My experience has been that all the fanbois are... well.. bois.
My daughter brought a Galaxy S to school in September and now several of her girlfriends have them. The reason? You can customize the home page, use live backgrounds and widgets. It's more customizable -- has more possibilities for BLING -- and girls like that.
It's not like Level 3 is holding Comcast down and forcing data into them. Although that's an interesting mental picture.
Level 3/Netflix is providing a service that Comcast customers are buying. The traffic wouldn't exist if Comcast customers weren't using it. One of the reasons for choosing Comcast is that they advertise big tubes and fast throughput. In marketing terms, Netflix is an enabler for Comcast.
I've never really understood why the various broadband ISPs advertise huge download speeds and then.... they don't want you to make use of it. I mean, WTF? So my pr0n website updates in 1/125 of a second instead of 1/8 of a second. This is not a reason to pay for big tubes. Big downloads are a reason to pay for big tubes. And besides a few geeks torrenting Nervous Nematode, (or whatever the next Ubuntu will be called) just about the only LEGAL use by non-geeks for all that bandwidth is Video on Demand. Why block the very reason for your existence? It doesn't make any damn sense.
...with this kind of furniture is that technical improvements rapidly make them obsolete, and they tend to be very expensive to replace.
We had consoles and keyboards built into desks back to at least the seventies, maybe earlier. I think the reason it didn't do well back then is that forklift upgrades are so expensive.
That said, it's an interesting idea, but I wonder how this differs from having a Surface (or something similar) and a couple of big monitors acting in concert? (Anyone see the Hawaii 50 reboot?)
Is it possible that a down economy won't support a new offering in the numbers necessary to be defined a success? Why put out a console in the middle of a recession? You'd just have to deal with all the slashdot articles saying it didn't sell as well as the last model, which was introduced in boom times.
The first factor, which doesn't get all of us, is that as you grow older, there is a greater chance that first person shooters will make you motion sick. (I know about frame rates, but as you grow older, I'd argue that frame rates naturally increase as hardware gets cheaper.) I played Doom and Doom 2 for hours, but can't play a FPS for more than a few minutes these days without getting nauseous.
Second factor, let's face it, you just don't twitch as well in your forties as you did in your twenties. Compensation for that is life experience, better strategy and reasoning capabilities, but your reactions are going to be a touch slower.
Third factor: Unless you're a hopeless sociophobe, you probably have more interests outside gaming. This takes away from the long hours you spent in front of the screen, so naturally you're going to get a little rusty.
But in any case, games are just not that important. (Horrors!) They were useful when you were young and thought you had gobs of time to spare, but truthfully, you really didn't then and you have even less now.
That said, I'm marginally interested in the Alice and Mechwarrior reboots (if they ever come out), and Diablo III (ditto), because I used to play the originals a long time ago. I might even buy them. But the days of staying up to 3:00 AM on a weeknight trying to get to the next level are over.
That said, earlier this year I had to give my copy of Warcraft to my daughter and tell her to hide it from me.
You're talking to someone who has hit a deer at 50+ miles per hour. (I don't know what that works out to in KPH, sorry.)
Dunno about kilograms but the local DOT estimated the deer (a doe) weighed 160 pounds or more.
We were ok, and it didn't even break the windshield. It did do over $3000 (US) damage to the truck.
The secret to surviving a deer is to drive a truck of 1/2 ton or heavier, with the optional 4X4 package that jacks the truck up a few inches so the deer doesn't go over the hood.
The problem I see with wolves is, if it *does* go over the hood, then you have a really pissed off wolf in the car with you...
We've got a Roxio downstairs and the Netflix plugin for Media Center upstairs, sometimes running at the same time, and haven't noticed a problem with 20 Mb.
Backing up to the cloud is a test of your up speed, not your down speed, and I agree more is better. I currently have 20/5, and would get 20/20 if the price was reasonable. (It isn't, at the moment.)
I do understand it's about peak capacity. What I'm trying to say is that the average user doesn't come anywhere near that. We're being trained by the ISP marketeers that faster is always better, and like processor speeds, at some point you reach the point of "fast enough".
