No, most of academia is not like this.
Did you even read anything? His complaint is that SIGGRAPH is the only game in town. If your stuff gets rejected, first of all, the only place to resubmit it is SIGGRAPH. Secondly, you have to wait a whole year to resubmit to the same place, because there aren't any other respected conferences in graphics.
How about Artificial Intelligence, Security, Compilers, Theory, Distributed Systems, Formal Methods, Programming Languages, or Databases?
All of these other subfields of CS have several, if not many healthy conferences to which one can submit papers. I know many people working in graphics and they all have stated repeatedly that unless you get papers into SIGGRAPH, you are nobody. SIGGRAPH is the only game in town for graphics. Did you even read the article summary?
For most words, I really wouldn't mind. I understand that there are accepted ways to interpret things. However, for a word that means "Don't interpret this the accepted way, but rather exactly as it is written," I must protest.
Yeah, well I don't have an HD television, so I don't care.
Bungie and Rare are both developing for the Xbox 360
Bungie does nothing but Halo, and as we saw, Halo 2 was an incremental improvement over Halo. I don't anticipate any real innovation for the next Halo title. It will just be shinier graphics, an even worse single-player campaign, and even more people trying to tell me how gay I am online. Rare hasn't made anything worthwhile since all their real talent jumped ship when Microsoft bought them out.
The question is why NOT buy an Xbox 360?
I'll tell you why not - because I don't feel like shelling out $400 + $60/game for an incremental improvement in graphics. I'm waiting for the Revolution. The only reason I would buy a 360 if given the option would be to sell it to some moron on eBay for $800.
While I agree that it is very fishy what this guy is doing, if you google "Beatles" his page doesn't show up until the 12th page of results, which is fairly useless, I think.
Why not Firefox? But then I decided to RTFA, and so to save any of you the trouble, from TFA:
"We specifically chose the Netscape browser because it has the added advantage of hosting numerous security features while also having the ability to run both the Triton (IE) and Gecko (Firefox) rendering engines," Nick Labosky, a director at HP, said in a statement sent via e-mail.
What I can't understand is why these comments have to come at the expense of Ring TFA.
The books are being transferred to one of the other gajillion libraries we have at UT. As a UT student, I think it's a good move to diversify a bit. Better to have one of the libraries dedicated to furthering students' skills of online research while the other seventeen libraries on campus continue the paper tradition.
For crying out loud, people, THINK!
Well first off, they're not just "dumping" it here, they're "dumping" it in Japan too (and anywhere they can sell it). I think dumping has to do with attempting to invade a particular market by offering goods (ones that are extremely similar to others offered on that market, i.e. the PlayStation brand alone is enough to differentiate it) at well below what they are worth. However, just because it costs Sony $494 or whatever to make them, doesn't necessarily mean they are worth that much. They're only worth what people will pay for them, and I'd bet dollars to doughnuts that Sony's going to be asking exactly what they think people will be willing to pay.
It's news because of all the media hype that the latest security holes had gotten. Plain and simple. It's only fair that if the media is going to shout "looky looky, it's got bugs too," that we get to shout "yeah, but watch how fast we fix them."
The robots are much better now than they used to be. Currently a domination would be more like 8-0 or 15-0 (games the like of which were seen at last year's RoboCup World Cup).
However, the score isn't the only indicator. For all we know, the Germans could have scored their two goals in the first 30 seconds and then played extremely defensively for the rest of the game.
Hey, I had a beer at the last RoboCup World Cup, and no one seemed to mind!
Also, while Microsoft does sponsor the Hellhounds, the Aibos run a proprietary Sony OS called Aperios, which in turn runs a somewhat more open system called "Open-R" that teams use to develop the robots. So while crashing robots is not an entirely uncommon event (there's even a 30 second penalty for it), we unfortunately can't really blame Microsoft for it.
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No, most of academia is not like this. Did you even read anything? His complaint is that SIGGRAPH is the only game in town. If your stuff gets rejected, first of all, the only place to resubmit it is SIGGRAPH. Secondly, you have to wait a whole year to resubmit to the same place, because there aren't any other respected conferences in graphics.
