Makes you wonder how long it will be until they can eliminate most voice actors altogether by using good voice synthesizers. And even if they can't, it would be funny to hear voice acting done by Dr. Sbaitso.
I work for the US Post Office at a REC site. We still use parts of our SSN for identification. I don't really want to elabourate, but anyone who wished to steal SSNs there could easily do so.
. . . nearly anything could potentially be used in the repression of free thought and free religion in China. Dealing with the Chinese at all, under any circumstance, could easily be construed as indirect support for China's totalitarian political infrastructure. Why split hairs over database software and DNA testing equipment? If you're going to be dealing with them at all, you've got to accept the risk that something you sold them might eventually be used to track down, restrain, or even torture a political dissident or practitioner of unsanctioned religion. It's China, what do you expect?
Besides, if American firms don't sell them what they want, they'll either buy it elsewhere or rip off a foreign design and make it themselves.
I do not look forward to the day that hydrogen fuel cells start going super saiyin. All that grunting and screaming combined with ruined topography, oh my!
are people still complaining about the "lack of female gamers"? It seems to me that a lot of women are playing computer games of one sort or another, even if they aren't necessarily "hardcore" gamers pulling 10+ hour sessions at the PC or console. There mere mention of emotion in games obviously brought the topic of discussion around to women, albeit unnecessarily.
The Big Dig was also plagued by graft and corruption. Much of the work was probably done improperly or on the cheap because contractors and workers alike kept walking off with materials and money (or opening the door for others to do so).
Despite the fact that the GNAA joke is rather stale, I still find the bizarre misappropriation of racial/sexual stereotypes to be amusing. Nothing they post ever really makes sense, either. I like that about them.
To me, it doesn't come off as "dumb" . . . it is pretty stupid, but it has an unhinged quality to it. It's more nonsensical I guess.
I really do appreciate the fact that someone is still trolling Slashdot even at a time when trolls, flamebaiters, and other malcontents have been largely harasssed to the point of exodus. Certainly GNAA could do a better job, but at least they're doing it.
Incorrect. Intel's new Core 2 architecture is significantly faster clock-per-clock than their Netburst offerings. Core 2 is already launching at 2.93 ghz, with 3.33 ghz parts slated for release before the end of the year. Enthusiasts have already managed to overclock the E6600, E6700, and E6800 to 4 ghz on air cooling. This architecture has a lot of headroom for scaling.
Intel *has* managed to improve the performance of their chips while also sticking to the dual-core strategy they assumed when they launched the Pentium D.
In the future, the key to performance will be to have the fastest core (Intel has that right now) and to be able to deploy as many cores as their opposition. Seeing as how Intel is planning to launch a quad-core CPU BEFORE AMD (codename: Kentsfield; launch date Q4 2006), I don't see Intel as having problems in the multi-core department. FSB limitations aren't choking Kentsfield either, at least not that anyone who has engineering samples can tell.
So, Intel has the fastest performance per-core and is currently winning the multi-core war. They're in the driver's seat again after flounding about for years.
The problem here is that when you try and speed up your chip by adding more cores, there's no guarentee the system will fully utilize all of those cores. Code has to be parallelized to take advantage of multiple processors/cores. Either that, or you've got to launch a new application that will spawn its own threads and chew up processor time on the unused cores. Take this informal benchmark as an example of how utilizing multiple cores can be difficult, even when using multithreaded apps. Unless you're a massive multitasker type, running multiple CPU-intensive apps simultaneously, it's difficult to harness the power of even 4 cores, much less 8.
Actually, quite a bit is known about the 4x4 intitiative. It's sad that so many people posting about it here seem to know very little. The gist is:
1). It will only be able to use FX processors. 2). AMD will have, at best, the FX-64 out by the end of '06
The FX-64 is just another K8 with an unlocked multiplier and 1 meg of l2 cache clocked at 3 ghz. It'll cost over $1k per processor.
Long story short, 4x4 will be expensive and not perform terribly well. You'd be better off getting a s940 2p Opteron 285 system or something like that, especially after Socket F launches, unless the lack of "enthusiast" options on most s940 boards really gets on your nerves.
Wrong. Akuma is known as "Gouki" in Japanese Street Fighter games. His is but one of several names that were either re-arranged or changed to suit American audiences (I suspect that Gouki was too close to "gook" so it was changed).
