This is the ultimate fanboy. He was the biographer of DNA. You can't get more fanboyish than that!
Take it with a grain of salt people. Lots of people bitched about the LotR series leaving out Tom Bombadil (pointless to the entire plot) yet post-release no one seemed to care.
The scores don't matter. They also were 1s at the very least at the time of posting. You saying a slashdot community doesn't exist shows your total ignorance.
Don't even talk to me about 'carefully selective out-of-context' quotes, you know as well as I do that/. is king of those in stories. michael, anyone?
I'm not 'already pretty convinced', thus my question. I had to defend why I posed the question, not the question itself./. has a hivemind and you know it. When Gates donated however many million to the AIDS cause in Africa, everyone bitched that he wasn't giving enough. MS can do nothing right in the eyes of this community, and that standard also applies to closed-source it seems. Thank you very much for proving my point.
That hatred. That's in this story only, there are others elsewhere if you search around.
Usually I'd say "You must be new here" but I guess you don't read comments much, maybe? You can tell there is a HUGE trend that if a standard is not open source, it is NOT widely accepted by the/. community. Don't even try and play stupid here.
OK, I know this is/., the home of open source zealots etc. etc., but I'm curious:
Why the Flash hatred?
Was there a court battle that hurt open source involving Flash somewhere? Or is it just because it's not an open source standard?
This is a legit question, not a troll. Thus I posted with my username, not as an AC.
And for the record, I do use WinXP, MS Office and other closed source products. I do however support open source in some ways. Example: I use Firefox, and will never look back to MSIE.
Shuffle Songs isn't all it's cracked up to be. Shuffle all my songs? Thanks, because I actually just wanted to turn shuffle on and off easily for whatever set of music I'm currently listening to, not all 3800 of them.
And thus begins the 12 month wankfest over which system is superior, based from debates online from people who have only seen press photos of the system in question and have never played it. I hate console -release years on my gaming forums.
Well, since MST3k came out in 1988, I really wouldn't understand it when I was 2 years old. However now, as a 18 (almost 19) year old, I understand it and find it funny.
Problem with a runoff now, people will be voting based on the actions of either party during this long and arduous recount process. I don't live in WA, so I don't have any knowledge of the situation. Has either party been acting outside what normal people would consider normal bounds?
You're right, it's a conspiracy of a small minority of gamers crossposting to all the threads listed in the linked site of this article. Next.
Didn't go as far as to say that. Don't put words in my mouth.
Nothing makes you special. Sorry. It's rather amusing when people click the Read More link of an article they think shouldn't be there, read it, and post a reply...instead of just skipping over it and moving on. Some people apparently need to see their words up in a Slashdot post.
Just like you did?
Nope, it's called refund. Rather "pedestrian" of you, I should say.
Come again? How does paying 90 bucks for a game mean I get money back? Please, give me a pass to your magical world. I wish to join in the vast richness involved.
Next.
Next what? Next up on Maurry, we have some girl that banged a 60 year old?
Intel currently has two major consumer-level processor architectures on the market, "Prescott" and "Dothan". The Prescott processor core is the basis of Intel's Pentium 4, Xeon. and Celeron processors, replacing Intel's previous mainstream processor core known as "Northwood". Intel's Prescott architecture was truly designed with clock speed scaling in mind, as the chip will scale up to 3.8 GHz, which will no doubt make for some incredibly fast processors. Unfortunately, in order to make these CPU's clock so high, the efficiency of the chip had to be compromised. Intel's "Prescott" processor core runs hotter, consumes more power, and has the worst performance per clock cycle of any modern Intel processor core. These factors have made Intel's "Prescott" based Pentium 4, Xeon, and Celeron processors less attractive to the enthusiast market compared to previous Intel processor products. While the mass markets are largely unaffected by Intel's Prescott core shortcomings, a larger amount of the population is slowly coming around to the fact that the Pentium 4 is not on the right track lately. With Intel seemingly misfiring on their latest processor families, the enthusiast crowds are discovering new and better options, including AMD's Athlon64 processor lineup.
