But why would computer gaming have to be one sport. New sport are created all the time, not as often as computer games though. I don't see people abandoning the world's biggest sport, football, even though it's like 500 years old and lots of sports have evolved since.
Well congratulations, you're safe. But you sir, are not the world. 85% of spam still comes from Windows zombies, no matter how good your firewall is.
Why do people always say this kind of crap? I don't care how great your computer works, there are still millions that don't. "Hey I borrowed this guys heroin shot, and I didn't get HIV, so you should all try it, it's safe!"
Although it's a good idea, we still can't change the fact that we have days and years. We could change hours, minutes and seconds though. That shit is all made up. Months and weeks will be harder to do something about, since 1 year = 365.242199 days
What do you mean by noncommercial? Say I make thousands of copies of the newest Britney Spears album and give it away for free, that's a noncommercial action but I would think that it hurts someones sales somewhere. Suppose I make a million copies and give them away for free, still noncommercial, still bad for the record companies.
If you don't like what they do, don't buy their music.
I see what you mean, but when you're browsing, you don't know where the stuff you're looking for is, so you need an overview. With only one dimension you'd have to browse through the pages one at a time, if we add another dimension we can have different sections. It's harder to find something in a stack of papers than if you spread them out on your table.
I agree though that there is no need for a third dimension in browsing. But that's only because it doesn't matter how many dimensions you try to display, since the monitor only has two dimensions anyway.
Dimensions are obstacles to be overcome, not aids to movement. Dimensions hide information, they don't generally reveal them.
Uh, no.. If you're moving in one dimension, and you have to use the bathroom, you would have to get past your fridge, your cat, a lot of cutlery(one pice at a time), and maybe your car(depending on how you've arranged this array that is your home). All this instead of just turning to your left and walking a few meters.
The problem with 3d browsing would be that a computer monitor can ony display two dimensions, so the third dimension doesn't really add anything.
(Nerf Arena works fine without the CD in the drive after editing it's.ini text file. It would have been nice if they eliminated the editing step.)
Heh, I love that kind of "copy protection", Giants has the best one though: start the exe with -nocdcheck...
I agree. I live in Sweden and I'm still on dial-up since I live way out in the bush. We've tried for years to get someone to provide us with broadband but no company wanted to do it. Finally the local politicians figured that no private company would give us broadband, and within 6 months from now 99.5% of the people in my municipality will have ADSL. Although ADSL is not very fast and I can probably only get 512k out here, it will still be quite an upgrade, and cheaper than dial-up.
Ok, this is the most stupid post I ever read. You're saying INSIDE THE GOVERNMENT as if anti-war activism was a bad thing... Socialized healthcare and environmentalism isn't bad either, come on, what's your problem?
And what kind of fucked up view do you have if you think the Democrats have ANYTHING to do with communism? You sicken me! I can't believe how lazy you americans are, letting such a total ass run your country. Don't you see he's the reason everyone hates you?
I have not read the article (after all, this is Slashdot), but I'm curios, can you describe to me how a 2d helix looks like. wouldn't that be like trying to describe a 2d cube?
Worst case scienerio for a system upgrade you're talking cpu, motherboard, and memory only. $600 and I'm back at top of the line three years later
Like hell you can wait three years and then only upgrade your CPU, motherboard and memory. Not a chance if you went for cheap parts as in this scenario. Of course it all depends on what you mean by 'top of the line'
I upgraded my computer a year ago and went for cheap parts, now I wanted a new graphics card.
It doesn't get enough juice so I have to get a new PSU, my motherboard only has a 4x AGP slot so I'll have to get a new one. My CPU and memory are hardly top of the line.
If you go for cheap parts and wait three years you're looking at an upgrade that's a little bigger than just CPU, motherboard and memory.
Unless by 'top of the line' you mean something that handle the most basic stuff.
It's interesting to read all these comments.. Everyone seem to be blaming the spammers, and not the victims. If this was about viruses you would all be whining about how Microsoft or the script kiddies are not responsible, but the end users. This is the same thing, the US companies are the script kiddies "writing" viruses and China/Russia are Microsoft supplying the script kiddies with ways to attack users.
And you think I can't spew stuff like that back at you? I once thought of logging all the fuck-ups my computer manages to generate in a text file, but I soon came to realise I don't have that much hard drive space to waste for a log that huge.
I meant real things. The capabilities a buyer wants. Who, when thinking of buying a computer, in their right mind wonders if interactive spell-checking in WordX on large documents brings the machine to a crawl? What about all the Windows Exclusive® worms that grinds your computer to a halt all the time. Remember, we're still talking about Joe Average here...
I use a PC though, because of the price of a Mac and the availability of games. But lots of people buy HP and Dell machines, they're not much cheaper than Macs, and they come with the same crappy graphics card and 256 megs of RAM.
But for those of you who don't know, I'll be happy to state those reasons here: The average consumer doesn't know there are different flavors of these computerthingys that do their email. The average retailer doesn't have Macs, or don't demonstrate them for people who want to buy a computer.
Could you give me one reason, besides gaming, that a Mac can't do as good as a Wintel?
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But why would computer gaming have to be one sport.
New sport are created all the time, not as often as computer games though.
I don't see people abandoning the world's biggest sport, football, even though it's like 500 years old and lots of sports have evolved since.
Well congratulations, you're safe.
But you sir, are not the world.
85% of spam still comes from Windows zombies, no matter how good your firewall is.
Why do people always say this kind of crap?
I don't care how great your computer works, there are still millions that don't.
"Hey I borrowed this guys heroin shot, and I didn't get HIV, so you should all try it, it's safe!"
