No, what they're hoping for is that all of the Japanese game developers that really really chafed under Nintendo's iron-fisted rule (if you can dig up a copy of Game Over, read it) and who jumped to Sony when Sony offered them freedom and light, and who now see Sony as becoming the new Nintendo, might want to work with the current 'new company who will bend over backwards to accomidate them,' that being Microsoft.
Ever played a Dreamcast on VGA? Lord love a duck, there's no comparison.
Aye. Other consoles have VGA converters; the DreamCast had VGA *output.* Huge difference.
The PS2 is engineered for televisions, so that's out. The Xbox, having like the DC a computer video card, could easily have VGA out, but Microsoft really doesn't want people to see the Xbox as a black and green computer, and so nixed it.
Besides, half the fun of the Xbox is the AC-3 output. So leave it in the home theater, says I!
When you set up your iTunes account, were you misled in any way about what machines you'd be allowed to play the files on? About how many times you could transfer the files? Stuff like that?
Do you complain about not being able to drive your car on the sidewalk? It's your car, after all, you should be able to drive it however you want it.
You want iTunes for Linux? Petition for iTunes on Linux.
Lord knows BoS was a valient attempt, but just didn't pan out. (What do you mean I can't climb over, move, cut open, blow up, or otherwise get over a waist-height pile of sandbags!?
Still, if whoever winds up finishing it are fans of the series, something good may happen.
I'd go one step further; the black box is 'extenuating circumstances.'
If the box shows that you're breaking and avoiding, or at least trying to, it might just lend credence to your story that the guy jumped out from behind a parked cube van, and you couldn't see him.....
They tried. 3dFX bet the farm on their t-buffer hardware, pointing out that 30 frames-per-second, rendered to include motion blur and what not, would provide better (or, more-film-like, which is the same thing to most people) image quality than rendering 100 static frames per second would.
The Consumer Public, however, voted with their wallets, and opted for raw frame rate, and the rest, as they say, is history.
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Film doesn't display 30 (or 24, or whatever) frames per second; it displays frames of 1/30th of a second, or 1/24th of a second, or whatever.
BIG difference from rendering, which displays a frame as an instant snapshot in time.
In other words, if you're filming a man running, each frame will show that man for 1/30th or 1/24th or whatever of a second; you get motion blur and what not.
Rendering a frame of a man running, however, gives you a still image of a man in a ridiculous pose.
...and over time, the gap between the technology haves and have-nots will widen.
Of course, in the future, as now, the have-nots will make the policy decisions. (image of caveman cleaning ear out with pencil) "Oog make mission statement."
A worm is a stand-alone program which propegates itself; it actively attempts to infect other computers.
A virus is a program that attaches itself to an executable file, a boot sector, or something, and when the file is run, the virus is also run; the virus then attempts to infect other files.
A trojan is a program which attempts to trick the user into running it, or giving it information.
So, SQL Slammer, Code Red/nimda are worms; bagle/netsky (started out, at least) as trojans, and there hasn't been an honest-to-goodness virus that I can think of in years.
For people unfamiliar, the ending goes something like, just as Conker is about to die by the end beastie, the game freezes. He looks around, realizes the game has frozen, and proceeds to blackmail the programmer.
In the fifties and early sixties, science was being thrown forward by leaps and bounds. Some guy in his basement really could, and did, come up with world-shaking inventions.
Now a days, however, it seems kind of farfetched that a highschool kid could come up, over night, with an adhesive that 3M can't.
The constitution says they can't tax you for importing it from another state, and they can't tarriff it at the border, but they can tax you for using it!
Yes, because it was a dump port; they didn't do anything Xboxy to it.
Want to see the difference? Play Dead or Alive 2 on the Dreamcast (blows away DoA2 on the PS2) then go play DoA 3 on Xbox. Seeing the T&L on skin, the bump-mapping used on the costumes to create embroidery and what not...damn.
Step 1: After five years, your name is added to a pool of people who are eligable for retest.
Step 2: Every year, X percent of that pool are required to be restested. You get one 'grace' rescheduling, but if you miss your test, your license is yanked. Period.
Step 3: If you fail your test, you get sent to a retraining course, at your expense. If you can't afford it, your license is yanked. Period.
Step 4: If you, after taking the retraining, fail your test again, you are reduced to a G1 (for non Canadians: you may only drive with a fully licensed and five-years experienced driver in the passenger seat, only during daytime, and not on major highways, 0.0 BAC, and other minor restrictions) for a period of one year.
Step 5: If you pass your test either time, your name is removed from the pool for five years.
Step 6: If you have demerits/fines/etc, your name is more likely to be chosen from the pool, if it's in the pool. X amount of demerits or fines/traffic offences automatically send you for a restest as normal.
