Actually, the quote you're thinking of is "Delays are temporary, mediocrity is forever," and it was said by Victor Ireland, CEO of Working Designs. The line is even said by one of the characters in Lunar, one of the games that WD localized. The only place I've seen the mangled version of the quote attributed to Shigeru Miyamoto is here on Slashdot.
Um.. if you're talking about the upcoming FF movie named "Advent Children," no, it's going to have a simulataneous UMD and DVD release.
And you say its power is "amazing," but that's true of every new system that has ever come out in comparison to older systems. The PSP is marginally more powerful than the DS, and in exchange you get worse battery life, worse construction quality, a smaller game library, and it doesn't have a touch screen. There's really nothing revolutionary about it.
You do know that there's no such thing as this "24-hour" rule, right? ROM piraters made it up in an attempt to justify illegal ROM sites. In actuality, you've violated copyright law as soon as you've downloaded a ROM.
But natural gas doesn't just magically appear in homes. You've still got to pay for the refinery and transmission of it. Saying that it only consumes "energy put into the organic chemicals by the Sun" is just as much "Greenwash" as pretending that using water has no cost.
And honestly, I'm not interested in trying to find statistics to prove your point for you.
This toy is clearly a much bigger waster of power than even the worst home heating systems that rely on electric baseboards.
Actually, while you make some good points, it's not "clearly" a larger waster of power than anything else. Can you provide any actual statistics, perhaps some links to studies? Pretty much any other modern method of generating flame also depends on materials that were processed elsewhere, you know.
What's really fun is that NTFS doesn't consider data in forks other than the main one when computer file size. That means that you can have a file that appears to be, say, 2 kB, when it's really a few hundred megs.
That's just wrong. The GBA's screen is 60.2 mm x 40.8 mm, with a resolution of 240x160. Both of the DS's screens are individually 60.96 mm x 45.72 mm, with a resolution of 256x192.
Surely you're aware that a modded xbox does all of the above for free? (Assuming you have an xbox, of course...)
But can it do so legally? Believe it or not, when given a choice between something legal and something illegal, many people will choose to go with the legal route, especially when it's easier than the illegal one -- and plugging in a Revolution and connecting it to the 'net will undoubtedly be easier than modding an Xbox, finding an emulator and ROMs for it, and getting them on a compatible medium.
When I first saw this story, I had the same reaction that a lot of Slashdotters here are having -- OMG patents are horrible DLO is horrible for enforcing their patent, etc.
However, after a little bit of research into the topic, I've discovered that DVForge's product really is pretty close to a copy of DLO's; I can't see anything significantly different about it. DVForge also seems to have a pretty bad reputation. DVForge really is blatantly infringing on DLO's patent.
Now, the more important question is -- is this patent wrong? Is this kind of idea trivial? Well, I don't know. I have an iPod, but I hadn't seen a product like this before or even thought about looking for one. It is a very cool product, though, so I just ordered one from DLO.
The year is 2101 A.D. The Milky Way Federation, the galaxy's governing body, has made public its (sic) plans to construct stategic defense bases in eight different locations.
You know, "its" is correct in this case. There's no apostrophe when it's indicating possession.
Erm -- the bard is named Edward in the American translation, Gilbert in the original Japanese version. And if I recall correctly, the reason Tellah was thrashing Edward was because he (who was actually the prince of Damcyan) ran off with Tellah's daughter, and his daughter was killed in an attack on Edward's castle. So, "You spoony bard!" was a rather awkward thing to yell out when most people would've be cursing..
It's also far too cultured for Texans -- last time I checked, it wasn't opening at any theatre in Texas, despite the fact that San Antonio, Dallas/Fort Worth, and Austin are all among the largest cities int he US.
It's a problem that occurs with some motherboards with VIA chipsets. The last ones I saw with the problem were back during the Pentium 3 / Athlon era, so newer ones may be better, but then again, I've also been sticking to non-VIA chipsets since then. SBLive! cards had to be placed in specific slots on the motherboard and had an IRQ reserved particularly for them (they don't like IRQ sharing) or they frequently just wouldn't boot.
