Probably meant the G5... which was the topic of some article in the last couple weeks.
There's also been rumors of Apple showing interest in AMD's native 64 bit mode of the Hammer/Operton line, which wouldn't be a terribly stupid move if they're going to up and move. Going to Pentium (x86) would be a step backward, into a braindead and inefficient architecture, and probably cause a riot among developers. This would only make sense if Apple wanted to completely be out of making hardware, because they'd be aiming OSX at commodity hardware, and that's just too hideous to imagine, particularly if you start thinking about supporting drivers for everything. Probably better, to maintain their slim marketshare, to keep a firm hand on hardware options.
Considering the fact that Nintendo is quickly picking up great 3rd part support, such as Squaresoft and Capcom's Resident Evil series, this actually makes a lot more sense then it did at first glance.
Heck, Super Mario Sunshine will probably sell more Gamecubes than Microsoft's entire stable of XBox-only games.
"You might be reminded of Microsoft's purchase of Bungie a few years ago."
When Microsoft bought Bungie, it was to buy a "killer app" for the X-Box and nerf it's simultaneous PC development for fear it would show up the X-Box.
Throwing away money to assure exclusivity, same as with their acquisition of rights to FASA's BattleTech video game development (IP value, if nothing else... too bad they don't roll out Ralph Reed's BattleMech!)
Rare on the other hand has a whole one game announced and a legacy of Nintendo titles. Ultimately, it's just another shot fired in the console wars, rather than a loss to PC gaming, this time.
More good money after bad. Seems apparent, to me, that without their monopoly they couldn't shoot fish in a berrel. I can't recall where I've seen this strategy of spending money like crazy on to prop up a dying horse, but I do recall it's unusual in the extreme to see it succeed. They're hemmoraging cash and the estimates (from CNN) are they'll get 1.5 million units into the Europe-Middle East-Africa market, and Sony/Nintendo will cover the remaining sales of 12.7 million units.
IMHO Sony and Nintendo are smarter to leave much game development out of house, in the hands of garage developers everywhere, which fosters more creativity than:
"We bought you for $375 million dollars from some guy who dragged the sacks of cash off to the bank, while laughing his head off, now here's a soda machine, a fax for ordering pizzas, a bunch of former Office coders to help you out, NOW BE GREAT OR YOUR'RE ALL GONNA BE FIRED!"
It's practically a guarranteed failure.
What next? Steve Balmer running around on a stage, getting all sweaty and telling us how great the new X-Box Solitaire is? Actually, that might sell...
Also, by this token, Ballmer & Microsoft effectively declare ware on shops which use mixed technology. If you're one of these customers you have to be wondering what's wrong with these lunatics. Maybe it's time to start mapping out that 100% Microsoft-free strategy and be done with it, rather than burden yourself with "patches" which break things in your network infrastructure.
Thanks, Steve, thanks a lot for focusing on a worse product instead of innovation (known to the civilized world as: Making a better product)
Europe is still socialist enough that they tend to favor building infrastructure. The US is so individual oriented that the government believes in tax reduction, rather than build infrastructure. Seems the last time the US ever really did anything was build the Interstate Highway System, which now has us bound to our cars. Too bad rail travel isn't what it was up to the 50's, I'd hardly need to spend $20,000 + gas + insurance + maintenance.
Yeah, but for those of us who just listen to music and can do without TV, options like XM and Sirius work very well. I've had Sirius for 3 months now, despite all the vitriol I've read on here, and I love it. Only wish I could carry it around with me, but it'll be wonderful when I head into the desert in a couple months:)
...the only show that got serious attention was "Farscape", we determined that even that wasn't worth the full price...
Effectively why I don't have DSL or cable at home. Based upon how I use my time and how I value it, watching TV or fast internet downloads aren't near the top. This may change when I'm done building my desktop system, but I'm taking my sweet time there, as this is still Summer where I live and I'm taking more advantage of being outside than I will in January/February/March when it rains (there's the prediction that this will be another El Niño year, but that could be weather people just trying to CYA after getting burned in 1998), my ultra slow laptop fits my 56K connection and all I want to watch on TV I can pretty much catch down at the pub.
I turn on my TV every month, or so, to see what's on. Usually nothing worthy of my time. Then I read, go outside, or play video games. Unless I get cable, and there's no guarantee I'd watch enough to justify the cost ($35+ hereabous) my 19 year old Toshiba Blackstripe monitor (which is still pretty darn nice by today's standards, thank you very much) will work nicely with any computer, so I'll probably (by the time this crap actually gets off the ground, unless it strangles itself into oblivion by Hollywood's meddling) just rent videos, crack 'em on my computer and watch them on my existing monitor. Next monitor I'm likely to buy should have some standard input, or with available converter, should allow me to continue in this fashion.
