I've watched quite a bit of anime, have over a terrabyte of it, and have yet to ever see a tentacle rape show. Graphic sex, yes...graphic violence, yes...tentacles, no. I don't know if the parent is trying to be funny or is just harping about something they're uneducated about.
The Japanese market, despite rhetoric that it is not, is pretty much a closed market. An imported game console will not do well there. All of the xbox's which were initially sent there mysteriously began to scratch game DVDs, so the major Japanese retailers stopped selling them.
The other thing, if you look at the type of games each country puts out, you'll see that Japanese games are indeed very different. They have a lot of anime games, dating sims, etc...while most US gamemakers are stuck trying to see how many different ways they can rehash the FPS genre.
If Linux can keep investor's attention and Google announces their own IPO, they could raise much more which could have impact on desktop Linux.
Its kind of sad how every linux story is always "this will probably maybe most definately finally be the tipping point for desktop linux." Lindows, or whatever their name of the week is, having an IPO for a product that will probably crap out in the near future, certainly won't help linux on the desktop as it will make investors more leary of linux.
From what I've seen, most linux users are always comparing linux to windows 95 and 98...most of them having bailed out of using windows around then...and they basically are fighting against the ghost of windows past. Whereas I don't see many of these people ever saying "yes, I use winddows xp / server2003 almost constantly in an attempt to understand what I'm up against here."
Is how everyone's reactions would be different if this was Microsoft doing this?
"1gb email! They're just trying to corner the market and force all the other webmail companies out of business!"
"They can read your mail?! They're probably selling it to some clandestine government agency!" (at which point michael would pop up and post a link to his favorite article on the government buying large ram disks)
My point is, I wonder how much leeway Google is being given simply because they use linux and are a good search engine.
In everyday life the only things that works is public shaming of assholes and the teaching of tact and courtesy (such as vibrate mode only).
The problem is, those things don't work. I didn't pay around $10 for a movie ticket to listen to some idiot's cellphone ringing, much less them picking up to tell the person they're in a movie and can't talk now, etc.
If I'm in a theatre I want to be called if someone at home got stung by a bee and can't find an Epi-pen, or what about a hostage taking in a restaurant?
I'd have them call 911 instead, frankly. I'm sure they're better equipped to handle an emergency than you and your cell phone are.
Typically, in other countries, devices like this (jammers)are already used in theatres, concert halls, etc to stop cellphones from ringing during performances. A device like the one in the article would not interfere with a pager, which is typically what doctors, police, etc use. If you have a grinding need for your cellphone to work, its typically posted that a jammer is in place, so you always have the option of not going to see that movie or that concert.
michael posts another one of his liberal stories about how the US is so bad and all of you lemmings go crazy as usual. Get this through your heads, he's just manipulating you as always into an anti-bush frenzy. In case you hadn't noticed, he's a democrat and is just trying to help his party out, and using slashdot as his own personal means of doing it. From news for nerds, to democratic press machine.
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For every Linux (or BSD, or OS X) zealot, there are a hundred Windows zealots
I have to disagree with you there...from what I've seen there are definately more Linux zealots roaming around, and they are making Linux look very bad. IBM's Linux commercial (you know, the one with the orphan being adopted by the world) wasn't merely to try introducing Linux to the world, it was image spin. Anytime I tell someone that I use Linux, they always associate me with being a l337 hack0r. The latest batch of worms attacking Microsoft, SCO, and RIAA certainly don't help that impression. To the rest of the normal non-technical people, the Linux zealots really must look like terrorists. "We don't like Microsoft, or SCO, or the RIAA, so we're going to shut them all down fplolomg" Lots of the Linux zealots that I know haven't even used Windows since 85 or 98, so they don't even know what they're really up against with XP or 2003Server, and they're so busy railing about how evil MS is, that they never bother to take a look at what their products are like, to know what they are competing against.
With Microsoft running on over 90% of the computers used today, yes, textbooks will be a bit Microsoft-centric...that's just common sense. Want to make things fair? Take the *nix market share, then devote that much time in class to it.
I'm surprised/. could find time to post a review in the midst of all of the usual "the government is out to oppress you" / "miscrosoft sucks" banter. Someone must have told michael he had to post at least 3 real technology stories a day or he was fired.
The biggest thing fueling my pc upgrades of recent years has always been games. Let's face it, you don't need a very impressive machine to do word processing, spreadsheets, internet browsing, etc. If you're looking to keep a bleeding edge gaming machine, you'll have to shell out a lot of money for new laptops. Recent games also have very large installs, so you'll run into harddrive space problems fairly quickly with a laptop. Laptops for gaming are great if you've got tons of cash just laying around, but otherwise, I think the desktop will be the preferred platform for quite a while.
The only problem with that paranoid theory is that the government does indeed have quite a few linux servers. They aren't going to shoot themselves in the foot.
Just because something is submitted doesn't mean its actually going to happen...especially when the government is involved. This is just more michael trademark article trolling.
