I don't see this as a bullish statement, remove the spin and they are practically admitting defeat in the current generation. "But it will be better next time!"
Dictionary.com diagrees with you sir! "A dramatic advance, especially in knowledge or method...This term originated as quantum jump in the mid-1900s in physics, where it denotes a sudden change from one energy state to another within an atom. Within a decade it was transferred to other advances, not necessarily sudden but very important ones."
(As a side note, I did a google on quantum leap definition and got a lot of results using the example sentence ""this may not insure success but it will represent a quantum leap from last summer" The exact same sentence! Which if my knowledge of English serves, incorrectly uses 'insure' where 'ensure' was intended. Am I wrong? Either way, just goes to show the Internet is just a mass of plagiarism)
He's not saying that the XBox isn't technically superior to the PS2, just that Microsoft have made a right royal balls-up of marketing and supporting it.
The Amiga wanted to make the same 68K to PPC transition that the Mac had done, but rather than move straight to PPC and use emulation, a 3rd party PPC co-processor board was produced. PPC software ran on this processor and 68K software (which was most of the OS) ran on the 68K. So, you would have processor intensive stuff (like the decoding done by movie players) farmed out to the PPC.
Not an elegant solution, but it gave the platform a much needed shot in the arm as the limitations of the processing power of the 680x0 series were become ever more apparent.
how about... using these instead of lighters at rock concerts? I can see 80,000 people doing this at a Metallica concert. Would make one hell of a sight.
Yeah, as long as they didn't use it to spell out any of their copyrighted lyrics, or Metallica would have them taken to court.
That's his point. Hardly anyone seems to use the credit card kiosks. Any monetary transaction that doesn't involve the folding green and a human teller seems to freak Joe Public out somewhat. Some sort of innate distrust or fear of technology perhaps?
Fair enough! Well perhaps the Renault Laguna is a better comparison then. It seems to be a similar size.
It claims a 'combined' mpg of 43.5. Not bad, especially seeing as these are UK gallons, which are 1.2 times the size of US ones (who knows why).
But anyway, I'm not dissing your cars, just pointing out if your car manufacturers were to put their minds to it (or indeed you were to start driving smaller cars!;-) you could wring a lot more efficiency out of your fuel. I'll admit this would be a bit of a pardigm shift in the US, where big is beautiful, but if oil prices continue to rise, who knows?
Although on the face of it what you say sounds patently ridiculous, a guy I know who works in a dance club says they had a group of regular punters who were stone deaf, but came anyway to stand real close to the speakers and get their internal organs mashed in time to the thumping bass. They were loving it. I'm sure that the large quantities of Ecstacy helped too, mind.
Are you sure it is spray paint, and not something temporary like chalk? I remember some company trying that form of advertising around Belfast (with chalk), and they got taken to court and fined, but that's because they didn't ask for permission first.
I don't know much about American cars, but I'm guessing they are not as dimunitive as you think. Take a relatively small and very popular car here in Europe, the Renault Clio. It gets around 47 MPG for petrol versions, and 65 MPG for diesel.
You've got it very wrong there, my friend. Most mammals go to very great lengths to protect their young, humans included. The reason humans do it even more so is that their young are born in a much more vulnerable state than other mammals.
You may be right in that our society protects the adult 'weak', i.e. via social security, charity and such mechanisms, but if we were not to protect our children that would be folly of the highest order as far as evolution was concerned. An 8 year-old Einstein is at as much risk of being run over by a car (day-dreaming of relativity, perhaps?) as an 8 year old moron.
There was a funny comment in the Guardian about that, saying the name sounded more like an entry in Adrian Mole's diary than an action game.
Anyway, don't talk to me about that game. My girlfriend bought me the PC version for my birthday (I had actually wanted Final Fantasy X-2 but I was afraid to ask lest the name and box art made her think I was asking for some sort of pornography) and I went through the henious 4 CD install progress only for the game to crap out every time I ran it. I check the back of the box, and in minscule print it informs me that the game does not work at all on GeForce MXs. WTF? Apparently the MX just cannot render the action with the sufficient subtely of uber-shadowiness that Ubisoft demand, so they just said "sod it" to supporting that card in any form.
And of course she never kept the receipt. And Game don't accept PC returns either.
That commercial always cracked me up. It's like they picked the worst possible feature of mobile phones and made that the centrepiece of their campaign.
I mean, can you picture an ad for plasma TVs, featuring some guy messing around with the cables at the back and popping his head up to say "Can you see anything yet?"
