For most people, most games are still like that.:) I certainly couldn't run Quake 3 at 1280x1024 in 32 bit color when it came out. Ditto for Unreal Tournament, and even still for games like FarCry. Most games are suboptimal on most people's hardware.
The catch? Even ATI acknowledges there will probably be no performance benefits to bumping the memory support from 256MB to 512MB
There certainly will be if you want to run Doom 3 (or Half Life 2 - I think?) with totally maxed out texture quality. From all the hoop-la I remember surrounding the Doom 3 launch, even 256MB of memory isn't as much as Doom 3 in Max mode will want to use.
The other cool thing about England is that some cheaper towns can almost rival London in terms of culture and will offer a better quality of life. Manchester is my favourite example, I know a few people (myself included) who call it "London Up North". Newcastle is also getting better, though I don't think it's quite there yet.
If you compare it to the salary surveys that seem to go around, no, it doesn't look anything magical. If you compare it to reality, however, then $60,000 is pretty respectable when you consider all the benefits they get.
I'm thinking that Google is pulling the old 'provide everything at work, and make work so "fun" that they'll stay all hours' trick. This works for a while, but when your employees start getting girlfriends and kids, it kinda goes to pot. Still, as previous news stories here have shown us, married, old staff are not as innovative or useful as young hopefuls, so perhaps this plan isn't so bad on Google's part after all.
Heck, I know coders who make $30,000 a year in major metropolitan areas without Googlesque benefits. Google are just placing themselves above the average in an increasingly popular trend.. but they're no Microsoft, that's for sure.
These sorts of locations are ideal for geek workers. If you're running a design or marketing agency, being out of town is going to really hurt your company, but for the sort of people Google hires, this is ideal. Your money goes a lot further out of town, so you can spend more on gadgets, and since they're indoor types anyway, it's ideal. Perhaps more tech companies should be getting out of the smoke and letting their workers live in more idyllic locations. I certainly appreciate being out in the sticks and getting less distractions.
Most of the stores I've been in with these 'self scan' systems are a nightmare. I swear, they check at least quarter of the people who use the scanning system, and if you happen not to be white, male, and dressed in business attire, well your chances of getting checked out just shot up. When you have to get all your groceries checked out even 1 in 10 times, it defeats the convenience of self scanning.
Perhaps you missed the world 'scale'. England is barely three hundred miles long as it is. The two places are almost at the extreme opposite ends, hence my Grand Canyon/Washington comment. The US is one of a very few large countries with a homogenized culture. Most of the world's population is used to dealing with places 300 miles away as being radically different.
But at least Boston is comparable with New York. Sellafield is about 300 miles away from London (basically at the opposite end of the country) and is a tiny place in the middle of nowhere.
Hey, it was one way of getting his name on Slashdot. Come on, how many of us lowly cretins here in the comments section have ever been referred to by our full names in a Slashdot post? Yeah, I can count all two of you out there. The guy's a douchebag, but, by jove, he's a famous douchebag!
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Now I know why my site doesn't work anymore. SHA-1 is broken. Digest::SHA1 won't produce any hashes for me anymore, and I tried to debug the issue but couldn't work out what was going on. Thanks for letting us know SHA-1 is broken Slashdot. I wonder when it will be fixed?
Interestingly enough, I just had to buy an IBM keyboard for my father who also likes those noisy clicky things. It was £28 (about $50) to my Apple's £20. I'm not sure what the US is like price wise, but £20 (about $35) for a keyboard is good (it's the only reason I got one, I prefer ergonomic keyboards). Of course, you can pick up el cheapo PS/2 keyboards for a few dollars, but we all know what that's like:-)
For the same reason people strike up flamewars on forums, the same reason some people do grafitti, and so on.. some people like pissing other people off. Or, as is usually the case, people are bored so they fall into destructive behavior.
They're talking about video. You can't get TIFF videos. Also while JPEG 2000 is lossy it's considered to be 'good enough'. Of course, some people thought this about MPEG 1 when it came out, so you might have a point.
