The definition was so good that I could see the seperations around the actors and knew exactly when they were in front of a green screen and no on set. Totally ruined the visuals
Movie theaters nowadays use a 1080p or bigger format with an even higher bitrate than Blu-ray Disc. Had you seen the film in a movie theater, might you have noticed the same compositing failures?
Not just movies today - movies on film are analog, so they get scratches and such, but they have a much higher effective resolution than 1920x1080.
It must be either the Linux FF client or your particular install, which is a pity. On Windows you would see a sub 100 MB footprint with 10 tabs (like I see right now with 10 on Vista64). I'd have expected the Linux version to be more memory efficient than Windows.
Finally, this should stop perennial "firefox is a memory hog" trolls. Hopefully.
This really hasn't been my experience, and I am not trolling. My experience, which is to say what actually happens to me when I am surfing, is that after awhile with a few (2 or 3) tabs open, FF memory usage rises to the point where my machine crawls to a stop, and I have to kill FF with the task manager.
Why is my FF experience different than the average FF fanboy? Why this is, I don't know. I do know that I am unwilling to get "under the hood" and edit config files, because I don't think I should have to.
This is my experience as what I believe to be "average" use.
That's not normal. Just because someone uses Firefox without it affecting system performance doesn't make that person a "FF fanboy." On XP, Vista, and 7, FF has no obvious effect on my system performance (on a Lenovo T61, my desktop, and my netbook, respectively). I have 3.0.11 on two of those and 3.5 on the other. The only thing I've done to get "under the hood" is install adblock plus. Right now I have 13 tabs open in Vista and FF is using 109 megs of RAM and 0-1% of my CPU cycles, with no noticeable effect on anything else. The only time I've ever felt FF3 affect system performance has been when running flash video on the netbook. Maybe flash ads are the cause of your woes; they're all removed with adblock. You might give it a try.
I'd rather have a 1TB hard drive then a 32GB SSD. I play lots of games, watch videos and listen to music. A 32GB SSD just won't fly.
Let me put it this way, would you rather have 4GB of DDR2 ram or 512MB of DDR3 ram?
If you care about random read/write performance, which is the bottleneck for almost all disk access tasks, it's actually more like 4 GB of DDR2 ram vs 512 MB of L2 cache if you consider the ~100x speed difference between SSDs and HDs. That becomes a more compelling choice.
This is silly; mobile devices and "full size" gaming systems have to be considered different markets.
I can write documents on my iPhone, but that doesn't mean I won't be buying word processing software for computers any more.
Completely agreed. I even think this is largely true of the Wii vs. 360/PS3 markets. I don't think the same people are choosing one over the other. Some people are interested in both, but even those people, I think, are imagining them filling different roles and considering them against different opportunity costs.
Cool down buddy. Consumption tax flat tax etc are all stupid ideas sold to people like you who are easily persuaded that the grass is greener on the other side. Have you lived in economies that tax goods and services at more than 10%? Can you imagine the kind of tax evasion that goes on, and the parallel cash economy that springs up immediately? How many people you know who evade the simple 5% or 6% local sales tax on the services by the landscaper or the handy man? That is the tax that goes to pay for your own local neighbourhood schools and snow removal. Now imagine how willing they will be to pay a 17% or 22% tax to distant Washington DC? Can you imagine the kind of intrusive systems needed to catch the scofflaws? If you think IRS is intrusive looking at your pay slip, wait till you get IRS demanding you show documentation for having paid tax on your wrist watch and shaving blades.
Do these right wing nutties have any idea of the dangers of a cash economy? Today, in USA, 1$ in cash is worth 1$ in bank. But 1 million dollars in cash is worth lot less than 1 million dollars properly accounted for in the bank. Black money is worth lot less in USA than white money. That is not the case in Mexico, Phillipines, Pakistan, Bangladesh etc. Once unaccounted money gets decent buying power, then corruption sets in. We are paying pittance for our judges, police chiefs, auditors and law enforcers in general. Once cash economy takes root, corrupt people will work their way into every crevice of power and it would exceedingly difficult to get rid of them. The source of cash economy is tax evasion. Purely on that account, we should stop drinking the cool aid about consumption tax and such stupid ideas.
