don't worry, even the Intel reps don't know what the difference is. I remember talking to one about hyperthreading when they added it back to the Core series, trying to figure out how two cores suddenly have 4 threads. After 15 minutes of slide presentations with various price points, he came to the conclusion that AMD's closest match for it was still slower than the Core processor with HT. I still don't know what the hell it means, and the benchmarks certainly don't help clarify it.
Currently running an E8400 clocked at 4.13ghz, happy as a clam.
So based on your own isolated experience, the folks at the Apple Genius bar are a waste of pay, as is the global service exchange that technicians use as a source for OSX and hardware repairs. Or do you just bathe your Mac in unicorn tears and wash away any problems?
As a side note, my grandmother used Windows ME for 6 years without ever needing tech support. (Results not Typical) should follow your bullshit generalizations.
The only thing the ipad proved is that the tablet market has been sorely neglected; the pent up market demand is palpable. There are still some very basic tasks that are well suited to a portable touchscreen device.
Printing is a big one, its not that hard to detect and download a printer driver automatically, every desktop OS does it and it's great.
The USB functionality, at the very least for (you guessed it, printers) and flash drives would make this the primary tool for a great many college students. Why tether a device to a desktop when the device is perfectly capable by itself of handling all kinds of file manipulation.
That last point is the singular reason i have no interest in owning an ipad, the network device and file support is in the dark ages. Even apple supported apps like the vaunted keynote remote are horribly buggy, slow, and unintelligent, often requiring router configuration without the help of man pages. Is it really that hard to believe that offices WANT a slick, intuitive interface for accessing and manipulating documents on a local network, a flash drive?
There's still alot of untapped market demand, the ipad only scratched the surface.
Step 1: Find old camera
Step 2: Retrofit camera with digital backing
Step 3: Stick now-retrofitted camera into someone's love-hole.
Step 4: ??
Step 5: Profit!
That whole plot/dialog thing is so much simpler than the visual graphics right? I mean heck, Shakespeare never had to deal with raycasting or aliasing, he had it EASY!
See, thing about tasers, in order to be issued one you have to agree to be tazed. Most cops are pretty much fine just shooting a fleeing suspect in the leg rather than be tazed once a year. As they say, you don't give em a gun so they can chase ya.
Wanna know why Ubuntu is the linux flavor to beat? It's fun to use. No messy compiling of the kernel, no conf files to edit to get it up and running, it just works. Especially with the latest revamp of the alsa interface, not to mention the snazzy layout of the repo browser. Track record last few releases has been good.
It needs a lower cased letter placed ambiguously to inform the consumer that it's good enough for his ePeen. I suggest "Phone-y-book", or "eFingerBook"
Simple. They gave every man and male child a parachute in case of emergency, or just for plain fun. Airplane strikes the building, just open a window and glide away to safety. Assuming you don't have a burning airplane in your face of course.
Yea, because the county is going to spend hundreds of manhours extraditing a prisoner from Canada without enough evidence to convict. It's a done deal, call it for what it is.
i have to agree. But here's my rant first. skip to the bottom to get to my point.
my first experience with apple was in the public school system, i think we had apple II's. the interface was unwieldy and slow, there was no right click, i could navigate easier in DOS. Of course since then Mac's have improved, but the interface is still goofy. Easy there fanbois, i'm talking stock interface, not custom. The dock at the bottom is entirely useless, it doesn't close programs, only minimizes them, and doesn't display the active programs clearly at all. Plus the control bar (start bar, whatever) changing to the open program saves about 10 pixels of space, but takes extra hotkeys to return to the desktop and/or filesystem. This all on top of the fact that just about every aspect of the OS is held tightly under lock and key. So if you have any issues whatsoever with a program, your only recourse is to sit on it and spin. Give me Ubuntu or give me death.
On the other hand, apple makes amazing hardware. The iphone is slick, solid state, and speedy for a phone, with a pretty much intuitive interface (not perfect, but it works well enough) Likewise, the macbook pro's are just about the best built laptops you can find, with the best balance of battery life, performance, weight, and the aluminum chasis is just sexy.
