This isn't an "if you build it they will come" scenario. Unless you design something like a 1920x1200 FPS that sends complete video data to the client (as opposed to having the client render anything on its own), modern games, even the most bandwidth-hungry of them, are still many, many generations from even coming close to saturating a 5Mbps line, let alone coming anywhere near 1Gbps.
HDMI 1.3 is 4.9 gbps, which, I think, is uncompressed, but 1080p in its standard color bit doesn't use half of that. Multiple streams of uncompressed 1080p is the only thing I can think of that would saturate 10gb networking in the next 10 years. Those people are Dreamworks and Pixar and maybe some other movie studios. But I agree with you completely.
Running servers from home connections destroys pretty much all pricing structures for both intertube providers and dedicated hosting providers. If you want a dedicated (T1) connection you're going to have to pay ~350/month in most cities
Does it really matter if all 10 users can get full 10 gigabit eithernet at the same time? Can you really think of any application where a home user would need 10 gigabit for more than 10 minutes at a time... per day? At that point your hard drive's write speed(s) become the bottleneck. Maybe down the road (10 years) you'll have users who can tap out a 10 gb connection 24/7 but right now with 5 megabit I can download video over bit torrent faster than I can watch it (at standard definition, 720p divx downloads at almost real time). I guess if you have 12+ family members each streaming HD video you might approach 1gb continuous but I'm not actually going to calculate that.
People you describe are functionally illiterate (in the sense that they can't function without being coddled by society) and deserve a whole separate rant involving walmart and automatic transmissions.
Well the first two or three would go out and buy new TVs. Then they'd get to talking and (hopefully) notice that ALL their tvs were black and white. Although hopefully you would think with an average of 3 tvs per household, they would notice that all their tvs went B&W at the same time.
You are going to be shocked, SHOCKED at how many people bitch and moan about this, thinking that it didn't apply to them. It's one thing to read a message and not understand it, and ignore it from then on thinking it doesn't apply to you; it's another thing entirely to break part of what they use (go B&W) so they see it does apply to them. Many people fore go medical treatment thinking it isn't as bad as it really is (lump in breast) and when they finally are talked into seeing a doctor it has metastasized into a terminal cancer.
The other half probably should be institutionalized, but hey, right now Arkansas, Alabama and Mississippi are pulling most of their weight so they can stay where they are for now.
No, the point of broadcasting in B&W isn't to reduce broadcast power (that's just dumb at this point), it is, like you said, to annoy and confuse people so they start asking questions. Because really anyone at this point who doesnt have an HDTV converter box either isn't aware of doesn't think it applies to them. These are the same people that are going to get angry and call the FCC the day analog gets shut off. Rather than have them super angry and without TV, they have a serious degradation of quality (in this case, color), they get upset enough that they decide to seek out information on their own, and so that they're ready when (B&W) analog gets shut off in three months.
Most people don't upgrade their fuse box in an old home until they start tripping breakers, at least this way joe the plumber knows he's going to start tripping the breaker when he turns on the 52" widescreen TV and his home theater system at the same time before he gets home from best buy. So to speak.
Seriously, if you're watching TV and your color TV suddenly is B&W on every channel, and so is your buddy's, even the clueless idiot is going to drag his ass to the TV asile of walmart and start asking questions. You still get TV, and HDTV is avalible, but SDTV is black and white which will prompt people to go to the store and at least consider a HD tuner.
Well they stream your TV, internet and phone over that fiber. In theory fiber has almost infinite bandwidth potential, I think it's mostly that Verizon doesn't want to have to pay for the pipes to connect everyone at 100 megabit to the rest of the internet. Buying more Fat Pipes for 3+ million people between the fiber link at home and the internet backbone isn't cheap. I'm sure throughput will go up as the infrastructure improves over time, just like water pressure and electric amp capacity to the home has improved since the 1920's.
It's been "live" in the Dallas area and suburbs for at least five years now, I know seattle just announced it too. Stringing fiber might not be that complex, but it's more complex than stringing electrical wires and underground coax.
I suppose the only two solutions to this problem are...(2) to require senators to have a staff of 20 each, whose sole job is to review new bills and provide "cliff notes" for the senators, that catch all the little gotchas that have been hidden.
