I had a blackout this weekend and I called the power companies blackout line. While reporting the blackout to them was very easy (im sure I wasnt even the first one to do that) the automated system didnt have any information about the current blackout. You would think they could record a message that said "We are experienceing a blackout in some parts of (list towns here) we are working on it and expect to have it fixed in (insert inflated time estimate here)"
I'm not sure I buy those number though. can you really outfit a 500 child school for 10 grand? can you really get all the text books you need for 20 bucks a kid (never mind the building, furniture, ect)?
Also, I don't think these laptops are supposed to replace the school but rather provide most of the infrastructure for the school except for the building and the teachers. Now, I don't know how good the materials are that come with the laptop. Do they really provide the kind of learning potential that a bunch of text books provide? I have no idea, but I at least sort of get the point. The idea is to build the school AND give the kids these laptops instead of text books. Is it cost effective, I dont know and im not qualified to answer that question.
so they should spend money to put a feature on the iPod that only a bunch of folks on slashdot will actually care about? How is that to their advantage.
Look, this isn't a technical argument at this point. It doesn't matter if Ogg is better than MP3. MP3 won, its currently the compressed format for audio that most people use. You don't go out and by an Ogg player, you go and buy an MP3 player (or more likely, an iPod specifically). Very few people are going to buy an iPod only if it had Ogg support so its not worth the time and money it would cost apple to add this format. If apple though it would lead to enough sales to justify the expense they already would have added support.
I didnt say I trusted the government. Especially when it comes to health issues. But seriously, taking medical advice from your average youTuber is unbelievably stupid.
YouTuber... is that the evolution of the couch potato?
It depends on the music. Sure, most Floyd tracks sound strange when taken out of the context of the album, but other songs are more than capable of standing on their own. If you listen almost exclusively to classic rock then yes, album oriented listening is the way to go but if you listen to more modern music, or even some older music (most blues albums for instance) the songs really do stand alone and in many cases the album is simply a collection of good songs.
The album had its day and its day is mostly past. If more artists would create actual albums then I might be more likely to bemoan the loss of the format, but really, other than the occasional Neil young or Tom Petty album (and they wont be making music forever), how many artists out there still make albums that are greater than the sum of their parts?
I think the album died way before MP3 players hit the market.
ha! I'm playing the old fallout games as well before fallout 3 comes out. They sure don't play nice with the more modern OS's. Fallout 1 appears to do something incorrect when it initializes quicktime on launch. If you start up and launch fallout it bombs out but if you launch quicktime player first and let it initialize quicktime then the game seems to run reasonably well.
I have found, when the game locks up once in a while that apple-option-escape will force quit the game if you hold it down for a few seconds (though it doesn't bring up the normal dialog). If it happens to you again give it a try. I haven't had Fallout 2 crash on me yet so I cant confirm that it works.
I only have one machine running leopard but my experience has been much the same as yours. I haven't had any crashes, kernel panics or dropped network connections. I had an issue with a torrent client that stopped working due to incompatibility with leopard. I'm not sure if they have fixed it because I started using a different (and better) client.
I found this to be as smooth an upgrade as any I have ever run and I have had no issues with my new install. I'm sure leopard isn't perfect, nothing is, but its not some huge pile of crashes.
Thats pretty reasonable. Your likely to want the extra controller and certainly you will want some games. The packages last year seemed a lot less desirable (maybe because there weren't as many good games out for the Wii)
Text books are a different issue but frankly, I would rather carry those on a laptop anyway.
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bandwidth cost is much lower than the same costs for physical books which include not only printing but also shipping and handling, which alone is probably more than the bandwidth on a per book basis. The grandparent might be a bit off on the $1 number but he is right that nobody is going to pay the same price for a text file that they would pay for a paperback.
Books arent like music, they dont have as much replay vaule, your not sitting on a train thinking, "man, if only I had that book I finished last week I would read it again right now." Most people read one book at a time, or a few books at a time in some cases and there is much less value in carrying your entire library with you. So given all that, why would you buy a device to do that just to pay the same price for the book as you would for a nice bound copy?
honestly they might have done more harm than good given some of the crap thats hitting AS these days. I dont think AS was ever in any real danger honestly. Its not like cartoon network was going to make big money running any of their regular fare in the late night time slot. Using that space for anime and off the wall cartoons was probably a pretty easy choice. Admittedly the success of Futurama and Family Guy helped them bring in more shows but to some degree I wish they would get back to their roots and away from the new live action shows (or nearly live action shows) that they have been producing lately.
I mean really... without Futurama I'm sure they still could have found enough money to produce saul of the mole men without too much trouble, but it still wouldn't have been a good idea.
Options would be nice. Why not have a built in generic matching system for the Wii. Something where you could go online and find friends. But you could also have a parental control that would over ride this and limit matching to people who you have traded friends codes with.
I would still use the codes, just for the ease of matching up with my actual friends online, but if I wanted to play a game online and none of my friends were around I might use a basic matching service.
