...maybe the male tech market is saturated? Perhaps we already have all the tech gadgets we want, and now the majority of the market is now women playing catch-up?
These useless surveys really do p**s me off at times, they seem to assume that everyone will spend money at a constant rate, but forgetting that people do reach a point where they have enough stuff, at which point another demographic might appear to take up the slack. Perhaps the RIAA should work out that one reason why their CD sales have dropped is that most people have replaced their old vinyls and cassettes, and really aren't that interested in getting modern stuff, especially if it's the brainless pap they are trying to shove down our throats these days.
Her name escapes me (I keep thinking either of Leela or Leeloo, and no, not in a sexual way. Well, maybe a little bit. No, totally in a sexual way - sex with a karate-kicking alien chick, whether one-eyed or Supreme Warrior, would be totally hot *grin*), but the dancer who gets dumped into the Rancor pit, seconds before the floor opens up under her, lets her tits fall out of her costume.
You seem to have forgotten that the code rewrites you refer to have only really seen the light of day with Windows 2003 Server, or whatever it is called this week. This exploit affects IE going back to IE4, which is the best part of eight years old now.
Yet another pathetic wiener who only remembers the bits that suit his world outlook (aka typical Slashdot troll)
C3 is powerful enough for most things you'd want to do at home, apart from playing games and other high-end stuff. And MPEG decoding etc is done in hardware, so the processor could hardly care less.
This is a great response to the electrical-power-hungy Intel and AMD chips. Next time California browns-out in the summer, consider getting one of these C3-based babies next time.
I'm disappointed by all the Americans with a blind spot in their memory for the world's worst car, designed to be something that no-one in their sane mind would ever buy.
Ladies and gentleman, I present you with Microsoft's 7th generation browser - the Ford Edsel.
Some Windows software is pretty darn good, but Lotus Notes has a special Circle Of Hell reserved just for it. If you took all the shoddy products to come out of Microsoft HQ, and combined them into one super-shoddy product, you still couldn't come close to the stinking pile of crap that is Lotus Notes.
And they could easily have won on technical merit. Netscape 4 sucks so much ass when compared to even IE4 that it's hard to believe that that's what kicked off this whole hoopla.
Doesn't that refer to the SSL certificate encryption key size? What they're talking about here is the key size for the OS's encryption mechanism. Two very different kettle of fish, there.
Actually, mono.org is already taken - it's my favourite BBS hosted in the UK. So when people say Mono, I'll think BBS, not yet another attempt to copy Microsoft software instead of creating something new.
...the vanilla MP3 format sucks ass when compared to WMA (Windows Media Audio) mainly because it is a much older design, hence way behind the state-of-the-art in audio compression. I haven't listened to MP3 Pro, but WMA gives you much better bass frequency responses, and allows a much higher sampling rate per MB of disk space than MP3, roughly 2:1. (MS actually helping keep your hard disk usage down a little? Hehe!).
There is, of course, the two small matters of turning off that Digital Rights Management option, so you can use your recordings of your CDs wherever/whenever you want, and that you have to be running Windows to play them back...
(I haven't touched on Ogg Vorbis because I have never tried it. Maybe one day)
Yeah, and then take the laptop and a webcam with you to broadcast to the world in glorious technicolour and stereo sound your application for entry into the Mile High Club:-)
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...maybe the male tech market is saturated? Perhaps we already have all the tech gadgets we want, and now the majority of the market is now women playing catch-up?
These useless surveys really do p**s me off at times, they seem to assume that everyone will spend money at a constant rate, but forgetting that people do reach a point where they have enough stuff, at which point another demographic might appear to take up the slack. Perhaps the RIAA should work out that one reason why their CD sales have dropped is that most people have replaced their old vinyls and cassettes, and really aren't that interested in getting modern stuff, especially if it's the brainless pap they are trying to shove down our throats these days.
Plus I'm sure they could resell the feathers for stuffing pillows, once they'd cleaned the blood and gore off of them. More profits!
You could get quite a mark-up by selling eagle feather stuffed pillows to rich people for a ton of cash...
