you hit it dead on, IMHO. The 360 is easily more than double the current PS2 price. PS2 has a massive , proven game library and a ton of "Greatest Hits" ~$20 titles, so for the price of one 360 (let's go with the $299 number thats been flying around for this example), you can get a PS2 $129, around seven greatest hits titles and some to spare for a memory card, accessories......or you have a xbox 360 basic setup. Hmmmmmmmm...
odd...scroll down to the "retro game hacks" article, the page footer is jammed in there, and in IE you only see half the articles and the footer runs into the last article in an overlap.
They all have their strong points, but Michael Johnson's design currently has some weirdness going on in Firefox 1.5.0.3 with the page footer showing up halfway thorugh the page at the tail of the right side boxes. Little weird in IE6 as well. Other than that, they look good.
Food found in a dumpster == free
Food ordered from a restaurant == not free
That's enough for me right there. And remind me never to let you treat! Not saying that Eclipse == dumpster food, but that the core arguement is very lame.
IDEA is a great,great IDE. Very full featured and if it doesn't have something in particular, there's scores of helpful user created plugins, or make your own...I was on Eclipse, and Eclipse has great stuff too, then the dev group I moved to was all IDEA so I made the switch and have loved using it since.
The recording industry has proposed that the FCC (1) prevent redistribution of recordings onto the Internet, removable media or to other devices; and (2) limit searching and automated copying such as by artist or song title so that individual recordings cannot be separated from surrounding content.
Good for them.
Vague solution, so are they saying that they want the recording to somehow STAY on the recording device? They must have some magick or something that will accomplish that! And that you cannot just record a song, without,say, recording the lead-in from the DJ and the commercial afterwards (surrounding content)?
They just don't get it. If people want your songs for free, they will get it. One way or another. Goddamnit, how long will it take them to realize this so I don't have to see the "**AA is trying to steal our rights again" versus "Our revenues (and even the hard working music store clerk too!!) are going to be devistated! Waaah!" get rehashed over and over and over.
And the sad thing is most of whats out there on commercial radio I wouldn't care about even if it was truly FREE from the get go.
Trust: it's not only whether or not you can trust the site/service that hosts the games, but you also have to trust ALOT of anonymous players. At any given table, any number of players can be communicating their hands to each other, tilting the pot and the stakes heavily in their favor. Sure, there's some software out there that tries to catch those scenarios, based on the action and betting patterns, but it can't possibly catch half of it.
Trend: Poker in particular is very trendy, and like all trends, it will pass, some will stay, but most will go.
Truth: At some point you will realize that you are not the next incarnation of Chris Moneymaker and never will be. No easy path for you to riches and fame. If you really love playing, you'll probably stick it out over the long term and may "make it" at some point, but most people today want the quick fix and lose interest if their fortunes don't come quick enough. That and the realization that it takes ALOT of time of your day if you are attempting to be "profitable" playing online. Again, think its an easy fix, then reality and truth set in.
And if you play "play money" games and freeroll tourneys, LOL, thats not real on so many levels.
..can make some good scratch since it appears his political career seems to have limited duration.
{Commercial starts}IT group all a scramble, looks like a technical World War 3, motorcycle boots stomp into the frame, pan up to Arnie's mug...." Windows Vista, Baby!" holding CD at arms length. Looks of salvation on the faces of IT techs.
I was thinking the same thing....UO had Dupes galore, and this one sounds just like one of the bigger UO dupes.
The UO one was get near a "server line" hand your buddy some stuff(gold,regs) walk into server line(laggier the better!) while you are momentarily lagged Alt+F4, quick close UO and force logout, when you log back in if you did it right, your character dropped from UO when it was between two servers, so as a failsafe they roll you back to the last known "good spot", which was when you were on the same side of the server line as your friend, where he still is holding your stuff and since they rolled you back you still have it too...when I started reading the details of this WoW exploit it was like deja vu
It all depends on what prompts you to buy new hardware. Are you playing games mainly? Then I don't think it will matter much, f you stay with current
games. Rendering animations? Yeah, then you probably will buy towards the latest and greatest end. Checking email and web-browsing from home? Not
likely.
It's not so much the OS version and PC speed, but whether it does what you need it to do FOR YOU....in a relatively painless manner. If you have
an 8 year old machine running win2k, but your CAD program is slow, that would most likely push you to move to new hardware.
Large
organizations/companies/schools have other concerns with warranties and support and the like, it usually cheaper to stay close to current.....
But in
general if it works currently, most don't jump on buying new, and when they do its usually that they need more drive space, or a sale or deal that was just
too good to pass up.
That's interesting, I wonder what percentage of US sites are IE biased? And really how thorough are these studies?
TFA mentions that this is due to devs targeting IE, or testing their work under IE. I do just the opposite. I work in mozilla/firefox, THEN test in IE. If any issues arise, its alot easier coming from a "mozilla" than from "ie" build and working out the kinks.
