The first big slide for SWG players on that chart is Aug-Sept 2004, which predates the release of the CU by seven or eight months. The second dive (after the short level period) is pretty close to the time the CU got released. The downward slope doesn't really change much after that, so it could be said the NGE had no effect on subscriber numbers, either positively or negatively. The game was already into its death spiral.
Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. The article is all about Microsoft comparing WMP to JPG and it even has a quote from a cell phone manufacturer saying they'd look into supporting the format.
To say that WMP is over engineered because it has alpha channel support is a straw man argument. Just because a camera can't take an image with an alpha channel doesn't mean that the format shouldnt' be able to have an alpha channel added later when the image is edited. Why shouldn't MS make a format that can be used front-to-back?
To answer that question I need you to first show me a mass-market consumer level digital camera that stores its images in PNG format.
I'll wait...
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Outside of web developers and a certain set of geeks no one cares about PNG. All the average consumer cares about is how many pictures can fit on their digital camera, how good they look, and what software can access them. Since PNG isn't the format on their camera PNG doesn't exist to them. While WMP might be bad because it is from Microsoft it's being developed by a company that understands the consumer space and how you get into it (e.g. talking to cell phone manufacturers to have them use WMP as the cell phone camera storage format). The open groups that made JPG2K and PNG wanted community word of mouth to spread their formats. That doesn't work except for an extremely small minority of consumers that might make use of the format.
Soda is 100% sweetened with corn syrup, which has been shown to have a direct link to obesity and diabetes. 100% juice juices (not juice cocktails) are naturally sweetened with sugar. Even if a juice has more sugar per serving than a soda it is still better for you as it is real sugar and not corn syrup.
If you think "driving" is the same as "steering" then you don't have the mental faculties required to contribute anything sensible to this conversation.
That you think applying lipstick is currently an acceptable act to perform while driving just reinforces my opinion of you.
>> There really isn't any doubt that the Earth has warmed up over the last 25 years.
Since 1870 the average annual global temperature increase has been ~0.01 - 0.02C. So in the past 25 years the Earth has warmed up approximately 0.25C. All of these measurements are predicated on the assumption that the methods used to record and/or extract the temperature data have a margin of error of less than +/- 0.02C.
The rate of change of the temperature increase hasn't gone up at all during the time that we became a mechanized society with CO2 belching cars, burning coal for large amounts of electricity production, and detonating nukes during wartime or for testing. Yes, we're dumping CO2 into the atmosphere, but is it the major cause or is the warming trend a natural cycle? Is CO2 the main problem or is it water vapor, which is a far more efficient greenhouse gas. I read a study from a climatologist that linked the 0.02 C temperature increase to the large amount of snow and ice that was blasted into the atmosphere from the meteor hitting in Tunguska Russia early last century. Whether or not his conclusions are valid he does manage to point out that most Global Warming Alarmists don't see the forest for the trees. Our knowledge of the climate is infintile, the press and grant grubbing scientists prefer the alarmist tack as opposed to real science, and once inaccurate data gets published (e.g. the 100% invalid "hockey stick" progression of increasing global temperature rise) it's hard to repair the damage done by blasting that crap out to the populace.
We absolutely shouldn't be "finding out whether or not we can stop it." We don't know what "it" is, we have 0 understanding of what is causing "it", so we have no idea if our supposed fixes would cause bigger problems. Yes, we should conserve energy, find cleaner burning fuels, and transition away from CO2 producing engines/factories. Beyond that, though, we shouldn't go mucking about with nature in a half-hearted attempt to "fix it", because we don't know what the heck we're doing.
I've been on game projects that have been cancelled due to lack of interest / trepidation from retailers. The company that owns EBGames/GameStop/Babbages is the #1 concern. Wal*Mart is #2, and BestBuy is #3. That's for "regular" games. If a company is working on a budget title or a hunting title then Wal*Mart definately becomes the #1 retailer to pass judgement.
That this happens shouldn't be surprising to anyone. Given the current system of putting games on discs and putting discs in boxes the retailer must be appeased or there is no place to sell the product.
Only if the time reported is correct. If the time is seriously incorrect, as the parent suggested, there's a strong chance the D-Link routers will just crash. Users, regardless of their skill level will notice they don't have internet access. After they've had to reboot their routers a few times they'll correctly blame D-Link, even if they don't know exactly what is wrong with their hardware.
You do understand that the set of people containing the target audience for Cablevision's service and the set of people that know what KnopMyth is, let alone have the desire to build a box and set it up, have no union, right?
There's been a few Greasemonkey scripts available for quite some time that do most of the stuff this extenstion does, including adding cache links after hyperlinks and allowing for the collapsing of discussion trees.
