I'm on Comcast (in Denver) and saw this happening a few weeks ago. I'd try to go to google.com and Firefox would report that the server reset the connection. I counter your anecdote with my own! Ha-ha!
Einstein actually wrote a lot about politics and things otherthan science, and tended to be pretty pragmatic about it. He actually left Germany because of his political ideals. He wasn't just a single-field genius completely ignorant in everything else (like apparently many slashdotters are, even though they like to pretend otherwise)
Yore left with science funding and evolution in education (and even that has a serious states rights aspect to it)... I'm not normally a grammar nazi, but damn... of homonyms for "You're" (which is what you really meant), that's not the one that's very common. You came completely out of left field, and hit a home run with new bastardizations of language. Quick lesson:
Your - pertaining to you You're - contraction of "you are" Yore - A long time ago
Yeah... except the law is now restricting anything over 190,000MTOPS, which is about 36 P4's working together according to Intel. There is NO laptop in the world that is even close to that level of performance. Quit your uninformed bashing.
And yet, they've changed it because they realized that things change way too quickly. Not to mention that you're wrong about what they measure... it's not TFLOPS. It's not even FLOPS at all... it's MTOPS, or "Million Theoretical Operations Per Second". And it was just revised in 2002, in response to changing technology. A supercomputer is NOT a hard-line definition. According to numerous sources, it's a relative definition. HTH, HAND
You are either a troll or a shill. Either way, you're very bad at it. Lemme lay some facts out:
1) GPL means that trolltech doesn't "control" any bit of Qt, as long as you use it under the GPL license. 2) Definition of proprietary: "Exclusively owned; private". None of which applies to Qt under the GPL. QED, you are a moron. 3) Mono is most definitely using a proprietary Microsoft interface. It's not code, but that makes it even MORE limiting than even access to proprietary code.
You're an imbecile. The software is dual-licensed. It's either GPL or proprietary, depends on what you want. If you want to keep your code secret, you can pay Trolltech for that privilege. Otherwise, you get it under the GPL, just like every other bit of Linux. Trolltech may do the heavy lifting with developing Qt, but as long as it's available via the GPL, that's no big deal. Because if they ever take it away, we still have the source and are perfectly able to keep going on with development. There is no way that Trolltech can do ANYTHING to KDE development. On the other hand, Mono is quite dependent on a closed MS standard, without any code to actually be based on, it's just an interface that can be changed at Microsoft's whim. That is the definition of proprietary.
From the article above, "By 31 percent to 18 percent, more liberals than conservatives report seeing a specter." So even the demographic that is often included in the "reason" catagory have something they believe in.
Faith is a good thing. Otherwise no ignorant people would take risks. There, fixed that for you. Some of us without faith in anything supernatural still take risks, who believe in our own abilities to cope with the unknown. But I know that's a hard thing for lots of people who believe in God to understand, belief in oneself.
And how much did your PDA phone cost you? Oh, right... $300-$500. Nowhere near the price range of the $100 laptop. And it's much harder to use a PDA phone, as well as the fact that they don't do mesh networking, etc. Lots of capabilities that your phone won't handle. Don't get me wrong, I love my crackberry, but the OLPC definitely has a niche.
You can always throw a bigger CPU in the Wii. You can't just throw a new control scheme at the PS3. It was a gamble by Nintendo that paid off, big time. I would really be surprised if they didn't come out with a much more powerful Wii in a year or two, when the HD market is more prominent. Something that'd allow you to do games like spore. There are two components to games... the hardware, and the software. He's making great software, but recognizes great hardware when he sees it, too.
Friends. Seriously, the Wii is made to be played with other people. Pick up Mario Party 8, invite some people over and have some beer. And turn the brightness of your TV up if Metroid is too dark... you can change those things;)
No, it's not for the "serious gamers". But the serious gamers are a pretty small part of the gaming market, and those are the people buying and playing the Wii. The losers who spend 10 hours a day on Halo 3 are still important because they spend lots of money, but they are no longer the sole market that games are sold to. You're actually in a minority now, when it comes to numbers of people playing games. Deal with it. It's like someone who owns a Miata bitching about how many minivans there are out there on the road... you need to realize that the minivan is much more suited to a much broader portion of the population than your Miata is.
