Hopefully this extra time will allow them to release Spore on more than just the PC at launch. Will Wright has said he wants to port this game to as many platforms as possible, and I'm praying for a simultaneous OS X release.
That's what I see as the biggest drawback to this approach: it requires installation of at least one additional plugin, unless they could somehow piggy-back it on Flash. However, Flash is still an installation in of itself, and many web-savy users block it all together.
No, it doesn't beg the question, it merely raises it. "Begging the question" refers to a Catch-22-esque incident of circular reasoning, not a logical connection to a further inquiry.
Interestingly enough, Digg just gave up trying to delete 09 f9 11 02 9d 74 e3 5b d8 41 56 c5 63 56 88 c0 related stories - probably about a day too late. It'll be amusing to see whether that white flag will repair their severely damaged credibility or not.
More likely than not their lawyers just figured out that the HDDVD lobby haven't a whelk's chance in a supernova of winning a legal battle, so they gave Mr. Rose the go ahead for Operation Cover-Our-Asses Mark II.
The good thing is, with the economics of scale and the ever decreasing price of computer hardware, the OLPC will finally be a $100 laptop in a year or two.
What I want to know is: can the layers be manipulated individually? If so, then that shows promise for nano-scale, water-based logic circuitry. Such "circuitry" could continue to function in the event of severe EMP event, such as in a nuclear attack. Promising.
In prime time television, Blowing Shit Up > Conducting Scientifically Sound experiments.
That said, I love the show. My favorite is when they put an air-powered ejection seat inconspicuously into a normal car. And it worked!
I'm a fan. In preparation for the olympics, they passed a law decreeing that all shopkeepers and vendors must not be rude or sarcastic to customers. Now there's a lot less people ganging up to sell their products to rich wai-guo ren's (foreigners) like me.
I'm a lot more worried about the Yellowstone Supervolcanoe going than the stars. The thing blows, on average, every 600,000 years. Want to know the last time it erupted? 640,000 years ago. When it goes, it'll take most of Northern America with it.
I never would have guessed that there was a tradeoff between the quality and speed of compression! No way! Next they'll be saying things like 1080p HD offers quality at the expense of computational power required!
I think there are quite probably many places where efficiency can be improved, and thus money saved, without dramatically affecting R&D or production. Even a business as large and as research-oriented as AMD should not need $1.8 billion merely to break even. When you post $600 million losses, it's time for things like payoffs, reviewing management strategies, cutting back on freebies and extravagant public events, etc.
The big problem with AMD is not their processor lineup, it's their business process. They lost $600 mil on $1.2 billion on revenue. That means they needed almost two billion dollars *pinky finger to mouth* to break even. Sure, R&D is expensive, but not that expensive. They need to cut back on expenses to stay in the game.
I'm not sure if HD-DVD will proliferate to the same extent as VHS, or even DVD's.
VHS had no previous iteration - it was a completely new method of distributing media, so it was an easy sell.
DVD proliferated because of significant technical advantages over VHS - mainly startlingly better picture quality, and ability to output 16:9 widescreen formatted video.
However, HD-DVD and Blu-Ray only offers one advantage over DVD's: superior picture quality. This is only evident, however, on relatively new HD TV sets, which have not been widely adopted by the viewing public.
The fact is that DVD quality is "good enough" for many people, even if they own HD sets. So until HD-DVD and Blu-Ray hit the same price points as DVD's today, and HD TV's penetrate a majority of households, expect to keep seeing movies released on both DVD and HD-DVD/Blu-Ray. I expect the process will take at least a decade, if not more - about the same time it took VHS to become defunct after DVD's premiered.
Um, Russia, a re-emerging superpower? Taken a look at the Russia since the end of the cold war, Rip Van Winkle?
Russia has two huge problems which prevent it from exerting anything more than marginal influence on world affairs. First is population: Russia has a negative growth rate, so pronounced that within this decade their population will be declining by over 1 million people per year. It's pretty hard for life to suck enough that people will stop having sex, but Russia's done it. People are so pessimistic about their economic security, the education system, healthcare, etc, that they just plain stopped makin' babies.
Secondly, there's economics. Sure, the government is awash in petro-dollars from their oil reserves that Eastern Europe eats up, but that hasn't yet filtered down to the average citizen. Inflation is rampant. Domestic companies are extremely weak; everyone drives german cars, because the domestically produced ones are extremely low quality. It's still in the G8, but it's at the bottom, with only 1.6% of the world's economic production, compared to seventh place Canada's 2.5%, and first place USA's 28%.
Indeed, the real reason Russia continues to matter at all in world affairs is because they still control the vst majority of the USSR's nuclear resources, and no one wants to tick off someone with that much nukes. Especially when they're building those nuclear reactors for Iran.
Except losing more face for his fellow Republicans. I can tell you that many voters are going to be hesitant about electing another Republican to office, even in posts such as a Senator or Representative, because of how poorly Bush has governed in his second term.
Why should I be ashamed of being a teenager? Yeah, I know I made a typo because I was going fast. But hiding behind the AC handle would, I think, be a tad hypocritical.
Maybe we can finally that prove to the do-gooders everywhere that us teens can actually think for themselves, and don't need condescending legislation to protect us.
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Hopefully this extra time will allow them to release Spore on more than just the PC at launch. Will Wright has said he wants to port this game to as many platforms as possible, and I'm praying for a simultaneous OS X release.
That's what I see as the biggest drawback to this approach: it requires installation of at least one additional plugin, unless they could somehow piggy-back it on Flash. However, Flash is still an installation in of itself, and many web-savy users block it all together.
