I think it is true in a lot of ways, I know one or two "Offline" impulsive shoppers, when I am walking in the street with one them they see a pair of shoes or a bag (you can guess I am talking about a woman) that she "likes" she cant help but buying it, she does not try to look for another shop for similar items or the same items but with another price/warranty/offer etc.
On the other hand, on the internet is so easy to check prices for several shops (I personally use Dealtime and with Ebay) that you could say you are reducing the search time to just about 30 minutes.
Now about the shopping cars, I think they are fine when not complex. I really hate for example the Amazon shopping cart which besides telling the goods I will by wants to push me to buy everything related to them, god, I think they can do that in the main site but not on the place where I want a simple summary of what I WILL buy.
Be realistic. Yeah, Bittorrent has plenty of legit uses. But do you really think that's what most people use it for? I'd say most are looking for porn, movies, software, etc. Look at it this way, guns can be used to hunt for food. But the truth is, 99% of gun use is against people. You can argue about their legitimate use and bad rap 'till you're blue in the face, but the legitimate uses are statistically outweighed by bad ones. The same applies to Bittorrent.
I agree with Parent, why do/. mods always mod down any p2p software critics? It is supposed to be an open forum! too bad I just used 5 mod points if not I would have modded up GP... INSIGHTFUL, maybe you do not like it but, it has some truth.
As GP said, it is the end of a era. I think the end of this era was with the Nintendo 64 , Playstation and Dreamcast (and the others).
You see, I think Microsoft and Sony are making the best they can, they both entered a new established market (for them) using their own markets power to enter.
Microsoft played cheap by making a Gaming PC, Sony used what they had from their previous Nintendo short time relation.
But now, we have seen the old generation competitors vanish, remember Neo-Geo, Sega, Turbo Graphx 16 (spelling?) and the other consoles in the 8 - 16bits generations that was an era, that was the era of the 2D gaming with excellent gameplay and design, with neat new effects that amazed everyone.
And also there was not a lot of PC gaming, or it was not a viable alternative for everyone
Now, Nintendo has been here since the old days, they resurrected the buisness (after the Atari 2600 etc generation) so they know the thrends and how to make money.
As for Sony, although they have made 2 consoles now (PS1 and PS2) I think this new console will be the one showing the fully developed Sony potential. Personally I think Microsoft is losing here because they only have the Xbox (so they are 1 console later) and its new console (XBox 360) will be to MS what PS2 was to Sony, sure it will be profitable but nothing else.
As for nintendo, for what I have read (sure there are mostly rumors), they will make a completley revolutionary console (pun intented), why? because they have seen they are dying with their current trend, because the competitors are new and if they not evolve they will certainly die.
Well, now we just have to wait like 15 days for the E3 which is promising to bring outstanding news, I have high hopes for the new Nintendo, personally my last console was the Super Nintendo, I didnt bought anything until the Xbox, which I had for like 6 months and played like 6 different games, then I sold it, my brother bought the PS and PS2 and I played them although I personally play computer games (Hitman, Commandos, Sim city etc.) when I have time but for what I have read about Nintendo Rev, I am looking forward to buy it.
You can have a look at some nice rumors about the Nintendo in this page.
I think IBM will certainly start a Linux portage to the Cell micropossesor once it takes off, they have the source code there and I think It should not be difficult to begin it relasing it in open source, sincerely I would like it to happen, I think it could really give a push the Linux OSS movement and neither anyone of the 3 companies (Toshiba, IBM, Sony) are for the OS buissness.
Thas sounds good, but what about using any of the open source FPS games available and add those kind of support, I think it could be a cool experience and a good way for the Open Source move to give something that commercial software can not give.
I am sorry I can't recall the exact title of the esssay but, Isaac Asimov once wrote something similar stating that we can use the decimal places of pi we have right now to calculate the circunference or radio of the whole galaxy (I think he could have wrote the "universe" but I really do not want to state it as I am not 100% sure) with an error of 1 inch.
As you say, can you imagine? so what TF is the use of calculating the 192301931029301293120 decimal position of pi??? it is like making a computer calculate the same position for 1/3, NO USE!
That is something a lot of people has thought... but I would like to see an extensive list of authors that are not assosiated in any form with the RIAA and also another extensive list of the RIAA's groups, It would be good to have an easy accessible list on the internet.
