"We here in the Microsoft Games Division have this one really big basket, and we've got three different farmhands out in three different coops collecting eggs, so we'll be able to put all our eggs in the one basket very efficiently."
Sorry but [Penny Arcade] isn't Garfield or Peanuts.
True -- I don't remember Jim Davis or Charles Schulz ever organizing anything like the PAX expo, or the Child's Play charity drive, or engaging in a high-profile feud with a nutjob attorney over First Amendment rights.
Penny Arcade is not notable from your cultural standpoint, but for many others, it is. And that's the entire problem with Wikipedia's "notability" guideline -- it cannot be anything but subjective and capricious.
The catch was that the people who were supposed to be investigating this claim stated there was no proof, therefore nothing to investigate...
Now, there is proof...
The proof was obtained through an illegal action, and therefore is not admissible in court.
If a warrant were to be granted to conduct an approved search of email records based on this hacking, the evidence collected then would be similarly tainted and inadmissible.
If the goal is to discover the truth about whether Governor Palin was conducting state business using a personal email account, I think Anonymous may well have done more harm than good here.
Well, if by 'better shape' they mean less obese that the avg. American, it is probably due to them being too engrossed by the game to go buy junk food.
Or, it could be that the gamer demographic tends to skew towards the lower end of the age spectrum, and our health tends to deteriorate as we grow older?
It was the Sega Master System that had the 3d glasses. I have one, and I found the 3d effect really difficult to maintain. The depth of field is very limited. anything significantly in front of or behind the object you're focusing on is a double image.
It didn't help that the Master System's graphics hardware was optimized for tile-and-sprite based 2D graphics (actually, it couldn't do anything BUT that), so whatever 3D effects the console could accomplish were pretty limited.
But with games that were conceived in 3D for 3D hardware, where the 'camera positioning' has been a well-understood concept for well over a decade now, the technology could work a lot better.
Cray is pretty much the Monster Cable of the supercomputing world these days, right? A company that offers little to no tangible benefit over its competitors, but gets by on brand recognition alone?
I know that Cray was at the top of the world twenty years ago, because that's what we were taught in 7th grade Computers class, where we learned how to program in BASIC on a room full of TRS-80s; that the four types of computer are microcomputer, minicomputer, mainframe, and supercomputer; and that other popular computer languages included Pascal, FORTRAN, and COBOL. Every one of those facts is outdated today; is not Cray's reputation, as well?
Do you think it is justified that a friend of mine had to go $400,000 in debt because he got brain cancer while he didn't have insurance? His family was willing to pay it, so it must be a great deal, right?
Considering that the technologies, experience, and research that made it possible for your friend to receive $400,000 worth of life-saving medical care was the result of several million dollars invested, there's an argument to be made that yeah, it is justified.
In any case, leave the appeals to emotion out of this. Your point is taken that an artificially high price (as a result of market collusion or other forces) is not justifiable, but you seem to be ignoring the fact that not everybody is paying 20 cents every time they send or receive an SMS message. My current plan includes unlimited text messaging, and my monthly total is still less than most pay. My previous plan with another carrier also had unlimited SMS, and was even cheaper.
For example, how do you prefetch images? For a long time there was no standard way. Now there's the link tag but it's optional.. yeah, that's right, the standard says that a browser can optionally implement the tag.. what kind of standard is that anyway? So no-one used it. Instead, they use the img tag and set the width and height of the image to 0.. unfortunately, the standard never said "if the width of the image is zero, thou shalt not render anything." Yeah, yeah, I know, should be implied, by some browsers render a white pixel and figure that's good enough.. the fact that this isn't good enough should be fed back to the standard and made explicit.
The question is whether a content markup language that needs to work well on devices from Linux desktops to Windows boxes to Macs to PDAs to speech synthesizers should )or even CAN) be specific enough to guarantee consistent, pixel-perfect output in all cases.
Am I wrong to think that based on your points above, you think that a minibrowser on a mobile phone MUST implement image pre-fetching?
When was the last time you saw a Mac commercial that was really about something technical?
