Seriously, Canada's stupid protectionist media laws have given us the fantastic sounds of Nickelback, Avril Levigne, and Alanis Morrisette. For even Neil Young there's a dozen no talent hacks being propped up by these laws-the audio equivalent of corn subsidies. And now they're going to give them even more money? Ridiculous! The US has done a lot of stupid things, but can you imagine if we were giving tax money to Billy Ray Cyrus and Li'l Wayne? Free money from the government! All you have to do is make a shitty record!
"You're surrounded by "restrictions" everywhere, but I don't hear you whining about how you're not allowed to kill people and run over schoolchildren and blah blah blah
OK well then...
It's not fair! I want to be able to run over schoolchildren and kill people! Just, like, a few people! Geez, you guys are such tightasses!
If Valve goes out of business, their property will be turned over to creditors, and they might not even be able to make the choice themselves. The cheapest option for the creditors would always be to simply shut off the servers rather than wasting time and bandwidth creating and distributing a mythical "no phone home" patch. That's a realistic view of what happens when a company goes out of business. Even if you believe Valve is totally honest, it will probably not be up to them if it ever comes to that.
I doubt there's much to cut. The demo still needs the full version of the rendering engine and all the textures used on the 1 or 2 levels featured. For HD games, I'm sure that reaches 1 GB easily. Maybe they could make an SD version an option in order to cut bandwidth, but I doubt Sony would like that.
My friend knows the thermal engineer for the 360. He resigned in 2005 when he heard that they were going to rush the 360 out for Christmas no matter what. Couldn't risk his career on that one. I have a friend with a launch 360 who's already gone through 4 units.
The E74 is almost the same problem as the RRoD (which they seem to have fixed), but the generous warranty that applies to the RRoD doesn't apply to the E74. And that's why I haven't yet bought a 360.
The writeup is incorrect (obviously not up to Daily Planet-quality work here). Jimmy Olsen is a reporter, not a physicist. The physicist referred in the article is actually Lex Luthor, and the Large Hadron Collider is really a secret project to turn normal metals into Kryptonite.
Just an FYI, if you're looking for a way to control the PS3 through IR, you can use Nyko's IR remote. That way you can use your universal remote with the PS3. It can't do on-off, but it can do almost everything else...and it's $15. Definitely worth a shot..
Year after year, I read these kind of articles that report how game AI increases in leaps and bounds...and I still don't see it. Bad guys in GTA still seem to rush towards grenades, Halo/Gears of War enemies are either completely impulsive or avoidant. I'm not knocking the programmers...I think game AI must be very difficult to achieve, and even harder to detect for the layman (such as myself).
Does anyone have an example of really good AI in action games (or any non-RPG, non-RTS games)?
Look, I'm all in favor of these advanced cars lulling me into a false sense of safety. That way I can convince girls to give me road head, especially when I'm on drugs!
Wrestling and comic books are a lot more alike than they are different. Lots of nerds are wrestling fans.
As for Sci Fi going "SyFy" I think it looks and sounds unbelievably stupid. Just like when National Geographic decided to call itself "NatGeo." National Geographic sounds educationed and authoritative. Nat-Geo sounds like tiny irritating insects combined with shitty cars from the early 90's. You'd think these stupid nonsensical names died off with the dot-com burst, but nope, they're still alive and polluting!
Breaker breaker, good buddy! Thanks for visiting my online speakin' site! My handle is: The Delta Lady! If ya'll wanna visit my cousin Watts' site, just say "bacon." If'n'ya wanna hear a special Christmas story about varmints pullin' Santa's sleigh, say "Merry Chris'mas, ya'll!"
I'd leave it at -1 if I were you...sure, there's a bunch of racist and homophobic trolls, but there's also some insightful flamebait that Slashdot mods get too touchy about. Also plenty of hilarious random shit like cookie recipes and weird stories.
It seems like the Obama administration has a love affair with Microsoft anyway. Kundra really doesn't seem to be a guy with any great new ideas. Hopefully he's at least competent. I'd be more concerned about the pro-drug-war and pro-overreaching IP attorney general, Mr. Eric Holder.
You can't discount the possibility that part of that issue is the fact that we[0] repeatedly REFUSE TO FUCKING TELL THEM about protection, consequences, etc. Instead we try to take some archaic, puritanical moralist pulpit on the subject.
You mean about how when you love a lady very much, Juffo-Wup fills in your fibers, and then you grow turgid?
Uh...I'm not sure if you're kidding, but the color, black levels, and response time of LCDs suck compared to CRTs.
Plasma is a little better, but CRTs are still king. Of course, they weight 200 + pounds and don't go over 36 inches, but you have to make a choice, don't you? If you're willing to put up with those shortcomings, you can find CRT-based HDTVs for as little as $150 on Craigslist.
