China is of course a developing country, however the principles of opening markets still apply and because of China's size certain other factors apply.
First off china is developing their own open source solution, chances are it's allready better than anything we have, my friends who have tried it report that it's really good.
Second poor or not the work of one day is the work of one day, and with nuclear weapons making free trade a possibility (Cough imperialism) the chances are that wealth between China and the rest of the world will level out in the next few years, whether it will be at a higher or lower level than the one we currently enjoy is a matter of debate and largely irrelevant due to the time vs technological growth equations.
More interesting will be the affects of their Buddhist/Taoist/Communist philosophies on our stale protestant/capitalist intellectual yawn fest. Check out their views on genetic engineering if you want an example.
Any society which which respects uniformity of purpose probably has much to teach a society based on the strength of each person's hand.
I was really hoping that the internet might have unified all the languages. The chances of it doing so were really good, the percentage of information available on it in English was really really high, all the scripting took place in English and dns was all set up with an asci typeset.
Now I guess we will probably be going into space thousands of years from now still speaking to each other in gibberish.
Maybe I'd be more upset if I didn't enjoy hearing people sing in russian so much:)
Um considering that the main vehicle costs 3,000,000. Is only marginally capable of avoiding other vehicles and relies on sattelite and GPS data (both of which are almost uniformly in the hands of the U.S. and affiliates) I think the civilian applications have been totally minimized on this one.
It would have pleased me better to see a vehicle analysing terrain into a 3D map and doing path finding based on that data. (Pathfinding can be found in many software applications)
You are welcome to think I'm paranoid but I hardly think either of us would be really surprised if the military applications are realized.
Also considering that America has a hard time telling friend from foe(from civilian) using humans the whole thing seems a little bit premature. If their are no American casualties people will start looking at the 35-40% civilian casualties incured in recent wars.
Well since no one has the sand to try it we'll never know but it's entirely possible that it's just a copy of winrar running constantly and archiving things on the way to the drive.
Sometimes the prediction carries so much weight as to assure victory. To understand the corelation between theory and reality is not a job for techies.
IQ has never significantly correleated with any mental disorders.
Psychopaths almost always have an IQ over 175.
Omg poverty! People better um stick electrodes in their brain?
For your inane comment I think you need a cure too, quick find a fork this map needs neuro surgery.
Technology will only be a cure for the human condition when we have proper perspective, there are a few other arguements we need to get out of the way first.
You are obviously thinking of "Good wars" which means you don't know what the losers were trying to accomplish.
Historical violence, Which is noteably cautionary though not as important to todays youth as cautioning them against gang violence and crime.
Or perhaps it's just not cinematic for you, I admit the main character could have cried a little at the end. I'll see what I can do in future game development efforts.
Now I heard this somewhere I don't know where but wasn't this OS designed with gamers in mind? It supposed to have taken out all the old trash and really minimized it's feature set while centralizing it's option menu's and data areas?
Have to stop believing Microsoft mission statements
Since DRAM is increadibly overpriced it may not take very long at all. If people are willing to pay $200 for 512 they will be willing to pay $300 for 3 gigs in 3 months. And with 64bit they will, ridiculous ram prices and the obvious nature of a huge ram footprint make you think the problem lies in an area which is one of the most likely to clear up in the near future.
I'm a reasonably good CS player I've played in some clans and gone to a couple tournaments where we placed.
Online you can tell where someone is from depending on the way they play, specific areas I find easy to tell are Russia, France and Quebec. I'll check the name afterward and realise I was right. I can't describe why it feels diffrent to play against someone from one of these areas however I feel I could prove it given certain tests.
I think the reasons for this are that diffrent countries discovered gaming at diffrent times, there is a huge diffrence in feel between people who did and didn't play quake 1.
There are advantages and disadvantages to each school of play at diffrent levels, a French strategie is not as useful on a public server but works well in clan matches(demos).
The most obvious elements of this occur when there is a dramatic change of strategies around the net some countries are left behind, for example "classic" camping came back but the German's didn't understand it for several months after everyone else did.
I would say it's very noticable, I'd also say that certain play styles have advantages over specific other play styles, it only takes about 4-5 rounds for opponents to have a decent chance of outguessing one another and players who lose learn faster. So no country will ever drop out of gaming, they may have to adjust though.
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Having done a bunch of encoding myself I have to agree, Xvid is the best codec available.
They need to rework the implementation so you don't have to do two passes but everything else is exceptional.
Nevertheless I have been waiting a while for this, the other thing I want is Divx 3.11b which was a pretty amazing codec.
China is of course a developing country, however the principles of opening markets still apply and because of China's size certain other factors apply.
First off china is developing their own open source solution, chances are it's allready better than anything we have, my friends who have tried it report that it's really good.
Second poor or not the work of one day is the work of one day, and with nuclear weapons making free trade a possibility (Cough imperialism) the chances are that wealth between China and the rest of the world will level out in the next few years, whether it will be at a higher or lower level than the one we currently enjoy is a matter of debate and largely irrelevant due to the time vs technological growth equations.
More interesting will be the affects of their Buddhist/Taoist/Communist philosophies on our stale protestant/capitalist intellectual yawn fest. Check out their views on genetic engineering if you want an example.
Any society which which respects uniformity of purpose probably has much to teach a society based on the strength of each person's hand.
