... Knowing most Linux users, since they want everything for free they'll almost certainly try and stick the Mac user with the bill. And he/she will pay it too, but not without a _whole_lot_ of whining after they find out their free lunch isn't free anymore.
now where can I find one of those on the Apple store?;-)
Right here. There's a whole page full of mice from Kensington and Microsoft, not to mention tablets from Wacom, which is probably what you really want if you're into this kind of thing.
In addition to being smarter, I've found that in my experience, my mac using friends are far more likely to actually pay for software than my windows using friends. This may account for the sudden numbers A\W is seeing, and why Adobe and Macromedia continue to see the mac market as being more important that its market share would indicate, despite the fact that just about everybody you know probably has a copy of Photoshop on their desktop somehow. Not a troll, just a thought.:)
Too bad there's no cheap PCI TV tuners for the Mac...
Speaking of which, how hard would it be to port some of the video4linux code over to Darwin/BSD anyway? Seems like a weekend job for someone who knows a little about how Darwin works..
Set up a cron job to record the simpsons when you're not at home and you've got everything this does. (assuming you have a way of tuning a TV signal, of course)
... It's how to develop little rectangle-shaped holes in our perception so that we aren't driven insane by pop-up and banner ads while surfing. Hopefully the first focus groups who report back that they don't even remember what those little pop-ups were for because they were ignoring them will show the ad execs that this is a completely fruitless endeavour. Hopefully.
Soccer. Once the Americans dominate that sport by creating a team of ubermenchen they can finally tell the rest of the World to stop calling it 'football', too.
If anything, Apple would be stupid not to bring some of the technology from the Xserve into their desktops, like DDR RAM. If they leave new Power Macs off of the table completely I think we can be sure that they'll come shortly afterward, with the only reason for a delay being inventory backlog of current G4 units and supply problems with faster G4 chips.
I don't think anyone will ever die saying "if only I had played more Quake.."
Honestly though, of all these kids spent their time reading and persuing intellectual activity and making friends instead of sitting in front of a computer / TV, just think where the world would be.
I've noticed that the tone of the posts questioning the validity of this study sound a lot like a creationist decrying evolution. In my mind the correlation is too strong to be co-incidental, and reduced brain activity because of videogames is a scary enough thought to warrant consideration.
It shouldn't be too difficult to build a system like this that could operate over something like gnutella. You could monitor the search queries and record the most popular requests, then you could use the random walker technique to search out the best sources for these requested files. Anybody else running the same software could enter in a search query and have it look first in the list of popular items before doing the standard crawl-type search over the gnutella network.
Come on, a story mentioning this thing showed up on the eternally spiffy memepool just a couple of days ago. 5:1 odds the article poster got it from there without giving proper credit. Show some manners, people.
who needs an iPod for $400 when you can get a much better on at half the price in japan...
Now now, you can't go making blanket statements like that without backing them up. I'm sure there are many many people who read that and said 'WHAT?? HOW DO IT GET ONE?? RIGHT NOW!!'. Unfortunately I'm pretty sure you're exaggerating, unless you want to take your nomad jogging with you, I think the iPod is still tops, given that Toshiba is the only company making teeny tiny hard drives, and their attempt at an mp3 player is kind of lame.
So, looks like all you people who thought you were so smart when you would point out how that explosion from Star Trek shouldn't have made any sound suddenly have the tables turned on you. The sounds of the phasers and ships exploding were just being picked up by radio equipment invented way back in the 21st centure. Who's smart, now, huh?
Besides, Enron paid good money for their president, they don't want some upstart software company taking any of the credit.:) (If you're offended by this intentionally humourous statement, I suggest you re-evaluate your life a little.)
There's an interesting editorial at The Register pointing out some of the flaws in Cg, and speculating about NVidia's intention for future development of the language as it relates to their core graphics hardware busines.
From the article:
No break, continue, goto, switch, case, default. These are useful features that can be used without penalty on other vector processors.
No pointers. This is Cg's most serious omission. Pointers are necessary for storing scene graphs, so this will quickly become a serious omission for vector processors that can store and process the entire scene or even sections of it.
No integers. This may be appropriate to NVIDIA, but is not a universal design decision.
