Much of the weight provided by the batteries (or engine, etc.) in a car is not "dead weight". It is completely, absolutely necessary for the speeds at which modern veihcles routinely travel in order to keep the vehicle from flying from the roadway and flipping end over end.
Well, keep in mind that the ipod case just boasts being able to withstand an RPG (doubtful), not the ipod itself. I suspect geting banged against the floor will still likely do a number on the screen after several hard drops.
They should've lied and said $300. THen they'd have gotten bad press, and when they release it at $250 (or hell, $275, and drop it to $250 a month later), everyone would be saying, "ZOMG, what a great deal! Look what Nintendo managed to pull off!"
A good counter-example is, ironically, Halo. It's a mediocre game in almost every respect, the least of which is its actual gameplay (it reminded me of Serious Sam). Yet, it's a huge hit. Why?
Good advertising from Microsoft, and everyone saying it'd suck balls. It somehow managed to be the first really playable FPS on console, and MS did well for it.
This is precisely why 3D Realms is (supposedly) not saying word one about their development of Duke Nuke'm Forever - hype kills games. It's suicidal to release teasers throughout development, or early on in development, because people begin guessing and postulatin gamongst themselves in forums and newsgroups, and they get their expectations up.
If you get their expectations up,
This is why (amongst everyone I know, at least) Half-Life 2 was not such a great hit. Everyone basically knew what was coming when it came out, and it wasn't up to their expectations due to the long wait (remember the fiasco with "get halflife2 free" video cards due to that wait?).
This is nothing but a good trend, if you ask me. It means businesses will find people actually able to do the jobs at hand, and not worry so much about dead weight. It means talented people will be able to jump in and get jobs doing what they're able to do without short-circuiting their careers with a functionally useless bachelor degree.
Furthermore, it means that young people will not need to continue to burden themselves with the expense of a college diploma (with the years and thousands of dollars in loads attached) unless they need to due to shortcoming, or for a particular professional field which requires such things. When you've got people paying off college loans until their kids graduate high school, this can hardly be seen as anything negative.
Maybe then colleges and universities will adapt and learn how to compete again instead of having half a major's requirements be fluff and non-consequential social engineering humanities and concentrate on teaching instead of indoctrination.
(Yeah, I know university isn't about job training, but it's already treated that way, just with social indoctrination courses. If you want to retain the concentration on art and literature, fine - just cut out the worthless social commentary and political 'artists'.)
... as opposed to Linux and other *BSDs, which infrequently crash and have no such graphical crash indication. I think - I've very infrequently experienced such things.
Exactly. It doesn't matter if a cheerleader kicks you in the balls or if a corner bum does. Either way, it (hurts a fuck of a lot and) pisses you off. Now, your tollerance for the cheerleader might be higher, as she's easier to look at and you've got a perception that by not getting irritated you might get something out of it (or that the prettyness does something for you), but over time they're both going to piss you off roughly as much as the other.
They don't piss you off because of how they look, they piss you off because they exist in the first place.
On another note... I've not had a system crash on my WinXP machine now for well over a month - and no restart in that period of time, either. I find this quite fascinating, as it's never happened before (and it's not like I haven't been abusing the system, either).
Yep. I do NOT understand how someone can prefer a joystick (or set of joysticks, really) over a mouse and keyboard when you're dealing with fluid movements. Especially when I see the "good" players with such crude instruments - a good CS:S console player would get his ass handed to him quickly if he were saddled with the controler against PC players (just as an example).
Yep. I've not paid more than about $150 for a graphic card in ages - hell, I've not even bought any new yardware for probably 2.5+ years now. I've not bene playing many of the newer games, but I can play HL2 and Doom 3 just fine.
