Someone posted hundreds of messages to a forum for the recently-released Xbox game Fable. The messages were poetic (in the style of the "bards" within Fable), and were presented as riddles to unlock secrets within the game (a viral marketing ploy, like ilovebees.com is for Halo 2). Later, the person stopped writing poems and came out of character, claiming that he was a 50-year old with a PhD in English, and that he was supposed to stop after he received a certain number of posts flaming him. It turned out it was all an elaborate hoax, and nothing he wrote pertained to any real secrets within the game.
At first I thought this was some kind of joke or something (the ALOHA system? in Hawaii?), but it turns out the above poster is actually right. http://www.laynetworks.com/ALOHA%20PROTOCOL.htm
Nope, you're not the only one. I was a previous ATI owner, and I loved my Radeon 8500. The thing that moved me to nVidia was the lack of quality in the Windows drivers; it seemed like things got worse for me with every driver release (one would have texture corruption in games; in the next release, that would be fixed, but then certain textures would show through objects they were behind, etc.). The last straw was a bug that was a problem for me in every driver after 4.2, which wouldn't let me set the monitor refresh rate over 60hz.
I know that everybody didn't have the same problems, but I just got tired of dealing with it. Since I'm looking to move away from Windows in the future, it made the decision to go with nVidia that much easier.
What Longhorn is adding is not core bits needed for a modern operating system. XP has those. The fact remains that if everything stayed where they are, MS could milk XP for 10 years.
That's precisely why I'm almost surely not going to upgrade to Longhorn; it doesn't do anything that I need. XP is going to be the last Microsoft OS that I ever use.
When a large portion of apps are targetted to.NET, and MS's bread-and-butter are as well, there is nothing stopping MS from using a new core system to power Windows. And there will be nothing tying MS to the x86 architecture.
Except the dreaded backwards compatibility. Windows-on-Windows-on-x86-emulator? Ugh. But then again, maybe they'd actually break compatibility for a change; users would have to upgrade to whole new suites of applications to accomplish the same tasks on the new OS. I imagine MS would find this very appealing.
"...what we have been shown in the next release of OSX Tiger... isn't anything like this."
Actually, it's a lot like this. Apple hired Dominic Giampalo, one of the BeFS's creators, to work on their new file system. While it certainly won't be exactly the same, I'm sure a resemblance will be apparent, due to their common progenitor.
"WinFS, I'd be the first to say, is very ambitious. Nobody has ever brought together the world of documents, media and structured information in giving you one simple set of verbs that lets you richly find, move around and replicate those things."
Rights are inherent to human existence. The US Bill of Rights is a way of saying what the government explicitly cannot do, as those restrictions were very important to the original founders. There were also many who did not want a Bill of Rights, for the reason that people (like you) would get stupid and think that the rights stated are the only ones you have.
Like many people before you, you get the entire idea of rights completely wrong.
I believe you missed the point. He wasn't talking about the battery life of the iPod; who cares if you can't listen to your music, oh noes. If you read the post above yours, it talks about future devices being overloaded with features so that important ones (like your contact list) are sacrificed for less important ones, such as a built-in 3d accelerator. No need to have such a reactionary response to defend your precious iPod.
Shouldn't they be more worried about the latter option? It's much easier (and faster) for me to send or receive a DVD in the mail as opposed to sending / receiving the same amount of data over my internet connection...
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Someone posted hundreds of messages to a forum for the recently-released Xbox game Fable. The messages were poetic (in the style of the "bards" within Fable), and were presented as riddles to unlock secrets within the game (a viral marketing ploy, like ilovebees.com is for Halo 2). Later, the person stopped writing poems and came out of character, claiming that he was a 50-year old with a PhD in English, and that he was supposed to stop after he received a certain number of posts flaming him. It turned out it was all an elaborate hoax, and nothing he wrote pertained to any real secrets within the game.
That's absolutely silly. "Horse or other arbitrary livestock" is clearly not a person.
Not many people have the option to choose between ISPs. Where I am, it's either crap or crappier.
but that statement doesn't make any sense.
