As a regular reader I ask you kindly, please do something about the vulgar AC that first post trolls this site. If you can't IP ban the troll then at least delete their posts. This is not reddit, please disrespect the "free speech" of vulgar trolls that add nothing to the conversation.
They could just make people have to log into post. Because the problem is Anonymous Cowards act like anonymous cowards.
Before you posted your typical Slashdot reader know-it-all shtick, you should've read TFA:
To find out how the virus might spread among people, an international group of researchers infected ferrets, which often stand as proxies for people in influenza studies. Infected ferrets passed the virus to all of the uninfected animals housed in the same cage, indicating that H7N9 spreads through direct contact, the team reports May 23 in Science.
Well, seeing as the typical article is usually click bate for some blog, or some product, I only click the link on articles that don't have shit ass summaries and crappy titles.
I saw the title and said to myself, "No shit flu can spread from person to person."
Then they talk about "bird" flu and say it spreads from ferret to ferret. I've had a public school education, so maybe I missed the day where they told us ferrets were birds and not mammals.
I built a video game in 48 hours. Well ok it is not a AAA title. It is a tron clone. But who cares, lets just not precise this and everybody will think that I rewrote Crysis 3.
"a fascination with the early history of the computer age"
1976 was already the middle of the computer age.
Really? I feel the computer age hasn't even taken off yet, and speaking of a middle for something that is open ended is just silly. In fact, even though the age of the gene-manipulation/bio-tech might be starting now, let us not forget that it is progress in our computation capabilities that makes all this possible. There is still lots more to be done in computational mathematics/biology/engineeering/science.
The home computer age, the personal computer age had barely started, but there had computers around for those with access.
Try again? If you looked at the link you referenced, it talks about the Wii. This article is about the Wii U. Two different consoles.
you said:
It didn't survive against the XBox 360 and PS3.. there's no way it'll survive consoles 2 generations ahead of it.
The Wii U is 1 generation ahead of the 360 & PS3, so why are you comparing the Wii U to consoles 2 generations ahead of it? We don't even have it's generation of consoles out yet, besides it.
So I thought you were talking about the Wii (even considered you meant the gamecube) even though it's only 1 generation behind the 360 & PS3.
Unless you are thinking that the Wii, Xbox 360 & PS3 aren't the same generation? Then you don't know what you are talking about. They are the same generation.
So, my bad on missing your point, but your wording really thru me off.
I would be extremely happy of being able to play the next Mario on something else than a Nintendo console. I bought the Wii just for Super Mario Wii, I loved the game, but now I have a white piece of plastic doing nothing underneath my TV.
It's not going to happen, but it would be very nice.
I bought my Wii to play emulators on it.
Anyways, Nintendo isn't going to get out of the hardware business. They are really successful at it. Sometimes they put out flops (Virtual Boy), sometimes gimmicks don't pay off (3DS), and sometimes the software isn't there. But here's the problem with Game Developers. They are greedy, stupid, and really fucking lazy. Instead of making the best game they can for each platform, they try to make 1 game that works on all platforms. Since the Wii U is a bit underpowered compared to the Xbox One and PS4 (and computers), developers don't want to make games for it, because it will require a little more work. Sort of like when the port console games to the PC they make it work, just barely. Not surprisingly you'll find mouse controls barely work, you can't adjust video settings, FoV is screwed up, etc. I'm sure most of you PC gamers know exactly what I'm talking about. Sometimes they fix it, lots of time they don't care.
What Nintendo needs to do is get more In House Developers, like back in the day, to make some great games.
I was told I used too much bandwidth on a 6mbps DSL line. No warning, just turned it off. Got them to turn it back on, which a week later they shut it down and told me to go elsewhere. So I did. While I didn't do 77TB of data in a month, apparently I hit 1.5TB on my highest month. Which I don't find to be that much, not for someone who spends 16 hours a day on his computer at home.
Anyways, now i have a much faster internet and supposed to have a cap of 450gb a month.
"In a free market"... What utter BS. "Finders keepers" is a fine argument for the schoolyard, but it's moral value is negligible. Ownership rights come with responibilities, especially ownership rights to unique resources. If a party decides to take ownership of something with the sole purpose of ransoming it to an owner who will actually use it, that is not "free market" - it's exploitation.
"Free market" only works when the market is actually free. Ransoming a unique resource is not the free market in action.
So you saying it's illegal to buy property with the intent of selling it to someone else for a profit? Really?
