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But what if you want to watch TV or play a game or whatever with a light on in the house? Or better yet, a window open with sunlight coming in?
The best argument I've heard against projectors of any kind is: If you have a white wall, go look at it. Look at that white wall and think to yourself "Is that white wall an acceptable black level for watching TV? Because that's as dark as the image is going to get."
I know some friends who have some really nice projectors, but they all look washed out unless in a room with absolute darkness. I find not all rooms can achieve that. A lot of rooms in a house are connected to other rooms with an archway rather than a door. Someone else in the house might be doing something that requires light, and that will spill over into a room with a TV. Heck, even something as simple as a kid wanting to do their homework on a coffee table will become either impossible for the kid, or if they have proper lighting, the picture on the projection screen will look horrible.
I have to disagree.. I think your friend just happened to be a FPS junky perhaps. Personally, I bought and played through all of Enchanted Arms (all 1k achievement points worth), and I was amazed by the quality of the game. It was really enjoyable, to me at least. As for other RPGs, Blue Dragon will be coming out sometime in '07 in the states (it's already out in Japan and sold pretty well), and I think that should be something to look forward to. Lost Oddessy is another RPG that should be coming out in '07 as well, as far as JRPGs go anyway.
As for other non-FPS 360 games, I'm personally greatly enjoying Viva Pinata right now. While it might look like a kids game (omg, a game with Color? What were they thinking!?), it's actually really good. I mean you get to beat things to death with a shovel and then see all of that things closest friends eat its entrails like a giant cannibal fest. Good Stuff.
The new sonic game that recently was released is pretty niffty. It's also on the PS3, though I'm not sure if it's been released there yet, but still a fun game as they finally returned Sonic to have that sense of oh-my-god-I-have-no-idea-where-I'm-going speed again.
There's also your sports and racing games if you're into that. I'm not, but I suppose some people are. Some of the arcade games are really interesting, but not all of course. And of course if you want soft-core porn there's always Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach 2.. It doesn't even have volleyball in the title now, seems like just a T&A fest.
Reguardless, the 360 definitely isn't where I'd like to see them as far as games go, but they're not really all that bad. Too many sports and not enough RPGs, true, but there are more down the line. I look forward to Blue Dragon and Lost Oddessy, but maybe we need a new genre, as everything has been so overdone that even without a number at the end of the title most games feel like rehashes in all categories.. and that applies to all of the consoles. The only console I'm really seeing anything "exciting" being done is the Wii, but even then companies like THQ screw it up with bad ports with poor controls.
I don't know.. corporations get really ripped off in prices for things compared to your average Joe. It's probably because an individual consumer can't afford to pay such high prices, but a company can.. so they get away with it.
Here's a non-software related example of price gouging on a corporation. Recently at my job I moved offices. During this time the director noticed that my chair was too low for my height and not good ergonomically (which is true, it's a really uncomfortable chair). So the solution was to order a new chair from their standard catalog. Since they couldn't find a good chair in that catalog, they ended up seeking a different company for a proper piece of furniture. This new chair, which looks like a regular boring office chair, costs $633. The one in their catalog was cheaper, at a mere $450.
I had to write up justification for the purchase. How can one justify a $633 chair? It's not like it comes with a service contract where you can call a "Toll-Free Hotline for instant support" if the chair breaks. It's a freaking chair that you could buy a better one at Staples for $200 or less.
On the software side: Recently our company bought a bunch of nice new Sun servers for our unit to use for our projects. Part of this upgrade will require us to get upgraded licenses for some web server software from our vendor (They license by CPU, and our new servers have more cores than they consider to be part of 1 CPU). The price for 2 licenses is $50,000, and that's not including the support contract. Mind you this is just a J2EE application server.. something you can download from them for free if you're an individual consumer. I've even had to call their support before when we had server issues, and it wasn't all that impressive compared to anything I would receive at home for regular consumer products.
So I agree with you that corporations have a lot more leverage against "producers" due to the immense amount of money they, in my opinion frivolously at times, spend on corporate products. I also think however that corporations expect to pay more than an individual customer because, as I found out, the actual people approving these purchases think nothing of the company (hey, it's not my money) spending $633 on a chair because that's just how it is.
Umm, the 360 doesn't have a web browser on it. So I suppose you could truthfully state that it's free.. but not very featureful, since it can't actually load any web pages.