I've got insufficient motivation to buy anything else, particularly a set which only has one use and would end up gathering dust anyway.
This is exactly why I didn't bother to submit it when I read it yesterday. I figured, heck, it's more BS and/. readers don't need to be bothered with it, but I did tack in on to the end of a post in a different topic. Guess I should have posted the red-herring and AMD's denial, but usually that sort of thing gets rejected. It's too often BS that gets posted. Go figure.
We have these horribly fake looking metal palm trees all around my house.
The fake palms I've seen in the San Jose/Santa Cruz area aren't so bad. The fake pine tree I saw somewhere was butt ugly. I've known for ages that these things have been being hidden anywhere high, one example being a church getting a nice piece of change for placing one in their belltower.
This must be a slow newsday, for an article like this to come up, though.
...when they get more mutants than they can handle they'll have a big war and kill lots of the less popular ones off to make the Marvel Universe managable again.
Employed as a transitive verb, the usage is correct. (I did look it up years ago to understand proper use of "effect" and "affect", so I wouldn't make the mistake)
From Websters:
Main Entry: 3 affect
Function: transitive verb
Etymology: Middle English, from affectus, past participle of afficere
Date: 15th century
: to produce an effect upon: as a : to produce a material influence upon or alteration in <paralysis affected his limbs> b : to act upon (as a person or a person's mind or feelings) so as to effect a response:
Reminds me of swearing when I lived in the college dorm. Casual swearing among the peer group was the norm. Then I go home for Thanksgiving dinner and accidently knock over a salt shaker, "aw f..." Oh, how quiet it suddenly got.
I've picked up a lot of bad habits, particularly leaving the first word/words off sentences, because typing on muds and channels on GEnie (which was mentioned on/. some time back) and the less you type, the more you say, simple economy. Bad grammar though. i.e. "Going to store?" rather than "Are you going to the store?"
However, the language evolves, as we the people use it, hence dialects across demographic rather than physical terrain. Neat, when you consider this is yet another affect of a wired world.
Just sell your idea to M$ and live off the interest.
Nah. Microsoft would rather come up with an incredibly cumbersome different way to do it and then include it in the next operating system, even if it's a revolutionary new way to shoe a horse. Then you'd spend the rest of your days fighting their Legion O' Lawyers® while they (Bill and friends) roll around naked in the all the money they made off your idea. Better just get the copyright/patent on paper. If you decided to make it public you could simply take out an add on Slashdot declaring everyone (and their kid brother) can safely use your idea for fun and profit and you won't defend it (which makes it kinda sucky for anyone who would rather lock up the idea and make biggie whopper bucks, including M$)
f they're truly doing that for a twelfth (what a horrid word) of the cost that China spends, the what the hell is China doing wrong?!
P.R. o' China probably isn't overrun with laid-off IT people who formerly worked in Silicon Valley, et al, and have returned home, willing to work for a check, which, when you get down to it, goes a lot futher in India than it does in California these days.
As soon as PRC has an excess of techies their costs will probably drop, too.
Why not indeed... and they speculate whether video games promote violent behavior... or does it simply revealing the character of the person playing the game. The question begs an answer...
Visualize Pepsi and Britney Spears in the next game I buy...
I visualize the biggest fscking railgun I can lay my hands on. The rest is easy...
It would be a blockbuster, fer sure, but due to limited resources (starving writer, y'know) my wordprocessor is also my web hosting machine and it keeps bogging down... wish I could figure out why.
They're waiting so they can ship the new chip bundled with Duke Nukem Forever.;)
The sad part, particularly for those of us who came in on the cusp of home computers, games, etc., is we've been waiting on vapor or late products for years and know the feeling too well.
"It's really great and it's gonna be so awesomely good that you'll roll around on the floor in the packaging!.. Oh, and it's not finished yet, so we're pushing it back a few more months, but it'll really be worth the wait! Yow!"
At least AMD is more likely to bring it forth than a lot of things I never saw and hung on the edge of my seat for. Ah, well, hopefully MB makers and software people put the extra time to good use, i.e. Q/A.
So basically I'm trying to point out that eating tofu and tempeh and other soy products is not necessarily a statement that one misses meat, but rather that one recognizes the nutritional advantages of soy, and likes to consume them with convenience.
Cheers! I'm a pretty unconvetional cook. For spicy marinara, I toss in some pepper/pickeled olives (which are pretty hot from the deli I shop at) I do things with soy "substitutes" which I never would have considered using meats for, but I have been off the meat wagon for nearly ten years. Recent adopters of the veg diet, and people who think because it's meatless it's healthier, are the most likely candidates for soy in the shape or flavor of meats.
