Microsoft is buying everything and everyone right now to support their Xbox, and they're hiring all kinds of consultants. They bought RARE, and they badly want to buy Blizzard (or have they already?) and even Sierra to corner the market.
They can dump all of the money they want into the Xbox -- it still will not make lousy games designed by graph-paper brained accountants any good.
EA may suck, like AOL sucks, but at least it's not Microsoft.
If the mouse scans your veins every time you let go and grab it again, and it has a 0.5% error rate, wouldn't it just keep locking you out at random intervals?
A palm scanner to get into some secret lab isn't a bad idea -- but a mouse that does scans your palm? It's like (approximate Simpsons quote) nuts and gum -- together at last!
It surprised me that they were declaring p2p warfare OVERTLY, but then again, didn't Congress pass a bill that would give blank checks to allow p2p networks to be hacked by record companies, ie. distributing fake-hashed files to corrupt everything on the network and so forth?
We should all mass apply and/. effect the job application -- posting "p2p warfare" is a blatant display of corporate immorality and thuggery, and it threatens our freedom.
Though some of the improvements may have been a real boost (the O(1) scheduler, etc), the decision to call it "3.0" won't come until some serious marketing decisions are made.
Linux is not an underground system anymore -- it is a competitor in a business market and means billions of dollars to people and businesses, as unsuccessful as they may be.
Calling the kernel 3.0 is just a name, a marketing strategy, that will give the idea to people who aren't in the know that something truly significant and revolutionary has happened.
There's clearly a war going on between the idealists and the realists in that mailing list, and a simple number like "3.0" can make or break millions of dollars.
Battlefield and UT2k3 don't even come close, either... A $600 comp will easily run those at 90fps+
Doom3 will not run like that on anything today, btw.
And as it's been said before, the whole system could be built for about under $1400 at newegg, and if you went down to your local PC shop for someone to put it together, it would probably cost $100 at the most.
If you spent $3000 on a PC, just max it out with top-of-the-line products, then buy an entire TERABYTE, or more, of hd space. Believe me, it can be used easily with broadband if you're a power downloader/ripper.
Besides, overclocking sucks -- it's like driving 80MPH in a 75MPH zone speed-wise, except it gets you in a lot of more trouble. Unless you have one of those 300A/1.5As that magically double themselves, of course...
What if the surgeon was using one of those machines long-distance in a dramatic telesurgery operation, and the network suddenly lagged out? Or if someone else in the OR on a 24-hour shift knocked out a CAT-5 cable?
Not because I hate technology, but because I know technology, I wouldn't trust being operated upon by a remote-controlled robot.
If you can't save up $200/year for self-determination every 2 years, then you obviously just don't care. It's not even the cost of one measly soda -- which even the "poorest" Americans indulge in regularly -- per day!
But if $400 is nothing to you, then why show up, either? Apathy is apathy, plus $400 is about the correct amount for the vast, vast majority of Americans. Truly careful and frugal people, no matter how rich, would not throw $400 away, and anyone who would spend $400 on a whim AND be determined to vote is in a minority, anyways.
If $400 is actually worth something to you, you're going to want to spend it on something worthy, like voting for self-determination and freedom. What's it worth if one doesn't have to fight for it, and just get it handed out like everything else is nowadays?
However, I'm not opposed to testing, either, whether it be for voting or especially breeding...
Free voting at the press of a button? Sounds utopian and egalitarian, but that couldn't be farther from the truth.
With electronic democracy, public apathy would skyrocket. It might have some interest at first, but soon enough people just would click yes to boring bill HR13213 no matter what it contained just to get voting out of the way! How often do YOU really think and mull over the issue when you click that poll over to the right on slashdot? CowboyNeal for President? That would be "cool," but in all seriousness, that's probably what would happen if voting restrictions were relaxed.
A voting system that actually works requires voting qualifications. If we let the trolls mod slashdot, it would go right down the drain. When the Founding Fathers set up our government, only the richest 10% of white men could vote due to property qualifications and so forth -- we're not a "democracy" -- we're a Republic. Soon, it was extended to more white men, then eventually women could vote, and eventually nonwhites were allowed to officially vote without any harassment.
