but this is the new slashdot, and all AC's should be moderated down to -1, Troll just for bothering to post.
Oh, and Seth Finkelstein sucks. I might as well get this moderated -1 Troll since I'm posting this, but goddamn, I've never heard one man cry like such a bitch before in my entire life. "Whahhhaaaaaaa, big bad slashdot editor got me kicked out of my covent for summoning a redneck tree!!!"
I actually had a problem with coworkers in reverse of them knowing I accepted a counter offer, one of them found out I made less than they did and complained that I should not have been in charge of projects he was working on as a result... That was a few years ago, and last I knew the guy was still on the dot-bomb list of casualties. After mentioning it to my employer at the time (when things were looking good), they raised my salary slightly higher than his, and made him aware of how they had 'fixed the problem'. He never said another word to me for the remainder of the 3-4 months the company lived on venture capitol, heh..
Living in Milwaukee, working in Chicago isin't out of the question for alot of people, and when I was talking to a friend day, he told his manager about me and he immediatley made an offer that would have paid twice as much as I was making at the time, but would require the MilwaukeeChicago commute daily, which honestly was not acceptible to me. So, I discussed the situation with my employer, and they came half way, which is all I really needed to begin with.
Lots of things here are on shaky ground all times, so I can't really say one way or the other if its a good thing or a bad thing how it worked out, but it's nearly 6 months later, and I'm still working here, with things getting better every day from my point of view.
whoever has the fastest cpu at the lowest cost (market, and electrical) will win, end of story, so long as the company keeps up to date with the growing need of CPU's needing to be able to talk to ram faster and faster.
"Hello, thank you americans for buying our game. We do not feel like fixing the problem for anyone but our much respected japaneese players who we actually care about. Please continue to pay us for PSO v.2 so it will fix the cheating untill someone works arround it! hehe! stupid americans.. oh, what? it's still recording?"
Phantasy Star Online (Dreamcast) was a bust due to people cheating out of boredom who went mostly unpunished because the facilities to stop them were only implimented for Japaneese servers. When they did make it to the US servers, they were almost instantly defeated and still major steps behind the Japaneese counterparts.
Lots of people seem to think this was NOT how it was, but Sonic Team had NO INTENTION of making things easy on US players, all the way down to only accepting payment methods popular for Japan and not any other countries (No debit cards, for example), do I even need to mention the price for access in PSO v.2 was 2000¥ (up to $15 USD) for 3 months, sure, they sell the game in Europe and the United States, but the prices are only in Yen and not given an exact ammount for exchange rates. I think I was charged $14.63 and then $3 by my credit card company for doing the conversion. UGH.
So, new PSO players for other platforms, beware: Sonic Team has no idea how to write secure Client/Server enviroments.
A standard television is analog. The digital signal must be processed back into analog.
Thus, you must have the box for each TV set receiving a digital signal because your TV can't translate it itself.
Digital cable is actually poorer quality than normal cable, there is a loss (mostly in audio, ever notice how high your volume has to be with a digital convertor compared to analog?). Because of the poorer quality, and the fact its basically just a movie stream, it has to be decoded to be displayed.
AOL Time Warner is not charging me too much for service, anyway. I'm quite happy with their service in the specific market of Cable Television. I'm not so happy that they sell complete crap as Movies, Music, and Dialup internet access, but hey.. What else do I do, switch from one monopoly (cable television) to another (direct tv)? Have you ever used the program guide on DTV? Jesus, at that point you tossing more cash out the window for TV guide in addition to the service.
I would have to agree with the AC and burn karma in the process. Larry McVoy is an exciting and pleasurable indivudual if you never read or hear of him in your entire life. Now, the problem is, that I can't see RMS as much better... Oh well.
I know this is stupid, but it's reallllllly simple.
If whatever the copyright or patent covers is replicated and released in a NOT FOR PROFIT situation there should be nothing stopping the NOT FOR PROFIT individual or group from releasing or building products (with allowance for whatever fiscal cost incured in manufacturing or transport), this not only releases holds on free software, it says that if I don't like the quality that MegaCorp's products have reputation for, I can recreate them and sell them to others at cost to force MegaCorp to produce better quality equipment.
