Is this new slogan an Intel attempt at willing themselves into actually ACHIEVING a leap ahead? (After which they'd still be about a quarter mile behind AMD's chips, and losing ground steadily...) At any rate, ditching 'Intel Inside' was the right thing to do, it's become like a warning sticker...atleast 'A Leap Ahead' doesn't say 'Intel', so they might catch some consumers unaware.:P
I am addicted to technology. Japan is my dealer, ever pushing more and more sophisticated high-end digital smack on me... I need faster internet... I'm hoping Verizon FIOS will be available soon, so I can download off my premium usenet feed at 15mbps...
I'm not the only one around here, it turns out. On a lark, I went war-walking with my new Ceramic White PSP the other day (It's worth noting that the Japanese models have longer wifi range), and found that here in Downtown Middlebury, VT-- a place I wouldn't really expect this to be the case --all the ground I covered had complete wifi coverage... (Ninety percent of which was totally unsecured...) So even here you can access the internet from just about any spot downtown... Granted, it's not the middle of nowhere like say, Fargo, but for sure, this isn't exactly Tokyo.
Thanks for backing me up. So, I'm not insane or talking out my ass. Wanna bet I'd be modded +2 or more if it wasn't the second comment on the story? Maybe I should post it again now and see how it shakes out?
I especially love how the guy telling people how to most effectively pirate Windows XP got modded up Informative.
For the record, most of the software I use on a daily basis; Lightwave 3d, the Adobe Creative Suite, and Macromedia Studio, all run a little more wonkily under SP2. And I didn't even upgrade. (Upgrades are even MORE problematic.) I actually streamlined SP2 into my install CD, and did a clean install.
I'm used to taking fire for honesty, but I didn't expect a truthful statement on windows sucking to draw so much fire from the/. crowd. Learn something new every day I guess. Maybe I should have said "WINDOZE IS TEH SUX0R WTFBBQLOL!", at least then I probably would've only gotten a 0.
...human _American_ children? Did they test kids from anywhere _else_? And if not, why? I have a feeling they'd reach much different results in, say, Asia...or Canada.
And before I get flamed into next month, American, born and raised. So just get over it, I know my people.
An Intel chairman has been quoted bashing a good idea that doesn't involve an Intel CPU?! OH MY GOD.
Seriously. It's like Nvidia calling Battlefield 2 a crappy game because my four year old ATI video card plays it just fine, and one year old Nvidia cards can't. (Actually, that has more to do with Nvidia paying the devs to artificially cripple the game to not run on those cards...but my point is: DUH! What did you THINK he was going to say?!)
You'd have to build one of these things with a Pentium 1 inside to meet that pricepoint, of COURSE the chairman of Intel is going to say it's crap/it'll never work/etc.
...but will the sound be reproduced properly over VOIP? It'd be great to use on a game server to get all the kiddies off.:P Too bad you can't use it on IRC...
Meanwhile there's guys selling them on ebay for anywhere from a thousand and five thousand dollars... Seems to me the 'engineered shortage' works out well for everyone not Microsoft.
I gotta wonder about these people though... Okay, I can understand wanting to have the latest and greatest thing when you want it, and not a moment later, dammit. And, if I had the money, I could probably be convinced to pay twice the cost of the thing... (Okay, that's a damned lie. I'd have to have a lobotomy first.) But five grand? I think the best part about the $5000 auction I saw was the seller said it was 'on-hand'..turned out he was blowing smoke. So some guy paid FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS for a Premium Xbox360, and a copy of Need For Speed...and he still won't get it for two weeks. Good job, moron. You know, $3689 gets you a massive Xbox360 bundle including ELEVEN games, an extra controller, and a FORTY-TWO INCH PLASMA TELEVISION, from Gamestop. This is all my way of saying console fanboys need to learn how to control their digital hormones.
Maybe I should preorder a handful of PS3s. That oughta bankroll my new workstation. Ahh, the wonder of ebay, connecting the smart and devious among us, to complete morons with too much money.
The parents filed a suit against Blizzard Entertainment on Wednesday, saying their son jumped to his death while reenacting a scene from the game, the report said.