Although it is annoying that MS tends to make their own tags, leading to situations like this...its a competitve market, so any bells, whistles or extras you can throw in makes your product stand out. Most people don't even know or care about W3C standards, valid CSS etc. Does it look cool and work for them, thats all they care about. Hell, even the latest PHPBB uses IE only tags...
In somewhat related news, British Comedy stylings alienate 10% of world population.
LOL what did I just read?!?!?
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Codex
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· Score: 4, Funny
That was the most bipolar review I think I've ever read.
Codex is a fun book, compelling enough to keep me reading even when I was occasionally sick of the characters. Codex is interesting and fun to read, but has a lot of weak points.
etc.
...well its just gonna get longer. No more "I gotta go pick-up/renew my license"
States will be required to do the following for each license:
Verify existing photo id
Verify document verifying date of birth
Document verifying SSN or verification that the person is not eligible for an SSN
Verify proof of residence *So far not much changed, but the next few are the killers*
Required to view evidence of lawful immigration status (so now the DMV's become junior immigration officers)
States would be required to verify, with the issuing agency, each document required to be presented by the person to obtain a driver's license or identification card.
States would have to confirm with SSA the full Social Security account number presented by a person to obtain a driver's license or identification card. In the event that a Social Security account number belongs to another person, to which any State has issued a driver's license or identification card, the State would be required to resolve the discrepancy and take appropriate action.
Sounds good, but like most federal changes, there probably won't be any extra money to hire staff or change operations/infastructure to conduct all of the required verification.
Re:all-nine-users-cheer dept ??
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It's PROPRIETARY. Anti-Microsoft doens't mean good. They are just as evil.
I understand the point you are trying to make, but let's keep it in reality. Opera is on the same level as Microsoft? Heh.
So your car is open source, you can get all the detailed schematics by just asking? Your PC bios is open source? Your microwave input panel interface is open source? How about the OS/operating enviornment on your cellphone?
*Raises "slashdot shields" to full power*
PROPRIETARY doesn't always mean bad either.
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Opera 8 Released
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· Score: 4, Insightful
Bwa-ha-ha-hem....
I know that Firefox is all the rage these days, but Opera has a pretty faithful user base....or did I miss a slash-think programming update, the one where we're supposed to badmouth and laugh at Opera?
News for nerds, editors opinions that don't matter
But that doesn't mean that its the same as "big media", or that it demands the same consideration of conventional news services.
Thats why some in conventional news media are bothered by blogging, they do their thing and they are playing by their own rules outside of the "corporate news sandbox". And yet they still have a ever growing audience that prefers them to the ol' standbys.
AAMVA has standards for both mag-stripes and barcodes(PDF-417), in most cases you can scan your barcoded license with a regular ol' com port barcode scanner(that supports 2D barcodes like PDF-417) and get most of the data in human readable form, some jurisdictions encrypt certain fields.
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you hit it dead on, IMHO. The 360 is easily more than double the current PS2 price. PS2 has a massive , proven game library and a ton of "Greatest Hits" ~$20 titles, so for the price of one 360 (let's go with the $299 number thats been flying around for this example), you can get a PS2 $129, around seven greatest hits titles and some to spare for a memory card, accessories......or you have a xbox 360 basic setup. Hmmmmmmmm...
Pick one that has the year in it, Save, and you are good to go
Used to drive me nuts too.
odd...scroll down to the "retro game hacks" article, the page footer is jammed in there, and in IE you only see half the articles and the footer runs into the last article in an overlap.
They all have their strong points, but Michael Johnson's design currently has some weirdness going on in Firefox 1.5.0.3 with the page footer showing up halfway thorugh the page at the tail of the right side boxes. Little weird in IE6 as well. Other than that, they look good.
ok, I admit, you got a chuckle out of me on that joke :)
I wonder how many brilliant ideas came about after a relaxing romp at the ol' Hellfire Club?
IntelliJ == NOT free
That's enough for me right there.
(Netbeans == free, but Netbeans == sucks)
Food found in a dumpster == free
Food ordered from a restaurant == not free
That's enough for me right there. And remind me never to let you treat! Not saying that Eclipse == dumpster food, but that the core arguement is very lame.
IDEA is a great,great IDE. Very full featured and if it doesn't have something in particular, there's scores of helpful user created plugins, or make your own...I was on Eclipse, and Eclipse has great stuff too, then the dev group I moved to was all IDEA so I made the switch and have loved using it since.
You know, sometimes it is worth paying....
Windows is actually quite an open OS, you just have to work for it a bit more :) But you can pretty much bend it to your will.
The recording industry has proposed that the FCC (1) prevent redistribution of recordings onto the Internet, removable media or to other devices; and (2) limit searching and automated copying such as by artist or song title so that individual recordings cannot be separated from surrounding content.
Good for them.
