First - it's not consoles that can't compete with PC's, it's the other way around. PC game sales are miniscule when compared to consoles. Gaming on the PC is restricted to RTS and FPS gaes for the most part - games which take advantage of a mouse/keyboard setup.
People play consoles because they DON'T have to worry about upgrading, or getting drivers to work, or crashes, or any of the other headaches involved in PC gaming. Consoles games just work - the way they're supposed to, every time. And they work the same way on everyone's system.
How exactly is this "news for nerds?" I'm sure the Society for the Advancement of Otters is concerned, but this isn't really an environmental news site.
You could always go to Cafe Press and make your own. The site is designed to offer turn-ey stores for t-shitrs, sweatshirts, coffee mugs, mousepads, etc. Just upload your own designs and buy the shirts. If you set the prices to the minumum they really aren't that bad. Plus your friends can buy your shirts as well.
Well, doesn't that mean that you're not really the target of this new directive anyway? It sounds like they're going for people who are *sharing* a lot of pirated music, not people who *have* a lot of pirated music.
So what are they going to do? Do some searches on Kazaa and find some users with big stashes and then....what? Oh of *course* these nice pirates registered with their real names and addresses, right? Right?
This is just stupid. Going after big pirating syndicates is one thing, and I'm all for it. Going after Joe college kid with an 80 gig drive of mp3s and DivX is just useless. When does it end?
With email spam you have the option of using filters, for on thing. Clicking "delete" as soon as you see something is also an option that, while annoying, isn't *that* difficult.
Junk mail on the other hand must be physically dealt with - thrown in the recycling bin or garbage.
I think people get mmore annoyed with spam because it's a constant deluge, as opposed to regaular mail which most check just once a day. Still, spam is easier to deal with.
Could you import the data into software that would give you more flexibility? One of the reasons you can't find a browser that supports this kind of thing is that browsers are *browsers* and aren't really built for page layout of print media.
One of mine too, actually. I was planning making some sort of joke about what a girl would think about water cooling a pc, then thought better of it, and then forgot to take out the last bit. Anyway, I agree with you.
I understand the need to be on the cutting edge of technology, and to puch your hardware right to the edge of the envelope... But isn't a water cooling system in a PC going just a *little* overboard for that extra 5% performance boost? Especially today when 2ghz processors are the norm. How fast does it really need to be?
As a registered user of Logic Audio Platinum for Windows, I'm very dissapointed with this. I've spent hundreds of dollars over the years buying and upgrading this software, only to have it discontinued right out from under me.
I'm kind of in shock right now - this just sucks! Good move for Apple, though - Emagic makes great software and is a well-run company.
I just finished re-reading the first of the series the other day, actually. Cool name, and you cut down on the "endless asskicking factor" by, as you mentioned, having a build in nickname of Sax, which is just cool.
Good series of books, if anyone hasn't checked them out.
Aside from nostalgic Berkley physics major alumni, a great idea would be for some udnerfunded school districts to pick up some of this stuff. I'm not a physics teacher, but I'd imagine a good quantity of it would be great for the high school level.
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this will mean that card makers write drivers that are *optimized for Doom 3's use of OpenGL 2*, not that they'll write good OpenGl drivers in general. This has been the case sicne Quake 2. Drivers are optimized to score well on Quake benchmarks above all else, which hurts their performnce in a more generalized sense. This will help adoption of OpenGL 2, but not as quickly or as robustly as many would like to see.
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Reading books on a palmtop? Imagine that! Isn't that what the whole e-book oveent is for? I tink the holy grail one day would be to have a cell phone with a readable screen, connected to highspeed network which would allow you to purchase and download a book in a matter of a minute or two, and then store it for you to read at your leisure.
I'm not sure multiplayer as described would be that big of a hit. My guess is that most people who'd play games on their cell phones want something they can pick and put down quickly, with a minimum of hassle. Unless you can streamline a matchmaking interface so that it takes less than 30 seconds, I doubt you'll see much use for it. If you only have five minutes to play a game, and 3 of those are spent finding someone to play with, you're not going to bother.
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There's so much wrong with this statement.
First - it's not consoles that can't compete with PC's, it's the other way around. PC game sales are miniscule when compared to consoles. Gaming on the PC is restricted to RTS and FPS gaes for the most part - games which take advantage of a mouse/keyboard setup.
People play consoles because they DON'T have to worry about upgrading, or getting drivers to work, or crashes, or any of the other headaches involved in PC gaming. Consoles games just work - the way they're supposed to, every time. And they work the same way on everyone's system.