This has nothing to do with community telcos; it's about city and state governments getting into the telco business. The article headline is a blatant troll. There again, it is Michael.
Now Real's crapware and proprietary codec can get back some market share...that'll make the world a better place. "Millions of Euoropeans rejoice at finally being able to watch excellent.rm's again." Oh wait, they were never prohibited from it in the first place. The whole media player thing is pretty stupid; nothing about Windows prevented people from being able to download alternatives. Seems more like a way for some governments to pick up some free cash.
Well, all of these trojans and viruses spread mainly by human engineering, which was proven by the "ILoveYou.txt.vbs" virus so long ago. There's not much stopping someone sending around an email saying "to find out the secrets of what your mate is doing online, open up a shell and type 'rm -rf *'," luckily almost every linux distro has that shell icon right by the equivalent of the start menu for easy access.
Someone running linux won't fix them being stupid or gullible. Linux having a large market share won't fix every computer problem in existance, virus writers will simply spend more time aiming exploits at it.
Well, if you've ever contracted for the government, you'd know that trying to get anything done is close to impossible. Any step you take has to be combed through by several beurocrats who have no more interest in anything other than plodding through their days on the way to retirement. Even if you do manage to get all of the systems designed and get ready to roll the upgrades out, someone will just come along and axe the plan while they try to figure out if this move will make them risk their neck in the slightest.
Trying to work for people who essentially can't be fired is a nightmare.
One day you have an article about how television is dying because of video games; now apparently video games are dying. Are they going to be replaced by people sitting around talking to each other? I don't buy it.
Personally, though, I think that console games will probably take over from PC games. It must be a lot easier for developers to not have to try making everything compatible with all of the various pc hardware components.
I don't have to present burden of proof since I'm not the one making outlandish statements in the first place...nor am I making those statements on the front page of a "news" site and alluding to them being true.
Don't worry, there's plenty of RAM for all 50 and the territories too.
Do you actually have some good, solid evidence that the ram is being used for this? Aside from an article at Techworld that thinks it might be. At least try to show a tiny little bit of responsibility in the statements that you make.
Since when was DARPA's goal to liberate humans through information? Its a military agency which designed the internet to be a communications system which could survive a massive attack, along the line of a nuclear blast. I seriously doubt that "liberating humans through information" ever crossed their minds.
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I've watched quite a bit of anime, have over a terrabyte of it, and have yet to ever see a tentacle rape show. Graphic sex, yes...graphic violence, yes...tentacles, no. I don't know if the parent is trying to be funny or is just harping about something they're uneducated about.
The Japanese market, despite rhetoric that it is not, is pretty much a closed market. An imported game console will not do well there. All of the xbox's which were initially sent there mysteriously began to scratch game DVDs, so the major Japanese retailers stopped selling them.
The other thing, if you look at the type of games each country puts out, you'll see that Japanese games are indeed very different. They have a lot of anime games, dating sims, etc...while most US gamemakers are stuck trying to see how many different ways they can rehash the FPS genre.
If Linux can keep investor's attention and Google announces their own IPO, they could raise much more which could have impact on desktop Linux.
Its kind of sad how every linux story is always "this will probably maybe most definately finally be the tipping point for desktop linux." Lindows, or whatever their name of the week is, having an IPO for a product that will probably crap out in the near future, certainly won't help linux on the desktop as it will make investors more leary of linux.
From what I've seen, most linux users are always comparing linux to windows 95 and 98...most of them having bailed out of using windows around then...and they basically are fighting against the ghost of windows past. Whereas I don't see many of these people ever saying "yes, I use winddows xp / server2003 almost constantly in an attempt to understand what I'm up against here."
flaming someone on /. always seems to work well for a rage dump. Or take up a relaxing hobby, like making fun of michael.
Is how everyone's reactions would be different if this was Microsoft doing this?
"1gb email! They're just trying to corner the market and force all the other webmail companies out of business!"
"They can read your mail?! They're probably selling it to some clandestine government agency!" (at which point michael would pop up and post a link to his favorite article on the government buying large ram disks)
My point is, I wonder how much leeway Google is being given simply because they use linux and are a good search engine.
Short answer: yes
Targeting windows users would seem to be a lot more advantageous if the RIAA were out to infect the world.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/techreviews/2001-04-2 3-cell-phone-jam.htm
In everyday life the only things that works is public shaming of assholes and the teaching of tact and courtesy (such as vibrate mode only).
The problem is, those things don't work. I didn't pay around $10 for a movie ticket to listen to some idiot's cellphone ringing, much less them picking up to tell the person they're in a movie and can't talk now, etc.
If I'm in a theatre I want to be called if someone at home got stung by a bee and can't find an Epi-pen, or what about a hostage taking in a restaurant?
I'd have them call 911 instead, frankly. I'm sure they're better equipped to handle an emergency than you and your cell phone are.
