I'm sure some do, but there's still one hell of a load of worm traffic on the various SMB/netbios ports in the Windows world, some coming from worms circa 2001 that have never gone away.
And all this because Microsoft never really understood the Internet. First, no TCP/IP stack. Then, it's not installed by default. Then, it's there, but all services that have no business being offered beyond the LAN... I know, let's let the entire Internet see them! We're still dealing with this sort of short-sightedness. Instead of just turning the damn things off, or restricting access, we have firewalls.
Believe me, people have been and will continue to use Windows file sharing over the Internet for a long, long time. Intentionally or not. I only have to look at my firewall logs from the past 15 minutes to see that.
Does RedHat actively support RH from 5-6 years ago?
Why do people keep spouting this nonsense?
Am I the only person on Slashdot who has installed software without having the most recent version of an OS handy? Yes, things obsolesce, but jesus, people - it's *5* years old. We're not talking Windows 3.1 here, with an entirely different kernel and API.
Do people seriously install a new OS every time a new application version comes out? Hell, you can still buy off the shelf software that runs on 95, and that's twice as old as 2k.
Does *anyone* support back-porting new features to versions of their products that are that old?
Call me crazy, but I never figured that a web browser was a *feature* of an operating system. I thought it was an application that ran on an operating system. Slight difference.
Since there are very very few people who believe it is immoral to wait for marriage, that is what sex ed should teach.
Everyone once in a while, someone says something to me that makes me realize how differently I view the world from most people. If someone had asked me yesterday, "do you think waiting until marriage is immoral", I would of course have responded "hell no!", like pretty much most everyone.
The way you phrased it though, made me realize: this is precisely what I believe, and why I think North Americans (and humanity in general) is so fucked up about sex. Earlier tonight while flipping channels, I saw some vapid show about Jessica Simpson and how she waited for marriage. Her justification was something along the lines of "every girl dreams about being at the wedding reception, and whispering into her new husband's ear: 'I can't wait until later tonight'".
Let's see now. We have years of build up, anticipation, waiting for this supposedly awesome and special thing. Then you pick the person, and have months of even more intense build up. Finally, a single day where for most people you can't think of anything else.
Topped off by pain and usually some minor bleeding. And 30 seconds later, the man zips up and wonders what's next. I can't think of a more anticipated moment, turned into such a disappointment. The geek side of me wonders if this is why Episode 1 was so poorly received:)
When I look at things this way, it's no wonder it seems like everyone else can't keep a steady relationship going, and is so messed up about their sex life. Yes, I at least would go so far as to say that waiting until marriage is immoral. To me, marriage should be a hell of a lot more important than "the night we get to have sex for the first time" - in fact, the entire sex issue is such a distraction from what it actually is about.
People have been replacing letters with numbers in online conversation for decades.
"Woo!" is a very well known exclamation of happiness (think Homer and woo-hoo!). From this we get w00. The t is gravy.
It's interesting to see all these slang words suddenly get acronyms, though. I've never heard of "we own the other team" before 2 minutes ago, and I've been chatting and gaming online since the early 90s. Then again, there WAS the infamous Grunge Dictionary, entirely made up, back in 91, so maybe this is the same sort of thing. Finding meaning where there is none.
Somewhere along the line writers decided that "emoticon" was too big and confusing as a word, so they started using the word "smiley" instead. Sadly smiley caught on.
You got it the other way around. "Smiley" was the catch-all term for any ASCII face for ages. People didn't think it was specific enough (after all, what's a crying smiley?), and also writers didn't think it was "technical" enough. Hence, emoticon.
Kinda like how "blog" suddenly appeared, even though many of us had been blogging for years already. We just called them "personal websites".
I've said it before, and I'll say it every time someone posts this tripe: this is most definitely NOT the rose-coloured glasses of aging here.
