Some games DO use the d-pad as buttons. Forza Motorsport 2, for instances, uses them to scroll through live telemetry overlays while racing. Project Gotham 4 uses them to manipulate the in-game radio.
You've forgotten the Netscape 4.x disaster haven't you? The last several versions of Netscape were horrible, horrible things. Netscape squandered most of the goodwill they had by that series of trainwreck releases.
Actually that's not true. I remember reading (no link, sorry) about a digital speaker that was made back in the '50s... by Bell Labs I think. It was a a true digital device, having series of concentric cones, each double the area of the one inside it. Each cone was assigned to one bit in the input signal. That system was only 5 or 6 bit though. Anything beyond that would be highly impractical due to the rapidly increasing cone size.
Actually, especially on Amazing difficulty, some songs are actually quite a bit easier to play on an actual guitar. The fretting patterns are just more natural.
Unless you are told/informed/read other wise, a network is NOT public. It's no different than seeing an unlocked door. You wouldn't just walk in and look around would you?
I'm not sure even a dual-DVI link can provide the nessesary bandwidth. A 24bit 3000x2400 pixel display is going to be 21.6MB per frame, at a typical 60hz that's 1.2*GB* per second of bandwidth.
Because of the amount of horsepower that would be required to drive such a display. For instance, a typical 19" 4:3 monitor at 200ppi would be a 3000x2400 display.
People, by and large, do not care about the DRM or region coding on DVDs. It doesn't effect them. The DRM on DVD's is quite mild compared to much of what is floating around. Unless the major studios and distributors supported this (not likely) this will never gain anything even resembling market success.
That's a common misconception. Space has no temperature. It is neither cold nor hot. You must have a molecular medium to have a temperature. It's kinda analogues to the water pressure in an empty glass.
Actually, most lisp code is COMPILED to native code, and in most implentations the majority of the code, including the interpreter and compiler, are infact written in lisp.
Well, it depends. While I don't own $1000 headphones, I do own at set of Grado SR-80s, which are quite decent 'phones, and my iPod sounds just fine through them, playing AAC files encoded at the setting that gives you ~192kbs bitrate. No, it doesn't sound identical to the same music played off CD, but it's astonishingly hard to tell the difference.
Rockets really aren't that prone to going boom these days. Most of the big rocket disasters have been during assembly, fueling, etc, not actual firing. Any structural failure tends to cause the combustion to slow down .
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Some games DO use the d-pad as buttons. Forza Motorsport 2, for instances, uses them to scroll through live telemetry overlays while racing. Project Gotham 4 uses them to manipulate the in-game radio.
Or does anyone else have trouble taking a site called "TrustedReviews" seriously?
Dude, what are you doing to your drives? I've never had one fail on me, and that includes one that got dropped into a cup of soda.
Sounds a lot more like 'bits can be saved'. The *real* DRM, the time limit, is still in place.
You've forgotten the Netscape 4.x disaster haven't you? The last several versions of Netscape were horrible, horrible things. Netscape squandered most of the goodwill they had by that series of trainwreck releases.
Actually that's not true. I remember reading (no link, sorry) about a digital speaker that was made back in the '50s... by Bell Labs I think. It was a a true digital device, having series of concentric cones, each double the area of the one inside it. Each cone was assigned to one bit in the input signal. That system was only 5 or 6 bit though. Anything beyond that would be highly impractical due to the rapidly increasing cone size.
Actually, especially on Amazing difficulty, some songs are actually quite a bit easier to play on an actual guitar. The fretting patterns are just more natural.
Pretty simple really...
Unless you are told/informed/read other wise, a network is NOT public. It's no different than seeing an unlocked door. You wouldn't just walk in and look around would you?
Last longer? The MTBF on flash storage is about an order of magnitude greater than magnetic storage these days.
I'm not sure even a dual-DVI link can provide the nessesary bandwidth. A 24bit 3000x2400 pixel display is going to be 21.6MB per frame, at a typical 60hz that's 1.2*GB* per second of bandwidth.
Because of the amount of horsepower that would be required to drive such a display. For instance, a typical 19" 4:3 monitor at 200ppi would be a 3000x2400 display.
People, by and large, do not care about the DRM or region coding on DVDs. It doesn't effect them. The DRM on DVD's is quite mild compared to much of what is floating around. Unless the major studios and distributors supported this (not likely) this will never gain anything even resembling market success.
It's all in the dosage. *ANYTHING* (even, say oxygen or water) is toxic if given in a high enough dose.
Why does everyone keep thinking about Africa?
The main targer for these are places like Brazil, and India... where basic human services are in-place.
That's a common misconception. Space has no temperature. It is neither cold nor hot. You must have a molecular medium to have a temperature. It's kinda analogues to the water pressure in an empty glass.
RTFSS?
Actually, most lisp code is COMPILED to native code, and in most implentations the majority of the code, including the interpreter and compiler, are infact written in lisp.
That's exactly what a JIT *is*. It compiles the java byte code to native machine code for whatever chip its running on.
A smart RPG developer will map spell casting to gestures. Need to cast a spell, wave your hand.
That's the kind of thing that SOUNDS really cool, but after about 30 minutes once the novelty has worn off, it'll be a pain in the neck (wrist).
Well, it depends. While I don't own $1000 headphones, I do own at set of Grado SR-80s, which are quite decent 'phones, and my iPod sounds just fine through them, playing AAC files encoded at the setting that gives you ~192kbs bitrate. No, it doesn't sound identical to the same music played off CD, but it's astonishingly hard to tell the difference.
Until you get into any sort of industrial work...
AutoCAD? Nope...
Solidworks? Yea right...
Pro/E? Didn't think so...
Electronics Workbench? Nope...
and the list goes on and on...
Wasn't java based off it?
Bzzzzt. Java mainly followed in the footsteps of C++. Eiffel is quite different.
Effiel was the first language with garbage collection if I remember correctly.
Bzzzt. Lisp environements had GC by the early to mid '70s.
Hardly. An acceleration of 0.25g, which you could barely feel, would get you from 0 to Mach 7 in about 15 minutes.
The amount of talent for those hack jobs is no where near that needed to make the material that was ripped off.
Rockets really aren't that prone to going boom these days. Most of the big rocket disasters have been during assembly, fueling, etc, not actual firing. Any structural failure tends to cause the combustion to slow down .