Everytime someone mentions a console having backwards compatibility somone makes the argument above. I have no idea one someone thinks it is not improtant I can think of a bunch of reasons why it is.
1. So you do not have too many things plugged into your TV. 2. So you do not have to worry about not being able to play your old games because your machine broke and they do not make them anymore. 3. Because you might want to play Halo2 but have not bought an XBox yet. I would not want to buy a game machine for one game and then have it be obsolete. With the 360 I can play some of the old XbOx games I missed. 4. Gives developrs better options. Should I make a game for XBox which is going away or should I make it for 360 which has hardly any installed base. With backwards compatibility you have some options.
There are even more reasons. Are people so stupid they only think, "I have already have an XBox I do not need backwards compatibility"?
I have used one of these. I was testing it for my company. Microsoft was stupid enough not to put an off switch on either the keyboard or the mouse. Therefore these things eat batteries whether you are using it or not.
Man that is a good idea. They just need to make it more exciting than star trek. Setting it after ROTJ is cool too since you do not know what might happen.
Whatever reasons the war started what is important to me is that the Iraqi people will probably be better off once all this is over. Sadaam was killing more Iraqi's every year than were killed by Amercans during the Gulf war.
Iraqi Amercans are cheering this war on. Some are planning to return to Iraq.
Sadaam should be overthrown just for setting the oil fields on fire in Kuwait 13 years ago. The environmental damage he did was a crime against nature.
And for all those protesters shoutng no blood for oil. Screw the oil there are other reasons to take Sadaam down.
But speaking of oil. France gets most of their oil from Iraq and they are against the war. DO you think they are afraid of a disruption in their oil supply?
The French would rather see the Iraqi's suffer than disrupt their oil supply? That may not be true but it might.
Here is a quote from somebody on another website I was talking too.
"I read an account of an Iraqi political dissenter who was forced to watch his 8 month old baby boy tortured. I don't care if the original reason for invasion and subsequent regime change was not for human rights issues, but if taking Saddam out for whatever reason stops the atrocious violation of human rights, I say its a good thing.
There was already footage of Iraqis cheering and waving the American flag. If the people of Iraq want to be free, and want the coalition's help, who are we to say this war is bad.
I was trying to drive through a war protest yesterday in San Francisco, and I saw protestors waving anti-war posters out of a car with a "Free-Tibet" bumper sticker on it. I yelled, "WHY FREE TIBET, AND NOT IRAQ?" They had no answer."
""--Let's recall this quotation from Dominique Dord, a deputy from French President Jacques Chirac's own party: "We would look really stupid if Iraqis applaud the arrival of Americans." Well said.--"
Iraqis in the newly liberated Souhtern Iraq are indeed cheering. "
I used to teach Algebra and Statistics in College. Most of the students were nurses but there were a few lawyers. They would always try to argue their grades up. I would just have to tell them that you can't argue the number 25 into the number 10. The answer was wrong and they would just have to live with the grade.
Most people cannot tell which of my paintings I did digitally and which ones I did with watercolor unless I tell them. I have been doing less and less watercolor lately.
Even though I am familiar with both I have a hard time telling the difference in other people paintings.
I have been using Corel's Painter mostly but I also use photoshop. check out http://mhatton.deviantart.com/ for some examples.
I disagree with your sig. You could steal someone's house by putting an armed guard around it and living inside. The former owners come home to find their house stolen.
I am more under wieght than overweight, 160lbs 5'11'' and I am 35 years old. I started lifting weights 2 weeks ago to get rid of a small spare tire. I think I only gained a pound or two but my body looks so different. I wish I had started doing this 10 years ago. I feel great and I need about 2 hours less sleep at night for some reason. I guess the results will start to taper off soon but I would recommend lifting no matter how old you are.
Yesterday I took the day off. My Daughter (2nd Grader)came home from school. We started to talk about her schoolwork.
At supper we started to get into some fairly deep territory. I even said I had a book that says that the Universe might have 11 dimensions. This is funny because that article by Hawking said the same thing.
It was really nice I will have to do it again.
Actually her schoolwork came up because she corrected her teacher. Her teacher said that Mexico was in South America and my Daughter corrected her. The Teacher did not believe her and had to get out a map to find out. Pathetic.
I think the author of the statement you are replying too understands that HTML is not a "page-design" language and that is why he said "There needs to be some type of HTML standard for printed documents" instead of "HTML should be the standard for printed documents.
He was just stating that there needs to be a standard as widely accepted at HTML.
