The frequency of radio waves has absolutely nothing to do with data transmission speed. Nothing. It is just how many times the electromagnetic wave oscillates every second. The data transmission speed has more to do with the amount of available spectrum you can use, and the effieciency in which that bandwidth is used. tr By the way, look at the term bandwidth. That actually originally meant the width of a band, in the EM spectrum. The wider the band, the more data/clearer voice/etc you could transmit, generally.
Single player still can sell, provided it is really, really good. The best selling game right now on Amazon.com is Far Cry, which almost completely focuses on single player, although it does have multiplayer. (If you don't have it already, get it. Near Doom3/HL2 level graphics and exceedingly good gameplay)
If Doom 3 can deliver a very good, compelling single player, I have no reason to doubt that it will be a bestseller. Hell, even if it isn't good, which I do kind of doubt, it will still sell very well on brand recognition alone.
Single player isn't completely dead. When you think about it, it might not be that people don't want single player, it might be just that companies aren't making single player FPS's. Most major ones have focused completely on multiplayer ever since UT and Q3A. This year, it look like we are having a revival of single player.
By "graduate scientists" you mean Feynmann, Fermi, Oppenheimer, and the rest. The atomic bomb project took tens of thousands of people and was one of the largest projects we've ever undertaken. Billions and billions of dollars were spent on it. It wasn't just a couple of scientists in the desert. That's an idiotic assumption.
I'm from Yakima, which is right by where this tree was originally bred. I assure you, there are probably at least a dozen new varieties every year, and most of them are patented.
Dual core means that there are two processor cores on one chip. Like hyperthreading, except it's not two virtual processors, but real cores. IBM has been experimenting with it. AMD will have a dual core 64 bit Opteron chip available early next year. I assume a few months after that AMD will introduce dual core consumer Athlons.
Have you played Far Cry yet? That's the game. Totally next generation engine with shading, lighting,physics, and textures like you wouldn't believe. On par with Half Life 2 graphics-wise. With the settings turned up, this game is capable of bringing a 9800XT to its knees.
It originally was going to be a multiplayer expansion pack for Return to Castle Wolfenstein. But then the decision was made to release for free as a standalone multiplayer game.
It's about a 250 megabyte download. The game features very stragetic team combat, with different player classes, such as medic, engineer, etc. Very good gameplay. Popular, as well. There is well over 2000 servers.
Um. If we cut CEO's salaries, which is the decision of the people that own the company, the shareholders, it would go to profits. But I doubt any multibillion dollar corporation would be able to bring very many workers back with just a million or two extra dollars.
CEO pay is ridiculous, although average pay did drop one million dollars last year according to The Economist. But remember, there is no correlation between CEO pay, worker pay, and outsourcing.
Probably you should go talk to the people that build indy cars about that. The spoilers that they have are just inverted airfoils. In fact, travelling at 400 or so MPH, they would be capable of holding the indy car upside down on a ceiling.
I agree with child poster. Just install Firefox. I use it. It uses less ram than IE, blocks popups, has a nifty built in Google search bar, has tabbed browsing (multiple webpages open in single window) and blocks annoying java and activex. Try it. It kicks the ass of IE, even with the Google Toolbar.
Internet Explorer is a terrible browser. I'm amazed why so many people, even those knowledgeable about computers, use it. Just because it's built it doesn't mean it is better than the competition.
That's incorrect. Flouride usage is widening. My community just got it three years ago. Reputable studies repeatedly show that it helps prevent tooth decay. Studies going back to the mid 1800's.
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Real Audio 10, at least the high bitrate version, is just AAC. If you want AAC, just use that, and not some bastardized version. Keep in mind that that test is somewhat old. MP3 encoder tech is advancing at least as fast as Real. The open source LAME encoder is constantly being tweaked for better performance.
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Take a look at this test that originated from Hydrogenaudio.org.
You really need to be better educated about audio codecs. LAME easily beats Real at low bitrates. MPC beats it easily at high bitrates. I can't fathom why someone would use Real over a quality free codec.
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You're joking, right? LAME and OGG are far in advance of Real, and solidly beat it out in every listening test I've seen. And no spyware, either.
Do you use a CRT display? If you do, you have an electron beam in front of you this very second. It accelerates electrons at incredible velocities, hitting your phosphorus screen. You don't have problems with x-rays, do you? And the vacuum in the monitor isn't exactly prohibitively expensive.
