And today he's considered a risk to himself and others for that, whereas he's probably still less stinky than a cowboy a few days into a cattle drive...
There's the flipside of this trend: maybe he's a bigger risk than a dirty cowboy. We've lost plenty of our defenses living in such high standards as today.
Bathing and being squeeky clean all the time, means natural selection can't pick those with natural organism defenses against such germs, since we never come in contact.
At the same time, antibiotics and certain cleaning solutions breed super resistant germs. In the rare cases we come into contact with those, we die gruesome and quick deaths (this is happening more often in hospitals where everything is disinfected all the time - kills most germs, but those that survive, you better not have anything to do with).
Sounds to me like Nintendo might be a bit overvalued. The Wii is great, but the games have just been trickling out for it and people are going to lose some of their enthusiasm for the system before too long. I'm not an investor, but I can't see how they can maintain that sort of overinflated valuation for too long.
The funny thing is, they've survived thus far on classics such as mario, zelda and so on. Why would you think they suddenly need a river of games to keep gamers interested.
It's not about quantity here. PS3 is rolling out 380 games by end of next year (they say). How many of those will really matter.
That said, with the number of sales going into the Wii right now, I can see this sparkling some newfound interest in the platofrm in the biggest companies in the market (such as EA).
Now of course, I agree Nintendo is overvalued right now. Somewhat. But I think Wii will do just fine at the same time.
Go to http://silverlight.net/ [silverlight.net] and click the "Silverlight in action" link on the right hand side. Then tell me that Flash still has them beat;)
Name one thing you saw there that Flash can't do, and I'll show you Flash doing it.
There's too much disinformation about Flash's feature set, but trust me, as a long time Flash dev, I know better.
Now that Moonlight is finished Miguel and his team should, having listened to customer demand (I believe that's the excuse Microsoft always uses), build some Free extensions on to Microsoft's work.
You gotta be kidding me. And who is supposed to develop for those extensions and *using what*.
The development IDE's (Visual Studio and Blend) for Silverlight are running on Windows, and Microsoft gets to decide what they support. I don't see Miguel suddenly writing plugins for Visual Studio on Windows.
There isn't anything coming even close on Linux about.NET/XAML development like that combo right there.
Microsoft's software runs on 90% of the computers out there, including many huge enterprises. They *do* get customer demand for various features all the time, they don't have to make it up as an excuse. Now, of course they try to differentiate from theijr competitors to build more value, but Mono/Moonlight is simply not in the position to dictate features and the suggestion is just funny to think about.
I'd argue that even as our technology made things faster and easier we simply responded, in many cases, to increasing standards.
It used to be that clothes were worn for multiple days in a row, baths were annual events.
Today many people shudder at the thought of wearing the same outer clothing two days without washing, while living in air conditioned buildings and still using anti-persperants.
But.. I don't get it, we prefer annual baths or? Let me know, I'm confused here.
Because just right in the previous article about gaming addiction, a guy was telling us he wouldn't bath, sleep or eat, to play games.
All of this technology is suppose to make our lives easier. It used to be all one had to do was go out and hunt for some food a couple ours a day (if even that). Nowadays, we work 8+ hours a day just to make ends meet.
Poor you. I bet it was easier before technology came into our lives, where you, your wife and kids would mine coals 12+ hours a day just to get you some food.
Yea, no cable TV and internet and games and so on.
Of course technology won't result in suddenly vast amounts of free time in the majority of people. Why? Don't they allow you to do more than people could've possibly imagined years ago? Oh yea, they do. But people use this to do more work in the same time, not the same amount of work in less time. If you don't: someone else will, and you'll be unemployed.
It's not technology's fault at all, just pure economics.
It took me about 6 attempts at that before I worked out you meant to type "but you". And the proximity of eating and bread just made it harder.
yea, hehe,.. well I wanted to type "yet", but wrote "eat"... You know, just like they say people read whole words and not separate letters, I sometimes (not too frequently, but still do it) typo entire similar words, when typing fast.
well maybe contact [imdb.com], but contact comes second in my mind to blade runner
Contact is definitely first in my list, because of the "my daddy is an alien" and "your mind can't bear how we actually look" cop-out ending.
