They would get a blue screen on boot because windows doesn't like the IDE driver it's trying to pull up. The same would occur if you tried to go into safe mode.
The only recourse would be to try a repair from the install CD effectively "reinstalling" windows.
The point of the game company's splash at the beginning of the game is more for brand recognition. Believe it or not, there's people out there who would have no clue who makes the game they play without it. I see it more as the credits at the beginning of the movie. That has been going on for ages and is quite different then in-game advertising.
Just because you're accusing the search tool of partisan hackery doesn't mean it should stop you before making your own partisan hacked up assaults. Not to mention that Al Gore isn't even involved in this case.
I know Apple has support costs. The fixes (replaced corrupt hard drive, reseated airport card, etc.) that I just had done to my PowerBook would have cost me $360 if it wasn't still under warranty. While I sincerely doubt that's how much it really costs Apple to do all that work, it wasn't free either.
However if Apple were to put OS X out in the open their QA costs would skyrocket considerably. Instead of having to test against a relatively small number of somewhat homogeneous hardware sets (at least within their architecture class), they would have to test against a very wide array of cpus, motherboards, video cards, sound cards not to mention a ton of other hardware that people might put in their PCs that Apple never has stuck in a mac before. It also would have a noticeable effect on their development times too as there would be considerably more hardware related bugs and issues to track down and fix before a release could be made, and of course you'd have to make sure that those changes didn't introduce regressions on other hardware sets. The amount of potential support issues would grow exponentially with the number hardware sets supported, and while Dell would cover some testing when they ship out units, and potentially even a driver fix here or there, realistically the model Dell is used to working with for their consumer business at least, is to slap on a copy of windows and make sure it has (somewhat) working drivers and ship it out, it's considerably different from Apple where as the makers of both the hardware and software they're constantly testing new OS releases against every hardware class that the update is supposed to support.
And lets be honest, sales from services like Steam and Direct2Drive are rather insignificant compared to that coming from brick and mortar stores, that is if they ever actually released those numbers.
Not to mention recently you have such time vacuums like World of Warcraft that have been drying up PC gaming dollars that might go elsewhere. Consoles don't really have that problem, yet.
Just to add more input for you, I'm a computer science major and the department at my university has it as stated policy that the average GPA for lower-division undergrad courses is to be 2.0 (upper division is a 3.0 avg), on a roughly normal distribution. I've seen the "real" curve quite a bit. It still usually ends up slightly increasing people's grades, but it can shock a number of incoming freshmen that aren't used to having to actually work to pass a class, let alone get an A. More most professors the scores tend to fall into a somewhat normal distribution anyways, and when they calculate out their final grades they tend to place the A/B/C/D/F +/- marks in spots where they get a fairly normal distribution, although I don't think many profs would fail someone who got above 70% overall. However often the profs that grade the easiest are the ones that have been at the school the longest and are already tenured, so they don't have to worry about repercussions when they have a class with a higher-then-expected average GPA.
The High School I went to though was super overachieving academically oriented (most students from this school go onto college only to say that their courses are easier), and if you got a 85% you'd probably be in the bottom third of the class, if not lower. The use of a "real" curve there would produce interesting results, but I doubt you'd ever see it for the reasons you have mentioned.
It's the 8th season finale episode (for those don't remember) and the last with Richard Dean Anderson as a regular.
And I very wholeheartedly agree. That show went on (at least) two years longer then it should and the 8th season finale was so wonderful, it should have been the series finale.
What--- you never saw the Recycling episode of Bullshit? Wasting paper results in more trees being grown to create more paper! (Like eating more french fries results in farmers growing more potatoes)
Obviously AT&T is actually trying to do their part for the environment by encouraging the planting of more trees for paper production.
I don't know what I'm talking about but I don't think you know either?
What sort of response is that?
In fact the GP comments were pretty close to on the mark. The single general purpose core used in the PS3 is almost identical to the one in the Xbox 360, however the Xbox 360 happens to have three of them. So simply using a single core on the PS3 isn't going to bring it up to xbox 360 levels as the PS3's graphics chip is also somewhat less powerful then the Xbox 360's. The idea was that a lot of the graphics processing work would be handled by the SPEs taking some of the burden off of the GPU.
The usual criticism I see is that the SPEs are so specialized that it's hard to do anything but specific tasks with them and all of your thread management and scheduling has to take up cycles on the one general purpose core that might be the only one capable of performing other tasks too. Having enough bandwith to feed all 7 cores at once could become problematic rather fast too.
