paying for support depending on how much data you process? Doesnt sound like much fun.
We have HP customers who process a lot of data, but never call HP even though they have a support contract. Problems go through us first, and we usually solve them, as in we've never had to kick anything but a hardware failure to HP.
So now the amount of processing they do determines their support bill? This is great news for us, since we've been pushing our NT (2K/XP) based replacement pretty hard.
With the japanese people acting all wacky and idiotic and spray painting the sega logo on their asses?
It had absolutely NOTHING to do with the game. Instead, it made the game look idiotic. So idiotic you wouldnt even look at the back of the package to see what it was about.
If they had just shown 15 seconds worth of gameplay, it would have sold like hotcakes.
PSX had an extremely shaky start. AFAIK it was an arcade perfect MK3 and Tekken that put wind in its sails.
The PSX, Jaguar, Saturn and 3DO all came out at nearly the same time with comparable specs. N64 (known as UltraNintendo at the time) loomed on the horizon threatening to dominate the scene as the SNES did.
It mainly boiled down to who had the deepest pockets to weather the storm. People want creative games like Tempest 2000 or Nights into Dreams, but they dont want to sink 3-500 bucks into a console that wont be supported.
(Saturns failure in the US can be traced back to its launch fiasco. In order to beat Sony to the punch, they released it six months ahead of schedule. Yay! But the big boys,Toys R Us, etc, refused to carry it until its original release day at its original release price. On top of that, there were only three games in existence, as everyone else was laboring towards the original release date. So it sold at shops like EB for 900 bucks with a selection of three titles. It never burned away that stigma.)
You can qualify with its start at late 1999 (9-9-99 was release date) and early 2001 (Announcement was in feb, last console produced in april). Thats a whopping year and a half life cycle.
The list of games still in production that never came out is exhaustive. Half Life is a notable one (I remember seeing the Prima "Half Life for Dreamcast" walkthrough books at EB - because the game was to come out that month, and never did).
I wanted DC to be a success, I loved some of the games for it. But it was a dismal failure. It had a library that only slightly topped 3D0 and Jaguar in terms of quantity.
Realize, though that hardcore sega fans still refuse to accept it, they act as though some killer kickass game will be released for it any day now.
The Dreamcast didnt die because gamers dont like innovative games. Some chalk it up to its easy no-mod-needed piracy, though I doubt even that had much of an effect, being prohibitave to the mainstream non-techie gamer.
The Dreamcast died because Sega chalked up a laundry list of abandoned systems (32x, SegaCD, Saturn), and customers didnt want anything to do with it. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.
I bought a Dreamcast on release day (9-9-99), and was an idiot for doing so. Sega wasnt in any position to back up another console, and to weather the financial drought before it turned profitable. EA's refusal to create titles for it didnt help either.
It was dead before it hit store shelves. And 85% of its library was indeed mainstream boring crap.
Everyone rants about the unoriginality in gameplay. But what do we hype up and get all excited over? Doom 3. Yay now we run around and shoot prettier monsters.
Fun innovative games do come out, and will continue to. And the bulk of the shelves will always be mainstream type stuff.
Thats the way it always has been - just look at the line up for your favorite nostalgia system (c64, NES, atari, genesis). For every standout there were 100 crapfests.
Nothing new here. Just nerd elitism. Sometimes those mainstream trigger finger games are just plain fun.
All this does is make 3DMARK look worthless as a benchmarking app. All it has now is some value as a pretty looping demo or stress testing application. I run it to make sure the card works and the drivers are installed properly (as in runs all tests) and thats it. The little number it spits up at the end is worthless.
I dont even bother with 3DMark scores when I read reviews, I skip straight to the tested games and get a look at the FPS at various levels of detail.
Then it's easy to realize that card A gives 201 FPS, card be gives 199 FPS, and the answer is: buy whichever is cheaper.
This gives me much more useful information that relates to what I want the card for - playing games.
