As a long-time PC gamer, I can't bring myself to buy an XBox 360 at all. Every time I look at one, I'm reminded that under the fancy plastic casing, it's just a rather non-upgradeable PC inside. There's *never* going to be a single piece of software developed for XBox 360 that can't run identically on a modern PC, because they're using the same architecture
Uh, no. It's actually a fairly exotic 3 core, in-order CPU. Are you thinking of the original Xbox?
I'm pretty sure the push towards being vegetarian was the whole point of the grandparent post. I stopped eating meat about 4 years ago, in probably the worst place to do it: during a cross-country bike trip. I just paid a lot of attention to what I ate for a week or so, and my body realized that peanut butter, dairy products, soy and avocados gave me what I used to get from that salami sandwich; after that, the cravings for meat just stopped.
Yes, you should listen to your body, but you can also teach it things.
Please, try to read the comments you're responding to. The Mac is a platform. That's what the person you responded to was saying. Apple is uninterested in supporting the BIGNUM number of combinations of hardware in homebuilt PCs. Drivers and support are really expensive. Mac OS machines would lose the "it just works." Apple's almost certainly unwilling to sacrifice that advantage over XP.
And as for all those "web shops" that want to run OS X but don't want to buy an "entire computer," a mini is $500. Any shop that can't afford that probably wouldn't be buying a standalone copy of OS X.
If they are anything like me, and from my experience they are, they believe that those who volunteer to defend our country should be honored. It's an incredibly brave and selfless thing to put yourself in that position. And part of honoring those of you who make that choice is putting you in harm's way only when it's absolutely neccessary to defend the interests of the United States. I wouldn't claim that all soldiers don't like the war -- though I think it's equally silly to claim that all soldiers think it was a great idea to flatten Iraq to stop Saddam from harboring terrorists^W^Wbuilding a nuclear weapon^W^W^W^Wusing WMDs^W^Woppressing his people.
Please. Give me a f'ing break. I work at a Uni helldesk, and 75% of the unusably infected XP machines that come in are in that state because the person "saw the little update balloon but just closed it," or "noticed these weird popups and the machine acting really slow but it wasn't that bad." This isn't rocket surgery, it's a bloody 3 minute download. It's not "neglecting to check the blueprints for the building," it's checking that the goddamn wheels are still on the goddamn car before driving it 15 miles to work.
They don't need to know about firewalls or slashdot. They just need to stop the "oh it's too hard so I'll just ignore it" BS, stop being afraid of the damned thing, and try to pay just a little attention to their environment.
Hrm. Didn't quite mean to bite your head off, there. But like I said before, this is reading 20 carefully written words and 3 minutes of downloading, not rocket surgery.
1) Sony now has to release "clean" CDs with NO content protection
No, they just have to "stop manufacturing SONY BMG CDs with XCP software ("XCP CDs") and SONY
BMG CDs with MediaMax software ("MediaMax CDs")." The settlement doesn't seem to say anything about no content protection. I'd wager those products will undergo a namechange, a 6 month retool, and then be back to being installed the first time Timmy puts his new [insert corporate rock band here] "CD" in his computer.
3) Sony has to make "all resonable commericial efforts" to allow the above downlodable albums from iTunes....Now they essentially HAVE to crawl to Apple and negotiate some deal to offer Sony customers the ability to download Sony music...for free...in UNENCRYPTED MP3 FORM...from Apple's music service.
There is not a chance in hell these will be mp3s. I will eat my hat if people can download Sony's music as mp3s from iTunes. No, consumers will get to trade the "bad" DRM-laden files for some other DRM-laden music files. Lucky them.
I think this one by far is the best one I can remember. Especially from the standpoint of sending a message.
Yeah. They have to release a fix for their rootkit (already done), trade real CDs for the rootkit installers (which they've already been doing), and they have to send out some gift certificates to iTMS which can only buy Sony music (which, if I remember correctly, of the $1 75 cents goes to the label). Yep, they're really hurting now. Doing what they were already forced to do, and keep consumers using DRM'd files.
...might actually usher in a new crop of executives who are more willing to listen to the pro-consumer voices in their hardware divisions instead of heeding the horrible advice from their content divisions.
