Most college students are way too busy to donate much time to charity. That's what OSS is. OSS will forever be the hobby of parents'basement-dwelling geeks.
That's ridiculous. The total cost of all manufacturing, packaging, and distribution is less than $5 per copy if done with any shred of efficiency, so it doesn't make sense that the company that made the game would be getting any less than the wholesale price minus $10. And the wholesale price starts at about $30 and works its way down as the game gets older. So they're definitely getting $10-$15 per copy at a bare minimum. Why would anyone tolerate useless middlemen taking such a large share when they can get someone else to do it for cheaper? Your figures on only getting 20% of the wholesale price are ridiculous.
That's a load of BS. The markups are much larger than that. Example: Warcraft3 is $59.99 at the local WorstBuy, but it's $27.99 with FREE FEDEX at newegg.com. That means Newegg is getting it for under $25, so WorstBuy's markup is around 150%
1.) Overcharge for the service of being a useless middleman. 2.) Lobby congress to pass useless fascist laws 3.) ?????? 4.) People buy more CDs 5.) PROFIT!!!!!
Would it be possible to replace the hard drive from some MP3 players with say, a 40GB laptop hard drive? That would give you virtually limitless MP3 capacity for less than the cost of the cheapest iPod.
The Max Payne dev team had about 20 people over 2 years, so if they were payed well that's a production cost under $5 million. There are 200 million computer users in the US alone, and the company makes $20+ from each $25 copy sold. So, they only need to sell 500,000 copies to get $10 mil, which is a 100% return on the investment in only 3 years. IIRC, they sold millions of copies.
wtf? How the heck can a first post be "Redundant"? The definition of redundant is repeating what has already been said. By definition, a first post can't be redundant as long as it refers to the article (IN SOVIET RUSSIA jokes notwithstanding).
Get your moderation right. Parent should be -1 troll, not -1 redundant. And this post is not (-1 troll) or (-1 redundant). It's (-1 offtopic). Mod it right.
The Radeon 8500 outperformed the Geforce3 Ti500 and came out months before the Geforce4 Ti series. They're continually trading the performance lead. The only instance of nVidia ever keeping the performance crown continuously from one product generation to another was Geforce2-->Geforce3.
From the time the Geforce2 came out until the Radeon 8500 came out 17 months ago, ATI had the unquestionable performance crown, but since then it has been juggling back and forth, which is to be expected since each new product release is about 6 months after the competitor's last release and the technology improves as time goes on. nVidia has a habit of shooting for a holiday release but not actually shipping until the new year, and ATI has made their last two releases in August. So when either one of them makes a new release they have a 6-month lead over the other company's product, so you should expect them to always trade performance crowns unless one of them is more than 6 months begind the other in R&D, which would be saying quite a lot.
You can get all the chemicals you need at hardware stores, etc.
Examples: ammonia (cleaning), potassium nitrate (fertilizer), calcium cloride (road salt), ammonium nitrate (fertilizer), various petroleum distillates (everything), all sorts of metals, various exotic metal oxides (dry paint powders and ceramic glazes), sodium hypoclorite (bleach), hydrofluoric acid (for glass etching), hydrochloric acid, calcium sulfate (gypsum), etc... you can get almost any chemical you need for any purpose from common products, or manufacture it from common products. You just have to know what you're doing.
Just increase the tax on gasoline instead of having a tax based on mileage. That would be perfectly fair, because the vehicles that use more gas are the ones that cause more wear & tear to the roads anyway.
If only we could bridge the gap between right-libertarians and left-libertarians and present some sort of unified front to resist the downward pull towards more authoritarian government coming from both parties... The fiscally moderate Democrats need to split away from the socialists, and the people who call themselves conservatives but (unlike the republican party) want personal freedom need to renounce all ties with the fundies/authoritarians in their party.
"I wonder what kind of environmental hazard is posed by junking thousands of pay phones?"
That's a truly stupid question, because all those payphones would hardly be a drop in the bucket compared to everything else in terms of the environment.
For a (reletively) mere $2,000, you can get a good, bright projector capable HDTV-like quality at 1280x1024 That gives you a good 3'-25' screen for what, 1/10 the price of that plasma monster?
"What if I re-learned those languages now, 30 years later? Would memories flood back?"
