Consoles are not holding PC-gaming back. PCs are holding PC gaming back.
The truth is, this far into the current generation of consoles, they still provide better gaming technology than what MOST of the PCs currently being used have. While/. users might have awesome rigs with multi-core processors and the latest graphic cards, the HUGE majority of pc owners do not. They have laptops, they have affordable Dell systems, they have computers they bought more than 3 or 4 years ago... they don't have the chops to pull off a game that looks like FFXIII or Heavy Rain. When all your friends are technophiles your sense of how most people live is a little skewed. Not to mention a lot of people just don't want to sit in front of their computer to game- they want to sit on the couch and relax with friends (who also have room to sit and a huge screen to share). There's also an associative nature between PC=work and TV=relax/fun. I just don't want to be near my PC when I want to have fun. I sit in front of a PC all day at work. Leave me alone!
just got back from canada today and i'm pretty sure they (like the rest of the world) don't "wannabe" like the USA. canada, like the rest of the world uses kph, not mph.
oh goodness, i fear our country once again is following in England's footsteps; there goes our empire.
Since the incubation period in humans can be 50 years with an average 30 years (according to June 21, 2001 Wisconsin State Journal and some other sources I looked at) we likely have yet to see the extent of how many people were affected by the outbreak in the 80s. It's also easy to misdiagnose without proper testing- I imagine many doctors writing certain cases off as encephalitis or meningitis or a rapid onset of Alzheimer's (remember it sets in later in life due to the long incubation period)
Yes, there are diseases you can get from vegetables, like salmonella, but unlike prion diseases you can destroy salmonella simply by cooking it. Prions aren't inactivated even by BOILING them. And though you can get Hepatitis A from consuming foods many of us have been vaccinated against it- not to mention the vast majority will fully recover from it in as little as 2 weeks with no permanent damage to the liver. Prion diseases on the other hand have no vaccine, no cure, and when they damage your brain you're damaged till death (which probably wont take much longer after).
Become a vegetarian and loose the risk of contracting a scary prion disease from your food. Prion diseases are awful- I'd take an STD or physical handicap any day over one of those.
Now I understand that the USA only randomly checks 1% of cattle for mad cow disease. Since we HAVE had cattle found with it before that stands to reason that cattle with prion diseases have made it into the food supply. The scariest part is these prion diseases can have incubation periods in both cattle and humans for many years. If a cow does not show symptoms it is not likely to be checked for the disease even if it carries it. A tainted burger your parents bought you from McDonald's (containing meat from who knows how many different cows) when you were 10 might not show symptoms till you're 40+ and at that point how could anyone ever trace it to any particular time/place/meal?
No- I'm not a vegetarian, but I am seriously considering dropping all animals from my diet except birds and fish.
Could this type of practice be seen as anti-competitive in any way? I'm talking on a higher level here- not necessarily in relation to this specific case. It seems that offering a messaging system that alters the text hence misrepresenting the sender and also censoring mention of a product (whether or not they are a direct competitor of said messaging service) should be a violation of some sort of consumer protection law somewhere...
My previous two employers both use systems coded in the early 80s. When the one I now use day to day was originally written in 1982 it must have blown people away. It had email, shared data sets, etc. Impressive stuff for 1982! I was still being conceived...
It's in desperate need of being replaced. You cant scroll backwards for information- only forwards. If you want to go back you have to go to the start of the information which could be many many pages long. You can't edit part of a dataset- you have to erase it and retype it all. Two people can not be in separate "files" if they belong to the same "account"- doing so will often erase the account out of the system due to a glitch- a problem when 50 employees are accessing hundreds of these electronic files throughout the day. All data must be in all capital letters- names, email addresses, notes, etc; anything you would need to store about an account.
I know there is older code out there in outer space somewhere sending data back to Nasa but this is the oldest I PERSONALLY know about being in use on a day to day basis in "modern" corporate America.
