I'm sure I'll get slammed for this but, well who cares. I remember watching the first shuttles go up. It seemed like we flew a lot of shuttle missions without any problems (sans Challenger, I know BIG PROBLEM). The point is that it seems like problems are far more common now with all of the new tech and more importantly lessons learned than in the old days.
What's happened? Did we redesign something? Are they so old that the parts are wearing out and we can't replace them as well as we built them to begin with? Are we just publicizing problems more now than we used to? I haven't seen anything to tell me why it seems we can't launch a shuttle without something faling off when the old ones flew without a publicized hitch.
When the difference in console prices can be hundreds of dollars and the average life of a console is 4-5 years, and there are much more effective ways to save on your electricity bill, I just don't see what the point of this article is.
Perhaps if you consider things in terms of percentages and not just dollars it might make more sense. When that happens we see the the transition from last year's most powerful console to this year's uses five times the energy in an age when we make war upon the world's energy suppliers, it might seem a little more pertinent.
In other words, there is an interesting and possibly disturbing trend going on here. Have we made a one-time leap in energy usage or will the PS4 leak 800w/year in the not-too-distant future?
As for the value of the article, how many of us would have been completely oblivious to the prospect without this effort? I know I would have been and I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have been alone. Perhaps this kind of coverage will prevent future generations of consoles from becoming the energy hogs they are trending towards.
Slashdot users do not give Microsoft the credit it deserves. I've been using MS Windows for years and have frequently found myslef locked out of the desktop and unable to do anything.
My current employer's IT department has set up our computers (running XP Pro) such that we are incapable, no matter how hard we try, of playing DVDs, using the command line or even sending attachments via email. Now THAT is security. In fact, our systems are so secure it almost feels like I'm using my old AtariST. Well, I could download binaries via dial-up with my Atari and I can't even use dial-up with my PC. Computer Security has taken care of that little hole.
The fact is that our Computer Security has removed more features from Windows than most computers had just a few years ago all in the name of security and no matter how determined, I just can't restore it.
Come to think of it, the only thing more secure than Windows is using nothing at all and sometimes, when a new virus comes out, we do. They have even put little locks on the cases to keep us out of the case so we can't replace the HD (or steal the 128Meg of RAM out of our $400 Dells)
So come on slashdotters, give MS credit where credit is due. I have no doubt whatsoever that the New Windows Vista will have the ability for admins to lock the desktop user out of every single feature and function it offers and, in the end, isn't that what security is all about?
I can tell you when you go shopping for a T1 or T3 or more, you get to choose from at least 10 ISPs. There's plenty of competition there.
Do I? I live in a major city and BabyBell is it for T1 lines. I may have a choice of a 10 different ISPs but they are all subing out the same data line from the phone company. That's competition (sort of) but not much. It's competition for my Internet Service but not for my dataline.
Maybe I read your post wrong but you seem to be lumping the two together. Then again, maybe we do things differently here.
Are there any 'honest' places to work any more (where promotions/awards are based on work preformed and bureaucracy, and politics aren't encouraged to supplant the 'mission), or has America become one big living Dilbert strip?"
Yes, there are but you will only make half as much money. Small streamlined businesses frequently cannot afford the dilbert-like BS. Big business seem to breed it. The sad fact is that when you go to work for a big company, hiding your screw-ups gets easier and protecting your job becomes more important than doing it. Eventually, Darwanism weeds out those who cannot protect their job (and are more concerned with doing it). Eventually the "Protectors" are all you have left.
An Intel PC -- including all Macs -- is just not a good buy today with the next generation so close at hand.
...unless you need a computer now.
Perhaps you just need a web browser to take advantage of the Google Office suite. Perhaps your old computer died. Perhaps your lease is expired and you have to give your old computer back. Perhaps you are not a gamer so you finally realized that 1GHz will do pretty much everything you want.
