And of course you have Descent and Forsaken, games you can't play with a joystick.
Realistically the joystick isn't that great for dogfighting, it's not precise enough and doesn't allow really good control over rotation and accelleration.
Gotta give props for keyboards, won me a lot of Descent 1 and Forsaken matches.
It's digital they'll both look the same, one might spend another instant buffering, people using cable modems have felt the effects already. They are sharing a fixed bandwidth between people, and sharing the undersea cables.
I forget the speeds that the backbone is able to handle but they're pretty absurd.
Streaming video and even bittorrent simply aren't enough to saturate high-speed internet 24/7 (except uploading I suppose and the reason they give people low upload caps is because ISPs are selling the upstream bandwidth to companies) if you have 6 meg you can fill a 120 gig HD in less than 24 hours.
HD video might make the diffrence but right now the most media someone can consume is on the order of video bitrate 20/7...
That everyone agrees big, fuel guzzling, small car crushing vehicles shouldn't be on the road (let alone truck excemptions for SUV's in the U.S. [under Bush renewed I might add (Thank you Soccer Mom Vote's for Republicans)]).
No one wants em on the road, no group can be faulted as long as they are ashamed that the act took place and are making actions to rectify the situation.
Microsoft tied to the corperate desktop can't offer the heaviest of gui's
OsX and Aero Glass are raising the bar for consumer level graphics.
Back in the day I was running win2k and I saw Enlightenment it motivated me to dual boot Linux.
The interface wasn't the easiest but the Gui alone influenced me to try it out.
Linux could easily have the best Gui out there and since it doesn't have to be tied to the corperate ideals of colour co-ordination they Linux could be doing some really unique stuff.
Linux having the best GUI would be a not insignificant step towards linux making space for itself on the home and education desktop.
No this is silly, their software is automattically indexing files, they aren't looking through them for a number of reasons.
P2P is always going to be around but it's getting less and less efficient, Kazaa was the peak in terms of efficiency and it's been downhill since then.
What sucks about this is that a p2p standard that supports piracy will become dominant (probably bittorrent or a derivitive, the dht tracking and non tracked torrents makes this quite likely) but when industry gives up and goes home a new standard will have to be developed.
Software like Opera will remove bittorrent (or keep it wasting HD space) and legacy sites that have those "old fashioned" bittorrent links will seem broken.
Indexed file swapping is better, it totally blows that linux distros aren't being traded over Kazaa or another searchable ratings based centralized p2p server
Windows Starter (overseas 3 programs stripped down (no movie editor etc.) Windows Home Basic (Like Windows at home low networking loaded with more crapware and less of the good microsoft apps) Windows Home Pro (Basically windows XP Pro...) Windows Business (comes OEM not a lot of extra stuff (no games maybe no media player etc.) Windows business high end, hard to differentiate, maybe comes with.net? Windows corperate (Totally locked down, central authentication designed for network storage etc.
2 Euro versions probably 1 between Windows Home and Home Pro and one which is the same as Windows Business.
For the slashdot crowd we'll probably want windows home premium or windows business premium.
Agreed some of the issues involved here are totally bizarre.
Like not being allowed to see or hear ossama's messages, we know they're out there but no where can you find them subtitled or dubbed or directly translated in any way.
All you get are summaries from the news, holy crap the public doesn't know anything about why he's upset and no one has gotten upset?
They actually got the most recent one on the net and in it he was talking about being denyed the option of peace talks... super.
Wtf is wrong with you people, go buy a 4 or 8 way opteron server then.
Hell buy some Xeons.
Face it we're all in the same boat price/performance.
We keep hearing this again and again, sure there will be early adopters who make some of the good stuff more affordable eventually but really no product is designed for the absurd prices some morons are willing to pay and as far as the rest of us are concerned they are just buying up prototypes which should be left in the labs where companies can work on them.
DDR2 is a step backwards in performance but it's cheaper.
Then the bottom fell out of the memory market (Pretty late Memory is behind the curve on improvement specifically in terms of performance... so many systems are still being made with DDR333) so as a memory manufacturer of course they are going to try to stir the market into an expensive new standard... Part of doing that is hitting people up about their current performance, for AMD it matters and they are relying on AMD to push memory tech with their integrated controller.
At first it seems that it would provide a slower upgrade path but they can integrate lower latency and higher bandwidth far more easily than Intel.
AMD would have to commit to a new memory architechture because their chips will be designed to only work with it, so they want a tested solution, they're not scared of commiting to a memory architecture with low performance they're scared of commmiting to one with a high price tag.
Intel was REALLY hurt by XDR...
I mean that was a masacre, AMD has multiple developers for their chipsets so the only chink in their armor would be a new memory arhitecture.
