What a surprise!
EA is willing to break the mold to save a few bucks. Gee, I've never seen that on/. before.
Step 1. Steal underpants.
Step 2. Force salary employees to work long hours (70+wk), milk customers with expansion packs for every freaking game, and make games that don't require franchise fees.
Step 3. Profit!
The Americans almost singlehandedly (read: $$$) re-built France after WWII (especially the French wine industry), and then proceeded to protect France for 50 years.
I would be very careful about over generalizing here. The original post was worse, but yours isn't much better. Both of you have made some very broad claims. A lot of people outside of acadamia are prone to over-generalizing history.
It is generally accepted that the Marchall Plan was "the oil that lubricated the economic engine of Western Europe" (Hitchcock, The Struggle for Europe). However, Americans did not plant the seeds in French vineyards, we didn't rebuild their cities, nor did we help the French out of the kindness of our hearts. We simply gave them a loan that they had to pay interest on. Western Europe was a showcase for democracy after WWII, and the main reason we helped out so much was because we were deathly afraid of the 300 lb gorilla lurking in the east.
Europe is currently experienceing a very real and very problematic labor shortage. As a whole, western Europe's population is aging rapidly and they are not replacing their young, the birthrate for every two Europeans is 1.6 new youths (similar to the U.S.). Without immigrant workers the vast social structures implemented in the post war years will not be sustainable. While many complain that immigration in Europe and the US is a problem, they usually don;t understand that it is a necessity if the West want to continue to live luxuriously.
The french (along with the rest of Europe) might finally start to figure out that it IS necessary to identify and promote awareness/acceptance of minorities, rather than sweeping it under the rug and pretending the problem doesn't exist.
Affirmative Action programs aren't perfect but they raise awareness and I think the are good as long as they aren't allowed to stick around too long after they have achieved the goals they are intended for. I think in the progressive states in the US (like CA) where we've had these types of programs for a while, it is starting to get to the point where we don't need them anymore and the cons are starting to outweigh the pros. We aren't there yet but we are getting close, maybe another 10 years or so and they won't be necessary here in CA. Recently, it seems like they are only becoming effective for creating stupid lawsuits and protecting certain lazy/greedy individuals lucky enough to be born as part of a minority population. Then again, as of 2000 there is no majority in CA anymore!
Their power supplies aren't that great either. We got in a bunch to run power testing on and they did very poorly. They had a terrible power factor rating (aprox.65), and VA was nearly 460 with AC wattage at only 290. This means that they were very inefficient and more expensive to run. For example, it would cost aprox $15 more a month to run a 500W Antec power supply when compared to a 500W Seasonic supply with all the same system components.
The supplies we tested (they were both over $100, one was that black one that is supposed to be silent) were suposed to be hot stuff, but like many of the computer products out there, it was just a name that people on the internet think is good. I suggest researching and performing relevant testing before making claims based on your own opinions regarding a company. Just because they may have made a good product a few years ago, doesn't mean everything they make will be a good buy or a quality product.
... of why you shouldn't believe everything you read on the internet.
After about 10 years now, you would think that Slashdot would be getting better at weeding out crap like this. Instead, it seems to be getting worse. If anything I would say that Slashdot is doing Microsoft an even bigger favor than cooltechzone.com (or whatever the hell this one is called) thanks to all the traffic this site generates.
At the lab I work in, we have had a tougher and tougher time remembering all the codenames for the new procs. Intel suffer from it more than AMD. Especially now that they are all the same frequency, but some have multiple cores, hyperthreading, 64 bit, it is especially confusing in their xeon lineup. We just started going by the espec numbers on the chips because all the codenames just got too confusing, and much of the time the codename would span multiple proc configurations. We really just wish they could consolidate some of their product lines over at intel.
