I'd rather have the manufacturer provide all the cables. After all, it costs them about $1.
Certainly beats "cheap" $8 cables, or retail $30 ones.
And where's this waste coming from? If you don't need the cable, you hold onto it for when you do, give it to a friend, or it ends up at a salvation army store. Many will probably go up on eBay for $5, too.
Those teens' parents probably don't want the console hooked up to their beloved TV.
My Dad was into electronics, so it wasn't an issue with him - but we had a ludicrous argument about the benefits of an HTPC, and after 3 years of never getting anywhere, I gave up.
It's funny to think that Microsoft is probably going to save $1 per cable, but all these consumers are going to go out to Futureshop and buy $30 HDMI cables when they finally upgrade their TVs.
I had a Voodoo 2 sometime around then. Man, that thing was blazing fast! I also had a 1024x768 display for as long as I can remember. I think it was mid-2002 that I got a 1280x1024 CRT.
For most games I had to play at lower resolutions, but that was no problem - I'd just set the CRT to have black borders at lower resolutions, so that the image was really crisp rather than blocky.
But if you use V-Sync, you really need to disable all buffering. Triple Buffering + V-Sync will murder your input times. I remember back when I had a crappy videocard, and my FPS dropped to 15, the input lag would spike into the hundreds of miliseconds.
I used nHancer to disable all buffering and pre-rendering, and now I'm good. I do use vsync because my eyes notice pixel anomalies, and constantly focusing on tearing is worse than a tiny bit of input lag. I play way better with it on.
Actually, I play better with AA ramped up too. With AA off, pixels shift so often that I don't notice far away stuff. With AA set really high(like 2x2SS), pixels never shift or glitter, so I lock onto those 4 pixels that just changed in the distance, across the map, which are actually a huntsman about to launch an arrow at me.;)
Side-note: I prefer higher resolutions to more AA, but AA does have an impact.
I just don't like talking on the phone where other people can overhear my conversation
Ditto - and I'm not a teen.
It's even worse when nosey people start asking you questions, while you're on the phone. It's like they expect you to be able to reply to them to explain your conversation, while conversing with someone else, and they're not even involved!
Half the time they can't even understand the conversation, too - pretty common for people on slashdot, I suppose.
2) Make a base Windows OS open source (no frills). Not for Linux trumping purposes, but if the Windows OS horse dies the entire corporation goes down...
I have a feeling they'd make it cheaper and subscription based before they'd do that. Subscription based is something investors might even go for - but open source? Far too much licensed code in there for that to happen.
"I am doing an study for the BPI, are you downloading files illegaly?"
11.6% of which admitted to having used file-sharing software
^ Where is the downloading illegally bit? I torrent linux distros fairly often. I know people that have limewire, and use it to get music from many decades back. Depending on where you are, this could be 100% legal.
Also, the outrage is more over the upwards estimation technique. 4m is significantly less than 7m.
I just love getting shot in the head around corners.
Yes, it helps the laggers - but specially crafted programs can also abuse Valve's model to have ludicrous accuracy. (you fire at whatever time is required to hit, rather than when you actually fire)
Mind you, VAC usually bans players that do that... a month or so later.
Also the bit where your data is locked into whatever file formats the cloud provider has and you will have difficulty maintaining your own back ups and migrating to a different provider if the current one is inadequate or fails.
Good thing Google makes it a piece of cake to migrate away.:D
Something just occurred to me - this is probably why WD and Seagate aren't worried about SSDs. They know they can just slam a crapload of cache onto their HDDs to vastly improve performance, and they already have the capacity advantage.
It's *cache*. It's not meant to be moved, and it doesn't prevent you from moving the hard drive.
I would rather have DDR2 cache. Then I wouldn't have to worry about clearing it when selling an old board, or worry when my board dies and becomes unbootable. Unfortunately, DDR2 would require a battery or constant power.
DDR2 is faster, though. Some company in Asia designed a special HDD controller that utilized 1GB of cache and a 5400RPM drive. It was capable of saturating SATA1's throughput, something that SSDs are just now accomplishing. Imagine 1GB of cache with a Velociraptor, or dual-head WD Caviar!
I got very good at those multiplication tables. At one point I was able to do a whole page in 20-30 seconds.;)
My mother seems to have followed the unschooler philosophy, of encouraging curiosity, and getting us interested in solving problems. I think a little bit of both could be a good recipe for success. While playing we were always learning, so learning became fun. Now, I have a very analytical way of looking at things, and I've never had a problem solving coding challenges in an efficient manner.
I do think the current school system grooms people for joining the workforce - but it really misses the mark for highly intelligent children.
