Well, ask yourself this: do you think 640x480 is still an acceptable PC gaming resolution or do you see benefit in higher resolutions?
Of course games benefit from higher resolutions. Where you are incorrect is that 480p is not 640x480. It is 852x480. DVD's are the same quality, and they look pretty good. Sure, 720p, 1080i, etc are better, but not mind blowingly better. I'd rather see perfectly lifelike graphics at 480p than cartoony graphics at 1080p at this point. 1080p wastes a lot of processing power that could go into better effects and more lifelike images at 480p. Developers can't truly take advantage of the higher resolutions because of distance to the screen, and people who still play in 480i. Right now the real advantage is simply in texture resolution and jagged edge reduction.
You are correct. That would mean at an equal clock speed, the Wii CPU is 2x more powerful than the GC cpu. Double the Mhz and you are about 4x more powerful. Nintendo has said the processor is 10-20% more efficient, too.
The GC's GPU had to be synched with the CPU. It's why the GC was 485 Mhz instead of 500+ like it was supposed to be. If the GPU still has to be synched, then we can expect a similar boost in power for the GPU. That means the GPU is around 300 Mhz IF its the same GPU (as is the system bus). My guess is the GPU has been optimized heavily and has a bunch of new tech the GC didn't have. I read a while ago that the GCs 2MB of frame buffer ram has been upped to over 3MB (rumors of 10MB), making 720p possible (although it would simply be upscaling of a 480p resolution). The Wii also has 5x the amount of 1T-SRAM.
In reality, at the upper end, the Wii is probably 4x more powerful than the GC. So, although it will never look as nice as the 360 or PS3, you will still see a pretty good graphic increase over the lifetime of the console. Not to mention a number of good increases in AI, physics, etc due to all the extra calculations it can crunch.
I'm disappointed that I was moderated as a Troll, when I was not trolling.
Although I was too brief before, let me expand on other reasons on why the front-end design is poor:
The fixed navigation panels on the left side and right side do not function properly when a browser does not have a large amount of available vertical space. The menus become in-accessible.
Inconsistent menus. The menus change depending on the section of the site AND the individual story.
Does not work properly in all browsers. There are rendering errors all over the place, especially in Firefox.
Poorly performing DHTML.
Poor color selection. The site will be hard for visually impaired users. Especially the blue on slightly darker blue.
The improper use of table elements, and overall ignoring of web standards.
The lack of a DOCTYPE is a glaring omission.
The design isn't god-awful, but it could use a lot of work. It was clearly designed initially with flash over function, and that hurts the it in the end.
The site is designed very poorly. The website is no where near W3 compliant HTML/X-HTML/CSS. It runs extremely poorly in Firefox. They don't even serve up a proper DOCTYPE, and for that alone I would not hire their front-end developers for any website design.
Honestly, for all the back-end work, they should have gotten a GOOD front-end developer who understood design and standards.
I disagree about quite a few of those games. Mario Party 6 is far superior to 5. My wife loves it. Also, Mario Tennis is supposedly great. Quite a few of my friends love it.
I think the real issue is that Mario/others don't have the pull they once had as a franchise, so Nintendo is spreading them out while they still can. They will need to find a new franchise character, or more likely, find a franchise game like the PS2 has with GTA games.
They still have a good chance at a franchise person in Link. Maybe Smash Bros and Kart can become their real franchise games since SMB games have lost their luster.
If P2P is made illegal, then a lot of other tools should be made illegal.
Here is a short list: Guns, hammers, rocks, knives, forks, spoons, sporks, drills, axes, saws, chainsaws, javelins, baseballs, Windows, Linux, Office, pillows, electronic devices, sheets, bath tubs, lawn mowers, mail boxes, etc.
What do they all have in common with P2P? They all have legitimate uses because they are simply tools, but at the same time they can also be used for crime.
Honestly, if you have a home there or live there for some part of the year, you should be allowed to vote in the elections there.
