I can see it swaying sales... Slightly. To that person who is looking for a console with an "open source" future, it might just convince them.
"But think: it can be assumed anyone with the ability to burn cds also has the ability to play divxes on their computer."
As to that point, this is a huge market in Asia. You don't need a computer w/a burner to be buying the pirated VDCs and DiVX crap. Again, not sales dynamite, but enough to sway somebody. Of course, it's assuming MS can gain a foothold in Asia as well, since buying VCDs and DiVX on the corner isn't quite as popular in the US.
Yeah, those people who don't own computers won't hack their Play Stations, right? OH! You mean that's already happened on a massive scale? Damn! (and don't tell me "it's not the same" because it is.)
You cannot go wrong at this place. It's where I bought my Dad's MP3 car stereo. Excellent customer service. Fast delivery. Very flexible. Not too many companies like em.
Or buy a SonicBlue Rio Volt SP250 for $146 at Buy.com and hook it up to your standard car stereo. It has many options most MP3 car stereos should have, but don't. Whether it's a portable or in-dash unit, however, MP3 players have quite a bit going for them. That's not to say Satillite Radio doesn't. But I figure you're shelling out how much and still getting commercials?! Record a 650mb winamp stream, burn it to disk an bam, you're there.
I tried to view Slashdot.org, but all I saw were advertisments for SourceForge...
I mean really. This actually reminds me of Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000. That's the book, not the movie, folks (the movie only covered half the book, perhapse for the best). Anyway, the Psyclo altered their entire social culture through invasive brain surgery, not helmets. Overall, the effect would be the same likely:p
How ignorant can you get? Anybody else care to correct Cpt. Hick, because I'm too busy laughing at his oh-so-complete grasp of South African society and politics...
"Yep. Dem darr niggers got themselfs a domain boys! What you think we should doo bout dem?"
Hahahaha!!! Hohohohho!...Um, and that quote was? While I enjoyed the rant about your 3rd cousins uncles brothers religious news letter, your post lacks any sort of value without said link.
"Knock Knock" "Who's there?" "Um..." "Errr..." "Uh..." "Damn. I forgot, but trust me, it was funny."
That this plastic-looking car here on slashdot ALSO used disel as it's fuel component. I'd be more worried about saftey in both cars than anything else.
It turns out that Slashdot was spoofed into printing a story on an already year old bad movie. They too believe that everything they read on the internet is true, republishing a story from Carpenter. Or at least one of their freelance writers believes it.... Micheal was reported as saying, "This is absolutely great."
The reviewer need not worry as Trek retains a vast amount of geekiness to it. Exploring strange new worlds and feeling up alien green women isn't for the faint of heart.
Actually, as a fair weather fan of the series, it's getting so i can't stand it. It's too clean and everything fits into a nice, one hour box. No sharp edges and the characters remain rather static in their personalities compared to other series of the type.
"I've constructed a lit model of midtown Manhattan to fill an otherwise unspectactular view out of our kitchen window."
Um, it still looks rather unspectacular. In fact, it looks like one of those early Star Trek models fitted with Christmas tree bulbs. And what's this? "Nice hack job"!? As in poorly done? Hack? Somehow I think if somebody surrounded a gopher hole with barbed wire, micheal would consider it some sort of hack. "Tee hee! I found a website for underwater BB stacking! Nice hack!"
Maybe if he used fiberoptices. An actual skyline you could see. Changing backgrounds. Something beyond cardboard and Christmas lights. Everybody has their hobby sure, and I respect that. But why am I seeing it here? News for Nerds, stuff that matters, anyone?
TV is LOS... But I can still pick up the signal THROUGH MY WALL?!? WHAT'S GOING ON HERE!?!?! Obviously you're just a bit clueless yourself since non LOS reception is based on the density material being transimitted through. I can't see much problem in the reception part. But transmitting? Whoa. Depending on where you are relative to the tower, you're going to need a huge signal just to get the data there in one piece. What's the average output of a TV/Radio antenna? How many thousands of watts? Steak won't be the only thing well done at your house. Neighbors will love yas.
"Strange how they give a rating that would barely merit a "C-"..."
Did this guy even read the entire story he was submitting on? Lets review.
"Mozilla 1.0 doesn't do much more for the average Web surfer than Internet Explorer does" "But in our Mozilla tests, the ads sometimes permanently blocked part of the page" "Unfortunately, IRC client apps aren't very user friendly, and the same goes for Chatzilla" "Chatzilla doesn't offer much help, either" "instead of closing just the debugger window, it closed all of our Mozilla browser windows, as well--definitely not the behavior we expected or wanted."
...Not to mention it placed first in only one of the XP Pro tests (mixed text and graphics)
I'm not a huge fan of IE, but it's the standard at this point in time. According to the author's of the review, it just doesn't do enough to topple the standard or convince people to defect from everybodies favorite comapany in droves. maybe the C- rating was a little hard, but surely not as inconcievable as this obvious Mozilla fanboy thinks.
