Owners of first-generation Intel Macs that used (32-bit only) Core Duo CPUs may not be so happy knowing that Vista will be the last Windows they will be able to run.
So...everybody on slashdot proclaims that Vista sucks so bad that it is the final nail in Microsoft's coffin...yet they are not happy that Windows will be discontinuing 32 bit support in 5 to 10 years???
>>How about we just require that H1Bs get paid 1.5 to 2 times the prevailing wage.
Or only give visas for jobs that pay over $80K or so. We want the best and the brightest, not a flood of low level people that drive down wages for recent graduates, discouraging people from entering these fields.
>>Is that erectric cars aren't the end-all, be all. In 12 years, hopefully they're will be a better, clean source of energy.
12 years would be awfully damn quick to come up with and implement an alternative to electric or fossil fuel driven cars. Look how slow progress has been so far.
On the other hand, if gas is $15/gallon, then I bet somebody will figure something out. Isn't the oil in the Mid-East going to run dry in 40 years or so?
Um...I don't think they will be transitioning to "new" software. They are just switching Washington residents to the same crappy Comcast software the rest of the country has been using.
I played around with the previous version of Ubuntu but could not get my wireless adapter to work. Part of the problem for someone coming from Windows is the entrenched paradigm. If I need a driver for windows, I download it and then double-click it. It is usually an executable that does all the work. I was some instructions on a website that looked like it might work, but it was two pages of text describing what to do, and I never got around to it.
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Quest for the Rings was a really cool game, and it seemed to be something kinda of unique for the OdysseyII with the keyboard overlay. We also played the Asteroids clone and Pacman clone alot too.
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I had an Odyssey II. I begged for an Atari, but my dad got me the Odyssey II for Christmas because he thought it would be more powerful with the membrane keyboard. I liked it, but I don't know if it was really any better than Atari.
The thing that got my excited was that they had a computer programming cartridge for it. I had dreams of using the Odyssey II like a home computer, or at least doing some basic programming. In turned out all the cartridge let you do is program about 20 steps in assembly language. The output was limited to about 10 characters. What a let down.
>>"...as well as any property used to commit the crimes"
It looks as though they are trying to make it so they can seize and keep the computers, ipods, televisions, etc.. of anybody using pirated material.
This is similar to the tactic used in the so called "war on drugs". They just seize your ill gotten gains and don't even worry about getting a prosecution. In the case of drugs they can keep your stuff without even getting a conviction.
I don't know how much it applies to sci-fi shows, but mainstream shows they always want at least 5 seasons (100 episodes) becasue supposedly the syndication rights are more lucrative. Some feel it is not worth syndicating a show with less than 100 episodes.
Also, I think Stargate had more than 4 good seasons. It probably started to decline at some point, but I think it remained better than average for the most part. It is kind of interesting that my wife, who is not a SF fan, likes Stargate the most out of Sci-Fi Channel's programming. She never watched BSG, and she bailed on Farscape after about a season (one of the middle seasons) - the muppets and the existenialism was more than she could handle.
Voyager was on the UPN, and the others were syndicated.
The real question is how the UPN during its first season of existance compares to the Sci-fi channel of today in terms of viewers. The UPN shows were always at the absolute bottom of the broadcast ratings back then.
I think Voyager more than kinda sucked, but I don't know how being on the UPN versus SciFi Channel (cable) compares in terms of potential viewers. DS9 and TNG were syndicated. I personally thought DS9 was the best of the shows overall, but I imagine more people watched TNG.
I think it is NBC that owns Sci-Fi, and with all the good press the show was getting in the beginning they ran some episodes on NBC (Friday or Saturday nights I think). I think the ratings sucked, so they only tried it 2 or 3 times at the most.
I have found my interest in the show waning, personally, especially this last season. I think they need more war elements.
Years ago I saw a shareware program that was supposed to help you read text faster. I think they were basing it upon a different principle involving eye movement speed, but it would be a compatible idea to this approach. You would just look at a certain fixed point on a blank page and it would feed you one word at time at whatever speed you select. The words always showed up at the same position, so in terms of this article your "straw" would be in a fixed position.
I was able to read quite a bit faster, but I did not have the money to spend on it at the time. I also wasn't sure how useful it would be outside of novels.
I think you might be misinterpreting if you think that is a troll. It is a statement on combat and warfare. It is a lot easier to pull a trigger if you dehumanize the enemy, but if you stop to think about it he will pull the trigger first. I don't see how that is a troll.
Well, to nitpick, the summary could have credited the grad student from Univ. of Texas that made the actual discovery instead of leaving UT out completely.
The discovery was made by Robert Quimby, a University of Texas graduate student, who was using a small robotic telescope at McDonald Observatory near Fort Davis, Tex., to troll for supernovas
>>Not exactly what the Founding Fathers had in mind when creating a free country.
