The word 'Digital' is increasingly (wrongly) being used to mean 'downloaded/stored on a hard drive.' I find it really annoying.
I bought a Blu Ray movie the other day and there was a sticker on the front: 'BONUS Digital Copy Included!' I didn't know what the hell they were talking about at first but it's this same stupid thing (you can load a lower quality version onto a computer.)
The problem I had after watching this trailer was that it looks like they're turning Star Trek into a mindless summer action flick.
Might not be that bad. I remember seeing a Serenity trailer where it looked like a Kung fu movie and that turned out pretty good. The trailer isn't going to target the trekkers, it's for the general public. That said it did look a bit less cerebral than other Star Trek outings.
Aren't multi-GPU systems in general kind of a bad call? It seems like the cost/complexity/power use isn't worth it for a relatively minor performance boost.
Just to be on-topic: Mac's don't make any sense to me. I got a top of the line MB pro a couple of years ago and find I never use it. Everything seems unintuitive and weird (the GUI that is; when I run the terminal it's like that scene in Jurassic Park with the little girl.)
Windows with Cygwin works better for me than anything else for my home system (am I allowed to say that here?) At work I run Linux (that's really where Emacs is most comfortable.) I'm still trying to find a good use for the Mac.
Hard drives get pretty hot, and high temperatures will shorten their lifespan.
Google did some pretty comprehensive testing and found this not to be true. The well cooled drives actually failed more than moderately hot ones (at really high temperatures the failure rate started to climb again.)
Bad example. It's well know fact that Flouridated water is an international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.
The only difference between Guinness and yellow American beer is the color.
I don't particularly like Guinness but is this really +5 worthy? If you can't differentiate between the two based on taste you're not much of a beer snob. This thread's making me put Slashdot beer fanatics in the same category as Illinois Nazis
They want to increase productivity and decrease spending?!? That's crazy talk. Maybe they're screwing themselves by underpaying IT people, but why would you do a job where the salary doesn't fit with the job expectations?
Totally off-topic: I don't think the cats like those laser pointers. It might be a little more work for the human, but throwing a little stuffed mouse at least lets the cat feel like it's killing something.
While this technology is very neat, programs which convert sound(wav/mp3) into Midi data have existed for many years.
Incorrect. Bullshitters claiming to convert sound to MIDI have existed for many years. Download that thing and give it a real song (not a flute solo.) The technology required to do it right is probably further off than a Turing test winner. This is one of those things that everyone thinks exists, but it doesn't. On a related note: ask ten random people if they think NASA has an "antigravity room."
Well said. That's probably Blizzard's greatest skill: knowing how to ignore the loudest talking 1% of their fans in favor of everyone else. If you read the WoW forums you'd think the game was a total failure, but they still manage to retain all their millions of subscribers.
Plenty of other people think that science is compatible with religion and spirituality because they address different concerns.
I'm not sure who these "plenty of other people" are, exactly, but I suspect they're not real scientists if they're comfortable with allowing dogmatic religion to coexist alongside science.
Adding the word "dogmatic" really creates a strawman doesn't it? There are two modded up responses here that say basically the same thing: religious people can't be good scientists. That's bullshit. People who understand the separation between the two can be (and have been throughout history) just as effective as atheists/agnostics. The backlash against the "teach creationism as science" thing seems to be getting more and more shrill. There's starting to be a witch hunt vibe that I see undermining our argument.
I was thinking a similar thing. Moving from a standard API to general purpose code would create many more possibilities for quirky/unpredictable behavior across different hardware. The increased flexibility is appealing, but it would clearly be more work for engine developers.
On the other hand, Sweeney's thoughts about the possibility of game development jumping from $10M to $30M based on this type of thing seemed weird to me. If I'm not mistaken, content creation dominates the budget for most modern games (regardless of whether the engine is licensed or in-house.)
It's interesting that the "product being pitched" is not a specific thing, and not even Microsoft as a brand, but "what they're working on." It seems like a tacit confession that Vista sucks but the next thing will be really good.