Crash? On windows, yes. I've never seen an Emu10k card crash on Linux; the ALSA drivers are pretty frigging good.
The Linux drivers are better than the available Windows drivers, but I don't mean just having the card crash, I mean bringing the entire system down. I've seen inexplicable kernel panics that occured regularly for no apparent reason at all, but they never happened again after the SBLive! card was removed.
Does the Turtle Beach Riviera support hardware mixing?
The only problem with this is that SB Live!s suck ass. I have seen so many people's computers lock up, crash intermittently, or refuse to even boot because they had an SB Live! that didn't want to play nice with the rest of their hardware, and the featureset really isn't all that good even for a budget card.
Exactly what are you trying to say? As far as I can tell, the only point of your post is FUD.
Apple used to claim that a Pentium was like a snail. They can't do that anymore.
No, they claimed that more MHz == faster is a myth. It's still true. A 2.5 GHz G5 is faster than a 3 GHz P4. What they're saying now is that IBM's development has stagnated, and in the near future, the P4 will be a more cost-effective processor than the G5.
Apple still claims that OS-X never crashes. Mac users will say the same thing in public. However the Big Secret is that on Mac-centric bulletin boards (like this, for instance) you see that there are many "kernel panics" (the equivalent of a Windows BSOD).
So, you've discovered that kernel panics exist. What was your point? They happen in Linux and BSD, too, and it's the same thing as Windows' BSOD -- no matter what OS you're using, it is possible for something to occur that would make it impossible for it to continue processing. Apple doesn't claim that OS X never crashes, they claim that it's stable -- and it is. I've had a PowerBook running OS X for about three years now, and in that time I've seen two kernel panics, both a result of me trying to load a device driver that was compiled for a different version of the OS. That's entirely anecdotal, of course, but you'll find that the most people who've used OS X have similar anecdotes.
Did you have a point, or were you just trying (and failing) to point out the obvious?
For what it's worth, everybody is too cheap to buy potions. They're very expensive, and don't really heal you very much. If you really want to play solo, after you've hit 15, the best thing you can do is party until 18, get your sub-job, level that up to 15, get your main job up to 30, and then unlock Beastmaster, the one class that's capable of soloing the entire way.
Japan has a real problem with showing genital hair, but no problem at all with representing underage characters.
I suppose it's only semantics, but this would be more appropriate as "no problem at all with representing characters we consider underage." The legal age of consent in Japan is 13, you see.
I agree with your post, but I think that it is actually less applicable than normal in the area of video games (and Japanese animation, too). Although you don't typically see "booth hunks" hanging around at expos, games themselves are filled with attractive men. Just put the name of your favorite game in Google, followed by "yaoi," and watch the gay porn links roll in.
I'm sorry ladies, but guys are very simple creatures, we like looking at semi-naked, good looking, women.
Want to know a secret? Girls like looking at good-looking naked guys, too. The fact that you believe they don't is why they're capable of controlling you.
Well, my grandma could probably handle it, but mine builds her own computers rather than buying pre-built ones.
Even if she couldn't, though, I'd just tell her to install this. It's just as easy as installing any other program, really. You don't see people complaining that Java is unusuable just because it doesn't come installed by default on most computers.
And if your grandma is using Linux, I would imagine that she's computer-savvy enough to handle a package manager anyway.
Mandrake did, last time I checked. Even if yours doesn't have it, what's so painful about opening up your favorite package manager and taking 30 seconds to install it?
Interestingly, within about two months of graduating from college with a degree in CS, I got a job offer from an institute that pays its entry-level analysts over $50k per year with an average yearly turnover rate of under 7%. I have a number of coworkers who have been here for over 20 years, and since I've joined they've had three retirement parties for people who had been working here for their entire working careers. I wouldn't say I made out too badly...
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Actually, the quote you're thinking of is "Delays are temporary, mediocrity is forever," and it was said by Victor Ireland, CEO of Working Designs. The line is even said by one of the characters in Lunar, one of the games that WD localized. The only place I've seen the mangled version of the quote attributed to Shigeru Miyamoto is here on Slashdot.