Hell yeah. I always like Nokia's interface way better than any of the other manufacturers, especially motorola and ericson. I did like the trio 650 (palm)though, it was easy to use and it had a memory card that was way more acessible. I have to take the battery out to get at the mmc card in this thing (that and the small keypad are probably my only 2 gripes with this unit). It runs Symbian OS too, which I have been told (by a CDMA programmer) is a good thing. However I have had it lock up on me 3 or 4 times in the year I've had it (every time I was multi-tasking on it, playing music and taking photos or making calls at the same time). The only way to get it going again was to remove the battery.
My ex-gf had a LG camera phone that she got for free from verizon, and that thing was really easy and simple to use. Just didn't have much functionality...
The ROKR does look like a pile of crap, but I doubt that Apple wanted it to fail. They just can't lauch a product that will go against their business model. If the ROKR had been like my Nokia it would have made most of the rest of Apple's DRM enabled hardware look retarded. They had to keep it inline with the ipod/itunes greed machine. Eventually the scheme will fail, and I don't think Apple's stock is going to keep rising after another 6 months or so. You should of heard how pissed my mom was when she found out she couldn't put the music she paid for on itunes onto her trio. She blew like $50 on DRM enabled music and now she can only listen to it on her shitty laptop speakers. HAHAHA! I told her just to use torrentspy, but noooo she had to take the legal route and she got screwed for it.
I got this Nokia over a year ago. It plays mp3s, takes pictures (640x480, not that bad actually) and video, and it uses a MMC card so I can simply put the card in my memory card reader and put whatever I want on the phone off my computer. Nokia also puts realplayer on this bad boy, so I can even play back porn (in ra format) from my computer on my celly. Comes in handy at school when Im sitting in the back.
This thing cost me $160 over a year ago, and I still haven't seen anything even close other than the new version of the same phone (i forgot the model number)and maybe the trio 650.
I got a nice pair of headphones and an adapter so it works just like a 1gb Ipod, and I don't have to use stupid ass itunes (yes, itunes is stupid, I think it uses up way too many resources and has way too much crap built in that I'll never use). I just keep asking ipod owners, why? why pay so much for so little? Why buy music that should be free? Why bend over and take it nice and dry from Steve Jobs? Oh, and by the way, ipods are easy to break; way easier than my cell phone (which I have dropped quite a few times). My buddy has gone through 4 of them in 16 months. He said every single time he has dropped his ipod while it was turned on; the internal hard drive broke. (its a 20gb model)
Anyway, I'm just glad that I'm a nerd and not some douchebag paying 99c a song, and breaking my music player every two weeks.
A couple of my professors started using it last year. I don't know if it's the professors or the software, but I don't like it. It is ugly, non-intuitive, and I hear the university has to pay an arm and a leg for it. Seems like the CS dept should be able to come up with something better...
Everyone who downloaded that copy knows that it was crap. The video had the stupid screener numbers running on the top the whole time, the video and audio were poorly encoded, and it was in full screen. Hardly a way to see those awesome special effects.
I actually thought that screener was released by the studio because it looked so shitty. I figured they could stop good rips from getting popular on p2p networks by supplying a shitty copy to keep the good looking rips from becoming widespread; and it would encourage downloaders to go see it in the theatres.
I watched that rip for about 2 minutes before I stopped it, and decided I wanted to see the movie in the theatres first. I don't think the studio lost very much money. Greedy bastards.
We tested these a few months ago in our lab. Their thermal performance was only mediocre. All the little holes in the aluminium allow back flow into the chassis. That means that hot air just sits inside while the fans circulate air around in a little loop in the back of the chassis. The good ole chenbro gaming bomb did better thermally.
These are definitely not worth the money, when we got 'enm they were like $200 without a power supply!
I didn't know that there were any small farmers left in the midwest.
I don't think very many small farmers would go bankrupt, but maybe a few large coorporations would see profits take a hit.
- 85% of the farms in the US are owned by large coorporations.
- Domestic farming subsidies like the Farm Bill ($180 billion) pour money into these large corporations.
