it is shit like this that slash-dotters are reknown for taking the piss of rather than for answering seriously. which kind of tells the tale of why slash-dotters are never taken seriously. perhaps we should ask which government organisation slash-dotters work for before we take notice of them rather than their slashdot given karma rating. ouch is that a bit too close to comfort for you?
Obviously. Government agencies are known for their sense of humor. You got me! Congratulations. As your prize, you get to be the next governor of Alaska!
If it's milk chocolate, that is quite true. Dark chocolate is another matter entirely. Milk chocolate always needs something to help it along (peanut butter, caramel, whatever). Dark chocolate, however, can be eaten straight, and be enjoyed without anything else as a crutch.
I was an adult when Tron came out. I remember thinking it looked like a really cool movie. Then it came out and I learned how bad it sucked, why would I be interested in a sequel.
You seem to care enough to post to a Slashdot story about it, but maybe that says more about you than about Tron or Tron: Legacy.
I see the other 10% of their revenue coming from the new game "LightCycles 3D" Which I sadly will probably buy a copy of.
I'm just happy that someone seems to have made an actual Space Paranoids game! *That* was the game I always wanted to play as a kid, not that thing they came out with at the arcades. Apparently at a recent promotional event for the new movie, someone set up a "Flynn's" arcade, put a bunch of 80s arcade games in it, and included this game in an arcade cabinet. Sweet.
Actually, Internet Explorer 8.0 is a pretty good browser--I've seen a lot o stability improvements over IE 7.0 under Windows Vista Home Premium (SP2). I'd like it to be a tad faster, though.
As a web developer, I can tell you that IE 8 *does* compete very well with Firefox... v1.5. It's standards support was outdated before it started development. And it's interface! Gag. IE 3 had a better interface.:(
Does the expression "on crack" mean, "better"? And if so, why?
It's like the word 'better', but on crack! It's whacked! It's dope! The roof is on fire! That's bad-ass! Just keepin' it real, dude. You should get with the times, and be a hep cat. Word.
I've been using the public beta since it came out, and the RC1 since the public beta expired, and all in all, it's pretty good. Takes forever for me to figure out how to do anything anymore, since I'm so used to XP (stripped down to non-flashy mode; more like W2K in use), but that's no biggie.
The big question in my life as a web developer is: When is IE gonna be a good browser? How many versions is it gonna TAKE?
I take solace in the fact that anyone upgrading to Wndows 7 is going to be forced to go with IE8 or some non-MS browser. No more IE 6 or 7. *whew* Hopefully the critical update and the enterprise migration tool thingy for IE8 coming soon will get rid of a large percentage of the remaining IE 6 users that aren't on something older than Windows XP. Win2K/ME/98/95 users, well, tough luck. Time to for you or your administrator to either upgrade to a netbook or install Firefox/Opera/whatever. Way PAST time, really. But if someone in your company was stupid enough to develop something requiring ActiveX, I guess IE8 is it for you. If you want the Gecko renderer from Firefox, but your system can't handle the overhead of a XUL browser, try K-Meleon.
Even real life highways have minimum speeds, you know. Get your Model T off the information superhighway, you're dangerous.
Sorry, I could have worded it better. I'm not claiming intelligent design put Jupiter there, merely that Jupiter is doing what Jupiter does, and that this event is nothing out of the ordinary.
Yes, yes, gas giants *will* be gas giants, and all that...there's no such thing as a bad gas giant!
...is the venerable 5.25" floppy disk, circa pre-1985. My Apple// disks from that time are still readable. It takes rather a long time to back up my 1TB WD "Green" HD onto the Apple//GS I have networked to my main machine, but hey, backups are important!:)
I'll bet they implemented striping a different way than RAID. Since all they need to do is act like a standard hard drive to the machine, they can implement something faster and more specific to flash memory (since every optimization counts).
The PCIe versions of SSDs I've see so far doesn't seem to support booting. That's a major crimp in their usefulness.
