He has no numbers to back up what he suggesting and neither do I, but I don't know of anyone that is a PC gamer that prefers the PC platform over consoles for ease of piracy. Unless he is hanging out with impoverished college students most people I know prefer to buy games.
You know what else is a dirty secret? Most id games are rated mature, but they make a ton of money off selling the game to underage kids. Sure I don't have any proof, but in I saw a a 14 year old at EB Games buy a copy. id should be a ashamed of themselves. They need to implement some sort of age verification system.
I agree with your other points, but not on the long filename issue. I wouldn't be surpised if there were some 16-bit apps that would bomb if dealing with files longer than 8.3. Most might be OK, but if even half a percent of programs had issues with long filenames we're looking at a Microsoft support nightmare. Those programs were not designed with long filenames in mind.
How about a DDR2 versus DDR3 chart?
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Great, now that I know how well certain DDR3 chips overclock, can I see how DDR3 compares to DDR2 in terms of raw performance and overclocking ability? I'm not an expert on how DDR2 works, so DDR3 could be better explained to me by showing me how it is better than DDR2.
But if Microsoft did that, how would we find all their undocumented API calls?
If the executable and libraries all run in memory encrypted or unencrypted wouldn't you be able to tell what the patch changed by comparing an unpatched versus patched process in memory? It would obviously be more difficult because the executable would actually have to be used in a method that the patch affected.
I agree that this guy sounds like a jerk and I'm not sure how he made it up to VP, but the corporate speak in this article hurts my brain.
"verbal communication": How about "phone call"?
"knowledge transfer": If someone even asked me for knowledge transfer I would have laughed them off as well. Try "training".
"I asked the CIO to broker this support issue...": This guy sound like he needs to be slapped around by a superior, not "brokered". No need for the sugar coat.
If you RTFA he wasn't charging, he was just accepting donations. He also states in Brazil hardware is about 3x more expensive than the US and he was going to use the donations to buy Creative hardware to test on (you don't have to believe him though).
The PC upgrade cycle definately has some value if you have a need for lesser PCs. When I upgrade my PC most of the parts get handed down to my wife's machine. She doesn't really care about the hardware, but after the last upgrade Sims 2 played much smoother and it now had enough RAM to play Viva Pinata, so she was happy. On the other hand, I have enough parts around to build another full machine, but I don't have to any use for it and I wouldn't want to do tech support if I gave it to a family member or friend.
So, in conclusion, I believe that there is nothing wrong with teaching Java. I think the core of the problem is that they don't teach the fundamentals of programming (algorithms and data structures), not the language itself.
I totally agree with what your saying, but I am not sure who "they" are in the post. I graduated with a CS degree from the University of Iowa in 2001 and the CS degree required both a Discrete Structures and an Algorithm class. I would suspect that most colleges would have something similar, if not more. Calc 1, 2, and Linear Algebra were also required for the major (Calc2 was good at weeding students out of the CS major into business MIS!). I hope you were refering to specialized trade schools or technical colleges and not traditional colleges, as I believe they DO teach algorithms and data structures.
As a side note, there was single "core" CS course taught in C++, and the other courses were Java. I would guess it is all Java now. I'm glad I took one C++ class, but I feel Java was overall better for learning. There was a lower level programming class (also required for the major) that taught basic chip design and 68k assembly that taught me more about what was "under the hood."
I watched the director's cut first and when I saw the original I couldn't stand the voice overs. The movies feel completely different. I can see someone liking it the other way though.
They made the FF1 version in FF:Dawn of Souls for GBA easier. I believe there was an NPC somewhere that says something about using floater, but it has been so long since I played the original I am not sure if that was added in the GBA release. I finished the game with out a ton of grinding with a party of 2 Fighters, one Red Mage and one Black Mage, but I only completed one of the bonus dungeons. The updated graphics are nice too. I
Original game music:
-Might and Magic (and Heroes). Might and Magic VI, VII, and VIII had the tunes as CD tracks so they are easy to get if you own the game. Heores III had them as MP3s so that's even easier. I think most of the tunes are by Rob King. VII is my favorite
-Silent Hill 3 has a great soundtrack included with the PS2 game (at least the one I got).
-Oblivion. "atmosphere_07" is awesome. The theme is good as well, but Morrowind's is better.
-Wing Commander Privateer has some great tunes, esepically the New Constanople and Perry music. It is probably still there somewhere, but I downloaded all the tunes from http://www.wcnews.com/. I couldn't find it after a quick search.
