Instead of asking the dumbass question "anyone else see any licensing issues?", do some research yourself for fuck's sake.
Well from what I understand that is what the Anonymous Coward sent in, the editor added "Only if they don't follow the GPL." And I think "Anyone else" implies "I see some liscensing issues, how about you guys?" And the editor answered, "Only if they don't follow the GPL do I see liscensing issues." Now if you take out the else, they're asking for us to find out, but if you have it in there it says I found issues now you find some too.
Not only that, a computer is very much like a car, if it is not looked after, it will eventually die, be it Linux, Windows, UNIX or MAC OS.
If you never touch a computer, nothing will happen to it. If you do a base install of windows, or any other OS, and just leave it on the computer, offline, nothing bad would happen. The computer would probably never crash (unless there was a memory leak somewhere) and as long as you never touched it, it would remain in perfect working order.
Now if you bought a brand new car, had it towed home, and let it sit in a driveway for a year, it wouldn't start. The tires would have flat spots, the gas would be in horrible shape (it would have seperated with a lot of your other fluids.) Anyway, there's a sig on slashdot, forgot the user, says "Anyone who compares a computer to a car knows very little about both", or something like that.
Finally, I can have an entire inflammable expensive computer that warps, rots, gets infested by termites, cracks, splinters, weighs a lot and breaks easily. And destroys trees.
Just what I always wanted:-D. I'm pretty sure there's a reason we use cheap plastics and metals for building computers. And I have so many cases that I just found outside, what happens when someone upgrades the wood computer and throws the old one outside. No one would want a wooden case that's just been sitting outside for a while. epsecially in the rain, at least if it rains on a metal case you're fine, just dry it off. If it rains on a wood case it'll probably warp, rot, and smell.
I'll ignore the first two, since ya they're not good examples.
Your VCR/VCD/DVD player that played the respective media
The only one of those I had before a PC version was the VCR, I don't think I'd a VCR hooked up to my PC. But for VCD and DVD, I only had the PC version. A few reasons, I have a better sound system on my computer than on my TV (ok this is old examples, I've since bought a component stereo and a 56" HDTV), my 19" (viewable) monitor looks nicer than my 27" TV (old TV heh), more control on the PC (especially with DeCSS) and it's easier to go through menus (I like having a mouse cursor instead of some little arrows.)
Your Mobile phone, which you used to make calls
I still have a cell phone I use to make calls, sure it has other features but that will be explained a bit lower. I was thinking about a PDA/cell phone combo, but those are really REALLY ugly looking. and there's something not right about talking into a PDA (and wouldn't holding your head to a PDA get the screen even dirtier than it normally gets?)
Your PDA, you showed off to your friends
I actually show off my cell phone to my friends, it has a camera, MP3 type ring tones, 16bit (I think) color LCD screen inside (flip phone) and a game boy type LCD (shades of blue though, and it's lit very nicely) on the outside that works with the camera when the phone's closed. And the phone's very nice looking, it's easier to handle than a PDA/phone combo, and it plays java based games. I would have a PDA (a nice one) but I don't really want one badly enough. I'd rather buy a $4,000 turbo kit and $2,000 DVD navigation system (with 7" touch screen) for my car than get a $500 PDA.
Your gaming console, you played games on
I played games on a gaming console long ago, before I had the internet, and a computer good enough to run any games. Some time after I upgraded to a 350MHz K6-2 with 32 megs of ram and a video card (instead of some built in thing, it was such a bad computer) I downloaded Half-Life (a beta version, a few weeks before it came out) and I was instantly hooked. After that I reserved a copy, and when I finally got the real game I played single player for a while. Then I tried multiplayer over the net which was a new thing for me, I was hooked, since then I haven't bought a console (except Playstation but only for games like Final Fantasy, Lunar, and Gran Turismo.) I wouldn't want to go back to having a console, the graphics aren't as good as a PC, online play sucks, the controls aren't as good (ok some games have great controls on a console, but they'd be waaaay better on PC), you can't try the games before you buy them without a mod chip (yeah yeah it's illegal but I got into PC gaming with warez, I don't just go out and buy every new game since I can't return them if I don't like them, downloading them before I buy them is like a really good demo version) and you can't upgrade consoles.
