It's Microsoft. For them, betas are "I just made this program in VB++.net# version 18.8, tell me you like it." Then RCs become, "One of the thousands of people testing this app wanted more smiley faces, so here it is." Once it hits the store shelves (and OEMs), it becomes, "Eh, it should bring up a nice welcome screen at least." Forward a few months, SP1 is out for "Ok, it is just about where it should have been 6 years ago. And now Notepad has USB support!!"
to keep their PC's in the mid level range required to play all games!
If you can afford to play "all games" for the PC, you could afford $3000+ tv and $1000 console + games just as easily. Let's see, $4000 / $40 per PC game.. that's 100 games worth. That's maybe a year's worth of all PC releases. There you go.
Of course, smarter folks find a couple of games they like and have good replayability, then sit on those for a few years so they don't have to constantly spend money to upgrade their PC. WoW and Half-Life 2 play as good on my Sempron 3000 (not Athlon64) as they did 2+ years ago. Then I have a few thousand to spend on the wife, kids, and myself. Win!
Just because I put something into my web server's proper directory, provide links to said material from other web pages, make all of it accessible to the entire world, doesn't mean I meant for any of it to be made public...
Microsoft has taught people for the last 15ish years that no matter what you do, you are likely to lose that big long document you've been working on and not be recoverable in any way. So, people try to do as little as they can with a computer so it doesn't get pissed off at them and fry their data, files, etc. They will never understand that it is possible to have a computer work for you and not against you. Their data was trashed because they dropped their mouse on the floor too hard one time last week.
That, and having to tell idiots every Monday morning that their username/password are those things they wrote on the post-it note on their monitor that says, "Username: jdoe, Password: janedoe" are why I left the computer industry altogether.
My job has it's set of idiots/annoyances, but they don't repeat the same one every day. I'm much more sane and happy now.
And why did the security auditors never find these people all throughout the company, but they went to the detail of finding that one halfway computer-literate guy who learned the "record a macro" toolbar button in the term program to automatically type his login?
Anymore, I find myself dozing off during the Stewart rants on the same old things, Bush/Republicans are evil, blah blah blah, let's make the 10,000th Cheney heart attack/shoot you in the face joke, blah blah blah. It's just the same sort of left-wing propaganda as ABC/NBC/CBS. It certainly isn't independent. His jokes grow stale after watching for a couple weeks.
The only part I look forward to are the other correspondant pieces. They can find some wacky citizen and let them make fools of themselves. Now that's good television.
The Colbert Report far outshines Stewart's show in funniness. A couple weeks ago Toby Kieth told how Willy Nelson's bus is full of pot. A few days later, he is stopped by police and busted with 1.5 pounds of it. Or just last night's show, a teddy bear killed thousands of trout at a hatchery. You won't get this sort of news anywhere else. How many bridges, sports team mascots, or bald eagles are named after Jon Stewart, Katie Couric, and the gang?
It's funny, this coming up on a Sunday again. Is it Defend Clinton's Rant day?
The "Wag the dog" issue was because Clinton decided to respond to one of the attacks (African embassies maybe?) while the newspapers are being printed with the Monica story. That night, the attitude was, "It's about time he did something." The next day it was, "Aaaaah, now we see why he wanted to start a little war." The media were all over the missile bombings for a little while. Matt Drudge had the story broke on his site, but no "real" media would believe some yahoo on that there interweb.
There were other little attacks that came just as the Congress were coming with impeachment hearings and stuff. Each of the attacks were done just on the eve of some major bad Clinton news. Clinton's use of the military to distract from his own problems are precisely what "Wag The Dog" means.
I just pulled up that wikipedia entry, they even go into it in the "Coincidence" section.
It's not as Clinton said last week on Fox, that Republicans bashed him for every attempt to capture Bin Laden, but that he only did these half-assed attacks to distract from his own problems.
But then again, this is Defend Clinton's Rant day.
