Movies have star power. The general public doesn't care who made the game.
Most people don't care which studios make a movie either. Games have stars just the same as movies. Mario, Sonic the Hedgehog, Lara Croft, etc., they're all stars as well as characters that fall in from other media -- Star Wars comes to mind. Similarly they have behind-the-scenes "stars" as well, instead of well-known directors there are well-known game designers who add a cachet to their productions (Will Wright, Sid Meier, etc.).
I don't think those two articles are really pointing out opposite trends at all. The CNet article claims the market at large is consolidating into fewer major studios, and the Gamasutra article claims new opportunities for independent studios. These conditions can exist concurrently and in fact do now exist in the movie industry. The majority of the film market is produced by major studios but film-making is still becoming increasingly attractive for independents.
The diffence is that in the movie industry, independents have thrived because of the decreased barrier-of-entry (film-making is now potentially cheaper than ever before) whereas a growth in independent game studios will, I think, come mostly from growth in the gaming market.
Soon the only jobs left on the planet will be: 1) prostitute 2) mercenary 3) bankers who own 1 and 2.
Well, judging from present lack of demand for my sexual services, I don't think I have to worry about being a prostitute. Being a mercenary or prostitute/mercenary-owning banker both sound pretty badass though, sign me up!
Other 'free' services have been doing it for ages, most notably Hulu.com
I know this is the internet we're talking about, but Hulu went live ~1.5 years ago and has only been accessible to the general public for less than a year (March 12, 2008). They haven't been doing anything "for ages".
Having a 700W PSU does not mean that your computer is using that much power or really anywhere even close to it, because it's a maximum power rating. Get a kill-a-watt or a multi-meter (be careful) and measure the actual power your computer consumes. Even the most pimped, power-hungry gaming PC will struggle to get much past 400W with everything blazing, and most of the time will be much much less (usually under 300W). Plus, when it's idle or near-idle (most of the time) it will use much less, probably not more than 150 watts for a gaming PC and possibly much less (normal desktops will usually use 100W @ idle). 50KWh should be enough to keep your PC running for like a week (maybe even two).
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Tylenol PM is just regular Tylenol with diphenhydramine a.k.a. "Benadryl" (in the US and Canada) added to it. Using it regularly in normal doses isn't very harmful at all. However, there has been at least one study which seems to show that tolerance builds quickly towards the sedative effects of diphenhydramine builds quickly, becoming comparable to a placebo after only a few days of use. Link
You people always trot out "What could possibly go wrong" as a reason to not do something, well I say you're pussies. I want to know what can go wrong, in fact, the greater possibility for something to go wrong, the more interested I am in them doing it. If it works like they think it will, great, another new source for energy and waste disposal. If things go horribly wrong, like you naysayers think, that's almost as good -- a spectacular failure is a beautiful thing, especially when accompanied by a huge explosion. I say bring it on.
See, this is my problem with you people who put all your faith and belief behind "science", it just leads to pessimistic attitudes. I mean sure, I know it's unlikely that this system would be the exception to conservation of energy or any other principle of physics, but there's always a possibility that maybe, just maybe, plasma garbage vaporizing is where physics breaks down. So, if you want, I'll let you live in your miserable world where you're always right and nothing exciting ever happens. All I ask is that you just don't disturb me in my world, a world of imagination and possibilities, a world where anything can happen, a world where flying cars, jetpacks and sophisticated sex robots are just around the corner and yes, a world where garbage vaporizes can run amok, producing more energy than is put into them thereby destroying the universe. Screw your science, that's the world I want to live in.
Depends on the project. In the case of projects like OpenCores the term "open source hardware" is very apt because the project consists of Verilog and VHDL files which are essentially programming languages (similar in many ways to C and Pascal) which are compiled as hardware designs for chips instead of programs. For other projects, it's a little more abstract, but still fitting, I think. I mean, open source software is software that provides with all the files you need to build a program yourself and allows you to modify them to suit your needs. An open source hardware project would generally provide the same thing, but instead of source code, it's schematics and board layouts.
