There's a reason AKNightCowboy opened with "i'm gonna get flamed for this" because his tone was arrogant. No humility in his statements. No 'sorry to bother you'. Just 'what's the big deal? there's no way the iPod could be as great as everyone says.'
Fuck google. He should read any of the many reviews/.'s had against the competition. In the comments of every review of every Archos, Creative, Rio, iRiver, and Sony mp3 player, slashdotters have already discussed the pros and cons of the competition. Meaning that while it may have been a Creative Zen review, the Archos lovers chimed it along with the iPod owners.
So you want us to tell you without doing any work yourself? Go read some reviews of the Zen and competition. You'll find that the others lack excellent navigation, or have quality control problems, or lousy customer service, or are bulkier.
whoop de doo. if everyone obeyed the law we wouldn't need as many police. so since people are going to keep breaking the law and hoping to increase their dicks, working up the chain to the sitehosts who know spam is happening makes sense.
Rep Ron Paul of Texas' speech to Congress makes a lot of sense to me. He argues that inflation is hurting lower and middle class americans and needs to be stopped. That means paying down the debt and not running budget deficits. What do you think of it?
I presume you refer to the buying power with that money? How this group disagrees with the CPI's inflation adjustments? How according to them people's earnings and compensation have increased?
Found some tables from census.gov that make my point very well. From 1967 to 2001 the top 5% share of aggregate income increased from 17.5% to 22.4%. In fact the share of aggregate income for the bottom 80% declined. The top 20% increased from 43.8% to 50.1%.
This happened because while the income of the 50th percentile increased from $32,000 in 1967 to $42,000 in 2001, in the 90th percentile the numbers went from $67,000 to $113,000. At the 95th percentile, $85,000 became $150,000.
Thus, the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer.
You didn't answer my question. I don't care about the median. I care about the top earning 1, 5, 10% of the population and did their earnings make up a greater or lesser percentage of total earnings.
I measure total accumulation as including property and investments.
It's not about what change happened last year. It's about the change over the past ten, twenty, and thirty years.
I'll get back to you when I have some numbers and sites for you to look at.
You deny the rich are getting richer based on percentage of yearly income? Based on total accumulation? Based on percentage of the wealth in this country? You deny so much wealth has never been acquired by so few so fast?
You deny thousands of people are dead because of the war in Iraq?
I like looking at weather.com's satelite views of the changing weather. They have "animated" slideshows of the last five pictures. Each is a savable.jpg. It would be awesome if there was a way to automatically save these and use a photo viewer to replay the weather for any length of time.
Even better would be if all the precipitation data and cloudcover pictures could be combined into a texture of the whole world and rendered. Figure a thousand or three polygons for the globe and have all the rest be textures. That would make for one hell of a detailed globe. The more memory the video card has, the better the quality. Ideally there would be an animated texture option too.
Lag death is particularly annoying. It can happen against monsters and players, so it can happen fairly often. If lag effects one person, it's likely to effect a whole group. Thus in a PVP battle things are paused until the lag lessens. Since monsters are immune to lag, it gives the player a disadvantage. Fundamentally, even though the penalty is minor, I've always found lag death such a drag, that not getting penalized when it happens makes more sense. There is a very real disincentive to use lag to cheat by the way. When running to a new location to teleport there when the lag ends, there is no way of knowing what humans or monsters will be there.
No they made a calculated choice. In most OLRPGs, getting attacked while having lag is lethal. It's very frustrating for the dead player. In WOW, when lag happens, the player can run away and they're untouchable. NPCs, monsters, and players freeze in place or stop appearing. When the lag ends, the client sends the player's new position to the server. The server effectively teleports the player to the reported position. A bystander at the new position would see a player just appear there. This has created a cheat, in that when lag happens it's possible to run past high-level enemies who might be guarding treasure. I think Blizzard made the right choice considering how much I've hated getting lag killed in the past.
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It's a 60MB, 5 minute video at 320x160. Video codec is wmv3 at 459kbps. The Audio however, is uncompressed pcm at 1411kbps! Yep, 50 megs of it is the AUDIO! Perhaps eventually someone at ATI will notice and save themselves 45MB per download.
