Agreed, It would be amazing for Valve to get anything useful out the door any time soon. I know we are all excited about the Halflife 2 Preloads that are sitting on our computers, but chances are that for every "Complete" gigabyte of the preload there will be 100 Megs of patching to be done. Just look at the current state of CS:Source, it is pathetic.
To make a long story short, we are still far from receiving a viable product.
That we know that their loss numbers are made up numbers. They are showing losses compared to things like "What we think we should be making" and "We were making this much last year".
Is it not possible that they simply suck at doing business, and thus are losing sales? Gid forbid they should have to blame themselves for a change. It always seems to end up that if there is a possibility that we "the priates, hackers and P2P Crack Kiddies" are causing even the smallest problem then we deserve all the blame.
And you thought that the CN Tower was a long elevator ride. I wonder how long it would take to go that far into space in an elevator? Would there be in-elevator movies and food service?
What happens when quantum computers, which are able to use quantum teleportation, start to exert influence directly over the matter that makes up say a Human Brain for example. Or to make matters worse the brain accidentally starts to exert control over the computer.
"We are sorry - the application you were running has crashed because you were thinking unhappy thoughts."
or
"You have 60 seconds to close and save all thoughts before your brain will be automatically restarted"
Can we say sasser-"cranial edition"
I guess people finally got sick of paying....
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The 3Com Saga
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...for the name. I can remember not too long ago 3Com ethernet products being as much as 10x the price of any other competitor. Granted the fact that 3Com builds it's own chips and has pioneered some amazing tech, but that alone it seems isn't enough these days.
I also remember a time when Telus was in the process of dumping 3Com ADSL modems for DLink of all companies, because DLink made a better business case (read better price) for a product that was 99.9% as reliable as the 3Com product.
So to sum it all up I think that 3Com sort of let things get away by simply not keeping up with the economy of computing, not the raw technology. They still have all kinds of respect in the industry, they just have to re-learn how to sell themselves.
.... when the hell are we gonna get cheap solid state storage? How the hell long has flash been around and we still don't have solid state hard drives? Why can't we take a whole pile of flash chips and run then in parallel for greater access width (speed) in desktop computing environments? And why has the price of solid state permanent storage like flash technology not dropped to reasonable levels yet?
These questions and more brought to you by "harddrivessuck.fuckingdie.com" where we are as pissed off as you that your hard drives have no warranties any more and keep going into clicking death mode.
... you have entered a field that, at least in my area, is seeing an unsustainable influx of skilled workers. What this means is that there are too many people available, but not enough jobs. A very good (and frightening) portion of said workers end up working part time and minimum wage jobs while they work on getting into a permanent entry level position doing something that pays (and not necessarily what they think they were trained to do).
For example, I have a friend who has just finished a degree in computer science, and to his own credit is somewhat of a prodigy. He has some (small, but some) social skills, and is capable of holding jobs. Now even with all the things he has going for him he is still in a saturated working environment, where he ends up not developing software but instead fixing internet connections for less learned persons. Is this a suitable use of his skills? I would say no.
So to end this post I would say you pretty much have to take what you can get these days, and work your way up in a big way. The other option (as I have chosen to exploit) is always self employment. At least with self employment you can guarantee that if you work hard you will actually get paid more.
Latency is not a problem as far as I am concerned. I use FWD on a regular basis, and have never ran into a major issue making even ultra long distance calls. (This includes peak time calling, which has never given me trouble.)
I think that, if spyware companies gain the legal right to use spyware, that I should then be able to gain the legal right to beat people to death.
Think about it, it makes sense. If a company can gain the legal right to force advertise, invade privacy, and quite often cost you money by doing so (ever had a machine crash due to poorly written spyware? I have) then we should be able to beat them to death by the same token.
due to stupid blinking ad on stupid electronic sign.
I think that there, perhaps, should be a strict limit on how many different types of distractions a driver can be legally exposed to before it is no longer their fault when they crash. This could be a sort of self solving problem, whereby advertisers will not advertise in high accident locations due to legislation saying that they are in fact responsible for the accidents in said locations.
I also happen to agree very strongly with the school of thought that DVD players in Vehicles should not have screens in a location visible to the driver, PERIOD. There should not even be a discussion on this, it is just stupid. Would you put a strobe light on your steering wheel and drive at night with it on? Probably not, but I guarantee that there is someone out there stupid enough to try it.
At any rate, there has to be a limit imposed on some of this at some point in the near future. It is a proven fact that aboslutely no profit driven business will regulate themselves at the cost of the bottom line, whether it means indirectly causing death in the mean time or not.
