Quake live's "plugin" is basically a full game executable, same with Battlefield Heroes and quite a few other games. So it's just the browser launching a stand-alone app. It'll be quite some time before we see a game like that running in Javascript, although there have been a few solid 2D games written in Javascript.
Yeah, I was really curious how this compares to Warsow. Warsow is a really solid project and doesn't have the crazy balance issues stuff like Nexuiz seems to have. It also takes the Q3 formula and tweaks it just enough to give you something new, which impresses me.
So they're counting the PS3 and the Blu-Ray players as separate items in their study. If you add the two together, Blu-Ray adoption is higher.
Of course, the question is if they count Xbox HD-DVD drives, but those numbers are probably low.
What you said here. People were so buy foaming at the mouth that they never bothered to read the actual article or the thousands of posts that spelled out pretty clearly how and why the slashdot story got it wrong.
Broadband means sending multiple signals over different frequencies on one line, as opposed to baseband which is one signal on one frequency. It actually has no technical meaning that involves necessarily high bandwidth.
Contra Terrene (or CT/seetee) is such a great word, and is technically more correct than "antimatter" (since positrons and such aren't the "opposite" of matter, but rather another state of it). For some reason I just love that one.
Also "Tellurian" as a word for people from the planet Earth (Tellus). Earthling is weaksauce.
I would refer to you and the other posters to my later posts where I correct the link. I did read the little study, but unfortunately, it seems the summary I initially linked was wrong.
No, the first link is a DailyTech article about the study in the second link. Apparently they just misunderstood the text of the original study. So it's my fault for linking the damn DailyTech thing, and DailyTech's fault for not reading the whole study.
The only similar competing study was by google, and their results were roughly the same.
Yes. I did read it and use it in multiple presentations.
The "Bathtub Chart" specifically says that most hard drive failures occur in the first year, or after 5-7 years of use. Their testing showed that the hard drives start failing regularly after 3 years and go up over time, and that first year failures are rare. Those are not the same thing.
Yeah, this is real "pixie dust." A lot of it is speculative stuff that assumes that somehow NAS drives are magically different from normal HDDs.
Also contains references to the "Bathtub Graph" which has been pretty much shown to be a load of bunk:
http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&id=38693
The DS has a totally different resolution, control structure, a minimal API set, and the big thing: no WWAN connectivity. It's just not even the same thing.
It is much better at playing games, though.
You mean it's a clone of original MacOS? Because that had all these things:
Menus at the top of the GUI, rather than the application window. Brain-damaged limitation on the location of the window resize controls. Drive icons. Drag'n'drop,...
And the command line and dock are features from Nextstep, which OSX is based on (and just plain IS, really).
Slashdot Mirror
Awww, I wanted to say that!
So you're ok with putting innocent men in jail, just in case?
Quake live's "plugin" is basically a full game executable, same with Battlefield Heroes and quite a few other games. So it's just the browser launching a stand-alone app. It'll be quite some time before we see a game like that running in Javascript, although there have been a few solid 2D games written in Javascript.
Yeah, I was really curious how this compares to Warsow. Warsow is a really solid project and doesn't have the crazy balance issues stuff like Nexuiz seems to have. It also takes the Q3 formula and tweaks it just enough to give you something new, which impresses me.
Xcode is free if you've got a Mac. Otherwise it costs 1 Macintosh worth of dollars.
Works fine for me in both Opera 10.00 and Safari 4.0.3
Wipeout XL was plastered in Red Bull ads. Nobody even knew what Red Bull was!
Almost certainly not. I just wanted to sound fair.
So they're counting the PS3 and the Blu-Ray players as separate items in their study. If you add the two together, Blu-Ray adoption is higher. Of course, the question is if they count Xbox HD-DVD drives, but those numbers are probably low.
What you said here. People were so buy foaming at the mouth that they never bothered to read the actual article or the thousands of posts that spelled out pretty clearly how and why the slashdot story got it wrong.
Broadband means sending multiple signals over different frequencies on one line, as opposed to baseband which is one signal on one frequency. It actually has no technical meaning that involves necessarily high bandwidth.
Don't forget that there's a judge that approved that warrant. He's just as much part of the problem.
Contra Terrene (or CT/seetee) is such a great word, and is technically more correct than "antimatter" (since positrons and such aren't the "opposite" of matter, but rather another state of it). For some reason I just love that one. Also "Tellurian" as a word for people from the planet Earth (Tellus). Earthling is weaksauce.
I would refer to you and the other posters to my later posts where I correct the link. I did read the little study, but unfortunately, it seems the summary I initially linked was wrong.
No, the first link is a DailyTech article about the study in the second link. Apparently they just misunderstood the text of the original study. So it's my fault for linking the damn DailyTech thing, and DailyTech's fault for not reading the whole study. The only similar competing study was by google, and their results were roughly the same.
Here is the original study: http://www.usenix.org/events/fast07/tech/schroeder/schroeder_html/index.html I can see why the DailyTech link I sent you might have been confusing.
Yes. I did read it and use it in multiple presentations. The "Bathtub Chart" specifically says that most hard drive failures occur in the first year, or after 5-7 years of use. Their testing showed that the hard drives start failing regularly after 3 years and go up over time, and that first year failures are rare. Those are not the same thing.
Yeah, this is real "pixie dust." A lot of it is speculative stuff that assumes that somehow NAS drives are magically different from normal HDDs. Also contains references to the "Bathtub Graph" which has been pretty much shown to be a load of bunk: http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&id=38693
802.11g is not WWAN.
The DS has a totally different resolution, control structure, a minimal API set, and the big thing: no WWAN connectivity. It's just not even the same thing. It is much better at playing games, though.
How will they put a standard USB port in a software update, again?
That helps even further, as does the "boat" analogy below. I was hoping for the car analogy, but I will take what I can get.
That is a great explanation, because I was wondering the same as the original comment. Thanks!
What are you talking about? 64-bit Windows runs 32-bit software just fine.
You mean it's a clone of original MacOS? Because that had all these things:
...
Menus at the top of the GUI, rather than the application window.
Brain-damaged limitation on the location of the window resize controls.
Drive icons.
Drag'n'drop,
And the command line and dock are features from Nextstep, which OSX is based on (and just plain IS, really).