Quite a while back I was with a group of people and they rented Ferris Beuller's Day off. They were a quite touchy about language and I made the mistake of saying I had seen the movie before. They actually gave me the remote control and I was to hit mute whenever someone was to say a profanity. Of course this was impossible since I neglected to memorize the movie word for word. They got really mad at me each time I missed one.
They were a bunch of idiots and I was stupid for being there in the first place.
Anyway this device would have solved that problem, but I would never want to watch an edited movie. I hate watching one on network TV anymore.
I think a better comparison would be when Apple went from 68K to PowerPC. They did their backward compatibility through software emulation.
I think it would be best to have some super duper new architecture that was much faster and do the backward compatibilty through software emulation and not hardware emulation.
I just do not think the Itanium is that new architecture. They are getting lousy speeds from this thing. If it was ten times faster out of the gate than a Pentium 4 I would say Intel is doing the right thing. right now I do not see it.
With all of this I see the Hammer being something I am more interested in even though I think the software emulation route would be better.
I disagree. I can put my entire CD collection on this thing. That means wherever I go I can play any song I have without having to carry a bunch of disks around or reattaching to my computer.
If I bought one of these I would put every song I have on it and that would be it until I got new songs.
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I think Microsoft is hurting itself by using letters instead of numbers.
If I has Windows 7 and I saw that Windows 8 is out I would feel behind the times. If I had Windows ME and I saw Windows XP is out I would not notice so much.
Customers are used to numbers. Sequels to movies have numbers. I think they will want to upgrade more with the old version scheme.
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So that is why they call it the Pussy Wagon. I thought Tarrantino was referring to something else.
Everytime someone mentions a console having backwards compatibility somone makes the argument above. I have no idea one someone thinks it is not improtant I can think of a bunch of reasons why it is.
1. So you do not have too many things plugged into your TV.
2. So you do not have to worry about not being able to play your old games because your machine broke and they do not make them anymore.
3. Because you might want to play Halo2 but have not bought an XBox yet. I would not want to buy a game machine for one game and then have it be obsolete. With the 360 I can play some of the old XbOx games I missed.
4. Gives developrs better options. Should I make a game for XBox which is going away or should I make it for 360 which has hardly any installed base. With backwards compatibility you have some options.
There are even more reasons. Are people so stupid they only think, "I have already have an XBox I do not need backwards compatibility"?
Or we could just make gloves out of Aerogel.
I have used one of these. I was testing it for my company. Microsoft was stupid enough not to put an off switch on either the keyboard or the mouse. Therefore these things eat batteries whether you are using it or not.
I am glad Apple did not make that mistake.
Man that is a good idea. They just need to make it more exciting than star trek. Setting it after ROTJ is cool too since you do not know what might happen.
I am the only Hacker/Painter at my company. All of the other Hackers are Hacker/Musicians.
They act like I am really unusual. Util I read this article I was starting to think I was the only one.
Why are Musicians so common but Painter's not in the Hacker community?
Whatever reasons the war started what is important to me is that the Iraqi people will probably be better off once all this is over. Sadaam was killing more Iraqi's every year than were killed by Amercans during the Gulf war.
Iraqi Amercans are cheering this war on. Some are planning to return to Iraq.
Sadaam should be overthrown just for setting the oil fields on fire in Kuwait 13 years ago. The environmental damage he did was a crime against nature.
And for all those protesters shoutng no blood for oil. Screw the oil there are other reasons to take Sadaam down.
But speaking of oil. France gets most of their oil from Iraq and they are against the war. DO you think they are afraid of a disruption in their oil supply?
The French would rather see the Iraqi's suffer than disrupt their oil supply? That may not be true but it might.
Here is a quote from somebody on another website I was talking too.
"I read an account of an Iraqi political dissenter who was forced to watch his 8 month old baby boy tortured. I don't care if the original reason for invasion and subsequent regime change was not for human rights issues, but if taking Saddam out for whatever reason stops the atrocious violation of human rights, I say its a good thing.
There was already footage of Iraqis cheering and waving the American flag. If the people of Iraq want to be free, and want the coalition's help, who are we to say this war is bad.
I was trying to drive through a war protest yesterday in San Francisco, and I saw protestors waving anti-war posters out of a car with a "Free-Tibet" bumper sticker on it. I yelled, "WHY FREE TIBET, AND NOT IRAQ?" They had no answer."