The overall point is that data storage, while being nice to have, is a rather old problem that developers already know how to deal with and in the end isn't nearly as difficult to tackle when compared to having to develop for a incredibly complex over-engineered architecture that stress massive parallelism, when games in the past haven't even set up to handle two cores at once, let alone seven. The Xbox 360 on the other hand with three general purpose cores and a more powerful graphics chip is much easier to program for and push the hardware farther.
Erm, considering how much noise there was of launch 360s failing. And considering that of my friends with Xbox 360s, the two that have broken, one was a launch box, the other was second wave made in December 05.
So while it's just anecdotal evidence, that's more then you have.
Except for the fact that they started working on this since before the xbox 360 was released, so they didn't even have a way to know that it was broken.
If you've read any of the articles you would know that the issue is Epic not delivering on their contracts (assumedly) for the purpose of being able to highlight their own games (Gears of War) over competitors who had licenses their engine. It's not as simple as "don't license it."
If you really want to see freaky there's always the Coop server too.
It is (or rather was) a community of frighteningly helpful players. As long as you weren't a complete idiot you'd have people offering to hand you gear and help you out left and right.
I knew a bunch of single employed twenty-somethings working in Silicon Valley that bought PSPs shortly after release, I myself was one. However like most of the people that I know that bought one, I indeed regret it. The game support is lack luster to non-existent and Sony is pretty hostile to their customer base as is.
I would have to agree at that SLO isn't really "SoCal"... but they still give the discount. They even sell SoCal discounted tickets at the Costco in town, although the sign warns you you need to have a zip code in a certain range which SLO just barely falls in.
And I went to Splash Cafe two days ago if it makes you feel any better.:)
Trying to equate race with nationality is an incredibly misleading argument and shows that you really have no freaking clue what's going on.
What you are trying to argue is that if they show a California ID they get charges $x, if they show a ID from some other state they get charged some price $y.
And THIS DOES HAPPEN. Ever go to Disneyland? I guess not, but still. If I show a Driver's License registered for San Luis Obispo (93405, where I currently live) that's considered "Southern California" and I will get a discount. If I show a driver's license for Cupertino (95014, where I used to live---also in California, and happens to be the HQ of Apple) that's considered "Not Southern California" and I get charged another higher rate. Many of the Theme Parks in Southern California do this. It is not illegal.
This is yet another case or Europeans really having no clue what the American market is like, making egregious assumptions and then trying to link their argument with American racism---something which they rarely have more then the vaguest concept of.
I would have to disagree. I've been perfectly happy with Heroes pacing considering there's a lot of characters they have to establish and the characters have been excellent. Hiro I think is one of the best TV Characters in ages and is just so weird and quirky and funny that I absolutely love seeing him on the screen.
Not to mention they're usually telling 4 or 5 different somewhat-intertwined stories at once.
There aren't many 3rd party drivers--- apart from the occasional printer driver, that are used with Mac OS X on a regular basis to begin with. Because as has been pointed out time and time again they were using a 3rd party wifi product on a laptop with wifi built in. In general about everything is built into a mac and Apple directly supports said products with drivers either written or supported by Apple.
This is *NOT* simply a mass transit system though. These busses are much more posh then you'd see in any public transit system, and are equipped with things like WiFi.
And considering the paranoid security climate around the valley, there's a good chance that no two companies would agree to share a shuttle service like that simply because they'd be too worried about company secrets leaking. And Google isn't the only company that has services like this, Apple has some shuttles available for employees that live in the Santa Cruz area and I'm sure there's a couple I don't know about. Those shuttles are usually organized by the employees though, which makes Google's system unique.
On top of that the TI 89's interface is leaps and bounds ahead of the other TIs (Except the 92 which is pretty much a 89 with a QWERTY keyboard)
Being able to scroll through and select previously inputted equations and having it interpret and display your input in a much more readable format makes finding entry errors much easier.
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Not even.
They would get a blue screen on boot because windows doesn't like the IDE driver it's trying to pull up. The same would occur if you tried to go into safe mode.
The only recourse would be to try a repair from the install CD effectively "reinstalling" windows.
The point of the game company's splash at the beginning of the game is more for brand recognition. Believe it or not, there's people out there who would have no clue who makes the game they play without it. I see it more as the credits at the beginning of the movie. That has been going on for ages and is quite different then in-game advertising.
http://www.amazon.com/Zakennayo-Philip-J-Cunningham/dp/0452275067/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-0218988-8356053?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1192763964&sr=8-1
I have a copy laying around somewhere.
