Yeah. Everyone seems to be hyping up these new rpg console games which take 70hrs of continuous walking around to complete, but I'm more excited about a snes controller + pc adapter from ebay for use with znes. Also, Sega has released the Sonic games on playstation on a single disc - can't wait to play the games I could never afford when I was younger.
wtf? I appreciate your view point, but with google video + the video ipod starting to really take off watching videos on a mobile tv seems to have a lot of interest - just given todays technology contrraints it hasn't been realised very well. Having a portable movie player/video camera/walkman sounds cool - they're just not good enough for me to have an interest yet.
That is off the hook for using the phone as a (video) camera - I'm not much of a gamer, but if anything got me interested about upcoming phones it was the ability to always be carrying a high-def camera with you at all times.
I'm fairly confident that whenever we see reports like this publicizing how 'tests show the US internet is hacker proof!' it's just media garbage: real tests are confidentially held (maybe in basements!), and the public sure as heck are told of the results. I don't know why they bother handing out bits of information like to feed the public.
Articles like this are the ones that we need to be worried about.
Jeez, I don't know. Maybe they feel the Christian Western cowboys are pissing all over their land and killing their women and children with modern technology, which they have no way of competing with. I doubt this would be as severe if the West (yes I don't like to segregate the whites and the blacks in to East / West but it seems culturally acceptable in all these papers now doesn't it?) hadn't been doing this x10 on Eastern soil (no really, I don't - of course there will be protesters, but recogize the West has actively provoked a response from a whole host of Muslim countries - on purpose). If the East had all the money + bombs, and they were bombing the f'ck out of America/France/GB/Germany, I'm fairly sure Christian Nazi groups would be latching on to the nearest thing they could to start a ruckus. Put this in perspective of 'accepted' violence in the world today - it's nothing. Don't get me wrong, I don't agree with it, but European countries have definetely been provoking/harassing Muslim countries/cultures significantly for the past 5 years. Take a look at some US Army holiday snapshots. They can't compete with Western Armys (that's because of technology by the way, not strength - their men are suicide bombers remember), so I guess they're taking the violence to the streets instead.
In reflection though, fuck all Nazis + Jihadists equally.
My netmd won't work (4 years and counting), and it's drm'd to fcsk. While I agree that drm may be viable in linux (I don't mind), I hope future models of netmd will be linux compatible. I guess it means I'll have to upgrade to a different model though (this is what you get for supporting a company early on..)
"He is working on a number of other programs -- and he gives assurances that none of their names include the word Windows."
Why? are words from the dictionary trademarkable? If I were to make an Apple Grinder would I be busted (a. if it were a physical apple grinder b. if it were a piece of software for macs that say, made deleted files non-retrievable).
Really though, I though I'd try to counter the inevitable tide of 'fuck you malda' hate comments by posting what I could - it's his site, it's pretty harsh that that's what he has to deal with for opening his woes to the community he started.
Hey CmdrTaco, since there's a chance you are actually reading this thread, and perhaps this comment, here are two rules that I'm pushing for that would sincerely "improve the overall functionality" of slashdot for myself and I'm sure many others:
1. An option (since I doubt you would make these changes global) to reduce the slashdot comment view so that +funny = max 3 - tends to eat up the whole page with thing I don't find funny.
2. Have a user id filter: people can filter comments to show user ids less than n: re-live slashdot with the same users of 5 years ago! You can only post if your id is underneath the max user id filter.
Yeah - get this. My first ever user name (which I will refer to as Name1) was pretty original. My second username (Name2) was a temp name I used for people I didn't want to share my main user name with (like this one actually). Anyway, I went to name1.com & it was taken. When looking up the contact stuff (just out of interest), I found it was 'Name2@name1.com' ! Really freaked me out. Take solice in the knowledge that maybe someone came up with the name just as uniquely as you did, and maybe that's pretty cool..
I'm fairly confident that I'll never have to uprgade again. I'm running on 2ghz, and it's more than adequate for my linux window manager - it runs perfectly adequately. In fact probably 500mhz would have done a suitable job. If you're not a gamer or a windows user, then you shouldn't need that much to run an eye candy laden os. I'm fairly sure the only thing pushing the cpu market is the gaming industry, and the necessity for Microsoft to push a new generation of their products in coming years. CPU speeds have increased usefully over the last 15 years, but I can't come up with any home-computer user applications (apart from gaming) that would need more.
It's a really good idea: hit a button and this comes up.
Anything like that for enlightenment?
Actually scratch that, I guess it's probably possable quite easily with maximising the pager with some keybinding...still, I've seen some good ideas on quickly navigating to the window you want, which should be useful.
But from the article I got the impression of 2 things:
1. This is currently some sort of annual peepshow extravaganza: these ties should be kept all the time, pay them, it's important.
