The Keys are pretty calm. Except during storms, there are rarely any large waves which ensures crystal clear water and perfect diving. The shallow reef is beautiful, and the vicinity has a number of shipwrecks to explore (just google for GPS locations).
I just got my diving certification at Key Largo a few weeks ago, and it's probably the most fun I've ever had. The visibility is usually 50+ feet in most areas.
Having Harley Quinn in the current Batman movie universe (Christian Bale's batman) would also mean that Joker had to make a reprise. Due to Ledger's death, I don't see how this is possible.
Besides, Harley Quinn (from the comics anyway) has a huge grin, and I don't think Summer Glau can pull off that smile.
However I think she'd make a sexy, but dangerous Selina Kyle.
That's a too circular, which wouldn't explain how the machines got created in the first place.
T2 made a point to say that Cyberdyne expedited (but not originally responsible for) the development of skynet and the machines. T3 (as crappy as it was) drives this point by stating that no matter what, "Judgement Day" was inevitable (thus couldn't be stopped by simply destroying Cyberdyne), and that skynet would be created with or without Cyberdyne- this time the Air Force's Cyber Research division would be responsible.
Nvidia has the mobile graphics line, which is designed for cellphones. AMD used to have a mobile graphics division, but I believe that they sold it to Qualcomm.
So in a the next few months, we'll be seeing mobile chipsets from both companies (Nvidia's Tegra and Qualcomm's Snapdragon) that will have scaled-down tech capable of handling HD video and impressive 3D graphics on embedded devices.
You're incorrect. Reeve actually died of heart failure from complications involving the antibiotics he was on to counter the sepsis caused by bedsores.
Most cards do this automatically. Nvidia has two separate clockspeeds for 2D and 3D (IIRC you can change both in RivaTuner and other overclocking utils), and I think ATI does the same. The power savings are pretty substantial (100W or more), and on mid and high-end cards you'll notice that the fans run faster and the computer is usually warmer.
Mobile variants are even more customizable, and will shut off individual pixel pipelines/shading units in low-power mode (ie- on battery).
Others want the iPod (why? I dunno. It's spiffy and has neato features, and don't underestimate the power of "cool" and technofetishism.)
Honestly, couldn't care about what is cool or not. I bought a 160GB ipod classic since it was the only device on the market that had the capacity I needed. Unfortunately, it was also one of the first ipods with the new encrypted firmware.
The quality is excellent... they do take quite a beating from me. I've used my both my 160GB classic and 8 GB nano while skiing and mountainbiking, if that's any indication.
It's a shame too... if only Apple weren't so monopolistic about its products. They make MS look tame by comparison.
Of course it's hard not to laugh- it's funny how open WM phones are compared to the the likes of the iPhone or even the Android-powered G1, both of which require jailbreaking to run any app of your choosing.
So you're saying that it was hubris rather than greed. Fair enough. My point still stands though. If the Zune was priced 25% lower than the comparable ipod, I would have bought one over the iPod Classic- I bought my 160GB classic for less than a 120GB Zune cost (at the time), oddly enough.
That's the point I'm trying to make. iTunes is a bit cumbersome, actually lags on my quad core system sometimes, and crashes often- it's even worse than windows media player IMO. Still people are being led to believe it's the easiest way to manage their music collection.
I guess they simply want a pretty-looking (even if semi-functional) UI rather than simply open a folder and drag-drop music files into it.
Of course they aren't actually priced at zero from the point of view of making a profit, but they are priced low enough that people don't bother to comparison shop, and from a competitive standpoint that's within spitting distance of zero.
Even when they do a comparison shop, it comes down to convenience, not just price.
A few months ago, I was at Best Buy doing some last-minute Christmas shopping (it's the only time I ever go there). I eavesdropped on a Best Buy employee discussing different mp3 players for a customer. The customer wanted to know why the Creative (or whoever) product was priced much lower than the Apple product- they both had the same capacity, and color screens, but the non-Apple player was 25% less. The employee said it came down to itunes... he simplified it by saying it's "much easier to put music on the ipod". He then went on to say it was much more difficult to do on the other mp3 player.
The customer ended up buying the Apple product.
Most people aren't savvy enough to understand how to copy and paste mp3 files to a USB storage device, or how to buy music online without using itunes (or even rip a CD without itunes). People pay the premium (Apple tax) not because they're pretentious fanboys (well, some do), but rather they believe Apple's products are the easiest and most convenient to use.
But Zune wasn't the device to make them do it.
I feel the biggest reason for failure was that the Zune was way overpriced. Had MS priced them much lower than the comparable ipod, they would have had much more market penetration. Unfortunately, greed got in the way of intelligence (it happens often), and priced each zune similarly to the corresponding (capacity-wise) ipod, and believed that simply having a bigger screen would draw most people in. Apparently, MS forgot to use their own business model when they marketed the Zune.