Unpaid interns are CHEAP CHEAP CHEAP. In a regular 40 hr work week 8 aides would only have to read 100 pages each, which (100 pages) can be done in probably 2-3 hours if you're just flipping through speed reading and highlighting important/suspicious parts. Heck one person could do it as a full time job no problem and still have time for 2 hour lunches and still have plenty of time to write up a 10 page summary of that week's legislation. Mosy legislators have at least two aides.
The problem is the process itself is fundamentally flawed. It was developed for a country in 1776, not 2009, and it didn't scale well enough.
The biggest problem is kind of weird, actually. We have 500-odd congressmen representing 300 million simply because you can't fit more desks into the legislative room. Sometime around 1900, congressmen stopped representing a fixed number of people/area and their constituency and power started to grow. This isn't a huge issue for smaller states like Vermont, Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska (three congressmen!) and other states, but states like California, Texas and New York are seriously undeserved. This is where congress starts to break down, and is the root of under-accountability. Build a bigger legislative meeting room, shrink the size of the desks, there are lots of solutions besides making a second tier of federal legislative districts similar to how there are federal court appeal circuits.
You're only going to get fat in front of the Xbox if you spend all your time snacking while doing it in addition to eating oversized meals on a regular basis
Buying for the console is silly anyway. You pay $10-$20 more than you do for the PC version so that you can play the game using a terrible controller.
I dont' disagree with this, but an interesting point on the PS2 was that you COULD play Half-Life on the PS2 with a USB mouse and keyboard. Probably the closest thing to a straight port as humanly possible. Also Left 4 Dead has 360 controller support in the PC version (you have to use a specialized autoexec.cfg file for it to work, but the on screen button overlays, 360 controller tips ect are there). We actually got console version split screen working on my computer with L4D using mouse+kbd as p1 & 360 controller as p2.
By the time valve runs itself into the ground (I don't see it happening in the next 2 years anyways) all the games you can get on steam will be available on bit torrent. Hell I was able to download the original MS DOS version of TIE Fighter the other day, along with Dark Forces. If you're aching that bad to play the game it will be available. Considering the assets of Steam, I don't see it going away even if Valve somehow keels over - someone will buy the Steam assets and continue the service, likely EA as about half their games are offered on there. It beats the hell out of the dashboard for the other three consoles.
Demoman, and maybe, MAYBE the spy require reflexes. Heavy? Bullet spam cannon. Soldier? Splash damage. Medic heals. Sniper is sniper in any game. Engineer? Sentries. Pyro? Hah. Demo man, and I don't mean yours or my skill level, but a GOOD demoman will mop the floor with the opposing team using regular grenades. Aiming is not a huge issue in this game, people are constantly spamming ammo in random directions constantly. Spy needs good reflexes to jump over enemies while cloaked on stairs for the backstab, or stab-n-sap engineers. What class/map/gamestyle were you playing?
I think the "skyrocketing" had less to do with the Wii and more the fact that those of us born in the late 1970s/early-mid1980s have now grown up and have disposable income and are spending it on videogames, much to analysts in the early 2000's suprise. Of course video game sales are improving, their original market (now aged 22-30) now has 20-100% more disposable income from when they were in college, their original market exposed the rest of the university population (who now also has a substantial disposable income as well) to video games, all the while 7 and 8 year olds are comming of age, asking mommy and daddy for a PS3 or Wii. Prior to 2002 fratboys hardly ever touched consoles. Now there's a halo3 tournament in every frat house and people constantly playing NCAA Football 200X. It probably won't be for another 10-12 years before video game sales numbers fully stabilize. (people currently over the age of 50 who haven't already bought a system probably won't ever buy one)
Selling apple and investing in something like Coca Cola or IBM would have been pretty safe bets which have been more or less flat since 1998, and from 1980-1997 flat as well
Is there still an updated world community grid or folding@home client for PPC? Toss in an ATI graphics card or two and you've got a good number crunching machine. Alternately it's a good grandma computer.
