And I can buy a high performace exhaust manifold at my local Napa, something that the manufacturer could have included on my car. So what? A game company releases a game for $X.XX, they include features and content as they see fit. Not worth that price to you? Don't buy it Let the whole damn company fall in on itself when GameStop refuses to stock the next game because they took a bath on thousands of copies that had to be dumped to the bargain bin.
Don't want to beautify your Barbie Horse Adventures with an exlusive $10.00 XBox Live add-on? Don't buy it! Let Mattel or whoever take the flak for a ridiculous price and then be forced to lower it when not enough people buy. All you have to do is not keep opening your wallet when you don't like it. Once you've paid, you've confirmed to the company that their inflated value is worth it.
And more interestingly, what's the difference between a nipple on a nudist shot and not?
Twenty years and 200 pounds?::rimshot::
But seriously, giving the benefit of the doubt and assuming that this is something that would be deployed locally by a parent or business IT department, I don't think the difference would matter. I don't think that anybody should seriously expect a computer to be able to flag 'questionable' content when the half the planet is violently opposed to the other half's interpretation of allowable artistic exposure.
To expect more than screening potentially offensive images, with tracking and logging for possible review. I could see computers providing a reasonable estimate of severity, but not without some more advances of this nature combine with some form of training for the filter. Something along the lines of: 'This image appears to represent a phallic device, do you find it offensive?'.
My wife has always told me that if I would have had a significant amount of money, she would have asked to sign a pre-nuptual agreement to prove to my family that she wasn't after my money. Luckily for me, even though I don't have money, my wife knows what's really important: a hugewang.
Haha! So similar to what I'd like too- I recently bought a house with an unfinished basement that has exaclty this setup. A small closet off to one side of a room that has the perfect throw distance for the projector. A few hundred feet of 10 gauge speaker wire, just cracked my second 1,000 box of cat5e and I expect to be well into the third (or fourth?) before I'm done.
I've got the saved shopping cart of rackmount compatable equipment just waiting for the closet to get close to finished. If only I didn't have to go to work.
Meanwhile, I'm reading up on custom Gentoo LiveCD's to read-only etherboot Xbox MythTv frontends... I've broken the system plenty of times.
Then to catalog the books. Who knows when I'll actually get to finishing off the library managment program, let alone building the shelves.
Then to get the asterisk system working together with Myth, and the wife has requested that the doorbell send alerts like Myth's caller-id notification with a remote door release.
Nintendo definately does a good job for nearly all of the games that use Mario, especially when compared to the Croft franchise. I just wish that we'd see less of the 'Oh God, another foo game?', and not necessarily for the Tomb Raider series but in general. While we're wishing, I'd also like two ponies, and a new Sam and Max.
Holy *Crap*. It's a development version, jackass. The whole point is for other developers to try it out and report the problems. Writing accounting related software sucks, and they're improving the situation (or at the least, trying). Cut 'em some slack!
"But we know the data's safe! We just have no idea where the hell it is." Of course it's safe. It's on tapes. It might as well be incinerated and mixed into cement.
I half aggree with you. The whole casual gaming rise is really being pushed by things like MSN games, where the barrier to entry almost always more than $400.00. I guess it all depends on what you mean by 'come out of the woodwork'. But, like you said, once something hits Walmart for $99.95 it'll be as common as toasters, if they can keep resonably playable games in it.
You can pull HD from some cable channels using firewire-capable cable boxes like the DCT6200, but only unencrypted channels. Myth can still get access to them using the cable box as an external tuner- firewire or an IR dongle to change channels and a hardware capture card to grab an s-video signal from the box. You can pass surround sound audio through myth with an audio optical in/out, or just capture the audio out from the cable box using the line input on your soundcard.
Myth also has built-in firewire support for compatable boxes. The most popular that I am aware of is the DCT6200. I've been able to capture HD easily with it, it just takes a lot of horsepower to play back smoothly. As an added bonus, it can change the channel on the cable box by itself as well, so only a single firewire cable. No extra IR dongles or anything. The only catch is that you can only pull unencrypted channels through the firewire port. All others need to go through s-video and separate audio like other non-firewire cable boxes.
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Once you've got the theater up, all you have to do is just invite some people over. We've discovered the spilled drinks and food comes pretty naturally.
On top of that, the processors are highly specialized. Long pipelines, no cache, without out-of-order execution IIRC. The important part being that these are not good generic processors. Remember: (G|M)hz != processing power. If you really want the power of eight high-end processors, there's no shortcuts.
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Don't want to beautify your Barbie Horse Adventures with an exlusive $10.00 XBox Live add-on? Don't buy it! Let Mattel or whoever take the flak for a ridiculous price and then be forced to lower it when not enough people buy. All you have to do is not keep opening your wallet when you don't like it. Once you've paid, you've confirmed to the company that their inflated value is worth it.
lazy !== effecient
I would think that more often than not, those requests are formatted in the 'For' section of the check.
