Nothing personal, but people like you are what ruin the student loan system for those that actually need it.
Get a part-time job during classes, get a summer job for the 2-4 months you have off. If you live in your parents' basement, your expenses should be practically nil. I did the same thing and came out of school with thousands of dollars in the bank, and I didn't have to cheat the system to pay for it.
Besides, on the less harsh side: nothing, and I do mean NOTHING is as satisfying as not owing a single red cent to anyone on graduation day (except eternal gratitude to the folks, of course:) Not having borrowed a single dime while watching everyone do the annual paperwork begging in September was pretty fun.
They repeatedly have tried to sue any business using the word "Barbie" in their name - Barbie's hair salon, Barbie's knick-knack store, you name it.
We've seen a couple of these cases in Canada in the past couple of years alone. The courts are starting to rule against Mattel (sanity in the legal system, who woulda thunk?) but some of these businesses are drowning in legal bills as a result.
Barbie isn't that dated of a term, btw. I know many people under 30 who go by that.
I have a small bit of hate reserved for MySpace because everything there seems to be written like your post. Stream-of-consciousness ranting with no thought towards presentation.
In short, like instant messaging before it, it's destroying literacy. Capitalization. Punctuation. Proper pluralization. Most importantly, sentence structure and paragraphs. All seem to be missing from 99% of MySpace pages.
It took me a few minutes to decipher just what it was you were trying to say with "perhaps having a pc/mac/net enthusiast, video game playing, star trek watching, sci fi & fantasy fan female friend/or more isn't the type of thing slashdot readers are looking for?", and that would count as one of the more coherent sentences on MySpace.
However, you do raise an interesting point: You'd think a bunch of self-declared introverts/social outsiders would LOVE an online site for "hooking up". Personally, I avoid social networking online in any form precisely *because* I don't want to spend my offline hours hanging with fellow Slashdotters:)
despite repeated assertions from Sony they are NOT using this patent in the PS2 or PS3
Dude. This is Sony. They put a rootkit on people's computers, people who just wanted to listen to their legally purchased music. They then lied about it, eventually fessed up, and still got away scott-free.
Sony could tell me the sky is blue, and after that fiasco, I'd still not believe them. Only a complete moron would ever trust a company that (and I'll repeat here in case this isn't obvious just how stupid this is) PUT A ROOTKIT ON MUSIC CDS. What Sony says from here on in is irrelevant.
you will not see word one against the sainted 360 here on Slashdot.
You are shitting me, right? There were at least 5 stories in the 360's first friggin WEEK of release alone talking about all of the overheating problems with it. There were dozens of stories before it was released about how expensive it was going to be, how stores were only getting 2 of it, and dozens of stories afterwards about how Microsoft deliberately shorted supply in order to drive up demand.
You're either one seriously good troll, have never read a games-related story on Slashdot in the past year, or just blind. If anything, the 360 has seen 10x the criticism of the PS3 here.
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Again and again, we see these comments: "Groupthink". "Bias". "Narrowing of thought".
Continually modded up. Think carefully about what that means for a second.
For those of you that haven't been around long enough, the previous gripe was simply "anti-Microsoft bias". Those comments also very often get modded up. Every OS-related story of the past several years has dozens of posts modded highly that basically amount to "Red Hat 7 was hard to install, so Linux will never get anywhere on the desktop".
Personally, I find Slashdot's moderation system works far better than most people realize. If you step back I think you'll find the "prevailing set of opinions" is just that - the more commonly held belief. But implying that somehow lesser-held beliefs and opinions don't get their fair shake? Maybe the Slashdot hordes aren't the ones with the biases, because you must be very good at ignoring a LOT of highly-moderated posts each day.
Good point, but there isn't a part of the Robin Hood legend where Sir Robin ended up in control of the Kingdom and started arresting up-and-coming RObin Hoods.
Gates stopped being Robin Hood sometime in the mid to late 80's. At that point, he had stopped competing with the big boys and started to actively crush any smaller company that dared to compete.