As far as I can see the Wii controller lacks the buttons for something as complex as R6V. You've got crouching, cover, shooting, assault/infiltrate, teammate control, gadget menu, weapon switching, firing mode/silencer, grenade throwing, weapon sights, map... maybe something else I'm forgetting. The functions not only take up every button on the controller, but several buttons have separate functions for pressing the button once and holding it down. The d-pad is fully used and both analogue sticks can also be pressed.
The Wii may allow for a new way of controlling games, but it also has limitations. You keep thinking everything needs a button. They could use the C button on the nunchuk and use gestures to do teammate control, the Z button for gadgets, just wiggle it for weapon cycling, there are the D-pad buttons you can use for grenades, sights, firing modes, the 1 and 2 buttons for maps and such, and you still have the - and + buttons for other less-used functions. Really, look at Zelda for a complex control scheme on the Wii. It's completely possible, and intuitive, even more so than remembering what combination of buttons to hold down to do what functions, you can actually use muscle memory for those controls.
Well, yes. My point was that $70K for a degree is an asinine amount of money to spend if you don't have it sitting around, and is a very poor investment in general, unless you have connections.
If the Wiimote (a different control scheme) is enough to be declared (in Will Wright's opinion at least) that it's in a new console generation, then so is a built-in harddrive. Because fundamentally changing the way you interact with every game is totally equivalent to having a really big integrated memory card for saved games and downloaded games.
Can you have the experience of Wii Sports with any other controller? The control scheme could easily be adapted to play Rainbow Six on the Wii. Look at something like Zelda or Metroid to see how an FPS would work with the Wii. Really, the Wii expands what is possible without throwing out the ability to play the current stuff.
Still, experience working with circuits can give you a shallower learning curve when learning your company's custom equipment, as compared to someone who just graduated with an EE degree who knows the theory, but hasn't actually built or worked on anything more complex than a basic controller board or whatever. Experience, even if it's not directly with your system, is still valuable.
Huh. And I got through school with minimal loans, and will have it paid off being less than 5 years out of school. Really, you're blaming other people for your bad decision with the degree you took, and the asinine amount of money you spent for it? You can get a good education for less than $30K, and that's all 4 years, especially if you have a part-time job at the time.
No, that's a distortion of the market brought about by the subsidies the government is giving corn farmers. Corn is a bad source for ethanol... we should be looking at things that are less damaging to the soil with a higher fermentable sugar content, things like sugar beets or hemp or other high-biomass, low-impact crops.
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It's the same name in Gutsy
Just hoping for an informative here:
I believe that 4.2.2.1 - 4.2.2.5 (or maybe 6) are all DNS servers for Level3, in case you want multiples available.
I'm on Comcast (in Denver) and saw this happening a few weeks ago. I'd try to go to google.com and Firefox would report that the server reset the connection. I counter your anecdote with my own! Ha-ha!
Einstein actually wrote a lot about politics and things other than science, and tended to be pretty pragmatic about it. He actually left Germany because of his political ideals. He wasn't just a single-field genius completely ignorant in everything else (like apparently many slashdotters are, even though they like to pretend otherwise)
Your - pertaining to you
You're - contraction of "you are"
Yore - A long time ago
Yeah... except the law is now restricting anything over 190,000MTOPS, which is about 36 P4's working together according to Intel. There is NO laptop in the world that is even close to that level of performance. Quit your uninformed bashing.
And yet, they've changed it because they realized that things change way too quickly. Not to mention that you're wrong about what they measure... it's not TFLOPS. It's not even FLOPS at all... it's MTOPS, or "Million Theoretical Operations Per Second". And it was just revised in 2002, in response to changing technology. A supercomputer is NOT a hard-line definition. According to numerous sources, it's a relative definition. HTH, HAND
Youtube has anything ;)
You are either a troll or a shill. Either way, you're very bad at it. Lemme lay some facts out:
1) GPL means that trolltech doesn't "control" any bit of Qt, as long as you use it under the GPL license.
2) Definition of proprietary: "Exclusively owned; private". None of which applies to Qt under the GPL. QED, you are a moron.
3) Mono is most definitely using a proprietary Microsoft interface. It's not code, but that makes it even MORE limiting than even access to proprietary code.
