Well, you could buy a better dvd player, maybe one with a section skip button that ignores the no skip flag. My apex player will skip anything, including disney movie previews on those 'bad' disks.
Actually, they explicitly mention that they can replace sub-blocks with identically sized sub-blocks generating the same md5. So you get the same file length and md5.
You may not need p4s over p2s for their processing power, but the power management features on more modern pcs will help an upgrade now pay off for many businesses in power cost savings.
The yearly rate of accidental death just isn't that high. If you weren't going to die from any chronic illness, and didn't suffer from problems associated with aging, your odds of living to 200 would be pretty decent.
Well, even if you think you own your house, you have to remember that when the young and propertyless get sufficiently desperate you also have to keep yourself supplied with ammunition, and probably paid guards.
Alternatively, in a friendlier future, they might just vote to raise property taxes until everyone who owns property is forced back to work, and 'property' becomes essentially just a perk for working.
It could be used to prevent you from ripping off the federal educational grant system. For example, maybe giving grants to students who have dropped out in the past is a bad investment. Or a good one. More statistics help make the system more profitable/effective.
But how can a manager under time pressure from above resist the temptation to 'solve' problems by increasing hours? Unfortunately, there aren't any good solutions, and increasing hours in the short term does work, which reinforces the bad managerial behavior. Worse, intermittent reinforcement (occassionally, increasing hours is effective) is the most powerful kind of reinforcement (see any number of behavioral psychology studies).
Actually, most games are built with swappable software components already. The problem with intense end schedules has to do with building:
a) the swappable component replacements. Often these are very sophisticated pieces of code, that in the particular case of video or sound have to talk to hardware at a very low level to achieve good performance.
b) squeezing in last minute improvements. Since large numbers of games are competing with each other, there are often last minute requirements driven by new market conditions. If another competing game has just come out with feature X, or has just added X in a patch, you may need to add that feature very near the end of production in order to have your game reviewed positively.
There are lots of unfortunate realities in game developement that require large last minute efforts that simply can't be planned for.
Dual video cards is just a poor engineering solution to how to render using two GPUs. Soon enough they'll be making multi-core and multi-gpu cards (there is some motivation to go to multi-gpu before multi-core to avoid manufacturing losses).
Be sure to remember as you're doing this to retain _some_ fun in your life. If games aren't the best fun for $ deal for you, then by all means spend your money elsewhere. Generally I find games are an excellent entertainment value cost wise. Particularly compared to tv/movies.
Perhaps more importantly in the particular case of nvidia, what do you do if they go out of business (or just get bought in a merger), and the buyer (say ATI) decides to bury their product line as a business decision. If the driver source has never been made public....
I just use the 'forgot your card?' enter your phone number feature. Then I enter someone else's phone number. The best part is, I got their savings coupon for spending over $250 dollars the other day. I think they spent 240 of it and I spent the last 10.
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Well, you could buy a better dvd player, maybe one with a section skip button that ignores the no skip flag. My apex player will skip anything, including disney movie previews on those 'bad' disks.
Actually, they explicitly mention that they can replace sub-blocks with identically sized sub-blocks generating the same md5. So you get the same file length and md5.
You may not need p4s over p2s for their processing power, but the power management features on more modern pcs will help an upgrade now pay off for many businesses in power cost savings.
Actually, it's a mix of their choice and your choice as soon as they release their music to the public in any form.
Actually, you're punishing the behavior by taking up their bandwidth.
I think this technology would have a pretty drastic impact on the replacement rate, though.
Running out of eggs has nothing to do with why most women become infertile with age.
The yearly rate of accidental death just isn't that high. If you weren't going to die from any chronic illness, and didn't suffer from problems associated with aging, your odds of living to 200 would be pretty decent.
Well, even if you think you own your house, you have to remember that when the young and propertyless get sufficiently desperate you also have to keep yourself supplied with ammunition, and probably paid guards.
Alternatively, in a friendlier future, they might just vote to raise property taxes until everyone who owns property is forced back to work, and 'property' becomes essentially just a perk for working.
It could be used to prevent you from ripping off the federal educational grant system. For example, maybe giving grants to students who have dropped out in the past is a bad investment. Or a good one. More statistics help make the system more profitable/effective.
But how can a manager under time pressure from above resist the temptation to 'solve' problems by increasing hours? Unfortunately, there aren't any good solutions, and increasing hours in the short term does work, which reinforces the bad managerial behavior. Worse, intermittent reinforcement (occassionally, increasing hours is effective) is the most powerful kind of reinforcement (see any number of behavioral psychology studies).
How about comparing two processors that cost the same to the end purchaser? Maybe allow a 10% price edge to intel for brand reputation points.
Actually, MMORPG infrastructure will eventually be quite cheap. What it typically requires:
High bandwidth connection: getting cheper all the time. Start with a DSL and buy upwards as your subscription base grows.
Multiple servers: Start with a few budget servers and buy upwards as your subscription base allows.
Lots of content: let your players build it, based on a trust model ala MUDS. Just requires tools, which are getting easier and easier to build.
Actually, most games are built with swappable software components already. The problem with intense end schedules has to do with building:
a) the swappable component replacements. Often these are very sophisticated pieces of code, that in the particular case of video or sound have to talk to hardware at a very low level to achieve good performance.
b) squeezing in last minute improvements. Since large numbers of games are competing with each other, there are often last minute requirements driven by new market conditions. If another competing game has just come out with feature X, or has just added X in a patch, you may need to add that feature very near the end of production in order to have your game reviewed positively.
There are lots of unfortunate realities in game developement that require large last minute efforts that simply can't be planned for.
Actually competitive police forces are thriving. There aren't a lot of competitive firemen, though there are some volunteer based organizations.
an executive? What company is he in charge of these days?
Situational ethics is the only acceptable kind of ethics to use, no matter what the situation!
You will be able to buy multi-cpu multi-core setups pretty much immediately after the multi-core cpus are available.
Dual video cards is just a poor engineering solution to how to render using two GPUs. Soon enough they'll be making multi-core and multi-gpu cards (there is some motivation to go to multi-gpu before multi-core to avoid manufacturing losses).
Be sure to remember as you're doing this to retain _some_ fun in your life. If games aren't the best fun for $ deal for you, then by all means spend your money elsewhere. Generally I find games are an excellent entertainment value cost wise. Particularly compared to tv/movies.
You do if it's an electricity storing smart thong that shocks to death anyone other than the daughter who touches it.
Only the first human ever to eat a yam, as caught on their yam nanny cams.
Perhaps more importantly in the particular case of nvidia, what do you do if they go out of business (or just get bought in a merger), and the buyer (say ATI) decides to bury their product line as a business decision. If the driver source has never been made public ....
I just use the 'forgot your card?' enter your phone number feature. Then I enter someone else's phone number. The best part is, I got their savings coupon for spending over $250 dollars the other day. I think they spent 240 of it and I spent the last 10.
What's really sad is that after 7 seasons + of the highest quality documentary filmmaking people still don't believe in aliens.