To elaborate: there's no reason at all to dual-boot any more, unless you need to do very processor-straining and/or 3D work in both operating systems. Computers are so powerful that an OS in a VM feels pretty much native unless you try to edit video or play 3D games in it.
Gamer, or prefer Windows apps for your video encoding/editing or 3D modelling? Run Windows, put Linux in VirtualBox.
Only need Windows for the occasional non-3D or non-processor-intensive app? Run Linux, put Windows in VirtualBox.
I switched to this about a year ago and I doubt I'll ever dual-boot again. Flash in Linux sucks? Who the hell cares? Drop out of the VM and watch your Youtube videos in Windows. Wanna see if that code will compile cleanly in both systems? Easy as pie. It's great.
It even saves disk space, since you don't need two copies of every damn cross-platform app you can find. No more having two copies of OpenOffice on your hard drive; aside from a few critical ones, you can get away with having one copy of each type of app, on just one of your operating systems.
Is there an actual way to actually save maps in LBP, or can you only play them online? I've never seen the option, but then again it took four of us about 10 minutes to find where they'd decided to put my "favorites" planet in that so-bad-it-should-have-won-anti-awards interface of theirs, so...
I'm worried that when they pull the servers the game will lose the huge value added by the community. The base game's pretty good, but the quirky community maps are why it still comes out sometimes when people are over.
I've found that it works better in some ways, but worse in others.
Sometimes my PS3 has trouble finding it, while TVersity never has that problem. TVersity's use of bandwidth is also far more efficient, even if I crank the quality way the hell down on PS3MS--high quality standard-definition movies will halt frequently to buffer with PS3 Media Server over my 802.11G wireless network, while TVersity can usually play 720p over the same connection with only rare hiccups.
On the other hand, TVersity doesn't always like to transcode files, sometimes simply telling me the format is not supported, and PS3 Media Server has better thumbnail capabilities.
Overall, I'll take the watchable TVersity over the often unwatchable PS3MS. If I ever get around to running a cable from the router in the basement to the PS3 upstairs, though, I'll probably switch.
They don't last very long if you cycle them often, which some of us are in the habit of doing to save electricity.
You've gotta recondition yourself not to turn off lights every time you leave the room, if you'll be back in 10-15 minutes. Otherwise they'll burn out much faster than they would otherwise.
At least I assume that's the problem--I've had them in three houses in three different towns in three different states, including one house that was only 3 years old, and they've burnt out inside a year in all of them, so I don't think it's wiring issues, which is what everyone blames it on if you complain about them not lasting very long.
I've just stuck with incandescent bulbs; it was too much of a pain trying to re-train my electricity-saving habits, and when you're leaving them on that much longer the energy savings isn't that great.
I'll wait for the PS5 to come out before I ever buy a PS4 after this shit move of theirs. I almost bought an Xbox360 the other day, because I'm pissed at Sony's over. I'll probably upgrade my gaming PC instead.
Wow, yeah, definitely do the upgrade instead. All the good games on the 360 come out on the PC or PS3 eventually, are usually better on one or both of those platforms, and you've got the PS3 and the PC already. Just buy the PS3 ports used if you want to avoid supporting the system (directly, anyway, since the used market does add value to the new games)
I can't think of a reason that one would expose a "set" method that just sets a private variable to the passed value.
If you're going to do that, simply expose the variable itself.
If you use a "set" method, it should be because you need to do something to the incoming data--sanitize it, convert it to a different unit, change some other value based on the fact that this one has been modified, whatever--before assigning the variable that value.
In other words, if you're using a "set" method you should need the full method declaration.
I figured it was for people crossing the state on roads like highway 50.
GOD that is a boring drive. Flat road, perfectly straight, ground so flat and featureless you'll think you've slipped in to a nothing-space between worlds, hours between towns (not cities, I mean any kind of town), and few other cars.
Do the math of points on your driver's license, and the insurance rate hikes.
I believe that's what the $75 lawyer fee was supposed to take care of.
It's called "pleading to a non-moving violation" and around here (the midwest) it's what you do when you get a speeding ticket, unless you don't know any better.
You pay a bit to a lawyer (who probably does little other than this kind of shit all day, every day) who talks to some pal of his at the courthouse and files some bit of paper and ta-da! moving violation becomes non-moving violation, you pay a fine that's very, very slightly higher than your ticket would have been, the court doesn't have to bother with you any more, and your insurance provider doesn't hike your rates. All very routine. Might (might) not work if you're doing 90+, but 80-85 in a 70? No problem.
