More species are going extinct now than were wiped out by the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. Yes, shit has gone down in the past, and yes, life will survive one way or another, but come on; we're changing things at an incredibly un-natural pace.
I'd like to add that I just opted to purchase a 360 recently (after the other 2 machines came out) with the HD-DVD add-on, and got 4 games, King Kong on HD-DVD, a universal remote control, and the component cables included. XBOX live is awsome (I never had an original XBOX - was a gamecube/PS2 owner), the interface is great, the media center extender is great (I don't even have cable plugged in to my new HD TV because of it.
The games? Gears of War (included for free with my console) looks far better than anything on PS3 right now, and its fun. Tony Hawk and most other cross-platform titles look a little better on 360 according to screenshots.
The controller is super-comfortable (way better than that circa-1996 PS3 controller).
My only complaint really is that the console with add-on isn't as aesthetically pleasing as the PS3. Big fucking deal.
(I plan on buying a Wii after christmas, too. The PS3? Maybe begrudgingly once FFXIII comes out and the price drops a lot).
I don't see how the blu-ray player is any sort of added benefit. If you really want HD video, you can buy a 360 with the add-on for the same price as a PS3. If you don't? Well, with the PS3, its tough shit for you.
Origin of Life theories != Evolution != Natural Selection (Darwin's theory)
I hate when people get these 3 distinct things all mixed up. Darwin never even used the word "evolution". Evolution was recognized as occuring LONG before the theory of Natural Selection was proposed to explain it, and Darwin (to my knowledge) never even broached the subject of where life came from in the first place.
I'm so glad there is discussion about this now! I thought I just wasn't smart enough to build a hibernate-ready PC! Seriously... just built a whole-new machine and thought "hey, i'll try hibernate again!". Yeah - no. It'll resume if i hibernate and then start it up again right away, but the next morning? No way... I end up hard-resetting the machine just to get it to start again.
Tried on Vista too - no go.
And hey, what's the deal with this "ready mode" on AMD machines? I can't find a driver or any info on it anywhere! Apparently only OEMs get the driver?? Supposed to be supported by media center edition, but I don't see it in Vista or XP MCE. The BIOS option is enabled. There is an ASUS driver available, but its just a dummy inf that makes the new hardware icon go away (does't actually do anything). grr!
We did pascal in the first semester, then second semester we had a low-level course (sparc) where we had to pick up C on the fly. I question what the use in learning pascal was, to be honest; it is so similar to C that I doubt there would be a significant curve just going with C to begin with. Any arguments as to why Pascal is necessary?
Java was also taught in second semester, and that's when I learned that I really enjoyed programming. Pascal almost weeded me out:)
I want to point out in this thread that, for movies, 1080p vs 1080i doesn't make a bit of difference; its just a delivery mechanism for 1080p24 content. 1080i is fine too - your set will just use 3:2 pulldown to re-assemble the 1080p24 film.
is deprecated in xhtml 1.0 strict (AFAIK), and ? table tags are perfectly valid WHEN they contain tabular data, not as a layout tool. So they won't be removing that one any time soon.
I meant that if you want to be a software pirate, you can pretty easily find out what the MD5 sum of a pristine disc is, and check against that. If you're download an intentionally modified image, you should probably trust the source you got it from. I don't see why this is newsworthy since, as has been said, linux images work the same way (except of course that downloading is encouraged).
Look, the Dreamcast is an excellent example of what could go wrong for a generally powerfull system with a good game library. I think there are a lot of parallels with the 360 (except frankly the 360 is more expensive and has fewer good games. I still think its fantastic, though).
No; saying it is the wireless network would fly in the face of countless studies over decades that have tried (and failed) to identify any link between radio waves and wellness. The simplest explaination would be either another environmental difference (air quality, lighting, stress etc.) that are proven to affect people, or simple placebo.
Because they aren't isolated cases. If I recall correctly, millions of so-called "Christians" came out to vote in 2004 because they wanted to oppress gays. Yeah, Jesus was all about oppressing people. Like that time he invited prostitutes into the temple. Oh, wait...
My point, which seems to be lost on you, is that the glaciers in GLACIER NATIONAL PARK are almost completely gone, and will be in 20 years. We're talking about an incredible amount of melting over 50 years, by the way. Google the Columbia Ice Fields for some shocking pictures.