By the mid 90s, Microsoft had pretty much no competition in any area they succeeded in. They've kept that up for 10 years by actively ensuring that no one can rise from below. There haven't been any "rich fat cats" to compete with Microsoft in over a decade.
Oh, and as for "Gates took from those rich fat cats (through unethical means, according to the Gates haters)"....
Few people hated Microsoft back when Bill was beating the shit out of IBM and the like. Bill was the hero back then, and MS wasn't using unethical tactics (at least, not as often). It's very recently that Microsoft even HAS "haters", although if you're under 25 you may be too young to remember that. The vast majority of anti-Microsoft sentiment has formed since 1995 or so, or pretty much around the time that Microsoft had established itself as a desktop OS and office suite monopoly.
Google just released one of their biggest data updates ever (if not the biggest) on June 9th. Whole countries seem to be covered in high-res data now. There are places in the middle of the freakin' Canadian north with high-res imagery now.
Of course, just to piss me off, they didn't include the backcountry camping area I discovered a few years back. They did, however, include an area not 8km to the east. With each section of high-res data being nearly 16km wide, I think they specifically targetted MY campsite for exclusion.
Oh, and with a native Linux client I can finally ditch using Windows on a daily basis! Hooray!
I wouldn't trust any computer directly on the wire without a router. I don't care what OS it's running.
I would, if it's an OS that doesn't NEEDLESSLY OPEN NETWORK PORTS.
I'd love to see someone hack into a machine that isn't running network-aware services. Have fun comprmmising a TCP/IP stack, bucko.
Why do people still think that remote exploitation of a computer is some black magic that you can't avoid? For that matter, why do people think a router is any sort of defence just do to its being labelled a "router"? (Hint: many modern routers are basically mini-PCs running Linux) Is the general knowledge of network security, even on a place like Slashdot, that poor?
The WinNT line on the other hand was done right from day one.
Agreed, with the exception of the plethora of open network ports. I think they finally figured this one out in 2004 with XP SP2, 8 years after NT4 was released.
Sadly, Win9x was and is far more secure than any other IP-aware Windows product. Even XP with SP2 still runs these bloody services, but hides behind a potentially leaky firewall.
My naive hope was that Vista would actually come in a home version (hell, the corp should too, that's what admins and group policies are for) with NO ports listening. None. Not UPNP, not Netbios, nothing. Lately, I'm thinking I should have put money against my hope, because I'll likely win.
Most insurance policies don't cover "acts of God" or even "natural disasters" of this type.
Why do people still think we live in the 19th century?
Insurance policies today typically cover most Acts of God. Hail, lightning, windstorm, water damage, you name it. What they don't cover is "catastrophes so big we'd need a few billion to even start paying claims".
Hell, you can actually buy earthquake, tornado, and hurricane insurance, if you're willing to pay for it. However, your $400/year policy doesn't quite amoritize out to the 1 in 50 year chance of your part of the gulf coast being destroyed.
For the record (and to stay on topic): impact by falling object is generally covered. Some go far enough to ensure you for falling aircraft (creepy), and possibly falling spacecraft (satellites is the idea, but who knows what will happen this July).
We're talking about servers. You shouldn't be booting these often enough that the boot time matters.
-HP's have sane BIOS's. IBM's have text-based, very slow BIOS's.
"text-based" BIOS? As opposed to those lovely GUI AMI BIOSs of the mid-90s? Someone brought that abomination back?!
You're a server admin. If navigating a textual interface bothers you, I shudder to think how you react to a real problem. Oh, and "big iron servers" don't come with anyting called a "BIOS".
I'll agree with you that IBM's website is horrid for finding infomation, but my experience has been the exact opposite on every other point. Whose anecdotes win out now?
Mostly offtopic, but has anyone else noticed that pink is suddenly the "in" colour for men's clothing?
