Basically, the speed difference in imperceptible to anyone. Having twice the amount of RAM is leagues more useful than a hair faster CPU. Especially when you have real multi-tasking:)
Having 4.8×10^28 IP addresses for each person is just plain superfluous. We have about 7 billion, and IPv4 gives us some 4.3 billion IP addresses. So, the solution is obvious. We just need to double the IPs of IPv4, and we'll have everyone covered. We can do that by simply creating a second internet.
Wile E Coyote failed to catch the road runner because he'd try one thing, it would fail, and then he'd try something else.
Some of his plans were good. Damn good. They just had maybe a one or two things that needed to be fixed about their execution. But instead of trying to improve them, he'd move onto something else that was completely different.
Yes, nuclear power can be disastrous, and Japan learned that the hard way. But that doesn't mean it isn't a good plan. Its execution just needs to be perfected. The advantages are too great to pass, especially for coal and oil.
Yeah, with enough time and enough money, there is nothing that can't be done.
However, if the time/cost of putting the DLC on the PS3 exceeded the projected profits... then it just doesn't make sense--from a financial perspective--to put it on the PS3.
Not trying to discredit Virgin Mobile, but since it runs on Sprint's network, being 'throttled' to 100kbps sounds like it'll make your internet faster once you hit that cap. No, that's not a joke! I literally get speeds under that on Sprint's 3G (and my phone bill is almost 100 a month!)
If you like in any of South FL, don't get Sprint if you want fast data. I can't tell you how rare it is for 3G speeds to exceed 200kbps.
"Innovation" is rarely little more than just a buzzword. The truth is that Apple rarely "innovates" (That's not an insult) At least not in the big picture. What Apple is good at is the *execution*.
Apple didn't invent the MP3 player, they just made it better than most others, and marketed the hell out of it. Apple didn't invent high-end laptops, they just made them better than most others, and marketed the hell out of them. Apple didn't invent the smartphone, they just made it better than most others, and marketed the hell out of it. Apple didn't invent the tablet, they just made it better than the others, and marketed the hell out of it.
That's why they're so threatened by Samsung. Because Samsung is doing the same thing. Samsung didn't invent the "iPhone," they just made it better. Just like they didn't invent the "iPad," they just made it better too.
Every calorie of energy that powers your body came from the sun. "Producers" (plants, anything with photosynthesis) rearrange hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon into glucose, where that energy gets stored. Let's say a cow eats some grass, that energy from the sun that the plant had stored transfers to the cow, and adds to the cow's biomass. Now let's say you eat that cow; the energy transfers to you. And if a lion eats you, that energy transfers to the lion.
It's very neat and elegant, but there's something not so many people realize. Every time energy gets transferred from one source to another, only 10% of the energy makes it through and contributes to the animal's biomass. The other 90% is lost to entropy. 10% of that initial energy of the plant makes it to the cow, thus 1% makes it to the human, and.1% makes it to the lion.
So you see, meat is pretty wasteful as food for humans, especially since we really don't need much (if any) of it for nutrition. Literally, you could feed 10x more humans with plants than you can with meat; that's not my number, that's the what the law of conservation of energy says. Most of the wheat, corn, soy, and oats that the US produces goes to feeding farm animals that get eaten. Unfortunately, due to government subsidies, the real cost of meat never (directly) impacts us. If they took government subsidies away, the cost of meat would skyrocket, and less affluent people wouldn't be able afford much of it. Things would be "balanced." This would also effectively kill fast food, as it would become too expensive. So basically, it'll never happen.
I foresee within the next decade that we'll see a major explosion of piracy of 3D models of popular toys. Why buy that 10 dollar Batman figure for your kid when you can download the 3D model and print out your own? And of course toy companies will freak out much like the record labels did.
This is going to be pretty interesting. If I owned stock in a toy company or whatever, I'd be thinking about selling it.
You paid for a certain amount of data. Let's say 3 GB. What you do with that data shouldn't matter. Yet they charge you 30 bucks (or whatever) to use that data in a specific way.
"SOPA wouldn't have stopped piracy... It wasn't powerful enough! We'd need legislature that takes away even more internet freedom! The new bill we're going to be lobbying for will allow us to stop piracy once and for all. In addition, it'll stimulate the economy, create new jobs, and combat terrorism."