Although it's a good idea, we still can't change the fact that we have days and years.
We could change hours, minutes and seconds though. That shit is all made up.
Months and weeks will be harder to do something about, since 1 year = 365.242199 days
What do you mean by noncommercial?
Say I make thousands of copies of the newest Britney Spears album and give it away for free, that's a noncommercial action but I would think that it hurts someones sales somewhere. Suppose I make a million copies and give them away for free, still noncommercial, still bad for the record companies.
If you don't like what they do, don't buy their music.
But I guess the fact that inches has less than half the fidelty of centimeters doesn't matter to you?
Hey, two metres is like two decimetres longer than six feet.
Doesn't sound shorter to me...
I still don't understand why they're called the Marines if they're part of the army. Marine sounds more like part of the navy to me...
I hope you realise you just compared your 2.8 GHz to his 233 MHz machine...
Dude, Linux for the PS2 is official stuff..
Sony provides it.
I see what you mean, but when you're browsing, you don't know where the stuff you're looking for is, so you need an overview.
With only one dimension you'd have to browse through the pages one at a time, if we add another dimension we can have different sections.
It's harder to find something in a stack of papers than if you spread them out on your table.
I agree though that there is no need for a third dimension in browsing. But that's only because it doesn't matter how many dimensions you try to display, since the monitor only has two dimensions anyway.
Dimensions are obstacles to be overcome, not aids to movement. Dimensions hide information, they don't generally reveal them.
Uh, no..
If you're moving in one dimension, and you have to use the bathroom, you would have to get past your fridge, your cat, a lot of cutlery(one pice at a time), and maybe your car(depending on how you've arranged this array that is your home).
All this instead of just turning to your left and walking a few meters.
The problem with 3d browsing would be that a computer monitor can ony display two dimensions, so the third dimension doesn't really add anything.
Then I guess you can direct us to some source stating that 90% of cell phones run Symbian??
(Nerf Arena works fine without the CD in the drive after editing it's .ini text file. It would have been nice if they eliminated the editing step.)
Heh, I love that kind of "copy protection", Giants has the best one though: start the exe with -nocdcheck...
I agree.
I live in Sweden and I'm still on dial-up since I live way out in the bush.
We've tried for years to get someone to provide us with broadband but no company wanted to do it. Finally the local politicians figured that no private company would give us broadband, and within 6 months from now 99.5% of the people in my municipality will have ADSL.
Although ADSL is not very fast and I can probably only get 512k out here, it will still be quite an upgrade, and cheaper than dial-up.
blatant anti-war activism INSIDE THE GOVERNMENT.
Ok, this is the most stupid post I ever read. You're saying INSIDE THE GOVERNMENT as if anti-war activism was a bad thing...
Socialized healthcare and environmentalism isn't bad either, come on, what's your problem?
And what kind of fucked up view do you have if you think the Democrats have ANYTHING to do with communism?
You sicken me! I can't believe how lazy you americans are, letting such a total ass run your country.
Don't you see he's the reason everyone hates you?
Point taken, but why call it a helix in the first place?
I have not read the article (after all, this is Slashdot), but I'm curios, can you describe to me how a 2d helix looks like.
wouldn't that be like trying to describe a 2d cube?
Umm, since when did you see the left part of the spectrum over there?
Half as in $1999 for this Dell desktop with an FX 5200?
Worst case scienerio for a system upgrade you're talking cpu, motherboard, and memory only. $600 and I'm back at top of the line three years later Like hell you can wait three years and then only upgrade your CPU, motherboard and memory. Not a chance if you went for cheap parts as in this scenario. Of course it all depends on what you mean by 'top of the line' I upgraded my computer a year ago and went for cheap parts, now I wanted a new graphics card. It doesn't get enough juice so I have to get a new PSU, my motherboard only has a 4x AGP slot so I'll have to get a new one. My CPU and memory are hardly top of the line. If you go for cheap parts and wait three years you're looking at an upgrade that's a little bigger than just CPU, motherboard and memory. Unless by 'top of the line' you mean something that handle the most basic stuff.
It's interesting to read all these comments..
Everyone seem to be blaming the spammers, and not the victims.
If this was about viruses you would all be whining about how Microsoft or the script kiddies are not responsible, but the end users.
This is the same thing, the US companies are the script kiddies "writing" viruses and China/Russia are Microsoft supplying the script kiddies with ways to attack users.
What's the Big Fucking Difference?
Most Dell desktops also come with shitty video cards and 256 megs of RAM by default.
Ooh, let me guess. You're American?
Who else would think Athens was "the home of the Roman empire"
I bet you don't know what Canada or Mexico is..
And you think I can't spew stuff like that back at you? I once thought of logging all the fuck-ups my computer manages to generate in a text file, but I soon came to realise I don't have that much hard drive space to waste for a log that huge.
I meant real things. The capabilities a buyer wants.
Who, when thinking of buying a computer, in their right mind wonders if interactive spell-checking in WordX on large documents brings the machine to a crawl?
What about all the Windows Exclusive® worms that grinds your computer to a halt all the time. Remember, we're still talking about Joe Average here...
I use a PC though, because of the price of a Mac and the availability of games. But lots of people buy HP and Dell machines, they're not much cheaper than Macs, and they come with the same crappy graphics card and 256 megs of RAM.
But for those of you who don't know, I'll be happy to state those reasons here:
The average consumer doesn't know there are different flavors of these computerthingys that do their email.
The average retailer doesn't have Macs, or don't demonstrate them for people who want to buy a computer.
Could you give me one reason, besides gaming, that a Mac can't do as good as a Wintel?