If you have agreements with other companies that customize windows and special add-on programs as such, maybe what ever this issue is or is being caused by can be resolved. And you can make no mistake about it, I do not exactly what your service is, But I will not ever knowingly use your service again. And, secondly, I have also advised all the people I know online (which is many); due to fact I attend 2 universities online.
Anyone else immediately think of Miss South Carolina!? I think we should ask her if she sent that one. And by "we" I mean, US American citizens / South Africans / Iraqis / other people without maps.
...now if I could only figure out where she was from so that I could contact her... Hmmmm... Sadly, I have no map, and therefore no means of figuring out where this so-called "South Carolina" place is.
I agree that a nice, hard bound book is, at the moment, more pleasant to read. However, technologies such as e-Ink and others that allow you to read something digitally without the eye-strain of using a back lit monitor are catching on. I think a few factors make digital copies more advantageous - cost of duplication, storage, protection from damage, searchability.
Storage: I just moved, and I moved three bookcases full of books. That sucked. If those were all digital, I'd have hauled my computer from A to B and brought all of my books with me. In addition, I moved to a smaller house. Trying to find a place for my three bookcases of books has been impossible.
Cost of duplication: With digital copies, books can be distributed without the overhead costs of printing and shipping.
Protection from damage: Many of the books housed in libraries, particularly places like the Smithsonian, are no longer in print. If it's destroyed, regardless of whether it's an accident or a malicious act, it's gone. The library may be able to get another copy from a benevolent individual or the last copy may have just been destroyed. With a digital copy, you can make back-ups of your back-ups... safeguarding the content of that book.
Searchability: This is my favorite... Who hasn't spent 30 minutes skimming a book trying to find THAT ONE PAGE!? It drives me nuts. Searching would make books sooo much more convenient.
Heck yes 7th Generation... Generation 2.0? what? Is he crazy? that makes ps2/game cube/xbox Generation 1? What, did Microsoft officially start console gaming so they're Generation 1? Comedy...
Why did wii sales spike? Probably because parents got to the store where they were going to buy an Xbox 360 for their kids and then they saw the price tag and then the sales guy told them about the "red ring of death" and they thought... screw that! I'm buying a wii and a million games for the price of just the Xbox 360 (and no, I'm not counting the 'basic' version of the XBox as the cheapest, no one buys that thing). Plus, although it's winter I don't need another space heater.
aaaand those same business majors (if allowed anywhere near your SQL database) will then write a query that brings your server to its knees as they try to join 20 different tables together, using no indexed fields and using only "LIKE" statements for where clauses against nvarchar(max) fields. Good luck with that! Knowing how to write a query and knowing how to write the most efficient query possible are two completely different things. (The same is true of database design in general).
Maybe he just hasn't played Zelda: Twilight Princess or any of the other games that do it... I do agree though, the voice acting in some games is terrible and just ruins the game. I also would prefer gibberish over that.
Our on-ramps are long enough to give you more than the time necessary to accelerate to the posted speed. There are a few exceptions in downtown Portland... but even there, if you floor it, you can get up to 50 easily in an underpowered, fully loaded SUV. (posted speed in Portland is 55).
There are many other examples, but Washington D.C. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Washington,_D.C. is a good example of this. No guns among the citizens = more crime. Why? Why not? If you can rob someone with a knife / gun knowing that they have no means of defending themselves why not do it? Think about it. (This is obviously from a criminal standpoint, I'm not saying that guns are the only thing that prevent me from robbing people)
YES! I agree 100%. American drivers are ridiculous. People can't even merge correctly onto the freeway let alone stay on it for any period of time without looking ridiculous. I regularly get stuck behind people trying to merge in a 65 MPH area while they're going 45 MPH... and we wonder why traffic comes to a halt during rush hour!? I've been on the road when it's as full as it is during rush hour and I've gone 60+. Other times I've watched person after person slowly merge onto the freeway and gum up the whole thing. ugh. Sadly, our cops are more obsessed with enforcing popular (and lucrative) speed laws than they are any of the other driving laws (turn signal, anyone from California?).
