This is really an unproven concept. It's string theory, so no need to worry until they, first, provide a provable hypothesis and, second, prove it. Not to say that i'm again string theory, far from it, I'm just saying that this is a big unprovable nothing right now.
Also remember the other things that ads can do. For example, were I to buy an XBox 360 on ebay, one of the text ads could lead me to a site that sells accessories and games that I'd want. It's a win win at that point.
At least this is a funny joke, as opposed to the not funny joke that is the president of the US. Not to troll or flame or anything, but the anti-GW crowd doesn't even seem to be trying now. As much as I realize the man is stupid, that joke was just pitiful.
Actually, this is a persistent read cache. As mentioned in another reply, flash memory is much slower at writing but very fast at reading and it doesn't need to be spinning to be read. This allows for much faster boot times in laptops/etc because it doesn't have to wait for the disk to spin up.
It's a mouse, so neither. also, it sounds like they were harvesting cells using a non-destructive method, so the embryo survived after harvesting a few cells from them.
Resistance's main problem for me and my friends was simply that it didn't let you play through the cool parts. *spoiler* When you kill the queen in the crate halfway through, you slug through a level for at least twenty minutes trying to find that stupid crate, and as soon as you find the crate it becomes an unfulfilling cut scene where I get to watch my guy shoot the queen.*/spoiler*
Even the people playing FPS's for the story want to play through the main points, guys.
Let them get the patent before implementing the idea, but don't let them enforce it until they've implemented it (if it really was an original idea, they should be able to implement it quickly enough to enforce it, right?)
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This is another controversial subject, and the parent will probably be modded down, but it is a good question (when phrased properly): How do you feel about the political/whatever climate on slashdot and do you feel that all viewpoints are respected?
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He burns wads of cash on the fires that he starts in slashdotted servers. What else would he do?
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I also have problems with some of the editing that happens on the site. While it's not consistent, it seems like at least once a day, either Zonk or kdawson post an article that is highly inflammatory and represents the article poorly (so badly that it looks like they're blatantly lying about what the article says). Some of the complaining that goes on isn't warranted, but a lot of the times they have a real point.
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Without getting into a flamewar over what is a highly controversial subject, slashdot runs on mysql, and you've been quoted as saying you would do it with postgres if you could do it all again. I'm just wondering, is that true, do you still feel that way and why?
First off, it was written before they knew that bungie was going to continue the halo series, so they didn't know.
Second, they actually say right in there that the most likely thing would be for bungie to make the next halo, but for another studio to do titles between bungie releases (much like Call of Duty 3 or the NWN expansion packs).
The points are well written and thought out, although Tycho points out two more that would be great for the job.
I can think of five other games off the top of my head that stole their gameplay and storylines from GTA, and that's without trying. Since there have been other games that Rockstar hasn't made a fuss about, it looks like the parody is what they can't stand.
The depressing part for me is that the shuttle was such a dead end, and that the space program has been made into little more than science experiments and putting satellites in orbit. They've even considered decommissioning the hubble, the most influential telescope in operation. The depression and sadness isn't over the new prospects and the work in space, it's that we went to the moon decades ago and we couldn't go back right now if we wanted to. We allowed ourselves to fall behind, and now every other country has caught up to us, some even passing us, and we did it to ourselves. Yeah, I'd say it's sad and depressing.
I'm not 100% sure here, but I think you're wrong. How would a disc get "bound" to any one player? Unless your player is networked it can't communicate with the other players to let them know that it is the chosen one for that disc, and even if it could that would be a ridiculously expensive thing to keep track of AND the player would have to be hooked up to the internet whenever you played a disc. For the disc itself to store that information would require that they be recordable somehow and that the player could then burn to that disc. Unless I'm missing something, you were misinformed.
But it does mean that this is not that door. As mentioned elsewhere in this article, under no circumstances should you trust information that you want to be secret to a closed program/algorithm.