The answer is no. The base of every single 17" CRT I've seen is significantly larger than the Mac Mini, so it'd be both unstable and look silly. Apple also says not to put anything on top for cooling purposes, although, as far as I can tell, most heat escapes from the rear of the unit.
I wouldn't have an issue with putting a few Mac Minis on top of each other, or maybe an external hard drive, but nothing more than this.
Apple's mouse and keyboard package isn't overpriced. I just bought a Microsoft PC keyboard that costs as much as the Apple one I'm typing on now, and the Apple one is far quieter (though, sadly, is not ergonomic). The Apple mouse, frankly, is a piece of ass. As a Mac user, I can deal with one button easily.. but no scroll wheel? Is this 1994?
Hmm, much like tricking people by saying 'rm -rf' will 'fix [whatever]' , isn't posting this asking for trouble? Last thing we want is people actually trying this.
Get Sidetrack. Google for it. It lets you have a "scroll wheel" on your trackpad. I couldn't live without it. How anyone manually scrolls is beyond me..
Because it's so often reinforced. Windows and other Microsoft products offer.ini,.txt,.doc,.url, and so on straight out of the box.. so it's a pattern users subconciously follow themselves. I admit, even though I'm a UNIX user, I use.txt! I can't think of many places I've seen.text or.document, if ever. Also, file types are defined in most operating system as being the 3 letter variants, with.html as a nice exception.
Well, of course they spent less in R&D. They come up with all these ideas, and then spend ten years trying to implement them. WinFS, etc. Why bother coming up with more new ideas if they already have a ten year pile to catch up with?;-)
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For most people, most games are still like that. :) I certainly couldn't run Quake 3 at 1280x1024 in 32 bit color when it came out. Ditto for Unreal Tournament, and even still for games like FarCry. Most games are suboptimal on most people's hardware.
The catch? Even ATI acknowledges there will probably be no performance benefits to bumping the memory support from 256MB to 512MB
There certainly will be if you want to run Doom 3 (or Half Life 2 - I think?) with totally maxed out texture quality. From all the hoop-la I remember surrounding the Doom 3 launch, even 256MB of memory isn't as much as Doom 3 in Max mode will want to use.
But I only have one eye, you insensitive clod! ;-)
The other cool thing about England is that some cheaper towns can almost rival London in terms of culture and will offer a better quality of life. Manchester is my favourite example, I know a few people (myself included) who call it "London Up North". Newcastle is also getting better, though I don't think it's quite there yet.
If you compare it to the salary surveys that seem to go around, no, it doesn't look anything magical. If you compare it to reality, however, then $60,000 is pretty respectable when you consider all the benefits they get.
I'm thinking that Google is pulling the old 'provide everything at work, and make work so "fun" that they'll stay all hours' trick. This works for a while, but when your employees start getting girlfriends and kids, it kinda goes to pot. Still, as previous news stories here have shown us, married, old staff are not as innovative or useful as young hopefuls, so perhaps this plan isn't so bad on Google's part after all.
Heck, I know coders who make $30,000 a year in major metropolitan areas without Googlesque benefits. Google are just placing themselves above the average in an increasingly popular trend.. but they're no Microsoft, that's for sure.
These sorts of locations are ideal for geek workers. If you're running a design or marketing agency, being out of town is going to really hurt your company, but for the sort of people Google hires, this is ideal. Your money goes a lot further out of town, so you can spend more on gadgets, and since they're indoor types anyway, it's ideal. Perhaps more tech companies should be getting out of the smoke and letting their workers live in more idyllic locations. I certainly appreciate being out in the sticks and getting less distractions.
Most of the stores I've been in with these 'self scan' systems are a nightmare. I swear, they check at least quarter of the people who use the scanning system, and if you happen not to be white, male, and dressed in business attire, well your chances of getting checked out just shot up. When you have to get all your groceries checked out even 1 in 10 times, it defeats the convenience of self scanning.
