You are missing the point. Off all the connectors you mentioned (Ethernet, HDMI, Svideo, blah blah blah), most if not all are plug once and forget for most part or keep plugging 100 times in 5minutes till it works and forget it for most part.
USB devices on the other hand are numerous and most people (cannot cite a source since this is captain obvious territory) plug in and remove their USB devices frequently (many times a day?) - they not only use this for data transfer but also to charge their devices. Often the ports are vertical (Thinkpad laptops) and to the side (Dell monitors). If i had a better alternative for an idiot proof connector layout (not that I have given thought to it), I'd be patenting it right now.
Obviously the smart guys are paid to that job and imo, they aren't doing it that well. You would be bitching about a stereo jack or power charger connector if it wasn't just round and "insertable" as that's a connector you use a lot (way more frequently than a VGA). As for the CD, it doesn't take a lot of brains to put in a CD the right way. Stop arguing just for the sake of argument eh?
Half my cables don't have the little USB logo on them:( - I guess I should replace them. Also what about laptops where USB ports (vertical) are on either side and are mirrored. I guess if I paid attention, it would be less of a problem but I just want to insert.
If I had a penny for each time I inserted an USB cable incorrectly, reversed it and probably managed to insert it correctly, I'd be able to afford one of those high end Mac notebooks.
Looks like the saga will continue with USB3 as the connectors are designed the same. Why can't the connector be designed in such a way that just inserting *would just work* without having to worry about alignment. Too much to ask?
On the flip side, Tannenbaum would be happy: Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of 1TB external drives with USB3 ports hurtling down the highway. Or Ritchie - whoever said that.
Seattle missed out on spring this year and summer didn't set in till mid July and we had less than seven days of 70F+ (21C+) temperatures till around mid July.
Not sure if that's related to Vista sales from neighboring Redmond:P
All this coverage truly brings a tear to me eye:'(. I am surprised no one here has mentioned The Flashbacks. The Flashback2 atleast can be hacked to take the original 2600 cartridges:D
I quit playing WoW earlier this year (early March) and I must say that life's been great since. I wasn't a raider (but was doing arenas hardcore) but I fell victim to what's called "Altitis". I found that taking characters to 70 was fun and fast and pretty soon I ended up with four level 70s and two level 60s (61 and 62) when I quit.
So when Blizzard brought out new daily quests or new festival events, I felt compelled (OC ftl) to do every quest on every alt - needless to say that stupidity (or OC again) burned me out. Now I am doing a lot more with my "free" time. I am hoping that the expansion won't make me renew my account or somehow magically I'd be busy playing Fable2, Alan Wake and Fallout3 that I won't notice WoW. I only need to hold myself together till SC2 or Diablo3 comes out at which point resistance will be futile:(
Off-topic but it's S. Ossetia and while I am in no way taking sides, the Russian response was directed at Georgia's military action after Georgia refused to let South Ossetia's action of breaking away and claiming indepdence go unpunished.
This (Russian invasion of Georgia) is not even close to what happened in Iraq (full scale invasion by US led forces with a deceitful claim about WMDs that UN led inspectors said Iraq had none of).
Would you please cite your sources where you claim "Part of the reasons the IOC chose China was to shine a spotlight on their censorious, opaque and human-rights-violating ways.". Also what's the rest of the reason?
A couple of elderly women (70+) are being reducated for wanting to protest their eviction and their sin was timing their application during the Olympics. That and the incident where their poster golden boy broke down from too much training and his coach said the extreme pressure from the regime was to blame convinces me there is a god up there and he was looking after me for I was not born in China.
Yes, I am being melodramatic and I think it's apt.
T's still around and never until kdawson till I sat up and noticed how horrible a/. editor can be. I wonder if kdawson will have enough of a rotten reputation that if it turns out kdawson is actually an uber hot chick named Katie Dawson and slashdotters will still want kdawson to go. As of now, kdawson has consistently managed to stand out as an inept editor.
You tell them! I bought a Lenovo R61 preloaded with SUSE Linux and I was hoping there was an outside chance, the superkey didn't have windows imprinted on it - fat chance:\
An article of this magnitude (well it isn't but if it were true...) and the least the editor could've done is hover his mouse cursor over the link. Also this is old news (DN3D coming to XBLA).
Everyone else here pointed out the obvious. Kdawson, I volunteer my time to reading summaries and clicking on links before putting hogwash on games.slashdot (only games!). Thank you.
I have quite a few friends who work at MS and most of them recommend running XP over vista when asked the obvious question. It isn't a question of hardware being ready for it as much as the OS isn't optimized enough. To add to vista woes, MS brought out tons of SKUS to further confuse customers.
A friendly conversation I had with an MS employee led to his asking me as to why people wouldn't want to upgrade to the latest supported OS and my response was a local school scenario where the budget for the school doesn't exactly accommodate upgrading 30 PCs to be vista capable. An underpaid overworked school employee in charge of the computing lab would probably find it easier to use XP till the OS is supported and switch to a distribution like Ubuntu OR do a smart thing and make the switch to a Linux distribution now and not worry about the change later.
