Kind of like.Net, only for client side scripting? With.Net, you can program in C#, VB.Net, C++, and probably a couple other languages I'm forgetting. Since.Net is supposed to be an open standard, why not just add a couple classes that can be used to control the browser, and you are set. I'm just kind of playing devils advocate here, because I know that.Net isn't really that open (ie. winforms) but it seems like the implementation of.Net is exactly what the browser scripting world is looking for. One bytecode, multiple languages. It sure would be nice if web developers (like myself) didn't have to constantly switch languages multiple times throughout the day. It would also be nice to have the ability to compile the code, even if it's only to bytecode.
Am I the only one who thought Goldeneye sucked? As far as FPS games from that era on consoles go, it was pretty good, but that isn't saying much. Compared to any FPS on a computer, the control utterly sucked, and there wasn't much else going for it either. I'd rather play Quake 2 than Goldeneye anyday.
I imagine it would also be difficult to play, because historically it has been played by computers via synthesizers. With synthesized instruments you can go a lot faster than any human could, as well as do things with the instruments that would be impossible for any human to accomplish. Even watching the original Mario theme shows that playing it is no simple task. Granted the video shows someone doing it blind folded, but I don't think that makes much difference to a talented pianist.
I've paid $59 for a few of my games. But those were good games. Games that gave me 50+ hours of play time just to beat that. Compare that to buying a movie on DVD for $15, where even if I watch it 5 times, I sill only get 10 hours out of it. A good game should be able to give you 100 hours of play without getting bored, and without having to do repetitive stuff. What we really need to stop is having every game cost $59. I find it very disappointing that all the games cost the exact same amount, even though we all know they didn't cost the same amount to develop, or offer the same amount of enjoyment. I've seen a few cheaper titles, many on the Wii, which is great, but I think that a lot of companies haven't quite caught on yet. I have no problem buying games that aren't epic games, provided they charge the right amount for them.
I have an Athlon 3200+. When recording video, it uses maybe 10% of my computer's processor power. That's because all the MPEG encoding is done by the chip on the TV Tuner. You don't need a machine with any kind of CPU power to act as a Media Centre.
I got a laptop a few months back that has a 1.5 GHz Celeron, with 512 Megs of RAM, and an Intel onboard video card. Not only does it run KDE just fine, it run Compiz Fusion without any problems. There's no reason why this machine shouldn't be running something like KDE, in order to entice the windows users with something a little more familiar. I can't quite find which video card is included, so it's hard to say whether or not it could run Compiz Fusion. Show people that a $200 computer can look just as nice as Vista, and run significantly quicker, and you will convert a lot of people.
But they have to run regardless of which system they have used. They are actually replacing heavy non-rechargable batteries, which may run out, with this new system, which probably weighs about the same, but provides much more reliable power.
That's what I was thinking. They must be doing something wrong. Using machines doesn't make the voting process any faster. The only way to move the line along faster would be to have more polling stations. Just as a reference point to any Americans, the average Canadian polling station only handles 352 people. The voting moves along rather quickly. And although it is possible to use ballot stuffing to rig the vote, it is very hard to do that for a large scale election, because the number of boxes you would have to rig would make it very likely you would get caught. Contrast that with electronic voting, where a couple bits changed in a computer chip can change the entire outcome of the election.
What about Animal Crossing. You can kind of do whatever you want. You never lose. There are no goals. There are certain things that happen when you do other things, but nothing is compulsory, and there is no end to the game. Contrast this with other open-ended games like Simcity, where you can build the city however you want, but get penalized if your city is badly planned, Eventually you will run out of money. In Animal Crossing, you can go fishing all day, every day for 3 months, and nothing bad will happen to your character. If you don't play for 6 months, there will be a bunch of weeds, and cockroaches under your furniture, but that can be cleaned up in about 1/2 an hour.
I've seen some games been given a low score based just on one aspect of the game such as control, graphics, or sound. If the graphics are all that is lacking, then the game is probably worth buying. If the control is lacking, then the game is probably not worth buying, even if the graphics are the best in the world.
