> They point to the fact that the current "Back" is more of an "Up" in a stack of pages.
Uhm, it goes up in the stack of recently visited pages, not in the stack of pages on the actual site.
Seems to me they're basically rewriting what the browser's back button does, only they're saying it actually does something new; a waste of time, IMHO.
Hoo boy, you must not have been around when XP launched.
Windows has this activation dealy you have to go through to install it on a machine. Once installed, the activation num is saved, and when you try to use it again (You have to use it when you install WinXP, and it gives it to you; good luck using a cracked activation num and then installing an update; supposable it kills WinXP, though I wouldn't know as I use Mac OS X), it has to resend the number. And then it will know you've already installed once, and it won't run. So, you do have to buy 5 copies of XP for all of the comps in your house to use it. Ridiculous, yes, but a fact of Windows. May I suggest SuSe or some shiny new Macs?
Their calling their products doesn't have to do with lack of innovation; it has to do with excellent marketing, which is one of the few things MS excells at. They want people to say "I need something to write words with...well, this is called "Word", so I know it does what I want", etc. Their goal with that is to make it easy for people to go to their products; they know what they want, see a product which is obviously for what they want (It's called "Media Player", it plays media!), and they buy it. I actually find myself impressed with MS in this regard. Now their shoddy tech is another story...
While Windows may be a "generic" term, Linux is fast becoming one as well. See other posts referring to words like escalator going from TM to generic.
The main point is, wether one likes it or not, Lindows is purposefully meant to mislead the average non-geek. People will see a cheap, Lindows based machine versus an expensive Windows based machine. They'll see a similar GUI, similar ease-of-use, and which do you think they will buy: The $800-$2500 machine, or the $400 machine?
> You could say that the processor on any console is an accessory; it's just there to pump data at the graphics processor.
Uhm...no.
The processor handles all of the AI (Which is fast becoming a huge deal in games), the input from controllers, the output from the game to, say, a rumble pack, the modem input, the tracking of where the player is, etc, etc. It isn't "just there to pump data at[sic] the gpu". It's there to take care of everything, plus pump data to the gpu. It's like saying "My brain can be called an accesory because all it does is pump data to my muscles". While that's one of it's bigger functions, it does so much more than that.
It might even be less annoying than when someone comes in with a rap song on their phone and people get the wrong idea. Think about it:
Beep Beep Beep.
"Sorry Jimmy, but you can't have that Eminem CD; those words he uses are too dirty. See how they've censored them all?"
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Half-Life's engine is quite good, as illustrated by NS, DoD, and of course the 100-pound-gorrilla, Counter-Strike. I loved WC3, and have yet to play attlefield 1942, though I taked it it's good, as well.
Makes me wonder why your comment was modded offtopic, when it seems spot on to me...
Watching it rain, posting on/., burning my retnas out on Zelda: A Link To The Past (Four Sqords), Metroid Fusion and Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance. I'm also going to catch LOTR: The Two Towers.
See my original post for more details. Basically, he installed the Quicktime plugin for.ogg, ran soft. update. Now, software updateoutside of the US (He's in Rome, check his user-profile) hawks the iTunes 3.0.1 update as a new one every time the update program is run. So, when he installed it and ran iTunes, iTunes now had.ogg support (Because it uses Quicktime for playback). Pity it's not real.
But it seems he's wrong. I just ran Software Update on my iBook, and there is no iTunes update. There is an iPod update, but it doesn't add anything to iTunes; just allows the 'pod to keep track of its battery better, plus some other minor tweaks.
But don't fret! You can run.ogg files in iTunes; in fact, I'm doing so right now! While it may not have been posted on Christmas, and it may not be from Apple, consider it a christmas present anyways. Here it is. Merry Christmas! =)
Windows isn't de facto in my home, either. That's not the point; the point is in thee real-world, outside of geek/mac land, it is the de facto standard. Just because you don't use it, doesn't mean everyone else doesn't, too.
I know they've made thier own server using Linux. But for a government, they need so much CAD, Word Processing, etc software that they'll either need a) Windows or b) KDE/Gnome. And a 200mhz processor supports neither.
As for a server: puh! Unless they've created a beowolf cluster, those 200mhz chips are going to fry.
What's the point? While it's a first step to being free from foreign tech, they're equivilant to 200mhz cpus?! Unless all of China will be running Linux sans GNOME/KDE (They could still use one of the smaller, less featrue-intensive X11 GUIS) , BeOS or QNX, China will still require Intel and AMD. Like it or not, Windows is the de facto standard, and a 200mhz CPU won't run the majority of new Windows-based software.
> and the software became what it could be - a truly universal effective program intelligible to most humans.
You just discribed Windows as it is now; intelligible to most people. and effective. Not nearly as effective as it could be, but it is effective.
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Uhm, it goes up in the stack of recently visited pages, not in the stack of pages on the actual site.
