Modern PCs are hardly fighting to catch up to the specs of the Xbox 360. I love when someone pulls out the "3 core" processor spec without mentioning that the processor has had key optimizations removed like out-of-order execution. The dual-core PC in my bedroom outdoes the 360.
On pc's they just patch patch patch and eventually get it right - consoles are heading that way now though.
The 360 is already at that point. You actually patch your games now. Thanks, Microsoft.
Linux is a good kernel, and plays an important role for the success of free software. Aside from that, when you get for example, Ubuntu, there is a lot more GNU than Linux included in the CD.
Linux is the operating system--the program managing the resources of your computer. Everything else is specific to a distribution of Linux. That's why the GNU/Linux naming argument is bogus. Linux IS the operating system. Everything else is part of the distro.
The name change is just a formality. The word "Computer" was tacked on decades ago during the Beatles dispute, and now they can resolve it due to the settlement.
Apple wouldn't have spent the resources transitioning their operating system, software, and hardware to the Intel platform if they weren't too sure about sticking to it five years from now. The iPhone announcement was just so huge that everything else would get drowned out. The Apple TV is lucky to get the coverage it's getting; that iPhone is the awesome.
Some manager somewhere looked at the cancellation rate and decided that if they had all their customer reps try to retain those subscribers, they might lower the percentage even just a little bit, and every little bit counts. And what have they got to lose, since people are already canceling anyway.
As a sidenote on the 13-year-old thing, it amuses me that Xbox fans will accuse Nintendo of catering only to children when it is their system that is played primarily by young Halo-loving teenagers while Nintendo caters to the mainstream adult crowd through their Touch Generation products and the Wii. I just find it funny.
Sigh...of course you'll be able to turn it off. But you'll want it because this will allow you to do things like locate your stolen laptop.
Why do Slashdotters think everything is a top priority privacy concern? Guess what, the fact you have an IP means I can already geolocate you. Get the fuck over it.
Oh, here we go. You're one of these no-borders folks who thinks screening people who come into the country is somehow degrading to human beings.
Do you even know any immigrants who fill unskilled labor jobs? I do -- plenty of them.
I have two questions, then.
1.) Why didn't they immigrate legally like millions of others have? 2.) Why do they get to take jobs that would otherwise be high-paying jobs for legal residents? Do they realize if they were legal, they would get higher wages?
If someone wants to emmigrate to build a better life from his or her family, it is our responsibility to provide the opportunity.
And what about their responsibility to follow our laws?
With a completely open border, anybody could come in unchecked. Fugitives, Al Queda, drug dealers, and others would have a field day. It is not our responsibility to house the entire world; our responsibility is to provide an opportunity for our legal residents.
Why are Mexicans given a special privilege over other countries?
To put it bluntly, because liberal groups will attack you as being "racist" otherwise. This has stifled any productive legislation to solve the problems of illegal immigration because politicians are frightened to death of having goofy little protest groups calling them racist because they dared to uphold the law. This culture of fear has gripped the nation and stunted valid debate. You can't address issues like illegal immigration, lack of fathers in black communities, and other problems because they happen to involve minority groups, and that will get you called "racist."
A recent plant in the news that was raided had legal residents in the town lining up for the newly available jobs, a line stretching out into the parking lot. Companies wouldn't be able to get away with paying extremely low wages if illegal immigrants weren't there to take the jobs. People don't seem to understand that illegal immigrants are being exploited. They take these low wages because they're expected to, and they don't complain because it's all they can get.
Did you know that a small handful of people get almost every penny made on making a movie, and most of the people who work on them get the dregs left in the bottom of the barrel?
Can you cite your source for these figures? If it was such an underpaying industry, nobody would be in it. You think they get paid too low, so you're going to make sure they don't get paid at all? That doesn't make any sense.
If you want to rail against someone for unfairness in people getting paid for working on movies, maybe you could complain that the stars get millions while people who have to work harder than they do are making only a "normal" wage.
What's wrong with that? Why is it the stars' fault that other people didn't get into acting? Sounds like class envy. You're probably one of those people who hates high-paid CEOs, as if it's their fault you didn't get into business for yourself.
But more to the point, the movies are sold by studios, not by people.
But they're made by people. And studios are run by people.
The studios have already paid the wages.
Wow, you really have no clue how it works. They don't just pay a flat wage and call it a day. They provide a film budget and recoup it through theater and DVD revenues, which are paid to employees in percentages based on their contracts. It's a financial risk they take in the hopes of making returns on the investment. I don't know if you've taken any basic economics classes (based on your anti-business attitude and your goofy left-wing sig, I'm guessing not), but you should embrace capitalism since it brought you the research and manufacturing of products like the computer you used to type your post and the clothes you're wearing as you typed it.
