Given that the XBOX 360 controller was available for PC 2 weeks before the XBOX 360 was released, there are more controller peripherals available for the PC at much higher quality than any console.
Racing fan? If you're willing to pay the price you can have a force feedback (not rumble...force feedback) Steering wheel with gas, brake and clutch pedal and up to 7 position gear shift, made of high quality parts. Flight sim fan, pretty well the same, flight yoke with foot pedals for rudder control? Or just the miriad of Sidewinder style flight sticks available. There's much beyond crappy Logitech console knockoff gamepads out there.
Ok for serious you get a trophy for vagueness.
If Microsoft really really has a monopoly...why is there MacOS and Unix and Linux. Are you saying that "really small powerless companies" such as Acer, Asus and the like CAN'T CHOOSE???
Are you saying that Microsoft striking deals with these companies is an illegal practice?
I think Dell, HP, IBM etc are all big enough to be able to perform R&D on thier own operating systems if the SO CHOOSE. They just choose not to. Apple could have at any time designed their operating systems to run on any x86 hardware.
If you like Linux so much...install it on your machine and for god sakes feel happy that you've exerted your power of choice and that microsoft is now powerless over you. It's that easy why does everyone whine and complain so much about them...just...install...linux...and...use...software...that...runs...on...it. Is it that hard? Is it Microsofts fault that the average user doesn't want to do this. Of course, now I'm going to hear about FUD...hooray. So people are stupid and gullible too and that's microsofts fault too. Some of you people act as if they invented the common practice or something.
Oh well, 9 out of 10 dentists recommend 7 different kinds of toothpaste. If I told you that I was more reliable than my competitor would you feel compelled or forced to believe me?
To be honest, I have no real issue with Vista. I have a 4 year old PC and it runs well, with Aero running, and i'm currently folding. You can talk about swampland all you want. No one sold it to me. Don't ask for clarification;) I run Vista Ultimate. And no it wasn't a pre-install, since as I mentioned...my machine is 4 years old. Oh yeah my POS old webcam isn't supported...thanks Logitech...n'ah I'll just pin that on Microsoft for Slashdot brownie points. Now that M-Audio has drivers for my nice sound card, I'm super happy in fact.
There are ups and downs to hitting as many as possible.
Back in november, my wife of 6 years and I seperated. I was in school and decided that I was in fact going to hit as many as possible. Before being married I was quite unshy, unless it came to intimacy, then for some reason I'd clam up. After, mainly because I had no intention of caring for anyone or commiting or any of that type of thing, I was significantly less shy. Not to brag but I was quite sucessful and within a month or two I went from being the hunter to the prey. I'm not going to say I was a jerk as I was rather straightforward with all the women I've encountered since then.
The real problem came when I started meeting women that I actually cared about a bit, or started having feelings for me while I was seeing others. Sometimes it was a no-brainer when it came to shedding someone or letting them know that my feelings hadn't changed and that they had to deal with that. Sometimes it made for some really serious decisions and some sleepless nights when I had to decide between two women with great qualities. I've also very recently been seeing this one girl with a developping seriousness, and another girl that had really captivated me but until recently had been unavailable told me that she was now single and shared these feelings for me. This has made for a really really tough situation for me.
The point I'm trying to make here is that there's no one formula for happiness with the opposite sex. Real feelings for someone have to develop and both parties have to have the same interest in one another. To be someone you're not to get a girl might work for a night or two but if you're looking for something fulfilling and rewarding, acting like someone you're not will not work. It's simple as to why...you can only keep a charade up for so long.
I can't see Bell deciding to start throttling youtube unless they're going to restrict by URL. It would make too many people unhappy if anything sent via UDP or that just happens to be in.FLV was restricted. Not to mention that it'll probably be deemed going too far creating such restrictions based on URL, there's enough bad press floating around with the Chinese government doing such things.
Not to mention that the quality of the videos on youtube in general hardly pose a threat to the content delivered over ExpressVu.
Well, maybe I'll recant on that a little, I really can't put it above a large ISP to piss off a large portion of their userbase.
Ha ha, nice catch on me. If I still had my mod points, I'd have even modded that up for ya if they'd let me.
Yeah, Youtube and fatigue are a deadly interaction, good thing I stayed away from the rye that night. Now just to stay on topic....N'ah I'll just stop typing for now.
