Well, yes and no. As I understand it, they are going the route of Nintendo's Virtual Console, where they have an emulator that they wrap the binary in and distribute as a single package versus a generic emulator that gets installed that will attempt to play all games.
I believe the reason behind this is A) legal in that they want the publishers permission for all games as a CYA. B) They can test games for compatibility as console developers are notorious for using undocumented APIs and hardware hacks / tricks that wreak havoc with software-based emulators. Having games that don't work with the emulator when it is listed as compatible with all games would be a PR disaster, especially if it is a high-profile game. Lastly, C) This gives them and the publishers a new route for sales as they can later have the game listed on the store as a "360 Classic" or whatever they are planning to name them.
"In what you're saying, do you mean OR or AND," and they reply "Yes."
Yes is a correct answer to that statement, just not the one you are expecting. If either OR or AND is what they mean then an affirmative can be correct. Perhaps the correct question to ask is: "In what you're saying, WHICH do you mean, OR or AND?
Then you have to explain it to them: "Cake OR iced cream or cake AND iced cream?"... and they get confused and insulted.
Obviously the correct question to ask is "Would you like Cake OR Iced Cream?" as it logically gives the largest number of combinations: cake, iced cream, both, or neither. Whereas asking about Cake AND Iced Cream gives the option of both or neither since they two have become conditionally paired.
Then again, you can also realize that few people use precise language but most people who are not socially dysfunctional or deliberate assholes understand meaning and intent of the question because people are not computers with strict syntax requirements.
Well she was walking all alone Down the street in the alley Her name was Sally I never touched her, she never saw it
When she was hit by space junk When she was smashed by space junk When she was killed by space junk
And now I'm mad about space junk I'm all burned out about space junk Walk and talk about space junk It smashed my baby's head, space junk And now my sally's dead, space junk
Well she was walking all alone Down the street in the alley Her name was Sally I never touched her, she never saw it
When she was hit by space junk When she was smashed by space junk When she was killed by space junk
"In New York, Miami beach Heavy metal fell in Cuba Angola, Saudi Arabia On Christmas eve", said Norad
A soviet sputnik hit Africa India, Venezuela, in Texas, Kansas It's falling fast Peru too It keeps coming, it keeps coming, it keeps coming
And now I'm mad about space junk I'm all burned out about space junk Walk and talk about space junk It smashed my baby's head, space junk And now my sally's dead, space junk
We get Amazon deliveries up here in Canada by girls on Rollerblades. I ended up getting involved with one of them, long story short, very high maintenance. I had to get in a fight with all of her exes, who were all kind of dicks. One of them killed me, but luckily I had an extra life. Anyway, it somehow all seemingly worked out in the end.
The point I am trying to make is that this is a bad idea since Amazon delivery girls are bad news and attract really crazy exes. Having more of these girls around can only spell trouble. Do yourself a favor and stay away from Amazon delivery girls for your own sake, and the sake of your friends. Trust me on this.
That depends, are you selling it as an unlicensed Knight Rider KITT conversion kit? No? Then you are probably OK.
I am very much on the side of Fair Use and dislike the abuse of copyright that has all but killed the public domain and reduced pop-culture into this sick rehash of regurgitating the same IP time and again, but selling unlicensed replicas of the Batmobile cannot really be defended.
This isn't some guy who did a home conversion and was showing it off, or even mashing up and or parodying the design elements into a new design, this is profiting off of the deliberate theft of an iconic design plain and simple.
The PS3 wasn't a failure. Sure, the first couple of years it was considered a joke for being horribly expensive and notoriously hard to program, but it outsold the 360 everywhere but North America with global sales estimated at 85.83 Million to 360's 84.90 Million.
Yes, but WOW is an online-only game so it is a pretty fair assumption that you have a decent internet connection. In this case, the cds were more of a convenience to keep Blizzards servers from getting massively hammered on launch week.
The benefit of having a console game is that it should work right out of the box without ever needing an Internet connection.
Woz isn't some struggling engineer. He made a fortune from co-founding Apple both in pay and stock options. Last I heard, he is still a paid employee of Apple ("Apple Ambassador", or something like that) receiving ~$120k a year according to Wikipedia.
Every company that gives perks like that is only because they want you to stay all hours of the day and night. Sure, that is great and all and the money is wonderful at those places, I'm sure. However, the only thing that many of us care about is actual free time.