Listen, when Star Wars came out in 1977, millions of adults went to see it, loved it, and anxiously awaited the sequels. So did millions of kids. However, the children's market was nowhere near as established as it is today. Star Wars would NEVER have been as successful if it only appealed to children. My parents, who in general can't stand sci-fi or action films, and were in their late 30s at the time, loved it. THEY were almost as interested in seeing the sequels as I was.
Flash-forward to the prequels. By and large, 6-12 year olds love them. Other than that, however, the vast majority of adults don't. Believe it or not, there are many people in their 20s and 30s now who've never seen Star Wars before. And most of them really don't think the prequels are all that good.
Believe me, many things from my childhood I can now recognize as the crap it is. The original Star Wars movies were good back then, and are still good. The prequels are less so.
One of the funniest Simpsons moments ever (and in a recent episode, for all the "Simpsons hasn't been good since 199x" crowd) was Homer trying to pack all of his stuff, and family, into the car. Complete with Tetris music in the background.
What's funnier is I do the same thing when going on a road trip, having a small car.
What this country really needs is an NDP government with a slight minority
Having lived in Manitoba most of my life, believe me: the last thing we want running this country is the NDP. They've practially ruined the province, ensuring it will stay as a rural backwater for decades to come. Winnipeg used to be one of Canada's biggest and fastest-growing cities, and now it hasn't changed in 30 years. Meanwhile, pretty much every other city in Canada over 100,000 people is growing. Businesses simply will not move to Manitoba, the taxes are insane.
That being said, I have to agree with "regressive conservatives". I'm about as right-wing as you get when it comes to economics, but for some reason the morons following Harper want to take Bush's lead and turn this country into the 1940s.
Thankfully, we still have at least one conservative leader who isn't a complete asshat - although Klein's stance on gay marriage still irritates me.
It's not the inbox link from the front page. Click on a message from the front page, then try the inbox link that's in that message.
I got "grrrrr!" too. Which is funny. The only other place I've seen something like that ("it appears that you're running a popup blocker") was a really obnoxious site years ago that used highly obnoxious popup ads, and used a trick like this to deny access to the rest of the site if you were an Opera user (that being the only browser at the time with a popup blocker of any sort).
Otherwise, a pretty cool google addition. But that bit really left a bad taste in my mouth.
Scrub the heck out of your cartridge contacts with rubbing alcohol on a Q-tip (it'll come out BLACK), and old games play like they're brand new.
I've gone through 10 or 12 NES decks in the past couple of years (I keep selling my spares to friends), and haven't had to touch the inside of the deck yet.
Playing old games? Please. Where is the "revolution"?
Think of this as the iTunes of video games.
Sure didn't seem like a big deal at the time. Downloading music? Please. I've been doing that for free with Napster for years!
I'd say that was quite a revolution for the music industry. Only difference this time is that Nintendo will lose out on the folks who only want to play this year's games. Seeing as how you can still buy PS1 games brand new in stores, and most of the Playstation market is the newer generation of game players, I don't think there are too many of the "old games suck" crowd left.
At least in most western countries, copyrights are pushing the century mark. Early Nintendo games won't be public domain until well after most of us are dead and buried.
I gotta tell you, though... I've been playing emulated games for years now, and building a nice collection of original carts. If Nintendo can get the emulation 100%, with a nice selection of games (don't forget to include more than just the top-sellers, guys!), for a *reasonable* price, I'm more than sold. This will be like the ultimate emuPC, but legal, a proper TV-out signal, good controllers.. *drooooool*.
Couple of ideas that would make this my own personal wet dream:
1. Cross-license with Sega. Have Master System and Genesis (and maybe Saturn!) games available too.
2. Sell (reasonably cheap, say $10-15) controllers that plug into the Rev, with the original button layout and design. Actually, if it's all going to be wireless, this should just be a form-factor issue.
Everyone else can enjoy their $50 games. If Nintendo can keep the price reasonable (I dunno, $1-5 per), I'd spend hundreds each year. Much easier to justify a $2 impulse purchase than a $50 one. And I'd be doing it every other day.
