The same goes for Mac OS 9. Yes, there is a topic for OS 9. Five stories have ever been published in this category, one of which is entitled "Apple Drops Mac OS 9."
On the other hand, Google is a topic-deserver: there's been five articles in the last month directly pertaining to it. And besides - we all use it, love it, and, as of recently, have made quite a bit of controversy about it.
Can there be a vote on these things, or at least a call for feedback?
An air traffic controller casually told Reuters that his office corrected its clocks every few days or months, without incident so far.
Does this scare anyone else?
So the moral of the story... don't fly to Venezuela:)
From the article:
Mr. Skinnarland emigrated to the United States shortly after the war, moving to Toronto in 1965 to take a job with a construction firm.
Because Toronto's a part of the United States. Err...
The new Intel Centrino mobile technology brand name will be represented by a new logo carrying the famous Intel Inside® mark. The logo, featuring a striking magenta color and a completely new shape, suggests flight, mobility, and forward movement.
Yeah, either that, or "disposable feminine product"
just like Iraq is using PS2 for their SCUDS
Okay, I'll take what you say at face value about your position at Nintendo, and etc...
...but no PS2 has ever been or will ever be used for missiles. There was an export restriction put on the hardware (as with all computers of that class/speed, AFAIK) because of it's ability to crunch numbers, but any rumors of military applications are nothing more than sensationalism at it's finest.
Myth. They produce a set number of XBOXes per month, and most likely won't reevaluate that number to match market demand for some time. In other words, by buying an XBOX, you're subsidizing a percent (whether or not it's less than 100%) of a cost they've already paid.
If people stopped buying XBOXes, they wouldn't be making money.
From the article:
The military said it has no plans to produce the truck any time soon
It's a publicity stunt, nothing more.
Is anyone else a little skeptical of the "read all e-mails sent near the truck" capability? Have they not heard of encryption?
For all (/. included) that are trying to make this a RIAA/MPAA vs. The U.S. Armed Forces battle, it simply is not. This is no different than the seizure of computers, harddrives, etc., by colleges and universities around the country over the last few years. The writeup conjures images of soldiers in enemy waters having their navigational computers seized, when in fact it's merely a case of a bunch of students downloading music/movies on their government issued (owned?) computers.
Sensationalism gets everyone all riled up about what doesn't amount to much.
Of course I'm not happy about what happened; I wish someone would stand up to these multi-billion dollar industries. I do, however, feel that this really isn't that big a deal. Yes, it's technically a part of the government, but then again, don't try to tell me "midshipmen" wasn't purposely used instead of "students" for effect.
And it shouldn't worry them
Oh, but it will. This is the kind of stuff the studios make a big deal of on a consistent basis.
Simply ammunition in their war on digital rights.
260,000 mph [...] Faster than light!
I don't think so.
c = 300,000 km/sec, which converts to roughly 6.71*10^8 miles/hour.
To the editors: I was thinking about modding this post, but I realized there's really no way to do so. Redundant? Troll? It's times like these that I wish there was a [-1: Incorrect] moderation option...
Correct me if I'm wrong (it's been awhile), but I believe the largest SNES cart was 32 MBits, or only a few megabytes.
And, as stated above, most big RPG's such as FF3 and CT used about all this space - I remember some extra stuff at the ending of FF3 wasn't able to make the final release due to cartridge-size limitations.
I recall early NASA attempts to bring soda into space. Evidently, straight up carbonated beverages will make the average human very sick in zero-G.
I wonder if you'll hear about that in the Pepsi commercials...
Yeah, I know the icon kinda sucks:). It was a five second spur-of-the-moment kinda thing, done w/o the help of Gimp or Photoshop (from my computer at work). And I agree about the Microsoft (and other) icons. About the Meta Moderation system... IANASCE (I Am Not A Slash-Code Expert), but I believe the reason duplicates exist is because there can be more than one moderation for each comment to be meta-modded. For example: if you rate my comment "-1 Shitty Graphic Design" but somebody else rates it "+1 Insightful," then two seperate meta-moderations need to be made. To the non-discerning viewer, however, this appears to be a simple duplicate.
Linking to a video file from the frontpage of/.? Wowzers! Methinks flaming shards of this server will be moving - autonomously - at 9 ft/sec very shortly... [/bad joke]
With all these Google stories...
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With all these Google stories in the past couple of months, isn't it about time we had a "Google" topic category? (yeah, it's OT, deal with it) I dunno, seems to make sense to me. (heck, we have a Mac OS 9 category that's had what... three stories?) I even made the icons: Google Topic Icon Sample Screenshot It might be a bit small, but you get the idea:)
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The same goes for Mac OS 9. Yes, there is a topic for OS 9. Five stories have ever been published in this category, one of which is entitled "Apple Drops Mac OS 9."
On the other hand, Google is a topic-deserver: there's been five articles in the last month directly pertaining to it. And besides - we all use it, love it, and, as of recently, have made quite a bit of controversy about it.
Can there be a vote on these things, or at least a call for feedback?