Choking Jar-Jar
Just like IRL and euphemistically, surely what every SW fan really wants to do.
Her name escapes me (I keep thinking either of Leela or Leeloo, and no, not in a sexual way. Well, maybe a little bit. No, totally in a sexual way - sex with a karate-kicking alien chick, whether one-eyed or Supreme Warrior, would be totally hot *grin*), but the dancer who gets dumped into the Rancor pit, seconds before the floor opens up under her, lets her tits fall out of her costume.
Sad but true that I can remember that blooper.
You seem to have forgotten that the code rewrites you refer to have only really seen the light of day with Windows 2003 Server, or whatever it is called this week. This exploit affects IE going back to IE4, which is the best part of eight years old now.
Yet another pathetic wiener who only remembers the bits that suit his world outlook (aka typical Slashdot troll)
C3 is powerful enough for most things you'd want to do at home, apart from playing games and other high-end stuff. And MPEG decoding etc is done in hardware, so the processor could hardly care less.
This is a great response to the electrical-power-hungy Intel and AMD chips. Next time California browns-out in the summer, consider getting one of these C3-based babies next time.
I'm disappointed by all the Americans with a blind spot in their memory for the world's worst car, designed to be something that no-one in their sane mind would ever buy.
Ladies and gentleman, I present you with Microsoft's 7th generation browser - the Ford Edsel.
Guess he should have gone to Writing English 101 before he went off on an illiterate uninformed rant.
*ping* Oh of course, this is Slashdot....
Actually that's 3 milli-hertz, not 3 hertz. Therefore it's out by a factor of 10^12...
Some Windows software is pretty darn good, but Lotus Notes has a special Circle Of Hell reserved just for it. If you took all the shoddy products to come out of Microsoft HQ, and combined them into one super-shoddy product, you still couldn't come close to the stinking pile of crap that is Lotus Notes.
:'-(
And I have to use the darn thing at work
Yeah, the Windows servers are year-old IBM xSeries 370's, while the Linux servers are based on still-unreleased HP ProLiant DL580R's.
Yet more stacking in favour of OS of choice! There are lies, damn lies, and benchmarks...
... it's faster than the British rail network, and probably cheaper to build/run as well
After all, they're always going down on you.
Mind you, with the amount of viruses you can get with an MS system, you should always surf with plenty of protection.
"It's life, Jim, but not as we know it"
And they could easily have won on technical merit. Netscape 4 sucks so much ass when compared to even IE4 that it's hard to believe that that's what kicked off this whole hoopla.
Doesn't that refer to the SSL certificate encryption key size? What they're talking about here is the key size for the OS's encryption mechanism. Two very different kettle of fish, there.
Calling the UK, you would find Americans have to flex their fingers 16 times then...
011-44-
followed by our 11 digit phone numbers.
Surely this bit of research says it all...
Intentional Programming? As opposed to Accidental Programming? "Sorry Mr Gates, we created Clippy by accident"
If this is serious journalism, it's time to get scared. It barely rates as well-written humour.
> i have two if they need a spare!
Cool, we could set up a Beowulf cluster...
Actually, mono.org is already taken - it's my favourite BBS hosted in the UK. So when people say Mono, I'll think BBS, not yet another attempt to copy Microsoft software instead of creating something new.
...to kernel configuration.
"You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike"
...the vanilla MP3 format sucks ass when compared to WMA (Windows Media Audio) mainly because it is a much older design, hence way behind the state-of-the-art in audio compression. I haven't listened to MP3 Pro, but WMA gives you much better bass frequency responses, and allows a much higher sampling rate per MB of disk space than MP3, roughly 2:1. (MS actually helping keep your hard disk usage down a little? Hehe!).
There is, of course, the two small matters of turning off that Digital Rights Management option, so you can use your recordings of your CDs wherever/whenever you want, and that you have to be running Windows to play them back...
(I haven't touched on Ogg Vorbis because I have never tried it. Maybe one day)
Yeah, and then take the laptop and a webcam with you to broadcast to the world in glorious technicolour and stereo sound your application for entry into the Mile High Club :-)
Too late, it's already been done!