Judging by the size of the external earphone adapter, would it have cost that much space for Nintendo to include one on-board?
Perhaps Nintendo has done some surveying and realized that the majority of their users don't use the headphone jack? For example, I've never used it, and I'm glad that I won't have to pay for the extra bloat in size and price just because of a small minority that does.
but it seems lately Nintendo's been all about chiding people to buy as much stuff as possible.
As opposed to the good ol' days when all companies are quite nonchalent about making money?
For instance, they are releasing more and more Game Cube games that require the GBA and the 'Cube-GBA connector cord to be able to use all the features.
more and more? Sure, there's the new Pokemon game, and then there's the new Pokemon game. Most games that link the GBA to the GCN provides extra value to the gamer, and only until now. Calling a jump from zero games to one game is not really a trend of "more and more", you're just sensationalizing your arguments to make this seem like a big deal.
And this:
I know I'm not forced to buy any of this, but I really miss the days when things were fully functional right out of the box.
They made the GBA screen such that you have to be standing on the sun in order to see it, and now they're selling another GBA that fixes that problem.
You mean the original GameBoy and GameBoy Pocket didn't require you to be around direct sunlight? That's odd, because I thought only the GameBoy Pocket light was self-emitting.
Nostalgia sometimes distorts the facts, doesn't it?
NO you gotta be kidding. He writes for Fortune magazine, and you think he's a journalist? I thought only Reader Digest rejectees and part-time housewives write for that magazine?
Sherlock, are you sure you really cracked that code properly?
Actually, it has always been on Microsoft's roadmap to support a consistent and unified interface to hax0r someone's computer.
It's actually a naming convention that Microsoft planned out to transparently support desktop shortcuts such as "My ex-girlfriend's Computer", "Company CEO's Documents", "Girl Next Door's Webcam Pictures", "IRC l4m3r's Hardware", etc etc.
1) competiton was just a cut and paste off the real slashdot article.. so I happened to overlook that..
2) the word "competiton" was before "tis", which was supposed to be the 9,999,999th typo. So assuming we're going to ignore the "hoard" screwup, lukc is still the 10,000,000th typo:)
Competiton: Slashdot's 10,000,000th Typo Posted by CmdrTaco on 08:00 AM November 5th, 2002 from the VA's-lowered-budget-can't-afford-spellcheckers dept. CmdrTaco writes "Slashdot is about to see its 10,000,000th typo. Tis is the 9,999,999th one. Not terribly exciting in itself, but we're running a competition to guess the exact date and time that the slashdot hoard will notice the milestone-breaking spelling mistake. The prize is a poster-size copy of Mrs. Malda's revealing low-cut shot." The typo will show up anytime now - good lukc everyone!
I think it's sad that the RIAA already has 23% of the population convinced that they shouldn't be able to make a copy of a CD they own for personal use.
Not necessarily. My guess is that the majority of the 23% that said nay simply didn't care. Turn on the TV and watch some Jerry Springer - do you think people of such intellectual caliber would even know how to make a copy of the CD? If they don't even know how to make copies, why would they even care if they can make one or not?
1. This submission's been stuck at the submission queue for a long, long time. 2. dude, this is Slashdot. There's no reason for reposting old stories, they simply do. 3. An experiment to test/. reader's long term memory. If no one notices, they'll start posting reviews of Redhat 5.2 on the next slow news day. 4. Go pick up a newspaper tomorrow morning, it should say May 9th 2002. Congrats, the Beowulf cluster inside your Delorean finally did something. 5. Michael's been the one making the Cowboyneal entries for the poll, and Cowboyneal unchecked Michael's name for stories (hey look a Cowboyneal reference that's actually a legit option!)
the site in question seems to be heavily slashdotted, so here's a mirror:
Slashdot Turns 5 Posted by CmdrTaco on 09:00 AM October 1st, 2002 from the break-out-the-birthday-cake dept. As much as I avoid discussing Slashdot on Slashdot, I figured I'd just take a moment to say that Slashdot is 5 years old now. I've written a Journal Entry with a few more comments on the subject. And yes we know we jumped the shark about a week after we registered the domain name, but we just don't care! Here's hoping we're here 5 years from now doing exactly the same thing with the same folks. (As a side note, due to a data importing bug, we really don't know exactly when we made our debut, but I spent september 97 putting the site together... and when we went live, we didn't even have comments for the first week or so!)
Everyone on here is so anti-Microsoft, but with this server being slashdotted so quickly you have to wonder about that...
