Like all the people who buy a Final Fantasy game just because it says Final Fantasy on it.
which concludes that:
These are the shallow minded retards that probably buy games Acclaim makes.
I am not a Final Fantasy Fanboi, although I'm sure some people would disagree. I do think it's unfair to say that people who bought it just for the name are retarded. I buy Final Fantasy games just for the name, granted. It does not make me retarded. I buy them because they are a franchise which has excellent quality standards, because they are made by the same company, a company that I admire and trust with my purchasing decisions. Brand loyalty? Yes.
Admittedly, some people don't enjoy the FF series. Are they the people who keep buying FF games? I doubt it. If they are, then I grant you your point, those people are stupid, and would likely also buy Acclaim crap.
If you like the series, and have in every past iteration, and have liked every spinoff line, then why SHOULDN'T you buy the game just based on it's name? It's very likely that you *will* end up enjoying it a lot. (and if not, it only takes bad purchase to break you of that habit pretty damn quick. See: Master Of Orion 3, Sim City 4)
Coolness, I didn't know that. Thanks for the info. And no, I wasn't exactly keeping on top of updates. It was my first debian install, and the only reason I was 'unstable' was because that was the only place I knew of where I could get mozilla(I think?) packages. Now, of course, I know of several better ways to get more recent packages, but at the time I was pretty much a newbie to Linux.
Well, that's normally what regular Slashdotters do, but then again, you're Mac users.
Well, I was with you until that point. If anything, Mac section of Slashdot typically has a slightly higher signal-to-noise ratio than normal posts. Where slightly higher is still smaller than can be represented by a double.
Really. This site is full of illiterate zealots. Every part of it, not just the Mac section. If you think the people on other stories have mostly read the articles and are posting informed opinions, hahaha, I feel sorry for you man (and please stay away from any article regarding copyright law, for your own legal wellbeing).
Weird. NetInfo was decidedly off on my 3 week old Panther install (I did an archive and install, which might have harvested my settings from Jaguar, as unlikely as I believe that to be)
I have actually been bitten by this. When I installed potato (Which was unstable, at the time) and eventually they moved it up to frozen, and woody became unstable, I was seriously hosed. It downloaded new versions of lots of core stuff, and it broke many other things which were not updated for whatever reason. Perhaps some had changed names or I had custom installed.
Perhaps this has been fixed in newer versions of (debian|apt-get), sure. But for potato-to-woody, it was painful.
So let me get this straight. Microsoft is taking a standard, modifying it slightly just for the sake of making it incompatible, and then foisting it upon all users and developers who use Windows, invalidating the 'standard'.
Yeah, I knew there was a reason we came up with the term "Embrace and extend"... Joy. I look forward to the mess this will create.
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Man, I know about this practice, and I know a lot of people swear by buying ODM models. But the fallacy about "all they do is repaint it!" really needs to stop.
As far as I can see, the Clevo top-end notebook, the D800P (correct me if I'm wrong) does indeed bear striking similarities to a few of the Hypersonic PCs. It also lacks several features that they have, including a 1600x1200 TFT (also known as UXGA, if you're a complete tool and prefer marketing jargon) and 802.11g, and a great dead pixel policy.
Yes, the motherboard and most of it's assorted equipment are standard, but they do make changes, improvements, even things as small but tremendously important as putting down a new keyboard layout. Saying that it's just the same thing with a new paint job really isn't true at all.
Speak for yourself. My cellular phone service with nothing but voicemail was $35/mo base. My landline with equivalent features is lucky to break that even when you include long distance calls.
And they have caller ID, you can just ignore people.
For an additional fee? Sure. I can again do that cheaper on my land line. $0.50/mo. vs $1.00/mo.
I've been drooling over Hypersonic's Laptops for quite a long time now, and I find it very hard to believe that either of these companies have the first Athlon 64 laptop (which Hypersonic has had basically since the Athlon Mobile 64 was announced) or the first RAID array in a laptop, which Hypersonic has had for a long time in their Aviator GX8 series.
Way too many "journalists" see something like that and go "whoa, that must be the first time that's ever been done." without ever looking into it.
Databases are extremely IO limited, and always have been. There are relatively few floating point operations done in typical database applications. This would be pretty much useless for them.
Conversely, what's the point of a cell phone if I always turn it off or leave it at home whenever I leave because I don't want to be bothered by someone I don't really want to talk to anyway while I'm out?
Emergency, pfft. I'll keep my cheap old landline thanks.
Yes. If you install from the network, there is no need worry about up to date packages. Make sure to tell it you're installing unstable.
Actually, tell it you're installing 'sid'. Otherwise when sid finally becomes stable and you suddenly start downloading the new 'unstable' packages, things get messy. There's an "apt-get dist-upgrade" command for a reason. Speaking from personal experience here...
