This "airwaves are common property" lie needs to stop. The roads are common property, but that doesn't give the government full control of newspapers which are delivered via those roads- and those roads are even paid for by the government. The "common property" argument was made when it was feared that we would quickly run out of available frequencies for radio and television stations, but if you just turn on your radio and move down the dial you'll find that there is plenty of room between stations. The "common property" argument is just being held in place to give the government censorship powers that they should not have.
We gave my 2 1/2 year old my wife's old IPhone 3G when she upgraded to an IPhone4. He loves it and takes pretty good care of it (with the occasional loosing of it in the couch). He knows it has all his shows ripped to it so he's pretty happy with it.
I change the channel and Clippy appears to announce that I have to watch a 1 minute ad sponsored by a Microsoft partner before watching that channel. After the ad is done I get a 502 error which after a google search I find out is caused because the channel 'might' show something with DRM.
Ah yes, the old "If they disagree with my opinions it must be because they are evil". And we wonder why intelligent political discourse died to sound-bytes.
There are several games for the PC that I've wanted to buy but because of DRM I've thus far refused. Mass Effect 1 and 2, Settlers 7, the newest C&C just to name a few. I'm tired of these DRM schemes, and if I am going to get these games I may sadly have to resort to piracy (which I have thus far avoided). Likely I'll just keep playing PopCap games, MumboJumbo games, older games, and most of all MMO's.
The world needs fewer ditch diggers as time goes by and we learn how to use more advanced tools (ditch digging tractors). As technology advances further we may no longer need fruit pickers, fast food cooks, cashiers, gardeners, etc.
and wouldn't trust anything downloaded from PB to not have trojans on it these days.
Sadly, I feel like I can't trust products I buy from the stores because I KNOW that they have DRM 'drivers' that crash my system randomly because of conflicts with my anti-virus programs. I now have 2 systems- one that I allow to get virused, DRM etc until it gets to bad and I have to reformat/reinstall the OS and the system I use for business, taxes, programming, etc, etc.
I'd rather the next decade was spent on gameplay rather than graphics personally, but gameplay doesn't sell hardware upgrades I guess
The same is true for movies. As the graphics get better, the plots are getting weaker - and this has been going on for 30 years at least.
Already the budgets of games have expanded to the size of big-budget movies, and I expect that in the future games will expand to take over broader audiences, while at the same time younger generations will be more accustomed to games and less accustomed to movies. Eventually, games will become a sub-genre of games - They'll be know as input limited games.
3D Gaming - these glasses have been around for years. Maybe they work better now that everyone has bigger screens with higher refresh rates, but they were useless before. Nobody wants to sit in front of a PC wearing glasses. Perhaps if it were released for consoles it may take off, but I don't think the penetration of 120Mhz TVs is large enough to justify it.
1. Glasses have been around for years, but they always sucked. The new glasses actually work well - provided you use a 120MHz monitor. The old ones either left ghosts or gave you massive headaches after even a few mins of use.
2. 120Mhz TV's weren't released until 2009, and considering how deep the recession is, it's no surprise that they haven't had a strong market penetration.
3. If this tech does take off, then maybe consoles will integrate this, but since it requires these fancy monitors, it's questionable.
Intel is only #1 because they give it away with their chips. If you subtract that from your equation, Intel never sells GPUS. Go to Fry's or newegg.com and try to look up an intel vid card. There are none.
As for Larrabee, I can tell you this- I have the same CPU as I did 5 years ago, yet I've replaced the vid card 3 times. Each time it took my system from behind-the-times to being able to play the latest & greatest. If I had to replace the CPU each of these time (because Larrabee isn't discrete- it's built into the CPU), then it would have cost me a LOT more. I would have to replace my apps, my OS, etc (and I have a legal version of photoshop- that alone is about $1000). Larrabee is just a bad idea
I wouldn't worry too much about it. The #1 thing that is going to guarantee his security is this- if he dies, Biden becomes president. Just put a few adds on TV stating this and he'll be the safest man in the world.
Has anyone considered BeAPI for Windows/MAC/Linux to convert BeOS calls to windows/mac/linux equivalents so that programmers could use the superior programming interface on all current OSes? I understand that not all of the apis would work (I don't think windows allows you to shut down a cpu for instance), but it would be nice.
I love how this is announced on the day that I have to leave work early to beat the ice storm coming through - in Texas!
After all the predictions made by moonbats like this girl have failed to occur (like all those hurricanes last year), and after all the climate models used by these people have been disproven (plug in the data from the 70's and you'll find that we should already be dead), and dispite all the reasonable scientists that have called shenanagans (like the creator of the weather channel), idiots like this are still given credibility.
