All right, look, ladies. There's been studies showing that nerds are better lovers, care more about you, we're rich, and now we've got better sperm and will get you better kids, plus we're really interesting to boot. Now would somebody finally go out with me already, damnit?!?
Ironically, I think the opposite of that worked into why they went with Windows 95/98/Server Year releases. Why keep around this version that's just soooo three years ago? It says so right on the box! And it's so much easier for the simple users to read than, say, a big scary version number, sometimes even with a decimal point in it!!!
Then they came up with ME, which was supposedly the magical millennium tie-in ("See? See? It's THE FUTURE! And so much more advanced than that cruddy old version from 1998! Er... the second cruddy old version from 1998"). And then they just got wacky with "XP" and "Vista". To the layperson, what's an "XP"? And what makes it less than a "Vista"?
And from that, they looped back around to what you just said. Give it another eight years, we'll be hearing about Windows 2017 (out in 2018, of course) to succeed Windows 8. And then the cycle of life begins anew... *sigh* Isn't it lovely?
In my view all Walmart would be doing is simply trading "broken items" with new working items. Just like trading a broken radio for a working radio.
Except that the RIAA would argue that this isn't normal property, it's intellectual property, and thus more magical somehow and immune from common customer service. Just shop for the right district to find a judge they can bamboozle into believing that, and they're golden.
However, one thing about the other systems is that they're also designed around being a media center (such as they are), waiting to store and play MP3s, movies, etc, etc. The Wii isn't. Without all that, 2GB isn't THAT bad. True, still somewhat small, and the rather slow access time of SD cards is more than a bit painful (or at least the rather slow access time of the Wii's SD card reader), but I consider it a somewhat decent patch solution until, say, they get an external HD option or Wii2 or whatnot.
Offtopic note: I like your sig, given I know where it comes from and the fact that it's rather a bit obscure.
Even if the specs haven't improved (beyond token WiFi upgrades to support potential WPA, the webcam, etc), there's the new toys on the device regardless. I'm certain Nintendo's included a way to access the camera from in-game, same with the SD card reader, so there may wind up being games that, even if the DSi's hardware isn't that much stronger than the DS's, won't run on the old DS solely due to it not having the neat new stuff.
Granted, I seriously doubt they'll make the transition-period games DSi-only, especially given the massive customer base of the DS, but I can see it happening later down the line.
I'll be honest, I haven't played my GBA games in a while (gasp! zomgshockhorror what sort of nerd is this?!?) and I'm not in the homebrew community (gasps have now been replaced by sounds of fainting from the peanut gallery), so I won't be missing that end of it. And I still have my trusty GBA SP if worse comes to worse, and I don't NEED to trade in my old DS ("DS", hard stop — yes, just the DS, not Lite). And (potentially) finally being able to ditch WEP on my wireless network would be a very nice addition.
And I'd be willing to bet Nintendo will have a way to access the camera from games, leading to all sorts of frivolity and goofiness along the way (members of the peanut gallery are now calling for my head). So I say, bring it on.
As much as I use and love GIMP, I will say, it's a pity shame that, disturbingly often, the ones with the rods stuck that far up their asses are the ones making the policy and purchasing decisions...
Okay, most of the time it's not "zomg that is embarrassing nooooooo!". Most of the time it's "That is not Photoshop, thus it is WRONG!!!! Why are you presenting me with this non-Photoshop program? I can't even rearrange the letters to make the word 'Photoshop' out of it!". But still.
Take electricity... no one seems to be bothered by the fact that if everyone consumed even 50% of their capacity at the same time the system would die a flaming death. And very few people even think about consuming 100% of the electricity available to their home.
However, there's also the fact that, in almost all cases, electricity is a metered resource, but in the US, broadband generally isn't. As in, if you're using that 50%, you're paying more than if you were using 25%. If it were unmetered and people could (theoretically) run at 100% capacity 24/7 without any increase in cost, I can assure you we'd have the same people complaining about similar changes here, regardless of the damage it would do to the infrastructure. "Oh, I can't run my array of arc welders constantly anymore with these oppressive 4GW/month electricity caps!" "NOW how is my Tesla coil going to work all day and all night? I need that protection!"
Granted, there is far less "damage" to be done with broadband (and I have a hard time believing that if the telcos/cablecos were actually upgrading their lines with all the money they rake in they can't support it), but if the electricity power-users got used to a (to them) unlimited resource and it suddenly changed to a metered one, the same problems would arise.
