I can certainly see prioritizing official traffic, but I think it would be better not to cut off everything else. After all, people need to be able to get information and communicate in order to help themselves and their loved ones, even if they're not in uniform. Especially if, like Katrina, the officials stand around at the perimter of the disaster for two or three days scratching their heads.
It would be a moot point if you got a HDMI cable with your HD TV.
No, you still need a cable for each source device to go into your receiver, plus one more to go from the receiver to the display. It works out perfect if each device includes a cable. I realize most people don't have multiple HDMI sources yet, but it's no different than how most people with a PS2 also have a standalone DVD player, and both need a connection to the display. I would think DVR's will be another HDMI source at some point, if they're not already.
Who needs the calendar? Just walk our your front door, pick somebody at random, and start following them around. You can get all this same information. For instance, "I can tell when she'll be out of her house, oooh, scary." Or just watch somebody pull out of their driveway and conclude that they're no longer home.
Except these online currencies end up being worth real money, do they not? The market determines an exchange rate to USD, as with any currency. So it could, arguably, be more like stealing the chips from a poker game. As I understand it, Las Vegas doesn't look kindly on that and you can go to jail.
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Stingrays are generally non-aggressive and intelligent creatures. They have been called the "pussycat of the sea,"
Yeah, but that's always the official line on animals. No matter how many surfers are eaten by sharks in a year, every single news report of an attack will always say how unusual it is, and how sharks normally don't attack people.
On the other hand, since it was Stever Irwin, it's easy to imagine he was trying to horse around with them. I don't see why that makes people vindictive though. When Dale Earnhart died, I didn't hear anybody say "Ha! Only a fool would drive in Nascar!" We all choose to take some chances, and my guess (just a guess) is that if there had been 100,000 Stever Irwins, more would have died in traffic accidents than due to animals.
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But by a stingray barb to the chest? Having watched them at the aquarium, I never noticed anything that looked like it could kill a man.
Ohio may claim this isn't a punishment or a conviction, but the first unconvicted person who is denied a job or gets "CHILD MOLESTER" painted on his house during the night will sue, and probably win.
What are the problems with the T60? I think I'm about to get one (to replace my trusty T40). By only beef so far is it isn't available with Core 2 Duo.
Yes, and the real takehome message from this "announcement" is that AMD has no answer to Intel for the next year. That is a long time to be coasting! Noobody is going to put off an upgrade due to such a long-term milestone, so I wonder why they even bothered putting it out there.
For me the reference to xara was the most useful thing I'm likely to get out of this thread. I've been waiting for some time for way to make system diagrams and flowcharts that look good enough for presentations (i.e. an Illustrator alternative); maybe xara will be it.
I could understand suddenly firing 10% of the workforce if there were some unforeseen dramatic event that hurt business overnight, such as airlines after 911. But Intel has been in a very gradual decline for a number of years. If they had acted sooner but more gradually, they might have been able to downsize through natural attrition (retirements and people who quit), rather than a sudden painful cut.
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It's not hard to see something beating WoW. Look at it this way, with FPS's, there was Doom, then Quake, Quake2 and everyone kneeled to the alter of id. Then along came Half-Life, and the FPS arena went there.
MMORPGs are different, the network effect (the benefit of doing what everybody else is doing) is much stronger. Half-Life was originally viewed as a largely single player game, and was well worth playing standalone. At no point did you have hundreds of hours invested and nontransferrable in a persistent character you'd built up. Right now, my guess for the successor to WoW is that it could be a while, even as WoW changes into a de-facto new game over time. Or maybe its owners will decide to take a risk on renaming the venture at some point, but people's characters will still live on in the "new" game. At some point in the future I could imagine the competition trying to make some way to carry WoW characters over into their own games, followed by an antitrust lawsuit forcing Blizzard to allow it.
I find the idea of a game where you ruthlessly kill millions upon millions of innocent people with strategic nuclear weapons, no matter how abstracted and non-gory, far more repellent and sickening than any shit Rockstar Games has cranked out, ever.
Really? I shudder to think how you'd feel if you were exposed to the true meaning of pong.
First articulated in the new testemant as "an eye for an eye", disputed by Gandhi who was ironically assasinated.
Could you explain why that is Ironic? I guess you could prove his murder was the ultimate proof of his failure to curb violence, but I still think he had a big impact on the world. Same for Martin Luther King. Also Jesus.
