I'm a big fan of Firefly, but I really fail to see what is so "must-see" about these photos. As far as behind-the-scenes photos go, these are pretty boring.
Some burned corpses and a shot with Morena (and half of Nathan)... yay.
Well, ignoring the fact that a corporation is legally a person, businesses do not run themselves. Behind every business there are people making the decisions, and a business is as "nice", "ethical", or "trustworthy" as the people who run it.
The fact of the matter is that there are some companies I prefer supporting over others, because I know what sort of people are behind them.
I'm trying to understand what about this thing is obstructing traffic. If you watch the video it sprays the message while in motion. If anything I would think that the stop-and-go traffic would obstruct him.
That works on a console where everyone is running the same platform, but driver issues alone would prevent doing the same with modern PCs.
Even so, most consoles these days include the OS in the hardware. Cases where hardware control is handled by the software tend to cause more problems than they help. Take the Sega Dreamcast for example- lots of games were written to use the built-in 56k modem that comes with the system. When the Broadband Adapter for it came along later, modem control was built into the software and none of those games were able to use it. If the dialer software was built into the machine instead, there wouldn't have been a problem.
I see that they've changed the caption so it is now correct. Originally it said that both were occurring in Abu Dhabi.
There are many ways that I could have gotten things wrong even after having read the map properly- sometimes multiple locations share names, and maps without scales can be misleading. If I wasn't pretty sure I was correct I wouldn't have said anything.
I'm not terribly familiar with the geography of the region, so I guess I could be reading the map wrong, but the article shows that the "Chess City" is being built in Dubai, not Abu Dhabi. The map in the article shows both places, and they appear to be nowhere near one another.
Firewire is an Apple technology, and networking over it is part of the specification. It was Apple that figured it out to begin with. It's the user-made implementation that's "slow" and "buggy".
The reason why Apple hasn't implemented this is because it would piss off the RIAA if they made it any easier for people to share files, and a moderately healthy relationship with the RIAA is necessary to keep iTMS running. This is the same reason why they make the music files on the iPod invisible when you mount it on your computer, and why music bought from iTMS has DRM.
Somebody on campus has one of these things- I see it parked with the motorcycles all the time. Not something I would want to take on a highway, but it would be great in most situations where a moped would suffice.
What's really disturbing about that ruling is that if you watch the video, the officer never asked Hiibel for his name. He immediately asked him for his identification. Thus even under that ruling Hiibel did nothing wrong.
The PS1 compatibility in the PS2 is not emulation. They actually included a PS1 chipset inside the PS2 for the purpose of playing PS1 games.
And besides that, VGS didn't have anywhere near the compatibility that the PS2 has. That was actually one of the reasons Sony said they wanted it off the market- it made their games look bad.
No it doesn't. It's practically unusable on affordable hardware. Even on top of the line x86 hardware it still runs at a fraction of the speed of a Mac that's a fraction of the cost.
$200 gets you a refurbished G3 that runs several times faster than PearPC on a $5000 setup. The truth is PearPC doesn't really serve any actual use other than proving it can be done, and appealing to people with Aqua-Envy.
"intentionally releases products before they are ready"?
As the saying goes, never suspect malice that which can be explained by incompetance. Do you honestly think that they knew that the headphone jacks were going to fail? Face it, they made an honest mistake, and now they're fixing the problem. The affected iPods are being fixed under warranty. What more do you want?
The fact of the matter is, if this incident is enough to prevent you from buying an Apple product, you probably weren't going to buy one anyway.
"New features" and learning from scratch.
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I like Linux and all, but looking at spacial Nautilus reminds me of the biggest problem with the Linux world is- it replicates, but doesn't innovate.
Spacial Nautilus just makes Gnome that much more like pre-OS X Mac OS. The new features they're advertising have been around since System 7. I like the changes, and I'll probably take advantage of them when using Gnome, but they aren't anything new.
To get back on topic, even with these "new" features, Linux is still much more complicated than Grandma can probably handle. Just because you like Linux and understand it doesn't mean that it's the right choice for Grandma. Think, why do you use Linux? Are any of those reason anything that you honestly think that Grandma cares about?
I remember when we first got my Grandfather a computer. We got an old Mac Plus running System 6.0.8 and set him up with a word processor and a printer. After a while we upgraded him to a IIsi. Then we got him a modem and put him on AOL. By the time he died he was on his fourth computer- a G4, and one of the better models at the time.