My perception has been that the cloud services (Amazon, Google, slicehost, mosso, etc) have realistic, sustainable per-unit costs whereas shared hosting outfits tend to have completely unrealistic cost assessments. They count on the fact that most people won't use their full quota because there's no way they could deliver what they promise to every user without ending up WAY in the red.
FYI, everyone does this.
Your ISP, your phone carrier, probably your electrical and water company... even some software developers. They have very high upkeep costs, and very low costs for actually keeping you connected. The hope is you'll be one of the users that helps pay their upkeep, rather than actually using their service.
Like the old joke says, men have a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to operate one at a time.;)
Interesting thought. However, I suspect the real reason is something to do with pheramones.
I'm around beautiful girls (subjective) all the time, but I only have that blank mind effect upon first meeting them. After being around the girl for several hours, it completely goes away, and doesn't return. I had wondered if I was that much of a geek, that just being near a girl would wipe my mind blank, but it turns out I have it in foreign environments as well. The first time I went to a pub, for example - exact same feeling. Although in that case, it went away completely within a half hour.
I'm guessing that the pheramones somehow drag part of your conscious thought away, while your subconscious evaluates whether the person in front of you would make a good sexual partner. It seems to affect my vocabulary rather than memory, so rather than forgetting my address, I simply use smaller and more commonly used words, or occasionally use the wrong one.
You just have to wait until your conscious thought returns, and then you can get on with your fantasizing.;) Or in my case, wowing them with a 2000+ word vocabulary.
First, I'm Canadian - I don't think hate speech should be allowed.
But what is hate speech, exactly? To me, it's a speech filled with anger or passion - a speech that incites hate from other people - and a speech that has its bases formed from hate rather than law or proven fact.
I saw a video on youtube where a guy was invited to a university to talk about immigration issues, and his own group's belief that the Mexico/Canadian borders should be closed, except for those who obtain a legal Visa for entrance. After about 10 minutes the students started shouting at him so he could no longer finish his prepared remarks, and he asked, "Don't you believe in free speech?" and one of them yelled, "Not when it's hate speech." The professor then walked-over and apologized to the speaker.
There is hate going on here, but not from the party you think.
The fellow is talking about a lawful yet controversial issue. This is protected under freedom of speech. If he were discussing deporting Mexicans already here because they are dirty, worthless, and give nothing back to society, then I might have an issue, as that's hateful, and has no factual or lawful basis. It's also a huge generalization, applied to every Mexican, when most might have valid reasons for staying.
He, however, is getting attacked by hateful individuals. No facts or laws are being discussed - the mob mentality has kicked in, and everyone has decided he is wrong, and they are attacking him. It's hate - blind hate - for his lawful yet controversial point of view. I'm against that.
Freedom of speech and hate speech restriction are different things. You can find examples everywhere you look. Even on slashdot, people believing in Freedom of Speech will mod anything they disagree with into the ground. After all, the issue is controversial, and you hate their stance, so obviously they are a troll and their arguments don't deserve to be heard. However, the hateful posts attacking the original post must all be modded +5 insightful, because that is Freedom of Speech, and also you agree with them.
I make a point to mod interesting posts up, even if I disagree with them. When someone writes out a two page article on the benefits of the free market, and I think it's totally bollocks and the guy is a retard(because his stance has resulted in nothing but huge Monopolies and the whole market going to shit), I'll still mod it "Interesting" (not Insightful or Informative:P ), because his different point of view is interesting and should be protected. But hate speech? Random attacks on individuals? I could do without seeing either of those. I don't have a problem with forcing them to be removed, either (Take that, free speech! ^_- ) - but I would draw the line somewhere before real litigation, unless actual damages occured.
Hate speech is easy to identify - especially on slashdot. Simply compare the number of insults or attacks in a post. Stop reading to understand the point of view, and just read the words, then compare. A well laid out controversial post (with a point of view that you disagree with) could be modded -1 Troll & Flamebait, while a post with nothing but attacks and insults (that holds the popular opinion) will be modded +5 Informative or Insightful. And yet by the definition of Troll and Flamebait, those should be reversed.
Oh well. You've got a long way to go to convince me that Hate Speech should be protected under Freedom of Speech - or for that matter, that they're even the same thing. I don't think they are...
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Long-running simulations can run completely awry if one of the DIMMs dies part-way in.
Being able to record snapshots for later reuse or verification helps ensure the correctness of the simulation.
I'd rather have the manufacturer provide all the cables. After all, it costs them about $1.
Certainly beats "cheap" $8 cables, or retail $30 ones.
And where's this waste coming from? If you don't need the cable, you hold onto it for when you do, give it to a friend, or it ends up at a salvation army store. Many will probably go up on eBay for $5, too.
Those teens' parents probably don't want the console hooked up to their beloved TV.
