Sure, sure, go burn your stupid CD with the click of a mouse. Wee. Get hooked so nobody else's projects will ever make it. What are you going to do with your mouse when all the other projects are dead and you can't use Nero anymore because upgrades cost too much or your version "is not supported"? Buy something else? Ahh, that's it, you'll take your money elsewhere because you are used to paying out the nose for something you can't even own. Proprietary obsolescense at it's best.
As long as people like you rule the Linux community, Linux will never become a legitimate operating system. It's amusing how long Linux has survived with people like you running it. It's no surprise that until recently, it was only restricted to overweight recluses with feet of facial hair.
I'm going to play Devil's Advocate for a moment here:
The reason medical companies lock everything up with so many goddamn patents is because inventing and testing medical devices is expensive as hell. Tens of millions of dollars goes into the development of a single device, and if it's something completely new, it'll cost almost hundreds of millions of dollars and several years to get it through the FDA.
Granted, a lot of the money goes to marketing to the general public (which IMHO, shouldn't be done for medical devices or drugs, only doctors or other licensed professionals really *know* what you need), but sometimes patents are the way that companies can break even when researching new medical devices or drugs.
The only problem is that you're not right that they always build completely new gameplay. The Metriod games are starting to become spookily similar to Halo.
I agree with most of your post, but that one sentence makes almost no sense. Beyond the fact that both games are Sci-fi FPS's involving people in powersuits, there are few similarities between the two. Comparing Metroid to Halo is like comparing Mario to Castlevania.
Depends on your definition of 'deeper level of strategy'. They are both deep games in their own ways- Go depends more on subtle pattern recognition, while Chess is more straightforward.
I think that has to do with the fact that Apple forces retailers to sell their products at a set price. For a *long* time (up until two or three months ago), it was impossible to find an iPod for less than retail price, period.
Now most of the 'low' prices for the iPod result from storewide rebates and coupons. But there's a reason there are never 'sales' on Apple merchandise.
None of it is influenced by Microsoft per se, it's just that MS has the largest market share.
Blaming Microsoft for most hardware being Windows compatible and not Linux compatibile is like blaming the English language for the amount of books that are printed in English as opposed to Hindi.
"you're not supposed to reboot an X terminal as often as a Windows workstation - you just lock it and leave it as is. This comes from older times, but still shows"
That's impractical for anyone who pays utilities. With power supplies running around 400-500 Watts, you're talking an extra $40-$50 a month on your utilities bill (8hrs a day vs. 24 hrs). Granted, you can suspend the machine, but it's still drawing power.
Good, GOD, someone who agrees with me. I was afraid that/. was overrun by Linux zealots and Mac fanboys. (Oh wait, it still is.)
One thing that really irks me about any Linux GUI is how much screen space they waste. Running Linux on 1024x768 is equivalent to running Windows on 800x600. 800x600 is a usable resolution for many people, but when you do photo editing and paper writing, you need all the screen space you can get.
Hell, even Windows OSS programs have that problem- compare the amount of space OpenOffice wastes to Office 2k3, and the amount of space Gaim wastes when compared to Trillian.
Bah, Ad-Aware and Spybot are less effective against HSA (The new version of CoolWeb) than Microsoft Antispyware.
I spent last saturday removing it, and after running HijackThis, Ad-Aware, Spybot, and Antispyware, MS caught things that neither Ad-Aware or Spybot did.
I think Longhorn's main appeal (at least to me) is the Monad CLI.
To me, the only thing that's appealing about Linux and OSX is the combination of a strong command line interface with a good GUI. But beyond that, neither system has really appealed to me.
I'm extremely satisified with Windows XP, IMHO, it's the best operating system out there for a moderately experienced computer user. IE isn't *that* bad, you're only in danger if you're a complete and total moron, and the XP implementation of Firefox is the best out of the three. Office runs perfectly fine for me (Anything GTK uses up far too much screen space), and everything runs in an MDI, which I prefer to hanging windows.
Call me old fashioned or lazy, but I'll live with my minor flaws. I know XP better than anything else. Linux may be better in many aspects, but the amount of time it would take me to become as proficient in Linux as I am in XP (I'm only satisifed as being a power user) would take me several months. Monad will (hopefully) give me the power of the Linux command line with Windows, a system that I already know in great detail.
