i was actually thinking of saying something similar but chose not to, so as to avoid another debate about God. it always baffles me how stiff-necked the scientific community can be at times. the only times when things progress is when they can get over themselves and say, "hey maybe theres something we dont know here"
i agree completely but i think that this situation will be a catalyst for the next big step. i think back to when unreal was released. there was almost no hardware that could run the game smoothly, in a way it was a proof of concept of what gaming could become, but as hardware caught up we saw it give rise to a whole new way to make games, FPS, RTS, RPG, all genres really, have adopted the 3d model, even board games. now the market is saturated and the pressure is off the hardware vendors to make components that perform.
now its time for the software guys to push again. with modern hardware it may soon be possible to produce games that are ray traced. beyond that there are other technologies that will require greater processing power, and the GPU is well adapted to handle the loads of these needs. things like detailed realtime physics modeling, collision and deformation modeling and so forth.
i dont think this is the end of the golden age of the GPU, but just a small barren land that must be bridged to access the next level.
mainframes didnt go away. they're still in use in many environments and are actually becoming popular again in a _slightly_ altered guise: virtualization.
i loathe hard copy with every fiber of my being. i can type more quickly than i can write by hand, the legibility is never an issue, spell check catches (most) mistakes, no more ink smears, no more broken pens, i can type closer to the speed of my thought-train... or train of thought if you prefer. also electrons are far less harmful to the environment than even recycled paper. aside from the times that vendors shove a receipt in my face, or i get snail mail, i'd venture to say that i create less than 50 pages of paper generated stuff annually. an thats a generous estimate. also you dont typically run out of pages with typed information. also its much faster to send someplace else.
if i may indulge myself in a rare moment of pedantry myself, you are right in that, its not Aspergers, however to be more precise his aggravation comes from adherence to linguistic prescription.
GPs been wearing watches since the protestant reformation... wristwatches were heresy back then, definitely not popular.
joking aside, the great Wikipedia tells us that the first wristwatch went on sale in 1911 and was made by Cartier. and they were popular only till shortly after WW I when they fell out of fashion and by 1930 the ratio of Pocket watches to the wrist variety was 50:1. from then on the pocket watch declined in popularity, only enjoying a weak resurgence in the 1970s and 1980s with the popularity of the 3 piece suit.
seriously? you *check the time* while skydiving? do you have some genetic adrenaline deficiency that makes jumping out of an airplane boring enough you feel like checking the time on the way down?
i'm curious as to how much thought you're really given to this, above and beyond the 'mythbusters' level. firstly, you're right, Priora are not built with lithium batteries, though you should wish that they were. Lithium is NOT stripmined, Lithium salts are extracted from the water of mineral springs, brine pools and brine deposits. The metal is produced electrolytically from a mixture of fused lithium and potassium chloride. Nickel on the other hand IS strip-mined and while their disposal may not be all that bad, the production of nickel batteries is extremely harmful to the environment. IIRC there is a mine in Canada used for the production of Prius batteries, if thats the one i'm thinking it is, there is a 60 mile dead zone around it which contains about as much life as the surface of the moon.
there are of course problems with most forms of energy storage, the trick is finding ways to manage those problems.
by that way of reasoning everything is a net zero emission. in a few billion years your bones will be oil. man does not create or destroy anything, merely he can but chemically alter things. and given a long enough time frame with a large enough spectrum of materials, all chemical reactions can be undone
you use that word a lot. i do not think it means what you think it means.
by the way the GP isnt off his rocker for considering a "dumb terminal" solution. theres another buzzword for it these days, called virtualization, and in many medium to large size businesses its fairly popular precisely because it is cost effective. Chrome OS would serve only to further reduce the cost of virtualization. the initial cost of virtualizing is prohibitive for most small organizations (including one the size of the GPs) Something like Chrome could be a catalyst to make that shift.
people do talk about the "dumb-client shit [sic] on the market" its just arranged differently that it was in the days of mainframes.
its _NOT_ a matter of legality, its a matter of licensing, as mentioned elsewhere the worst penalty that Sony could leverage is denial of tech support. and as for the GP Sony hasnt been losing money on PS3 in a while.
the entire premise of the summary is that £50 is inexpensive enough for "most people to buy on impulse" of course its entirely subjective, however i feel that the author is overlooking that this is little more than a controller (in someways less). the Xbox360 controller retails for $40 which is roughly equivalent to £24.
is an invisible controller worth more than two tangible ones? i suppose ultimately the proof is in the pudding and perhaps it will be as revolutionary as the d-pad but i think this is a case of the emperors new clothes taken almost literally. the issue isnt what what currency is used to express the cost, its that somehow that cost is a 'bargain' a bargain compared to what? certainly not to a regular controller. its buying it would 50% to the cost of an xbox 360.
