Linux canabilizing commercial unix was predicted long ago and has been happening for years. The whole 'this will topple MS on the desktop' is a fanboy attitude with little footing in reality.
>That's why I, like many former hard-core wikipedians, have quit editing. Wikipedia has turned into a giant energy-wasting machine like the one in The Matrix. You have millions of people all over the world, all undoing each other's edits, while most articles remain at the same low level of quality.
SO in other words someone else's edits got through and yours didnt so you took your ball and went home. Something tells me all the knolikans will be ex-bitter wp people like you and it will simply fail over some other trivial issue like not enough money, lower web rankings that a competitor's article,etc.
Hell, look at the monopolistic abuse potential here. Google is going to hand rank these things just to beat out wikipedia. Wow. Larry Page is the new bill gates it seems.
Something tells me the inertia that wikipedia has is much more than e2 or geocities ever had. Combining the everything2 and geocities format with money and gamed web rankings is just a pathetic stab at keeping shareholders happy through PR and hype. The wikipedia project may never be able to have the quality you want but it beats the e2/geocities crapfest that the net has endured for a long time. If this is all the geniuses at google can come up with then its pretty much like already conceding defeat to wikipedia.
>Opera should focus more on OEMs than trying to sue their competition.
Exactly. These guys are abusing the courts to make money. Funny how much slashdotters support this. Lets see if MS released a version of IE that was better suited to published standards do you think Opera would drop its case? Of course not. I love how theyve roped in the standards people in a ploy to sell more products. Bravo Opera, you make bgates look like a saint.
>Drew gets some laughs, lawsuits, and the TM gets taken away
Abuse of the legal and patent system == hilarious? Are you going to read a 200 page deposition and chuckle all the way through? Yeah I dont think so.
After Drew's disastrous book about the media being unquestioning idiots while his own site was doing its best to support bush's iraq adverentures/WMD and calling global warming a myth up until very recently, well, we're looking at another failure by this small loud-mouth businessman.
If this was truly a prank how about using a funnier acronym like MILF or UFIA. I think its more likely that Drew would have thought that no one would notice this and is now playing the 'its just a joke' card to fool you.
Well, the robotpanda is 150 dollars, which is less than half of the asking price of the pleo. The robopanda, like the rest of the toys from that company are pretty simplistic and fun. I think this design is a better idea than the pleo/aibo idea of a super complex computer driven "pet simulator" that costs a lot more than people are willing to spend on the gimmick.
I'd rather be able to buy a toy robot I can say "read me a bedtime story" than one that has realistic moods and realitic poops. I understand the popularity of the furby, but that was mostly to the toddler to pre-5th grade crowd. Not to mention the price point on the furby was pretty good too.
I think people want something that actually does something. If someone asks me what my pet robot does I cuold say "well he reads me a story if I ask. Or he reads me my email if I ask." Not "he simulates the moods of a biological pet." I think the tomogatchi school of robotics is pretty dead in the consumer world. The pleo is a nice gimmick, but thats all it is. At that price its a market failure from the get-go. I could get a roomba and a robopanda for that price.
I'm a little much amused by the fact that the robotpanda (what a great name) comes with the following:
No remote controller needed Realistic actions and interactive personality Direct touch sensor and sound control Interactive stories and games Advanced artificial intelligence and awareness Recognizes and talks to his own little toy panda (included)
Yes, that's right. It comes with its own little stuffed panda. In the video it hugs it. Christ, is that creepy.
Because its the 25th anniversary (did you bother to read the article before complaining>) and some people care about such things. Normal humans have these things called emotions. I know an ubermensch like yourself can stand us and our reflections on the past.
>Nostalgia is of limited interest, almost by definition.
Thanks for the heads-up. I think I originally read that in a fortune cookie. Except when I read it I said "Nostalgia is of limited interest, almost by definition. IN BED!" Its more fun that way. Wait, an ubermencsh like yourself cant stand fun things. I forgot.
>Admittedly if it's loud, it's annoying, but what's so different about a phone than a face to face conversation?
There's a name for this but it escapes me current, but the idea is that our brains are hard-wired to pick up speech. When we hear both sides of the conversation (two people talking) then we realize that we arent being spoken to so we tune it out. when we only hear one side of the conversation (guy talking into phone) we subconsciously think "hey, someone is speaking, perhaps they are speaking to me" and we also dont get the normal closure a conversation has. So we hear "how ya doing" and a long pause. This really bugs people on a certain level that is difficult to tune out.
