Geesh, they find evidence of three planets around a Sol-like star, and you want them to have more details than that? Give them some more time to analyze the data, it's hard to pick up smaller perturbations at a 41 lightyear range.
No kidding. It'll take us at least ten years to find any monoliths.
Infosys, a Indian outsourcing company is itself outsourcing in China since they are having some problems to find enough skills in India at the right price to maintain lowest price deals.
So if they outsource to China, whom does China outsource to? Wisconsin?
And then they outsource to Taiwan...
If it keeps up, any company using the service would have a beastly time determining exactly where their employees are.
Being an ignorant Imperialist on this subject, I have to ask: are SI units in the opposite direction? I mean, when you convert from feet to meters, does it switch directions?
Or does, like, SI seconds = negative Imperial seconds?
Force feedback on a joystick is useful, for example in a flight simulator it can simulate cable-linked control surfaces. The random jiggling that the 'force feedback' controllers use is not quite as additive to the imersion of the game.
It's not all about immersion. It's often simply about having more feedback. The more senses you can supply, the better. UI researchers have known this for a long time.
We've got young children, and we eventually realized that Wavebirds would work better than corded controllers for our Gamecube. (They last longer because there's nothing for the kids to trip over and short out.) I find that I don't miss the rumble on Metroid Prime.
On Wind Waker? Oh, yeah. A rumble is one of four signals that lets you know you can parry/counterattack. You've got two visual signals: your sword lighting up and your A button lighting up in the button map. You've also got audio, and, of course, the rumble. The lit sword and the audio can be drowned out by battle, and the A button is often outside the range of your attention. Without the rumble, you can miss an opportunity. With it, you almost always know when you have an opportunity to counterstrike.
I've finally gotten used to it again, but I can't react as well as I could when I had the rumble.
It's much cheaper to buy a console/PC and a stack of games to stay home at night, forget about eating and take your mind off how you can barely afford to go to work the next day.
Which is especially amusing since the industry typically considers summer to be a low point because everyone is supposed to be outside playing in the sun or on vacation away from their consoles. Summer usually sees the lowest number of new releases.
They forget that so many gamers are pasty distant cousins of vampires, with an acute allergic reaction to the big yellow approximately-point light source in that blue room on the other side of the door.
Your Linux fanboism is showing. Might want to hike up those pants.
Microsoft isn't going anywhere, even if an operating system happens to bomb. But it won't, because it'll come preinstalled on every new PC beginning with the first that's produced on Armageddon.
I think his point is that vampire robot monkeys are poised to take over the PC market, and as soon as they do, we're going to see a proliferation of web sites dedicated to selling vampire robot monkey motorcycle parts and lard disguised as toothpaste, and that they'll eventually take over the world with an underhanded plot involving massive traffic jams and gum disease.
Several thousand forum lurkers and Nintendo fanboys already beat Merril to the punch on this one as well. Albeit with varying degrees of research and validity. Point is: This is hardly a new prediction.
It's an especially easy conclusion to come to as well, since every Nintendo console ever made has sold for $199.
If you really want to break with the crowd, don't predict $200. That's why I'm predicting $207.41.
I think I saw that movie once. It had something to do with Owen Softfounder and System Vader or something. Entirely forgettable. Oh, and those head buns were so 70s.
As far as I can tell, "The French" is just one guy with smelly armpits in a country across the Atlantic with a funky symmetrical 1/x-shaped tower. He wears a black beret, form-fitting black trousers, and a red-and-yellow striped shirt. He eats nothing but cheese and drinks nothing but wine, and he has a single opinion about everything to do with the United States: it sucks.
Yeah, but there's a big difference between a conspiracy between religious extremists to hijack planes and crash them into the buildings of their enemy and a conspiracy of a government to arrange for an attack on its own people. The latter is what people mean when they talk about a conspiracy in this context. The former, yeah, it's technically and legally a conspiracy, but it's not the kind of thing that you can protect against with tin foil.
You can protect against a government arranging an attack on its own people with tin foil? Sweet! Does it, like, burn their skin when they touch it, or do we have some special weapons made out of it or something?
I've never heard of this before. You should get the word out.
The OP's language did strike me as incorrect as well, but I guess that it is just an uncommon usage.
