"the typical setup of X machines being shoehorned into 1 IP doesn't have a single benefit"
If that were true then it wouldn't be done. If it weren't being done then everyone in an office would need their own public IP to connect to the net? It's a benefit to be able to firewall traffic at one point rather than doing the same checks on every machine as well.
If it's only ever happened even once, then it still proves his point! Though even if the hardware is perfect, you still have software problems to deal with..
Including every idea would be a necessity, for as we have already seen, sometimes no idea is too silly or too obvious.
I'm thinking there could be some interesting legal cases if people become able to register and contest patents on how to illicit orgasms, especially if it *ahem* comes down to married inviduals and prior art..!
I thought the whole point in this was to list the stupid ones, because people can patent stupid things. Like one click payment.. how can you patent the storing of information to use at a later date?
"Many other decisions were made that year, such as the disc diameter (115m) and the type of laser to be used by CD players"
You mean that modern CDs don't conform to the original specification? It's probably just as well, I'm not sure how many 115 metre discs I could fit into my car..;)
"If we really are a country which thinks that Transformers are a worth-while way to spend money and time, we've already lost the plot."
I'm pretty sure that the whole of the western world thinks it's worthwhile, I know I'm looking forward to it more than any other film that's been out this year.. and I wasn't even that into transformers as a kid. It's hard to tell whether you're even being sarcastic or not.. why shouldn't people enjoy indulging in action flicks occasionally as a form of entertainment? If you want a decent plot then read a book o_0 Books are always better that the film version!
It is insane, but it's all down to marketing I guess. I hate marketing, as is probably the case with a lot of scientists/engineers/geeks, but the fact remains that it's usually marketing that sells products rather than the products own merits:( And now Windows is incredibly entrenched, though with the steaming pile of sh!t that Vista is, hopefully people will take action. I was happy to see that so many people have started using FF, shows that it is possible to educate people as to alternatives and have it succeed. The way the net is heading, back towards server based applications and that kind of thing, then it should make it easier for people to switch to any platform they like.
I think the only major limiting factor for the home market is still pretty much lack of mainstream games on linux... (though for me the main problem was that I couldn't use video chat on the Linux version of Skype). At work I know most of our employees could be comfortably using Linux (all they really use is email, word processing and spreadsheets), but unfortunately our CAD software doesn't have a Linux version so the Engineering division is pretty much stuck with Windows unless they decide to switch CAD packages.
Considering you can complete SMB in a few days, and there is little incentive (IMO) to replay it, then it seems quite likely that there have been a lot more hours spend on CS than SMB. I know for sure that I won't have played more than a week or two (when you stick all the hours together) of SMB in my lifetime (and I even played a version to completion last year when we found a SNES lying around in our holiday villa thingy), but when you add the hours I've played Counter-Strike over the past 8 or so years it could come to quite a scary number of hours (admittedly I've hardly played it in the last couple of years, but that's because I've been trying to develop a 'life';) ).
I have to say I am totally at a loss to understand what thoughts could lead anyone to believe that a 2500 year old moral code could have something to say about modern physics..
Are you taking inflation into account? (yes I'm kidding:P I'm not an economist.. though the Roman Empire controlled an awful lot of the known world back when it was around, America is 'just' America) I think the Romans have influenced the world a lot more than America, y'know with all those road thingies, plumbing, being the base of european languages and so on. America has had its fair share of inventions and innovation in the last couple of centuries, but so have plenty of other countries with decent education systems and funding. I also expect that the Roman Empire had more infantry than the US (got no data for that of course), and again, even the UK has more 'power' than the Roman Empire when you take guns and nukes into a account, but if you take advances in modern warfare out of the equation, the Roman Empire was more 'powerful' because it kept so many other countries under its direct control for so long.
I think we should leave behind records that stated that we all lived submerged in 300metres of custard, breathing nitrox and finding our way around by poking sharp sticks ahead of us. No reason they shouldn't take it at face value..
First slashdot comment that's given me a bit of a chuckle for weeks:P Could call it the SSJ2? Though I'm not up to date with my Cell saga (stopped watching DBZ cuz I didn't have satellite at Uni), so maybe it's SSJ3 or whatever..
