The Wii does come with a composite cable, which looks nasty on a high resolution screen. Component is much better.
The Wii could really benefit from a HDMI port, in my opinion. Newer TVs are shipping with four or five HDMI ports and one analog component port. Being forced to plug something in to a new $3000 TV set with composite cables because the component port is taken is depressing.
Are they actually biased, though? Someone who uses Yahoo search is probably more likely to want to use Yahoo Finance. People who use Bing search are probably more likely to want Bing Finance.
Even without any sort of deliberate bias, if the search algorithm of each search provider does nothing more than blindly rank sites the way they normally do, they'd likely still wind up with their own products at the top of their search results. That's not bias, that's providing the search results that you think your users are looking for, which is the whole *point* of modern search engines.
Have you ever complained about being undercharged for anything?
If 50% of mistakes were in the customer's favour, I'd still expect 99% of complaints to be about overcharging.
I've got a 4870 and I've been eyeing these cards. Not for performance, but for power consumption. Particularly idle power consumption. I believe the 6870 uses about the same power under full load as my 4870, but 70% less at idle. Should be almost silent when I'm using Firefox and Word.
That's Telstra. Their pricing has always been terrible.
We had someone post on the guild forums that they were planning to join Telstra Bigpond and they got this response:
Why god why!? What in the hell possessed you to decide to join _them_? Have you finally gone completely insane, are you punishing yourself for something you've done, have you been befuddled by evil little imps sent by _them_, what is wrong with you man!? Think of your wife and child, turn back from the dark side, telstra isn't really your father. Get out of there now!
Is this really what the average Australian wants? Surely the Assie public is not this stupid? They do elect their politicians, don't they?
Shit like this and the internet filter show up on tech news sites and they make me honestly embarrassed to be Australian.
This is probably how Americans felt for the entire reign of George W. Bush.
Out of the two big political parties, one want the National Broadband Network, fibre to the home and gigabit internet for all - and they also want the internet filter. The second party is the "640K (B/s) should be enough for anybody" brigade. We have ADSL1 in most areas, we're good for the next 20 years! HD video streaming is just a fad!
Personally, I don't put a 1 next to my preferred party and work down, I do the lowest number first and work up. I don't actually want any of them in power, so I think in terms of who I'm voting *out*.
Sadly, drivers are human and prone to becoming confused and doing stupid things when they receive contradictory information. Like their GPS saying turn right and a sign saying no right turn. The sensible thing to do would be to find somewhere safe to pull over and consult the GPS's maps, but humans will do things like start to turn, try to straighten up and drive into an oncoming semi.
Why is it all hardware is set by default to run just barely below the overheat point? It just makes it more likely to die, sitting at those temperatures and then you have to replace it... wait, answered my own question.
3G is a weird system that mixes voice circuits and packet data. 4G will be pure packet traffic.
The really interesting thing that I'm looking forward to is: how will carriers justify charging so much more for a one minute voice call than they charge for half a megabyte of data, when the load on the network is identical?
Hands up if you think they'll just accept the loss in revenue. Anyone?
And packet data will need to be low latency and reliable, otherwise voice calls won't work. It should be fun to watch.
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But how many people with iThings do you think know that?
Actually, you're thinking of the lower level Raise Dead. Resurrection only needs a piece of a body, like a fingernail. And SD cards lose a gigabyte each time they're resurrected, so it's usually not worth it.
What? Oh, come on. I can't be the only person who reads Slashdot with a PHB within arm's reach?
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The Wii does come with a composite cable, which looks nasty on a high resolution screen. Component is much better.
The Wii could really benefit from a HDMI port, in my opinion. Newer TVs are shipping with four or five HDMI ports and one analog component port. Being forced to plug something in to a new $3000 TV set with composite cables because the component port is taken is depressing.
Are they actually biased, though? Someone who uses Yahoo search is probably more likely to want to use Yahoo Finance. People who use Bing search are probably more likely to want Bing Finance.
Even without any sort of deliberate bias, if the search algorithm of each search provider does nothing more than blindly rank sites the way they normally do, they'd likely still wind up with their own products at the top of their search results. That's not bias, that's providing the search results that you think your users are looking for, which is the whole *point* of modern search engines.
I have a Liberal Arts degree - where do I sign up?
http://mcdonalds.com.au/careers/join-us
Sorry, someone had to say it. :P
Have you ever complained about being undercharged for anything? If 50% of mistakes were in the customer's favour, I'd still expect 99% of complaints to be about overcharging.
I've got a 4870 and I've been eyeing these cards. Not for performance, but for power consumption. Particularly idle power consumption. I believe the 6870 uses about the same power under full load as my 4870, but 70% less at idle. Should be almost silent when I'm using Firefox and Word.
That's Telstra. Their pricing has always been terrible.
We had someone post on the guild forums that they were planning to join Telstra Bigpond and they got this response:
Why god why!? What in the hell possessed you to decide to join _them_? Have you finally gone completely insane, are you punishing yourself for something you've done, have you been befuddled by evil little imps sent by _them_, what is wrong with you man!? Think of your wife and child, turn back from the dark side, telstra isn't really your father. Get out of there now!
Is this really what the average Australian wants? Surely the Assie public is not this stupid? They do elect their politicians, don't they?
Shit like this and the internet filter show up on tech news sites and they make me honestly embarrassed to be Australian.
This is probably how Americans felt for the entire reign of George W. Bush.
Out of the two big political parties, one want the National Broadband Network, fibre to the home and gigabit internet for all - and they also want the internet filter. The second party is the "640K (B/s) should be enough for anybody" brigade. We have ADSL1 in most areas, we're good for the next 20 years! HD video streaming is just a fad!
Personally, I don't put a 1 next to my preferred party and work down, I do the lowest number first and work up. I don't actually want any of them in power, so I think in terms of who I'm voting *out*.
Sadly, drivers are human and prone to becoming confused and doing stupid things when they receive contradictory information. Like their GPS saying turn right and a sign saying no right turn. The sensible thing to do would be to find somewhere safe to pull over and consult the GPS's maps, but humans will do things like start to turn, try to straighten up and drive into an oncoming semi.
New Xbox 360 S Uses Less Power, Makes Less Noise
...Has Less Cooling, Still Overheats
Why is it all hardware is set by default to run just barely below the overheat point? It just makes it more likely to die, sitting at those temperatures and then you have to replace it... wait, answered my own question.
"Things work great so long as I don't ask it to do more than render basic HTML."
That's not really a glowing recommendation for a browser.
I've attended University tutorials in my underwear. God bless the internet and online tutorials.
3G is a weird system that mixes voice circuits and packet data. 4G will be pure packet traffic. The really interesting thing that I'm looking forward to is: how will carriers justify charging so much more for a one minute voice call than they charge for half a megabyte of data, when the load on the network is identical? Hands up if you think they'll just accept the loss in revenue. Anyone? And packet data will need to be low latency and reliable, otherwise voice calls won't work. It should be fun to watch.
But how many people with iThings do you think know that?
The spell requires one dead body.
Actually, you're thinking of the lower level Raise Dead. Resurrection only needs a piece of a body, like a fingernail. And SD cards lose a gigabyte each time they're resurrected, so it's usually not worth it.
What? Oh, come on. I can't be the only person who reads Slashdot with a PHB within arm's reach?
My *watch* has all that too. And it also won't run Flash. :)
Competition happens and consumers win. Working as intended, move along, nothing to see here.