Yeah, they're totally biased because they're trying to sell AI! Its not like they're experts in their fields that have in depth or up to date knowledge about exactly what their peers are researching and progress in the most promising areas. I think probably the better way to get an accurate, unbiased answer to both questions is to ask the Coca-cola people about AI and the AI people about Coke!
The important part of the GP was "attach rate". If I'm a company that's not Nintendo and I want to sell a game, its likely better business for me to build for the PS3 & XBox as the average number of 3rd party titles bought for those platforms is much much higher.
I've had an emulator on my phone for years, and its never much more than an "aha! look what it can do!" feature because of the interface. Those games are super twitchy, and without a decent dpad and properly spaced buttons you can forget getting anywhere with it. Touch pad? Thats even worse - if buttons on a keyboard can't do it right, how would one where you have to lift your finger or whatever to move the guy down the screen work?
Not all nerds are anti-social basement dwellers. Not all nerds fit into the same narrow stereotypes. Some of us are into radios, computers, rocketry, table top gaming, etc. Some of us (gasp) even like "normal" gatherings and activities like sports. Super Bowl parties happen to be one of these things, and the story wasn't even close to "what are you doing for the Super Bowl" but a conversation about IP and copyrights, which are certainly on-topic around these parts. Stop perpetuating a stereotype and broaden your mind a little.
WTF is this? -1 Troll? Fucking slashbot mods on crack. Since when does M$ get any love around here? I don't care what they do under the name of "good", those dollars are blood monies payed for by you and me to support crappy, non-Free OSs. Fuck M$ and Fuck you for modding me down.
The point is to stop babies, not sex. Sex is going to happen no matter how many times you quote the bible or make them carry around egg shells or whatever. Hormones > Religion.
Right, because those guys are going to be rushing to give you the game for free. Somehow I think they'll find a way to make the cost of the digital version comparable with the boxed one, and you're right back where you started except gathering around a small screen with your friends instead of a big board. If you wanted to talk a platform for electronic board games, I'd go with something like MS Surface, which has a much larger available playing area.
This guy didn't break any encryption. He admitted up front he couldn't, except for some vague handwavy stuff about distributed brute force key attacks. Instead, he installed a trojan on the phone that records the phone conversation. He didn't even write the trojan. The awesome software he couldn't crack (the "20%") were "secure" because it was either different hardware his cool program didn't work for, or some older gear the program didn't run on. Phew! I'll make sure to buy those now that I know they're air tight.
Came for a cool story about breaking over the air phone encryption but all I got was a script kiddie installing software and making grand pronouncements to get pageviews.
So wait, you're resolving someone's DNS name and use the first three octets of their ip (the spec calls for hiding the 4th). But then what are you going to do with that? Are you going to use the IP address? If so, then you subject yourself to the same "monitoring" by _actually opening a connection_ to the third party that runs the evil greedy DNS server. If they're that evil, why are you connecting to them in the first place. And speaking of monitoring, your ISP probably has every single DNS request you've made tied to your IP which also is tagged to your name, SSN, credit card, etc. I think you've got a little more to worry about here than this...
There is a practical side of it - you can immediately tell if your phone is ringing. Work in an place where all the phones have the same tone, its hard to tell which is yours.
Yeah, I remember the days when games were bug free! Things were better then I tell ya....plus we'd pay a nickel for them! Just a nickel! A nickel and no bugs, whatddaya think of that!
I thought #1 was cool but took a flaming downhill nose dive in the second half because of the power ranger head bobbing and the "WE LOVE NEW YORK NEVER FORGET" people throwing bricks at the bad guy scene.
#2 was my favorite and had some great moments.
#3 had the "too many bad guys" issue. Venom deserved its own movie.
What are you talking about? The IraqWarII was only supposed to last 6 months and its going into year 7 too. Not to mention its sister war, AfghanistanWarI is on year 9 after being almost completely ignored. Talk about efficiency! So there!
And actually, you're not going to be switching many networks in the US any time soon:
"The Nexus One's antenna supports four GSM radio frequencies (850/900/1800/1900) and three 3G/UMTS Bands - 1/4/8 (2100/AWS/900). These cover most major GSM mobile providers worldwide; however, the 3G band used by AT&T and Rogers is not supported."
So if you want all the bells and whistles you need to be on T-Mobile since AT&T's 3G won't work.
I doubt most of the performance hits in a modern machine come from an OS, esp. when we're talking about games. For one thing most of the memory is going to get pushed aside into the swap file, so its not like if there's only 2GB of RAM on the machine you only get 2GB of program data in there. Secondly a ton of the performance in modern games comes from how fast the graphics card & drivers are and how fast data can be moved onto it.
If anything performance is hurt today by the level of multitasking at the user level. I can turn off most of the os crap in Win7 - but if the antivirus is running when I go to play my game, then the CPU might get hit. Or if you're running bittorrent, you're not going to have all the bandwidth available to you.
I think its just a bit presumptuous of you to say that we've "discarded" performance tweaks because games don't have raw access to the hardware anymore, which when you're talking about DirectX and such, it really doesn't mean much.