Everyone I know loathes the PS2 and loves the Xbox. It seems to be determined largely by demographics. Older, more serious gamers tend to prefer the xbox, as it has excellent FPS games with quite good graphics. PS2 wins in just sheer numbers of games, however, including lots of platformers and that sort of thing, which would tend to lend itself more to younger more casual gamers.
Unfortunately wifi, in my opinion, is unnacceptably slow for this. 802.11g typically has transfer rates well under the ideal 54 megabits. This network drive would be perfectly fine hooked up to 100mbps ethernet. But 802.11 would be really, really slow. It would take forever and a day to transer your backups.
But, it would be very portable and would be accessible throughout the antenna's range, so, I can see the advantage.
But you are missing the fact that many asteroids have powerful enough gravity to pull themselves into spherical shapes. There are several asteroids that are hundreds of miles in diameter. Vesta, the fourth largest, has even had lava flows.
Jesus. There are numerous free versions of the DIVX codec. It and XVID offer the best quality out there, by far. Just go download Kazaa Lite codec pack or the Defiler Pack.
So...everyone is supposed to become employed in a specific sector?
Sorry if I made it sound that way. I was just keeping things simplistic. I was talking more about concentrating on sectors that we are the "least worst" at instead of innefficient industries.
Once that price becomes too high, then the current economic model (global economy) must change.
I'll have to disagree with you on the whole prices thing. We're seeing very low inflation right now. In fact, we've have completely low to moderate inflation for the last 20 years. Slow, steady inflation doesn't cause problems now, and it won't in the future.
You say in your previous post "Because people spend more money and make more money, the prices of everything goes up."
That's not really true. When the GDP grows (when you see GDP grwoth rates, it's always inflation-adjusted), people spend more money because there is more products to be had. They have more money to spend because they are the ones that produced all of those products. The products aren't more expensive. There's just more of them. It's a stregth of the global economy, I'd say.
Of course, there is inflation. But that usually isn't to be worried about unless it gets fairly high.
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The frequency of radio waves has absolutely nothing to do with data transmission speed. Nothing. It is just how many times the electromagnetic wave oscillates every second. The data transmission speed has more to do with the amount of available spectrum you can use, and the effieciency in which that bandwidth is used.
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By the way, look at the term bandwidth. That actually originally meant the width of a band, in the EM spectrum. The wider the band, the more data/clearer voice/etc you could transmit, generally.
Single player still can sell, provided it is really, really good. The best selling game right now on Amazon.com is Far Cry, which almost completely focuses on single player, although it does have multiplayer. (If you don't have it already, get it. Near Doom3/HL2 level graphics and exceedingly good gameplay)
If Doom 3 can deliver a very good, compelling single player, I have no reason to doubt that it will be a bestseller. Hell, even if it isn't good, which I do kind of doubt, it will still sell very well on brand recognition alone.
Single player isn't completely dead. When you think about it, it might not be that people don't want single player, it might be just that companies aren't making single player FPS's. Most major ones have focused completely on multiplayer ever since UT and Q3A. This year, it look like we are having a revival of single player.
By "graduate scientists" you mean Feynmann, Fermi, Oppenheimer, and the rest. The atomic bomb project took tens of thousands of people and was one of the largest projects we've ever undertaken. Billions and billions of dollars were spent on it. It wasn't just a couple of scientists in the desert. That's an idiotic assumption.
I'm from Yakima, which is right by where this tree was originally bred. I assure you, there are probably at least a dozen new varieties every year, and most of them are patented.
Dual core means that there are two processor cores on one chip. Like hyperthreading, except it's not two virtual processors, but real cores. IBM has been experimenting with it. AMD will have a dual core 64 bit Opteron chip available early next year. I assume a few months after that AMD will introduce dual core consumer Athlons.
Have you played Far Cry yet? That's the game. Totally next generation engine with shading, lighting,physics, and textures like you wouldn't believe. On par with Half Life 2 graphics-wise. With the settings turned up, this game is capable of bringing a 9800XT to its knees.
Try Wolfenstein:Enemy Territory.
It originally was going to be a multiplayer expansion pack for Return to Castle Wolfenstein. But then the decision was made to release for free as a standalone multiplayer game.
It's about a 250 megabyte download. The game features very stragetic team combat, with different player classes, such as medic, engineer, etc. Very good gameplay. Popular, as well. There is well over 2000 servers.
