Now we are here wanting to be able to personally lift tonnes of metal kilometers into the sky so that 18 year olds can do laps of the city whilst drunk hoping to impress girls by how close they can swoop a building?
Who is going to say the idiot is going to steer the car? If you're going to design a new system anyway, do it good, give the computer the controls, let the fool say where he wants to go.
I cite cell phones that store over a 100 phone numbers, play video games, act as a pager and a walkie talkie, allow you to browse the 'net and send/receive emails, and fit in your shirt pocket as proof that, in the U.S., smaller is better when you're talking about electronics.
Then why are those über-phones selling better in the EU and Japan?
Oh, and if the game comes out late, that's unfortunate. What difference does six months make in the overall scheme of life? What kind of a spoiled, demanding brat are you if you can't wait six months for a new way to detach from reality? I would say that if six months is too long for you to wait for a new escapist activity, you should seek therapy.
Like? Ehm.. multiplayer games? 6 months later almost nobody is playing the game (except the Mac Users, the WineX users and the people who only buy at 50% discount). It is not only a new escapist activity, it's an way of communicating for most people, we humans have brains (well, most do), and an knowledge of time, if you aren't doing something (new) during an amount of time, you can get bored, getting bored, will lead to paranoia, paranoia leads to civil disorder and war, and eventually our doom.
But - to get me to buy a new player and a new library of music..
You'll definitily need to buy a new player to play those, but why would you buy a new library of music? It would seem logic to me that those players are backward compitable, it uses an DVD drive, and DVD drives can play CD's...
99% of Slashdot readers are unemployed highschool losers. They can't afford to buy this kind of device. There is no market for Slashdot readers.
Yes, but a large amount of slashdot readers are people's reference for technology&stuff, so if they're going to buy an MP3 player, every favorite-geek could say: [drewl] don't buy that MP3 player! [drewl] buy that OGG player! [drewl].
Joe: Congressman, please accept my plan! Congressman: denied, I have better things to do
Joe: Congressman, please accept my plan! Congressman: denied, I have better things to do Joe: I have $ 5,000,000 in my pocket Congressman: what was your plan again?
I refuse to believe that software is inherently more difficult to design than CPUs, 747s....
In related news: Boeing engineers have just found a hardware defect in all 747-400's. The defect can cause the plane to turn into a giant kiwi and (during the transformation) plunge towards earth...
Boeing officials say they will not release instructions nor equipment to fix the defect and tells the airline companies to replace their existing fleet with brand new 747-XP's...
Well, count the Netherlands in too (we make/keep 99% of our advertisments in English/Crappy-Semi-English). And movies are only subtitled... (if somebody dubs an movie, and it's not for childrens, well... ehm... that never happend...)
And how do you rename it to Comic Sans MS? (not the file, but the name you see in whatever editor you're using, or atleast make sure that netscape/mozilla/konqueror shows up with the correct font?)
I'd still assume there would be a difference in the brain waves of a person who is considering destroying a passenger jet and a person who just wants to scream.
Yes, now the problem is... how are you going to find out what those signals are?! You can't just open an can of terorists to see what they think...
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Now we are here wanting to be able to personally lift tonnes of metal kilometers into the sky so that 18 year olds can do laps of the city whilst drunk hoping to impress girls by how close they can swoop a building?
Who is going to say the idiot is going to steer the car? If you're going to design a new system anyway, do it good, give the computer the controls, let the fool say where he wants to go.
I cite cell phones that store over a 100 phone numbers, play video games, act as a pager and a walkie talkie, allow you to browse the 'net and send/receive emails, and fit in your shirt pocket as proof that, in the U.S., smaller is better when you're talking about electronics.
Then why are those über-phones selling better in the EU and Japan?
Oh, and if the game comes out late, that's unfortunate. What difference does six months make in the overall scheme of life? What kind of a spoiled, demanding brat are you if you can't wait six months for a new way to detach from reality? I would say that if six months is too long for you to wait for a new escapist activity, you should seek therapy.
