There's a lot of difficulties and limitations in pretty much everything, but that doesn't mean it's on the way out. People have been aware of the difficulties and limitations of analog TV for decades, but it's not on the way out until 2009, and that's assuming that date doesn't get pushed back again. Look at the difficulties and limitations of gas-powered cars, but that doesn't mean that biodiesel, ethanol, or hydrogen cars are right around the corner.
In any case, even if you had some kind of evidence to back up your claim that transistors are on the way out, your comment still wasn't insightful... it's the same comment we've seen a thousand times in almost every technology-related topic.
I can pretty much guarantee that Apple will create the most legacy-free x86 you've ever seen... they were the first ones to switch to USB for everything, they were the first ones to drop the floppy, and they were the first ones to offer wireless internet and CD-burners as standard equipment. Apple likes being current, and they have no problem dropping obsolete components.
Hey moderators... where's the insight here? I'm not seeing it...
I also love posts that say things like "reaching the end of the transister" without giving any sort of reference or even half-decent argument for that.
The most useful pie menu I've ever seen was in the Xbox version of Counter-Strike. You could very quickly and easily buy your equipment in a flash... the 'slices' of the pie were all labelled, and the control device (the analog stick) already moved in a circular fashion to start with.
Neverwinter Nights on the PC, however, has the worst pie menu implementation I've ever seen. The 'slices' are only labelled with obscure icons, and the mouse isn't really suited for moving in a circular fashion, at least not in the same way an analog stick is.
So like anything, it can be done well, and it can suck.
Ok, I love the Superhero episode... that's one of my favorites. The weakest episodes in the series (IMO) are the one where Zoidberg makes a movie, and The Honking in the first season.
Yes, you're a supergenius, but you still have this mental illness where you're constantly comparing Linux to Windows.
You know the difference between the Linux community and the Macintosh community? The Macintosh community isn't CONSTANTLY comparing itself to Microsoft... it's self-contained. Don't you think that's healthy?
All of those issues apply to Windows as well, but in some cases on Windows, you're just not allowed to see the extra information even if you want to. If that screed was really their opinion, obviously they needed that reply - they're speaking from a staggering lack of information.
Who gives a shit about Windows? If there's a problem in Linux, FIX THE PROBLEM, whether or not Windows has the same problem.
1) Saying that because Windows shares the same problems, those problems aren't problems at all. "It's OK that Linux has CLI underlying everything because so does Windows! It's OK that Linux is hard to configure because so is Windows 2003!" Who gives a shit what Windows is doing? If Linux is EVER going to be more than just a pale shadow of Windows, you're going to have to start thinking independently.
2) Calling somebody an "astroturfer" for sharing their opinion.
Bruce, on the other hand, hasn't really turned the world on it's ear since Army of Darkness. It was that single brilliant movie filmed 20 years ago (give or take - too lazy to find out exactly when) that strangely continues to buoy him to B-list celebrity status.
Go watch Bubba Ho-Tep and try telling me that again.
The ESRB rules specify that Rockstar must provide all the potentially objectionable material to their reviewers in an easy-to-view fashion. (i.e. don't make their reviewers play the entire game through 50 times to 'unlock' it.) Rockstar didn't submit the "hot coffee" minigame, and yet it shipped on the disk.
The question here is whether material on the disk, but normally inaccessible, should be rated by the ESRB... and it's a good question that needs to be answered. The ESRB is upset that it shipped, but Rockstar says they did nothing wrong, so obviously there needs to be some procedure in place to handle this situation.
Uh, read the internet archive's documentation. They specifically say that if you block their spider with a robots.txt file, it'll *remove* all past entries of their site. Now, the question the court has to decide is whether the archive was legally obligated to do what they claim on the website, but it's not as cut and dried as everybody posting here is making it sound... the archive did do wrong, it was supposed to remove the past history of the site and didn't.
Could be worse. He could be one of those "I don't watch TV, therefore I'm better than everyone else" posters who crop up almost anytime anything about TV is mentioned.
Actually, I guess that's not worse... it's about the same. Hm.
Your third-to-last point is the most important to me. The unions are ruining teaching by ensuring that bad teachers can't ever be gotten rid of, and good teachers can't ever be hired.
(I'd like to be a teacher... but both my parents are teachers, and both of them advised me not to do it. That's not a good sign. Now I'm in IT, and making almost twice what I would be if I had this same amount of experience teaching.)
