the chief of Germany's national police union has now spoken out against violent games as well [CC], saying, "The world would be no poorer if there were no more killergames."
Ballmer wants the world to focus on the idea that the desktop fight is only between M$ and Apple. If he can do that then, perhaps (please -- hopefully), that people will not start using a Linux desktop.
Exactly.
"First they ignore you, then they mock you, then they fight you, then you win." M. Gandhi.
Maybe not in that order but Microsoft is basically starving for oxygen since the many Linux distributions out there took a dump in the market space where they were breathing. They are doing it because Linux distributions offer the only viable value proposition that can compete with Microsoft in terms of volume. As more software vendors realise they can maintain or increase their market share by testing their software under WINE, they validate the platform as viable. High end application users already realise this and, as more people ask the vendor if their software runs under Linux, the cycle continues. It's the same with hardware.
The Linux desktop is Ballmer's real nightmare... and it is getting closer.
I don't think Apple can (or would want to) do what Microsoft can do in terms of pure volume of installed base. How would Apple up the production to the equivalent amount of units Microsoft ship without ruining the customer experience they have worked so hard to create. Ballmer knows this, and it looks better saying this than admitting they are 'losing market share based on value'. Simply put, Linux doesn't pose the same threat to Apple as it does to Microsoft. Sure Microsoft will always have some offering out there, but Apple has already positioned itself in a different market space that Microsoft and Linux distributions are in. Linux is the turtle in the race.
And since most of this music is recorded straight into Pro Tools these days, I guess we can eliminate Pro Tools alone as the sole reason popular music is shitty.
Mic placement, not knowing how to get the right sound out of a drum kit, how to record a bass properly....
Too many times hearing people say - we'll fix it in the mix...duuuuhhh
I only hope Slashdotter's are more aware that this is one of the great scientific adventures of our time.
Seems like one of the most exciting things NASA has done since launching HST. That it is being launched by a European Launcher lends a spirit of co-operation that is something we need to see more of if humanity is to get off this rock.
I think another issue to consider when these manufacturers have excess production units available for sale, constructed with the cheap labor in the first place then bail up e-bay because they're available for sale on e-bay.
Of course the manufacturers would prefer the excess units be destroyed, than someone getting a fake North Face jacket for a 20th of the purchase price of the "real" item made in the same factory two days earlier.
I've sooo been where you are now. I had enough when the rendered music I produced and had frequency range where I eq'ed it louder because it happened to be the same range as the fan noise.
blech
Do yourself a favor and get yourself a TNN 500AF. Since I bought one of these a few years ago I have never looked back and my ears have been served well, even with 6 drives on board.
Overclocking? No problem, and it's still quiet. Actually when I upgraded the motherboard (in 2006) in the machine I found that I had pushed it so hard the motherboard came out warped around the cpu area. Both have been intel chips wound up. Funny thing is I was looking at the i7 920 as my next upgrade with a gigabyte GA-EX58-EXTREME.
The only issues I have with the case are 1. the power supply can sometimes have a mind of it's own but I hope Zalman have rectified the issues in the meantime (I intend to have a spare power supply handy for when the original unit dies). 2. when upgrading you need to order the motherboard rear mount thermal blocks well in advance of your upgrade. 3. It fuckin hurts if you stub your toe on it. 4. sometimes you can go to bed and forget that the machine is on, it really is that quiet - I love it for music production.
But you are right though, music production is more demanding than game play, my music prod box handles games easily. In some respects I think the kernel tuning, for music production, makes the games run better than they do under windows - but I've never done anything but a cursory comparison. Many of my game player friends look at my music prod box with envy, and whilst I let them use it to play the odd game - I never let them put that shit through my carefully room eq'ed production monitors - this machine is for real work.
Plus the case makes a great space heater during the winter;-)
It seems appropriate that Shell could make a significant achievements in the area of carbon sequestration with their existing industrial experience.
The only thing that concerns me is if they will use patents collected through their body of research into solar, wind and hydro to block technology developments and deployments creating the same sort of patent mess that is interfering with innovation in the information technology industry.
Damn I wish I had some mod points - this is one of the most insightful posts I've read in a while.