Err.. you do know what the acronym 'PC' stands for don't you? Personal Computer? There's nothing in there that states that Windows must be the OS on it for it to be a PC. Technically, a Mac is a Personal Computer, and so is a random x86 box that one might have laying around the house running Gentoo on it.
And there are gaming companies that make games for these other operating systems that are still PCs, such as Blizzard, Id, and Bungie.. err, well previously Bungie, until MS decided to limit the availability of games on other platforms by buying it. (Yes, I know that there is Halo for the Mac. I also know that it was released a hell of a lot later than both the Xbox and PC version and that it kinda sucked and Bungie didn't even do the port.)
I'm going to guess that she means that if cabbies start using GPS, it will ruin their test data, and end the experiment. At least that's how I'd look at it.
Well about the gold subscription thing, a lot of games now come with a free gold trial to play online, and someone else mentioned that you can get a free gold trial just by making a silver account. I don't know if that's true, but getting a trial gold account shouldn't be hard in any case.
The demo thing is really cool, and I wish they would expand it more. It's probably more up to the developers to make demos for their games, but I know I'd rather be able to try a game out quick before buying it. I even bought some games I never would have thought about just because there was a demo and there was no cost to me (I didn't even have to leave the house) to just try it.
I do hope though that at some point MS will drop the subscription fee. Due to the money they can be making with just marketplace stuff I don't think it will be needed in the long run to keep the servers and bandwidth going. Microtransations will hopefully make up for it, and the increase in sales of having a free and unified service. That's my wish anyway.
I don't think you got the point of the GP post at all. Heck, the GP didn't even mention price. It was more about the fact that someone's parents, aged in the mid-60's, was playing video games with each other until late in the night. Nintendo hit a demographic that includes both genders of a senior age, something that MS and Sony lack in their next-gen offerings.
I have a 360 and picked up a Wii on launch. I tried to get either of my parents to play things on the 360, but they wouldn't even touch it. On Thanksgiving of this year I brought my Wii over and both my mother and father played Wii Sports (bowling mostly) for hours. My mother in particular played Wii bowling with me for nearly 4 hours.. at that point I was too tired to play it any more.
This is the first video game she has played since Frogger on the Atari. She's even tried to borrow mine over the weekend for when she has guests, it's crazy. All because she can easily understand how to play. "It's just like real bowling.. except you don't have to tire yourself out with a heavy ball."
Parents are playing games with their kids again. Parents who don't even care about video games are picking up the Wii and playing it. That is what is meant by Nintendo took this thing in an entirely new direction, and it is going to work for them.
Well, why not use the solar power generated at your house to power the computers at your job?
Imagine all of the employees at your job had solar panels covering their roof at home. While at work, they do the smart thing and turn off lights at home and most electrical gear that uses energy, which they should do anyway. Now their solar panels are producing excess energy that they're not using. Energy that their not using goes into the power grid to be used by others... say your office at work. Each person gets paid for the power their putting back into the grid (that's how it works now anyway), so it's not like their giving free energy to their work place as the company still has to pay the power company.
That's just during the day, on those days that it's sunny. Obviously that won't happen every day, and in some parts of the country it won't happen fairly often at all. I imagine in some places in the pacific NW where it's overcast a lot, you won't even produce as much energy from a panel as it costs to create. However, in areas where there is a good amount of sun often enough, it would make great a supplementary power source that would reduce strain on our current grid.
As a bonus, the cost of the power you use at night will be offset some by the power you sell during the day, giving you a lower energy bill.
I think your title hits something that the article didn't really mention: The difference between technical superiority and an actual fun system. Very very rarely is the system with the highest "stats" the winner in any console race.
I present to you: * Nintendo DS vs. PSP - PSP processor is faster, the screen is a higher resolution, it has more function, yet bombed compared to the DS.
* Original Xbox/GC vs. PS2 - Both the original Xbox and gamecube had better graphical power than the PS2 and yet the PS2 sold a ton more units and games.
* N64 vs. PS - Granted what made the PS the winner in this case was using an optical drive for media, but the power of the N64 was higher than the PS1.
* Nintendo Gameboy vs. Sega Gamegear - I remember having a Gamegear. It was in color and had better graphics than the gameboy of the time. Yet it still died and the gameboy lived on.
It really is the games. For what I've been seeing on the PS3, everything looks done. Either I could get it on the PC/360 or it looks remarkably similar to a dozen other games I've played in the past. It's difficult to find something really exciting about the system, but the Wii seems to have that excitement. It may not look as good, but as Gabe on penny-arcade spoke about Zelda: "You'll never even think about the graphics while you're playing it".
