who is going to get caught refilling an ink cartridge anyway? most ink refill kits work for 2-5 different types of ink cartridges, and really, who's going to run around searching everyone's personal printers for refilled cartridges.
it's just another greedy move by these companies because they know that they are overcharging for their ink cartridges. if they were selling them for a decent price they wouldn't have to take these measures because people would buy their ink cartridges anyway.
it died around 6. you know, when they decided that FMVs were more important than the actual game, and turning it into a giant teeny-bopper soap opera. and 3d gfx that did nothing to enhance the game and only introduced bad camera angles and slower performance.
there's no real point to sony including blu ray discs on PS3 games. a standard single layer blu ray holds 23GB, you could get that much space from 3 dual layer DVDs (actually, you get a little more with the standard DVDs). then sony would save about $70.
i doubt that sony will use multiple layer blu rays for the PS3 games themselves, really it's just for movies. and who is going to be willing to connect to the internet to watch a movie anyway?
seriously, who is dissatisfied by the visual quality of DVDs? people consider DVDs to have the best picture quality around, i dont see how sony could possibly expect to win any kind of format war, if you can call it that since nobody's going to buy HD DVD either. people will see these new technologies and think "i probably need $2000 in equipment just to use this"
and they'd be right. it's the same reason why everyone doesn't have a DVR, cable HDTV channels, or any of the more hardcore TV watching stuff out there. TV isn't really worth watching anymore, so why pay monthly fees to use a DVR or buy a $3000 TV for marginal picture improvement. at this point, you'd have to be pretty blind not to be somewhat satisfied by standard picture quality. you can see what's going on, can't you? then why does it matter?
I wonder what the people like apple would be able to do if the wrote a office suite from scratch...
it's called appleworks, and it has been inferior to MSOffice since Office version 5.0.
the other one is called iWork. it has no spreadsheet or email client. the word processor is designed for fancy printed content and focuses on graphics more than it does on text. and iWork has keynote, which really doesn't offer much more than powerpoint other than really fancy 3D transitions like you'd expect from a mac os x program.
you anti-microsoft people can bash MS all you want, but microsoft has the best office suite in the world, and that's why microsoft is the #1 software company.
i really thought that slashdot was above this. this isnt the type of content that should be on slashdot, it's supposed to be "news for nerds. stuff that matters"
and on that note, it would help if it a. wasn't a dupe or b. was actually real.
if we wanted fake, not really all that funny satires about stuff like this we could visit sites like the onion on our own.
Michigan could do with a move like this. We're running a deficit and our economy's not getting any better. The Republican-controlled legislature is pushing tax cut after tax cut, without much in the way of spending cuts. Something like this could save some real dollars.
wait a minute, so switching to open source word processing after your state already purchased MSOffice is not only going to save money, but it's going to wipe out the deficit? assuming that it costs nothing to install the software (Which it doesn't), you can't get rid of a state's budget deficit by switching to open source software. wow, we just saved $500, whoop-de-freaking-doo
not to mention the cost to get 10 IT guys to come in to the government office and install/configure the software for the workers. it's not like they can get a refund from MS for switching to OpenOffice!
who cares if.NET has better security when there is no point to it?
There is absolutely no point to.NET when it only runs on windows. seriously, why not just code natively??
or if you want to code a certain program for your business, in java you can make that program run on your servers, workstations that use mac, windows, or linux, and then let your employees run a client to that program on their business cell phones
i'm not really familiar with.NET, but seeing as it only runs on windows it really makes no sense to me.
well i guess then the mice on PCs are also gimmicks, since they essentially do the same things.
this is what you get with the PSP for $250 - a game player that has a lackluster library of ports - a picture viewer that holds 15 pictures - a music player that holds 6 songs (unless you already have 15 pictures) - a betamax 2.0 (UMD) player - living with the fact that you're essentially playing a gameboy, excetpt that gameboys are $79 and play a huge library of 500+ games plus the 500+ classic GB games
it's pretty obvious that none of you here have even looked at pictures of the console. the hard drive is basically a removeable laptop drive that sticks out of the top of the console. of course you'll be able to buy one.
Tell me, have you seen the front of the console??? The Memory Slots are RIGHT THERE!!
I'd say the $399 deal is pretty good considering it comes with just about everything, and given the fact that you can't buy a laptop hard drive yourself for under $70
even with pure research facilities, it's ALWAYS money motivated, not just for fun, especially when a corperation is backing it.
you really think people can't make any money off unix?
it's not just google doing it. if a research facility is researching solar panels, engines, new forms of transportation, or environmental stuff, they are obviously going to get money from the government or from being able to sell a new form of transportation or an alternative fuel, duh!
i've always wanted a stirling engine. i bet it could do something with my laptop, considering how hot it is.