- The huge surpluses created by domestic subsidies get sold cheap, lowering global market value for many crops.
- We buy up all the left over corn and soy because it is super cheap. Our tax dollars already payed for most of it.
The process keeps real family owned farms in other countries in constant poverty. The low prices on the global market force other nations to subsidize before there people starve to death.
We lend the other nations cash, and give away food to there people. Wow, we are so nice!
The ethanol thing is basically government/big business throwing the dumbass public a bone. They say, "Hey, look at this! We are saving the environment, and we are helping local American families in the heartland." Blah blah blah
It's all about the money,
DOMESTIC FARMING SUBSIDIES = CORPORATE WELFARE
Step 1. Buy new Linksys router from best buy.
Step 2. Attempt to get the piece of sh*t working for 2 weeks.
Step 3. Throw the piece of sh*t linksys in the trash and buy some other piece of shit that has a 50/50 chance of working.
We have been thermal testing these for a couple weeks now. They are smokin hot! They've got big 'ole heatsinks. I dunno about performance but they suck a lot of power, a helluva lot more than AMD's dual core opterons. The new 65nm opterons are awesome on power effieciency.
The company I work for sells an 8-way opteron box that can take 32 sticks of RAM, and it is compatible with 4gig sticks. We have had them up and running benchmarks with 128 GB of RAM at our lab. I don't know if we have them on our website yet, http://www.verari.com but we our engineering group finished testing and released them to sales on Tuesday. The thing can run with just 4 cpus too, with up to 64 GB of memory.
D-link sucks. Wireless sucks. That thing is a rip off. I would never use wireless for gaming, good old 10 Mbit ethernet is faster and more reliable than that 108G bullsh*t. I doubt you could get better than 1 mbit with that thing through a wall.
Come one slashdot, you can do better than this. This reminds me of the marketing guys at my work. They don't care about real performance, as long as they can throw around some theoretical numbers that make it sound faster in order to make short term sales. What those morons don't think about is the long term damage that it does to the company. These types of products hurt manufacturers, people become disenchanted with the companies products when they buy something that claims massive speed increases and doesn't do squat. But then at the same time, I'm sure a few thousand jack asses will buy this thing and bring over their freinds and brag about their gaming router and claim getter pings on UT2004 than ever before (becuase they never really payed atention before). Placebo is a powerful thing, but true nerds will always see thourgh the marketing hype.
I have heard bad stuff about that organization before, but I had no idea.
For some reason, the whole thing remonds me of the HR lady at my work. She's scared of everything and doesn't have anything better to do than bitch and spread rumors.
I think most of us forget what the internet is here for, and how much power it has. Publishing companies should not exist, they are obsolete. So are the movie/music industries. The internet replaces them.
The longer we waste time debating crap like DRM, we are losing sight of the real issue. Our music, movies, and books, should be driven by artistic/scientific inspiration, not profit margins. The internet makes it impossible to ignore this fact any longer.
Unfortunately, our enire world is structured around profit. We would need to figure out a way to get money to the people that make good data, and away from the a-holes that profit from today's forms of data sharing (books, CDs, DVDs). For now, the only solution I see is too donate. Donate $$ to a band that inspired you, or to an author that enlightened you. Find out their address and send them a check in the mail. If enough people did this, eventually talented people would be able to create without industry getting in the way.
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I've never seen 4 dimensions represented on a 2 dimensional plane, preyy cool...
What a surprise! /. before.
EA is willing to break the mold to save a few bucks. Gee, I've never seen that on
Step 1. Steal underpants.
Step 2. Force salary employees to work long hours (70+wk), milk customers with expansion packs for every freaking game, and make games that don't require franchise fees.
Step 3. Profit!
- --"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable" - JFK
Too bad JFK didn't follow his own advice. He insisted on resisting a (somewhat)peaceful revolution in Vietnam...
Anybody dumb enough to pay for porn on the internet deserves to have their name and addy plastered everywhere.