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This is really an unproven concept. It's string theory, so no need to worry until they, first, provide a provable hypothesis and, second, prove it. Not to say that i'm again string theory, far from it, I'm just saying that this is a big unprovable nothing right now.
Also remember the other things that ads can do. For example, were I to buy an XBox 360 on ebay, one of the text ads could lead me to a site that sells accessories and games that I'd want. It's a win win at that point.
Huh, I thought it was a relatively funny post, almost like he's a phb.
Actually, this is a persistent read cache. As mentioned in another reply, flash memory is much slower at writing but very fast at reading and it doesn't need to be spinning to be read. This allows for much faster boot times in laptops/etc because it doesn't have to wait for the disk to spin up.
It's a mouse, so neither. also, it sounds like they were harvesting cells using a non-destructive method, so the embryo survived after harvesting a few cells from them.
Resistance's main problem for me and my friends was simply that it didn't let you play through the cool parts. *spoiler* When you kill the queen in the crate halfway through, you slug through a level for at least twenty minutes trying to find that stupid crate, and as soon as you find the crate it becomes an unfulfilling cut scene where I get to watch my guy shoot the queen.*/spoiler*
Even the people playing FPS's for the story want to play through the main points, guys.
Oh my God! A company that's providing a free service is somehow using it to enrich themselves! Call the police!
Or like maybe it went behind the sun and by that time it was too far away for us to locate it again.
Let them get the patent before implementing the idea, but don't let them enforce it until they've implemented it (if it really was an original idea, they should be able to implement it quickly enough to enforce it, right?)
This is another controversial subject, and the parent will probably be modded down, but it is a good question (when phrased properly): How do you feel about the political/whatever climate on slashdot and do you feel that all viewpoints are respected?
He burns wads of cash on the fires that he starts in slashdotted servers. What else would he do?
I also have problems with some of the editing that happens on the site. While it's not consistent, it seems like at least once a day, either Zonk or kdawson post an article that is highly inflammatory and represents the article poorly (so badly that it looks like they're blatantly lying about what the article says). Some of the complaining that goes on isn't warranted, but a lot of the times they have a real point.
Without getting into a flamewar over what is a highly controversial subject, slashdot runs on mysql, and you've been quoted as saying you would do it with postgres if you could do it all again. I'm just wondering, is that true, do you still feel that way and why?
First off, it was written before they knew that bungie was going to continue the halo series, so they didn't know.
Second, they actually say right in there that the most likely thing would be for bungie to make the next halo, but for another studio to do titles between bungie releases (much like Call of Duty 3 or the NWN expansion packs).
The points are well written and thought out, although Tycho points out two more that would be great for the job.
I can think of five other games off the top of my head that stole their gameplay and storylines from GTA, and that's without trying. Since there have been other games that Rockstar hasn't made a fuss about, it looks like the parody is what they can't stand.
The depressing part for me is that the shuttle was such a dead end, and that the space program has been made into little more than science experiments and putting satellites in orbit. They've even considered decommissioning the hubble, the most influential telescope in operation. The depression and sadness isn't over the new prospects and the work in space, it's that we went to the moon decades ago and we couldn't go back right now if we wanted to. We allowed ourselves to fall behind, and now every other country has caught up to us, some even passing us, and we did it to ourselves. Yeah, I'd say it's sad and depressing.
At that point they don't even have to put the movie on the disc.
I'm not 100% sure here, but I think you're wrong. How would a disc get "bound" to any one player? Unless your player is networked it can't communicate with the other players to let them know that it is the chosen one for that disc, and even if it could that would be a ridiculously expensive thing to keep track of AND the player would have to be hooked up to the internet whenever you played a disc. For the disc itself to store that information would require that they be recordable somehow and that the player could then burn to that disc. Unless I'm missing something, you were misinformed.
With the vast majority of players being able to play the discs, it sounds like the players are at fault, not the discs.
But it does mean that this is not that door. As mentioned elsewhere in this article, under no circumstances should you trust information that you want to be secret to a closed program/algorithm.