What a dull sounding conversation! My conversation last night (apart from sex gossip, drinking, dancing etc. - well it was a friday night) was about aeronautics, with a cute 18yo who liked "bigger" guys and wanted to study aeronautics. After chatting about Burt Rutan in the club until 4am we had some breakfast and went our separate ways. Hopefully with more intelligent conversations I can "bond" more with people who have shared interests, instead of all of those who just have one thing on their minds... OTOH getting home at 8am meant that I missed all the daylight in saturday (Boo!).
I like to think that conversations about aeronautics/astrophysics etc. will help those people to actually contribute to society, whereas I find sports trivia to be completely irrelevant and un-useful, which is unfortunate when I am stuck in conversation with my bosses friends (sports heros who run businesses); while I can admire their skill and they are nice people, I can't find much common ground.
There is a switch on the back which turns off the LED. I wonder what the Xbox 360 will be like with its "wall-wart" almost the size of the actual console.
Mmm, you need "Metrosexuality" (Ricky Beadle-Blair: 2001) over there!
I dread to think what those "hot" colours would do to a NTSC television though - apparently they were not even PAL-legal when broadcast over here. I guess they would be toned down for the DVD.
I'm not convinced about the US episode of Queer as Folk I've seen (making someone who did you wrong suck on a gun - why is everything in the USA always about guns?) compared to the original, but it's a bit expensive for me to look at the DVDs.
Already done for my last few holidays (Sony Ericsson K750i also has 2 megapixels).
Printing them out at 6x4 inches works fine.
Carrying your phone around is more convenient than a bulky camera, but the long time to setup the autofocus (seconds) can be annoying, as is the fact that it takes the picture some time *after* it makes the "click" noise and people have faced away again.
However, it is nice to be able to capture (somewhat grainy) pictures at night and get detail beyond the reach of a flash.
It would be nice if standard phones were more ruggedised though (i.e. waterproof).
Sony DADC already manufactures shiny discs for PC/Windows games that use the SecuROM "copy-protection" system that stops PC games from running on many computers (e.g. mine, since it has a Philips drive).
Why would they want to help Windows versions of games sell, when people will buy the PS2 version instead (which just works).
Although they are fairly similar to each other, and there was a suggestion in 1901 for NZ to join the commonwealth, and more recently for a currency union. Oh, and it's "separate":-)
hey, it's cool that pc's can now do what macs have done from day one - which is boot from firewire.
I can't remember firewire being around in the 1980s. It was all Appletalk back then; I can't remember them booting over it either.
Pah, here in London it took 15 years IIRC to pedestrianise a single square (leicester square). The link to the channel tunnel is still not finished. Shanghai on the other hand...
Or for a less sony-centric viewport, see GDCE especially the session by Dean Calver. Personally I think multi-threaded coding is trickier than single-threaded, and if it spills over from the one "PS2 guy" into the general coding of a game, then that has a big impact on coding practices. Not my problem though.
The installation cuts down on load times since you're loading data from the HD
Bzzt! The average PC game takes half an hour to install - and then takes just as long to load between scenes as any console game, and has to read the copy protection from the CD anyway which takes as long as loading a console game. And console games don't have "copy protection" companies sabotaging compatibility by making games only run on a few brands of CD (e.g. Sony copy protection not working on my Philips drive).
IIRC Dasani water (made by Coca Cola) flopped in the UK after the government found out it was worse than the tap water it was made from (one of the additives was contaminated).
Current UK petrol prices are about 90 pence per litre. Which is $6.22 per gallon. And the UK is an oil producer! The US also has a higher median income!
The only problems the US has are by design of its planning - the city layouts appear to be designed by fuel companies. I live far out in the suburbs of London, yet I can walk to a pharmacy,liquor store,newsagent/general shop,cafe,computer shop,solarium(!),indian/chinese/pizza takeaways,churches within five minutes, and within 20 minutes to many schools,a vast supermarket and collection of pubs/restaurants etc. This is typical of european urban areas.
The US approach of segregation assumed dirty industries and cheap individual transport.
IIRC the pipeline that brings in Sydney's water is marked on the standard street-map you can buy in any bookshop. At the time I saw that I wondered if there was any security measures on it, and that was before terrorism became so fashionable.
That's certainly how it looks from a plane! Flying from London to LAX you get some farms around Winnipeg, but from then on its wilderness (with only the occasional, empty, road) until you hit San Bernadino.