Global warming isn't science- it's a religion. When evidence goes contrary to it's tenants, people either attack the 'heathens' or make slight adjustments to their theories and claim that now they know the ultimate truth- without use of the scientific method.
As for their computer models, they aren't any better than "echo I'm right about global warming!"
Actually, this is a pretty new initiative. It involved working with monitor companies to create 120 Hz monitors that could do 1920x1200 and they spent a lot of time/money making glasses that would eliminate a lot of the ghosting effects, etc that were in prior versions.
As for the polarized lenses, many reviewer report getting headaches, etc.
What I would like is to be able to purchase the rights to their graphics, and information about their file formats. For novice MMO game writers like myself, graphics are the highest bar to entry.
Wow, that brings back memories. I loved the blobby creatures - "Thanks for saving our race. As a reward we shall give you your choice of either an extra arm or leg. Or we can give you both!"
Tried it - it sucked. As do all the XCom "spiritual successors". They seem to forget all the things that made X-Com cool. For instance, throwing a satchel charge through a window and killing everything inside that small farmhouse. None of them have implemented night and light-spheres like the original X-Com.
Ok, I'm sure this is a troll, but I'll bite. It really is scapegoat, and the source of the word is from the Hebrew story of Aaron sacrificing a goat which bore the sins of his people. This event is celebrated on the Jewish Holiday of Yom Kippur. Hmm... I guess Jews have a goat, Christians have a lamb http://www.answers.com/topic/scapegoat
My wife and I went to the store closing sale yesterday, and it was really pathetic. They had the XBox360 game "Blue Dragon" on sale for 10% off of the regular price of $59.99 (no returns under any condition). Of course, you can buy the same game from Gamestop for $19.99. Console systems were only 5% off their prices, and everything I saw was higher priced after the discounts than I could get from Best Buy, and you can't return anything. Also, there was nobody in line. I guess I'll wait for Fry's after Thanksgiving Day sale:/
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Recently, Al Gore admitted that he was wrong and that corn-ethanol is not a viable alternative. In fact, "It was the votes, not the science that led me to back corn ethanol" http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40317079/ns/us_news-environment/
This "airwaves are common property" lie needs to stop. The roads are common property, but that doesn't give the government full control of newspapers which are delivered via those roads- and those roads are even paid for by the government. The "common property" argument was made when it was feared that we would quickly run out of available frequencies for radio and television stations, but if you just turn on your radio and move down the dial you'll find that there is plenty of room between stations. The "common property" argument is just being held in place to give the government censorship powers that they should not have.
We gave my 2 1/2 year old my wife's old IPhone 3G when she upgraded to an IPhone4. He loves it and takes pretty good care of it (with the occasional loosing of it in the couch). He knows it has all his shows ripped to it so he's pretty happy with it.
I change the channel and Clippy appears to announce that I have to watch a 1 minute ad sponsored by a Microsoft partner before watching that channel. After the ad is done I get a 502 error which after a google search I find out is caused because the channel 'might' show something with DRM.
Ah yes, the old "If they disagree with my opinions it must be because they are evil". And we wonder why intelligent political discourse died to sound-bytes.
There are several games for the PC that I've wanted to buy but because of DRM I've thus far refused. Mass Effect 1 and 2, Settlers 7, the newest C&C just to name a few. I'm tired of these DRM schemes, and if I am going to get these games I may sadly have to resort to piracy (which I have thus far avoided). Likely I'll just keep playing PopCap games, MumboJumbo games, older games, and most of all MMO's.
The world needs fewer ditch diggers as time goes by and we learn how to use more advanced tools (ditch digging tractors). As technology advances further we may no longer need fruit pickers, fast food cooks, cashiers, gardeners, etc.
and wouldn't trust anything downloaded from PB to not have trojans on it these days.
Sadly, I feel like I can't trust products I buy from the stores because I KNOW that they have DRM 'drivers' that crash my system randomly because of conflicts with my anti-virus programs. I now have 2 systems- one that I allow to get virused, DRM etc until it gets to bad and I have to reformat/reinstall the OS and the system I use for business, taxes, programming, etc, etc.
I'd rather the next decade was spent on gameplay rather than graphics personally, but gameplay doesn't sell hardware upgrades I guess
The same is true for movies. As the graphics get better, the plots are getting weaker - and this has been going on for 30 years at least.
Already the budgets of games have expanded to the size of big-budget movies, and I expect that in the future games will expand to take over broader audiences, while at the same time younger generations will be more accustomed to games and less accustomed to movies. Eventually, games will become a sub-genre of games - They'll be know as input limited games.
