The *much, much* cheaper way would be to just configure the routers that come with the DSL and cable modems to be more restrictive by default and tell the users to change the settings themselves. Cheaper for who? You gonna take the tech support calls?;)
Seriously, have them change the default password first and put it on a sticker on the box.
That's why robots fail... they should manage complexity so YOU can do important things like tend to little people. I see where you're going, and I was (half) joking, but...
1. This isn't the only little person that needs tending.
2. It's also important for Mommy and Daddy to sleep so they can care for the home the little people are in and go to work to put food in the little people's mouths.
But I come from a very long line of people that successfully reproduced without robots so I'm sure we'll be fine.
2. You're an idiot, your argument makes no sense and furthermore I would love robot that does I would pay $400 for a robot that flicks the sensor in our new baby from "I'm in a seat/crib/swing, scream bloody murder." to "I'm being held, sleep."
In my experience, the parents who would be responsible enough to use such a feature don't need it anyways. The problem is the parents who want their kids lifeless in front of the Xbox (or the TV) so they'll be "out of their hair". As a new parent, may I ask, dies this work for five-week olds?
Point the third: Over 110 million units sold for GB and GBC combined, over 80 million GBAs and SPs. Each unit sold at a profit. 25 million PSPs sold? That's not just chicken scratch, that's chicken shit - especially given how many were sold at a loss. So which direction is Nintendo headed and in which is Sony headed?
Squeaky wheel gets the grease, and once hardware is able to render reality realistically, there's no need to improve it until some other facet of ultra-realism is discovered to implement.
The problem is that we've moved from NTSC to 1080 HD the number of pixels has risen by several times. So it's not just displaying realistic stuff, it's displaying it on 6 or 7 times the screen area at 60 fps that is the challenge.
While they're not terribly difficult even at the hardest settings, Not sure which game you played, but on the hardest settings for me there were many times which if you did not swap directions immediately (first piece!) you'd end up heading into a dead end created by alarms/short-circuits.
>quote>And lets observe that the top 9 have a population of about 12million, and are all island, desert or city states.
Let us also observe that the major European states (UK, Germany, France, Spain) all have half the per-capita figures of the USA.
The reason the US eneacted those laws before Europe is because Europe was going for small and efficient anyway (E.g. by producing the Mini and VW beetle, and there was already pressures on fuel efficiency via fuel taxes and fuel rationing (during the war).
This attempt at spinning the figures, plus trying to shift the focus away from yourselves and small countries, most of whom are producing oil for the industrialised nations anyway, will only reinforce many perceptions about Americans. The fact that Europe has a much higher population density and consists of older cities where smaller cars are more effective had nothing to do with it.
The whole concept of "carbon neutral" and off-setting your carbon emissions for whatever reason seams kind of lame to me. It's not supposed to be functional, it's supposed to make you feel better about your "sin".
It's the global-warming equivalent of saying your Hail Marys.
I do find it ironic that computing started out with large mainframes, and now it seems more and more likely that the majority of computing needs in the future will be met by terminals connected to mainframes via virtualization. Keep in mind that your cellphone will has more power than most of the mainframes used to and the terminals will have far more power beyond that.
It's a change in terminology, not in behavior. It's not that terminals are connected to mainframes, it's that everyone has their own mainframe and the personal mainframes are connected to mega-super-duper mainframes.
1) This "story" is really OLD. It did the rounds on the Internet MONTHS ago.
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a. Either zonk has trouble telling the two apart and thinks this is legitimate "news."
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b. zonk believes that it has already been posted on/. and is posting it again just to make a dupe. Maybe Zonk just has difficulties telling the stories apart?
Unless sony drops the price of their Blu-Ray equipment, Blu-Ray is dead in the water. Have they already forgotten BetaMax? Sorry to interrupt your smug, but HD-DVD has been out longer than BluRay and has always been cheaper than BluRay, yet BluRay outsold HD-DVD 2:1 in 2007.