Or perhaps people finally got to try a MMORPG that had been adequately tested before it arrived on store shelves (thanks for beta testing, Japan!) Or maybe people liked previous games from SquareEnix and bought it not because it had the same name, but because it was from the same people.
It is narrow-minded and fallacious to suggest that the only reason for the game's success is the name.
Visible light is important. Not as much for deep sky objects, sure. And probably not even for the next generation or two of space telescopes. But we have not even come close to being able to visually look at even our closest neighboring star systems. We rely on gravity wobbles and visual occultation to find other planets. As our resolving power improves, we will begin to make out these details and it will likely be one of the larger discoveries that have been made this century (assuming it happens this century).
Physicists probably won't care much about other star systems while they're struggling to unify special relativity and general relativity, but plenty of other branches of science will. So don't dismiss visual wavelengths.
It'll never happen. Trial lawyers know exactly what such a change would do to their business, and they also are a very powerful lobbying force.
It would happen if Americans would simply vote for someone who isn't a corporate puppet.
But no, you're content with your two party system. Kang or Kodos? Must vote for one of them!
Seriously, vote independent. Who cares if you agree with their entire platform. There will always be parts of the platform you disagree with, although the big parties are very careful to keep their platform benign and constant to party lines. Vote for Independents because they'll fix the things that will otherwise never get fixed. They represent change. Which while frightening, is part of progress.
I don't care if you vote green or libertarian or true independent or whatever, but for god's sake stop electing democrats and republicans, they only care about the money that gets put into their pocket. I wonder how long it will be before "Fritz Hollings, D-Disney" (or is it R-Disney, I can't even tell the difference) becomes standard naming convention. At least with the indies you have a chance for change before they get corrupted.
But hey, I'm a Canadian, who am I to talk. Excuse me while I go and vote NDP.
Have you seen a G5? And do you know why your typical fans fail? Could it be perhaps because they are undersized, underpowered, cheap fans being pushed to their limits to try and brute force enough air churning around to keep your system cool? The G5s have a properly engineered case with a specific path for airflow, and abundant, high-quality fans mounted on rubber shock absorbers to dampen vibration. I suspect that these fans will have few problems. And if they do, won't it be a painful process to replace them: unlatch side panel, remove plastic airflow enclosure panel, put hand on fan assembly, slide out, slide in new fan assembly. Click, done. I wish my servers were that easy to replace things on.
Cheap hard drives? Yeah, sure, whatever. They use Seagate Serial-ATA drives. I don't know about you, but Seagate stopped fitting into my definition of 'cheap and crappy' about 8 years ago.
I have never dealt with ECC memory, so I grant you that point, however.
So there have been SecureDigital cards which do this for awhile now, and CompactFlash cards for longer still.
That's right Sony, keep dragging Memory Stick down the road in the hopes that you'll someday catch up to everyone else. It is possible -- you do have enough money to blow, right?
Memory Sticks are retarded. Less features, smaller capacity, more price, harder to find. I'd never buy anything that uses them. Not that I care for SD cards either. There's nothing wrong with CF, it's in more devices, and it's large enough to have IBM Microdrives.
Sounds like a nifty application for Bluetooth at least.
Unfortunately, they're much too busy putting Bluetooth into cellphones so you can send IMs to your friends who are sitting next to you, because your mouth is not 'cool' enough or something. And then they complain that no one buys bluetooth phones. God forbid they do something actually useful with it.
Warning: Shameless plugs ahead. Disclaimer: I don't make any money from my pimping of MOO.
Although I don't know of something that does specifically for what you're asking for, in my experience a MOO makes a good platform for conducting official meetings. Everyone logs in, you can talk to one another (privately if you wish), and logging is easy.
Plus, it's decently easy through the MOO's C-like internal programming language to code up a motion/voting system in a certain room so that everyone can head in there for a meeting and have everything handled and logged correctly.
More info about MOOs can be found here and documentation is plentiful on the web. Additionally, I could probably even give you some pointers if you were to drop bymy MOO.
Transport Canada, a federal government branch, is in charge of regulating Canada's airspace and air travel. However, you weren't entirely off-track: the CAA is a common acronym for many countries' Civil Aviation Authority, including Britain, New Zealand, and South Africa.
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I have a problem with the following implication:
Like all the people who buy a Final Fantasy game just because it says Final Fantasy on it.
which concludes that:
These are the shallow minded retards that probably buy games Acclaim makes.
I am not a Final Fantasy Fanboi, although I'm sure some people would disagree. I do think it's unfair to say that people who bought it just for the name are retarded. I buy Final Fantasy games just for the name, granted. It does not make me retarded. I buy them because they are a franchise which has excellent quality standards, because they are made by the same company, a company that I admire and trust with my purchasing decisions. Brand loyalty? Yes.
