It depends on where the consumer draws the line on what constitutes a suitable substitute. With products based on proprietary characters such as Mario, Zelda, etc. there isn't a real substitute. When a person buys a Nintendo they are not buying some game system, they are acknowledging the fact that there are certain irreplacable features that they want in their games that they can only get from Nintendo. Although supply and demand will still hold true, it just doesn't hold completely true, because the theory of supply and demand assumes almost exact substitutes. But for characters like in these games there is no real substitute to quite a few people.
Sorry, been a while since I took economics. Supply and demand I know. But then again, when there is no possible presence of competition among certain brands of games (i.e. Mario, Zelda, Pokeman), which is Nintendo's major selling point how can this equation hold true?
Lets see, they just lost $143 million dollars? So now, is this going to make them drop the prices in the other countries or raise the prices in the countries that were getting the games at good rates. I wonder.
All I'm talking about are the costs of abstraction. I'm not dissing optimization. I'm dissing foregoing modelling a system well. Things should be optimized where it won't hurt reusability, or in rare circumstances when you really need every last drop of speed (which in my experiences has shown to be really rare, and a lot of times certain non-portable optimizations can be bypassed by making a more distributed generic version of the same system). Just my experience though.
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Two words: Moore's Law. Even heavy abstraction will not keep up with the speed increases from that. And hardware is cheap. IT guys that program app servers aren't. Instead of paying an IT crew a lot of money to optimize a server you could just invest in more/better hardware. And size is not an issue any more as far as code size goes. The data most programs sift through is usually the only thing to consider as far as storage goes, since usually the data is so much larger than the program anyways.
Football players' union would demand a proportional increase in salary for the extra distance While, conversely the coaches would demand a decrease in the players pay because they can't run as many m/s as f/s.
Football stadiums are too short to extend to a 100m playing field and still have enough setback behind the end zones to comply with OSHA safety regulations Eh, this would just push the spectators back a few rows, and give the crew, cameramen, and coaches nice stadium seating.
A quarter pounder sounds bigger than an eighth-kilogrammer, and 100g sounds tiny But it doesn't sound bigger than a 1.23 Newton (talking weight here) burger.
Americans couldn't comprehend reciprocating fuel mileage (Liters/100km rather than mi/gal) Yeah, we Americans enjoy our priveleged ignorant life-styles. Just give me my 100m football field, bitch.
Tons of government software would have to be thrown out and/or rewritten for the switch (wait a minute.... they still use FORTRAN77 for stuff) On the lighter side, the government could take a large chunk of their social security, and invest it into IT jobs to convert their crappy programs, and to simultaneously stop this IT work shortage.
Having unified units throughout the world might be a threat to our national security (who the hell anywhere else knows what an URG is?) Anybody in the field of acronymics.
Sears couldn't sell a 500 piece socket set, half of which is completely useless What are you talking about? Sears could could sell a mule to a horse-breeder.
What woman would ever admit to wearing a size 32 shoe or having a size 65 waistline? (Although they'd probably love having a size 86 chest or being 168 tall) The good part about metric is the idea of the interchangeable prefix. We could still have our non-standard sizes. Use meters thats a size.32 for the shoe. petite.
The Daytona 500 would become the Daytona 804.672, and that number is too big for NASCAR fans to comprehend (it was only recently that they could start having 600 mile races) Anybody that thinks watching a car go around an oval a couple million times is truly enjoyable, will likely enjoy the funny extra digits.
A Wendy's Triple w/ Everything has 810 caliories, which is bad enough. However it has 3,391,308 joules - try selling the biggie-size on that one! Actually, it has 810,000 calories. Sounds pretty bad already.
Who wants to pay for gas by the liter? (or shall I say "litre") The same people that pay for it by the gallon.
Americans don't want to have to start mis-spelling (interject) everything, like "colour" and "litre" and "behaviour" etc Good thing Americans don't have to move to England or Canada.
The mile markers on I-85 in Alabama couldn't be so cool anymore - now they go 1,1,2,3,2,4,3,5,6,4,7,8,5,9, etc.... Man am I glad I don't live in Alabama.
Anyways the just of it all is this: metric will make life perfect and we will all go around singing and holding hands after it is forced on us. The End.
24bit samples at 48kHz vs. audio CD's 16bit x 44.1kHz
True but the 44.1kHz 16-bit CDs are uncompressed while the 48kHz are compressed using lossy compression (AAC isn't it?).
