Not only that, when you bought Quicktime Pro it tells you you're getting a license for Quicktime 5/6. I was expecting to have to pony up again. I hope the new qt is worth it though.
By that reasoning, the composition majors should have to be able to perform their compositions flawlessly on whatever instruments are necessary.
Mastery of programming languages shouldn't be a prequisite for studying computer science. Granted, those skills are pretty useful, but rather than testing them directly the curriculum should just encourage their development to give you a leg up when studying computer theory, just as a music comp. major would become pretty handy with a piano while putting together his pieces.
They are referring to the fact that the games only have a consistant framerate where they didn't before, and that it's not going to make things move around faster in-game, like a turbo of some sort.
How exactly is this going to drive down pricing? The nintendo has always been priced very affordably. Plus, these PSP games are like $50 bucks while Nintendo DS games are $30, according to EBGames. As for launch numbers, I'm not terribly excited about any of that list for the PSP (albeit I'm not Japanese) whilst the Nintendo has Mario at launch! and tons more next!
Okay, you caught me. I don't have a Playstation so I haven't tried the game. From what I saw of the game from Rockstar's publicity and from kids playing it in the stores, I looked pretty messed up though. Gratuitous violence in my opinion should be okay as long as it's strictly gratuitous, so that it's over the top enough that you don't get the impression that it's real.
Some might argue that itself to be the problem, but what do you think is worse, a society brought up to be able to tolerate comically excessive violence, or one that can watch and even play at realistic, brutal violence without batting an eye?
Realistic violence and suffering should, IMHO, exist in media to ward people away from doing awful things, like war and whatnot. It troubles me greatly to see kids laughing at how brutality a guy gets tortured or shot up, when the producers make it obvious how much it hurts. From what I read about Manhunt the producers took great lengths to make sure the guys you were strangling reacted just like real man would. I'm not opposed to videogame violence, people have a natural propensity to conflict, but I just don't want a generation of sadists growing up.
In even the most gory Hollywood movie, I doubt you'll find the star being a serial killer who's mission is to kill innocent people. That's what I think is most fucked up with Manhunt. GTA let you role-play a gangster, and though you have to whack some guys sometimes, it's not like you're playing a character who enjoys killing people just for the heck of it (anything along that lines is what YOU bring to the character.)
About the encumberment issue, I think the whole point was that this gear is a lot lighter than what they issue now. They say soldiers now carry 110 pounds of gear, which is ridiculous but apparently necessary so you don't die as easily.
I'm really liking the nanotech armor for the 2020 suit. Sounds just like ballistic protection from Deus Ex, it would be just like a regular shirt but the nano-machines could quickly come together to block the shots. And they got the microfibre muscles aug too!. Now if they could just get the thermoptic camo working...
LOL, I remember that gun from the last mission of Soldier of Fortune II. I hated that thing. You had to go into the scope and hit like 4 buttons just to fire grenades (even though they were incredibly accurate...) I imagine the real deal is more user-friendly.
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And how many slashdotters are now going to vote it with 10's or something without actually seeing it...
You can't flash any card newer than a GeForce 3 / 2MX. At least to my knowledge. Flashing newer cards would be great, but there are many people making excuses about things like the byte order being reversed and such, whatever it is no one has been able to flash newer ATI or NVidia cards for macintosh.
From the writing on the bees' website it looks like an AI construct that had gone into the first stages of rampancy.
Conclusion: a) The server hosting a page about bees got fed up, spontaneously developed advanced intelligence and went nutty.
b) This marketing is cleverly drawing attention to the fact that Halo 2 will revisit the AI plotline from Bungie's Marathon series (http://marathon.bungie.org/story/).
Note also that similar tactics were used when Halo was early in the works (when it was going to be a Mac game), mysterious e-mails were sent from someone named Cortana, with an e-mail address that could be traced back to workstation 49 (7?) in the bungie offices.
In the uk it is cheaper to buy albums in ASDA (Wal mart) than it is to download from ITMS.
You guys do know that the albums are available for 10 bucks no matter how many songs there are, usually? I never get single songs, because yeah, it is a ripoff. But ten dollar albums? Score!
P.S. Please tell me where I can buy new albums for under ten dollars. I looked online at that ASDA store, but last I heard, you needed more dollars to equal a pound. Is Apple overcharging in Britain?
The law only governs engines with no more than 0.9 lbs of propellant, that's an awful lot. If I remember correctly most toy rocket engines contain about 70 grams of fuel. The issue I see only affects those who want to build the big rockets, and I could understand some regulation on who wants to buy the big engines.
It was my impression that flash media like the key drives had a limited number of writes (though large). Though still good for booting occasionally, you certainly wouldn't want to have frequently changing data on there, like logs or a swap file.
Someone correct me if my info here is wrong or outdated.
I'm pretty sure there's two formats, one for iChat mac-to-mac (it's been around longer than the AIM one, and is better quality) and one for iChat to AIM on PC. I would see mac to mac videochat working still, but possibly some trouble with the mac to PC.