Aren't most French wine grapes these days descended from California stock? Something about a couple of nasty plagues that wiped out most European grape stocks in the 19th century...
I read both the Reuters and Gamesport articles, and didn't see a mention of price whatsoever. I know, usually consoles debut at the $2-300 range, but there have been oddbals (3d0 or Neogeo, anyone?)
Am I just blind, or was there no mention of price at all here?
I gotta tell you, Resident Evil 4 has pretty much dispelled the "Nintendo is aimed at kids" myth for me. They may INCLUDE a lot of child-friendly games in their lineup, but they are by no means "focused pretty sharply on the younger gamers".
I think it's more that Sony (and Microsoft, lately) are focussed on the 16-25 year old male market, pushing as much "mature" content as possible. Maybe I'm now *too* old for modern gaming, but a game like Pikmin seems a lot more mature to me than gunning down hookers and playing Madden 2007 (now with 3x the BLOOD!!!).
I'm still waiting for Bonestorm to come out for the PS3.
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Heh. ISPs filtering SMB ports. That's funny.
... I know, let's let the entire Internet see them! We're still dealing with this sort of short-sightedness. Instead of just turning the damn things off, or restricting access, we have firewalls.
I'm sure some do, but there's still one hell of a load of worm traffic on the various SMB/netbios ports in the Windows world, some coming from worms circa 2001 that have never gone away.
And all this because Microsoft never really understood the Internet. First, no TCP/IP stack. Then, it's not installed by default. Then, it's there, but all services that have no business being offered beyond the LAN
Believe me, people have been and will continue to use Windows file sharing over the Internet for a long, long time. Intentionally or not. I only have to look at my firewall logs from the past 15 minutes to see that.
Does RedHat actively support RH from 5-6 years ago?
Why do people keep spouting this nonsense?
Am I the only person on Slashdot who has installed software without having the most recent version of an OS handy? Yes, things obsolesce, but jesus, people - it's *5* years old. We're not talking Windows 3.1 here, with an entirely different kernel and API.
Do people seriously install a new OS every time a new application version comes out? Hell, you can still buy off the shelf software that runs on 95, and that's twice as old as 2k.
Does *anyone* support back-porting new features to versions of their products that are that old?
Call me crazy, but I never figured that a web browser was a *feature* of an operating system. I thought it was an application that ran on an operating system. Slight difference.
Since there are very very few people who believe it is immoral to wait for marriage, that is what sex ed should teach.
:)
Everyone once in a while, someone says something to me that makes me realize how differently I view the world from most people. If someone had asked me yesterday, "do you think waiting until marriage is immoral", I would of course have responded "hell no!", like pretty much most everyone.
The way you phrased it though, made me realize: this is precisely what I believe, and why I think North Americans (and humanity in general) is so fucked up about sex. Earlier tonight while flipping channels, I saw some vapid show about Jessica Simpson and how she waited for marriage. Her justification was something along the lines of "every girl dreams about being at the wedding reception, and whispering into her new husband's ear: 'I can't wait until later tonight'".
Let's see now. We have years of build up, anticipation, waiting for this supposedly awesome and special thing. Then you pick the person, and have months of even more intense build up. Finally, a single day where for most people you can't think of anything else.
Topped off by pain and usually some minor bleeding. And 30 seconds later, the man zips up and wonders what's next. I can't think of a more anticipated moment, turned into such a disappointment. The geek side of me wonders if this is why Episode 1 was so poorly received
When I look at things this way, it's no wonder it seems like everyone else can't keep a steady relationship going, and is so messed up about their sex life. Yes, I at least would go so far as to say that waiting until marriage is immoral. To me, marriage should be a hell of a lot more important than "the night we get to have sex for the first time" - in fact, the entire sex issue is such a distraction from what it actually is about.
Why Smart People Defend Bad Ideas
Because their parents, and/or religious leaders, tell them to.
*puts on asbestos suit*
Seems funny to see all these explanations.
