They're still making PS2s because the middle class in third world countries like Colombia can barely afford them now.
PC vs Console graphics in 2000 is a non-point because you're talking about the genesis of 3-d graphics for the masses. A lot changes in the tumultuous years of a new technology. the 360 and PS3 represent 3-d graphics and games as a stabilized genre and technology.
Actually this is a pretty smart idea. You could build a "gateway" PS4 designed for playing popcap games, ps1, ps2 titles, bluray movies etc for $125, and then a full-fledged ps4 that plays things like metal gear solid 7 and gran turismo 8 for $300-$400. In previous generations there weren't two tiers of console games to cater to, but this time around you could definitely get away with it. Sony is attempting this with the latest version of their PSP/Android phone, but there's no reason why you couldn't build this into a bluray player and slap some game controller ports on the front and make the games cross-compatible.
Aw, this is a bummer. We had a plugin that would autodetect the language and auto-translate in-game chat in the correct language to each user individually, based on geo-ip data. Since we have a pretty diverse group of players (Finland, Germany, Egypt, Sweden, French-Canadian, American) this can be quite helpful.
A person like Bill Gates' valuation is based on the value of their stock shares. His actual cold hard cash reserves probably numbers less than $300 million. How they affect their company has a direct impact on their valuation. People rarely talk about someone's actual wealth. Numbers quoted in the news are always theoretical values based on stock valuation.
Is it? Einstein, Hawking, Nietzsche all did their greatest work before they got older. The man who invented the technology for the original mammogram was 27. It was my understanding that if you didn't do anything great by the time you turn 30, you're unlikely to achieve anything of note after that. Particularly in theoretical and academic realms.
I would love to see an animated gif of this sphere rotated so we could see the filaments. Some small amount of post processing that would elongate the dots along the filament lines would be a tremendous help.
AT&T is Southwestern Bell. Southwestern Bell is headquartered in Dallas. Dallas, San Antonio and Houston are in Texas. NYC is so far away from Dallas it might as well be in another country. Dallas, Houston and Chicago are huge, international cities. Not everything has to premier in NYC these days, and the rapid population growth of the west (and midwest) are making this more clear.
So yes, NYC will eventually get it, but a large chunk of the telcom industry is in Dallas (google "phone prairie") and it's easier to do things on your home turf. Dow Jones, NYSE etc are in NYC where the financial firms are; technology innovation occurs in California where semiconductor and tech companies are; phone rollouts occur in Dallas.
You don't see Boeing announcing the manufacture of the new 787 in Maine or Georgia. You won't see AT&T roll out new cell technology in New York City.
The next kindle is supposed to sport a quad core processor. What's preventing them from tossing in an nvidia chipset out of a netbook and an HDMI port, and allowing you to play back streaming video from the amazon.com video store on your TV? Most every 36"+ flatscreen TV has an HDMI port or two on the side for just this sort of thing.
Why buy a roku box when you can get an identical device that you can take with you and read books on, too? Not practical for the living room where a dedicated device is needed, but ideal for those couples who think having a TV in the bedroom is a good idea.
24" TN panels (1920x1080) were $220 each last thanksgiving (six months ago). At least, that's what I paid for mine. I suspect that supply and demand will see these size displays bottom out at around $200. You're crazy if you pay $400 for a 24" display these days.
Because 1920x1200 monitors go on sale about 10% as often as 1920x1080 displays do. The price premium isn't worth it for the extra 120 vertical pixels, especially on 24+ inch displays. Especially when you are buying two of them.
The rest of those are rehashes of other maps, gimmick/holiday maps, or just Bad Maps. Hell, Badlands is a remake of a TFC map. Goldrush is a remake of Dustbowl.
TF2 sort of jumped the shark with the engineer update. Valve hasn't released hardly any new "official" maps since launch (besides the Arena maps), and opinion varies wildly on the quality of the included "community" maps. While it's been a financial success and is probably a keystone to their development process as a whole for the source engine, it feels played out to me. I finally lost interest in early 2010. I will log in from time to time, but the same 10 maps by no means "feels fresh".
I think Sony is making a blindingly clear case that there is room in the market for a 4th (3rd? do we even count the Wii anymore as a serious contender for the adult market?) serious gaming console with a more mature online presence than Sony does. Apple comes to mind, but still seems far fetched. Maybe we'll see Mitsubishi or some German company throw their hat in to the ring?
If someone had a product in development, we'd have heard their marketing machine start rumbling, but the lack of a third contender means that people are writing up business plans/proposals for VCs around the world. By day 30 of the outage people will be speculating what this third console will be.
Bribing the people in charge of the people in charge of The People is a small price to pay to stay in power. The cost of the phones plus the cost of the network (only in downtown Pyongyang no doubt) is probably around $100,000,000. Not chump change, but cheaper than a new battleship, and streches your "absolute dictator bribe money" dollar a lot further than a year's worth of rice for the peasants who are too weak and poor to revolt.