My reasoning is that you do pay taxes there, and the representative's decisions there will effect your life.
If you get the opportunity to vote twice in an election, so be it. Each state conducts their own voting and has their own policies for the federal elections. Essentially it is like 50 smaller elections, but they get tallied to one big election in the end. So, congrats, you have a life in both states, you can try to effect it.
All of this you are speaking of happened after Ted Turner was bought out. He started the companies, but sold off most of them, including CNN. This was before the merger.
He frequently talks about how much he regrets selling CNN because it is a shell of the channel it once was. He feels the channel is no longer balanced and is now more propaganda and fluff based (lots of entertainment news now) in order to keep up with Fox News.
Yes, Quake 4 is in development using the Doom 3 engine. However, id is not developing the game. I believe Raven software is. It has something to do w/ the Quake 2 enemies, I think.
It doesn't always work very easily when you have e.g. several rows of data that you want columnated. I don't know of any way to make a grid of data with multiple rows & multiple columns using div & css.
But, this is okay with tables! That's the point of having tables: for tabular data. The idea is to use tables only for data, and not for layout.
And, CSS is easy enough for layout. It just takes some practice, but I've seen many multiple column sites work just fine using XHTML and CSS.
Every game has an ESRB rating associated with it. Each online game can be automatically censored based on that rating. So, if a game has an M rating, anything goes. If an online game has an E rating, they could auto-sensor bad words, etc. I'm sure they could come up with one that would detect those words in voice too.
But are the people responsible for slashdot's content responsible for its bandwidth bill?
I believe they are, or were, at one point. OSDN may pay the bandwidth fees now. I remember reading an article about it in NY Times. It's in the archive now, though.
Still, keeping costs low for their owners is a good thing for them to do.
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go through the effort for the very miniscule pay-off that comes from it.
The pay off is more than miniscule. Read the ESPN Redesign and see that they saved 50 KB per page and an estimated 730 Terabytes of bandwidth a year.
That is a HUGE cost savings./. would likely have a similar cost savings due to the high traffic and the sheer number of nested tables on the site. I don't know how much ESPN's bandwidth and hosting costs are per GB, but they save on space and bandwidth. Estimating $5 per GB would put it at $365,000 per year in savings, but I bet it is even higher than that.
This is actually untrue, because the HTML requires markup to distinguish elements that you apply styles to. If you decide you want to emphasise a word in a run of text, for example, you need to put that word into a span or some other element. So while you can divorce presentation to a degree, presentation changes can require semantic changes to the content itself.
Actually, this is true. Tags such as EM (emphasis), and STRONG (strong emphasis) are used to emphasize important points. These are considered content, not style. Span's are not needed when the correct tags are used.
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The important thing to remember here is that the new CCS'ed documents should render well on older browsers. For example, if you use CSS to give a background color to the document or to a table cell, ALSO include the equivelant HTML tag. If you use CSS to give weight to text, also use the equivelant HTML tags (CSS always have precedence over tags). So for example, also include the FONT SIZE, bgcolor and Bold or Italics tags. Also, make sure you don't make make tables on CSS, use HTML markup for heavy layout stuff, because most of the browsers above won't be able to handle it.
No, this is an incorrect view. CSS is about separating CONTENT and PRESENTATION. That means no font, bold, or italic tags. This is all done in the style sheet. Additionally, font tags, etc always take precidence over style sheets.
By using proper XHTML (or HTML 4.0) and sticking to valid tags (heading tags, emphasis, lists) the page will automatically degrade nicely and be viewable in ALL BROWSERS. This includes lynx and other text only browsers.
The browsers that support CSS will use it, and it will look prettier for them, and browsers that do not support it will still display the content perfectly even though fonts, etc could be wrong.
Also note that by using CSS, the site will be easier to maintain. The removal of font, bold, italic, and underline tags will also make the site lighter and faster. Note that CSS is cached by the browser, so that file only has to be downloaded once.
