You know, when trying to prove a point to someone, the worst thing you can do is insult them right upfront. That pretty much garantees they aren't going to read the rest of what you have to say. Also, it makes you sound like a socially inept basement dweller.
Canadian Coke is also corn syrup. The pop in central america isn't though, and its fucking fantastic!
Interesting tidbit: high-fructose corn syrup suppresses Leptin secretion, so you don't feel full even after consuming 1000 calories from it. Compare how full you feel after drinking 3 beers, vs. 3 cokes. This crap is probably responsible for a lot of the obesity on this continent.
My understanding is that a lot of vinyl was also affected by the loudness war. In fact, these are referred to as "hot" recordings because the increased volume causes the needle to overheat (melting the record). The chili peppers recordings might be better though - they couldn't be any worse than the CDs (some of the worst ever recorded).
Is it just me though, or have the recording engineers eased off a bit in the last few years? Maybe the artists finally came to their senses.
I agree completely, but understand that Microsoft is catering to business much more than Apple, and legacy applications (which often go unmodified for a decade or more) need to run on newer OSes. Otherwise businesses simply won't upgrade, and thus Microsoft looses the sale.
Apple forced the 3rd parties to release updates for OSX, and therefore all the teething problems Vista is having can be seen as a good thing... UAC means that we'll finally have 3rd party apps that work properly with unprivileged user accounts.
Totally not how it works. You can (and should) install both 1.1 and 2.0 concurrently, and the bytecode runs on the vm it was compiled for. Problems averted.
Man, that is just not fair. Microsoft has been burdened with backwards compatibility like no other company out there. I mean, except on 64-bit Vista, you can still run 16-bit DOS apps in the latest release of Windows, 20+ years later! Try running a circa 2001 OS9 app on a new Mac, and let me know how that goes for you. Microsoft has been hamstrung by their commitment to backwards compatibility; I am convinced that (and bad management) are the reasons for Vista's mediocrity. Yeah, some stuff broke, but I wish they'd broken more in the pursuit of a "good" OS.
On topic, C# 2.0 was introduced with.NET 2.0, which included bytecode optimizations that aren't backwards-compatible. The generics stuff probably could have been, but meh; Microsoft controls the only real.NET platform anyhow. Its not like they had to remain compatible with mobile phones and such, like Sun did.
No one complains about the decline in horse-whip related sales, because NO ONE CARES ABOUT DRIVING HORSES. I still want to listen to music, and the possibility that some already-starving artists might be starved right out of business concerns me.
I picked up Vista because i'm an upgrade whore, and after running it for a month or so, I'm generally disappointed. I gained some flashy visual effects (my Macbook is still prettier) but I'm really sick of all the incompatibilities. I'd tend to blame the 3rd parties, but hell; even Visual Studio 2005 had issues that were only recently fixed. I'm still waiting for my logitech keyboard app to stop tanking on bootup (new drivers due end of April? WTF?).
Basically I'm using it now as a media center host for my 360... which media center 2005 was doing just fine. I think this whole experience is just pushing me farther towards dumping windows altogether when I'm at home.
I think upscaled DVDs look perfectly fine on my 42" 1080p screen. I also think HD-DVDs look freaking spectacular. I've had girls over (ie non-technophiles) who have made unprovoked comments like "wow, this looks really spectacular!" when watching an HD-DVD movie.
The upscaled DVDs look fine, but the HD-DVDs have a ton of extra detail. That's what people notice - not the increased resolution, but the fact that you can see things like sweat, and even pores on skin.
I also think that the compression artifacts on HDTV broadcasts (at least on Shaw in western Canada) are so atrocious that they shouldn't be able to charge for HD.
Yeah, its funny. I work at a major Oil & Gas company in Calgary. We're a Novell/Windows 2000 shop primarily, and a pretty conservative one. We DO have several engineers on Linux workstations, however.
We're toying with upgrading to Vista clients down the road, and dropping Novell entirely (not my decision!). Linux workstations and Solaris VMWare servers aren't going anywhere. No one has seriously considered doing Mac anything, though... and lots of us run them at home.
I agree with you! And the cautious, humble approach right now would be to assume we ARE affecting the environment. If we're wrong, we waste a few trillion dollars. If we're right, we saved many times that (and some things that are priceless).
But it is important that people know that being fat = bad. And if we really started treating obesity like skin colour, then we'd be saying there is nothing wrong with being fat. And there is.
I'm a little chubby myself, but I work hard at keeping it down because I know it is important for me both socially and physically. If I choose to "let myself go", I'm not going to get all oversensitive and ask for special treatment.
I installed OneCare myself during the beta period, and was impressed with how well it integrated into Windowsm and didn't try to sell me anything else once in there (Are you listening, McAfee??) Resource usage was also much better than Norton.
I'm disappointed that it performed so poorly. However, I'm not running it anymore anyhow, since I switched to Vista 64-bit and OneCare doesn't work on 64-bit platforms:|
My understanding (although I haven't tried it) is that any audio or video you can play on the host PC can be streamed to the xbox. At least I'm happily playing my FLAC audio files through my 360... I assume video is the same but could be wrong.
