The big, obvious difference between the Nomad Zen NX and the iPod comes down to two subjects: listening time and aesthetics. The Zen NX Has longer battery life (14 hours on a full charge, compared to the iPod's 8 hours) and more room for your money (30gb for $300, compared to the iPod's $500 price tag for comparable room). Coupled with Zen NX's removable battery (though there aren't extra ones on sale as of yet), this amounts to much more listening time between recharges than the iPod.
With the iPod, though, you get a much much much better interface. It is said that the bulk of the iPod's price tag is due to its OS. It's much easier to use than the the Zens. The controls are also much easier to use.
I *hate* the networks at college. Here at OU, despite the fiber-optic network they've layed across campus, the LANs in the dorms slow to a crawl. It gets decent enough pings in online gaming, but the connections to everything else are terribly slow. I can't even use any messaging service, since it's constantly disconnecting and locking up.
Actually I would advise against recording a class lecture using sound or image unless you've gotten permission from the professor. Some who are big-name in their field get pissy about it because people will actually buy recordings of their lectures from people who have taken the class. My ANTH 202 professor actually explicitly stated first day of class that he doesn't let anyone tape record his lectures. And the last thing you want is a professor who thinks you're trying to bootleg his speeches and shaft him out of money. That doesn't do much for your grade.
That would be true. I know Digital Extremes gets piles of video cards from companies trying to sway them to work with that card.
I'd think id has more video cards than CompUSA's entire chain.
Putting the advancement of game technology and gaming as a whole BEFORE the almighty dollar. I hope this trend in gaming continues.
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Back when Doom was made, there was no such thing as a "good story in an FPS". Hell, there really wasn't that great of a use of one until Half Life was made.
Proven by Daikatana, the classic id (and former id) style of "let's toss lots of monsters at them" simply does not WORK in 3D. It get silly and boring.
It's all well and good to plow through monsters for one level, but after that it gets a tad repetative, since we've seen much better. I'm glad to see that Carmack is trying to live up to today's standards above using just the ones he set.
The "scare the living piss out of you" type of game is actually a genre, action-horror or survival-horror.
It certainly can be done in different ways, especially shown by games coming out like The Thing (NPC AI "Trust" system) and Call of the Cthulhu (halucinations). Doom is the originator of the genre. Judging by that lighting, though, I'd have to say that they wouldn't even need gimmicks to scare the living hell out of people.
I see them as being as much a human as a boil and everything else that isn't an independant life form grown from the body. Since a fetus cannot live without being in a parasitic relationship with its host mother, it is not logically an independant life form.
Of course it's a living being. As much as your liver is a human being. The thing about a fetus is that it isn't an independant life form. Take a fetus out of the womb in the 2nd trimester, and what happens? It dies. Fetuses (is that the correct tense?) are, by scientific definition, a parasite, that grows out from the host (mother). They take from the host (food and nutrients), they do not give anything back. It is not a symbiotic relationship between mother and fetus, therefore it is a parasitic relationship. As the fetus does not have a fully independant consciousness, due to its undeveloped brain matter, it cannot be considered independant. You hear stories of these fetuses "backing away" from a utensil during abortion procedures... well, take a butter knife and try to hit an ant. It will run too. But ants are not considered a very "important" life. Other animals and fetuses act the same way: On instinct. They do not have feelings, as their forebrain is not developed enough for such a thing yet. Babies don't even have a long term memory until the age of three.
The point is not that it is alive, the point is wether or not it can be considered an independant life, any more than a boil or a brian tumor. Until it is actually able to survive on its own, it cannot logically be a real, singular human being. This is why there are people using the "it's a woman's body" excuse. Because scientifically, it IS part of the woman's body.