Here in lies the problem. Consumers only switched to CD because of the whole digital = better misconception. Joe Schmoe doesn't know that 48khz sounds better than 44.1khz. They just know digital is better, and they already have a digital CD player, and once they are presented with the idea that there are different quality levels in different digital media they will start to become angered because their investment into what they though was the holy grail of audio was just a stepping stone on a mile long walk. They will have to keep upgrading into infinity under this model. Then they realise, "Hey these CDs I already have sound pretty damn good to me so why upgrade. Anyways, the nerdy tech kid next door says that I can't copy these new CDs." So, Joe Schmoe never buys the newfangled device and stays content with his existing CD collection, and the digital market place falls into an area of grayness and lacks the driving force to keep producing newer formats. If it doesn't happen with the first iteration of digital devices (CD, DVD) then it will happen with the next (DVD-Audio, newer DVD standard) because people don't like the idea of having to buy something new for only slightly better quality.
We have obtained the almighty digital devices, we don't want to hear that there is something better, that we'll have to upgrade. Don't think its true? Look at HDTV (albeit a slightly different situation since current broadcasts are analog). But people see how very sufficient existing technologies are, and have little reason to upgrade anymore. Anyways, just my two cents about our stupid throw-away economy.
Down with the Linus Dictatorship. But seriously though, Linus should take into consideration the fact that he is not mortal, and he should either a) set up a chain of command or b) start an online feature election where people vote in changes to the kernel. What Linus has done is great and all, but he is a human like the rest of us. I would hate to see Linux die tomorrow because Linus did too.
You know, last time I checked most physics pertained to our real world, and last I checked that world was 3D. Just thought I'd be a smart-ass and share that. Anyways, go buy a physics book. Go buy a linear algebra book. Go buy the OpenGL reference book (or wait until the 2.0 one comes out, but that might be a while). You need college texts more than anything else. Just read them while thinking the whole time how you could apply it to game development.
Oh, its definetely flawed then. Seriously, though isn't the efficiency of this system just a matter of oppinion? Also, thats what happens when you get rid of those pesky META tags. Comment on my sig, and I'll shoot you.
Your car shop example is irrelevant. It may be easier to support one type, but the computers (usually) are not a revenue source, they are just enablers. It is to assist in making the company money. And this should be done in any pheasible way. Having one type of system may be nice for the sysadmin, but the sysadmin's easy job isn't what employers care about. Its about the money.
The methods we are going about searching for extra terrestrials is extremely inefficient. I'm simply saying that using our current technology we have about a zero percent chance of actually finding another civilization. Why do we waste our time looking for ET, when we can't find them (and we'd especially not be able to communicate with them unless they happened to be on Venus or something). We should just stick to praying to god as that is the only form of extraterrestrial communication we'd ever be able to achieve. I was not declaring the existence of god, a god, or Jesus Christ. I am not declaring my beliefs, I am declaring the probability of the SETI project turning up usefull ET related results. Everybody thinks my sig is flamebait because of the "god" thing. I'm just saying SETI won't work.
Only if different is what every non-corporate entity in America is thinking. Only the entertainment industry, and the well compensated vendors actually want this. At least monetary compensation by the entertainment industry is the only reason I can see for compliance among AMD and Intel.
I work at a very large studio/school oriented photo developing lab. Color is everything, and now almost the entire process is done digitally. Optical had its advantages but with the increasing density in modern CCDs those advantages are fading very very quickly. The technology is currently to the point where we switched over from an all optical process to an all digital process and our customers (professional studios and photographers) didn't even notice. There are color profiles and color transforms that can render the color in far higher fidelity digitally than could have ever been achieved optically. And there are some types of color transforms which just can't be done with optical development. Albeit, there are obvious limitations to the digital technology, but those only have to do with the non-continuous nature of having discrete values representing image information (of course, to a degree, film grain mimics this digital nature so after CCD resolutions get high enough there would be no advantage to using optical at all). Anyways, just my two cents.
I'm surprised that these various unices don't come out with an Open Source DirectX Video Driver wrapper or wrapper and relinking scheme. Man that would solve a lot of problems, speed may not be completely up to par, but at least you'd get functionality.
Oh ok, you call The Deli a club. I just call it a bar. Yeah, I've been kicked out of there many a times (those huge $1 glasses of beer before 11 really do me in). Do you like Mike Hosty Duo by any chance. I think they are playing there tonight. Oh yeah, and if you're ever looking for who's playing almost anywhere in Norman www.normanmusicscene.com is the place to go.
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It depends on where the consumer draws the line on what constitutes a suitable substitute. With products based on proprietary characters such as Mario, Zelda, etc. there isn't a real substitute. When a person buys a Nintendo they are not buying some game system, they are acknowledging the fact that there are certain irreplacable features that they want in their games that they can only get from Nintendo. Although supply and demand will still hold true, it just doesn't hold completely true, because the theory of supply and demand assumes almost exact substitutes. But for characters like in these games there is no real substitute to quite a few people.