I'm pretty sure Verizon doesn't do this with DSL. I've had it maxed out for days at a time (3Mb/768Kb) with no problems. Has anyone else been shut down by them?
A PC doesn't "get hit" by "malicious computer code" too often these days. The target unintentionally (but by their own action) runs malicious code because they're ignorant. Even running Windows (patched w/ firewall) there aren't many ways you can get pwned without clicking on the "RUN VIRUS NOW" button (admittedly recognizing the ways that button can masquerade itself is a skill.)
Trying to protect people against themselves is futile. Antivirus software is like the Maginot Line. It only works against shit they're expecting.
There's no substitute for educating computer users about what's not to be clicked upon (and/or run as root.)
I'm not an "advocate shill" but I gave the game a negative review. I know I don't like it based on how it's copy-protected. How is that not a valid review?
Links to stories about people "loosing" their content from steam? I got the impression that third party DRM in addition to steam could be a problem, but I haven't heard of what you're talking about.
What constitutes "important" and "worth saving" is a matter of nostalgia and self-aggrandizing for those who engage in it.
I don't know about "worth saving" but it's hard to overstate how "important" that location is historically. Not only did the work done there have a major effect on the outcome of the war (those U-Boats weren't screwing around,) but they also built a lot of the foundations of computer science and engineering that stand to this day.
Anyone can talk about realistic characters and show screenshots. It's the animations that makes human characters seem real.
Different pages *should* be different processes
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If I've got 18 things going in different browser windows, why should killing one of them (and there's always some silly shit that makes you need to kill one) kill the other 17? I always wondered why they did it that way. The memory used by many instances of a browser doing normal stuff should be manageable. It's only when it starts to go mental that there's a problem, and that's exactly when you want to be able to kill one and keep the others isn't it?
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When things look bad you can't just give up on the world... of Warcraft.
When Hitler rose to power there were a lot of people who just stopped playing. You know who those people were? The French! Are you French, tacarat?
The word 'Digital' is increasingly (wrongly) being used to mean 'downloaded/stored on a hard drive.' I find it really annoying.
I bought a Blu Ray movie the other day and there was a sticker on the front: 'BONUS Digital Copy Included!' I didn't know what the hell they were talking about at first but it's this same stupid thing (you can load a lower quality version onto a computer.)
The HP PSC 2355: "you just can't reason with it, and it simply will not stop until you are dead"
Sounds like you need to go all Michael Bolton on that thing.
Trust in paper documents seems to be lagging way behind the ability to forge them. How hard is it to scan/photoshop/print a utility bill these days?
Which 486 are they using, the 50 or 66 MHz? The faster clock of the 66 may seem like a win, but the 50 MHz version has the faster bus speed.
The problem I had after watching this trailer was that it looks like they're turning Star Trek into a mindless summer action flick.
Might not be that bad. I remember seeing a Serenity trailer where it looked like a Kung fu movie and that turned out pretty good. The trailer isn't going to target the trekkers, it's for the general public. That said it did look a bit less cerebral than other Star Trek outings.
Aren't multi-GPU systems in general kind of a bad call? It seems like the cost/complexity/power use isn't worth it for a relatively minor performance boost.
Just to be on-topic: Mac's don't make any sense to me. I got a top of the line MB pro a couple of years ago and find I never use it. Everything seems unintuitive and weird (the GUI that is; when I run the terminal it's like that scene in Jurassic Park with the little girl.)
Windows with Cygwin works better for me than anything else for my home system (am I allowed to say that here?) At work I run Linux (that's really where Emacs is most comfortable.) I'm still trying to find a good use for the Mac.
Hard drives get pretty hot, and high temperatures will shorten their lifespan.
Google did some pretty comprehensive testing and found this not to be true. The well cooled drives actually failed more than moderately hot ones (at really high temperatures the failure rate started to climb again.)
see Fluoridated water.
Bad example. It's well know fact that Flouridated water is an international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.
The only difference between Guinness and yellow American beer is the color.
I don't particularly like Guinness but is this really +5 worthy? If you can't differentiate between the two based on taste you're not much of a beer snob. This thread's making me put Slashdot beer fanatics in the same category as Illinois Nazis
It's funny because it's true.
