I'm glad to see that someone out there is willing to take on Comcast to put an end to this kind of garbage. They may be doing it to protect their product, but the end result is good no matter who you are. Bravo I say!
The problem with nuclear is that it requires fuel just like a coal plant or a natural gas plant. My understanding is that if we build a bunch of nuclear power plants (along with the rest of the planet) we'll run out of nuclear fuel in about 100 years just like we're running out of oil. (Unfortunately I can't find the references I was looking for. Don't yell at me, look it up yourself.) Then we'll be in the same place we are now - running out of fuel for our existing plants and wondering what the heck we're going to do. I am by no means an environmentalist, but we need to be looking for sustainable ways to generate electricity. Be it solar, wind, waves, hydroelectric, some fancy bacteria that turns garbage into methane with amazing efficiency, whatever - it just needs to be something that we can use indefinitely.
Actually his suggestion isn't that unreasonable... Most car nav systems aren't that different than google maps. You get directions, business locations, etc. From my understanding the phone is supposed to natively run Google apps - including Google Maps. What would make it so impossible to adapt the software to work with a different sized touchscreen and just use Google Maps?
P.S. Are we going to have a freaking article about "the google phone" every day until it comes out? There have been a ton of them. It's getting ridiculous.
I have almost the same set-up (64-bit Vista, OC E6700, 4GB RAM) it's delicious. I agree that with specs like these, Vista is great. Regarding the survey, the 2GB+ RAM stat isn't very useful. I'd like to know how many are actually greater than 2GB and how many only have 2GB. Anyone with more than 2GB of RAM and 32bit XP just wasted their money - http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366778.aspx. There's more to it than that page describes, but it's a start for interested parties.
64 bit is still no picnic though. Manufacturers are freaking lazy when it comes to rolling out 64 bit drivers / versions of software. I've been waiting over a year for an update to my music mixing software.
P.S. Just played the Crysis Demo with DX10 and SLI... it's amazing.
hehehe. Yeah, he and I played countless hours together but for some reason he never got as good as me. I knew I took it easy on him but I never thought about it until one day my older brothers came and visited (thinking they were going to crush me at Goldeneye)... Needless to say when they realized that I could follow them around without them even realizing it and then kill them whenever I decided it was convenient... they decided we should play something else. Poor dads!
I actually grew up gaming with my dad. He, naturally, was the owner of the PC and he and I played various DOS games together starting when I was about 6 or 7. When the SNES came out we played a lot of Super Mario Kart together and on the N64 we played Goldeneye and Perfect Dark non-stop. It was a blast. There's no reason playing with your parents can't be fun. Of course... I had to take it easy on him, otherwise he'd get mad and stop playing.:)
Here's your evidence to the contrary - http://www.qwantz.com/archive/000693.html. I actually have that printed and hanging on my wall. Sorry, but the grammar Nazi's have to stick together.
I remember hearing about this years ago. I don't recall where it was being done but I remember that there were school zones and small neighborhoods using the same effect to generate a "pleasant tone" when cars drove the right speed through the area. It never made much sense to me... it seems anyone living around there would get sick of hearing it and that people who were speeding just wouldn't care.
This really isn't surprising. No tactile feedback and fat fingers on "imaginary" keys = lots of typos. You have no way of feeling or hearing if you accidentally mashed a couple keys. On a keyboard you've got touch and sound to tell you when you've hit a key. My friend doesn't own an iPhone but she owns a phone whose keys are touch-sensitive (no pressing, just touch the key). There's no tactile or audible feedback and she constantly has trouble with typos on it. It's basically the same thing. No feedback = poor typing accuracy.
I subscribe to Maximum PC and I love it. It's only $10 for a year. That's less than a freaking dollar an issue. (Ok, so I just looked and they've increased it to $12 for a year... but still, a buck an issue is an amazing deal.) I agree that the newsstand price ($8.99) can be a lot, but if you're a subscriber, it's a heckuva a deal.
I think it's a great mag. They cover everything from hardware to games and I actually recently built a machine based almost entirely off of reviews from their magazine. I checked around online a bit too but I didn't find anything that I hadn't already learned in Maximum PC. Additionally, they have a number of policies in place to keep reviews and articles objective.
I've got Vista and I've found a way to fix this problem and keep your numbers nice and random. I just used a piece of string attached to one of my fans to swing a big magnet over the top of my memory. It's great. Although... my computer keeps on giving me these weird corruption errors and then crashing.