True, but that's temporary. I've heard the next major crop of them coming out over the next quarter or so will be bootable. I certainly wouldn't buy one until they ARE bootable.
Also, they're not all that useful in laptops.
Laptops have PCIe connections available, too; that shouldn't be a problem.
Even the 6G standard won't hold for high-end SSDs (which seem to be raid striped in one unit, AFAIK). The long-term solution for those are ones that connect via PCIe, so this doesn't seem to be that big a deal, really.
> Maybe someone could port gecko to my System 6-based Apple IIGS?
Not going to happen without some sort of C++ compiler and decent graphics. Even then one would likely need a Transwarp GS/Zip GS card for a page to render faster then a weekend. After all, it takes the machine a couple of minutes just to decompress a small JPEG image!
Well, good thing I found a TransWarp GS a couple of weeks ago!:)
I'd imagine the amount of RAM would be a pretty huge hurdle, too. I've got a ROM 03 machine with a 4Meg memory upgrade for it, but 5Megs doesn't sound like enough to run any kind of modern rendering engine. Well, maybe the one in Opera...:)
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What do you mean, "*They* cut the power"? How could they cut the power, man? They're animals!
I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
amen to that. 1979's 'alien' is good, but the 1986 'aliens' is what made my heart thump and want to be a space marine.
GAME OVER MAN! GAME OVER!
Somebody wake up Hicks.
it is shit like this that slash-dotters are reknown for taking the piss of rather than for answering seriously. which kind of tells the tale of why slash-dotters are never taken seriously. perhaps we should ask which government organisation slash-dotters work for before we take notice of them rather than their slashdot given karma rating. ouch is that a bit too close to comfort for you?
Obviously. Government agencies are known for their sense of humor. You got me! Congratulations. As your prize, you get to be the next governor of Alaska!
You say that like chocolate is inferior.
If it's milk chocolate, that is quite true. Dark chocolate is another matter entirely. Milk chocolate always needs something to help it along (peanut butter, caramel, whatever). Dark chocolate, however, can be eaten straight, and be enjoyed without anything else as a crutch.
Mathematics is science. CS is mathematics. Apply transitivity, and Bob's your uncle.
You can apply whatever you want, and my uncle's name still isn't going to be 'Bob', therefore, you fail.
I don't think the "You got Bing in my Yahoo!" commercial would fly so well. I'm sure someone would misinterpret it.
I dunno - that kinda sounds like you captured the essence of the business relationship pretty well there.
Cobbling together 2 inferior technologies doesn't give you a superior one.
Hey, it worked for Reese's!
I was an adult when Tron came out. I remember thinking it looked like a really cool movie. Then it came out and I learned how bad it sucked, why would I be interested in a sequel.
You seem to care enough to post to a Slashdot story about it, but maybe that says more about you than about Tron or Tron: Legacy.
I see the other 10% of their revenue coming from the new game "LightCycles 3D"
Which I sadly will probably buy a copy of.
I'm just happy that someone seems to have made an actual Space Paranoids game! *That* was the game I always wanted to play as a kid, not that thing they came out with at the arcades. Apparently at a recent promotional event for the new movie, someone set up a "Flynn's" arcade, put a bunch of 80s arcade games in it, and included this game in an arcade cabinet. Sweet.
I'll miss trying to pronounce the working title. Trihtoon, Tratoowon, The movie concept formerly known as Tron 2.
Trontooine is not the title you're looking for. Move along.
I'm pretty sure witches are analog.
Actually, Internet Explorer 8.0 is a pretty good browser--I've seen a lot o stability improvements over IE 7.0 under Windows Vista Home Premium (SP2). I'd like it to be a tad faster, though.
As a web developer, I can tell you that IE 8 *does* compete very well with Firefox ... v1.5. It's standards support was outdated before it started development. And it's interface! Gag. IE 3 had a better interface. :(
Does the expression "on crack" mean, "better"? And if so, why?
