To be fair, when that claim was made he was 100% right, as the way of rating what was a supercomputer at the time DID infact rate it as one while Intel and AMD had yet to have their consumer desktop systems break the gigaflop barrier.
The behind the scenes info is much better though, at the same time Apple was using the old standard for calling a supercomputer a supercomputer, it was trying to change it so that they could export them, which because of the "Super Computer" status, they couldnt by order of the Defence Department.
Course to be fair EVER manufacturer makes grandiious statements like that, its part of the whole thing called SELLING a product. As long as their is truth in their statements, its perfectly fine.
For the reason I play RPGs today. My first RPG was Dragon Warrior which was gotten along with a crapload of maps and item charts for both DW and DWII with a subscription to Nintendo Power. To this day my favorite RPG beating the crap out of the original FF.
Still was one of the best gaming mags out there because despite being only about Nintendo, they wherent afraid to trash games for their system that sucked. I can remember more than a fer 2-3 pointt scored in that mag.
Despite playing the game myself I cant help but be slightly bothered by the potential dumbing down of the MMO market this could possibly cause. One of the reasons I loved UO and play FFXI now is because its NOT easy, its infact somewhat hard to play. WoW though I just jumped in and without much effort make a lot of gold and have really nice equips to the point there is really nothing seperating me from the rest of the 5 mil.
WoW did a lot to make MMO's accessable to the masses, but Im starting to wonder, do we really want L337 Sp34k asshats and just about everyone getting the best armor possible with little to no effort? A great example of this is SWG. Even SE is making its next expansion much more accessable to the masses after making what I thought was the best expansion to a MMO, one where you actually had to put a little effort into playing it to get the most out of it.
Maybe Im just too oldschool I guess, I miss the days of when you died it really ment you where dead, your body was looted and you started from scratch.
First place I ever played DDR was a D&B, maybe your local one doesnt have it but mine does. But then again I live in jersey where the arcade has yet to die. Infact every summer I make it a mission to go to the "Flashback" arcade, a little mini arcade inside of a huge one which is packed with 80's and 90's games.
False their proogram is VERY educational in that its a problem solvers show. They are presented with a problem and they have to use engeneering and design to solve them. The brits had a very simular theme though very different in execution show called Junkyard wars if I remember correctly.
These shows are amazing in that its real world aplications of a lot of the "boring shit" and concepts that they are learning in the classroom. Would you just sit them down to watch it without teaching around it? Hell no. BUT it can become a very informitive AND highly entertaining tool to keep people interested in science, applications of technology, problem solving, list goes on.
And you have obviously not watched many of the episodes, as you would find in most of the later season 1, 2 and now 3 ones they consult experts in their fields a lot these days.
yes, as well as what someone else pointed out, there tended to be language discrimination (JP only, NA only) to boot along with the blatent chinese discrination.
Playing FFXI unlike WoW everyone is on the same server. Even here despite some of the rivalry that exists between the NAs and JPs BOTH along with the EU gamers are pretty much in agreement that all chinese players are gilfarmers. Even with there being a few HK LSs.
I think the underlyiing factor is that no matter ow many legit players there are, way too many ARE infact there for the selling reason. Its unfortunate that such descrimination exists now, and I can tell you at first it didnt to this extent. But way too many people ruined it for the few.
On the oposite side of the coin, many NA are accused of buying gil by the JP for the exact same reasons.
They are a company, and a VERY large one to boot. They honestly can do no wrong unless it involves actually stealing money and getting caught doing it, and even then they would get away with it after they make a big scene to asure the public.
See Sony does things like this and its called a mistake. A hacker does something much less, and its call terrorism. Go USA!
can afford? yes. Will? no because of the very reason the previous poster stated. They look at a 2000 dollar computer as a LOT of money. They DONT see a 500 dollar one as that. Thus why most computers sold are 500-700 crapfests which fail in 2 years and are then rebought.
Which brings up another insteresting fact. That Apple has a much larger household share than its marketshare would lead you to beleive based on the fact most macs have a 3-5 year life vs a normal PC which is usually done and thrown away after 2. They did a study on this a few months ago andd I think they came to the conclusion that Apple actually has a 15-20% household share, vs the 1.5% marketshare in that they sell that many computers a year.