Bwaaaaaahahahah! Oh man, that was a good one. "Pro-consumer." Hahahhaa.
For those not following along at home, this is at least the third time this has happened (if I'm remembering correctly). The city keeps passing ballot measures, and the city council keeps dissolving the project a year or two later. You'd think, after the third ballot passed, that the city council would understand that this is very much the will of the people. I guess not.
Reading the article, it sounds like more of the same old "it can't possible work here" syndrome that infects every Seattle public work. I've been out of Seattle for a couple years -- has the light rail laid one section of track, yet? Both the monorail and the light rail projects for the region have been in development hell for at least 10 years, with seemingly no progress made. The excuse I remember hearing most often was that the Puget sound region was so different from anywhere else in the world that light rail / monorail works.
I seem to remember a speech at the UN. Satellite images and some guy pointing at it and saying "these trucks are where the WMDs are being manufactured." A bunch of guys I see in the paper all the time promising me they knew there were WMDs and they knew where they were.... Weird, huh? Must've been some crazy hallucination.
The above is my experience as well. When you add to this the fact that the poor guy getting shoved into this job won't know what he's doing and will make mistakes which affect everyone, well, it's a bad situation. Avoid at all costs. You're a programmer, not a sysadmin.
I fail to see what a state recognized marriage gets you.
My wife and I recently did our first taxes as a joint entity. We calculated what we needed to pay if we filed separately, and then calculated a joint filing. The joint filing was around $750 less than the individual filings. As students this is a considerable amount of money.
Y'see how maybe this is discrimination? Maybe?
The second person in a gay couple likely works too.
As does more than 50% of the households in the United States. (US Census, about halfway down the page here) What is your point, exactly?
He's not talking about "Native Americans", the people descended from the bloodthirsty savages who roamed these lands and fought battles against settlers where they killed men, women, and children indiscriminately.
Wow. Just wow. That is one of the most stupid and racist things I've read on this site. And I occasionally read at -1. News flash: the europeans swept through the continent indiscriminately killing anyone who dared defend their homes. The europeans committed biological warfare. The europeans forced the survivors of the slaughters on the east coast walk to Oklahoma. The europeans broke every single treaty which we bothered to make with the Native Americans.
So this goes out to you and whoever modded your rant +1 Funny: FOAD. Thanks.
I couldn't find much information about the cost of this boondoggle, but a figure I found on CNN was $100 billion dollars for design, testing, and deployment. I'm not going to add the customary 50% budget overruns here. Every billion dollars the feds spend is about $3.44 from every person in the United States. Gross oversimplification, I know -- it's probably costing most of you more, as there are plenty of folks (ie, children) out there not contributing.
So this useless piece of junk is costing you (and me and all the ACs that're going to respond to this) $344. How's that feel? $344 out of your pocket in order to not solve a problem we don't have and probably isn't solvable anyway. $344 you could have used, through the government, on your local school, buying some soldier part of an armored Humvee, or paying down the monstrous federal debt.
I'm sorry if I'm putting words into your mouth, but did you just say "mostly black counties run by... Democratic, mostly black politicians" are the problem?
If that is what you're saying, I'm appalled. In the US we try to keep our racism a little more veiled than that.
This bill was never meant to go to a vote, nor did its author expect it to go anywhere. If you RTFB, you'll see it's 2 years of mandatory service for all. This was a bill to make a political point, that all of these congressman would never send their sons and daughters off to die for this war, but would happily send all the poor folks who serve as our military off to die in the desert.
This wasn't Machiavellian, it was a statement. Obviously lost on almost everyone.
Why should the wealthy pay a higher percentage than anyone else?
Because they can bear a larger burden! I know this is news to a lot of neocons, but here's a crazy fact: it costs money to run a government. There is a certain amount of money that, every year, must be given to the government in order for it to continue functioning. Some people have a lot of money and some don't have much money, so we ask those who have a lot of money to give a little more than those who don't, because those that don't will suffer more for every dollar they give the government than those who do.
