There isn't really much to discuss about this story, so how about we just take potshots at the summary?
Grand master? How about Grand Blowhard? Or Grand Fascist?
Also: who cares? If you don't like it, don't shop there.
(don't yell if this is a double post, because it apparently didn't post the first time -- and, no, I'm not going to take that as God telling me to not troll Slashdot.)
I don't know. bin Laden knows what he's doing, and his greatest weapon is fear. Fear drives people to act irrationally. What he wants is for the United States to become so fascist that the people outright rebel against it, causing civil war and the destruction of the USA. Were I in his place, I wouldn't be so optimistic. I doubt that people will engage in outright rebellion until it gets so bad, they can't even watch their television in peace. Also, even *if* the USA (as we know it) is destroyed, something very similar will probably take its place. It's not like we're suddenly going to become a feminist, socialist technocracy or an Islamic republic. We'll probably just rewrite the Constitution slightly and abolish a few of the worst aspects of today's government, then go on doing whatever it is that we were doing previously. Meet the new boss... same as the old boss.
Anyways, even if bin Laden is a bogeyman and our own government was behind 9/11 (or they consciously hijacked the tragedy for their own ends), it doesn't really change anything. The end result is the same. Fear, pseudo-change, and a new boss. Note that I'm not anti-Obama. I like Obama as much as the next guy who's apathetic about politicians and their promises. I just don't think that anyone who runs for political office can/will have much ability/desire to change the status quo, despite promises made. I meant "pseudo-change" in more of a grand sense, like how the French keep rewriting their Constitution and instituting new Republics. It's just the same old crap, under a different name.
You're only going to be satisfied with some Libertarian utopian society. You need to learn to deal with the real world, rather than what you want. Compromise.
Really, I don't think life is nearly as interesting and exciting as you think it is. If you're getting that riled up over anything, it's time to take a moment and see if you've got all the facts. I used to get worked up over shit, too, until I discovered that the more I knew, the more apathetic I became. Now, I don't fight the apathy any more; I embrace it. There are no grand conspiracies, no illuminati, no NWO, and no alien coverups. And, even if there were, they'd be downright boring. This is the government we're talking about. They couldn't come up with an exciting conspiracy if their lives depended on it. The aliens would turn out to be horribly boring and a complete let-down. Life just isn't like comic books or pulp scifi novels. And maybe that's not even such a bad thing.
That's right. We all just started talking about this subject today, because, you, Seepho, have stopped caring about it. We're just doing this to confuse and annoy you. In fact, we're waiting for you to stop caring about copyright infringement and Microsoft, so that we can start discussing those subjects here at Slashdot, as well.
So, because you're too stupid to navigate their web site, it's now impossible?
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Dude, what you're saying sounds very close to, "I am a ticking time bomb." It would behoove you to not state such things publicly, in a forum where posts can not be deleted. If I were an FBI agent, I'd start a file on you, just from that post. You sound like a potential terrorist, from the point of view of a government agent.
And, for everyone else's sake, please don't stock up on ammo and fertilizer.
What? I was playing multiplayer PC games back when DOOM and Quake were hot.
Consoles have always been on the trailing edge of technology, and, as this story demonstrates, they must be dragged kicking and screaming into the modern gaming world, every time there's a change. Consoles are for little kids and autistic adults. PCs are for gamers.
That's not really true. Microsoft has always been strongly against piracy. However, what you might be thinking about is how easy it was for personal, home users to pirate their products. Microsoft has never raided some guy's house because he was running a pirated version of Windows. However, they certainly have raided businesses. Going after individual pirates doesn't really accomplish anything, but going after the larger cracking groups and corporate users does.
Just because it doesn't make business sense to go after a 15 year old pirate who downloads your product doesn't mean that you are encouraging him to do so.
Nice summary. Yeah, I wouldn't actually partake in the raid, myself, if I were calling for one. Instigating the raid is bad enough, really, and there's no reason to actually get your hands dirty, if dozens, hundreds, or thousands of grunts are doing it for you.
Of course, you're unlikely to get a personal army just because your girlfriend cheated on you, unless your revenge includes lots of "lulzy" repercussions for her.
I like having the freedom to breathe air that isn't tainted by your smoke. Smoke in your own house, and nobody will bother you.
To tie this back to the topic: it will be interesting to see if this virus will actually spread, as a result of this new use. If it does, maybe we won't have to worry so much about non-smokers' rights. If I were a conspiracy theorist, I might even suggest that this is an attempt to destroy the nicotine crops. Ha.
Dude, everyone does that. AMD/ATI does it, Nvidia does it, IBM does it, Motorola used to do it, and if Apple ever designed/manufactured anything themselves, they would do it, as well. It's called marketing. Those $1000 "Extreme" CPUs that Intel sells only cost about $100 to manufacture, if that. Probably only $25 or $50. How do you think Intel recoups its R&D costs? It prices the high end chips as high as the market will allow, then sells the mid-range chips for a more reasonable price.