All of Europe lives with a VAT, which is a consumption tax. The rates are usually around 20%. Citizens aren't ever asked to show they paid tax - that's put on the businesses. I've seen more under the table money in the US than in Europe, perhaps because the VAT is so much simpler to enforce across the board. Prices in Europe always include tax - no one shakes their fists at the tax markup, and those who have a problem with it don't seem as upset as the typical American who is upset with the income tax.
When they talk about embedding video, they're referring to Flash-based video sites like YouTube. Think a little.
HTML5 will press forward with or without Microsoft. YouTube already has an HTML5 demo, and as a site owned by Google, they will embrace the new technology. In the meantime, Firefox continues to gain in the market, and Apple has a little thing called the iPhone that has a "real" browser.
The iPhone version of Safari will probably be very late to the html5 table. Supporting anything other than basic text and images isn't in the iPhone's strategy - instead Apple focuses on selling little programs from their app store to do what you normally would see on web pages for $0.99.
I don't understand the Pope's objection. The body is nothing more than a meat machine that holds the soul. If we have the technology to improve the machine that houses the soul, what is the problem? Jesus Christ. The disciples fixed the broken machine all the time in the new testament, back then it was called a miracle. Now we have the technology to improve the lives of all future children it would be a crime not to remove genetic diseases. Why does the church insist on allowing unnecessary suffering just so that they can provide comfort to the person who is suffering? Wouldn't it be better to eradicate the suffering in the first place?
I think his problem with it is that the improvement of the machine comes through creating a large number of machines and aborting the ones that don't have the desired properties. I don't think the catholic church sees a distinction between pre and post implantation proto-humans. I don't particularly see a meaningful distinction, myself - I can more easily understand the concept of meaningful human life beginning at conception or at birth or at 18.
Metroid Prime 3 says it can be done just fine for very casual players.
For the 1000th time
-"Casual" is only an insult to immature gamers who take themselves way too seriously. Using it as an insult makes you and the gaming community look ridiculous. Trying to contrast yourself to "casual" gaming also is ridiculous.
-"Casual" and "real/hardcore/super duper/other artificial term you come up with to make yourself sound better" are not mutually exclusive. It is actually possible to play wii fit and then play WoW or whatever games you prefer. The videogame police will really not come to your house and arrest you, your immune system won't kill you if you try to play the other game type.
Why would you assume it's an insult at all? Most gamers are casual gamers. I'm a casual gamer at the moment and don't feel ashamed or anything. I know a few people who like MP3, and I know a few others who have more experience with fps games and didn't get into it.
"direct users to a Web site where harmful programs would be downloaded to their computers, says Stephen Wellman, director of community and content for Ziff Davis."
Do these affect Linux or Apple PC's? I'm guessing it's the good old Windows.exe and.dll again, an exclusive Windows issue disguised as a "PC" issue.
Why is it that areas where Microsoft want to portray a large market share (either exaggerated by reports from shills or real) they have the words Microsoft and Windows all over the stories, yet when it's something they have an almost 100% market share on (malware compatibility and vulnerability), there's no mention of either Microsoft or Windows; it's all just PCs.
FAO the Microsoft Astroturfers, it was a rhetorical question but feel free to do your job and mod me down for pointing out the obvious. Wait, Ziff Davis does ring a familiar bell, hmmmmm.
As far as I can tell it's an exclusively non-adblock user issue.
> Yeah, Democrats, I'm sure that's the reason. It had nothing at all to do with > the auto industry and loss of jobs or anything like that.