Also in the above scenario it's easier to get the kids used to a new distribution and even keeps them from the mischief they can do in the windows world. My friend had no answer to this except that if the school made a strong case and appealed for aid, MS might donate hardware and I believed my buddy that MS might actually do it.
This is not a case of MS being ahead in the timeline (BeOS was ahead of its time, not Vista) - this is a case of getting a halfbaked product out (look up "code optimization"). I give you just one example as to why not using Vista is beneficial but I am sure there are tons others.
I am a gamer (and yet I do not care about DX10 for now) and I have stayed away from Vista. I do not want a larger OS - I want an OS optimized for gaming. I have a dual core processor with 3 GB of ram and I do not want an OS that can use it all just for the sake of using resources. I am surprised you have been modded interesting...
It's not mind boggling (you doofus) if you consider most people (jesus fucking christ I am sick of this cliche) aka your average Joe doesn't know better. He/She's willing to pay a few hundred dollars for the latest laptop (which also happens to run Vista). Joe brings home his brand new shiny laptop with Vista+bloatware and wonders why he's cursed / why he sucks so much at computing.
I shake my head at Joe the same way I shake my head at people who pay 60$ for "gold plated" HDMI cables at Fry's but it's not my place to educate the 90% of the population. I can help my family, my friends and perhaps my neighbors but if people don't want to take 15-30mins to research before spending 100s of $ (or Euro, fuck the $) on undeserving hardware/software, they have it coming.
Of course, the them==Russians but I am getting a bit tired of the BS regarding the Chinese government. Everyone knows money vs ethics = money wins. Of course it is not in the hotel's interests to get fined or have no internet. Bah I hate cliches.
FF3 is just fine on my XP gaming machine. It's just FF3 + Ubuntu 8.04 = headache. Yes all my extensions are off, I cleaned out the cache and removed every trace of FF on my machine (including apt cache) before reinstalling FF. It's a change that Gmail has made that's causing me (and a few people) grief. If I put Gmail in the "Older version" mode, all is well.
If the build fixes my Gmail Firefox3 woes. I didn't have any issues with Firefox3b5 on Hardy Heron (Ubuntu 8.04) but ever since I upgraded to FF3.0 and (even 3.0.1 doesn't address my issue), Gmail and firefox3 hate each other.
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You are missing the point. Off all the connectors you mentioned (Ethernet, HDMI, Svideo, blah blah blah), most if not all are plug once and forget for most part or keep plugging 100 times in 5minutes till it works and forget it for most part.
USB devices on the other hand are numerous and most people (cannot cite a source since this is captain obvious territory) plug in and remove their USB devices frequently (many times a day?) - they not only use this for data transfer but also to charge their devices. Often the ports are vertical (Thinkpad laptops) and to the side (Dell monitors). If i had a better alternative for an idiot proof connector layout (not that I have given thought to it), I'd be patenting it right now.
Obviously the smart guys are paid to that job and imo, they aren't doing it that well. You would be bitching about a stereo jack or power charger connector if it wasn't just round and "insertable" as that's a connector you use a lot (way more frequently than a VGA). As for the CD, it doesn't take a lot of brains to put in a CD the right way. Stop arguing just for the sake of argument eh?
Half my cables don't have the little USB logo on them :( - I guess I should replace them. Also what about laptops where USB ports (vertical) are on either side and are mirrored. I guess if I paid attention, it would be less of a problem but I just want to insert.
If I had a penny for each time I inserted an USB cable incorrectly, reversed it and probably managed to insert it correctly, I'd be able to afford one of those high end Mac notebooks.
Looks like the saga will continue with USB3 as the connectors are designed the same. Why can't the connector be designed in such a way that just inserting *would just work* without having to worry about alignment. Too much to ask?
On the flip side, Tannenbaum would be happy: Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of 1TB external drives with USB3 ports hurtling down the highway. Or Ritchie - whoever said that.
Seattle missed out on spring this year and summer didn't set in till mid July and we had less than seven days of 70F+ (21C+) temperatures till around mid July.
Not sure if that's related to Vista sales from neighboring Redmond :P
All this coverage truly brings a tear to me eye :'(. I am surprised no one here has mentioned The Flashbacks. The Flashback2 atleast can be hacked to take the original 2600 cartridges :D
Blizzard could just pick up Edwin Starr's song: WAR, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing...
I quit playing WoW earlier this year (early March) and I must say that life's been great since. I wasn't a raider (but was doing arenas hardcore) but I fell victim to what's called "Altitis". I found that taking characters to 70 was fun and fast and pretty soon I ended up with four level 70s and two level 60s (61 and 62) when I quit.
So when Blizzard brought out new daily quests or new festival events, I felt compelled (OC ftl) to do every quest on every alt - needless to say that stupidity (or OC again) burned me out. Now I am doing a lot more with my "free" time. I am hoping that the expansion won't make me renew my account or somehow magically I'd be busy playing Fable2, Alan Wake and Fallout3 that I won't notice WoW. I only need to hold myself together till SC2 or Diablo3 comes out at which point resistance will be futile :(
Should've stuck to playing Riverraid or Pitfall :O
Your post proves that a low UID != common sense. Her younger age is an asset in her field which is why the whole bloody 16y rule exists.
