Why do they always insist on beating shows into the ground rather than coming up with something new? Stargate's been old and tired for years...since O'Neil left. Stargate:Atlantis has never been anything more than mediocre. It's like Star Trek all over, the show gets lamer and lamer, but they just keep propping up the corpse for "the fans".
It wouldn't bother me so much if it use cash and airtime that could be used for something more original.
380 watts == 9.12 kWh per day. Here in California, I pay about $0.22 per kWh for "above baseline" power, which means it'd cost me almost $2/day, or $60/month to run.
I wonder if that can be written off as a charitable expense.
It also beats CDs hands down in impulse buys. I just purchased a CD from iTunes. I went from looking up the album name to listening to the purchased album in less than 60 seconds. If I wanted the CD, I'd have had to go get in my car, drive to the store, hope they had it, etc. 60 seconds vs. thirty minutes of my time, all assuming that the store actually has it, which is usually a bad assumption given that I tend to like older, more obscure stuff.
We are, however, learning from our mistakes. It used to be that each time a type of media was created (like the 5.25" floppy) it was physically different, which meant that there was no backward compatibility on readers. Today, though, we've settled on physical standards, like the 5.25" optical disk, so that it is simple to make backwards compatible drives. This is why your new Blu-Ray or HD-DVD drive has no trouble reading a plain old CD manufactured in 1986.
If the US had treated the native americans like the Roman Empire treated the Gauls, then today Minneapolis would be much like it is, except 90% of the population would be of native descent.
You greatly overestimate the homebrew market. Does the lack of homebrew hurt the Wii? Has it hurt the XBox 360? Has it hurt the DS? I hate to break it to you, but none of the big three console makers particularly cares about the homebrew market. (And, in fact, Sony has given much more support than the other two.)
You also need to realize that they didn't manufacture all the PS3s they expect to sell. If they shut down the manufacturing plants, they'd likely sell out what stock there is fairly quickly. Even consoles that flopped, like the Dreamcast (sigh) likely "sold out" when manufacturing shut down.
I'm a "Linux Aficionado". Why? Because I've spent the last two decades writing software for Microsoft platforms. (With a few years off in OS/2 land.) I still use Visual Studio daily.
Which is, of course, why I'm a "Linux Aficionado". Hell, I'm still holding a grudge for the way they yanked OS/2 support from their compiler after telling the entire industry that the future was OS/2. Fuckers.
Let's just say they've got a "hard sell" in front of them.
Apollo is basically "Flex" outside of a browser. Flex is basically a user interface UI using Flash...basically it allows Flash-like graphics using an API more geared towards a UI. It's an alternative to things like MFC/wxWidgets/qt, etc., except with a cross platform runtime.
How are they "profiting" from Linux? Added Linux doesn't earn them any money. In fact, every person who buys a PS3 just to run Linux is a net loss to them, and it's pretty delusional to think that "Linux support" is a key feature for those who are buying it to run games. (And I hate to tell you this, but the demographic "linux hacker" isn't one that generates high sales, so it's not likely one they're marketing to.)
I'm not sure how they are not "truly" supporting Linux, given that it is a platform that can outperform a PC in certain applications. People are already doing interesting things with the platform.
I don't understand why slashdotters whine about how the PS3 isn't open enough when it is the most open system Sony's released, and is much more open than either the Wii or XBox 360.
If they were to open up the chip, then a company could easily write a Linux-based game that had the same performance characteristics as one written with the Sony SDK. Given that they lose money on the hardware and make it up on the licensed games, this would be a disaster for them. They can't open it up for "Linux hackers" without opening it up to game companies. Pretty much the only thing you need full access to the graphics chip for is to write a game, something that is in direct competition with Sony.
I wouldn't call that version of Tekken "fully featured". It's missing half the modes of the PSP version. (No Tekken Dojo, for instance.) The graphics are barely better than the PSP version, and certainly don't take advantage of the PS3's graphics.
It is nice to have cheaper "lite" versions of games, though. I can see getting the $20 version if all you want to do is play 2-player.
Given that this mummy died well after the time of Alexander the great, having a mother with European ancestry is not at all surprising. Since the Ptolomies, who ruled Egypt from Alexander's conquest to the time of Cleopatra were all descended from a Macedonian general, one would expect lots of Macedonian genes in the Egyptian aristocracy. This would only be interesting of the mummy was from before the time of Alexander, i.e. before 323 BCE. Hell, given how much inbreeding those guys did, it'd be more surprising if there were Egyptian genes.
This is not to say that the proofs are impressive...this sort of testing is cool stuff. But the results are pretty much what you'd expect knowing the history of the area.
(The death at a young age is also hardly surprising given the mortality rates for children in that era.)
The DVD you got from Netflix has a watermark, so if it is pirated, we will KNOW that it is either you or one of the other 412 people who got the same disk!!!
I've downloaded a number of cracked games. In every single case, it was because the goddamn copy protection on a game I purchased with real money refused to find the valid CD that was sitting in the drive. Usually I only did it after spending frustrated hours with "support" trying to get a fix.
It can be explained by the fact that slashdot editors can't fucking read or do math and Zonk somehow read "37% of adults online own consoles" as "a third of console owners are adults".
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Why do they always insist on beating shows into the ground rather than coming up with something new? Stargate's been old and tired for years...since O'Neil left. Stargate:Atlantis has never been anything more than mediocre. It's like Star Trek all over, the show gets lamer and lamer, but they just keep propping up the corpse for "the fans".
It wouldn't bother me so much if it use cash and airtime that could be used for something more original.
I wonder if that can be written off as a charitable expense.
