nVidia's GeForce4 is going to be the first consumer marketed 4-D accelerator with full screen anti-aliasing (you've never seen a prettier kline bottle).
Aside from the occasional driver hiccup that causes the card to fold in on itself and become a singularity on the space-time continuum, the future of 4-D gaming looks very promising!
Why not use MP3 when it gives you access to the whole Windows market, and all the other OS markets as well?
As originally posted, WMA files at 64kbs sound better than MP3 files at 128kbs. For some people the increased quality/size ratio may make up for the loss of compatibility.
I used Linux exclusively for two years before bouncing to Win98, BeOS R5 and finally to Win2k. Now I'm debating going back to Linux for one simple reason: Koules.
The combination of high school physics, 4 player multiplay (for the full effect, have three people on the keyboard and one poor bastard on the mouse), and ZeroWing style translation errors is astounding...
It's not like Steve Jobs is running around breaking into peoples homes and installing OS X onto peoples computers as they sleep. Mac OS 9.1 will still be around after OS X is out. If Mac OS X doesn't fill all your needs... don't upgrade. Wait until Puma... wait until the release after that... wait until they release jet-black iMacs with glowing-red flames down the sides. Who cares?* You're a consumer. If it doesn't meet your needs... don't buy it.
It's certainly better for Apple to release a stable, core release of the OS than a full-featured buggy one. Of course, Apple could delay the entire release until every last feature is complete, even if the majority of the market will be happy with what is done now, but that would just be silly.
In case you're still not buying this, take a look at your at your neighboorhood Windows boxes... if everyone only used the newest releases, you shouldn't see anything but 2000 and ME, but (at least among my friends, school and work) I usually see 95, 98, and NT 4.
Oh, and by the way, Mac OS X ships with a free copy of Mac OS 9.1. Considering that this is the same company that simply stopped shipping internal (i.e. cheap) floppy drives; I'd say that it's a pretty big step towards providing true backward compatibility in the face of technological advancement.
Continue until the joke is beaten so far into the ground that the reader forgets why he started reading the article in the first place and throws himself off the nearest 6-story building.
Jon Katz FINALLY posted a story without the -extra-hyphens-in-the-dept-name-! Now if we can just get him to drop the pseudo-subliminal "(Read more)" at the end of the story description, I might be able to resist the urge to slit my wrists the next time he posts!
Almost all the links on the site will take you to http://slashdot.org/. Try going to http://slashdot.com/ or http://www.slashdot.org/ and click on any of the "read more" links (or even that big honkin' logo at the top of every page). Slashdot.com may work, but slashdot.org is being activily pushed.
It's for exactly those reasons that ICANN can't allow.xxx/.porn and.kids. As soon as people start assuming.kids is "safe" for children, they've got to police all the domains, making sure no deviant media is shown. There are two problems with this:
Legalilty: If a young child is exposed to some horror on a.kids domain, who is legally responsible? Is it ICANN or the registrar's resonsibility to monitor the use of these TLD's?
Morality: This is the tough one. Who gets to decide what is allowed to be displayed on a.kids domain? Nude photos are almost certainly not okay, but what about diagrams of the urinary and reproductive systems? How detailed can they become before they are "obscene?" Can I put up a page about how great America is? How about how great China is? How about how much better China is than America? Can I put up a site about prescription drugs? What about the medical benefits of marijuana? All these calls are very tough. If you're too strict, you're going to draw fire for unjust censorship and if you're too loose you're going to offend plenty of people. My best bet is that they'd end up doing both.
There's no way for a content sensitive TLD system to work. It places too many restrictions and expectations on the website in question. A.mag TLD wouldn't a big problem, because magazines are fairly well defined in our culture and globally (one would expect to find newsweek.mag and playboy.mag, for example). No toes will get stepped on here. However,.xxx or.kids are unreasonable because what qualifies as "pornographic" or "safe for children 3+" is entirely subjective.
Be actually went from hardware (hobbit) to hardware (ppc) to software (ppc) to software (x86) to embedded. Just because they're still developing the embedded system does not mean that they have been "eaten" in any way.
The entire quote is "if seeing violence has any effect on children's actions, it obviously makes them calm and peaceful." This statement suggests that viewing violence either has a calming effect or no effect at all. Neither of these conclusions can be drawn from the supplied data.
There isn't a ban on pools because pools aren't designed for killing. Guns, on the other hand, are designed for two things: killing and keeping the king of England out of your face.
Also, I'm sure your statistic would falter if kids were allowed to play with guns as often as they are allowed to play in a pool.
...The facts speak for themselves. If seeing violence has any effect on children's actions, it obviously makes them calm and peaceful...
Correlation does not imply causation. This article correlates an increase in violent movies & video games with an overall decrease in violent crimes. The claim that exposing a child to violent media makes them "calm and peaceful" is absolutely outrageous. I'm not saying the claim is necessarily false, but you have no direct evidence for this. Only controlled studies with repeatable results can suggest causation.
Here's an example:
Children with large feet tend to be better readers. Does this mean that large feet facilitate reading, or that the language center of the brain somehow influences our growth? No. All it means is that older children (who generally have larger feet) tend to be able to read better than younger ones.
While you accuse politicians of spreading disinformation, you're doing the same yourself. The only difference is that your disinformation conforms to your value system.
Amazon emails you whenever a transaction occurs, and again when the items ship. This gives you plenty of time to cancel the order and change your password.
I remember reading that Disney wanted to cut the movie to get it down to PG, but Miyazaki didn't let them touch a frame.
