Do the people who always stuff like "leverage" really understand what they mean or do they think it just makes them sound like they're on the
case , up to the minute , on the money etc etc. Hey pal , why don't you go facilitate an integration strategy where you can deliver a synergy scenario between my boot and your arse?
I think the software only allows land based roman/medieval battles at the moment. Rumour is that next season they'll have vehicles and guns too. Not sure about the sea stuff, probably to complex to implement properly at the moment (wind, waves etc).
The reason most linux distributions stop booting is that something has fscked up the boot sector or a new kernel build has gone bad. Either way you can easily rescue your system by booting off a kernel floppy , no special rescue disk required. Even if the boot failure is because of corrupted init files you can always boot into single abuser mode so I fail to see the need for a bells & whistles rescue CD. If your whole drive is screwed then its reinstall time anyway, rescue CD or not.
Theres a new BBC show called Time COmmanders that doesn't actually focus on video games but uses a game engine as a method to allow contestants to re-enact historic battles. The BBC don't have a page on it (figures , battle isn't politically correct so the vegan lentil eaters who do their web site wouldn't be seen dead writing about it) but there is a page run by the company who did the software:
Yes. And its titled Who Needs Radio ANymore and asks if radio will still be around in 15 years. They said "radio", not "music radio". Perhaps the author is as blinkered as some people on here and assumes music radio = radio, who knows.
So what happens if someone wants to listen to talk radio. Do they record some friends conversations and play it back on an mp3 player in the car?? Not everyone wants to listen to music the whole damn time.
Is it some sort of inate desire in computer types to play soldiers or spys or something? Why do these products always get these silly codenames?
We all know it'll be called "Windows " so why don't they just call it that from the start? They can always rename it if they get bored or are these names just to make a very uninteresting product seem somehow mysterious and fascinating?
These gadgets are for 2 types of people:
1) Posers:
Oooo , look what I've got , look what it can do , arn't I a sophisticated going places dude owning this gadget?
2) Losers:
They need something to be able to occupy them 24/7 to take their mind off the fact that they have no friends and no life. What better than
a portable all in one gadget. Ok it has a phone section they'll never use other than to call mummy@home but its got everything else your
Aspergers syndrome sufferer could ever need.
Why is it the editors at/. seem to think every new phone come PDA that "is due out real soon" is a story? Does anyone really care?
A) They're dull , boring gadgets for geeks with too much money.
B) They never live up to the hype, the gaming/viewing experience is still a joke.
C) They're all the same bar a few extra megs of memory or yet-another-app-you'll-never-use-but-sounds-kool
Stories like this should be relagated to a special gadgets section , NOT be on the main page , especially if they're popping up every damn week.
Are 3D online games now going to be called "synthetic worlds" in the same way comics are called "graphic novels" in a futile attempt to convince other people that they're not really for kids? When are people going to stop kidding themselves that these games are some sort of next step in creating alternate realities. They're not. They're a game running on someone elses computer. Period. Take away the graphics and you have a MUD.
If you by immortal you mean until the oil physically runs out then maybe , but it is a finite resourse and even the most entrenched oil baron come politician can't magic oil out of empty wells.
You mean oppressive regimes like Saudi Arabia where women can't even drive or take their kids to hospital when they're ill without a male
"guardian" might collapse? Oh quelle tragedie! Not. Most middle eastern oil revenue never makes it to the people anyway which is why most of them br are dirt poor while their leaders drive around in top of the range Mercs.
"by x86 servers from a true x86 company like Dell"
Reliability? PC parts (even dell) are cheap crap with a design life of a few years. Sparc systems are designed to last a decode , in fact I'm still using a sparcstation 20 on my desk and it NEVER goes wrong. Until the POS PC I'm writing this on which has had 2 hardware faults in the last 18 months.
Probably because most of the people who read this site are teenagers or people in their 20s who've yet to have any exposure to real high end computer systems and seem to think that the PC world IS the computer world with everything else (mainframe, unix hardware etc) just irrelevant small fry hanging off the edge. Those of us who've worked in computers for some time know that the reality in the business market is the other way around.
