Those experiments could've been easily done by tech dorks who know how to easily install linux. The experiments were probably mostly hardware compatability tests too.
Didn't think about AMD's 64 bit solution. Sounds like what I should upgrade to when my current machine slowly becomes obsolete. I feel so sad, it's a 1.266 GHz p3. it shouldn't BE obsolete.
Well, now that they're most recently Going out of business [slashdot.org], in steps IBM to save the day for them... a new line of iMacs is going to do insanely well, considering it's going to be the only fully-functional line of 64-bit personal computing, because I can pretty much guarantee Apple's going to have full-fledged 64-bit standardizing before anybody else. Apple's going to have an insane surge in users, a lot of the multimedia software that's been migrating to PCs is going to be happy with the better, faster and more powerful 64-bit hardware support and go back to developing for Macs... basically, Macs regain a lot of the status they've been falling behind in quickly.
I wouldn't bet the farm on this. The iMac was and is marketed at the average non-geek who couldn't care about CPU bit path, or memory addressing, or upgradability. And it probably will still be marketed at the non-geek when they go 64 bit.
Now the full on tower machines, those will be the machines to get for hot 64 bit CPU sex. not as cheap as the iMacs are, but they're a whole lot cheaper than say a Sun sparc machine, or other 64 bit box.
Most people won't run into the 4 GB barrier for the next few years I suspect. Most home users are just now having 512MB and 1 GB memory configurations at home. I doubt we'll be rushing to jump to 2 GB anytime soon. However, there is the chance I could be totally wrong and OEMs push machines with 2, 3, and yes, 4 GB memory configurations. However, I still think that is highly unlikely, as that amount of RAM still seems highly expensive. Espcially with the economy still going steadily south.
All of the console makers lose money on the consoles, and attempt to recover that money by licensing software titles.
WRONG WRONG WRONG. The only people who have lost money selling consoles has been microsoft and sega. the PS2 sells above cost. That's probably why the graphics, CPU, and sound systems are all below XBox's level. Not to mention the fact that it's 2 years old, almost going on 3.
The SNES sold for quite a bit at launch for the same reason. The Razor/blade analogy isn't there with most gaming consoles.
Microsoft DOES lose money per xbox sold. however, they are the exception, not the rule in the gaming biz.
I've futzed around with a few clie's at fry's. I don't see how they're failing in the least bit trying to do multiple things. It does PDA things correctly, it stores address, phonebook and other organizational data, and it also plays MP3s well. It also has a gamepad attachment so you can play games with it. I honestly don't see the problem.
Convergence doesn't necessarily produce poor versions of each individual device, it just makes that a much more likely case, but with something like MP3s, simple games, and of course, organizational and real work, there's just enough CPU power and memory that any hand held can do these properly, the only thing it would lack would be storage space for MP3s.
Miramax is leader in Oscar campaigning, but they all do it now. I don't even want to talk about how the politicking for foreign film nominations, or Oscars and foreign films in general.
Where was the Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back nomination back in 2k1?
Actually, I got to play SMB3 before you probably did,. I lived in the phillipines and we had a litle rental store that would rent Famicom carts and sold the honeybee adapters so needless to say I was introduced to the fun of Import(and probably pirated) gaming early on...
This looks like something that cosplayers have been doing for years now, and that's adding effects, backgrounds and touchups using computer graphical tools.(CGing, thier term, not mine)
This is nothing new. This looks like someone took normal photos and went nuts with the Fire filter in photoshop. Had these cosplayers actually been on fire, THEN that'd be something to post on slashdot...
I and several others who took a Novell training class our highschool gave with a competent understanding of Novell, our teacher let us futz around with the test machines during off hours. He encouraged us to actively learn this stuff.
Too bad i never took the novell test and got my CNA. Hindsight's 20/20, I guess.
Although, I must agree with the cookie cutter thought. one of the people in our class was an A+ certified tech.
Couldn't figure out how to work PuTTy, or how I managed to hack around ZenWorks to make putty work in place of the default telnet client...
This person was A+ in both Hardware and the Windows operating system.