38nm chips, while not all that revolutionary in CPU design my opinion, will undoubtedly spark revolution in the chip cooling industry. That is unless the major problems of thermal loss due to electron tunneling can be dealt with. (I have no doubt that high K materials and the such will eventually help to deal with these issues, but given current trends in the CPU industry, ie Faster = Hotter, I am not all that optimistic.)
I can see the guys who design chip coolers getting excited about this, cause lets face it - This is their porn.
I wonder what happens if you trick the sensors into thinking your car is smaller than it really is by using mirrors.... can we say robotic car masher? And not to mention the unsual mechanical errors that could happen, like cars getting stacked on top of eachother.
What if a laser breaks? See paragraph A of this post.....
I still want one tho... just cause my neighbors would be jealous.
Why is it I always get modded to Troll when I badmouth the american government on slashdot? What is worse is that I get a harsher rating for making a perfectly legitimate point than I do when I am full of shit.
I think the slashdot moderators are in bed with the US government. That has to be it.
Please have your husbands and children ready to fight in our next pointless (oil and gas) war, and if you are of a minority please follow the signs to the nearest gas chamber on your right.
Welcome to Canada. We don't force Urine samples, retinal identification or DNA tests at our borders. More importantly we also do not beleive in tatooing a barcode to your genitals so that you will be too afraid to try and remove it.
This can only hurt tourism coming into the states, so Canada will benefit.
Motorcycle enthusiast killed when operating system on his overly expensive and complicated bike crashed, very quickly resulting in a crash of another type, his head into the pavement.
I always worry when they start to put too much technology into something that is inherently better the simpler it is. I can just see it now, the media coverage about how it is now illegal to watch DVDs while biking because some idiot gave it a try and killed himself.
So what if Apple claims they have (had?) the fastest 64 bit consumer PC in the world. It isn't like they are the first company to claim that they have turned rotten apples into gold.
The claim that they were the first however, well that is neither here nor there. It is all a matter of perspective I guess. I sure as shit wouldn't have considered anything that was available prior to the G5 (in the 64 bit PC market) a consumer product. But some would.
It is bad enough when a regulatory body (I am looking at you CRTC) is unwilling to make any real moves to help small telco startups from being crushed by large monopolies, but to have a group like the supreme court of the United States blatantly crush a small (Community Run) telco is insane.
Wouldn't it be a novel concept if all of the consumers got together and started their own telcos? Then what would the big guys do? Oh, wait a minute, we used to have those before deregulation - They were called crown corporations. Can you remember when your telco used to be more concerned with service than profit? Well I can. (I live in BC by the way.)
I haven't (and this is totally honest) used Netware in about a million years. I guess it is a good thing that they are hopping on the linux bandwagon, in one of those "Follow or be forgotten" sort of moves. All the power to them if they can make a place for themselves in the future.
Computer manufacturers will begin including a Hammer type device into PCs beginning immediately. This device will, when its associated software detects a user attempting to sign up for free porn, hammer the user to death.
Computer manufacturers are also investigating whether this device will be able to deal with the so-called "Stupid User Problem" which plagues so many IT professionals world wide.
I was in downtown Vancouver, just off hastings in the Mariott Pinnacle Hotel, while they were filming some of the night scenes. Some of these scenes were shot between 11pm and 2am and involved everything from shotguns to automatic weapons. I don't just mean props either, real guns with blanks. Now anyone who has ever shot a blank before will tell you that they are fucking loud. Almost as loud as the real thing.
To make a long story short I was sleeping away peacefully in mp hotel on the 13th floor on the first night of live fire shooting. I tell you, the bedsheets almost didn't survive. When those guns started going off, with the reflective effect of the surrounding buildings, I thought the whole building was coming down on my head.
It was worth it. I have never had such a mind blowing and terrifying rush as contemplating jumping out of a window while half asleep.
Keep in mind that even a good thing, if not taken in moderation, can be hazardous of fatal. I am sure that even if choline were to be proven a wonder supplement, and everyone were to start using it, there would still be those who suffered ill fate due to overuse.
I know many a naturopath who has ended up in the hospital because of the mistaken notion that natural means that there is no such thing as an overdose.
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To make a long story short, we are still far from receiving a viable product.
Is it not possible that they simply suck at doing business, and thus are losing sales? Gid forbid they should have to blame themselves for a change. It always seems to end up that if there is a possibility that we "the priates, hackers and P2P Crack Kiddies" are causing even the smallest problem then we deserve all the blame.
And you thought that the CN Tower was a long elevator ride. I wonder how long it would take to go that far into space in an elevator? Would there be in-elevator movies and food service?
