That's not exactly what I meant. They never distributed a cable that used that interface though in the U.S. There were two cables available in Japan. One was a D-Terminal, which is an all-digital interface that is sort of like HDMI, but is only seen on Japanese TV's. The other cable they made had a little box in it that did a digital to analog component video conversion. That cable works on U.S. TV's with component in for the best picture quality. Unfortunately though, they never sold that cable in the U.S.
I picked up a 30" widescreen HD CRT recently for about $600. It's absolutely awesome.
I just wish they had been able to make a true anamorphic widescreen mode for RE4, not just the cropped 16:9 mode. That would have been killer. Of course, you would only have been able to use it if you had the component video adapter for GC, which was only available in Japan and only worked with the earlier versions of the GC (they took off the digital video out port for later hardware revisions).
That's kind of funny since I've written programs that parse Japanese text using Ruby and I have actually switched the code and database between EUC, SJIS, and UTF-8 with no problems. As far as I know, you can't use UCS-2, but UCS-2 is deprecated anyway since you can't encode the whole Unicode space in it anyway.
I never said there would be no disease. However, history has clearly shown that we have the capability to develop cures to or preventions for diseases that in the past have been devastating to mankind. Things today are objectively better for everyone than they were in the past.
I think we as a species are racking up all sorts of bad karma.
We'll have lots of time to dwell on that idea in the future when we're not dying of cancer or suffering from arthritis. And our minds will be clearer into old age when we're not suffering from Alzheimer's disease. It will be a better world and we'll have the mice (and the scientists) to thank.
Well, if you like to put your hands underneath a flow of some warm water (not scalding hot and not freezing cold), then you'll like the type of faucet that lets you adjust the mixture of hot and cold. If you want to put the stopper in the basin and fill it up with water for some reason, then maybe you prefer the separate type.
...seriously, it sounds like some kind of African linux distribution, like something the Zulu would use. And it would support Bantu and Swahihli languaguages for installation. Of course, Debian wasn't a great name either, but at least is sounded like you might find documentation for it in English.
(No offense intended towards Africans or Zulus or anyone really except for the guy who named it Ubuntu).
The implication of the original poster was that if the machine "only" costs between $750 and $1000 it isn't any good for gaming. It's silly because there are tons of game machines that cost much less than that, (xbox, xbox 360, et cetera) and there are even portable game machines with good 3D capabilities that cost much less than that (e.g., Sony PSP). I think he is assuming that this thing is an x86 machine running Windows Tablet PC Edition. I think that is very very unlikely.
A more likely possibility is that this is a souped-up PDA, maybe running on a top of the line 600+ MHz ARM Xscale processor, running Windows Mobile PocketPC Edition 2006, with some custom applications including a Media Center controller app and a an app for downloading images from digital cameras, plus the usual things like Pocket Internet Explorer and Pocket Office apps. If the device is really souped up, it could have 512MB of RAM plus a couple gigs of flash plus a CF or SD card slot. A LOT of software possibilities open up at a that point, things which have not been possible on PocketPC devices with only 64MB of RAM (or less) and minimal storage.
I think it could be an exciting device. Plus, think of the things you could add to it like a GPS module and run a navigation application (which are almost all based on WinCE anyway). Or maybe a cell phone network data interface and a bluetooth headset to do VOIP. Assuming it has a real USB host port (we'll find out tomorrow, I guess), that is.
running from around $500 to $1,000. If that price tag seems too low for a mobile PC with a high-end graphics chip--which would be necessary to run the Halo footage shown in the leaked concept video--that's because it is.
You can play Japanese DS games on an American DS. Also, it only takes a few weeks/months to learn enough Japanese to get around in the games and maybe a couple of years to get close to full enjoyment out of them.
There's a difference. Projects should standardize on a set of languages/systems appropriate for the requirements. If the system is a web application, it does not make sense to use MySQL for some things and Microsoft SQL Server for others and to mix ModPerl and ASP and Java and C or C++ CGI applications all together. You'll end up writing tons of buggy interface code to pass data around. So at a project level, it makes a lot of sense to standardize on what tools you will use and to not add tools without good reason.
At a company-wide level, it makes less sense. Some projects may need to be as fast as possible and will need to be written in C and assembly and tuned for particular hardware. Some projects may be a web server application that just needs to run on any IIS server with SQL and only needs to handle 100 transactions per minute. Maybe there is a project like a user application that needs to run pretty reliably on any Windows XP machine, but doesn't need to run very fast. Maybe there is a project that just needs to translate or reformat large amounts of data, but it doesn't matter if it takes 1 hour or 1 day, as long as it runs. There is a lot of variation in what may need to be done and each project should choose the right tool for the job.