Yea, it has everything to do with loss of jobs and the auto industry. Let me keep it simple enough someone with a government schooling should be able to follow along. Democrats destroy jobs. The greater tehir majorities and the longer the time they hold it the worse the damage. Go plot the demographic trendlines yourself if you don't believe me. The Bluer the state and longer it has been blue the more seats it has lost in the last couple of Census reallocations. The Red states have been picking up seats. People are voting with their feet. I just wish the fools would realize WHY they had to move and thus not bring the problem with them by electing Democrats in their new home.
There isn't much of a problem in the 'auto industry' if by auto industry you mean production of autos. They just aren't being made in Michigan anymore, they are being built in Right to Work states with lower tax structures in factories where the root of the corporate ownership tree is in Tokyo instead of New York[1]. Of course with the recession and all, they are all feeling some pain about now.
Now riddle me this: With an existing industrial base and lots of experienced labor available, why does a Japanese automaker decide to skip Michigan when locating a plant in the US and instead go to the South where none of those advantages exist? Why do they do a greenfield project along the Interstate in the middle of nowhere when they could buy a closed plant in an area with thousands of unemployed workers with exactly the skills they need? When you can answer that question you will have taken your first step towards enlightenment.
[1] Hint, the 'Detroit automaker' bankruptcies are being filed in NY.
Absolute nonsense. "Just look it up" is worse than anecdotal evidence. Here's some of that: California has been growing in population at an incredible rate. The blue parts of the state are overflowing with skilled workers. The blue parts of Colorado are growing the fastest and gaining the most jobs. The blue parts of New York are surging while the rest withers. That little blue dot in Texas, Austin, is the most successful city in the state and its center of skilled workers. The European countries that have made our economy look embarrassing in the last decade are economically bluer than any part of the US. Blue presidents always correlate (I'm not claiming a cause) with job creation. The blue man group is a hotbed of economic activity. Papa smurf has the richest beard in town.
Of course we didn't have the freeze/thaw cycles people do farther north...
You don't even need it to freeze. Here in Western Australia, the surface of a road can get to as much as 70 deg. C on a summer day, but cool to 15 degrees overnight. Even in winter the temperatures can vary from 3 to 30 degrees C. I suspect it might be a tall order to expect a concrete road to put up with that kind of stress unless you put in a lot of expansion joints.
Which is why concrete roads are laid in slabs, not as a continuous surface. Also, concrete roads don't get as hot as asphalt. Also, freezing is a lot worse for concrete than an equivalent temperature change on a hot day because it means that any water in cracks of the road will expand. Freezing water turns rigid solids to powder through inexorable crack propagation.
In a relatively small state like Michigan with nasty freeze-thaw cycles that probably cause massive damage to roads anyway, this probably is not a bad idea. The distances are such that the lower speed limit required isn't going to mean it takes days to get across the state (like it would in, say, Montana). Plus, the freeze-thaw cycle means they'd be dealing with massive potholes every season regardless, and potholes are cheaper and easier to fix on gravel.
I certainly wouldn't want to try this tactic anywhere out west though, where vast distances make driving on gravel roads much more of a chore.
Michigan is the 11th largest state, and more than you might expected based on its absolute size living here required a ton of driving because the nearest place of interest is often hours away on I-75. However, I believe these poor counties are planning to remove pavement from rural roads with low traffic, not interstate or state highways.
Maybe you haven't been paying attention to the stuff put out by Square Enix lately...
Why not? He described it precisely:
"Spectacular extravaganzas with high-detail hero models, high-detail set designs, high-detail world designs, full-orchestral scores, full-cinematic cuts, companion toy merchandising, and highly-predictable-never-escapes-the-rails storylines."
Also, what's up with calling 9400M midrange in the same article that the faster 210M is called low end? And why is an article that mentions 4 new GPUs labeled as introducing 5 new GPUs in the title?
bing is better than google in many instances i've tried it. search for hardwood suppliers, bing gives me a page of websites of actual hardwood supply companies. google gives me the same for about the top 5 then it gives me a bunch of crap like link agregators and "top 5" sites
bing isn't infested with useless link agregators which have made google all but useless. with bing i don't have to crawl through the results looking for actual sources of information. i could definately see why google has jumped into action, only a fool would dismiss anything MS does.