While Intel has fsb problems they don't need to worry that Intel will find a new memory tech because they just won't be able to take advantage of it fast enough that AMD won't be able to upgrade their platform.
And ms has the infrastructure to run a centralized server easily thus providing a heap of standardization and reliability.
It may not be the same standardization and reliability that Slashdotters want but it will be enough to dominate the market.
Gaim is open but it runs support mostly for AIM,MSN and ICQ... because they're reliable and entrenched... Microsoft won't have a battle in the divided VOIP space they'll have a masacre.
Well first off Microsoft might integrate it well enough and easily enough that you could call someone at their VOIP address and expect an answer without checking if they were online (fallback to traditional phone system.) Second if it comes preinstalled with windows or ties itself to existing e-mail addresses (hotmail's huge marketshare anyone) they could create a standard for telephone identities which is sorely lacking right now in VOIP.
Their solution will probably look a lot like MSN but something like trillian or Gaim will inevitably take over if it's too restrictive.
They are bundling the mp3, wma and likely ogg codecs for audio.
For video we should get Xvid, and H.264 which means they're basically doing all they can, once people can just click a link on the net without installing ANY third party software it'll be Napster all over again.
Every single teenager will review a movie with a torrent link at the bottom, I.M.'s will start having auto bittorrent lookups for keywords.
People will try before they buy and with the crap out today they won't buy... Good news all around.
DRM doesn't in any way hurt piracy or new IP systems... not at all.
This isn't windows, this isn't outlook, this isn't word.
This is Notepad, people keep screaming that "There's gold in dem' dere hills" guess what there isn't...
Even skype is overpriced, free telephony is coming.
The only reason it hasn't happened yet is because of old fashioned wireless services and pricing systems (if you could offer the flexability of voip through a cell phone the telephone companies could save billions but they'd have to admit that there networks are vastly overpowered for that kind of service.
There's no frikkin money in internet telephony, anyone who runs a homebrew pbx will tell you the specs needed are LOW.
So the teleco's are trying to regulate against it, the only people with the political muscle to match the teleco's are the credit card companies, or Microsoft... So in this case let's give them a big ole cheer.
Of course it is the rich and intellectual muslims who are organizing and funding the fanatics.
That's kind of the diffrence, sure there are ignorant rednecks and KKK members in the U.S. but they don't have the same backing of intellectuals or vaguely political funding/protection.
Granted their war is based on already having acheived a certain level of domination (underdog syndrom) but if you found out that American politicians were funding the KKK and organizing them it would freak you out pretty good:P
So what you're saying is the people who hand out grant money or finance research aren't able to do their job (finding people who work on things) at all... Super.
Remind me why they are allowed to continue doing it?
Investment and reward is supposed to promote what exactly?
middle eastern nation into space based on bought plans and oil money?
Too bad...
Maybe this will help to take some of the attention off the astronauts and put it back on the engineers who actually work and develop these technologies.
How Sony is going to make back the $400 it'll lose on each Ps3 but that's just silly.
They might advertise the cost of blu ray drives as $300 but that'd be a big ole lie.
Very few people in the U.S. or even in Japan are going to shell out $500 for a console, so they simply WON'T make one that expensive...
They don't need to make a machine that costs that much they could make one half that price and still totally overpower the 360.
As far as selling 500+ machines the truth is the Japanese (who have the money) don't really care about the horsepower that much, and Americans/Europeans couldn't afford it... So why would they do that? It's crazy... way to crazy for us to even be considering possible.
China probably thinks the U.S. is "the evil" first the U.S. keeps trying to spin stuff in a negative light.
The U.S. is involved in dozens of wars every year.
And don't forget the "We own Space" and "We own the Internet" mentality which if let into space will provide for the great "American Melting pot" of space chock full of "Conservative democracy" (big c little d) protestant values and American notions on the value of life and culture.
If we start with robots it will never stop, they'll get cheaper faster than we do.
This cheapness is great for serving people here on earth but it doesn't really start making people up in space or really dividing power any further and offering us new social systems. The rich will control space just as they do all the other resources we have.
This seems like something that wouldn't last very long but if space never becomes a better place for humans to live the people who do end up going into space will be treated like servants of the rich producing resources to sell to the poor.
Not a problem for a while but remember the cascading nature of robotic exploration and colonization, robots aren't going to get worse and frankly people aren't getting better... If putting humans in space isn't the goal it will likely never be acheived the way it was originally envisioned.
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And of course you have Descent and Forsaken, games you can't play with a joystick.
Realistically the joystick isn't that great for dogfighting, it's not precise enough and doesn't allow really good control over rotation and accelleration.
Gotta give props for keyboards, won me a lot of Descent 1 and Forsaken matches.
So economies of scale is nice...
But possibilities of being paid off or court-ordered increase, which sucks.
Overall I'd say... net loss.
