I can vouch for the Riverbed as well. We use it for our connection to the Philippines (from Ohio, USA), and it works great. At one point it had cut down 50GB of requests to 2GB of sent traffic.
I really don't think there are any alternate connections unless any of the sites get cellular service or you lay your own cabling which would be godawful expensive. You could sample a few other providers maybe, but I think optimizing your current connection may be your best bet.
That's what I was going to suggest...you just made me realize how much of a redneck I am. Or maybe the fact that my 5'1" 70-year-old grandmother shoots groundhogs with a 12 guage through a hole in her screen door should have made me realize it...she also has a glass eye and still manages to hit them...(And scarily, I did not make any of that up.)
Brilliant moderation. Just because a few other people replied in the time it took me to reply, I am now redndant (check the timestamps next time maybe?). Please mod this one down too. I personally like flaembait, although I have a big knotted club in my closet, so troll works too.
Actually no game currently utilizes that much video memory (unless one does some funky pre-loading I haven't heard about). Heck few even use more than 512MB.
Microsoft has yet to confirm a Blu-Ray equipped 360...in fact they've denied it several times (which doesn't mean much). I would be willing to bet if they do start to use Blu-Ray, they would release an add-on drive as well as building it into a high-end model, so you wouldn't need a new console. Makes more sense for them that way, as putting it in a lower-end 360 would probably mean they have to sell them at a loss to be competitive.
You can get a lot of compressed content onto a double-layer DVD....long-arse install time to a hard drive would be required though, but I don't see why FFXIII would need more than that. They would need a TON of terrain and unique models to fill up the space, and unless they go in a new direction with the series, they won't need anywhere close to that.
The 'true' atheist definitively says no, and no possibility. Many self-proclaimed atheists fall more in line with the 'agnostic athiest' (and I guess I probably do as well) classification where they generally believe there is nothing, but there may be a possibility.
But this is the inherent problem with labeling people with certain viewpoints...they can't possibly be accurate because very few people share the exact same opinion. A funny survey I saw a few years back showed that most people labeling themselves as democrats or republicans only consistently agreed with their party on hot-button issues (abortion, environment, Iraq, etc.), and more obscure issues they were 50/50 on.
I should have said 'God' person then. I don't believe in God/Allah as the Christians/Jews/Muslims do, nor any other diety concieved by humans. I really doubt there is any sort of afterlife. But my knowledge of science tells me that there is so much we do not understand about our universe to rule out the impossibilty of an afterlife in one form or another.
If you prefer to stick a label on me, then call me agnostic. I don't believe in any sort of supernatural diety, but I am not closed to that possibility like atheists are.
I agree...not a god person here either, but if there is any sort of afterlife he deserves the very best. Mark my grandfather under the millions he indirectly affected. He is still alive thanks in no small part to this man's work. I knew of him, but had no idea he performed that many surgeries on his own. Simply astounding. The saddest part is, more people will remember idiots like G. W. Bush than this man.
Your avatar is not really important...it's the 3D world.
It's not about chatting with your friends with some fake avatar, though many people like to do that. Some things are much easier to conceptualize in 3D. In particular, some realtors do this for showing homes online, but there are many other applications where you need to see something far away in 3D. There are plenty of times where phone, email/chat, and looking at pictures don't give you what you need. Buying something online? Pick it up and look at it like you were in a retail store. Sure this has limitations too, but it's better than a 2D image. And the 3D technology we have now is in its infancy. Eventually we will hit a point where extremely realistic 3D environments can be run on the lowest-end PC. Think about First-person shooters 10 years ago. Quake, etc...those can be run on the cheapest piece of junk from wal-mart with no difficulty at all. Now look at Crysis, a very realistic-looking 3D engine. In 10 years, do you think any PC will have trouble running it? And what do you think the cutting-edge games then will look like? This is the start of what will probably be a big part of the web's future.
Now we come to the avatar. Since most people seem to find the 3rd-person preferrential to 1st-person in this type of scenario, you pretty much need to have an avatar to move around and look at things, if for nothing else than to provide scale to what you are looking at. And some people could care less about their avatar, but some people will care about how their avatar looks. You can just make a basic, no-frills avatar, and never mess with customization, etc.
Seriously. I hit an article on Slashdot probably about once a week where I am not entirely sure what they are talking about, so I look the damn thing up. Usually it's some particle physics voodoo, a new/obscure programming language/concept or an acronym for something I knew by another name. Slashdot covers a wide variety of very technical topics, they can't be expected to elaborate on them all.
In all seriousness, this does seem like more government waste...unless Apple is donating them or giving them an obscene discount, there are far cheaper laptops that will achieve the same goal.