Step 7: NO EXCEPTIONS. No hardship waivers, nothing. If driving is that important to you, you shouldn't have driven like an idiot.
This way, the system isn't too overburdened with retests, idiots get retested more often, and people are encouraged to actually drive properly.
Does typing in caps make your points any more valid?
No, but it does draw attention to them.
If Microsoft software wasn't faulty then they wouldn't release patches, would they? Simple as that.
So, any program or OS that has security updates or patches is faulty?
As an experiment, why not do exactly as you suggest - move eveyone onto virtually any other operating system and see how many virus infections you get?
It's been done. The original Internet worms, exploits, and so on, were UNIX; the Morris worm, lpr cracks, debug/wizard sendmail stupidity, and so on. Then, the world moved to DOS, and so did the viruses. Then, onto windows 9x, and again, so did the viruses.
Considering what the Bush clan did to take the presidency last time around, I'll be interested to see if W actually allows elections to go forward, or if he finds a convenient excuse to declare martial law and suspend elections....
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No, what they're hoping for is that all of the Japanese game developers that really really chafed under Nintendo's iron-fisted rule (if you can dig up a copy of Game Over, read it) and who jumped to Sony when Sony offered them freedom and light, and who now see Sony as becoming the new Nintendo, might want to work with the current 'new company who will bend over backwards to accomidate them,' that being Microsoft.
Actually, Ubi-Soft Montreal *is* Canadian, *is* in Montreal, Quebec, and was responsible for Splinter Cell and Prince of Persia: Sands of Time.
Aye. Other consoles have VGA converters; the DreamCast had VGA *output.* Huge difference.
The PS2 is engineered for televisions, so that's out. The Xbox, having like the DC a computer video card, could easily have VGA out, but Microsoft really doesn't want people to see the Xbox as a black and green computer, and so nixed it.
Besides, half the fun of the Xbox is the AC-3 output. So leave it in the home theater, says I!
When you set up your iTunes account, were you misled in any way about what machines you'd be allowed to play the files on? About how many times you could transfer the files? Stuff like that?
Do you complain about not being able to drive your car on the sidewalk? It's your car, after all, you should be able to drive it however you want it.
You want iTunes for Linux? Petition for iTunes on Linux.
Lord knows BoS was a valient attempt, but just didn't pan out. (What do you mean I can't climb over, move, cut open, blow up, or otherwise get over a waist-height pile of sandbags!?
Still, if whoever winds up finishing it are fans of the series, something good may happen.
Ah, the UNISYS Icon machines! I remember ratting some guy out cuz I saw him shooting up; turns out he was diabetic.
Interesting game, it was. At the time, at least.
I'd go one step further; the black box is 'extenuating circumstances.'
If the box shows that you're breaking and avoiding, or at least trying to, it might just lend credence to your story that the guy jumped out from behind a parked cube van, and you couldn't see him.....
They tried. 3dFX bet the farm on their t-buffer hardware, pointing out that 30 frames-per-second, rendered to include motion blur and what not, would provide better (or, more-film-like, which is the same thing to most people) image quality than rendering 100 static frames per second would.
The Consumer Public, however, voted with their wallets, and opted for raw frame rate, and the rest, as they say, is history.
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GEForce 95050++ Hyper-titanium Happy Extreme-platinum Ultra MK-II Enhanced V2.2 Omicron Contains a liquid core, which, if exposed due to rupture, should not be touched, inhaled, or looked at.
Do not use GEForce 95050++ Hyper-titanium Happy Extreme-platinum Ultra MK-II Enhanced V2.2 Omicron on concrete.
Discontinue use of GEForce 95050++ Hyper-titanium Happy Extreme-platinum Ultra MK-II Enhanced V2.2 Omicron if any of the following occurs:
Itching
Vertigo
Dizziness
Tingling in extremities
Loss of balance or coordination
Slurred speech
Temporary blindness
Profuse sweating
Heart palpitations
If GEForce 95050++ Hyper-titanium Happy Extreme-platinum Ultra MK-II Enhanced V2.2 Omicron begins to smoke, get away immediately. Seek shelter and cover head.
GEForce 95050++ Hyper-titanium Happy Extreme-platinum Ultra MK-II Enhanced V2.2 Omicron may stick to certain types of skin.
When not in use, GEForce 95050++ Hyper-titanium Happy Extreme-platinum Ultra MK-II Enhanced V2.2 Omicron should be returned to its special container and kept under refrigeration...
Failure to do so relieves the makers of GEForce 95050++ Hyper-titanium Happy Extreme-platinum Ultra MK-II Enhanced V2.2 Omicron , Wacky Products Incorporated, and its parent company Global Chemical Unlimited, of any and all liability.