The idea that "right" is wrong in this case is just classic prescriptivism: the idea that language must follow rules, and any language that doesn't is totally, irredeemably incorrect.
The opposite is descriptivism (also described in the above link), in which actual usage is correct. People tend to polarize on this. Personally, I think there's a threshold at which certain language can become correct, but I haven't a clue where it is. Dictionaries also tend to follow some middle ground.
No, I'm more questioning whether America is currently better, but headed rapidly in the wrong direction, while Australia is currently worse, but at least headed in the right direction. More of a cautionary statement than a value judgement per se.
In other, geekier words, he's asking about the first derivative value rather than the function value: f'(t) rather than f(t).
Personally, I'm more concerned with f''(t). I have a friend that wants to know f'''(t). If we put them all together we'd have a 3rd-order Taylor series expansion, with which we might approximate America's goodness with regards to copyright law at f(t+10) with reasonable accuracy. Wicked.
I'm sure you'd be satisfied with a first-order approximation, though. That'll do in the short run.
Yes, I'm a grad student. It's just sick what it's done to my mind, isn't it?
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Congratulations, you are the first to invoke Godwin's Law in a discussion about server CPUs.
No, he was just Godwin's puppet. You invoked Godwin's Law, and, of course, Godwin won again.
That schmuck always wins.
Geesh, they find evidence of three planets around a Sol-like star, and you want them to have more details than that? Give them some more time to analyze the data, it's hard to pick up smaller perturbations at a 41 lightyear range.
No kidding. It'll take us at least ten years to find any monoliths.
Infosys, a Indian outsourcing company is itself outsourcing in China since they are having some problems to find enough skills in India at the right price to maintain lowest price deals.
So if they outsource to China, whom does China outsource to? Wisconsin?
And then they outsource to Taiwan...
If it keeps up, any company using the service would have a beastly time determining exactly where their employees are.
Dear grammar fascist,
The word you're looking for is "cue," not "queue."
You're right, of course. I shall now commit seppuku with a rubber chicken.
Thank you.
Queue the obligatory unit conversion jokes.
Being an ignorant Imperialist on this subject, I have to ask: are SI units in the opposite direction? I mean, when you convert from feet to meters, does it switch directions?
Or does, like, SI seconds = negative Imperial seconds?
Force feedback on a joystick is useful, for example in a flight simulator it can simulate cable-linked control surfaces. The random jiggling that the 'force feedback' controllers use is not quite as additive to the imersion of the game.
It's not all about immersion. It's often simply about having more feedback. The more senses you can supply, the better. UI researchers have known this for a long time.
We've got young children, and we eventually realized that Wavebirds would work better than corded controllers for our Gamecube. (They last longer because there's nothing for the kids to trip over and short out.) I find that I don't miss the rumble on Metroid Prime.
On Wind Waker? Oh, yeah. A rumble is one of four signals that lets you know you can parry/counterattack. You've got two visual signals: your sword lighting up and your A button lighting up in the button map. You've also got audio, and, of course, the rumble. The lit sword and the audio can be drowned out by battle, and the A button is often outside the range of your attention. Without the rumble, you can miss an opportunity. With it, you almost always know when you have an opportunity to counterstrike.
I've finally gotten used to it again, but I can't react as well as I could when I had the rumble.
It's much cheaper to buy a console/PC and a stack of games to stay home at night, forget about eating and take your mind off how you can barely afford to go to work the next day.
You're a half-full kind of guy, aren't you?
Which is especially amusing since the industry typically considers summer to be a low point because everyone is supposed to be outside playing in the sun or on vacation away from their consoles. Summer usually sees the lowest number of new releases.
They forget that so many gamers are pasty distant cousins of vampires, with an acute allergic reaction to the big yellow approximately-point light source in that blue room on the other side of the door.
The freaks don't even know their own customers.
Vista may well mark the end of the Windows era.
Your Linux fanboism is showing. Might want to hike up those pants.
Microsoft isn't going anywhere, even if an operating system happens to bomb. But it won't, because it'll come preinstalled on every new PC beginning with the first that's produced on Armageddon.
If by first you mean third...
"Approximately first post" doesn't have quite the same oomph, I guess.
I think laptops are comming in place of desktop computers.. but i will always love a desktop machine..
I'll bet you've kept your Barry Manilow 8-tracks all these years for the nostalgia value.
