Do we ALSO need a law to indicate that it's illegal to remove my own property from the car and then destroy that property if I'm in an accident?
Man, I wish I could find the article now to back this up... Anyway, there was a case where some guy removed or destroyed his car's "black box" after an accident and he was charged with obstruction or something like that. (I read it on the internets so it must be true.)
I think "They" can nail you for destroying material evidence, or something that might be, whether it comes in a black box or not.
Are police just entitled to come along and remove it from my car without my permission now? Do they have to ask?
Now, they probably can't. In a few years? I expect the worst.
All this multi-core stuff is great, but is software keeping pace? It's nice to multitask more quickly, but unless I am mistaken that extra core doesn't help when you are playing a 3d game.
(I read that Unreal's upcoming "Gemini" rendering engine will be multi-threaded on the PS3. Hopefully that'll mean it supports multiple procs on the PC too.)
Afterwards, Kutaragi said that you will "work more hours" to afford one.
Then Stringer said something about how you are "paying for potential."
Now, Kaz Hirai is hinting that games will be more expensive. (But please, don't ding him.)
Next week I am expecting some other executive to casually mention the next selling point, that the PS3 "probably doesn't cause eye cancer." And I'll believe him... it probably won't.
High definition looks better than non-HD, but not THAT much better (especially considering the costs).
I got a 36" HDTV CRT about four years ago for $800. At the time I wasn't even worried about HD since tuners were expensive and HTPCs hadn't hit. But the big TV was HD-ready, so I had it for the future.
About 2 years ago I connected a $100 HD tuner and a $20 antenna to it. That's not exactly breaking the bank if you are a person who likes TV and movies. And on my 36" TV, there is a night-and-day difference between DVDs and HD programming (which I get off the air, or from the computer attached to the TV). A good 1080i broadcast looks absolutely sick. It's great.
The difference may not be important TO YOU, but some of us like it. If I had a nickel for every time someone said, "HD isn't that much better" I'd have, well, a LOT of goddamn nickels.
I wish these was a single forum that would attract and hold all the "there's nothing on TV" and "HD isn't that much better" people so the rest of us can get our gadget on in peace and watch HDTV.
I held my nose and went through the comics. At the end, readers have a chance to vote for the outcome.
"Hey Kids! Now it's your turn - use the buttons below to vote for what happens next, then check back here in September to read the continuing adventures of Captain Copyright!"
The "buttons" are actually text mailto links. OK, bad design, but it also kind of seems sneaky. Well, who knows what else will show up in the captain@captaincopyright.ca mailbox... not that I would advocate anything like that. Oh no. I'm an old man now and very responsible.
Lastly: allow me to present my reply to the BSA Copyright Weasel and this Capt. Copyright fellow:
I don't dispute that you are getting good perf on that G3 but there is no way you are getting all of the GUI special effects. I've got a G4 PowerBook and I am missing video features. For example, there is no "ripple" effect when I drop a widget onto the Dashboard. Disabled due to lack of a pixel shader on the GPU, I expect.
I was lucky enough to do the NTS tour twice. It's one of the coolest things I have ever done. If you are a geek within driving distance of Nevada, take the tour! There's nothing quite like standing at the edge of a 1300' nuclear bomb crater.
I live in Seattle, which is technically part of America. Despite the car culture, these people think a 30 minute drive is a big deal, and anything over that the natives seem to regard as a day trip.
Contrast this to Los Angeles, where you might drive 30 minutes to a place to eat in the middle of the workday.
A few years ago someone mentioned that they had a light source behind their TV -- just a soft white light. In total darkness, the white light reduced eye tension as it allowed the eye to go from the bright TV to a gradient light to the dark wall, and it also increased the visible contrast of the TV.
I started doing it immediately (Standard Definition) and have always increased my use of it as time goes on. My current theater is a projector, and I have a soft light behind my screen matting. I definitely find less eye strain if I have the light on.
That is very interesting, thanks for posting. I have noticed my eyes becoming fatigued more easily as I age... the other day I had a 2 hr Sci Fi Friday marathon in a dark room, and when the lights came back on I could not focus for the rest of the evening! Normally my focus only goes to hell at 2-3 AM, when I get really tired, so having it happen around 11 PM was unpleasant. I will have to try the light behind the TV.
Proof that I am old fart at 34: I have never been to MySpace. However, I read Usenet daily.
(I have never downloaded a "podcast" either. I have not run an IM program in 5 years, because jebus, all you people on my contact list... just leave me alone, don't you have anything to do but chat?! I have a web site, but since I don't post my feeeeelings about things I don't consider it to be a blog.)
Sellers don't choose their price based on what sounds good.
That is mostly but not entirely true. Merchants are very sensitive to how their brand is perceived, so they often have Minimum Advertised Price clauses. If you want to be an authorized Monster Cable reseller, for example, you agree to do your pricing a certain way. Break the rules and they give you the boot.
