Well, the PS3 was the cheapest BluRay player for a long time, and tied with other standalone players but with more features for even longer. Also, doesn't the PS3 get more BluRay related upgrades that don't go to standalone players?
(BTW, as far as I can remember, I have never played a BluRay movie in my PS3, and only got one on the Black Friday 2011 dealâ¦. I would rather pay a fee for PS2 emulation than 're-buy' the collections, though I'm doing that for a few that have gotten REALLY cheap, like $5-$6/game in multi-game collections.)
I believe "Too Human" and a few of its contemporary Xbox 360 titles had major, show-stopping bugs on the shipped disks.
Thanks. I guess I misinterpreted the original post. I was reading it as meaning that if you insert the disk, you are REQUIRED to update it before it even lets you play.. like it knowingly shipped on disc pre-release or something and wouldn't let you even play (with bugs) without updating it.
I haven't, but I admittedly have a small sample size (less than 20 PS3 games I think, and I haven't even started all of them yet).
If I'm connected to the net, they almost all do an update, but I haven't seen any that didn't let you play right away without updating. Again, this is if my PS3 isn't connected to the net (at the moment I have more things to plug in than I frequently use in my upstairs bridge router, so only very sporadically plug in the PS3 -- though I sometimes DO do it when I start a game, because I *WANT* the bug fixes).
Can you give an example? I'm not saying it doesn't exist, I'm honestly curious.
I have VERY rarely gone to the web site, but I think they produce a lot informative and entertaining video podcasts.. That I get for free and effectively no advertisement. (They used to do basically an ad for their other podcasts, and it was long enough to be annoying, but less than 30 seconds so a pain to FF through.) CNET Update and CNET News cover lots of areas, the "first look" ones cover products, and maybe they're paid to review certain products? I don't know, but it's one way I get an overview of the GAZILLION different Android phones.
The results have researchers wondering if our brains might react to the memory of a virtual experience as though it had really happened.
Duhh, just like dreaming, which is a virtual experience? Haven't they shown MRIs of people dreaming (or even THINKING of past events) that show the exact same parts of the brain being used as if they're experiencing something real? What is new in this?
If so, we may be able to use virtual reality and gaming to effectively treat psychological disorders such as PTSD.
Duhh, already exists, has been on news shows for several years now. I saw an updated report very recently, I think on Nightline.
I can't dispute the "better approaches to solar" part, that's most likely true. It still seems to me like *supplanting* it with home solar (or even some other home energy source if it becomes available) can be useful.
As far as "and take a lot of power to make in the first place", do you mean that it takes more power than it creates? Again, I don't have citations, but others in this thread have stated that it's not true, and I think some respondents did provide citations to show that that is not true. That is, that photovoltaic create more energy over their lifetime than they take to make.
Photovoltaic power remains a gimmick for people who want to be "off the grid".
That's ridiculous. I don't (necessarily) want to be off the grid.. I want the grid to be the base load, and have solar panels generating during the day and me using the grid at night or if I am using more than my panels are generating. This at least reduces the need to build more power plants. I would hope to be net zero over a year's time, but I have no idea how feasible that is. (I don't have solar yet, but intend to get it after I buy a house.)
Other posts have said we get far far more than enough energy from the sun to use.
I haven't paid attention to the advertising (like most advertising), but I thought the main difference was that it was "a full PC with touch", instead of the ARM-based touch-only other Surface.
How is it aimed at corporations? Aren't there regular ads for consumers too?
Yeah, regular users are really going to know how to do that!
(BTW, I essentially live in Terminal on OS X.. So *I* have no problem doing that, but hopefully there are user friendly ways of setting those? If not, count that space as permanently used for real users.)
Install it once and you are done. It is basically "built-in" once installed.
So does this mean that the SD card counts as "internal" memory, or does it act as if it were an external drive?
Someone *please correct me if I am wrong*, but AFAIK, on Android devices, it is *effectively* an external drive, and you have to manually move things on/off of the expansion memory, and most if not all things cannot be run/used directly off of the expansion memory.
I just have a difficult time seeing somebody spending 3.5k on a ship, short of being stinking rich and bat shit crazy.
Yet people buy BMWs and Lexuses every day. Yes, those are "real", but I think they're a big waste of money too.
(Don't get me wrong, I think spending tons of (or in my case ANY) real cash on virtual goods is a waste, but as in my examples above, I think people waste tons of money on 'real' things too.)
As the other post said, the memory effect has largely been debunked. It can be seen in 'laboratory' conditions, but doesn't affect people under normal situations.
