Is a rotating disc really necessary with optical? I'd imagine (quite probably incorrectly) that you could aim a laser wherever you wanted to without moving anything if designed it right.
For the time being it is my belief (personal opinion) that a) life from scratch and b) artificial intelligence are impossible to create. I've never seen any "step toward" those goals even come close to breaking those barriers. Now if something happens I will have to rethink said beliefs. But until then I personally see all the attempts as people wasting their time striving for the impossible. I'm not sure why but it seems like going faster than the speed of light would be an easier goal to me.
Suggest corrections. I did that (they had directions to my local airport incorrect) and they fixed it after relatively soon. I also contacted the airport itself and told them _they_ should contact google to expedite the process. Pretty sure they are actively trying to improve it based on my own experience.
There's a very specific reason why going from 512MB to 1GB or 2GB of ram is such a huge performance boost. I'm guessing your system has a decent amount of ram? If so you're essentially agreeing that removing the hard drive from the picture is important.
Hell even having the virtual memory removed from the hard drive and put on fast ram would help immensely. (Maybe eliminating virtual ram completely if OSes were rewritten for it would be better?)
the only change is that the computer is a bit faster A bit faster? You kidding me? This would be like trying to download a full-length film over modem versus high-end broadband. The boost in speed will be massive from an end-user's point of view.
Ridley Scott's vision of Los Angeles always seemed amazingly futuristic and innovative to me until I went to live in Taiwan. Los Angeles 2019 = Taibei/Taipei 2002 with more white people. The mix of dirty and ultracool newness is very, very close to what things look like in Taiwan. And if you go across the straits to China, things look even more like Blade Runner. So you're saying the futuristic look of blade runner came true in 25 years instead of 37? If anything you're verifying that Ridley's vision was accurate of a future society, albeit a little off on the timeline. To me that's pretty impressive. Most people with predictions of the future are horribly inaccurate.
Wowhead had an april fools joke on their front page about being bought by blizzard for 7 million. Funny that their joke is now reality.
Blizzard itself now has a WoW Database online. It has a lot of functionality and unique aspects.. the only thing it's missing is exact percentage of drop rates. I wonder if a third-party database is worth anything outside of advertising for gold sellers. I'm guessing Wowhead owners saw this as their chance to get while the gettings good.
Lastly, after thottbot was bought out, you would repeatedly see gold seller advertising in the _comments_ themselves. Which was at a minimum irritating. Thing is, the comments are able to be "rated" up or down.. raising up would add 0.1 points to the score. Most informative posts would have a 3 or 4 at best. All these gold seller comments were rated 12-15. Nearly impossible to vote out of sight. Which means the gold sellers were all bumping their own posts up, or the admins themselves were giving bloated scores to keep them visible.
It's going to suck if a well-designed site like wowhead is dragged through the mud in the name of profit.
I installed software once that had the best EULA ever. While it did have the "legal speak" version you had to agree to, it also had a recap in layman's terms. Made it very very easy to see what you were agreeing to.
Example (not a real example, but you get the idea) :
1.1 Installation and use. You may install, use, access, display and run one copy of the Software on a single computer, such as a workstation, terminal or other device ("Workstation Computer"). The Software may not be used by more than one processor at any one time on any single Workstation Computer.
Anyone else skipping this format entirely? DVD hasn't been out that long compared to VHS's long life. If they are going to rush out new formats every 5-10 years I can afford to skip this one. Especially with how small of an upgrade it is this generation (compared with others)
Maybe this quote from the article would make more sense :
"By now, it is accepted wisdom that Wal-Mart makes the companies it does business with more efficient and focused, leaner and faster. Wal-Mart itself is known for continuous improvement in its ability to handle, move, and track merchandise. It expects the same of its suppliers. But the ability to operate at peak efficiency only gets you in the door at Wal-Mart. Then the real demands start. The public image Wal-Mart projects may be as cheery as its yellow smiley-face mascot, but there is nothing genial about the process by which Wal-Mart gets its suppliers to provide tires and contact lenses, guns and underarm deodorant at every day low prices. Wal-Mart is legendary for forcing its suppliers to redesign everything from their packaging to their computer systems. It is also legendary for quite straightforwardly telling them what it will pay for their goods."
