I completely agree, the leak was much more fun...I remember running in on my old GeForce 4 at 30fps at a pretty low resolution...ah those were the days. In any case, the Berzerker in the multiplayer was really freaky and awesome at the same time. I might actually go back and play it now, that I have a better set up...hrm
I think this is known as Doom 3 syndrome...I remember it being pumped at Quakecon for years...then I got a multiplayer preview...which was fun...then finally the game was released...and I never actually finished the single player. The multiplayer is actually kind of fun...and my friend made a really cool mod. Anyhow that's irrelevant, the moral to the story is that Doom 3's single player was completely disappointing, though in all actuality it probably wasn't that bad...but my expectations were set so high after getting the leaked alpha E3 demo...that it just wasn't enjoyable. I did buy it though...I'd expect the same of Duke Nukem Forever.
Handguns can't compete with the military? Perhaps you should watch the news more often...you know the whole Iraq thing...Oh, I forgot that many Assault Rifles are legal. Guerrilla Warfare is hard to combat, even with the most advanced military equipment. The common argument that many gun advocates use is that the Second Amendment was put in the second position for the reason...maybe it was meant if(1st Amendment = violated) then(run "second amendment rights").[look I made it a geek issue]
Frankly I think that the "militia" was actually meant to be seen as the now "National Guard"...but now the Federal Government has so much control over it, it's more like an Army reserve than a militia...Anyhow, another revolution is very unlikely to happen, simply because of telecommunications and the reliance that each state has on the next, and on the Federal Government, any attempt at an armed revolution would quickly dismounted...thus any revolution would have to occur on a political level...so anyone saving up ammo in their basement waiting on a government overthrow is more or less wasting their money...unless they are just hunters or looking for common self defense from robbery etc [which I do support].
AMEX has 20 minutes delays and NYSE Euronext/Nasdaq have 15 minutes delays, the indices (NYSE/DJI/SPX/RUT/NAS) are always real time...You had to have just pulled 3 hours out of no where. There are some quoting services that are end-of-day quotes...but that's rare nowadays. I think Yahoo used to offer a.cvs feed that was end-of-day, but now they have their Yahoo widget that has a 15/20 minute delay.
I don't know why this is flamebait, Yahoo did actually start doing this about a month ago, but got no Slashdot coverage. I'm glad to see it done, 15 minutes/20 minutes were the actual delay times, and were kind of annoying...not 3 hours as some people have already stated. Anyhow, most brokers give you real-time quotes for free, such as Scottrade...others are a bit more stingy about it...such as ING. Hopefully this will force brokerage firms to lighten up on their lower tier subscription fees.
I don't know why Toshiba would chase this medium, it will be dead much faster than DVD...the next medium is obviously digital downloads and as of now I'd say that Microsoft and Apple both have this market close at heart right now...between iTunes and the Live Marketplace. Once we get a larger proportion of high speed internet coverage (which will probably be a result of wireless coverage [ie Google? Verizon, AT&T]) The biggest beneficiaries of this will be Microsoft and DivX, because of their compression technologies...on the hardware side, Level 3 Communications and anyone with dark fiber will benefit. Sony and Toshiba are chasing an already doomed market...if I were Toshiba I would reevaluate my position and look towards making set-top boxes for such an adaption. If anyone wonders why Microsoft hasn't pushed Blu-Ray into their Xbox line, look no further than the Live marketplace. I'd expect in the next 5 years, HD for downloads will be as common as downloading from iTunes...Blu-Ray? More like Apple TV, TiVo or Xbox.
To anyone who says that we still need a portable medium for market laggards (example: Grandparents)(other portable mediums will probably be flash based/iPod, Zune), I'd expect they'd still be buying DVDs, that market isn't going to die anytime soon...I doubt they will be upgrading to Blu-Ray
I think you're missing the point that Apple has refused to patch their browser...you're just beating around the bush and saying "well Safari may have holes, but look at what Windows has!"...nice try, but it's not a valid argument...since, you know...Apple refused to patch their browser
Oh and your post is pretty misinformed, completely irrelevant and extremely bias...that's pretty obvious, I would love to smack whoever modded you up.