The main problem with using regular NiCd batteries in shavers is that the morons SOLDER THEM IN, and rechargeable batteries DO eventually go bad⦠So then your shaver's dead. I jury-rigged a new battery in once (it's hard to fit another one back in the same space), but then got a new one for a present sometime later. I think I've had at least one die since then. I have no problem with them using standard NiCds, and even not having a battery cover.. But soldering them in??
The fact that I know another person in the meat world with a similar set-up tells me that our situations aren't nearly as fringe as people like you would think.
It doesn't take much to see that the problems of two little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that.
It was also an early example of Open Source software. There were no restrictions on what you could do once you bought a copy. It could by modified and run on as many machines were available, but not resold or given to other organizations.
Umm, it seems to me like your last sentence means that it absolutely is NOT open source, especially not "Open Source". Just because you get the source code, and can use/change it on your own systems, doesn't mean that something is open source.
Beachhead - the first game that anyone I know thinks was really good for a PC
According to Wikipedia, that game came out in 1983. (They also don't list Apple II, so maybe I only played the sequel.)
Anyway, Lode Runner also came out in 1983. You don't think that's fun/good? Choplifter came out in 1982. I think both Choplifter & Lode Runner deserve to be on the list.. Not that they're necessarily my favorites, but that they're iconic. (I'm still amazed at how "realistic" the running people are that are just a blob of white pixels.)
We should get rid of pensions and have each person have their own 401(k) or similar account.
â¦BUT I think that CURRENT employees should be bound by the pension plan that was in place when they were hired, with voluntary (including via inducements) changing to other later plans.
Seems like you really mean 30 years ago (at least according to Wikipedia).
Though also checking the Wikipedia for Corvus(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corvus_Systems/), which I remember using in school *around* the same time, that seems to be a file server too. Maybe different computers couldn't use the same "volume" (e.g. simulated 5.25" floppy) at the same time?
However: at least in the U.S., computer engineering is definitely NOT a software discipline. It is engineering of the computers themselves, that is to say, hardware (though firmware is involved, naturally).
I don't completely disagree with you, though how much software is involved in a CE degree can vary a lot. I have a CE degree (CIS was the other computer major, and AFAIK, that was a BA), but did mostly software classes, ALONG with hardware. Even the microprocessors class was designing your own CPU in software and simulating it.
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Well, the PS3 was the cheapest BluRay player for a long time, and tied with other standalone players but with more features for even longer. Also, doesn't the PS3 get more BluRay related upgrades that don't go to standalone players?
(BTW, as far as I can remember, I have never played a BluRay movie in my PS3, and only got one on the Black Friday 2011 dealâ¦. I would rather pay a fee for PS2 emulation than 're-buy' the collections, though I'm doing that for a few that have gotten REALLY cheap, like $5-$6/game in multi-game collections.)
I'm actually anti-union.. But *was there*? Music existed of course, but did lots of people make money doing it? Sure, maybe Scott Joplin..
Other than that, wasn't it like artists, where you had to have a Medici-like family pay you so that there was any artistic output?
Of course there is a beer culture, they use yeast to make it.
(Slightly more seriously, searching wikipedia for beer culture actually has a result: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer#Beer_and_society.)
Thanks. I guess I misinterpreted the original post. I was reading it as meaning that if you insert the disk, you are REQUIRED to update it before it even lets you play.. like it knowingly shipped on disc pre-release or something and wouldn't let you even play (with bugs) without updating it.
I haven't, but I admittedly have a small sample size (less than 20 PS3 games I think, and I haven't even started all of them yet).
If I'm connected to the net, they almost all do an update, but I haven't seen any that didn't let you play right away without updating. Again, this is if my PS3 isn't connected to the net (at the moment I have more things to plug in than I frequently use in my upstairs bridge router, so only very sporadically plug in the PS3 -- though I sometimes DO do it when I start a game, because I *WANT* the bug fixes).
Can you give an example? I'm not saying it doesn't exist, I'm honestly curious.
I have VERY rarely gone to the web site, but I think they produce a lot informative and entertaining video podcasts.. That I get for free and effectively no advertisement. (They used to do basically an ad for their other podcasts, and it was long enough to be annoying, but less than 30 seconds so a pain to FF through.) CNET Update and CNET News cover lots of areas, the "first look" ones cover products, and maybe they're paid to review certain products? I don't know, but it's one way I get an overview of the GAZILLION different Android phones.
But I applaud CES for this decision!
Duhh, just like dreaming, which is a virtual experience? Haven't they shown MRIs of people dreaming (or even THINKING of past events) that show the exact same parts of the brain being used as if they're experiencing something real? What is new in this?
If so, we may be able to use virtual reality and gaming to effectively treat psychological disorders such as PTSD.
