Just a small tangential nitpick: we were already more than a factor of ten past that HDD capacity fifteen years ago. The 1GB barrier was broken very early in the Nineties. I still have an HP 1GB SCSI drive from about '91 or '92, IIRC.
As far as failure rates go, I still have ALL of my disk drives (one or two outright failed) from the 15-20 years, and every single one of them still functions at least nominally. I'm still more trusting of magnetic media than I am either rewritable optical or Flash-based media.
The only sure-fire way to "put a stake in it" is to aim straight for the heart: Darl McBride. Lock him up in a windowless cell with no Internet access, or better yet castrate him to make sure there will never be a Darl 2.0. Darl McBride is one of the true "useless eaters" that eugenicists were debating in the early part of last Century.
I can possibly think it because, not only is it possible, it's actually been and is. Obviously you've never played any of the good ones, if you have to ask that question, and your tone doesn't make me inclined to share, young man!
How would this "WiiEEGmote" work? If it lets me move the mouse and select/click items with a focused thought, that's a LOT more generalized than just a gaming device, no? Hasn't mouse tracking that follows the gaze of the human eye already been demonstrated, too? (Of course that's an error-prone and wasteful method, since you might look at something that you don't need to select or manipulate.) What else would this WiiEEGmote do?
I don't see a very practical use for all this motion control in turn-based strategy games - you know, the sort of games that work the mind rather than the reflexes. I suspect that increased availability of these devices and the technology will make FPS and "arcade" style games even more dominant than they already are. They will entice kids to "think with their hands" instead of their heads. It may be true that the majority are already inclined or predisposed to that, but it doesn't help shift the Bell Curve when Big Business panders to the median for the sake of profit rather than trying to help shift the median to the right a little.
I snicker loudly every time I see that original Sprint "Now Network" commercial from a couple months ago... they so nailed the Twitter experience with all those little blue birds twittering "ME!"
You must be newly hatched, huh? WE'RE not in court and I'm not on trial. This is Slashdot, where speculation is not only allowed, it's encouraged, nay mandatory! We all know what Intel plans to do with it, we just don't have a Minority Report with which to convict them... yet.
Save the proof for court and mathematics class.
BTW, I already said that the acquisition itself wasn't anti-competitive (even though I munged the sentence and cut out the middle):
"...but the acquisition itself is irrelevant."
(That sentence was supposed to have read: "In the instance of Microsoft there were no acquisitions involved AFAIK, but the acquisition itself is irrelevant.")
You need to read up on the history of Microsoft and monopolies in general. This goes precisely to the point, and Microsoft found itself in court for exactly the same behaviors (using an achieved monopoly in one product or market to bully their way into dominance in another). In the instance of but the acquisition itself is irrelevant. It's why Intel is doing it and what they intend to do with it that makes it anti-competitive.
... that it's a sting operation, and that other agencies are actually watching to see WHERE the rats scurry to next? That possibility was already hinted in TFA, was it not?
... has pretty consistently been toward smaller and smaller keyboards, this is probably doomed to failure even though it's a virtual one. It's a rather obvious observation, in any case, that adding extra "whitespace" around keys would reduce the chance of mis-strikes.
I also don't grok the whining about his not being able to fully integrate it into the iPhone. I have several third-party virtual keyboards for my Pocket PC (Windows Mobile), and I can select and use whichever one I want, and do so across all applications, as well as be able to switch between them at will. You mean the same capability doesn't exist in the iPhone?
Isn't this really just tweaks to caching systems in Windows? I wonder if these performance gains also come at the price of an increased likelihood of disk corruption when the power suddenly cuts out? You might wanna buy a good UPS at the same time you install Windows 7.
Actually it is descriptive, genius. Had you bothered to skim the rest of the conversation before you foamed-off at the mouth, you'd have thought better of your retort.
I won't be borrowing any of your brain cells any time soon. I hope you bought the extended warranty with 'em.
I'd agree that Yahoo is also a stupid name, both then AND now, and Google might have arguably been at first, but Google has certainly lived up to the word from which they derived the name, haven't they? From exactly what vaguely relevant word has Microsoft derived its ridiculous new name? That's right, there isn't one, because they just yanked it out of thin air. Or maybe they want people to think their search engine is as sweet as a cherry? Doubt it.
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Just a small tangential nitpick: we were already more than a factor of ten past that HDD capacity fifteen years ago. The 1GB barrier was broken very early in the Nineties. I still have an HP 1GB SCSI drive from about '91 or '92, IIRC.
As far as failure rates go, I still have ALL of my disk drives (one or two outright failed) from the 15-20 years, and every single one of them still functions at least nominally. I'm still more trusting of magnetic media than I am either rewritable optical or Flash-based media.