Go shill/troll/be a retard elsewhere
You're an imbecile. The software is dual-licensed. It's either GPL or proprietary, depends on what you want. If you want to keep your code secret, you can pay Trolltech for that privilege. Otherwise, you get it under the GPL, just like every other bit of Linux. Trolltech may do the heavy lifting with developing Qt, but as long as it's available via the GPL, that's no big deal. Because if they ever take it away, we still have the source and are perfectly able to keep going on with development. There is no way that Trolltech can do ANYTHING to KDE development. On the other hand, Mono is quite dependent on a closed MS standard, without any code to actually be based on, it's just an interface that can be changed at Microsoft's whim. That is the definition of proprietary.
Faith is a good thing. Otherwise no ignorant people would take risks. There, fixed that for you. Some of us without faith in anything supernatural still take risks, who believe in our own abilities to cope with the unknown. But I know that's a hard thing for lots of people who believe in God to understand, belief in oneself.
Hey, you're bound to find a kernel of corn if you dig through enough piles of shit
And how much did your PDA phone cost you? Oh, right... $300-$500. Nowhere near the price range of the $100 laptop. And it's much harder to use a PDA phone, as well as the fact that they don't do mesh networking, etc. Lots of capabilities that your phone won't handle. Don't get me wrong, I love my crackberry, but the OLPC definitely has a niche.
You can always throw a bigger CPU in the Wii. You can't just throw a new control scheme at the PS3. It was a gamble by Nintendo that paid off, big time. I would really be surprised if they didn't come out with a much more powerful Wii in a year or two, when the HD market is more prominent. Something that'd allow you to do games like spore. There are two components to games... the hardware, and the software. He's making great software, but recognizes great hardware when he sees it, too.
Friends. Seriously, the Wii is made to be played with other people. Pick up Mario Party 8, invite some people over and have some beer. And turn the brightness of your TV up if Metroid is too dark... you can change those things ;)
No, it's not for the "serious gamers". But the serious gamers are a pretty small part of the gaming market, and those are the people buying and playing the Wii. The losers who spend 10 hours a day on Halo 3 are still important because they spend lots of money, but they are no longer the sole market that games are sold to. You're actually in a minority now, when it comes to numbers of people playing games. Deal with it. It's like someone who owns a Miata bitching about how many minivans there are out there on the road... you need to realize that the minivan is much more suited to a much broader portion of the population than your Miata is.
The Wii may allow for a new way of controlling games, but it also has limitations. You keep thinking everything needs a button. They could use the C button on the nunchuk and use gestures to do teammate control, the Z button for gadgets, just wiggle it for weapon cycling, there are the D-pad buttons you can use for grenades, sights, firing modes, the 1 and 2 buttons for maps and such, and you still have the - and + buttons for other less-used functions. Really, look at Zelda for a complex control scheme on the Wii. It's completely possible, and intuitive, even more so than remembering what combination of buttons to hold down to do what functions, you can actually use muscle memory for those controls.
Well, yes. My point was that $70K for a degree is an asinine amount of money to spend if you don't have it sitting around, and is a very poor investment in general, unless you have connections.
Can you have the experience of Wii Sports with any other controller? The control scheme could easily be adapted to play Rainbow Six on the Wii. Look at something like Zelda or Metroid to see how an FPS would work with the Wii. Really, the Wii expands what is possible without throwing out the ability to play the current stuff.
Anyone who would label themselves as a "gamer".
Is this close enough? They're already letting you play all the old FF games, and even updating them in many cases.
Still, experience working with circuits can give you a shallower learning curve when learning your company's custom equipment, as compared to someone who just graduated with an EE degree who knows the theory, but hasn't actually built or worked on anything more complex than a basic controller board or whatever. Experience, even if it's not directly with your system, is still valuable.
Huh. And I got through school with minimal loans, and will have it paid off being less than 5 years out of school. Really, you're blaming other people for your bad decision with the degree you took, and the asinine amount of money you spent for it? You can get a good education for less than $30K, and that's all 4 years, especially if you have a part-time job at the time.
No, that's a distortion of the market brought about by the subsidies the government is giving corn farmers. Corn is a bad source for ethanol... we should be looking at things that are less damaging to the soil with a higher fermentable sugar content, things like sugar beets or hemp or other high-biomass, low-impact crops.