IRC is an IM system for all intents and purposes. It does pretty much all of the same things, just happens to be one with bigger focus on groupchat that person-to-person, and no offline storage.
Yeah, I know. If there were actually a method of producing it devised by Microsoft, you would have expected at least some superior software to come out of them. But all I can see is the exact opposite.
The XBOX only has the best graphics until you take framerate into consideration. I think I've had enough of the stuttery sound and graphics from my own one to be completely sick of it. I have perhaps one game (out of the ten) which doesn't experience any noticeable slowdown while running, and that's Kung Fu Chaos.
Meanwhile over in GameCube land, I only have one game which experiences slowdown, and it's a shitty EA game. None of the titles I would consider "real" releases have the problem.
That being said...
The XBOX makes one AWESOME media player with XBMC installed on it.:-)
These days though, there are a bunch of JavaScript helpers for writing cross-platform AJAX stuff. So a lot of the crazy JavaScript, whereas still there, doesn't have to be written 1000 times.
A long time ago in a place far away, banks figured out these things called "transactions" which have prevented people exploiting dupe bugs in banks quite successfully for many years now.
It saddens me to think that preventing such things is found so much harder by game developers.
During winter in Sydney, I get home in the dark even though it's only 6pm. This means that it's practically impossible to do any work which involves being outside (short of installing new lights... rental house, and all that) and that the only time I can get any home productivity is on the weekends.
Meanwhile during summer, they add an extra hour of daylight to the day.
If you ask me, they have it the wrong way around. If you're going to have daylight "savings" time, let's move the daylight hours to where they will actually help... winter.
PAL is only good in that compared to NTSC, it's much closer to the resolutions available on computer monitors. So ripping TV from PAL produces better results than ripping from NTSC... but you're right. Standardising on 1080p or any HDTV standard would be better than using either one.
In the case of a sale, maybe it makes sense. But in the case of an employment contract, when you leave, that contract is over. Here in Australia we are constantly advised by the employment agencies that such clauses are unenforceable, even if they're common.
One or two years is a long time if you're not allowed to work anywhere in the same industry. I guess I would accept one of these clauses if the company who put them in agreed to pay me for those years without any work.
That's getting pretty interesting. I wonder whether it will end up that someone makes a disk that has a layer of DVD, a layer of HD-DVD and a layer of Bluray.;-)
That's why it's distributed, so that you don't have to host all X million users yourself. 5 bits per second per user (the most commonly quoted average bandwidth usage) and the moderate hardware costs is easily affordable for a few thousand users.
Ironically, it's on Windows that you have to "hunt down" drivers, because all the drivers supported by Linux are in one place (except in cases where idiotic companies like NVIDIA refuse to release the source.)
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This story about Google patenting RSS advertisements came to me from the Slashdot RSS feed, which had an advertisement on exactly this story.
IRC is an IM system for all intents and purposes. It does pretty much all of the same things, just happens to be one with bigger focus on groupchat that person-to-person, and no offline storage.
"IM is for communication in real-time, email is for communication any time.
IM is for communication with someone online, email is for communication with someone online or offline.
So... MSN user, huh? You know, the rest of us have offline message storage. :-)
Oh, you're right...
"PIN Number" and "ATM Machine" are both wrong too. Who actually says those? WTF?
This RAS Syndrome is getting out of hand.
This is actually quite good, because it means that IE7 will probably work on IE7. :-)
Yeah, I know. If there were actually a method of producing it devised by Microsoft, you would have expected at least some superior software to come out of them. But all I can see is the exact opposite.
The XBOX only has the best graphics until you take framerate into consideration. I think I've had enough of the stuttery sound and graphics from my own one to be completely sick of it. I have perhaps one game (out of the ten) which doesn't experience any noticeable slowdown while running, and that's Kung Fu Chaos.
Meanwhile over in GameCube land, I only have one game which experiences slowdown, and it's a shitty EA game. None of the titles I would consider "real" releases have the problem.
That being said...
The XBOX makes one AWESOME media player with XBMC installed on it. :-)
Handhelds are not only consoles, they're the BEST consoles! So if they're good at handhelds, I doubt they will die out as a console manufacturer. :-)
The replayability is pretty superb too. Beating that end boss with the Dedede Ball was the hardest I've ever worked my hands. No jokes, please.
Actually the default is Plastik these days. Keramik was the bubble-gum like one you're talking about, which is no longer the default.
These days though, there are a bunch of JavaScript helpers for writing cross-platform AJAX stuff. So a lot of the crazy JavaScript, whereas still there, doesn't have to be written 1000 times.
It's good to see that we FINALLY have a way to autorun from USB. We've only been asking for this feature since Windows 98.
A long time ago in a place far away, banks figured out these things called "transactions" which have prevented people exploiting dupe bugs in banks quite successfully for many years now.
It saddens me to think that preventing such things is found so much harder by game developers.
During winter in Sydney, I get home in the dark even though it's only 6pm. This means that it's practically impossible to do any work which involves being outside (short of installing new lights... rental house, and all that) and that the only time I can get any home productivity is on the weekends.
Meanwhile during summer, they add an extra hour of daylight to the day.
If you ask me, they have it the wrong way around. If you're going to have daylight "savings" time, let's move the daylight hours to where they will actually help... winter.
PAL is only good in that compared to NTSC, it's much closer to the resolutions available on computer monitors. So ripping TV from PAL produces better results than ripping from NTSC... but you're right. Standardising on 1080p or any HDTV standard would be better than using either one.
In the case of a sale, maybe it makes sense. But in the case of an employment contract, when you leave, that contract is over. Here in Australia we are constantly advised by the employment agencies that such clauses are unenforceable, even if they're common.
One or two years is a long time if you're not allowed to work anywhere in the same industry. I guess I would accept one of these clauses if the company who put them in agreed to pay me for those years without any work.
At the same time, some providers not supporting a certain feature doesn't mean that the feature doesn't work.
Most users will probably notice that an Atom client can update their blog, where the RSS client can't.
That's getting pretty interesting. I wonder whether it will end up that someone makes a disk that has a layer of DVD, a layer of HD-DVD and a layer of Bluray. ;-)
That's why it's distributed, so that you don't have to host all X million users yourself. 5 bits per second per user (the most commonly quoted average bandwidth usage) and the moderate hardware costs is easily affordable for a few thousand users.
Sizes aside, how is Blu-ray holding up for backwards compatibility with DVD?
And can't we just have drives which do both HD-DVD and Bluray so that people stop bitching either way?
Ironically, it's on Windows that you have to "hunt down" drivers, because all the drivers supported by Linux are in one place (except in cases where idiotic companies like NVIDIA refuse to release the source.)
So... how long until we get a Web Bowser on the DS?