That's what I'm hoping Nintendo can pull off with the Wii.
In general the main cause is the bigger search engines are still not even trying to copy the big selling points of google.
Their front pages are still a big abortion of pictures and junk. Google is simple "box + logo".
Have you seen the default site for IE7 in Vista? I just loaded up Vista RC1 in a dual boot to see what it was like, I noticed the first time I loaded up IE to go download Firefox, that's the site it goes to.
Who wants to bet that millions of people will start using live.com as their search engine once they upgrade to Vista merely because it's the default page on IE startup? It's even easy to remember.
Appologies, that wasn't my intention. I do understand that going to school on a football scholarship or whatever other sport doesn't mean you get a free ride with a 1.0GPA. I stated that poorly.
My comment was more geared towards scholarships designed around the educational atmosphere. A sports scholarship isn't giving you money because you're a genuis in math, it's because you can run fast, or throw a ball well.. or whatever. Both genders have them, and I'll agree that men probably end up with more of them, but I doubt it's to as high of a level as it once was due to a lot of proactive movements reguarding women in sports.
I doubt the submitter meant he had seen two or more men's scholarships, as there would be no reason to lay such a misleading claim if not to verify it with a greater than 0 number. My point was that the bias for academic scholarships is leaning more towards women than men, which in the future could lead men to have a disadvantage in the work force due to less education and training. I also believe that our society, at this point, would shun anyone who proposed the idea that men were being treated unequally, as it would be taken as a sign of someone wanting to repress women and their rights.
I believe in women's rights, and that they should have the same opportunities as men. I also believe that in the past they weren't given those opportunities and such things need to be fixed. However, I also believe that it's important not to "over-fix" things towards one group of people to the detriment of another, where we create the same situation as earlier but in reverse.
But that has nothing to do with learning in a school..
I've known women who have gone to college on sports scholarships (I went to school with a few of them). Mostly for soccar, but a few in other sports like volleyball and diving. So while women may not be getting football scholarships, and probably not as many sports scholarships as men, they are getting some of them.
The GP mentioned scholarships targeted towards women to get a degree, and treated them as a minority group. I agree with the GP that it does seem biased that there are so many woman's scolarships with hardly any mens scholarships, considering that there are more woman than men in the population, and more woman then men going to college in the US.
However, I'm not going to say we should start ignoring girls and heap attention onto boys, that will just get us back to where we started. But at some point, we'll need to make sure that no one is at a disadvantage in the educational field by giving equal opportunities to both genders, which should either include creating more mens scholarships, or opening up some womens-only scholarships to both genders.
What the hell are children even doing reading and writing? Seems to me they could get by fine 1000 years ago without it, now we have to play nanny with the Post Office for children who have no real business with it anyway. How about this? Tell the little kids to get outside and develop real social skills instead of writing to friends. I'm sick of people standing behind children to justify things. I can see having a do-not-mail list, but the Postal System is bigger than Michigan, so good luck trying to get a company based in some tiny country to conform to your laws. Nobody likes spam, but I'm so sick of the "my kid might read something I disagree with" issue. Watch your kid, protect your letters from them and tell them to get outside. Children have no real business with writing unsupervised anyway.
Fixed that for you.
But seriously, people in the past did not want children to learn more advanced concepts like reading and writing such thing was a waste of time.. it didn't bring in crops or tend the sheep. We can see how good of an idea that was.
The Internet is a tool of the modern world. People are going to be exposed to it in the modern times be it at childhood or in their adult life. Wouldn't it be better for them to learn how to properly use it now rather than "restrict" them (which always works by the way), and cripple their development in our world later on in life?
Sure they should go outside and play, be with friends and all that. But being able to contact all your friends via email will help them develope writing skills, and possibly other communication skills in large social networks that are prominate today.
On a side note, if that's your security setup in your own house, it sounds a bit overboard. I mean I can understand something like that in a government agency, or when dealing with sensitive data.. but it's hard to imagine my beer-drinking, nascar fan of a next door neighbor is going to use a wireless sniffer to reconstruct my email conversation with my mom.
Interestingly, the situation is only partly reversed.