150 Mbps down isn't really interesting. What would a normal person use it for? Even with 20 Mbps (current FIOS consumer tier) the limiting factor will almost always be the upload speed at the other end. If you're thinking of buying this, first take a long hard look at your current peak usage. Most people don't use a fraction of the lowest tier bandwidth (for broadband).
And yes, I know, one word: Torrents. To which I reply, two words: Geeks only.
They block port 80 for consumer accounts, but they don't block ports if you have a business (static IP) account. I've had both, and can attest to this.
I suspect the 150 Mbps tier is a business account, so ports should be open.
But even on consumer accounts they do not block ports 8080 and 8088 (at least so far), so hosting web services from home is still possible with dyndns. I host three websites from my garage (soon to be four) with a consumer FIOS account. The server rack does double duty as a space heater for the garage.:-)
It depends on the quality of the LCD screen and what kind of adjustments you're making. You're right, the display is showing what the sensor is seeing. Problem is, the display is showing much reduced detail and color accuracy than the sensor is capable of.
On my Nikon D700, the image quality difference between live view and looking through the viewfinder is significant. If all you're doing is composing, the LCD screen is fine. Anything that requires fine resolution, like dept-of-field preview or adjusting a circular polarizer, you'll want to look through the lens with your own eyeball.
Well, on my Droid X I swipe left to expose all the one-touch assignments, and then touch the photo of the person I want to call. Two gestures. (Four counting pushing the "wake up" button and swiping to unlock.)
If I wanted to make the call in one gesture I could put the assignments on my home screen, but that makes it more likely that I call someone with my butt.
I can see where a distinct sound card would be useful in a media center. I can't for the life of me get the stupid onboard audio working in 5.1 mode on my current board with Windows 7, even though it's supposed to be supported. I'm thinking of just shutting it down in bios and trying again with a discrete card. Oblig. Ask Slashdot: Any suggestions?
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My experience has been that all the fanbois are... well.. bois.
My daughter brought a Galaxy S to school in September and now several of her girlfriends have them. The reason? You can customize the home page, use live backgrounds and widgets. It's more customizable -- has more possibilities for BLING -- and girls like that.
Wasn't this already tried once?
It's not like Level 3 is holding Comcast down and forcing data into them. Although that's an interesting mental picture.
Level 3/Netflix is providing a service that Comcast customers are buying. The traffic wouldn't exist if Comcast customers weren't using it. One of the reasons for choosing Comcast is that they advertise big tubes and fast throughput. In marketing terms, Netflix is an enabler for Comcast.
I've never really understood why the various broadband ISPs advertise huge download speeds and then .... they don't want you to make use of it. I mean, WTF? So my pr0n website updates in 1/125 of a second instead of 1/8 of a second. This is not a reason to pay for big tubes. Big downloads are a reason to pay for big tubes. And besides a few geeks torrenting Nervous Nematode, (or whatever the next Ubuntu will be called) just about the only LEGAL use by non-geeks for all that bandwidth is Video on Demand. Why block the very reason for your existence? It doesn't make any damn sense.
We had consoles and keyboards built into desks back to at least the seventies, maybe earlier. I think the reason it didn't do well back then is that forklift upgrades are so expensive.
That said, it's an interesting idea, but I wonder how this differs from having a Surface (or something similar) and a couple of big monitors acting in concert? (Anyone see the Hawaii 50 reboot?)
Or, if 3D television ends up being a short-lived fad, they won't.
It could be that they're waiting to see if 3D TV takes off, but I suspect the real reason is they're waiting for the economy to improve.
Is it possible that a down economy won't support a new offering in the numbers necessary to be defined a success? Why put out a console in the middle of a recession? You'd just have to deal with all the slashdot articles saying it didn't sell as well as the last model, which was introduced in boom times.
I'm sad to see a great man passing. I don't think he got enough credit for directing the best of the Star Wars series. Rest in peace.
It's the only way.
The first factor, which doesn't get all of us, is that as you grow older, there is a greater chance that first person shooters will make you motion sick. (I know about frame rates, but as you grow older, I'd argue that frame rates naturally increase as hardware gets cheaper.) I played Doom and Doom 2 for hours, but can't play a FPS for more than a few minutes these days without getting nauseous.
Second factor, let's face it, you just don't twitch as well in your forties as you did in your twenties. Compensation for that is life experience, better strategy and reasoning capabilities, but your reactions are going to be a touch slower.