People have been replacing letters with numbers in online conversation for decades.
"Woo!" is a very well known exclamation of happiness (think Homer and woo-hoo!). From this we get w00. The t is gravy.
It's interesting to see all these slang words suddenly get acronyms, though. I've never heard of "we own the other team" before 2 minutes ago, and I've been chatting and gaming online since the early 90s. Then again, there WAS the infamous Grunge Dictionary, entirely made up, back in 91, so maybe this is the same sort of thing. Finding meaning where there is none.
Asshat
:)
Funny, I've always thought we had an emoticon for this word:
3
No one else finds it as funny on IRC as I do, though
Somewhere along the line writers decided that "emoticon" was too big and confusing as a word, so they started using the word "smiley" instead. Sadly smiley caught on.
You got it the other way around. "Smiley" was the catch-all term for any ASCII face for ages. People didn't think it was specific enough (after all, what's a crying smiley?), and also writers didn't think it was "technical" enough. Hence, emoticon.
Kinda like how "blog" suddenly appeared, even though many of us had been blogging for years already. We just called them "personal websites".
in commercial world OLD products aren't given new features
Yeah, you're right. That's why Win2000 will only run the version of IE it came with in the first place.
Oh wait...
Flame on... (Score:3, Insightful) ...
Every time I have mentioned that Windows OS is actually quite functional and stable nowdays that post was moderated down.
I call Shenanigans.
I've said it before, and I'll say it every time someone posts this tripe: this is most definitely NOT the rose-coloured glasses of aging here.
Listen, when Star Wars came out in 1977, millions of adults went to see it, loved it, and anxiously awaited the sequels. So did millions of kids. However, the children's market was nowhere near as established as it is today. Star Wars would NEVER have been as successful if it only appealed to children. My parents, who in general can't stand sci-fi or action films, and were in their late 30s at the time, loved it. THEY were almost as interested in seeing the sequels as I was.
Flash-forward to the prequels. By and large, 6-12 year olds love them. Other than that, however, the vast majority of adults don't. Believe it or not, there are many people in their 20s and 30s now who've never seen Star Wars before. And most of them really don't think the prequels are all that good.
Believe me, many things from my childhood I can now recognize as the crap it is. The original Star Wars movies were good back then, and are still good. The prequels are less so.
Man.
A hooker is every so much cheaper than a Powerbook.
Plus, they don't care if you never call them again.
Additional bonus in not having to be nauseatingly pretentious.
According to their website , the worlds best selling video game is Super Mario Brothers with 40.23 million copies sold worldwide
That's for the NES cartridge version. 40+ million arcade cabinets and you'd have one in every retail outlet on the planet, practically.
Odd though - I would have sworn that Ms. Pac-man outsold Pac-man in the day. There sure seems to be a lot more of the Ms. cabinets still left.
Agreed.
One of the funniest Simpsons moments ever (and in a recent episode, for all the "Simpsons hasn't been good since 199x" crowd) was Homer trying to pack all of his stuff, and family, into the car. Complete with Tetris music in the background.
What's funnier is I do the same thing when going on a road trip, having a small car.
What this country really needs is an NDP government with a slight minority
Having lived in Manitoba most of my life, believe me: the last thing we want running this country is the NDP. They've practially ruined the province, ensuring it will stay as a rural backwater for decades to come. Winnipeg used to be one of Canada's biggest and fastest-growing cities, and now it hasn't changed in 30 years. Meanwhile, pretty much every other city in Canada over 100,000 people is growing. Businesses simply will not move to Manitoba, the taxes are insane.
That being said, I have to agree with "regressive conservatives". I'm about as right-wing as you get when it comes to economics, but for some reason the morons following Harper want to take Bush's lead and turn this country into the 1940s.
Thankfully, we still have at least one conservative leader who isn't a complete asshat - although Klein's stance on gay marriage still irritates me.
It's not the inbox link from the front page. Click on a message from the front page, then try the inbox link that's in that message.
