Apparently you read that from the blurb and not TFA. I'll give you a break and say that the second paragraph there starts with "Software Architect Marvin Theimer..." and the ninth, "Theimer also outlined Microsoft's goals for two follow-up versions. The next version of the Compute Cluster edition will extend to Microsoft's.Net programming infrastructure, letting developers write software using the C# programming language, he said. Although such code runs more slowly than C programs running directly on Windows, writing programs in C# that run atop.Net is easier and more secure."
I've coded a bit with C#, and would love it if it supported USB, but still feel comfortable with it, even if it isn't the best thing one can use. I'd personally take it over Java, especially with Mono's effort, though it doesn't work on a Mac from the little I know.
Actually this is a very good point. Cray computers use Linux, Quadrics computers use Linux, and I'm sure anyone who has made an "Imagine a Beowulf cluster" post has read this. If I was managing Microsoft, I'd want people to think Windows is a powerful OS, so the last place I'd want it to be overtaken on is the world's more powerful computers. Especially by a freely available OS like Linux. Thus...the upcoming supercomputer Windows.
BTW the Windows-for-supercomputers story is already rising up on the Google lists. Check on or before the 7th link.
"If the next generation platforms are going to create even more gorgeous looking games using further enhanced functionality, and if that next-gen market can still expand the games industry, then I'm afraid that third-parties may not support Nintendo," he said.
I feel a bit confused. Is he saying that the other consoles like PS3 and the second XBox may be better, and those better ones could destroy his chances of getting other developers to develop for the Revolution? (thus hurting its sales?)* Frankly I think it's already done so then; I remember some years ago when the show Extra were offering free PS2s and GameCubes but said they could not offer XBoxes (XBoxen?) due to extreme demand for them. I remember long lines shown in the news for the PS2 also (people shouting PS2! PS2!), but never heard of such massive demand for the 'Cube-only lots of ads and good games like a Zelda or two.
*To those who think I should know these things because of my username (I remember such a post a while back): I'm game kid, not game expert. Give me a break, please.
Sign me on that petition. I read Slashdot and I hear about a "new" (old) patent like this almost every month. It makes me frightened just to write my own code...but then that's probably what Eolas wants. I hope not.
At least this "repost" has commentary from other sites, and were it not for this I'd have never heard of this "Viola" browser that MS mentions. I expect MS to win this one, from the little I know; besides, doesn't Firefox et al. use plugins too? I think Eolas=SCO easily here; this "906" plugin patent just seems far too broad.
...would Linux CDs be a good substitute for the penguins? and would the ARI lawyers substitute their suits for giant North Face jackets?
Somehow I think people would be sued in Mars or the ISS before that though. I wouldn't move to a world so cold. (I'd compare the preceding to a Mudvayne song but I'd get sued. I think.)
if they price there product in an affordable price range, people will buy.
Putting hard-to-find, exclusive content (like an in-depth interview, a free poster, or an offer for one of the above) into the whole CD package might help too. Of course those too (or the images thereof) can easily be copied and released into p2p nets for all to download. Or apt-get or however you call it.
...I wouldn't do that, especially if the FBI/whoever is the investigative arm in your country decides to drive by your antenna. Sounds like easy jailbait if they crack down on those like you, but that's just my inference.
Of course you might be able to sue them back if they download it to figure out if its illegal.
*sigh* Apparently he slept through the Percentages and Using Correct Units portions of math class. My Precalculus Professor would catch a heart att^W^W^W^Wbe real impressed.
I've played (and ended) GTA:SA without committing or being accused of a single crime in real life, and I'm sure quite a few of you have too.
No comment.
Overall, he's a stereotypical lawyer and a classic Slashdot -1, Troll to me.
Looks nice to me though, knowing all the themery (is that a word? You decide) may take a boatload of RAM. Though if you need more RAM just to show the cool-looking stuff, you should dump your PC. Now. It's too old IMHO. That said, I love this 'scape. Me want.
The very thought of making 5-femtosecond laser pulses (0.000 000 000 000 005 sec, right?) leaves me feeling dumb and slow.
That aside, someone please clue me in here:
The team was able to control the output of the laser so that all the pulses were identical. The researchers could, for example, ensure that each pulse contained two maxima of the electric field (thatis, two peaks with large positive values) and one minimum (a peak with a large negative value). There was a small probability that an atom would be ionized by one or other of the maxima, which therefore played the role of the slits, with the resulting electron being accelerated towards a detector. If the atom was ionized by the minimum, the electron travelled in the opposite direction towards a second detector.
So if the electrons hit the laser when the pulse was at maximum strength they would hit the detector, like the two "beams" of light passed through the slits in Young's experiment? and the ones that pass "between" the maxima and minima get distorted like the blurry edges of the light? thus making "slits" of electrons but at instants in time instead of separate points? (I'm no physics expert but I'm sure you guessed that by now...)
I mean storing solar energy from the day into a battery for the nighttime signal. Hopefully you could have guessed that, and not that a night light would be powered by a sun that's not "shining."
