The boot logo for Redhat SPARC was the one of tux holding the virtual beer. It also used the HHGTG ascii art for kernel oopses. Ahh the old days before corporate blandness.
> we don't do as well with critical thinking and do much better at rote memorization of most things on average.
Speak for yourself, factboy... I suppose there's something to be said about all the football and baseball statistics all my friends (male) know off the top of their heads. But I'm the guy who analyzes everything to death while being constantly being reminded about appointments and dates and events by my gf.
I think it has something to do with the classroom setting itself, which is undermined by the social dynamics of groups of young boys. I don't pretend to have any solutions there, but unsubstantiated handwaving about "biological learning differences" isn't much help either. I'm sure differences do exist, but you still have to do better than just say they exist and leave it there.
I wasn't sure whether the button being pressed meant it registered or whether it was just a visual effect that didn't reset. Good to know that it does register.
Speaking of votes though, the feature I'd love to see, over and above all others, is the ability to vote "neutral" or "abstain" or "meh" or "shrug" or whatever on a submission. There's a vast amount of stuff in the firehose that I don't really care about, where the writeup is just okay but not spectacular, on subject matter that might really interest some other nerds. I'd like to just clear it off my screen without having to register an opinion.
Or does adding any tag to an article do that? A button still would be ideal.
Obviously then they should soldier on and continue doing the same lame ineffective thing, because to do otherwise would be "to stop trying". You sound like a certain president.
I suggest they give it a try, see how badly it flops, then try something else. Like not having to make everything "hip" and "edgy" and "way cool cowabunga dudes with jittery neon triangles". Yes, I'm showing my age -- but I bet the producers of this material are too.
Might I suggest requiring any RSS feed submissions to be pre-tagged with a tag indicating which feed they're from? That way they can be filtered out.
Actually how about a policy that simply forbids automated submissions like that as spam? Interested people already have slashboxes, and if it's really newsworthy, someone's going to submit it by hand.
Accutane? Not exactly a recreational drug of choice. It physically fucks you up really good within the first day of taking it. Anyone symptomatic enough to actually want to go through taking that stuff could probably get it anyway.
Or did they ban it outright now? Probably does so much liver damage that it should be banned anyway.
Except Epic and Blizzard actually ship. Maxis normally does, but this is now year 7. This is not an arbitrary deadline -- that deadline has passed. It's now officially late, and we're tired of hearing how great it's going to be, because it still doesn't actually exist except as demos.
But soon, the frustration will pass, and it will join DNF in the "Vaporware That Wouldn't Die" list of running jokes. It's better for your customers to be angry at you than laugh at you.
> if Microsoft wins, gamers lose big. Games will be subscription based and DRM will be so much worse.
I can't speak for DRM, since Sony is just as bad (hell, even the _games_ turn on HDCP), but what makes you think MS is going to do anything to piss off the third party developers for its console? Hell, the 360 has XNA, which is a limited API to be sure, but at least it can use the GPU.
Amazon was built on actually shipping product that people payed for. Their high burn rate was due to actually building out shipping infrastructure, and once the market yelled at them loud enough to slow down, they did and became profitable. Dot-coms on the other hand were selling smoke. Actually they were selling the idea of giving away smoke. Mind you, social networking sites seem to be the same thing, and companies buying them up for billions are eating away at their own value, but at least this time it's not a vacuum hose directly into the pockets of sucker investors.
> Microsoft itself started a unique division called Microsoft Home. The whole scene collapsed almost overnight.
Actually, it was called Microsoft eHome, and it became Media Center Edition. It also wasn't a runaway success, but Microsoft certainly hasn't abandoned the entertainment sector. However many billions they're pouring down that hole, it isn't venture capital they're spending.
> He's an idiot, paid by the page hit.
Even if there is a bubble, sayings about stopped clocks and blind squirrels comes to mind. (That's more than one saying, okay?)
Thanks for the pointer. I decided I may as well just get one now since it might be next quarter til the new process actually hits the shelves, so I went out and grabbed an Elite last night. From an ebGames that sells out of 'em weekly, so I should imagine they at least have the extra heatsinks. That thing sure is a space heater.
And boy howdy is the DVD drive on that thing loud as sin too. I wish games would buffer more, or actually install to the HDD. Can't stuff it in a cabinet either, too hot (yeah I could engineer something with a box fan but the Wife Acceptance Factor of that sort of hack is below sea level). Actually I most wish I could just buy full games online on XBL (XBLA doesn't count). That'd also force 'em to run off the HDD.
My luck, the 65nm boxes will be on the shelves in a week and they'll be ice cold and whisper quiet. No, my luck, they'll be on the shelves in exactly 30 days, when my store return period expires.
Cupertino is only "local" if you live in San Jose. It's nearly an hours drive away if there's no traffic (read: 2am on a Sunday). And the Dead were from SF, Berkeley had nothing to do with it.
