To all of the replies: You're thinking too small a scale. My original comment was speaking to the effect of making automobiles super-affordable, in general. They won't necessarily be replacing motorbikes, simply adding to the total number of vehicles on the road. They won't be used only in rural areas, eventually low cost cars will make it into other markets to the people that wouldn't otherwise be able to afford one. Yeah, a more modern 4-cycle engine will be better than the 2-cycle stuff, but the bigger picture is in production of the vehicle, maintenance, and end of life problems. I guess, my original thought was that more effort should go into mass transit (yes, I know...rural areas...got it!) or better infrastructure (in this case, more accommodating to the existing bikes) instead of shoving more vehicles onto the roads.
I can't help but think of the negative effect this will have. Getting people off of their bikes (motor or otherwise) can't be good for fuel consumption, polution during and after the life of the vehicle, and roadway congestion to name a few.
I have a Nextel myself and I can't STAND the people that don't have the courtesy to turn their private speaker on when they want to gossip. I only ever use the "Walkie-Talkie" type speaker when I'm in my car, or at home, otherwise, I like to keep my conversations private.
Not that I have a problem with either of these companies, but Real is really just being stupid about this. If this whole things follows through, what's to stop similar lawsuits, with other applications? Is Microsoft simply to include every freakin' competing application on it's install disc There are reasons why company's products don't get used as much as others....distributing it using a competitor's resources isn't going to make the software sucks less, it'll just get the unsuspecting casual user to use it.
Damn is right! Why do you people keep wanting "a computer that can run Doom 3" It seems like EVERYONE is putting off doing anything until doom 3 comes out! Get on with your lives, get that new computer that you want, it's going to be able to play Doom 3 just fine, trust me. I just got myself an Athlon XP 1800+ about five months ago, and I'll be damned if it won't run Doom 3 with the graphics turned to max as it is.
I'm not trolling here, I'm just offering up somethings that most people take for granted from the space program. $40 billion dollars is a lot of money, true, but it's not just to send a few guys on a joy ride. Because of the space program, we have: Filtration systems that have a better than 90% efficiency, Better sunglasses have, Better water purification processes, Better solar energy technology, Better stronger alloys and plastics even a little more of an idea on how to make food taste better.
I think in the long run, the investment more than pays for itself through biproducts.
Actually, this is a console only game. They mention Linux on the download page, because divx can be played in Windows or Linux (Yes, I know it can be played on Mac, too...but that's what quicktime is for)
Actually, yes, the speed IS the bottlekneck when you talk about CDs. CDs all store the information in pits and landings, that happen to be the same (within margin) size on every CD. This is exactly why a DVD drive spinning slower, or as you point out, a hard drive, will be able to transfer faster than CDs, while still spinning slower: The data density per square inch is higher. Higher Data Density on a media (assuming the reading device can keep up) and raising the rotation speed BOTH affect transfer rates.
Appalling, but not suprising.
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Unfortunately, stuff like this happens all too often. Here in Ohio our EPA is so bad that they actually fired someone for reporting that a school was built on a Military waste dump. I work for a group that deals with these political and corporate problems everyday, and it's really eye-opening to see the disregard some people have for public health and the enviroment.
This whole thing seems a little gender biased. Every little boy I know would love to get this stuff for Christmas, and not a one of them would attempt to practice 'Tactical Espionage Action' so that they can creep up behind someone and snap their necks....
Besides, have you seen those McFarlane figures? No one in their right mind would PLAY with those, they're meant to be decorative.
Eh, I thought that Teddy was more the "Jiminey Cricket" of the movie than was Joe. My reasoning is that Teddy flat out said things like "You will break", but couldn't interfere otherwise. Joe was just some putz that was used to get David from one point to another.
I personally LOVED the original ending to the series. Sad thing is, I almost didn't get to watch it, since my friend doesn't want to admit that the real ending even exists...but that's another story.
Hmmmmmm....I could probably stand to watch that (and some "Kenshin") once again....
Who here has even HEARD of Zero Wing before this rediculous fad caught on? I mean, just because some jackhole pulled out his Genesis a few weeks ago, and realized how poorly the game was translated, doesn't justify MAJOR over use of this (double-plus-un-funny) joke. I honestly don't understand why anyone feels it necessary to constantly keep repeating this joke, except maybe to piss me off....
Oh well, people are cattle...one person does something funny, suddenly everyone's doing the same damn thing.
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To all of the replies:
You're thinking too small a scale. My original comment was speaking to the effect of making automobiles super-affordable, in general. They won't necessarily be replacing motorbikes, simply adding to the total number of vehicles on the road. They won't be used only in rural areas, eventually low cost cars will make it into other markets to the people that wouldn't otherwise be able to afford one. Yeah, a more modern 4-cycle engine will be better than the 2-cycle stuff, but the bigger picture is in production of the vehicle, maintenance, and end of life problems.
I guess, my original thought was that more effort should go into mass transit (yes, I know...rural areas...got it!) or better infrastructure (in this case, more accommodating to the existing bikes) instead of shoving more vehicles onto the roads.
