Looks like the reviews are giving it pretty good marks. Though the screenshots look pretty pedestrian compared to most games. Maybe the Sims crowd will like it.
At what point does it become libel/slander to describe Bully as anything approaching a "columbine simulator", when it's rated T(Teen) and has no guns in the game? If we're going to bother Tony Blair about a game, shouldn't it at least be over one of the many rated-M games?
DS ROM's are a couple megabytes. Xbox 360 discs can hold.8GB. PSP ROM's can be up to 1.8GB. PS3 games can be up to 25GB. Are PS3 games 10,000 times more enjoyable than DS games? Are some DS games not more enjoyable than an average PS3 game?
Larger ROM size allows the game creator more flexiblity, but there's not necessarily a correlation between ROM size and more enjoyable games.
People would know that prices are definitely going to drop rapidly after launch though, so their expectation of waiting for the console (eg. their motivation to buy a different console) would be no more than when they wait in line for a preorder and don't get one.
Lines, whether it be at gas pumps, or schools, or at console retailers, is a sign of economic imbalance. The way you deal with supply/demand imbalance is to raise prices, not make people wait in line. When supply/demand/price get far enough out of line, people start getting in line not to purchase one for themselves, but to put it on Ebay, so they can get the profits that Sony should be getting.
It depends on what you're doing, of course. If you're working on a high-res image in photoshop, you'd use the 2nd monitor for... the tool window. You'd really just want one larger high-res monitor so you could see more of the image at once. As somebody else mentioned, same problem with CAD.
If you're doing programming (refering to manuals while coding, or studying the running version while coding), or doing trouble tickets while coding, or building in the background, etc., then multiple monitors would obviously help there.
analog people don't mesh seamlessly with digital technology
*blink* *blink*
I'm trying to figure out what that means, when any kid playing Super Mario will tell you that they mesh just fine.
As other mention, I think it's more of a question of "how can we set up social order so we have thousands of people working closely together, but so we don't have decision-by-mob or decision-by-committee?"
Okay, that's a question that real-life companiesand organizations have been asking themselves for at least a hundred years. But technology actually lets thousands of people work in very close proximity (ala the Linux kernel, or Debian), and perhaps there are ways for technology to mediate and improve the individual interactions somehow.
Does the court even have much room to make decisions here? Spamhaus should have entered a motion to dismiss in Illinois to say they don't have jurisdiction there. And at this point, Spamhaus should appeal, and enter the motion to dismiss. Now that a default judgement has been filed, aren't judges compelled to uphold the ruling?
Electronic voting machines without a printer attached make it impossible to have a proper recount if claims of ballot tampering are substantiated.
Electronic voting isn't prima facie more vulnerable than previous voting methods; rather it's the current crop of voting machines that are poorly engineered that's the problem.
I'm typing this on a 37" Westy as well... great display. CNET says it'll do 1080p/60, and there's a "system info" menu that mentions the vertical frequency.
It applies to non-addicts too, who spend all of their free time playing games. Maybe the older you get, the more likely you are to have kids or at least a SO/house, and therefore less free time, but I know one or two people who play as much as possible without crossing the addict line.
In the hardware department, Nintendo has been the king of portables for a long time. And Nintendo seems like it'll always have Japan... Microsoft is (and should be) trying hard to break into Japan, but Nintendo is still a very firm #2 there.
In the software department, Nintendo's first-party titles have routinely done very well.
Nintendo also has somewhat of a niche in coming up with interesting control schemes... maybe they'd have less flexibility with this if they ever left the hardware market. But they have so many niches to fill that it's hard to see how they'd suddenly lose at all of them.
The license (GFDL) does allow it. Just like anyone can fork Apache or Debian... if this lets the new group bypass some problems with the old group's model, or helps fill a new market niche, then everyone wins. If they don't actually provide anything new, they won't be successful, but trying out new ideas is always a good thing.
Scholarpedia isn't really that wiki. Sure, it's based on Mediawiki wikitext, but each article has a single author, and usually a single maintainer. The information is available under standard copyright only, so it can't be integrated or improved by other sites using different processes like the Wikipedia/Citizendium symbiosis.
