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What's the "side bar?" What's the "'elevator' widget? It makes things a lot easier if you use standard terminology.
Do you mean the thumb in the scrollbar? Are you asking if the content is redrawn while scrolling? If so, Word 2007 definitely does. I don't have any older versions installed.
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with an interface that has not really changed at all over the course of its lifetime.
Hello, person who's never used Office 2007. How are you?
Yes, it does have Frogger. It also has tons of custom-developed games from indie studios. My favorite is Marble Blast Ultra.
If you want bargain basement from the 80s, you want the Nintendo virtual console. It doesn't do anything *but* emulation. Xbox Live has the emulation, but it also has tons of new original games.
I don't know how your post got marked "Insightful". Maybe "Ignorant."
I don't know how serious your post is, but Xbox Live Arcade is working just fine. In fact, most of Xbox Live is working fine, the only part that really isn't is the matchmaking service. (Making it hard, not impossible, to match-up with other players and get in a game.)
Of course, I can't even begin to claim I know anything about this reported problem, but just claiming that a company must be doing the Right Thing because they have been commercially successful is crazy.
But look, people are complaining about Boeing when this is an example of the safeguards they have in place *working perfectly*. It reminds me when anti-nuclear wackos cite Three Mile Island as an example of unsafe nuclear reactors, when in reality TMI is an example of nuclear safeguards working perfectly despite a critical reactor failure.
In this case, Boeing and the FAA have identified a problem, and they're fixing it, long before this plane has flown with any passengers aboard. That's a good thing, and it shows that the FAA and Boeing are effective at identifying and fixing these problems. There's no need to sit here on Slashdot and smugly post "wow Boeing's stupid!" when the planes will all be fixed long before you take a seat on one.
Look, if I make a plan to hit myself in the head with a hammer, and I hit myself in the head with a hammer, then my plan was a success. That's the only point I was making; you can't call the Xbox a failure, because by the standards of Microsoft's plan for the Xbox it was an unqualified success.
It was released earlier, so that's not too surprising, and it's only just holding on against Wii sales at the moment.
Possibly.
The 360 is not a good machine though. I've seen it, the difference in quality between it and the PS3 is rather marked.
BS. I've played both side-by-side, and I'd be hard-pressed to tell which was which. Right now, the only thing that disguishes one console from the others is the game selection. If you're playing, say, Call of Duty 4 on an Xbox and someone next to you is playing Call of Duty 4 on PS3, nobody would be able to tell which console was which from looking at the screen. The PS3 doesn't have any kind of commanding lead in graphic or sound quality.
It may soon have a lead because of disk capacity, but we haven't seen that so far.
I think the PS3 is overpowered, but even before I saw it, I was unimpressed by the graphical quality of the 360.
Well, fortunately for Microsoft, nobody else seems to think like you do.
Considering Sony's additional year of development time, I think the Xbox 360 is doing quite well by whatever measure you choose to use. Between scrambling to do something about the Wii's controller, and scrambling to get online content available, Sony's been doing nothing but playing catch-up so far on the PS3. Maybe there'll be some greatness to the console in a couple years, but for now you might as well save the money and buy the Xbox or Wii.
Considering Boeing is the world's leader in passenger aircraft, how about we just give them the benefit of the doubt that they aren't retards?
"Sure, Boeing's spent a decade designing this plane with thousands of engineers, but I read a short Slashdot story summary and now I'm going to decree I know more than them!"
The original Xbox barely competed with the Playstation 2, it's almost a full generation more advanced. To add to that, Microsoft had no delusions that they'd be able to outsell the PS2 with the original Xbox. The "business plan" might have been terrible, but it was a success, the Xbox was never intended to make a profit. Lastly, the Xbox 360 *is* outselling the PS3.
If that is true then God has no contact with the physical world and he is irrelevant.
If God created all the physical laws that science studies, then he's hardly irrelevant even if he doesn't interfere in the working of those laws. And I don't even believe in God, I'm just pointing out an obvious hole in your response.
First of all, your description of "post-human" seems to just be a description of "technologically-advanced-human." If I was writing this message from 1820, would I define the United States of 2007 as "post-human" thinking that scientists of 2007 have "acquired most of the technological capabilities that one can currently show to be consistent with physical laws and with material and energy constraints"?
I don't know if there's an actual concept here and you're explaining it poorly, or if this is just some weird language fluff.
