Still its just a graphics card. Its like calling a $25,000 new low end car expensive (which it is) then calling a $29,000 engine for a high end car cheap.
Like I said, I'm in not place to be teaching my own childen. Anyways I'm mindly dyslexic, but I can write properly if I choose to slow down... Which I don't.:)
Went to FSU's Experimental High School. Half the problem right there.
No, it couldn't blink at 1 watt. 1 watt is a measure of speed of flow. If you want to measure an amount of electricity you use watt-hour which means the amount of energy used in an hour with a 1 watt flow. Obviously if you were using say 60 watts, you would be using 60 watts in an hour, OR 1 watt hour every minute. So it would blink once a minute.
I always thought would be an interesting idea would be to connect every light switch in the house to a motion sensor. If you turn off the light it stays off, but if you turn it on it goes off once you leave the room. Any idea how many watts those small motion sensors use?
You I've known several home schooled kids. Some are social rejects some are not, about the same perportions as regular kids.
Personally as I live in a crappy school zone, if I had ANY teaching/kid skills I'd home school my kids. But I love my kids enough to know they are better off at school than with me!:) But thats not always the case.. surprise...
Many home schooled kids often goto group field trips and other regular interactions with other home schooled kids.
What I really want to know, is just how much profit they are making.
If for say their actual cost is $230 or something and they would lose money on a $200 console $250 sounds like a nice price point. If in fact that are making these (including all other cost) for $190 and selling it at $250 one could argue it might be worth it for them to sell at $200 for a tiny profit, leading to more game sales.
Either way its their buisness and they can run it how they want to. (shocking idea on slashdot hu?)
It it was actual real leather. Hell yea, of course this is just brown shiney plastic (shiney brown....) and the animal freaks would scream if it was. Oh well.
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And they would have lost probably $30 on each. They arn't selling at a loss remember, but I doupt they could sell at 199 and still make a profit.
Or maybe some bioauth that requires that you be calm!:)
I'd never get into my computer.. Damnit,, password didn't work.. Damnit.. It didnt' work again!!!
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Well on a slightly different note, it seems that the games that use the nunchuck seem to be the types of games you would play singleplayer. The multiplayer/party games seem to be wiimote only. So you could get away with just buying one extra wiimote, and wait on the extra nunchuck till you need it.
There is no "Wired" version of the Wiimote. The Wiimote always has the OPTION of being wired incase of signal problems or there being a lot of wiimotes in the same room (as was the case at the game conferences).
They are apparently being smart about it. They realize that with a large selection of classic games people will lose interest. Apparently they are going to let the classic games trickle out slowly so they can feature the game of the week and get people interested in whatever game they are releasing.
Umm.. So what, local law enforcement test out new weapons on "non-volunteer" civilians all the time. The taser for example. Some may argue is used incorrectly, but I'd much rather it get used then a.45 which is the weapon of choice before the taser.
Why yes if some company just released some silly wand controller and said "It will change the face of gameplay." Yes, Yes we would laugh. If the same company released a silly wand controller and got some 40+ games from major studios signed up to use this controller you would be hearing a different story...
Thats a huge assumption that they are "testing it out on protestors in free-speach zones."
Most likly they are giving them to local law enforcement agencies and possibly the FBI to use day to day as they see fit. Often these are being used in replacement of conventional more lethal weapons. And the local law enforcement teams are more than happy to test them out.
1) It proves you are good enough not to get caught. 2) If they tell you to do something illigal they don't want it comming back to them in the terms of "You hired a known felon..."
Exactly!! I finally understand why book publishers are running scared. All these Limited Previews and Find Libraries links are totally destroying their buisness model.
No see what people wanted was the grainy picture cleaned up and new sound effects. What we got was a new storyline with han shooting first. With the rerelease of the originals people were still hoping for a good transfer from some semi original film stock, and maybe some digitial cleaning up of the grain and sound. What we got was a badly done transfer of the old video disc release. Though I personally think this is all anyone really expected, the complaints are just people wanting more.
Your right, this statement is hard to backup by evidence. And most colleges don't offer an "Assembly" course. The CS degree at FSU (where I'm enrolled) includes assembly in their Microcomputer Data Communications, and Computer Organization classes. Having talked to CS students at other Universities it seems that assembly is taught at some level in all that I have heard of. Its possible that assembly is among the required courses at MIT even. Though a quick search reveals no such thing. A complete study on this issue would take a lot of time. I am of course open to grants if such a thing needs more serious study!:)
Either way I said "most" and "most" do. Sadly CS degrees and even CS classes are very unstandard. You can take CALC II at ANY school and pretty much know what your getting. Take "Systems Design" in a CS program and its pretty much a crapshot. Either way many colleges have tacked on CS to their existing engineering degree. Look like MIT tacked CS onto their electrical engineering degree, which seems to have been combined with some type of bioengineering degree at one point.
"Quantitative Physiology: Cells and Tissues" Is a requirement for MITs CS degree.
Luckily most college CS degrees still teach assembly. Sure most students hate it, but I few pick it up. Especially the ones interested in hardware development.
Whats sad is the satalite companies could produce CableCARDs and the new TiVo will work with them. But they won't. I really don't understand the fallout between TiVo and the satalite companies. Apparently what happend with DirecTV is they realized they could save $1 a month per customer by dumping TiVo and offering their own service. Thats right, out of the extra $5 a month DirecTV gets for you having the TiVo service TiVo only gets $1, and DirecTV thought that was TOO much.
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Still its just a graphics card. Its like calling a $25,000 new low end car expensive (which it is) then calling a $29,000 engine for a high end car cheap.
