From an inside Microsoft source -
"Longhorn will be released with a retina and fingerprint scanner since the previous product activation code was not effective enough. We are currently on beta 2 of our scanner. By RC1 we should be able to scan your retina without detaching your cornea."
In 1996 You are a hacker... wow! In 1999 You are a 20 year old hacker.... wow! In 2003 You are a 14 year old hacker.... wow!
Younger and younger, the kids are getting better and better with computers. Better think twice again before wanting to be a CTO or a manager in this industry. Cause in ten years, the next generation techies will be unstoppable. And you worry about napster?
Have you ever tried installing oracle 9.2 on redhat 7.2+. In short the number of java problems will blow your mind. I swear, it's a sun microsystem conspiracy to mess up JDK on linux. Cause oracle 9.2 will install flawlessly on solaris in general.
Seriously, 9.0 and redhat 7.2 is the only combination I have ever seen with a smooth installation.
I am tired of people saying linux is fueling the unix world. Stop this madness.
Linux is fueling the unix world in your basement, but in the "real" server world where machines serve a "real" purpose... Linux is still second to Solaris.
Solaris 9 x86 almost didn't make it to the market, because even sun knows.... there is no real *nix market for x86 in people's basement.
With another new algorithm people are going to spend even less than they already do on networking equipment. Isn't this more or less the same of Dense Wave Multiplexing??
Politics through obscurity.... result passing laws as such.
Like the sound of this or not, these are the two things that plague the U.S.
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1.) Sit in your basement 2.) Watch.com startups go up 3.) Watch.com startups go down 4.) On yellow stickies, keep track of startups going down. 5.) Turn yellow stickies to book
Mainstream music is far too saturated on the radio, in stores, MTV... and 80% of it sucks even if it wasn't saturated.
If eminem came out in the 80s I wouldn't listen to him. If he came out in the 90s I just may listen to him. Today he's one of the hottest artist in the industry, that's how low are music standards have gone today.
It would make complete sense for a tax fund established where money goes to the likes of telecom companies. Yeah, they build our roads online therefore it's sensible. Though the tax money will just go toward buying some CEO a nice house
The alternative is we pay the government who doesn't do very much for our roads online. Who is also just as corrupt behind the curtains.
So paying the telecoms make more sense for me... if I had a gun to my head.
The profit margin for a typical game is ridiculous. Back in the nintendo days with the 8-bit cartridges it costed $2 to $8 to create a game. That title easily sold for $50.
Today the profit margin is even greater. Goodness, we got CDRs duplicating and DVD writers. No real assembly lines are needed for the assembly of a cartridge. Titles are still on sale for $50 given a 50 cents cost in a CD media.
The industry needs to stop slaving the programmers. Software in general has a ridiculous margin over hardware. If you want to be business oriented about it, software has the most ridiculous profit margin. A typical gas station makes pennies per gallon of gas sold to your car.
I am tired of people saying linux makes a great server. Try deploying an EMC or some heavy duty STK tape library to linux.... any distro. It's a nightmare in comparison to windows/solaris for example. Just because it is running an nfs share doesn't make it a server. Nowadays the word server is so dragged out to the point of describing any machine with a greater mission than word processing and checking email.
Have you ever seen asian languages on a computer screen or cell phones? Or in some cases count the characters in their alphabet system assuming they have any?
For any asian countries to excel with computers, the technology has to be directly compatible with their everyday dialect. The complexities are far greater than the ASCII alphabet set of any latin-based languages.
The market is saturated with expensive overpriced cards. ATI paddling ahead will definitely tickle Nvidia's pricing. So competition is good.
The big question is whether ATI can deliver on the software front. Their drivers are downright blue-screen prone, though their hardware is still top notched.
1) People gets tired and bored easily. 2) Pharmacies can save money too hiring half college grads, and half of the overnight crew from Burger king. You'd be naive to think everybody was professionally qualified. 3) People can show customer courtesy and concern. They can also unleash absolute hell and be a real bitch when the lines get long etc.
Those who think the robots are going to fail are the ones who thought refilling by touch-dial phone was impossible. Programmers are computer engineers are already wasted in this economy. Would pharmacists being next really surprise you?
Behind the greatest marketing force in the world, xbox is still so downright horrid. In the hands of any other company, this exact console would have gone down the gutter.
If you take just the xbox gaming library alone, it would stand absolutely no chance in today's console market. Some of the top 10 hits for xbox became the bottom of the pile when they got translated to PS2.
I am really tired of MS getting their hands on everything. Let nintendo and sony duke it out in the gaming market.
* You can only work someone so many hours before they become unproductively burned out. * You can only pay such a low wage before people realize they are better off in some other field. * You can only pull off so many projects with so few resources.