I just have to tell you, Shepherd Book, that that was an unusual good question for Ask Slashdot... most of them really suck. And not only did you ask a question that is interesting, but you pre-emptively got rid of a lot of the 'junk' answers we would have seen in the discussion at the same time. Kudos.
Too bad the editors don't post more content like this more often.
Prove it. Give me some evidence to support your claim.
If Tribes' collision detection wasn't pixel-precise, then it was god damned close to it. But maybe I'm wrong... in any case, if you think I'll trust "anonymous coward" more than, say, a article on the subject that is so "well known," then you're wrong.
So are you answering my question by saying that Giant Antispyware is a better option than MS AntiSpyware? Because I was under the impression that Giant AntiSpyware no longer exists.
Or were you just utterly ignoring my question and my point to make some anti-Microsoft statement? That seems more likely.
Be fair, Microsoft hasn't overhyped anything about the Xbox 360. They've told people exactly what it'll be able to do when it's released, and exactly what they're planning to do in the future with the hardware.
It's Sony that's the hype factory. Isn't the Cell CPU suppost to be 100 times faster than the faster desktop computer when it's released?
The problem is that there are better games to do what you want, and they all came out before Doom 3.
Want exciting unrealistic multiplayer? There's Unreal Tournament 2003/2004. Want a frightening experience that'll make you wet your pants? There's System Shock 2. Want a mindless game where you shoot 50,000 enemies at once? There's Serious Sam.
Uh, Tribes (1998) featured accurate collision detection based on the polygonal structure of objects. That's before Doom 3 by quite a margin... but maybe you're referring to Quake 3?
(Tribes is the earliest game I can think of that has this feature, but I'm sure there are dozens of other examples... Soldier of Fortune, for instance, or Red Faction, or Mechwarrior IV, or Serious Sam, all came out before Doom 3.)
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There's a lot of difficulties and limitations in pretty much everything, but that doesn't mean it's on the way out. People have been aware of the difficulties and limitations of analog TV for decades, but it's not on the way out until 2009, and that's assuming that date doesn't get pushed back again. Look at the difficulties and limitations of gas-powered cars, but that doesn't mean that biodiesel, ethanol, or hydrogen cars are right around the corner.
In any case, even if you had some kind of evidence to back up your claim that transistors are on the way out, your comment still wasn't insightful... it's the same comment we've seen a thousand times in almost every technology-related topic.
I can pretty much guarantee that Apple will create the most legacy-free x86 you've ever seen... they were the first ones to switch to USB for everything, they were the first ones to drop the floppy, and they were the first ones to offer wireless internet and CD-burners as standard equipment. Apple likes being current, and they have no problem dropping obsolete components.
Hey moderators... where's the insight here? I'm not seeing it...
I also love posts that say things like "reaching the end of the transister" without giving any sort of reference or even half-decent argument for that.
We're nearing the end of this comment.
The most useful pie menu I've ever seen was in the Xbox version of Counter-Strike. You could very quickly and easily buy your equipment in a flash... the 'slices' of the pie were all labelled, and the control device (the analog stick) already moved in a circular fashion to start with.
Neverwinter Nights on the PC, however, has the worst pie menu implementation I've ever seen. The 'slices' are only labelled with obscure icons, and the mouse isn't really suited for moving in a circular fashion, at least not in the same way an analog stick is.
So like anything, it can be done well, and it can suck.
Ok, I love the Superhero episode... that's one of my favorites. The weakest episodes in the series (IMO) are the one where Zoidberg makes a movie, and The Honking in the first season.
Yes, you're a supergenius, but you still have this mental illness where you're constantly comparing Linux to Windows.
You know the difference between the Linux community and the Macintosh community? The Macintosh community isn't CONSTANTLY comparing itself to Microsoft... it's self-contained. Don't you think that's healthy?
All of those issues apply to Windows as well, but in some cases on Windows, you're just not allowed to see the extra information even if you want to. If that screed was really their opinion, obviously they needed that reply - they're speaking from a staggering lack of information.
Who gives a shit about Windows? If there's a problem in Linux, FIX THE PROBLEM, whether or not Windows has the same problem.
Two part of your post that are really stupid:
1) Saying that because Windows shares the same problems, those problems aren't problems at all. "It's OK that Linux has CLI underlying everything because so does Windows! It's OK that Linux is hard to configure because so is Windows 2003!" Who gives a shit what Windows is doing? If Linux is EVER going to be more than just a pale shadow of Windows, you're going to have to start thinking independently.
