The last few years I've looked forward to trying to guess which Slashdot story was the fake one on April 1st. I think Last Years was pretty good, but I don't really remember.
But when you try to do it over and over like this it's really stupid and takes away all the fun of it.
The only problem with Deviantart for me has always been that it's painfully slow, from whatever connection I use (home on Cable, work on a pair of OC3's, friends house, etc.) Maybe some times of the day it's better, and I always hit a slow time. Who knows.
But the site is very cool and there's some great stuff on there making the wait worth it.
"PS. But at least it has games to play other than Halo."
Just because Halo is popular, and Game Cube has no big huge popular titles, doesn't mean there's no other games. In fact, there's many games that are on both GC and Xbox.
So hey, at least the XBox has games to play besides Mario whatever.
I don't like Halo. I enjoy FPS games on the PC a lot more with the mouse control. Only time I've ever played it was when I take the thing to a friends' house. And I've only done that twice.
While some people will call "bullshit" on you - I have to agree.
While I'm not saying that KDE is inherently better, or that I use whatever newfangled WM and it's "so much better I never looked back." They all need work.
But I really just don't like Gnome because it's been unstable for me. It's not my RAM either; I haven't been using the same computer for the last 10 years as I'm sure you haven't been either.
Unrelated to stability: When you want a full DE for Linux, you pretty much choose between KDE or Gnome. KDE is more polished and better looking, it's fast on any machine I've used it on, it's pretty darned stable, and there's a lot more innovation with it. If all Linux GUI apps were written within the KDE space, it would rock.
KDE attempts to become more then "just UNIX with a nice GUI." I've always liked it, and whether or not it feels like Windows is moot. Who cares. It works.
I suppose so. But as a general rule, people don't carry their game consoles around all the time. I've taken my XBox to a friends house so we could play some 16 player Halo, and it fit in my backpack just fine. I wouldn't want to lug it around everywhere, but every once in awhile it's not that big a deal. It's not like it weighs 20 pounds or anything like that.
You're probably wrong. The original controllers are a bit large. Of course, unless you're 5 years old you can reach all the buttons no problem. Better then the N64 controllers, at least.
The only one that's thick here are you guys that think a box that's a foot wide is "WAY TOO BIG DUDE!!!111 And M$ SUKS!!!111"
Oh well, I shouldn't even bother replying to an ignorant like you.
If you have enough room for a TV, game cube, and a stack of games - you have plenty of room for the Xbox.
Your analogies are just stupid. Comparing a few inches under a TV compared to a *car*? A huge ass TV in a tiny bathroom? Your point is lost in these really terrible comparisons.
And your point about fitting two Game Cubes in the "volume" of the Xbox? Wtf?
If you have enough room for any TV, you have more then enough room for the Xbox. We're not talking about a 10 foot projector screen here - we're talking about a small box here. It's not that big.
You can go on and on about how you can't fit it in a *room* but there's no way to validate such a thing. You probably just hate Microsoft and so you're trying to say the entire system is shit because it's a couple inches bigger then the Game Cube.
ps. Not that it matters, but the Game Cube isn't nearly as powerful as a game system. You also can't mod it in order to upgrade the drive and install emulators, media players, and all sorts of cool stuff on it.
I had mod points, but this was too stupid to just mod down.
The XBox isn't that big, and you don't have to have room above it to open the CD slot. You can tuck it under something and still have access to it.
All these people say "Wow, it's big" and sure, it's slightly larger then some game systems have been in the past. But it's hardly bigger then the original Nintendo, it requires a lot less space above it then the Game Cube (not to mention any of the older systems like the Genesis, SNES, etc,) And it's only an inch wider then the PS2.
Saying "I don't have room for that" when you DO have the room for the game cube is just a load of crap.
Yes, and I mentioned they made several improvements in Visio 2003, but when they purchased Visio in 2000, Microsoft made no changes to the product at that time. They took Visio 2000, which was a great product, and stuck a Microsoft sticker on it.
Visio is a really cool program for doing all sorts of diagrams. It's great for network diagrams and flow charts, application diagrams, among hundreds of other uses. Some people even use it for crime scene diagrams.
It was made by Visio corporation. It was purchased by Microsoft in 2000, where they simply re-labeled it "Microsoft Visio 2000" and did nothing else to the product.
In 2003, they upgraded Visio with more detailed shapes and other visual enhancements, along with add-on tools you can use to auto-discover and map out your network into Visio diagrams for you. You can also export a Visio to a web page, with clickable objects and everything.
If you run Windows, it's definately worth a look-see, especially if you have to document any sort of network or process.
I'm not a devote christian. I grew up in a Catholic family that didn't make it to Church every Sunday. But I do feel as though I learned many good lessons of life from church and CCD.
Do I consider myself a Roman Cathloc anymore? Probably not. As a person that works with technology and uses logic as a part of my every day life, I can't resonably take the bible literally. But does that completely disqualify me from being a Catholic? Where's the rule book that says you must take the bible literally?