Did you forget that AMD was selling Athlon XP and Athlon MP chips at wildly different prices, even though you could enable MP on the Athlon XP by drawing on them with a pencil? What about disabling MP every one of the later Athlon chips? Even some Opteron chips have MP disabled! That's seriously wrong, in my opinion. As far as I know, no Xeon has ever had MP disabled. Say what you will about Intel, but if you buy a Xeon, you know what you're getting.
What do you want Intel to do, anyways? Sell all their CPUs at manufacturing cost, with no feature differentiation at all? So that everyone can buy Xeon MP chips for $50 each? Yeah. OK. Let's see how long that lasts. I'd say Intel would be bankrupt in less than a year.
Seriously, dude, if you want cheap SMP motherboards and CPUs, go shop on ebay for used stuff from failed dotcoms. That's what I used to do. I even scored some high-end server-grade hardware, like DEC Alpha CPUs, SCSI RAID enclosures, SCSI drives, and smart UPSes. There's no need to rant about Intel's "anti-competitive" tactics, of which exactly zero legitimate examples exist in your post. Intel has done some pretty shitty things in the past, but this isn't one of them. Save your rant for something that matters.
But, if everyone does that, nobody will buy the game, and the patch will never come out. That only works if a certain number of consumers are suckers, and we sacrifice them, so that the rest of us can have a game that works.
Instead of preordering games, gamers should invest in game companies, such as Bioware or Bethesda. That will give them cash to hire better skilled programmers (and more of them, too). Hopefully. Of course, it could end up just going into the pockets of upper management, but that's the risk you take.
I was going to cyber-post this very cyber-message. Because you cyber-beat me to the cyber-punch, I'll instead take this cyber-opportunity to inflict great cyber-pain on you.
ALI (Acer Labs, which eventually got spun off from Acer, I believe). There was also SIS (Silicon Integrated Systems) and OPTi.
But, yeah, the chipsets were usually the problem. I never had a problem with Nvidia's chipsets, personally, but I hear other people have. I'm not sure what kind of wonky add-in cards they were using, but I loaded my systems with lots of stuff, with no issue. There was that one Nvidia chipset that caused hard drive corruption when you used it with a Sound Blaster, but I skipped that one.
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There isn't really much to discuss about this story, so how about we just take potshots at the summary?
Grand master? How about Grand Blowhard? Or Grand Fascist?
Also: who cares? If you don't like it, don't shop there.
(don't yell if this is a double post, because it apparently didn't post the first time -- and, no, I'm not going to take that as God telling me to not troll Slashdot.)
There isn't really much to discuss about this story, so how about we just take potshots at the summary?
Grand master? How about Grand Blowhard? Or Grand Fascist?
Also: who cares? If you don't like it, don't shop there.
Wow. That's some entitlement complex you've got there.
I don't know. bin Laden knows what he's doing, and his greatest weapon is fear. Fear drives people to act irrationally. What he wants is for the United States to become so fascist that the people outright rebel against it, causing civil war and the destruction of the USA. Were I in his place, I wouldn't be so optimistic. I doubt that people will engage in outright rebellion until it gets so bad, they can't even watch their television in peace. Also, even *if* the USA (as we know it) is destroyed, something very similar will probably take its place. It's not like we're suddenly going to become a feminist, socialist technocracy or an Islamic republic. We'll probably just rewrite the Constitution slightly and abolish a few of the worst aspects of today's government, then go on doing whatever it is that we were doing previously. Meet the new boss... same as the old boss.
Anyways, even if bin Laden is a bogeyman and our own government was behind 9/11 (or they consciously hijacked the tragedy for their own ends), it doesn't really change anything. The end result is the same. Fear, pseudo-change, and a new boss. Note that I'm not anti-Obama. I like Obama as much as the next guy who's apathetic about politicians and their promises. I just don't think that anyone who runs for political office can/will have much ability/desire to change the status quo, despite promises made. I meant "pseudo-change" in more of a grand sense, like how the French keep rewriting their Constitution and instituting new Republics. It's just the same old crap, under a different name.
You're only going to be satisfied with some Libertarian utopian society. You need to learn to deal with the real world, rather than what you want. Compromise.
Really, I don't think life is nearly as interesting and exciting as you think it is. If you're getting that riled up over anything, it's time to take a moment and see if you've got all the facts. I used to get worked up over shit, too, until I discovered that the more I knew, the more apathetic I became. Now, I don't fight the apathy any more; I embrace it. There are no grand conspiracies, no illuminati, no NWO, and no alien coverups. And, even if there were, they'd be downright boring. This is the government we're talking about. They couldn't come up with an exciting conspiracy if their lives depended on it. The aliens would turn out to be horribly boring and a complete let-down. Life just isn't like comic books or pulp scifi novels. And maybe that's not even such a bad thing.
That's right. We all just started talking about this subject today, because, you, Seepho, have stopped caring about it. We're just doing this to confuse and annoy you. In fact, we're waiting for you to stop caring about copyright infringement and Microsoft, so that we can start discussing those subjects here at Slashdot, as well.