Btw, developers can pick up any language pretty quickly. They'll quickly learn the tricks about why one language is more suited to a particular task or development style (object-oriented, procedural, functional, et cetera). Ultimately, you'll end up with better more experienced developers.
It's always funny that slashdot guys complain about not meeting/having chicks. The numbers are totally in your favor, dudes.
They are? Last I checked, the male to female birth ratio was around 1.05 males per female. Of course, men die sooner than women, so by the time you're 60 or so, there are probably more women than men.
It has nothing to do with users' freedoms, but rather with restrictions on competitors. Businesses support Linux because they know that if they add things (drivers, performance enhancements, et cetera) to Linux, their competitors WON'T be able to use it without also making their changes public. There is no incentive for a business to contribute to a BSD-style licenced project, since competitors can then use their code without restriction (except for the "advertisting" clause).
Similarly, the iMac will go to one person, 10 ipods will go to 10 people, and the $10,000 in iTunes songs will go to maybe 100 or 1000 different people.
If the GIMP people needed to make money off of the software, they would be required to listen to what the users wanted. However, they don't. So they can make a piece of software that pleases themselves, programmers who sometimes dabble in image manipulation.
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They haven't come for the Jews.
They haven't come for the Communists.
They haven't come for the trade unionists.
And they haven't come for you.
Maybe you wish that they had, so that your message would have more meaning.
That's not exactly what I meant. They never distributed a cable that used that interface though in the U.S. There were two cables available in Japan. One was a D-Terminal, which is an all-digital interface that is sort of like HDMI, but is only seen on Japanese TV's. The other cable they made had a little box in it that did a digital to analog component video conversion. That cable works on U.S. TV's with component in for the best picture quality. Unfortunately though, they never sold that cable in the U.S.
I picked up a 30" widescreen HD CRT recently for about $600. It's absolutely awesome.
a way to flesh it out for more advanced players.
I would perhaps suggest calling them "more dedicated" or "players with longer attention spans" instead of "more advanced.
I just wish they had been able to make a true anamorphic widescreen mode for RE4, not just the cropped 16:9 mode. That would have been killer. Of course, you would only have been able to use it if you had the component video adapter for GC, which was only available in Japan and only worked with the earlier versions of the GC (they took off the digital video out port for later hardware revisions).
That's kind of funny since I've written programs that parse Japanese text using Ruby and I have actually switched the code and database between EUC, SJIS, and UTF-8 with no problems. As far as I know, you can't use UCS-2, but UCS-2 is deprecated anyway since you can't encode the whole Unicode space in it anyway.
I never said there would be no disease. However, history has clearly shown that we have the capability to develop cures to or preventions for diseases that in the past have been devastating to mankind. Things today are objectively better for everyone than they were in the past.
from where precisely do we derive the right to inflict suffering on other beings, even in the name of bettering our condition?
Well, if you're the religious type, you can justify it by Genesis 1:28 (I had to look it up, but I knew it was there).
If you're not the religious type, you can use the objective "we're stronger, therefore we can do what we want" type of justification.
If you're some kind of Hindu or Buddhist or something, then shouldn't you not be trying to force your religious views on others?
I think we as a species are racking up all sorts of bad karma.
We'll have lots of time to dwell on that idea in the future when we're not dying of cancer or suffering from arthritis. And our minds will be clearer into old age when we're not suffering from Alzheimer's disease. It will be a better world and we'll have the mice (and the scientists) to thank.
I've had a 48G since 1993.
Well, if you like to put your hands underneath a flow of some warm water (not scalding hot and not freezing cold), then you'll like the type of faucet that lets you adjust the mixture of hot and cold. If you want to put the stopper in the basin and fill it up with water for some reason, then maybe you prefer the separate type.
No, I really didn't know. I just thought it sounded African. It's kind of funny then that I was pretty close to the mark, I think.
...seriously, it sounds like some kind of African linux distribution, like something the Zulu would use. And it would support Bantu and Swahihli languaguages for installation. Of course, Debian wasn't a great name either, but at least is sounded like you might find documentation for it in English.
(No offense intended towards Africans or Zulus or anyone really except for the guy who named it Ubuntu).
