Blu ray is NOT a Sony format, anymore than the CD is a Sony format. They are the dominant member of the industry consortium that developed Blu Ray, and one of the original developers. Microsoft would never have to license Blu Ray from Sony, they would license it from the consortium just as with the regular CD.
What Microsoft does NOT like about Blu Ray is that it requires a java VM.
Ever heard the phrase "making a mountain out of a mole hill?"
Yeah, the 15 minutes sucked. Just last night, someone fell ill on a subway train ahead of the one I was in and I was stuck on the Manhattan Bridge for 45 minutes. What am I going to do? Complain about the old lady? Sue the MTA?
We get inconvenienced all the time. If every time you have to wait 15 minutes you flip out and compare to getting searched by a cop, you are going to be very unhappy in life. Seriously, just be cool...
No, this is the comment of a person who has traveled the world and see how the billions of people outside American and Europe live. This is also the comment of an older and wiser person who group up with liberalism but is now a father himself. I once had your kind of view, but trust me - if you have any loyalty to someone other than yourself or feel a duty to contribute to the future by having children, you'll find that having fun is very often a secondary concern to taking care of the people you love.
My machine was locked out due to the installation of a new sound card - a trivial hardware change that should have been ignored. So, I called Microsoft, got some activation code and within 10-15 minutes I was up and running again. No harm done. I'm glad they are removing this "feature" but it's not a huge deal.
Sorry, but the millions of people in prison and the tens of millions of fat asses who do nothing but watch TV and stuff their faces with McDonald's should be proof that this method of teaching is a failure. We've had 40 years of liberals telling us "we have to make education fun!" and we created a generation of idiots.
Life IS work. The easy life of post-WWII American is over. Parents must teach their children discipline and fortitude. They must be hardened to the reality that the world is difficult and that only with appropriate discipline can one hope to succeed.
You must push children as to the basics of life. Even the baby bird does not want to learn to fly. It is the way of things.
When I found out my PS3 could play them, I picked up several classical and jazz albums in SACD format. The sound quality is remarkable, and the surround sound in several cases really replicates the sound of a live hall.
I wish the music industry had pushed SACD more and released less expensive players. Honestly, I didn't even know it existed until I got a PS3, so it apparently never received broad support. I think the music industry could be saved if they released high definition content at a lower price. At $19 a pop, the hybrid SACD discs just seem overpriced, but $10 a disc I think would make it easier to splurge on a couple discs a month.
I've just gotten into Super Audio CD's, once I found out my PS3 can play them. They are heavily DRM'd and require a proprietary player - but it really sounds phenomenal. A lot of classic recordings from the 1970s that used the then-new Philips Quadrophonic recording system have been rereleased on SACD and it is of a very high quality. Granted, I've only been able to hear the surround sound since the System 2.00 release a few weeks ago, but I'm impressed.
It's too bad Sony and Philips didn't see this coming. They should have sold SACD players cheap in 2000 with all releases being Hybrid SACD discs today. I'd probably buy a lot more music.
The GP was sort of raving without much significant content.
I wouldn't quite say I was raving - more recounting an honest impression from the previous night that was still quite fresh in my memory:)
But so far I've been deeply disappointed in several facets of my Wii (VC games likened strictly to machine, clumsiness of pointer response in most games, tact on feel of controls in many games, poor graphics on HDTV's, first one was defective). I'm hoping it gets to be a 3 way race because I'm not really that into the wii control set up. Any multi platform will go to my ps3 and my wii is mostly just in case my favorite franchises go wii only and for some good party games. I'm also Thinking about picking up a 360 for mass effect.
I have the same feelings about the Wii. I got it to try and get my girlfriend into gaming, but it really does look pretty bad on my 46" LCD. The same girlfriend was equally amazed with R&T last night.
I have too much of a hatred for Microsoft to ever get an Xbox. I just can't do it.
I just got it yesterday, and I was blown away. It really does look like a Pixar movie. The background detail is just incredible. Hopefully, future PS3 games will show the system's potential as well as Ratchet and Clank.
The real problem seems to be the technofiles believed Malthus was a lunatic. The reality is it was pure lunacy for the elites of the post-war era to believe technology would allow for infinite population growth. We would be living in a technological paradise, but population growth has been exponential since the imaginative days of the 1950s. As long as technological progress barely keeps up with population growth, most efforts will be expended trying to alleviate shortages of raw materials (productive farmland, water, energy, etc), providing the basic necessities of life (housing, food, medicine), and inexpensive entertainment to keep the masses at bay (media, primarily). The grand dreams of the 1950s, ie space travel, were born from an era of relative abundance. If population growth had been non-existant since the 1950s, worldwide peace would be the rule and there would be a huge surplus to devote to such dreams.
