Yeah, it's just like the cell phone towers. Land owners lease an area on their property to the wireless companies. It's not their problem if the thing stops working - that's the cell carriers problem.
Where do I start!? This faster loads and games that take more advantage of the hardware talk is ridiculous. My computer loads games FAR faster than my piece of crap XBox 360 (looks at rock band). How are there more games that fully utilize the hardware on consoles? Is that because there's less to use? Have they heard of Crysis? You can only just now run that maxed at a decent framerate and that game has been out ages. Those things are not console advantages. Being able to buy one system, never upgrade it and "know" that games will work - those are advantages. (know is in quotes because console games seem to be getting buggier and buggier.)
As for the standard - I don't see it being any more useful than Microsoft's performance index in Vista which was supposed to make playing "Games for Windows" so easy! I don't know about anyone else but I've never seen a game box (not even a Vista-only-DX10-wonderland type game) with a performance index recommendation on there. Maybe after "Vista Capable" game makers realized that pinning their hopes on a Vista performance index was a *bad* idea.
Only thing worth watching on TV is on the Discovery / History channel. That's all I watch when I get someplace with cable. My TV at home is just for DVD's / game systems / windows media center.
TLC used to be good but it's turned into a frickin' reality show channel. (at least they stopped making insert dumb idea here story shows. Baby story, wedding story, ugh. What, we don't know how weddings happen!?)
He also missed out on an awesome opportunity for a Martha Stewart impression when he was pulling those things outta the oven.
...Proof that I am married?
Insert obvious "you're not married you're gay / a nerd joke".
Competing interpretations? That God is the *only* God and that salvation is a free gift given by God's grace through Christ's death on the cross for all of the sins of humanity aren't really up for interpretation. Those are the pillars of Christian belief. We aren't disagreeing about esoteric topics; these make up the core of what it is to define oneself as a Christian.
lulz. I'm not threatened by them in any way. I'm simply trying to make a clarification that, in my opinion, is the difference between going to heaven and going to hell. Rather than feeling threatened, I feel obligated to tell people the truth about the difference between what they say they are and what they really are.
It's not my definition; it's the biblical definition.
I've posted similar articles countless times before, but here's another example. Mormon's are not Christian. They may claim to be Christian, but they are not. I can claim to be a Buddhist, Mormon and Catholic but that doesn't make me all three. They have mutually exclusive doctrines which prevent you from being all of them. Similarly, Mormon doctrine directly conflicts with the most basic tenants of Christianity (outlined in aforementioned link).
Yeah, the image quality doesn't look that amazing. I haven't looked at projectors recently, but last time I did, they couldn't put out the 1600x1200 that I currently play at. So you've got a lower resolution display, being stretched over a huge surface with distortion at the edges... It's an interesting idea but it doesn't look like a real improvement.
If I were going to invest in tech like this I'd rather play on one of those wrap-around style displays that are basically just a semi-circular monitor... better image that way.
I agree. How is a completely subjective article written by some guy any kind of evidence that these are or are not better?
My personal experience has been the opposite. When I went from an old 19" CRT to a crisp flat panel it improved my game. As did going from an old Intellimouse to a 3200 DPI "gaming" mouse. In both cases it was the improved resolution that helped me. In TF2 it's not something you notice much, but in CounterStrike getting your reticle right over someone's head - and fast - is crucial. (As a side note, I've switched from CSS to play TF2 almost exclusively as well.) When I had a lousy mouse I had trouble getting it on the exact pixel I needed it to be on to get the shot. Same with my old monitor.
I'm not saying amazing gear will make you an amazing gamer... (14 year old in a race car anyone?) Just that, depending upon the game, it can really make a difference.
What blows my mind is the article that talks about a group of guys cutting through reinforced walls with a powersaw... what the!? the techs didn't hear an insanely loud noise and think - maybe I should investigate? Then after having realized a bunch of whack jobs are coming in just call the cops and hide someplace? The place has already been robbed 4 times. They can't come up with some better security? geez. You might as well be hosting your stuff at 7-11. At least there you might get a feisty old timer with a shotgun or a bat to fend criminals off.
The funny part is his own quote -
"Getting caught was kind of a wake-up call, that the Internet was not some kind of playground and I couldn't do what I wanted to all the time. I had to obey the law. The prank was not well received by a lot of people at the school." He acts as though what he did was actually traced back to him via the Internet... he didn't get busted as part of some kind of brilliant cyber-sleuthing... he got busted because he bragged about it and word got out. If you want to do that kind of thing you're better off keeping your mouth shut.
The whole thing is silly anyway... they're student elections. At a big school they're just a contest to see who has the most friends / friends of friends.
I've never included random crap like that in my code... even in college when I was pulling all nighters. Why on earth would I want to have to reference the ParisHilton class? and how would that be helpful to other developers? This is silliness.
