Have you considered plugging your ethernet to usb adapter in a usb port on your monitor?
I have a Dell monitor at home and have plugged the usb ethernet adapter, webcam, keyboard, wireless dongle for mouse and connected it to my mac using a usb cable for the devices and display port for the image. Plus one cable for power obviously.
It's still annoying to have three cables to unplug whenever I want ti take the laptop somewhere, but it's better than plugging everything in the laptop.
Of course there is a technical value. Have you ever wondered why these laptops are so thin? Take a look at the Macbook Pro's battery. https://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfr... I bet it would be a lot harder to make one of these swappable. It's as wide as the laptop, almost half of the height of the machine and about goes almost halfway through. Add the non-regular shape, and you've got something hard to swap in and out.
In my personal experience as an employee, if it's possible for you and your company, allow them to work from home once or twice a week either through Remote Desktop/VNC/whatever on the company's VPN or bring a laptop home. If your employees are responsible, working from home means less interruptions, greater focus and therefore more productivity. It also means less commute for them and more free time, less stress and they can take care of home chores like doing the laundry while they work or take their time preparing dinner. It's also easier for them if they have kids since they can just be there when they come home.
Just-in-time manufacturing avoids having excess inventory, but R&D is a cost that can only be recouped through selling inventory. They invested money in designing the case and need to recoup that investment. Seems fair they are not taking that design and selling it with Windows on it.
Actually, I was at a presentation done by Pixar last year and they said that for Ratatouille, they ditched raytracing for rasterising. The reason why is that they realised early on that most of the scenes were taking place where there was a lot of metals and glasses with translucent liquids (like wine). They wanted to have nice effects, but rendering a single glass of wine took hours for a single frame. In the end, they decided to rasterize those scenes instead faking the caustics with environment maps and other raster tricks. I don't know if they used the same technique for Wall-E
... I was playing Bioshock. I had just killed my first big daddy. I was badly injured, I had almost no ammo left. I looked for a vending machine to buy some ammo and health when a SECOND big daddy comes around. I hid under the stairs in the game and hoped he wouldn't see me because I was so low on everything. I saved and went to bed.
Let me breathe a bit after that first encounter. That was brutal.
I also love their "research" that "people who own gaming consoles buy fewer movies than those who invest in a movie-only player", when I personally already own 19 BluRay discs and I only own a PS3. This is how they are trying to discredit the install base everyone. In the US, Blu-Ray has only been outselling HD-DVD 2 to 1 so far this year, while it has sold a lot more players. The tie-ratio is much much much higher on HD-DVD devices than on Blu-Ray devices. Maybe their internal research shows that in the long run, it's more profitable to support HDDVD. Sure, Blu-Ray sells more right now. Who knows what will happen in the coming years?
Last time I checked Blu-Ray is selling twice as much discs as HDDVD in the United States, yet has probably more than 5 times (pulling those out of my ass, I don't know how many HD-DVD players + 360 add-ons were sold) the install base. This tells us one and one thing only : if you want to make a business decision on high-def formats, do not put too much emphasis on those 5 million PS3s sold, because an awful lot of them are not playing Blu-Ray movies, while ALL HD-DVD players are playing HD-DVD movies.
I can't believe how some people on Slashdot are jadded. I mean, here you have a group of professionnals who care deeply about the game they are working on and they are being told by the very people who will review their game and somewhat sway the public's decision that they really loved it.
You guys think that these developpers aren't happy, even if it's just honorary? You people need to get a job and see how it feels when people validate your work, even if they are "only journalists".
I don't mind the sex part. What they do when they don't play Halo 3 doesn't concern me. But if some of them actually reproduce, then we have a problem.
You must live in fantasy land where shipping a console both ways and paying someone by the hour to fix something, all of this at the cost of Microsoft, doesn't cost a thing.
To me, a 1.5 million signature bonus is not a step down. Besides, once you've been VP of the biggest software company's game division, there is not a lot of other places to go up to.
Around where I live (Canada), I've never even seen a TV that takes component cables. What the....? Go to FutureShop, all TVs have had those for years. I think you're confused with something else.
but I am saying that watching a movie with your kids tends towards the "unhealthy" side, and playing games tends towards the "healthy" side, in my opinion.
Have you ever talked about the finer points of a movie, book or TV show with your parents? Or how fun it was and how much you enjoyed it? Games, TV, books, they're all the same : they are what you make them to be, selfish or healthy.
Of course it offsets the chance that you catch some other disease... if you consider the chances you will die of lung cancer before you catch something else.
150 bucks??? I don't know. Microsoft offers a "two extra year warranty" for 60CAN$ and Future Shop did so for the same price. Anyone paying more than that is getting screwed. And in the case of the Microsoft warranty, I hear it's renewable, so before expiry, you can renew it.
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Have you considered plugging your ethernet to usb adapter in a usb port on your monitor?
I have a Dell monitor at home and have plugged the usb ethernet adapter, webcam, keyboard, wireless dongle for mouse and connected it to my mac using a usb cable for the devices and display port for the image. Plus one cable for power obviously.
It's still annoying to have three cables to unplug whenever I want ti take the laptop somewhere, but it's better than plugging everything in the laptop.
