I thought when I subscribed I wouldn't have to see these anymore, but since you don't have a friendly guy I can call to talk to about it, I'll have to assume you're trying to screw me over here.
Or maybe, as shown by the lack of "*" or whatever by your user name, maybe your subscription expired?
The ISS wasn't built to be a launch platform for the moon or Mars. It was built as an overpriced space laboratory.
I thought the actual reason it was built was "to give the Shuttle somewhere to go"? And its orbit was chosen for Russia's convenience. You would probably want a less inclined orbit for a stop-over to Luna or Mars.
...and HFS+ is just an incremental update from HFS - adding stuff like journaling and support for larger drives, long unicode file names, and some unixisms like inodes and/dev and hard links and case sensitivity.
How is an army of first person shooters a well balanced game library? Been out for a year and they are still lacking.
And the PS3 has anything other than a bunch of first-person shooters and racers? At least the 360 has a couple of games that I might be interested in, like Ninety-Nine Nights and Blue Dragon.
But I'm still waiting for the die-shrink 360, because I don't want a system that you have to wrap in a freaking towel to get it to work again after it breaks.
Well that's great if 1) it has the bunch of games you want to play 2) you want to watch HD movie discs, and 3) you want a toy "media center".
But 1) the PS3 doesn't have any compelling games for me (just like the Xbox didn't in the previous generation), 2) 99% of the HD movie discs are crappy Hollywood movies that I don't want to watch at any resolution, ever, and 3) I already have a real PC hooked up to my TV set, in beautiful 480p resolution using a DVI connection. (the chroma resolution even at 480p is far superior to S-video)
And 4) Recent FF games (since what, 8 or 9 or so?) are over-rated anyhow. Too many cut scenes and angst. It was not why I bought a PS2 and will not be a reason for me to buy a PS3. I got a PS2 because it had a well-balanced game library, something which the 360 is currently ahead in.
If the PS3 dropped the integrated blueray player (so long as it isn't needed for the actual game discs)
That won't work. The primary expense is the hardware mechanism that reads BD discs (particularly the laser diode), and not only has Sony committed to BD as a game disc format, I wouldn't be surprised to hear that they are manufacturing all games (even DVD-sized or CD-sized) games on BD-ROM blanks as part of their home-grown format arrogance. You know, the same one that caused them to also push Beta, MD, ATRAC, and three Memory Stick formats? (plus Memory Stick's "Magic Gate" DRM as a PS2 memory card technology)
The BD player software essentially costs them nothing per unit, other than maybe some non-Sony patents and recouping the development costs of the BD player software.
One key component is that the center of mass must be in synchronous (geo- or otherwise) orbit. On Earth, you can do this, as our planet is spinning fast enough that you can stay fairly close and remain over the same spot. On the moon, which takes 28 of our days to make a single rotation, the ribbon would have to be so long that it would pass through the Earth.
Could you use a Lagrange point to make it work? The moon's rotation is tidally locked, so could you maybe put the base at the lunar equator facing Earth and put the counterweight on the other side of the Lagrange point, kept in place by the Earth's gravity?
Of course this would mean that you would have to go to the lunar equator to use the darn thing, where it is alternately very hot and very cold. And you could only build one elevator. And it might still be too long. But a space elevator through a Lagrange point could be a very interesting thing.
They installed the box up the street from me here in Austin over a year ago. 500 feet away means a potential 50M/50M or better connection to the DSLAM in that box. Someday. But right now they don't want to offer more than 6Mbits down for U-Verse DSL internet, and I'm happy with digital TV over an antenna.
Wouldn't it be better for all the people that watched the show, if they're truely that upset, to just not watch that network anymore?
Is there anything worth watching on CBS that people can quit watching? There are only two things I watch on CBS these days: David Letterman and Craig Ferguson, and I don't watch them regularly. And I think that really is it, aside from one non-network weekend show on that station.
Meanwhile, Heroes did it right by resolving the season plot, and only then ending with a few minor cliffhangers to start the second season.
and I remember my Historical Geology teacher telling us about how when he was in school nearly all of his professors ridiculed the idea of plate tectonics
Yes, can someone with the knowledge explain to us why they couldn't send this into deep space?
So that they could sell the engraved plaque option at an extra price. I think that's in the Rules of Acquisition somewhere. Oops, wrong Star Trek series.
The problem was that the internet had grown beyond the capacity of their core routers, hence the core router upgrade that was "in progress". The headline should actually read:
OLD Cisco Routers to Blame for Japan Net Outage(with only one 't' in "Outage', just as in TFA!)
Hey folks, don't stop CIDR'ing routes just because there seems to be enough routing table space "right now"!
One might say that using a modified XBox could mean hacked console firmware to gain unfair advantages, like visual aids, gfx drivers clip hacks, aimbots, tricks with skins, etc.
...except that the code signing still hasn't been broken. The current "hacks" still only allow you to run unmodified executables. I suppose it could allow you to use modified data if the executable itself didn't validate the data, but there's a lot less you can do with that. Which leaves...
Another one might say that this is FUD applied to online gaming. After all, we're talking about Microsoft.
There's more cheating potential by using an aimbot proxy than by using a hacked drive.