When is it finally going to dawn on people that minimum wage is the biggest piece of garbage ever? Nothing causes inflation like minimum wage. It's amazing. Here in Oregon we have an absurd law that increases minimum wage at the start of the year, every year. Guess what happens at the start of the year, every year? That's right - the cost of practically everything goes up. Groceries, movies, fast food - you name it.
Why? because those businesses all employ minimum wage workers; when their costs go up, they increase prices. They either can't afford (as is usually the case with most small businesses), or they aren't willing to make less profit so they pass the cost onto the consumer. What's that mean? It means everyone that's making more than minimum wage gets totally screwed. Their paycheck didn't increase and now they're paying more for the exact same crap they bought yesterday. And of course, everyone that's still making minimum wage can't buy any more garbage than they could the day before because the cost of everything increased just as much as their paycheck. WAKE UP PEOPLE. Minimum wage is NOT the solution to any question unless it's "how do we devalue the dollar?"
Yeah, if you look at the specs the PS3 is more powerful than the 360, it's also capable of creating higher-def images, so it's pretty insane to say it sits somewhere between the Wii and the 360. On paper the PS3's cell processors stomp the xbox 360's processor, but developers aren't yet taking advantage of the PS3's full computing power. It'll probably be another year before we see titles really starting to take advantage of the extra power.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure Google didn't have any experience writing Search optimized file systems or databases or anything of that ilk either... but it did. It also wrote a crapload of other nifty / amazing applications. Experience isn't necessary, it's just helpful. Did anyone freak out and scream "ZOMG Apple has NO experience making phones! They CAN NOT DO IT!!!!". No, that would have been silly. I think Symbian is just freaking out because they've seen the trouble Microsoft has had competing with Google and I'm sure they're afraid the same thing will happen to them.
Bigger pixels. That's why old big screen TVs look like junk. The pixels are just blown up to some huge size. Yes, I know, sometimes there are up-sampling technologies and such, but for the most part, TV's just have huge pixels in comparison to a good LCD monitor.
which can literally mean the difference between [an older] couple having a child or not
I think that's what you meant to say. 'Cause I mean come on, it's obviously not like the human race is going to disappear. We've survived pretty long without those drugs and PLENTY of procreation has been going on. Africa's population is exploding (AIDS is kind of repressing it, but that's neither here nor there) and I'm pretty sure that buying Viagra is the last thing on their mind.
I recognize that, as a man, there's a certain amount of psychological weight associated with the inability to get it up (no experience, but it'd freak me out for sure). However, I know three people with Crohns and it is not a pleasant disease. One of them will miss work for weeks at a time until they can re-adjust his treatments to stop his flare ups. Physical agony vs the inability to experience one type of pleasure shouldn't even be a contest. Besides, there's always adoption.
none of them were in any way crippled like Verizon is infamous for doing.
*sigh* so TRUE. I have Verizon now, and it's ridiculous. I'm so torn; although I wish the "gPhone" platform were coming to my carrier, I also know that it would probably end up coming with only half of the features that it's capable of and I'd be charged some mind melting amount to use them. Curse you wireless carriers!
Producers do the editing. The same "clean" version you get from Wal-Mart is the same thing you hear on the radio. Ever heard a DMX song on the radio? Every other word has to be censored, it's hilarious. But it's done using sound effects and such. However, there are also other artists / producers that will just create a "clean" (radio edit) version of the song. Replacing "bitch" with "girl" or "ass" with "thang", whatever it takes to get it played on as many stations as possible. Sometimes singles even include both the original and the radio edit. Probably for DJ types who may need to occasionally play the "clean" version of the song. (Right, like telling a girl to rub her "thang" on you instead of her "ass" is soooo much more PG). At any rate, I can guarantee you that no artist would want the likes of Wal-Mart doing their editing for them.
In which case we'll be right where we are now... with old JavaScript and the addition of some useless language. Microsoft always wants to make a new language. I'd absolutely vote for the improvement of JavaScript, it makes sense and all browsers can (theoretically) be relatively easily updated to support it. Additionally, developers are busy enough keeping up with the constantly changing landscape, we don't need *another* freaking language. There are plenty. Just add the features it needs and fix the bugs.
oh, and one more thing... please, please, please, can we do something about the insane code necessary to make JavaScript work on the two major browsers? It's ridiculous the amount of garbage you have to throw in just to cover yourself for the last two versions of the two big browsers. Can we just make browser upgrades mandatory or patch old versions or something? (I know that'll still leave me with the Mozilla / IE differences but then I only have to worry about two browsers instead of four.)