Currently I mostly listen to European metal music (like Axxis, Stratovarius, Dream Theater, Kamelot [this is US], Children of Bodom, etc...) I do not know (but certainly would like to know) if any of these groups are in some way assossiated with RIAA because I would stop listenting to them. I mean, I really want to do something. Fortunatley I am from Mexico where our goverment has lots of more problems than being worried about this kind of bullshit but nowadays I live in UK, so its more likely I am affected...
yes... that was supposed to be a compliment =oP but I think I let myself guide by the anger =o). I live on Liverpool, and it is not that people are racists by themself, but it is just that you always feel like "outside" that circle, you are always a foreigner, and the only thing you have is to group with the others in the same situation as you (i.e. another foreigners).
Maybe that is not so bad, maybe I am just a bit (well, not just a bit) sensible about that... but anyway, it is a nice place... (just after you learn to understand scouse... which can be a bitch)
Wow, it was nice to see there is cool people in Britain and not just snobbish bad ass racist-kind(and quite obtuse) people...
I hope I can find a nice English person in the next 2 years I'll be here... I mean, all my friends are guys/girls from outside UK (gosh! I even have a friend from US (that is something being I from Mexico)).
And btw the pictures at your page are cool, the first ones seem like pictures from movies =oP.
A nice standard power/data jack, with a standardized supply voltage high enough to move a reasonable amount of power through reasonably sized wires, and a data services jack designed to *move data* would be so much nicer in the end.
Yeah, so now what we all need is another different cable/connector standard so we have to make holes through the houses/companies... also, if you remember Ethernet/RJ-45 connectors where not "Universally proposed defacto standards", they are more acquired standards, and what PoE is about is to take advantage of the current infrastructure.
It is all about that, to take advantage of something that is already created. And at the end, do you REALLY think that all the countries will agree and change their power lines?? (ask that to the British!)
Yeah, but as you just wrote I will not count that as an Impressive feature... while Mr. Gates thinks that: Longhorn's icons will be particularly impressive. Because they are based on raster graphics technology and not bitmaps, they scale correctly to any resolution. They also display in a special thumbnail mode that graphically shows the contents of each file.
FTA: 'PoE could end up being a universal power supply system as the cables and connectors for it are the same all over the world.
FTA?? That meaning F*ck the article??.
Seriously, it would be nice to be able to charge your Laptop battery with the Network cable, although current notebooks have a 120~230 AC adapter, I think it is cumbersome when I need to connect: 1. the laptop AC adaptor; 2. the laptop network adaptor; 3. the 2 or 3 USB devices I have (camera, external HD, etc). I end with so much cables for a portable notebook...
Well, I have to tell you I really can not wait for longhorn but, (as almost all my friends) I am sure I will not be queueing outside the shop, instead I will let my Mule do the queue;o).
I have a question, after looking at those pictures I realized something, how could I be sure that it is Windows Longhorn indeed? I mean,I think any middle capable Photoshoper could had made those pictures from a XP Screenshot no? so what? Anyone could have just uploaded some pictures with some legend telling "Microsoft Longhorn Final" in small white font and everyone will believe it is the real thing????
I do not know if there is any culture fight or something between English and Scottish but for what I have seen, I really prefer Scotland, I live in Liverpool and went to Glasgow for a weekend and I got really amazed at the place AND most important the people god! the people is really friendly (not like the shut-up-already English I always see), I even think I could make a friendship over there (I have been 7 months in UK and I have made friends only from other international people.
Also I could understand them! (i.e. NOT Scouse) I got really frustrated when I started shoping or doing something else in Liv. gosh it is so difficult to understand tha I though, wtf I was suppose to speak english so what happened???... but even English spoken people does not understand them...
So after all that I think Scotland is a really good place to live, who knows, maybe after finishing my PhD I will go to Scotland to get a job (it seems there are quite some IT jobs there)!
So, for example, the icon for a Word document in Longhorn displays a miniature version of the first page of that document and a Microsoft PowerPoint slide show icon displays the first slide
Sorry but, don't KDE have this feature now?? and frome quite some time? Again, I think MS is just copying features from other platforms and selling them as Great Inovation(tm)
I would love to see what would people say if they released the final version of windows as Longhorn BETA?? I am sure a lot of people from/. would shout and cry so much, but it is exactly what Google is doing isn't it??