It seems like the whole culture is pushing this "Work your life away because it is the American thing to do" agenda. "40 hours a week is for lazy gits who will get nowhere in the workplace." Hell, where I work, don't work less than 90 hours a week if you want to make it through your next performance review. Most people start with at least 7 "use it or lose it" personal days and god help you if you actually try to take one. I am lucky because, as a contractor, they actually think twice about making me stay late as it is costing them. Salaried, I would never want to work there as that kind of environment is toxic to one's health and soul. This kind of shit is what makes tech workers hate their jobs.
Work to live and not live to work, words to live by.
Or... gurps_npc is a socialist idiot who doesn't know how humans are actually motivated.
Well, what do you expect from a Non-Player Character in the General Universal Role Playing System? Sounds like little more than a personality-less stat-sheet to me.
Correct. You can't cure cancer for the same reason you can't cure the Common Cold. Because there is no "Common Cold" just as there is no "Cancer". What you have is dozens or hundreds of different things that cause very similar symptoms that get grouped together to be named "Cancer" just as there are hundreds of different viruses that can give you cold-like symptoms.
Cancer itself can be caused by genetic predisposition, viral infections, chemical exposure, radiation, excess exposure to the sun, or whathaveyou. Now, If you can treat what is common to all or most of them, you might be able to reduce it little more than a nuisance that is curable in 80-90% of cases instead of the generally survivable ordeal that it is now. However, it will not be eradicated anytime in the near future.
Bull. There is not game that requires them nor do they give anything that is essential to gameplay itself. All they do is unlock unessential little bonuses like costumes and freebie items.
1) Just because they showed up as "ghosts" doesn't mean they were ghosts. Mulder was hallucinating.
2) We know nothing about the story much less how they will come back. It might very well be a flashback sequence or an archived video tape from before they died or something.
He also said it was a decaying art form. Few put the effort and creativity into a truly good lie. I guess, if you're really just not going to try, you are just better off telling the truth.
A 3D printer is great for people who know CAD. I love my little Afinia. Sure, I have printed out my fair share of toys and models. But where it comes in handy is when I need something very specific to solve a problem both at home and work.
For instance, I bought my grandma a weather station for her birthday. However, there was no place to mount some of the sensors. After about a half-hour of design work and about 45 minutes printing time, I had some quick plates that I could glue to the shed and screw to the fence posts to mount the temperature and wind sensors. Sure, I might have went to the hardware store and looked for a solution, but that would have taken much longer than the hour and 15 minutes it took me to design and print something.
Simply put, if you know CAD or are willing to learn, 3D printers are great. If you are only going to print what other people have made, don't bother. After the toys and other tat, you will lose interest and probably feel like you wasted your money.
Small 4" Quadcopters by UDI and Hubsan. They can be had for like $50 - $200 on Amazon depending on features like cameras. They can barely reach the top of a 3 story house. The only way they are interfering with aircraft is if you are flying it on a runway.
I am all for hobbyist RC helicopters. Hell, I own two. However, I also believe that if they are capable of flying high enough to interfere with actual aircraft they cease to be toys and become unlicensed remotely operated aircraft, or drones. This is not some $200 toy quadcopter from Amazon, this was a 4-foot wide drone in a no-fly zone.
As an engineer who works developing flexible automation solutions, this stuff is hard and it is expensive. Sure, it is worth it for companies in North America and Europe (our main customers) because people are even more expensive. But in countries like China and India, this is more of a prestige thing than an actual business case because people are cheap and flexible solutions are not.
Now, I say flexible because the problem with industrial automation is cheap or flexible, pick one. We can easily make a machine for cranking out a product, maybe even a for a family of products. However, if it is a low demand part or worse, is not expected to be around in 10+ years, that machine will be a large useless paperweight. Those that come to us are looking for solutions for when the next product is here, they can hire an engineer to reconfigure to make it work.
My guess, this guy make a prediction without knowing the reality of actual automation and was forced to eat his words.
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Well, yes and no. As I understand it, they are going the route of Nintendo's Virtual Console, where they have an emulator that they wrap the binary in and distribute as a single package versus a generic emulator that gets installed that will attempt to play all games.