There was also a joke/rumor that Gouki was Dan Hibiki's father (known only as Gou), but given the fact that Dan is a parody of the Art of Fighting characters (Ryo and Robert) it's unlikely that the rumor was meant as anything other than a parody of the end boss of Art of Fighting 1 (the end boss is Ryo's father, Takuma, wearing a mask).
Didn't he lock himself up in seclusion for the rest of his life in sorrow over what the dam's failure had caused?
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No, that this question is even being asked shows we're still burdened by the remnants of a Puritan work ethic. Compare the average American worker to those in other post-industrial economies and you'll find that we work more hours per week and get less vacation time per year.
One of the major differences between Americans and people from other countries/cultures isn't in how much we work but rather in how we spend our free time. Some of us are remarkably sedentary. There may also be stark differences in how hard we work while "on the job", but I've found that, overall, American workplaces are continuing to push for higher productivity from fewer workers. This trend forces each individual worker to be more productive by working harder or working smarter (sometimes both). It's getting hard to slack on the job in many fields.
I have no idea how large Popcap Games was back when they released it, but Bejeweled was a hit. In fact, a lot of their games have proven to be popular. Obviously they can't be thought of as an indie game studio now. And then there was that old puzzle game before it that was a huge smash hit created by that Pazhitnov guy in Russia . . . what was that again? I forget.
Is that really going to help? Large corporations could easily field thousands of paid moderator trolls working through proxies or what have you. It would be impossible to police the system unless pre-designated online moderators were used for patent review. And if they did that, the whole notion of community review would go out the window.
. . . that one could find wrong with the PS3, the lack of a "rumble pack" feature in its controllers is the least of my concerns. Rumble packs are worthless. After you get over the initial "thrill" of a force-feedback experience, what good are they? All they do is interfere with gameplay.
(shoving the damn thing down your pants doesn't count as making it useful)
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Makes you wonder how long it will be until they can eliminate most voice actors altogether by using good voice synthesizers. And even if they can't, it would be funny to hear voice acting done by Dr. Sbaitso.
Brilliant! You don't need to apologize. The "only old people" meme is hilarious.
I work for the US Post Office at a REC site. We still use parts of our SSN for identification. I don't really want to elabourate, but anyone who wished to steal SSNs there could easily do so.
. . . nearly anything could potentially be used in the repression of free thought and free religion in China. Dealing with the Chinese at all, under any circumstance, could easily be construed as indirect support for China's totalitarian political infrastructure. Why split hairs over database software and DNA testing equipment? If you're going to be dealing with them at all, you've got to accept the risk that something you sold them might eventually be used to track down, restrain, or even torture a political dissident or practitioner of unsanctioned religion. It's China, what do you expect?
Besides, if American firms don't sell them what they want, they'll either buy it elsewhere or rip off a foreign design and make it themselves.
I do not look forward to the day that hydrogen fuel cells start going super saiyin. All that grunting and screaming combined with ruined topography, oh my!
It was amusing, but it was warped. The entire parry system was broken. A kobold could parry a giant if he managed to intercept the club properly.
are people still complaining about the "lack of female gamers"? It seems to me that a lot of women are playing computer games of one sort or another, even if they aren't necessarily "hardcore" gamers pulling 10+ hour sessions at the PC or console. There mere mention of emotion in games obviously brought the topic of discussion around to women, albeit unnecessarily.
I certainly hope the Wii Zelda title winds up being better than Die By The Sword. Ugh.
The Big Dig was also plagued by graft and corruption. Much of the work was probably done improperly or on the cheap because contractors and workers alike kept walking off with materials and money (or opening the door for others to do so).
Despite the fact that the GNAA joke is rather stale, I still find the bizarre misappropriation of racial/sexual stereotypes to be amusing. Nothing they post ever really makes sense, either. I like that about them.
To me, it doesn't come off as "dumb" . . . it is pretty stupid, but it has an unhinged quality to it. It's more nonsensical I guess.
I really do appreciate the fact that someone is still trolling Slashdot even at a time when trolls, flamebaiters, and other malcontents have been largely harasssed to the point of exodus. Certainly GNAA could do a better job, but at least they're doing it.
Incorrect. Intel's new Core 2 architecture is significantly faster clock-per-clock than their Netburst offerings. Core 2 is already launching at 2.93 ghz, with 3.33 ghz parts slated for release before the end of the year. Enthusiasts have already managed to overclock the E6600, E6700, and E6800 to 4 ghz on air cooling. This architecture has a lot of headroom for scaling.