If every defendant were to insist on a jury trial, then they would almost all get off because they wouldn't be able to have a speedy trial, since everyone else was "clogging" the system.
Yes, but they would all have to do it. If only a few did, they might get harsher sentences than they would have otherwise, while those who didn't got lighter ones.
It's quite a dilemma, you see. For the prisoners. A prisoner's dilemma, even.
My understanding of the situation is that our legal system couldn't exist without them, or would at least cost waaaaaaay more to run and require far more personnel, as we simply don't have enough judges and public defenders to handle more than a small fraction of cases, should a full trial be required.
Much like the N64 before it, the GC had a great good-to-crap ratio for its games--it just didn't have nearly enough of them. Those systems could have a 25% rate of good games, and the PSX and PS2 would have still beat them in total number of good games with a 10% (or lower) good games rate. The first two Playstations overwhelmed the competition with sheer volume.
Neo Geo rocked and wasn't awful at all. Expensive, yes. Bad, no. Damn near every game on it is good.
Its library probably has one of the best good-to-crap ratios of any system ever. Maybe the best. Doesn't make its library the best (not even top 3) since it didn't have nearly as many games as other systems and the genres available on it are very, very limited (arcade sports game... fighting game... fighting game... Metal Slug... fighting game... arcade sports game... puzzle game... and so on) but nearly all the games on it are good, so I don't think it can be called an awful system.
FFS, studios actually give free screeners to generate buzz. 3000+ people saw Scott Pilgrim for nothing, said great things about it, and then it totally crashed and burned at the box office anyway before it even had a chance to leak online. So, what, it failed to make money because the screener audience stole all the potential gross, with their filthy thieving eyes?
Oooh, really? I hadn't kept up with how it was doing; went to see it last week (on a friend's recommendation) and it was the most fun I've had with a movie in... well, I can't recall a more fun movie than it. Good flick, sucks if it's doing poorly.
The Wii Classic Controller D-pad is great. One of the best controllers ever, all around, I'd say. Could use analog triggers, though--in fact, I think the earlier model had them, but I've only got the newer one.
Pity it has to be tethered to that other piece of crap, which you have to buy in addition, and that it doesn't have motion sensors like the PS3 controller, so you still have to use the crap Wiimote (and god is it ever a bad substitute for a real controller; the NES controller is more ergonomic and has better buttons) for games like NSMBW.
Is there some USB rule against doing this in software? Say, creating a driver that shows the OS a USB-attached "iPod" that's actually a pass-through to an attached Palm? Same result, but the device no longer reports itself as an iPod.
Or, if that's frowned upon, make the driver be capable of pretending to be whatever the user wants it to be, and if the user happens to put in the code for an iPod that, after the release of this driver, is available on a dozen forums and how-to pages via a quick and obvious Google search, well what can Palm do about it *wink*?
They got their portion of the used sale already; the ability to sell it a game secondhand is valuable, and priced in to the original sale price.
If developers (or distributors) think the ability re-sale is worth more than they're getting for it now, they should raise their prices and see whether consumers agree.
My French professor (from France) once said that they don't have spelling bees, because that would be way too easy in French--when they want to do something like that, they have irregular verb conjugation bees. I don't think she was joking, either.
A lot of movies and shows aren't on there, yeah, but I think my instant queue is up to ~250 titles. There's tons of good stuff--it's just not very useful for "oh, hey, I want to watch [some movie], let's go stream it!" moments, because you've only got about a 50/50 chance (optimistically) of it being on there, so you'll just have to have them ship the disc and wait a day or two.
I cancelled my sat-tv about 2 or 3 yrs ago. been on netflix since then.
Netflix for the win! A friend let us try out his PS3 streaming disc for a while and by the time a week had passed we'd ordered our own account. As long as services like this exist, I doubt we'll ever go back to cable/satellite. It's just so much better.
I pay $9 for Netflix with tons of full TV shows and movies available for streaming and most others available by mail in a day or two.
$10 seems really high for a month's worth of episodes of a couple shows that presumably have a crazy-low budget compared to a lot of the shows available on Netflix. I'm aware that there's a premium for getting it immediately after it airs (how long do they wait to put them up on the Comedy Central site for free? How much lag time are you really getting rid of with that $10 anyway?) but it still seems nuts by comparison, as does even $0.50/episode. $0.10 sounds closer to fair to me.
$1.00 isn't even a good deal if you get to keep the episode indefinitely.
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VirtualBox is your friend. Game in Windows, code and screw around in Linux.