Duhh, already exists, has been on news shows for several years now. I saw an updated report very recently, I think on Nightline.
I can't dispute the "better approaches to solar" part, that's most likely true. It still seems to me like *supplanting* it with home solar (or even some other home energy source if it becomes available) can be useful.
As far as "and take a lot of power to make in the first place", do you mean that it takes more power than it creates? Again, I don't have citations, but others in this thread have stated that it's not true, and I think some respondents did provide citations to show that that is not true. That is, that photovoltaic create more energy over their lifetime than they take to make.
That's ridiculous. I don't (necessarily) want to be off the grid.. I want the grid to be the base load, and have solar panels generating during the day and me using the grid at night or if I am using more than my panels are generating. This at least reduces the need to build more power plants. I would hope to be net zero over a year's time, but I have no idea how feasible that is. (I don't have solar yet, but intend to get it after I buy a house.)
Other posts have said we get far far more than enough energy from the sun to use.
If he's guilty, that's about one day for every woman that he blackmailed. That IS/would be a ridiculously light sentence, IMHO.
So who are you discussing that with? heh heh.
I haven't paid attention to the advertising (like most advertising), but I thought the main difference was that it was "a full PC with touch", instead of the ARM-based touch-only other Surface.
How is it aimed at corporations? Aren't there regular ads for consumers too?
Yeah, regular users are really going to know how to do that!
(BTW, I essentially live in Terminal on OS X.. So *I* have no problem doing that, but hopefully there are user friendly ways of setting those? If not, count that space as permanently used for real users.)
So does this mean that the SD card counts as "internal" memory, or does it act as if it were an external drive?
Someone *please correct me if I am wrong*, but AFAIK, on Android devices, it is *effectively* an external drive, and you have to manually move things on/off of the expansion memory, and most if not all things cannot be run/used directly off of the expansion memory.
Which means you DO care.
I do, but I still 'shear' it off a couple times a year.
Why is it so easy to jump (is that effectively warp or hyperspace a-la Asteroids) to the wrong place?
Yet people buy BMWs and Lexuses every day. Yes, those are "real", but I think they're a big waste of money too.
(Don't get me wrong, I think spending tons of (or in my case ANY) real cash on virtual goods is a waste, but as in my examples above, I think people waste tons of money on 'real' things too.)
As the other post said, the memory effect has largely been debunked. It can be seen in 'laboratory' conditions, but doesn't affect people under normal situations.
The main problem with using regular NiCd batteries in shavers is that the morons SOLDER THEM IN, and rechargeable batteries DO eventually go bad⦠So then your shaver's dead. I jury-rigged a new battery in once (it's hard to fit another one back in the same space), but then got a new one for a present sometime later. I think I've had at least one die since then. I have no problem with them using standard NiCds, and even not having a battery cover.. But soldering them in??
It doesn't take much to see that the problems of two little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that.
Umm, it seems to me like your last sentence means that it absolutely is NOT open source, especially not "Open Source". Just because you get the source code, and can use/change it on your own systems, doesn't mean that something is open source.
According to Wikipedia, that game came out in 1983. (They also don't list Apple II, so maybe I only played the sequel.)
Anyway, Lode Runner also came out in 1983. You don't think that's fun/good? Choplifter came out in 1982. I think both Choplifter & Lode Runner deserve to be on the list.. Not that they're necessarily my favorites, but that they're iconic. (I'm still amazed at how "realistic" the running people are that are just a blob of white pixels.)
We should get rid of pensions and have each person have their own 401(k) or similar account.
â¦BUT I think that CURRENT employees should be bound by the pension plan that was in place when they were hired, with voluntary (including via inducements) changing to other later plans.
There are some slimy things going on locally with employees suing to keep the ability to "spike" pension payments. http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_22457589/daniel-borenstein-jerry-brown-kamala-harris-ducking-legal
But you're not playing the *same* version, are you?
Since Infocom games are bytecode, you really are running the same version, except (most likely) on a new interpreter.
(You can write your own Z-code games with the Inform compiler, to play on any of the Z-code interpreters that you have.)
Seems like you really mean 30 years ago (at least according to Wikipedia).
Though also checking the Wikipedia for Corvus(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corvus_Systems/), which I remember using in school *around* the same time, that seems to be a file server too. Maybe different computers couldn't use the same "volume" (e.g. simulated 5.25" floppy) at the same time?
I don't completely disagree with you, though how much software is involved in a CE degree can vary a lot. I have a CE degree (CIS was the other computer major, and AFAIK, that was a BA), but did mostly software classes, ALONG with hardware. Even the microprocessors class was designing your own CPU in software and simulating it.