Unfortunately, Batman tends to work at night, so solar cells won't be of too much help.
Have you ever seen the Batsignal? Uses a lot of much needed power. If Gotham doesn't use solar power for that they'll soon need Captain Planet's help instead.
Maybe we can power a Beowulf cluster of toaster--er, computers. Or microw--I mean, cars--dammit, GTRI, you and your confusing waffle-looking wafers! But I love'em; we should make a worldwide solar-collecting mesh covering Earth with these wafers, so anyone who needs "clean" energy can have it--using, of course, some sort of redundancy to prevent something like the 2003 Northeast Blackout. How would that go?
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... but yeah, you're right. Helps do away with the (ugh!) parenthesis matching crap in LISP, so actual people can edit it too, verbose as it may seem.
God bless Flash introductions that celebrate said birthday--especially ones with Maja Latinovic in front. My brother might rightly say holla to that.
How far we have come in 10 years, but how dangerous Internet browsing has become. With the popup-blocking vulnerabilities found a few days ago no browser is too safe yet IMO.
(Side note: Sara Lee makes Wonderbras? No wonder those mammaries look finger-lickin' good.)
Yeah. On the other hand, if it says "mad lagz0rz" or "I SHOOT THEM AND THEY DON'T DIE!!!" (anyone playing SOCOM II would know) you'd better prepare a lawsuit.
...or at least many similar stories about laparoscopic sugery and how video games improve the needed skillz*ahem*skills. There's a lot of precision involved in both surgeries and games, and I've seen many people suck at games (not that I'm any better) because they can't do things precisely. (You know, like aiming.*) I'm not surprised in this article's case.
*although lots of online games lag so much one wonders who or what, if anything, to aim at for that lovely moment of pwnage.
The worst part is that Gordon Freeman isn't even reflected in mirrors (though it's probably by-design; they wanted to give the illusion that you, not some skinny guy with glasse--oh wait, it was me). I too doubt she'll be easy to see in a expansion, but then I doubt they'll make any Alyx expansion for months, if not years.
Side note: I checked Steam for the first time in a while...
Along with the two new maps, there are a number of fixes to the bots in Counter-Strike, an enhancement to the radar to display your current location in the map, and a fix for Half-Life 2: Deathmatch where players are disguising themselves as headcrabs, filing cabinets, and other invalid models.
God that must have been hilarious, trying to toss toilets (and votes) at a file cabinet to make them stop. I do think the engine and games are far too open in terms of allowing these things.
I add my name to that petition. I consider every Slashdot story the first of many comments, and if they can be pruned on the main page to the most fitting ones only (but still allowing the others to be viewable like comments) that would be teh awesome. CmdrTaco, sir, I hope you're reading the parent.
...people will actually play Tetris with something besides the classic tracks? BLASPHEMY! (Unless it's a Lil Jon song that says YEEAAAHHHH after every 4-line combo.)
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Apparently you read that from the blurb and not TFA. I'll give you a break and say that the second paragraph there starts with "Software Architect Marvin Theimer..." and the ninth, "Theimer also outlined Microsoft's goals for two follow-up versions. The next version of the Compute Cluster edition will extend to Microsoft's .Net programming infrastructure, letting developers write software using the C# programming language, he said. Although such code runs more slowly than C programs running directly on Windows, writing programs in C# that run atop .Net is easier and more secure."
I've coded a bit with C#, and would love it if it supported USB, but still feel comfortable with it, even if it isn't the best thing one can use. I'd personally take it over Java, especially with Mono's effort, though it doesn't work on a Mac from the little I know.
Actually this is a very good point. Cray computers use Linux, Quadrics computers use Linux, and I'm sure anyone who has made an "Imagine a Beowulf cluster" post has read this. If I was managing Microsoft, I'd want people to think Windows is a powerful OS, so the last place I'd want it to be overtaken on is the world's more powerful computers. Especially by a freely available OS like Linux. Thus...the upcoming supercomputer Windows.
BTW the Windows-for-supercomputers story is already rising up on the Google lists. Check on or before the 7th link.
I feel a bit confused. Is he saying that the other consoles like PS3 and the second XBox may be better, and those better ones could destroy his chances of getting other developers to develop for the Revolution? (thus hurting its sales?)* Frankly I think it's already done so then; I remember some years ago when the show Extra were offering free PS2s and GameCubes but said they could not offer XBoxes (XBoxen?) due to extreme demand for them. I remember long lines shown in the news for the PS2 also (people shouting PS2! PS2!), but never heard of such massive demand for the 'Cube-only lots of ads and good games like a Zelda or two.
*To those who think I should know these things because of my username (I remember such a post a while back): I'm game kid, not game expert. Give me a break, please.
Sign me on that petition. I read Slashdot and I hear about a "new" (old) patent like this almost every month. It makes me frightened just to write my own code...but then that's probably what Eolas wants. I hope not.