No, the focus was lost after Columbine. That's when the editors decided they were THE single authority on nerddom. One of them wrote a book about it. Since then, they have been all high-and-mighty about politics and stuff.
Nowadays, there aren't nearly the number of "Doesn't this belong on Freshmeat?" posts as before, when they'd announce versions of various open source/linux/whatever software.
"try" sheesh, you're sounding like Clinton last Sunday there...
I saw this stuff back during the 9/11 commission stuff all over the news. That was years ago. Condi testified about the memo. They knew Bin Laden was working to attack someplace that was American, but they didn't know specifics to stop any certain people. Was it going to be here in the mainland (WTC 1993), outside US interests (US embassies in Africa), a military attack (USS Cole), or something new? Nobody knew the exact details (not even the lower ranked hijackers) until it was too late to stop.
Slot A, Socket A, Socket 754, Socket 939, AM2 in less than 6 years with the last three having no real benefit over each other..I've certainly had enough.
Um.. so don't upgrade with every little swing in technology. Honestly, I bought a Slot-A when the Athlons first came out, like 1998 for my Linux server/desktop. That was performing just fine when I had upgraded other computers and finally put in a Socket-A motherboard in maybe 2004 or so. It still runs quite well, same case, hard drives, etc.
Recently I was putting together a MythTV box, and decided to go with a 939 motherboard as I have plenty of hand-me-down memory I can put in that vs buying new DDR2 sticks. Give it time, AM2 might eventually work out. To me, it's still new and too early to decide if it's a complete failure. But then, I don't completely upgrade every computer in my house every 2 months.
So why is there so much outrage about Linux destops? There are two many (pun intended) desktop environments, then there are too many configurable options in them, then they all look like windows (need more options there)...
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A lot of these web sites touted the US press conference today as the "worldwide" release date of Nov 19, and Japan yesterday announced Dec 2 for their launch. Did Japan jump off and put itself in its own orbit around the world and I missed it?
XBox360 starts at $300... except there is no disappointments when you realize the lesser Xbox360/PS3 doesn't do one feature you later find you want. I haven't kept up with those systems, but are they upgradeable at all?
Now there'll be only one Wii. A few years from now, there won't be any of us crying that we should have bought the "full" version. It'll either have everything needed for games down the road, or one can buy some add-on piece of hardware to do the new stuff.
Hmm, apparently Japan won't be getting the Wii until December 2.
But according to here, the downloadable games will be NES games for 500 yen ($4.25US), SNES for 800 yen ($6.80US), and N64 games for 1000 yen ($8.50US). They plan to increase their library by ten games a month, so it'll grow quickly.
A monthly unlimited plan would have been far more successful, but it's still cheap. I won't be buying my entire library of old games, but it's ok for a small handful of the best ones.
[In the sweet Cartman-esque voice] Mmmooooommmm? Can I have a couple thousand dollars so I can get a Microsoft-certified Vista-compatible computer with Microsoft Office so I can do my homework? Pleeeeeaaaase? [/voice]
You are free to write your own word processor for your own use.
This is getting ridiculous, even for Slashdot. They have a service, use it if you want, don't if you don't want it. It's pointless to go on and on (though you will) about how it doesn't have X feature. This isn't going to be the final word processor ever. You can still use Word, Open Office, vim, emacs, etc. if those suit your needs.
Do all of you stand in front of an 8-year-old's lemonade stand and complain to them for hours about how much you want to have an orange juice?
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It's Microsoft. For them, betas are "I just made this program in VB++.net# version 18.8, tell me you like it." Then RCs become, "One of the thousands of people testing this app wanted more smiley faces, so here it is." Once it hits the store shelves (and OEMs), it becomes, "Eh, it should bring up a nice welcome screen at least." Forward a few months, SP1 is out for "Ok, it is just about where it should have been 6 years ago. And now Notepad has USB support!!"
Can I go on, please??
to keep their PC's in the mid level range required to play all games!
.. that's 100 games worth. That's maybe a year's worth of all PC releases. There you go.