One site for you dumbasses: www.persiankitty.com
If that not enough, just get some p2p software and have at it. I've never seen a DMCA cease and desist order for downloading porn...
The Americans almost singlehandedly (read: $$$) re-built France after WWII (especially the French wine industry), and then proceeded to protect France for 50 years.
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I would be very careful about over generalizing here. The original post was worse, but yours isn't much better. Both of you have made some very broad claims. A lot of people outside of acadamia are prone to over-generalizing history.
It is generally accepted that the Marchall Plan was "the oil that lubricated the economic engine of Western Europe" (Hitchcock, The Struggle for Europe). However, Americans did not plant the seeds in French vineyards, we didn't rebuild their cities, nor did we help the French out of the kindness of our hearts. We simply gave them a loan that they had to pay interest on. Western Europe was a showcase for democracy after WWII, and the main reason we helped out so much was because we were deathly afraid of the 300 lb gorilla lurking in the east.
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That article uses the cost to PC manufacturers who want to buy blu ray drives from Sony ($200-300).
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Does the author really think that Sony is selling blu ray drives at cost?
What a retard... I doubt blu ray drives will cost Sony more than $70 a piece. And that'll probably drop to $20 in 3 years.
Now I bet I'm gonna have to debate this for the next 2 weeks with my retard friends who believe this kinda crap.
I really don't even think this article deserves mention on
Internet rumor mills piss me off...
Europe is currently experienceing a very real and very problematic labor shortage. As a whole, western Europe's population is aging rapidly and they are not replacing their young, the birthrate for every two Europeans is 1.6 new youths (similar to the U.S.). Without immigrant workers the vast social structures implemented in the post war years will not be sustainable. While many complain that immigration in Europe and the US is a problem, they usually don;t understand that it is a necessity if the West want to continue to live luxuriously.
The french (along with the rest of Europe) might finally start to figure out that it IS necessary to identify and promote awareness/acceptance of minorities, rather than sweeping it under the rug and pretending the problem doesn't exist.
Affirmative Action programs aren't perfect but they raise awareness and I think the are good as long as they aren't allowed to stick around too long after they have achieved the goals they are intended for. I think in the progressive states in the US (like CA) where we've had these types of programs for a while, it is starting to get to the point where we don't need them anymore and the cons are starting to outweigh the pros. We aren't there yet but we are getting close, maybe another 10 years or so and they won't be necessary here in CA. Recently, it seems like they are only becoming effective for creating stupid lawsuits and protecting certain lazy/greedy individuals lucky enough to be born as part of a minority population. Then again, as of 2000 there is no majority in CA anymore!
Who drank all the buy-products of these so-called experiments?
I have never seen a game with a big fat-ass ugly dude to play the hero. What do they expect, Rosanne to play Laura Croft? I'm sure that would sell...
Do you mean Antec?
.65), and VA was nearly 460 with AC wattage at only 290. This means that they were very inefficient and more expensive to run. For example, it would cost aprox $15 more a month to run a 500W Antec power supply when compared to a 500W Seasonic supply with all the same system components.
Their power supplies aren't that great either. We got in a bunch to run power testing on and they did very poorly. They had a terrible power factor rating (aprox
The supplies we tested (they were both over $100, one was that black one that is supposed to be silent) were suposed to be hot stuff, but like many of the computer products out there, it was just a name that people on the internet think is good. I suggest researching and performing relevant testing before making claims based on your own opinions regarding a company. Just because they may have made a good product a few years ago, doesn't mean everything they make will be a good buy or a quality product.
... of why you shouldn't believe everything you read on the internet.
After about 10 years now, you would think that Slashdot would be getting better at weeding out crap like this. Instead, it seems to be getting worse. If anything I would say that Slashdot is doing Microsoft an even bigger favor than cooltechzone.com (or whatever the hell this one is called) thanks to all the traffic this site generates.
