It's not about how the data is stored, it's about how the data is presented and manipulated. Writing, say, the spec for HTML tables is very simple compared to implemented a fully compliant table renderer.
He's using literally the same trick as in The Producers. There's a loophole in Germany's tax laws that allows him to come out ahead while making terrible movies on tiny budgets.
Humor is, IMHO, the single most important facility in interpersonal relations.
Its what lets unlike people work together without fighting
But the TV-B-Gone isn't used on people you have any sort of relationship with- if you did, you could ask them to turn the TV down or off and they will usually oblige. All it's ever used for is anonymous passive-aggressive pranks and asserting that what you want the TV to do is more important than what everyone else in the immediate area wants, which usually includes the TV's rightful owner and a number of people in the middle of watching it.
Sony, sure. But Nintendo has far less of an incentive to produce a new console. The Wii is profitable, tremendously popular, and its limitations don't seem to bother the market that much even with the other consoles available.
Many modern games will let you specify arbitrary pixel dimensions and aspect ratio, either with the console or by hand-editing the config file. I imagine it'll make the HUD look a little weird.
When a newspaper receives a complaint about an aspect of a comic, that aspect tends to be diminished. You can find someone to complain about just about anything. Most newspaper comics have been running for decades. Do the math.
Too much of the world owns iPods. The iPod does not support any DRM system other than the one Apple controls. If Sony wants to sell music that these people can buy, they have 2 choices- release as a DRM-free format, or roll over and sell on the ITMS on Apple's terms. There are no alternate electronic music stores that can be used as leverage when negotiating with Apple, and there are no alternate playback platforms that would make cutting out the iPod audience a serious option.
The music industry lost the chance to dictate the future direction of media formats because Apple has done it already. The only feasible ways to release electronic music now are the ITMS, plain MP3, and plain AAC.
Unfortunately, that means that I can no longer log in to those routers with default passwords and open up ports for myself when I'm on some stranger's network
Unfortunately? You were taking advantage of a security flaw that has now been fixed.
Remember that the 360 is a closed system. Anything Microsoft decides to put in for the benefit of the media companies, you won't be able to get rid of.
I don't know where that statistic came from, but there are all sorts of devices (stoves, soldering irons, etc) that are designed explicitly for turning electricity into heat and don't come anywhere near that.
If you're having all kinds of random errors in lots of program that don't seem to follow a particular pattern, some of your RAM may be defective or dying.
This is pretty much exactly how streaming levels work. If you have X memory to work with, you divide the level into zones that each require about X/2 data, and then it's effectively double buffering- you can let the player explore one zone while discarding the previous and loading the next, and as long as the content of the zone is set up so that it takes him longer to reach the next one than it does it pull it into RAM, you're golden (which is where zigzag corridors and slow elevators come in).
And, actually, redundancy can be good in some cases. Trying to individually load only the brand new assets and dump only the stale for the next zone leads to memory fragmentation as the player passes through more and more zones, especially if you can't easily predict which zone he'll go to next. It's much neater and more reliable to declare a policy of dropping every byte of a zone at once and pay a little extra disk space for shared resources.
Or, you could do what Shadow of the Colossus does- it solves this problem by actually compacting its heap between frames, so it can allow completely free travel between outdoor zones within the PS2's capabilities.
Why isn't everything filmed in one continuous take, like Children of Men or that X-Files episode? There are even some movies that let time pass during cuts. 24 obviously perfected pacing and editing, why isn't everyone doing that?
Someone should point out that by default, the Finder will copy files dragged to a different volume. You have to hold down a modifier (Command) to force a move operation. So while this is a severe bug that should be fixed immediately, it's much less likely to happen by accident than the article implies.
Actually, he was rejected largely because he would *not* win the whole thing. One of the criteria he was judged on is "national viability", which he presumably failed because he only planned to seek the nomination in South Carolina.
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It's not about how the data is stored, it's about how the data is presented and manipulated. Writing, say, the spec for HTML tables is very simple compared to implemented a fully compliant table renderer.
I've heard the opposite- that slot-load drives are bad for schools because kids like to stick things in them.
He's using literally the same trick as in The Producers. There's a loophole in Germany's tax laws that allows him to come out ahead while making terrible movies on tiny budgets.
Direct NASA to create fully automated, self-sustaining habitable outpost on Mars.
