The Digg of this, with a similar summary, has already been marked as inaccurate. Besides on top of the article, no where does it cite the 60% code rewrite.
On this article, many anon MS coders comment on Vista and the management shakeup. Some are fake, but there are many legitimate posters, including the blogger himself. The comments paint quite a bleak picture for MS and Vista.
But it should be up to the parents to decide what they want for their children for themselves. If this were passed, nothing would stop the parents from buying the games for their children. I don't see why everyone is fighting it so much. The only problem I see is putting it into a form where it would be lawful.
Because... now the parents have to think before buying! Oh noes, don't make them think!
Since when were bad videos the new wave of the future (check them out for yourselves)? Without an incredibly large submission base and moderation (some videos are nothing more than people on camera doing nothing), YouTube's current business model can never survive. If Slashdot cannot get it right (how many dupes can you count a month?), what makes Sequoia think YouTube will? Unlike Slashdot, YouTube is video content, which is many cases is more difficult to submit than text (capturing, authoring, bandwidth, copyrights, etc). It will be interesting to see if YouTube lives up. Personally, I believe Google Video will fare much better.
We need a beer that gets us wasted but keeps us awake to bask in the glory that is drunkeness! If there ever were a God, this proves it! Hangovers, away with thee!
IIRC, Google wanted some sort of web interface to the OpenOffice suite. If that means allowing OO to be ran through the browser, 80MBs is quite a lot for not installing anything. Imagine the load times on the web, compared to the 4-5 seconds when installed. I doubt many can do 16MB/s.
"Speaking of online music sales, I'm really looking forward to another price war. Come on guys, we need a legit iTunes competitor to drive down the prices!"
Unfortunately, Apple is making the bare minimum off each song (something along the lines of a few cent I believe?). Without the recording industry allowing so, the prices will never be below Apple. And from the looks of it now, the recording industry only wants to see prices rise.
One way I see prices being lower than Apple is if the recording industry forfeits lower prices to an iTunes competitior. That competitor will take a siginificant enough market share to erode Apple's dominance. In a sweeping move, the RIAA will ramp up prices, causing the collapse of digital music (of both iTunes and its competitor). Yeah right, it would never happen!
Here is the article text. Learn to stop linking to Babel Fish. Leave the cute fish alone. Or you can goto Alta Vista and start clicking on some advertisements.
The idea is 20 years old and comes from Manfred Hettmer, president Austrian Mars Society: With the help of one on "Alfven waves" of based plasma propulsion the thrust of a rocket can be drastically reduced increased, at the same time the fuel consumption, so the idea.
And actually, according to tests the plasma propulsion leads to a fuel saving of approximately 90 per cent - and that is not little thing: "with satellites the fuel up to 50 per cent of the weight constitutes, because on it also the life span depends. Without drive cannot be maintained the accurate position finally ", so project co-ordinator Andreas grass-sourly. This Austrian development could lead therefore to substantial changes with future space projects.
Basis of the development is a discovery of the physics Nobelpreistraegers Hannes Alfven in the year 1942. Alfven busy itself among other things with magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), which describes the reciprocal effect of an electrically leading fluid with electrical and magnetic fields. So for example the propagation mentioned by waves in this liquid - today "Alfven waves".
Now there is for the first time a technical conversion of the "Alfven waves", which could introduce "a new era in the area of the propulsion technologies in the universe", so grass-sourly. The most substantial characteristic of the technology is ten times a higher flow-out rate, which otherwise only by a nuclear fusion engine - which (still) does not exist - is attainable. The measurements were accomplished on the basis a prototype in a vacuum chamber. In addition corrosion was avoided, since the thrust takes place via the magnetic nozzle outside of the object.
On the part of the economy interest in the project was already stated, at which beside grass sour and Hettmer also the experimental physicist Norbert freshon, system engineer Tobias Bartusch as well as petrol Koudelka of DO Graz are involved. On 15 October the plasma propulsion is presented to that for the first time in Japan on a congress internationally Aeronautic Federation (FAI). (APA/jule)
Why don't we develop a system where enemy locations are imported into Counter Strike as actual models, and allow players from around the world control robots that respond to actual gameplay. Then, we won't need an army. Our army will consist of the largest geek squad. Hell, I went 67-1 before, I'm my own damn army.
God forbid we turn on FF though. But at least theres an legitimate excuse for using aimbots.
You neglected the gamers, which fall between the two catagories you have mentioned. Being one, I find that 40GB is absurdly small. Yet I find a good 80GB to 100GB to be perfect for my needs.
The arguement that the "Intellegent Design" folks put forth is that, "It's impossible to have a system as complex as human beings WITHOUT someone doing the desiging...the odds of it happening are just too small"I find that if people look at simple statistics, they would see that not only is it possible, but we HAVE to be here (atleast if you subscribe to Hawkings POV), that is, if the universe is infinite, and time is infinite, then, no matter how small the statistical probability is (e.g. there is only a.00000000001% chance that evolution could work), that in an infinite system, it will STILL HAVE TO HAPPEN, no matter how small.
