"Rep. Peter King (R-NY), Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, has introduced HR 607, the 'Broadband for First Responders Act of 2011,' which has been referred to the House Energy and Commerce Committee (which handles telecommunications legislation).
Plus, there's no big brother controlling your hardware.
That's right, on the PC big brother controls the software.
To me the Wii got the model right: concentrate on game-play, not graphics.
It's a shame that Nintendo is the only company that sees that ideal down through the software. Most, if not all 3rd party software for the Wii is undeniably crap.
Considering that these leaps in eye candy are only possible with the current state of PC graphics, we wonder how long consoles will be the target platform for development of blockbuster games."
What a load of crap.
Consoles will be the target platform for the development of blockbuster games as long as there is an audience for them. I love the PC as a gaming platform, but blockbusting developers care primarily about one thing, sales. You have this huge installed base of 360s and PS3s, and the people who buy games are playing on these consoles. Also consider that in our economy, the people who want to play new game "x" are not going to be able to go buy the new hardware required to play new game "x" on the PC.
As well, once there is a big enough jump to make in graphics (or features, looking at the Wii), that can be made at a reasonable price point (one would think Sony would have learned that lesson with the PS3), Microsoft and Sony will release new updated consoles that will compete with/overtake the abilities of the *common* gaming PC. The process repeats, as it has many times before. The PC ends up being the testing grounds for technologies that are later integrated into the consoles. Remember when you could only get a good multiplayer experience on the PC?
The good news must be that all issues of unemployment, finance and social service must be resolved in Utah for their legislature to spend time on this. It must be a utahpia!
Take it from a professional photographer, 90% of the time, the angle and lighting are all that matter between a good and a bad photo.
Glad someone posted this. As a Novice who takes many many bad pictures and a few good ones, lighting and composition (often the angle) are the essentials. There are many things you can fix in photoshop or lightroom, but bad lighting and the angle that highlights that all your worst features are not among them.
Instead of a new camera, buy a book that teaches you how to use light, and another book that teaches you about composition, then spend the remainder on a copy of Lightroom. If you know how to use google or yahoo or bing, you can even skip the books, and try the strobist blog and some of the tutorials for composition available on istockphoto.com. Once you understand these things, then if you must buy a new camera, you'll have a better idea what to look for in a camera, and a "beautifying button" won't be among them.
A serious force to be taken seriously? It almost sounds like.... the internet is serious business....I hate myself for spending too much time on the internet, now.
I was doing beta testing in 1997 for a (now dead) "multimedia company" (web developer) that was creating a kiosk for Toyota that would help users to choose the right car for them. It looked very similar to alot of the features you see on websites today, although a lot more basic. It was written in Java and as Java was back then, the app was buggy as hell. I was quite good at my job, I could break the app at any moment and when the opportunity arose, I received the lead programmer's blessing to transfer to the graphic department. He was glad to be rid of me. The point of this story is that Java was in use, or at least development (not sure if that project ever saw the light of day) 14 years ago, and they had been working on that project for a time before I ever got there.
I know we have to keep our java below a certain version for our Citrix remote portal. There are some other apps that are affected, but that's by far the most important one for us.
The most likely plug-in to require a patch: same as last year, Oracle's Java."
Of course, this has nothing to do with the fact that new versions of Java tend to break existing java based applications and utilities. You can use the new version of Java, or you can use the older one that works with your mission critical enterprise tools.
$500 is well below the going rate for killing the key witness in a felony trial. Maybe he would have gotten a more positive response if he hadn't been such a cheapskate.
I don't think there IS a positive response for this.
I had a first gen Wii, and (I think) a first gen gamecube. Both had problems around the third year. My friend's first gen DS didn't last very long either. My DS lite still runs strong. Nintendo's 1st generation of a product last just long enough to make you forget the warranty. I'm gonna wait until they've made tweaks to the product, and until they have a game catalog worthy of spending the 250.
