Have you even *used* an Xbox? The console paradigm is still there: Pop in a game and it goes, with no software or hardware issues. Downloading game content or patches is a matter of selecting the "download content" item from the game menu, everything else is automtic. You have to go pretty deep into the console's built-in menu before the fact that there is a hard disk is evident (and the file manager is extremely simple and very much like the memory card managers on other consoles). There is no complexity; it's as easy to use as any game console ever made.
...about the future of the PC, it's that people will be making this exact same post for the next 5 years or so, only with the estimated deadline unchanged.
How much of the 30% gain was due to the jump to 64 bits and how much was due to improved compilers, unrelated improvements to the CPU architecture, higher clock speed, etc?
It would be even better if you could somehow seperate tabs from each other, so they could be moved around independently and viewed side-by-side. Maybe with a lot of complicated hacking they could get each tab to appear seperately in the task bar.
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Unfortunately, most of the alleged unfairness in the modern market can be traced to the fact that not all consumers are educated.
Last time this happened, no one ever defined "it", no one ever provided an app that was guaranteed to do "it", and the companies never delivered on those claims and fucked up the economy. Hopefully we'll be smarter this time.
No one has really hit on how this could be "limited" to Apple software and iPods yet. The obvious answer is that it would be integrated into the next version of iTunes, like photo printing is integrated into iPhoto, or iTunes's existing Audible.com integration (full disclosure: I have never used or even looked at this). There would be a "Buy music" menu item, which brings up a search box or some sort of simplified web portal. You find a song you want, click Download, iTunes spins for a while just it does when encoding or burning a CD (completely asynchronous and leaving you free to keep using the app/computer), the new song shows up in your library and starts playing. There's no step 3!
I thought part of the FSF philosophy was that porting code to new platforms was exactly the sort of thing open source was created to help make impossible to prevent...
Very Long Baseline Interferometry increases resolution, not range. It won't help capture a signal too weak for any of the individual dishes to pick up.
1. There is no "Apple's design firm". Apple does the design themselves.
2. Probably because you can't fit that kind of functionality into a $5 chip in an embedded device. MP3 players use hardware decoders that cannot be easily reprogrammed.
There are two versions of "popular". The first is the one you are talking about: You are liked and respected by your peers, and vice versa. People desire interaction with you and vice versa. Nothing wrong with that, we all want that.
The other kind of popular is what you get in high school, which is exemplified by the other 5-rated comment in this thread. The one where social interaction is turned into some sort of twisted game whose players value "winning" higher than their self-esteem, their health, and their future. That is what geeks refuse to be part of, and I don't blame them at all.
...And replying to himself in outrage. ...And replying to himself in outrage. ...And replying to himself in outrage. ...And replying to himself in outrage. ...And replying to himself in outrage.
It's "How do you keep an idiot busy for hours?" for the new millenium!
We're both right... There were seperate products named Geforce II GTS and Geforce II Pro. Putting both suffixes on the card may have been Hercules' idea; the core chipset was sold in a wide range of sub-configurations.
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Have you even *used* an Xbox? The console paradigm is still there: Pop in a game and it goes, with no software or hardware issues. Downloading game content or patches is a matter of selecting the "download content" item from the game menu, everything else is automtic. You have to go pretty deep into the console's built-in menu before the fact that there is a hard disk is evident (and the file manager is extremely simple and very much like the memory card managers on other consoles). There is no complexity; it's as easy to use as any game console ever made.
...about the future of the PC, it's that people will be making this exact same post for the next 5 years or so, only with the estimated deadline unchanged.
"Matchmaking" is game/opponent location service, like Gamespy.
How much of the 30% gain was due to the jump to 64 bits and how much was due to improved compilers, unrelated improvements to the CPU architecture, higher clock speed, etc?
He should really get a Dell, then.
Maybe they discovered the old "slashdot math" sigs.
They would accidentally touch off a second nuclear exchange when they posted the "missile launch" story again a week later.
It would be even better if you could somehow seperate tabs from each other, so they could be moved around independently and viewed side-by-side. Maybe with a lot of complicated hacking they could get each tab to appear seperately in the task bar.
Unfortunately, most of the alleged unfairness in the modern market can be traced to the fact that not all consumers are educated.
Last time this happened, no one ever defined "it", no one ever provided an app that was guaranteed to do "it", and the companies never delivered on those claims and fucked up the economy. Hopefully we'll be smarter this time.
No one has really hit on how this could be "limited" to Apple software and iPods yet. The obvious answer is that it would be integrated into the next version of iTunes, like photo printing is integrated into iPhoto, or iTunes's existing Audible.com integration (full disclosure: I have never used or even looked at this). There would be a "Buy music" menu item, which brings up a search box or some sort of simplified web portal. You find a song you want, click Download, iTunes spins for a while just it does when encoding or burning a CD (completely asynchronous and leaving you free to keep using the app/computer), the new song shows up in your library and starts playing. There's no step 3!
I thought part of the FSF philosophy was that porting code to new platforms was exactly the sort of thing open source was created to help make impossible to prevent...
Two comments on this:
Pro: This could work with a much higher limit. Who besides spammers sends ten thousand emails a day?
Con: It's all too easy for a spammer to bypass the ISP's SMTP server, so without high-level packet filtering it could not be easily enforced.
C'mon, man, it's Open Source! What are you waiting for?
Very Long Baseline Interferometry increases resolution, not range. It won't help capture a signal too weak for any of the individual dishes to pick up.
1. There is no "Apple's design firm". Apple does the design themselves.
2. Probably because you can't fit that kind of functionality into a $5 chip in an embedded device. MP3 players use hardware decoders that cannot be easily reprogrammed.
Maybe they'll include the missing four minutes where Shinji meets Jabba the Hutt.
There are two versions of "popular". The first is the one you are talking about: You are liked and respected by your peers, and vice versa. People desire interaction with you and vice versa. Nothing wrong with that, we all want that.
The other kind of popular is what you get in high school, which is exemplified by the other 5-rated comment in this thread. The one where social interaction is turned into some sort of twisted game whose players value "winning" higher than their self-esteem, their health, and their future. That is what geeks refuse to be part of, and I don't blame them at all.
It's a unidirectional stream. It has no QOS features. It's not routed (direct from the satellite to your dish to your TV).
...And replying to himself in outrage.
...And replying to himself in outrage.
...And replying to himself in outrage.
...And replying to himself in outrage.
...And replying to himself in outrage.
It's "How do you keep an idiot busy for hours?" for the new millenium!
I don't care about the other 3, but Ice Age really could give it a run for the money. That was a damn funny movie.
Congratulations, you're the reason Linux will never make it on the desktop.
That's not good as the original I usually hear: "Foot yourself in the shoot".
We're both right... There were seperate products named Geforce II GTS and Geforce II Pro. Putting both suffixes on the card may have been Hercules' idea; the core chipset was sold in a wide range of sub-configurations.
There was no GTS Pro either. The rev was called the Geforce 2 Ultra.