Some of the Founding Fathers, after they were in power and no longer rebels, passed the Sedition Act which allowed them to throw you in prison for simply criticizing the president or congress or any member of congress. (Jefferson, notably, did oppose this.)
In this regard, I would think these same founding fathers would be very much in favor of a national identity card. They were worried about foriegn agents as well at the time.
The only time I normally ever have to show my state ID is to get on a plane. It's not that big of a deal, and I don't see why the national card is such a big deal. My state ID has not proven to be a "license to exist."
A national card can combine the functions of social security card, birth certificate, citizenship certificate (for naturalized citizens), and driver's license. It is likely you will only have to use it in circumstances where you would otherwise have to use a social security card and birth certificate, like medicare benefits. For the average non-slashdotter or non-mark-of-the-beast crowd, it could reduce a lot of the paperwork hassels of dealing with the government. My mother-in-law has to go back to Mexico to get a birth certificate for medicaid because the one she used for citizenship is not shared among the agencies.
It might even make it easier to fight identity theft.
I think a lot of it comes from the fact that most people who were interested in LOTRO participated in the free beta, and that just recently ended. They will probably offer free trials later on, but for now the people that were really interested in trying it for free took advantage of the opportunity. I am a very casual game player, and I heard about the free beta several times here on slashdot.
I do think it sucks you have to pay for the client and pay a monthly fee. The client should at least include 3 months of free play instead of just one.
Each LOTRO client comes with a "buddy key" or something to the effect that allows you to give a free trial to someone else, so it probably would not be too much trouble to obtain a free trial.
I don't think it removes the grind, but it does give you some short term goals. It also makes your grinding more strategic, if you want one reward you need to concentrate on killing orcs, but if you want another reward you need to concentrate on killing spiders.
I believe as far as leveling up though, in LOTRO quests are a lot more important than simple grinding. So far the only time I have been really out repetively killing the same thing over and over again is just to make some money.
>IBM is basically off-shoring their staff, and keeping their managers and execs.
I thought I heard that doesn't work. The managers need to be in place with staff, and no manager wants to move to India. I thought I heard that is why a lot of companies have turned to visa workers - instead of sending their managers abroad, they are bringing in the workers.
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So...everybody on slashdot proclaims that Vista sucks so bad that it is the final nail in Microsoft's coffin...yet they are not happy that Windows will be discontinuing 32 bit support in 5 to 10 years???
>>How about we just require that H1Bs get paid 1.5 to 2 times the prevailing wage.
Or only give visas for jobs that pay over $80K or so. We want the best and the brightest, not a flood of low level people that drive down wages for recent graduates, discouraging people from entering these fields.
>>Is that erectric cars aren't the end-all, be all. In 12 years, hopefully they're will be a better, clean source of energy.
12 years would be awfully damn quick to come up with and implement an alternative to electric or fossil fuel driven cars. Look how slow progress has been so far.
On the other hand, if gas is $15/gallon, then I bet somebody will figure something out. Isn't the oil in the Mid-East going to run dry in 40 years or so?
Um...I don't think they will be transitioning to "new" software. They are just switching Washington residents to the same crappy Comcast software the rest of the country has been using.
The MS software was only used in Washington state. The rest of the country used non-MS software.
I played around with the previous version of Ubuntu but could not get my wireless adapter to work. Part of the problem for someone coming from Windows is the entrenched paradigm. If I need a driver for windows, I download it and then double-click it. It is usually an executable that does all the work. I was some instructions on a website that looked like it might work, but it was two pages of text describing what to do, and I never got around to it.
Quest for the Rings was a really cool game, and it seemed to be something kinda of unique for the OdysseyII with the keyboard overlay. We also played the Asteroids clone and Pacman clone alot too.
I had an Odyssey II. I begged for an Atari, but my dad got me the Odyssey II for Christmas because he thought it would be more powerful with the membrane keyboard. I liked it, but I don't know if it was really any better than Atari.
The thing that got my excited was that they had a computer programming cartridge for it. I had dreams of using the Odyssey II like a home computer, or at least doing some basic programming. In turned out all the cartridge let you do is program about 20 steps in assembly language. The output was limited to about 10 characters. What a let down.
>>"...as well as any property used to commit the crimes"
It looks as though they are trying to make it so they can seize and keep the computers, ipods, televisions, etc.. of anybody using pirated material.
This is similar to the tactic used in the so called "war on drugs". They just seize your ill gotten gains and don't even worry about getting a prosecution. In the case of drugs they can keep your stuff without even getting a conviction.
I don't know how much it applies to sci-fi shows, but mainstream shows they always want at least 5 seasons (100 episodes) becasue supposedly the syndication rights are more lucrative. Some feel it is not worth syndicating a show with less than 100 episodes.