If you can afford to play "all games" for the PC, you could afford $3000+ tv and $1000 console + games just as easily. Let's see, $4000 / $40 per PC game
Of course, smarter folks find a couple of games they like and have good replayability, then sit on those for a few years so they don't have to constantly spend money to upgrade their PC. WoW and Half-Life 2 play as good on my Sempron 3000 (not Athlon64) as they did 2+ years ago. Then I have a few thousand to spend on the wife, kids, and myself. Win!
Just because I put something into my web server's proper directory, provide links to said material from other web pages, make all of it accessible to the entire world, doesn't mean I meant for any of it to be made public...
Damn, filthy hackers.
Microsoft has taught people for the last 15ish years that no matter what you do, you are likely to lose that big long document you've been working on and not be recoverable in any way. So, people try to do as little as they can with a computer so it doesn't get pissed off at them and fry their data, files, etc. They will never understand that it is possible to have a computer work for you and not against you. Their data was trashed because they dropped their mouse on the floor too hard one time last week.
That, and having to tell idiots every Monday morning that their username/password are those things they wrote on the post-it note on their monitor that says, "Username: jdoe, Password: janedoe" are why I left the computer industry altogether.
My job has it's set of idiots/annoyances, but they don't repeat the same one every day. I'm much more sane and happy now.
And why did the security auditors never find these people all throughout the company, but they went to the detail of finding that one halfway computer-literate guy who learned the "record a macro" toolbar button in the term program to automatically type his login?
Anymore, I find myself dozing off during the Stewart rants on the same old things, Bush/Republicans are evil, blah blah blah, let's make the 10,000th Cheney heart attack/shoot you in the face joke, blah blah blah. It's just the same sort of left-wing propaganda as ABC/NBC/CBS. It certainly isn't independent. His jokes grow stale after watching for a couple weeks.
The only part I look forward to are the other correspondant pieces. They can find some wacky citizen and let them make fools of themselves. Now that's good television.
The Colbert Report far outshines Stewart's show in funniness. A couple weeks ago Toby Kieth told how Willy Nelson's bus is full of pot. A few days later, he is stopped by police and busted with 1.5 pounds of it. Or just last night's show, a teddy bear killed thousands of trout at a hatchery. You won't get this sort of news anywhere else. How many bridges, sports team mascots, or bald eagles are named after Jon Stewart, Katie Couric, and the gang?
Um, that's 2002. Even sadder
It's funny, this coming up on a Sunday again. Is it Defend Clinton's Rant day?
The "Wag the dog" issue was because Clinton decided to respond to one of the attacks (African embassies maybe?) while the newspapers are being printed with the Monica story. That night, the attitude was, "It's about time he did something." The next day it was, "Aaaaah, now we see why he wanted to start a little war." The media were all over the missile bombings for a little while. Matt Drudge had the story broke on his site, but no "real" media would believe some yahoo on that there interweb.
There were other little attacks that came just as the Congress were coming with impeachment hearings and stuff. Each of the attacks were done just on the eve of some major bad Clinton news. Clinton's use of the military to distract from his own problems are precisely what "Wag The Dog" means.
I just pulled up that wikipedia entry, they even go into it in the "Coincidence" section.
It's not as Clinton said last week on Fox, that Republicans bashed him for every attempt to capture Bin Laden, but that he only did these half-assed attacks to distract from his own problems.
But then again, this is Defend Clinton's Rant day.
No, the focus was lost after Columbine. That's when the editors decided they were THE single authority on nerddom. One of them wrote a book about it. Since then, they have been all high-and-mighty about politics and stuff.
Nowadays, there aren't nearly the number of "Doesn't this belong on Freshmeat?" posts as before, when they'd announce versions of various open source/linux/whatever software.
"try" sheesh, you're sounding like Clinton last Sunday there...