But this "paying for government" stuff is goddamn liberal claptrap, and we should probably make those poor folks contribute their fair share and let the millionaires keep more of their hard-earned income. (Unless it's all investment income, in which case we shouldn't tax them at all, right?) If some people can't get by, well, we're living in a capitalistic society! They should've known better than to fall on hard times!
Not having the text of the bill, I'm a little confused: would this outlaw something like a bayesian spam filter on a server in California? That kind of filter does not filter in "real time" (I think they mean to say "when the mail is read") and it keeps records (word frequency). So did these knuckleheads just outlaw spam filters, or does the text of the bill name Gmail or Google specifically?
Slashdot Mirror
Best joke so far.
I'm pretty sure the push towards being vegetarian was the whole point of the grandparent post. I stopped eating meat about 4 years ago, in probably the worst place to do it: during a cross-country bike trip. I just paid a lot of attention to what I ate for a week or so, and my body realized that peanut butter, dairy products, soy and avocados gave me what I used to get from that salami sandwich; after that, the cravings for meat just stopped.
Yes, you should listen to your body, but you can also teach it things.
Please, try to read the comments you're responding to. The Mac is a platform. That's what the person you responded to was saying. Apple is uninterested in supporting the BIGNUM number of combinations of hardware in homebuilt PCs. Drivers and support are really expensive. Mac OS machines would lose the "it just works." Apple's almost certainly unwilling to sacrifice that advantage over XP.
And as for all those "web shops" that want to run OS X but don't want to buy an "entire computer," a mini is $500. Any shop that can't afford that probably wouldn't be buying a standalone copy of OS X.
If they are anything like me, and from my experience they are, they believe that those who volunteer to defend our country should be honored. It's an incredibly brave and selfless thing to put yourself in that position. And part of honoring those of you who make that choice is putting you in harm's way only when it's absolutely neccessary to defend the interests of the United States. I wouldn't claim that all soldiers don't like the war -- though I think it's equally silly to claim that all soldiers think it was a great idea to flatten Iraq to stop Saddam from harboring terrorists^W^Wbuilding a nuclear weapon^W^W^W^Wusing WMDs^W^Woppressing his people.
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Please. Give me a f'ing break. I work at a Uni helldesk, and 75% of the unusably infected XP machines that come in are in that state because the person "saw the little update balloon but just closed it," or "noticed these weird popups and the machine acting really slow but it wasn't that bad." This isn't rocket surgery, it's a bloody 3 minute download. It's not "neglecting to check the blueprints for the building," it's checking that the goddamn wheels are still on the goddamn car before driving it 15 miles to work.
They don't need to know about firewalls or slashdot. They just need to stop the "oh it's too hard so I'll just ignore it" BS, stop being afraid of the damned thing, and try to pay just a little attention to their environment.
Hrm. Didn't quite mean to bite your head off, there. But like I said before, this is reading 20 carefully written words and 3 minutes of downloading, not rocket surgery.
No, they just have to "stop manufacturing SONY BMG CDs with XCP software ("XCP CDs") and SONY BMG CDs with MediaMax software ("MediaMax CDs")." The settlement doesn't seem to say anything about no content protection. I'd wager those products will undergo a namechange, a 6 month retool, and then be back to being installed the first time Timmy puts his new [insert corporate rock band here] "CD" in his computer.
There is not a chance in hell these will be mp3s. I will eat my hat if people can download Sony's music as mp3s from iTunes. No, consumers will get to trade the "bad" DRM-laden files for some other DRM-laden music files. Lucky them.
Yeah. They have to release a fix for their rootkit (already done), trade real CDs for the rootkit installers (which they've already been doing), and they have to send out some gift certificates to iTMS which can only buy Sony music (which, if I remember correctly, of the $1 75 cents goes to the label). Yep, they're really hurting now. Doing what they were already forced to do, and keep consumers using DRM'd files.
Bwaaaaaahahahah! Oh man, that was a good one. "Pro-consumer." Hahahhaa.
You're using the PHONE? Fool!
Perhaps they're abandoning it altogether? Internet Explorer for Windows got abandoned years ago at version 6.
For those not following along at home, this is at least the third time this has happened (if I'm remembering correctly). The city keeps passing ballot measures, and the city council keeps dissolving the project a year or two later. You'd think, after the third ballot passed, that the city council would understand that this is very much the will of the people. I guess not.
