Dell has about 2.4B shares out there. Apple has 830M or so. So, per share, Dell is returning 38 cents per share, and Apple returns 46 cents. How do you like them apples?
The article annoyingly refers to this as "Broadcast Flag On Steroids", but who cares? That concept was tossed out--on it's unanimous ass, mind you--by the DC Court of Appeals. An opinion filed by our current Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. This thing is as least as obtrusive as the Broadcast Flag, which the Court says was unenforceable because the FCC doesn't have the power to tell manufacturers how to build things. How could this bill be treated any differently?
This is a better review than the damn article. Next time you buy a game within a month of release or so, brokenarmsgordon, write up a review. Seriously. It reads well, comments intelligently on the game and the genre, &c. Well done.
The crazy angles happen during "Crash Time", when your car has wrecked. You can hold down a button to slow time down and guide your car into others for more bonus points. The angles are a pain in the ass, as you need to adjust your controls to keep your car moving in the same direction. E.g. If you enter Crash Time when viewing from behind, you guide left to take out that other car--but the camera switches to view from the front, you have to flip the control to the right. It's kind of dumb, but you get used to it.
What are the load times like? They are looooooooong in Burnout 3 on the PS2. You wait to load the level (even a small "Crash" Level), you wait to see your replay, you wait to get your bonus car, &c. The game was fun, but I really hoped they managed to tone those intervals down. It's difficult to maintain that heightened energy level when there 15 seconds of waiting between each interesting part.
One critical difference -- do you demand the parents pay for the goods stolen, or do you demand the kid's entire college fund?
AMEN! Let's say the retailer sells toy dolls. Does the retailer get the folks to cough up for the stolen doll, or for (cost of the doll)*(# of kids with which your child might play with said doll). Let's says it's watches--does the retailer get the price of one boosted Timex, or the (cost of a Timex)*(number of people that will ask your child "What time is it?").
These cases are just amazing, as are brick-and-mortar store owner's support of them. Just -think- for a second. The RIAA is NOT LIKE YOU. They are not selling physical objects, and defending those sales. They are protecting a sequence of sounds from being heard by anyone that doesn't pay them enough rent.
an IPO of the Xbox division would generate a metric ton of revenue
How much is that exactly? A single note of US currency weighs abut a gram. A metric ton is 1,000,000 grams, so they would stand to make somewhere between $1M USD (if a metric ton of $1 dollar bills to $100M USD assuming they are limited to bills in common circulation.) That's not very much. I think they'd want more something in the kiloton/gigagram range.
I could see this turning into a competitor for snopes. I have always HATED the layout of that site, but it's so damn indispensible. I would love to able to turn to a wiki for the same "No, you're an idiot for forwarding this to me" insights that have made me smile in the past.
Sadly, I believe the Uncyclopedia could quickly turn into some kind of meta-statement on itself, with every urban legend having "supporters" and detractors. I mean, if I turn to it for real information about bullshit, then aren't they obligated to obfuscate the truth?
are you aware that they have a version of nethack running on the psp?
I was not aware of that. How annoying is it? I can't imagine playing nethack without a keyboard. Honestly, I'm at a loss. Have you played it? This could be very important information.
I'm just kicking it on the fence here waiting to see how things go. I'm a long time gamer (Odyssey2 bitches! PickAxe Pete in the hizzouse!), have tons of disposable income, and prefer excellent games over excellent graphics every time. I still play Diablo 2 weekly, and currently have a nethack thing going.
But I still don't know which of these, if either, I want. For a while I had the PSP on my Amazon wishlist, now it's a DS--maybe I'll switch back--I kind of want someone else to decide for me. Here's how I see them: The DS has better games (Kirby Canvas Curse, Advance Wars, Meteos), the PSP has the better screen and homebrew possibilities. The DS is cheaper, but the PSP can play movies.
Neither of them has managed to court me sufficiently. Maybe by year end the games will decide it.
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The server spewing out spam in Northern California? chatbox-smtp-out19.apple.com! Straight out of Cupertino! Isn't this one of those, "Is this really spam?" situations? I think I got one of these after signing up for iTunes too. Clicked the link and haven't heard from them in 2+ years. It's weird to see them lumped in with Myanmar and L0wRateAdv1s0rs.
The author is now working for Apple - although from what I've seen of Spotlight he does his best work when his resources are constrained, a situation he is not experiencing with Apple.
Is Spotlight not some of his best work because of design, or because of execution? I've heard the real drags on Spotlight performance come from where it is defaulted to index, not necessarily the manner in which it does that indexing. At Be, Giampaolo and Meurillon had to do everything themselves, by and large. So their talented vision is evinced throughout. At Apple, he's on the file system and Spotlight teams; but is he making final decision on all the hooks his products have on ship?
You are right... obviously you have to be right. I mean you are... well... nobody?
Whereas Hans Reiser is merely the creator of two of the best filesystems that exist. Thanks for clearing things up for us... ... though admittedly you do give the impression of a pointlessly babbling idiot, truth be told.
Thanks for not getting it. I'm not saying Hans is not talented. He certainly is. What I am saying is that he shouldn't at a breath badmouth every other team developing operating systems, because he is drawing on his "10-year effort." He begrudgingly throws a qualified compliment to Dominic Giampaolo because he thinks Spotlight is "neat", and then spends four questions crapping WinFS. [The WinFS team] gave up on this, they gave up on that, they can't plan for 10 years like me, etc. But he counts Reiser3 as dev for Reiser4? But NTFS is somehow not dev for WinFS? I don't understand this disconnect, and I feel like he lacks humility to a fault.