How is that different than stupid games? I've played some stupid fucking games in my life time too. I think the downfall of society is not the lack of reading, or the increase in video games, but rather the overall increase of stupid shit. But I really don't think it's an increase in terms of percentages. The percentage of stupid shit that's coming out now is about the same as back in the 50's, the turn of the century and so forth, the people just have different attitudes and values, thusly the same amount of bullshit can thusly have a greater impact on the overall intelligence.
It'll fail only because nintendo has such a strangle hold on the portables market.
The only way it'll succeed if AT&T and Cingular offer these phones for cheap, or for a small price as an upgrade to the standard 3390/3360 phones that they practically give out. If I could trade my 3390 for one of these I would. I wouldn't pay more than 20 dollars for a portable gaming platform that might not sell, and I wouldn't waste 20 bucks on a cel phone that doesn't do more than what my current cel phone does right now. I'm looking to get a GBA SP, and keep my 3390. If they could make the N Gage cheap, nicely supported and had removable storage(I remember reading an EGM article on online gameplay that stated that most PCS/Cellular gaming doesn't stick around on the phone after purchase. I don't want to be stuck with a device that won't work with out access to games elsewhere. I mean, atleast my NeoGeoPocket Color can still run the games I purchased for it) I'll bite. until then, I really don't mind carrying around two devices for my phone and gaming.
Valenti cited that it costs 80+ million to make a movie, and about 350k to make a CD.
if these figures are anywhere accurate for an average performance, then why the hell does it cost 18 bucks for a soundtrack for a movie that costs a little bit less than the DVD? For example, the Shrek sound track retails for about 18 bucks USD, and the Shrek DVD retails for about 26 bucks USD. Only about an 8 dollar difference. Since the movie took far more money to make, then why are they selling the DVD cheaper? Even when you factor in theatre incomes, some of which goes to pay the artists who wrote/had songs used for the movie, the costs should be a bit more even with the production values don't you think?
But look at the bright side....everthing is translucent and 100% non upgradable:) You want a different monitor?...Too bad its attached to the computer, you want a different computer?, time a buy a new monitor. Its bad enough that laptops do this to ya. A faster dvd drive came out, or a faster cd-rw....try putting it into that goofy igloo shaped Mac.
I'm no mac zealot, but I know when I smell bullshit. G4 PowerMacs ARE very upgradable. In fact, as a PC(not PeeCee as some mac users like to call us) user I'm quite jealous of how easy it is to get inside of a G4 case. Granted the iMac is a MUCH different story, and they could've been a little bit more flexible with it's upgrade options than they were. But hell, if you're using an iMac then you're probably not TOO worried about upgrade options, or RAM configurations.
Compaq reverse engineering(it wasn't even that, I remember hearing stories about how IBM printed up the BIOS code in one of it's documentation books. I'm probably wrong here though.) the IBM BIOS basically made Microsoft.
I'd get a Radeon(flavor of the month) All In Wonder, 2 TV wonder cards(Does it have hardware MPEG encoding support? if not, substitute both TV wonder cards and Radeon All in Wonder for 3 cards that do plus one really kickass video card), an IDE controller card(Go with a mobo with decent onboard SCSI or likewise an external SCSI adapter if you have gobs of money to throw around), 3 really fast and rather large hard disks(This is where the SCSI optional comes in.), 1 rather slow and small IDE hard disk, a high end 5.1 capable soundcard(I'd suggest Soundblaster Audigy but I hear it's XP/2k drivers are a dog...), a gob of RAM(1GB+), and 1 DVD-R. Load the entire thing onto your choice of Mobo/CPU combo, and go with it. And of course, the necessary wiring. Enough coax from the wall to the system, a 3 way splitter, and soforth.
here's the only problem, how do you capture from three seperate sources at once? Maybe you could rig the ATi multimedia center to run several instances each pointed towards the different capture boards? Maybe ditch windows all together and find a linux solution?
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If Linux vendors are saying the TCO is lower with Linux. Then YES. when microsoft, the competetor agrees, then it is cheaper to run linux.
The point is is that the TCO is TOTAL.
Even if the Linux guy is getting paid more, chances are that after you cut Windows user licenses you're paying less for your network total.
Those experiments could've been easily done by tech dorks who know how to easily install linux. The experiments were probably mostly hardware compatability tests too.
Didn't think about AMD's 64 bit solution. Sounds like what I should upgrade to when my current machine slowly becomes obsolete. I feel so sad, it's a 1.266 GHz p3. it shouldn't BE obsolete.
