I bring this up for legitimate reasons. Well, mostly. I have seen that porn is available on UMD, but how widespread (no pun intended) is it? Although I consider UMD to have been a pretty stupid idea to begin with, for those who have a stake in it, it seems like this could have benn one way to save the format. It may be too late at this point, though. And I really don't see Sony officially embracing this, either. I hear one of the big reasons Betamax died was because they wouldn't allow porn on it. I'm not sure if that's true or not, and I don't have the time to go look it up because I'm going to go download some porn right now.
While I agree with the parent's sentiment and those in other posts about this story being irrelevant, is there any evidence that Sony was behind this? If not, then the Sony bashing has officially gotten out of hand, and the parent has no business being modded 'Insightful'. You can count me in with the crowd that's not happy with Sony these days, but c'mon. There are plenty of solid things that we can shit all over Sony for, but the knee-jerk accusations aren't gonna cut it. Or at least, they shouldn't. I must be new here.
My favorite part of the "retraction" was this (emphasis not mine):
While it's true that I did not check the drive of the second AR laptop, I thought both laptops were showing the same thing and saw no need to investigate the second seemingly duplicate setup.
Yeah, we can't have journalists wasting any of their time doing things like investigating facts. Why would they have two identical setups side-by-side anyway? Wouldn't that warrant some kind of further study? As the original poster implied, Ulanoff saw no need to investigate further because he was too excited at having "caught" Sony doing something bad. Can we get Ulanoff a job at one of the major newspapers, or possibly in the Bush administration? Seems like he'd fit right in with those groups since they're pretty good at doing half-assed work and pushing their agendas.
If this was Sony's big coming-out party for Blu-Ray I could understand this having been a big deal in the first place, but it wasn't -- it was just a party for the 10th anniversary of the Vaio line. All this was was another excuse for the anti-Sony Fanboys to have yet another opportunity to bash Sony. I'm less than thrilled over the price of the PS3 and some of Sony's other moves, but this is ridiculous.
The same could be said for 14-year-olds on the playground. Being towards the end of middle school or beginning of high school at that age, I don't recall the playground being an integral part of my daily routine anymore.
So we're one step closer to AI cars. I'm still gonna want my archaic internal combustion vehicle, but when do Lorna and Lisa show up? I'm all for that part of things.
Who out there has played Xtreme Barbie Doll Dressup? It is what it is -- mindless entertainment. But it is entertaining, and there's really no pretense about what it's there for. One thing you may or may not have noticed about the non-volleyball volleyball extravaganza: it's possible to control your character using only one hand.
I don't care, as long as it's not three bloody hours long.
... in many ways as chilling as anything from Jackson's fertile imagination.
Okay, I have never seen the original King Kong. However, from what I understand, much of Jackson's Kong followed the original, so this wasn't so much a product of his "imagination" as his self-indulgence. Can we please stop fellating this guy now? If his films were half as long as they are they might be decent, but making them overly long with a bunch of FX doesn't automatically make them great and important.
I have to come in multiple times to get a full prize? This never would have flown with what an impatient child I was (and still am). I would have been so pissed during Lego or Popoid promotions (anyone else even remember Popoids?). Yay, I come in for a Happy Meal and get... A single Lego brick. It's like those Star Trek chess sets where you get one piece every three months, so you should be ready to sit down and play some chess by 2154.
A few weeks back The Register ran a reader poll on Web 2.0. Say what you want about El Reg and their brand of satire, but there are some pretty amusing readers' responses in that article.
Compaq actually sold the Alpha unit to Intel before Compaq and HP merged... I think. I always get confused on what exactly happened when, but the announcement that the transfer was underway was made in June of '01, and the HP-Compaq merger was announced in September of '01. Either way, the sale of Alpha was most likely a factor in the HP-Compaq mess.
I don't work for Sun and never have, but you're absolutely correct on the point about not using synthesis alone to design a CPU. To get things like the die size and performance that one wants out of a chip like this, synthesized Verilog is not sufficient, and custom design has to come into play. It's somewhat analagous to assemby vs. high-level language -- if you want stremlined code that might take more design time, you go with assembly. If you want something that's quicker but not as efficient (but still good enough), you go high-level. Maybe not the best analogy, but hopefully it will suffice:)
Verilog design and synthesis is commonly used, however, in smaller scale digital designs like ASICs. There is still physical design work that has to be done, but it's not as intensive as laying out custom FETs like in a big-ass CPU.
Maybe, just maybe, if they got their shit together, they could make a good movie with characters that no one cares about because we've never seen them. But that probably won't happen. I mean, they couldn't get people to care about Nemesis, which had already established characters that people had some investment in.
