It's only siding with HD DVD because in doing so draws out the battle even longer. Don't forget that the Blu Ray spec mandates Java. I can't see Microsoft liking that.
I don't think I'd dispute that for non-programmers. And I think there's a good chance something like a Wiimote (for Wiis themselves, or every console of the next generation will probably have the same thing) could become an adequate mouse replacement to do strategy games well on consoles in a few years.
PCs could come back with multi-monitor games, though.
If only there were some alternative means of playing video games in one's own home. Like an appliance for video games, a console if you will... Consoles suck for strategy games, and they're usually not even released there.
Probably could've spent half the time on the homeworks if we hadn't written all those snarky comments about how "Well, this WOULD have taken half the code, but Java is dumb and/or you forced me to use a less efficient method." But those are so much fun to write! Especially when you're complaining to the teacher about the book, so you don't have to worry so much about the teacher taking offence.
That would be the inventors of the F-4 Phantom, right? I kinda like the characterization one of the Military Channel shows made, calling it a bus with big engines....Wait a minute! Maybe Speed wasn't so wrong after all!
After all, that was the whole point of the MiG's design. Which MiG? I suppose the 25 is a big freakin' pair of engines with a cockpit attached, but most of the others are lighter weight than comparable American fighters, and least until the F-16 came along.
If brittany spears invented a instrument or was the first to use an electric guitar. If she used her own musical chords that were a different way of making harmony and progression. If then I took a step back and said "that sounds like shit to me". I'd have to begrudgingly admit that has harsh to my ears as her sound is, it is as least innovative. New.
Britney Spears hasn't, to my knowledge, but Kelis's "My Milkshake Brings all the Boys to the Yard" song is decidedly different than anything I'd heard before. It's almost completely atonal, like Stravinski wrote a pop song.
And there's a style of very sparse bowed and pizzicato strings that Panic at the Disco, Fallout Boy, etc. have adopted for some of their songs that I first heard 5-10 years ago in commercials. The beginning of "I Write Sins not Tragedies" is a good example. Granted, experimental classical musicians were probably doing this earlier, and I expect the upswing in period baroque performances from the classical side had an influence, at least in getting to the commercials. Still, it's a pretty new component in pop.
Going back 10-12 years ago to when they were new, Bone-Thugs-N-Harmony was *very* different from most of the rap that was around. And rap itself reached a point where most people knew about it in, what, 1982? (My dad still swears at the TV whenever it gets used in a commercial.)
Pantera's Vulgar Display of Power came out in 1993 (I think -- I'm not looking it up). It's considered a classic of heavy metal these days, and it's dramatically different from anything before it. If you play guitar and try to play the rhythm parts from that album, you discover that pretty quickly.
Should copyright just be abolished because we want free access to tv shows and movie clips? How about *any* access? I'd happily buy DVDs of The State from Viacom, but they aren't for sale. Copyright is designed to maximize the IP that is available (preferrably public domain eventually, but we don't need to get into that), and I do think the content holders should lose copyright on material they're not making available.
The advanced placement tests done by The College Board (at least the four I took 12 years ago) were good. They take a lot of work to score, but if we want a test that's actually useful, I think it's necessary.
It's incredibly frustrating to have my peers think less of me when they find out that I don't actually want to have a career; I want to have some sort of part-time job to help out financially and mainly take care of the house and kids. People don't think less of you by nearly as much as they would think less of a man who wanted that.
And it's really easy to see if they did record 20 seconds AND which part of the movie was that The article said it was a Canon Powershot, which is a camera, not a camcorder. They may have improved since, but my 2002 model was only capable of recording 20 seconds of video at a time.
Mozart may not be on the same level as far as music you'd want to listen to, but Mozart's music is consistently great fun to play. Eine Kleine Nachtmusik is my single favorite song to play on the violin, but I hardly ever listen to it.
I was 22 when I lost my virginity, and I've never regretted waiting. I was 17, am 31 now, and still regret all the chances to have sex that I screwed up when I was 15-19.
Back when I was a computer engineering student at Western Michigan University, my assembler class (x86, taught by the EE department -- I also has SPARC assembler taught by the CS department) used a textbook published by DeVry. I was a little taken aback when I noticed that.
My DirecTiVo does all that, and I was able to buy one pre-upgraded to 215 hours. They're getting harder to find now, though, and I'm not sure what I want to do about HD now that I have a new TV.
And you missed the biggest advantage (except maybe the two shows at once part). With a separate box, the digital signal gets converted to analog (whether in your house with digital cable, or somewhere earlier with analog cable), your DVR has to reencode it as digital, and then turn it to analog again to play it. An integrated box skips a round of conversions (by just saving the digital signal from the satellite or cable company directly to disk) which gives you better quality in smaller files.
when I turned back to "basic" cable from "digital" cable, they made me give the DVR back You realize the DVR wouldn't have worked with analog cable, right? They don't have an analog-to-digital converter, just digital-to-analog.
