I'm reading some of the responses to this article, and one thing that stands out is the large number of people who cry out "It isn't real! It isn't true!"
I'm curious - from what well of wisdom does your disbelief spring?
I've worked for Wal-Mart, a tech-support firm, and for my state government. I can tell you in no uncertain terms that the sort of business practices described in this article are not relegated simply to tech support; they permeate corporate culture. They are very, very real.
Considering the almost universally crappy service at McDonald's, transfer/machine hell on automated "help" lines, incomprehensible and unethical billing practices by phone companies, undisguised hostility and ingnorance in goverment offices, chronic understaffing and undertraining in department stores, spam, and a host of other noxious and common business practices . . . well, i'm just tempted to ask you, "What the hell kind of bubble have you been living in?"
Good service in any business arena is the exception and not the rule. If this is not the case where you live, please send me an application to your gated community. I want to move there as soon as possible.
"...if you just consider the timing (about five years) between the consoles, then Moore's Law dictates that the new machine will be eight times as fast as the old one..."
lovely. Moore's law orignates in 1956 as a more or less casual observation of a trend in integrated circuit technology. It's not a law of the universe.
Even if it were, that doesn't mean microsoft is obligated to put the fastest crap they can find in their console. Maybe they will, maybe they won't.
Putting a book online for free is a great way for any would-be author to get his stuff read massively. It's just not a good way to get paid.
I don't think this is going to adversely affect the publishing industry much in the long run at all. If anything, it will keep it alive and help it to be more effective.
Here's an idea that works out for everybody:
Author Bob writes a book and puts it online. 100,000 people read it. Now they know who he is. A publisher looks at Bob's online work and sees that a lot of people read it. he doesn't have to advertise the guy now - people already know who he is. It takes the guesswork out. Now Bob gets contracted, sells his work instead of giving it away. Bob gets paid.
After a year or 6 months or something, bob releases the book online for free.
In the end, everybody wins. Bob gets paid, the publisher gets paid and saves on advertising and research, and the people can either buy the book or wait an uncomfortable period of time and get it free. most people would probably buy it.
glad to see you manage a sense of humor about it, and realized i was only pointing out the obvious difficulties - not being a jerk. me, my last name is overton.
. . . which wasn't so great when i was a kid, seeing as how i was kind of fat and all. "over-a-ton" really got old after a while heh
but speaking of hotmail (and, by proxy, msn messenger) have you ever played around with it to see what it will and won't let you name yourself? it's interesting that a lot of profanity is ok, but things like "microsoft" or "windows" were blocked IIRC.
this software really only does one thing - it sucks the names of geographical locations out of text documents like web pages and emails and translates them into points on a map. That in itself is harmless.
the real invasion of privacy isn't this program - it's that the feds are monitoring communications of many types, all over the globe, 24-7-365. Until now, they've had FAR more information than they could ever hope to process. They had to sort through stuff manually, and a single day's captured communications could take years to sort through.
if you need a reason to jam that tinfoil hat on a little tighter, just start asking yourself how much privacy you've actually got right now. these fine folks can already hear anything you say on a cell phone WITHOUT a wiretap order that they would have to justify. they can already nab everything that you say on the net. they can snap a shot of you from freaking orbit if they know where to look lol
this program isn't a privacy issue. it's just making the gov a lot more efficient at what they were already doing - and THAT is the privacy issue.
interestingly enough, to fool this system requires only that (when online) you:
(A) refrain from mentioning geographic locations at all (b) mention the WRONG ones - like saying "mt vesuvius" when you actually mean "toledo"
oh . . my . . . . god. i hope the terrorists didn't just read my post. DAMN MY HACKERESQUE POWERS OF GENIUS!
stores have limited inventory space. they can keep dvds for SALE because the demand for dvds that people wish to personally own is something they can anticipate fairly well.
with EZ-D, or flexplay, or WHATEVER you want to call it, they have to carve out TONS more space.
look at how big a blockbuster store is, and consider how much inventory space they have. now factor in that blockbuster is able to RERENT the same movies, over and over.
the costs for operating a video rental store are relatively fixed and upfront. they buy their stock and then they rent it. once a dvd has made up its cost in rentals, everything after that point is profit.
in the case of flexplay though, stores have to estimate ahead of time how much demand there will be and purchase one copy for each sale they think they'll make. their profit is per sale, and WILL NEVER BE as high as if they rented it.
sooooo ... if places like walmart REALLY wanted to horn in on the rental business, it would make the most sense to *GASP* rent the dvds to people cheaper than blockbuster could do it.
yeah . . . wave one hand in the air to take attention away from what the other is doing.
this ad, while ostensibly taking a shot at the RIAA, is actually helping them. It points out that these kids were sued for one, reminding a lot of people that the threat still exists. It makes i-tunes a very attractive alternative. The more popular i-tunes is, the less popular p2p necessarily becomes.
and does the RIAA make money from songs sold on i-tunes?