Jeez, if there is one thing I hate about American society it's Trash Talk. Mindless (and usually entirely unjustifiable) braggadocio about imagined violent acts, usually done by pasty-faced milquetoasts as an accompaniment to something as far away from actual physical exertion as possible, like video games or pool, or attached to something like wrestling where it is even more ludicrous as the results are predetermined.
Mind you, I think I have just been traumatised by my last visit to America where I went to an internet cafe to read my webmail and had to sit beside about twenty 12 year olds literally screaming trash talk at each other as they played counterstrike. *Shudder*
Yeah, that got me too. You see all these squishy humans running gung-ho into battle with nearly useless machine guns and getting ripped apart by the bugs - why the hell didn't they use tanks??
Funny a discussion about the evil effects of low-hertz noise this should come up, NTK had a link just last week to some guy's sound page with a wav file that you can't hear but is supposed to make you go all funny.
Anyone brave enough to try it??
I seem to remember a story about the KLF (nutter musicians of million-quid burning fame) messing around blasting subsonic sounds about and killing cows and such. Doubtless apocryphal, but funny.
One is giving a subliminal massage right now.. but don't realise it!!
I guess this is a good point as any to insert my probably untrue friend-of-a-friend story. This guy went to Thailand and went to a massage parlour. Anyway, he got this great sensual massage and at the end he's pretty excited, and the woman notices and says to him "you want masturbate?" So, he eagerly agrees, and she disappears for a while. He thinks she's getting ready, washing her hands or something, so he waits. And waits. And waits. Eventually she sticks her head back round the door and says "You finish yet?"
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Someone is going to say it so it might as well be me.
It is spelt Rogue. ROGUE. Rouge is makeup people put on their face to make it red.
Even the web page linked in the article spells it wrong a few times - ('Rougue'). Though at least that mis-spelling is highly original!
I don't see this as a bullish statement, remove the spin and they are practically admitting defeat in the current generation. "But it will be better next time!"
Dictionary.com diagrees with you sir!
"A dramatic advance, especially in knowledge or method...This term originated as quantum jump in the mid-1900s in physics, where it denotes a sudden change from one energy state to another within an atom. Within a decade it was transferred to other advances, not necessarily sudden but very important ones."
(As a side note, I did a google on quantum leap definition and got a lot of results using the example sentence ""this may not insure success but it will represent a quantum leap from last summer"
The exact same sentence! Which if my knowledge of English serves, incorrectly uses 'insure' where 'ensure' was intended. Am I wrong? Either way, just goes to show the Internet is just a mass of plagiarism)
Knowing the Japanese proclivities in such matters, there is probably a dating sim in which a grue eats you *out*.
(sorry..)
I would say it sounds more like a satire on capitalism..
"Emotion-suppressing drugs are mandatory; people shuffle from work to home, pausing to buy consumer goods along the way. "
Anti-depressants, wage-slavery, and hyped 'must have' consumer goods that are actually useless. Ring any bells?
It's not karma-whoring because he posted it anonymously!!
He's not saying that the XBox isn't technically superior to the PS2, just that Microsoft have made a right royal balls-up of marketing and supporting it.
I have never heard of a dual CPU machine with different architectures
Have a look at this then.
The Amiga wanted to make the same 68K to PPC transition that the Mac had done, but rather than move straight to PPC and use emulation, a 3rd party PPC co-processor board was produced. PPC software ran on this processor and 68K software (which was most of the OS) ran on the 68K. So, you would have processor intensive stuff (like the decoding done by movie players) farmed out to the PPC.
Not an elegant solution, but it gave the platform a much needed shot in the arm as the limitations of the processing power of the 680x0 series were become ever more apparent.
how about... using these instead of lighters at rock concerts? I can see 80,000 people doing this at a Metallica concert. Would make one hell of a sight.
Yeah, as long as they didn't use it to spell out any of their copyrighted lyrics, or Metallica would have them taken to court.
That's his point. Hardly anyone seems to use the credit card kiosks. Any monetary transaction that doesn't involve the folding green and a human teller seems to freak Joe Public out somewhat. Some sort of innate distrust or fear of technology perhaps?
Fair enough! Well perhaps the Renault Laguna is a better comparison then. It seems to be a similar size.
;-) you could wring a lot more efficiency out of your fuel.
It claims a 'combined' mpg of 43.5. Not bad, especially seeing as these are UK gallons, which are 1.2 times the size of US ones (who knows why).
But anyway, I'm not dissing your cars, just pointing out if your car manufacturers were to put their minds to it (or indeed you were to start driving smaller cars!