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I'm glad to see that someone out there is willing to take on Comcast to put an end to this kind of garbage. They may be doing it to protect their product, but the end result is good no matter who you are. Bravo I say!
Ummm, Why didn't he just call you back after the second time and tell you to lock your phone?
The problem with nuclear is that it requires fuel just like a coal plant or a natural gas plant. My understanding is that if we build a bunch of nuclear power plants (along with the rest of the planet) we'll run out of nuclear fuel in about 100 years just like we're running out of oil. (Unfortunately I can't find the references I was looking for. Don't yell at me, look it up yourself.) Then we'll be in the same place we are now - running out of fuel for our existing plants and wondering what the heck we're going to do. I am by no means an environmentalist, but we need to be looking for sustainable ways to generate electricity. Be it solar, wind, waves, hydroelectric, some fancy bacteria that turns garbage into methane with amazing efficiency, whatever - it just needs to be something that we can use indefinitely.
Actually his suggestion isn't that unreasonable... Most car nav systems aren't that different than google maps. You get directions, business locations, etc. From my understanding the phone is supposed to natively run Google apps - including Google Maps. What would make it so impossible to adapt the software to work with a different sized touchscreen and just use Google Maps?
P.S. Are we going to have a freaking article about "the google phone" every day until it comes out? There have been a ton of them. It's getting ridiculous.
I have almost the same set-up (64-bit Vista, OC E6700, 4GB RAM) it's delicious. I agree that with specs like these, Vista is great. Regarding the survey, the 2GB+ RAM stat isn't very useful. I'd like to know how many are actually greater than 2GB and how many only have 2GB. Anyone with more than 2GB of RAM and 32bit XP just wasted their money - http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366778.aspx. There's more to it than that page describes, but it's a start for interested parties.
64 bit is still no picnic though. Manufacturers are freaking lazy when it comes to rolling out 64 bit drivers / versions of software. I've been waiting over a year for an update to my music mixing software.
P.S. Just played the Crysis Demo with DX10 and SLI... it's amazing.
hehehe. Yeah, he and I played countless hours together but for some reason he never got as good as me. I knew I took it easy on him but I never thought about it until one day my older brothers came and visited (thinking they were going to crush me at Goldeneye)... Needless to say when they realized that I could follow them around without them even realizing it and then kill them whenever I decided it was convenient... they decided we should play something else. Poor dads!
I actually grew up gaming with my dad. He, naturally, was the owner of the PC and he and I played various DOS games together starting when I was about 6 or 7. When the SNES came out we played a lot of Super Mario Kart together and on the N64 we played Goldeneye and Perfect Dark non-stop. It was a blast. There's no reason playing with your parents can't be fun. Of course... I had to take it easy on him, otherwise he'd get mad and stop playing. :)
Here's your evidence to the contrary - http://www.qwantz.com/archive/000693.html. I actually have that printed and hanging on my wall. Sorry, but the grammar Nazi's have to stick together.
I remember hearing about this years ago. I don't recall where it was being done but I remember that there were school zones and small neighborhoods using the same effect to generate a "pleasant tone" when cars drove the right speed through the area. It never made much sense to me... it seems anyone living around there would get sick of hearing it and that people who were speeding just wouldn't care.
This really isn't surprising. No tactile feedback and fat fingers on "imaginary" keys = lots of typos. You have no way of feeling or hearing if you accidentally mashed a couple keys. On a keyboard you've got touch and sound to tell you when you've hit a key. My friend doesn't own an iPhone but she owns a phone whose keys are touch-sensitive (no pressing, just touch the key). There's no tactile or audible feedback and she constantly has trouble with typos on it. It's basically the same thing. No feedback = poor typing accuracy.
I think it's a great mag. They cover everything from hardware to games and I actually recently built a machine based almost entirely off of reviews from their magazine. I checked around online a bit too but I didn't find anything that I hadn't already learned in Maximum PC. Additionally, they have a number of policies in place to keep reviews and articles objective.