You're wrong for many reasons. Wrong because not everyone here is anti-Microsoft (who makes ridiculous and broad claims like that? "majority" would be a more appropriate word). Wrong also because hatred doesn't always (in fact it rarely does) implicate apathy.
grendel20 writes "After years of using dialup (because I'm too cheap for cable/DSL), one thing I was looking forward to the most about college was not the girls, not the college experience, not the beer, and DEFINITELY not the higher level of education, but the saturating of the fast ethernet dorm connection by downloading things I'm too cheap to pay for. Upon arriving at UCI though, I found my freeloading movie/porn/software experience to be subpar. Apparently, UCI has limited access for all P2P programs with this fine piece of hardware. Now what do I do? Go out and not sit in front of my computer?!?!?!?!"
Just as we don't know it was deliberate, we also don't know it was accidental, so we shouldn't say anything either way.
Point well taken. It's not really an accounting error so Reuters should not have called it that. I guess mainly my point was that it was called an error because anyone was a "corporate toadie."
"Rrror" means a mistake was definitely involved.
Is that a spelling irregularity, or an ironic error?;)
In my opinion what happened at Worldcom is fraud. I can state my opinion all I want without worrying about liability or "innocent before proven guilty" or people calling me childish names.
Good point. Unfortunately people don't read news outlets to listen to DustMagnet's opinion - if they want opinion, they know where to find op/ed.
In this case Reuters is simply reporting the news that Worldcom has found more "errors". They should be commended for not injecting their own spin in a news report, and not crapped on by a bunch of whiny "I hate PHBs" zealots who think Reuters should call them criminals because the zealots think so too.
Don't obfuscate the issue at hand your "freedom of speech" spiel. It's nothing to do with your opinion of what the case is, it's about journalistic integrity, and unbiased reporting.
Please don't waste your time and make yourself look like a corporate toadie by giving excuses for why the news media sugar-coats their reports.
Sugar-coating? It's called "innocent before proven guilty" you jackass. There hasn't been a trial yet, and no ruling has been made that anyone (or Worldcom) is guilty of corporate fraud. Hence there's still an "investigation". Real journalists (unlike Michael) are also supposed to be free of bias.
You wannabes cry like a girl about lost freedom, constitutional rights, etc. when it comes to the DMCA, yet when american citizens are granted some their most fundamental rights, that's "sugar coating" for you. stfu and sit down you little hypocrite.
If I pay for a meal, and don't eat all of it, then, yes, I can feed it to whomever I want
Wrong. The analog of creating a public wi-fi hub for everyone is not paying for a meal (of which you pay for one dish for a price), but going into a buffet, and passing out plates of food to everyone outside the restaurant. Sure, if you paid for X amount of byes per month, and you don't use all of it, then, yes, you should be able to share what's left to whomever you want. But your analogy doesn't apply here.
I am having oodles of fun playing Warcraft II and Red Alert on my Pentium 200MMX laptop with 1.5 megs of Video Ram and 64 Megs of memory
damn you pampered little kids... you actually need all that processor power to have fun? my Compaq 386DX still works fine with Scorched Earth loaded up, and you think you're some humble luddite with your pentium 200MMX laptop?
I will clap loudly for any company that can publish a 2002 game that does not require the latest 3D card and oodles of CPU and memory to be fun.
I will clap loudly for you if you can find any large software company that consistently publishes PC games for old, outdated hardware in ANY given year. You talk as if it's a new trend for 2002, and in the days of yore people would publish Pong XI for your Pentium MMX laptop.
Slashdot Mirror
And even more disturbing, who would want to own one??
Perhaps the most disturbing is that you don't know that every single Palm OS-based PDA (before Palm OS5) uses the dragonball processor.
TRT: who would want to own one? *chuckle* *chuckle*
F: you idiot, millions and millions already do. (rofl)
Judging by the size of the external earphone adapter, would it have cost that much space for Nintendo to include one on-board?
Perhaps Nintendo has done some surveying and realized that the majority of their users don't use the headphone jack? For example, I've never used it, and I'm glad that I won't have to pay for the extra bloat in size and price just because of a small minority that does.
but it seems lately Nintendo's been all about chiding people to buy as much stuff as possible.
As opposed to the good ol' days when all companies are quite nonchalent about making money?