Windows XP SP2 and Windows 2003 can not be exploited by this worm, as the worm does not use a valid logon.
Well that just makes the worm pretty much useless to home users who don't know how to protect themselves which is bad because then I don't get paid as much to fix people's crap.
Hopefully this doesn't hit corperate environments too hard, where everyone uses Windows 2000 because it's the best Windows OS out there.
as long as vegas is switching to computerized slots, it'd be nice if some casinos got into gaming tournaments or maybe even slot machines where you could increase your chances of winning by getting high scores or getting killing sprees in halo.
sure i can. office comes with MS access, outlook, and publisher, all programs that OO has no equivilant to. i'd say that gives office an advantage of 150-250 features, not to mention 100% compatibility with the office suite that everyone uses.
there's so much MS bashing that goes on, but the truth is they make a damn good office suite (even if their OS isn't so good) and they've earned the ability to charge major bucks for it. no matter how much everyone bashed MS, office is reliable, and even though proprietary, it is a standard, and even though word files could be a bit more modernized, they still work and that's important. in business it's just too impractical and time wasting to deal with the open source community and having to upgrade everyone's system every time theres a.01 release just to get the bug fixes and features and compatibility that you need.
with the FSB sped up, and the processor all the way up at 7.1 Ghz, how is this even possible with 1.7 volts on the processor and the memory voltage only at 2.3 volts?
people around here are quick to assume that the free reading of books is not just a privellage, but a RIGHT of everyone.
but publishing is still costly, unlike the music industry. printing books is still really expensive compared to pressing CDs etc, and I wonder how you'd feel if nobody bought your book you worked full time on for a year because they were able to just download it online.
yes, libraries do the same thing, but the fact that it's online makes it 100 times more convenient. music piracy wasn't a problem until napster came along, because analog recording or even burning copies of CDs from the library or from friends was less convienient than just going out and buying your own copy.
also this google service is different in that you can keep the book pretty much forever. the library makes it so that it's difficult to keep the book for an extended period of time.
i do think this google service would be great for important educational/research materials that should be shared freely but for novels, comics, and political satires that are purely written as entertainment to make money, this google service only seems to hurt authors and publishers, who are having a hard enough time already competing with cheapening technology while they are still printing expensive hardcover books.
as unfortunate as this is, i couldn't really care less about an individual organization and what they do software wise. the scottish police make up about.0000000000000000000001% of the world's population
and no matter what open source nuts say, office 2003 has more features than the best of what openoffice has to offer.
this is reallly retarded, some of the best console accessories are unlicenced hacks. and you know what, they harm no one, they allow extra features and make the hardware more appealing
for example, take the GBA movie player. it's completely unlicensed, and is basically a hack with homebrew code. however, it gives the GBA or DS the same multimedia capabilities as the PSP for a cheaper price. obviously, there's no real reason for Nintendo to want to shut down unlicensed third parties beause products like this make Nintendo's consoles more appealing
or take the PSP. people know that you can hack it with a web browser an emulators, and they are more likely to buy one knowing that they won't have a hard time getting third party hacks that take advantage of the powerful hardware to do something besides play games and overpriced UMD movies.
this is just more MS bullshit trying to squeeze as much money as possible with unneccesary fees. it's just like the stupid LOGO testing crap. microsoft tells you that non-LOGO tested drivers can completely destroy your computer and kill your entire family and rape your daughter when all it means is that small companies can't afford to spooge out money to the microsoft behemoth.
you aren't even buying a movie, because chances are it won't even play with your player self destructing in your face the second you put the disc in wrong.
i dont think sony realizes that most people are happy with DVDs and probably aren't going to take this DRM garbage.
It's time to finally accept this fact and live with it.
then why don't we all just accept the fact that windows is insecure and live with it?
would users be more willing to use a combination of the best aspects of gnome and kde? yes, i think they would. if there's a real initiative then we don't have to accept dealing with two competing desktop environments.
that's the real problem with open source. people can't agree on anything. at least at microsoft or apple someone can put a foot down and say "you know what, we all have to program the same way or else it's going to be too confusing and time consuming"
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who is going to get caught refilling an ink cartridge anyway? most ink refill kits work for 2-5 different types of ink cartridges, and really, who's going to run around searching everyone's personal printers for refilled cartridges.
it's just another greedy move by these companies because they know that they are overcharging for their ink cartridges. if they were selling them for a decent price they wouldn't have to take these measures because people would buy their ink cartridges anyway.
