Doom 3? Was it the same Doom 3 where every third room involved the lights going out and a panel opening up behind you? The Doom 3 where you couldn't hold a flashlight and a gun at the same time? Let me know, because if so I need to exchange the copy I got because my copy had an utterly derivative story that was barely worth bothering with.
Lots of people predicted cell phones. In Heinlein's futurist essay written in 1950, he predicted in 2000 that everyone would have a wireless phone you could put in a pocket. He revisited this essay a couple times and in the last revisitation in 1980 he referred to the wireless phone prediction as "obviously correct".
The original Napster didn't overestimate the value of its brand. Roxio, which bought the name from the sharing people overestimated the value of the brand. The people called "Napster" now have no relation to the "Napster" that allowed music trading.
The point of a review shouldn't be some sort of dick-waving contest to prove that one game is better than another. The point of the review should be to tell the reader that a game is worth playing. If mediocre games were getting hundreds, then yeah, that'd be an issue. But I see no problem with "100" meaning "Dude! You've got to buy this! It's awesome!"
Though in general the score is only a minimal part of a good game review as every gamer has different tastes and a good review is one that doesn't just tell you whether a game is, in general, good or bad but one that tells you if this game is one that you, in particular, would enjoy enough to part with your $50-60.
If the term "Supercomputer" has always meant "teraflop", then I guess the old Cray-1, generally considered one of the first supercomputers, wasn't a supercomputer, as it could only do 250 megaflops.
Seriously, the definition of "supercomputer" has changed more than once. For example, I vividly remember when personal computers started running afoul of supercomputer export controls because they were reaching the astounding speed of 2 gigaflops. Supercomputers didn't reach the teraflop level until the late nineties, two decades after the word first came into usage.
Exactly. My iPod has more computing power than the "supercomputers" of the seventies.
But there has been a general size trend over the last forty years. It's hard to find a computer these days that you can't pick up. Forty years ago a tiny computer was one that could be put on a desk. (And it generally required two people to get it onto the desk.)
I remember when I first got a 1200 baud modem and was ecstatically excited to have a piece of communications technology that could actually send text faster than I could read it. It was like science fiction!
Yeah....why I remember back in '98 reading a Slashdot article about a clearly vaporware process wherein a magnetic hard disk might someday be able to support almost a terabyte of data. I don't know why they keep publishing vaporware crap like that.
Not me. I don't have an iPhone. I don't have one because I don't think it is worth the money. Other people do think it is worth the money and therefore have them. Where the money is going is irrelevant. What matters is if the price that is being charged is worth it to to the person buying the product. If it is, buy. If it isn't, don't.
That is irrelevant. The "housing cost" is the amount of the mortgage payment and/or the rent. Neither is directly effected by external forces as both are entirely driven by local supply and demand.
Actually, the way to beat the terrorists is to realize that for all the hype, the death toll to terrorists in this country is orders of magnitude less than the death toll due to simple criminal violence, and that the best way to deal with it is to have the police/FBI/etc. deal with it using basic police work like they have for a century, and for the rest of us to ignore the issue entirely and get on with our lives.
That's how to beat the terrorists: refuse to be terrorized.
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Selling 26 million devices is "tanking"?
Doom 3? Was it the same Doom 3 where every third room involved the lights going out and a panel opening up behind you? The Doom 3 where you couldn't hold a flashlight and a gun at the same time? Let me know, because if so I need to exchange the copy I got because my copy had an utterly derivative story that was barely worth bothering with.
I thought that was outrageously expensive for a gaming machine!
Lots of people predicted cell phones. In Heinlein's futurist essay written in 1950, he predicted in 2000 that everyone would have a wireless phone you could put in a pocket. He revisited this essay a couple times and in the last revisitation in 1980 he referred to the wireless phone prediction as "obviously correct".
The original Napster didn't overestimate the value of its brand. Roxio, which bought the name from the sharing people overestimated the value of the brand. The people called "Napster" now have no relation to the "Napster" that allowed music trading.
Though in general the score is only a minimal part of a good game review as every gamer has different tastes and a good review is one that doesn't just tell you whether a game is, in general, good or bad but one that tells you if this game is one that you, in particular, would enjoy enough to part with your $50-60.
Seriously, the definition of "supercomputer" has changed more than once. For example, I vividly remember when personal computers started running afoul of supercomputer export controls because they were reaching the astounding speed of 2 gigaflops. Supercomputers didn't reach the teraflop level until the late nineties, two decades after the word first came into usage.
But there has been a general size trend over the last forty years. It's hard to find a computer these days that you can't pick up. Forty years ago a tiny computer was one that could be put on a desk. (And it generally required two people to get it onto the desk.)
I remember when I first got a 1200 baud modem and was ecstatically excited to have a piece of communications technology that could actually send text faster than I could read it. It was like science fiction!
Yeah....why I remember back in '98 reading a Slashdot article about a clearly vaporware process wherein a magnetic hard disk might someday be able to support almost a terabyte of data. I don't know why they keep publishing vaporware crap like that.
If it is an estimate, it has error. If there was no error, it wouldn't be an estimate.
Not me. I don't have an iPhone. I don't have one because I don't think it is worth the money. Other people do think it is worth the money and therefore have them. Where the money is going is irrelevant. What matters is if the price that is being charged is worth it to to the person buying the product. If it is, buy. If it isn't, don't.
I can't. But if Pixar had made Shrek 2, it would have had a great story.
That is irrelevant. The "housing cost" is the amount of the mortgage payment and/or the rent. Neither is directly effected by external forces as both are entirely driven by local supply and demand.
Housing prices are mostly unrelated to construction costs since most home sales are preexisting.
Most places, heating costs are NOT a "fairly big" part of the housing cost. Most places, just the mortgage or rent eats 20-30% of income.
No! Given him LOTS of attention! Spread his voice far and wide!
He's a complete loon, and the more people see him acting like a complete loon, the more it will discredit his cause.
Housing is the biggest cost for most people, and it is not offshored.
The single biggest cost for most people is housing. Housing cannot be offshored, and the housing market is actually depressed compared to last year.
Actually, Pixar's success is due to the fact that they worry about the story first, and the look second.
If those damn pixar people would just stop making movie!
It wasn't watch lists that prevented hijackings since 9/11. It was locked cabin doors.
Actually, the way to beat the terrorists is to realize that for all the hype, the death toll to terrorists in this country is orders of magnitude less than the death toll due to simple criminal violence, and that the best way to deal with it is to have the police/FBI/etc. deal with it using basic police work like they have for a century, and for the rest of us to ignore the issue entirely and get on with our lives.
That's how to beat the terrorists: refuse to be terrorized.
On assumes we're afraid of them. Otherwise, why are we giving up all our rights?
Because if it did, it'd be liable for all the other things SCO owes to other companies.
And OS/X is so, so clearly a Prius.