And when the media stops pushing copyright into eternity, maybe I'll decide to respect it.
In that case, I'm going to stick GPL code into a closed commercial application and not think twice about it. After all, the GPL relies on copyright to have any contractual value. When the "stolen GPL code" articles appear on Slashdot, I wonder where you'll stand on the issue?
That's what makes this amusing. USC itself is funded by groups like Greenpeace, MoveOn.org, and so forth. There's nothing wrong with funding people you agree with. Of course an oil company is going to disagree about global warming and provide funding for groups that will speak out on their behalf. That's free speech in action.
I take issue with the Slashdot summary claiming that airing an opposing opinion is "confusing" the public on matters that have apparently been settled when they have not. It's a fact that we had the least active hurricane season in 10 years. It's a fact that we contribute less than a percentage of so-called greenhouse gases, the rest coming from water vapor exchange and volcanoes. It's a fact that as cities have unusually hot winters, other cities have unusually cold ones (my town is gearing up for yet another winter cold front). I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that for every "Wow, it's 70 degrees in New York in December" story, you can find a "It's snowing another eight inches in New Mexico this week" story. That's the weather, man. It gets hot and it gets cold.
I have to admit that most of my position on global warming is eloquently expressed in Penn & Teller's "Bullshit!" episode on environmentalism, available for viewing on YouTube and Google Video for those inclined. The summary is that the environmentalist movement today is really just an excuse for anti-capitalist and anti-business groups to get out and dress up in Death costumes and beat Dick Cheney pinatas as "activist" extra credit for their political science class back at the university.
Do those people know they're fucking over the human beings who spent a year making those movies? Or do they not give a shit about being inethical leeches and sucking the blood from the artists of society?
Right, and you also can't criticize movies until you've made your own Lord of the Rings trilogy, you bastards!
Meanwhile, Microsoft FUCKED over OEMs by forcing them to drop competing products over threats of raising Windows licensing fees or outright revocation. Microsoft succeeded in keeping competitors from ever competing on the market, holding back computing by several years.
What they got in trouble for was actually using their monopoly to get into other markets - i.e. bundling IE with the OS meant that they used their OS monopoly to get into the browser market.
That was just one of the things they were doing. The big thing was threatening OEMs with higher Windows license fees or even license revocation if they shipped competing products on their computers. Without Windows, these companies would die, so they were forced to help Microsoft keep its products front and center in spite of superior competitors. One could argue Microsoft actually held back computing by several years because better alternatives weren't allowed to compete in the marketplace, forever altering the course of computing history for the worse.
Another goofy anti-capitalist liberal with a skewed view of the world, typing their posts from a dorm room somewhere complete with a "Bushitler" poster on their wall.
For the millionth time, this is a POWER chip, not a PowerPC chip. It's a difference between server and workstation processors.
Apple DID switch because of Intel's better roadmap, as the Core 2 Duo and upcoming technologies prove. IBM's inability to get the heat down is just evidence of their inferior roadmap compared to intel, and I don't understand why you think it refutes Apple's motives when it actually proves it.
Consoles are supposed to be static platforms that last about five years. If Sony kept the PS3 updated, it would require games to have system requirements and everyone would have to keep up with hardware demands every year. Along with the downloadable game updates that are becoming common these days, it would be the final merging of the hell of PC gaming with the once-great console eden.
But it lacks optimizing features like out-of-order execution that are in desktop processors, which lets them up the clockspeed.
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Uh, if your girlfriend is connected enough to the community to know about an unofficial patch, she'd be connected enough to know what the community thinks about that patch.
I love when people claim Fox News biased and then never cite examples, particularly of this "politically motivated view on global warming" that you claim (let me guess, they're "petrol-funded?"). You have no idea how many people I've talked to who told me Fox News is evil and biased but will never give me a specific case. CNN and other stations are just as "controlled" by their owners as any other news organization, and CNN has made tons of reporting errors, to the point that their head guy Eason Jordan had to leave the company a few years ago (I'm sure you never heard about it because the media purposely buried the story). In fact, a UCLA/Stanford study found Brit Hume's show to be the most centrist, accurate show on TV.