You gotta be very brave to masterfully build suspence for hours in this otherwise great movie, and end with daddy talking condescendingly to the main protagonist "honey, you're too stupid to even have a look at me".
I mean, what the hell could they be? Really ugly fat green gelatinous blob monster? Seen that. Gaseous purple clouds? Seen that, too (although the comic version looks kinda different).
I mean WHAT, what the hell did it look like? Maybe they all looked like middle-aged average dads and this is why all the lies. Outer space jerks.
This will give MS more of a foothold in the market. They wanted this to happen! Now flash isn't the only cross platform game in town so now the marketing guys will be able to say YES IT WILL WORK ON LINUX so you dont just need to use flash!
They would've ported it to Linux anyway. Now they just don't have to. Maybe saved Microsoft some bucks, that's all there is.
But the implementation is open source. You wouldn't think Miguel would port the entirety of.NET but not port Silverlight (a proper subset of.NET) now, did you?
Honestly if all that it takes to make Silverlight better than Flash was a Linux version, Flash would be in a serious trouble. Flash however has a lot more going on.
Strictly speaking, Linux developers copied Microsoft's copy of a product acquired by Adobe from FutureSplash via Macromedia.
That's not strict at all.
Microsoft used their copy of Java (.NET) to create a copy of FutureSplash which Adobe acquired via Macromedia, and Linux developers used their copy of Microsoft's copy of Java (.NET) to create a copy of the copy of FutureSplash.
But just preemptively want to explain why is the development timeframe difference between MS and Linux (because I see stupid uninformed posts coming, it's Slashdot after all).
What these guys did, is take Mono (for Linux), and make a standalone subset of it, Silverlight (for Linux). So there aren't huge surprises here.
On the Microsoft side of the story, it's different: they had to first sit down and figure out what the subset will be. Then they had to count the bytes (literally) of every feature they include, since for proper mainstream deployment, the plugin should be as small as possible (I won't be surprised if Moonlight is not something like twice the size of Silverlight or more).
Then they had to make it work on Mac, where they didn't have a port of.NET before, or port of Avalon or anything at all.
Zonk just posted a bad article again, and the only people who care about bad articles are the ones who complain about bad articles in the comments. Everyone else uses the articles as they are--launchpads for discussion. But then you'd realize that Slashdotters actually have their own opinions, unlike you trolling fucks.
Who bumbed the article up in the Firehose? Slashdotters. Idiot.
Of course that when the first comments show up, that the summary is wrong, everyone just chimed in to support the "winner". Happens every time, even when the "winner" was actually wrong (but sounded right).
I admit it. I'm addicted to gaming. There's nothing I'd rather be doing. [...] Do I think I need help? No.
Woooohoooo! Denial, laugh at him! Laugh at the addict! Huhuhu...
Ok I'm sorry about this post but I just can't get the day pass by without insulting someone on the Internet. I don't know what's with that, it's like a little personal mania. Makes me feel better.
And the post number. I had 2300 posts. No: no that they're many posts, but the "23". Anyone ever noticed how everywhere we turn to there's always 23 chasing us? When you notice it, you need to disrupt it as quick as possible, you JUST HAVE TO. So I wanted to make them 2301 posts.
Sometimes I think about this so much I need to drink myself to sleep. Which reminds me, I'm out of smokes. I need to get some on the way back from the casino, but the problem is I never walk out of the casino before I've spent all my money and bet the wife, house and the dog.
Experts oppose "classifying-gaming-addiction" is a mental disorder? Because I can't agree more, and no wonder experts oppose that (it'll make them all with mental disorders).
I mean what's with the "xxx addiction" classification addiction. It's the very same psychological addiction - repetetive actions that you get used to and are the first escape place when you have the smallest problem at all.
For example: you have an exam tommorow and you gotta study, and that makes you nervous. So what do you? Study? NO, your're nervous,a nd when you're nervous you go play games. That's your addiction. You don't work, study, go out, you may even consider eating, drinking and sleeping too hard, so you just need to play some more to "get ready" for that. To sleep.