I used to be an overclocker and into PC games. Now I have an Xbox so who cares what processor is inside my computer. It's fast enough. I don't even mind the Intel integrated graphics. The need for speed just isn't there any more. The need for storage, OTOH, well...
Hey, BTW, do you remember when 3GHz G5s were right around the corner? I'm sure glad I didn't wait on those and then there is the problem with waiting for the new thing to come out just to wait a little longer to work out the bugs.
I, and I alone, decide which values to give my kids.
Bravo! I agree completely and find it as appalling as anyone that the government thinks they should do this. I find it more appalling that U.S. citizens tolerate it.
There's just one problem that I cannot quite reconcile. Many parents don't care. They don't want to put the effort into raising their kids. Every day I say the same thing you just did, it's not my business or the governments how other people raise their kids (and it isn't) but the effects on society are something I have to live with. These are the people (I think) who applaud the government for things like this. They don't (or won't) go to the effort of raising their kids so they happily let (expect) the government do it for them. We allowed (established) this in our public schools years ago. Oh, and don't think for a moment that these kids will grow up to break the cycle. Well, you can think it but I'd bet you were wrong.
So now it seems as though we have more parents who would rather the government do their job than do it themselves (as you and I would prefer). What else would you expect from the government than to respond with this sort of action?
I guess what I'm trying to say is that we are (collectively) bringing this on ourselves and more and more don't mind it.
are we teaching our kids to be afraid of science?"
Yes, but that's not all. My (significant other) is a school teacher. Now MY (significant other) is teaching kids about foreign cultures. The other night I walked in on my (significant other) making passports. Now they are only for k-3rd grade so they are pretty cheesy and no one could possibly mistake them for real ones but still, the first thing I thought about was the video game/terrorist recruitment confusion.
Even now, I am having to write this in such a way that the government will understand that this is just a class project for the very young so they don't get their panties in a bunch when they read this through their now legal spybots.
IT'S JUST A SIMPLE CRAFT PROJECT FOR KINDERGARTNERS TO LEARN ABOUT OTHER COUNTRIES PRINTED ON 8.5X11 AND AN OLD INKJET!
It's an attitude which I saw way too much of in the military, and one which, in the *cough* post-9/11 era, has pretty much taken over every level of government from the White House to your local city council.
I tend to agree and hope the rest of the/. community (and America realizes) what I have come to sincerely believe. This isn't a Bush thing, it isn't a Republican thing, it's a government thing and we, the people, are losing control. I'm not really sure how to get it back but my approach right now is to vote against any incumbent regardless of party to make a statement that this is unacceptable.
So, who will our third party candidate be this year?
Aside from the fact that you left out "Unlawful", this site and an aweful lot of its posters would have agreed with most, if not all, of these. Sadly, the only one that probably doesn't belong i your list is China and maybe the UN. I'm not sure they have broken any of their own laws.
Now that might put the rest into some sort of perspective.
Then again, Americans have always had a history of breaking laws they don't like rather than just changing them.
--
If tomorrow morning the Bundestag adopted a 100-kilometer or 62-mile-an-hour speed limit, virtually every German would obey it the next day. Of course, at the next election they would massacre the current generation of politicians and they would elect The No Speed Limit Party. My understanding is that the American cultural response to the challenge of speed limits is substantially different from the German cultural response. In most of America, a speed limit is a benchmark of opportunity.
N.G.(Full name withheld for fear of being negatively modded on/. for quoting someone politically unpopular with the current modding regime)
but it looks like the christian right's prediliction for censorship is starting to ruffle his feathers.
As someone who is devoutly christian and historically conservative, I would really appreciate it if you didn't lump me in with this crowd. I'm not alone. This kind of garbage is neither christian nor conservative. Just because the leader of the mob claims to be something doesn't mean you should believe him or label those who are that something as being like him.
I recognize that the media has created a term "Religious Right" and some meaning is inferred but it really is a bad/wrong/inapropriate/misleading label.
