hey start chatting at the watercooler, and soon after are dating, get married, and have multitasking children, and so on.
This all makes sense as long as you ignore the fact that wealthiest and most intelligent people in western soceity are having fewer and fewer children.
IT should serve the bussiness, the bussiness should not be serving IT. If the lastest stuff is too expensive then your job is to make what you have work. Life (and work) are not easy.
This sounds a little bit like the firefox extension Wikalong. With this extension installed you can make comments about a particular website and read what other people have written. Its kind of like meta data for web pages.
When they say "bigger" they usually mean makes more money but that is only half the story.
A movie costs £5 at the box office or rental and £20 on DVD. A game costs upwards of £30, so while games may be competing with movies in the area of profits, the number of people playing games is far less than those who watch movies. Culturally videogames are still a long way behind film.
Well, here's a simple overview. Nintendo has previously had 2 major products. A home console and a handheld. They wanted to make something completely different in a handheld form, but they wanted to give the GBA a longer life. So, the DS was born.
Nintendo's OFFICIAL statements regarding the DS all say that the Nintendo DS is not of the Gameboy bloodline, and the GBA and the GameCube will still be supported until their replacements arrive. Personally, I think that the next in the Gameboy line will be released alongside the Revolution (Nintendo's next home console). This would allow Nintendo to provide competition for the PSP in the meantime, and allow for greater freedom and flexibility in integrating the Gameboy Next and the Revolution.
I think someone has been reading the big N's press releases.
GB, GBA and DS are all handheld consoles : FACT
What exactly is this thrid pillar you speak of ?, bearing in mind that the DS plays GBA games who is the third pillar customer and how are they different from that of the GBA ?.
If we get some viable off-world settlements, I'm sure we can make it to at least the heat-death of the universe.
I saw a documentary the other day which had an interesting fact in it. Life on earth began four billion years ago, scientists expect the sun to become a red giant in about 1 - 2 billion years. This means that life of earth is already closer to complete extinction than its birth.
What is most important is that the software that is used gets the job done properly (without bugs defects etc.)
People in the real world don't care about whether their software is closed or open source. If KDE developers don't want to port to the windows platform because it hurts the "battle" then they are free to make that choice.
If they don't port though then people will definitely end up using a closed source app.
Try reading the Times (London), admitedly we have some crappy newspapers but the english basically invented journalism as we know it and we can still compete with the best in the world.
Plus current generation PS2 games are using data streaming from CD to reduce load time which according to Sony will be a no no on the PSP. So I would expect the load time to be even greater on the PSP games compared to the current crop of PS2 games.
Not neccesarily, one thing that people forget with handhelds is that because of the small screen things like textures don't need to be the same quality as they do for TV consoles.
As I said elsewhere, sales and, hence, profits, only need to be reduced to the point that other lines of business become a more attractive investment. At that point, people will stop trying to sell CD's and DVD's because they can get a better return on their money selling something else.
Bring it on, the record industry is such a cash cow at the moment it needs that kind of readjustment even if it means that music stops being produced for a while.
(Frickin' two minute thingy completely infuriates me. Hey, Slashbots, some of us can think fast enough to write more than once good comment every two minutes. I suggest one minute (and 15 seconds for writing a comment, because quick witty responses don't always take 20 seconds. I'm really sick of "Slow down, cowboy." Wake up, CowboyNeal, et al, I'm not the usual mouth-breathing frost-pister type, I just type fast. Quit penalizing me for having a working brain!)
Stop posting to slashdot and get back to work. Lazy mother%*$£er.
Also Spider Man 2 the film costs £5 in the cinema or £15-£20 on dvd, Spider Man 2 the game costs upwards of £30. They may well be making similar amounts of money bt far fewer people are playing the game than watching the movie.
The first Doom was great, unlike its third incarnation there was a lot of variation in the levels. One level might be totally enclosed whilst the next offers you views of the martian landscape.
Admittedly after the basic set up of being on mars in a base after a gateway to hell has opened, the plot is fairly thin from there on. Which makes it even more amazing that the makers of this film have done away with pretty much the only plot elements Doom has.
Yeah, according to bluesnews its just a regular old military scientific complex somewhere on earth.
It's fairly obvious that whoever put up the money wants the film to have the widest possible appeal in america, and that means they don't want to risk offending middle america with the kind of religous imagery used in the games.
It might still turn out to be a decent film, it won't be Doom though.
This was always a weak argument but especially weak now. 5 years ago the xbox was a loss leader, today despite the slashes in price Microsoft are stil probably making a tiny profit on each one. If you buy one now then you are just helping to offset the losses they made in the past.
Blogs are biased commentaries, they do have their place and always will but they cannot completely replace traditional journalism. To make a comment you have to have something to comment on. It might be nice to think you can write an insightful article about anything in the world sitting behind a computer but that is not correct. Journalists don't just write what they think, they investigate, meet people and travel to visit their subject. All of this gives a greater insight than any blogger can manage.
Duel video cards are not the same as duel-core CPUs. It is more like dare I say it a beowolf cluster. When will we see a true duel gpu card or maybe a duel core gpu?
I'm no expert but I was under the impression that the bottleneck in current graphics cards is the amount of memory and the speed of the bus that the texture data has to travel down. Aparrently the actual 3d geometry is very easy to process, its the rendering and its associated problems that slow things down.
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hey start chatting at the watercooler, and soon after are dating, get married, and have multitasking children, and so on.
This all makes sense as long as you ignore the fact that wealthiest and most intelligent people in western soceity are having fewer and fewer children.
IT should serve the bussiness, the bussiness should not be serving IT. If the lastest stuff is too expensive then your job is to make what you have work. Life (and work) are not easy.
