Man and Dinosaur lived harmoniously on the Flintstones, didn't they? That was millions of years ago, wasn't it?
Hey! I know! All those Dinosaurs they used as construction equipment! They must have crapped all over the place! Think of all the methane that must have produced. So, it was the Dinosaur's fault that we have all this global warming or cooling!
For those USians that aren't up on their civics and others, that's:
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
Hee hee! My roommate just bought a 9700 Pro, what a sucker! Now I can get the fastest, bestest card, ever!
At least for 6 months or so...
Then I'll need to get a new card, because of course I need to run the newest games at 1600x1200 and higher with all the options on.
Except when I play multiplayer. Then I'll reduce resolution to 640x480 and turn all the effects off. Because having a 200+ framerate really does help, even though my monitor only refreshes at 85Hz.
Microsoft just aquired the VM IP from Connectix. Press release is here. They are a direct competitor to VMware. Here's my question. Now that Microsoft owns the software, will the software run non-Microsoft Operating Systems? It did before, will it now?
This whole "two computers in one case! yay!" thing is tired. Move along, nothing to see here.
If I could run linux on an unmodified XBox and play the games made for it, that would add enough value that I would get one. I could run Linux, and play games. And I more importantly I would buy games. So Microsoft would make money after all.
I went to see Daredevil this weekend, and I saw the trailer for this. One of my buddies next to me gasped and said, "Nooo! Sean Connery! Why? You don't need the money!" Then he started in with some fake weeping.
I dunno. It doesn't look all that "extraordindary" to me. Just some slick CG from what I could see. In this day and age, the eye candy won't make the movie. Just look at Final Fantasy. My interest is piqued, I guess, but the trailer didn't convince me.
Compare this with the X-Men 2 trailer that also played. Just as good of CG as LXG, but with a healthy dose of plot. I suppose it could be that it's already riding on the success of the first one, and perhaps they are going with the whole "mystery" thing to get word of mouth going. And maybe I'm also full of BS, but I think that even non-comic book readers would be more likely to see X2 instead of LXG. Too many acronyms?
I'll reserve any final judgement (as if my opinion means anything) until I get more info on the plot. But many potentially good movies are bad because Hollywood thought they could dazzle moviegoers with distractions instead of paying attention to plot.
Perhaps I should clarify. When I said that that there wasn't much difference between killing someone with a gun, or with a blunt object, it's the actual act of killing a person that most people would find abhorrent. What weapon is used is simply a statistic used to place the crime into a category of how people were killed, and to show trends in violent crime. I think in this case the kid didn't actually want to kill people, but just pretend, FWIW.
I'm not for censoring video games by any means, but these kids shouldn't be playing mature games. The rating system is there for a reason, and it works, if the parents care to check. I blame the parents.
That reminds me of another story. One of my co-workers just got a new computer, and she wanted to get some games for it. I suggested she download the Quake 3 demo. She did, and apparently her husband loves it. I don't care that they participate in a gib-fest, but what I did find disconcerting was that her 8 and 4 year old daughters thought the game was great as well. She told me about it on ICQ, and she said, "Well, there goes my parent of the year award." in a very nonchalant way. Like she knew it was probably not the best for her kids to see, but she didn't really care.
Do these parents just not care? I know I would never show my kids anything like that, if I had any. I guess having kids changes things.
My roommate was at the gym, playing basketball with a little six year old kid. After a while, the kid wanted to play something called "TA3". After some prodding, he found out that the kid wanted to play "GTA3". The kid wanted to "kill" cops and random people. My roommate really didn't like that so the kid said, "Well, we could use bats, we can still kill people that way." As if using a blunt object instead of guns made a difference.
Is this just a modern "cops and robbers", or is it something far worse?
What happens in an ideal situation when traffic becomes congested in a city? They build more roads. Or more lanes. Or build up more mass transit. What is the commonality between all these? It moves more people.
Messing with routing seems to be the same as the DOT messing with shuffling cars and metering lights. Instead of focusing on how we can change all these routing patterns, why don't we just "build more roads"? I realize it isn't exactly trivial to do that, and that the backbones might be pretty tough, but what about all that "dark fiber" that is supposedly just laying around? That's the equivalent of not using an open freeway in a major city during rush hour! We've already got the road, but we just don't use it.