At the lab I work in, we have had a tougher and tougher time remembering all the codenames for the new procs. Intel suffer from it more than AMD. Especially now that they are all the same frequency, but some have multiple cores, hyperthreading, 64 bit, it is especially confusing in their xeon lineup. We just started going by the espec numbers on the chips because all the codenames just got too confusing, and much of the time the codename would span multiple proc configurations. We really just wish they could consolidate some of their product lines over at intel.
Hell yeah. I always like Nokia's interface way better than any of the other manufacturers, especially motorola and ericson. I did like the trio 650 (palm)though, it was easy to use and it had a memory card that was way more acessible. I have to take the battery out to get at the mmc card in this thing (that and the small keypad are probably my only 2 gripes with this unit). It runs Symbian OS too, which I have been told (by a CDMA programmer) is a good thing. However I have had it lock up on me 3 or 4 times in the year I've had it (every time I was multi-tasking on it, playing music and taking photos or making calls at the same time). The only way to get it going again was to remove the battery.
My ex-gf had a LG camera phone that she got for free from verizon, and that thing was really easy and simple to use. Just didn't have much functionality...
The ROKR does look like a pile of crap, but I doubt that Apple wanted it to fail. They just can't lauch a product that will go against their business model. If the ROKR had been like my Nokia it would have made most of the rest of Apple's DRM enabled hardware look retarded. They had to keep it inline with the ipod/itunes greed machine. Eventually the scheme will fail, and I don't think Apple's stock is going to keep rising after another 6 months or so. You should of heard how pissed my mom was when she found out she couldn't put the music she paid for on itunes onto her trio. She blew like $50 on DRM enabled music and now she can only listen to it on her shitty laptop speakers. HAHAHA! I told her just to use torrentspy, but noooo she had to take the legal route and she got screwed for it.
I got this Nokia over a year ago. It plays mp3s, takes pictures (640x480, not that bad actually) and video, and it uses a MMC card so I can simply put the card in my memory card reader and put whatever I want on the phone off my computer. Nokia also puts realplayer on this bad boy, so I can even play back porn (in ra format) from my computer on my celly. Comes in handy at school when Im sitting in the back.
This thing cost me $160 over a year ago, and I still haven't seen anything even close other than the new version of the same phone (i forgot the model number)and maybe the trio 650.
I got a nice pair of headphones and an adapter so it works just like a 1gb Ipod, and I don't have to use stupid ass itunes (yes, itunes is stupid, I think it uses up way too many resources and has way too much crap built in that I'll never use). I just keep asking ipod owners, why? why pay so much for so little? Why buy music that should be free? Why bend over and take it nice and dry from Steve Jobs? Oh, and by the way, ipods are easy to break; way easier than my cell phone (which I have dropped quite a few times). My buddy has gone through 4 of them in 16 months. He said every single time he has dropped his ipod while it was turned on; the internal hard drive broke. (its a 20gb model)
Anyway, I'm just glad that I'm a nerd and not some douchebag paying 99c a song, and breaking my music player every two weeks.
A couple of my professors started using it last year. I don't know if it's the professors or the software, but I don't like it. It is ugly, non-intuitive, and I hear the university has to pay an arm and a leg for it. Seems like the CS dept should be able to come up with something better...
Everyone who downloaded that copy knows that it was crap. The video had the stupid screener numbers running on the top the whole time, the video and audio were poorly encoded, and it was in full screen. Hardly a way to see those awesome special effects.
I actually thought that screener was released by the studio because it looked so shitty. I figured they could stop good rips from getting popular on p2p networks by supplying a shitty copy to keep the good looking rips from becoming widespread; and it would encourage downloaders to go see it in the theatres.
I watched that rip for about 2 minutes before I stopped it, and decided I wanted to see the movie in the theatres first. I don't think the studio lost very much money. Greedy bastards.