A few months ago I saw a headache-inducing selection of men's dress shirts and ties: pink, lemon yellow, lime green, you name it. Figuring this was just a "different" store, I laughed and wandered off.
Last month, I noticed that every single men's clothing store has nothing but bright colours, and notably, PINK. Pink shirts, pink ties. All over the place. I started to wonder if maybe this was some sick practical joke the fashion industry was playing on me. Surely men won't be willingly buying themselves bright pink dress shirts!
In the past couple of weeks, half of the people in the office seem to be dressing in these clothes.
Is this just a regional thing (western Canada), or am I doomed to never find a nice black or white shirt again? Hell, I'll even settle for navy blue:(
Let me counter-point out that you can by some old retro games literally by the pound. Here are a few examples from the NES:
Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt Super Mario Bros 3 1943 Contra Top Gun Hell, Zelda. Million seller.
Here's some from the Atari VCS:
Combat Asteroids Pac-Man E.T.
And here's some from the Sega Genesis:
*ANY* sports title. There were over 200.
For everyone thinking $5-10 is a good deal for old games, take it from a collector: it's not. The overwhelming majority of cartridge-based games can be found for far less than this. There are maybe a dozen NES games that really have a lot of value (over $20), other than imports/prototypes/3rd party games, ie: things that only ever saw a few hundred copies in North America. Odds are you've never heard of these games, and odds are you couldn't care less about playing them.
For every rare/valuable NES game, there are a hundred common games that can be had for $1-$5 a piece, often less. I've been able to buy copies of SMB/Duck Hunt for a dime a piece. Same goes for SMB3. There are a LOT of copies of these games out there, and other than us hardcore nerds, very little demand. Cartridges almost never fail, so each and every one of these games is still good as new. Finding a console isn't very hard either, it's more the space that becomes an issue:) I've half-seriously thought about wallpapering a wall with SMB/Duck Hunt carts, it would cost me less than $100 - and I've seen enough copies to do this in the past year alone.
Millions of people owned these games back in the day. Millions still do. And most people don't play them anymore. The hardcore among us already own them, keep their consoles in good shape, and play them regularly.
I'm sure Nintendo will make a mint on this (the Wii's just too cool!), but I wonder just how large of a group of people there is that will really pay $10 for a game they could buy at a local flea market for 50 cents. Hell, half the casual gamers I know still have their old NES in a closet, they just can't be bothered to pull it out. Pay $10 to play what they already own?
26 pounds. Feels twice that heavy if you move it more than a few dozen feet. It's like a tank. The metal case adds some weight over the Osborne's plastic:)
A few years later they added a hard drive and brought the weight up to 31 pounds.
Choose Your Own Adventure books introduced me to the concept of memory limitations in early computers.
Back when I was single-digit aged, I thought it would be pretty cool to "program" a CYOA book into our Vic20. A buttload of print statements, with function keys acting as the choices at the end of a section.
Needless to say, when you get your first "?Out of Memory" error, just when entering in a program, you start thinking hard about just how this computer is storing things. Pretty much started my obsession with computer architecture at a very low level.
Even with only a few dozen pages of large print text, these books were well over 3500 characters:) I ended up "porting" my attempts to the C64, but never bothered finishing after realizing how boring that much typing really was:)
No one seems to have mentioned this yet, so I'll toss in my 2 cents:
With these WinCE thin clients that only run ICA/RDP, you can still make use of them without having a Windows server kicking around. Nice little project called XRDP has been working on an RDP server for Linux (and other *NIX) machines. It works pretty well, although currently it's just a pass-through to a VNC session (they're working on a full RDP server). Makes for some fun issues with Ubuntu as the VNC server sources are configured a bit... oddly... however with a bit of manual tweaking it's a quick (and free!) way to take advantage of these things.
I got into this because I picked up a small, fanless, low power WinCE terminal for a couple of dollars recently - but the same method applies for these new-fangled thin clients.