Worthless scale of measurement! how many libraries of congress is 18 Mega Tera Bytes?
Well, now that they're most recently Going out of business [slashdot.org], in steps IBM to save the day for them... a new line of iMacs is going to do insanely well, considering it's going to be the only fully-functional line of 64-bit personal computing, because I can pretty much guarantee Apple's going to have full-fledged 64-bit standardizing before anybody else. Apple's going to have an insane surge in users, a lot of the multimedia software that's been migrating to PCs is going to be happy with the better, faster and more powerful 64-bit hardware support and go back to developing for Macs... basically, Macs regain a lot of the status they've been falling behind in quickly.
I wouldn't bet the farm on this. The iMac was and is marketed at the average non-geek who couldn't care about CPU bit path, or memory addressing, or upgradability. And it probably will still be marketed at the non-geek when they go 64 bit.
Now the full on tower machines, those will be the machines to get for hot 64 bit CPU sex. not as cheap as the iMacs are, but they're a whole lot cheaper than say a Sun sparc machine, or other 64 bit box.
Most people won't run into the 4 GB barrier for the next few years I suspect. Most home users are just now having 512MB and 1 GB memory configurations at home. I doubt we'll be rushing to jump to 2 GB anytime soon. However, there is the chance I could be totally wrong and OEMs push machines with 2, 3, and yes, 4 GB memory configurations. However, I still think that is highly unlikely, as that amount of RAM still seems highly expensive. Espcially with the economy still going steadily south.
Windows2000?
All of the console makers lose money on the consoles, and attempt to recover that money by licensing software titles.
WRONG WRONG WRONG. The only people who have lost money selling consoles has been microsoft and sega. the PS2 sells above cost. That's probably why the graphics, CPU, and sound systems are all below XBox's level. Not to mention the fact that it's 2 years old, almost going on 3.
The SNES sold for quite a bit at launch for the same reason. The Razor/blade analogy isn't there with most gaming consoles.
Microsoft DOES lose money per xbox sold. however, they are the exception, not the rule in the gaming biz.
I've futzed around with a few clie's at fry's. I don't see how they're failing in the least bit trying to do multiple things. It does PDA things correctly, it stores address, phonebook and other organizational data, and it also plays MP3s well. It also has a gamepad attachment so you can play games with it. I honestly don't see the problem.
Convergence doesn't necessarily produce poor versions of each individual device, it just makes that a much more likely case, but with something like MP3s, simple games, and of course, organizational and real work, there's just enough CPU power and memory that any hand held can do these properly, the only thing it would lack would be storage space for MP3s.
Miramax is leader in Oscar campaigning, but they all do it now. I don't even want to talk about how the politicking for foreign film nominations, or Oscars and foreign films in general.
Where was the Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back nomination back in 2k1?
Actually, I got to play SMB3 before you probably did,. I lived in the phillipines and we had a litle rental store that would rent Famicom carts and sold the honeybee adapters so needless to say I was introduced to the fun of Import(and probably pirated) gaming early on...
This looks like something that cosplayers have been doing for years now, and that's adding effects, backgrounds and touchups using computer graphical tools.(CGing, thier term, not mine)
This is nothing new. This looks like someone took normal photos and went nuts with the Fire filter in photoshop. Had these cosplayers actually been on fire, THEN that'd be something to post on slashdot...
it depends.
I and several others who took a Novell training class our highschool gave with a competent understanding of Novell, our teacher let us futz around with the test machines during off hours. He encouraged us to actively learn this stuff.
Too bad i never took the novell test and got my CNA. Hindsight's 20/20, I guess.
Although, I must agree with the cookie cutter thought. one of the people in our class was an A+ certified tech.
Couldn't figure out how to work PuTTy, or how I managed to hack around ZenWorks to make putty work in place of the default telnet client...
This person was A+ in both Hardware and the Windows operating system.
How thick can you get?
How is that different than stupid games? I've played some stupid fucking games in my life time too. I think the downfall of society is not the lack of reading, or the increase in video games, but rather the overall increase of stupid shit. But I really don't think it's an increase in terms of percentages. The percentage of stupid shit that's coming out now is about the same as back in the 50's, the turn of the century and so forth, the people just have different attitudes and values, thusly the same amount of bullshit can thusly have a greater impact on the overall intelligence.