On top of that, most people speak way too loudly into phones as opposed to speaking in person. What they hear from the earpiece is usually too quiet so they just ramp their voices up.
These things combined arent a good thing but we tolerate it. I cant imagine sitting in the middle seat and dealing with this. I'm sure someone will wig out and punch someone in no time.
When cell phones do get approved for plane usage you're going to bet theres going to be a cell phone area for them to go and speak. In seat speaking is too much of a problem.
>"this party's platform is consistently closer to my viewpoint, so I'll make it my party. Hey look, the candidate running as my party has a platform that is closer to my view than the other guy. What a surprise."
This is digg,err slashdot. To get modded up you need to develop an attitude of hatred toward common people and come up with dismissing comments about their behaviors. You must also support ron paul. Your comment is too logical and insightful for this crowd.
Naww, youre just witnessing the 'angry complaint culture' of the internet. Its people who are going way overboard for ad impressions and attention. Other misanthropes cheer them on. Its actually kind sad.
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Really? So right now in the lo-def world we cant get this stuff to work and Joe Sixpack isnt goign anywhere near it and when he does the quality is shit (netflicks) but next year or two we'll have the extra bandwidth and marketshare and the equipment and joe sixpack's trust and a pricing scheme that works and and....
Right.
Discs are going to be the delivery mechanism for the forseeable future. MS is backing HDDVD. Sony is with Bluray. This is just a slashdot trolling hit and run page. Enjoy the ad impressions.
Not to mention if anyone pushes online distribution it'll be soaking in DRM. Enough to make bluray and hddvd look like Richard Stallman. This crowd will go apeshit and will never use it.
>We've already seen how many spam filtering / blocking programs produced in the past 5 years?
Lots. Even in my most anceint hotmail account I see almost no spam. The filters are working and the spam cat and mouse game has reached a point where the sophistication of spam detection is outpacing the spammers. There comes a point where their resources cannot keep up. We've reached that point I think. I dont expect spam to ever leave but now its a controlled problem. In the future we might even start seeing lots of spammers go back to other scams because spamming will be too much of a hassle.
Oh well, next time dont build your worldwide messaging standard on a clunky hackey piece of crap like smtp.
>What are the chances of finding someone at CompUSA who would know anything about them?
I thought the point of an open and hackable OS is so you can teach yourself some things. I doubt someone who is very clever is going to be happy working in a shit franchise for 5 dollars an hour spending his time explaining do you what "sudo" is. You should be teaching that yourself.
>that the markup was at least 10-fold on printer cables, which far, far, exceeded the margin on the printers - or just about anything else in the store except for CD jewel cases
Hi. I'm reality calling. In real life retailers make money by knocking the price up on accessories.
Im just blown away that quicktime doesnt have some kind of auto-updated, only itunes does. Ideally, Apple should be asking MS to put whatever patch they have into XP's auto updater like Adobe did when Flash had the vulnerability.
>What will be done with all the Generation One Zunes still on shelves?
Resent to MS and then sold online. I got my zune for 80 dollars from woot. They go for, at most, 100 dollars which is an incredible bargain. I'm not a big fan of defining your life through how much money you can spend on expensive things: ipod.
First off sales does not equal profit. All of greenpeaces money is equivalant to profit as its all donations. APples and oranges. Greenpeace is a very well off non-profit that gets away with murder because their PR is so good no one openly criticises their methods.
Personally, I'm 100% in favour of hardware companies being pressured to make energy efficient video cards
Yet you want all that performance? Err, YOURE the problem, not these companies. You consumers demand more fps, better graphics, etc. Its physics. Youre not getting more processing power without more electricity, in general. If you actually cared one whit youd go back to playing monopoly or not buying the next high-powered game system.
And we've seen what powerstar ratings can do. On one hand you've got devices with all sorts of power saving modes when they only had on/off just 20 years ago. On the other hand manufacturers know consumers hate dealing with this stuff (most cant program an oven clock) so they just put everything in standby. Now everything in your house if "off" but consuming power. Whoops!
So there's real effort being done and lots of mistakes. I imagine there are lots of solutions but I cant imagine how the loudmouth college kiddies at greenpeace are helping matters any. Oh well, identity politics as usual.
>Make it so only punished TK's count in the grand scheme of thing.
Every play bf2? Everyone punishes, all the time. Gamers in the thick of action are emotional and near crazy, not logical and willing to help the community. Not to mention the teen demographic that defines online gaming arent known for their maturity and excellent social skills. Id rather just have this all controlled by code. 5 teamkills in 5 minutes? Yeah thats a 5+ day ban.