Intel, however, does have an ace up their sleeve, that being their other major processor architecture, "Dothan". Dothan is an architecture which was designed from the ground up to consume as little power and produce as little heat as possible, and was originally designed strictly for the mobile markets. When Dothan processors started to hit the market, people quickly realized how efficient this core was in addition to the Pentium 4. In addition, performance of the chip was surprisingly good, considering the fairly low clock speeds at which Intel has presented this processor lineup with. Our tests in the past have shown that a top of the line Pentium-M processor can perform on par with the fastest Pentium 4 and Athlon64 processors in terms of raw CPU power, which is extremely exciting considering the limited feature set of the Dothan core architecture in comparison to today's desktop processors.
Until now though, the Pentium-M platform has been hindered by its attachment to the notebook sector. Since the Pentium-M runs on an alternate processor socket (Socket-479m) which is electrically incompatible with every Intel desktop motherboard on the market, we have not been able to see what the Pentium-M processor is truly capable of in a workstation or gaming configuration. While there always has been some demand for Pentium-M motherboards for the desktop, there was not enough of an urge to turn this demand into more than niche appeal.
Today though, we finally get to see how the Pentium-M platform can compete with the big boys, thanks to AOpen's new Pentium-M desktop motherboard. The AOpen i855GMEm-LFS is the first of its kind to bring the Socket-479 mobile socket to a desktop environment, an extremely exciting product for those looking for a high-performance, low noise system. Let's get to it.
Pros and Cons of the Pentium-M The Pentium-M processor has several key factors which are very attractive and others which will be unappealing to some. Before we get stated on looking at the actual hardware which will power our Pentium-M desktop setup, let's look at the pros and cons of this architecture.
Pro - Efficient Architecture - Intel's "Dothan" architecture is one of the most efficient designs on the market today, allowing for exceptional performance with fairly low clock speeds. Even at a peak clock speed of 2.0 GHz (2.1 GHz models have been announced, but aren't shipping yet), the Dothan processor can match raw performance levels of Pentium 4/Athlon64 chips at much higher clock rates. The surprising fact here is that the Dothan architecture is rumored to be based on a derivative of Intel's Pentium III processor architecture, although that fact has never been confirmed by anyone at Intel to our knowledge. The Dothan processor pipe
If you go to the Steam forums, the "Audio Stuttering" thread has now surpassed 100 pages and 100,000 views, the highest of any thread ever on that board. Half-life2.net has a similar large thread as do all the other forums.
You do know that a 'view' constitutes refreshing any page in the thread, right? Just because the thread appears everywhere doesn't make it a huge problem. What's to say the same person isn't posting to 2 threads on 2 separate forums?
This isn't some "minute number of people," this is the fucking majority of Half-Life 2 gamers, including a large percentage who have high-end systems that surpass the recommended system specs.
Prove to me where this is the "fucking majority". I've had some problems getting old DOS games to work correctly. Maybe I should downgrade?
If you want to play Slashdot editor and sit here pondering why stories make the front page, why don't you just skip over the article then?
Well, last I checked the comments pages of all threads have people complaining about the posts. What makes me so special?
Some of us have paid $90 for this game and its variants
Well, you just bent over and took it didn't you?
It took them days to even acknowledge that there was a problem, and they're still slapping us in the face with a "small number of people" claim on Steam's news page.
Once again, I'd like to see your "fucking majority".
Slashdot Mirror
It's always been that way.
You must be new here.
Shit, does that even *work* here?
Someone revoke her MENSA membership. You're talking to the editors in comments? Even better, you're telling them to fix something?
Please seek help.
Proof or shut the fuck up.
I'm not being a jackass, I'm serious. PNG files just aren't practical for space-saving like the author is doing.
And if you want it done well so bad, DO IT YOUR DAMN SELF.
"who uses .asp?"
Yes, that's a great reason to rule them out.
Provide some REAL information about why I shouldn't use them. Thanks.
This is the ultimate fanboy. He was the biographer of DNA. You can't get more fanboyish than that!
Take it with a grain of salt people. Lots of people bitched about the LotR series leaving out Tom Bombadil (pointless to the entire plot) yet post-release no one seemed to care.
Watch, learn, then form your own opinions.
GOD I HATE THIS FUCKING "HOLIDAY"
Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
Amen brother. It's just fucking annoying.