2) Calling somebody an "astroturfer" for sharing their opinion.
Bruce, on the other hand, hasn't really turned the world on it's ear since Army of Darkness. It was that single brilliant movie filmed 20 years ago (give or take - too lazy to find out exactly when) that strangely continues to buoy him to B-list celebrity status.
Go watch Bubba Ho-Tep and try telling me that again.
I am.
The new phonebook's here! The new phonebook's here! I'm somebody now!
You make a good point, but unfortunately I immediately disregard the opinion of people who use the made-up word "boxen."
The ESRB rules specify that Rockstar must provide all the potentially objectionable material to their reviewers in an easy-to-view fashion. (i.e. don't make their reviewers play the entire game through 50 times to 'unlock' it.) Rockstar didn't submit the "hot coffee" minigame, and yet it shipped on the disk.
The question here is whether material on the disk, but normally inaccessible, should be rated by the ESRB... and it's a good question that needs to be answered. The ESRB is upset that it shipped, but Rockstar says they did nothing wrong, so obviously there needs to be some procedure in place to handle this situation.
I must be the 912,291th person on Slashdot *alone* to have pointed out this rather obvious fact.
And yet they still get modded up as insightful every goddamned time...
Huh. I got a 27" RCA flatscreen CRT HDTV (supports 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i) for $800 about 2 years ago.
What brands were you looking at? Or were you just looking at LCD and plasma displays?
Uh, read the internet archive's documentation. They specifically say that if you block their spider with a robots.txt file, it'll *remove* all past entries of their site. Now, the question the court has to decide is whether the archive was legally obligated to do what they claim on the website, but it's not as cut and dried as everybody posting here is making it sound... the archive did do wrong, it was supposed to remove the past history of the site and didn't.
Could be worse. He could be one of those "I don't watch TV, therefore I'm better than everyone else" posters who crop up almost anytime anything about TV is mentioned.
Actually, I guess that's not worse... it's about the same. Hm.
Your third-to-last point is the most important to me. The unions are ruining teaching by ensuring that bad teachers can't ever be gotten rid of, and good teachers can't ever be hired.
(I'd like to be a teacher... but both my parents are teachers, and both of them advised me not to do it. That's not a good sign. Now I'm in IT, and making almost twice what I would be if I had this same amount of experience teaching.)
I just have to tell you, Shepherd Book, that that was an unusual good question for Ask Slashdot... most of them really suck. And not only did you ask a question that is interesting, but you pre-emptively got rid of a lot of the 'junk' answers we would have seen in the discussion at the same time. Kudos.
Too bad the editors don't post more content like this more often.
The second criteria is that the software monitors your activity and phones home with the information. Media player does this, check.
Prove it. My copy has never phoned home.
Prove it. Give me some evidence to support your claim.
If Tribes' collision detection wasn't pixel-precise, then it was god damned close to it. But maybe I'm wrong... in any case, if you think I'll trust "anonymous coward" more than, say, a article on the subject that is so "well known," then you're wrong.
So are you answering my question by saying that Giant Antispyware is a better option than MS AntiSpyware? Because I was under the impression that Giant AntiSpyware no longer exists.
Or were you just utterly ignoring my question and my point to make some anti-Microsoft statement? That seems more likely.
Be fair, Microsoft hasn't overhyped anything about the Xbox 360. They've told people exactly what it'll be able to do when it's released, and exactly what they're planning to do in the future with the hardware.
It's Sony that's the hype factory. Isn't the Cell CPU suppost to be 100 times faster than the faster desktop computer when it's released?
I spent 3 years sniping with the laser rifle in Tribes. Trust me, it's precise to the pixel.
You're playing the wrong games. Try Morrowind, Knights of the Old Republic, or a good RP-based MUD.
The problem is that there are better games to do what you want, and they all came out before Doom 3.
Want exciting unrealistic multiplayer? There's Unreal Tournament 2003/2004. Want a frightening experience that'll make you wet your pants? There's System Shock 2. Want a mindless game where you shoot 50,000 enemies at once? There's Serious Sam.
Doom 3 offers nothing new.
Uh, Tribes (1998) featured accurate collision detection based on the polygonal structure of objects. That's before Doom 3 by quite a margin... but maybe you're referring to Quake 3?
(Tribes is the earliest game I can think of that has this feature, but I'm sure there are dozens of other examples... Soldier of Fortune, for instance, or Red Faction, or Mechwarrior IV, or Serious Sam, all came out before Doom 3.)