It could stay on Beta for 1 or 2 years, then release the 1st service pack and change the status to "Beta 2" and then release another SP after 2 years and change it to "Final" and then release something else.
Do you know what pisses me off about Windows... every new OS they develop is exactly that a NEW OS, (or even if it is not...) so it is said that you can "upgrade" from 95 to 98 or 98 to ME or ME to XP (or XP to Longhorn??) but, I had tried to do some of those upgrades and in my experience none of them where smooth, at the end you finished with a 2 times more bloated SO and I had to reinstall again in another partition...
I think that is one of the good things about [SOME] linux distros, (I think about gentoo) once you have it installed, you just have to do some steps (which SHOULD be reduced to click a button IMHO) and you have the new X.0.0 version...
Darn I would mod you down to hell... the point is Those squares with funny symbols do not represent a fucking thing, if you erase the words then they do not show the function the ICON represent... do you understand? it is called Graphic Design, there are some Bachellors degrees about that.
Yes but, with the economic problems that US is facing I do not think they can afford to do what people in UK do, take, as an example Rebates, I am really sure people from Great Briatin will not take the time to get a 5 rebate from something while in US is really common.
Even now, in US the DIY culture is rising as people are finding it is "not that difficult" to fix the toiltet by themselves and can save $15 instead of calling a plumber...
Although I have not seen 1 pound notes (I have been for 7 months here), You may have some reason, I am tired of receiving those freaking Pees coinds (1p 2p!!!) Those are quite useless, so I collect them in a can.
Maybe they left the.40 in the machine because they didn't want more coin in their pockets.
If that is true then I would be right, I think for you in US.40p would be almost a dollar, would you leave a dollar inside a Coke machine???
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I think it is true in a lot of ways, I know one or two "Offline" impulsive shoppers, when I am walking in the street with one them they see a pair of shoes or a bag (you can guess I am talking about a woman) that she "likes" she cant help but buying it, she does not try to look for another shop for similar items or the same items but with another price/warranty/offer etc.
On the other hand, on the internet is so easy to check prices for several shops (I personally use Dealtime and with Ebay) that you could say you are reducing the search time to just about 30 minutes.
Now about the shopping cars, I think they are fine when not complex. I really hate for example the Amazon shopping cart which besides telling the goods I will by wants to push me to buy everything related to them, god, I think they can do that in the main site but not on the place where I want a simple summary of what I WILL buy.
Yes, because Asterix did not know the magic potion formula so, he only used hot water and a nice herb he found.
Be realistic. Yeah, Bittorrent has plenty of legit uses. But do you really think that's what most people use it for? I'd say most are looking for porn, movies, software, etc. Look at it this way, guns can be used to hunt for food. But the truth is, 99% of gun use is against people. You can argue about their legitimate use and bad rap 'till you're blue in the face, but the legitimate uses are statistically outweighed by bad ones. The same applies to Bittorrent.
/. mods always mod down any p2p software critics? It is supposed to be an open forum! too bad I just used 5 mod points if not I would have modded up GP... INSIGHTFUL, maybe you do not like it but, it has some truth.
I agree with Parent, why do
As GP said, it is the end of a era. I think the end of this era was with the Nintendo 64 , Playstation and Dreamcast (and the others).
You see, I think Microsoft and Sony are making the best they can, they both entered a new established market (for them) using their own markets power to enter.
Microsoft played cheap by making a Gaming PC, Sony used what they had from their previous Nintendo short time relation.
But now, we have seen the old generation competitors vanish, remember Neo-Geo, Sega, Turbo Graphx 16 (spelling?) and the other consoles in the 8 - 16bits generations that was an era, that was the era of the 2D gaming with excellent gameplay and design, with neat new effects that amazed everyone.
And also there was not a lot of PC gaming, or it was not a viable alternative for everyone
Now, Nintendo has been here since the old days, they resurrected the buisness (after the Atari 2600 etc generation) so they know the thrends and how to make money.
As for Sony, although they have made 2 consoles now (PS1 and PS2) I think this new console will be the one showing the fully developed Sony potential. Personally I think Microsoft is losing here because they only have the Xbox (so they are 1 console later) and its new console (XBox 360) will be to MS what PS2 was to Sony, sure it will be profitable but nothing else.