Anyone care to educate these clowns on the existence of the First Amendment?
First Amendment allows you can say whatever you like, with few exceptions. It does not, however, protect you from being responsible for the consequences of what you said. If you are badmouthing your employer on a publicly visible page with your name attached, you are committing career suicide, regardless of your employer. They can either get rid of you, or make it miserable for you to maintain your employment. If you must vent, do it offline, or privatize your page and be sure you don't have co-workers as "friends". That's being responsible, and shielding yourself from these consequences so many forget about.
I once made my fundamentalist christian boss at an old job pratically swallow his tongue because I almost forced him to understand evolution. Along with loving Jesus, he was a super gear-head. So I broke Evolution down into car terms (very basic terms since I'm NOT a gearhead).
First I asked why we don't drive Model-T Fords anymore? Because someone added pedals to the next car. The car people bought after that had a hardtop roof or windshield wipers. Then some came out with larger engines, those cars survived longer in the marketplace because they were a better fit to what people wanted from their money. Some cars had innovations that didn't work, and they died off (Edsel, et al). And now we have lamborghini's and Bentleys and Chevys and Fords of all different makes and models, with GPS and remote start, and some will do better than others, and continue to be developed. Others will be too expensive, or too fuel hungry, or too feature-poor, and those won't sell as well, and over time, those models will disappear.
Effectively the slow progression the car industry makes in response to market forces is analogous to the evolution of life in response to changing environmental pressure.
Just wait until someone turns that analogy on it's head, as the vehicles you are referencing were designed by an intelligent being (or group thereof).
Unfortunately not everyone cares enough about their own children to do so.
There, fixed that for you. The uproar on both sides of this issue shows how unwilling today's parents are to do any actual teaching of their own. How about taking responsibility for how your child is raised? Too many think "I got him to 5, now the schools can raise him". If the schools are teaching something you disagree with, take the time and teach your child yourself. If you don't understand the subject enough to teach it yourself, either learn the subject, or stop complaining.
And yes — before you ask — I do know that the first thing to do is to go through your collection and dump what is not worthwhile keeping."
The guy who runs www.lightroomkillertips.com wisely stated that going through your collection is easier to do a month or 3 after dumping the photos to computer. He said something about an emotional attachment to the photos you just took, and I find this to very often be true. I've went through yesteryear photos and realized I didn't need all those angles of that same shot, just a couple.
1: Dump the photos to computer.
2: Look through, Delete what you know you don't want.
3: Make prints of what you do want.
4: Wait a few months, then go back through, and do the real Cleanup.
Those of us with arthritis will be thrilled that we'll need to pass the iHandExercises test before we can buy a device without a Home button.
Let's not forget that the Home button is used with the Power button to take screen shots. It's also used to access the iPod feature when the iDevice is locked (double-push the Home button and you get the quick iPod controls).
The home button is also great for when an app locks up, but the OS doesn't realize it. I wonder if the touch input will bring them back to the home screen in such an instance.
Truthfully, it's the Single-Player *Crappy* game model that is 'Finished'. Game like Morrowind, Mass Effect (and it's sequel), BioShock, and Fallout 3 (and it's side/sequel) are suburb examples of games that are memorable, that sell, and that don't have or need multiplayer. The BioShock 2's multiplayer add-on is an example of the waste that goes into trying to push a multiplayer format onto a great single player game.
Sure, that works for a Slashdotter, but the average consumer has much less patience with technology. Once they get used to autocomplete, if nothing is coming up, it must be broken.
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"Rep. Peter King (R-NY), Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, has introduced HR 607, the 'Broadband for First Responders Act of 2011,' which has been referred to the House Energy and Commerce Committee (which handles telecommunications legislation).
King? Well I didn't vote for ya...
Plus, there's no big brother controlling your hardware.
That's right, on the PC big brother controls the software.
To me the Wii got the model right: concentrate on game-play, not graphics.