Also, I think Stargate had more than 4 good seasons. It probably started to decline at some point, but I think it remained better than average for the most part. It is kind of interesting that my wife, who is not a SF fan, likes Stargate the most out of Sci-Fi Channel's programming. She never watched BSG, and she bailed on Farscape after about a season (one of the middle seasons) - the muppets and the existenialism was more than she could handle.
Voyager was on the UPN, and the others were syndicated.
The real question is how the UPN during its first season of existance compares to the Sci-fi channel of today in terms of viewers. The UPN shows were always at the absolute bottom of the broadcast ratings back then.
I think Voyager more than kinda sucked, but I don't know how being on the UPN versus SciFi Channel (cable) compares in terms of potential viewers. DS9 and TNG were syndicated. I personally thought DS9 was the best of the shows overall, but I imagine more people watched TNG.
I think it is NBC that owns Sci-Fi, and with all the good press the show was getting in the beginning they ran some episodes on NBC (Friday or Saturday nights I think). I think the ratings sucked, so they only tried it 2 or 3 times at the most.
I have found my interest in the show waning, personally, especially this last season. I think they need more war elements.
Years ago I saw a shareware program that was supposed to help you read text faster. I think they were basing it upon a different principle involving eye movement speed, but it would be a compatible idea to this approach. You would just look at a certain fixed point on a blank page and it would feed you one word at time at whatever speed you select. The words always showed up at the same position, so in terms of this article your "straw" would be in a fixed position.
I was able to read quite a bit faster, but I did not have the money to spend on it at the time. I also wasn't sure how useful it would be outside of novels.
I think you might be misinterpreting if you think that is a troll. It is a statement on combat and warfare. It is a lot easier to pull a trigger if you dehumanize the enemy, but if you stop to think about it he will pull the trigger first. I don't see how that is a troll.
This thread was in reference to the slashdot summary, not TFA. That's why he said it was kinda OT.
Well, to nitpick, the summary could have credited the grad student from Univ. of Texas that made the actual discovery instead of leaving UT out completely.
From the article:
The discovery was made by Robert Quimby, a University of Texas graduate student, who was using a small robotic telescope at McDonald Observatory near Fort Davis, Tex., to troll for supernovas>>Not exactly what the Founding Fathers had in mind when creating a free country.
Some of the Founding Fathers, after they were in power and no longer rebels, passed the Sedition Act which allowed them to throw you in prison for simply criticizing the president or congress or any member of congress. (Jefferson, notably, did oppose this.)
In this regard, I would think these same founding fathers would be very much in favor of a national identity card. They were worried about foriegn agents as well at the time.
The only time I normally ever have to show my state ID is to get on a plane. It's not that big of a deal, and I don't see why the national card is such a big deal. My state ID has not proven to be a "license to exist."
A national card can combine the functions of social security card, birth certificate, citizenship certificate (for naturalized citizens), and driver's license. It is likely you will only have to use it in circumstances where you would otherwise have to use a social security card and birth certificate, like medicare benefits. For the average non-slashdotter or non-mark-of-the-beast crowd, it could reduce a lot of the paperwork hassels of dealing with the government. My mother-in-law has to go back to Mexico to get a birth certificate for medicaid because the one she used for citizenship is not shared among the agencies.
It might even make it easier to fight identity theft.
I think a lot of it comes from the fact that most people who were interested in LOTRO participated in the free beta, and that just recently ended. They will probably offer free trials later on, but for now the people that were really interested in trying it for free took advantage of the opportunity. I am a very casual game player, and I heard about the free beta several times here on slashdot.
I do think it sucks you have to pay for the client and pay a monthly fee. The client should at least include 3 months of free play instead of just one.
LOTRO had a free open Beta for about a month.
Each LOTRO client comes with a "buddy key" or something to the effect that allows you to give a free trial to someone else, so it probably would not be too much trouble to obtain a free trial.
I don't think it removes the grind, but it does give you some short term goals. It also makes your grinding more strategic, if you want one reward you need to concentrate on killing orcs, but if you want another reward you need to concentrate on killing spiders.
I believe as far as leveling up though, in LOTRO quests are a lot more important than simple grinding. So far the only time I have been really out repetively killing the same thing over and over again is just to make some money.
>RTFA
That's just crazy talk...
>The layoff's will be matched with hiring in India / China.
It did say they will be dumping various contracts and services to begin with before determining thier outsourcing needs.
The outsourcing will ultimately lead to more lost contracts as well.
>IBM is basically off-shoring their staff, and keeping their managers and execs.
I thought I heard that doesn't work. The managers need to be in place with staff, and no manager wants to move to India. I thought I heard that is why a lot of companies have turned to visa workers - instead of sending their managers abroad, they are bringing in the workers.