But the experts aren't less ridiculous. Because how is gaming addiction different from browsing addiction, or by extension even gambling addiction. Why do we need separate names for the exact same thing.
It's getting funny just like patents, where context is where it's all about as of late. "Patent describing a button... ON TEH INTERNET". That makes it a totally different button. "Patent descirbing a button.. ON A MOBILE DEVICE!", and the next one is "Patent describing a button... ON A *PINK*/*BROWN* MOBILE DEVICE!".
I think it's pretty obvious that (for the desktop at least) automatic over and under clocking are going to be the norm. All you're buying is a minimum performance guarantee from Intel or AMD, your BIOS/software will do the rest.
The motherboard clocking is just a gimmick which could actually damage your hardware if used in excess. It's not a trend, it's just fighting for attention in a crowded market.
As for the graphics chips: When a chip has been tested to run at a certain clock rate and it runs fine, then running at that clock rate can't possibly be "overclocking". It's the max certified clock rate, at which your warranty isn't void and the manufacturer guarantees proper behavior of the hardware.
We're really talking adaptive underclocking, to keep wear/power down when you don't use the extra cycles. For that, as I mentioned in my original post, I agree it's a trend for all sorts of devices.
Do people still overclock? It is such a focus on this in online hardware reviews, but none of the people I know still do it, even the gamers. Power consumption, heat and noise is much more important to them. Low sample number to draw any significant conclusions from, I know, but still... Perhaps the market has moved on a bit?
You're right, the hardware reviewers are getting out of date with their metrics.
Overclocking a modern CPU gets you mostly nothing nowadays. Gamers can still be found overclocking their *graphics cards*, but overclocking their Core 2 Duo's wouldn't really change anything for them (and I'm sure we'll reach a point where messing with your graphics card will be just as unnecessary as it is today with CPU-s, just this industry is younger than generic cpu).
I mean, on laptops one of the features is dynamically underclocking the CPU for less power usage. It's the kind of market we're in.
Multi-cores are lucrative area for servers, where no CPU amount is enough, and less so for desktops.
No wonder the companies are concentrating on features such as power usage: there's basically nothing else they can impress us with (and low power usage allows smaller more mobile devices with longer battery life etc.).
This is typical for cult-like psychology. You want to convince everyone that your technology/company/whatever is the best thing since sliced bread, eat you (consciously or not) attack any attempt from "the rest of the world" to adopt said technology.
A big part of the value of being in a cult is that it's exclusive. We're the smart guys, the "guys who get it". The rest of the world doesn't get it, and their attempts to "get it" are laughable and worthy of mocking at.
Except of course, the biggest fanatics usually know less on the matter than people with more objective opinions.
Of course, editing would kill the whole karma system unless there were something like a 'see original post' link on edited posts.
It wouldn't kill anything. First there could always be the "see previous revision" buttons, and second the system could only accept edits that ammend to the original (not replacing it) and accept, say 7-8% changes on the original (for the typos).
It could also display the edits in a different color, thus putting it in plain sight what was edited.
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Personally, I'm a fan of Intelligent Design combined with evolutionary and old Earth science
At the same time? You should definitely share how those could co-exist together.
No wait, I'm afraid it may blow my mind.
And today he's considered a risk to himself and others for that, whereas he's probably still less stinky than a cowboy a few days into a cattle drive...
There's the flipside of this trend: maybe he's a bigger risk than a dirty cowboy. We've lost plenty of our defenses living in such high standards as today.
Bathing and being squeeky clean all the time, means natural selection can't pick those with natural organism defenses against such germs, since we never come in contact.
At the same time, antibiotics and certain cleaning solutions breed super resistant germs. In the rare cases we come into contact with those, we die gruesome and quick deaths (this is happening more often in hospitals where everything is disinfected all the time - kills most germs, but those that survive, you better not have anything to do with).
Sounds to me like Nintendo might be a bit overvalued. The Wii is great, but the games have just been trickling out for it and people are going to lose some of their enthusiasm for the system before too long. I'm not an investor, but I can't see how they can maintain that sort of overinflated valuation for too long.