One of my favorites is Gang Phed (Thai red curry) with fried tofu. Hardly healthy, but very good, particularly with a few dragon peppers in the sauce.:-9
First, lemme say this, I'm not a vegetarian zealot. I eat veg because I like it (70%) good for my health (20%) good for the environment (10%), or something like that. I will respond in kind, however, to people who berate my choice of diet.
That out of the way...
I used to eat meat. I used to have a paper route and hit McD's at the end, where I'd chug 3 Big Mac's, 2 Lg Fries, a strawberry shake and a pie or two, then go home and eat dinner, back when I could make a mountain of food disappear faster than David Copperfield. Gradually I lost interest in meat, perfering to eat what I liked and finding less meat translated into more other stuff I liked. I'm pretty hooked on Gimme Lean soy sausage fried up with slices of polenta (fancy name for corn meal mush), no sausage ever tasted as good to me. Eventually it wasn't hard to become veg because I was heading in that direction out of personal taste.
A highschool friend used to eat hotdogs right out of the package, they're usually pre-cooked so no fear of getting bugs. It seemed weird at the time, but it's effectively a stick of balogna, eh?
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There's also been rumors of Apple showing interest in AMD's native 64 bit mode of the Hammer/Operton line, which wouldn't be a terribly stupid move if they're going to up and move. Going to Pentium (x86) would be a step backward, into a braindead and inefficient architecture, and probably cause a riot among developers. This would only make sense if Apple wanted to completely be out of making hardware, because they'd be aiming OSX at commodity hardware, and that's just too hideous to imagine, particularly if you start thinking about supporting drivers for everything. Probably better, to maintain their slim marketshare, to keep a firm hand on hardware options.
Heck, Super Mario Sunshine will probably sell more Gamecubes than Microsoft's entire stable of XBox-only games.
When Microsoft bought Bungie, it was to buy a "killer app" for the X-Box and nerf it's simultaneous PC development for fear it would show up the X-Box.
Throwing away money to assure exclusivity, same as with their acquisition of rights to FASA's BattleTech video game development (IP value, if nothing else... too bad they don't roll out Ralph Reed's BattleMech!)
Rare on the other hand has a whole one game announced and a legacy of Nintendo titles. Ultimately, it's just another shot fired in the console wars, rather than a loss to PC gaming, this time.
More good money after bad. Seems apparent, to me, that without their monopoly they couldn't shoot fish in a berrel. I can't recall where I've seen this strategy of spending money like crazy on to prop up a dying horse, but I do recall it's unusual in the extreme to see it succeed. They're hemmoraging cash and the estimates (from CNN) are they'll get 1.5 million units into the Europe-Middle East-Africa market, and Sony/Nintendo will cover the remaining sales of 12.7 million units.
IMHO Sony and Nintendo are smarter to leave much game development out of house, in the hands of garage developers everywhere, which fosters more creativity than:
It's practically a guarranteed failure.
What next? Steve Balmer running around on a stage, getting all sweaty and telling us how great the new X-Box Solitaire is? Actually, that might sell...
Thanks, Steve, thanks a lot for focusing on a worse product instead of innovation (known to the civilized world as: Making a better product)
Europe is still socialist enough that they tend to favor building infrastructure. The US is so individual oriented that the government believes in tax reduction, rather than build infrastructure. Seems the last time the US ever really did anything was build the Interstate Highway System, which now has us bound to our cars. Too bad rail travel isn't what it was up to the 50's, I'd hardly need to spend $20,000 + gas + insurance + maintenance.
Yeah, but for those of us who just listen to music and can do without TV, options like XM and Sirius work very well. I've had Sirius for 3 months now, despite all the vitriol I've read on here, and I love it. Only wish I could carry it around with me, but it'll be wonderful when I head into the desert in a couple months :)
Effectively why I don't have DSL or cable at home. Based upon how I use my time and how I value it, watching TV or fast internet downloads aren't near the top. This may change when I'm done building my desktop system, but I'm taking my sweet time there, as this is still Summer where I live and I'm taking more advantage of being outside than I will in January/February/March when it rains (there's the prediction that this will be another El Niño year, but that could be weather people just trying to CYA after getting burned in 1998), my ultra slow laptop fits my 56K connection and all I want to watch on TV I can pretty much catch down at the pub.
I've got insufficient motivation to buy anything else, particularly a set which only has one use and would end up gathering dust anyway.
This is exactly why I didn't bother to submit it when I read it yesterday. I figured, heck, it's more BS and /. readers don't need to be bothered with it, but I did tack in on to the end of a post in a different topic. Guess I should have posted the red-herring and AMD's denial, but usually that sort of thing gets rejected. It's too often BS that gets posted. Go figure.