While the 360 specifications tell developers to code for the drive to not be there, they are still allowed to use it for caching if it happens to be there. What you will see in games (Oblivion already does this), is that if the drive is there, the seamless loading happens using the hard drive for the cache. If the drive is not there, loading times will be longer as they have to be done from the DVD all at once rather than streamed to the HD then loaded to memory.
So yes, the PS3 has the advantage that the HD is supposed to always be there for games (I wonder what happens if you take the removable drive out and try to run a game though), so developers can always use it for caching data. However, 360 games can be written to still take advantage of the drive if it's there, and it's already been seen that some developers are doing so; which leads me to believe that not all will always code exclusively for the least common denominator.
Very true. It's also been studied by the US Airforce that pilots can make out the details of an image flashed at 1/240th of a second. It's not that the human eye cannot detect anything above 24fps, it's just with motion blur added into film that it looks acceptable.
For a quick test on if you can notice a difference, find yourself a good CRT somewhere (work, your own, friend.. etc). Set the refresh rate as low as it can go, usually that's 60Hz. 60Hz is 60 refreshes per second which is 60fps in essence. Look at a completely white screen with that. Most people will notice it flickering. You may not realize that what you're seeing is "flickering", but it really does give off that headache effect. Now change the refresh rate to 100Hz (if you can). See a difference? If not, see an eye doctor.
The human eye can capture quite a bit of detail at a really quick rate. The parent is correct in that the reason that 24fps looks "good" to you is because of motion blur. If you were to freeze the image and look at a single frame the detail is quite low and, in a lot of action scenes, will look blurry. Your brain is pretty good at piecing together this information into a solid image however, but the detail level can be brought up a notch.
I'd like to also note the difference of the resultion to the grandparent. Please set your monitor to 640x480 and maybe play a game with a bunch of text on it like an RPG or something. That's 480p (which is still better than standard TV, but your monitor isn't made for interlaced images). Now change your monitor resolution to 1280x720 (or if you can, 1925x1080) and play the same game. Look at the text especially. Notice that while it's smaller and you can see more of it on the screen that it still looks clear? That's 720p and 1080p respectively. If you can't notice a difference when sitting back and looking at 640x480 compared to 1925x1080.. please don't drive anywhere.
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But what if you want to watch TV or play a game or whatever with a light on in the house? Or better yet, a window open with sunlight coming in?
The best argument I've heard against projectors of any kind is: If you have a white wall, go look at it. Look at that white wall and think to yourself "Is that white wall an acceptable black level for watching TV? Because that's as dark as the image is going to get."
I know some friends who have some really nice projectors, but they all look washed out unless in a room with absolute darkness. I find not all rooms can achieve that. A lot of rooms in a house are connected to other rooms with an archway rather than a door. Someone else in the house might be doing something that requires light, and that will spill over into a room with a TV. Heck, even something as simple as a kid wanting to do their homework on a coffee table will become either impossible for the kid, or if they have proper lighting, the picture on the projection screen will look horrible.
I have to disagree.. I think your friend just happened to be a FPS junky perhaps. Personally, I bought and played through all of Enchanted Arms (all 1k achievement points worth), and I was amazed by the quality of the game. It was really enjoyable, to me at least. As for other RPGs, Blue Dragon will be coming out sometime in '07 in the states (it's already out in Japan and sold pretty well), and I think that should be something to look forward to. Lost Oddessy is another RPG that should be coming out in '07 as well, as far as JRPGs go anyway.
As for other non-FPS 360 games, I'm personally greatly enjoying Viva Pinata right now. While it might look like a kids game (omg, a game with Color? What were they thinking!?), it's actually really good. I mean you get to beat things to death with a shovel and then see all of that things closest friends eat its entrails like a giant cannibal fest. Good Stuff.
The new sonic game that recently was released is pretty niffty. It's also on the PS3, though I'm not sure if it's been released there yet, but still a fun game as they finally returned Sonic to have that sense of oh-my-god-I-have-no-idea-where-I'm-going speed again.
There's also your sports and racing games if you're into that. I'm not, but I suppose some people are. Some of the arcade games are really interesting, but not all of course. And of course if you want soft-core porn there's always Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach 2.. It doesn't even have volleyball in the title now, seems like just a T&A fest.
Reguardless, the 360 definitely isn't where I'd like to see them as far as games go, but they're not really all that bad. Too many sports and not enough RPGs, true, but there are more down the line. I look forward to Blue Dragon and Lost Oddessy, but maybe we need a new genre, as everything has been so overdone that even without a number at the end of the title most games feel like rehashes in all categories.. and that applies to all of the consoles. The only console I'm really seeing anything "exciting" being done is the Wii, but even then companies like THQ screw it up with bad ports with poor controls.