An air traffic controller casually told Reuters that his office corrected its clocks every few days or months, without incident so far. :)
Does this scare anyone else?
So the moral of the story... don't fly to Venezuela
From the article:
Mr. Skinnarland emigrated to the United States shortly after the war, moving to Toronto in 1965 to take a job with a construction firm.
Because Toronto's a part of the United States. Err...
The new Intel Centrino mobile technology brand name will be represented by a new logo carrying the famous Intel Inside® mark. The logo, featuring a striking magenta color and a completely new shape, suggests flight, mobility, and forward movement.
Yeah, either that, or "disposable feminine product"
I thought you worked at Sega?
How's your Smell-o-vision project going?
Your educational background is pretty impressive too.
What about Super Marx Brothers?
(Thanks Klaruz.)
just like Iraq is using PS2 for their SCUDS
...but no PS2 has ever been or will ever be used for missiles. There was an export restriction put on the hardware (as with all computers of that class/speed, AFAIK) because of it's ability to crunch numbers, but any rumors of military applications are nothing more than sensationalism at it's finest.
Okay, I'll take what you say at face value about your position at Nintendo, and etc...
Myth. They produce a set number of XBOXes per month, and most likely won't reevaluate that number to match market demand for some time. In other words, by buying an XBOX, you're subsidizing a percent (whether or not it's less than 100%) of a cost they've already paid.
If people stopped buying XBOXes, they wouldn't be making money.
From the article:
The military said it has no plans to produce the truck any time soon
It's a publicity stunt, nothing more.
Is anyone else a little skeptical of the "read all e-mails sent near the truck" capability? Have they not heard of encryption?
For all (/. included) that are trying to make this a RIAA/MPAA vs. The U.S. Armed Forces battle, it simply is not. This is no different than the seizure of computers, harddrives, etc., by colleges and universities around the country over the last few years. The writeup conjures images of soldiers in enemy waters having their navigational computers seized, when in fact it's merely a case of a bunch of students downloading music/movies on their government issued (owned?) computers.
Sensationalism gets everyone all riled up about what doesn't amount to much.
Of course I'm not happy about what happened; I wish someone would stand up to these multi-billion dollar industries. I do, however, feel that this really isn't that big a deal. Yes, it's technically a part of the government, but then again, don't try to tell me "midshipmen" wasn't purposely used instead of "students" for effect.
And it shouldn't worry them
Oh, but it will. This is the kind of stuff the studios make a big deal of on a consistent basis.
Simply ammunition in their war on digital rights.
260,000 mph [...] Faster than light!
I don't think so.
c = 300,000 km/sec, which converts to roughly 6.71*10^8 miles/hour.
To the editors: I was thinking about modding this post, but I realized there's really no way to do so. Redundant? Troll? It's times like these that I wish there was a [-1: Incorrect] moderation option...
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Does anyone else think "StrokeIt" is a really bad name for a product?
Is anyone else very confused?
Correct me if I'm wrong (it's been awhile), but I believe the largest SNES cart was 32 MBits, or only a few megabytes.
And, as stated above, most big RPG's such as FF3 and CT used about all this space - I remember some extra stuff at the ending of FF3 wasn't able to make the final release due to cartridge-size limitations.
I recall early NASA attempts to bring soda into space. Evidently, straight up carbonated beverages will make the average human very sick in zero-G.
I wonder if you'll hear about that in the Pepsi commercials...
This has to be the most bizarre /. story since JonKatz's Message from Kabul.
I think it's time to launch a new /. category -
Monkey Automatons!
Seriously, how is this "news for nerds" or "stuff that matters"??
from the displays-of-insane-resolution dept.
...because its native resolution (1366x768) is high enough to meet my needs...
Huh? Insane?
Got this in a text file for easy pasting or did you have to look up the previous post?
That's exactly what I was thinking!
Autonomous Robots Desert Race
They're armed, dangerous, and on the loose!
Yeah, I know the icon kinda sucks :). It was a five second spur-of-the-moment kinda thing, done w/o the help of Gimp or Photoshop (from my computer at work). And I agree about the Microsoft (and other) icons.
About the Meta Moderation system... IANASCE (I Am Not A Slash-Code Expert), but I believe the reason duplicates exist is because there can be more than one moderation for each comment to be meta-modded. For example: if you rate my comment "-1 Shitty Graphic Design" but somebody else rates it "+1 Insightful," then two seperate meta-moderations need to be made.
To the non-discerning viewer, however, this appears to be a simple duplicate.
Linking to a video file from the frontpage of /.?
Wowzers! Methinks flaming shards of this server will be moving - autonomously - at 9 ft/sec very shortly...
[/bad joke]
With all these Google stories in the past couple of months, isn't it about time we had a "Google" topic category? (yeah, it's OT, deal with it) :)
I dunno, seems to make sense to me. (heck, we have a Mac OS 9 category that's had what... three stories?)
I even made the icons:
Google Topic Icon
Sample Screenshot
It might be a bit small, but you get the idea
I can't even get 4x stable under XP, so I figure 8x is half as likely to let me play NWN
It's always about you, isn't it?