Um, you know, i think they do . ..
so if you were thinking of screaming 'TAKE THAT RIAA! HELLS YEAH PEPSI!", maybe you should take a moment to consider that pepsi is probably just using your anti-RIAA sympathies to leverage its brand.
*disclaimer - i personally think i-tunes rocks. pay for your music . . . just don't buy RIAA.
At first i was thrilled that hydrogen power was finally getting a little more mainstream. I'm a big fan of hydrogen power.
But one of my main reasons for endorsing hydrogen power so strongly was that it would cut our dependence on FOSSIL FUELS. I don't like oil politics and such.
Ok, this thing certainly has A TYPE of scroll wheel. And yes, Apple has patents for its own version of a scroll wheel - as well as the way the wheel itself works and how it works specifically with the i-pod. It could be that this company has absolutely ripped Apple off.
But Apple isn't suing anyone or releasing statements detailing its intentions to do so just yet, mnk? Lots of things have scroll wheels. My mouse has one. I don't think we can patent a simple hardware control itself. i mean, why not patent a toggle switch if that were the case?
How about we wait and get just a LITTLE more information before we start branding patents as ridiculous or, on the other end, start a wildly speculative crusade to protect Apple's intellectual property.
A. It's 12 miles up. that's well above commercial air traffic, and i suspect (although i'm too lazy to check) most weather problems.
Q. Latency TImes?
A. According to the article, those will be a hell of a lot lower than satellite. Also, it seems to be boasting a very, very high rate of transfer.
Q. How many are needed for redundancy?
A. Well, none. If it crashes it does. Kind of like how, if your ISP gets blowed up, you ain't got no internet. This isn't yet considered stable enough for long term solutions. it's mainly just cheap braodband for areas that don't have it, until they get it - if that makes sense. I see more military applications than anything, to be perfectly honest.
actually, i've noticed you on his "freaks" list, so i guess you'd figured it out by now.
i was wondering if maybe it was actually Rob or somebody blowing off steam and having fun.
I did notice that i was modded overrated seconds after posting, so . . . either it's so clear to everyone by now that even a casual person with mod points thought i was simply stating the obvious OR an editor bumped me so i wouldn't screw up the game.
Eric never says anything original. He literally plagiarizes everything he says, and that's the point. He is mocking you.
I feel like I absolutely MUST make a few things clear.
This is not Eric S. Raymond. This is Eric S. Ray r nond. Look closely. His name itself is a parody.
THE Eric S. RayMond is a controversial guy who is alternatively considered (at least by himself) to be a founder of the open source community, or (by most people) a useless tit who claims co-authorship of about a million programs because he maybe contributed a patch or something, and who really never did anything but write a bunch of regurtitative essays. There is a rather amusing image of him on trollse.cx that illustrates many people's view of the man fairly well.
What our friend here does (in hilarious form I might add) is blatantly plagiarize anything he can get his hands on, then sit back and laugh while people mod him up as insightful.
Don't take my word for it though. Scroll through his comments and select thoughtful sounding lines. Enter them into google in their entirety and then giggle as they invariably return results from well established news outlets, personal webpages, and educational institutions. He even plagiarizes the FREAKING article itself or summaries; sometimes other SLASHDOTTERS. My personal fave was when he ripped off a paper by Wayne N. White, jr. (check out www.spacefuture.com) and was getting comments like "oh my frigging god I wish I had mod points to throw at your brilliance." He actually managed to milk out +5 with 50% interesting, 40% insightful, and 10% informative. I love this guy.
Please understand this. Eric isn't a libertarian. LOL!!! he's fucking with you. And it's funny.
i've been reading all the posts so far, and all of them appear to be in agreement.
i'm not sure i've seen this level of agreement even over the SCO case. Once in a while you at least get a decent troll on the SCO topics.
