to combat the increasing power of home consoles, they've added large site-specific attractions that can't be replicated at home. dance dance revolution, that boxing game, the snowboarding simulater etc.
arcades are doing fine
the problem with this, for many slashdotter, i'm sure, is the people at the arcades. these kids never played kid icarus. they weren't into the video games/action figgures/comic books scene as little kids. no, they got together on the weekend and played sports. *sports* for god's sake! and now they're in arcades, our turf. it hurts.
There's a distinction. But less so than you might realize. While Columbia students are probably more academic on average than NYU students, you could pick 4500 undergrads from NYU that could easily stand up to Columbia students.
Don't get me wrong, Columbia is a great school, I'm glad I go there, and I love it to death, but I don't buy into the hype they try to sell us saying it's "one of the five best schools in the nation" etc. That's an unmeasurable statistic, and a highly debatable one at that. Why can't people be satisfied going to a good school without trying to establish which multi-billion dollar endowment has the biggest nobel awarded academic cock?
But don't worry about finding a bunch of bitter rejects. There are actually a lot of students there who got into harvard, princeton, and yale but found them too snobby or boring. My only warning is: campus life at Columbia can be sort of a drag. Find a cool group of people and start exploring the city. That is why you're going there, right? Also, since you're on slash, I'll make the assumption that you are a SEAS student. Be ready for second-class citizenship. I just switched out of engineering myself.
If you have any questions as a rising first-year, look me up and drop me an email. My name is in my profile, and you can use the Columbia directory to get my email.
I don't know about Amigas, but NESes and Atari 2600s are a dime a dozen. There are literally millions of them floating around. I bet this company buys broken ones as well, since they'd be cheap, and they're only after the case.
I'm really surprised at the negative reaction the slash crew is giving this. Of course you can't really upgrade them, and they're a nostalgia/retro kick, but what's so wrong with that? How is this any lamer than someone putting a MAME PC into an old arcade cabinet?
They're basically cool, somewhat underpowered, $1000 PCs. If I were in need of a second system, I'd probably go for one.
The general consensus I've heard from a number of people, is that in most prestegious private schools in the US, an "A" is not what it used to be. They've all been bad about it, and I certainly won't claim my own school is any better than anyone elses. Princeton, or so I've heard, hasn't inflated grades as much as many others, though.
Mind you this is all just stuff I've heard, which isn't a highly reliable source of information.
I've been to a few Cornell parties, and if those kids don't have time to drink, then they make time.
I don't follow hockey, and thus wasn't aware of that specific rivalry. I'm referring to the more general Yale-hates-Harvard and vice versa rivalry that extends beyond any one area of competition, and really beyond even sports.
Actually, as a Columbia student, I'm pretty much unaware of any sports rivalries whatsoever. Our football stadium is 100 blocks away from campus, our only good team is fencing, and in general, Columbia isn't the school you go to if you enjoy watching athletics.
I really hate the whole "Ivy" distinction though. I understand Princeton, Harvard, and Yale. They're very very old schools known around the world as top academic establishments (even though Harvard and Yale have really let their undergraduate programs slip in the past few years) but what makes Brown more distinguished than say... Weslyan? What makes Columbia better than NYU? What makes Penn better than Chicago? What makes any of them better than Stanford? Or Rice? Or Berkeley? Or Emory?
There are a lot of good schools out there, and I think they should _all_ be invited to join the Ivy League. The best way to destroy something is to devalue it entirely.
I'm not kidding. I'm not saying that Saddam is a nice guy who shouldn't have a bullet put between his eyes. BUT. America has NEVER launched a full scale assault or invasion of any power that was not a current active aggressor. In '91 Iraq was actively invading an ally of ours.
Supposedly we're invading Iraq based on the "bush doctrine" in which we make _premptive strikes_ against potentially threatening powers.
Now, I do not doubt for a moment that Iraq is developing weapons to use against us, but I question the logic that says invading them is the best way to deal with this problem. By making the first strike, we lose a lot of moral high-ground and international support. And in case you weren't paying attention, most of the world strongly dislikes America, and we need all of the help we can get. Secondly, Saddam is many many things, but he's not a stupid man. He wants to stay in power. He's well aware of what will happen to him if he attacks America especially during these particularly tense times. But, if we're allready actively out to destroy him and his government, he then has nothing to lose by gassing our embassy in Saudi Arabia, or crashing a barge full of anthrax into San Fransisco bay. If we don't attack Saddam, we might be attacked, at which point, we have every right to go to war. If we do attack, we *will* be attacked. I think the best course of action is to send in special forces, and attempt to take out Saddam himself, and any known weapons factories. An invasion is a very very bad idea.