No. The encoding of decent memories requires mental concepts (think of it as the brain's assembly code), which obviously don't necessarily require any spoken or written language (after all, animals have memories), but the development of verbal language is probably a great facilitator to the development of a wider array of mental concepts, which would certainly aid in the ability to create memories. After all, it is nearly impossible to remember something that you can't make any meaningful sense of. If you saw a random array of dots for X seconds, the accuracy of your memory would be abysmal compared to your memory of a picture of a Castle you saw for X seconds. Mental schema are extremely importment in the memory encoding process. It's like the difference between a 2KB bitmap and a 10KB GIF. With no compression, you can't fit much in a given amount of space.
However, if the brain doesn't encode the memories at first, they are lost forever. The brain is like a seive, not a treasure chest. It filters through all the crap it recieves, and only saves the most important and meaningful stuff that it can find. Before a certain age, nothing is really meaningful, so the brain has no mechanism for encoding memories.
Learning portuguese would almost certainly not bring back real forgotten childhood memories. People are always far, far, more likely to fabricate memories based on mental schema (stereotypes) than to remember genuine repressed/long-forgotten memories.
People have a tendency to generate apocryphal memories of things they didn't remember before when shown pictures of their childhood over time. It works by the same principle as tampering with witnesses by showing them extraneous information and going over and over the events so much that they get confused. Psychological schema also play a role in filling in false details of vague or apocryphal memories. Psychologists can even evoke false memories of any traumatic childhood event that never occurred, using the proper coditioning.
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Most college students are way too busy to donate much time to charity. That's what OSS is. OSS will forever be the hobby of parents'basement-dwelling geeks.
That's ridiculous. The total cost of all manufacturing, packaging, and distribution is less than $5 per copy if done with any shred of efficiency, so it doesn't make sense that the company that made the game would be getting any less than the wholesale price minus $10. And the wholesale price starts at about $30 and works its way down as the game gets older. So they're definitely getting $10-$15 per copy at a bare minimum. Why would anyone tolerate useless middlemen taking such a large share when they can get someone else to do it for cheaper? Your figures on only getting 20% of the wholesale price are ridiculous.
That's a load of BS. The markups are much larger than that. Example: Warcraft3 is $59.99 at the local WorstBuy, but it's $27.99 with FREE FEDEX at newegg.com. That means Newegg is getting it for under $25, so WorstBuy's markup is around 150%
It's $25 if you buy it directly from 3drealms. I'm sure WorstBuy charged more for it.
1.) Overcharge for the service of being a useless middleman.
2.) Lobby congress to pass useless fascist laws
3.) ??????
4.) People buy more CDs
5.) PROFIT!!!!!
Would it be possible to replace the hard drive from some MP3 players with say, a 40GB laptop hard drive? That would give you virtually limitless MP3 capacity for less than the cost of the cheapest iPod.
The Max Payne dev team had about 20 people over 2 years, so if they were payed well that's a production cost under $5 million. There are 200 million computer users in the US alone, and the company makes $20+ from each $25 copy sold. So, they only need to sell 500,000 copies to get $10 mil, which is a 100% return on the investment in only 3 years. IIRC, they sold millions of copies.
No one actually expected DNF to come out this year either. In fact, my bookie is giving a 4:1 payout if it comes out before 2004.
How can it even qualify as vaporware if no one was actually expecting it to come out any time soon? It's more like skeletonware.
wtf? How the heck can a first post be "Redundant"? The definition of redundant is repeating what has already been said. By definition, a first post can't be redundant as long as it refers to the article (IN SOVIET RUSSIA jokes notwithstanding).
Get your moderation right. Parent should be -1 troll, not -1 redundant. And this post is not (-1 troll) or (-1 redundant). It's (-1 offtopic). Mod it right.
you could just include 4.) and 5.) in the category 1.) of "giving out your email address"
I guess I was too specific.
There are only 3 ways spammers can get your email address:
1.) you sign up for something with that email
2.) they randomly generate it
3.) yahoo/hotmail sells/gives it to them or they get hacked
That Reg story was posted a WEEK ago. It's old news. /. needs to get some news that's actually NEWs.
You have to know what you're doing to do it safely. And I do. Pyrotechnics is fun.