See, that's where the real problem with carbon is. People with 2000 sq. foot homes. Heating all that empty space is extremely expensive. And since heating and cooling costs are relative to volume of air, adding 100 sq. feet to a house with 9 foot ceilings adds 900 cubic feet of air to deal with. In America we all enjoy our huge homes, would spend tens of thousands on more efficient furnaces, triple glazed windows, and any other technology. But there's no way we're going back to living in smaller homes like we did 200 years ago.
Here's my killer set-up. SageTV and a TV Tuner, with a good cable package. Extremely easy to set up, and completely legal. I'm already paying for cable (as are most of the users of these download services), I'm not going to pay to download the shows that are already broadcast to me every week. I can put stuff on DVD to play on my TV, or convert it to play on my iPod Nano. From my point of view, it's a very easy to use system, that gives me complete control over the shows I want to watch.
But see, that's what happens when your IDE doesn't include any features, and actually requires plug-ins for some basic tasks. A few years ago, I tried to used Eclipse to do up a quick little Java app with a GUI. Apparently, at the time, you could either hand code your GUI or install some buggy plugin that did the job OK, but not quite that well. Or if you used Netbeans, then the drag-and-drop GUI designer was included as a core part of the IDE. IDEs as far as I'm concerned need a lot of functionality, because of their purpose. If their purpose was just typing code, then we could all just settle for notepad, but those who have used a good IDE know that they are so much more than that. So they should include a lot of features as core components that are well tested and well supported, because relying on third party plugins for things that should be core components leads to a very unstable program.
Who cares if you aren't getting paid for having the logo on your show. It makes your video look like crap when half the screen is blurred out for the entire duration, just because somebody happens to wear a sweater with a logo.
But Youtube was making money off it. If you count the ad revenue that is generated from people viewing the videos. Also of concern would be, what would happen if you took the same video, and had a computer generate 10,000 files, each with a different song on them. Then you posted those on then internet, along with instructions on how to run some other program which would just take the audio from the video file, and put it into an mp3 file. If the audio stream in the file is mp3, you wouldn't even have to re-encode, and you could just pull the stream out of the video file. If they let somebody host 1 video with 1 song, then it's kind of hard to argue that another site couldn't have thousands of such videos.
No, don't you realize, there's only bad debt. Instead of getting student loans (at low interest rates) so we can get degrees and get good paying jobs, we should all just start working crappy jobs straight out of highschool.
Exactly. that's what people always seem to forget. A lot of poor people now have a lot of things the poor wouldn't have had 50 years ago. Computers, internet, television, cellular phone, premade meals and fast food. And before anybody complains about how the poor don't have all this stuff, think about it. I know lots of people who can't afford to feed their family, but only because they won't stop paying for the luxuries.
That right there is what pretty much makes PDF the worst choice for putting documents online. It's great for something that needs to be printed out. I used it all the time in University when I brought assignments in to be printed out. Even changing versions of MS Word for different printers could mess up a document. However, as far as actually reading the document goes, I'd much rather have something that's more suited to displaying on a computer screen, like HTML+CSS.
No, but why spend hours figuring out how some color will look in a magazine when the color will appear different to the person based on many things such as their own eyes, lighting type (sun, fluorescent, tungsten, halogen), lighting levels, and so many other variables.
But we'd certainly have less cases where they waited 5 years, until the technology was being used by 25 different companies, and then suing everyone. If you have so many patents that you can't keep track of them, and can't tell if a product is infringing, then you have too many patents. You don't have to watch the millions of products to ensure that your patent isn't being infringed, because only a very small fraction of those would have any possibility of infringing. If you have a patent on a component in a car's engine, you only have to pay attention to new car engines coming out, not to the millions of other products.
Lets say that I have 10 classes that I want to use for a certain page. Now to make my code more organized, I have each class in a separate file. Now I have to have 10 include statements. With compiled code, such as.Net or Java, I don't need any include statements as long as the classes are in the same namespace. If the classes are in a different namespace, then I need 1 include statement for each namespace. I could have a separte include statement for each namespace, but who really does that?
See this is the main reason why our patent system is completely messed up. If you patent flash memory technology, you shouldn't have the right to stop all other companies from making similar products.
That's exactly why the patent system exists. Take that away, and there's no need for patents at all. I think one thing that should be addressed is these submarine patents. If you don't complain about an infringing product, you should lose your right to patent protection. With millions of patents on the books, it's impossible for anyone to verify that they aren't infringing on a patent. You shouldn't be able to wait around for years while people use your invention, and then sue every company is existence, for billions of dollars because they were infringing.