I'll admit this would be a bit of a pardigm shift in the US, where big is beautiful, but if oil prices continue to rise, who knows?
Although on the face of it what you say sounds patently ridiculous, a guy I know who works in a dance club says they had a group of regular punters who were stone deaf, but came anyway to stand real close to the speakers and get their internal organs mashed in time to the thumping bass. They were loving it.
I'm sure that the large quantities of Ecstacy helped too, mind.
Are you sure it is spray paint, and not something temporary like chalk?
I remember some company trying that form of advertising around Belfast (with chalk), and they got taken to court and fined, but that's because they didn't ask for permission first.
I don't know much about American cars, but I'm guessing they are not as dimunitive as you think. Take a relatively small and very popular car here in Europe, the Renault Clio. It gets around 47 MPG for petrol versions, and 65 MPG for diesel.
The SUV isn't looking so good now, eh?
You've got it very wrong there, my friend. Most mammals go to very great lengths to protect their young, humans included. The reason humans do it even more so is that their young are born in a much more vulnerable state than other mammals.
You may be right in that our society protects the adult 'weak', i.e. via social security, charity and such mechanisms, but if we were not to protect our children that would be folly of the highest order as far as evolution was concerned. An 8 year-old Einstein is at as much risk of being run over by a car (day-dreaming of relativity, perhaps?) as an 8 year old moron.
There was a funny comment in the Guardian about that, saying the name sounded more like an entry in Adrian Mole's diary than an action game.
Anyway, don't talk to me about that game. My girlfriend bought me the PC version for my birthday (I had actually wanted Final Fantasy X-2 but I was afraid to ask lest the name and box art made her think I was asking for some sort of pornography) and I went through the henious 4 CD install progress only for the game to crap out every time I ran it. I check the back of the box, and in minscule print it informs me that the game does not work at all on GeForce MXs. WTF? Apparently the MX just cannot render the action with the sufficient subtely of uber-shadowiness that Ubisoft demand, so they just said "sod it" to supporting that card in any form.
And of course she never kept the receipt. And Game don't accept PC returns either.
Hrumph. Rant over.
A good way to make them stop is to pretend you are a crazy person, and supply the other half of the conversation yourself.
Imagine:
ring-ring
Them, answering phone: Oh hi, how are you, how did last night go?
You (very loudly): I am fine. Last night was a real blast!
I guarantee they will immediately begin speaking a lot more quietly!!
That commercial always cracked me up. It's like they picked the worst possible feature of mobile phones and made that the centrepiece of their campaign.
I mean, can you picture an ad for plasma TVs, featuring some guy messing around with the cables at the back and popping his head up to say "Can you see anything yet?"
Also, purses prevent the use of vibrators, which really should be mandatory
I find your ideas intriguing.
If you ever decide to run for government, you've got one hell of an interesting platform there.
Jeez, if there is one thing I hate about American society it's Trash Talk. Mindless (and usually entirely unjustifiable) braggadocio about imagined violent acts, usually done by pasty-faced milquetoasts as an accompaniment to something as far away from actual physical exertion as possible, like video games or pool, or attached to something like wrestling where it is even more ludicrous as the results are predetermined.
Mind you, I think I have just been traumatised by my last visit to America where I went to an internet cafe to read my webmail and had to sit beside about twenty 12 year olds literally screaming trash talk at each other as they played counterstrike. *Shudder*
Yeah, that got me too. You see all these squishy humans running gung-ho into battle with nearly useless machine guns and getting ripped apart by the bugs - why the hell didn't they use tanks??
Funny a discussion about the evil effects of low-hertz noise this should come up, NTK had a link just last week to some guy's sound page with a wav file that you can't hear but is supposed to make you go all funny.
Anyone brave enough to try it??
I seem to remember a story about the KLF (nutter musicians of million-quid burning fame) messing around blasting subsonic sounds about and killing cows and such. Doubtless apocryphal, but funny.
Invest all your money in stock you say? See the profits roll in!
So, we're at that part of the cycle again are we? Didn't this all happen before?
> Where can I find a subliminal masseuse?
One is giving a subliminal massage right now.. but don't realise it!!
I guess this is a good point as any to insert my probably untrue friend-of-a-friend story. This guy went to Thailand and went to a massage parlour. Anyway, he got this great sensual massage and at the end he's pretty excited, and the woman notices and says to him "you want masturbate?"
So, he eagerly agrees, and she disappears for a while. He thinks she's getting ready, washing her hands or something, so he waits. And waits. And waits.
Eventually she sticks her head back round the door and says "You finish yet?"
Oh my God! I hope they didn't steal any source code!!