Google's link-aggregators are there because of Google's market share. Were Bing to...uh...somehow become dominant, it would have the same sorts of problems pop up. Anyway, I don't think quality matters when it comes to web search. Google is a verb, and that's enough to give it the number one slot for a very long time.
now this is interesting. the eu does something to try to stop the most abusive monopolistic company of modern times, a company which costs the economies of the world billions of dollars every year, a company which forces drm and ignorance down the consumers' throats and what happens? suddenly the eu is in the wrong because "it's not america". i only hope most of the replies up to now have been astroturfing by microsoft, because if they aren't this paints a rather sorry picture of america and americans in general.
Proof needed, or even an argument. Most of the comments you say reflect so poorly on Americans (not that we even know they're from Americans) have logic and arguments behind them. You have a lot of unsupported assertions. Amazingly, Slashdot is no longer a place where you can make such assertions and get enthusiastic support instead of skepticism. If anything, your post paints a very sorry picture of you.
It's monopoly abuse. Windows has a desktop monopoly. What Ubuntu or Apple does is not that important, they don't have a monopoly. If you do want to talk about the situation of Ubuntu and comparing it to Windows. Windows comes with IE and only IE or now maybe no browser at all (even less choice). Ubuntu comes with several terminal programs on the CD/DVD and you can install an other just and just as easily remove the one that was default.
If by monopoly you mean "Windows has been identified as a good target for easy extra taxes by the EU," then sure, but it still only matters in the context of a corrupt government organization trying to steal cash and promote their local under-performing competitor.
That is how Wikipedia was meant to be. A group of statements about subjects, all of which can be referenced to some original source. So that people can look up something quickly and then look at the sources for more definite information....
Seeing how many people cite Wikipedia directly, use it as the main source for their research and the amount of newspapers that have been reported to directly quote inaccurate facts from Wikipedia... I don't think it is working properly. It requires a lot of optimism to believe "People will use that as a initial source and then verify the information"
That's not wikipedia's failure. Those same people would just be referencing nothing or a web site with zero public review and commenting without it.
'Think of it this way. What if you smelled a rotten egg odor in your water and the water company said, "Sure, we can remove that, but it will cost you $50." Would you buy it?'
This analogy is just dumb. This is a free product. Obviously the analogy would have the water company saying, "Sure, we can remove that for free."
Not to mention 'Consumers are hesitant to pay for a Microsoft security product that will remove problems in other Microsoft products,' which is a stupid point to make about a free product.
Furthermore, MS's security "problems" are over a billion installs. As we see every year when they tie Linux as the most secure system in pwn2own, they've got nothing to be upset about on the technical side of things.
And finally, "added Rowan Trollope, senior vice president of consumer software at Symantec. 'Making that same substandard security technology free won't change that equation'" is pretty funny from a guy representing a company that actually charges for substandard security technology.
Doesn't anyone else see this for what it obviously is: a way for Microsoft to steal market share from Nintendo? Sony and Microsoft battled it out over pixel pushing, while Nintendo actually innovated (something Microsoft talks about a lot but never does) and built something new that people really liked -- something that actually got non-gamers onto the scene.
So now they're trying to build "Wii without the Wiimote." This is a "meeee toooo" play, which is Microsoft's usual way of doing business. YAWN.
You're commenting on motives. I think the "big deal" in the story is referring to potential. Clearly precise tracking of 48 joints is a lot more interesting and powerful than fuzzy tracking of 1-2 clunky controllers.
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The definition was so good that I could see the seperations around the actors and knew exactly when they were in front of a green screen and no on set. Totally ruined the visuals
Movie theaters nowadays use a 1080p or bigger format with an even higher bitrate than Blu-ray Disc. Had you seen the film in a movie theater, might you have noticed the same compositing failures?
