Well, speak for yourself;). Me - I read slashdot mostly for funnies, but the problem is that "prison rape", "soviet russia", etc are about as funny as stepping in the dogshit.
These prison jokes are about as funny as _YOUR_ balls getting cut off when you walk out in the dark. Crimes - heavy crimes - even in prison are not funny and definitely not ok, whatever state wants you to believe to keep you scared.
Oh, please, stop milking that 30 year old cow. Yes, yes, Star Wars was a nice trilogy and all, but can we pretty please have LucasArts adventures back? With the incredible humor and spirit (and volume!) of those classics. It was like a brand new form of art and that was totally cool.
Any info on what "user agent" string will they use? I bet people will be finding all kinds of... interesting stuff on "Moogle".
Anyone owns smth similar?
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Question for owners: what these devices are good at? I mean, at $2000+ it should offer smth that $300 PDA or $450 Smartphone don't. Please - it's not a flamebait, I'm genuinely curious.:)
And the IE page is 589 bytes whereas Firefox' one is 1458 bytes which tells us how lean and up-to-the-task MSIE compares nicely against Mozilla bloatware.... WAIT A MINUTE!!!
Anyway - what was the trigger for IE page? Anything uses it now?
PS: What's that gradient business at the top of Firefox page? We don't need stinky "cool designs" at Google!!!;) Or, come to think of it - I see. It's so that tabbar does not mix with the page, right?
Dare I say that the fact that Intel produces a kick-ass compiler (for certain tasks anyway) has nothing to do with the fact that the same company produces CPUs. BTW - currently (AFAIK) the compiler is developed in Russia whereas chips design is done at "traditional" sites. PS: Oh, of course, Intel compiler won't ever support 3dnow, but that's the issue with sponsorship. I mean - AMD don't have to design the compiler themselves. They will be equally ok with sponsoring someone who knows how to do that.
Hmm, I wonder what does Taiwan problem has to do w/ ISS (I'm not politician, though. Thankfully). US does have death penalty, UK has N.Ireland, Russia is full of it, but that does not preclude other countries from cooperating with them.
Actually, 1 DVD speed is pretty exactly equals to nine (9) CD speeds in data transfer rate and three (3) CD speeds in linear/rotational speed. IOW - you get 3x data speed from the same rotational speed. So - 16x DVD speed is 48x CD physical speed and we know how CDs start exploding at that (or a tad higher). OTOH - I read that DVDs are physically more robust (2 plastic layers instead of 1 for instance) but I wouldn't trust that. Also - 16x is about 22 megs/second (at max of course). I guess many users still don't have HDDs capable of providing that when translated to file system speed. I find 8x DVDs to be the sweet spot still - fast and _quiet_(!). Awaiting for cheap dual layer media.
[OT] Actually, a programmer that hacks together a 100-line perl script fot that is a (much) better programmer in my book than one coding 2000 lines of Java (or 10000 lines of C).
You assume that smart programmers coding PC games won't code in raw assembler but that they will use unwrapped DX APIs a plenty. (sigh) And that's probably the truth. Add modern management and it is no wonder that (PC) games these days generally suck.
Heck, I'd hate to play Civ III on TV, that's for sure:) How many squares at once can you see? Huh? Or even a decent flight sim. If I can detect what plane is that from 200 feet, no more... No good.
Some facts: 1) There are obsolete PC machines too (a lot). 2) New "powerful enough for latest shit" PCs are not cheap. 3) PC upgradability gets worse by the year.
I dunno, sims I played a lot lately (IL2 incarnations and age-ignoring GrandPrixLegends) are more of CPU bound than GPU bound (even if graphics are gorgeous!). Last shooter I liked (Call Of Duty) would also go well with 5200, I think. Even then - it's not that that 5200 is God-given and you are doomed to have crappy 3d of Macs. If Apple wants they can beef it up at a snap, having software available is much more serious task.
That's funny. Do you remember that in beginning of XIX century french virtually owned the whole Europe (that Napoleon guy was kinda cool). As for WWII - they did not loose their territories, lost fewer people than others, preserved their culture. How is that stupid?
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There is no reason the whole world can't have high levels of freedom and a high standard of living and high levels of education.
Actually, to a certain degree, there are reasons. Like, why do you think in US gas (petrol) is _cheaper_ than, say, in Russia (that pumps huge amounts of it)? Or the whole outsourcing brahaha.
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Do you think Internet growth is all by experienced users gemmating?
Well, speak for yourself ;). Me - I read slashdot mostly for funnies, but the problem is that "prison rape", "soviet russia", etc are about as funny as stepping in the dogshit.
