What made USB win over firewire was HID devices. Mice, keyboards, joysticks... Despite apple being a huge proponent of firewire, Apple's own shift from ADB to USB pushed the market towards ubiquity of USB ports and killed any chance for Firewire to be anywhere as close as common as USB
Save a few servers on TF2 with a low douchebag content, I'm done with FPSes. The genre is stale and lukewarm. Western gamers are like binge drinking frat boys. Is it flat? Stale? Barely lower than room temp? As long as it gets you to where you're going...
Seriously, I've seen gaming go from street fighter to quake, to a game like Rogue Spear or Metal Gear Solid, back to crap like Half Life 2, and Halo.
When the Doctor Who Easter special came on, I didn't feel like waiting for SciFi... SyFy channel or BBC America to get it's act together. I didn't want to be the last whovian to see it.
So I opted for bittorrent. I'm pretty sure Lost, 24 and fans of American media outside of this country feel the same way.
I do think that as consumers, we really shouldn't be turning straight for piracy feeling like we -deserve- it or that there's any real sense of entitlement, but I didn't feel like waiting for the American distribution network to get with it and chose my options. If the BBC or SyFy want my business that bad, they'll do within 24hour broadcasts of big properties. Some properties are getting proper treatment, I mean, now, Funimation is doing Full Metal Alchemist subs in days of Japanese airing.
(The same's true for Top Gear. plus I don't think it's appropriate for the BBC to censor it for export purposes either.)
Unlike Duke Nukem, i could play Quake over TCP/IP on Windows 95 with out mucking about with compatibility mode with WinQuake.
Re:Clearwire already has a similar product and fas
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Realistically, a USB WiMax device can see upwards of 4 megs/sec AND given the cost of dongle and clearspot, is cheaper than the MiFi device. Faster speeds are possible, as evidenced by the Gizmodo article here: http://i.gizmodo.com/5174718/exclusive-wimax-uncapped-speed-tests
Clearwire already has a similar product and faster
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· Score: 3, Informative
Full disclosure: I work for Clearwire, and I am also not authorized to speak for the company.
I don't have the care to build a PC anymore. I was in your shoes ten years ago, then I realized that I'd rather be out going to bars, playing poker, or otherwise enjoying my nights rather than obsessing over RAM timing.
it's not *immediately* obvious. Particularly working with other sorting algorithm options. Drop of a hat obvious.
It took me about 10 minutes to remember the C implementation we all had to learn in highschool. Stacks, queues, linked lists, binary search trees, etc. were immediate recall though.
The issue though isn't whether you KNOW bubble sort, imho, it's whether you're able to work out the algorithm from vague memory description.
In my case, nested looped sorting using manipulations of an array took me a few minutes to figure out fresh.
One more for the gummed up mouse crowd. I swear. I hate absolutly hate it when it gums up. Other times it's a dream. The virtual second button problem isn't a hassle when you've given up gaming too. It's an irritation. But not a show stopper. The squeeze for 4th mouse button is neat though. Beats all other 4th mouse button options I've used
-Prove that humans co2 emissions cause global warming, while i do agree that POLLUTION is a problem, (i.e. plastic waste, nuclear waste, smog etc...) I do not agree that CO2 emissions are single-handedly going to destroy the world.
Pollution affects the environment. Even if you don't believe global warming is caused by Humans, smog and nuclear waste are still bad.
-I make less than 30k/yr raising a son and my wife does not have a job. It is hard, but that is no right for the government to bury my son and my son's sons into higher taxes and big-government bureaucracy in the name of "fairness"
So lower social programs like education and environmental protection, and big business bureaucracy are OK but taxes and big government bureaucracy aren't?
You might want to go look up the definitions of non-sequitur and appeal to authority to understand why your response makes no sense. But in short: You wrote, "The government has every business providing the services it does now." I responded with, "No, not when those services are better provided by a private organization, or where government provision of those services are unconstitutional."
You see, the constitution defines and limits the powers of the government in very real ways. It's not an appeal to authority to claim this, it's the law, and it's how our federal republic is constructed. If the government is explicitly prohibited from doing something by the constitution, it may not do so legally without first amending the constitution to grant itself that power. The presidential oath of office commits the president to, and I quote, "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States," and the President failing to do this is an impeachable offense.
