From what I've read about the formats, it seems very unlikely that there will be any "combo" drives for BluRay and HD. DVD -/+ disks (plus all the way baby) are similar enough and use the same laser that doing a dual drive isn't that hard.
Personally I think I like BluRay partially because it seems to have the ability to offer a lot more storage space than HD. The one question about that is the time it takes to create a disk, I don't want to wait a full day to burn 100GB. However, the bigger reason I like BluRay is the name. I mean come on, HD-DVD? Boooooooring. Not only that but it will introduce confusion where there's already to much. HD-TV, Hard Drive, HD floppies, Half Duplex, Harley-Davidson. I mean, I don't need any more things I have to explain 10 times a day to my grandparents.
Besides, blue is cool. Everything nowadays has those great blue LEDs. The way I look at it, you're either with the blue pop culture or you're with the mole men.
Will and Melinda? Oooo-wee, Bill is going to be pissed when he finds out!
the author is obviously an idiot.
That was my general belief as well. And his friend who thought that 10% of $2B would really help that much shouldn't procreate if he cares about the future of the species. Microsoft has more like $40B in cash, and many countries, including the US, give way more than $200M every year to many countries (often with limited success). This all in addition that when it comes down to it the average person doesn't care if Microsoft has lots of cash on hand. They want an OS with a nice GUI, tons of out-of-the-box driver support, and Solitaire. That's pretty much it.
This "article" is a joke. Is it just me or does Zonk post more and more trash every day?
Off the top of my head I cant think of any carnivores that humans eat.
What about fish? There are many which eat other, smaller fish. People eat dogs in some parts of the world. Also, though it's not mainstream, I know some people in Arizona who like rattlesnake. They'll catch them and barbeque them. And yes, supposedly it really does taste like chicken:)
Michigan roads must make the perfect test cases for this stuff, and I look forward to their improvement.
Does anyone else here hate highways that are made with concrete? They have them here around Salt Lake with asphalt segments every now and then. Every time I go from concrete to asphalt I realize just how much quieter the car is and smoother the ride feels. It's almost painful to go back to concrete.
I guess concret must have some advantage if it's used all over, but it seems like asphalt is better for roads. It expands and contracts easier, and when a pothole forms in concrete it always seems to get real big and deep a lot faster than with asphalt. Not sure, but maybe all the salt they dump on the roads around here in the winter is bad for asphalt?
First, a reality check: Microsoft, with nearly $40 billion in revenues, is ten times the size of Google. It's sitting on $34 billion in cash, generating $1 billion in new cash a month, and, thanks to its core Windows, Office, and server products, growing at 15% a year, with operating margins above 30%.
Those are impressive numbers. A company with $34 billion dollars in cash and those market shares is NOT dying. They might be facing more competition now than they did 8-10 years ago, but that's often healthy for large companies. It gets them thinking and makes them improve their products. Microsoft is also very diversified in the products they produce, something you can't yet say for Google.
Also, Microsoft is set to release both Longhorn and IE 7 fairly soon. These are supposed to be massive updates. Once they're out we'll know, but until then saying that "MS is dying" is very ignorant.
Oh, and to the previous poster, yes, this DOES sound just like the title of the next Dvorak article. Ha! +5 Funny for you:)
There's several other Star Trek animations on that site that are pretty funny. There's also some very odd ones, like the Unlucky Ant (dealing somewhat with the Schiavo issue).
In the end, Enterprise and the last few movies were brought down because they weren't telling good stories. Tell a good story and people will watch.
I sure hope somebody sees this and mods you Insightful because that is _*IT*_. The problem is idiots like Berman are so egotistical and blind to the fans that they figure if the ratings are low it's the fans' fault. Their stories are perfect--who could ask for better?--so it must be for some other reason that the show is dying.
The best thing for Star Trek would be if Berman and Braga simply disappeared.
Just for fun, here's an example of just how stupid (coral cached link) the last Trek film was. Funny, yes, but sadly accurate.
doesnt the crash dump tool say "no personal data transmitted"?
The way it works is after submitting a problem, if there's recognizable issues it asks if you want to use OCA and if you choose Yes, it opens a web page in IE and tells you what happened. You can link OCA activity to your Passport to help keep track of it and a record of your problems.
The biggest issue I see with this, at least in the short term, is the possible use of this feature in the corporate setting.
