> what encouragement do we have to make movies in 2160p that fit in 15 GB?
The maximum amount of data we can transfer per second from those units. I've read everywhere that current HD DVD drives are slower than DVDs, and you're limited by USB/Firewire speeds anyway for some upcoming computer-connectable players.
From the XBox 360 manual, volume 1 (still trying to find if there's a sequel - I didn't get one): "If the XBox 360 console falls and hits someone, especially a small child, it could cause serious injury."
If that is something people could sue MS for if there was no warning, there really is no hope for their justice system.
I've had a 360 only two days, bought three downloadable games and two more in stores. This has given me 22 achievements, and I haven't even started playing the two big games properly.
A week with five downloadable games, played casually, would easily give you 50 achievements.
The registry still seems to be loaded into memory, in its entirety, even if you only use a fraction of the programs that has entries in it during a session of desktop abuse.
Just watch how WinXP uses more memory over time during just a simple boot as you install programs. My gaming desktop started with a moderate 70MB, 40MB more on installing always-run software like firewall/antivirus/antispyware, then ticked up a few megabytes now and then from installing software.
This is of course after disabling a bunch of services.
>Most likely is that there will be a larger multi-console camp this time around.
That's very likely, indeed. Many of the first fans are older now, and some have amazingly moved out of ma's basement and/or got jobs. I'll most likely end up with a bunch of consoles of both the current and previous generation within the next six months. Currently only got a DS and a PS2, though.
I'm no fan of any particular platform, but I'll get the one(s) with multiple games that interest me. Just one platform-exclusive won't win me over, but five games of interest, unique or not, will. Just as long as five different games are available for the 'cooler' console;)
The 360 will have a hard time getting into my home, though, as it seems multiplayer requires some sort of subscription. I can't just slap in a game and do co-op/host a small server with some friends. I'm already paying for enough subscriptions (games, services, source code) as it is, so paying to use a console adequately isn't very interesting.
The five types are alpha, beta, gamma, delta and theta.
Gamma being the one not exactly recognised by most scientists, as it supposedly is the 40Hz+ range where precognition and other weirdness happens;)
The four commonly accepted ranges are delta at the very low 1-4Hz range - practically comatose deep sleep, theta at 4-8Hz (or 7, according to some sources) - meditative states, alpha at 6-12Hz - regular relaxed states, and beta at 12Hz+ being alertness and concentration.
Batman Begins is back to the darkness, not quite Burton style, but very far from Batman & Robin. I'm sure the original poster just got Batman titles confused.. Give him a notice for the record, and pull his geek license next time it happens.
Very confusing layout, but once you find their rates, you'll find they beat Skype and a few other big names.
I got 2€ worth of time when signing up, and it's going to take me a while to spend it. The service is fine to landlines, but I have been cut off during the few calls I've tried to mobile phones.
>All the characters miraculously appear in some green-tinged CG swamp where the voodoo lady is >always up and waiting for guests. Almost as if she was, say... an Oracle?? It worked in The Secret of Monkey Island.
HP, Canon and Epson are all guilty of not including the bare essentials. Strangely, the worst manufacturer of them all, Lexmark, sometimes includes that cable.
If you already have a Torque Game Builder license, you can also use Torque X to make games for the Xbox 360. I just discovered the release, so I dunno how similar this will be to TGB, but they use the same scripting language for all their products. I'm guessing only some minor porting is needed, and that gives you four platforms to make games for (Mac, Linux, Windows, 360).
Hey, Azureus sucks running *anywhere*! It doesn't look too out of place on my KDE desktop, but damn, it's a hog, and all..those..pages of configuration!
Az has a *search function* in the config panel. Friggin' SEARCH FUNCTION to ease navigation. I'd take the hint that my program sucked if I found it necessary to implement something like that.
I find that shareware programmers are the worst offenders, with Microsoft themselves being second place. Many third-party commercial vendors actually have nicer interfaces than MS themselves. Office tends to come with new variants of their bloody core GUI kits, which introduce more inconsistencies. When they decide that Office should look a bit more like Vista, and still run on XP, that fucks up the modest integration they've actually managed with XP in previous versions.
>But, when OOo starts up on 5 to 8 seconds without gimmicky pre-loading, and starts as fast in Linux as OOo seems to in >windoze, then I can tell my browser "Open in OpenOffice.org" instead of "Save as..." to be opened in Lotus Word Pro.
I just did a test on the three word processor programs I have installed - note that I haven't started them before since upgrading X, so they weren't preloaded the first time. The desktop is also KDE, and Azureus is running because there's a new Dexter episode - this may account for OOo times since Java is preloaded..