Exactly, it is a Keyboard, meant for inputting text. There is no reason that it should be the most efficient method for playing games. I am not saying that "gamepads" are inherently better, but someday someone will make a control scheme that works better simply because the qwerty keyboard was not made with any gaming oriented features. Touch sensitives keys would be a good start, as well as keys that would be easier to hit in a panic. The mouse is a great input device, at the cost of having no analog trigger. I have some difficulty though aiming by bending my wrist, I personally prefer a thumb joystick, I get just as much control through that after a bit of practice, the acceration on the thing is a godsend.
Quicktime is just a media wrapper, I'd much like the ability to encode using the XVID codec for the tv shows I'm recording if nothing else. I think XVID offers some advantages over MPEG-4, I'd like to at least try it, my recordings so far have been ending up not as nice as the ones I "find" on the net sometimes.
Am wondering what is necessary to make XVID into a quicktime compatible codec, so it's available to all the quicktime apps.
They did put nice stereo speakers on each side of the top screen, but I'd much have a bigger display. If they made the top display bigger it would stay the same aspect ratio, it looks like both top and bottom are widescren displays with a little dead space above and below. All in all I'm more interested in the GameBoy than the PSP, do you really need a 3D chip better than the N64 for a handheld?
Ammendment: You wouldn't want people to be able to pause the presentation, so you'd need to build some sort of delay circuit into the button. So, after it is pressed, you can't send another signal to the play/pause button till after you know it would be done.
Yes, you could even use the CD players you mentioned, and just jury-rig a big red button to start it. Your problem is easily solved with a little electronics tinkering (RadioShack probably has everything you need.)
Didn't it take quite a bit longer from the flag raising of Iwo Jima to get a picture out? If I remember correctly the famous picture came from some guys setting up a replacement flag before they were headed out, some guy who took a picture of the first flag (the important one) got upset because his picture wasn't as good as the second and wasn't used. I personally like the "famous" picture, it may not be historically accurate but it is really moving.
Consumers are frugal first, and dumb second. Witness VHS trumping Betamax. When it's time to upgrade, the average consumer buys the cheapest computer they can get. CompUSA etc. don't even carry many of the monster computers. I really think Microsoft or Intel will have a hard time convincing the thrifty consumer that it's worth another 1000 dollars for a "Dual Core" chip, when they won't know what that is. Which leaves the smarter consumers who know that it's stupid for Windows to require an obscenely quick system and who might even switch to a Mac or Linux based system in protest. The dual core design will probably be a big hit in graphics and other intensive applications though, I really appreciate my dual processor system and it'd be great to get that sort of flexibility in a single chip, like for a laptop.
Oh, and of course Gamers will buy the new systems, especially if they label the chips "Radical Edition".
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Not only that, when you bought Quicktime Pro it tells you you're getting a license for Quicktime 5/6. I was expecting to have to pony up again. I hope the new qt is worth it though.
Mastery of programming languages shouldn't be a prequisite for studying computer science. Granted, those skills are pretty useful, but rather than testing them directly the curriculum should just encourage their development to give you a leg up when studying computer theory, just as a music comp. major would become pretty handy with a piano while putting together his pieces.
They are referring to the fact that the games only have a consistant framerate where they didn't before, and that it's not going to make things move around faster in-game, like a turbo of some sort.
How exactly is this going to drive down pricing? The nintendo has always been priced very affordably. Plus, these PSP games are like $50 bucks while Nintendo DS games are $30, according to EBGames. As for launch numbers, I'm not terribly excited about any of that list for the PSP (albeit I'm not Japanese) whilst the Nintendo has Mario at launch! and tons more next!
My prediction: PSP = GameGear = nGage = flop.
Some might argue that itself to be the problem, but what do you think is worse, a society brought up to be able to tolerate comically excessive violence, or one that can watch and even play at realistic, brutal violence without batting an eye?
Realistic violence and suffering should, IMHO, exist in media to ward people away from doing awful things, like war and whatnot. It troubles me greatly to see kids laughing at how brutality a guy gets tortured or shot up, when the producers make it obvious how much it hurts. From what I read about Manhunt the producers took great lengths to make sure the guys you were strangling reacted just like real man would. I'm not opposed to videogame violence, people have a natural propensity to conflict, but I just don't want a generation of sadists growing up.
In even the most gory Hollywood movie, I doubt you'll find the star being a serial killer who's mission is to kill innocent people. That's what I think is most fucked up with Manhunt. GTA let you role-play a gangster, and though you have to whack some guys sometimes, it's not like you're playing a character who enjoys killing people just for the heck of it (anything along that lines is what YOU bring to the character.)
I'm really liking the nanotech armor for the 2020 suit. Sounds just like ballistic protection from Deus Ex, it would be just like a regular shirt but the nano-machines could quickly come together to block the shots. And they got the microfibre muscles aug too!. Now if they could just get the thermoptic camo working...
LOL, I remember that gun from the last mission of Soldier of Fortune II. I hated that thing. You had to go into the scope and hit like 4 buttons just to fire grenades (even though they were incredibly accurate...) I imagine the real deal is more user-friendly.