Rep systems are interesting, but i think in the end people just dont care enough about games to take reps seriously. So, lots of people will just hit punish (Hello Milgram!) and be off with it. Clans will just pile-on a good player from a differrent clan/no clan just to hurt his rep. Please take humans out of the equation, theyre too biased.
>Did they patch even a single one of the compromised Windows systems that were a part of the botnet?
You patch a machine on my network? Yeah that's a federal offense. Get a warrant.
Its amazing how little people care about law and rights when it comes to technology.
>I'd like to see Microsoft step-up to the plate and put effort into developing exciting extras to be bundled with security updates that would at least make their users get more motivated about patching.
And I'd like a pony. MS turns on auto updates by default. If people arent getting them its because they are going out of their way to shut them off. THat's like saying we should have GM representaives weilding shotguns at people with balding tires.
"As nice a media piece about them still "caring" about BC on the 360 at this point I have no doubt it's driven by money... the more they support in BC the more they can pad their Xbox 1 download catalog when they roll it out (probably around the same time as the update)."
>What happened? For a long time people's lives were getting better as time progressed. Life was easier, less stressful, healthier.
When was this? Looks like you are dealing with the fallacy of idealizing a fictional past, like how Americans look back at the 50s as being like Happy Days but in reality was a socially a pretty nasty place to be: segregation, conformist conservative values, etc.
Even the oldest dams caused environmental problems, but the benefit of draining an area to humans was worth it to them. Ancient man also hunted animals to exinction. Man-made forest fires have decimated populations.
>Science and technology were improving the world in very real ways that were visible to people all the time.
Like the rise of gasoline powered mass transit 90 years ago? Whoops, you kind of have forgotten all the horrible accidents and pollution. Or exploding steam engines. Or children working in factories. Or the settlement of the American west? Whoops, you forgot about all conquering the native lands, deforestation to build new towns, etc. Asbestos. Uranium paints. etc.
I think if youre objective you'll see that things are either the same as the past or better nowadays.
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Linux canabilizing commercial unix was predicted long ago and has been happening for years. The whole 'this will topple MS on the desktop' is a fanboy attitude with little footing in reality.
>That's why I, like many former hard-core wikipedians, have quit editing. Wikipedia has turned into a giant energy-wasting machine like the one in The Matrix. You have millions of people all over the world, all undoing each other's edits, while most articles remain at the same low level of quality.
,etc.
SO in other words someone else's edits got through and yours didnt so you took your ball and went home. Something tells me all the knolikans will be ex-bitter wp people like you and it will simply fail over some other trivial issue like not enough money, lower web rankings that a competitor's article
Hell, look at the monopolistic abuse potential here. Google is going to hand rank these things just to beat out wikipedia. Wow. Larry Page is the new bill gates it seems.
Something tells me the inertia that wikipedia has is much more than e2 or geocities ever had. Combining the everything2 and geocities format with money and gamed web rankings is just a pathetic stab at keeping shareholders happy through PR and hype. The wikipedia project may never be able to have the quality you want but it beats the e2/geocities crapfest that the net has endured for a long time. If this is all the geniuses at google can come up with then its pretty much like already conceding defeat to wikipedia.
>Opera should focus more on OEMs than trying to sue their competition.
Exactly. These guys are abusing the courts to make money. Funny how much slashdotters support this. Lets see if MS released a version of IE that was better suited to published standards do you think Opera would drop its case? Of course not. I love how theyve roped in the standards people in a ploy to sell more products. Bravo Opera, you make bgates look like a saint.
>Drew gets some laughs, lawsuits, and the TM gets taken away
Abuse of the legal and patent system == hilarious? Are you going to read a 200 page deposition and chuckle all the way through? Yeah I dont think so.
After Drew's disastrous book about the media being unquestioning idiots while his own site was doing its best to support bush's iraq adverentures/WMD and calling global warming a myth up until very recently, well, we're looking at another failure by this small loud-mouth businessman.
If this was truly a prank how about using a funnier acronym like MILF or UFIA. I think its more likely that Drew would have thought that no one would notice this and is now playing the 'its just a joke' card to fool you.
Well, the robotpanda is 150 dollars, which is less than half of the asking price of the pleo. The robopanda, like the rest of the toys from that company are pretty simplistic and fun. I think this design is a better idea than the pleo/aibo idea of a super complex computer driven "pet simulator" that costs a lot more than people are willing to spend on the gimmick.
I'd rather be able to buy a toy robot I can say "read me a bedtime story" than one that has realistic moods and realitic poops. I understand the popularity of the furby, but that was mostly to the toddler to pre-5th grade crowd. Not to mention the price point on the furby was pretty good too.
