>>>And yet, from a UI perspective, Win7 and Vista were very nearly identical
More than just that. Vista (6.0) is to Win7 (6.1) what Netscape 6.0 was to Netscape 6.1. Netscape 6 was a buggy mess based upon a Gecko 0.8 Beta engine, but Netscape 6.1 fixed those bugs when it moved to Gecko 1.0. Likewise Vista acted like it was still in the beta stage.
Vista (NT 6.0) won't even run on the 512 MB it was advertised for. It just randomly freezes for 2-3 minutes while swapping data from the hard drive. But Seven (NT 6.1) runs comfortably in 512 MB. Seven is what Vista should have been at release day.
>>>Increasing the bit depth.....isn't innovative. It's just progress of technology.
That's not how it worked. Graphics back then were not planar, but instead the colors were hard-wired into the graphics chip. The C64 had 16 fixed colors. Ditto the Atari 800, though it also had a setting to adjust the luminance. So you had 8 shades of 16 hard-wired colors etched direct to silicon.
Moving from hardware-based color to software-based bitplanes WAS an innovation for the time period (1984-85). It was something new that had not been tried previously (except on high-end $100,000 mainframes).
Well I agree the Constitution has flaws (and that's why it has been amended multiple times), but don't agree we should abandon federalism and put all the power into a single government. As I said, that is the road to tyranny and LESS democracy.
Power should be as close the people represented as possible, in the State government just a few miles away & your representative just down the street or on the next block so you can talk to him. NOT 1500 miles away in some central capitol where the people's voice is ignored & the representative doesn't even live in his home state anymore. (Sure he has a home address but he doesn't actually live there.) There should be LESS power concentrated in the central U.S. or EU government, and more power at the state level. i.e. More federalism & division of power, not less.
>>>Bully for their bottom line that they've been good attracting people who don't normally buy games to buy a Wii and then put it into their closet 6 months later.
Well Nintendo has sold as many Wiis as Sony sold PS1s, and the PS1 still holds the record for 2nd best-selling console. Ever. To try and say "Nintendo is a step away from dead" is pretty fucking ridiculous.
As for actual game sales, Sony only sold 17 million copies of GTA San Andreas whereas Nintendo sold almost double that amount. 32 million copies of Mario Kart to those supposed people who "put them in the closet" and never touch the Wii again. It looks like you wrong there too..... they ARE playing the console and buying software.
>>>your sig is a clear indicator you can't grok complex subjects.
Dude you're insulting me because I decided I wanted the computer that is 50% cheaper but offers the same hardware as the Mac? That's so fanboy. Next I suppose you'll say I'm dumb because I bought a $18000 Honda instead of a $35,000 Acura.
What you save on the free software you will waste on labor costs as people try to (1) learn a new tool and (2) learn a new tool. I mentioned that twice because of it's importance.
At work I have a setup kinda similar to yours. It also helped that I lost weight, as a lot of my backache came from my stomach pulling downward.
At home I do my best work in bed. LCD screen on an arm hovering in my view, keyboard in my lap (though I'm mostly reading so don't use it that much), TV in front of me so I don't get bored.
>>>No more weird than your stem cells and DNA being patented. In fact, according to intellectual property law, you don't own your body,
Does this mean if I want an abortion, I need permission from whoever owns the genetic material of my womb? I guess that would be the fertility pill corporation.
Back when I was a kid "ADD" was called "boredom". So we discovered ways to not be bored:
Like paying eraser cars inside our desk.
Or doodling on a page.
Or reading a book.
Or staring at the girl's sideboob at the next desk..... ooops, no my mistake. That was just today.
They are so gullible that they will believe anything, even that they have upset stomachs (even when they don't). Or that Lush Rimbaugh is right. Or that celltowers are the cause of their headaches even if the tower is turned-off & the headaches are caused by other issues (like staying-up til midnight).
>>>Google has become like that: Everybody uses google services, but not because they're better, just that they're popular.
No. Except for youtube I rarely use google.
>>>A lot of this crap is due to centralization; ICANN screwing up the DNS namespace in order to turn a buck, the UN screaming at them to give up control and all the politics that goes into that... Google becoming the de facto search engine >>> Or you could just change the default in your browser. My IE at work defaults to bing, and my Opera & Chromium browsers default to operasearch and duckduckgo respectively.