If TV channels became a truly free market, I am sure similar practices would quickly take root.
In the end, my own preferences are simple: I am against anything which will make F/X stop showing The Shield.
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This means that when you want to hook up a laser to a logic circuit you end up with two separate chips and interconnections between them (or maybe with a separate layer of the lasing semiconductor grown onto a silicon chip.) This is a major hassle and expensive.
And obviously, the less chips and interconnections you have the easier it is to ruggedize the product for extreme conditions... such as those found in a corrosive salt water tank full of sharks with lasers affixed to their frikkin' heads.
At best, they are information scavengers, feeding on the facts hunted down by others.
I'm no blog cheerleader but I think you are being too harsh. At best, they do create something of real value... hunting down information and publishing it. What you specified is the typical behavior, not the best the field has to offer. Which I admit is a microscopic portion, but such details are important.
But your father's old-fashioned planner can't beep to remind you of something. That is why my PDA is great... not because it's soooo fast to look something up (it isn't) but because it reminds me to do things. And when it beeps, it brings up the details of the event.
It's worse than you think. The 10k-year warranty only covers objective time relative to a fixed clock in the factory on Earth, not any subjective time YOUR clock experiences. So if you take your clock on a long, fast space voyage, the warranty will be up in only a few thousand years of your own perceived time.
What ever happened to pride in your work and customer service?
I have to commute to work by car but I find that it is an excellent opportunity to catch up on a movie or the Slashdot headlines as long as you are careful. In fact, I'm onli
SoundStorm may be gone but I am getting by with my HDA X-Mystique, which puts out a real Dolby Digital 5.1 signal over coax and optical cable. As far as I know it is the only modern product that outputs 3d game sound (EAX 2, DS3D) as DD5.1.
The drivers are rarely updated, unfortunately. It's a tolerable product though and maybe the only game in town if you want digital sound output for your gamez0rz. No EAX HD support, of course.
All those nice DD5.1 computer speakers out there... so few ways to drive them with something other than DVDs. Sigh.
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Do we ALSO need a law to indicate that it's illegal to remove my own property from the car and then destroy that property if I'm in an accident?
Man, I wish I could find the article now to back this up... Anyway, there was a case where some guy removed or destroyed his car's "black box" after an accident and he was charged with obstruction or something like that. (I read it on the internets so it must be true.)
I think "They" can nail you for destroying material evidence, or something that might be, whether it comes in a black box or not.
Are police just entitled to come along and remove it from my car without my permission now? Do they have to ask?
Now, they probably can't. In a few years? I expect the worst.
All this multi-core stuff is great, but is software keeping pace? It's nice to multitask more quickly, but unless I am mistaken that extra core doesn't help when you are playing a 3d game.
(I read that Unreal's upcoming "Gemini" rendering engine will be multi-threaded on the PS3. Hopefully that'll mean it supports multiple procs on the PC too.)
First we heard that it was $600.
Afterwards, Kutaragi said that you will "work more hours" to afford one.
Then Stringer said something about how you are "paying for potential."
Now, Kaz Hirai is hinting that games will be more expensive. (But please, don't ding him.)
Next week I am expecting some other executive to casually mention the next selling point, that the PS3 "probably doesn't cause eye cancer." And I'll believe him... it probably won't.
Probably.
High definition looks better than non-HD, but not THAT much better (especially considering the costs).
I got a 36" HDTV CRT about four years ago for $800. At the time I wasn't even worried about HD since tuners were expensive and HTPCs hadn't hit. But the big TV was HD-ready, so I had it for the future.
About 2 years ago I connected a $100 HD tuner and a $20 antenna to it. That's not exactly breaking the bank if you are a person who likes TV and movies. And on my 36" TV, there is a night-and-day difference between DVDs and HD programming (which I get off the air, or from the computer attached to the TV). A good 1080i broadcast looks absolutely sick. It's great.
The difference may not be important TO YOU, but some of us like it. If I had a nickel for every time someone said, "HD isn't that much better" I'd have, well, a LOT of goddamn nickels.
I wish these was a single forum that would attract and hold all the "there's nothing on TV" and "HD isn't that much better" people so the rest of us can get our gadget on in peace and watch HDTV.
I held my nose and went through the comics. At the end, readers have a chance to vote for the outcome.
"Hey Kids! Now it's your turn - use the buttons below to vote for what happens next, then check back here in September to read the continuing adventures of Captain Copyright!"
The "buttons" are actually text mailto links. OK, bad design, but it also kind of seems sneaky. Well, who knows what else will show up in the captain@captaincopyright.ca mailbox... not that I would advocate anything like that. Oh no. I'm an old man now and very responsible.
Lastly: allow me to present my reply to the BSA Copyright Weasel and this Capt. Copyright fellow:
Cracker, the Fair Use Ferret
I don't dispute that you are getting good perf on that G3 but there is no way you are getting all of the GUI special effects. I've got a G4 PowerBook and I am missing video features. For example, there is no "ripple" effect when I drop a widget onto the Dashboard. Disabled due to lack of a pixel shader on the GPU, I expect.
