What, have you/. ubergeeks only just discovered Anandtech or something? Surely reporting on this sort of thing is for the hardware sites....yes news for Geeks, but come on. Just 3 days ago you linked up the nForce review as well.
Do people just patrol the real tech sites to get a link or a credit on a weblog?
What about the home user? In the olden times the MS OS cost only around 2-5% of the total PC cost, but now it's at leats 15-20% the cost ($300 for Win XP professional).
In the future, Windows XXXP (the pr0n version) will be $1000 and the hardware will be around $200.
If IBM are clever they will find something in the licenses from way back in the 80s that limits the relative amount MS can charge. Or is it that they do that and charge massive fees to the people who buy it separately from a complete system?
Interesting that they guy commented on how poor they are in the hope and belief of achieving so much more in the "next world" or whatever. Two things:
1. That is still just as greedy as the western capitalist societies. It's just greed-by-proxy and they want money for nothing and 80 chicks and a harem for free in the next life
2. Their leader, Bin laden, is right up there on this. He is a multi-multi-multi-millionaire from oil. Obviously he REALLY believes in poverty in this life for a better next one. Or else his excuse is that this IS his next life.
Dude, that is one of the single best insights I seen on Slashdot. Maybe I should start reading out loud now in case I miss a few more......;)
I would mod that up if I had any points. So long, SSSCAs....hehehehhe
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Or else maybe they are having a "strategy" rethink given that GameCube's launch was less than spectacular.
I think that maybe there is an actual downturn going on in the game industry that is larger than has been publicised. Sony are also rumoured to be dropping the price by $100 so it will effectively kill the $1200 "MS package deals" for X-Box, especially with Final Fantasy X, Metal Gear Solid 2 and loads more. PS2 Christmas line-up is the strongest of all the consoles, and it also will be the cheapest.
There have been many rumours on the net for the past week that MS's production might be halved. Remember the hype around X-Box last year? A simultaneous WORLDWIDE launch? Right about now with production difficulties and strong lineups from Sony, it's seems even the might monolith MS can have trouble.
Plus the PS2 has a nice retro look with the grill and all. X-Box looks like the sort of console Gordon Gecko would design, only he would probably put a big G on it or something. Actually, Bill Gates probably would do that to.
A G-Box would be cool..........it might even come with built in pr0n as well.
This is great news, and one day, in the future, maybe even GNU/Stallman/Linux will be Really Free under the joint MPL/GPL/LGPL license.
And they say the corporate world is full of beurocracy (OK I know I can't spell that)?
What happened to just old-fashioned bloody copyright: "I made it, shove off". Give it away for free if you want, and then if the company every goes bust, the source is made available. And this would also stop crap companies being rescued by last-minute buyouts as they would have no software assets.
Problem solved.
Next: how to prove that I own the idea of software.
This would be cool: in the future, when robots are doing this sort of thing and have all amazing AI (and of course I will have my flying car and aluminium house), you can sue the goddamn robot because undoubtedly in the future the civil libertarian fuckheads will have lobbied for equal rights.
Or would you sue the connection provider? The legal hassle would be horrendous. One side trying to prove that the other screwed up. Christ it would go on forever.......sue the creator of the arm (if the arm didn't have AI)?
OK, I am talking of arms having AI so it's time for my medicine.
So when the cockpit seals off, the terrorists can say they will shoot one person every minute until it's open. What would you do as a pilot?
It's totally changed the deal with hijackers; now they don't have demands, or want money or their cause spoken for on TV. Right now not one person has said why they did it. Bin Laden is just speculation.
So if they hijack the plane, the cockpit seals off and they say that they will blow a bomb on board if they do not get control.
I have no idea how to make a plane hijack-proof. The one thing maybe is that if hijackers ever take a plane again from now on, no passengers are going to believe a damn thing they say about threatening to blow a bomb unless they get 1 million dollars or something. They'll prob all freak out and beat the shit out of them.