Yeah, right. Because we all know there's a lot of cordless bungie-jumping in World of Warcraft. It's a goddamned epidemic I say.
I have always been an advocate of taking the warning labels off of everything, abolishing bullshit lawsuits, and letting natural selection run its course. Some people are too stupid, or too damned messed up, to live. That's just a fact of life.
Most Adobe apps allow an additional installation on a laptop. Luxology Modo, a really badass 3d modeling program, allows installation on a home machine, a work machine, and a laptop. Not that most people wouldn't do that anyway, but it's nice to know that you can, legally.
Guess what? The PSP is not designed to be hooked up to a television. if you want to do so, you have two options. The first, is to get some half-assed contraption like this, which is going to likely offer crap video quality.
It even lets you hook up a PS2 controller. Are you really going to play your PSP with this new contraption on the front of it? I think not. Unlike this new one, it actually taps into the video signal going to the LCD directly. That certainly seems like the more intelligent method, and is certainly liable to be the option with the highest quality output.
Face it, the serious PSP users have already voided their warranty for homebrew apps, piracy, or just to stick it to Sony by downgrading their firmware out of spite. Replacing the faceplate with one that has a connector at the bottom allowing you to dock a REAL video output solution to it is a sound idea that makes a hell of a lot more sense than this thing.
When they figure out a way to actually make this work, I hope they move on to IRC. Because I really LOVE people/ctcp spamming me thinking they're 'leet hax0rs' and it's a DoS attack, whenever I offend their fragile worldview with ridiculous things like truth or common sense.
I'm a firm believer in anyone under 18 not being allowed internet access except at schools and libraries. There's too damn many children out there making forums and chatrooms into a crappy place to try and converse with other people. (Unfortunately some of these 'children' are infact older than 18, but we'll get those in the next phase. The part where we round up all stupid people, and fire them into the goddamn sun.)
I've really, really, really, REALLY friggin had it with the average intelligence level of internet users these days.
I see a lot of complaints about how crappy most American music is these days, and I totally agree. Here's a radical idea: Put this global network thingy to good use, and go find some music that doesn't suck. That's what I did.
I only legally own about 12 audio CDs. 5 of which I bought, the rest of which came packed with other stuff I bought. (Soundtracks that came with anime DVDs and games and whatnot.)
The five CDs I bought?
Well, let's see here... A long friggin time ago, when I still gave a damn about American music, I bought the following one summer day...
Silverchair - Neon Ballroom Goo Goo Dolls - Dizzy Up The Girl Garbage - Garbage Garbage - Version 2.0
What do these all have in common? (Besides the fact that they all had big radio hits at about the same time.) They all have between 10 and 14 tracks on them, absolutely no more than 4 of which are really any good at all. And they each cost way too damned much.
Today, I got a CD that I've been wanting for a while now. ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION's latest album, Sol-Fa. 12 tracks, all awesome. I listen to a lot of Japanese bands, and their albums tend to be more completely great. That is, the albums are made up of nothing but good songs. Not a hit here and there, and $20 worth of aural packing peanuts like American albums.
I have lost absolutely all interest in American music, because I know that even if I like a song, I'm going to have to buy a bunch of crap I don't want, too. And I can't justify that kind of expenditure.
I'm fairly sure this is now the THIRD time Slashdot has reported on this. I don't care, but I figure SOMEONE has to bitch and/or moan about this stuff.
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Is this new slogan an Intel attempt at willing themselves into actually ACHIEVING a leap ahead? (After which they'd still be about a quarter mile behind AMD's chips, and losing ground steadily...) At any rate, ditching 'Intel Inside' was the right thing to do, it's become like a warning sticker...atleast 'A Leap Ahead' doesn't say 'Intel', so they might catch some consumers unaware. :P
I am addicted to technology. Japan is my dealer, ever pushing more and more sophisticated high-end digital smack on me... I need faster internet... I'm hoping Verizon FIOS will be available soon, so I can download off my premium usenet feed at 15mbps...