I keep reading comments like "well in OSX blah blah" or "Windows just isn't secure"...ok that's informative, but it's really beside the point. I'm willing to bet that Apple is not addressing this fix because it's good PR to the uninformed. If the user perceives that it's Windows' fault then they might well go all Mac since they are already using Safari...Anyhow, I think that along with the PR bit, Apple doesn't want to admit that there is a huge gaping hole in their web browser, which raises a question...is Apple ready for a bigger market share? Microsoft may have security holes, but you can almost bet they will be patched in a timely matter. With Apple, from my experiences, it takes quite a while for updates to hit the servers. I don't really see this as controversial at all, Apple needs to patch their product, Microsoft has an obligation to protect their users...I would expect Apple to do the same with IE if Microsoft out right REFUSED to patch it. I know there is a lot of Microsoft hate here on Slashdot...but this is pretty obvious in that it's Apple being the "bad guy" here.
I agree, though I'm running Windows; I'm not impressed with Firefox 3 at all, I think I'll be sticking with 2 for a while. Firefox 3 from my beta experiences seems very cluttered and buggy. I never had issues with sluggishness, but I did have problems with random crashes.
I think you're talking about Steve Jobs...which went something like...Smoking reefer with the Apple guys, doing acid with the Apple guys, drinking enough alcohol to sink a battleship with all the Apple guys...then being a complete asshole and getting kicked out of the company...next CEO runs company into ground...Jobs returns...1)iPod 2)??? 3) Profit!
Anyhow, I would figure Bill's high point would be when Microsoft sold DOS to IBM but retained rights...I like most Microsoft products... 3.1, and ME were bombs...if you honestly think Vista is on the same plane as those two products...please go reuse those two. Windows 95? That's when Microsoft actually knew how to market..."Start me up!"...
What hardware are you running it on? You can't simply say "oh Vista is complete crap and slow" when you may or may not being newer hardware. If you plan on running an OS on older hardware then by all means, XP is the best choice...however, if you're running a top tier machine, Vista runs really fast. I'm running 64-bit Vista with 4 gigs of RAM and ready boost, everything full blast..runs better than XP did. Anyhow, many people here that even have "tried" it a) probably didn't pay for it b) ran it on older hardware expecting stunning performance and c) held a bias towards it the entire time during their usage.
I've seen way more high-end laptops on my campus than I have Macintosh laptops...but anyhow, the Apple statistics on "dominating" the $1000+ price range is skewed because most PC users buying above 1000+ simply upgrade their systems. If you're buying an Alienware, Voodoo PC, Falcon NW, Build it yourself or any other high end PC you're not going to just go out and buy a new computer, you're just going to slap in a new $600 video card and some new RAM for a while. Apple pretty much forces you to buy an entirely new system, minus a few upgradeable modules...I'm sorry but it's true.
Anyhow, I bought Vista Ultimate without it being bundled with the PC..I will admit it wasn't selling well though. The place I bought it from said I was the first customer to buy Vista Ultimate from them...-this was the first week of it's release though-...and that they actually only held one copy of Vista Ultimate in stock; I was pretty shocked. I do however like Vista, and find that most people who make fun of it, or hate on it, have actually never used it.
I don't see how it's illegal; for example, you buy a "snack pack" and it contains Swiss, Ham, Cheddar, Turkey and Monterey Jack...so you're saying that the company is forcing you to buy the Monterey Jack? You knew it was in the packet...but now according to your legal logic you then have the right to sue for more Cheddar? Or another example, You buy a $99 printer from Dell...but you have to buy a proprietary printer cable for the printer separately for it to work...and this is illegal?
Having a standard operating system allows computer companies to actually have customer support for software...you take that away and they will have to spend millions on retraining and in the end it would make PCs more expensive...or they could just not offer support at all. That's kind of beside the point, but you get my drift, if ASUS no longer can sell XP pre-installed on a computer, it should then have the right to offer the customer who is not running Windows no support...the company has a preference to an operating system (agree with it or not) that is outside of your own preference, because it allows them to actually offer you a general line of support...and the company has every right to do that...you act as if the company has no rights. If you don't accept those company policies then you should go buy elsewhere, it is a free market...well unless a judge says it isn't...