If the tablet is even a fraction of what the rumors claim, (at least a multi touch, monolithic, solid state slate) it'll be a new market, and a huge one at that. I'll put up with apple interfaces if they keep delivering on the hardware.
electric cars are based on magnetic coils producing a kinetic force. Put an electric car in a zero G vacuum and you won't go anywhere. The difference is that a quantum propulsion engine does not rely on a tangible surface to push against.
Better watch out for all those crusty Warcraft jugglers, they're being trained to kill things as a group. You'd better lower the standards to G ratings or i'm sure all the WoW nerds in Australia will start banding together and rolling against each other for who gets to loot your house.
now that ya mention go--which is weiqi in chinese, where the game originated--it is interesting to note that the game holds a special place in computer science as a benchmark for AI testing. See here. I can't remember where i read it but someone once said there are more possible board positions than there are stars in the known universe, which makes programming for the game entirely dependent on how well the program can evaluate positions.
I'd really be interested to see if google's language can utilize CUDA to analyze hundreds of board positions at a time, or if it can implement google search-like pattern recognition to find groupings of favorable board positions. Name aside, what does the language bring new to the table?
i really liked the single player for the first Quake, complete with nine inch nails and all. Have to keep these things on context though, considering that FPS's were in their infancy at the time. Quake to Bioshock is like the difference between cave paintings and high italian renaissance art.
actually i've been making a fair amount of money off of those fake AV programs lately too. I think it's called Total Security or Cyber Security or something like that, insinuates itself in the AV section of the action center. After the first couple systems i got pretty quick about removing it, only took me 15 minutes for the last system i cleaned. Just kill the active process, delete the CS folder from program files, remove the browser helper object and set avast to a thorough scan of all archives. Incidentally, ALL the systems i've cleaned to date have had norton 2010 installed. Lately i've taken to recommending that any customers with norton just remove it regardless of existing subscriptions and install Avast. Haven't had a single complaint yet about the viruses resurfacing in the cases that took my advice.
makes it somewhat suspicious that TFA claimed that Norton was one of the best rated malware programs out there, and that Avast was hardly average. Sounds highly questionable.
My earliest experience with gaming was staying up until the wee hours of the morning playing Action quake2 and rail-instagib CTF with those laser hooks they had. It was punishingly brutal back then, you could die 3 times in less than a second on some servers, and hackers could run rampant until an admin banned his ass. It was all worth it once you got that midair lag-shot on the top player on the server. These were all community supported mods running on dedicated servers. No servers, no mods, no community. This will only end in tears, or pirates, or both.
Sounds like great news for everyone. A precedent that helps stand against widespread banning of websites can only be a good thing for net neutrality. Means liability for illegal actions can't be retroactively inherited.
Wii sales fell off a cliff? Did they land in a pile of money or something? The Wii was SOLD OUT for almost 2 years after launch, that's well beyond any conceivable novelty factor. I'm sorry you think the wiimote isn't an elegant controller like the rest of the world does (and it is), but it's accuracy and ease of use is second only to the mouse and keyboard for FPS's. The stick controls the ps3 and xbox rely on for shooters is clumsy and requires autoaiming for most games, something development houses have to accomodate or their games feel inaccurate.
The reason so many third party games are considered sub-par for the wii is because three dimensional interfaces have never been fleshed out, and no one knows yet how to fully utilize all the extra input options. So to play it safe few games (besides first party ones) really take a chance on 3d motion input, instead relying on the well known stick and button controls we've been using for decades. It's the same story with the iphone right now (tell me thats a novelty too, i dare ya) Few game developers get creative and utilize multitouch in fun an interesting ways, and most end up treating touch input the same as they would a mouse.
Long story short, it's the Wii that has yet to really come into it's own. The PS3 and XBOX have their niche crowds and eye candy, and netflix is a nice bonus, but after 50-100 hours of gameplay i really could care less if it's rendering in 1200p at 240hz. I still think Quake is fun, and X-Com, and HoMM. I even get a kick out of MUD's, and they have no graphics at all. The Wii is only going to get more fun as developers find more creative ways to use this newfangled "third dimension" that they've been raving about on the tubes.
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don't worry, even the Intel reps don't know what the difference is. I remember talking to one about hyperthreading when they added it back to the Core series, trying to figure out how two cores suddenly have 4 threads. After 15 minutes of slide presentations with various price points, he came to the conclusion that AMD's closest match for it was still slower than the Core processor with HT. I still don't know what the hell it means, and the benchmarks certainly don't help clarify it. Currently running an E8400 clocked at 4.13ghz, happy as a clam.