Nowadays, the only roadblock to voting is registering and showing up, and people could care less. Most high schoolers and even college students cannot even distinguish between Republican and Democrat political views, and about half of all voters practically vote randomly when they're at the ballot box!
Are people like that fit to run the country because they're entitled to? Absolutely not! People that ignorant should not be allowed to vote, and ever since we removed all restrictions, this country has turned into a cesspool welfare state -- though we're still not as bad as Europe or Canada.
Forget easy access to voting -- something should be done to make it HARDER to vote. Heinlein didn't have a bad idea with military service requirements to vote, but that's not entirely practical -- instead, we should re-instate a poll tax of $400. If you aren't willing to pay hard cash for your rights to vote, then you shouldn't be able to vote. I honestly don't want apathists running the government anymore.
As an owner of "beater" cars, I can honestly tell you that those codes do not matter one bit, and are only there to get you ripped off by auto mechanics.
My beat-up Chevy Celebrity has had that yellow "Service Engine Soon" light on for years, and it runs just fine.
The whole thing is nothing but government waste, as there's a lot more pressing issues at hand than forcing companies to publish every single detail of their trade secrets.
What Constitution? Washington DC dictates as they please, whether you like it or not.
Don't blame the corporations for making the Constitution null and void -- the Democrat Marxists shredded it long ago!
The Ten Marxist Planks
1. Abolition of private property and the application of all rent to public purpose.
The courts have interpreted the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution (1868) to give the government far more "eminent domain" power than was originally intended, Under the rubric of "eminent domain" and various zoning regulations, land use regulations by the Bureau of Land Managementproperty taxes, and "environmental" excuses, private property rights have become very diluted and private property in landis, vehicles, and other forms are seized almost every day in this country under the "forfeiture" provisions of the RICO statutes and the so-called War on Drugs..
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
The 16th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, 1913 (which some scholars maintain was never properly ratified), and various State income taxes, established this major Marxist coup in the United States many decades ago. These taxes continue to drain the lifeblood out of the American economy and greatly reduce the accumulation of desperately needed capital for future growth, business starts, job creation, and salary increases.
3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance
Another Marxian attack on private property rights is in the form of Federal & State estate taxes and other inheritance taxes, which have abolished or at least greatly diluted the right of private property owners to determine the disposition and distribution of their estates upon their death. Instead, government bureaucrats get their greedy hands involved .
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels
We call it government seizures, tax liens, "forfeiture" Public "law" 99-570 (1986); Executive order 11490, sections 1205, 2002 which gives private land to the Department of Urban Development; the imprisonment of "terrorists" and those who speak out or write against the "government" (1997 Crime/Terrorist Bill); or the IRS confiscation of property without due process.
5. Centralization of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.
The Federal Reserve System, created by the Federal Reserve Act of Congress in 1913, is indeed such a "national bank" and it politically manipulates interest rates and holds a monopoly on legal counterfeiting in the United States. This is exactly what Marx had in mind and completely fulfills this plank, another major socialist objective. Yet, most Americans naively believe the U.S. of A. is far from a Marcxist or socialist nation. 6. Centralization of the means of communication and transportation in the hands of the State
In the U.S., communication and transportation are controlled and regulated by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) established by the Communications Act of 1934 and the Department of Transportation and the Interstate Commerce Commission (established by Congress in 1887), and the Federal Aviation Administration as well as Executive orders 11490, 10999 -- not to mention various state bureaucracies and regulations. There is also the federal postal monopoly, AMTRAK and CONRAIL -- outright socialist (government-owned) enterprises. Instead of free-market private enteprrise in these important industries, these fields in America are semi-cartelized through the government's regulatory-industiral complex. 7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State, the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
We call it corporate capacity, The Desert Entry Act and The Department of Agriculture. As well as the Department of Commerce and Labor, Department of Interior, the Evironmental Protection Agency, Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Reclamation, Bureau of Mines, National Park Service, and the IRS control of business through corporate regulations.
8. Equal liablity of all to labor. Establishment of Industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
We call it the Social Security Administration and The Department of Labor. The National debt and inflation caused by the communal bank has caused the need for a two "income" family. Woman in the workplace since the 1920's, the 19th amendment of the U.S. Constitution, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, assorted Socialist Unions, affirmative action, the Federal Public Works Program and of course Executive order 11000. And I almost forgot...The Equal Rights Amendment means that women should do all work that men do including the military and since passage it would make women subject to the draft.