It'll fail only because nintendo has such a strangle hold on the portables market.
The only way it'll succeed if AT&T and Cingular offer these phones for cheap, or for a small price as an upgrade to the standard 3390/3360 phones that they practically give out. If I could trade my 3390 for one of these I would. I wouldn't pay more than 20 dollars for a portable gaming platform that might not sell, and I wouldn't waste 20 bucks on a cel phone that doesn't do more than what my current cel phone does right now. I'm looking to get a GBA SP, and keep my 3390. If they could make the N Gage cheap, nicely supported and had removable storage(I remember reading an EGM article on online gameplay that stated that most PCS/Cellular gaming doesn't stick around on the phone after purchase. I don't want to be stuck with a device that won't work with out access to games elsewhere. I mean, atleast my NeoGeoPocket Color can still run the games I purchased for it) I'll bite. until then, I really don't mind carrying around two devices for my phone and gaming.
I've read some stupid fucking books in my life time.
I wish I was playing Zelda or Tetris than reading those pieces of shit.
Which would you rather do? Read the Book of Mormon or play some Bomberman?
Valenti cited that it costs 80+ million to make a movie, and about 350k to make a CD.
if these figures are anywhere accurate for an average performance, then why the hell does it cost 18 bucks for a soundtrack for a movie that costs a little bit less than the DVD? For example, the Shrek sound track retails for about 18 bucks USD, and the Shrek DVD retails for about 26 bucks USD. Only about an 8 dollar difference. Since the movie took far more money to make, then why are they selling the DVD cheaper? Even when you factor in theatre incomes, some of which goes to pay the artists who wrote/had songs used for the movie, the costs should be a bit more even with the production values don't you think?
But look at the bright side....everthing is translucent and 100% non upgradable :) You want a different monitor?...Too bad its attached to the computer, you want a different computer?, time a buy a new monitor. Its bad enough that laptops do this to ya. A faster dvd drive came out, or a faster cd-rw....try putting it into that goofy igloo shaped Mac.
I'm no mac zealot, but I know when I smell bullshit. G4 PowerMacs ARE very upgradable. In fact, as a PC(not PeeCee as some mac users like to call us) user I'm quite jealous of how easy it is to get inside of a G4 case. Granted the iMac is a MUCH different story, and they could've been a little bit more flexible with it's upgrade options than they were. But hell, if you're using an iMac then you're probably not TOO worried about upgrade options, or RAM configurations.
Yeah but who saved Apple's ass financially?
Microsoft.
Compaq reverse engineering(it wasn't even that, I remember hearing stories about how IBM printed up the BIOS code in one of it's documentation books. I'm probably wrong here though.) the IBM BIOS basically made Microsoft.
The company consists of 180 people, including 130 engineers, 45 corporate staff and four lawyers.
since when did 179 = 180? (130 + 45 + 4 = 79)
VideoGamePoopShoot.com?`
I thought Slashdot's moderation function sucked all humor out of you then gave it back to you when you used all of your points up?
I'd get a Radeon(flavor of the month) All In Wonder, 2 TV wonder cards(Does it have hardware MPEG encoding support? if not, substitute both TV wonder cards and Radeon All in Wonder for 3 cards that do plus one really kickass video card), an IDE controller card(Go with a mobo with decent onboard SCSI or likewise an external SCSI adapter if you have gobs of money to throw around), 3 really fast and rather large hard disks(This is where the SCSI optional comes in.), 1 rather slow and small IDE hard disk, a high end 5.1 capable soundcard(I'd suggest Soundblaster Audigy but I hear it's XP/2k drivers are a dog...), a gob of RAM(1GB+), and 1 DVD-R. Load the entire thing onto your choice of Mobo/CPU combo, and go with it. And of course, the necessary wiring. Enough coax from the wall to the system, a 3 way splitter, and soforth.
here's the only problem, how do you capture from three seperate sources at once? Maybe you could rig the ATi multimedia center to run several instances each pointed towards the different capture boards? Maybe ditch windows all together and find a linux solution?
Slashdot logic, first visible post above +0 gets marked, 'redundant'....