I don't know.. corporations get really ripped off in prices for things compared to your average Joe. It's probably because an individual consumer can't afford to pay such high prices, but a company can.. so they get away with it.
Here's a non-software related example of price gouging on a corporation. Recently at my job I moved offices. During this time the director noticed that my chair was too low for my height and not good ergonomically (which is true, it's a really uncomfortable chair). So the solution was to order a new chair from their standard catalog. Since they couldn't find a good chair in that catalog, they ended up seeking a different company for a proper piece of furniture. This new chair, which looks like a regular boring office chair, costs $633. The one in their catalog was cheaper, at a mere $450.
I had to write up justification for the purchase. How can one justify a $633 chair? It's not like it comes with a service contract where you can call a "Toll-Free Hotline for instant support" if the chair breaks. It's a freaking chair that you could buy a better one at Staples for $200 or less.
On the software side: Recently our company bought a bunch of nice new Sun servers for our unit to use for our projects. Part of this upgrade will require us to get upgraded licenses for some web server software from our vendor (They license by CPU, and our new servers have more cores than they consider to be part of 1 CPU). The price for 2 licenses is $50,000, and that's not including the support contract. Mind you this is just a J2EE application server.. something you can download from them for free if you're an individual consumer. I've even had to call their support before when we had server issues, and it wasn't all that impressive compared to anything I would receive at home for regular consumer products.
So I agree with you that corporations have a lot more leverage against "producers" due to the immense amount of money they, in my opinion frivolously at times, spend on corporate products. I also think however that corporations expect to pay more than an individual customer because, as I found out, the actual people approving these purchases think nothing of the company (hey, it's not my money) spending $633 on a chair because that's just how it is.
I'm going to have to believe your story purely based on your user name.
Umm, the 360 doesn't have a web browser on it. So I suppose you could truthfully state that it's free.. but not very featureful, since it can't actually load any web pages.
Err.. you do know what the acronym 'PC' stands for don't you? Personal Computer? There's nothing in there that states that Windows must be the OS on it for it to be a PC. Technically, a Mac is a Personal Computer, and so is a random x86 box that one might have laying around the house running Gentoo on it.
And there are gaming companies that make games for these other operating systems that are still PCs, such as Blizzard, Id, and Bungie.. err, well previously Bungie, until MS decided to limit the availability of games on other platforms by buying it. (Yes, I know that there is Halo for the Mac. I also know that it was released a hell of a lot later than both the Xbox and PC version and that it kinda sucked and Bungie didn't even do the port.)
Anyway, summary of original point: PC != Windows.
I'm going to guess that she means that if cabbies start using GPS, it will ruin their test data, and end the experiment. At least that's how I'd look at it.
Well about the gold subscription thing, a lot of games now come with a free gold trial to play online, and someone else mentioned that you can get a free gold trial just by making a silver account. I don't know if that's true, but getting a trial gold account shouldn't be hard in any case.
The demo thing is really cool, and I wish they would expand it more. It's probably more up to the developers to make demos for their games, but I know I'd rather be able to try a game out quick before buying it. I even bought some games I never would have thought about just because there was a demo and there was no cost to me (I didn't even have to leave the house) to just try it.
I do hope though that at some point MS will drop the subscription fee. Due to the money they can be making with just marketplace stuff I don't think it will be needed in the long run to keep the servers and bandwidth going. Microtransations will hopefully make up for it, and the increase in sales of having a free and unified service. That's my wish anyway.
I don't think you got the point of the GP post at all. Heck, the GP didn't even mention price. It was more about the fact that someone's parents, aged in the mid-60's, was playing video games with each other until late in the night. Nintendo hit a demographic that includes both genders of a senior age, something that MS and Sony lack in their next-gen offerings.
I have a 360 and picked up a Wii on launch. I tried to get either of my parents to play things on the 360, but they wouldn't even touch it. On Thanksgiving of this year I brought my Wii over and both my mother and father played Wii Sports (bowling mostly) for hours. My mother in particular played Wii bowling with me for nearly 4 hours.. at that point I was too tired to play it any more.
This is the first video game she has played since Frogger on the Atari. She's even tried to borrow mine over the weekend for when she has guests, it's crazy. All because she can easily understand how to play. "It's just like real bowling.. except you don't have to tire yourself out with a heavy ball."