Oh, and having a large variety of games to choose from is a nice thing, too.
MS always sets the bar higher than it really needs to be. I remember before XP was released, they said you'd need a 500 MHz processor and 256 megs of RAM. XP runs (with everything turned off) decently on a 200 MHz machine with 128.
Interestingly enough, Microsoft is famous for treating its employees well and giving them freedoms rivaling that of Google.
I don't think MS's 'monopoly' is any threat to working conditions. EA, on the other hand....
You obviously haven't been around college campuses much. After winter break I kept running into people who wanted to exchange their non-iPod MP3 players because 'they weren't cool enough', even if they were superior players.
The problem is that the flaws are a hardware issue.
If all of a company's laptops had 'e' keys that only worked 60% of the time, and shot CD's out of their drives if the wrong key combination was hit, they'd be in deep shit. If Logitech shipped mice with only partially functional buttons, they'd get in deep shit. I don't see how the PSP should be any different.
Glad to hear that educated people like you control the future of our species.
The problem with embryonic stem cells is that nobody wants to touch them because of the ethical concerns.
When South Korean researchers cloned humans using embryonic stem cells, there was a (relatively) huge uproar from the US. Imagine what it'd be like if that had been done in America.
If you actually look into the field, the US is literally *years* behind because it's much easier to work with embryonic stem cells than it is with other types. And as for the original comment I replied to, stem cell technology is fairly new.
It's just as complicated as the drug development, and the average amount of time it takes for a drug to be developed and tested runs to about 17 years. Expecting no federal funds to be granted to research and seeing a cure within six years is just foolish.
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Sure, sure, go burn your stupid CD with the click of a mouse. Wee. Get hooked so nobody else's projects will ever make it. What are you going to do with your mouse when all the other projects are dead and you can't use Nero anymore because upgrades cost too much or your version "is not supported"? Buy something else? Ahh, that's it, you'll take your money elsewhere because you are used to paying out the nose for something you can't even own. Proprietary obsolescense at it's best.
As long as people like you rule the Linux community, Linux will never become a legitimate operating system. It's amusing how long Linux has survived with people like you running it. It's no surprise that until recently, it was only restricted to overweight recluses with feet of facial hair.
Me too. I find it amusing that some random slashdotter believes that he knows more about Linux and its market growth than the CEO of OSDL.
Can you get 5+ hours on the Pentium M laptops?
yes, yes, yes, and
There are plenty of others. Just do some research before you say something stupid.
I'm going to play Devil's Advocate for a moment here:
The reason medical companies lock everything up with so many goddamn patents is because inventing and testing medical devices is expensive as hell. Tens of millions of dollars goes into the development of a single device, and if it's something completely new, it'll cost almost hundreds of millions of dollars and several years to get it through the FDA.
Granted, a lot of the money goes to marketing to the general public (which IMHO, shouldn't be done for medical devices or drugs, only doctors or other licensed professionals really *know* what you need), but sometimes patents are the way that companies can break even when researching new medical devices or drugs.
All our power problems would be solved with 200 teenage boys.
Or five slashdotters.
The only problem is that you're not right that they always build completely new gameplay. The Metriod games are starting to become spookily similar to Halo.
I agree with most of your post, but that one sentence makes almost no sense. Beyond the fact that both games are Sci-fi FPS's involving people in powersuits, there are few similarities between the two. Comparing Metroid to Halo is like comparing Mario to Castlevania.
Nope. That's how all catalysts work.
It's because GTK eats balls. Gaim has the same problem, too.
I wonder what moron set that to Insightful.
Depends on your definition of 'deeper level of strategy'. They are both deep games in their own ways- Go depends more on subtle pattern recognition, while Chess is more straightforward.
I think that has to do with the fact that Apple forces retailers to sell their products at a set price. For a *long* time (up until two or three months ago), it was impossible to find an iPod for less than retail price, period.
Now most of the 'low' prices for the iPod result from storewide rebates and coupons. But there's a reason there are never 'sales' on Apple merchandise.
Which I learned a year too late. I'm currently in my second semester as a BME major at Washington University In St. Louis.
