You are correct, this is pure propoganda. Nothing is served by these documents or peoples efforts to translate them other than to generate fear. This is how a flagging leadership retains control.
Welcome to the war machine you nerds, didn't think your little hobby would get drug along as a mascott did you.
You know what sucks, it works every time every where.
Observing the fallout from E3, Sony counters the XBox 360 and it's media centric marketing with a "me too" and some "vision" cooked up in meetings earlier this week.
I'm not complaining, an XBox Live equivalent would be nice and some media functions are alright. If it play's HD DVD that's just dandy. Much of what they've talked about over the last few weeks however is just a bit of software the PS1 was more than capable of (minus hddvd) from a processing power standpoint.
As for the interview... They can posture, reposition, and justify all they want. Working all the talking points and feature equivalents 'till they're blue in the face. But it still, sounds like something they made up in a meeting yesterday rather than something I'd really want to do. I deffinately don't believe that the PS1 and PS2 were stepping stones to "aging" video online into HD as if that were possible.
Maybe they will do something interesting, but nobody is going to care if there aren't any games worth playing at launch.
how much more would it cost to install 512MB and a 7200rpm drive instead of 256MB and 5400rpm?
Hard to know, mfr's are annoying about this kind of stuff. Consider AGP slots, I can't count the number low end machines I've seen with vacant AGP soldier points. How much was saved? 20 cents on 6-7 hundred dollars retail?
Of course the cost to you and the cost to the MFR are not the same. Apple for instance seems to think ram is made of unobtanium wrought with tiny hammers by God's chosen. Granted the price dropped somewhat when Jesus busted up the union.
Things are getting somewhat out of hand as far as graphics cards. It seems like every 4-6 months there is a new line of cards out with slightly better specs in the 500 or so price range. I have a GeForce Ti4800 128mb and it runs all of my games, including doom3 and halflife two just fine. I'm not sure how people even justify the cost to them selves.
People that play Everquest II will be delighted to be able to play with all the video options turned up to 11 and still run well. MMOG's stand to gain a lot from the extra ram.
I'm not saying the cost is justified for just anyone, but if I played EQ II a *LOT* it might be. And in another year it will be a lot less expensive.
Maybe you should review the process you use for screening resumes. If its anything like the one most large companies use these days, it discards anyone that honestly protrays a solid skillset or good transferable job skills in favor of idiots that know how to pad a resume with more skillset buzzwords than they could truly learn in three lifetimes.
Of course, most of these resumes are crafted to please the ridiculous job descriptions mentioned in an earlier post. What an awful cycle...
This is a good point. A friend of mine recently told me about a coworker who applied for a position he had been doing on a temporary basis for 6 months at that point. Come to find that the HR folk tossed his resume because it didn't contain the right key(buzz) words. It would seem that the buzzword list didn't actually match what the job entailed. After a discussion with the management he resubmitted and got the job.
I've seen it happen many times. Competant but conservative resume's are filtered out, the people with the skills listed cost too much. What's left are the people that know how to game the system. Not to say they're unqualified, but we're all trying to get a job. That means getting into the interview no matter what it takes.
Is Microsoft going to have a similar problem, in that it has a nice OS, but few apps to run on it?
I think the idea behind AMD's x64 platform is that you don't have to recompile for it. 32 bit appllications should run on x64 the same as they do on 32 bit versions of XP.
This also has a lot to do with why Itanium didn't sell. It required new software top to bottom.
OK...that makes more sense...kinda defeats the whole idea of the thin-client/dumbterm solution, but that raises an important question...is the thin-client/dumbterm model even viable anymore in today's era of low-priced desktop systems?
Last I saw, you could pick up a new box (no display) for 250 dollars. That included Windows XP.
Heh. Speed limits don't do what you think. The safest way to pick a speed limit is to monitor the road without speed limits, and set the limit at the speed which 80% of the drivers naturally drive under. This is accepted fact across the nation. Guess how many speed limits are created this way? Almost none. Why? VERY BAD FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT REVENUE.
This is a popular myth. I keep a link to my local city's budget just for this purpose. What you'll find is that ticket revenue doesn't even cover the expense of trafic enforcement, much less generate "revenue" for the rest of the city. Fact is, traffic enforcement is a huge loss.
Because the linux kernal which just recently began to approach the responsiveness of MS's OS and the multitude of applications required to work with the same data in slightly different ways all using different libraries have nothing to gain from extra cycles.
I once saw an enraged developmentally disabled woman call her companion a "retard" because she didn't have her keys in hand before they got to the car. She is right, it isn't as efficient to wait until you are at the car to get your keys ready.
I, however, will take some inefficiency and thoughtlessness over a missing chromosome any day.