I saw this stuff back during the 9/11 commission stuff all over the news. That was years ago. Condi testified about the memo. They knew Bin Laden was working to attack someplace that was American, but they didn't know specifics to stop any certain people. Was it going to be here in the mainland (WTC 1993), outside US interests (US embassies in Africa), a military attack (USS Cole), or something new? Nobody knew the exact details (not even the lower ranked hijackers) until it was too late to stop.
Slot A, Socket A, Socket 754, Socket 939, AM2 in less than 6 years with the last three having no real benefit over each other..I've certainly had enough.
.. so don't upgrade with every little swing in technology. Honestly, I bought a Slot-A when the Athlons first came out, like 1998 for my Linux server/desktop. That was performing just fine when I had upgraded other computers and finally put in a Socket-A motherboard in maybe 2004 or so. It still runs quite well, same case, hard drives, etc.
Um
Recently I was putting together a MythTV box, and decided to go with a 939 motherboard as I have plenty of hand-me-down memory I can put in that vs buying new DDR2 sticks. Give it time, AM2 might eventually work out. To me, it's still new and too early to decide if it's a complete failure. But then, I don't completely upgrade every computer in my house every 2 months.
With the HD-DVD coming out for X360 at $200, doesn't that put it pretty much in the same ballpark as PS3?
... but no mention of 5 minutes, 500 miles electric cars? That's worthy of a triple dupe.
Would it be so hard to give a 25mpg car a 20 gallon tank (plus a couple spare gallons)? There is your 5 minutes to fill for 500 miles.
The Wii is in fact made for gamers, people who wish to play games. The Xbox360/PS3 are for people who want an alternate reality to live in.
It doesn't really take a $1000+ television , $600 console, $60 dvds, $1000 sound system to have a little fun.
So why is there so much outrage about Linux destops? There are two many (pun intended) desktop environments, then there are too many configurable options in them, then they all look like windows (need more options there)...
A lot of these web sites touted the US press conference today as the "worldwide" release date of Nov 19, and Japan yesterday announced Dec 2 for their launch. Did Japan jump off and put itself in its own orbit around the world and I missed it?
XBox360 starts at $300 ... except there is no disappointments when you realize the lesser Xbox360/PS3 doesn't do one feature you later find you want. I haven't kept up with those systems, but are they upgradeable at all?
Now there'll be only one Wii. A few years from now, there won't be any of us crying that we should have bought the "full" version. It'll either have everything needed for games down the road, or one can buy some add-on piece of hardware to do the new stuff.
which piece is the nunchuk? the rectangular one with a gamepad, or the little curvy thing?
Hmm, apparently Japan won't be getting the Wii until December 2.
But according to here, the downloadable games will be NES games for 500 yen ($4.25US), SNES for 800 yen ($6.80US), and N64 games for 1000 yen ($8.50US). They plan to increase their library by ten games a month, so it'll grow quickly.
A monthly unlimited plan would have been far more successful, but it's still cheap. I won't be buying my entire library of old games, but it's ok for a small handful of the best ones.
Nintendo Japan has a couple videos up with various games, ways to use the controller, etc.
If permafrost melts, what ever will become of Lady Vox? Long as she doesn't hook up with Nagafen, we'll be alright...
I also wonder if before this happened they analyzed Microsoft's Management skills, perhaps with a case study on Vista?
So the students might not graduate until 2015, but their diploma will have a super cool shiny holographic image of the Windows logo on it!!
[In the sweet Cartman-esque voice]
Mmmooooommmm? Can I have a couple thousand dollars so I can get a Microsoft-certified Vista-compatible computer with Microsoft Office so I can do my homework? Pleeeeeaaaase?
[/voice]
You are free to write your own word processor for your own use.
This is getting ridiculous, even for Slashdot. They have a service, use it if you want, don't if you don't want it. It's pointless to go on and on (though you will) about how it doesn't have X feature. This isn't going to be the final word processor ever. You can still use Word, Open Office, vim, emacs, etc. if those suit your needs.
Do all of you stand in front of an 8-year-old's lemonade stand and complain to them for hours about how much you want to have an orange juice?