Not just movies today - movies on film are analog, so they get scratches and such, but they have a much higher effective resolution than 1920x1080.
It must be either the Linux FF client or your particular install, which is a pity. On Windows you would see a sub 100 MB footprint with 10 tabs (like I see right now with 10 on Vista64). I'd have expected the Linux version to be more memory efficient than Windows.
Finally, this should stop perennial "firefox is a memory hog" trolls. Hopefully.
This really hasn't been my experience, and I am not trolling. My experience, which is to say what actually happens to me when I am surfing , is that after awhile with a few (2 or 3) tabs open, FF memory usage rises to the point where my machine crawls to a stop, and I have to kill FF with the task manager.
Why is my FF experience different than the average FF fanboy? Why this is, I don't know. I do know that I am unwilling to get "under the hood" and edit config files, because I don't think I should have to.
This is my experience as what I believe to be "average" use.
That's not normal. Just because someone uses Firefox without it affecting system performance doesn't make that person a "FF fanboy." On XP, Vista, and 7, FF has no obvious effect on my system performance (on a Lenovo T61, my desktop, and my netbook, respectively). I have 3.0.11 on two of those and 3.5 on the other. The only thing I've done to get "under the hood" is install adblock plus. Right now I have 13 tabs open in Vista and FF is using 109 megs of RAM and 0-1% of my CPU cycles, with no noticeable effect on anything else. The only time I've ever felt FF3 affect system performance has been when running flash video on the netbook. Maybe flash ads are the cause of your woes; they're all removed with adblock. You might give it a try.
I'd rather have a 1TB hard drive then a 32GB SSD. I play lots of games, watch videos and listen to music. A 32GB SSD just won't fly.
Let me put it this way, would you rather have 4GB of DDR2 ram or 512MB of DDR3 ram?
If you care about random read/write performance, which is the bottleneck for almost all disk access tasks, it's actually more like 4 GB of DDR2 ram vs 512 MB of L2 cache if you consider the ~100x speed difference between SSDs and HDs. That becomes a more compelling choice.
This is silly; mobile devices and "full size" gaming systems have to be considered different markets.
I can write documents on my iPhone, but that doesn't mean I won't be buying word processing software for computers any more.
Completely agreed. I even think this is largely true of the Wii vs. 360/PS3 markets. I don't think the same people are choosing one over the other. Some people are interested in both, but even those people, I think, are imagining them filling different roles and considering them against different opportunity costs.
Cool down buddy. Consumption tax flat tax etc are all stupid ideas sold to people like you who are easily persuaded that the grass is greener on the other side. Have you lived in economies that tax goods and services at more than 10%? Can you imagine the kind of tax evasion that goes on, and the parallel cash economy that springs up immediately? How many people you know who evade the simple 5% or 6% local sales tax on the services by the landscaper or the handy man? That is the tax that goes to pay for your own local neighbourhood schools and snow removal. Now imagine how willing they will be to pay a 17% or 22% tax to distant Washington DC? Can you imagine the kind of intrusive systems needed to catch the scofflaws? If you think IRS is intrusive looking at your pay slip, wait till you get IRS demanding you show documentation for having paid tax on your wrist watch and shaving blades.
Do these right wing nutties have any idea of the dangers of a cash economy? Today, in USA, 1$ in cash is worth 1$ in bank. But 1 million dollars in cash is worth lot less than 1 million dollars properly accounted for in the bank. Black money is worth lot less in USA than white money. That is not the case in Mexico, Phillipines, Pakistan, Bangladesh etc. Once unaccounted money gets decent buying power, then corruption sets in. We are paying pittance for our judges, police chiefs,
auditors and law enforcers in general. Once cash economy takes root, corrupt people will work their way into every crevice of power and it would exceedingly difficult to get rid of them.
The source of cash economy is tax evasion. Purely on that account, we should stop drinking the cool aid about consumption tax and such stupid ideas.