It's a shame that Nintendo is the only company that sees that ideal down through the software. Most, if not all 3rd party software for the Wii is undeniably crap.
Considering that these leaps in eye candy are only possible with the current state of PC graphics, we wonder how long consoles will be the target platform for development of blockbuster games."
What a load of crap.
Consoles will be the target platform for the development of blockbuster games as long as there is an audience for them. I love the PC as a gaming platform, but blockbusting developers care primarily about one thing, sales. You have this huge installed base of 360s and PS3s, and the people who buy games are playing on these consoles. Also consider that in our economy, the people who want to play new game "x" are not going to be able to go buy the new hardware required to play new game "x" on the PC.
As well, once there is a big enough jump to make in graphics (or features, looking at the Wii), that can be made at a reasonable price point (one would think Sony would have learned that lesson with the PS3), Microsoft and Sony will release new updated consoles that will compete with/overtake the abilities of the *common* gaming PC. The process repeats, as it has many times before. The PC ends up being the testing grounds for technologies that are later integrated into the consoles. Remember when you could only get a good multiplayer experience on the PC?
Depending on how you define "Cloud", you might also look at 3D render farms that have been doing ray tracing for close to (maybe more then) 20 years.
The good news must be that all issues of unemployment, finance and social service must be resolved in Utah for their legislature to spend time on this. It must be a utahpia!
There, fixed that.
Take it from a professional photographer, 90% of the time, the angle and lighting are all that matter between a good and a bad photo.
Glad someone posted this. As a Novice who takes many many bad pictures and a few good ones, lighting and composition (often the angle) are the essentials. There are many things you can fix in photoshop or lightroom, but bad lighting and the angle that highlights that all your worst features are not among them.
Instead of a new camera, buy a book that teaches you how to use light, and another book that teaches you about composition, then spend the remainder on a copy of Lightroom. If you know how to use google or yahoo or bing, you can even skip the books, and try the strobist blog and some of the tutorials for composition available on istockphoto.com. Once you understand these things, then if you must buy a new camera, you'll have a better idea what to look for in a camera, and a "beautifying button" won't be among them.
These are not the funds you are looking for.
Can't wait to see what all those AT&T migrators think.
I wonder why all those calls went through the Verizon network. Could it be that AT&T doesn't have reliable service in that area to begin with?
A serious force to be taken seriously? It almost sounds like.... the internet is serious business. ...I hate myself for spending too much time on the internet, now.
Yes, it's all YOUR fault.
I was doing beta testing in 1997 for a (now dead) "multimedia company" (web developer) that was creating a kiosk for Toyota that would help users to choose the right car for them. It looked very similar to alot of the features you see on websites today, although a lot more basic. It was written in Java and as Java was back then, the app was buggy as hell. I was quite good at my job, I could break the app at any moment and when the opportunity arose, I received the lead programmer's blessing to transfer to the graphic department. He was glad to be rid of me. The point of this story is that Java was in use, or at least development (not sure if that project ever saw the light of day) 14 years ago, and they had been working on that project for a time before I ever got there.
I know we have to keep our java below a certain version for our Citrix remote portal. There are some other apps that are affected, but that's by far the most important one for us.
The most likely plug-in to require a patch: same as last year, Oracle's Java."
Of course, this has nothing to do with the fact that new versions of Java tend to break existing java based applications and utilities. You can use the new version of Java, or you can use the older one that works with your mission critical enterprise tools.
Pentagon to spend $500 Million on Cyber Defense
...Otherwise known as the internet kill-switch.
$500 is well below the going rate for killing the key witness in a felony trial. Maybe he would have gotten a more positive response if he hadn't been such a cheapskate.
I don't think there IS a positive response for this.
I had a first gen Wii, and (I think) a first gen gamecube. Both had problems around the third year. My friend's first gen DS didn't last very long either. My DS lite still runs strong. Nintendo's 1st generation of a product last just long enough to make you forget the warranty. I'm gonna wait until they've made tweaks to the product, and until they have a game catalog worthy of spending the 250.