As far as I'm concerned, it's they're government and if they choose to limit what their population can see it's their business.
If anything it helps me appreciate that I live in a country that allows me to see and search pretty well whatever I want, even if it's at my own risk. I really don't think anyone will die from not being allowed to see YouTube. Personally sometimes I wish my government would just block it lol just to keep me from losing IQ points from seeing some of the content posted. Just a joke if you're wondering, there are some great videos up there.
When you can place a machine in a particular situation with no programming whatsoever, and it figures it does something on its own,
I almost agree with you on this point, however, even without external instructions, we're born preprogrammed to perform certain things, once we're physically capable of doing them. I think a better implementation of your test would be to have it programmed with a core set of instructions that can try to accomplish something, somehow, and have some way of measuring sucess or failure, and therefore applying some sort of good/bad rating to a particular action in a particular circumstance. Once it learns something, it could add that method to it's instruction set for performing that particular task...
Hell I'm really tired and I don't even know if that made sense....yes I'm ignorant:)
I find it humourous that the above comment was modded as funny.
When you really think about how susceptible our brain is to illusion and misinterpretation, I'm not sure it's too wise to base a computing architecture on it's structure.
"DOS Ain't Done til Lotus Won't Run" - I can't say that I've ever heard that phrase before, but it definitely sounds like something the Slashdot crowd would say. It would be idiotic if a commercial, closed-source company such as Microsoft followed that strategy because nobody just uses Microsoft products and stopping third party apps from working would hurt their income levels. These problems are just bugs and a lot of them are resolved as quickly as possible.
That was the first comment on the article at the first site google turned up on that query of your. Isn't it ironic? Don't you think?
In a way, I think a colony on the moon does make sense.
Equippment and vessels used to explore the solar system could be built up there and it would require mcuh less fuel to launch a large vessel from the moon then it would from earth. Though, of course, I guess we would have to still bring fuel up to the moon in order to launch with.
What I don't understand is, why not blame the kids for not continuously pumping tokens into the arcade machines.
Or blame parents for teaching their children fiscal sense. I remember when arcade machines here stopped being a quarter as the norm. Pumping a dollar into a machine for an average of 5 minutes of play time gets really expensive really fast when you're as hopeless an addict as I am. THe 300$ for an NES/SNES/Genesis console made way more sense since I only had to pay once for the console and once for a game. Sure, there were still benefits to going to an arcade but not nearly as many (pinball, the technically superior racing titles with the driver seat feeling). I think the Sega Dreamcast was probably the easiest and most sensible console to blame since that's when arcade perfect conversions started being the norm instead of the rare gem, which also indicates why Sega/Sammy are so quiet in the blame game.
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I kind of like the idea of using gym equippment to generate energy. I'm no physisist by any stretch of the imagination but even though the energy, to my understanding, created by one individual may seem negligible, the collective energy produced could at least reduce something's power consumption.
If I recall correctly wasn't a half an hour of the Superbowl's pregame show's energy produced by humans working out on stationary equippment?
I wouldn't want to rely on this means of generation to power critical devices, but I do believe that we should start taking steps to optimize energy production and take every little bit we can.
A penny saved is a penny earned so to speak...dig?
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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice....Ooh! That's a real Rolex you say?
Thank you sooooo much....a little reading on my part and you saved me a little typing...and then I went and typed anyway.
Personally, let them have their rage and whatever they want to do. They'll tire themselves out and go to bed...I watch my 2 year old do the same when it's bedtime. I'll even be so ballsy to admit that I'm a Christian on the boards and I have to say that I'm not too impressed with a lot of people in that camp either. I'll be honest, my best friend in the world is Muslim and I can tell you for sure. If she were here reading this article she'd also, like me, be asking WTF??? Well, actually I wouldn't be typing this post right now because we'd both be too busy cracking jokes about it then going to find something else to laugh about.
I doubt Wikipedia will cave. And to reply about the scouring for profanity post above. While the poster does have a valid point, the idea, I think about removing the profanity is that it really adds no informational value to an article, and in fact, probably detracts from the perceived credibility of what's written in general. Therein lies the difference. Well in my opinion anyway.
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When these drives first come out, they're going to be pricey enough as it is, mainly geared towards enterprises. I still salivate over the concept of a 10TB drive being less than 200$ at some point in the future, let alone 40TB? Being able to store 200TB on a 6 drive RAID5 sounds sweet to me.
