A: microsoft will have a shift key available in the premium bundle keyboard. this isn't just a 'crack the box' keyboard. this is a removable, user servceable keyboard with some really compelling shift key features, for only a hundred extra dollars.
Well, most of those cards wouldn't play Doom3, and something like Quake1 wouldn't be demanding enough to show a significant difference at the high end.
And, if you got the old cards to play Doom3, you would have them being waaaay over-reported because they can't do any of the pixel shaders. Since they would be doing so much less work, the frame rate would indicate it to be much faster than it really is.
It would certainly be possible. People do strange things all the time.
That said, it is an engine for a FPS. It's designed to be an FPS, and it is a mature, large codebas with lots of inline assembly, so I would imagine that completely repurposing it would be inconvenient.
It's like a 5 MB zip. 22 MB uncompressed. I found a few non-text files, but a lot of plain text. Assume that over half of the download is non-text files. That makes about 10 MB of plain text to read before you know what everything does. Uncle Tom's Cabin is about 1 MB. So, about 10 copies of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Except, it's all poorly commented source code.
Yes, but now they're going beyond that. They're trying to synthetically combine nucleotides of genetic material together in new ways. No more simple two species transactions, but a genuine "synthetic" approach to creating NEW genes.
Recipe for pepperoni pizza "from scratch":
Get pizza. Make pepperoni. Add second to first.
It's not to say that the scientists aren't working hard, aren't smart, or haven't made a significant advance. They are making new genes and using them in living organisms. This is completely different from "life from scratch." Creating a life form, without using any existing parts, just chemistry, now *that* would be life from scratch. (Even if it happened to be an existing species!) It would be something fundamentally different from what has been done here.
Scientists create new forms of life = true Scientists create life from scratch = false (for now)
Uhhh... This isn't insightful. It's a non-sequiter. Granted, the grand-parent poster was off topic, since he wasn't talking about the current drive, just the next generation of hard drives in general. But, come on, if you actually read the grandparent post, it didn't say anything inconsistent with the summary.
These people were not playing for things of real value.
Then why can people get money for them? If I can exchange something for money, it has real value. It's just a matter of definition. Now, I'll agree as far as saying that anybdy who spends real money of imaginary video game items is a moron. I'll also agree that they really shouldn't have value. Sadly, the world seems less sane than you or I. (And, that's saying something!)
This should not be a matter for the law to get involved in, plain and simple. At worst, the guy is breaking the game's TOS (in which case it's an issue for the GMs).
Lineage II is a PVP game which lets you take items from characters you defeat. It seems to me that, aside from the botting aspect, there's nothing in this guy's behaviour that's wrong. The botting aspect, if a TOS violation, should probably be punished by the suspension of his account.
Okay, I agree with you up to a point. PVP means PVP, hack and slash, loot and plunder. I have no issue with that. Just like a poker game is PVP, and a good poker player can take my money without it being a crime.
That said, the bot was cheating. He cheated at a game to take things that had real world money value. If somebody cheated at poker to take things of value, that would be a crime. I don't see why this game would be handled differently from a card game. He didn't win the things, he cheated them. He sold the things he got by cheating, and made money.
I don't care about the "theft" angle. I care about the bot. That is what made it fraud. Online or card game, it should be handled all the same, IMHO.
I am beginning to enjoy food less and less (especially out here in the Midwest where they have no tastebuds) and bullshit like this will only make it worse. Sadly, people will love it... See, no bacteria - especially when I cook it till it's charcoal.
Now, that's just not true. It's not the whole midwest that has no taste buds. That is a broad overgeneralisation that is borderline offensive, and certainly misleading.
Everybody in the midwest who isn't from Chicago has no tastebuds.
Or, Iowa City. I once found a good restaurant in Iowa city. But, only the one.
Seriously, how can you imply that the inventors of (Real) stuffed pizza (not that fake crap you get anywhere else, and not stuffed crust!) and Italian Beef sandwiches, have no taste buds?
You are right. The summary is badly phrased. Take the idea of booting off a flash key, and the logical extension is to boot off something bigger than a flash key, hence an iPod.
The article is confusing, so I'm still not sure exactly what the point is. They talk about an "encrypted virtual machine," as if the phrase has meaning...