Does anyone honestly believe that somewhere among the 36 million users, and possibly hundreds of emails a year at least, that they will find something like
"OK, we will kill thousands by hijacking planes on Sept. 11 2001"
"Signed: Osama Bin Laden"
"PS - just to prove it's me I will send this in paper by FedEx as well....hahahha, those Americans will never be able to catch me"
And it's hardly as if he will have an email address like osama@afghanistan.com or something.
I don't mind them installing software or whatever, but surely there is something better to try. Like the endless talk of face recognition systems or something. I couldn't believe that in the first 24 hours they had not one mention of going through the surveillance cameras in the airports, or anything.
Bill Gates said the same thing about wanting a computer on every desk or something, like 10 years ago. Someone already mentioned that it's basically called "wanting to sell things" - or BUSINESS. WHy is this news?
Or is it because it's a robot dog? Does that make it tech news worthy? If I made hi tech stuff and said "I want a flying car in every garage of every home......yeah, I am a true visionary". What BS. Who give sa rat's ass.
Armitage Shanks would probably go on record saying that they "want a toilet bowl in every home, one day". Now that is true progress.
What, lots of nudges and winks during it? Lots of metaphors? Double-entendres?
How about someone tells me where I can get something to ENCODE my telephone conversations. I tried it today manually and it's a real bitch to keep saying "Dot-dot-dash-dash-dash". I got sick of that, and then tried ROT-13 in conversation but that was even worse, so I just went back to speaking English.
Surely the terrorists are foreign and so speak foreign languages? Maybe stop employing geeks and get some linguists? It's like, why don't airplane hijackers just get the on the right goddamn plane in the first place like the rest of the people who can READ THE GODDAMN FLIGHT INFORMATION SCREENS.
Something like this was done in the UK years and years ago (around 1992) for Amiga games. Consoles and their games have been available for renting since the NES days, but this was like, pay £5 and you get a special time-limited version of, if I remember correctly, The Killing Game Show (Psygnosis) and some more games of the era.
Of course it flopped because the crackers in those days were light years ahead of the Nero+CDR drive "crackers" of today.
This might be moderately successful on a local level - but for the majority of the world of computer users who don't have broadband it's largely redundant. And plenty of folks have broadband connections at work to forward all those useless 5MB email MPEGs and such with SirCAM, but they are unlikely to be able to justify GAMES with the connections.
Yeah, same with the computer game (if it ever gets released). Why bother playing as you can't get killed (if it's anything like the movie, that is). Would a cool adventure game if done like the Bladerunner game though.
It would be nice if there was some info on the offical Matrix sequel - the comics are pretty cool, but I would really like a new movie. It's been, what 2 and a 1/2 years since the original, and the last I checked the next one is due at the *end* of 2002.
I've also forgotten all the cool lines, such as "Trinity I've got r00t on j00r b0x3rs"......or was that some other movie?
I wonder why this can be a problem - I thought originally the domains where set to diffrentiate between them all. I'm sure I read many years ago something like:
.com: companies/commercial stuff
.org: general non-profit organisations, like WWF.org vs. WWF.com (World Wild-life Fund or World Wrestling Federation)
True, I didn't think of it that way. I suppose nothing really benefits from Slashdot, except maybe polls like Linux for PS2, and in older days when people got paid money from page impressions. Now I suppose it just costs the web host in question a fortune in bandwidth. Ah well.
And furthermore, what is with Real and WMV only? How about nice open-and-available-on-all-platforms MPEG or something. Why don't they release in DivX which has nice compression to quality ratios?
I don't like Real at all, and I resent having to either download it or reboot to Windows. So I won't bother watching at all, until someone somewhere warezifies it into DivX or something.
Yeah, they'lll have to have a heck of a plot to get the charm that traditional anime has.
I also think it's so stupid to have names like "The Last whatever", especially as it's the first bloody release. Make a stupidly cliched name that only tries to make it look like they are not newbies. At least in Final Fantasy I he thought it was going to be his last game, but come on "Blood: the last vampire" is a bit over the top cliche. It's not a great way to create a respected house IMHO, and is a bit goddamn pretentious.