Here's my question - is access to any information actually going to be lost? What resources do/did the EPA libraries provide? If it was just access to public data, I would think the Internet really would reduce the need for much more expensive libraries - so long as all the information is still available. In fact, if fraction of the budget cut were re-routed to beefing up the online archvives, access might even be improved, while still cutting cost.
Huh? We already know the PS3 is being delayed partially due to BluRay shortages. The fact that they're turning away business ($$$) from other companies does not imply adequate supply either.
between the obvious picture quality difference, DTS/Dolby Digital sound, and not having to rewind anymore, it was a killer product.
Add to the list: (1) compatibility with existing (NTSC) TV sets, and (2) don't degrade with repeated viewings (if you don't understand yet, wait until you have kids).
Their spiral full spectrum does look like a possible replacement for normal bulbs, but at $20 a pop it would cost me $160 just to fill up the main fixture in my living room! They claim it lasts 13 times longer, but it also costs 40 times as much to buy. Of course energy savings are the main thing, but the article says it takes 5 months to recoup a $3 flourescent, so it would take about 3 years to recoup those babies.
Has anybody found bulb-sized full-spectrum CFLs for closer to $5 a pop?
Thats for antialiasing... and yes, it will consume more rays but there are other ways to handle antialiasing that don't need to cast another entire sequence of rays... especially if what you were looking for in a game was the sort of reflective and refractive effects you can't get with shaders.
I disagree. You will never geat realistic scenes working on the assumption that most materials are not reflective - not because of antialiasing, but because accurate lighting requires accurate light models, and the truth is light bounces off everything (but a black hole). That's why typical raytraced scenes don't look right, and why you need other techniques like radiosity. But then you have to go beyond using just one ray for typical surfaces.
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I can certainly see prioritizing official traffic, but I think it would be better not to cut off everything else. After all, people need to be able to get information and communicate in order to help themselves and their loved ones, even if they're not in uniform. Especially if, like Katrina, the officials stand around at the perimter of the disaster for two or three days scratching their heads.
Except these online currencies end up being worth real money, do they not? The market determines an exchange rate to USD, as with any currency. So it could, arguably, be more like stealing the chips from a poker game. As I understand it, Las Vegas doesn't look kindly on that and you can go to jail.
On the other hand, since it was Stever Irwin, it's easy to imagine he was trying to horse around with them. I don't see why that makes people vindictive though. When Dale Earnhart died, I didn't hear anybody say "Ha! Only a fool would drive in Nascar!" We all choose to take some chances, and my guess (just a guess) is that if there had been 100,000 Stever Irwins, more would have died in traffic accidents than due to animals.
But by a stingray barb to the chest? Having watched them at the aquarium, I never noticed anything that looked like it could kill a man.
Of course listening in on somebody is "search," that's exactly what it is.
Ohio may claim this isn't a punishment or a conviction, but the first unconvicted person who is denied a job or gets "CHILD MOLESTER" painted on his house during the night will sue, and probably win.
Oh yeah, my other beef is the T60 is thicker than the T40.
What are the problems with the T60? I think I'm about to get one (to replace my trusty T40). By only beef so far is it isn't available with Core 2 Duo.
Yes, and the real takehome message from this "announcement" is that AMD has no answer to Intel for the next year. That is a long time to be coasting! Noobody is going to put off an upgrade due to such a long-term milestone, so I wonder why they even bothered putting it out there.
It's like the $20,000 Pyramid gameshow, but without the $20,000.
Surely it would be the title insurance company who ends up taking the hit in these cases?
For me the reference to xara was the most useful thing I'm likely to get out of this thread. I've been waiting for some time for way to make system diagrams and flowcharts that look good enough for presentations (i.e. an Illustrator alternative); maybe xara will be it.
I could understand suddenly firing 10% of the workforce if there were some unforeseen dramatic event that hurt business overnight, such as airlines after 911. But Intel has been in a very gradual decline for a number of years. If they had acted sooner but more gradually, they might have been able to downsize through natural attrition (retirements and people who quit), rather than a sudden painful cut.
Here's my question - is access to any information actually going to be lost? What resources do/did the EPA libraries provide? If it was just access to public data, I would think the Internet really would reduce the need for much more expensive libraries - so long as all the information is still available. In fact, if fraction of the budget cut were re-routed to beefing up the online archvives, access might even be improved, while still cutting cost.
Huh? We already know the PS3 is being delayed partially due to BluRay shortages. The fact that they're turning away business ($$$) from other companies does not imply adequate supply either.
For $5 maybe I will get one for the garage and then see if I want to use them everywhere.
Has anybody found bulb-sized full-spectrum CFLs for closer to $5 a pop?