Wouldn't doing that just open up more bandwidth for people, at least locally?
Even the odd Tribble would help. Are they extinct?
Supposedly, yes, they are extinct. After the whole incident with the tribbles being beamed onto the Klingon ship in TOS, the Klingons were enraged, and destroyed the Tribble homeworld. I think Worf says so in that DS9 ep when they go back in time to TOS tribble episode.
I know a bunch of "sheep" that just follow whatever Microsoft does.
I get the feeling that when you say "sheep" you are implying that they cannot be changed. I know what you mean. My boss is a Microsoft guy through and through. He got all giddy when we installed IIS on an internal server. He says, "We can use this. We can set up a department web page!" Nevermind the fact that he doesn't even know what HTML code is, much less how to code it. I tried to explain Apache, setting up a MySQL database, and even coding a little AI front-end for people to interactively ask questions. His eyes glazed over.
Some people just use brand recognition to make their purchases. They see the advertisements from one of the myriad sources these days, and whether they know it or not, they are influenced by it in their buying decisions.
However, it isn't necessarily people like my boss that will be buying these chips. Wouldn't the people initially buying these chips be the systems builders? They test performance before they make a significant committment to a product. Although there can be (not so) little things like contracts to uphold, I suppose.
How could these "sheep" see the light? Explaining it in technical terms isn't always the best solution, and anecdotal evidence is often dismissed. I found that a simple TCO analysis can do wonders convincing the higher-ups. We did just that when trying to go on leases for our computers instead of out-right buying them. We showed that there was a financial incentive to doing it that way. Money is something that everybody understands.
(Reality suspended)
The media companies know that they can't just get people to punch up all their content through the internet. The consumer is too used to buying a physical movie, so something else must be offered.
And so, DVD comes into play after VHS tapes. Value added includes not having to rewind, higher image and sound quality, and advanced playback features. What they don't tell you is that the DVD discs degrade over time, faster than you would stop watching them in your lifetime. So you need to buy another disc.
So then, online content is introduced, with all the same features as a DVD, except that there is no physical content that can degrade! How convenient! And of course you pay for it every time you watch it. Also convenient. Ha! I know their plan!
(Reality resumed)
Wait a minute! Cable and satellite fill this niche right now! Physical media and sat/cable coexist! Arrrgh!
-1, Redundant for over-usage of the exclamation point.
The shuttle is a monstrously complex beast that NASA kept using because it had already sunk so much time and effort in.
This kinda reminds me of how people spend so much time and effort playing Everquest that they can't stop. In order to justify all the work put in, they just spend more on it, and won't move on to something else. At least a new game.
This is a sad day for everyone, but don't despair that now we (humankind) won't really get into space. Even if the entire NASA program is scrapped (which I don't think will happen), we will continue to explore space. It is in human nature to explore the unknown. The early pioneers that explored the last frontiers here on earth would die sometimes. Sometimes expensive exploratory expeditions would disappear in bad circumstances. That didn't stop us. As our technological prowess increases, we'll get there. It may not be goverment funded exploration anymore, but commercial, or consumer. This tragic event may set us back a few years, but we'll keep going, and in the long run, those few years won't matter.
We're a stubborn species, and every generation seems to think that they are better than all the previous ones. We'll keep on it.
You mean to tell me that parents will no longer be able to "speed through the bad parts" on a movie that they are watching with their kids?
The nerve of Hollywood to take away my fast forward button! That's a crucial part of my DVD player!
I suppose that in the end, all we'll have left is the eject button to slide the tray in and out. Missed a part? Start it over. Got to pee really bad? Start it over. How dare we, the consumer, get in the way of the director's pristine vision of the movie. We must be savages.
7-8 years look long enough, but most companies don't adopt the product right out of the release. Usually for servers we will put it into use 2-3 years after it first releases, taking into account software development and testing.