The funny thing is, they've survived thus far on classics such as mario, zelda and so on. Why would you think they suddenly need a river of games to keep gamers interested.
It's not about quantity here. PS3 is rolling out 380 games by end of next year (they say). How many of those will really matter.
That said, with the number of sales going into the Wii right now, I can see this sparkling some newfound interest in the platofrm in the biggest companies in the market (such as EA).
Now of course, I agree Nintendo is overvalued right now. Somewhat. But I think Wii will do just fine at the same time.
Go to http://silverlight.net/ [silverlight.net] and click the "Silverlight in action" link on the right hand side. Then tell me that Flash still has them beat ;)
Name one thing you saw there that Flash can't do, and I'll show you Flash doing it.
There's too much disinformation about Flash's feature set, but trust me, as a long time Flash dev, I know better.
Now that Moonlight is finished Miguel and his team should, having listened to customer demand (I believe that's the excuse Microsoft always uses), build some Free extensions on to Microsoft's work.
.NET/XAML development like that combo right there.
You gotta be kidding me. And who is supposed to develop for those extensions and *using what*.
The development IDE's (Visual Studio and Blend) for Silverlight are running on Windows, and Microsoft gets to decide what they support. I don't see Miguel suddenly writing plugins for Visual Studio on Windows.
There isn't anything coming even close on Linux about
Microsoft's software runs on 90% of the computers out there, including many huge enterprises. They *do* get customer demand for various features all the time, they don't have to make it up as an excuse. Now, of course they try to differentiate from theijr competitors to build more value, but Mono/Moonlight is simply not in the position to dictate features and the suggestion is just funny to think about.
I'd argue that even as our technology made things faster and easier we simply responded, in many cases, to increasing standards.
It used to be that clothes were worn for multiple days in a row, baths were annual events.
Today many people shudder at the thought of wearing the same outer clothing two days without washing, while living in air conditioned buildings and still using anti-persperants.
But.. I don't get it, we prefer annual baths or? Let me know, I'm confused here.
Because just right in the previous article about gaming addiction, a guy was telling us he wouldn't bath, sleep or eat, to play games.
All of this technology is suppose to make our lives easier. It used to be all one had to do was go out and hunt for some food a couple ours a day (if even that). Nowadays, we work 8+ hours a day just to make ends meet.
Poor you. I bet it was easier before technology came into our lives, where you, your wife and kids would mine coals 12+ hours a day just to get you some food.
Yea, no cable TV and internet and games and so on.
Of course technology won't result in suddenly vast amounts of free time in the majority of people. Why? Don't they allow you to do more than people could've possibly imagined years ago? Oh yea, they do. But people use this to do more work in the same time, not the same amount of work in less time. If you don't: someone else will, and you'll be unemployed.
It's not technology's fault at all, just pure economics.
There's a bunch of book authors ending up with a review here and they're all writing about the same thing:
"Are things the way they seem, or how about my incredible spin on everything with catastrophic consequences?"
And they always turn out wrong.
It took me about 6 attempts at that before I worked out you meant to type "but you". And the proximity of eating and bread just made it harder.
.. well I wanted to type "yet", but wrote "eat"... You know, just like they say people read whole words and not separate letters, I sometimes (not too frequently, but still do it) typo entire similar words, when typing fast.
yea, hehe,
Funny, right.
well maybe contact [imdb.com], but contact comes second in my mind to blade runner
Contact is definitely first in my list, because of the "my daddy is an alien" and "your mind can't bear how we actually look" cop-out ending.
You gotta be very brave to masterfully build suspence for hours in this otherwise great movie, and end with daddy talking condescendingly to the main protagonist "honey, you're too stupid to even have a look at me".
I mean, what the hell could they be? Really ugly fat green gelatinous blob monster? Seen that. Gaseous purple clouds? Seen that, too (although the comic version looks kinda different).
I mean WHAT, what the hell did it look like? Maybe they all looked like middle-aged average dads and this is why all the lies. Outer space jerks.