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Or maybe, as shown by the lack of "*" or whatever by your user name, maybe your subscription expired?
So pretty soon phones will need to be rack-mounted like a PDP-10?
It's going to be released under the EA Sports label. And they're changing the name slightly. It will now be called The Incredible Madden.
I think you mean Sleeper, which also showed the flotation ability of the Beetle.
"Yeah, global warming, what a joke. Now summer temperatures are about 60 degrees F... in Florida!"
The ISS wasn't built to be a launch platform for the moon or Mars. It was built as an overpriced space laboratory.
I thought the actual reason it was built was "to give the Shuttle somewhere to go"? And its orbit was chosen for Russia's convenience. You would probably want a less inclined orbit for a stop-over to Luna or Mars.
...and HFS+ is just an incremental update from HFS - adding stuff like journaling and support for larger drives, long unicode file names, and some unixisms like inodes and /dev and hard links and case sensitivity.
So you can really say that HFS+ is almost 22 years old now.
Gone with Loki Games, who flopped big-time trying to publish games on Linux.
The other B-I-G problem with that scheme is botnets.
And the PS3 has anything other than a bunch of first-person shooters and racers? At least the 360 has a couple of games that I might be interested in, like Ninety-Nine Nights and Blue Dragon.
But I'm still waiting for the die-shrink 360, because I don't want a system that you have to wrap in a freaking towel to get it to work again after it breaks.
Well that's great if 1) it has the bunch of games you want to play 2) you want to watch HD movie discs, and 3) you want a toy "media center".
But 1) the PS3 doesn't have any compelling games for me (just like the Xbox didn't in the previous generation), 2) 99% of the HD movie discs are crappy Hollywood movies that I don't want to watch at any resolution, ever, and 3) I already have a real PC hooked up to my TV set, in beautiful 480p resolution using a DVI connection. (the chroma resolution even at 480p is far superior to S-video)
And 4) Recent FF games (since what, 8 or 9 or so?) are over-rated anyhow. Too many cut scenes and angst. It was not why I bought a PS2 and will not be a reason for me to buy a PS3. I got a PS2 because it had a well-balanced game library, something which the 360 is currently ahead in.
That won't work. The primary expense is the hardware mechanism that reads BD discs (particularly the laser diode), and not only has Sony committed to BD as a game disc format, I wouldn't be surprised to hear that they are manufacturing all games (even DVD-sized or CD-sized) games on BD-ROM blanks as part of their home-grown format arrogance. You know, the same one that caused them to also push Beta, MD, ATRAC, and three Memory Stick formats? (plus Memory Stick's "Magic Gate" DRM as a PS2 memory card technology)
The BD player software essentially costs them nothing per unit, other than maybe some non-Sony patents and recouping the development costs of the BD player software.
Wake me up when they teleport Lore too.
Could you use a Lagrange point to make it work? The moon's rotation is tidally locked, so could you maybe put the base at the lunar equator facing Earth and put the counterweight on the other side of the Lagrange point, kept in place by the Earth's gravity?
Of course this would mean that you would have to go to the lunar equator to use the darn thing, where it is alternately very hot and very cold. And you could only build one elevator. And it might still be too long. But a space elevator through a Lagrange point could be a very interesting thing.
They installed the box up the street from me here in Austin over a year ago. 500 feet away means a potential 50M/50M or better connection to the DSLAM in that box. Someday. But right now they don't want to offer more than 6Mbits down for U-Verse DSL internet, and I'm happy with digital TV over an antenna.
"Taste the meat, not the heat!"
I used to use TRON and TROFF all the time on my old TRS-80. Ah, the memories... line numbers filling the screen like a field of wildflowers.
But it seems like the poor C64 users never had a chance to share my joy. Just the 128, and the rare C16 and Plus/4 had TRON and TROFF.
The Last Starfighter was a remake of The Music Man, only in space and without the music.
Is there anything worth watching on CBS that people can quit watching? There are only two things I watch on CBS these days: David Letterman and Craig Ferguson, and I don't watch them regularly. And I think that really is it, aside from one non-network weekend show on that station.
Meanwhile, Heroes did it right by resolving the season plot, and only then ending with a few minor cliffhangers to start the second season.
That's not the only geological idea that took mainstream scientists a long time to accept.
So that they could sell the engraved plaque option at an extra price. I think that's in the Rules of Acquisition somewhere. Oops, wrong Star Trek series.
Fixed it for you.
The problem was that the internet had grown beyond the capacity of their core routers, hence the core router upgrade that was "in progress". The headline should actually read:
OLD Cisco Routers to Blame for Japan Net Outage (with only one 't' in "Outage', just as in TFA!)
Hey folks, don't stop CIDR'ing routes just because there seems to be enough routing table space "right now"!
...except that the code signing still hasn't been broken. The current "hacks" still only allow you to run unmodified executables. I suppose it could allow you to use modified data if the executable itself didn't validate the data, but there's a lot less you can do with that. Which leaves...
Another one might say that this is FUD applied to online gaming. After all, we're talking about Microsoft.There's more cheating potential by using an aimbot proxy than by using a hacked drive.
Oops, I was off by a factor of eight. It's more like 150K-160K per side on a C-90.