I think that you have hit on the major flaw with these types of tests ignore that as people get older they become different kind of *people*. You have to change and at the very least an older persons perception of time has to adapt. Life moves faster as you get older because when you are 20 a year is one 20th of your life and when you are 40 it's a fortieth.
I'd like to add that even if true (which it probably is) it's more than likely enhanced problem solving abilities of youth are the brains analogy of baby teeth and as the brain passes certain survival barriers certain attributes are no longer required.
Also, I would be interested in the relationship between the spinal health of the participants and their cognitive abilities. It is well know that the brain produces chemical compounds to mask pain in the body and perhaps 28 is the time where enough injuries have accumulated that it starts to overwhelm the brains capacity.
Finding a good chiropractor (which is a big problem solving exercise itself) went a long way to freeing up my mental capacity as I aged. I had some accidents that had bound my spine up in several places and I felt physiological changes (as well as physically getting bigger shoulders) as these were slowly undone. It was great, as I became less preoccupied with emotive issues my ability to focus dramatically *increased* allowing me to sift through my experiences more rapidly.
Being young is great fun, it should be because you're not born with wisdom and everyone gets older. I'm more curious about what characteristics are developed as the brain ages, why they are useful and how they can be maintained. Frankly it would have been more appropriate to tittle this 'New Study finds a way to promote Ageism'. I'm surprised that the person's who devised this study didn't have the grace or wisdom to see this for themselves.
This sort of thing certainly doesn't make it easier for job security. The last thing companies need is yet another excuse to dump older, more experienced employees.
i now think of australia the way i do iran and china in terms of freedom of expression.
Well now you know how Australian's, who are somewhat informed about this matter, feel. Our constitution implies/allows political free speech, but that is the limit.
you better clean this disgrace up, you blokes can't let this continue, it is an embarrassment
There already *is* an effort to assemble a human rights act in Australia that would address issues such as these. If you understood the politics of other western democracies you would understand that Australian federal censorship efforts were constructed in response to the Bush administration's stance on terrorism. In all likely hood a proportion of the censored sites are a administrative response to the Terrorism Act of Australia cutting off terrorist funding and activities in Australia. Not just 'think of the children' but 'stop the crazies that want to blow up a stadium full of people'. I bet your position would be a lot different if the article was about people protesting the government stopping them from accessing a terrorist training site. It's still censorship though, isn't it, but you feel differently about it now - don't you.
What's even more embarrassing is is *your* government co-operates with *our* government to spy on domestic citizens and considering the CIA's involvement in undermining foreign democracies, including Australia, and has promoted actual human rights abuses have you ever heard the saying 'People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones'.
All the Sydney forums were full so, if you are in Sydney and are interested you can attend at Cronulla 12pm-2pm or tonight (also at Cronulla) at 6pm-8pm (sorry no direct link). I'll be at the Newcastle forum as I think it is an ideal opportunity to voice opinions on exactly the types of issues raised by censorship, freedom of speech in Australia and it's the type of act that Australia needs to complete it's democratic structure.
Yeah, so what? The entire space program was speculation when it began. You don't achieve things by speculating why it's impossible, you envisage how to make it possible.
It might very well come to pass that the materials necessary to build a space elevator are simply impossible (or prohibitively impractical) to create.
Have you read Brad C Edward's paper for NIAC? From memory, 13 of the 14 technological engineering achievements needed for putting a space elevator in place have already been completed, even a plan for the first deployment. The achievements came from other heavy industry, in particular, mining. The one that remains is CNT production which has barely had the type of financial support and scientific focus required to create an industrial process to produce them.
So what are you saying, just because we *might* not be able to build a space elevator we should give up on devising a process to mass produce what looks to be the most promising material since the invention of structural steel? We may as well live in caves.
on your network. I mean if you can identify the most popular stuff that they want and cache it within your network you could reduce your upstream bandwidth costs.
I think P2P is servers used this way are a great tool helping ISP's reduce their upstream bandwidth costs. My ISP does it and, for example, has mirrors of Fedora and Ubuntu update repositories plus a whole library of popular downloads that I don't get charged for if I use their servers to download (and it's faster too). Furthermore their servers will download files via P2P and make that available to all their other users.