Vague solution, so are they saying that they want the recording to somehow STAY on the recording device? They must have some magick or something that will accomplish that! And that you cannot just record a song, without,say, recording the lead-in from the DJ and the commercial afterwards (surrounding content)?
They just don't get it. If people want your songs for free, they will get it. One way or another. Goddamnit, how long will it take them to realize this so I don't have to see the "**AA is trying to steal our rights again" versus "Our revenues (and even the hard working music store clerk too!!) are going to be devistated! Waaah!" get rehashed over and over and over.
And the sad thing is most of whats out there on commercial radio I wouldn't care about even if it was truly FREE from the get go.
Blah.
Trend: Poker in particular is very trendy, and like all trends, it will pass, some will stay, but most will go.
Truth: At some point you will realize that you are not the next incarnation of Chris Moneymaker and never will be. No easy path for you to riches and fame. If you really love playing, you'll probably stick it out over the long term and may "make it" at some point, but most people today want the quick fix and lose interest if their fortunes don't come quick enough. That and the realization that it takes ALOT of time of your day if you are attempting to be "profitable" playing online. Again, think its an easy fix, then reality and truth set in.
And if you play "play money" games and freeroll tourneys, LOL, thats not real on so many levels.
Nothing to add, other than this subject line is IN the article. Some jokes write themselves.
From one of my slashdot friends/fans who resides in Germany, as part of a discussion of formality in addressing people there.
{Commercial starts}IT group all a scramble, looks like a technical World War 3, motorcycle boots stomp into the frame, pan up to Arnie's mug...." Windows Vista, Baby!" holding CD at arms length. Looks of salvation on the faces of IT techs.
LOL what am I saying?
The UO one was get near a "server line" hand your buddy some stuff(gold,regs) walk into server line(laggier the better!) while you are momentarily lagged Alt+F4, quick close UO and force logout, when you log back in if you did it right, your character dropped from UO when it was between two servers, so as a failsafe they roll you back to the last known "good spot", which was when you were on the same side of the server line as your friend, where he still is holding your stuff and since they rolled you back you still have it too...when I started reading the details of this WoW exploit it was like deja vu
It's not so much the OS version and PC speed, but whether it does what you need it to do FOR YOU....in a relatively painless manner. If you have an 8 year old machine running win2k, but your CAD program is slow, that would most likely push you to move to new hardware.
Large organizations/companies/schools have other concerns with warranties and support and the like, it usually cheaper to stay close to current.....
But in general if it works currently, most don't jump on buying new, and when they do its usually that they need more drive space, or a sale or deal that was just too good to pass up.
TFA mentions that this is due to devs targeting IE, or testing their work under IE. I do just the opposite. I work in mozilla/firefox, THEN test in IE. If any issues arise, its alot easier coming from a "mozilla" than from "ie" build and working out the kinks.
Although it is annoying that MS tends to make their own tags, leading to situations like this...its a competitve market, so any bells, whistles or extras you can throw in makes your product stand out. Most people don't even know or care about W3C standards, valid CSS etc. Does it look cool and work for them, thats all they care about. Hell, even the latest PHPBB uses IE only tags...
In somewhat related news, British Comedy stylings alienate 10% of world population.
Codex is a fun book, compelling enough to keep me reading even when I was occasionally sick of the characters.
Codex is interesting and fun to read, but has a lot of weak points.
etc.
Summary: I LOVE IT, I HATE IT! ABSOLUTELY!
Thanks, that was a fun read! Your post could've been short and sweet but you went and fleshed it out nicely!
States will be required to do the following for each license:
Sounds good, but like most federal changes, there probably won't be any extra money to hire staff or change operations/infastructure to conduct all of the required verification.
I understand the point you are trying to make, but let's keep it in reality. Opera is on the same level as Microsoft? Heh.
So your car is open source, you can get all the detailed schematics by just asking? Your PC bios is open source? Your microwave input panel interface is open source? How about the OS/operating enviornment on your cellphone?
*Raises "slashdot shields" to full power*
PROPRIETARY doesn't always mean bad either.
I know that Firefox is all the rage these days, but Opera has a pretty faithful user base....or did I miss a slash-think programming update, the one where we're supposed to badmouth and laugh at Opera?
News for nerds, editors opinions that don't matter
Walk of Game website for more info and possible voting on 2006 nominees
until they make one that use elbows for input, once technology catches up with that concept, I'm THERE!!
But that doesn't mean that its the same as "big media", or that it demands the same consideration of conventional news services.
Thats why some in conventional news media are bothered by blogging, they do their thing and they are playing by their own rules outside of the "corporate news sandbox". And yet they still have a ever growing audience that prefers them to the ol' standbys.
AAMVA has standards for both mag-stripes and barcodes(PDF-417), in most cases you can scan your barcoded license with a regular ol' com port barcode scanner(that supports 2D barcodes like PDF-417) and get most of the data in human readable form, some jurisdictions encrypt certain fields.