With the launch of Vista, the optometrist market has taken a sudden lurch in profitability as users begin to experience "fuzzy" video on their 50" screens. They then schedule a visit to the eye doctor to see if they might be going blind, only to discover that is not their vision but their TV that no longer works.
When Microsoft was challenged about the problem, executives stated that "We regret that users feel they are having problems viewing the full quality of the content they have acquired, but as we feel this is only an issue for the pirated content and hacked hardware market, we do not see this as our problem. We are happy to work with honest users so that they can enjoy the full value of their Windows experience."
Check out the GameCube keyboards, Ascii and several others made keyboards for use with games like Phantasy Star Online. Since the Wii has GameCube controller ports, they might just work. I know I'm going to start looking for one.
I counter that with this morning, a non-gamer co-worker came over and asked me "So what's this about people getting hurt using that new game machine?"
I explained the whole situation to them and that was followed with a "Gee, I bet my wife would enjoy that, she likes to excercise but can never find the time. It sounds interesting. Where can I check it out?"
This is awsome press coverage for Nintendo that they don't even have to pay for. "Oooh look, Nintendo is dangerous! The Governement is keeping their eye on them." It's almost always good to play the bad-boy card in the U.S. market. Consumers eat it up.:) Anyone who wasn't thinking about buying a Wii might think that they should check to see what all the fuss is about... and if it makes another sale, cha-ching!
The valuation of the American currancy is dropping so fast that even the cheap metals used in our coinage has a higher value. As painfully illustrated by the Straight Dope article written in 1998. Then the value of the metal in a Penny is pegged at about 0.8 of a cent. Now it is being referenced as 1.7??? That's a 50% drop in value of our currency against these metals in just 8 years.
Personally I don't see this getting better anytime soon, and I have to wonder... If we get a new administration into office, and they were to turn over Bush, Cheney, et all... to an International Tribunal for crimes against humanity, would that help us turn around all of the problems we've gotten ourselves into?
Google Answers was originally designed to build a giant knowledge base of data to complement Google searches. Unfortunately, over the years it turned into lots of specialised questions with little re-use value, as most simple answers were found simply by Googling them. Therefore it never achived it's goal. I'm not surprised at this turn of events.
I just keep pointing this out so it sticks in people's minds and helps scuttle the FUD and speculation when Nintendo is going to release this or that system down the line.
It was nice to see Reggie actually put some back-handed validation onto a 30 year trend.
As I recal it was threats over licensing. There was accusations that the freedb database could pick up newer cddb exclusive data if applications were written to support either/or. I can't find the discussions right now but at the time it was clear that they threat of a lawsuit was dangled quite firmly infront of everyone if they didn't play by Gracenotes new bend over and take it up the ass rules.
"More importantly, the focus and dedication required for CDDB to grow could not be found in a community effort. If you look at how stagnant efforts like freedb have been, you'll see what I mean."
FreeDB has had problems from day one because Gracenote sued companies who tried to use alternate lookup systems. They sued FreeDB at one point over the database's content and raised questions over patent ownership and copyright ownership of the database. They've been complete bastards and he can go F himself over a 100% disingenuous statement like the one above.
Not that being I'm cynical or anything. They caluded with the Iranian terrorists that held American's hostage in 1980. I really don't put anything past these POS fools in office.
There are some really great shots in that thread as well as some co-ordinates to follow up on. One is a wierd land area in New Mexico where some scammers had built out all the roads for an entire city development and then skipped out with the money and never built a thing.
Start out with simple card sorting exercises where you represent a basic adder, etc... This is what we've done at home with our kids, and once they had a grasp of writing programs from a microcode level we have moved them up to Logo, giving them procedural tasks, such as "write a set of functions that creates your name on the screen", etc... Or for the youngest "fill the screen with replicating equidistant geometric shapes".
It's been a lot of fun. Our oldest is now taking his first steps into Second Life scripting (a *very* basic scripting language) in the games Teen grid to add actions to his creations.
The fact that the question "Well? Do You?"... is even being asked is probably more symbolic of the problem than the fact that the kids were arrested.
Uhm... given that both major terrorist attacks...
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that have occured since & including 911, have also coinsided with a massive government/military training drills (911 and london)... and the since the U.S. is building up a strike force for what appears to be a July attack on Iran... the conspiracy side of me is going "Hmmm...." in an ominous tone....do we need to be digging out our grand fathers bomb shelters for a "camping trip" with the family? Sigh...