Does that mean it's going to win? No. But it certainly doesn't sound like it's losing.
The amount of time the MPAA claims it will take to crack something (in this case, 10 years) is inversely related to how long it will actually take (in this case, a few weeks). As further proof of your theory, DRM-free media will never be cracked.
Meh, I'm unconvinced SLI is anything more than markting hot-rods to idiots. I tried SLI for expandability reasons. I built a rig so I could buy another card in a year or so to keep my system performance solid without upgrading everything else.
My experience was glitchy, difficult (you cannot use two monitors in SLI mode!), and did not provide the FPS boost that I thought it would. This is with two of the same model/manufacturer card.
Pauses all single player games in Source. Yes, but TF2 is a primarily a multi-player game so it has no value to me. I'm not paying $30 for Episode Two or $50 for Episode Two + Portal. Re-read my post.
Since I didn't want to pay $50 for Episode Two + Portal (since with a baby and two year old at home multiplayer holds zero value for me as I can't hit pause on either one...) this is just another nail in the coffin.
And as I'm not paying $30 for Episode Two alone I'll be waiting until next year to see the end of Half-Life 2. Let's hope this has an affect on their sales.
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Seriously, have them change the default password first and put it on a sticker on the box.
1. This isn't the only little person that needs tending.
2. It's also important for Mommy and Daddy to sleep so they can care for the home the little people are in and go to work to put food in the little people's mouths.
But I come from a very long line of people that successfully reproduced without robots so I'm sure we'll be fine.
Thing is, we're not there yet...
I have an 8800GTX... plunked down just under $500 for it a couple months ago. I get around 40-50 FPS on BioShock at 1920x1080.
True, we're close, but we've got another few years before we have 1920x1080x60hz maxxed out.
After that, you're right...
There, fixed it for you without being a troll.
Squeaky wheel gets the grease, and once hardware is able to render reality realistically, there's no need to improve it until some other facet of ultra-realism is discovered to implement. The problem is that we've moved from NTSC to 1080 HD the number of pixels has risen by several times. So it's not just displaying realistic stuff, it's displaying it on 6 or 7 times the screen area at 60 fps that is the challenge.
Was very happy when I got to the auto-hack stuff.
>quote>And lets observe that the top 9 have a population of about 12million, and are all island, desert or city states. Let us also observe that the major European states (UK, Germany, France, Spain) all have half the per-capita figures of the USA. The reason the US eneacted those laws before Europe is because Europe was going for small and efficient anyway (E.g. by producing the Mini and VW beetle, and there was already pressures on fuel efficiency via fuel taxes and fuel rationing (during the war). This attempt at spinning the figures, plus trying to shift the focus away from yourselves and small countries, most of whom are producing oil for the industrialised nations anyway, will only reinforce many perceptions about Americans. The fact that Europe has a much higher population density and consists of older cities where smaller cars are more effective had nothing to do with it.
Talk about tilting facts!
It's the global-warming equivalent of saying your Hail Marys.
It's a change in terminology, not in behavior. It's not that terminals are connected to mainframes, it's that everyone has their own mainframe and the personal mainframes are connected to mega-super-duper mainframes.
Which, in twenty years, will fit on your watch.
3)
a. Either zonk has trouble telling the two apart and thinks this is legitimate "news."
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b. zonk believes that it has already been posted on
Does that mean it's going to win? No. But it certainly doesn't sound like it's losing.
For some reason I get aroused when I hear the number seven. Especially when it's followed by "of nine".
My experience was glitchy, difficult (you cannot use two monitors in SLI mode!), and did not provide the FPS boost that I thought it would. This is with two of the same model/manufacturer card.
I will be avoiding it in the future.
Since I didn't want to pay $50 for Episode Two + Portal (since with a baby and two year old at home multiplayer holds zero value for me as I can't hit pause on either one...) this is just another nail in the coffin.
And as I'm not paying $30 for Episode Two alone I'll be waiting until next year to see the end of Half-Life 2. Let's hope this has an affect on their sales.