There's more to it than that. One major(and somewhat legitimate) concern of environmentalists is the effect our industry has upon the environment. Much focus has been made on the pollution we eject into the environment in the form of waste heat and waste chemicals(CO2, mercury, lead, CO, etc). In the future, we're going to have to put more focus on the raw materials we take out of the environment. Our future industry is on track to literally strip the environment of most, if not all, free carbon. Don't believe me? Go back and read the stories posted here about diamond nanotubes, aggregated diamond nanorods, multi-walled carbon nanotubes, space elevators, and more. Reality dictates that we will need widely-available industrial-grade fabrication materials that exceed the strength and quality of our currently-available materials, and it seems that we'll be using pure carbon as the building block of our future materials. The result? Once we've stripped all the carbon out of the entire world's fossil fuel supply and emptied all our old landfills, the only viable sources of carbon will be agriculture products, waste products, and possibly extra-planetary sources such as carbon-rich asteroids, comets, or what have you. Of those three sources, two such sources(agriculture products and waste products) ultimately derive their carbon from carbon dioxide within the atmosphere. Plants use CO2 to grow, and animals eat plants. We will begin stripping the atmosphere of CO2, and CO2 levels will plummet. What do you think of THAT future? Have you even begun to plan for it?
Why is our environmental outlook still stuck in 1994?
Have you used 2k lately? There must be some shoddy or non-existant QA on the latest security updates. I recently picked up a fully-functional Acer P3-700 laptop used that shipped with 2k. Once I had it patched up, it would fail to boot after the power had been off for any significant period of time, complaining that the laptop BIOS was not "fully ACPI-compliant". The only way to start it was to start first in safe mode and then reboot. 2k also choked completely on the Trendnet 802.11b wifi card install disc's autorun, and once I got the wireless util installed to enable WEP on the card, the app itself did nothing but produce error sounds when executed.
It also choked on the usb webcam I tried using on it.
Retro games aren't necessarily bad. If there's a lot of raw "fun" factor to them, there can be replayability, etc.
Sadly, Dungeon Seige I wasn't that great, and it had major problems scaling well at high levels. XP rewards were totally off, spells were messed up, etc. Totally unacceptable from a single-player game.
This is also what comes to my mind when I hear people trying to bash Republicans whenever they do something contradictory to state's rights.
However, many Republicans would like to return to the day when states could pass their own laws banning abortion, etc(which was the way it was prior to Roe vs Wade). They aren't ALWAYS against state's rights.
Also, as many other respondants have noted, the Democrats can also have rather arbitrary support for state's rights in their own special way. Neither major party really supports state's rights consistantly.
No matter how ugly PATRIOT, RICO, or the DEA get, they really aren't much compared to the old FBI under J. Edgar Hoover. They also pale in comparison to the abuses meted out in the past(and, sadly, sometimes in the present) by various state and local police officers, prison guards, etc.
We've traded sloppy, senseless abuses and a megalomaniacal FBI director for codified, potentially-abusive law.
The Republican party's interest in "state's rights" has been rather arbitrary and limited for years. They will fight empowering the federal government when it suits their constituents. They will empower the government when it suits their constituents. Replace 'constituents' with 'campaign contributors' as you please.
Imagine if someone with one of these devices stands downwind of the military's (relatively) new microwave riot-control gun. Woooeee. Should be interesting.
Of course, I guess that applies to traditional cardiac pacemakers as well. Best not riot, Mr. Cheney.
That analogy isn't correct. In order for space to be like the US, it has to have some interstellar equivelant of Stuckey's and Wall Drug, which it does not(unless you're thinking of Ferenginar).
Is this really news? Approaching a 10th anniversary, hmm? Are you going to run the same story when we actually reach their 10th anniversary? This is nothing more than a dupe in the making.
I suppose you could run a story about the aftermath of Amazon.com's 10th anniversary once it's all over, too. Fine journalism, that.
