Re:Looks like Slashdotters Loves Microsoft
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Halo 2 Reviews
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Every purchase of Halo and XBox does lead to a world without video game evolution. You want evidence of this? Think IE.
Good one. Want proof the Pontiac Aztec will be a success? Look at the Corvette. I can't even call that a logical error or say "correlation != causation." I don't know how IE proves that sales of X-Boxes lead to a "world without video game evolution." And you don't bother to extrapolate.
Do your own research instead of asking me to spoon-feed you such common information.
Do me a favor and read what I wrote before replying. What I said (effectively) was "you offer no evidence [that MS will kill game evolution] except to say they take a loss on each console." That's SOP in the videogame world. Sony and Nintendo may not be losing money on consoles now, but they did at the start of the run and it's only as the runs become more efficient that they start to break even. I remember reading an article in Wired before the X-Box ever came out where MS said they had outsourced the production to Teleflex in hopes of someday hitting a $99 price point. Hope they get there so more people can enjoy the death of fun.
it is absurd for you to be cheering for Microsoft
I'm not. Trust me. MS makes my life difficult every day thanks to IE. What I'm cheering is the current competitive environment that's provided me with multiple, quality choices.
Re:Looks like Slashdotters Loves Microsoft
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Halo 2 Reviews
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you can be assured that they will use any means possible to destroy competition
And? Hate to break this to you Junior, but every corporation will do that. If I were a stockholder, I would accept nothing less. Now I'll give you that MS engaged in any number of illegal or questionable business practices that I would not approve of as a shareholder. But know what: none of that will stop me from enjoying the hell out of Halo 2.
What a complete and total yawn. Please keep this thread alive with all the reasons Halo 2 isn't news while the rest of us are having fun. If Sony and Microsoft trying to "destroy" each other means I have to make the hard choice of playing GTA: San Andreas vs. Halo 2 every day this month, thank you corporate behemoths.
You make it sound as though every purchase of Halo will inevtiably lead to a world without videogame evolution. Yet you offer no evidence except that MS takes a loss on each console, just like Sony and Nintendo. Show me someone who won two console wars in a row and I'll start to get concerned.
Friends and I have had the same problem with Comcast, but it really seems to be the router. I have seen certain NICs (as the parent suggests) require firmware upgrades, but I think BT just overwhelms the typical home router. I wish I could say I'm suprised manufacturers don't test the worst cases possible; back when Linksys, D-Link, et al were writing their router software (or stealing it from Linux), they probably scoffed at the idea anyone would be moving stuff at 400/kbps through a home connection.
you will remember that things are not as hard to learn as you think they are.
No, it's not hard to learn as long as you stay in the habit, but life doesn't always leve you time. Stop learning new things (new, difficult, deep subjects) and you will find that skill atrophys like anything else.
I didn't really miss the point, this is probably just a really poor example to ask the question about. I'm not advocating the theft (especially since I already pre-ordered); I'm just wondering who the hell would bother to help Bungie. What's the motivation (not that I doubt people will do it)? If this theft has a noticable effect on Bungie's profits, it's worth it for them to invest in hiring someone to catch the culprit. If they don't think it's worth investigating, why should we do it for them?
. . . asking community members to assist in the capture of the folks who leaked the game
Now I loved Halo and can't wait for the sequel, but have we really reached the point where we'll turn in our neighbors not just to the gubmint but to the corporations we love as well? Can I get some Monopoly game pieces from McDonalds for killing the guy who made Super Size Me?
I was wondering about that line. Are you telling me the cops have been busting me for littering? Winter's coming on, so I'm going to be wearing socks anyway. Clean up will be easy.
Well, I wanna know if it indexes mapped drives. Because if it does, it's indexing a bunch of development servers for me as we speak. Not sure if that's a good or bad thing.
I dunno. Excel was the one sticking point for my gf when I tried to go cold turkey on Office. Everything else she was ok with (well, that means Word since who the fuck uses PowerPoint at home unless you have no life and spend your time making presentations for your kids' birthday parties), but she wouldn't go for Calc. Honestly, I think it was more of an issue with visual formatting than any underlying functionality, but when you're competing with an 800lb gorilla, you need to be able to [do whatever gorillas at that size do] at least as well.
Except the point of posting the document wasn't to inform you of their awful design tastes. It was to deliver information. So why not just mark that info up in semantic elements and put any presentational information in stylesheets where the relevant user agent (visual, aural, print, whatever) can apply it if the user wants that to happen? What value does a font tag have to the 99.9999999999999999% of people who came to the page to read the text?
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Gmail Adds Features
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Well, it's not a good idea to browser-sniff off the user agent string. It's easier to see if a browser supports "document.all"-- you know that's IE and nothing else. Except that Moz might start supporting it just to get around all the stupid JS written using document.all instead of document.getElementById because the authors think MS' JavaScript is the spec.
the debugging process is the main scary part
You mean when you forget to iterate in a loop and wake up outside a cocoon asking Geena Davis to shoot you?
You and your pal beat it on Legendary in a week? That's impressive. You should give it a try solo on Legendary; that'll get you at least another week or two out of it.
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Every purchase of Halo and XBox does lead to a world without video game evolution. You want evidence of this? Think IE.
Good one. Want proof the Pontiac Aztec will be a success? Look at the Corvette. I can't even call that a logical error or say "correlation != causation." I don't know how IE proves that sales of X-Boxes lead to a "world without video game evolution." And you don't bother to extrapolate.