The question of whether or not something is or is not in the constitution is irrelevant to the discussion at hand. The constitution or really, any document is NOT perfect, nor should it be held up as any sort of authority of whether or not something is a good idea. Thus is it is a non sequitor, an argument that follows from nothing, AND an appeal to authority, notably the authority of the authors of the document and the law makers who have followed them.
And none of this proves that it is legitimately the constitutional responsibility of the government, or the best possible solution, to provide health care to everyone.
Again, good ideas are not necessarily constitutional ideas. Slavery was constitutional, for instance.
When people are dying on the street of contagious infectious diseases, it's really a no brainer whether or not it's in the public interest to give free healthcare to all. I mean, it's really a no brainer when it turned out houses on fire are contagious to other houses on fire, why is it suddenly a huge issue when it goes from fire, to germs and from houses to people?
Apparently you didn't read my earlier post and are just knee-jerking your response now. I already said that I donate my time and money voluntarily to charitable causes already - how is that not "participating"?
You don't feel the obligation. You do it for fun. But there are a lot of people who make your arguments who really don't give a rat's ass about the sick and the poor.
Define hyper-wealthy. Right now, put a number on it.
Over a million gross a year. Whereas the bog standard wealthy would probably be around 250k a year.
[Citation needed.] I know plenty of people born into lower & lower-middle class households, myself included, who have managed to achieve a comfortable middle-class lifestyle through hard work.
Seriously? You want me to cite that upward mobility is difficult?
Such as?
Being broke all the damn time keeps poor kids from getting access to pre-college preparatory services. SAT Tutors, AP programs, teachers for AP level classes, etc.
Because the government is wasteful, inefficient, and incapable of putting the money to its original intended use. See Social Security funding and its pending bankruptcy for examples.
So is private industry. Private industry isn't efficient at all, and it's opaque. Government is at least transparent on some level.
[Citation needed]. Many private charities - such as the Red Cross, UNICEF, Habitat For Humanity, the World Wildlife Fund, and many others are very well-run and in general more efficient than government. See http://www.charitynavigator.com/ [charitynavigator.com] for more information.
More? Or differently efficient? I'd like to see normally ca
looks like SquareEnix finally has a real life Slime for sale. Japanese Gamers will eat this up. Now only color it blue, red and grey and put giant smiley faces on them...
Not if it is unconstitutional for the government to do so, or if it is a thing better provided by a private organization.
That's a non-sequitor. Whether or not it's constitutional doesn't make it a good idea. Just because it's not is an appeal to authority of the authors of the constitution.
Sure it sucks. You know what other things sucks? Rain, snow, and not getting laid. The fact that "something sucks" doesn't mean the government automatically has the responsibility to make it "not suck".
When the poor suffer, so do we all. Who knows when we're going to be in a situation when we might need something like universal health care? Even the comfortably wealthy can be reduced to poverty thanks to a medical condition.
No, no one "has" to do it. Do not confuse objective necessity with your belief that something should be done about a problem. The problem is, when you step over the line from "believing something should be done," to "forcing everybody to do what I think must be done by making it a government program," I have a problem with that.
I have a problem with those who think they don't have to participate in their own country. If you're hyper wealthy, you did it largely on the backs of lower paid, unskilled labor. You owe it to them to make their lives and their kids lives better somehow. The poor are getting poorer, and when that happens, things get bad for YOU eventually.
I'm sure I'll be modded down as troll and flamebait because I'm breaking with prevailing slashdot wisdom, but I don't mind burning karma to make this point. If you think that something more should be done about poverty, then by all means - Campaign your little heart out to raise private (VOLUNTARY) charitable donations to alleviate the problem. Take a vow of near-poverty yourself and donate all your earnings to the poor.
Because it wasn't the poor's choice to be poor. Even if you work your face off, you're still probably going to be poor. In the real world, many externalities exist which keeps social mobility difficult. Government should be removing those externalities because when the poor are better off, so are the rich.
Hell, if you did that rather than try to seize control of the government to use it as a club to force me to donate to the programs you happen to think are "necessary," I'd write you a check to help educate, feed, clothe, shelter, and medicate the poor & homeless with a big smile - I donate my time & money already of my own free will, because I believe it's the right & moral thing to do.
So why are you resistant on the Government to do it? Private industry is just that, private. It's thanks to Government intervention we even have any level of transparency at all. Private charities are more prone to internal abuses like embezzlement than the Government is.
