For what it's worth, does a forum post from January with a total of five people reporting a problem really deserve to be on Slashdot? Oh wait, it's anti-MS. Nevermind.
The argument that Slashdot is simply anti-MS is getting a bit old fashioned. I won't deny it, but come on, if the defragmentation utility does not play nice with the system restore utility, then clearly something is wrong.
Now I'm sure most Windows users on Slashdot don't really much care for the defragmentation utility, because why should a filesystem even fragment in the first place? That's stupid. And so they turn it off. But most people, like regular folk, they probably would want it on (because they've probably heard (wrongly) it provides them with more space), and so their restore utility won't work.
So the bug may not be 'extraordinary', but it is stupid. Is what.
Whoops, didn't read your signature. I meant "humour."
I think you meant "humour", humour does regularly not have a full stop in it. I mean, your joke about British English falls flat when you use American punctuation guidelines. Punctuation marks are kept outside quotations in British English, my friend. Why? Because it makes sense.
Though to be fair; it falls flat to me. Because I only focus on details like the jerk I am.
Look. at. the. site.
It's a chinese 3rd rate gadget imitator wet dream. There is a pseudo-configuration page vaguely mimicking Dell's one with no functionality. No logo. No design. and GOD that heinous thing in the pictures looks CLUNKY and CHEAP.
This is a hoax./. have seen several in the past years tied to the good old C64. I'm very surprised it made the front page:(
I think it is legit enough. Commodore USA is a registered company in the United States, and their site is quite clearly commodoreusa.net
The actual issue is not so much that it looks like a hoax, but that it is so endlessly poorly carried out. It's pathetic! It's like watching Birdemic, a product that tries to itself seriously, while everyone around it is laughing (and possibly crying a little inside).
Some Star Control 2 love! My goodness have that game been too often neglected. Such a shame.
Personally I'd like to see Caesar III and The Neverhood among these lists more often. Also vastly underrated games. I still play my fair share of Caesar III, such a shame no one has thought of making an open source clone.
Yes, now take that one step further - on the internet, you can track clicks, not just views. I don't click on ads, period, so why should Ars or their advertisers care whether or not my browser displays them?
Because they are paid per viewed ad as well as per clicked ad. So just by viewing the ads, you are providing Ars with revenue. Alternative; subscribe.
Invariably someone always pops into a discussion like this and brings up some analogy with television advertising, radio, or somesuch. It is not in any way the same; advertisers in those mediums are paying for potential to reach audiences, and not for results. They have complex models which tell them if X number are watching, Y will likely see the ad (and it even varies by ad position, show type, etc!). But they really have no true idea who sees what ad, and that's why it's a medium based on potential and not provable results. On the Internet everything is 100% trackable and is billed and sold as such. Comparing a website to TiVo is comparing apples to asparagus.
'Reboot,' in Hollywood-speak, means "Forget cannon. Forget the comics. Forget everything. Get a focus group of our target demographic and ask them what they want. Get a committee of corporate hack writers to write what's going to sell."
Emphasis mine
I realise you misspelt 'canon' there, but I would like to remind you that a 'reboot' typically means more cannons.
Yes, but the maximum speed is largely irrelevant. What matters to the travelling public is the average speed -- and this train is faster than the TGV in that regard.
While this is true, would you not be willing to argue that the Slashdot title still remains false and only a 'sensational headline' to catch attention rather than be honest about its content? The TGV is faster than this train. I realise average speed is far more important, but that still needs an additional modifier in its record holding, e.g. 'world's fastest train on average'.
-ize endings are probably the more "correct" spelling since they were used in the UK and the US far before the -ise endings became proper. Spelling everything with -ise was an attempt by the UK to differentiate themselves from the Americans. They have some bullshit justification about how it's closer to the original Latin, but they only did it after the US standardized on -ize.
Err... you mean Greek, not Latin. That's where the -ize ending arrives from. I have nothing against the -ize spelling, though I prefer the -ise spelling myself, as it look nicer.
My real bone to pick with Americans is that they use it incorrectly as well, on words like "analyse", which does not have the original etymology as the Greek -ize ending. The "y" is the hint here. These words should always be spelt -yse, never -yze.
The Encyclopaedia Britannica *was* originally a British (more specifically, Scottish) company for 130 years, before it was taken over by Americans around the start of the 20th century.
I hinted at that when I said "still retains its British English spelling".
Am I the only one going to comment that it is spelt Encyclopaedia Britannica? While an US firm, Encyclopaedia Britannica still retains the British English spelling, as well in its look up, e.g. it prefers "colour" over "color" and so forth.
Not to mention that Billy West - especially - and John DiMaggio have mentioned in numerous interviews how much they care for that show. Billy West once stated it was "the best gig he ever had".
Would they really risk the entire show for some money, when they care so much for it? Of course not. I am personally beginning to suspect this is not a trade negotiation issue, but a publicity stunt to get Futurama on everyone's lips again.
