FYI, it's a "self-healing" article. Whenever the writer made a typo, the masssively parallel content management system dynamically replaced the mistyped word with a buzzword, making for one superintegrated synergistic media experience with meshed redundancy capabilities.
The funny thing about the movie was when the girl was telling the kid what to do when he played - like she would really know where the damn warp whistle was....
"First, a little background. C# was, is, and always will be, a Micro$oft invention."
C# is supposed to be an open, standardized language (standardized via the ECMA) - see here - in contrast, directx and the rest were all closed, proprietary systems. M$ would lose a lot more than they would gain by mucking with the standard.
They, however, may unofficially extend it... that's a lot more likely, if you think they are planning evil.
Yeah, I wasn't bashing DC (although I hear that the quality of the discs are really bad - they literally fall apart - I had one brand of cdr do that to me one time, pissed me right off)
As for arcades, heh, I'll take my computer over a console any day. You can't pilot an Atlas with some dinky little controller.
You haven't seen that XBOX controller, have you?:)
(i think it's for xbox, correct me if i'm wrong)
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... when Sega introduced the Dreamcast, perhaps their best machine at the time, it was almost too late -- they were already up against PlayStation and N64.
The Dreamcast was Sega's next-gen effort at the time - it was the Saturn that was originally meant to compete with the N64 and PSX. The Dreamcast was intended to compete with the new systems on the horizon by getting a jump - this is what they did quite successfully with the sega genesis - filled the next gen niche with adequate hardware.
In the 80s, hit after hit spread through the country's video game arcades (many now closed due to the power of personal computing), and private homes were invaded by Atari, Intellevision and ColecoVision's gaming systems.
I hope "personal computing" means "consoles" in this context, because PC gaming is a small fry compared to consoles and would have little effect on arcades. Arcades will never be completely replaced - playing a mech game in a big simulated cockpit - you can't do it at home (well, maybe you can, but I am not that rich:)
Of course, in the end, Larrel (?) proves it's not always true. I guess sometimes the ball explodes. Chaos theory comes to mind. Great movie, just saw it:)
I don't get guided to google.ca, so I would guess the answer is no.
(It's easy to id me as Canadian with my ip, btw - i've been forwarded to a canadian version of a site more than once:)
A better question might be:
Do the servers reside in different geographic regions (ie/ google.ca frontend and index in Canada)? Do they connect to one central index or is it replicated?
This information may be available, but I haven't looked, so maybe it's already answered on their site...
That's a good question! I live in Canada and our AC went down in our server room back in march and we had to have shutdowns at certain intervals to keep them all running safely.
We have a lot of boxes (~20 or so, I think - i'm a programmer, not a network admin), but we can't have nearly as many as Google, so they must have one helluva cooling system being in a place known to be warmer than Canada:)
At my company, we have a standard wrapper that exposes recordsets as a collection of objects. We did this so we would only have to upgrade a single (set of) objects when MS decides to push yet another database connection scheme and kill off their old one.
VB6.0 deserved to die. That's one case where I say, "Fuck backwards compatibility" - VB6 is horrible and I hate having to code in it. If it had full backwards compatibility then they might as well have not put.NET out, because it would have been VB6 with some new widgets instead of VB6 with strong typechecking instead of fucking variants and shit, right?:)
Dude, how would adwords determine the popularity of an OS? If you look at the page he linked to, it says that one percent of the OS users accessing google are running Linux.
In fact, all you proved is more people search for Linux information, which would be more indicitive of users needing help with Linux than what you seem to be trying to prove.
I *hate* hype - it ruins the actual experience because the end result never lives up to the hype. That's why I don't follow E3 or pay attention to movie trailers or otherwise be like a raving fanboy (ie/ Star Wars Ep 3 is gonna rock nads dewd yeah!).
It's actually kind of cool - like when Resident Evil came out for Gamecube, I had no idea that it was in development. Once I found out, I read some reviews and bought the game and it blew me away. I suspect that if I had been caught up in the hype (assuming there was hype for the game) it may not have lived up to my expectations.
Even worst is when you do get caught up in the hype and the end result not only doesn't live up to the hype, but totally blows. Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor did that to me. That's why I never buy a game or watch a movie until I see a few reviews for it anymore.
Fortunately, though, Slashdot's attention to it will likely mean they'll hop on that right away. But who knows.
Who knows indeed....
--- Corporate Flunky: Sir, it looks like the geeks at slashdot have exposed our technical ineptitude. The rest of society, which loves and respects their opinions, has boycotted us. We're bleeding money like a stuck pig.
CEO Schulze: Well shee-it, looks like we're done fer. Get Wally on the phone, let's see if I can sell off some assets and salvage something from this shitstorm!
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Here in Canada, many of the stations we rebroadcast from the states are localized. So it's definately a possibility.
I use furlongs myself.
How many furlongs in a pennyweight again?
Nuts, I guess the original poster should have linked to a conversion site, huh?
Greedo had no gun in the original version, so Han Solo shot him because he's a crazy ass cowboy. In the rerelease, they added a gun.
I think that's the story...
The article also mentions a device you can use at home. That's fine, it's for personal use.
:)
It's only when they resell edited movies that I would cry foul.
This is an interesting issue, to be sure
I got it and I'm not even a star wars geek. It's almost like the geekiness here is shared or something...
It's not hacking if it's an open relay as technically it is a public resource - much like how you cannot equate a slashdotting with a DoS attack.
Well, it's more complicated than that, but there are enough loopholes there for the spammer to escape prosecution, right?
