The reality is that this is just the beginning of cuts that need to be made in Michigan, and elsewhere.
Gravel roads are cheap to build, cheap to maintain, and represent an extremely sensible kind of cut that does not have a major quality of life impact. Arguably they also have a rustic beauty, and look much nicer than a pot-holed, badly deteriorated paved road.
The poster makes a silly connection between gravel roads and whale oil, but fails to understand that whale oil and *paved* roads have more in common: Both are unsustainable at this time.
Yes these are nothing special in the big picture. But the pricepoint could be extremely low for all we know. I'll bet this is an effort to put Nvidia chipsets in an entire generation of netbooks -- from which Nvidia has been excluded in favor of integrated graphics.
Nerds *do* dictate the future of the web. Which is exactly why Firefox is gaining market share. Everyone has a computer-geek friend who they listen to, and right now that friend is telling them to switch to Firefox.
This is also why the 10% every two years number will accelerate to a far faster clip. We will, I suspect see a single year in which 10% marketshare is lost by IE.
Remember the initially slow acceptance of Google, which accelerated until Google had the largest share, and then slowed down? That's likely how we'll see Firefox spread as well... just over a slower curve because software installs are lower beta than url choices.
Furthermore, (and I know this is slightly OT) but this is also why the claim that AdBlock isn't a threat to the web is patently false. AdBlock is a *massive* threat to the web for exactly the same reason. (And for those of you who think the web as we know it can exist without ad revenue, I suggest you research server and bandwidth costs.)
Are these guys completely clueless? The reality is that the PS1 is *still* an enormously popular console and has hundreds (if not thousands) of available titles.
These titles are also available on the black market in most developing countries, so the cost proposition for a kid in an emerging market country is really just the price of the console. But even if you want to go the legit route and buy the games, there are hundreds of titles available for under $10.
Furthermore, a brand new PSone goes for $140, but there are zillions of used ones available all over the planet (and Ebay) for $20-$40
Proxy use has become standard among international web surfers for a variety of reasons.
Users in China who are commonly blocked by the so-called "Great Firewall of China" use proxies to circumvent it.
US expats use proxies to watch their favorite shows on Hulu. (Because outside the US you can't access the streams).
Etc.
Making the argument that proxy use is somehow an effort to conceal identity for the purposes of committing a crime overlooks the many obvious (non criminal) uses of proxies.
No. This isn't flamebait. I think I'm on relatively safe ground here, raising an issue that is not one man's subjective analysis -- but a conclusion that almost any MMORPG'er would come to:
This game has graphics that aren't up to Quake 1.0 standards. The game world looks absolutely devoid of detail, and the interface looks like an entry from an indie-games contest.
With the massive number of MMORPG's being released (many free to play), why is this release even getting attention?
If the answer is that its gameplay is so vastly superior to other offerings, that it's dated, uninspired graphics do not matter -- then that I suppose is a valid reason. But *is* that the reason?
I can't tell if the WMV file on the site is just compressing everything to oblivion -- but my first reaction is that the graphics look a bit dated, no?
I'm no fan of EVE's laboriously slow gameplay -- but I'll be the first to concede that EVE is a stunningly beautiful game.
From what I've seen of JGE, it looks like the graphics are worse that EVE's graphics five years ago.
This isn't flamebait, btw... I'm wondering: Why is this the case? Is JGE more massively multiplayer than EVE? Faster gameplay? etc..
The 3.2 lbs of the 1000 series might seem light, but compared to the 2.18 lbs of the 900 series, it's a beast. The 900 was perfect. They should keep going in that direction...
Or to put it in terms of Fermi's paradox: Maybe the galaxy's other 5000 intelligent civilizations are all keeping quiet because they know what's out there -- and it ain't friendly.
Maybe we're an entire civilization of stupid newbs wandering naked and lonely in a forest full of predators, shouting "Heloooo! Anyone home?"
The telco's and backbone providers would love you to look at it that way.
It's important to note that there is a war on for how the Internet is perceived. The telco's would love to create the legal perception that a "broadcast model" is at work. ie: Google "broadcasts" over the tubes, and pays the tube-owners nothing. The reality -- which they are trying so desperately to avoid -- is that http is a 'request'.
The revenue stream comes from the users who pay for the right to make these requests and receive the response data.
When they say "it is ironic that Google, the largest user of Internet capacity", they're clouding the issue: Google is the "most requested service" on the Internet.
The telcos are attempting to 'share the wealth' by taxing popularity.
It is the users that are the bandwidth hogs. After all, without the users Google doesn't use much bandwidth at all.
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> "Obviously you don't own a Mercedes Benz"
Obviously, you're missing the point.
The reality is that this is just the beginning of cuts that need to be made in Michigan, and elsewhere.
Gravel roads are cheap to build, cheap to maintain, and represent an extremely sensible kind of cut that does not have a major quality of life impact. Arguably they also have a rustic beauty, and look much nicer than a pot-holed, badly deteriorated paved road.
The poster makes a silly connection between gravel roads and whale oil, but fails to understand that whale oil and *paved* roads have more in common: Both are unsustainable at this time.
Yes these are nothing special in the big picture. But the pricepoint could be extremely low for all we know. I'll bet this is an effort to put Nvidia chipsets in an entire generation of netbooks -- from which Nvidia has been excluded in favor of integrated graphics.
... I clicked on one of the image hotspots on the Bing homepage, and Bing prompted me to install Silverlight.
