I agree. With Netflix, I can watch as much as I want, whenever I want without commercials ( I don't watch sports). Where cable is $40ish/month with a 2 year commitment AND commercials, I can't really complain about the $18/month I will pay for streaming and 1-at-a-time blu-rays.
Why is litmust test of biological knowledge (for college freshman) whether they know where plants get the majority of there mass?
I'm not a biologist... but that doesn't seem to be the deepest or most fundamental principle of biology...
With HDTV adoption just now taking off, and your average console buyer (read: soccer mom) still in awe of the graphics capabilities of current consoles, and the fact that the aforementioned console buyers can't see the difference between 480i and 1080p... a new console would be a tough sell.
If I remember correctly, both the xbox360 and ps3 were originally sold at a loss. Why would Microsoft or Sony want to start making new machines that were not obviously better and suddenly lost money in the middle of a global recession?
Methinks my xbox 360 will be around for a while longer, that is, unless I get a 4th red ring of death.
if every thumb drive was 1cm square, you would lose within a week.
the drives right now are just the right size to slip in a pocket or on a key ring, if they were any smaller they'd just be impractical.
I too have not yet installed SP2. I was about to the other day, but now i'm glad i didn't. I'll wait a few more months till they've released a few more patches for the patch in the swiss cheese OS.
not only are CRT's better, they're easier on the wallet. For a nice large display, the cost and performance heavily favor the CRT. The only advantage i can see to an LCD is that they're spiffier and they're easier to transport to LAN parties.
Until i can get a 19" LCD for $200, I'll stick with my CRT.
the point was, even if the drivers worked, your video card would still choke on a simple game like NS. Buy a new one, your computer will thank you. Windows doesnt support it becasue they figure anyone that doesnt care enough to upgrade their video card every 7 years or so doesnt care enough to play games that only support openGL.
it would me much more convenient (and probably less bandwidth-intensive) if they allowed us to update Firefox through the built-in update feature. At least Micro$oft doesnt make you totally re-download IE everytime they patch it.
I think the rise in movie profits has more to do with the change in the format from VHS to DVD, all the movie companies are re-releasing all their classic movies onto "special edition" DVD's and thus people are buying them.
however Cd's havent changed format and there's no reason to buy all your old favorites again. Maybe when DVD-A or SACD takes off we'll see a big spike in music sales too.
very true. I know lots of aps and games on the web that are free that people advertise, not for money or a sense of belonging, but becasue they're simply great.
Example: Counter-Strike, when it first came out there was no profit involved, it was just good software that spread like wildfire through word of mouth (or keyboard) because it was just plain good.
The same thing is happening with things like Firefox and mods like Natural-Selection. They grow and spread through word of mouth "advertising" simply becasue they are great applications and when people find something good they can help but share it.
but we have to root for apple because they're the underdog, that's how it works; you shun the big bad monopoly and love the underdog, it's just the way of things. In 10 years or so when apple has the monopoly on the PC market, we'll all be micrsoft (or whoever happens to be the underdog) sypathizers and we'll all be bashing apple on the slashdot message boards
i have an asus tv tuner, it's not pristine quality, but it was easy to install. I've hooked my gamecube up to it and it works fine. It records really well in mpeg 1/2 without taking up too much of my system resources. I don't know how it'll run under linux though.
"I'd say the disadvantages far outweight the advantages"
I would agree that there are significant disadvanteges to the commercialization of the internet, yet I would hesitate to say the bad outweighs the good. The beauty of the internet is that it is still a realatively free (although less than before) medium and many great examples of user-created interactive content like Slashdot, for instance. You can also look at all the great open source software on the internet, that is certainly not commercial, and it is far from TV you can click on.
In summarry, yes the internet is attracting many users who do not use it in the way originally intended, but it is such a broad medium that many places still exist where the original ideals of ARPANET are still prevalent, the sharing and synergy of information.
It may be too early yet to declare the internet dead.
i think the internet is becoming a more commercial media, and with that come benefits as well as disadvantages. I don't like the turns the internet has been taking recently, too many lawsuits and crackers, this isn't what the internet was designed for.
i've got a ti-89 and i can't complain, it's hands down the best graphing calculator i've used. It's fairly easy to use but also has tons of features that will keep you busy for months figuring them out.
there are many applications you can download for it with the USB graph link as well
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I agree. With Netflix, I can watch as much as I want, whenever I want without commercials ( I don't watch sports). Where cable is $40ish/month with a 2 year commitment AND commercials, I can't really complain about the $18/month I will pay for streaming and 1-at-a-time blu-rays.
I don't know how many games I've played 1.75 times because I reformatted and couldn't find/forgot about the dang savegame files.
