Income is never disposable at corproations only management is. Microsoft made huge claims for the xbox and failed. Now microsoft attempts to rewrite history and pretend it never made the claims that it did make. It was going to generate a huge profit, it was going to capture the majority of the market, it was to be the digital media machine instead the xbox is just a profit vacumn and hype.
Wrong. I couldn't find you sources now, but back before the Xbox 1 even launched I read in numerous places that Microsoft never expected to be #1 with the Xbox nore was it a major goal. They main goal with the Xbox was to gain widespread acceptance for Microsoft has a game company, which they've clearly accomplished.
that is NOT a gas giant = planet
Why exclude the gas giant's? You don't provide any other category for them.
I have to agree with this guy though, I don't know why it isn't up there with the possible definitions. Judging by size will never work, and "dominant body in it's region in space" is just plain fubar. When I think of a planet, I think of something orbiting in space with an atmosphere. I have trouble calling Pluto and those other giant asteroids planets because they are just big rocks. A planet is something with a little more substance, and that substance is a visible atmosphere.
In my experience...most AOL users don't even have a clue that AOL just uses IE...MS gains very little from AOL continueing to use IE. Your typical AOL user sees the entire internet through AOLs little window and doesn't touch any other programs on their comp...do you really think they would notice at all if the context menus for webpages changed? That's the most significant difference any aoler would see if aol switched to an embedded mozilla based browser. And AOL would probably have a lot to lose too by switching. You think they keep all the code for their built little keyword webpages cross-browser? They are probably all filled with ie-only scripting and markup...all of which would have to be updated to seamlessly work in both mozilla and ie for those using older clients still.
Ok. Fine. Bluetooth in the phone and bluetooth in the laptop. Put them near each other and turn on the phone and pow...very wireless broadband net access
I agree with you mostly. I think the whole "making it look more like windows" idea is just a scapegoat. We all know the real reason why Linux isn't ready for the masses. It just takes too much damn work and headaches to get even the simplest things to work right, and that is no easy problem to fix. It is easy to just say the UI needs to be more familiar or more friendly, but apple's success clearly disproves that.
The problem is what if the CPU is defective and breaks on its own, or came broken out of the box. All you were doing was keeping it cooler, improving its operating conditions, but now you're just screwed.
All this will do is make them add a clause to the shrink-rap EULAS "I accept responsibility for any loss off blah blah as a result of software defects"
I doubt it...long as you leave the rest of the gun at home...the headphone jack and control buttons should be a good indicator to someone that it isn't a real mag
So unless the internet becomes the primary medium of distribution of movies or something like that I don't see these kinds of devices having more than a niche market.
Hey, it was interesting to me, obviously was interesting enough to you for you to complain about it, and was probably interesting to a lot of other people. It's something nerds are interested in. Isn't that what/. is about?
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Income is never disposable at corproations only management is. Microsoft made huge claims for the xbox and failed. Now microsoft attempts to rewrite history and pretend it never made the claims that it did make. It was going to generate a huge profit, it was going to capture the majority of the market, it was to be the digital media machine instead the xbox is just a profit vacumn and hype. Wrong. I couldn't find you sources now, but back before the Xbox 1 even launched I read in numerous places that Microsoft never expected to be #1 with the Xbox nore was it a major goal. They main goal with the Xbox was to gain widespread acceptance for Microsoft has a game company, which they've clearly accomplished.
that is NOT a gas giant = planet Why exclude the gas giant's? You don't provide any other category for them. I have to agree with this guy though, I don't know why it isn't up there with the possible definitions. Judging by size will never work, and "dominant body in it's region in space" is just plain fubar. When I think of a planet, I think of something orbiting in space with an atmosphere. I have trouble calling Pluto and those other giant asteroids planets because they are just big rocks. A planet is something with a little more substance, and that substance is a visible atmosphere.
Why would they want to hire someone who has to use google to find slashdot...
In my experience...most AOL users don't even have a clue that AOL just uses IE...MS gains very little from AOL continueing to use IE. Your typical AOL user sees the entire internet through AOLs little window and doesn't touch any other programs on their comp...do you really think they would notice at all if the context menus for webpages changed? That's the most significant difference any aoler would see if aol switched to an embedded mozilla based browser. And AOL would probably have a lot to lose too by switching. You think they keep all the code for their built little keyword webpages cross-browser? They are probably all filled with ie-only scripting and markup...all of which would have to be updated to seamlessly work in both mozilla and ie for those using older clients still.
Ok. Fine. Bluetooth in the phone and bluetooth in the laptop. Put them near each other and turn on the phone and pow...very wireless broadband net access
Give it an ethernet jack so I can plug my laptop in...Wireless broadband internet connection... w00t! w00t!
shit i'm probably one of those idiots and I think this is insightful
Or just call him a terrorist and you can skip that annoying search warrent part
Oh don't worry, i'm sure some station (Read: SciFi) will buy off the rights to air reruns and then show it constantly for a few months.
Then go find a time machine and travel to six months from now if it bothers you so much.
Well, since the paper computer is solar powered, you don't have anything to worry about. I doubt you get much sun back there
I don't think the open source movement was all that significant before '95
i think i'm going to have to stop reading comments until I see the damn movie
Really there is no reason why Slashdot doesn't mirror a site on this server for a few days. I mean on those obviously home grown sites especially,
Yeah but then what would ACs and karma whores do with all their free time?
From the front page of the site:
upcoming Windows operating system technologies. These exciting products include Windows XP Service Pack 1 (SP1),
Anyone else disturbed that this guy conciders SP1 to be an "exciting product"/"Windows operating system technology"?
Hell I was tasting colors back in pre school
I agree with you mostly. I think the whole "making it look more like windows" idea is just a scapegoat. We all know the real reason why Linux isn't ready for the masses. It just takes too much damn work and headaches to get even the simplest things to work right, and that is no easy problem to fix. It is easy to just say the UI needs to be more familiar or more friendly, but apple's success clearly disproves that.
The problem is what if the CPU is defective and breaks on its own, or came broken out of the box. All you were doing was keeping it cooler, improving its operating conditions, but now you're just screwed.
All this will do is make them add a clause to the shrink-rap EULAS "I accept responsibility for any loss off blah blah as a result of software defects"
I doubt it...long as you leave the rest of the gun at home...the headphone jack and control buttons should be a good indicator to someone that it isn't a real mag
So unless the internet becomes the primary medium of distribution of movies or something like that I don't see these kinds of devices having more than a niche market.
whoa, it isn't??!?
Yeah and the sign at my grocery store said "wait here for service", not "wait here for service and don't kill anyone"
Hey, it was interesting to me, obviously was interesting enough to you for you to complain about it, and was probably interesting to a lot of other people. It's something nerds are interested in. Isn't that what /. is about?
you've slashdotted your baby!
And then what happens when the kid types those questions into google?