I'm sure this new "black box" will be controllable via Group Policy. The management and IT can decide if they want to use it and if not turn it off for everyone with a fewer than maybe 15-20 mouse clicks.
I think this is probably a good step forward in trying to diagnose and prevent crashes for home users, as long as they don't start digging too deep. I don't really mind them knowing what processes were running, but sending them more than just a mini memory dump is too much. I'd also want to make sure they don't grab anything from memory that's supposed to be protected like passwords. Really, that's the only place I see issues, for example if I'm running some financing software which crashes. They grab a memory dump of the program which just happens to contain my SSN, birthday, credit card numbers, bank account numbers, etc. There is the possibility this information could be misused by an employee at Microsoft.
Microsoft's Online Crash Analysis, the current version of this type of thing, has helped me a time or two. I've had Windows shoot a BSOD at me and after submitting the dump to MS, they readily told me which driver was the culprit and saved me perhaps an hour of troubleshooting.
From the Avalon homepage: "Avalon provides the foundation for building applications and high fidelity experiences, blending together application UI, documents, and media content, while exploiting the full power of your computer."
Assuming that's not just more marketing bullshit you might have a point. Still, I just don't see an operating system's GUI having such broad horizons. Extending Avalon into web applications and the like, all while making it as scriptable and amazingly versatile as Flash has become? Just not going to happen I think.
That said, I do look forward to Avalon to see just how much they copy from Tiger and X and to see if they've figured out anything new.
How? Microsoft and Adobe are not competitors. They offer products that are completely different. The only real competition at all is between Cold Fusion and ASP, but that's a brand new development and really is a non-issue.
Unless Adobe is going into operating systems and office software or Microsoft is going into graphics design the two companies have pretty close to zero overlap.
Actually Open Licenses are both nice to have and have a name that makes sense. It also had nothing to do with open source or IP.
It basically said: You have a single product ID. It's valid for a minimum of 5 licenses for the Product. If you want to add more licenses at any time, in any amount, just pay us and we'll upgrade that same product key. No more managing 25,000 different licenses and product keys.
Very nice for corporations and whatnot. The Software Assurance part is pretty good too if you get it at the right time.
While we're at it, let's solve world peace! All we need to do is get all the world leaders to sit down and back an idea on how things could be made better...
Ok. I'll make a few phone calls and see what I can do.
The Overrateed/Underrated mods are a little interesting.
If you read the Mod FAQ about them (last bullet) you'll see that you can get some odd (but unlikely I guess) combos like +5 Flamebait (that would be cool though:).
Also, and I don't know this for fact but I've seen others discuss it, if you mod using Under/Overrated too much, you may eventually be given fewer/no mod points. The reason being is that Under/Overrated mods cannot be metamoderated so you get trolls with mod points using them to mod people down without valid reason (political, whatever). There's some big discussions about users getting hit by tons of Overrated mods because they have enough Foes with mod points. Basically there's no way to "balance out" Under/Overrated mods.
I think the reason some Funny posts get modded Insightful, Informative, Whatever is because starting sometime ago Funny mods no longer improve your karma. Thus to counteract, if a post already has a few Funny mods, a moderator might mod it Informative to boost the poster's karma a bit.
Makes some sense to me. After all, Funny comments in/. stories are most of the reason I read comments. A real knee-slapper deservers a bit of karma methinks:)
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If I wanted to see Episodes 1 and 2...
If anyone actually wanted to see Ep 1 and 2 again after the first time then somebody really needs to beat them to death with a tack hammer.
It's time to pour some chlorine in the gene pool.
From what I've read about the formats, it seems very unlikely that there will be any "combo" drives for BluRay and HD. DVD -/+ disks (plus all the way baby) are similar enough and use the same laser that doing a dual drive isn't that hard.
Personally I think I like BluRay partially because it seems to have the ability to offer a lot more storage space than HD. The one question about that is the time it takes to create a disk, I don't want to wait a full day to burn 100GB. However, the bigger reason I like BluRay is the name. I mean come on, HD-DVD? Boooooooring. Not only that but it will introduce confusion where there's already to much. HD-TV, Hard Drive, HD floppies, Half Duplex, Harley-Davidson. I mean, I don't need any more things I have to explain 10 times a day to my grandparents.