I beg to differ. A democracy IS superior to other forms of government. Unless I'm mistaken, even with Rome's inter-government struggles, they were still an empire until they were burned to the ground. Unfortunately, Democracy works *because* politicans are puppets. I know this isn't a popular idea, but a corrupt democracy works better than an uncorrupt one. Our system WORKS in that it keeps relative order and balance. We are not able to completely partake in all actions of the government, as in a pure democracy, but the very fact that businesses (which are owned by citizens) pull strings, means that the citizen is still the backbone of the government. Just because WE aren't lobbyists doesn't mean that the lobbyists are any less of citizens than us. A government without this corruption has free reign to do what they want and exercise totalitarian rule, since it would threaten the cashflow from businesses.
"their main purpouse (to entertain middle class and upwards, mainly male, young adults) clearly signal that art is the last of the concerns"
You just described half of Shakesphere's plays.
There is nothing in Deus Ex about marketing. Nor in Fallout 1. Nor in Rez.
Likening such games to things like Quake is like saying that 1984 is not art because Nancy Drew is not.
Correction:
"I fail to see how Fallout's exploration of the ethics of a retro post-apocalyptic western United States is NOT art, yet Shakesphere's pulp fiction somehow is."
And yes, Shakesphere wrote pulp. He designed his plays to cater to the entertainment of many different classes.
I fail to see how Fallout's exploration of the ethics of a retro post-apocalyptic western United States is art, yet Shakesphere's pulp fiction somehow is.
No, he means a snobby british accent. As opposed to a NORMAL british accent. Like a snobby american accent compared to a normal american accent. Certainly you aren't trying to say that there are no snobby british people, are you?
Excuse me, but...
The Matrix WAS a bunch of silly fights. And you don't seem to have a problem with the slo-mo wire-work in the dojo on the original movie.
Exactally HOW is this trailer showing it to be different than the first one?
Actually, it is philosophy. It just isn't original philosophy. The concept of reality as a false imagination is straight from Orwell's 1984. But obviously it's not a movie for those who prefer Citizen Kane. It's essentially just made as a well-produced movie that's fun to watch. Contrary to popular misconception, the human psyche needs entertainment as much as it does enlightenment.
My high school has had the exact same problem. (you can skip the first two paragraph as it's mostly explaining the situation) We've had a business lab for years containing roughly two dozen Compaq's, mostly used for computer graphics classes. Over the years, they have gone to all hell. With various P2P programs, freeware, and warez installed on each one, they've become near to useless. Last year they were nearly wiped out by the Chernobyl virus. No one knew what to do about keeping the kids from screwing them up. The OS's had to be reinstalled before every semester just for the things to stay functioning.
More recently, the school aquired a grant for a $700,000 IT lab used for modules and instruction. It contains about three dozen custom-built computers (plus various software and multimedia used for the specific modules). Murphey's law has of course set in over the past school year, and the computers are wrought with literally over 70 spyware components each, several gigs in downloaded bullcrap off P2P like Kazaa, and more pirated games than you can imagine. Recently we had to shut it down for two weeks due to THREE different viruses (including chernobyl) infecting the entire lab and wiping out several of the stations' hard drives and motherboards.
(begin useful talk here) My friend Brad, who does troubleshooting for the school's computers, installed something called a HardGuard Card (http://www.hard-guard.com/). It was the best investment the school has ever made. What it is, is a card that you put into the computers, and it can be configured to save the state of the hard drive that you choose (i'd suggest a CLEAN install to make sure it doesn't save any scumware or viruses), and when the computer is reset, it COMPLETELY RESTORES THE HARD DRIVE TO THE PREDETERMINED STATE. You can literally FORMAT the drive, and it will STILL restore it. Anything they put into the computer will be erased next time they restart. It makes the thing invincible. I suggest it for every computer used by kids in your school.
It's also a good idea to have a networked drive that no one uses, in order for people to store their files on, or encourage the use of floppy disks. And just in case you're wondering, I don't work for the company;) I'm just singing the praises.