No, but many non-matrix fans will download it just for the sake of seeing it, instead of waiting to rent it at blockbuster.
The rental industry is getting killed by movie piracy online. If you're a fan of a film, you'll go to the theatre to see it.
But all those so-so films that you tell yourself "I'll wait and rent it", can now be downloaded free-as-in-hobo at your leisure.
Of course we only need justify this the same way as we do with MP3 'sharing'; Why should I pay to see a movie that only has one good character and the rest is filler?
MySQL has improved, but it really is still pretty crappy. No subselects, no triggers, and it doesnt even use real standard SQL.
Its fine for most web applications, which are just simple table lookups, but for more complicated data management systems, it cant remotely cut it.
Oracle, SQL Server and DB2 have a lock on the enterprise DMBS market, and for good reason. They are the best pieces of software in the field right now.
There simply is no free enterprise class DBMS.
It would be nice to see MySQL eventually evolve into one. I remember when it couldnt hold more than 2 million records per table, which wasnt too long ago. It still has a long ways to go, at least before I can consider it a replacement to what we use SQL Server for right now.
Like my sibling post, I'd like to see what the EFF has ever accomplished.
Noone outside of slashdot has heard of them, so they arent waging a very effective campaign to "get the message out". They don't have any effect in any legislature at any level.
The EFF is a wanna-be ACLU, which is nothing but a bunch of lawyers bonded together to get their pictures on the paper with nuisance lawsuits (like suing an elementary school for having childrens drawings of santa on the bulliten board).
Fuck all lobbyists of all shapes and sizes.
Power for the people, and screw all the self interest groups on both side of the spectrum.
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This jacket will kill people, and innocent ones at that.
This is the reason tasers, mace, and other "self defense" weapons are illegal in most countries and states.
No, wait until you see the wrongful death suit filed by the children of the little old man or woman who accidentally bumps into one of these chicks on the street.
This thing wont go mainstream, it'll be illegal in most states. It's like putting bear traps in your front yard to enforce your "do not trespass" sign. It's a reckless disregard for human life and/or safety and should be illegal.
And for the NRA nuts; there's nothing in the consitution about being able to electrocute people.
There's enough amperage in a AA battery to stop your heart, but not enough voltage potential for it to travel from one fingertip to another.
By the same token, 50 amps at a couple picovolts wouldnt do anything either.
That 300mA at 80,000 volts could kill you, because the current could then reach your heart or cause your diaphragm to convulse.
People with weak hearts or other conditions could easily be killed by one of these. Thats why Tasers are illegal in many places.
I see nothing but trouble the first time some helpless little old lady brushes against one of these chicks in the subway and winds up dead.
I dont know if a prosecuter would look like walking around with a garment on thats potentially lethal to anyone who touches it would count as "reckless disregard for human life" or "negligence".
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Bonzi's popups do have "Advertisement" up in the "title bar".
So I guess there should be a different litmus test for online ads than for print ones?
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Click here to get the latest upgrade for your system.
The restrictions pile on to Apples oh-so-wonderful new music sales software. And nary a complaint from the /. faithful.
It's getting more and more like the DRM you all hate, and less and less like kazaa is it not?
Face it, Apple is after your dollars just like everyone else.
paying for support depending on how much data you process? Doesnt sound like much fun.
We have HP customers who process a lot of data, but never call HP even though they have a support contract. Problems go through us first, and we usually solve them, as in we've never had to kick anything but a hardware failure to HP.
So now the amount of processing they do determines their support bill? This is great news for us, since we've been pushing our NT (2K/XP) based replacement pretty hard.
Moderate accordingly
Still on with this wi-fi hooplah? Wires are where it's at and where it's going.
Remember the original JGRF commercials in the US?
With the japanese people acting all wacky and idiotic and spray painting the sega logo on their asses?