2. More critically - they're proabably going to invest more on stuff like Digital Rights Management, because they're more wary of people hacking MS content. By that I mean they might see things like illegal tranfer of media as a bigger issue, because it affects their reputation/their content protection schemes/their standards. I hope it doesn't sideline what business company users are worried about (things that affect their company, like virii, trojans), and not Microsoft's business model/vision of more trivial things (like preventing media copying) - which is they've been investing a lot in recently. Home Windows != Business windows, or at least it shouldn't be.
Wow, what a unique phenomenon. Er, yeah ok, my browser has integrated RSS feeds and an e-mail client. I found that after adding newsforge & digg, + my spam e-mail address, I found myself being interrupted w/ tens of messages every 10 minutes (just got one as I clicked reply: anyone getting 'The Truth from Kavkaz Center'?). It began to annoy me and distract me. So I changed my message checking settings to once every 24/hours/week whatever. Problem solved.
People at work are so ready to be interrupted because they're bored.
Er, yeah, and I guess this is something new? Since the dawn of time I'm sure the geeky nerd always lost out to the athletic type (ref. 'Happy Days', ABC) - I doubt people intelligent who enough to pursue careers in Maths & science are that readilly/radically influenced by television trends. Maybe it's worth accepting that, dare I say it, Maths and Science aren't actually that 'cool' to most people (probably because they're not) - it's all in the eye of the beholder. I don't think culture has anything to do with it. It's unlikely people pursuing tough careers in life are that fickle (if they were, they'd have dropped out by the time they realised computer science didn't look like those 3d sybmols in 'hackers' or like scrolling green code running downwards in the matrix). Blame the culture of education - to encourage people who genuinely aren't that engaged with academia to pursue silly degrees for several years that have little use in later life, to boost political figures yet watering down the higher education system.
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Yeah. Everyone seems to be hyping up these new rpg console games which take 70hrs of continuous walking around to complete, but I'm more excited about a snes controller + pc adapter from ebay for use with znes. Also, Sega has released the Sonic games on playstation on a single disc - can't wait to play the games I could never afford when I was younger.
wtf? I appreciate your view point, but with google video + the video ipod starting to really take off watching videos on a mobile tv seems to have a lot of interest - just given todays technology contrraints it hasn't been realised very well. Having a portable movie player/video camera/walkman sounds cool - they're just not good enough for me to have an interest yet.
That is off the hook for using the phone as a (video) camera - I'm not much of a gamer, but if anything got me interested about upcoming phones it was the ability to always be carrying a high-def camera with you at all times.
"We must just hope that the US government recognises that this is the case, and sets a good example to the rest of the world."
Hopefully it won't come across as sarcasm.
I'm fairly confident that whenever we see reports like this publicizing how 'tests show the US internet is hacker proof!' it's just media garbage: real tests are confidentially held (maybe in basements!), and the public sure as heck are told of the results. I don't know why they bother handing out bits of information like to feed the public.
Articles like this are the ones that we need to be worried about.
Could you post a vegetarian alternative please?
Maybe he'll reject it & tell Bush to fo. Not sure if that happens a lot in the US. DO IT!!
No joke. I clicked "Windows Vista Capable PCs and Customer Benefits" on this page and couldn't find any. What are they again?
Follow their links:
l uate/hardware/entpguid.mspx#ECAA
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsvista/eva
Not really surprising.
Whatever happened to Islam? What went wrong?
Jeez, I don't know. Maybe they feel the Christian Western cowboys are pissing all over their land and killing their women and children with modern technology, which they have no way of competing with. I doubt this would be as severe if the West (yes I don't like to segregate the whites and the blacks in to East / West but it seems culturally acceptable in all these papers now doesn't it?) hadn't been doing this x10 on Eastern soil (no really, I don't - of course there will be protesters, but recogize the West has actively provoked a response from a whole host of Muslim countries - on purpose). If the East had all the money + bombs, and they were bombing the f'ck out of America/France/GB/Germany, I'm fairly sure Christian Nazi groups would be latching on to the nearest thing they could to start a ruckus. Put this in perspective of 'accepted' violence in the world today - it's nothing. Don't get me wrong, I don't agree with it, but European countries have definetely been provoking/harassing Muslim countries/cultures significantly for the past 5 years. Take a look at some US Army holiday snapshots. They can't compete with Western Armys (that's because of technology by the way, not strength - their men are suicide bombers remember), so I guess they're taking the violence to the streets instead.
In reflection though, fuck all Nazis + Jihadists equally.
Great comment!! Totally agree with you, so don't be upset if you get modded down further.
My netmd won't work (4 years and counting), and it's drm'd to fcsk. While I agree that drm may be viable in linux (I don't mind), I hope future models of netmd will be linux compatible. I guess it means I'll have to upgrade to a different model though (this is what you get for supporting a company early on..)
SONY: SUPPORT THIS PROJECT: http://www.minidisc.org/NetMD_faq.html
I'm sick of rebooting.
