Yeah, I've seen in Manchester after there was power outage that Barclays and (I think it was) Nat West ATMs been booting up to XP.
I treat Windows as a toy that is good os for home users but cannot understand anyone who uses it for any serious things. Seeing Windows being used for ATMs which handles your money just scares me...
Believe me, light isn't going to be any faster in 20 years. It will be impossible to decrease lag under certain amount and you know, number of networked devices will increase and it's not going to help with lag issue.
Cloud seems to be a very popular buzz word recently.
I bet that it would kind of a dream for many people as it provides them with steady money income (it would be something like xbox live that you have to pay for access to it) and would have no piracy (if you don't run it on your hardware you don't require copy of game). No way to resell disc with game, no way to lend disc to your friend.
However, some limitations would have to be overcome first. Speed of light isn't that high you it's about electronics and internet is still not the most reliable thing under the sun (it's often for me that one day you tube video plays like a dream but other day it buffers and buffers and buffers).
Man, I hope you're not being serious right now. You can see that it's co.uk web site so it is designed for British population. It kinda makes sense to put price in pounds rather than in rupees as most of British people (or at least many of them) don't know how much rupee is, right?
First version(s) of PSX had plastic elements in their cd drive instead of metal ones to decrease cost. As it turned out they got worn out much quicker than predicted so they've fixed it with putting in propper metal parts.
Also I heard that some versions had serious overheating issues when used for a long time.
You know, nothing new here. If you try to cut costs the quality gonna go down in one or other place.
The overheating issue is quite funny one as XBox 360 has external power supply ^^ (and as far as I know power supply is quite important temperature increase factor).
Scripted behavior is a grand thing if used properly. Take for example Half Life 2 which has quite a lot of scripted scenes but it just makes ai characters come alive and pushes the whole game experience to a higher level.
He he, one of those when they say that donuts are more tasty than muffins cause that what 10 people say.
The truth is that it is much more complicated than just saying that people who are 22 (or 39) are the smartest ones. I bet there is something similar with physical performance and I bet it'd be best at around 20ish. But then take for example someone who was very fit at 15 but got extremely lazy at 19 and now is 25 and weights 150kg. Same thing applies to mental fitness.
You can think whatever you want but I believe that if someone uses his/her brain a lot gonna be in very good mental condition even at the age of 50. Most people are in bad shape in their 50s because they lack any exercise (mental or physical) and you know how it is, the less you use something the worse it gets with time.
Really cool article. I wish there were more ones like this one instead of "What features would you like in new Apple toilet brush" or "Microsoft is still being ghey".
I find it pretty amazing that it is possible to manage such complicated, global structure without any serious problems (yet). However, I still don't quite get it how they find where the cable got broken and how they fix it in the first place.
True. If you work on some project you want to make each part of it a little black boxes (no matter whether it's software or real life stuff) which are as independent from each other as possible, with a nice description of each of those boxes.
Same thing applies to team working on the project. You want to make the project as independent from the team working on it as possible. Best case would be if you could replace your team with some other and they would be able to pick it up quickly where the first one has left.
It's basically one of those when they prove that Windows is more ${YourMostImportantFeatureOfOs} than ${SomeOtherOsUsuallyGnuLinux}. News -1 redundant.
There is no such thing as political spectrum as today every single party is left winged. Why? Cause all parties want to tread adult people like kids, take care of them, etc. (at higher or lower degree).
I know that some claim to be right winged or some claim to be central but they do only because a) they're lying b) they don't really get the difference.
On the other hand, you could also say that nowadays the difference got so fuzzy that it's difficult to distinguish between them.
Why solve a social problem with a technical solution?
Well said. What's more, it tries to fix problem that no one has. It's not like there is gazillion kids and it's impossible to count them in normal way.
And besides, it takes all the fun from morning presence check.
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But with 3rd wheel it loses it's cool factor (and then no one for sure will buy it).
But coming back is even easier!
-No IE6. You wouldn't believe how many legacy apps require IE6 and/or ActiveX, it's quite sickening actually.
You're right, I wouldn't believe it. Unless you run lots of progs called Obscurity released in 2001 (which almost no one does).