I believe the reason behind this is A) legal in that they want the publishers permission for all games as a CYA. B) They can test games for compatibility as console developers are notorious for using undocumented APIs and hardware hacks / tricks that wreak havoc with software-based emulators. Having games that don't work with the emulator when it is listed as compatible with all games would be a PR disaster, especially if it is a high-profile game. Lastly, C) This gives them and the publishers a new route for sales as they can later have the game listed on the store as a "360 Classic" or whatever they are planning to name them.
The discs are only used as physical DRM key. A full game download is required for all compatible titles.
Your logic is ambiguous.
"In what you're saying, do you mean OR or AND," and they reply "Yes."
Yes is a correct answer to that statement, just not the one you are expecting. If either OR or AND is what they mean then an affirmative can be correct. Perhaps the correct question to ask is: "In what you're saying, WHICH do you mean, OR or AND?
Then you have to explain it to them: "Cake OR iced cream or cake AND iced cream?" ... and they get confused and insulted.
Obviously the correct question to ask is "Would you like Cake OR Iced Cream?" as it logically gives the largest number of combinations: cake, iced cream, both, or neither. Whereas asking about Cake AND Iced Cream gives the option of both or neither since they two have become conditionally paired.
Then again, you can also realize that few people use precise language but most people who are not socially dysfunctional or deliberate assholes understand meaning and intent of the question because people are not computers with strict syntax requirements.
Well she was walking all alone
Down the street in the alley
Her name was Sally
I never touched her, she never saw it
When she was hit by space junk
When she was smashed by space junk
When she was killed by space junk
And now I'm mad about space junk
I'm all burned out about space junk
Walk and talk about space junk
It smashed my baby's head, space junk
And now my sally's dead, space junk
Well she was walking all alone
Down the street in the alley
Her name was Sally
I never touched her, she never saw it
When she was hit by space junk
When she was smashed by space junk
When she was killed by space junk
"In New York, Miami beach
Heavy metal fell in Cuba
Angola, Saudi Arabia
On Christmas eve", said Norad
A soviet sputnik hit Africa
India, Venezuela, in Texas, Kansas
It's falling fast Peru too
It keeps coming, it keeps coming, it keeps coming
And now I'm mad about space junk
I'm all burned out about space junk
Walk and talk about space junk
It smashed my baby's head, space junk
And now my sally's dead, space junk
Says someone who has obviously never used Synaptics touchpad. Cheap, small, and terrible and seem to be on just about every low to mid-end laptop.
no, coffee-based. It is for people who like a little coffee in their chocolate milkshakes served hot.
We get Amazon deliveries up here in Canada by girls on Rollerblades. I ended up getting involved with one of them, long story short, very high maintenance. I had to get in a fight with all of her exes, who were all kind of dicks. One of them killed me, but luckily I had an extra life. Anyway, it somehow all seemingly worked out in the end.
The point I am trying to make is that this is a bad idea since Amazon delivery girls are bad news and attract really crazy exes. Having more of these girls around can only spell trouble. Do yourself a favor and stay away from Amazon delivery girls for your own sake, and the sake of your friends. Trust me on this.
--Scott P.
I take it someone hates pizza delivery.
That depends, are you selling it as an unlicensed Knight Rider KITT conversion kit? No? Then you are probably OK.
I am very much on the side of Fair Use and dislike the abuse of copyright that has all but killed the public domain and reduced pop-culture into this sick rehash of regurgitating the same IP time and again, but selling unlicensed replicas of the Batmobile cannot really be defended.
This isn't some guy who did a home conversion and was showing it off, or even mashing up and or parodying the design elements into a new design, this is profiting off of the deliberate theft of an iconic design plain and simple.
The PS3 wasn't a failure. Sure, the first couple of years it was considered a joke for being horribly expensive and notoriously hard to program, but it outsold the 360 everywhere but North America with global sales estimated at 85.83 Million to 360's 84.90 Million.
Paint.NET can be made to work via wine or mono. De facto standard for easy to use free image processing.
Yes, but WOW is an online-only game so it is a pretty fair assumption that you have a decent internet connection. In this case, the cds were more of a convenience to keep Blizzards servers from getting massively hammered on launch week.
The benefit of having a console game is that it should work right out of the box without ever needing an Internet connection.
Woz isn't some struggling engineer. He made a fortune from co-founding Apple both in pay and stock options. Last I heard, he is still a paid employee of Apple ("Apple Ambassador", or something like that) receiving ~$120k a year according to Wikipedia.