The idea I keep hearing from Berman is that it will be another prequel (post Enterprise but pre TOS, if I recall correctly), and we all know how well the prequel concept has worked out in the Trek universe.
So, quick question: Windows has appeared to evolved into a seriously fragmented OS. How many different versions of Windows are there?
Another quick question: so what? Last time I checked, there are quite a few distros of Linux running around out there. Everyone and their dog has a distro out -- mine is due to be released in about a week or so.
But there's only one Kernel! Well, except that there isn't. There's the unstable series. The stable series. Older stable series that are actively maintained. Other branches like -ac.
So yeah, once could argue that there are a lot of versions of Linux out there as well. I'm far from what you'd call an MS fan, but this is one of the weaker points to be attacking them on.
Shhhh... It's okay for companies to be extending their reach like this if they're one of the little darlings of the Slashdot crowd who can, seemingly, do no evil. Not that they're necessarily doing evil, of course, but if they were...
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Well, considering that the focus appears to be just on bash and zsh, I'd say no. With that in mind, however, perhaps they could have spent more time choosing a more concise title.
Quitters never win, winnners never quit, but those who never win and never quit are idiots.
Seriously, it's time for these people to hang it up. Insisting that they can still save the show at this point is just pathetic. Look, I appreciate someone who's passionate about something, but enough is enough. Trek is tired, and it needs a rest.
Why can't these fans put this much effort into demanding quality Trek instead of seemingly endless crap like Enterprise?
I'd suggest you parse the post I was replying to and my response a little closer. The original post was talking about their preference for people enthusiastic to a cause (Linux evangelists) over people whose opinions are essentially paid for (like DiDio). My reposnse was pointing out that Linux fundamentalists in general -- not just those who attack the likes of DiDio -- can be harmful to the cause they're supportting.
Yeah, but can't the former become just as bad as the latter? If your opinion is bought and paid for that's no good, but it's not much better when your opinion has become fueled by myopia and precious little else.
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I bring this up for legitimate reasons. Well, mostly. I have seen that porn is available on UMD, but how widespread (no pun intended) is it? Although I consider UMD to have been a pretty stupid idea to begin with, for those who have a stake in it, it seems like this could have benn one way to save the format. It may be too late at this point, though. And I really don't see Sony officially embracing this, either. I hear one of the big reasons Betamax died was because they wouldn't allow porn on it. I'm not sure if that's true or not, and I don't have the time to go look it up because I'm going to go download some porn right now.
While I agree with the parent's sentiment and those in other posts about this story being irrelevant, is there any evidence that Sony was behind this? If not, then the Sony bashing has officially gotten out of hand, and the parent has no business being modded 'Insightful'. You can count me in with the crowd that's not happy with Sony these days, but c'mon. There are plenty of solid things that we can shit all over Sony for, but the knee-jerk accusations aren't gonna cut it. Or at least, they shouldn't. I must be new here.
While it's true that I did not check the drive of the second AR laptop, I thought both laptops were showing the same thing and saw no need to investigate the second seemingly duplicate setup.
Yeah, we can't have journalists wasting any of their time doing things like investigating facts. Why would they have two identical setups side-by-side anyway? Wouldn't that warrant some kind of further study? As the original poster implied, Ulanoff saw no need to investigate further because he was too excited at having "caught" Sony doing something bad. Can we get Ulanoff a job at one of the major newspapers, or possibly in the Bush administration? Seems like he'd fit right in with those groups since they're pretty good at doing half-assed work and pushing their agendas.
If this was Sony's big coming-out party for Blu-Ray I could understand this having been a big deal in the first place, but it wasn't -- it was just a party for the 10th anniversary of the Vaio line. All this was was another excuse for the anti-Sony Fanboys to have yet another opportunity to bash Sony. I'm less than thrilled over the price of the PS3 and some of Sony's other moves, but this is ridiculous.
The same could be said for 14-year-olds on the playground. Being towards the end of middle school or beginning of high school at that age, I don't recall the playground being an integral part of my daily routine anymore.
So we're one step closer to AI cars. I'm still gonna want my archaic internal combustion vehicle, but when do Lorna and Lisa show up? I'm all for that part of things.
Yeah, the question was somewhat rhetorical... I have a feeling plenty of Slashdotters have put in their time with DOAX :)
Who out there has played Xtreme Barbie Doll Dressup? It is what it is -- mindless entertainment. But it is entertaining, and there's really no pretense about what it's there for. One thing you may or may not have noticed about the non-volleyball volleyball extravaganza: it's possible to control your character using only one hand.