There was a period of time, a very brief period of time - maybe a year? - prior to Doom 4's release, where this was the case. Everyone was waiting for Doom 4 and HL2 to expand the software side of PC gaming, and the video card and processor companies were both pumping out hardware which was above and beyond what games needed to operate optimally - a system to play "top of the line" games really could have bene made for almost the cost of a pre-discount X-box.*
PC gaming has always cost more than console gaming. I got a Nintendo (that is, NES) for Christmas around, oh, 1990, and it cost $89.99 from KayBee toys (I still remember the receipt). I was in 1th grade. Granted, the system had been out for several years at that time, but compare the cost of a several-year-old computer from thta time. I promise you it was at least several factors more expensive.
No, the price of PC gaming has rapidly decreased, while the price of console gaming has gone up substantially - especially since the X-box.
*That hurt X-box sales, bigtime, actually. If it weren't for Halo (and GTA3), the X-box would've been a complete miss, as far as market impression is concerned. And only that was saved by insane levels of marketing.
Name one non-PC/console gaming franchise, aside from the (arguably exceptional) NES-derived Nintendo titles (Zelda, Metroid, etc.) which are shackled to the console itself, that have taken off under their own power?
The only one I can think of is Halo, and that was arguably a huge success solely because of Microsoft's marketing empire. Meanwhile, there have been many PC game franchises which have made game after game - Mechwarrior/Battletech universe, "Sim" whatever, Quake/Doom, Duke Nuke'm, Half-Life, Starcraft/Warcraft, Diablo, Command and Conquer, the dozens of military sims/strategy games which have huge followings, and now the military FPS "sims" like Call of Duty and Medal of Honor which have a huge following. While (some of) these games exist for console, they've got a fairly mediocre following in comparison to the PC versions.
Really, if you want to talk about 'niches', the only niche that console gaming has is sports gaming. And those aren't so much as games as advertisements you pay for; I've yet to see one which offers anything substantial compared to the previous one aside from higher-resolution textures.
The PC will always be a better platform for gaming. It might be more expensive to develop for and have more complications, but that doesn't change the fact that by not artificially restricting yourself to a specific controller and a single hardware configuration, you are expanding the available quality and variety of games you can make. RTS, FPS, RPG, and TBS will never be popular or preferential on console until consoles come with a mouse as a default accessory and the average household has a TV with the resolution of a PC monitor.
I wonder if they included "fails to free memory" as a leak or potential leak? I'm sick and tired of FF tabs getting closed and the memory they were using to remain resident. sorry, 300Mb should NOT be resident "just started the browser" use, no matter how many tabs I've got open via seesionsaver...
The irony is that being able to legally circumvent something while it still exists may have saved a given company from going belly-up. Many products are commercially unfeasable without the "tinkerer" market.
It's probably just as simple as him having it, and it being something both familiar and comfortable to him, whether intellectually or emotionally. People who kidnap little girls for devious reasons tend to have psychological hang-ups when it comes to forming relationships and stick to what they know, often due to a traumatic event in their past.
If I were to guess, I'd guess he was molested as a boy, and that he found sollace in a C64.
It's a legacy, maybe - but just try to find a command in Linux to rescan your SCSI-bus. Well, there isn't. Instead, you are supposed to echo some values into certain parts of the procfs, or run some vendor-specific script. Wow, l33t. Impressive. *That's* what I call a hack.
Yep. That's one of my personal pet peeves about the newer kernel design. I no longer have to remember the name of a tool to do the job - something short and apropos - but I've got to remember a full tree hierarchy to a status device file or some such nonsense.
Yes, this is nice in a sense; I don't have to have those extra binary tools. But it's also an irritation as it's a divorce from the known, "standard" way of Unix.
Bannishment for his license choice was not the reason he was bannished. It was closer to an excuse, but really, it looks like it was probably just the last straw.
Judging from the other comments here about this Jorj guy, he was a collossal prick and was trying to "game the system" that is free software for personal financial profit. He wanted his cake and to eat it too, or however that goes. Furthermore, he made things difficult for everyone else who was trying to make things work.
This is simply people involved in Debian free software calling him on his bullshit.
