If the average game executable and some key files that need recompiling are 100MB, and I bet most are more like 20MB, MS could release a DVD with 100 recompiled games on it. Just put in the disc, select all the games you and your friends play, wait a minute for the files to copy to the HD, then put in the games actual DVD and play. Since the files are copied to the HD, you only have to do this once.
Better yet, make the files downloadable for those with broadband. Problem solved, and only about 2GB of hard drive space used for twenty games.
Remember when Sony said the PS2 could do Toy Story in real time? They did. Turns out they meant the PS3 will be able to do it. So just keep in mind that whatever they say about the visual quality of the PS3, actually refers to the PS4.
From 2000, but complete: Berkeley was the number 1 public university and 20th when counting in privates like Harvard and MIT. BTW, those two ranked numbers 2 and 3 behind number 1 California Institute of Technology aka CALTECH!
Take three pictures and combine them with the 3D Reconstruction of Scenes. Then have a motion-tracking webcam on top of the monitor. Finally, have the background being continuously rendered to follow where the viewer is!
The video is using Divx 4 (openDivx) which is a silly and old choice. Divx 5 or XVID would have been better. The audio is a waste of 1.2MB because it's MPEG layer 2, not 3. It's 224kbps of (corrupted?) silence. By comparison, mp3s are usually 128kbps.
It will lower prices on the 256MB versions and all the cards beneath, giving me better deals when I pay $200 for a 7 month-old card that still plays the latest and greatest just fine.
What alternatives exist to combusting various gasses and solid fuels? Do explosives like TNT pack more potential energy if it could just be exploited usefully? Some sort of series of shaped, small, explosions every tenth or every second? With some sort of backplate to protect the ship?
"This experience is going to have very few restrictions on what you can do because these payloads are doing it for fun and every person has a different idea of what fun is.
Floating in space (Ansari X-Prize) The X-prize vision is about to be realised "Does that mean that some guy and his girl might want to take the whole ship? OK!"
Is that a euphemism for zero gravity sex? It'll be one of the few times when being quick is actually good! Also, with presumably multi-year waiting lists, it'll take performance anxiety to new high.
This ought to be by a constitutional amendment, because while states want to control how they pick the president, there is only one president. That means picking that position ought to be as fair as possible to all people of the nation. If it's left to the states to change their laws, some will refuse.
They're all criminals. The shoplifters have a much higher chance of getting caught. Not saying I agree, but the case can be made that the penalties for copyright infringement make sense if they have to be that high to deter it, considering how few get caught.
Perhaps a debate show would poison the market. Suppose 100 people watch talking-point-yelling shows. A debate show could acquire 40 of the viewers plus 20 new ones who finally found a show giving them what they want. The old shows still have 60 viewers, but what if 30 of them realize how uninformative their old shows are, and stop watching entirely, finding the debates too boring. End result only 90 viewers total.
Would CNN dare air a true debate show like Stewart wants if it didn't attract as profitable a group of advertizers as Crossfire? It could have higher ratings than Crossfire, but what if it did such a good job exposing the BS that it hurt other CNN shows too? If overall advertizing revenues dropped, the show will never air.
Seeing the other interviews it's obvious The Daily Show is more like The Tonight Show. Yes the interviews are easy, because they want to have a good time and not scare away celebrities and politicians from coming on. At least for the pols, Stewart calls them on a few things.
It was Sony's arrogance to put two powerful processors in the PS2. It was Sega's folly to put two 28MHz processors in its Saturn. Coding for it in assembly was hard and it lost to the Playstation with its single 33MHz chip.
Developers have complained the PS2 is hard to program, and the PS3 will probably use multiple Cell processors. How that's going to work is under NDA's but I wouldn't be surprised if the developers don't like it either. Or perhaps Sony found a better way to program Cells? Since the xbox2 will come out the same year as the PS3, the easier to program system may well have better looking games. That will impact system sales.
Hopefully that means the games will feature HDTV quality video. Just like porn helped the adoption of VHS and DVD, this could give a strong reason to gamers to upgrade their TV's when they see how great the games look rendered in high res along with the video at a friend's place.
Now if the next gen systems would just support a monitor output, we could get stunning picture quality without having to shell out for a screen. My 21" CRT from a meter away looks just great.
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How did you go about learning entrepreneurial and business skills so you could do those jobs?
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If the average game executable and some key files that need recompiling are 100MB, and I bet most are more like 20MB, MS could release a DVD with 100 recompiled games on it. Just put in the disc, select all the games you and your friends play, wait a minute for the files to copy to the HD, then put in the games actual DVD and play. Since the files are copied to the HD, you only have to do this once.
Better yet, make the files downloadable for those with broadband. Problem solved, and only about 2GB of hard drive space used for twenty games.
