What's the point of having a kickass Linux/NVidia comp/laptop if you can't play games? Sure there's Wesnoth, Tux Racer, and thank god Doom3 came out for Linux, but Linux is still missing Counter-Strike, WoW, etc.
Linux computers can have the most incredible overclocking system but if there's nothing to use that NVidia card for, it'd be better to get a basic graphics card for your coding.
who has Pi memorized to 450 digits. He celebrated pi day (3/14) by memorizing his 500th, and repeating them nonstop all day long. Got a bit on everyone's nerves to say the least.
They crushed Netscape not because of market share of browsers. MS couldn't give a damn what kind of browser you use. It's one reason why they aren't terribly worried about Firefox.
They killed Netscape earlier because of the files. Netscape had a different system of files that threatened Microsoft-proprietary formats. If programmers started developing programs for Netscape not IE, that could lead to a whole new Operating System.
ALCU? Despite the fact that the ACLU is one of the most biased sources in America, they are guilty of privacy violations themself. If the ACLU is so concerned about privacy (ie PATRIOT ACT) why are they data mining their members?
I only forwarded the important/funny stuff to my other email addresses when I switched addresses.
Now I use Gmail, and everything gets archived. I don't see Gmail/Google collapsing anytime soon, (or me running out of storage space) and so I think in 10 years, if you ask this question, I'd say I just archived it.
You slander Thomas Jefferson, who WAS indeed a Christian.
He was the author of the Declaration of Independence, which, I quote," We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
Their creator? He sounds fairly religious to me.
He also worked on the Constitution, which was full of references to God. Not only that, but he as President he made tons of speeches making references to God. Research your facts.
Well we all heard about the GBrowser news a while ago, possibly mimicking Firefox.
Now they are making a calender, when Mozilla came out with a calender like 2 months ago. It's obvious Google is mimicking Mozilla and creating unnecessary work in the process, why don't they just buy/acquire them/their products?
Bush outspent Kerry by $40 million dollars.
True.
Look at this chart. Out of the top 10 527 advocacy groups (listed by spending) 8/10 are Democratic groups.
If you go by numbers, here's how the top 15 Advocacy groups line up.
Democratic Aligned
$333,000,000 (333 mil)
Republican Aligned
$90,000,000 (90 mil)
That's only the top 15.
So who outspent who? The Democratic groups clearly outspent the Republican groups.
Let me make a point. The Swift Boat Vets are the 7th largest advocacy group in 2004. (By spending) The 7th largest, and I dunno about you, but that's who I remember most of 2004 ads. It seems they had a lot more bang for their buck against groups like America Coming Together, who spent the most at nearly $80 million dollars, and their goal was just to oust Bush.
Strictly speaking, yes, Bush outspent Kerry. But in reality, Kerry + Anti-Bush spending dwarfs "Bush & Co's" amount.
http://www.opensecrets.org/527s/527cmtes.asp
Well to be completely fair to the other person, let's establish that several of these games are not made from the ground up. EA just has to either buy someone else's engine, or tweak an old game a bit.
Take Medal of Honor, for example. They bought the Quake II engine and just made a single-player.
Same with several of their sports games. They don't create a whole new game-engine, they just rehash it with new rosters, and people buy it.
The subject of a journalists ability to keep their sources secret has been going on for a while.
The question is, when does a journalists right to keep their sources anonymous pass over other rights? How about the right to privacy? How about national security?
This lawsuit reminds me of one last october, where a journalist was jailed for up to 1 1/2 years for refusing to release her sources on the CIA leak.
(For those who don't know the story)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A147 77-2004Oct7.html/
On the other hand, companies go through a lot to protect their trade secrets, importantly so, because innovation is the lifeblood of business. The CIA's outlook report said that foreign nations, such as Russia's are no longer spying on our weapons, but on our companies. I personally had to sign a huge legal waiver just to visit my dad in his office at Xerox. So it's easy to see why Apple is pissed off. But should their anger jail someone?
Why are we creating partially human-creatures? Didn't Frankenstein settle this?
I dunno about the rest of slashdot, but I'm creeped out by the whole idea of mixing genes of creatures and humans. And I do NOT want to know how they create them.
Consider this.
They have a monopoly (the Justice Department has said so)
They have $55 BILLION dollars in CASH. To take an example, American Airlines lost about 300million this year. At this rate, Microsoft can keep on kicking for 183 years.
And this is a bad scenario. If companies like Dell continue to patronize them, Microsoft will continue to post profits.
As much as/. may want it, it probably won't happen. At least until we are dead.
And if you think that the government should decide where you go to school, where you get your healthcare, and what you should do with your money, I recommend that you move to Canada.
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Except there are those of us who despise .PDF as Adobe's most bloated proprietary document.
What's the point of having a kickass Linux/NVidia comp/laptop if you can't play games? Sure there's Wesnoth, Tux Racer, and thank god Doom3 came out for Linux, but Linux is still missing Counter-Strike, WoW, etc.
Linux computers can have the most incredible overclocking system but if there's nothing to use that NVidia card for, it'd be better to get a basic graphics card for your coding.