I think people want something that actually does something. If someone asks me what my pet robot does I cuold say "well he reads me a story if I ask. Or he reads me my email if I ask." Not "he simulates the moods of a biological pet." I think the tomogatchi school of robotics is pretty dead in the consumer world. The pleo is a nice gimmick, but thats all it is. At that price its a market failure from the get-go. I could get a roomba and a robopanda for that price.
I'm a little much amused by the fact that the robotpanda (what a great name) comes with the following:
No remote controller needed
Realistic actions and interactive personality
Direct touch sensor and sound control
Interactive stories and games
Advanced artificial intelligence and awareness
Recognizes and talks to his own little toy panda (included)
Yes, that's right. It comes with its own little stuffed panda. In the video it hugs it. Christ, is that creepy.
Because its the 25th anniversary (did you bother to read the article before complaining>) and some people care about such things. Normal humans have these things called emotions. I know an ubermensch like yourself can stand us and our reflections on the past.
>Nostalgia is of limited interest, almost by definition.
Thanks for the heads-up. I think I originally read that in a fortune cookie. Except when I read it I said "Nostalgia is of limited interest, almost by definition. IN BED!" Its more fun that way. Wait, an ubermencsh like yourself cant stand fun things. I forgot.
>The weak are dragged by their destiny, the strong follow their destiny, and the wise become destiny themselves.
Oh, you got that fortune cookie too?
>Admittedly if it's loud, it's annoying, but what's so different about a phone than a face to face conversation?
There's a name for this but it escapes me current, but the idea is that our brains are hard-wired to pick up speech. When we hear both sides of the conversation (two people talking) then we realize that we arent being spoken to so we tune it out. when we only hear one side of the conversation (guy talking into phone) we subconsciously think "hey, someone is speaking, perhaps they are speaking to me" and we also dont get the normal closure a conversation has. So we hear "how ya doing" and a long pause. This really bugs people on a certain level that is difficult to tune out.
On top of that, most people speak way too loudly into phones as opposed to speaking in person. What they hear from the earpiece is usually too quiet so they just ramp their voices up.
These things combined arent a good thing but we tolerate it. I cant imagine sitting in the middle seat and dealing with this. I'm sure someone will wig out and punch someone in no time.
When cell phones do get approved for plane usage you're going to bet theres going to be a cell phone area for them to go and speak. In seat speaking is too much of a problem.
>"this party's platform is consistently closer to my viewpoint, so I'll make it my party. Hey look, the candidate running as my party has a platform that is closer to my view than the other guy. What a surprise."
This is digg,err slashdot. To get modded up you need to develop an attitude of hatred toward common people and come up with dismissing comments about their behaviors. You must also support ron paul. Your comment is too logical and insightful for this crowd.
Naww, youre just witnessing the 'angry complaint culture' of the internet. Its people who are going way overboard for ad impressions and attention. Other misanthropes cheer them on. Its actually kind sad.
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>online distribution ultimately will win.
....
Really? So right now in the lo-def world we cant get this stuff to work and Joe Sixpack isnt goign anywhere near it and when he does the quality is shit (netflicks) but next year or two we'll have the extra bandwidth and marketshare and the equipment and joe sixpack's trust and a pricing scheme that works and and
Right.
Discs are going to be the delivery mechanism for the forseeable future. MS is backing HDDVD. Sony is with Bluray. This is just a slashdot trolling hit and run page. Enjoy the ad impressions.
Not to mention if anyone pushes online distribution it'll be soaking in DRM. Enough to make bluray and hddvd look like Richard Stallman. This crowd will go apeshit and will never use it.
>We've already seen how many spam filtering / blocking programs produced in the past 5 years?
Lots. Even in my most anceint hotmail account I see almost no spam. The filters are working and the spam cat and mouse game has reached a point where the sophistication of spam detection is outpacing the spammers. There comes a point where their resources cannot keep up. We've reached that point I think. I dont expect spam to ever leave but now its a controlled problem. In the future we might even start seeing lots of spammers go back to other scams because spamming will be too much of a hassle.
Oh well, next time dont build your worldwide messaging standard on a clunky hackey piece of crap like smtp.
>What are the chances of finding someone at CompUSA who would know anything about them?
I thought the point of an open and hackable OS is so you can teach yourself some things. I doubt someone who is very clever is going to be happy working in a shit franchise for 5 dollars an hour spending his time explaining do you what "sudo" is. You should be teaching that yourself.