To make the specifications specific enough that you get something useful but not so specific you don't allow for unique thought.
video is going to look better?
It's digital they'll both look the same, one might spend another instant buffering, people using cable modems have felt the effects already. They are sharing a fixed bandwidth between people, and sharing the undersea cables.
I forget the speeds that the backbone is able to handle but they're pretty absurd.
Streaming video and even bittorrent simply aren't enough to saturate high-speed internet 24/7 (except uploading I suppose and the reason they give people low upload caps is because ISPs are selling the upstream bandwidth to companies) if you have 6 meg you can fill a 120 gig HD in less than 24 hours.
HD video might make the diffrence but right now the most media someone can consume is on the order of video bitrate 20/7...
Not that much really.
Left wing Right wing, not important.
That everyone agrees big, fuel guzzling, small car crushing vehicles shouldn't be on the road (let alone truck excemptions for SUV's in the U.S. [under Bush renewed I might add (Thank you Soccer Mom Vote's for Republicans)]).
No one wants em on the road, no group can be faulted as long as they are ashamed that the act took place and are making actions to rectify the situation.
We're going to see Breeders, some of us are waiting for it.
They'll be in space soon, rockets fail for reasons it's not a random event, when we need them we'll have them working just fine.
Microsoft tied to the corperate desktop can't offer the heaviest of gui's
OsX and Aero Glass are raising the bar for consumer level graphics.
Back in the day I was running win2k and I saw Enlightenment it motivated me to dual boot Linux.
The interface wasn't the easiest but the Gui alone influenced me to try it out.
Linux could easily have the best Gui out there and since it doesn't have to be tied to the corperate ideals of colour co-ordination they Linux could be doing some really unique stuff.
Linux having the best GUI would be a not insignificant step towards linux making space for itself on the home and education desktop.
No this is silly, their software is automattically indexing files, they aren't looking through them for a number of reasons.
P2P is always going to be around but it's getting less and less efficient, Kazaa was the peak in terms of efficiency and it's been downhill since then.
What sucks about this is that a p2p standard that supports piracy will become dominant (probably bittorrent or a derivitive, the dht tracking and non tracked torrents makes this quite likely) but when industry gives up and goes home a new standard will have to be developed.
Software like Opera will remove bittorrent (or keep it wasting HD space) and legacy sites that have those "old fashioned" bittorrent links will seem broken.
Indexed file swapping is better, it totally blows that linux distros aren't being traded over Kazaa or another searchable ratings based centralized p2p server
Here are the 8 versions.
.net?
Windows Starter (overseas 3 programs stripped down (no movie editor etc.)
Windows Home Basic (Like Windows at home low networking loaded with more crapware and less of the good microsoft apps)
Windows Home Pro (Basically windows XP Pro...)
Windows Business (comes OEM not a lot of extra stuff (no games maybe no media player etc.)
Windows business high end, hard to differentiate, maybe comes with
Windows corperate (Totally locked down, central authentication designed for network storage etc.
2 Euro versions probably 1 between Windows Home and Home Pro and one which is the same as Windows Business.
For the slashdot crowd we'll probably want windows home premium or windows business premium.
The others will be too restrictive.
Agreed some of the issues involved here are totally bizarre.
Like not being allowed to see or hear ossama's messages, we know they're out there but no where can you find them subtitled or dubbed or directly translated in any way.
All you get are summaries from the news, holy crap the public doesn't know anything about why he's upset and no one has gotten upset?
They actually got the most recent one on the net and in it he was talking about being denyed the option of peace talks... super.
Wtf is wrong with you people, go buy a 4 or 8 way opteron server then.
Hell buy some Xeons.
Face it we're all in the same boat price/performance.
We keep hearing this again and again, sure there will be early adopters who make some of the good stuff more affordable eventually but really no product is designed for the absurd prices some morons are willing to pay and as far as the rest of us are concerned they are just buying up prototypes which should be left in the labs where companies can work on them.
DDR2 is a step backwards in performance but it's cheaper.
Then the bottom fell out of the memory market (Pretty late Memory is behind the curve on improvement specifically in terms of performance... so many systems are still being made with DDR333) so as a memory manufacturer of course they are going to try to stir the market into an expensive new standard... Part of doing that is hitting people up about their current performance, for AMD it matters and they are relying on AMD to push memory tech with their integrated controller.
At first it seems that it would provide a slower upgrade path but they can integrate lower latency and higher bandwidth far more easily than Intel.
AMD would have to commit to a new memory architechture because their chips will be designed to only work with it, so they want a tested solution, they're not scared of commiting to a memory architecture with low performance they're scared of commmiting to one with a high price tag.
Intel was REALLY hurt by XDR...
I mean that was a masacre, AMD has multiple developers for their chipsets so the only chink in their armor would be a new memory arhitecture.