Today however, the billions of hungry mouths will always scream for more food so they can continue reproducing at an exponential rate. They will always shout down the more creative types who believe there is more to human existence than the animalistic competition for unrestricted population growth.
And there's the rub. This is how it has always been. The lower class is really the class that cannot see life for what it could be, only as it is. They are guided by the petty hedonistic drive to avoid pain and experience pleasure. In reality, their hopes and dreams are no more advanced than cattle.
People with jobs don't tend to vote for democrats. They are the party of the poor who want/need public assistance, and of the rich who are terrified of the masses realizing paying interest on money the government creates out of think air is bullshit.
Germans, no matter what their political stripe, never referred to themselves as a "master race". Remember, the Germans were fighting the British and French - the people who brutally subjugated every non-white race on the planet as they believed they were inherently inferior and in need of European domination. In contrast, Germany and Japan were fighting against the Anglo-American control of world trade and domination of the world's people.
British propaganda has always been characterized as chutzpa, but none of moreso than the claim that British Empire, that controlled 2/3 of the globe, somehow saved the world from a little country the size of Texas that was bent on world domination due to their belief they were the "master race".
I can think of more than a few businesses that could benefit from having more than 3 gigs of ram. I use Vista 64-bit edition for this very reason myself. I believe your are underestimating the importance of 64-bit Windows OS with broad hardware support.
There are still many of these kinds of elevators in older buildings in NYC, particularly older apartment buildings that are subject to rent stabilization.
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
You know nothing of history. It is a strong military that makes peace and prosperity possible. Before the advent of organized cities and armies, humans lived by the creed might makes right and were largely nomadic. In those societies, the mere existence of the weak was considered theft from the strong.
No civilization in history has ever experienced significant and sustained population growth without a large army. Such a statement is based on the fundamentally flawed belief that men are inherently just and that there is in reality no need for a military. Considering that most of the world today is far less civilized than even the Roman Empire in decline, I would be careful what you wish for.
Anarchy and fear are the life experiences of most of the world's people. The few beacons of civility that exist are maintained via military strength.
Well, the old fashion way unfortunately results in the least intelligent people reproducing at an exponential rate, and the most intelligent people declining in numbers in at an exponential rate. Perhaps cloning will be more palatable to the people of the future than restrictions on breeding, which tends to evoke comparisons with Nazis, Spartans, and such.
The US Fed != Congress. The Treasury Department controls currency, and that department is an Executive Branch department. Also, the Fed (Federal Reserve Board) != the Treasury Department.
While I'm sure you think your brilliant using logic operators in your writing, you might want to read the constitution someday. It explicitly states that ONLY Congress has the power to fix the value of currency. The fact that power has largely been illegally delegated to a non-governmental entity does not change the fact that is the law of the land.
Finally, it's important to note that it's not currency creation that has diluted the money supply, it's lending. The impact of the volume of consumer loans issued by the banking industry is much greater than the impact of the variation in currency printed.
It's common parlance to refer to effects of fractional reserve lending as "printing money".
I don't know much about Google's data centers but their centers seem to have several things in common: cheap land and abundant electricity.
Actually, Google leases several million square feet in the Port Authority Building in Chelsea in Manhattan. Resources are a factor, but so to is proximity to talent, which is a major reason they are in NYC.
Probably, they found a lot of people don't want to live in San Antonio. I wouldn't blame them.
"Child support" was never dictated - the custody battle did not get to that level. She alleged that he failed to support the children, but he disputes that. He was under serious financial hardship, but he claims she stole from him. As for the restraining order, it means nothing. There was no proof, and a huge percentage of divorce cases have the woman getting a restraining order.
Twas a good troll until the last sentence. I mean come on, who in this day and age is so naive to believe a woman in a divorce case? I guess, maybe if you are like 14 and living under a rock - but me, I was well aware of these shenanigans even when I was in high school.
But HIS mother is alive and is in this country. Certainly, having them live with their grandmother in the US is preferable to the grandmother in Russia.
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He was probably referring to living persons (ie the myspace reference).
I do agree, biographical entries should be about the entire lives of peoples. That is only possible until someone is dead.
