because hardware costs money on each station. where as software doesn't. plus after they get their software emulator "good enough" to a point i'm sure they'll push it back to the original game developer to just hot patch it for ps3.
They can also do fun things like extra Anti-aliasing, upscaling, and perhaps some other tweaks. The software emu is still far superior numerically and as a ratio to the 360's backwards compatibility. 80%+ vs ~30%.
The iPhone has a radio-off mode, where it disables its cellphone antennae and wifi antennae. Its called 'airplane mode' and accessible through the settings.
It also has a power-off, where it essentially turns off everything except the sensor to turn it back on again. Not too many people even know this exists, even if they own an iPhone. If you press and hold the lock button at the top right, a screen will appear that says 'slide to turn off'... this is the only way to reboot the iPhone, I think.
Most people press the 'sleep' hold button once, thinking that 'turns it off', but all it does is disable the screen. its still running, and using its antennae.
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of interface designers suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
They are shielded and cross tested but the signs are "theater of safety" type of policies which make people feel better and reduce the risk of some odd combination of devices or situations that may cause a problem. Someone else pointed out that monitoring equipment can't be shielded as detecting minute electro-magnetic changes are it's function. For those machines there is not a practical way to shield them.
I've worked with JSP and it is okay. I don't know how scalable it is as the user base was counted on two hands. I know PHP scales pretty well as several notable projects are coded in it (Wikipedia). Having worked with JAVA applications I can attest it is not a good language to make a mission critical app in. In fact it drove a very large number of tech tickets. PHP is the flavor du jour of the net because it's widely available thus has many proficient users. JSP is niche as far as I can tell and it's the big corprate push for java that sustained it. Java script is ubiquitous but thats client side.
1. PHP: What people build real websites with.
2. RoR: What people build websites with because they want to be kewl and later switch to PHP when they realize it simply does not scale, complete with acerbic "I wanted to believe" blog entry and everything
Next?
Pfft.. Real men code websites in Java and ASP. Scalability and performance are for pussies. My server to chugs at 10 hits/minute and it likes it.
It's clearly a clone of Transformers, which was about as shit as you get. So what? Someone decides to copy it because they can't think of anything better?
You are aware the original Macross predates Transformers as well the whole giant robot things is a massive genre of Japanese shows. It's like saying Wedding crashers is just a clone of Rush hour, and blade runner is just a clone of the maltese falcon.
Even if it's a clone, it's still nice to have more geek fare like this instead of some wretched string of rambo knock offs.
Language use requires word polymorphisms, grammar, and verbs.
Noted linguists such as Noam Chomsky did not feel that Alex's use of the 100 english words Alex knew constituted a true language.
An average college graduate in the USA has a vocabulary of 100,000 words.
Still, Alex displayed remarkable intelligence for a bird.
The average American high school graduate knows only 4 words. Yes. No. Beer. fuck. The other 99,996 are all just synonyms for those 4 they pick up in college.
Share data across the ocean, what did they think, they wqould get over charged by their ISP for long distance surfing?!
Seriously, if you are incapable of syncing development between America and the UK you should not have a development team in both countries. I can see how the time difference could be a small problem, but how much does it take to only communicate through e-mail, or I know this is scary, but have one of the offices working different hours in order to keep them in touch.
Have you ever worked at a design house that spanned more then one office? You'll find that syncing isn't as easy as just sharing code base. You need to share a direction as well or else one side is working against another doubling or trippling the entire project time.
The Tao is "listen to the users" however its rarely followed.
Mostly because the users contradict themselves and often have no idea what their talking about.
User 1: Nerf Mages their over powered. See how much faster they kill then my warrior. User 2: Buff mages their under powered. See how much more versatile shamans are. User 3: Nerf Shamans, see how much versitile they are. User 4: Buff warriors, look at how slow they kill compared to mages. User 5: We should make All instance 40 man raids. User 6: We should eliminate 40 man raid in favor of 10 man raids. User 7: I R0xx0rs. User 8: I think respecing should be free. User 9: I think respecing should require a week long quest. User 10: The whole game should be end game content! etc...
