If it's not stable at room temperature or pressure, I wonder what happens when it breaks. As for that jazz about understanding the inner workings of the planet Jupiter...
I for one welcome our new exploding glass overlords.
Finally, an alternative operating system for that darned Playstation 3 personal computer. I thought I'd never see the day.
Seriously though. Anyone who buys into this needs to go sit in their failbox and think about what they've done. This kind of stuff has been done on the cheap with Unix and Posix operating systems for ages. I guess this could come in handy for experiments observing how artificially bloated clusters function, though.
Whoa-ho-ho! My dumbassatron just flew off the scale! Lord almighty, I think we might have a winner - STUPIDEST ARTICLE EVER!!!
There is so much idiocy packed into this one article that I don't know where to begin. The writer of this article doesn't just say stupid things, he speaks an entire language comprised of stupid. To say the very least, this is dumbassery of the highest order. Moderate article down.
First Internet Neutrality gets the boot, and now we learn the folks from the NSA are doing their level best to psychologically profile anyone and everyone who makes any information public or exchanges any information online... This just doesn't sound good at all. This makes an encrypted public mesh network seem that much more appealing now. Say, why don't we all snag some $100 Laptops? Only $130 each, wireless mesh capability included.
I have to wonder what having a massive databank of emo kid profiles is going to do for the security of this country, though. I mean, come on. MySpace? Livejournal? Xanga? The whole system is going to become so bogged down with emo kids and goth-tards it'll hang itself out of spite. What are these kids going to do, anyway? Cause a rash of suicides from viral depression caused by their own overblown self-loathing in an attempt to garner attention? Wait, shit, that really is scary. Now I'm almost glad the NSA is doing this. Not only would all the emo kids vanish, depriving me of a massive source of entertainment, but they'd take half the world with them - either because they'd make everyone else feel as bad as they do, or through their incessant bitching compell their unfortunate victims to slay themselves to escape the whining, terrifying hair-dos, and crappy punk music.
For that price, and at that size, I'd certainly hope it's a computer. Hell, if it wasn't loaded with DRM that will probably keep me or anyone else from running unsigned code and all that jazz without simultaneously voiding the warranty and breaking the law, and could run any operating system I'd deem fit for it - which it probably won't - I'd consider it a definite alternative to a new personal computer bought from, let's say, Dell. A $600 personal computer that could act as a powerful server, router, or high-end workstation? Now that's a deal! Let's not fool ourselves, though. This thing isn't a personal computer, it's a glorified game console with a number of features usually associated with a home entertainment center. We're not going to be using this hardware to do our work or for other more casual purposes you'd use a personal computer, workstation, or server for. The point of the Playstation 3 is games, and little much else.
That said, these market-tards from Sony need to get their act together. If you want to make a cheap, powerful computer, make a cheap powerful computer. (And for fuck's sake, open it up you morons. One Playstation 3, hold the DRM.) If you want to make an overpriced game console, make an overpriced game console. Clearly they're attempting to justify the high price of the machine, and make it look cheap by comparison to a personal computer. Silly question, Mr. Sony CEO, just how dumb do I look to you?
Oh, is that so? Well, you're a presumptuous asshole. Bite me.
I would be incredibly impressed if tech support were this good. I really would be. Anyone who can speak that coherently and actually seems to know what they're talking about deserves a technical support position. Judging by the dialogue you just wrote, any technical support personell with those kinds of speaking skills would be better suited for the job than about 99% of all technical support personell I've had the displeasure of speaking with in my lifetime.
As for the gremlins, everyone knows that gremlins are too busy screwing up airplanes to sit down and take the time to hack into a WiFi mesh network. At least, I hope everyone knows that.
"However, as Negroponte put it in his address, One Laptop per Child isn't all about the laptops. The main goal is to tap into the ability of every child to toss away a manual and figure out how to make gadgets work on their own, thus helping children help themselves to learn."
Training the 1337_h4xx0rz of tomorrow, starting with the children of today. Way to go, team.
Who else is reminded of the really old home PCs from the 1980's that you could program and whatnot that got kids learning to code way back when? Not that this is a bad thing, I think it's great. Just saying.