It's not so much a book of swear words, as it is insults.
If that was true, it might be worth noting. But it's not:
http://investor.google.com/board.html
Both Gore and Schmidt are on Apple's board of directors however: http://www.apple.com/pr/bios/bod.html
Just because you're accusing the search tool of partisan hackery doesn't mean it should stop you before making your own partisan hacked up assaults. Not to mention that Al Gore isn't even involved in this case.
However if Apple were to put OS X out in the open their QA costs would skyrocket considerably. Instead of having to test against a relatively small number of somewhat homogeneous hardware sets (at least within their architecture class), they would have to test against a very wide array of cpus, motherboards, video cards, sound cards not to mention a ton of other hardware that people might put in their PCs that Apple never has stuck in a mac before. It also would have a noticeable effect on their development times too as there would be considerably more hardware related bugs and issues to track down and fix before a release could be made, and of course you'd have to make sure that those changes didn't introduce regressions on other hardware sets. The amount of potential support issues would grow exponentially with the number hardware sets supported, and while Dell would cover some testing when they ship out units, and potentially even a driver fix here or there, realistically the model Dell is used to working with for their consumer business at least, is to slap on a copy of windows and make sure it has (somewhat) working drivers and ship it out, it's considerably different from Apple where as the makers of both the hardware and software they're constantly testing new OS releases against every hardware class that the update is supposed to support.
And lets be honest, sales from services like Steam and Direct2Drive are rather insignificant compared to that coming from brick and mortar stores, that is if they ever actually released those numbers.
Not to mention recently you have such time vacuums like World of Warcraft that have been drying up PC gaming dollars that might go elsewhere. Consoles don't really have that problem, yet.
Or they could write off the 1% of gamers out there that went to Vista and didn't switch back to XP already.
Just to add more input for you, I'm a computer science major and the department at my university has it as stated policy that the average GPA for lower-division undergrad courses is to be 2.0 (upper division is a 3.0 avg), on a roughly normal distribution. I've seen the "real" curve quite a bit. It still usually ends up slightly increasing people's grades, but it can shock a number of incoming freshmen that aren't used to having to actually work to pass a class, let alone get an A. More most professors the scores tend to fall into a somewhat normal distribution anyways, and when they calculate out their final grades they tend to place the A/B/C/D/F +/- marks in spots where they get a fairly normal distribution, although I don't think many profs would fail someone who got above 70% overall. However often the profs that grade the easiest are the ones that have been at the school the longest and are already tenured, so they don't have to worry about repercussions when they have a class with a higher-then-expected average GPA.
The High School I went to though was super overachieving academically oriented (most students from this school go onto college only to say that their courses are easier), and if you got a 85% you'd probably be in the bottom third of the class, if not lower. The use of a "real" curve there would produce interesting results, but I doubt you'd ever see it for the reasons you have mentioned.
In that very same episode.
It's the 8th season finale episode (for those don't remember) and the last with Richard Dean Anderson as a regular.
And I very wholeheartedly agree. That show went on (at least) two years longer then it should and the 8th season finale was so wonderful, it should have been the series finale.
What--- you never saw the Recycling episode of Bullshit? Wasting paper results in more trees being grown to create more paper! (Like eating more french fries results in farmers growing more potatoes)
Obviously AT&T is actually trying to do their part for the environment by encouraging the planting of more trees for paper production.
I don't know what I'm talking about but I don't think you know either?
What sort of response is that?
In fact the GP comments were pretty close to on the mark. The single general purpose core used in the PS3 is almost identical to the one in the Xbox 360, however the Xbox 360 happens to have three of them. So simply using a single core on the PS3 isn't going to bring it up to xbox 360 levels as the PS3's graphics chip is also somewhat less powerful then the Xbox 360's. The idea was that a lot of the graphics processing work would be handled by the SPEs taking some of the burden off of the GPU.
The usual criticism I see is that the SPEs are so specialized that it's hard to do anything but specific tasks with them and all of your thread management and scheduling has to take up cycles on the one general purpose core that might be the only one capable of performing other tasks too. Having enough bandwith to feed all 7 cores at once could become problematic rather fast too.
The overall point is that data storage, while being nice to have, is a rather old problem that developers already know how to deal with and in the end isn't nearly as difficult to tackle when compared to having to develop for a incredibly complex over-engineered architecture that stress massive parallelism, when games in the past haven't even set up to handle two cores at once, let alone seven. The Xbox 360 on the other hand with three general purpose cores and a more powerful graphics chip is much easier to program for and push the hardware farther.
