Despite its lukewarm reviews, it appears that EA is selling Madden NFL 06 in record numbers, selling 1.6 million copies in its first week. If consumers will eagerly buy a warmed-over rehash of last year's game, what incentive does EA have to innovate?
Yes. Go to a showroom and look at the displays. If you see some that have greater vertical resolution than the non-HD models, there you go. If you can't see a difference, then it doesn't make a difference.
That's not necessarily good advice. At the showroom, everything you see is optimized for selling the display. You might not notice any problems until you start to view content outside of their controlled environment.
This bio-electrochemically assisted microbial system, if combined with hydrogen fermentation that produces 2-3 mol H2/mol glucose, has the potential to produce ca. 8-9 mol H2/mol glucose at an energy cost equivalent to 1.2 mol H2/mol glucose.
I guess it's too much to ask that you RTFA before you dismiss something as old. Hybrid lighting is entirely different from a Solatube. Solatube is a simple reflective duct that has limited routing potential. Hybrid lighting utilizes fiber optics which can be routed along with the electric cables to ANY light fixture. Furthermore, hybrid lighting uses electronics to maintain a constant level of light, compensating for solar input with traditional electric lighting. Sheesh!
It's one think to pre record your own work and act it out live. It's another when you have two models out there faking it up to someone elses work.
With today's technology, it's no longer necessary to use someone else's work. You don't have to have singing ability to be able to make a studio recording any more.
I don't remember it word for word, but in essence, it said "Based on customer feedback, you'll now earn rewards for every $125 of purchases".
I wonder to myself... what customer gave feedback that they wanted to the program to be more difficult to earn rewards?
Customer feedback is not always in the form of verbal requests. It can take the form of customer activity. In this instance, the line could be read as "Due to customers' overenthusiastic response to our rewards program, we feel that we can offer a less valuable program and still generate the desired loyalty."
Was it Piers Anthony? A whole *town* had women wearing transparent, incredibly thin bodysuits.
The story was set in the 50's, I think. The whole moral structure of this town had changed, because women could just, er, pop stuff right back out, without the slightest danger or even evidence. Some guy wandered into the town and was amazed at what he found.
Of course, most of modern society is that town now anyway, but without the bodysuits:(
Up Schist Crick, Piers Anthony 1972
Remember the ending? The guy, uhh, sat on the toilet without taking his bodysuit off...
the openpower 720, acording to the press so far, "starts" at $5000 for a 1.5 ghz model. that's one chip. no specs on ram or disk space or bus speed or whatnot.
by comparison, $4000 will get you an xserve with dual 2 ghz g5s and a gig of ram.
The difference in performance between those chips, according to IBM and Apple's published specs:
Seriously though, of course we have a choice. We didn't cave in to the USSR, I don't expect us to give a cowtow to N. Korea. Seriously, expect a carrier battle group in the Sea of Japan ASAP if there isn't one there already. Expect half of the U.S. Navy including a dozen submarines loaded with 60 ICBM's each sitting off the coast of North Korea very soon. Oh, we'll be playing "ball" all right.
Seriously, you're talking out of your ass. First of all, an ICBM -- an InterContinental Ballistic Missile -- does not need to be delivered to the coast of North Korea. Secondly, it's generally believed that the United States currently has nuclear weapons in the area, so we wouldn't have to bring new ones in. But most importantly, support in the United States for preemptive action is weak enough even without the risk of nuclear war. No president in their right mind would use, or even threaten to use, nuclear weapons unless the integrity of the United States' own borders were under direct and imminent threat. We know that, and every nuclear newbie and aspirant on the globe knows that.
If you have exactly two disk drives on a PC, you will get far better performance by intelligently choosing which drives hold which partitions. For my home workstation, for instance, I almost always have some program slowly writing 4GB files (archives *ahem* of DVD's), while another drive is busy fetching my program files and every day data. This configuration is much, much faster than if the same drives were on a RAID 0 array, because on a personal workstation, disk seek time is a much bigger factor than the transfer rate.
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He just needs a system where it is EASIER TO PAY FOR THE SERVICE than it is to get another ID, for MOST people, MOST of the time.
Frankly, it's too much of a pain to get your first ID with the system he proposes. If the only benefit is that you get to use some silly software for a limited time, I'm sorry, but nobody's going to do it. There are competitors, including OSS, that will not have such intimidating barriers.
The "Internet DVD Faq" you proudly thump on your desk is not the official DVD Consortium Document, which CLEARLY DEFINES DVD as standing for "Digital Versatile Disk."
Wrong on three counts:
The DVD Consortium is now called the DVD Forum, so there is no "official DVD Consortium Document" any more.