Shhh, I'm looking forward to cheaper prices at "hotels" in Nevada.
Hold a contest to find who looks closest to the woman in the original EQ ads. Dressed in blue... wow! Much hotter.
NASA WorldWind has been on SourceForge since September. Though most development happens over IRC.
I think you mean EARN money, not win. Buying and selling items for your character is the whole foundation of Project Entropia.
Remember when Sony said the PS2 could do Toy Story in real time? They did. Turns out they meant the PS3 will be able to do it. So just keep in mind that whatever they say about the visual quality of the PS3, actually refers to the PS4.
60Hz, so if anything the flicker should have been less noticeable. Maybe you're just used to the 50Hz flicker?
US News and World Report. 2005: #1 Berkeley
From 2000, but complete: Berkeley was the number 1 public university and 20th when counting in privates like Harvard and MIT. BTW, those two ranked numbers 2 and 3 behind number 1 California Institute of Technology aka CALTECH!
Take three pictures and combine them with the 3D Reconstruction of Scenes. Then have a motion-tracking webcam on top of the monitor. Finally, have the background being continuously rendered to follow where the viewer is!
To get the same visual quality the filesize would have ended up larger. Why they used such an uncommon version of mpeg-4, I have no idea.
The video is using Divx 4 (openDivx) which is a silly and old choice. Divx 5 or XVID would have been better. The audio is a waste of 1.2MB because it's MPEG layer 2, not 3. It's 224kbps of (corrupted?) silence. By comparison, mp3s are usually 128kbps.
It will lower prices on the 256MB versions and all the cards beneath, giving me better deals when I pay $200 for a 7 month-old card that still plays the latest and greatest just fine.
Thanks, I had no idea. It's wonderful to think about the day when shaped fusion reactions will propel ships between the planets.
What alternatives exist to combusting various gasses and solid fuels? Do explosives like TNT pack more potential energy if it could just be exploited usefully? Some sort of series of shaped, small, explosions every tenth or every second? With some sort of backplate to protect the ship?
"This experience is going to have very few restrictions on what you can do because these payloads are doing it for fun and every person has a different idea of what fun is.
Floating in space (Ansari X-Prize)
The X-prize vision is about to be realised
"Does that mean that some guy and his girl might want to take the whole ship? OK!"
Is that a euphemism for zero gravity sex? It'll be one of the few times when being quick is actually good! Also, with presumably multi-year waiting lists, it'll take performance anxiety to new high.
This ought to be by a constitutional amendment, because while states want to control how they pick the president, there is only one president. That means picking that position ought to be as fair as possible to all people of the nation. If it's left to the states to change their laws, some will refuse.
They're all criminals. The shoplifters have a much higher chance of getting caught. Not saying I agree, but the case can be made that the penalties for copyright infringement make sense if they have to be that high to deter it, considering how few get caught.
Perhaps a debate show would poison the market. Suppose 100 people watch talking-point-yelling shows. A debate show could acquire 40 of the viewers plus 20 new ones who finally found a show giving them what they want. The old shows still have 60 viewers, but what if 30 of them realize how uninformative their old shows are, and stop watching entirely, finding the debates too boring. End result only 90 viewers total.
Would CNN dare air a true debate show like Stewart wants if it didn't attract as profitable a group of advertizers as Crossfire? It could have higher ratings than Crossfire, but what if it did such a good job exposing the BS that it hurt other CNN shows too? If overall advertizing revenues dropped, the show will never air.
Kerry interview part 1
Kerry interview part 2
List of clips
Seeing the other interviews it's obvious The Daily Show is more like The Tonight Show. Yes the interviews are easy, because they want to have a good time and not scare away celebrities and politicians from coming on. At least for the pols, Stewart calls them on a few things.
Not everyone can afford a HDTV though. It would be nice of Sony, MS, Nintendo to include monitor support even if they're only 17" or 19" screens.
It was Sony's arrogance to put two powerful processors in the PS2. It was Sega's folly to put two 28MHz processors in its Saturn. Coding for it in assembly was hard and it lost to the Playstation with its single 33MHz chip.
Developers have complained the PS2 is hard to program, and the PS3 will probably use multiple Cell processors. How that's going to work is under NDA's but I wouldn't be surprised if the developers don't like it either. Or perhaps Sony found a better way to program Cells? Since the xbox2 will come out the same year as the PS3, the easier to program system may well have better looking games. That will impact system sales.
Hopefully that means the games will feature HDTV quality video. Just like porn helped the adoption of VHS and DVD, this could give a strong reason to gamers to upgrade their TV's when they see how great the games look rendered in high res along with the video at a friend's place.
Now if the next gen systems would just support a monitor output, we could get stunning picture quality without having to shell out for a screen. My 21" CRT from a meter away looks just great.