To elaborate: there's no reason at all to dual-boot any more, unless you need to do very processor-straining and/or 3D work in both operating systems. Computers are so powerful that an OS in a VM feels pretty much native unless you try to edit video or play 3D games in it.
Gamer, or prefer Windows apps for your video encoding/editing or 3D modelling? Run Windows, put Linux in VirtualBox.
Only need Windows for the occasional non-3D or non-processor-intensive app? Run Linux, put Windows in VirtualBox.
I switched to this about a year ago and I doubt I'll ever dual-boot again. Flash in Linux sucks? Who the hell cares? Drop out of the VM and watch your Youtube videos in Windows. Wanna see if that code will compile cleanly in both systems? Easy as pie. It's great.
It even saves disk space, since you don't need two copies of every damn cross-platform app you can find. No more having two copies of OpenOffice on your hard drive; aside from a few critical ones, you can get away with having one copy of each type of app, on just one of your operating systems.
Is there an actual way to actually save maps in LBP, or can you only play them online? I've never seen the option, but then again it took four of us about 10 minutes to find where they'd decided to put my "favorites" planet in that so-bad-it-should-have-won-anti-awards interface of theirs, so...
I'm worried that when they pull the servers the game will lose the huge value added by the community. The base game's pretty good, but the quirky community maps are why it still comes out sometimes when people are over.
I've found that it works better in some ways, but worse in others.
Sometimes my PS3 has trouble finding it, while TVersity never has that problem. TVersity's use of bandwidth is also far more efficient, even if I crank the quality way the hell down on PS3MS--high quality standard-definition movies will halt frequently to buffer with PS3 Media Server over my 802.11G wireless network, while TVersity can usually play 720p over the same connection with only rare hiccups.
On the other hand, TVersity doesn't always like to transcode files, sometimes simply telling me the format is not supported, and PS3 Media Server has better thumbnail capabilities.
Overall, I'll take the watchable TVersity over the often unwatchable PS3MS. If I ever get around to running a cable from the router in the basement to the PS3 upstairs, though, I'll probably switch.
They don't last very long if you cycle them often, which some of us are in the habit of doing to save electricity.
You've gotta recondition yourself not to turn off lights every time you leave the room, if you'll be back in 10-15 minutes. Otherwise they'll burn out much faster than they would otherwise.
At least I assume that's the problem--I've had them in three houses in three different towns in three different states, including one house that was only 3 years old, and they've burnt out inside a year in all of them, so I don't think it's wiring issues, which is what everyone blames it on if you complain about them not lasting very long.
I've just stuck with incandescent bulbs; it was too much of a pain trying to re-train my electricity-saving habits, and when you're leaving them on that much longer the energy savings isn't that great.
Yeah, in the first few seconds I had a "wait, I thought this was about cameras, not 3D engines!" moment.
Looking at some of the HDR photos people have been linking on here, a lot of them look like video game screenshots at first glance too.
Wow, yeah, definitely do the upgrade instead. All the good games on the 360 come out on the PC or PS3 eventually, are usually better on one or both of those platforms, and you've got the PS3 and the PC already. Just buy the PS3 ports used if you want to avoid supporting the system (directly, anyway, since the used market does add value to the new games)
I can't think of a reason that one would expose a "set" method that just sets a private variable to the passed value.
If you're going to do that, simply expose the variable itself.
If you use a "set" method, it should be because you need to do something to the incoming data--sanitize it, convert it to a different unit, change some other value based on the fact that this one has been modified, whatever--before assigning the variable that value.
In other words, if you're using a "set" method you should need the full method declaration.
I figured it was for people crossing the state on roads like highway 50.
GOD that is a boring drive. Flat road, perfectly straight, ground so flat and featureless you'll think you've slipped in to a nothing-space between worlds, hours between towns (not cities, I mean any kind of town), and few other cars.
I believe that's what the $75 lawyer fee was supposed to take care of.
It's called "pleading to a non-moving violation" and around here (the midwest) it's what you do when you get a speeding ticket, unless you don't know any better.
You pay a bit to a lawyer (who probably does little other than this kind of shit all day, every day) who talks to some pal of his at the courthouse and files some bit of paper and ta-da! moving violation becomes non-moving violation, you pay a fine that's very, very slightly higher than your ticket would have been, the court doesn't have to bother with you any more, and your insurance provider doesn't hike your rates. All very routine. Might (might) not work if you're doing 90+, but 80-85 in a 70? No problem.
