and spending 60BILLION on it.
You would want to shield the arena then otherwise you'd have a very pissed off crowd when they realised their mobiles had suddenly died...
Cartridge based weapons would be too dangerous to the crowd, flamers would be interesting...
From a viewers perspective EMP is pretty boring, you don't see anything, jsut suddenly half the bots that forgot to add shielding stop working.
You forgetting somthing, cell phones, internet, cable TV etc were NEVER one off payment or free things, if it had been rent from the start people would be swallowing this shit, but coz they never have had to before, and there are alternatives there is gonna be one big stink(TM)
Other factor is all those SERVICES you listed cost the company money to keep providing, whereas once u have software, is costs the company nothing to have you running that software (directly).
The other fact is that software in its currant form is a PRODUCT, not a SERVICE, microsoft want it to be a service so they make more money, while there are viable alternatives i think they are in danger of shooting themsleves in the foot with a shotgun. (please!!!)
What happen when you DOS a lightbulb?
Just wiat till script kiddies can blow every bulb in your house in under a minute.......and we've already seen a fridge with the blue screen of death *shudders*.........
The fact is simply, yes people are getting baiesed, bullshit news from one or two major souces. BUT THEY DO NTO CARE. Theats all they want, its called apathy, if they wanted realy facts, different news, they'd get it, supply = demand.
If i remember your origional post corrrectly (a few hours ago so correct me if i'm wrong)
But i was pretty much agreeing with you, jsut pointing out a few things that were entirely offtopic coz i was tired and irritable.
My appoligies.
It is elitist fool like you, that caused the French revolution, *slaps* grow a brain.
To assume that because a person is poor they have nothing to offer and that they shouldn't add on tenth of a second to your load time for Slashdot is the most moronic thing i have heard in a long time. As any service grows, the demand on it will increase and so will the supply, basic business rule. Would you rather the internet was as it was a few years back,a tiny group people, little content, or would you rather have it expand, offer more and more to the world at large helping people learn and get access to essentials like p0rn. As other have pointed out here, it is far smarter to teach people than to tell them all to piss off.
My good sir, free stuff does undermine expolititive western capatilist economies. This is not a bad thing.
What you suggested is a cummunist system, goo in theory but not in practise.
Neither work, capatilisim jsut fucks things up (look around you id you don't believe me) but communisim puts too mcuh power in governments, whcih is equally dangerous.
Couple of questions, they GSM, CDMA?
Can your use them in other countries?
I find that the biggest problem with a mobile for security is that your exactly location can be triangulated. I personally use a modified Siemens S35 that allows me to connect to X number of towers which i can use to defeat that but DAMN this would KICK ASS. Particular in the wake of all the echelon articles....
I have one thing to say
FUCK OFF
I avoided getting a mobile phone so my position cannot be triangulated, I'm gonna let my parents strap some fucking tracker on me? GET REAL!
*after 10 minutes*
Oh darn mother, it seems I accidentally hit this little piece of shit with a hammer against a brick wall. What a pity.
I'm glad my parents respect my privacy, I want the right to be able to say things, and do things without being tracked everywhere I go, talk about big brother is watching *literally*
As another guy said one step closer to having chips implanted in our asses at birth, for your own good of course.
A good example of anti-cheat tools is PunkBUster.
www.punkbuster.com
which is used on CounterStrike servers, as well as keeping a list of banned cheats (by their WON IDs) it checks for wall hacks like this, and many other cheats.
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Yes but Linux people are gnerally much more computer savvy than the kind of people who will be running winXP.
thankyou for a fantastic collection of nitpickings.
Unless the peformance is close or better than windows peformance (pretty bloody hard all things considered) It won't be a serious option for msot gamers *anyway*. I sincerely hope they cna pull it off, it would be great and a huge boost to the Linux community, most kids wanna play games, if they can play them under linux it might keep them away from WinXP that little bit more.. Particualry the hacker types who no doubt don't like windows but need their daily counterstrike . Linux needs them for the next generation of OSS coders.
I still don't see how any of this will stop me plugging the speaker output on my stearo into the analog input on my soundcard and recording it...
Hehehe
In Australia we get untimed local calls, and no incoming call charges on mobiles. Muhahahah
FOR CRYING OUT LOUD PEOPLE!
The issue in the end is not religion at all, it is purely economic. Marx would see this as a class war, and he would be correct. The US has been screwing the Middle East for decades, this is retaliation. Extremism rises when you have poverty, look at post WWI Germany, Russia under the Tsars, Afghanistan after 30 years of war.
Amongst the rhetoric there have been a few statements that basically confirm this, Islamic fanaticism is merely a front. The way to defeat such things is to rebuild the countries. Drop troops, lots of them into Afghanistan, rebuild the country, you would have the support of all those oppressed under the Taliban. This fanaticism needs mainstream support or at least acceptance to survive and thrive, if you remove their cause of tolerating if not supporting it will mostly go away. Look macro not micro people.
etcetc....
i just want my tag
*sighs* pure/true freedom of speach is impossible becuase it allows others to take away the freedom of speach of others. Wake up, true freedom of speach does not exist and certainly not inside our currant structure.
