It's also really nice to be able to download a demo for a game before deciding whether to buy it.
My PS3 has about 15gb of stuff on it. Mostly demos and trailers, but I've purchased three downloadable games. Whether that's a $400 advantage is obviously up to the purchaser.
Er...no. The Space Activity Suit gives pressure protection for your entire body. It differs from traditional suits, which give pressure protection by encasing the body in a bag of pressurized air, by giving pressure protection by encasing the body in elastic material that puts an inward force on the body.
If you are sending a signal to someone, the more energy efficient it is, the less signal that leaks out to anyone but the intended recipient. When you are sending a signal to someone, the better the signal is compressed, the more like pure, random noise it looks.
Which means as we (or any other species) improves communications, our signals will appear weaker, and more like random noise. My suspicion is that in 200 years, there will be little radio-wave leakage out of the solar system, and what there is will be hard to distinguish from random noise. It could be none, if one imagines some sort of communications scheme, using quantum entanglement. It could be that all communications in the year 2207 is instantaneous, point-to-point, and literally impossible to detect by anyone else.
We can get humans to the next planet. We just don't, because it is too expensive.
That, in a nutshell, explains why "they aren't here". The massive energy requirements coupled with the homogeneity of the universe means that there's no point, economically speaking, of going anywhere else. The Fermi paradox assumes that species will expand. Perhaps it is simply too expensive to expand, and the only interstellar travel there is is exploration.
Given that I've only seen videos of someone else playing "Spore", I have to say, no, I don't wonder how it works. I wonder when the hell it'll be done.
One big reason Roman bridges lasted so long is that the Romans had no clue how to build a bridge that was strong "enough". Because they were ignorant of the math and engineering required, they instead just built as strong as possible, damn the cost. This was, of course, much, much stronger than strong enough to last a few decades. We, with our modern engineering, can build things that are strong "enough", and thus, don't last near as long and are generally weaker. But we save lots of money.
Take a look at your average torrent site. DRM hasn't curbed 50% of copying. I'd be surprised if it's curbed 5% of copying.
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The Average Joe doesn't need to crack it. The Average Joe just uses the torrent that The Knowledgeable Joe uploaded after running the ripper he downloaded from a site run by The DRM-Cracking Expert Joe.
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When I first got a digital camera, I could back up all the pictures onto one CD. Eventually, it was two. Then, higher resolution camera, and it was three, then four. About the time it got up to six, I got a DVD burner and could back up to one DVD.
Then, of course, more pictures, a higher resolution camera and I'm now up to six CDs per backup. Probably in a year, I'll get a blu-ray or hd-dvd burner and be back down to one disk.
Pretty much all of it. I learned how to configure Linux in the terminal, and with only a few exceptions (like synaptic because dselect is a suckfest) I do everything in the terminal with ubuntu.
People seem to forget that someone actually tried to build a company on Linux games. It was a disaster. The trouble wasn't the OS. The games ran great. The trouble was that no one (but me, I guess) bought them.
The first transcontinental railroad was never a "railroad to nowhere". It was built twenty years after millions of people had already moved to the west coast of the United States.
Why didn't he just return the phone when he got it home and discovered the battery wasn't replaceable? He had 14 days to determine whether or not it met his needs.
When faced with this issue, I simply wrote a Windows version of getopt. Took about a day.
Even when reinventing the wheel, it is important to reinvent as little as possible. If you need functionality that isn't there, at least keep the same interface.
Market forces will likely balance it out by discouraging even more students from going into engineering thereby reducing the local IT workforce even more, thereby increasing the attractiveness of outsourcing and/or H1B employees.
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The stupidest was "Total Recall", where people exploded in the partial pressure on Mars.
Actually, vacuum causes everything to expand. Hence the "penis pump".
So you can download games.
It's also really nice to be able to download a demo for a game before deciding whether to buy it.
My PS3 has about 15gb of stuff on it. Mostly demos and trailers, but I've purchased three downloadable games. Whether that's a $400 advantage is obviously up to the purchaser.
The biggest compatibility problem is Guitar Hero II, in that even with the right adapter, the control scheme is substandard. It's playable, though.
