Wow, I never heard anything about this... Not really much we can do but start developing some really hardcore sunscreen if that's the case, or put giant shields at a gravitationally neutral point in space between the earth and sun to diffuse the UV rays.
Or was that just you being colourful? A skilful way, to manoeuvre the discussion into an arguement while critisising his American measurement system.
By the way, why is it that when I buy a can of Boddingtons, it comes in an American pint sized aluminium can? I could be wrong on that, but it is one of my favourite beers, I just wish we could get a draught version in the pubs here. But then, I guess it's for the best, because my cheque book would really suffer if that were the case.
If I am wrong, (not sure, I'll have to analyse it next time I'm in the market)I'll make a note of it. But really, who cares if we have 16 oz. pints, It's not a badge of honour or anything. I really wouldn't mind having four extra ounces in my pints, especially at the pub. Just as long as I don't have to pay an extra pound for it. Because then I'd just have to spend my friday nights at the theatre instead watching movies(mouvies?).
How big do you guys think the Windows group is at Microsoft? We're not talking about 20 or 30 guys tinkering around with an operating system here. That MAY be the numbers for one of the large sub groups like Kernel or something. But there are scores of subgroups with subgroups of their own, many of which borrow guys from completely disparate groups that have nothing to do with windows per-se. These guys are very focused doing everything from security, to graphics, to media, to whatever....
1000Kloc is not that big a deal to these folks. And 1000Kloc where? Is that a total number of all the code in the various parts of the OS than need re-writing? If not, what part of the operating system? Which group? Does everyone split this load evenly? I doubt it.
Also mis-statements can easily be made in situations like this. If a few major parts of the operating system need perhaps a moderate percentage of the code re-worked, in a few large groups that make up 60%, some moronic spokesperson spits out 60% when it's actually like 10-15%.
We probably won't know the real situation till it's release party.
Uhm no... I think he's just worried more about the threat that's currently presenting itself, as opposed to the one that's not so much.
Microsoft is like the guy with a gun that you don't like, only he's in another town.
Sony is like the guy with a crossbow(not quite as scary), but he hates you, and he's in your front fucking yard.
I don't like M$ so much. But I don't hate them so friggin much, that I'm blind to some other mega-corp's BS slight of hand routine while we've all got our eyes on microsoft. Not to mention, that DRM crap was an unforgivable sin. I'll still buy a sony product if it's the best out there(don't see that much these days), but I won't buy anything that they put on optical media.... Ever. Which means no PS3 for me. And that suits me just fine.
Irrelevent, this drm doesn't prevent disc access, only resolution enhancements provided by the higher formats. So all the pretty cut-scenes in EA's lame ass games will suck. Is that a new thing?
Nobody will buy anything but Ultimate, and whatever will serve as their "media edition" anyway, if XP is any kind of indicator.
Before media PC was popular manufacturers shipped with OEM pro on high end machines and home on lower end machines. Rarely would anyone actually go to circuit city and buy a copy of home.
Now that media pcs are increasingly popular, and those are now the more expensive "higher end" home pc. Media edition is selling where Pro is not. Home is almost straight out of the picture.
The multi version crap is a marketing nightmare, and will ultimately cost MS money, as manufacturers will not build machines to their versioning model. Hence, without industry support, it'll be scrapped. They'll stop stamping cd's for the stripped down versions of vista after a year or two.
Buy at least one of each however, as in 10 years it may be worth as much as a MS BOB cd, or Seattle DOS disk to collectors.
What happens to all this talent and product they are absorbing by sucking up all these small (and large)companies? Surely someone at symantec knew this was silly.
Why doesn't symantec sell any of @stakes products? What are those guys doing now?
Seems like a lot of things they acquire just stagnate or simply cease to exist alltogether.
I'm actually afraid that that might happen with the veritas purchase.
Don't get me wrong they are on the ball with a lot of stuff, but this kind of thing really gets you scratching your head.
I think it was willy wonka that said "you should never doubt what nobody is sure about"
Also, NASA found water with spectrometry 3 years ago.. errr. Scuse me, they found vast quantities of HYDROGEN spread out over large areas cohesively...meh, they found water.
This is not news. ESA just following behind NASA and seeing what it looks like with RADAR instead of spectrometer. They could have done that by scanning earth and saved a bunch of money it seems, but whatever. Let them eat cake.
Water-ice has been found in vast quantities just below the surface across great swathes of the planet Mars.
Ice shows up blue on the gamma-ray spectrometer
The finding by the American space agency (Nasa) is undoubtedly one of the most important made about the Red Planet
Sounds to me like they found the spectrometry signature of oxygen as well as hydrogen, in approximately a 1-to-2 ratio. They seem pretty dang sure of themselves in that article. I mean, I can't think of anything else that would give that strong of a hydrogen signature evenly over such a large area, even if that is all that they found.