It's hard to distinguish background whining from actually legitimate concerns and complaints.
(deregulation doesn't solve every problem, it sometimes leads to worse situations - have you forgotten the California energy deregulation debacle of a few years ago?)
Sometimes? Almost always, from rampant price gouging int he natural gas deregulation market to massive telecoms quality cutting etc.. It's harder to find a success story then a horror story. Not just because horror stories make better stories but also because success is much rarer when the deregulation often happens with the big guy paying off the powers that be to deregulate in a certain way. The mythical "deregulation done right." is almost non existent because yoru dealing with human systems not automated systems. There will always be human factors to account for which makes blind ideological argument irrelevant.
My arm-chair understand of Entanglement suggests that it should violate causality. Consider the following thought experiment.
We have two pairs of quantum mechanically entangled electrons. We sent a single electron from each pair five light minutes in to space. A long with a small machine that measures that's designed to react when it an electron comes "de-entangled". When it senses this, it immediately the spin of the electron in the other pair.
Here on earth we have a Tsar Bombe linked to one of the electrons from one of the pairs. Five meters away, the other electron is linked to a button. When a person presses the button, it measures one of the electron, thus breaking its entanglement. That instantly breaks the entanglement of the other electron live light minutes away. The machine then breaks the entanglement of the other pair thus instantly triggering the Tsar Bombe destroying the hut and everything in 100 Sq miles.
The problem is that, as I understand it, this would happen ten minutes before I press the button. Whoops! You see, when I de-entangle the first electron the disentanglement on the other side happens five minutes in my past. When the machine disentangles the second electron, the other electron is five minutes in its past. Totalling to ten minutes. Can you see what I'm getting at? I'm assuming this argument isn't new - What mistake have I made here?
Simon.
I always figured it was a mistake in thinking about the frame of reference. It's five minutes to observe the blast but it's bot 5 minutes in some absolute frame of reference so it does not break causality. But I'm a physics lay man.
There are a lot of cautionary tales about outsourcing and often the infrastructure necessary to successfully out source over seas almost negates the cost benefit. You need good bilingual managers, well thought out specifications, a good out sourcing firm or subsidiary, rigorous hiring practices and a "friend" in the over seas government to protect you investment. It's worth it if you need extra capacity with more flexibility (as over seas hiring/firing can be easier). From personal experience hiring an over seas firm does not guarantee any cost savings and if your only looking to shave your costs you may find out like my previous company that out sourcing can be a multi hundreds of million dollar catastrophe.
I've been part of small companies that hired a over seas company to to find out they paid a retainer for almost nothing. I've been part of a large company that spend a couple hundred million and got back a unusable piece of trash. The company was Isreali. Many heads rolled.
Half a million people are still playing that? Wow. I'm half tempted to give it another look, since I was sort of an early-adopter on PC and their tech support wasn't exactly English-speaker-friendly at that time.
Blizzard is clever, you can't express amazement without reminding people of world of warcraft. the slang WOW is not forever ruined for me.
While Human being sex drives are not genetically programmed,
Eh? where exactly did you get that biology tid bit? I seemed not to have been informed after 3 years of genetics. A large part of yoru sex drive is biologically/genetically determined. Some parts are environmental but some are born with low or high drives. Try this exercise, if you are a man think back to all the girl friends you have and I'll bet the ones with more natural body hair were hornier. Testosterone causes more body hair and it's a key component to sex drive. The levels of testosterone in your body is mostly genetically determined.
And that's the big clue, guys -- relationships aren't built on sex, love, lust or any of those things (though they help to get a good relationship going). Relationships are built in characteristics like caring, trust, and honesty. If any two people share these characteristics with one another, no matter how they met, who they are, or what part of the world they live in, they can have a successful relationship, online or offline.
I did online dating a bit. From social sites and what not. The hot blond 19 year old that spoke to me online turned out to be a hot blond 19 year old in real life. If you know what your doing it's easy to avoid the creepy people. Generally I've found the less you talk online before meeting in real life the better, and don't fib about what you do and who you are. Be wary of close cropped or heavily distorted pictures.