I'd like to sue Apple for forcing me to buy OSX, when I just want to install Windows on it...you could say "but that's Apple's right, it's their software and hardware"...yeah if you are correct, and the same logic can be applied to ASUS...it's their right, it's their product. If you don't like it, then don't buy it.
I was thinking the same thing, she bought the computer knowing that it came with XP installed. How does that grant her rights to a refund? It would be like someone suing Dell or Hewlett Packard for having Windows Mobile 6 on their PDAs and getting a refund for the software because you could run Linux on that; or Suing Motorola for having Blackberry software installed on the Pearl when they could run Windows 6...after they bought the product. Those are hypothetical...but it's the same logic. What a ridiculous ruling, I thought France was going to be less anti-Business after their newest President Sarkozy...I guess he can't control the courts from being retarded. ASUS is the one taking the loss, not Microsoft, the license had already been sold, if I was ASUS I would tell France to go screw themselves if they are this business-stupid.
Isn't Stephen Hawking working on a proof that black holes lead to another universe entirely...the whole Hawking Information Paradox? I know he admitted information doesn't just "disappear" (as the OP states) hence he had a new theory that it goes into another universe...which I haven't seen mentioned here...I don't know all the details of it, but I know I've read or have seen something about it.
I back this poster, as cowardice as he/she is...Spielberg has hardly ever made a film that was just completely awful...A.I. was kind of weird, but it was pretty good. Anyhow, I can't think of a single Spielberg film I didn't get some enjoyment from, so I doubt Indiana Jones 4 will be any different
Well, Einstein had a lot of conflicting views on God, I don't even think the make knew what he really believed. When he was younger he was a heavily practicing Jew, then he's said things like this through the years:
"The religious inclination lies in the dim consciousness that dwells in humans that all nature, including the humans in it, is in no way an accidental game, but a work of lawfulness that there is a fundamental cause of all existence."
"I'm not an atheist. I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God. We see the universe marvelously arranged and obeying certain laws but only dimly understand these laws."
"The main source of the present-day conflicts between the spheres of religion and of science lies in this concept of a personal God,"
"There are people who say there is no God, but what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support of such views."
TIME did a really good article on it...Time Article
I've been using Drupal for a while, I had tried using Joomla (among many others) but it was actually a pain to customize and make look truly professional; I found Drupal to be the best fit to many websites I've done, and it integrates nicely with vBulletin which is a popular request. However, I've still never found a CMS that I absolutely love, I suppose all of them are lacking that little something that pushes them over the edge to getting my all around recommendation.
Really? What media conglomerate would that be? Hard Rock Cafe'? I think that's the biggest name site that uses it right now, so thanks for completely making that fact up. I don't think I've ever been "forced" to download it, and I don't see how it's any different than being "forced" to use Flash. Unless they make their operating system(s) somehow bias towards Silverlight based sites I don't see a problem at all; they can package it with Windows, but that doesn't mean it instantly has a huge market advantage since browser extensions aren't really thought of as a big deal to the average users. I'm pretty sure you're just being bias, much like everyone else who has criticized it outside of possible abuses...besides if Microsoft really wanted to hurt Flash, they could have done it years ago and hit it's performance hard with IE, or mark it as untrusted. Well, at least you didn't put a dollar sign in Microsoft.
They are making an Atlas Shrugged film, supposedly Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are going to be in it. 2009 is the supposed release year...I honestly can't wait, I hope it doesn't suck. As for Bioshock, every game to movie production has sucked and visa versa.
Why is that if Adobe has a monopoly on a web item that in the end will be monstrously profitable that it's perfectly ok? If Microsoft wants to move in and give them competition it's a mortal sin. Slashdot really is starting to lose it's credibility lately, it seems like every article in the past 2 weeks has been completely and utterly anti-Microsoft. I know people here have a bias against the company, but it's gotten especially bad lately, almost every comment has been likewise...I guess you have to appeal to your audience even if it loses you credibility...it's the Fox News mantra.
Is it just me or had NASA had a lot of announcements lately, it's like they watched Iron Man or something and thought to themselves..."no, no, fuck that guy, I have an idea!..."