Your PC, you used to download porn
Heh I used my PC to download porn some time after I used it for games, before I played games I used it to chat with friends on AOL. Before I used the PC to chat on AOL, I used it for nothing really, just a learning tool (learning how the PC works, I installed hardware, upgraded to Windows 95, did a bunch of stuff.)
There is a lot a PC is good for, and a lot of things should be merged into a computer, but I don't think there'd be an all in one device (that anyone would really want to use.) There are some things you wouldn't want your computer to do since it'd be more of a hassle than doing them the old fashioned way.
I've been watching a lot of CNN lately and they cover a lot of the mars mission (ok they don't have 24/7 mars coverage but what the hell do you expect? "Oh and there's the rover traveling along at.05MPH, and now it's stopping to re-evaluate it's path, wow this is fascinating." Especially in a presidential election year, with two wars being fought in the middle east, one of the most hated US presidents, a handfull of high profile court cases, a few major kidnappings and a sniper shooting at cars on the freeway in ohio.
They actually surprise me with their coverage of space. I usually see things on CNN an hour or so before it goes on slashdot. Also, they don't have Pro-bush news what the hell are you talking about? 90% of the news about bush seems to be against him (He's trailing in the polls, no one likes him, here are some untrue statements he said, look no WMD) I can't remember hearing any pro-bush comments on CNN.
When you were a kid were people able to watch NASAs own TV channel? And were they landing yet another probe on the planet Mars? I don't think so. And did you have internet where you could go at any time and watch 1,000s of space related videos, and find tons of pictures from missions. Kids today don't really care too much for space, but why would they? What is new and exciting about space? When they send people to mars I'm sure everyone would watch, but I don't think many people care about a rover on mars (unless it discovered water, then I'm sure that'd be on CNN all day.)
In an era when pollution and fuel economy were blithely ignored, my crazy neighbor even put a nitro engine in his car so that he could leave even more rubber on the pavement than a normal overpowered V-8 allowed. If the crazy part isn't obvious yet, consider this: This beast burned fuel like a brush fire, fuel that cost three times as much as gasoline and was available from only one station in the entire city. To the extent that this assemblage was intended as a babe magnet, there is some question about the wisdom of limiting its range to a one-mile radius around a single filling station.
Where do I begine...
A nitro engine? You mean like the kind of engines they use in 1/10th scale models of cars? The remote controlled kind? The kind that weighs less than the person controlling it?
I think you might have meant "nitrous" but then again there aren't any nitrous engines, maybe a nitrous oxide system (like one from NOS.) But that's not an engine, just a delivery system (delivers nitrous oxide to the cylinders which creates a more powerfull explosion and gives more power.)
This beast burned fuel like a brush fire, fuel that cost three times as much as gasoline and was available from only one station in the entire city.
Burned fuel like a brush fire? Might have to do with racing the car daily, that generally burns a lot of fuel. Having a car that burns fuel isn't crazy especially when the car competes at drag events (if you're going to use fuel like that for a daily driver, you're either insane, or rich.)
To the extent that this assemblage was intended as a babe magnet, there is some question about the wisdom of limiting its range to a one-mile radius around a single filling station.
Believe me, this was NOT a babe magnet. A babe magnet would be a stock corvette, or a ferrari. It could of had a 4 cylinder engine from a honda civic but the girls (the ones that fall prey to the chick magnet cars) don't know the difference between a 454 chevy big block and a 1.7 liter honda engine. All they know is that "expensive looks = rich man." If the car looks expensive the person who owns it must be rich and it must be such a fast sporty exotic car. This car was the kind of thing you'd drag race with, NOT the kind of think you'd take around town and pick up girls in (I don't think they'd like sitting on the floor of a car with one seat, a roll cage, no carpets, no trim on the interior, no A/C and no radio.)