This will give MS more of a foothold in the market. They wanted this to happen! Now flash isn't the only cross platform game in town so now the marketing guys will be able to say YES IT WILL WORK ON LINUX so you dont just need to use flash!
.NET but not port Silverlight (a proper subset of .NET) now, did you?
They would've ported it to Linux anyway. Now they just don't have to. Maybe saved Microsoft some bucks, that's all there is.
But the implementation is open source. You wouldn't think Miguel would port the entirety of
Honestly if all that it takes to make Silverlight better than Flash was a Linux version, Flash would be in a serious trouble. Flash however has a lot more going on.
Strictly speaking, Linux developers copied Microsoft's copy of a product acquired by Adobe from FutureSplash via Macromedia.
That's not strict at all.
Microsoft used their copy of Java (.NET) to create a copy of FutureSplash which Adobe acquired via Macromedia, and Linux developers used their copy of Microsoft's copy of Java (.NET) to create a copy of the copy of FutureSplash.
Great achievement, and I say good job!
.NET before, or port of Avalon or anything at all.
But just preemptively want to explain why is the development timeframe difference between MS and Linux (because I see stupid uninformed posts coming, it's Slashdot after all).
What these guys did, is take Mono (for Linux), and make a standalone subset of it, Silverlight (for Linux). So there aren't huge surprises here.
On the Microsoft side of the story, it's different: they had to first sit down and figure out what the subset will be. Then they had to count the bytes (literally) of every feature they include, since for proper mainstream deployment, the plugin should be as small as possible (I won't be surprised if Moonlight is not something like twice the size of Silverlight or more).
Then they had to make it work on Mac, where they didn't have a port of
Zonk just posted a bad article again, and the only people who care about bad articles are the ones who complain about bad articles in the comments. Everyone else uses the articles as they are--launchpads for discussion. But then you'd realize that Slashdotters actually have their own opinions, unlike you trolling fucks.
Who bumbed the article up in the Firehose? Slashdotters. Idiot.
Of course that when the first comments show up, that the summary is wrong, everyone just chimed in to support the "winner". Happens every time, even when the "winner" was actually wrong (but sounded right).
I admit it. I'm addicted to gaming. There's nothing I'd rather be doing. [...] Do I think I need help? No.
Woooohoooo! Denial, laugh at him! Laugh at the addict! Huhuhu...
Ok I'm sorry about this post but I just can't get the day pass by without insulting someone on the Internet. I don't know what's with that, it's like a little personal mania. Makes me feel better.
And the post number. I had 2300 posts. No: no that they're many posts, but the "23". Anyone ever noticed how everywhere we turn to there's always 23 chasing us? When you notice it, you need to disrupt it as quick as possible, you JUST HAVE TO. So I wanted to make them 2301 posts.
Sometimes I think about this so much I need to drink myself to sleep. Which reminds me, I'm out of smokes. I need to get some on the way back from the casino, but the problem is I never walk out of the casino before I've spent all my money and bet the wife, house and the dog.
Experts oppose "classifying-gaming-addiction" is a mental disorder? Because I can't agree more, and no wonder experts oppose that (it'll make them all with mental disorders).
I mean what's with the "xxx addiction" classification addiction. It's the very same psychological addiction - repetetive actions that you get used to and are the first escape place when you have the smallest problem at all.
For example: you have an exam tommorow and you gotta study, and that makes you nervous. So what do you? Study? NO, your're nervous,a nd when you're nervous you go play games. That's your addiction. You don't work, study, go out, you may even consider eating, drinking and sleeping too hard, so you just need to play some more to "get ready" for that. To sleep.
But the experts aren't less ridiculous. Because how is gaming addiction different from browsing addiction, or by extension even gambling addiction. Why do we need separate names for the exact same thing.
It's getting funny just like patents, where context is where it's all about as of late. "Patent describing a button... ON TEH INTERNET". That makes it a totally different button. "Patent descirbing a button.. ON A MOBILE DEVICE!", and the next one is "Patent describing a button... ON A *PINK*/*BROWN* MOBILE DEVICE!".
Regards, a Slashdot addict.
