Nukes are the most useless weapon any country with rational leaders can have.
Observer, rational. Don't forget about what kind of leader they have over there, which is considered to be God basically. Historically people like that have done very very mad things, so I don't see a reason why we shouldn't consider North Korea not only capable but also willing to launch a Nuke...
Personally I hate listening to or speaking to a computer in any way shape or form. Give me a mouse and a keyboard anyday and it surely will prove to be more useful.
1. It has HDMI 1.3 2. Can do 1920x1080 (no less is accepted) 3. It has a nice image
Why argue that [A] or [B] is better simply because of the underlying technology? For all I know, two years from now nobody will want to touch either LCD nor Plasma... Go with whatever works, your software will still play...
In Sweden apparently only roughly 80% "belive" in evolution. What the heck is next, people not beliving in relativity or gravity. Should we have a survey to see how many people belive in the number zero? Maybe atoms are just hocus pokus, and the earth is flat! Come on people, evolution isn't something you belive in or not, it just _is_. Just like any other scientific _theory_. As oppose to making things up or beliving in everything that is written down, or even worse, something written down and badly translated! Evolution is a theory, a damn fine at that, with all what that entails, and no religion can make me feel different about that, or any other scientific theory.
Real has forever set itself in my mind is "bad". Nothing they can do can change that. It's like releasing a serial killer and then invite him for some coffee and to play with the dog and the children. It is a bad idea.
So I really hope I can still download clean installs of firefox, because the second it includes even a single bit from Real, I will utterly refuse to use it. I won't recommend anyone I know to use it. I will make sure noone I help out gets it installed.
Since it is OSS and all I hope someone builds Real free releases as well, or if push comes to shove forks the whole thing. But Real? I think that even Microsoft would have gone down better...
It should obviously be done with code instead, *THAT* be a hell of a lot more interesting. Imaging pitting XNU vs BSD vs Linux in a *gasp* art contest where the art is representing the code. THAT be much more geeky and slashdot-worthy:)
Apple should buy SGI (patents, know-how, take whatever they can from IRIX, OpenGL, etc) and kill off the rest of the stuff they dont need or cant sell.
I'm certainly going to wait until I can get a player with both Blu-ray and HD-DVD support. Then I won't get obsolete discs I can't play in case one or the other dies.
Oh, and the player must be able to play region 1 AND 2 discs, or be cheap enough so I can buy two players. I refuse to obsolete half my DVD library after all...
1. Get a BT headset. 2. Move freakin' phone out of beepedi beep distance. 3. Profit.
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Don't we still have the 24/25/29.9/30/50/60 fps thing going? I know the resolution is the same, but what about the framerate? I personally would prefer to have it as high as possible after all:)
Make it easy, offline mode equals putting the DVD in to start the game, after that the DVD (blue-ray, holographic memory, punch card, your pick) isn't touched. Already done on *Gasp* computers.
heck, online mode could equal the same thing. Just make sure that we have 1. Plenty of diskspace 2. Removable discs (a la 360).
How are they going to be able to throw in one lightsaber fight per episode, when there are hardly any Jedis around? Or are we going to see how it is growing up in the dullest sadest place in the universe when Luke grows up a farmer and tinkers with droids? There is almost no story between ep 3 and 4. Darth probably kills a few more Jedis he missed, that's it. Why not make a series between ep 6 and 7 instead?
Simply put, what kind of meaningless comment was that about King Kong? Besides, what kind of mega-dollar monsters hasn't George Lucas himself spewed out, and with considerably less good results (Episode I anyone?).
What they all need is 1. to pay the stars less 2. pay MPAA nothing 3. pay the people who actually have no part in the making of the movie, well, less 4. get better stories.
I think that all white wines tastes like cat piss, yet there are huge pricedifferences between different brands, and people think some of them taste divine, while others taste like... cat piss.
It's the same reason why _really_ crappy surround sound systems sell like hotcakes, they sound like crap, but people really don't know the difference, and probably haven't really heard what a good system is suppose to sound like. It was like when I finally got a friend to come with me to a THX theater, and he finally understood why good sound and picture makes a huge difference to how much you feel like you are in the movie.
As far as music goes, when a show like "Idol" (The Swedish version) gets really popular even though the people can't sing that well, well, shows why the music industry doesn't have to care about talent...
What? Me bitter? Noooooo.... Now give me a 1080p screen, ok?
If it doesn't work well, people get upset and eventually complain by _not_ buying products. It's the best thing that could happen you know.
Me personally would be happy with a shiny disc that can only be played in stand alone players (not computers) and without quality loss show on a Flatscreen/Projector, as long as I get to pay less. I refuse to go along on a scheme only to make certain peopler richer after all. Cut their wages and lower prices if you want to get to the piracy, make things affordable.