>> you cannot deny that the work Tolkien put into Middle Earth eclipses Rowling's middle-grade novels.
Why yes I can deny it.
Why. I can deny it again. And again, and again.
You presumptuously saying otherwise does not stop me from saying so.
Erm, considering how much noise there was of launch 360s failing. And considering that of my friends with Xbox 360s, the two that have broken, one was a launch box, the other was second wave made in December 05.
So while it's just anecdotal evidence, that's more then you have.
Except for the fact that they started working on this since before the xbox 360 was released, so they didn't even have a way to know that it was broken.
If you've read any of the articles you would know that the issue is Epic not delivering on their contracts (assumedly) for the purpose of being able to highlight their own games (Gears of War) over competitors who had licenses their engine. It's not as simple as "don't license it."
If you're going to make a complete idiot of yourself why don't you at least get the country right?
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If you didn't happen to notice he was referring to the UK pricing regime for the PS3... And if you look at the Amazon UK site:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/bestsellers/videogames
You'll notice the PS3 is currently coming in at #27, behind a number of Xbox 360 and Wii games, not to mention the DS handheld.
If you really want to see freaky there's always the Coop server too.
It is (or rather was) a community of frighteningly helpful players. As long as you weren't a complete idiot you'd have people offering to hand you gear and help you out left and right.
At least you didn't say good MMOs.
No. The question is rather, is the law CONSTITUTIONAL.
If the law can be applied in such a way as to restrict the freedom of speech of something as basic as a number... does that cross the line?
I knew a bunch of single employed twenty-somethings working in Silicon Valley that bought PSPs shortly after release, I myself was one. However like most of the people that I know that bought one, I indeed regret it. The game support is lack luster to non-existent and Sony is pretty hostile to their customer base as is.
I would have to agree at that SLO isn't really "SoCal"... but they still give the discount. They even sell SoCal discounted tickets at the Costco in town, although the sign warns you you need to have a zip code in a certain range which SLO just barely falls in.
:)
And I went to Splash Cafe two days ago if it makes you feel any better.
Trying to equate race with nationality is an incredibly misleading argument and shows that you really have no freaking clue what's going on.
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What you are trying to argue is that if they show a California ID they get charges $x, if they show a ID from some other state they get charged some price $y.
And THIS DOES HAPPEN. Ever go to Disneyland? I guess not, but still. If I show a Driver's License registered for San Luis Obispo (93405, where I currently live) that's considered "Southern California" and I will get a discount. If I show a driver's license for Cupertino (95014, where I used to live---also in California, and happens to be the HQ of Apple) that's considered "Not Southern California" and I get charged another higher rate. Many of the Theme Parks in Southern California do this. It is not illegal.
Don't believe me, look at it here: http://disneyland.disney.go.com/disneyland/en_US/
This is yet another case or Europeans really having no clue what the American market is like, making egregious assumptions and then trying to link their argument with American racism---something which they rarely have more then the vaguest concept of.
I would have to disagree. I've been perfectly happy with Heroes pacing considering there's a lot of characters they have to establish and the characters have been excellent. Hiro I think is one of the best TV Characters in ages and is just so weird and quirky and funny that I absolutely love seeing him on the screen.
Not to mention they're usually telling 4 or 5 different somewhat-intertwined stories at once.
There aren't many 3rd party drivers--- apart from the occasional printer driver, that are used with Mac OS X on a regular basis to begin with. Because as has been pointed out time and time again they were using a 3rd party wifi product on a laptop with wifi built in. In general about everything is built into a mac and Apple directly supports said products with drivers either written or supported by Apple.
This is *NOT* simply a mass transit system though. These busses are much more posh then you'd see in any public transit system, and are equipped with things like WiFi.
And considering the paranoid security climate around the valley, there's a good chance that no two companies would agree to share a shuttle service like that simply because they'd be too worried about company secrets leaking. And Google isn't the only company that has services like this, Apple has some shuttles available for employees that live in the Santa Cruz area and I'm sure there's a couple I don't know about. Those shuttles are usually organized by the employees though, which makes Google's system unique.
On top of that the TI 89's interface is leaps and bounds ahead of the other TIs (Except the 92 which is pretty much a 89 with a QWERTY keyboard)
Being able to scroll through and select previously inputted equations and having it interpret and display your input in a much more readable format makes finding entry errors much easier.