No, it doesn't beg the question, it merely raises it. "Begging the question" refers to a Catch-22-esque incident of circular reasoning, not a logical connection to a further inquiry.
Interestingly enough, Digg just gave up trying to delete 09 f9 11 02 9d 74 e3 5b d8 41 56 c5 63 56 88 c0 related stories - probably about a day too late. It'll be amusing to see whether that white flag will repair their severely damaged credibility or not.
More likely than not their lawyers just figured out that the HDDVD lobby haven't a whelk's chance in a supernova of winning a legal battle, so they gave Mr. Rose the go ahead for Operation Cover-Our-Asses Mark II.
The good thing is, with the economics of scale and the ever decreasing price of computer hardware, the OLPC will finally be a $100 laptop in a year or two.
What I want to know is: can the layers be manipulated individually? If so, then that shows promise for nano-scale, water-based logic circuitry. Such "circuitry" could continue to function in the event of severe EMP event, such as in a nuclear attack. Promising.
I did mean compression ratio. That's the term I was looking for before I wrote "quality."
In prime time television, Blowing Shit Up > Conducting Scientifically Sound experiments. That said, I love the show. My favorite is when they put an air-powered ejection seat inconspicuously into a normal car. And it worked!
Pssssh. Just try to hack me. My IP adresss is 127.0.0.1.
I'm a fan. In preparation for the olympics, they passed a law decreeing that all shopkeepers and vendors must not be rude or sarcastic to customers. Now there's a lot less people ganging up to sell their products to rich wai-guo ren's (foreigners) like me.
I'm a lot more worried about the Yellowstone Supervolcanoe going than the stars. The thing blows, on average, every 600,000 years. Want to know the last time it erupted? 640,000 years ago. When it goes, it'll take most of Northern America with it.
Take that, astronomical mutation-mongers!
Only gzip, bzip2, and Stuffit run multi-platform, although other programs to uncompress most of the file types used are available on most platforms.
I never would have guessed that there was a tradeoff between the quality and speed of compression! No way! Next they'll be saying things like 1080p HD offers quality at the expense of computational power required!
I think there are quite probably many places where efficiency can be improved, and thus money saved, without dramatically affecting R&D or production. Even a business as large and as research-oriented as AMD should not need $1.8 billion merely to break even. When you post $600 million losses, it's time for things like payoffs, reviewing management strategies, cutting back on freebies and extravagant public events, etc.
The big problem with AMD is not their processor lineup, it's their business process. They lost $600 mil on $1.2 billion on revenue. That means they needed almost two billion dollars *pinky finger to mouth* to break even. Sure, R&D is expensive, but not that expensive. They need to cut back on expenses to stay in the game.
They'll do that only if they can charge the same as regular DVD's - why would I pay more for a disc that has a format I can't even use yet?
I'm not sure if HD-DVD will proliferate to the same extent as VHS, or even DVD's.
VHS had no previous iteration - it was a completely new method of distributing media, so it was an easy sell.
DVD proliferated because of significant technical advantages over VHS - mainly startlingly better picture quality, and ability to output 16:9 widescreen formatted video.
However, HD-DVD and Blu-Ray only offers one advantage over DVD's: superior picture quality. This is only evident, however, on relatively new HD TV sets, which have not been widely adopted by the viewing public.
The fact is that DVD quality is "good enough" for many people, even if they own HD sets. So until HD-DVD and Blu-Ray hit the same price points as DVD's today, and HD TV's penetrate a majority of households, expect to keep seeing movies released on both DVD and HD-DVD/Blu-Ray. I expect the process will take at least a decade, if not more - about the same time it took VHS to become defunct after DVD's premiered.
Um, Russia, a re-emerging superpower? Taken a look at the Russia since the end of the cold war, Rip Van Winkle?
Russia has two huge problems which prevent it from exerting anything more than marginal influence on world affairs. First is population: Russia has a negative growth rate, so pronounced that within this decade their population will be declining by over 1 million people per year. It's pretty hard for life to suck enough that people will stop having sex, but Russia's done it. People are so pessimistic about their economic security, the education system, healthcare, etc, that they just plain stopped makin' babies.
Secondly, there's economics. Sure, the government is awash in petro-dollars from their oil reserves that Eastern Europe eats up, but that hasn't yet filtered down to the average citizen. Inflation is rampant. Domestic companies are extremely weak; everyone drives german cars, because the domestically produced ones are extremely low quality. It's still in the G8, but it's at the bottom, with only 1.6% of the world's economic production, compared to seventh place Canada's 2.5%, and first place USA's 28%.
Indeed, the real reason Russia continues to matter at all in world affairs is because they still control the vst majority of the USSR's nuclear resources, and no one wants to tick off someone with that much nukes. Especially when they're building those nuclear reactors for Iran.
Except losing more face for his fellow Republicans. I can tell you that many voters are going to be hesitant about electing another Republican to office, even in posts such as a Senator or Representative, because of how poorly Bush has governed in his second term.
Blu-Ray is going to have to overcome a lot to make up for this. Never underestimate the market power of the world's largest retailer.
I'm shivering in my boots, I tell you. Shivering.
Why should I be ashamed of being a teenager? Yeah, I know I made a typo because I was going fast. But hiding behind the AC handle would, I think, be a tad hypocritical.
Whoops. Changed from first to third person there. I probably should preview comments once in a while.
Sex drive?
Maybe we can finally that prove to the do-gooders everywhere that us teens can actually think for themselves, and don't need condescending legislation to protect us.