Like I said, I'm in not place to be teaching my own childen. Anyways I'm mindly dyslexic, but I can write properly if I choose to slow down... Which I don't. :)
Went to FSU's Experimental High School. Half the problem right there.
No, it couldn't blink at 1 watt. 1 watt is a measure of speed of flow. If you want to measure an amount of electricity you use watt-hour which means the amount of energy used in an hour with a 1 watt flow. Obviously if you were using say 60 watts, you would be using 60 watts in an hour, OR 1 watt hour every minute.
So it would blink once a minute.
I always thought would be an interesting idea would be to connect every light switch in the house to a motion sensor. If you turn off the light it stays off, but if you turn it on it goes off once you leave the room. Any idea how many watts those small motion sensors use?
You I've known several home schooled kids. Some are social rejects some are not, about the same perportions as regular kids.
:) But thats not always the case.. surprise...
Personally as I live in a crappy school zone, if I had ANY teaching/kid skills I'd home school my kids. But I love my kids enough to know they are better off at school than with me!
Many home schooled kids often goto group field trips and other regular interactions with other home schooled kids.
What I really want to know, is just how much profit they are making.
If for say their actual cost is $230 or something and they would lose money on a $200 console $250 sounds like a nice price point. If in fact that are making these (including all other cost) for $190 and selling it at $250 one could argue it might be worth it for them to sell at $200 for a tiny profit, leading to more game sales.
Either way its their buisness and they can run it how they want to. (shocking idea on slashdot hu?)
great performance at an attractive $299/£225 launch price
Wern't we just complaining about the $250 Wii console this morning. And now applauding a $299 graphic card as affordable.
It it was actual real leather. Hell yea, of course this is just brown shiney plastic (shiney brown....) and the animal freaks would scream if it was. Oh well.
And they would have lost probably $30 on each. They arn't selling at a loss remember, but I doupt they could sell at 199 and still make a profit.
Or maybe some bioauth that requires that you be calm! :)
I'd never get into my computer.. Damnit,, password didn't work.. Damnit.. It didnt' work again!!!
Well on a slightly different note, it seems that the games that use the nunchuck seem to be the types of games you would play singleplayer. The multiplayer/party games seem to be wiimote only. So you could get away with just buying one extra wiimote, and wait on the extra nunchuck till you need it.
Maybe thats just me.
There is no "Wired" version of the Wiimote. The Wiimote always has the OPTION of being wired incase of signal problems or there being a lot of wiimotes in the same room (as was the case at the game conferences).
They are apparently being smart about it. They realize that with a large selection of classic games people will lose interest. Apparently they are going to let the classic games trickle out slowly so they can feature the game of the week and get people interested in whatever game they are releasing.
Umm.. So what, local law enforcement test out new weapons on "non-volunteer" civilians all the time. The taser for example. Some may argue is used incorrectly, but I'd much rather it get used then a .45 which is the weapon of choice before the taser.
Why yes if some company just released some silly wand controller and said "It will change the face of gameplay." Yes, Yes we would laugh.
If the same company released a silly wand controller and got some 40+ games from major studios signed up to use this controller you would be hearing a different story...
Thats a huge assumption that they are "testing it out on protestors in free-speach zones."
Most likly they are giving them to local law enforcement agencies and possibly the FBI to use day to day as they see fit. Often these are being used in replacement of conventional more lethal weapons. And the local law enforcement teams are more than happy to test them out.
1) It proves you are good enough not to get caught.
2) If they tell you to do something illigal they don't want it comming back to them in the terms of "You hired a known felon..."
Exactly!! I finally understand why book publishers are running scared. All these Limited Previews and Find Libraries links are totally destroying their buisness model.
Hu.. what???.
I knew that.. /Need to check me meds.
No see what people wanted was the grainy picture cleaned up and new sound effects. What we got was a new storyline with han shooting first. With the rerelease of the originals people were still hoping for a good transfer from some semi original film stock, and maybe some digitial cleaning up of the grain and sound. What we got was a badly done transfer of the old video disc release. Though I personally think this is all anyone really expected, the complaints are just people wanting more.
You know what I feel the same way. I own the first two "new" movies. I still havn't even seen the third.
Your right, this statement is hard to backup by evidence. And most colleges don't offer an "Assembly" course. The CS degree at FSU (where I'm enrolled) includes assembly in their Microcomputer Data Communications, and Computer Organization classes. Having talked to CS students at other Universities it seems that assembly is taught at some level in all that I have heard of. Its possible that assembly is among the required courses at MIT even. Though a quick search reveals no such thing. A complete study on this issue would take a lot of time. I am of course open to grants if such a thing needs more serious study! :)
Either way I said "most" and "most" do. Sadly CS degrees and even CS classes are very unstandard. You can take CALC II at ANY school and pretty much know what your getting. Take "Systems Design" in a CS program and its pretty much a crapshot. Either way many colleges have tacked on CS to their existing engineering degree. Look like MIT tacked CS onto their electrical engineering degree, which seems to have been combined with some type of bioengineering degree at one point.
"Quantitative Physiology: Cells and Tissues" Is a requirement for MITs CS degree.
Luckily most college CS degrees still teach assembly. Sure most students hate it, but I few pick it up. Especially the ones interested in hardware development.
Whats sad is the satalite companies could produce CableCARDs and the new TiVo will work with them. But they won't. I really don't understand the fallout between TiVo and the satalite companies. Apparently what happend with DirecTV is they realized they could save $1 a month per customer by dumping TiVo and offering their own service. Thats right, out of the extra $5 a month DirecTV gets for you having the TiVo service TiVo only gets $1, and DirecTV thought that was TOO much.