If you want more to be done about all the problems, I'll respond with this simple challenge: You first. Do it on your own, voluntarily, lead by example. I may follow voluntarily, I may decide to go a different direction and donate to another cause that I think is more important. But either way, I will not hate you for presuming to know what is best for me and forcing me to fund programs that I do not support, and you will have proven that you do not hate your fellow human beings enough to think that the only way they will do the right thing is if they are forced to.
How about you grow up first? You're not forced to be here, so you're not forced to pay taxes either. Move to Somalia, a Libertarian paradise. No Government! No restrictions on free will! The reality of that is simply that there are many MANY things that keep you from doing such a thing. Your income would turn into next to nothing, unless you became a brutal warlord, and that your life would be in danger 24/7. Similarly, your platitudes about freedom and volunteerism can't hide the fact that the world is much MUCH more complex than slogans and simplistic philosophies.
The Government has all business providing the things it provides.
Poverty sucks and until all of the hyper rich decide to transparently run the programs that would replace Medicare, Medicaid, TANF, food stamps, etc, someone has to do it.
"Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! I'm rich and i shouldn't have to have any responsibility for the things i do to others, the environment or economy! Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! YOU'RE ALL POOR BECAUSE YOU ALL STINK!"
"My life had got no better, same damn 'Lo sweater. Times is rough and tough like leather," said the senior senator of his 29-year membership with the GOP. "I figured out I went the wrong route. So I got with a sick tight clique and went all out."
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What made USB win over firewire was HID devices. Mice, keyboards, joysticks... Despite apple being a huge proponent of firewire, Apple's own shift from ADB to USB pushed the market towards ubiquity of USB ports and killed any chance for Firewire to be anywhere as close as common as USB
Save a few servers on TF2 with a low douchebag content, I'm done with FPSes. The genre is stale and lukewarm. Western gamers are like binge drinking frat boys. Is it flat? Stale? Barely lower than room temp? As long as it gets you to where you're going...
Seriously, I've seen gaming go from street fighter to quake, to a game like Rogue Spear or Metal Gear Solid, back to crap like Half Life 2, and Halo.
I disagree.
When the Doctor Who Easter special came on, I didn't feel like waiting for SciFi ... SyFy channel or BBC America to get it's act together. I didn't want to be the last whovian to see it.
So I opted for bittorrent. I'm pretty sure Lost, 24 and fans of American media outside of this country feel the same way.
I do think that as consumers, we really shouldn't be turning straight for piracy feeling like we -deserve- it or that there's any real sense of entitlement, but I didn't feel like waiting for the American distribution network to get with it and chose my options. If the BBC or SyFy want my business that bad, they'll do within 24hour broadcasts of big properties. Some properties are getting proper treatment, I mean, now, Funimation is doing Full Metal Alchemist subs in days of Japanese airing.
(The same's true for Top Gear. plus I don't think it's appropriate for the BBC to censor it for export purposes either.)
I'd sure hope the FBI existed.
It'd be nice if we had a Federal Bureau dedicated to Investigating Federal crimes like wirefraud across states.
The War on $foo is a political platitude. Not a power grab.
i owned an Aspire One for all of... 4 months before canning it, selling it off to a friend of mine, and buying a macbook.
The damn keyboard was simply UNCOMFORTABLE.
The reason? The tiny, ass. screen. UUUUUUUUGH. painful.
Quake was fun.
Unlike Duke Nukem, i could play Quake over TCP/IP on Windows 95 with out mucking about with compatibility mode with WinQuake.
Realistically, a USB WiMax device can see upwards of 4 megs/sec AND given the cost of dongle and clearspot, is cheaper than the MiFi device. Faster speeds are possible, as evidenced by the Gizmodo article here: http://i.gizmodo.com/5174718/exclusive-wimax-uncapped-speed-tests
Full disclosure: I work for Clearwire, and I am also not authorized to speak for the company.
http://gizmodo.com/5192430/review-clear-spot-portable-wimax-wi+fi-hotspot
Beats hauling around a bulky CPE device and WiFi router everywhere.
The only downside is that WiMax coverage isn't in many markets yet.
I don't have the care to build a PC anymore. I was in your shoes ten years ago, then I realized that I'd rather be out going to bars, playing poker, or otherwise enjoying my nights rather than obsessing over RAM timing.
Then I bought a mac.
This got modded up?
seriously?
You're going to ignore 30 years of game development in favor of a snarky comment? I mean, there's contrarian thinking and then there's...
this.