Parents are playing games with their kids again. Parents who don't even care about video games are picking up the Wii and playing it. That is what is meant by Nintendo took this thing in an entirely new direction, and it is going to work for them.
Well, why not use the solar power generated at your house to power the computers at your job?
Imagine all of the employees at your job had solar panels covering their roof at home. While at work, they do the smart thing and turn off lights at home and most electrical gear that uses energy, which they should do anyway. Now their solar panels are producing excess energy that they're not using. Energy that their not using goes into the power grid to be used by others... say your office at work. Each person gets paid for the power their putting back into the grid (that's how it works now anyway), so it's not like their giving free energy to their work place as the company still has to pay the power company.
That's just during the day, on those days that it's sunny. Obviously that won't happen every day, and in some parts of the country it won't happen fairly often at all. I imagine in some places in the pacific NW where it's overcast a lot, you won't even produce as much energy from a panel as it costs to create. However, in areas where there is a good amount of sun often enough, it would make great a supplementary power source that would reduce strain on our current grid.
As a bonus, the cost of the power you use at night will be offset some by the power you sell during the day, giving you a lower energy bill.
Unfortunately no. *sighs*
Well thank you Mr. Yankee Doodle!
Actually N64 is the most complex system being emulated so far. Mario 64 is on Virtual Console.
That said, your point about the ds emulating is spot on, since Mario 64 was one of the DS's launch titles.
Yeah, I think it's around $46.5 Billion.
I think your title hits something that the article didn't really mention: The difference between technical superiority and an actual fun system. Very very rarely is the system with the highest "stats" the winner in any console race.
I present to you:
* Nintendo DS vs. PSP - PSP processor is faster, the screen is a higher resolution, it has more function, yet bombed compared to the DS.
* Original Xbox/GC vs. PS2 - Both the original Xbox and gamecube had better graphical power than the PS2 and yet the PS2 sold a ton more units and games.
* N64 vs. PS - Granted what made the PS the winner in this case was using an optical drive for media, but the power of the N64 was higher than the PS1.
* Nintendo Gameboy vs. Sega Gamegear - I remember having a Gamegear. It was in color and had better graphics than the gameboy of the time. Yet it still died and the gameboy lived on.
It really is the games. For what I've been seeing on the PS3, everything looks done. Either I could get it on the PC/360 or it looks remarkably similar to a dozen other games I've played in the past. It's difficult to find something really exciting about the system, but the Wii seems to have that excitement. It may not look as good, but as Gabe on penny-arcade spoke about Zelda: "You'll never even think about the graphics while you're playing it".
That's what I'm hoping Nintendo can pull off with the Wii.
Have you seen the default site for IE7 in Vista? I just loaded up Vista RC1 in a dual boot to see what it was like, I noticed the first time I loaded up IE to go download Firefox, that's the site it goes to.
Who wants to bet that millions of people will start using live.com as their search engine once they upgrade to Vista merely because it's the default page on IE startup? It's even easy to remember.
Appologies, that wasn't my intention. I do understand that going to school on a football scholarship or whatever other sport doesn't mean you get a free ride with a 1.0GPA. I stated that poorly.
My comment was more geared towards scholarships designed around the educational atmosphere. A sports scholarship isn't giving you money because you're a genuis in math, it's because you can run fast, or throw a ball well.. or whatever. Both genders have them, and I'll agree that men probably end up with more of them, but I doubt it's to as high of a level as it once was due to a lot of proactive movements reguarding women in sports.
I doubt the submitter meant he had seen two or more men's scholarships, as there would be no reason to lay such a misleading claim if not to verify it with a greater than 0 number. My point was that the bias for academic scholarships is leaning more towards women than men, which in the future could lead men to have a disadvantage in the work force due to less education and training. I also believe that our society, at this point, would shun anyone who proposed the idea that men were being treated unequally, as it would be taken as a sign of someone wanting to repress women and their rights.
I believe in women's rights, and that they should have the same opportunities as men. I also believe that in the past they weren't given those opportunities and such things need to be fixed. However, I also believe that it's important not to "over-fix" things towards one group of people to the detriment of another, where we create the same situation as earlier but in reverse.
But that has nothing to do with learning in a school..
I've known women who have gone to college on sports scholarships (I went to school with a few of them). Mostly for soccar, but a few in other sports like volleyball and diving. So while women may not be getting football scholarships, and probably not as many sports scholarships as men, they are getting some of them.