I feel like it's my duty as a concerned citizen to pick up the slack here, so um . ..
the software monoculture is in every way exactly identical to the potato famine. in fact, it's so similar that i'm not sure they are different things. damn the irish and and their isecure monoculture. damn it.
I would be very interested to see some of the geological formations on mars and the types of erosion that take place there.
I wonder if there is any volcanic activity on mars to speak of . . . anyone know? if so, what better place to find new minerals or learn about what's under the surface of mars than a field of volcanic rock and ash?
i'm also trying to wrap my mind around what sorts of erosion might occur there (in the absence of windbreaks, rainfall?, and flowing water). considering the make-up of the dust there and the wind patterns (which should be positively bizarre without large bodies of water to affect heat differences and the like), might we see glassy smooth surfaces, oddly balanced boulders and other things of that nature? I certainly don't see any dunes.
someone who knows more than me about the weather (or lack thereof) on mars could form more intelligent conclusions on this subject than i could i'm sure, so i will decline to do so out of admitted ignorance.
Ninja Gaiden was one of my favorite nintendo games of all time growing up. i made a video where i set its now famous opening scene to a soundtrack of "Welcome to the Jungle" by GnR.
I don't know for sure, but i imagine that NG will only be available on the X2. Please, someone, tell me i'm wrong about that. Tom's review of Microsoft's presentation on the future of console gaming (it's chilling, frankly) leaves me with sweaty palms and a dry mouth. EVERYTHING hosted on MSN? Passport is a big enough pain in the ass already.
I've considered buying an X-Box already for titles like Halo and for the kickassness that is X-Box Live . . . but i resist, because it's like making a deal with the devil. I am tempted to sell out, i really am. I mean, have you SEEN how many crap games are flooding the market right now for PS2? I'm horrified every time i enter Wal-Mart (of course i would be anyway, but that's beside the point).
That's from Bacule's site (fails.org) referred to in the article synopsis. The vb benches are linked at the bottom if you want to check em out. Hope this helps.
so, in terms of final image quality, the two seem to be at least equal. I'd already read somewhere that this was the case.
What i'm considering is a switch from PS6 to GIMP, or perhaps using both.
Is there anything that GIMP is particularly useful for or better at than PS6? For instance, i do a lot of logo and menu design work. I'll typically have Flash 5, PS6, Dreamweaver MX, Fireworks, and god knows what else running simultaneously when i'm really busy. I make my BGs and button phases up in PS, port em in FW to refine or resize them (ps saves deceptively small), then maybe animate in flash.
so, if GIMP actually RUNS with less resources, that would be an enormous help for me. also, if it's able to do just a couple of things really well, that would be worth knowing.
I don't need GIMP to kicks PS6's ass on every category - i just need to know what it can do well, how well it works with windows, if it lets you c&p from other windows programs, personal experiences with it, and, if you don't mind, any obvious flaws i might encounter.
i just like to know what i'm getting into before i install anything on my work pc.
I've been using photoshop for about, eh . . . 2.5 years now. I'm currently using 6 on a Win 2K box here at work.
It nice, but it can be an enormous resource hog. it also likes to occasionally lose all of the styles i've loaded or created myself.
anybody out there using both that can tell me how they differ in terms of performance or ease of use? photoshop can be damned cryptic sometimes.
also, i can read the specs all day, so if your answer is "RTFS" or "photoshop suXX0rz" then you can just shove it. I'm asking more about perceived differences.
i've got mandrake at home, so i COULD load it up there and play with it, but i HATE taking my work home. anyone using it on windows? don't flame me, i don't have a choice here:)
setting up fans and "heatsinks" and "stuff" is just so annoying, and requires me to move around when i would rather not.
burning things is pretty easy though. With the right equipment, i could conceivably accomplish this from my chair without missing any of the hott, XXX dragonball z action on Toonami.
i think a better solution would be to just make everything AROUND my PC much, much (XXX action) hotter, so that is would SEEM cooler by comparison.
See? The relativity thingy, that's what we're talking about, just like einswhatever said.
If AMD is reading this, STAY AWAY FROM MY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY YOU MONGRELS! PRIOR ART!
Ok, this kind of ineptitude always pisses me off. Some jerk gets his hands on a pile of numbers and suddenly thinks he is Miss Cleo.