As for nintendo, for what I have read (sure there are mostly rumors), they will make a completley revolutionary console (pun intented), why? because they have seen they are dying with their current trend, because the competitors are new and if they not evolve they will certainly die.
Well, now we just have to wait like 15 days for the E3 which is promising to bring outstanding news, I have high hopes for the new Nintendo, personally my last console was the Super Nintendo, I didnt bought anything until the Xbox, which I had for like 6 months and played like 6 different games, then I sold it, my brother bought the PS and PS2 and I played them although I personally play computer games (Hitman, Commandos, Sim city etc.) when I have time but for what I have read about Nintendo Rev, I am looking forward to buy it.
You can have a look at some nice rumors about the Nintendo in this page.
Bill:
Shit... now we will have to make Longhorn Cell compatible... ok lets postpone the release date again... 2008 sounds good??
Remember, we will postpone release date in order to make the system more secure!
I think IBM will certainly start a Linux portage to the Cell micropossesor once it takes off, they have the source code there and I think It should not be difficult to begin it relasing it in open source, sincerely I would like it to happen, I think it could really give a push the Linux OSS movement and neither anyone of the 3 companies (Toshiba, IBM, Sony) are for the OS buissness.
Thas sounds good, but what about using any of the open source FPS games available and add those kind of support, I think it could be a cool experience and a good way for the Open Source move to give something that commercial software can not give.
I am sorry I can't recall the exact title of the esssay but, Isaac Asimov once wrote something similar stating that we can use the decimal places of pi we have right now to calculate the circunference or radio of the whole galaxy (I think he could have wrote the "universe" but I really do not want to state it as I am not 100% sure) with an error of 1 inch.
As you say, can you imagine? so what TF is the use of calculating the 192301931029301293120 decimal position of pi??? it is like making a computer calculate the same position for 1/3, NO USE!
That is something a lot of people has thought... but I would like to see an extensive list of authors that are not assosiated in any form with the RIAA and also another extensive list of the RIAA's groups, It would be good to have an easy accessible list on the internet.
Currently I mostly listen to European metal music (like Axxis, Stratovarius, Dream Theater, Kamelot [this is US], Children of Bodom, etc...) I do not know (but certainly would like to know) if any of these groups are in some way assossiated with RIAA because I would stop listenting to them. I mean, I really want to do something. Fortunatley I am from Mexico where our goverment has lots of more problems than being worried about this kind of bullshit but nowadays I live in UK, so its more likely I am affected...
yes... that was supposed to be a compliment =oP but I think I let myself guide by the anger =o). I live on Liverpool, and it is not that people are racists by themself, but it is just that you always feel like "outside" that circle, you are always a foreigner, and the only thing you have is to group with the others in the same situation as you (i.e. another foreigners).
Maybe that is not so bad, maybe I am just a bit (well, not just a bit) sensible about that... but anyway, it is a nice place... (just after you learn to understand scouse... which can be a bitch)
Wow, it was nice to see there is cool people in Britain and not just snobbish bad ass racist-kind(and quite obtuse) people...
I hope I can find a nice English person in the next 2 years I'll be here... I mean, all my friends are guys/girls from outside UK (gosh! I even have a friend from US (that is something being I from Mexico)).
And btw the pictures at your page are cool, the first ones seem like pictures from movies =oP.
Cheers.
A nice standard power/data jack, with a standardized supply voltage high enough to move a reasonable amount of power through reasonably sized wires, and a data services jack designed to *move data* would be so much nicer in the end.
Yeah, so now what we all need is another different cable/connector standard so we have to make holes through the houses/companies... also, if you remember Ethernet/RJ-45 connectors where not "Universally proposed defacto standards", they are more acquired standards, and what PoE is about is to take advantage of the current infrastructure.
It is all about that, to take advantage of something that is already created. And at the end, do you REALLY think that all the countries will agree and change their power lines?? (ask that to the British!)
Yeah, but as you just wrote I will not count that as an Impressive feature... while Mr. Gates thinks that:
Longhorn's icons will be particularly impressive. Because they are based on raster graphics technology and not bitmaps, they scale correctly to any resolution. They also display in a special thumbnail mode that graphically shows the contents of each file.
That can be realized RingTFA...
FTA: 'PoE could end up being a universal power supply system as the cables and connectors for it are the same all over the world.
