Get off your high horse. It's corporate mail, it's owned by the corporation. You should have just deleted it. Gee someone wrote something they later regreted, there's nothing wrong with deleting the mail in that case.
"- the review doesn't complain about nvidia at all" What's there to complain about nVidia? It better not be the open source stuff you guys keep complaining about...
The last few times I've been to the movies I wasn't happy. The sound sucks. Either it's a drama and the volume is way to loud, or it's an action film and the volume is way too low. Ticket prices have skyrocketed. I am NOT paying $9-12 to see a movie. I'll go on Tuesday when it's $5-6, but who goes on a Tuesday?? Crappy movies: movies have sucked. The only movies I'm planning to see in the future are LOTR:TTT, Star Wars Episode 3 and the last Lord of the Rings. What else is there? There's so much crap, and the really good movies you don't even hear about until they're on DVD. Add 'projectionists' playing movies at the wrong aspect ratio for the first 5 minutes, distorted sounds, horrible picture and you begin to wonder why you should make the effort. Give me a better product at a better price and stop whining!
Ok, so they're going to put a game that I'll have to pay a low low monthly fee in order to play it?? And it'll be included?? For free? WOW! Please tell me more? I'll get.. how many months free? Please where do I sign!?
I really expected Palm to have something new by now. I just was looking at the Palm m500 at the store.. hmmm looks a lot like my Palm Vx. I would still get a Palm over a WinCE device just because of the # of programs out for it (sound familiar?) but that'll change eventually and then it'll be WinCE all the way sadly.
The tv would decrypt the video. Of course at some point it's going to be analog inside the TV (unless it's an LCD) so you can always tap into those wires to get your analog signal:)
I believe these sets will generally receive lower res (but still better than NTSC) video when it comes to protected content. It's a total shaft for the early adopters if there's no upgrade. Especially since this whole "encrypted path" thing only made news recently. I was looking for an HDTV this summer (was going to wait until now for the new models to come out and pick up last years model). But after much research I found that the many new models will have the encrypted digital input needed to watch anything good in the future. This also brings up another question. Those who bought HDTV satellite receivers will also get reamed, paying at one point $600 for a receiver which they won't be able to use once the signal become protected.
Lionhead is all about hype. Black & White, while it was a good game, was nothing like they said it would be. Their claims were far too advanced. You will not be playing any game where characters make up their own language. The things the characters will do will be far short of what is explained in the article.
I remember when quakeworld came out the guys at Id were fantasizing about huge levels with portals to other servers that you could just jump through and continue playing on another server. The worlds would have hundreds of people and the game would run fine. Well as we've seen the # of players will go down because there's too much detail in each player model. So will we ever see huge FPS games with tons of players? Quake 3 came the closest with 32-64 players... with a P2P system this is all but impossible. Not many people will have the bandiwth to support that many players. A client-server connection made the only issue you had to worry about to be that of your ping time between you and the server. With a P2P style game, you'll have to worry about the ping between you and each player as well as your total upstream and downstream bandwith. Doesn't this seem like a step back for internet gaming??
Go to a gym, try it out first. Pay the one time fee for a trial if you have to, it's worth it. Make sure the gym has a lot of cardio as well as a lot of weights. Some gyms have cardio equipment in front of TV's with headphone jacks on each machine which is great, because then you can go during your favorite show and "not waste time". Also, check that the machines are good. Personally I hate chain driven machines and I really hate hydraulic machines. Weights are better than machines but machines are easier to get started on. See if your friends go to any gyms and get their opinions. A lot of gyms are crap and a lot of others aren't.
Yeah audio books would be a better idea. I was trying to give more slashdottish advice though:) He would also need to avoid action movies and the like and go for the dialog heavy movies... And yeah, he would also need to avoid dvds with subtitles don't match, like Ghostbusters.
It's great that you're able to hear, it must be wonderful to finally hear all these things which previously were silent (were you completely deaf?).
As the other guy said you really should be asking a professional rather than a bunch of nerds. Go do some research and find out where the specialists are, in hospitals or universities. If you make a good case they might use you for a study, it certainly seems interesting enough.
As for slashdot advice, buy some dvds and watch them with the subtitles on. Watch the same movie over and over again so you can get used to it, then try a few scenes and try to read the subtitles with the actors on the screen. You also need someone to help you and give you feedback. Most likely you aren't speaking properly so you should work on that as much as you work on understanding. Watch DVD's is great slashdot advice:)
Learning with speach text recognition software is probably not a good idea because they don't speak naturally.
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Get off your high horse. It's corporate mail, it's owned by the corporation. You should have just deleted it. Gee someone wrote something they later regreted, there's nothing wrong with deleting the mail in that case.
"- the review doesn't complain about nvidia at all"
What's there to complain about nVidia? It better not be the open source stuff you guys keep complaining about...
The last few times I've been to the movies I wasn't happy.
The sound sucks. Either it's a drama and the volume is way to loud, or it's an action film and the volume is way too low.