Besides, blue is cool. Everything nowadays has those great blue LEDs. The way I look at it, you're either with the blue pop culture or you're with the mole men.
Here's the first crash
I think they were computing pi.
Except leave out the republicans, to get more cpu per brain
More cpu per brain? My friend, I think you just contradicted yourself and proved your statement false.
That's the first thing I thought when I saw Sun's page. I wasn't so sure until I checked. Apparently they could have.
(As I was looking around I saw this which, while offtopic, is pretty funny.)
Besides, they've smiled together before.
Will and Melinda Gates Foundation,
Will and Melinda? Oooo-wee, Bill is going to be pissed when he finds out!
the author is obviously an idiot.
That was my general belief as well. And his friend who thought that 10% of $2B would really help that much shouldn't procreate if he cares about the future of the species. Microsoft has more like $40B in cash, and many countries, including the US, give way more than $200M every year to many countries (often with limited success). This all in addition that when it comes down to it the average person doesn't care if Microsoft has lots of cash on hand. They want an OS with a nice GUI, tons of out-of-the-box driver support, and Solitaire. That's pretty much it.
This "article" is a joke. Is it just me or does Zonk post more and more trash every day?
Wrong! You might try to RTFA next time.
Mod parent down.
Off the top of my head I cant think of any carnivores that humans eat.
:)
What about fish? There are many which eat other, smaller fish. People eat dogs in some parts of the world. Also, though it's not mainstream, I know some people in Arizona who like rattlesnake. They'll catch them and barbeque them. And yes, supposedly it really does taste like chicken
Michigan roads must make the perfect test cases for this stuff, and I look forward to their improvement.
Does anyone else here hate highways that are made with concrete? They have them here around Salt Lake with asphalt segments every now and then. Every time I go from concrete to asphalt I realize just how much quieter the car is and smoother the ride feels. It's almost painful to go back to concrete.
I guess concret must have some advantage if it's used all over, but it seems like asphalt is better for roads. It expands and contracts easier, and when a pothole forms in concrete it always seems to get real big and deep a lot faster than with asphalt. Not sure, but maybe all the salt they dump on the roads around here in the winter is bad for asphalt?
Heh, not even user manuals have instructions like that anymore
Too bad too. Some of those old manuals were the best. Here's an example from Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 2:
Disable you network card "unless you have a machine that is extremely powerful."
And
Dump everything that is unimportant from your computer.
Also
Reinstall Windows once a year. Windows gets dirty over time, just like the ones you have in the walls of your home.
Words to live by.
Uh...
:)
Did you read the article? From TFA:
First, a reality check: Microsoft, with nearly $40 billion in revenues, is ten times the size of Google. It's sitting on $34 billion in cash, generating $1 billion in new cash a month, and, thanks to its core Windows, Office, and server products, growing at 15% a year, with operating margins above 30%.
Those are impressive numbers. A company with $34 billion dollars in cash and those market shares is NOT dying. They might be facing more competition now than they did 8-10 years ago, but that's often healthy for large companies. It gets them thinking and makes them improve their products. Microsoft is also very diversified in the products they produce, something you can't yet say for Google.
Also, Microsoft is set to release both Longhorn and IE 7 fairly soon. These are supposed to be massive updates. Once they're out we'll know, but until then saying that "MS is dying" is very ignorant.
Oh, and to the previous poster, yes, this DOES sound just like the title of the next Dvorak article. Ha! +5 Funny for you
If you happen to find yourself hanging upside down in a cave, a lightsaber is the perfect tool to use to cut the rope.
Rope? What rope?
Captain James T. Kirk of the starship Enterprise. Damn, he's so sexy.
Now, now. If you're going to bring that up, we've got to post the originals too! These are definitely worth looking at.
The Picard Song (Flash) [coral cache] You can hear the entire song here [coral cache].
There's several other Star Trek animations on that site that are pretty funny. There's also some very odd ones, like the Unlucky Ant (dealing somewhat with the Schiavo issue).
In the end, Enterprise and the last few movies were brought down because they weren't telling good stories. Tell a good story and people will watch.
I sure hope somebody sees this and mods you Insightful because that is _*IT*_. The problem is idiots like Berman are so egotistical and blind to the fans that they figure if the ratings are low it's the fans' fault. Their stories are perfect--who could ask for better?--so it must be for some other reason that the show is dying.
The best thing for Star Trek would be if Berman and Braga simply disappeared.