Why must insensitive clods go the extra mile to circumvent the handwriting recognition software so I must not only decipher their "language" but their handwriting to boot?!
Apparently I am not in the target audience. And I'll probably not be in the target's audience for long either.
Although it's good that Google's taking a step in the right direction by trying to keep their index clean, there are lots of sites who try to spam the index. SEO is a huge 'industry'. Cracking down on some of the big perpetrators is a good start, but more needs to be done if Google wants to maintain (and even improve) the quality of their searches.
Are they "cracking down" on the SEO's or actually retaliating at the comercial sites that paid for the SEO services? Both?
With the right setup you might run a Biological computer in it.
If you've got time you could build your own distro for it. Red Scat? GenPoo? Slackware?
This poll is at least as valid as a slashdot poll. Er study.
# This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.
Or, if all it takes to fix most computer problems is running a virus scan and purging spy/mal ware why should these people be "qualified". When you consider most "service" people will tell you to just re-install your os. Not because it fixes the problem, but "qualified" service can cost as much as the pc.
Or to put it another way. Fixing your PC is easy. Preserving your data is expensive.
His gripe about business unable to get "qualified" help is BS. Qualified help is really easy to get, and it's going to cost as much as any other educated employee.
and see how easy it would be to register yourself as a cabler..
ding ding ding
Or...
Go wireless
Or...
Find a cable installer that works in a large company and pay your new buddy a reasonable sum to do the job off company time. You should be able to pay considerably better than his wage while paying considerably less than what the company would charge you.
I found a lot of music via streaming servers that I really enjoyed. Of course they're all gone now.
P2P hasn't really changed my listening habbits as much as given me a way to avoid things that I don't like. I hate buying a CD and find out it's crap. P2P guarantees that I get my money's worth. Unfortunately the RIAA has benefited from this new endevor as well.
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You are correct, this is pure propoganda. Nothing is served by these documents or peoples efforts to translate them other than to generate fear. This is how a flagging leadership retains control.
Welcome to the war machine you nerds, didn't think your little hobby would get drug along as a mascott did you.
You know what sucks, it works every time every where.
Observing the fallout from E3, Sony counters the XBox 360 and it's media centric marketing with a "me too" and some "vision" cooked up in meetings earlier this week.
I'm not complaining, an XBox Live equivalent would be nice and some media functions are alright. If it play's HD DVD that's just dandy. Much of what they've talked about over the last few weeks however is just a bit of software the PS1 was more than capable of (minus hddvd) from a processing power standpoint.
As for the interview... They can posture, reposition, and justify all they want. Working all the talking points and feature equivalents 'till they're blue in the face. But it still, sounds like something they made up in a meeting yesterday rather than something I'd really want to do. I deffinately don't believe that the PS1 and PS2 were stepping stones to "aging" video online into HD as if that were possible.
Maybe they will do something interesting, but nobody is going to care if there aren't any games worth playing at launch.
how much more would it cost to install 512MB and a 7200rpm drive instead of 256MB and 5400rpm?
Hard to know, mfr's are annoying about this kind of stuff. Consider AGP slots, I can't count the number low end machines I've seen with vacant AGP soldier points. How much was saved? 20 cents on 6-7 hundred dollars retail?
Of course the cost to you and the cost to the MFR are not the same. Apple for instance seems to think ram is made of unobtanium wrought with tiny hammers by God's chosen. Granted the price dropped somewhat when Jesus busted up the union.
BTW for the record, I've never bought one of these uber expensive cards. I don't think any of my current video cards were more than $200.
Things are getting somewhat out of hand as far as graphics cards. It seems like every 4-6 months there is a new line of cards out with slightly better specs in the 500 or so price range. I have a GeForce Ti4800 128mb and it runs all of my games, including doom3 and halflife two just fine. I'm not sure how people even justify the cost to them selves.
People that play Everquest II will be delighted to be able to play with all the video options turned up to 11 and still run well. MMOG's stand to gain a lot from the extra ram.
I'm not saying the cost is justified for just anyone, but if I played EQ II a *LOT* it might be. And in another year it will be a lot less expensive.
Maybe you should review the process you use for screening resumes. If its anything like the one most large companies use these days, it discards anyone that honestly protrays a solid skillset or good transferable job skills in favor of idiots that know how to pad a resume with more skillset buzzwords than they could truly learn in three lifetimes.
Of course, most of these resumes are crafted to please the ridiculous job descriptions mentioned in an earlier post. What an awful cycle...
This is a good point. A friend of mine recently told me about a coworker who applied for a position he had been doing on a temporary basis for 6 months at that point. Come to find that the HR folk tossed his resume because it didn't contain the right key(buzz) words. It would seem that the buzzword list didn't actually match what the job entailed. After a discussion with the management he resubmitted and got the job.
