With x86, you have the choice to go AMD or Intel (or even one of the others) with the CPU, about a dozen or so motherboard makers (and a handful of chipset makers) the best compatibility with hardware, software, etc.
You're not at the mercy of one single company. Yes, the Microsoft point can be made, but you CAN run other OS's and moving forward all these Linux distributions just keep on getting better..
These Athlons are no slouch, either. They're quick chips and they shine when they run in 64-bit mode. While the OS support is still tentative, it will come, and then I see no reason to use a Mac at all unless you really like MacOS. It's not like this is the last batch of CPU's from AMD and Intel; they'll both probably have really great second generation 64-bit performance.
I like the Macs. I do find the MacOSX to be annoying to use just as any MacOS before it, but it works well and the machines are fast. Unfortunately the whole single-company thing just scares me. You never know, Apple could completely blow it and decide their desktop computer division is too much work and decide to only make iPods; then we'd be down shit's creek.
What you fail to realize is that Linux doesn't exist for newbies to switch off of Windows. It's not there to "Fight The Power."
It's an Operating System. Some people enjoy using it. I do; I love the things I can do with my unix boxes so easily that come so difficult on other systems (Windows.)
You can use it if you want to. There's so many great people working on making it better, easier, etc, that in the end it MAY very well be just as easy to handle as Windows. It's not there yet. What's the rush? So you can install it easier before you know the system?
You're inexperienced in the Internet world if you think that the Linux userbase is a bunch of "inconsiderate pricks." You should see some of the Windows help forums, or the help forums of... anything else, really. There's a lot of pricks out there, you can't avoid that. I have not found this to be any greater with Linuxish forums, mailing lists, etc. In fact, I find that Linux help groups are a lot BETTER then most; there's usually quite a few people that are really knowledgable and willing to help.
Your experience with being called a n00b could be due to the fact that you've been asking the same tired old questions, without reading any of the redily available information online or using the search function on forums. There's a lot of people that WANT to help you - even though you're a complete stranger - but these same people don't want to trudge through the same questions they've already answered a hundred times over.
If you just want to "USE THE COMPUTER" then just USE WHAT YOU KNOW HOW TO USE. Nobody is forcing you to use it. You get to justify the reasons all by yourself, and if you can't justify the learning curve to the benefits, then why do it?
Really, it doesn't matter. I'm not trying to get everyone to use Linux. I'm not telling my sister to install it. Neither is anyone else, really. You might hear from someone how great they think their Linux system is, and even say "you should give it a shot!" but it doesn't matter if you use it or not. Moving forward, when all the peices fall into place and your Linux distribution of choice is at the right level of comfort for you, we won't even have this discussion.
So relax; let the people developing this great system do their thing. When the state of the system is right for you, you'll know it. It'll happen, and until then do yourself a favor and don't worry about it.
Quote from you: " Not to mention that that this is the whole reason why linux will never be a mainstream desktop operating system..."
You really should add "today." at the end of that. Tomorrow, who knows?
And then there's the never ending replies to those posts by people like you who can't respect the fact that we can all have our own opinion on matters, and assume that the few posts from some boring people are representing of the entire slashdot readership.
Hey, SkyOS is a feat. It's neat. So what if this other guy isn't excited. Can't really say that I am either, but I always like seeing new developments like this popping up. Keeps things interesting.
While I agree with your statement in itself, I do not agree on the context.
There's no wrong-doing going on here. You took my code, and changed it, and now what you add something I like, I'm not supposed to be able to use that?
Not only is it allowed in the GPL from a legal standpoint, it's the right thing to do. If I forked your application and added something you liked, I don't see how I could be angry if you ported it to your fork; after all I just took an entire code base for my project.
Sharing is what the GPL is about and if you are angry about it, you should probably be working at a closed source shop.
It does seem like an odd purchase - but it's not like Toys'r'us buying xxxporn.com.
Both are in the same general area of data protection, and I can well imagine that Symantec will integrate many of their new products together; Brightmail, Veritas storage/replication/backup software, and client-side firewalls and AV.
Perhaps the market suits don't see it, and perhaps Veritas isn't an a rapidly growing market like AV/Security, but it's a solid company and I think it'll be good for Symantec.
Whether it's good for all the cool veritas software is yet to be seen.
Don't normally respond to an AC, but I'm feeling good about my arguement.
"If you think the majority of people on/. support GPL and suing file sharers, then you are correct."