The same people getting phones now probably got color TVs in the 1980s.
This just in, people without hobbies (as I write this on slashdot at 3am...) consume food in their idle time, particularly while on the couch. DNRTFA but I'm going to take a stab at this and say the study was conducted using console games.
I'll close this with the fact that most dining tables these days are better known as "coffee tables".
How well do gaming consoles work as file servers though? Our PC also serves as an offline mirror for my steam account so we can play games like super meat boy, sonic 1,2,3, braid, lego star wars, left for dead, etc using controllers, in addition to some other niche things like a custom steam chat bot run in a vm (because you can't have two instances of steam running at the same time otherwise).
In addition, we get 1080p youtube and my roommate doesn't have to unpack their laptop when they get home from work to check facebook. Keeping Hulu + Netflix + Facebook all on one machine without having to switch video/audio sources is a nice luxury and minimizes the tech support I have to provide the roommate.
We actually have a hand-me-down xbox 360 that's on permanent loan from someone, but I'll be damned if I'm going to pay $60 a year to be able to use netflix on it though.
We get about 54 channels OTA here in dallas, something like 12 of them are in Spanish. There's one HD channel that's been broadcasting the 2008 winter olympics in HD for nearly three years now.
Used to have. Netflix pretty much killed Linux as a HTPC contender. Our HTPC runs Windows ONLY because you can't run Netflix on Linux (AFAIK). My HTPC (old gaming pc from 2008) doesn't have the horsepower to virtualize a windows instance and my roommate can't be bothered to figure that out.
After going ad-free for about 8 years, I've really come to hate ads. I subscribe both to Hulu Plus and Netflix, but Netflix gets the lion's share of my viewing time due to the lack of ads. We bought a specific wireless keyboard just for the mute button it has for watching Hulu shows. I would probably pay $30/mo for hulu without ads.
How is this making slashdot's front page, yet we haven't heard a peep about Battlefield 3 yet, it's direct competitor who has been pounding their marketing war drum since at least October 2010? And arguably the better engine (not to mention an emphasis on PC localization).
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They're still making PS2s because the middle class in third world countries like Colombia can barely afford them now.
PC vs Console graphics in 2000 is a non-point because you're talking about the genesis of 3-d graphics for the masses. A lot changes in the tumultuous years of a new technology. the 360 and PS3 represent 3-d graphics and games as a stabilized genre and technology.
Actually this is a pretty smart idea. You could build a "gateway" PS4 designed for playing popcap games, ps1, ps2 titles, bluray movies etc for $125, and then a full-fledged ps4 that plays things like metal gear solid 7 and gran turismo 8 for $300-$400. In previous generations there weren't two tiers of console games to cater to, but this time around you could definitely get away with it. Sony is attempting this with the latest version of their PSP/Android phone, but there's no reason why you couldn't build this into a bluray player and slap some game controller ports on the front and make the games cross-compatible.
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Quantum add-on cards will be commercially available in 5-8 years for your desktop. Quantum desktops are probably 10-12 years out.
Why don't you just licence the technology from Google and offer this service yourself, then?
Aw, this is a bummer. We had a plugin that would autodetect the language and auto-translate in-game chat in the correct language to each user individually, based on geo-ip data. Since we have a pretty diverse group of players (Finland, Germany, Egypt, Sweden, French-Canadian, American) this can be quite helpful.
A person like Bill Gates' valuation is based on the value of their stock shares. His actual cold hard cash reserves probably numbers less than $300 million. How they affect their company has a direct impact on their valuation. People rarely talk about someone's actual wealth. Numbers quoted in the news are always theoretical values based on stock valuation.
Is it? Einstein, Hawking, Nietzsche all did their greatest work before they got older. The man who invented the technology for the original mammogram was 27. It was my understanding that if you didn't do anything great by the time you turn 30, you're unlikely to achieve anything of note after that. Particularly in theoretical and academic realms.
I would love to see an animated gif of this sphere rotated so we could see the filaments. Some small amount of post processing that would elongate the dots along the filament lines would be a tremendous help.
AT&T is Southwestern Bell. Southwestern Bell is headquartered in Dallas. Dallas, San Antonio and Houston are in Texas. NYC is so far away from Dallas it might as well be in another country. Dallas, Houston and Chicago are huge, international cities. Not everything has to premier in NYC these days, and the rapid population growth of the west (and midwest) are making this more clear.
So yes, NYC will eventually get it, but a large chunk of the telcom industry is in Dallas (google "phone prairie") and it's easier to do things on your home turf. Dow Jones, NYSE etc are in NYC where the financial firms are; technology innovation occurs in California where semiconductor and tech companies are; phone rollouts occur in Dallas.
You don't see Boeing announcing the manufacture of the new 787 in Maine or Georgia. You won't see AT&T roll out new cell technology in New York City.