From what I understand (and I could be mistaken) Nintendo actually makes money on the Wii hardware. So yea, they probably make out pretty well regardless.
If more companies would start making good games for the huge Nintendo install base I think you would see more games being purchased. I think there is a lot of money to be made on the Wii both in traditional games and in cheaper, smaller games. I'm a big fan of Wii sports but I would probably pay 20-30 bucks each for a more fully fleshed out version of each sport. They wouldn't have to be huge games (though golf and baseball are probably better served by the big name EA games) AMF bowling comes outs soon and for 20 bucks I might just pick it up. I'm looking forward to a real baseball game on the Wii as well if it is done well.
The fact that a piece of paper from one of these overpriced institutions is overvalued does not change the fact that the institution is overpriced.
The real solution is to go to a less expensive state school of course, but all that is besides the point. The point I was making, which you ignored, is that the cost of going to school is higher than the value of your vote, even if your vote was the deciding vote between 2 candidates. This is a cost benefit situation. The impact that one candidate vs another will have on your wallet is likely less than the cost of 4 years at NYU.
The student loan slavery problem (which I think is a bit overstated by the grandparent) is not the fault of the government for providing low interest loans, it is the fault of the educational institutions that charge an unbelievable rate for an undergrad degree. The cost of many private universities is unreal. I'm not sure what tuition at NYU costs but I would be willing to bet than a full scholarship would save you more money over the course of your life than the difference between the choices of one candidate vs another would give you.
Even if your vote was the deciding vote how much of a difference does one candidate vs another candidate (for a single term) have on your wallet over the course of your life? Is it more than the $80,000 you are paying to go to school?
The title of the slashdot summary contains the phrase "plot details revealed" and you needed the linked articles spoiler warnings to stop you from reading further?
even with games I do replay, old saved game files arent that interesting. Sure, I would hate to loose the saved game file for my current game of Civ IV but once Ive won I dont need the huge pile of files on my hard drive anymore. I might keep the last one so I can run though the "you've won" bit again and see the replay of the game but it wouldn't be the end of the world if I lost it.
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I had a blackout this weekend and I called the power companies blackout line. While reporting the blackout to them was very easy (im sure I wasnt even the first one to do that) the automated system didnt have any information about the current blackout. You would think they could record a message that said "We are experienceing a blackout in some parts of (list towns here) we are working on it and expect to have it fixed in (insert inflated time estimate here)"
But no such luck.
I'm not sure I buy those number though. can you really outfit a 500 child school for 10 grand? can you really get all the text books you need for 20 bucks a kid (never mind the building, furniture, ect)?
Also, I don't think these laptops are supposed to replace the school but rather provide most of the infrastructure for the school except for the building and the teachers. Now, I don't know how good the materials are that come with the laptop. Do they really provide the kind of learning potential that a bunch of text books provide? I have no idea, but I at least sort of get the point. The idea is to build the school AND give the kids these laptops instead of text books. Is it cost effective, I dont know and im not qualified to answer that question.
so they should spend money to put a feature on the iPod that only a bunch of folks on slashdot will actually care about? How is that to their advantage.
Look, this isn't a technical argument at this point. It doesn't matter if Ogg is better than MP3. MP3 won, its currently the compressed format for audio that most people use. You don't go out and by an Ogg player, you go and buy an MP3 player (or more likely, an iPod specifically). Very few people are going to buy an iPod only if it had Ogg support so its not worth the time and money it would cost apple to add this format. If apple though it would lead to enough sales to justify the expense they already would have added support.
I didnt say I trusted the government. Especially when it comes to health issues. But seriously, taking medical advice from your average youTuber is unbelievably stupid.
YouTuber... is that the evolution of the couch potato?
I trust the government more than I trust the web site that brought us "Leave Britney alone!"
Medical advice from YouTube... what the fuck? Who on earth would go there for definitive advice on anything (except maybe old TV shows).
3 days with mod points and nothing good to mod. As soon as they expire I find this.
It depends on the music. Sure, most Floyd tracks sound strange when taken out of the context of the album, but other songs are more than capable of standing on their own. If you listen almost exclusively to classic rock then yes, album oriented listening is the way to go but if you listen to more modern music, or even some older music (most blues albums for instance) the songs really do stand alone and in many cases the album is simply a collection of good songs.
The album had its day and its day is mostly past. If more artists would create actual albums then I might be more likely to bemoan the loss of the format, but really, other than the occasional Neil young or Tom Petty album (and they wont be making music forever), how many artists out there still make albums that are greater than the sum of their parts?
I think the album died way before MP3 players hit the market.
ha! I'm playing the old fallout games as well before fallout 3 comes out. They sure don't play nice with the more modern OS's. Fallout 1 appears to do something incorrect when it initializes quicktime on launch. If you start up and launch fallout it bombs out but if you launch quicktime player first and let it initialize quicktime then the game seems to run reasonably well.
