I thought ATI died long ago, sometime after the acquisition? Hasn't ATI existed in name only for a couple of years now? I say Radeon as "new", as the name/trademark is newer than the company that spawned it. Mostly I just think it's interesting that marketing decided the Radeon name held more weight than ATI. Instead of calling it the AMD Radeon G9000, they could have called it the AMD ATI G9000, but they went with the former.
Heh, I just clicked on the link for your reply in my email, even clicked on the parent link (went to my post) but it didn't come up. I had to use Firefox to see your post. Normally I use chrome + "smug adblock user post" blocker and don't see posts about how cool adblock is.
Not tempted to turn on smug adblock users blocker all the time;).
I had something similar happen recently. I as looking at buying a sailboat, but I'd need a trailer hitch to haul it to and from the lake (I live inland), so of course I googled "trailer hitch" to compare the local hitch installer vs a bolt on model over the internet. This was in June. I am still getting google ads for "ehitch.com" about trailer hitches every time I visit wunderground.
People buy dumb shit they never use all the time. My buddy has a bookshelf full of his DVD "collection", full of DVD cases with the security/shrinkwrap still on. Sometimes he goes down to movie trading co to trade the "old ones" (which he hasn't watched) with "new ones" (which he won't watch). And then there are all the people who got excited about the marketing for StarCraft 2, plunked down $70 for the special edition, played through 70% of the single player, played four or five online matches, got rolled badly, and never played it again.
It's completely plausible that he got excited by the PS3 marketing hype, went out and bought one, got talked into buying the PS3 remote (upsell retail paycheck bonus of $3!), then bought three instead of two games because whenever the salesperson sells PS3 packages of $600 or more he gets an extra $3 spiff. People buy dumb shit all the time and retail sales spiffs exist because people are dumb enough to trust a retail sales person.
Q.E.D. of course he's really that dumb. Which is why he's selling his extensive PS3 investment for half price, because he's vastly underwhelmed with all the extra crap his salesperson convinced him to buy at purchase.
I worked two cubes over from the customer service/sales department for a small catalog company. I always winced a little on the inside when someone said "N as in.... Nancy". It was always Nancy. And they always had to pause to think about what letter started with N.
It would be nice if they waived fees for people who have had active gmail accounts for > 4 years, or something like that. Any geek worth their salt has had an account since mid-2005. I'm no developer, but I've tinkered around with extensions before in the past, just to see what they can do. Had there been a $5 fee in place, I'd have never jumped that hurdle to just poke around with the code.
I knew I would be corrected, but I wasn't expecting someone to have created an alternate account for specifically correcting people. Kudos to you, good sir.
It doesn't matter if it's ever resolved, or how it is. If you want to don your tin foil hat, then you can say that his character assassination has been successfully completed at this point. The fact that there is not one, but two claims both does a better job of character assassination, and makes it stick that much better. From this point forward, even if he's been cleared at a later point, there will forever be that stigma in whispered tones at the edge of conversation, "Julian Assange? I heard two girls accused him of rape".
This summer there were an astounding number of digital download sales. Each title was originally designed to be packaged and distributed via 8GB DVD. When you're offering 8GB of data that is to be absorbed over a period of days or weeks, people tend to jump up and buy/download it when it only costs $2.50 or so. Couple that with EA's store recently having several $1.99 pricing snafus, and the careful shopper can buy 35GB worth of data for under $10, and feel right in downloading it that very day (who doesn't want to play with their new toys?). That doesn't include any of the 20 three minute 720p videos I watched on youtube this afternoon.
A Terabyte is what, 1000GB? I signed on to steam yesterday on my linux machine (via wine) to message someone about something, walked away and came back to find out that it'd finished downloading all 11GB of Call of Duty 4 and 3GB of Street Fighter 4, in addition to countless updates to other steam games I had installed to test but never play on that machine. Let me put it this way; I accidentally downloaded 15GB of data this afternoon. Didn't phase me a bit. Didn't cost me anything, only downside on my end was maybe a couple extra cents on the electricity bill for running the laptop a couple of hours. Valve pushed out a 64mb patch tonight to fix the fact that all their game characters were wearing birthday hats on the wrong day. My roommate probably downloaded 60gb worth of "HD" netflix movies this afternoon. Data is cheap, practically free after the cost of infrastructure, and the baseline of data being pushed around is growing by the day, because, hey, it's better to have it locally just in case, rather than wait 60 seconds to download it.