2015 is roughly 11 years from now. 11 years ago at this time (circa 1992), people were predicting that the world was going to END in the year 2000. We had everything from the second coming to the Millenium Bug being tossed at us.
The fact is, no one has even the faintest idea what the market for programmers is going to be like in 2015. What we have here is an attempt at statistical trend analysis. Analyzing trends is a good and useful occupation for SHORT TERM VENTURES ONLY.
Example: Janet has been exercising and eating well in an attempt to lose weight. She began this program at a body weight of 200 lbs. For the last three weeks straight she has lost body fat at a consistent rate of 5 pounds/week. it is fair to assume that she will probably lose something close to 5 pounds during the next week "if this trend continues".
But does it make ANY sense at all to say that janet is losing weight at a rate of 260 pounds per year? or that, "if this trend continues", she will weigh -60 pounds in a year?
The facts reported in this article speak for themselves. There IS a trend towards off shore development. This is IMPORTANT. I just think it's sad that the Forester Research's John McCarthy felt the need to delve into his own cavernous anus and pull out numbers like "235,000 in 2015!!!!!!"
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I'm reading some of the responses to this article, and one thing that stands out is the large number of people who cry out "It isn't real! It isn't true!"
I'm curious - from what well of wisdom does your disbelief spring?
I've worked for Wal-Mart, a tech-support firm, and for my state government. I can tell you in no uncertain terms that the sort of business practices described in this article are not relegated simply to tech support; they permeate corporate culture. They are very, very real.
Considering the almost universally crappy service at McDonald's, transfer/machine hell on automated "help" lines, incomprehensible and unethical billing practices by phone companies, undisguised hostility and ingnorance in goverment offices, chronic understaffing and undertraining in department stores, spam, and a host of other noxious and common business practices . . . well, i'm just tempted to ask you, "What the hell kind of bubble have you been living in?"
Good service in any business arena is the exception and not the rule. If this is not the case where you live, please send me an application to your gated community. I want to move there as soon as possible.
Man: Dude . . . i just had a sweet idea.
Dude: Lay it on me man.
Man: You know how superman has all those crystals that he can like, plug into stuff in the fortress? and it like . . . does stuff?
Dude: That is totally sweet.
Man: Oh yah, i know - but what if, like, EACH one of those crystals was also . . . A FULLY FUNCTIONAL PEN!!!!
Dude: . . . . You have just totally blown my mind man.
--- and if you don't like that, how about this ---
Infinium Labs: Behold the majesty of our new, always on, super-terrific awesome badass pen computer thingy!
Person: um . . . that's just a bunch of ball point pens shoved into a styrofoam block.
Infinium: LIES! don't you see the battery?
Person: It's just held on with scotch tape. you don't even have a wire running to it or anything.
Lawyer: You will cease and desist from disparaging Infinium Labs.
Person: whatever.
Darl: excuse me gentlemen, but . . . would that be running linux by any chance?
from the article:
"...if you just consider the timing (about five years) between the consoles, then Moore's Law dictates that the new machine will be eight times as fast as the old one..."
lovely. Moore's law orignates in 1956 as a more or less casual observation of a trend in integrated circuit technology. It's not a law of the universe.
Even if it were, that doesn't mean microsoft is obligated to put the fastest crap they can find in their console. Maybe they will, maybe they won't.
This entire article reads like a gossip column.
Putting a book online for free is a great way for any would-be author to get his stuff read massively. It's just not a good way to get paid.
I don't think this is going to adversely affect the publishing industry much in the long run at all. If anything, it will keep it alive and help it to be more effective.
Here's an idea that works out for everybody:
Author Bob writes a book and puts it online. 100,000 people read it. Now they know who he is. A publisher looks at Bob's online work and sees that a lot of people read it. he doesn't have to advertise the guy now - people already know who he is. It takes the guesswork out. Now Bob gets contracted, sells his work instead of giving it away. Bob gets paid.
After a year or 6 months or something, bob releases the book online for free.
In the end, everybody wins. Bob gets paid, the publisher gets paid and saves on advertising and research, and the people can either buy the book or wait an uncomfortable period of time and get it free. most people would probably buy it.
Just an idea.
:D
glad to see you manage a sense of humor about it, and realized i was only pointing out the obvious difficulties - not being a jerk. me, my last name is overton.
. . . which wasn't so great when i was a kid, seeing as how i was kind of fat and all.
