A limited number of so-called geeks prefer to propagate ignorance about a toy that is highly respected by engineers.
I'm trying to reverse that trend just a little bit with my purposeful comment. I'm going to guess that the person who modded me as troll would also prefer to maintain ignorance, even though it's more of an educational thing.
As for a child calling Lego bricks whatever, well, I'm only calling out adults (assuming the parent is an adult) in this instance. Why it's so hard for some people who claim to be geeks to be respectful is beyond me.
LEGO means "play well" and was never intended to be in the plural, which is what "LEGOS" implies.
What does working for the Lego corporation have to do with this?
Name calling too eh?
Someone ought to mod YOU as troll, unless that's simply your standard behavior.
It's basically inexcusable for slashdotters to refer to Lego Bricks as "Legos" because they are supposedly not of the same mentality level for such topics as the general public, which is traditionally ignorant to such things.
"Legos" is piss-poor American slang and nothing less. Any serious Lego consumer/user says Lego and not "Legos." Check any enthusiast site and see for yourself.
nVidia (at least the QA folk) also has very long work schedules...at least with the QA department anyway, so I won't make assumptions on non-QA positions there. An employee I know describes it to me as "crazy hours."
No thanks, I'll keep my medium pay scale job (about $54K) with 8 hour work days over high pay (she makes just over $67K there) with 12+ hour work days with in-house company perks anytime....
The fact is, licensing to the end user/viewer is a common business practice, and is not going to go away. You may physically own the media, but you will always (or at least for the near future) be licensed to consume the content in an assumed way from major content providers. By licensing, additional business terms can be added, which ultimately restricts what you can technically do with the content in countries where such things can be enforced-through unending bribing of lawmakers. So you'll get your DRM, and it will be licensed for you to view, and you'll like it, and that's how hollywood choses to end your story.
It's just like EULA's...they aren't going away anytime soon.
I still get my MP3's from there, when necessary. You don't have quite the selection P2P has, but you do gain security knowing those idiots can't track you there.
I'm using Linux Mandrake 10.0 on a Dell Inspiron 8200, and it's worked out quite well. I even added a Proxim wirelss PCMCIA card, and a USB2 PCMCIA card since I bought it. The GPU is a GeForce 4 Go and my CPU is 2.2 Ghz. Stocked with 1 Gbyte of system RAM, I can run VMWare without any major problems, and I can play Enemy Terrritory and UT2004 well enough. Just to make sure all the Microsoft-only gamers see Linux while I'm on line, my nick in both ET and UT2004 is "Linux laptop" although the only question anyone ever asks me in-game is "what distro do you have?" LinDVD works great of course and I run GNOME as my Window manager.
When the Intel Centrino CPU's get to 2.5 Ghz (maybe in late 2006), I'll consider getting a new Dell and will put Linux on it again. My experience with Linux on a Dell laptop has been superb.
Fact of life-computer technology changes all the time. While I have sympathy for VB6 users to an extent, Microsoft has provided a roadmap, so you can't say that Microsoft suddenly announced this out of a Smurfy blue moon.
This just reminds me of the people who would not let go of Microsoft Windows NT 4 Server at the end of last year...the pattern is always the same, like it or not.
The entire point of Howard Stern leaving broadcast radio was partially because he was sick of being harassed by the FCC, thanks to extremist right-wing Christian groups. The government is not regulating cable, and will not be regulating satellite radio any time in the near future. With Cable, advertising dollars fuel it, and advertisers aren't willing to pay for anything they deem as risky during the day. With Satellite, it's subscriber based and not advertisement based, like cable's pay-per-view, so the dynamics are completely different and your blanket statement does not apply here.
I think it should be interesting to see how current parents are reacting to the claims brought by this charlatan. The majority of young parents (say 40 and under) should be well aware of what a video game is because it's gone mainstream in that age group and younger. I'd like to believe that panic mongers like Thompson will lose his effectiveness as video games continue to go critical mass.
All of the parents who I know who are similar in age to me (mid-30's) played (or had high levels of exposure) video games as children, and violence in gaming isn't something really to get bent out of shape on. The sex still bothers this same group of people to varying levels, but the violence does not, which illustrates our unfortunate Puritan heritage...
Sirius satellite radio has an old school rap channel that is currently uncensored, for example. These ultra-conservatives (and there are over 100,000 based in the USA at the minimum) would love to have subscription-based services meet their "standard." Right now, Sirius and XM are still building their subscriber base, but I can't help but wonder if they will ever cave in to these fanatics a few years from now when the subscriber base is far larger.
Note: there are documented cases where these ultra-conservatives don't win. Look at the so-called "American Family Association" and their pathetic attempt to sabotage NYPD blue.
They don't give up-EVER, and never learn because they are convinced beyond any rational argument that their agenda, is the correct one.
I just saw this...so apparently Dell will finally use a Linux-compatible 3D solution. However, I'll wait one more cycle because the CPU is potentially the bottleneck with UT2004.