No doubt as market saturation begins to plateau, we'll all see large caps (15gb, 20gb) installed, with a couple of neighbors splitting the cost of a pair of bonded T1s to skirt around it.
If console sales of the Orange Box are any indication, portal is completely playable on a gamepad. The Steam version of Portal has gamepad/360 controller support so I don't think there's any problem with the control interface.
My friend has the best doctor in the world. She was severely depressed (18+ months) with serious dependency issues. The doctor prescribed her something major (Zanax? Zoloft?) and said "these will numb the symptoms, but *looks at her sternly* really you should start eating better and getting some exercise". She wasn't overweight or even pudgy, but she took the meds for about a month and started hitting the gym 3 days a week for about 3 months, slimmed way down (140lbs to 120lbs) and toned up, 18 months later she's still very happy and incredibly successful (started/finished her master's degree, tripled her salary), and hasn't needed drugs since that first month. It's amazing what just a tiny bit of outdoor exercise does for your health and mood, even once or twice a week.
And Stephen King novels older than 2 years should be priced at $0.75, the cost of printing+distribution. Because the author only deserves $50,000 a year at most, and the books were paid for by society already.
Best of luck to them! In North Texas (suburbs = ~11.5 million people) most areas are "dry", meaning you can't buy liquor in them, and liquor licences for bars are extremely expensive and difficult to acquire/the city limits the absolute number of them. Most cities only hand them out to restaurants, and upscale restaurants at that. Something about homeowners not wanting to live near a bar, due to it decreasing their property values. Other Texas suburbs are the same way, and I would imagine it's fairly similar all around the country.
There's a club here in Dallas that will send out a limo for free (to someone's house) if you have 9 or more people. Never tried it myself, but seems like a pretty good deal. 9 people * 1 drink per hour @ $7/drink * 4 hours = $250, most of which is profit. I bet a limo rental on a contract basis is less than $100 a night in the off season.
It's definitely cheaper to call a cab if you're going downtown where parking is expensive ($10), and you already live in the city so it's only 2-3 miles each way. It's extremely cheap compared to a DUI.
It's really goddamn expensive if you live in the suburbs and it's 15-20 miles each way to your local metropolis' bar district. Less expensive than a DUI, but probably around 50% the cost of one over the cost of two years. The problem is that most people these days live in the Suburbs, and all of the bars worth visiting are in or near downtown. If I still lived in the suburbs, be a lot more inclined to take a taxi if the bar districts ran a shuttle to the suburbs, so taxis weren't so expensive. I can't imagine a couple of twice-hourly "drunk buses" that only run Fri/Sat would add much to the city's bottom line expenses, especially with all the revenue they get from liquor licenses.
I'm just waiting for the day when the "reenact prohibition" assholes get enough power to try to make these things mandatory in all cars. After all, if it "saves lives", why not make everyone blow into the damn box to start the car, and at random times?
Not very likely for that to happen. The fact that Prohibition happened at all was due to the prohibitionists, the women's rights group, and the KKK all forming a united front to get their respective nitch* progressive legislature passed.
Apparently you fill out a form and send them a check for $200 CDN and all is forgiven? Must not love BC that much. Too bad you didn't figure this out 15 years ago, when that fee would have been a lot closer to $100 USD.
....Even if someone somehow forced you to buy the game, most servers have the option to let you choose your team. Don't like the Taliban, but don't have the time to be a real soldier? Join the American team! Kick some Taliban ass! We're now 10 years deep into the latest conflict. When can people start talking about this conflict as a reflection of our culture? It has to happen sometime.
Tabloid has different connotations in Europe. Tabloid is more of a printing size than a rating of journalistic value. It looks like the publication he'll be writing for is on par with the New York Post or one of the many English tabloids like The Sun.
For anyone who reads the transcript, can someone explain to me how these boxes function fundamentally differently than a PC already running the freenet app?
Its spelt "too" but yes, John Carmack said it was too dark. Most people played the game in their well lit living rooms and weren't pleased with not being able to see the game they bought. The rage iphone demo was pretty cool though..
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I thought ATI died long ago, sometime after the acquisition? Hasn't ATI existed in name only for a couple of years now? I say Radeon as "new", as the name/trademark is newer than the company that spawned it. Mostly I just think it's interesting that marketing decided the Radeon name held more weight than ATI. Instead of calling it the AMD Radeon G9000, they could have called it the AMD ATI G9000, but they went with the former.