I was just about to reply to the grand parent with the same comment. We use Groupwise, and have no problems with synching, but a lot of alternatives would make easy synching... less easy.
Another nice thing about groupwise is the ability to email an appointment. Really just a UI convenience, rather than an actual feature, but it means that the users don't have to draw any distinction between appointments and email, which saves some hassle.
Well, maybe not exactly $5.9 million. Maybe it would be $5.89 million, or something. The actual fuel costs of a launch are pretty insignificant, and they would be the only real change between a 2kg launch and a 580 kg launch.
There is a limit to how small you want a space probe to be. Basically, you need a rocket that will get the final-stage booster going as fast as a it needs to be.
In other words, getting a few hundred kg of mass into orbit (or on a Mars trajectory) is only slightly more difficult than getting nothing to orbit.
You can make shows very cheap. Think "Bob goes fishing," and the like, which you can sell to a niche audience.
Think of it this way, take 10% off the money as profit for the production company. Whatever is left goes to budget to produce the show. You won't see many million dollar shows, but it still makes sense for the production company to field as many shows as possible, in order to increase the total take.
A small currentl issues political debate show can be made by a staff of ten without any problems. (Director, a few camera staff, some talent, and a tech) That only requires a few thousand subscribers to pay for the show, at most. It may be one step ahead of a cable access show, but it could still be profitable. Since there is no scarcity in scheduling, it can't compete with some other show which might make more money, so no reason to cancel it. With a limited schedule, you would need to field the most profitable show in each slot, meaning the small shows would make no sense to produce.
That seems unlikely. By moving to a download-model, you eliminate the scarcity of schedule, which means you can 'broadcast' as many shows every week as you want. You want to make lots of shows to get lots of people's money. If you only have three or four shows, that limits the money you can get, because people will only buy three or four shows.
If, however, you make 100 little shows, each person may be able to find ten that they like, which means most of the shows have small bugets, but the production comp[any takes in 2-3 times as much revenue.
I think it is an excellent medium for archiving my video. I currently have about a half TB online on my main PC. Several hundred GB worth of just video. Strictly speaking, yes, I could get a whole bunch of miniDV tapes or something, and spend god knows how many hours putting all my video on tape, and archiving it. Then what would I get? I cabinet full of tapes. Dammit, why the hell would I want that?
My Hard drives are smaller than tapes would be. They let me get at all my video instantly. They let me manipulate all of it without having to copy back to a HD to bring it online. When I get another big hard drive, I can back it all up easily.
Because, really... Why *wouldn't* you want a complete collection of Doctor Who on your PC? (Mine isn't actually complete yet... I have Peter Davison on, and am in the middle of acquiring the complete Tom Baker. I don't have much of the first three Doctors. And, in point of fact, none at all of the first)
There are still some major problems for MS Office.
First, it normally defaultly saves in The most current Office Format not something backwards compatible with old copies of Word, yes this is an easy change but people when they are done just hit the save Icon and they are done, they don't want to go through tens of choices and find the document that everyone else uses.
Second, Individuals have invested time in older versions of MS Office. From those High School Computer Class to College Classes, CS101. The education system for computers are so dumb that they teach people how to use a specific version of Microsoft Word but not a Word Processor. So almost everyone who enters the Work field know an out of date Office.
Third, Speed. Office has had a speed problem from the day they invented Clippy. Putting animated characters over the work are slow things down where the users feel it is important, boot up and typing and saving.
Fourth, Interface. MS Office is setup with a good interface Windows, but not for Linux or Mac. Running MS Office under Wine makes it feel completely out of place because it is not using a native toolkit.
Fifth, Work Flow. MS Office's goal is to create all the functionality needed by office workers but it forgot to get the work flow. Watch a non technical person use Office and you will see that their ways of solving problems may surprise you. They avoid using Style Sheets and just go for the Font Drop Down, except for hitting tab they will use the space and they never ever use hot keys for anything. The menus are off limit to them (The same with the windows start button) If they don't see it it must be an advanced feature that they shouldn't use.
MS Office is good for MCSEs but not for normal people.
As far as I know, there are still no pointers in the shader languages either. (Nor any equivalent construct like Java's references.) This will be a pretty significant stumbling block for general purpose work. Like trying to rewrite the Linux kernel in BASIC...