That grand parent post is part one of his routines making fun of Christians. I'm pretty sure 99% of/. is aware of his aetheistic beliefs. Obviously more psople missed the joke than got it, seeing as how yours is modded higher than the GP.
That's a pretty good idea, but I would change it up a little.
Raid 1=Good, keep that going...gives you on-the-fly data protection.
Skip the DVDs and get 1 or 2 more external HDDs (preferrably 2) for off-site storage. Every month or so (However often you feel you need), backup the RAID 1 array to the single HDD, and take it to a relative/friend's house...someone near enough you can do this regularly, but far enough away that if a tornado or something hits, they will probably not be affected. I said 2 extras drives for 2 reasons: 1) Easier to swap and only make one trip, and 2) you can backup more frequently and keep it at home in a fireproof safe.
Also, I would keep really important files (not the video) in guaranteed remote storage. Just in case. Lots of services online offer this.
I'm downloading it at 1:01 pm becase I'm a jackass. That, and Opera 9.5 is still nice and shiny, even has that new browser smell...and I don't want to give it up just yet.
I highly recommend you leave the country then, and go somewhere where there are pure dictators and effecient bureacrats. While you seach in vain for a utopia, I'll be here making the best of this horrible, corrupt government that allows me to live at a standard above the rest of the world.
I heard that service pissed off a lot of customers. You can join the FOOLS and try it if you want to (like my friend APRIL)...I'll use a different series of tubes to get my data in and out.
Yes, but that is not the point. The Parent said Macs don't have good gaming hardware, and that's simply untrue, especially compared to off-the-shelf PCs. Most people will never upgrade their video card. They'll buy Halo 2 or CoD4, wonder why it runs like shit, and then go play on their console. I'm a card-carrying Mac hater, I wouldn't defend them if I didn't think they deserved it.
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And another thank you. It drives me nuts when people use anything as an opportunity to bash anything related to the military.
I can vouch for the Riverbed as well. We use it for our connection to the Philippines (from Ohio, USA), and it works great. At one point it had cut down 50GB of requests to 2GB of sent traffic. I really don't think there are any alternate connections unless any of the sites get cellular service or you lay your own cabling which would be godawful expensive. You could sample a few other providers maybe, but I think optimizing your current connection may be your best bet.
That's what I was going to suggest...you just made me realize how much of a redneck I am. Or maybe the fact that my 5'1" 70-year-old grandmother shoots groundhogs with a 12 guage through a hole in her screen door should have made me realize it...she also has a glass eye and still manages to hit them...(And scarily, I did not make any of that up.)
It's preying on the uninformed...a 2GB care is surely better than this pithy 1GB card...
And I worked at CompUSA during college...I saw GeForce 4's with 512MB...*shivers*
Brilliant moderation. Just because a few other people replied in the time it took me to reply, I am now redndant (check the timestamps next time maybe?). Please mod this one down too. I personally like flaembait, although I have a big knotted club in my closet, so troll works too.
Actually no game currently utilizes that much video memory (unless one does some funky pre-loading I haven't heard about). Heck few even use more than 512MB.
Microsoft has yet to confirm a Blu-Ray equipped 360...in fact they've denied it several times (which doesn't mean much). I would be willing to bet if they do start to use Blu-Ray, they would release an add-on drive as well as building it into a high-end model, so you wouldn't need a new console. Makes more sense for them that way, as putting it in a lower-end 360 would probably mean they have to sell them at a loss to be competitive.
You can get a lot of compressed content onto a double-layer DVD....long-arse install time to a hard drive would be required though, but I don't see why FFXIII would need more than that. They would need a TON of terrain and unique models to fill up the space, and unless they go in a new direction with the series, they won't need anywhere close to that.
The 'true' atheist definitively says no, and no possibility. Many self-proclaimed atheists fall more in line with the 'agnostic athiest' (and I guess I probably do as well) classification where they generally believe there is nothing, but there may be a possibility.
But this is the inherent problem with labeling people with certain viewpoints...they can't possibly be accurate because very few people share the exact same opinion. A funny survey I saw a few years back showed that most people labeling themselves as democrats or republicans only consistently agreed with their party on hot-button issues (abortion, environment, Iraq, etc.), and more obscure issues they were 50/50 on.
We'll need some grant money for that study. We should hit up a big company with a lot of money...like Prudential Life Insurance.
Hmm...they say they'll give us all we need, with just a few conditions...
I should have said 'God' person then. I don't believe in God/Allah as the Christians/Jews/Muslims do, nor any other diety concieved by humans. I really doubt there is any sort of afterlife. But my knowledge of science tells me that there is so much we do not understand about our universe to rule out the impossibilty of an afterlife in one form or another.