This stimulates the economy if MegaCorp competes with not for profit groups, and also prevents MegaBiggerCorp from replicating MegaCorp's patented product. In the case that it does NOT stimulate the economy because MegaCorp whines like a bleeding whale even though any not for profit attempt at making anything MegaCorp mass produced will incur greater costs, it will benefit the customer in the end regardless. No more crap product, more money in pocket to give to someone who doesn't make crap.
How does this apply to software?.. How did the TCP stack in Linux become GPL?.. Someone re-built it based on the specifications used in the original BSD stack or another stack built on that stack. It's not that hard, is it?
Wow, the "Acura EL" thing is really stupid. Then again, mabye Civic's don't sell well in Canada, they do here. I can understand the use of "Lexus", "Acura", etc, because if you look at Ford, they have, what, 7 name properties for selling vehicles? Toyota and Lexus, Honda and Acura, and Nissan and Infinity isin't too bad compared to "Ford Volvo Aston Martin Mazda Lincon Mercury Jaguar Land Rover" Incorporated of America. But, hey, I regard my Acura as a Honda product, and if you have ever seen the post-sale stuff that Honda sends you, so do they.
I will say that the RSX, though, has to be the quietest vehicle I've ever driven with exception to the Honda Civic HX with the Continiously Variable Transmission, it's quiet as hell. The RSX's motor has no low omnious growl, it sounds like a wind-up toy, but has ample power. If the sunroof and windows are closed, you don't even know you have an engine unless your over 3k rpm (which is hard to do in 5th gear, we're talking over 75 or 80mph). Something about having the power the RSX has + 30mpg on the freeway (I think Honda rates it at 33, epa says 30), is just killer. Too bad the Corvette beats the NSX in fuel efficency (by about 1mpg). i-VTEC is a nice technology.
Oh my, how deep in the land of OT we've gone, oh well..
See, when you pay $90k for a NSX, you're buying one of the few cars that keeps its value, and nearly increases as newer models come out that are more expensive. Why? Rarity. It's all about being rare in the US that makes the car valuable. The Corvette is *not* rare, it may be a better car in regards to preformance, but its underlying thought is not to be a comfortable sports car, it's to be a balls out sports car. NSX's are well balanced in terms of luxury, ride, power, etc. I've been inside a Corvette, it didn't make me go "oooh, ahhh" like the NSX does (as I was sitting in one while I was buying the RSX).
Honda's (and Acura's) in general have some of the highest residual values of any mass-produced car. There is a reason for that, and if you've ever really driven the shit out of any Honda/Acura product, you'd see why.
Next thing, the NSX is a sports car for people who have previously owned high-end Honda (Acura) vehicles and like the overall feel of them. It has alot of the same comforts, etc. Although it might not be the best bang for buck, it's definatley not junk for its price. If I was concerned with bang for buck, I'd of bought a Subaru Impreza WRX -- the problem is, it's 99% fast 1% sensible and 0% luxury/comfort. I just got the RSX, which is the "cheapest Acura", I have never been to any car dealer, including dealers for Cadillac/Mercedes, that has treated me with the respect I got from that dealer. From what I hear, the same is true elsewhere. Oh, and the overall quality of the car kicks ass too.
If your going to compare anything to the NSX you need to hit things in its price class. E.g. the new GT-40, the Viper, so on and so forth. The Viper is cheaper than both, actually. I'm an Honda (Acura) fan, and while I'd drive a NSX, it would be purely because of the rarity of the vehicle, and its 0-60 in 5.0 seconds, not because of top speed or cornering. Right now I drive a RSX, and I'm sure its FWD-ness kicks the shit out of the NSX on a really twisty road, because the cars are built for diffrent purposes. Anyhow, comparing the NSX to a Corvette is stupid, it's like comparing a Mercedes SL500 to a Ford Pinto.
Oh, this is entirely offtopic, but as the trolls say, it's only karma.:)
Mozilla is *severly* faster. It just takes longer to load. I'm browsing slash with mozilla right now. Both browsers suck equally in one department, though, and that's plugin support. It's not that there aren't plugins, it's that they completly suck. Macromedia's flash plugin for OS X is slower than the Linux flash plugin. feh.
The stink about the credit card was mentioned before on slashdot. It was used to fund payroll, I'd link to the slashdot article but I think it was in comments to another Loki article.
Oh, that's rich. I know, let's lie to our customers then tell them that their tech staff is incompetent! When a company says something, they should do it.
