If you scroll down to read the rest of that web log, it's almost 100% Nintendo bashing. The author is clearly trolling Ninentdo fans. Please don't feed the troll.
P.S. Has "fair and balanced" journalism finally arrived at slashdot? Is every story going to feature, alongside the actual news, an obvious troll?
While the number of PCs out there is huge, the number of game consoles is huge as well, and console games have been selling better than PC games for several years now.
I have a hunch that the brushed motors NASA used in the rovers are probably a little bit more expensive and higher-quality than what you're used to dealing with on miniature airplanes. There are most likely some design issues we don't know about that made them use a brushed motor.
Or, car manufacturers could decide that you'll assume "longer warranty == longer-lasting car," raise their warranty to 80,000 miles regardless of the fact that the car is crap, and bank on the fact that you'll want a new car within a couple years anyway.
I'm pretty sure he meant that "if Americans are as crazy about football as the rest of the world is about soccer," and was not confused about the shape of the ball involved in each sport.
The robot looks fairly hilarious when it walks, since it moves a lot like two biped robots (imitating the motion of human legs) facing each other. The whining mechanical noise is also pretty funny, since it sounds like a mechanical goat. However, it does withstand the kick pretty impressively.
The prices were simply for illustration purposes; my example would be 100% valid, though, if I was poor and 'worth' only a few hundred dollars. Even if I was a millionaire, paying such a small amount as blackmail still condones the act of blackmailing, and that's the point I was trying to get across.
This whole HCDP thing strikes me as being very anti-consumer; I don't know of anyone who would actually want such a thing, since it essentially makes perfectly good equipment obsolete for no (technically valid) reason. The way I see it, it's a way for a few rich people to get even more rich, at our expense.
So, I put forth the question: can it be made to fail?
So, can you play your Tetris in new game modes, wirelessly over the internet? Even if it's technically possible, how many GP2X owners are out there to play against?
This is the kind of thing that the public domain allows. It means that anyone can create a derivative of a public-domain work without paying royalties to the original creator. I'm free to create my own Tetris clone. It doesn't mean I have to release my Tetris clone into the public domain. It doesn't mean my Tetris clone must be free either.
Oh, and the monopoly thing was more than 15 years ago. Way to dredge up some FUD there, AC.
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It's an improvement over AGP in many ways. PCI-E is a fast bi-directional point-to-point bus, so that enables neat things like multi-card SLI (multiple graphics cards rendering different parts of the same image for increased performance; they can talk to each other over the bus without having to go through the chipset first). Also, from what I understand, PCI-E is much easier to implement electrically than parallel protocols like AGP & PCI; therefore, it's cheaper for both card makers and motherboard makers to implement. Finally, the PCI-E graphics card slot can deliver a good deal more wattage through the connector than AGP can.
It seems he figured out how to script the camera to take continuous photos, and animated them into movies. Unfortunately, these movies require Flash 8 to play, and the latest Linux Flash Player is v7! This is the second site today that has kept me from viewing content because of this issue (though in this case it simply seems inadvertent; by contrast, you can't access any of animationmentor.com with Linux).
What? You're full of crap. Does a person have to know exactly how many Gs they experience in order to have fun on a roller coaster? Absolutely not. In the same way, obsessing over horsepower, torque, or other numbers does not make your driving experience any more or less fun; wanking off about how many shaded pixels per second your game console can put on your HDTV does not make the games it plays more or less fun either.
Yes, we are geeks here, and enjoy knowing those kinds of things. But to believe that the way that you do things makes your experience more valid than someone else's is plain short-sighted elitism, and is plain wrong.
But that's not true either. In the graphics-card world's past, it was all about the number of pipelines, and the clock speed, which by knowing would tell you the fill rate. It's recently become more complicated as to what exactly a "pipeline" is in a graphics card, and what exact duties it performs; also, the raw fillrate has become less important than implementation of features such as Shader Model 3.0, OpenEXR HDR compliance, special antialiasing modes, etc. Additionally, ATI's graphics processor in the Xbox 360 is a unified shader architecture, which further bends the concept of "what is a pipeline"; both ATI and nVidia will be moving to a unified shader architecture fairly soon in the future. So while "MHz is everything" was definitely true a long time ago in the graphics card business, it hasn't been that way for some time. I'd say that ATI is definitely in a position to say that specs don't matter like they used to.
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"Varibel is for me the end of a search for a good solution to my hearing problem."
Yay, college taught me something.
If you scroll down to read the rest of that web log, it's almost 100% Nintendo bashing. The author is clearly trolling Ninentdo fans. Please don't feed the troll.
P.S. Has "fair and balanced" journalism finally arrived at slashdot? Is every story going to feature, alongside the actual news, an obvious troll?
...would link to the group's website.
http://www.mega64.com/
installed base.