It had absolutely NOTHING to do with the game. Instead, it made the game look idiotic. So idiotic you wouldnt even look at the back of the package to see what it was about.
If they had just shown 15 seconds worth of gameplay, it would have sold like hotcakes.
PSX had an extremely shaky start. AFAIK it was an arcade perfect MK3 and Tekken that put wind in its sails.
The PSX, Jaguar, Saturn and 3DO all came out at nearly the same time with comparable specs. N64 (known as UltraNintendo at the time) loomed on the horizon threatening to dominate the scene as the SNES did.
It mainly boiled down to who had the deepest pockets to weather the storm. People want creative games like Tempest 2000 or Nights into Dreams, but they dont want to sink 3-500 bucks into a console that wont be supported.
(Saturns failure in the US can be traced back to its launch fiasco. In order to beat Sony to the punch, they released it six months ahead of schedule. Yay! But the big boys,Toys R Us, etc, refused to carry it until its original release day at its original release price. On top of that, there were only three games in existence, as everyone else was laboring towards the original release date. So it sold at shops like EB for 900 bucks with a selection of three titles. It never burned away that stigma.)
You can qualify with its start at late 1999 (9-9-99 was release date) and early 2001 (Announcement was in feb, last console produced in april). Thats a whopping year and a half life cycle.
The list of games still in production that never came out is exhaustive. Half Life is a notable one (I remember seeing the Prima "Half Life for Dreamcast" walkthrough books at EB - because the game was to come out that month, and never did).
I wanted DC to be a success, I loved some of the games for it. But it was a dismal failure. It had a library that only slightly topped 3D0 and Jaguar in terms of quantity.
Realize, though that hardcore sega fans still refuse to accept it, they act as though some killer kickass game will be released for it any day now.
The Dreamcast didnt die because gamers dont like innovative games. Some chalk it up to its easy no-mod-needed piracy, though I doubt even that had much of an effect, being prohibitave to the mainstream non-techie gamer.
The Dreamcast died because Sega chalked up a laundry list of abandoned systems (32x, SegaCD, Saturn), and customers didnt want anything to do with it. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.
I bought a Dreamcast on release day (9-9-99), and was an idiot for doing so. Sega wasnt in any position to back up another console, and to weather the financial drought before it turned profitable. EA's refusal to create titles for it didnt help either.
It was dead before it hit store shelves. And 85% of its library was indeed mainstream boring crap.
Everyone rants about the unoriginality in gameplay. But what do we hype up and get all excited over? Doom 3. Yay now we run around and shoot prettier monsters.
Fun innovative games do come out, and will continue to. And the bulk of the shelves will always be mainstream type stuff.
Thats the way it always has been - just look at the line up for your favorite nostalgia system (c64, NES, atari, genesis). For every standout there were 100 crapfests.
Nothing new here. Just nerd elitism. Sometimes those mainstream trigger finger games are just plain fun.
Now it's to be jacked up even higher so that other jackasses can trade their cheesy MP3s? Or is this tacked onto dorm fees?
Anyone know what percentage of a university tuition actually goes towards eduction (professor salaries, equpment) these days?
And what happened this memorial day weekend?
What happened at the millenium celebrations?
You can only compile a list of the misses, not hits. You have absolutely no idea what they've prevented.
By contrast, it is almost impossible for researchers to install the Linux system on Microsoft's Xbox game console.
This is because they dont know how to solder, or dont know where to get a Torx 10 screwdriver to open it?
If it was a generic optimization (and probably should have been), there'd be no issue.
ATI recognized the 3dmark executable and special cased for it. Which is misleading and wrong. The performance is enhanced for 3DMark and 3DMark alone.
All this does is make 3DMARK look worthless as a benchmarking app. All it has now is some value as a pretty looping demo or stress testing application. I run it to make sure the card works and the drivers are installed properly (as in runs all tests) and thats it. The little number it spits up at the end is worthless.