Yeah I know. I mean overclockers buy some top of the line $1,500 PC (if you build it yourself, that goal's quite easy especially when you already have a killer sound system and monitor.) Then some $400 (that's a high guess too) water cooling/peltier setup.
A fairly cheap hot rodder spends $3,000 on a body $5,000 on a crate motor, $2,000 on a tranny, $4,000 on a supercharger, $4,000 on a paint job (add $2,000 for flames and pinstriping) drives around town in his fast, shinny, custom hot rod unless he's at the tracks with a 140mph trap speed and a 8 sec 1/4 mile time.
Then there are the rich guys who just buy a $300,000 ferrari and stick in twin turbos (like John Carmack.)
I can't possibly see why women don't compare overclockers to hot roders. I mean one has very little money and spends all day trying to get the perfect air flow through a case while squeezing 4 more mhz out of their PC. And has a computer that looks like every other modded PC on the planet but only gets to show his other geeky online friends. And the other is a fairly rich (well rich isn't the right word, some are really poor but they still have the nice car) person with a very fast, sporty, car that they drive around town and also at races (where they go very VERY fast.) I mean come on can't they see the two are the same!
Muscle Cars - These people use AMD processors. Their processors are very cheap for their performance. And most of them hate Intel with a vengance.
Imports (Street Racers are anyone who races in the streets, I have a mustang cobra which is a muscle car and I street race, an import is any car from outside the US) - These people buy Intel. They have higher clock speeds so they MUST be faster. They don't really care much about AMD and they spend a lot more money on their PCs except they don't get the same performance out of them.
I like how you say "Their processors are almost hopelessly inefficient, huge, expensive, not very intelligent, and run hot." about Intel, when even from a person who LOVES AMD (like myself) I totally disagree and that entire statement fits in AMD. Intel Processors use less power, can lower their clock speed if they get to hot (intelligent) and run much cooler. They are expensive but muscle cars are NOT expensive. The average muscle car fanatic (that would race the car and stuff) can go to the junkyard, get a ton of parts for real cheap and restore a classic car, stick in a new crate motor and tranny and will destroy anything from japan.
An person who buys imports doesn't buy the imports for price and "itelligence" they buy them for looks. Clock cycles don't mean as much? Well in cars it's mostly just horsepower, torque and weight. Imports have low horsepower, low torque, and mid-weight (my sentra SE-R Spec V weighs around 2,900 lbs or so) a muscle car (like my mustang cobra) has high horsepower, high torque, and a bit more weight than the import (the mustang weighs around 3,500 but it has like 2x the hp of the sentra at the wheels.)
I remember when that first came out it ran like crap over bnet and they weren't expecting it to be as hard on their servers. Are they gonna test this with like 10,000 people and open it up to over 1,000,000 when it's finally released and realized hey this wasn't such a good idea we should have done more testing?
Exactly. There really is no way this could be used for anti-terrorism surveillance. How the hell are they going to get a terrorist to wear this thing strapped to their chins? And why the hell would terrorists speak to each other by just moving their lips? They'd use their real voices, meaning the people listening just need a good listening device. They have those already
Undercover CIA Agent: Umm your epidermis is showing, allah doesn't like that!
Potential Terrorist: Oh shit? Really? How can I hide it?!?!?!
Undercover CIA Agent: Here strap this to your chin.
Potential Terrorist: *Quickly straps on device*
Undercover CIA Agent: *goes away and speaks into a megaphone* "OK Now just speak, but don't make any sound! Like you were lip synching to music or something!"
No it wouldn't, you'd need space for the extra speakers and microphones and they'd have to have room so they could be positioned correctly, this is for desktop PCs, besides all the laptops I've used have been quiet enough.