Ticket prices have skyrocketed. I am NOT paying $9-12 to see a movie. I'll go on Tuesday when it's $5-6, but who goes on a Tuesday??
Crappy movies: movies have sucked. The only movies I'm planning to see in the future are LOTR:TTT, Star Wars Episode 3 and the last Lord of the Rings.
What else is there? There's so much crap, and the really good movies you don't even hear about until they're on DVD.
Add 'projectionists' playing movies at the wrong aspect ratio for the first 5 minutes, distorted sounds, horrible picture and you begin to wonder why you should make the effort.
Give me a better product at a better price and stop whining!
Canada will!! Oh wait no, I mean Texas.
As you were.
Use it to weaken Superman so you can destroy him!
so.. are you trying to design a new high tech hydroponic marijuana greenhouse?
Ok, so they're going to put a game that I'll have to pay a low low monthly fee in order to play it?? And it'll be included?? For free? WOW! Please tell me more? I'll get.. how many months free? Please where do I sign!?
I really expected Palm to have something new by now. I just was looking at the Palm m500 at the store.. hmmm looks a lot like my Palm Vx. I would still get a Palm over a WinCE device just because of the # of programs out for it (sound familiar?) but that'll change eventually and then it'll be WinCE all the way sadly.
The tv would decrypt the video. Of course at some point it's going to be analog inside the TV (unless it's an LCD) so you can always tap into those wires to get your analog signal :)
I believe these sets will generally receive lower res (but still better than NTSC) video when it comes to protected content. It's a total shaft for the early adopters if there's no upgrade. Especially since this whole "encrypted path" thing only made news recently.
I was looking for an HDTV this summer (was going to wait until now for the new models to come out and pick up last years model). But after much research I found that the many new models will have the encrypted digital input needed to watch anything good in the future.
This also brings up another question. Those who bought HDTV satellite receivers will also get reamed, paying at one point $600 for a receiver which they won't be able to use once the signal become protected.
then it's not theft.
If you have to bypass security checks then it is theft.
Lionhead is all about hype. Black & White, while it was a good game, was nothing like they said it would be. Their claims were far too advanced. You will not be playing any game where characters make up their own language. The things the characters will do will be far short of what is explained in the article.
Interesting how I that got rated:
Troll=1, Interesting=1, Overrated=1, Total=3.
Anyone know if thinkgeek offers fair shipping prices to Canada yet? Last time I checked they were outrageous!
So.. can we just lock the thread now since you answered the question?
So I can just leave the tv on and "watch" the ads all day and rack up the credits. Or will I need to be quized too?
Clearly they used a Pentium 4 (jingle) to double post this quick!
I remember when quakeworld came out the guys at Id were fantasizing about huge levels with portals to other servers that you could just jump through and continue playing on another server. The worlds would have hundreds of people and the game would run fine. Well as we've seen the # of players will go down because there's too much detail in each player model. So will we ever see huge FPS games with tons of players? Quake 3 came the closest with 32-64 players... with a P2P system this is all but impossible. Not many people will have the bandiwth to support that many players. A client-server connection made the only issue you had to worry about to be that of your ping time between you and the server. With a P2P style game, you'll have to worry about the ping between you and each player as well as your total upstream and downstream bandwith.
Doesn't this seem like a step back for internet gaming??
Go to a gym, try it out first. Pay the one time fee for a trial if you have to, it's worth it. Make sure the gym has a lot of cardio as well as a lot of weights. Some gyms have cardio equipment in front of TV's with headphone jacks on each machine which is great, because then you can go during your favorite show and "not waste time".
Also, check that the machines are good. Personally I hate chain driven machines and I really hate hydraulic machines. Weights are better than machines but machines are easier to get started on.
See if your friends go to any gyms and get their opinions. A lot of gyms are crap and a lot of others aren't.
I posted this a few days ago and it got rejected, it was also the same day that the musical hard drive article was repeated as well as others.. sigh..
How can you possibly be for an open source only law?
Isn't America the land of the free? As in freedom not free code! Restrictions are just bad.
Yeah audio books would be a better idea. I was trying to give more slashdottish advice though :)
He would also need to avoid action movies and the like and go for the dialog heavy movies... And yeah, he would also need to avoid dvds with subtitles don't match, like Ghostbusters.
It's great that you're able to hear, it must be wonderful to finally hear all these things which previously were silent (were you completely deaf?).
:)
As the other guy said you really should be asking a professional rather than a bunch of nerds. Go do some research and find out where the specialists are, in hospitals or universities. If you make a good case they might use you for a study, it certainly seems interesting enough.
As for slashdot advice, buy some dvds and watch them with the subtitles on. Watch the same movie over and over again so you can get used to it, then try a few scenes and try to read the subtitles with the actors on the screen. You also need someone to help you and give you feedback. Most likely you aren't speaking properly so you should work on that as much as you work on understanding. Watch DVD's is great slashdot advice
Learning with speach text recognition software is probably not a good idea because they don't speak naturally.
I ain't no hippy you tree hugger!
How come this gets posted twice but my submission of an article by the IEEE Spectrum on John Carmack doesn't?