"He is working on a number of other programs -- and he gives assurances that none of their names include the word Windows."
Why? are words from the dictionary trademarkable? If I were to make an Apple Grinder would I be busted (a. if it were a physical apple grinder b. if it were a piece of software for macs that say, made deleted files non-retrievable).
I don't know - I'm not a lawyer.
oops, hit submit too early...
Really though, I though I'd try to counter the inevitable tide of 'fuck you malda' hate comments by posting what I could - it's his site, it's pretty harsh that that's what he has to deal with for opening his woes to the community he started.
Hey CmdrTaco, since there's a chance you are actually reading this thread, and perhaps this comment, here are two rules that I'm pushing for that would sincerely "improve the overall functionality" of slashdot for myself and I'm sure many others:
1. An option (since I doubt you would make these changes global) to reduce the slashdot comment view so that +funny = max 3 - tends to eat up the whole page with thing I don't find funny.
2. Have a user id filter: people can filter comments to show user ids less than n: re-live slashdot with the same users of 5 years ago! You can only post if your id is underneath the max user id filter.
Yeah well, since I didn't have an article to ignore, I just figured I'd skip the story instead. This is /., right?!
Yeah - get this. My first ever user name (which I will refer to as Name1) was pretty original. My second username (Name2) was a temp name I used for people I didn't want to share my main user name with (like this one actually). Anyway, I went to name1.com & it was taken. When looking up the contact stuff (just out of interest), I found it was 'Name2@name1.com' ! Really freaked me out. Take solice in the knowledge that maybe someone came up with the name just as uniquely as you did, and maybe that's pretty cool..
I'm fairly confident that I'll never have to uprgade again. I'm running on 2ghz, and it's more than adequate for my linux window manager - it runs perfectly adequately. In fact probably 500mhz would have done a suitable job. If you're not a gamer or a windows user, then you shouldn't need that much to run an eye candy laden os. I'm fairly sure the only thing pushing the cpu market is the gaming industry, and the necessity for Microsoft to push a new generation of their products in coming years. CPU speeds have increased usefully over the last 15 years, but I can't come up with any home-computer user applications (apart from gaming) that would need more.
Only 364 days to go!
Not in the English speaking world.
It's a really good idea: hit a button and this comes up.
Anything like that for enlightenment?
Actually scratch that, I guess it's probably possable quite easily with maximising the pager with some keybinding...still, I've seen some good ideas on quickly navigating to the window you want, which should be useful.
But from the article I got the impression of 2 things:
1. This is currently some sort of annual peepshow extravaganza: these ties should be kept all the time, pay them, it's important.
2. More critically -
they're proabably going to invest more on stuff like Digital Rights Management, because they're more wary of people hacking MS content. By that I mean they might see things like illegal tranfer of media as a bigger issue, because it affects their reputation/their content protection schemes/their standards. I hope it doesn't sideline what business company users are worried about (things that affect their company, like virii, trojans), and not Microsoft's business model/vision of more trivial things (like preventing media copying) - which is they've been investing a lot in recently. Home Windows != Business windows, or at least it shouldn't be.
That was a dull post.
So long as there's a picture of cowboy neal's pondering visage next to every story (throw out those damn colourful icons).
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Here are a few to template:
http://panamaus.org/gallery/albums/e2misc/cowboyn
Cowboy Breakfast
http://everything2.com/images/incoming/FuPater.jp
Cowboy neal salesman protection stance
http://doulopolis.net/albums/E2%20Photos/Hollanda
'Good Times'
but he's based in Cambridge, Massachusetts...CAMBRIDGE MASSACHUSETTS!!!
Wow, what a unique phenomenon. Er, yeah ok, my browser has integrated RSS feeds and an e-mail client. I found that after adding newsforge & digg, + my spam e-mail address, I found myself being interrupted w/ tens of messages every 10 minutes (just got one as I clicked reply: anyone getting 'The Truth from Kavkaz Center'?). It began to annoy me and distract me. So I changed my message checking settings to once every 24/hours/week whatever. Problem solved.
People at work are so ready to be interrupted because they're bored.
Er, yeah, and I guess this is something new? Since the dawn of time I'm sure the geeky nerd always lost out to the athletic type (ref. 'Happy Days', ABC) - I doubt people intelligent who enough to pursue careers in Maths & science are that readilly /radically influenced by television trends. Maybe it's worth accepting that, dare I say it, Maths and Science aren't actually that 'cool' to most people (probably because they're not) - it's all in the eye of the beholder. I don't think culture has anything to do with it. It's unlikely people pursuing tough careers in life are that fickle (if they were, they'd have dropped out by the time they realised computer science didn't look like those 3d sybmols in 'hackers' or like scrolling green code running downwards in the matrix). Blame the culture of education - to encourage people who genuinely aren't that engaged with academia to pursue silly degrees for several years that have little use in later life, to boost political figures yet watering down the higher education system.