What about Mario Clash? Everyone seems to forget about the Virtual Boy...
And despite our efforts to forget, some AC always has to remind us...
Anyone care to educate these clowns on the existence of the First Amendment?
First Amendment allows you can say whatever you like, with few exceptions. It does not, however, protect you from being responsible for the consequences of what you said. If you are badmouthing your employer on a publicly visible page with your name attached, you are committing career suicide, regardless of your employer. They can either get rid of you, or make it miserable for you to maintain your employment. If you must vent, do it offline, or privatize your page and be sure you don't have co-workers as "friends". That's being responsible, and shielding yourself from these consequences so many forget about.
...and logic gets a flamebait moderation. How troublesome that parents should be responsible for their children outside of food and clothes.
I once made my fundamentalist christian boss at an old job pratically swallow his tongue because I almost forced him to understand evolution. Along with loving Jesus, he was a super gear-head. So I broke Evolution down into car terms (very basic terms since I'm NOT a gearhead). First I asked why we don't drive Model-T Fords anymore? Because someone added pedals to the next car. The car people bought after that had a hardtop roof or windshield wipers. Then some came out with larger engines, those cars survived longer in the marketplace because they were a better fit to what people wanted from their money. Some cars had innovations that didn't work, and they died off (Edsel, et al). And now we have lamborghini's and Bentleys and Chevys and Fords of all different makes and models, with GPS and remote start, and some will do better than others, and continue to be developed. Others will be too expensive, or too fuel hungry, or too feature-poor, and those won't sell as well, and over time, those models will disappear. Effectively the slow progression the car industry makes in response to market forces is analogous to the evolution of life in response to changing environmental pressure.
Just wait until someone turns that analogy on it's head, as the vehicles you are referencing were designed by an intelligent being (or group thereof).
Unfortunately not everyone cares enough about their own children to do so.
There, fixed that for you. The uproar on both sides of this issue shows how unwilling today's parents are to do any actual teaching of their own. How about taking responsibility for how your child is raised? Too many think "I got him to 5, now the schools can raise him". If the schools are teaching something you disagree with, take the time and teach your child yourself. If you don't understand the subject enough to teach it yourself, either learn the subject, or stop complaining.
And yes — before you ask — I do know that the first thing to do is to go through your collection and dump what is not worthwhile keeping."
The guy who runs www.lightroomkillertips.com wisely stated that going through your collection is easier to do a month or 3 after dumping the photos to computer. He said something about an emotional attachment to the photos you just took, and I find this to very often be true. I've went through yesteryear photos and realized I didn't need all those angles of that same shot, just a couple.
1: Dump the photos to computer.
2: Look through, Delete what you know you don't want.
3: Make prints of what you do want.
4: Wait a few months, then go back through, and do the real Cleanup.
Those of us with arthritis will be thrilled that we'll need to pass the iHandExercises test before we can buy a device without a Home button. Let's not forget that the Home button is used with the Power button to take screen shots. It's also used to access the iPod feature when the iDevice is locked (double-push the Home button and you get the quick iPod controls).
The home button is also great for when an app locks up, but the OS doesn't realize it. I wonder if the touch input will bring them back to the home screen in such an instance.
mp3.com? didn't that die as fast as Fred Durst's star power?
Fred Durst had star power?
Truthfully, it's the Single-Player *Crappy* game model that is 'Finished'. Game like Morrowind, Mass Effect (and it's sequel), BioShock, and Fallout 3 (and it's side/sequel) are suburb examples of games that are memorable, that sell, and that don't have or need multiplayer. The BioShock 2's multiplayer add-on is an example of the waste that goes into trying to push a multiplayer format onto a great single player game.
Sure, that works for a Slashdotter, but the average consumer has much less patience with technology. Once they get used to autocomplete, if nothing is coming up, it must be broken.