And absolutely beautiful. In the current times we are all living in, Spirit and Opportunity remind us of what mankind can acheive, when we put our mind to it, and also how lucky we can be, unexpectedly.
I'm looking forwards to the recently announced bubble bobble for wii that it actually stopped me selling my dusty wii off during the sillyseason. I'm hoping ( like a poster above made the point) that they DONT FUCK with the control system OR the perspective, I hope they extend, and even emb race a little.;)
Thanks for making me feel better about my trolling point (first in 10 years on/.) I was only stimulating discussion, not slating the aussies as a nation. But I think for me it was the whole Bylaws thing - they were all over the place! I think in England we have a much worse 'big brother' cctv thing going on.. But just going around trying to enjoy a holiday, the amount of signs up telling me what to do and what not to do, were a bit too much. Happy xmas.
Those who marked me troll obviously didn't read the replies that seemed to agree - one apparently actaully from an Australian. To re-iterate, its not the place or the individual people - its the nanny state I'm talking about. Hey, come to England, rent a car. It's not me thats put the thousands of speed cameras we have here up. Read before moderating. Can someone give me my -1 troll point back please?:)
I was in Australia about three years ago, and I was struck by a sense that it really does appear to be a nanny state. As for examples, unless I gave them all it would seem they were individually petty, but as a whole I got that impression and it has stuck with me since (this is no reflection on the people or the place itself) - I'm sure I didn't imagine it. For years we have been fed the image that Australians are laid back and chilled out but it really didn't seem the case to me, and this seems to be a further example.
I'm not a fan of Apple either, but the iPhone is one of my favourite gadgets ever. Sickening to give the money to Jobs and all that, but as long as they bring out regular upgrades, I'll probably stick with an iPhone from now until some other manufacturer gets it right.
I see this tag on nearly 50% of slashdot stories now, and I'm pretty sick of seeing it. Yes, we should be cynical of new ideas, but this tag is completely unconstructive, and now with overuse borderline juvenile. By all means make your point through intelligent posting, but a tag like this is just lazy.
Fair enough, but reading between the lines (I was in the FPGA industry for 7 years), most people were polarised between X and A (nobody cared about Actel/Lattice/QuickLogic enough) why so anti-Altera? So can you explain your sentiments instead of just slating them? Their tool chain has the same pro's and con's as everyone else. Sorry, but you did sound like a Xilinx fanboy..
Ha. And Xilinx marketing don't do the same? Don't make me laugh. Xilinx marketing are well known for being the pushiest in the industry. I think you will find that worldwide, the Xilinx university program is bigger than Altera's.
I echo the above post. I' be owned all three, with an attach rate of no less than at least 15 titles each platform . I wish I had gow2, but I still have no regrets about trading the 360 in for the ps3. A) as above, it's one of the most advanced pieces of engineering a consumer can currently own and b) to justify a) we ain't seen nothing yet. If the ps3 stays afloat (sometimes I'm doubtful it will) it will start to piss over the competition in the next 18 months... If not? Intellivision vs atari? Dreamcast vs ps2? The technologically superior console is never the winner. But in the case of the ps3 it's damn nice to have one
Thats weird, because I saw the UK advert last night and it states quite clearly at the bottom of the screen that operations have been sped up etc, and does not appear to make any claims to the advert being true to life.... Is this the British ASA or is there an ASA elsewhere in the world (i.e. the USA)?
Pilkington in the UK have already developed a self cleaning glass, I don't know any of the tech details behind it though. I'ts been around a couple of years now.
I lost hours of my youth thanks to you! Great game, should go on there. Deatchase 3D I think was from the same stable and equally as worthy of preservation... Just like riding a speeder bike through the forest in ROTJ.. Well, at the time at least..
Betamax? I have to read my tapes with a very small compass and a bit of graph paper then imagine what the bits would be like read out thankyouverymuch!
I'm not a massive fan myself, but it amuses on occasion. If YOU don't like it it is quite simple... Skip to the next story, and go rant about that. If it REALLY riles you.. Go to you preferences and filter it out. That is all. Carry on.
Same here - it was New Order, Substance in 1987. Apparently compiled so Tony Wilson (Factory records boss) could have all his New Order singles on 2 cd's.. Ostensibly, this was for him to play in the car, but I'm not sure car CD players were about then..? If they were they wouldn't have been cheap.. CD's were much thicker back then, but I do remember a case of a time where I was commenting on how indestructible CD's were to my GF of the time while flexing it ever so slightly in my palm... The tiniest amount... It shattered in front of our eyes... So much for that theory...
This doesn't suprise me at all. My 3rd gen Nano is less than a year old and its battery is comnpletely dead already. The iPod will work only while its plugged into a power source.. I knew iPods had an early reputation for this (iPods dirty little secret as I recall it) but I would have hoped it would have been sorted by now. I could just be very unlucky... anyone else had issues with a 3rd gen Nano yet?
Sorry, just having re read your post, y'know, just to make sure I'm not going mad... I should have marked it +5 hilarious.. If you are not clued up about the subject matter then please don't hit reply. Dick Tracey my ass, waste your keystrokes elsewhere luddite!
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And absolutely beautiful. In the current times we are all living in, Spirit and Opportunity remind us of what mankind can acheive, when we put our mind to it, and also how lucky we can be, unexpectedly.