The Radeon 8500 outperformed the Geforce3 Ti500 and came out months before the Geforce4 Ti series. They're continually trading the performance lead. The only instance of nVidia ever keeping the performance crown continuously from one product generation to another was Geforce2-->Geforce3.
From the time the Geforce2 came out until the Radeon 8500 came out 17 months ago, ATI had the unquestionable performance crown, but since then it has been juggling back and forth, which is to be expected since each new product release is about 6 months after the competitor's last release and the technology improves as time goes on. nVidia has a habit of shooting for a holiday release but not actually shipping until the new year, and ATI has made their last two releases in August. So when either one of them makes a new release they have a 6-month lead over the other company's product, so you should expect them to always trade performance crowns unless one of them is more than 6 months begind the other in R&D, which would be saying quite a lot.
You can get all the chemicals you need at hardware stores, etc.
Examples: ammonia (cleaning), potassium nitrate (fertilizer), calcium cloride (road salt), ammonium nitrate (fertilizer), various petroleum distillates (everything), all sorts of metals, various exotic metal oxides (dry paint powders and ceramic glazes), sodium hypoclorite (bleach), hydrofluoric acid (for glass etching), hydrochloric acid, calcium sulfate (gypsum), etc... you can get almost any chemical you need for any purpose from common products, or manufacture it from common products. You just have to know what you're doing.
Yeah, this is about as good of an idea as Microsoft's talking paperclip. :-0
could a beowulf cluster of these be used to automatically download pr0n?
Just increase the tax on gasoline instead of having a tax based on mileage. That would be perfectly fair, because the vehicles that use more gas are the ones that cause more wear & tear to the roads anyway.
If only we could bridge the gap between right-libertarians and left-libertarians and present some sort of unified front to resist the downward pull towards more authoritarian government coming from both parties... The fiscally moderate Democrats need to split away from the socialists, and the people who call themselves conservatives but (unlike the republican party) want personal freedom need to renounce all ties with the fundies/authoritarians in their party.
"I wonder what kind of environmental hazard is posed by junking thousands of pay phones?"
That's a truly stupid question, because all those payphones would hardly be a drop in the bucket compared to everything else in terms of the environment.
That is, if you count each particle in the rings larger than 1 cubic centimeter
here's the link: ,a href="http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproduct.asp?de scription=24-116-263"> Viewsonic PJ511 projector
:)
It has S-video in, VGA in, etc.
Only $1,999. Go get one.
For a (reletively) mere $2,000, you can get a good, bright projector capable HDTV-like quality at 1280x1024 That gives you a good 3'-25' screen for what, 1/10 the price of that plasma monster?
"What if I re-learned those languages now, 30 years later? Would memories flood back?"
No. The encoding of decent memories requires mental concepts (think of it as the brain's assembly code), which obviously don't necessarily require any spoken or written language (after all, animals have memories), but the development of verbal language is probably a great facilitator to the development of a wider array of mental concepts, which would certainly aid in the ability to create memories. After all, it is nearly impossible to remember something that you can't make any meaningful sense of. If you saw a random array of dots for X seconds, the accuracy of your memory would be abysmal compared to your memory of a picture of a Castle you saw for X seconds. Mental schema are extremely importment in the memory encoding process. It's like the difference between a 2KB bitmap and a 10KB GIF. With no compression, you can't fit much in a given amount of space.
However, if the brain doesn't encode the memories at first, they are lost forever. The brain is like a seive, not a treasure chest. It filters through all the crap it recieves, and only saves the most important and meaningful stuff that it can find. Before a certain age, nothing is really meaningful, so the brain has no mechanism for encoding memories.
Learning portuguese would almost certainly not bring back real forgotten childhood memories. People are always far, far, more likely to fabricate memories based on mental schema (stereotypes) than to remember genuine repressed/long-forgotten memories.
People have a tendency to generate apocryphal memories of things they didn't remember before when shown pictures of their childhood over time. It works by the same principle as tampering with witnesses by showing them extraneous information and going over and over the events so much that they get confused. Psychological schema also play a role in filling in false details of vague or apocryphal memories. Psychologists can even evoke false memories of any traumatic childhood event that never occurred, using the proper coditioning.