Bioengineering is what I was looking for.
None of it is influenced by Microsoft per se, it's just that MS has the largest market share.
Blaming Microsoft for most hardware being Windows compatible and not Linux compatibile is like blaming the English language for the amount of books that are printed in English as opposed to Hindi.
I only have one point to make:
"you're not supposed to reboot an X terminal as often as a Windows workstation - you just lock it and leave it as is. This comes from older times, but still shows"
That's impractical for anyone who pays utilities. With power supplies running around 400-500 Watts, you're talking an extra $40-$50 a month on your utilities bill (8hrs a day vs. 24 hrs). Granted, you can suspend the machine, but it's still drawing power.
Good, GOD, someone who agrees with me. I was afraid that /. was overrun by Linux zealots and Mac fanboys. (Oh wait, it still is.)
One thing that really irks me about any Linux GUI is how much screen space they waste. Running Linux on 1024x768 is equivalent to running Windows on 800x600. 800x600 is a usable resolution for many people, but when you do photo editing and paper writing, you need all the screen space you can get.
Hell, even Windows OSS programs have that problem- compare the amount of space OpenOffice wastes to Office 2k3, and the amount of space Gaim wastes when compared to Trillian.
Ick.
Bah, Ad-Aware and Spybot are less effective against HSA (The new version of CoolWeb) than Microsoft Antispyware.
I spent last saturday removing it, and after running HijackThis, Ad-Aware, Spybot, and Antispyware, MS caught things that neither Ad-Aware or Spybot did.
I guess you've never heard of the Delphi MyFi.
I think Longhorn's main appeal (at least to me) is the Monad CLI.
To me, the only thing that's appealing about Linux and OSX is the combination of a strong command line interface with a good GUI. But beyond that, neither system has really appealed to me.
I'm extremely satisified with Windows XP, IMHO, it's the best operating system out there for a moderately experienced computer user. IE isn't *that* bad, you're only in danger if you're a complete and total moron, and the XP implementation of Firefox is the best out of the three. Office runs perfectly fine for me (Anything GTK uses up far too much screen space), and everything runs in an MDI, which I prefer to hanging windows.
Call me old fashioned or lazy, but I'll live with my minor flaws. I know XP better than anything else. Linux may be better in many aspects, but the amount of time it would take me to become as proficient in Linux as I am in XP (I'm only satisifed as being a power user) would take me several months. Monad will (hopefully) give me the power of the Linux command line with Windows, a system that I already know in great detail.
Oh, and having a large variety of games to choose from is a nice thing, too.
Turn on automatic updates.
Problem Solved.
MS always sets the bar higher than it really needs to be. I remember before XP was released, they said you'd need a 500 MHz processor and 256 megs of RAM. XP runs (with everything turned off) decently on a 200 MHz machine with 128.
Interestingly enough, Microsoft is famous for treating its employees well and giving them freedoms rivaling that of Google. I don't think MS's 'monopoly' is any threat to working conditions. EA, on the other hand....
I don't think people are looking for great literary strength in TPS reports, though.
You obviously haven't been around college campuses much. After winter break I kept running into people who wanted to exchange their non-iPod MP3 players because 'they weren't cool enough', even if they were superior players.
The problem is that the flaws are a hardware issue.
If all of a company's laptops had 'e' keys that only worked 60% of the time, and shot CD's out of their drives if the wrong key combination was hit, they'd be in deep shit. If Logitech shipped mice with only partially functional buttons, they'd get in deep shit. I don't see how the PSP should be any different.
Yep, that was definitely a mistake on my part.
Glad to hear that educated people like you control the future of our species.
The problem with embryonic stem cells is that nobody wants to touch them because of the ethical concerns.
When South Korean researchers cloned humans using embryonic stem cells, there was a (relatively) huge uproar from the US. Imagine what it'd be like if that had been done in America.
If you actually look into the field, the US is literally *years* behind because it's much easier to work with embryonic stem cells than it is with other types. And as for the original comment I replied to, stem cell technology is fairly new.
It's just as complicated as the drug development, and the average amount of time it takes for a drug to be developed and tested runs to about 17 years. Expecting no federal funds to be granted to research and seeing a cure within six years is just foolish.