I don't have a drive that can record any kind of DVD media. I have enjoyed playing DVDs for three years now. I have never had a disc break or become so scratched it skiped or would not play. They appear to be just as durable as my CD collection, which still play fine after more than a decade of use. Perhaps you should stop trying to eat the DVDs or fling them like frisbees. I do however have unpleasant memories of VHS tapes getting tangled in my late-80s JVC player. Some tapes started showing static in places. I must admit that once I got a new player about five years ago, those problems vanished.
You should consider getting a better TV if you don't notice any difference, as I can assure you there is. While I don't own any Disney DVDs, I've never had a problem skipping the ads and trailers either on my friend's player or my computer's drive. Perhaps your player isn't versatile enough. Rather than get a new player, try; inserting the disc, then with the TV off or muted, go add salt and butter to your popcorn. Dim the lights. Pull a comfy blanket up around you and perhaps someone close to you. Then start watching from the the title screen. If the disc auto-plays the movie after the trailers, hit "menu" on the remote before turning on the TV.
You are stupid, but we will show you the light. We don't expect Joe Shmuck to buy HDTV sets and HD-DVD players right away. We see the prices for the sets falling. A year or two after we release HD players, those prices will also come down. By that time there should be some stunning content available. Early adopters will show this off to their friends, who will get their own sets and players. We don't expect you to buy another copy of American Pie, which will work just fine on the new players. We do however, hope you purchase the HD-DVD version of Star Wars Episode III or the next James Bond.
I've played many 3D games, but pretty much only FPSs give me nausia. I find the quick jerky movements the most disorienting. Getting higher resolutions, smoother framerates, and more detailed models help somewhat. I've never had the pleasure of trying out an FPS with three monitors, but I wonder if that would help? It seems like the disorientation and compressed FOV would be the problem. I imagine cramming 90 degrees into about 30 of my real-world FOV would make the problem worse.
Now the level load times will be longer. More important, someone explain why there's any video memory to spare? I'm presuming the main point was to free up space and swap textures out when entering a new area that didn't need those anymore. If all level textures are loaded at once, some aren't going to fit, right?
I forgot to point out that many PC gamers will like not having to spend $200 for a video card every two years and $350 for a CPU/mobo/ram/power supply every three years. Considering the installed base, the developers will take extra care to make the game work on the console platform.
My friend refuses to buy any FPS for a console because he can't use a mouse to aim. Imagine MS getting a huge chunk of the PC gaming market. Release the xbox3pc on a different timetable, like every three years. That way MS gets money for the OS, Office, which will run on it, and the hardware.
As for the HD, make it so xbox live games will only play on the HD model. No broadband and HD, no Live. The Live players already jumped through the broadband hoop so they'll get the HD too. When the console finally gets an online RPG it'll make sense. Gamers without Live who just play Ratchet and Clank or Project Gotham Racing will do fine without the HD.
I lived in Fremont up until August. It's 205,000 people, and is the fifth safest city in the nation with populations of 200,000 or more. Pass the shit you've been smoking. Hayward, is closer to Oakland is therefore more dangerous. I'm quite familiar with the cost of BART and busses having used them quite often in that area. If you want suburbia-cul-du-sac-safe then yeah the options are paying $700,000 towards (not up in) the hills around the bay, or move to Livermore or Danville.
Define surrounding area. Live in Hayward or Dublin and take BART. The Dumbarton Express bus runs from Union City station to Palo Alto. There's also carpooling to get across the San Mateo bridge. If the person is single, buy a condo or get a 1-bedroom for $1200. Or $1000 for a as nice/nicer one in north Fremont or Union City near Decoto Rd where the Dumbarton Express runs. With two incomes and one is $95k living on the peninsula is plausible.
Please report the truth. The acceptable house brand bread at Safeway is two loaves for $2.50 about every other week. I will note that it hasn't been 2 for 2 dollars for about a year.
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There's a reason AKNightCowboy opened with "i'm gonna get flamed for this" because his tone was arrogant. No humility in his statements. No 'sorry to bother you'. Just 'what's the big deal? there's no way the iPod could be as great as everyone says.'