DirectX10-only games are still far from reaching the shelves I'll be building a new computer in January, after I graduate and turn in my school laptop. I built the computer its replacing in January 2001, and my son will still be using that computer for another 2-3 years. I don't care if DX10 games are still a long way off; the computer is going to last well into their prominence.
I grow my right hand thumbnail long, file it down so I have a bit of an edge leaning left My right thumbnail is the same way, but it's for playing guitar with my fingernails.
I think the whole "upgradability" thing is a bit of a non-issue when discussing laptops because really, how upgradable are PC's anyway? My desktop is usually running a fixed configuration for years. By the time I'm ready to upgrade, the motherboard will need replaced to account for the latest RAM and CPU.
I don't think this is going to last long, but right now, basic DDR RAM is about the same price as DDR2. And you probably need a CPU upgrade less than you think; I replaced the original Athlon Thunderbird 1.3ghz from my old desktop a couple years ago with an Athlon XP 2600+, and didn't notice a whit of difference. About a year later, I put in a new hard drive with a fresh WinXP installation and the performance improvement was dramatic. The only problem now is that even the older games we usually like are getting to be a problem on the integrated GeForce 2 graphics.
Sometime in the next week or two, I'll be upgrading the video card in my mom's computer (her old monitor died and the new widescreen monitor has too high horizontal resolution for the old card), and the RAM in my wife's computer. Both the old RAM and the old video card will go into the old desktop I built in January 2001 that's basically my son's now. I'm thinking there's a good chance that computer is going to hit a total life of ten years.
What about university (and other similar instituitions) provided computers with a plethora of licensed software on them... Especially for CAD and graphics, the desktop wins hands down in cost, and probably will continue to have such an advantage.
Though it would be neat to see a system of renting out laptops with that sort of software. The logistics of such an approach aren't something I'd want to manage, personally though.
My school has been doing that since about a semester before I started in 2001. It's overpriced as all hell, though. I graduate in December and turn in this laptop, and then I'll finally be replacing my ancient desktop with another desktop.
It was one of the top 3 worst SCOTUS rulings in the history of the US. That, Plessy v. Ferguson and Dred Scott v. Sanford? I'm pretty sure there was a supreme court decision affirming that the U.S. could lock up all the Japanese Americans for a few years, too...
City takes away people's land, gives it to private businesses. No, they still have to pay for it. It just means your sentimentality over your property isn't binding on the government. And that was true, anyway; there was just an artificial distinction between different kinds of projects the government might want to do. Is it really that much better if they forcibly buy your house and build a highway there?
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It's only siding with HD DVD because in doing so draws out the battle even longer.
Don't forget that the Blu Ray spec mandates Java. I can't see Microsoft liking that.
I don't think I'd dispute that for non-programmers. And I think there's a good chance something like a Wiimote (for Wiis themselves, or every console of the next generation will probably have the same thing) could become an adequate mouse replacement to do strategy games well on consoles in a few years.
PCs could come back with multi-monitor games, though.
If only there were some alternative means of playing video games in one's own home. Like an appliance for video games, a console if you will...
Consoles suck for strategy games, and they're usually not even released there.
Probably could've spent half the time on the homeworks if we hadn't written all those snarky comments about how "Well, this WOULD have taken half the code, but Java is dumb and/or you forced me to use a less efficient method."
But those are so much fun to write! Especially when you're complaining to the teacher about the book, so you don't have to worry so much about the teacher taking offence.
That would be the inventors of the F-4 Phantom, right? ...Wait a minute! Maybe Speed wasn't so wrong after all!
I kinda like the characterization one of the Military Channel shows made, calling it a bus with big engines.
After all, that was the whole point of the MiG's design.
Which MiG? I suppose the 25 is a big freakin' pair of engines with a cockpit attached, but most of the others are lighter weight than comparable American fighters, and least until the F-16 came along.
If brittany spears invented a instrument or was the first to use an electric guitar. If she used her own musical chords that were a different way of making harmony and progression. If then I took a step back and said "that sounds like shit to me". I'd have to begrudgingly admit that has harsh to my ears as her sound is, it is as least innovative. New.
Britney Spears hasn't, to my knowledge, but Kelis's "My Milkshake Brings all the Boys to the Yard" song is decidedly different than anything I'd heard before. It's almost completely atonal, like Stravinski wrote a pop song.
And there's a style of very sparse bowed and pizzicato strings that Panic at the Disco, Fallout Boy, etc. have adopted for some of their songs that I first heard 5-10 years ago in commercials. The beginning of "I Write Sins not Tragedies" is a good example. Granted, experimental classical musicians were probably doing this earlier, and I expect the upswing in period baroque performances from the classical side had an influence, at least in getting to the commercials. Still, it's a pretty new component in pop.
Going back 10-12 years ago to when they were new, Bone-Thugs-N-Harmony was *very* different from most of the rap that was around. And rap itself reached a point where most people knew about it in, what, 1982? (My dad still swears at the TV whenever it gets used in a commercial.)
Pantera's Vulgar Display of Power came out in 1993 (I think -- I'm not looking it up). It's considered a classic of heavy metal these days, and it's dramatically different from anything before it. If you play guitar and try to play the rhythm parts from that album, you discover that pretty quickly.
