If you want to get into post-graduate studies, this means taking the GRE test. There's a lot of math on the GRE that you have to do quickly. None of it is terribly difficult, but I found that I was very out of practice, which slows me down quite a bit. If you can do high school math in your head quickly, it vastly improves your score.
I've been in the CS industry for nearly 12 years and offloaded nearly all my high school era math off to calculators and spreadsheets. Very rude awakening when I took my first practice GRE.
It never made any sense to have these huge waste-of-space tunnels in space craft. When you have to carry your atmosphere with you, why create so many empty spaces that you have to then fill with air? Use that space for something! Put labs there! Crew quarters! Something!
It seems that if you keep reading the link, there's a lot more than just "THOUGHT"...
"The Moon's surface contains helium-3 at concentrations on the order of 0.01 ppm."
"each year three space shuttle missions could bring enough fuel for all human beings across the world." - Chinese Lunar Exploration Program
"In January 2006, the Russian space company RKK Energiya announced that it considers lunar helium-3 a potential economic resource to be mined by 2020,[43] if funding can be found."
Is there a dispute resolution mechanism if I happen to be a Frenchman who's been falsely accused three times (I'm not French, and I haven't been accused of filesharing, I'm just curious).
But have you ever been accused of being French?
If someone accuses you of being French three times, you get to pass unfair laws that no one wants.
I recently finished upgrading my setup from a five-year-old 32" CRT HDTV to a 70" SXRD. I upgraded the TV first. I was very disappointed with the performance when I put the first disk in the player. It looked very grainy and splotchy. You could see all the compression artifacts. It was very sad.
I upgraded the DVD player to a very good Oppo DVD player that was advertised as having an extremely good up-converter. I found that this gave much better results, but it didn't really knock my socks off. Impressive, yes. But not anything that made me wet my pants.
After HD-DVD threw in the towel, I finally upgraded my PS2 to a PS3. When I put in the first Blu-Ray movie into the PS3, I finally had my first bout of incontinence. It looked better than I thought possible on a TV screen.
I set up the system so I could flip between my old DVD player and the PS3 Blu-Ray version of the movie 2001. It really amazed me. The Blu-Ray version was so full of detail and so devoid of artifacts. Almost a year later, the TV finally had achieved its potential.
Ever since, I've stopped buying regular DVDs and started looking for sales to replace some of the action/Sci-Fi DVDs with Blu-Rays.
Now, for some background. When the HD-DVD / Blu-Ray war began, I hated it. I didn't have a very big HDTV, but it looked great with my ancient DVD player. I chalked the battle up to the studios pushing a new technology into a market that just didn't need it. I didn't want to buy a new player and I really didn't want to replace all my movies with yet another standard. All that changed once I saw how things look on a really big TV screen. Once you get a screen that lets you really see how bad compression can get, you understand why an uncompressed movie makes such a difference.
I still think Blu-ray is too expensive, which causes quite a barrier, but it will eventually come down. I don't think Blu-rays will go the way of Laser Discs, but it's going to take a while for them to take down DVDs...
"Who says that p2p is being villified / generalized here? Why do you get that impression?"
Well, let's see...
"But with p2p apps like bit torrent running, you could pop through that in a day no problem." You're generalizing P2P as being an only high-bandwidth application. It's not necessarily so.
And here: "...However, AT&T's terms of service for mobile wireless broadband customers prohibit all uses that may cause extreme network capacity issues, and explicitly identify P2P file sharing applications as such a use."
This again generalizes and assumes that P2P torrents are only high-bandwidth applications that cause so many technical problems that it's forced to identify them explicitly. That only serves to vilify the protocol as if no good could come from it.
Also, your last statement contradicts the paragraph you quoted. "...prohibit all uses...and explicitly identify P2P file sharing applications as such a use."
This directly contradicts your assertion of "Use p2p if you want..."
"5 GB is a lot, and you normally wont even be able to touch that. But with p2p apps like bit torrent running, you could pop through that in a day no problem."
Yes, and you could reach 5GB without using any kind of torrent protocol by just downloading PS3 demos. And I could use a torrent application all day long and not even reach 100 mb.
It all depends on the actual usage of the bandwidth, not the protocol you're using.
Broad generalizations about the nature of traditional P2P applications is driving the FUD of the original article and is backed by your own "lieing"-free post.
People need to stop vilifying torrents or I'm not going to be able to get my World of Warcraft patches!! (And I am not lying!!)
"I'm not convinced there's any way to die gracefully when your business becomes outmoded..."
A long time ago, the tobacco companies saw that eventually, their product would be regulated, lawsuits would ensue, and their profit margins would eventually shrink. They diversified into food products so heavily that they're making more money on food than they do on tobacco. (They keep most of their holdings in food so they can't be sued for it as well...)
The music companies could have diversified into so many other directions... If only they hadn't been so stubborn...
Without having to compete with this system-seller during Christmas, I'm thinking that Nintendo's sales are going to be even higher than their recently increased projections...