Weird... i'm using mine for exactly that, and without any hacks! (Yes, it does have to work as an extender, but anyone who isn't impressed by Windows Media Center hasn't used it yet. No I'm not an astroturfer).
The 360 is easily the most exciting console I've owned since the PSX, given all it can do. I don't even have cable hooked up to my 1080p TV - its basically just a monitor for my 360.
No, I guess this wasn't a very informative post... i mostly just wanted to give MS props for doing at least something right. You know; compliment before you criticize.
Well, if you really need the joke explained to you:
We (Canadians) think of the US as a mass of uneducated, superstitious people who haven't quite grasped the concept of enlightened democracy. Also, we're kind of worried that you'll sneak across the border while we're asleep and make off with our women.
Well I'm an anthropologist, and I'd tend to disagree (although the debate exists) It seems to me that (at minimum) species don't interbreed. They might be able to biologically, but due to behavior, geographic isolation etc, they don't. Some "species" even do, on occasion, interbreed, but either the offspring is sterile (the mule) or the offspring is fertile but shunned by both species and thus rejected as a mate (can't remember the example).
In short, different species don't exchange genetic information with eachother. The subspecies label is sometimes useful, but given how tenuous the "species" definition is, you'll have a very hard time finding a concrete biological definition of a "sub-species".
Like you yourself implied; based on statistics. You're right - we could be in an unfathomably sweet spot right now. More likely, we're extremely primitive compared to the average.
Just to elaborate (but not correct you), the whole idea of "sub-species" is non-scientific. Species exist in nature - they describe gene flow between individuals. The idea of a sub-species is just a sometimes-useful taxonomic grouping, but ultimately has no basis in biology.
Human civilization has been around for a microsecond in time, relatively speaking. Other civilizations would almost always be far, far more advanced than us, simply because it would be difficult to find a civilization that has a SHORTER history. So yeah, generally speaking, if spacefaring civilizations exist, they've probably been trauling the universe for millions of years now. We're still stuck in that brief little instant between first conciousness and technological maturity.
Nah, i'd say they're pretty much indistinguishable. Maybe they are from a data point of view (ie one holds more), but as content delivery mechanisms they appear more or less identical (same features, resolution etc).
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You know, when trying to prove a point to someone, the worst thing you can do is insult them right upfront. That pretty much garantees they aren't going to read the rest of what you have to say. Also, it makes you sound like a socially inept basement dweller.
The warrantees are good for a full year... send it back. They'll even pay for shipping.
Canadian Coke is also corn syrup. The pop in central america isn't though, and its fucking fantastic!
Interesting tidbit: high-fructose corn syrup suppresses Leptin secretion, so you don't feel full even after consuming 1000 calories from it. Compare how full you feel after drinking 3 beers, vs. 3 cokes. This crap is probably responsible for a lot of the obesity on this continent.
My understanding is that a lot of vinyl was also affected by the loudness war. In fact, these are referred to as "hot" recordings because the increased volume causes the needle to overheat (melting the record). The chili peppers recordings might be better though - they couldn't be any worse than the CDs (some of the worst ever recorded).
Is it just me though, or have the recording engineers eased off a bit in the last few years? Maybe the artists finally came to their senses.
I just tried. Mission accomplished.
I agree completely, but understand that Microsoft is catering to business much more than Apple, and legacy applications (which often go unmodified for a decade or more) need to run on newer OSes. Otherwise businesses simply won't upgrade, and thus Microsoft looses the sale.
Apple forced the 3rd parties to release updates for OSX, and therefore all the teething problems Vista is having can be seen as a good thing... UAC means that we'll finally have 3rd party apps that work properly with unprivileged user accounts.
Totally not how it works. You can (and should) install both 1.1 and 2.0 concurrently, and the bytecode runs on the vm it was compiled for. Problems averted.
Man, that is just not fair. Microsoft has been burdened with backwards compatibility like no other company out there. I mean, except on 64-bit Vista, you can still run 16-bit DOS apps in the latest release of Windows, 20+ years later! Try running a circa 2001 OS9 app on a new Mac, and let me know how that goes for you. Microsoft has been hamstrung by their commitment to backwards compatibility; I am convinced that (and bad management) are the reasons for Vista's mediocrity. Yeah, some stuff broke, but I wish they'd broken more in the pursuit of a "good" OS.
.NET 2.0, which included bytecode optimizations that aren't backwards-compatible. The generics stuff probably could have been, but meh; Microsoft controls the only real .NET platform anyhow. Its not like they had to remain compatible with mobile phones and such, like Sun did.
On topic, C# 2.0 was introduced with
No one complains about the decline in horse-whip related sales, because NO ONE CARES ABOUT DRIVING HORSES. I still want to listen to music, and the possibility that some already-starving artists might be starved right out of business concerns me.
You mean like the muppet who wrote this article?
