Sony has won the console war and it's now time to ride the gravy train for the next few years off the software. The xbox was out late was never got traction, and the gamecube is still mainly targetted at kiddies..
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CONGRATULATIONS! You're the 1,000,000th person to recite these same old claims about the current state of the console market!!!
What is being touted as gleam in Dell's shiny good-neighbor smile is just another scam to polish a public image, gather personal info that can be sold to some marketing wonk, and make you pay for the honor.
What's going to happen to Dell's public image when the story breaks that the illegal aliens (nice ad hominem racist statement there btw) working on this program for them are disposing of the computers illegally?
For the low low price of $15, it becomes Dell's problem to make sure proper disposal happens, instead of yours. Sounds like a good bargain on peace of mind to me.
Why is it Creative's responsibility to update their drivers? The SBLive Value came out years before Office XP, Microsoft should have been aware of the conflict and named THEIR file differently.
Or better yet, Microsoft could develop a method of placing system files on disk that doesn't encourage filename collision problems in \windows\system32!
Seems to me all the circuitry should be in the speakers, with audio delivered over USB.
No, that's retarded. With that scenario you have PC 'speakers' that are completely different electronically from stereo speakers or any other component ever to have been called a speaker.
The obvious solution to the problems of case noise and such is to keep the signal entirely digital inside the PC, and run it out to an external DAC (like a home theater receiver) via SPDIF coaxial or optical (an existing standard for digital audio transmission, unlike audio over USB). This is what I do with my SB Live!.
Of course, Creative's decision to disable the digital out on Audigies in certain circumstances (and their steadfast defense of that decision) means my setup wouldn't work, and pretty much guarantees that I won't be buying another Creative card when it's time to upgrade.
When did government ever do anything better, cheaper, quicker than industry?
Government-sponsored agencies have two advantages in a market that other companies don't have:
1) Focus is entirely on providing service, rather than some balance of service and profit. They can pass the savings back to the customer rather than line shareholders' or owners' pockets.
2) Even when expenditures far outpace earnings, situations that would force other companies to go bankrupt, gov't agencies can continue operating. Thus gov't services can be far more reliable than from commercial vendors.
At the same time, they still often have to compete with private companies, as is the case with the US Postal Service vs. UPS and FedEx, or Amtrak vs. the airlines. So even with those advantages, the government services still have to be competetive, still have to try to be better cheaper faster.
I don't see how signing up with Audiogalaxy establishes a business relationship with Sprint, but, whatever.
I don't see how being a Slashdot Editor gives you justification for attaching your comments to the story submission instead of leaving a comment like everyone else, but, whatever.
Time, I think, to go to Preferences and banish Michael to the bit bucket. I'm sure Jon Katz would be glad to switch places with him.
the Taliban had agreements with the opium producers in Northern Afghanistan
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the nature of those agreements something like "we're going to destroy your poppy fields, and then accept $20 million from the American government for helping in the War on Drugs"?
Given that the design of the Xbox controllers has been so universallyreviled, I would think they should be the LAST people to determine what a standard PC controller should be.
Provided fair use conditions are posted, I don't see where the scraper has a leg to stand on.
Fair use conditions don't have to be posted. They are implicitly granted to the user by copyright law, not explicitly by the copyright holder.
IANAL, but common sense tells me that quoting one airfare from a website falls under fare use, but taking an entire table of data and republishing it with your own copyright statement on it does not.
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I agree.
First Microsoft built HTML export features into Word, and everyone complained that all the formatting and presentation cruft was retained and made the documents overly bloated and sloppy.
Now Microsoft builds XML export into Word, and everyone complains that the formatting and presentation is missing!
Make an exception "Webcast viewers get around the blackout rules, and we are okay with that"
Hey, and why not? According to the submission the blackout rules apply to TV. Webcasts are not TV.
Also, maybe if it were cheaper to actually go out to the ballpark and watch a live game, people wouldn't try so hard to circumvent the local blackout policies.
There's no such thing as an "unlimited" internet connection. Even the thickest bundle of fiber has a maximum throughput, though no current hardware can keep up with it yet.
Even if the connection between your machine and the nearest peer could be truly unlimited in transfer rate, your percieved speed will still be constrained by the connections between other machines along the route.