"over-a-ton" really got old after a while heh
but speaking of hotmail (and, by proxy, msn messenger) have you ever played around with it to see what it will and won't let you name yourself? it's interesting that a lot of profanity is ok, but things like "microsoft" or "windows" were blocked IIRC.
graham-cumming?
he could be the king of spam, and he might as well go for it. i mean, with a name like that, he probably gets filtered out half the time anyhow.
well, i just RTFA.
this software really only does one thing - it sucks the names of geographical locations out of text documents like web pages and emails and translates them into points on a map. That in itself is harmless.
the real invasion of privacy isn't this program - it's that the feds are monitoring communications of many types, all over the globe, 24-7-365. Until now, they've had FAR more information than they could ever hope to process. They had to sort through stuff manually, and a single day's captured communications could take years to sort through.
if you need a reason to jam that tinfoil hat on a little tighter, just start asking yourself how much privacy you've actually got right now. these fine folks can already hear anything you say on a cell phone WITHOUT a wiretap order that they would have to justify. they can already nab everything that you say on the net. they can snap a shot of you from freaking orbit if they know where to look lol
this program isn't a privacy issue. it's just making the gov a lot more efficient at what they were already doing - and THAT is the privacy issue.
interestingly enough, to fool this system requires only that (when online) you:
(A) refrain from mentioning geographic locations at all
(b) mention the WRONG ones - like saying "mt vesuvius" when you actually mean "toledo"
oh . . my . . . . god. i hope the terrorists didn't just read my post. DAMN MY HACKERESQUE POWERS OF GENIUS!
stores have limited inventory space. they can keep dvds for SALE because the demand for dvds that people wish to personally own is something they can anticipate fairly well.
.. if places like walmart REALLY wanted to horn in on the rental business, it would make the most sense to *GASP* rent the dvds to people cheaper than blockbuster could do it.
with EZ-D, or flexplay, or WHATEVER you want to call it, they have to carve out TONS more space.
look at how big a blockbuster store is, and consider how much inventory space they have. now factor in that blockbuster is able to RERENT the same movies, over and over.
the costs for operating a video rental store are relatively fixed and upfront. they buy their stock and then they rent it. once a dvd has made up its cost in rentals, everything after that point is profit.
in the case of flexplay though, stores have to estimate ahead of time how much demand there will be and purchase one copy for each sale they think they'll make. their profit is per sale, and WILL NEVER BE as high as if they rented it.
sooooo .
just my thoughts on the matter.
yeah . . . wave one hand in the air to take attention away from what the other is doing.
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this ad, while ostensibly taking a shot at the RIAA, is actually helping them. It points out that these kids were sued for one, reminding a lot of people that the threat still exists. It makes i-tunes a very attractive alternative. The more popular i-tunes is, the less popular p2p necessarily becomes.
and does the RIAA make money from songs sold on i-tunes?
Um, you know, i think they do . .
so if you were thinking of screaming 'TAKE THAT RIAA! HELLS YEAH PEPSI!", maybe you should take a moment to consider that pepsi is probably just using your anti-RIAA sympathies to leverage its brand.
*disclaimer - i personally think i-tunes rocks. pay for your music . . . just don't buy RIAA.
At first i was thrilled that hydrogen power was finally getting a little more mainstream. I'm a big fan of hydrogen power.
But one of my main reasons for endorsing hydrogen power so strongly was that it would cut our dependence on FOSSIL FUELS. I don't like oil politics and such.
Ok, this thing certainly has A TYPE of scroll wheel. And yes, Apple has patents for its own version of a scroll wheel - as well as the way the wheel itself works and how it works specifically with the i-pod. It could be that this company has absolutely ripped Apple off.
But Apple isn't suing anyone or releasing statements detailing its intentions to do so just yet, mnk? Lots of things have scroll wheels. My mouse has one. I don't think we can patent a simple hardware control itself. i mean, why not patent a toggle switch if that were the case?
How about we wait and get just a LITTLE more information before we start branding patents as ridiculous or, on the other end, start a wildly speculative crusade to protect Apple's intellectual property.
Q. Weather problems and air traffic?
A. It's 12 miles up. that's well above commercial air traffic, and i suspect (although i'm too lazy to check) most weather problems.
Q. Latency TImes?
A. According to the article, those will be a hell of a lot lower than satellite. Also, it seems to be boasting a very, very high rate of transfer.