Lots of tech people read O'Reilly, not just Open Source ("open sores" that's clever, I bet you used to say Nutscrape and AOHell) programmers.
In a book that will be used by many web developers, having an official expert opinion saying that authors need to be aware of non-IE browsers is a very good thing for alternative browsers in general, and a good thing for Mozilla specifically.
a lot of offices that standardized around Netscape 4.x a long long time ago still use it, or have moved to 6.x/7.x now.
theres Opera
there are text-only browsers for the disabled
there are older versions of IE still floating around out there
it just seems crazy to require IE 5.0+ features when NONE of them are required or are even that handy for running e-commerce.
I think HTML should be standard HTML, you should make all your pages so that anyone can access any essential info, services, and features with a simple, standards compliant browser. I understand the desire for a flashy front-end, and for that I would suggest using Macromedia since it's much better and more available than MS exclusives, and by and large has built in bypasses for people who don't use Flash (assuming the web designer is smart enough to use them)
I understand why people use Windows. Hell, I even understand why some people use Outlook. But I don't understand why anyone would write a webpage that won't work on a non-IE platform. That's just stupid.
yeah, I know you were joking. and it was pretty funny, and partly true. I just felt like expanding my thoughts.
We're talking about WARFARE here. The military is trying to develop a precision weapon here, but it's still a weapon, so it isn't going to be safe.
Suppose a column of enemy tanks or transports is moving through a civilian area, and we have fighters overhead. Now we can take them out with a laser, which *might* cause eye damage to people in the surrounding area, or we can just drop "smart" bombs on them, and kill a few dozen civilians.
It always cracks me up when people get in a fit about how inhumane new weapons are, when they're replacing firebombs, bullets, and missiles.
Now I probably agree with your opinions on US military activity. We killed far too many civilians in afghanistan. We are causing war with our unqestioning support of Israel. And we are about to violate 230 years of protocol by invading Iraq unprovoked. However, these facts don't really matter when discussing the merrits of a particular weapon, especially one that will save civilian lives.
I like seeing non-IE browsers getting coverage in the mainstream technical press. IE has something like a 95% market share, and many people use this to justify making websites that only work in IE. If *I* were running a web business then that statistic would tell me:
"Hey, 1 out of 20 of our potential customers can't use our website!"
And I think that IT should be pitching that same line to the suits.
Anyway, until someone develops intellegent JS filtering that works, I just turn it off.
It's a good idea. It's now so easy for malicious types to get your SSN that companies, the government, banks, etc. shouldn't be using it as an ID (wasn't that supposed to be illegal anyway?)
if SSNs were published publicly, they'd have to move to something a little more secure.
The other Ivys are barely aware of any of this. Dartmouth and Cornell just get drunk out in the middle of nowhere, Penn kids are all too worried about getting into business school and not getting killed, the Brownies are stoned, and Columbians are too busy trying to be as cool as NYU students to have any sort of school spirit.
actually they're using 3 66gb platters for 198, which i think is "close enough"
marketspeak dictates that when the consumer wants something, you use big round multiples of a power of ten, or a big round multiple of a power of ten + 1. When you have something the sonsumer doesn't want, like the price, you use big round multiples of powers of ten - 1 or - 2.
it bugs me too, but you can't blame the guys for existing in a competitive and advertizing based industry, and it's not like real specs are that hard to find.
You'd think so, but that argument probably won't work.
America has, for a very long time, given corporations greatly preferential treatment over individuals.
For years, I've been excercizing for this product, once, twice, or sometimes even three times a day. At last all that hard work and repetitive motion will pay off.
And if I can get one of those phones that can view color photos, I might be able to continue excercizing after I've charged it.
There was a time in my life when I could have (and would have) tried out every new release, I guess now, I'm busy with enough other things and only occasionally check in on releases that it seems to fly by.
but still, this is a campus network for college students. I'm not saying that absolutely every single use of gigabit ethernet that actually utilized that kind of bandwidth will be illegal, i'm just saying that >95% of them will be.
some day this kind of bandwidth will have widespread application in the general population, but right now, it's mainly useful for experimental, technical, and illegal data transfer.
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actually Arcades are doing wonderfully well.
to combat the increasing power of home consoles, they've added large site-specific attractions that can't be replicated at home. dance dance revolution, that boxing game, the snowboarding simulater etc.
arcades are doing fine
the problem with this, for many slashdotter, i'm sure, is the people at the arcades. these kids never played kid icarus. they weren't into the video games/action figgures/comic books scene as little kids. no, they got together on the weekend and played sports. *sports* for god's sake! and now they're in arcades, our turf. it hurts.