All of Europe lives with a VAT, which is a consumption tax. The rates are usually around 20%. Citizens aren't ever asked to show they paid tax - that's put on the businesses. I've seen more under the table money in the US than in Europe, perhaps because the VAT is so much simpler to enforce across the board. Prices in Europe always include tax - no one shakes their fists at the tax markup, and those who have a problem with it don't seem as upset as the typical American who is upset with the income tax.
When they talk about embedding video, they're referring to Flash-based video sites like YouTube. Think a little.
HTML5 will press forward with or without Microsoft. YouTube already has an HTML5 demo, and as a site owned by Google, they will embrace the new technology. In the meantime, Firefox continues to gain in the market, and Apple has a little thing called the iPhone that has a "real" browser.
The iPhone version of Safari will probably be very late to the html5 table. Supporting anything other than basic text and images isn't in the iPhone's strategy - instead Apple focuses on selling little programs from their app store to do what you normally would see on web pages for $0.99.
- Released THE most hated OS since WinMe
I'm pretty sure vista was far more hated than ME, though ME deserved it a lot more.
I don't understand the Pope's objection. The body is nothing more than a meat machine that holds the soul. If we have the technology to improve the machine that houses the soul, what is the problem? Jesus Christ. The disciples fixed the broken machine all the time in the new testament, back then it was called a miracle. Now we have the technology to improve the lives of all future children it would be a crime not to remove genetic diseases. Why does the church insist on allowing unnecessary suffering just so that they can provide comfort to the person who is suffering? Wouldn't it be better to eradicate the suffering in the first place?
I think his problem with it is that the improvement of the machine comes through creating a large number of machines and aborting the ones that don't have the desired properties. I don't think the catholic church sees a distinction between pre and post implantation proto-humans. I don't particularly see a meaningful distinction, myself - I can more easily understand the concept of meaningful human life beginning at conception or at birth or at 18.
Metroid Prime 3 says it can be done just fine for very casual players.
For the 1000th time
-"Casual" is only an insult to immature gamers who take themselves way too seriously. Using it as an insult makes you and the gaming community look ridiculous. Trying to contrast yourself to "casual" gaming also is ridiculous.
-"Casual" and "real/hardcore/super duper/other artificial term you come up with to make yourself sound better" are not mutually exclusive. It is actually possible to play wii fit and then play WoW or whatever games you prefer. The videogame police will really not come to your house and arrest you, your immune system won't kill you if you try to play the other game type.
Why would you assume it's an insult at all? Most gamers are casual gamers. I'm a casual gamer at the moment and don't feel ashamed or anything. I know a few people who like MP3, and I know a few others who have more experience with fps games and didn't get into it.
"direct users to a Web site where harmful programs would be downloaded to their computers, says Stephen Wellman, director of community and content for Ziff Davis."
Do these affect Linux or Apple PC's? I'm guessing it's the good old Windows .exe and .dll again, an exclusive Windows issue disguised as a "PC" issue.
Why is it that areas where Microsoft want to portray a large market share (either exaggerated by reports from shills or real) they have the words Microsoft and Windows all over the stories, yet when it's something they have an almost 100% market share on (malware compatibility and vulnerability), there's no mention of either Microsoft or Windows; it's all just PCs.
FAO the Microsoft Astroturfers, it was a rhetorical question but feel free to do your job and mod me down for pointing out the obvious. Wait, Ziff Davis does ring a familiar bell, hmmmmm.
As far as I can tell it's an exclusively non-adblock user issue.
> Yeah, Democrats, I'm sure that's the reason. It had nothing at all to do with
> the auto industry and loss of jobs or anything like that.
Yea, it has everything to do with loss of jobs and the auto industry. Let me keep it simple enough someone with a government schooling should be able to follow along. Democrats destroy jobs. The greater tehir majorities and the longer the time they hold it the worse the damage. Go plot the demographic trendlines yourself if you don't believe me. The Bluer the state and longer it has been blue the more seats it has lost in the last couple of Census reallocations. The Red states have been picking up seats. People are voting with their feet. I just wish the fools would realize WHY they had to move and thus not bring the problem with them by electing Democrats in their new home.