"...wanted to know how other people would feel paying $50US for a game, plus approximately $15/month in subscription fees, and in addition be served with in-game advertising as well?"
People pay $5000US for a hi-def set, plus approximately $80/month for HiDef satellite and/or cable service, and are served ads without complaint.
Just because Nintendo made a low-cost controller dev kit by interfacing their new controller technology to their existing hardware doesn't mean that you can infer that the Revolution will be built on Gamecube hardware. All you can infer is that Nintendo has possibly made their prototype Revolution controller a derivative so that current Gamecube developers can explore the new controller paradigm without having to either buy, or wait, for the new Revolution dev kits.
If a company makes a new instrument to be installed into the cockpit panel of an airplane the device must literally go through years of FAA testing before it is certified. This is because the device is interfacing with the aircraft's electrical system, possible it's vacuum system, etc... If the device doesn't install into the panel and use the aircraft's systems then it doesn't have to be certified. This stipulation, along with PDAs, has led to an explosion of useful aviation aid software being written. HSIs, moving maps w/GPS, weather maps, flight computers, etc.... The only downside really is the small size of the PDA screen. While it could all be done on laptops the size of an average laptop is too big for the cramped cockpit of a Cessna 152, 172, 182 or a Piper, etc..
These Origami class devices look like the perfect size to be useful in the small environs of a single-engine airplane cockpit.
Buy a game that has online gameplay as a feature, discover your purchase isn't 100% what was advertised, and then later have to hope that a random collection of forum members will grant you access to something you ostensibly paid for?
Except that c) doubles the costs (at least) the company will incur. While it is the right answer from a technical standpoint, from a business standpoint it isn't optimal.
Businesses would be fools for using Skype for their calls, anyway
And the vast majority of home users would be fools for trying to use Asterisk for a home VOIP solution as opposed to Skype, Vonage, their ISPs offering, etc... That was the point of my post.
I'm sure Asterisk is very good for a certain size/class of business. At the point where the business decides to go with Asterisk as opposed to a tradition PBX w/ installation and support I should hope the time and effort is put into hiring or training someone in how to properly spec, purchase, setup, and configure Asterisk for that business's needs. All of that is *way* too much for an average home user, though.
In the early '90s I purchased a dirt cheap 14.4 modem for my Amiga 500+. Soon thereafter it came to light that the dirt cheap modem was the same as the (higher price, different brand) modem that had voicemail capabilities. Some time with a soldering iron and a few downloads later and I had a central calling system with voicemail boxes for everyone I shared a house with in college. Of course at the time I was a college student with way too much time on his hands. Would I do the same thing now? No. Do I have Skype running all the time and a dedicated wireless handset as my main telephone? Yes. Would I ever consider getting rid of that and going to a dedicated Asterisk setup just because Skype might not support conferene calling on my AMD machine? not on your life.
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The first big slide for SWG players on that chart is Aug-Sept 2004, which predates the release of the CU by seven or eight months. The second dive (after the short level period) is pretty close to the time the CU got released. The downward slope doesn't really change much after that, so it could be said the NGE had no effect on subscriber numbers, either positively or negatively. The game was already into its death spiral.
Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. The article is all about Microsoft comparing WMP to JPG and it even has a quote from a cell phone manufacturer saying they'd look into supporting the format. To say that WMP is over engineered because it has alpha channel support is a straw man argument. Just because a camera can't take an image with an alpha channel doesn't mean that the format shouldnt' be able to have an alpha channel added later when the image is edited. Why shouldn't MS make a format that can be used front-to-back?
I'll wait...
Outside of web developers and a certain set of geeks no one cares about PNG. All the average consumer cares about is how many pictures can fit on their digital camera, how good they look, and what software can access them. Since PNG isn't the format on their camera PNG doesn't exist to them. While WMP might be bad because it is from Microsoft it's being developed by a company that understands the consumer space and how you get into it (e.g. talking to cell phone manufacturers to have them use WMP as the cell phone camera storage format). The open groups that made JPG2K and PNG wanted community word of mouth to spread their formats. That doesn't work except for an extremely small minority of consumers that might make use of the format.
6th gen, bare minimum. You're forgetting Pong ->2600 -> Depending on when the NES came out it might be 7th gen - Pong -> 2600 -> 5200 ->
Soda is 100% sweetened with corn syrup, which has been shown to have a direct link to obesity and diabetes. 100% juice juices (not juice cocktails) are naturally sweetened with sugar. Even if a juice has more sugar per serving than a soda it is still better for you as it is real sugar and not corn syrup.
Microsoft is addressing that shortcoming.
That you think applying lipstick is currently an acceptable act to perform while driving just reinforces my opinion of you.