Heh, I just clicked on the link for your reply in my email, even clicked on the parent link (went to my post) but it didn't come up. I had to use Firefox to see your post. Normally I use chrome + "smug adblock user post" blocker and don't see posts about how cool adblock is.
;).
Not tempted to turn on smug adblock users blocker all the time
I had something similar happen recently. I as looking at buying a sailboat, but I'd need a trailer hitch to haul it to and from the lake (I live inland), so of course I googled "trailer hitch" to compare the local hitch installer vs a bolt on model over the internet. This was in June. I am still getting google ads for "ehitch.com" about trailer hitches every time I visit wunderground.
It's interesting that the Radeon brand, or series at least, has outlived it's creator. Who will be there to give away Radeon to it's new life partner?
Something old (AMD), Something new (Radeon), Something borrowed (x86 architecture), Something blue (Intel?)
People buy dumb shit they never use all the time. My buddy has a bookshelf full of his DVD "collection", full of DVD cases with the security/shrinkwrap still on. Sometimes he goes down to movie trading co to trade the "old ones" (which he hasn't watched) with "new ones" (which he won't watch). And then there are all the people who got excited about the marketing for StarCraft 2, plunked down $70 for the special edition, played through 70% of the single player, played four or five online matches, got rolled badly, and never played it again.
It's completely plausible that he got excited by the PS3 marketing hype, went out and bought one, got talked into buying the PS3 remote (upsell retail paycheck bonus of $3!), then bought three instead of two games because whenever the salesperson sells PS3 packages of $600 or more he gets an extra $3 spiff. People buy dumb shit all the time and retail sales spiffs exist because people are dumb enough to trust a retail sales person.
Q.E.D. of course he's really that dumb. Which is why he's selling his extensive PS3 investment for half price, because he's vastly underwhelmed with all the extra crap his salesperson convinced him to buy at purchase.
I worked two cubes over from the customer service/sales department for a small catalog company. I always winced a little on the inside when someone said "N as in.... Nancy". It was always Nancy. And they always had to pause to think about what letter started with N.
It's probably just the russian version of the NATO phonetic alphabet
If he'd said "november alpha india mike india november alpha" instead of "nikolai, anna, ivan, michail, ivan, nikolai, anna"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICAO_spelling_alphabet
Fun fact, "Easy company" from WW2/"Band of Brothers" would have been called "Echo company" in today's army.
It would be nice if they waived fees for people who have had active gmail accounts for > 4 years, or something like that. Any geek worth their salt has had an account since mid-2005. I'm no developer, but I've tinkered around with extensions before in the past, just to see what they can do. Had there been a $5 fee in place, I'd have never jumped that hurdle to just poke around with the code.
I knew I would be corrected, but I wasn't expecting someone to have created an alternate account for specifically correcting people. Kudos to you, good sir.
It doesn't matter if it's ever resolved, or how it is. If you want to don your tin foil hat, then you can say that his character assassination has been successfully completed at this point. The fact that there is not one, but two claims both does a better job of character assassination, and makes it stick that much better. From this point forward, even if he's been cleared at a later point, there will forever be that stigma in whispered tones at the edge of conversation, "Julian Assange? I heard two girls accused him of rape".
The US Government plays dirty when you expose their secrets
This summer there were an astounding number of digital download sales. Each title was originally designed to be packaged and distributed via 8GB DVD. When you're offering 8GB of data that is to be absorbed over a period of days or weeks, people tend to jump up and buy/download it when it only costs $2.50 or so. Couple that with EA's store recently having several $1.99 pricing snafus, and the careful shopper can buy 35GB worth of data for under $10, and feel right in downloading it that very day (who doesn't want to play with their new toys?). That doesn't include any of the 20 three minute 720p videos I watched on youtube this afternoon.
A Terabyte is what, 1000GB? I signed on to steam yesterday on my linux machine (via wine) to message someone about something, walked away and came back to find out that it'd finished downloading all 11GB of Call of Duty 4 and 3GB of Street Fighter 4, in addition to countless updates to other steam games I had installed to test but never play on that machine. Let me put it this way; I accidentally downloaded 15GB of data this afternoon. Didn't phase me a bit. Didn't cost me anything, only downside on my end was maybe a couple extra cents on the electricity bill for running the laptop a couple of hours. Valve pushed out a 64mb patch tonight to fix the fact that all their game characters were wearing birthday hats on the wrong day. My roommate probably downloaded 60gb worth of "HD" netflix movies this afternoon. Data is cheap, practically free after the cost of infrastructure, and the baseline of data being pushed around is growing by the day, because, hey, it's better to have it locally just in case, rather than wait 60 seconds to download it.