I was really hoping that the internet might have unified all the languages. The chances of it doing so were really good, the percentage of information available on it in English was really really high, all the scripting took place in English and dns was all set up with an asci typeset.
:)
Now I guess we will probably be going into space thousands of years from now still speaking to each other in gibberish.
Maybe I'd be more upset if I didn't enjoy hearing people sing in russian so much
I'll be in Hong Kong in 2.5 months where can I find this robotic guardian?
ou don't need that many kids
We interrupt this silly post to point out that this is slashdot, these people REALLY aren't part of the problem. Thank you.
Um considering that the main vehicle costs 3,000,000. Is only marginally capable of avoiding other vehicles and relies on sattelite and GPS data (both of which are almost uniformly in the hands of the U.S. and affiliates) I think the civilian applications have been totally minimized on this one.
It would have pleased me better to see a vehicle analysing terrain into a 3D map and doing path finding based on that data. (Pathfinding can be found in many software applications)
You are welcome to think I'm paranoid but I hardly think either of us would be really surprised if the military applications are realized.
Also considering that America has a hard time telling friend from foe(from civilian) using humans the whole thing seems a little bit premature. If their are no American casualties people will start looking at the 35-40% civilian casualties incured in recent wars.
Even to you it should be obvious that the value of both HD and Data are subjective.
:)
Now we just need someone who maximizes one while sacrificing the other
Well since no one has the sand to try it we'll never know but it's entirely possible that it's just a copy of winrar running constantly and archiving things on the way to the drive.
Sometimes the prediction carries so much weight as to assure victory. To understand the corelation between theory and reality is not a job for techies.
You obviously don't have an Xbox.... mmmm hard drive.
I would mention that you could save on a cart but well, I have a fooking HD.
Ohhh and I don't have to blow on it all the time. Though I suppose that is good for cardiovascular exercise.
Would you really want Co-Op in an atmosphere based game?
It's not going to be as frentic with very few enemies on screen at one time so there really isn't any call for it.
It does seem kind of a shame though, co-op gives you somehting to do to teach people the game.
Most popular game? Oh you mean CS... um I don't think it's british.
When I was in Britain the people seemed kind of depressed, I think that might be why they don't make games.
psychopath, sociopath + intelligence
Google.
The possiblities are astounding! Buy a Microsoft product, get an orgasm!
Correlate the above with reasoning behind developed nations policy on illegal drugs.
Consider.
IQ has never significantly correleated with any mental disorders.
Psychopaths almost always have an IQ over 175.
Omg poverty! People better um stick electrodes in their brain?
For your inane comment I think you need a cure too, quick find a fork this map needs neuro surgery.
Technology will only be a cure for the human condition when we have proper perspective, there are a few other arguements we need to get out of the way first.
Stay Puft!
To not submit to prison terms? Yea I think there is some potential for misues.
I mean it sounds like a conspiracy theory but there are some pretty nasty surprises that society will have to deal with once we master the mind.
Teaching white people rhythm?
There is no diffrence.
You are obviously thinking of "Good wars" which means you don't know what the losers were trying to accomplish.
Historical violence, Which is noteably cautionary though not as important to todays youth as cautioning them against gang violence and crime.
Or perhaps it's just not cinematic for you, I admit the main character could have cried a little at the end. I'll see what I can do in future game development efforts.
Now I heard this somewhere I don't know where but wasn't this OS designed with gamers in mind? It supposed to have taken out all the old trash and really minimized it's feature set while centralizing it's option menu's and data areas?
Have to stop believing Microsoft mission statements
/me hits self with baseball bat.
Since DRAM is increadibly overpriced it may not take very long at all. If people are willing to pay $200 for 512 they will be willing to pay $300 for 3 gigs in 3 months. And with 64bit they will, ridiculous ram prices and the obvious nature of a huge ram footprint make you think the problem lies in an area which is one of the most likely to clear up in the near future.
You fooked him in the networking though. It's so much more painful. It fails for no reason and you have to reinstall processes and reissue I.P.'s etc.
And the printing my god the printing.
Everyone has a couple things they think are better in XP you just need to look really really hard.
I can't even step across the border without noticing this. Of course maybe it's just driving into Buffalo that's a bad idea :)
Hmm somewhere Sierra is kicking themselves for not selling all this data to Eugenecists.
I may have the world's darkest humour.
I'm a reasonably good CS player I've played in some clans and gone to a couple tournaments where we placed.
Online you can tell where someone is from depending on the way they play, specific areas I find easy to tell are Russia, France and Quebec. I'll check the name afterward and realise I was right. I can't describe why it feels diffrent to play against someone from one of these areas however I feel I could prove it given certain tests.
I think the reasons for this are that diffrent countries discovered gaming at diffrent times, there is a huge diffrence in feel between people who did and didn't play quake 1.
There are advantages and disadvantages to each school of play at diffrent levels, a French strategie is not as useful on a public server but works well in clan matches(demos).
The most obvious elements of this occur when there is a dramatic change of strategies around the net some countries are left behind, for example "classic" camping came back but the German's didn't understand it for several months after everyone else did.
I would say it's very noticable, I'd also say that certain play styles have advantages over specific other play styles, it only takes about 4-5 rounds for opponents to have a decent chance of outguessing one another and players who lose learn faster. So no country will ever drop out of gaming, they may have to adjust though.