How much would Google save if they actively removed duplicate videos? I for one find it highly annoying to find 1000 search results of the SAME thing! Not only does that muck up search results; but the "related" section also; I find to be flooded with either the same video, or something entirely not related to it.
What of those big full page ads in the yellow pages? They don't give those away for free. I don't think phone book companies deeply screen their entries.
Jack Thompson will come out and say that the bad juju from violent video games is whats causing the surge in autism?
Besides, I was under the impression that it was the combination of vaccines before the age of 2 (36?) that was the leading factor. Specifically MMR+Chicken Pox combination.
Using my very foggy memory; Windows ME wasn't the first culprit in the gamble. Though very much the most visible.
Win95 was "fixed" by Win95b/c. Win98 was fixed by Win98SE WinME... yeah... I guess was fixed by Windows XP Windows Vista will now be "fixed" by Windows 7.
Microsoft has a history of coming out with fixes for products that trump the first versions by leaps and bounds. Not how one would expect to do business, but its worked for them so far. They just got burned really badly by vista.
How long until people are able to figure out how to mask their undesirable data to make it look like mission critical data.
When friends and I ran a private FTP server from my high school (higher bandwidth back then)I thought I was clever and assigned it to a port that was used by the game Team Fortress Classic. Eventually we got a call from the bandwidth nazis saying we were running a possible game server on our network; find it and get rid of it. Many laughs were had.
Also my downloads from usenet today were crippled until I told my news reader to use port 80; all of a sudden my download speeds tripled.
from "Borging" an existing/profitable patent; licensing out the technology. Then using said profits to fund non-budget allocated black projects. Since the patent office will side with the NSA already.
I'm just sayin'...
You know, kinda like RAMBUS except instead of black projects; you use lines of cocaine for executives.
lived and died with 440BX. I owned a BH6,BX6 and BE6 rev 1 and 2. I enjoyed all of those boards very much; though I had lots of issues personally with the HPT366 controller on the BE6 rev2 but meh I survived.
After that I just moved on to other companies. Mostly ASUS. Never really got into the ABIT scene again really. Ah memories.
My wife and I were just discussing her the other evening; while watching WALL-E. Feeling sad that pixar didn't cast her as the voice of the ship's computer. Instead we got a vague homage to Alien in Sigourney Weaver.
What I am now coming to realize by digesting this sad news; is that playing the voice of such a seemingly mundane role -of a starship's computer, Has become an icon of the Sci-Fi genre. While certainly not the first to play such a role. She certainly changed the entire paradigm of how the role was portrayed.
Her efforts to continue her husbands work and support of the genre will be sorely missed.
Until the FCC changes the definition of "broadband" to at the very least 100mbits; it won't matter how many billions we throw at the problem.
By doing that; I can imagine you'd see companies like comcast rolling out DOCSIS 3.0 exponentially faster than they are doing now. Verizon as well would be forced to turn it up; or be forced to drop the all powerful "Broadband/High Speed Internet" from their marketing.
I remember a short time after the crash google posted fresh satellite photos of that region.
Has anyone checked google's photos vs where the crash was found? Could we even have seen it?
I'm shocked these girls have names let alone listed ages.
Perhaps their parents(the state) made out birth certificates for these girls 2 years before they were all born. So that when the olympics came around; they would be "16". All they had to do was train winners and give them fake ages.
Theories aside; did anyone notice that never once did these girls give an interview? It reminds me of that little league scandal a few years ago.
Bots are grossly overrated for MMOs for the most part. Sure, there are some few players that will use them in WoW and other games, but for the most part, people want to experience the game. And many bot users are very easy to spot, as their users don't put in enough to make it believable.
I am kind of surprised that Blizzard is doing this, but I think it's just a publicity thing, and they don't really care if they make any cash off of it. They are just trying to placate the masses on the forums that worry about every single little thing they can.
The reality is, bots make money for Blizzard. Once an account is banned, the player has to purchase a new box of the game to start playing again. And with the expansion, that's 2 boxes. So, Blizzard makes money off of the players that register new accounts/CDs every time they get banned.
Besides, most gold farmers are played by humans, not bots. Bots have all but ruined the "endgame" community for Final Fantasy XI. It has gotten to the point where newer style bots use packet injecting to circumvent the "anti-bot" measures that have been put into place; and thats just for mob claiming. Position hacking to places that normally take a group of people or a good chunk of time to get to also have ruined certain/older aspects of the game. The list goes on...