How about Artificial Intelligence, Security, Compilers, Theory, Distributed Systems, Formal Methods, Programming Languages, or Databases? All of these other subfields of CS have several, if not many healthy conferences to which one can submit papers. I know many people working in graphics and they all have stated repeatedly that unless you get papers into SIGGRAPH, you are nobody. SIGGRAPH is the only game in town for graphics. Did you even read the article summary?
You mean "Rupert."
Go here: http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=stationi nfo&id=3293957
To file a complaint. I did. We need to hold these reporters' feet to the fire. Insiste they cease their fearmongering and shoddy journalism.
For most words, I really wouldn't mind. I understand that there are accepted ways to interpret things. However, for a word that means "Don't interpret this the accepted way, but rather exactly as it is written," I must protest.
New information has come out to show that Zelda: Twilight Princess may be carrying a dual edged sword... litteraly.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Nope. That was the Tokyo Game Show.
Here's my mockup of a size comparison (using their dimensions). I'm guessing it gets the biggest boost from being thinner. Unfortunately, they didn't release any side shots. http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kdresner/DSLiteSize Comparison.jpg
The Xbox 360 is high definition out of the box.
Yeah, well I don't have an HD television, so I don't care.
Bungie and Rare are both developing for the Xbox 360
Bungie does nothing but Halo, and as we saw, Halo 2 was an incremental improvement over Halo. I don't anticipate any real innovation for the next Halo title. It will just be shinier graphics, an even worse single-player campaign, and even more people trying to tell me how gay I am online. Rare hasn't made anything worthwhile since all their real talent jumped ship when Microsoft bought them out.
The question is why NOT buy an Xbox 360?
I'll tell you why not - because I don't feel like shelling out $400 + $60/game for an incremental improvement in graphics. I'm waiting for the Revolution. The only reason I would buy a 360 if given the option would be to sell it to some moron on eBay for $800.
Most people in the UK dont have any $. They have £.
When's the last time a code name was also used for the retail product?
Nintendo DS.
Now the stories aren't even "well summarized". The entire thing is just a quote from the article.
While I agree that it is very fishy what this guy is doing, if you google "Beatles" his page doesn't show up until the 12th page of results, which is fairly useless, I think.
What he meant was that there were 4 ^W's and when you erase 4 words you wind up with the nonsensical statement in his post.
That'll be one million dollars and ten percent of the gross please.
Also known as... one million dollars.
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What I can't understand is why these comments have to come at the expense of Ring TFA.
The books are being transferred to one of the other gajillion libraries we have at UT. As a UT student, I think it's a good move to diversify a bit. Better to have one of the libraries dedicated to furthering students' skills of online research while the other seventeen libraries on campus continue the paper tradition.
For crying out loud, people, THINK!
Ahh yes, but does it run-
Oh. It does.
Well first off, they're not just "dumping" it here, they're "dumping" it in Japan too (and anywhere they can sell it). I think dumping has to do with attempting to invade a particular market by offering goods (ones that are extremely similar to others offered on that market, i.e. the PlayStation brand alone is enough to differentiate it) at well below what they are worth. However, just because it costs Sony $494 or whatever to make them, doesn't necessarily mean they are worth that much. They're only worth what people will pay for them, and I'd bet dollars to doughnuts that Sony's going to be asking exactly what they think people will be willing to pay.
With all these consoles coming out in such a spread-out schedule, I wonder if it will be possible for anyone to keep the hype up.
I think you mean the Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster.
It's news because of all the media hype that the latest security holes had gotten. Plain and simple. It's only fair that if the media is going to shout "looky looky, it's got bugs too," that we get to shout "yeah, but watch how fast we fix them."
That used to be the case.
The robots are much better now than they used to be. Currently a domination would be more like 8-0 or 15-0 (games the like of which were seen at last year's RoboCup World Cup).
However, the score isn't the only indicator. For all we know, the Germans could have scored their two goals in the first 30 seconds and then played extremely defensively for the rest of the game.
Hey, I had a beer at the last RoboCup World Cup, and no one seemed to mind! Also, while Microsoft does sponsor the Hellhounds, the Aibos run a proprietary Sony OS called Aperios, which in turn runs a somewhat more open system called "Open-R" that teams use to develop the robots. So while crashing robots is not an entirely uncommon event (there's even a 30 second penalty for it), we unfortunately can't really blame Microsoft for it.