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I completely agree, the leak was much more fun...I remember running in on my old GeForce 4 at 30fps at a pretty low resolution...ah those were the days. In any case, the Berzerker in the multiplayer was really freaky and awesome at the same time. I might actually go back and play it now, that I have a better set up...hrm
I think this is known as Doom 3 syndrome...I remember it being pumped at Quakecon for years...then I got a multiplayer preview...which was fun...then finally the game was released...and I never actually finished the single player. The multiplayer is actually kind of fun...and my friend made a really cool mod. Anyhow that's irrelevant, the moral to the story is that Doom 3's single player was completely disappointing, though in all actuality it probably wasn't that bad...but my expectations were set so high after getting the leaked alpha E3 demo...that it just wasn't enjoyable. I did buy it though...I'd expect the same of Duke Nukem Forever.
Handguns can't compete with the military? Perhaps you should watch the news more often...you know the whole Iraq thing...Oh, I forgot that many Assault Rifles are legal. Guerrilla Warfare is hard to combat, even with the most advanced military equipment. The common argument that many gun advocates use is that the Second Amendment was put in the second position for the reason...maybe it was meant if(1st Amendment = violated) then(run "second amendment rights").[look I made it a geek issue]
Frankly I think that the "militia" was actually meant to be seen as the now "National Guard"...but now the Federal Government has so much control over it, it's more like an Army reserve than a militia...Anyhow, another revolution is very unlikely to happen, simply because of telecommunications and the reliance that each state has on the next, and on the Federal Government, any attempt at an armed revolution would quickly dismounted...thus any revolution would have to occur on a political level...so anyone saving up ammo in their basement waiting on a government overthrow is more or less wasting their money...unless they are just hunters or looking for common self defense from robbery etc [which I do support].
When I first read the headline I was hoping it was the a "life on Mars" discovery from the Phoenix...article doesn't deliver...
Though I do wonder if this has implications for the Mars mission?
AMEX has 20 minutes delays and NYSE Euronext/Nasdaq have 15 minutes delays, the indices (NYSE/DJI/SPX/RUT/NAS) are always real time...You had to have just pulled 3 hours out of no where. There are some quoting services that are end-of-day quotes...but that's rare nowadays. I think Yahoo used to offer a .cvs feed that was end-of-day, but now they have their Yahoo widget that has a 15/20 minute delay.
I don't know why this is flamebait, Yahoo did actually start doing this about a month ago, but got no Slashdot coverage. I'm glad to see it done, 15 minutes/20 minutes were the actual delay times, and were kind of annoying...not 3 hours as some people have already stated. Anyhow, most brokers give you real-time quotes for free, such as Scottrade...others are a bit more stingy about it...such as ING. Hopefully this will force brokerage firms to lighten up on their lower tier subscription fees.
I don't know why Toshiba would chase this medium, it will be dead much faster than DVD...the next medium is obviously digital downloads and as of now I'd say that Microsoft and Apple both have this market close at heart right now...between iTunes and the Live Marketplace. Once we get a larger proportion of high speed internet coverage (which will probably be a result of wireless coverage [ie Google? Verizon, AT&T]) The biggest beneficiaries of this will be Microsoft and DivX, because of their compression technologies...on the hardware side, Level 3 Communications and anyone with dark fiber will benefit. Sony and Toshiba are chasing an already doomed market...if I were Toshiba I would reevaluate my position and look towards making set-top boxes for such an adaption. If anyone wonders why Microsoft hasn't pushed Blu-Ray into their Xbox line, look no further than the Live marketplace. I'd expect in the next 5 years, HD for downloads will be as common as downloading from iTunes...Blu-Ray? More like Apple TV, TiVo or Xbox.
To anyone who says that we still need a portable medium for market laggards (example: Grandparents)(other portable mediums will probably be flash based/iPod, Zune), I'd expect they'd still be buying DVDs, that market isn't going to die anytime soon...I doubt they will be upgrading to Blu-Ray
I think you're missing the point that Apple has refused to patch their browser...you're just beating around the bush and saying "well Safari may have holes, but look at what Windows has!"...nice try, but it's not a valid argument...since, you know...Apple refused to patch their browser
Oh and your post is pretty misinformed, completely irrelevant and extremely bias...that's pretty obvious, I would love to smack whoever modded you up.