Blu ray is NOT a Sony format, anymore than the CD is a Sony format. They are the dominant member of the industry consortium that developed Blu Ray, and one of the original developers. Microsoft would never have to license Blu Ray from Sony, they would license it from the consortium just as with the regular CD.
What Microsoft does NOT like about Blu Ray is that it requires a java VM.
Ever heard the phrase "making a mountain out of a mole hill?"
Yeah, the 15 minutes sucked. Just last night, someone fell ill on a subway train ahead of the one I was in and I was stuck on the Manhattan Bridge for 45 minutes. What am I going to do? Complain about the old lady? Sue the MTA?
We get inconvenienced all the time. If every time you have to wait 15 minutes you flip out and compare to getting searched by a cop, you are going to be very unhappy in life. Seriously, just be cool...
No, this is the comment of a person who has traveled the world and see how the billions of people outside American and Europe live. This is also the comment of an older and wiser person who group up with liberalism but is now a father himself. I once had your kind of view, but trust me - if you have any loyalty to someone other than yourself or feel a duty to contribute to the future by having children, you'll find that having fun is very often a secondary concern to taking care of the people you love.
My machine was locked out due to the installation of a new sound card - a trivial hardware change that should have been ignored. So, I called Microsoft, got some activation code and within 10-15 minutes I was up and running again. No harm done. I'm glad they are removing this "feature" but it's not a huge deal.
Sorry, but the millions of people in prison and the tens of millions of fat asses who do nothing but watch TV and stuff their faces with McDonald's should be proof that this method of teaching is a failure. We've had 40 years of liberals telling us "we have to make education fun!" and we created a generation of idiots.
Life IS work. The easy life of post-WWII American is over. Parents must teach their children discipline and fortitude. They must be hardened to the reality that the world is difficult and that only with appropriate discipline can one hope to succeed.
You must push children as to the basics of life. Even the baby bird does not want to learn to fly. It is the way of things.
When I found out my PS3 could play them, I picked up several classical and jazz albums in SACD format. The sound quality is remarkable, and the surround sound in several cases really replicates the sound of a live hall.
I wish the music industry had pushed SACD more and released less expensive players. Honestly, I didn't even know it existed until I got a PS3, so it apparently never received broad support. I think the music industry could be saved if they released high definition content at a lower price. At $19 a pop, the hybrid SACD discs just seem overpriced, but $10 a disc I think would make it easier to splurge on a couple discs a month.
I've just gotten into Super Audio CD's, once I found out my PS3 can play them. They are heavily DRM'd and require a proprietary player - but it really sounds phenomenal. A lot of classic recordings from the 1970s that used the then-new Philips Quadrophonic recording system have been rereleased on SACD and it is of a very high quality. Granted, I've only been able to hear the surround sound since the System 2.00 release a few weeks ago, but I'm impressed.
It's too bad Sony and Philips didn't see this coming. They should have sold SACD players cheap in 2000 with all releases being Hybrid SACD discs today. I'd probably buy a lot more music.
The GP was sort of raving without much significant content.
:)
I wouldn't quite say I was raving - more recounting an honest impression from the previous night that was still quite fresh in my memory
But so far I've been deeply disappointed in several facets of my Wii (VC games likened strictly to machine, clumsiness of pointer response in most games, tact on feel of controls in many games, poor graphics on HDTV's, first one was defective). I'm hoping it gets to be a 3 way race because I'm not really that into the wii control set up. Any multi platform will go to my ps3 and my wii is mostly just in case my favorite franchises go wii only and for some good party games. I'm also Thinking about picking up a 360 for mass effect.
I have the same feelings about the Wii. I got it to try and get my girlfriend into gaming, but it really does look pretty bad on my 46" LCD. The same girlfriend was equally amazed with R&T last night.
I have too much of a hatred for Microsoft to ever get an Xbox. I just can't do it.
I just got it yesterday, and I was blown away. It really does look like a Pixar movie. The background detail is just incredible. Hopefully, future PS3 games will show the system's potential as well as Ratchet and Clank.
The real problem seems to be the technofiles believed Malthus was a lunatic. The reality is it was pure lunacy for the elites of the post-war era to believe technology would allow for infinite population growth. We would be living in a technological paradise, but population growth has been exponential since the imaginative days of the 1950s. As long as technological progress barely keeps up with population growth, most efforts will be expended trying to alleviate shortages of raw materials (productive farmland, water, energy, etc), providing the basic necessities of life (housing, food, medicine), and inexpensive entertainment to keep the masses at bay (media, primarily). The grand dreams of the 1950s, ie space travel, were born from an era of relative abundance. If population growth had been non-existant since the 1950s, worldwide peace would be the rule and there would be a huge surplus to devote to such dreams.