it died around 6. you know, when they decided that FMVs were more important than the actual game, and turning it into a giant teeny-bopper soap opera. and 3d gfx that did nothing to enhance the game and only introduced bad camera angles and slower performance.
keep it simple, stupid.
you're 100% correct.
there's no real point to sony including blu ray discs on PS3 games. a standard single layer blu ray holds 23GB, you could get that much space from 3 dual layer DVDs (actually, you get a little more with the standard DVDs). then sony would save about $70.
i doubt that sony will use multiple layer blu rays for the PS3 games themselves, really it's just for movies. and who is going to be willing to connect to the internet to watch a movie anyway?
seriously, who is dissatisfied by the visual quality of DVDs? people consider DVDs to have the best picture quality around, i dont see how sony could possibly expect to win any kind of format war, if you can call it that since nobody's going to buy HD DVD either. people will see these new technologies and think "i probably need $2000 in equipment just to use this"
and they'd be right. it's the same reason why everyone doesn't have a DVR, cable HDTV channels, or any of the more hardcore TV watching stuff out there. TV isn't really worth watching anymore, so why pay monthly fees to use a DVR or buy a $3000 TV for marginal picture improvement. at this point, you'd have to be pretty blind not to be somewhat satisfied by standard picture quality. you can see what's going on, can't you? then why does it matter?
final fantasy fans rejoice as they find out that chocobos may in fact have existed.
It runs on BSD and on Linux (through Mono), so... uhh... what's your point?
.NET:
okay, let's take a running tally
Windows
BSD and Linux through Mono
Java:
Windows
Windows Mobile
Mac OS X
BSD
Linux
Unix
Symbian OS
Solaris
Palm OS
20 different brands of cell phones
I wonder what the people like apple would be able to do if the wrote a office suite from scratch...
it's called appleworks, and it has been inferior to MSOffice since Office version 5.0.
the other one is called iWork. it has no spreadsheet or email client. the word processor is designed for fancy printed content and focuses on graphics more than it does on text. and iWork has keynote, which really doesn't offer much more than powerpoint other than really fancy 3D transitions like you'd expect from a mac os x program.
you anti-microsoft people can bash MS all you want, but microsoft has the best office suite in the world, and that's why microsoft is the #1 software company.
i really thought that slashdot was above this. this isnt the type of content that should be on slashdot, it's supposed to be "news for nerds. stuff that matters"
and on that note, it would help if it a. wasn't a dupe or b. was actually real.
if we wanted fake, not really all that funny satires about stuff like this we could visit sites like the onion on our own.
Michigan could do with a move like this. We're running a deficit and our economy's not getting any better. The Republican-controlled legislature is pushing tax cut after tax cut, without much in the way of spending cuts. Something like this could save some real dollars.
wait a minute, so switching to open source word processing after your state already purchased MSOffice is not only going to save money, but it's going to wipe out the deficit? assuming that it costs nothing to install the software (Which it doesn't), you can't get rid of a state's budget deficit by switching to open source software. wow, we just saved $500, whoop-de-freaking-doo
not to mention the cost to get 10 IT guys to come in to the government office and install/configure the software for the workers. it's not like they can get a refund from MS for switching to OpenOffice!
who cares if .NET has better security when there is no point to it?
.NET when it only runs on windows. seriously, why not just code natively??
.NET, but seeing as it only runs on windows it really makes no sense to me.
There is absolutely no point to
or if you want to code a certain program for your business, in java you can make that program run on your servers, workstations that use mac, windows, or linux, and then let your employees run a client to that program on their business cell phones
i'm not really familiar with
well i guess then the mice on PCs are also gimmicks, since they essentially do the same things.
this is what you get with the PSP for $250
- a game player that has a lackluster library of ports
- a picture viewer that holds 15 pictures
- a music player that holds 6 songs (unless you already have 15 pictures)
- a betamax 2.0 (UMD) player
- living with the fact that you're essentially playing a gameboy, excetpt that gameboys are $79 and play a huge library of 500+ games plus the 500+ classic GB games
the memory sticks go in the controllers..
no, seriously, the memory sticks go in the console.
The Xbox 360
The Xbox 360 Controller (left)
it's pretty obvious that none of you here have even looked at pictures of the console. the hard drive is basically a removeable laptop drive that sticks out of the top of the console. of course you'll be able to buy one.
haven't heard of memory sticks for the xbox?
Tell me, have you seen the front of the console??? The Memory Slots are RIGHT THERE!!