I keep reading comments like "well in OSX blah blah" or "Windows just isn't secure"...ok that's informative, but it's really beside the point. I'm willing to bet that Apple is not addressing this fix because it's good PR to the uninformed. If the user perceives that it's Windows' fault then they might well go all Mac since they are already using Safari...Anyhow, I think that along with the PR bit, Apple doesn't want to admit that there is a huge gaping hole in their web browser, which raises a question...is Apple ready for a bigger market share? Microsoft may have security holes, but you can almost bet they will be patched in a timely matter. With Apple, from my experiences, it takes quite a while for updates to hit the servers. I don't really see this as controversial at all, Apple needs to patch their product, Microsoft has an obligation to protect their users...I would expect Apple to do the same with IE if Microsoft out right REFUSED to patch it. I know there is a lot of Microsoft hate here on Slashdot...but this is pretty obvious in that it's Apple being the "bad guy" here.
I agree, though I'm running Windows; I'm not impressed with Firefox 3 at all, I think I'll be sticking with 2 for a while. Firefox 3 from my beta experiences seems very cluttered and buggy. I never had issues with sluggishness, but I did have problems with random crashes.
I think you're talking about Steve Jobs...which went something like...Smoking reefer with the Apple guys, doing acid with the Apple guys, drinking enough alcohol to sink a battleship with all the Apple guys...then being a complete asshole and getting kicked out of the company...next CEO runs company into ground...Jobs returns...1)iPod 2)??? 3) Profit! Anyhow, I would figure Bill's high point would be when Microsoft sold DOS to IBM but retained rights...I like most Microsoft products... 3.1, and ME were bombs...if you honestly think Vista is on the same plane as those two products...please go reuse those two. Windows 95? That's when Microsoft actually knew how to market..."Start me up!"...
What hardware are you running it on? You can't simply say "oh Vista is complete crap and slow" when you may or may not being newer hardware. If you plan on running an OS on older hardware then by all means, XP is the best choice...however, if you're running a top tier machine, Vista runs really fast. I'm running 64-bit Vista with 4 gigs of RAM and ready boost, everything full blast..runs better than XP did. Anyhow, many people here that even have "tried" it a) probably didn't pay for it b) ran it on older hardware expecting stunning performance and c) held a bias towards it the entire time during their usage.
I've seen way more high-end laptops on my campus than I have Macintosh laptops...but anyhow, the Apple statistics on "dominating" the $1000+ price range is skewed because most PC users buying above 1000+ simply upgrade their systems. If you're buying an Alienware, Voodoo PC, Falcon NW, Build it yourself or any other high end PC you're not going to just go out and buy a new computer, you're just going to slap in a new $600 video card and some new RAM for a while. Apple pretty much forces you to buy an entirely new system, minus a few upgradeable modules...I'm sorry but it's true.
Anyhow, I bought Vista Ultimate without it being bundled with the PC..I will admit it wasn't selling well though. The place I bought it from said I was the first customer to buy Vista Ultimate from them...-this was the first week of it's release though-...and that they actually only held one copy of Vista Ultimate in stock; I was pretty shocked. I do however like Vista, and find that most people who make fun of it, or hate on it, have actually never used it.
I don't see how it's illegal; for example, you buy a "snack pack" and it contains Swiss, Ham, Cheddar, Turkey and Monterey Jack...so you're saying that the company is forcing you to buy the Monterey Jack? You knew it was in the packet...but now according to your legal logic you then have the right to sue for more Cheddar? Or another example, You buy a $99 printer from Dell...but you have to buy a proprietary printer cable for the printer separately for it to work...and this is illegal?
Having a standard operating system allows computer companies to actually have customer support for software...you take that away and they will have to spend millions on retraining and in the end it would make PCs more expensive...or they could just not offer support at all. That's kind of beside the point, but you get my drift, if ASUS no longer can sell XP pre-installed on a computer, it should then have the right to offer the customer who is not running Windows no support...the company has a preference to an operating system (agree with it or not) that is outside of your own preference, because it allows them to actually offer you a general line of support...and the company has every right to do that...you act as if the company has no rights. If you don't accept those company policies then you should go buy elsewhere, it is a free market...well unless a judge says it isn't...