At least this "repost" has commentary from other sites, and were it not for this I'd have never heard of this "Viola" browser that MS mentions. I expect MS to win this one, from the little I know; besides, doesn't Firefox et al. use plugins too? I think Eolas=SCO easily here; this "906" plugin patent just seems far too broad.
...would Linux CDs be a good substitute for the penguins? and would the ARI lawyers substitute their suits for giant North Face jackets?
Somehow I think people would be sued in Mars or the ISS before that though. I wouldn't move to a world so cold. (I'd compare the preceding to a Mudvayne song but I'd get sued. I think.)
Putting hard-to-find, exclusive content (like an in-depth interview, a free poster, or an offer for one of the above) into the whole CD package might help too. Of course those too (or the images thereof) can easily be copied and released into p2p nets for all to download. Or apt-get or however you call it.
...I wouldn't do that, especially if the FBI/whoever is the investigative arm in your country decides to drive by your antenna. Sounds like easy jailbait if they crack down on those like you, but that's just my inference.
Of course you might be able to sue them back if they download it to figure out if its illegal.
My response to Mr. Thompson's answers:
Overall, he's a stereotypical lawyer and a classic Slashdot -1, Troll to me.
They should say Netscape doesn't allow^Wsupport them. I'm no businessman giving away "free" browsers from their site, though, so I wouldn't know.
Looks nice to me though, knowing all the themery (is that a word? You decide) may take a boatload of RAM. Though if you need more RAM just to show the cool-looking stuff, you should dump your PC. Now. It's too old IMHO. That said, I love this 'scape. Me want.
The worst part is that Slashdot bills them as "Ten Unmissable Articles". When I hear that I think about these you insensitive clods!
That said, I especially love the vibrator one which I could have sworn I saw bef--oh wait, it was linked from here.
The very thought of making 5-femtosecond laser pulses (0.000 000 000 000 005 sec, right?) leaves me feeling dumb and slow.
That aside, someone please clue me in here:
So if the electrons hit the laser when the pulse was at maximum strength they would hit the detector, like the two "beams" of light passed through the slits in Young's experiment? and the ones that pass "between" the maxima and minima get distorted like the blurry edges of the light? thus making "slits" of electrons but at instants in time instead of separate points? (I'm no physics expert but I'm sure you guessed that by now...)
I mean storing solar energy from the day into a battery for the nighttime signal. Hopefully you could have guessed that, and not that a night light would be powered by a sun that's not "shining."
Have you ever seen the Batsignal? Uses a lot of much needed power. If Gotham doesn't use solar power for that they'll soon need Captain Planet's help instead.
Maybe we can power a Beowulf cluster of toaster--er, computers. Or microw--I mean, cars--dammit, GTRI, you and your confusing waffle-looking wafers! But I love'em; we should make a worldwide solar-collecting mesh covering Earth with these wafers, so anyone who needs "clean" energy can have it--using, of course, some sort of redundancy to prevent something like the 2003 Northeast Blackout. How would that go?
... but yeah, you're right. Helps do away with the (ugh!) parenthesis matching crap in LISP, so actual people can edit it too, verbose as it may seem.
God bless Flash introductions that celebrate said birthday--especially ones with Maja Latinovic in front. My brother might rightly say holla to that.
How far we have come in 10 years, but how dangerous Internet browsing has become. With the popup-blocking vulnerabilities found a few days ago no browser is too safe yet IMO.
(Side note: Sara Lee makes Wonderbras? No wonder those mammaries look finger-lickin' good.)
Yeah. On the other hand, if it says "mad lagz0rz" or "I SHOOT THEM AND THEY DON'T DIE!!!" (anyone playing SOCOM II would know) you'd better prepare a lawsuit.
...or at least many similar stories about laparoscopic sugery and how video games improve the needed skillz*ahem*skills. There's a lot of precision involved in both surgeries and games, and I've seen many people suck at games (not that I'm any better) because they can't do things precisely. (You know, like aiming.*) I'm not surprised in this article's case.
*although lots of online games lag so much one wonders who or what, if anything, to aim at for that lovely moment of pwnage.
The worst part is that Gordon Freeman isn't even reflected in mirrors (though it's probably by-design; they wanted to give the illusion that you, not some skinny guy with glasse--oh wait, it was me). I too doubt she'll be easy to see in a expansion, but then I doubt they'll make any Alyx expansion for months, if not years.
Side note: I checked Steam for the first time in a while...
God that must have been hilarious, trying to toss toilets (and votes) at a file cabinet to make them stop. I do think the engine and games are far too open in terms of allowing these things.
...and judging from Half-Life 2's late, heavily-delayed release, even if they had plans it would take quite a while. I'm not holding my breath.
Hopefully someday a solo session of Windows would last that long.
I add my name to that petition. I consider every Slashdot story the first of many comments, and if they can be pruned on the main page to the most fitting ones only (but still allowing the others to be viewable like comments) that would be teh awesome. CmdrTaco, sir, I hope you're reading the parent.
...people will actually play Tetris with something besides the classic tracks? BLASPHEMY! (Unless it's a Lil Jon song that says YEEAAAHHHH after every 4-line combo.)