Also, all the signs of a psycho GF you know from dating from bars is the same online. Clinginess, professing they're losers, overly emotional, etc... are all signs that when it ends it will end badly.
Maybe they understand the issue, but oppose (or see no reason for) government intervention, like I do. And like all the supposed libertarians on/. should.
Take a lesson from history, drop blind ideology because there are no ideal fixes. Sometimes government intervention is good, sometimes bad. A blanket statement or position that ignores all variables is not a productive socio/political philosphy but so many Americans/slashdotters seem to take it because it's simplistic and appeals to the "KIS" side of you. Unfortunately people aren't simple.
The sticking point is most of the current infrastructure the government and indirectly we paid for. So it'd be like someone offering 3 different speed limits depending on what your willing to pay to get our of your own driveway.
The expected hazard curve would be high while it's particulate, lower when it's settled, and the radiation from Enriched uranium isn't that dangerous. not good for you but not letha or sickness inducing.
Pretty much the same as DU, Lead, or any heavy metal. With a bit higher toxicity when in the air and a bit more dangerous once settled. But not drastically more so.
You have basically the same problems to solve when and if capcitors gain the same energy density. Since higher energy density inherently means more dangerous.
One would think it's really easy to figure out what you got: you sample one battery out of every thousand (or whatever), open it up and do a thorough inspection of its contents. If it's not up to snuff, you scrap the entire shipment and a factory owner in China commits suicide.
The Chinese aren't as in love with suicide as the Japaneses. We're also less fond of tentacle rape, under age sex, and interspecies stuff. I suppose if I had to eat uncooked fish all the time that might change.
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because hardware costs money on each station. where as software doesn't. plus after they get their software emulator "good enough" to a point i'm sure they'll push it back to the original game developer to just hot patch it for ps3.
They can also do fun things like extra Anti-aliasing, upscaling, and perhaps some other tweaks. The software emu is still far superior numerically and as a ratio to the 360's backwards compatibility. 80%+ vs ~30%.
The iPhone has a radio-off mode, where it disables its cellphone antennae and wifi antennae. Its called 'airplane mode' and accessible through the settings.
It also has a power-off, where it essentially turns off everything except the sensor to turn it back on again. Not too many people even know this exists, even if they own an iPhone. If you press and hold the lock button at the top right, a screen will appear that says 'slide to turn off'... this is the only way to reboot the iPhone, I think.
Most people press the 'sleep' hold button once, thinking that 'turns it off', but all it does is disable the screen. its still running, and using its antennae.
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of interface designers suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
They are shielded and cross tested but the signs are "theater of safety" type of policies which make people feel better and reduce the risk of some odd combination of devices or situations that may cause a problem. Someone else pointed out that monitoring equipment can't be shielded as detecting minute electro-magnetic changes are it's function. For those machines there is not a practical way to shield them.
I've worked with JSP and it is okay. I don't know how scalable it is as the user base was counted on two hands. I know PHP scales pretty well as several notable projects are coded in it (Wikipedia). Having worked with JAVA applications I can attest it is not a good language to make a mission critical app in. In fact it drove a very large number of tech tickets. PHP is the flavor du jour of the net because it's widely available thus has many proficient users. JSP is niche as far as I can tell and it's the big corprate push for java that sustained it. Java script is ubiquitous but thats client side.
note the sentence after. it's post about masochism not good performance.
1. PHP: What people build real websites with.
2. RoR: What people build websites with because they want to be kewl and later switch to PHP when they realize it simply does not scale, complete with acerbic "I wanted to believe" blog entry and everything
Next?
Pfft.. Real men code websites in Java and ASP. Scalability and performance are for pussies. My server to chugs at 10 hits/minute and it likes it.
Is making crap considered a good idea?
It's clearly a clone of Transformers, which was about as shit as you get. So what? Someone decides to copy it because they can't think of anything better?
You are aware the original Macross predates Transformers as well the whole giant robot things is a massive genre of Japanese shows. It's like saying Wedding crashers is just a clone of Rush hour, and blade runner is just a clone of the maltese falcon.