I saw the Disney version in the theatre, and didn't notice any glaring inconsistancies or jumps in the plot. On a side note, seeing a Miyazaki flick on the big screen is absolutely amazing. I highly recommend it to anyone who has the opportunity.
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If you only knew how much better our 3-day install process is, you wouldn't be so damn smug!!
Aside from the occasional driver hiccup that causes the card to fold in on itself and become a singularity on the space-time continuum, the future of 4-D gaming looks very promising!
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As originally posted, WMA files at 64kbs sound better than MP3 files at 128kbs. For some people the increased quality/size ratio may make up for the loss of compatibility.
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I'd love to put myself out of this misery, but my retinas just detached and I can't find my gun.
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This is easily the most insightful comment I've seen on Slashdot in the past 2 years.
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The combination of high school physics, 4 player multiplay (for the full effect, have three people on the keyboard and one poor bastard on the mouse), and ZeroWing style translation errors is astounding...
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It's certainly better for Apple to release a stable, core release of the OS than a full-featured buggy one. Of course, Apple could delay the entire release until every last feature is complete, even if the majority of the market will be happy with what is done now, but that would just be silly.
In case you're still not buying this, take a look at your at your neighboorhood Windows boxes... if everyone only used the newest releases, you shouldn't see anything but 2000 and ME, but (at least among my friends, school and work) I usually see 95, 98, and NT 4.
Oh, and by the way, Mac OS X ships with a free copy of Mac OS 9.1. Considering that this is the same company that simply stopped shipping internal (i.e. cheap) floppy drives; I'd say that it's a pretty big step towards providing true backward compatibility in the face of technological advancement.
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*If you said "Apple," you're right, but let them worry about that.
Continue until the joke is beaten so far into the ground that the reader forgets why he started reading the article in the first place and throws himself off the nearest 6-story building.
Jon Katz FINALLY posted a story without the -extra-hyphens-in-the-dept-name-! Now if we can just get him to drop the pseudo-subliminal "(Read more)" at the end of the story description, I might be able to resist the urge to slit my wrists the next time he posts!
... except for Quake III Arena, Pod 2, Unreal Tournament, and Phantasy Star Online, but those don't really count.
Almost all the links on the site will take you to http://slashdot.org/. Try going to http://slashdot.com/ or http://www.slashdot.org/ and click on any of the "read more" links (or even that big honkin' logo at the top of every page). Slashdot.com may work, but slashdot.org is being activily pushed.
- Legalilty: If a young child is exposed to some horror on a
.kids domain, who is legally responsible? Is it ICANN or the registrar's resonsibility to monitor the use of these TLD's?
- Morality: This is the tough one. Who gets to decide what is allowed to be displayed on a
.kids domain? Nude photos are almost certainly not okay, but what about diagrams of the urinary and reproductive systems? How detailed can they become before they are "obscene?" Can I put up a page about how great America is? How about how great China is? How about how much better China is than America? Can I put up a site about prescription drugs? What about the medical benefits of marijuana? All these calls are very tough. If you're too strict, you're going to draw fire for unjust censorship and if you're too loose you're going to offend plenty of people. My best bet is that they'd end up doing both.
There's no way for a content sensitive TLD system to work. It places too many restrictions and expectations on the website in question. ADon't forget...
3. It ends with the comment: This article is a piece of satire meant to brighten your day.
Be actually went from hardware (hobbit) to hardware (ppc) to software (ppc) to software (x86) to embedded. Just because they're still developing the embedded system does not mean that they have been "eaten" in any way.
The entire quote is "if seeing violence has any effect on children's actions, it obviously makes them calm and peaceful." This statement suggests that viewing violence either has a calming effect or no effect at all. Neither of these conclusions can be drawn from the supplied data.
There isn't a ban on pools because pools aren't designed for killing. Guns, on the other hand, are designed for two things: killing and keeping the king of England out of your face.
Also, I'm sure your statistic would falter if kids were allowed to play with guns as often as they are allowed to play in a pool.
...The facts speak for themselves. If seeing violence has any effect on children's actions, it obviously makes them calm and peaceful...
Correlation does not imply causation. This article correlates an increase in violent movies & video games with an overall decrease in violent crimes. The claim that exposing a child to violent media makes them "calm and peaceful" is absolutely outrageous. I'm not saying the claim is necessarily false, but you have no direct evidence for this. Only controlled studies with repeatable results can suggest causation.
Here's an example:
Children with large feet tend to be better readers. Does this mean that large feet facilitate reading, or that the language center of the brain somehow influences our growth? No. All it means is that older children (who generally have larger feet) tend to be able to read better than younger ones.
While you accuse politicians of spreading disinformation, you're doing the same yourself. The only difference is that your disinformation conforms to your value system.
Amazon emails you whenever a transaction occurs, and again when the items ship. This gives you plenty of time to cancel the order and change your password.
Is anyone else disturbed by the fact that the "ultimate game machine" doesn't come with any controllers?
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I remember reading that Disney wanted to cut the movie to get it down to PG, but Miyazaki didn't let them touch a frame.
I saw the Disney version in the theatre, and didn't notice any glaring inconsistancies or jumps in the plot. On a side note, seeing a Miyazaki flick on the big screen is absolutely amazing. I highly recommend it to anyone who has the opportunity.
As they say, the largest bandwidth that can be achieved is a 747 with a cargohold full of DVDs.
Yeah, but latency is a bitch.
Those first two are some of Microsoft's best technologies... the last one is pretty debatable.