""--Let's recall this quotation from Dominique Dord, a deputy from French President Jacques Chirac's own party: "We would look really stupid if Iraqis applaud the arrival of Americans." Well said.--"
Iraqis in the newly liberated Souhtern Iraq are indeed cheering. "
You can pick on South Korea's political system all you want, but is a hell of a lot better than North Korea's.
That was the funniest thing I have ever seen on the Simpson's. I am glad I am not the only one to think that.
I used to teach Algebra and Statistics in College. Most of the students were nurses but there were a few lawyers. They would always try to argue their grades up. I would just have to tell them that you can't argue the number 25 into the number 10. The answer was wrong and they would just have to live with the grade.
Most people cannot tell which of my paintings I did digitally and which ones I did with watercolor unless I tell them. I have been doing less and less watercolor lately.
Even though I am familiar with both I have a hard time telling the difference in other people paintings.
I have been using Corel's Painter mostly but I also use photoshop. check out
http://mhatton.deviantart.com/ for some examples.
Unless you have very small hands, when you said "literally a hanful of atoms" you were incorrect.
My hands can hold quite a large number of atoms.
I do not think the word "literally" means what you think it means.
Here is what I think.
The First and Second worlds refer to the Free Worlds and to the Communist World during the cold war.
The third world countries were basically undeveloped and not affiliated.
I disagree with your sig. You could steal someone's house by putting an armed guard around it and living inside. The former owners come home to find their house stolen.
I am more under wieght than overweight, 160lbs 5'11'' and I am 35 years old. I started lifting weights 2 weeks ago to get rid of a small spare tire. I think I only gained a pound or two but my body looks so different. I wish I had started doing this 10 years ago. I feel great and I need about 2 hours less sleep at night for some reason. I guess the results will start to taper off soon but I would recommend lifting no matter how old you are.
Here is the real reason software is so bad.
Consumers decide to buy the software that has the most features and not the software that has the fewest bugs.
If consumers decided to buy the software with the fewest bugs you would see software quality shoot through the roof.
I knew there was I reason I voted for him.
I wonder what would have happened if he had one.
Yesterday I took the day off. My Daughter (2nd Grader)came home from school. We started to talk about her schoolwork.
At supper we started to get into some fairly deep territory. I even said I had a book that says that the Universe might have 11 dimensions. This is funny because that article by Hawking said the same thing.
It was really nice I will have to do it again.
Actually her schoolwork came up because she corrected her teacher. Her teacher said that Mexico was in South America and my Daughter corrected her. The Teacher did not believe her and had to get out a map to find out. Pathetic.
I think the author of the statement you are replying too understands that HTML is not a "page-design" language and that is why he said "There needs to be some type of HTML standard for printed documents" instead of "HTML should be the standard for printed documents.
He was just stating that there needs to be a standard as widely accepted at HTML.
I picked up Paper Mario used for $7.99 at Blockbuster. It is great.
I still see it new for $54 in some stores.
Quite a while back I was with a group of people and they rented Ferris Beuller's Day off. They were a quite touchy about language and I made the mistake of saying I had seen the movie before. They actually gave me the remote control and I was to hit mute whenever someone was to say a profanity. Of course this was impossible since I neglected to memorize the movie word for word. They got really mad at me each time I missed one.
They were a bunch of idiots and I was stupid for being there in the first place.
Anyway this device would have solved that problem, but I would never want to watch an edited movie. I hate watching one on network TV anymore.
Even thought there was an Alpha version. They actually did the development with a MIPS processor.
I think a better comparison would be when Apple went from 68K to PowerPC. They did their backward compatibility through software emulation.
I think it would be best to have some super duper new architecture that was much faster and do the backward compatibilty through software emulation and not hardware emulation.
I just do not think the Itanium is that new architecture. They are getting lousy speeds from this thing. If it was ten times faster out of the gate than a Pentium 4 I would say Intel is doing the right thing. right now I do not see it.
With all of this I see the Hammer being something I am more interested in even though I think the software emulation route would be better.
I disagree. I can put my entire CD collection on this thing. That means wherever I go I can play any song I have without having to carry a bunch of disks around or reattaching to my computer.
If I bought one of these I would put every song I have on it and that would be it until I got new songs.
I think Microsoft is hurting itself by using letters instead of numbers.
If I has Windows 7 and I saw that Windows 8 is out I would feel behind the times. If I had Windows ME and I saw Windows XP is out I would not notice so much.
Customers are used to numbers. Sequels to movies have numbers. I think they will want to upgrade more with the old version scheme.