When you worship at the throne of profit, with innovation being a means to an end, anything that is heretical to the goal of making money is seen as evil.
In Orwell's day, a 1984 dystopia would've been impossible; the technological resources required to watch everyone at the same time would've been impossible.
Actually, no, that's not true at all, and it demonstrates a severely lacking knowledge of history.
While you're partially true in that it would have been impossible to pull off solely by using technology - and I think that's what you probably meant, for the most part - there are other ways to perform "total surveilance" on a populace.
It has been done in every regime in the 20th Century. It was done before then, and was known to occur during the Roman Empire. Simply put, you have your populace monitor itself. You do this by causing fear, and making people think that they could be next - if they step out of line and don't report your neighbor for doing X or Y. Why? Because your neighbor is probably watching you for minor infractions, too, and would just love to get a raise, promotion, or what have you brought on by the superior governmental contacts he'd acquire by turning someone in.
Hell, it's commonplace today in states like Iran and Saudi Arabia, where thought crime isn't a work of fiction.
And how! I've got a scar running diagnally across my right arm. I got it when I scraped my arm along one of those lovely sharp surfaces about 8 years ago on an old Compaq 386 - something had died inside, causing the box to crash. I foolishly did not unplugged it, got a shock, and then a cut.
I just tell people I was in a knife fight... it's believeable - it's a nasty gash.
Meh. It's nothing special, not at all, really. I've seen half a dozen implimentations that are similar to this, though none of them combine the competitive scoring with the classification. Still, certain parts of the other htings I've seen have been much, much better... particularly when it comes to categorizing pr0n. Some pretty impressive systems there...
I guess google figured out how to make data classification work rewarding.:) Turn it into a game... (That works with most things, actually...)
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Much of the weight provided by the batteries (or engine, etc.) in a car is not "dead weight". It is completely, absolutely necessary for the speeds at which modern veihcles routinely travel in order to keep the vehicle from flying from the roadway and flipping end over end.
Well, keep in mind that the ipod case just boasts being able to withstand an RPG (doubtful), not the ipod itself. I suspect geting banged against the floor will still likely do a number on the screen after several hard drops.
I said a bachelor's degree is functionally useless, and most woh have one are as well.
I didn't say an education is useless. But really, that has little to nothing to do with the fact that someone has a degree...
They should've lied and said $300. THen they'd have gotten bad press, and when they release it at $250 (or hell, $275, and drop it to $250 a month later), everyone would be saying, "ZOMG, what a great deal! Look what Nintendo managed to pull off!"
A good counter-example is, ironically, Halo. It's a mediocre game in almost every respect, the least of which is its actual gameplay (it reminded me of Serious Sam). Yet, it's a huge hit. Why?
Good advertising from Microsoft, and everyone saying it'd suck balls. It somehow managed to be the first really playable FPS on console, and MS did well for it.
This is precisely why 3D Realms is (supposedly) not saying word one about their development of Duke Nuke'm Forever - hype kills games. It's suicidal to release teasers throughout development, or early on in development, because people begin guessing and postulatin gamongst themselves in forums and newsgroups, and they get their expectations up.
If you get their expectations up,
This is why (amongst everyone I know, at least) Half-Life 2 was not such a great hit. Everyone basically knew what was coming when it came out, and it wasn't up to their expectations due to the long wait (remember the fiasco with "get halflife2 free" video cards due to that wait?).
This is nothing but a good trend, if you ask me. It means businesses will find people actually able to do the jobs at hand, and not worry so much about dead weight. It means talented people will be able to jump in and get jobs doing what they're able to do without short-circuiting their careers with a functionally useless bachelor degree.
Furthermore, it means that young people will not need to continue to burden themselves with the expense of a college diploma (with the years and thousands of dollars in loads attached) unless they need to due to shortcoming, or for a particular professional field which requires such things. When you've got people paying off college loans until their kids graduate high school, this can hardly be seen as anything negative.
