How is it "protesting"? Does that word even have any meaning in the USA anymore?
Marching around in masks and yelling things does not a protest make. Main Entry:
2protest Listen to the pronunciation of 2protest Pronunciation:
\pr-test, pr-, pr-\ Function:
verb Etymology:
Middle English, from Anglo-French protester, from Latin protestari, from pro- forth + testari to call to witness -- more at pro-, testament Date:
15th century
transitive verb 1 : to make solemn declaration or affirmation of 2 : to execute or have executed a formal protest against (as a bill or note) 3 : to make a statement or gesture in objection to intransitive verb 1 : to make a protestation 2 : to make or enter a protest
If there are laws being broken then attack them in court. Don't start wearing masks and practicing vigilante justice. And don't sully the name of petitioning your government for grievance by calling your outpouring of hate a "protest". They simply outspend you. Some have tried to take them to court and simply got bankrupted with stall tactics from the Church of Scientology. The church of Scientology understand and game the modern systems. That is how they get away with what they do. They don't need to win in court only cost their victim enough. They don't need to have charges dropped but simply stall. They don't need to act within the boundaries of the law simply coerce those in power to look the other way. Thus the only ethical avenue left is peaceful protest.
All belief ought to be open to criticism. Islam, Christianity, Mormonism, Jehovah's witnesses, the left, the right, the liberal, the conservative, the republican, the democrat, or Buddhism are all the object of criticism. The question is why is critiques of Scientology so sparse? Because they employ tactics to silence them that are unethical. Legal harassment, physical harassment, blackmail, infiltration of government agencies. The sheer concentration of 'evil' is to be deplored without any of the redeeming public service as the other religions employ. The other religions have long ceased such behavior in the west. Why ought we tolerate it from this self help ponzi scheme?
And since the oil won't run out, just get more "expensive" to extract, what's the big deal? At some point the amount of energy spent on recovery exceed the amount of energy in the oil. Saudi oil was really cheap energetically back in the day. You push a pipe into the sand, you get sprayed with oil. The more abundant sources require steam treatments, super heating, refining, and filtering (oil sands) to get something resembling crude back. This has drastically higher costs.
So while we'll always have enough to make plastics at some point the principal energy input into the system will have to be somethign other then hydro carbons. Be it a nuclear facility at the oil sands or a solar plant to heat the sands. We may still use gas as a energy storage medium.
Is the way I work multi-threaded and if so will I notice a difference when I spread this work across these cores? I think we're still bottlenecked in other areas. No matter how many cores you've got you are somewhat limited by HD and memory speeds which have not grown as fast as CPU power. I think intel and AMD might benefit me more if they did more mother board research instead of CPU research. I think the SSD mac is a step in the right direction. They just need better SSD.
Since when is PS3 gaining market share? every months NPD numbers that I've seen show a fairly consistant ratio of PS3360wii, with the ratio within any given month fluctuating based on game releases. 360 had big Sept, November, wii and 360 had a big december, etc. For one thing, NPD is US non-major chain only. Media create (japans version of NPD) shows a distinct upswing in the last while.
I can't wait for Nintendo to make a low-cost slim version of the Wii as well. I'm tired of that overpriced, behemoth of a console! I can't wait for Nintendo to make a upscaling version of the Wii as well. I'm tired of the ugly graphics of the console!
But with some hard work it appears you can thin it out a bit as demonstrated in the Xbox360 Laptop. My only question would be the failure rates on these things due to heat issues. You could get some quick wins with a better/cooler dvd drive, and moving the GPU out from under the dvd drive.The critical design flaw was putting 2 of your 3 hottest components immediately next to each other without any additional cooling.
The question is will we see a slim 360 to compete with it? I think there must be a lot of empty space in the 360 too. To combat this strategy the boys at MS gaming will double the volume of the 360, add more LED's, add more chrome, and give one to pDiddy. Thus prompting a 20% increase in US sales and a 40% decrease in all other markets.