Now that I think about that, here where I work it took us years to get set with Win2k, and we still have one NT box sitting around somewhere. I hope we aren't the norm, for a midsize shop, at least. I also have to hope that a company that perhaps has only 1500 users can react a bit faster than a larger company. It pains me a bit to see that on any new workstations we buy, we get XP. (Yes, we could still buy 2k...grr...stupid management.) We couldn't even convert fast enough to get consistency across the workstations. And now here comes.NET (or whatever) server.
"What? But we just converted 21 servers to 2000! We have to do it again!?!"
I guess I can relate after all.
And still, even though I know Win2k has made real and measureable strides in security and stability compared to NT, I can't see myself using it in a large company, with a lot riding on it. A huge web server? Capacity to serve tens of thousands of users at a time? Not for me. So those large companies should be using something else other than Windows. Just my naïve personal opinion, though.:)
Windows 98 and NT 4.x will be entering "Non-supported phase" after June this year, Windows 2K even earlier, March.
Even earlier?
Uh, I'm sure you meant to clarify that while mainstream NT4 Workstation support certainly is up on 30-Jun-2002, Win2k Pro is up on 31-Mar-2005. That's 3 years, 3 months later than NT4. And the extended goes until the same date in 2007. That's over 4 years away. Win2k isn't going anywhere.
Do you think you'll still be using (insert current Linux distro) in seven years? What were you using seven years ago, and is it what you use now?
Companies cannot support a particular product forever, simply because they created it. I, for one, am glad that Microsoft does this. It enables me to phase out old systems, that, while useful in their purpose, are simply not cost effective to keep running anymore. It is a convenient excuse to say, "Sorry, but Microsoft doesn't support it anymore, so we can't. We'll either need to get a new system or you can go without support." Seven years is quite a bit of time, in the relatively fast moving tech sector. I realize that there are a bunch of examples where people need support for a large, unwieldy system that cannot be easily upgraded. But that is simply the nature of the beast. No one ever said doing this was easy.
Of course there are some people that say, "I'm still using Red Hat 2.1, and you'll never make me change!"
24,432 fuckwits have done so, counting the hits on my firewall.
Ha ha! My boss is one of those fuckwits! I've tried for the entire year I've been there to get him to patch servers and get a fucking firewall up, to no avail.
Time to send an email to his boss.
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Huh. Whatever.
If I was a "fag", as you so eloquently put it, I would say that you need a hug.
Has anyone else noticed the increase in usage of the word "asshat" recently? I wonder if There would really filter out cussing and such things. The target audience certainly looks to be a "non-technical" group, which could include kids. The world does look sort of...innocent? But I don't know, some of those expressions could be creepy.
Gravity works because we believe in it. Just stop believing in it and it will stop working.
Reminds me of that SNL skit with (supposedly) Steven Segal: Crouching Cops, Hidden Badges where he tries to fly but can't.
FakeSegal: Everyone has to believe for it to work! Who didn't believe? Was it you?
Cameraguy: No, no no! (windpipe crushed)
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I completely agree with your rambling. A few years ago back in high school, I went online a ton. I played lots of video games online and chatted online. My appearance went downhill. My self respect went down too, even if I didn't realize it at the time.
A few months ago I started getting back into caring about my appearance. I've begun dressing up more often, and not because I need to, but because I want to. I exercise. I go outside and live more.
And you know what? It's great. People respect you more when you look good. Sometimes they even fear you. Could be my smooth, shaved head and red tinted glasses, though. YMMV
However, I think that I'm an extreme case. I think the whole chat thing for the general populace was "in" for a period in the nineties, but it's passed by now. People want functionality and usability, not extraneous features. I work at a school district that has a large emphasis on technology in the curriculum. The teachers here certainly wouldn't use this. The students don't chat online with each other a bunch here, or at home. I know because I talk with the more technically inclined ones daily. You know what they do when they aren't here? It isn't being online all the time. I believe people in general are going outside more. I just don't see this going anywhere. This seems like a game that has no point, just like EQ.
Why is it that people don't get subtle humor anymore?
I can clearly see that it is a parody site. From the site:
"Hardcore gamers never buy computer videogames. Instead, downloading illegally copied videogames or "warez" is the only method acceptable by the underground. Buying a legit copy is grounds for abandonment by community groups."
HA! What a statement.