Um. If we cut CEO's salaries, which is the decision of the people that own the company, the shareholders, it would go to profits. But I doubt any multibillion dollar corporation would be able to bring very many workers back with just a million or two extra dollars.
CEO pay is ridiculous, although average pay did drop one million dollars last year according to The Economist. But remember, there is no correlation between CEO pay, worker pay, and outsourcing.
Probably you should go talk to the people that build indy cars about that. The spoilers that they have are just inverted airfoils. In fact, travelling at 400 or so MPH, they would be capable of holding the indy car upside down on a ceiling.
He's quite the schrewd guy. He's been much more sucessful that other businessmen such as Peter North, who used to be shafted regularly.
It blocks Java that you don't want. Like window resizing, etc.
I agree with child poster. Just install Firefox. I use it. It uses less ram than IE, blocks popups, has a nifty built in Google search bar, has tabbed browsing (multiple webpages open in single window) and blocks annoying java and activex. Try it. It kicks the ass of IE, even with the Google Toolbar.
Internet Explorer is a terrible browser. I'm amazed why so many people, even those knowledgeable about computers, use it. Just because it's built it doesn't mean it is better than the competition.
That's incorrect. Flouride usage is widening. My community just got it three years ago. Reputable studies repeatedly show that it helps prevent tooth decay. Studies going back to the mid 1800's.
Real Audio 10, at least the high bitrate version, is just AAC. If you want AAC, just use that, and not some bastardized version. Keep in mind that that test is somewhat old. MP3 encoder tech is advancing at least as fast as Real. The open source LAME encoder is constantly being tweaked for better performance.
Take a look at this test that originated from Hydrogenaudio.org.
You really need to be better educated about audio codecs. LAME easily beats Real at low bitrates. MPC beats it easily at high bitrates. I can't fathom why someone would use Real over a quality free codec.
You're joking, right? LAME and OGG are far in advance of Real, and solidly beat it out in every listening test I've seen. And no spyware, either.
Do you use a CRT display? If you do, you have an electron beam in front of you this very second. It accelerates electrons at incredible velocities, hitting your phosphorus screen. You don't have problems with x-rays, do you? And the vacuum in the monitor isn't exactly prohibitively expensive.
You misspelled "assmutilate"
You misspelled "assimilate."
I see I'm not the only one that notices that particular effect of coffee.
Everyone I know loathes the PS2 and loves the Xbox. It seems to be determined largely by demographics. Older, more serious gamers tend to prefer the xbox, as it has excellent FPS games with quite good graphics. PS2 wins in just sheer numbers of games, however, including lots of platformers and that sort of thing, which would tend to lend itself more to younger more casual gamers.
Unfortunately wifi, in my opinion, is unnacceptably slow for this. 802.11g typically has transfer rates well under the ideal 54 megabits. This network drive would be perfectly fine hooked up to 100mbps ethernet. But 802.11 would be really, really slow. It would take forever and a day to transer your backups.
But, it would be very portable and would be accessible throughout the antenna's range, so, I can see the advantage.
"But mom! How do you know I was running up the escalator! I was running in a superposition of up and down, until you measured it!"
But you are missing the fact that many asteroids have powerful enough gravity to pull themselves into spherical shapes. There are several asteroids that are hundreds of miles in diameter. Vesta, the fourth largest, has even had lava flows.
Jesus. There are numerous free versions of the DIVX codec. It and XVID offer the best quality out there, by far. Just go download Kazaa Lite codec pack or the Defiler Pack.
So...everyone is supposed to become employed in a specific sector?
Sorry if I made it sound that way. I was just keeping things simplistic. I was talking more about concentrating on sectors that we are the "least worst" at instead of innefficient industries.
Once that price becomes too high, then the current economic model (global economy) must change.
I'll have to disagree with you on the whole prices thing. We're seeing very low inflation right now. In fact, we've have completely low to moderate inflation for the last 20 years. Slow, steady inflation doesn't cause problems now, and it won't in the future.
You say in your previous post "Because people spend more money and make more money, the prices of everything goes up."
That's not really true. When the GDP grows (when you see GDP grwoth rates, it's always inflation-adjusted), people spend more money because there is more products to be had. They have more money to spend because they are the ones that produced all of those products. The products aren't more expensive. There's just more of them. It's a stregth of the global economy, I'd say.
Of course, there is inflation. But that usually isn't to be worried about unless it gets fairly high.