Intel *has* managed to improve the performance of their chips while also sticking to the dual-core strategy they assumed when they launched the Pentium D.
In the future, the key to performance will be to have the fastest core (Intel has that right now) and to be able to deploy as many cores as their opposition. Seeing as how Intel is planning to launch a quad-core CPU BEFORE AMD (codename: Kentsfield; launch date Q4 2006), I don't see Intel as having problems in the multi-core department. FSB limitations aren't choking Kentsfield either, at least not that anyone who has engineering samples can tell.
So, Intel has the fastest performance per-core and is currently winning the multi-core war. They're in the driver's seat again after flounding about for years.
The problem here is that when you try and speed up your chip by adding more cores, there's no guarentee the system will fully utilize all of those cores. Code has to be parallelized to take advantage of multiple processors/cores. Either that, or you've got to launch a new application that will spawn its own threads and chew up processor time on the unused cores. Take this informal benchmark as an example of how utilizing multiple cores can be difficult, even when using multithreaded apps. Unless you're a massive multitasker type, running multiple CPU-intensive apps simultaneously, it's difficult to harness the power of even 4 cores, much less 8.
What does this mean, exactly? x86-64 support? How will the distro run on Intel chips that support EM64T?
Actually, quite a bit is known about the 4x4 intitiative. It's sad that so many people posting about it here seem to know very little. The gist is:
1). It will only be able to use FX processors.
2). AMD will have, at best, the FX-64 out by the end of '06
The FX-64 is just another K8 with an unlocked multiplier and 1 meg of l2 cache clocked at 3 ghz. It'll cost over $1k per processor.
Long story short, 4x4 will be expensive and not perform terribly well. You'd be better off getting a s940 2p Opteron 285 system or something like that, especially after Socket F launches, unless the lack of "enthusiast" options on most s940 boards really gets on your nerves.
Wrong. Akuma is known as "Gouki" in Japanese Street Fighter games. His is but one of several names that were either re-arranged or changed to suit American audiences (I suspect that Gouki was too close to "gook" so it was changed).
There was also a joke/rumor that Gouki was Dan Hibiki's father (known only as Gou), but given the fact that Dan is a parody of the Art of Fighting characters (Ryo and Robert) it's unlikely that the rumor was meant as anything other than a parody of the end boss of Art of Fighting 1 (the end boss is Ryo's father, Takuma, wearing a mask).
What's that sonny? My hearing isn't so good anymore.
I use the word frittering from time to time and I'm only 29.
It worked for Captain Kirk. But wait, they had gravity . . . hmm. Oh well. It still worked for Kirk.
Didn't he lock himself up in seclusion for the rest of his life in sorrow over what the dam's failure had caused?
No, that this question is even being asked shows we're still burdened by the remnants of a Puritan work ethic. Compare the average American worker to those in other post-industrial economies and you'll find that we work more hours per week and get less vacation time per year.
One of the major differences between Americans and people from other countries/cultures isn't in how much we work but rather in how we spend our free time. Some of us are remarkably sedentary. There may also be stark differences in how hard we work while "on the job", but I've found that, overall, American workplaces are continuing to push for higher productivity from fewer workers. This trend forces each individual worker to be more productive by working harder or working smarter (sometimes both). It's getting hard to slack on the job in many fields.
Bejeweled and Tetris both had console incarnations as I recall.
I have no idea how large Popcap Games was back when they released it, but Bejeweled was a hit. In fact, a lot of their games have proven to be popular. Obviously they can't be thought of as an indie game studio now. And then there was that old puzzle game before it that was a huge smash hit created by that Pazhitnov guy in Russia . . . what was that again? I forget.
It's a good thing he didn't take his monoculture bomb to school. Otherwise he'd be charged with terroristic threatening.
Is that really going to help? Large corporations could easily field thousands of paid moderator trolls working through proxies or what have you. It would be impossible to police the system unless pre-designated online moderators were used for patent review. And if they did that, the whole notion of community review would go out the window.
. . . that one could find wrong with the PS3, the lack of a "rumble pack" feature in its controllers is the least of my concerns. Rumble packs are worthless. After you get over the initial "thrill" of a force-feedback experience, what good are they? All they do is interfere with gameplay.
(shoving the damn thing down your pants doesn't count as making it useful)