Gamer1: Hey guys, I just picked up Doom 3. Gamer2: It isn't retail is it? Gamer1: Ummm...yeah? Gamer3: He bought retail! That lamer! Gamer2: He's a witch! Burn him!
First off, this guy is probably a developer for Sprint, Motorola, or Nokia and is getting paid to post this to Slashdot.
And I suppose you work for Verizon. "Those lousy other companies, using types of tech that make better product than ours! Curses!"
But customizing a cellphone that probably has just as crappy reception as every other crappy cellphone out there is nearly pointless.
Crappy? My current cellphone gets great reception, and sounds as good as a landline. Staticky? That went out of style in the 90's along with analog signals.
Cellphones are rude, and developers cramming more "features" onto them is ridiculous when you consider how poorly they work to begin with. If it all weren't such a scam, they wouldn't have all those confusing plans to begin with. The phone would just work, and work well. You could call people whenever you wanted.
Sigh...
Either this is just a troll, or you just had a bad experience with a cellular phone company. The phone I currently use works great all the time. I can call people whenever I want. You seem to be an unhappy person.
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Hey! I know! All those Dinosaurs they used as construction equipment! They must have crapped all over the place! Think of all the methane that must have produced. So, it was the Dinosaur's fault that we have all this global warming or cooling!
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
Courtesy of this site.
At least for 6 months or so...
Then I'll need to get a new card, because of course I need to run the newest games at 1600x1200 and higher with all the options on.
Except when I play multiplayer. Then I'll reduce resolution to 640x480 and turn all the effects off. Because having a 200+ framerate really does help, even though my monitor only refreshes at 85Hz.
Right, the we've is all-inclusive. Everybody has problems.
Shouldn't that be "Welcome, we've got problems."?
This whole "two computers in one case! yay!" thing is tired. Move along, nothing to see here.
If I could run linux on an unmodified XBox and play the games made for it, that would add enough value that I would get one. I could run Linux, and play games. And I more importantly I would buy games. So Microsoft would make money after all.
I dunno. It doesn't look all that "extraordindary" to me. Just some slick CG from what I could see. In this day and age, the eye candy won't make the movie. Just look at Final Fantasy. My interest is piqued, I guess, but the trailer didn't convince me.
Compare this with the X-Men 2 trailer that also played. Just as good of CG as LXG, but with a healthy dose of plot. I suppose it could be that it's already riding on the success of the first one, and perhaps they are going with the whole "mystery" thing to get word of mouth going. And maybe I'm also full of BS, but I think that even non-comic book readers would be more likely to see X2 instead of LXG. Too many acronyms?
I'll reserve any final judgement (as if my opinion means anything) until I get more info on the plot. But many potentially good movies are bad because Hollywood thought they could dazzle moviegoers with distractions instead of paying attention to plot.
I'm not for censoring video games by any means, but these kids shouldn't be playing mature games. The rating system is there for a reason, and it works, if the parents care to check. I blame the parents.
That reminds me of another story. One of my co-workers just got a new computer, and she wanted to get some games for it. I suggested she download the Quake 3 demo. She did, and apparently her husband loves it. I don't care that they participate in a gib-fest, but what I did find disconcerting was that her 8 and 4 year old daughters thought the game was great as well. She told me about it on ICQ, and she said, "Well, there goes my parent of the year award." in a very nonchalant way. Like she knew it was probably not the best for her kids to see, but she didn't really care.
Do these parents just not care? I know I would never show my kids anything like that, if I had any. I guess having kids changes things.
Is this just a modern "cops and robbers", or is it something far worse?
Messing with routing seems to be the same as the DOT messing with shuffling cars and metering lights. Instead of focusing on how we can change all these routing patterns, why don't we just "build more roads"? I realize it isn't exactly trivial to do that, and that the backbones might be pretty tough, but what about all that "dark fiber" that is supposedly just laying around? That's the equivalent of not using an open freeway in a major city during rush hour! We've already got the road, but we just don't use it.
Wouldn't doing that just open up more bandwidth for people, at least locally?
Supposedly, yes, they are extinct. After the whole incident with the tribbles being beamed onto the Klingon ship in TOS, the Klingons were enraged, and destroyed the Tribble homeworld. I think Worf says so in that DS9 ep when they go back in time to TOS tribble episode.