FTA?? That meaning F*ck the article??.
Seriously, it would be nice to be able to charge your Laptop battery with the Network cable, although current notebooks have a 120~230 AC adapter, I think it is cumbersome when I need to connect: 1. the laptop AC adaptor; 2. the laptop network adaptor; 3. the 2 or 3 USB devices I have (camera, external HD, etc). I end with so much cables for a portable notebook...
s to Lenix. Microsoft seems determined to play into Lonis Torvaldez's
/. forums if you speak with that 1337 like accent?
Would you mind to write names correctly? I mean, how am I supposed to do a search in
Well, I have to tell you I really can not wait for longhorn but, (as almost all my friends) I am sure I will not be queueing outside the shop, instead I will let my Mule do the queue ;o).
I have a question, after looking at those pictures I realized something, how could I be sure that it is Windows Longhorn indeed? I mean,I think any middle capable Photoshoper could had made those pictures from a XP Screenshot no? so what? Anyone could have just uploaded some pictures with some legend telling "Microsoft Longhorn Final" in small white font and everyone will believe it is the real thing????
Come one!
because CVS is GPL and available for a lot of platforms... and guess what?? you can use it with that old 486 system that you have in that corner...
As the AC replied Yellow does not always means stop, as in UK semaphonres yellow also comes AFTER red so it will be more like "Proceed with Caution"
(Scottish and proud).
I do not know if there is any culture fight or something between English and Scottish but for what I have seen, I really prefer Scotland, I live in Liverpool and went to Glasgow for a weekend and I got really amazed at the place AND most important the people god! the people is really friendly (not like the shut-up-already English I always see), I even think I could make a friendship over there (I have been 7 months in UK and I have made friends only from other international people.
Also I could understand them! (i.e. NOT Scouse) I got really frustrated when I started shoping or doing something else in Liv. gosh it is so difficult to understand tha I though, wtf I was suppose to speak english so what happened???... but even English spoken people does not understand them...
So after all that I think Scotland is a really good place to live, who knows, maybe after finishing my PhD I will go to Scotland to get a job (it seems there are quite some IT jobs there)!
So, for example, the icon for a Word document in Longhorn displays a miniature version of the first page of that document and a Microsoft PowerPoint slide show icon displays the first slide
Sorry but, don't KDE have this feature now?? and frome quite some time? Again, I think MS is just copying features from other platforms and selling them as Great Inovation(tm)
I would love to see what would people say if they released the final version of windows as Longhorn BETA?? I am sure a lot of people from /. would shout and cry so much, but it is exactly what Google is doing isn't it??
It could stay on Beta for 1 or 2 years, then release the 1st service pack and change the status to "Beta 2" and then release another SP after 2 years and change it to "Final" and then release something else.
Do you know what pisses me off about Windows... every new OS they develop is exactly that a NEW OS, (or even if it is not...) so it is said that you can "upgrade" from 95 to 98 or 98 to ME or ME to XP (or XP to Longhorn??) but, I had tried to do some of those upgrades and in my experience none of them where smooth, at the end you finished with a 2 times more bloated SO and I had to reinstall again in another partition...
I think that is one of the good things about [SOME] linux distros, (I think about gentoo) once you have it installed, you just have to do some steps (which SHOULD be reduced to click a button IMHO) and you have the new X.0.0 version...
Darn I would mod you down to hell... the point is Those squares with funny symbols do not represent a fucking thing, if you erase the words then they do not show the function the ICON represent... do you understand? it is called Graphic Design, there are some Bachellors degrees about that.
(I supose by "America" you are refering to US).
Yes but, with the economic problems that US is facing I do not think they can afford to do what people in UK do, take, as an example Rebates, I am really sure people from Great Briatin will not take the time to get a 5 rebate from something while in US is really common.
Even now, in US the DIY culture is rising as people are finding it is "not that difficult" to fix the toiltet by themselves and can save $15 instead of calling a plumber...
Although I have not seen 1 pound notes (I have been for 7 months here), You may have some reason, I am tired of receiving those freaking Pees coinds (1p 2p!!!) Those are quite useless, so I collect them in a can.
.40 in the machine because they didn't want more coin in their pockets.
.40p would be almost a dollar, would you leave a dollar inside a Coke machine???
Maybe they left the
If that is true then I would be right, I think for you in US