Remixes:
-Sonic the Hedgehog 1 - Marble Zone. http://www.ocremix.org/remix/OCR01416/
-Lots of Final Fantasy remixes. "To Zanarkand" has a couple good ones.
In the second incident at approximately 6:30 PM CST Monday, a vehicle struck and brought down the transformer feeding power to the DFW data center. It immediately disrupted power to the entire data center and our emergency generators kicked in and operated as intended. When we transferred power to our secondary utility power system, the data center's chilling units were cycled back up. At this time, however, the utility provider shut down power in order to allow emergency rescue teams safe access to the accident victim.
It looks like you are correct. They refer to a "secondary utility power system" but it appears to be going through the same transformer/transformer park. Its kind of like our ISP trying to sell us a second "backup" T1 at the office, when they are both on the same provider. There could be some specific situations where it would work as a backup, but you still have the same weak link in the chain (the provider or backbone goes down). I am not sure why Rackspace had there power set up this way. Maybe it was the cheapest or only option. Maybe it was the cheapest way they could claim they have a backup utility, and still be honest. I wouldn't think to ask "Oh, you have a backup utility, do they both go through the same transformer/transformer park?"
Maybe I am just being cynical, but why is the FCC so interested in this? I've only heard the good stuff about this (cheaper cable, more competition), but there's got to be some downside to this. All I can tell is that the FCC just wants more power - but to do what? I have Comcast, and despite the general hate for them on net I've been fairly satisfied with the service, but the price keeps edging up every year.
I'm kind of locked in to Comcast because my condo fees pay for group rate basic cable for the building (I know the FCC passed something about apartment buildings lately and I have not looked into it). I can get an ugly dish on my balcony, but I am basically throwing away money in condo fees if I am not using Comcast. I'm sure if having an option to go to another cable company or dish would be that great if it means the building loses the volume discount.
1,3-6: Agree
2: It would be nice, but the implementation may be impossible or improbable if these percentages are different per artist or even per album.
7. Do not agree. Whether you or anyone else wants to believe its not true, everyone needs to make a living. It is never just about the music/art, but it is obviously more for some then others. It is great what Radiohead is doing, but they are established. They have enough money and cred that this "experiment" won't hurt them, worst case is they won't make a ton of money off it, but they will definitely make something. If some band no one has ever heard posted on their blog saying "Hey, name your price for our new album!", it would not make the front page of slashdot.
Seems they have STOPPED "maintaining" the copper. They do service calls when it breaks but no more tree cutting or other routine maintenance. He says some areas are so bad that as fast as they fix one issue another crops up and the waiting list for service calls is long enough that it can take a week or more to get a tech out. The way he explains it is that as soon as they get fiber out they are going to rent or sell the copper albatross and let the next guy in line deal with the mess that has come from the lack of maintenance.
So let me get this straight. After so many years of maintaining the copper structure they suddenly can't handle it which conveniently coincides with a fairly new FIOS service that locks residents into Verizon? Has there been massive tree growth or population explosions in Baltimore the last couple of years?
Don't get me wrong, I have no problem with what they did, but I wouldn't be saying "extra". They are sacrificing pixels for FPS, not excluding "extra" pixels. I didn't know that 640p was standard and 720p was "extra".
Re:I'd only recommend the 360 version
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I got sick of calling stores so I used http://wiitracker.com/ (not a plug, there are probably other similar sites). After 2 weeks of using this site I got one from Toys R' Us. It was not a bundle or anything, but the downside is that you have to pay shipping.
Re:I'd only recommend the 360 version
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I had no problems with it, and I was played through it on Windows 2000 with a DLL hack. I've been pretty activily lurking in Bioshock forums and the main complaints I hear are about lack of Shader Model 2.0 support and peformance. It ran flawlessly with an X2 4200, 8800GTS 320 Meg, and 2 gigs RAM. Is he running Vista maybe?
For windows does this mean it is going to pull a Real Player or Quicktime and force itself to sit in the task bar and associate itself with files it can't even open?
What's the 21st century have to do with it? There is a very simple answer that is always pointed out with price drop rumors. PEOPLE WILL NOT BUY THE GAME SYSTEM TODAY IF THEY THINK/KNOW IT WILL BE CHEAPER TOMORROW. Stores want you to buy things now -- they don't want you think about your purchase. Even if you can do a price adjustment at Target (or wherever), stores would always to prefer the money NOW and not later (see gift cards).
If you can get Vista only games to work with XP, how about next they make XP only games (Company of Heroes, Supreme Commander) work on 2000? That must be easier than Vista->XP.