The DVD Forum does not unambiguously specify what DVD stands for. The best you'll find on their site is the answer to the question, "What does DVD mean?", which they answer, "The keyword is "versatile." Digital Versatile discs provide superb video, audio and data storage and access -- all on one disc."
When the DVD Forum refers to the physical medium on which music, video, and data are stored, they always spell it "disc," and not "disk."
Don't you hate it when you think you're correcting someone, and you succeed only in revealing your own ignorance?
Everone knows that DVD stands for "Digital Versatile Disk" [google.com], not Digital Video Disk.
And most people who speak English know that it's "disc," not "disk," as in "Digital Versatile Disc."
Further, according the the Internet DVD FAQ, "DVD" doesn't stand for anything.
Another tip for you: using Google to confirm something you think is correct, but isn't, only leads you to the thousands of others who share your misconception.
If someone discovered a block of code that can crash a Windows system, it wouldn't even make the news. It's much harder to write C code that doesn't crash Windows.
It's not nice to tease people with the aromas of fine wine and leave it at that. We want to be able to taste it too! If you'd RTFA, you'd realize that not only are they not attempting to actually duplicate the aromas of fine wines, but that a critic has already made the exact complaint that you did.
Trio, Nicholas R (36204904P) nrt@WATSON.IBM.COM PO BOX 218 YORKTOWN HTS, NY 10598-0218 US (914) 945-1850
The remaining companies do not have individual contacts, but definitely have a department with a telephone number and email address responsible for the domain name. "whois" much?
Because it would be an absolute pain to have to manage all of the port forwarding configuration if your future home had 1,000 networked devices installed in it. The future networked home will involved networked light bulbs, networked light switches, networked faucets, networked windows, networked power outlets, the whole works.
You may want to contract with a company to manage all of these devices for you, rather than manage them all yourself. So, for instance, they would mail you just-in-time lightbulb replacements.
Or, perhaps you want to be able to query the status of your products from outside your home. Forgot what model of DVD player is in the bedroom? Want to see if your baby's asleep? Query them from outside.
As another poster said, none of this public addressability implies that the devices are insecure. Security and addressability are NOT mutually exclusive.
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The one in which both companies are suppose to use names that have no meaning whatsoever to the general consumer. (Run Vista on your Viiv?)
I really hope English isn't your first language, because "vista" is a real word.
Despite its lukewarm reviews, it appears that EA is selling Madden NFL 06 in record numbers, selling 1.6 million copies in its first week. If consumers will eagerly buy a warmed-over rehash of last year's game, what incentive does EA have to innovate?
In Korea, only old people rehash tired jokes.
Aww.. Ain't that cute. A newbie.
Aww.. Ain't that cute. Somebody who has no sense of humor. Yeah, he's a newbie whose Slashdot ID is 24,894 lower than your own. Now that's funny.
"Johnny can so program"
Is that
"Johnny can not program."
"Johnny can so program!"
Or the more hip, modern "Johnny's a great hacker, he can *so* program."
?
I thought the article would be about Asian-American kids, as in:
Johnny So can program.
Yes. Go to a showroom and look at the displays. If you see some that have greater vertical resolution than the non-HD models, there you go. If you can't see a difference, then it doesn't make a difference.
That's not necessarily good advice. At the showroom, everything you see is optimized for selling the display. You might not notice any problems until you start to view content outside of their controlled environment.
According to the abstract:
I guess it's too much to ask that you RTFA before you dismiss something as old. Hybrid lighting is entirely different from a Solatube. Solatube is a simple reflective duct that has limited routing potential. Hybrid lighting utilizes fiber optics which can be routed along with the electric cables to ANY light fixture. Furthermore, hybrid lighting uses electronics to maintain a constant level of light, compensating for solar input with traditional electric lighting. Sheesh!
It's one think to pre record your own work and act it out live. It's another when you have two models out there faking it up to someone elses work.
With today's technology, it's no longer necessary to use someone else's work. You don't have to have singing ability to be able to make a studio recording any more.
I don't remember it word for word, but in essence, it said "Based on customer feedback, you'll now earn rewards for every $125 of purchases".
... what customer gave feedback that they wanted to the program to be more difficult to earn rewards?
I wonder to myself
Customer feedback is not always in the form of verbal requests. It can take the form of customer activity. In this instance, the line could be read as "Due to customers' overenthusiastic response to our rewards program, we feel that we can offer a less valuable program and still generate the desired loyalty."
Was it Piers Anthony? A whole *town* had women wearing transparent, incredibly thin bodysuits.
:(
The story was set in the 50's, I think. The whole moral structure of this town had changed, because women could just, er, pop stuff right back out, without the slightest danger or even evidence. Some guy wandered into the town and was amazed at what he found.
