Wouldn't be anywhere near as evil because the people behind it would own up to it. This is a paid-for ad from MS through their ad-agency or from some cowboy IN their agency. No clear statement other than Asus being the one doing it. If Asus is the responsible party, then they're talking out both sides of their mouth and can't be trusted. If it's MS directly or indirectly, they're being dishonest- and I've called them out on other sites and forums for this sort of adwork in the past. It's very bogus to not disclose that it's a paid-for ad from Microsoft on this stuff if it's not coming from Asus.
Yep. I was suspecting a cowboy in Asus' marketing group in the UK or with Microsoft. Since someone connected the dots (too much blood in my caffeine stream right at the moment...) and pointed it to MS' ad agency, then it's MS' doing- but Asus had to give 'em permission. And it's bogus- Asus shouldn't let MS mislead people that way. It needs to be clearly disclosed on the site that it's a paid-for ad by Microsoft and it's not.
One should note that this is the UK division not the corporate offices in Taiwan. I think someone's doing some cowboy marketing within their UK sales division.
I'm none to happy about this little song and dance they're doing (I liked my eeePC with Linux on it... Can't wait for the Cortex-A8/A9 netbooks to show, though. Double the battery life, same power and capabilities- literally.)
Depends on the model of laptop, I think- the Turions seem to run hotter and have more issues (based on my unscientific observations of about a half dozen of their DV-6000/9000 laptops, including my Core Duo model that's still chugging...).
But the word's out on things- the resellers are telling customers to shy away from HP's unless the thing precisely meets your requirements from start to finish.
It's about in the same numbers...in the noise floor. Unless you're doing something server-centric (and in most cases, even THEN...), you don't need to touch a CLI window. It's easier and faster to do it once you understand a few commands, but the GUI is pretty much the same level of Ease of Use as Windows on most things that users would encounter needing to do.
TFA really isn't worth having had it featured on/. and it's not worth the click- it really IS a Troll for all intents and purposes.
Heh... As far as I'm concerned, there never was a 2 OR a 3. The original Highlander was awesome, everything other than it, and to a lesser extent the TV series, was simply too "out there" compared to the original to be truly worth watching. 2...I wanted my 90 minutes of my life back from them... I didn't bother with 3 because it struck me as more of the same WTF?!? type crap I sadly experienced with 2 and didn't want to lose another 90 minutes of my life that way.
It is a 533MHz ARM9 based SoC with OpenGL ES 1.1 and OpenVG 1.0 hardware support and APIs to use the same. This means you can do OpenGL 1.4 type games with reasonable performance. It probably doesn't have the oomph to do ioquake3 stuff (CPU's just not there) but it should do the things they're claiming of it all the same.
I think it's less the Internet that the author's talking to and more things like clustering, etc. which is LAN-centric, not WAN-centric.
For those sorts of configurations and applications, high-bandwidth and low-latency is crucial. To be able to analyze the chaotic traffic on the backbone of the WAN, you need the same sort of ability, actually.
Depends on the body armor, actually. They've devised body armor that'll shrug off most military rounds like regular kevlar shrugs off pistol rounds. Even do a one-shot protection against a fragmentation grenade at point blank range.
Then the German populace probably ought to work on removing people stupid enough to conflate the shooting that happened (which would have happened ANYHOW- you don't get "desensitized" and shoot that many people without having a serious mental problem that would have let you do that anyhow...) with paintballing. If the plugged for this law, they need to be removed from office. Period.
That'd be my guess as well. It'd be sooner (As in, they're largely ready except for some spit-polish on the deployed firmware) save for the classic delays you get when you make something like this- doesn't matter whom you are, whether you're the OpenPandora project or Sony.
There is hope, yes. "Coming Soon," in the case of Caster means what it says, unlike some of the big players' promises on the subject of Linux support...;-)
Oh, I don't find it irrelevant. I find it kind of important, actually. However, one should consider WINE a poor substitute for doing the real thing- if it's not got a native Linux version, perhaps you shouldn't be using it under WINE... (If you're wondering, this is the position I've held for a while- and I am actively doing something about that...:-D) unless you're like me and trying to find new titles to move from Windows to Linux.
Jumping and movement's not inconsistent with the native version (Well, I've not had issues with it...;-) ) perhaps in a day or so you can give it a whirl...
If it's mouse responsiveness for the direction, you might want to set the camera sensitivity higher. Moreover, while it works under WINE well enough, it works nicer under the native client...;-)
If you'd "copyright infringement" instead of "theft" this would have been the perfect response to the GP poster's remark.
It amazes me to no end how they can justify taking a copy of something their not entitled to- just because of something that went wrong or this or that. They're going to commit the act of infringement no matter what the reason- so, would they have ever really been one of the company's customers. Unlikely.
Indeed. We ought to go back to the timeframes set back in the beginning or to two times that time and leave it alone. 14-28 years should be more than enough for most situations- but we have monied interests such as Disney doing everything they can to protect things like Mickey Mouse and making a mockery of the law as it was intended to be.
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Wouldn't be anywhere near as evil because the people behind it would own up to it. This is a paid-for ad from MS through their ad-agency or from some cowboy IN their agency. No clear statement other than Asus being the one doing it. If Asus is the responsible party, then they're talking out both sides of their mouth and can't be trusted. If it's MS directly or indirectly, they're being dishonest- and I've called them out on other sites and forums for this sort of adwork in the past. It's very bogus to not disclose that it's a paid-for ad from Microsoft on this stuff if it's not coming from Asus.
Heh... Seems you got the mod twice there. Bravo!