Congress never understands the technology that they mandate
Unfortunately, as the political system make us victims of their great consequence of never being wrong, the likely out come is they would layer this stupidity with an even greater stupidity.
The establishment is the contrived, controlling voice imposed on our subjugated sleeping world, attempting to comfort us. For once in human history the net lets humanity speak. It's almost like the world is finding it's voice, testing it, and today, trying to describe itself. I'd imagine the status quo doing everything it can to silence that voice, even if it doesn't realise what it is.
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game software houses would be poorer. :-P
Microsoft's E74 Of Death
Huh? Why is modded a troll?
I don't know if this is valid but, what about 10 devices doing the same job?
Exactly.
"First they ignore you, then they mock you, then they fight you, then you win." M. Gandhi.
Maybe not in that order but Microsoft is basically starving for oxygen since the many Linux distributions out there took a dump in the market space where they were breathing. They are doing it because Linux distributions offer the only viable value proposition that can compete with Microsoft in terms of volume. As more software vendors realise they can maintain or increase their market share by testing their software under WINE, they validate the platform as viable. High end application users already realise this and, as more people ask the vendor if their software runs under Linux, the cycle continues. It's the same with hardware.
I don't think Apple can (or would want to) do what Microsoft can do in terms of pure volume of installed base. How would Apple up the production to the equivalent amount of units Microsoft ship without ruining the customer experience they have worked so hard to create. Ballmer knows this, and it looks better saying this than admitting they are 'losing market share based on value'. Simply put, Linux doesn't pose the same threat to Apple as it does to Microsoft. Sure Microsoft will always have some offering out there, but Apple has already positioned itself in a different market space that Microsoft and Linux distributions are in. Linux is the turtle in the race.
Mic placement, not knowing how to get the right sound out of a drum kit, how to record a bass properly ....
Too many times hearing people say - we'll fix it in the mix...duuuuhhh
Seems like one of the most exciting things NASA has done since launching HST. That it is being launched by a European Launcher lends a spirit of co-operation that is something we need to see more of if humanity is to get off this rock.
They were re-charging their di-lithium crystals from the nuclear wessel so they could save the whales.
Of course the manufacturers would prefer the excess units be destroyed, than someone getting a fake North Face jacket for a 20th of the purchase price of the "real" item made in the same factory two days earlier.
blech
Do yourself a favor and get yourself a TNN 500AF. Since I bought one of these a few years ago I have never looked back and my ears have been served well, even with 6 drives on board.
Overclocking? No problem, and it's still quiet. Actually when I upgraded the motherboard (in 2006) in the machine I found that I had pushed it so hard the motherboard came out warped around the cpu area. Both have been intel chips wound up. Funny thing is I was looking at the i7 920 as my next upgrade with a gigabyte GA-EX58-EXTREME.
The only issues I have with the case are 1. the power supply can sometimes have a mind of it's own but I hope Zalman have rectified the issues in the meantime (I intend to have a spare power supply handy for when the original unit dies). 2. when upgrading you need to order the motherboard rear mount thermal blocks well in advance of your upgrade. 3. It fuckin hurts if you stub your toe on it. 4. sometimes you can go to bed and forget that the machine is on, it really is that quiet - I love it for music production.
But you are right though, music production is more demanding than game play, my music prod box handles games easily. In some respects I think the kernel tuning, for music production, makes the games run better than they do under windows - but I've never done anything but a cursory comparison. Many of my game player friends look at my music prod box with envy, and whilst I let them use it to play the odd game - I never let them put that shit through my carefully room eq'ed production monitors - this machine is for real work.
Plus the case makes a great space heater during the winter ;-)
Sincerely Paramount
The only thing that concerns me is if they will use patents collected through their body of research into solar, wind and hydro to block technology developments and deployments creating the same sort of patent mess that is interfering with innovation in the information technology industry.
I think that you have hit on the major flaw with these types of tests ignore that as people get older they become different kind of *people*. You have to change and at the very least an older persons perception of time has to adapt. Life moves faster as you get older because when you are 20 a year is one 20th of your life and when you are 40 it's a fortieth.
I'd like to add that even if true (which it probably is) it's more than likely enhanced problem solving abilities of youth are the brains analogy of baby teeth and as the brain passes certain survival barriers certain attributes are no longer required.