KWord took 5 seconds to start first time, then I fiddled around with browsers and loaded it again in 4 seconds. Nice.
AbiWord took 4 seconds first time, and 3 the second.
OOo took 9 seconds, then 4 seconds. Much better than I ever remember it, in fact. This was 2.0.4 in Edgy Eft.
This was just selecting the word processor from the K menu. For KWord, I counted till it presented templates, since the program only needed to change the window after that, not load anything major.
>If an enterprise already has a Windows environment, why would they be interested in upsetting >everything and installing new Linux workstations?
Let's say they've done some math and come to the conclusion it's cheaper to keep a few servers, and replace all the desktops to avoid the yearly tithe to the Church of Bill. Then it makes some sense.
>So now I'm waiting for the perfect combination iPod-friendliness + ogg support. Check out iAudio products. They're Rockbox upgradable, just like iRiver, if the standard firmware isn't good enough. I think the top models support Vorbis and FLAC.
>Perhaps pornography is simply a Western invention and a predilection that strikes people in Asia as bizzare.
I think you have not heard of certain Japanese perversions..perhaps Asia didn't invent porn (although I think Indian murals are prior art!), but they certainly wrote some damn fine manuals.
Modern slashdotters are mostly technology-obsessed nerds who don't actually produce any code of their own;)
Scandinavian countries are already starting to support 'æ', 'ä', 'å', 'ö' and 'ø' in domain names, although I'm not sure if they're going about it the correct way. There is a lot of demand for it, though, because not every company in the world is international, or has an English name..
If a couple of hundred million people want to use their local language to represent their domain names, that's a good enough reason for the ameri-centric slashdotters to shut the fuck up >:)
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What sort of medical imaging device is connected to the greater Internet, rather than a secure WLAN
of some sort, if it actually needs networking?
> what encouragement do we have to make movies in 2160p that fit in 15 GB?
The maximum amount of data we can transfer per second from those units.
I've read everywhere that current HD DVD drives are slower than DVDs, and you're
limited by USB/Firewire speeds anyway for some upcoming computer-connectable players.
From the XBox 360 manual, volume 1 (still trying to find if there's a sequel - I didn't get one):
"If the XBox 360 console falls and hits someone, especially a small child, it could cause serious injury."
If that is something people could sue MS for if there was no warning, there really is no hope for their justice system.
I've had a 360 only two days, bought three downloadable games and two more in stores.
This has given me 22 achievements, and I haven't even started playing the two big games properly.
A week with five downloadable games, played casually, would easily give you 50 achievements.
It's "survival of the fittest", or as Darwin elaborated, the ones most responsive to change.
9)How to more efficiently surf one-handedly
The registry still seems to be loaded into memory, in its entirety, even if you only use a fraction
of the programs that has entries in it during a session of desktop abuse.
Just watch how WinXP uses more memory over time during just a simple boot as you install programs.
My gaming desktop started with a moderate 70MB, 40MB more on installing always-run software like
firewall/antivirus/antispyware, then ticked up a few megabytes now and then from installing software.
This is of course after disabling a bunch of services.
DOS and Linux RAM drives aren't persistent across reboots, though.
There was a tricky one for DOS that could survive and boot, but it worked by disabling
the normal boot process and using its own.
That yanks the 360 right out of the 'maybe' category into 'likely' for me, then :)
>Most likely is that there will be a larger multi-console camp this time around.
;)
That's very likely, indeed. Many of the first fans are older now, and some have amazingly
moved out of ma's basement and/or got jobs. I'll most likely end up with a bunch of consoles
of both the current and previous generation within the next six months. Currently only got
a DS and a PS2, though.
I'm no fan of any particular platform, but I'll get the one(s) with multiple games that interest
me. Just one platform-exclusive won't win me over, but five games of interest, unique or
not, will. Just as long as five different games are available for the 'cooler' console
The 360 will have a hard time getting into my home, though, as it seems multiplayer requires
some sort of subscription. I can't just slap in a game and do co-op/host a small server with
some friends. I'm already paying for enough subscriptions (games, services, source code)
as it is, so paying to use a console adequately isn't very interesting.
Those are 'theta waves', not 'thetans that wave at you', silly!
;)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theta_wave
The five types are alpha, beta, gamma, delta and theta.
Gamma being the one not exactly recognised by most scientists, as it supposedly is the
40Hz+ range where precognition and other weirdness happens
The four commonly accepted ranges are delta at the very low 1-4Hz range - practically
comatose deep sleep, theta at 4-8Hz (or 7, according to some sources) - meditative states,
alpha at 6-12Hz - regular relaxed states, and beta at 12Hz+ being alertness and concentration.