And yes, vinyl records still sound better than MP3s, assuming the record was sourced from an analog master.
I beg to differ. Do you have any evidence, anecdotes aside, to support your claim? The majority of people buying vinyl today are in the 14-25 year old range; they hardly qualify as old people. And vinyl sales continue to climb past CD sales every year. And this "warmness" that you speak of is nothing more that the recording sounding the way it was supposed to sound compared to the same 16 bit CD.
Vinyl sales...greater than CD sales? Pass me whatever you're smoking, please. Vinyl is still around because DJs use it. It's a niche format, although it's not ever going to go away. And as for the recording "sounding the way it's supposed to sound," that's not true if the record was sourced from digital masters, which is true for all new music. You're just taking digitally recorded music with its limited sampling qualities and adding the fragility of the vinyl format. It's really the worst of both worlds.
I just want to know if anyone else saw it. There was an old style CRT TV set and there was a pink alien hovering below it! Maybe this explains why FOX is uninterested in sci-fi programs-aliens exist, and they've taken over Slashdot!
When will there be a media player worth a darn on Mac OS X? Playing x264 files on OS X is not an option at this time unless you have an 8-core Mac Pro. 1080p crawls in VLC and Perian, and the CorePlayer for OS X is a joke-no AC-3 support, yet they want $20 for it? Why did they release it as a standalone app instead of a codec package for QuickTime?
If the day after 9-11 we carpet bombed Afghanistan back to the primordial ooze, Iraq would have never happened.
First of all, you don't need to carpet bomb Afghanistan to send it back to the ooze. It's already there, and that's not likely to change. Secondly, an Iraq invasion was always part of the Bush administration's plans. Bush and his cronies routinely ignored evidence that did not point to Saddam Hussein having WMD. Even with the CIA bending over backwards to make the case, Rumsfeld felt it necessary to make his own intelligence agency, the Office of Special Plans, in order to exaggerate the shadiest, most unreliable evidence and sound the alarm for war.
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A bull is a male cow WITH TESTICLES.
A steer is a male cow WITHOUT TESTICLES.
Thus, you'd be eating steer in the above scenario.
Seriously, Canada's stupid protectionist media laws have given us the fantastic sounds of Nickelback, Avril Levigne, and Alanis Morrisette. For even Neil Young there's a dozen no talent hacks being propped up by these laws-the audio equivalent of corn subsidies. And now they're going to give them even more money? Ridiculous! The US has done a lot of stupid things, but can you imagine if we were giving tax money to Billy Ray Cyrus and Li'l Wayne? Free money from the government! All you have to do is make a shitty record!
"You're surrounded by "restrictions" everywhere, but I don't hear you whining about how you're not allowed to kill people and run over schoolchildren and blah blah blah
OK well then...
It's not fair! I want to be able to run over schoolchildren and kill people! Just, like, a few people! Geez, you guys are such tightasses!
If Valve goes out of business, their property will be turned over to creditors, and they might not even be able to make the choice themselves. The cheapest option for the creditors would always be to simply shut off the servers rather than wasting time and bandwidth creating and distributing a mythical "no phone home" patch. That's a realistic view of what happens when a company goes out of business. Even if you believe Valve is totally honest, it will probably not be up to them if it ever comes to that.
I doubt there's much to cut. The demo still needs the full version of the rendering engine and all the textures used on the 1 or 2 levels featured. For HD games, I'm sure that reaches 1 GB easily. Maybe they could make an SD version an option in order to cut bandwidth, but I doubt Sony would like that.
My friend knows the thermal engineer for the 360. He resigned in 2005 when he heard that they were going to rush the 360 out for Christmas no matter what. Couldn't risk his career on that one. I have a friend with a launch 360 who's already gone through 4 units.
The E74 is almost the same problem as the RRoD (which they seem to have fixed), but the generous warranty that applies to the RRoD doesn't apply to the E74. And that's why I haven't yet bought a 360.
The writeup is incorrect (obviously not up to Daily Planet-quality work here). Jimmy Olsen is a reporter, not a physicist. The physicist referred in the article is actually Lex Luthor, and the Large Hadron Collider is really a secret project to turn normal metals into Kryptonite.
Just an FYI, if you're looking for a way to control the PS3 through IR, you can use Nyko's IR remote. That way you can use your universal remote with the PS3. It can't do on-off, but it can do almost everything else...and it's $15. Definitely worth a shot..
Year after year, I read these kind of articles that report how game AI increases in leaps and bounds...and I still don't see it. Bad guys in GTA still seem to rush towards grenades, Halo/Gears of War enemies are either completely impulsive or avoidant. I'm not knocking the programmers...I think game AI must be very difficult to achieve, and even harder to detect for the layman (such as myself).