Hey, sometimes I space out, and I don't drive anywhere near as much as some people, so I'll concede I'm probably only average at best.
That said, there are some cases when there is no danger is exceeding the speed limit.
Middle of Kansas/Iowa, flat level ground, deserted road, daylight, no weather. Stopping somebody for speeding is pointless. There was no significant danger. The worst thing that could possibly have happened is some mechanical failure resulting in going off the road, and taking out some corn.
That said, on a packed urban freeway, driving into sunset, with slick wet roads... Well, naturally if somebody is speeding they are presenting a significant danger. I have no problem with enforcing speed limits. I just think that they should only be enforced where they matter.
Say, a maximum $15 fine, and negligible buff against the driving record for the safe scenario above. But, a significant dollar and penalty increase for each thing that makes it more dangerous (many cars on the road, weather, poor visibility, etc.)
Aside from the problem of needing many more sats in orbit, you also have to make every dish in the country be able to track a moving bird in real time. The big advantage of geostationary orbit is that you just point at a spot in the sky, and it stays there.
Find some things like:
Clifford Lynch: Speech on Scholarly Communications
And write a friendly note to your IT staff explaining that you seem to be having trouble getting it, apparently because the ports are blocked. Explain that it is relavent academic material that you need to consult. (Try to find something specific to your major, and with an academic title.) Whenever you run across something like this that has legitimate scholarly merit that is relevant to your courseload, write another friendly note explaining how you need access to it.
Don't be abuse, don't be whiny, don't try to convince them you are smart or well informed. Policy is never decided by such a pissing contest. You would just be ignored. Just make polite, courteous explanations that you need legitimate access to specific resources.
They may or may not decide that the benefits outweigh the trouble. In this case, try to find a proxy to pass through...
This is the first thing I saw. Plug it into your PC, and backup your saves. If you have a Memory stick reader on the PC, it should be easy to copy over.
I also wouldn't be surprised if there us a USB card reader available for the PS3 itself to work with the old cards directly.
I'm more interested in putting SD on a big Blu-Ray. Imagine all of Star Trek and Doctor Who... On one disc. It'd be great to be able to bring it around.
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I was expecting something along the lines of:
A: microsoft will have a shift key available in the premium bundle keyboard. this isn't just a 'crack the box' keyboard. this is a removable, user servceable keyboard with some really compelling shift key features, for only a hundred extra dollars.
Well, most of those cards wouldn't play Doom3, and something like Quake1 wouldn't be demanding enough to show a significant difference at the high end.
And, if you got the old cards to play Doom3, you would have them being waaaay over-reported because they can't do any of the pixel shaders. Since they would be doing so much less work, the frame rate would indicate it to be much faster than it really is.
This isn't supposed to happen until 2208
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It would certainly be possible. People do strange things all the time.
That said, it is an engine for a FPS. It's designed to be an FPS, and it is a mature, large codebas with lots of inline assembly, so I would imagine that completely repurposing it would be inconvenient.
It's like a 5 MB zip. 22 MB uncompressed. I found a few non-text files, but a lot of plain text. Assume that over half of the download is non-text files. That makes about 10 MB of plain text to read before you know what everything does. Uncle Tom's Cabin is about 1 MB. So, about 10 copies of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Except, it's all poorly commented source code.
Recipe for pepperoni pizza "from scratch":
Get pizza.
Make pepperoni.
Add second to first.
It's not to say that the scientists aren't working hard, aren't smart, or haven't made a significant advance. They are making new genes and using them in living organisms. This is completely different from "life from scratch." Creating a life form, without using any existing parts, just chemistry, now *that* would be life from scratch. (Even if it happened to be an existing species!) It would be something fundamentally different from what has been done here.
Scientists create new forms of life = true
Scientists create life from scratch = false (for now)
Uhhh... This isn't insightful. It's a non-sequiter. Granted, the grand-parent poster was off topic, since he wasn't talking about the current drive, just the next generation of hard drives in general. But, come on, if you actually read the grandparent post, it didn't say anything inconsistent with the summary.