My Dad was into electronics, so it wasn't an issue with him - but we had a ludicrous argument about the benefits of an HTPC, and after 3 years of never getting anywhere, I gave up.
It's funny to think that Microsoft is probably going to save $1 per cable, but all these consumers are going to go out to Futureshop and buy $30 HDMI cables when they finally upgrade their TVs.
I had a Voodoo 2 sometime around then. Man, that thing was blazing fast! I also had a 1024x768 display for as long as I can remember. I think it was mid-2002 that I got a 1280x1024 CRT.
For most games I had to play at lower resolutions, but that was no problem - I'd just set the CRT to have black borders at lower resolutions, so that the image was really crisp rather than blocky.
I like V-Sync. I find the tearing distracting.
But if you use V-Sync, you really need to disable all buffering. Triple Buffering + V-Sync will murder your input times. I remember back when I had a crappy videocard, and my FPS dropped to 15, the input lag would spike into the hundreds of miliseconds.
I used nHancer to disable all buffering and pre-rendering, and now I'm good. I do use vsync because my eyes notice pixel anomalies, and constantly focusing on tearing is worse than a tiny bit of input lag. I play way better with it on.
Actually, I play better with AA ramped up too. With AA off, pixels shift so often that I don't notice far away stuff. With AA set really high(like 2x2SS), pixels never shift or glitter, so I lock onto those 4 pixels that just changed in the distance, across the map, which are actually a huntsman about to launch an arrow at me. ;)
Side-note: I prefer higher resolutions to more AA, but AA does have an impact.
I just don't like talking on the phone where other people can overhear my conversation
Ditto - and I'm not a teen.
It's even worse when nosey people start asking you questions, while you're on the phone. It's like they expect you to be able to reply to them to explain your conversation, while conversing with someone else, and they're not even involved!
Half the time they can't even understand the conversation, too - pretty common for people on slashdot, I suppose.
In which case, retrieving whatever data might be on the flash would be well beyond the abilities of your common criminal or curious nerd.
For now. All things electronic tend to get easier over time.
2) Make a base Windows OS open source (no frills). Not for Linux trumping purposes, but if the Windows OS horse dies the entire corporation goes down...
I have a feeling they'd make it cheaper and subscription based before they'd do that. Subscription based is something investors might even go for - but open source? Far too much licensed code in there for that to happen.
I knew it was a joke. But I can just imagine someone printing all their emails out to archive them. The question still needed answering. ;)
"I am doing an study for the BPI, are you downloading files illegaly?"
11.6% of which admitted to having used file-sharing software
^
Where is the downloading illegally bit? I torrent linux distros fairly often. I know people that have limewire, and use it to get music from many decades back. Depending on where you are, this could be 100% legal.
Also, the outrage is more over the upwards estimation technique. 4m is significantly less than 7m.
I just love getting shot in the head around corners.
Yes, it helps the laggers - but specially crafted programs can also abuse Valve's model to have ludicrous accuracy. (you fire at whatever time is required to hit, rather than when you actually fire)
Mind you, VAC usually bans players that do that... a month or so later.
There are definitely reasons not to use clouds, but lock-in isn't one of them.
Right, as long as you keep using a cloud. That's not lock-in, after all.
And for those of us not wanting to fill entire filing cabinets with emails, I suggest using Thunderbird to download your messages.
Also the bit where your data is locked into whatever file formats the cloud provider has and you will have difficulty maintaining your own back ups and migrating to a different provider if the current one is inadequate or fails.
Good thing Google makes it a piece of cake to migrate away. :D
Recently I was FRAPSing some TF2 rounds for Youtube, and was shocked when I ran out of space.
I deleted 200GB of footage and was good to go for a while, but just where did all my space disappear to?
Turns out I have 250GB of games installed. Damn you Steam!
Something just occurred to me - this is probably why WD and Seagate aren't worried about SSDs. They know they can just slam a crapload of cache onto their HDDs to vastly improve performance, and they already have the capacity advantage.
It's *cache*. It's not meant to be moved, and it doesn't prevent you from moving the hard drive.
I would rather have DDR2 cache. Then I wouldn't have to worry about clearing it when selling an old board, or worry when my board dies and becomes unbootable. Unfortunately, DDR2 would require a battery or constant power.
DDR2 is faster, though. Some company in Asia designed a special HDD controller that utilized 1GB of cache and a 5400RPM drive. It was capable of saturating SATA1's throughput, something that SSDs are just now accomplishing. Imagine 1GB of cache with a Velociraptor, or dual-head WD Caviar!
Which does you a fat lot of good once your motherboard dies.