"Almighty being? Grow up."
Did I say I believed this? I think you just browsed my post, picked up the points you wanted to bitch about, and slapped down some crap. Good job! My point was that I don't understand how *some people* (read: the religious fundamentalists we're talking about) can believe the bible word for word but can't believe that evolution was the method god used?
"And that crap HASN'T been going on for thousands of years?"
But weren't things starting to look like they might improve? Why accept this?
Why do I bother - no way to win a arguement with an ignorant man.
If they are set to serve local customers, to make money as a business, why would they limit their audience to the minority?
A lot of Schools go to the IMAX to see scientific films, and most of those films discuss something like how life started or life on other planets in some form or another. Without these films, there will be no reason to take kids to see it.
And those are the same films that many people find interesting. I know I do, and a lot of people I know. Who wants to go to the IMAX to see anything else?
I don't know what makes you think that the target audience for the IMAX is religious extremists? The IMAX and Omni theaters have always had a science theme.
When I was growing up as a kid, I never thought that Science and the Bible were necessarily in conflict. Most people believe that the bible represents a guide and isn't to be taken absolutely literally.
For instance, the whole "God created the Earth in seven days." Seven days could mean seven million years, or seven billion years. It's worded in a way that man can understand. Why do people reject Evolution, when it could have been God that kickstarted the whole thing?
I can't say that I believe these things anymore but if you can believe that there is an almighty being that created us, why can't you also believe that this being crafted the universe as we know it now, and all the wonders it contains that science as yet to scratch the surface on?
It's a scary time when the few people with extreme religious views can change the life of everyone to suit their needs.
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The mainboard is the computer. Especially now a days, with all the integration - gone are the days of a CPU slot, two chips, and some ISA slots.
The CPU is obviously important, but it's almost secondary to the duties that modern mainboards perform.
Yea, you see a * next to their names. You can change the modifier for people that pay, too. I give them an automatic -1.
THEN we'd also need all the people that bitch about the people that bitch to stop bitching, too!!
HAHAH GOOD IDEA AHAHA.... THAT would be HILARIOUS!!!
Hehe yea, I was actually thinking that. But then I realized that the Slashdot "editors" just aren't that savvy.
The last few years I've looked forward to trying to guess which Slashdot story was the fake one on April 1st. I think Last Years was pretty good, but I don't really remember.
But when you try to do it over and over like this it's really stupid and takes away all the fun of it.
The only problem with Deviantart for me has always been that it's painfully slow, from whatever connection I use (home on Cable, work on a pair of OC3's, friends house, etc.) Maybe some times of the day it's better, and I always hit a slow time. Who knows.
But the site is very cool and there's some great stuff on there making the wait worth it.
"PS. But at least it has games to play other than Halo."
Just because Halo is popular, and Game Cube has no big huge popular titles, doesn't mean there's no other games. In fact, there's many games that are on both GC and Xbox.
So hey, at least the XBox has games to play besides Mario whatever.
I don't like Halo. I enjoy FPS games on the PC a lot more with the mouse control. Only time I've ever played it was when I take the thing to a friends' house. And I've only done that twice.
"Ignorant is an adjective."
In your case, it's a noun.
Your post proves that:
1- Anti-slashdotters like to make blanket statements about "all slashdotters"
2- Anti-slashdotters will flood every single comments section with their overused comments
3- Anti-slashdotters will always be modded up because no slashdotters actually think the anti-slashdotter is referring to them, so there, NYAH!
While some people will call "bullshit" on you - I have to agree.
While I'm not saying that KDE is inherently better, or that I use whatever newfangled WM and it's "so much better I never looked back." They all need work.
But I really just don't like Gnome because it's been unstable for me. It's not my RAM either; I haven't been using the same computer for the last 10 years as I'm sure you haven't been either.
Unrelated to stability: When you want a full DE for Linux, you pretty much choose between KDE or Gnome. KDE is more polished and better looking, it's fast on any machine I've used it on, it's pretty darned stable, and there's a lot more innovation with it. If all Linux GUI apps were written within the KDE space, it would rock.
KDE attempts to become more then "just UNIX with a nice GUI." I've always liked it, and whether or not it feels like Windows is moot. Who cares. It works.
Haha, that's what I was going to say =)
If your machine takes 5 days to compile *anything* then it's a pretty clear sign, wouldn't you say?
I suppose so. But as a general rule, people don't carry their game consoles around all the time. I've taken my XBox to a friends house so we could play some 16 player Halo, and it fit in my backpack just fine. I wouldn't want to lug it around everywhere, but every once in awhile it's not that big a deal. It's not like it weighs 20 pounds or anything like that.
You're probably wrong. The original controllers are a bit large. Of course, unless you're 5 years old you can reach all the buttons no problem. Better then the N64 controllers, at least.