Ingredients of GEForce 95050++ Hyper-titanium Happy Extreme-platinum Ultra MK-II Enhanced V2.2 Omicron include an unknown glowing substance which fell to Earth, presumably from outer space.
GEForce 95050++ Hyper-titanium Happy Extreme-platinum Ultra MK-II Enhanced V2.2 Omicron has been shipped to our troops in Saudi Arabia and is also being dropped by our warplanes on Iraq.
Do not taunt GEForce 95050++ Hyper-titanium Happy Extreme-platinum Ultra MK-II Enhanced V2.2 Omicron
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Film doesn't display 30 (or 24, or whatever) frames per second; it displays frames of 1/30th of a second, or 1/24th of a second, or whatever.
BIG difference from rendering, which displays a frame as an instant snapshot in time.
In other words, if you're filming a man running, each frame will show that man for 1/30th or 1/24th or whatever of a second; you get motion blur and what not.
Rendering a frame of a man running, however, gives you a still image of a man in a ridiculous pose.
Well, for starters, what if your interface card fries, and takes the drives with it? What if some program overwrites a bunch of your data?
By the way, if you think that a tapeloader can't handle 840 gigs, you're not looking in the right spot.
Hmmm. I'd say a cray isn't SMP; it's parallel processing. Subtle difference, but a difference there is.
You can get a sort of 'tripwire for Windows,' as well as other security tools, from www.gfi.com.
A worm is a stand-alone program which propegates itself; it actively attempts to infect other computers.
A virus is a program that attaches itself to an executable file, a boot sector, or something, and when the file is run, the virus is also run; the virus then attempts to infect other files.
A trojan is a program which attempts to trick the user into running it, or giving it information.
So, SQL Slammer, Code Red/nimda are worms; bagle/netsky (started out, at least) as trojans, and there hasn't been an honest-to-goodness virus that I can think of in years.
For people unfamiliar, the ending goes something like, just as Conker is about to die by the end beastie, the game freezes. He looks around, realizes the game has frozen, and proceeds to blackmail the programmer.
Or, in an attempt to really rope in the 12 to 80 Male demographic, they update the character (and Parker's job) for the new millenium....
Yes, Parker is now a photographer for J. Jenna Jameson, and, well, let's just say that it ain't a newspaper anymore.
Ye need to look back on the times.
In the fifties and early sixties, science was being thrown forward by leaps and bounds. Some guy in his basement really could, and did, come up with world-shaking inventions.
Now a days, however, it seems kind of farfetched that a highschool kid could come up, over night, with an adhesive that 3M can't.
The constitution says they can't tax you for importing it from another state, and they can't tarriff it at the border, but they can tax you for using it!
It's bullshit, but it's legalistic bullshit.
That's a fallacy, because altruism is it's own reward. Or, in some cases, lack of altrusim is it's own punishment.
Yes, because it was a dump port; they didn't do anything Xboxy to it.
Want to see the difference? Play Dead or Alive 2 on the Dreamcast (blows away DoA2 on the PS2) then go play DoA 3 on Xbox. Seeing the T&L on skin, the bump-mapping used on the costumes to create embroidery and what not...damn.
Step 1: After five years, your name is added to a pool of people who are eligable for retest.
Step 2: Every year, X percent of that pool are required to be restested. You get one 'grace' rescheduling, but if you miss your test, your license is yanked. Period.
Step 3: If you fail your test, you get sent to a retraining course, at your expense. If you can't afford it, your license is yanked. Period.
Step 4: If you, after taking the retraining, fail your test again, you are reduced to a G1 (for non Canadians: you may only drive with a fully licensed and five-years experienced driver in the passenger seat, only during daytime, and not on major highways, 0.0 BAC, and other minor restrictions) for a period of one year.
Step 5: If you pass your test either time, your name is removed from the pool for five years.
Step 6: If you have demerits/fines/etc, your name is more likely to be chosen from the pool, if it's in the pool. X amount of demerits or fines/traffic offences automatically send you for a restest as normal.
Step 7: NO EXCEPTIONS. No hardship waivers, nothing. If driving is that important to you, you shouldn't have driven like an idiot.
This way, the system isn't too overburdened with retests, idiots get retested more often, and people are encouraged to actually drive properly.
Cherry blossoms fall
The moon rises in the sky
Intel has been pVVn3d.
No, but it does draw attention to them.
So, any program or OS that has security updates or patches is faulty?
It's been done. The original Internet worms, exploits, and so on, were UNIX; the Morris worm, lpr cracks, debug/wizard sendmail stupidity, and so on. Then, the world moved to DOS, and so did the viruses. Then, onto windows 9x, and again, so did the viruses.
Considering what the Bush clan did to take the presidency last time around, I'll be interested to see if W actually allows elections to go forward, or if he finds a convenient excuse to declare martial law and suspend elections....