The reason these formats are dead is that they offer ONE semi-compelling feature (multi-channel) that is just never used really in the recording studio to begin with. On top of that they offer one EXTREMELY ANNOYING drawback - the inability to copy to your iPod. This is why no one cares about the "high-def" audio formats.
Disruption of the gulf stream - not predicted to happen just yet, so this prediction hasn't been refuted.
Deep freeze in Europe - same. That's like saying that the theory about the sun gobbling up the earth when it becomes a red giant is wrong because it hasn't happened yet.
Desertification of the US midwest - underway. I live in Alberta (Canada), and we expect to run out of glacial runoff in the next 15-20 years, leaving our river and main source of water bone dry for half the year. On top of that, the climate is getting dryer, and the water shelf is dropping. These are known to most residents here.
US crop failures - we'll see. Technology is improving all the time to offset this. Its happened before, though.
More frequent/severe Atlantic hurricanes (were there any this year?) - Nope, but again they expect a trend towards stronger storms, and last year it was certainly evident.
Inundation of coastal cities - Once again this is something that will happen down the road. No one thought we'd be under water in 2006. And we aren't. So the predictions are correct thus far.
Decline of coral reefs - underway. Most of the reefs affected by El Nino (Belize's great barrier reef in particular) are almost completely dead. Scuba diving was a lot more interesting about 15 years ago.
Disruption of Antarctic ice shelves - underway. There has been massive breakups of ice shelves in the last few years. Actually the predictions were mostly wrong; this is happening faster than we thought.
Pandemic skin cancer outbreaks (remember the ozone crisis?) - are you disputing the ozone hole now? That's a separate issue, but one that governments at least took significant steps towards solving around 15 years ago. The hole is larger this year than ever before, btw.
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See points 6 and 7. I'm an evolutionary biologist, by the way. I didn't just pull that out of my ass.
More species are going extinct now than were wiped out by the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. Yes, shit has gone down in the past, and yes, life will survive one way or another, but come on; we're changing things at an incredibly un-natural pace.
I have. And I'd rather live in Belize again than the ol' US of A.
(I'm Canadian)
I'd like to add that I just opted to purchase a 360 recently (after the other 2 machines came out) with the HD-DVD add-on, and got 4 games, King Kong on HD-DVD, a universal remote control, and the component cables included. XBOX live is awsome (I never had an original XBOX - was a gamecube/PS2 owner), the interface is great, the media center extender is great (I don't even have cable plugged in to my new HD TV because of it.
The games? Gears of War (included for free with my console) looks far better than anything on PS3 right now, and its fun. Tony Hawk and most other cross-platform titles look a little better on 360 according to screenshots.
The controller is super-comfortable (way better than that circa-1996 PS3 controller).
My only complaint really is that the console with add-on isn't as aesthetically pleasing as the PS3. Big fucking deal.
(I plan on buying a Wii after christmas, too. The PS3? Maybe begrudgingly once FFXIII comes out and the price drops a lot).
I don't see how the blu-ray player is any sort of added benefit. If you really want HD video, you can buy a 360 with the add-on for the same price as a PS3. If you don't? Well, with the PS3, its tough shit for you.
In their, uhm, defense, didn't they make Bush PoTY recently? Apparently you can still be an asshole and make the grade...
"rails-tards" huh? You should write for commedy.
No kidding, but I guess the term itself is male-oriented. Most women, however, are avid shoe-fanpersons.
Origin of Life theories != Evolution != Natural Selection (Darwin's theory)
I hate when people get these 3 distinct things all mixed up. Darwin never even used the word "evolution". Evolution was recognized as occuring LONG before the theory of Natural Selection was proposed to explain it, and Darwin (to my knowledge) never even broached the subject of where life came from in the first place.
Arrrrgh!
I'm so glad there is discussion about this now! I thought I just wasn't smart enough to build a hibernate-ready PC! Seriously... just built a whole-new machine and thought "hey, i'll try hibernate again!". Yeah - no. It'll resume if i hibernate and then start it up again right away, but the next morning? No way... I end up hard-resetting the machine just to get it to start again.
Tried on Vista too - no go.
And hey, what's the deal with this "ready mode" on AMD machines? I can't find a driver or any info on it anywhere! Apparently only OEMs get the driver?? Supposed to be supported by media center edition, but I don't see it in Vista or XP MCE. The BIOS option is enabled. There is an ASUS driver available, but its just a dummy inf that makes the new hardware icon go away (does't actually do anything). grr!