As in, I buy two DVD players and throw them into my computer/entertainmentsystem/whatever and simply call them "1" and "2" and set the region thus. It is *WAY* more problematic for high end people who shell out some serious money on DVD players. You really don't want to have to buy two of them. Screw this whole region 1 and 2 crap. Let's just all have one region, earth...
It's better to fight for freedom by _providing_ freedom. The same goes for a whole bunch of other nations as well... *looks at a bunch of European countries wanting to play Stasi as well*
Put the money on finding terrorists, diplomatic solutions to end hostilities and good old fashion not too bright police officers who screw up in a way we can find out.
Not to mention that everyone isn't using A-Z either. Here we got å,ä,ö as well, and some languages need even more extra keys. How about creating _one_ keyboard that works for more languages, so we don't actually have to have different keyboards depending on which, fairly similar, alphabet we use?
And a, b, c, d, e, f is just as random as q, w, e, r, t, y. What we need is an international dvorak that is optimized for a common alphabet for a large number of languages. That probably will be so incredibly good it won't sell more than 2 keyboards. After all, the dumber I find an idea, the better it sells:/
Take a look at home many gamers there are out there, then look at how many of them die from these kinds of situations. Not that terribly many, right? Now take a quick peak at two of societies most common forms of entertainment, nicotine and alcohol (for those cultures who don't subscribe to those particular poisons, I leave it up to the reader to substitute). How many people dies every year because of those two? And not just from the direct causes (alcolism / lugn cancer) but from side effects such as the users killing others.
So the point is, games are far less dangerous than alcohol and nicotine. Fix those problems first instead of whining about obvious cases of mental illness where society is unwilling to find and treat the people who are sick.
Preferably at all other times as well. When are they going to realise that the single biggest reason why people aren't spending more money on music is the fact that a handful of music stars and music industry bosses already have taken all the money. People just don't want to spend that kind of money on music anymore, and why should they? It has never been cheaper to copy music, and in fact, that is what people are doing. They are willing to pay the hardware price, but no longer the software price.
Gives a new meaning to "Blackhawk down" if nothing else...
Besides, I want the source code to that missile thingie or whatever they are building. I want to build a few of my own to show those ungodly Danes who's correct about everything. Can I? Please?
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Nukes are the most useless weapon any country with rational leaders can have.
Observer, rational. Don't forget about what kind of leader they have over there, which is considered to be God basically. Historically people like that have done very very mad things, so I don't see a reason why we shouldn't consider North Korea not only capable but also willing to launch a Nuke...
You can get your songs off your iPod to iTunes now if I am not mistaken. New version 7 feature and all that.
Personally I hate listening to or speaking to a computer in any way shape or form. Give me a mouse and a keyboard anyday and it surely will prove to be more useful.
Who cares as long as:
1. It has HDMI 1.3
2. Can do 1920x1080 (no less is accepted)
3. It has a nice image
Why argue that [A] or [B] is better simply because of the underlying technology? For all I know, two years from now nobody will want to touch either LCD nor Plasma... Go with whatever works, your software will still play...
In Sweden apparently only roughly 80% "belive" in evolution. What the heck is next, people not beliving in relativity or gravity. Should we have a survey to see how many people belive in the number zero? Maybe atoms are just hocus pokus, and the earth is flat! Come on people, evolution isn't something you belive in or not, it just _is_. Just like any other scientific _theory_. As oppose to making things up or beliving in everything that is written down, or even worse, something written down and badly translated! Evolution is a theory, a damn fine at that, with all what that entails, and no religion can make me feel different about that, or any other scientific theory.
Real has forever set itself in my mind is "bad". Nothing they can do can change that. It's like releasing a serial killer and then invite him for some coffee and to play with the dog and the children. It is a bad idea.
So I really hope I can still download clean installs of firefox, because the second it includes even a single bit from Real, I will utterly refuse to use it. I won't recommend anyone I know to use it. I will make sure noone I help out gets it installed.
Since it is OSS and all I hope someone builds Real free releases as well, or if push comes to shove forks the whole thing. But Real? I think that even Microsoft would have gone down better...
It should obviously be done with code instead, *THAT* be a hell of a lot more interesting. Imaging pitting XNU vs BSD vs Linux in a *gasp* art contest where the art is representing the code. THAT be much more geeky and slashdot-worthy:)
Apple should buy SGI (patents, know-how, take whatever they can from IRIX, OpenGL, etc) and kill off the rest of the stuff they dont need or cant sell.
I'm certainly going to wait until I can get a player with both Blu-ray and HD-DVD support. Then I won't get obsolete discs I can't play in case one or the other dies.
Oh, and the player must be able to play region 1 AND 2 discs, or be cheap enough so I can buy two players. I refuse to obsolete half my DVD library after all...