1:00-1:45 Futurama: Life or Death?!" Be a part of sci-fi history! Join executive producers Matt Groening and David X. Cohen, and stars Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio, and Maurice LaMarche for high-stakes thrills as a top-ranking FOX executive decides live, on stage, whether Futurama will make yet another triumphant return or whether it is gone forever! The very fate of Futurama hangs in the balance! Paramedics will be standing by in case the intense excitement causes any panelists to collapse. Raucous celebration or abject despair to follow the news. Ballroom 20
Sure, they say it can make "cheap international calls", but can it understand if I ask it to call someone in my native language (which, for the record, is not English)?
Can it transcript voicemails that are in another language than English? Because very few of my voicemails are in English. Very few of my contacts on my phone has an English clinging name.
When Apple released their Voice Control for the iPhone 3G S, they never came around this issue, yet speaking of it in the same keynote as they talked about how many countries they were going to sell it in and not only that, how great their internationalisation was going.
I guess multiple language support is just a fevered dream of mine.
MS attempts at the search ad market and Google's attempts are the OS market are not intended to succeed. They are just the corporate equivalent or "be nice to me or I will fuck your girlfriend". Both side know the other has no chance, but the media loves to talk about it.
I wouldn't be so sure.
Google has certainly sort of suggested that it cannot use search based advertisement forever. And Google have been trying to get its foot in the door in some other businesses than advertisement.
So far, however, success has been limited. And while Microsoft and Google may be earning cash from those things right now, there is still an unsteady and unforeseeable future ahead of us.
So Google's OS may not be its most serious attempt into another market, but I doubt they are doing it without some hope that it will gain revenue. Microsoft Bing, on the other hand, is purely the imperialistic methods of Microsoft, whom have always felt that they should have products in every market.
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Am I the only one that's completely tired of these war games? I think we've shot enough nazis/russians/muslims.
Yeah, when can we get to play the Nazis and shoot some Russians and Americans? That might even make these game exciting!
Wait, I'm shooting at the Nazis? That's not how I remember it.
For what it's worth, does a forum post from January with a total of five people reporting a problem really deserve to be on Slashdot? Oh wait, it's anti-MS. Nevermind.
The argument that Slashdot is simply anti-MS is getting a bit old fashioned. I won't deny it, but come on, if the defragmentation utility does not play nice with the system restore utility, then clearly something is wrong.
Now I'm sure most Windows users on Slashdot don't really much care for the defragmentation utility, because why should a filesystem even fragment in the first place? That's stupid. And so they turn it off. But most people, like regular folk, they probably would want it on (because they've probably heard (wrongly) it provides them with more space), and so their restore utility won't work.
So the bug may not be 'extraordinary', but it is stupid. Is what.
Not impressed. I read somewhere where some guy turned water into wine. Not that's impressive.
Aren't you hard to impress?
Yes, I am calling him out on his typo.
What about Steam? I'd consider that a pretty successful DRM scheme too.
Whoops, didn't read your signature. I meant "humour."
I think you meant "humour", humour does regularly not have a full stop in it. I mean, your joke about British English falls flat when you use American punctuation guidelines. Punctuation marks are kept outside quotations in British English, my friend. Why? Because it makes sense.
Though to be fair; it falls flat to me. Because I only focus on details like the jerk I am.
Look. at. the. site. It's a chinese 3rd rate gadget imitator wet dream. There is a pseudo-configuration page vaguely mimicking Dell's one with no functionality. No logo. No design. and GOD that heinous thing in the pictures looks CLUNKY and CHEAP. This is a hoax. /. have seen several in the past years tied to the good old C64. I'm very surprised it made the front page :(
I think it is legit enough. Commodore USA is a registered company in the United States, and their site is quite clearly commodoreusa.net
The actual issue is not so much that it looks like a hoax, but that it is so endlessly poorly carried out. It's pathetic! It's like watching Birdemic , a product that tries to itself seriously, while everyone around it is laughing (and possibly crying a little inside).
Some Star Control 2 love! My goodness have that game been too often neglected. Such a shame.
Personally I'd like to see Caesar III and The Neverhood among these lists more often. Also vastly underrated games. I still play my fair share of Caesar III, such a shame no one has thought of making an open source clone.
Yes, now take that one step further - on the internet, you can track clicks, not just views. I don't click on ads, period, so why should Ars or their advertisers care whether or not my browser displays them?
Because they are paid per viewed ad as well as per clicked ad. So just by viewing the ads, you are providing Ars with revenue. Alternative; subscribe.
Invariably someone always pops into a discussion like this and brings up some analogy with television advertising, radio, or somesuch. It is not in any way the same; advertisers in those mediums are paying for potential to reach audiences, and not for results. They have complex models which tell them if X number are watching, Y will likely see the ad (and it even varies by ad position, show type, etc!). But they really have no true idea who sees what ad, and that's why it's a medium based on potential and not provable results. On the Internet everything is 100% trackable and is billed and sold as such. Comparing a website to TiVo is comparing apples to asparagus.
'Reboot,' in Hollywood-speak, means "Forget cannon. Forget the comics. Forget everything. Get a focus group of our target demographic and ask them what they want. Get a committee of corporate hack writers to write what's going to sell."
Emphasis mine
I realise you misspelt 'canon' there, but I would like to remind you that a 'reboot' typically means more cannons.
