At the end of the day I guess it's just like at the cinema, Avatar was phenomenal in 3D but little else has been, likewise, it appears games are suited to 3D too.
I'll assume it's the difference between something genuinely built in 3D, and that shitty cardboard cut out version of 3D.
Still, it's early days, and Toshiba is already testing glasses-less 3D TVs so I think it'll only get better. All in all, I don't think it's a bad technology, in some cases it certainly adds something, when you're stood at the top of a massive tower in Assassins Creed looking down, you can really feel the height.
Essentially it comes down to which movies / shows filmed it in 3d and which ones did it in post-processing. The ones that filmed it with 3d in mind always will look better in 3d than other films that say they are 3d. Coraline was quite good in 3d and there weren't many gimmicky scenes it. It just looked nice. Until more films and tv shows purposely film in this manner the 3d just isn't going to look great.
You're acting like I am making that shit up. There are dirty panty vending machines right now having money inserted in as we speak.
The Japanese are freaks.
This really isn't quite true anymore. It may have been true at one time but it isn't at this point, at least in a legal way. Last time I was there (studied abroad for 6 weeks) I asked about it and did actually look around for any kind of vending machine that had such a product. I was told that there was a law regarding used products that was used to prevent the used panty machines from showing up. I did find a claw machine that had small plastic balls that had new women's panties in them. I suppose if you looked long enough you might find ones that had used, but it would have to be in a shady area. Just thought I would clear that up, or at least clear it up as far as I know. Here is a link to website with some info: used panty info
We saw it when gaming shifted from PCs to consoles
Surely it didn't have anything to do with the game developers having much easier times enforcing their drm therefore just producing less for the PC and more for the consoles forcing gamers themselves to switch...
It should also be noted that there has been a decent swing back to PCs lately. This is at least in part because of both the humble bundles and steam.
Me too, though in my case it is because I'm insulin dependent diabetic. I'm going to have to wait until going into space is more like paying for an airplane flight.
So, the end of the summary questions about adding prominent google people to your google+ circles. How would this change anything if it is looking at your facebook/twitter/linkedin... I also wonder why you would put in your facebook or twitter info unless it forces you to.
My publishers don't give me stats that distinguish what ebook readers are purchasing my books, so I really don't know what percentage the kindle accounts for.
Based on what I've gleaned so far from my own effort, I'd say that Amazon outsells the other ebook retailers by a considerable amount.
In one month, I might sell 1,000 ebooks on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk. In the same month, I will sell about 100 copies through the iBookstore, Smashwords, Kobo and Barnes and Noble combined.
I am curious if it is all types of books or just particular types of books that sell better on Amazon. For instance, I try to buy any sci-fi or fantasy books from places outside of Amazon. It also would be neat to see how the four device centric stores (sony/B&N/amazon/apple) compare to each other along with how independent ebook stores (fictionwise/smashwords/baen/wowio/etc) are doing.
Why are all the good movies disappearing from Netflix streaming service. I know they are losing Starz, but these are disappearing now.
My guess is Netflix is headed for that dot.com graveyard.
It isn't just streaming, there have been quite a few things that were in disc form and now are no longer available via disc. This sometimes also just removes them from being available in Netflix, which isn't good either.
I think that the decision to exit the DVD-by-mail market is a great one. Maybe it's just because I'm a college kid, but most people I know don't even bother renting DVDs anymore. As Netflix gains more and more licenses for various production companies, and their ability to stream online grows, nearly everyone I know has switched to exclusively streaming (I know I certainly have). Streaming is where the market is at, these days, since we're practically glued to our technology, particularly the internet.
Good on you, Netflix.
I agree this is a good thing, but until the infrastructure for internet connections are good enough to get the quality of video / audio you get out of blu-ray I still want the disc by mail option. The other part of this is that when you eliminate the disc by mail you also eliminate the commentary options along with other nice extras that the discs have which get removed for streaming. So I think that both services have good reasons to keep them.