Although I do understand that this was actually "by invitation only" and only the results were public, I think your argument that the reporter was known for misrepresentations is irrelevant. If there is a truly public you can't selectively throw out people who may or may not be total liars.
The best comment I have read (on the imdb forums) regarding the ending that it is the viewer who was "wacked" at the end. We didn't even see it coming.
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He has no numbers to back up what he suggesting and neither do I, but I don't know of anyone that is a PC gamer that prefers the PC platform over consoles for ease of piracy. Unless he is hanging out with impoverished college students most people I know prefer to buy games. You know what else is a dirty secret? Most id games are rated mature, but they make a ton of money off selling the game to underage kids. Sure I don't have any proof, but in I saw a a 14 year old at EB Games buy a copy. id should be a ashamed of themselves. They need to implement some sort of age verification system.
I agree with your other points, but not on the long filename issue. I wouldn't be surpised if there were some 16-bit apps that would bomb if dealing with files longer than 8.3. Most might be OK, but if even half a percent of programs had issues with long filenames we're looking at a Microsoft support nightmare. Those programs were not designed with long filenames in mind.
Great, now that I know how well certain DDR3 chips overclock, can I see how DDR3 compares to DDR2 in terms of raw performance and overclocking ability? I'm not an expert on how DDR2 works, so DDR3 could be better explained to me by showing me how it is better than DDR2.
But if Microsoft did that, how would we find all their undocumented API calls?
If the executable and libraries all run in memory encrypted or unencrypted wouldn't you be able to tell what the patch changed by comparing an unpatched versus patched process in memory? It would obviously be more difficult because the executable would actually have to be used in a method that the patch affected.
I agree that this guy sounds like a jerk and I'm not sure how he made it up to VP, but the corporate speak in this article hurts my brain.
"verbal communication": How about "phone call"?
"knowledge transfer": If someone even asked me for knowledge transfer I would have laughed them off as well. Try "training".
"I asked the CIO to broker this support issue...": This guy sound like he needs to be slapped around by a superior, not "brokered". No need for the sugar coat.
If you RTFA he wasn't charging, he was just accepting donations. He also states in Brazil hardware is about 3x more expensive than the US and he was going to use the donations to buy Creative hardware to test on (you don't have to believe him though).
The PC upgrade cycle definately has some value if you have a need for lesser PCs. When I upgrade my PC most of the parts get handed down to my wife's machine. She doesn't really care about the hardware, but after the last upgrade Sims 2 played much smoother and it now had enough RAM to play Viva Pinata, so she was happy. On the other hand, I have enough parts around to build another full machine, but I don't have to any use for it and I wouldn't want to do tech support if I gave it to a family member or friend.
Seconded. I have an almost identical setup other than my 8800GTS is 320 megs and I had to play with everything set on medium to be playable.
I totally agree with what your saying, but I am not sure who "they" are in the post. I graduated with a CS degree from the University of Iowa in 2001 and the CS degree required both a Discrete Structures and an Algorithm class. I would suspect that most colleges would have something similar, if not more. Calc 1, 2, and Linear Algebra were also required for the major (Calc2 was good at weeding students out of the CS major into business MIS!). I hope you were refering to specialized trade schools or technical colleges and not traditional colleges, as I believe they DO teach algorithms and data structures.
As a side note, there was single "core" CS course taught in C++, and the other courses were Java. I would guess it is all Java now. I'm glad I took one C++ class, but I feel Java was overall better for learning. There was a lower level programming class (also required for the major) that taught basic chip design and 68k assembly that taught me more about what was "under the hood."
I watched the director's cut first and when I saw the original I couldn't stand the voice overs. The movies feel completely different. I can see someone liking it the other way though.
They made the FF1 version in FF:Dawn of Souls for GBA easier. I believe there was an NPC somewhere that says something about using floater, but it has been so long since I played the original I am not sure if that was added in the GBA release. I finished the game with out a ton of grinding with a party of 2 Fighters, one Red Mage and one Black Mage, but I only completed one of the bonus dungeons. The updated graphics are nice too. I
Original game music:
-Might and Magic (and Heroes). Might and Magic VI, VII, and VIII had the tunes as CD tracks so they are easy to get if you own the game. Heores III had them as MP3s so that's even easier. I think most of the tunes are by Rob King. VII is my favorite
-Silent Hill 3 has a great soundtrack included with the PS2 game (at least the one I got).
-Oblivion. "atmosphere_07" is awesome. The theme is good as well, but Morrowind's is better.
