Hemos probably didn't even look at any screenshots, and he says that he hates it (just look at the department). If he got off of his lazy duff, used his T3 to download the 120MB demo, and played it, then maybe he could form an educated opinion, instead of this bigotry he calls his insight.
Prejudice seems to be prevalent here on Slashdot. If the bible thumpers took a closer look at what Microsoft does, they'd like the code, but hate the corporate entity itself. Instead, they say "Windows 2000 5UX0RS!" without even investigating a working Win2K system. Personally, I think that Win2K is the perfect compromise for someone who wants Windows functionality without the constant BSOD.
Personally, I prefer to read my books from a non-interlaced, non-pixilated, non-radiation emitting, multi-layered surface which we call paper. Also, what will the e-book revolution do to us? Will banning books be as simple as changing access from r-xr-xr-x to ---------? What about book-burnings? Will we have to go to a Kinko's to print out many hardcopies of books just to get our message across?
IMHO, the closer the e-book gets to reality, the closer our society starts to resemble "Fahrenheit 451" and "1984". The government has been lying to us; the final frontier isn't space, it's THEM.
Who of us living and breathing right now will even care about what happens 978 years from now? We'll all be dead and gone at least 6 times over. Our great-great-great-great-great-great-grandchildren will be distilling crude oil from our bones and ashes. What this Hawking guy is saying is just restating the obvious. Hell, at our current emissions rates we could see the blue sky turn orange in 300 years.
First, "Red Hat Linux 7 Infested With Bugs", and now, "Space Fungus Eating Mir". Anyone see a pattern here?
I'm half-anxious and half-afraid to hear what bizarre disaster is going to happen next. Watch out, someone might DDoS some Russian servers in Siberia and send some nukes coming our way! Be prepared, if there's something that history has taught us, it's the fact that sh*t happens.
"...but "one-click" anything seems too silly for consideration, doesn't it?"
Hell yeah. There's already talk of Sun Microsystems and Netscape battling to be the first to create the "one-click crash" (Sun with Java 2, Netscape with Navigator 6). IMHO, we should take every possible step to supporess the "instant gratification now, damnit!" movement, of which Apple, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon.com are a part of. Apple already created the one-button mouse, and now with this one-click patent, they want to finalize their monopoly of choices. Pretty soon, every dialog box in Mac OS will have ony one button to click! It's a conspiracy, I tell ya!
I mean, think about the benefits that it will spawn. Better D3D support in Bryce and Poser. Secret optimizations for Draw. Full.DOC compatibility for WordPerfect.
It's time to start thinking outside the Linux box.
Seriously. AOL will own all TimeWarner customers, and Verizon will own a whole chunk of the landlines in the Northeast (I don't know about the rest of the US). There has to be something that will prevent corruption and price gouging.
"EAX is not like A3D. EAX is reverb. A3D was a proprietary API and hardware for 3D positional audio."
My point exactly. Trouble is, now Creative's trying to hype EAX as a 3d positional audio API, which it's not. And the only ones to oppose them in this are the knowledgeable consumers, like you and me.
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...including some things I don't want to know about.
...though it's entirely possible. It would involve the software developers at Bleem! or Connectix to get off their duffs and convert the executable to Win32; as they stand right now, they will only execute in Windows 9x. I didn't filch the Volume 10 Sony demo disk for nothing!
Since its conception it has influenced the minds of at least 7 software developers. That many people commented on my quote in a non-negative way; most of them heeding it as advice. Which is why, on the bottom of every one of my comments, it says:
Will this be as easy for the government to stomach as Belgian waffles and Belgian chocolate? Remember, new security methods should NEVER mean an entire platform change. (sorry Linux nerds, but the many *ix platforms still have gaping holes in security [see also the fprint() bug in the entire glibc])
Everyone else seems to like it, so I'm leaving it. Besides, it serves as a reminder to the programming community to investigate the benefit to society that their creations will give (if any.)
"and it will run both on Slashdot and in the print version of Wired, in time for your last-minute shopping. (Yeah, that's months away, but print moves a little slower then us;) )
Will WIRED include a de-clawed Cue:Cat with a UPC scanning driver? That'd be the right thing to do, after what they did as an accomplice to D:C's scam.
The title is "The 10 Most Important People of the Decade."
Of the decade. Not 30 years ago, not 60 years ago, but the timespan including all dates 10 years ago or more recent.
If you still want to see the Unix creators' names in lights, then go to another top ten list. Or better yet, go in a cave and make your own. And don't come out until you can live for today!
[spoof]Due to Bill Gates beating out Linus Torvalds in the "10 Most Important People of the Decade" list, the foreheads of Linux users around the world were adorned with red and purple bruises, apparently caused by the Linux users beating themselves on the head with their gilded, titanium-cover editions of "Kernel Hacking, edition 2.1.15".