The implication of the original poster was that if the machine "only" costs between $750 and $1000 it isn't any good for gaming. It's silly because there are tons of game machines that cost much less than that, (xbox, xbox 360, et cetera) and there are even portable game machines with good 3D capabilities that cost much less than that (e.g., Sony PSP). I think he is assuming that this thing is an x86 machine running Windows Tablet PC Edition. I think that is very very unlikely.
A more likely possibility is that this is a souped-up PDA, maybe running on a top of the line 600+ MHz ARM Xscale processor, running Windows Mobile PocketPC Edition 2006, with some custom applications including a Media Center controller app and a an app for downloading images from digital cameras, plus the usual things like Pocket Internet Explorer and Pocket Office apps. If the device is really souped up, it could have 512MB of RAM plus a couple gigs of flash plus a CF or SD card slot. A LOT of software possibilities open up at a that point, things which have not been possible on PocketPC devices with only 64MB of RAM (or less) and minimal storage.
I think it could be an exciting device. Plus, think of the things you could add to it like a GPS module and run a navigation application (which are almost all based on WinCE anyway). Or maybe a cell phone network data interface and a bluetooth headset to do VOIP. Assuming it has a real USB host port (we'll find out tomorrow, I guess), that is.
running from around $500 to $1,000. If that price tag seems too low for a mobile PC with a high-end graphics chip--which would be necessary to run the Halo footage shown in the leaked concept video--that's because it is.
An XBox costs $179, and it runs Halo just fine.
You can play Japanese DS games on an American DS. Also, it only takes a few weeks/months to learn enough Japanese to get around in the games and maybe a couple of years to get close to full enjoyment out of them.
Actually, I believe that quote is from "The Diamond Age; or A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer." Still excellent, though.
Just because you believe it, that doesn't make it so.
But not to the point that people stop buying their products.
So... they want to maximize profits. That seems like sound business practice to me.
There's a difference. Projects should standardize on a set of languages/systems appropriate for the requirements. If the system is a web application, it does not make sense to use MySQL for some things and Microsoft SQL Server for others and to mix ModPerl and ASP and Java and C or C++ CGI applications all together. You'll end up writing tons of buggy interface code to pass data around. So at a project level, it makes a lot of sense to standardize on what tools you will use and to not add tools without good reason.
At a company-wide level, it makes less sense. Some projects may need to be as fast as possible and will need to be written in C and assembly and tuned for particular hardware. Some projects may be a web server application that just needs to run on any IIS server with SQL and only needs to handle 100 transactions per minute. Maybe there is a project like a user application that needs to run pretty reliably on any Windows XP machine, but doesn't need to run very fast. Maybe there is a project that just needs to translate or reformat large amounts of data, but it doesn't matter if it takes 1 hour or 1 day, as long as it runs. There is a lot of variation in what may need to be done and each project should choose the right tool for the job.
Btw, developers can pick up any language pretty quickly. They'll quickly learn the tricks about why one language is more suited to a particular task or development style (object-oriented, procedural, functional, et cetera). Ultimately, you'll end up with better more experienced developers.
From Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_ United_States)
Sex ratios: (2005 est.)
* at birth: 1.05 males/female
* under 15 years: 1.05 males/female
* 15-64 years: 1 male/female
* 65 years and over: 0.72 male/female
* total population: 0.97 male/female
It looks like it never becomes 6:4 as you claim. Maybe you have some source to cite?
It's always funny that slashdot guys complain about not meeting/having chicks. The numbers are totally in your favor, dudes.
They are? Last I checked, the male to female birth ratio was around 1.05 males per female. Of course, men die sooner than women, so by the time you're 60 or so, there are probably more women than men.
Freedom is restriction. Yeah, I think that fits.
It has nothing to do with users' freedoms, but rather with restrictions on competitors. Businesses support Linux because they know that if they add things (drivers, performance enhancements, et cetera) to Linux, their competitors WON'T be able to use it without also making their changes public. There is no incentive for a business to contribute to a BSD-style licenced project, since competitors can then use their code without restriction (except for the "advertisting" clause).
Looks like I didn't read the fine article. Seems the lucky winner does indeed win 10 iPods and $10,000 credit on iTMS.
Similarly, the iMac will go to one person, 10 ipods will go to 10 people, and the $10,000 in iTunes songs will go to maybe 100 or 1000 different people.
If the GIMP people needed to make money off of the software, they would be required to listen to what the users wanted. However, they don't. So they can make a piece of software that pleases themselves, programmers who sometimes dabble in image manipulation.