Maybe then colleges and universities will adapt and learn how to compete again instead of having half a major's requirements be fluff and non-consequential social engineering humanities and concentrate on teaching instead of indoctrination.
(Yeah, I know university isn't about job training, but it's already treated that way, just with social indoctrination courses. If you want to retain the concentration on art and literature, fine - just cut out the worthless social commentary and political 'artists'.)
If deceit with the intent of making a better name for one's self isn't "evil", I don't know wha tis.
... as opposed to Linux and other *BSDs, which infrequently crash and have no such graphical crash indication. I think - I've very infrequently experienced such things.
Exactly. It doesn't matter if a cheerleader kicks you in the balls or if a corner bum does. Either way, it (hurts a fuck of a lot and) pisses you off. Now, your tollerance for the cheerleader might be higher, as she's easier to look at and you've got a perception that by not getting irritated you might get something out of it (or that the prettyness does something for you), but over time they're both going to piss you off roughly as much as the other.
They don't piss you off because of how they look, they piss you off because they exist in the first place.
On another note... I've not had a system crash on my WinXP machine now for well over a month - and no restart in that period of time, either. I find this quite fascinating, as it's never happened before (and it's not like I haven't been abusing the system, either).
Yep. I do NOT understand how someone can prefer a joystick (or set of joysticks, really) over a mouse and keyboard when you're dealing with fluid movements. Especially when I see the "good" players with such crude instruments - a good CS:S console player would get his ass handed to him quickly if he were saddled with the controler against PC players (just as an example).
Yep. I've not paid more than about $150 for a graphic card in ages - hell, I've not even bought any new yardware for probably 2.5+ years now. I've not bene playing many of the newer games, but I can play HL2 and Doom 3 just fine.
What are you, 12?
There was a period of time, a very brief period of time - maybe a year? - prior to Doom 4's release, where this was the case. Everyone was waiting for Doom 4 and HL2 to expand the software side of PC gaming, and the video card and processor companies were both pumping out hardware which was above and beyond what games needed to operate optimally - a system to play "top of the line" games really could have bene made for almost the cost of a pre-discount X-box.*
PC gaming has always cost more than console gaming. I got a Nintendo (that is, NES) for Christmas around, oh, 1990, and it cost $89.99 from KayBee toys (I still remember the receipt). I was in 1th grade. Granted, the system had been out for several years at that time, but compare the cost of a several-year-old computer from thta time. I promise you it was at least several factors more expensive.
No, the price of PC gaming has rapidly decreased, while the price of console gaming has gone up substantially - especially since the X-box.
*That hurt X-box sales, bigtime, actually. If it weren't for Halo (and GTA3), the X-box would've been a complete miss, as far as market impression is concerned. And only that was saved by insane levels of marketing.
You're kidding, right?
Name one non-PC/console gaming franchise, aside from the (arguably exceptional) NES-derived Nintendo titles (Zelda, Metroid, etc.) which are shackled to the console itself, that have taken off under their own power?
The only one I can think of is Halo, and that was arguably a huge success solely because of Microsoft's marketing empire. Meanwhile, there have been many PC game franchises which have made game after game - Mechwarrior/Battletech universe, "Sim" whatever, Quake/Doom, Duke Nuke'm, Half-Life, Starcraft/Warcraft, Diablo, Command and Conquer, the dozens of military sims/strategy games which have huge followings, and now the military FPS "sims" like Call of Duty and Medal of Honor which have a huge following. While (some of) these games exist for console, they've got a fairly mediocre following in comparison to the PC versions.
Really, if you want to talk about 'niches', the only niche that console gaming has is sports gaming. And those aren't so much as games as advertisements you pay for; I've yet to see one which offers anything substantial compared to the previous one aside from higher-resolution textures.
