They're already doing it. What better stress test than a slashdotting? In a week we'll see another article about which servers exploded and killed half the IT department, and which merely melted and had to be replaced.
So if an OS is to make a daily backup of user's home directory (or My Documents) automatically and locks it away (until emergency) from user access...
Who determines what the emergency is? The system itself? If there really is an "emergency," will the system even be in a state to realize it? The last thing users need is to be lulled into a sense of security by automatic backups that can't be retrieved when you really need them.
Apparently they will pay bounties for people to bring the eqipment back. According to TFA, it can be used and reused "unless it lands in a lake or gets run over by a truck."
Exactly. We need to send a different message. Instead of "If I ever meet you, I'll kick your ass!" people need to be saying, "If I ever meet you, I'll explain my position to you in a calm and reasonable voice, and attempt to illustrate why I believe that your opinions, valid though they may be, are wrong!" They may then bake him a plate of raisin roundees in an attempt to sway him.
So, I just opened up my copy of i2hub, and saw the RIP message. Then I continued my downloading as usual. The old client can't connect to its default hub, but the beta which was released a few weeks ago seems to still be working fine.
Call Jack Thompson -- obviously these violent games have had a detrimental effect on our corporate overlords. I hear that these days they're even throwing chairs around.
What? I don't think anyone is worried about body snatchers. The point of the article is that people can potentially lose their jobs which is obviously a major concern here. No one is claiming that you're going to disappear from the face of the Earth and be replaced with a Speak n' Spell.
"The best way to describe it is that both games look like they're running on a PC at those resolutions."
To further maintain this illusion, Microsoft has said that the games will randomly crash to a faux "desktop" and occasionally display a Blue Screen of Death, requiring the system to be restarted.
In related news, MS recently announced the addition of Clippy to the multiplayer modes. "It looks like you're trying to pwn n00bz..."
"Rather than getting a Grim Fandango or a Monkey Island, 3 or 4 times a decade, now we can touch those people 3 or 4 times a year."
But will they "touch us" in a good way? I'd much rather have Grim Fandango or Monkey Island a few times a decade than a steaming pile of crap a few times a year. Don't get me wrong, if they can put out games on that level then I'll be the first one buying. But I have to wonder if they can sustain the quality that we've come to expect from those types of games.
The problem is that the type of guy who spends most of his life on the Internet probably doesn't have much "female interaction" to begin with. So when this guy meets a girl online, his initial reaction will be disbelief.
Note that this initial disbelief may soon be followed by, "OMG BOOBZ!!1!" so caution is advised.
Tired of those loud squealing sounds coming from your speakers every time you run cat/dev/urandom >/dev/dsp? Then try our NEW noise-canceling software! Guaranteed to produce complete silence! Now you can run cat/dev/urandom >/dev/dsp without all that distracting sound!
"I bought this product and deployed it throughout my company. Now when my employees dump random data to their speakers, I don't hear a thing! Brilliant!"
Get your urandom-to-dsp noise canceler today! Only $59.95! Order now!
Weird Al might be a bad choice for a seed in something like this, because his songs vary so much. What genre is Weird Al? Rock? Country? Disco? Polka? He's done a little bit of everything, so analyzing Al's songs like this is going to give you, guess what, a little bit of everything. I suspect you might get better results if you gave it a more concrete example of what you like.
Slashdot Mirror
They're already doing it. What better stress test than a slashdotting? In a week we'll see another article about which servers exploded and killed half the IT department, and which merely melted and had to be replaced.
Given Office's previous capabilites, even with itself....I don't think you have much to worry about. ^_^
Who determines what the emergency is? The system itself? If there really is an "emergency," will the system even be in a state to realize it? The last thing users need is to be lulled into a sense of security by automatic backups that can't be retrieved when you really need them.
Apparently they will pay bounties for people to bring the eqipment back. According to TFA, it can be used and reused "unless it lands in a lake or gets run over by a truck."
Ah, he's just upset that his "O" key is broken.
If we're to believe Jack Thompson, the games are to blame. Why, then, did they arrest the kid? It's certainly not his fault. GTA made him do it.
Exactly. We need to send a different message. Instead of "If I ever meet you, I'll kick your ass!" people need to be saying, "If I ever meet you, I'll explain my position to you in a calm and reasonable voice, and attempt to illustrate why I believe that your opinions, valid though they may be, are wrong!" They may then bake him a plate of raisin roundees in an attempt to sway him.
So, I just opened up my copy of i2hub, and saw the RIP message. Then I continued my downloading as usual. The old client can't connect to its default hub, but the beta which was released a few weeks ago seems to still be working fine.
Well...okay, I can probably get porn somewhere on the Internet. But still, I mourn the passing of i2hub.
I'm using 1.0.7 and didn't have a problem. An extension issue, perhaps?
Call Jack Thompson -- obviously these violent games have had a detrimental effect on our corporate overlords. I hear that these days they're even throwing chairs around.
What? I don't think anyone is worried about body snatchers. The point of the article is that people can potentially lose their jobs which is obviously a major concern here. No one is claiming that you're going to disappear from the face of the Earth and be replaced with a Speak n' Spell.
Forget computer screens, how soon can I play Zelda on that thing? Though I guess the screen would still have to change for the dungeons...
To further maintain this illusion, Microsoft has said that the games will randomly crash to a faux "desktop" and occasionally display a Blue Screen of Death, requiring the system to be restarted.
In related news, MS recently announced the addition of Clippy to the multiplayer modes. "It looks like you're trying to pwn n00bz..."
I'm confused. Is there going to be a shortage (http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/07 /2036259&tid=211) of 360s, or are they going to sell three million of them? Does three million systems constitute a "shortage"?
"Rather than getting a Grim Fandango or a Monkey Island, 3 or 4 times a decade, now we can touch those people 3 or 4 times a year."
But will they "touch us" in a good way? I'd much rather have Grim Fandango or Monkey Island a few times a decade than a steaming pile of crap a few times a year. Don't get me wrong, if they can put out games on that level then I'll be the first one buying. But I have to wonder if they can sustain the quality that we've come to expect from those types of games.
Note that this initial disbelief may soon be followed by, "OMG BOOBZ!!1!" so caution is advised.
Linux User: Boo...ting? Oh...that thing I had to do when I first plugged it in. Gotcha.
"I bought this product and deployed it throughout my company. Now when my employees dump random data to their speakers, I don't hear a thing! Brilliant!"
Get your urandom-to-dsp noise canceler today! Only $59.95! Order now!
Exactly. It's designed to find songs that are musically similar. Don't knock it for what it's not supposed to be.
Weird Al might be a bad choice for a seed in something like this, because his songs vary so much. What genre is Weird Al? Rock? Country? Disco? Polka? He's done a little bit of everything, so analyzing Al's songs like this is going to give you, guess what, a little bit of everything. I suspect you might get better results if you gave it a more concrete example of what you like.