.. finding the game you bought runs like a dog on your system, despite it meeting the minimum spec? The reason my X-Box gets more play than my PC is that if I put a game into my box, I know it's going to play at an acceptable frame rate. Working in tech support, I don't want to have to muck around out of hours to get a game running.
Yes. Because it had the Archvile. You could be grinning from ear to ear having slaughtered a room full of enemies and suddenly Archie would turn up and as well as trying to fry you, the swine would go around bringing the baddies you've just massacred back to life.
So they're finally realizing that you can't skip the analysis of an action, just because it's the hot new thing all the management consultants are raving about?
Nope. They're realizing that the current Offshore IT fad is over-rated. Come the next fad they'll be praising it to high heaven as if there had never been any other fads. The IT industry has no long term memory at all.
Which also runs at 733Mhz and can be made to run Linux, to act as a web server and a myriad of other apps. Granted, it's not a 'thin' client so much as a 'who's eaten all the pies' client, in physical size at least. But it's still quite compact compared to tower PCs. Plus MS supposedly loses money on each box sold which should surely encourage some enterprising admin would set up an X-Box powered office.
Reading this brought to mind the whole 'Cellphones causing sparks in petrol stations' which seems to be largely myth - http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/cellgas.htm yet has been perpetuated greatly even to the point of supposedly 'official' notices appearing at petrol stations.
Whether or not the laptop/plane connection is true I don't know but I'd feel less safe flying with a modern laptop than an older model, largely due to the presence of WiFi ports. My paranoia is better fueled by the apparent ability of a laptop to transmit/receive via wi-fi than by some field emitted by laptops that supposedly messes with flight controls.
Man, someone losing their hearing is great! That'll serve those telemarketers right. (sarcasm mode off)
Or alternately, they might actually make enough money to get out telemarketing when they sue the living crap out of the person who does this. I seem to recall hearing (pun not intended) about such a case, can't find an actual link to it though.
.. but I don't think we should be reaching to the stars until we've got ourselves sorted out here. Maybe when we've done something about our problems here on earth we can take to space. But a race as messed up as ours taking to the stars to spread to other planets doesn't strike me as something we should encourage yet.
.. mock the leader of the greatest nation in the world. If you'd watched anything other than the lefty pink commie news station you tune into, you'd know the real facts. Our great president has irrefutable evidence that The Clangers, lead by the evil dictator The Soup Dragon, have developed weapons of mass destruction, fashioned from illegally imported felt and cardboard.
These terrorists must be stopped before they can launch their attack against the free world and I for one welcome our president's plan to nuke the moon. I sure as hell won't miss it.
They could just as easily get a job at the local mall.
Plus while they'd still get stressed due to sucky customers at least the majority of people they'd be dealing with actually are interested in the products they'd be selling.
This is news? I've been living in a tent, typing this on an abacus and wearing a tinfoil suit since I saw the hyper-realistic 'The Net'.
I mean, come on, it *is* easy to steal someone's identity, but what doesn't get enough attention is the human factor. Not enough people are willing to actually query oddities and if a document looks vaguely official, they'll accept it. After all, if you were trying to sign someone up for a credit card, would you query their ID and lose the possible comission?
*yawns* This is old stuff. I have a book here called "Shadow Run" from Fasa and it's all explained right here. I'm getting sick and tired of this site.
That's all we need - a mobile using mech user, completely oblivious while his Atlas crushes four grocery stores an a kindergarten beneath its feet.
We've been here before with 3D glasses and a variety of other innovations that died quickly. True, this laptop may not need glasses, but I'm cynical as to it's real application. It might make consumers go 'Ooo! Shiny' but then I suspect the majority walk on by without putting down any hard cash. Plus unless Sharp can convince manufacturers that adding this feature to their games is worth the time and effort, I can see this dying a quick death.
And even if it weren't, by the time the spammer who harvested your email got a slap on the wrists, your email would be on so many other spam lists you'd never get it off.
What worries me - it may be tinfoil hat time again - is that the logical extension of this this would give Verisign the ability to block out unfriendly domains. I don't just mean typo porn sites but sites perhaps critical to big companies registered with Verisign. For example, suppose Best Buy had a problem with a Best Buy protest site called www.bestsucks.com. It might be possible to, instead of going to court to get the domain given back to Best Buy (and, I suspect failing), to just have the site redirect to Best Buy's official site.
I suspect this is the same mindset at the person who was angry at McDonalds when she burnt her legs driving off with hot coffee between her knees. Bottom line, file sharing *is* illegal. I'd imagine even the most ardent defender of filesharing knows this, and given that Kazaa itself is just a mechanism for sharing files, anyone actually being angry at them is a joke. Unless of course they mean angry for all the spyware and crap Kazaa (non-lite variety) installs, but that's got nothing to do with the RIAA anyway.
Unless she's including RFID tags, that 20% figure sounds far too high. I can't believe that one-fifth of socks, pants, underwear, shirts, etc will contain electronic components in 10 short years.
She's probably channelling the same space-spirit that predicted moon bases, flying cars and pill food in 2000. The hit rate for 'visionaries' like this is pretty damn low.
Also, you do not drop features from a beta. Features get fixed at the end of the alpha. Beta is for optimisations and bug squashing, whatever the product.
Outside of the games industry, maybe, but games have seen a fair few games released at what seems to be beta level, only to be patched to a useable level (I'm not talking about minor bugs here, but big showstoppers)
I wouldn't value these benchmarks too much, given they're from a game that hasn't yet gone gold. Features could be dropped from the graphics engine that will affect the way each card deals with the graphics.