Arrays use float indices. This is an odd design decision, relevant to DirectX 8 and Nvidia only.
It may be possible that NVidia is holding back support for such rudimentary language features until such time as they are supported in their own hardware. I don't think this is a formula for a widely-adopted language at all, and smells a little of 3dfx's efforts with Glide.
What will happen when all games are like this, and you actually have to be good at physical activity and have some degree of real-life hand-eye coordination? Then the jocks will become better at videogames, too. The last refuge nerdly superiority will be cruelly taken away. This could have major consequences, though one of them might be to get said nerds to spend more time doing actual physical activity, whether within a game or not.
The current slump in ad revenues combined with the spectre of TV watchers being able to skip ad has caused some TV show producers to write ads into the actual contents of the show. There was a story on CNN about this yesterday, in which they showed a scene from "Felicity" with dialog as follows "Hey, I just got a new computer" "Oh, is it one of those new iMacs? Those things are so beautiful".
Another example is on the Rosie O'Donnel show she recently shilled for Wendy's new salads, saying how great they were. I wasn't watching, but apparently while she was talking her producer said "Take a bite", "What?" "Just do it."
Another good example is the TV morning "news" shows on the day Coke launched Vanilla Coke. The Daily Show did a wonderful send up of this. "The Today show host then informed the Coco-Cola spokeswoman that it was time to go to a commercial break, at which point she just allowed her to continue speaking."
I can picture this getting a whole lot worse, as it's the enw hot trent in advertising. I've basically stopped watching TV altogether except for the Simpsons anyway.
A friend of mine has a Newtwon MessagePad that still works beautifully, despite all the snobbish snearing from people with their fancy new Palms which seem to e made of tissue paper for all the problems they seem to have with them.:)
FireWire has many advantages over USB 2.0 that far outweigh the extra 80Mb/s USB2 claims over the current iteration of FireWire. Most importantly is the fact that it is peer-to-peer, meaning that no host PC is required to manage every FW connection. This makes firewire a good choice for video equipment, and interesting is also being adopted in the auto industry to connect electronic components together. Also, data carried over FireWire carries certain priority information with it, depending on the type of data being transferred. Video data or a CD burning session can thus be treated with a higher priority that pictures from a still camera. Anyone who has hooked up a USB CD burner downstream from their printer can attest to the importance of such a mechanism.
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... Knowing most Linux users, since they want everything for free they'll almost certainly try and stick the Mac user with the bill. And he/she will pay it too, but not without a _whole_lot_ of whining after they find out their free lunch isn't free anymore.
Oh my, all I could think of at that was the image of 21 cute little penguins being shot out of cannons. The poor things can't even fly...
Right here. There's a whole page full of mice from Kensington and Microsoft, not to mention tablets from Wacom, which is probably what you really want if you're into this kind of thing.
A quick trip to Google found me the CGI Morse Code Translator, which translates "server slashdotted" to:
:)
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slashdot sucks
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In addition to being smarter, I've found that in my experience, my mac using friends are far more likely to actually pay for software than my windows using friends. This may account for the sudden numbers A\W is seeing, and why Adobe and Macromedia continue to see the mac market as being more important that its market share would indicate, despite the fact that just about everybody you know probably has a copy of Photoshop on their desktop somehow. Not a troll, just a thought. :)
MP3 collection? With that much space, who needs lossy compression at all? :)
Speaking of which, how hard would it be to port some of the video4linux code over to Darwin/BSD anyway? Seems like a weekend job for someone who knows a little about how Darwin works..
Set up a cron job to record the simpsons when you're not at home and you've got everything this does. (assuming you have a way of tuning a TV signal, of course)
Give me FireWire, please. MPEG-1 video quality isn't going to cut it on a Mac, I'm afraid.
... It's how to develop little rectangle-shaped holes in our perception so that we aren't driven insane by pop-up and banner ads while surfing. Hopefully the first focus groups who report back that they don't even remember what those little pop-ups were for because they were ignoring them will show the ad execs that this is a completely fruitless endeavour. Hopefully.
Soccer. Once the Americans dominate that sport by creating a team of ubermenchen they can finally tell the rest of the World to stop calling it 'football', too.