Maybe. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
I get the feeling that when you say "sheep" you are implying that they cannot be changed. I know what you mean. My boss is a Microsoft guy through and through. He got all giddy when we installed IIS on an internal server. He says, "We can use this. We can set up a department web page!" Nevermind the fact that he doesn't even know what HTML code is, much less how to code it. I tried to explain Apache, setting up a MySQL database, and even coding a little AI front-end for people to interactively ask questions. His eyes glazed over.
Some people just use brand recognition to make their purchases. They see the advertisements from one of the myriad sources these days, and whether they know it or not, they are influenced by it in their buying decisions.
However, it isn't necessarily people like my boss that will be buying these chips. Wouldn't the people initially buying these chips be the systems builders? They test performance before they make a significant committment to a product. Although there can be (not so) little things like contracts to uphold, I suppose.
How could these "sheep" see the light? Explaining it in technical terms isn't always the best solution, and anecdotal evidence is often dismissed. I found that a simple TCO analysis can do wonders convincing the higher-ups. We did just that when trying to go on leases for our computers instead of out-right buying them. We showed that there was a financial incentive to doing it that way. Money is something that everybody understands.
(Reality suspended)
The media companies know that they can't just get people to punch up all their content through the internet. The consumer is too used to buying a physical movie, so something else must be offered.
And so, DVD comes into play after VHS tapes. Value added includes not having to rewind, higher image and sound quality, and advanced playback features. What they don't tell you is that the DVD discs degrade over time, faster than you would stop watching them in your lifetime. So you need to buy another disc.
So then, online content is introduced, with all the same features as a DVD, except that there is no physical content that can degrade! How convenient! And of course you pay for it every time you watch it. Also convenient. Ha! I know their plan!
(Reality resumed)
Wait a minute! Cable and satellite fill this niche right now! Physical media and sat/cable coexist! Arrrgh! -1, Redundant for over-usage of the exclamation point.
This kinda reminds me of how people spend so much time and effort playing Everquest that they can't stop. In order to justify all the work put in, they just spend more on it, and won't move on to something else. At least a new game.
This is a sad day for everyone, but don't despair that now we (humankind) won't really get into space. Even if the entire NASA program is scrapped (which I don't think will happen), we will continue to explore space. It is in human nature to explore the unknown. The early pioneers that explored the last frontiers here on earth would die sometimes. Sometimes expensive exploratory expeditions would disappear in bad circumstances. That didn't stop us. As our technological prowess increases, we'll get there. It may not be goverment funded exploration anymore, but commercial, or consumer. This tragic event may set us back a few years, but we'll keep going, and in the long run, those few years won't matter.
We're a stubborn species, and every generation seems to think that they are better than all the previous ones. We'll keep on it.
I knew it!
The nerve of Hollywood to take away my fast forward button! That's a crucial part of my DVD player!
I suppose that in the end, all we'll have left is the eject button to slide the tray in and out. Missed a part? Start it over. Got to pee really bad? Start it over. How dare we, the consumer, get in the way of the director's pristine vision of the movie. We must be savages.
7-8 years look long enough, but most companies don't adopt the product right out of the release. Usually for servers we will put it into use 2-3 years after it first releases, taking into account software development and testing.
Now that I think about that, here where I work it took us years to get set with Win2k, and we still have one NT box sitting around somewhere. I hope we aren't the norm, for a midsize shop, at least. I also have to hope that a company that perhaps has only 1500 users can react a bit faster than a larger company. It pains me a bit to see that on any new workstations we buy, we get XP. (Yes, we could still buy 2k...grr...stupid management.) We couldn't even convert fast enough to get consistency across the workstations. And now here comes .NET (or whatever) server.
"What? But we just converted 21 servers to 2000! We have to do it again!?!"
I guess I can relate after all.
And still, even though I know Win2k has made real and measureable strides in security and stability compared to NT, I can't see myself using it in a large company, with a lot riding on it. A huge web server? Capacity to serve tens of thousands of users at a time? Not for me. So those large companies should be using something else other than Windows. Just my naïve personal opinion, though. :)
Even earlier?