Those aren't too bad for me - I've yet to hit one goign for a tab or caps, shift, etc. The biggest flaw in terms of layout is the esc key, which is one over from where it should be. The key in its place starts help. You can reassign the left column keys to do what you want, so they could just be no-ops I guess. I'd prefer a better layout for the page keys, but I've yet to see a laptop do it right without being full sized, so I guess I'll just live with it.
You're not using DOS. You're using a command prompt. Given that you were a little kid, I'm sure your dad helped you get the autoexec.bat set up just right so it'd load your CD rom driver in and make sure high mem was available. Also, gotta make sure that the sound card starts up on the right IRQ, don't want to screw that one up. Oh, and gotta clear out the TSRs to eek out the just over 3.75 megs that the game needs to even boot. Its nostalgic to think about that stuff, but I'll take a real operating system that can configure its drivers and doesn't think 640K is enough for everyone. Oh, also one that I don't have to roll my own TCP stack.
I'm guessing your just old enough now to what we call "nostalgia", which is great in some ways but can also lead to bad things like bell bottom revivals and trucker hats. Its great to acknowledge the past, but generally the future has more going for it.
That said, the major point was that you _couldn't_ do anything with editing to fix the film. Its broken in so many ways that you'd need to completely rewrite it and reshoot it, without the kid, without Jar Jar, without the gungans, without the trade federation, and probably with a different, older (teenager?) Anakin. And no Qui-gon, which the review also does a good point of showing is useless. Center it around Anakin, or center it around Obi-wan. Make the movie about someone we give a shit about instead of a bland menagerie of characters that are "starwarsy" but not really all that interesting.
Seriously. The review itself has more character development, plot, intrigue, etc than TPM itself. Thought I found the ST: Generations review to be a lot funnier, esp. the parts that show the shortcuts and incongruities with the series.
I just bought one of the new HP Envy laptop and was presently surprised at the lack of stickers. Its just an HP logo on the back, similar to apple. In fact, the entire thing pretty much was just ripped off from Apple - keyboard design, body construction, multi-touch mousepad, you name it. Even the packaging was slick and minimalist, just like an apple. (Pricier than a PC, but way more bang for your buck than a similarly priced macbook pro). And no, not a window's certified sticker in sight - oh snap, maybe its not actually windows certified!!!!
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Yeah, they're totally biased because they're trying to sell AI! Its not like they're experts in their fields that have in depth or up to date knowledge about exactly what their peers are researching and progress in the most promising areas. I think probably the better way to get an accurate, unbiased answer to both questions is to ask the Coca-cola people about AI and the AI people about Coke!
The important part of the GP was "attach rate". If I'm a company that's not Nintendo and I want to sell a game, its likely better business for me to build for the PS3 & XBox as the average number of 3rd party titles bought for those platforms is much much higher.
I've had an emulator on my phone for years, and its never much more than an "aha! look what it can do!" feature because of the interface. Those games are super twitchy, and without a decent dpad and properly spaced buttons you can forget getting anywhere with it. Touch pad? Thats even worse - if buttons on a keyboard can't do it right, how would one where you have to lift your finger or whatever to move the guy down the screen work?
Just curious, is that with the disc installed to the HD or not?
Not all nerds are anti-social basement dwellers. Not all nerds fit into the same narrow stereotypes. Some of us are into radios, computers, rocketry, table top gaming, etc. Some of us (gasp) even like "normal" gatherings and activities like sports. Super Bowl parties happen to be one of these things, and the story wasn't even close to "what are you doing for the Super Bowl" but a conversation about IP and copyrights, which are certainly on-topic around these parts. Stop perpetuating a stereotype and broaden your mind a little.
I love it that you get the troll mod for that, but my original reply hasn't.
WTF is this? -1 Troll? Fucking slashbot mods on crack. Since when does M$ get any love around here? I don't care what they do under the name of "good", those dollars are blood monies payed for by you and me to support crappy, non-Free OSs. Fuck M$ and Fuck you for modding me down.
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The point is to stop babies, not sex. Sex is going to happen no matter how many times you quote the bible or make them carry around egg shells or whatever. Hormones > Religion.
Right, because those guys are going to be rushing to give you the game for free. Somehow I think they'll find a way to make the cost of the digital version comparable with the boxed one, and you're right back where you started except gathering around a small screen with your friends instead of a big board. If you wanted to talk a platform for electronic board games, I'd go with something like MS Surface, which has a much larger available playing area.
This guy didn't break any encryption. He admitted up front he couldn't, except for some vague handwavy stuff about distributed brute force key attacks. Instead, he installed a trojan on the phone that records the phone conversation. He didn't even write the trojan. The awesome software he couldn't crack (the "20%") were "secure" because it was either different hardware his cool program didn't work for, or some older gear the program didn't run on. Phew! I'll make sure to buy those now that I know they're air tight.
Came for a cool story about breaking over the air phone encryption but all I got was a script kiddie installing software and making grand pronouncements to get pageviews.