Yet in every release since OS X, the Apple OS has gotten better, while Microsoft's consumer OS has gotten progressively worse since XP (ME and VISTA).
Either you have a poor memory or you're too young. ME came out before XP... it was actually the successor to 98SE. XP was substantially better (perhaps the best Microsoft OS ever released) since it was based on Win2k.
I'll admit Vista is worse than XP, but does not come remotely close to the clusterfuck that was ME. Despite Vista's bloat and high system requirements, my HTPC running Vista has had uptimes of several weeks before I'd restart (mostly due to windows update), and it's pretty stable. ME couldn't last more than a few hours.
It's not hard to donate anonymously via paypal- you can buy a prepaid debit card using a fake alias and a made-up SSN (I wouldn't recommend Greendot though) and set up a paypal account with the same fake name and throwaway email address.
Be advised that if you live in the US, you violate the PATRIOT* Act by doing this. But most prepaid card vendors never care to check SSNs/names/addresses/other personal info, and provided that you are actually paying (albeit under a false identity), it's not fraud.
*I always cringe when I mention this Act by name. The fascists in Washington really bastardize this word- it used to mean something great, now it means precisely the opposite.
And all the people that voted for him because they couldn't bring themselves to reward the party that gave them 8 years of Bush.
Yet they inadvertantly rewarded the party that had wielded power sufficient to stop Bush these last four years, but simply chose not to.
How about not rewarding either party, for once? Why must we (the people) be so partisan? It's quite obvious that Republican and Democrat leadership are in cahoots anyway.
His record is, ahem, clean, but his tattered reputation is frankly, well deserved.
This is Alaska. Palin and friends are trying to get him reinstated as a US Senator- and it's very likely that given the chance, they'll vote him back in.
This kind of bullshit caused me to abandon the GOP. I was hoping that losing Congress and the White House would force them to reconcile a bit. Oh well...
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The Keys are pretty calm. Except during storms, there are rarely any large waves which ensures crystal clear water and perfect diving. The shallow reef is beautiful, and the vicinity has a number of shipwrecks to explore (just google for GPS locations).
I just got my diving certification at Key Largo a few weeks ago, and it's probably the most fun I've ever had. The visibility is usually 50+ feet in most areas.
Having Harley Quinn in the current Batman movie universe (Christian Bale's batman) would also mean that Joker had to make a reprise. Due to Ledger's death, I don't see how this is possible.
Besides, Harley Quinn (from the comics anyway) has a huge grin, and I don't think Summer Glau can pull off that smile.
However I think she'd make a sexy, but dangerous Selina Kyle.
That's a too circular, which wouldn't explain how the machines got created in the first place.
T2 made a point to say that Cyberdyne expedited (but not originally responsible for) the development of skynet and the machines. T3 (as crappy as it was) drives this point by stating that no matter what, "Judgement Day" was inevitable (thus couldn't be stopped by simply destroying Cyberdyne), and that skynet would be created with or without Cyberdyne- this time the Air Force's Cyber Research division would be responsible.
I don't know, but I'd love to see her get cast as Catwoman in the next Batman movie.
Max Payne was developed by Remedy and Rockstar. Prey (the version we finally got), was developed almost entirely by Human Head.
3D Realms hasn't singlehandedly developed a game in a very long time.
I don't know... When Prey (another 3D Realms title that almost became vaporware) was finished by Human Head, it was pretty damn good, in my opinion.
I'm seriously hoping that another competent studio will pick up the IP and make something just as worthwhile.
...I'll gladly clap my hands 40 hours a week in whatever venue you deem most appropriate.
Well now, that depends on what you're willing to have in between your hands while clapping, and how soft your hands are...
I disagree... as stated before, it's just a money grab (New York already has ridiculous taxes and a huge deficit).
If the stated intent is to encourage healthy behavior, then why not make gym memberships and health clubs tax-deductible?
Nvidia has the mobile graphics line, which is designed for cellphones. AMD used to have a mobile graphics division, but I believe that they sold it to Qualcomm.
So in a the next few months, we'll be seeing mobile chipsets from both companies (Nvidia's Tegra and Qualcomm's Snapdragon) that will have scaled-down tech capable of handling HD video and impressive 3D graphics on embedded devices.
Newer (SM 3.0+) shaders allow flow control, so branching is supported in more recent architectures.
Great Scott! Don't you mean 1.21 JHz (jigahertz)?
You're incorrect. Reeve actually died of heart failure from complications involving the antibiotics he was on to counter the sepsis caused by bedsores.
Most cards do this automatically. Nvidia has two separate clockspeeds for 2D and 3D (IIRC you can change both in RivaTuner and other overclocking utils), and I think ATI does the same. The power savings are pretty substantial (100W or more), and on mid and high-end cards you'll notice that the fans run faster and the computer is usually warmer.
Mobile variants are even more customizable, and will shut off individual pixel pipelines/shading units in low-power mode (ie- on battery).
I have a 15" laptop that pushes 1920x1200.
