The dotcom bubble was a BUBBLE. If you were in the Silicon Vallery because of the bubble, you need to leave. It ain't coming back.
I have little sympathy for people who won't leave an area when they can't find a job.
It's not that people LOVE talking to their friends all the time.
It's that people LOVE feeling like they are important enought that they need to either:
a) keep all their friend updated on their activities and whereabouts and/or
b) must be available 24/7 so people can talk to them
Have you LISTENED to what most people talk about on their cell phones? It's inane.
So it's not a communication tool, as much as a "make me feel more important than I am" tool.
This is born out by the fact that people who are REQUIRED to carry cell phones or pages for their job, because they ARE important, hate the god damn things.
It's not that I want more for less, exactly.
It's that ALL software is unsatisfactory in one way or another. Especially compared to the quality standards of most other products.
Most people hate paying a lot of money only to be disappointed. And after you spend a thousand bucks on a few software packages that, while not exactly BROKEN, aren't particularly slick, you start to think that you aren't getting your money's worth. So you steal it. Why not?
The industry will never stop piracy. So they need to give consumers some incentive to BUY stuff instead. Make it easy to purchase. Make it cheap. And make it PERFECT. Or at least, more perfect than it is now.
While the "open source" retards are debating which hack of Mozilla does tabs better, Windows users can already use the greatest browser ever:
MyIE2. A free, "alternate" interface for Internet Explorer. Does everything you could possibly want, is totally configurable, and works better and faster than any version of Mozilla I've seen.
And, oh my God, it lets you configure the tabs to work how YOU want them!
Dell? Home of the $200 128MB memory upgrade?
Don't count on Dell selling cheap ink.
Who needs a "Palm" device of ANY kind?
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I have yet to meet anyone that owns one of these things that wouldn't be better served by just having either
a) a $.69 Mead notebook and a Bic or
b) a notebook computer
Most fall into category 'a'.
It seems to me that the vast majority of people who claim to "need" a palmtop computer are just looking to gain some of the "look at my expensive gadget" attention they used to be able to get with a cellphone or pager.
I challenge ANYONE to convince me that they "need" a computer to keep track of their appointments and phone numbers. Pen and paper works better. And if you actually need computer functionality, you should have a notebook computer.
He didn't get nominated because The Two Towers was shitty, and his performance wasn't anything special.
I mean, really. Gollum is an EASY character. He's a cliche. Serkis did well, but he didn't do anything special.
For that matter, most actors don't do anything special as far as characterization.
In summary, screw Academy Awards. They're worthless.
You know, fiber-to-your-home doesn't meant that you magically get an OC-3's worth of bandwidth.
If you want "fiber" speeds, you're looking at paying thousands of dollars a month for all that bandwidth. Otherwise, you're still gonna get cablemodem/DSL-ish speeds.
"What we really want is the 2.4GHz equivalent of the Apple II, Atari 800, and Commodore 64. Something small and reliable that lets people be creative. Something that boots in two seconds. Something that isn't an IT nightmare, as are Windows and Linux. Something that one person could understand and master."
That would be an Xbox. I'm serious.
I think it would be great if Microsoft released a full-on "X-Box" compatible home PC. It could run a super stripped-down version of Windows that didn't have any "cruft" left over from the past 20 years of DOS and Windows. In fact, it already DOES run this, essentially.
Programmers would have an easy time writing software for it, because it's Windows. And it would be extremely stable, since the messy driver situation would completely go away thanks to the single hardware platform.
What happens when you want to increase the speed of the bus between your "GPU socket" and the memory for it? You'd have to replace the motherboard.
The fact is, increasing performance of a processor often requires increasing the performance of the memory bus, too.
Which is why we aren't running Pentium IVs on our 486 motherboards.
Besides, at some point, I imagine we'll see the disappearance of 3D accelerators in anything but super-high-end workstations. As the main CPU gets faster and faster, it becomes more and more feasible to just do all your graphics functions purely in software, and forego hardware-acceleration entirely. Which honestly is a better way to do it. Ultimate flexibility, no driver conflicts, no "hardware limitations". If you can figure out a way to create an effect in software, you can use it and display it, given enough processor juice.
If you don't mind that it will be a collection of parts that don't particularly work well together, won't have a slick interface, and won't fit in with the rest of your AV gear, style-wise.
Nothing amuses me more than reading about people spending a gob of money (and time) to turn their PC into a half-assed Tivo, when they could've just bought a fucking Tivo for less money, get something that is slick, and been happier in every way.