Perhaps you missed the world 'scale'. England is barely three hundred miles long as it is. The two places are almost at the extreme opposite ends, hence my Grand Canyon/Washington comment. The US is one of a very few large countries with a homogenized culture. Most of the world's population is used to dealing with places 300 miles away as being radically different.
Hmm, Sellafield is not a city. It's a village 300 miles from London in the middle of nowhere known only for having a nuclear power plant.
When you take scale into account, saying Sellafield is in London is totally like saying the Grand Canyon is in Washington D.C.
And what are you on about? The UK has a lot of open land. It's nothing like the US, but more of the UK is fields or moor than anything else.
But at least Boston is comparable with New York. Sellafield is about 300 miles away from London (basically at the opposite end of the country) and is a tiny place in the middle of nowhere.
I'm touched, but no, I'm just a douchebag, and not a famous one. Roland Piquepaille, on the other hand... ;-)
Hey, it was one way of getting his name on Slashdot. Come on, how many of us lowly cretins here in the comments section have ever been referred to by our full names in a Slashdot post? Yeah, I can count all two of you out there. The guy's a douchebag, but, by jove, he's a famous douchebag!
Now I know why my site doesn't work anymore. SHA-1 is broken. Digest::SHA1 won't produce any hashes for me anymore, and I tried to debug the issue but couldn't work out what was going on. Thanks for letting us know SHA-1 is broken Slashdot. I wonder when it will be fixed?
I heard Sally Struthers and Martha Stewart are touring Norway with their duet album this summer.
Interestingly enough, I just had to buy an IBM keyboard for my father who also likes those noisy clicky things. It was £28 (about $50) to my Apple's £20. I'm not sure what the US is like price wise, but £20 (about $35) for a keyboard is good (it's the only reason I got one, I prefer ergonomic keyboards). Of course, you can pick up el cheapo PS/2 keyboards for a few dollars, but we all know what that's like :-)
For the same reason people strike up flamewars on forums, the same reason some people do grafitti, and so on.. some people like pissing other people off. Or, as is usually the case, people are bored so they fall into destructive behavior.
They're talking about video. You can't get TIFF videos. Also while JPEG 2000 is lossy it's considered to be 'good enough'. Of course, some people thought this about MPEG 1 when it came out, so you might have a point.
The answer is no. The base of every single 17" CRT I've seen is significantly larger than the Mac Mini, so it'd be both unstable and look silly. Apple also says not to put anything on top for cooling purposes, although, as far as I can tell, most heat escapes from the rear of the unit.
I wouldn't have an issue with putting a few Mac Minis on top of each other, or maybe an external hard drive, but nothing more than this.
Apple's mouse and keyboard package isn't overpriced. I just bought a Microsoft PC keyboard that costs as much as the Apple one I'm typing on now, and the Apple one is far quieter (though, sadly, is not ergonomic). The Apple mouse, frankly, is a piece of ass. As a Mac user, I can deal with one button easily.. but no scroll wheel? Is this 1994?
Hmm, much like tricking people by saying 'rm -rf' will 'fix [whatever]' , isn't posting this asking for trouble? Last thing we want is people actually trying this.
That's why you need..
.. which still has the cleaner design that their beta had.
http://search.msn.com/
That doesn't work as expected in many apps. Take Mail. It'll scroll the mail rather than the list of mails.
Get Sidetrack. Google for it. It lets you have a "scroll wheel" on your trackpad. I couldn't live without it. How anyone manually scrolls is beyond me..
Because it's so often reinforced. Windows and other Microsoft products offer .ini, .txt, .doc, .url, and so on straight out of the box.. so it's a pattern users subconciously follow themselves. I admit, even though I'm a UNIX user, I use .txt! I can't think of many places I've seen .text or .document, if ever. Also, file types are defined in most operating system as being the 3 letter variants, with .html as a nice exception.
Well, of course they spent less in R&D. They come up with all these ideas, and then spend ten years trying to implement them. WinFS, etc. Why bother coming up with more new ideas if they already have a ten year pile to catch up with? ;-)