Why deactivate one? It allows you to discard chips with a defect in the SPU. imagine the abundant example of 20 defects on a wafer. If the SPU's take up 50% of the die and a defect is 1/20 odds of containing a defect then allowing you to disable one allows you to possibly half the number of chips discarded as defective, since a defect in only one spu is still okay.
It seems unlikely, I was under the impression they're not at the point yet where they make a profit on the existing systems, I'd imagine they'd at very least want to keep the current price with the cheaper hardware to recoup some of the cash lost on existing systems. I was under the impression that the margins were only a slight loss now and such a change would drastically improve yields (due to the size of a cell chip yields were very poor at first).
so a strategy game rather than a tactical game then? You are aware that such a game was Chris Taylor's stated intention with supcomm, right? I am, and i bought it. But it gets less play then war 3 (by a huge margin). TA had the similar thing. Neat but not my style. In the community i play those two with it degenerates into massing. Just trying to hold the map and pumping out the same unit mix. Slight variation of air vs ground vs sea. But always 1-2h slogs which are fun for the first 30 min then not so much for us.
Online on US west I noticed only lower level people employ rushes. Hero Harassing is a common alternative to creeping. But "rush" is not as frequent at higher levels because the chance of winning is mitigated by lower hero levels and delay of teching. It's somewhat map and player number specific, on 3v3 a rush is rare, 1v1 it's a quarter of the games. Hero harass is almost a given in 1v1 and many new players mistaken this for a "rush".
I've tried newer games (the new C&C/AoE. Supreme Commander, World in Conflict, Warhammer, Total War) I agree, most of the RTS are 1-2h slog fests with little resembling play balance. Either all sides are the same, the sides are different but 1 is clearly superior, or only 3 units are useful and it's a rush to get these. Sup Com is probably the closest to War 3 or Sc level of balance but it's still a 1h-2h slog involving a lot of massing.
You could also argue that if WoW hadn't taken off, they'd be a much poorer brand without the resources to continue to tweak its niche game years after it was released. The question is, does success lead to dedication, or does dedication lead to success? They had this dedication before WOW. Diablo ii, Starcraft, War 3, War 2 all had patches long after other companies would have abandoned them; and those patches were as often to fix play issues as to squash bugs introduced by the last patch. To put in perspective, each have had around 10 patches except war 2 while most games top out at 3 and for most games those 3 patches were to fix critical issues. I know it's bought my loyalty. If i spend $60 on a blizzard game I know I'll be playing it 5 years down the line (like I do with war 3). The cost per hour is ridiculously small so it's an entertainment value.
It will only (maybe) become a pattern in games where you have to pay to play. Why does Blizzard care if you buy the game for $15 if they're getting their $15/mo from you? WOW was always no CD. Warcraft 3 isn't WOW. This implemented this on a $40 1 shot game with no reoccurring charges to access bnet.
You're a goddamn liar. I live in Canada, and I've been all around it, including "small reserves". They have absolutely nothing on the ghettos in Baltimore, for example, which is one of a few I've been to in the United States. The US ghettos are horrible. So you've visited all of them have you? You must have missed the ones with no running water or electricity, the ones where 90% of the phones lines are off and have "Embargoes" to prevent phone fraud. Suicide, family violence, poverty and sexual assault are noted problems on many reserves here in western Canada. There are some well run and well to do ones but every native friend I know wouldn't go back to his reserve to save his life. Now what do you mean have nothing on? less violence? Yes thats true. Less poverty... no not really. Areas within Canada rate as bad as many third world nations. Less problems? I don't think so.
You've read too much Karl Marx if you think that having the government choose your medical provider constitutes a "free market." You've sat through too much Fox News if you think the government decided who my GP is.
Years might be very rare. I know experts can be in short supply partly due to the US poaching of our doctors and the slow certification of immigrant doctors but it's rarely more then months. My mother has stomach problems took a few months to see a specialists but my GP is available within days and emergency care for my dads bleeding ulcer was very quick.