A technologically mature post-human civilization would have enormous computing power. Based on this empirical fact, the simulation argument shows that at least one of the following propositions is true: (1) The fraction of human-level civilizations that reach a posthuman stage is very close to zero;
Wha-huh? How does that follow? "I have a powerful computer therefore nobody else can have a powerful computer?"
Would be nice if there was a screenshot of what this mysterious "realm" dialog box looks like. I can't be the only person who has no clue what he's talking about, can I?
He began to feel dizzy, and in his confusion he even started wondering if the old fellow was right, and he really was a computer. He felt a pang of worry about how he would tell Jill. The room around him was dissolving away. He felt himself flung into a void, and from somewhere close by, he heard someone calling his name, "Perry Simm...Perry Simm...P'ry Simm...Prisim...PRISM...PRISM..."
(Yes, I should know, it was my computer that discovered the candidate object for SETI@home back in 2004. Got on TV and weekly reader for that. What have YOU done with your spare CPU cycles?)
Big whoop. If you want to get on TV, I can do it using only a 2"x4" and a 6' short Siberian tiger wall at the local zoo.
What have I done with my spare CPU cycles? I've done jack shit... which is about the same thing you've done with yours. Your jack shit just consumed more power.
Yeah, but Google's setup is almost all custom-developed software. They're using their own filesystem, their own proprietary distributed query language/software, their own custom-developed web servers. Sure, some portions of Google's empire are no doubt using off-the-shelf Linux and off-the-shelf scripting environments like Python or Ruby, but the big clusters are all custom jobs.
And when you're talking custom jobs, there's no reason all of that custom software couldn't have been developed on a stripped Windows kernel instead of a stripped Linux kernel. (I'm sure Google had reasons when it started; they were basically two guys in a garage, so cost was an issue. Now it wouldn't be.) If you could prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that a stripped Windows kernel would run their custom software better than the stripped Linux/BSD kernel they're using now, they'd switch in a heartbeat. (That said at the kernel level, both OSes are the exact same.)
Anyway, Microsoft does run some hefty sites. The Terraserver (http://terraserver-usa.com/)was put up specifically to show that Windows/IIS/MS SQL can be used to run gigantic website clusters. eBay uses Microsoft servers exclusively, unless that's changed in the last year.
I haven't seen any technical/logistic reason for them to be suddenly gaining ground (maybe this move would have some impact), so I was wondering if it is really happening and if so why.
I guess it couldn't possibly be because IIS6 is freakin' fast and memory-efficient? It also couldn't have anything to do with the great.net application stack that corporations are adopting in droves. Or that Windows Server 2003 sets up balanced clustering with failover with very little brain activity needed on part of the administrator? (Oh wait, this is Slashdot... I forgot making things user-friendly is evil.)
Seriously. IIS is gaining ground because it's a pretty damned good product. That's all there is to it, no trickery involved.
That would only work if there was no free porn on IPv4. I've done a lot of research in this area and I can say, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that there is.
What is so difficult about adding a default rule to your firewall that blocks all incoming connections to your subnet and then adding rules specifically for the devices and services that do require incoming connections?
ie) deny ip from any to 2610:78:ad::/48
How about the fact that to the average user it's complete and utter gibberish? That's pretty difficult.
They probably simply don't have the manpower or time to fully QA every other browser that reads Firefox plug-ins, and since Firefox covers something like 95% of non-IE users, they're calling it good. Would you rather they release the plug-in for browsers they don't have the resources to QA?
Obligatory "me too." I've had Verizon DSL for over 5 years now, and I think my IP has changed once in all that time. While it's technically a DHCP-assigned address, in practice DHCP nearly always assigns the exact same address when the lease is up, and you end up with a (non-guaranteed) static IP. I can't speak for other ISPs, but Verizon is good that way.
(I just wish they'd run FIOS in my hometown already!)
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What's the "side bar?" What's the "'elevator' widget? It makes things a lot easier if you use standard terminology.
Do you mean the thumb in the scrollbar? Are you asking if the content is redrawn while scrolling? If so, Word 2007 definitely does. I don't have any older versions installed.
with an interface that has not really changed at all over the course of its lifetime.
Hello, person who's never used Office 2007. How are you?
Yes, it does have Frogger. It also has tons of custom-developed games from indie studios. My favorite is Marble Blast Ultra.
