screwups like that are also in the blindly freaking obvious category. The problem is that it was designed as a cell phone, but marketed as a game machine.
Actually, the Historians aren't being asked to fork over their documents. If they were, they would have almsot certainly been slapped with a no-disclosure clause and the average person would have no idea this is happening. It seems to me that the TLA agencies here didn't think that anybody had seen the documents yet and figured if they just quietly withdrew them that nobody would notice.
The plan backfired because not only did the historians notice that the documents were disappering, but they can look at them and be reasonably sure that it's no "national security" interest that's supressing them, but rather agencies trying to cover up 50 year old embarrassments.
This can be nefarious too. You could have the President make a comment like "The CIA was never wrong about the Korean conflict" People will go "Wait, I remember them being dead wrong", but when they go to find the sources, the sources will be gone and the original (wrong) comment will stand as the public record.
In other words they're just going to put the right firmware in their high end phones that will let them play N-Gage games, despite the fact that almost nobody is making those. It'll be one of those expensive little side features that nobody uses. Hopefully the high end phones won't have to take on the awkward asthetics of a real N-Gage.
I'm guessing Nokia overestimated the market for halfassed ports of uninspired games on a clumsy phone/game hybrid system. The good news is that new phones should have support for better games than Worms, but they're never going to be a competitor to the DS or even the PSP.
wow, the Minty player instructions were so much more than what you normally see for DIY projects on the net. It invovled getting a board custom made (where you get it done is up to you) and soldering chips onto the board by hand. I'd think anybody who is adept enough to do the previous couple of steps probably doesn't need a lot of help in building their own player, other than the helpful list of free components you can get from different companies as samples.
In the end, the guy pretty much admitted that an iPod shuffle would only be marginally more expensive and way easier to get. There is a certain panache with running an MP3 player out of an Altoids tin, but it's definatly a project you do because you find soldering/building fun, not because you want an MP3 player.
They would if they could, but the guys who built the shuttle shut down the plant decades ago. Besides, Endeavour was built from the spare parts they ordered when they got the shuttles in the first place. If worse comes to worse they could probably steal parts from Enterprise (sitting in a museum in Dulles VA) if something unique and expensive breaks.
More than that, things that aren't outright bugs but are probably unbalanced don't get fixed in the console version. It really only takes one overpowered character to make a game not very interesting to play in tournaments (oh look, every single "pro" took Taki or Hinata again). Even Starcraft had several patches that tweaked the values of some units that were over/underpowered. Getting the balance right on the first try is not easy (unless you just clone both sides, which is completely lame). It takes a LOT of plays before you can really say anything about the game balance and sometimes the playerbase thinks of things that the developers didn't consider and that abuse the system.
Heh, one of the amusing side effects of CoH going global was all of the foreign swear words getting added to the filters (even for servers that are obstensibly US only). It was amusing that my SuperGroup hand its name filtered. We were "The @#%& of Justice", which was just too awesome because people would mentally replace that with all sorts of words. Unfortunatly, it messed up the game and Cryptic had to revert their filters to the far less amusing Big 7 plus some random stuff list they had before. Fu is still filtered though, much to the annoyance of all Kung-@$%# users.
Around here it seems as if Windows is winning on the ATM front. I've seen several new ATMs sitting with windows crash dialogs displayed on the screen. I've never seen one with kernel messages or anything like that.
One thing to keep in mind is the scale of the problem. Did you eliminate 1000 people dying of dysentary to replace them with 10 people dying of cancer a few years down the road? Certainly they need to fix the arsenic problem, but even with it the technology is still a huge win.
Small plants are more polluting because the advanced technologies needed to clean emissions from modern plants are bulky and expensive and thus aren't feasable for use on small plants. Basically, polution scrubbers scale up fairly well, but they don't scale down for crap, and they're still really expensive. That's why you need a large plant with large economies of scale to use them.
No, I'm pretty sure the crime gets you in trouble too. The coverup makes it worse though.
Really, ATI should have either:
1. Offered a free swap to every customer with a broken card for one that matches (or exceeds) the features listed on the original product. However, for various reasons I think this is likely impossible.
2. Offer a 100% buyback offer or a check that covers the difference between having a HDCP enabled card vs. not. Basically pay the customers back for the feature they paid for but didn't get, or if the feature was important to them, buy back the card entirely and let them go somewhere else.
That sounds like an environmentally disasterous plan, and would probably drive the cost of iron up. That's a lot of reactive metals to dump into the ocean each year.
Supply is only one side of the problem. The other half is the billions of tons of CO2 we're releasing into the atmosphere every year from burning all of this oil (which would have otherwise kept the CO2 trapped underground).