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Like? Ehm.. multiplayer games? 6 months later almost nobody is playing the game (except the Mac Users, the WineX users and the people who only buy at 50% discount). It is not only a new escapist activity, it's an way of communicating for most people, we humans have brains (well, most do), and an knowledge of time, if you aren't doing something (new) during an amount of time, you can get bored, getting bored, will lead to paranoia, paranoia leads to civil disorder and war, and eventually our doom.
So, stop bugging
But - to get me to buy a new player and a new library of music..
You'll definitily need to buy a new player to play those, but why would you buy a new library of music? It would seem logic to me that those players are backward compitable, it uses an DVD drive, and DVD drives can play CD's...
What are you going to do with all that nice software you've written when Microsoft makes it incompatible with the next version of Windows?
Duh
1) Make new version of software compitable with new version of Windows(TM)
2) ???
3) Profit!
99% of Slashdot readers are unemployed highschool losers. They can't afford to buy this kind of device. There is no market for Slashdot readers.
Yes, but a large amount of slashdot readers are people's reference for technology&stuff, so if they're going to buy an MP3 player, every favorite-geek could say: [drewl] don't buy that MP3 player! [drewl] buy that OGG player! [drewl].
More of something is automatically better.
Not if it's from Microsoft(TM)...
My laptop came with 512 MB of RAM, a 15" screen, a DVD player, and Windows XP Home Edition preinstalled, for $450 less than a comparable iBook.
It think she bought the following:
*A walmart desktop PC with WinXP
*Some RAM
*A LCD screen
*A DVD-drive
*Some batteries
*And ofcourse some stickers saying: This is a Laptop(TM)!
many years ago said giga with a hard g and it stuck
:)
We still say a hard g! In Holland people talk with an hard g, and does it suck? No, it's funny because nobody else can pronounce it
They probably write in special clauses that include transfer of ownership of soul and all worldly possessions etc etc.
wasn't that Microsoft's task already???
Democracy....
Joe: Congressman, please accept my plan!
Congressman: denied, I have better things to do
Joe: Congressman, please accept my plan!
Congressman: denied, I have better things to do
Joe: I have $ 5,000,000 in my pocket
Congressman: what was your plan again?
let's hope that this will hapen more often, one of the most frequently heard arguments for not running Linux is: "but, I can't play my games on it"...
I refuse to believe that software is inherently more difficult to design than CPUs, 747s....
In related news: Boeing engineers have just found a hardware defect in all 747-400's. The defect can cause the plane to turn into a giant kiwi and (during the transformation) plunge towards earth...
Boeing officials say they will not release instructions nor equipment to fix the defect and tells the airline companies to replace their existing fleet with brand new 747-XP's...
Can it reproduce my slow reflexes?
If it can't... underclocking would work pretty well too.
Eur 270
We would kill TUX!!! How dear you to think so selfish... oh, wait penguins are on the south.... ehm... any other protected species on the pole?
And you call firing an burning rock at an precious object safe?
I really just hope no one goes and starts vandalizing it
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Pompeii was just an failed rocket launch, DUH.
Well, count the Netherlands in too (we make/keep 99% of our advertisments in English/Crappy-Semi-English). And movies are only subtitled... (if somebody dubs an movie, and it's not for childrens, well... ehm... that never happend...)
And how do you rename it to Comic Sans MS? (not the file, but the name you see in whatever editor you're using, or atleast make sure that netscape/mozilla/konqueror shows up with the correct font?)
I'm more woried about these things...
I'd still assume there would be a difference in the brain waves of a person who is considering destroying a passenger jet and a person who just wants to scream.
Yes, now the problem is... how are you going to find out what those signals are?! You can't just open an can of terorists to see what they think...
I thought Windows XP2 was out, sorry...
simple! let them carry 2 suitcases & 1 backpack full of batteries with them... and too increase power also put solar panels on their back...
problem solved...