I'm looking forwards to the recently announced bubble bobble for wii that it actually stopped me selling my dusty wii off during the sillyseason. I'm hoping ( like a poster above made the point) that they DONT FUCK with the control system OR the perspective, I hope they extend, and even emb race a little. ;)
Thanks for making me feel better about my trolling point (first in 10 years on /.) I was only stimulating discussion, not slating the aussies as a nation. But I think for me it was the whole Bylaws thing - they were all over the place! I think in England we have a much worse 'big brother' cctv thing going on.. But just going around trying to enjoy a holiday, the amount of signs up telling me what to do and what not to do, were a bit too much. Happy xmas.
Those who marked me troll obviously didn't read the replies that seemed to agree - one apparently actaully from an Australian. To re-iterate, its not the place or the individual people - its the nanny state I'm talking about. Hey, come to England, rent a car. It's not me thats put the thousands of speed cameras we have here up. Read before moderating. Can someone give me my -1 troll point back please? :)
I was in Australia about three years ago, and I was struck by a sense that it really does appear to be a nanny state. As for examples, unless I gave them all it would seem they were individually petty, but as a whole I got that impression and it has stuck with me since (this is no reflection on the people or the place itself) - I'm sure I didn't imagine it. For years we have been fed the image that Australians are laid back and chilled out but it really didn't seem the case to me, and this seems to be a further example.
I'm not a fan of Apple either, but the iPhone is one of my favourite gadgets ever. Sickening to give the money to Jobs and all that, but as long as they bring out regular upgrades, I'll probably stick with an iPhone from now until some other manufacturer gets it right.
I see this tag on nearly 50% of slashdot stories now, and I'm pretty sick of seeing it. Yes, we should be cynical of new ideas, but this tag is completely unconstructive, and now with overuse borderline juvenile. By all means make your point through intelligent posting, but a tag like this is just lazy.
Fir post!
Fair enough, but reading between the lines (I was in the FPGA industry for 7 years), most people were polarised between X and A (nobody cared about Actel/Lattice/QuickLogic enough) why so anti-Altera? So can you explain your sentiments instead of just slating them? Their tool chain has the same pro's and con's as everyone else. Sorry, but you did sound like a Xilinx fanboy..
Ha. And Xilinx marketing don't do the same? Don't make me laugh. Xilinx marketing are well known for being the pushiest in the industry. I think you will find that worldwide, the Xilinx university program is bigger than Altera's.
I echo the above post. I' be owned all three, with an attach rate of no less than at least 15 titles each platform . I wish I had gow2, but I still have no regrets about trading the 360 in for the ps3. A) as above, it's one of the most advanced pieces of engineering a consumer can currently own and b) to justify a) we ain't seen nothing yet. If the ps3 stays afloat (sometimes I'm doubtful it will) it will start to piss over the competition in the next 18 months... If not? Intellivision vs atari? Dreamcast vs ps2? The technologically superior console is never the winner. But in the case of the ps3 it's damn nice to have one
Be sure to patent the meaning as well as the letters... My Mum is convinced it means 'lots of love'...
based on this post can we please get a 'flight of fancy' mod pls? :)
Thats weird, because I saw the UK advert last night and it states quite clearly at the bottom of the screen that operations have been sped up etc, and does not appear to make any claims to the advert being true to life.... Is this the British ASA or is there an ASA elsewhere in the world (i.e. the USA)?
1. Eat food.. 2. Split bill.. 3. ??? 4. IBM Profits!!!
Pilkington in the UK have already developed a self cleaning glass, I don't know any of the tech details behind it though. I'ts been around a couple of years now.
And no 'defective by design' tag yet?
I lost hours of my youth thanks to you! Great game, should go on there. Deatchase 3D I think was from the same stable and equally as worthy of preservation... Just like riding a speeder bike through the forest in ROTJ.. Well, at the time at least..
Will be an empire worth ignoring!
Betamax? I have to read my tapes with a very small compass and a bit of graph paper then imagine what the bits would be like read out thankyouverymuch!
I'm not a massive fan myself, but it amuses on occasion. If YOU don't like it it is quite simple... Skip to the next story, and go rant about that. If it REALLY riles you.. Go to you preferences and filter it out. That is all. Carry on.
Same here - it was New Order, Substance in 1987. Apparently compiled so Tony Wilson (Factory records boss) could have all his New Order singles on 2 cd's.. Ostensibly, this was for him to play in the car, but I'm not sure car CD players were about then..? If they were they wouldn't have been cheap.. CD's were much thicker back then, but I do remember a case of a time where I was commenting on how indestructible CD's were to my GF of the time while flexing it ever so slightly in my palm... The tiniest amount... It shattered in front of our eyes... So much for that theory...
This doesn't suprise me at all. My 3rd gen Nano is less than a year old and its battery is comnpletely dead already. The iPod will work only while its plugged into a power source.. I knew iPods had an early reputation for this (iPods dirty little secret as I recall it) but I would have hoped it would have been sorted by now. I could just be very unlucky... anyone else had issues with a 3rd gen Nano yet?
Sorry, just having re read your post, y'know, just to make sure I'm not going mad... I should have marked it +5 hilarious.. If you are not clued up about the subject matter then please don't hit reply. Dick Tracey my ass, waste your keystrokes elsewhere luddite!
Should have left it at IANA....