We did pascal in the first semester, then second semester we had a low-level course (sparc) where we had to pick up C on the fly. I question what the use in learning pascal was, to be honest; it is so similar to C that I doubt there would be a significant curve just going with C to begin with. Any arguments as to why Pascal is necessary?
:)
Java was also taught in second semester, and that's when I learned that I really enjoyed programming. Pascal almost weeded me out
I want to point out in this thread that, for movies, 1080p vs 1080i doesn't make a bit of difference; its just a delivery mechanism for 1080p24 content. 1080i is fine too - your set will just use 3:2 pulldown to re-assemble the 1080p24 film.
The nforce chipset does it... can't be bothered to dig up data sheets though.
is deprecated in xhtml 1.0 strict (AFAIK), and ? table tags are perfectly valid WHEN they contain tabular data, not as a layout tool. So they won't be removing that one any time soon.
I meant that if you want to be a software pirate, you can pretty easily find out what the MD5 sum of a pristine disc is, and check against that. If you're download an intentionally modified image, you should probably trust the source you got it from. I don't see why this is newsworthy since, as has been said, linux images work the same way (except of course that downloading is encouraged).
cause like, duuuude, Software wants to be free, man!
Also, its pretty stinking easy to check the MD5 sum of a downloaded image, ain't it? Non-story.
Look, the Dreamcast is an excellent example of what could go wrong for a generally powerfull system with a good game library. I think there are a lot of parallels with the 360 (except frankly the 360 is more expensive and has fewer good games. I still think its fantastic, though).
I'll check when i get home... just bought a sharp 1080p 42" LCD on Saturday.
Yes, offtopic, but yes; mine crashes quite a bit too. Not several times an hour, but once every few days and a lot more than IE6 did.
Uhm, he didn't compare it solely with an iPod. Did you read the article? A quick skimming even mentions PlaysForSure devices, Sandisk and Toshiba.
No; saying it is the wireless network would fly in the face of countless studies over decades that have tried (and failed) to identify any link between radio waves and wellness. The simplest explaination would be either another environmental difference (air quality, lighting, stress etc.) that are proven to affect people, or simple placebo.
Because they aren't isolated cases. If I recall correctly, millions of so-called "Christians" came out to vote in 2004 because they wanted to oppress gays. Yeah, Jesus was all about oppressing people. Like that time he invited prostitutes into the temple. Oh, wait...
My point, which seems to be lost on you, is that the glaciers in GLACIER NATIONAL PARK are almost completely gone, and will be in 20 years. We're talking about an incredible amount of melting over 50 years, by the way. Google the Columbia Ice Fields for some shocking pictures.
The reason these formats are dead is that they offer ONE semi-compelling feature (multi-channel) that is just never used really in the recording studio to begin with. On top of that they offer one EXTREMELY ANNOYING drawback - the inability to copy to your iPod. This is why no one cares about the "high-def" audio formats.
Good troll.
Disruption of the gulf stream - not predicted to happen just yet, so this prediction hasn't been refuted.
Deep freeze in Europe - same. That's like saying that the theory about the sun gobbling up the earth when it becomes a red giant is wrong because it hasn't happened yet.
Desertification of the US midwest - underway. I live in Alberta (Canada), and we expect to run out of glacial runoff in the next 15-20 years, leaving our river and main source of water bone dry for half the year. On top of that, the climate is getting dryer, and the water shelf is dropping. These are known to most residents here.
US crop failures - we'll see. Technology is improving all the time to offset this. Its happened before, though.
More frequent/severe Atlantic hurricanes (were there any this year?) - Nope, but again they expect a trend towards stronger storms, and last year it was certainly evident.
Inundation of coastal cities - Once again this is something that will happen down the road. No one thought we'd be under water in 2006. And we aren't. So the predictions are correct thus far.
Decline of coral reefs - underway. Most of the reefs affected by El Nino (Belize's great barrier reef in particular) are almost completely dead. Scuba diving was a lot more interesting about 15 years ago.
Disruption of Antarctic ice shelves - underway. There has been massive breakups of ice shelves in the last few years. Actually the predictions were mostly wrong; this is happening faster than we thought.
Pandemic skin cancer outbreaks (remember the ozone crisis?) - are you disputing the ozone hole now? That's a separate issue, but one that governments at least took significant steps towards solving around 15 years ago. The hole is larger this year than ever before, btw.