Yes, but the maximum speed is largely irrelevant. What matters to the travelling public is the average speed -- and this train is faster than the TGV in that regard.
While this is true, would you not be willing to argue that the Slashdot title still remains false and only a 'sensational headline' to catch attention rather than be honest about its content? The TGV is faster than this train. I realise average speed is far more important, but that still needs an additional modifier in its record holding, e.g. 'world's fastest train on average'.
If I were a lawyer my nipples would explode with joy.
Really?
Can we watch - I've never seen nipples explode. Do I need to use an include tag?
I tried to film it, but apparently that is also some sort of 'copyright violation'.
I'm guessing "they were afraid the browser would expose their porn collection" in bed.
Fixed it for you.
Weird Al never wrote or song that song ("Windows 95 Sucks"), that was Bob Rivers.
Please, do us (especially Weird Al himself) all a favour and stop downloading your music from Limewire.
Project Satan to be exact.
-ize endings are probably the more "correct" spelling since they were used in the UK and the US far before the -ise endings became proper. Spelling everything with -ise was an attempt by the UK to differentiate themselves from the Americans. They have some bullshit justification about how it's closer to the original Latin, but they only did it after the US standardized on -ize.
Err... you mean Greek, not Latin. That's where the -ize ending arrives from. I have nothing against the -ize spelling, though I prefer the -ise spelling myself, as it look nicer.
My real bone to pick with Americans is that they use it incorrectly as well, on words like "analyse", which does not have the original etymology as the Greek -ize ending. The "y" is the hint here. These words should always be spelt -yse, never -yze.
The Encyclopaedia Britannica *was* originally a British (more specifically, Scottish) company for 130 years, before it was taken over by Americans around the start of the 20th century.
I hinted at that when I said "still retains its British English spelling".
Am I the only one going to comment that it is spelt Encyclopaedia Britannica? While an US firm, Encyclopaedia Britannica still retains the British English spelling, as well in its look up, e.g. it prefers "colour" over "color" and so forth.
Yes.
Ken Keeler, Eric Kaplan, David X. Cohen (obviously), Patric M. Verrone, among others are confirmed back. I probably forgot some.
Just to give you an idea on what these writers did, I am going to highlight one episode for each, respectively; "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings", "Jurassic Bark", "The Why of Fry" and "The Sting".
They already did reveal some of the content for the coming production season at the Comic-Con panel. In case you want to see if they are still on the edge.
20th Century Fox Television claims the voice actors wanted 75,000 dollars per episode. Which is apparently close to ten times as much as usual.
This seems extremely unlikely by these people, who love and worship the show, that they would risk its stability for their own greed.
My assumption is that 20th Century Fox Television is either making stuff up or playing some gag.
Not to mention that Billy West - especially - and John DiMaggio have mentioned in numerous interviews how much they care for that show. Billy West once stated it was "the best gig he ever had".
Would they really risk the entire show for some money, when they care so much for it? Of course not. I am personally beginning to suspect this is not a trade negotiation issue, but a publicity stunt to get Futurama on everyone's lips again.
It also puts a lot more real to Comic-Con 2009's Futurama description:
1:00-1:45 Futurama: Life or Death?!" Be a part of sci-fi history! Join executive producers Matt Groening and David X. Cohen, and stars Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio, and Maurice LaMarche for high-stakes thrills as a top-ranking FOX executive decides live, on stage, whether Futurama will make yet another triumphant return or whether it is gone forever! The very fate of Futurama hangs in the balance! Paramedics will be standing by in case the intense excitement causes any panelists to collapse. Raucous celebration or abject despair to follow the news. Ballroom 20
I want to point people to the following articles as well:
Both making very compelling cases.
Sure, they say it can make "cheap international calls", but can it understand if I ask it to call someone in my native language (which, for the record, is not English)?
Can it transcript voicemails that are in another language than English? Because very few of my voicemails are in English. Very few of my contacts on my phone has an English clinging name.
When Apple released their Voice Control for the iPhone 3G S, they never came around this issue, yet speaking of it in the same keynote as they talked about how many countries they were going to sell it in and not only that, how great their internationalisation was going.
I guess multiple language support is just a fevered dream of mine.
MS attempts at the search ad market and Google's attempts are the OS market are not intended to succeed. They are just the corporate equivalent or "be nice to me or I will fuck your girlfriend". Both side know the other has no chance, but the media loves to talk about it.
I wouldn't be so sure.
Google has certainly sort of suggested that it cannot use search based advertisement forever. And Google have been trying to get its foot in the door in some other businesses than advertisement.
So far, however, success has been limited. And while Microsoft and Google may be earning cash from those things right now, there is still an unsteady and unforeseeable future ahead of us.
So Google's OS may not be its most serious attempt into another market, but I doubt they are doing it without some hope that it will gain revenue. Microsoft Bing, on the other hand, is purely the imperialistic methods of Microsoft, whom have always felt that they should have products in every market.
You know why we won't see that? Because that would require the kids to leave their homes and go outside.
Other way around! We won't see that, because we would have to leave our homes and go outside to see the teens.