Er...no. The Space Activity Suit gives pressure protection for your entire body. It differs from traditional suits, which give pressure protection by encasing the body in a bag of pressurized air, by giving pressure protection by encasing the body in elastic material that puts an inward force on the body.
Lots of SF shows have done it. Battlestar Galactica did it as well.
Which itself is hardly revolutionary given that functional programming has been around for four decades.
The comments about Civilization are particularly annoying.
If you are sending a signal to someone, the more energy efficient it is, the less signal that leaks out to anyone but the intended recipient. When you are sending a signal to someone, the better the signal is compressed, the more like pure, random noise it looks.
Which means as we (or any other species) improves communications, our signals will appear weaker, and more like random noise. My suspicion is that in 200 years, there will be little radio-wave leakage out of the solar system, and what there is will be hard to distinguish from random noise. It could be none, if one imagines some sort of communications scheme, using quantum entanglement. It could be that all communications in the year 2207 is instantaneous, point-to-point, and literally impossible to detect by anyone else.
We can get humans to the next planet. We just don't, because it is too expensive.
That, in a nutshell, explains why "they aren't here". The massive energy requirements coupled with the homogeneity of the universe means that there's no point, economically speaking, of going anywhere else. The Fermi paradox assumes that species will expand. Perhaps it is simply too expensive to expand, and the only interstellar travel there is is exploration.
Given that I've only seen videos of someone else playing "Spore", I have to say, no, I don't wonder how it works. I wonder when the hell it'll be done.
One big reason Roman bridges lasted so long is that the Romans had no clue how to build a bridge that was strong "enough". Because they were ignorant of the math and engineering required, they instead just built as strong as possible, damn the cost. This was, of course, much, much stronger than strong enough to last a few decades. We, with our modern engineering, can build things that are strong "enough", and thus, don't last near as long and are generally weaker. But we save lots of money.
Until someone miscalculates.
Halflife 2 took five years to develop and it was very successful.
Shit, I've been playing just Oblivion since April and still haven't finished the damn thing.
It does end, right?
The purpose of DRM isn't to keep dishonest people from copying music.
The purpose of DRM is to force honest people to repurchase music every time the format changes.
Once you understand that, the obsession with DRM makes more sense.
Take a look at your average torrent site. DRM hasn't curbed 50% of copying. I'd be surprised if it's curbed 5% of copying.
The Average Joe doesn't need to crack it. The Average Joe just uses the torrent that The Knowledgeable Joe uploaded after running the ripper he downloaded from a site run by The DRM-Cracking Expert Joe.
When I first got a digital camera, I could back up all the pictures onto one CD. Eventually, it was two. Then, higher resolution camera, and it was three, then four. About the time it got up to six, I got a DVD burner and could back up to one DVD.
Then, of course, more pictures, a higher resolution camera and I'm now up to six CDs per backup. Probably in a year, I'll get a blu-ray or hd-dvd burner and be back down to one disk.
I gave up on Evolution for the exact same reason. I've tried it a few times on a few machines, and it's always a dog.
Pretty much all of it. I learned how to configure Linux in the terminal, and with only a few exceptions (like synaptic because dselect is a suckfest) I do everything in the terminal with ubuntu.
People seem to forget that someone actually tried to build a company on Linux games. It was a disaster. The trouble wasn't the OS. The games ran great. The trouble was that no one (but me, I guess) bought them.
The first transcontinental railroad was never a "railroad to nowhere". It was built twenty years after millions of people had already moved to the west coast of the United States.
You have 14 days to return it for a full refund, plenty of time to figure out there's no way to replace the battery.
Why didn't he just return the phone when he got it home and discovered the battery wasn't replaceable? He had 14 days to determine whether or not it met his needs.
When faced with this issue, I simply wrote a Windows version of getopt. Took about a day.
Even when reinventing the wheel, it is important to reinvent as little as possible. If you need functionality that isn't there, at least keep the same interface.
Market forces will likely balance it out by discouraging even more students from going into engineering thereby reducing the local IT workforce even more, thereby increasing the attractiveness of outsourcing and/or H1B employees.