To be politically correct they should introduce /. Trophies for all the 360 haters out there [:
Yeah, I've seen in Manchester after there was power outage that Barclays and (I think it was) Nat West ATMs been booting up to XP.
I treat Windows as a toy that is good os for home users but cannot understand anyone who uses it for any serious things. Seeing Windows being used for ATMs which handles your money just scares me...
And that unimportant C++ thingy...
And the use case for this is?
Brain defect?
Believe me, light isn't going to be any faster in 20 years. It will be impossible to decrease lag under certain amount and you know, number of networked devices will increase and it's not going to help with lag issue.
Cloud seems to be a very popular buzz word recently.
I bet that it would kind of a dream for many people as it provides them with steady money income (it would be something like xbox live that you have to pay for access to it) and would have no piracy (if you don't run it on your hardware you don't require copy of game). No way to resell disc with game, no way to lend disc to your friend.
However, some limitations would have to be overcome first. Speed of light isn't that high you it's about electronics and internet is still not the most reliable thing under the sun (it's often for me that one day you tube video plays like a dream but other day it buffers and buffers and buffers).
Too much Half Life ^^
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Man, I hope you're not being serious right now. You can see that it's co.uk web site so it is designed for British population. It kinda makes sense to put price in pounds rather than in rupees as most of British people (or at least many of them) don't know how much rupee is, right?
First version(s) of PSX had plastic elements in their cd drive instead of metal ones to decrease cost. As it turned out they got worn out much quicker than predicted so they've fixed it with putting in propper metal parts.
Also I heard that some versions had serious overheating issues when used for a long time.
You know, nothing new here. If you try to cut costs the quality gonna go down in one or other place.
The overheating issue is quite funny one as XBox 360 has external power supply ^^ (and as far as I know power supply is quite important temperature increase factor).
Scripted behavior is a grand thing if used properly. Take for example Half Life 2 which has quite a lot of scripted scenes but it just makes ai characters come alive and pushes the whole game experience to a higher level.
Sounds like fun! Can't wait to play.
He he, one of those when they say that donuts are more tasty than muffins cause that what 10 people say.
The truth is that it is much more complicated than just saying that people who are 22 (or 39) are the smartest ones. I bet there is something similar with physical performance and I bet it'd be best at around 20ish. But then take for example someone who was very fit at 15 but got extremely lazy at 19 and now is 25 and weights 150kg. Same thing applies to mental fitness.
You can think whatever you want but I believe that if someone uses his/her brain a lot gonna be in very good mental condition even at the age of 50. Most people are in bad shape in their 50s because they lack any exercise (mental or physical) and you know how it is, the less you use something the worse it gets with time.
Really cool article. I wish there were more ones like this one instead of "What features would you like in new Apple toilet brush" or "Microsoft is still being ghey".
I find it pretty amazing that it is possible to manage such complicated, global structure without any serious problems (yet). However, I still don't quite get it how they find where the cable got broken and how they fix it in the first place.
True. If you work on some project you want to make each part of it a little black boxes (no matter whether it's software or real life stuff) which are as independent from each other as possible, with a nice description of each of those boxes.
Same thing applies to team working on the project. You want to make the project as independent from the team working on it as possible. Best case would be if you could replace your team with some other and they would be able to pick it up quickly where the first one has left.
It's basically one of those when they prove that Windows is more ${YourMostImportantFeatureOfOs} than ${SomeOtherOsUsuallyGnuLinux}. News -1 redundant.
Well, if you compare China to US then it seems to be quite a peaceful nation (if you talk about international issues).
There is no such thing as political spectrum as today every single party is left winged. Why? Cause all parties want to tread adult people like kids, take care of them, etc. (at higher or lower degree).
I know that some claim to be right winged or some claim to be central but they do only because a) they're lying b) they don't really get the difference.
On the other hand, you could also say that nowadays the difference got so fuzzy that it's difficult to distinguish between them.
Over.
Why solve a social problem with a technical solution?
Well said. What's more, it tries to fix problem that no one has. It's not like there is gazillion kids and it's impossible to count them in normal way. And besides, it takes all the fun from morning presence check.
It looks just like those dustballs from psp commercials. So that's where they got that idea from...