Why do you associate "suing" with "against"? I can be against music file sharing AND suing people for their life savings over a few songs - and get get this - *at the same time*! Imagine that!
I believe that violating copyright is against the law, but I believe in fair punishment, and uploading a song to a half dozen people without permission should not result in a $50,000 fine.
Don't think I need to quote the rest of your post, since you've already been proven an idiot with other one.
Okay, so it was an IBM box. I was going to say, there ain't no dell like that that I know of. I have always liked the IBM server hardware.
And your parent poster was right; IBM actually develops new technology. Although many of their products are created with the same parts as anyone else, they use that revenue to do things like invent new microprocessors, memory, hard drive technologies, you name it. IBM is a cool company, even though they're really big. I feel as though IBM has learned it's lesson in the business world, and it's a good company that actually raises the state of the art, instead of just producing it.
Removing a few reg keys won't stop spyware. Spyware installs BHO's, reg keys, and all sorts of other nasty stuff to hijack your system and IE browser and make it unusable. Shit, in many cases, unless you somehow manage to stop a spyware process without another copy spawning itself, most of the time they monitor the registry and put the crap back as soon as you delete it.
Instead of that, try HijackThis!, a freeware program for listing out most possible entry points for spyware.
Or, of course, you could run both spybot and adaware.
There's always going to be views one way or another on ANY public forum. You've decided to pick up on a few people that support your arguement, which you could do with any arguement because slashdot has so many posts.
But I don't see it that way. I usually see both sides when I look at slashdot comments. If you choose to focus in on the trolls, that's your right, but it's ignorant and it doesn't speak for the entire slashdot community like you implied.
"I don't get why copyrights don't matter in P2P articles but they matter in "GPL source code theft" articles."
Says who, you?
What I don't get is why there's always posters like you who assume things like this.
At least someone said it.
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Although I am not a Bush fan.. political views aside.
I've been using computers since I was 8 years old, with my Commodore 64, and steady to the present. I read about new IT stuff out there daily, I play with the new stuff regularly, and I work in IT where I manage projects, troubleshoot issues, etc.
It's taken me almost two decades of regular computer use to make the salary I make now.
While I admit that much of the stuff I do could be considered simple, it's quite often not. Sure, I could tell a user their e-mail "can't go because something is wrong." But it's much better for me to be able to know that the other companies domain expired two days ago, that their mail server is not RFC 822 compliant, and that the recipients' mailbox is full. The depth of knowlede is what I get paid for, not just because of some of the actual duties included in my job.
So yea, to me the job is pretty easy. Performance evaluations of disk subsystems, reporting on messaging usage, and troubleshooting level 3 user issues are all pretty easy for me. But I dare you to find someone with less then 5 years hard experience do the job I can.
I think my salary is fair. I've worked my ass off for it and so has a lot of the IT community. Just because I enjoy what I work with doesn't mean I shouldn't be paid for it.
A lot of people here are going on and on and on about contracting in a very general way, or making large assumptions about your situation.
I did the same thing recently as you would do in this case. I came from a full time job, and I switched to a company as a contractor.
But don't let it confuse you. You're not a company, you don't have to incorporate, you won't have to charge 10x a normal salary because of "up times and down times."
Basically, you'll be working for this one company, on an hourly rate, with no benefits. The benefit will be a migher pay rate. If this company is like the one I'm working for now, contractors aren't treated any different then a normal employee. The company hires everyone as a contractor first (and, it goes on different budgets so it's easier to get a contractor quicker) and if you're any good, they will hire you in a resonable amount of time - that is, unless you like the way the contracting works.
I think that's the same situation as this job you're looking at.
We've got two Dave and Busters locations near me, in Rhode Island. There's on a a new mall, and it's only been there a few years - maybe five.
They have not done a single thing to keep the place running well. Almost all the games are the same games they put in five years ago, and when they break, they fix them 'enough' to run. For games that cost somtimes two dollars to play, you would hope that the seat works, the force-feedback steering wheel works, and the sounds work. But quite often, none of these are true.
The screens all have burn-in, too.
I mean, COME ON! Everyone I know, at least, agrees with me on D&B. Sure, it's a novel thing to be able to play a game with a beer and a cigarrette, but when the games are all old and decrepid the novelty wears off quick.
They make SO much money there, there's no excuse. Three years ago, the place ways always busy - lines every night. Now, there's nothing even close to a line at the place and I think it's the old crappy games, expensive beer, and dried out food that you can get within three hours of ordering it.
"Any UNIX admin asking for more than $80k in my mind needs to have an extremely good grasp on Perl, Expect, Hardware, and Solaris."