I don't know what its like for WoW players and bots, but I can imagine its not to fun to see people running around knowing that they are bots. If I wanted play a video game where there are a bunch of automatons running around I'll play a classic RPG.
As for the money part; conspiracy theories are endless. It is the same way with FFXI... "Square bans the IGE accounts because they know they'll spend X dollars getting their drones back in the game" Again the list goes on...
I agree; FFXI has set a major precedent for cross-platform online gaming. As far as I'm concerned companies like Epic, Blizzard, EA, etc; should look at the effort that Square puts in to support 3 major platforms.
I for one could do with some less flashy graphics and less frequent patches, just to have 100% cross-compatability. The only (though major) downside to all of this is; you have to design TRULY to the lowest common denomonator. Which in the case of FFXI; 360 and PC users want an engine update, but are stuck with the PS2's hardware limitations. S-E won't even do a small update to support even in meager amounts like HD output - the PS3.
Yes it does have the motion sensing. If you read the keynote, when Kaz announced it he started off talking about how originally they thought there would be technical issues with having rumble and motion sensing but they have overcome those issues and have both in the new controller.
If by "technical" you mean legal; and "overcome" you mean paid $125 million to license the technology. Then yes, Kaz was speaking the truth.
This will no doubt be used by Intel to tout future multi-core CPU releases. As it now has the ability(by force if necessary) to make the havoc engine run even better on their chips. One could dream up many long term ramifications of this.
- Partner with MS to integrate havoc engine into future DirectX releases. - Realistic chance of Physics on GPU standard (AMD/nVIDIA purchase licensing) - Potentially hurt 3rd parties that use the engine on other chips. (Cell/PhysX) - Spur next generation of physics engine that isn't owned by Intel.
Of course Intel could just leave them the hell alone and profit(?). Then again where would the fun in that be.
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They could even use WoTC as a digital distributor; they seem to be pretty goo- ermm wait...
Buy stock in Adobe!
How much would Google save if they actively removed duplicate videos? I for one find it highly annoying to find 1000 search results of the SAME thing! Not only does that muck up search results; but the "related" section also; I find to be flooded with either the same video, or something entirely not related to it.
What of those big full page ads in the yellow pages? They don't give those away for free. I don't think phone book companies deeply screen their entries.
I do like the phone book analogy.
Jack Thompson will come out and say that the bad juju from violent video games is whats causing the surge in autism?
Besides, I was under the impression that it was the combination of vaccines before the age of 2 (36?) that was the leading factor. Specifically MMR+Chicken Pox combination.
They should field test this in Chicago. With so many damn pot holes on the road, they could get years of lab testing done in about a week.
Using my very foggy memory; Windows ME wasn't the first culprit in the gamble. Though very much the most visible.
Win95 was "fixed" by Win95b/c. ... yeah... I guess was fixed by Windows XP
Win98 was fixed by Win98SE
WinME
Windows Vista will now be "fixed" by Windows 7.
Microsoft has a history of coming out with fixes for products that trump the first versions by leaps and bounds. Not how one would expect to do business, but its worked for them so far. They just got burned really badly by vista.
How long until people are able to figure out how to mask their undesirable data to make it look like mission critical data.
When friends and I ran a private FTP server from my high school (higher bandwidth back then)I thought I was clever and assigned it to a port that was used by the game Team Fortress Classic. Eventually we got a call from the bandwidth nazis saying we were running a possible game server on our network; find it and get rid of it. Many laughs were had.
Also my downloads from usenet today were crippled until I told my news reader to use port 80; all of a sudden my download speeds tripled.
How long can companies play this song and dance?
until states start outsourcing their call centers to other countries to save money?
Anyway, the Illinois TeleServ system is constantly busy. I have to use my cell and ground line to dial at the same time to try to get through.
A developer designed a "AAA" PC game that was designed completely around a dual+ GPU hardware spec?
Look at the past with the move to hardware 3d acceleration. Games designed (not sponsored) around a specific hardware requirement, spawned ... sales!
I don't want a game that barely supports SLI/Crossfire. I want a game that requires it by design.
from "Borging" an existing/profitable patent; licensing out the technology. Then using said profits to fund non-budget allocated black projects. Since the patent office will side with the NSA already.