Anytime the Wavebubble comes up, somebody brings out the argument that it could potentially block a call to Emergency services, but really this isn't a very realistic scenario. The Wavebubble really has a pretty limited range, from the project page: Effective range is approximately 20' radius with well-tuned antennas". That's a small enough area that to anybody within range it would just appear like a small dead spot in coverage and just like a regular deadspot, they'd probably walk around a little bit until they got service. It doesn't impede emergency access any more than standing on the wrong side of a building might. Furthermore, a 20 foot radius is small enough that if there is somebody nearby needing emergency services, you can almost certainly see them and help out yourself.
If someone on a cell phone is annoying you, ask them to keep it down or turn it off.
I work in a retail store and people are constantly coming up to the counter talking on their cellphones, oblivious to how rude it is to the people around them and how often it inconveniences other customers (customers talking on their phones generally will not be paying close attention to the transaction or myself, causing the sale to take longer). I can understand and agree with why cell-jammers are illegal, but still, everytime a particularly obnoxious customer comes up to the register on their cellphone, it's hard for me to avoid thinking about building a Wavebubble. What's stopped me thus far is that I really doubt it would do any good -- if I cut off their signal they're just going to try to redial whoever they were talking to, as distracted as ever.
Yep, WWVB, the main station used by radio clocks in the US broadcasts in UTC, all time zone and daylight savings adjustments are done by the clock which is why you have to set a time zone when you first buy one.
This makes sense too because the radio station is used all over the country and neither it, nor your clocks have any way of knowing where you are.
I've looked at a number of the "cheap" and homebrew 3D printers and honestly, I've been roundly unimpressed by all of them. The engineering effort is always great and their goals are surely worth persuing, but thus far the results of these printers leave much to be desired: at best looking like an *okay* hand-made model and more often looking more like an artistically shaped pile of poop. I don't mean to knock these projects, but the technology isn't really there yet. I mean, even some of the expensive commercial 3D printers don't produce spectacular results.
What will Firefox 2 say to users of nearly decade-old PCs that still run Windows 98 or Windows Millennium Edition, which cannot run Firefox 3?
Probably "get a new computer".
I mean seriously, I've got sympathy for people who have to run old versions of Windows, but I don't think Firefox is doing anything unreasonable in this case by dropping support for an operating system which Microsoft itself stopped supporting over two years ago. It may be annoying for Firefox users on 98/98SE/ME to be bothered to upgrade to a version which won't run on their computer, but that's probably the least of the problems they'll come across while running an OS that old.
The company I buy my domains from is only $12/year for a.com, just $2 more than GoDaddy (even less difference if you register for a longer period of time). I consider $2/year difference to be a pretty inconsequential amount of money, especially considering that it also keeps me from worrying about getting fucked over by my registrar.
Why can I get this feature for a MMORPG account, but not from my bank, or any other banks I know of?
Many banks don't offer them because it costs money to implement a system which uses them and they're really only cost-effective for customers who keep a lot of money in their accounts, so their attitude towards those customers is "if you want it, go to another bank who can offer it". Likewise, of the banks that do offer them only do so for their larger customers. For example, another poster mentioned Citibank not offering security tokens, but they do, but only to their "Citibusiness" custumers whose accounts surely have relatively high minimum balances and/or fees.
One of the easier banks to get a security token from is ETrade. For investment accounts you can get one for a one-time charge of $25 or for free if you have >$50,000 in assets with them or do more than 10 stocks/options trades per month. If you want one for your checking account, they have checking now too and the same rules apply, but you have to keep a minimum average balance of $5,000 to avoid fees (or have $50K in assets with them). So if you can afford to keep $5K in your checking account or you have $50K to invest with them (maybe your IRA or 401k) then getting one is no problem -- not for everybody obviously, but pretty workable if you care a lot about keeping your online banking secure.
