All this does is HIDE the icons for internet explorer and outlook express and windows media player.
I can already do that. Tweak UI does it. And as for file associations, who here thinks that if you accidentally start up windows media player even after this service pack, that it will still redo all your file associations without asking...
This is not a plea of guilt on Microsoft's part, hell this supports their case, they aren't removing anything, they are just hiding it (since of course, windows would stop functioning if you removed it)...
This is an article about two unreleased graphics cards, one $600, one $900. No, that's not a typo, these graphics cards cost as much as a nice Athlon system. These aren't targetted at gamers, they're targeted at workstation users, and fuckwits.
Speak for yourself, I'm a gamer, and I'm more than willing to fork out $900 for a good video card. Hell if I spent $700 on the Geforce1 DDR when it first came out, why the hell not spend $900 on a fully opengl accelerated card? I've seen the current generation of High end cards from 3DLabs, and if this new generation is anything like the current, it's worth the $900 for gamers.
First off, Canadian's don't say 'eh', well not much anyway...
Second, the dollar is worth a lot more over here than in the states. There are a lot of technology companies in the states paying nearly twice as much in salary for US workers, than what they need to pay their Canadian counterparts, for equal, if not better productivity and performance.
But with the same logic, the Australian dollar is even cheaper than the Canadian dollar... So should all high tech workers learn Australian slang? I think not.
Apparently, I wasn't the only domain registrant to make this kind of decision lately. An Internet research firm, Netcraft, reported that the number of Web sites shrank slightly in November, for only the second time in the past six years.
Bah, they don't need FreeBSD... Their port and support for their VxWorks OS is a disgrace to FreeBSD... It may be based on FreeBSD, but they took something good, and made it mediocre.
And if radio/tv does not use resources, why is it that I can go to jail for using what is "physically" on my property? (DirecTV "pirating")
Probably because you are in the US, and you are STEALING their service. You do not go to jail if you simply receive their signal, you go to jail if you decrypt their signal without their permission. Big difference between pirating, and using resources.
The 'resources' aka the frequencies are liscensed by the government simply to keep interferance to a minimum. So technically yes, both TV/Radio use resources, but they are in a different category than those resources that are used by the web.
Because part of the web's data goes through THEIR systems... Physically... they are paying for it, it is using their resources... Broadcasts via radio is not using THEIR resources... That's why.
Stopped? How do you measure the speed of light to verify it has stopped? The only way I know of measuring speed is to measure distance over time... Stopped would imply zero distance, or infinite time... Can someone please pull me out of the dark ages, what am I missing?
This from the man who agreed with Steve Gibson about how raw sockets in WinXP was going to destroy the internet. Seeing as how slashdot still exists, I think he may be just a little bit off base.
Well, he was on the right track... Sure the internet is still going, but WinXP could have destroyed the internet (through the uPNP flaw, not raw sockets, but still...)...
Although I do agree with you that anyone who agreed and supported Steve Gibson's insane arguments does lose quite a bit of credability...
if you want to fix bugs in W3, send blizzard your resume. The ratio of open source / closed source games should tell you how successful that development model is.
If I send Blizzard my resume, then I would end up working for THEM, hence defeating the purpose.
The reason I suggested letting us (the testers) fix the bugs is because Blizzard will rate most of them as low priority, or simply overlook them. As a tester, I can concentrate on fixing one issue. OTOH if I worked for Blizzard, they would then tell me which bugs I could and couldn't fix, letting them slip through...
I do however agree that very few companies have had success with open source game dev... but it could happen...
Wasn't the whole reason Nintendo made their gamecube small, so that it wouldn't accept standard 80mm disks to prevent piracy (since the smaller disks, especially writeable, are harder to come by)???
hmmm beta testing... now a really neat idea would be if they included source code with the test, that way we could fix any bugs we find instead of prolonging the testing phase...
Ah hell, who am I kidding, I just wanna see the source code... and the damned NDA they make you sign would prevent me from having any fun with it... bah...
I spent 6 years in college, and they were well spent. I survived the dot-com boom unscathed, never been unemployed one day in my life, and I get to do cool stuff.
Good for you... But I just gotta ask... how did you pay for your education? I know one of the reasons I'm out in the real world without a degree is because I couldn't afford to go and get one when I graduated from high school (Unlike most people, my parents didn't want to get a second mortgage to finance my education).
Not only do I gain valuable experience from the real world, facing everyday problems (which from what I've seen no university or college can truely prepare any of their pupils for), I am making slightly less money than my counterparts who have degrees... We do the same work, but they have tens of thousands of dollars of debt to climb out of... while I don't. And the funny thing is when they get stuck, they go read a book to find the answer... I do the same thing... I've yet to see anyone truely apply a skill they could only have learned in college/university here at work (I work for a company that develops device drivers for various OS's).
