No, the internet was invented by Al Gore for research Universities to share data and information and all information on the internet wants to be free and the fact that for-profit business are on the internet (instead of our beloved for-profit universities) is a shame, they're not even legally supposed to be here because the internet is not for corporations but for the free and uninhibited spread of information among users (as long as they're not idiots, wake me up when september ends and the freshman get a grip on netiquette) also does anyone have a spare zip drive I could borrow?
I went to the doctor to get a prescription for an asthma inhaler one morning (after a bad random attack with no rescue inhaler). She threw antibiotics (azithromycin?)at me as well, claiming I might have a mild upper respiratory infection.
The next time I went in (many months later), I was sick as shit, getting a respiratory infection. I had a busy week of work ahead of me, so I go in and ask for antibiotics. (Normally, I'd take a few sick days and tough it out and wait for the weekend.) The same doctor tells me that I'm probably at the start of an upper respiratory infection. She says "I don't like to hand out antibiotics unless they're necessary. There's a lot of stuff in the media now about using too much antibiotics.". She tells me to come in in a day or two if I'm worse, and she might give me some then.
Fucking copay and time wasted. No way in hell was I going to go back (yes, I was much worse the very next day) after that. Why is it that my primary care provider (a guy who is not an idiot) is the one I never see?
I don't really have a point. Just consider the idiot doctors as well, the prescription barrier to many common medications (I know people who buy penicillin for horses/aquariums to use for themselves), etc.
LOL I had one of those fuckers. Never understood what the point was.
I don't think anyone ever actually scanned more than a few items in, especially after they found out that no, NOTHING is in their database.
It's like someone had some fucking burning need to make a cat accessory to complement the mouse. (I DO have the USB humping dog, thank you very much. Anyone know of a easy mod to rig a flash drive into it as well to give it some actual use?)
Uh, cash to burn? Maybe. But the fact that they're not burning it is one of the reasons they're at the top of the industry.
Homer: [reading Internet for Dummies: Remedial Edition] Oh, they have the Internet on computers now. Marge: Homer, Bill Gates is here. Homer: Bill Gates? Billionaire computer nerd Bill Gates? Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Get out of sight, Marge. I don't want this to look like a two-bit operation. Bill Gates: Mr. Simpson? Homer: You don't look so rich. Bill Gates: Don't let the haircut fool you. I'm exceedingly wealthy. Homer: [sotto voce] Get a load of the bowl job, Marge. Bill Gates: Your Internet ad was brought to my attention but I can't figure out what, if anything, CompuGlobalHyperMegaNet does. So, rather than risk competing with you, I've decided simply to buy you out. Homer: [softly] This is it, Marge. I poured my heart and soul into this business and now it's finally paying off. We're rich! Richer than astronauts! Marge: [softly] Homer, quiet! You'll queer the deal. Homer: Oh, right. [out loud] I reluctantly accept your proposal. Bill Gates: Well, everyone always does. Buy him out, boys. (assistants begin breaking things on Homer's dining table-turned-office) Homer: Hey, what the hell's going on? Bill Gates: Oh, I didn't get rich by writing a lot of checks. [cackles loudly]
The performance gained by running on the GPU instead of (or in addition to) the GPU are orders of magnitude.
In the end, it translates into getting shit done much faster. Which in the end when all costs are factored in often translates into money saved (but not always).
I meant in terms of getting some GPUs that let you run those fancy new GPU computing APIs.
Stream (dead) / CUDA / OpenCL / DirectX 11
Everyone should support OpenCL eventually, but I don't trust Nvidia to actually do it. Everyone and their dog will support DX11 fully, and there are a ton of people who know DX already. I expect DX11 to win out in the short term, with consumer apps (media editing/compression mainly) staying with DX11 and research apps eventually flowing over to OpenCL and booming in number.
Standard as in actually existing and being used and such.
Call me when Nvidia ACTUALLY supports OpenCL, and when there are a bunch of programmers who know it (as many as DirectX).
OpenCL would be better, sure, but I simply don't see the true support from Nvidia coming for a while. Having to deal with hardware differences is not what you want to be doing. (Then again, I wouldn't buy Nvidia parts for serious work, even if they were much cheaper, and I'd vehemently tell anyone managing the budget that those parts were a liability.)
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20 machines and a server is too big to manage manually?
Slap a free AV on there with automatic updates and scheduled scans. When users complain of spyware and viruses and such, you go in and fix it.
NO ANTIVIRUS SOFTWARE is worth a damn in terms of prevention. They are ALL absolute garbage. You only install to cover your ass.
Not to mention? I did mention it.
Phone/iPod vs. games device/media player vs. games device.
/. never ceases to amaze me.
What part of this story is about monitoring? Or censorship? I should've been modded offtopic.
Unethical according to you.
No, the internet was invented by Al Gore for research Universities to share data and information and all information on the internet wants to be free and the fact that for-profit business are on the internet (instead of our beloved for-profit universities) is a shame, they're not even legally supposed to be here because the internet is not for corporations but for the free and uninhibited spread of information among users (as long as they're not idiots, wake me up when september ends and the freshman get a grip on netiquette) also does anyone have a spare zip drive I could borrow?
Except that they have and have gotten away with it.
Oops.
I went to the doctor to get a prescription for an asthma inhaler one morning (after a bad random attack with no rescue inhaler). She threw antibiotics (azithromycin?)at me as well, claiming I might have a mild upper respiratory infection.
The next time I went in (many months later), I was sick as shit, getting a respiratory infection.
I had a busy week of work ahead of me, so I go in and ask for antibiotics. (Normally, I'd take a few sick days and tough it out and wait for the weekend.)