I don't mean this to sound like a harsh rebuke to the poster but I am just as angry about this as anyone else and more than most (as a professional librarian it hits pretty close to home).
The name combines the first human name found in the Bible, Eve, with the 'r' in robot.
Technically, shouldn't they have named it after the second name in the bible? Although the firrst name IS the second person so maybe the article just emphasizes the wrong logic?
What does it say that this is the most comment worthy thing I got from this article?
It's sad to see so many of my compatriots being turned into lemmings.
95% of the world uses Windows and Mac people are Lemmings? I think we can see who the real zealots are here.
__
The box claims that the software "fixes thousands of Windows problems automatically". Now I ask you, why
would you want an operating system with thousands of problems?
Am I the only one who just wanted a browser that would launch/display acurately, securely and reliably? 90% of my personal browsing is News (like Slashdot/GoogleNews) and online Banking and (I hate to admit it) checking xbox.com to see who is on Live at any given moment. The rest is downloading drivers and patches for the most part. From a professional standpoint, researching (Like Lexis/Nexis) is a big one. Nothing too demanding there. Couldn't we just focus on getting the basics really right? I feel the same way about OS's and Cell Phones.
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Their motto is to eat their own dog food. Yet this time they didn't swallow it.
I'm sorry but you don't get any respect from me if you don't swallow.
What are we talking about anyway?
I'm sure I'll get slammed for this but, well who cares. I remember watching the first shuttles go up. It seemed like we flew a lot of shuttle missions without any problems (sans Challenger, I know BIG PROBLEM). The point is that it seems like problems are far more common now with all of the new tech and more importantly lessons learned than in the old days.
What's happened? Did we redesign something? Are they so old that the parts are wearing out and we can't replace them as well as we built them to begin with? Are we just publicizing problems more now than we used to? I haven't seen anything to tell me why it seems we can't launch a shuttle without something faling off when the old ones flew without a publicized hitch.
Anyone?
When the difference in console prices can be hundreds of dollars and the average life of a console is 4-5 years, and there are much more effective ways to save on your electricity bill, I just don't see what the point of this article is.
Perhaps if you consider things in terms of percentages and not just dollars it might make more sense. When that happens we see the the transition from last year's most powerful console to this year's uses five times the energy in an age when we make war upon the world's energy suppliers, it might seem a little more pertinent.
In other words, there is an interesting and possibly disturbing trend going on here. Have we made a one-time leap in energy usage or will the PS4 leak 800w/year in the not-too-distant future?
As for the value of the article, how many of us would have been completely oblivious to the prospect without this effort? I know I would have been and I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have been alone. Perhaps this kind of coverage will prevent future generations of consoles from becoming the energy hogs they are trending towards.
Troll?
Looks like somebody can't take a little good natured ribbing.
Oh well, at least they "Excel" at dishing it out.
Slashdot users do not give Microsoft the credit it deserves. I've been using MS Windows for years and have frequently found myslef locked out of the desktop and unable to do anything.
My current employer's IT department has set up our computers (running XP Pro) such that we are incapable, no matter how hard we try, of playing DVDs, using the command line or even sending attachments via email. Now THAT is security. In fact, our systems are so secure it almost feels like I'm using my old AtariST. Well, I could download binaries via dial-up with my Atari and I can't even use dial-up with my PC. Computer Security has taken care of that little hole.
The fact is that our Computer Security has removed more features from Windows than most computers had just a few years ago all in the name of security and no matter how determined, I just can't restore it.
Come to think of it, the only thing more secure than Windows is using nothing at all and sometimes, when a new virus comes out, we do. They have even put little locks on the cases to keep us out of the case so we can't replace the HD (or steal the 128Meg of RAM out of our $400 Dells)
So come on slashdotters, give MS credit where credit is due. I have no doubt whatsoever that the New Windows Vista will have the ability for admins to lock the desktop user out of every single feature and function it offers and, in the end, isn't that what security is all about?