The current Mac campaign advertises both software and service: - it is asserted that OS X is a better operating system than Vista - information is provided on a file migration service offered at Apple Stores
20 years ago, we stuck a card into our atari/nintendo/sega to play a game.
Yes, because at the required capacities, solid state media was more cost-efficient than magnetic media of the time. Then, starting in the mid-'90s, growing adoption of CDs and DVDs made optical media the least expensive. It wouldn't surprise me if advances in design and manufacture might swing the market back in solid-state's favor soon.
Consider as an example the current state of the portable games market: Nintendo DS with its postage-stamp-sized cartridges, and PlayStation Portable with its 1/3-size DVD-type optical disks. Which was the smarter design choice?
Considering the DRM, how is it better than a regular DVD?
Well, the bitrate is no more that half what the DVD version uses.
And the physical media is a format that is not compatible with the home theater systems in most people's living rooms.
Oh, and there's no guarantee the data will be in a format that my computer can play, either, and it's almost certain to cost more than the price of a used DVD copy and a blank flash drive together would.
a nice setup with this liquid means that your hardware will stay cool, no overheating in normal wear and tear at all, that translate into a much longer hardware life.
Fantastic! Now, instead of old hardware continuing to function ten years after Moore's Law makes it obsolete, it will still be usable A HUNDRED years after it becomes pointless to use!
it's down to 24 square feet if you have individual places, and I don't know many people who want to live in a 4x6 room, about the room of a small bathroom.
What if you put a 72" flat screen TV along one of the walls? Then they'd never have a reason to leave the comfort of their bed/sofa/bathtub/commode.
In the olden days, chip consumers insisted on a second source. AMD was annointed as Intel's second source so that Intel could sell to such folks (like the US government of yesteryear).
How did Cyrix manage to sell x86-alikes back in the day? How did NEC?
let me remind everyone that those paper ballots aren't exactly hand counted... those too are counted by... say it with me: ELECTRONIC machines. They have software. They are connected to a network. They have to store their results on media at some point.
Um, okay.
The point is, with a paper trail, if the outcome of an election is contested or suspected to be incorrect, the ballots can be re-tallied using a different system. They COULD be hand-counted if necessary, which will readily prove whether the electronic system is behaving to spec or not.
When the voting record is ONLY stored as a voltage in a transistor, there is NO way to know whether the black box's output is correct for a given input, because there's no way to confirm the input.
You (and many people) are so accustomed to NAT you don't even see how wrong it is.
Enlighten us, then. What's wrong with NAT?
Writing (or even using) a network application having to deal with NAT is a real pain.
I've never had a single issue with it -- the little black box that the cable company provided me handles all the magic transparently, as far as I'm concerned.
If you're in the US, you can tell the land lord to piss off, they can not stop you from getting a satellite dish. I had a similar problem with my HOA, and Fed law trumps HOAs and landlords.
[citation needed].
The property manager can't stop you from owning or using a satellite dish, but they sure as hell have the right to say you can't bolt it to their exterior wall.
Windows 98 was slower than Windows 95, running on the same hardware Windows XP was slower than Windows 98, running on the same hardware Windows Vista is slower than Windows XP, running on the same hardware.
Meanwhile, over in "Reality Distortion Land"... OS X 10.1 "Puma" was FASTER than OS X 10.0 "Cheetah", running on the same hardware OS X 10.2 "Jaguar" was FASTER than OS X 10.1 "Puma", running on the same hardware OS X 10.3 "Panther" was FASTER than OS X 10.2 "Jaguar", running on the same hardware...
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Can anyone point me in the direction of an article-to-English dictionary?
"We here in the Microsoft Games Division have this one really big basket, and we've got three different farmhands out in three different coops collecting eggs, so we'll be able to put all our eggs in the one basket very efficiently."
Sorry but [Penny Arcade] isn't Garfield or Peanuts.
True -- I don't remember Jim Davis or Charles Schulz ever organizing anything like the PAX expo, or the Child's Play charity drive, or engaging in a high-profile feud with a nutjob attorney over First Amendment rights.
Penny Arcade is not notable from your cultural standpoint, but for many others, it is. And that's the entire problem with Wikipedia's "notability" guideline -- it cannot be anything but subjective and capricious.