Even if it's a clone, it's still nice to have more geek fare like this instead of some wretched string of rambo knock offs.
Drop the "my brother" crap from Optimus & Megatron, and just let them beat each other a'la a good ol' monster movie?
NO ONE went to the movie for the storyline. They went to see giant robots fighting. So, with that being the case -- why make a crap story?
I went to see Megan Fox. don't tell my GF.
Alex used words, but not language.
Language use requires word polymorphisms, grammar, and verbs.
Noted linguists such as Noam Chomsky did not feel that Alex's use of the 100 english words Alex knew constituted a true language.
An average college graduate in the USA has a vocabulary of 100,000 words.
Still, Alex displayed remarkable intelligence for a bird.
The average American high school graduate knows only 4 words. Yes. No. Beer. fuck. The other 99,996 are all just synonyms for those 4 they pick up in college.
Share data across the ocean, what did they think, they wqould get over charged by their ISP for long distance surfing?!
Seriously, if you are incapable of syncing development between America and the UK you should not have a development team in both countries. I can see how the time difference could be a small problem, but how much does it take to only communicate through e-mail, or I know this is scary, but have one of the offices working different hours in order to keep them in touch.
Have you ever worked at a design house that spanned more then one office? You'll find that syncing isn't as easy as just sharing code base. You need to share a direction as well or else one side is working against another doubling or trippling the entire project time.
Bad games sell well!
Most movie tie ins do pretty well. So a crappy next gen thats over marketed should do as well as a good game that has a lot of word of mouth.
It wasn't just Arayan gay model types that fought against Hitler and his crew.
Haven't you seen the WWII movies. It was all male models.
The Tao is "listen to the users" however its rarely followed.
Mostly because the users contradict themselves and often have no idea what their talking about.
User 1: Nerf Mages their over powered. See how much faster they kill then my warrior.
User 2: Buff mages their under powered. See how much more versatile shamans are.
User 3: Nerf Shamans, see how much versitile they are.
User 4: Buff warriors, look at how slow they kill compared to mages.
User 5: We should make All instance 40 man raids.
User 6: We should eliminate 40 man raid in favor of 10 man raids.
User 7: I R0xx0rs.
User 8: I think respecing should be free.
User 9: I think respecing should require a week long quest.
User 10: The whole game should be end game content!
etc...
It's hard to distinguish background whining from actually legitimate concerns and complaints.
(deregulation doesn't solve every problem, it sometimes leads to worse situations - have you forgotten the California energy deregulation debacle of a few years ago?)
Sometimes? Almost always, from rampant price gouging int he natural gas deregulation market to massive telecoms quality cutting etc.. It's harder to find a success story then a horror story. Not just because horror stories make better stories but also because success is much rarer when the deregulation often happens with the big guy paying off the powers that be to deregulate in a certain way. The mythical "deregulation done right." is almost non existent because yoru dealing with human systems not automated systems. There will always be human factors to account for which makes blind ideological argument irrelevant.
My arm-chair understand of Entanglement suggests that it should violate causality. Consider the following thought experiment.
We have two pairs of quantum mechanically entangled electrons. We sent a single electron from each pair five light minutes in to space. A long with a small machine that measures that's designed to react when it an electron comes "de-entangled". When it senses this, it immediately the spin of the electron in the other pair.
Here on earth we have a Tsar Bombe linked to one of the electrons from one of the pairs. Five meters away, the other electron is linked to a button. When a person presses the button, it measures one of the electron, thus breaking its entanglement. That instantly breaks the entanglement of the other electron live light minutes away. The machine then breaks the entanglement of the other pair thus instantly triggering the Tsar Bombe destroying the hut and everything in 100 Sq miles.
The problem is that, as I understand it, this would happen ten minutes before I press the button. Whoops! You see, when I de-entangle the first electron the disentanglement on the other side happens five minutes in my past. When the machine disentangles the second electron, the other electron is five minutes in its past. Totalling to ten minutes. Can you see what I'm getting at? I'm assuming this argument isn't new - What mistake have I made here?
