I would urge the/. staff to immediately shut down operations and support the
demonstration, unless they really don't care about open-source software at all. I think you'll find that the order of the day is shutting down other websites, not their own. Unless they ran a story about their own site in which case it would get slashdotted.. but that couldn't happen because then there'd be no site to..... recursive thinking.. brain.. hurting..
If we're taking cues from Duke Nukem Forever and 3D Realms, then this new version will switch between using an OS2, Windows 98, Linux, Windows 2000, Mac and Linux Core before being released in 2068.
Spammers may have won a battle today. They're a LONG way from winning the war.
But what will be left? What with the DOSes and Spews refusing to whitelist anyone, I see high casulaties. In fact, I'm getting flashbacks to those Daffy Duck/Marvin the Martian cartoons, the one where both Daffy and Marvin were left standing on the one remaining piece of a shattered planet.
Just The Sims? Come on. What about Tomb Raider, featuring that icon and definitely not just a male fantasy object. What women in her right mind wouldn't want to play an explorer with phenomenally huge breasts with a penchant for shooting endangered animals and jumping and vaulting around without somehow suffocating in her own cleavage?
.. who needs them when you've got your own cubic zirconium-edge cutting tool. As for the CDRs - anyone else making mental connections between this and DVD Rot?
.. while the odd virus exploits security holes, and raises awareness of that security issue, the whole 'makes us stronger' doesn't stand up to examination. Take Windows for example - each iteration of Windows still has security flaws. Outlook still is vulnerable to viruses - nothing has been done to stop viruses running rampant through Windows.
And clearly the virus outbreaks of the past do nothing more than make the public sit up for a moment then forget about it. Too many people still don't have anti-virus protection, despite previous outbreaks. Every year there's some virus outbreak or other, despite all the fuss made over last year's outbreak. I don't see any real changes or improvement happening here.
NASA does a great job building Mars rovers and such, let's keep them doing that. But we should turn everything else over to private industry.
'When deep space exploration ramps up, it'll be the corporations that will name everything: The Ibm stellarsphere, The Microsoft galaxy, Planet Starbucks.' - The Narrator, Fight Club
If we do let private industry get their paws on space exploration, whose to say that isn't the direction we'll be going?
Will we then hear of Greenpeace sneaking into the house of a recipient of intravenous nano-bots to inject him with a minature Rainbow Warrior manned by tiny nano-protesters?
Because Dual Opteron along with a Pentium Gigatium makes the web fly! Even on 56K! Sorry, my fillings were picking up Intel Chip adverts from the space-year 2005.
With this and the stair climbing robot mentioned on Slashdot a while back there, if the Daleks get their hands on the technology nowhere will be safe from them. Stairs, islands, there will be no escape. We're well and truly up the creek.
You can actually submit a virus message, get the actual ISP details from it, and not submit the mail.As long as you don't do this for every damn virus email you recieve it can be useful.
CGI is great in its place - my recommendation for a CGI benchmark would be Terminator 2. But these days CGI seems to be being used in all the wrong places. I first remember going 'what the hell?' when I watched the ending of The Dead Hate The Living. Not because it was a crappy film - it wasn't exactly an epic but it was a fun little film, but because they had a guy being shot in the head via the gift of a CGI rendered blood splat. It looked terrible and struck me as a perfect example of CGI being mis-used.
And then things got worse. Not just with CGI replacing standard Tom Savini style special effects but with CGI being used to entirely animate humanoid characters. CGI has not reached the level when it can convincingly render a character that is indistinguishable from a real human/humanoid. And yet it's been used as such in Spiderman, The Hulk, The Matrix Reloaded, Die Another Day, The Mummy 2 et al. Maybe I'm being fussy, but or me it damages the movie experience when you see a character who is blatantly rendered. CGI dinosaurs I can live with, but other than that movie makers need to hold back on the CGI a little till it can actually do what they want it to do without making characters stick out like a sore thumb.
SCO's kicking up a fuss because IBM aren't happy with their attempted bully boy tactics to extort money for using what is essentially an open OS? What did they expect would happen? Did they really think every Tom, Dick and Harry ltd would pony up the cash without resistance? If SCO cry foul at so easily I don't know how they've stayed in business this long.
Mugger: 'Heh.. I'll just lurk around this retirement home and rob the next old lady who comes along. Aha.. here comes one now... Give me your money, lady or.. Holy Shi..'
Exo-Eldster:'Rob this, you cheap hoodlum!'*whack**crunch* 'At last, technology I can appreciate.'
What interests me is if we keep getting better and better cards like this, will we one day get games which look so good so as to be indistinguishable from reality (albeit still on a screen). I certainly hope so because when/if this happens, games companies will have nowhere to go with graphics and will actually have to give more focus to making games more enjoyable. Fun to play instead of just flash, whereas the onus these days tends to be on graphics that take advantage of graphics card feature x.
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I would urge the /. staff to immediately shut down operations and support the
demonstration, unless they really don't care about open-source software at all. I think you'll find that the order of the day is shutting down other websites, not their own. Unless they ran a story about their own site in which case it would get slashdotted.. but that couldn't happen because then there'd be no site to..... recursive thinking.. brain.. hurting..