The next kindle is supposed to sport a quad core processor. What's preventing them from tossing in an nvidia chipset out of a netbook and an HDMI port, and allowing you to play back streaming video from the amazon.com video store on your TV? Most every 36"+ flatscreen TV has an HDMI port or two on the side for just this sort of thing.
Why buy a roku box when you can get an identical device that you can take with you and read books on, too? Not practical for the living room where a dedicated device is needed, but ideal for those couples who think having a TV in the bedroom is a good idea.
24" TN panels (1920x1080) were $220 each last thanksgiving (six months ago). At least, that's what I paid for mine. I suspect that supply and demand will see these size displays bottom out at around $200. You're crazy if you pay $400 for a 24" display these days.
Because 1920x1200 monitors go on sale about 10% as often as 1920x1080 displays do. The price premium isn't worth it for the extra 120 vertical pixels, especially on 24+ inch displays. Especially when you are buying two of them.
Maps that aren't complete junk
2008-04-29 (1): pl_goldrush
2008-02-14 (1): cp_badlands
2009-05-21 (2): arena_sawmill, pl_badwater
2009-08-13 (1): koth_viaduct
The rest of those are rehashes of other maps, gimmick/holiday maps, or just Bad Maps. Hell, Badlands is a remake of a TFC map. Goldrush is a remake of Dustbowl.
TF2 sort of jumped the shark with the engineer update. Valve hasn't released hardly any new "official" maps since launch (besides the Arena maps), and opinion varies wildly on the quality of the included "community" maps. While it's been a financial success and is probably a keystone to their development process as a whole for the source engine, it feels played out to me. I finally lost interest in early 2010. I will log in from time to time, but the same 10 maps by no means "feels fresh".
I think Sony is making a blindingly clear case that there is room in the market for a 4th (3rd? do we even count the Wii anymore as a serious contender for the adult market?) serious gaming console with a more mature online presence than Sony does. Apple comes to mind, but still seems far fetched. Maybe we'll see Mitsubishi or some German company throw their hat in to the ring?
If someone had a product in development, we'd have heard their marketing machine start rumbling, but the lack of a third contender means that people are writing up business plans/proposals for VCs around the world. By day 30 of the outage people will be speculating what this third console will be.
Bribing the people in charge of the people in charge of The People is a small price to pay to stay in power. The cost of the phones plus the cost of the network (only in downtown Pyongyang no doubt) is probably around $100,000,000. Not chump change, but cheaper than a new battleship, and streches your "absolute dictator bribe money" dollar a lot further than a year's worth of rice for the peasants who are too weak and poor to revolt.
The same people getting phones now probably got color TVs in the 1980s.
This just in, people without hobbies (as I write this on slashdot at 3am...) consume food in their idle time, particularly while on the couch. DNRTFA but I'm going to take a stab at this and say the study was conducted using console games.
I'll close this with the fact that most dining tables these days are better known as "coffee tables".
How well do gaming consoles work as file servers though? Our PC also serves as an offline mirror for my steam account so we can play games like super meat boy, sonic 1,2,3, braid, lego star wars, left for dead, etc using controllers, in addition to some other niche things like a custom steam chat bot run in a vm (because you can't have two instances of steam running at the same time otherwise).
In addition, we get 1080p youtube and my roommate doesn't have to unpack their laptop when they get home from work to check facebook. Keeping Hulu + Netflix + Facebook all on one machine without having to switch video/audio sources is a nice luxury and minimizes the tech support I have to provide the roommate.
We actually have a hand-me-down xbox 360 that's on permanent loan from someone, but I'll be damned if I'm going to pay $60 a year to be able to use netflix on it though.
We get about 54 channels OTA here in dallas, something like 12 of them are in Spanish. There's one HD channel that's been broadcasting the 2008 winter olympics in HD for nearly three years now.
Used to have. Netflix pretty much killed Linux as a HTPC contender. Our HTPC runs Windows ONLY because you can't run Netflix on Linux (AFAIK). My HTPC (old gaming pc from 2008) doesn't have the horsepower to virtualize a windows instance and my roommate can't be bothered to figure that out.
After going ad-free for about 8 years, I've really come to hate ads. I subscribe both to Hulu Plus and Netflix, but Netflix gets the lion's share of my viewing time due to the lack of ads. We bought a specific wireless keyboard just for the mute button it has for watching Hulu shows. I would probably pay $30/mo for hulu without ads.
I for one welcome our $300 16,000x9,000 pixel 24" monitor overlords. We've been stuck at 1920x1080 for too long. In terms of cheap displays, anyways.
How is this making slashdot's front page, yet we haven't heard a peep about Battlefield 3 yet, it's direct competitor who has been pounding their marketing war drum since at least October 2010? And arguably the better engine (not to mention an emphasis on PC localization).
how many non-overlapping channels do you get with 5GHz?
Schools usually prefer to buy products with a warranty attached. In many cases, it's required.