Q. How many are needed for redundancy?
A. Well, none. If it crashes it does. Kind of like how, if your ISP gets blowed up, you ain't got no internet. This isn't yet considered stable enough for long term solutions. it's mainly just cheap braodband for areas that don't have it, until they get it - if that makes sense. I see more military applications than anything, to be perfectly honest.
actually, i've noticed you on his "freaks" list, so i guess you'd figured it out by now.
i was wondering if maybe it was actually Rob or somebody blowing off steam and having fun.
I did notice that i was modded overrated seconds after posting, so . . . either it's so clear to everyone by now that even a casual person with mod points thought i was simply stating the obvious OR an editor bumped me so i wouldn't screw up the game.
just a thought.
Eric never says anything original. He literally plagiarizes everything he says, and that's the point. He is mocking you.
I feel like I absolutely MUST make a few things clear.
This is not Eric S. Raymond. This is Eric S. Ray r nond. Look closely. His name itself is a parody.
THE Eric S. RayMond is a controversial guy who is alternatively considered (at least by himself) to be a founder of the open source community, or (by most people) a useless tit who claims co-authorship of about a million programs because he maybe contributed a patch or something, and who really never did anything but write a bunch of regurtitative essays. There is a rather amusing image of him on trollse.cx that illustrates many people's view of the man fairly well.
What our friend here does (in hilarious form I might add) is blatantly plagiarize anything he can get his hands on, then sit back and laugh while people mod him up as insightful.
Don't take my word for it though. Scroll through his comments and select thoughtful sounding lines. Enter them into google in their entirety and then giggle as they invariably return results from well established news outlets, personal webpages, and educational institutions. He even plagiarizes the FREAKING article itself or summaries; sometimes other SLASHDOTTERS. My personal fave was when he ripped off a paper by Wayne N. White, jr. (check out www.spacefuture.com) and was getting comments like "oh my frigging god I wish I had mod points to throw at your brilliance." He actually managed to milk out +5 with 50% interesting, 40% insightful, and 10% informative. I love this guy.
Please understand this. Eric isn't a libertarian. LOL!!! he's fucking with you. And it's funny.
this is bizarre.
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i've been reading all the posts so far, and all of them appear to be in agreement.
i'm not sure i've seen this level of agreement even over the SCO case. Once in a while you at least get a decent troll on the SCO topics.
I feel like it's my duty as a concerned citizen to pick up the slack here, so um . .
the software monoculture is in every way exactly identical to the potato famine. in fact, it's so similar that i'm not sure they are different things. damn the irish and and their isecure monoculture. damn it.
in other news, i think my pc might have SARS.
I would be very interested to see some of the geological formations on mars and the types of erosion that take place there.
I wonder if there is any volcanic activity on mars to speak of . . . anyone know? if so, what better place to find new minerals or learn about what's under the surface of mars than a field of volcanic rock and ash?
i'm also trying to wrap my mind around what sorts of erosion might occur there (in the absence of windbreaks, rainfall?, and flowing water). considering the make-up of the dust there and the wind patterns (which should be positively bizarre without large bodies of water to affect heat differences and the like), might we see glassy smooth surfaces, oddly balanced boulders and other things of that nature? I certainly don't see any dunes.
someone who knows more than me about the weather (or lack thereof) on mars could form more intelligent conclusions on this subject than i could i'm sure, so i will decline to do so out of admitted ignorance.
Yes, it is coming out for X-Box, which i don't have. No, it isn't coming out for PS2 or for GameCube, both of which i do have.
the point is that i don't want to buy an x-box, but NG might make it too sweet to resist.
Sorry if i made that unclear.
Ninja Gaiden was one of my favorite nintendo games of all time growing up. i made a video where i set its now famous opening scene to a soundtrack of "Welcome to the Jungle" by GnR.
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I don't know for sure, but i imagine that NG will only be available on the X2. Please, someone, tell me i'm wrong about that. Tom's review of Microsoft's presentation on the future of console gaming (it's chilling, frankly) leaves me with sweaty palms and a dry mouth. EVERYTHING hosted on MSN? Passport is a big enough pain in the ass already.
I've considered buying an X-Box already for titles like Halo and for the kickassness that is X-Box Live . . . but i resist, because it's like making a deal with the devil. I am tempted to sell out, i really am. I mean, have you SEEN how many crap games are flooding the market right now for PS2? I'm horrified every time i enter Wal-Mart (of course i would be anyway, but that's beside the point).