Of course, I also think that Tivo is fucking stupid. Mostly because I see no point in recording, or watching at all, the shit that is on TV.
HDTV- I wish I was dumb enough to buy an expensive TV that will probably be obsolete in a few years, so I can get slightly better image quality when watching (a few of) the universally crappy shows on both cable and network television.
Tivo- I also wish I was dumb enough to buy a device that lets me record gobs of those same shitty shows, so that I don't miss any of the shittyness. Oh, and apparently it also gives you the right to claim that you "get more out of tv" and that your life has changed for the better because of it. So, keeping up with your favorite shitty shows was stressing you out? Gosh, that's horrible.
You people make me sick. Read a fucking book. Get some taste. Quit trying to pretend that TV is worth bothering with, because it isn't, no matter how you watch it.
Advice for potential buyers of this watch...
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If you think that being able to receive stock quotes and sports scores on your watch is cool, then pleas, kill yourself.
It's "legitimate", you fucking tools.
Maybe The DCers should look into the new Distributed Spelling Client from The English Department.
There's also a cool one from The Grammar Project called They're There Their. Abbreviated T3.
Problem is, Firefly sucked. Sucks.
Here's some news for all the people that like science fiction:
Most Of It Is Bad.
And if it's on TV, it's almost *guaranteed* to be bad.
Too many fans of these shows don't realize that they are only fans because they love the genre, and are constantly in need of a fix.
Get a life.
I mean, really, your whining about how HORRIBLE it is to HAVE to play this shitty game that you are ADDICTED to is ridiculous.
Maybe you would be better off if you spent a little more time in reality. Actually, maybe we'd all be better off if people like you and the rest of the "addicts" just killed yourselves. In real life.
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The dotcom bubble was a BUBBLE. If you were in the Silicon Vallery because of the bubble, you need to leave. It ain't coming back. I have little sympathy for people who won't leave an area when they can't find a job.
It's not that people LOVE talking to their friends all the time. It's that people LOVE feeling like they are important enought that they need to either: a) keep all their friend updated on their activities and whereabouts and/or b) must be available 24/7 so people can talk to them Have you LISTENED to what most people talk about on their cell phones? It's inane. So it's not a communication tool, as much as a "make me feel more important than I am" tool. This is born out by the fact that people who are REQUIRED to carry cell phones or pages for their job, because they ARE important, hate the god damn things.
It's not that I want more for less, exactly. It's that ALL software is unsatisfactory in one way or another. Especially compared to the quality standards of most other products. Most people hate paying a lot of money only to be disappointed. And after you spend a thousand bucks on a few software packages that, while not exactly BROKEN, aren't particularly slick, you start to think that you aren't getting your money's worth. So you steal it. Why not? The industry will never stop piracy. So they need to give consumers some incentive to BUY stuff instead. Make it easy to purchase. Make it cheap. And make it PERFECT. Or at least, more perfect than it is now.
What should they do?
Make software cheaper, and make software better. Same goes for audio CDs.
While the "open source" retards are debating which hack of Mozilla does tabs better, Windows users can already use the greatest browser ever: MyIE2. A free, "alternate" interface for Internet Explorer. Does everything you could possibly want, is totally configurable, and works better and faster than any version of Mozilla I've seen. And, oh my God, it lets you configure the tabs to work how YOU want them!
Dell? Home of the $200 128MB memory upgrade? Don't count on Dell selling cheap ink.
I have yet to meet anyone that owns one of these things that wouldn't be better served by just having either a) a $.69 Mead notebook and a Bic or b) a notebook computer Most fall into category 'a'. It seems to me that the vast majority of people who claim to "need" a palmtop computer are just looking to gain some of the "look at my expensive gadget" attention they used to be able to get with a cellphone or pager. I challenge ANYONE to convince me that they "need" a computer to keep track of their appointments and phone numbers. Pen and paper works better. And if you actually need computer functionality, you should have a notebook computer.
He didn't get nominated because The Two Towers was shitty, and his performance wasn't anything special. I mean, really. Gollum is an EASY character. He's a cliche. Serkis did well, but he didn't do anything special. For that matter, most actors don't do anything special as far as characterization. In summary, screw Academy Awards. They're worthless.
Apparently it does...GENIUS.
To all who may read this: When you misspell the word "genius", you look like a fucking retard. Try not to do it.
You know, fiber-to-your-home doesn't meant that you magically get an OC-3's worth of bandwidth.
If you want "fiber" speeds, you're looking at paying thousands of dollars a month for all that bandwidth. Otherwise, you're still gonna get cablemodem/DSL-ish speeds.
