What's meant by "Team Gaming"? I'd focus on turn based strategy games, and maybe puzzle games, even if you can just find single player ones (get a couple people to play them at once). Think about also buying board games, war games, etc., just sitting around playing Quake and other FPS (team based or otherwise) doesn't seem like it would build camaraderie to me.
As an aside do places like your work really still exist? I thought that sort of thing had gone out of style with the dot-coms.
It seems to be, usually with a follow up post that a different site has it even cheaper then Amazon. I'm curious as to how frequently the ACs involved have some sort of referal system going on, and how that effects the posts rating. Do people usually rate such comments more poorly, or does no one notice/care? If they/you do rate it lower, why? Do you rate other people lower when they are advocating something they have a financial interest in, and if so why are celebrities exempt, such as John Carmack?
People make the "filler" argument, but it simply isn't true. I buy a lot of music, typically from independant labels, or from "indie" bands that are on majors, such as Wilco, or Built To Spill. The filler argument doesn't work for me, just listening to singles sucks. There may be only a couple songs on an album that are upbeat, and poppy enough for radio, but that hardly means the rest are filler (unless you only like upbeat pop). On a decent album, you usually only find a couple bad songs, not the other way around. Have you thought about changing what you listen to? Maybe your just not listening to good bands.
Please don't bring out the "CD's cost 15-20$" argument either. Most albums can be found for 8-14$, depending on who you go to. I like going to interpunk.com, or straight to the labels themselves, most of them have their own web sites. The 15-20$ albums usually are double lengths.
Those two arguments have been pissing me off lately, because I personally find them to be incorrect.
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And that was a similar situation, interesting comparison. Bonnie & Clyde, Dillinger, etc. were all worshiped as heros, because the banks of the period appeared to have screwed over the common man, both through the events of the dust bowl (evicting people from their homes), and at the start of the depression, with the stock market collapse. Gangsters were viewed as fighting back for the common man.
Maybe people doing the same thing for groups such as Napster implies that a similar sentiment exists towards the RIAA/MPAA etc. Obviously the "crime" of those media industries is far less (abuse of artists, homogenization of radio, high costs), but a similar, though smaller, backlash is present.
The submitter uses a hotmail address, and yet feels as though they can discount someones opinion by pointing out that they use AOL for email? Thats pretty lame, why not voice your disagreement by countering the authors points with your own.
Elitism sucks, especially when its directed from sources who don't have much room to talk.
Because he linked Newsforge. Slashdot seems to have a policy of acknowledging any relationship that they may have with quoted, or linked sources. This is a good thing, and most major newspapers also do this. In this case, there isn't any conflict of interest, but there have been a number of/. articles where there were (such as the recent criticism of Sourceforge). All the other/. editors do this too.
There are quite a few reasons to dislike Michael, but this isn't one of them.
No, it isn't. Lots of companies make ARM based stuff. Acorn, the original owner of RISC/OS, designed and produced the original chips. Saying that they are stealing someone elses ARM based designs is rather funny, although Castle could very well be working off of the XScale and StrongARM reference designs, like most companies do.
Sun released 68000-68030 based machines, usually VME based. I know Sun didn't release a 68040 machine, but they built their name on the Sun 1/2/3 architechtures, and SunOS. None of that was SPARC based, it was Motorola 68k based. It is only with the Sun 4 SPARC designs that Sun moved away from that.
Motorola's G5 is overdue. It is looking more and more like the 68060, a chip that came years too late, provided adequate performance when it reached market, but failed to penetrate many of the classic 680x0 platforms (Sun 3, HP 9000/300, Macintosh 68k, SGI), mostly limiting itself to embedded VME.
If any time was appropriate for Apple to move away from the PowerPC platform, now would be it. Either they will move over in the next two years to x86-64, or IBM will assume Motorolas position as the lead PowerPC designer for Apple (I realize that they have done lots of stuff, like coming up with the Power platform, in the past, but Apple seems to lean towards Motorola for actual chips).
I have to agree with you. He broke the law, and was caught, multiple times. It makes sense that he was locked up for a reasonably long period of time, as he had been arrested a couple of times before, for similar crimes.
On the other hand, he was not prosecuted in a fair manner. Regardless of his past history, he deserved better treatment then what he recieved. Prosecution of computer crime is likely to increase over time, and it is important to place emphasis on these criminal cases, so as to avoid unfair prosecution in the future.
I disagree with you about the pathetic thing. Sure, his crimes were not that technically advanced. Yes, he did break the law multiple times. No, there is nothing wrong with taking advantage of the celebrity that has built up around him.
What he needs to do now is to avoid repeating his past behavior. If he does, that journalist he dislikes so much will be proven to have been a decent judge of character, and he will have discredited those who supported him.
I'm of two minds about printed documentation. On more consumer oriented platforms, such as the Mac OS, and Windows, I've never had need to touch the printed stuff, and the built in help is rarely of use. With *NIX machines, I've always wanted to get full printed documentation, but once I get ahold of if for the stuff I'm using, I never pull it out. Man pages and online documentation are just to convenient.