So wait, you're resolving someone's DNS name and use the first three octets of their ip (the spec calls for hiding the 4th). But then what are you going to do with that? Are you going to use the IP address? If so, then you subject yourself to the same "monitoring" by _actually opening a connection_ to the third party that runs the evil greedy DNS server. If they're that evil, why are you connecting to them in the first place. And speaking of monitoring, your ISP probably has every single DNS request you've made tied to your IP which also is tagged to your name, SSN, credit card, etc. I think you've got a little more to worry about here than this...
There is a practical side of it - you can immediately tell if your phone is ringing. Work in an place where all the phones have the same tone, its hard to tell which is yours.
Interesting, do you also have laws against leaving the door open, or not owning a handgun, or dressing like "you want it"?
How exactly is it treasonous?
Yeah, I remember the days when games were bug free! Things were better then I tell ya....plus we'd pay a nickel for them! Just a nickel! A nickel and no bugs, whatddaya think of that!
I thought #1 was cool but took a flaming downhill nose dive in the second half because of the power ranger head bobbing and the "WE LOVE NEW YORK NEVER FORGET" people throwing bricks at the bad guy scene.
#2 was my favorite and had some great moments.
#3 had the "too many bad guys" issue. Venom deserved its own movie.
What are you talking about? The IraqWarII was only supposed to last 6 months and its going into year 7 too. Not to mention its sister war, AfghanistanWarI is on year 9 after being almost completely ignored. Talk about efficiency! So there!
And actually, you're not going to be switching many networks in the US any time soon:
"The Nexus One's antenna supports four GSM radio frequencies (850/900/1800/1900) and three 3G/UMTS Bands - 1/4/8 (2100/AWS/900). These cover most major GSM mobile providers worldwide; however, the 3G band used by AT&T and Rogers is not supported."
So if you want all the bells and whistles you need to be on T-Mobile since AT&T's 3G won't work.
I doubt most of the performance hits in a modern machine come from an OS, esp. when we're talking about games. For one thing most of the memory is going to get pushed aside into the swap file, so its not like if there's only 2GB of RAM on the machine you only get 2GB of program data in there. Secondly a ton of the performance in modern games comes from how fast the graphics card & drivers are and how fast data can be moved onto it.
If anything performance is hurt today by the level of multitasking at the user level. I can turn off most of the os crap in Win7 - but if the antivirus is running when I go to play my game, then the CPU might get hit. Or if you're running bittorrent, you're not going to have all the bandwidth available to you.
I think its just a bit presumptuous of you to say that we've "discarded" performance tweaks because games don't have raw access to the hardware anymore, which when you're talking about DirectX and such, it really doesn't mean much.
I certainly did. Harddrive, you lucky bastard! I loaded mine off a punch card and I liked it!
Those aren't too bad for me - I've yet to hit one goign for a tab or caps, shift, etc. The biggest flaw in terms of layout is the esc key, which is one over from where it should be. The key in its place starts help. You can reassign the left column keys to do what you want, so they could just be no-ops I guess. I'd prefer a better layout for the page keys, but I've yet to see a laptop do it right without being full sized, so I guess I'll just live with it.
You're not using DOS. You're using a command prompt. Given that you were a little kid, I'm sure your dad helped you get the autoexec.bat set up just right so it'd load your CD rom driver in and make sure high mem was available. Also, gotta make sure that the sound card starts up on the right IRQ, don't want to screw that one up. Oh, and gotta clear out the TSRs to eek out the just over 3.75 megs that the game needs to even boot. Its nostalgic to think about that stuff, but I'll take a real operating system that can configure its drivers and doesn't think 640K is enough for everyone. Oh, also one that I don't have to roll my own TCP stack.
I'm guessing your just old enough now to what we call "nostalgia", which is great in some ways but can also lead to bad things like bell bottom revivals and trucker hats. Its great to acknowledge the past, but generally the future has more going for it.
You devoted more time to the review by replying.
That said, the major point was that you _couldn't_ do anything with editing to fix the film. Its broken in so many ways that you'd need to completely rewrite it and reshoot it, without the kid, without Jar Jar, without the gungans, without the trade federation, and probably with a different, older (teenager?) Anakin. And no Qui-gon, which the review also does a good point of showing is useless. Center it around Anakin, or center it around Obi-wan. Make the movie about someone we give a shit about instead of a bland menagerie of characters that are "starwarsy" but not really all that interesting.
Seriously. The review itself has more character development, plot, intrigue, etc than TPM itself. Thought I found the ST: Generations review to be a lot funnier, esp. the parts that show the shortcuts and incongruities with the series.
I just bought one of the new HP Envy laptop and was presently surprised at the lack of stickers. Its just an HP logo on the back, similar to apple. In fact, the entire thing pretty much was just ripped off from Apple - keyboard design, body construction, multi-touch mousepad, you name it. Even the packaging was slick and minimalist, just like an apple. (Pricier than a PC, but way more bang for your buck than a similarly priced macbook pro). And no, not a window's certified sticker in sight - oh snap, maybe its not actually windows certified!!!!