While Intel has fsb problems they don't need to worry that Intel will find a new memory tech because they just won't be able to take advantage of it fast enough that AMD won't be able to upgrade their platform.
Yea but there are no existing standards...
And ms has the infrastructure to run a centralized server easily thus providing a heap of standardization and reliability.
It may not be the same standardization and reliability that Slashdotters want but it will be enough to dominate the market.
Gaim is open but it runs support mostly for AIM,MSN and ICQ... because they're reliable and entrenched... Microsoft won't have a battle in the divided VOIP space they'll have a masacre.
Well first off Microsoft might integrate it well enough and easily enough that you could call someone at their VOIP address and expect an answer without checking if they were online (fallback to traditional phone system.) Second if it comes preinstalled with windows or ties itself to existing e-mail addresses (hotmail's huge marketshare anyone) they could create a standard for telephone identities which is sorely lacking right now in VOIP.
Their solution will probably look a lot like MSN but something like trillian or Gaim will inevitably take over if it's too restrictive.
They are bundling the mp3, wma and likely ogg codecs for audio.
For video we should get Xvid, and H.264 which means they're basically doing all they can, once people can just click a link on the net without installing ANY third party software it'll be Napster all over again.
Every single teenager will review a movie with a torrent link at the bottom, I.M.'s will start having auto bittorrent lookups for keywords.
People will try before they buy and with the crap out today they won't buy... Good news all around.
DRM doesn't in any way hurt piracy or new IP systems... not at all.
This isn't windows, this isn't outlook, this isn't word.
:P
This is Notepad, people keep screaming that "There's gold in dem' dere hills" guess what there isn't...
Even skype is overpriced, free telephony is coming.
The only reason it hasn't happened yet is because of old fashioned wireless services and pricing systems (if you could offer the flexability of voip through a cell phone the telephone companies could save billions but they'd have to admit that there networks are vastly overpowered for that kind of service.
There's no frikkin money in internet telephony, anyone who runs a homebrew pbx will tell you the specs needed are LOW.
So the teleco's are trying to regulate against it, the only people with the political muscle to match the teleco's are the credit card companies, or Microsoft... So in this case let's give them a big ole cheer.
Hmmm That feels weird
Of course it is the rich and intellectual muslims who are organizing and funding the fanatics.
:P
That's kind of the diffrence, sure there are ignorant rednecks and KKK members in the U.S. but they don't have the same backing of intellectuals or vaguely political funding/protection.
Granted their war is based on already having acheived a certain level of domination (underdog syndrom) but if you found out that American politicians were funding the KKK and organizing them it would freak you out pretty good
So what you're saying is the people who hand out grant money or finance research aren't able to do their job (finding people who work on things) at all... Super.
Remind me why they are allowed to continue doing it?
Investment and reward is supposed to promote what exactly?
Screw that this is straight from the hackers keyboard!
middle eastern nation into space based on bought plans and oil money?
Too bad...
Maybe this will help to take some of the attention off the astronauts and put it back on the engineers who actually work and develop these technologies.
There are some fools who bought the psp...
How much was that? $300?
Wow.
How Sony is going to make back the $400 it'll lose on each Ps3 but that's just silly.
They might advertise the cost of blu ray drives as $300 but that'd be a big ole lie.
Very few people in the U.S. or even in Japan are going to shell out $500 for a console, so they simply WON'T make one that expensive...
They don't need to make a machine that costs that much they could make one half that price and still totally overpower the 360.
As far as selling 500+ machines the truth is the Japanese (who have the money) don't really care about the horsepower that much, and Americans/Europeans couldn't afford it... So why would they do that? It's crazy... way to crazy for us to even be considering possible.
We used to puke blood and have gaping sores appear and gosh darn it that's how we LIKED it!
China probably thinks the U.S. is "the evil" first the U.S. keeps trying to spin stuff in a negative light.
The U.S. is involved in dozens of wars every year.
And don't forget the "We own Space" and "We own the Internet" mentality which if let into space will provide for the great "American Melting pot" of space chock full of "Conservative democracy" (big c little d) protestant values and American notions on the value of life and culture.
I'd rather see China make it actually.
If we start with robots it will never stop, they'll get cheaper faster than we do.
This cheapness is great for serving people here on earth but it doesn't really start making people up in space or really dividing power any further and offering us new social systems. The rich will control space just as they do all the other resources we have.
This seems like something that wouldn't last very long but if space never becomes a better place for humans to live the people who do end up going into space will be treated like servants of the rich producing resources to sell to the poor.
Not a problem for a while but remember the cascading nature of robotic exploration and colonization, robots aren't going to get worse and frankly people aren't getting better... If putting humans in space isn't the goal it will likely never be acheived the way it was originally envisioned.