Careful! You might get yelled at or shot for calling it a "state"!:-)
In the year I've lived here, it's as if I've heard the term "Commonwealth" (generally preceded by "our great") more often than I've heard the term "State" in the rest of my life. Someone please rescue me.
Guys, guys (and gals), I got it. It was all a meta-advertisement campaign. The advertising firm has to be a Linux/BSD/OS X/other non-Microsoft shop and they got asked to make ads for Vista. The pay was right, but they couldn't bring themselves to write good ads for Microsoft.
So they took advantage of the fact that Bill Gates and the rest of Microsoft's upper management are so out of touch with the common man. They made these incomprehensible ads and assured them that they wouldn't look like complete tools when Gates and Seinfeld were reading these lines. Oh, and Seinfeld. He's still popular, right? At least, as far as Microsoft knew.
Thus, they wound up with these ads only barely advertising Vista in any way, shape, or form. But that's where the advertising firm controls the game. It wasn't about Vista; we're all in here talking about the ads, not about Vista! The firm was advertising themselves! Look how much attention they've got now for making these complete nonsense commercials! They completely faced the world's largest software company, AND they got one of the world's richest men AND Jerry Seinfeld in on the act! Hell, with credentials like that, I might hire them if I had something worth advertising!
Only, it backfired when they forgot that Microsoft probably isn't going to tell everyone who the firm was. Ah, well. Can't blame a guy for trying.
Frankly, that's a considerable amount of work he's planning on hiring up for. This intrigues me greatly, to be honest. And, with any luck, this all comes back to the community so that not-Ubuntu users can get in on it, too.
Though I give it five minutes before we hear complaints that they're not helping out some obscure toolkit or DE.:-)
Obviously, this post was approved by both the Brotherhood of NOD and various *nix users (* can't be used in a tag, you see). All we need now is an article with gdi and bsd tags, and we'll have teams for a round of Command and Compile.
"Slashing" is one of a wide variety of penalties in the sport of ice hockey. And...
um...
It's... in the name, "Slashdot"? That's... that's all I got. I mean, I can describe slashing (by law, all Detroit-area natives are required to study hockey), I can tell you it's more often than not a two-minute minor unless blood is drawn, but as to how anyone could possibly associate that with Slashdot is beyond me. We can at least be glad he didn't send any money to the site, else we would have a big problem right now.
yea i know it is almost a taboo thing.. everyone thinks about doing it.. but no one does.. but in reality.. if they can monitor these bot nets and the command and control servers.. why not hijack the command and control servers to distribute the patchs to the bots it controls.. use their own power to take them out.
A fair idea, but it's not that simple... modern botnets use encryption... the controller and bots share an encryption key... without proper encryption, the bot will ignore all orders because they know they didn't come from the original controller...
So all the controller would need to do... is patch the problem that got them in the system in the first place... that'll stop others from exploiting it to put new instructions in... then, by encrypting all their commands... they ensure... insofar as they can do so without new vulnerabilities... that they will be the only ones ordering their own bots around...
I think something similar to this has been tried before, but it didn't work out right. Maybe not on the botnet level, but effectively an anti-virus virus (or anti-worm worm, or any combination of the two) that caused more problems than it solved, partly due to hefty bandwidth use, but also due to flaws in the anti-virus virus program that didn't clean itself up properly, so it just kept looking around for the virus. It'd be a bit too big a risk.
Considering that the 1st models are about to go to the market (HTC Dream?) out of time is a pretty good explanation.
Agreed. I'd rather they just come clean and say they ran out of time and not implement it rather than hack up a rush job just to fill a bullet point and have the users cry that it isn't working right. You don't get that with most companies these days.
Er... the not-implement-it part, I mean. That WAS a brutally-constructed phrase, now that I think about it. Maybe I shouldn't have rushed it out just to fill in my point.:-)
Of course it's no picnic to become a major Linux coder. It takes two luncheons, a dinner date, three nonconsecutive brunches, and an order of take-out to do that!
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All right, look, ladies. There's been studies showing that nerds are better lovers, care more about you, we're rich, and now we've got better sperm and will get you better kids, plus we're really interesting to boot. Now would somebody finally go out with me already, damnit?!?
Ironically, I think the opposite of that worked into why they went with Windows 95/98/Server Year releases. Why keep around this version that's just soooo three years ago? It says so right on the box! And it's so much easier for the simple users to read than, say, a big scary version number, sometimes even with a decimal point in it!!!