Of course, most of modern society is that town now anyway, but without the bodysuits
Up Schist Crick, Piers Anthony 1972
Remember the ending? The guy, uhh, sat on the toilet without taking his bodysuit off...
This is both:
1) an MP3 player that you can't listen to without wearing sunglasses
2) a pair of sunglasses that you can't wear in extreme conditions.
This is about as useful as a champagne glass with a built-in knife.
You know what really makes that edit stupid? Why would Luke recognize the young Anakin as his father?
... pictures of him?
Uhh, because maybe they had
by comparison, $4000 will get you an xserve with dual 2 ghz g5s and a gig of ram.
The difference in performance between those chips, according to IBM and Apple's published specs:
Seriously though, of course we have a choice. We didn't cave in to the USSR, I don't expect us to give a cowtow to N. Korea. Seriously, expect a carrier battle group in the Sea of Japan ASAP if there isn't one there already. Expect half of the U.S. Navy including a dozen submarines loaded with 60 ICBM's each sitting off the coast of North Korea very soon. Oh, we'll be playing "ball" all right.
Seriously, you're talking out of your ass. First of all, an ICBM -- an InterContinental Ballistic Missile -- does not need to be delivered to the coast of North Korea. Secondly, it's generally believed that the United States currently has nuclear weapons in the area, so we wouldn't have to bring new ones in. But most importantly, support in the United States for preemptive action is weak enough even without the risk of nuclear war. No president in their right mind would use, or even threaten to use, nuclear weapons unless the integrity of the United States' own borders were under direct and imminent threat. We know that, and every nuclear newbie and aspirant on the globe knows that.
If you have exactly two disk drives on a PC, you will get far better performance by intelligently choosing which drives hold which partitions. For my home workstation, for instance, I almost always have some program slowly writing 4GB files (archives *ahem* of DVD's), while another drive is busy fetching my program files and every day data. This configuration is much, much faster than if the same drives were on a RAID 0 array, because on a personal workstation, disk seek time is a much bigger factor than the transfer rate.
He just needs a system where it is EASIER TO PAY FOR THE SERVICE than it is to get another ID, for MOST people, MOST of the time.
Frankly, it's too much of a pain to get your first ID with the system he proposes. If the only benefit is that you get to use some silly software for a limited time, I'm sorry, but nobody's going to do it. There are competitors, including OSS, that will not have such intimidating barriers.
Wrong on three counts:
- The DVD Consortium is now called the DVD Forum, so there is no "official DVD Consortium Document" any more.
- The DVD Forum does not unambiguously specify what DVD stands for. The best you'll find on their site is the answer to the question, "What does DVD mean?", which they answer, "The keyword is "versatile." Digital Versatile discs provide superb video, audio and data storage and access -- all on one disc."
- When the DVD Forum refers to the physical medium on which music, video, and data are stored, they always spell it "disc," and not "disk."
Don't you hate it when you think you're correcting someone, and you succeed only in revealing your own ignorance?Everone knows that DVD stands for "Digital Versatile Disk" [google.com], not Digital Video Disk.
And most people who speak English know that it's "disc," not "disk," as in "Digital Versatile Disc."
Further, according the the Internet DVD FAQ, "DVD" doesn't stand for anything.
Another tip for you: using Google to confirm something you think is correct, but isn't, only leads you to the thousands of others who share your misconception.
If someone discovered a block of code that can crash a Windows system, it wouldn't even make the news. It's much harder to write C code that doesn't crash Windows.
It's not nice to tease people with the aromas of fine wine and leave it at that. We want to be able to taste it too!
If you'd RTFA, you'd realize that not only are they not attempting to actually duplicate the aromas of fine wines, but that a critic has already made the exact complaint that you did.
Well, at IBM, it is:
Trio, Nicholas R (36204904P) nrt@WATSON.IBM.COM
PO BOX 218
YORKTOWN HTS, NY 10598-0218
US
(914) 945-1850
The remaining companies do not have individual contacts, but definitely have a department with a telephone number and email address responsible for the domain name. "whois" much?
Because it would be an absolute pain to have to manage all of the port forwarding configuration if your future home had 1,000 networked devices installed in it. The future networked home will involved networked light bulbs, networked light switches, networked faucets, networked windows, networked power outlets, the whole works.
You may want to contract with a company to manage all of these devices for you, rather than manage them all yourself. So, for instance, they would mail you just-in-time lightbulb replacements.
Or, perhaps you want to be able to query the status of your products from outside your home. Forgot what model of DVD player is in the bedroom? Want to see if your baby's asleep? Query them from outside.
As another poster said, none of this public addressability implies that the devices are insecure. Security and addressability are NOT mutually exclusive.
This has to be the least welcome technology to have come to the public's attention in 2003. Thanks alot, Diebold.
CEO? Sounds more like a typical US President!