Yes because there's absolutely nothing nerdy about Gundam...
i have severe short term memory loss. what were we talking about again?
it's not *immediately* obvious. Particularly working with other sorting algorithm options. Drop of a hat obvious.
It took me about 10 minutes to remember the C implementation we all had to learn in highschool. Stacks, queues, linked lists, binary search trees, etc. were immediate recall though.
The issue though isn't whether you KNOW bubble sort, imho, it's whether you're able to work out the algorithm from vague memory description.
In my case, nested looped sorting using manipulations of an array took me a few minutes to figure out fresh.
I disagree only because you cite bubble sort. I can do bubble sort if I'm given a few moments. But it's an algorithm that isn't immediately obvious.
Stacks though is certainly an algorithm I'd expect any programmer to know. If they can't under stand what a stack is or why you'd ever use one...
One more for the gummed up mouse crowd. I swear. I hate absolutly hate it when it gums up. Other times it's a dream. The virtual second button problem isn't a hassle when you've given up gaming too. It's an irritation. But not a show stopper. The squeeze for 4th mouse button is neat though. Beats all other 4th mouse button options I've used
The hyper rich want their taxes hiked. They give money because the Government's not actually doing anything to solve their particular pet issues.
-Prove that humans co2 emissions cause global warming, while i do agree that POLLUTION is a problem, (i.e. plastic waste, nuclear waste, smog etc...) I do not agree that CO2 emissions are single-handedly going to destroy the world.
Pollution affects the environment. Even if you don't believe global warming is caused by Humans, smog and nuclear waste are still bad.
-I make less than 30k/yr raising a son and my wife does not have a job. It is hard, but that is no right for the government to bury my son and my son's sons into higher taxes and big-government bureaucracy in the name of "fairness"
So lower social programs like education and environmental protection, and big business bureaucracy are OK but taxes and big government bureaucracy aren't?
You might want to go look up the definitions of non-sequitur and appeal to authority to understand why your response makes no sense. But in short: You wrote, "The government has every business providing the services it does now." I responded with, "No, not when those services are better provided by a private organization, or where government provision of those services are unconstitutional."
You see, the constitution defines and limits the powers of the government in very real ways. It's not an appeal to authority to claim this, it's the law, and it's how our federal republic is constructed. If the government is explicitly prohibited from doing something by the constitution, it may not do so legally without first amending the constitution to grant itself that power. The presidential oath of office commits the president to, and I quote, "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States," and the President failing to do this is an impeachable offense.
The question of whether or not something is or is not in the constitution is irrelevant to the discussion at hand. The constitution or really, any document is NOT perfect, nor should it be held up as any sort of authority of whether or not something is a good idea. Thus is it is a non sequitor, an argument that follows from nothing, AND an appeal to authority, notably the authority of the authors of the document and the law makers who have followed them.
And none of this proves that it is legitimately the constitutional responsibility of the government, or the best possible solution, to provide health care to everyone.
Again, good ideas are not necessarily constitutional ideas. Slavery was constitutional, for instance.
When people are dying on the street of contagious infectious diseases, it's really a no brainer whether or not it's in the public interest to give free healthcare to all. I mean, it's really a no brainer when it turned out houses on fire are contagious to other houses on fire, why is it suddenly a huge issue when it goes from fire, to germs and from houses to people?
Apparently you didn't read my earlier post and are just knee-jerking your response now. I already said that I donate my time and money voluntarily to charitable causes already - how is that not "participating"?
You don't feel the obligation. You do it for fun. But there are a lot of people who make your arguments who really don't give a rat's ass about the sick and the poor.
Define hyper-wealthy. Right now, put a number on it.
Over a million gross a year. Whereas the bog standard wealthy would probably be around 250k a year.
[Citation needed.] I know plenty of people born into lower & lower-middle class households, myself included, who have managed to achieve a comfortable middle-class lifestyle through hard work.
Seriously? You want me to cite that upward mobility is difficult?
Such as?
Being broke all the damn time keeps poor kids from getting access to pre-college preparatory services. SAT Tutors, AP programs, teachers for AP level classes, etc.
Because the government is wasteful, inefficient, and incapable of putting the money to its original intended use. See Social Security funding and its pending bankruptcy for examples.
So is private industry. Private industry isn't efficient at all, and it's opaque. Government is at least transparent on some level.