"I mean you should be able to stumble around and get done what you need to get done."
You must understand my confusion in this matter? I guess it's, well, impossible to understand what someone is suppose to -mean- when they say something quite to the contrary.
Any companies I've seen that have data centers with over a few hundred machine usually have a special network crew or person.
Old school, well, not sure what you mean by that really. In a non-farm environment such as the one I work at, most servers do something different. There's only a few load-balanced boxes that are mirrors of each other. Since each machine does a different thing, you simply can't script too many things besides OS level tasks. Sure, you can write scripts on a per-machine basis, but that's only one level above doing something manually. We've got all sorts of tools and such to help out with patch management and security, but general administration and application updates are done on a server to server basis. There's no other way.
If you expect a Unix admin, who's asking 90K, to have high skills in Perl, Expect, "hardware", as well as high level knowledge in Cisco systems and Storage area networks, you're asking too much of this person. These days it's about specialization and not generalists - generalists are the last to get a job unless you're specifically looking for one which most companies are not; they want someone to help out on a specific aspect of the environment.
It sounds to me like you have a very large but very simple data center full of Unix boxes that do most of the same stuff; hooked up to some Cats, and maybe a set of those are database servers hooked up to the SAN. Sure, in a simple environment like that, 5 admins could manage the place, but not one which you DID imply by saying "I work at a company where I manage 1,000 servers" where you should have said "where WE manage 1,000 servers."
Nevermind this ignoramuses arguement that the guy is doing the work of 20 sys admins. On administrator simply cannot manage 1,000 servers unless they are all doing exactly the same thing, all day, all night, and any number of them is completely expendable. IE it would have to be a Beowolf type system or something - and even then you have at least a handful of admins managing those systems.
So, I call shanannagins on that too.
And it's *completely* what you DO with the servers. Sure, one admin could easily manage 100 servers, if they were all simply farmed web servers born out of DVD images. But if you're like me and run a Messaging/Exchange system for a company of 6,000 users, there's no way I can handle all the servers + all the support by my self. I do well, but I have two other people that help out. And we only have 40 messaging servers world-wide (including Spam/virus/etc.)
I just love those people that blurt "Bah, I run a 2,000 server network." No, you don't. You are part of a team that runs it.
Besides your lame attempt at humor (WorstBuy) there's always been a HUGE gap in the performance between various monitors.
I got my Sony G500 about four years ago - it's a 21" CRT and it was a manufacturer refurbrished model - for almost $800. At the same time, you could have gotten the 19" version for about $600.
It was worth it though. Sure, I could have gotten a generic 21" monitor for less then $300 but it would have sucked. Blurry, not flat, not supporting all the crazy resolutions my G500 does, and certainly not last as long.
With LCD, there's sure winners and losers, but the gap is generally much smaller - they are all flat, and when you use digital interfaces they are all pretty clear. You pay more for higher resolutions and brighter colors, and maybe some people judge by latency. But there's no huge gap like the CRT's.
AT ANY RATE, I'm hoping to find a damned picture of one of these "flat CRT's" somewhere, since press releases don't have anything good - just "We have this great thing, you'll see it next year. kk thx."
They are planning on building their own network. It's no more "Internet" then my home network when it's unplugged from the cablemodem.
Just because you plug two computers together over a WAN link doesn't mean you have an "internet." There's only on Internet, and it's a loosly coupled network of networks.
Hey, it's the anonymous bastard idiot, aka the guy that was fighting with me but now won't show his name. I owned you on that thread, admit it.
Moron.
I never once said I pirate emulated games - I own a shit load of SNES games among other console systems, how do you claim to know otherwise? I said I believe emulation will preserve the games for the future when the systems are gone.
"Today games, at least on the pc platform, often is more about cool graphics than gameplay."
It's been like that for as far back as the video game goes. There's always been crappy games with pretty grapics, even if at the time pretty meant 16 colors instead of 8.
Today there's some great games out there as well. There's a lot MORE games in general now, and the ones with pretty graphics get the media attention (as they always have) but the ones you might consider good are in there too.
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With x86, you have the choice to go AMD or Intel (or even one of the others) with the CPU, about a dozen or so motherboard makers (and a handful of chipset makers) the best compatibility with hardware, software, etc.
You're not at the mercy of one single company. Yes, the Microsoft point can be made, but you CAN run other OS's and moving forward all these Linux distributions just keep on getting better..