Mirrors you say? Judging traffic? I WISH. That'd require them to think about someone other than themselves while they're driving... In all my years of driving I think I could count on two hands the number of times someone has preemptively moved out of the fast lane because I was coming up on them. The rest of the time it's either tailgate until they move or it's the ol' three lane pass (you gotta move over three lanes to the right, pass them, then move back. ridiculous.)
Which reminds me... people here don't even know what the lanes are for. Despite "slow traffic keep right" signs... Here in Oregon, I still do most of my passing in the right most lane - because it's empty, and the left lane is full of people that are convinced that they're going "as fast as anyone needs to go!". *sigh* thank God I work from home now!
I've got the same problem... I finally started having all of my e-mail forwarded to gmail to let their spam filters clean up the mess. I've had my address for about 11 years now... and it just got worse and worse every year.
I think Valve still has great developer support. They regularly update their games with patches, updates, new features, etc. You only pay for new games, or a new episode in the case of HL2. So, there are still companies out there doing it, you just have to look for them and buy their games. And I do agree that this guy sounds like he has no idea how he's going to make the "extras" good enough to be worth paying for.
I do agree on the cart size issue. The parade cart has the same problem, what's the point of earning the "best cart" in the game if it's as huge as Bowser's? It ends up being an upgrade for the Bowser drivers and a piece of junk for the Koopa's.
This is more of a random / ai issue, but I hate the frequency with which those blue shells come up. It's always the people in 6, 7, or 8th place and it doesn't even help them because they're so far back. I've been hit three times in a row with those things. It gets ridiculous after a while.
As for the weapon differences... I think the problem there is, once again, frequency. If Koopa only got triple shells as often as Toad got a golden mushroom, or as bowser got his huge ball and chain, it'd be more balanced. It's been my experience though that the three shells come up far more often than any other player's special. And, I'll admit... I won a DD tournament and I played Koopa the whole time!:P I usually play as Toad though, you don't get the triple shells but the mushrooms give you enough of a lead that you never need them (unless you get hit by the three aforementioned blue shells from hell).
I'd have to agree, this seems pretty ridiculous. When you compare this to Rv. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. or another person who dedicated their life to the betterment of other's lives... Al Gore doesn't really stack up. Quoting from the Nobel Peace Prize Page http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/articles/lundestad-review/index.html
The prize for peace was to be awarded to the person who "shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding of peace congresses."
Seriously, how does cranking out a video about carbon emissions and yakking about global warming have anything to do with that? He shouldn't have gotten the award.
whaaaa? Does everyone always forget about Super Mario Kart? I always felt that SMK was far superior to MK64 (which I never even enjoyed). The battle, the racing, everything was better. I also feel that Double Dash is much more fun than MK64. The battle maps on MK64 are lousy and the racing isn't that great either (the maps have so many shortcuts and cheats it's ridiculous). The "bomb mode" battle in DD is great, even my friends that have never played DD before like it more than regular battle from MK64.
Regarding balance, Bowser has always been more difficult to drive skillfully than Toad. That's not just DD, that's just the way it's always been.
In half of the article they call it a drive, and in half they call it a tape... Which one is missing? There's quite a bit of difference. If it's just a hard drive, any joe schmoe can plug it in and get your data. If it's a tape, they may at least have to first drop a thousand bucks on a machine capable of reading the type of tape you've got. They also didn't mention whether the data was encrypted. If I were an Ohio taxpayer and these were the only ramifications of mishandling data in this way I'd be extremely unhappy. I hate to say it, but an example needs to be made. Identity theft is rampant and ridiculous mistakes like these are part of the reason why.
I just recently read an article about this in Popular Science. There are actually a handful of new artificial bloods. My understanding is that they're in the process of getting federal approval. One even has the advantage of working for anyone of any blood type. If they get approved I'm sure it won't be too long before they replace a typical transfusion. Given the choice between old, possibly disease ridden blood, and fresh, fake blood - I'll take the fake. (And yes, I know they screen the blood used in transfusions but people still end up with hepatitis and other diseases don't they? It's not a perfect system...