How was this modded down as troll? I am really serious about building a box or using water cooling, or keeping a PC in a closet or using a quiet fan. There are so many things you can do out their that would be far easier than a speaker microphone setup. And what happens when the speaker or microphone fail? Or what if they're not in the right positions (don't they have to be setup perfectly to cancel out the noise?) At least if get a box or put the computer in a closet it's not going to fail, there's nothing to fail heh.
The fan will change noises as it gets older and somehow the microphone and speaker will remain perfect forever? If either the microphone or the speakers are damaged they'll end up creating more noise then they cancel out. What happens if the microphone starts picking up feed back then your computer's creating more noise than it started off with?
Why? Can't you just get a really quiet fan? My CPU fan is noisy but I don't care, if I wanted to I could build some sort of box to enclose the noise so I don't hear it. Or I could use water cooling which is much quieter. Or I could put my computer further away from where I am (like in a closet or something, like the box idea.) This just seems like a complicated solution to fix such an easy problem.
Think of it this way. If you were a teacher, which student would you prefer? The one that handed in all their projects on time and done extremely well, or the one that decides "Well I need more time for the project to make it better" and then hands it in months later worse off than any of the other projects you've already received months before?
We shouldn't "support" microsoft for this unless they come out with one hell of a product in the end (and we know they won't.)
Do you honestly believe they would just decide, hey, lets let linux + competitors get a foothold in our markets whilst we jack about!
No but we do believe that microsoft makes buggy closed source products and has evil business practices. And your post is just further evidence for it. Ya they're taking the time to make better products, time they wouldn't have to spend if the product was open source to begin with, it'd be out in the world and more people would be fixing the bugs (making a better product.) And you know as well as everyone else on slashdot that when it does finally get released it will STILL have many of the bugs that they're now working out. Further showing that an open source project is much easier and it takes less time to stamp out the bugs. Anyway I don't really care what microsoft does with their products, I'm just saying that we shouldn't support microsoft because they've got to push back a release date to make the product "better." Now if microsoft released a bug free product by it's original release date, I'd really support them for doing something very few companies (if any) have ever done before.
Can I sue for damages incurred because I couldn't order my penis enlargement pills before my porn audition? Damn you microsoft, you kept me from making millions! Now just give me some money and we'll call it even.
Actually the person who replied to your post hit the nail on the head. I've been watching CNN ever since I moved out to AZ (nothing else on TV to watch for the first day, then I couldn't get enough.) They are always talking about how soldiers who just open fire on people who don't stop (however there are sufficient warnings it's not like they're just randomly shooting people although some may think so.) I was just showing a relation between the two (army warns people to back off or stop, they don't, they get shot. Army warns microsoft to back off which is the freakin title, they don't in my comment, and bill gates gets shot.)
I wish bodily harm on no one especailly not bill gates (although that whole pie in the face incident was histerical, I would NEVER want to see him shot.) I'm sorry you didn't make that army checkpoints warning people, and army warning microsoft connection but the ones who did (and maybe some who just understood the xbill part, which is a game where you kill a tiny bill gates with a giant hand before he installs his software), and thought that alone was worthy of +5 funny.
I dunno about the gang situation in HK but I can tell you that rappers, and gangsters are not the same in america. Sure some rappers may start out as gangsters, but once you're in the public eye (and actually making some money) it's really doubtfull that you're going to be a gang member anymore. And american gangs of today don't have nearly as much money and power as the mafia and old gangs like that. Anyway I would think if the HK gangs are so succesfull then they'd be a lot like the mafia or mobsters back in the day, not like modern street gangs.
...that Real is using the SCO business model, now SCO can sue them for patent violations, MLB can fight off Real with it's legal team, and Real can sit in the corner claiming MLB has done some bad stuff but if they show what it was, it can lead to more bad stuff.
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And think of Quake 2 the entire time? They even destroy a giant gun that was shooting at the ships...
Instead of asking the dumbass question "anyone else see any licensing issues?", do some research yourself for fuck's sake.