Admittedly, some people don't enjoy the FF series. Are they the people who keep buying FF games? I doubt it. If they are, then I grant you your point, those people are stupid, and would likely also buy Acclaim crap.
If you like the series, and have in every past iteration, and have liked every spinoff line, then why SHOULDN'T you buy the game just based on it's name? It's very likely that you *will* end up enjoying it a lot. (and if not, it only takes bad purchase to break you of that habit pretty damn quick. See: Master Of Orion 3, Sim City 4)
Speak for yourself, guy. Most people also run Windows, too. So what? It doesn't mean we all owe Bill Gates a tax for our computers.
All the file sharing and downloading I do is legal, thanks.
Coolness, I didn't know that. Thanks for the info. And no, I wasn't exactly keeping on top of updates. It was my first debian install, and the only reason I was 'unstable' was because that was the only place I knew of where I could get mozilla(I think?) packages. Now, of course, I know of several better ways to get more recent packages, but at the time I was pretty much a newbie to Linux.
Anyhow, thanks for the correction.
Well, that's normally what regular Slashdotters do, but then again, you're Mac users.
Well, I was with you until that point. If anything, Mac section of Slashdot typically has a slightly higher signal-to-noise ratio than normal posts. Where slightly higher is still smaller than can be represented by a double.
Really. This site is full of illiterate zealots. Every part of it, not just the Mac section. If you think the people on other stories have mostly read the articles and are posting informed opinions, hahaha, I feel sorry for you man (and please stay away from any article regarding copyright law, for your own legal wellbeing).
Weird. NetInfo was decidedly off on my 3 week old Panther install (I did an archive and install, which might have harvested my settings from Jaguar, as unlikely as I believe that to be)
I have actually been bitten by this. When I installed potato (Which was unstable, at the time) and eventually they moved it up to frozen, and woody became unstable, I was seriously hosed. It downloaded new versions of lots of core stuff, and it broke many other things which were not updated for whatever reason. Perhaps some had changed names or I had custom installed.
Perhaps this has been fixed in newer versions of (debian|apt-get), sure. But for potato-to-woody, it was painful.
Hah. I never saw that article before. but I like how they caption the picture of the chalkboard as "her webpage".
I knew those of us in North America had relatively good internet access, but I didn't realize Norway had it that bad!
has any drunk driving accident victim sued the bar which sold them the drink?
Yes. (fifth story down)
I take it from the dollar sign you're American?
:P (You must've missed the last line of my post where I said all prices in Canadian dollars)
No need to be mean.
So let me get this straight. Microsoft is taking a standard, modifying it slightly just for the sake of making it incompatible, and then foisting it upon all users and developers who use Windows, invalidating the 'standard'.
Yeah, I knew there was a reason we came up with the term "Embrace and extend"... Joy. I look forward to the mess this will create.
Man, I know about this practice, and I know a lot of people swear by buying ODM models. But the fallacy about "all they do is repaint it!" really needs to stop.
As far as I can see, the Clevo top-end notebook, the D800P (correct me if I'm wrong) does indeed bear striking similarities to a few of the Hypersonic PCs. It also lacks several features that they have, including a 1600x1200 TFT (also known as UXGA, if you're a complete tool and prefer marketing jargon) and 802.11g, and a great dead pixel policy.
Yes, the motherboard and most of it's assorted equipment are standard, but they do make changes, improvements, even things as small but tremendously important as putting down a new keyboard layout. Saying that it's just the same thing with a new paint job really isn't true at all.
But landlines are expensive, mobiles are cheap.
Speak for yourself. My cellular phone service with nothing but voicemail was $35/mo base. My landline with equivalent features is lucky to break that even when you include long distance calls.
And they have caller ID, you can just ignore people.
For an additional fee? Sure. I can again do that cheaper on my land line. $0.50/mo. vs $1.00/mo.
(all figures in Canadian dollars)
I've been drooling over Hypersonic's Laptops for quite a long time now, and I find it very hard to believe that either of these companies have the first Athlon 64 laptop (which Hypersonic has had basically since the Athlon Mobile 64 was announced) or the first RAID array in a laptop, which Hypersonic has had for a long time in their Aviator GX8 series.
Way too many "journalists" see something like that and go "whoa, that must be the first time that's ever been done." without ever looking into it.
Databases are extremely IO limited, and always have been. There are relatively few floating point operations done in typical database applications. This would be pretty much useless for them.
A gigantic RAID 1+0 however...
Conversely, what's the point of a cell phone if I always turn it off or leave it at home whenever I leave because I don't want to be bothered by someone I don't really want to talk to anyway while I'm out?
Emergency, pfft. I'll keep my cheap old landline thanks.
Yes. If you install from the network, there is no need worry about up to date packages. Make sure to tell it you're installing unstable.