While the number of PCs out there is huge, the number of game consoles is huge as well, and console games have been selling better than PC games for several years now.
I have a hunch that the brushed motors NASA used in the rovers are probably a little bit more expensive and higher-quality than what you're used to dealing with on miniature airplanes. There are most likely some design issues we don't know about that made them use a brushed motor.
Or, car manufacturers could decide that you'll assume "longer warranty == longer-lasting car," raise their warranty to 80,000 miles regardless of the fact that the car is crap, and bank on the fact that you'll want a new car within a couple years anyway.
I'm pretty sure he meant that "if Americans are as crazy about football as the rest of the world is about soccer," and was not confused about the shape of the ball involved in each sport.
Page with the actual jacket.
http://www.bostondynamics.com.nyud.net:8090/dist/B igDog_Feb-26-2006.wmv
Put through the Coral CDN, just in case.
The robot looks fairly hilarious when it walks, since it moves a lot like two biped robots (imitating the motion of human legs) facing each other. The whining mechanical noise is also pretty funny, since it sounds like a mechanical goat. However, it does withstand the kick pretty impressively.
The prices were simply for illustration purposes; my example would be 100% valid, though, if I was poor and 'worth' only a few hundred dollars. Even if I was a millionaire, paying such a small amount as blackmail still condones the act of blackmailing, and that's the point I was trying to get across.
So if someone tries to blackmail me for $100 and I talk them down to $50, I didn't give in either?
That's some faulty logic right there.
It's like multiplying by -1, it makes them completely healthy.
This whole HCDP thing strikes me as being very anti-consumer; I don't know of anyone who would actually want such a thing, since it essentially makes perfectly good equipment obsolete for no (technically valid) reason. The way I see it, it's a way for a few rich people to get even more rich, at our expense.
So, I put forth the question: can it be made to fail?
So, can you play your Tetris in new game modes, wirelessly over the internet? Even if it's technically possible, how many GP2X owners are out there to play against?
This is the kind of thing that the public domain allows. It means that anyone can create a derivative of a public-domain work without paying royalties to the original creator. I'm free to create my own Tetris clone. It doesn't mean I have to release my Tetris clone into the public domain. It doesn't mean my Tetris clone must be free either.
Oh, and the monopoly thing was more than 15 years ago. Way to dredge up some FUD there, AC.
Did I /. apple.com? Wow, I feel honored.
Um, no. From the Official Rules:
Punctuation Nazi says, "Grammar."
That would be the Erdos number.
It's an improvement over AGP in many ways. PCI-E is a fast bi-directional point-to-point bus, so that enables neat things like multi-card SLI (multiple graphics cards rendering different parts of the same image for increased performance; they can talk to each other over the bus without having to go through the chipset first). Also, from what I understand, PCI-E is much easier to implement electrically than parallel protocols like AGP & PCI; therefore, it's cheaper for both card makers and motherboard makers to implement. Finally, the PCI-E graphics card slot can deliver a good deal more wattage through the connector than AGP can.
World of Warcraft? That $15/month * 5.5 million could have purchased a large number of EA games.
It seems he figured out how to script the camera to take continuous photos, and animated them into movies. Unfortunately, these movies require Flash 8 to play, and the latest Linux Flash Player is v7! This is the second site today that has kept me from viewing content because of this issue (though in this case it simply seems inadvertent; by contrast, you can't access any of animationmentor.com with Linux).
Cox cable is my only other option here. No other DSL except services sold on top of Bellsouth's.
Apparently, some Anonymous Cowards are slower than others.
What? You're full of crap. Does a person have to know exactly how many Gs they experience in order to have fun on a roller coaster? Absolutely not. In the same way, obsessing over horsepower, torque, or other numbers does not make your driving experience any more or less fun; wanking off about how many shaded pixels per second your game console can put on your HDTV does not make the games it plays more or less fun either.
Yes, we are geeks here, and enjoy knowing those kinds of things. But to believe that the way that you do things makes your experience more valid than someone else's is plain short-sighted elitism, and is plain wrong.
But that's not true either. In the graphics-card world's past, it was all about the number of pipelines, and the clock speed, which by knowing would tell you the fill rate. It's recently become more complicated as to what exactly a "pipeline" is in a graphics card, and what exact duties it performs; also, the raw fillrate has become less important than implementation of features such as Shader Model 3.0, OpenEXR HDR compliance, special antialiasing modes, etc. Additionally, ATI's graphics processor in the Xbox 360 is a unified shader architecture, which further bends the concept of "what is a pipeline"; both ATI and nVidia will be moving to a unified shader architecture fairly soon in the future. So while "MHz is everything" was definitely true a long time ago in the graphics card business, it hasn't been that way for some time. I'd say that ATI is definitely in a position to say that specs don't matter like they used to.