We tested these a few months ago in our lab. Their thermal performance was only mediocre. All the little holes in the aluminium allow back flow into the chassis. That means that hot air just sits inside while the fans circulate air around in a little loop in the back of the chassis. The good ole chenbro gaming bomb did better thermally.
These are definitely not worth the money, when we got 'enm they were like $200 without a power supply!
I didn't know that there were any small farmers left in the midwest.
I don't think very many small farmers would go bankrupt, but maybe a few large coorporations would see profits take a hit.
- 85% of the farms in the US are owned by large coorporations.
- Domestic farming subsidies like the Farm Bill ($180 billion) pour money into these large corporations.
- The huge surpluses created by domestic subsidies get sold cheap, lowering global market value for many crops.
- We buy up all the left over corn and soy because it is super cheap. Our tax dollars already payed for most of it.
The process keeps real family owned farms in other countries in constant poverty. The low prices on the global market force other nations to subsidize before there people starve to death.
We lend the other nations cash, and give away food to there people. Wow, we are so nice!
The ethanol thing is basically government/big business throwing the dumbass public a bone. They say, "Hey, look at this! We are saving the environment, and we are helping local American families in the heartland." Blah blah blah
It's all about the money,
DOMESTIC FARMING SUBSIDIES = CORPORATE WELFARE
Step 1. Buy new Linksys router from best buy. Step 2. Attempt to get the piece of sh*t working for 2 weeks. Step 3. Throw the piece of sh*t linksys in the trash and buy some other piece of shit that has a 50/50 chance of working.
We have been thermal testing these for a couple weeks now. They are smokin hot! They've got big 'ole heatsinks. I dunno about performance but they suck a lot of power, a helluva lot more than AMD's dual core opterons. The new 65nm opterons are awesome on power effieciency.
The company I work for sells an 8-way opteron box that can take 32 sticks of RAM, and it is compatible with 4gig sticks. We have had them up and running benchmarks with 128 GB of RAM at our lab. I don't know if we have them on our website yet, http://www.verari.com but we our engineering group finished testing and released them to sales on Tuesday. The thing can run with just 4 cpus too, with up to 64 GB of memory.
D-link sucks. Wireless sucks. That thing is a rip off. I would never use wireless for gaming, good old 10 Mbit ethernet is faster and more reliable than that 108G bullsh*t. I doubt you could get better than 1 mbit with that thing through a wall.
Come one slashdot, you can do better than this. This reminds me of the marketing guys at my work. They don't care about real performance, as long as they can throw around some theoretical numbers that make it sound faster in order to make short term sales. What those morons don't think about is the long term damage that it does to the company.
These types of products hurt manufacturers, people become disenchanted with the companies products when they buy something that claims massive speed increases and doesn't do squat. But then at the same time, I'm sure a few thousand jack asses will buy this thing and bring over their freinds and brag about their gaming router and claim getter pings on UT2004 than ever before (becuase they never really payed atention before). Placebo is a powerful thing, but true nerds will always see thourgh the marketing hype.
I have heard bad stuff about that organization before, but I had no idea. For some reason, the whole thing remonds me of the HR lady at my work. She's scared of everything and doesn't have anything better to do than bitch and spread rumors.
I think most of us forget what the internet is here for, and how much power it has. Publishing companies should not exist, they are obsolete. So are the movie/music industries. The internet replaces them.
The longer we waste time debating crap like DRM, we are losing sight of the real issue. Our music, movies, and books, should be driven by artistic/scientific inspiration, not profit margins. The internet makes it impossible to ignore this fact any longer.
Unfortunately, our enire world is structured around profit. We would need to figure out a way to get money to the people that make good data, and away from the a-holes that profit from today's forms of data sharing (books, CDs, DVDs). For now, the only solution I see is too donate. Donate $$ to a band that inspired you, or to an author that enlightened you. Find out their address and send them a check in the mail. If enough people did this, eventually talented people would be able to create without industry getting in the way.