I feel as though having printed documentation ought to help, but it doesnt. Do people who learned computing through batch systems find things to be different? I know that old DEC junkies typically have a few bookcases of documentation, is that because they learned the systems that way (and find it useful), or just because they are pack rats?
I realize that this will get lots of "Use Moz!" type comments, but I'm at work right now, so it isn't a possibility. Spo0fed.com unleashed a slew of pop-ups on me, and a number of them attempted to install some sort of software. Slashdot seems to be fairly united in its hatred of pop ups, so why support them by linking to sites that use them in such an aggressive manner? I feel that its just as annoying as registration required sites, and should be avoided in the same way.
I suppose I may just be on a system thats already been hit with spyware, and if thats the case, please mod this down into oblivion.
The article was next to useless. They do know who wrote the first paper about "how electricity could be applied to a wire to create a communication device", they even name the person (CM Renfrew). From that, they go on to say that because they know nothing other then how the person signed their name, they do not know who wrote the paper, and then they follow up by saying that said paper lead to the invention of the internet, and the mobile phone.
Can anyone provide more information on whether or not The Scots Magazine was widely distributed? Did the people who later moved CM Renfews ideas beyond the theoretical ever reference his work?
They are working on a lossless codec. This means that your sound quality would be exactly the same as the source, whether it be CD, DVD, or something else. MP3, Ogg, and all the other commonly used codecs are lossy, which means that they are of lower quality then the source file.
Whether or not the world needs another lossless codec is another matter entirely, but this project has a different goal then producing yet another MP3 competitor.
(Yes, that may have been a troll, but someone reading this probably managed to get confused in one way or another)
There are a number of issues with this article. First of all, the only thing they are going on seems to be that they are 3% short of the estimated amount of plutonium.
I recall that there have been issues in the past with Japan's nuclear plants, so why is this any surprise?
So, why did MS get that best of show award? Sure, they have Services For Unix, but if it doesn't run on Linux, why should they get any sort of press at LinuxWorld? Am I missing something?
As most people will not read the article, and just go to the comments, I feel that I should point this out. This is an interview with the person behind BitKeeper. His opinions are (obviously), biased, and should be taken with a grain of salt.
Possibly because of that, he comes across as a reasonable individual, although there was one issue which stuck out in my mind. If he advocated that Sun open source SunOS, stating that it was a feasible option, why hasn't he done the same for BitKeeper?
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What's meant by "Team Gaming"? I'd focus on turn based strategy games, and maybe puzzle games, even if you can just find single player ones (get a couple people to play them at once). Think about also buying board games, war games, etc., just sitting around playing Quake and other FPS (team based or otherwise) doesn't seem like it would build camaraderie to me.
As an aside do places like your work really still exist? I thought that sort of thing had gone out of style with the dot-coms.
It seems to be, usually with a follow up post that a different site has it even cheaper then Amazon. I'm curious as to how frequently the ACs involved have some sort of referal system going on, and how that effects the posts rating. Do people usually rate such comments more poorly, or does no one notice/care? If they/you do rate it lower, why? Do you rate other people lower when they are advocating something they have a financial interest in, and if so why are celebrities exempt, such as John Carmack?
People make the "filler" argument, but it simply isn't true. I buy a lot of music, typically from independant labels, or from "indie" bands that are on majors, such as Wilco, or Built To Spill. The filler argument doesn't work for me, just listening to singles sucks. There may be only a couple songs on an album that are upbeat, and poppy enough for radio, but that hardly means the rest are filler (unless you only like upbeat pop). On a decent album, you usually only find a couple bad songs, not the other way around. Have you thought about changing what you listen to? Maybe your just not listening to good bands.
Please don't bring out the "CD's cost 15-20$" argument either. Most albums can be found for 8-14$, depending on who you go to. I like going to interpunk.com, or straight to the labels themselves, most of them have their own web sites. The 15-20$ albums usually are double lengths.
Those two arguments have been pissing me off lately, because I personally find them to be incorrect.
And that was a similar situation, interesting comparison. Bonnie & Clyde, Dillinger, etc. were all worshiped as heros, because the banks of the period appeared to have screwed over the common man, both through the events of the dust bowl (evicting people from their homes), and at the start of the depression, with the stock market collapse. Gangsters were viewed as fighting back for the common man.
Maybe people doing the same thing for groups such as Napster implies that a similar sentiment exists towards the RIAA/MPAA etc. Obviously the "crime" of those media industries is far less (abuse of artists, homogenization of radio, high costs), but a similar, though smaller, backlash is present.
They have been. Supposedly the 1979 AMC Spirit was made into a Stirling engine based vehicle at one point, although I've never seen one.
The submitter uses a hotmail address, and yet feels as though they can discount someones opinion by pointing out that they use AOL for email? Thats pretty lame, why not voice your disagreement by countering the authors points with your own.
Elitism sucks, especially when its directed from sources who don't have much room to talk.