Of course people overclock. instead of buying the 2.6GHz Core 2 Duo, you just buy the 1.8GHz version and pay half the money ($160 insted of $320).
.. and actually needed 1.0 GHz most of the time).
Now just overclock it back up to 2.6GHz.
All right, and what can you do with a 2.6 GHz Core 2 Duo that you can't with 1.8 GHz?
I get the "half the money part", but I don't get "back to 2.6 GHz part".
A) It just makes you feel smart (jeesh, I tricked Intel!).
B) Makes you feel you get a better deal (hahah! I bought 1.8 GHz CPU and run it at 2.6 GHZ!
C) It's about your friends ("oh of course I bought the 2.6 GHz version. I'm not POOR or something, right.. huh").
I think it's pretty obvious that (for the desktop at least) automatic over and under clocking are going to be the norm. All you're buying is a minimum performance guarantee from Intel or AMD, your BIOS/software will do the rest.
The motherboard clocking is just a gimmick which could actually damage your hardware if used in excess. It's not a trend, it's just fighting for attention in a crowded market.
As for the graphics chips: When a chip has been tested to run at a certain clock rate and it runs fine, then running at that clock rate can't possibly be "overclocking". It's the max certified clock rate, at which your warranty isn't void and the manufacturer guarantees proper behavior of the hardware.
We're really talking adaptive underclocking, to keep wear/power down when you don't use the extra cycles. For that, as I mentioned in my original post, I agree it's a trend for all sorts of devices.
Do people still overclock? It is such a focus on this in online hardware reviews, but none of the people I know still do it, even the gamers. Power consumption, heat and noise is much more important to them. Low sample number to draw any significant conclusions from, I know, but still... Perhaps the market has moved on a bit?
You're right, the hardware reviewers are getting out of date with their metrics.
Overclocking a modern CPU gets you mostly nothing nowadays. Gamers can still be found overclocking their *graphics cards*, but overclocking their Core 2 Duo's wouldn't really change anything for them (and I'm sure we'll reach a point where messing with your graphics card will be just as unnecessary as it is today with CPU-s, just this industry is younger than generic cpu).
I mean, on laptops one of the features is dynamically underclocking the CPU for less power usage. It's the kind of market we're in.
Multi-cores are lucrative area for servers, where no CPU amount is enough, and less so for desktops.
No wonder the companies are concentrating on features such as power usage: there's basically nothing else they can impress us with (and low power usage allows smaller more mobile devices with longer battery life etc.).
This is typical for cult-like psychology. You want to convince everyone that your technology/company/whatever is the best thing since sliced bread, eat you (consciously or not) attack any attempt from "the rest of the world" to adopt said technology.
A big part of the value of being in a cult is that it's exclusive. We're the smart guys, the "guys who get it". The rest of the world doesn't get it, and their attempts to "get it" are laughable and worthy of mocking at.
Except of course, the biggest fanatics usually know less on the matter than people with more objective opinions.
Ask yourself, with a 5 year head start, why are "smartphones" still only "Geek" toys? Why aren't they good enough for everybody?
Because they are:
A) Expensive (iPhone: check)
B) Huge (iPhone: check)
Most people prefer a basic little phone that does the job, cheaply. Nah, I don't need a touch screen to call someone.
Jesus Christ, why are you still giving this shill a platform?
In Jesus Christ's favor, he was at one point considering literally taking away this shill's platform right from under his feet, so to speak.
But then he thought and said "let he who is without an iPod, throw the first stone". Everyone stood still.
Br...
Brownouts? What the hell..
<Tom Lehrer>
So long mom
I'm off to drop the bomb
So don't wait up for me
</Tom Lehrer>
So. Tom Lehrer is into toilet humor, huh.
Of course, editing would kill the whole karma system unless there were something like a 'see original post' link on edited posts.
It wouldn't kill anything. First there could always be the "see previous revision" buttons, and second the system could only accept edits that ammend to the original (not replacing it) and accept, say 7-8% changes on the original (for the typos).
It could also display the edits in a different color, thus putting it in plain sight what was edited.