I think his point is that vampire robot monkeys are poised to take over the PC market, and as soon as they do, we're going to see a proliferation of web sites dedicated to selling vampire robot monkey motorcycle parts and lard disguised as toothpaste, and that they'll eventually take over the world with an underhanded plot involving massive traffic jams and gum disease.
I could be reading him wrong, though.
I don't know about you, but I buy a game based solely on how it smells.
You mean we actually went to the moon before?
Yep. And we planted a flag, which is still there, flapping in the breeze from the studio's unusually strong AC units.
And this time, we'll try not to paint the black crosses on the film before we take the pictures.
...lives and comfort could be somewhat disregarded...
Holy crap!. If they're throwing millions at zero-G recliners, I want my taxes back right now.
Well Slashdot has always been full of rabid Nintendo fanboys.
Just don't let one bite you, or some night after a full moon, you'll wake up naked in a dumpster clutching a Wavebird.
Is there a constructive reason for such prediction? Will Merrill Lynch get a prize or something if the prediction is correct?
Yep. They offered me 10:1 that it'd sell at $210, so I took the bet.
We already have Google popping up in every 3rd article, now we have Wii.
I thought we'd gotten over these puerile "Wii" jokes by now. For shame.
Several thousand forum lurkers and Nintendo fanboys already beat Merril to the punch on this one as well. Albeit with varying degrees of research and validity. Point is: This is hardly a new prediction.
It's an especially easy conclusion to come to as well, since every Nintendo console ever made has sold for $199.
If you really want to break with the crowd, don't predict $200. That's why I'm predicting $207.41.
Remember the Unix wars fiasco?
I think I saw that movie once. It had something to do with Owen Softfounder and System Vader or something. Entirely forgettable. Oh, and those head buns were so 70s.
Any evidence of a 747 hitting the pentagon would be quite a surprise and likely fake given that Flight 77 was a 757.
Thats what you goons want us to believe. Why do you think we're all suckers?
"The French"...
What all of them?
Or just one loon?
As far as I can tell, "The French" is just one guy with smelly armpits in a country across the Atlantic with a funky symmetrical 1/x-shaped tower. He wears a black beret, form-fitting black trousers, and a red-and-yellow striped shirt. He eats nothing but cheese and drinks nothing but wine, and he has a single opinion about everything to do with the United States: it sucks.
Oh, and he has an amorous pet skunk.
Yeah, but there's a big difference between a conspiracy between religious extremists to hijack planes and crash them into the buildings of their enemy and a conspiracy of a government to arrange for an attack on its own people. The latter is what people mean when they talk about a conspiracy in this context. The former, yeah, it's technically and legally a conspiracy, but it's not the kind of thing that you can protect against with tin foil.
You can protect against a government arranging an attack on its own people with tin foil? Sweet! Does it, like, burn their skin when they touch it, or do we have some special weapons made out of it or something?
I've never heard of this before. You should get the word out.
The OP's language did strike me as incorrect as well, but I guess that it is just an uncommon usage.
The idea that "right" is wrong in this case is just classic prescriptivism: the idea that language must follow rules, and any language that doesn't is totally, irredeemably incorrect.
The opposite is descriptivism (also described in the above link), in which actual usage is correct. People tend to polarize on this. Personally, I think there's a threshold at which certain language can become correct, but I haven't a clue where it is. Dictionaries also tend to follow some middle ground.
Hands up if you can read your newspaper on your MP3 player...
In Soviet Russia, MP3 player reads newspaper to YOU.
Hang on, that's not such a bad idea...
No, I'm more questioning whether America is currently better, but headed rapidly in the wrong direction, while Australia is currently worse, but at least headed in the right direction. More of a cautionary statement than a value judgement per se.
In other, geekier words, he's asking about the first derivative value rather than the function value: f'(t) rather than f(t).
Personally, I'm more concerned with f''(t). I have a friend that wants to know f'''(t). If we put them all together we'd have a 3rd-order Taylor series expansion, with which we might approximate America's goodness with regards to copyright law at f(t+10) with reasonable accuracy. Wicked.
I'm sure you'd be satisfied with a first-order approximation, though. That'll do in the short run.
Yes, I'm a grad student. It's just sick what it's done to my mind, isn't it?