Dvorak is not superior - here is one article that disputes the notion that Dvorak is superior
FYI, it's a "self-healing" article. Whenever the writer made a typo, the masssively parallel content management system dynamically replaced the mistyped word with a buzzword, making for one superintegrated synergistic media experience with meshed redundancy capabilities.
Holy shit guy, you must work in marketing!
hehe
the first rule of fight club is don't drop the soap
okay, that was stupid, but i'm hitting submit anyway
How could you mention feng shui, brag about your belief in a western mythology and yet get modded as insightful? Someone needs to read some Randi
:)
Hey, my first flame, yay for me
The funny thing about the movie was when the girl was telling the kid what to do when he played - like she would really know where the damn warp whistle was ....
shit, I can't believe I remember that movie
"First, a little background. C# was, is, and always will be, a Micro$oft invention."
C# is supposed to be an open, standardized language (standardized via the ECMA) - see here - in contrast, directx and the rest were all closed, proprietary systems. M$ would lose a lot more than they would gain by mucking with the standard.
They, however, may unofficially extend it... that's a lot more likely, if you think they are planning evil.
Switch.
:)
This has to be Apple's dumbest advertising campaign yet... I pretty much agree with this assertion
I personally don't respond to low key insults very well when deciding on a computer platform
Yeah, I wasn't bashing DC (although I hear that the quality of the discs are really bad - they literally fall apart - I had one brand of cdr do that to me one time, pissed me right off)
:)
As for arcades, heh, I'll take my computer over a console any day. You can't pilot an Atlas with some dinky little controller.
You haven't seen that XBOX controller, have you?
(i think it's for xbox, correct me if i'm wrong)
... when Sega introduced the Dreamcast, perhaps their best machine at the time, it was almost too late -- they were already up against PlayStation and N64.
:)
The Dreamcast was Sega's next-gen effort at the time - it was the Saturn that was originally meant to compete with the N64 and PSX. The Dreamcast was intended to compete with the new systems on the horizon by getting a jump - this is what they did quite successfully with the sega genesis - filled the next gen niche with adequate hardware.
In the 80s, hit after hit spread through the country's video game arcades (many now closed due to the power of personal computing), and private homes were invaded by Atari, Intellevision and ColecoVision's gaming systems.
I hope "personal computing" means "consoles" in this context, because PC gaming is a small fry compared to consoles and would have little effect on arcades. Arcades will never be completely replaced - playing a mech game in a big simulated cockpit - you can't do it at home (well, maybe you can, but I am not that rich
Like a Katz article would ever get slashdotted
</Obligitary Katz-Bashing>
Of course, in the end, Larrel (?) proves it's not always true. I guess sometimes the ball explodes. Chaos theory comes to mind. Great movie, just saw it :)
Now to play some Neverwinter Nights
I don't get guided to google.ca, so I would guess the answer is no.
:)
(It's easy to id me as Canadian with my ip, btw - i've been forwarded to a canadian version of a site more than once
A better question might be:
Do the servers reside in different geographic regions (ie/ google.ca frontend and index in Canada)? Do they connect to one central index or is it replicated?
This information may be available, but I haven't looked, so maybe it's already answered on their site...
That's a good question! I live in Canada and our AC went down in our server room back in march and we had to have shutdowns at certain intervals to keep them all running safely.
:)
We have a lot of boxes (~20 or so, I think - i'm a programmer, not a network admin), but we can't have nearly as many as Google, so they must have one helluva cooling system being in a place known to be warmer than Canada
At my company, we have a standard wrapper that exposes recordsets as a collection of objects. We did this so we would only have to upgrade a single (set of) objects when MS decides to push yet another database connection scheme and kill off their old one.
.NET out, because it would have been VB6 with some new widgets instead of VB6 with strong typechecking instead of fucking variants and shit, right? :)
VB6.0 deserved to die. That's one case where I say, "Fuck backwards compatibility" - VB6 is horrible and I hate having to code in it. If it had full backwards compatibility then they might as well have not put
Dude, how would adwords determine the popularity of an OS? If you look at the page he linked to, it says that one percent of the OS users accessing google are running Linux.
In fact, all you proved is more people search for Linux information, which would be more indicitive of users needing help with Linux than what you seem to be trying to prove.
It's the type of thing that comes to mind when you add more processing cycles to your cognative process.
:]
I'd mod this as (+1, Burn) if I could
I *hate* hype - it ruins the actual experience because the end result never lives up to the hype. That's why I don't follow E3 or pay attention to movie trailers or otherwise be like a raving fanboy (ie/ Star Wars Ep 3 is gonna rock nads dewd yeah!).
It's actually kind of cool - like when Resident Evil came out for Gamecube, I had no idea that it was in development. Once I found out, I read some reviews and bought the game and it blew me away. I suspect that if I had been caught up in the hype (assuming there was hype for the game) it may not have lived up to my expectations.
Even worst is when you do get caught up in the hype and the end result not only doesn't live up to the hype, but totally blows. Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor did that to me. That's why I never buy a game or watch a movie until I see a few reviews for it anymore.
That reminds me of this number:
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:)
48565078965739782930984189469428613770744208735
An illegal prime number
Fortunately, though, Slashdot's attention to it will likely mean they'll hop on that right away. But who knows.
Who knows indeed....
---
Corporate Flunky: Sir, it looks like the geeks at slashdot have exposed our technical ineptitude. The rest of society, which loves and respects their opinions, has boycotted us. We're bleeding money like a stuck pig.
CEO Schulze: Well shee-it, looks like we're done fer. Get Wally on the phone, let's see if I can sell off some assets and salvage something from this shitstorm!
---
Wait, isn't Wally dead? Nevermind.