Well from what I understand that is what the Anonymous Coward sent in, the editor added "Only if they don't follow the GPL." And I think "Anyone else" implies "I see some liscensing issues, how about you guys?" And the editor answered, "Only if they don't follow the GPL do I see liscensing issues." Now if you take out the else, they're asking for us to find out, but if you have it in there it says I found issues now you find some too.
Not only that, a computer is very much like a car, if it is not looked after, it will eventually die, be it Linux, Windows, UNIX or MAC OS.
If you never touch a computer, nothing will happen to it. If you do a base install of windows, or any other OS, and just leave it on the computer, offline, nothing bad would happen. The computer would probably never crash (unless there was a memory leak somewhere) and as long as you never touched it, it would remain in perfect working order. Now if you bought a brand new car, had it towed home, and let it sit in a driveway for a year, it wouldn't start. The tires would have flat spots, the gas would be in horrible shape (it would have seperated with a lot of your other fluids.) Anyway, there's a sig on slashdot, forgot the user, says "Anyone who compares a computer to a car knows very little about both", or something like that.
Interesting choice of words... probably has nothing to do with where this story is posted, huh?
You're right it doesn't, the writer is writing for the Associated Press, NOT for yahoo.com
It cuts down trees, it skips and jumps, it likes to press wild flowers. It puts on womens clothing, and hangs around in bars.
Finally, I can have an entire inflammable expensive computer that warps, rots, gets infested by termites, cracks, splinters, weighs a lot and breaks easily. And destroys trees.
:-D. I'm pretty sure there's a reason we use cheap plastics and metals for building computers. And I have so many cases that I just found outside, what happens when someone upgrades the wood computer and throws the old one outside. No one would want a wooden case that's just been sitting outside for a while. epsecially in the rain, at least if it rains on a metal case you're fine, just dry it off. If it rains on a wood case it'll probably warp, rot, and smell.
Just what I always wanted
I'll ignore the first two, since ya they're not good examples.
Your VCR/VCD/DVD player that played the respective media
The only one of those I had before a PC version was the VCR, I don't think I'd a VCR hooked up to my PC. But for VCD and DVD, I only had the PC version. A few reasons, I have a better sound system on my computer than on my TV (ok this is old examples, I've since bought a component stereo and a 56" HDTV), my 19" (viewable) monitor looks nicer than my 27" TV (old TV heh), more control on the PC (especially with DeCSS) and it's easier to go through menus (I like having a mouse cursor instead of some little arrows.)
Your Mobile phone, which you used to make calls
I still have a cell phone I use to make calls, sure it has other features but that will be explained a bit lower. I was thinking about a PDA/cell phone combo, but those are really REALLY ugly looking. and there's something not right about talking into a PDA (and wouldn't holding your head to a PDA get the screen even dirtier than it normally gets?)
Your PDA, you showed off to your friends
I actually show off my cell phone to my friends, it has a camera, MP3 type ring tones, 16bit (I think) color LCD screen inside (flip phone) and a game boy type LCD (shades of blue though, and it's lit very nicely) on the outside that works with the camera when the phone's closed. And the phone's very nice looking, it's easier to handle than a PDA/phone combo, and it plays java based games. I would have a PDA (a nice one) but I don't really want one badly enough. I'd rather buy a $4,000 turbo kit and $2,000 DVD navigation system (with 7" touch screen) for my car than get a $500 PDA.
Your gaming console, you played games on
I played games on a gaming console long ago, before I had the internet, and a computer good enough to run any games. Some time after I upgraded to a 350MHz K6-2 with 32 megs of ram and a video card (instead of some built in thing, it was such a bad computer) I downloaded Half-Life (a beta version, a few weeks before it came out) and I was instantly hooked. After that I reserved a copy, and when I finally got the real game I played single player for a while. Then I tried multiplayer over the net which was a new thing for me, I was hooked, since then I haven't bought a console (except Playstation but only for games like Final Fantasy, Lunar, and Gran Turismo.) I wouldn't want to go back to having a console, the graphics aren't as good as a PC, online play sucks, the controls aren't as good (ok some games have great controls on a console, but they'd be waaaay better on PC), you can't try the games before you buy them without a mod chip (yeah yeah it's illegal but I got into PC gaming with warez, I don't just go out and buy every new game since I can't return them if I don't like them, downloading them before I buy them is like a really good demo version) and you can't upgrade consoles.