I got "grrrrr!" too. Which is funny. The only other place I've seen something like that ("it appears that you're running a popup blocker") was a really obnoxious site years ago that used highly obnoxious popup ads, and used a trick like this to deny access to the rest of the site if you were an Opera user (that being the only browser at the time with a popup blocker of any sort).
Otherwise, a pretty cool google addition. But that bit really left a bad taste in my mouth.
A lot of times not even that.
Scrub the heck out of your cartridge contacts with rubbing alcohol on a Q-tip (it'll come out BLACK), and old games play like they're brand new.
I've gone through 10 or 12 NES decks in the past couple of years (I keep selling my spares to friends), and haven't had to touch the inside of the deck yet.
Playing old games? Please. Where is the "revolution"?
Think of this as the iTunes of video games.
Sure didn't seem like a big deal at the time. Downloading music? Please. I've been doing that for free with Napster for years!
I'd say that was quite a revolution for the music industry. Only difference this time is that Nintendo will lose out on the folks who only want to play this year's games. Seeing as how you can still buy PS1 games brand new in stores, and most of the Playstation market is the newer generation of game players, I don't think there are too many of the "old games suck" crowd left.
At least in most western countries, copyrights are pushing the century mark. Early Nintendo games won't be public domain until well after most of us are dead and buried.
I gotta tell you, though... I've been playing emulated games for years now, and building a nice collection of original carts. If Nintendo can get the emulation 100%, with a nice selection of games (don't forget to include more than just the top-sellers, guys!), for a *reasonable* price, I'm more than sold. This will be like the ultimate emuPC, but legal, a proper TV-out signal, good controllers.. *drooooool*.
Couple of ideas that would make this my own personal wet dream:
1. Cross-license with Sega. Have Master System and Genesis (and maybe Saturn!) games available too.
2. Sell (reasonably cheap, say $10-15) controllers that plug into the Rev, with the original button layout and design. Actually, if it's all going to be wireless, this should just be a form-factor issue.
Everyone else can enjoy their $50 games. If Nintendo can keep the price reasonable (I dunno, $1-5 per), I'd spend hundreds each year. Much easier to justify a $2 impulse purchase than a $50 one. And I'd be doing it every other day.
Aren't most French wine grapes these days descended from California stock? Something about a couple of nasty plagues that wiped out most European grape stocks in the 19th century...
Or is this just an urban myth?
I read both the Reuters and Gamesport articles, and didn't see a mention of price whatsoever. I know, usually consoles debut at the $2-300 range, but there have been oddbals (3d0 or Neogeo, anyone?)
Am I just blind, or was there no mention of price at all here?
My fiance often goes out ... with her "girlfriends" who are ... definately not lesbians.
Mine too, brother, mine too.
I feel your pain, as your pain is mine.
Don't laugh. Fake wood panelling is coming back bigtime in the car industry.
Friggin Acura doesn't make the model I want (EL) with sunroof but WITHOUT that retarded wannabe-Atari wood panelling.
Lame.
I guess it makes sense though, what with the sudden appearance of 50 models of station wagons this year (sorry, I meant 5 door cars!!!).
Welcome to human literature.
I gotta tell you, Resident Evil 4 has pretty much dispelled the "Nintendo is aimed at kids" myth for me. They may INCLUDE a lot of child-friendly games in their lineup, but they are by no means "focused pretty sharply on the younger gamers".
I think it's more that Sony (and Microsoft, lately) are focussed on the 16-25 year old male market, pushing as much "mature" content as possible. Maybe I'm now *too* old for modern gaming, but a game like Pikmin seems a lot more mature to me than gunning down hookers and playing Madden 2007 (now with 3x the BLOOD!!!).
I'm still waiting for Bonestorm to come out for the PS3.
No, it's not controversial, it's illegal.
:)
In many, if not most cases, the two are synonymous.
Whether it should be illegal is of course up for debate
Hence the "controversy" angle