What an awesome scheme. If the shopper doesn't demand a bargain, why offer one? The saavy shoppers find the good deals, and the unsaavy ones help the economy a bit more;)
PS3's backwards compatibility is simple: In addition to the Nvidia-driven gfx and hardware of the PS3, it has the PS2 emotion engine circuitry built-in. And since the PS2 had the PS1's circuitry built-in, you get 2 generations of backwards compatibility.
Xbox is more or less a P3+Geforce4 design. Somehow I don't see it being feasible for Microsoft to miniaturize the xbox logic and slap it onto the Xbox360 motherboard. Xbox360 will probably require a xbox-live download for emulation instructions that allow it to play whatever selected Xbox game you want to run.
Nintendo revolution's backwards compatibility is relatively simple as well: From all accounts, its architecture is an extension of the gamecube's architecture: GC had a custom IBM Power chip called "flipper", and a simple yet powerful gfx solution by ArtX (later acquired by Ati) that uses embedded 1T-SRAM. Revolution is supposed to have an IBM Power-based cpu and an Ati gfx solution that, surprise surprise, uses embedded gfx memory as well. I'm betting the new hardware's just a superset of the old.
Don't pre-judge the controller, folks
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Only long hours of gameplay experience will reveal the merits of the new Playstation-3 controller. Don't get all huffy - yet. One thing I'm wondering about is the # of controllres. Why 7? Is it a bluetooth limitation?
So WINE now has free legal representation. Microsoft has tens of billions of dollars and high priced lawyers. Hey folks, here's a bit of comparison: Bill's probably spending more on XBOX360 than the government of Canada did on its yearly budget!
Saying this is a david vs goliath situation isn't even close to accurate.
:p it's not like you have a lack of options. With such a huge female population, only the terminally inept can't find ONE female that they have good chemistry with:)
Any male student who can't get laid in Waterloo is terminally inept. I've lived in and worked in Waterloo, and Laurier is the greatest resource the city has to offer. Seriously. Hell if all else fails, just FTF (fark the frosh)
The University of Guelph (Southern Ontario, Canada) normally has 200 students entering its Bachelor of Computing (honors) program every year. This year the entrance class had 66 students. My own program at Guelph-Humber (degree/diploma in computing/telecom) has a nominal class size of 60, but we've not had a full class in the 3 years we've been running. According to my prof, the only University in Canada whose compsci department hasn't suffered is Waterloo's.
Those programmers who are talented and ambitious work in game studios. Those programmers who aren't do it for free. FOSS just happens to fall into the mix.
Yo, FOSS game programmers. Try CREATING an addictive game. We've seen how good you are at reverse engineering and cloning software, now try making something yourselves.
"Surprising everyone in the game industry, Flight Sims received a massive popularity boost this year, beating out Halflife2 in terms of overall sales as gamers flock to try out the new and appropriately named "joystick" control functionality."
$10 to the first scriptwriter that lets me mount a drive with my wang;)
It's not like any of these titles were widely anticipated. "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters." Little page-let reviews of crappy, barely-worth-remembering games surely don't qualify as "Stuff that matters."
IT departments will *always* err on the side of caution. They don't care to differentiate between legal and illegal p2p activity, so they just port block or implement QoS.
There's really nothing you can do about this, other than perhaps setup a VPN connection to a machine outside the University network.
Have you ever noticed how there's a lot more ambiguity trying to talk to someone over the phone than in person? Has anyone here ever gravely offended someone because of a misinterpreted IM?
face to face: Body language + tone of voice
Phone: only tone of voice, losing all the information that bodylanguage brings
IM: nothing.
The English language (others too) is at best an incomplete tool of communication. All the subtleties that tone of voice and body language convey are lost over internet chat. Why else would people use those asinine "smileys" to convey their mood? They do this because otherwise, it's rather difficult to get a feel of the other person's mood.
The standard client's crap. Huge system hog. Pulling 5 torrents concurrently drags my PC to a crawl. Bitlord, azerus...there are tons of other apps that implement the protocol much more elegantly.