Maybe now they will stop thinking of Cell Phones as a "trusted" device. It's not really. Very easy to lose, very easy to steal, and it's supposed to be a trusted source for two factor authorization?
They tried to kill it, but then the beast got passed them. One of the hunter, Grok, we will call him, got pissed, god mad, didn't understand why life was so fucked up, and threw his spear at the beast. He scores a hit! Does it bring the best down? Who knows, but what we do know is the viral nature of human beans, and suddenly, everyone was getting frustrated and throwing shit around.
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As a regular reader I ask you kindly, please do something about the vulgar AC that first post trolls this site. If you can't IP ban the troll then at least delete their posts. This is not reddit, please disrespect the "free speech" of vulgar trolls that add nothing to the conversation.
They could just make people have to log into post. Because the problem is Anonymous Cowards act like anonymous cowards.
I'm sure lab ferrets don't get transported around in mass transit. They're transported between labs in comfortable vans. It's simpler, logistics-wise.
whoosh!
Call me cynical, but am I the only person who *wants* a wide scale pandemic that kills off a large percentage of the human race?
We have shown that we cannot, by ourselves, take care of the human population explosion.
Nature could possibly take care of this highly political problem all by itself.
Honestly, I don't have a problem with it either. But then I don't really catch the flu so I'm not worried about it.
Before you posted your typical Slashdot reader know-it-all shtick, you should've read TFA:
To find out how the virus might spread among people, an international group of researchers infected ferrets, which often stand as proxies for people in influenza studies. Infected ferrets passed the virus to all of the uninfected animals housed in the same cage, indicating that H7N9 spreads through direct contact, the team reports May 23 in Science.
Well, seeing as the typical article is usually click bate for some blog, or some product, I only click the link on articles that don't have shit ass summaries and crappy titles.
I know they are stupid and shouldn't be called a news show, but what did they do that requires wiretapping?
I saw the title and said to myself, "No shit flu can spread from person to person."
Then they talk about "bird" flu and say it spreads from ferret to ferret. I've had a public school education, so maybe I missed the day where they told us ferrets were birds and not mammals.
I built a video game in 48 hours. Well ok it is not a AAA title. It is a tron clone. But who cares, lets just not precise this and everybody will think that I rewrote Crysis 3.
Crysis 3 played like it was written in 48 hours.
"a fascination with the early history of the computer age"
1976 was already the middle of the computer age.
Really? I feel the computer age hasn't even taken off yet, and speaking of a middle for something that is open ended is just silly. In fact, even though the age of the gene-manipulation/bio-tech might be starting now, let us not forget that it is progress in our computation capabilities that makes all this possible. There is still lots more to be done in computational mathematics/biology/engineeering/science.
The home computer age, the personal computer age had barely started, but there had computers around for those with access.
damn it, hit submit too soon, meant to correct where i say the Wii is 1 generation behind the next gen, not that it's behind the 360 & PS3.
Try again? If you looked at the link you referenced, it talks about the Wii. This article is about the Wii U. Two different consoles.
you said:
It didn't survive against the XBox 360 and PS3 .. there's no way it'll survive consoles 2 generations ahead of it.
The Wii U is 1 generation ahead of the 360 & PS3, so why are you comparing the Wii U to consoles 2 generations ahead of it? We don't even have it's generation of consoles out yet, besides it.
So I thought you were talking about the Wii (even considered you meant the gamecube) even though it's only 1 generation behind the 360 & PS3.
Unless you are thinking that the Wii, Xbox 360 & PS3 aren't the same generation? Then you don't know what you are talking about. They are the same generation.
So, my bad on missing your point, but your wording really thru me off.
I would be extremely happy of being able to play the next Mario on something else than a Nintendo console. I bought the Wii just for Super Mario Wii, I loved the game, but now I have a white piece of plastic doing nothing underneath my TV.
It's not going to happen, but it would be very nice.
I bought my Wii to play emulators on it.
Anyways, Nintendo isn't going to get out of the hardware business. They are really successful at it. Sometimes they put out flops (Virtual Boy), sometimes gimmicks don't pay off (3DS), and sometimes the software isn't there. But here's the problem with Game Developers. They are greedy, stupid, and really fucking lazy. Instead of making the best game they can for each platform, they try to make 1 game that works on all platforms. Since the Wii U is a bit underpowered compared to the Xbox One and PS4 (and computers), developers don't want to make games for it, because it will require a little more work. Sort of like when the port console games to the PC they make it work, just barely. Not surprisingly you'll find mouse controls barely work, you can't adjust video settings, FoV is screwed up, etc. I'm sure most of you PC gamers know exactly what I'm talking about. Sometimes they fix it, lots of time they don't care.