The only one that's thick here are you guys that think a box that's a foot wide is "WAY TOO BIG DUDE!!!111 And M$ SUKS!!!111"
Oh well, I shouldn't even bother replying to an ignorant like you.
If you have enough room for a TV, game cube, and a stack of games - you have plenty of room for the Xbox.
Your analogies are just stupid. Comparing a few inches under a TV compared to a *car*? A huge ass TV in a tiny bathroom? Your point is lost in these really terrible comparisons.
And your point about fitting two Game Cubes in the "volume" of the Xbox? Wtf?
If you have enough room for any TV, you have more then enough room for the Xbox. We're not talking about a 10 foot projector screen here - we're talking about a small box here. It's not that big.
You can go on and on about how you can't fit it in a *room* but there's no way to validate such a thing. You probably just hate Microsoft and so you're trying to say the entire system is shit because it's a couple inches bigger then the Game Cube.
ps. Not that it matters, but the Game Cube isn't nearly as powerful as a game system. You also can't mod it in order to upgrade the drive and install emulators, media players, and all sorts of cool stuff on it.
I had mod points, but this was too stupid to just mod down.
The XBox isn't that big, and you don't have to have room above it to open the CD slot. You can tuck it under something and still have access to it.
All these people say "Wow, it's big" and sure, it's slightly larger then some game systems have been in the past. But it's hardly bigger then the original Nintendo, it requires a lot less space above it then the Game Cube (not to mention any of the older systems like the Genesis, SNES, etc,) And it's only an inch wider then the PS2.
Saying "I don't have room for that" when you DO have the room for the game cube is just a load of crap.
So... What happens when I say this:
Microsoft bob is like Clippy with a hair cut!!!11
(because, clippy has no hair, get it?)
Just a theory...
Yes, and I mentioned they made several improvements in Visio 2003, but when they purchased Visio in 2000, Microsoft made no changes to the product at that time. They took Visio 2000, which was a great product, and stuck a Microsoft sticker on it.
It was just a statement, no more then that.
Visio is a really cool program for doing all sorts of diagrams. It's great for network diagrams and flow charts, application diagrams, among hundreds of other uses. Some people even use it for crime scene diagrams.
It was made by Visio corporation. It was purchased by Microsoft in 2000, where they simply re-labeled it "Microsoft Visio 2000" and did nothing else to the product.
In 2003, they upgraded Visio with more detailed shapes and other visual enhancements, along with add-on tools you can use to auto-discover and map out your network into Visio diagrams for you. You can also export a Visio to a web page, with clickable objects and everything.
If you run Windows, it's definately worth a look-see, especially if you have to document any sort of network or process.
Really, no need to be such a rude little person.
I'm not a devote christian. I grew up in a Catholic family that didn't make it to Church every Sunday. But I do feel as though I learned many good lessons of life from church and CCD.
Do I consider myself a Roman Cathloc anymore? Probably not. As a person that works with technology and uses logic as a part of my every day life, I can't resonably take the bible literally. But does that completely disqualify me from being a Catholic? Where's the rule book that says you must take the bible literally?
"Almighty being? Grow up."
Did I say I believed this? I think you just browsed my post, picked up the points you wanted to bitch about, and slapped down some crap. Good job! My point was that I don't understand how *some people* (read: the religious fundamentalists we're talking about) can believe the bible word for word but can't believe that evolution was the method god used?
"And that crap HASN'T been going on for thousands of years?"
But weren't things starting to look like they might improve? Why accept this?
Why do I bother - no way to win a arguement with an ignorant man.
If they are set to serve local customers, to make money as a business, why would they limit their audience to the minority?
A lot of Schools go to the IMAX to see scientific films, and most of those films discuss something like how life started or life on other planets in some form or another. Without these films, there will be no reason to take kids to see it.
And those are the same films that many people find interesting. I know I do, and a lot of people I know. Who wants to go to the IMAX to see anything else?
I don't know what makes you think that the target audience for the IMAX is religious extremists? The IMAX and Omni theaters have always had a science theme.
When I was growing up as a kid, I never thought that Science and the Bible were necessarily in conflict. Most people believe that the bible represents a guide and isn't to be taken absolutely literally.
For instance, the whole "God created the Earth in seven days." Seven days could mean seven million years, or seven billion years. It's worded in a way that man can understand. Why do people reject Evolution, when it could have been God that kickstarted the whole thing?
I can't say that I believe these things anymore but if you can believe that there is an almighty being that created us, why can't you also believe that this being crafted the universe as we know it now, and all the wonders it contains that science as yet to scratch the surface on?
It's a scary time when the few people with extreme religious views can change the life of everyone to suit their needs.
... on how to make easy money!
No. Maybe "The type of people who select the articles for Slashdot need to hear about conspiracy."
Don't blame the rest of us.
I guess all you have to do these days to get a headline article on Slashdot is to write up some silly editorials about what "I propose google does."
This isn't news, it's boring. I'm sure there were plenty of better stories to post up there, and they picked this one. Wheee.