Let's apply this elsewhere. If a company says you will, at a minimum, receive a 20% raise after 1 year of employment, and then gives you a 5% raise and no chance to negoiate, you'd be mad, no?
So how is when Microsoft says it's OS will do 20% of the job any other OS should on the same hardware, and then does 5% of that 20%, people aren't allowed to get mad?:)
Sure, those are options, but functionality is more important to me. It's a consumer product that runs a UNIX off the shelf of your local CompUSA/Mac Store/whatever, how many other machines do that? Not only does it run one, it runs one that's fairly decent and speedy for what it does. And, it's not so much the 15" display as much as its the shape of the display. What good is that DVD player if you can't watch them wide screen?:) I wish $3k was nothing, though. Mabye I'll build a time machine with my non-existant millions to go back to 1999 and get rich quick..
You're wrong, if you use XFree or the XDarwin package, you do have to pick Gnome or KDE (or windowmaker, or blackbox..). You can run a X window manager along-side OS X's Finder/Aqua on the same display. It's called 'rootless' X.
I bought a PowerBook G4 to test OS X with. I haven't installed Debian on it yet. I hate OS 9 (and all previous incarnations of 'Classic') with a passion. I have since I first used them in High School (which is what drove me to PC's for so long). But, Apple's new OS and look/feel drove me to love the company. Also, from my understanding, as long as you have at least 256mb of ram, OS X should run better for you than Classic. So, my official position as of now is this; servers are for linux, workstations (including laptops) deserve to be a little nicer. What other machine can you avoid the plague of Windows and still be able to interact with coworkers who use Office, still get a UNIX enviroment I'm more comfortable with, etc? (Don't say Linux and StarOffice, if I felt like throwing a quad P4 machine with 2 gigs of at a word processor I'd do it, it's just stupid to do so.) Just my 2 cents.
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but this is the new slashdot, and all AC's should be moderated down to -1, Troll just for bothering to post.
Oh, and Seth Finkelstein sucks. I might as well get this moderated -1 Troll since I'm posting this, but goddamn, I've never heard one man cry like such a bitch before in my entire life. "Whahhhaaaaaaa, big bad slashdot editor got me kicked out of my covent for summoning a redneck tree!!!"
FEH!
I actually had a problem with coworkers in reverse of them knowing I accepted a counter offer, one of them found out I made less than they did and complained that I should not have been in charge of projects he was working on as a result... That was a few years ago, and last I knew the guy was still on the dot-bomb list of casualties. After mentioning it to my employer at the time (when things were looking good), they raised my salary slightly higher than his, and made him aware of how they had 'fixed the problem'. He never said another word to me for the remainder of the 3-4 months the company lived on venture capitol, heh..
Living in Milwaukee, working in Chicago isin't out of the question for alot of people, and when I was talking to a friend day, he told his manager about me and he immediatley made an offer that would have paid twice as much as I was making at the time, but would require the MilwaukeeChicago commute daily, which honestly was not acceptible to me. So, I discussed the situation with my employer, and they came half way, which is all I really needed to begin with.
Lots of things here are on shaky ground all times, so I can't really say one way or the other if its a good thing or a bad thing how it worked out, but it's nearly 6 months later, and I'm still working here, with things getting better every day from my point of view.
i was there when that happened. it was mildly amusing at the time but the events thereafter were not so!
i shall thus be known as the 'personal life' troll.
kthnx.
willy boy, your dumb.
whoever has the fastest cpu at the lowest cost (market, and electrical) will win, end of story, so long as the company keeps up to date with the growing need of CPU's needing to be able to talk to ram faster and faster.
:)
HEHE.
your a bastard, btw, and you should call.
"Hello, thank you americans for buying our game. We do not feel like fixing the problem for anyone but our much respected japaneese players who we actually care about. Please continue to pay us for PSO v.2 so it will fix the cheating untill someone works arround it! hehe! stupid americans.. oh, what? it's still recording?"
Phantasy Star Online (Dreamcast) was a bust due to people cheating out of boredom who went mostly unpunished because the facilities to stop them were only implimented for Japaneese servers. When they did make it to the US servers, they were almost instantly defeated and still major steps behind the Japaneese counterparts.