Yeah, Oregon is awesome at passing laws that violate it's own constitution. I sometimes wonder if there's some sort of ongoing bet that the rest of us just don't know about - "Hey, let's see if we can sneak this on in there. Haha suckers! That law said that Oregon is going to secede and become a facist state! We fooled you!"
It just seems like the new laws that violate existing laws / the constitution get sillier and sillier. The irony of all of this is that Oregon is full of hippies and tree-hugger types. How do we end up with a law like that in a liberal environment like this?
You wouldn't... but the same people that get infected with every bot known to man would probably think it was legit and click on it. I've seen these people; I've seen their computers... if there's a buttons - they will click it.
The sort of people in danger of crashing are in the ICU. In the myriad of hospitals I've been to there's always been a nurse assigned to watch over two people at a time. She sits between their rooms, has a window into each one and can clearly hear any alarms. Not all ICUs may be like that but all of the ones I've seen have been.
I do think it's interesting that the article talks a lot about using them in an office environment. We use laser printers almost exclusively (most black and white, a few color). We've got one or two fax/scan/whatever multifunction ink based printers but those are there more for the fax/scan ability than for the printing.
Ink is also much slower than laser. I'm not sure why, in an office environment, anyone would choose to use ink.
MySpace is the worst thing to ever happen to webpage design. It's even worse than the mid-90's when frames came out and people had just discovered tiled backgrounds (I know, I was part of that insanity... but at least I made sure you could read my page and they were a reasonable length).
The hacks still continue depending upon what you want to do. If you're trying to seriously manipulate your interface using JavaScript you're still going to find yourself having to write browser hacks. Even with IE7 I've still run into plenty of things that don't work correctly in it versus FireFox.
This doesn't make me hate JavaScript though... it just makes me hate browsers that don't work. If I tell you to update the contents of an object you should update it without me having to move the focus to that object to get you to repaint it.:-/
The *only* thing I've hated about JavaScript is that I've never found a good JavaScript environment / debugging method. Even with FireFox and various developer programs debugging JavaScript is still a hassle (and of course that still doesn't help you when you've got an IE specific issue).
Ugh, I'd agree, they drive me insane. Finding anything on those pages drives you crazy. If they haven't properly written the links then actually clicking on them causes you to reload the page. FANTASTIC. It's even better when they post an image along with every blog post...
It seems like the opposite is happening a lot too. Where ridiculously ad-intensive sites are breaking up what would take just a little scrolling to show into 6 pages. This is equally annoying. You have to hunt for the "next page" link on every page in among the text ads, related links, and other stories.
External objects doubling makes me think of ads. I see more and more ads on websites and more and more often - they're video. I feel sorry for anyone with dialup. I hope you've got a good adblocker... otherwise 75% of any webpage you download is just ads.
I'd always thought that this was sort of a fun idea, but it always seemed like it cost a lot, the watches were huge, and the feature set was never that amazing. Ultimately... if you have a cell phone on you 24/7 that's capable of doing everything the watch can - why buy the watch? I've stopped wearing a watch for this very reason.
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Twice in the same thread!? My signature can't take it anymore! It's going to commit seppuku.
Who doesn't?
Yeah, it's just like the cell phone towers. Land owners lease an area on their property to the wireless companies. It's not their problem if the thing stops working - that's the cell carriers problem.
What's up with the all caps crap too? Remember when NVIDIA was just nVidia? ugh. AMD GAME! - 'cause GAME just looks cooler than Game...
Good call, they might as well have named it "AMD gaming decimates all - NVIDIA and Intel suxors"
Where do I start!? This faster loads and games that take more advantage of the hardware talk is ridiculous. My computer loads games FAR faster than my piece of crap XBox 360 (looks at rock band). How are there more games that fully utilize the hardware on consoles? Is that because there's less to use? Have they heard of Crysis? You can only just now run that maxed at a decent framerate and that game has been out ages. Those things are not console advantages. Being able to buy one system, never upgrade it and "know" that games will work - those are advantages. (know is in quotes because console games seem to be getting buggier and buggier.)
As for the standard - I don't see it being any more useful than Microsoft's performance index in Vista which was supposed to make playing "Games for Windows" so easy! I don't know about anyone else but I've never seen a game box (not even a Vista-only-DX10-wonderland type game) with a performance index recommendation on there. Maybe after "Vista Capable" game makers realized that pinning their hopes on a Vista performance index was a *bad* idea.
Only thing worth watching on TV is on the Discovery / History channel. That's all I watch when I get someplace with cable. My TV at home is just for DVD's / game systems / windows media center.
TLC used to be good but it's turned into a frickin' reality show channel. (at least they stopped making insert dumb idea here story shows. Baby story, wedding story, ugh. What, we don't know how weddings happen!?)
He also missed out on an awesome opportunity for a Martha Stewart impression when he was pulling those things outta the oven.
...Proof that I am married?
Insert obvious "you're not married you're gay / a nerd joke".
