I've tried it a few times over the last couple days, but find that it just misses too much news, mostly in the business sector.
Just give me my Wall Street Journal every morning and I'm happy. For breaking news, I just (regular) Google the topic and usually get all I want from that.
NASA claims to have learned from its mistakes in the 1998 Mars failures, but if we start talking about sending people far away (like the moon), we'd better make sure things are really fixed.
No quick bailout from the moon like they have on the ISS in case something goes wrong.
I've never played an FPS on any console that even came close to the control precision of my optical mouse, and certain genres are going to stay more PC-friendly for some years to come (i.e. strategy).
But really, when we look 10 years down the road, the trend is toward total convergence of electronic devices, so consoles and PCs will slowly merge, if not be replaced by some new paradigm altogether.
Quick fact check... Now it's PC users who sit with twitching fingers, waiting for PC versions of hot titles like the renowned action game Halo, presently available only on the Xbox.
Apparently the writer missed the fact that Halo is the flagship Xbox game, and that the contract on it prohibits any PC/PS2/GC ports.
Phase 1: Collect Underpants!
Phase 2: Oh... we haven't figured that out yet. (Or if you are the RIAA, piss off everyone who supports your industry)
Phase 3: PROFIT! (Or hopefully reform if we manage to secure our rights)
Pardon me, but if I can hear it, I can record it. I'll grant that I may lose quality, and it may involve splicing and soldering instead of plugging, but it can be done and done well enough for our favorite compressed formats.
I wonder how long it will take before some of our less DMCA compliant friends figure out a way around this newest effort to stop us evil music pirates.
There's no way to stop people from making copies by plugging a recorder into the output, why doesn't the industry understand and just adapt?
There is a critical difference which would keep a slashdot style meta-moderation system from working on a p2p network.
On/. vast numbers of users see each item to be moderated (comments), and so a few moderators are able to cover them all. In contrast, each item on a p2p network is seen by only a (relatively) small number of users, and so having a subset of the users with moderation privileges would prevent most items from being rated at all.
~ Chaltek
-- I'm too new to/. to have a cool sig, so this is my placeholder.
Slashdot Mirror
I've tried it a few times over the last couple days, but find that it just misses too much news, mostly in the business sector.
Just give me my Wall Street Journal every morning and I'm happy. For breaking news, I just (regular) Google the topic and usually get all I want from that.
~Chaltek
NASA claims to have learned from its mistakes in the 1998 Mars failures, but if we start talking about sending people far away (like the moon), we'd better make sure things are really fixed.
No quick bailout from the moon like they have on the ISS in case something goes wrong.
I think the key word "unsolicited" commercial mail. So legitimate mail will be unaffected.
Thanks Caleb, I stand corrected.
M$ shouldn't let that out, Halo is the only reason I've even thought about buying an Xbox and now with the hope of a PC version, I'm sure not to.
~Chaltek
I've never played an FPS on any console that even came close to the control precision of my optical mouse, and certain genres are going to stay more PC-friendly for some years to come (i.e. strategy).
But really, when we look 10 years down the road, the trend is toward total convergence of electronic devices, so consoles and PCs will slowly merge, if not be replaced by some new paradigm altogether.
Quick fact check...
Now it's PC users who sit with twitching fingers, waiting for PC versions of hot titles like the renowned action game Halo, presently available only on the Xbox.
Apparently the writer missed the fact that Halo is the flagship Xbox game, and that the contract on it prohibits any PC/PS2/GC ports.
Great, another thing for us to /.
They'll be running the laser for years trying to get through all the geek messages.
Great Work Dr. T. Don't let the axis of freedom get your kids!
Phase 1: Collect Underpants!
Phase 2: Oh... we haven't figured that out yet. (Or if you are the RIAA, piss off everyone who supports your industry)
Phase 3: PROFIT! (Or hopefully reform if we manage to secure our rights)
~Chaltek
Pardon me, but if I can hear it, I can record it.
I'll grant that I may lose quality, and it may involve splicing and soldering instead of plugging, but it can be done and done well enough for our favorite compressed formats.
I wonder how long it will take before some of our less DMCA compliant friends figure out a way around this newest effort to stop us evil music pirates.
There's no way to stop people from making copies by plugging a recorder into the output, why doesn't the industry understand and just adapt?
There is a critical difference which would keep a slashdot style meta-moderation system from working on a p2p network.
/. vast numbers of users see each item to be moderated (comments), and so a few moderators are able to cover them all. In contrast, each item on a p2p network is seen by only a (relatively) small number of users, and so having a subset of the users with moderation privileges would prevent most items from being rated at all.
/. to have a cool sig, so this is my placeholder.
On
~ Chaltek
-- I'm too new to