/.'s had against the competition. In the comments of every review of every Archos, Creative, Rio, iRiver, and Sony mp3 player, slashdotters have already discussed the pros and cons of the competition. Meaning that while it may have been a Creative Zen review, the Archos lovers chimed it along with the iPod owners.
Fuck google. He should read any of the many reviews
So you want us to tell you without doing any work yourself? Go read some reviews of the Zen and competition. You'll find that the others lack excellent navigation, or have quality control problems, or lousy customer service, or are bulkier.
whoop de doo. if everyone obeyed the law we wouldn't need as many police. so since people are going to keep breaking the law and hoping to increase their dicks, working up the chain to the sitehosts who know spam is happening makes sense.
Free Taiwan? Awesome! I'll take a dozen please. Oh, did you mean ads for A free Taiwan?
Rep Ron Paul of Texas' speech to Congress makes a lot of sense to me. He argues that inflation is hurting lower and middle class americans and needs to be stopped. That means paying down the debt and not running budget deficits. What do you think of it?
I presume you refer to the buying power with that money? How this group disagrees with the CPI's inflation adjustments? How according to them people's earnings and compensation have increased?
Wait! Come back! Tell me what they really say! Otherwise I'll be none-the-wiser and keep "misinforming" people more foolish than I.
Found some tables from census.gov that make my point very well. From 1967 to 2001 the top 5% share of aggregate income increased from 17.5% to 22.4%. In fact the share of aggregate income for the bottom 80% declined. The top 20% increased from 43.8% to 50.1%.
This happened because while the income of the 50th percentile increased from $32,000 in 1967 to $42,000 in 2001, in the 90th percentile the numbers went from $67,000 to $113,000. At the 95th percentile, $85,000 became $150,000.
Thus, the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer.
You didn't answer my question. I don't care about the median. I care about the top earning 1, 5, 10% of the population and did their earnings make up a greater or lesser percentage of total earnings.
I measure total accumulation as including property and investments.
It's not about what change happened last year. It's about the change over the past ten, twenty, and thirty years.
I'll get back to you when I have some numbers and sites for you to look at.
You deny the rich are getting richer based on percentage of yearly income? Based on total accumulation? Based on percentage of the wealth in this country? You deny so much wealth has never been acquired by so few so fast?
You deny thousands of people are dead because of the war in Iraq?
Get pissed already.
I like looking at weather.com's satelite views of the changing weather. They have "animated" slideshows of the last five pictures. Each is a savable .jpg. It would be awesome if there was a way to automatically save these and use a photo viewer to replay the weather for any length of time.
Even better would be if all the precipitation data and cloudcover pictures could be combined into a texture of the whole world and rendered. Figure a thousand or three polygons for the globe and have all the rest be textures. That would make for one hell of a detailed globe. The more memory the video card has, the better the quality. Ideally there would be an animated texture option too.
Lag death is particularly annoying. It can happen against monsters and players, so it can happen fairly often. If lag effects one person, it's likely to effect a whole group. Thus in a PVP battle things are paused until the lag lessens. Since monsters are immune to lag, it gives the player a disadvantage. Fundamentally, even though the penalty is minor, I've always found lag death such a drag, that not getting penalized when it happens makes more sense. There is a very real disincentive to use lag to cheat by the way. When running to a new location to teleport there when the lag ends, there is no way of knowing what humans or monsters will be there.
No they made a calculated choice. In most OLRPGs, getting attacked while having lag is lethal. It's very frustrating for the dead player. In WOW, when lag happens, the player can run away and they're untouchable. NPCs, monsters, and players freeze in place or stop appearing. When the lag ends, the client sends the player's new position to the server. The server effectively teleports the player to the reported position. A bystander at the new position would see a player just appear there. This has created a cheat, in that when lag happens it's possible to run past high-level enemies who might be guarding treasure. I think Blizzard made the right choice considering how much I've hated getting lag killed in the past.
It's a 60MB, 5 minute video at 320x160. Video codec is wmv3 at 459kbps. The Audio however, is uncompressed pcm at 1411kbps! Yep, 50 megs of it is the AUDIO! Perhaps eventually someone at ATI will notice and save themselves 45MB per download.