Do your own research instead of asking me to spoon-feed you such common information.
Do me a favor and read what I wrote before replying. What I said (effectively) was "you offer no evidence [that MS will kill game evolution] except to say they take a loss on each console." That's SOP in the videogame world. Sony and Nintendo may not be losing money on consoles now, but they did at the start of the run and it's only as the runs become more efficient that they start to break even. I remember reading an article in Wired before the X-Box ever came out where MS said they had outsourced the production to Teleflex in hopes of someday hitting a $99 price point. Hope they get there so more people can enjoy the death of fun.
it is absurd for you to be cheering for Microsoft
I'm not. Trust me. MS makes my life difficult every day thanks to IE. What I'm cheering is the current competitive environment that's provided me with multiple, quality choices.
And? Hate to break this to you Junior, but every corporation will do that. If I were a stockholder, I would accept nothing less. Now I'll give you that MS engaged in any number of illegal or questionable business practices that I would not approve of as a shareholder. But know what: none of that will stop me from enjoying the hell out of Halo 2.
What a complete and total yawn. Please keep this thread alive with all the reasons Halo 2 isn't news while the rest of us are having fun. If Sony and Microsoft trying to "destroy" each other means I have to make the hard choice of playing GTA: San Andreas vs. Halo 2 every day this month, thank you corporate behemoths.
You make it sound as though every purchase of Halo will inevtiably lead to a world without videogame evolution. Yet you offer no evidence except that MS takes a loss on each console, just like Sony and Nintendo. Show me someone who won two console wars in a row and I'll start to get concerned.
Jotspot then adds that stuff back in as add-on components.
Some cell phone provider: I need a home phone number to find out if I qualify? How 'bout a zip code for those of us without landlines?
Obviously you work at the same place I do.
Friends and I have had the same problem with Comcast, but it really seems to be the router. I have seen certain NICs (as the parent suggests) require firmware upgrades, but I think BT just overwhelms the typical home router. I wish I could say I'm suprised manufacturers don't test the worst cases possible; back when Linksys, D-Link, et al were writing their router software (or stealing it from Linux), they probably scoffed at the idea anyone would be moving stuff at 400/kbps through a home connection.
No, it's not hard to learn as long as you stay in the habit, but life doesn't always leve you time. Stop learning new things (new, difficult, deep subjects) and you will find that skill atrophys like anything else.
Word. I'm imagining a server running XP Home on a network of ME machines. The Google desktop search would be the least of their problems.
I didn't really miss the point, this is probably just a really poor example to ask the question about. I'm not advocating the theft (especially since I already pre-ordered); I'm just wondering who the hell would bother to help Bungie. What's the motivation (not that I doubt people will do it)? If this theft has a noticable effect on Bungie's profits, it's worth it for them to invest in hiring someone to catch the culprit. If they don't think it's worth investigating, why should we do it for them?
Now I loved Halo and can't wait for the sequel, but have we really reached the point where we'll turn in our neighbors not just to the gubmint but to the corporations we love as well? Can I get some Monopoly game pieces from McDonalds for killing the guy who made Super Size Me?
I was wondering about that line. Are you telling me the cops have been busting me for littering? Winter's coming on, so I'm going to be wearing socks anyway. Clean up will be easy.
Well, you'd have to want to do that first. If you're looking for a customer base of hippies who are tight with a buck, why not build sailboats?
And all along I that was a worm poking out of it. The good news is it must still be edible.
Unfortuantely, I'm reading /. at work, so my left thumb is busy right now.
Why can't your situation be described by game theory? Giving proper weights to the various outcomes should provide a useful model.
Well, I wanna know if it indexes mapped drives. Because if it does, it's indexing a bunch of development servers for me as we speak. Not sure if that's a good or bad thing.
You have to write a wicked long join.
I dunno. Excel was the one sticking point for my gf when I tried to go cold turkey on Office. Everything else she was ok with (well, that means Word since who the fuck uses PowerPoint at home unless you have no life and spend your time making presentations for your kids' birthday parties), but she wouldn't go for Calc. Honestly, I think it was more of an issue with visual formatting than any underlying functionality, but when you're competing with an 800lb gorilla, you need to be able to [do whatever gorillas at that size do] at least as well.
Oh wow. Sorry. End of the week and I must have used up my allotment of perceptiveness. Not that I start with a lot.
Except the point of posting the document wasn't to inform you of their awful design tastes. It was to deliver information. So why not just mark that info up in semantic elements and put any presentational information in stylesheets where the relevant user agent (visual, aural, print, whatever) can apply it if the user wants that to happen? What value does a font tag have to the 99.9999999999999999% of people who came to the page to read the text?
Well, it's not a good idea to browser-sniff off the user agent string. It's easier to see if a browser supports "document.all"-- you know that's IE and nothing else. Except that Moz might start supporting it just to get around all the stupid JS written using document.all instead of document.getElementById because the authors think MS' JavaScript is the spec.
the debugging process is the main scary part You mean when you forget to iterate in a loop and wake up outside a cocoon asking Geena Davis to shoot you?
You and your pal beat it on Legendary in a week? That's impressive. You should give it a try solo on Legendary; that'll get you at least another week or two out of it.
Remember that Apple was founded by one of each.