Who actually thinks that the things they have done are so bad that google will be able to blackmail them or whatever? YOU LOOKED AT PR0N A FEW TIMES, OH NOESS!!! I mean come on.. google could probably help identity thieves if they wanted to be really mean, but I doubt that would happen. Well, I hope that wouldn't happen. Oh crap:o
Maybe when you were given the ability to trawl through every line of code just to make sure it's doing what you think it's doing? There are a lot of very geeky/bored people out there you know.. and if anyone was dumb enough to release source that blatantly contained violations of users' privacy, then someone is bound to notice and complain, put it up on/. , etc..
"I also think, although no way can I prove it, that there exists a black ops pure military manned space force outside of the shuttle."
Sounds very useful.. are they up there hotwiring TV satellites so that the russians can all get pay-per-view for free, which will shatter their already poor economy beyond all repair?
Manhunt was crap anyway. I got it because of all the fuss over it, to see what it was like. It was pretty repetetive and boring.. all the enemies were pretty much the same.. I did a few levels of it and just got bored. When I 'kill' things in computer games I don't tend to associate it with real life much anyway, I know it's just me calling the die function on an enemy object (or whatever), and I like stuff like ragdoll physics in deaths to make them more realistic etc, but that's more from an impressive coding or bodies in funny positions point of view. This game does sound a little depraved. People love that kinda stuff of course, but I could quite happily live my life without playing this game.. GTA IV I will definitely be getting, it's an amazing game and I like Rockstar as developers, but by the sounds of this.. what's the point? Of course it won't be as bad to play as they make it sound, but after buying Manhunt, I wouldn't waste any money on this.
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"the typical setup of X machines being shoehorned into 1 IP doesn't have a single benefit"
If that were true then it wouldn't be done. If it weren't being done then everyone in an office would need their own public IP to connect to the net? It's a benefit to be able to firewall traffic at one point rather than doing the same checks on every machine as well.
Or, alternatively, don't use MS Office? o_0 But don't open attachments you are not expecting works too.
If it's only ever happened even once, then it still proves his point! Though even if the hardware is perfect, you still have software problems to deal with..
What I meant is that 115metres is larger than a football pitch! I'm guessing you meant millimetres :P
Including every idea would be a necessity, for as we have already seen, sometimes no idea is too silly or too obvious. I'm thinking there could be some interesting legal cases if people become able to register and contest patents on how to illicit orgasms, especially if it *ahem* comes down to married inviduals and prior art..!
I thought the whole point in this was to list the stupid ones, because people can patent stupid things. Like one click payment.. how can you patent the storing of information to use at a later date?
"Many other decisions were made that year, such as the disc diameter (115m) and the type of laser to be used by CD players"
;)
You mean that modern CDs don't conform to the original specification? It's probably just as well, I'm not sure how many 115 metre discs I could fit into my car..
But the car bombs help, if only a little.
"If we really are a country which thinks that Transformers are a worth-while way to spend money and time, we've already lost the plot."
I'm pretty sure that the whole of the western world thinks it's worthwhile, I know I'm looking forward to it more than any other film that's been out this year.. and I wasn't even that into transformers as a kid. It's hard to tell whether you're even being sarcastic or not.. why shouldn't people enjoy indulging in action flicks occasionally as a form of entertainment? If you want a decent plot then read a book o_0 Books are always better that the film version!
It is insane, but it's all down to marketing I guess. I hate marketing, as is probably the case with a lot of scientists/engineers/geeks, but the fact remains that it's usually marketing that sells products rather than the products own merits :( And now Windows is incredibly entrenched, though with the steaming pile of sh!t that Vista is, hopefully people will take action. I was happy to see that so many people have started using FF, shows that it is possible to educate people as to alternatives and have it succeed. The way the net is heading, back towards server based applications and that kind of thing, then it should make it easier for people to switch to any platform they like.
I think the only major limiting factor for the home market is still pretty much lack of mainstream games on linux... (though for me the main problem was that I couldn't use video chat on the Linux version of Skype). At work I know most of our employees could be comfortably using Linux (all they really use is email, word processing and spreadsheets), but unfortunately our CAD software doesn't have a Linux version so the Engineering division is pretty much stuck with Windows unless they decide to switch CAD packages.