If anything, Apple would be stupid not to bring some of the technology from the Xserve into their desktops, like DDR RAM. If they leave new Power Macs off of the table completely I think we can be sure that they'll come shortly afterward, with the only reason for a delay being inventory backlog of current G4 units and supply problems with faster G4 chips.
Honestly though, of all these kids spent their time reading and persuing intellectual activity and making friends instead of sitting in front of a computer / TV, just think where the world would be.
I've noticed that the tone of the posts questioning the validity of this study sound a lot like a creationist decrying evolution. In my mind the correlation is too strong to be co-incidental, and reduced brain activity because of videogames is a scary enough thought to warrant consideration.
It shouldn't be too difficult to build a system like this that could operate over something like gnutella. You could monitor the search queries and record the most popular requests, then you could use the random walker technique to search out the best sources for these requested files. Anybody else running the same software could enter in a search query and have it look first in the list of popular items before doing the standard crawl-type search over the gnutella network.
Come on, a story mentioning this thing showed up on the eternally spiffy memepool just a couple of days ago. 5:1 odds the article poster got it from there without giving proper credit. Show some manners, people.
Now now, you can't go making blanket statements like that without backing them up. I'm sure there are many many people who read that and said 'WHAT?? HOW DO IT GET ONE?? RIGHT NOW!!'. Unfortunately I'm pretty sure you're exaggerating, unless you want to take your nomad jogging with you, I think the iPod is still tops, given that Toshiba is the only company making teeny tiny hard drives, and their attempt at an mp3 player is kind of lame.
So, looks like all you people who thought you were so smart when you would point out how that explosion from Star Trek shouldn't have made any sound suddenly have the tables turned on you. The sounds of the phasers and ships exploding were just being picked up by radio equipment invented way back in the 21st centure. Who's smart, now, huh?
... So rumour has it it will start KDE in less than a minute. :) </old joke>.
I wonder if Zero Knowledge, Inc. might decide that it might be time to re-introduce their personal anonymous web browsing service.
Besides, Enron paid good money for their president, they don't want some upstart software company taking any of the credit. :) (If you're offended by this intentionally humourous statement, I suggest you re-evaluate your life a little.)
From the article:
It may be possible that NVidia is holding back support for such rudimentary language features until such time as they are supported in their own hardware. I don't think this is a formula for a widely-adopted language at all, and smells a little of 3dfx's efforts with Glide.
What will happen when all games are like this, and you actually have to be good at physical activity and have some degree of real-life hand-eye coordination? Then the jocks will become better at videogames, too. The last refuge nerdly superiority will be cruelly taken away. This could have major consequences, though one of them might be to get said nerds to spend more time doing actual physical activity, whether within a game or not.
Another example is on the Rosie O'Donnel show she recently shilled for Wendy's new salads, saying how great they were. I wasn't watching, but apparently while she was talking her producer said "Take a bite", "What?" "Just do it."
Another good example is the TV morning "news" shows on the day Coke launched Vanilla Coke. The Daily Show did a wonderful send up of this. "The Today show host then informed the Coco-Cola spokeswoman that it was time to go to a commercial break, at which point she just allowed her to continue speaking."
I can picture this getting a whole lot worse, as it's the enw hot trent in advertising. I've basically stopped watching TV altogether except for the Simpsons anyway.
A friend of mine has a Newtwon MessagePad that still works beautifully, despite all the snobbish snearing from people with their fancy new Palms which seem to e made of tissue paper for all the problems they seem to have with them. :)
FireWire has many advantages over USB 2.0 that far outweigh the extra 80Mb/s USB2 claims over the current iteration of FireWire. Most importantly is the fact that it is peer-to-peer, meaning that no host PC is required to manage every FW connection. This makes firewire a good choice for video equipment, and interesting is also being adopted in the auto industry to connect electronic components together. Also, data carried over FireWire carries certain priority information with it, depending on the type of data being transferred. Video data or a CD burning session can thus be treated with a higher priority that pictures from a still camera. Anyone who has hooked up a USB CD burner downstream from their printer can attest to the importance of such a mechanism.