And honestly, just because there are other options like netflix/itunes doesnt make not having blu-ray support okay, not everyone has the internet pipe to download/stream movies, especially in HD format, and some people actually like possesing the physical disc.
i realise that doesnt make much sense since fedora uses pulse-audio as well, but it was mostly trying to find a distro with more stability then ubuntu would offer
correct, but ironically, the only ubuntu release to need a x.x.1 so far was an LTS (8.04.1)
So far ubuntu has been pretty erratic about which release were good and which just plain sucked. 7.04 was great as it got compiz working without much trouble on most system, then a few releases later they considered pulse-audio a good idea and i ended up running to fedora. Now 10.10 is working adequately on my beater-laptop (which incidently has no sound, so i couldnt care less about pulse-audio on that machine), and now all this unity stuff has me anxious enough to not upgrade my laptop.
over the years i've had both flawless and extremely problematic upgrades with ubuntu, if you want stability, look elsewhere
i'm guessing that for an interplanetary mission, these things will be transported in a larger probe, and once the "mothership" is in orbit, it will deploy these chipsats into the target orbit/atmosphere, the mothership can act as the radio relay, aggregating usefull data from the chipsats and sending it back home.
It doesnt solve the solar energy problem for missions beyond mars, but i suspect RTGs could solve that instead. According to wikipedia miniaturized RTGs have even been used in pacemakers, so designing one to power a chipsat instead of solar should be possible
the problem here is how to hold the things, if you have a seperate controller, then the controller/pad/phone combo gets rather wieldy, you either have to set the tablet down (at which point you might as well suck it up and get an xbox with a tv), or dock the tablet/controller, making for a very poor form factor psp/ds competitor, and device specific controllers.
a plug-in controller would allow me to play decent nes/snes games on my 7" android tablet (no bluetooth sadly, and only a resistive screen), but for gaming on the go my PSP or DS would be superior (or for stuff like angry birds, my phone), and if i'm gonna sit down and set the tablet down i might as well turn on the 360
and that is how it should be, the consumer shouldnt be bothered with going after the chip vendor in this case, just because nvidia happens to be somewhat publicly known. Would you as a consumer go after marvel if you network chip had a fatal bug in it?
The consumer has a contract with the laptop vendor to provide a working laptop, the laptop vendor has a contract with nvidia to provide graphics chips, they are the ones that should be sueing nvidia, not the consumer. The consumer didnt buy a defective chip, they bought a defective laptop
I dont own a PS3, but my psp is unable to log into the PSN facilities too, which sort of annoyes me (or in case of the PGP-GO owners, completely blocks them from buying new games at all)
I wonder if us PSP owners will also recieve some compensation for the loss of service, and worse, the leaking of our private information
I "visited" Cherynobyl via scifi.com's video site. The show was called Destination Truth, and they were filming the area around the nuclear plant and nearby town.
That's as close as I plan to get to a meltdown site, although I did recently receive a job offer to go to Tokyo for a few months (is $65/hour enough money to move within 60 miles of Fukushima? Hmmm).
1) chernobyl didnt melt down, so it isnt a meltdown site, Three mile island is a meltdown site, and now off course fukushima dai ichi
2) the official exclusion zone is 30 km, 60 miles is over three times as far away as the japanase government deems safe, take into account that direct radiation drops off on an inverse cube, and you would be subject to 1/9th of the direct radiation that the japanese government deems acceptable, not counting extra decrease by objects blocking the line of sight. Exposure to fallout and activation products would not drop off as sharply, but still will be significantly below acceptable limits..