I've seen it happen many times. Competant but conservative resume's are filtered out, the people with the skills listed cost too much. What's left are the people that know how to game the system.
Not to say they're unqualified, but we're all trying to get a job. That means getting into the interview no matter what it takes.
Congrats, Fred. You made Slashdot's front page. Now let's see if your servers can take the slashdotting...
The Backup Institute webserver seems to be suffering from ambulatory mortosis.
Everyone in the ad is outside.
Is Microsoft going to have a similar problem, in that it has a nice OS, but few apps to run on it?
I think the idea behind AMD's x64 platform is that you don't have to recompile for it. 32 bit appllications should run on x64 the same as they do on 32 bit versions of XP.
This also has a lot to do with why Itanium didn't sell. It required new software top to bottom.
Would you like to loot this UberSword of Might +7? That will be $0.10, tyvm.
Just like X-Box live!
OK...that makes more sense...kinda defeats the whole idea of the thin-client/dumbterm solution, but that raises an important question...is the thin-client/dumbterm model even viable anymore in today's era of low-priced desktop systems?
Last I saw, you could pick up a new box (no display) for 250 dollars. That included Windows XP.
That's retail at CompUSA.
You got your chocolate in my peanutbutter.
You got your peanutbutter on my chocolate.
...where did all that money go, anyway?
Obviously the gold colored plastic badges are more expensive than the silver.
The link
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http://www.spokanecity.org/government/pog/budge
Heh. Speed limits don't do what you think. The safest way to pick a speed limit is to monitor the road without speed limits, and set the limit at the speed which 80% of the drivers naturally drive under. This is accepted fact across the nation. Guess how many speed limits are created this way? Almost none. Why? VERY BAD FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT REVENUE.
This is a popular myth. I keep a link to my local city's budget just for this purpose. What you'll find is that ticket revenue doesn't even cover the expense of trafic enforcement, much less generate "revenue" for the rest of the city. Fact is, traffic enforcement is a huge loss.
Microsoft Bashing
Because the linux kernal which just recently began to approach the responsiveness of MS's OS and the multitude of applications required to work with the same data in slightly different ways all using different libraries have nothing to gain from extra cycles.
I once saw an enraged developmentally disabled woman call her companion a "retard" because she didn't have her keys in hand before they got to the car. She is right, it isn't as efficient to wait until you are at the car to get your keys ready.
I, however, will take some inefficiency and thoughtlessness over a missing chromosome any day.
Why must insensitive clods go the extra mile to circumvent the handwriting recognition software so I must not only decipher their "language" but their handwriting to boot?!
Apparently I am not in the target audience. And I'll probably not be in the target's audience for long either.
The wierd part is if you log in when the mantisa changes, your space available updates (x% of x megabytes) as well.
Yes, I know we've got the two gig and they're just playing games with the counter. But they sure were through when they set out to do this.
Although it's good that Google's taking a step in the right direction by trying to keep their index clean, there are lots of sites who try to spam the index. SEO is a huge 'industry'. Cracking down on some of the big perpetrators is a good start, but more needs to be done if Google wants to maintain (and even improve) the quality of their searches.
Are they "cracking down" on the SEO's or actually retaliating at the comercial sites that paid for the SEO services? Both?
With the right setup you might run a Biological computer in it. If you've got time you could build your own distro for it. Red Scat? GenPoo? Slackware?
This poll is at least as valid as a slashdot poll. Er study.
# This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.
Or, if all it takes to fix most computer problems is running a virus scan and purging spy/mal ware why should these people be "qualified".
When you consider most "service" people will tell you to just re-install your os. Not because it fixes the problem, but "qualified" service can cost as much as the pc.
Or to put it another way. Fixing your PC is easy. Preserving your data is expensive.
His gripe about business unable to get "qualified" help is BS. Qualified help is really easy to get, and it's going to cost as much as any other educated employee.
and see how easy it would be to register yourself as a cabler..
ding ding ding
Or...
Go wireless
Or...
Find a cable installer that works in a large company and pay your new buddy a reasonable sum to do the job off company time. You should be able to pay considerably better than his wage while paying considerably less than what the company would charge you.
I found a lot of music via streaming servers that I really enjoyed. Of course they're all gone now.
P2P hasn't really changed my listening habbits as much as given me a way to avoid things that I don't like. I hate buying a CD and find out it's crap. P2P guarantees that I get my money's worth. Unfortunately the RIAA has benefited from this new endevor as well.
When it was first released it came with nothing.
Largely because there was nothing worth bundling?
I kid, Super Smash Brothers: Melee" was a years worth of gaming for anyone, I guess.