Your PC, you used to download porn
Heh I used my PC to download porn some time after I used it for games, before I played games I used it to chat with friends on AOL. Before I used the PC to chat on AOL, I used it for nothing really, just a learning tool (learning how the PC works, I installed hardware, upgraded to Windows 95, did a bunch of stuff.)
There is a lot a PC is good for, and a lot of things should be merged into a computer, but I don't think there'd be an all in one device (that anyone would really want to use.) There are some things you wouldn't want your computer to do since it'd be more of a hassle than doing them the old fashioned way.
History shows again and again How open source points out The folly of closed, MOZILLA!
If you don't understand this joke go listen to some Blue Oyster Cult
Please don't ever say CNN/FOX again...
.05MPH, and now it's stopping to re-evaluate it's path, wow this is fascinating." Especially in a presidential election year, with two wars being fought in the middle east, one of the most hated US presidents, a handfull of high profile court cases, a few major kidnappings and a sniper shooting at cars on the freeway in ohio.
I've been watching a lot of CNN lately and they cover a lot of the mars mission (ok they don't have 24/7 mars coverage but what the hell do you expect? "Oh and there's the rover traveling along at
They actually surprise me with their coverage of space. I usually see things on CNN an hour or so before it goes on slashdot. Also, they don't have Pro-bush news what the hell are you talking about? 90% of the news about bush seems to be against him (He's trailing in the polls, no one likes him, here are some untrue statements he said, look no WMD) I can't remember hearing any pro-bush comments on CNN.
When you were a kid were people able to watch NASAs own TV channel? And were they landing yet another probe on the planet Mars? I don't think so. And did you have internet where you could go at any time and watch 1,000s of space related videos, and find tons of pictures from missions. Kids today don't really care too much for space, but why would they? What is new and exciting about space? When they send people to mars I'm sure everyone would watch, but I don't think many people care about a rover on mars (unless it discovered water, then I'm sure that'd be on CNN all day.)
In an era when pollution and fuel economy were blithely ignored, my crazy neighbor even put a nitro engine in his car so that he could leave even more rubber on the pavement than a normal overpowered V-8 allowed. If the crazy part isn't obvious yet, consider this: This beast burned fuel like a brush fire, fuel that cost three times as much as gasoline and was available from only one station in the entire city. To the extent that this assemblage was intended as a babe magnet, there is some question about the wisdom of limiting its range to a one-mile radius around a single filling station.
Where do I begine...
A nitro engine? You mean like the kind of engines they use in 1/10th scale models of cars? The remote controlled kind? The kind that weighs less than the person controlling it?
I think you might have meant "nitrous" but then again there aren't any nitrous engines, maybe a nitrous oxide system (like one from NOS.) But that's not an engine, just a delivery system (delivers nitrous oxide to the cylinders which creates a more powerfull explosion and gives more power.)
This beast burned fuel like a brush fire, fuel that cost three times as much as gasoline and was available from only one station in the entire city.
Burned fuel like a brush fire? Might have to do with racing the car daily, that generally burns a lot of fuel. Having a car that burns fuel isn't crazy especially when the car competes at drag events (if you're going to use fuel like that for a daily driver, you're either insane, or rich.)
To the extent that this assemblage was intended as a babe magnet, there is some question about the wisdom of limiting its range to a one-mile radius around a single filling station.
Believe me, this was NOT a babe magnet. A babe magnet would be a stock corvette, or a ferrari. It could of had a 4 cylinder engine from a honda civic but the girls (the ones that fall prey to the chick magnet cars) don't know the difference between a 454 chevy big block and a 1.7 liter honda engine. All they know is that "expensive looks = rich man." If the car looks expensive the person who owns it must be rich and it must be such a fast sporty exotic car. This car was the kind of thing you'd drag race with, NOT the kind of think you'd take around town and pick up girls in (I don't think they'd like sitting on the floor of a car with one seat, a roll cage, no carpets, no trim on the interior, no A/C and no radio.)