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the population over the country.
We call it the Planning Reorganization Act of 1949 , zoning (Title 17 1910-1990) and Super Corporate Farms, as well as Executive orders 11647, 11731 (ten regions) and Public "law" 89-136. 10. Free education for all children in government schools. Abolition of children's factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc. etc.
People are being taxed to support what we call 'public' schools, which train the young to work for the communal debt system. We also call it the Department of Education, the NEA and Outcome Based "Education" .
Kate Humble may be a hottie, but there is a much better reality show coming your way: Bible Fear Factor
1. The First Challenge: Collect 200 Foreskins (1 Samuel 18:27)
Each Bible Fear Factor contestant will have 8 hours to collect two hundred foreskins with nothing more than a toenail clipper, a roll of paper towels, a Mason Jar, and 3 bus tokens....
"Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be the king's son in law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife." (1Samuel 18:27)
Soon a bunch of HPB Counter-Strike addicts will be wired into computers, Matrix-style, and will be commanding T800 robots into 21st century urban combat in the middle east!
This site run by Zack Exley began offering a a subscription for "The Great Crash Will Burst Your Bubble in 200X" t-shirts every year until the stock market crashed for $35.
He shouldn't have stopped printing them and offering that deal -- the crash will happen very, very soon if we attack Iraq.
I am a proud Apple gamer, and I DO seriously need the extra speed provided by the competitive x86 architecture, such as DDR Ram and nearly 3ghz processors.
Slashdot Mirror
Microsoft is buying everything and everyone right now to support their Xbox, and they're hiring all kinds of consultants. They bought RARE, and they badly want to buy Blizzard (or have they already?) and even Sierra to corner the market.
They can dump all of the money they want into the Xbox -- it still will not make lousy games designed by graph-paper brained accountants any good.
EA may suck, like AOL sucks, but at least it's not Microsoft.
If the mouse scans your veins every time you let go and grab it again, and it has a 0.5% error rate, wouldn't it just keep locking you out at random intervals?
A palm scanner to get into some secret lab isn't a bad idea -- but a mouse that does scans your palm? It's like (approximate Simpsons quote) nuts and gum -- together at last!
It surprised me that they were declaring p2p warfare OVERTLY, but then again, didn't Congress pass a bill that would give blank checks to allow p2p networks to be hacked by record companies, ie. distributing fake-hashed files to corrupt everything on the network and so forth?
/. effect the job application -- posting "p2p warfare" is a blatant display of corporate immorality and thuggery, and it threatens our freedom.
We should all mass apply and
If someone brought that thing to a LAN party, trying to show it off, and said they spent $4000 on it, they would be LAUGHED OUT of the LAN party!
Though some of the improvements may have been a real boost (the O(1) scheduler, etc), the decision to call it "3.0" won't come until some serious marketing decisions are made.
Linux is not an underground system anymore -- it is a competitor in a business market and means billions of dollars to people and businesses, as unsuccessful as they may be.
Calling the kernel 3.0 is just a name, a marketing strategy, that will give the idea to people who aren't in the know that something truly significant and revolutionary has happened.
There's clearly a war going on between the idealists and the realists in that mailing list, and a simple number like "3.0" can make or break millions of dollars.
Now that the software is free, all we need now are cheaper iPods, production-wise. $500 for 5GB? You've got to be kidding me!
Apple could save a fortune on labor expenses if they followed Walmart's Production Strategy, and probably have competitive prices.
I'd pay $100 for an iPod, but not $500 -- all they have to do to get me to buy one is cut labor expenses.
Battlefield and UT2k3 don't even come close, either... A $600 comp will easily run those at 90fps+
Doom3 will not run like that on anything today, btw.
And as it's been said before, the whole system could be built for about under $1400 at newegg, and if you went down to your local PC shop for someone to put it together, it would probably cost $100 at the most.
If you spent $3000 on a PC, just max it out with top-of-the-line products, then buy an entire TERABYTE, or more, of hd space. Believe me, it can be used easily with broadband if you're a power downloader/ripper.