A $1 billion loss in the first year of production? That's going to hurt a lot, considering how much cash they had to dump to get Cell production ramped up this early. Their ability to mass-produce the processor was supposed to help them keep costs down and let them recoup the investment of building fabs in the first place. So much for the economy of scale.
Dude, that was fixed with the Venice and San Diego cores(for the most part). You can definitely run 4 single-sided 512 meg DIMMs on a Venice or San Diego, and I've heard reports of 4x512 working with double-sided DIMMs as well.
Make sure the motherboard manufacturer has a BIOS that supports the newer socket-939 CPUs(notably the X2 processors). The FX-57 should work in any socket-939 motherboard.
Last I heard, Yonah was aimed at the laptop/mobile market, not the desktop market. It won't launch at speeds competative with any desktop AMD offering. Conroe will be the desktop Pentium-M-alike processor, and it won't be out until later. 2007 I think?
That might mean something if Intel actually had a Banias or Dothan(Pentium M)-derived processor available for the desktop segment. Currently, they do not, and they may not until 2007(Conroe). For now, their entire desktop and workstation CPU line chews up power much, much faster than anything AMD offers.
I'm sure FF3j was released as a part of some rehash. Wasn't there a compilation of FF1, FF2j, and FF3j released for the PSX, with some extra features thrown in?
FF3j was a pretty cool game, at least for its jobs system. I disliked how they sort of forced you to use certain jobs in certain parts of the game(Dragoons vs Garuda for example), and the fact that the Ninja and Sage jobs rendered everything else obsolete was kinda silly.
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No no, you're all wrong. It's not, "God it smells!". It's, "God smells it!".
There's more to it than that. One major(and somewhat legitimate) concern of environmentalists is the effect our industry has upon the environment. Much focus has been made on the pollution we eject into the environment in the form of waste heat and waste chemicals(CO2, mercury, lead, CO, etc). In the future, we're going to have to put more focus on the raw materials we take out of the environment. Our future industry is on track to literally strip the environment of most, if not all, free carbon. Don't believe me? Go back and read the stories posted here about diamond nanotubes, aggregated diamond nanorods, multi-walled carbon nanotubes, space elevators, and more. Reality dictates that we will need widely-available industrial-grade fabrication materials that exceed the strength and quality of our currently-available materials, and it seems that we'll be using pure carbon as the building block of our future materials. The result? Once we've stripped all the carbon out of the entire world's fossil fuel supply and emptied all our old landfills, the only viable sources of carbon will be agriculture products, waste products, and possibly extra-planetary sources such as carbon-rich asteroids, comets, or what have you. Of those three sources, two such sources(agriculture products and waste products) ultimately derive their carbon from carbon dioxide within the atmosphere. Plants use CO2 to grow, and animals eat plants. We will begin stripping the atmosphere of CO2, and CO2 levels will plummet. What do you think of THAT future? Have you even begun to plan for it?
Why is our environmental outlook still stuck in 1994?
I put a tiger on a leash once. It didn't work. Don't try this at home, kids!
And that makes you the winner. Seriously. I'm not being sarcastic.
Have you used 2k lately? There must be some shoddy or non-existant QA on the latest security updates. I recently picked up a fully-functional Acer P3-700 laptop used that shipped with 2k. Once I had it patched up, it would fail to boot after the power had been off for any significant period of time, complaining that the laptop BIOS was not "fully ACPI-compliant". The only way to start it was to start first in safe mode and then reboot. 2k also choked completely on the Trendnet 802.11b wifi card install disc's autorun, and once I got the wireless util installed to enable WEP on the card, the app itself did nothing but produce error sounds when executed.
It also choked on the usb webcam I tried using on it.
I installed XP Pro, and every problem vanished.
If this is the future of Blu-Ray, then it will probably go into the junkheap of history next to DivX.
