"Games and PC's multimedia that don't really work right are the smallest social cost of the M$ monopoly."
Are you kidding me? Why do you think Microsoft is touting the XBox so much? They know that high-performance applications, like games, drive the market for upgrades and new PC purchases. Purchases equal new versions of Windows, which equals money. Microsoft can't rely on the business world to fork over money for *every* upgrade -- they have to hope that the hardware market pushes users to buy new computers more often. The XBox is supposed to not only help Microsoft get involved with the "living room", but also get more developers to use the DirectX tools and (MS hopes) come back to the PC for development. More games = major profits for MS.
Offtopic offtopic offtopic alert! I have a question but it's for another piece of software (so it's sorta on topic): does anyone have a comparable book for Visual Studio?
But you have a resource few others have (or, more acurately, few others are willing to give up): time. Find me a CEO that'll do the same thing. It'd be like winning a lottery.
...and thank freaking God for that. Hasn't anybody else been the least bit scared at the lack of Internet growth lately? For years I told friends that I was proud to be part of this new technology, whether it be a cornerstone of the economy or not. However, these past two years I've kind of shrugged off the comments "Bet that Computer Science degree is worth a bunch now!"
All it took was some good old common sense. Stop spending money you don't have. Price-cut, but don't price-cut to the point that you knock your company out. Lay off the cheap sock-puppet gimmicks.
The analysts are wrong: it is a new economy. It's just that the same old rules still apply.
I agree to a point. Windows 2000 Server actually leaves a great deal of that "Wizard" crap out (except for the opening login dialog, which you can quickly turn off for good). When push comes to shove, I find it easier to administer a Windows 2000 machine than a Linux one. That doesn't make it better, worse or indifferent - it's when the program second-guesses the operator, without letting the operator make the decision first, that bad things really happen.
I'm one of the few people (on Slashdot anyway) that likes the XBox. I think it's smart technology that works well (kinda rare for Microsoft) and if nothing else it should bring more companies to develop games for the PC, which is always a good thing.
I do, however, have reservations about having an "all-in-one" box. I share some with other Slashdotters who are worried about Microsoft controlling all the information (although, really, this is so X-Filish it's laughable). I'm more concerned about the concentration of devices.
I don't want to purchase one device that handles all of my entertainment, and if it breaks I'm in trouble. Also, I don't want to spend an extremely large sum of my money for one entertainment peripheral (or have to pay a monthly fee to play games).
I hope MS recognizes this, and makes a couple different versions of the XBox 2 - one without all the trimmings.
Good point. The same people who hate most of the automagic "wizards" in Microsoft products (myself included) are probably going to hate this design. Personally, I'd rather spend the extra 20 minutes setting it up manually -- and correctly -- than having to drill through all the menus wondering what it missed.
Additionally, I wonder what happens if you have identical devices on the network, like another DHCP server. Does this unit turn off its DHCP server? Attempt to "take over" DHCP responsibilities (had this happen with a wireless access point once -- nasty results)?
To a geek.:) "MP3" has that "modern-day acronym sound" to it, like PDA, IM or IPO. Ogg just sounds like a character from Lord of the Rings (which, last I checked, very few "mainstream" people found "cool" -- just "majestic").
Doesn't have to be "free". I use WMF on the Windows side (I have enough room to encode my files in both WMF and MP3 on my home server). It offers, what I think, is superior audio quality at a much lower space.
For most distributed applications (music player in my living room) I use the MP3 side. If push came to shove, I'd find some way to delete the MP3's and play the WMF's on other devices, just because they're so space-conscious.
I haven't seen this OS before, but I wasn't surprised to see it had a primarily Windows 9x-style GUI. Shouldn't we be up to something new? (Even XP, which I sorta like, uses the same old Start button motif).
I may be the only one, but I didn't think Invader Zim was that... um... good. True, it's better than some of the Klasky/Csupo tripe that Nick puts on (the later stuff, not the funny [and quite original] Real Monsters), but I think shows like Hey Arnold and SpongeBob Squarepants are consistently more creative and funny. Zim was just... well... sort of dark humor that wasn't really creative at all.
I personally think since the "MTV-ising" of Nickelodean started they sorta went downhill (then again, I AM an adult -- perhaps I should stop watching cartoons as well?) The only cartoon I truely care about nowadays is Dexter's Laboratory, because even though I've seen some episodes a number of times they continue to surprise me. Plus, a great majority of episodes were funny. If either it or SpongeBob were to leave the airwaves permenantly I would probably be a little upset.
I throw Invader Zim into the same pool I throw Rocko's Modern Life, Ren & Stimpy, Sheep in the Big City and the Grim and Evil show in -- supposedly "adult" cartoons that just come off like college students' art projects.
"In Japan, mature themes of politics, war, and tales of the human experience are spoken and told of through comics and anime. In the U.S., "animated feature" = "Bambi" Hrm... "
You mean death, love and environmentalism, spoken through the art instead of the characters talking about the art, aren't mature themes?