For instance, they are releasing more and more Game Cube games that require the GBA and the 'Cube-GBA connector cord to be able to use all the features.
more and more? Sure, there's the new Pokemon game, and then there's the new Pokemon game. Most games that link the GBA to the GCN provides extra value to the gamer, and only until now. Calling a jump from zero games to one game is not really a trend of "more and more", you're just sensationalizing your arguments to make this seem like a big deal.
And this:
I know I'm not forced to buy any of this, but I really miss the days when things were fully functional right out of the box.
They made the GBA screen such that you have to be standing on the sun in order to see it, and now they're selling another GBA that fixes that problem.
You mean the original GameBoy and GameBoy Pocket didn't require you to be around direct sunlight? That's odd, because I thought only the GameBoy Pocket light was self-emitting.
Nostalgia sometimes distorts the facts, doesn't it?
Clearly this guy is a journalist.
NO you gotta be kidding. He writes for Fortune magazine, and you think he's a journalist? I thought only Reader Digest rejectees and part-time housewives write for that magazine?
Sherlock, are you sure you really cracked that code properly?
Actually, it has always been on Microsoft's roadmap to support a consistent and unified interface to hax0r someone's computer.
It's actually a naming convention that Microsoft planned out to transparently support desktop shortcuts such as "My ex-girlfriend's Computer", "Company CEO's Documents", "Girl Next Door's Webcam Pictures", "IRC l4m3r's Hardware", etc etc.
The Xbox is a great piece of tech. Real gamers know it. Thats why in the states its outselling the GameCube
Yeah, all those fake gamers in Japan and Europe, go back to your hole!
Windows is a great piece of tech. Real PC users know it. Thats why in the states its outselling Linux.
(tongue in cheek)
"It's nice to know evolution hasn't stopped."
If you try to download it from Kansas, you'll get a 404 telling you that evolution never existed.
well, if you want to get technical :)
:)
1) competiton was just a cut and paste off the real slashdot article.. so I happened to overlook that..
2) the word "competiton" was before "tis", which was supposed to be the 9,999,999th typo. So assuming we're going to ignore the "hoard" screwup, lukc is still the 10,000,000th typo
yeah you're right. :) dammit, I hate it when I can't proofread correctly after allnighters..
Competiton: Slashdot's 10,000,000th Typo
Posted by CmdrTaco on 08:00 AM November 5th, 2002
from the VA's-lowered-budget-can't-afford-spellcheckers dept.
CmdrTaco writes "Slashdot is about to see its 10,000,000th typo. Tis is the 9,999,999th one. Not terribly exciting in itself, but we're running a competition to guess the exact date and time that the slashdot hoard will notice the milestone-breaking spelling mistake. The prize is a poster-size copy of Mrs. Malda's revealing low-cut shot." The typo will show up anytime now - good lukc everyone!
Then again, 18% of the public probably believes in Santa Clause, including G. W. Bush, the Lesser.
;)
I believe in Santa Clause too! (horrible pun deviously intended)
If you're talking about Santa Claus, the old guy that lives up in the North Pole, then nah, I don't believe in him
I think it's sad that the RIAA already has 23% of the population convinced that they shouldn't be able to make a copy of a CD they own for personal use.
Not necessarily. My guess is that the majority of the 23% that said nay simply didn't care. Turn on the TV and watch some Jerry Springer - do you think people of such intellectual caliber would even know how to make a copy of the CD? If they don't even know how to make copies, why would they even care if they can make one or not?
oi!
:)
seriously, it wasn't there when I checked earlier
For some reason the Tungsten W (Palm's answer to Handspring's Treo) is not featured on Palm's website, nor is it accessible from the products page.
/
However, the URL for Tungsten W is pretty easy to guess - http://www.palm.com/products/handhelds/tungsten-w
This previous posting should provide some good background reading if you've not been following this episode.
And THIS previous posting should tell you that slashdot likes to post duplicate stories if you're new here.
Why is this story reposted 5 months later?
/. reader's long term memory. If no one notices, they'll start posting reviews of Redhat 5.2 on the next slow news day.
1. This submission's been stuck at the submission queue for a long, long time.
2. dude, this is Slashdot. There's no reason for reposting old stories, they simply do.
3. An experiment to test
4. Go pick up a newspaper tomorrow morning, it should say May 9th 2002. Congrats, the Beowulf cluster inside your Delorean finally did something.
5. Michael's been the one making the Cowboyneal entries for the poll, and Cowboyneal unchecked Michael's name for stories (hey look a Cowboyneal reference that's actually a legit option!)
the site in question seems to be heavily slashdotted, so here's a mirror:
Slashdot Turns 5
Posted by CmdrTaco on 09:00 AM October 1st, 2002
from the break-out-the-birthday-cake dept.