Retro games aren't necessarily bad. If there's a lot of raw "fun" factor to them, there can be replayability, etc.
Sadly, Dungeon Seige I wasn't that great, and it had major problems scaling well at high levels. XP rewards were totally off, spells were messed up, etc. Totally unacceptable from a single-player game.
I miss that troll.
This is also what comes to my mind when I hear people trying to bash Republicans whenever they do something contradictory to state's rights.
However, many Republicans would like to return to the day when states could pass their own laws banning abortion, etc(which was the way it was prior to Roe vs Wade). They aren't ALWAYS against state's rights.
Also, as many other respondants have noted, the Democrats can also have rather arbitrary support for state's rights in their own special way. Neither major party really supports state's rights consistantly.
No matter how ugly PATRIOT, RICO, or the DEA get, they really aren't much compared to the old FBI under J. Edgar Hoover. They also pale in comparison to the abuses meted out in the past(and, sadly, sometimes in the present) by various state and local police officers, prison guards, etc.
We've traded sloppy, senseless abuses and a megalomaniacal FBI director for codified, potentially-abusive law.
And don't get me started on Anthony Comstock.
The Republican party's interest in "state's rights" has been rather arbitrary and limited for years. They will fight empowering the federal government when it suits their constituents. They will empower the government when it suits their constituents. Replace 'constituents' with 'campaign contributors' as you please.
Imagine if someone with one of these devices stands downwind of the military's (relatively) new microwave riot-control gun. Woooeee. Should be interesting. Of course, I guess that applies to traditional cardiac pacemakers as well. Best not riot, Mr. Cheney.
That analogy isn't correct. In order for space to be like the US, it has to have some interstellar equivelant of Stuckey's and Wall Drug, which it does not(unless you're thinking of Ferenginar).
Anandtech runs a lot of good articles that remain unnoticed here. Funny how that happens.
Is this really news? Approaching a 10th anniversary, hmm? Are you going to run the same story when we actually reach their 10th anniversary? This is nothing more than a dupe in the making.
I suppose you could run a story about the aftermath of Amazon.com's 10th anniversary once it's all over, too. Fine journalism, that.
A $1 billion loss in the first year of production? That's going to hurt a lot, considering how much cash they had to dump to get Cell production ramped up this early. Their ability to mass-produce the processor was supposed to help them keep costs down and let them recoup the investment of building fabs in the first place. So much for the economy of scale.
They're a crabby lot.
Check it out. Anandtech has a review as well.
Dude, that was fixed with the Venice and San Diego cores(for the most part). You can definitely run 4 single-sided 512 meg DIMMs on a Venice or San Diego, and I've heard reports of 4x512 working with double-sided DIMMs as well.
Make sure the motherboard manufacturer has a BIOS that supports the newer socket-939 CPUs(notably the X2 processors). The FX-57 should work in any socket-939 motherboard.
Last I heard, Yonah was aimed at the laptop/mobile market, not the desktop market. It won't launch at speeds competative with any desktop AMD offering. Conroe will be the desktop Pentium-M-alike processor, and it won't be out until later. 2007 I think?
That might mean something if Intel actually had a Banias or Dothan(Pentium M)-derived processor available for the desktop segment. Currently, they do not, and they may not until 2007(Conroe). For now, their entire desktop and workstation CPU line chews up power much, much faster than anything AMD offers.
You just got on my friends list. Should you be proud of that? Interesting question.
I'm sure FF3j was released as a part of some rehash. Wasn't there a compilation of FF1, FF2j, and FF3j released for the PSX, with some extra features thrown in?
FF3j was a pretty cool game, at least for its jobs system. I disliked how they sort of forced you to use certain jobs in certain parts of the game(Dragoons vs Garuda for example), and the fact that the Ninja and Sage jobs rendered everything else obsolete was kinda silly.
Don't ask for a MMORPG in which you get to play as a dragon. You might provoke a Horizons discussion. That would be bad.