1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5, which is commonly used for luggage combinations and planetary shields?
Of course there is a technical value. Have you ever wondered why these laptops are so thin? Take a look at the Macbook Pro's battery.
https://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfr...
I bet it would be a lot harder to make one of these swappable. It's as wide as the laptop, almost half of the height of the machine and about goes almost halfway through. Add the non-regular shape, and you've got something hard to swap in and out.
In my personal experience as an employee, if it's possible for you and your company, allow them to work from home once or twice a week either through Remote Desktop/VNC/whatever on the company's VPN or bring a laptop home. If your employees are responsible, working from home means less interruptions, greater focus and therefore more productivity. It also means less commute for them and more free time, less stress and they can take care of home chores like doing the laundry while they work or take their time preparing dinner. It's also easier for them if they have kids since they can just be there when they come home.
Just-in-time manufacturing avoids having excess inventory, but R&D is a cost that can only be recouped through selling inventory. They invested money in designing the case and need to recoup that investment. Seems fair they are not taking that design and selling it with Windows on it.
Actually, I was at a presentation done by Pixar last year and they said that for Ratatouille, they ditched raytracing for rasterising. The reason why is that they realised early on that most of the scenes were taking place where there was a lot of metals and glasses with translucent liquids (like wine). They wanted to have nice effects, but rendering a single glass of wine took hours for a single frame. In the end, they decided to rasterize those scenes instead faking the caustics with environment maps and other raster tricks. I don't know if they used the same technique for Wall-E
But I bet you could have done it in emacs. ;)
Play as many games on as many different SKUs as you possibly can. ;)
Here, corrected that for you.
Artificial life impossible for the next 9 years.
... I was playing Bioshock. I had just killed my first big daddy. I was badly injured, I had almost no ammo left. I looked for a vending machine to buy some ammo and health when a SECOND big daddy comes around. I hid under the stairs in the game and hoped he wouldn't see me because I was so low on everything. I saved and went to bed.
Let me breathe a bit after that first encounter. That was brutal.
considering the painless alternatives.
Since when is Linux or MacOS painless? Each platform have their share of frustration.
I also love their "research" that "people who own gaming consoles buy fewer movies than those who invest in a movie-only player", when I personally already own 19 BluRay discs and I only own a PS3. This is how they are trying to discredit the install base everyone.
In the US, Blu-Ray has only been outselling HD-DVD 2 to 1 so far this year, while it has sold a lot more players. The tie-ratio is much much much higher on HD-DVD devices than on Blu-Ray devices. Maybe their internal research shows that in the long run, it's more profitable to support HDDVD. Sure, Blu-Ray sells more right now. Who knows what will happen in the coming years?
Last time I checked Blu-Ray is selling twice as much discs as HDDVD in the United States, yet has probably more than 5 times (pulling those out of my ass, I don't know how many HD-DVD players + 360 add-ons were sold) the install base. This tells us one and one thing only : if you want to make a business decision on high-def formats, do not put too much emphasis on those 5 million PS3s sold, because an awful lot of them are not playing Blu-Ray movies, while ALL HD-DVD players are playing HD-DVD movies.
Music is very old. Maybe it's like Alzeihmer. Start like a baby, grow up and end up a babbling idiot, like a baby.
I can't believe how some people on Slashdot are jadded. I mean, here you have a group of professionnals who care deeply about the game they are working on and they are being told by the very people who will review their game and somewhat sway the public's decision that they really loved it.
You guys think that these developpers aren't happy, even if it's just honorary? You people need to get a job and see how it feels when people validate your work, even if they are "only journalists".
What the heck man? N'Gai Croal is one of the best profesionnal bloggers about videogames.
I don't mind the sex part. What they do when they don't play Halo 3 doesn't concern me. But if some of them actually reproduce, then we have a problem.
You must live in fantasy land where shipping a console both ways and paying someone by the hour to fix something, all of this at the cost of Microsoft, doesn't cost a thing.
EA -- releases the same games year after year, with some updates
It's fucking football. What do you want them to do, change the rules?
They are a business. If people want to buy something and you can make it, you make it.
To me, a 1.5 million signature bonus is not a step down. Besides, once you've been VP of the biggest software company's game division, there is not a lot of other places to go up to.
Around where I live (Canada), I've never even seen a TV that takes component cables. ....? Go to FutureShop, all TVs have had those for years. I think you're confused with something else.
What the
Or to quote Time Enough for Love :
"Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. (He is also a fool.) "
but I am saying that watching a movie with your kids tends towards the "unhealthy" side, and playing games tends towards the "healthy" side, in my opinion.
Have you ever talked about the finer points of a movie, book or TV show with your parents? Or how fun it was and how much you enjoyed it? Games, TV, books, they're all the same : they are what you make them to be, selfish or healthy.
Of course it offsets the chance that you catch some other disease... if you consider the chances you will die of lung cancer before you catch something else.
150 bucks??? I don't know. Microsoft offers a "two extra year warranty" for 60CAN$ and Future Shop did so for the same price. Anyone paying more than that is getting screwed. And in the case of the Microsoft warranty, I hear it's renewable, so before expiry, you can renew it.