These prison jokes are about as funny as _YOUR_ balls getting cut off when you walk out in the dark. Crimes - heavy crimes - even in prison are not funny and definitely not ok, whatever state wants you to believe to keep you scared.
Have you considered changing it to Squoozer? http://www.google.com/search?q=squoozer
Oh, please, stop milking that 30 year old cow. Yes, yes, Star Wars was a nice trilogy and all, but can we pretty please have LucasArts adventures back? With the incredible humor and spirit (and volume!) of those classics. It was like a brand new form of art and that was totally cool.
Any info on what "user agent" string will they use? I bet people will be finding all kinds of... interesting stuff on "Moogle".
Question for owners: what these devices are good at? I mean, at $2000+ it should offer smth that $300 PDA or $450 Smartphone don't. Please - it's not a flamebait, I'm genuinely curious. :)
Wow, both my home and cell numbers are prime (slashdot id OTOH is not quite). I wonder what's the probability of that?
A duct-tapeable gun-sight for Doom3 of course!
And the IE page is 589 bytes whereas Firefox' one is 1458 bytes which tells us how lean and up-to-the-task MSIE compares nicely against Mozilla bloatware.... WAIT A MINUTE!!!
;) Or, come to think of it - I see. It's so that tabbar does not mix with the page, right?
Anyway - what was the trigger for IE page? Anything uses it now?
PS: What's that gradient business at the top of Firefox page? We don't need stinky "cool designs" at Google!!!
What machine does have the biggest flops per thread I wonder?
That tirade actually proofs why same-sex marriages are not so good idea.
Josh Woosh and Chuck Berry.
Dare I say that the fact that Intel produces a kick-ass compiler (for certain tasks anyway) has nothing to do with the fact that the same company produces CPUs. BTW - currently (AFAIK) the compiler is developed in Russia whereas chips design is done at "traditional" sites.
PS: Oh, of course, Intel compiler won't ever support 3dnow, but that's the issue with sponsorship. I mean - AMD don't have to design the compiler themselves. They will be equally ok with sponsoring someone who knows how to do that.
Hmm, I wonder what does Taiwan problem has to do w/ ISS (I'm not politician, though. Thankfully). US does have death penalty, UK has N.Ireland, Russia is full of it, but that does not preclude other countries from cooperating with them.
Actually, 1 DVD speed is pretty exactly equals to nine (9) CD speeds in data transfer rate and three (3) CD speeds in linear/rotational speed. IOW - you get 3x data speed from the same rotational speed. So - 16x DVD speed is 48x CD physical speed and we know how CDs start exploding at that (or a tad higher). OTOH - I read that DVDs are physically more robust (2 plastic layers instead of 1 for instance) but I wouldn't trust that. Also - 16x is about 22 megs/second (at max of course). I guess many users still don't have HDDs capable of providing that when translated to file system speed. I find 8x DVDs to be the sweet spot still - fast and _quiet_(!). Awaiting for cheap dual layer media.
No, that's MS'ers who used that one when they had nothing ;)
[OT] Actually, a programmer that hacks together a 100-line perl script fot that is a (much) better programmer in my book than one coding 2000 lines of Java (or 10000 lines of C).
You assume that smart programmers coding PC games won't code in raw assembler but that they will use unwrapped DX APIs a plenty. (sigh) And that's probably the truth. Add modern management and it is no wonder that (PC) games these days generally suck.
Bugs in BSD??? Wow! :)
OTOH - we all know what Netcraft confirms.
Heck, I'd hate to play Civ III on TV, that's for sure :)
How many squares at once can you see? Huh?
Or even a decent flight sim. If I can detect what plane is that from 200 feet, no more... No good.
Some facts: 1) There are obsolete PC machines too (a lot). 2) New "powerful enough for latest shit" PCs are not cheap. 3) PC upgradability gets worse by the year.
I dunno, sims I played a lot lately (IL2 incarnations and age-ignoring GrandPrixLegends) are more of CPU bound than GPU bound (even if graphics are gorgeous!). Last shooter I liked (Call Of Duty) would also go well with 5200, I think. Even then - it's not that that 5200 is God-given and you are doomed to have crappy 3d of Macs. If Apple wants they can beef it up at a snap, having software available is much more serious task.
That's funny. Do you remember that in beginning of XIX century french virtually owned the whole Europe (that Napoleon guy was kinda cool). As for WWII - they did not loose their territories, lost fewer people than others, preserved their culture. How is that stupid?
Actually, to a certain degree, there are reasons. Like, why do you think in US gas (petrol) is _cheaper_ than, say, in Russia (that pumps huge amounts of it)? Or the whole outsourcing brahaha.