If it's anything like eMusic's standard subscription option, and I can't imagine why it wouldn't be, you do not rent the songs for a month. You get five downloads a month and you keep them forever, DRM-free. Myself, I get 30 downloads a month for $15, which is their lowest end package through their site. At bigger package deals, it comes out to like $0.25 per track. You can get booster packs at any time too for not much more than the subscription price.
Their catalog is all indie labels though, so if you're into top 40 pop chart stuff, stick with iTunes. Sir Paul's new album is also available through eMusic, but that's probably not indicative of anything.
Japan has some seriously restrictive porn laws (all that hentai porn is something of a loophole concerning animation). Perhaps Sony would be taxed higher or incur the possibility of contributory liability if they pressed porn discs?
blu-ray and HD-DVD supposedly use exactly the same codecs, and I don't see why they would recode with different codecs if they didn't have to, so I should imagine that differences in video quality are indeed based on the player.
Both of 'em still look damn nice. And BTW, Betamax lacked one critical advancement VHS had: longer record time. VHS soon made up the quality difference.
Price drop, that's nice, but it's not why I'm waiting. What I want to know is, how do I know for sure whether the units shipping (and the one in the store I'm getting) has the new 65nm chip? Less power consumption means less heat and less Red Rings. I know whatever I get will be warranteed anyway, but I don't feel like sending mine back.
No such thing that I've heard of generically (though picokernel is a trademark of an RTOS vendor). But embedded applications on MMU-less platforms can and do dispense with the OS altogether.. or you could say the app is the OS.
Yes, and the total output of well-managed asset development in FOSS games approaches zero. Feel free to pull another analogy out, but it won't change the reality.
It's not even about contributions. They have money, therefore they are afforded respect and deference at our own expense. They're "good for the economy". They don't have to give much of the money away at all, just show it off, much like a peacock's feathers, or my preferred analogy, a baboon's ass.
Anything that's Good For The Economy is what Must Be Done. All other pursuits, goals, and ideals of this country are secondary to The Economy.
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The boot logo for Redhat SPARC was the one of tux holding the virtual beer. It also used the HHGTG ascii art for kernel oopses. Ahh the old days before corporate blandness.
> we don't do as well with critical thinking and do much better at rote memorization of most things on average.
... I suppose there's something to be said about all the football and baseball statistics all my friends (male) know off the top of their heads. But I'm the guy who analyzes everything to death while being constantly being reminded about appointments and dates and events by my gf.
Speak for yourself, factboy
I think it has something to do with the classroom setting itself, which is undermined by the social dynamics of groups of young boys. I don't pretend to have any solutions there, but unsubstantiated handwaving about "biological learning differences" isn't much help either. I'm sure differences do exist, but you still have to do better than just say they exist and leave it there.
I wasn't sure whether the button being pressed meant it registered or whether it was just a visual effect that didn't reset. Good to know that it does register.
Speaking of votes though, the feature I'd love to see, over and above all others, is the ability to vote "neutral" or "abstain" or "meh" or "shrug" or whatever on a submission. There's a vast amount of stuff in the firehose that I don't really care about, where the writeup is just okay but not spectacular, on subject matter that might really interest some other nerds. I'd like to just clear it off my screen without having to register an opinion.
Or does adding any tag to an article do that? A button still would be ideal.
Obviously then they should soldier on and continue doing the same lame ineffective thing, because to do otherwise would be "to stop trying". You sound like a certain president.
I suggest they give it a try, see how badly it flops, then try something else. Like not having to make everything "hip" and "edgy" and "way cool cowabunga dudes with jittery neon triangles". Yes, I'm showing my age -- but I bet the producers of this material are too.
Might I suggest requiring any RSS feed submissions to be pre-tagged with a tag indicating which feed they're from? That way they can be filtered out.
Actually how about a policy that simply forbids automated submissions like that as spam? Interested people already have slashboxes, and if it's really newsworthy, someone's going to submit it by hand.
Does clicking on the + or - without clicking one of the modding tags do anything? It's a bit unclear.
> Where will teenage boys buy their Accutane now?
Accutane? Not exactly a recreational drug of choice. It physically fucks you up really good within the first day of taking it. Anyone symptomatic enough to actually want to go through taking that stuff could probably get it anyway.
Or did they ban it outright now? Probably does so much liver damage that it should be banned anyway.
Except Epic and Blizzard actually ship. Maxis normally does, but this is now year 7. This is not an arbitrary deadline -- that deadline has passed. It's now officially late, and we're tired of hearing how great it's going to be, because it still doesn't actually exist except as demos.
But soon, the frustration will pass, and it will join DNF in the "Vaporware That Wouldn't Die" list of running jokes. It's better for your customers to be angry at you than laugh at you.
> if Microsoft wins, gamers lose big. Games will be subscription based and DRM will be so much worse.
I can't speak for DRM, since Sony is just as bad (hell, even the _games_ turn on HDCP), but what makes you think MS is going to do anything to piss off the third party developers for its console? Hell, the 360 has XNA, which is a limited API to be sure, but at least it can use the GPU.