These Athlons are no slouch, either. They're quick chips and they shine when they run in 64-bit mode. While the OS support is still tentative, it will come, and then I see no reason to use a Mac at all unless you really like MacOS. It's not like this is the last batch of CPU's from AMD and Intel; they'll both probably have really great second generation 64-bit performance.
I like the Macs. I do find the MacOSX to be annoying to use just as any MacOS before it, but it works well and the machines are fast. Unfortunately the whole single-company thing just scares me. You never know, Apple could completely blow it and decide their desktop computer division is too much work and decide to only make iPods; then we'd be down shit's creek.
Plus. Macs are kinda expensive.
What you fail to realize is that Linux doesn't exist for newbies to switch off of Windows. It's not there to "Fight The Power."
It's an Operating System. Some people enjoy using it. I do; I love the things I can do with my unix boxes so easily that come so difficult on other systems (Windows.)
You can use it if you want to. There's so many great people working on making it better, easier, etc, that in the end it MAY very well be just as easy to handle as Windows. It's not there yet. What's the rush? So you can install it easier before you know the system?
You're inexperienced in the Internet world if you think that the Linux userbase is a bunch of "inconsiderate pricks." You should see some of the Windows help forums, or the help forums of... anything else, really. There's a lot of pricks out there, you can't avoid that. I have not found this to be any greater with Linuxish forums, mailing lists, etc. In fact, I find that Linux help groups are a lot BETTER then most; there's usually quite a few people that are really knowledgable and willing to help.
Your experience with being called a n00b could be due to the fact that you've been asking the same tired old questions, without reading any of the redily available information online or using the search function on forums. There's a lot of people that WANT to help you - even though you're a complete stranger - but these same people don't want to trudge through the same questions they've already answered a hundred times over.
If you just want to "USE THE COMPUTER" then just USE WHAT YOU KNOW HOW TO USE. Nobody is forcing you to use it. You get to justify the reasons all by yourself, and if you can't justify the learning curve to the benefits, then why do it?
Really, it doesn't matter. I'm not trying to get everyone to use Linux. I'm not telling my sister to install it. Neither is anyone else, really. You might hear from someone how great they think their Linux system is, and even say "you should give it a shot!" but it doesn't matter if you use it or not. Moving forward, when all the peices fall into place and your Linux distribution of choice is at the right level of comfort for you, we won't even have this discussion.
So relax; let the people developing this great system do their thing. When the state of the system is right for you, you'll know it. It'll happen, and until then do yourself a favor and don't worry about it.
Quote from you: " Not to mention that that this is the whole reason why linux will never be a mainstream desktop operating system..."
You really should add "today." at the end of that. Tomorrow, who knows?
And then there's the never ending replies to those posts by people like you who can't respect the fact that we can all have our own opinion on matters, and assume that the few posts from some boring people are representing of the entire slashdot readership.
Hey, SkyOS is a feat. It's neat. So what if this other guy isn't excited. Can't really say that I am either, but I always like seeing new developments like this popping up. Keeps things interesting.
While I agree with your statement in itself, I do not agree on the context.
There's no wrong-doing going on here. You took my code, and changed it, and now what you add something I like, I'm not supposed to be able to use that?
Not only is it allowed in the GPL from a legal standpoint, it's the right thing to do. If I forked your application and added something you liked, I don't see how I could be angry if you ported it to your fork; after all I just took an entire code base for my project.
Sharing is what the GPL is about and if you are angry about it, you should probably be working at a closed source shop.
It does seem like an odd purchase - but it's not like Toys'r'us buying xxxporn.com.
Both are in the same general area of data protection, and I can well imagine that Symantec will integrate many of their new products together; Brightmail, Veritas storage/replication/backup software, and client-side firewalls and AV.
Perhaps the market suits don't see it, and perhaps Veritas isn't an a rapidly growing market like AV/Security, but it's a solid company and I think it'll be good for Symantec.
Whether it's good for all the cool veritas software is yet to be seen.
Don't normally respond to an AC, but I'm feeling good about my arguement.
/. support GPL and suing file sharers, then you are correct."
"If you think the majority of people on
Why do you associate "suing" with "against"? I can be against music file sharing AND suing people for their life savings over a few songs - and get get this - *at the same time*! Imagine that!
I believe that violating copyright is against the law, but I believe in fair punishment, and uploading a song to a half dozen people without permission should not result in a $50,000 fine.
Don't think I need to quote the rest of your post, since you've already been proven an idiot with other one.