Yeah I know. I mean overclockers buy some top of the line $1,500 PC (if you build it yourself, that goal's quite easy especially when you already have a killer sound system and monitor.) Then some $400 (that's a high guess too) water cooling/peltier setup.
A fairly cheap hot rodder spends $3,000 on a body $5,000 on a crate motor, $2,000 on a tranny, $4,000 on a supercharger, $4,000 on a paint job (add $2,000 for flames and pinstriping) drives around town in his fast, shinny, custom hot rod unless he's at the tracks with a 140mph trap speed and a 8 sec 1/4 mile time.
Then there are the rich guys who just buy a $300,000 ferrari and stick in twin turbos (like John Carmack.)
I can't possibly see why women don't compare overclockers to hot roders. I mean one has very little money and spends all day trying to get the perfect air flow through a case while squeezing 4 more mhz out of their PC. And has a computer that looks like every other modded PC on the planet but only gets to show his other geeky online friends. And the other is a fairly rich (well rich isn't the right word, some are really poor but they still have the nice car) person with a very fast, sporty, car that they drive around town and also at races (where they go very VERY fast.) I mean come on can't they see the two are the same!
Actually I would say it's the other way around.
Muscle Cars - These people use AMD processors. Their processors are very cheap for their performance. And most of them hate Intel with a vengance.
Imports (Street Racers are anyone who races in the streets, I have a mustang cobra which is a muscle car and I street race, an import is any car from outside the US) - These people buy Intel. They have higher clock speeds so they MUST be faster. They don't really care much about AMD and they spend a lot more money on their PCs except they don't get the same performance out of them.
I like how you say "Their processors are almost hopelessly inefficient, huge, expensive, not very intelligent, and run hot." about Intel, when even from a person who LOVES AMD (like myself) I totally disagree and that entire statement fits in AMD. Intel Processors use less power, can lower their clock speed if they get to hot (intelligent) and run much cooler. They are expensive but muscle cars are NOT expensive. The average muscle car fanatic (that would race the car and stuff) can go to the junkyard, get a ton of parts for real cheap and restore a classic car, stick in a new crate motor and tranny and will destroy anything from japan.
An person who buys imports doesn't buy the imports for price and "itelligence" they buy them for looks. Clock cycles don't mean as much? Well in cars it's mostly just horsepower, torque and weight. Imports have low horsepower, low torque, and mid-weight (my sentra SE-R Spec V weighs around 2,900 lbs or so) a muscle car (like my mustang cobra) has high horsepower, high torque, and a bit more weight than the import (the mustang weighs around 3,500 but it has like 2x the hp of the sentra at the wheels.)
Shouldn't this be modded up as funny or something? Deffiniely not interesting or insightful, but funny sure.
I remember when that first came out it ran like crap over bnet and they weren't expecting it to be as hard on their servers. Are they gonna test this with like 10,000 people and open it up to over 1,000,000 when it's finally released and realized hey this wasn't such a good idea we should have done more testing?
Exactly. There really is no way this could be used for anti-terrorism surveillance. How the hell are they going to get a terrorist to wear this thing strapped to their chins? And why the hell would terrorists speak to each other by just moving their lips? They'd use their real voices, meaning the people listening just need a good listening device. They have those already
Undercover CIA Agent: Umm your epidermis is showing, allah doesn't like that!
Potential Terrorist: Oh shit? Really? How can I hide it?!?!?!
Undercover CIA Agent: Here strap this to your chin.
Potential Terrorist: *Quickly straps on device*
Undercover CIA Agent: *goes away and speaks into a megaphone* "OK Now just speak, but don't make any sound! Like you were lip synching to music or something!"