In a world of 7 Billion people, 1 million people is still 1 in 7000. Not a small amount of people in raw numbers, but a very small percentage of the populuation of the world. Even if you only count computer users, that only a very small percentage. There' about a billion personal computers in use. So while this game (whatever it is, never heard of it) may have a million users, it's still only about 0.1% of computer users. Also, there's no reason this couldn't exist in a walled garden. There's tons of indie developers selling stuff for iOS. That store doesn't support pay what you want, but there's no reason they couldn't sell it for 99 cents, (or free) and ask for donations on their web site for people who wanted to pay more.
The humble bundle is not OS specific. They are bundles of indie games for the 3 biggest desktop OS platforms (linux, OSX, windows). It also lets you pay more to specific parties if you wish (more to devs, for instance), along with having no drm. It is something that would never work in walled gardens because the walled garden care takers would object to some of the best parts of how it is sold.
This seems like just the kind of problem that AI will help with narrowing the field of 'interesting' things to look at. Either that or better ways to search through the data that is available along with better ways to store said data will probably work.
Open a handful of apps. Switch between them. Now lock it and put it away for a couple of hours. Now unlock it: quick, where does "Back" take you?
Double-click on the iOS home button and you get the application switcher, so you can get back to any other running app, exactly in the state you left it.
At least on my android you can hold the home button down to get the app switching you are talking about. I'm not sure what this comment was supposed to be showing...
It is cheaper to build the first few stories up than down. But at some point, the cost of holding up more and more floors, structural integrity issues, wind issues, etc come into play. May be even visibility to terrorists for insurance purposes. Building down, the only cost is earth removal and dumping it somewhere. But the earth starts getting hotter, and ventilation, fire escape etc get complicated.
In the article it also talked about the problems with how wet the soil is in this area. So they would need to find a way to get the water (plumbing/pumping/etc) issues worked out. It also mentioned that this design would work better in a more arid environment because of the these issues.
I'm really interested in this game since it seems to be one of the first to use the motion plus support very effectively. Any comments on how it feels or plays in this regards would be good to hear. Everything I've looked at online seems to indicate a good quality title. Will be good to play the wii again.
Just in case people wondered about the infinity ward suit that is still ongoing I looked around and found the case number is SC107757. You can look at what is going on via the LA Superior court (summary link)
I'm curious how that will end up. At least most of the original people that worked on 1 and 2 are in respawn entertainment at this point.
It didn't help that the name was impossible to spell correctly:
Qwikster?
Quikster?
Quickster?
Qwickster?
Even with it spelled correctly in the summary / title people still have spelled wrong in a couple of comments here. This along with the idea of making it more difficult for the customers make it a fairly big gaffe. Glad things are back to normal. Though I really was hoping the video game disc part would have been kept. Hopefully that can come back at some point.
Well their page seems to have a bit more information and images at least. The motion displays page seemed useful. I didn't find anything that looked like the image on the fortune magazine page.
I am interested in what kind of loss of glucose it is on a per hour basis. It could have big impacts on patients that have insulin dependent diabetes. So for instance if you had an internal insulin pump that was powered by these type of bio fuel cells I have to wonder how it would change the insulin needed. This along with the potential to make a person need to eat more just to keep things powered inside of themselves. Small problems but still things that would be interesting to find out about.
I know that there have been phones created using e-ink as the primary display. Much more of just a phone type cell phone rather than a smart phone.
There are also some e-ink watches which makes a lot of sense too.
I can always hope flexible e-ink displays get better so that the foldable e-ink phone/reader comes out, like this:
readius
3. There are no wealthy donors and no major corporations giving money to Occupy Wall St, in the way that the Tea Party was financially supported by News Corp.
This isn't completely true. I know at least Ben & Jerry's icecream supports them: ben & jerry page of support
Not sure of others, but I thought I would put that out there.
Slashdot Mirror
+1 cookie for you.
At the end of the day I guess it's just like at the cinema, Avatar was phenomenal in 3D but little else has been, likewise, it appears games are suited to 3D too.
I'll assume it's the difference between something genuinely built in 3D, and that shitty cardboard cut out version of 3D.