I'm not the only one around here, it turns out. On a lark, I went war-walking with my new Ceramic White PSP the other day (It's worth noting that the Japanese models have longer wifi range), and found that here in Downtown Middlebury, VT-- a place I wouldn't really expect this to be the case --all the ground I covered had complete wifi coverage... (Ninety percent of which was totally unsecured...) So even here you can access the internet from just about any spot downtown... Granted, it's not the middle of nowhere like say, Fargo, but for sure, this isn't exactly Tokyo.
Thanks for backing me up. So, I'm not insane or talking out my ass. Wanna bet I'd be modded +2 or more if it wasn't the second comment on the story? Maybe I should post it again now and see how it shakes out?
/. crowd. Learn something new every day I guess. Maybe I should have said "WINDOZE IS TEH SUX0R WTFBBQLOL!", at least then I probably would've only gotten a 0.
I especially love how the guy telling people how to most effectively pirate Windows XP got modded up Informative.
For the record, most of the software I use on a daily basis; Lightwave 3d, the Adobe Creative Suite, and Macromedia Studio, all run a little more wonkily under SP2. And I didn't even upgrade. (Upgrades are even MORE problematic.) I actually streamlined SP2 into my install CD, and did a clean install.
I'm used to taking fire for honesty, but I didn't expect a truthful statement on windows sucking to draw so much fire from the
...but I'm willing to bet the slow adoption rate has something to do with the sheer number of things that SP2 BREAKS...
...human _American_ children? Did they test kids from anywhere _else_? And if not, why? I have a feeling they'd reach much different results in, say, Asia...or Canada.
And before I get flamed into next month, American, born and raised. So just get over it, I know my people.
An Intel chairman has been quoted bashing a good idea that doesn't involve an Intel CPU?! OH MY GOD.
Seriously. It's like Nvidia calling Battlefield 2 a crappy game because my four year old ATI video card plays it just fine, and one year old Nvidia cards can't. (Actually, that has more to do with Nvidia paying the devs to artificially cripple the game to not run on those cards...but my point is: DUH! What did you THINK he was going to say?!)
You'd have to build one of these things with a Pentium 1 inside to meet that pricepoint, of COURSE the chairman of Intel is going to say it's crap/it'll never work/etc.
Is it time to overhaul the US patent system yet?
...but will the sound be reproduced properly over VOIP? It'd be great to use on a game server to get all the kiddies off. :P Too bad you can't use it on IRC...
Meanwhile there's guys selling them on ebay for anywhere from a thousand and five thousand dollars... Seems to me the 'engineered shortage' works out well for everyone not Microsoft.
I gotta wonder about these people though... Okay, I can understand wanting to have the latest and greatest thing when you want it, and not a moment later, dammit. And, if I had the money, I could probably be convinced to pay twice the cost of the thing... (Okay, that's a damned lie. I'd have to have a lobotomy first.) But five grand? I think the best part about the $5000 auction I saw was the seller said it was 'on-hand'..turned out he was blowing smoke. So some guy paid FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS for a Premium Xbox360, and a copy of Need For Speed...and he still won't get it for two weeks. Good job, moron. You know, $3689 gets you a massive Xbox360 bundle including ELEVEN games, an extra controller, and a FORTY-TWO INCH PLASMA TELEVISION, from Gamestop. This is all my way of saying console fanboys need to learn how to control their digital hormones.
Maybe I should preorder a handful of PS3s. That oughta bankroll my new workstation. Ahh, the wonder of ebay, connecting the smart and devious among us, to complete morons with too much money.
SIX DAYS! Not even a _week_ ago was this story posted! I'll admit, it's fascinating, but not dupe-worthy.
Yeah, right. Because we all know there's a lot of cordless bungie-jumping in World of Warcraft. It's a goddamned epidemic I say.
I have always been an advocate of taking the warning labels off of everything, abolishing bullshit lawsuits, and letting natural selection run its course. Some people are too stupid, or too damned messed up, to live. That's just a fact of life.
So...what you're saying is, soon everyone is going to be talking like the Counterstrike kiddies on IRC?
*contemplates*
That's... It's just... No... NO.
It's... I... I am no longer in reality.