Okay, so it was an IBM box. I was going to say, there ain't no dell like that that I know of. I have always liked the IBM server hardware.
And your parent poster was right; IBM actually develops new technology. Although many of their products are created with the same parts as anyone else, they use that revenue to do things like invent new microprocessors, memory, hard drive technologies, you name it. IBM is a cool company, even though they're really big. I feel as though IBM has learned it's lesson in the business world, and it's a good company that actually raises the state of the art, instead of just producing it.
Removing a few reg keys won't stop spyware. Spyware installs BHO's, reg keys, and all sorts of other nasty stuff to hijack your system and IE browser and make it unusable. Shit, in many cases, unless you somehow manage to stop a spyware process without another copy spawning itself, most of the time they monitor the registry and put the crap back as soon as you delete it.
Instead of that, try HijackThis!, a freeware program for listing out most possible entry points for spyware.
Or, of course, you could run both spybot and adaware.
And explain: What are you saying you like, Dell, or IBM? Because I can't figure it out.
There's always going to be views one way or another on ANY public forum. You've decided to pick up on a few people that support your arguement, which you could do with any arguement because slashdot has so many posts.
But I don't see it that way. I usually see both sides when I look at slashdot comments. If you choose to focus in on the trolls, that's your right, but it's ignorant and it doesn't speak for the entire slashdot community like you implied.
Stupid? Take a look in the mirror.
So there goes that's justification, sorry.
"I don't get why copyrights don't matter in P2P articles but they matter in "GPL source code theft" articles."
Says who, you?
What I don't get is why there's always posters like you who assume things like this.
Although I am not a Bush fan.. political views aside.
I've been using computers since I was 8 years old, with my Commodore 64, and steady to the present. I read about new IT stuff out there daily, I play with the new stuff regularly, and I work in IT where I manage projects, troubleshoot issues, etc.
It's taken me almost two decades of regular computer use to make the salary I make now.
While I admit that much of the stuff I do could be considered simple, it's quite often not. Sure, I could tell a user their e-mail "can't go because something is wrong." But it's much better for me to be able to know that the other companies domain expired two days ago, that their mail server is not RFC 822 compliant, and that the recipients' mailbox is full. The depth of knowlede is what I get paid for, not just because of some of the actual duties included in my job.
So yea, to me the job is pretty easy. Performance evaluations of disk subsystems, reporting on messaging usage, and troubleshooting level 3 user issues are all pretty easy for me. But I dare you to find someone with less then 5 years hard experience do the job I can.
I think my salary is fair. I've worked my ass off for it and so has a lot of the IT community. Just because I enjoy what I work with doesn't mean I shouldn't be paid for it.
A lot of people here are going on and on and on about contracting in a very general way, or making large assumptions about your situation.
I did the same thing recently as you would do in this case. I came from a full time job, and I switched to a company as a contractor.
But don't let it confuse you. You're not a company, you don't have to incorporate, you won't have to charge 10x a normal salary because of "up times and down times."
Basically, you'll be working for this one company, on an hourly rate, with no benefits. The benefit will be a migher pay rate. If this company is like the one I'm working for now, contractors aren't treated any different then a normal employee. The company hires everyone as a contractor first (and, it goes on different budgets so it's easier to get a contractor quicker) and if you're any good, they will hire you in a resonable amount of time - that is, unless you like the way the contracting works.
I think that's the same situation as this job you're looking at.
We've got two Dave and Busters locations near me, in Rhode Island. There's on a a new mall, and it's only been there a few years - maybe five.
They have not done a single thing to keep the place running well. Almost all the games are the same games they put in five years ago, and when they break, they fix them 'enough' to run. For games that cost somtimes two dollars to play, you would hope that the seat works, the force-feedback steering wheel works, and the sounds work. But quite often, none of these are true.
The screens all have burn-in, too.
I mean, COME ON! Everyone I know, at least, agrees with me on D&B. Sure, it's a novel thing to be able to play a game with a beer and a cigarrette, but when the games are all old and decrepid the novelty wears off quick.
They make SO much money there, there's no excuse. Three years ago, the place ways always busy - lines every night. Now, there's nothing even close to a line at the place and I think it's the old crappy games, expensive beer, and dried out food that you can get within three hours of ordering it.
"Any UNIX admin asking for more than $80k in my mind needs to have an extremely good grasp on Perl, Expect, Hardware, and Solaris."
"I mean you should be able to stumble around and get done what you need to get done."
You must understand my confusion in this matter? I guess it's, well, impossible to understand what someone is suppose to -mean- when they say something quite to the contrary.