A name, a year, something different. Why not just go all out like Microsoft when they released "Fury 3": hello? Where the fuck were the first two? NOWHERE. Trying to create the impression of a solid history is lame-o-central I think.
But hey I'm nitpicking. It might be good. I just hate names like that one.
Ah I see. In my quick page-scanning substitute for actually reading, I thought Intel were releasing a modified version of GCC, but after proper reading I see the comment was just on "hot on the heels of GCC".
Jesus christ! $399-499 for a goddamn compiler! Surely that sort of thing can't happen in the current tech meltdown. Wouldn't a more sensible price be better (say under $100)? I would expect that less companies would be likely to invest in this as if you look around at the belt-tightening going on, aren't free things more attractive now?
Also, are they doing those mods in compliance with the GPL? Also, someone give me a goddamn reason why GLibc 2.2.4 should not be compiled with GCC 3.0.1. I did and it works without any problem (then again I don't know jack about the real reason).
Didn't you know? Linus is like that dolphin from Johnny Mnemonic, only he's a penguin instead. And he's got loads of hi-tec stuff strapped on his head and can track submarines and doing linux is only a part-time thing, really.
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Freeside anyone? Looks like such a thing would be possible with interference.
Do people just patrol the real tech sites to get a link or a credit on a weblog?
In the future, Windows XXXP (the pr0n version) will be $1000 and the hardware will be around $200.
If IBM are clever they will find something in the licenses from way back in the 80s that limits the relative amount MS can charge. Or is it that they do that and charge massive fees to the people who buy it separately from a complete system?
1. That is still just as greedy as the western capitalist societies. It's just greed-by-proxy and they want money for nothing and 80 chicks and a harem for free in the next life
2. Their leader, Bin laden, is right up there on this. He is a multi-multi-multi-millionaire from oil. Obviously he REALLY believes in poverty in this life for a better next one. Or else his excuse is that this IS his next life.
I would mod that up if I had any points. So long, SSSCAs....hehehehhe
I think that maybe there is an actual downturn going on in the game industry that is larger than has been publicised. Sony are also rumoured to be dropping the price by $100 so it will effectively kill the $1200 "MS package deals" for X-Box, especially with Final Fantasy X, Metal Gear Solid 2 and loads more. PS2 Christmas line-up is the strongest of all the consoles, and it also will be the cheapest.
There have been many rumours on the net for the past week that MS's production might be halved. Remember the hype around X-Box last year? A simultaneous WORLDWIDE launch? Right about now with production difficulties and strong lineups from Sony, it's seems even the might monolith MS can have trouble.
Plus the PS2 has a nice retro look with the grill and all. X-Box looks like the sort of console Gordon Gecko would design, only he would probably put a big G on it or something. Actually, Bill Gates probably would do that to.
A G-Box would be cool..........it might even come with built in pr0n as well.
And they say the corporate world is full of beurocracy (OK I know I can't spell that)? What happened to just old-fashioned bloody copyright: "I made it, shove off". Give it away for free if you want, and then if the company every goes bust, the source is made available. And this would also stop crap companies being rescued by last-minute buyouts as they would have no software assets.
Problem solved.
Next: how to prove that I own the idea of software.
Then the laparoscopic techniques became widespread....it was a good thing.
Loads of abdominal ops can be done laparoscopically now, the result is less time post-op in recovery, less scarring, and a nice neato operation.
Plus you get to use the word insufflate and not laugh.
Or would you sue the connection provider? The legal hassle would be horrendous. One side trying to prove that the other screwed up. Christ it would go on forever.......sue the creator of the arm (if the arm didn't have AI)?
OK, I am talking of arms having AI so it's time for my medicine.
It's totally changed the deal with hijackers; now they don't have demands, or want money or their cause spoken for on TV. Right now not one person has said why they did it. Bin Laden is just speculation.