I may be slipping into tinfoil hat mode here, but I'm rather hoping these don't reach the public market. Why? Because if they do, I could see us ending up with a two tier recordable media market. One range for short term use, the other range for long term use. The former would be lacking in reliability, whereas the latter would last much longer but would be more expensive.
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.. finding the game you bought runs like a dog on your system, despite it meeting the minimum spec? The reason my X-Box gets more play than my PC is that if I put a game into my box, I know it's going to play at an acceptable frame rate. Working in tech support, I don't want to have to muck around out of hours to get a game running.
Yes. Because it had the Archvile. You could be grinning from ear to ear having slaughtered a room full of enemies and suddenly Archie would turn up and as well as trying to fry you, the swine would go around bringing the baddies you've just massacred back to life.
So they're finally realizing that you can't skip the analysis of an action, just because it's the hot new thing all the management consultants are raving about?
Nope. They're realizing that the current Offshore IT fad is over-rated. Come the next fad they'll be praising it to high heaven as if there had never been any other fads. The IT industry has no long term memory at all.The Atlanteans are receiving call-centre training as we speak.
Which also runs at 733Mhz and can be made to run Linux, to act as a web server and a myriad of other apps. Granted, it's not a 'thin' client so much as a 'who's eaten all the pies' client, in physical size at least. But it's still quite compact compared to tower PCs. Plus MS supposedly loses money on each box sold which should surely encourage some enterprising admin would set up an X-Box powered office.
Whether or not the laptop/plane connection is true I don't know but I'd feel less safe flying with a modern laptop than an older model, largely due to the presence of WiFi ports. My paranoia is better fueled by the apparent ability of a laptop to transmit/receive via wi-fi than by some field emitted by laptops that supposedly messes with flight controls.
Or alternately, they might actually make enough money to get out telemarketing when they sue the living crap out of the person who does this. I seem to recall hearing (pun not intended) about such a case, can't find an actual link to it though.
.. but I don't think we should be reaching to the stars until we've got ourselves sorted out here. Maybe when we've done something about our problems here on earth we can take to space. But a race as messed up as ours taking to the stars to spread to other planets doesn't strike me as something we should encourage yet.
These terrorists must be stopped before they can launch their attack against the free world and I for one welcome our president's plan to nuke the moon. I sure as hell won't miss it.
Plus while they'd still get stressed due to sucky customers at least the majority of people they'd be dealing with actually are interested in the products they'd be selling.
A telemarketer hung up on *you*? Do you by any chance live in Soviet Russia?
I mean, come on, it *is* easy to steal someone's identity, but what doesn't get enough attention is the human factor. Not enough people are willing to actually query oddities and if a document looks vaguely official, they'll accept it. After all, if you were trying to sign someone up for a credit card, would you query their ID and lose the possible comission?
Don't be daft. You'd never get Microsoft ads with a company that is so clearly Linux-biased. *Looks up at ad banner.* Oh, hang on a second.
That's all we need - a mobile using mech user, completely oblivious while his Atlas crushes four grocery stores an a kindergarten beneath its feet.
We've been here before with 3D glasses and a variety of other innovations that died quickly. True, this laptop may not need glasses, but I'm cynical as to it's real application. It might make consumers go 'Ooo! Shiny' but then I suspect the majority walk on by without putting down any hard cash. Plus unless Sharp can convince manufacturers that adding this feature to their games is worth the time and effort, I can see this dying a quick death.
And even if it weren't, by the time the spammer who harvested your email got a slap on the wrists, your email would be on so many other spam lists you'd never get it off.
What worries me - it may be tinfoil hat time again - is that the logical extension of this this would give Verisign the ability to block out unfriendly domains. I don't just mean typo porn sites but sites perhaps critical to big companies registered with Verisign. For example, suppose Best Buy had a problem with a Best Buy protest site called www.bestsucks.com. It might be possible to, instead of going to court to get the domain given back to Best Buy (and, I suspect failing), to just have the site redirect to Best Buy's official site.
I meant 'sharing of copyrighted files' - I stand corrected.
I suspect this is the same mindset at the person who was angry at McDonalds when she burnt her legs driving off with hot coffee between her knees. Bottom line, file sharing *is* illegal. I'd imagine even the most ardent defender of filesharing knows this, and given that Kazaa itself is just a mechanism for sharing files, anyone actually being angry at them is a joke. Unless of course they mean angry for all the spyware and crap Kazaa (non-lite variety) installs, but that's got nothing to do with the RIAA anyway.
.. I'm getting flashbacks to the 'engineers on the Death Star being innocents' bit of Clerks?
She's probably channelling the same space-spirit that predicted moon bases, flying cars and pill food in 2000. The hit rate for 'visionaries' like this is pretty damn low.
Outside of the games industry, maybe, but games have seen a fair few games released at what seems to be beta level, only to be patched to a useable level (I'm not talking about minor bugs here, but big showstoppers)
I wouldn't value these benchmarks too much, given they're from a game that hasn't yet gone gold. Features could be dropped from the graphics engine that will affect the way each card deals with the graphics.
I may be slipping into tinfoil hat mode here, but I'm rather hoping these don't reach the public market. Why? Because if they do, I could see us ending up with a two tier recordable media market. One range for short term use, the other range for long term use. The former would be lacking in reliability, whereas the latter would last much longer but would be more expensive.
That'd be the 'sonic weapons' sector of Area 51 presumably. Who needs a sonic cannon when you've got 'My heeeaaaart will gooo oooooiiiiioooooooon'?