Considering you can complete SMB in a few days, and there is little incentive (IMO) to replay it, then it seems quite likely that there have been a lot more hours spend on CS than SMB. I know for sure that I won't have played more than a week or two (when you stick all the hours together) of SMB in my lifetime (and I even played a version to completion last year when we found a SNES lying around in our holiday villa thingy), but when you add the hours I've played Counter-Strike over the past 8 or so years it could come to quite a scary number of hours (admittedly I've hardly played it in the last couple of years, but that's because I've been trying to develop a 'life' ;) ).
Only if they succeed
I have to say I am totally at a loss to understand what thoughts could lead anyone to believe that a 2500 year old moral code could have something to say about modern physics..
Yeah, you've made that pretty clear.
Are you taking inflation into account? (yes I'm kidding :P I'm not an economist.. though the Roman Empire controlled an awful lot of the known world back when it was around, America is 'just' America) I think the Romans have influenced the world a lot more than America, y'know with all those road thingies, plumbing, being the base of european languages and so on. America has had its fair share of inventions and innovation in the last couple of centuries, but so have plenty of other countries with decent education systems and funding. I also expect that the Roman Empire had more infantry than the US (got no data for that of course), and again, even the UK has more 'power' than the Roman Empire when you take guns and nukes into a account, but if you take advances in modern warfare out of the equation, the Roman Empire was more 'powerful' because it kept so many other countries under its direct control for so long.
You ever heard of the Roman Empire? No? Oh well, yeah I guess that anything you don't know isn't actually real.
I think we should leave behind records that stated that we all lived submerged in 300metres of custard, breathing nitrox and finding our way around by poking sharp sticks ahead of us. No reason they shouldn't take it at face value..
"We were acting like the biggest bullies on the block, unashamedly."
:P
Were? Sorry; that's a bit trollish, but it doesn't make it any less true!
recent translations also suggest the added phrase: ", and not in a good way"
First slashdot comment that's given me a bit of a chuckle for weeks :P Could call it the SSJ2? Though I'm not up to date with my Cell saga (stopped watching DBZ cuz I didn't have satellite at Uni), so maybe it's SSJ3 or whatever..
Who actually thinks that the things they have done are so bad that google will be able to blackmail them or whatever? YOU LOOKED AT PR0N A FEW TIMES, OH NOESS!!! I mean come on.. google could probably help identity thieves if they wanted to be really mean, but I doubt that would happen. Well, I hope that wouldn't happen. Oh crap :o
Maybe when you were given the ability to trawl through every line of code just to make sure it's doing what you think it's doing? There are a lot of very geeky/bored people out there you know.. and if anyone was dumb enough to release source that blatantly contained violations of users' privacy, then someone is bound to notice and complain, put it up on /. , etc..
See http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fec k , and then think of a beowulf cluster of fecking fecks.
"I also think, although no way can I prove it, that there exists a black ops pure military manned space force outside of the shuttle."
Sounds very useful.. are they up there hotwiring TV satellites so that the russians can all get pay-per-view for free, which will shatter their already poor economy beyond all repair?
Yeah! The ESRB should leave war unrated so that nobody can have them anymore.
Manhunt was crap anyway. I got it because of all the fuss over it, to see what it was like. It was pretty repetetive and boring.. all the enemies were pretty much the same.. I did a few levels of it and just got bored. When I 'kill' things in computer games I don't tend to associate it with real life much anyway, I know it's just me calling the die function on an enemy object (or whatever), and I like stuff like ragdoll physics in deaths to make them more realistic etc, but that's more from an impressive coding or bodies in funny positions point of view. This game does sound a little depraved. People love that kinda stuff of course, but I could quite happily live my life without playing this game.. GTA IV I will definitely be getting, it's an amazing game and I like Rockstar as developers, but by the sounds of this.. what's the point? Of course it won't be as bad to play as they make it sound, but after buying Manhunt, I wouldn't waste any money on this.