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HDMI 1.3 is 4.9 gbps, which, I think, is uncompressed, but 1080p in its standard color bit doesn't use half of that. Multiple streams of uncompressed 1080p is the only thing I can think of that would saturate 10gb networking in the next 10 years. Those people are Dreamworks and Pixar and maybe some other movie studios. But I agree with you completely.
Running servers from home connections destroys pretty much all pricing structures for both intertube providers and dedicated hosting providers. If you want a dedicated (T1) connection you're going to have to pay ~350/month in most cities
Does it really matter if all 10 users can get full 10 gigabit eithernet at the same time? Can you really think of any application where a home user would need 10 gigabit for more than 10 minutes at a time... per day? At that point your hard drive's write speed(s) become the bottleneck. Maybe down the road (10 years) you'll have users who can tap out a 10 gb connection 24/7 but right now with 5 megabit I can download video over bit torrent faster than I can watch it (at standard definition, 720p divx downloads at almost real time). I guess if you have 12+ family members each streaming HD video you might approach 1gb continuous but I'm not actually going to calculate that.
People you describe are functionally illiterate (in the sense that they can't function without being coddled by society) and deserve a whole separate rant involving walmart and automatic transmissions.
You are clearly a moron and failed the reading comprehension portion of all your standardized tests. I'm sorry.
So use the 10 year old floppy installer @ 3 megs, get everything running and do incremental upgrades until you're at the most recent version.
Do what everyone else does, dual boot linux for everyday stuff, and run XP lite for video games.
-9, flamebait, I know, but im cranky and your post didn't really contribute anything to the discussion.
Well the first two or three would go out and buy new TVs. Then they'd get to talking and (hopefully) notice that ALL their tvs were black and white. Although hopefully you would think with an average of 3 tvs per household, they would notice that all their tvs went B&W at the same time.
You are going to be shocked, SHOCKED at how many people bitch and moan about this, thinking that it didn't apply to them. It's one thing to read a message and not understand it, and ignore it from then on thinking it doesn't apply to you; it's another thing entirely to break part of what they use (go B&W) so they see it does apply to them. Many people fore go medical treatment thinking it isn't as bad as it really is (lump in breast) and when they finally are talked into seeing a doctor it has metastasized into a terminal cancer.
The other half probably should be institutionalized, but hey, right now Arkansas, Alabama and Mississippi are pulling most of their weight so they can stay where they are for now.
No, the point of broadcasting in B&W isn't to reduce broadcast power (that's just dumb at this point), it is, like you said, to annoy and confuse people so they start asking questions. Because really anyone at this point who doesnt have an HDTV converter box either isn't aware of doesn't think it applies to them. These are the same people that are going to get angry and call the FCC the day analog gets shut off. Rather than have them super angry and without TV, they have a serious degradation of quality (in this case, color), they get upset enough that they decide to seek out information on their own, and so that they're ready when (B&W) analog gets shut off in three months.
Most people don't upgrade their fuse box in an old home until they start tripping breakers, at least this way joe the plumber knows he's going to start tripping the breaker when he turns on the 52" widescreen TV and his home theater system at the same time before he gets home from best buy. So to speak.
Seriously, if you're watching TV and your color TV suddenly is B&W on every channel, and so is your buddy's, even the clueless idiot is going to drag his ass to the TV asile of walmart and start asking questions. You still get TV, and HDTV is avalible, but SDTV is black and white which will prompt people to go to the store and at least consider a HD tuner.
Well they stream your TV, internet and phone over that fiber. In theory fiber has almost infinite bandwidth potential, I think it's mostly that Verizon doesn't want to have to pay for the pipes to connect everyone at 100 megabit to the rest of the internet. Buying more Fat Pipes for 3+ million people between the fiber link at home and the internet backbone isn't cheap. I'm sure throughput will go up as the infrastructure improves over time, just like water pressure and electric amp capacity to the home has improved since the 1920's.
/not complaining. Sorry.
It's been "live" in the Dallas area and suburbs for at least five years now, I know seattle just announced it too. Stringing fiber might not be that complex, but it's more complex than stringing electrical wires and underground coax.