The catch was that the people who were supposed to be investigating this claim stated there was no proof, therefore nothing to investigate...
Now, there is proof...
The proof was obtained through an illegal action, and therefore is not admissible in court.
If a warrant were to be granted to conduct an approved search of email records based on this hacking, the evidence collected then would be similarly tainted and inadmissible.
If the goal is to discover the truth about whether Governor Palin was conducting state business using a personal email account, I think Anonymous may well have done more harm than good here.
Well, if by 'better shape' they mean less obese that the avg. American, it is probably due to them being too engrossed by the game to go buy junk food.
Or, it could be that the gamer demographic tends to skew towards the lower end of the age spectrum, and our health tends to deteriorate as we grow older?
It was the Sega Master System that had the 3d glasses. I have one, and I found the 3d effect really difficult to maintain. The depth of field is very limited. anything significantly in front of or behind the object you're focusing on is a double image.
It didn't help that the Master System's graphics hardware was optimized for tile-and-sprite based 2D graphics (actually, it couldn't do anything BUT that), so whatever 3D effects the console could accomplish were pretty limited.
But with games that were conceived in 3D for 3D hardware, where the 'camera positioning' has been a well-understood concept for well over a decade now, the technology could work a lot better.
Cray is pretty much the Monster Cable of the supercomputing world these days, right? A company that offers little to no tangible benefit over its competitors, but gets by on brand recognition alone?
I know that Cray was at the top of the world twenty years ago, because that's what we were taught in 7th grade Computers class, where we learned how to program in BASIC on a room full of TRS-80s; that the four types of computer are microcomputer, minicomputer, mainframe, and supercomputer; and that other popular computer languages included Pascal, FORTRAN, and COBOL. Every one of those facts is outdated today; is not Cray's reputation, as well?
Do you think it is justified that a friend of mine had to go $400,000 in debt because he got brain cancer while he didn't have insurance? His family was willing to pay it, so it must be a great deal, right?
Considering that the technologies, experience, and research that made it possible for your friend to receive $400,000 worth of life-saving medical care was the result of several million dollars invested, there's an argument to be made that yeah, it is justified.
In any case, leave the appeals to emotion out of this. Your point is taken that an artificially high price (as a result of market collusion or other forces) is not justifiable, but you seem to be ignoring the fact that not everybody is paying 20 cents every time they send or receive an SMS message. My current plan includes unlimited text messaging, and my monthly total is still less than most pay. My previous plan with another carrier also had unlimited SMS, and was even cheaper.
For example, how do you prefetch images? For a long time there was no standard way. Now there's the link tag but it's optional.. yeah, that's right, the standard says that a browser can optionally implement the tag.. what kind of standard is that anyway? So no-one used it. Instead, they use the img tag and set the width and height of the image to 0.. unfortunately, the standard never said "if the width of the image is zero, thou shalt not render anything." Yeah, yeah, I know, should be implied, by some browsers render a white pixel and figure that's good enough.. the fact that this isn't good enough should be fed back to the standard and made explicit.
The question is whether a content markup language that needs to work well on devices from Linux desktops to Windows boxes to Macs to PDAs to speech synthesizers should )or even CAN) be specific enough to guarantee consistent, pixel-perfect output in all cases.
Am I wrong to think that based on your points above, you think that a minibrowser on a mobile phone MUST implement image pre-fetching?
When was the last time you saw a Mac commercial that was really about something technical?
The current Mac campaign advertises both software and service:
- it is asserted that OS X is a better operating system than Vista
- information is provided on a file migration service offered at Apple Stores
Since ALL of my weekday driving is well within about 50 kilometres of home, I'd kill for one.
And what about your weekend driving? Are you going to own a second car for those trips outside of town?
Why not buy a hybrid and drive it in electric-only mode as much as possible?
20 years ago, we stuck a card into our atari/nintendo/sega to play a game.
Yes, because at the required capacities, solid state media was more cost-efficient than magnetic media of the time. Then, starting in the mid-'90s, growing adoption of CDs and DVDs made optical media the least expensive. It wouldn't surprise me if advances in design and manufacture might swing the market back in solid-state's favor soon.