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Given that the XBOX 360 controller was available for PC 2 weeks before the XBOX 360 was released, there are more controller peripherals available for the PC at much higher quality than any console. Racing fan? If you're willing to pay the price you can have a force feedback (not rumble...force feedback) Steering wheel with gas, brake and clutch pedal and up to 7 position gear shift, made of high quality parts. Flight sim fan, pretty well the same, flight yoke with foot pedals for rudder control? Or just the miriad of Sidewinder style flight sticks available. There's much beyond crappy Logitech console knockoff gamepads out there.
Ok for serious you get a trophy for vagueness. If Microsoft really really has a monopoly...why is there MacOS and Unix and Linux. Are you saying that "really small powerless companies" such as Acer, Asus and the like CAN'T CHOOSE??? Are you saying that Microsoft striking deals with these companies is an illegal practice? I think Dell, HP, IBM etc are all big enough to be able to perform R&D on thier own operating systems if the SO CHOOSE. They just choose not to. Apple could have at any time designed their operating systems to run on any x86 hardware. If you like Linux so much...install it on your machine and for god sakes feel happy that you've exerted your power of choice and that microsoft is now powerless over you. It's that easy why does everyone whine and complain so much about them...just...install...linux...and...use...software...that...runs...on...it. Is it that hard? Is it Microsofts fault that the average user doesn't want to do this. Of course, now I'm going to hear about FUD...hooray. So people are stupid and gullible too and that's microsofts fault too. Some of you people act as if they invented the common practice or something. Oh well, 9 out of 10 dentists recommend 7 different kinds of toothpaste. If I told you that I was more reliable than my competitor would you feel compelled or forced to believe me?
To be honest, I have no real issue with Vista. I have a 4 year old PC and it runs well, with Aero running, and i'm currently folding. You can talk about swampland all you want. No one sold it to me. Don't ask for clarification;) I run Vista Ultimate. And no it wasn't a pre-install, since as I mentioned...my machine is 4 years old. Oh yeah my POS old webcam isn't supported...thanks Logitech...n'ah I'll just pin that on Microsoft for Slashdot brownie points. Now that M-Audio has drivers for my nice sound card, I'm super happy in fact.
There are ups and downs to hitting as many as possible.
Back in november, my wife of 6 years and I seperated. I was in school and decided that I was in fact going to hit as many as possible. Before being married I was quite unshy, unless it came to intimacy, then for some reason I'd clam up. After, mainly because I had no intention of caring for anyone or commiting or any of that type of thing, I was significantly less shy. Not to brag but I was quite sucessful and within a month or two I went from being the hunter to the prey. I'm not going to say I was a jerk as I was rather straightforward with all the women I've encountered since then.
The real problem came when I started meeting women that I actually cared about a bit, or started having feelings for me while I was seeing others. Sometimes it was a no-brainer when it came to shedding someone or letting them know that my feelings hadn't changed and that they had to deal with that. Sometimes it made for some really serious decisions and some sleepless nights when I had to decide between two women with great qualities. I've also very recently been seeing this one girl with a developping seriousness, and another girl that had really captivated me but until recently had been unavailable told me that she was now single and shared these feelings for me. This has made for a really really tough situation for me.
The point I'm trying to make here is that there's no one formula for happiness with the opposite sex. Real feelings for someone have to develop and both parties have to have the same interest in one another. To be someone you're not to get a girl might work for a night or two but if you're looking for something fulfilling and rewarding, acting like someone you're not will not work. It's simple as to why...you can only keep a charade up for so long.
I can't see Bell deciding to start throttling youtube unless they're going to restrict by URL. It would make too many people unhappy if anything sent via UDP or that just happens to be in .FLV was restricted. Not to mention that it'll probably be deemed going too far creating such restrictions based on URL, there's enough bad press floating around with the Chinese government doing such things.
Not to mention that the quality of the videos on youtube in general hardly pose a threat to the content delivered over ExpressVu.
Well, maybe I'll recant on that a little, I really can't put it above a large ISP to piss off a large portion of their userbase.
Ha ha, nice catch on me. If I still had my mod points, I'd have even modded that up for ya if they'd let me.