If you had a display that wraps completely around you, eg. "surround vision", then you certainly couldn't look at the entire display at one time, so it would be reasonable to have media that carried more data than the human eye can see.
How did the Illinois judge decide they had jurisdiction over a UK-only company in the first place? I thought courts throw out cases that they have no jurisdiction over.
Maybe, perhaps, you just shouldn't be reading Slashdot at work.
Maybe it's a good idea in theory, but in practice, I'll bet most of Slashdot's traffic comes during the US workday. I spend a lot of time on Wikipedia, and I know this is certainly true... the place is almost completely empty on the weekends. I think there's a tendency for HR to hire the smartest people they can get, and then for the company to assign them to jobs that don't require as much education as they've gotten. So people get bored at work...
End-users who choose to stick with a non-standards-compliant browser cause extra work for web developers. This is less than optimal, because it causes fewer features to be developed slower.
The problem is that end-users are the only ones in a position to change this. However, end-users usually have no idea that they're causing a lot of extra work to be done. One good solution to fix this is to develop for standards-compliant browsers first, and fix other issues later (which makes more sense purely from a development standpoint as well).
Just about any HD PVR is for wealthy professionals (you need an HDTV, often an HD subscription of some kind, and then then you need to pay the $250-800 for the PVR)... nonetheless, when you can get a subsidized HD PVR from someplace else for 1/3rd the price, Tivo's marketshare is going to be decreased quite a bit because of that.
Not true.... I can't find the exact date that production started, but this says production of the CPU ("Emotion Engine") started in Fall of 99. PS2 launched in Japan in March 00, that's at least 4 months of production to get 700,000 units. Now, with a more complicated system, Sony is claiming to be able to build 150% of the units in 75% of the time?
Well, it's generally against Wikipedia's core policies to let articles be whitewashed. Any editor who routinely tries to whitewash an article gets blocked, and anybody else is within policy to restore the pre-whitewashing information. So it wouldn't really matter.
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Looks like the reviews are giving it pretty good marks. Though the screenshots look pretty pedestrian compared to most games. Maybe the Sims crowd will like it.
At what point does it become libel/slander to describe Bully as anything approaching a "columbine simulator", when it's rated T(Teen) and has no guns in the game? If we're going to bother Tony Blair about a game, shouldn't it at least be over one of the many rated-M games?
DS ROM's are a couple megabytes. Xbox 360 discs can hold .8GB. PSP ROM's can be up to 1.8GB. PS3 games can be up to 25GB. Are PS3 games 10,000 times more enjoyable than DS games? Are some DS games not more enjoyable than an average PS3 game?
Larger ROM size allows the game creator more flexiblity, but there's not necessarily a correlation between ROM size and more enjoyable games.
People would know that prices are definitely going to drop rapidly after launch though, so their expectation of waiting for the console (eg. their motivation to buy a different console) would be no more than when they wait in line for a preorder and don't get one.
Lines, whether it be at gas pumps, or schools, or at console retailers, is a sign of economic imbalance. The way you deal with supply/demand imbalance is to raise prices, not make people wait in line. When supply/demand/price get far enough out of line, people start getting in line not to purchase one for themselves, but to put it on Ebay, so they can get the profits that Sony should be getting.
Vaporware or not, it's not really clear when it'll actually launch.
Vista Home can't be VM'd, but Vista Business and Vista Premium can be? Why??? Are there technical restrictions in place to prevent this?
It depends on what you're doing, of course. If you're working on a high-res image in photoshop, you'd use the 2nd monitor for... the tool window. You'd really just want one larger high-res monitor so you could see more of the image at once. As somebody else mentioned, same problem with CAD.
If you're doing programming (refering to manuals while coding, or studying the running version while coding), or doing trouble tickets while coding, or building in the background, etc., then multiple monitors would obviously help there.
*blink* *blink*
I'm trying to figure out what that means, when any kid playing Super Mario will tell you that they mesh just fine.
As other mention, I think it's more of a question of "how can we set up social order so we have thousands of people working closely together, but so we don't have decision-by-mob or decision-by-committee?"
Okay, that's a question that real-life companiesand organizations have been asking themselves for at least a hundred years. But technology actually lets thousands of people work in very close proximity (ala the Linux kernel, or Debian), and perhaps there are ways for technology to mediate and improve the individual interactions somehow.