Oh.. I get it... another demonstration of Microsoft's inability to NOT leverage platform.
Fail.
Nerds *do* dictate the future of the web. Which is exactly why Firefox is gaining market share. Everyone has a computer-geek friend who they listen to, and right now that friend is telling them to switch to Firefox.
This is also why the 10% every two years number will accelerate to a far faster clip. We will, I suspect see a single year in which 10% marketshare is lost by IE.
Remember the initially slow acceptance of Google, which accelerated until Google had the largest share, and then slowed down? That's likely how we'll see Firefox spread as well... just over a slower curve because software installs are lower beta than url choices.
Furthermore, (and I know this is slightly OT) but this is also why the claim that AdBlock isn't a threat to the web is patently false. AdBlock is a *massive* threat to the web for exactly the same reason. (And for those of you who think the web as we know it can exist without ad revenue, I suggest you research server and bandwidth costs.)
Notice however, that these apartments do not come equipped with western style toilets. Instead they have "long drops" (ie: squatting holes).
I guess you get what you pay for...
Are these guys completely clueless? The reality is that the PS1 is *still* an enormously popular console and has hundreds (if not thousands) of available titles.
These titles are also available on the black market in most developing countries, so the cost proposition for a kid in an emerging market country is really just the price of the console. But even if you want to go the legit route and buy the games, there are hundreds of titles available for under $10.
Furthermore, a brand new PSone goes for $140, but there are zillions of used ones available all over the planet (and Ebay) for $20-$40
Without clipping, demos like the island are basically useless.
..blows this away... (imho, of course)
This engine isn't close to being ready for prime time yet.
I'm not trying to snarky either, I'm really serious:
No.
Why do I get the feeling that many more people discuss this game on Slashdot than actually play it?
Proxy use has become standard among international web surfers for a variety of reasons.
Users in China who are commonly blocked by the so-called "Great Firewall of China" use proxies to circumvent it.
US expats use proxies to watch their favorite shows on Hulu. (Because outside the US you can't access the streams).
Etc.
Making the argument that proxy use is somehow an effort to conceal identity for the purposes of committing a crime overlooks the many obvious (non criminal) uses of proxies.
The argument would never stick in a court of law.
I'm not seeing anything that looks 21st century here. This is circa 1999 all the way...
If it isn't testable it has no place in science.
Study it if it makes you feel good, but understand that you're not practicing anything scientific.
...but for those who go through life at impulse power, I suppose this will do.
the assumption here is that wasteful procedures are due to the profit motives of physicians.
anyone who knows anything about health-care will tell you that the primary cause of most non-cost-effective procedures is fear of legal consequences.
want cheaper healthcare? reform the legal system and get the hmo's out of the game.
No. This isn't flamebait. I think I'm on relatively safe ground here, raising an issue that is not one man's subjective analysis -- but a conclusion that almost any MMORPG'er would come to:
This game has graphics that aren't up to Quake 1.0 standards. The game world looks absolutely devoid of detail, and the interface looks like an entry from an indie-games contest.
With the massive number of MMORPG's being released (many free to play), why is this release even getting attention?
If the answer is that its gameplay is so vastly superior to other offerings, that it's dated, uninspired graphics do not matter -- then that I suppose is a valid reason. But *is* that the reason?
I can't tell if the WMV file on the site is just compressing everything to oblivion -- but my first reaction is that the graphics look a bit dated, no?
I'm no fan of EVE's laboriously slow gameplay -- but I'll be the first to concede that EVE is a stunningly beautiful game.
From what I've seen of JGE, it looks like the graphics are worse that EVE's graphics five years ago.
This isn't flamebait, btw... I'm wondering: Why is this the case? Is JGE more massively multiplayer than EVE? Faster gameplay? etc..
I don't know what stats you're looking at, but most Slashdotters use Windows.
Is that you Christian Bale?
Is Slashdot guilty of being an accessory to copyright infringement?
Lets find out. Please post your torrent links in replies to this post. : )
mod parent up.
The 3.2 lbs of the 1000 series might seem light, but compared to the 2.18 lbs of the 900 series, it's a beast. The 900 was perfect. They should keep going in that direction...
Or to put it in terms of Fermi's paradox: Maybe the galaxy's other 5000 intelligent civilizations are all keeping quiet because they know what's out there -- and it ain't friendly.
Maybe we're an entire civilization of stupid newbs wandering naked and lonely in a forest full of predators, shouting "Heloooo! Anyone home?"
Speed is the issue here. There will never be a hard drive (especially a laptop hd) which comes close to the speed of a SSD.
I'm not sure why people feel this is an exclusive choice though. Hybrid systems consisting of both hd's and ssd's could be what we see first.
Maybe the OS lives on the ssd, etc.
The telco's and backbone providers would love you to look at it that way.
It's important to note that there is a war on for how the Internet is perceived. The telco's would love to create the legal perception that a "broadcast model" is at work. ie: Google "broadcasts" over the tubes, and pays the tube-owners nothing. The reality -- which they are trying so desperately to avoid -- is that http is a 'request'.
The revenue stream comes from the users who pay for the right to make these requests and receive the response data.
When they say "it is ironic that Google, the largest user of Internet capacity", they're clouding the issue: Google is the "most requested service" on the Internet.
The telcos are attempting to 'share the wealth' by taxing popularity.
It is the users that are the bandwidth hogs. After all, without the users Google doesn't use much bandwidth at all.