Why the industry is so obsessed with WinCE and RDP is another matter. Just use PXE, please! The extra couple of MB to download the client software really doesn't make for a slow boot in this day of 100/1000BT ethernet.
This sort of brand is exactly what *I* want. I've been playing console (and PC) games since the original Odyssey, and I'm very pleased Nintendo is doing something like this.
Without doing a metric buttload of research these days it's damn near impossible to know what a game actually plays like. With 3 major console systems, plus 3 portable systems, all with games being released every month.. there are hundreds and hundreds of games I've never even heard of. With most, it's fairly easy to look at the package description and the screenshots (unless they're cinemas like with a lot of Playstation games... grr) and get a rough idea what the game's like.
But a lot of games aren't this easy. Especially the kinds of games I find myself wanting to play more and more. I've seen puzzle games that seem to be marketted as racing games, fighting games, platformers... and they're just simple puzzle games. The perfect thing for a DS, when you have 5-10 minutes to kill. However, I pass them by because they look like a long and involved game. And it works in reverse - games that seem to be the type you can quickly pick up and play for a few minutes, meanwhile every session ties you up for half an hour or longer because it's hard to put "5 minute game sessions!!!!" on the back of a box and sound excited about it.
I'm looking forward to this (at least for the Nintendo systems' games). It will make it very easy to find the games to play while riding the bus, PLUS it will help to separate out the really involved games - and yes, I still play some of these:)
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Nothing personal, but people like you are what ruin the student loan system for those that actually need it.
:) Not having borrowed a single dime while watching everyone do the annual paperwork begging in September was pretty fun.
Get a part-time job during classes, get a summer job for the 2-4 months you have off. If you live in your parents' basement, your expenses should be practically nil. I did the same thing and came out of school with thousands of dollars in the bank, and I didn't have to cheat the system to pay for it.
Besides, on the less harsh side: nothing, and I do mean NOTHING is as satisfying as not owing a single red cent to anyone on graduation day (except eternal gratitude to the folks, of course
Don't tell Mattel that.
They repeatedly have tried to sue any business using the word "Barbie" in their name - Barbie's hair salon, Barbie's knick-knack store, you name it.
We've seen a couple of these cases in Canada in the past couple of years alone. The courts are starting to rule against Mattel (sanity in the legal system, who woulda thunk?) but some of these businesses are drowning in legal bills as a result.
Barbie isn't that dated of a term, btw. I know many people under 30 who go by that.
You ARE allowed to offer a cash discount, but you may NOT charge a price higher than the displayed price for credit card purchases.
Maybe I'm just very stupid, but what's the difference?
Say there's a 5% cash discount. If you pay with a credit card, you pay $100. If you pay with cash, you pay $95.
How is that anything BUT charging a higher price for using a credit card?
95% - idle
Maybe the parent poster is John Dvorak...
I have a small bit of hate reserved for MySpace because everything there seems to be written like your post. Stream-of-consciousness ranting with no thought towards presentation.
:)
In short, like instant messaging before it, it's destroying literacy. Capitalization. Punctuation. Proper pluralization. Most importantly, sentence structure and paragraphs. All seem to be missing from 99% of MySpace pages.
It took me a few minutes to decipher just what it was you were trying to say with "perhaps having a pc/mac/net enthusiast, video game playing, star trek watching, sci fi & fantasy fan female friend/or more isn't the type of thing slashdot readers are looking for?", and that would count as one of the more coherent sentences on MySpace.
However, you do raise an interesting point: You'd think a bunch of self-declared introverts/social outsiders would LOVE an online site for "hooking up". Personally, I avoid social networking online in any form precisely *because* I don't want to spend my offline hours hanging with fellow Slashdotters
despite repeated assertions from Sony they are NOT using this patent in the PS2 or PS3
Dude. This is Sony. They put a rootkit on people's computers, people who just wanted to listen to their legally purchased music. They then lied about it, eventually fessed up, and still got away scott-free.