Next thing you'll be knocking the benefits of Garnie's monkey-phlegm anti-wrinkle cream.
If we're taking cues from Duke Nukem Forever and 3D Realms, then this new version will switch between using an OS2, Windows 98, Linux, Windows 2000, Mac and Linux Core before being released in 2068.
But what will be left? What with the DOSes and Spews refusing to whitelist anyone, I see high casulaties. In fact, I'm getting flashbacks to those Daffy Duck/Marvin the Martian cartoons, the one where both Daffy and Marvin were left standing on the one remaining piece of a shattered planet.
Just The Sims? Come on. What about Tomb Raider, featuring that icon and definitely not just a male fantasy object. What women in her right mind wouldn't want to play an explorer with phenomenally huge breasts with a penchant for shooting endangered animals and jumping and vaulting around without somehow suffocating in her own cleavage?
.. who needs them when you've got your own cubic zirconium-edge cutting tool. As for the CDRs - anyone else making mental connections between this and DVD Rot?
And clearly the virus outbreaks of the past do nothing more than make the public sit up for a moment then forget about it. Too many people still don't have anti-virus protection, despite previous outbreaks. Every year there's some virus outbreak or other, despite all the fuss made over last year's outbreak. I don't see any real changes or improvement happening here.
'When deep space exploration ramps up, it'll be the corporations that will name everything: The Ibm stellarsphere, The Microsoft galaxy, Planet Starbucks.' - The Narrator, Fight Club
If we do let private industry get their paws on space exploration, whose to say that isn't the direction we'll be going?
Will we then hear of Greenpeace sneaking into the house of a recipient of intravenous nano-bots to inject him with a minature Rainbow Warrior manned by tiny nano-protesters?
Because mention the word 'nano' to the average Slashdot reader and they end up thinking of Jeri Ryan's borg implants?
Because Dual Opteron along with a Pentium Gigatium makes the web fly! Even on 56K! Sorry, my fillings were picking up Intel Chip adverts from the space-year 2005.
With this and the stair climbing robot mentioned on Slashdot a while back there, if the Daleks get their hands on the technology nowhere will be safe from them. Stairs, islands, there will be no escape. We're well and truly up the creek.
You can actually submit a virus message, get the actual ISP details from it, and not submit the mail.As long as you don't do this for every damn virus email you recieve it can be useful.
No, only with the optional Booze-o-tron $500 upgrade.
CGI is great in its place - my recommendation for a CGI benchmark would be Terminator 2. But these days CGI seems to be being used in all the wrong places. I first remember going 'what the hell?' when I watched the ending of The Dead Hate The Living. Not because it was a crappy film - it wasn't exactly an epic but it was a fun little film, but because they had a guy being shot in the head via the gift of a CGI rendered blood splat. It looked terrible and struck me as a perfect example of CGI being mis-used. And then things got worse. Not just with CGI replacing standard Tom Savini style special effects but with CGI being used to entirely animate humanoid characters. CGI has not reached the level when it can convincingly render a character that is indistinguishable from a real human/humanoid. And yet it's been used as such in Spiderman, The Hulk, The Matrix Reloaded, Die Another Day, The Mummy 2 et al. Maybe I'm being fussy, but or me it damages the movie experience when you see a character who is blatantly rendered. CGI dinosaurs I can live with, but other than that movie makers need to hold back on the CGI a little till it can actually do what they want it to do without making characters stick out like a sore thumb.
So will we end up with a computer component that is a more attract target for thieves inside and outside of companies?
That *is* the video game market, last time I checked.
SCO's kicking up a fuss because IBM aren't happy with their attempted bully boy tactics to extort money for using what is essentially an open OS? What did they expect would happen? Did they really think every Tom, Dick and Harry ltd would pony up the cash without resistance? If SCO cry foul at so easily I don't know how they've stayed in business this long.
Mugger: 'Heh.. I'll just lurk around this retirement home and rob the next old lady who comes along. Aha.. here comes one now... Give me your money, lady or.. Holy Shi..'
Exo-Eldster:'Rob this, you cheap hoodlum!'*whack**crunch* 'At last, technology I can appreciate.'
Presumably we'll see the elderly being forced to work for their meagre pension, operating powerloaders in Japanese warehouses.
How about 'In Soviet Russia, our new masters welcome *you*'. Hmm.. maybe not.
'UK Consumers have close shave as Gilette cuts short their RFID experiment'
Vulgarities? Net Nanny takes care of that, and stops me seeing any bad language, you freaky rock-holding melon farmer.
Stars? Why the hell would you find stars on a soundstage? I mean... er... *runs to grab tinfoil hat before the CIA fries his brain*
What interests me is if we keep getting better and better cards like this, will we one day get games which look so good so as to be indistinguishable from reality (albeit still on a screen). I certainly hope so because when/if this happens, games companies will have nowhere to go with graphics and will actually have to give more focus to making games more enjoyable. Fun to play instead of just flash, whereas the onus these days tends to be on graphics that take advantage of graphics card feature x.