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Kind of like .Net, only for client side scripting? With .Net, you can program in C#, VB.Net, C++, and probably a couple other languages I'm forgetting. Since .Net is supposed to be an open standard, why not just add a couple classes that can be used to control the browser, and you are set. I'm just kind of playing devils advocate here, because I know that .Net isn't really that open (ie. winforms) but it seems like the implementation of .Net is exactly what the browser scripting world is looking for. One bytecode, multiple languages. It sure would be nice if web developers (like myself) didn't have to constantly switch languages multiple times throughout the day. It would also be nice to have the ability to compile the code, even if it's only to bytecode.
Am I the only one who thought Goldeneye sucked? As far as FPS games from that era on consoles go, it was pretty good, but that isn't saying much. Compared to any FPS on a computer, the control utterly sucked, and there wasn't much else going for it either. I'd rather play Quake 2 than Goldeneye anyday.
I imagine it would also be difficult to play, because historically it has been played by computers via synthesizers. With synthesized instruments you can go a lot faster than any human could, as well as do things with the instruments that would be impossible for any human to accomplish. Even watching the original Mario theme shows that playing it is no simple task. Granted the video shows someone doing it blind folded, but I don't think that makes much difference to a talented pianist.
But if you're using an funky new HDTV, then you don't need S-Video out, because they have VGA in.
I've paid $59 for a few of my games. But those were good games. Games that gave me 50+ hours of play time just to beat that. Compare that to buying a movie on DVD for $15, where even if I watch it 5 times, I sill only get 10 hours out of it. A good game should be able to give you 100 hours of play without getting bored, and without having to do repetitive stuff. What we really need to stop is having every game cost $59. I find it very disappointing that all the games cost the exact same amount, even though we all know they didn't cost the same amount to develop, or offer the same amount of enjoyment. I've seen a few cheaper titles, many on the Wii, which is great, but I think that a lot of companies haven't quite caught on yet. I have no problem buying games that aren't epic games, provided they charge the right amount for them.
I have an Athlon 3200+. When recording video, it uses maybe 10% of my computer's processor power. That's because all the MPEG encoding is done by the chip on the TV Tuner. You don't need a machine with any kind of CPU power to act as a Media Centre.
Why would you need more than 1 PCI slot? You can get a dual tuner that only takes up 1 slot.
I got a laptop a few months back that has a 1.5 GHz Celeron, with 512 Megs of RAM, and an Intel onboard video card. Not only does it run KDE just fine, it run Compiz Fusion without any problems. There's no reason why this machine shouldn't be running something like KDE, in order to entice the windows users with something a little more familiar. I can't quite find which video card is included, so it's hard to say whether or not it could run Compiz Fusion. Show people that a $200 computer can look just as nice as Vista, and run significantly quicker, and you will convert a lot of people.
But they have to run regardless of which system they have used. They are actually replacing heavy non-rechargable batteries, which may run out, with this new system, which probably weighs about the same, but provides much more reliable power.
That's what I was thinking. They must be doing something wrong. Using machines doesn't make the voting process any faster. The only way to move the line along faster would be to have more polling stations. Just as a reference point to any Americans, the average Canadian polling station only handles 352 people. The voting moves along rather quickly. And although it is possible to use ballot stuffing to rig the vote, it is very hard to do that for a large scale election, because the number of boxes you would have to rig would make it very likely you would get caught. Contrast that with electronic voting, where a couple bits changed in a computer chip can change the entire outcome of the election.
What about Animal Crossing. You can kind of do whatever you want. You never lose. There are no goals. There are certain things that happen when you do other things, but nothing is compulsory, and there is no end to the game. Contrast this with other open-ended games like Simcity, where you can build the city however you want, but get penalized if your city is badly planned, Eventually you will run out of money. In Animal Crossing, you can go fishing all day, every day for 3 months, and nothing bad will happen to your character. If you don't play for 6 months, there will be a bunch of weeds, and cockroaches under your furniture, but that can be cleaned up in about 1/2 an hour.
I've seen some games been given a low score based just on one aspect of the game such as control, graphics, or sound. If the graphics are all that is lacking, then the game is probably worth buying. If the control is lacking, then the game is probably not worth buying, even if the graphics are the best in the world.