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The big, obvious difference between the Nomad Zen NX and the iPod comes down to two subjects: listening time and aesthetics. The Zen NX Has longer battery life (14 hours on a full charge, compared to the iPod's 8 hours) and more room for your money (30gb for $300, compared to the iPod's $500 price tag for comparable room). Coupled with Zen NX's removable battery (though there aren't extra ones on sale as of yet), this amounts to much more listening time between recharges than the iPod. With the iPod, though, you get a much much much better interface. It is said that the bulk of the iPod's price tag is due to its OS. It's much easier to use than the the Zens. The controls are also much easier to use.
I *hate* the networks at college. Here at OU, despite the fiber-optic network they've layed across campus, the LANs in the dorms slow to a crawl. It gets decent enough pings in online gaming, but the connections to everything else are terribly slow. I can't even use any messaging service, since it's constantly disconnecting and locking up.
Actually I would advise against recording a class lecture using sound or image unless you've gotten permission from the professor. Some who are big-name in their field get pissy about it because people will actually buy recordings of their lectures from people who have taken the class. My ANTH 202 professor actually explicitly stated first day of class that he doesn't let anyone tape record his lectures.
And the last thing you want is a professor who thinks you're trying to bootleg his speeches and shaft him out of money. That doesn't do much for your grade.
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That would be true. I know Digital Extremes gets piles of video cards from companies trying to sway them to work with that card. I'd think id has more video cards than CompUSA's entire chain.
No, he said that the GeForce4 MX was misleading and crappy. NOT the Ti's.
Putting the advancement of game technology and gaming as a whole BEFORE the almighty dollar.
I hope this trend in gaming continues.
Back when Doom was made, there was no such thing as a "good story in an FPS". Hell, there really wasn't that great of a use of one until Half Life was made. Proven by Daikatana, the classic id (and former id) style of "let's toss lots of monsters at them" simply does not WORK in 3D. It get silly and boring. It's all well and good to plow through monsters for one level, but after that it gets a tad repetative, since we've seen much better. I'm glad to see that Carmack is trying to live up to today's standards above using just the ones he set.
The "scare the living piss out of you" type of game is actually a genre, action-horror or survival-horror.
It certainly can be done in different ways, especially shown by games coming out like The Thing (NPC AI "Trust" system) and Call of the Cthulhu (halucinations). Doom is the originator of the genre.
Judging by that lighting, though, I'd have to say that they wouldn't even need gimmicks to scare the living hell out of people.
WinMX? That P2P program that doesn't have an uninstall command that works on Windows XP?
No thanks.
I see them as being as much a human as a boil and everything else that isn't an independant life form grown from the body. Since a fetus cannot live without being in a parasitic relationship with its host mother, it is not logically an independant life form.
Of course it's a living being. As much as your liver is a human being.
The thing about a fetus is that it isn't an independant life form. Take a fetus out of the womb in the 2nd trimester, and what happens? It dies.
Fetuses (is that the correct tense?) are, by scientific definition, a parasite, that grows out from the host (mother). They take from the host (food and nutrients), they do not give anything back. It is not a symbiotic relationship between mother and fetus, therefore it is a parasitic relationship.
As the fetus does not have a fully independant consciousness, due to its undeveloped brain matter, it cannot be considered independant. You hear stories of these fetuses "backing away" from a utensil during abortion procedures... well, take a butter knife and try to hit an ant. It will run too. But ants are not considered a very "important" life. Other animals and fetuses act the same way: On instinct. They do not have feelings, as their forebrain is not developed enough for such a thing yet. Babies don't even have a long term memory until the age of three.
The point is not that it is alive, the point is wether or not it can be considered an independant life, any more than a boil or a brian tumor. Until it is actually able to survive on its own, it cannot logically be a real, singular human being.
This is why there are people using the "it's a woman's body" excuse. Because scientifically, it IS part of the woman's body.
I beg to differ. A democracy IS superior to other forms of government.
Unless I'm mistaken, even with Rome's inter-government struggles, they were still an empire until they were burned to the ground.