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Most people don't care which studios make a movie either. Games have stars just the same as movies. Mario, Sonic the Hedgehog, Lara Croft, etc., they're all stars as well as characters that fall in from other media -- Star Wars comes to mind. Similarly they have behind-the-scenes "stars" as well, instead of well-known directors there are well-known game designers who add a cachet to their productions (Will Wright, Sid Meier, etc.).
I don't think those two articles are really pointing out opposite trends at all. The CNet article claims the market at large is consolidating into fewer major studios, and the Gamasutra article claims new opportunities for independent studios. These conditions can exist concurrently and in fact do now exist in the movie industry. The majority of the film market is produced by major studios but film-making is still becoming increasingly attractive for independents.
The diffence is that in the movie industry, independents have thrived because of the decreased barrier-of-entry (film-making is now potentially cheaper than ever before) whereas a growth in independent game studios will, I think, come mostly from growth in the gaming market.
Well, judging from present lack of demand for my sexual services, I don't think I have to worry about being a prostitute. Being a mercenary or prostitute/mercenary-owning banker both sound pretty badass though, sign me up!
I agree, but that means the real question is, can I get ad-free radio just for letting somebody grope me? If so, sign me up, it sounds like a win-win.
I know this is the internet we're talking about, but Hulu went live ~1.5 years ago and has only been accessible to the general public for less than a year (March 12, 2008). They haven't been doing anything "for ages".
Having a 700W PSU does not mean that your computer is using that much power or really anywhere even close to it, because it's a maximum power rating. Get a kill-a-watt or a multi-meter (be careful) and measure the actual power your computer consumes. Even the most pimped, power-hungry gaming PC will struggle to get much past 400W with everything blazing, and most of the time will be much much less (usually under 300W). Plus, when it's idle or near-idle (most of the time) it will use much less, probably not more than 150 watts for a gaming PC and possibly much less (normal desktops will usually use 100W @ idle). 50KWh should be enough to keep your PC running for like a week (maybe even two).
Tylenol PM is just regular Tylenol with diphenhydramine a.k.a. "Benadryl" (in the US and Canada) added to it. Using it regularly in normal doses isn't very harmful at all. However, there has been at least one study which seems to show that tolerance builds quickly towards the sedative effects of diphenhydramine builds quickly, becoming comparable to a placebo after only a few days of use. Link
YMMV.
I for one, think that a few grey lines make a display look distinguished.
You people always trot out "What could possibly go wrong" as a reason to not do something, well I say you're pussies. I want to know what can go wrong, in fact, the greater possibility for something to go wrong, the more interested I am in them doing it. If it works like they think it will, great, another new source for energy and waste disposal. If things go horribly wrong, like you naysayers think, that's almost as good -- a spectacular failure is a beautiful thing, especially when accompanied by a huge explosion. I say bring it on.
See, this is my problem with you people who put all your faith and belief behind "science", it just leads to pessimistic attitudes. I mean sure, I know it's unlikely that this system would be the exception to conservation of energy or any other principle of physics, but there's always a possibility that maybe, just maybe, plasma garbage vaporizing is where physics breaks down. So, if you want, I'll let you live in your miserable world where you're always right and nothing exciting ever happens. All I ask is that you just don't disturb me in my world, a world of imagination and possibilities, a world where anything can happen, a world where flying cars, jetpacks and sophisticated sex robots are just around the corner and yes, a world where garbage vaporizes can run amok, producing more energy than is put into them thereby destroying the universe. Screw your science, that's the world I want to live in.
Just like MKV hardly anything will play it, but unlike MKV it doesn't actually add anything useful.
Mod me troll if you like, but I speak the truth.