Actually, tell it you're installing 'sid'. Otherwise when sid finally becomes stable and you suddenly start downloading the new 'unstable' packages, things get messy. There's an "apt-get dist-upgrade" command for a reason. Speaking from personal experience here...
And there's only one reason for that. The name.
Or perhaps people finally got to try a MMORPG that had been adequately tested before it arrived on store shelves (thanks for beta testing, Japan!) Or maybe people liked previous games from SquareEnix and bought it not because it had the same name, but because it was from the same people.
It is narrow-minded and fallacious to suggest that the only reason for the game's success is the name.
Yes, you are correct. I meant quantum physics, not special relativity. Oops. Thanks for the correction.
Visible light is important. Not as much for deep sky objects, sure. And probably not even for the next generation or two of space telescopes. But we have not even come close to being able to visually look at even our closest neighboring star systems. We rely on gravity wobbles and visual occultation to find other planets. As our resolving power improves, we will begin to make out these details and it will likely be one of the larger discoveries that have been made this century (assuming it happens this century).
Physicists probably won't care much about other star systems while they're struggling to unify special relativity and general relativity, but plenty of other branches of science will. So don't dismiss visual wavelengths.
It'll never happen. Trial lawyers know exactly what such a change would do to their business, and they also are a very powerful lobbying force.
It would happen if Americans would simply vote for someone who isn't a corporate puppet.
But no, you're content with your two party system. Kang or Kodos? Must vote for one of them!
Seriously, vote independent. Who cares if you agree with their entire platform. There will always be parts of the platform you disagree with, although the big parties are very careful to keep their platform benign and constant to party lines. Vote for Independents because they'll fix the things that will otherwise never get fixed. They represent change. Which while frightening, is part of progress.
I don't care if you vote green or libertarian or true independent or whatever, but for god's sake stop electing democrats and republicans, they only care about the money that gets put into their pocket. I wonder how long it will be before "Fritz Hollings, D-Disney" (or is it R-Disney, I can't even tell the difference) becomes standard naming convention. At least with the indies you have a chance for change before they get corrupted.
But hey, I'm a Canadian, who am I to talk. Excuse me while I go and vote NDP.
I would guess that your guess is wrong.
Have you seen a G5? And do you know why your typical fans fail? Could it be perhaps because they are undersized, underpowered, cheap fans being pushed to their limits to try and brute force enough air churning around to keep your system cool? The G5s have a properly engineered case with a specific path for airflow, and abundant, high-quality fans mounted on rubber shock absorbers to dampen vibration. I suspect that these fans will have few problems. And if they do, won't it be a painful process to replace them: unlatch side panel, remove plastic airflow enclosure panel, put hand on fan assembly, slide out, slide in new fan assembly. Click, done. I wish my servers were that easy to replace things on.
Cheap hard drives? Yeah, sure, whatever. They use Seagate Serial-ATA drives. I don't know about you, but Seagate stopped fitting into my definition of 'cheap and crappy' about 8 years ago.
I have never dealt with ECC memory, so I grant you that point, however.
So there have been SecureDigital cards which do this for awhile now, and CompactFlash cards for longer still.
That's right Sony, keep dragging Memory Stick down the road in the hopes that you'll someday catch up to everyone else. It is possible -- you do have enough money to blow, right?
Memory Sticks are retarded. Less features, smaller capacity, more price, harder to find. I'd never buy anything that uses them. Not that I care for SD cards either. There's nothing wrong with CF, it's in more devices, and it's large enough to have IBM Microdrives.
Sounds like a nifty application for Bluetooth at least.
Unfortunately, they're much too busy putting Bluetooth into cellphones so you can send IMs to your friends who are sitting next to you, because your mouth is not 'cool' enough or something. And then they complain that no one buys bluetooth phones. God forbid they do something actually useful with it.
Warning: Shameless plugs ahead. Disclaimer: I don't make any money from my pimping of MOO.
Although I don't know of something that does specifically for what you're asking for, in my experience a MOO makes a good platform for conducting official meetings. Everyone logs in, you can talk to one another (privately if you wish), and logging is easy.
Plus, it's decently easy through the MOO's C-like internal programming language to code up a motion/voting system in a certain room so that everyone can head in there for a meeting and have everything handled and logged correctly.
More info about MOOs can be found here and documentation is plentiful on the web. Additionally, I could probably even give you some pointers if you were to drop by my MOO.
Actually, in Canada the CAA would be the Canadian Automobile Association. :)
;)
Transport Canada, a federal government branch, is in charge of regulating Canada's airspace and air travel. However, you weren't entirely off-track: the CAA is a common acronym for many countries' Civil Aviation Authority, including Britain, New Zealand, and South Africa.
Us Canadians, we just have to be different, eh?