The fake palms I've seen in the San Jose/Santa Cruz area aren't so bad. The fake pine tree I saw somewhere was butt ugly. I've known for ages that these things have been being hidden anywhere high, one example being a church getting a nice piece of change for placing one in their belltower.
This must be a slow newsday, for an article like this to come up, though.
Funnier was this about face: Opteron To Support Palladium Had me an anxiety attack for a moment there...
Then there's the guy who said, "squeat"
squeat==let's go eat
Employed as a transitive verb, the usage is correct. (I did look it up years ago to understand proper use of "effect" and "affect", so I wouldn't make the mistake)
From Websters:
ph33r my 1337 3ng1i5h 5ki11z, d00d!
I've picked up a lot of bad habits, particularly leaving the first word/words off sentences, because typing on muds and channels on GEnie (which was mentioned on /. some time back) and the less you type, the more you say, simple economy. Bad grammar though. i.e. "Going to store?" rather than "Are you going to the store?"
However, the language evolves, as we the people use it, hence dialects across demographic rather than physical terrain. Neat, when you consider this is yet another affect of a wired world.
Well, no wonder! My copy just arrived in the mail and it's nothing but his personal fashion tips!
Nah. Microsoft would rather come up with an incredibly cumbersome different way to do it and then include it in the next operating system, even if it's a revolutionary new way to shoe a horse. Then you'd spend the rest of your days fighting their Legion O' Lawyers® while they (Bill and friends) roll around naked in the all the money they made off your idea. Better just get the copyright/patent on paper. If you decided to make it public you could simply take out an add on Slashdot declaring everyone (and their kid brother) can safely use your idea for fun and profit and you won't defend it (which makes it kinda sucky for anyone who would rather lock up the idea and make biggie whopper bucks, including M$)
P.R. o' China probably isn't overrun with laid-off IT people who formerly worked in Silicon Valley, et al, and have returned home, willing to work for a check, which, when you get down to it, goes a lot futher in India than it does in California these days.
As soon as PRC has an excess of techies their costs will probably drop, too.
Visualize Pepsi and Britney Spears in the next game I buy...
I visualize the biggest fscking railgun I can lay my hands on. The rest is easy...
It would be a blockbuster, fer sure, but due to limited resources (starving writer, y'know) my wordprocessor is also my web hosting machine and it keeps bogging down... wish I could figure out why.
The sad part, particularly for those of us who came in on the cusp of home computers, games, etc., is we've been waiting on vapor or late products for years and know the feeling too well.
"It's really great and it's gonna be so awesomely good that you'll roll around on the floor in the packaging! .. Oh, and it's not finished yet, so we're pushing it back a few more months, but it'll really be worth the wait! Yow!"
At least AMD is more likely to bring it forth than a lot of things I never saw and hung on the edge of my seat for. Ah, well, hopefully MB makers and software people put the extra time to good use, i.e. Q/A.
Maybe the wind changed direction...
The poster dies in a fit of agony...
Cheers! I'm a pretty unconvetional cook. For spicy marinara, I toss in some pepper/pickeled olives (which are pretty hot from the deli I shop at) I do things with soy "substitutes" which I never would have considered using meats for, but I have been off the meat wagon for nearly ten years. Recent adopters of the veg diet, and people who think because it's meatless it's healthier, are the most likely candidates for soy in the shape or flavor of meats.
One of my favorites is Gang Phed (Thai red curry) with fried tofu. Hardly healthy, but very good, particularly with a few dragon peppers in the sauce. :-9
BTW, a brother worked in a butcher shop for a couple years, hot dogs are not the worst thing you can buy. ;-)
First, lemme say this, I'm not a vegetarian zealot. I eat veg because I like it (70%) good for my health (20%) good for the environment (10%), or something like that. I will respond in kind, however, to people who berate my choice of diet.
That out of the way...
I used to eat meat. I used to have a paper route and hit McD's at the end, where I'd chug 3 Big Mac's, 2 Lg Fries, a strawberry shake and a pie or two, then go home and eat dinner, back when I could make a mountain of food disappear faster than David Copperfield. Gradually I lost interest in meat, perfering to eat what I liked and finding less meat translated into more other stuff I liked. I'm pretty hooked on Gimme Lean soy sausage fried up with slices of polenta (fancy name for corn meal mush), no sausage ever tasted as good to me. Eventually it wasn't hard to become veg because I was heading in that direction out of personal taste.
A highschool friend used to eat hotdogs right out of the package, they're usually pre-cooked so no fear of getting bugs. It seemed weird at the time, but it's effectively a stick of balogna, eh?