Depends on the project. In the case of projects like OpenCores the term "open source hardware" is very apt because the project consists of Verilog and VHDL files which are essentially programming languages (similar in many ways to C and Pascal) which are compiled as hardware designs for chips instead of programs. For other projects, it's a little more abstract, but still fitting, I think. I mean, open source software is software that provides with all the files you need to build a program yourself and allows you to modify them to suit your needs. An open source hardware project would generally provide the same thing, but instead of source code, it's schematics and board layouts.
I work in a retail store and people are constantly coming up to the counter talking on their cellphones, oblivious to how rude it is to the people around them and how often it inconveniences other customers (customers talking on their phones generally will not be paying close attention to the transaction or myself, causing the sale to take longer). I can understand and agree with why cell-jammers are illegal, but still, everytime a particularly obnoxious customer comes up to the register on their cellphone, it's hard for me to avoid thinking about building a Wavebubble. What's stopped me thus far is that I really doubt it would do any good -- if I cut off their signal they're just going to try to redial whoever they were talking to, as distracted as ever.
Yep, WWVB, the main station used by radio clocks in the US broadcasts in UTC, all time zone and daylight savings adjustments are done by the clock which is why you have to set a time zone when you first buy one.
This makes sense too because the radio station is used all over the country and neither it, nor your clocks have any way of knowing where you are.
Yep, that sounds just like a mac-using hipster: buy a Mac just to use Windows ironically.
I've looked at a number of the "cheap" and homebrew 3D printers and honestly, I've been roundly unimpressed by all of them. The engineering effort is always great and their goals are surely worth persuing, but thus far the results of these printers leave much to be desired: at best looking like an *okay* hand-made model and more often looking more like an artistically shaped pile of poop. I don't mean to knock these projects, but the technology isn't really there yet. I mean, even some of the expensive commercial 3D printers don't produce spectacular results.
Why settle for tin foil hats when you can have tin foil powerplants, houses, cars, etc. It just makes sense.
Mod parent down. (Score: -1, Ugly Mirror).
Text messages are magic.
Some places are magic.
Pilots are afraid of magic.
Voicemails are magic.
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Really though, I think we would have been better off if we did this about 10 years ago (maybe even 15). Better late than never though, I guess.
There are 4 billion people on earth. 237 are Scanners. They have the most terrifying powers ever created... and they are winning.
There's just one problem with this analogy: the Internet is not a truck, it's a series of tubes.
Probably "get a new computer".
I mean seriously, I've got sympathy for people who have to run old versions of Windows, but I don't think Firefox is doing anything unreasonable in this case by dropping support for an operating system which Microsoft itself stopped supporting over two years ago. It may be annoying for Firefox users on 98/98SE/ME to be bothered to upgrade to a version which won't run on their computer, but that's probably the least of the problems they'll come across while running an OS that old.
The company I buy my domains from is only $12/year for a .com, just $2 more than GoDaddy (even less difference if you register for a longer period of time). I consider $2/year difference to be a pretty inconsequential amount of money, especially considering that it also keeps me from worrying about getting fucked over by my registrar.
Many banks don't offer them because it costs money to implement a system which uses them and they're really only cost-effective for customers who keep a lot of money in their accounts, so their attitude towards those customers is "if you want it, go to another bank who can offer it". Likewise, of the banks that do offer them only do so for their larger customers. For example, another poster mentioned Citibank not offering security tokens, but they do, but only to their "Citibusiness" custumers whose accounts surely have relatively high minimum balances and/or fees.
One of the easier banks to get a security token from is ETrade. For investment accounts you can get one for a one-time charge of $25 or for free if you have >$50,000 in assets with them or do more than 10 stocks/options trades per month. If you want one for your checking account, they have checking now too and the same rules apply, but you have to keep a minimum average balance of $5,000 to avoid fees (or have $50K in assets with them). So if you can afford to keep $5K in your checking account or you have $50K to invest with them (maybe your IRA or 401k) then getting one is no problem -- not for everybody obviously, but pretty workable if you care a lot about keeping your online banking secure.