Parent should be modded insightfull, not funny. MS did it with their OS (XP is actually quite good) and their webbrowser. There is only one case where they went from crap to decent (Office 97 was good software), and then went back to crap because of overdevelopment. But Sony and Nintendo should be afraid of Xbox2...especially since MS has the momentum going in respect to development teams.
"Despite what people claim, there is essentially no difference between the big three in terms of their ability to deliver the current state-of-the-art gaming experience."
I call bollox on that, having heard programmers going on about the PS2's fucked up vector system and low texture memory. The PS2 is a bitch to develop for...the reason so many do is because of the huge installed base, the payoff is so large.
That's an understatement. At this point in time, Miyamoto IS Nintendo. Because he still is heavily involved in game design (as an advisor), you might not have noticed, but he is in the highest ranks of management.
It's like saying that if Apple where to tank, Jobs would work for Microsoft.
IANABiologist, but from what I've read, most of these signals come about from emergence...al that's needed is a concentration of cells. It kind of works like this: the outermost cells only have liver cells contacting x% of their cell wall, thus signalling that cell to be a certain cell and to release certain chemical signals. Cells more to the center recieve the message that they are surrounded by liver cells, and more signaling chemicals are coming from the left and top than tothe right and bottom, thus giving it a position in the cell mass, upon which it differentiates accordingly.
This might be way too simple an explanation, but I do know it is at least part of the explantion, which is observed from differentiation in the zygote. It's not spontanious, it's a response which comes out of a complex behaviour emerging from a simple ruleset.
But as the article stated, it's a first step, nowhere near close to actually making organs.
YOU feel screwed by game releases? What about HALO? Or all those other games which will only be released for pc months, if not years later (a la KotOR)?
But that's very easy to get round...just mock up a sprite based game, call it HL2 and offer it to M$. They'll refuse, or pick it up (and it'll still sell bundles), but Valve could then rebrand the existing HL2 as HL3:TheRealDeal. Et viola, Valve gets to keep HL:)
But then again, who would want it? Valve does good mod support, but that's all they've ever done.
Not true as such. I went to a uni where the mechanical engineering classes where heavily influenced by input from the industry, for the express purpose of making students more employable and usefull directly after graduation.
But what it worked out to was that our actual education suffered: You'll come to realise that theory is essential if you want to do groundbreaking work. And that is exactly what the industry cut out of the curriculum, as it wasn't 'productive' enough. True, what we learned was important, and good to know, but we most definitely missing something. And that is becuase curriculum had been dictated by money instead of education.
Your last statement is like any fundamentalist statement: fundamentaly wrong. A propper course of action is ALWAYS a mixture of theory and practise.
Actually, OCR like that is just months off...there's a company (been on/., do a search on the PDA section) which is making software which allows you to take a shot with your PDA camera of a (chinese) street sign, and the software will translate it into english. Programming software to search out and lock on to something with the characteristics of a licenseplate seems rather trivial to do, as licence plates are a known size and shape.
You go to a swapmeet and find that cd's are used to copy stuff. Wow, big deal. You go to a busines, on the other hand, or a data centre, or to a digital artists house/place of work (audio, video, 3d, whatever), and you'll find that they use their cd's for...data! And let me tell you: business use FAR outstrips private use. Why? Because businesses need those backups, for legal purposes and just plain backup purposes. As do artists.
As an aside...I hardly listen to music, and all the stuff I do listen to I bought. There are no mp3's on my pc, except where they are used by the games I bought. Yet I go through about 20 cd's per month. What's on there? Financial documents, rapports, artwork, (3d) movies of my own making. And trust me, I am not the only one. Sure, copying is a part of the pie, but legitemate use is far, far larger.
Heh...pedantic not-so-smart-guy, more like it: the retina is the back of the eye which has the rods and cones on it, while the iris is that black circle which lets light through in the front of the eye. Drawing directly to the retina requires a higher power laser and could damage the retina. Targeting the iris however is much easier in terms of motion tracking and is less power intensive, thus safer. And the light would hit the retina anyway if the iris were tageted.
Try being correct when you have another pedantic urge.
Yeah...I just love it though when someone writes up a review from whitepapers and press reports for something he hasn't used. Especially seeing as the tactile aspect (or lack of it) is the whole meat and bread of the thing...how can you write a 'review' like that?!
American anti-russian sentiment was not exclusively post WWII; it was just surpressed under the heading "the enemy of my enemy is my friend". Therefore my statement still stands; LOTR was written with mayor hints to Soviet Russia, the 'terror to the east' and communism, that system which was 'against man itself'. I mean, even the route description at the the end of the first two books fits neatly with what you'd find if you travelled to Moskou from Europe.