I've got Vista and I've found a way to fix this problem and keep your numbers nice and random. I just used a piece of string attached to one of my fans to swing a big magnet over the top of my memory. It's great. Although... my computer keeps on giving me these weird corruption errors and then crashing.
Do you kiss your mother with that mouth?
When is it finally going to dawn on people that minimum wage is the biggest piece of garbage ever? Nothing causes inflation like minimum wage. It's amazing. Here in Oregon we have an absurd law that increases minimum wage at the start of the year, every year. Guess what happens at the start of the year, every year? That's right - the cost of practically everything goes up. Groceries, movies, fast food - you name it.
Why? because those businesses all employ minimum wage workers; when their costs go up, they increase prices. They either can't afford (as is usually the case with most small businesses), or they aren't willing to make less profit so they pass the cost onto the consumer. What's that mean? It means everyone that's making more than minimum wage gets totally screwed. Their paycheck didn't increase and now they're paying more for the exact same crap they bought yesterday. And of course, everyone that's still making minimum wage can't buy any more garbage than they could the day before because the cost of everything increased just as much as their paycheck. WAKE UP PEOPLE. Minimum wage is NOT the solution to any question unless it's "how do we devalue the dollar?"
Yeah, if you look at the specs the PS3 is more powerful than the 360, it's also capable of creating higher-def images, so it's pretty insane to say it sits somewhere between the Wii and the 360. On paper the PS3's cell processors stomp the xbox 360's processor, but developers aren't yet taking advantage of the PS3's full computing power. It'll probably be another year before we see titles really starting to take advantage of the extra power.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure Google didn't have any experience writing Search optimized file systems or databases or anything of that ilk either... but it did. It also wrote a crapload of other nifty / amazing applications. Experience isn't necessary, it's just helpful. Did anyone freak out and scream "ZOMG Apple has NO experience making phones! They CAN NOT DO IT!!!!". No, that would have been silly. I think Symbian is just freaking out because they've seen the trouble Microsoft has had competing with Google and I'm sure they're afraid the same thing will happen to them.
Bigger pixels. That's why old big screen TVs look like junk. The pixels are just blown up to some huge size. Yes, I know, sometimes there are up-sampling technologies and such, but for the most part, TV's just have huge pixels in comparison to a good LCD monitor.
I recognize that, as a man, there's a certain amount of psychological weight associated with the inability to get it up (no experience, but it'd freak me out for sure). However, I know three people with Crohns and it is not a pleasant disease. One of them will miss work for weeks at a time until they can re-adjust his treatments to stop his flare ups. Physical agony vs the inability to experience one type of pleasure shouldn't even be a contest. Besides, there's always adoption.
ROFL, I love that it took two corrections for someone to finally get it right. That's AWESOME. Apparently slash dotters English skills are second only to the English's math skills... http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1022757_cool_cash_card_confusion
Producers do the editing. The same "clean" version you get from Wal-Mart is the same thing you hear on the radio. Ever heard a DMX song on the radio? Every other word has to be censored, it's hilarious. But it's done using sound effects and such. However, there are also other artists / producers that will just create a "clean" (radio edit) version of the song. Replacing "bitch" with "girl" or "ass" with "thang", whatever it takes to get it played on as many stations as possible. Sometimes singles even include both the original and the radio edit. Probably for DJ types who may need to occasionally play the "clean" version of the song. (Right, like telling a girl to rub her "thang" on you instead of her "ass" is soooo much more PG). At any rate, I can guarantee you that no artist would want the likes of Wal-Mart doing their editing for them.
Yeah... Dick Cheney's friend's always wear it when they go hunting with him. It saved one lawyers life!
In which case we'll be right where we are now... with old JavaScript and the addition of some useless language. Microsoft always wants to make a new language. I'd absolutely vote for the improvement of JavaScript, it makes sense and all browsers can (theoretically) be relatively easily updated to support it. Additionally, developers are busy enough keeping up with the constantly changing landscape, we don't need *another* freaking language. There are plenty. Just add the features it needs and fix the bugs.
oh, and one more thing... please, please, please, can we do something about the insane code necessary to make JavaScript work on the two major browsers? It's ridiculous the amount of garbage you have to throw in just to cover yourself for the last two versions of the two big browsers. Can we just make browser upgrades mandatory or patch old versions or something? (I know that'll still leave me with the Mozilla / IE differences but then I only have to worry about two browsers instead of four.)
That was my first thought as well... perhaps French law is different? Anyone know?