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2356 &p=2
While I can appreciate what AMD has done to the CPU market, that's not my primary concern. I'm more interested in GPU over a CPU at present. I won't buy another Dell laptop (I currently have an Inspiron 8200) until Dell starts offering a more current nVidia product line-all they do is sport ATI for most of the current Inspiron systems. I do know that their mobile precision workstation uses a 256 MByte nVidia solution, but I'd rather have a GeForce 6 Go. If Dell doesn't start supporting nVidia by the time the GeForce 7 comes out, I'll be in the market for a new laptop, but I won't buy a Dell if this pattern doesn't change in the next 12-18 months...
Since Richard Biggs is dead, any new Babylon 5 production wouldn't quite have the same aura as the TV series. Dr. Franklin was a strong supporting character, whose presence would be sorely missed.
I don't know about the Navy, but The Coast Guard cutters (those are the largest ships other than the ice breakers and catamarans) all have Microsoft Windows XP Professional on all the embedded workstations.
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I'm trying to reverse that trend just a little bit with my purposeful comment. I'm going to guess that the person who modded me as troll would also prefer to maintain ignorance, even though it's more of an educational thing.
As for a child calling Lego bricks whatever, well, I'm only calling out adults (assuming the parent is an adult) in this instance. Why it's so hard for some people who claim to be geeks to be respectful is beyond me.
LEGO means "play well" and was never intended to be in the plural, which is what "LEGOS" implies.
Name calling too eh?
Someone ought to mod YOU as troll, unless that's simply your standard behavior.
It's basically inexcusable for slashdotters to refer to Lego Bricks as "Legos" because they are supposedly not of the same mentality level for such topics as the general public, which is traditionally ignorant to such things.
"Legos" is piss-poor American slang and nothing less. Any serious Lego consumer/user says Lego and not "Legos." Check any enthusiast site and see for yourself.
No thanks, I'll keep my medium pay scale job (about $54K) with 8 hour work days over high pay (she makes just over $67K there) with 12+ hour work days with in-house company perks anytime....
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I could go on...
It's not "Sergey", it's Sergei...
Well I hope that the Linux Flash player is maintainted-if Adobe kills it, I won't buy any additional Flash studio products...
It's just like EULA's...they aren't going away anytime soon.
I still get my MP3's from there, when necessary. You don't have quite the selection P2P has, but you do gain security knowing those idiots can't track you there.
Thank humanity for big blue!
When the Intel Centrino CPU's get to 2.5 Ghz (maybe in late 2006), I'll consider getting a new Dell and will put Linux on it again. My experience with Linux on a Dell laptop has been superb.
She is just mind-bogglingly insightful.
Agreed-she's been dead long before now.
This just reminds me of the people who would not let go of Microsoft Windows NT 4 Server at the end of last year...the pattern is always the same, like it or not.
The entire point of Howard Stern leaving broadcast radio was partially because he was sick of being harassed by the FCC, thanks to extremist right-wing Christian groups. The government is not regulating cable, and will not be regulating satellite radio any time in the near future. With Cable, advertising dollars fuel it, and advertisers aren't willing to pay for anything they deem as risky during the day. With Satellite, it's subscriber based and not advertisement based, like cable's pay-per-view, so the dynamics are completely different and your blanket statement does not apply here.
All of the parents who I know who are similar in age to me (mid-30's) played (or had high levels of exposure) video games as children, and violence in gaming isn't something really to get bent out of shape on. The sex still bothers this same group of people to varying levels, but the violence does not, which illustrates our unfortunate Puritan heritage...
Some people who are parents, shouldn't be.
Note: there are documented cases where these ultra-conservatives don't win. Look at the so-called "American Family Association" and their pathetic attempt to sabotage NYPD blue.
They don't give up-EVER, and never learn because they are convinced beyond any rational argument that their agenda, is the correct one.
Babylon 5 is quite an excellent show. It's got several awards, so clearly you don't understand what makes Babylon 5 great.
I just saw this...so apparently Dell will finally use a Linux-compatible 3D solution. However, I'll wait one more cycle because the CPU is potentially the bottleneck with UT2004. http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2356 &p=2
While I can appreciate what AMD has done to the CPU market, that's not my primary concern. I'm more interested in GPU over a CPU at present. I won't buy another Dell laptop (I currently have an Inspiron 8200) until Dell starts offering a more current nVidia product line-all they do is sport ATI for most of the current Inspiron systems. I do know that their mobile precision workstation uses a 256 MByte nVidia solution, but I'd rather have a GeForce 6 Go. If Dell doesn't start supporting nVidia by the time the GeForce 7 comes out, I'll be in the market for a new laptop, but I won't buy a Dell if this pattern doesn't change in the next 12-18 months...
Since Richard Biggs is dead, any new Babylon 5 production wouldn't quite have the same aura as the TV series. Dr. Franklin was a strong supporting character, whose presence would be sorely missed.
No click wheel. 'nuff said.
I don't know about the Navy, but The Coast Guard cutters (those are the largest ships other than the ice breakers and catamarans) all have Microsoft Windows XP Professional on all the embedded workstations.
In the days before the Sega Saturn and Sony Playstation 1, remember the 3DO FZ-1 from Panasonic? When it first came out it was a whopping $700.
Then it dropped to $500...