Wrong. Debit charges placed at POS (point of sale) where you type your pin, you are NOT charged ATM fees. Do you even have a checking account?
The scores don't matter. They also were 1s at the very least at the time of posting. You saying a slashdot community doesn't exist shows your total ignorance.
/. is king of those in stories. michael, anyone?
/. has a hivemind and you know it. When Gates donated however many million to the AIDS cause in Africa, everyone bitched that he wasn't giving enough. MS can do nothing right in the eyes of this community, and that standard also applies to closed-source it seems. Thank you very much for proving my point.
Don't even talk to me about 'carefully selective out-of-context' quotes, you know as well as I do that
I'm not 'already pretty convinced', thus my question. I had to defend why I posed the question, not the question itself.
That being said, I'm going out tonight.
Then hate the site, not the standard. I don't see the point in complaining about Flash. As MicroBerto already said earlier...
There's not much you can do about the way people use your tools. You can't program a hammer to only pound nails.
SomeGuyNamedMike writes "I realize the thought of using Flash and Actionscript is considered beneath many Slashdotters..."
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/. community. Don't even try and play stupid here.
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=14
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=14
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=14
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=14
That hatred. That's in this story only, there are others elsewhere if you search around.
Usually I'd say "You must be new here" but I guess you don't read comments much, maybe? You can tell there is a HUGE trend that if a standard is not open source, it is NOT widely accepted by the
OK, I know this is /., the home of open source zealots etc. etc., but I'm curious:
Why the Flash hatred?
Was there a court battle that hurt open source involving Flash somewhere? Or is it just because it's not an open source standard?
This is a legit question, not a troll. Thus I posted with my username, not as an AC.
And for the record, I do use WinXP, MS Office and other closed source products. I do however support open source in some ways. Example: I use Firefox, and will never look back to MSIE.
This is the Bush administration.
/we're fucked
That being said: No, no they are not.
Shuffle Songs isn't all it's cracked up to be. Shuffle all my songs? Thanks, because I actually just wanted to turn shuffle on and off easily for whatever set of music I'm currently listening to, not all 3800 of them.
Looks like slashdot is picking up Ars Technica's sloppy seconds.
We (USA) have RDS. It's just not prominent in stock radio headers for cars. Check any higher end header and you'll see it supports RDS.
But I think you can agree that console-release years are MUCH more heated. The rage sort of ebbs once they all hit market.
And thus begins the 12 month wankfest over which system is superior, based from debates online from people who have only seen press photos of the system in question and have never played it. I hate console -release years on my gaming forums.
Any petrified wood enthusiast
A what now? Those exist?!
Well, since MST3k came out in 1988, I really wouldn't understand it when I was 2 years old. However now, as a 18 (almost 19) year old, I understand it and find it funny.
Joel sucked.
Problem with a runoff now, people will be voting based on the actions of either party during this long and arduous recount process. I don't live in WA, so I don't have any knowledge of the situation. Has either party been acting outside what normal people would consider normal bounds?
LOL. Anyone who labels someone "pedestrian" is trying so hard to sound like the enlightened intellectual. Put down the coffee.
Actually, I was referencing a Penny Arcade comic. Nice try, however.
You're right, it's a conspiracy of a small minority of gamers crossposting to all the threads listed in the linked site of this article. Next.
Didn't go as far as to say that. Don't put words in my mouth.
Nothing makes you special. Sorry. It's rather amusing when people click the Read More link of an article they think shouldn't be there, read it, and post a reply...instead of just skipping over it and moving on. Some people apparently need to see their words up in a Slashdot post.
Just like you did?
Nope, it's called refund. Rather "pedestrian" of you, I should say.
Come again? How does paying 90 bucks for a game mean I get money back? Please, give me a pass to your magical world. I wish to join in the vast richness involved.
Next.
Next what? Next up on Maurry, we have some girl that banged a 60 year old?
Oh, and stop hiding behind the AC.
Intel currently has two major consumer-level processor architectures on the market, "Prescott" and "Dothan". The Prescott processor core is the basis of Intel's Pentium 4, Xeon. and Celeron processors, replacing Intel's previous mainstream processor core known as "Northwood". Intel's Prescott architecture was truly designed with clock speed scaling in mind, as the chip will scale up to 3.8 GHz, which will no doubt make for some incredibly fast processors. Unfortunately, in order to make these CPU's clock so high, the efficiency of the chip had to be compromised. Intel's "Prescott" processor core runs hotter, consumes more power, and has the worst performance per clock cycle of any modern Intel processor core.