I thought someone finally combined a tv with a beer dispenser, and I was like, "EUREKA!", but no.... I guess I'll just have to wait till Adam corolla starts a line of products.
If someone really wanted to hurt them(sony, nintendo, listen up).
They'd buy like 10,000 of these, and pay some heavies to get linux running on them. Then sell them on some auction site, or craigslist, "pre-hacked for your convenience." for $20 over retail a piece. In this way, profiting off an xbox console that can't be used to play the games microsoft is gambling on to make them their money.
All that loss, no possibility of regaining it.
Like, uh.. large parts of the east coast?
Please don't take this as a flame, because it's not, just an observation.
All due respect, but, like most folks who've taken a few short looks at libertarianism, and spend the rest of the energy they relegate to political thought on the intricacies of the spectacle being put on for us by the Democrats and Republicans, you don't seem to have full understanding of the libertarian perspective.
What you've posted is kind of an over simplification of Libertarian values. Libertarians aren't completely anti-govt. That would be Anarchism.
They just believe the govt. should stick with what the govt. does best. Fight our wars, and deliver our mail. I don't know a single libertarian that has a problem with road developement, however, most, like myself probably think that's a job more suited to the states, than the federal government. As are most issues they tend to stick their noses in. For example, if a few states want to legalize marijuana for medical purposes, what business is it of uncle sams? Why do they feel a need to remind people that it doesn't protect them from federal laws?
I agree the original poster's comments about him looking like a raving lunatic, however (even though he may not be). People with lazy eyes shouldn't pose for pictures with guns.
I think I would prefer it if they sold it for full price and included a couple extra controllers and games for free. I have no problem with the "first ones free" marketing tactic. But in terms of value, if they are willing to take a loss, I think i'd get a lot more out of the equivalent amount of loss in free games and playability accessories, than out of the amount they knock off the box iteslf.
tend to think Sony still has significant advantage over Microsoft, thanks to economies of scale, they make many other consumer electronics items and can combine channels, where Microsoft will be selling this one thing.
Yeah, I don't know how many people trust them anymore, I know I'm not gonna buy the new PS. I'm an xbox convert, thanks to that whole rootkit thing. I just can't buy thier products anymore.
Even if it can't fully compete with the commercial ones, the underlying fact that it's free, and you can still with a little added effort do most things with GIMP that you can do with other editing packages, kind of takes it out of the "rot in hell" category, for me anyway.
programmed to stop reproducing after 2 generations
That's the gitcher right there, they'd better get that part right, and make sure to decrement the generational count in successive generations, or we could have a pretty serious situation on our hands.
I'm sure everyone here has heard about the plausible, but not probable grey goo scenario?
I guess third time is not a charm, pretty good college try for their fledgeling space agency. I hope they do better on their ramp up to build a base on the moon by 2025. These kinds of problems on a mission like that could spell disaster. I wonder if anyone over there is thinking, "Maybe we should just stick with robots."
The manufacturer is irrelevent, because no matter what else the box promises, once you're tired of playing the games it'll end up in the back of the closet, covered with hardened Cheeto grease, dust, a few dents from being kicked when things didn't go quite to plan in a game and utterly forgotten until Garage Sale Season.
Or they will jump on board with whatever group decides to start a movement to install linux on it.(which won't take long at all)
I'm assuming the identifier would be tied to CC information for ordering movies, would remove parental locks automatically, would change your favorites, so on, and so on.
Too many questions left unanswered about RFI. We don't even know how secure an RFID system would be.
I don't know of many people that will be all fired up to get RFID tags embedded under their skin. I know I wouldn't. And barring that, physical security would be fairly easy to compromise. And if my kid gets ahold of my tag and orders movies and unlocks the playboy channel, the whole thing is pointless. Not to mention, at some point, even if everyone signed off on getting them implanted, some creative soul will figure out how to duplicate signals.
Point is, there are a lot of kinks to work out in the whole RFID stuff before it gets to a point that it makes sense to go to market, or even start designing things like this. Chances are your designs will be out of date by the time they are.
Seems to me it would make more sense to embed a biometric(fingerprint) scanner into a remote. I don't know. Perhaps the power consumption would be too much. Maybe someone with a better knowlege of electronics can answer that question.
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Wow, I never heard anything about this... Not really much we can do but start developing some really hardcore sunscreen if that's the case, or put giant shields at a gravitationally neutral point in space between the earth and sun to diffuse the UV rays.
So umm, it IS five quarts? (American ones)
Or was that just you being colourful? A skilful way, to manoeuvre the discussion into an arguement while critisising his American measurement system.