I can't help but think of the negative effect this will have. Getting people off of their bikes (motor or otherwise) can't be good for fuel consumption, polution during and after the life of the vehicle, and roadway congestion to name a few.
Serenity is a REALLY REALLY good movie...but to be in the top ten movies of all time?
Not possible for the games to update the firmware? I think not, it's just that they haven't and there hasn't been much of a reason to make them do so.
So....you think he works in Columbus and lives in Cleveland. Maybe, but I doubt it.
This has not been my experience.
I find plenty of torrents that the tracker has either gone down or there are no more seeds.
Have they never thought to just schedule an event to reboot the computer every 30 days?
From the site: http://ftp.cs.umn.edu/pub/ubuntu-cdimage/releases/ warty/preview/warty-i386.iso.torrent
Amazing what a little patience can get you, isn't it?
Apparently, you haven't read much of Dave Barry's writing...
I have a Nextel myself and I can't STAND the people that don't have the courtesy to turn their private speaker on when they want to gossip. I only ever use the "Walkie-Talkie" type speaker when I'm in my car, or at home, otherwise, I like to keep my conversations private.
Not that I have a problem with either of these companies, but Real is really just being stupid about this. If this whole things follows through, what's to stop similar lawsuits, with other applications? Is Microsoft simply to include every freakin' competing application on it's install disc There are reasons why company's products don't get used as much as others....distributing it using a competitor's resources isn't going to make the software sucks less, it'll just get the unsuspecting casual user to use it.
Yeah, funny that it doesn't show up there, huh? Maybe AMD's official store lists it? Oh yeah, it does!
https://aac.avnet.com/AMDstore/index.jsp
Damn is right! Why do you people keep wanting "a computer that can run Doom 3" It seems like EVERYONE is putting off doing anything until doom 3 comes out! Get on with your lives, get that new computer that you want, it's going to be able to play Doom 3 just fine, trust me.
I just got myself an Athlon XP 1800+ about five months ago, and I'll be damned if it won't run Doom 3 with the graphics turned to max as it is.
Signal piracy and stream decoding aren't exactly the same thing.
I'm not trolling here, I'm just offering up somethings that most people take for granted from the space program.
$40 billion dollars is a lot of money, true, but it's not just to send a few guys on a joy ride.
Because of the space program, we have:
Filtration systems that have a better than 90% efficiency,
Better sunglasses have,
Better water purification processes,
Better solar energy technology,
Better stronger alloys and plastics
even a little more of an idea on how to make food taste better.
I think in the long run, the investment more than pays for itself through biproducts.
Actually, this is a console only game. They mention Linux on the download page, because divx can be played in Windows or Linux (Yes, I know it can be played on Mac, too...but that's what quicktime is for)
I'd honestly like to see that happen. If you can duplicate them, please explain why I bought a modchip?
Actually, yes, the speed IS the bottlekneck when you talk about CDs. CDs all store the information in pits and landings, that happen to be the same (within margin) size on every CD. This is exactly why a DVD drive spinning slower, or as you point out, a hard drive, will be able to transfer faster than CDs, while still spinning slower: The data density per square inch is higher. Higher Data Density on a media (assuming the reading device can keep up) and raising the rotation speed BOTH affect transfer rates.
Unfortunately, stuff like this happens all too often. Here in Ohio our EPA is so bad that they actually fired someone for reporting that a school was built on a Military waste dump. I work for a group that deals with these political and corporate problems everyday, and it's really eye-opening to see the disregard some people have for public health and the enviroment.
This whole thing seems a little gender biased. Every little boy I know would love to get this stuff for Christmas, and not a one of them would attempt to practice 'Tactical Espionage Action' so that they can creep up behind someone and snap their necks....
Besides, have you seen those McFarlane figures? No one in their right mind would PLAY with those, they're meant to be decorative.
Eh, I thought that Teddy was more the "Jiminey Cricket" of the movie than was Joe. My reasoning is that Teddy flat out said things like "You will break", but couldn't interfere otherwise. Joe was just some putz that was used to get David from one point to another.
I personally LOVED the original ending to the series. Sad thing is, I almost didn't get to watch it, since my friend doesn't want to admit that the real ending even exists...but that's another story.
Hmmmmmm....I could probably stand to watch that (and some "Kenshin") once again....
Who here has even HEARD of Zero Wing before this rediculous fad caught on? I mean, just because some jackhole pulled out his Genesis a few weeks ago, and realized how poorly the game was translated, doesn't justify MAJOR over use of this (double-plus-un-funny) joke. I honestly don't understand why anyone feels it necessary to constantly keep repeating this joke, except maybe to piss me off.... Oh well, people are cattle...one person does something funny, suddenly everyone's doing the same damn thing.
Actually, if I had some mod points, I'd mod you up for "Couldn't have said it better myself"
Am I the only one that's sick of hearing about every issue with security in schools, lately?