My annoyance with Google & Youtube is now they eliminated "search video" as an option. It's "search youtube" which is annoying when I'm specifically trying to find Non-youtube video sites like vimeo or hulu or redtube.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22full+movie%22 Thanks! You gave me something to watch this weekend. Of course the reality is many of those "full movies" are just 5 minute videos telling users to go visit some website (usually non-functional). Some of those "full movies" ask for a credit card when you try to watch them & therefore are legitimate/legal (for example American Reunion). That leaves very few actual pirated movies on youtube.
>>>IE6 is hated now especially on Slashdot but at the time it had the best box model, best implementation of javascript, and of course specific css sheets with proprietary values were the best of the best 10 years ago. >>> Perhaps YOU thought it was best, but I have and still am loyal to the Mosaic/Mozilla family. I started with Mosaic for Amiga in 1993, and then when I heard the same team also developed Mozilla Netscape, jumped over there.
I haven't stopped using Mozilla-branded browsers since. (Except at work because IE5 and 6 were the only ones allowed; horrible.) Netscape 1 through 7, Firefox 2 through 10, and SeaMonkey2.x. I've never experienced any problems.
Oh and VHS-C v. Super8. (I picked VHS-C.) This is hardly news anymore. It's what companies do in order to gain an advantage over other companies. Nor is it just "the evil" Microsoft.
Google tried to hijack the internet video standard not too long ago. Everybody was already using MPEG4/h.264 online & in their portable iPods, but suddenly Google decided to introduce WebM and throw things into chaos. To quote the/. summary: "A single standard is preferable to a better non-standard," whether it's better or not.
Everybody is always predicting Nintendo's doom. They predicted it with the Gamecube (with merit since it finished in 2nd) (statistically-tied with Xbox), then the DS because they said nobody wants two screens, then the Wii because they claimed it was underpowered. The later two are now the #1 portable and TV console respectively. So much for people's prognostications.
The Vita's only been in North America since February. (In Japan since one week before Christmas.) It has already sold ~2 million units. Of course that's tiny compared to the 18 miilion sold for 3DS, but it's par for how Sony v. Nintendo operates. In the previous generation:
Which is not what he said. He was defending himself against the accusation that the PS Vita is a flop and should be terminated. He's saying that people SHOULD have choices..... both free on the phone and professional-level games on portables like Nintendo DS and PSP/Vita.
I think the real problem here is trying to overcome Nintendo's dominance. Atari tried. Sega tried. Wonderswan tried. Sony tried (with PSP and then Vita). Nobody's been able to do it because Nintendo has a lock on portable game machines. Maybe because the primary audience for portables is kids (riding on buses, in cars, etc) and that is also Nintendo's primary audience.
I wonder if it really works? I bought a LipoSack to protect my R/C lithium battery from burning down the house, and then I saw a video on youtube where the sack also burst into flame.:-| The supposed "protection" I thought I had was worthless.
If the workplace burns-down, I have the home copy. And if the home burns-down, I have the work copy. The most-important files (resume, government clearance) and small-sized text files (ebooks) I have a triple-backup through Google Drive. 5 gigabytes free of charge.
Both paypal and toyota were/are involved in criminal prosecution. Paypal had broken banking laws, and Toyota violated consumer protection laws that oblige them to honor the advertised warranty.
>>>the US's obsolete federal system, which should have died at Appomatox in 1865
No it shouldn't. Didn't you study "checks and balances" in school? Or even look at how the EU operates? (Also a federal system.) The lower-level member states of the union act as a check against the central authority. It is a balance that helps curb the tyranny that history shows is inevitable when all the land falls under one single authority.
This article is high on chest-beating and low on actual facts: "When its victims try to run out of the burning house, Goldman stands in the doorway, blasts them all with gasoline before they can escape, and then has the balls to send a bill overcharging its victims for the pleasure of getting fried." --- Really? Sets people aflame with gasoline?!?!? Was this the WSJ with Alex Jones filling-in as a reporter? (Here's a thought: Tell us what Goldman ACTUALLY did wrong instead of using hyperbole that makes them sound like the darkest, meanest SS officer in the camps.)