Lots of people seem to think this was NOT how it was, but Sonic Team had NO INTENTION of making things easy on US players, all the way down to only accepting payment methods popular for Japan and not any other countries (No debit cards, for example), do I even need to mention the price for access in PSO v.2 was 2000¥ (up to $15 USD) for 3 months, sure, they sell the game in Europe and the United States, but the prices are only in Yen and not given an exact ammount for exchange rates. I think I was charged $14.63 and then $3 by my credit card company for doing the conversion. UGH.
So, new PSO players for other platforms, beware: Sonic Team has no idea how to write secure Client/Server enviroments.
You, sir, are a moron.
A standard television is analog. The digital signal must be processed back into analog.
Thus, you must have the box for each TV set receiving a digital signal because your TV can't translate it itself.
Digital cable is actually poorer quality than normal cable, there is a loss (mostly in audio, ever notice how high your volume has to be with a digital convertor compared to analog?). Because of the poorer quality, and the fact its basically just a movie stream, it has to be decoded to be displayed.
AOL Time Warner is not charging me too much for service, anyway. I'm quite happy with their service in the specific market of Cable Television. I'm not so happy that they sell complete crap as Movies, Music, and Dialup internet access, but hey.. What else do I do, switch from one monopoly (cable television) to another (direct tv)? Have you ever used the program guide on DTV? Jesus, at that point you tossing more cash out the window for TV guide in addition to the service.
That's who we're represented by now...
One would imagine that looking at the results of Ramen and Beer vomit would look suprisingly like the Ramen originally did..
Now there's a good prank..
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I would have to agree with the AC and burn karma in the process. Larry McVoy is an exciting and pleasurable indivudual if you never read or hear of him in your entire life. Now, the problem is, that I can't see RMS as much better... Oh well.
I know this is stupid, but it's reallllllly simple.
If whatever the copyright or patent covers is replicated and released in a NOT FOR PROFIT situation there should be nothing stopping the NOT FOR PROFIT individual or group from releasing or building products (with allowance for whatever fiscal cost incured in manufacturing or transport), this not only releases holds on free software, it says that if I don't like the quality that MegaCorp's products have reputation for, I can recreate them and sell them to others at cost to force MegaCorp to produce better quality equipment.
This stimulates the economy if MegaCorp competes with not for profit groups, and also prevents MegaBiggerCorp from replicating MegaCorp's patented product. In the case that it does NOT stimulate the economy because MegaCorp whines like a bleeding whale even though any not for profit attempt at making anything MegaCorp mass produced will incur greater costs, it will benefit the customer in the end regardless. No more crap product, more money in pocket to give to someone who doesn't make crap.
How does this apply to software?.. How did the TCP stack in Linux become GPL?.. Someone re-built it based on the specifications used in the original BSD stack or another stack built on that stack. It's not that hard, is it?
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Mabye I'm just being optimistic.
Anti Microsoft Troll? That's every slashdotter. Try being creative.
instant -1 is odd.
Wow, the "Acura EL" thing is really stupid. Then again, mabye Civic's don't sell well in Canada, they do here. I can understand the use of "Lexus", "Acura", etc, because if you look at Ford, they have, what, 7 name properties for selling vehicles? Toyota and Lexus, Honda and Acura, and Nissan and Infinity isin't too bad compared to "Ford Volvo Aston Martin Mazda Lincon Mercury Jaguar Land Rover" Incorporated of America. But, hey, I regard my Acura as a Honda product, and if you have ever seen the post-sale stuff that Honda sends you, so do they.
:(
I will say that the RSX, though, has to be the quietest vehicle I've ever driven with exception to the Honda Civic HX with the Continiously Variable Transmission, it's quiet as hell. The RSX's motor has no low omnious growl, it sounds like a wind-up toy, but has ample power. If the sunroof and windows are closed, you don't even know you have an engine unless your over 3k rpm (which is hard to do in 5th gear, we're talking over 75 or 80mph). Something about having the power the RSX has + 30mpg on the freeway (I think Honda rates it at 33, epa says 30), is just killer. Too bad the Corvette beats the NSX in fuel efficency (by about 1mpg). i-VTEC is a nice technology.
I'm a car geek. I blame my coworkers.
Oh my, how deep in the land of OT we've gone, oh well..
See, when you pay $90k for a NSX, you're buying one of the few cars that keeps its value, and nearly increases as newer models come out that are more expensive. Why? Rarity. It's all about being rare in the US that makes the car valuable. The Corvette is *not* rare, it may be a better car in regards to preformance, but its underlying thought is not to be a comfortable sports car, it's to be a balls out sports car. NSX's are well balanced in terms of luxury, ride, power, etc. I've been inside a Corvette, it didn't make me go "oooh, ahhh" like the NSX does (as I was sitting in one while I was buying the RSX).