Yep. I was suspecting a cowboy in Asus' marketing group in the UK or with Microsoft. Since someone connected the dots (too much blood in my caffeine stream right at the moment...) and pointed it to MS' ad agency, then it's MS' doing- but Asus had to give 'em permission. And it's bogus- Asus shouldn't let MS mislead people that way. It needs to be clearly disclosed on the site that it's a paid-for ad by Microsoft and it's not.
One should note that this is the UK division not the corporate offices in Taiwan. I think someone's doing some cowboy marketing within their UK sales division.
I'm none to happy about this little song and dance they're doing (I liked my eeePC with Linux on it... Can't wait for the Cortex-A8/A9 netbooks to show, though. Double the battery life, same power and capabilities- literally.)
Two words: Probable Cause. In this case, they had it and were acting upon it. They didn't NEED a warrant.
Depends on the model of laptop, I think- the Turions seem to run hotter and have more issues (based on my unscientific observations of about a half dozen of their DV-6000/9000 laptops, including my Core Duo model that's still chugging...).
But the word's out on things- the resellers are telling customers to shy away from HP's unless the thing precisely meets your requirements from start to finish.
It's about in the same numbers...in the noise floor. Unless you're doing something server-centric (and in most cases, even THEN...), you don't need to touch a CLI window. It's easier and faster to do it once you understand a few commands, but the GUI is pretty much the same level of Ease of Use as Windows on most things that users would encounter needing to do.
TFA really isn't worth having had it featured on /. and it's not worth the click- it really IS a Troll for all intents and purposes.
Did it ever really HAVE cred to begin with?
Heh... As far as I'm concerned, there never was a 2 OR a 3. The original Highlander was awesome, everything other than it, and to a lesser extent the TV series, was simply too "out there" compared to the original to be truly worth watching. 2...I wanted my 90 minutes of my life back from them... I didn't bother with 3 because it struck me as more of the same WTF?!? type crap I sadly experienced with 2 and didn't want to lose another 90 minutes of my life that way.
It is a 533MHz ARM9 based SoC with OpenGL ES 1.1 and OpenVG 1.0 hardware support and APIs to use the same. This means you can do OpenGL 1.4 type games with reasonable performance. It probably doesn't have the oomph to do ioquake3 stuff (CPU's just not there) but it should do the things they're claiming of it all the same.
Did it break even or make a small profit? It's successful if it makes that criteria. It might not be wildly successful, but it's successful.
No... They had a holdup due to supply issues much like Pandora's had- otherwise you'd have both of them available right now for your gaming pleasure.
I think it's less the Internet that the author's talking to and more things like clustering, etc. which is LAN-centric, not WAN-centric.
For those sorts of configurations and applications, high-bandwidth and low-latency is crucial. To be able to analyze the chaotic traffic on the backbone of the WAN, you need the same sort of ability, actually.
Depends on the body armor, actually. They've devised body armor that'll shrug off most military rounds like regular kevlar shrugs off pistol rounds. Even do a one-shot protection against a fragmentation grenade at point blank range.
Then the German populace probably ought to work on removing people stupid enough to conflate the shooting that happened (which would have happened ANYHOW- you don't get "desensitized" and shoot that many people without having a serious mental problem that would have let you do that anyhow...) with paintballing. If the plugged for this law, they need to be removed from office. Period.
That'd be my guess as well. It'd be sooner (As in, they're largely ready except for some spit-polish on the deployed firmware) save for the classic delays you get when you make something like this- doesn't matter whom you are, whether you're the OpenPandora project or Sony.
There is hope, yes. "Coming Soon," in the case of Caster means what it says, unlike some of the big players' promises on the subject of Linux support... ;-)
Oh, I don't find it irrelevant. I find it kind of important, actually. However, one should consider WINE a poor substitute for doing the real thing- if it's not got a native Linux version, perhaps you shouldn't be using it under WINE... (If you're wondering, this is the position I've held for a while- and I am actively doing something about that... :-D) unless you're like me and trying to find new titles to move from Windows to Linux.
Jumping and movement's not inconsistent with the native version (Well, I've not had issues with it... ;-) ) perhaps in a day or so you can give it a whirl...
That's because he didn't ship it until this year.
Linux, iPhone, Pandora ports are either shipping or are in progress.
What do you mean by the play control == poop?
If it's mouse responsiveness for the direction, you might want to set the camera sensitivity higher. Moreover, while it works under WINE well enough, it works nicer under the native client... ;-)
If you'd "copyright infringement" instead of "theft" this would have been the perfect response to the GP poster's remark.
It amazes me to no end how they can justify taking a copy of something their not entitled to- just because of something that went wrong or this or that. They're going to commit the act of infringement no matter what the reason- so, would they have ever really been one of the company's customers. Unlikely.
Which is still wrong. It's a differing act with differing consequences, but it's still wrong.
Indeed. We ought to go back to the timeframes set back in the beginning or to two times that time and leave it alone. 14-28 years should be more than enough for most situations- but we have monied interests such as Disney doing everything they can to protect things like Mickey Mouse and making a mockery of the law as it was intended to be.
Heh... Consider that Tamiflu is one of the suggested agents for proper treatment, along with one other.
No kidding. I've seen as many NEWS outlets online and on TV making a bigger deal out of things on this than they needed to be.
US 'very concerned'about Swine Flu
WHO Raises Alert Level on Swine Flu
WHO raises its pandemic alert level on swine flu
Weigh in amongst the items in the online news, which match some of the same goings on in the print and video media on the subject.
If it's not sensationalized, it's not news, it seems.