Eh, I dont know what you base the mid-range statement on, because most of the mid-range computers where I live can barely run UT2004 on medium. And the ones that can run it well cost at least slightly more than the price the 360 is going for.
What's incredibly sad is I think you may be serious, and there are people ignorant enough of how a business and the world works to think this would happen.
What does technology, in the form of laptops, have to do with a good education? As a HS senior, the most productive learning experiance I've had has come from quality teachers that have an intrest in teaching rather than just moving students through the system and crunching points. I'd feel a whole lot better of my school put more money into training and acquiring good teachers that some nearly useless technology that is just a crutch.
Its nice to see that government is implementing IPv6, but I'm more curious as to when it will be implemented by the private sector and widely used. (Is there an FCC ruling or guidelines for transition time somewhere or are we just oozing towards it?)
As a high school senior in pennsylvania who has done things similar to those being described in the article, I'm worried. Before, my school district basically just slapped a student on the wrist for things like this, but I have the feelings that students in EVERY school district in the state are in trouble if schools start prosecuting because they are too stupid to handle anything technologically with reason. Hell, a kid in my district got 12 days out of school suspension for getting around the BESS Proxy wheres a kid who ripped a hunk of flesh off of another one's chest got 2 days in school suspension. People are fucktards...
Not meaning to troll, but exactly why is ANOTHER consortium of companies that are 'working towards' something news? It seems there are several hundred of these groups, and I dont see anything in the article that seperates this one or makes its goals unique. "working together to enable wirelessly networked monitoring and control products based on an open global standard" is not exactly the most descriptive goal in the world.
The difference is, most of the problems are due to overloads on servers causing lag, not bugs in tthe game. There arent endless, or for the matter even existing queues on most WoW servers, and on most of the servers there is no problem. This is not nearly as bad as when gravity charged 12 bucks a month to beta test ragnarok online when it was full of bugs and hacks. In fact, as a WoW player, I am quite happy with Blizzard. (Keep in mind I play on Stonemaul, the lowest population server, but most of the servers are low pop)
Are people actually trusting this? People registered on a site run by one party to a survey. I WONDER which party is more likely to register there? Seriously, if a republican site were to do this, everyone would be screaming like crazy. Adding to that, turnout is usually very low in this group of voters, so I really don't see the importance.
This is really terrible for democracy as a whole. Once a real third party got that much media attention, it would be the beginning of the end for the big 2 (Atleast on a local level). I was hoping this was going to be the day that decided the future of america in a positive way, but I fear that the battle for that will come another day.
We joke and complain about spam, but personally I am wondering how much the internet can take before things just start to slow down drastically. Spam is increasing, not decreasing, and it is most certainly doing so with or faster than the pace of technology. We really need to find some solutions to this problem before spam becomes so widespread that the only way to fight it is to increast bandwith. (I don't mean just email spam, I mean popups and flash banners and such. The bandwith they take up must be massive, I'm amazed that the internet still functions with all the waste)
I don't see the purpose. Maybe I'm just unitiated, but wouldn't a linux terminal server work better, or perhaps some other solution. This in particular doesn't look that amazing, but I could be wrong. Does anyone out there have specific uses for this? (TFA won't load for me, so I'm going on what I see)
Or so/.ers will claim. His program caused people to lose money. I don't care if it was linus torvalds himself, anyone who writes a program with the intent to do damage to systems, even though they are unpatched, should still be prosecuted to the full extent of the law and be made to pay. It IS a crime.
(Not meant as flaimbait or a troll, just staving off posts in his defence)
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Eh, I dont know what you base the mid-range statement on, because most of the mid-range computers where I live can barely run UT2004 on medium. And the ones that can run it well cost at least slightly more than the price the 360 is going for.
That with consoles capable of more than even top end computers, what will become of PC gaming? (Much less the PC itself)
What's incredibly sad is I think you may be serious, and there are people ignorant enough of how a business and the world works to think this would happen.
What does technology, in the form of laptops, have to do with a good education? As a HS senior, the most productive learning experiance I've had has come from quality teachers that have an intrest in teaching rather than just moving students through the system and crunching points. I'd feel a whole lot better of my school put more money into training and acquiring good teachers that some nearly useless technology that is just a crutch.
Of windows on every chip, I can see where he's coming from, blue screen of death is much less funny when its literal :p
Its nice to see that government is implementing IPv6, but I'm more curious as to when it will be implemented by the private sector and widely used. (Is there an FCC ruling or guidelines for transition time somewhere or are we just oozing towards it?)
As a high school senior in pennsylvania who has done things similar to those being described in the article, I'm worried. Before, my school district basically just slapped a student on the wrist for things like this, but I have the feelings that students in EVERY school district in the state are in trouble if schools start prosecuting because they are too stupid to handle anything technologically with reason. Hell, a kid in my district got 12 days out of school suspension for getting around the BESS Proxy wheres a kid who ripped a hunk of flesh off of another one's chest got 2 days in school suspension. People are fucktards...
Not meaning to troll, but exactly why is ANOTHER consortium of companies that are 'working towards' something news? It seems there are several hundred of these groups, and I dont see anything in the article that seperates this one or makes its goals unique. "working together to enable wirelessly networked monitoring and control products based on an open global standard" is not exactly the most descriptive goal in the world.
The difference is, most of the problems are due to overloads on servers causing lag, not bugs in tthe game. There arent endless, or for the matter even existing queues on most WoW servers, and on most of the servers there is no problem. This is not nearly as bad as when gravity charged 12 bucks a month to beta test ragnarok online when it was full of bugs and hacks. In fact, as a WoW player, I am quite happy with Blizzard. (Keep in mind I play on Stonemaul, the lowest population server, but most of the servers are low pop)
Are people actually trusting this? People registered on a site run by one party to a survey. I WONDER which party is more likely to register there? Seriously, if a republican site were to do this, everyone would be screaming like crazy. Adding to that, turnout is usually very low in this group of voters, so I really don't see the importance.
This is really terrible for democracy as a whole. Once a real third party got that much media attention, it would be the beginning of the end for the big 2 (Atleast on a local level). I was hoping this was going to be the day that decided the future of america in a positive way, but I fear that the battle for that will come another day.
We joke and complain about spam, but personally I am wondering how much the internet can take before things just start to slow down drastically. Spam is increasing, not decreasing, and it is most certainly doing so with or faster than the pace of technology. We really need to find some solutions to this problem before spam becomes so widespread that the only way to fight it is to increast bandwith. (I don't mean just email spam, I mean popups and flash banners and such. The bandwith they take up must be massive, I'm amazed that the internet still functions with all the waste)
I don't see the purpose. Maybe I'm just unitiated, but wouldn't a linux terminal server work better, or perhaps some other solution. This in particular doesn't look that amazing, but I could be wrong. Does anyone out there have specific uses for this? (TFA won't load for me, so I'm going on what I see)
Or so /.ers will claim. His program caused people to lose money. I don't care if it was linus torvalds himself, anyone who writes a program with the intent to do damage to systems, even though they are unpatched, should still be prosecuted to the full extent of the law and be made to pay. It IS a crime.
(Not meant as flaimbait or a troll, just staving off posts in his defence)