> This includes birthdays, phone numbers or billing IDs (which are completely internal to the facility!)
Asking in all seriousness then: how do you resolve billing issues?
> Amazon is a good example.
Amazon was built on actually shipping product that people payed for. Their high burn rate was due to actually building out shipping infrastructure, and once the market yelled at them loud enough to slow down, they did and became profitable. Dot-coms on the other hand were selling smoke. Actually they were selling the idea of giving away smoke. Mind you, social networking sites seem to be the same thing, and companies buying them up for billions are eating away at their own value, but at least this time it's not a vacuum hose directly into the pockets of sucker investors.
> Microsoft itself started a unique division called Microsoft Home. The whole scene collapsed almost overnight.
Actually, it was called Microsoft eHome, and it became Media Center Edition. It also wasn't a runaway success, but Microsoft certainly hasn't abandoned the entertainment sector. However many billions they're pouring down that hole, it isn't venture capital they're spending.
> He's an idiot, paid by the page hit.
Even if there is a bubble, sayings about stopped clocks and blind squirrels comes to mind. (That's more than one saying, okay?)
Thanks for the pointer. I decided I may as well just get one now since it might be next quarter til the new process actually hits the shelves, so I went out and grabbed an Elite last night. From an ebGames that sells out of 'em weekly, so I should imagine they at least have the extra heatsinks. That thing sure is a space heater.
And boy howdy is the DVD drive on that thing loud as sin too. I wish games would buffer more, or actually install to the HDD. Can't stuff it in a cabinet either, too hot (yeah I could engineer something with a box fan but the Wife Acceptance Factor of that sort of hack is below sea level). Actually I most wish I could just buy full games online on XBL (XBLA doesn't count). That'd also force 'em to run off the HDD.
My luck, the 65nm boxes will be on the shelves in a week and they'll be ice cold and whisper quiet. No, my luck, they'll be on the shelves in exactly 30 days, when my store return period expires.
> Cupertino and Berkeley are both local towns.
Cupertino is only "local" if you live in San Jose. It's nearly an hours drive away if there's no traffic (read: 2am on a Sunday). And the Dead were from SF, Berkeley had nothing to do with it.
> Also there's a proprietary download manager, so Linux support is iffy.
This doesn't address Linux support, but on Windows you use them as a music store in WMP 11 instead of using their download manager.
I like classical and electronica, both of which are very well-represented on eMusic. And this way I'm not funding the mafiaa labels either.
If it's anything like eMusic's standard subscription option, and I can't imagine why it wouldn't be, you do not rent the songs for a month. You get five downloads a month and you keep them forever, DRM-free. Myself, I get 30 downloads a month for $15, which is their lowest end package through their site. At bigger package deals, it comes out to like $0.25 per track. You can get booster packs at any time too for not much more than the subscription price.
Their catalog is all indie labels though, so if you're into top 40 pop chart stuff, stick with iTunes. Sir Paul's new album is also available through eMusic, but that's probably not indicative of anything.
Japan has some seriously restrictive porn laws (all that hentai porn is something of a loophole concerning animation). Perhaps Sony would be taxed higher or incur the possibility of contributory liability if they pressed porn discs?
blu-ray and HD-DVD supposedly use exactly the same codecs, and I don't see why they would recode with different codecs if they didn't have to, so I should imagine that differences in video quality are indeed based on the player.
Both of 'em still look damn nice. And BTW, Betamax lacked one critical advancement VHS had: longer record time. VHS soon made up the quality difference.
> I would love to respond to more of these
Honestly, why even bother? These aren't people out to be convinced, and the screaming matches just dumbs down the forum even more.
God help us if the production values are as bad as Orange.
"Emo! Emo! Emo! Emo! Emo! Emo! Emo! Emo! Emo! Emo!"
Price drop, that's nice, but it's not why I'm waiting. What I want to know is, how do I know for sure whether the units shipping (and the one in the store I'm getting) has the new 65nm chip? Less power consumption means less heat and less Red Rings. I know whatever I get will be warranteed anyway, but I don't feel like sending mine back.
> So when will this be ported to the Wii?
It'll be ported around the day that Molyneux actually delivers on his promises. Note the owner of Lionhead Studios.
> What are the characteristics of a picokernel?
.. or you could say the app is the OS.
No such thing that I've heard of generically (though picokernel is a trademark of an RTOS vendor). But embedded applications on MMU-less platforms can and do dispense with the OS altogether
Yes, and the total output of well-managed asset development in FOSS games approaches zero. Feel free to pull another analogy out, but it won't change the reality.
It's not even about contributions. They have money, therefore they are afforded respect and deference at our own expense. They're "good for the economy". They don't have to give much of the money away at all, just show it off, much like a peacock's feathers, or my preferred analogy, a baboon's ass.
Anything that's Good For The Economy is what Must Be Done. All other pursuits, goals, and ideals of this country are secondary to The Economy.