Yeah, Youtube and fatigue are a deadly interaction, good thing I stayed away from the rye that night. Now just to stay on topic....N'ah I'll just stop typing for now.
As far as I'm concerned, it's they're government and if they choose to limit what their population can see it's their business.
If anything it helps me appreciate that I live in a country that allows me to see and search pretty well whatever I want, even if it's at my own risk. I really don't think anyone will die from not being allowed to see YouTube. Personally sometimes I wish my government would just block it lol just to keep me from losing IQ points from seeing some of the content posted. Just a joke if you're wondering, there are some great videos up there.
I almost agree with you on this point, however, even without external instructions, we're born preprogrammed to perform certain things, once we're physically capable of doing them. I think a better implementation of your test would be to have it programmed with a core set of instructions that can try to accomplish something, somehow, and have some way of measuring sucess or failure, and therefore applying some sort of good/bad rating to a particular action in a particular circumstance. Once it learns something, it could add that method to it's instruction set for performing that particular task...
Hell I'm really tired and I don't even know if that made sense....yes I'm ignorant
But the cold being cured takes away 5 legitimate paid days off work for me....please don't cure it....pleeeeaaasee?
I find it humourous that the above comment was modded as funny.
When you really think about how susceptible our brain is to illusion and misinterpretation, I'm not sure it's too wise to base a computing architecture on it's structure.
That was the first comment on the article at the first site google turned up on that query of your. Isn't it ironic? Don't you think?
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In a way, I think a colony on the moon does make sense.
Equippment and vessels used to explore the solar system could be built up there and it would require mcuh less fuel to launch a large vessel from the moon then it would from earth. Though, of course, I guess we would have to still bring fuel up to the moon in order to launch with.
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I don't feel like typing a signature today.
Just out of curiosity...how did the topic of the Grammys end up in a thread about arcades closing?
What I don't understand is, why not blame the kids for not continuously pumping tokens into the arcade machines.
Or blame parents for teaching their children fiscal sense. I remember when arcade machines here stopped being a quarter as the norm. Pumping a dollar into a machine for an average of 5 minutes of play time gets really expensive really fast when you're as hopeless an addict as I am. THe 300$ for an NES/SNES/Genesis console made way more sense since I only had to pay once for the console and once for a game. Sure, there were still benefits to going to an arcade but not nearly as many (pinball, the technically superior racing titles with the driver seat feeling). I think the Sega Dreamcast was probably the easiest and most sensible console to blame since that's when arcade perfect conversions started being the norm instead of the rare gem, which also indicates why Sega/Sammy are so quiet in the blame game.
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I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy
I kind of like the idea of using gym equippment to generate energy. I'm no physisist by any stretch of the imagination but even though the energy, to my understanding, created by one individual may seem negligible, the collective energy produced could at least reduce something's power consumption.
If I recall correctly wasn't a half an hour of the Superbowl's pregame show's energy produced by humans working out on stationary equippment?
I wouldn't want to rely on this means of generation to power critical devices, but I do believe that we should start taking steps to optimize energy production and take every little bit we can.
A penny saved is a penny earned so to speak...dig?
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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice....Ooh! That's a real Rolex you say?
Thank you sooooo much....a little reading on my part and you saved me a little typing...and then I went and typed anyway. Personally, let them have their rage and whatever they want to do. They'll tire themselves out and go to bed...I watch my 2 year old do the same when it's bedtime. I'll even be so ballsy to admit that I'm a Christian on the boards and I have to say that I'm not too impressed with a lot of people in that camp either. I'll be honest, my best friend in the world is Muslim and I can tell you for sure. If she were here reading this article she'd also, like me, be asking WTF??? Well, actually I wouldn't be typing this post right now because we'd both be too busy cracking jokes about it then going to find something else to laugh about.
I doubt Wikipedia will cave. And to reply about the scouring for profanity post above. While the poster does have a valid point, the idea, I think about removing the profanity is that it really adds no informational value to an article, and in fact, probably detracts from the perceived credibility of what's written in general. Therein lies the difference. Well in my opinion anyway.
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I type my signature post by post cause I have nothing better to do
When these drives first come out, they're going to be pricey enough as it is, mainly geared towards enterprises. I still salivate over the concept of a 10TB drive being less than 200$ at some point in the future, let alone 40TB? Being able to store 200TB on a 6 drive RAID5 sounds sweet to me.