You honestly think that $39.95/month 'pays' for a 100mbps Internet feed?
If the ISP is advertising "a 100mbps Internet feed", then it doesn't matter if they're paying more for the circuit than they can recoup from the users. You pay for what was promised, and you get what you paid for.
Then again, few ISPs are foolish enough to advertise bandwidth numbers that are more specific than "up to X times as fast as dial-up", whatever than means this week. Fewer still will have language in the contract that guarantees more than a really really minimal QOS.
My point is simply that universities shouldn't be concerned with teaching Microsoft tools, rather they should be concerned with teaching how to solve the problems.
Yes, and what if the best way to teach how to solve the problems is to use Microsoft products?
If I were the University I'd decline the donation offer, it's just unfairly restrictive.
All five of the issues (#1, #2, #4, #3, and #4) mentioned in the parent post are things that a typical OS user should NEVER have to know about. Linux distributions still have a long way to go before they're as friendly as MacOS or Windows.
I don't want to spend hours tweaking my OS to get MP3s to play smoothly. I just want them to play smoothly.
this is one area where Linux apps (not the OS) need to play catch up since Win and Mac apparently have many good music composition apps available for them.
They need to? Why?
Isn't it foolish to expect Linux to be the best tool for the job, for ALL jobs?
I'm sorry to hear you're overlooking a pool of potentially superior employees because you would rather keep doing favors for your fraternity brothers than judge the candidates on their merits.
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Sony has won the console war and it's now time to ride the gravy train for the next few years
off the software. The xbox was out late was never got traction, and the gamecube is still
mainly targetted at kiddies..
DING DING DING DING DING DING
CONGRATULATIONS! You're the 1,000,000th person to recite these same old claims about the current state of the console market!!!
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What is being touted as gleam in Dell's shiny good-neighbor smile is just another scam to polish a public image, gather personal info that can be sold to some marketing wonk, and make you pay for the honor.
What's going to happen to Dell's public image when the story breaks that the illegal aliens (nice ad hominem racist statement there btw) working on this program for them are disposing of the computers illegally?
For the low low price of $15, it becomes Dell's problem to make sure proper disposal happens, instead of yours. Sounds like a good bargain on peace of mind to me.
I don't know how to tell you this, but, your computer is not optimized for downloading!
Yeah, I know. It's because too much of my bandwidth is being used up by my PC broadcasting an IP Address to the world.
Just because it's a monopoly doesn't prevent it from being good.
South Park is fully computer-generated, but except for rare segments it's totally two-dimensional.
It's a lot easier to simulate the jerky motion of overlaid pieces of cutout paper in CG than even traditional cel animation.
Why is it Creative's responsibility to update their drivers? The SBLive Value came out years before Office XP, Microsoft should have been aware of the conflict and named THEIR file differently.
Or better yet, Microsoft could develop a method of placing system files on disk that doesn't encourage filename collision problems in \windows\system32!
Seems to me all the circuitry should be in the speakers, with audio delivered over USB.
No, that's retarded. With that scenario you have PC 'speakers' that are completely different electronically from stereo speakers or any other component ever to have been called a speaker.
The obvious solution to the problems of case noise and such is to keep the signal entirely digital inside the PC, and run it out to an external DAC (like a home theater receiver) via SPDIF coaxial or optical (an existing standard for digital audio transmission, unlike audio over USB). This is what I do with my SB Live!.
Of course, Creative's decision to disable the digital out on Audigies in certain circumstances (and their steadfast defense of that decision) means my setup wouldn't work, and pretty much guarantees that I won't be buying another Creative card when it's time to upgrade.
When did government ever do anything better, cheaper, quicker than industry?
Government-sponsored agencies have two advantages in a market that other companies don't have:
1) Focus is entirely on providing service, rather than some balance of service and profit. They can pass the savings back to the customer rather than line shareholders' or owners' pockets.
2) Even when expenditures far outpace earnings, situations that would force other companies to go bankrupt, gov't agencies can continue operating. Thus gov't services can be far more reliable than from commercial vendors.