There are new updates / patches / versions of PHP coming out all the time. How is that going to work with this new FastCGI? Is Microsoft really going to take the time to continually update it? Or is Zend going to get screwed into doing all of the update work themselves? If you *do* end up deciding to use this who the heck do you contact regarding support issues? I read the "article" (press release really) and didn't see any of these questions answered. It seems to me that anyone that's actually serious about using PHP for any sort of reasonably useful app will want to know the answers.
Isn't this just what happens about 50% of the time with company buyouts in tech? It seems like either you're buying them because you want their technology for yourself, or you're trying to eliminate a competitor. (Very rarely some holding company may actually just want to own a piece of the action and make a profit from your hard work). In either case though, the purchasing company doesn't give a crap about the viability of the company they're buying. I wouldn't say this is just google, I'd say this is the way most tech companies with money to spend handle buyouts.
As a youth leader our youth group organized tons of "game nights". Some times we played Halo, sometimes we played CounterStrike. Sometimes it was for outreach and sometimes it was just for fun. I must say though, in all of our game nights we never had any parents complain (despite keeping their kids out until about 6am) and we never had anyone get all antsy about the violence in the games. At the time I was part of the relatively conservative Southern Baptist church.
Maybe I missed it, but from the article I didn't see any huge religious groups condemning it. It seems to me that there are just a handful of people complaining. Also, journalists need to stop just saying, "it's rated M" and start saying what it's rated M for. In the article all they say is that it's violent! and it's rated M! Oh no! GTA and Halo are both M and they're both M for completely different stuff. I would let my 13 year old nephew play Halo, but not GTA. The same is true for movie ratings... seeing the Passion of the Christ is not the same as seeing Striptease and they're both R. Yet I know for a fact a ton of parents took their kids to see Passion of the Christ, but not Striptease.
Did you just say Phyx-X? Don't you know that those things are only good for working on your trash can hook shot from your desk chair? At least... I haven't read any reviews that say otherwise.
Actually, with the 8800's the benchmarks I've seen reflect more like a 60% - 80% increase. The new DX10 hardware design makes SLI much more powerful. I've got two 8800 GTSs in SLI and I've seen improvements similar to the 60%-80% I talked about. With older cards, that's obviously not the case, but the newer stuff is pretty impressive.
I think that something along these lines is exactly the intent of the patent. People here claiming that this is the end of windows and that Microsoft is planning on integrating this into the OS for paying customers are nuts. Corporate users, power users and novices alike would all hate it. Microsoft may be greedy, powerful, etc, but they aren't suicidal. Sorry linux fanboys... better luck next time!:)
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I, for one, instantly considered sending him an e-mail with that subject... I'm too lazy, but I doubt others are!
I agree that a nice, hard bound book is, at the moment, more pleasant to read. However, technologies such as e-Ink and others that allow you to read something digitally without the eye-strain of using a back lit monitor are catching on. I think a few factors make digital copies more advantageous - cost of duplication, storage, protection from damage, searchability.
Storage: I just moved, and I moved three bookcases full of books. That sucked. If those were all digital, I'd have hauled my computer from A to B and brought all of my books with me. In addition, I moved to a smaller house. Trying to find a place for my three bookcases of books has been impossible.
Cost of duplication: With digital copies, books can be distributed without the overhead costs of printing and shipping.
Protection from damage: Many of the books housed in libraries, particularly places like the Smithsonian, are no longer in print. If it's destroyed, regardless of whether it's an accident or a malicious act, it's gone. The library may be able to get another copy from a benevolent individual or the last copy may have just been destroyed. With a digital copy, you can make back-ups of your back-ups... safeguarding the content of that book.
Searchability: This is my favorite... Who hasn't spent 30 minutes skimming a book trying to find THAT ONE PAGE!? It drives me nuts. Searching would make books sooo much more convenient.
Dude... He's the diet coke of evil - just one calorie, not quite evil enough!