They want to increase productivity and decrease spending?!? That's crazy talk. Maybe they're screwing themselves by underpaying IT people, but why would you do a job where the salary doesn't fit with the job expectations?
Totally off-topic: I don't think the cats like those laser pointers. It might be a little more work for the human, but throwing a little stuffed mouse at least lets the cat feel like it's killing something.
While this technology is very neat, programs which convert sound(wav/mp3) into Midi data have existed for many years.
Incorrect. Bullshitters claiming to convert sound to MIDI have existed for many years. Download that thing and give it a real song (not a flute solo.) The technology required to do it right is probably further off than a Turing test winner. This is one of those things that everyone thinks exists, but it doesn't. On a related note: ask ten random people if they think NASA has an "antigravity room."
Well said. That's probably Blizzard's greatest skill: knowing how to ignore the loudest talking 1% of their fans in favor of everyone else. If you read the WoW forums you'd think the game was a total failure, but they still manage to retain all their millions of subscribers.
Plenty of other people think that science is compatible with religion and spirituality because they address different concerns.
I'm not sure who these "plenty of other people" are, exactly, but I suspect they're not real scientists if they're comfortable with allowing dogmatic religion to coexist alongside science.
Adding the word "dogmatic" really creates a strawman doesn't it? There are two modded up responses here that say basically the same thing: religious people can't be good scientists. That's bullshit. People who understand the separation between the two can be (and have been throughout history) just as effective as atheists/agnostics. The backlash against the "teach creationism as science" thing seems to be getting more and more shrill. There's starting to be a witch hunt vibe that I see undermining our argument.
I was thinking a similar thing. Moving from a standard API to general purpose code would create many more possibilities for quirky/unpredictable behavior across different hardware. The increased flexibility is appealing, but it would clearly be more work for engine developers.
On the other hand, Sweeney's thoughts about the possibility of game development jumping from $10M to $30M based on this type of thing seemed weird to me. If I'm not mistaken, content creation dominates the budget for most modern games (regardless of whether the engine is licensed or in-house.)
It's interesting that the "product being pitched" is not a specific thing, and not even Microsoft as a brand, but "what they're working on." It seems like a tacit confession that Vista sucks but the next thing will be really good.
I'm pretty sure Verizon doesn't do this with DSL. I've had it maxed out for days at a time (3Mb/768Kb) with no problems. Has anyone else been shut down by them?
when a PC gets hit by malicious computer code.
A PC doesn't "get hit" by "malicious computer code" too often these days. The target unintentionally (but by their own action) runs malicious code because they're ignorant. Even running Windows (patched w/ firewall) there aren't many ways you can get pwned without clicking on the "RUN VIRUS NOW" button (admittedly recognizing the ways that button can masquerade itself is a skill.)
Trying to protect people against themselves is futile. Antivirus software is like the Maginot Line. It only works against shit they're expecting.
There's no substitute for educating computer users about what's not to be clicked upon (and/or run as root.)
I'm not an "advocate shill" but I gave the game a negative review. I know I don't like it based on how it's copy-protected. How is that not a valid review?
Links to stories about people "loosing" their content from steam? I got the impression that third party DRM in addition to steam could be a problem, but I haven't heard of what you're talking about.
What constitutes "important" and "worth saving" is a matter of nostalgia and self-aggrandizing for those who engage in it.
I don't know about "worth saving" but it's hard to overstate how "important" that location is historically. Not only did the work done there have a major effect on the outcome of the war (those U-Boats weren't screwing around,) but they also built a lot of the foundations of computer science and engineering that stand to this day.
Anyone can talk about realistic characters and show screenshots. It's the animations that makes human characters seem real.
If I've got 18 things going in different browser windows, why should killing one of them (and there's always some silly shit that makes you need to kill one) kill the other 17? I always wondered why they did it that way. The memory used by many instances of a browser doing normal stuff should be manageable. It's only when it starts to go mental that there's a problem, and that's exactly when you want to be able to kill one and keep the others isn't it?