There isn't much of a problem in the 'auto industry' if by auto industry you mean production of autos. They just aren't being made in Michigan anymore, they are being built in Right to Work states with lower tax structures in factories where the root of the corporate ownership tree is in Tokyo instead of New York[1]. Of course with the recession and all, they are all feeling some pain about now.
Now riddle me this: With an existing industrial base and lots of experienced labor available, why does a Japanese automaker decide to skip Michigan when locating a plant in the US and instead go to the South where none of those advantages exist? Why do they do a greenfield project along the Interstate in the middle of nowhere when they could buy a closed plant in an area with thousands of unemployed workers with exactly the skills they need? When you can answer that question you will have taken your first step towards enlightenment.
[1] Hint, the 'Detroit automaker' bankruptcies are being filed in NY.
Absolute nonsense. "Just look it up" is worse than anecdotal evidence. Here's some of that: California has been growing in population at an incredible rate. The blue parts of the state are overflowing with skilled workers. The blue parts of Colorado are growing the fastest and gaining the most jobs. The blue parts of New York are surging while the rest withers. That little blue dot in Texas, Austin, is the most successful city in the state and its center of skilled workers. The European countries that have made our economy look embarrassing in the last decade are economically bluer than any part of the US. Blue presidents always correlate (I'm not claiming a cause) with job creation. The blue man group is a hotbed of economic activity. Papa smurf has the richest beard in town.
Of course we didn't have the freeze/thaw cycles people do farther north...
You don't even need it to freeze. Here in Western Australia, the surface of a road can get to as much as 70 deg. C on a summer day, but cool to 15 degrees overnight. Even in winter the temperatures can vary from 3 to 30 degrees C. I suspect it might be a tall order to expect a concrete road to put up with that kind of stress unless you put in a lot of expansion joints.
Which is why concrete roads are laid in slabs, not as a continuous surface. Also, concrete roads don't get as hot as asphalt. Also, freezing is a lot worse for concrete than an equivalent temperature change on a hot day because it means that any water in cracks of the road will expand. Freezing water turns rigid solids to powder through inexorable crack propagation.
In a relatively small state like Michigan with nasty freeze-thaw cycles that probably cause massive damage to roads anyway, this probably is not a bad idea. The distances are such that the lower speed limit required isn't going to mean it takes days to get across the state (like it would in, say, Montana). Plus, the freeze-thaw cycle means they'd be dealing with massive potholes every season regardless, and potholes are cheaper and easier to fix on gravel.
I certainly wouldn't want to try this tactic anywhere out west though, where vast distances make driving on gravel roads much more of a chore.
Michigan is the 11th largest state, and more than you might expected based on its absolute size living here required a ton of driving because the nearest place of interest is often hours away on I-75. However, I believe these poor counties are planning to remove pavement from rural roads with low traffic, not interstate or state highways.
Maybe you haven't been paying attention to the stuff put out by Square Enix lately...
Why not? He described it precisely:
"Spectacular extravaganzas with high-detail hero models, high-detail set designs, high-detail world designs, full-orchestral scores, full-cinematic cuts, companion toy merchandising, and highly-predictable-never-escapes-the-rails storylines."
Also, what's up with calling 9400M midrange in the same article that the faster 210M is called low end? And why is an article that mentions 4 new GPUs labeled as introducing 5 new GPUs in the title?
bing is better than google in many instances i've tried it. search for hardwood suppliers, bing gives me a page of websites of actual hardwood supply companies. google gives me the same for about the top 5 then it gives me a bunch of crap like link agregators and "top 5" sites
bing isn't infested with useless link agregators which have made google all but useless. with bing i don't have to crawl through the results looking for actual sources of information. i could definately see why google has jumped into action, only a fool would dismiss anything MS does.