Because he linked Newsforge. Slashdot seems to have a policy of acknowledging any relationship that they may have with quoted, or linked sources. This is a good thing, and most major newspapers also do this. In this case, there isn't any conflict of interest, but there have been a number of /. articles where there were (such as the recent criticism of Sourceforge). All the other /. editors do this too.
There are quite a few reasons to dislike Michael, but this isn't one of them.
No, it isn't. Lots of companies make ARM based stuff. Acorn, the original owner of RISC/OS, designed and produced the original chips. Saying that they are stealing someone elses ARM based designs is rather funny, although Castle could very well be working off of the XScale and StrongARM reference designs, like most companies do.
Sun released 68000-68030 based machines, usually VME based. I know Sun didn't release a 68040 machine, but they built their name on the Sun 1/2/3 architechtures, and SunOS. None of that was SPARC based, it was Motorola 68k based. It is only with the Sun 4 SPARC designs that Sun moved away from that.
Motorola's G5 is overdue. It is looking more and more like the 68060, a chip that came years too late, provided adequate performance when it reached market, but failed to penetrate many of the classic 680x0 platforms (Sun 3, HP 9000/300, Macintosh 68k, SGI), mostly limiting itself to embedded VME.
If any time was appropriate for Apple to move away from the PowerPC platform, now would be it. Either they will move over in the next two years to x86-64, or IBM will assume Motorolas position as the lead PowerPC designer for Apple (I realize that they have done lots of stuff, like coming up with the Power platform, in the past, but Apple seems to lean towards Motorola for actual chips).
I have to agree with you. He broke the law, and was caught, multiple times. It makes sense that he was locked up for a reasonably long period of time, as he had been arrested a couple of times before, for similar crimes.
On the other hand, he was not prosecuted in a fair manner. Regardless of his past history, he deserved better treatment then what he recieved. Prosecution of computer crime is likely to increase over time, and it is important to place emphasis on these criminal cases, so as to avoid unfair prosecution in the future.
I disagree with you about the pathetic thing. Sure, his crimes were not that technically advanced. Yes, he did break the law multiple times. No, there is nothing wrong with taking advantage of the celebrity that has built up around him.
What he needs to do now is to avoid repeating his past behavior. If he does, that journalist he dislikes so much will be proven to have been a decent judge of character, and he will have discredited those who supported him.
I'm of two minds about printed documentation. On more consumer oriented platforms, such as the Mac OS, and Windows, I've never had need to touch the printed stuff, and the built in help is rarely of use. With *NIX machines, I've always wanted to get full printed documentation, but once I get ahold of if for the stuff I'm using, I never pull it out. Man pages and online documentation are just to convenient.
I feel as though having printed documentation ought to help, but it doesnt. Do people who learned computing through batch systems find things to be different? I know that old DEC junkies typically have a few bookcases of documentation, is that because they learned the systems that way (and find it useful), or just because they are pack rats?
I realize that this will get lots of "Use Moz!" type comments, but I'm at work right now, so it isn't a possibility. Spo0fed.com unleashed a slew of pop-ups on me, and a number of them attempted to install some sort of software. Slashdot seems to be fairly united in its hatred of pop ups, so why support them by linking to sites that use them in such an aggressive manner? I feel that its just as annoying as registration required sites, and should be avoided in the same way.
I suppose I may just be on a system thats already been hit with spyware, and if thats the case, please mod this down into oblivion.
The article was next to useless. They do know who wrote the first paper about "how electricity could be applied to a wire to create a communication device", they even name the person (CM Renfrew). From that, they go on to say that because they know nothing other then how the person signed their name, they do not know who wrote the paper, and then they follow up by saying that said paper lead to the invention of the internet, and the mobile phone.
Can anyone provide more information on whether or not The Scots Magazine was widely distributed? Did the people who later moved CM Renfews ideas beyond the theoretical ever reference his work?
They are working on a lossless codec. This means that your sound quality would be exactly the same as the source, whether it be CD, DVD, or something else. MP3, Ogg, and all the other commonly used codecs are lossy, which means that they are of lower quality then the source file.
Whether or not the world needs another lossless codec is another matter entirely, but this project has a different goal then producing yet another MP3 competitor.
(Yes, that may have been a troll, but someone reading this probably managed to get confused in one way or another)
There are a number of issues with this article. First of all, the only thing they are going on seems to be that they are 3% short of the estimated amount of plutonium.
I recall that there have been issues in the past with Japan's nuclear plants, so why is this any surprise?
So, why did MS get that best of show award? Sure, they have Services For Unix, but if it doesn't run on Linux, why should they get any sort of press at LinuxWorld? Am I missing something?
As most people will not read the article, and just go to the comments, I feel that I should point this out. This is an interview with the person behind BitKeeper. His opinions are (obviously), biased, and should be taken with a grain of salt.
Possibly because of that, he comes across as a reasonable individual, although there was one issue which stuck out in my mind. If he advocated that Sun open source SunOS, stating that it was a feasible option, why hasn't he done the same for BitKeeper?