Besides, overclocking sucks -- it's like driving 80MPH in a 75MPH zone speed-wise, except it gets you in a lot of more trouble. Unless you have one of those 300A/1.5As that magically double themselves, of course...
What if the surgeon was using one of those machines long-distance in a dramatic telesurgery operation, and the network suddenly lagged out? Or if someone else in the OR on a 24-hour shift knocked out a CAT-5 cable?
Not because I hate technology, but because I know technology, I wouldn't trust being operated upon by a remote-controlled robot.
That may apply for $4000, but not $400.
If you can't save up $200/year for self-determination every 2 years, then you obviously just don't care. It's not even the cost of one measly soda -- which even the "poorest" Americans indulge in regularly -- per day!
But if $400 is nothing to you, then why show up, either? Apathy is apathy, plus $400 is about the correct amount for the vast, vast majority of Americans. Truly careful and frugal people, no matter how rich, would not throw $400 away, and anyone who would spend $400 on a whim AND be determined to vote is in a minority, anyways.
If $400 is actually worth something to you, you're going to want to spend it on something worthy, like voting for self-determination and freedom. What's it worth if one doesn't have to fight for it, and just get it handed out like everything else is nowadays?
However, I'm not opposed to testing, either, whether it be for voting or especially breeding...
Free voting at the press of a button? Sounds utopian and egalitarian, but that couldn't be farther from the truth.
With electronic democracy, public apathy would skyrocket. It might have some interest at first, but soon enough people just would click yes to boring bill HR13213 no matter what it contained just to get voting out of the way! How often do YOU really think and mull over the issue when you click that poll over to the right on slashdot? CowboyNeal for President? That would be "cool," but in all seriousness, that's probably what would happen if voting restrictions were relaxed.
A voting system that actually works requires voting qualifications. If we let the trolls mod slashdot, it would go right down the drain. When the Founding Fathers set up our government, only the richest 10% of white men could vote due to property qualifications and so forth -- we're not a "democracy" -- we're a Republic. Soon, it was extended to more white men, then eventually women could vote, and eventually nonwhites were allowed to officially vote without any harassment.
Nowadays, the only roadblock to voting is registering and showing up, and people could care less. Most high schoolers and even college students cannot even distinguish between Republican and Democrat political views, and about half of all voters practically vote randomly when they're at the ballot box!
Are people like that fit to run the country because they're entitled to? Absolutely not! People that ignorant should not be allowed to vote, and ever since we removed all restrictions, this country has turned into a cesspool welfare state -- though we're still not as bad as Europe or Canada.
Forget easy access to voting -- something should be done to make it HARDER to vote. Heinlein didn't have a bad idea with military service requirements to vote, but that's not entirely practical -- instead, we should re-instate a poll tax of $400. If you aren't willing to pay hard cash for your rights to vote, then you shouldn't be able to vote. I honestly don't want apathists running the government anymore.
As an owner of "beater" cars, I can honestly tell you that those codes do not matter one bit, and are only there to get you ripped off by auto mechanics.
My beat-up Chevy Celebrity has had that yellow "Service Engine Soon" light on for years, and it runs just fine.
The whole thing is nothing but government waste, as there's a lot more pressing issues at hand than forcing companies to publish every single detail of their trade secrets.
What Constitution? Washington DC dictates as they please, whether you like it or not.
Don't blame the corporations for making the Constitution null and void -- the Democrat Marxists shredded it long ago!
The Ten Marxist Planks
1. Abolition of private property and the application of all rent to public purpose.
The courts have interpreted the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution (1868) to give the government far more "eminent domain" power than was originally intended, Under the rubric of "eminent domain" and various zoning regulations, land use regulations by the Bureau of Land Managementproperty taxes, and "environmental" excuses, private property rights have become very diluted and private property in landis, vehicles, and other forms are seized almost every day in this country under the "forfeiture" provisions of the RICO statutes and the so-called War on Drugs..
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
The 16th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, 1913 (which some scholars maintain was never properly ratified), and various State income taxes, established this major Marxist coup in the United States many decades ago. These taxes continue to drain the lifeblood out of the American economy and greatly reduce the accumulation of desperately needed capital for future growth, business starts, job creation, and salary increases.