Please look at The CSS Vault and CSS Zen Garden as great examples and references. CSS Vault has page after page that justify the use of CSS and valid XHTML. Also notice that if the browser cannot use CSS, the site still renders all the content properly.
An important additonal note: By using proper XHTML and CSS, the disabled will have access to the site in a much easier fashion due to the lack of tables being used for markup (tables only for data!), and the simpler code. This is for special screen reading browsers.
A Republican website could read: "Slashdot subtlely brainwashes and force conforms its readers into being liberal... majority of slashdotters have broadband, is there a link?"
Have you read OSNews.com lately? That site has turned into exactly of what you speak. They even practice heavy censorship.
I was at the airport a couple weeks ago. The system is in place, but they aren't doing screening. Anyway, everybody's getting a bright green color, then the person in front of me gets bright red and the system makes a buzzing noise. He stops and goes "what? what's that?" He was clearly upset. The person checking everybody in said not to worry about it and go ahead and board.
Of course, I knew what it was, and it made me nervous. Then, you wonder what coud happen with that guy on the plane.
They should implement it so you cannot see the screen. I guess a month from now they would pull him aside and get out the rubber gloves.
Honestly, I would be willing to copyright stats for NBA, NHL, MLB, NCAAB, NFL, and MLS. Then I would go to each respective league, ESPN, Fox Sports, and all local sports shows and sue them for copy infringement. I'd also license out the stats for a high price. Early retirement, here I come.
In seriousness, is there anything that actually protects the use of data itself? Couldn't somebody just throw the entire dictionary in a database as data, and then sue anybody who used any word? This whole thing seems absurd.
Napster could start to increase market share in the more profitable business of selling monthly subscriptions, where customers can listen to -- but not own -- as many songs as they want each month for $9.95.
Like most people, I buy around 4 - 5 CD's a year. This totals about 50 - 60 bucks. For me to pay $10 per month, I would have to own the music to justify the $120 per year cost.
I believe that most people, much like myself, would like to own their music. I want to put it on any device I want. I want as many copies as I need. And, I want it available anytime, anywhere. When these companies figure that out, then they will start making money from me. Until then, I will continue to buy the 4-5 cds I deem worthy.
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Well, ask yourself this: do you think 640x480 is still an acceptable PC gaming resolution or do you see benefit in higher resolutions?
Of course games benefit from higher resolutions. Where you are incorrect is that 480p is not 640x480. It is 852x480. DVD's are the same quality, and they look pretty good. Sure, 720p, 1080i, etc are better, but not mind blowingly better. I'd rather see perfectly lifelike graphics at 480p than cartoony graphics at 1080p at this point. 1080p wastes a lot of processing power that could go into better effects and more lifelike images at 480p. Developers can't truly take advantage of the higher resolutions because of distance to the screen, and people who still play in 480i. Right now the real advantage is simply in texture resolution and jagged edge reduction.
You are correct. That would mean at an equal clock speed, the Wii CPU is 2x more powerful than the GC cpu. Double the Mhz and you are about 4x more powerful. Nintendo has said the processor is 10-20% more efficient, too.
The GC's GPU had to be synched with the CPU. It's why the GC was 485 Mhz instead of 500+ like it was supposed to be. If the GPU still has to be synched, then we can expect a similar boost in power for the GPU. That means the GPU is around 300 Mhz IF its the same GPU (as is the system bus). My guess is the GPU has been optimized heavily and has a bunch of new tech the GC didn't have. I read a while ago that the GCs 2MB of frame buffer ram has been upped to over 3MB (rumors of 10MB), making 720p possible (although it would simply be upscaling of a 480p resolution). The Wii also has 5x the amount of 1T-SRAM.
In reality, at the upper end, the Wii is probably 4x more powerful than the GC. So, although it will never look as nice as the 360 or PS3, you will still see a pretty good graphic increase over the lifetime of the console. Not to mention a number of good increases in AI, physics, etc due to all the extra calculations it can crunch.