The GP mentioned scholarships targeted towards women to get a degree, and treated them as a minority group. I agree with the GP that it does seem biased that there are so many woman's scolarships with hardly any mens scholarships, considering that there are more woman than men in the population, and more woman then men going to college in the US.
However, I'm not going to say we should start ignoring girls and heap attention onto boys, that will just get us back to where we started. But at some point, we'll need to make sure that no one is at a disadvantage in the educational field by giving equal opportunities to both genders, which should either include creating more mens scholarships, or opening up some womens-only scholarships to both genders.
[Ted Kennedy | George Bush] is like Hitler
Of course Bush isn't like Hitler.. that's going a bit too far..
Hitler? People would actually compare..
I mean, honestly..
most of Germany at the time actually liked Hitler and supported his war.
Fixed that for you.
But seriously, people in the past did not want children to learn more advanced concepts like reading and writing such thing was a waste of time.. it didn't bring in crops or tend the sheep. We can see how good of an idea that was.
The Internet is a tool of the modern world. People are going to be exposed to it in the modern times be it at childhood or in their adult life. Wouldn't it be better for them to learn how to properly use it now rather than "restrict" them (which always works by the way), and cripple their development in our world later on in life?
Sure they should go outside and play, be with friends and all that. But being able to contact all your friends via email will help them develope writing skills, and possibly other communication skills in large social networks that are prominate today.
The bluetooth protocol has built-in encryption.
On a side note, if that's your security setup in your own house, it sounds a bit overboard. I mean I can understand something like that in a government agency, or when dealing with sensitive data.. but it's hard to imagine my beer-drinking, nascar fan of a next door neighbor is going to use a wireless sniffer to reconstruct my email conversation with my mom.
But then again, everyone needs a hobby I suppose.
I'm from the US, and my general neighborhood is a nice one to live in.. but man my country is quick on the war thing.
Interestingly, the situation is only partly reversed.
While the 360 specifications tell developers to code for the drive to not be there, they are still allowed to use it for caching if it happens to be there. What you will see in games (Oblivion already does this), is that if the drive is there, the seamless loading happens using the hard drive for the cache. If the drive is not there, loading times will be longer as they have to be done from the DVD all at once rather than streamed to the HD then loaded to memory.
So yes, the PS3 has the advantage that the HD is supposed to always be there for games (I wonder what happens if you take the removable drive out and try to run a game though), so developers can always use it for caching data. However, 360 games can be written to still take advantage of the drive if it's there, and it's already been seen that some developers are doing so; which leads me to believe that not all will always code exclusively for the least common denominator.
Very true. It's also been studied by the US Airforce that pilots can make out the details of an image flashed at 1/240th of a second. It's not that the human eye cannot detect anything above 24fps, it's just with motion blur added into film that it looks acceptable.
For a quick test on if you can notice a difference, find yourself a good CRT somewhere (work, your own, friend.. etc). Set the refresh rate as low as it can go, usually that's 60Hz. 60Hz is 60 refreshes per second which is 60fps in essence. Look at a completely white screen with that. Most people will notice it flickering. You may not realize that what you're seeing is "flickering", but it really does give off that headache effect. Now change the refresh rate to 100Hz (if you can). See a difference? If not, see an eye doctor.
The human eye can capture quite a bit of detail at a really quick rate. The parent is correct in that the reason that 24fps looks "good" to you is because of motion blur. If you were to freeze the image and look at a single frame the detail is quite low and, in a lot of action scenes, will look blurry. Your brain is pretty good at piecing together this information into a solid image however, but the detail level can be brought up a notch.
I'd like to also note the difference of the resultion to the grandparent. Please set your monitor to 640x480 and maybe play a game with a bunch of text on it like an RPG or something. That's 480p (which is still better than standard TV, but your monitor isn't made for interlaced images). Now change your monitor resolution to 1280x720 (or if you can, 1925x1080) and play the same game. Look at the text especially. Notice that while it's smaller and you can see more of it on the screen that it still looks clear? That's 720p and 1080p respectively. If you can't notice a difference when sitting back and looking at 640x480 compared to 1925x1080.. please don't drive anywhere.
I like exclamation marks too!
They put a lot of emphasis on a sentance, making them stronger!
Sentances should be strong, don't back down from what you're saying!
Wiiii!