Today however, the billions of hungry mouths will always scream for more food so they can continue reproducing at an exponential rate. They will always shout down the more creative types who believe there is more to human existence than the animalistic competition for unrestricted population growth.
And there's the rub. This is how it has always been. The lower class is really the class that cannot see life for what it could be, only as it is. They are guided by the petty hedonistic drive to avoid pain and experience pleasure. In reality, their hopes and dreams are no more advanced than cattle.
People with jobs don't tend to vote for democrats. They are the party of the poor who want/need public assistance, and of the rich who are terrified of the masses realizing paying interest on money the government creates out of think air is bullshit.
What percentage of the student body and faculty is Jewish? 40%?
I think this is the likely explanation.
Germans, no matter what their political stripe, never referred to themselves as a "master race". Remember, the Germans were fighting the British and French - the people who brutally subjugated every non-white race on the planet as they believed they were inherently inferior and in need of European domination. In contrast, Germany and Japan were fighting against the Anglo-American control of world trade and domination of the world's people.
British propaganda has always been characterized as chutzpa, but none of moreso than the claim that British Empire, that controlled 2/3 of the globe, somehow saved the world from a little country the size of Texas that was bent on world domination due to their belief they were the "master race".
I can think of more than a few businesses that could benefit from having more than 3 gigs of ram. I use Vista 64-bit edition for this very reason myself. I believe your are underestimating the importance of 64-bit Windows OS with broad hardware support.
There are still many of these kinds of elevators in older buildings in NYC, particularly older apartment buildings that are subject to rent stabilization.
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
You know nothing of history. It is a strong military that makes peace and prosperity possible. Before the advent of organized cities and armies, humans lived by the creed might makes right and were largely nomadic. In those societies, the mere existence of the weak was considered theft from the strong.
No civilization in history has ever experienced significant and sustained population growth without a large army. Such a statement is based on the fundamentally flawed belief that men are inherently just and that there is in reality no need for a military. Considering that most of the world today is far less civilized than even the Roman Empire in decline, I would be careful what you wish for.
Anarchy and fear are the life experiences of most of the world's people. The few beacons of civility that exist are maintained via military strength.
The OP probably thinks Mario Galaxy is the greatest thing ever
Well, the old fashion way unfortunately results in the least intelligent people reproducing at an exponential rate, and the most intelligent people declining in numbers in at an exponential rate. Perhaps cloning will be more palatable to the people of the future than restrictions on breeding, which tends to evoke comparisons with Nazis, Spartans, and such.
The NexGen Nx586 was actually the first x86 chip to have a risc core... It came out in 1994.
The US Fed != Congress. The Treasury Department controls currency, and that department is an Executive Branch department. Also, the Fed (Federal Reserve Board) != the Treasury Department. While I'm sure you think your brilliant using logic operators in your writing, you might want to read the constitution someday. It explicitly states that ONLY Congress has the power to fix the value of currency. The fact that power has largely been illegally delegated to a non-governmental entity does not change the fact that is the law of the land. Finally, it's important to note that it's not currency creation that has diluted the money supply, it's lending. The impact of the volume of consumer loans issued by the banking industry is much greater than the impact of the variation in currency printed. It's common parlance to refer to effects of fractional reserve lending as "printing money".
You obviously know nothing of business. 30% market share is typically considered extraordinary in practically every other business.
I don't know much about Google's data centers but their centers seem to have several things in common: cheap land and abundant electricity. Actually, Google leases several million square feet in the Port Authority Building in Chelsea in Manhattan. Resources are a factor, but so to is proximity to talent, which is a major reason they are in NYC. Probably, they found a lot of people don't want to live in San Antonio. I wouldn't blame them.
"Child support" was never dictated - the custody battle did not get to that level. She alleged that he failed to support the children, but he disputes that. He was under serious financial hardship, but he claims she stole from him. As for the restraining order, it means nothing. There was no proof, and a huge percentage of divorce cases have the woman getting a restraining order. Twas a good troll until the last sentence. I mean come on, who in this day and age is so naive to believe a woman in a divorce case? I guess, maybe if you are like 14 and living under a rock - but me, I was well aware of these shenanigans even when I was in high school.
But HIS mother is alive and is in this country. Certainly, having them live with their grandmother in the US is preferable to the grandmother in Russia.