Simon.
I always figured it was a mistake in thinking about the frame of reference. It's five minutes to observe the blast but it's bot 5 minutes in some absolute frame of reference so it does not break causality. But I'm a physics lay man.
There are a lot of cautionary tales about outsourcing and often the infrastructure necessary to successfully out source over seas almost negates the cost benefit. You need good bilingual managers, well thought out specifications, a good out sourcing firm or subsidiary, rigorous hiring practices and a "friend" in the over seas government to protect you investment. It's worth it if you need extra capacity with more flexibility (as over seas hiring/firing can be easier). From personal experience hiring an over seas firm does not guarantee any cost savings and if your only looking to shave your costs you may find out like my previous company that out sourcing can be a multi hundreds of million dollar catastrophe.
I've been part of small companies that hired a over seas company to to find out they paid a retainer for almost nothing. I've been part of a large company that spend a couple hundred million and got back a unusable piece of trash. The company was Isreali. Many heads rolled.
Half a million people are still playing that? Wow. I'm half tempted to give it another look, since I was sort of an early-adopter on PC and their tech support wasn't exactly English-speaker-friendly at that time.
Blizzard is clever, you can't express amazement without reminding people of world of warcraft. the slang WOW is not forever ruined for me.
While Human being sex drives are not genetically programmed,
Eh? where exactly did you get that biology tid bit? I seemed not to have been informed after 3 years of genetics. A large part of yoru sex drive is biologically/genetically determined. Some parts are environmental but some are born with low or high drives. Try this exercise, if you are a man think back to all the girl friends you have and I'll bet the ones with more natural body hair were hornier. Testosterone causes more body hair and it's a key component to sex drive. The levels of testosterone in your body is mostly genetically determined.
And that's the big clue, guys -- relationships aren't built on sex, love, lust or any of those things (though they help to get a good relationship going). Relationships are built in characteristics like caring, trust, and honesty. If any two people share these characteristics with one another, no matter how they met, who they are, or what part of the world they live in, they can have a successful relationship, online or offline.
You have to admit, lust helps.
I did online dating a bit. From social sites and what not. The hot blond 19 year old that spoke to me online turned out to be a hot blond 19 year old in real life. If you know what your doing it's easy to avoid the creepy people. Generally I've found the less you talk online before meeting in real life the better, and don't fib about what you do and who you are. Be wary of close cropped or heavily distorted pictures.
Also, all the signs of a psycho GF you know from dating from bars is the same online. Clinginess, professing they're losers, overly emotional, etc... are all signs that when it ends it will end badly.
Maybe they understand the issue, but oppose (or see no reason for) government intervention, like I do. And like all the supposed libertarians on /. should.
Take a lesson from history, drop blind ideology because there are no ideal fixes. Sometimes government intervention is good, sometimes bad. A blanket statement or position that ignores all variables is not a productive socio/political philosphy but so many Americans/slashdotters seem to take it because it's simplistic and appeals to the "KIS" side of you. Unfortunately people aren't simple.
The sticking point is most of the current infrastructure the government and indirectly we paid for. So it'd be like someone offering 3 different speed limits depending on what your willing to pay to get our of your own driveway.
The expected hazard curve would be high while it's particulate, lower when it's settled, and the radiation from Enriched uranium isn't that dangerous. not good for you but not letha or sickness inducing.
Pretty much the same as DU, Lead, or any heavy metal. With a bit higher toxicity when in the air and a bit more dangerous once settled. But not drastically more so.
You have basically the same problems to solve when and if capcitors gain the same energy density. Since higher energy density inherently means more dangerous.
One would think it's really easy to figure out what you got: you sample one battery out of every thousand (or whatever), open it up and do a thorough inspection of its contents. If it's not up to snuff, you scrap the entire shipment and a factory owner in China commits suicide.
The Chinese aren't as in love with suicide as the Japaneses. We're also less fond of tentacle rape, under age sex, and interspecies stuff. I suppose if I had to eat uncooked fish all the time that might change.