Not really "your bad". Its not up to/. readers to know every story that gets posted, thats what editors are for. Maybe someone needs to review their "daddy pants" system or whatever its called?
This is mean. I'd imagine microsofts intention is to install windows 98 for free/cheap, then flood the client with adverts and reasons why they need to pay $100 to upgrade to Windows XP.
because it says "Because of the testing nature of this site, service outages are to be expected from time to time as problems are discovered and diagnosed".
fairly ironic that you would recommend that service since this news story is about the unreliability of hotmail!
Ok I just explained this story to my mate who doesn't know much about computers but is doing a Law Degree...
He says your allowed to Reverse Engineer any piece of software yourself. I said yeah maybe but either way I don't think any team with all the time in the world could ever Reverse Engineer windows perfectly? And anyway it's probably illegal, though my friend says its perfectly legal.
Er, I've confused myself now, could someone please explain!? Could people just reverse engineer the whole of windows and then have access to pretty much the same source code as was written by MS?
Yeah I really thought it was gonna be a dolls house in a Mac Cube. saw the first picture and there was a computer inside the "cube". I was very confused!
Can't say I recognise that scream to be honest, but I've noticed stuff like this mostly in computer games. People have talked about it earlier but my most annoying one is one of the death sounds from the original Command and Conquer (when an infantry gets shot) and I hear it like every day on Cartoon Network it really bugs me! Surely people could at least alter the pitch a little or put one or two effects on them so that it doesn't ruin things for us geeks!
Yeah I've been using the beta versions of WA5 for a few months, it's really cool! Got a lot more stable recently and it does everything I could want. Better than that iTunes milarkey.
ED2k Link
Slashdot might put random spaces in there somewhere...work it out.
I've often teased my computer illiterate friends, saying I will break into their house in the middle of the night and install Linux. They don't even know what i'm talking about but its always funny for me!
Computer gaming cant be as succesful with spectators as "normal" sports (football rugby etc) because:
traditionally people support the team for the town they live in. gives u a sense of pride, loyalty, patriotism whatever.
but a main concept of online gaming is that you can form a team with anyone anywhere. most clans dont have anyone from the same town/city, and often people from different countries. so like, which team/clan would you choose to support?
I'm pretty sure it will get popular amongst people like me and you who play the games, but wont hit the mainstream.
Haha, thats pretty hilarious that you call the UK "Socialist". You obviously know very little about the country. It made an attempt at being Socialist during the 50s and 60, but now "New Labour" are so centre its annoying. Privatising hospitals, and everything else. It's hardly socialist at all.
I think this is a good example of where a Web-Installer would have been beneficial for the company/makers. (This is where you download a small, usually 50k file that retrieves the program files from the net). That way, AOL could have pulled the program files from the server, and no one would have been able to install it anymore! How silly of them
People are gonna start gettin real annoyed from getting slashdotted. I think the/. guys really need to invest in just one server with quite a fat connection, put copies of all the files they link to on it, and run kaaa, gnutella, edonkey. eDonkey (eMule) would be better coz its easy to provide direct links to files. Sure this probably wouldnt help straight away, but it would only take a few minutes for the first few people to get their files, then there's instantly a load more sources. Obviously there are copyright issues in a lot of cases, but i'm pretty sure it'd be fine for something like this? anyway, as soon as i get the files downloaded i'll post eMule links
Oh right, thanks for clearing that up. Surely it'd be better to use a more up to date benchmark system though, with more realistic helpful scores. Something like that probably doesnt test the graphics to it's full potential. Anyway i dont really know what i'm talking about.
on Slackware Linux (and also VectorLinux), graphics performance was about 2500-2600 frames/second using OpenGL. With SuSE Linux 8.2 I am experiencing frame rates of about 2000-2100 frames/sec. This is a noticeable drop in performance, but again,
for most users this will go unnoticed.
As far as i know the human eye can only see about 30fps, and from playing Counter-Strike a lot, people seem to be generally pleased as long as they have above 60fps. Does he really mean he's getting 2000 frames per second? Someone explain please!
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Not really "your bad". Its not up to /. readers to know every story that gets posted, thats what editors are for. Maybe someone needs to review their "daddy pants" system or whatever its called?