These factors have made Intel's "Prescott" based Pentium 4, Xeon, and Celeron processors less attractive to the enthusiast market compared to previous Intel processor products. While the mass markets are largely unaffected by Intel's Prescott core shortcomings, a larger amount of the population is slowly coming around to the fact that the Pentium 4 is not on the right track lately. With Intel seemingly misfiring on their latest processor families, the enthusiast crowds are discovering new and better options, including AMD's Athlon64 processor lineup.
Intel, however, does have an ace up their sleeve, that being their other major processor architecture, "Dothan". Dothan is an architecture which was designed from the ground up to consume as little power and produce as little heat as possible, and was originally designed strictly for the mobile markets. When Dothan processors started to hit the market, people quickly realized how efficient this core was in addition to the Pentium 4. In addition, performance of the chip was surprisingly good, considering the fairly low clock speeds at which Intel has presented this processor lineup with. Our tests in the past have shown that a top of the line Pentium-M processor can perform on par with the fastest Pentium 4 and Athlon64 processors in terms of raw CPU power, which is extremely exciting considering the limited feature set of the Dothan core architecture in comparison to today's desktop processors.
Until now though, the Pentium-M platform has been hindered by its attachment to the notebook sector. Since the Pentium-M runs on an alternate processor socket (Socket-479m) which is electrically incompatible with every Intel desktop motherboard on the market, we have not been able to see what the Pentium-M processor is truly capable of in a workstation or gaming configuration. While there always has been some demand for Pentium-M motherboards for the desktop, there was not enough of an urge to turn this demand into more than niche appeal.
Today though, we finally get to see how the Pentium-M platform can compete with the big boys, thanks to AOpen's new Pentium-M desktop motherboard. The AOpen i855GMEm-LFS is the first of its kind to bring the Socket-479 mobile socket to a desktop environment, an extremely exciting product for those looking for a high-performance, low noise system. Let's get to it.
Pros and Cons of the Pentium-M
The Pentium-M processor has several key factors which are very attractive and others which will be unappealing to some. Before we get stated on looking at the actual hardware which will power our Pentium-M desktop setup, let's look at the pros and cons of this architecture.
Pro - Efficient Architecture - Intel's "Dothan" architecture is one of the most efficient designs on the market today, allowing for exceptional performance with fairly low clock speeds. Even at a peak clock speed of 2.0 GHz (2.1 GHz models have been announced, but aren't shipping yet), the Dothan processor can match raw performance levels of Pentium 4/Athlon64 chips at much higher clock rates. The surprising fact here is that the Dothan architecture is rumored to be based on a derivative of Intel's Pentium III processor architecture, although that fact has never been confirmed by anyone at Intel to our knowledge.
The Dothan processor pipe
You're an idiot.
I expected that. How pedestrian.
If you go to the Steam forums, the "Audio Stuttering" thread has now surpassed 100 pages and 100,000 views, the highest of any thread ever on that board. Half-life2.net has a similar large thread as do all the other forums.
You do know that a 'view' constitutes refreshing any page in the thread, right? Just because the thread appears everywhere doesn't make it a huge problem. What's to say the same person isn't posting to 2 threads on 2 separate forums?
This isn't some "minute number of people," this is the fucking majority of Half-Life 2 gamers, including a large percentage who have high-end systems that surpass the recommended system specs.
Prove to me where this is the "fucking majority". I've had some problems getting old DOS games to work correctly. Maybe I should downgrade?
If you want to play Slashdot editor and sit here pondering why stories make the front page, why don't you just skip over the article then?
Well, last I checked the comments pages of all threads have people complaining about the posts. What makes me so special?
Some of us have paid $90 for this game and its variants
Well, you just bent over and took it didn't you?
It took them days to even acknowledge that there was a problem, and they're still slapping us in the face with a "small number of people" claim on Steam's news page.
Once again, I'd like to see your "fucking majority".
I didn't? Really? Shit, I sure as hell remember reading the website.