It seems to me there are some people who are left-of-center who simply don't like the fact Fox News airs conservative viewpoints on the same level as liberal viewpoints, because they're so used to the rest of the media airing conservative viewpoints with derision as if they're a minority opinion that doesn't make up half the country. Just today, the New York Times theater journalist called Patricia Heaton an "extremist" because she's opposed to abortion, for example. Well, the majority of the country has issues with abortion, according to polls. But the traditional media tends to frame viewpoints they don't like so that they appear abnormal and outside the mainstream. Whether you like it or not, all the polls, studies, and research done has shown a left-of-center bias in the press.
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The 360 is already at that point. You actually patch your games now. Thanks, Microsoft.
Linux is the operating system--the program managing the resources of your computer. Everything else is specific to a distribution of Linux. That's why the GNU/Linux naming argument is bogus. Linux IS the operating system. Everything else is part of the distro.
The name change is just a formality. The word "Computer" was tacked on decades ago during the Beatles dispute, and now they can resolve it due to the settlement.
Apple wouldn't have spent the resources transitioning their operating system, software, and hardware to the Intel platform if they weren't too sure about sticking to it five years from now. The iPhone announcement was just so huge that everything else would get drowned out. The Apple TV is lucky to get the coverage it's getting; that iPhone is the awesome.
Some manager somewhere looked at the cancellation rate and decided that if they had all their customer reps try to retain those subscribers, they might lower the percentage even just a little bit, and every little bit counts. And what have they got to lose, since people are already canceling anyway.
That kind of thing is what happens when you give customer service reps bonus packages for retaining canceling subscribers.
As a sidenote on the 13-year-old thing, it amuses me that Xbox fans will accuse Nintendo of catering only to children when it is their system that is played primarily by young Halo-loving teenagers while Nintendo caters to the mainstream adult crowd through their Touch Generation products and the Wii. I just find it funny.
No, you cannot. Hacking the registry or using third-party utilities to remove them doesn't count.
Sigh...of course you'll be able to turn it off. But you'll want it because this will allow you to do things like locate your stolen laptop.
Why do Slashdotters think everything is a top priority privacy concern? Guess what, the fact you have an IP means I can already geolocate you. Get the fuck over it.
Unlike Microsoft, you can uninstall the web browser and media player in OS X.
Any other trolls I can quickly shoot down while I'm here? Or are you busy struggling with Vista's security flaws over at your employer, Microsoft?
The Second Life Safari rocks. That is all.
The fact you write a short post on Slashdot means you have nothing better to fill your boring life with? ...and what about you?
Because Apple doesn't have an OS monopoly.
Since when did Apple sign illegal OEM deals that forced OEMs to not ship competing products to prevent them from entering the market?
Next.
I have two questions, then.
1.) Why didn't they immigrate legally like millions of others have?
2.) Why do they get to take jobs that would otherwise be high-paying jobs for legal residents? Do they realize if they were legal, they would get higher wages?
And what about their responsibility to follow our laws?
With a completely open border, anybody could come in unchecked. Fugitives, Al Queda, drug dealers, and others would have a field day. It is not our responsibility to house the entire world; our responsibility is to provide an opportunity for our legal residents.
To put it bluntly, because liberal groups will attack you as being "racist" otherwise. This has stifled any productive legislation to solve the problems of illegal immigration because politicians are frightened to death of having goofy little protest groups calling them racist because they dared to uphold the law. This culture of fear has gripped the nation and stunted valid debate. You can't address issues like illegal immigration, lack of fathers in black communities, and other problems because they happen to involve minority groups, and that will get you called "racist."
A recent plant in the news that was raided had legal residents in the town lining up for the newly available jobs, a line stretching out into the parking lot. Companies wouldn't be able to get away with paying extremely low wages if illegal immigrants weren't there to take the jobs. People don't seem to understand that illegal immigrants are being exploited. They take these low wages because they're expected to, and they don't complain because it's all they can get.
Can you cite your source for these figures? If it was such an underpaying industry, nobody would be in it. You think they get paid too low, so you're going to make sure they don't get paid at all? That doesn't make any sense.
What's wrong with that? Why is it the stars' fault that other people didn't get into acting? Sounds like class envy. You're probably one of those people who hates high-paid CEOs, as if it's their fault you didn't get into business for yourself.
But they're made by people. And studios are run by people.
Wow, you really have no clue how it works. They don't just pay a flat wage and call it a day. They provide a film budget and recoup it through theater and DVD revenues, which are paid to employees in percentages based on their contracts. It's a financial risk they take in the hopes of making returns on the investment. I don't know if you've taken any basic economics classes (based on your anti-business attitude and your goofy left-wing sig, I'm guessing not), but you should embrace capitalism since it brought you the research and manufacturing of products like the computer you used to type your post and the clothes you're wearing as you typed it.