Differences are ;)'s aren't going to pay anyway.
a: most people have 15in screens
b: 500mb? I'm not seeing DVD quality in that somehow.
c: Most people who watch pirate DIVX
Who will pay pay slightly less and $500 for a TV out card to get a shithouse quality movie(paticualry after going though a consumer level TVOUT card) on your 4foot plasma?
$1-2 difference (pay per view is around $4 right?) is not going to be enough, to cover bandwidth costs i doubt they can go much lower. Stupid attempt to stop the unstoppable.
Geez every time i check back together somthing new has borken - now the slashboxes have lost their borders.....
I have to agree entirly, i am in EXACTLY the same boat. I moved ot 2k about 2 months ago after i got sick of reinstalling 98 every 3 months becuause it builds up crap and slowly dies. XP i iwll ue after my dead body, thats why i'm currantly downloading mandrake so i can slowly move, dual boot for now. The problem with moving totally which i would do now if i could was that i need access/exell/VB for school, i have no choice (except for using mySQL to piss off my teacher instead of access as i am doing) about using those, they don't consider other operating systems at all and are totally locked into contracts with msft.
SO thats why less than half of your even bothered to vote. I used to live in the UK, the govt is not that open, in fact its pretty damn crook in places. Still better than the US by a few hundred miles tho.
Are you trying to tell me an organsied, funded terrorist organisation with no base that can be attacked in retalitation can't sneak a briefcase into the country, or buy one on the black market??? And that were gonna go, bah, thats only one kiloton, who cares, it'll only take out half of manhatten island????? Vs a country, which is by firing a nuke at the US, jsut begging to be nuked to hell and back, and spending 60BILLION on it.
You would want to shield the arena then otherwise you'd have a very pissed off crowd when they realised their mobiles had suddenly died... Cartridge based weapons would be too dangerous to the crowd, flamers would be interesting... From a viewers perspective EMP is pretty boring, you don't see anything, jsut suddenly half the bots that forgot to add shielding stop working.
You forgetting somthing, cell phones, internet, cable TV etc were NEVER one off payment or free things, if it had been rent from the start people would be swallowing this shit, but coz they never have had to before, and there are alternatives there is gonna be one big stink(TM) Other factor is all those SERVICES you listed cost the company money to keep providing, whereas once u have software, is costs the company nothing to have you running that software (directly). The other fact is that software in its currant form is a PRODUCT, not a SERVICE, microsoft want it to be a service so they make more money, while there are viable alternatives i think they are in danger of shooting themsleves in the foot with a shotgun. (please!!!)
But i LIKE hearing my drives, its the only way of kooing if your computer is doing somthing somtimes!
What happen when you DOS a lightbulb? Just wiat till script kiddies can blow every bulb in your house in under a minute.......and we've already seen a fridge with the blue screen of death *shudders*.........
I think this is what we define as competition in the 21st centuary.....
The fact is simply, yes people are getting baiesed, bullshit news from one or two major souces. BUT THEY DO NTO CARE. Theats all they want, its called apathy, if they wanted realy facts, different news, they'd get it, supply = demand.
If i remember your origional post corrrectly (a few hours ago so correct me if i'm wrong) But i was pretty much agreeing with you, jsut pointing out a few things that were entirely offtopic coz i was tired and irritable. My appoligies.
It is elitist fool like you, that caused the French revolution, *slaps* grow a brain. To assume that because a person is poor they have nothing to offer and that they shouldn't add on tenth of a second to your load time for Slashdot is the most moronic thing i have heard in a long time. As any service grows, the demand on it will increase and so will the supply, basic business rule. Would you rather the internet was as it was a few years back ,a tiny group people, little content, or would you rather have it expand, offer more and more to the world at large helping people learn and get access to essentials like p0rn. As other have pointed out here, it is far smarter to teach people than to tell them all to piss off.
My good sir, free stuff does undermine expolititive western capatilist economies. This is not a bad thing. What you suggested is a cummunist system, goo in theory but not in practise. Neither work, capatilisim jsut fucks things up (look around you id you don't believe me) but communisim puts too mcuh power in governments, whcih is equally dangerous.
Couple of questions, they GSM, CDMA? Can your use them in other countries? I find that the biggest problem with a mobile for security is that your exactly location can be triangulated. I personally use a modified Siemens S35 that allows me to connect to X number of towers which i can use to defeat that but DAMN this would KICK ASS. Particular in the wake of all the echelon articles....
I have one thing to say FUCK OFF I avoided getting a mobile phone so my position cannot be triangulated, I'm gonna let my parents strap some fucking tracker on me? GET REAL! *after 10 minutes* Oh darn mother, it seems I accidentally hit this little piece of shit with a hammer against a brick wall. What a pity. I'm glad my parents respect my privacy, I want the right to be able to say things, and do things without being tracked everywhere I go, talk about big brother is watching *literally* As another guy said one step closer to having chips implanted in our asses at birth, for your own good of course.
A good example of anti-cheat tools is PunkBUster. www.punkbuster.com which is used on CounterStrike servers, as well as keeping a list of banned cheats (by their WON IDs) it checks for wall hacks like this, and many other cheats.