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I can tell you when you go shopping for a T1 or T3 or more, you get to choose from at least 10 ISPs. There's plenty of competition there.
Do I? I live in a major city and BabyBell is it for T1 lines. I may have a choice of a 10 different ISPs but they are all subing out the same data line from the phone company. That's competition (sort of) but not much. It's competition for my Internet Service but not for my dataline.
Maybe I read your post wrong but you seem to be lumping the two together. Then again, maybe we do things differently here.
Duh!
Now I really don't understand why CowboyNeal didn't post my submission about scientists suspecting that the Sun will rise in the east again tomorrow.
Are there any 'honest' places to work any more (where promotions/awards are based on work preformed and bureaucracy, and politics aren't encouraged to supplant the 'mission), or has America become one big living Dilbert strip?"
Yes, there are but you will only make half as much money. Small streamlined businesses frequently cannot afford the dilbert-like BS. Big business seem to breed it. The sad fact is that when you go to work for a big company, hiding your screw-ups gets easier and protecting your job becomes more important than doing it. Eventually, Darwanism weeds out those who cannot protect their job (and are more concerned with doing it). Eventually the "Protectors" are all you have left.
"Sinners in the hands of an angry god, we don't deserve our fun until we pay in blood."
Amen
Warcraft I, Warcraft II, StarCraft, Starcraft Expansion, Warcraft III, Warcraft III Expansion.
Do they make a lot of great games or are they just very good at capitalizing on the success of occasional good ideas?
I'm not bashing them, I own all but one of the above and a couple of others too by it doesn't seem like such a secret to me.
An Intel PC -- including all Macs -- is just not a good buy today with the next generation so close at hand.
...unless you need a computer now.
Perhaps you just need a web browser to take advantage of the Google Office suite. Perhaps your old computer died. Perhaps your lease is expired and you have to give your old computer back. Perhaps you are not a gamer so you finally realized that 1GHz will do pretty much everything you want.
I used to be an overclocker and into PC games. Now I have an Xbox so who cares what processor is inside my computer. It's fast enough. I don't even mind the Intel integrated graphics. The need for speed just isn't there any more. The need for storage, OTOH, well...
Hey, BTW, do you remember when 3GHz G5s were right around the corner? I'm sure glad I didn't wait on those and then there is the problem with waiting for the new thing to come out just to wait a little longer to work out the bugs.
"Funny, that. A quick Google search on 'shot in the face' turns up 921,000 entries."
Quick seize Google.
No, wait, seize the Internet.
No, wait, seize this.
I, and I alone, decide which values to give my kids.
Bravo! I agree completely and find it as appalling as anyone that the government thinks they should do this. I find it more appalling that U.S. citizens tolerate it.
There's just one problem that I cannot quite reconcile. Many parents don't care. They don't want to put the effort into raising their kids. Every day I say the same thing you just did, it's not my business or the governments how other people raise their kids (and it isn't) but the effects on society are something I have to live with. These are the people (I think) who applaud the government for things like this. They don't (or won't) go to the effort of raising their kids so they happily let (expect) the government do it for them. We allowed (established) this in our public schools years ago. Oh, and don't think for a moment that these kids will grow up to break the cycle. Well, you can think it but I'd bet you were wrong.
So now it seems as though we have more parents who would rather the government do their job than do it themselves (as you and I would prefer). What else would you expect from the government than to respond with this sort of action?
I guess what I'm trying to say is that we are (collectively) bringing this on ourselves and more and more don't mind it.
Is it just a concidence or have we just slashdotted every major broadband speed test web site on the web?
Next up, Slashdot posts a hot stock tip. Wall Street inexplicably sees no online trading action for hours.
Why do you keep putting significant other in parentheses?? Dude, you're freakin' us out here.
I was afraid if I gave too much detail the government might raid our school looking for fake passport dealers.
are we teaching our kids to be afraid of science?"