Honda's (and Acura's) in general have some of the highest residual values of any mass-produced car. There is a reason for that, and if you've ever really driven the shit out of any Honda/Acura product, you'd see why.
Next thing, the NSX is a sports car for people who have previously owned high-end Honda (Acura) vehicles and like the overall feel of them. It has alot of the same comforts, etc. Although it might not be the best bang for buck, it's definatley not junk for its price. If I was concerned with bang for buck, I'd of bought a Subaru Impreza WRX -- the problem is, it's 99% fast 1% sensible and 0% luxury/comfort. I just got the RSX, which is the "cheapest Acura", I have never been to any car dealer, including dealers for Cadillac/Mercedes, that has treated me with the respect I got from that dealer. From what I hear, the same is true elsewhere. Oh, and the overall quality of the car kicks ass too.
If your going to compare anything to the NSX you need to hit things in its price class. E.g. the new GT-40, the Viper, so on and so forth. The Viper is cheaper than both, actually. I'm an Honda (Acura) fan, and while I'd drive a NSX, it would be purely because of the rarity of the vehicle, and its 0-60 in 5.0 seconds, not because of top speed or cornering. Right now I drive a RSX, and I'm sure its FWD-ness kicks the shit out of the NSX on a really twisty road, because the cars are built for diffrent purposes. Anyhow, comparing the NSX to a Corvette is stupid, it's like comparing a Mercedes SL500 to a Ford Pinto.
:)
Oh, this is entirely offtopic, but as the trolls say, it's only karma.
Mozilla is *severly* faster. It just takes longer to load. I'm browsing slash with mozilla right now. Both browsers suck equally in one department, though, and that's plugin support. It's not that there aren't plugins, it's that they completly suck. Macromedia's flash plugin for OS X is slower than the Linux flash plugin. feh.
The stink about the credit card was mentioned before on slashdot. It was used to fund payroll, I'd link to the slashdot article but I think it was in comments to another Loki article.
what's really funny is that, when I saw the poll, I clicked everything *except* cool...
So it won't work? Damn Verizon and their vaporware! At least they figured out how to screw people out of real money with it.
Oh, that's rich. I know, let's lie to our customers then tell them that their tech staff is incompetent! When a company says something, they should do it.
:)
Let's apply this elsewhere. If a company says you will, at a minimum, receive a 20% raise after 1 year of employment, and then gives you a 5% raise and no chance to negoiate, you'd be mad, no?
So how is when Microsoft says it's OS will do 20% of the job any other OS should on the same hardware, and then does 5% of that 20%, people aren't allowed to get mad?
Sure, those are options, but functionality is more important to me. It's a consumer product that runs a UNIX off the shelf of your local CompUSA/Mac Store/whatever, how many other machines do that? Not only does it run one, it runs one that's fairly decent and speedy for what it does. And, it's not so much the 15" display as much as its the shape of the display. What good is that DVD player if you can't watch them wide screen? :) I wish $3k was nothing, though. Mabye I'll build a time machine with my non-existant millions to go back to 1999 and get rich quick..
You're wrong, if you use XFree or the XDarwin package, you do have to pick Gnome or KDE (or windowmaker, or blackbox..). You can run a X window manager along-side OS X's Finder/Aqua on the same display. It's called 'rootless' X.
I bought a PowerBook G4 to test OS X with. I haven't installed Debian on it yet. I hate OS 9 (and all previous incarnations of 'Classic') with a passion. I have since I first used them in High School (which is what drove me to PC's for so long). But, Apple's new OS and look/feel drove me to love the company. Also, from my understanding, as long as you have at least 256mb of ram, OS X should run better for you than Classic. So, my official position as of now is this; servers are for linux, workstations (including laptops) deserve to be a little nicer. What other machine can you avoid the plague of Windows and still be able to interact with coworkers who use Office, still get a UNIX enviroment I'm more comfortable with, etc? (Don't say Linux and StarOffice, if I felt like throwing a quad P4 machine with 2 gigs of at a word processor I'd do it, it's just stupid to do so.) Just my 2 cents.
Mabye they need their PC to randomly crash for that extra thrill?