I'd say another key difference is that it is too friggin cold in Canada be homeless I'd say 100 people at the bissel centre here in -30C Edmonton would agree with you. But their homeless none the less.
Considering that most of the pirating Chinese world is using Sharpie scribbled CD-R's to install non-Genuine Windows, I don't think it matters terribly much if they've stopped "90%" of the flow of high-quality counterfeits.
It's darned good that they caught the bastards, but wake me up when we stop 90% of the actual piracy in Asia.
This strikes me as a fluff piece for nervous investors. Have you been to china/taiwan/HK/S E asia in general. Some of the fakes are very convincing with packaging and so on. If you go out to a bigger local store you'll see a mix of very good fakes with legit software. They'll even translate it and hack it for use with their own servers. When i was there it was harder to find a legit copy of Warcraft 3 then a pirated one and the pirated ones where packaged decently (if nothing like the real package) and they hooked up the remnants of bnetD Asia. This isn't your geek pirating with black sharpies and spools of random software. This is the real piracy that MS ought to fight.
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Marching around in masks and yelling things does not a protest make.
Main Entry:
2protest Listen to the pronunciation of 2protest
Pronunciation:
\pr-test, pr-, pr-\
Function:
verb
Etymology:
Middle English, from Anglo-French protester, from Latin protestari, from pro- forth + testari to call to witness -- more at pro-, testament
Date:
15th century
transitive verb 1 : to make solemn declaration or affirmation of 2 : to execute or have executed a formal protest against (as a bill or note) 3 : to make a statement or gesture in objection to intransitive verb 1 : to make a protestation 2 : to make or enter a protest
Seems like the very definition of protest!
All belief ought to be open to criticism. Islam, Christianity, Mormonism, Jehovah's witnesses, the left, the right, the liberal, the conservative, the republican, the democrat, or Buddhism are all the object of criticism. The question is why is critiques of Scientology so sparse? Because they employ tactics to silence them that are unethical. Legal harassment, physical harassment, blackmail, infiltration of government agencies. The sheer concentration of 'evil' is to be deplored without any of the redeeming public service as the other religions employ. The other religions have long ceased such behavior in the west. Why ought we tolerate it from this self help ponzi scheme?
So while we'll always have enough to make plastics at some point the principal energy input into the system will have to be somethign other then hydro carbons. Be it a nuclear facility at the oil sands or a solar plant to heat the sands. We may still use gas as a energy storage medium.
Your still bound by the speed of the I/O bus, FBS limits, and speed of memory.
Use an older version of clone CD. Alcohol or blind write do an amazing job too.
Online on US west I noticed only lower level people employ rushes. Hero Harassing is a common alternative to creeping. But "rush" is not as frequent at higher levels because the chance of winning is mitigated by lower hero levels and delay of teching. It's somewhat map and player number specific, on 3v3 a rush is rare, 1v1 it's a quarter of the games. Hero harass is almost a given in 1v1 and many new players mistaken this for a "rush".
I've been playing both with Daemon tools. No CD ever required and haven't for a long time.
Years might be very rare. I know experts can be in short supply partly due to the US poaching of our doctors and the slow certification of immigrant doctors but it's rarely more then months. My mother has stomach problems took a few months to see a specialists but my GP is available within days and emergency care for my dads bleeding ulcer was very quick.
It's darned good that they caught the bastards, but wake me up when we stop 90% of the actual piracy in Asia.
This strikes me as a fluff piece for nervous investors. Have you been to china/taiwan/HK/S E asia in general. Some of the fakes are very convincing with packaging and so on. If you go out to a bigger local store you'll see a mix of very good fakes with legit software. They'll even translate it and hack it for use with their own servers. When i was there it was harder to find a legit copy of Warcraft 3 then a pirated one and the pirated ones where packaged decently (if nothing like the real package) and they hooked up the remnants of bnetD Asia. This isn't your geek pirating with black sharpies and spools of random software. This is the real piracy that MS ought to fight.
$0.25 is split thusly. $0.01 to apple, $0.000001 goes tot he artists and $0.239999 goes to the record company.