Sony could tell me the sky is blue, and after that fiasco, I'd still not believe them. Only a complete moron would ever trust a company that (and I'll repeat here in case this isn't obvious just how stupid this is) PUT A ROOTKIT ON MUSIC CDS. What Sony says from here on in is irrelevant.
you will not see word one against the sainted 360 here on Slashdot.
You are shitting me, right? There were at least 5 stories in the 360's first friggin WEEK of release alone talking about all of the overheating problems with it. There were dozens of stories before it was released about how expensive it was going to be, how stores were only getting 2 of it, and dozens of stories afterwards about how Microsoft deliberately shorted supply in order to drive up demand.
You're either one seriously good troll, have never read a games-related story on Slashdot in the past year, or just blind. If anything, the 360 has seen 10x the criticism of the PS3 here.
Again and again, we see these comments: "Groupthink". "Bias". "Narrowing of thought".
Continually modded up. Think carefully about what that means for a second.
For those of you that haven't been around long enough, the previous gripe was simply "anti-Microsoft bias". Those comments also very often get modded up. Every OS-related story of the past several years has dozens of posts modded highly that basically amount to "Red Hat 7 was hard to install, so Linux will never get anywhere on the desktop".
Personally, I find Slashdot's moderation system works far better than most people realize. If you step back I think you'll find the "prevailing set of opinions" is just that - the more commonly held belief. But implying that somehow lesser-held beliefs and opinions don't get their fair shake? Maybe the Slashdot hordes aren't the ones with the biases, because you must be very good at ignoring a LOT of highly-moderated posts each day.
Good point, but there isn't a part of the Robin Hood legend where Sir Robin ended up in control of the Kingdom and started arresting up-and-coming RObin Hoods.
Gates stopped being Robin Hood sometime in the mid to late 80's. At that point, he had stopped competing with the big boys and started to actively crush any smaller company that dared to compete.
By the mid 90s, Microsoft had pretty much no competition in any area they succeeded in. They've kept that up for 10 years by actively ensuring that no one can rise from below. There haven't been any "rich fat cats" to compete with Microsoft in over a decade.
Oh, and as for "Gates took from those rich fat cats (through unethical means, according to the Gates haters)"....
Few people hated Microsoft back when Bill was beating the shit out of IBM and the like. Bill was the hero back then, and MS wasn't using unethical tactics (at least, not as often). It's very recently that Microsoft even HAS "haters", although if you're under 25 you may be too young to remember that. The vast majority of anti-Microsoft sentiment has formed since 1995 or so, or pretty much around the time that Microsoft had established itself as a desktop OS and office suite monopoly.
Google just released one of their biggest data updates ever (if not the biggest) on June 9th. Whole countries seem to be covered in high-res data now. There are places in the middle of the freakin' Canadian north with high-res imagery now.
Of course, just to piss me off, they didn't include the backcountry camping area I discovered a few years back. They did, however, include an area not 8km to the east. With each section of high-res data being nearly 16km wide, I think they specifically targetted MY campsite for exclusion.
Oh, and with a native Linux client I can finally ditch using Windows on a daily basis! Hooray!
I wouldn't trust any computer directly on the wire without a router. I don't care what OS it's running.
I would, if it's an OS that doesn't NEEDLESSLY OPEN NETWORK PORTS.
I'd love to see someone hack into a machine that isn't running network-aware services. Have fun comprmmising a TCP/IP stack, bucko.
Why do people still think that remote exploitation of a computer is some black magic that you can't avoid? For that matter, why do people think a router is any sort of defence just do to its being labelled a "router"? (Hint: many modern routers are basically mini-PCs running Linux) Is the general knowledge of network security, even on a place like Slashdot, that poor?
The WinNT line on the other hand was done right from day one.
Agreed, with the exception of the plethora of open network ports. I think they finally figured this one out in 2004 with XP SP2, 8 years after NT4 was released.