Then why can people get money for them? If I can exchange something for money, it has real value. It's just a matter of definition. Now, I'll agree as far as saying that anybdy who spends real money of imaginary video game items is a moron. I'll also agree that they really shouldn't have value. Sadly, the world seems less sane than you or I. (And, that's saying something!)
Okay, I agree with you up to a point. PVP means PVP, hack and slash, loot and plunder. I have no issue with that. Just like a poker game is PVP, and a good poker player can take my money without it being a crime.
That said, the bot was cheating. He cheated at a game to take things that had real world money value. If somebody cheated at poker to take things of value, that would be a crime. I don't see why this game would be handled differently from a card game. He didn't win the things, he cheated them. He sold the things he got by cheating, and made money.
I don't care about the "theft" angle. I care about the bot. That is what made it fraud. Online or card game, it should be handled all the same, IMHO.
Now, that's just not true. It's not the whole midwest that has no taste buds. That is a broad overgeneralisation that is borderline offensive, and certainly misleading.
Everybody in the midwest who isn't from Chicago has no tastebuds.
Or, Iowa City. I once found a good restaurant in Iowa city. But, only the one.
Seriously, how can you imply that the inventors of (Real) stuffed pizza (not that fake crap you get anywhere else, and not stuffed crust!) and Italian Beef sandwiches, have no taste buds?
You are right. The summary is badly phrased. Take the idea of booting off a flash key, and the logical extension is to boot off something bigger than a flash key, hence an iPod.
The article is confusing, so I'm still not sure exactly what the point is. They talk about an "encrypted virtual machine," as if the phrase has meaning...
I was just about to reply to the grand parent with the same comment. We use Groupwise, and have no problems with synching, but a lot of alternatives would make easy synching... less easy.
Another nice thing about groupwise is the ability to email an appointment. Really just a UI convenience, rather than an actual feature, but it means that the users don't have to draw any distinction between appointments and email, which saves some hassle.
Well, maybe not exactly $5.9 million. Maybe it would be $5.89 million, or something. The actual fuel costs of a launch are pretty insignificant, and they would be the only real change between a 2kg launch and a 580 kg launch.
There is a limit to how small you want a space probe to be. Basically, you need a rocket that will get the final-stage booster going as fast as a it needs to be.
In other words, getting a few hundred kg of mass into orbit (or on a Mars trajectory) is only slightly more difficult than getting nothing to orbit.
You can make shows very cheap. Think "Bob goes fishing," and the like, which you can sell to a niche audience.
Think of it this way, take 10% off the money as profit for the production company. Whatever is left goes to budget to produce the show. You won't see many million dollar shows, but it still makes sense for the production company to field as many shows as possible, in order to increase the total take.
A small currentl issues political debate show can be made by a staff of ten without any problems. (Director, a few camera staff, some talent, and a tech) That only requires a few thousand subscribers to pay for the show, at most. It may be one step ahead of a cable access show, but it could still be profitable. Since there is no scarcity in scheduling, it can't compete with some other show which might make more money, so no reason to cancel it. With a limited schedule, you would need to field the most profitable show in each slot, meaning the small shows would make no sense to produce.
That seems unlikely. By moving to a download-model, you eliminate the scarcity of schedule, which means you can 'broadcast' as many shows every week as you want. You want to make lots of shows to get lots of people's money. If you only have three or four shows, that limits the money you can get, because people will only buy three or four shows.
If, however, you make 100 little shows, each person may be able to find ten that they like, which means most of the shows have small bugets, but the production comp[any takes in 2-3 times as much revenue.
I agree with you completely about assembly, but not Java. Too much black magic for a newbie to feel he is in controll.
Personally, I love C, but they may be a bit arcane. Others have suggested python, and I am inclined to agree.
Teach the fundamentals of assembly, build everything larger in python, and do a little whizzy OpenGL in python to catch everybody's attention.
It's called perl.
(You may have to type in some extra stuff to get it to do exactly what you want.)
I think it is an excellent medium for archiving my video. I currently have about a half TB online on my main PC. Several hundred GB worth of just video. Strictly speaking, yes, I could get a whole bunch of miniDV tapes or something, and spend god knows how many hours putting all my video on tape, and archiving it. Then what would I get? I cabinet full of tapes. Dammit, why the hell would I want that?