So based on your own isolated experience, the folks at the Apple Genius bar are a waste of pay, as is the global service exchange that technicians use as a source for OSX and hardware repairs. Or do you just bathe your Mac in unicorn tears and wash away any problems?
As a side note, my grandmother used Windows ME for 6 years without ever needing tech support. (Results not Typical) should follow your bullshit generalizations.
You, sir, have just ruined my childhood. And i'm 27.
The only thing the ipad proved is that the tablet market has been sorely neglected; the pent up market demand is palpable. There are still some very basic tasks that are well suited to a portable touchscreen device.
Printing is a big one, its not that hard to detect and download a printer driver automatically, every desktop OS does it and it's great.
The USB functionality, at the very least for (you guessed it, printers) and flash drives would make this the primary tool for a great many college students. Why tether a device to a desktop when the device is perfectly capable by itself of handling all kinds of file manipulation.
That last point is the singular reason i have no interest in owning an ipad, the network device and file support is in the dark ages. Even apple supported apps like the vaunted keynote remote are horribly buggy, slow, and unintelligent, often requiring router configuration without the help of man pages. Is it really that hard to believe that offices WANT a slick, intuitive interface for accessing and manipulating documents on a local network, a flash drive?
There's still alot of untapped market demand, the ipad only scratched the surface.
Step 1: Find old camera
Step 2: Retrofit camera with digital backing
Step 3: Stick now-retrofitted camera into someone's love-hole.
Step 4: ??
Step 5: Profit!
That whole plot/dialog thing is so much simpler than the visual graphics right? I mean heck, Shakespeare never had to deal with raycasting or aliasing, he had it EASY!
See, thing about tasers, in order to be issued one you have to agree to be tazed. Most cops are pretty much fine just shooting a fleeing suspect in the leg rather than be tazed once a year. As they say, you don't give em a gun so they can chase ya.
Wanna know why Ubuntu is the linux flavor to beat? It's fun to use. No messy compiling of the kernel, no conf files to edit to get it up and running, it just works. Especially with the latest revamp of the alsa interface, not to mention the snazzy layout of the repo browser. Track record last few releases has been good.
It needs a lower cased letter placed ambiguously to inform the consumer that it's good enough for his ePeen. I suggest "Phone-y-book", or "eFingerBook"
What about security features ? Fire exits ?
Simple. They gave every man and male child a parachute in case of emergency, or just for plain fun. Airplane strikes the building, just open a window and glide away to safety. Assuming you don't have a burning airplane in your face of course.
Yea, because the county is going to spend hundreds of manhours extraditing a prisoner from Canada without enough evidence to convict. It's a done deal, call it for what it is.
i have to agree. But here's my rant first. skip to the bottom to get to my point.
my first experience with apple was in the public school system, i think we had apple II's. the interface was unwieldy and slow, there was no right click, i could navigate easier in DOS. Of course since then Mac's have improved, but the interface is still goofy. Easy there fanbois, i'm talking stock interface, not custom. The dock at the bottom is entirely useless, it doesn't close programs, only minimizes them, and doesn't display the active programs clearly at all. Plus the control bar (start bar, whatever) changing to the open program saves about 10 pixels of space, but takes extra hotkeys to return to the desktop and/or filesystem. This all on top of the fact that just about every aspect of the OS is held tightly under lock and key. So if you have any issues whatsoever with a program, your only recourse is to sit on it and spin. Give me Ubuntu or give me death.
On the other hand, apple makes amazing hardware. The iphone is slick, solid state, and speedy for a phone, with a pretty much intuitive interface (not perfect, but it works well enough) Likewise, the macbook pro's are just about the best built laptops you can find, with the best balance of battery life, performance, weight, and the aluminum chasis is just sexy.
If the tablet is even a fraction of what the rumors claim, (at least a multi touch, monolithic, solid state slate) it'll be a new market, and a huge one at that. I'll put up with apple interfaces if they keep delivering on the hardware.
Think about that for a second. If it was straight, it would head straight out into space.