Sadly, Win9x was and is far more secure than any other IP-aware Windows product. Even XP with SP2 still runs these bloody services, but hides behind a potentially leaky firewall.
My naive hope was that Vista would actually come in a home version (hell, the corp should too, that's what admins and group policies are for) with NO ports listening. None. Not UPNP, not Netbios, nothing. Lately, I'm thinking I should have put money against my hope, because I'll likely win.
Most insurance policies don't cover "acts of God" or even "natural disasters" of this type.
:)
Why do people still think we live in the 19th century?
Insurance policies today typically cover most Acts of God. Hail, lightning, windstorm, water damage, you name it. What they don't cover is "catastrophes so big we'd need a few billion to even start paying claims".
Hell, you can actually buy earthquake, tornado, and hurricane insurance, if you're willing to pay for it. However, your $400/year policy doesn't quite amoritize out to the 1 in 50 year chance of your part of the gulf coast being destroyed.
For the record (and to stay on topic): impact by falling object is generally covered. Some go far enough to ensure you for falling aircraft (creepy), and possibly falling spacecraft (satellites is the idea, but who knows what will happen this July).
And yes, I used to sell property insurance
-HP's boot way faster
We're talking about servers. You shouldn't be booting these often enough that the boot time matters.
-HP's have sane BIOS's. IBM's have text-based, very slow BIOS's.
"text-based" BIOS? As opposed to those lovely GUI AMI BIOSs of the mid-90s? Someone brought that abomination back?!
You're a server admin. If navigating a textual interface bothers you, I shudder to think how you react to a real problem. Oh, and "big iron servers" don't come with anyting called a "BIOS".
I'll agree with you that IBM's website is horrid for finding infomation, but my experience has been the exact opposite on every other point. Whose anecdotes win out now?
Nascar fan, by chance? :)
A bazillion years ago my father...he wasn't usually one to exaggerate.
:)
So, you inherited the trait from your mother?
Im buying a Mac just in case
You know Macs these days come with Intel CPUs, right?
pink polo shirts
:(
Mostly offtopic, but has anyone else noticed that pink is suddenly the "in" colour for men's clothing?
A few months ago I saw a headache-inducing selection of men's dress shirts and ties: pink, lemon yellow, lime green, you name it. Figuring this was just a "different" store, I laughed and wandered off.
Last month, I noticed that every single men's clothing store has nothing but bright colours, and notably, PINK. Pink shirts, pink ties. All over the place. I started to wonder if maybe this was some sick practical joke the fashion industry was playing on me. Surely men won't be willingly buying themselves bright pink dress shirts!
In the past couple of weeks, half of the people in the office seem to be dressing in these clothes.
Is this just a regional thing (western Canada), or am I doomed to never find a nice black or white shirt again? Hell, I'll even settle for navy blue
Fair enough.
:) I've half-seriously thought about wallpapering a wall with SMB/Duck Hunt carts, it would cost me less than $100 - and I've seen enough copies to do this in the past year alone.
Let me counter-point out that you can by some old retro games literally by the pound. Here are a few examples from the NES:
Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt
Super Mario Bros 3
1943
Contra
Top Gun
Hell, Zelda. Million seller.
Here's some from the Atari VCS:
Combat
Asteroids
Pac-Man
E.T.
And here's some from the Sega Genesis:
*ANY* sports title. There were over 200.
For everyone thinking $5-10 is a good deal for old games, take it from a collector: it's not. The overwhelming majority of cartridge-based games can be found for far less than this. There are maybe a dozen NES games that really have a lot of value (over $20), other than imports/prototypes/3rd party games, ie: things that only ever saw a few hundred copies in North America. Odds are you've never heard of these games, and odds are you couldn't care less about playing them.