How exactly is this "news for nerds?" I'm sure the Society for the Advancement of Otters is concerned, but this isn't really an environmental news site.
I'll get excited when they can genetically engineer crack in to coffee. That should help with those 48 hour benders...
I may be out of line (and off topic here) but maybe the reason engines are ignoring spiders.txt is that they're actually looking for robots.txt?
Just a thought.
Reminds me of the Coelacanth.
You could always go to Cafe Press and make your own. The site is designed to offer turn-ey stores for t-shitrs, sweatshirts, coffee mugs, mousepads, etc. Just upload your own designs and buy the shirts. If you set the prices to the minumum they really aren't that bad. Plus your friends can buy your shirts as well.
Well, doesn't that mean that you're not really the target of this new directive anyway? It sounds like they're going for people who are *sharing* a lot of pirated music, not people who *have* a lot of pirated music.
So what are they going to do? Do some searches on Kazaa and find some users with big stashes and then....what? Oh of *course* these nice pirates registered with their real names and addresses, right? Right?
This is just stupid. Going after big pirating syndicates is one thing, and I'm all for it. Going after Joe college kid with an 80 gig drive of mp3s and DivX is just useless. When does it end?
"Microsoft invades cuba"
:) Well done indeed.
I think we can safely assume this is a spoof site
With email spam you have the option of using filters, for on thing. Clicking "delete" as soon as you see something is also an option that, while annoying, isn't *that* difficult.
Junk mail on the other hand must be physically dealt with - thrown in the recycling bin or garbage.
I think people get mmore annoyed with spam because it's a constant deluge, as opposed to regaular mail which most check just once a day. Still, spam is easier to deal with.
Yes, I know - I was making a joke.
Could you import the data into software that would give you more flexibility? One of the reasons you can't find a browser that supports this kind of thing is that browsers are *browsers* and aren't really built for page layout of print media.
Very, very cool.
Now show me a hypercube and I'll be really impressed.
Richard Branson must be pissed. Hasn't he been trying this for years and always ended up falling about half way around?
One of mine too, actually. I was planning making some sort of joke about what a girl would think about water cooling a pc, then thought better of it, and then forgot to take out the last bit. Anyway, I agree with you.
I understand the need to be on the cutting edge of technology, and to puch your hardware right to the edge of the envelope... But isn't a water cooling system in a PC going just a *little* overboard for that extra 5% performance boost? Especially today when 2ghz processors are the norm. How fast does it really need to be?
But hey, to each his own. Or her own, I suppose.
As a registered user of Logic Audio Platinum for Windows, I'm very dissapointed with this. I've spent hundreds of dollars over the years buying and upgrading this software, only to have it discontinued right out from under me.
I'm kind of in shock right now - this just sucks! Good move for Apple, though - Emagic makes great software and is a well-run company.
I just finished re-reading the first of the series the other day, actually. Cool name, and you cut down on the "endless asskicking factor" by, as you mentioned, having a build in nickname of Sax, which is just cool.
Good series of books, if anyone hasn't checked them out.
There's always the Zappa kids: Dweezil, Ahmet, and Moon Unit, and of course David Bowies little girl Zowie Bowie.
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There's a fun article on rock stars naming there kids here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_4470
Not geeky, but cool nonetheless.
Aside from nostalgic Berkley physics major alumni, a great idea would be for some udnerfunded school districts to pick up some of this stuff. I'm not a physics teacher, but I'd imagine a good quantity of it would be great for the high school level.
this will mean that card makers write drivers that are *optimized for Doom 3's use of OpenGL 2*, not that they'll write good OpenGl drivers in general. This has been the case sicne Quake 2. Drivers are optimized to score well on Quake benchmarks above all else, which hurts their performnce in a more generalized sense. This will help adoption of OpenGL 2, but not as quickly or as robustly as many would like to see.
Reading books on a palmtop? Imagine that! Isn't that what the whole e-book oveent is for? I tink the holy grail one day would be to have a cell phone with a readable screen, connected to highspeed network which would allow you to purchase and download a book in a matter of a minute or two, and then store it for you to read at your leisure.
I'm not sure multiplayer as described would be that big of a hit. My guess is that most people who'd play games on their cell phones want something they can pick and put down quickly, with a minimum of hassle. Unless you can streamline a matchmaking interface so that it takes less than 30 seconds, I doubt you'll see much use for it. If you only have five minutes to play a game, and 3 of those are spent finding someone to play with, you're not going to bother.
If you actually read the article, you'll see that the statistics say that there have NOT been alien visitations.
Doesn't Japanese anime predict that people will actually be driving/flyign these giant robots, not controlling them from hardened bunkers?