The men who went ahead and tried to prosecute this guy are professional men. They get up early, and put on suits. They carry briefcases. They went to college and graduated. Within the entire spectrum of the human race, they are in the top 5% of education and work.
And they still went ahead with the prosecution of such an obvious joke.
I love YouTube comments. They are * hilarious*. No matter what the video is of, you find that the comments always degenerate to the most bizarre, hate-filled arguments imaginable. It makes for some hilarious reading.
But, like sugar, you can't have too much of it. It quickly becomes nauseating. Best is to get a small taste and then take no more. Just like too much sugar will eventually destroy your pancreas, too many YouTube comments will eventually destroy your faith in humanity.
You'd think it would occur to someone at MS that it would make sense to encourage and support any developer--even the small ones--to develop for their platform. More content means more sales, more sales mean more money. It irks me so much when I see companies ignore long term benefits for short term cash.
Hell, if I ran the platform, I'd make it completely free to develop for (or at least charge a nominal, small fee to keep out anyone who isn't serious). All I'd then do is make sure the quality is good enough, and make sure to take a cut of the sales. Kinda like Apple is doing with their ridiculously successful App Store.
Third party support and happy developers are the most important thing for a gaming platform. Nothing else matters as much. Nothing. Look at the N64, for example. Developers snubbed it, and the wildly inferior PSX dominated that generation. N64 was kept afloat purely from first and second party games (I don't believe any other company besides Nintendo could have survived with just that).
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The S3 gets a 1560, and the iPhone 5 gets a 1601.
:)
Basically, the speed difference in imperceptible to anyone. Having twice the amount of RAM is leagues more useful than a hair faster CPU. Especially when you have real multi-tasking
It's not either, but it is going to be one of those things from sci-fi that'll end up everywhere in our lives (like cellphones).
In a decade or two, they'll cell them in drugstores like prepaid phones.
Based on the development time of this, the Xen levels will take about two years.
But I'm not complaining, no one liked Xen anyway. Thank you, guys!
4.8x10^28
Having 4.8×10^28 IP addresses for each person is just plain superfluous. We have about 7 billion, and IPv4 gives us some 4.3 billion IP addresses. So, the solution is obvious. We just need to double the IPs of IPv4, and we'll have everyone covered. We can do that by simply creating a second internet.
Problem solved.
Wile E Coyote failed to catch the road runner because he'd try one thing, it would fail, and then he'd try something else.
Some of his plans were good. Damn good. They just had maybe a one or two things that needed to be fixed about their execution. But instead of trying to improve them, he'd move onto something else that was completely different.
Yes, nuclear power can be disastrous, and Japan learned that the hard way. But that doesn't mean it isn't a good plan. Its execution just needs to be perfected. The advantages are too great to pass, especially for coal and oil.
Apple has a patent on big cats.
Yeah, with enough time and enough money, there is nothing that can't be done.
However, if the time/cost of putting the DLC on the PS3 exceeded the projected profits... then it just doesn't make sense--from a financial perspective--to put it on the PS3.
Mutually Assured Destruction in a safegaurd; a defense.
"You can't nuke me, because I'll nuke you back. So unless you want to be wiped out, you best leave me alone."
Of course, Apple got arrogant. "My nukes are better and I have more of them. I can attack and I'll be fine."
And, well, there you have it. MAD has basically failed. Or worked as it intended. I'm not sure. All I know is that everything is stupid.
In a game, look at the sky. If your framerate shoots up, the video card was your bottleneck. If it doesn't, your CPU is.
Not trying to discredit Virgin Mobile, but since it runs on Sprint's network, being 'throttled' to 100kbps sounds like it'll make your internet faster once you hit that cap. No, that's not a joke! I literally get speeds under that on Sprint's 3G (and my phone bill is almost 100 a month!)
If you like in any of South FL, don't get Sprint if you want fast data. I can't tell you how rare it is for 3G speeds to exceed 200kbps.
"Innovation" is rarely little more than just a buzzword. The truth is that Apple rarely "innovates" (That's not an insult) At least not in the big picture. What Apple is good at is the *execution*.
Apple didn't invent the MP3 player, they just made it better than most others, and marketed the hell out of it.
Apple didn't invent high-end laptops, they just made them better than most others, and marketed the hell out of them.
Apple didn't invent the smartphone, they just made it better than most others, and marketed the hell out of it.
Apple didn't invent the tablet, they just made it better than the others, and marketed the hell out of it.