I'd say the $399 deal is pretty good considering it comes with just about everything, and given the fact that you can't buy a laptop hard drive yourself for under $70
everything they do is money motivated
even with pure research facilities, it's ALWAYS money motivated, not just for fun, especially when a corperation is backing it.
you really think people can't make any money off unix?
it's not just google doing it. if a research facility is researching solar panels, engines, new forms of transportation, or environmental stuff, they are obviously going to get money from the government or from being able to sell a new form of transportation or an alternative fuel, duh!
i've always wanted a stirling engine. i bet it could do something with my laptop, considering how hot it is.
Windows XP SP2 and Windows 2003 can not be exploited by this worm, as the worm does not use a valid logon.
Well that just makes the worm pretty much useless to home users who don't know how to protect themselves which is bad because then I don't get paid as much to fix people's crap.
Hopefully this doesn't hit corperate environments too hard, where everyone uses Windows 2000 because it's the best Windows OS out there.
I think we might have shown it here before
At least this article admits openly that it is a dupe.
As for the flash animation, I found it mildly entertaining but somehow I feel like I've seen it before many years ago.
as long as vegas is switching to computerized slots, it'd be nice if some casinos got into gaming tournaments or maybe even slot machines where you could increase your chances of winning by getting high scores or getting killing sprees in halo.
sure i can. office comes with MS access, outlook, and publisher, all programs that OO has no equivilant to. i'd say that gives office an advantage of 150-250 features, not to mention 100% compatibility with the office suite that everyone uses.
.01 release just to get the bug fixes and features and compatibility that you need.
there's so much MS bashing that goes on, but the truth is they make a damn good office suite (even if their OS isn't so good) and they've earned the ability to charge major bucks for it. no matter how much everyone bashed MS, office is reliable, and even though proprietary, it is a standard, and even though word files could be a bit more modernized, they still work and that's important. in business it's just too impractical and time wasting to deal with the open source community and having to upgrade everyone's system every time theres a
with the FSB sped up, and the processor all the way up at 7.1 Ghz, how is this even possible with 1.7 volts on the processor and the memory voltage only at 2.3 volts?
ugly, WAY overpriced G5 knockoff.
thanks for the advertisment slashdot!
people around here are quick to assume that the free reading of books is not just a privellage, but a RIGHT of everyone.
but publishing is still costly, unlike the music industry. printing books is still really expensive compared to pressing CDs etc, and I wonder how you'd feel if nobody bought your book you worked full time on for a year because they were able to just download it online.
yes, libraries do the same thing, but the fact that it's online makes it 100 times more convenient. music piracy wasn't a problem until napster came along, because analog recording or even burning copies of CDs from the library or from friends was less convienient than just going out and buying your own copy.
also this google service is different in that you can keep the book pretty much forever. the library makes it so that it's difficult to keep the book for an extended period of time.
i do think this google service would be great for important educational/research materials that should be shared freely but for novels, comics, and political satires that are purely written as entertainment to make money, this google service only seems to hurt authors and publishers, who are having a hard enough time already competing with cheapening technology while they are still printing expensive hardcover books.
as unfortunate as this is, i couldn't really care less about an individual organization and what they do software wise. the scottish police make up about .0000000000000000000001% of the world's population
and no matter what open source nuts say, office 2003 has more features than the best of what openoffice has to offer.
this is reallly retarded, some of the best console accessories are unlicenced hacks. and you know what, they harm no one, they allow extra features and make the hardware more appealing
for example, take the GBA movie player. it's completely unlicensed, and is basically a hack with homebrew code. however, it gives the GBA or DS the same multimedia capabilities as the PSP for a cheaper price. obviously, there's no real reason for Nintendo to want to shut down unlicensed third parties beause products like this make Nintendo's consoles more appealing
or take the PSP. people know that you can hack it with a web browser an emulators, and they are more likely to buy one knowing that they won't have a hard time getting third party hacks that take advantage of the powerful hardware to do something besides play games and overpriced UMD movies.
this is just more MS bullshit trying to squeeze as much money as possible with unneccesary fees. it's just like the stupid LOGO testing crap. microsoft tells you that non-LOGO tested drivers can completely destroy your computer and kill your entire family and rape your daughter when all it means is that small companies can't afford to spooge out money to the microsoft behemoth.
you aren't even buying a movie, because chances are it won't even play with your player self destructing in your face the second you put the disc in wrong.
i dont think sony realizes that most people are happy with DVDs and probably aren't going to take this DRM garbage.
It's time to finally accept this fact and live with it.
then why don't we all just accept the fact that windows is insecure and live with it?
would users be more willing to use a combination of the best aspects of gnome and kde? yes, i think they would. if there's a real initiative then we don't have to accept dealing with two competing desktop environments.
that's the real problem with open source. people can't agree on anything. at least at microsoft or apple someone can put a foot down and say "you know what, we all have to program the same way or else it's going to be too confusing and time consuming"