They're actually using Windows 2000 onboard for their daily use network. The Command and Control systems are run on a Unix system. A switch to Windows XP is scheduled and should be performed soon. Again, this is just for the network of laptops that the crew uses for daily tasks such as checking email, printing their procedures, and cataloging photos. Stuff like that.
I think the problem is that there doesn't seem to be anything about the game that sets it apart from any other FPS game. It's just the one with a guy with a gold faceplate on his helmet.
I still haven't seen nor heard anything about the game that makes me really want to play it, much less go out and buy the console to play it on. There just doesn't seem to be anything distinctive about it. I don't see how this is going to be a 'system seller'...
I think their marketing division is doing a better job of getting me interested in gold-covered helmets than playing their game.
I may be missing something, but what exactly is the big deal about this? Having never played any of the Halo games, I don't know why this is getting so much attention. Is there something special about this game that makes it anything other than "just another FPS"? Is there something innovative about it that isn't immediately obvious? Or is it just the next Halo game with better graphics? I really don't see why people are saying this is going to be such a system seller. What sets this apart from something like Bioshock or Gears of War?
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Could you kindly point me in the direction of the DLL hack you used to get it to run in W2K?
"...though it cannot hope to be useful or informative on all matters, it does make the reassuring claim that where it is inaccurate, it is at least definitively inaccurate. In cases of major discrepancy it was always reality that's got it wrong."
Apparently, enough of the droolers have figured it out. Their bandwidth is getting eaten alive... The trailer tops out at a little over 300 MB... It's coming down at a whopping 23KB/sec...
All you punks need to stop downloading it so I can get some faster speeds!
"it was the gameplay, story, and amazing art direction that made it a standout."
At least this gives us a taste of the new game's art direction...
Just knowing they've kept the old 'War never changes' gives me warm fuzzies all over. The old-school retro look of the radio brings back memories of the devices from the first games. Fallout Boy was a nice touch as well. Hopefully that shows they're not forgetting about #1 or 2 in favor of some reboot of the series.
This trailer might not have shown gameplay, but it looks like the soul of the first ones might be in there somewhere.
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Couldn't listen to the whole song. That high pitched beep beep beep was grating my ears.
This is it exactly.
That was implied in the performance, you insensitive clod.
If you want to get into post-graduate studies, this means taking the GRE test. There's a lot of math on the GRE that you have to do quickly.
None of it is terribly difficult, but I found that I was very out of practice, which slows me down quite a bit.
If you can do high school math in your head quickly, it vastly improves your score.
I've been in the CS industry for nearly 12 years and offloaded nearly all my high school era math off to calculators and spreadsheets. Very rude awakening when I took my first practice GRE.
Neither does the Space Shuttle. There's no hallway connecting the mid-deck and flight-deck. There's just a hole in the ceiling/floor.
There's no empty hallways on typical airline jets; you go from the passenger compartments to the door to the flight deck. No hallway.
It never made any sense to have these huge waste-of-space tunnels in space craft.
When you have to carry your atmosphere with you, why create so many empty spaces that you have to then fill with air?
Use that space for something! Put labs there! Crew quarters! Something!
I think "Moon" has been the only other major sci-fi non-sequel I've seen in the theaters in a long while...
I liked D9 and hope it does well.
It seems that if you keep reading the link, there's a lot more than just "THOUGHT"...
"The Moon's surface contains helium-3 at concentrations on the order of 0.01 ppm."
"each year three space shuttle missions could bring enough fuel for all human beings across the world." - Chinese Lunar Exploration Program
"In January 2006, the Russian space company RKK Energiya announced that it considers lunar helium-3 a potential economic resource to be mined by 2020,[43] if funding can be found."
All the helium 3 we could ever want is just sitting up on the surface of the Moon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium_3
But you're right. Before we go off to the Moon for a limitless supply of fuel, let's stay here and solve our problems without it first.
Is there a dispute resolution mechanism if I happen to be a Frenchman who's been falsely accused three times (I'm not French, and I haven't been accused of filesharing, I'm just curious).
But have you ever been accused of being French?
If someone accuses you of being French three times, you get to pass unfair laws that no one wants.
I recently finished upgrading my setup from a five-year-old 32" CRT HDTV to a 70" SXRD.
I upgraded the TV first. I was very disappointed with the performance when I put the first disk in the player. It looked very grainy and splotchy. You could see all the compression artifacts. It was very sad.
I upgraded the DVD player to a very good Oppo DVD player that was advertised as having an extremely good up-converter. I found that this gave much better results, but it didn't really knock my socks off. Impressive, yes. But not anything that made me wet my pants.
After HD-DVD threw in the towel, I finally upgraded my PS2 to a PS3. When I put in the first Blu-Ray movie into the PS3, I finally had my first bout of incontinence. It looked better than I thought possible on a TV screen.
I set up the system so I could flip between my old DVD player and the PS3 Blu-Ray version of the movie 2001. It really amazed me. The Blu-Ray version was so full of detail and so devoid of artifacts. Almost a year later, the TV finally had achieved its potential.
Ever since, I've stopped buying regular DVDs and started looking for sales to replace some of the action/Sci-Fi DVDs with Blu-Rays.