Actually the key here is Dell's deal with Wal-Mart.
From http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/77/walmart.htm l : "Wal-Mart wields its power for just one purpose: to bring the lowest possible prices to its customers. At Wal-Mart, that goal is never reached. The retailer has a clear policy for suppliers: On basic products that don't change, the price Wal-Mart will pay, and will charge shoppers, must drop year after year. But what almost no one outside the world of Wal-Mart and its 21,000 suppliers knows is the high cost of those low prices. Wal-Mart has the power to squeeze profit-killing concessions from vendors. To survive in the face of its pricing demands, makers of everything from bras to bicycles to blue jeans have had to lay off employees and close U.S. plants in favor of outsourcing products from overseas."
I would love if blizzard released a new MMO, one that wasn't based on the warcraft universe. I play WoW not because it's warcraft but because it's a terrificly designed MMO. I have little doubt any MMO they made at this point would only improve on WoW. How many of their players play it because it's Warcraft theme vs how many play it because it's a great game to play? I know I fall into the latter, and am actively seeking a new MMO that's more my style. If SWG hadn't been so FUBARed I'd probably still be there. But I digress.
So cannibalizing their current customers? I'm not so sure... I can't be the only one seeking out their competition.
We're far more likely to end up with car bombs blowing up bridges or suicide bombers blowing themselves up at shopping malls than we are to end up with some exotic antrhax-infected mutant sharks with laserbeams. Great. Now I have to rewrite chapter 3.
Half the music you can download is tagged anyway by some leet speak name such as H@v0k as their calling card, "i ripped this". Now Apple does it for them.
Not quite. Even tho Microsoft was the first to market with something in the $10,000 range for places like Vegas. I wonder what the Blue Screens look like? Yeah.. but this is Microsoft, probably costs them $50,000 to make.
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Is a rotating disc really necessary with optical? I'd imagine (quite probably incorrectly) that you could aim a laser wherever you wanted to without moving anything if designed it right.
For the time being it is my belief (personal opinion) that a) life from scratch and b) artificial intelligence are impossible to create. I've never seen any "step toward" those goals even come close to breaking those barriers. Now if something happens I will have to rethink said beliefs. But until then I personally see all the attempts as people wasting their time striving for the impossible. I'm not sure why but it seems like going faster than the speed of light would be an easier goal to me.
Again just my opinions.
Suggest corrections. I did that (they had directions to my local airport incorrect) and they fixed it after relatively soon. I also contacted the airport itself and told them _they_ should contact google to expedite the process. Pretty sure they are actively trying to improve it based on my own experience.
5000% performance doesn't impress you?
There's a very specific reason why going from 512MB to 1GB or 2GB of ram is such a huge performance boost. I'm guessing your system has a decent amount of ram? If so you're essentially agreeing that removing the hard drive from the picture is important.
Hell even having the virtual memory removed from the hard drive and put on fast ram would help immensely. (Maybe eliminating virtual ram completely if OSes were rewritten for it would be better?)
Oh wow.. I thought he was just slightly nuts. My respect for him has jumped back up a few notches.
And in the same blow my respect for music labels is lowered yet again. How deep can they go?
Last I checked Gravity was a law. Evolution was a theory. Did I miss something?
Won't this cause an outbreak of Librarian violence?
I hearby coin the acronym DRTFA (Dont Read the Fucking Article).
I expect royalty checks.
True.
I quit a while ago and my memory forgot a lot of the features.
Being able to vote up and down comments based on quality is also quite helpful.
Wowhead had an april fools joke on their front page about being bought by blizzard for 7 million. Funny that their joke is now reality.