The PC will always be a better platform for gaming. It might be more expensive to develop for and have more complications, but that doesn't change the fact that by not artificially restricting yourself to a specific controller and a single hardware configuration, you are expanding the available quality and variety of games you can make. RTS, FPS, RPG, and TBS will never be popular or preferential on console until consoles come with a mouse as a default accessory and the average household has a TV with the resolution of a PC monitor.
certainly!
I wonder if they included "fails to free memory" as a leak or potential leak? I'm sick and tired of FF tabs getting closed and the memory they were using to remain resident. sorry, 300Mb should NOT be resident "just started the browser" use, no matter how many tabs I've got open via seesionsaver...
what kind of sites are you going to? i've not seen a site like that in years.
The irony is that being able to legally circumvent something while it still exists may have saved a given company from going belly-up. Many products are commercially unfeasable without the "tinkerer" market.
It's probably just as simple as him having it, and it being something both familiar and comfortable to him, whether intellectually or emotionally. People who kidnap little girls for devious reasons tend to have psychological hang-ups when it comes to forming relationships and stick to what they know, often due to a traumatic event in their past.
If I were to guess, I'd guess he was molested as a boy, and that he found sollace in a C64.
" Periodic Table Table Poster Post"
Don't do that! You're going to make dyslexic and other spatially impaired folks go mad!
It's a legacy, maybe - but just try to find a command in Linux to rescan your SCSI-bus.
Well, there isn't. Instead, you are supposed to echo some values into certain parts of the procfs, or run some vendor-specific script.
Wow, l33t. Impressive. *That's* what I call a hack.
Yep. That's one of my personal pet peeves about the newer kernel design. I no longer have to remember the name of a tool to do the job - something short and apropos - but I've got to remember a full tree hierarchy to a status device file or some such nonsense.
Yes, this is nice in a sense; I don't have to have those extra binary tools. But it's also an irritation as it's a divorce from the known, "standard" way of Unix.
Bannishment for his license choice was not the reason he was bannished. It was closer to an excuse, but really, it looks like it was probably just the last straw.
Judging from the other comments here about this Jorj guy, he was a collossal prick and was trying to "game the system" that is free software for personal financial profit. He wanted his cake and to eat it too, or however that goes. Furthermore, he made things difficult for everyone else who was trying to make things work.
This is simply people involved in Debian free software calling him on his bullshit.
When you worship at the throne of profit, with innovation being a means to an end, anything that is heretical to the goal of making money is seen as evil.
In Orwell's day, a 1984 dystopia would've been impossible; the technological resources required to watch everyone at the same time would've been impossible.
Actually, no, that's not true at all, and it demonstrates a severely lacking knowledge of history.
While you're partially true in that it would have been impossible to pull off solely by using technology - and I think that's what you probably meant, for the most part - there are other ways to perform "total surveilance" on a populace.
It has been done in every regime in the 20th Century. It was done before then, and was known to occur during the Roman Empire. Simply put, you have your populace monitor itself. You do this by causing fear, and making people think that they could be next - if they step out of line and don't report your neighbor for doing X or Y. Why? Because your neighbor is probably watching you for minor infractions, too, and would just love to get a raise, promotion, or what have you brought on by the superior governmental contacts he'd acquire by turning someone in.
Hell, it's commonplace today in states like Iran and Saudi Arabia, where thought crime isn't a work of fiction.
And how! I've got a scar running diagnally across my right arm. I got it when I scraped my arm along one of those lovely sharp surfaces about 8 years ago on an old Compaq 386 - something had died inside, causing the box to crash. I foolishly did not unplugged it, got a shock, and then a cut.
I just tell people I was in a knife fight... it's believeable - it's a nasty gash.
Meh. It's nothing special, not at all, really. I've seen half a dozen implimentations that are similar to this, though none of them combine the competitive scoring with the classification. Still, certain parts of the other htings I've seen have been much, much better... particularly when it comes to categorizing pr0n. Some pretty impressive systems there...
:) Turn it into a game... (That works with most things, actually...)
I guess google figured out how to make data classification work rewarding.