"What we really want is the 2.4GHz equivalent of the Apple II, Atari 800, and Commodore 64. Something small and reliable that lets people be creative. Something that boots in two seconds. Something that isn't an IT nightmare, as are Windows and Linux. Something that one person could understand and master."
That would be an Xbox. I'm serious.
I think it would be great if Microsoft released a full-on "X-Box" compatible home PC. It could run a super stripped-down version of Windows that didn't have any "cruft" left over from the past 20 years of DOS and Windows. In fact, it already DOES run this, essentially.
Programmers would have an easy time writing software for it, because it's Windows. And it would be extremely stable, since the messy driver situation would completely go away thanks to the single hardware platform.
Xupiter has been around for a while. And it's NOT hard to get rid off: http://www.xupiter.com/uninstall That's it. Way to overreact guys.
As long as Wilford Brimley doesn't get them, we'll hopefully get to find out what happened to MacReady and Childs.
Uh...
What happens when you want to increase the speed of the bus between your "GPU socket" and the memory for it? You'd have to replace the motherboard.
The fact is, increasing performance of a processor often requires increasing the performance of the memory bus, too.
Which is why we aren't running Pentium IVs on our 486 motherboards.
Besides, at some point, I imagine we'll see the disappearance of 3D accelerators in anything but super-high-end workstations. As the main CPU gets faster and faster, it becomes more and more feasible to just do all your graphics functions purely in software, and forego hardware-acceleration entirely. Which honestly is a better way to do it. Ultimate flexibility, no driver conflicts, no "hardware limitations". If you can figure out a way to create an effect in software, you can use it and display it, given enough processor juice.
We won't see that for at least a decade, though.
If you don't mind that it will be a collection of parts that don't particularly work well together, won't have a slick interface, and won't fit in with the rest of your AV gear, style-wise. Nothing amuses me more than reading about people spending a gob of money (and time) to turn their PC into a half-assed Tivo, when they could've just bought a fucking Tivo for less money, get something that is slick, and been happier in every way. Of course, I also think that Tivo is fucking stupid. Mostly because I see no point in recording, or watching at all, the shit that is on TV.
A flute with no holes is not a flute. A donut with no holes is a Danish. --Ty Webb, quoting the Zen philosopher Bashoe
HDTV- I wish I was dumb enough to buy an expensive TV that will probably be obsolete in a few years, so I can get slightly better image quality when watching (a few of) the universally crappy shows on both cable and network television. Tivo- I also wish I was dumb enough to buy a device that lets me record gobs of those same shitty shows, so that I don't miss any of the shittyness. Oh, and apparently it also gives you the right to claim that you "get more out of tv" and that your life has changed for the better because of it. So, keeping up with your favorite shitty shows was stressing you out? Gosh, that's horrible. You people make me sick. Read a fucking book. Get some taste. Quit trying to pretend that TV is worth bothering with, because it isn't, no matter how you watch it.
If you think that being able to receive stock quotes and sports scores on your watch is cool, then pleas, kill yourself.
Film still rules for taking pictures in low-light. Digital cameras just can't handle low-light situations, by their very nature.
Plus, the speed of film is better. Digital cameras aren't very good for action photography.
So, uh, yeah. Digital is great for posed shots in good lighting. So I guess it is the best. Whatever.
It's "legitimate", you fucking tools. Maybe The DCers should look into the new Distributed Spelling Client from The English Department. There's also a cool one from The Grammar Project called They're There Their. Abbreviated T3.
Problem is, Firefly sucked. Sucks. Here's some news for all the people that like science fiction: Most Of It Is Bad. And if it's on TV, it's almost *guaranteed* to be bad. Too many fans of these shows don't realize that they are only fans because they love the genre, and are constantly in need of a fix.
Well, what do you expect if you are living in Los Angeles?
The WORST city in the whole country to live in. And California is the worst state.
No, dumbass, he meant that seven different terminal *programs* are installed.
You're talking about having multiple terminal windows open.
Reading Is Fundamental
Get a life. I mean, really, your whining about how HORRIBLE it is to HAVE to play this shitty game that you are ADDICTED to is ridiculous. Maybe you would be better off if you spent a little more time in reality. Actually, maybe we'd all be better off if people like you and the rest of the "addicts" just killed yourselves. In real life.
That's a fantastic idea...
If you want all the companies that sell Linux distros to give up and start selling t-shirts and coffee mugs.
You're a fucking idiot.