There's a distinction. But less so than you might realize. While Columbia students are probably more academic on average than NYU students, you could pick 4500 undergrads from NYU that could easily stand up to Columbia students.
Don't get me wrong, Columbia is a great school, I'm glad I go there, and I love it to death, but I don't buy into the hype they try to sell us saying it's "one of the five best schools in the nation" etc. That's an unmeasurable statistic, and a highly debatable one at that. Why can't people be satisfied going to a good school without trying to establish which multi-billion dollar endowment has the biggest nobel awarded academic cock?
But don't worry about finding a bunch of bitter rejects. There are actually a lot of students there who got into harvard, princeton, and yale but found them too snobby or boring. My only warning is: campus life at Columbia can be sort of a drag. Find a cool group of people and start exploring the city. That is why you're going there, right? Also, since you're on slash, I'll make the assumption that you are a SEAS student. Be ready for second-class citizenship. I just switched out of engineering myself.
If you have any questions as a rising first-year, look me up and drop me an email. My name is in my profile, and you can use the Columbia directory to get my email.
I don't know about Amigas, but NESes and Atari 2600s are a dime a dozen. There are literally millions of them floating around. I bet this company buys broken ones as well, since they'd be cheap, and they're only after the case.
I'm really surprised at the negative reaction the slash crew is giving this. Of course you can't really upgrade them, and they're a nostalgia/retro kick, but what's so wrong with that? How is this any lamer than someone putting a MAME PC into an old arcade cabinet?
They're basically cool, somewhat underpowered, $1000 PCs. If I were in need of a second system, I'd probably go for one.
The general consensus I've heard from a number of people, is that in most prestegious private schools in the US, an "A" is not what it used to be. They've all been bad about it, and I certainly won't claim my own school is any better than anyone elses. Princeton, or so I've heard, hasn't inflated grades as much as many others, though.
Mind you this is all just stuff I've heard, which isn't a highly reliable source of information.
I've been to a few Cornell parties, and if those kids don't have time to drink, then they make time.
I don't follow hockey, and thus wasn't aware of that specific rivalry. I'm referring to the more general Yale-hates-Harvard and vice versa rivalry that extends beyond any one area of competition, and really beyond even sports.
Actually, as a Columbia student, I'm pretty much unaware of any sports rivalries whatsoever. Our football stadium is 100 blocks away from campus, our only good team is fencing, and in general, Columbia isn't the school you go to if you enjoy watching athletics.
I really hate the whole "Ivy" distinction though. I understand Princeton, Harvard, and Yale. They're very very old schools known around the world as top academic establishments (even though Harvard and Yale have really let their undergraduate programs slip in the past few years) but what makes Brown more distinguished than say... Weslyan? What makes Columbia better than NYU? What makes Penn better than Chicago? What makes any of them better than Stanford? Or Rice? Or Berkeley? Or Emory?
There are a lot of good schools out there, and I think they should _all_ be invited to join the Ivy League. The best way to destroy something is to devalue it entirely.
I'm not kidding. I'm not saying that Saddam is a nice guy who shouldn't have a bullet put between his eyes. BUT. America has NEVER launched a full scale assault or invasion of any power that was not a current active aggressor. In '91 Iraq was actively invading an ally of ours.
Supposedly we're invading Iraq based on the "bush doctrine" in which we make _premptive strikes_ against potentially threatening powers.
Now, I do not doubt for a moment that Iraq is developing weapons to use against us, but I question the logic that says invading them is the best way to deal with this problem. By making the first strike, we lose a lot of moral high-ground and international support. And in case you weren't paying attention, most of the world strongly dislikes America, and we need all of the help we can get. Secondly, Saddam is many many things, but he's not a stupid man. He wants to stay in power. He's well aware of what will happen to him if he attacks America especially during these particularly tense times. But, if we're allready actively out to destroy him and his government, he then has nothing to lose by gassing our embassy in Saudi Arabia, or crashing a barge full of anthrax into San Fransisco bay. If we don't attack Saddam, we might be attacked, at which point, we have every right to go to war. If we do attack, we *will* be attacked. I think the best course of action is to send in special forces, and attempt to take out Saddam himself, and any known weapons factories. An invasion is a very very bad idea.
Lots of tech people read O'Reilly, not just Open Source ("open sores" that's clever, I bet you used to say Nutscrape and AOHell) programmers.
In a book that will be used by many web developers, having an official expert opinion saying that authors need to be aware of non-IE browsers is a very good thing for alternative browsers in general, and a good thing for Mozilla specifically.
there are more browsers out there than mozilla.
a lot of offices that standardized around Netscape 4.x a long long time ago still use it, or have moved to 6.x/7.x now.
theres Opera
there are text-only browsers for the disabled
there are older versions of IE still floating around out there
it just seems crazy to require IE 5.0+ features when NONE of them are required or are even that handy for running e-commerce.