Also, I would be interested in the relationship between the spinal health of the participants and their cognitive abilities. It is well know that the brain produces chemical compounds to mask pain in the body and perhaps 28 is the time where enough injuries have accumulated that it starts to overwhelm the brains capacity.
Finding a good chiropractor (which is a big problem solving exercise itself) went a long way to freeing up my mental capacity as I aged. I had some accidents that had bound my spine up in several places and I felt physiological changes (as well as physically getting bigger shoulders) as these were slowly undone. It was great, as I became less preoccupied with emotive issues my ability to focus dramatically *increased* allowing me to sift through my experiences more rapidly.
Being young is great fun, it should be because you're not born with wisdom and everyone gets older. I'm more curious about what characteristics are developed as the brain ages, why they are useful and how they can be maintained. Frankly it would have been more appropriate to tittle this 'New Study finds a way to promote Ageism'. I'm surprised that the person's who devised this study didn't have the grace or wisdom to see this for themselves.
I had to fix that for you.
Well now you know how Australian's, who are somewhat informed about this matter, feel. Our constitution implies/allows political free speech, but that is the limit.
There already *is* an effort to assemble a human rights act in Australia that would address issues such as these. If you understood the politics of other western democracies you would understand that Australian federal censorship efforts were constructed in response to the Bush administration's stance on terrorism. In all likely hood a proportion of the censored sites are a administrative response to the Terrorism Act of Australia cutting off terrorist funding and activities in Australia. Not just 'think of the children' but 'stop the crazies that want to blow up a stadium full of people'. I bet your position would be a lot different if the article was about people protesting the government stopping them from accessing a terrorist training site. It's still censorship though, isn't it, but you feel differently about it now - don't you.
What's even more embarrassing is is *your* government co-operates with *our* government to spy on domestic citizens and considering the CIA's involvement in undermining foreign democracies, including Australia, and has promoted actual human rights abuses have you ever heard the saying 'People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones'.
There is a consultation for a Human rights act in Australia going on right now. Several public forums are being conducted and you can register to attend at several locations around Australia.
All the Sydney forums were full so, if you are in Sydney and are interested you can attend at Cronulla 12pm-2pm or tonight (also at Cronulla) at 6pm-8pm (sorry no direct link). I'll be at the Newcastle forum as I think it is an ideal opportunity to voice opinions on exactly the types of issues raised by censorship, freedom of speech in Australia and it's the type of act that Australia needs to complete it's democratic structure.
Must of been really good weed to get them that high.
Yeah, so what? The entire space program was speculation when it began. You don't achieve things by speculating why it's impossible, you envisage how to make it possible.
Have you read Brad C Edward's paper for NIAC? From memory, 13 of the 14 technological engineering achievements needed for putting a space elevator in place have already been completed, even a plan for the first deployment. The achievements came from other heavy industry, in particular, mining. The one that remains is CNT production which has barely had the type of financial support and scientific focus required to create an industrial process to produce them.
So what are you saying, just because we *might* not be able to build a space elevator we should give up on devising a process to mass produce what looks to be the most promising material since the invention of structural steel? We may as well live in caves.
Does that mean we can have a Science Fiction channel now that actually plays Science Fiction?
Contradiction's are quite expensive these days.
He's a man without conviction.
I think P2P is servers used this way are a great tool helping ISP's reduce their upstream bandwidth costs. My ISP does it and, for example, has mirrors of Fedora and Ubuntu update repositories plus a whole library of popular downloads that I don't get charged for if I use their servers to download (and it's faster too). Furthermore their servers will download files via P2P and make that available to all their other users.
Unfortunately, as the political system make us victims of their great consequence of never being wrong, the likely out come is they would layer this stupidity with an even greater stupidity.
The establishment is the contrived, controlling voice imposed on our subjugated sleeping world, attempting to comfort us. For once in human history the net lets humanity speak. It's almost like the world is finding it's voice, testing it, and today, trying to describe itself. I'd imagine the status quo doing everything it can to silence that voice, even if it doesn't realise what it is.
While this is a funny comment, this is actually what this does. It whittles down the targets and makes selection easier.
School Forked by Mike Row Soft, I'd love to hear Billy Connelly say that.