>that the markup was at least 10-fold on printer cables, which far, far, exceeded the margin on the printers - or just about anything else in the store except for CD jewel cases
Hi. I'm reality calling. In real life retailers make money by knocking the price up on accessories.
But please continue with your bitchfest.
>all emblazoned with the new Blactavision logos!
I just heard an ad for their next game, it goes like this:
Who's the black private dick
That's a sex machine to all the chicks?
Im just blown away that quicktime doesnt have some kind of auto-updated, only itunes does. Ideally, Apple should be asking MS to put whatever patch they have into XP's auto updater like Adobe did when Flash had the vulnerability.
>What will be done with all the Generation One Zunes still on shelves?
Resent to MS and then sold online. I got my zune for 80 dollars from woot. They go for, at most, 100 dollars which is an incredible bargain. I'm not a big fan of defining your life through how much money you can spend on expensive things: ipod.
First off sales does not equal profit. All of greenpeaces money is equivalant to profit as its all donations. APples and oranges. Greenpeace is a very well off non-profit that gets away with murder because their PR is so good no one openly criticises their methods.
Personally, I'm 100% in favour of hardware companies being pressured to make energy efficient video cards
Yet you want all that performance? Err, YOURE the problem, not these companies. You consumers demand more fps, better graphics, etc. Its physics. Youre not getting more processing power without more electricity, in general. If you actually cared one whit youd go back to playing monopoly or not buying the next high-powered game system.
And we've seen what powerstar ratings can do. On one hand you've got devices with all sorts of power saving modes when they only had on/off just 20 years ago. On the other hand manufacturers know consumers hate dealing with this stuff (most cant program an oven clock) so they just put everything in standby. Now everything in your house if "off" but consuming power. Whoops!
So there's real effort being done and lots of mistakes. I imagine there are lots of solutions but I cant imagine how the loudmouth college kiddies at greenpeace are helping matters any. Oh well, identity politics as usual.
>Make it so only punished TK's count in the grand scheme of thing.
Every play bf2? Everyone punishes, all the time. Gamers in the thick of action are emotional and near crazy, not logical and willing to help the community. Not to mention the teen demographic that defines online gaming arent known for their maturity and excellent social skills. Id rather just have this all controlled by code. 5 teamkills in 5 minutes? Yeah thats a 5+ day ban.
Rep systems are interesting, but i think in the end people just dont care enough about games to take reps seriously. So, lots of people will just hit punish (Hello Milgram!) and be off with it. Clans will just pile-on a good player from a differrent clan/no clan just to hurt his rep. Please take humans out of the equation, theyre too biased.
The irony here is that the web servers were expoited to push out the malicious code. Lots of unix webservers out there.
>Did they patch even a single one of the compromised Windows systems that were a part of the botnet?
You patch a machine on my network? Yeah that's a federal offense. Get a warrant.
Its amazing how little people care about law and rights when it comes to technology.
>I'd like to see Microsoft step-up to the plate and put effort into developing exciting extras to be bundled with security updates that would at least make their users get more motivated about patching.
And I'd like a pony. MS turns on auto updates by default. If people arent getting them its because they are going out of their way to shut them off. THat's like saying we should have GM representaives weilding shotguns at people with balding tires.
No thanks.
"As nice a media piece about them still "caring" about BC on the 360 at this point I have no doubt it's driven by money... the more they support in BC the more they can pad their Xbox 1 download catalog when they roll it out (probably around the same time as the update)."
WHAT? Companies are motivated by money? Whoa!
>What happened? For a long time people's lives were getting better as time progressed. Life was easier, less stressful, healthier.
When was this? Looks like you are dealing with the fallacy of idealizing a fictional past, like how Americans look back at the 50s as being like Happy Days but in reality was a socially a pretty nasty place to be: segregation, conformist conservative values, etc.
Even the oldest dams caused environmental problems, but the benefit of draining an area to humans was worth it to them. Ancient man also hunted animals to exinction. Man-made forest fires have decimated populations.
>Science and technology were improving the world in very real ways that were visible to people all the time.
Like the rise of gasoline powered mass transit 90 years ago? Whoops, you kind of have forgotten all the horrible accidents and pollution. Or exploding steam engines. Or children working in factories. Or the settlement of the American west? Whoops, you forgot about all conquering the native lands, deforestation to build new towns, etc. Asbestos. Uranium paints. etc.
I think if youre objective you'll see that things are either the same as the past or better nowadays.
It used to work exactly as I described with no save as. This was later fixed after many complaints.