Wod of warning...I personally loved Mieville. Very original, well written. However I thought maybe the last third of Perdido st station was too slow. But it is worth it for the first part though.
But no-one can tell you why the characters are stupid to the point of irritating, especialy to the point where they seem emotionally stunted. They're also so dumb in the human interaction department that they never seem to hit upon the idea that actually talking to each other would be a good idea, and especially easy due to Traveling.
And don't call that a "theme" or something similar...they've been doing it for 10 bloody books!
No, for Terry Pratchet, do/not/ skip the first books. They kind of set the ground rules, give the propper introduction. How else will you really appreciate the evolution of Rincewind's relationship with Death? Or the importance of teh colour octarine? There are just so many situations which will not be valued as they should if you miss the first books.
And besides all that, I think the first two books are just as good as the rest, maybe even better...at least/fresher/.
Sorry, but the greatest reason to actively be against internet voting is that there is no time and place when you are alone when you cast your vote; no privacy.
This means that there is a huge potential for abuse. Not the least of which is for example couples who are split, then decide not to vote...and one of the two suddenly and secretly votes for both. Or what about family coersion? Daddy forcing all the family to vote for his party. Or what's from stopping a press gang to stop by and force someone to vote for a certain party?
Internet voting by definition removes the privacy of voting...maybe not the anonimity, but definitely the privacy. Therefore it should never be implemented. I pity the Swiss.
Ah...but you forget it's not just for shoes...it's for jackets, !paper!, construction materials...do you have any idea whatsoever how much cleaning stuff (like buildings) costs? Or what about applying it to bridges, over the paint coat: goodbye dirt-errosion. Or what about those mirrored skyscrapers?
But, geek that I am, I'm really waiting for that tooth whitening stuff to come out.
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Parent should be modded insightfull, not funny. MS did it with their OS (XP is actually quite good) and their webbrowser. There is only one case where they went from crap to decent (Office 97 was good software), and then went back to crap because of overdevelopment. But Sony and Nintendo should be afraid of Xbox2...especially since MS has the momentum going in respect to development teams.
"Despite what people claim, there is essentially no difference between the big three in terms of their ability to deliver the current state-of-the-art gaming experience."
I call bollox on that, having heard programmers going on about the PS2's fucked up vector system and low texture memory. The PS2 is a bitch to develop for...the reason so many do is because of the huge installed base, the payoff is so large.
That's an understatement. At this point in time, Miyamoto IS Nintendo. Because he still is heavily involved in game design (as an advisor), you might not have noticed, but he is in the highest ranks of management.
It's like saying that if Apple where to tank, Jobs would work for Microsoft.
Funnily enough, there's still this unresolved break between quatum theory and relativety...so who knows? He might have a valid point :)
IANABiologist, but from what I've read, most of these signals come about from emergence...al that's needed is a concentration of cells. It kind of works like this: the outermost cells only have liver cells contacting x% of their cell wall, thus signalling that cell to be a certain cell and to release certain chemical signals. Cells more to the center recieve the message that they are surrounded by liver cells, and more signaling chemicals are coming from the left and top than tothe right and bottom, thus giving it a position in the cell mass, upon which it differentiates accordingly.
This might be way too simple an explanation, but I do know it is at least part of the explantion, which is observed from differentiation in the zygote. It's not spontanious, it's a response which comes out of a complex behaviour emerging from a simple ruleset.
But as the article stated, it's a first step, nowhere near close to actually making organs.
Somehow I think it'll hit BluesNews first :) Or even CNN for that matter, as this is MAYOR money changing hands.
YOU feel screwed by game releases? What about HALO? Or all those other games which will only be released for pc months, if not years later (a la KotOR)?
But that's very easy to get round...just mock up a sprite based game, call it HL2 and offer it to M$. They'll refuse, or pick it up (and it'll still sell bundles), but Valve could then rebrand the existing HL2 as HL3:TheRealDeal. Et viola, Valve gets to keep HL :)
But then again, who would want it? Valve does good mod support, but that's all they've ever done.
Not true as such. I went to a uni where the mechanical engineering classes where heavily influenced by input from the industry, for the express purpose of making students more employable and usefull directly after graduation.
But what it worked out to was that our actual education suffered: You'll come to realise that theory is essential if you want to do groundbreaking work. And that is exactly what the industry cut out of the curriculum, as it wasn't 'productive' enough. True, what we learned was important, and good to know, but we most definitely missing something. And that is becuase curriculum had been dictated by money instead of education.