Everybody wants to play Lee Caravillo's Putting Challenge!
I'm disappointed that I was moderated as a Troll, when I was not trolling.
Although I was too brief before, let me expand on other reasons on why the front-end design is poor:
The design isn't god-awful, but it could use a lot of work. It was clearly designed initially with flash over function, and that hurts the it in the end.
The site is designed very poorly. The website is no where near W3 compliant HTML/X-HTML/CSS. It runs extremely poorly in Firefox. They don't even serve up a proper DOCTYPE, and for that alone I would not hire their front-end developers for any website design.
Honestly, for all the back-end work, they should have gotten a GOOD front-end developer who understood design and standards.
That meteor contains The Blob!
I disagree about quite a few of those games. Mario Party 6 is far superior to 5. My wife loves it. Also, Mario Tennis is supposedly great. Quite a few of my friends love it.
I think the real issue is that Mario/others don't have the pull they once had as a franchise, so Nintendo is spreading them out while they still can. They will need to find a new franchise character, or more likely, find a franchise game like the PS2 has with GTA games.
They still have a good chance at a franchise person in Link. Maybe Smash Bros and Kart can become their real franchise games since SMB games have lost their luster.
The Wall Street Journal has not endorsed anyone for President, yet. They normally abstain from endorsements.
The Financial Times did endorse Kerry for what its worth.
If P2P is made illegal, then a lot of other tools should be made illegal.
Here is a short list: Guns, hammers, rocks, knives, forks, spoons, sporks, drills, axes, saws, chainsaws, javelins, baseballs, Windows, Linux, Office, pillows, electronic devices, sheets, bath tubs, lawn mowers, mail boxes, etc.
What do they all have in common with P2P? They all have legitimate uses because they are simply tools, but at the same time they can also be used for crime.
Honestly, if you have a home there or live there for some part of the year, you should be allowed to vote in the elections there.
My reasoning is that you do pay taxes there, and the representative's decisions there will effect your life.
If you get the opportunity to vote twice in an election, so be it. Each state conducts their own voting and has their own policies for the federal elections. Essentially it is like 50 smaller elections, but they get tallied to one big election in the end. So, congrats, you have a life in both states, you can try to effect it.
So, have you not seen the Kansas City Chiefs at all this year or last year?
All of this you are speaking of happened after Ted Turner was bought out. He started the companies, but sold off most of them, including CNN. This was before the merger.
He frequently talks about how much he regrets selling CNN because it is a shell of the channel it once was. He feels the channel is no longer balanced and is now more propaganda and fluff based (lots of entertainment news now) in order to keep up with Fox News.
Yes, Quake 4 is in development using the Doom 3 engine. However, id is not developing the game. I believe Raven software is. It has something to do w/ the Quake 2 enemies, I think.
But, this is okay with tables! That's the point of having tables: for tabular data. The idea is to use tables only for data, and not for layout.
And, CSS is easy enough for layout. It just takes some practice, but I've seen many multiple column sites work just fine using XHTML and CSS.
There's a simple solution to this.
Every game has an ESRB rating associated with it. Each online game can be automatically censored based on that rating. So, if a game has an M rating, anything goes. If an online game has an E rating, they could auto-sensor bad words, etc. I'm sure they could come up with one that would detect those words in voice too.
But are the people responsible for slashdot's content responsible for its bandwidth bill?
I believe they are, or were, at one point. OSDN may pay the bandwidth fees now. I remember reading an article about it in NY Times. It's in the archive now, though.
Still, keeping costs low for their owners is a good thing for them to do.
go through the effort for the very miniscule pay-off that comes from it.
The pay off is more than miniscule. Read the ESPN Redesign and see that they saved 50 KB per page and an estimated 730 Terabytes of bandwidth a year.