The only problem with "legitimizing" bittorrent's image is that, as a protocol, it's still the most popular one for illega filesharing. We admins quite frankly don't give one hoot about its benign uses: we KNOW that the second we stop filtering BT traffic, our bandwidth usage is gonna go up.
Firefly? One of the best sci-fi stories ever produced? *blinks* aha yeah...right...sure...and wil wheaton's one of the best actors out there...oh, and linux already won the OS wars, and we haven't realized it yet.
I charge $25/hour (USD) for problems, and expressly indicate to the client that most tasks take 2 hours or more. Since I charge the same as the stores for repairs, doing repairs either nets me beer money or the client balks and goes to the store for peace of mind - which saves my time.
With very few exceptions, no one who will post in this thread has any authoritative knowledge of business analysis or high-level computing industry politics. I can also predict that not a single soul who posts in this thread will have a good understanding of the legal nuances of IBM's most recent actions in the SCO case.
So please, don't waste our time with useless conjecture, predictions, and "what-if" scenarios. Because really, what's going on here is just mental masturbation. Move along.
The advantage of this hybrid BluRay/DVD-9 disc is that the studios can begin releasing hybrids instead of having a slow painful transition from DVD to the new BluRay or HD-DVD format. These hybrid discs are better than the HD/DVD hybrids because the vanilla DVD part is a full 2 layers - 9GB. This compares favorably to the HD/DVD hybrids which have only ONE layer of DVD. Most DVDs these days are 2-layered DVD-9s.
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My God folks, how is this news? Is anyone really surprised that a militant nation engages in information warfare?
What an awesome scheme. If the shopper doesn't demand a bargain, why offer one? The saavy shoppers find the good deals, and the unsaavy ones help the economy a bit more ;)
PS3's backwards compatibility is simple: In addition to the Nvidia-driven gfx and hardware of the PS3, it has the PS2 emotion engine circuitry built-in. And since the PS2 had the PS1's circuitry built-in, you get 2 generations of backwards compatibility.
Xbox is more or less a P3+Geforce4 design. Somehow I don't see it being feasible for Microsoft to miniaturize the xbox logic and slap it onto the Xbox360 motherboard. Xbox360 will probably require a xbox-live download for emulation instructions that allow it to play whatever selected Xbox game you want to run.
Nintendo revolution's backwards compatibility is relatively simple as well: From all accounts, its architecture is an extension of the gamecube's architecture: GC had a custom IBM Power chip called "flipper", and a simple yet powerful gfx solution by ArtX (later acquired by Ati) that uses embedded 1T-SRAM. Revolution is supposed to have an IBM Power-based cpu and an Ati gfx solution that, surprise surprise, uses embedded gfx memory as well. I'm betting the new hardware's just a superset of the old.
Only long hours of gameplay experience will reveal the merits of the new Playstation-3 controller. Don't get all huffy - yet. One thing I'm wondering about is the # of controllres. Why 7? Is it a bluetooth limitation?
I.AM.CANADIAN :p Our budget each year is about 6B (5B US) so I'm more or less accurate here :)
So WINE now has free legal representation. Microsoft has tens of billions of dollars and high priced lawyers. Hey folks, here's a bit of comparison: Bill's probably spending more on XBOX360 than the government of Canada did on its yearly budget!
Saying this is a david vs goliath situation isn't even close to accurate.
:p it's not like you have a lack of options. With such a huge female population, only the terminally inept can't find ONE female that they have good chemistry with :)
I'm gonna make a unilateral declaration:
Any male student who can't get laid in Waterloo is terminally inept. I've lived in and worked in Waterloo, and Laurier is the greatest resource the city has to offer. Seriously. Hell if all else fails, just FTF (fark the frosh)
The University of Guelph (Southern Ontario, Canada) normally has 200 students entering its Bachelor of Computing (honors) program every year. This year the entrance class had 66 students. My own program at Guelph-Humber (degree/diploma in computing/telecom) has a nominal class size of 60, but we've not had a full class in the 3 years we've been running. According to my prof, the only University in Canada whose compsci department hasn't suffered is Waterloo's.