See, that's where the real problem with carbon is. People with 2000 sq. foot homes. Heating all that empty space is extremely expensive. And since heating and cooling costs are relative to volume of air, adding 100 sq. feet to a house with 9 foot ceilings adds 900 cubic feet of air to deal with. In America we all enjoy our huge homes, would spend tens of thousands on more efficient furnaces, triple glazed windows, and any other technology. But there's no way we're going back to living in smaller homes like we did 200 years ago.
Here's my killer set-up. SageTV and a TV Tuner, with a good cable package. Extremely easy to set up, and completely legal. I'm already paying for cable (as are most of the users of these download services), I'm not going to pay to download the shows that are already broadcast to me every week. I can put stuff on DVD to play on my TV, or convert it to play on my iPod Nano. From my point of view, it's a very easy to use system, that gives me complete control over the shows I want to watch.
But see, that's what happens when your IDE doesn't include any features, and actually requires plug-ins for some basic tasks. A few years ago, I tried to used Eclipse to do up a quick little Java app with a GUI. Apparently, at the time, you could either hand code your GUI or install some buggy plugin that did the job OK, but not quite that well. Or if you used Netbeans, then the drag-and-drop GUI designer was included as a core part of the IDE. IDEs as far as I'm concerned need a lot of functionality, because of their purpose. If their purpose was just typing code, then we could all just settle for notepad, but those who have used a good IDE know that they are so much more than that. So they should include a lot of features as core components that are well tested and well supported, because relying on third party plugins for things that should be core components leads to a very unstable program.
Who cares if you aren't getting paid for having the logo on your show. It makes your video look like crap when half the screen is blurred out for the entire duration, just because somebody happens to wear a sweater with a logo.
But Youtube was making money off it. If you count the ad revenue that is generated from people viewing the videos. Also of concern would be, what would happen if you took the same video, and had a computer generate 10,000 files, each with a different song on them. Then you posted those on then internet, along with instructions on how to run some other program which would just take the audio from the video file, and put it into an mp3 file. If the audio stream in the file is mp3, you wouldn't even have to re-encode, and you could just pull the stream out of the video file. If they let somebody host 1 video with 1 song, then it's kind of hard to argue that another site couldn't have thousands of such videos.
No, don't you realize, there's only bad debt. Instead of getting student loans (at low interest rates) so we can get degrees and get good paying jobs, we should all just start working crappy jobs straight out of highschool.
Or, you could just loan them the money to buy a goat. And they have a 99% repayment rate.
Exactly. that's what people always seem to forget. A lot of poor people now have a lot of things the poor wouldn't have had 50 years ago. Computers, internet, television, cellular phone, premade meals and fast food. And before anybody complains about how the poor don't have all this stuff, think about it. I know lots of people who can't afford to feed their family, but only because they won't stop paying for the luxuries.
That right there is what pretty much makes PDF the worst choice for putting documents online. It's great for something that needs to be printed out. I used it all the time in University when I brought assignments in to be printed out. Even changing versions of MS Word for different printers could mess up a document. However, as far as actually reading the document goes, I'd much rather have something that's more suited to displaying on a computer screen, like HTML+CSS.
No, but why spend hours figuring out how some color will look in a magazine when the color will appear different to the person based on many things such as their own eyes, lighting type (sun, fluorescent, tungsten, halogen), lighting levels, and so many other variables.
But we'd certainly have less cases where they waited 5 years, until the technology was being used by 25 different companies, and then suing everyone. If you have so many patents that you can't keep track of them, and can't tell if a product is infringing, then you have too many patents. You don't have to watch the millions of products to ensure that your patent isn't being infringed, because only a very small fraction of those would have any possibility of infringing. If you have a patent on a component in a car's engine, you only have to pay attention to new car engines coming out, not to the millions of other products.
Lets say that I have 10 classes that I want to use for a certain page. Now to make my code more organized, I have each class in a separate file. Now I have to have 10 include statements. With compiled code, such as .Net or Java, I don't need any include statements as long as the classes are in the same namespace. If the classes are in a different namespace, then I need 1 include statement for each namespace. I could have a separte include statement for each namespace, but who really does that?