Gee, how many times are we going to revisit this topic? Slashdot's criteria for accepting stories:
Badly worded subjects : n/a Broken or missing URLs : n/a Confusing or hysterical sounding writeup : n/a It might be an old story : Check It might just be a busy day and we've already : n/a posted enough stories : n/a Someone already submitted your story : Check Your story just might not be interesting! : Check
"maintaining an adequate signal-to-noise ratio would require a service provider to install a transceiver base station every 50 meters, a proposition that would appear to be prohibitively expensive"
"Even if these are isolated incidents, it's worth noting that the privacy rules intended to protect us can also work against us."
Well, at least somebody's noting it and not just jumping on the privacy bandwagon blindly, chanting "Priavcy! Privacy! Privacy!" It should be obvious, but a lot of people don't seem to realize that the privacy they so feverently wage holy wars for is a double edged sword. I've said it before and I'll say it again... Everybody loves privacy. Until you find out that your local chapter of Jihads R Us has been thriving under the same policy and cooking up plans to slaughter your peoples wholesale. Then, when those same privacy fanatics scream "FIND THOSE TERRORISTS!", ultimate irony will set in as they realize their government can't help them because it would be violating all the privacy acts these people wish existed. I'm not advocating total government oversight, but some people out there need to buy a bottle perspective. What protects you, protects them.
"The median number of developers in the 100 projects I looked at was 4 and the mode was 1
Really, no offense meant here, but these sorts of figures illustrate why Microsoft will womp on an Open source widget all day long and well into the night. I'm betting the teams are smaller all across the board, and while I'm sure they're giving 110% (and a healthy dose of TLC), it's tough to beat an MS programming sweatshop that way. Any open source project that wants to compete in the OS arena is going to need the cash and a strong central core of leadership; Something I don't see much of out there (exceptions noted).
"Could a giant arise amidst today's insecure and constantly patched linux world that could hold the title of Unbreakable Linux?"
OMG... A linux fan said this? You'd almost expect this thought to come in a Windows flavor... Maybe they aren't all raving lunatics after all. Nah. Musta just bumped his head;)
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I can see it swaying sales... Slightly. To that person who is looking for a console with an "open source" future, it might just convince them.
"But think: it can be assumed anyone with the ability to burn cds also has the ability to play divxes on their computer."
As to that point, this is a huge market in Asia. You don't need a computer w/a burner to be buying the pirated VDCs and DiVX crap. Again, not sales dynamite, but enough to sway somebody. Of course, it's assuming MS can gain a foothold in Asia as well, since buying VCDs and DiVX on the corner isn't quite as popular in the US.
Yeah, those people who don't own computers won't hack their Play Stations, right? OH! You mean that's already happened on a massive scale? Damn! (and don't tell me "it's not the same" because it is.)
You cannot go wrong at this place. It's where I bought my Dad's MP3 car stereo. Excellent customer service. Fast delivery. Very flexible. Not too many companies like em.
Or buy a SonicBlue Rio Volt SP250 for $146 at Buy.com and hook it up to your standard car stereo. It has many options most MP3 car stereos should have, but don't. Whether it's a portable or in-dash unit, however, MP3 players have quite a bit going for them. That's not to say Satillite Radio doesn't. But I figure you're shelling out how much and still getting commercials?! Record a 650mb winamp stream, burn it to disk an bam, you're there.
I tried to view Slashdot.org, but all I saw were advertisments for SourceForge...
:p
I mean really. This actually reminds me of Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000. That's the book, not the movie, folks (the movie only covered half the book, perhapse for the best). Anyway, the Psyclo altered their entire social culture through invasive brain surgery, not helmets. Overall, the effect would be the same likely
How ignorant can you get? Anybody else care to correct Cpt. Hick, because I'm too busy laughing at his oh-so-complete grasp of South African society and politics...
"Yep. Dem darr niggers got themselfs a domain boys! What you think we should doo bout dem?"
"Ping em high!!"
Sigh.
Nigger
Pronunciation: 'ni-g&r
Function: noun
1a: one that nigs b: a tool or machine for nigging.
Common. Lets all grow up now. After all, when was the last time you saw somebody nig?
Hahahaha!!! Hohohohho! ...Um, and that quote was? While I enjoyed the rant about your 3rd cousins uncles brothers religious news letter, your post lacks any sort of value without said link.
"Knock Knock"
"Who's there?"
"Um..."
"Errr..."
"Uh..."
"Damn. I forgot, but trust me, it was funny."
Whatever.
Damn right that year old review of U-571 by Micheal was overrated. It should have never made the site. EVER. Will sell Karma for truth.
That this plastic-looking car here on slashdot ALSO used disel as it's fuel component. I'd be more worried about saftey in both cars than anything else.
It turns out that Slashdot was spoofed into printing a story on an already year old bad movie. They too believe that everything they read on the internet is true, republishing a story from Carpenter. Or at least one of their freelance writers believes it.... Micheal was reported as saying, "This is absolutely great."