We already had something like a high-speed Final Fantasy. Who here remembers Seiken Densetsu 3? Who here remembers just how well that actually worked, how it took place in real time, how you could quickly switch between characters to control them so you could micromanage battles, or how you could program the AI of your other characters to make them behave a certain way in battle to automate the process, and how easy it was to access items and magic in battle? It was pleasantly un-nightmarish while being fast paced and highly intuitive, unlike what FFXIII is looking to be at this point.
Meanwhile, somewhere, somebody on a Square Enix design team is scraping the bottom of a barrel labeled 'Creativity' with a rusty spoon... The line how they want to essentially make the female lead a 'female version of Cloud' really got me. Just let the series fucking rest until you come up with some good ideas, okay?
... The sound of massive floodgates opening can be heard.
Cue gigantic flood of contentless anti-Microsoft pro-Linux posts in three, two, one...
Seriously though, this is bullshit. I mean, I think a software maker should be able to defend their work from piracy, but this is kind of ridiculous. You'd think that if you buy the fucking software with your own money, you wouldn't have to call home - whether you like it or not - to continue using it, but apparently we don't actually own property these days when it comes to software. (As if that's something new.) No, we're just leasing it from the vendor for a one-time payment - for now, anyway - and when it comes to piracy, everybody's a suspect. That really makes me smile. It makes me smile in that crazyass B-movie axe murderer kind of way, you know, before the stupid co-star gets what they have coming so we can forget they ever existed in the first place.
The killer applications for Vista are probably going to be games, as opposed to anything remotely useful outside of the realm of entertainment. The first people to buy Vista are going to be 'hardcore' gamers waiting to upgrade their box the latest and greatest thing so they can play whatever new Halo-based shit-pile Microsoft churns out on Vista's release date. It's better to see through their game ahead of time, though. Any game that gets dropped onto Vista will also more likely than not be available on a console at the same time, and for less money overall.
In the Megazeux GCS community, comedy games are a pretty big deal. Not only are they easy to make, they're also deeply satisfying for players of all genres and fandoms. This is because no matter what kind of game you prefer to play - FPS, RPG, RTS - there's one genre everyone can relate to - WTF.
Case in point: Inmate 2993's 'Cans' series - nearing its tenth birthday - is one of the most popular and widely known games to ever be made for Megazeux. These games, especially 'Cans' and 'Cans Episode One: Special Edition' are considered must-haves, alongside the other classics of Megazeux such as Adlo - an exceptionally well done platformer - and Bernard the Bard - an RPG considered to be the 'best game of all of Megazeux'. Guess what genre the 'Cans' series falls into?
Comedy.
Comedy games don't get much attention these days outside of their little niche. That's because they rarely feature the adrenaline-pumping action and pretty colors that are required to achieve any semblance of popularity in today's gamer culture, and forget getting the game published and sold in stores without a big name like 'Leisure Suit Larry' behind it. That doesn't mean comedy gaming is irrelevant, it's just underrated. I personally like a game I can both enjoy playing and get a good laugh out of, and if spending time with the Megazeux community has taught me anything, it's that I'm hardly alone.
Sores that contain white and blue fibers? There's only one thing this could possibly be.
It's a mutagenic parasite that attempts to turn its host into a pair of blue jeans for some twisted reason, possibly for pantsless alien overlords that we may or may not have properly welcomed here on Slashdot.
I've asked this plenty of times about my own government, but you have to wonder, are they just paying someone to come up with really, really bad ideas in the United Kingdom? Like, do they have a 'Professional Dumbass' position available in the government over there, too? (I already know they have several such positions filled over here, but I've just got to know...)
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If it's not stable at room temperature or pressure, I wonder what happens when it breaks. As for that jazz about understanding the inner workings of the planet Jupiter...
I for one welcome our new exploding glass overlords.
"This is the most secure operating system in the world! Let's go test it to see if it's secure!"
Meanwhile...
"I'll pay you guys one-hundred dollars each if you pretend to be script kiddies."
"Two-hundred."
"Deal."
If you can feed a million people, you're a saint.
If you can kill a million people, you're a leader.
Plutocracy - The best Democracy money can buy.
Microscopic origami exhibits. World's tiniest paper crane!
If that sounds as stupid to you as it does to me, you're just missing the bigger picture.
Bawls.
