indeed. I like having one machine that plays games, does work, and handles just about anything else I need to do. I can't see it being good to have a separate machine to do all of the things a general purpose computer can do (besides games). Having it all in one box is not only convenient, it's more environmentally friendly. There are heavy metals and toxic materials inside consumer electronics, and the fewer we send to landfills the better.
purchasing Sega would have been a really stupid idea. For one thing, Sega has never really made a compedative piece of hardware since the Master System (man that thing was awesome). Secondly, at the time this was happening, Sega was already planning to get out of the hardware market. MS would essentially just be buying a half-assed development house. Althought the Dreamcast itself was a good console, Sega had no market share because of the lousy development. Microsoft is going to run into the same problems with the X-Box. It's a nice piece of hardware, but they don't have the good developers making anything exclusively for it, and the exclusive stuff they have is junk. No reason to spend the $500 on a x-box when you can get a ps2 for half that.
According to Monday's complaint, the Motion Picture Association of America, which represents major Hollywood studios, has been quoted in newspaper articles as threatening to sue 321 to stop it from distributing DVD Copy Plus, saying it may violate the DMCA. The group also has asked the FBI to investigate 321's activities, the court filing said.
I'd better hurry up and file a lawsuit because I think that my next door neighbour may be writing software that clones babies that write CD copying software. I expect complete US court compliance and an FBI investigation.....oh wait...that's right...I don't own the US government...silly me, I forgot that I wasn't a huge corporation or an orginization that represents a bunch of them...
you can't post a comment like that on/. Having an opinion that is funny, but doesn't praise *NIX, you get troll. Come post on K5...where you can have opinions. Oh, and modding this down only proves my point.
is teaching cat | grep . I don't think I use any command combo more than this other than ls -al. Piping and redirection is really important stuff for Microphiles to learn right away. It's a great way to show off the power of a CLI.
you can do most of your word processing in HTML...i know people that have gone their entire school careers just using an HTML editor for writing documents.
Actuallly I'm a fan of the Mac, I use one for music production all the time. Every company will make questionable business practices at some point. Look at Steve Jobs, he pretty much screwed Wosniak out of a huge amount of money when Apple was started...
I think you really should have taken 'Ethics' in college: yes, absolutely, I can say that if Microsoft (their name isn't really 'M$': M$ is a cartoon, Microsoft is real) offered me financial security for my work, I would turn them down.
That's all fine and dandy, for you. But you have to remember that Ethics are a very personal thing... one person's ethics do not have to match another's. For me, it would be fine to take money from an unethical company and do something posative with it, like support charities and help the needy.
Now, let's have some of the nice randite posters moderate this down as flamebait- because, in fact, it is pretty scathing. I guess the "c'mon, you know you'd take their money if they were offering" was more insulting to me than I'd first realized.
It wasn't mean to be insulting, but to provoke thought beyond the simple "Microsoft is bad" reaction. Microsoft, tho they have done many unethical things, have done many good things...where would your PC be without Microsoft? You probably wouldn't have a machine to run linux on.
In the end, what CS students want to use really makes no difference. Businesses will continue to purchase and implement M$ products because they have been used for so long. (Don't flame for this) They are a proven technology. It will take at least as long for Linux to take over business as it did for M$ to do it. Probably longer now becuase M$ has a stranglehold on a much larger market than when they burst onto the scene.
What ends up making the big difference will be if CS students who love their Linux (bless em) get into senior management positions in fortune 500 companies....
Oh, and this
"If I made a great product, and Microsoft offered me a lot of money, I would spit in their faces," says Brett Slatkin, a student at Columbia University in New York. His colleagues roll their eyes and accuse him of being stuck at the "hippy stage."
Can anyone honestly say that if M$ offered them financial security for your work, you would really turn them down? Just think of all the good you could do with that money. That good is worth more than your silly M$ hate...
...you would probably see little difference in performance. Every time we get a nice new line of processors, we also get a lovely new amount of bloat code in our operating systems.
"Now that we have a 110Ghz Chip, we can use it to link directly to your brain and blah blah..."
The prob with the P4 is it's crazy 20+ stage pipeline. It's design is almost counter-productive... I mean, it scales to really high Mhz pretty easy, but all of those pipeline flushes kill it in anything that isn't a 3-d game. And since most 3-d games use the graphics card almost exclusively now...I kinda wonder why you would want such a crazy processor.
The one thing it's good at, it doesn't get to do...
yeah...because it would be an upgrade...and you know how they have a corporate policy against releasing upgrades...
In the end, what it means is that M$ is just buying itself more time...they hold out on releasing the source as long as they can, and then when they give it up, it will take years to sort through the code...by then, they will be onto a new OS that has new "features" and we start the process over again.
is that why the crap would you have a FPU that can't add or multiply without programming it to do so? That's like making an Abacus with no little beads...
Fictional Conversation between an Abacus Salesman and a Consumer
Abacus Salesman: "It's a fully programmable addition unit"
Consumer: "Uhhh....it doesn't have any little beads...how am I supposed to add?"
Abacus Salesman: "You program it with a FP MAC adder of Zero and....blah blah blah."
Consumer: "Uh...sure, now tell me why I don't want to buy a regular abacus?? You know, the kind that does math?"