This is mean. I'd imagine microsofts intention is to install windows 98 for free/cheap, then flood the client with adverts and reasons why they need to pay $100 to upgrade to Windows XP.
dude its compared to 1 HOUR for conventional batteries
because it says "Because of the testing nature of this site, service outages are to be expected from time to time as problems are discovered and diagnosed". fairly ironic that you would recommend that service since this news story is about the unreliability of hotmail!
Ok I just explained this story to my mate who doesn't know much about computers but is doing a Law Degree...
He says your allowed to Reverse Engineer any piece of software yourself. I said yeah maybe but either way I don't think any team with all the time in the world could ever Reverse Engineer windows perfectly? And anyway it's probably illegal, though my friend says its perfectly legal.
Er, I've confused myself now, could someone please explain!? Could people just reverse engineer the whole of windows and then have access to pretty much the same source code as was written by MS?
Yeah I really thought it was gonna be a dolls house in a Mac Cube. saw the first picture and there was a computer inside the "cube". I was very confused!
Why did you buy a 40gig iPod when you only have 2 gigs worth of music? You can still buy CDs from shops ya know.
Can't say I recognise that scream to be honest, but I've noticed stuff like this mostly in computer games. People have talked about it earlier but my most annoying one is one of the death sounds from the original Command and Conquer (when an infantry gets shot) and I hear it like every day on Cartoon Network it really bugs me! Surely people could at least alter the pitch a little or put one or two effects on them so that it doesn't ruin things for us geeks!
Yeah I've been using the beta versions of WA5 for a few months, it's really cool! Got a lot more stable recently and it does everything I could want. Better than that iTunes milarkey.
ED2k Link
Slashdot might put random spaces in there somewhere...work it out.
I've often teased my computer illiterate friends, saying I will break into their house in the middle of the night and install Linux. They don't even know what i'm talking about but its always funny for me!
Um, is this the kind of thing you're looking for? Works well for me.
Computer gaming cant be as succesful with spectators as "normal" sports (football rugby etc) because: traditionally people support the team for the town they live in. gives u a sense of pride, loyalty, patriotism whatever. but a main concept of online gaming is that you can form a team with anyone anywhere. most clans dont have anyone from the same town/city, and often people from different countries. so like, which team/clan would you choose to support? I'm pretty sure it will get popular amongst people like me and you who play the games, but wont hit the mainstream.
That link wouldnt work for me, I found this on Jigle though:
9 231|25F180DC6AA5324F2B04BBBC7C6C9C82|/
ed2k://|file|matrix_revolutions_640_dl.mov|3423
Haha, thats pretty hilarious that you call the UK "Socialist". You obviously know very little about the country. It made an attempt at being Socialist during the 50s and 60, but now "New Labour" are so centre its annoying. Privatising hospitals, and everything else. It's hardly socialist at all.
I think this is a good example of where a Web-Installer would have been beneficial for the company/makers. (This is where you download a small, usually 50k file that retrieves the program files from the net). That way, AOL could have pulled the program files from the server, and no one would have been able to install it anymore! How silly of them
Oh, looks like they've changed it back to the default green. How dissapointing.
AHHH, is no one else scared by the redness of this stories title?
Yeah well I made a story submission about this a good few days ago and no one seemed to care then :( (need sympathy)
2003-05-09 15:33:36 Mozilla 1.3.1 released (articles,mozilla) (rejected)
Oops, I posted this before they put up the BitTorrent link...now I feel silly
People are gonna start gettin real annoyed from getting slashdotted. I think the /. guys really need to invest in just one server with quite a fat connection, put copies of all the files they link to on it, and run kaaa, gnutella, edonkey. eDonkey (eMule) would be better coz its easy to provide direct links to files. Sure this probably wouldnt help straight away, but it would only take a few minutes for the first few people to get their files, then there's instantly a load more sources. Obviously there are copyright issues in a lot of cases, but i'm pretty sure it'd be fine for something like this? anyway, as soon as i get the files downloaded i'll post eMule links
Er, in megabytes:, 3% of 97.3:
97.3 x 0.03 = 3
I'd say 3megs saving on each file is much more signifcant than your estimation
Here's another source:5 9&mode=nested&tid=102&tid=142
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/09/01562
Oh, wait...
Oh right, thanks for clearing that up. Surely it'd be better to use a more up to date benchmark system though, with more realistic helpful scores. Something like that probably doesnt test the graphics to it's full potential. Anyway i dont really know what i'm talking about.
Didn't your mummy ever tell you that "two wrongs don't make a right"?