3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance
Another Marxian attack on private property rights is in the form of Federal & State estate taxes and other inheritance taxes, which have abolished or at least greatly diluted the right of private property owners to determine the disposition and distribution of their estates upon their death. Instead, government bureaucrats get their greedy hands involved .
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels
We call it government seizures, tax liens, "forfeiture" Public "law" 99-570 (1986); Executive order 11490, sections 1205, 2002 which gives private land to the Department of Urban Development; the imprisonment of "terrorists" and those who speak out or write against the "government" (1997 Crime/Terrorist Bill); or the IRS confiscation of property without due process.
5. Centralization of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.
The Federal Reserve System, created by the Federal Reserve Act of Congress in 1913, is indeed such a "national bank" and it politically manipulates interest rates and holds a monopoly on legal counterfeiting in the United States. This is exactly what Marx had in mind and completely fulfills this plank, another major socialist objective. Yet, most Americans naively believe the U.S. of A. is far from a Marcxist or socialist nation.
6. Centralization of the means of communication and transportation in the hands of the State
In the U.S., communication and transportation are controlled and regulated by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) established by the Communications Act of 1934 and the Department of Transportation and the Interstate Commerce Commission (established by Congress in 1887), and the Federal Aviation Administration as well as Executive orders 11490, 10999 -- not to mention various state bureaucracies and regulations. There is also the federal postal monopoly, AMTRAK and CONRAIL -- outright socialist (government-owned) enterprises. Instead of free-market private enteprrise in these important industries, these fields in America are semi-cartelized through the government's regulatory-industiral complex.
7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State, the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
We call it corporate capacity, The Desert Entry Act and The Department of Agriculture. As well as the Department of Commerce and Labor, Department of Interior, the Evironmental Protection Agency, Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Reclamation, Bureau of Mines, National Park Service, and the IRS control of business through corporate regulations.
8. Equal liablity of all to labor. Establishment of Industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
We call it the Social Security Administration and The Department of Labor. The National debt and inflation caused by the communal bank has caused the need for a two "income" family. Woman in the workplace since the 1920's, the 19th amendment of the U.S. Constitution, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, assorted Socialist Unions, affirmative action, the Federal Public Works Program and of course Executive order 11000. And I almost forgot...The Equal Rights Amendment means that women should do all work that men do including the military and since passage it would make women subject to the draft.
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the population over the country.
We call it the Planning Reorganization Act of 1949 , zoning (Title 17 1910-1990) and Super Corporate Farms, as well as Executive orders 11647, 11731 (ten regions) and Public "law" 89-136.
10. Free education for all children in government schools. Abolition of children's factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc. etc.
People are being taxed to support what we call 'public' schools, which train the young to work for the communal debt system. We also call it the Department of Education, the NEA and Outcome Based "Education" .
Kate Humble may be a hottie, but there is a much better reality show coming your way: Bible Fear Factor
1. The First Challenge: Collect 200 Foreskins (1 Samuel 18:27)
Each Bible Fear Factor contestant will have 8 hours to collect two hundred foreskins with nothing more than a toenail clipper, a roll of paper towels, a Mason Jar, and 3 bus tokens....
"Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be the king's son in law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife." (1Samuel 18:27)
Soon a bunch of HPB Counter-Strike addicts will be wired into computers, Matrix-style, and will be commanding T800 robots into 21st century urban combat in the middle east!
This site run by Zack Exley began offering a a subscription for "The Great Crash Will Burst Your Bubble in 200X" t-shirts every year until the stock market crashed for $35.
He shouldn't have stopped printing them and offering that deal -- the crash will happen very, very soon if we attack Iraq.
Lucifer
Our father who art in Hell
Hallowed be thy name
Thy kingdom is come
Thy will is done
On earth as it is in Hell
We take this night our rightful due
And trespass not on the path of He
Lead us unto temptation
And deliver us from false deity
For thine is the Kingdom
And the Power
And the Glory
Forever
Shemhamphoresh!
-King Diamond
His true name is Kip Winger.
I am a proud Apple gamer, and I DO seriously need the extra speed provided by the competitive x86 architecture, such as DDR Ram and nearly 3ghz processors.
Join the legions of Mac Gamers.
"Great games like Warcraft III... Breakout... Super Breakout... (photoshop...)"