Google's link-aggregators are there because of Google's market share. Were Bing to...uh...somehow become dominant, it would have the same sorts of problems pop up. Anyway, I don't think quality matters when it comes to web search. Google is a verb, and that's enough to give it the number one slot for a very long time.
Metroid Prime 3 says it can be done just fine.
Metroid Prime 3 says it can be done just fine for very casual players.
Yeah, I call crapnanigans on this. Stephen E. Arnold, you're now on record as being a techno-imbecile.
(Please note, I obeyed the rule of using five made-up words or less in this novel of mine.)
It already said so in the summary. "technology and financial analyst"
The paid product being referred to was OneCare. What was that about being dumb?
That sure would be dumb, Mr. AC, since the sentence before the quotation was:
"John Pescatore, an analyst at Gartner, has questioned whether users would step up to Morro even if it was free."
now this is interesting. the eu does something to try to stop the most abusive monopolistic company of modern times, a company which costs the economies of the world billions of dollars every year, a company which forces drm and ignorance down the consumers' throats and what happens? suddenly the eu is in the wrong because "it's not america". i only hope most of the replies up to now have been astroturfing by microsoft, because if they aren't this paints a rather sorry picture of america and americans in general.
Proof needed, or even an argument. Most of the comments you say reflect so poorly on Americans (not that we even know they're from Americans) have logic and arguments behind them. You have a lot of unsupported assertions. Amazingly, Slashdot is no longer a place where you can make such assertions and get enthusiastic support instead of skepticism. If anything, your post paints a very sorry picture of you.
It's monopoly abuse. Windows has a desktop monopoly. What Ubuntu or Apple does is not that important, they don't have a monopoly. If you do want to talk about the situation of Ubuntu and comparing it to Windows. Windows comes with IE and only IE or now maybe no browser at all (even less choice). Ubuntu comes with several terminal programs on the CD/DVD and you can install an other just and just as easily remove the one that was default.
If by monopoly you mean "Windows has been identified as a good target for easy extra taxes by the EU," then sure, but it still only matters in the context of a corrupt government organization trying to steal cash and promote their local under-performing competitor.
That is how Wikipedia was meant to be. A group of statements about subjects, all of which can be referenced to some original source. So that people can look up something quickly and then look at the sources for more definite information....
Seeing how many people cite Wikipedia directly, use it as the main source for their research and the amount of newspapers that have been reported to directly quote inaccurate facts from Wikipedia... I don't think it is working properly. It requires a lot of optimism to believe "People will use that as a initial source and then verify the information"
That's not wikipedia's failure. Those same people would just be referencing nothing or a web site with zero public review and commenting without it.
'Think of it this way. What if you smelled a rotten egg odor in your water and the water company said, "Sure, we can remove that, but it will cost you $50." Would you buy it?'
This analogy is just dumb. This is a free product. Obviously the analogy would have the water company saying, "Sure, we can remove that for free."
Not to mention 'Consumers are hesitant to pay for a Microsoft security product that will remove problems in other Microsoft products,' which is a stupid point to make about a free product.
Furthermore, MS's security "problems" are over a billion installs. As we see every year when they tie Linux as the most secure system in pwn2own, they've got nothing to be upset about on the technical side of things.
And finally, "added Rowan Trollope, senior vice president of consumer software at Symantec. 'Making that same substandard security technology free won't change that equation'" is pretty funny from a guy representing a company that actually charges for substandard security technology.
Doesn't anyone else see this for what it obviously is: a way for Microsoft to steal market share from Nintendo? Sony and Microsoft battled it out over pixel pushing, while Nintendo actually innovated (something Microsoft talks about a lot but never does) and built something new that people really liked -- something that actually got non-gamers onto the scene.
So now they're trying to build "Wii without the Wiimote." This is a "meeee toooo" play, which is Microsoft's usual way of doing business. YAWN.
You're commenting on motives. I think the "big deal" in the story is referring to potential. Clearly precise tracking of 48 joints is a lot more interesting and powerful than fuzzy tracking of 1-2 clunky controllers.