And how many slashdotters are now going to vote it with 10's or something without actually seeing it...
You can't flash any card newer than a GeForce 3 / 2MX. At least to my knowledge. Flashing newer cards would be great, but there are many people making excuses about things like the byte order being reversed and such, whatever it is no one has been able to flash newer ATI or NVidia cards for macintosh.
BTW, the sevens are the age old Bungie thing, which I think they stole from greek or roman mythology.
Conclusion:
a) The server hosting a page about bees got fed up, spontaneously developed advanced intelligence and went nutty.
b) This marketing is cleverly drawing attention to the fact that Halo 2 will revisit the AI plotline from Bungie's Marathon series (http://marathon.bungie.org/story/).
Note also that similar tactics were used when Halo was early in the works (when it was going to be a Mac game), mysterious e-mails were sent from someone named Cortana, with an e-mail address that could be traced back to workstation 49 (7?) in the bungie offices.
Fink works fine for me, I won't rebuild all my packages (is that even easily possible?) with Portage unless there's a speed boost.
You guys do know that the albums are available for 10 bucks no matter how many songs there are, usually? I never get single songs, because yeah, it is a ripoff. But ten dollar albums? Score!
P.S. Please tell me where I can buy new albums for under ten dollars. I looked online at that ASDA store, but last I heard, you needed more dollars to equal a pound. Is Apple overcharging in Britain?
The law only governs engines with no more than 0.9 lbs of propellant, that's an awful lot. If I remember correctly most toy rocket engines contain about 70 grams of fuel. The issue I see only affects those who want to build the big rockets, and I could understand some regulation on who wants to buy the big engines.
It was my impression that flash media like the key drives had a limited number of writes (though large). Though still good for booting occasionally, you certainly wouldn't want to have frequently changing data on there, like logs or a swap file.
Someone correct me if my info here is wrong or outdated.
I'm pretty sure there's two formats, one for iChat mac-to-mac (it's been around longer than the AIM one, and is better quality) and one for iChat to AIM on PC. I would see mac to mac videochat working still, but possibly some trouble with the mac to PC.
Exactly, it is a Keyboard, meant for inputting text. There is no reason that it should be the most efficient method for playing games. I am not saying that "gamepads" are inherently better, but someday someone will make a control scheme that works better simply because the qwerty keyboard was not made with any gaming oriented features. Touch sensitives keys would be a good start, as well as keys that would be easier to hit in a panic. The mouse is a great input device, at the cost of having no analog trigger. I have some difficulty though aiming by bending my wrist, I personally prefer a thumb joystick, I get just as much control through that after a bit of practice, the acceration on the thing is a godsend.
Quicktime is just a media wrapper, I'd much like the ability to encode using the XVID codec for the tv shows I'm recording if nothing else. I think XVID offers some advantages over MPEG-4, I'd like to at least try it, my recordings so far have been ending up not as nice as the ones I "find" on the net sometimes.
Am wondering what is necessary to make XVID into a quicktime compatible codec, so it's available to all the quicktime apps.
They did put nice stereo speakers on each side of the top screen, but I'd much have a bigger display. If they made the top display bigger it would stay the same aspect ratio, it looks like both top and bottom are widescren displays with a little dead space above and below. All in all I'm more interested in the GameBoy than the PSP, do you really need a 3D chip better than the N64 for a handheld?
They hired that guy who hacked the XBox, so they're assuming that there's no longer anyone in the world who knows how to do these things.
Ammendment: You wouldn't want people to be able to pause the presentation, so you'd need to build some sort of delay circuit into the button. So, after it is pressed, you can't send another signal to the play/pause button till after you know it would be done.
Yes, you could even use the CD players you mentioned, and just jury-rig a big red button to start it. Your problem is easily solved with a little electronics tinkering (RadioShack probably has everything you need.)
Didn't it take quite a bit longer from the flag raising of Iwo Jima to get a picture out? If I remember correctly the famous picture came from some guys setting up a replacement flag before they were headed out, some guy who took a picture of the first flag (the important one) got upset because his picture wasn't as good as the second and wasn't used. I personally like the "famous" picture, it may not be historically accurate but it is really moving.
Consumers are frugal first, and dumb second. Witness VHS trumping Betamax. When it's time to upgrade, the average consumer buys the cheapest computer they can get. CompUSA etc. don't even carry many of the monster computers. I really think Microsoft or Intel will have a hard time convincing the thrifty consumer that it's worth another 1000 dollars for a "Dual Core" chip, when they won't know what that is. Which leaves the smarter consumers who know that it's stupid for Windows to require an obscenely quick system and who might even switch to a Mac or Linux based system in protest. The dual core design will probably be a big hit in graphics and other intensive applications though, I really appreciate my dual processor system and it'd be great to get that sort of flexibility in a single chip, like for a laptop.
Oh, and of course Gamers will buy the new systems, especially if they label the chips "Radical Edition".