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>>>And yet, from a UI perspective, Win7 and Vista were very nearly identical
More than just that. Vista (6.0) is to Win7 (6.1) what Netscape 6.0 was to Netscape 6.1. Netscape 6 was a buggy mess based upon a Gecko 0.8 Beta engine, but Netscape 6.1 fixed those bugs when it moved to Gecko 1.0. Likewise Vista acted like it was still in the beta stage.
Vista (NT 6.0) won't even run on the 512 MB it was advertised for. It just randomly freezes for 2-3 minutes while swapping data from the hard drive. But Seven (NT 6.1) runs comfortably in 512 MB. Seven is what Vista should have been at release day.
>>>Increasing the bit depth.....isn't innovative. It's just progress of technology.
That's not how it worked. Graphics back then were not planar, but instead the colors were hard-wired into the graphics chip. The C64 had 16 fixed colors. Ditto the Atari 800, though it also had a setting to adjust the luminance. So you had 8 shades of 16 hard-wired colors etched direct to silicon.
Moving from hardware-based color to software-based bitplanes WAS an innovation for the time period (1984-85). It was something new that had not been tried previously (except on high-end $100,000 mainframes).
Well I agree the Constitution has flaws (and that's why it has been amended multiple times), but don't agree we should abandon federalism and put all the power into a single government. As I said, that is the road to tyranny and LESS democracy.
Power should be as close the people represented as possible, in the State government just a few miles away & your representative just down the street or on the next block so you can talk to him. NOT 1500 miles away in some central capitol where the people's voice is ignored & the representative doesn't even live in his home state anymore. (Sure he has a home address but he doesn't actually live there.) There should be LESS power concentrated in the central U.S. or EU government, and more power at the state level. i.e. More federalism & division of power, not less.
>>>Bully for their bottom line that they've been good attracting people who don't normally buy games to buy a Wii and then put it into their closet 6 months later.
Well Nintendo has sold as many Wiis as Sony sold PS1s, and the PS1 still holds the record for 2nd best-selling console. Ever. To try and say "Nintendo is a step away from dead" is pretty fucking ridiculous.
As for actual game sales, Sony only sold 17 million copies of GTA San Andreas whereas Nintendo sold almost double that amount. 32 million copies of Mario Kart to those supposed people who "put them in the closet" and never touch the Wii again. It looks like you wrong there too..... they ARE playing the console and buying software.
>>>your sig is a clear indicator you can't grok complex subjects.
Dude you're insulting me because I decided I wanted the computer that is 50% cheaper but offers the same hardware as the Mac? That's so fanboy. Next I suppose you'll say I'm dumb because I bought a $18000 Honda instead of a $35,000 Acura.
You said what I was going to say.
What you save on the free software you will waste on labor costs as people try to (1) learn a new tool and (2) learn a new tool. I mentioned that twice because of it's importance.
At work I have a setup kinda similar to yours. It also helped that I lost weight, as a lot of my backache came from my stomach pulling downward.
At home I do my best work in bed. LCD screen on an arm hovering in my view, keyboard in my lap (though I'm mostly reading so don't use it that much), TV in front of me so I don't get bored.
>>>No more weird than your stem cells and DNA being patented. In fact, according to intellectual property law, you don't own your body,
Does this mean if I want an abortion, I need permission from whoever owns the genetic material of my womb? I guess that would be the fertility pill corporation.
Back when I was a kid "ADD" was called "boredom". So we discovered ways to not be bored:
Like paying eraser cars inside our desk.
Or doodling on a page.
Or reading a book.
Or staring at the girl's sideboob at the next desk..... ooops, no my mistake. That was just today.
"Horniness"
They are so gullible that they will believe anything, even that they have upset stomachs (even when they don't). Or that Lush Rimbaugh is right. Or that celltowers are the cause of their headaches even if the tower is turned-off & the headaches are caused by other issues (like staying-up til midnight).
>>>Google has become like that: Everybody uses google services, but not because they're better, just that they're popular.
No. Except for youtube I rarely use google.
>>>A lot of this crap is due to centralization; ICANN screwing up the DNS namespace in order to turn a buck, the UN screaming at them to give up control and all the politics that goes into that... Google becoming the de facto search engine
>>>
Or you could just change the default in your browser. My IE at work defaults to bing, and my Opera & Chromium browsers default to operasearch and duckduckgo respectively.