I'm just sayin'...
You know, kinda like RAMBUS except instead of black projects; you use lines of cocaine for executives.
lived and died with 440BX. I owned a BH6,BX6 and BE6 rev 1 and 2. I enjoyed all of those boards very much; though I had lots of issues personally with the HPT366 controller on the BE6 rev2 but meh I survived.
After that I just moved on to other companies. Mostly ASUS. Never really got into the ABIT scene again really. Ah memories.
Otto was the Autopilot.
My wife and I were just discussing her the other evening; while watching WALL-E. Feeling sad that pixar didn't cast her as the voice of the ship's computer. Instead we got a vague homage to Alien in Sigourney Weaver.
What I am now coming to realize by digesting this sad news; is that playing the voice of such a seemingly mundane role -of a starship's computer, Has become an icon of the Sci-Fi genre. While certainly not the first to play such a role. She certainly changed the entire paradigm of how the role was portrayed.
Her efforts to continue her husbands work and support of the genre will be sorely missed.
Until the FCC changes the definition of "broadband" to at the very least 100mbits; it won't matter how many billions we throw at the problem. By doing that; I can imagine you'd see companies like comcast rolling out DOCSIS 3.0 exponentially faster than they are doing now. Verizon as well would be forced to turn it up; or be forced to drop the all powerful "Broadband/High Speed Internet" from their marketing.
I remember a short time after the crash google posted fresh satellite photos of that region. Has anyone checked google's photos vs where the crash was found? Could we even have seen it?
I'm shocked these girls have names let alone listed ages. Perhaps their parents(the state) made out birth certificates for these girls 2 years before they were all born. So that when the olympics came around; they would be "16". All they had to do was train winners and give them fake ages. Theories aside; did anyone notice that never once did these girls give an interview? It reminds me of that little league scandal a few years ago.
iQueue for the London store.
So who is to blame if a song input from a user results in a generation of notes that is already has a copyright?
I am kind of surprised that Blizzard is doing this, but I think it's just a publicity thing, and they don't really care if they make any cash off of it. They are just trying to placate the masses on the forums that worry about every single little thing they can.
The reality is, bots make money for Blizzard. Once an account is banned, the player has to purchase a new box of the game to start playing again. And with the expansion, that's 2 boxes. So, Blizzard makes money off of the players that register new accounts/CDs every time they get banned.
Besides, most gold farmers are played by humans, not bots. Bots have all but ruined the "endgame" community for Final Fantasy XI. It has gotten to the point where newer style bots use packet injecting to circumvent the "anti-bot" measures that have been put into place; and thats just for mob claiming. Position hacking to places that normally take a group of people or a good chunk of time to get to also have ruined certain/older aspects of the game. The list goes on
I don't know what its like for WoW players and bots, but I can imagine its not to fun to see people running around knowing that they are bots. If I wanted play a video game where there are a bunch of automatons running around I'll play a classic RPG.
As for the money part; conspiracy theories are endless. It is the same way with FFXI
I agree; FFXI has set a major precedent for cross-platform online gaming. As far as I'm concerned companies like Epic, Blizzard, EA, etc; should look at the effort that Square puts in to support 3 major platforms.
I for one could do with some less flashy graphics and less frequent patches, just to have 100% cross-compatability. The only (though major) downside to all of this is; you have to design TRULY to the lowest common denomonator. Which in the case of FFXI; 360 and PC users want an engine update, but are stuck with the PS2's hardware limitations. S-E won't even do a small update to support even in meager amounts like HD output - the PS3.
If by "technical" you mean legal; and "overcome" you mean paid $125 million to license the technology. Then yes, Kaz was speaking the truth.
This will no doubt be used by Intel to tout future multi-core CPU releases. As it now has the ability(by force if necessary) to make the havoc engine run even better on their chips. One could dream up many long term ramifications of this.
- Partner with MS to integrate havoc engine into future DirectX releases.
- Realistic chance of Physics on GPU standard (AMD/nVIDIA purchase licensing)
- Potentially hurt 3rd parties that use the engine on other chips. (Cell/PhysX)
- Spur next generation of physics engine that isn't owned by Intel.
Of course Intel could just leave them the hell alone and profit(?). Then again where would the fun in that be.