Since 1870 the average annual global temperature increase has been ~0.01 - 0.02C. So in the past 25 years the Earth has warmed up approximately 0.25C. All of these measurements are predicated on the assumption that the methods used to record and/or extract the temperature data have a margin of error of less than +/- 0.02C.
The rate of change of the temperature increase hasn't gone up at all during the time that we became a mechanized society with CO2 belching cars, burning coal for large amounts of electricity production, and detonating nukes during wartime or for testing. Yes, we're dumping CO2 into the atmosphere, but is it the major cause or is the warming trend a natural cycle? Is CO2 the main problem or is it water vapor, which is a far more efficient greenhouse gas. I read a study from a climatologist that linked the 0.02 C temperature increase to the large amount of snow and ice that was blasted into the atmosphere from the meteor hitting in Tunguska Russia early last century. Whether or not his conclusions are valid he does manage to point out that most Global Warming Alarmists don't see the forest for the trees. Our knowledge of the climate is infintile, the press and grant grubbing scientists prefer the alarmist tack as opposed to real science, and once inaccurate data gets published (e.g. the 100% invalid "hockey stick" progression of increasing global temperature rise) it's hard to repair the damage done by blasting that crap out to the populace.
We absolutely shouldn't be "finding out whether or not we can stop it." We don't know what "it" is, we have 0 understanding of what is causing "it", so we have no idea if our supposed fixes would cause bigger problems. Yes, we should conserve energy, find cleaner burning fuels, and transition away from CO2 producing engines/factories. Beyond that, though, we shouldn't go mucking about with nature in a half-hearted attempt to "fix it", because we don't know what the heck we're doing.
That this happens shouldn't be surprising to anyone. Given the current system of putting games on discs and putting discs in boxes the retailer must be appeased or there is no place to sell the product.
Only if the time reported is correct. If the time is seriously incorrect, as the parent suggested, there's a strong chance the D-Link routers will just crash. Users, regardless of their skill level will notice they don't have internet access. After they've had to reboot their routers a few times they'll correctly blame D-Link, even if they don't know exactly what is wrong with their hardware.
You do understand that the set of people containing the target audience for Cablevision's service and the set of people that know what KnopMyth is, let alone have the desire to build a box and set it up, have no union, right?
There's been a few Greasemonkey scripts available for quite some time that do most of the stuff this extenstion does, including adding cache links after hyperlinks and allowing for the collapsing of discussion trees.
People pay $5000US for a hi-def set, plus approximately $80/month for HiDef satellite and/or cable service, and are served ads without complaint.
He doesn't say anywhere in his post that his company uses Photoshop.
nVidia Quad SLI is based around two dual GPU video cards running as a pair on a motherboard with two PCIe slots.
Just because Nintendo made a low-cost controller dev kit by interfacing their new controller technology to their existing hardware doesn't mean that you can infer that the Revolution will be built on Gamecube hardware. All you can infer is that Nintendo has possibly made their prototype Revolution controller a derivative so that current Gamecube developers can explore the new controller paradigm without having to either buy, or wait, for the new Revolution dev kits.
I hope you weren't implying that Slashdot posters are pendantic.....oh, wait, you were.
These Origami class devices look like the perfect size to be useful in the small environs of a single-engine airplane cockpit.
* Would the patched code have worked on the new hardware?
* Was the "very multimedia use for which it was being marketed" item in OS7 considered to be supported on the older hardware?
Luxury? You do realize that for the past 7+ years no video card or onboard graphic chipset has shipped without 3D support, right?
One that only appeals to = 25 people, by definition.
Brilliant.
Except that c) doubles the costs (at least) the company will incur. While it is the right answer from a technical standpoint, from a business standpoint it isn't optimal.
I'm sure Asterisk is very good for a certain size/class of business. At the point where the business decides to go with Asterisk as opposed to a tradition PBX w/ installation and support I should hope the time and effort is put into hiring or training someone in how to properly spec, purchase, setup, and configure Asterisk for that business's needs. All of that is *way* too much for an average home user, though.
In the early '90s I purchased a dirt cheap 14.4 modem for my Amiga 500+. Soon thereafter it came to light that the dirt cheap modem was the same as the (higher price, different brand) modem that had voicemail capabilities. Some time with a soldering iron and a few downloads later and I had a central calling system with voicemail boxes for everyone I shared a house with in college. Of course at the time I was a college student with way too much time on his hands. Would I do the same thing now? No. Do I have Skype running all the time and a dedicated wireless handset as my main telephone? Yes. Would I ever consider getting rid of that and going to a dedicated Asterisk setup just because Skype might not support conferene calling on my AMD machine? not on your life.