Your last statement is like any fundamentalist statement: fundamentaly wrong. A propper course of action is ALWAYS a mixture of theory and practise.
Actually, OCR like that is just months off...there's a company (been on /., do a search on the PDA section) which is making software which allows you to take a shot with your PDA camera of a (chinese) street sign, and the software will translate it into english. Programming software to search out and lock on to something with the characteristics of a licenseplate seems rather trivial to do, as licence plates are a known size and shape.
You go to a swapmeet and find that cd's are used to copy stuff. Wow, big deal. You go to a busines, on the other hand, or a data centre, or to a digital artists house/place of work (audio, video, 3d, whatever), and you'll find that they use their cd's for...data! And let me tell you: business use FAR outstrips private use. Why? Because businesses need those backups, for legal purposes and just plain backup purposes. As do artists.
As an aside...I hardly listen to music, and all the stuff I do listen to I bought. There are no mp3's on my pc, except where they are used by the games I bought. Yet I go through about 20 cd's per month. What's on there? Financial documents, rapports, artwork, (3d) movies of my own making. And trust me, I am not the only one. Sure, copying is a part of the pie, but legitemate use is far, far larger.
Damn! I hate it when that happens :)
Heh...pedantic not-so-smart-guy, more like it: the retina is the back of the eye which has the rods and cones on it, while the iris is that black circle which lets light through in the front of the eye. Drawing directly to the retina requires a higher power laser and could damage the retina. Targeting the iris however is much easier in terms of motion tracking and is less power intensive, thus safer. And the light would hit the retina anyway if the iris were tageted.
Try being correct when you have another pedantic urge.
Yeah...I just love it though when someone writes up a review from whitepapers and press reports for something he hasn't used. Especially seeing as the tactile aspect (or lack of it) is the whole meat and bread of the thing...how can you write a 'review' like that?!
What a waste of time. His and ours.
American anti-russian sentiment was not exclusively post WWII; it was just surpressed under the heading "the enemy of my enemy is my friend". Therefore my statement still stands; LOTR was written with mayor hints to Soviet Russia, the 'terror to the east' and communism, that system which was 'against man itself'. I mean, even the route description at the the end of the first two books fits neatly with what you'd find if you travelled to Moskou from Europe.
Wod of warning...I personally loved Mieville. Very original, well written. However I thought maybe the last third of Perdido st station was too slow. But it is worth it for the first part though.
But no-one can tell you why the characters are stupid to the point of irritating, especialy to the point where they seem emotionally stunted. They're also so dumb in the human interaction department that they never seem to hit upon the idea that actually talking to each other would be a good idea, and especially easy due to Traveling.
And don't call that a "theme" or something similar...they've been doing it for 10 bloody books!
Yeah...that 'awfull danger to the east' stuff just had no relevance to the 1950's, does it.
No, for Terry Pratchet, do /not/ skip the first books. They kind of set the ground rules, give the propper introduction. How else will you really appreciate the evolution of Rincewind's relationship with Death? Or the importance of teh colour octarine? There are just so many situations which will not be valued as they should if you miss the first books.
/fresher/.
And besides all that, I think the first two books are just as good as the rest, maybe even better...at least
Read Terry Pratchet, and be prepared for people to look at you strangely on the bus and tram as you /try/ to stiffle your laughs :)
Sorry, but the greatest reason to actively be against internet voting is that there is no time and place when you are alone when you cast your vote; no privacy.
This means that there is a huge potential for abuse. Not the least of which is for example couples who are split, then decide not to vote...and one of the two suddenly and secretly votes for both. Or what about family coersion? Daddy forcing all the family to vote for his party. Or what's from stopping a press gang to stop by and force someone to vote for a certain party?
Internet voting by definition removes the privacy of voting...maybe not the anonimity, but definitely the privacy. Therefore it should never be implemented. I pity the Swiss.
The people in the tracking centres (where they track sattelites and orbital debris etc) do.
Ah...but you forget it's not just for shoes...it's for jackets, !paper!, construction materials...do you have any idea whatsoever how much cleaning stuff (like buildings) costs? Or what about applying it to bridges, over the paint coat: goodbye dirt-errosion. Or what about those mirrored skyscrapers?
But, geek that I am, I'm really waiting for that tooth whitening stuff to come out.
Bing! That's it :) Thanks for aiding my ailing brain ;)
That's a linux driver problem, nothing to do with the card itself.