is the miserable battery life. My droid Incredible goes barely a day and a half with little to no good smartphone usage. If I use the internet or video at all the battery is gone in less than a day. I even have all the default auto-running programs deleted. I will probably go back to iphone after this just because of its incredible battery life. I had the 3g and it was amazing.
Yes. Starcraft 2 runs like a champ on my MBPro in Windows XP with all the settings on high, and it runs like shit in OS X with all the settings on low.
The thing I hate most is that for xbox360 (sure it's the same for PS3 but I don't own one so I don't know) every game is $60. Some games definitely deserve it like the huge RPG games with fantastic stories and voice acting and emersive worlds, the great multiplayer FPS games, and so on. Then there's the other games, which probably spent a quarter as much time in development than the much better games, and all of a sudden the developer is like "hurr hurr it's in high def and on the 360 it's worth $60" Games based off movies come to mind first-- usually terrible mock ups hashed together for insta-profit from the movie's success. Some cartoon graphic puzzle games next. And some blatantly terrible games.
Well, I guess all our years of preparing for the Zombie Apocalypse will finally pay off with all these scientists sitting in labs creating viruses it's only a matter of time.
/gets out zombie apocalypse survival gear
/puts on cape and sword
/equips shotgun
/prepares to finally be loved
Everyone confirming or denying the presence of MS-DEBUG on their windows machine, is confirming their use of windows, and getting their precious slashdot ID number increased by 50% and a free copy of Windows 7
because MS is tired of having to keep hosting Windows 98 SP 2 updates for every time you reformat
Firefox is the slowest browser I've ever used and just sits there consuming more and more memory. Safari(for mac) and Chrome (for windows) are so much faster and lighter that I can't stand firefox.
I don't think they need to be as physically secure, there's always a voting official in the room in plain sight and several other people working there. It doesn't need to be built like an ATM that will be randomly placed in dark alleys.
Google is just as evil as the rest of them. It's stupid everyone thinks they're some holy grail of awesomeness. They're in it to make money. They have your email, your search history, your calendar, your shopping, etc. all of the data which they read so they can provide you with related ads. All that data is stored somewhere, just waiting to be given up to whomever steals or subpoenas it.
I have a macbook. I love it, but Apple ain't even close to the "saint" company image it sometimes has. But, as a laptop I tote around for work and pleasure-- it's basically just a giant ipod with unix on it, you can't beat its functinoality
See, Apple and Google wrote their own software from the ground up. Bill Gates bought DOS from another programmer, and for BASIC took a large amount of publically accessible code from the homebrew club, and decided he would put a copyright on it since no one else had bothered. He basically stole the work from other poeple and made his fortune. For that reason alone I will never have respect for microsoft.
I think you completely missed the point of the article, or actually-- did you even read the synopsis?
They don't need it to have a Blu-Ray player. Blu-Ray isn't popular enough yet to warrant it. A Blu-Ray drive can easily make it into the next console release when it's cheaper and more available and maybe more popular.
It has already and will sell enough consoles regardless. Xbox live has high-def downloads. Computer -> Xbox media streaming.
What's not there that people need that would help sell them? Buying a 360 then buying an addon that will cost more than a PS3? Not their game.
You aren't forced to buy an iPhone. They don't have to do shit for you. It could be like all other cell phones and not allow you to put anything on it.
that I do not consider a computer capable of doing. One of them being judging suspicious behavior. I RTFA, but seriously, I don't even know if I can write down what suspicious behavior could be defined as. People standing around for a long time? Constantly looking over your shoulder? Having lookouts? Being where you shouldn't be?
I know that its goal is to just forward video feeds from thousands of cameras to a handful of operators, but it seems like they're going to get alot of crap. These things can always be observed, but it takes a human's gut feeling to really judge whether or not it feels suspicious.
They have a professional version of their mobile OS? They have 90 billion versions of their Desktop OS, one could only assume they have several versions of their mobile OS.
I'd agree whole heartedly. I'd best most Windows users have never seen a linux distro with a GUI. They all probably think Linux users live in a command line world only. they've probably never seen red hat or gnome or kde desktop and how familier looking it is compared to Windows.
would consider a less than B average in high school as "model student" material.
from tfa
[quote]
Cohen said her client has "no disciplinary record at school, and he is the model student" with a 2.97 grade-point average.
[/quote]
"Education should come from parents, not from package labels."
Sadly, the reality is that parents are the ones pushing for this ever increasing government watchdog behavior because why should they be responsible for educating their kids about sex, cigarettes, violence, n+1 sql calls, and other such monstrosoties of society.