The point is that he learned slowly, but eventually got the hang of it. System 6 was a perfect place to start him at because it was simple, and let him adjust slowly to more modern technology. If I would have set him up with a modern OS I don't think he would have ever progressed past the word processing stage.
In the real world you spend money to get the tools you need. It always gets me when I hear someone outside the industry complain about how much a copy of Photoshop costs- it's professional software, and it's a necessity. It costs that much because it's worth it.
With the level of success Pixar has had, money isn't the issue- quality is. They can easily afford a couple million in equipment and software. What they can't afford to do is to produce inferior work.
Of course, that reasoning for why the X-Box doesn't have standard USB fails when you take into account the fact that the PS2 has both USB and i.Link (Firewire) ports, and many games use them.
Red Faction 2 allows you to use a mouse and keyboard instead of a controller, if you want. You can use the headset that comes with Socom with your PC. The steering wheel used in games like Gran Turismo is USB as well. I haven't tried it, but I'm pretty sure that Eyetoy camera is a standard USB webcam with a different case.
While "Smut and Eggs" is indeed a real place, it is in fact just a minor curiosity.
But your implication that Madison is lacking in culture is just dead wrong. This is the city that built a $67 million convention center that was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. This is the city that is building a $100 million Arts District.
And considering Madison is approximately 100 miles to the outskirts of Chicago, your distance is either very precisely chosen, or very arbitrarily.
That's like saying you couldn't patent a printing press because people had been writing by hand for years, or a loom because weaving could be done without it. Using logic, one could claim the universe as prior art to anything, as we are simply using the laws of physics to provide means to an end. Finding new and better ways to do things that can already be done is not only patentable, but one of the reasons that patents exist.
The "Segway Clone" is only a clone in the respect that it looks vaguely similar to one. All of the technological advances that make the Segway unique are missing.
The entire point of the Segway is the gyroscopic balancing.
I'm reminded of that "RoboSweep" that billed itself a "Roomba Clone".
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When it comes to politics, most people don't really care about things such as "facts" and "truth". People believe what they want to believe.
Thats true for no matter what party you belong to.
I'm a big fan of Firefly, but I really fail to see what is so "must-see" about these photos. As far as behind-the-scenes photos go, these are pretty boring.
Some burned corpses and a shot with Morena (and half of Nathan)... yay.
Well, ignoring the fact that a corporation is legally a person, businesses do not run themselves. Behind every business there are people making the decisions, and a business is as "nice", "ethical", or "trustworthy" as the people who run it.
The fact of the matter is that there are some companies I prefer supporting over others, because I know what sort of people are behind them.
Actually, the original Mac had 128k of RAM.
I'm trying to understand what about this thing is obstructing traffic. If you watch the video it sprays the message while in motion. If anything I would think that the stop-and-go traffic would obstruct him.
That works on a console where everyone is running the same platform, but driver issues alone would prevent doing the same with modern PCs.
Even so, most consoles these days include the OS in the hardware. Cases where hardware control is handled by the software tend to cause more problems than they help. Take the Sega Dreamcast for example- lots of games were written to use the built-in 56k modem that comes with the system. When the Broadband Adapter for it came along later, modem control was built into the software and none of those games were able to use it. If the dialer software was built into the machine instead, there wouldn't have been a problem.
I see that they've changed the caption so it is now correct. Originally it said that both were occurring in Abu Dhabi.
There are many ways that I could have gotten things wrong even after having read the map properly- sometimes multiple locations share names, and maps without scales can be misleading. If I wasn't pretty sure I was correct I wouldn't have said anything.
I'm not terribly familiar with the geography of the region, so I guess I could be reading the map wrong, but the article shows that the "Chess City" is being built in Dubai, not Abu Dhabi. The map in the article shows both places, and they appear to be nowhere near one another.
Firewire is an Apple technology, and networking over it is part of the specification. It was Apple that figured it out to begin with. It's the user-made implementation that's "slow" and "buggy". The reason why Apple hasn't implemented this is because it would piss off the RIAA if they made it any easier for people to share files, and a moderately healthy relationship with the RIAA is necessary to keep iTMS running. This is the same reason why they make the music files on the iPod invisible when you mount it on your computer, and why music bought from iTMS has DRM.
Somebody on campus has one of these things- I see it parked with the motorcycles all the time. Not something I would want to take on a highway, but it would be great in most situations where a moped would suffice.
What's really disturbing about that ruling is that if you watch the video, the officer never asked Hiibel for his name. He immediately asked him for his identification. Thus even under that ruling Hiibel did nothing wrong.
Actually, no.