I had an epiphany awhile back. Most of the time when people go nuts about environemental change, I think to myself "the environment is huge, there's no way some puny human activity can be affecting it that way". This argument is pretty safe when you hear people talking about killing Florida's environment with Space Shuttle launches or the effects of radio and TV stations on the ionosphere. However, when you sit down and figure out just how much CO2 your average car releases into the atmosphere each year, and then multiply that by the number of cars on the road, well, the result is staggering. It's on a large enough scale that climate change is a serious concern and there's nothing we can do (quickly) to fix it. Any change we want to make is going to be a slow and painful process.
No, he's saying that the parents die before having more than two children. Diesease, accidents, and other non-reproducing individuals account for the additional 0.2 births needed per couple to maintain equilbrium.
The 2.2 figure is only for modern Western societies though. Other parts of the world have a higher rate due to higher mortality rates in children. Fortunatly, these are also countries where birth control is not widely practiced and as such they have no trouble exceeding the threshold.
The problem is that those cars from the 80s were real dogs to drive. Underpowered, underperforming, and generally not what would compete in todays marketplace. Everybody forgets how much the cars in the 80s sucked. Well, not everybody, car manufacturers remember, and they're trying their best to avoid having to go back to that model (hence Hybrids) because it leads to a marketplace full of unhappy customers.
There's no conspiracy here. If you want to buy some underpowered econobox, you still can. They are still made, although you won't find them highly advertised because most manufacturers assume that the people who want them will seek them out and they tend to be low margin (cheap) cars anyway. Often it's just the case of picking the cheapeast car in the lineup and equipping it with the smallest engine.
Sony is praying that customers eventually forget about fair use entirely by refusing to acknowledge that it ever exists. Eventually they'll get their wish and pay some congressman tack on some midnight rider to some unrelated bill that does away with fair use entirely without anybody noticing. The DMCA was a good start, but there are still a few holes that need to be patched up before they'll be happy.
Seriously, it's like people expect Slashdot articles to only cover what they already know. Heaven forbid the click on a link and be horribly exposed to new information.
Eh, most people in the US laughed at the whole "wardrobe malfunction" thing too, sadly not all of them did. Some people took it really seriously. Unfortunatly, some of these people were the numbskulls we elected to government positions.:(
What, like a Notebook? Most manufacturers started distancing themselves from the term "laptop" some time ago as it is generally not a good idea to place the computers on a soft surface (like your thighs).
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screwups like that are also in the blindly freaking obvious category. The problem is that it was designed as a cell phone, but marketed as a game machine.
I was using TLA as Three Letter Acronym
I think you mean publicradiofan.com. publicradiofan.org is a domain squatter.
Actually, the Historians aren't being asked to fork over their documents. If they were, they would have almsot certainly been slapped with a no-disclosure clause and the average person would have no idea this is happening. It seems to me that the TLA agencies here didn't think that anybody had seen the documents yet and figured if they just quietly withdrew them that nobody would notice.
The plan backfired because not only did the historians notice that the documents were disappering, but they can look at them and be reasonably sure that it's no "national security" interest that's supressing them, but rather agencies trying to cover up 50 year old embarrassments.
This can be nefarious too. You could have the President make a comment like "The CIA was never wrong about the Korean conflict" People will go "Wait, I remember them being dead wrong", but when they go to find the sources, the sources will be gone and the original (wrong) comment will stand as the public record.
In other words they're just going to put the right firmware in their high end phones that will let them play N-Gage games, despite the fact that almost nobody is making those. It'll be one of those expensive little side features that nobody uses. Hopefully the high end phones won't have to take on the awkward asthetics of a real N-Gage.
I'm guessing Nokia overestimated the market for halfassed ports of uninspired games on a clumsy phone/game hybrid system. The good news is that new phones should have support for better games than Worms, but they're never going to be a competitor to the DS or even the PSP.
I stand corrected.
Besides, there's nothing better at "horrendously ugly" than LaTex.
wow, the Minty player instructions were so much more than what you normally see for DIY projects on the net. It invovled getting a board custom made (where you get it done is up to you) and soldering chips onto the board by hand. I'd think anybody who is adept enough to do the previous couple of steps probably doesn't need a lot of help in building their own player, other than the helpful list of free components you can get from different companies as samples.
In the end, the guy pretty much admitted that an iPod shuffle would only be marginally more expensive and way easier to get. There is a certain panache with running an MP3 player out of an Altoids tin, but it's definatly a project you do because you find soldering/building fun, not because you want an MP3 player.
Well, yeah, of course it breaks if you're throwing it against the wall in frustration at trying to decode the binary language of Pez dispensers.
They would if they could, but the guys who built the shuttle shut down the plant decades ago. Besides, Endeavour was built from the spare parts they ordered when they got the shuttles in the first place. If worse comes to worse they could probably steal parts from Enterprise (sitting in a museum in Dulles VA) if something unique and expensive breaks.