So if they hijack the plane, the cockpit seals off and they say that they will blow a bomb on board if they do not get control.
I have no idea how to make a plane hijack-proof. The one thing maybe is that if hijackers ever take a plane again from now on, no passengers are going to believe a damn thing they say about threatening to blow a bomb unless they get 1 million dollars or something. They'll prob all freak out and beat the shit out of them.
"OK, we will kill thousands by hijacking planes on Sept. 11 2001"
"Signed: Osama Bin Laden"
"PS - just to prove it's me I will send this in paper by FedEx as well....hahahha, those Americans will never be able to catch me"
And it's hardly as if he will have an email address like osama@afghanistan.com or something.
I don't mind them installing software or whatever, but surely there is something better to try. Like the endless talk of face recognition systems or something. I couldn't believe that in the first 24 hours they had not one mention of going through the surveillance cameras in the airports, or anything.
Or is it because it's a robot dog? Does that make it tech news worthy? If I made hi tech stuff and said "I want a flying car in every garage of every home......yeah, I am a true visionary". What BS. Who give sa rat's ass.
Armitage Shanks would probably go on record saying that they "want a toilet bowl in every home, one day". Now that is true progress.
How about someone tells me where I can get something to ENCODE my telephone conversations. I tried it today manually and it's a real bitch to keep saying "Dot-dot-dash-dash-dash". I got sick of that, and then tried ROT-13 in conversation but that was even worse, so I just went back to speaking English.
Surely the terrorists are foreign and so speak foreign languages? Maybe stop employing geeks and get some linguists? It's like, why don't airplane hijackers just get the on the right goddamn plane in the first place like the rest of the people who can READ THE GODDAMN FLIGHT INFORMATION SCREENS.
Of course it flopped because the crackers in those days were light years ahead of the Nero+CDR drive "crackers" of today.
This might be moderately successful on a local level - but for the majority of the world of computer users who don't have broadband it's largely redundant. And plenty of folks have broadband connections at work to forward all those useless 5MB email MPEGs and such with SirCAM, but they are unlikely to be able to justify GAMES with the connections.
I've also forgotten all the cool lines, such as "Trinity I've got r00t on j00r b0x3rs"......or was that some other movie?
.com: companies/commercial stuff
.org: general non-profit organisations, like WWF.org vs. WWF.com (World Wild-life Fund or World Wrestling Federation)
What's next? StarTrek.mil? Discovery.edu?
True, I didn't think of it that way. I suppose nothing really benefits from Slashdot, except maybe polls like Linux for PS2, and in older days when people got paid money from page impressions. Now I suppose it just costs the web host in question a fortune in bandwidth. Ah well.
I don't like Real at all, and I resent having to either download it or reboot to Windows. So I won't bother watching at all, until someone somewhere warezifies it into DivX or something.
I also think it's so stupid to have names like "The Last whatever", especially as it's the first bloody release. Make a stupidly cliched name that only tries to make it look like they are not newbies. At least in Final Fantasy I he thought it was going to be his last game, but come on "Blood: the last vampire" is a bit over the top cliche. It's not a great way to create a respected house IMHO, and is a bit goddamn pretentious.
A name, a year, something different. Why not just go all out like Microsoft when they released "Fury 3": hello? Where the fuck were the first two? NOWHERE. Trying to create the impression of a solid history is lame-o-central I think.
But hey I'm nitpicking. It might be good. I just hate names like that one.
Google search to find the home page.
/me slaps himself across the face
And I thought GCC was GPL'd or am I just wrong here?
Also, are they doing those mods in compliance with the GPL? Also, someone give me a goddamn reason why GLibc 2.2.4 should not be compiled with GCC 3.0.1. I did and it works without any problem (then again I don't know jack about the real reason).
Didn't you know? Linus is like that dolphin from Johnny Mnemonic, only he's a penguin instead. And he's got loads of hi-tec stuff strapped on his head and can track submarines and doing linux is only a part-time thing, really.