The only object in existence that has curves but is still straight would be your mother.
electric cars are based on magnetic coils producing a kinetic force. Put an electric car in a zero G vacuum and you won't go anywhere. The difference is that a quantum propulsion engine does not rely on a tangible surface to push against.
Better watch out for all those crusty Warcraft jugglers, they're being trained to kill things as a group. You'd better lower the standards to G ratings or i'm sure all the WoW nerds in Australia will start banding together and rolling against each other for who gets to loot your house.
Good thing they don't have any decent tanks, South Park might be in trouble.
I tip my hat to you sir, a fine wit. Now give me back the milk i just snorted on the keyboard.
now that ya mention go--which is weiqi in chinese, where the game originated--it is interesting to note that the game holds a special place in computer science as a benchmark for AI testing. See here. I can't remember where i read it but someone once said there are more possible board positions than there are stars in the known universe, which makes programming for the game entirely dependent on how well the program can evaluate positions.
I'd really be interested to see if google's language can utilize CUDA to analyze hundreds of board positions at a time, or if it can implement google search-like pattern recognition to find groupings of favorable board positions. Name aside, what does the language bring new to the table?
actually, they aren't owned by Vivendi since the merger with Activision.
more than you might think, if that movie with Richard Dreyfuss is to be believed.
i really liked the single player for the first Quake, complete with nine inch nails and all. Have to keep these things on context though, considering that FPS's were in their infancy at the time. Quake to Bioshock is like the difference between cave paintings and high italian renaissance art.
actually i've been making a fair amount of money off of those fake AV programs lately too. I think it's called Total Security or Cyber Security or something like that, insinuates itself in the AV section of the action center. After the first couple systems i got pretty quick about removing it, only took me 15 minutes for the last system i cleaned. Just kill the active process, delete the CS folder from program files, remove the browser helper object and set avast to a thorough scan of all archives. Incidentally, ALL the systems i've cleaned to date have had norton 2010 installed. Lately i've taken to recommending that any customers with norton just remove it regardless of existing subscriptions and install Avast. Haven't had a single complaint yet about the viruses resurfacing in the cases that took my advice.
makes it somewhat suspicious that TFA claimed that Norton was one of the best rated malware programs out there, and that Avast was hardly average. Sounds highly questionable.
My earliest experience with gaming was staying up until the wee hours of the morning playing Action quake2 and rail-instagib CTF with those laser hooks they had. It was punishingly brutal back then, you could die 3 times in less than a second on some servers, and hackers could run rampant until an admin banned his ass. It was all worth it once you got that midair lag-shot on the top player on the server. These were all community supported mods running on dedicated servers. No servers, no mods, no community. This will only end in tears, or pirates, or both.
Sounds like great news for everyone. A precedent that helps stand against widespread banning of websites can only be a good thing for net neutrality. Means liability for illegal actions can't be retroactively inherited.
Wii sales fell off a cliff? Did they land in a pile of money or something? The Wii was SOLD OUT for almost 2 years after launch, that's well beyond any conceivable novelty factor. I'm sorry you think the wiimote isn't an elegant controller like the rest of the world does (and it is), but it's accuracy and ease of use is second only to the mouse and keyboard for FPS's. The stick controls the ps3 and xbox rely on for shooters is clumsy and requires autoaiming for most games, something development houses have to accomodate or their games feel inaccurate.
The reason so many third party games are considered sub-par for the wii is because three dimensional interfaces have never been fleshed out, and no one knows yet how to fully utilize all the extra input options. So to play it safe few games (besides first party ones) really take a chance on 3d motion input, instead relying on the well known stick and button controls we've been using for decades. It's the same story with the iphone right now (tell me thats a novelty too, i dare ya) Few game developers get creative and utilize multitouch in fun an interesting ways, and most end up treating touch input the same as they would a mouse.
Long story short, it's the Wii that has yet to really come into it's own. The PS3 and XBOX have their niche crowds and eye candy, and netflix is a nice bonus, but after 50-100 hours of gameplay i really could care less if it's rendering in 1200p at 240hz. I still think Quake is fun, and X-Com, and HoMM. I even get a kick out of MUD's, and they have no graphics at all. The Wii is only going to get more fun as developers find more creative ways to use this newfangled "third dimension" that they've been raving about on the tubes.