Several concussions, and even two fatalities, have been reported so far. When reached for comment, Bill Gates said, "What were they thinking? It was just another Top Ten list which I nearly won. Do they do this every night Letterman reads his?"
There were just too many changes to make to NT to warrant another service pack. It's time to move on from NT4, just as we did from NT 3.51 four years ago.
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Let's hope that the patent itself isn't as vague as the description is. Stuff like Napster and Gnutella could be swallowed up by this.
Prejudice seems to be prevalent here on Slashdot. If the bible thumpers took a closer look at what Microsoft does, they'd like the code, but hate the corporate entity itself. Instead, they say "Windows 2000 5UX0RS!" without even investigating a working Win2K system. Personally, I think that Win2K is the perfect compromise for someone who wants Windows functionality without the constant BSOD.
The factorial of geek equals lawyer?
IMHO, the closer the e-book gets to reality, the closer our society starts to resemble "Fahrenheit 451" and "1984". The government has been lying to us; the final frontier isn't space, it's THEM.
Who of us living and breathing right now will even care about what happens 978 years from now? We'll all be dead and gone at least 6 times over. Our great-great-great-great-great-great-grandchildren will be distilling crude oil from our bones and ashes. What this Hawking guy is saying is just restating the obvious. Hell, at our current emissions rates we could see the blue sky turn orange in 300 years.
Isn't it fun typing in those HTML tags now? It livens up otherwise dull text.
I'm half-anxious and half-afraid to hear what bizarre disaster is going to happen next. Watch out, someone might DDoS some Russian servers in Siberia and send some nukes coming our way! Be prepared, if there's something that history has taught us, it's the fact that sh*t happens.
Hell yeah. There's already talk of Sun Microsystems and Netscape battling to be the first to create the "one-click crash" (Sun with Java 2, Netscape with Navigator 6). IMHO, we should take every possible step to supporess the "instant gratification now, damnit!" movement, of which Apple, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon.com are a part of. Apple already created the one-button mouse, and now with this one-click patent, they want to finalize their monopoly of choices. Pretty soon, every dialog box in Mac OS will have ony one button to click! It's a conspiracy, I tell ya!
OldHat never learned from their buggy past, and now OldHat Linux 7.0 has more bugs than a bait store.
Just look at most of the PlayStation games. There's an alarming number of them which feature scantily clad, toothpick-thin women with guns and nonesuch. There are even total Japanese 2D games which have gameplay similar to this. Personally, I think that Sony has one foot in the porn business already. Hell, they're already at least 50% responsible for building the video devices used to capture it on tape, so they're more than accountable for its promotion: they're responsible for its fruition.
It's time to start thinking outside the Linux box.
Seriously. AOL will own all TimeWarner customers, and Verizon will own a whole chunk of the landlines in the Northeast (I don't know about the rest of the US). There has to be something that will prevent corruption and price gouging.
...with a strange "H" on the water jug. Now who is that woman in the picture? Looks sorta like Janet Reno with Sandra Day O'Connor's face.
except mine's in the present tense 'cause there's still software engineers coding frivolous (and sometimes dangerous) programs and modules.
My point exactly. Trouble is, now Creative's trying to hype EAX as a 3d positional audio API, which it's not. And the only ones to oppose them in this are the knowledgeable consumers, like you and me.
...including some things I don't want to know about.
...though it's entirely possible. It would involve the software developers at Bleem! or Connectix to get off their duffs and convert the executable to Win32; as they stand right now, they will only execute in Windows 9x. I didn't filch the Volume 10 Sony demo disk for nothing!
Since its conception it has influenced the minds of at least 7 software developers. That many people commented on my quote in a non-negative way; most of them heeding it as advice. Which is why, on the bottom of every one of my comments, it says:
Will this be as easy for the government to stomach as Belgian waffles and Belgian chocolate? Remember, new security methods should NEVER mean an entire platform change. (sorry Linux nerds, but the many *ix platforms still have gaping holes in security [see also the fprint() bug in the entire glibc])
Everyone else seems to like it, so I'm leaving it. Besides, it serves as a reminder to the programming community to investigate the benefit to society that their creations will give (if any.)
Will WIRED include a de-clawed Cue:Cat with a UPC scanning driver? That'd be the right thing to do, after what they did as an accomplice to D:C's scam.
IMHO, anything with a trace of Steve Jobs on it deserves a spot in that dumpster in the alley. Gee, I'd see a lot of translucent plastic in there...
If you still want to see the Unix creators' names in lights, then go to another top ten list. Or better yet, go in a cave and make your own. And don't come out until you can live for today!
Several concussions, and even two fatalities, have been reported so far. When reached for comment, Bill Gates said, "What were they thinking? It was just another Top Ten list which I nearly won. Do they do this every night Letterman reads his?"
[/spoof]There were just too many changes to make to NT to warrant another service pack. It's time to move on from NT4, just as we did from NT 3.51 four years ago.