Is anyone actually surprised? Look how Windows XP Starter kit has been doing!
who has Pi memorized to 450 digits. He celebrated pi day (3/14) by memorizing his 500th, and repeating them nonstop all day long. Got a bit on everyone's nerves to say the least.
How about researching some French military Victories? http://www.google.com/search?q=%22French+military+ victories%22&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start =0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozi lla:en-US:official/
They crushed Netscape not because of market share of browsers. MS couldn't give a damn what kind of browser you use. It's one reason why they aren't terribly worried about Firefox. They killed Netscape earlier because of the files. Netscape had a different system of files that threatened Microsoft-proprietary formats. If programmers started developing programs for Netscape not IE, that could lead to a whole new Operating System.
ALCU? Despite the fact that the ACLU is one of the most biased sources in America, they are guilty of privacy violations themself. If the ACLU is so concerned about privacy (ie PATRIOT ACT) why are they data mining their members?
I only forwarded the important/funny stuff to my other email addresses when I switched addresses.
Now I use Gmail, and everything gets archived. I don't see Gmail/Google collapsing anytime soon, (or me running out of storage space) and so I think in 10 years, if you ask this question, I'd say I just archived it.
You slander Thomas Jefferson, who WAS indeed a Christian.
He was the author of the Declaration of Independence, which, I quote," We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
Their creator? He sounds fairly religious to me.
He also worked on the Constitution, which was full of references to God. Not only that, but he as President he made tons of speeches making references to God. Research your facts.
And you thought America was creepy!
horrendus. just like your spelling.
That, and you can easily be canned if you announce that you are gay.
Well we all heard about the GBrowser news a while ago, possibly mimicking Firefox.
Now they are making a calender, when Mozilla came out with a calender like 2 months ago. It's obvious Google is mimicking Mozilla and creating unnecessary work in the process, why don't they just buy/acquire them/their products?
Bush outspent Kerry by $40 million dollars. True. Look at this chart. Out of the top 10 527 advocacy groups (listed by spending) 8/10 are Democratic groups. If you go by numbers, here's how the top 15 Advocacy groups line up. Democratic Aligned $333,000,000 (333 mil) Republican Aligned $90,000,000 (90 mil) That's only the top 15. So who outspent who? The Democratic groups clearly outspent the Republican groups. Let me make a point. The Swift Boat Vets are the 7th largest advocacy group in 2004. (By spending) The 7th largest, and I dunno about you, but that's who I remember most of 2004 ads. It seems they had a lot more bang for their buck against groups like America Coming Together, who spent the most at nearly $80 million dollars, and their goal was just to oust Bush. Strictly speaking, yes, Bush outspent Kerry. But in reality, Kerry + Anti-Bush spending dwarfs "Bush & Co's" amount. http://www.opensecrets.org/527s/527cmtes.asp
The Union Carbide Bhopal Incident was #1. a PRIVATE company #2. a CHEMICAL company As opposed to GOVERNMENT-RUN NUCLEAR plants.
Don't even suggest the idea, they might do it.
Question about this article-
Is Dell actually making these, or are they slapping their label on other company products, like all their monitors and such?
Says someone with Voltaire in his sig. :D
Dispatch a couple Germans into Paris. They'll surrender.
Well to be completely fair to the other person, let's establish that several of these games are not made from the ground up. EA just has to either buy someone else's engine, or tweak an old game a bit.
Take Medal of Honor, for example. They bought the Quake II engine and just made a single-player.
Same with several of their sports games. They don't create a whole new game-engine, they just rehash it with new rosters, and people buy it.
His support failed to materialize. But nobody mentioned how his support collapsed after? YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGGGG! "I have a Scream"
The subject of a journalists ability to keep their sources secret has been going on for a while. The question is, when does a journalists right to keep their sources anonymous pass over other rights? How about the right to privacy? How about national security? This lawsuit reminds me of one last october, where a journalist was jailed for up to 1 1/2 years for refusing to release her sources on the CIA leak. (For those who don't know the story) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A147 77-2004Oct7.html/
On the other hand, companies go through a lot to protect their trade secrets, importantly so, because innovation is the lifeblood of business. The CIA's outlook report said that foreign nations, such as Russia's are no longer spying on our weapons, but on our companies. I personally had to sign a huge legal waiver just to visit my dad in his office at Xerox. So it's easy to see why Apple is pissed off. But should their anger jail someone?
Why are we creating partially human-creatures? Didn't Frankenstein settle this? I dunno about the rest of slashdot, but I'm creeped out by the whole idea of mixing genes of creatures and humans. And I do NOT want to know how they create them.
Consider this. They have a monopoly (the Justice Department has said so) They have $55 BILLION dollars in CASH. To take an example, American Airlines lost about 300million this year. At this rate, Microsoft can keep on kicking for 183 years. And this is a bad scenario. If companies like Dell continue to patronize them, Microsoft will continue to post profits. As much as /. may want it, it probably won't happen. At least until we are dead.
And if you think that the government should decide where you go to school, where you get your healthcare, and what you should do with your money, I recommend that you move to Canada.