I don't have a drive that can record any kind of DVD media. I have enjoyed playing DVDs for three years now. I have never had a disc break or become so scratched it skiped or would not play. They appear to be just as durable as my CD collection, which still play fine after more than a decade of use. Perhaps you should stop trying to eat the DVDs or fling them like frisbees. I do however have unpleasant memories of VHS tapes getting tangled in my late-80s JVC player. Some tapes started showing static in places. I must admit that once I got a new player about five years ago, those problems vanished.
You should consider getting a better TV if you don't notice any difference, as I can assure you there is. While I don't own any Disney DVDs, I've never had a problem skipping the ads and trailers either on my friend's player or my computer's drive. Perhaps your player isn't versatile enough. Rather than get a new player, try; inserting the disc, then with the TV off or muted, go add salt and butter to your popcorn. Dim the lights. Pull a comfy blanket up around you and perhaps someone close to you. Then start watching from the the title screen. If the disc auto-plays the movie after the trailers, hit "menu" on the remote before turning on the TV.
Sincerely,
Hollywood
You are stupid, but we will show you the light. We don't expect Joe Shmuck to buy HDTV sets and HD-DVD players right away. We see the prices for the sets falling. A year or two after we release HD players, those prices will also come down. By that time there should be some stunning content available. Early adopters will show this off to their friends, who will get their own sets and players. We don't expect you to buy another copy of American Pie, which will work just fine on the new players. We do however, hope you purchase the HD-DVD version of Star Wars Episode III or the next James Bond.
With love,
Hollywood
I've played many 3D games, but pretty much only FPSs give me nausia. I find the quick jerky movements the most disorienting. Getting higher resolutions, smoother framerates, and more detailed models help somewhat. I've never had the pleasure of trying out an FPS with three monitors, but I wonder if that would help? It seems like the disorientation and compressed FOV would be the problem. I imagine cramming 90 degrees into about 30 of my real-world FOV would make the problem worse.
Hadn't thought of that. Thanks for the theory.
Now the level load times will be longer. More important, someone explain why there's any video memory to spare? I'm presuming the main point was to free up space and swap textures out when entering a new area that didn't need those anymore. If all level textures are loaded at once, some aren't going to fit, right?
I forgot to point out that many PC gamers will like not having to spend $200 for a video card every two years and $350 for a CPU/mobo/ram/power supply every three years. Considering the installed base, the developers will take extra care to make the game work on the console platform.
My friend refuses to buy any FPS for a console because he can't use a mouse to aim. Imagine MS getting a huge chunk of the PC gaming market. Release the xbox3pc on a different timetable, like every three years. That way MS gets money for the OS, Office, which will run on it, and the hardware.
As for the HD, make it so xbox live games will only play on the HD model. No broadband and HD, no Live. The Live players already jumped through the broadband hoop so they'll get the HD too. When the console finally gets an online RPG it'll make sense. Gamers without Live who just play Ratchet and Clank or Project Gotham Racing will do fine without the HD.
I lived in Fremont up until August. It's 205,000 people, and is the fifth safest city in the nation with populations of 200,000 or more. Pass the shit you've been smoking. Hayward, is closer to Oakland is therefore more dangerous. I'm quite familiar with the cost of BART and busses having used them quite often in that area. If you want suburbia-cul-du-sac-safe then yeah the options are paying $700,000 towards (not up in) the hills around the bay, or move to Livermore or Danville.
Define surrounding area. Live in Hayward or Dublin and take BART. The Dumbarton Express bus runs from Union City station to Palo Alto. There's also carpooling to get across the San Mateo bridge. If the person is single, buy a condo or get a 1-bedroom for $1200. Or $1000 for a as nice/nicer one in north Fremont or Union City near Decoto Rd where the Dumbarton Express runs. With two incomes and one is $95k living on the peninsula is plausible.
Please report the truth. The acceptable house brand bread at Safeway is two loaves for $2.50 about every other week. I will note that it hasn't been 2 for 2 dollars for about a year.
don't you mean whip?
"Winamp, it really whips the llamas ass."