Consider as an example the current state of the portable games market: Nintendo DS with its postage-stamp-sized cartridges, and PlayStation Portable with its 1/3-size DVD-type optical disks. Which was the smarter design choice?
Considering the DRM, how is it better than a regular DVD?
Well, the bitrate is no more that half what the DVD version uses.
And the physical media is a format that is not compatible with the home theater systems in most people's living rooms.
Oh, and there's no guarantee the data will be in a format that my computer can play, either, and it's almost certain to cost more than the price of a used DVD copy and a blank flash drive together would.
SO obviously it is far superior to a regular DVD.
I just pirated the damned thing. [...] I also won't miss an opportunity to play a (reputedly) great game over principles
Easy to say when you're so weakly principled.
a nice setup with this liquid means that your hardware will stay cool, no overheating in normal wear and tear at all, that translate into a much longer hardware life.
Fantastic! Now, instead of old hardware continuing to function ten years after Moore's Law makes it obsolete, it will still be usable A HUNDRED years after it becomes pointless to use!
The correct project name is Hadoop. It was factored out of Nutch 2.5 years ago
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This actually reminds me of a story of the wandering engineer. They'd work for google, then move to MS because they lack quality control.
And because MS offered a 10% higher salary than they were making at Google.
The engineer would then transfer to Yahoo because MS isn't doing anything interesting.
And because Yahoo offered a 10% higher salary than they were making at MS.
They'd then move to Google and start the cycle anew because Yahoo wasn't on the cutting edge.
And because Google offered a 10% higher salary than they were making at Yahoo.
it's down to 24 square feet if you have individual places, and I don't know many people who want to live in a 4x6 room, about the room of a small bathroom.
What if you put a 72" flat screen TV along one of the walls? Then they'd never have a reason to leave the comfort of their bed/sofa/bathtub/commode.
In the olden days, chip consumers insisted on a second source. AMD was annointed as Intel's second source so that Intel could sell to such folks (like the US government of yesteryear).
How did Cyrix manage to sell x86-alikes back in the day? How did NEC?
let me remind everyone that those paper ballots aren't exactly hand counted... those too are counted by... say it with me: ELECTRONIC machines. They have software. They are connected to a network. They have to store their results on media at some point.
Um, okay.
The point is, with a paper trail, if the outcome of an election is contested or suspected to be incorrect, the ballots can be re-tallied using a different system. They COULD be hand-counted if necessary, which will readily prove whether the electronic system is behaving to spec or not.
When the voting record is ONLY stored as a voltage in a transistor, there is NO way to know whether the black box's output is correct for a given input, because there's no way to confirm the input.
You (and many people) are so accustomed to NAT you don't even see how wrong it is.
Enlighten us, then. What's wrong with NAT?
Writing (or even using) a network application having to deal with NAT is a real pain.
I've never had a single issue with it -- the little black box that the cable company provided me handles all the magic transparently, as far as I'm concerned.
If you're in the US, you can tell the land lord to piss off, they can not stop you from getting a satellite dish. I had a similar problem with my HOA, and Fed law trumps HOAs and landlords.
[citation needed].
The property manager can't stop you from owning or using a satellite dish, but they sure as hell have the right to say you can't bolt it to their exterior wall.
Yes, Ipv6 address are long if unabbreviated
Indeed, a whole 128 bits long in binary representation...
Windows 98 was slower than Windows 95, running on the same hardware
Windows XP was slower than Windows 98, running on the same hardware
Windows Vista is slower than Windows XP, running on the same hardware.
Meanwhile, over in "Reality Distortion Land"...
OS X 10.1 "Puma" was FASTER than OS X 10.0 "Cheetah", running on the same hardware
OS X 10.2 "Jaguar" was FASTER than OS X 10.1 "Puma", running on the same hardware
OS X 10.3 "Panther" was FASTER than OS X 10.2 "Jaguar", running on the same hardware...
A larger OS will of course use more resources.
Ovbiously.
There doesn't seem to be any good answer, though, to the question "Why did Vista have to be a larger OS than XP was?".