Twenty years and 200 pounds?
But seriously, giving the benefit of the doubt and assuming that this is something that would be deployed locally by a parent or business IT department, I don't think the difference would matter. I don't think that anybody should seriously expect a computer to be able to flag 'questionable' content when the half the planet is violently opposed to the other half's interpretation of allowable artistic exposure.
To expect more than screening potentially offensive images, with tracking and logging for possible review. I could see computers providing a reasonable estimate of severity, but not without some more advances of this nature combine with some form of training for the filter. Something along the lines of: 'This image appears to represent a phallic device, do you find it offensive?'.
My wife has always told me that if I would have had a significant amount of money, she would have asked to sign a pre-nuptual agreement to prove to my family that she wasn't after my money. Luckily for me, even though I don't have money, my wife knows what's really important: a huge wang.
Haha! So similar to what I'd like too- I recently bought a house with an unfinished basement that has exaclty this setup. A small closet off to one side of a room that has the perfect throw distance for the projector. A few hundred feet of 10 gauge speaker wire, just cracked my second 1,000 box of cat5e and I expect to be well into the third (or fourth?) before I'm done.
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I've got the saved shopping cart of rackmount compatable equipment just waiting for the closet to get close to finished. If only I didn't have to go to work.
Meanwhile, I'm reading up on custom Gentoo LiveCD's to read-only etherboot Xbox MythTv frontends... I've broken the system plenty of times.
Then to catalog the books. Who knows when I'll actually get to finishing off the library managment program, let alone building the shelves.
Then to get the asterisk system working together with Myth, and the wife has requested that the doorbell send alerts like Myth's caller-id notification with a remote door release.
Well, I guess I've got thirty years or so?
Yeah, at least half joking. :D
Nintendo definately does a good job for nearly all of the games that use Mario, especially when compared to the Croft franchise. I just wish that we'd see less of the 'Oh God, another foo game?', and not necessarily for the Tomb Raider series but in general. While we're wishing, I'd also like two ponies, and a new Sam and Max.
Disappointment?
Too late! I've already been not-hired! ;)
When did [Slashdot] jump the shark?
Ah- Judging by your user ID, about two years before you signed up.
Where I come from it's called a failure
Holy *Crap*. It's a development version, jackass. The whole point is for other developers to try it out and report the problems. Writing accounting related software sucks, and they're improving the situation (or at the least, trying). Cut 'em some slack!
"But we know the data's safe! We just have no idea where the hell it is."
Of course it's safe. It's on tapes. It might as well be incinerated and mixed into cement.
Huh, apparently it varies by province:a lDrinkingAgeByProvCan.htm
http://www.ccsa.ca/CCSA/EN/Topics/Legislation/Leg
I had assumed it was national like in the states...
Assuming that this is in Toronto, Canada- the leagal drinking age is 18 there.
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I half aggree with you. The whole casual gaming rise is really being pushed by things like MSN games, where the barrier to entry almost always more than $400.00. I guess it all depends on what you mean by 'come out of the woodwork'. But, like you said, once something hits Walmart for $99.95 it'll be as common as toasters, if they can keep resonably playable games in it.
It's mentioned late in the session that he does keep the thesaurus around for potential polysylaballic post polishing.
I believe that 'classification' in this case is being used in the sense of sorting and labeling by property, rather than detect and identify.
You can pull HD from some cable channels using firewire-capable cable boxes like the DCT6200, but only unencrypted channels. Myth can still get access to them using the cable box as an external tuner- firewire or an IR dongle to change channels and a hardware capture card to grab an s-video signal from the box. You can pass surround sound audio through myth with an audio optical in/out, or just capture the audio out from the cable box using the line input on your soundcard.
Myth also has built-in firewire support for compatable boxes. The most popular that I am aware of is the DCT6200. I've been able to capture HD easily with it, it just takes a lot of horsepower to play back smoothly. As an added bonus, it can change the channel on the cable box by itself as well, so only a single firewire cable. No extra IR dongles or anything. The only catch is that you can only pull unencrypted channels through the firewire port. All others need to go through s-video and separate audio like other non-firewire cable boxes.
Once you've got the theater up, all you have to do is just invite some people over. We've discovered the spilled drinks and food comes pretty naturally.
Well! Why didn't someone say anything sooner?
Here's your problem:
??(copying)? ??(modification) ? ??(distribution)? ??? ???? ??? ???
On top of that, the processors are highly specialized. Long pipelines, no cache, without out-of-order execution IIRC. The important part being that these are not good generic processors. Remember: (G|M)hz != processing power. If you really want the power of eight high-end processors, there's no shortcuts.