So, because you're too stupid to navigate their web site, it's now impossible?
Dude, what you're saying sounds very close to, "I am a ticking time bomb." It would behoove you to not state such things publicly, in a forum where posts can not be deleted. If I were an FBI agent, I'd start a file on you, just from that post. You sound like a potential terrorist, from the point of view of a government agent.
And, for everyone else's sake, please don't stock up on ammo and fertilizer.
Don't hold your breath.
That's not why anyone comes here, so they have no reason to change.
What? I was playing multiplayer PC games back when DOOM and Quake were hot.
Consoles have always been on the trailing edge of technology, and, as this story demonstrates, they must be dragged kicking and screaming into the modern gaming world, every time there's a change. Consoles are for little kids and autistic adults. PCs are for gamers.
That's not really true. Microsoft has always been strongly against piracy. However, what you might be thinking about is how easy it was for personal, home users to pirate their products. Microsoft has never raided some guy's house because he was running a pirated version of Windows. However, they certainly have raided businesses. Going after individual pirates doesn't really accomplish anything, but going after the larger cracking groups and corporate users does.
Just because it doesn't make business sense to go after a 15 year old pirate who downloads your product doesn't mean that you are encouraging him to do so.
Ha. All the slashdot "editors" should be fired, and you should be the first new hire. All in favor?
Nice summary. Yeah, I wouldn't actually partake in the raid, myself, if I were calling for one. Instigating the raid is bad enough, really, and there's no reason to actually get your hands dirty, if dozens, hundreds, or thousands of grunts are doing it for you.
Of course, you're unlikely to get a personal army just because your girlfriend cheated on you, unless your revenge includes lots of "lulzy" repercussions for her.
I would like to sign this petition.
I like having the freedom to breathe air that isn't tainted by your smoke. Smoke in your own house, and nobody will bother you.
To tie this back to the topic: it will be interesting to see if this virus will actually spread, as a result of this new use. If it does, maybe we won't have to worry so much about non-smokers' rights. If I were a conspiracy theorist, I might even suggest that this is an attempt to destroy the nicotine crops. Ha.
Total shit webcomics are never obligatory.
Learn it. Know it. Obey it.
What the fuck, dude?
In what paranoid world do people do that?
Dude, everyone does that. AMD/ATI does it, Nvidia does it, IBM does it, Motorola used to do it, and if Apple ever designed/manufactured anything themselves, they would do it, as well. It's called marketing. Those $1000 "Extreme" CPUs that Intel sells only cost about $100 to manufacture, if that. Probably only $25 or $50. How do you think Intel recoups its R&D costs? It prices the high end chips as high as the market will allow, then sells the mid-range chips for a more reasonable price.
Did you forget that AMD was selling Athlon XP and Athlon MP chips at wildly different prices, even though you could enable MP on the Athlon XP by drawing on them with a pencil? What about disabling MP every one of the later Athlon chips? Even some Opteron chips have MP disabled! That's seriously wrong, in my opinion. As far as I know, no Xeon has ever had MP disabled. Say what you will about Intel, but if you buy a Xeon, you know what you're getting.
What do you want Intel to do, anyways? Sell all their CPUs at manufacturing cost, with no feature differentiation at all? So that everyone can buy Xeon MP chips for $50 each? Yeah. OK. Let's see how long that lasts. I'd say Intel would be bankrupt in less than a year.
Seriously, dude, if you want cheap SMP motherboards and CPUs, go shop on ebay for used stuff from failed dotcoms. That's what I used to do. I even scored some high-end server-grade hardware, like DEC Alpha CPUs, SCSI RAID enclosures, SCSI drives, and smart UPSes. There's no need to rant about Intel's "anti-competitive" tactics, of which exactly zero legitimate examples exist in your post. Intel has done some pretty shitty things in the past, but this isn't one of them. Save your rant for something that matters.
But, if everyone does that, nobody will buy the game, and the patch will never come out. That only works if a certain number of consumers are suckers, and we sacrifice them, so that the rest of us can have a game that works.
Instead of preordering games, gamers should invest in game companies, such as Bioware or Bethesda. That will give them cash to hire better skilled programmers (and more of them, too). Hopefully. Of course, it could end up just going into the pockets of upper management, but that's the risk you take.
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#2 would be my guess.
Also, the fact that open source software was used, which is pretty much just #2, again.
Tell that to the Debian project.
Have they upgraded to ELF binaries yet?
I was going to cyber-post this very cyber-message. Because you cyber-beat me to the cyber-punch, I'll instead take this cyber-opportunity to inflict great cyber-pain on you.
ALI (Acer Labs, which eventually got spun off from Acer, I believe). There was also SIS (Silicon Integrated Systems) and OPTi.
But, yeah, the chipsets were usually the problem. I never had a problem with Nvidia's chipsets, personally, but I hear other people have. I'm not sure what kind of wonky add-in cards they were using, but I loaded my systems with lots of stuff, with no issue. There was that one Nvidia chipset that caused hard drive corruption when you used it with a Sound Blaster, but I skipped that one.