Third factor: Unless you're a hopeless sociophobe, you probably have more interests outside gaming. This takes away from the long hours you spent in front of the screen, so naturally you're going to get a little rusty.
But in any case, games are just not that important. (Horrors!) They were useful when you were young and thought you had gobs of time to spare, but truthfully, you really didn't then and you have even less now.
That said, I'm marginally interested in the Alice and Mechwarrior reboots (if they ever come out), and Diablo III (ditto), because I used to play the originals a long time ago. I might even buy them. But the days of staying up to 3:00 AM on a weeknight trying to get to the next level are over.
That said, earlier this year I had to give my copy of Warcraft to my daughter and tell her to hide it from me.
Well yeah, that was kinda my point. If you live in deer country, drive a big-ass truck and try to only hit small deer.
In this case, it was a herd. I took out the middle one and left the rest standing there. I'm lucky I didn't bowl a strike.
Right, because the America Online community was so much better...
Yeah, that'll get you good press. Insult the media. Brilliant!
Or is that...
Profit!!
You're talking to someone who has hit a deer at 50+ miles per hour. (I don't know what that works out to in KPH, sorry.)
Dunno about kilograms but the local DOT estimated the deer (a doe) weighed 160 pounds or more.
We were ok, and it didn't even break the windshield. It did do over $3000 (US) damage to the truck.
The secret to surviving a deer is to drive a truck of 1/2 ton or heavier, with the optional 4X4 package that jacks the truck up a few inches so the deer doesn't go over the hood.
The problem I see with wolves is, if it *does* go over the hood, then you have a really pissed off wolf in the car with you...
My competing service, Basefook, is not affected.
You'd rather dodge wolves?
We've got a Roxio downstairs and the Netflix plugin for Media Center upstairs, sometimes running at the same time, and haven't noticed a problem with 20 Mb.
Backing up to the cloud is a test of your up speed, not your down speed, and I agree more is better. I currently have 20/5, and would get 20/20 if the price was reasonable. (It isn't, at the moment.)
I do understand it's about peak capacity. What I'm trying to say is that the average user doesn't come anywhere near that. We're being trained by the ISP marketeers that faster is always better, and like processor speeds, at some point you reach the point of "fast enough".
150 Mbps down isn't really interesting. What would a normal person use it for? Even with 20 Mbps (current FIOS consumer tier) the limiting factor will almost always be the upload speed at the other end. If you're thinking of buying this, first take a long hard look at your current peak usage. Most people don't use a fraction of the lowest tier bandwidth (for broadband).
And yes, I know, one word: Torrents. To which I reply, two words: Geeks only.
They block port 80 for consumer accounts, but they don't block ports if you have a business (static IP) account. I've had both, and can attest to this.
I suspect the 150 Mbps tier is a business account, so ports should be open.
But even on consumer accounts they do not block ports 8080 and 8088 (at least so far), so hosting web services from home is still possible with dyndns. I host three websites from my garage (soon to be four) with a consumer FIOS account. The server rack does double duty as a space heater for the garage. :-)
It depends on the quality of the LCD screen and what kind of adjustments you're making. You're right, the display is showing what the sensor is seeing. Problem is, the display is showing much reduced detail and color accuracy than the sensor is capable of.
On my Nikon D700, the image quality difference between live view and looking through the viewfinder is significant. If all you're doing is composing, the LCD screen is fine. Anything that requires fine resolution, like dept-of-field preview or adjusting a circular polarizer, you'll want to look through the lens with your own eyeball.
Well, on my Droid X I swipe left to expose all the one-touch assignments, and then touch the photo of the person I want to call. Two gestures. (Four counting pushing the "wake up" button and swiping to unlock.)
If I wanted to make the call in one gesture I could put the assignments on my home screen, but that makes it more likely that I call someone with my butt.
Which video card, please?
Obviously there was a massive rewrite of history and some mind-altering drugs involved.
I can see where a distinct sound card would be useful in a media center. I can't for the life of me get the stupid onboard audio working in 5.1 mode on my current board with Windows 7, even though it's supposed to be supported. I'm thinking of just shutting it down in bios and trying again with a discrete card. Oblig. Ask Slashdot: Any suggestions?