IF the wages keep dropping, it will end up fastfood-izing the industry. Where a few management brain does all the thinking and everyone's just a tech monkey. Of course since the cost of engineering degrees and the skills required to be an engineer is so demanding... Fastfood-izing will bring the beginning of the end for american technological progress.
If you have ever been to HK, you'll know that everything is extremely physically crammed together.
You can have your neighbor pay $17 and wire a cat5 cable from his balcony to yours. Wait since they don't really have houses back there, why not do it to the whole building complex.
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Seriously folks, if you work with enough variations of unix you'll be able to make a comparison. Check out a typical kernel for solaris for example, you can load and unload kernel modules the hell out of it on the fly. Why's linux so behind with a need to recompile the kernel like mad everytime?! The concept of "recompiling kernel" is downright aweful even if it was a one button process.
What about storage area networks. This is one area that distinguishes whether is is ready to be a bigtime file server or database. Which by the way is probably two of the biggest function for a server besides handling email. Christ, a new version of linux comes out every week now. No wonder the HBA drivers can't keep up.
It's like worrying about redhat buying a microsoft. Hello, Sony has couple times the $$ power than nintendo. May the lawyer with the biggest mouth wins.
When you run quake at 600x800 and struggled on your PC in 1996. Then years later fly with the same quake at 1600x1200 on a Pentium 4, don't get me wrong... that's a good thing. But consoles will always allow me to play today's game better.
Just step outside the technical box for a minute. Solaris has 64 bit application support. When I run comparatively side by side an application built 64 bit versus 32, the difference is hardly recognizable.
You can climb on all the technical hype. In reality you are under estimating what it takes to develop 64 bit applications that will seem 2x noticably faster than its 32 bit counterpart.
Think about it... it's insane processing power under utilized by most games, it's clumsy large controllers... it's on track with the doomed atari jaguar. And it doesn't matter if it's mr gates running M$, he knows nothing about games.
Add to that I'll buy a PS2 or gamecube over xbox any day. What's good on xbox will later become available to PC or other consoles. What's good on other consoles won't necessarily come to xbox (GTA, Smackdown SYM, Metroid, zelda for example) To sum it up, xbox game library sucks online and offline.
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From an inside Microsoft source - "Longhorn will be released with a retina and fingerprint scanner since the previous product activation code was not effective enough. We are currently on beta 2 of our scanner. By RC1 we should be able to scan your retina without detaching your cornea."
In 1996 You are a hacker... wow!
In 1999 You are a 20 year old hacker.... wow!
In 2003 You are a 14 year old hacker.... wow!
Younger and younger, the kids are getting better and better with computers. Better think twice again before wanting to be a CTO or a manager in this industry. Cause in ten years, the next generation techies will be unstoppable. And you worry about napster?
Today techies = lawyers.
Tomorrow techies > lawyers.
Have you ever tried installing oracle 9.2 on redhat 7.2+. In short the number of java problems will blow your mind. I swear, it's a sun microsystem conspiracy to mess up JDK on linux. Cause oracle 9.2 will install flawlessly on solaris in general. Seriously, 9.0 and redhat 7.2 is the only combination I have ever seen with a smooth installation.
I am tired of people saying linux is fueling the unix world. Stop this madness.
Linux is fueling the unix world in your basement, but in the "real" server world where machines serve a "real" purpose... Linux is still second to Solaris.
Solaris 9 x86 almost didn't make it to the market, because even sun knows.... there is no real *nix market for x86 in people's basement.
With another new algorithm people are going to spend even less than they already do on networking equipment. Isn't this more or less the same of Dense Wave Multiplexing??
I lied, actually I do have a comment. Now give me a -1 like you slashdot judges always do.
Security through obscurity.... result 911
Politics through obscurity.... result passing laws as such.
Like the sound of this or not, these are the two things that plague the U.S.
1.) Sit in your basement .com startups go up .com startups go down
2.) Watch
3.) Watch
4.) On yellow stickies, keep track of startups going down.
5.) Turn yellow stickies to book
6.) PROFIT!!!!
Mainstream music is far too saturated on the radio, in stores, MTV... and 80% of it sucks even if it wasn't saturated.
If eminem came out in the 80s I wouldn't listen to him.
If he came out in the 90s I just may listen to him.
Today he's one of the hottest artist in the industry, that's how low are music standards have gone today.
It would make complete sense for a tax fund established where money goes to the likes of telecom companies. Yeah, they build our roads online therefore it's sensible. Though the tax money will just go toward buying some CEO a nice house
The alternative is we pay the government who doesn't do very much for our roads online. Who is also just as corrupt behind the curtains.
So paying the telecoms make more sense for me... if I had a gun to my head.
The profit margin for a typical game is ridiculous. Back in the nintendo days with the 8-bit cartridges it costed $2 to $8 to create a game. That title easily sold for $50.