Yes, but they would all have to do it. If only a few did, they might get harsher sentences than they would have otherwise, while those who didn't got lighter ones.
It's quite a dilemma, you see. For the prisoners. A prisoner's dilemma, even.
My understanding of the situation is that our legal system couldn't exist without them, or would at least cost waaaaaaay more to run and require far more personnel, as we simply don't have enough judges and public defenders to handle more than a small fraction of cases, should a full trial be required.
Much like the N64 before it, the GC had a great good-to-crap ratio for its games--it just didn't have nearly enough of them. Those systems could have a 25% rate of good games, and the PSX and PS2 would have still beat them in total number of good games with a 10% (or lower) good games rate. The first two Playstations overwhelmed the competition with sheer volume.
I had the original Return Fire on the PC--not the best environment for it, but it was still awesome.
It was also available on the Playstation, so if you can track down a copy you can play it on your PS2 or PS3.
Get your Wiimote to associate with your PC's Bluetooth adapter and use it as your gun, just like you would in a Wii game.
Bonus: you can use the Wii Classic Controller for everything else, and it's just about perfect for playing emulated games on a bunch of systems.
Get one of the Wii gun grip things if you need it to be even more authentic.
Neo Geo rocked and wasn't awful at all. Expensive, yes. Bad, no. Damn near every game on it is good.
Its library probably has one of the best good-to-crap ratios of any system ever. Maybe the best. Doesn't make its library the best (not even top 3) since it didn't have nearly as many games as other systems and the genres available on it are very, very limited (arcade sports game... fighting game... fighting game... Metal Slug... fighting game... arcade sports game... puzzle game... and so on) but nearly all the games on it are good, so I don't think it can be called an awful system.
Oooh, really? I hadn't kept up with how it was doing; went to see it last week (on a friend's recommendation) and it was the most fun I've had with a movie in... well, I can't recall a more fun movie than it. Good flick, sucks if it's doing poorly.
The Wii Classic Controller D-pad is great. One of the best controllers ever, all around, I'd say. Could use analog triggers, though--in fact, I think the earlier model had them, but I've only got the newer one.
Pity it has to be tethered to that other piece of crap, which you have to buy in addition, and that it doesn't have motion sensors like the PS3 controller, so you still have to use the crap Wiimote (and god is it ever a bad substitute for a real controller; the NES controller is more ergonomic and has better buttons) for games like NSMBW.
Is there some USB rule against doing this in software? Say, creating a driver that shows the OS a USB-attached "iPod" that's actually a pass-through to an attached Palm? Same result, but the device no longer reports itself as an iPod.
Or, if that's frowned upon, make the driver be capable of pretending to be whatever the user wants it to be, and if the user happens to put in the code for an iPod that, after the release of this driver, is available on a dozen forums and how-to pages via a quick and obvious Google search, well what can Palm do about it *wink*?
They got their portion of the used sale already; the ability to sell it a game secondhand is valuable, and priced in to the original sale price.
If developers (or distributors) think the ability re-sale is worth more than they're getting for it now, they should raise their prices and see whether consumers agree.
My French professor (from France) once said that they don't have spelling bees, because that would be way too easy in French--when they want to do something like that, they have irregular verb conjugation bees. I don't think she was joking, either.
Amen. I get all twitchy when I see people arguing on the assumption that Natural Rights are real things.
They're quaint philosophical relics.
I like the idea as much as anyone, but liking it doesn't make it true.
A lot of movies and shows aren't on there, yeah, but I think my instant queue is up to ~250 titles. There's tons of good stuff--it's just not very useful for "oh, hey, I want to watch [some movie], let's go stream it!" moments, because you've only got about a 50/50 chance (optimistically) of it being on there, so you'll just have to have them ship the disc and wait a day or two.
Netflix for the win! A friend let us try out his PS3 streaming disc for a while and by the time a week had passed we'd ordered our own account. As long as services like this exist, I doubt we'll ever go back to cable/satellite. It's just so much better.
I pay $9 for Netflix with tons of full TV shows and movies available for streaming and most others available by mail in a day or two.
$10 seems really high for a month's worth of episodes of a couple shows that presumably have a crazy-low budget compared to a lot of the shows available on Netflix. I'm aware that there's a premium for getting it immediately after it airs (how long do they wait to put them up on the Comedy Central site for free? How much lag time are you really getting rid of with that $10 anyway?) but it still seems nuts by comparison, as does even $0.50/episode. $0.10 sounds closer to fair to me.
$1.00 isn't even a good deal if you get to keep the episode indefinitely.