This sounds a little bit like the firefox extension Wikalong. With this extension installed you can make comments about a particular website and read what other people have written. Its kind of like meta data for web pages.
That's how it is in the software industry - always someone out there who makes you look bad.
Thats how it is in Life.
When they say "bigger" they usually mean makes more money but that is only half the story.
A movie costs £5 at the box office or rental and £20 on DVD. A game costs upwards of £30, so while games may be competing with movies in the area of profits, the number of people playing games is far less than those who watch movies. Culturally videogames are still a long way behind film.
Well, here's a simple overview. Nintendo has previously had 2 major products. A home console and a handheld. They wanted to make something completely different in a handheld form, but they wanted to give the GBA a longer life. So, the DS was born.
Nintendo's OFFICIAL statements regarding the DS all say that the Nintendo DS is not of the Gameboy bloodline, and the GBA and the GameCube will still be supported until their replacements arrive. Personally, I think that the next in the Gameboy line will be released alongside the Revolution (Nintendo's next home console). This would allow Nintendo to provide competition for the PSP in the meantime, and allow for greater freedom and flexibility in integrating the Gameboy Next and the Revolution.
I think someone has been reading the big N's press releases.
GB, GBA and DS are all handheld consoles : FACT
What exactly is this thrid pillar you speak of ?, bearing in mind that the DS plays GBA games who is the third pillar customer and how are they different from that of the GBA ?.
I'm surprised that sourceforge doesn't offer up bt downloads, I guess source code is generally small enough that bandwidth isnt to much of an issue.
If we get some viable off-world settlements, I'm sure we can make it to at least the heat-death of the universe.
I saw a documentary the other day which had an interesting fact in it. Life on earth began four billion years ago, scientists expect the sun to become a red giant in about 1 - 2 billion years. This means that life of earth is already closer to complete extinction than its birth.
What is most important is that the software that is used gets the job done properly (without bugs defects etc.)
People in the real world don't care about whether their software is closed or open source. If KDE developers don't want to port to the windows platform because it hurts the "battle" then they are free to make that choice.
If they don't port though then people will definitely end up using a closed source app.
Try reading the Times (London), admitedly we have some crappy newspapers but the english basically invented journalism as we know it and we can still compete with the best in the world.
That is a strength of newspapers too, they have the time to make reasoned, thought out comments about what has happened the previous day.
Plus current generation PS2 games are using data streaming from CD to reduce load time which according to Sony will be a no no on the PSP. So I would expect the load time to be even greater on the PSP games compared to the current crop of PS2 games.
Not neccesarily, one thing that people forget with handhelds is that because of the small screen things like textures don't need to be the same quality as they do for TV consoles.
As I said elsewhere, sales and, hence, profits, only need to be reduced to the point that other lines of business become a more attractive investment. At that point, people will stop trying to sell CD's and DVD's because they can get a better return on their money selling something else.
Bring it on, the record industry is such a cash cow at the moment it needs that kind of readjustment even if it means that music stops being produced for a while.
Its a reference to the film "The Big Lebowski", don't take it personally.
Fucking AC and ./ grammar Nazis... If you understand the message, what else does it matter?
This isn't nam, this is slashdot, there are rules.
(Frickin' two minute thingy completely infuriates me. Hey, Slashbots, some of us can think fast enough to write more than once good comment every two minutes. I suggest one minute (and 15 seconds for writing a comment, because quick witty responses don't always take 20 seconds. I'm really sick of "Slow down, cowboy." Wake up, CowboyNeal, et al, I'm not the usual mouth-breathing frost-pister type, I just type fast. Quit penalizing me for having a working brain!)
Stop posting to slashdot and get back to work. Lazy mother%*$£er.
Also Spider Man 2 the film costs £5 in the cinema or £15-£20 on dvd, Spider Man 2 the game costs upwards of £30. They may well be making similar amounts of money bt far fewer people are playing the game than watching the movie.
The first Doom was great, unlike its third incarnation there was a lot of variation in the levels. One level might be totally enclosed whilst the next offers you views of the martian landscape.
Admittedly after the basic set up of being on mars in a base after a gateway to hell has opened, the plot is fairly thin from there on. Which makes it even more amazing that the makers of this film have done away with pretty much the only plot elements Doom has.
Yeah, according to bluesnews its just a regular old military scientific complex somewhere on earth.
It's fairly obvious that whoever put up the money wants the film to have the widest possible appeal in america, and that means they don't want to risk offending middle america with the kind of religous imagery used in the games.
It might still turn out to be a decent film, it won't be Doom though.
Fools, now skynet will be able to control the oceans as well...
1998 called, they want there joke back.
If he lived pre-flood, perhaps the longevity could also be partially attributed to some kind of now extinct plant that people consumed.
Or maybe some kind of spice... were there giant worms too ?
This was always a weak argument but especially weak now. 5 years ago the xbox was a loss leader, today despite the slashes in price Microsoft are stil probably making a tiny profit on each one. If you buy one now then you are just helping to offset the losses they made in the past.
Blogs are biased commentaries, they do have their place and always will but they cannot completely replace traditional journalism. To make a comment you have to have something to comment on. It might be nice to think you can write an insightful article about anything in the world sitting behind a computer but that is not correct. Journalists don't just write what they think, they investigate, meet people and travel to visit their subject. All of this gives a greater insight than any blogger can manage.
Duel video cards are not the same as duel-core CPUs. It is more like dare I say it a beowolf cluster. When will we see a true duel gpu card or maybe a duel core gpu?
I'm no expert but I was under the impression that the bottleneck in current graphics cards is the amount of memory and the speed of the bus that the texture data has to travel down. Aparrently the actual 3d geometry is very easy to process, its the rendering and its associated problems that slow things down.