Competing interpretations? That God is the *only* God and that salvation is a free gift given by God's grace through Christ's death on the cross for all of the sins of humanity aren't really up for interpretation. Those are the pillars of Christian belief. We aren't disagreeing about esoteric topics; these make up the core of what it is to define oneself as a Christian.
lulz. I'm not threatened by them in any way. I'm simply trying to make a clarification that, in my opinion, is the difference between going to heaven and going to hell. Rather than feeling threatened, I feel obligated to tell people the truth about the difference between what they say they are and what they really are.
It's not my definition; it's the biblical definition.
I've posted similar articles countless times before, but here's another example. Mormon's are not Christian. They may claim to be Christian, but they are not. I can claim to be a Buddhist, Mormon and Catholic but that doesn't make me all three. They have mutually exclusive doctrines which prevent you from being all of them. Similarly, Mormon doctrine directly conflicts with the most basic tenants of Christianity (outlined in aforementioned link).
Yeah, the image quality doesn't look that amazing. I haven't looked at projectors recently, but last time I did, they couldn't put out the 1600x1200 that I currently play at. So you've got a lower resolution display, being stretched over a huge surface with distortion at the edges... It's an interesting idea but it doesn't look like a real improvement.
If I were going to invest in tech like this I'd rather play on one of those wrap-around style displays that are basically just a semi-circular monitor... better image that way.
My personal experience has been the opposite. When I went from an old 19" CRT to a crisp flat panel it improved my game. As did going from an old Intellimouse to a 3200 DPI "gaming" mouse. In both cases it was the improved resolution that helped me. In TF2 it's not something you notice much, but in CounterStrike getting your reticle right over someone's head - and fast - is crucial. (As a side note, I've switched from CSS to play TF2 almost exclusively as well.) When I had a lousy mouse I had trouble getting it on the exact pixel I needed it to be on to get the shot. Same with my old monitor.
I'm not saying amazing gear will make you an amazing gamer... (14 year old in a race car anyone?) Just that, depending upon the game, it can really make a difference.
What blows my mind is the article that talks about a group of guys cutting through reinforced walls with a powersaw... what the!? the techs didn't hear an insanely loud noise and think - maybe I should investigate? Then after having realized a bunch of whack jobs are coming in just call the cops and hide someplace? The place has already been robbed 4 times. They can't come up with some better security? geez. You might as well be hosting your stuff at 7-11. At least there you might get a feisty old timer with a shotgun or a bat to fend criminals off.
The whole thing is silly anyway... they're student elections. At a big school they're just a contest to see who has the most friends / friends of friends.
I've never included random crap like that in my code... even in college when I was pulling all nighters. Why on earth would I want to have to reference the ParisHilton class? and how would that be helpful to other developers? This is silliness.
It just seems like the new laws that violate existing laws / the constitution get sillier and sillier. The irony of all of this is that Oregon is full of hippies and tree-hugger types. How do we end up with a law like that in a liberal environment like this?
You wouldn't... but the same people that get infected with every bot known to man would probably think it was legit and click on it. I've seen these people; I've seen their computers... if there's a buttons - they will click it.
The sort of people in danger of crashing are in the ICU. In the myriad of hospitals I've been to there's always been a nurse assigned to watch over two people at a time. She sits between their rooms, has a window into each one and can clearly hear any alarms. Not all ICUs may be like that but all of the ones I've seen have been.
Ink is also much slower than laser. I'm not sure why, in an office environment, anyone would choose to use ink.
MySpace is the worst thing to ever happen to webpage design. It's even worse than the mid-90's when frames came out and people had just discovered tiled backgrounds (I know, I was part of that insanity... but at least I made sure you could read my page and they were a reasonable length).
This doesn't make me hate JavaScript though... it just makes me hate browsers that don't work. If I tell you to update the contents of an object you should update it without me having to move the focus to that object to get you to repaint it. :-/
The *only* thing I've hated about JavaScript is that I've never found a good JavaScript environment / debugging method. Even with FireFox and various developer programs debugging JavaScript is still a hassle (and of course that still doesn't help you when you've got an IE specific issue).
Ugh, I'd agree, they drive me insane. Finding anything on those pages drives you crazy. If they haven't properly written the links then actually clicking on them causes you to reload the page. FANTASTIC. It's even better when they post an image along with every blog post...
It seems like the opposite is happening a lot too. Where ridiculously ad-intensive sites are breaking up what would take just a little scrolling to show into 6 pages. This is equally annoying. You have to hunt for the "next page" link on every page in among the text ads, related links, and other stories.
External objects doubling makes me think of ads. I see more and more ads on websites and more and more often - they're video. I feel sorry for anyone with dialup. I hope you've got a good adblocker... otherwise 75% of any webpage you download is just ads.
I'd always thought that this was sort of a fun idea, but it always seemed like it cost a lot, the watches were huge, and the feature set was never that amazing. Ultimately... if you have a cell phone on you 24/7 that's capable of doing everything the watch can - why buy the watch? I've stopped wearing a watch for this very reason.