If you prefer to stick a label on me, then call me agnostic. I don't believe in any sort of supernatural diety, but I am not closed to that possibility like atheists are.
I agree...not a god person here either, but if there is any sort of afterlife he deserves the very best. Mark my grandfather under the millions he indirectly affected. He is still alive thanks in no small part to this man's work. I knew of him, but had no idea he performed that many surgeries on his own. Simply astounding. The saddest part is, more people will remember idiots like G. W. Bush than this man.
Nah, we'll hear about them in a few months.
You know, after the company goes bankrupt from this guy embezzling the millions of investment capital they get from this announcement.
Your avatar is not really important...it's the 3D world.
It's not about chatting with your friends with some fake avatar, though many people like to do that. Some things are much easier to conceptualize in 3D. In particular, some realtors do this for showing homes online, but there are many other applications where you need to see something far away in 3D. There are plenty of times where phone, email/chat, and looking at pictures don't give you what you need. Buying something online? Pick it up and look at it like you were in a retail store. Sure this has limitations too, but it's better than a 2D image. And the 3D technology we have now is in its infancy. Eventually we will hit a point where extremely realistic 3D environments can be run on the lowest-end PC. Think about First-person shooters 10 years ago. Quake, etc...those can be run on the cheapest piece of junk from wal-mart with no difficulty at all. Now look at Crysis, a very realistic-looking 3D engine. In 10 years, do you think any PC will have trouble running it? And what do you think the cutting-edge games then will look like? This is the start of what will probably be a big part of the web's future.
Now we come to the avatar. Since most people seem to find the 3rd-person preferrential to 1st-person in this type of scenario, you pretty much need to have an avatar to move around and look at things, if for nothing else than to provide scale to what you are looking at. And some people could care less about their avatar, but some people will care about how their avatar looks. You can just make a basic, no-frills avatar, and never mess with customization, etc.
lrn2google
Seriously. I hit an article on Slashdot probably about once a week where I am not entirely sure what they are talking about, so I look the damn thing up. Usually it's some particle physics voodoo, a new/obscure programming language/concept or an acronym for something I knew by another name. Slashdot covers a wide variety of very technical topics, they can't be expected to elaborate on them all.
In all seriousness, this does seem like more government waste...unless Apple is donating them or giving them an obscene discount, there are far cheaper laptops that will achieve the same goal.
http://www.thestreet.com/story/10419263/1/google-android-phones-coming-this-year.html
PC World is reporting old news. Q4 08 has been the target for a while now.
This reminds me of Katrina...how do you make a huge disaster even worse? Throw some federal bureaucracy into the mix.
That grand parent post is part one of his routines making fun of Christians. I'm pretty sure 99% of /. is aware of his aetheistic beliefs. Obviously more psople missed the joke than got it, seeing as how yours is modded higher than the GP.
That's a pretty good idea, but I would change it up a little.
Raid 1=Good, keep that going...gives you on-the-fly data protection.
Skip the DVDs and get 1 or 2 more external HDDs (preferrably 2) for off-site storage. Every month or so (However often you feel you need), backup the RAID 1 array to the single HDD, and take it to a relative/friend's house...someone near enough you can do this regularly, but far enough away that if a tornado or something hits, they will probably not be affected. I said 2 extras drives for 2 reasons: 1) Easier to swap and only make one trip, and 2) you can backup more frequently and keep it at home in a fireproof safe.
Also, I would keep really important files (not the video) in guaranteed remote storage. Just in case. Lots of services online offer this.
Hmm, if I keep replying to my own -1 Trolled posts, I bet I can knock my karma down a couple pegs.
I love being modded down by fanboys with no sense of humor. Makes me feel all tingly inside.
I'm downloading it at 1:01 pm becase I'm a jackass. That, and Opera 9.5 is still nice and shiny, even has that new browser smell...and I don't want to give it up just yet.
I highly recommend you leave the country then, and go somewhere where there are pure dictators and effecient bureacrats. While you seach in vain for a utopia, I'll be here making the best of this horrible, corrupt government that allows me to live at a standard above the rest of the world.
I heard that service pissed off a lot of customers. You can join the FOOLS and try it if you want to (like my friend APRIL)...I'll use a different series of tubes to get my data in and out.
Yes, but that is not the point. The Parent said Macs don't have good gaming hardware, and that's simply untrue, especially compared to off-the-shelf PCs. Most people will never upgrade their video card. They'll buy Halo 2 or CoD4, wonder why it runs like shit, and then go play on their console. I'm a card-carrying Mac hater, I wouldn't defend them if I didn't think they deserved it.