If you want bargain basement from the 80s, you want the Nintendo virtual console. It doesn't do anything *but* emulation. Xbox Live has the emulation, but it also has tons of new original games.
I don't know how your post got marked "Insightful". Maybe "Ignorant."
I don't know how serious your post is, but Xbox Live Arcade is working just fine. In fact, most of Xbox Live is working fine, the only part that really isn't is the matchmaking service. (Making it hard, not impossible, to match-up with other players and get in a game.)
Of course, I can't even begin to claim I know anything about this reported problem, but just claiming that a company must be doing the Right Thing because they have been commercially successful is crazy.
But look, people are complaining about Boeing when this is an example of the safeguards they have in place *working perfectly*. It reminds me when anti-nuclear wackos cite Three Mile Island as an example of unsafe nuclear reactors, when in reality TMI is an example of nuclear safeguards working perfectly despite a critical reactor failure.
In this case, Boeing and the FAA have identified a problem, and they're fixing it, long before this plane has flown with any passengers aboard. That's a good thing, and it shows that the FAA and Boeing are effective at identifying and fixing these problems. There's no need to sit here on Slashdot and smugly post "wow Boeing's stupid!" when the planes will all be fixed long before you take a seat on one.
I guess that's what bugs me most.
And you think this is a good thing? Oh dear...
Look, if I make a plan to hit myself in the head with a hammer, and I hit myself in the head with a hammer, then my plan was a success. That's the only point I was making; you can't call the Xbox a failure, because by the standards of Microsoft's plan for the Xbox it was an unqualified success.
It was released earlier, so that's not too surprising, and it's only just holding on against Wii sales at the moment.
Possibly.
The 360 is not a good machine though. I've seen it, the difference in quality between it and the PS3 is rather marked.
BS. I've played both side-by-side, and I'd be hard-pressed to tell which was which. Right now, the only thing that disguishes one console from the others is the game selection. If you're playing, say, Call of Duty 4 on an Xbox and someone next to you is playing Call of Duty 4 on PS3, nobody would be able to tell which console was which from looking at the screen. The PS3 doesn't have any kind of commanding lead in graphic or sound quality.
It may soon have a lead because of disk capacity, but we haven't seen that so far.
I think the PS3 is overpowered, but even before I saw it, I was unimpressed by the graphical quality of the 360.
Well, fortunately for Microsoft, nobody else seems to think like you do.
Considering Sony's additional year of development time, I think the Xbox 360 is doing quite well by whatever measure you choose to use. Between scrambling to do something about the Wii's controller, and scrambling to get online content available, Sony's been doing nothing but playing catch-up so far on the PS3. Maybe there'll be some greatness to the console in a couple years, but for now you might as well save the money and buy the Xbox or Wii.
Considering Boeing is the world's leader in passenger aircraft, how about we just give them the benefit of the doubt that they aren't retards?
"Sure, Boeing's spent a decade designing this plane with thousands of engineers, but I read a short Slashdot story summary and now I'm going to decree I know more than them!"
The original Xbox barely competed with the Playstation 2, it's almost a full generation more advanced. To add to that, Microsoft had no delusions that they'd be able to outsell the PS2 with the original Xbox. The "business plan" might have been terrible, but it was a success, the Xbox was never intended to make a profit. Lastly, the Xbox 360 *is* outselling the PS3.
So I have no clue what you're talking about.
If that is true then God has no contact with the physical world and he is irrelevant.
If God created all the physical laws that science studies, then he's hardly irrelevant even if he doesn't interfere in the working of those laws. And I don't even believe in God, I'm just pointing out an obvious hole in your response.
because that means they lose another round to Sony.
What was the first round?
Wait, what?
First of all, your description of "post-human" seems to just be a description of "technologically-advanced-human." If I was writing this message from 1820, would I define the United States of 2007 as "post-human" thinking that scientists of 2007 have "acquired most of the technological capabilities that one can currently show to be consistent with physical laws and with material and energy constraints"?
I don't know if there's an actual concept here and you're explaining it poorly, or if this is just some weird language fluff.
A technologically mature post-human civilization would have enormous computing power. Based on this empirical fact, the simulation argument shows that at least one of the following propositions is true: (1) The fraction of human-level civilizations that reach a posthuman stage is very close to zero;
Wha-huh? How does that follow? "I have a powerful computer therefore nobody else can have a powerful computer?"