... since after all you're talking about it. I'd say the kitty reeking of bacon is out of the bag now.
The only sure-fire way to "put a stake in it" is to aim straight for the heart: Darl McBride. Lock him up in a windowless cell with no Internet access, or better yet castrate him to make sure there will never be a Darl 2.0. Darl McBride is one of the true "useless eaters" that eugenicists were debating in the early part of last Century.
I can possibly think it because, not only is it possible, it's actually been and is. Obviously you've never played any of the good ones, if you have to ask that question, and your tone doesn't make me inclined to share, young man!
Oh, you said that just for the opportunity to use that emoticon!
How would this "WiiEEGmote" work? If it lets me move the mouse and select/click items with a focused thought, that's a LOT more generalized than just a gaming device, no? Hasn't mouse tracking that follows the gaze of the human eye already been demonstrated, too? (Of course that's an error-prone and wasteful method, since you might look at something that you don't need to select or manipulate.) What else would this WiiEEGmote do?
I don't see a very practical use for all this motion control in turn-based strategy games - you know, the sort of games that work the mind rather than the reflexes. I suspect that increased availability of these devices and the technology will make FPS and "arcade" style games even more dominant than they already are. They will entice kids to "think with their hands" instead of their heads. It may be true that the majority are already inclined or predisposed to that, but it doesn't help shift the Bell Curve when Big Business panders to the median for the sake of profit rather than trying to help shift the median to the right a little.
... missile salvos can it survive?
... for not giving up on everything else...?
I snicker loudly every time I see that original Sprint "Now Network" commercial from a couple months ago... they so nailed the Twitter experience with all those little blue birds twittering "ME!"
You must be newly hatched, huh? WE'RE not in court and I'm not on trial. This is Slashdot, where speculation is not only allowed, it's encouraged, nay mandatory! We all know what Intel plans to do with it, we just don't have a Minority Report with which to convict them... yet.
Save the proof for court and mathematics class.
BTW, I already said that the acquisition itself wasn't anti-competitive (even though I munged the sentence and cut out the middle):
(That sentence was supposed to have read: "In the instance of Microsoft there were no acquisitions involved AFAIK, but the acquisition itself is irrelevant.")
You need to read up on the history of Microsoft and monopolies in general. This goes precisely to the point, and Microsoft found itself in court for exactly the same behaviors (using an achieved monopoly in one product or market to bully their way into dominance in another). In the instance of but the acquisition itself is irrelevant. It's why Intel is doing it and what they intend to do with it that makes it anti-competitive.
With continued antics like this, is it so surprising that the EU, at least, perceives Intel demonstrating monopolistic behavior?
... that it's a sting operation, and that other agencies are actually watching to see WHERE the rats scurry to next? That possibility was already hinted in TFA, was it not?
... has pretty consistently been toward smaller and smaller keyboards, this is probably doomed to failure even though it's a virtual one. It's a rather obvious observation, in any case, that adding extra "whitespace" around keys would reduce the chance of mis-strikes.
I also don't grok the whining about his not being able to fully integrate it into the iPhone. I have several third-party virtual keyboards for my Pocket PC (Windows Mobile), and I can select and use whichever one I want, and do so across all applications, as well as be able to switch between them at will. You mean the same capability doesn't exist in the iPhone?
It sounds to me like they use up the entire potential energy savings of the device in the process of manufacturing it.
I'm finally getting around to responding to this because Slashdot finally got around to fixing their RSS feed.
Isn't this really just tweaks to caching systems in Windows? I wonder if these performance gains also come at the price of an increased likelihood of disk corruption when the power suddenly cuts out? You might wanna buy a good UPS at the same time you install Windows 7.
Been there, replied to this already. Read the rest of the conversation here!
Actually it is descriptive, genius. Had you bothered to skim the rest of the conversation before you foamed-off at the mouth, you'd have thought better of your retort.
I won't be borrowing any of your brain cells any time soon. I hope you bought the extended warranty with 'em.
That's not even a usage in the same industry. Your sarcasm fails.
I have a few oldies:
I had a Sinclair QL, too, but sadly I chose to sell it to another geek coworker at Quarterdeck back around '93. I regret not keeping that one!
I'd agree that Yahoo is also a stupid name, both then AND now, and Google might have arguably been at first, but Google has certainly lived up to the word from which they derived the name, haven't they? From exactly what vaguely relevant word has Microsoft derived its ridiculous new name? That's right, there isn't one, because they just yanked it out of thin air. Or maybe they want people to think their search engine is as sweet as a cherry? Doubt it.
They probably did at first, but Google has lived up to the term, hasn't it? I'd wager they actually serve a "googol" of pages every year.
^^^ What he said!
Actually, yes! Think about the word from which they derived the name and how that now relates to the number of pages they serve every year.