Not just trashing it, trashing it on a geek site!
Batman Begins is back to the darkness, not quite Burton style, but very far from
Batman & Robin. I'm sure the original poster just got Batman titles confused..
Give him a notice for the record, and pull his geek license next time it happens.
Very confusing layout, but once you find their rates, you'll find they beat Skype and a few other big names.
I got 2€ worth of time when signing up, and it's going to take me a while to spend it. The service is fine to
landlines, but I have been cut off during the few calls I've tried to mobile phones.
>All the characters miraculously appear in some green-tinged CG swamp where the voodoo lady is
>always up and waiting for guests. Almost as if she was, say... an Oracle??
It worked in The Secret of Monkey Island.
HP, Canon and Epson are all guilty of not including the bare essentials.
Strangely, the worst manufacturer of them all, Lexmark, sometimes includes that cable.
It's just hours old:
http://www.garagegames.com/products/torque/x/
If you already have a Torque Game Builder license, you can also use Torque X to make games
for the Xbox 360. I just discovered the release, so I dunno how similar this will be to TGB,
but they use the same scripting language for all their products. I'm guessing only some minor
porting is needed, and that gives you four platforms to make games for (Mac, Linux, Windows, 360).
Hey, Azureus sucks running *anywhere*! It doesn't look too out of place on my KDE desktop, but damn,
it's a hog, and all..those..pages of configuration!
Az has a *search function* in the config panel. Friggin' SEARCH FUNCTION to ease navigation.
I'd take the hint that my program sucked if I found it necessary to implement something like that.
>'Standardisation'? Hah.
;)
Your rant is partially justified
I find that shareware programmers are the worst offenders, with Microsoft themselves being second place.
Many third-party commercial vendors actually have nicer interfaces than MS themselves. Office tends to come with
new variants of their bloody core GUI kits, which introduce more inconsistencies. When they decide that Office should
look a bit more like Vista, and still run on XP, that fucks up the modest integration they've actually managed with XP
in previous versions.
>But, when OOo starts up on 5 to 8 seconds without gimmicky pre-loading, and starts as fast in Linux as OOo seems to in
>windoze, then I can tell my browser "Open in OpenOffice.org" instead of "Save as..." to be opened in Lotus Word Pro.
I just did a test on the three word processor programs I have installed - note that I haven't started them before since
upgrading X, so they weren't preloaded the first time. The desktop is also KDE, and Azureus is running because there's
a new Dexter episode - this may account for OOo times since Java is preloaded..
KWord took 5 seconds to start first time, then I fiddled around with browsers and loaded it again in 4 seconds. Nice.
AbiWord took 4 seconds first time, and 3 the second.
OOo took 9 seconds, then 4 seconds. Much better than I ever remember it, in fact. This was 2.0.4 in Edgy Eft.
This was just selecting the word processor from the K menu. For KWord, I counted till it presented templates, since
the program only needed to change the window after that, not load anything major.
Yes, there are content packs you can buy, some even affordable by regular joes making games for fun.
See Garage Games for a start; there are model and texture packs available for a fistful of dollars.
Licensees get access to all sorts of neat code, too.
>If an enterprise already has a Windows environment, why would they be interested in upsetting
>everything and installing new Linux workstations?
Let's say they've done some math and come to the conclusion it's cheaper to keep a few servers,
and replace all the desktops to avoid the yearly tithe to the Church of Bill. Then it makes some sense.
>So now I'm waiting for the perfect combination iPod-friendliness + ogg support.
Check out iAudio products. They're Rockbox upgradable, just like iRiver, if the
standard firmware isn't good enough. I think the top models support Vorbis and FLAC.
>Perhaps pornography is simply a Western invention and a predilection that strikes people in Asia as bizzare.
I think you have not heard of certain Japanese perversions..perhaps Asia didn't invent porn
(although I think Indian murals are prior art!), but they certainly wrote some damn fine manuals.
Modern slashdotters are mostly technology-obsessed nerds who don't actually ;)
produce any code of their own
Scandinavian countries are already starting to support 'æ', 'ä', 'å', 'ö' and 'ø' in domain names,
although I'm not sure if they're going about it the correct way. There is a lot of demand for it,
though, because not every company in the world is international, or has an English name..
If a couple of hundred million people want to use their local language to represent their domain
names, that's a good enough reason for the ameri-centric slashdotters to shut the fuck up >:)
This westerner frequently uses two 29-letter alphabets.