Off-topic but it's S. Ossetia and while I am in no way taking sides, the Russian response was directed at Georgia's military action after Georgia refused to let South Ossetia's action of breaking away and claiming indepdence go unpunished.
This (Russian invasion of Georgia) is not even close to what happened in Iraq (full scale invasion by US led forces with a deceitful claim about WMDs that UN led inspectors said Iraq had none of).
Would you please cite your sources where you claim "Part of the reasons the IOC chose China was to shine a spotlight on their censorious, opaque and human-rights-violating ways.". Also what's the rest of the reason?
A couple of elderly women (70+) are being reducated for wanting to protest their eviction and their sin was timing their application during the Olympics. That and the incident where their poster golden boy broke down from too much training and his coach said the extreme pressure from the regime was to blame convinces me there is a god up there and he was looking after me for I was not born in China.
Yes, I am being melodramatic and I think it's apt.
Ditto, I noticed T when this sad recent post was updated.
T's still around and never until kdawson till I sat up and noticed how horrible a /. editor can be. I wonder if kdawson will have enough of a rotten reputation that if it turns out kdawson is actually an uber hot chick named Katie Dawson and slashdotters will still want kdawson to go. As of now, kdawson has consistently managed to stand out as an inept editor.
You tell them! I bought a Lenovo R61 preloaded with SUSE Linux and I was hoping there was an outside chance, the superkey didn't have windows imprinted on it - fat chance :\
What are you sinking about?
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I think you mean http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla_warfare. As for Gorilla Warfare, I am sure you can excuse the poor gorillas for fighting the good fight
An article of this magnitude (well it isn't but if it were true...) and the least the editor could've done is hover his mouse cursor over the link. Also this is old news (DN3D coming to XBLA).
Everyone else here pointed out the obvious. Kdawson, I volunteer my time to reading summaries and clicking on links before putting hogwash on games.slashdot (only games!). Thank you.
I have quite a few friends who work at MS and most of them recommend running XP over vista when asked the obvious question. It isn't a question of hardware being ready for it as much as the OS isn't optimized enough. To add to vista woes, MS brought out tons of SKUS to further confuse customers.
A friendly conversation I had with an MS employee led to his asking me as to why people wouldn't want to upgrade to the latest supported OS and my response was a local school scenario where the budget for the school doesn't exactly accommodate upgrading 30 PCs to be vista capable. An underpaid overworked school employee in charge of the computing lab would probably find it easier to use XP till the OS is supported and switch to a distribution like Ubuntu OR do a smart thing and make the switch to a Linux distribution now and not worry about the change later.
Also in the above scenario it's easier to get the kids used to a new distribution and even keeps them from the mischief they can do in the windows world. My friend had no answer to this except that if the school made a strong case and appealed for aid, MS might donate hardware and I believed my buddy that MS might actually do it.
This is not a case of MS being ahead in the timeline (BeOS was ahead of its time, not Vista) - this is a case of getting a halfbaked product out (look up "code optimization"). I give you just one example as to why not using Vista is beneficial but I am sure there are tons others.
I am a gamer (and yet I do not care about DX10 for now) and I have stayed away from Vista. I do not want a larger OS - I want an OS optimized for gaming. I have a dual core processor with 3 GB of ram and I do not want an OS that can use it all just for the sake of using resources. I am surprised you have been modded interesting...
It's not mind boggling (you doofus) if you consider most people (jesus fucking christ I am sick of this cliche) aka your average Joe doesn't know better. He/She's willing to pay a few hundred dollars for the latest laptop (which also happens to run Vista). Joe brings home his brand new shiny laptop with Vista+bloatware and wonders why he's cursed / why he sucks so much at computing.
I shake my head at Joe the same way I shake my head at people who pay 60$ for "gold plated" HDMI cables at Fry's but it's not my place to educate the 90% of the population. I can help my family, my friends and perhaps my neighbors but if people don't want to take 15-30mins to research before spending 100s of $ (or Euro, fuck the $) on undeserving hardware/software, they have it coming.
Plastic jugs you say? I'd have settled for silicone but this plastic of yours has me curious.
Trautman: What do you say John?
Rambo: Fuck 'em.
Of course, the them==Russians but I am getting a bit tired of the BS regarding the Chinese government. Everyone knows money vs ethics = money wins. Of course it is not in the hotel's interests to get fined or have no internet. Bah I hate cliches.
FF3 is just fine on my XP gaming machine. It's just FF3 + Ubuntu 8.04 = headache. Yes all my extensions are off, I cleaned out the cache and removed every trace of FF on my machine (including apt cache) before reinstalling FF. It's a change that Gmail has made that's causing me (and a few people) grief. If I put Gmail in the "Older version" mode, all is well.
If the build fixes my Gmail Firefox3 woes. I didn't have any issues with Firefox3b5 on Hardy Heron (Ubuntu 8.04) but ever since I upgraded to FF3.0 and (even 3.0.1 doesn't address my issue), Gmail and firefox3 hate each other.
To get a (hot) chick?