Blizzard itself now has a WoW Database online. It has a lot of functionality and unique aspects.. the only thing it's missing is exact percentage of drop rates. I wonder if a third-party database is worth anything outside of advertising for gold sellers. I'm guessing Wowhead owners saw this as their chance to get while the gettings good.
Lastly, after thottbot was bought out, you would repeatedly see gold seller advertising in the _comments_ themselves. Which was at a minimum irritating. Thing is, the comments are able to be "rated" up or down.. raising up would add 0.1 points to the score. Most informative posts would have a 3 or 4 at best. All these gold seller comments were rated 12-15. Nearly impossible to vote out of sight. Which means the gold sellers were all bumping their own posts up, or the admins themselves were giving bloated scores to keep them visible.
It's going to suck if a well-designed site like wowhead is dragged through the mud in the name of profit.
Come on guys!!! I'm stuck at 93%!!!
You mean that was _intended_? Lame.
Raise of hands for who read that as Operation Pot Roast?? /raises hand
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c:\>ping yahoo.com
(My apologies... I'm bored)
Let's see...
250GB drive..
250GB drive..
250GB drive..
100GB drive..
60 GB drive..
50 GB drive..
40 GB drive..
Unheard of storage at an unbeatable price!
I installed software once that had the best EULA ever. While it did have the "legal speak" version you had to agree to, it also had a recap in layman's terms. Made it very very easy to see what you were agreeing to.
Example (not a real example, but you get the idea) :
1.1 Installation and use. You may install, use, access, display and run one copy of the Software on a single computer, such as a workstation, terminal or other device ("Workstation Computer"). The Software may not be used by more than one processor at any one time on any single Workstation Computer.
Becomes
1.1 You get one copy for one computer.
Anyone else skipping this format entirely? DVD hasn't been out that long compared to VHS's long life. If they are going to rush out new formats every 5-10 years I can afford to skip this one. Especially with how small of an upgrade it is this generation (compared with others)
Maybe this quote from the article would make more sense :
"By now, it is accepted wisdom that Wal-Mart makes the companies it does business with more efficient and focused, leaner and faster. Wal-Mart itself is known for continuous improvement in its ability to handle, move, and track merchandise. It expects the same of its suppliers. But the ability to operate at peak efficiency only gets you in the door at Wal-Mart. Then the real demands start. The public image Wal-Mart projects may be as cheery as its yellow smiley-face mascot, but there is nothing genial about the process by which Wal-Mart gets its suppliers to provide tires and contact lenses, guns and underarm deodorant at every day low prices. Wal-Mart is legendary for forcing its suppliers to redesign everything from their packaging to their computer systems. It is also legendary for quite straightforwardly telling them what it will pay for their goods."
Actually the key here is Dell's deal with Wal-Mart.
m l :
From http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/77/walmart.ht
"Wal-Mart wields its power for just one purpose: to bring the lowest possible prices to its customers. At Wal-Mart, that goal is never reached. The retailer has a clear policy for suppliers: On basic products that don't change, the price Wal-Mart will pay, and will charge shoppers, must drop year after year. But what almost no one outside the world of Wal-Mart and its 21,000 suppliers knows is the high cost of those low prices. Wal-Mart has the power to squeeze profit-killing concessions from vendors. To survive in the face of its pricing demands, makers of everything from bras to bicycles to blue jeans have had to lay off employees and close U.S. plants in favor of outsourcing products from overseas."
I would love if blizzard released a new MMO, one that wasn't based on the warcraft universe. I play WoW not because it's warcraft but because it's a terrificly designed MMO. I have little doubt any MMO they made at this point would only improve on WoW. How many of their players play it because it's Warcraft theme vs how many play it because it's a great game to play? I know I fall into the latter, and am actively seeking a new MMO that's more my style. If SWG hadn't been so FUBARed I'd probably still be there. But I digress.
So cannibalizing their current customers? I'm not so sure... I can't be the only one seeking out their competition.
Half the music you can download is tagged anyway by some leet speak name such as H@v0k as their calling card, "i ripped this". Now Apple does it for them.