I'd like to sue Apple for forcing me to buy OSX, when I just want to install Windows on it...you could say "but that's Apple's right, it's their software and hardware"...yeah if you are correct, and the same logic can be applied to ASUS...it's their right, it's their product. If you don't like it, then don't buy it.
I was thinking the same thing, she bought the computer knowing that it came with XP installed. How does that grant her rights to a refund? It would be like someone suing Dell or Hewlett Packard for having Windows Mobile 6 on their PDAs and getting a refund for the software because you could run Linux on that; or Suing Motorola for having Blackberry software installed on the Pearl when they could run Windows 6...after they bought the product. Those are hypothetical...but it's the same logic. What a ridiculous ruling, I thought France was going to be less anti-Business after their newest President Sarkozy...I guess he can't control the courts from being retarded. ASUS is the one taking the loss, not Microsoft, the license had already been sold, if I was ASUS I would tell France to go screw themselves if they are this business-stupid.
Isn't Stephen Hawking working on a proof that black holes lead to another universe entirely...the whole Hawking Information Paradox? I know he admitted information doesn't just "disappear" (as the OP states) hence he had a new theory that it goes into another universe...which I haven't seen mentioned here...I don't know all the details of it, but I know I've read or have seen something about it.
It's more like:
US gov: We want a backdoor in all of your operating systems.
Microsoft: You needed to ask?
Apple: What do you mean we don't have enough marketshare for you to care? Wireless on the iPods? We can do that...
Linux community: Finally Linux is catching on, I told you guys, I told you! We can make it a group project!
Disclaimer: I actually like Microsoft
I back this poster, as cowardice as he/she is...Spielberg has hardly ever made a film that was just completely awful...A.I. was kind of weird, but it was pretty good. Anyhow, I can't think of a single Spielberg film I didn't get some enjoyment from, so I doubt Indiana Jones 4 will be any different
I've been using Drupal for a while, I had tried using Joomla (among many others) but it was actually a pain to customize and make look truly professional; I found Drupal to be the best fit to many websites I've done, and it integrates nicely with vBulletin which is a popular request. However, I've still never found a CMS that I absolutely love, I suppose all of them are lacking that little something that pushes them over the edge to getting my all around recommendation.
First it was censoring in China and now they are censoring in America...Google may as well be run by the Bolshevists
Really? What media conglomerate would that be? Hard Rock Cafe'? I think that's the biggest name site that uses it right now, so thanks for completely making that fact up. I don't think I've ever been "forced" to download it, and I don't see how it's any different than being "forced" to use Flash. Unless they make their operating system(s) somehow bias towards Silverlight based sites I don't see a problem at all; they can package it with Windows, but that doesn't mean it instantly has a huge market advantage since browser extensions aren't really thought of as a big deal to the average users. I'm pretty sure you're just being bias, much like everyone else who has criticized it outside of possible abuses...besides if Microsoft really wanted to hurt Flash, they could have done it years ago and hit it's performance hard with IE, or mark it as untrusted. Well, at least you didn't put a dollar sign in Microsoft.
They are making an Atlas Shrugged film, supposedly Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are going to be in it. 2009 is the supposed release year...I honestly can't wait, I hope it doesn't suck. As for Bioshock, every game to movie production has sucked and visa versa.
Why is that if Adobe has a monopoly on a web item that in the end will be monstrously profitable that it's perfectly ok? If Microsoft wants to move in and give them competition it's a mortal sin. Slashdot really is starting to lose it's credibility lately, it seems like every article in the past 2 weeks has been completely and utterly anti-Microsoft. I know people here have a bias against the company, but it's gotten especially bad lately, almost every comment has been likewise...I guess you have to appeal to your audience even if it loses you credibility...it's the Fox News mantra.
Is it just me or had NASA had a lot of announcements lately, it's like they watched Iron Man or something and thought to themselves..."no, no, fuck that guy, I have an idea!..."