It's like the word 'better', but on crack! It's whacked! It's dope! The roof is on fire! That's bad-ass! Just keepin' it real, dude. You should get with the times, and be a hep cat. Word.
I've been using the public beta since it came out, and the RC1 since the public beta expired, and all in all, it's pretty good. Takes forever for me to figure out how to do anything anymore, since I'm so used to XP (stripped down to non-flashy mode; more like W2K in use), but that's no biggie.
The big question in my life as a web developer is: When is IE gonna be a good browser? How many versions is it gonna TAKE?
I take solace in the fact that anyone upgrading to Wndows 7 is going to be forced to go with IE8 or some non-MS browser. No more IE 6 or 7. *whew* Hopefully the critical update and the enterprise migration tool thingy for IE8 coming soon will get rid of a large percentage of the remaining IE 6 users that aren't on something older than Windows XP. Win2K/ME/98/95 users, well, tough luck. Time to for you or your administrator to either upgrade to a netbook or install Firefox/Opera/whatever. Way PAST time, really. But if someone in your company was stupid enough to develop something requiring ActiveX, I guess IE8 is it for you. If you want the Gecko renderer from Firefox, but your system can't handle the overhead of a XUL browser, try K-Meleon.
Even real life highways have minimum speeds, you know. Get your Model T off the information superhighway, you're dangerous.
In the real 2010 its more like:
aLL THESE WORLD ARE BELONG TO YOU KK, DO NOT WANT EUROPA THX
This is not the moon you're looking for. We can go about our business. Move along.
All these worlds are yours, except Europa, attempt no landing there.
Do or do not. There is no 'attempt'.
Sorry, I could have worded it better. I'm not claiming intelligent design put Jupiter there, merely that Jupiter is doing what Jupiter does, and that this event is nothing out of the ordinary.
Yes, yes, gas giants *will* be gas giants, and all that...there's no such thing as a bad gas giant!
Let's all sing another round of Super Comet Fragment Impact Extra-Large Explosions by Kare and Higgins.
Let's not.
...is the venerable 5.25" floppy disk, circa pre-1985. My Apple // disks from that time are still readable. It takes rather a long time to back up my 1TB WD "Green" HD onto the Apple //GS I have networked to my main machine, but hey, backups are important! :)
Nitpick:
I'll bet they implemented striping a different way than RAID. Since all they need to do is act like a standard hard drive to the machine, they can implement something faster and more specific to flash memory (since every optimization counts).
Pedantic-Man(tm) Approved(tm)! :)
The PCIe versions of SSDs I've see so far doesn't seem to support booting. That's a major crimp in their usefulness.
True, but that's temporary. I've heard the next major crop of them coming out over the next quarter or so will be bootable. I certainly wouldn't buy one until they ARE bootable.
Also, they're not all that useful in laptops.
Laptops have PCIe connections available, too; that shouldn't be a problem.
Even the 6G standard won't hold for high-end SSDs (which seem to be raid striped in one unit, AFAIK). The long-term solution for those are ones that connect via PCIe, so this doesn't seem to be that big a deal, really.
It wasn't a complicated joke. You're just slow/dumb.
Nah, he's just running on an Apple IIGS! For values of 'running'.
> Maybe someone could port gecko to my System 6-based Apple IIGS?
Not going to happen without some sort of C++ compiler and decent graphics. Even then one would likely need a Transwarp GS/Zip GS card for a page to render faster then a weekend. After all, it takes the machine a couple of minutes just to decompress a small JPEG image!
Well, good thing I found a TransWarp GS a couple of weeks ago! :)
I'd imagine the amount of RAM would be a pretty huge hurdle, too. I've got a ROM 03 machine with a 4Meg memory upgrade for it, but 5Megs doesn't sound like enough to run any kind of modern rendering engine. Well, maybe the one in Opera... :)
I think a port of the gecko rendering engine would be great, but I'm dubious about the performance of a XUL-based browser on such an old platform.
Maybe someone could port gecko to my System 6-based Apple IIGS?