Heck yes 7th Generation... Generation 2.0? what? Is he crazy? that makes ps2/game cube/xbox Generation 1? What, did Microsoft officially start console gaming so they're Generation 1? Comedy...
Why did wii sales spike? Probably because parents got to the store where they were going to buy an Xbox 360 for their kids and then they saw the price tag and then the sales guy told them about the "red ring of death" and they thought... screw that! I'm buying a wii and a million games for the price of just the Xbox 360 (and no, I'm not counting the 'basic' version of the XBox as the cheapest, no one buys that thing). Plus, although it's winter I don't need another space heater.
aaaand those same business majors (if allowed anywhere near your SQL database) will then write a query that brings your server to its knees as they try to join 20 different tables together, using no indexed fields and using only "LIKE" statements for where clauses against nvarchar(max) fields. Good luck with that! Knowing how to write a query and knowing how to write the most efficient query possible are two completely different things. (The same is true of database design in general).
Yes Yes Yes. Read my signature my friend :) hehe.
Maybe he just hasn't played Zelda: Twilight Princess or any of the other games that do it... I do agree though, the voice acting in some games is terrible and just ruins the game. I also would prefer gibberish over that.
Our on-ramps are long enough to give you more than the time necessary to accelerate to the posted speed. There are a few exceptions in downtown Portland... but even there, if you floor it, you can get up to 50 easily in an underpowered, fully loaded SUV. (posted speed in Portland is 55).
There are many other examples, but Washington D.C. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Washington,_D.C. is a good example of this. No guns among the citizens = more crime. Why? Why not? If you can rob someone with a knife / gun knowing that they have no means of defending themselves why not do it? Think about it. (This is obviously from a criminal standpoint, I'm not saying that guns are the only thing that prevent me from robbing people)
Mirrors you say? Judging traffic? I WISH. That'd require them to think about someone other than themselves while they're driving... In all my years of driving I think I could count on two hands the number of times someone has preemptively moved out of the fast lane because I was coming up on them. The rest of the time it's either tailgate until they move or it's the ol' three lane pass (you gotta move over three lanes to the right, pass them, then move back. ridiculous.)
Which reminds me... people here don't even know what the lanes are for. Despite "slow traffic keep right" signs... Here in Oregon, I still do most of my passing in the right most lane - because it's empty, and the left lane is full of people that are convinced that they're going "as fast as anyone needs to go!". *sigh* thank God I work from home now!
Calm down mods... I'm an American too :P
I've got the same problem... I finally started having all of my e-mail forwarded to gmail to let their spam filters clean up the mess. I've had my address for about 11 years now... and it just got worse and worse every year.
I think Valve still has great developer support. They regularly update their games with patches, updates, new features, etc. You only pay for new games, or a new episode in the case of HL2. So, there are still companies out there doing it, you just have to look for them and buy their games. And I do agree that this guy sounds like he has no idea how he's going to make the "extras" good enough to be worth paying for.
I do agree on the cart size issue. The parade cart has the same problem, what's the point of earning the "best cart" in the game if it's as huge as Bowser's? It ends up being an upgrade for the Bowser drivers and a piece of junk for the Koopa's.
This is more of a random / ai issue, but I hate the frequency with which those blue shells come up. It's always the people in 6, 7, or 8th place and it doesn't even help them because they're so far back. I've been hit three times in a row with those things. It gets ridiculous after a while.
As for the weapon differences... I think the problem there is, once again, frequency. If Koopa only got triple shells as often as Toad got a golden mushroom, or as bowser got his huge ball and chain, it'd be more balanced. It's been my experience though that the three shells come up far more often than any other player's special. And, I'll admit... I won a DD tournament and I played Koopa the whole time! :P I usually play as Toad though, you don't get the triple shells but the mushrooms give you enough of a lead that you never need them (unless you get hit by the three aforementioned blue shells from hell).