No doubt as market saturation begins to plateau, we'll all see large caps (15gb, 20gb) installed, with a couple of neighbors splitting the cost of a pair of bonded T1s to skirt around it.
If console sales of the Orange Box are any indication, portal is completely playable on a gamepad. The Steam version of Portal has gamepad/360 controller support so I don't think there's any problem with the control interface.
They're shooting for February in the attempt of making Christmas 2011.
+9, insightful
My friend has the best doctor in the world. She was severely depressed (18+ months) with serious dependency issues. The doctor prescribed her something major (Zanax? Zoloft?) and said "these will numb the symptoms, but *looks at her sternly* really you should start eating better and getting some exercise". She wasn't overweight or even pudgy, but she took the meds for about a month and started hitting the gym 3 days a week for about 3 months, slimmed way down (140lbs to 120lbs) and toned up, 18 months later she's still very happy and incredibly successful (started/finished her master's degree, tripled her salary), and hasn't needed drugs since that first month. It's amazing what just a tiny bit of outdoor exercise does for your health and mood, even once or twice a week.
And Stephen King novels older than 2 years should be priced at $0.75, the cost of printing+distribution. Because the author only deserves $50,000 a year at most, and the books were paid for by society already.
Best of luck to them! In North Texas (suburbs = ~11.5 million people) most areas are "dry", meaning you can't buy liquor in them, and liquor licences for bars are extremely expensive and difficult to acquire/the city limits the absolute number of them. Most cities only hand them out to restaurants, and upscale restaurants at that. Something about homeowners not wanting to live near a bar, due to it decreasing their property values. Other Texas suburbs are the same way, and I would imagine it's fairly similar all around the country.
There's a club here in Dallas that will send out a limo for free (to someone's house) if you have 9 or more people. Never tried it myself, but seems like a pretty good deal. 9 people * 1 drink per hour @ $7/drink * 4 hours = $250, most of which is profit. I bet a limo rental on a contract basis is less than $100 a night in the off season.
It's definitely cheaper to call a cab if you're going downtown where parking is expensive ($10), and you already live in the city so it's only 2-3 miles each way. It's extremely cheap compared to a DUI.
It's really goddamn expensive if you live in the suburbs and it's 15-20 miles each way to your local metropolis' bar district. Less expensive than a DUI, but probably around 50% the cost of one over the cost of two years. The problem is that most people these days live in the Suburbs, and all of the bars worth visiting are in or near downtown. If I still lived in the suburbs, be a lot more inclined to take a taxi if the bar districts ran a shuttle to the suburbs, so taxis weren't so expensive. I can't imagine a couple of twice-hourly "drunk buses" that only run Fri/Sat would add much to the city's bottom line expenses, especially with all the revenue they get from liquor licenses.
I'm just waiting for the day when the "reenact prohibition" assholes get enough power to try to make these things mandatory in all cars. After all, if it "saves lives", why not make everyone blow into the damn box to start the car, and at random times?
Not very likely for that to happen. The fact that Prohibition happened at all was due to the prohibitionists, the women's rights group, and the KKK all forming a united front to get their respective nitch* progressive legislature passed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_States
*I say nitch because women's rights at the time was a nitch movement
Apparently you fill out a form and send them a check for $200 CDN and all is forgiven? Must not love BC that much. Too bad you didn't figure this out 15 years ago, when that fee would have been a lot closer to $100 USD.
....Even if someone somehow forced you to buy the game, most servers have the option to let you choose your team. Don't like the Taliban, but don't have the time to be a real soldier? Join the American team! Kick some Taliban ass! We're now 10 years deep into the latest conflict. When can people start talking about this conflict as a reflection of our culture? It has to happen sometime.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aftonbladet
Tabloid has different connotations in Europe. Tabloid is more of a printing size than a rating of journalistic value. It looks like the publication he'll be writing for is on par with the New York Post or one of the many English tabloids like The Sun.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabloid
For anyone who reads the transcript, can someone explain to me how these boxes function fundamentally differently than a PC already running the freenet app?
Its spelt "too" but yes, John Carmack said it was too dark. Most people played the game in their well lit living rooms and weren't pleased with not being able to see the game they bought. The rage iphone demo was pretty cool though..