I dont even bother with 3DMark scores when I read reviews, I skip straight to the tested games and get a look at the FPS at various levels of detail.
Then it's easy to realize that card A gives 201 FPS, card be gives 199 FPS, and the answer is: buy whichever is cheaper.
This gives me much more useful information that relates to what I want the card for - playing games.
I'm commenting on the absolute irrelevancy of the article, that's why.
"Some guy doesnt like the system - Movie at 11"
And why do I care what he writes in his blog?
No, but many non-matrix fans will download it just for the sake of seeing it, instead of waiting to rent it at blockbuster.
The rental industry is getting killed by movie piracy online. If you're a fan of a film, you'll go to the theatre to see it.
But all those so-so films that you tell yourself "I'll wait and rent it", can now be downloaded free-as-in-hobo at your leisure.
Of course we only need justify this the same way as we do with MP3 'sharing'; Why should I pay to see a movie that only has one good character and the rest is filler?
Why would IBM hitch its wagon to MySQL?
IBM has DB2, which is vastly superior to MySQL.
MySQL has improved, but it really is still pretty crappy. No subselects, no triggers, and it doesnt even use real standard SQL.
Its fine for most web applications, which are just simple table lookups, but for more complicated data management systems, it cant remotely cut it.
Oracle, SQL Server and DB2 have a lock on the enterprise DMBS market, and for good reason. They are the best pieces of software in the field right now.
There simply is no free enterprise class DBMS.
It would be nice to see MySQL eventually evolve into one. I remember when it couldnt hold more than 2 million records per table, which wasnt too long ago. It still has a long ways to go, at least before I can consider it a replacement to what we use SQL Server for right now.
Wednesdays story will be ready soon, but subscribers can beat the rush and see it now!
Run Windows 2003 and you dont have to waste a full time salary for someone to "monitor the servers".
It'll tell you how to vote too.
Like my sibling post, I'd like to see what the EFF has ever accomplished.
Noone outside of slashdot has heard of them, so they arent waging a very effective campaign to "get the message out". They don't have any effect in any legislature at any level.
The EFF is a wanna-be ACLU, which is nothing but a bunch of lawyers bonded together to get their pictures on the paper with nuisance lawsuits (like suing an elementary school for having childrens drawings of santa on the bulliten board).
Fuck all lobbyists of all shapes and sizes.
Power for the people, and screw all the self interest groups on both side of the spectrum.
This jacket will kill people, and innocent ones at that.
This is the reason tasers, mace, and other "self defense" weapons are illegal in most countries and states.
No you can only use as much force as is necessary to protect your own life. You cant murder someone to stop him from carrying off your TV.
If the burglar enters your home armed (most dont - 'rob a house with gun in hand, get 10 to 20 in the can'), all bets are off. Then its self defense.
It's generally a case by case thing, but it make sense. Burglar or not, a human life is worth more than your piggy bank or xbox.
No, wait until you see the wrongful death suit filed by the children of the little old man or woman who accidentally bumps into one of these chicks on the street.
This thing wont go mainstream, it'll be illegal in most states. It's like putting bear traps in your front yard to enforce your "do not trespass" sign. It's a reckless disregard for human life and/or safety and should be illegal.
And for the NRA nuts; there's nothing in the consitution about being able to electrocute people.
It's both.
There's enough amperage in a AA battery to stop your heart, but not enough voltage potential for it to travel from one fingertip to another.
By the same token, 50 amps at a couple picovolts wouldnt do anything either.
That 300mA at 80,000 volts could kill you, because the current could then reach your heart or cause your diaphragm to convulse.
People with weak hearts or other conditions could easily be killed by one of these. Thats why Tasers are illegal in many places.
I see nothing but trouble the first time some helpless little old lady brushes against one of these chicks in the subway and winds up dead.
I dont know if a prosecuter would look like walking around with a garment on thats potentially lethal to anyone who touches it would count as "reckless disregard for human life" or "negligence".