the suggestion made me laugh, it reminded me of a Radio Lab episode where they were discussing patterns of life. they interviewed a researcher of some nature (pun) that examined the behavior of ants and she marveled at how frustrating it was to watch them try to move a leaf or a twig "one would tug it a millimeter this way, the other would tug it that way, still another a different direction and it would go on for weeks" yet out of all that seemingly thoughtless effort a working community managed to sustain itself.
at the best of times, when i'm feeling optimistic, i feel that/. is a colony of ants.
perhaps heightened isnt the best adjective there. i suppose more appropriate would be "a different value of appreciation" that is, not comparable in terms of value or worth merely in frame of reference.
sort of like art. "you see a priceless french painting, i see a drunk naked girl" you know that whole analogy...
cry me a river. i'm not trolling i'm expressing my own ideas. i have just as much a right to do that as you. at worst i can understand being labeled "flamebait" thats why i went the extra mile to try to avoid an argument/discussion/conversation about creation/ID/evolution; that wasnt my point. my point was to help people to see that a different prespective gives me a heightened appreciation for this subject. if you cant gather that you need to work on your reading comprehension. really, the only ones on this site that would fall into what i consider "hypersensitive" would be those that feel compelled to make some kind of sarcastic, highly caustic remarks. apparently some people thought my statement was at least "interesting" which means i feel fairly justified in sharing my thoughts here as i have done for quite some time. i'm sure there are many hundreds of thousands of readers here who strongly disagree with my beliefs, thats cool. at least the overwhemling and vast majority of them have the common decency to respect a difference of ideology. ACs like yourself prove only that intolerance is not proof of intelligence.
In the US we hold that the presumption of innocence is a right enjoyed in criminal matters. this is not a criminal matter its a contract dispute, as such it is a civil matter and the presumption of innocence is not a right you have.
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i was actually thinking of saying something similar but chose not to, so as to avoid another debate about God. it always baffles me how stiff-necked the scientific community can be at times. the only times when things progress is when they can get over themselves and say, "hey maybe theres something we dont know here"
i agree completely but i think that this situation will be a catalyst for the next big step. i think back to when unreal was released. there was almost no hardware that could run the game smoothly, in a way it was a proof of concept of what gaming could become, but as hardware caught up we saw it give rise to a whole new way to make games, FPS, RTS, RPG, all genres really, have adopted the 3d model, even board games. now the market is saturated and the pressure is off the hardware vendors to make components that perform.
now its time for the software guys to push again. with modern hardware it may soon be possible to produce games that are ray traced. beyond that there are other technologies that will require greater processing power, and the GPU is well adapted to handle the loads of these needs. things like detailed realtime physics modeling, collision and deformation modeling and so forth.
i dont think this is the end of the golden age of the GPU, but just a small barren land that must be bridged to access the next level.
... or maybe you havent...
mainframes didnt go away. they're still in use in many environments and are actually becoming popular again in a _slightly_ altered guise: virtualization.
funny how there are different types of humans.
i loathe hard copy with every fiber of my being. i can type more quickly than i can write by hand, the legibility is never an issue, spell check catches (most) mistakes, no more ink smears, no more broken pens, i can type closer to the speed of my thought-train... or train of thought if you prefer. also electrons are far less harmful to the environment than even recycled paper. aside from the times that vendors shove a receipt in my face, or i get snail mail, i'd venture to say that i create less than 50 pages of paper generated stuff annually. an thats a generous estimate. also you dont typically run out of pages with typed information. also its much faster to send someplace else.
if i may indulge myself in a rare moment of pedantry myself, you are right in that, its not Aspergers, however to be more precise his aggravation comes from adherence to linguistic prescription.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_prescriptivism
GPs been wearing watches since the protestant reformation... wristwatches were heresy back then, definitely not popular.
joking aside, the great Wikipedia tells us that the first wristwatch went on sale in 1911 and was made by Cartier. and they were popular only till shortly after WW I when they fell out of fashion and by 1930 the ratio of Pocket watches to the wrist variety was 50:1. from then on the pocket watch declined in popularity, only enjoying a weak resurgence in the 1970s and 1980s with the popularity of the 3 piece suit.
seriously? you *check the time* while skydiving? do you have some genetic adrenaline deficiency that makes jumping out of an airplane boring enough you feel like checking the time on the way down?
redundancy.
i'm curious as to how much thought you're really given to this, above and beyond the 'mythbusters' level. firstly, you're right, Priora are not built with lithium batteries, though you should wish that they were. Lithium is NOT stripmined, Lithium salts are extracted from the water of mineral springs, brine pools and brine deposits. The metal is produced electrolytically from a mixture of fused lithium and potassium chloride. Nickel on the other hand IS strip-mined and while their disposal may not be all that bad, the production of nickel batteries is extremely harmful to the environment. IIRC there is a mine in Canada used for the production of Prius batteries, if thats the one i'm thinking it is, there is a 60 mile dead zone around it which contains about as much life as the surface of the moon.