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I like to think that conversations about aeronautics/astrophysics etc. will help those people to actually contribute to society, whereas I find sports trivia to be completely irrelevant and un-useful, which is unfortunate when I am stuck in conversation with my bosses friends (sports heros who run businesses); while I can admire their skill and they are nice people, I can't find much common ground.
There is a switch on the back which turns off the LED. I wonder what the Xbox 360 will be like with its "wall-wart" almost the size of the actual console.
Shagging Brad Pitt has already been done. But I wouldn't mind doing it myself too, just to be sure it wasn't faked by Hollywood.
You do seem to be wasting a lot of money on a car, when SF has quite cheap buses.
I dread to think what those "hot" colours would do to a NTSC television though - apparently they were not even PAL-legal when broadcast over here. I guess they would be toned down for the DVD.
I'm not convinced about the US episode of Queer as Folk I've seen (making someone who did you wrong suck on a gun - why is everything in the USA always about guns?) compared to the original, but it's a bit expensive for me to look at the DVDs.
We had that with a taxi company near our office. The taxi calls would come loud and (almost) clear out of the speakers.
Also some ex-soviet republics still use country code 7 but have separate postal systems.
Except in Queensland Australia in the 1970s, and England in the 1840s :-)
You mean like what happened when Libya was taken off the net a few months ago? Oops, they didn't.
Carrying your phone around is more convenient than a bulky camera, but the long time to setup the autofocus (seconds) can be annoying, as is the fact that it takes the picture some time *after* it makes the "click" noise and people have faced away again.
However, it is nice to be able to capture (somewhat grainy) pictures at night and get detail beyond the reach of a flash.
It would be nice if standard phones were more ruggedised though (i.e. waterproof).
Why would they want to help Windows versions of games sell, when people will buy the PS2 version instead (which just works).
Although they are fairly similar to each other, and there was a suggestion in 1901 for NZ to join the commonwealth, and more recently for a currency union. Oh, and it's "separate" :-)
hey, it's cool that pc's can now do what macs have done from day one - which is boot from firewire. I can't remember firewire being around in the 1980s. It was all Appletalk back then; I can't remember them booting over it either.
Pah, here in London it took 15 years IIRC to pedestrianise a single square (leicester square). The link to the channel tunnel is still not finished. Shanghai on the other hand...
Or for a less sony-centric viewport, see GDCE especially the session by Dean Calver. Personally I think multi-threaded coding is trickier than single-threaded, and if it spills over from the one "PS2 guy" into the general coding of a game, then that has a big impact on coding practices. Not my problem though.
That version is credited to Gearbox, not valve.
Stop buying EA rushjob games then. Note that "Jak & Dexter" on the PS2 has pretty much no loading times.
Bzzt! The average PC game takes half an hour to install - and then takes just as long to load between scenes as any console game, and has to read the copy protection from the CD anyway which takes as long as loading a console game. And console games don't have "copy protection" companies sabotaging compatibility by making games only run on a few brands of CD (e.g. Sony copy protection not working on my Philips drive).
IIRC Dasani water (made by Coca Cola) flopped in the UK after the government found out it was worse than the tap water it was made from (one of the additives was contaminated).
The third was a terrorist attack in new york (on the list made in 2001 anyway). Oh wait...
Now no-one young can remember what life was before the world wide web let alone mobile phones... Gah, I remember floppy discs...
The only problems the US has are by design of its planning - the city layouts appear to be designed by fuel companies. I live far out in the suburbs of London, yet I can walk to a pharmacy,liquor store,newsagent/general shop,cafe,computer shop,solarium(!),indian/chinese/pizza takeaways,churches within five minutes, and within 20 minutes to many schools,a vast supermarket and collection of pubs/restaurants etc. This is typical of european urban areas.
The US approach of segregation assumed dirty industries and cheap individual transport.
I didn't know that private schools were currently illegal in the USA.
IIRC the pipeline that brings in Sydney's water is marked on the standard street-map you can buy in any bookshop. At the time I saw that I wondered if there was any security measures on it, and that was before terrorism became so fashionable.
That's certainly how it looks from a plane! Flying from London to LAX you get some farms around Winnipeg, but from then on its wilderness (with only the occasional, empty, road) until you hit San Bernadino.