At first I thought this was some kind of joke or something (the ALOHA system? in Hawaii?), but it turns out the above poster is actually right. http://www.laynetworks.com/ALOHA%20PROTOCOL.htm
This is the site I've been looking for! I stumbled onto it some time ago, but lost my bookmarks in between then and now. Thanks!
My school has a mountain of bandwidth... tons of bandwidth.
Nope, you're not the only one. I was a previous ATI owner, and I loved my Radeon 8500. The thing that moved me to nVidia was the lack of quality in the Windows drivers; it seemed like things got worse for me with every driver release (one would have texture corruption in games; in the next release, that would be fixed, but then certain textures would show through objects they were behind, etc.). The last straw was a bug that was a problem for me in every driver after 4.2, which wouldn't let me set the monitor refresh rate over 60hz.
I know that everybody didn't have the same problems, but I just got tired of dealing with it. Since I'm looking to move away from Windows in the future, it made the decision to go with nVidia that much easier.
In response to a couple of your points:
.NET, and MS's bread-and-butter are as well, there is nothing stopping MS from using a new core system to power Windows. And there will be nothing tying MS to the x86 architecture.
What Longhorn is adding is not core bits needed for a modern operating system. XP has those. The fact remains that if everything stayed where they are, MS could milk XP for 10 years.
That's precisely why I'm almost surely not going to upgrade to Longhorn; it doesn't do anything that I need. XP is going to be the last Microsoft OS that I ever use.
When a large portion of apps are targetted to
Except the dreaded backwards compatibility. Windows-on-Windows-on-x86-emulator? Ugh. But then again, maybe they'd actually break compatibility for a change; users would have to upgrade to whole new suites of applications to accomplish the same tasks on the new OS. I imagine MS would find this very appealing.
Thanks for your good post.
Thanks, I hadn't seen that, and it was a really good read. I hope you get some good karma. :)
"The developer boys were thinking 'This will never fly', singing 'This will be the day Longhorn dies.'"?
"...what we have been shown in the next release of OSX Tiger ... isn't anything like this."
Actually, it's a lot like this. Apple hired Dominic Giampalo, one of the BeFS's creators, to work on their new file system. While it certainly won't be exactly the same, I'm sure a resemblance will be apparent, due to their common progenitor.
"...won't OSX actually have something like this even before Longhorn ships[?]"
Yes. Dominic Giampalo, one of the creators of the BeFS, now works for Apple.
"WinFS, I'd be the first to say, is very ambitious. Nobody has ever brought together the world of documents, media and structured information in giving you one simple set of verbs that lets you richly find, move around and replicate those things."
Maybe Bill considered them nobodies...
Rights are inherent to human existence. The US Bill of Rights is a way of saying what the government explicitly cannot do, as those restrictions were very important to the original founders. There were also many who did not want a Bill of Rights, for the reason that people (like you) would get stupid and think that the rights stated are the only ones you have. Like many people before you, you get the entire idea of rights completely wrong.
Seriously. Though I must admit I laughed when the guy playing got into the driver's seat of the Warthog, and his teammates all jumped out.
The initial image I got was more along the lines of Professor Fate's Hannibal 8 from the movie The Great Race.
Sadly, it seems Irvin Kershner hasn't done anything since the Seaquest DSV television series in 1993... link
I believe you missed the point. He wasn't talking about the battery life of the iPod; who cares if you can't listen to your music, oh noes. If you read the post above yours, it talks about future devices being overloaded with features so that important ones (like your contact list) are sacrificed for less important ones, such as a built-in 3d accelerator. No need to have such a reactionary response to defend your precious iPod.
Shouldn't they be more worried about the latter option? It's much easier (and faster) for me to send or receive a DVD in the mail as opposed to sending / receiving the same amount of data over my internet connection...
You can tell that it's not the real slashdot because they got the colors all wrong.
The BeBox had survived the self-destruction (and self-extraction) of a CPU and continued to run shows for nearly a week without complaint.
Did you check if is_computer_on_fire() returned true?
Remind yourself to bring one of those along whenever you plan on using his computer....
What about graphical requirements? That's a big piece of the picture that's missing from these calculations.
truly, it is a paradise.