I don't know if I would consider liking anime being "elitist". Quite the opposite end of the spectrum, actually (nerd, sitting alone in his apartment, getting off to cartoon breasts).
Still, I think the problem with subculture is that it somehow think it's not only better, but *different* from the rest of the culture. It's really the same thing. Just because you're doing something in your apartment alone, doesn't mean others aren't doing the exact same thing.
Kind of like that whole "everybody is alternative" thing in the 90s.
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Poor guy.
Are you kidding me? Why do you think Microsoft is touting the XBox so much? They know that high-performance applications, like games, drive the market for upgrades and new PC purchases. Purchases equal new versions of Windows, which equals money. Microsoft can't rely on the business world to fork over money for *every* upgrade -- they have to hope that the hardware market pushes users to buy new computers more often. The XBox is supposed to not only help Microsoft get involved with the "living room", but also get more developers to use the DirectX tools and (MS hopes) come back to the PC for development. More games = major profits for MS.
...depends if you actually think one of those "unix thingies" belongs on a desktop computer. *Places can of worms on table for someone else to open*
Except for those people against stem cell treatment entirely. I'm kind of afraid it will lead to other "worse" things ("uber-tissue").
Offtopic offtopic offtopic alert! I have a question but it's for another piece of software (so it's sorta on topic): does anyone have a comparable book for Visual Studio?
But you have a resource few others have (or, more acurately, few others are willing to give up): time. Find me a CEO that'll do the same thing. It'd be like winning a lottery.
It beats walking the streets in a gang actively looking for stuff to steal and people to beat up.
I can just see the judge scratching his head. "M$? With a dollar sign? You're joking, right?"
Ok, we have successfully Slashdotted the Wayback Machine. Screw history! :) Let's move on to bigger and better things.
It'd be better to put him in a 2-seater next to Compulsive.
All it took was some good old common sense. Stop spending money you don't have. Price-cut, but don't price-cut to the point that you knock your company out. Lay off the cheap sock-puppet gimmicks.
The analysts are wrong: it is a new economy. It's just that the same old rules still apply.
I agree to a point. Windows 2000 Server actually leaves a great deal of that "Wizard" crap out (except for the opening login dialog, which you can quickly turn off for good). When push comes to shove, I find it easier to administer a Windows 2000 machine than a Linux one. That doesn't make it better, worse or indifferent - it's when the program second-guesses the operator, without letting the operator make the decision first, that bad things really happen.
I do, however, have reservations about having an "all-in-one" box. I share some with other Slashdotters who are worried about Microsoft controlling all the information (although, really, this is so X-Filish it's laughable). I'm more concerned about the concentration of devices.
I don't want to purchase one device that handles all of my entertainment, and if it breaks I'm in trouble. Also, I don't want to spend an extremely large sum of my money for one entertainment peripheral (or have to pay a monthly fee to play games).
I hope MS recognizes this, and makes a couple different versions of the XBox 2 - one without all the trimmings.
Geek! :) Sorry...
Additionally, I wonder what happens if you have identical devices on the network, like another DHCP server. Does this unit turn off its DHCP server? Attempt to "take over" DHCP responsibilities (had this happen with a wireless access point once -- nasty results)?
Link (or at least some evidence)?
To a geek. :) "MP3" has that "modern-day acronym sound" to it, like PDA, IM or IPO. Ogg just sounds like a character from Lord of the Rings (which, last I checked, very few "mainstream" people found "cool" -- just "majestic").
For most distributed applications (music player in my living room) I use the MP3 side. If push came to shove, I'd find some way to delete the MP3's and play the WMF's on other devices, just because they're so space-conscious.
No.
I haven't seen this OS before, but I wasn't surprised to see it had a primarily Windows 9x-style GUI. Shouldn't we be up to something new? (Even XP, which I sorta like, uses the same old Start button motif).
I personally think since the "MTV-ising" of Nickelodean started they sorta went downhill (then again, I AM an adult -- perhaps I should stop watching cartoons as well?) The only cartoon I truely care about nowadays is Dexter's Laboratory, because even though I've seen some episodes a number of times they continue to surprise me. Plus, a great majority of episodes were funny. If either it or SpongeBob were to leave the airwaves permenantly I would probably be a little upset.
I throw Invader Zim into the same pool I throw Rocko's Modern Life, Ren & Stimpy, Sheep in the Big City and the Grim and Evil show in -- supposedly "adult" cartoons that just come off like college students' art projects.
You mean death, love and environmentalism, spoken through the art instead of the characters talking about the art, aren't mature themes?
Still, I think the problem with subculture is that it somehow think it's not only better, but *different* from the rest of the culture. It's really the same thing. Just because you're doing something in your apartment alone, doesn't mean others aren't doing the exact same thing.
Kind of like that whole "everybody is alternative" thing in the 90s.
...embrace and extend!"
Yes, when US lives are at stake. Let the criminals make their own encryption to kill themselves.