In that case, I'm going to stick GPL code into a closed commercial application and not think twice about it. After all, the GPL relies on copyright to have any contractual value. When the "stolen GPL code" articles appear on Slashdot, I wonder where you'll stand on the issue?
That's what makes this amusing. USC itself is funded by groups like Greenpeace, MoveOn.org, and so forth. There's nothing wrong with funding people you agree with. Of course an oil company is going to disagree about global warming and provide funding for groups that will speak out on their behalf. That's free speech in action.
I take issue with the Slashdot summary claiming that airing an opposing opinion is "confusing" the public on matters that have apparently been settled when they have not. It's a fact that we had the least active hurricane season in 10 years. It's a fact that we contribute less than a percentage of so-called greenhouse gases, the rest coming from water vapor exchange and volcanoes. It's a fact that as cities have unusually hot winters, other cities have unusually cold ones (my town is gearing up for yet another winter cold front). I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that for every "Wow, it's 70 degrees in New York in December" story, you can find a "It's snowing another eight inches in New Mexico this week" story. That's the weather, man. It gets hot and it gets cold.
I have to admit that most of my position on global warming is eloquently expressed in Penn & Teller's "Bullshit!" episode on environmentalism, available for viewing on YouTube and Google Video for those inclined. The summary is that the environmentalist movement today is really just an excuse for anti-capitalist and anti-business groups to get out and dress up in Death costumes and beat Dick Cheney pinatas as "activist" extra credit for their political science class back at the university.
Do those people know they're fucking over the human beings who spent a year making those movies? Or do they not give a shit about being inethical leeches and sucking the blood from the artists of society?
Right, and you also can't criticize movies until you've made your own Lord of the Rings trilogy, you bastards!
Meanwhile, Microsoft FUCKED over OEMs by forcing them to drop competing products over threats of raising Windows licensing fees or outright revocation. Microsoft succeeded in keeping competitors from ever competing on the market, holding back computing by several years.
That was just one of the things they were doing. The big thing was threatening OEMs with higher Windows license fees or even license revocation if they shipped competing products on their computers. Without Windows, these companies would die, so they were forced to help Microsoft keep its products front and center in spite of superior competitors. One could argue Microsoft actually held back computing by several years because better alternatives weren't allowed to compete in the marketplace, forever altering the course of computing history for the worse.
Another goofy anti-capitalist liberal with a skewed view of the world, typing their posts from a dorm room somewhere complete with a "Bushitler" poster on their wall.
For the millionth time, this is a POWER chip, not a PowerPC chip. It's a difference between server and workstation processors.
Apple DID switch because of Intel's better roadmap, as the Core 2 Duo and upcoming technologies prove. IBM's inability to get the heat down is just evidence of their inferior roadmap compared to intel, and I don't understand why you think it refutes Apple's motives when it actually proves it.
Consoles are supposed to be static platforms that last about five years. If Sony kept the PS3 updated, it would require games to have system requirements and everyone would have to keep up with hardware demands every year. Along with the downloadable game updates that are becoming common these days, it would be the final merging of the hell of PC gaming with the once-great console eden.
But it lacks optimizing features like out-of-order execution that are in desktop processors, which lets them up the clockspeed.
Uh, if your girlfriend is connected enough to the community to know about an unofficial patch, she'd be connected enough to know what the community thinks about that patch.
I love when people claim Fox News biased and then never cite examples, particularly of this "politically motivated view on global warming" that you claim (let me guess, they're "petrol-funded?"). You have no idea how many people I've talked to who told me Fox News is evil and biased but will never give me a specific case. CNN and other stations are just as "controlled" by their owners as any other news organization, and CNN has made tons of reporting errors, to the point that their head guy Eason Jordan had to leave the company a few years ago (I'm sure you never heard about it because the media purposely buried the story). In fact, a UCLA/Stanford study found Brit Hume's show to be the most centrist, accurate show on TV.
It seems to me there are some people who are left-of-center who simply don't like the fact Fox News airs conservative viewpoints on the same level as liberal viewpoints, because they're so used to the rest of the media airing conservative viewpoints with derision as if they're a minority opinion that doesn't make up half the country. Just today, the New York Times theater journalist called Patricia Heaton an "extremist" because she's opposed to abortion, for example. Well, the majority of the country has issues with abortion, according to polls. But the traditional media tends to frame viewpoints they don't like so that they appear abnormal and outside the mainstream. Whether you like it or not, all the polls, studies, and research done has shown a left-of-center bias in the press.