Agh. Ninja Gaiden . . . Microsoft . .
Moments like these are why god invented beer.
"Christopher W. Cowell-Shah's benchmarking code, available at:"
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http://www.cowell-shah.com/research/benchmark/cod
That's from Bacule's site (fails.org) referred to in the article synopsis. The vb benches are linked at the bottom if you want to check em out. Hope this helps.
Thanks, i guess i'll load it up and give it a go.
*beats off aversion to learning new crap with coffee mug
so, in terms of final image quality, the two seem to be at least equal. I'd already read somewhere that this was the case.
What i'm considering is a switch from PS6 to GIMP, or perhaps using both.
Is there anything that GIMP is particularly useful for or better at than PS6? For instance, i do a lot of logo and menu design work. I'll typically have Flash 5, PS6, Dreamweaver MX, Fireworks, and god knows what else running simultaneously when i'm really busy. I make my BGs and button phases up in PS, port em in FW to refine or resize them (ps saves deceptively small), then maybe animate in flash.
so, if GIMP actually RUNS with less resources, that would be an enormous help for me. also, if it's able to do just a couple of things really well, that would be worth knowing.
I don't need GIMP to kicks PS6's ass on every category - i just need to know what it can do well, how well it works with windows, if it lets you c&p from other windows programs, personal experiences with it, and, if you don't mind, any obvious flaws i might encounter.
i just like to know what i'm getting into before i install anything on my work pc.
I've been using photoshop for about, eh . . . 2.5 years now. I'm currently using 6 on a Win 2K box here at work.
:)
It nice, but it can be an enormous resource hog. it also likes to occasionally lose all of the styles i've loaded or created myself.
anybody out there using both that can tell me how they differ in terms of performance or ease of use? photoshop can be damned cryptic sometimes.
also, i can read the specs all day, so if your answer is "RTFS" or "photoshop suXX0rz" then you can just shove it. I'm asking more about perceived differences.
i've got mandrake at home, so i COULD load it up there and play with it, but i HATE taking my work home. anyone using it on windows? don't flame me, i don't have a choice here
redundant?
Off Topic, Flamebait, Troll, mnk, maybe.
or just -1 completely stupid and not funny.
redundant?
is there someone else saying that it would be a good idea to set everything around your pc on fire?
and furthermore, is there someone else saying it would be a good idea to set everything around your pc on fire?
redundant?
setting up fans and "heatsinks" and "stuff" is just so annoying, and requires me to move around when i would rather not.
burning things is pretty easy though. With the right equipment, i could conceivably accomplish this from my chair without missing any of the hott, XXX dragonball z action on Toonami.
i think a better solution would be to just make everything AROUND my PC much, much (XXX action) hotter, so that is would SEEM cooler by comparison.
See? The relativity thingy, that's what we're talking about, just like einswhatever said.
If AMD is reading this, STAY AWAY FROM MY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY YOU MONGRELS! PRIOR ART!
Ok, this kind of ineptitude always pisses me off. Some jerk gets his hands on a pile of numbers and suddenly thinks he is Miss Cleo.
2015 is roughly 11 years from now. 11 years ago at this time (circa 1992), people were predicting that the world was going to END in the year 2000. We had everything from the second coming to the Millenium Bug being tossed at us.
The fact is, no one has even the faintest idea what the market for programmers is going to be like in 2015. What we have here is an attempt at statistical trend analysis. Analyzing trends is a good and useful occupation for SHORT TERM VENTURES ONLY.
Example: Janet has been exercising and eating well in an attempt to lose weight. She began this program at a body weight of 200 lbs. For the last three weeks straight she has lost body fat at a consistent rate of 5 pounds/week. it is fair to assume that she will probably lose something close to 5 pounds during the next week "if this trend continues".
But does it make ANY sense at all to say that janet is losing weight at a rate of 260 pounds per year? or that, "if this trend continues", she will weigh -60 pounds in a year?
The facts reported in this article speak for themselves. There IS a trend towards off shore development. This is IMPORTANT. I just think it's sad that the Forester Research's John McCarthy felt the need to delve into his own cavernous anus and pull out numbers like "235,000 in 2015!!!!!!"
*grimace and spit, fork the sign of the evil eye