ditch her cell phone and we can enjoy the peace of never having someone make a ringing noise (or worse - a cheesy song) in our home or pocket. Wait, you keep people in your pocket? Tiny people or big pockets?
I've worked for several small companies in the same situation, and have always been dismissed by HP sales as too small. Mind you, they've never outright said that they wouldn't help us, but by not responding to inquiries, not bidding on jobs, and never sending sales reps HP made it more than clear that unless we were a Fortune 1000 company, they weren't interested.
While Dell may have their share of crap models (latitude anyone?), their service and sales departments have always been extremely responsive. One of our tape libraries broke on a Friday afternoon, and a Dell tech arrived within the hour and stayed until nearly midnight fixing the problem. Granted this is just anectodal, what did you expect from a random Slashdot post?
This is the same crap that people said about VRML in the 90's. That didn't go anywhere and this won't either, regardless of how many media idiots proclaim that things like Second Life are the new frontier.
And isn't it interesting that crap like Second Life and it's ilk still look like 90's VRML?
Roast is important, not the method, but how dark. To taste the varietal flavors best, a full city roast is recommended. Any lighter and it will have more hay-like or grassy notes than varietal flavors, any darker and the bittersweet taste of the roast will dominate the varietal flavors. You do understand that roasting reduces the caffeine content of beans, right? So, you have a choice; full-bodied, dark-roasted coffee, or heart-attacking inducing caffeine delivery system.
Halo is a decent game, it could have been a much better game, but MS bought Bungie and they have been forced to limit it ever since. Eh, I don't know if Microsoft is to blame for Halo's failings. Bungie fans back to the Marathon games have been making excuses for the crap games that Bungie puts out. I remember playing the Marathon demo after playing Doom and Duke Nukem, and thinking what I giant pile of crap it was.
Medicine and audio make a very poor and pointless analogy.
While I freely admit that many audiophiles are more likely to be simply gear-nuts, no engineer has yet been able to adequately explain to me why a 40-year old tube amp sounds so much better than a new solid-state amp. Or why my preamp sounds better after it's been on for an hour or so.
Yes, audio is extremely subjective according to the listener, but some things are obvious to anyone with average hearing. Who would claim that a CD sounds better than a high-quality vinyl/analog setup? Only a fool or an engineer.
Besides, what's the old medical joke? "The procedure was a success, but the patient died."
...that's great and all, but what the hell is with this picture on UP Aerospace's website? Is she exposing the vast NASA conspiracy to hide the FACT that space is just painted on cardboard a few feet above our heads?
A Marantz 8B is a pretty unremarkable circuit. Have you ever heard one?
This is the classic debate between engineers and audiophiles; the engineer determines how a piece of equipment will sound by looking at a schematic, an audiophile determines how a piece of equipment will sound by listening to it.
"Games that support gamepad controllers must support the Xbox 360 Controller for Windows using the XInput API.
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This requirement does not apply to games that only make use of the mouse and/or keyboard."
This is really the crux of the issue; cameras in public places, monitoring public places.
The camera in this context is really just an improvement on the cop walking a beat. Yes, it's impersonal, and yes, it reminds some of "1984", but a public police camera monitoring a public space is a far cry from a brutal totalitarian regime. A fictional one no less.
I concur. This guy has no one to blame but himself, since there's a link to the Vista upgrade adviser tool right on the Vista homepage. Why, if you're at all tech-savvy, would you perform a major OS upgrade without checking to see if it'll even run on your hardware? The answer: because you're an idiot.
This is perhaps one of the dumbest things I've read in a long time. What would be the result of implementing a standardized games format but to slow development to a crawl? Movies and music CDs are standardized because their content isn't driven by the capabilities of their players - just the opposite. But game content is much more influenced by what your hardware is capable of. And since game content can either make or break your ROI, having to develop to some artificial committee-designed standard is a losing gamble. How could you possibly come up with a standard to fit the huge-variety of game content? I don't think this guy thought this through too well.
I'd just like everyone who shares this "the original trilogy was the best and Lucas raped our childhoods when he made Phantom" to remember one thing: Ewoks. Enough said.
I think most people get the simile, it's just that it's a pointless.
Why not just say that our technology obsessed culture clashes with our values. That seems pretty clear.
