FFS you haven't even SEEN the game, or read a single review.
All we really know is that it is made by Blizzard and APPARENTLY people like their work.
Are you really willing to bet that it will suck? Because all the facts, all the history, all the other great Blizz games are all telling me "This game won't suck"
Seriously, name a developer with a better track record.
Because you haven't given a good reason as to why you are voting the way you are.
Sorry, but while clever, SCI was not fantabulious because you could play all three race's stories on release day.
Would you care if they took 3x as long in development, then released a truly MASSIVE amount of content in one installment, charging 3x as much? Because that is your reason for "voting with your wallet" and frankly it's utterly ridiculous.
Except that the Kindle also supports you loading books from other sources. convert your stupid non-industry-standard epub to txt or pdf and load it on a kindle.
But even un-hacked it is more open than the Sony, simply plug the supplied USB into your PC, the internal memory and u-SD card show up as drives, drop mp3's or epub/pdf,etc into the folder labeled for them, done..
That is -exactly- how every kindle made has worked. Kindle can read PDF, txt, and other "open" formats. So how exactly is it less "open" than any other?
Maybe what you mean is that the default stores sell books in a more "open" or closed format. . . but all (B&N, Amazon) the stores are the same in that manner, so what again is your point about "openness"?
Keeping books on the device matters for battery life indexing all the text. Quit trying to be clever mocking an important metric. (Number of books stored vs battery life)
. . . yes, but we all agree that MPEG2 is a fat cow when it comes to encoding and bandwidth used. By comparison H.264 is at least 3x better, and most DVD's do not use all 10.5 that they could. I remember an old DVD player that i had that would tell you on screen the current read rates, and the first matrix never went above 5-6 Mbps.
Typically for IPTV you are talking 3-4 Mbps per standard def channel (down to 1-2 if you use a non-ancient encoding)
HD is more, obviously, but it all depends on the compression. Some people claim 1080p HD streaming online in as little as 4Mbps. Obviously it's compressed all to hell, but then again, the majority of my music is in Mp3's not uncompressed FLAC format.
I feel comfortable that HD can be done with a reasonable (home, not production) quality over 27.4Mbps.
You are not "doubling your data" by sending it wifi. There is a small overhead for the signal, but not near half.
They are in a classroom FFS. Ask the guy next to you to help. most universities pay students to help / take notes for the disables ones in classes anyhow.
If they are in fact measuring at their central hub, vs your house, and there is faulty equipment between you and where they are measuring, then, yes, retries will make it seem like you are using more data that you actually receive in your house.
But, the case can be made that they are still sending and processing that data, and you are the source.
Either way, I HIGHLY doubt that this is close to relevant, as you already know if you were getting significant retries right now. If you are, you need to call them and have them fix it.
Even wireless or satellite internet stays well below 5% retry for the delivery.
Do you have a desktop computer AND a phone?
They both can get online, edit documents etc. . . why do you have both?
Don't knock ebook readers till you try them. Anyone that has one will laugh at comparing them to reading a book on a phone. LAUGH.
I have 8 gigs of RAM. it didn't cost alot. If windows / Office can figure out that i use Word / Excel / Outlook all the time and pre-load everything, great. It lets me work faster.
Sorry to tell you, the days of memory conservation are dead, programs should be USING the gigs of ram you have, not letting them sit idle and making you wait 30 secs or a word processor to open.
On this machine i am typing on, (the newest) OO (starts up and) loads a smallish spreadsheet (made by itself, in it's native file type) in around 20 seconds.
Office 2007 excel opens it in around 5.
Fresh restart etc...
Call office bloated all you want, but it -is- faster.
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I'll make my life less fun to prove a point no one cares about.
1995 is calling, they want their lan party back.
All we really know is that it is made by Blizzard and APPARENTLY people like their work.
Are you really willing to bet that it will suck? Because all the facts, all the history, all the other great Blizz games are all telling me "This game won't suck"
Seriously, name a developer with a better track record.
Sorry, but while clever, SCI was not fantabulious because you could play all three race's stories on release day.
Would you care if they took 3x as long in development, then released a truly MASSIVE amount of content in one installment, charging 3x as much? Because that is your reason for "voting with your wallet" and frankly it's utterly ridiculous.
Maybe the "hard gamedev" reality is that people want, and will pay for polished, good games.
Why do you think that WoW is more of a cash cow than the myriad of other mmorpgs? It's because people like it, it is a fun, polished game.
SCII will do well against the same "hard gamedev" because they have made it like each of their other games, well.
Oh wait. . .
Too bad my Kindle's battery literally lasts weeks.
Wow, that was hard
Kindles (all of them) show up with no drivers as mass storage devices. . .get your facts right.
But even un-hacked it is more open than the Sony, simply plug the supplied USB into your PC, the internal memory and u-SD card show up as drives, drop mp3's or epub/pdf,etc into the folder labeled for them, done..
That is -exactly- how every kindle made has worked. Kindle can read PDF, txt, and other "open" formats. So how exactly is it less "open" than any other?
Maybe what you mean is that the default stores sell books in a more "open" or closed format. . . but all (B&N, Amazon) the stores are the same in that manner, so what again is your point about "openness"?
Keeping books on the device matters for battery life indexing all the text. Quit trying to be clever mocking an important metric. (Number of books stored vs battery life)
This isn't MS covering something up, there was never anything to cover up here.
You have 0 idea how complex getting the file sizes and quality we take for granted each day actually is.
Go download gordian knot and transcode a DVD into divx or h.264 and see how complex the process really is./p>
A rectangle?
Typically for IPTV you are talking 3-4 Mbps per standard def channel (down to 1-2 if you use a non-ancient encoding)
HD is more, obviously, but it all depends on the compression. Some people claim 1080p HD streaming online in as little as 4Mbps. Obviously it's compressed all to hell, but then again, the majority of my music is in Mp3's not uncompressed FLAC format.
I feel comfortable that HD can be done with a reasonable (home, not production) quality over 27.4Mbps.
You are not "doubling your data" by sending it wifi. There is a small overhead for the signal, but not near half.
name an alternative to photoshop.
I would rather have a space cannon than an Eiffel tower.
They are in a classroom FFS. Ask the guy next to you to help. most universities pay students to help / take notes for the disables ones in classes anyhow.
But, the case can be made that they are still sending and processing that data, and you are the source.
Either way, I HIGHLY doubt that this is close to relevant, as you already know if you were getting significant retries right now. If you are, you need to call them and have them fix it.
Even wireless or satellite internet stays well below 5% retry for the delivery.
Every time my linux box's windows tear across, or "erase" my screen it reminds me how unfinished that technology is
1) Failure to understand the benefits of the technology. CHECK
2) Offer proposal not based in reality (Technical or Fiscal) CHECK
3) Typical "Someone should do something about ..." bitching. CHECK
Three strikes and you are out.
Do you have a desktop computer AND a phone? They both can get online, edit documents etc. . . why do you have both? Don't knock ebook readers till you try them. Anyone that has one will laugh at comparing them to reading a book on a phone. LAUGH.
no. just. no.
Sorry to tell you, the days of memory conservation are dead, programs should be USING the gigs of ram you have, not letting them sit idle and making you wait 30 secs or a word processor to open.
Office 2007 excel opens it in around 5.
Fresh restart etc...
Call office bloated all you want, but it -is- faster.