When I want to make a phone call I DON'T want to have to wait for the fscking device to boot up and then have to select the "Phone" application and then wait for that to start. I want to switch the phone on and dial. THAT is why combining a PDA and phone is a stupid idea IMO.
Its a PDA with phone functionality built in and with a lousy 10 digit keypad. Give me a proper PDA or cheap mobile , but not this jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none mongrel (that probably will cost a small fortune for the suckers who'll buy it).
Diesel cars that do 60mpg+ are common in europe and japan and if I remember correctly theres even one model that does 100mpg (but with pretty non existent performance)
And what happens if someone sends a non encrypted email that has a self destruct and/or non forwarding flag set on it but the recipient is
not using Outlook? And don't tell me that'll never happen if the software allows it , of course it will. Its all pointless apart from the encryption since you can never guarantee what client the recipient will be using. This is just more blah blah for MS to put on the box when flogging Office to the gullible.
Corewars which is still going strong and can still be read about in rec.games.corewar was a similar concept. This might be as interesting but its certainly not new , though with MS being plastered across the screen I guess re-inventing the wheel and shouting all about it was somewhat expected.
Also quite a lot can fit on a 1.44 MB floppy disk especially program source code and plain text emails. I use floppies to transfer stuff this sort of stuff from work to home occasionally.
Quite. I still use a dox matrix for spooling log files (and occasionally program printouts) When someone produces a laser or inkjet printer that can use uninteruppted continuous lengths of paper via a tractor feed then maybe I'll upgrade , but until then a dot matrix suits me fine.
So give up your telephone and go live in a hippie commune in the woods and communicate with smoke signals. You have freedom of choice , exercise it and stop moaning.
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Do the people who always stuff like "leverage" really understand what they mean or do they think it just makes them sound like they're on the
case , up to the minute , on the money etc etc. Hey pal , why don't you go facilitate an integration strategy
where you can deliver a synergy scenario between my boot and your arse?
I think the software only allows land based roman/medieval battles at the moment. Rumour is that next season
they'll have vehicles and guns too. Not sure about the sea stuff, probably to complex to implement properly at the moment (wind, waves etc).
The reason most linux distributions stop booting is that something has fscked up the boot sector or a new kernel build has gone bad. Either way
you can easily rescue your system by booting off a kernel floppy , no special rescue disk required. Even if the boot failure is
because of corrupted init files you can always boot into single abuser mode so I fail to see the need for a bells & whistles rescue CD. If your whole drive is screwed then its reinstall time anyway, rescue CD or not.
Theres a new BBC show called Time COmmanders that doesn't actually focus on video games but uses a game engine as a method to allow contestants to
re-enact historic battles. The BBC don't have a page on it (figures , battle isn't politically correct so the vegan lentil eaters who do their
web site wouldn't be seen dead writing about it) but there is a page run by the company who did the software:
Total War
Yes. And its titled Who Needs Radio ANymore and asks if radio will still be around in 15 years. They said "radio", not "music radio".
Perhaps the author is as blinkered as some people on here and assumes music radio = radio, who knows.
So what happens if someone wants to listen to talk radio. Do they record some friends conversations and play it back on an mp3 player in the car?? Not everyone
wants to listen to music the whole damn time.
Is it some sort of inate desire in computer types to play soldiers or spys or something? Why do these products always get these silly codenames?
We all know it'll be called "Windows " so why don't they just call it that from the start?
They can always rename it if they get bored or are these names just to make a very uninteresting product seem somehow mysterious and fascinating?
These gadgets are for 2 types of people:
1) Posers:
Oooo , look what I've got , look what it can do , arn't I a sophisticated going places dude owning this gadget?
2) Losers:
They need something to be able to occupy them 24/7 to take their mind off the fact that they have no friends and no life. What better than
a portable all in one gadget. Ok it has a phone section they'll never use other than to call mummy@home but its got everything else your
Aspergers syndrome sufferer could ever need.