As much as I avoid discussing Slashdot on Slashdot, I figured I'd just take a moment to say that Slashdot is 5 years old now. I've written a Journal Entry with a few more comments on the subject. And yes we know we jumped the shark about a week after we registered the domain name, but we just don't care! Here's hoping we're here 5 years from now doing exactly the same thing with the same folks. (As a side note, due to a data importing bug, we really don't know exactly when we made our debut, but I spent september 97 putting the site together... and when we went live, we didn't even have comments for the first week or so!)
Everyone on here is so anti-Microsoft, but with this server being slashdotted so quickly you have to wonder about that...
You're wrong for many reasons. Wrong because not everyone here is anti-Microsoft (who makes ridiculous and broad claims like that? "majority" would be a more appropriate word). Wrong also because hatred doesn't always (in fact it rarely does) implicate apathy.
(Tongue in cheek of course) ;-P
grendel20 writes "After years of using dialup (because I'm too cheap for cable/DSL), one thing I was looking forward to the most about college was not the girls, not the college experience, not the beer, and DEFINITELY not the higher level of education, but the saturating of the fast ethernet dorm connection by downloading things I'm too cheap to pay for. Upon arriving at UCI though, I found my freeloading movie/porn/software experience to be subpar. Apparently, UCI has limited access for all P2P programs with this fine piece of hardware. Now what do I do? Go out and not sit in front of my computer?!?!?!?!"
Just as we don't know it was deliberate, we also don't know it was accidental, so we shouldn't say anything either way.
;)
Point well taken. It's not really an accounting error so Reuters should not have called it that. I guess mainly my point was that it was called an error because anyone was a "corporate toadie."
"Rrror" means a mistake was definitely involved.
Is that a spelling irregularity, or an ironic error?
In my opinion what happened at Worldcom is fraud. I can state my opinion all I want without worrying about liability or "innocent before proven guilty" or people calling me childish names.
Good point. Unfortunately people don't read news outlets to listen to DustMagnet's opinion - if they want opinion, they know where to find op/ed.
In this case Reuters is simply reporting the news that Worldcom has found more "errors". They should be commended for not injecting their own spin in a news report, and not crapped on by a bunch of whiny "I hate PHBs" zealots who think Reuters should call them criminals because the zealots think so too.
Don't obfuscate the issue at hand your "freedom of speech" spiel. It's nothing to do with your opinion of what the case is, it's about journalistic integrity, and unbiased reporting.
Please don't waste your time and make yourself look like a corporate toadie by giving excuses for why the news media sugar-coats their reports.
Sugar-coating? It's called "innocent before proven guilty" you jackass. There hasn't been a trial yet, and no ruling has been made that anyone (or Worldcom) is guilty of corporate fraud. Hence there's still an "investigation". Real journalists (unlike Michael) are also supposed to be free of bias.
You wannabes cry like a girl about lost freedom, constitutional rights, etc. when it comes to the DMCA, yet when american citizens are granted some their most fundamental rights, that's "sugar coating" for you. stfu and sit down you little hypocrite.
If I pay for a meal, and don't eat all of it, then, yes, I can feed it to whomever I want
Wrong. The analog of creating a public wi-fi hub for everyone is not paying for a meal (of which you pay for one dish for a price), but going into a buffet, and passing out plates of food to everyone outside the restaurant. Sure, if you paid for X amount of byes per month, and you don't use all of it, then, yes, you should be able to share what's left to whomever you want. But your analogy doesn't apply here.
Otherwise, a length of tape could hole an infinite amount of information.
Only if you tape over it an infinite number of times.
I am having oodles of fun playing Warcraft II and Red Alert on my Pentium 200MMX laptop with 1.5 megs of Video Ram and 64 Megs of memory
damn you pampered little kids... you actually need all that processor power to have fun? my Compaq 386DX still works fine with Scorched Earth loaded up, and you think you're some humble luddite with your pentium 200MMX laptop?
I will clap loudly for any company that can publish a 2002 game that does not require the latest 3D card and oodles of CPU and memory to be fun.
I will clap loudly for you if you can find any large software company that consistently publishes PC games for old, outdated hardware in ANY given year. You talk as if it's a new trend for 2002, and in the days of yore people would publish Pong XI for your Pentium MMX laptop.
Here's the link to the IE Patch:
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