I picked up Vista because i'm an upgrade whore, and after running it for a month or so, I'm generally disappointed. I gained some flashy visual effects (my Macbook is still prettier) but I'm really sick of all the incompatibilities. I'd tend to blame the 3rd parties, but hell; even Visual Studio 2005 had issues that were only recently fixed. I'm still waiting for my logitech keyboard app to stop tanking on bootup (new drivers due end of April? WTF?).
Basically I'm using it now as a media center host for my 360... which media center 2005 was doing just fine. I think this whole experience is just pushing me farther towards dumping windows altogether when I'm at home.
I think upscaled DVDs look perfectly fine on my 42" 1080p screen. I also think HD-DVDs look freaking spectacular. I've had girls over (ie non-technophiles) who have made unprovoked comments like "wow, this looks really spectacular!" when watching an HD-DVD movie.
The upscaled DVDs look fine, but the HD-DVDs have a ton of extra detail. That's what people notice - not the increased resolution, but the fact that you can see things like sweat, and even pores on skin.
I also think that the compression artifacts on HDTV broadcasts (at least on Shaw in western Canada) are so atrocious that they shouldn't be able to charge for HD.
Yeah, its funny. I work at a major Oil & Gas company in Calgary. We're a Novell/Windows 2000 shop primarily, and a pretty conservative one. We DO have several engineers on Linux workstations, however.
We're toying with upgrading to Vista clients down the road, and dropping Novell entirely (not my decision!). Linux workstations and Solaris VMWare servers aren't going anywhere. No one has seriously considered doing Mac anything, though... and lots of us run them at home.
I agree with you! And the cautious, humble approach right now would be to assume we ARE affecting the environment. If we're wrong, we waste a few trillion dollars. If we're right, we saved many times that (and some things that are priceless).
But it is important that people know that being fat = bad. And if we really started treating obesity like skin colour, then we'd be saying there is nothing wrong with being fat. And there is.
I'm a little chubby myself, but I work hard at keeping it down because I know it is important for me both socially and physically. If I choose to "let myself go", I'm not going to get all oversensitive and ask for special treatment.
I installed OneCare myself during the beta period, and was impressed with how well it integrated into Windowsm and didn't try to sell me anything else once in there (Are you listening, McAfee??) Resource usage was also much better than Norton.
:|
I'm disappointed that it performed so poorly. However, I'm not running it anymore anyhow, since I switched to Vista 64-bit and OneCare doesn't work on 64-bit platforms
Being gay isn't a choice that costs the public billions of dollars a year. Also, gay people aren't nearly as hard on the eyes.
Glutons SHOULD be marginalized. Its a social construct designed to keep people thin and healthy.
My understanding (although I haven't tried it) is that any audio or video you can play on the host PC can be streamed to the xbox. At least I'm happily playing my FLAC audio files through my 360... I assume video is the same but could be wrong.
Weird... i'm using mine for exactly that, and without any hacks! (Yes, it does have to work as an extender, but anyone who isn't impressed by Windows Media Center hasn't used it yet. No I'm not an astroturfer).
The 360 is easily the most exciting console I've owned since the PSX, given all it can do. I don't even have cable hooked up to my 1080p TV - its basically just a monitor for my 360.
No, I guess this wasn't a very informative post... i mostly just wanted to give MS props for doing at least something right. You know; compliment before you criticize.
Well, if you really need the joke explained to you:
We (Canadians) think of the US as a mass of uneducated, superstitious people who haven't quite grasped the concept of enlightened democracy. Also, we're kind of worried that you'll sneak across the border while we're asleep and make off with our women.
I'm so glad I don't have to come on here and preach this stuff anymore! Yay! People are learning!
Well I'm an anthropologist, and I'd tend to disagree (although the debate exists) It seems to me that (at minimum) species don't interbreed. They might be able to biologically, but due to behavior, geographic isolation etc, they don't. Some "species" even do, on occasion, interbreed, but either the offspring is sterile (the mule) or the offspring is fertile but shunned by both species and thus rejected as a mate (can't remember the example).
In short, different species don't exchange genetic information with eachother. The subspecies label is sometimes useful, but given how tenuous the "species" definition is, you'll have a very hard time finding a concrete biological definition of a "sub-species".
Like you yourself implied; based on statistics. You're right - we could be in an unfathomably sweet spot right now. More likely, we're extremely primitive compared to the average.
Just to elaborate (but not correct you), the whole idea of "sub-species" is non-scientific. Species exist in nature - they describe gene flow between individuals. The idea of a sub-species is just a sometimes-useful taxonomic grouping, but ultimately has no basis in biology.
Human civilization has been around for a microsecond in time, relatively speaking. Other civilizations would almost always be far, far more advanced than us, simply because it would be difficult to find a civilization that has a SHORTER history. So yeah, generally speaking, if spacefaring civilizations exist, they've probably been trauling the universe for millions of years now. We're still stuck in that brief little instant between first conciousness and technological maturity.
Nah, i'd say they're pretty much indistinguishable. Maybe they are from a data point of view (ie one holds more), but as content delivery mechanisms they appear more or less identical (same features, resolution etc).