1. Get a BT headset.
2. Move freakin' phone out of beepedi beep distance.
3. Profit.
Don't we still have the 24/25/29.9/30/50/60 fps thing going? I know the resolution is the same, but what about the framerate? I personally would prefer to have it as high as possible after all:)
Make it easy, offline mode equals putting the DVD in to start the game, after that the DVD (blue-ray, holographic memory, punch card, your pick) isn't touched. Already done on *Gasp* computers.
heck, online mode could equal the same thing. Just make sure that we have 1. Plenty of diskspace 2. Removable discs (a la 360).
No need to complicate things...
How are they going to be able to throw in one lightsaber fight per episode, when there are hardly any Jedis around? Or are we going to see how it is growing up in the dullest sadest place in the universe when Luke grows up a farmer and tinkers with droids? There is almost no story between ep 3 and 4. Darth probably kills a few more Jedis he missed, that's it. Why not make a series between ep 6 and 7 instead?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0360717/business
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Simply put, what kind of meaningless comment was that about King Kong? Besides, what kind of mega-dollar monsters hasn't George Lucas himself spewed out, and with considerably less good results (Episode I anyone?).
What they all need is 1. to pay the stars less 2. pay MPAA nothing 3. pay the people who actually have no part in the making of the movie, well, less 4. get better stories.
Voila, more movies will make a profit then
Must be like Olga Origami, Prime's long thought lost little niece. Special powers include a 3 megapixel camera, 3G telephony, and laser bluetooth.
It's simply amazing what kinds of markets Microsoft is interesting in these days:)
1. Jobs
2. Actual reply _every_ time I apply for one of 1. A simple "Sorry, no" would be better than *silence*
3. Realistic requirements for jobs
I think that all white wines tastes like cat piss, yet there are huge pricedifferences between different brands, and people think some of them taste divine, while others taste like... cat piss.
It's the same reason why _really_ crappy surround sound systems sell like hotcakes, they sound like crap, but people really don't know the difference, and probably haven't really heard what a good system is suppose to sound like. It was like when I finally got a friend to come with me to a THX theater, and he finally understood why good sound and picture makes a huge difference to how much you feel like you are in the movie.
As far as music goes, when a show like "Idol" (The Swedish version) gets really popular even though the people can't sing that well, well, shows why the music industry doesn't have to care about talent...
What? Me bitter? Noooooo.... Now give me a 1080p screen, ok?
If it doesn't work well, people get upset and eventually complain by _not_ buying products. It's the best thing that could happen you know.
Me personally would be happy with a shiny disc that can only be played in stand alone players (not computers) and without quality loss show on a Flatscreen/Projector, as long as I get to pay less. I refuse to go along on a scheme only to make certain peopler richer after all. Cut their wages and lower prices if you want to get to the piracy, make things affordable.
As in, I buy two DVD players and throw them into my computer/entertainmentsystem/whatever and simply call them "1" and "2" and set the region thus. It is *WAY* more problematic for high end people who shell out some serious money on DVD players. You really don't want to have to buy two of them. Screw this whole region 1 and 2 crap. Let's just all have one region, earth...
It's better to fight for freedom by _providing_ freedom. The same goes for a whole bunch of other nations as well... *looks at a bunch of European countries wanting to play Stasi as well*
Put the money on finding terrorists, diplomatic solutions to end hostilities and good old fashion not too bright police officers who screw up in a way we can find out.
I'm convienced that they are going to launch a "Mythbusters" brand of, ehm, everything they showed on the show. Imagine that for a product placement!
Not to mention that everyone isn't using A-Z either. Here we got å,ä,ö as well, and some languages need even more extra keys. How about creating _one_ keyboard that works for more languages, so we don't actually have to have different keyboards depending on which, fairly similar, alphabet we use?
:/
And a, b, c, d, e, f is just as random as q, w, e, r, t, y. What we need is an international dvorak that is optimized for a common alphabet for a large number of languages. That probably will be so incredibly good it won't sell more than 2 keyboards. After all, the dumber I find an idea, the better it sells
Take a look at home many gamers there are out there, then look at how many of them die from these kinds of situations. Not that terribly many, right? Now take a quick peak at two of societies most common forms of entertainment, nicotine and alcohol (for those cultures who don't subscribe to those particular poisons, I leave it up to the reader to substitute). How many people dies every year because of those two? And not just from the direct causes (alcolism / lugn cancer) but from side effects such as the users killing others.
So the point is, games are far less dangerous than alcohol and nicotine. Fix those problems first instead of whining about obvious cases of mental illness where society is unwilling to find and treat the people who are sick.
Now move along, nothing to see...
Preferably at all other times as well. When are they going to realise that the single biggest reason why people aren't spending more money on music is the fact that a handful of music stars and music industry bosses already have taken all the money. People just don't want to spend that kind of money on music anymore, and why should they? It has never been cheaper to copy music, and in fact, that is what people are doing. They are willing to pay the hardware price, but no longer the software price.
Gives a new meaning to "Blackhawk down" if nothing else...
Besides, I want the source code to that missile thingie or whatever they are building. I want to build a few of my own to show those ungodly Danes who's correct about everything. Can I? Please?