[Citation needed]. Many private charities - such as the Red Cross, UNICEF, Habitat For Humanity, the World Wildlife Fund, and many others are very well-run and in general more efficient than government. See http://www.charitynavigator.com/ [charitynavigator.com] for more information.
More? Or differently efficient? I'd like to see normally ca
looks like SquareEnix finally has a real life Slime for sale. Japanese Gamers will eat this up. Now only color it blue, red and grey and put giant smiley faces on them...
Not if it is unconstitutional for the government to do so, or if it is a thing better provided by a private organization.
That's a non-sequitor. Whether or not it's constitutional doesn't make it a good idea. Just because it's not is an appeal to authority of the authors of the constitution.
Sure it sucks. You know what other things sucks? Rain, snow, and not getting laid. The fact that "something sucks" doesn't mean the government automatically has the responsibility to make it "not suck".
When the poor suffer, so do we all. Who knows when we're going to be in a situation when we might need something like universal health care? Even the comfortably wealthy can be reduced to poverty thanks to a medical condition.
No, no one "has" to do it. Do not confuse objective necessity with your belief that something should be done about a problem. The problem is, when you step over the line from "believing something should be done," to "forcing everybody to do what I think must be done by making it a government program," I have a problem with that.
I have a problem with those who think they don't have to participate in their own country. If you're hyper wealthy, you did it largely on the backs of lower paid, unskilled labor. You owe it to them to make their lives and their kids lives better somehow. The poor are getting poorer, and when that happens, things get bad for YOU eventually.
I'm sure I'll be modded down as troll and flamebait because I'm breaking with prevailing slashdot wisdom, but I don't mind burning karma to make this point. If you think that something more should be done about poverty, then by all means - Campaign your little heart out to raise private (VOLUNTARY) charitable donations to alleviate the problem. Take a vow of near-poverty yourself and donate all your earnings to the poor.
Because it wasn't the poor's choice to be poor. Even if you work your face off, you're still probably going to be poor. In the real world, many externalities exist which keeps social mobility difficult. Government should be removing those externalities because when the poor are better off, so are the rich.
Hell, if you did that rather than try to seize control of the government to use it as a club to force me to donate to the programs you happen to think are "necessary," I'd write you a check to help educate, feed, clothe, shelter, and medicate the poor & homeless with a big smile - I donate my time & money already of my own free will, because I believe it's the right & moral thing to do.
So why are you resistant on the Government to do it? Private industry is just that, private. It's thanks to Government intervention we even have any level of transparency at all. Private charities are more prone to internal abuses like embezzlement than the Government is.
If you want more to be done about all the problems, I'll respond with this simple challenge: You first. Do it on your own, voluntarily, lead by example. I may follow voluntarily, I may decide to go a different direction and donate to another cause that I think is more important. But either way, I will not hate you for presuming to know what is best for me and forcing me to fund programs that I do not support, and you will have proven that you do not hate your fellow human beings enough to think that the only way they will do the right thing is if they are forced to.
How about you grow up first? You're not forced to be here, so you're not forced to pay taxes either. Move to Somalia, a Libertarian paradise. No Government! No restrictions on free will! The reality of that is simply that there are many MANY things that keep you from doing such a thing. Your income would turn into next to nothing, unless you became a brutal warlord, and that your life would be in danger 24/7. Similarly, your platitudes about freedom and volunteerism can't hide the fact that the world is much MUCH more complex than slogans and simplistic philosophies.
Grow up, or shut up.
The Government has all business providing the things it provides.
Poverty sucks and until all of the hyper rich decide to transparently run the programs that would replace Medicare, Medicaid, TANF, food stamps, etc, someone has to do it.
tl;dr version:
"Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! I'm rich and i shouldn't have to have any responsibility for the things i do to others, the environment or economy! Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! YOU'RE ALL POOR BECAUSE YOU ALL STINK!"
How about we increase tax rates and reup spending for actual programs that aren't wars or bailouts?
We've done nothing BUT cut taxes and essential services.
Screw John Galt, we need Monty Brewster.
http://tinyurl.com/dlzo96
"My life had got no better, same damn 'Lo sweater. Times is rough and tough like leather," said the senior senator of his 29-year membership with the GOP. "I figured out I went the wrong route. So I got with a sick tight clique and went all out."
Nice to see Change we can all believe in.
I KNEW I FORGOT SOMETHING IN THE SUMMARY.
i wonder if there's a colorscheme for slashdot so I can have a mango slashdot.
(YRO?)