Sorry, been a while since I took economics. Supply and demand I know. But then again, when there is no possible presence of competition among certain brands of games (i.e. Mario, Zelda, Pokeman), which is Nintendo's major selling point how can this equation hold true?
There is no such thing as common knowledge on the internet dumbass. Back off.
Lets see, they just lost $143 million dollars? So now, is this going to make them drop the prices in the other countries or raise the prices in the countries that were getting the games at good rates. I wonder.
Mghz = Magnesiums / second. duh!!
As long as they don't cripple the music to this kick ass band, I don't care.
All I'm talking about are the costs of abstraction. I'm not dissing optimization. I'm dissing foregoing modelling a system well. Things should be optimized where it won't hurt reusability, or in rare circumstances when you really need every last drop of speed (which in my experiences has shown to be really rare, and a lot of times certain non-portable optimizations can be bypassed by making a more distributed generic version of the same system). Just my experience though.
Two words: Moore's Law. Even heavy abstraction will not keep up with the speed increases from that. And hardware is cheap. IT guys that program app servers aren't. Instead of paying an IT crew a lot of money to optimize a server you could just invest in more/better hardware. And size is not an issue any more as far as code size goes. The data most programs sift through is usually the only thing to consider as far as storage goes, since usually the data is so much larger than the program anyways.
Football players' union would demand a proportional increase in salary for the extra distance
.32 for the shoe. petite.
While, conversely the coaches would demand a decrease in the players pay because they can't run as many m/s as f/s.
Football stadiums are too short to extend to a 100m playing field and still have enough setback behind the end zones to comply with OSHA safety regulations
Eh, this would just push the spectators back a few rows, and give the crew, cameramen, and coaches nice stadium seating.
A quarter pounder sounds bigger than an eighth-kilogrammer, and 100g sounds tiny
But it doesn't sound bigger than a 1.23 Newton (talking weight here) burger.
Americans couldn't comprehend reciprocating fuel mileage (Liters/100km rather than mi/gal)
Yeah, we Americans enjoy our priveleged ignorant life-styles. Just give me my 100m football field, bitch.
Tons of government software would have to be thrown out and/or rewritten for the switch (wait a minute.... they still use FORTRAN77 for stuff)
On the lighter side, the government could take a large chunk of their social security, and invest it into IT jobs to convert their crappy programs, and to simultaneously stop this IT work shortage.
Having unified units throughout the world might be a threat to our national security (who the hell anywhere else knows what an URG is?)
Anybody in the field of acronymics.
Sears couldn't sell a 500 piece socket set, half of which is completely useless
What are you talking about? Sears could could sell a mule to a horse-breeder.
What woman would ever admit to wearing a size 32 shoe or having a size 65 waistline? (Although they'd probably love having a size 86 chest or being 168 tall)
The good part about metric is the idea of the interchangeable prefix. We could still have our non-standard sizes. Use meters thats a size
The Daytona 500 would become the Daytona 804.672, and that number is too big for NASCAR fans to comprehend (it was only recently that they could start having 600 mile races)
Anybody that thinks watching a car go around an oval a couple million times is truly enjoyable, will likely enjoy the funny extra digits.
A Wendy's Triple w/ Everything has 810 caliories, which is bad enough. However it has 3,391,308 joules - try selling the biggie-size on that one!
Actually, it has 810,000 calories. Sounds pretty bad already.
Who wants to pay for gas by the liter? (or shall I say "litre")
The same people that pay for it by the gallon.
Americans don't want to have to start mis-spelling (interject) everything, like "colour" and "litre" and "behaviour" etc
Good thing Americans don't have to move to England or Canada.
The mile markers on I-85 in Alabama couldn't be so cool anymore - now they go 1,1,2,3,2,4,3,5,6,4,7,8,5,9, etc....
Man am I glad I don't live in Alabama.
Anyways the just of it all is this: metric will make life perfect and we will all go around singing and holding hands after it is forced on us. The End.
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Not well-formed my friend. Just being an asshole
24bit samples at 48kHz vs. audio CD's 16bit x 44.1kHz
True but the 44.1kHz 16-bit CDs are uncompressed while the 48kHz are compressed using lossy compression (AAC isn't it?).