It's been abridged by so many people in so many eras so that it would suit their own designs...I mean, the King James version?? I think that if anyone will want to use the Bible for evidence, they need to get an un-abridged copy...i.e. the original...otherwise, it's all just heresay and conjecture.
I was under the impression that the metal casing on your hard drive was not only for fashionable dust protection, but also to help shield your drive against crazy EM crazyness...It would seem to me that a plexi-glass cover would lend to the faster degredation of your platters due to excessive EMI messing with your data.
"Woohoo look at those platters fly!! -- Homer Simpson (Abriged)
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indeed. I like having one machine that plays games, does work, and handles just about anything else I need to do. I can't see it being good to have a separate machine to do all of the things a general purpose computer can do (besides games). Having it all in one box is not only convenient, it's more environmentally friendly. There are heavy metals and toxic materials inside consumer electronics, and the fewer we send to landfills the better.
Fast, low operating costs, free black ink, fantastic color. If only there were consumer models...
so i guess this makes it a Certified Hoax...
It's all coded in perl with the Mod::Ressurection package.
purchasing Sega would have been a really stupid idea. For one thing, Sega has never really made a compedative piece of hardware since the Master System (man that thing was awesome). Secondly, at the time this was happening, Sega was already planning to get out of the hardware market. MS would essentially just be buying a half-assed development house. Althought the Dreamcast itself was a good console, Sega had no market share because of the lousy development. Microsoft is going to run into the same problems with the X-Box. It's a nice piece of hardware, but they don't have the good developers making anything exclusively for it, and the exclusive stuff they have is junk. No reason to spend the $500 on a x-box when you can get a ps2 for half that.
I'd better hurry up and file a lawsuit because I think that my next door neighbour may be writing software that clones babies that write CD copying software. I expect complete US court compliance and an FBI investigation.....oh wait...that's right...I don't own the US government...silly me, I forgot that I wasn't a huge corporation or an orginization that represents a bunch of them...
i'm running XP on a duron 800 and it whips along nicely...
just so you can choose your own area code...I think I'd like to be from Alaska (907)
you can't post a comment like that on /. Having an opinion that is funny, but doesn't praise *NIX, you get troll. Come post on K5...where you can have opinions. Oh, and modding this down only proves my point.
is teaching cat | grep . I don't think I use any command combo more than this other than ls -al. Piping and redirection is really important stuff for Microphiles to learn right away. It's a great way to show off the power of a CLI.
Let's fill it up via USB and have it take 10 million hours because USB is bum... stupid.
you can do most of your word processing in HTML...i know people that have gone their entire school careers just using an HTML editor for writing documents.
Actuallly I'm a fan of the Mac, I use one for music production all the time. Every company will make questionable business practices at some point. Look at Steve Jobs, he pretty much screwed Wosniak out of a huge amount of money when Apple was started...
That's all fine and dandy, for you. But you have to remember that Ethics are a very personal thing... one person's ethics do not have to match another's. For me, it would be fine to take money from an unethical company and do something posative with it, like support charities and help the needy.
Now, let's have some of the nice randite posters moderate this down as flamebait- because, in fact, it is pretty scathing. I guess the "c'mon, you know you'd take their money if they were offering" was more insulting to me than I'd first realized.
It wasn't mean to be insulting, but to provoke thought beyond the simple "Microsoft is bad" reaction. Microsoft, tho they have done many unethical things, have done many good things...where would your PC be without Microsoft? You probably wouldn't have a machine to run linux on.
What ends up making the big difference will be if CS students who love their Linux (bless em) get into senior management positions in fortune 500 companies....
Oh, and this "If I made a great product, and Microsoft offered me a lot of money, I would spit in their faces," says Brett Slatkin, a student at Columbia University in New York. His colleagues roll their eyes and accuse him of being stuck at the "hippy stage."
Can anyone honestly say that if M$ offered them financial security for your work, you would really turn them down? Just think of all the good you could do with that money. That good is worth more than your silly M$ hate...
"Now that we have a 110Ghz Chip, we can use it to link directly to your brain and blah blah..."
Faster hardware seems to be food for lazy coders.
The one thing it's good at, it doesn't get to do...
In the end, what it means is that M$ is just buying itself more time...they hold out on releasing the source as long as they can, and then when they give it up, it will take years to sort through the code...by then, they will be onto a new OS that has new "features" and we start the process over again.
Fictional Conversation between an Abacus Salesman and a Consumer
Abacus Salesman: "It's a fully programmable addition unit"
Consumer: "Uhhh....it doesn't have any little beads...how am I supposed to add?"
Abacus Salesman: "You program it with a FP MAC adder of Zero and ....blah blah blah."
Consumer: "Uh...sure, now tell me why I don't want to buy a regular abacus?? You know, the kind that does math?"
It's pointless to read those papers...Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principal says that by observing them, you are going to change their contents... hehehe
Hiesenberg's Uncertainty Principal says that just by observing those papers, you are going to change their contents... hehehe
It's been abridged by so many people in so many eras so that it would suit their own designs...I mean, the King James version?? I think that if anyone will want to use the Bible for evidence, they need to get an un-abridged copy...i.e. the original...otherwise, it's all just heresay and conjecture.
"Woohoo look at those platters fly!! -- Homer Simpson (Abriged)
...get AMD to put a proc in the thing, then market it as "MetaHeatingPad".
doesn't matter much to me, i'm Canadian :)