Does the court even have much room to make decisions here? Spamhaus should have entered a motion to dismiss in Illinois to say they don't have jurisdiction there. And at this point, Spamhaus should appeal, and enter the motion to dismiss. Now that a default judgement has been filed, aren't judges compelled to uphold the ruling?
And online movies are less valuable to the consumer. Consider:
If there's a difference in value to the consumer, it only makes sense that there would be a (small) difference in price.
The anti-net-neutality companies will see Google as a giant deep pocket as well, now that YouTube has the resources to double-pay for its bandwidth.
Electronic voting machines without a printer attached make it impossible to have a proper recount if claims of ballot tampering are substantiated.
Electronic voting isn't prima facie more vulnerable than previous voting methods; rather it's the current crop of voting machines that are poorly engineered that's the problem.
I'm typing this on a 37" Westy as well... great display. CNET says it'll do 1080p/60, and there's a "system info" menu that mentions the vertical frequency.
It applies to non-addicts too, who spend all of their free time playing games. Maybe the older you get, the more likely you are to have kids or at least a SO/house, and therefore less free time, but I know one or two people who play as much as possible without crossing the addict line.
In the hardware department, Nintendo has been the king of portables for a long time. And Nintendo seems like it'll always have Japan... Microsoft is (and should be) trying hard to break into Japan, but Nintendo is still a very firm #2 there.
In the software department, Nintendo's first-party titles have routinely done very well.
Nintendo also has somewhat of a niche in coming up with interesting control schemes... maybe they'd have less flexibility with this if they ever left the hardware market. But they have so many niches to fill that it's hard to see how they'd suddenly lose at all of them.
The license (GFDL) does allow it. Just like anyone can fork Apache or Debian... if this lets the new group bypass some problems with the old group's model, or helps fill a new market niche, then everyone wins. If they don't actually provide anything new, they won't be successful, but trying out new ideas is always a good thing.
Scholarpedia isn't really that wiki. Sure, it's based on Mediawiki wikitext, but each article has a single author, and usually a single maintainer. The information is available under standard copyright only, so it can't be integrated or improved by other sites using different processes like the Wikipedia/Citizendium symbiosis.
If you had a display that wraps completely around you, eg. "surround vision", then you certainly couldn't look at the entire display at one time, so it would be reasonable to have media that carried more data than the human eye can see.
How did the Illinois judge decide they had jurisdiction over a UK-only company in the first place? I thought courts throw out cases that they have no jurisdiction over.
Maybe, perhaps, you just shouldn't be reading Slashdot at work.
Maybe it's a good idea in theory, but in practice, I'll bet most of Slashdot's traffic comes during the US workday. I spend a lot of time on Wikipedia, and I know this is certainly true... the place is almost completely empty on the weekends. I think there's a tendency for HR to hire the smartest people they can get, and then for the company to assign them to jobs that don't require as much education as they've gotten. So people get bored at work...
End-users who choose to stick with a non-standards-compliant browser cause extra work for web developers. This is less than optimal, because it causes fewer features to be developed slower.
The problem is that end-users are the only ones in a position to change this. However, end-users usually have no idea that they're causing a lot of extra work to be done. One good solution to fix this is to develop for standards-compliant browsers first, and fix other issues later (which makes more sense purely from a development standpoint as well).
Just about any HD PVR is for wealthy professionals (you need an HDTV, often an HD subscription of some kind, and then then you need to pay the $250-800 for the PVR)... nonetheless, when you can get a subsidized HD PVR from someplace else for 1/3rd the price, Tivo's marketshare is going to be decreased quite a bit because of that.
Not true.... I can't find the exact date that production started, but this says production of the CPU ("Emotion Engine") started in Fall of 99. PS2 launched in Japan in March 00, that's at least 4 months of production to get 700,000 units. Now, with a more complicated system, Sony is claiming to be able to build 150% of the units in 75% of the time?
Well, it's generally against Wikipedia's core policies to let articles be whitewashed. Any editor who routinely tries to whitewash an article gets blocked, and anybody else is within policy to restore the pre-whitewashing information. So it wouldn't really matter.