Would be nice if there was a screenshot of what this mysterious "realm" dialog box looks like. I can't be the only person who has no clue what he's talking about, can I?
I learned it on MST3K during the movie Future War (which isn't set in the future and doesn't feature a war, natch.)
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mystery_Science_Theater_3000#Future_War
Thank you for not killing me.
the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a posthuman stage.
Isn't that a truism? I mean, you can't have anything post-human until humans are extinct, right?
He began to feel dizzy, and in his confusion he even started wondering if the old fellow was right, and he really was a computer. He felt a pang of worry about how he would tell Jill. The room around him was dissolving away. He felt himself flung into a void, and from somewhere close by, he heard someone calling his name, "Perry Simm...Perry Simm...P'ry Simm...Prisim...PRISM...PRISM..."
http://infocom.elsewhere.org/gallery/amfv/amfv.html
(Yes, I should know, it was my computer that discovered the candidate object for SETI@home back in 2004. Got on TV and weekly reader for that. What have YOU done with your spare CPU cycles?)
Big whoop. If you want to get on TV, I can do it using only a 2"x4" and a 6' short Siberian tiger wall at the local zoo.
What have I done with my spare CPU cycles? I've done jack shit... which is about the same thing you've done with yours. Your jack shit just consumed more power.
Yeah, but Google's setup is almost all custom-developed software. They're using their own filesystem, their own proprietary distributed query language/software, their own custom-developed web servers. Sure, some portions of Google's empire are no doubt using off-the-shelf Linux and off-the-shelf scripting environments like Python or Ruby, but the big clusters are all custom jobs.
And when you're talking custom jobs, there's no reason all of that custom software couldn't have been developed on a stripped Windows kernel instead of a stripped Linux kernel. (I'm sure Google had reasons when it started; they were basically two guys in a garage, so cost was an issue. Now it wouldn't be.) If you could prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that a stripped Windows kernel would run their custom software better than the stripped Linux/BSD kernel they're using now, they'd switch in a heartbeat. (That said at the kernel level, both OSes are the exact same.)
Anyway, Microsoft does run some hefty sites. The Terraserver (http://terraserver-usa.com/)was put up specifically to show that Windows/IIS/MS SQL can be used to run gigantic website clusters. eBay uses Microsoft servers exclusively, unless that's changed in the last year.
I haven't seen any technical/logistic reason for them to be suddenly gaining ground (maybe this move would have some impact), so I was wondering if it is really happening and if so why.
.net application stack that corporations are adopting in droves. Or that Windows Server 2003 sets up balanced clustering with failover with very little brain activity needed on part of the administrator? (Oh wait, this is Slashdot... I forgot making things user-friendly is evil.)
I guess it couldn't possibly be because IIS6 is freakin' fast and memory-efficient? It also couldn't have anything to do with the great
Seriously. IIS is gaining ground because it's a pretty damned good product. That's all there is to it, no trickery involved.
That would only work if there was no free porn on IPv4. I've done a lot of research in this area and I can say, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that there is.
What is so difficult about adding a default rule to your firewall that blocks all incoming connections to your subnet and then adding rules specifically for the devices and services that do require incoming connections?
ie) deny ip from any to 2610:78:ad::/48
How about the fact that to the average user it's complete and utter gibberish? That's pretty difficult.
They probably simply don't have the manpower or time to fully QA every other browser that reads Firefox plug-ins, and since Firefox covers something like 95% of non-IE users, they're calling it good. Would you rather they release the plug-in for browsers they don't have the resources to QA?
(They were using Flash 1.1 beta at the time).
Flash 1.0 was released in December, 1996. And these guys were using 1.1 beta?
Maybe you mean Flash 11 beta? But the latest is version 9...
Basically, Flash is a ubiquitous open-standard with mature development tools
Wha-huh? Flash's *only* development tool sucks eggs. And it's not an open standard at all, not that I've heard of.
I think this post is some kind of elaborate troll.
Just FYI, I think you're an ass too. Thought you'd like to know.
Obligatory "me too." I've had Verizon DSL for over 5 years now, and I think my IP has changed once in all that time. While it's technically a DHCP-assigned address, in practice DHCP nearly always assigns the exact same address when the lease is up, and you end up with a (non-guaranteed) static IP. I can't speak for other ISPs, but Verizon is good that way.
(I just wish they'd run FIOS in my hometown already!)
Three years after the sun goes dark.