Easier said: a coin is 50/50 heads or tails. Yet it can still land on it's side. Same rule applies to evolution.
I hope Katzenberg and myself aren't the only ones who hear "home-video" and immediately think of porn.
At least my IRC days of !find [insert porn site] are over...
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The Digg of this, with a similar summary, has already been marked as inaccurate. Besides on top of the article, no where does it cite the 60% code rewrite.
However, if you want the "truth" about Vista, I suggest this: http://minimsft.blogspot.com/2006/03/vista-2007-fi re-leadership-now.html
On this article, many anon MS coders comment on Vista and the management shakeup. Some are fake, but there are many legitimate posters, including the blogger himself. The comments paint quite a bleak picture for MS and Vista.
Mircosoft is also planning to remove the DRM through their MS AntiSpyware.s p?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000614
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1886122,00.a
THAT, is why I use and actually trust MS AntiSpyware over other competing scanners. However, using two doesn't hurt.
But it should be up to the parents to decide what they want for their children for themselves. If this were passed, nothing would stop the parents from buying the games for their children. I don't see why everyone is fighting it so much. The only problem I see is putting it into a form where it would be lawful.
Because... now the parents have to think before buying! Oh noes, don't make them think!
Since when were bad videos the new wave of the future (check them out for yourselves)? Without an incredibly large submission base and moderation (some videos are nothing more than people on camera doing nothing), YouTube's current business model can never survive. If Slashdot cannot get it right (how many dupes can you count a month?), what makes Sequoia think YouTube will? Unlike Slashdot, YouTube is video content, which is many cases is more difficult to submit than text (capturing, authoring, bandwidth, copyrights, etc). It will be interesting to see if YouTube lives up. Personally, I believe Google Video will fare much better.
We need a beer that gets us wasted but keeps us awake to bask in the glory that is drunkeness! If there ever were a God, this proves it! Hangovers, away with thee!
PM me for a torrent of this CD.
IIRC, Google wanted some sort of web interface to the OpenOffice suite. If that means allowing OO to be ran through the browser, 80MBs is quite a lot for not installing anything. Imagine the load times on the web, compared to the 4-5 seconds when installed. I doubt many can do 16MB/s.
"Speaking of online music sales, I'm really looking forward to another price war. Come on guys, we need a legit iTunes competitor to drive down the prices!" Unfortunately, Apple is making the bare minimum off each song (something along the lines of a few cent I believe?). Without the recording industry allowing so, the prices will never be below Apple. And from the looks of it now, the recording industry only wants to see prices rise. One way I see prices being lower than Apple is if the recording industry forfeits lower prices to an iTunes competitior. That competitor will take a siginificant enough market share to erode Apple's dominance. In a sweeping move, the RIAA will ramp up prices, causing the collapse of digital music (of both iTunes and its competitor). Yeah right, it would never happen!
Here is the article text. Learn to stop linking to Babel Fish. Leave the cute fish alone. Or you can goto Alta Vista and start clicking on some advertisements.
Why don't we develop a system where enemy locations are imported into Counter Strike as actual models, and allow players from around the world control robots that respond to actual gameplay. Then, we won't need an army. Our army will consist of the largest geek squad. Hell, I went 67-1 before, I'm my own damn army. God forbid we turn on FF though. But at least theres an legitimate excuse for using aimbots.
You neglected the gamers, which fall between the two catagories you have mentioned. Being one, I find that 40GB is absurdly small. Yet I find a good 80GB to 100GB to be perfect for my needs.
What is so great about a release if none of the extensions work? Im really missing my StumbleUpon!
The arguement that the "Intellegent Design" folks put forth is that, "It's impossible to have a system as complex as human beings WITHOUT someone doing the desiging...the odds of it happening are just too small" I find that if people look at simple statistics, they would see that not only is it possible, but we HAVE to be here (atleast if you subscribe to Hawkings POV), that is, if the universe is infinite, and time is infinite, then, no matter how small the statistical probability is (e.g. there is only a .00000000001% chance that evolution could work), that in an infinite system, it will STILL HAVE TO HAPPEN, no matter how small.
Easier said: a coin is 50/50 heads or tails. Yet it can still land on it's side. Same rule applies to evolution.
I hope Katzenberg and myself aren't the only ones who hear "home-video" and immediately think of porn.
At least my IRC days of !find [insert porn site] are over...
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Can Hasbro spell p-r-o-c-r-a-s-t-i-n-a-t-i-o-n? Wait... how many points was that?
Seeing as I can't seem to find pr0n with MSN Beta's image search, I will stick to Google.
Damn it Slashdot. Stop killing servers.
"AOL Files First Spim Lawsuit" And the "I" in Spim is nowhere close to "A"...
So how do we prosecute these dead guys?