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is the miserable battery life. My droid Incredible goes barely a day and a half with little to no good smartphone usage. If I use the internet or video at all the battery is gone in less than a day. I even have all the default auto-running programs deleted. I will probably go back to iphone after this just because of its incredible battery life. I had the 3g and it was amazing.
Yes. Starcraft 2 runs like a champ on my MBPro in Windows XP with all the settings on high, and it runs like shit in OS X with all the settings on low.
The thing I hate most is that for xbox360 (sure it's the same for PS3 but I don't own one so I don't know) every game is $60. Some games definitely deserve it like the huge RPG games with fantastic stories and voice acting and emersive worlds, the great multiplayer FPS games, and so on. Then there's the other games, which probably spent a quarter as much time in development than the much better games, and all of a sudden the developer is like "hurr hurr it's in high def and on the 360 it's worth $60" Games based off movies come to mind first-- usually terrible mock ups hashed together for insta-profit from the movie's success. Some cartoon graphic puzzle games next. And some blatantly terrible games.
Push alerts to the iPhone. Here comes the pin the tail on the donkey pop up adds on the iPhone.
Everyone confirming or denying the presence of MS-DEBUG on their windows machine, is confirming their use of windows, and getting their precious slashdot ID number increased by 50% and a free copy of Windows 7 because MS is tired of having to keep hosting Windows 98 SP 2 updates for every time you reformat
Firefox is the slowest browser I've ever used and just sits there consuming more and more memory. Safari(for mac) and Chrome (for windows) are so much faster and lighter that I can't stand firefox.
No, not it is not. love CADIE
PREPARE TO DIE!
I don't think they need to be as physically secure, there's always a voting official in the room in plain sight and several other people working there. It doesn't need to be built like an ATM that will be randomly placed in dark alleys.
Google is just as evil as the rest of them. It's stupid everyone thinks they're some holy grail of awesomeness. They're in it to make money. They have your email, your search history, your calendar, your shopping, etc. all of the data which they read so they can provide you with related ads. All that data is stored somewhere, just waiting to be given up to whomever steals or subpoenas it.
I have a macbook. I love it, but Apple ain't even close to the "saint" company image it sometimes has. But, as a laptop I tote around for work and pleasure-- it's basically just a giant ipod with unix on it, you can't beat its functinoality
See, Apple and Google wrote their own software from the ground up. Bill Gates bought DOS from another programmer, and for BASIC took a large amount of publically accessible code from the homebrew club, and decided he would put a copyright on it since no one else had bothered. He basically stole the work from other poeple and made his fortune. For that reason alone I will never have respect for microsoft. I think you completely missed the point of the article, or actually-- did you even read the synopsis?
They don't need it to have a Blu-Ray player. Blu-Ray isn't popular enough yet to warrant it. A Blu-Ray drive can easily make it into the next console release when it's cheaper and more available and maybe more popular. It has already and will sell enough consoles regardless. Xbox live has high-def downloads. Computer -> Xbox media streaming. What's not there that people need that would help sell them? Buying a 360 then buying an addon that will cost more than a PS3? Not their game.
You aren't forced to buy an iPhone. They don't have to do shit for you. It could be like all other cell phones and not allow you to put anything on it.
except every article or mentioning or story of "Amazing and Efficient Hydryogen Power is Just Around the Corner" has never, ever become a reality
You, good sir, are way too paranoid. Also, you have cameraphobia
that I do not consider a computer capable of doing. One of them being judging suspicious behavior. I RTFA, but seriously, I don't even know if I can write down what suspicious behavior could be defined as. People standing around for a long time? Constantly looking over your shoulder? Having lookouts? Being where you shouldn't be? I know that its goal is to just forward video feeds from thousands of cameras to a handful of operators, but it seems like they're going to get alot of crap. These things can always be observed, but it takes a human's gut feeling to really judge whether or not it feels suspicious.
had the title of this /. post been "802.11N The Ethernet Killer?," it probably would have received a much better response
I'd agree whole heartedly. I'd best most Windows users have never seen a linux distro with a GUI. They all probably think Linux users live in a command line world only. they've probably never seen red hat or gnome or kde desktop and how familier looking it is compared to Windows.
would consider a less than B average in high school as "model student" material. from tfa [quote] Cohen said her client has "no disciplinary record at school, and he is the model student" with a 2.97 grade-point average. [/quote]
"Education should come from parents, not from package labels." Sadly, the reality is that parents are the ones pushing for this ever increasing government watchdog behavior because why should they be responsible for educating their kids about sex, cigarettes, violence, n+1 sql calls, and other such monstrosoties of society.
mmmmmgood. Nothin brings out the heat in a slashdot thread like a good windows versus mac versus *nix fight.
If founding the world's most popular operating system doesn't qualify you as a programming whiz, I don't know what does.