Well, to be fair, I have 50 Mbit available to me, I just choose not to pay for it. Also, I don't really find my connection slow. It's not as fast as it could be, but it fits my needs. And the whole carrier pidgeon thing is still a bogus argument. You could strap 100 GB to that bird (how much would 7, 16 GB MicroSD cards weigh?) , and he'd still make the trip in 1 hour, giving you an effective bit rate of 227 Mbit/s. So that bird could be faster than just about any connection you to get to any home, anywhere in the world.
That's a completely stupid comparison. You could have strapped a 16 GB Micro SD card to it's leg, and made the comparison seem even worse. My home connection only gets 256 Kbits/s upload, so it would take me 35 hours to upload 4 GB of data. Even downloading (at 3Mbit/s) I would take 3 hours to transfer 4 GB. So, I would have to say, that this pidgeon is even faster than my Canadian High Speed connection. Put a large enough amount of memory on the pidgeon, and you could probably outrun a 10 Mbit connection.
For most people, burning a CD is much easier and less risky than opening up the XBox to mod it, and copy the content to the hard drive than it is to just burn a CD. If the CD doesn't work, you lose $1 (at the time of the dreamcast), if you bork up your XBox by opening it up to mod it, you are out the price of a console.
I'm guessing satellites would pick up such a mass movement of people. You could probably wipe out 80% of them before they even left Chinese soil. Sure you'd have to worry about civilian casualties, But you could just wait until they get to an uninhabited place and then bomb them. Also, if they wanted to go to alaska, they would have to cross over Russian soil. I don't think the Russians would like this, and would probably help to bomb them all. Also, they would still have to cross some ocean, as there is no connecting land mass. At that point we could easily start sinking ships. Also, it would be quite hard for them to organize 300 million people to all attack at once without some of the news of the attack getting out before they actually started to move.
Yeah, but you can compile anything into anything. There probably isn't a whole lot to stop people from writing a Java to BrainFuck compiler, and then using the generated code to feed into the iPhone.
In highschool, one of my English courses had the option of typing up the final exam. Since a significant portion of the final exam was an essay question, the teacher thought it only fair that we could write the essay the way we normally would, using a computer. Also, people always talk about computers causing RSI. This was one of the major factors for allowing students to type the exam. If you've ever spent a full 3 hours writing, as most people who have been through school have, you probably know what kind of discomfort that can cause. Contrast that with spending 3 hours at a properly adjusted keyboard, and you shouldn't feel any strain at all.
Well then, maybe the artists could just offer FLAC or WAV files for download. Maybe they could even go extreme audiophiletastic and start offering music for download in newer more hi fidelity formats like 96 KHz 48 bit sound, completely uncompressed. I mean, if there's enough people who want to pay for it, it will catch on. Either way, I think CDs are going to go away. You can download better quality stuff if you get rid of the CD, because the CD is limited to a certain upper level of fidelity.
Software companies do this too. You can usually get a student license (sometimes equivalent to regular one) for very low cost, sometimes free. While everyone else is required to pay higher prices. I mean, check out Windows. Most business users probably only require the stuff in the home edition. Except for being able to connect to a domain. Just for the privilege of connecting to a domain, you have to buy the professional (in XP), or business (in Vista) edition. That usually doubles the price. So, they know businesses have more money to spend, and that they will spend the money, so they charge them much more even if they only get minimally more out of it. Almost all software packages offer this in some level or another. Visual Studio Standard probably has 90% of the features needed by most developers, and costs about $250. The professional version has everything, and costs $550. Then there's the team suite edition, which costs a couple thousand dollars, and has everything including the kitchen sink, but you probably don't even need any of the extra stuff it includes. For more about this, read Camels and rubber duckies by Joel Spolsky.
Well, before the internet, there was this place called the library. You could go there and learn about anything you wanted. Seriously, just having the information available isn't going to make most people go out and actively learn about it. Most people (not you, not I) wouldn't spend an extra hour learning something they didn't have to, let alone enough time to have a good amount of knowledge in the topic to hold up a good conversation. That's what most people get out of college. You have to take certain courses that aren't in your comfort circle, and that you don't want to learn about to get your degree. So it shows that you can learn about things, even when you don't want to, and that you can commit to finishing something.
That's where you start to get into the uncanney valley. Once things start to look too close to real, it messes with your head, and you start to see all the subtle flaws. If something looks completely not real, we just forget about the realness entirely, and start to enjoy the game.
Not sure how you calculate a unit, but just for comparison, my University (University of Ottawa) offered most courses as 3 credits, courses with labs like chemistry were 4 credits. Standard course load in engineering was about 6 courses, usually at least 2 of which were 4 credits. So that's about 20 credits a semester. I knew people taking double degree programmes who would have 7 courses per semester. The arts students all thought we were crazy, as they did 5 courses, and had no labs, making a total of 15 credits.