So yes, a degree is necessary in todays slumping economy, but not because it is an indicator that you are smarter/better than someone who doesn't have one, it simply indicates that you probably have loads of debt, and will be staying put at this job for quite a while... and you'll be more willing to accomodate the company's needs rather than your own, just to keep your job to pay your bills...
Think about how many people who use the internet (with Improperly set up windows machines, yes), who are as dumb as they come when it comes to computers... these people are literally terrorized when they get a virus or worm, or anything else that makes their computers harder to use then it already is...
Yes, people are not dying... but sit down beside some not so computer savvy user and watch their reaction when they get a virus... That look on their face is usually sheer terror. Followed by panic, yells for help, etc...
I don't know how you describe terror, but that sure meets my definition of it... (And yes, it's not as bad as what happend on 9/11, but it doesn't make this sort of, I hate to use the word, cyberterroism any less of a crime.)
But the problem is that I'm not the one who decides where hubble is looking, the astronomers that have been allocated time on Hubble's schedule are the ones who decide. So all I get is to see what other people wanted to look at.
I want to look straight at the moon with Hubble... put that damn 'moon landing conspiracy theory' to rest once and for all... I'm sure Hubble could see the damn flag... or even the foot prints...
Crap, pure crap! We have people in the US who openly admit to breaking the DMCA rules on national TV (Patrick Norton on TechTV), and nothing happens, yet they try and make an example of a foreign based company that is simply running a p2p network server, it's not their fault everyone uses it to pirate... Hell, I'm amazed they don't try and shutdown ISPs and the entire Internet, afterall the p2p networks use the net don't they? sheesh...
You gotta figure there's millions of hours spent by young smart programmer's minds reading this stuff instead of writing code. Think of all the great improvements that could have been made to the world's software if we hadn't been wasting time on this website!?
I guess you don't program... Cause from where I'm sitting, if I didn't take a few minutes every hour to do something other than programming, there would be a ten fold increase in the amount of crap code I write... Programmers aren't machines, we need a mental break too...
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All this does is HIDE the icons for internet explorer and outlook express and windows media player.
I can already do that. Tweak UI does it. And as for file associations, who here thinks that if you accidentally start up windows media player even after this service pack, that it will still redo all your file associations without asking...
This is not a plea of guilt on Microsoft's part, hell this supports their case, they aren't removing anything, they are just hiding it (since of course, windows would stop functioning if you removed it)...
And I thought his weight would be the cause of death...
This is an article about two unreleased graphics cards, one $600, one $900. No, that's not a typo, these graphics cards cost as much as a nice Athlon system. These aren't targetted at gamers, they're targeted at workstation users, and fuckwits.
Speak for yourself, I'm a gamer, and I'm more than willing to fork out $900 for a good video card. Hell if I spent $700 on the Geforce1 DDR when it first came out, why the hell not spend $900 on a fully opengl accelerated card? I've seen the current generation of High end cards from 3DLabs, and if this new generation is anything like the current, it's worth the $900 for gamers.
Wasn't there something called cdrom.com that tried this idea sometime last decade? Did it succeed then?
If I had enough time to reply to even 1/10th the spam I get, there would be 45 hours in a day!
First off, Canadian's don't say 'eh', well not much anyway... Second, the dollar is worth a lot more over here than in the states. There are a lot of technology companies in the states paying nearly twice as much in salary for US workers, than what they need to pay their Canadian counterparts, for equal, if not better productivity and performance. But with the same logic, the Australian dollar is even cheaper than the Canadian dollar... So should all high tech workers learn Australian slang? I think not.
Apparently, I wasn't the only domain registrant to make this kind of decision lately. An Internet research firm, Netcraft, reported that the number of Web sites shrank slightly in November, for only the second time in the past six years.
second time???? When was the first?
Come on, you all know that any talk about the Linux VM is going to go over the heads of 95% of slashdot readers... :P
Do you have any facts to back this up???
Ya, I've had to work with it.
Bah, they don't need FreeBSD... Their port and support for their VxWorks OS is a disgrace to FreeBSD... It may be based on FreeBSD, but they took something good, and made it mediocre.
HEAT! HEAT and more HEAT! The smaller it is, the hotter it will be. The smaller it is, the harder it is to cool.
And if radio/tv does not use resources, why is it that I can go to jail for using what is "physically" on my property? (DirecTV "pirating")
Probably because you are in the US, and you are STEALING their service. You do not go to jail if you simply receive their signal, you go to jail if you decrypt their signal without their permission. Big difference between pirating, and using resources.
The 'resources' aka the frequencies are liscensed by the government simply to keep interferance to a minimum. So technically yes, both TV/Radio use resources, but they are in a different category than those resources that are used by the web.