By the way, why is it that when I buy a can of Boddingtons, it comes in an American pint sized aluminium can? I could be wrong on that, but it is one of my favourite beers, I just wish we could get a draught version in the pubs here. But then, I guess it's for the best, because my cheque book would really suffer if that were the case.
If I am wrong, (not sure, I'll have to analyse it next time I'm in the market)I'll make a note of it. But really, who cares if we have 16 oz. pints, It's not a badge of honour or anything. I really wouldn't mind having four extra ounces in my pints, especially at the pub. Just as long as I don't have to pay an extra pound for it. Because then I'd just have to spend my friday nights at the theatre instead watching movies(mouvies?).
How big do you guys think the Windows group is at Microsoft? We're not talking about 20 or 30 guys tinkering around with an operating system here. That MAY be the numbers for one of the large sub groups like Kernel or something. But there are scores of subgroups with subgroups of their own, many of which borrow guys from completely disparate groups that have nothing to do with windows per-se. These guys are very focused doing everything from security, to graphics, to media, to whatever.... 1000Kloc is not that big a deal to these folks. And 1000Kloc where? Is that a total number of all the code in the various parts of the OS than need re-writing? If not, what part of the operating system? Which group? Does everyone split this load evenly? I doubt it. Also mis-statements can easily be made in situations like this. If a few major parts of the operating system need perhaps a moderate percentage of the code re-worked, in a few large groups that make up 60%, some moronic spokesperson spits out 60% when it's actually like 10-15%. We probably won't know the real situation till it's release party.
Since when were blimps NOT arial vehicles?
Uhm no... I think he's just worried more about the threat that's currently presenting itself, as opposed to the one that's not so much.
Microsoft is like the guy with a gun that you don't like, only he's in another town.
Sony is like the guy with a crossbow(not quite as scary), but he hates you, and he's in your front fucking yard.
I don't like M$ so much. But I don't hate them so friggin much, that I'm blind to some other mega-corp's BS slight of hand routine while we've all got our eyes on microsoft. Not to mention, that DRM crap was an unforgivable sin. I'll still buy a sony product if it's the best out there(don't see that much these days), but I won't buy anything that they put on optical media.... Ever. Which means no PS3 for me. And that suits me just fine.
So I pretty much don't need any sony I guess.
Irrelevent, this drm doesn't prevent disc access, only resolution enhancements provided by the higher formats. So all the pretty cut-scenes in EA's lame ass games will suck. Is that a new thing?
Nobody will buy anything but Ultimate, and whatever will serve as their "media edition" anyway, if XP is any kind of indicator.
Before media PC was popular manufacturers shipped with OEM pro on high end machines and home on lower end machines. Rarely would anyone actually go to circuit city and buy a copy of home.
Now that media pcs are increasingly popular, and those are now the more expensive "higher end" home pc. Media edition is selling where Pro is not. Home is almost straight out of the picture.
The multi version crap is a marketing nightmare, and will ultimately cost MS money, as manufacturers will not build machines to their versioning model. Hence, without industry support, it'll be scrapped. They'll stop stamping cd's for the stripped down versions of vista after a year or two.
Buy at least one of each however, as in 10 years it may be worth as much as a MS BOB cd, or Seattle DOS disk to collectors.
What happens to all this talent and product they are absorbing by sucking up all these small (and large)companies? Surely someone at symantec knew this was silly.
Why doesn't symantec sell any of @stakes products? What are those guys doing now?
Seems like a lot of things they acquire just stagnate or simply cease to exist alltogether.
I'm actually afraid that that might happen with the veritas purchase.
Don't get me wrong they are on the ball with a lot of stuff, but this kind of thing really gets you scratching your head.
I could only to the tenth pyramid most of the time. Damn springy snake things...
I think it was willy wonka that said "you should never doubt what nobody is sure about" Also, NASA found water with spectrometry 3 years ago.. errr. Scuse me, they found vast quantities of HYDROGEN spread out over large areas cohesively...meh, they found water. This is not news. ESA just following behind NASA and seeing what it looks like with RADAR instead of spectrometer. They could have done that by scanning earth and saved a bunch of money it seems, but whatever. Let them eat cake.
Did you read his article?
Water-ice has been found in vast quantities just below the surface across great swathes of the planet Mars.
Ice shows up blue on the gamma-ray spectrometer The finding by the American space agency (Nasa) is undoubtedly one of the most important made about the Red Planet
Sounds to me like they found the spectrometry signature of oxygen as well as hydrogen, in approximately a 1-to-2 ratio. They seem pretty dang sure of themselves in that article. I mean, I can't think of anything else that would give that strong of a hydrogen signature evenly over such a large area, even if that is all that they found.