Typically, in other countries, devices like this (jammers)are already used in theatres, concert halls, etc to stop cellphones from ringing during performances. A device like the one in the article would not interfere with a pager, which is typically what doctors, police, etc use. If you have a grinding need for your cellphone to work, its typically posted that a jammer is in place, so you always have the option of not going to see that movie or that concert.
michael posts another one of his liberal stories about how the US is so bad and all of you lemmings go crazy as usual. Get this through your heads, he's just manipulating you as always into an anti-bush frenzy. In case you hadn't noticed, he's a democrat and is just trying to help his party out, and using slashdot as his own personal means of doing it. From news for nerds, to democratic press machine.
For every Linux (or BSD, or OS X) zealot, there are a hundred Windows zealots
I have to disagree with you there...from what I've seen there are definately more Linux zealots roaming around, and they are making Linux look very bad. IBM's Linux commercial (you know, the one with the orphan being adopted by the world) wasn't merely to try introducing Linux to the world, it was image spin. Anytime I tell someone that I use Linux, they always associate me with being a l337 hack0r. The latest batch of worms attacking Microsoft, SCO, and RIAA certainly don't help that impression. To the rest of the normal non-technical people, the Linux zealots really must look like terrorists. "We don't like Microsoft, or SCO, or the RIAA, so we're going to shut them all down fplolomg" Lots of the Linux zealots that I know haven't even used Windows since 85 or 98, so they don't even know what they're really up against with XP or 2003Server, and they're so busy railing about how evil MS is, that they never bother to take a look at what their products are like, to know what they are competing against.
With Microsoft running on over 90% of the computers used today, yes, textbooks will be a bit Microsoft-centric...that's just common sense. Want to make things fair? Take the *nix market share, then devote that much time in class to it.
I'm surprised /. could find time to post a review in the midst of all of the usual "the government is out to oppress you" / "miscrosoft sucks" banter. Someone must have told michael he had to post at least 3 real technology stories a day or he was fired.
The biggest thing fueling my pc upgrades of recent years has always been games. Let's face it, you don't need a very impressive machine to do word processing, spreadsheets, internet browsing, etc. If you're looking to keep a bleeding edge gaming machine, you'll have to shell out a lot of money for new laptops. Recent games also have very large installs, so you'll run into harddrive space problems fairly quickly with a laptop. Laptops for gaming are great if you've got tons of cash just laying around, but otherwise, I think the desktop will be the preferred platform for quite a while.
The only problem with that paranoid theory is that the government does indeed have quite a few linux servers. They aren't going to shoot themselves in the foot.
Just because something is submitted doesn't mean its actually going to happen...especially when the government is involved. This is just more michael trademark article trolling.
This has nothing to do with community telcos; it's about city and state governments getting into the telco business. The article headline is a blatant troll. There again, it is Michael.
Now Real's crapware and proprietary codec can get back some market share...that'll make the world a better place. "Millions of Euoropeans rejoice at finally being able to watch excellent .rm's again." Oh wait, they were never prohibited from it in the first place. The whole media player thing is pretty stupid; nothing about Windows prevented people from being able to download alternatives. Seems more like a way for some governments to pick up some free cash.
Well, all of these trojans and viruses spread mainly by human engineering, which was proven by the "ILoveYou.txt.vbs" virus so long ago. There's not much stopping someone sending around an email saying "to find out the secrets of what your mate is doing online, open up a shell and type 'rm -rf *'," luckily almost every linux distro has that shell icon right by the equivalent of the start menu for easy access.
Someone running linux won't fix them being stupid or gullible. Linux having a large market share won't fix every computer problem in existance, virus writers will simply spend more time aiming exploits at it.
Well, if you've ever contracted for the government, you'd know that trying to get anything done is close to impossible. Any step you take has to be combed through by several beurocrats who have no more interest in anything other than plodding through their days on the way to retirement. Even if you do manage to get all of the systems designed and get ready to roll the upgrades out, someone will just come along and axe the plan while they try to figure out if this move will make them risk their neck in the slightest.
Trying to work for people who essentially can't be fired is a nightmare.
One day you have an article about how television is dying because of video games; now apparently video games are dying. Are they going to be replaced by people sitting around talking to each other? I don't buy it.
Personally, though, I think that console games will probably take over from PC games. It must be a lot easier for developers to not have to try making everything compatible with all of the various pc hardware components.
I don't have to present burden of proof since I'm not the one making outlandish statements in the first place...nor am I making those statements on the front page of a "news" site and alluding to them being true.
Don't worry, there's plenty of RAM for all 50 and the territories too.
Do you actually have some good, solid evidence that the ram is being used for this? Aside from an article at Techworld that thinks it might be. At least try to show a tiny little bit of responsibility in the statements that you make.
Since when was DARPA's goal to liberate humans through information? Its a military agency which designed the internet to be a communications system which could survive a massive attack, along the line of a nuclear blast. I seriously doubt that "liberating humans through information" ever crossed their minds.