I think HTML should be standard HTML, you should make all your pages so that anyone can access any essential info, services, and features with a simple, standards compliant browser. I understand the desire for a flashy front-end, and for that I would suggest using Macromedia since it's much better and more available than MS exclusives, and by and large has built in bypasses for people who don't use Flash (assuming the web designer is smart enough to use them)
I understand why people use Windows. Hell, I even understand why some people use Outlook. But I don't understand why anyone would write a webpage that won't work on a non-IE platform. That's just stupid.
yeah, I know you were joking. and it was pretty funny, and partly true. I just felt like expanding my thoughts.
We're talking about WARFARE here. The military is trying to develop a precision weapon here, but it's still a weapon, so it isn't going to be safe.
Suppose a column of enemy tanks or transports is moving through a civilian area, and we have fighters overhead. Now we can take them out with a laser, which *might* cause eye damage to people in the surrounding area, or we can just drop "smart" bombs on them, and kill a few dozen civilians.
It always cracks me up when people get in a fit about how inhumane new weapons are, when they're replacing firebombs, bullets, and missiles.
Now I probably agree with your opinions on US military activity. We killed far too many civilians in afghanistan. We are causing war with our unqestioning support of Israel. And we are about to violate 230 years of protocol by invading Iraq unprovoked. However, these facts don't really matter when discussing the merrits of a particular weapon, especially one that will save civilian lives.
I like seeing non-IE browsers getting coverage in the mainstream technical press. IE has something like a 95% market share, and many people use this to justify making websites that only work in IE. If *I* were running a web business then that statistic would tell me:
"Hey, 1 out of 20 of our potential customers can't use our website!"
And I think that IT should be pitching that same line to the suits.
Anyway, until someone develops intellegent JS filtering that works, I just turn it off.
It's a good idea. It's now so easy for malicious types to get your SSN that companies, the government, banks, etc. shouldn't be using it as an ID (wasn't that supposed to be illegal anyway?) if SSNs were published publicly, they'd have to move to something a little more secure.
The other Ivys are barely aware of any of this. Dartmouth and Cornell just get drunk out in the middle of nowhere, Penn kids are all too worried about getting into business school and not getting killed, the Brownies are stoned, and Columbians are too busy trying to be as cool as NYU students to have any sort of school spirit.
actually they're using 3 66gb platters for 198, which i think is "close enough" marketspeak dictates that when the consumer wants something, you use big round multiples of a power of ten, or a big round multiple of a power of ten + 1. When you have something the sonsumer doesn't want, like the price, you use big round multiples of powers of ten - 1 or - 2. it bugs me too, but you can't blame the guys for existing in a competitive and advertizing based industry, and it's not like real specs are that hard to find.
You'd think so, but that argument probably won't work. America has, for a very long time, given corporations greatly preferential treatment over individuals.
oh, get over yourself. Slashdot is "news for nerds"
nerds like gadgets.
when a new gadget comes out, it's news.
Watches are at a pretty high torque point, on your wrist, and will get a lot more energy than something clipped to your belt.
Also watches require much less power to operate.
For years, I've been excercizing for this product, once, twice, or sometimes even three times a day. At last all that hard work and repetitive motion will pay off.
And if I can get one of those phones that can view color photos, I might be able to continue excercizing after I've charged it.
i don't know all of the specs on beaming power around, but would you really want that much energy in radiation form flying through your living room.
120 volts at any useful wattage is a whole friggin lot of energy.
You've never spent much time in Japan, have you?
I hate this sort of thing. Corporations refusing to sell their products as an anti-competitive tactic. It's a textbook microsoft move.
I'm wondering, how common is this outside of the computer industry?
I'm not exactly sure where it began.
Maxis has had llama in-jokes in their games for a long time, and the WinAmp guys seem to have some sort o llama fixation as well.
They're just funny animals.
I know it isn't as fast as it seems.
There was a time in my life when I could have (and would have) tried out every new release, I guess now, I'm busy with enough other things and only occasionally check in on releases that it seems to fly by.
OK, followed the link...
but still, this is a campus network for college students. I'm not saying that absolutely every single use of gigabit ethernet that actually utilized that kind of bandwidth will be illegal, i'm just saying that >95% of them will be.
some day this kind of bandwidth will have widespread application in the general population, but right now, it's mainly useful for experimental, technical, and illegal data transfer.
I feel like 8.x went by as I blinked.
they've really been churning them out lately.
"those that they did owned"
sheeeeesh! i need to get out of this office. it's rotting my brain.