The same doctor tells me that I'm probably at the start of an upper respiratory infection. She says "I don't like to hand out antibiotics unless they're necessary. There's a lot of stuff in the media now about using too much antibiotics.".
She tells me to come in in a day or two if I'm worse, and she might give me some then.
Fucking copay and time wasted. No way in hell was I going to go back (yes, I was much worse the very next day) after that. Why is it that my primary care provider (a guy who is not an idiot) is the one I never see?
I don't really have a point.
Just consider the idiot doctors as well, the prescription barrier to many common medications (I know people who buy penicillin for horses/aquariums to use for themselves), etc.
DS Successor: Profit!
People are making DS games and apps right now, for free. Have been for ages.
Getting it sold is another thing.
To be a developer for Nintendo you basically have to prove that you're an actual business that can put out a game.
If you show promising work, the dev kit costs are often subsidized (goes for Sony and MS too).
You can always self publish or just put stuff on the online store. Approval? Oh please, the iPhone App Store is a minefield in that regard!
Should've voted for Ron Paul.
The iPhone store is NOT an extension if the iTunes Music Store...
But we can play this game all day.
Nintendo was selling Hanafuda cards in a physical stores in 1889. Online stores are just extensions of physical stores.
Numbers I got were from March. I didn't watch Apple's conference and couldn't be bothered to look it up.
Either way, my point still stands.
Apple is FAR from the DS, and has NOT positioned its products as game devices.
Hell, they don't even have real buttons.
99.999% of books and 99.999% of magazines I never read.
LOL I had one of those fuckers.
Never understood what the point was.
I don't think anyone ever actually scanned more than a few items in, especially after they found out that no, NOTHING is in their database.
It's like someone had some fucking burning need to make a cat accessory to complement the mouse. (I DO have the USB humping dog, thank you very much. Anyone know of a easy mod to rig a flash drive into it as well to give it some actual use?)
Britain? Monitoring? Censorship?
Surely you jest!
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It sure as hell doesn't, but it pisses me off that some companies keep whoring shit out to them (CAPCOM).
I believe there's still some Phoenix Wright stuff not available anywhere other than cell phones. Ughhh.
iPhone + iPod Touch: ~30 million. Phone/iPod.
PSP: ~48 million. Games device/media player.
DS + DSi: ~105 million. Games device.
iPhone + iPod Touch: ~30 million, sold as a phone / iPod
PSP: ~48 million, sold as a games device / media player
DS + DSi: ~105 million, sold as a games device
The DS also has 77 games that have sold over 1 million copies at an average price of $35.
7 titles have sold more than 10 million copies.
Nintendogs has sold 22.5 million copies.
The DS, despite RAMPANT piracy, has pushed over 420 million pieces of software.
If you're a games developer who likes money, the answer is pretty damned obvious.
The DSi store is an extension of the Wii's store, which, you know, was out before the iPhone.
Same goes for the PSP.
But what we have here are non-results.
Those are, by definition, not results.
(Yes, it was rigged, what is anyone going to do about it? Riot for a bit, get beat like hippies, then cry? Yup.)
Uh, cash to burn? Maybe. But the fact that they're not burning it is one of the reasons they're at the top of the industry.
Homer: [reading Internet for Dummies: Remedial Edition] Oh, they have the Internet on computers now.
Marge: Homer, Bill Gates is here.
Homer: Bill Gates? Billionaire computer nerd Bill Gates? Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Get out of sight, Marge. I don't want this to look like a two-bit operation.
Bill Gates: Mr. Simpson?
Homer: You don't look so rich.
Bill Gates: Don't let the haircut fool you. I'm exceedingly wealthy.
Homer: [sotto voce] Get a load of the bowl job, Marge.
Bill Gates: Your Internet ad was brought to my attention but I can't figure out what, if anything, CompuGlobalHyperMegaNet does. So, rather than risk competing with you, I've decided simply to buy you out.
Homer: [softly] This is it, Marge. I poured my heart and soul into this business and now it's finally paying off. We're rich! Richer than astronauts!
Marge: [softly] Homer, quiet! You'll queer the deal.
Homer: Oh, right. [out loud] I reluctantly accept your proposal.
Bill Gates: Well, everyone always does. Buy him out, boys.
(assistants begin breaking things on Homer's dining table-turned-office)
Homer: Hey, what the hell's going on?
Bill Gates: Oh, I didn't get rich by writing a lot of checks. [cackles loudly]
The performance gained by running on the GPU instead of (or in addition to) the GPU are orders of magnitude.
In the end, it translates into getting shit done much faster. Which in the end when all costs are factored in often translates into money saved (but not always).
I meant in terms of getting some GPUs that let you run those fancy new GPU computing APIs.
Stream (dead) / CUDA / OpenCL / DirectX 11
Everyone should support OpenCL eventually, but I don't trust Nvidia to actually do it. Everyone and their dog will support DX11 fully, and there are a ton of people who know DX already. I expect DX11 to win out in the short term, with consumer apps (media editing/compression mainly) staying with DX11 and research apps eventually flowing over to OpenCL and booming in number.
Standard as in actually existing and being used and such.
Call me when Nvidia ACTUALLY supports OpenCL, and when there are a bunch of programmers who know it (as many as DirectX).
OpenCL would be better, sure, but I simply don't see the true support from Nvidia coming for a while. Having to deal with hardware differences is not what you want to be doing. (Then again, I wouldn't buy Nvidia parts for serious work, even if they were much cheaper, and I'd vehemently tell anyone managing the budget that those parts were a liability.)