Today the profit margin is even greater. Goodness, we got CDRs duplicating and DVD writers. No real assembly lines are needed for the assembly of a cartridge. Titles are still on sale for $50 given a 50 cents cost in a CD media.
The industry needs to stop slaving the programmers. Software in general has a ridiculous margin over hardware. If you want to be business oriented about it, software has the most ridiculous profit margin. A typical gas station makes pennies per gallon of gas sold to your car.
Dammit I got to wait 20 secs to repost cause I repeated yee haa too many times!?
I am tired of people saying linux makes a great server. Try deploying an EMC or some heavy duty STK tape library to linux.... any distro. It's a nightmare in comparison to windows/solaris for example. Just because it is running an nfs share doesn't make it a server. Nowadays the word server is so dragged out to the point of describing any machine with a greater mission than word processing and checking email.
Have you ever seen asian languages on a computer screen or cell phones? Or in some cases count the characters in their alphabet system assuming they have any?
For any asian countries to excel with computers, the technology has to be directly compatible with their everyday dialect. The complexities are far greater than the ASCII alphabet set of any latin-based languages.
The market is saturated with expensive overpriced cards. ATI paddling ahead will definitely tickle Nvidia's pricing. So competition is good.
The big question is whether ATI can deliver on the software front. Their drivers are downright blue-screen prone, though their hardware is still top notched.
1) People gets tired and bored easily.
2) Pharmacies can save money too hiring half college grads, and half of the overnight crew from Burger king. You'd be naive to think everybody was professionally qualified.
3) People can show customer courtesy and concern. They can also unleash absolute hell and be a real bitch when the lines get long etc.
Those who think the robots are going to fail are the ones who thought refilling by touch-dial phone was impossible. Programmers are computer engineers are already wasted in this economy. Would pharmacists being next really surprise you?
Behind the greatest marketing force in the world, xbox is still so downright horrid. In the hands of any other company, this exact console would have gone down the gutter. If you take just the xbox gaming library alone, it would stand absolutely no chance in today's console market. Some of the top 10 hits for xbox became the bottom of the pile when they got translated to PS2. I am really tired of MS getting their hands on everything. Let nintendo and sony duke it out in the gaming market.
* You can only work someone so many hours before they become unproductively burned out.
* You can only pay such a low wage before people realize they are better off in some other field.
* You can only pull off so many projects with so few resources.
IF the wages keep dropping, it will end up fastfood-izing the industry. Where a few management brain does all the thinking and everyone's just a tech monkey. Of course since the cost of engineering degrees and the skills required to be an engineer is so demanding... Fastfood-izing will bring the beginning of the end for american technological progress.
If you have ever been to HK, you'll know that everything is extremely physically crammed together.
You can have your neighbor pay $17 and wire a cat5 cable from his balcony to yours. Wait since they don't really have houses back there, why not do it to the whole building complex.
Seriously folks, if you work with enough variations of unix you'll be able to make a comparison. Check out a typical kernel for solaris for example, you can load and unload kernel modules the hell out of it on the fly. Why's linux so behind with a need to recompile the kernel like mad everytime?! The concept of "recompiling kernel" is downright aweful even if it was a one button process.
What about storage area networks. This is one area that distinguishes whether is is ready to be a bigtime file server or database. Which by the way is probably two of the biggest function for a server besides handling email. Christ, a new version of linux comes out every week now. No wonder the HBA drivers can't keep up.
Argh.... linux so good yet so bad.
It's like worrying about redhat buying a microsoft. Hello, Sony has couple times the $$ power than nintendo. May the lawyer with the biggest mouth wins.
When you run quake at 600x800 and struggled on your PC in 1996. Then years later fly with the same quake at 1600x1200 on a Pentium 4, don't get me wrong... that's a good thing. But consoles will always allow me to play today's game better.
Just step outside the technical box for a minute. Solaris has 64 bit application support. When I run comparatively side by side an application built 64 bit versus 32, the difference is hardly recognizable.
You can climb on all the technical hype. In reality you are under estimating what it takes to develop 64 bit applications that will seem 2x noticably faster than its 32 bit counterpart.
Think about it... it's insane processing power under utilized by most games, it's clumsy large controllers... it's on track with the doomed atari jaguar. And it doesn't matter if it's mr gates running M$, he knows nothing about games.
Add to that I'll buy a PS2 or gamecube over xbox any day. What's good on xbox will later become available to PC or other consoles. What's good on other consoles won't necessarily come to xbox (GTA, Smackdown SYM, Metroid, zelda for example) To sum it up, xbox game library sucks online and offline.
Every 2D game becomes 3D.
Every cartoon-related game becomes pixel shaded.
People build Internet Toasters and Microwave just cause they could. In the end, it's killing the original.