The PS1 compatibility in the PS2 is not emulation. They actually included a PS1 chipset inside the PS2 for the purpose of playing PS1 games.
And besides that, VGS didn't have anywhere near the compatibility that the PS2 has. That was actually one of the reasons Sony said they wanted it off the market- it made their games look bad.
Yeah, but if they were to do that they might as well use an Nvidia chip to begin with.
Why, I'd go so far as to say that about 85% of people are!
Is that your expert opinion?
No it doesn't. It's practically unusable on affordable hardware. Even on top of the line x86 hardware it still runs at a fraction of the speed of a Mac that's a fraction of the cost.
$200 gets you a refurbished G3 that runs several times faster than PearPC on a $5000 setup. The truth is PearPC doesn't really serve any actual use other than proving it can be done, and appealing to people with Aqua-Envy.
"intentionally releases products before they are ready"?
As the saying goes, never suspect malice that which can be explained by incompetance. Do you honestly think that they knew that the headphone jacks were going to fail? Face it, they made an honest mistake, and now they're fixing the problem. The affected iPods are being fixed under warranty. What more do you want?
The fact of the matter is, if this incident is enough to prevent you from buying an Apple product, you probably weren't going to buy one anyway.
I like Linux and all, but looking at spacial Nautilus reminds me of the biggest problem with the Linux world is- it replicates, but doesn't innovate.
Spacial Nautilus just makes Gnome that much more like pre-OS X Mac OS. The new features they're advertising have been around since System 7. I like the changes, and I'll probably take advantage of them when using Gnome, but they aren't anything new.
To get back on topic, even with these "new" features, Linux is still much more complicated than Grandma can probably handle. Just because you like Linux and understand it doesn't mean that it's the right choice for Grandma. Think, why do you use Linux? Are any of those reason anything that you honestly think that Grandma cares about?
I remember when we first got my Grandfather a computer. We got an old Mac Plus running System 6.0.8 and set him up with a word processor and a printer. After a while we upgraded him to a IIsi. Then we got him a modem and put him on AOL. By the time he died he was on his fourth computer- a G4, and one of the better models at the time.
The point is that he learned slowly, but eventually got the hang of it. System 6 was a perfect place to start him at because it was simple, and let him adjust slowly to more modern technology. If I would have set him up with a modern OS I don't think he would have ever progressed past the word processing stage.
Halo consisted mostly of shooting aliens on an artificial planet, while Ringworld consisted mostly of having sex with aliens on an artificial planet.
Eh, close enough.
If you're installing your software for Windows from a shell script, your customer isn't going to be happy whether you're using Cygwin or not.
In the real world you spend money to get the tools you need. It always gets me when I hear someone outside the industry complain about how much a copy of Photoshop costs- it's professional software, and it's a necessity. It costs that much because it's worth it.
With the level of success Pixar has had, money isn't the issue- quality is. They can easily afford a couple million in equipment and software. What they can't afford to do is to produce inferior work.
"Speculative Fiction"? Isn't that a bit redundant?
Or should "Speculative" be prounounced "Pretentious"?
Not to say that the work is in itself pretentious (I wouldn't know), but coining a new genre when none is necessary throws up a red flag in my mind.
Of course, that reasoning for why the X-Box doesn't have standard USB fails when you take into account the fact that the PS2 has both USB and i.Link (Firewire) ports, and many games use them.
Red Faction 2 allows you to use a mouse and keyboard instead of a controller, if you want. You can use the headset that comes with Socom with your PC. The steering wheel used in games like Gran Turismo is USB as well. I haven't tried it, but I'm pretty sure that Eyetoy camera is a standard USB webcam with a different case.
While "Smut and Eggs" is indeed a real place, it is in fact just a minor curiosity.
But your implication that Madison is lacking in culture is just dead wrong. This is the city that built a $67 million convention center that was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. This is the city that is building a $100 million Arts District.
And considering Madison is approximately 100 miles to the outskirts of Chicago, your distance is either very precisely chosen, or very arbitrarily.
That's like saying you couldn't patent a printing press because people had been writing by hand for years, or a loom because weaving could be done without it. Using logic, one could claim the universe as prior art to anything, as we are simply using the laws of physics to provide means to an end. Finding new and better ways to do things that can already be done is not only patentable, but one of the reasons that patents exist.
The "Segway Clone" is only a clone in the respect that it looks vaguely similar to one. All of the technological advances that make the Segway unique are missing.
The entire point of the Segway is the gyroscopic balancing.
I'm reminded of that "RoboSweep" that billed itself a "Roomba Clone".