My annoyance with Google & Youtube is now they eliminated "search video" as an option. It's "search youtube" which is annoying when I'm specifically trying to find Non-youtube video sites like vimeo or hulu or redtube.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22full+movie%22 Thanks! You gave me something to watch this weekend. Of course the reality is many of those "full movies" are just 5 minute videos telling users to go visit some website (usually non-functional). Some of those "full movies" ask for a credit card when you try to watch them & therefore are legitimate/legal (for example American Reunion). That leaves very few actual pirated movies on youtube.
>>>IE6 is hated now especially on Slashdot but at the time it had the best box model, best implementation of javascript, and of course specific css sheets with proprietary values were the best of the best 10 years ago.
>>>
Perhaps YOU thought it was best, but I have and still am loyal to the Mosaic/Mozilla family. I started with Mosaic for Amiga in 1993, and then when I heard the same team also developed Mozilla Netscape, jumped over there.
I haven't stopped using Mozilla-branded browsers since. (Except at work because IE5 and 6 were the only ones allowed; horrible.) Netscape 1 through 7, Firefox 2 through 10, and SeaMonkey2.x. I've never experienced any problems.
Oh and VHS-C v. Super8. (I picked VHS-C.) This is hardly news anymore. It's what companies do in order to gain an advantage over other companies. Nor is it just "the evil" Microsoft.
Google tried to hijack the internet video standard not too long ago. Everybody was already using MPEG4/h.264 online & in their portable iPods, but suddenly Google decided to introduce WebM and throw things into chaos. To quote the /. summary: "A single standard is preferable to a better non-standard," whether it's better or not.
Everybody is always predicting Nintendo's doom. They predicted it with the Gamecube (with merit since it finished in 2nd) (statistically-tied with Xbox), then the DS because they said nobody wants two screens, then the Wii because they claimed it was underpowered. The later two are now the #1 portable and TV console respectively. So much for people's prognostications.
Would that include a side-talking feature, like the Nokia N-Gage?
The Vita's only been in North America since February. (In Japan since one week before Christmas.) It has already sold ~2 million units. Of course that's tiny compared to the 18 miilion sold for 3DS, but it's par for how Sony v. Nintendo operates. In the previous generation:
DS - 130 million
PSP- 70 million
Which is not what he said.
He was defending himself against the accusation that the PS Vita is a flop and should be terminated. He's saying that people SHOULD have choices..... both free on the phone and professional-level games on portables like Nintendo DS and PSP/Vita.
I think the real problem here is trying to overcome Nintendo's dominance. Atari tried. Sega tried. Wonderswan tried. Sony tried (with PSP and then Vita). Nobody's been able to do it because Nintendo has a lock on portable game machines. Maybe because the primary audience for portables is kids (riding on buses, in cars, etc) and that is also Nintendo's primary audience.
I wonder if it really works? I bought a LipoSack to protect my R/C lithium battery from burning down the house, and then I saw a video on youtube where the sack also burst into flame. :-| The supposed "protection" I thought I had was worthless.
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If the workplace burns-down, I have the home copy. And if the home burns-down, I have the work copy. The most-important files (resume, government clearance) and small-sized text files (ebooks) I have a triple-backup through Google Drive. 5 gigabytes free of charge.
Both paypal and toyota were/are involved in criminal prosecution. Paypal had broken banking laws, and Toyota violated consumer protection laws that oblige them to honor the advertised warranty.
>>>the US's obsolete federal system, which should have died at Appomatox in 1865
No it shouldn't. Didn't you study "checks and balances" in school? Or even look at how the EU operates? (Also a federal system.) The lower-level member states of the union act as a check against the central authority. It is a balance that helps curb the tyranny that history shows is inevitable when all the land falls under one single authority.
This article is high on chest-beating and low on actual facts: "When its victims try to run out of the burning house, Goldman stands in the doorway, blasts them all with gasoline before they can escape, and then has the balls to send a bill overcharging its victims for the pleasure of getting fried." --- Really? Sets people aflame with gasoline?!?!? Was this the WSJ with Alex Jones filling-in as a reporter? (Here's a thought: Tell us what Goldman ACTUALLY did wrong instead of using hyperbole that makes them sound like the darkest, meanest SS officer in the camps.)