That or he has an older xbox 360 which are about as silent as a jet engine.
I am on my third xbox 360 now (the first red ringed, the second scratched my rock band disc to the point where it was unplayable)... all three have been incredibly noisy.
Wny yes, and this obviously is the Christian God, not the Nature's God referenced in the paragraph right above that quote.
In case you're confused:
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Considering the deist nature of many of the founders, it's fairly obvious that they were referring to a more naturistic god then that referred to in whatever scripture you might choose. I find this overall to be a rather secular statement. In case you are confused secular means "of or relating to the worldly or temporal" not necessarily "no god." The statements in the Declaration towards the Laws of Nature and Nature's God are in fact very worldly.
There was never an "industry" for things like books and recorded music for most of history, yet music and writing have existed for thousands of years.
This is where patrons came in. Typically some really rich guy (or as was common in many cases) the Church would come in an sponsor an artist to create a painting or a musician to create a song for compensation. This is partly why we have so much religious artwork dating from the middle ages--- the Church was one of the few organizations around that had enough money to sponsor such endeavors. While there still was art being produced without a sponsor, most of the well known artists from the period that you could name had patrons.
And as an aside, "recorded" music is a extremely new phenomenon compared to the length of human history. If you take recorded to mean sound recordings, the first to be able to record arbitrary sound and play it back was Edison in 1877.
For the games I didn't even have to delete, and the download it'd see that it was already there and just update the DRM. Granted navigating the UI is slow and painful, but it works.
For games when you get a warranty replacement console they do some magic to your account so you can just redownload all the games on the new console and you will be able to play them without being signed in on that console.
It's a bit of a pain but it's not that bad. Whether or not that applies to media (ie. Movies) I don't know, but I guess it doesn't.
Then that ISP shouldn't be selling 1 Mbps 'unlimited' connections to 1000+ customers and then complain when people actually *use* the bandwith *they are paying for*. That's false advertising.
When I was using Vista I remembered the graphics engine being somewhat snappier then XP--- (I noticed it the most when I switched back to XP) but in all fairness I also have a 8600 GT in this machine, so if it can't fully take advantage of a DX10 card...
Part of the fun with the recovery process is that it marks the old profile as bad too, although I might of been able to play offline with it. Who knows. I finally managed to get it downloaded, but yes, always a painful process. I don't completely understand why MS makes it so painful, and I don't really want to have to pay money for an overpriced memory card.
My profile was used on someone else's xbox, so when I got back home I tried to recover it back onto my own.
It went part of the way through the recovery process (Effectively wiping out my current profile) and then stopped. I haven't been able to do a complete recovery yet.
For the past several days I haven't been able to play any of my save files, or downloaded content. Considering that my favorite game, Rock Band, relies on save files to be able to play 90% of the content, that means that I effectively can't play it (at least I can't play the songs I want to play).
The fact that so much is directly hooked into xbox live to be able to work on the damn console, it needs to be a hell of a lot more reliable then it is now.
I remember back in the System 7/8 days when in a 0.0.x update they modified the CD-ROM driver to no longer work with non-apple CD ROM drives. All you had to do to "fix" it was go open the driver in ResEdit and change two bytes, but still.
Apple has always been about proprietary, closed in, locked down platforms. They've generally wanted to be Microsoft, but control the hardware too. None of this is new---nor should it be surprising.
I know, but they already have the forwarder option for school email accounts which I think is a more elegant solution then having to manually pull down emails over POP.
You realize that they are writing this emulator without having access to any of the specs for the CPU or GPU that were in the original xbox. It's not as simple are writing a 1:1 emulator simply because they don't have access to all the information to do that, they're effectively reverse engineering the original xbox to make sure that each game works. Because the emulation isn't perfect they don't have as large of a percentage of games, and they individually test each one. The fact that two years after release they're still updating the backwards compatibility list and still working on the emulator is pretty impressive in of itself.
Not to mention that the Xbox emulator on the Xbox 360 renders the game at a higher resolution then the original xbox did, with Anti-Aliasing to boot. This is why Xbox games typically look better on the Xbox 360. Overall that emulation software on the Xbox 360 is a engineering marvel that it works as well as it does with what typically is some of the most hardware bound performance intensive code.
I already have my college.edu address forwarding to my gmail account (well, actually to a dreamhost run email account which then forwards everything to gmail, but it ends up there regardless) and it's tons more reliable then the campus email system. The college's email system was down over thanksgiving because of some oracle security update that needed three days to install. Since then anyone that actually uses the oracle system for their email (instead of a forwarder) are having problem sending email, and the system has been deleting attachments from email too.
Ask anyone on campus whether they would rather use the school run oracle based solution or gmail, and it'd be nearly unanimous in favor of gmail.