Move friends and family there.
Nuke Earth.
Humor is, IMHO, the single most important facility in interpersonal relations.
Its what lets unlike people work together without fighting
But the TV-B-Gone isn't used on people you have any sort of relationship with- if you did, you could ask them to turn the TV down or off and they will usually oblige. All it's ever used for is anonymous passive-aggressive pranks and asserting that what you want the TV to do is more important than what everyone else in the immediate area wants, which usually includes the TV's rightful owner and a number of people in the middle of watching it.
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Sony, sure. But Nintendo has far less of an incentive to produce a new console. The Wii is profitable, tremendously popular, and its limitations don't seem to bother the market that much even with the other consoles available.
Many modern games will let you specify arbitrary pixel dimensions and aspect ratio, either with the console or by hand-editing the config file. I imagine it'll make the HUD look a little weird.
When a newspaper receives a complaint about an aspect of a comic, that aspect tends to be diminished. You can find someone to complain about just about anything. Most newspaper comics have been running for decades. Do the math.
Too much of the world owns iPods. The iPod does not support any DRM system other than the one Apple controls. If Sony wants to sell music that these people can buy, they have 2 choices- release as a DRM-free format, or roll over and sell on the ITMS on Apple's terms. There are no alternate electronic music stores that can be used as leverage when negotiating with Apple, and there are no alternate playback platforms that would make cutting out the iPod audience a serious option.
The music industry lost the chance to dictate the future direction of media formats because Apple has done it already. The only feasible ways to release electronic music now are the ITMS, plain MP3, and plain AAC.
How do you know the universe doesn't run on a PRNG with a near-perfect uniform distribution and a cycle time measured in millennia?
Unfortunately, that means that I can no longer log in to those routers with default passwords and open up ports for myself when I'm on some stranger's network
Unfortunately? You were taking advantage of a security flaw that has now been fixed.
Yes, and, just as a lot of other posts also predicted, it had the side effect of making the character unable to use certain medical drugs.
Remember that the 360 is a closed system. Anything Microsoft decides to put in for the benefit of the media companies, you won't be able to get rid of.
How much more would you pay for a remote you're never going to use?
Easily. They'd just shoot you while you're struggling to drag your gun case out of the overhead compartment.
I don't know where that statistic came from, but there are all sorts of devices (stoves, soldering irons, etc) that are designed explicitly for turning electricity into heat and don't come anywhere near that.
It's not "badly managed", it isn't managed at all. It's an unlicensed block.
No on the first, it's a sign that the Zune is competitive when massively and temporarily discounted but not at its normal pricing.
And no on the second, because the Zune store is the only service that works with the Zune.
If you're having all kinds of random errors in lots of program that don't seem to follow a particular pattern, some of your RAM may be defective or dying.
This is pretty much exactly how streaming levels work. If you have X memory to work with, you divide the level into zones that each require about X/2 data, and then it's effectively double buffering- you can let the player explore one zone while discarding the previous and loading the next, and as long as the content of the zone is set up so that it takes him longer to reach the next one than it does it pull it into RAM, you're golden (which is where zigzag corridors and slow elevators come in).
And, actually, redundancy can be good in some cases. Trying to individually load only the brand new assets and dump only the stale for the next zone leads to memory fragmentation as the player passes through more and more zones, especially if you can't easily predict which zone he'll go to next. It's much neater and more reliable to declare a policy of dropping every byte of a zone at once and pay a little extra disk space for shared resources.
Or, you could do what Shadow of the Colossus does- it solves this problem by actually compacting its heap between frames, so it can allow completely free travel between outdoor zones within the PS2's capabilities.
Why isn't everything filmed in one continuous take, like Children of Men or that X-Files episode? There are even some movies that let time pass during cuts. 24 obviously perfected pacing and editing, why isn't everyone doing that?
In OS X you can only ctrl-c a file, there is no way to have it automatically remove the original when you paste.
Someone should point out that by default, the Finder will copy files dragged to a different volume. You have to hold down a modifier (Command) to force a move operation. So while this is a severe bug that should be fixed immediately, it's much less likely to happen by accident than the article implies.
Actually, he was rejected largely because he would *not* win the whole thing. One of the criteria he was judged on is "national viability", which he presumably failed because he only planned to seek the nomination in South Carolina.