Especially if your house is so unpopular with the mosquito community that only three have bothered to show up.
The combination of the numbers and the power. Folding@home just tripled its power. If you think Folding@Home is important, that's important.
If, on the other hand, you're only worried about arguments about what machine is "better", then yeah, you're right.
But not everything in life is about CPU dick-waving contests.
It also beats CDs hands down in impulse buys. I just purchased a CD from iTunes. I went from looking up the album name to listening to the purchased album in less than 60 seconds. If I wanted the CD, I'd have had to go get in my car, drive to the store, hope they had it, etc. 60 seconds vs. thirty minutes of my time, all assuming that the store actually has it, which is usually a bad assumption given that I tend to like older, more obscure stuff.
But unless the shot was very lucky, the harddrive is likely recoverable.
We are, however, learning from our mistakes. It used to be that each time a type of media was created (like the 5.25" floppy) it was physically different, which meant that there was no backward compatibility on readers. Today, though, we've settled on physical standards, like the 5.25" optical disk, so that it is simple to make backwards compatible drives. This is why your new Blu-Ray or HD-DVD drive has no trouble reading a plain old CD manufactured in 1986.
If the US had treated the native americans like the Roman Empire treated the Gauls, then today Minneapolis would be much like it is, except 90% of the population would be of native descent.
You greatly overestimate the homebrew market. Does the lack of homebrew hurt the Wii? Has it hurt the XBox 360? Has it hurt the DS? I hate to break it to you, but none of the big three console makers particularly cares about the homebrew market. (And, in fact, Sony has given much more support than the other two.)
You also need to realize that they didn't manufacture all the PS3s they expect to sell. If they shut down the manufacturing plants, they'd likely sell out what stock there is fairly quickly. Even consoles that flopped, like the Dreamcast (sigh) likely "sold out" when manufacturing shut down.
I'm a "Linux Aficionado". Why? Because I've spent the last two decades writing software for Microsoft platforms. (With a few years off in OS/2 land.) I still use Visual Studio daily.
Which is, of course, why I'm a "Linux Aficionado". Hell, I'm still holding a grudge for the way they yanked OS/2 support from their compiler after telling the entire industry that the future was OS/2. Fuckers.
Let's just say they've got a "hard sell" in front of them.
Apollo is basically "Flex" outside of a browser. Flex is basically a user interface UI using Flash...basically it allows Flash-like graphics using an API more geared towards a UI. It's an alternative to things like MFC/wxWidgets/qt, etc., except with a cross platform runtime.
How are they "profiting" from Linux? Added Linux doesn't earn them any money. In fact, every person who buys a PS3 just to run Linux is a net loss to them, and it's pretty delusional to think that "Linux support" is a key feature for those who are buying it to run games. (And I hate to tell you this, but the demographic "linux hacker" isn't one that generates high sales, so it's not likely one they're marketing to.)
I'm not sure how they are not "truly" supporting Linux, given that it is a platform that can outperform a PC in certain applications. People are already doing interesting things with the platform.
I don't understand why slashdotters whine about how the PS3 isn't open enough when it is the most open system Sony's released, and is much more open than either the Wii or XBox 360.
If they were to open up the chip, then a company could easily write a Linux-based game that had the same performance characteristics as one written with the Sony SDK. Given that they lose money on the hardware and make it up on the licensed games, this would be a disaster for them. They can't open it up for "Linux hackers" without opening it up to game companies. Pretty much the only thing you need full access to the graphics chip for is to write a game, something that is in direct competition with Sony.
I wouldn't call that version of Tekken "fully featured". It's missing half the modes of the PSP version. (No Tekken Dojo, for instance.) The graphics are barely better than the PSP version, and certainly don't take advantage of the PS3's graphics.
It is nice to have cheaper "lite" versions of games, though. I can see getting the $20 version if all you want to do is play 2-player.
That's another way of saying "when will you stop selling the PS3 at a loss".
Not great advice for people who have perfectly good LCD monitors already.
I have a 23" monitor that does 1920x1200. Not only does it seem like a waste to get a small HDTV, but I've got no place to put it.
Given that this mummy died well after the time of Alexander the great, having a mother with European ancestry is not at all surprising. Since the Ptolomies, who ruled Egypt from Alexander's conquest to the time of Cleopatra were all descended from a Macedonian general, one would expect lots of Macedonian genes in the Egyptian aristocracy. This would only be interesting of the mummy was from before the time of Alexander, i.e. before 323 BCE. Hell, given how much inbreeding those guys did, it'd be more surprising if there were Egyptian genes.
This is not to say that the proofs are impressive...this sort of testing is cool stuff. But the results are pretty much what you'd expect knowing the history of the area.
(The death at a young age is also hardly surprising given the mortality rates for children in that era.)
Ahah! I *told* the art teacher that kicking him in the balls was art!
Can I get the name of your company? I want to make sure I don't accidentally apply for a job there.
Keep in mind that Google never complains about not finding people.
Depends on the game.
The DVD you got from Netflix has a watermark, so if it is pirated, we will KNOW that it is either you or one of the other 412 people who got the same disk!!!
I've downloaded a number of cracked games. In every single case, it was because the goddamn copy protection on a game I purchased with real money refused to find the valid CD that was sitting in the drive. Usually I only did it after spending frustrated hours with "support" trying to get a fix.
Suckers willing to give all their free time for slave wages who can be discarded the moment they are burnt out.
It can be explained by the fact that slashdot editors can't fucking read or do math and Zonk somehow read "37% of adults online own consoles" as "a third of console owners are adults".
Well, a third of them have no children, and 16% own a portable, and are therefore likely "the primary user".