3D Gaming - these glasses have been around for years. Maybe they work better now that everyone has bigger screens with higher refresh rates, but they were useless before. Nobody wants to sit in front of a PC wearing glasses. Perhaps if it were released for consoles it may take off, but I don't think the penetration of 120Mhz TVs is large enough to justify it.
1. Glasses have been around for years, but they always sucked. The new glasses actually work well - provided you use a 120MHz monitor. The old ones either left ghosts or gave you massive headaches after even a few mins of use.
2. 120Mhz TV's weren't released until 2009, and considering how deep the recession is, it's no surprise that they haven't had a strong market penetration.
3. If this tech does take off, then maybe consoles will integrate this, but since it requires these fancy monitors, it's questionable.
Intel is only #1 because they give it away with their chips. If you subtract that from your equation, Intel never sells GPUS. Go to Fry's or newegg.com and try to look up an intel vid card. There are none. As for Larrabee, I can tell you this- I have the same CPU as I did 5 years ago, yet I've replaced the vid card 3 times. Each time it took my system from behind-the-times to being able to play the latest & greatest. If I had to replace the CPU each of these time (because Larrabee isn't discrete- it's built into the CPU), then it would have cost me a LOT more. I would have to replace my apps, my OS, etc (and I have a legal version of photoshop- that alone is about $1000). Larrabee is just a bad idea
I wouldn't worry too much about it. The #1 thing that is going to guarantee his security is this- if he dies, Biden becomes president. Just put a few adds on TV stating this and he'll be the safest man in the world.
Has anyone considered BeAPI for Windows/MAC/Linux to convert BeOS calls to windows/mac/linux equivalents so that programmers could use the superior programming interface on all current OSes? I understand that not all of the apis would work (I don't think windows allows you to shut down a cpu for instance), but it would be nice.
Lol, if only I had mod points :)
Only 5 1/2 months after NVidia added support for OpenGL 3.0. Google it. http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/08/14/nvidia.supports.opengl.3/
I love how this is announced on the day that I have to leave work early to beat the ice storm coming through - in Texas!
After all the predictions made by moonbats like this girl have failed to occur (like all those hurricanes last year), and after all the climate models used by these people have been disproven (plug in the data from the 70's and you'll find that we should already be dead), and dispite all the reasonable scientists that have called shenanagans (like the creator of the weather channel), idiots like this are still given credibility.
Global warming isn't science- it's a religion. When evidence goes contrary to it's tenants, people either attack the 'heathens' or make slight adjustments to their theories and claim that now they know the ultimate truth- without use of the scientific method.
As for their computer models, they aren't any better than "echo I'm right about global warming!"
No, games are considered extremely cheap entertainment and are pretty much immune to economic issues. The same is true for porn, alcohol and guns.
Actually, this is a pretty new initiative. It involved working with monitor companies to create 120 Hz monitors that could do 1920x1200 and they spent a lot of time/money making glasses that would eliminate a lot of the ghosting effects, etc that were in prior versions. As for the polarized lenses, many reviewer report getting headaches, etc.
What I would like is to be able to purchase the rights to their graphics, and information about their file formats. For novice MMO game writers like myself, graphics are the highest bar to entry.
Wow, that brings back memories. I loved the blobby creatures - "Thanks for saving our race. As a reward we shall give you your choice of either an extra arm or leg. Or we can give you both!"
Tried it - it sucked. As do all the XCom "spiritual successors". They seem to forget all the things that made X-Com cool. For instance, throwing a satchel charge through a window and killing everything inside that small farmhouse. None of them have implemented night and light-spheres like the original X-Com.
Ok, I'm sure this is a troll, but I'll bite. It really is scapegoat, and the source of the word is from the Hebrew story of Aaron sacrificing a goat which bore the sins of his people. This event is celebrated on the Jewish Holiday of Yom Kippur. Hmm... I guess Jews have a goat, Christians have a lamb
http://www.answers.com/topic/scapegoat
Wow, a political comment that a Democrat would like and I actually agree with. That's been rare lately
My wife and I went to the store closing sale yesterday, and it was really pathetic. They had the XBox360 game "Blue Dragon" on sale for 10% off of the regular price of $59.99 (no returns under any condition). Of course, you can buy the same game from Gamestop for $19.99. Console systems were only 5% off their prices, and everything I saw was higher priced after the discounts than I could get from Best Buy, and you can't return anything. Also, there was nobody in line. I guess I'll wait for Fry's after Thanksgiving Day sale :/
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