No it wouldn't, you'd need space for the extra speakers and microphones and they'd have to have room so they could be positioned correctly, this is for desktop PCs, besides all the laptops I've used have been quiet enough.
How was this modded down as troll? I am really serious about building a box or using water cooling, or keeping a PC in a closet or using a quiet fan. There are so many things you can do out their that would be far easier than a speaker microphone setup. And what happens when the speaker or microphone fail? Or what if they're not in the right positions (don't they have to be setup perfectly to cancel out the noise?) At least if get a box or put the computer in a closet it's not going to fail, there's nothing to fail heh.
The fan will change noises as it gets older and somehow the microphone and speaker will remain perfect forever? If either the microphone or the speakers are damaged they'll end up creating more noise then they cancel out. What happens if the microphone starts picking up feed back then your computer's creating more noise than it started off with?
Why? Can't you just get a really quiet fan? My CPU fan is noisy but I don't care, if I wanted to I could build some sort of box to enclose the noise so I don't hear it. Or I could use water cooling which is much quieter. Or I could put my computer further away from where I am (like in a closet or something, like the box idea.) This just seems like a complicated solution to fix such an easy problem.
Think of it this way. If you were a teacher, which student would you prefer? The one that handed in all their projects on time and done extremely well, or the one that decides "Well I need more time for the project to make it better" and then hands it in months later worse off than any of the other projects you've already received months before?
We shouldn't "support" microsoft for this unless they come out with one hell of a product in the end (and we know they won't.)
Do you honestly believe they would just decide, hey, lets let linux + competitors get a foothold in our markets whilst we jack about!
No but we do believe that microsoft makes buggy closed source products and has evil business practices. And your post is just further evidence for it. Ya they're taking the time to make better products, time they wouldn't have to spend if the product was open source to begin with, it'd be out in the world and more people would be fixing the bugs (making a better product.) And you know as well as everyone else on slashdot that when it does finally get released it will STILL have many of the bugs that they're now working out. Further showing that an open source project is much easier and it takes less time to stamp out the bugs. Anyway I don't really care what microsoft does with their products, I'm just saying that we shouldn't support microsoft because they've got to push back a release date to make the product "better." Now if microsoft released a bug free product by it's original release date, I'd really support them for doing something very few companies (if any) have ever done before.
Can I sue for damages incurred because I couldn't order my penis enlargement pills before my porn audition? Damn you microsoft, you kept me from making millions! Now just give me some money and we'll call it even.
Actually the person who replied to your post hit the nail on the head. I've been watching CNN ever since I moved out to AZ (nothing else on TV to watch for the first day, then I couldn't get enough.) They are always talking about how soldiers who just open fire on people who don't stop (however there are sufficient warnings it's not like they're just randomly shooting people although some may think so.) I was just showing a relation between the two (army warns people to back off or stop, they don't, they get shot. Army warns microsoft to back off which is the freakin title, they don't in my comment, and bill gates gets shot.)
I wish bodily harm on no one especailly not bill gates (although that whole pie in the face incident was histerical, I would NEVER want to see him shot.) I'm sorry you didn't make that army checkpoints warning people, and army warning microsoft connection but the ones who did (and maybe some who just understood the xbill part, which is a game where you kill a tiny bill gates with a giant hand before he installs his software), and thought that alone was worthy of +5 funny.
I dunno about the gang situation in HK but I can tell you that rappers, and gangsters are not the same in america. Sure some rappers may start out as gangsters, but once you're in the public eye (and actually making some money) it's really doubtfull that you're going to be a gang member anymore. And american gangs of today don't have nearly as much money and power as the mafia and old gangs like that. Anyway I would think if the HK gangs are so succesfull then they'd be a lot like the mafia or mobsters back in the day, not like modern street gangs.
...that Real is using the SCO business model, now SCO can sue them for patent violations, MLB can fight off Real with it's legal team, and Real can sit in the corner claiming MLB has done some bad stuff but if they show what it was, it can lead to more bad stuff.