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..and I would expect to pay that. My problem is when I pay that amount and the upstream provider has still oversold their capacity.
A good case in point... I worked for an ISP several years ago and standing policy was any calls from a certain secondary provider in Georgia were to be disregarded because that provider had over sold network throughput capacity by 60%!!! The only actionable items we were to deal with were full blown routing failures on our side of the bridge. Needless to say we constantly got bitchy phone calls about people getting shit connection speeds from this area.
"Fiber-optic cables - ADSL signals can't pass through the conversion from analog to digital and back to analog that occurs if a portion of your telephone circuit comes through fiber-optic cables."
That's the real problem. This notion of over selling bandwidth on the plan that people aren't going to use it anyways. Some ISPs have a horrific track record of doing this and it's inexcusable. If you're going to sell me 24/7, 6MB down/1MB up, then god damn it, I expect to get just that. If that's not what I'm getting then don't call it that, and don't promise it!
Keep kicking devlopers in the nuts until they stop making games like this. 99.9% of the time nausua is caused by a crappy in game camera implementation. Either it's too jumpy, or the fisheyed aspect used to "make the world look bigger" is at fault. My wife and two of my co-workers suffer from this. While alot of games are no problem, there are others where the camera implementation was so bad that they're running from the room to puke after a few minutes.
For those of you pissing on this guy as needing to "get his vision" checked... While that may be the case, most likely it's not. Some people are more suseptable to visual/motion issues than others, we're all NOT built the same. He may just have to be careful about the games he plays and realize that he has been excluded from enjoying a percentage of video games on the market by poor development practices or poor management decisions.
For some advice to game developers, check here... it's amazingly still relevant sarcasm.
From what I know of Google, this is more likely an effort to insulate themselves from the nut bags at Qwest, SBC, etc... who are throwing around the idea of charging a premium price for high-speed packet priority over the Internet. I wouldn't worry about it. Go Google!
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With the launch of Vista, the optometrist market has taken a sudden lurch in profitability as users begin to experience "fuzzy" video on their 50" screens. They then schedule a visit to the eye doctor to see if they might be going blind, only to discover that is not their vision but their TV that no longer works.
When Microsoft was challenged about the problem, executives stated that "We regret that users feel they are having problems viewing the full quality of the content they have acquired, but as we feel this is only an issue for the pirated content and hacked hardware market, we do not see this as our problem. We are happy to work with honest users so that they can enjoy the full value of their Windows experience."
Check out the GameCube keyboards, Ascii and several others made keyboards for use with games like Phantasy Star Online. Since the Wii has GameCube controller ports, they might just work. I know I'm going to start looking for one.
If I remember right, wasn't EA also the company that brought us "Retail box with no game inside of it"?
I counter that with this morning, a non-gamer co-worker came over and asked me "So what's this about people getting hurt using that new game machine?"
I explained the whole situation to them and that was followed with a "Gee, I bet my wife would enjoy that, she likes to excercise but can never find the time. It sounds interesting. Where can I check it out?"
...that somehow this is just a marketing gimick.
This is awsome press coverage for Nintendo that they don't even have to pay for. "Oooh look, Nintendo is dangerous! The Governement is keeping their eye on them." It's almost always good to play the bad-boy card in the U.S. market. Consumers eat it up. :) Anyone who wasn't thinking about buying a Wii might think that they should check to see what all the fuss is about... and if it makes another sale, cha-ching!
The valuation of the American currancy is dropping so fast that even the cheap metals used in our coinage has a higher value. As painfully illustrated by the Straight Dope article written in 1998. Then the value of the metal in a Penny is pegged at about 0.8 of a cent. Now it is being referenced as 1.7??? That's a 50% drop in value of our currency against these metals in just 8 years.
Personally I don't see this getting better anytime soon, and I have to wonder... If we get a new administration into office, and they were to turn over Bush, Cheney, et all... to an International Tribunal for crimes against humanity, would that help us turn around all of the problems we've gotten ourselves into?
Google Answers was originally designed to build a giant knowledge base of data to complement Google searches. Unfortunately, over the years it turned into lots of specialised questions with little re-use value, as most simple answers were found simply by Googling them. Therefore it never achived it's goal. I'm not surprised at this turn of events.
I just keep pointing this out so it sticks in people's minds and helps scuttle the FUD and speculation when Nintendo is going to release this or that system down the line.