You can have your opinion of Hans and of me and express them, but don't get riled up because I don't agree. This is a forum for comment and discussion--I'm sorry it's not all going your way.
"A 10-year effort", but by whom? Hans and friends? I have a 10-year effort going on being a millionaire right now, but you know who'd be better at it? Someone with a million dollars. Also, what is he implying by saying this effort is 10-years old? Is there 10-year old code in there? Isn't this what Microsoft gets harangued about every time they release an operating system? Or, is he stating that design work and implementation strategies have been in process for 10 years--hasn't Microsoft been making it's own OS's for 22 years? Should we ignore any expertise garnered? If we do, why not ignore efforts Reiser made for Reiser3?
That comment is remarkably infantile. "If I have seen further than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants--DUMB GIANTS THAT SUCK!"
NASA, nasa, or Nasa? The article summary has all three.
The scoop on MSNBC has it that nasa will not fly again until next fall. With NASA's reluctance to get back into space, and Hubble dying, We just wonder when private industry will put Nasa out of the game.
What's that word that starts with a "P" and ends with "oor Editing"?
The probe will encounter an alien intelligence, prompting self-awareness. Its return trip will be hastened because it can no longer hear the haunting song of the then long extinct humpback whale. Why must we have such hubris?
I worked for a company and the guys responsible for hiring tech gave me their take on certifictions (<--NOT A TYPO): They are not worth the toilet paper they are printed on. EXCEPT a Cisco certification. A person actually had to know something to get one of those.
I'm calling it 25% good sleuthing, 75% dumb criminal.
You just figured out about 95% of police work. Despite what shit-shows like CSI, Profile, &c., would have you believe; catching most criminals usually comes down to finding the dipshit dumb enough to leave his stuff all over the scene.
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9.6% of $ 4B = $384M.
Dell has about 2.4B shares out there. Apple has 830M or so. So, per share, Dell is returning 38 cents per share, and Apple returns 46 cents. How do you like them apples?
That should be an albinoblacksheep production: Where In The Hell Is Carmen Sandiego? Like Windows RG edition.
I'm cashing in all my Insightful points. He was on the Court for this ruling, though. Wikipedia, I choose you!
Here's a link to the EFF's Broadcast Flag work.
Here's a PDF link to [then] Circuit Judge Edwards' decision in ALA v. FCC.
I think the phrase, "Then I got turned into an eggplant", can be used to distinguish the video game cogniscenti from the rabble. Kid Icarus forever.
This is a better review than the damn article. Next time you buy a game within a month of release or so, brokenarmsgordon, write up a review. Seriously. It reads well, comments intelligently on the game and the genre, &c. Well done.
The crazy angles happen during "Crash Time", when your car has wrecked. You can hold down a button to slow time down and guide your car into others for more bonus points. The angles are a pain in the ass, as you need to adjust your controls to keep your car moving in the same direction. E.g. If you enter Crash Time when viewing from behind, you guide left to take out that other car--but the camera switches to view from the front, you have to flip the control to the right. It's kind of dumb, but you get used to it.
What are the load times like? They are looooooooong in Burnout 3 on the PS2. You wait to load the level (even a small "Crash" Level), you wait to see your replay, you wait to get your bonus car, &c. The game was fun, but I really hoped they managed to tone those intervals down. It's difficult to maintain that heightened energy level when there 15 seconds of waiting between each interesting part.
These cases are just amazing, as are brick-and-mortar store owner's support of them. Just -think- for a second. The RIAA is NOT LIKE YOU. They are not selling physical objects, and defending those sales. They are protecting a sequence of sounds from being heard by anyone that doesn't pay them enough rent.
Sadly, I believe the Uncyclopedia could quickly turn into some kind of meta-statement on itself, with every urban legend having "supporters" and detractors. I mean, if I turn to it for real information about bullshit, then aren't they obligated to obfuscate the truth?
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"Bail is set, to, I don't know, $27,648.33. I'm a judge and I can do what I want."
But I still don't know which of these, if either, I want. For a while I had the PSP on my Amazon wishlist, now it's a DS--maybe I'll switch back--I kind of want someone else to decide for me. Here's how I see them: The DS has better games (Kirby Canvas Curse, Advance Wars, Meteos), the PSP has the better screen and homebrew possibilities. The DS is cheaper, but the PSP can play movies.
Neither of them has managed to court me sufficiently. Maybe by year end the games will decide it.
The server spewing out spam in Northern California? chatbox-smtp-out19.apple.com! Straight out of Cupertino! Isn't this one of those, "Is this really spam?" situations? I think I got one of these after signing up for iTunes too. Clicked the link and haven't heard from them in 2+ years. It's weird to see them lumped in with Myanmar and L0wRateAdv1s0rs.
No, even better, something I have to actually crank on the front to turn the fucker over! Hells yeah!
You can have your opinion of Hans and of me and express them, but don't get riled up because I don't agree. This is a forum for comment and discussion--I'm sorry it's not all going your way.
That comment is remarkably infantile. "If I have seen further than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants--DUMB GIANTS THAT SUCK!"
I was referring to the command line program. Or not.
ps, yes I know it's NASA.
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KHAAAAAAAAN!
I worked for a company and the guys responsible for hiring tech gave me their take on certifictions (<--NOT A TYPO): They are not worth the toilet paper they are printed on. EXCEPT a Cisco certification. A person actually had to know something to get one of those.