Unfortunately, Democracy works *because* politicans are puppets. I know this isn't a popular idea, but a corrupt democracy works better than an uncorrupt one. Our system WORKS in that it keeps relative order and balance. We are not able to completely partake in all actions of the government, as in a pure democracy, but the very fact that businesses (which are owned by citizens) pull strings, means that the citizen is still the backbone of the government.
Just because WE aren't lobbyists doesn't mean that the lobbyists are any less of citizens than us. A government without this corruption has free reign to do what they want and exercise totalitarian rule, since it would threaten the cashflow from businesses.
"their main purpouse (to entertain middle class and upwards, mainly male, young adults) clearly signal that art is the last of the concerns" You just described half of Shakesphere's plays. There is nothing in Deus Ex about marketing. Nor in Fallout 1. Nor in Rez. Likening such games to things like Quake is like saying that 1984 is not art because Nancy Drew is not.
Correction: "I fail to see how Fallout's exploration of the ethics of a retro post-apocalyptic western United States is NOT art, yet Shakesphere's pulp fiction somehow is." And yes, Shakesphere wrote pulp. He designed his plays to cater to the entertainment of many different classes.
I fail to see how Fallout's exploration of the ethics of a retro post-apocalyptic western United States is art, yet Shakesphere's pulp fiction somehow is.
No, he means a snobby british accent. As opposed to a NORMAL british accent. Like a snobby american accent compared to a normal american accent.
Certainly you aren't trying to say that there are no snobby british people, are you?
Excuse me, but... The Matrix WAS a bunch of silly fights. And you don't seem to have a problem with the slo-mo wire-work in the dojo on the original movie. Exactally HOW is this trailer showing it to be different than the first one?
Actually, it is philosophy. It just isn't original philosophy. The concept of reality as a false imagination is straight from Orwell's 1984.
But obviously it's not a movie for those who prefer Citizen Kane. It's essentially just made as a well-produced movie that's fun to watch.
Contrary to popular misconception, the human psyche needs entertainment as much as it does enlightenment.
My high school has had the exact same problem. (you can skip the first two paragraph as it's mostly explaining the situation)
;) I'm just singing the praises.
We've had a business lab for years containing roughly two dozen Compaq's, mostly used for computer graphics classes. Over the years, they have gone to all hell. With various P2P programs, freeware, and warez installed on each one, they've become near to useless. Last year they were nearly wiped out by the Chernobyl virus. No one knew what to do about keeping the kids from screwing them up. The OS's had to be reinstalled before every semester just for the things to stay functioning.
More recently, the school aquired a grant for a $700,000 IT lab used for modules and instruction. It contains about three dozen custom-built computers (plus various software and multimedia used for the specific modules). Murphey's law has of course set in over the past school year, and the computers are wrought with literally over 70 spyware components each, several gigs in downloaded bullcrap off P2P like Kazaa, and more pirated games than you can imagine. Recently we had to shut it down for two weeks due to THREE different viruses (including chernobyl) infecting the entire lab and wiping out several of the stations' hard drives and motherboards.
(begin useful talk here)
My friend Brad, who does troubleshooting for the school's computers, installed something called a HardGuard Card (http://www.hard-guard.com/). It was the best investment the school has ever made.
What it is, is a card that you put into the computers, and it can be configured to save the state of the hard drive that you choose (i'd suggest a CLEAN install to make sure it doesn't save any scumware or viruses), and when the computer is reset, it COMPLETELY RESTORES THE HARD DRIVE TO THE PREDETERMINED STATE.
You can literally FORMAT the drive, and it will STILL restore it. Anything they put into the computer will be erased next time they restart. It makes the thing invincible. I suggest it for every computer used by kids in your school.
It's also a good idea to have a networked drive that no one uses, in order for people to store their files on, or encourage the use of floppy disks.
And just in case you're wondering, I don't work for the company
Trust me on this one.