The reviewer need not worry as Trek retains a vast amount of geekiness to it. Exploring strange new worlds and feeling up alien green women isn't for the faint of heart.
Actually, as a fair weather fan of the series, it's getting so i can't stand it. It's too clean and everything fits into a nice, one hour box. No sharp edges and the characters remain rather static in their personalities compared to other series of the type.
The depth projection is a nice effect.
"I've constructed a lit model of midtown Manhattan to fill an otherwise unspectactular view out of our kitchen window."
Um, it still looks rather unspectacular. In fact, it looks like one of those early Star Trek models fitted with Christmas tree bulbs. And what's this? "Nice hack job"!? As in poorly done? Hack? Somehow I think if somebody surrounded a gopher hole with barbed wire, micheal would consider it some sort of hack. "Tee hee! I found a website for underwater BB stacking! Nice hack!"
Maybe if he used fiberoptices. An actual skyline you could see. Changing backgrounds. Something beyond cardboard and Christmas lights. Everybody has their hobby sure, and I respect that. But why am I seeing it here? News for Nerds, stuff that matters, anyone?
Ha! Beat me to it.
TV is LOS... But I can still pick up the signal THROUGH MY WALL?!? WHAT'S GOING ON HERE!?!?! Obviously you're just a bit clueless yourself since non LOS reception is based on the density material being transimitted through. I can't see much problem in the reception part. But transmitting? Whoa. Depending on where you are relative to the tower, you're going to need a huge signal just to get the data there in one piece. What's the average output of a TV/Radio antenna? How many thousands of watts? Steak won't be the only thing well done at your house. Neighbors will love yas.
"Strange how they give a rating that would barely merit a "C-"..."
Did this guy even read the entire story he was submitting on? Lets review.
"Mozilla 1.0 doesn't do much more for the average Web surfer than Internet Explorer does"
"But in our Mozilla tests, the ads sometimes permanently blocked part of the page"
"Unfortunately, IRC client apps aren't very user friendly, and the same goes for Chatzilla"
"Chatzilla doesn't offer much help, either"
"instead of closing just the debugger window, it closed all of our Mozilla browser windows, as well--definitely not the behavior we expected or wanted."
...Not to mention it placed first in only one of the XP Pro tests (mixed text and graphics)
I'm not a huge fan of IE, but it's the standard at this point in time. According to the author's of the review, it just doesn't do enough to topple the standard or convince people to defect from everybodies favorite comapany in droves. maybe the C- rating was a little hard, but surely not as inconcievable as this obvious Mozilla fanboy thinks.
Gee, how many times are we going to revisit this topic? Slashdot's criteria for accepting stories:
Badly worded subjects : n/a
Broken or missing URLs : n/a
Confusing or hysterical sounding writeup : n/a
It might be an old story : Check
It might just be a busy day and we've already : n/a
posted enough stories : n/a
Someone already submitted your story : Check
Your story just might not be interesting! : Check
News for nerds. NEWS!!!!
Well, hey, it must be illegle to turn your TV OFF now. I mean, that'd interupt those advertisements too...
"maintaining an adequate signal-to-noise ratio would require a service provider to install a transceiver base station every 50 meters, a proposition that would appear to be prohibitively expensive"
50 meters? Hmmm...
"Even if these are isolated incidents, it's worth noting that the privacy rules intended to protect us can also work against us."
Well, at least somebody's noting it and not just jumping on the privacy bandwagon blindly, chanting "Priavcy! Privacy! Privacy!" It should be obvious, but a lot of people don't seem to realize that the privacy they so feverently wage holy wars for is a double edged sword. I've said it before and I'll say it again... Everybody loves privacy. Until you find out that your local chapter of Jihads R Us has been thriving under the same policy and cooking up plans to slaughter your peoples wholesale. Then, when those same privacy fanatics scream "FIND THOSE TERRORISTS!", ultimate irony will set in as they realize their government can't help them because it would be violating all the privacy acts these people wish existed. I'm not advocating total government oversight, but some people out there need to buy a bottle perspective. What protects you, protects them.
No one to bribe? These people work for peanuts (or free) in their spare time. I know it's a labor of love, but open source is ripe for bribery.
And I still want to take Micheal Jackson's place in that room full of Asian women, sans the combustion.
"The median number of developers in the 100 projects I looked at was 4 and the mode was 1
Really, no offense meant here, but these sorts of figures illustrate why Microsoft will womp on an Open source widget all day long and well into the night. I'm betting the teams are smaller all across the board, and while I'm sure they're giving 110% (and a healthy dose of TLC), it's tough to beat an MS programming sweatshop that way. Any open source project that wants to compete in the OS arena is going to need the cash and a strong central core of leadership; Something I don't see much of out there (exceptions noted).
"Could a giant arise amidst today's insecure and constantly patched linux world that could hold the title of Unbreakable Linux?"
;)
OMG... A linux fan said this? You'd almost expect this thought to come in a Windows flavor... Maybe they aren't all raving lunatics after all. Nah. Musta just bumped his head