In the end Apple is a enigma in the computer industry, its proven that market share really doesnt mean crap if you run your buisness right.
I dont know, from when it used to be free to now, I havee gotten a LOT more from it as a pay service, at least 600 dollars worth of free Apps last year alone.
rumor has it, that a item was supposed to be released in the moble line this expo that would have taken advantage of that finally, but that Intel didnt have enough dual core chips to meet the supply yet.
Who remembers how bleeding edge DVD was when the PS2 came out. Seriously the PS2 was a lot of peoples FIRST DVD player, when most where 400-500 dollars at the time. And at 300 it was considered a steal.
Its going to be the SAME thing here folks. Is it really that hard to remember what Sony did last time annd reflect that here?
I do, because people have forgotten the simple fact that "Global Warming" is 100% a natural effect of our enviroment and has happened hundreds of times before man even existed. Something had to cause our normal warming cooling cycle, its only too obvious, plants had to be part of it, along with animals.
The problem is Enviromentalists refuse to admit that Global Warming is infact natural, that mankinds only fault in it is speeding it up.
the problem is, there is no way anyone on this site SHOULD become popular. If people are becoming popular its because the editors are too lazy to pick the first one and edit it, and go for someones who they can trust. There are millions of users on this site, there is no reason a handful of them should become as well know as they have. We have one guy already this month who for 7 straight storys had HIS pcked over others who submitted them first. THATS a problem.
no you are, its a civil issue if you break a patent, its not illegal in any state local or federal sense. Its all up to the company in question to both find where their patnent was infringed and bring charges on the offending company otherwise no one is going to go after Apple because no actual law has been broken.
Thus it isnt illegal.
As for the patent it's self, it seems apple was willing to admit it might have infringed on a kinda shady patent involving dynamis streaming (which is shady in the fact that like most software patents, its pretty much something that everyone would come to the conclusion of, which in that case is NOT patenable) What broke the whole deal was they wanted iPod royalties, which have ABSOLUTLY NOTHING to do with the patent in question.
well there is enough of a demand for them to be putting out new content a month along with the next expantion comming out this year. While it might have done poor PS2 wise here (and in general poor in Europe though a lot of that is due more from NA imported versions than anything else) it still has a steady 500,000 people which seems to actually be going up, despite knowing a number of people who left the game. For the time its the 3rd largest MMO now.
as for differences, the only known improvement is that this is graphically the PC version with double the original draw distance of the PC version. While it might be a "port" MMOs really are hard to place in that group because no mater what new version comes out, you STILL need the base game, which will always be a "port" if its now on a different platform.
Two weeks should be bigger news of the oncomming expansion, new jobs (blue mage is a known addition, but there is supposedly 2-3 more new jobs being added) new mobs with a few more FF favorites beign added like Imps and Lamias, as well as how expannsive the new continent will be. There is a huge FFXI fest in California being run that will also hold the first publicly playable release of the ToAU expanson.
I dont think so bub. You should see how no matter how the Intel thing works out, a lot of the "Apple Zealots" are still flaming pissed Apple switched chips.
after an impact 2,295 times the force of Earth's gravity.
Did they really hit that hard? I mean how did they come up with this number, cause Im sure the terminal velocity of a canister, or even fragments of the shuttle if it just happened to be in a portion of the shuttle, would have enabled it to hit at a much slower force.
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The behind the scenes info is much better though, at the same time Apple was using the old standard for calling a supercomputer a supercomputer, it was trying to change it so that they could export them, which because of the "Super Computer" status, they couldnt by order of the Defence Department.
Course to be fair EVER manufacturer makes grandiious statements like that, its part of the whole thing called SELLING a product. As long as their is truth in their statements, its perfectly fine.
Sept that the Gamecube was second and it was the Xbox that was the distant third.
Still was one of the best gaming mags out there because despite being only about Nintendo, they wherent afraid to trash games for their system that sucked. I can remember more than a fer 2-3 pointt scored in that mag.
Asshat AC tool comment aside mind you.
WoW did a lot to make MMO's accessable to the masses, but Im starting to wonder, do we really want L337 Sp34k asshats and just about everyone getting the best armor possible with little to no effort? A great example of this is SWG. Even SE is making its next expansion much more accessable to the masses after making what I thought was the best expansion to a MMO, one where you actually had to put a little effort into playing it to get the most out of it.