Now i cant look into your wallet, so i dont know how much of an improvement $65 an hour would be, but being 60 miles from fukushima wouldnt be very high on my considerations list
just to add to this, IIRC, BBs are very closely tied to RIMs own servers via proprietary protocols, this got them into all sorts of trouble in countries who dont like encrypted e-mails going across the border (India is one, i recall)
you said a faster processor doesnt make games more fun, my counterpoint was that they do, arguably more so then better graphics
take dead rising for example, on the 360 you could have up to a hundred (or so, didnt get that far) zombies om screen and smash through them like ragdolls. On the wii, the cpu could only handle a few zombies at once, transforming the game into a resident evil ripoff, sans the horror setting
The wii is well beyond the last generation, it is basicaly a gamecube turned up to 15, and that same gamecube was at the very least 90% as capable as an xbox (lets not even discus the ps2 here), given a competent programmer.
i suggest you find a wii and play metroid prime 3 on it, it looka very good for that thing, then find an original xbox and play halo on it or something
if said website is under you homepage in your/. profile, then i am surprised you are able to sustain yourself with it.
The last frontpage update (on what appears to be a car blog) is from fricking february, and the menu structure seems very unlikely to provide me with any kind of worthwhile content, there are multiple car-news sites that are many orders of magnitude more interesting.
The specification part also seems rather non-user friendly to me.
Honestly, spend more time on making your website worthwhile rather then trying to sell what it is now
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Here in holland, pre-smoking-ban, you couldnt find a bar to grab a pint which wasnt smoke-filled, the smoking-ban improved that a lot
These days though, i still hate people smoking in the streets, walking around the town center behind a smoker can still be a pretty shit experience
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Am i the only one who initially parsed the title as "c64-cores"? i figured someone wanted to put a bunch of commode-64 cpu's in there :P
I love comments of massive depth where clicking on the reply textbox will simply expand the above comment and defocus the reply text box.
that really bugs the hell out of me too, replying just sucks when you are more then one or two posts down from the root.
I brought this up before and someone suggested switching back to the old discussion system, which promptly broke it even worse.
Green, fluorescent and often handled by older guys in robes?
you should get that looked at dude
so you are saying apple puts form over function?
who would have thought?
And honestly, just because there are other options like netflix/itunes doesnt make not having blu-ray support okay, not everyone has the internet pipe to download/stream movies, especially in HD format, and some people actually like possesing the physical disc.
i realise that doesnt make much sense since fedora uses pulse-audio as well, but it was mostly trying to find a distro with more stability then ubuntu would offer
hell, getting a windows ME machine running acceptably would be less work for me then forking a complete desktop environment..
correct, but ironically, the only ubuntu release to need a x.x.1 so far was an LTS (8.04.1)
So far ubuntu has been pretty erratic about which release were good and which just plain sucked. 7.04 was great as it got compiz working without much trouble on most system, then a few releases later they considered pulse-audio a good idea and i ended up running to fedora. Now 10.10 is working adequately on my beater-laptop (which incidently has no sound, so i couldnt care less about pulse-audio on that machine), and now all this unity stuff has me anxious enough to not upgrade my laptop.
over the years i've had both flawless and extremely problematic upgrades with ubuntu, if you want stability, look elsewhere
i'm guessing that for an interplanetary mission, these things will be transported in a larger probe, and once the "mothership" is in orbit, it will deploy these chipsats into the target orbit/atmosphere, the mothership can act as the radio relay, aggregating usefull data from the chipsats and sending it back home.
It doesnt solve the solar energy problem for missions beyond mars, but i suspect RTGs could solve that instead. According to wikipedia miniaturized RTGs have even been used in pacemakers, so designing one to power a chipsat instead of solar should be possible
the problem here is how to hold the things, if you have a seperate controller, then the controller/pad/phone combo gets rather wieldy, you either have to set the tablet down (at which point you might as well suck it up and get an xbox with a tv), or dock the tablet/controller, making for a very poor form factor psp/ds competitor, and device specific controllers.
a plug-in controller would allow me to play decent nes/snes games on my 7" android tablet (no bluetooth sadly, and only a resistive screen), but for gaming on the go my PSP or DS would be superior (or for stuff like angry birds, my phone), and if i'm gonna sit down and set the tablet down i might as well turn on the 360
and that is how it should be, the consumer shouldnt be bothered with going after the chip vendor in this case, just because nvidia happens to be somewhat publicly known. Would you as a consumer go after marvel if you network chip had a fatal bug in it?