Why is litmust test of biological knowledge (for college freshman) whether they know where plants get the majority of there mass? I'm not a biologist... but that doesn't seem to be the deepest or most fundamental principle of biology...
With HDTV adoption just now taking off, and your average console buyer (read: soccer mom) still in awe of the graphics capabilities of current consoles, and the fact that the aforementioned console buyers can't see the difference between 480i and 1080p... a new console would be a tough sell. If I remember correctly, both the xbox360 and ps3 were originally sold at a loss. Why would Microsoft or Sony want to start making new machines that were not obviously better and suddenly lost money in the middle of a global recession? Methinks my xbox 360 will be around for a while longer, that is, unless I get a 4th red ring of death.
***Fraudulent*** is the adjective form of fraud. I don't know what a frad is.
if every thumb drive was 1cm square, you would lose within a week. the drives right now are just the right size to slip in a pocket or on a key ring, if they were any smaller they'd just be impractical.
I too have not yet installed SP2. I was about to the other day, but now i'm glad i didn't. I'll wait a few more months till they've released a few more patches for the patch in the swiss cheese OS.
not only are CRT's better, they're easier on the wallet. For a nice large display, the cost and performance heavily favor the CRT. The only advantage i can see to an LCD is that they're spiffier and they're easier to transport to LAN parties. Until i can get a 19" LCD for $200, I'll stick with my CRT.
nobody's gonna waste 8 bucks on a possibly bad movie, they'll all just "obtain" it from various internet sources...
i actually saw a price/performance chart for HL2, and the mx440 got the most fps/$.
not because it did really well, but becasue it's so darn cheap)
the point was, even if the drivers worked, your video card would still choke on a simple game like NS. Buy a new one, your computer will thank you. Windows doesnt support it becasue they figure anyone that doesnt care enough to upgrade their video card every 7 years or so doesnt care enough to play games that only support openGL.
if you really want to play, fork up $50 for a new video card which will run any half life mod beautifully.
most popular based on number of players - according to steam.
the learning curve is a bit of a turn-off but once you get over that, it's one of the deepest FPS's you'll ever play.
it would me much more convenient (and probably less bandwidth-intensive) if they allowed us to update Firefox through the built-in update feature.
At least Micro$oft doesnt make you totally re-download IE everytime they patch it.
I think the rise in movie profits has more to do with the change in the format from VHS to DVD, all the movie companies are re-releasing all their classic movies onto "special edition" DVD's and thus people are buying them.
however Cd's havent changed format and there's no reason to buy all your old favorites again. Maybe when DVD-A or SACD takes off we'll see a big spike in music sales too.
very true. I know lots of aps and games on the web that are free that people advertise, not for money or a sense of belonging, but becasue they're simply great. Example: Counter-Strike, when it first came out there was no profit involved, it was just good software that spread like wildfire through word of mouth (or keyboard) because it was just plain good. The same thing is happening with things like Firefox and mods like Natural-Selection. They grow and spread through word of mouth "advertising" simply becasue they are great applications and when people find something good they can help but share it.
+5 troll!
but we have to root for apple because they're the underdog, that's how it works; you shun the big bad monopoly and love the underdog, it's just the way of things. In 10 years or so when apple has the monopoly on the PC market, we'll all be micrsoft (or whoever happens to be the underdog) sypathizers and we'll all be bashing apple on the slashdot message boards
i'm usually so impressed with the content of slashdot, but this hardly qualifies as news.
i have an asus tv tuner, it's not pristine quality, but it was easy to install. I've hooked my gamecube up to it and it works fine. It records really well in mpeg 1/2 without taking up too much of my system resources. I don't know how it'll run under linux though.
"I'd say the disadvantages far outweight the advantages"
I would agree that there are significant disadvanteges to the commercialization of the internet, yet I would hesitate to say the bad outweighs the good. The beauty of the internet is that it is still a realatively free (although less than before) medium and many great examples of user-created interactive content like Slashdot, for instance. You can also look at all the great open source software on the internet, that is certainly not commercial, and it is far from TV you can click on.
In summarry, yes the internet is attracting many users who do not use it in the way originally intended, but it is such a broad medium that many places still exist where the original ideals of ARPANET are still prevalent, the sharing and synergy of information.
It may be too early yet to declare the internet dead.
i think the internet is becoming a more commercial media, and with that come benefits as well as disadvantages. I don't like the turns the internet has been taking recently, too many lawsuits and crackers, this isn't what the internet was designed for.
i've got a ti-89 and i can't complain, it's hands down the best graphing calculator i've used. It's fairly easy to use but also has tons of features that will keep you busy for months figuring them out. there are many applications you can download for it with the USB graph link as well