He's always taken a unique view at looking at games, and finding out what makes something fun to play, and he's not worried to look back at his own works and locate things that could be improved upon.
I know this post could be considered "redundant", since his genius is obvious, but I love him!
It's an interview with David Tennant about his thoughts of the show and him leaving. The best thing I saw in this article was the fact that Davies was leaving, hopefully paving the way for better episodes..... (but that's just my opinion).
But think of how many people would have to have these systems installed before it would really work.... I guess if a big company (such as Honda) started making them standard in each unit that would help, but it seems it would still take a fair amount of time to take off.
Well, I wouldn't count out speed completely. I'd agree that it's not as important for storing media files than like playing games, but the last thing you want is to have a movie that randomly skips every so often because of a hard drive.
That being said, it looks like the drive is pretty good when you're reading stuff from it, so that shouldn't be a problem.
But you're right; I'd be more interested in seeing stress tests about how much usage these things can take before they give out.
As long as they didn't put information about the person who the DNA came from up on the internet (name, contact information, etc), and didn't give that information out to anyone, I don't see a problem with it. (TFA didn't have any details about this) Without said information, all that anyone would be able to tell when they match the DNA is that "Oh, this person volunteered for this experiment."
That being said though, I'm sure the government(s) would find ways to force this information out of them if needed in some unconstitutional way, so I donno....
Question: Whom does this surprise?
Answer: Lots of people.
It's the sad truth. I mean, when you think about it, these practices got put in place by people who thought it would be a good idea (for whatever reason). There are also lots of people who just buy in to the security theater of "Oh, they check my ID, so that must filter out the terrorists" that hadn't ever looked at the policies from this point of view.
Sounds a little ungrateful considering that many, many people didn't know about this and are now provided and easy way to view and delete these objects without rummaging through menus and settings. If you hate Flash that much then don't use it!
/agree
The "Delete all sites" button seemed to have worked pretty well too. The only thing is that I thought it was an image until I read the text under it stating that it wasn't, which is probably why the explanation was put there.
"So the Java program runs for about ten hours for each image..."
It would be interesting to know how powerful the computer was, because I'm sure it would take _a lot_ of processing time to do something this complex. It seems like he did it all at home, but I think it's also plausible that he could have borrowed computing power from his work.
Zelda definitely takes the cake. Being a big music enthusiast, I loved Ocarina of Time, and how the game was pretty much centered on the music played from this instrument. That Zelda game alone had wonderful music, in addition to the earlier releases. Final Fantasy also had a very good score.
However, that being said, even the newer releases of these games haven't lived up to the role that their predecessors have. We've (and by "we" I mean the game companies) obviously shifted importance away from this component. Apparently the grand majority of people don't care (or at least the game companies don't think they care) about the music in a game as much as the other content. I must be in the minority when I say music incorporation is just as important as, say, the graphical implementation.
"There's no such thing [as an objective story]... The objective journalist is one of those great myths you read about like a Griffin or a Phoenix... or an honest politician. Everyone's got an agenda whether they admit it or not... " - (Babylon 5: The Illusion of the Truth, some reporter guy)
Yeah yeah, I know. The quote is more about journalists than judges, but it seems to fit.
Everyone has opinions, but they should at least _try_ to not let it get in the way of the truth, and I doubt any attempt at all is being made here.
...but with all the issues that have come out of nVidia products recently, I think it may be about time to switch over to ATI (again).
I actually started with ATI. Then I installed linux and started actually using it. I realized that the fglrx drivers just weren't worth the hassle, so my next card was nVidia, and I've stuck with them until now mainly for that reason. However, with the open source ATI drivers gaining support, it might be time to switch over.
Writing this I've come to notice that the actual performance issues between ATI and nVidia haven't ever been a main cause for me to choose between the two. I'm not saying that performance isn't an issue, but the choice between them (at least for me) was based mostly on reasons other than performance, including quality / life span of products, support (including tech support), and even company ethics.
Oh, and of course the whole whether it runs well on linux or not, but that's a given.
True, I normally prefer a desktop for gaming, but some people enjoy using a laptop for everything. Especially with companies starting to cater to this market, coming up with technologies like this.
Plus, laptops are awesome for LAN parties (less power consumption, smaller size, etc)
Exactly. There's a difference between creating general statements to be used in the article so that the story can be published faster, and creating false information such as conversations.
Now, you could argue that just maybe they had a script that the astronauts would follow, making what was stated the most likely scenario, which would make sense to include this in a preparatory article, but I don't think they would do this. Just seems like too much work to me...
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The Master succeeded in this before he died permanently.
Which was really sad. However, The Master has been able to "come back to life" before, so fingers crossed.
Honestly, I'd be willing to pretend the last 4 seasons didn't really happen, so that they could be redone "correctly" (with no time war, etc).
He's always taken a unique view at looking at games, and finding out what makes something fun to play, and he's not worried to look back at his own works and locate things that could be improved upon.
I know this post could be considered "redundant", since his genius is obvious, but I love him!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7698200.stm
It's an interview with David Tennant about his thoughts of the show and him leaving. The best thing I saw in this article was the fact that Davies was leaving, hopefully paving the way for better episodes..... (but that's just my opinion).