Does anyone have an example of really good AI in action games (or any non-RPG, non-RTS games)?
But what if you're David Liebe Hart? You should give that guy a break!
Look, I'm all in favor of these advanced cars lulling me into a false sense of safety. That way I can convince girls to give me road head, especially when I'm on drugs!
Fuck ya'll, I'm from Texas and I guarantee you my grasp of "langauge" is farly superious to yours!
Kinda ironic isn't it...she hated Trek but she married a scifi fan just like her daddy.
Wrestling and comic books are a lot more alike than they are different. Lots of nerds are wrestling fans.
As for Sci Fi going "SyFy" I think it looks and sounds unbelievably stupid. Just like when National Geographic decided to call itself "NatGeo." National Geographic sounds educationed and authoritative. Nat-Geo sounds like tiny irritating insects combined with shitty cars from the early 90's. You'd think these stupid nonsensical names died off with the dot-com burst, but nope, they're still alive and polluting!
Breaker breaker, good buddy! Thanks for visiting my online speakin' site! My handle is: The Delta Lady! If ya'll wanna visit my cousin Watts' site, just say "bacon." If'n'ya wanna hear a special Christmas story about varmints pullin' Santa's sleigh, say "Merry Chris'mas, ya'll!"
I'd leave it at -1 if I were you...sure, there's a bunch of racist and homophobic trolls, but there's also some insightful flamebait that Slashdot mods get too touchy about. Also plenty of hilarious random shit like cookie recipes and weird stories.
It seems like the Obama administration has a love affair with Microsoft anyway. Kundra really doesn't seem to be a guy with any great new ideas. Hopefully he's at least competent. I'd be more concerned about the pro-drug-war and pro-overreaching IP attorney general, Mr. Eric Holder.
You can't discount the possibility that part of that issue is the fact that we[0] repeatedly REFUSE TO FUCKING TELL THEM about protection, consequences, etc. Instead we try to take some archaic, puritanical moralist pulpit on the subject.
You mean about how when you love a lady very much, Juffo-Wup fills in your fibers, and then you grow turgid?
Uh...I'm not sure if you're kidding, but the color, black levels, and response time of LCDs suck compared to CRTs.
Plasma is a little better, but CRTs are still king. Of course, they weight 200 + pounds and don't go over 36 inches, but you have to make a choice, don't you? If you're willing to put up with those shortcomings, you can find CRT-based HDTVs for as little as $150 on Craigslist.
And yes, vinyl records still sound better than MP3s, assuming the record was sourced from an analog master.
I beg to differ. Do you have any evidence, anecdotes aside, to support your claim? The majority of people buying vinyl today are in the 14-25 year old range; they hardly qualify as old people. And vinyl sales continue to climb past CD sales every year. And this "warmness" that you speak of is nothing more that the recording sounding the way it was supposed to sound compared to the same 16 bit CD.
Vinyl sales...greater than CD sales? Pass me whatever you're smoking, please. Vinyl is still around because DJs use it. It's a niche format, although it's not ever going to go away. And as for the recording "sounding the way it's supposed to sound," that's not true if the record was sourced from digital masters, which is true for all new music. You're just taking digitally recorded music with its limited sampling qualities and adding the fragility of the vinyl format. It's really the worst of both worlds.
I just want to know if anyone else saw it. There was an old style CRT TV set and there was a pink alien hovering below it! Maybe this explains why FOX is uninterested in sci-fi programs-aliens exist, and they've taken over Slashdot!
They should have made a game revolving around Napples. You may want to wear your d-pants!
CoreCodec for OS X...this is the best solution I can come up with now, and it sucks.
When will there be a media player worth a darn on Mac OS X? Playing x264 files on OS X is not an option at this time unless you have an 8-core Mac Pro. 1080p crawls in VLC and Perian, and the CorePlayer for OS X is a joke-no AC-3 support, yet they want $20 for it? Why did they release it as a standalone app instead of a codec package for QuickTime?
Shitty utter ass, the entire situation is!
If the day after 9-11 we carpet bombed Afghanistan back to the primordial ooze, Iraq would have never happened.
First of all, you don't need to carpet bomb Afghanistan to send it back to the ooze. It's already there, and that's not likely to change. Secondly, an Iraq invasion was always part of the Bush administration's plans. Bush and his cronies routinely ignored evidence that did not point to Saddam Hussein having WMD. Even with the CIA bending over backwards to make the case, Rumsfeld felt it necessary to make his own intelligence agency, the Office of Special Plans, in order to exaggerate the shadiest, most unreliable evidence and sound the alarm for war.