What Nintendo needs to do is get more In House Developers, like back in the day, to make some great games.
It didn't survive against the XBox 360 and PS3 .. there's no way it'll survive consoles 2 generations ahead of it.
Wow, either the fanboys are out, or a lot of stupid is going around.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_game_consoles
That's a simple list and you'll find that the Wii has sold about 20 Million more consoles then the Xbox 360 & PS3.
Checked other links and those numbers seem accurate.
You do understand what I am saying? More people bought a Wii. Pretty good for a console you claimed didn't survive.
in about 2-4 years the next console will hit the market, and all the fanboys will be over the new thing once again.
consume, dont think.
Except it was 7 years between consoles this last round. No wonder you posted as a coward.
I was told I used too much bandwidth on a 6mbps DSL line. No warning, just turned it off. Got them to turn it back on, which a week later they shut it down and told me to go elsewhere. So I did. While I didn't do 77TB of data in a month, apparently I hit 1.5TB on my highest month. Which I don't find to be that much, not for someone who spends 16 hours a day on his computer at home.
Anyways, now i have a much faster internet and supposed to have a cap of 450gb a month.
Guess no one will be renting Xbox One games either. I know back in the day I'd rent games I'd be thinking about buying.
But then, maybe no one rents games anymore. Well, we know they won't be renting Xbox One games.
"In a free market"... What utter BS. "Finders keepers" is a fine argument for the schoolyard, but it's moral value is negligible. Ownership rights come with responibilities, especially ownership rights to unique resources. If a party decides to take ownership of something with the sole purpose of ransoming it to an owner who will actually use it, that is not "free market" - it's exploitation.
"Free market" only works when the market is actually free. Ransoming a unique resource is not the free market in action.
So you saying it's illegal to buy property with the intent of selling it to someone else for a profit? Really?
Maybe now they will stop thinking of Cell Phones as a "trusted" device. It's not really. Very easy to lose, very easy to steal, and it's supposed to be a trusted source for two factor authorization?
...
Let's all pretend the last 80+ years of science didn't happen and we live under Newton's ideas of how everything behaved. Who's in?
I'm sure some of the various religions will be glad to join your thinking (if they aren't already there).
I guess no one will be renting Xbox One games to check out anymore, since the "used disk" fee will pop up.
I'm firmly in the single-player, offline-only game-play camp
So what you're saying is that you're prefer masturbation, over getting involved with other people... Anti-socialism, we get it, this is /. afterall...
-AC
tbh, I prefer masturbating on people.
4 cores + HT is the most that Intel offers for desktops at the moment
Nope. Intel offer 6 core desktop CPUs.
remembering that until late last year Intel's mobile i7 CPUs didn't even support more than 4GB
Oh really? Well my 2011 laptop with a Core i7 2630QM and 16GB of RAM disagree. You are a liar.
What else is there for physical media?
Flash and download.
What were you planning to put on it?
Games, at about 12-25GB each. Movies, at about 5GB each. Music, at about 300MB per album. Photos, at about 5MB each. Apps, which will vary.
Hey, dumbass. It's 2013, and you are quoting a 2011 laptop? Seriously? You are stupid.
Funny how my 500$ pc i bought last year is unable to play any games i have on xbox. And when it does they usually run and look like shit.
forgot to add this in my last reply. Pretty much all the Xbox ports to PC sucks and runs bad, so it's not a surprise.
Funny how my 500$ pc i bought last year is unable to play any games i have on xbox. And when it does they usually run and look like shit.
When you buy computers from Dell, it does NOT surprise anyone they can't play games.
They tried to kill it, but then the beast got passed them. One of the hunter, Grok, we will call him, got pissed, god mad, didn't understand why life was so fucked up, and threw his spear at the beast. He scores a hit! Does it bring the best down? Who knows, but what we do know is the viral nature of human beans, and suddenly, everyone was getting frustrated and throwing shit around.
The power bill went up and they aren't happy about it. A private company would have almost no recourse in a similar situation.
When I don't pay my power bill, they shut my power off. They don't call me, they leave a bill on my door, and they sure as fuck won't work with me.
NSA has it lucky, so they can fuck off. Turn off their power and see how long they refuse paying you.