Still, it's early days, and Toshiba is already testing glasses-less 3D TVs so I think it'll only get better. All in all, I don't think it's a bad technology, in some cases it certainly adds something, when you're stood at the top of a massive tower in Assassins Creed looking down, you can really feel the height.
Essentially it comes down to which movies / shows filmed it in 3d and which ones did it in post-processing. The ones that filmed it with 3d in mind always will look better in 3d than other films that say they are 3d. Coraline was quite good in 3d and there weren't many gimmicky scenes it. It just looked nice. Until more films and tv shows purposely film in this manner the 3d just isn't going to look great.
Overhaul?
You're acting like I am making that shit up. There are dirty panty vending machines right now having money inserted in as we speak.
The Japanese are freaks.
This really isn't quite true anymore. It may have been true at one time but it isn't at this point, at least in a legal way. Last time I was there (studied abroad for 6 weeks) I asked about it and did actually look around for any kind of vending machine that had such a product. I was told that there was a law regarding used products that was used to prevent the used panty machines from showing up. I did find a claw machine that had small plastic balls that had new women's panties in them. I suppose if you looked long enough you might find ones that had used, but it would have to be in a shady area. Just thought I would clear that up, or at least clear it up as far as I know. Here is a link to website with some info: used panty info
We saw it when gaming shifted from PCs to consoles
Surely it didn't have anything to do with the game developers having much easier times enforcing their drm therefore just producing less for the PC and more for the consoles forcing gamers themselves to switch...
It should also be noted that there has been a decent swing back to PCs lately. This is at least in part because of both the humble bundles and steam.
No Soyuz for me :(
Me too, though in my case it is because I'm insulin dependent diabetic. I'm going to have to wait until going into space is more like paying for an airplane flight.
Is it a dot or is it a speck?
When it's underwater does it get wet?
So, the end of the summary questions about adding prominent google people to your google+ circles. How would this change anything if it is looking at your facebook/twitter/linkedin... I also wonder why you would put in your facebook or twitter info unless it forces you to.
I had one, Sony's readers were crap.
Maybe the very first version. The thing is that it was pretty much the only eInk reader of any quality at the time.
My publishers don't give me stats that distinguish what ebook readers are purchasing my books, so I really don't know what percentage the kindle accounts for.
Based on what I've gleaned so far from my own effort, I'd say that Amazon outsells the other ebook retailers by a considerable amount.
In one month, I might sell 1,000 ebooks on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk. In the same month, I will sell about 100 copies through the iBookstore, Smashwords, Kobo and Barnes and Noble combined.
I am curious if it is all types of books or just particular types of books that sell better on Amazon. For instance, I try to buy any sci-fi or fantasy books from places outside of Amazon. It also would be neat to see how the four device centric stores (sony/B&N/amazon/apple) compare to each other along with how independent ebook stores (fictionwise/smashwords/baen/wowio/etc) are doing.
Why are all the good movies disappearing from Netflix streaming service. I know they are losing Starz, but these are disappearing now.
My guess is Netflix is headed for that dot.com graveyard.
It isn't just streaming, there have been quite a few things that were in disc form and now are no longer available via disc. This sometimes also just removes them from being available in Netflix, which isn't good either.
I think that the decision to exit the DVD-by-mail market is a great one. Maybe it's just because I'm a college kid, but most people I know don't even bother renting DVDs anymore. As Netflix gains more and more licenses for various production companies, and their ability to stream online grows, nearly everyone I know has switched to exclusively streaming (I know I certainly have). Streaming is where the market is at, these days, since we're practically glued to our technology, particularly the internet.
Good on you, Netflix.
I agree this is a good thing, but until the infrastructure for internet connections are good enough to get the quality of video / audio you get out of blu-ray I still want the disc by mail option. The other part of this is that when you eliminate the disc by mail you also eliminate the commentary options along with other nice extras that the discs have which get removed for streaming. So I think that both services have good reasons to keep them.