Humanity has failed.
Most Adobe apps allow an additional installation on a laptop. Luxology Modo, a really badass 3d modeling program, allows installation on a home machine, a work machine, and a laptop. Not that most people wouldn't do that anyway, but it's nice to know that you can, legally.
...you've managed to embargo...yourselves!
I sure wish -I- could gain national media attention by living in my own fantasy world.
Guess what? The PSP is not designed to be hooked up to a television. if you want to do so, you have two options. The first, is to get some half-assed contraption like this, which is going to likely offer crap video quality.
And then there's the RIGHT WAY. http://www.lik-sang.com/news.php?artc=3696 Which has been adopted by many gaming news outlets, prior to it even being released.
It even lets you hook up a PS2 controller. Are you really going to play your PSP with this new contraption on the front of it? I think not. Unlike this new one, it actually taps into the video signal going to the LCD directly. That certainly seems like the more intelligent method, and is certainly liable to be the option with the highest quality output.
Face it, the serious PSP users have already voided their warranty for homebrew apps, piracy, or just to stick it to Sony by downgrading their firmware out of spite. Replacing the faceplate with one that has a connector at the bottom allowing you to dock a REAL video output solution to it is a sound idea that makes a hell of a lot more sense than this thing.
When they figure out a way to actually make this work, I hope they move on to IRC. Because I really LOVE people /ctcp spamming me thinking they're 'leet hax0rs' and it's a DoS attack, whenever I offend their fragile worldview with ridiculous things like truth or common sense.
I'm a firm believer in anyone under 18 not being allowed internet access except at schools and libraries. There's too damn many children out there making forums and chatrooms into a crappy place to try and converse with other people. (Unfortunately some of these 'children' are infact older than 18, but we'll get those in the next phase. The part where we round up all stupid people, and fire them into the goddamn sun.)
I've really, really, really, REALLY friggin had it with the average intelligence level of internet users these days.
I see a lot of complaints about how crappy most American music is these days, and I totally agree. Here's a radical idea: Put this global network thingy to good use, and go find some music that doesn't suck. That's what I did.
I only legally own about 12 audio CDs. 5 of which I bought, the rest of which came packed with other stuff I bought. (Soundtracks that came with anime DVDs and games and whatnot.)
The five CDs I bought?
Well, let's see here... A long friggin time ago, when I still gave a damn about American music, I bought the following one summer day...
Silverchair - Neon Ballroom
Goo Goo Dolls - Dizzy Up The Girl
Garbage - Garbage
Garbage - Version 2.0
What do these all have in common? (Besides the fact that they all had big radio hits at about the same time.) They all have between 10 and 14 tracks on them, absolutely no more than 4 of which are really any good at all. And they each cost way too damned much.
Today, I got a CD that I've been wanting for a while now. ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION's latest album, Sol-Fa. 12 tracks, all awesome. I listen to a lot of Japanese bands, and their albums tend to be more completely great. That is, the albums are made up of nothing but good songs. Not a hit here and there, and $20 worth of aural packing peanuts like American albums.
I have lost absolutely all interest in American music, because I know that even if I like a song, I'm going to have to buy a bunch of crap I don't want, too. And I can't justify that kind of expenditure.
Hey, here's an idea... How about making ink cartridges that don't stop letting me print when they're still HALF FULL. You moneygrubbing bastards.
Is it 'breaking the law', per this bullshit, to simply zap the chip so it lets you keep printing? As that's still technically using it ONCE.
And I just added captcha to the comment posting system on my blog! >_
Oh well, atleast my other antispam measures will still work.
Smiting idiots the old fashioned way is tiresome. These days, it's all about the orbital laser platforms and ortillery. ^_^ b
I, for one, welcome the New York Times to two years ago.
Uhm, correct me if I'm wrong but, isn't there a fair chance that one false move could create a bigger problem with the tiles and whatnot?
I'm fairly sure this is now the THIRD time Slashdot has reported on this. I don't care, but I figure SOMEONE has to bitch and/or moan about this stuff.
Damn, and all this time I've lived happily under the assumption that you were DEAD. :P