Uh, I'm sure you meant to clarify that while mainstream NT4 Workstation support certainly is up on 30-Jun-2002, Win2k Pro is up on 31-Mar-2005. That's 3 years, 3 months later than NT4. And the extended goes until the same date in 2007. That's over 4 years away. Win2k isn't going anywhere.
Do you think you'll still be using (insert current Linux distro) in seven years? What were you using seven years ago, and is it what you use now?
Companies cannot support a particular product forever, simply because they created it. I, for one, am glad that Microsoft does this. It enables me to phase out old systems, that, while useful in their purpose, are simply not cost effective to keep running anymore. It is a convenient excuse to say, "Sorry, but Microsoft doesn't support it anymore, so we can't. We'll either need to get a new system or you can go without support." Seven years is quite a bit of time, in the relatively fast moving tech sector. I realize that there are a bunch of examples where people need support for a large, unwieldy system that cannot be easily upgraded. But that is simply the nature of the beast. No one ever said doing this was easy.
Of course there are some people that say, "I'm still using Red Hat 2.1, and you'll never make me change!"
Ha ha! My boss is one of those fuckwits! I've tried for the entire year I've been there to get him to patch servers and get a fucking firewall up, to no avail.
Time to send an email to his boss.
If I was a "fag", as you so eloquently put it, I would say that you need a hug.
Has anyone else noticed the increase in usage of the word "asshat" recently? I wonder if There would really filter out cussing and such things. The target audience certainly looks to be a "non-technical" group, which could include kids. The world does look sort of...innocent?
But I don't know, some of those expressions could be creepy.
Reminds me of that SNL skit with (supposedly) Steven Segal: Crouching Cops, Hidden Badges where he tries to fly but can't.
FakeSegal: Everyone has to believe for it to work! Who didn't believe? Was it you?
Cameraguy: No, no no! (windpipe crushed)
A few months ago I started getting back into caring about my appearance. I've begun dressing up more often, and not because I need to, but because I want to. I exercise. I go outside and live more.
And you know what? It's great. People respect you more when you look good. Sometimes they even fear you. Could be my smooth, shaved head and red tinted glasses, though. YMMV
However, I think that I'm an extreme case. I think the whole chat thing for the general populace was "in" for a period in the nineties, but it's passed by now. People want functionality and usability, not extraneous features. I work at a school district that has a large emphasis on technology in the curriculum. The teachers here certainly wouldn't use this. The students don't chat online with each other a bunch here, or at home. I know because I talk with the more technically inclined ones daily. You know what they do when they aren't here? It isn't being online all the time. I believe people in general are going outside more. I just don't see this going anywhere. This seems like a game that has no point, just like EQ.
Wait a minute...EQ...maybe it will go somewhere.
Why is it that people don't get subtle humor anymore?
I can clearly see that it is a parody site. From the site:
"Hardcore gamers never buy computer videogames. Instead, downloading illegally copied videogames or "warez" is the only method acceptable by the underground. Buying a legit copy is grounds for abandonment by community groups."
HA! What a statement.
Gamer1: Hey guys, I just picked up Doom 3.
Gamer2: It isn't retail is it?
Gamer1: Ummm...yeah?
Gamer3: He bought retail! That lamer!
Gamer2: He's a witch! Burn him!
First off, this guy is probably a developer for Sprint, Motorola, or Nokia and is getting paid to post this to Slashdot.
And I suppose you work for Verizon. "Those lousy other companies, using types of tech that make better product than ours! Curses!"
But customizing a cellphone that probably has just as crappy reception as every other crappy cellphone out there is nearly pointless.
Crappy? My current cellphone gets great reception, and sounds as good as a landline. Staticky? That went out of style in the 90's along with analog signals.
Cellphones are rude, and developers cramming more "features" onto them is ridiculous when you consider how poorly they work to begin with. If it all weren't such a scam, they wouldn't have all those confusing plans to begin with. The phone would just work, and work well. You could call people whenever you wanted.
Sigh...
Either this is just a troll, or you just had a bad experience with a cellular phone company. The phone I currently use works great all the time. I can call people whenever I want.
You seem to be an unhappy person.