He has been very well compensated.
Every company that gives perks like that is only because they want you to stay all hours of the day and night. Sure, that is great and all and the money is wonderful at those places, I'm sure. However, the only thing that many of us care about is actual free time.
It seems like the whole culture is pushing this "Work your life away because it is the American thing to do" agenda. "40 hours a week is for lazy gits who will get nowhere in the workplace." Hell, where I work, don't work less than 90 hours a week if you want to make it through your next performance review. Most people start with at least 7 "use it or lose it" personal days and god help you if you actually try to take one. I am lucky because, as a contractor, they actually think twice about making me stay late as it is costing them. Salaried, I would never want to work there as that kind of environment is toxic to one's health and soul. This kind of shit is what makes tech workers hate their jobs.
Work to live and not live to work, words to live by.
Or... gurps_npc is a socialist idiot who doesn't know how humans are actually motivated.
Well, what do you expect from a Non-Player Character in the General Universal Role Playing System? Sounds like little more than a personality-less stat-sheet to me.
Correct. You can't cure cancer for the same reason you can't cure the Common Cold. Because there is no "Common Cold" just as there is no "Cancer". What you have is dozens or hundreds of different things that cause very similar symptoms that get grouped together to be named "Cancer" just as there are hundreds of different viruses that can give you cold-like symptoms.
Cancer itself can be caused by genetic predisposition, viral infections, chemical exposure, radiation, excess exposure to the sun, or whathaveyou. Now, If you can treat what is common to all or most of them, you might be able to reduce it little more than a nuisance that is curable in 80-90% of cases instead of the generally survivable ordeal that it is now. However, it will not be eradicated anytime in the near future.
Bull. There is not game that requires them nor do they give anything that is essential to gameplay itself. All they do is unlock unessential little bonuses like costumes and freebie items.
1) Just because they showed up as "ghosts" doesn't mean they were ghosts. Mulder was hallucinating.
2) We know nothing about the story much less how they will come back. It might very well be a flashback sequence or an archived video tape from before they died or something.
Lawrence: "Well, you don't need a million dollars to do nothing, man. Take a look at my cousin: he's broke, don't do shit."
He also said it was a decaying art form. Few put the effort and creativity into a truly good lie. I guess, if you're really just not going to try, you are just better off telling the truth.
A 3D printer is great for people who know CAD. I love my little Afinia. Sure, I have printed out my fair share of toys and models. But where it comes in handy is when I need something very specific to solve a problem both at home and work.
For instance, I bought my grandma a weather station for her birthday. However, there was no place to mount some of the sensors. After about a half-hour of design work and about 45 minutes printing time, I had some quick plates that I could glue to the shed and screw to the fence posts to mount the temperature and wind sensors. Sure, I might have went to the hardware store and looked for a solution, but that would have taken much longer than the hour and 15 minutes it took me to design and print something.
Simply put, if you know CAD or are willing to learn, 3D printers are great. If you are only going to print what other people have made, don't bother. After the toys and other tat, you will lose interest and probably feel like you wasted your money.
Small 4" Quadcopters by UDI and Hubsan. They can be had for like $50 - $200 on Amazon depending on features like cameras. They can barely reach the top of a 3 story house. The only way they are interfering with aircraft is if you are flying it on a runway.
I am all for hobbyist RC helicopters. Hell, I own two. However, I also believe that if they are capable of flying high enough to interfere with actual aircraft they cease to be toys and become unlicensed remotely operated aircraft, or drones. This is not some $200 toy quadcopter from Amazon, this was a 4-foot wide drone in a no-fly zone.
As an engineer who works developing flexible automation solutions, this stuff is hard and it is expensive. Sure, it is worth it for companies in North America and Europe (our main customers) because people are even more expensive. But in countries like China and India, this is more of a prestige thing than an actual business case because people are cheap and flexible solutions are not.
Now, I say flexible because the problem with industrial automation is cheap or flexible, pick one. We can easily make a machine for cranking out a product, maybe even a for a family of products. However, if it is a low demand part or worse, is not expected to be around in 10+ years, that machine will be a large useless paperweight. Those that come to us are looking for solutions for when the next product is here, they can hire an engineer to reconfigure to make it work.
My guess, this guy make a prediction without knowing the reality of actual automation and was forced to eat his words.