That's why they're so threatened by Samsung. Because Samsung is doing the same thing. Samsung didn't invent the "iPhone," they just made it better. Just like they didn't invent the "iPad," they just made it better too.
No, Apple is guilty of using ridiculous litigation to prevent anyone else from making tablets that do not suck big green ones.
1. Buy Microsoft stock.
2. Create fake tweet that Steve Ballmer resigned.
3. Sell stock.
4. MEGA-PROFIT!
Every calorie of energy that powers your body came from the sun. "Producers" (plants, anything with photosynthesis) rearrange hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon into glucose, where that energy gets stored. Let's say a cow eats some grass, that energy from the sun that the plant had stored transfers to the cow, and adds to the cow's biomass. Now let's say you eat that cow; the energy transfers to you. And if a lion eats you, that energy transfers to the lion.
.1% makes it to the lion.
It's very neat and elegant, but there's something not so many people realize. Every time energy gets transferred from one source to another, only 10% of the energy makes it through and contributes to the animal's biomass. The other 90% is lost to entropy. 10% of that initial energy of the plant makes it to the cow, thus 1% makes it to the human, and
So you see, meat is pretty wasteful as food for humans, especially since we really don't need much (if any) of it for nutrition. Literally, you could feed 10x more humans with plants than you can with meat; that's not my number, that's the what the law of conservation of energy says. Most of the wheat, corn, soy, and oats that the US produces goes to feeding farm animals that get eaten. Unfortunately, due to government subsidies, the real cost of meat never (directly) impacts us. If they took government subsidies away, the cost of meat would skyrocket, and less affluent people wouldn't be able afford much of it. Things would be "balanced." This would also effectively kill fast food, as it would become too expensive. So basically, it'll never happen.
I foresee within the next decade that we'll see a major explosion of piracy of 3D models of popular toys. Why buy that 10 dollar Batman figure for your kid when you can download the 3D model and print out your own? And of course toy companies will freak out much like the record labels did.
This is going to be pretty interesting. If I owned stock in a toy company or whatever, I'd be thinking about selling it.
Lucy, you got some 'splaining to do!
They don't let you tether if you don't pay for the service. You can get around it by being rooted though.
You paid for a certain amount of data. Let's say 3 GB. What you do with that data shouldn't matter. Yet they charge you 30 bucks (or whatever) to use that data in a specific way.
You mean to tell me I can use the data I already paid for, without paying extra arbitrarily? What kind of radical thinking is this?
In all seriousness, Verizon and the others should be forced to refund all they've charged for tethering. That was theft, pure and simple.
"SOPA wouldn't have stopped piracy... It wasn't powerful enough! We'd need legislature that takes away even more internet freedom! The new bill we're going to be lobbying for will allow us to stop piracy once and for all. In addition, it'll stimulate the economy, create new jobs, and combat terrorism."
The men who went ahead and tried to prosecute this guy are professional men. They get up early, and put on suits. They carry briefcases. They went to college and graduated. Within the entire spectrum of the human race, they are in the top 5% of education and work.
And they still went ahead with the prosecution of such an obvious joke.
I weep for the human race.
I love YouTube comments. They are * hilarious*. No matter what the video is of, you find that the comments always degenerate to the most bizarre, hate-filled arguments imaginable. It makes for some hilarious reading.
But, like sugar, you can't have too much of it. It quickly becomes nauseating. Best is to get a small taste and then take no more. Just like too much sugar will eventually destroy your pancreas, too many YouTube comments will eventually destroy your faith in humanity.
Software Emulates Orgasms in Japan
You'd think it would occur to someone at MS that it would make sense to encourage and support any developer--even the small ones--to develop for their platform. More content means more sales, more sales mean more money. It irks me so much when I see companies ignore long term benefits for short term cash.
Hell, if I ran the platform, I'd make it completely free to develop for (or at least charge a nominal, small fee to keep out anyone who isn't serious). All I'd then do is make sure the quality is good enough, and make sure to take a cut of the sales. Kinda like Apple is doing with their ridiculously successful App Store.
Third party support and happy developers are the most important thing for a gaming platform. Nothing else matters as much. Nothing. Look at the N64, for example. Developers snubbed it, and the wildly inferior PSX dominated that generation. N64 was kept afloat purely from first and second party games (I don't believe any other company besides Nintendo could have survived with just that).