Um.. if you're talking about the upcoming FF movie named "Advent Children," no, it's going to have a simulataneous UMD and DVD release.
And you say its power is "amazing," but that's true of every new system that has ever come out in comparison to older systems. The PSP is marginally more powerful than the DS, and in exchange you get worse battery life, worse construction quality, a smaller game library, and it doesn't have a touch screen. There's really nothing revolutionary about it.
24-hour use, I promise
You do know that there's no such thing as this "24-hour" rule, right? ROM piraters made it up in an attempt to justify illegal ROM sites. In actuality, you've violated copyright law as soon as you've downloaded a ROM.
But natural gas doesn't just magically appear in homes. You've still got to pay for the refinery and transmission of it. Saying that it only consumes "energy put into the organic chemicals by the Sun" is just as much "Greenwash" as pretending that using water has no cost.
And honestly, I'm not interested in trying to find statistics to prove your point for you.
This toy is clearly a much bigger waster of power than even the worst home heating systems that rely on electric baseboards.
Actually, while you make some good points, it's not "clearly" a larger waster of power than anything else. Can you provide any actual statistics, perhaps some links to studies? Pretty much any other modern method of generating flame also depends on materials that were processed elsewhere, you know.
What's really fun is that NTFS doesn't consider data in forks other than the main one when computer file size. That means that you can have a file that appears to be, say, 2 kB, when it's really a few hundred megs.
That's just wrong. The GBA's screen is 60.2 mm x 40.8 mm, with a resolution of 240x160. Both of the DS's screens are individually 60.96 mm x 45.72 mm, with a resolution of 256x192.
Surely you're aware that a modded xbox does all of the above for free? (Assuming you have an xbox, of course...)
But can it do so legally? Believe it or not, when given a choice between something legal and something illegal, many people will choose to go with the legal route, especially when it's easier than the illegal one -- and plugging in a Revolution and connecting it to the 'net will undoubtedly be easier than modding an Xbox, finding an emulator and ROMs for it, and getting them on a compatible medium.
When I first saw this story, I had the same reaction that a lot of Slashdotters here are having -- OMG patents are horrible DLO is horrible for enforcing their patent, etc.
However, after a little bit of research into the topic, I've discovered that DVForge's product really is pretty close to a copy of DLO's; I can't see anything significantly different about it. DVForge also seems to have a pretty bad reputation. DVForge really is blatantly infringing on DLO's patent.
Now, the more important question is -- is this patent wrong? Is this kind of idea trivial? Well, I don't know. I have an iPod, but I hadn't seen a product like this before or even thought about looking for one. It is a very cool product, though, so I just ordered one from DLO.
Again, thanks!
Actually, since it has two screens, it has 28% more pixels than a 320x240 screen.
The year is 2101 A.D. The Milky Way Federation, the galaxy's governing body, has made public its (sic) plans to construct stategic defense bases in eight different locations.
You know, "its" is correct in this case. There's no apostrophe when it's indicating possession.
Erm -- the bard is named Edward in the American translation, Gilbert in the original Japanese version. And if I recall correctly, the reason Tellah was thrashing Edward was because he (who was actually the prince of Damcyan) ran off with Tellah's daughter, and his daughter was killed in an attack on Edward's castle. So, "You spoony bard!" was a rather awkward thing to yell out when most people would've be cursing..
It's also far too cultured for Texans -- last time I checked, it wasn't opening at any theatre in Texas, despite the fact that San Antonio, Dallas/Fort Worth, and Austin are all among the largest cities int he US.
Refuse to boot? That I've never seen.
It's a problem that occurs with some motherboards with VIA chipsets. The last ones I saw with the problem were back during the Pentium 3 / Athlon era, so newer ones may be better, but then again, I've also been sticking to non-VIA chipsets since then. SBLive! cards had to be placed in specific slots on the motherboard and had an IRQ reserved particularly for them (they don't like IRQ sharing) or they frequently just wouldn't boot.