Any companies I've seen that have data centers with over a few hundred machine usually have a special network crew or person.
Old school, well, not sure what you mean by that really. In a non-farm environment such as the one I work at, most servers do something different. There's only a few load-balanced boxes that are mirrors of each other. Since each machine does a different thing, you simply can't script too many things besides OS level tasks. Sure, you can write scripts on a per-machine basis, but that's only one level above doing something manually. We've got all sorts of tools and such to help out with patch management and security, but general administration and application updates are done on a server to server basis. There's no other way.
If you expect a Unix admin, who's asking 90K, to have high skills in Perl, Expect, "hardware", as well as high level knowledge in Cisco systems and Storage area networks, you're asking too much of this person. These days it's about specialization and not generalists - generalists are the last to get a job unless you're specifically looking for one which most companies are not; they want someone to help out on a specific aspect of the environment.
It sounds to me like you have a very large but very simple data center full of Unix boxes that do most of the same stuff; hooked up to some Cats, and maybe a set of those are database servers hooked up to the SAN. Sure, in a simple environment like that, 5 admins could manage the place, but not one which you DID imply by saying "I work at a company where I manage 1,000 servers" where you should have said "where WE manage 1,000 servers."
I was wondering the same thing; the whole idea was to get people in orbit easily and much cheaper (well, once the initial costs are paid..)
While the moon thing isn't a terrible idea it doesn't seem like it should be an "instead" but rather an "addition to."
Ohh, I agree.
Nevermind this ignoramuses arguement that the guy is doing the work of 20 sys admins. On administrator simply cannot manage 1,000 servers unless they are all doing exactly the same thing, all day, all night, and any number of them is completely expendable. IE it would have to be a Beowolf type system or something - and even then you have at least a handful of admins managing those systems.
So, I call shanannagins on that too.
And it's *completely* what you DO with the servers. Sure, one admin could easily manage 100 servers, if they were all simply farmed web servers born out of DVD images. But if you're like me and run a Messaging/Exchange system for a company of 6,000 users, there's no way I can handle all the servers + all the support by my self. I do well, but I have two other people that help out. And we only have 40 messaging servers world-wide (including Spam/virus/etc.)
I just love those people that blurt "Bah, I run a 2,000 server network." No, you don't. You are part of a team that runs it.
Besides your lame attempt at humor (WorstBuy) there's always been a HUGE gap in the performance between various monitors.
I got my Sony G500 about four years ago - it's a 21" CRT and it was a manufacturer refurbrished model - for almost $800. At the same time, you could have gotten the 19" version for about $600.
It was worth it though. Sure, I could have gotten a generic 21" monitor for less then $300 but it would have sucked. Blurry, not flat, not supporting all the crazy resolutions my G500 does, and certainly not last as long.
With LCD, there's sure winners and losers, but the gap is generally much smaller - they are all flat, and when you use digital interfaces they are all pretty clear. You pay more for higher resolutions and brighter colors, and maybe some people judge by latency. But there's no huge gap like the CRT's.
AT ANY RATE, I'm hoping to find a damned picture of one of these "flat CRT's" somewhere, since press releases don't have anything good - just "We have this great thing, you'll see it next year. kk thx."
They are planning on building their own network. It's no more "Internet" then my home network when it's unplugged from the cablemodem.
Just because you plug two computers together over a WAN link doesn't mean you have an "internet." There's only on Internet, and it's a loosly coupled network of networks.
Gosh, reporters can be so lame.
Hey, it's the anonymous bastard idiot, aka the guy that was fighting with me but now won't show his name. I owned you on that thread, admit it.
Moron.
I never once said I pirate emulated games - I own a shit load of SNES games among other console systems, how do you claim to know otherwise? I said I believe emulation will preserve the games for the future when the systems are gone.
"now that I am 20 years old and mature, I wish Nintendo/Sony would crack down on priates a little more"
In other words:
"now that I've stopped selling bootleg copies of games, I wish people would get caught."
And you're misguided to boot! CD Recorders have just a little bit under zero to do with the quality of games.
"Today games, at least on the pc platform, often is more about cool graphics than gameplay."
It's been like that for as far back as the video game goes. There's always been crappy games with pretty grapics, even if at the time pretty meant 16 colors instead of 8.
Today there's some great games out there as well. There's a lot MORE games in general now, and the ones with pretty graphics get the media attention (as they always have) but the ones you might consider good are in there too.
Good post man.