Well,that's largely because in the past the rating has been associated with porno. NC-17 used to be "X", which because of it's non-trademark status pornographers started slapping on their movies, and in cases slapping on multiple Xs (where do you think XXX came from?). The creation of the NC-17 rating is largely thanks to this and the mpaa does try to make it clear that NC-17 doesn't mean porn. However thanks to the stigma associated with the previous rating retailers are skittish to carry movies bearing it.
The ESRB with it's similarly structured rating system which is nearly analogous to the movie ratings (E - G, E10- PG, T - PG-13, M - R, AO - NC-17) down to the two-ratings-at-the top-that-mean-basically-the-same-thing has carried much of the stigma of the X/NC-17 rating onto the AO rating.
In many cases too I think both ratings bodies consider having the stigmatized higher ratings gives them more leverage to strong arm companies into toning down their content, so I don't think either ratings organization particularly minds the current ratings status.
One of the funniest gaming moment I ever had was playing WoW with my roommate and his family (father, younger brother and sister) from back home, and all of us on Vent. Suddenly his younger brother says in a very exasperated tone "WE'RE GOING TO HAVE OUR INTERNET SHUT OFF IN TWO MINUTES!!!" His father had the router set up to automatically shut off their access between midnight and 6am, otherwise he would spend way too much time playing games. The sister, who was in the same boat also started to get very distressed, at which point me and my roommate just laughed our asses off.
Of course me and my roommate are both comp sci majors, and both of his parents were comp sci majors, so there was quite a bit of technical knowledge around. Now the parents that have to rely on their kids to configure their routers... they probably have a harder time. My dad would just unplug my ethernet drop when I was living at home and he wanted me off the net.
Dear lord. Where are you working that they hire computer programmers so cheap? Especially ones with enough knowledge to be able to effectively optimize someone else's garbage collector.
Because there's a big difference between "available" drivers and decent drivers? ATi's linux drivers until recently were famously flawed, and I haven't heard much about the recently released set. And the code is for the generic OpenGL renderer, but you still need a driver to be able to interface between OpenGL and the hardware.
And if you had simply RTF Summary, not even RTFA, you would have noted that the issue is not whether or not to use Windows, but the draconian, monopolistic terms that Microsoft tries to force on schools with their educational subscription licensing models. The idea that they force schools to buy licenses for every single machine regardless of whether or not it is running Microsoft software is just this side of extortion, and BECTA was simply pointing out that it is not in a school's best interest to sign such terms, and should opt instead for the normal perpetual license that people purchase. Not over whether or not to use Windows (and Office in this case too), at least not in the short term.
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That or he has an older xbox 360 which are about as silent as a jet engine.
I am on my third xbox 360 now (the first red ringed, the second scratched my rock band disc to the point where it was unplayable)... all three have been incredibly noisy.
No, but you can copy artwork, sound and source code, all of which was blatantly stolen.
Again. RTFA.
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.In case you're confused:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Considering the deist nature of many of the founders, it's fairly obvious that they were referring to a more naturistic god then that referred to in whatever scripture you might choose. I find this overall to be a rather secular statement. In case you are confused secular means "of or relating to the worldly or temporal" not necessarily "no god." The statements in the Declaration towards the Laws of Nature and Nature's God are in fact very worldly.
This is where patrons came in. Typically some really rich guy (or as was common in many cases) the Church would come in an sponsor an artist to create a painting or a musician to create a song for compensation. This is partly why we have so much religious artwork dating from the middle ages--- the Church was one of the few organizations around that had enough money to sponsor such endeavors. While there still was art being produced without a sponsor, most of the well known artists from the period that you could name had patrons.There was never an "industry" for things like books and recorded music for most of history, yet music and writing have existed for thousands of years.
And as an aside, "recorded" music is a extremely new phenomenon compared to the length of human history. If you take recorded to mean sound recordings, the first to be able to record arbitrary sound and play it back was Edison in 1877.
For the games I didn't even have to delete, and the download it'd see that it was already there and just update the DRM. Granted navigating the UI is slow and painful, but it works.
For games when you get a warranty replacement console they do some magic to your account so you can just redownload all the games on the new console and you will be able to play them without being signed in on that console.
It's a bit of a pain but it's not that bad. Whether or not that applies to media (ie. Movies) I don't know, but I guess it doesn't.
Then that ISP shouldn't be selling 1 Mbps 'unlimited' connections to 1000+ customers and then complain when people actually *use* the bandwith *they are paying for*. That's false advertising.
When I was using Vista I remembered the graphics engine being somewhat snappier then XP--- (I noticed it the most when I switched back to XP) but in all fairness I also have a 8600 GT in this machine, so if it can't fully take advantage of a DX10 card...
You also can't recover your profile, which sometimes means you can't really play your xbox. That DOES effect silver members.
How about the "war" between Bluetooth and WiFi?
That was a bunch of hot air that didn't really go anywhere.
Well seeing how in the US you can join the army at 18, but not drink till 21, it's not unique =p
Part of the fun with the recovery process is that it marks the old profile as bad too, although I might of been able to play offline with it. Who knows. I finally managed to get it downloaded, but yes, always a painful process. I don't completely understand why MS makes it so painful, and I don't really want to have to pay money for an overpriced memory card.