Finally, an alternative operating system for that darned Playstation 3 personal computer. I thought I'd never see the day.
Seriously though. Anyone who buys into this needs to go sit in their failbox and think about what they've done. This kind of stuff has been done on the cheap with Unix and Posix operating systems for ages. I guess this could come in handy for experiments observing how artificially bloated clusters function, though.
Whoa-ho-ho! My dumbassatron just flew off the scale! Lord almighty, I think we might have a winner - STUPIDEST ARTICLE EVER!!!
There is so much idiocy packed into this one article that I don't know where to begin. The writer of this article doesn't just say stupid things, he speaks an entire language comprised of stupid. To say the very least, this is dumbassery of the highest order. Moderate article down.
First Internet Neutrality gets the boot, and now we learn the folks from the NSA are doing their level best to psychologically profile anyone and everyone who makes any information public or exchanges any information online... This just doesn't sound good at all. This makes an encrypted public mesh network seem that much more appealing now. Say, why don't we all snag some $100 Laptops? Only $130 each, wireless mesh capability included.
I have to wonder what having a massive databank of emo kid profiles is going to do for the security of this country, though. I mean, come on. MySpace? Livejournal? Xanga? The whole system is going to become so bogged down with emo kids and goth-tards it'll hang itself out of spite. What are these kids going to do, anyway? Cause a rash of suicides from viral depression caused by their own overblown self-loathing in an attempt to garner attention? Wait, shit, that really is scary. Now I'm almost glad the NSA is doing this. Not only would all the emo kids vanish, depriving me of a massive source of entertainment, but they'd take half the world with them - either because they'd make everyone else feel as bad as they do, or through their incessant bitching compell their unfortunate victims to slay themselves to escape the whining, terrifying hair-dos, and crappy punk music.
For that price, and at that size, I'd certainly hope it's a computer. Hell, if it wasn't loaded with DRM that will probably keep me or anyone else from running unsigned code and all that jazz without simultaneously voiding the warranty and breaking the law, and could run any operating system I'd deem fit for it - which it probably won't - I'd consider it a definite alternative to a new personal computer bought from, let's say, Dell. A $600 personal computer that could act as a powerful server, router, or high-end workstation? Now that's a deal! Let's not fool ourselves, though. This thing isn't a personal computer, it's a glorified game console with a number of features usually associated with a home entertainment center. We're not going to be using this hardware to do our work or for other more casual purposes you'd use a personal computer, workstation, or server for. The point of the Playstation 3 is games, and little much else.
That said, these market-tards from Sony need to get their act together. If you want to make a cheap, powerful computer, make a cheap powerful computer. (And for fuck's sake, open it up you morons. One Playstation 3, hold the DRM.) If you want to make an overpriced game console, make an overpriced game console. Clearly they're attempting to justify the high price of the machine, and make it look cheap by comparison to a personal computer. Silly question, Mr. Sony CEO, just how dumb do I look to you?
Oh, is that so? Well, you're a presumptuous asshole. Bite me.
I would be incredibly impressed if tech support were this good. I really would be. Anyone who can speak that coherently and actually seems to know what they're talking about deserves a technical support position. Judging by the dialogue you just wrote, any technical support personell with those kinds of speaking skills would be better suited for the job than about 99% of all technical support personell I've had the displeasure of speaking with in my lifetime.
As for the gremlins, everyone knows that gremlins are too busy screwing up airplanes to sit down and take the time to hack into a WiFi mesh network. At least, I hope everyone knows that.
I was thinking of something more along the lines of the Texas Instruments Little Professor. (http://perso.orange.fr/fabrice.montupet/litlprof. jpg)
"However, as Negroponte put it in his address, One Laptop per Child isn't all about the laptops. The main goal is to tap into the ability of every child to toss away a manual and figure out how to make gadgets work on their own, thus helping children help themselves to learn."
Training the 1337_h4xx0rz of tomorrow, starting with the children of today. Way to go, team.
Who else is reminded of the really old home PCs from the 1980's that you could program and whatnot that got kids learning to code way back when? Not that this is a bad thing, I think it's great. Just saying.