Others want the iPod (why? I dunno. It's spiffy and has neato features, and don't underestimate the power of "cool" and technofetishism.)
Honestly, couldn't care about what is cool or not. I bought a 160GB ipod classic since it was the only device on the market that had the capacity I needed. Unfortunately, it was also one of the first ipods with the new encrypted firmware.
The quality is excellent... they do take quite a beating from me. I've used my both my 160GB classic and 8 GB nano while skiing and mountainbiking, if that's any indication.
It's a shame too... if only Apple weren't so monopolistic about its products. They make MS look tame by comparison.
Of course it's hard not to laugh- it's funny how open WM phones are compared to the the likes of the iPhone or even the Android-powered G1, both of which require jailbreaking to run any app of your choosing.
One word: avionics. The Rafale is designed for WVR combat, which means it'll be a fireball before it even sees the F-35.
So you're saying that it was hubris rather than greed. Fair enough. My point still stands though. If the Zune was priced 25% lower than the comparable ipod, I would have bought one over the iPod Classic- I bought my 160GB classic for less than a 120GB Zune cost (at the time), oddly enough.
It doesn't make any sense.
That's the point I'm trying to make. iTunes is a bit cumbersome, actually lags on my quad core system sometimes, and crashes often- it's even worse than windows media player IMO. Still people are being led to believe it's the easiest way to manage their music collection.
I guess they simply want a pretty-looking (even if semi-functional) UI rather than simply open a folder and drag-drop music files into it.
Of course they aren't actually priced at zero from the point of view of making a profit, but they are priced low enough that people don't bother to comparison shop, and from a competitive standpoint that's within spitting distance of zero.
Even when they do a comparison shop, it comes down to convenience, not just price.
A few months ago, I was at Best Buy doing some last-minute Christmas shopping (it's the only time I ever go there). I eavesdropped on a Best Buy employee discussing different mp3 players for a customer. The customer wanted to know why the Creative (or whoever) product was priced much lower than the Apple product- they both had the same capacity, and color screens, but the non-Apple player was 25% less. The employee said it came down to itunes... he simplified it by saying it's "much easier to put music on the ipod". He then went on to say it was much more difficult to do on the other mp3 player.
The customer ended up buying the Apple product.
Most people aren't savvy enough to understand how to copy and paste mp3 files to a USB storage device, or how to buy music online without using itunes (or even rip a CD without itunes). People pay the premium (Apple tax) not because they're pretentious fanboys (well, some do), but rather they believe Apple's products are the easiest and most convenient to use.
But Zune wasn't the device to make them do it.
I feel the biggest reason for failure was that the Zune was way overpriced. Had MS priced them much lower than the comparable ipod, they would have had much more market penetration. Unfortunately, greed got in the way of intelligence (it happens often), and priced each zune similarly to the corresponding (capacity-wise) ipod, and believed that simply having a bigger screen would draw most people in. Apparently, MS forgot to use their own business model when they marketed the Zune.
Yet in every release since OS X, the Apple OS has gotten better, while Microsoft's consumer OS has gotten progressively worse since XP (ME and VISTA).
Either you have a poor memory or you're too young. ME came out before XP... it was actually the successor to 98SE. XP was substantially better (perhaps the best Microsoft OS ever released) since it was based on Win2k.
I'll admit Vista is worse than XP, but does not come remotely close to the clusterfuck that was ME. Despite Vista's bloat and high system requirements, my HTPC running Vista has had uptimes of several weeks before I'd restart (mostly due to windows update), and it's pretty stable. ME couldn't last more than a few hours.
Can somebody please develop anonymous PayPal?
That's actually illegal to do in America.
It's not hard to donate anonymously via paypal- you can buy a prepaid debit card using a fake alias and a made-up SSN (I wouldn't recommend Greendot though) and set up a paypal account with the same fake name and throwaway email address.
Be advised that if you live in the US, you violate the PATRIOT* Act by doing this. But most prepaid card vendors never care to check SSNs/names/addresses/other personal info, and provided that you are actually paying (albeit under a false identity), it's not fraud.
*I always cringe when I mention this Act by name. The fascists in Washington really bastardize this word- it used to mean something great, now it means precisely the opposite.
You don't live in the US, apparently.
And all the people that voted for him because they couldn't bring themselves to reward the party that gave them 8 years of Bush.
Yet they inadvertantly rewarded the party that had wielded power sufficient to stop Bush these last four years, but simply chose not to.
How about not rewarding either party, for once? Why must we (the people) be so partisan? It's quite obvious that Republican and Democrat leadership are in cahoots anyway.
His record is, ahem, clean, but his tattered reputation is frankly, well deserved.
This is Alaska. Palin and friends are trying to get him reinstated as a US Senator- and it's very likely that given the chance, they'll vote him back in.
This kind of bullshit caused me to abandon the GOP. I was hoping that losing Congress and the White House would force them to reconcile a bit. Oh well...