Then they came up with ME, which was supposedly the magical millennium tie-in ("See? See? It's THE FUTURE! And so much more advanced than that cruddy old version from 1998! Er... the second cruddy old version from 1998"). And then they just got wacky with "XP" and "Vista". To the layperson, what's an "XP"? And what makes it less than a "Vista"?
And from that, they looped back around to what you just said. Give it another eight years, we'll be hearing about Windows 2017 (out in 2018, of course) to succeed Windows 8. And then the cycle of life begins anew... *sigh* Isn't it lovely?
[...] or Windows X-III (just to cause some brand confusion with OS X)?
Not to mention the Final Fantasy series...
Ballmer: "Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale Silverlight?"
Perhaps the title of the summary could be rephrased such that it doesn't sound like there's a rumor that MacBook cases leak something?
Though that WOULD be more interesting than the story we actually GOT...
In my view all Walmart would be doing is simply trading "broken items" with new working items. Just like trading a broken radio for a working radio.
Except that the RIAA would argue that this isn't normal property, it's intellectual property, and thus more magical somehow and immune from common customer service. Just shop for the right district to find a judge they can bamboozle into believing that, and they're golden.
Is it just me, or does the title of the summary make it sound like Steve Jobs just patented some manner of torture/execution method?
"So, you won't talk, eh, Johnson? *sigh* Such a shame. And I thought we were on such good terms. Larry! Bring out... 'The Dock'!"
(insert pre-emptive joke about how using the OS X dock is already torture)
However, one thing about the other systems is that they're also designed around being a media center (such as they are), waiting to store and play MP3s, movies, etc, etc. The Wii isn't. Without all that, 2GB isn't THAT bad. True, still somewhat small, and the rather slow access time of SD cards is more than a bit painful (or at least the rather slow access time of the Wii's SD card reader), but I consider it a somewhat decent patch solution until, say, they get an external HD option or Wii2 or whatnot.
Offtopic note: I like your sig, given I know where it comes from and the fact that it's rather a bit obscure.
Even if the specs haven't improved (beyond token WiFi upgrades to support potential WPA, the webcam, etc), there's the new toys on the device regardless. I'm certain Nintendo's included a way to access the camera from in-game, same with the SD card reader, so there may wind up being games that, even if the DSi's hardware isn't that much stronger than the DS's, won't run on the old DS solely due to it not having the neat new stuff.
Granted, I seriously doubt they'll make the transition-period games DSi-only, especially given the massive customer base of the DS, but I can see it happening later down the line.
I'll be honest, I haven't played my GBA games in a while (gasp! zomgshockhorror what sort of nerd is this?!?) and I'm not in the homebrew community (gasps have now been replaced by sounds of fainting from the peanut gallery), so I won't be missing that end of it. And I still have my trusty GBA SP if worse comes to worse, and I don't NEED to trade in my old DS ("DS", hard stop — yes, just the DS, not Lite). And (potentially) finally being able to ditch WEP on my wireless network would be a very nice addition.
And I'd be willing to bet Nintendo will have a way to access the camera from games, leading to all sorts of frivolity and goofiness along the way (members of the peanut gallery are now calling for my head). So I say, bring it on.
4GWh/Month, you mean?
Yeah, I keep getting that unit confused. Curses.
As much as I use and love GIMP, I will say, it's a pity shame that, disturbingly often, the ones with the rods stuck that far up their asses are the ones making the policy and purchasing decisions...
Okay, most of the time it's not "zomg that is embarrassing nooooooo!". Most of the time it's "That is not Photoshop, thus it is WRONG!!!! Why are you presenting me with this non-Photoshop program? I can't even rearrange the letters to make the word 'Photoshop' out of it!". But still.
Take electricity... no one seems to be bothered by the fact that if everyone consumed even 50% of their capacity at the same time the system would die a flaming death. And very few people even think about consuming 100% of the electricity available to their home.
However, there's also the fact that, in almost all cases, electricity is a metered resource, but in the US, broadband generally isn't. As in, if you're using that 50%, you're paying more than if you were using 25%. If it were unmetered and people could (theoretically) run at 100% capacity 24/7 without any increase in cost, I can assure you we'd have the same people complaining about similar changes here, regardless of the damage it would do to the infrastructure. "Oh, I can't run my array of arc welders constantly anymore with these oppressive 4GW/month electricity caps!" "NOW how is my Tesla coil going to work all day and all night? I need that protection!"
Granted, there is far less "damage" to be done with broadband (and I have a hard time believing that if the telcos/cablecos were actually upgrading their lines with all the money they rake in they can't support it), but if the electricity power-users got used to a (to them) unlimited resource and it suddenly changed to a metered one, the same problems would arise.