What's the difference between having the MySQL server accepting connections from everywhere, and having the SSH Server accepting connections from everywhere? I really don't see much of a difference. Now, they should probably have some kind of safe guard in place to stop people from brute forcing either one, but the existence of an open SQL server by itself doesn't seem all that bad, considering most hosting providers already have SSH open anyway.
Of course you play with axes and chainsaws, but you only play with the plastic toy ones. We had toy guns as a kids, but we also realized the difference between the toys and the real things. Almost all my kids toys are just plastic/wood models of the real things. Phones, tools, cars, houses, furniture.
It's even worse than that. Once you count out the mark-up that goes to the retailer, and the mark-up that goes to the distributor, I would have to say that probably about $2-$3 makes it into the actual development of the game.
Problem is, is that in SoCal, all the roads are covered in cars. If there's cars on top of the panels, they can't collect sunlight. Woudln't it make much more sense to just coat death valley with solar panels, rather that putting solar panels on the roads where they will be covered up half the time?
Yeah, but that hyphen site ruined all the free advertising by making the website as painful as possible to use. Drive everyone there with a funny name, and then drive them all away with a terrible website. Thank god for Stackoverflow.
Meh, HD just eats up hard disk space. There's very few shows that get anything out of HD. Even high action shows like Heroes get very little from adding HD. The only place where HD actually matters is movies, and most of my movies come in disc or on demand, so it doesn't really make a difference as far as a PVR is concerned.
Espcially since a lot of other meanings for bank came first. The original use of bank, in terms of elevation, came into use around 1150-2000 AD, while the bank that handles money didn't exist until 1425-1475 AD. Also, the original word can trace it's origins back to the swedish word, backe, meaning hill.
Whatever happened to hooking up your standard Digital cable box to your computer via composite (or even coax) and using an IR Blaster or serial cable to set the channel on the box? Not the perfect solution, but would suffice for most people.
Well, if you don't release often, how are you supposed to react to changes in the market. Compare with MS, who went 6 years between XP and Vista. Not only were people stuck using a 5 year old OS, which lacked basic stuff such as PNG support for the wallpaper (or the default browser), but they were also very much not in touch with what the market wanted when they released Vista. Now, had they follow a more linux/apple approach, and released something every 6 months to 1 year, they would have known much soon that they were headed down a bad path, and they would have also been able to get new features into the hands of users much sooner.
Slashdot Mirror
All the French Canadians will tell you that you have to use M. Net.
Just because something is upgradeable doesn't mean that the vendor will actually release an upgrade in a timely fashion, or at all.
Well, to be fair, I have 50 Mbit available to me, I just choose not to pay for it. Also, I don't really find my connection slow. It's not as fast as it could be, but it fits my needs. And the whole carrier pidgeon thing is still a bogus argument. You could strap 100 GB to that bird (how much would 7, 16 GB MicroSD cards weigh?) , and he'd still make the trip in 1 hour, giving you an effective bit rate of 227 Mbit/s. So that bird could be faster than just about any connection you to get to any home, anywhere in the world.
He never said he was the one driving. From the way it's phrased, it sounds specifically like he isn't driving.
That's a completely stupid comparison. You could have strapped a 16 GB Micro SD card to it's leg, and made the comparison seem even worse. My home connection only gets 256 Kbits/s upload, so it would take me 35 hours to upload 4 GB of data. Even downloading (at 3Mbit/s) I would take 3 hours to transfer 4 GB. So, I would have to say, that this pidgeon is even faster than my Canadian High Speed connection. Put a large enough amount of memory on the pidgeon, and you could probably outrun a 10 Mbit connection.
For most people, burning a CD is much easier and less risky than opening up the XBox to mod it, and copy the content to the hard drive than it is to just burn a CD. If the CD doesn't work, you lose $1 (at the time of the dreamcast), if you bork up your XBox by opening it up to mod it, you are out the price of a console.
I'm guessing satellites would pick up such a mass movement of people. You could probably wipe out 80% of them before they even left Chinese soil. Sure you'd have to worry about civilian casualties, But you could just wait until they get to an uninhabited place and then bomb them. Also, if they wanted to go to alaska, they would have to cross over Russian soil. I don't think the Russians would like this, and would probably help to bomb them all. Also, they would still have to cross some ocean, as there is no connecting land mass. At that point we could easily start sinking ships. Also, it would be quite hard for them to organize 300 million people to all attack at once without some of the news of the attack getting out before they actually started to move.
Yeah, but you can compile anything into anything. There probably isn't a whole lot to stop people from writing a Java to BrainFuck compiler, and then using the generated code to feed into the iPhone.
In highschool, one of my English courses had the option of typing up the final exam. Since a significant portion of the final exam was an essay question, the teacher thought it only fair that we could write the essay the way we normally would, using a computer. Also, people always talk about computers causing RSI. This was one of the major factors for allowing students to type the exam. If you've ever spent a full 3 hours writing, as most people who have been through school have, you probably know what kind of discomfort that can cause. Contrast that with spending 3 hours at a properly adjusted keyboard, and you shouldn't feel any strain at all.