Get over yourself, Zonk.
I don't care, as long as it's not three bloody hours long.
... in many ways as chilling as anything from Jackson's fertile imagination.
Okay, I have never seen the original King Kong. However, from what I understand, much of Jackson's Kong followed the original, so this wasn't so much a product of his "imagination" as his self-indulgence. Can we please stop fellating this guy now? If his films were half as long as they are they might be decent, but making them overly long with a bunch of FX doesn't automatically make them great and important.
I have to come in multiple times to get a full prize? This never would have flown with what an impatient child I was (and still am). I would have been so pissed during Lego or Popoid promotions (anyone else even remember Popoids?). Yay, I come in for a Happy Meal and get... A single Lego brick. It's like those Star Trek chess sets where you get one piece every three months, so you should be ready to sit down and play some chess by 2154.
Hehe!
He resigned as department chair, but as of that article, hasn't quit entirely. Just in case you don't want to RTFA (not that that happens here).
A few weeks back The Register ran a reader poll on Web 2.0. Say what you want about El Reg and their brand of satire, but there are some pretty amusing readers' responses in that article.
Compaq actually sold the Alpha unit to Intel before Compaq and HP merged... I think. I always get confused on what exactly happened when, but the announcement that the transfer was underway was made in June of '01, and the HP-Compaq merger was announced in September of '01. Either way, the sale of Alpha was most likely a factor in the HP-Compaq mess.
I don't work for Sun and never have, but you're absolutely correct on the point about not using synthesis alone to design a CPU. To get things like the die size and performance that one wants out of a chip like this, synthesized Verilog is not sufficient, and custom design has to come into play. It's somewhat analagous to assemby vs. high-level language -- if you want stremlined code that might take more design time, you go with assembly. If you want something that's quicker but not as efficient (but still good enough), you go high-level. Maybe not the best analogy, but hopefully it will suffice :)
Verilog design and synthesis is commonly used, however, in smaller scale digital designs like ASICs. There is still physical design work that has to be done, but it's not as intensive as laying out custom FETs like in a big-ass CPU.
Either you didn't get the joke or you're just not as funny as you think you are (something I too suffer from). Or both.
Yeah, maybe, but they could really get some serious overclocking done if they just reversed the polarity.
I do believe you get your ass kicked for sayin' something like that.
... a .fart toplevel domain? Because I really want to register clownpenis.fart -- the last name available on the internet.
Maybe, just maybe, if they got their shit together, they could make a good movie with characters that no one cares about because we've never seen them. But that probably won't happen. I mean, they couldn't get people to care about Nemesis, which had already established characters that people had some investment in.
The idea I keep hearing from Berman is that it will be another prequel (post Enterprise but pre TOS, if I recall correctly), and we all know how well the prequel concept has worked out in the Trek universe.
So, quick question: Windows has appeared to evolved into a seriously fragmented OS. How many different versions of Windows are there?
Another quick question: so what? Last time I checked, there are quite a few distros of Linux running around out there. Everyone and their dog has a distro out -- mine is due to be released in about a week or so.
But there's only one Kernel! Well, except that there isn't. There's the unstable series. The stable series. Older stable series that are actively maintained. Other branches like -ac.
So yeah, once could argue that there are a lot of versions of Linux out there as well. I'm far from what you'd call an MS fan, but this is one of the weaker points to be attacking them on.
Shhhh... It's okay for companies to be extending their reach like this if they're one of the little darlings of the Slashdot crowd who can, seemingly, do no evil. Not that they're necessarily doing evil, of course, but if they were...
Well, considering that the focus appears to be just on bash and zsh, I'd say no. With that in mind, however, perhaps they could have spent more time choosing a more concise title.
As one of their posters says...
Quitters never win, winnners never quit, but those who never win and never quit are idiots.
Seriously, it's time for these people to hang it up. Insisting that they can still save the show at this point is just pathetic. Look, I appreciate someone who's passionate about something, but enough is enough. Trek is tired, and it needs a rest.
Why can't these fans put this much effort into demanding quality Trek instead of seemingly endless crap like Enterprise?
I'd suggest you parse the post I was replying to and my response a little closer. The original post was talking about their preference for people enthusiastic to a cause (Linux evangelists) over people whose opinions are essentially paid for (like DiDio). My reposnse was pointing out that Linux fundamentalists in general -- not just those who attack the likes of DiDio -- can be harmful to the cause they're supportting.
Yeah, but can't the former become just as bad as the latter? If your opinion is bought and paid for that's no good, but it's not much better when your opinion has become fueled by myopia and precious little else.