Careful! You might get yelled at or shot for calling it a "state"! :-)
In the year I've lived here, it's as if I've heard the term "Commonwealth" (generally preceded by "our great") more often than I've heard the term "State" in the rest of my life. Someone please rescue me.
Ironic, too, as I've read about the Ancient Times(tm) when IBM was as reviled, if not more so, as Microsoft is today...
Aye, matey, but real pirates can't read! What're they doin' writing propaganda?
Guys, guys (and gals), I got it. It was all a meta-advertisement campaign. The advertising firm has to be a Linux/BSD/OS X/other non-Microsoft shop and they got asked to make ads for Vista. The pay was right, but they couldn't bring themselves to write good ads for Microsoft.
So they took advantage of the fact that Bill Gates and the rest of Microsoft's upper management are so out of touch with the common man. They made these incomprehensible ads and assured them that they wouldn't look like complete tools when Gates and Seinfeld were reading these lines. Oh, and Seinfeld. He's still popular, right? At least, as far as Microsoft knew.
Thus, they wound up with these ads only barely advertising Vista in any way, shape, or form. But that's where the advertising firm controls the game. It wasn't about Vista; we're all in here talking about the ads, not about Vista! The firm was advertising themselves ! Look how much attention they've got now for making these complete nonsense commercials! They completely faced the world's largest software company, AND they got one of the world's richest men AND Jerry Seinfeld in on the act! Hell, with credentials like that, I might hire them if I had something worth advertising!
Only, it backfired when they forgot that Microsoft probably isn't going to tell everyone who the firm was. Ah, well. Can't blame a guy for trying.
</sarcasm>
Everyone else has probably done the usual "how fast can a Cray show a BSoD?" gags, so all I was left with was:
X, OpenGL, Gtk, Qt, GNOME and KDE
Frankly, that's a considerable amount of work he's planning on hiring up for. This intrigues me greatly, to be honest. And, with any luck, this all comes back to the community so that not-Ubuntu users can get in on it, too.
Though I give it five minutes before we hear complaints that they're not helping out some obscure toolkit or DE. :-)
Obviously, this post was approved by both the Brotherhood of NOD and various *nix users (* can't be used in a tag, you see). All we need now is an article with gdi and bsd tags, and we'll have teams for a round of Command and Compile.
"Slashing" is one of a wide variety of penalties in the sport of ice hockey. And...
um...
It's... in the name, "Slashdot"? That's... that's all I got. I mean, I can describe slashing (by law, all Detroit-area natives are required to study hockey), I can tell you it's more often than not a two-minute minor unless blood is drawn, but as to how anyone could possibly associate that with Slashdot is beyond me. We can at least be glad he didn't send any money to the site, else we would have a big problem right now.
I was just following the lead... given by the parent... Spock...
yea i know it is almost a taboo thing.. everyone thinks about doing it .. but no one does.. but in reality.. if they can monitor these bot nets and the command and control servers.. why not hijack the command and control servers to distribute the patchs to the bots it controls.. use their own power to take them out.
A fair idea, but it's not that simple... modern botnets use encryption... the controller and bots share an encryption key... without proper encryption, the bot will ignore all orders because they know they didn't come from the original controller...
So all the controller would need to do... is patch the problem that got them in the system in the first place... that'll stop others from exploiting it to put new instructions in... then, by encrypting all their commands... they ensure... insofar as they can do so without new vulnerabilities... that they will be the only ones ordering their own bots around...
I think something similar to this has been tried before, but it didn't work out right. Maybe not on the botnet level, but effectively an anti-virus virus (or anti-worm worm, or any combination of the two) that caused more problems than it solved, partly due to hefty bandwidth use, but also due to flaws in the anti-virus virus program that didn't clean itself up properly, so it just kept looking around for the virus. It'd be a bit too big a risk.
Considering that the 1st models are about to go to the market (HTC Dream?) out of time is a pretty good explanation.
Agreed. I'd rather they just come clean and say they ran out of time and not implement it rather than hack up a rush job just to fill a bullet point and have the users cry that it isn't working right. You don't get that with most companies these days.
Er... the not-implement-it part, I mean. That WAS a brutally-constructed phrase, now that I think about it. Maybe I shouldn't have rushed it out just to fill in my point. :-)
Of course it's no picnic to become a major Linux coder. It takes two luncheons, a dinner date, three nonconsecutive brunches, and an order of take-out to do that!