Those programmers who are talented and ambitious work in game studios. Those programmers who aren't do it for free. FOSS just happens to fall into the mix.
Yo, FOSS game programmers. Try CREATING an addictive game. We've seen how good you are at reverse engineering and cloning software, now try making something yourselves.
"Surprising everyone in the game industry, Flight Sims received a massive popularity boost this year, beating out Halflife2 in terms of overall sales as gamers flock to try out the new and appropriately named "joystick" control functionality."
;)
$10 to the first scriptwriter that lets me mount a drive with my wang
'nuff said.
It's not like any of these titles were widely anticipated. "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters." Little page-let reviews of crappy, barely-worth-remembering games surely don't qualify as "Stuff that matters."
Nothing to see here, move along.
IT departments will *always* err on the side of caution. They don't care to differentiate between legal and illegal p2p activity, so they just port block or implement QoS.
There's really nothing you can do about this, other than perhaps setup a VPN connection to a machine outside the University network.
Have you ever noticed how there's a lot more ambiguity trying to talk to someone over the phone than in person? Has anyone here ever gravely offended someone because of a misinterpreted IM?
face to face: Body language + tone of voice
Phone: only tone of voice, losing all the information that bodylanguage brings
IM: nothing.
The English language (others too) is at best an incomplete tool of communication. All the subtleties that tone of voice and body language convey are lost over internet chat. Why else would people use those asinine "smileys" to convey their mood? They do this because otherwise, it's rather difficult to get a feel of the other person's mood.
Am I the only one not holding his breath on this one? Seriously...who cares what the rating is.
Dear George Lucas:
Please, PLEASE don't screw this one up.
The standard client's crap. Huge system hog. Pulling 5 torrents concurrently drags my PC to a crawl. Bitlord, azerus...there are tons of other apps that implement the protocol much more elegantly.
The only problem with "legitimizing" bittorrent's image is that, as a protocol, it's still the most popular one for illega filesharing. We admins quite frankly don't give one hoot about its benign uses: we KNOW that the second we stop filtering BT traffic, our bandwidth usage is gonna go up.
And they have a legal right to hunt down someone who knows their secrets?
Firefly? One of the best sci-fi stories ever produced? *blinks* aha yeah...right...sure...and wil wheaton's one of the best actors out there...oh, and linux already won the OS wars, and we haven't realized it yet.
No serious DBA uses MySQL. Oracle, Sybase, PeopleSoft(soon to be oracle), IBM...
MySQL is what they use to teach you structured query in school. Databases have come a long way in FEATURES in the last 10 years...
I charge $25/hour (USD) for problems, and expressly indicate to the client that most tasks take 2 hours or more. Since I charge the same as the stores for repairs, doing repairs either nets me beer money or the client balks and goes to the store for peace of mind - which saves my time.
With very few exceptions, no one who will post in this thread has any authoritative knowledge of business analysis or high-level computing industry politics. I can also predict that not a single soul who posts in this thread will have a good understanding of the legal nuances of IBM's most recent actions in the SCO case.
So please, don't waste our time with useless conjecture, predictions, and "what-if" scenarios. Because really, what's going on here is just mental masturbation. Move along.
Funny enough...no one really makes money on high-def TVs. LCD profit margins are ridiculously small, and LCD isn't even a mature technology yet.
The advantage of this hybrid BluRay/DVD-9 disc is that the studios can begin releasing hybrids instead of having a slow painful transition from DVD to the new BluRay or HD-DVD format. These hybrid discs are better than the HD/DVD hybrids because the vanilla DVD part is a full 2 layers - 9GB. This compares favorably to the HD/DVD hybrids which have only ONE layer of DVD. Most DVDs these days are 2-layered DVD-9s.