Just for fun, here's an example of just how stupid (coral cached link) the last Trek film was. Funny, yes, but sadly accurate.
how exactly did they contact you?
doesnt the crash dump tool say "no personal data transmitted"?
The way it works is after submitting a problem, if there's recognizable issues it asks if you want to use OCA and if you choose Yes, it opens a web page in IE and tells you what happened. You can link OCA activity to your Passport to help keep track of it and a record of your problems.
Doesn't always work, but it's nice when it does.
The biggest issue I see with this, at least in the short term, is the possible use of this feature in the corporate setting.
I'm sure this new "black box" will be controllable via Group Policy. The management and IT can decide if they want to use it and if not turn it off for everyone with a fewer than maybe 15-20 mouse clicks.
I think this is probably a good step forward in trying to diagnose and prevent crashes for home users, as long as they don't start digging too deep. I don't really mind them knowing what processes were running, but sending them more than just a mini memory dump is too much. I'd also want to make sure they don't grab anything from memory that's supposed to be protected like passwords. Really, that's the only place I see issues, for example if I'm running some financing software which crashes. They grab a memory dump of the program which just happens to contain my SSN, birthday, credit card numbers, bank account numbers, etc. There is the possibility this information could be misused by an employee at Microsoft.
Microsoft's Online Crash Analysis, the current version of this type of thing, has helped me a time or two. I've had Windows shoot a BSOD at me and after submitting the dump to MS, they readily told me which driver was the culprit and saved me perhaps an hour of troubleshooting.
From the Avalon homepage: "Avalon provides the foundation for building applications and high fidelity experiences, blending together application UI, documents, and media content, while exploiting the full power of your computer."
Assuming that's not just more marketing bullshit you might have a point. Still, I just don't see an operating system's GUI having such broad horizons. Extending Avalon into web applications and the like, all while making it as scriptable and amazingly versatile as Flash has become? Just not going to happen I think.
That said, I do look forward to Avalon to see just how much they copy from Tiger and X and to see if they've figured out anything new.
While Adobe may be a threat to MS
How? Microsoft and Adobe are not competitors. They offer products that are completely different. The only real competition at all is between Cold Fusion and ASP, but that's a brand new development and really is a non-issue.
Unless Adobe is going into operating systems and office software or Microsoft is going into graphics design the two companies have pretty close to zero overlap.
Actually Open Licenses are both nice to have and have a name that makes sense. It also had nothing to do with open source or IP.
It basically said: You have a single product ID. It's valid for a minimum of 5 licenses for the Product. If you want to add more licenses at any time, in any amount, just pay us and we'll upgrade that same product key. No more managing 25,000 different licenses and product keys.
Very nice for corporations and whatnot. The Software Assurance part is pretty good too if you get it at the right time.
While we're at it, let's solve world peace! All we need to do is get all the world leaders to sit down and back an idea on how things could be made better...
Ok. I'll make a few phone calls and see what I can do.
The Overrateed/Underrated mods are a little interesting.
:).
If you read the Mod FAQ about them (last bullet) you'll see that you can get some odd (but unlikely I guess) combos like +5 Flamebait (that would be cool though
Also, and I don't know this for fact but I've seen others discuss it, if you mod using Under/Overrated too much, you may eventually be given fewer/no mod points. The reason being is that Under/Overrated mods cannot be metamoderated so you get trolls with mod points using them to mod people down without valid reason (political, whatever). There's some big discussions about users getting hit by tons of Overrated mods because they have enough Foes with mod points. Basically there's no way to "balance out" Under/Overrated mods.
Anyone know more about this?
Ha! Ha ha!
:)
After my little spiel about how Funny mods don't help karma, blah blah, my previously "Informative" post gets modded Funny.
That is the Funniest thing I've seen on Slashdot today
For the curious.
And no, it wasn't very good at all (of course this is Voyager we're talking about...)
sheesh, it's funny people, Funny!
/. stories are most of the reason I read comments. A real knee-slapper deservers a bit of karma methinks :)
I think the reason some Funny posts get modded Insightful, Informative, Whatever is because starting sometime ago Funny mods no longer improve your karma. Thus to counteract, if a post already has a few Funny mods, a moderator might mod it Informative to boost the poster's karma a bit.
Makes some sense to me. After all, Funny comments in