Seems to me they're basically rewriting what the browser's back button does, only they're saying it actually does something new; a waste of time, IMHO.
Windows has this activation dealy you have to go through to install it on a machine. Once installed, the activation num is saved, and when you try to use it again (You have to use it when you install WinXP, and it gives it to you; good luck using a cracked activation num and then installing an update; supposable it kills WinXP, though I wouldn't know as I use Mac OS X), it has to resend the number. And then it will know you've already installed once, and it won't run. So, you do have to buy 5 copies of XP for all of the comps in your house to use it. Ridiculous, yes, but a fact of Windows. May I suggest SuSe or some shiny new Macs?
Their calling their products doesn't have to do with lack of innovation; it has to do with excellent marketing, which is one of the few things MS excells at. They want people to say "I need something to write words with...well, this is called "Word", so I know it does what I want", etc. Their goal with that is to make it easy for people to go to their products; they know what they want, see a product which is obviously for what they want (It's called "Media Player", it plays media!), and they buy it. I actually find myself impressed with MS in this regard. Now their shoddy tech is another story...
The main point is, wether one likes it or not, Lindows is purposefully meant to mislead the average non-geek. People will see a cheap, Lindows based machine versus an expensive Windows based machine. They'll see a similar GUI, similar ease-of-use, and which do you think they will buy: The $800-$2500 machine, or the $400 machine?
I hear that. I live, no word of lie, one half mile from people who get DSL. And it drives me insane.
Better yet, no plans for DSL/Cable in my Broadband Wasteland(tm) until 2004.
And that, my friends, is the problem with Xbox Live being broadband only.
Uhm...no.
The processor handles all of the AI (Which is fast becoming a huge deal in games), the input from controllers, the output from the game to, say, a rumble pack, the modem input, the tracking of where the player is, etc, etc. It isn't "just there to pump data at[sic] the gpu". It's there to take care of everything, plus pump data to the gpu. It's like saying "My brain can be called an accesory because all it does is pump data to my muscles". While that's one of it's bigger functions, it does so much more than that.
If you use Windoze for more than just webbrowsing and wordprocessing, it will crash.
Faster patches? My ass. Mozilla took what, 44 hours to patch the SSL problems? MS still..hasn't...?
We can only hope.
That is insightful? "Slashdot Sucks Warm Ballz" is insightful?!
It might even be less annoying than when someone comes in with a rap song on their phone and people get the wrong idea. Think about it:
Beep Beep Beep.
"Sorry Jimmy, but you can't have that Eminem CD; those words he uses are too dirty. See how they've censored them all?"
Makes me wonder why your comment was modded offtopic, when it seems spot on to me...
*Shrug*.
I mean slow compared to other OOP languages.
How did I know that was coming? Well, here, is my sig more tuned to my happy feelings now? =p
Can't speak for him, though.
I rather like what Christmas has done to /.; maybe it will continue. I can only hope =)
Ah, vacations are good.
See my original post for more details. Basically, he installed the Quicktime plugin for .ogg, ran soft. update. Now, software updateoutside of the US (He's in Rome, check his user-profile) hawks the iTunes 3.0.1 update as a new one every time the update program is run. So, when he installed it and ran iTunes, iTunes now had .ogg support (Because it uses Quicktime for playback). Pity it's not real.
See my previous post for info on it/a link to getting iTunes to play .ogg files. No luck for iPods, though.
But don't fret! You can run .ogg files in iTunes; in fact, I'm doing so right now! While it may not have been posted on Christmas, and it may not be from Apple, consider it a christmas present anyways. Here it is. Merry Christmas! =)
Seriosuly, though, that is probably one of the coolest pieces of tech I've seen this year.
Windows isn't de facto in my home, either. That's not the point; the point is in thee real-world, outside of geek/mac land, it is the de facto standard. Just because you don't use it, doesn't mean everyone else doesn't, too.
I know they've made thier own server using Linux. But for a government, they need so much CAD, Word Processing, etc software that they'll either need a) Windows or b) KDE/Gnome. And a 200mhz processor supports neither.
As for a server: puh! Unless they've created a beowolf cluster, those 200mhz chips are going to fry.
What's the point? While it's a first step to being free from foreign tech, they're equivilant to 200mhz cpus?! Unless all of China will be running Linux sans GNOME/KDE (They could still use one of the smaller, less featrue-intensive X11 GUIS) , BeOS or QNX, China will still require Intel and AMD. Like it or not, Windows is the de facto standard, and a 200mhz CPU won't run the majority of new Windows-based software.
It seems to me if the judgement doesn't specify, MS will choose the latter.
> and the software became what it could be - a truly universal effective program intelligible to most humans. You just discribed Windows as it is now; intelligible to most people. and effective. Not nearly as effective as it could be, but it is effective.