Because part of the web's data goes through THEIR systems... Physically... they are paying for it, it is using their resources... Broadcasts via radio is not using THEIR resources... That's why.
I think I speak for everyone when I say...
THANK GOD!!!
Stopped? How do you measure the speed of light to verify it has stopped? The only way I know of measuring speed is to measure distance over time... Stopped would imply zero distance, or infinite time... Can someone please pull me out of the dark ages, what am I missing?
This from the man who agreed with Steve Gibson about how raw sockets in WinXP was going to destroy the internet. Seeing as how slashdot still exists, I think he may be just a little bit off base.
Well, he was on the right track... Sure the internet is still going, but WinXP could have destroyed the internet (through the uPNP flaw, not raw sockets, but still...)...
Although I do agree with you that anyone who agreed and supported Steve Gibson's insane arguments does lose quite a bit of credability...
if you want to fix bugs in W3, send blizzard your resume. The ratio of open source / closed source games should tell you how successful that development model is.
If I send Blizzard my resume, then I would end up working for THEM, hence defeating the purpose.
The reason I suggested letting us (the testers) fix the bugs is because Blizzard will rate most of them as low priority, or simply overlook them. As a tester, I can concentrate on fixing one issue. OTOH if I worked for Blizzard, they would then tell me which bugs I could and couldn't fix, letting them slip through...
I do however agree that very few companies have had success with open source game dev... but it could happen...
Wasn't the whole reason Nintendo made their gamecube small, so that it wouldn't accept standard 80mm disks to prevent piracy (since the smaller disks, especially writeable, are harder to come by)???
I don't see Nintendo being happy about this...
hmmm beta testing... now a really neat idea would be if they included source code with the test, that way we could fix any bugs we find instead of prolonging the testing phase...
Ah hell, who am I kidding, I just wanna see the source code... and the damned NDA they make you sign would prevent me from having any fun with it... bah...
Isn't this the same technology/technique that Windows XP uses to smooth fonts on LCD displays (CLEARTYPE)???
I spent 6 years in college, and they were well spent. I survived the dot-com boom unscathed, never been unemployed one day in my life, and I get to do cool stuff.
Good for you... But I just gotta ask... how did you pay for your education? I know one of the reasons I'm out in the real world without a degree is because I couldn't afford to go and get one when I graduated from high school (Unlike most people, my parents didn't want to get a second mortgage to finance my education).
Not only do I gain valuable experience from the real world, facing everyday problems (which from what I've seen no university or college can truely prepare any of their pupils for), I am making slightly less money than my counterparts who have degrees... We do the same work, but they have tens of thousands of dollars of debt to climb out of... while I don't. And the funny thing is when they get stuck, they go read a book to find the answer... I do the same thing... I've yet to see anyone truely apply a skill they could only have learned in college/university here at work (I work for a company that develops device drivers for various OS's).
So yes, a degree is necessary in todays slumping economy, but not because it is an indicator that you are smarter/better than someone who doesn't have one, it simply indicates that you probably have loads of debt, and will be staying put at this job for quite a while... and you'll be more willing to accomodate the company's needs rather than your own, just to keep your job to pay your bills...
The hell they aren't....
Think about how many people who use the internet (with Improperly set up windows machines, yes), who are as dumb as they come when it comes to computers... these people are literally terrorized when they get a virus or worm, or anything else that makes their computers harder to use then it already is...
Yes, people are not dying... but sit down beside some not so computer savvy user and watch their reaction when they get a virus... That look on their face is usually sheer terror. Followed by panic, yells for help, etc...
I don't know how you describe terror, but that sure meets my definition of it... (And yes, it's not as bad as what happend on 9/11, but it doesn't make this sort of, I hate to use the word, cyberterroism any less of a crime.)
But the problem is that I'm not the one who decides where hubble is looking, the astronomers that have been allocated time on Hubble's schedule are the ones who decide. So all I get is to see what other people wanted to look at.
I want to look straight at the moon with Hubble... put that damn 'moon landing conspiracy theory' to rest once and for all... I'm sure Hubble could see the damn flag... or even the foot prints...
Crap, pure crap! We have people in the US who openly admit to breaking the DMCA rules on national TV (Patrick Norton on TechTV), and nothing happens, yet they try and make an example of a foreign based company that is simply running a p2p network server, it's not their fault everyone uses it to pirate... Hell, I'm amazed they don't try and shutdown ISPs and the entire Internet, afterall the p2p networks use the net don't they? sheesh...
You gotta figure there's millions of hours spent by young smart programmer's minds reading this stuff instead of writing code. Think of all the great improvements that could have been made to the world's software if we hadn't been wasting time on this website!?
I guess you don't program... Cause from where I'm sitting, if I didn't take a few minutes every hour to do something other than programming, there would be a ten fold increase in the amount of crap code I write... Programmers aren't machines, we need a mental break too...