For every rare/valuable NES game, there are a hundred common games that can be had for $1-$5 a piece, often less. I've been able to buy copies of SMB/Duck Hunt for a dime a piece. Same goes for SMB3. There are a LOT of copies of these games out there, and other than us hardcore nerds, very little demand. Cartridges almost never fail, so each and every one of these games is still good as new. Finding a console isn't very hard either, it's more the space that becomes an issue
Millions of people owned these games back in the day. Millions still do. And most people don't play them anymore. The hardcore among us already own them, keep their consoles in good shape, and play them regularly.
I'm sure Nintendo will make a mint on this (the Wii's just too cool!), but I wonder just how large of a group of people there is that will really pay $10 for a game they could buy at a local flea market for 50 cents. Hell, half the casual gamers I know still have their old NES in a closet, they just can't be bothered to pull it out. Pay $10 to play what they already own?
I've got one of these sitting in my basement.
:)
26 pounds. Feels twice that heavy if you move it more than a few dozen feet. It's like a tank. The metal case adds some weight over the Osborne's plastic
A few years later they added a hard drive and brought the weight up to 31 pounds.
(S)he's talking about this.
Choose Your Own Adventure books introduced me to the concept of memory limitations in early computers.
:) I ended up "porting" my attempts to the C64, but never bothered finishing after realizing how boring that much typing really was :)
Back when I was single-digit aged, I thought it would be pretty cool to "program" a CYOA book into our Vic20. A buttload of print statements, with function keys acting as the choices at the end of a section.
Needless to say, when you get your first "?Out of Memory" error, just when entering in a program, you start thinking hard about just how this computer is storing things. Pretty much started my obsession with computer architecture at a very low level.
Even with only a few dozen pages of large print text, these books were well over 3500 characters
No one seems to have mentioned this yet, so I'll toss in my 2 cents:
With these WinCE thin clients that only run ICA/RDP, you can still make use of them without having a Windows server kicking around. Nice little project called XRDP has been working on an RDP server for Linux (and other *NIX) machines. It works pretty well, although currently it's just a pass-through to a VNC session (they're working on a full RDP server). Makes for some fun issues with Ubuntu as the VNC server sources are configured a bit... oddly... however with a bit of manual tweaking it's a quick (and free!) way to take advantage of these things.
I got into this because I picked up a small, fanless, low power WinCE terminal for a couple of dollars recently - but the same method applies for these new-fangled thin clients.
Why the industry is so obsessed with WinCE and RDP is another matter. Just use PXE, please! The extra couple of MB to download the client software really doesn't make for a slow boot in this day of 100/1000BT ethernet.
Otherwise we'd[sic] might as well add BEER PONG to the list of events.
In Canada, we call this curling. It's been an Olympic sport for a while now.
This sort of brand is exactly what *I* want. I've been playing console (and PC) games since the original Odyssey, and I'm very pleased Nintendo is doing something like this.
:)
Without doing a metric buttload of research these days it's damn near impossible to know what a game actually plays like. With 3 major console systems, plus 3 portable systems, all with games being released every month.. there are hundreds and hundreds of games I've never even heard of. With most, it's fairly easy to look at the package description and the screenshots (unless they're cinemas like with a lot of Playstation games... grr) and get a rough idea what the game's like.
But a lot of games aren't this easy. Especially the kinds of games I find myself wanting to play more and more. I've seen puzzle games that seem to be marketted as racing games, fighting games, platformers... and they're just simple puzzle games. The perfect thing for a DS, when you have 5-10 minutes to kill. However, I pass them by because they look like a long and involved game. And it works in reverse - games that seem to be the type you can quickly pick up and play for a few minutes, meanwhile every session ties you up for half an hour or longer because it's hard to put "5 minute game sessions!!!!" on the back of a box and sound excited about it.
I'm looking forward to this (at least for the Nintendo systems' games). It will make it very easy to find the games to play while riding the bus, PLUS it will help to separate out the really involved games - and yes, I still play some of these
Why do you trust random corporations more than your government?!?!
Because corporations cannot (yet) put me in prison.
Governments are very, very scary institutions. Read up on active vs. passive rights sometime.