Seriously, how does cranking out a video about carbon emissions and yakking about global warming have anything to do with that? He shouldn't have gotten the award.
whaaaa? Does everyone always forget about Super Mario Kart? I always felt that SMK was far superior to MK64 (which I never even enjoyed). The battle, the racing, everything was better. I also feel that Double Dash is much more fun than MK64. The battle maps on MK64 are lousy and the racing isn't that great either (the maps have so many shortcuts and cheats it's ridiculous). The "bomb mode" battle in DD is great, even my friends that have never played DD before like it more than regular battle from MK64.
Regarding balance, Bowser has always been more difficult to drive skillfully than Toad. That's not just DD, that's just the way it's always been.
Just my $.02.
In half of the article they call it a drive, and in half they call it a tape... Which one is missing? There's quite a bit of difference. If it's just a hard drive, any joe schmoe can plug it in and get your data. If it's a tape, they may at least have to first drop a thousand bucks on a machine capable of reading the type of tape you've got. They also didn't mention whether the data was encrypted. If I were an Ohio taxpayer and these were the only ramifications of mishandling data in this way I'd be extremely unhappy. I hate to say it, but an example needs to be made. Identity theft is rampant and ridiculous mistakes like these are part of the reason why.
I just recently read an article about this in Popular Science. There are actually a handful of new artificial bloods. My understanding is that they're in the process of getting federal approval. One even has the advantage of working for anyone of any blood type. If they get approved I'm sure it won't be too long before they replace a typical transfusion. Given the choice between old, possibly disease ridden blood, and fresh, fake blood - I'll take the fake. (And yes, I know they screen the blood used in transfusions but people still end up with hepatitis and other diseases don't they? It's not a perfect system...
There are new updates / patches / versions of PHP coming out all the time. How is that going to work with this new FastCGI? Is Microsoft really going to take the time to continually update it? Or is Zend going to get screwed into doing all of the update work themselves? If you *do* end up deciding to use this who the heck do you contact regarding support issues? I read the "article" (press release really) and didn't see any of these questions answered. It seems to me that anyone that's actually serious about using PHP for any sort of reasonably useful app will want to know the answers.
Isn't this just what happens about 50% of the time with company buyouts in tech? It seems like either you're buying them because you want their technology for yourself, or you're trying to eliminate a competitor. (Very rarely some holding company may actually just want to own a piece of the action and make a profit from your hard work). In either case though, the purchasing company doesn't give a crap about the viability of the company they're buying. I wouldn't say this is just google, I'd say this is the way most tech companies with money to spend handle buyouts.
As a youth leader our youth group organized tons of "game nights". Some times we played Halo, sometimes we played CounterStrike. Sometimes it was for outreach and sometimes it was just for fun. I must say though, in all of our game nights we never had any parents complain (despite keeping their kids out until about 6am) and we never had anyone get all antsy about the violence in the games. At the time I was part of the relatively conservative Southern Baptist church.
Maybe I missed it, but from the article I didn't see any huge religious groups condemning it. It seems to me that there are just a handful of people complaining. Also, journalists need to stop just saying, "it's rated M" and start saying what it's rated M for. In the article all they say is that it's violent! and it's rated M! Oh no! GTA and Halo are both M and they're both M for completely different stuff. I would let my 13 year old nephew play Halo, but not GTA. The same is true for movie ratings... seeing the Passion of the Christ is not the same as seeing Striptease and they're both R. Yet I know for a fact a ton of parents took their kids to see Passion of the Christ, but not Striptease.
Did you just say Phyx-X? Don't you know that those things are only good for working on your trash can hook shot from your desk chair? At least... I haven't read any reviews that say otherwise.
Actually, with the 8800's the benchmarks I've seen reflect more like a 60% - 80% increase. The new DX10 hardware design makes SLI much more powerful. I've got two 8800 GTSs in SLI and I've seen improvements similar to the 60%-80% I talked about. With older cards, that's obviously not the case, but the newer stuff is pretty impressive.
I think that something along these lines is exactly the intent of the patent. People here claiming that this is the end of windows and that Microsoft is planning on integrating this into the OS for paying customers are nuts. Corporate users, power users and novices alike would all hate it. Microsoft may be greedy, powerful, etc, but they aren't suicidal. Sorry linux fanboys... better luck next time! :)