Here in lies the problem. Consumers only switched to CD because of the whole digital = better misconception. Joe Schmoe doesn't know that 48khz sounds better than 44.1khz. They just know digital is better, and they already have a digital CD player, and once they are presented with the idea that there are different quality levels in different digital media they will start to become angered because their investment into what they though was the holy grail of audio was just a stepping stone on a mile long walk. They will have to keep upgrading into infinity under this model. Then they realise, "Hey these CDs I already have sound pretty damn good to me so why upgrade. Anyways, the nerdy tech kid next door says that I can't copy these new CDs." So, Joe Schmoe never buys the newfangled device and stays content with his existing CD collection, and the digital market place falls into an area of grayness and lacks the driving force to keep producing newer formats. If it doesn't happen with the first iteration of digital devices (CD, DVD) then it will happen with the next (DVD-Audio, newer DVD standard) because people don't like the idea of having to buy something new for only slightly better quality.
We have obtained the almighty digital devices, we don't want to hear that there is something better, that we'll have to upgrade. Don't think its true? Look at HDTV (albeit a slightly different situation since current broadcasts are analog). But people see how very sufficient existing technologies are, and have little reason to upgrade anymore. Anyways, just my two cents about our stupid throw-away economy.
Down with the Linus Dictatorship. But seriously though, Linus should take into consideration the fact that he is not mortal, and he should either a) set up a chain of command or b) start an online feature election where people vote in changes to the kernel. What Linus has done is great and all, but he is a human like the rest of us. I would hate to see Linux die tomorrow because Linus did too.
You know, last time I checked most physics pertained to our real world, and last I checked that world was 3D. Just thought I'd be a smart-ass and share that. Anyways, go buy a physics book. Go buy a linear algebra book. Go buy the OpenGL reference book (or wait until the 2.0 one comes out, but that might be a while). You need college texts more than anything else. Just read them while thinking the whole time how you could apply it to game development.
No, C also says outdated skillset. Flame on, biatch.
Omnipotence is just one of my many traits.
I just have to post here because of my sig. Don't mind me.
You know one word doesn't really help him too much. You might want to provide some ldap administration tutorial links or something.
Oh, its definetely flawed then. Seriously, though isn't the efficiency of this system just a matter of oppinion? Also, thats what happens when you get rid of those pesky META tags. Comment on my sig, and I'll shoot you.
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Minimum security country club? More like federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison.
Your car shop example is irrelevant. It may be easier to support one type, but the computers (usually) are not a revenue source, they are just enablers. It is to assist in making the company money. And this should be done in any pheasible way. Having one type of system may be nice for the sysadmin, but the sysadmin's easy job isn't what employers care about. Its about the money.
The methods we are going about searching for extra terrestrials is extremely inefficient. I'm simply saying that using our current technology we have about a zero percent chance of actually finding another civilization. Why do we waste our time looking for ET, when we can't find them (and we'd especially not be able to communicate with them unless they happened to be on Venus or something). We should just stick to praying to god as that is the only form of extraterrestrial communication we'd ever be able to achieve. I was not declaring the existence of god, a god, or Jesus Christ. I am not declaring my beliefs, I am declaring the probability of the SETI project turning up usefull ET related results. Everybody thinks my sig is flamebait because of the "god" thing. I'm just saying SETI won't work.
Only if different is what every non-corporate entity in America is thinking. Only the entertainment industry, and the well compensated vendors actually want this. At least monetary compensation by the entertainment industry is the only reason I can see for compliance among AMD and Intel.
I work at a very large studio/school oriented photo developing lab. Color is everything, and now almost the entire process is done digitally. Optical had its advantages but with the increasing density in modern CCDs those advantages are fading very very quickly. The technology is currently to the point where we switched over from an all optical process to an all digital process and our customers (professional studios and photographers) didn't even notice. There are color profiles and color transforms that can render the color in far higher fidelity digitally than could have ever been achieved optically. And there are some types of color transforms which just can't be done with optical development. Albeit, there are obvious limitations to the digital technology, but those only have to do with the non-continuous nature of having discrete values representing image information (of course, to a degree, film grain mimics this digital nature so after CCD resolutions get high enough there would be no advantage to using optical at all). Anyways, just my two cents.
I'm surprised that these various unices don't come out with an Open Source DirectX Video Driver wrapper or wrapper and relinking scheme. Man that would solve a lot of problems, speed may not be completely up to par, but at least you'd get functionality.
Oh ok, you call The Deli a club. I just call it a bar. Yeah, I've been kicked out of there many a times (those huge $1 glasses of beer before 11 really do me in). Do you like Mike Hosty Duo by any chance. I think they are playing there tonight. Oh yeah, and if you're ever looking for who's playing almost anywhere in Norman www.normanmusicscene.com is the place to go.