Unpaid interns are CHEAP CHEAP CHEAP. In a regular 40 hr work week 8 aides would only have to read 100 pages each, which (100 pages) can be done in probably 2-3 hours if you're just flipping through speed reading and highlighting important/suspicious parts. Heck one person could do it as a full time job no problem and still have time for 2 hour lunches and still have plenty of time to write up a 10 page summary of that week's legislation. Mosy legislators have at least two aides.
The biggest problem is kind of weird, actually. We have 500-odd congressmen representing 300 million simply because you can't fit more desks into the legislative room. Sometime around 1900, congressmen stopped representing a fixed number of people/area and their constituency and power started to grow. This isn't a huge issue for smaller states like Vermont, Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska (three congressmen!) and other states, but states like California, Texas and New York are seriously undeserved. This is where congress starts to break down, and is the root of under-accountability. Build a bigger legislative meeting room, shrink the size of the desks, there are lots of solutions besides making a second tier of federal legislative districts similar to how there are federal court appeal circuits.
I've never heard that joke before, but it's thoughtful and interesting. I'd mod you up but it looks like you're already rated +5
You're only going to get fat in front of the Xbox if you spend all your time snacking while doing it in addition to eating oversized meals on a regular basis
You are using English. Please learn the difference between loose and lose; they're, there, and their; your and you're
Also that paid is a real word; payed is not
Buying for the console is silly anyway. You pay $10-$20 more than you do for the PC version so that you can play the game using a terrible controller.
I dont' disagree with this, but an interesting point on the PS2 was that you COULD play Half-Life on the PS2 with a USB mouse and keyboard. Probably the closest thing to a straight port as humanly possible. Also Left 4 Dead has 360 controller support in the PC version (you have to use a specialized autoexec.cfg file for it to work, but the on screen button overlays, 360 controller tips ect are there). We actually got console version split screen working on my computer with L4D using mouse+kbd as p1 & 360 controller as p2.
Alright! Pro tips from a career pyro.
By the time valve runs itself into the ground (I don't see it happening in the next 2 years anyways) all the games you can get on steam will be available on bit torrent. Hell I was able to download the original MS DOS version of TIE Fighter the other day, along with Dark Forces. If you're aching that bad to play the game it will be available. Considering the assets of Steam, I don't see it going away even if Valve somehow keels over - someone will buy the Steam assets and continue the service, likely EA as about half their games are offered on there. It beats the hell out of the dashboard for the other three consoles.
Sounds like someone passed their highschool communist russia test!
Demoman, and maybe, MAYBE the spy require reflexes. Heavy? Bullet spam cannon. Soldier? Splash damage. Medic heals. Sniper is sniper in any game. Engineer? Sentries. Pyro? Hah. Demo man, and I don't mean yours or my skill level, but a GOOD demoman will mop the floor with the opposing team using regular grenades. Aiming is not a huge issue in this game, people are constantly spamming ammo in random directions constantly. Spy needs good reflexes to jump over enemies while cloaked on stairs for the backstab, or stab-n-sap engineers. What class/map/gamestyle were you playing?
I think the "skyrocketing" had less to do with the Wii and more the fact that those of us born in the late 1970s/early-mid1980s have now grown up and have disposable income and are spending it on videogames, much to analysts in the early 2000's suprise. Of course video game sales are improving, their original market (now aged 22-30) now has 20-100% more disposable income from when they were in college, their original market exposed the rest of the university population (who now also has a substantial disposable income as well) to video games, all the while 7 and 8 year olds are comming of age, asking mommy and daddy for a PS3 or Wii. Prior to 2002 fratboys hardly ever touched consoles. Now there's a halo3 tournament in every frat house and people constantly playing NCAA Football 200X. It probably won't be for another 10-12 years before video game sales numbers fully stabilize. (people currently over the age of 50 who haven't already bought a system probably won't ever buy one)
Selling apple and investing in something like Coca Cola or IBM would have been pretty safe bets which have been more or less flat since 1998, and from 1980-1997 flat as well
Is there still an updated world community grid or folding@home client for PPC? Toss in an ATI graphics card or two and you've got a good number crunching machine. Alternately it's a good grandma computer.