Why is it the editors at /. seem to think every new phone come PDA that "is due out real soon" is a story? Does anyone really care?
A) They're dull , boring gadgets for geeks with too much money.
B) They never live up to the hype, the gaming/viewing experience is still a joke.
C) They're all the same bar a few extra megs of memory or yet-another-app-you'll-never-use-but-sounds-kool
Stories like this should be relagated to a special gadgets section , NOT be on the main page , especially if they're popping up every
damn week.
Yeah , mod me down , see if I care.
Are 3D online games now going to be called "synthetic worlds" in the same way comics are called "graphic novels" in a futile attempt
to convince other people that they're not really for kids? When are people going to stop kidding themselves that these games are some sort of
next step in creating alternate realities. They're not. They're a game running on someone elses computer. Period. Take away the graphics and you have a MUD.
If you by immortal you mean until the oil physically runs out then maybe , but it is a finite resourse and even the most entrenched
oil baron come politician can't magic oil out of empty wells.
You mean oppressive regimes like Saudi Arabia where women can't even drive or take their kids to hospital when they're ill without a male
"guardian" might collapse? Oh quelle tragedie! Not. Most middle eastern oil revenue never makes it to the people anyway which is why most of them br are dirt poor while their leaders drive around in top of the range Mercs.
"by x86 servers from a true x86 company like Dell"
Reliability? PC parts (even dell) are cheap crap with a design life of a few years. Sparc systems are designed to last a decode
, in fact I'm still using a sparcstation 20 on my desk and it NEVER goes wrong. Until the POS PC I'm writing this on which has had 2 hardware faults in the last 18 months.
Probably because most of the people who read this site are teenagers or people in their 20s who've yet to
have any exposure to real high end computer systems and seem to think that the PC world IS the computer world with everything else (mainframe, unix hardware etc) just
irrelevant small fry hanging off the edge. Those of us who've worked in computers for some time know that the reality in the business market is
the other way around.
Well the porn industry is one of the biggest things on the web so its kind of appropriate :)
When I want to make a phone call I DON'T want to have to wait for the fscking device to boot up and then have to select the "Phone" application
and then wait for that to start. I want to switch the phone on and dial. THAT is why combining a PDA and phone is a stupid idea IMO.
Its a PDA with phone functionality built in and with a lousy 10 digit keypad. Give me a proper PDA or cheap mobile
, but not this jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none mongrel (that probably will cost a small fortune for the suckers who'll buy it).
Diesel cars that do 60mpg+ are common in europe and japan and if I remember correctly theres even one model that does 100mpg (but with pretty non existent performance)
"Wake up! TV is dead."
"I want to kill people online "
Yes sonny , but those of us OVER the age of 15 actually LIKE watching TV now and then and arn't
all that interested in playing online baby games.
And what happens if someone sends a non encrypted email that has a self destruct and/or non forwarding flag set on it but the recipient is
not using Outlook? And don't tell me that'll never happen if the software allows it , of course it will. Its all pointless apart from the encryption since you can never guarantee
what client the recipient will be using. This is just more blah blah for MS to put on the box when flogging Office to the gullible.
Corewars which is still going strong and can still be read about in rec.games.corewar was a similar concept. This might be as interesting but
its certainly not new , though with MS being plastered across the screen I guess re-inventing the wheel and shouting all about it was somewhat expected.
And using a fat client application within a browser window is different from using a fat client standalone how?
Also quite a lot can fit on a 1.44 MB floppy disk especially program source code and plain text emails. I use floppies to transfer stuff this sort of stuff from work to home occasionally.
Quite. I still use a dox matrix for spooling log files (and occasionally program printouts) When someone produces a laser or inkjet printer that
can use uninteruppted continuous lengths of paper via a tractor feed then maybe I'll upgrade , but until then a dot matrix suits me fine.
So give up your telephone and go live in a hippie commune in the woods and communicate with smoke signals. You have freedom of choice , exercise it and stop moaning.