I thought someone finally combined a tv with a beer dispenser, and I was like, "EUREKA!", but no.... I guess I'll just have to wait till Adam corolla starts a line of products.
Damn.
No, your just not participating.
If someone really wanted to hurt them(sony, nintendo, listen up).
They'd buy like 10,000 of these, and pay some heavies to get linux running on them. Then sell them on some auction site, or craigslist, "pre-hacked for your convenience." for $20 over retail a piece. In this way, profiting off an xbox console that can't be used to play the games microsoft is gambling on to make them their money. All that loss, no possibility of regaining it.
they'd be toll roads up to your driveway.
Like, uh.. large parts of the east coast? Please don't take this as a flame, because it's not, just an observation.
All due respect, but, like most folks who've taken a few short looks at libertarianism, and spend the rest of the energy they relegate to political thought on the intricacies of the spectacle being put on for us by the Democrats and Republicans, you don't seem to have full understanding of the libertarian perspective.
What you've posted is kind of an over simplification of Libertarian values. Libertarians aren't completely anti-govt. That would be Anarchism.
They just believe the govt. should stick with what the govt. does best. Fight our wars, and deliver our mail. I don't know a single libertarian that has a problem with road developement, however, most, like myself probably think that's a job more suited to the states, than the federal government. As are most issues they tend to stick their noses in. For example, if a few states want to legalize marijuana for medical purposes, what business is it of uncle sams? Why do they feel a need to remind people that it doesn't protect them from federal laws?
I agree the original poster's comments about him looking like a raving lunatic, however (even though he may not be). People with lazy eyes shouldn't pose for pictures with guns.
Priceless, +5 for funny. Sorry I don't have any points.
I think I would prefer it if they sold it for full price and included a couple extra controllers and games for free. I have no problem with the "first ones free" marketing tactic. But in terms of value, if they are willing to take a loss, I think i'd get a lot more out of the equivalent amount of loss in free games and playability accessories, than out of the amount they knock off the box iteslf.
tend to think Sony still has significant advantage over Microsoft, thanks to economies of scale, they make many other consumer electronics items and can combine channels, where Microsoft will be selling this one thing.
Yeah, I don't know how many people trust them anymore, I know I'm not gonna buy the new PS. I'm an xbox convert, thanks to that whole rootkit thing. I just can't buy thier products anymore.
Even if it can't fully compete with the commercial ones, the underlying fact that it's free, and you can still with a little added effort do most things with GIMP that you can do with other editing packages, kind of takes it out of the "rot in hell" category, for me anyway.
From your article:
programmed to stop reproducing after 2 generations
That's the gitcher right there, they'd better get that part right, and make sure to decrement the generational count in successive generations, or we could have a pretty serious situation on our hands.
I'm sure everyone here has heard about the plausible, but not probable grey goo scenario?
The last picture sent to earth before they lost communication indicated a new species of life that lives in the vacuum of space.
I guess third time is not a charm, pretty good college try for their fledgeling space agency. I hope they do better on their ramp up to build a base on the moon by 2025. These kinds of problems on a mission like that could spell disaster. I wonder if anyone over there is thinking, "Maybe we should just stick with robots."
Gotta love it. Almost as cool as the captain crunch whistle.... well, not quite.
The manufacturer is irrelevent, because no matter what else the box promises, once you're tired of playing the games it'll end up in the back of the closet, covered with hardened Cheeto grease, dust, a few dents from being kicked when things didn't go quite to plan in a game and utterly forgotten until Garage Sale Season.
Or they will jump on board with whatever group decides to start a movement to install linux on it.(which won't take long at all)
I'm assuming the identifier would be tied to CC information for ordering movies, would remove parental locks automatically, would change your favorites, so on, and so on.
Too many questions left unanswered about RFI. We don't even know how secure an RFID system would be.
I don't know of many people that will be all fired up to get RFID tags embedded under their skin. I know I wouldn't. And barring that, physical security would be fairly easy to compromise. And if my kid gets ahold of my tag and orders movies and unlocks the playboy channel, the whole thing is pointless. Not to mention, at some point, even if everyone signed off on getting them implanted, some creative soul will figure out how to duplicate signals. Point is, there are a lot of kinks to work out in the whole RFID stuff before it gets to a point that it makes sense to go to market, or even start designing things like this. Chances are your designs will be out of date by the time they are. Seems to me it would make more sense to embed a biometric(fingerprint) scanner into a remote. I don't know. Perhaps the power consumption would be too much. Maybe someone with a better knowlege of electronics can answer that question.
You are probably correct, grammar has never been my strong point. However, I do take a bit more time on my resumes than I do on my /. posts.
:)
Now I'm all self-conscious. Great!