"We are sorry - the application you were running has crashed because you were thinking unhappy thoughts."
or
"You have 60 seconds to close and save all thoughts before your brain will be automatically restarted"
Can we say sasser-"cranial edition"
I also remember a time when Telus was in the process of dumping 3Com ADSL modems for DLink of all companies, because DLink made a better business case (read better price) for a product that was 99.9% as reliable as the 3Com product.
So to sum it all up I think that 3Com sort of let things get away by simply not keeping up with the economy of computing, not the raw technology. They still have all kinds of respect in the industry, they just have to re-learn how to sell themselves.
These questions and more brought to you by "harddrivessuck.fuckingdie.com" where we are as pissed off as you that your hard drives have no warranties any more and keep going into clicking death mode.
For example, I have a friend who has just finished a degree in computer science, and to his own credit is somewhat of a prodigy. He has some (small, but some) social skills, and is capable of holding jobs. Now even with all the things he has going for him he is still in a saturated working environment, where he ends up not developing software but instead fixing internet connections for less learned persons. Is this a suitable use of his skills? I would say no.
So to end this post I would say you pretty much have to take what you can get these days, and work your way up in a big way. The other option (as I have chosen to exploit) is always self employment. At least with self employment you can guarantee that if you work hard you will actually get paid more.
Think about it, it makes sense. If a company can gain the legal right to force advertise, invade privacy, and quite often cost you money by doing so (ever had a machine crash due to poorly written spyware? I have) then we should be able to beat them to death by the same token.
I think that there, perhaps, should be a strict limit on how many different types of distractions a driver can be legally exposed to before it is no longer their fault when they crash. This could be a sort of self solving problem, whereby advertisers will not advertise in high accident locations due to legislation saying that they are in fact responsible for the accidents in said locations.
I also happen to agree very strongly with the school of thought that DVD players in Vehicles should not have screens in a location visible to the driver, PERIOD. There should not even be a discussion on this, it is just stupid. Would you put a strobe light on your steering wheel and drive at night with it on? Probably not, but I guarantee that there is someone out there stupid enough to try it.
At any rate, there has to be a limit imposed on some of this at some point in the near future. It is a proven fact that aboslutely no profit driven business will regulate themselves at the cost of the bottom line, whether it means indirectly causing death in the mean time or not.
I can see the guys who design chip coolers getting excited about this, cause lets face it - This is their porn.
What if a laser breaks? See paragraph A of this post.....
I still want one tho... just cause my neighbors would be jealous.
I think the slashdot moderators are in bed with the US government. That has to be it.
Remember - For Bush and Country.
Let the Flaming begin.......
This can only hurt tourism coming into the states, so Canada will benefit.
I always worry when they start to put too much technology into something that is inherently better the simpler it is. I can just see it now, the media coverage about how it is now illegal to watch DVDs while biking because some idiot gave it a try and killed himself.
The claim that they were the first however, well that is neither here nor there. It is all a matter of perspective I guess. I sure as shit wouldn't have considered anything that was available prior to the G5 (in the 64 bit PC market) a consumer product. But some would.
P.S. Don't tell bush, but I think there may be oil up there and I would like to avoid invasion for now.
It is bad enough when a regulatory body (I am looking at you CRTC) is unwilling to make any real moves to help small telco startups from being crushed by large monopolies, but to have a group like the supreme court of the United States blatantly crush a small (Community Run) telco is insane.
Wouldn't it be a novel concept if all of the consumers got together and started their own telcos? Then what would the big guys do? Oh, wait a minute, we used to have those before deregulation - They were called crown corporations. Can you remember when your telco used to be more concerned with service than profit? Well I can. (I live in BC by the way.)
I haven't (and this is totally honest) used Netware in about a million years. I guess it is a good thing that they are hopping on the linux bandwagon, in one of those "Follow or be forgotten" sort of moves. All the power to them if they can make a place for themselves in the future.
Computer manufacturers are also investigating whether this device will be able to deal with the so-called "Stupid User Problem" which plagues so many IT professionals world wide.
Headline: "Intel's new Performance System based on Ratio between MFlop rating of Orange Peel and Current Mainstream Offerings"
Or: "Infinite Loop Error, Intel based on AMD, AMD based on Intel. Does not compute...."
So at any rate, when did they legalize crack for Intel Executives?
To make a long story short I was sleeping away peacefully in mp hotel on the 13th floor on the first night of live fire shooting. I tell you, the bedsheets almost didn't survive. When those guns started going off, with the reflective effect of the surrounding buildings, I thought the whole building was coming down on my head.
It was worth it. I have never had such a mind blowing and terrifying rush as contemplating jumping out of a window while half asleep.
I know many a naturopath who has ended up in the hospital because of the mistaken notion that natural means that there is no such thing as an overdose.