It was nice to see Reggie actually put some back-handed validation onto a 30 year trend.
"More hits than germans surfing fetish websites
Yo, that is a lot of hits."
There's 45 hits in this song not counting the title.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B38c1e52vfY
As I recal it was threats over licensing. There was accusations that the freedb database could pick up newer cddb exclusive data if applications were written to support either/or. I can't find the discussions right now but at the time it was clear that they threat of a lawsuit was dangled quite firmly infront of everyone if they didn't play by Gracenotes new bend over and take it up the ass rules.
"More importantly, the focus and dedication required for CDDB to grow could not be found in a community effort. If you look at how stagnant efforts like freedb have been, you'll see what I mean."
FreeDB has had problems from day one because Gracenote sued companies who tried to use alternate lookup systems. They sued FreeDB at one point over the database's content and raised questions over patent ownership and copyright ownership of the database. They've been complete bastards and he can go F himself over a 100% disingenuous statement like the one above.
Not that being I'm cynical or anything. They caluded with the Iranian terrorists that held American's hostage in 1980. I really don't put anything past these POS fools in office.
Just friggin' link to the ACTUAL SOURCE!!!
http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink =2294440
There are some really great shots in that thread as well
as some co-ordinates to follow up on. One is a wierd land
area in New Mexico where some scammers had built out all
the roads for an entire city development and then skipped
out with the money and never built a thing.
Very wierd stuff.
Start out with simple card sorting exercises where you represent a basic adder, etc... This is what we've done at home with our kids, and once they had a grasp of writing programs from a microcode level we have moved them up to Logo, giving them procedural tasks, such as "write a set of functions that creates your name on the screen", etc... Or for the youngest "fill the screen with replicating equidistant geometric shapes".
It's been a lot of fun. Our oldest is now taking his first steps into Second Life scripting (a *very* basic scripting language) in the games Teen grid to add actions to his creations.
The fact that the question "Well? Do You?"... is even being asked is probably more symbolic of the problem than the fact that the kids were arrested.
that have occured since & including 911, have also coinsided with a massive government/military training drills (911 and london)... and the since the U.S. is building up a strike force for what appears to be a July attack on Iran... the conspiracy side of me is going "Hmmm...." in an ominous tone. ...do we need to be digging out our grand fathers bomb shelters for a "camping trip" with the family? Sigh...
As you requested...
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The Women of E3 article from the 1995 show.
..and I would expect to pay that. My problem is when I pay that amount and the upstream provider has still oversold their capacity.
A good case in point... I worked for an ISP several years ago and standing policy was any calls from a certain secondary provider in Georgia were to be disregarded because that provider had over sold network throughput capacity by 60%!!! The only actionable items we were to deal with were full blown routing failures on our side of the bridge. Needless to say we constantly got bitchy phone calls about people getting shit connection speeds from this area.
...from http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/dsl.htm
"Fiber-optic cables - ADSL signals can't pass through the conversion from analog to digital and back to analog that occurs if a portion of your telephone circuit comes through fiber-optic cables."
That's the real problem. This notion of over selling bandwidth on the plan that people aren't going to use it anyways. Some ISPs have a horrific track record of doing this and it's inexcusable. If you're going to sell me 24/7, 6MB down/1MB up, then god damn it, I expect to get just that. If that's not what I'm getting then don't call it that, and don't promise it!
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Keep kicking devlopers in the nuts until they stop making games like this. 99.9% of the time nausua is caused by a crappy in game camera implementation. Either it's too jumpy, or the fisheyed aspect used to "make the world look bigger" is at fault. My wife and two of my co-workers suffer from this. While alot of games are no problem, there are others where the camera implementation was so bad that they're running from the room to puke after a few minutes.
For those of you pissing on this guy as needing to "get his vision" checked... While that may be the case, most likely it's not. Some people are more suseptable to visual/motion issues than others, we're all NOT built the same. He may just have to be careful about the games he plays and realize that he has been excluded from enjoying a percentage of video games on the market by poor development practices or poor management decisions.
For some advice to game developers, check here... it's amazingly still relevant sarcasm.
From what I know of Google, this is more likely an effort to insulate themselves from the nut bags at Qwest, SBC, etc... who are throwing around the idea of charging a premium price for high-speed packet priority over the Internet. I wouldn't worry about it. Go Google!