Yes, but that's not all. My (significant other) is a school teacher. Now MY (significant other) is teaching kids about foreign cultures. The other night I walked in on my (significant other) making passports. Now they are only for k-3rd grade so they are pretty cheesy and no one could possibly mistake them for real ones but still, the first thing I thought about was the video game/terrorist recruitment confusion.
Even now, I am having to write this in such a way that the government will understand that this is just a class project for the very young so they don't get their panties in a bunch when they read this through their now legal spybots.
IT'S JUST A SIMPLE CRAFT PROJECT FOR KINDERGARTNERS TO LEARN ABOUT OTHER COUNTRIES PRINTED ON 8.5X11 AND AN OLD INKJET!
It's an attitude which I saw way too much of in the military, and one which, in the *cough* post-9/11 era, has pretty much taken over every level of government from the White House to your local city council.
/. community (and America realizes) what I have come to sincerely believe. This isn't a Bush thing, it isn't a Republican thing, it's a government thing and we, the people, are losing control. I'm not really sure how to get it back but my approach right now is to vote against any incumbent regardless of party to make a statement that this is unacceptable.
I tend to agree and hope the rest of the
So, who will our third party candidate be this year?
Aside from the fact that you left out "Unlawful", this site and an aweful lot of its posters would have agreed with most, if not all, of these. Sadly, the only one that probably doesn't belong i your list is China and maybe the UN. I'm not sure they have broken any of their own laws.
/. for quoting someone politically unpopular with the current modding regime)
Now that might put the rest into some sort of perspective.
Then again, Americans have always had a history of breaking laws they don't like rather than just changing them.
-- If tomorrow morning the Bundestag adopted a 100-kilometer or 62-mile-an-hour speed limit, virtually every German would obey it the next day. Of course, at the next election they would massacre the current generation of politicians and they would elect The No Speed Limit Party. My understanding is that the American cultural response to the challenge of speed limits is substantially different from the German cultural response. In most of America, a speed limit is a benchmark of opportunity.
N.G.(Full name withheld for fear of being negatively modded on
Bastards! They deleted the source files!
Damn guys. You won. Did you have to salt the earth too?
Since Opera 9 is the only browser to pass the ACID2 test, is strict compliance really necessary?
2 15227).
Only? Opera wasn't even the first (http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/28/1
I think konqueuror was second. I guess someone cares. Probably everyone except MS. That would be about par for the course.
but it looks like the christian right's prediliction for censorship is starting to ruffle his feathers.
As someone who is devoutly christian and historically conservative, I would really appreciate it if you didn't lump me in with this crowd. I'm not alone. This kind of garbage is neither christian nor conservative. Just because the leader of the mob claims to be something doesn't mean you should believe him or label those who are that something as being like him.
I recognize that the media has created a term "Religious Right" and some meaning is inferred but it really is a bad/wrong/inapropriate/misleading label.
I don't mean this to sound like a harsh rebuke to the poster but I am just as angry about this as anyone else and more than most (as a professional librarian it hits pretty close to home).
The name combines the first human name found in the Bible, Eve, with the 'r' in robot.
Technically, shouldn't they have named it after the second name in the bible? Although the firrst name IS the second person so maybe the article just emphasizes the wrong logic?
What does it say that this is the most comment worthy thing I got from this article?
It's sad to see so many of my compatriots being turned into lemmings.
95% of the world uses Windows and Mac people are Lemmings? I think we can see who the real zealots are here.
__
The box claims that the software "fixes thousands of Windows problems automatically". Now I ask you, why
would you want an operating system with thousands of problems?
Am I the only one who just wanted a browser that would launch/display acurately, securely and reliably? 90% of my personal browsing is News (like Slashdot/GoogleNews) and online Banking and (I hate to admit it) checking xbox.com to see who is on Live at any given moment. The rest is downloading drivers and patches for the most part. From a professional standpoint, researching (Like Lexis/Nexis) is a big one. Nothing too demanding there. Couldn't we just focus on getting the basics really right? I feel the same way about OS's and Cell Phones.