Now, for some background.
When the HD-DVD / Blu-Ray war began, I hated it. I didn't have a very big HDTV, but it looked great with my ancient DVD player. I chalked the battle up to the studios pushing a new technology into a market that just didn't need it. I didn't want to buy a new player and I really didn't want to replace all my movies with yet another standard.
All that changed once I saw how things look on a really big TV screen. Once you get a screen that lets you really see how bad compression can get, you understand why an uncompressed movie makes such a difference.
I still think Blu-ray is too expensive, which causes quite a barrier, but it will eventually come down. I don't think Blu-rays will go the way of Laser Discs, but it's going to take a while for them to take down DVDs...
"Who says that p2p is being villified / generalized here? Why do you get that impression?"
Well, let's see...
"But with p2p apps like bit torrent running, you could pop through that in a day no problem."
You're generalizing P2P as being an only high-bandwidth application. It's not necessarily so.
And here:
"...However, AT&T's terms of service for mobile wireless broadband customers prohibit all uses that may cause extreme
network capacity issues, and explicitly identify P2P file sharing applications as such a use."
This again generalizes and assumes that P2P torrents are only high-bandwidth applications that cause so many technical problems that it's forced to identify them explicitly. That only serves to vilify the protocol as if no good could come from it.
Also, your last statement contradicts the paragraph you quoted.
"...prohibit all uses...and explicitly identify P2P file sharing applications as such a use."
This directly contradicts your assertion of "Use p2p if you want..."
"5 GB is a lot, and you normally wont even be able to touch that. But with p2p apps like bit torrent running, you could pop through that in a day no problem."
Yes, and you could reach 5GB without using any kind of torrent protocol by just downloading PS3 demos.
And I could use a torrent application all day long and not even reach 100 mb.
It all depends on the actual usage of the bandwidth, not the protocol you're using.
Broad generalizations about the nature of traditional P2P applications is driving the FUD of the original article and is backed by your own "lieing"-free post.
People need to stop vilifying torrents or I'm not going to be able to get my World of Warcraft patches!! (And I am not lying!!)
"I'm not convinced there's any way to die gracefully when your business becomes outmoded..."
A long time ago, the tobacco companies saw that eventually, their product would be regulated, lawsuits would ensue, and their profit margins would eventually shrink.
They diversified into food products so heavily that they're making more money on food than they do on tobacco. (They keep most of their holdings in food so they can't be sued for it as well...)
The music companies could have diversified into so many other directions... If only they hadn't been so stubborn...
Portal looks like fun, but does it let you save your game in progress?
They're actually using Windows 2000 onboard for their daily use network. The Command and Control systems are run on a Unix system.
A switch to Windows XP is scheduled and should be performed soon. Again, this is just for the network of laptops that the crew uses for daily tasks such as checking email, printing their procedures, and cataloging photos. Stuff like that.
I think the problem is that there doesn't seem to be anything about the game that sets it apart from any other FPS game. It's just the one with a guy with a gold faceplate on his helmet.
I still haven't seen nor heard anything about the game that makes me really want to play it, much less go out and buy the console to play it on.
There just doesn't seem to be anything distinctive about it. I don't see how this is going to be a 'system seller'...
I think their marketing division is doing a better job of getting me interested in gold-covered helmets than playing their game.
"Hope this helps and now it is time for fanboys to roast my karma."
And indeed they did.
I may be missing something, but what exactly is the big deal about this?
Having never played any of the Halo games, I don't know why this is getting so much attention.
Is there something special about this game that makes it anything other than "just another FPS"?
Is there something innovative about it that isn't immediately obvious? Or is it just the next Halo game with better graphics?
I really don't see why people are saying this is going to be such a system seller.
What sets this apart from something like Bioshock or Gears of War?
Could you kindly point me in the direction of the DLL hack you used to get it to run in W2K?
Much obliged.
"...though it cannot hope to be useful or informative on all matters, it does make the reassuring claim that where it is inaccurate, it is at least definitively inaccurate. In cases of major discrepancy it was always reality that's got it wrong."
-Douglas Adams
"Doing an "Osborne" on themselves wouldn't be too smart."
Their recent PR history suggests that 'do the smart thing' isn't exactly their current mission statement.
I'd really like a PS3, but just when I think about actually getting one, they do something like this that really turns me off.
Apparently, enough of the droolers have figured it out. Their bandwidth is getting eaten alive...
The trailer tops out at a little over 300 MB... It's coming down at a whopping 23KB/sec...
All you punks need to stop downloading it so I can get some faster speeds!
"it was the gameplay, story, and amazing art direction that made it a standout."
At least this gives us a taste of the new game's art direction...
Just knowing they've kept the old 'War never changes' gives me warm fuzzies all over. The old-school retro look of the radio brings back memories of the devices from the first games. Fallout Boy was a nice touch as well. Hopefully that shows they're not forgetting about #1 or 2 in favor of some reboot of the series.
This trailer might not have shown gameplay, but it looks like the soul of the first ones might be in there somewhere.