Should copyright just be abolished because we want free access to tv shows and movie clips?
How about *any* access? I'd happily buy DVDs of The State from Viacom, but they aren't for sale. Copyright is designed to maximize the IP that is available (preferrably public domain eventually, but we don't need to get into that), and I do think the content holders should lose copyright on material they're not making available.
The advanced placement tests done by The College Board (at least the four I took 12 years ago) were good. They take a lot of work to score, but if we want a test that's actually useful, I think it's necessary.
It's incredibly frustrating to have my peers think less of me when they find out that I don't actually want to have a career; I want to have some sort of part-time job to help out financially and mainly take care of the house and kids.
People don't think less of you by nearly as much as they would think less of a man who wanted that.
I missed a word -- I meant to say Mozart was not on the same level as Bach for listening, and it looked more like I was comparing him to Elton John.
But yes, I think you're right about what he'd be doing now.
And it's really easy to see if they did record 20 seconds AND which part of the movie was that
The article said it was a Canon Powershot, which is a camera, not a camcorder. They may have improved since, but my 2002 model was only capable of recording 20 seconds of video at a time.
Mozart may not be on the same level as far as music you'd want to listen to, but Mozart's music is consistently great fun to play. Eine Kleine Nachtmusik is my single favorite song to play on the violin, but I hardly ever listen to it.
I was 22 when I lost my virginity, and I've never regretted waiting.
I was 17, am 31 now, and still regret all the chances to have sex that I screwed up when I was 15-19.
They should have lower STD rates, too.
The trunk would've been a big improvement.
Back when I was a computer engineering student at Western Michigan University, my assembler class (x86, taught by the EE department -- I also has SPARC assembler taught by the CS department) used a textbook published by DeVry. I was a little taken aback when I noticed that.
My DirecTiVo does all that, and I was able to buy one pre-upgraded to 215 hours. They're getting harder to find now, though, and I'm not sure what I want to do about HD now that I have a new TV.
And you missed the biggest advantage (except maybe the two shows at once part). With a separate box, the digital signal gets converted to analog (whether in your house with digital cable, or somewhere earlier with analog cable), your DVR has to reencode it as digital, and then turn it to analog again to play it. An integrated box skips a round of conversions (by just saving the digital signal from the satellite or cable company directly to disk) which gives you better quality in smaller files.
when I turned back to "basic" cable from "digital" cable, they made me give the DVR back
You realize the DVR wouldn't have worked with analog cable, right? They don't have an analog-to-digital converter, just digital-to-analog.
DirectX10-only games are still far from reaching the shelves
I'll be building a new computer in January, after I graduate and turn in my school laptop. I built the computer its replacing in January 2001, and my son will still be using that computer for another 2-3 years. I don't care if DX10 games are still a long way off; the computer is going to last well into their prominence.
I grow my right hand thumbnail long, file it down so I have a bit of an edge leaning left
My right thumbnail is the same way, but it's for playing guitar with my fingernails.
I think the whole "upgradability" thing is a bit of a non-issue when discussing laptops because really, how upgradable are PC's anyway? My desktop is usually running a fixed configuration for years. By the time I'm ready to upgrade, the motherboard will need replaced to account for the latest RAM and CPU.
I don't think this is going to last long, but right now, basic DDR RAM is about the same price as DDR2. And you probably need a CPU upgrade less than you think; I replaced the original Athlon Thunderbird 1.3ghz from my old desktop a couple years ago with an Athlon XP 2600+, and didn't notice a whit of difference. About a year later, I put in a new hard drive with a fresh WinXP installation and the performance improvement was dramatic. The only problem now is that even the older games we usually like are getting to be a problem on the integrated GeForce 2 graphics.
Sometime in the next week or two, I'll be upgrading the video card in my mom's computer (her old monitor died and the new widescreen monitor has too high horizontal resolution for the old card), and the RAM in my wife's computer. Both the old RAM and the old video card will go into the old desktop I built in January 2001 that's basically my son's now. I'm thinking there's a good chance that computer is going to hit a total life of ten years.
What about university (and other similar instituitions) provided computers with a plethora of licensed software on them... Especially for CAD and graphics, the desktop wins hands down in cost, and probably will continue to have such an advantage.
Though it would be neat to see a system of renting out laptops with that sort of software. The logistics of such an approach aren't something I'd want to manage, personally though.
My school has been doing that since about a semester before I started in 2001. It's overpriced as all hell, though. I graduate in December and turn in this laptop, and then I'll finally be replacing my ancient desktop with another desktop.
It was one of the top 3 worst SCOTUS rulings in the history of the US.
That, Plessy v. Ferguson and Dred Scott v. Sanford? I'm pretty sure there was a supreme court decision affirming that the U.S. could lock up all the Japanese Americans for a few years, too...
City takes away people's land, gives it to private businesses.
No, they still have to pay for it. It just means your sentimentality over your property isn't binding on the government. And that was true, anyway; there was just an artificial distinction between different kinds of projects the government might want to do. Is it really that much better if they forcibly buy your house and build a highway there?