I got very good at those multiplication tables. At one point I was able to do a whole page in 20-30 seconds. ;)
My mother seems to have followed the unschooler philosophy, of encouraging curiosity, and getting us interested in solving problems. I think a little bit of both could be a good recipe for success. While playing we were always learning, so learning became fun. Now, I have a very analytical way of looking at things, and I've never had a problem solving coding challenges in an efficient manner.
I do think the current school system grooms people for joining the workforce - but it really misses the mark for highly intelligent children.
My perception has been that the cloud services (Amazon, Google, slicehost, mosso, etc) have realistic, sustainable per-unit costs whereas shared hosting outfits tend to have completely unrealistic cost assessments. They count on the fact that most people won't use their full quota because there's no way they could deliver what they promise to every user without ending up WAY in the red.
FYI, everyone does this.
Your ISP, your phone carrier, probably your electrical and water company... even some software developers. They have very high upkeep costs, and very low costs for actually keeping you connected. The hope is you'll be one of the users that helps pay their upkeep, rather than actually using their service.
Like the old joke says, men have a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to operate one at a time. ;)
Interesting thought. However, I suspect the real reason is something to do with pheramones.
I'm around beautiful girls (subjective) all the time, but I only have that blank mind effect upon first meeting them. After being around the girl for several hours, it completely goes away, and doesn't return. I had wondered if I was that much of a geek, that just being near a girl would wipe my mind blank, but it turns out I have it in foreign environments as well. The first time I went to a pub, for example - exact same feeling. Although in that case, it went away completely within a half hour.
I'm guessing that the pheramones somehow drag part of your conscious thought away, while your subconscious evaluates whether the person in front of you would make a good sexual partner. It seems to affect my vocabulary rather than memory, so rather than forgetting my address, I simply use smaller and more commonly used words, or occasionally use the wrong one.
You just have to wait until your conscious thought returns, and then you can get on with your fantasizing. ;) Or in my case, wowing them with a 2000+ word vocabulary.
First, I'm Canadian - I don't think hate speech should be allowed.
But what is hate speech, exactly? To me, it's a speech filled with anger or passion - a speech that incites hate from other people - and a speech that has its bases formed from hate rather than law or proven fact.
I saw a video on youtube where a guy was invited to a university to talk about immigration issues, and his own group's belief that the Mexico/Canadian borders should be closed, except for those who obtain a legal Visa for entrance. After about 10 minutes the students started shouting at him so he could no longer finish his prepared remarks, and he asked, "Don't you believe in free speech?" and one of them yelled, "Not when it's hate speech." The professor then walked-over and apologized to the speaker.
There is hate going on here, but not from the party you think.
The fellow is talking about a lawful yet controversial issue. This is protected under freedom of speech. If he were discussing deporting Mexicans already here because they are dirty, worthless, and give nothing back to society, then I might have an issue, as that's hateful, and has no factual or lawful basis. It's also a huge generalization, applied to every Mexican, when most might have valid reasons for staying.
He, however, is getting attacked by hateful individuals. No facts or laws are being discussed - the mob mentality has kicked in, and everyone has decided he is wrong, and they are attacking him. It's hate - blind hate - for his lawful yet controversial point of view. I'm against that.
Freedom of speech and hate speech restriction are different things. You can find examples everywhere you look. Even on slashdot, people believing in Freedom of Speech will mod anything they disagree with into the ground. After all, the issue is controversial, and you hate their stance, so obviously they are a troll and their arguments don't deserve to be heard. However, the hateful posts attacking the original post must all be modded +5 insightful, because that is Freedom of Speech, and also you agree with them.
I make a point to mod interesting posts up, even if I disagree with them. When someone writes out a two page article on the benefits of the free market, and I think it's totally bollocks and the guy is a retard(because his stance has resulted in nothing but huge Monopolies and the whole market going to shit), I'll still mod it "Interesting" (not Insightful or Informative :P ), because his different point of view is interesting and should be protected. But hate speech? Random attacks on individuals? I could do without seeing either of those. I don't have a problem with forcing them to be removed, either (Take that, free speech! ^_- ) - but I would draw the line somewhere before real litigation, unless actual damages occured.
Hate speech is easy to identify - especially on slashdot. Simply compare the number of insults or attacks in a post. Stop reading to understand the point of view, and just read the words, then compare. A well laid out controversial post (with a point of view that you disagree with) could be modded -1 Troll & Flamebait, while a post with nothing but attacks and insults (that holds the popular opinion) will be modded +5 Informative or Insightful. And yet by the definition of Troll and Flamebait, those should be reversed.
Oh well. You've got a long way to go to convince me that Hate Speech should be protected under Freedom of Speech - or for that matter, that they're even the same thing. I don't think they are...
For the $80+ per month AT&T charges, I would expect much better service than what I'm getting.
Well, there's always T-Mobile. ;)
Apparently giving money to one's family is the trollish thing to do!