I have found, when the game locks up once in a while that apple-option-escape will force quit the game if you hold it down for a few seconds (though it doesn't bring up the normal dialog). If it happens to you again give it a try. I haven't had Fallout 2 crash on me yet so I cant confirm that it works.
I only have one machine running leopard but my experience has been much the same as yours. I haven't had any crashes, kernel panics or dropped network connections. I had an issue with a torrent client that stopped working due to incompatibility with leopard. I'm not sure if they have fixed it because I started using a different (and better) client.
I found this to be as smooth an upgrade as any I have ever run and I have had no issues with my new install. I'm sure leopard isn't perfect, nothing is, but its not some huge pile of crashes.
Interesting. I had major issues with wake from sleep under tiger but haven't had any problems since switching to leopard.
Thats pretty reasonable. Your likely to want the extra controller and certainly you will want some games. The packages last year seemed a lot less desirable (maybe because there weren't as many good games out for the Wii)
Text books are a different issue but frankly, I would rather carry those on a laptop anyway.
bandwidth cost is much lower than the same costs for physical books which include not only printing but also shipping and handling, which alone is probably more than the bandwidth on a per book basis. The grandparent might be a bit off on the $1 number but he is right that nobody is going to pay the same price for a text file that they would pay for a paperback.
Books arent like music, they dont have as much replay vaule, your not sitting on a train thinking, "man, if only I had that book I finished last week I would read it again right now." Most people read one book at a time, or a few books at a time in some cases and there is much less value in carrying your entire library with you. So given all that, why would you buy a device to do that just to pay the same price for the book as you would for a nice bound copy?
there was a slashdot article just a little while ago about software being used to find these kinds of waves.
honestly they might have done more harm than good given some of the crap thats hitting AS these days. I dont think AS was ever in any real danger honestly. Its not like cartoon network was going to make big money running any of their regular fare in the late night time slot. Using that space for anime and off the wall cartoons was probably a pretty easy choice. Admittedly the success of Futurama and Family Guy helped them bring in more shows but to some degree I wish they would get back to their roots and away from the new live action shows (or nearly live action shows) that they have been producing lately.
I mean really... without Futurama I'm sure they still could have found enough money to produce saul of the mole men without too much trouble, but it still wouldn't have been a good idea.
Still, I don't remember a reference to a quantum physicist in that scene, so its probably something else.
Options would be nice. Why not have a built in generic matching system for the Wii. Something where you could go online and find friends. But you could also have a parental control that would over ride this and limit matching to people who you have traded friends codes with.
I would still use the codes, just for the ease of matching up with my actual friends online, but if I wanted to play a game online and none of my friends were around I might use a basic matching service.
From what I understand (and I could be mistaken) Nintendo actually makes money on the Wii hardware. So yea, they probably make out pretty well regardless.
If more companies would start making good games for the huge Nintendo install base I think you would see more games being purchased. I think there is a lot of money to be made on the Wii both in traditional games and in cheaper, smaller games. I'm a big fan of Wii sports but I would probably pay 20-30 bucks each for a more fully fleshed out version of each sport. They wouldn't have to be huge games (though golf and baseball are probably better served by the big name EA games) AMF bowling comes outs soon and for 20 bucks I might just pick it up. I'm looking forward to a real baseball game on the Wii as well if it is done well.
The fact that a piece of paper from one of these overpriced institutions is overvalued does not change the fact that the institution is overpriced.
The real solution is to go to a less expensive state school of course, but all that is besides the point. The point I was making, which you ignored, is that the cost of going to school is higher than the value of your vote, even if your vote was the deciding vote between 2 candidates. This is a cost benefit situation. The impact that one candidate vs another will have on your wallet is likely less than the cost of 4 years at NYU.
The student loan slavery problem (which I think is a bit overstated by the grandparent) is not the fault of the government for providing low interest loans, it is the fault of the educational institutions that charge an unbelievable rate for an undergrad degree. The cost of many private universities is unreal. I'm not sure what tuition at NYU costs but I would be willing to bet than a full scholarship would save you more money over the course of your life than the difference between the choices of one candidate vs another would give you.
Even if your vote was the deciding vote how much of a difference does one candidate vs another candidate (for a single term) have on your wallet over the course of your life? Is it more than the $80,000 you are paying to go to school?
How much is breathable air worth to you?
The title of the slashdot summary contains the phrase "plot details revealed" and you needed the linked articles spoiler warnings to stop you from reading further?
even with games I do replay, old saved game files arent that interesting. Sure, I would hate to loose the saved game file for my current game of Civ IV but once Ive won I dont need the huge pile of files on my hard drive anymore. I might keep the last one so I can run though the "you've won" bit again and see the replay of the game but it wouldn't be the end of the world if I lost it.
Why not credit the developers? Why go to such lengths to conceal the closing of an office? What did they stand to gain or loose?
Seems like a pretty odd way to behave and whatever they did gain is probably not worth the minor shit storm this has kicked up.