However, at that time the domestic boutique pike manufacturer sector will EXPLODE. Invest now.
I was lucky enough to do the NTS tour twice. It's one of the coolest things I have ever done. If you are a geek within driving distance of Nevada, take the tour! There's nothing quite like standing at the edge of a 1300' nuclear bomb crater.
The Star Wars Kid should exact simple, time-honored vengeance: beat the crap out of a couple of the prime tormentors.
He'll feel better about himself.
They'll learn a lesson in how to treat people. There is no doubt, distributing that video was low.
A little violence IS a solution, especially to some of the problems that a 15 year old boy faces.
You just have to specify if it is an Imperial or SI salad plate.
Fifth, if you're going to push everyone to unlicensed spread spectrum, how do we resolve interference disputes?
"Two men enter... one man leaves."
I live in Seattle, which is technically part of America. Despite the car culture, these people think a 30 minute drive is a big deal, and anything over that the natives seem to regard as a day trip.
Contrast this to Los Angeles, where you might drive 30 minutes to a place to eat in the middle of the workday.
This place is weird for a California boy like me.
The X-Mystique and other cards in its family have full DD support including creating a DD stream from multichannel game sound.
http://www.bluegears.com/
A few years ago someone mentioned that they had a light source behind their TV -- just a soft white light. In total darkness, the white light reduced eye tension as it allowed the eye to go from the bright TV to a gradient light to the dark wall, and it also increased the visible contrast of the TV.
I started doing it immediately (Standard Definition) and have always increased my use of it as time goes on. My current theater is a projector, and I have a soft light behind my screen matting. I definitely find less eye strain if I have the light on.
That is very interesting, thanks for posting. I have noticed my eyes becoming fatigued more easily as I age... the other day I had a 2 hr Sci Fi Friday marathon in a dark room, and when the lights came back on I could not focus for the rest of the evening! Normally my focus only goes to hell at 2-3 AM, when I get really tired, so having it happen around 11 PM was unpleasant. I will have to try the light behind the TV.
Over the hill at 34!
How is the music visualizer?
Proof that I am old fart at 34: I have never been to MySpace. However, I read Usenet daily.
(I have never downloaded a "podcast" either. I have not run an IM program in 5 years, because jebus, all you people on my contact list... just leave me alone, don't you have anything to do but chat?! I have a web site, but since I don't post my feeeeelings about things I don't consider it to be a blog.)
Sellers don't choose their price based on what sounds good.
That is mostly but not entirely true. Merchants are very sensitive to how their brand is perceived, so they often have Minimum Advertised Price clauses. If you want to be an authorized Monster Cable reseller, for example, you agree to do your pricing a certain way. Break the rules and they give you the boot.
If TV channels became a truly free market, I am sure similar practices would quickly take root.
In the end, my own preferences are simple: I am against anything which will make F/X stop showing The Shield.
This means that when you want to hook up a laser to a logic circuit you end up with two separate chips and interconnections between them (or maybe with a separate layer of the lasing semiconductor grown onto a silicon chip.) This is a major hassle and expensive.
And obviously, the less chips and interconnections you have the easier it is to ruggedize the product for extreme conditions... such as those found in a corrosive salt water tank full of sharks with lasers affixed to their frikkin' heads.
At best, they are information scavengers, feeding on the facts hunted down by others.
I'm no blog cheerleader but I think you are being too harsh. At best, they do create something of real value... hunting down information and publishing it. What you specified is the typical behavior, not the best the field has to offer. Which I admit is a microscopic portion, but such details are important.
... but this is still the lamest thing I have ever heard.
But your father's old-fashioned planner can't beep to remind you of something. That is why my PDA is great... not because it's soooo fast to look something up (it isn't) but because it reminds me to do things. And when it beeps, it brings up the details of the event.
It's worse than you think. The 10k-year warranty only covers objective time relative to a fixed clock in the factory on Earth, not any subjective time YOUR clock experiences. So if you take your clock on a long, fast space voyage, the warranty will be up in only a few thousand years of your own perceived time.
What ever happened to pride in your work and customer service?
I have to commute to work by car but I find that it is an excellent opportunity to catch up on a movie or the Slashdot headlines as long as you are careful. In fact, I'm onli
OH FU
Soundstorm never had that problem and I have not noticed it with this new product either.
SoundStorm may be gone but I am getting by with my HDA X-Mystique, which puts out a real Dolby Digital 5.1 signal over coax and optical cable. As far as I know it is the only modern product that outputs 3d game sound (EAX 2, DS3D) as DD5.1.
The drivers are rarely updated, unfortunately. It's a tolerable product though and maybe the only game in town if you want digital sound output for your gamez0rz. No EAX HD support, of course.
All those nice DD5.1 computer speakers out there... so few ways to drive them with something other than DVDs. Sigh.