That is a HUGE cost savings. /. would likely have a similar cost savings due to the high traffic and the sheer number of nested tables on the site. I don't know how much ESPN's bandwidth and hosting costs are per GB, but they save on space and bandwidth. Estimating $5 per GB would put it at $365,000 per year in savings, but I bet it is even higher than that.
This is actually untrue, because the HTML requires markup to distinguish elements that you apply styles to. If you decide you want to emphasise a word in a run of text, for example, you need to put that word into a span or some other element. So while you can divorce presentation to a degree, presentation changes can require semantic changes to the content itself.
Actually, this is true. Tags such as EM (emphasis), and STRONG (strong emphasis) are used to emphasize important points. These are considered content, not style. Span's are not needed when the correct tags are used.
No, this is an incorrect view. CSS is about separating CONTENT and PRESENTATION. That means no font, bold, or italic tags. This is all done in the style sheet. Additionally, font tags, etc always take precidence over style sheets.
By using proper XHTML (or HTML 4.0) and sticking to valid tags (heading tags, emphasis, lists) the page will automatically degrade nicely and be viewable in ALL BROWSERS. This includes lynx and other text only browsers.
The browsers that support CSS will use it, and it will look prettier for them, and browsers that do not support it will still display the content perfectly even though fonts, etc could be wrong.
Also note that by using CSS, the site will be easier to maintain. The removal of font, bold, italic, and underline tags will also make the site lighter and faster. Note that CSS is cached by the browser, so that file only has to be downloaded once.
Please look at The CSS Vault and CSS Zen Garden as great examples and references. CSS Vault has page after page that justify the use of CSS and valid XHTML. Also notice that if the browser cannot use CSS, the site still renders all the content properly.
An important additonal note: By using proper XHTML and CSS, the disabled will have access to the site in a much easier fashion due to the lack of tables being used for markup (tables only for data!), and the simpler code. This is for special screen reading browsers.
A Republican website could read: "Slashdot subtlely brainwashes and force conforms its readers into being liberal ... majority of slashdotters have broadband, is there a link?"
Have you read OSNews.com lately? That site has turned into exactly of what you speak. They even practice heavy censorship.
I was at the airport a couple weeks ago. The system is in place, but they aren't doing screening. Anyway, everybody's getting a bright green color, then the person in front of me gets bright red and the system makes a buzzing noise. He stops and goes "what? what's that?" He was clearly upset. The person checking everybody in said not to worry about it and go ahead and board.
Of course, I knew what it was, and it made me nervous. Then, you wonder what coud happen with that guy on the plane.
They should implement it so you cannot see the screen. I guess a month from now they would pull him aside and get out the rubber gloves.
Actually, they probably could. You can get proper png support by using javascript, and in turn could possibly get it to work in a similar fashion.
It is evil and sadistic when it kills.. See the movie TRON as an accurate example.
I hope it doesn't even pass.
Honestly, I would be willing to copyright stats for NBA, NHL, MLB, NCAAB, NFL, and MLS. Then I would go to each respective league, ESPN, Fox Sports, and all local sports shows and sue them for copy infringement. I'd also license out the stats for a high price. Early retirement, here I come.
In seriousness, is there anything that actually protects the use of data itself? Couldn't somebody just throw the entire dictionary in a database as data, and then sue anybody who used any word? This whole thing seems absurd.
Napster could start to increase market share in the more profitable business of selling monthly subscriptions, where customers can listen to -- but not own -- as many songs as they want each month for $9.95.
Like most people, I buy around 4 - 5 CD's a year. This totals about 50 - 60 bucks. For me to pay $10 per month, I would have to own the music to justify the $120 per year cost.
I believe that most people, much like myself, would like to own their music. I want to put it on any device I want. I want as many copies as I need. And, I want it available anytime, anywhere. When these companies figure that out, then they will start making money from me. Until then, I will continue to buy the 4-5 cds I deem worthy.