At the same time, they still often have to compete with private companies, as is the case with the US Postal Service vs. UPS and FedEx, or Amtrak vs. the airlines. So even with those advantages, the government services still have to be competetive, still have to try to be better cheaper faster.
I don't see how signing up with Audiogalaxy establishes a business relationship with Sprint, but, whatever.
I don't see how being a Slashdot Editor gives you justification for attaching your comments to the story submission instead of leaving a comment like everyone else, but, whatever.
Time, I think, to go to Preferences and banish Michael to the bit bucket. I'm sure Jon Katz would be glad to switch places with him.
the Taliban had agreements with the opium producers in Northern Afghanistan
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the nature of those agreements something like "we're going to destroy your poppy fields, and then accept $20 million from the American government for helping in the War on Drugs"?
Given that the design of the Xbox controllers has been so universally reviled, I would think they should be the LAST people to determine what a standard PC controller should be.
Provided fair use conditions are posted, I don't see where the scraper has a leg to stand on.
Fair use conditions don't have to be posted. They are implicitly granted to the user by copyright law, not explicitly by the copyright holder.
IANAL, but common sense tells me that quoting one airfare from a website falls under fare use, but taking an entire table of data and republishing it with your own copyright statement on it does not.
I agree.
First Microsoft built HTML export features into Word, and everyone complained that all the formatting and presentation cruft was retained and made the documents overly bloated and sloppy.
Now Microsoft builds XML export into Word, and everyone complains that the formatting and presentation is missing!
WTF?
it's a TCP/IP handler. You put serial data in one side and TCP/IP network packets come out the other side.
Awesome... I can build a dongle to hook up my TRS-80 to the Internet!
Anyone ever write a web browser in BASIC before?
Make an exception "Webcast viewers get around the blackout rules, and we are okay with that"
Hey, and why not? According to the submission the blackout rules apply to TV. Webcasts are not TV.
Also, maybe if it were cheaper to actually go out to the ballpark and watch a live game, people wouldn't try so hard to circumvent the local blackout policies.
There's no such thing as an "unlimited" internet connection. Even the thickest bundle of fiber has a maximum throughput, though no current hardware can keep up with it yet.
Even if the connection between your machine and the nearest peer could be truly unlimited in transfer rate, your percieved speed will still be constrained by the connections between other machines along the route.
You honestly think that $39.95/month 'pays' for a 100mbps Internet feed?
If the ISP is advertising "a 100mbps Internet feed", then it doesn't matter if they're paying more for the circuit than they can recoup from the users. You pay for what was promised, and you get what you paid for.
Then again, few ISPs are foolish enough to advertise bandwidth numbers that are more specific than "up to X times as fast as dial-up", whatever than means this week. Fewer still will have language in the contract that guarantees more than a really really minimal QOS.
I'm interested in where you get your numbers from regarding administrator-to-server ratio.
Does it REALLY take 3-5 NT admins to do the work of one equally skilled Unix admin? What types of testing have been done to support this assertion?
College students are not there to be "trained for the work-place". That would be a vocational school.
My point is simply that universities shouldn't be concerned with teaching Microsoft tools, rather they should be concerned with teaching how to solve the problems.
Yes, and what if the best way to teach how to solve the problems is to use Microsoft products?
If I were the University I'd decline the donation offer, it's just unfairly restrictive.
All five of the issues (#1, #2, #4, #3, and #4) mentioned in the parent post are things that a typical OS user should NEVER have to know about. Linux distributions still have a long way to go before they're as friendly as MacOS or Windows.
I don't want to spend hours tweaking my OS to get MP3s to play smoothly. I just want them to play smoothly.
this is one area where Linux apps (not the OS) need to play catch up since Win and Mac apparently have many good music composition apps available for them.
They need to? Why?
Isn't it foolish to expect Linux to be the best tool for the job, for ALL jobs?
A good programmer and artist team can build a game for a few hundred dollars.
Only if they don't pay themselves, and do all the design, coding, and testing with pencil and paper. Computers cost money!
Yeah, I'll just continue to buy my clothes at Wal-Mart and the Salvation Army.
I'm sorry to hear you're overlooking a pool of potentially superior employees because you would rather keep doing favors for your fraternity brothers than judge the candidates on their merits.