More than that, things that aren't outright bugs but are probably unbalanced don't get fixed in the console version. It really only takes one overpowered character to make a game not very interesting to play in tournaments (oh look, every single "pro" took Taki or Hinata again). Even Starcraft had several patches that tweaked the values of some units that were over/underpowered. Getting the balance right on the first try is not easy (unless you just clone both sides, which is completely lame). It takes a LOT of plays before you can really say anything about the game balance and sometimes the playerbase thinks of things that the developers didn't consider and that abuse the system.
Heh, one of the amusing side effects of CoH going global was all of the foreign swear words getting added to the filters (even for servers that are obstensibly US only). It was amusing that my SuperGroup hand its name filtered. We were "The @#%& of Justice", which was just too awesome because people would mentally replace that with all sorts of words. Unfortunatly, it messed up the game and Cryptic had to revert their filters to the far less amusing Big 7 plus some random stuff list they had before. Fu is still filtered though, much to the annoyance of all Kung-@$%# users.
Depends on what you measure I guess. Among most car affectionados, there is little love for the 1980s.
Around here it seems as if Windows is winning on the ATM front. I've seen several new ATMs sitting with windows crash dialogs displayed on the screen. I've never seen one with kernel messages or anything like that.
One thing to keep in mind is the scale of the problem. Did you eliminate 1000 people dying of dysentary to replace them with 10 people dying of cancer a few years down the road? Certainly they need to fix the arsenic problem, but even with it the technology is still a huge win.
Small plants are more polluting because the advanced technologies needed to clean emissions from modern plants are bulky and expensive and thus aren't feasable for use on small plants. Basically, polution scrubbers scale up fairly well, but they don't scale down for crap, and they're still really expensive. That's why you need a large plant with large economies of scale to use them.
No, I'm pretty sure the crime gets you in trouble too. The coverup makes it worse though.
Really, ATI should have either:
1. Offered a free swap to every customer with a broken card for one that matches (or exceeds) the features listed on the original product. However, for various reasons I think this is likely impossible. 2. Offer a 100% buyback offer or a check that covers the difference between having a HDCP enabled card vs. not. Basically pay the customers back for the feature they paid for but didn't get, or if the feature was important to them, buy back the card entirely and let them go somewhere else.
That sounds like an environmentally disasterous plan, and would probably drive the cost of iron up. That's a lot of reactive metals to dump into the ocean each year.
Supply is only one side of the problem. The other half is the billions of tons of CO2 we're releasing into the atmosphere every year from burning all of this oil (which would have otherwise kept the CO2 trapped underground).
I had an epiphany awhile back. Most of the time when people go nuts about environemental change, I think to myself "the environment is huge, there's no way some puny human activity can be affecting it that way". This argument is pretty safe when you hear people talking about killing Florida's environment with Space Shuttle launches or the effects of radio and TV stations on the ionosphere. However, when you sit down and figure out just how much CO2 your average car releases into the atmosphere each year, and then multiply that by the number of cars on the road, well, the result is staggering. It's on a large enough scale that climate change is a serious concern and there's nothing we can do (quickly) to fix it. Any change we want to make is going to be a slow and painful process.
No, he's saying that the parents die before having more than two children. Diesease, accidents, and other non-reproducing individuals account for the additional 0.2 births needed per couple to maintain equilbrium.
The 2.2 figure is only for modern Western societies though. Other parts of the world have a higher rate due to higher mortality rates in children. Fortunatly, these are also countries where birth control is not widely practiced and as such they have no trouble exceeding the threshold.
The problem is that those cars from the 80s were real dogs to drive. Underpowered, underperforming, and generally not what would compete in todays marketplace. Everybody forgets how much the cars in the 80s sucked. Well, not everybody, car manufacturers remember, and they're trying their best to avoid having to go back to that model (hence Hybrids) because it leads to a marketplace full of unhappy customers.
There's no conspiracy here. If you want to buy some underpowered econobox, you still can. They are still made, although you won't find them highly advertised because most manufacturers assume that the people who want them will seek them out and they tend to be low margin (cheap) cars anyway. Often it's just the case of picking the cheapeast car in the lineup and equipping it with the smallest engine.
Sony is praying that customers eventually forget about fair use entirely by refusing to acknowledge that it ever exists. Eventually they'll get their wish and pay some congressman tack on some midnight rider to some unrelated bill that does away with fair use entirely without anybody noticing. The DMCA was a good start, but there are still a few holes that need to be patched up before they'll be happy.
Google is your friend: R&B Coffee.
Seriously, it's like people expect Slashdot articles to only cover what they already know. Heaven forbid the click on a link and be horribly exposed to new information.
Eh, most people in the US laughed at the whole "wardrobe malfunction" thing too, sadly not all of them did. Some people took it really seriously. Unfortunatly, some of these people were the numbskulls we elected to government positions. :(
What, like a Notebook? Most manufacturers started distancing themselves from the term "laptop" some time ago as it is generally not a good idea to place the computers on a soft surface (like your thighs).