Maybe Im just too oldschool I guess, I miss the days of when you died it really ment you where dead, your body was looted and you started from scratch.
First place I ever played DDR was a D&B, maybe your local one doesnt have it but mine does. But then again I live in jersey where the arcade has yet to die. Infact every summer I make it a mission to go to the "Flashback" arcade, a little mini arcade inside of a huge one which is packed with 80's and 90's games.
These shows are amazing in that its real world aplications of a lot of the "boring shit" and concepts that they are learning in the classroom. Would you just sit them down to watch it without teaching around it? Hell no. BUT it can become a very informitive AND highly entertaining tool to keep people interested in science, applications of technology, problem solving, list goes on.
And you have obviously not watched many of the episodes, as you would find in most of the later season 1, 2 and now 3 ones they consult experts in their fields a lot these days.
yes, as well as what someone else pointed out, there tended to be language discrimination (JP only, NA only) to boot along with the blatent chinese discrination.
I think the underlyiing factor is that no matter ow many legit players there are, way too many ARE infact there for the selling reason. Its unfortunate that such descrimination exists now, and I can tell you at first it didnt to this extent. But way too many people ruined it for the few.
On the oposite side of the coin, many NA are accused of buying gil by the JP for the exact same reasons.
And personally I find them very funny, and I have a extreamly dry sense of humor to boot.
something had to be wrong with the G5 iMac. My g4 iBook runs faster than that shit booting up.
See Sony does things like this and its called a mistake. A hacker does something much less, and its call terrorism. Go USA!
Which brings up another insteresting fact. That Apple has a much larger household share than its marketshare would lead you to beleive based on the fact most macs have a 3-5 year life vs a normal PC which is usually done and thrown away after 2. They did a study on this a few months ago andd I think they came to the conclusion that Apple actually has a 15-20% household share, vs the 1.5% marketshare in that they sell that many computers a year.
In the end Apple is a enigma in the computer industry, its proven that market share really doesnt mean crap if you run your buisness right.
I dont know, from when it used to be free to now, I havee gotten a LOT more from it as a pay service, at least 600 dollars worth of free Apps last year alone.
rumor has it, that a item was supposed to be released in the moble line this expo that would have taken advantage of that finally, but that Intel didnt have enough dual core chips to meet the supply yet.
Its going to be the SAME thing here folks. Is it really that hard to remember what Sony did last time annd reflect that here?
The problem is Enviromentalists refuse to admit that Global Warming is infact natural, that mankinds only fault in it is speeding it up.
the problem is, there is no way anyone on this site SHOULD become popular. If people are becoming popular its because the editors are too lazy to pick the first one and edit it, and go for someones who they can trust. There are millions of users on this site, there is no reason a handful of them should become as well know as they have. We have one guy already this month who for 7 straight storys had HIS pcked over others who submitted them first. THATS a problem.
Thus it isnt illegal.
As for the patent it's self, it seems apple was willing to admit it might have infringed on a kinda shady patent involving dynamis streaming (which is shady in the fact that like most software patents, its pretty much something that everyone would come to the conclusion of, which in that case is NOT patenable) What broke the whole deal was they wanted iPod royalties, which have ABSOLUTLY NOTHING to do with the patent in question.
as for differences, the only known improvement is that this is graphically the PC version with double the original draw distance of the PC version. While it might be a "port" MMOs really are hard to place in that group because no mater what new version comes out, you STILL need the base game, which will always be a "port" if its now on a different platform.
Two weeks should be bigger news of the oncomming expansion, new jobs (blue mage is a known addition, but there is supposedly 2-3 more new jobs being added) new mobs with a few more FF favorites beign added like Imps and Lamias, as well as how expannsive the new continent will be. There is a huge FFXI fest in California being run that will also hold the first publicly playable release of the ToAU expanson.
I think its more people are more cynical because this is coming from a company who for years has promised us vapor.
but the Gamecube is still selling for a profit, which has never been the case with either Sony or Microsofts offers.
I dont think so bub. You should see how no matter how the Intel thing works out, a lot of the "Apple Zealots" are still flaming pissed Apple switched chips.
considering there is a story just today with a quote by Jobs saying there would be some major releases. I would think your wrong.