Of course this would probably cause problems if you have "foo.com" and "foo.org" fighting over "foo"
You're still going to have the same issue with them fighting over ".foo", so in my opinion getting rid of them altogether is still the better choice.
As soon as I saw the title I thought of that one episode from The Big Bang Theory where they give a presentation on the new form of matter.
Completely unrelated, I just thought it was funny.
But think of how many people would have to have these systems installed before it would really work.... I guess if a big company (such as Honda) started making them standard in each unit that would help, but it seems it would still take a fair amount of time to take off.
It's ok, the spoilers were already announced:
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/diebold_accidentally_leaks
Well, I wouldn't count out speed completely. I'd agree that it's not as important for storing media files than like playing games, but the last thing you want is to have a movie that randomly skips every so often because of a hard drive. That being said, it looks like the drive is pretty good when you're reading stuff from it, so that shouldn't be a problem.
But you're right; I'd be more interested in seeing stress tests about how much usage these things can take before they give out.
As long as they didn't put information about the person who the DNA came from up on the internet (name, contact information, etc), and didn't give that information out to anyone, I don't see a problem with it. (TFA didn't have any details about this) Without said information, all that anyone would be able to tell when they match the DNA is that "Oh, this person volunteered for this experiment."
That being said though, I'm sure the government(s) would find ways to force this information out of them if needed in some unconstitutional way, so I donno....
Question: Whom does this surprise?
Answer: Lots of people.
It's the sad truth. I mean, when you think about it, these practices got put in place by people who thought it would be a good idea (for whatever reason). There are also lots of people who just buy in to the security theater of "Oh, they check my ID, so that must filter out the terrorists" that hadn't ever looked at the policies from this point of view.
Common sense isn't very common.
Sounds a little ungrateful considering that many, many people didn't know about this and are now provided and easy way to view and delete these objects without rummaging through menus and settings. If you hate Flash that much then don't use it!
/agree
The "Delete all sites" button seemed to have worked pretty well too. The only thing is that I thought it was an image until I read the text under it stating that it wasn't, which is probably why the explanation was put there.
"So the Java program runs for about ten hours for each image..."
It would be interesting to know how powerful the computer was, because I'm sure it would take _a lot_ of processing time to do something this complex. It seems like he did it all at home, but I think it's also plausible that he could have borrowed computing power from his work.
Well, it's technically there...
in the state of an alpha release....
Hopefully I'm missing something though.
Zelda definitely takes the cake. Being a big music enthusiast, I loved Ocarina of Time, and how the game was pretty much centered on the music played from this instrument. That Zelda game alone had wonderful music, in addition to the earlier releases. Final Fantasy also had a very good score.
However, that being said, even the newer releases of these games haven't lived up to the role that their predecessors have. We've (and by "we" I mean the game companies) obviously shifted importance away from this component. Apparently the grand majority of people don't care (or at least the game companies don't think they care) about the music in a game as much as the other content. I must be in the minority when I say music incorporation is just as important as, say, the graphical implementation.
"There's no such thing [as an objective story]... The objective journalist is one of those great myths you read about like a Griffin or a Phoenix... or an honest politician. Everyone's got an agenda whether they admit it or not... " - (Babylon 5: The Illusion of the Truth, some reporter guy)
Yeah yeah, I know. The quote is more about journalists than judges, but it seems to fit.
Everyone has opinions, but they should at least _try_ to not let it get in the way of the truth, and I doubt any attempt at all is being made here.
Not a problem. Remember, it's _horses_ that run through the tubes.
Everyone and his mother knows that the internet is _not_ a dump truck, duh!
...but with all the issues that have come out of nVidia products recently, I think it may be about time to switch over to ATI (again).
I actually started with ATI. Then I installed linux and started actually using it. I realized that the fglrx drivers just weren't worth the hassle, so my next card was nVidia, and I've stuck with them until now mainly for that reason. However, with the open source ATI drivers gaining support, it might be time to switch over.
Writing this I've come to notice that the actual performance issues between ATI and nVidia haven't ever been a main cause for me to choose between the two. I'm not saying that performance isn't an issue, but the choice between them (at least for me) was based mostly on reasons other than performance, including quality / life span of products, support (including tech support), and even company ethics.
Oh, and of course the whole whether it runs well on linux or not, but that's a given.
True, I normally prefer a desktop for gaming, but some people enjoy using a laptop for everything. Especially with companies starting to cater to this market, coming up with technologies like this.
Plus, laptops are awesome for LAN parties (less power consumption, smaller size, etc)
Hopefully this will discourage other nations / organizations from blocking sites like that, but only time will tell, and I don't have my hopes up.
Exactly. There's a difference between creating general statements to be used in the article so that the story can be published faster, and creating false information such as conversations. Now, you could argue that just maybe they had a script that the astronauts would follow, making what was stated the most likely scenario, which would make sense to include this in a preparatory article, but I don't think they would do this. Just seems like too much work to me...