Try this for annoying.
My profile was used on someone else's xbox, so when I got back home I tried to recover it back onto my own.
It went part of the way through the recovery process (Effectively wiping out my current profile) and then stopped. I haven't been able to do a complete recovery yet.
For the past several days I haven't been able to play any of my save files, or downloaded content. Considering that my favorite game, Rock Band, relies on save files to be able to play 90% of the content, that means that I effectively can't play it (at least I can't play the songs I want to play).
The fact that so much is directly hooked into xbox live to be able to work on the damn console, it needs to be a hell of a lot more reliable then it is now.
Relatively recently?
I remember back in the System 7/8 days when in a 0.0.x update they modified the CD-ROM driver to no longer work with non-apple CD ROM drives. All you had to do to "fix" it was go open the driver in ResEdit and change two bytes, but still.
Apple has always been about proprietary, closed in, locked down platforms. They've generally wanted to be Microsoft, but control the hardware too. None of this is new---nor should it be surprising.
I know, but they already have the forwarder option for school email accounts which I think is a more elegant solution then having to manually pull down emails over POP.
But really isn't that into it?!?!?
You realize that they are writing this emulator without having access to any of the specs for the CPU or GPU that were in the original xbox. It's not as simple are writing a 1:1 emulator simply because they don't have access to all the information to do that, they're effectively reverse engineering the original xbox to make sure that each game works. Because the emulation isn't perfect they don't have as large of a percentage of games, and they individually test each one. The fact that two years after release they're still updating the backwards compatibility list and still working on the emulator is pretty impressive in of itself.
Not to mention that the Xbox emulator on the Xbox 360 renders the game at a higher resolution then the original xbox did, with Anti-Aliasing to boot. This is why Xbox games typically look better on the Xbox 360. Overall that emulation software on the Xbox 360 is a engineering marvel that it works as well as it does with what typically is some of the most hardware bound performance intensive code.
I already have my college .edu address forwarding to my gmail account (well, actually to a dreamhost run email account which then forwards everything to gmail, but it ends up there regardless) and it's tons more reliable then the campus email system. The college's email system was down over thanksgiving because of some oracle security update that needed three days to install. Since then anyone that actually uses the oracle system for their email (instead of a forwarder) are having problem sending email, and the system has been deleting attachments from email too.
Ask anyone on campus whether they would rather use the school run oracle based solution or gmail, and it'd be nearly unanimous in favor of gmail.
The ESRB with it's similarly structured rating system which is nearly analogous to the movie ratings (E - G, E10- PG, T - PG-13, M - R, AO - NC-17) down to the two-ratings-at-the top-that-mean-basically-the-same-thing has carried much of the stigma of the X/NC-17 rating onto the AO rating.
In many cases too I think both ratings bodies consider having the stigmatized higher ratings gives them more leverage to strong arm companies into toning down their content, so I don't think either ratings organization particularly minds the current ratings status.
One of the funniest gaming moment I ever had was playing WoW with my roommate and his family (father, younger brother and sister) from back home, and all of us on Vent. Suddenly his younger brother says in a very exasperated tone "WE'RE GOING TO HAVE OUR INTERNET SHUT OFF IN TWO MINUTES!!!" His father had the router set up to automatically shut off their access between midnight and 6am, otherwise he would spend way too much time playing games. The sister, who was in the same boat also started to get very distressed, at which point me and my roommate just laughed our asses off.
Of course me and my roommate are both comp sci majors, and both of his parents were comp sci majors, so there was quite a bit of technical knowledge around. Now the parents that have to rely on their kids to configure their routers... they probably have a harder time. My dad would just unplug my ethernet drop when I was living at home and he wanted me off the net.
$12 an hour?
Dear lord. Where are you working that they hire computer programmers so cheap? Especially ones with enough knowledge to be able to effectively optimize someone else's garbage collector.
And I can't believe that sarcasm escapes you. Well, okay maybe I can believe it. See, that was sarcastic!
Because there's a big difference between "available" drivers and decent drivers? ATi's linux drivers until recently were famously flawed, and I haven't heard much about the recently released set. And the code is for the generic OpenGL renderer, but you still need a driver to be able to interface between OpenGL and the hardware.
And if you had simply RTF Summary, not even RTFA, you would have noted that the issue is not whether or not to use Windows, but the draconian, monopolistic terms that Microsoft tries to force on schools with their educational subscription licensing models. The idea that they force schools to buy licenses for every single machine regardless of whether or not it is running Microsoft software is just this side of extortion, and BECTA was simply pointing out that it is not in a school's best interest to sign such terms, and should opt instead for the normal perpetual license that people purchase. Not over whether or not to use Windows (and Office in this case too), at least not in the short term.
I think an extra line saying ?!?!?!@$@#%!@!?! would be warranted too.
You just need more question marks in this case.