there are of course problems with most forms of energy storage, the trick is finding ways to manage those problems.
by that way of reasoning everything is a net zero emission. in a few billion years your bones will be oil. man does not create or destroy anything, merely he can but chemically alter things. and given a long enough time frame with a large enough spectrum of materials, all chemical reactions can be undone
some google vaporware?
you use that word a lot. i do not think it means what you think it means.
by the way the GP isnt off his rocker for considering a "dumb terminal" solution. theres another buzzword for it these days, called virtualization, and in many medium to large size businesses its fairly popular precisely because it is cost effective. Chrome OS would serve only to further reduce the cost of virtualization. the initial cost of virtualizing is prohibitive for most small organizations (including one the size of the GPs) Something like Chrome could be a catalyst to make that shift.
people do talk about the "dumb-client shit [sic] on the market" its just arranged differently that it was in the days of mainframes.
like this one?
http://www.broadwayworld.com/columnpic/StandUpMimePP1a.jpg
its _NOT_ a matter of legality, its a matter of licensing, as mentioned elsewhere the worst penalty that Sony could leverage is denial of tech support. and as for the GP Sony hasnt been losing money on PS3 in a while.
on the contrary it amazes me that only about %0.01 of the people i've met recognize me as His Royal Highness of the Enthoiran Wood Fairy Kingdom.
i joke... but seriously i'd give a third of my magical fairy kingdom for some mod points.
wormwood can also be meant to imply poisoned or rotten. thats what (allegedly) makes true absinthe dangerous, in that pure wormwood oil is poison.
i suppose if you believe in an infinite number of universes where everything that can happen does happen, then God necessarily *must* exist.
either way it requires belief.
the entire premise of the summary is that £50 is inexpensive enough for "most people to buy on impulse" of course its entirely subjective, however i feel that the author is overlooking that this is little more than a controller (in someways less). the Xbox360 controller retails for $40 which is roughly equivalent to £24.
is an invisible controller worth more than two tangible ones? i suppose ultimately the proof is in the pudding and perhaps it will be as revolutionary as the d-pad but i think this is a case of the emperors new clothes taken almost literally. the issue isnt what what currency is used to express the cost, its that somehow that cost is a 'bargain' a bargain compared to what? certainly not to a regular controller. its buying it would 50% to the cost of an xbox 360.
Ants.
the suggestion made me laugh, it reminded me of a Radio Lab episode where they were discussing patterns of life. they interviewed a researcher of some nature (pun) that examined the behavior of ants and she marveled at how frustrating it was to watch them try to move a leaf or a twig "one would tug it a millimeter this way, the other would tug it that way, still another a different direction and it would go on for weeks" yet out of all that seemingly thoughtless effort a working community managed to sustain itself.
at the best of times, when i'm feeling optimistic, i feel that /. is a colony of ants.
"a different value of appreciation" that is, not comparable in terms of value...
yeah i know that didnt make sense like i wanted it to, but i'm thinking you're smart enough to get what i meant ;)
perhaps heightened isnt the best adjective there. i suppose more appropriate would be "a different value of appreciation" that is, not comparable in terms of value or worth merely in frame of reference.
sort of like art. "you see a priceless french painting, i see a drunk naked girl" you know that whole analogy...
thats why i leave the douchebaggery to the pros like Glenn Beck ;)
You sir are and moron.
you sir, made my day. ;)
cry me a river. i'm not trolling i'm expressing my own ideas. i have just as much a right to do that as you. at worst i can understand being labeled "flamebait" thats why i went the extra mile to try to avoid an argument/discussion/conversation about creation/ID/evolution; that wasnt my point. my point was to help people to see that a different prespective gives me a heightened appreciation for this subject. if you cant gather that you need to work on your reading comprehension. really, the only ones on this site that would fall into what i consider "hypersensitive" would be those that feel compelled to make some kind of sarcastic, highly caustic remarks. apparently some people thought my statement was at least "interesting" which means i feel fairly justified in sharing my thoughts here as i have done for quite some time. i'm sure there are many hundreds of thousands of readers here who strongly disagree with my beliefs, thats cool. at least the overwhemling and vast majority of them have the common decency to respect a difference of ideology. ACs like yourself prove only that intolerance is not proof of intelligence.
In the US we hold that the presumption of innocence is a right enjoyed in criminal matters. this is not a criminal matter its a contract dispute, as such it is a civil matter and the presumption of innocence is not a right you have.