The consumer has a contract with the laptop vendor to provide a working laptop, the laptop vendor has a contract with nvidia to provide graphics chips, they are the ones that should be sueing nvidia, not the consumer. The consumer didnt buy a defective chip, they bought a defective laptop
Wrong soviet headpiece, Lenin died in 1924, approximatly 23 years before the start of the cold war
I think you mean Stalin
I dont own a PS3, but my psp is unable to log into the PSN facilities too, which sort of annoyes me (or in case of the PGP-GO owners, completely blocks them from buying new games at all)
I wonder if us PSP owners will also recieve some compensation for the loss of service, and worse, the leaking of our private information
I "visited" Cherynobyl via scifi.com's video site. The show was called Destination Truth, and they were filming the area around the nuclear plant and nearby town.
That's as close as I plan to get to a meltdown site, although I did recently receive a job offer to go to Tokyo for a few months (is $65/hour enough money to move within 60 miles of Fukushima? Hmmm).
1) chernobyl didnt melt down, so it isnt a meltdown site, Three mile island is a meltdown site, and now off course fukushima dai ichi
2) the official exclusion zone is 30 km, 60 miles is over three times as far away as the japanase government deems safe, take into account that direct radiation drops off on an inverse cube, and you would be subject to 1/9th of the direct radiation that the japanese government deems acceptable, not counting extra decrease by objects blocking the line of sight. Exposure to fallout and activation products would not drop off as sharply, but still will be significantly below acceptable limits..
Now i cant look into your wallet, so i dont know how much of an improvement $65 an hour would be, but being 60 miles from fukushima wouldnt be very high on my considerations list
just to add to this, IIRC, BBs are very closely tied to RIMs own servers via proprietary protocols, this got them into all sorts of trouble in countries who dont like encrypted e-mails going across the border (India is one, i recall)
you said a faster processor doesnt make games more fun, my counterpoint was that they do, arguably more so then better graphics
take dead rising for example, on the 360 you could have up to a hundred (or so, didnt get that far) zombies om screen and smash through them like ragdolls. On the wii, the cpu could only handle a few zombies at once, transforming the game into a resident evil ripoff, sans the horror setting
Improved graphics are nice, but a faster processor doesn't make the game more fun.
oh come on, even if improved realism in physics and AI dont float your boat, wacky ragdoll physics and thousands of objects make stuff a lot of fun
The wii is well beyond the last generation, it is basicaly a gamecube turned up to 15, and that same gamecube was at the very least 90% as capable as an xbox (lets not even discus the ps2 here), given a competent programmer.
i suggest you find a wii and play metroid prime 3 on it, it looka very good for that thing, then find an original xbox and play halo on it or something
both endeavour and atlantis are scheduled to fly once more, so for now, the shuttle still uses aluminium fuel
excel 2003? i can only imagine the following response onboard the alien mothership:
"Nuke the site from orbit, it's the only way to be sure"
if said website is under you homepage in your /. profile, then i am surprised you are able to sustain yourself with it.
The last frontpage update (on what appears to be a car blog) is from fricking february, and the menu structure seems very unlikely to provide me with any kind of worthwhile content, there are multiple car-news sites that are many orders of magnitude more interesting.
The specification part also seems rather non-user friendly to me.
Honestly, spend more time on making your website worthwhile rather then trying to sell what it is now
Here in holland, pre-smoking-ban, you couldnt find a bar to grab a pint which wasnt smoke-filled, the smoking-ban improved that a lot
These days though, i still hate people smoking in the streets, walking around the town center behind a smoker can still be a pretty shit experience
i'd say 7 pairs and a sideboob
if it suitably unsuitable, that makes it probably more enjoyable for the GP himself
Assuming he reads his reviews and doesnt buy ultimate stinker games
speak for yourself, i dont use moderate to high amounts of violence in my daily life (or drugs/gambling for that matter)
i guess they still havent solved the issue about who exactly is in charge of Gundam, after the ministry of agriculture denounced the responsibility