-Wing Commander Privateer has some great tunes, esepically the New Constanople and Perry music. It is probably still there somewhere, but I downloaded all the tunes from http://www.wcnews.com/. I couldn't find it after a quick search.
Remixes: -Sonic the Hedgehog 1 - Marble Zone. http://www.ocremix.org/remix/OCR01416/ -Lots of Final Fantasy remixes. "To Zanarkand" has a couple good ones.
Album Rexies:
-Final Fantasy 7 - Voices of the Lifestream http://www.ocremix.org/album/final-fantasy-vii-voices-of-the-lifestream/. Cid's Theme starts out wierd, but gets good. The Prelude and Main theme are good.
-Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo - Blood on the Asphalt http://www.ocremix.org/album/super-street-fighter-ii-turbo-blood-on-the-asphalt/ Cammy, Ryu, Ken, Guile, Sagat, and Balrog stages are my favorite.
It looks like you are correct. They refer to a "secondary utility power system" but it appears to be going through the same transformer/transformer park. Its kind of like our ISP trying to sell us a second "backup" T1 at the office, when they are both on the same provider. There could be some specific situations where it would work as a backup, but you still have the same weak link in the chain (the provider or backbone goes down). I am not sure why Rackspace had there power set up this way. Maybe it was the cheapest or only option. Maybe it was the cheapest way they could claim they have a backup utility, and still be honest. I wouldn't think to ask "Oh, you have a backup utility, do they both go through the same transformer/transformer park?"
Maybe I am just being cynical, but why is the FCC so interested in this? I've only heard the good stuff about this (cheaper cable, more competition), but there's got to be some downside to this. All I can tell is that the FCC just wants more power - but to do what? I have Comcast, and despite the general hate for them on net I've been fairly satisfied with the service, but the price keeps edging up every year.
I'm kind of locked in to Comcast because my condo fees pay for group rate basic cable for the building (I know the FCC passed something about apartment buildings lately and I have not looked into it). I can get an ugly dish on my balcony, but I am basically throwing away money in condo fees if I am not using Comcast. I'm sure if having an option to go to another cable company or dish would be that great if it means the building loses the volume discount.
1,3-6: Agree 2: It would be nice, but the implementation may be impossible or improbable if these percentages are different per artist or even per album. 7. Do not agree. Whether you or anyone else wants to believe its not true, everyone needs to make a living. It is never just about the music/art, but it is obviously more for some then others. It is great what Radiohead is doing, but they are established. They have enough money and cred that this "experiment" won't hurt them, worst case is they won't make a ton of money off it, but they will definitely make something. If some band no one has ever heard posted on their blog saying "Hey, name your price for our new album!", it would not make the front page of slashdot.
Don't get me wrong, I have no problem with what they did, but I wouldn't be saying "extra". They are sacrificing pixels for FPS, not excluding "extra" pixels. I didn't know that 640p was standard and 720p was "extra".
http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=116049/
I got sick of calling stores so I used http://wiitracker.com/ (not a plug, there are probably other similar sites). After 2 weeks of using this site I got one from Toys R' Us. It was not a bundle or anything, but the downside is that you have to pay shipping.
I had no problems with it, and I was played through it on Windows 2000 with a DLL hack. I've been pretty activily lurking in Bioshock forums and the main complaints I hear are about lack of Shader Model 2.0 support and peformance. It ran flawlessly with an X2 4200, 8800GTS 320 Meg, and 2 gigs RAM. Is he running Vista maybe?
For windows does this mean it is going to pull a Real Player or Quicktime and force itself to sit in the task bar and associate itself with files it can't even open?
What's the 21st century have to do with it? There is a very simple answer that is always pointed out with price drop rumors. PEOPLE WILL NOT BUY THE GAME SYSTEM TODAY IF THEY THINK/KNOW IT WILL BE CHEAPER TOMORROW. Stores want you to buy things now -- they don't want you think about your purchase. Even if you can do a price adjustment at Target (or wherever), stores would always to prefer the money NOW and not later (see gift cards).
If you can get Vista only games to work with XP, how about next they make XP only games (Company of Heroes, Supreme Commander) work on 2000? That must be easier than Vista->XP.
Although I do understand that this was actually "by invitation only" and only the results were public, I think your argument that the reporter was known for misrepresentations is irrelevant. If there is a truly public you can't selectively throw out people who may or may not be total liars.
The best comment I have read (on the imdb forums) regarding the ending that it is the viewer who was "wacked" at the end. We didn't even see it coming.