In a world of 7 Billion people, 1 million people is still 1 in 7000. Not a small amount of people in raw numbers, but a very small percentage of the populuation of the world. Even if you only count computer users, that only a very small percentage. There' about a billion personal computers in use. So while this game (whatever it is, never heard of it) may have a million users, it's still only about 0.1% of computer users. Also, there's no reason this couldn't exist in a walled garden. There's tons of indie developers selling stuff for iOS. That store doesn't support pay what you want, but there's no reason they couldn't sell it for 99 cents, (or free) and ask for donations on their web site for people who wanted to pay more.
The humble bundle is not OS specific. They are bundles of indie games for the 3 biggest desktop OS platforms (linux, OSX, windows). It also lets you pay more to specific parties if you wish (more to devs, for instance), along with having no drm. It is something that would never work in walled gardens because the walled garden care takers would object to some of the best parts of how it is sold.
This seems like just the kind of problem that AI will help with narrowing the field of 'interesting' things to look at. Either that or better ways to search through the data that is available along with better ways to store said data will probably work.
Open a handful of apps. Switch between them. Now lock it and put it away for a couple of hours. Now unlock it: quick, where does "Back" take you?
Double-click on the iOS home button and you get the application switcher, so you can get back to any other running app, exactly in the state you left it.
At least on my android you can hold the home button down to get the app switching you are talking about. I'm not sure what this comment was supposed to be showing...
So since I have had one of the early ebook devices (Sony prs) I have always had to look for ebook stores outside of the big 3 that are linked to the devices. Here are some of the ones where I shop:
no starch press
fictionwise
wowio - graphic novel ebooks
oreilly technical books
smashwords
Baen web scription
the ENTIRE Vorkosigan Saga
It is cheaper to build the first few stories up than down. But at some point, the cost of holding up more and more floors, structural integrity issues, wind issues, etc come into play. May be even visibility to terrorists for insurance purposes. Building down, the only cost is earth removal and dumping it somewhere. But the earth starts getting hotter, and ventilation, fire escape etc get complicated.
In the article it also talked about the problems with how wet the soil is in this area. So they would need to find a way to get the water (plumbing/pumping/etc) issues worked out. It also mentioned that this design would work better in a more arid environment because of the these issues.
I'm really interested in this game since it seems to be one of the first to use the motion plus support very effectively. Any comments on how it feels or plays in this regards would be good to hear. Everything I've looked at online seems to indicate a good quality title. Will be good to play the wii again.
Just in case people wondered about the infinity ward suit that is still ongoing I looked around and found the case number is SC107757. You can look at what is going on via the LA Superior court (summary link) I'm curious how that will end up. At least most of the original people that worked on 1 and 2 are in respawn entertainment at this point.
Shouldn't a story all about a robot have the robot icon? Seems strange to have the hardware icon in this case.
It didn't help that the name was impossible to spell correctly: Qwikster? Quikster? Quickster? Qwickster? Even with it spelled correctly in the summary / title people still have spelled wrong in a couple of comments here. This along with the idea of making it more difficult for the customers make it a fairly big gaffe. Glad things are back to normal. Though I really was hoping the video game disc part would have been kept. Hopefully that can come back at some point.
Well their page seems to have a bit more information and images at least. The motion displays page seemed useful. I didn't find anything that looked like the image on the fortune magazine page.
I am interested in what kind of loss of glucose it is on a per hour basis. It could have big impacts on patients that have insulin dependent diabetes. So for instance if you had an internal insulin pump that was powered by these type of bio fuel cells I have to wonder how it would change the insulin needed. This along with the potential to make a person need to eat more just to keep things powered inside of themselves. Small problems but still things that would be interesting to find out about.
Very convenent
I guess it may get a bit religious over there. Which I guess could be convenient
I know that there have been phones created using e-ink as the primary display. Much more of just a phone type cell phone rather than a smart phone. There are also some e-ink watches which makes a lot of sense too. I can always hope flexible e-ink displays get better so that the foldable e-ink phone/reader comes out, like this: readius
3. There are no wealthy donors and no major corporations giving money to Occupy Wall St, in the way that the Tea Party was financially supported by News Corp.
This isn't completely true. I know at least Ben & Jerry's icecream supports them:
ben & jerry page of support Not sure of others, but I thought I would put that out there.