We already had something like a high-speed Final Fantasy. Who here remembers Seiken Densetsu 3? Who here remembers just how well that actually worked, how it took place in real time, how you could quickly switch between characters to control them so you could micromanage battles, or how you could program the AI of your other characters to make them behave a certain way in battle to automate the process, and how easy it was to access items and magic in battle? It was pleasantly un-nightmarish while being fast paced and highly intuitive, unlike what FFXIII is looking to be at this point.
Meanwhile, somewhere, somebody on a Square Enix design team is scraping the bottom of a barrel labeled 'Creativity' with a rusty spoon... The line how they want to essentially make the female lead a 'female version of Cloud' really got me. Just let the series fucking rest until you come up with some good ideas, okay?
... The sound of massive floodgates opening can be heard.
Cue gigantic flood of contentless anti-Microsoft pro-Linux posts in three, two, one...
Seriously though, this is bullshit. I mean, I think a software maker should be able to defend their work from piracy, but this is kind of ridiculous. You'd think that if you buy the fucking software with your own money, you wouldn't have to call home - whether you like it or not - to continue using it, but apparently we don't actually own property these days when it comes to software. (As if that's something new.) No, we're just leasing it from the vendor for a one-time payment - for now, anyway - and when it comes to piracy, everybody's a suspect. That really makes me smile. It makes me smile in that crazyass B-movie axe murderer kind of way, you know, before the stupid co-star gets what they have coming so we can forget they ever existed in the first place.
I vaguely remember seeing something like this in an episode of G.I. Joe...
Well, I see that we've found Adam. Crap, now the world's going to end in the dumbest imaginable way and we're all going to melt.
The killer applications for Vista are probably going to be games, as opposed to anything remotely useful outside of the realm of entertainment. The first people to buy Vista are going to be 'hardcore' gamers waiting to upgrade their box the latest and greatest thing so they can play whatever new Halo-based shit-pile Microsoft churns out on Vista's release date. It's better to see through their game ahead of time, though. Any game that gets dropped onto Vista will also more likely than not be available on a console at the same time, and for less money overall.
Megazeux is free, and 'Cans' is a game made for and playable on Megazeux. You can find Megazeux and all uploaded games for it here: www.digitalmzx.net
Megazeux is an acquired taste, but you'll find that it has a certain charm.
I sure wish I had a bee toggle switch for my yard. It'd make mowing the lawn a lot less stressful.
In the Megazeux GCS community, comedy games are a pretty big deal. Not only are they easy to make, they're also deeply satisfying for players of all genres and fandoms. This is because no matter what kind of game you prefer to play - FPS, RPG, RTS - there's one genre everyone can relate to - WTF.
Case in point: Inmate 2993's 'Cans' series - nearing its tenth birthday - is one of the most popular and widely known games to ever be made for Megazeux. These games, especially 'Cans' and 'Cans Episode One: Special Edition' are considered must-haves, alongside the other classics of Megazeux such as Adlo - an exceptionally well done platformer - and Bernard the Bard - an RPG considered to be the 'best game of all of Megazeux'. Guess what genre the 'Cans' series falls into?
Comedy.
Comedy games don't get much attention these days outside of their little niche. That's because they rarely feature the adrenaline-pumping action and pretty colors that are required to achieve any semblance of popularity in today's gamer culture, and forget getting the game published and sold in stores without a big name like 'Leisure Suit Larry' behind it. That doesn't mean comedy gaming is irrelevant, it's just underrated. I personally like a game I can both enjoy playing and get a good laugh out of, and if spending time with the Megazeux community has taught me anything, it's that I'm hardly alone.
Sores that contain white and blue fibers? There's only one thing this could possibly be.
It's a mutagenic parasite that attempts to turn its host into a pair of blue jeans for some twisted reason, possibly for pantsless alien overlords that we may or may not have properly welcomed here on Slashdot.
Well, it makes sense to me, at least.
Now we can outsource the medical field to India, too. *rimshot*
I've asked this plenty of times about my own government, but you have to wonder, are they just paying someone to come up with really, really bad ideas in the United Kingdom? Like, do they have a 'Professional Dumbass' position available in the government over there, too? (I already know they have several such positions filled over here, but I've just got to know...)
I don't care if the hardware was housed inside a shoebox. It came, it saw, it kicked some ass. Whatever case it came in doesn't mean shit.
On a related note, a shoebox Wii would be pretty cool.