My Hard drives are smaller than tapes would be. They let me get at all my video instantly. They let me manipulate all of it without having to copy back to a HD to bring it online. When I get another big hard drive, I can back it all up easily.
Because, really... Why *wouldn't* you want a complete collection of Doctor Who on your PC? (Mine isn't actually complete yet... I have Peter Davison on, and am in the middle of acquiring the complete Tom Baker. I don't have much of the first three Doctors. And, in point of fact, none at all of the first)
Okay, just to flip around the argument a bit...
There are still some major problems for MS Office.
First, it normally defaultly saves in The most current Office Format not something backwards compatible with old copies of Word, yes this is an easy change but people when they are done just hit the save Icon and they are done, they don't want to go through tens of choices and find the document that everyone else uses.
Second, Individuals have invested time in older versions of MS Office. From those High School Computer Class to College Classes, CS101. The education system for computers are so dumb that they teach people how to use a specific version of Microsoft Word but not a Word Processor. So almost everyone who enters the Work field know an out of date Office.
Third, Speed. Office has had a speed problem from the day they invented Clippy. Putting animated characters over the work are slow things down where the users feel it is important, boot up and typing and saving.
Fourth, Interface. MS Office is setup with a good interface Windows, but not for Linux or Mac. Running MS Office under Wine makes it feel completely out of place because it is not using a native toolkit.
Fifth, Work Flow. MS Office's goal is to create all the functionality needed by office workers but it forgot to get the work flow. Watch a non technical person use Office and you will see that their ways of solving problems may surprise you. They avoid using Style Sheets and just go for the Font Drop Down, except for hitting tab they will use the space and they never ever use hot keys for anything. The menus are off limit to them (The same with the windows start button) If they don't see it it must be an advanced feature that they shouldn't use.
MS Office is good for MCSEs but not for normal people.
As far as I know, there are still no pointers in the shader languages either. (Nor any equivalent construct like Java's references.) This will be a pretty significant stumbling block for general purpose work. Like trying to rewrite the Linux kernel in BASIC...
Hey, sometimes I space out, and I don't drive anywhere near as much as some people, so I'll concede I'm probably only average at best.
That said, there are some cases when there is no danger is exceeding the speed limit.
Middle of Kansas/Iowa, flat level ground, deserted road, daylight, no weather. Stopping somebody for speeding is pointless. There was no significant danger. The worst thing that could possibly have happened is some mechanical failure resulting in going off the road, and taking out some corn.
That said, on a packed urban freeway, driving into sunset, with slick wet roads... Well, naturally if somebody is speeding they are presenting a significant danger. I have no problem with enforcing speed limits. I just think that they should only be enforced where they matter.
Say, a maximum $15 fine, and negligible buff against the driving record for the safe scenario above. But, a significant dollar and penalty increase for each thing that makes it more dangerous (many cars on the road, weather, poor visibility, etc.)
Aside from the problem of needing many more sats in orbit, you also have to make every dish in the country be able to track a moving bird in real time. The big advantage of geostationary orbit is that you just point at a spot in the sky, and it stays there.
Find some things like:
Clifford Lynch: Speech on Scholarly Communications
And write a friendly note to your IT staff explaining that you seem to be having trouble getting it, apparently because the ports are blocked. Explain that it is relavent academic material that you need to consult. (Try to find something specific to your major, and with an academic title.) Whenever you run across something like this that has legitimate scholarly merit that is relevant to your courseload, write another friendly note explaining how you need access to it.
Don't be abuse, don't be whiny, don't try to convince them you are smart or well informed. Policy is never decided by such a pissing contest. You would just be ignored. Just make polite, courteous explanations that you need legitimate access to specific resources.
They may or may not decide that the benefits outweigh the trouble. In this case, try to find a proxy to pass through...
http://www.lik-sang.com/info.php?category=25&produ cts_id=202&
This is the first thing I saw. Plug it into your PC, and backup your saves. If you have a Memory stick reader on the PC, it should be easy to copy over.
I also wouldn't be surprised if there us a USB card reader available for the PS3 itself to work with the old cards directly.
I'm more interested in putting SD on a big Blu-Ray. Imagine all of Star Trek and Doctor Who... On one disc. It'd be great to be able to bring it around.