Crash? On windows, yes. I've never seen an Emu10k card crash on Linux; the ALSA drivers are pretty frigging good.
The Linux drivers are better than the available Windows drivers, but I don't mean just having the card crash, I mean bringing the entire system down. I've seen inexplicable kernel panics that occured regularly for no apparent reason at all, but they never happened again after the SBLive! card was removed.
Does the Turtle Beach Riviera support hardware mixing?
Yes. It also has an optical S/PDIF output.
Get an SB Live! Value or an SB Audigy! Value.
The only problem with this is that SB Live!s suck ass. I have seen so many people's computers lock up, crash intermittently, or refuse to even boot because they had an SB Live! that didn't want to play nice with the rest of their hardware, and the featureset really isn't all that good even for a budget card.
Try a Turtle Beach Riviera if you need a good budget card.
Exactly what are you trying to say? As far as I can tell, the only point of your post is FUD.
Apple used to claim that a Pentium was like a snail. They can't do that anymore.
No, they claimed that more MHz == faster is a myth. It's still true. A 2.5 GHz G5 is faster than a 3 GHz P4. What they're saying now is that IBM's development has stagnated, and in the near future, the P4 will be a more cost-effective processor than the G5.
Apple still claims that OS-X never crashes. Mac users will say the same thing in public. However the Big Secret is that on Mac-centric bulletin boards (like this, for instance) you see that there are many "kernel panics" (the equivalent of a Windows BSOD).
So, you've discovered that kernel panics exist. What was your point? They happen in Linux and BSD, too, and it's the same thing as Windows' BSOD -- no matter what OS you're using, it is possible for something to occur that would make it impossible for it to continue processing. Apple doesn't claim that OS X never crashes, they claim that it's stable -- and it is. I've had a PowerBook running OS X for about three years now, and in that time I've seen two kernel panics, both a result of me trying to load a device driver that was compiled for a different version of the OS. That's entirely anecdotal, of course, but you'll find that the most people who've used OS X have similar anecdotes.
Did you have a point, or were you just trying (and failing) to point out the obvious?
For what it's worth, everybody is too cheap to buy potions. They're very expensive, and don't really heal you very much. If you really want to play solo, after you've hit 15, the best thing you can do is party until 18, get your sub-job, level that up to 15, get your main job up to 30, and then unlock Beastmaster, the one class that's capable of soloing the entire way.
Japan has a real problem with showing genital hair, but no problem at all with representing underage characters.
I suppose it's only semantics, but this would be more appropriate as "no problem at all with representing characters we consider underage." The legal age of consent in Japan is 13, you see.
Yeah, you're probably right. My bad.
I agree with your post, but I think that it is actually less applicable than normal in the area of video games (and Japanese animation, too). Although you don't typically see "booth hunks" hanging around at expos, games themselves are filled with attractive men. Just put the name of your favorite game in Google, followed by "yaoi," and watch the gay porn links roll in.
I'm sorry ladies, but guys are very simple creatures, we like looking at semi-naked, good looking, women.
Want to know a secret? Girls like looking at good-looking naked guys, too. The fact that you believe they don't is why they're capable of controlling you.
Well, my grandma could probably handle it, but mine builds her own computers rather than buying pre-built ones.
Even if she couldn't, though, I'd just tell her to install this. It's just as easy as installing any other program, really. You don't see people complaining that Java is unusuable just because it doesn't come installed by default on most computers.
And if your grandma is using Linux, I would imagine that she's computer-savvy enough to handle a package manager anyway.
Mandrake did, last time I checked. Even if yours doesn't have it, what's so painful about opening up your favorite package manager and taking 30 seconds to install it?
Further, I'm not demoing anything that pushes ads at me.
Like Slashdot?
Interestingly, within about two months of graduating from college with a degree in CS, I got a job offer from an institute that pays its entry-level analysts over $50k per year with an average yearly turnover rate of under 7%. I have a number of coworkers who have been here for over 20 years, and since I've joined they've had three retirement parties for people who had been working here for their entire working careers. I wouldn't say I made out too badly...