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I've worked for several small companies in the same situation, and have always been dismissed by HP sales as too small. Mind you, they've never outright said that they wouldn't help us, but by not responding to inquiries, not bidding on jobs, and never sending sales reps HP made it more than clear that unless we were a Fortune 1000 company, they weren't interested.
While Dell may have their share of crap models (latitude anyone?), their service and sales departments have always been extremely responsive. One of our tape libraries broke on a Friday afternoon, and a Dell tech arrived within the hour and stayed until nearly midnight fixing the problem. Granted this is just anectodal, what did you expect from a random Slashdot post?
Actually, it's only CDT when daylight savings is 'in effect', and CST otherwise, but most people that live here call it CST.
This is the same crap that people said about VRML in the 90's. That didn't go anywhere and this won't either, regardless of how many media idiots proclaim that things like Second Life are the new frontier.
And isn't it interesting that crap like Second Life and it's ilk still look like 90's VRML?
That wasn't sarcasm, but most people misuse that word.
His comment was facetious, not sarcastic - read your own reference.
I think the healthy young men and women will be able to cope with that problem just fine without NASA's help.
Medicine and audio make a very poor and pointless analogy.
While I freely admit that many audiophiles are more likely to be simply gear-nuts, no engineer has yet been able to adequately explain to me why a 40-year old tube amp sounds so much better than a new solid-state amp. Or why my preamp sounds better after it's been on for an hour or so.
Yes, audio is extremely subjective according to the listener, but some things are obvious to anyone with average hearing. Who would claim that a CD sounds better than a high-quality vinyl/analog setup? Only a fool or an engineer.
Besides, what's the old medical joke? "The procedure was a success, but the patient died."
...that's great and all, but what the hell is with this picture on UP Aerospace's website? Is she exposing the vast NASA conspiracy to hide the FACT that space is just painted on cardboard a few feet above our heads?
Um, yeah.
A Marantz 8B is a pretty unremarkable circuit. Have you ever heard one?
This is the classic debate between engineers and audiophiles; the engineer determines how a piece of equipment will sound by looking at a schematic, an audiophile determines how a piece of equipment will sound by listening to it.
Way to spread the Anti-MS FUD.
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Straight from the Games for Windows Requirements page:
"Games that support gamepad controllers must support the Xbox 360 Controller for Windows using the XInput API.
This requirement does not apply to games that only make use of the mouse and/or keyboard."
...the fact that they're running Apache on a Unix platform.
Could he be the new and not-so-improved John Dvorak?
This is really the crux of the issue; cameras in public places, monitoring public places.
The camera in this context is really just an improvement on the cop walking a beat. Yes, it's impersonal, and yes, it reminds some of "1984", but a public police camera monitoring a public space is a far cry from a brutal totalitarian regime. A fictional one no less.
Elected officials know who butters their bread.
Lobbyists don't vote. RIAA victims do.
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Moving to OpenGL implies that the OpenGL feature set is better than the Direct 3D feature set. I'm not sure this is true.
I concur. This guy has no one to blame but himself, since there's a link to the Vista upgrade adviser tool right on the Vista homepage. Why, if you're at all tech-savvy, would you perform a major OS upgrade without checking to see if it'll even run on your hardware? The answer: because you're an idiot.
This is perhaps one of the dumbest things I've read in a long time.
What would be the result of implementing a standardized games format but to slow development to a crawl?
Movies and music CDs are standardized because their content isn't driven by the capabilities of their players - just the opposite. But game content is much more influenced by what your hardware is capable of. And since game content can either make or break your ROI, having to develop to some artificial committee-designed standard is a losing gamble. How could you possibly come up with a standard to fit the huge-variety of game content?
I don't think this guy thought this through too well.
That's easy: Add xylene.
And where do we get xylene? Petroleum. Bit of a problem there.
I'd just like everyone who shares this "the original trilogy was the best and Lucas raped our childhoods when he made Phantom" to remember one thing: Ewoks. Enough said.
I think most people get the simile, it's just that it's a pointless.
Why not just say that our technology obsessed culture clashes with our values. That seems pretty clear.
...'cause where you gonna put the salsa?! Idiots.
Uh huh. And how much were the respective licenses for each product? Yeah. I thought so.