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Consoles are not holding PC-gaming back. PCs are holding PC gaming back. The truth is, this far into the current generation of consoles, they still provide better gaming technology than what MOST of the PCs currently being used have. While /. users might have awesome rigs with multi-core processors and the latest graphic cards, the HUGE majority of pc owners do not. They have laptops, they have affordable Dell systems, they have computers they bought more than 3 or 4 years ago... they don't have the chops to pull off a game that looks like FFXIII or Heavy Rain. When all your friends are technophiles your sense of how most people live is a little skewed. Not to mention a lot of people just don't want to sit in front of their computer to game- they want to sit on the couch and relax with friends (who also have room to sit and a huge screen to share). There's also an associative nature between PC=work and TV=relax/fun. I just don't want to be near my PC when I want to have fun. I sit in front of a PC all day at work. Leave me alone!
*thows pebble, draws circle in the sand with stick, grunts*
just got back from canada today and i'm pretty sure they (like the rest of the world) don't "wannabe" like the USA. canada, like the rest of the world uses kph, not mph. oh goodness, i fear our country once again is following in England's footsteps; there goes our empire.
Don't forget the Coleslaw too.
you must have had voice control enabled. you need to disable it completely. then get an iphone
It will actually take a few years for it to reach full potential.
Since the incubation period in humans can be 50 years with an average 30 years (according to June 21, 2001 Wisconsin State Journal and some other sources I looked at) we likely have yet to see the extent of how many people were affected by the outbreak in the 80s. It's also easy to misdiagnose without proper testing- I imagine many doctors writing certain cases off as encephalitis or meningitis or a rapid onset of Alzheimer's (remember it sets in later in life due to the long incubation period) Yes, there are diseases you can get from vegetables, like salmonella, but unlike prion diseases you can destroy salmonella simply by cooking it. Prions aren't inactivated even by BOILING them. And though you can get Hepatitis A from consuming foods many of us have been vaccinated against it- not to mention the vast majority will fully recover from it in as little as 2 weeks with no permanent damage to the liver. Prion diseases on the other hand have no vaccine, no cure, and when they damage your brain you're damaged till death (which probably wont take much longer after).
Become a vegetarian and loose the risk of contracting a scary prion disease from your food. Prion diseases are awful- I'd take an STD or physical handicap any day over one of those. Now I understand that the USA only randomly checks 1% of cattle for mad cow disease. Since we HAVE had cattle found with it before that stands to reason that cattle with prion diseases have made it into the food supply. The scariest part is these prion diseases can have incubation periods in both cattle and humans for many years. If a cow does not show symptoms it is not likely to be checked for the disease even if it carries it. A tainted burger your parents bought you from McDonald's (containing meat from who knows how many different cows) when you were 10 might not show symptoms till you're 40+ and at that point how could anyone ever trace it to any particular time/place/meal? No- I'm not a vegetarian, but I am seriously considering dropping all animals from my diet except birds and fish.
Could this type of practice be seen as anti-competitive in any way? I'm talking on a higher level here- not necessarily in relation to this specific case. It seems that offering a messaging system that alters the text hence misrepresenting the sender and also censoring mention of a product (whether or not they are a direct competitor of said messaging service) should be a violation of some sort of consumer protection law somewhere...
This was brought up in the media last year from the folks at MIT: http://archive.uwire.com/2007/09/11/mit-students-take-step-toward-cleaner-greener-urban-energy/ In fact, I could have sworn I saw the story run here on Slashdot. Can't we just reference the arguments from then so we don't have to rehash them?
My previous two employers both use systems coded in the early 80s. When the one I now use day to day was originally written in 1982 it must have blown people away. It had email, shared data sets, etc. Impressive stuff for 1982! I was still being conceived... It's in desperate need of being replaced. You cant scroll backwards for information- only forwards. If you want to go back you have to go to the start of the information which could be many many pages long. You can't edit part of a dataset- you have to erase it and retype it all. Two people can not be in separate "files" if they belong to the same "account"- doing so will often erase the account out of the system due to a glitch- a problem when 50 employees are accessing hundreds of these electronic files throughout the day. All data must be in all capital letters- names, email addresses, notes, etc; anything you would need to store about an account. I know there is older code out there in outer space somewhere sending data back to Nasa but this is the oldest I PERSONALLY know about being in use on a day to day basis in "modern" corporate America.