Well then, maybe the artists could just offer FLAC or WAV files for download. Maybe they could even go extreme audiophiletastic and start offering music for download in newer more hi fidelity formats like 96 KHz 48 bit sound, completely uncompressed. I mean, if there's enough people who want to pay for it, it will catch on. Either way, I think CDs are going to go away. You can download better quality stuff if you get rid of the CD, because the CD is limited to a certain upper level of fidelity.
Software companies do this too. You can usually get a student license (sometimes equivalent to regular one) for very low cost, sometimes free. While everyone else is required to pay higher prices. I mean, check out Windows. Most business users probably only require the stuff in the home edition. Except for being able to connect to a domain. Just for the privilege of connecting to a domain, you have to buy the professional (in XP), or business (in Vista) edition. That usually doubles the price. So, they know businesses have more money to spend, and that they will spend the money, so they charge them much more even if they only get minimally more out of it. Almost all software packages offer this in some level or another. Visual Studio Standard probably has 90% of the features needed by most developers, and costs about $250. The professional version has everything, and costs $550. Then there's the team suite edition, which costs a couple thousand dollars, and has everything including the kitchen sink, but you probably don't even need any of the extra stuff it includes. For more about this, read Camels and rubber duckies by Joel Spolsky.
Well, before the internet, there was this place called the library. You could go there and learn about anything you wanted. Seriously, just having the information available isn't going to make most people go out and actively learn about it. Most people (not you, not I) wouldn't spend an extra hour learning something they didn't have to, let alone enough time to have a good amount of knowledge in the topic to hold up a good conversation. That's what most people get out of college. You have to take certain courses that aren't in your comfort circle, and that you don't want to learn about to get your degree. So it shows that you can learn about things, even when you don't want to, and that you can commit to finishing something.
That's where you start to get into the uncanney valley. Once things start to look too close to real, it messes with your head, and you start to see all the subtle flaws. If something looks completely not real, we just forget about the realness entirely, and start to enjoy the game.
Not sure how you calculate a unit, but just for comparison, my University (University of Ottawa) offered most courses as 3 credits, courses with labs like chemistry were 4 credits. Standard course load in engineering was about 6 courses, usually at least 2 of which were 4 credits. So that's about 20 credits a semester. I knew people taking double degree programmes who would have 7 courses per semester. The arts students all thought we were crazy, as they did 5 courses, and had no labs, making a total of 15 credits.
What's the difference between having the MySQL server accepting connections from everywhere, and having the SSH Server accepting connections from everywhere? I really don't see much of a difference. Now, they should probably have some kind of safe guard in place to stop people from brute forcing either one, but the existence of an open SQL server by itself doesn't seem all that bad, considering most hosting providers already have SSH open anyway.
Of course you play with axes and chainsaws, but you only play with the plastic toy ones. We had toy guns as a kids, but we also realized the difference between the toys and the real things. Almost all my kids toys are just plastic/wood models of the real things. Phones, tools, cars, houses, furniture.
It's even worse than that. Once you count out the mark-up that goes to the retailer, and the mark-up that goes to the distributor, I would have to say that probably about $2-$3 makes it into the actual development of the game.
Problem is, is that in SoCal, all the roads are covered in cars. If there's cars on top of the panels, they can't collect sunlight. Woudln't it make much more sense to just coat death valley with solar panels, rather that putting solar panels on the roads where they will be covered up half the time?
Yeah, but that hyphen site ruined all the free advertising by making the website as painful as possible to use. Drive everyone there with a funny name, and then drive them all away with a terrible website. Thank god for Stackoverflow.
Meh, HD just eats up hard disk space. There's very few shows that get anything out of HD. Even high action shows like Heroes get very little from adding HD. The only place where HD actually matters is movies, and most of my movies come in disc or on demand, so it doesn't really make a difference as far as a PVR is concerned.
Espcially since a lot of other meanings for bank came first. The original use of bank, in terms of elevation, came into use around 1150-2000 AD, while the bank that handles money didn't exist until 1425-1475 AD. Also, the original word can trace it's origins back to the swedish word, backe, meaning hill.
Whatever happened to hooking up your standard Digital cable box to your computer via composite (or even coax) and using an IR Blaster or serial cable to set the channel on the box? Not the perfect solution, but would suffice for most people.
Who's to say you didn't cut the elephant up into little pieces. One couldn't be sure unless they checked every single little space.
I think that burrocrats might actually be quite right in this case.
Well, if you don't release often, how are you supposed to react to changes in the market. Compare with MS, who went 6 years between XP and Vista. Not only were people stuck using a 5 year old OS, which lacked basic stuff such as PNG support for the wallpaper (or the default browser), but they were also very much not in touch with what the market wanted when they released Vista. Now, had they follow a more linux/apple approach, and released something every 6 months to 1 year, they would have known much soon that they were headed down a bad path, and they would have also been able to get new features into the hands of users much sooner.