Reading the article, it sounds like more of the same old "it can't possible work here" syndrome that infects every Seattle public work. I've been out of Seattle for a couple years -- has the light rail laid one section of track, yet? Both the monorail and the light rail projects for the region have been in development hell for at least 10 years, with seemingly no progress made. The excuse I remember hearing most often was that the Puget sound region was so different from anywhere else in the world that light rail / monorail works.
They probably booted off an OS X install cd and changed the password back. 1337!
I seem to remember a speech at the UN. Satellite images and some guy pointing at it and saying "these trucks are where the WMDs are being manufactured." A bunch of guys I see in the paper all the time promising me they knew there were WMDs and they knew where they were.... Weird, huh? Must've been some crazy hallucination.
The above is my experience as well. When you add to this the fact that the poor guy getting shoved into this job won't know what he's doing and will make mistakes which affect everyone, well, it's a bad situation. Avoid at all costs. You're a programmer, not a sysadmin.
Wow. Just wow. That is one of the most stupid and racist things I've read on this site. And I occasionally read at -1. News flash: the europeans swept through the continent indiscriminately killing anyone who dared defend their homes. The europeans committed biological warfare. The europeans forced the survivors of the slaughters on the east coast walk to Oklahoma. The europeans broke every single treaty which we bothered to make with the Native Americans.
So this goes out to you and whoever modded your rant +1 Funny: FOAD. Thanks.
I couldn't find much information about the cost of this boondoggle, but a figure I found on CNN was $100 billion dollars for design, testing, and deployment. I'm not going to add the customary 50% budget overruns here. Every billion dollars the feds spend is about $3.44 from every person in the United States. Gross oversimplification, I know -- it's probably costing most of you more, as there are plenty of folks (ie, children) out there not contributing.
So this useless piece of junk is costing you (and me and all the ACs that're going to respond to this) $344. How's that feel? $344 out of your pocket in order to not solve a problem we don't have and probably isn't solvable anyway. $344 you could have used, through the government, on your local school, buying some soldier part of an armored Humvee, or paying down the monstrous federal debt.
I'm sorry if I'm putting words into your mouth, but did you just say "mostly black counties run by ... Democratic, mostly black politicians" are the problem?
If that is what you're saying, I'm appalled. In the US we try to keep our racism a little more veiled than that.
This bill was never meant to go to a vote, nor did its author expect it to go anywhere. If you RTFB, you'll see it's 2 years of mandatory service for all. This was a bill to make a political point, that all of these congressman would never send their sons and daughters off to die for this war, but would happily send all the poor folks who serve as our military off to die in the desert.
This wasn't Machiavellian, it was a statement. Obviously lost on almost everyone.
As opposed to Dubya's brilliant solution to the cost of the war: not paying for it! Yep, that's real fiscal conservativism!
Your post was pretty much entirely Republican talking points. Do you get paid by the post, or this an hourly gig?
Because they can bear a larger burden! I know this is news to a lot of neocons, but here's a crazy fact: it costs money to run a government. There is a certain amount of money that, every year, must be given to the government in order for it to continue functioning. Some people have a lot of money and some don't have much money, so we ask those who have a lot of money to give a little more than those who don't, because those that don't will suffer more for every dollar they give the government than those who do.
But this "paying for government" stuff is goddamn liberal claptrap, and we should probably make those poor folks contribute their fair share and let the millionaires keep more of their hard-earned income. (Unless it's all investment income, in which case we shouldn't tax them at all, right?) If some people can't get by, well, we're living in a capitalistic society! They should've known better than to fall on hard times!
No, because that would be "RPN the Calculators of Future."
Though a calculator of future would be kinda cool...
Not having the text of the bill, I'm a little confused: would this outlaw something like a bayesian spam filter on a server in California? That kind of filter does not filter in "real time" (I think they mean to say "when the mail is read") and it keeps records (word frequency). So did these knuckleheads just outlaw spam filters, or does the text of the bill name Gmail or Google specifically?
Maybe something like this?
Is everybody here retarded?
You're new here, aren't you?